Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1932, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. ..March 7, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office. 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St jcago Office: Lake Michixan Building. ropean Ofll‘esl( Re:ull .. London, ngland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. Evening Star ... .45¢c per month Evening and Sindsy Siar (when 4 Sundays) ... 60c per month The Evening and Sunday Siar (when 5 Sundays) ... ..... 65 e Sunday Star < Collection made at tiie enid o ders may be sent in by mai Ational 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virgmia. d 1yr.. $10.00: 1 mo.. 85¢ iy Shiy S0 1T Mg 0 1 mo soc nxly only . $4.00: 1 mo., 40c All Other States and Canada. y 1 yr.$1200° 1 mo. $1.00 inday only cea 130, 50¢ r month jer copy ch month { I or telephone $5.00: 1 mo.. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Fress Is exclusively ertitled o the use for republication of all LEws dis- atches credited Lo it or not Cthersise cred- ed in this paper and also the local Hews published he: Al ri<hts of publiation ot special dispa fin are also resesved. Appealing to Sensible Patriotism. The national campaign to put money back into circulation and to stimulate the credit resources of America’s financial institutions is unigue among ! the many campaigns and “drives” that ! from time to time have engaged thej attention of our people. In the first place, the appeal is to the individual | to do something with his money that, obviously, the individual has not felt inclined to do, thus trespassing. as 't were, on his personal right to follow the dictates of his own judgment in the matter of how he prefers to use his | own money. | In the second place, it is an appeal | that promises no glory or prominence to the ind: ual who responds. There will be no “honor roll” of hoarders who have been converted to the principle of anti-hoarding. * | In the third place, it is an appeal | that invites cynical criticism at a time | when, unfortunately, cynicism is the | popular frame of mind. Yet there have been few appeals in the history of this country that have | been backed by as many or as tangible | elements of reason and common sense. There have been few emergencies that have been as real, or as grave, as that which has led to this appeal. There have been few periods in the history of the country when so much depends upon the manner in which the Amer- ican people heed this appeal. In his address last night the Presi- dent emphasized the patriotic duty of the American citizen to join in “a new offensive rally in the spirit that has made America great. * * * To join in this effort and to respond to this appeal becomes & measure of your faith in our country; it will be the touchstone of your loyalty and your sense of individual responsibility for the welfare of the whole community; it is your opportunity to prove again that the private citizen of the United States in the exercise of his own independent judgment and his own free will, coerced by no authority save his conscience and moved only by his patriotie pride, can be counted upon to meet every emergency in the Nation's economy, and to rout every foe of the Nation's security.” Secretary of the Treasury Mills point- ed out that “the real task of recon- struction must be undertaken by the people themselves,” and that the Gov- ernment, after all, can merely aid in the creation of conditions favorable to recovery. ‘With characteristic earnestness and succinct bluntness, Gen. Dawes made his appeal directly to “you who have ‘withdrawn money from & bank and now hold it in the shape of currency.” “So far as this campaign is con- cerned,” he said, “it is you whose ac- tion will count, no one else. The mon- ey is yours. You had the right to draw it and you have the right and power to keep it in any form you please. Un- der ordinary circumstances what you have done would be a matter of your own concern only and the business of nobody else, but, because so many other people at the same time have done the same thing, you DOW OCCUPY @ new e-L lationship to the existing business de- pression and unemployment in the United States, and have incurred a new and individual responsibility. No mat- ter whether you have now in your pos- session ten dollars or ten thousand dol- lars in coin or currency, you, and others like you. combined, possess about one billion dollars of hoarded money and belong to & most powerful financial group upon whose actions, in response to the President's call. largely depends the return of prosperity to the United States.” ‘The United States has been “enjoy- ing" depression about long enough ‘What it needs is the spirit and the fight required to forget about it and get down to business ugain. There are plentiful signs all about us that the turn has been reached and the upgrade begun. The anti-hoarding campaign 18 intended to put to work, in this crisis, the billion and more dollars that temporarily have lost their power through idleness. It is & direct appeal to those who have accepted and practiced the erronecus theory that individual safety and security depend upon some “emer- gency fund” stored in a convenient hiding place. such as & safety deposit box. In doing this they have de- stroyed the value of their own money by withdrawing it from the normal channels of circulation. And they have done this on such a scale that the amount of currency and the credit that such currency represents have been impaired. ‘This appeal is not to spend money extravagantly. It is not a plea to risk one’s savings. It is a plea to bring money back into the normal channels of circulation—to put it into a good bank, to invest it in sound securities, to buy Government bonds, to do an; thing that impresses the individual as ‘wise, but not to bury it under the i called because it is designed to raise an ' But it is a duty which those who live that such & demand was made in that message. The denial of a ransom re- quirement as condition for the return of the child does not state that there was no note. That is a further com- plication, which later events may ex- plain. Despite the lack of a specific or a | general demand for ransom it is to be assumed that payment of money was the object of the kidnapers. Otherwise, there would have been no motive, other than revenge, and surely Lindbergh has no enemies who would be moved to such & dastardly method of retaliation. ———— The Tax Bill. The new billion-dollar tax bill, so additional $1,100,000,000 from the tax- pavers, has taken final form at the hands of the House Ways and Means Committee and is to be reported to the House favorably this afternoon. The | time has come, the House committee and the administration have decreed. for the Government to balance its| budget. Additional taxes, they hold. are the only sensible remedy for the situation in which the Government finds itself, with a deficit around two billions of dollars in sight. The tax- payers who have to foot the bill will not rejoice. No one pays taxes for pleasure. under the protection of the American flag owe to the Nation The House Ways and Means Com- mittee, Republicans and Democrats | alike, finally came round to & manu- facturers’ sal's tax. a proposal that has been roundly denounced and at the same time urgently advocated. In the end, however, this tax was deemed to be fairer to all concerned than pro- posals to single out a number of in- dustries and levy the increased taxes on them, From the manufacturers’ sales tax the committee has exempted | all kinds of foodstufls grown by the rmers, meats, milk and other neces- saries of life The new tax bill lowers the personal exemplicns in the income tax and raises the surtax materially. Under the provisions of the bill married persons will have an exemption of $2.500 in- stead of $3,500 and single persons an exemption of $1,000 instead of $1.500 The surtax rates rise until on incomes of $100,000 the Government will take 40 per cent of the whole. The normal rates have been raised, t0oo. The new income tax levies are not effective on incomes for the year 1931, on which taxes are payable during the present calendar year. They must be paid, how- ever, on the incomes which are received during this year. The patrons of the moving picture houses must pay a 10 per cent tax on admissions for which 25 cents or over are charged, along Wwith persons who attend the “legitimate” theater produc- tions, prizefights, base ball games and the like. Taxes of five and ten cents are levied on messages by telegraph, telephone and radio. Without going further into the details of the bill it is obvious that the | played in every American people will feel the sting of these new taxes. They will not be popular. But they have become neces- sary. The House committee has shown great courage and great common sense in dealing with the vexing problem. The American people will take new pride and greater feeling of confidence when the Government has balanced its budget When the British government took the bull by the horns many months ago and drastically increased taxes as well as ruthlessly cut its gov- ernmental expenditures it set an ex- ample to the nations of the world. While an increase of taxes at the present time may be the wise thing for the American people and the American Government, the funda- mental thing is to put an end to ever- increasing Government costs, costs which have been allowed to mount tre- mendously in our days of prosperity. In the final analysis, excessive taxes have been the burden that has caused the fall of great governments. When the great mass of the people are heavily taxed to provide free living and free entertainment, whether of royaity and aristocracy or of the proletariat, or both, the danger mark has been reached. ————r—e— Unfortunately there i no human authority over climate. Otherwise the absence of sleigh bells, which once afforded the only picturesque and de- sirable touch to an “old-fashioned Winter,” would be recognized. o If quarrels between statesmen con- tinue to imply possible physical violence. it may be desirable to call for a still larger number of able physicians in political life ———— A Bit of Winter Weather. March has played one of its charac- teristic tricks upon this section of the country. After many weeks of fair weather that made a record of mildness and absence of snow and ice, the Cap- ital was hit yesterday by & storm that came swirling out of the West with a fury that caught evervbody unawares. Beginning with & steadily increasing rain, suddenly came a change. Thun- | der was heard, but it was not a “har- binger of Spring.” On the contrary, it was almost simultaneously accompanied by & change from rain to snow, and then for hours the snow persisted, prac- tically the first fall of the season. And with the snow came a furious wind, and then the thermometer went slithering down until the year's low of seventeen degrees was registered. It was in minor measure a veritable blizzard. The wind at one time reached a velocity of fifty- seven miles an hour, with an estimated speed of one hundred and twenty miles at an altitude of five thousand feet. ‘Trees were blown down and other dam- age was done. Travel was impeded. Fortunate were those who had no er- dangerous delusion that it is being set sside for a rainy day. —————eatee No Ransom Demand. Announcement is made officially i New Jersey that at no time bhas de- mand been made upon Col. Lindbergh rands out of doors. Luckily, the da: was Sunday, when there was no Im- perative need for traveling. Probebly the thought prevailed gen- erally throughout the community that yesterday’s visitation was just the sort that has made inauguration days m ‘Washington occasions for great dis- for & ransom for hit chiM, who Was | comfort and even suffering. Such a stolen from his home last Tuesday | day, and worse, was that on which might. This adde to the mystery of | President Taft was inducted ito of- the crime, which remains unsolved. It | fice in 1909. Other insugurations in was stated at the outset that & 1ot® | the same sort of conditions were re- had been left pinned to the sill of the | called. Then came the question whether window through which the baby had the proposed change from March to wmmmmm January, to be effected by the “lame THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, 2 ARCH 7. 19 duck” amendment to the Constitution, will lead to similar experiences. ‘There is comfort in the reflection that this brief *blizzard.” with its low temperature, its high wind and its snow, is probably the finale of the Winter. Certainly there is not much time for much more of the same sort. But even if March continues to roar to the end of its days as it did yesterday it will not bring the average of the Winter to the point at which the season will have been one of serious discomfort. And that is a cause for congratulation, es- pecially in the present state of the pub- lic purse. The mildness of this season has been a blessing to those who are | out of work and out of funds, and who in the ordinary Winter weather would have suffered terribly. - John Philip Sousa. ‘The news of the death of John Philip | Sousa came as a severe shock to the people of Washington, for he was one of them, a Washingtonian by birth and by long service here. Though for a number of years he had been engaged in a wider field and made his home elsewhere, he remained in point of close association one of the “home folks” of the Capital. It was hoped that when he censed his active work as conductor he would return to spend his remaining years at the s his boyhood and of his early as bandmaster. Sousa became more than a national figure, He was virtually international. His pame was known throughout the world, for his work as both band leader and as composer. His marches were land. He was, pre- eminently, the “march king,” even as Strauss was the “waltz king.” A “Sousa march” was invariably to be heard wherever people were in pa- rade. He was peculiarly the master of the rhythm that lifts the spirits. He be- came leader of the band of the Marine Corps at the age of twenty-five, during the twelve yea ship he made that organization famous. In 1892 occurred the death of Patrick Gilmore, whose musical organization had gained wide fame, and the sug- gestion was made to Sousa by a friend that he was the best qualified of Amer- ican bandsmen to succeed to that gifted leader. He organized his own band and began a career that won immediate recognition. Washington followed his fortunes with the interest due to his close local association and took pride in his success. John Philip Sousa, gifted with excep- tional ability beyond the mere wielding of the baton in direction of a group of musicians, might have made a great name for himself in the composition of larger works than marching tunes. He wrote several light operas which would undoubtedly have succeeded but for the fact that at the time difficulties arose to prevent their acceptance and presentation, due to the rivalries of the then leading exponents of that form of entertainment. His disappointment in that respect caused him to devote him- self particularly to the composition of marches, and it was perhaps by reason of that fact that he gained his world- wide reputation in that field of musical creation. He wrote several books, which bore upon his experiences as bandmaster and gained a wide reading. A delight- ful companion, he was welcome at every gathering and as a dinner speaker he was in demand. His career was & proof of the hypothesis that a man best suc- ceeds who develops his natural talents and pursues the course in which they are steadfastly applied. R success A child’s appeal to sympathy reaches all types of humanity. A desire to help is shown even by Al Capone, the “world’s champion bad man.” SR Ornamental grass and shrubbery for highways will assist in providing & more artistic framing for a series of elaborate pictorial signs. e e——— A free distribution of wheat to farm- ers provides some excuse for the agri- culturists who were criticized for raising too much of it in the first place. ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Weather Rhyme. We sailed upon & Summer sea So tranquil and so warm. We thought it thus would ever be— And then there ¢ame a storm. We saw the early flowers bloom At Springtime’s early call. We bade farewell to Wintry gloom— The blizzard killed them all. We thought we hopelessly were left In sorrow and in doubt, Of every happiness bereft— And Then the Sun Came Out. Response. “What was your grea ment in public life?” “Opening letters after my first speech,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I thought I was going to get a lot of fan mail like a motion picture star.” est disappoint- Jud Tunkins says the good salesman makes employment. Good collectors often have to follow him. Anti-Hoarding. Let nations hear both far and near The notice not to hoard And vow this day to keep away Prom wars they can’t afford. Corners. “Prosperity is just around the corner,” said the enthusiastic marketer. “Yes" answered Mr. Dustin Stax. “But choose your gorner and don't try one on the Chicago Board of Trade.” Climate on the Loose. We're shivering, this great human race. The climate romps around the place And of respect displays a lack For that good book the Almanac, “I have just heard one of your phrases.” said Hi Ho, the sage of China- town, “which explains why some leaders feel obliged to make war. It is giving the public what it wanied.” Instinctively Belligerent. We should be gentle, kind and meek, Porgiving, generous and polite Yet some men will for others seek With whom It's safe to start & fight “De desire for importance makes trouble,” said Uncle Eben. “Some folks would rather get in everybody's way dan not be noticed.” { nes of | and | of his leader- | | for an acknowledgment as to whether This ought to be, and probably will | be. a lilac year. Not for several seasons have the lilac bushes done what they should do. Perhaps this Spring they may. These old-time shrubs, still the favorites of thousands, have lived so long with human beings that they have taken on some of the peculiarly human features. One of these is whimsicality. The lilac blooms to suit itself, some- times well and sometimes not so well. Some Springs an entire city full of them will burst into bloom at once, making a new landscape for the eye and a new air for the nose. * ox % % The charm of the lilac may be di- vided into three equal parts. that of | the eye, the nose and the mind Few buches are any prettier in growth, with their heart-shaped leaves of deep green and their colored blos- soms. None has grance Few shrubs have more intimate men- tal connections with humanity. For many scores of years, now. they have been associated ‘with the homesteads of the people. It is said that there was no New ! England house built without at least a few lilacs planted around the door- way. During the course of the vears these taller and wider, so that e on deserted farms, they ceritable trees, in Spring shedding the benediction of their loveliness, both in form and fragrance, over the coun- tryside. But that is not-all Here is cne old-fashioned bush which is not old-fashioned- at all, in one sense. One remark made about it, about the coralberry. sirable as they are, nevertheless have been so largely planted that some per- a more distinctive fra- 4s one may humble snowberry or the ve never heard a person speak disrespectfully of the lilac. Even the old common form still remains a favorite throughout the world, although into large popularity. The lalter grow more Teadily, per- haps "and flower somewhat more pro- fusely, but often lilac odor which ¢lings to the so-called | common lilac. * ok ok X The fresh fragrance is one which has never been bottled successfully, accord- ig to the verdict of our nostrils. As to the qualifications of these to judge, we iay say that pioneer ancestors claimed to be able to smell bear in the Western woods. Whether this is to be credited or not is a matter for the reader to decide. Certainly it is true that many keen olifactors v organs, which can ap- prise them of odors. both good and bad, far in advance of persons with less capable senses. Often the latter like to _call the former “finicky.” able to credit others with keener senses than themselves. ‘There is nothing surer, however, than that in the matter of the keenness of the senses there is a really tremendous variation among human beings, Not only are they born different, but vari- ous habits tend to destroy the powers of sight, smell, taste, etc. It will be noticed that men who smoke a great deal invariably use more salt, pepper and other condiments, and require more sugar in their coffee than do non- smokers, everything else being equal. It is impossible, therefore, for the person with vitiated smelling powers to realize just how the man with a bet- ter nose can detect the difference be- tween the lilac odor on the bush and The Senate Banking and Currency | Committee has obtained $50,000 from | the contingent fund of the Senate as an initial allotment for expenses of the committee’s investigation of Wall Street’s bulls and bears. This speaks volumes for the extensiveness of the probe which the committee now con- templates. Plenty of sensations are promised. Meantime the Senate is| moving to set up a special committee | to scrutinize 1932 campaign expenses. Senator Dickinson. Republican, of Iowa, has introduced the resolution for a special committee of five, to be author- ized to obtain itemized statements of all expenditures by all presidential and | senatorial candidates, in the primaries or otherwise, and to investigate all con- tributions and all contributors. The sum of $100,000 as an initial allotment for the expenses of this Special Sena- torial Committee is asked for in the Dickinson resolution. If the Senatorial Committee gets that amount it will start in with more money than any candidate or campaign committee now | has in sight. The treasuries of both the Republican and Democratic Na- | tional Committees are as bare as Old | Mother Hubbard's cupboard and the | prospects are poor. Talk of probes of | campaign funds brings a grim smile to | the faces of the gentlemen whose job | it is to raise the funds. | * % % x Gene Tunney, the retired world's heavyweight champlon, is being groom: ed for the Senate, as the Democrati opponent of Senator Hiram Bingham, | who must stand for re-election in Con- | necticut this year, according to reports | reaching the Capital this week end. | The nominations in Connecticut are by the convention system. The Demo- | cratic organization there has hopes that Bingham can be beaten ff all goes well, but are casting about for the most effective candidate, and the | Present reports are to the effect that Gene Tunney is apt to be their choice. | Tunney Is a battalion chief of the Crusaders, militant wet organization, lives in Greenwich and is getting about the State at public gatherings a great | deal, and making a fine impression. Senator Bingham is on the alert and | at the present time yields first place to no man in his opposition to the eighteenth amendment and for real | beer. | EEE | Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Mon- | tana, is being talked about for a pos- sible judgeship, not on the Supreme | Court or some leser post in the Federal judiciary, but as the United States judge on the World Court bench in the event that the United States becomes a member of the court in the immediate future. Senator Walsh, long an earnest protagonist of American adherence to the court, has been conspicuously active in the recent sudden move in the Sen- ate Foreign Relations Commiitee to re- port out the World Court resolution and to press for action by the Senate at the present session. Some of Senator Walsh’s Democratic colleagues in the Senate say privately they believe it is a mistake for the Democrats to stir up the World Court guestion this year. | * % * x The Department of Commerce has recently been revising its extensive mail- ing lists with a view to elimnating the names of parties dead or removed or no longer interested in the department publications and press releases. It is an economy move. A form letter was sent to very name on every list asking the service was desired in the future. The editor of & paper in & small Illinois city this week replied as follows: “We never open franked mail, as it never contains anything of interest to us, be- ing usally some hooey from & Congress- men. Your letter was opened by mis- take because our regular mall opener is home sick with the flu. If you want a reply to this note and want me to see it put & 2-cent stamp on it.” The editor recelved a reply with a 2-cent stamp on it--but his name went off the mailing list. * ok x % Believe it or not. according to the columns of the women’s page of & New never hears a sneering | These homely bushes. de- | tend to find them distasteful. | the various French hybrids have come | lack the distinctive | people have unusually | not being | WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS | serves hard candies or pieces with un- | the red” as he entered the ninth month | insistent demand of his friends” gen- THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES F. TRACEWELL. | the same fragrance in a bottle. But | he can, and something is changed or something is missing. Perhaps it is | 98 per cent perfect. which is a very | 1arge measure of perfection, to be sure, but the missing 2 per cent contains the whole essence of the flower. | The happy thing about nature’s floral | odors is that seldom are they cloying. | With the exception of tuberoses and a few other blooms, her fragrances are part and parcel of the outdoor life, where lusty smells are toned down by the sheer amount of oxygen surround- ing them. | “The vigorous tang of salt air, won- | derful beyond description, might not seem so fine, surely would not seem so fine, if it could be put into a bottle and sold at so much an ounce. The con- centration which would be required would be contrary to the plain genius of sea air. It requires room, expanse, amplitude. The fragrance of the lilac. it seems | to us, is more like sea air in this re- spect than any other floral odor; there is something so crisp about it, vet fil | with & lingering sweetness which build: | memories. However fresh this odor of lilacs, it is not so obtrusive that it infringes at any and all hours. That is why it is mostly a fragrance of happiness. In times of sorrow few ever noticed it Fresh with the sweetness of gardens, their dew and darkness, its call was not s0 insistent that it pushed through the guard which unhappiness erects for its| own defense. | Like the sums dial, which marks only sunny hours, the sweet fragrance of lilacs ordinarily strikes the attention of & human being when he is in a mood | to appreciate it | * o ox % There is perhaps no other homely shrub so closely associated with the happy hours of mankind as the lilac. Even the rose—and it, 0o, is a shrub— has its aspects of sadness. Its odor is notoriously a depressing one. fort to raise it often is associated with failure in the mind of the amateur gardener. The lilac is the bluebird of shrubs. Its green leaves and pannicles of scented blossoms stand for happiness. In the old days it was almost the only ornamentation the busy people of farms and small towns could afford, hence it came Lo occupy a place with them sec- ond to none. Rightly enough, they put it in their | front yards. They did not relegate it to the rear, as so many homeowners do today, on a mistaken notion that it is cheap and common and rather out- of-place in front. If it is said that it grows too vigor-| ously, it may be replied that the prun- ing shears are always available. If it is answered that the lilac bush goes | without leaves in Winter, the best re- tort is that so do most other true shrubs. No one would advocate a planting of just lilac bushes any more; there are too many fine things available today to be content with the paucity of "the pioneers, especially those who lived in | cold climates, where a shrub of ex- | treme bardiness was the only safe thing. Evergreens take a foremost place in the so-called foundation planting of | the modern home. but even with them & lilac or two may be mixed. Properly pruned, at intervals, it would do as well as the spireas, 50 universally and | properly popular. Friends of the lilac would like to see more of them planted, especially near | houses where their fragrance might | come in at open windows, and from | which they might be more easily seen. |In sunny positions they are clean | shrubs, a feature which adds to their | desirability for planting close to the home. York tabloid, White House etiquette re- quires the wearing of gloves from start to finish of the ordeal of a formal tea,! and the serving of candy to be handled with gloves has presented one of those delicate social problems which Mrs. Hoover has been called upon to solve. Under the caption “A Fine Point in White House Etiquette” the article says: “Candy has a prominent place on the ‘White House tea table. But imagine the unfortunate results if the first lady should err in her choie of confections. For etiquette demands that guests wear their gloves throughout these functions. Candy of the ‘smeary’ variety would undermine the poise of the most tea- worthy Washingtonian. So Mrs. Hoover usually firm coatings and of a size to ibe eaten in one bite. Colors harmonize | with the decorations.” * % ¥ % The following story is much too good to be true, but is being told around Washington official dinner tables as a gentle satire on the propensities of pres- ent-day government research. It is said that a titled English visitor recently at the Capital confided to American friends that his hobby was the study of fire- flies and that his mission in this coun- try was to find out all he could about American fireflies. It is related that he Was next day taken to the Department of Agriculture and to the office of one of the department’s bug “experts.” The visitor made known his profound inter- st in fireflies, whereupon Dr. Whoosis [ the department opened up with an hour’s dissertation on the subject of American fireflies, with photos, charts, graphs, tables and ponderous volumes of data. The Englishman was overwhelmed with the wealth and variety of statis- Ucal information. “This is truly re- markable,” he said. “My mission is completed in a single afternoon. I need not investigate further. I am deeply Obliged to you.” “You are not under the slightest obligation to m Dr. Whoosis is alleged to have replied. “In fact, it is I who am under obligation to You. I have devoted 20 years of my life te research respecting the American firefly and you are the first person who has ever made & single inquiry of me on this subject. I now feel that my work has not been in vain.” * ox x o Uncle Sam was more than one and ree-quarters billions of dollars “in thi of the fiscal year on March 1, accord- ing to the Treasury figures. This deficit compares with a deficit of only three hundrt’q million dollars at the cor- responding date last year. Yet on June 30 last year the deficit had climbed almost to the billion-dollar mark. At that rate. and with the start it now has, the deficit on this coming June 30 may reach to three billion dollars. No wonder Congress is putting up & pretty nearly united front in favor of immediate and drastic tax increases. (Copyright, 1932.) r———— Vociferous but Few. From the Miami Daily News The man who runs for office “at the erally finds out on election day that his friends were more insistent than numerous. So There! From the Duluth Herald. It's folderol to assume that women dress to please men. They dress to Pplease the saleslady. That's our theory and we're going to stick to it. —_—— e Still in Quod? From the Ogden Staudard-Exsminer. Where are the women who used to hook rugs? inquiries a reader of a new The ef-} The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln, The new tax bill takes § the political horizon. It a “non-partisan” meast ‘ment measure—with the i well as the Democrats standing sponso for the little giant which 3 the sum of $1.100.000.000 revenue and make it possible the budget. Neither the nor the Democrats are for this bill. The Demo trol of the House, wer wiere they had to bring in a The ' Republicans, with a Presiden the White House and in control executive branch of the also had to adopt a out the Treasury. d trol, the Democrats dom House, where reve inate, and the Republicans in the Whit House, has forced thy father and mother a measure tha bourd to be unpopular. If one party alone had controlled both branches of the Government. legi: ive and execu- tive, the minority party have | been in a position to atia, through the tax legi i both parties are both are seeking to sponsibility as possible on the other party. * A revenue mea increasing tax which has the u motis q”,‘:)m‘.\ a House Ways and Means Committes unless in time of wa But here it is at last please those who believe that the only taxes which are to be levied should {fall upon the wealthy or those who would postpone the evil day of in- creased taxes by having the Govern- ment borrow se 1 billions of dollars to carry on. The so-called manufac- | turers’ Sales tax. around which the bill is really constructed, is not popular. But with a unanimous vote of the Ways and Means Committee the bill | promises to go through the House with plenty of voles from both the Repub- licans and the Democrats. It is pre- sumed that Sp: Garner, the domi- | nating force on the Democratic side of the chamber, has given his assen to the bill. or ‘that his followers on the Ways and Means Committee would have opposed it. What effect the bill may have, if any. on the candidacy of ‘the Speaker for the presidential nomination remains to be seen. ok x ox % When the bill gets to®the Senate, however, there will be a battle royal. Many of the strongest opponents of the plan to wipe out the Treasury deficit by taxation are among the Demo- crats of the Senate, who have asserted that the Government could well afford to borrow money and spare the tax- payers. Also the progressive group in the Senate is opposed to many features of the new tax bill, including reduc- tions of the personal exemptions from the income tax, the sales tax on manu- facturers and some of the excise taxes. They have insisted that the increases should come from the higher brackets of the income tax, letting the burden fall upon the wealthy. The House Ways and Means Committee may not recognize its bill when it gets back from the Senate, However, the House Committee, has recognized the fact that | nothing can do more to restore confi- | dence in this country than the balanc- | ing of the Government's budget. It has taken the bull by the horns courageously and brought out a bill calculated to do just that thing. In the end. the House | Committee and the Democrats who con- trol it may reap a considerable benefit from having taken this stand. * x X % ‘The Democratic National Committee is broadcasting a letter from Henry W. Dooley, its Porto Rico member, calling attention to the fact that the first Democratic National Convention ever held in this country took place just a hundred years ago. This doesn't mean that the party is only a hundred years old. Democrats, who called themselves Republicans in the early days, had been nominating and electing Presidents for many years before the first national convention of Democrats, held in May, 1832, in Baltimore. Even at that con- vention no presidential candidate was selected. Andrew Jackson, who was serving his first term, had already been the pick of his party for a second term. But the convention did select as his running mate Martin Van Buren, the New Yorker who was charged in those days with being identified with Tam- many. place on * * X ok % Growing out of that first Democratic National Convention have come down two rules which have worried the Democrats on many occasions, the two- thirds rule for nominating presidential and vice presidential candidates and the so-called unit rule, under which a whole State delegation may be bound to cast a solid vote for a candidate until the delegates are released, if ever, from the binding effect of that rule. It is that two-thirds rule which is making it possible for the Democrats who oppose the nomination of Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt for President to feel comparatively firm ground under their feet today. One vote in excess of two-thirds of the 1,154 votes in the national convention could prevent the nomination of the New York Governor and tie up the convention indefinitely. It was the two-thirds rule which turned back the late Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri in 1912, who in the national convention held in Baltimore of that year, had at one time a ma- Jority of the vofes of the convention. Every four years there is talk of doing away with the two-thirds rule for nominations. But always there seems to be a group of candidates and their friends who believe that after all they might profit from the operation of the rule, and so they cling to it. The au- spicious time for doing away with the rule might be a national convention at which a Democratic President was seeking and was sure of renomination practically without opposition. But on such occasions, which have been rare in the last seventy years, with the con- vention ready to give its stamp of ap- proval to the President seeking re- nomination, there is no real occasion for repeal of the two-thirds rule, and s0 it is forgotten in the enthusiasm of renominating a President, £k E% Gov. Roosevelt faces his first big test of voting strength in the primary in New Hampsihre tomorrow. A complete Roosevelt slate of delegates to the Dem- ocratic national convention has been put in the field by his friends. On the other side stands a slate of Smith delegates. If Roosevelt can win a ma- jority of the delegation, the Roosevelt boom for President will receive a boost. If he loses to Smith a majority of the delegation, the Roosevelt candidacy will take a corresponding tumble. New England has been regarded as strong Smith territory among the Democrats. Reports from New Hampshire vary. One observer holds that Roosevelt should win all the delegates except perhaps & couple. Another insists the Roosevelt and Smith forces are so evenly divided that victory may go to either. Roose- velt was a candidate in New Hamp- shire for the delegation long before Smith made his now famous announce- ment that he was a receptive candidate for the presidential nomination. Roose- velt has with him many of the Demo- cratic leaders of the State, including the Democratic national committeeman, Jackson, who was elected secretary of the National Committee at its meeting here in January. Smith is supposed to have the better of the argument, however, in New Hampshire's biggest city, Manchester, which is said to cast 30 per cent of the Democratic vote of the State. * * % Senator Robinson of Arkansas leaped on Secretary Hyde of the Department of Paper. Maybe their time isn't up yet. —— e The Seamp! From the Roancke Times. It is announced that a Paris girl Is 0 marry & man who shot at her with revolver. That will teach him not to g0 around shooting ‘women. Commerce with both feet because he found that & statement by the Secre- tary characterizing the Democratic House's $132.500,000 road bill as a pork barrel measure had been sent to coun- try editors under the frank of the De- tment of Agriculture. Secretary e has replied that such criticism " !from a Spanish word, ANSWER:! BY FREDERI The re ee Infc ources of our upon 1t as ing maint What ques! There is Ad Bureau, Prederic J. Haskin, Di | Washington, D. C the ball foot b amaz minutes. play on an avera) in motion of about 41 secc tronage in is Q. How much pal terms of offices an the Southern States A In the 10 States the South there are approximately Federal oftice holders whose aggregate nearly 400,000 a tical pa s ere in Solid 4,530 aries year. | Q. What color is a palomina horse? W oA | A. The is derived miila. One h word palomina pal {of the mean! is 2 milk-white se. Q. What prizes are now being offered for airplane flights?—N. W. A. The outstanding prizes are 000 offered by Col. W. E. Easters first flight between Dallas, Tex Tokio, Japan; $25.000 by Col Easterwood for first flight from Italy, to Dallas, Texas; $25.000 by | of Seattle for non-stop flight from Seat- tle, Wash,, to Tokio, Japan. Q. Has China or Japan the older civ- ilization?- B A. The civilization of China goes much farther back than that of Japan As a matter of fact, Chinese civiliza- tion was introduced into Japan about the 1st century A. D. In modern times, nowever, Japan has ousstripped | China in many respects, Japan having | adopted Western standards of living o0 a much greater degree. While Japan | has shown a capacity eaual to that of | any other known people and, while their | manners and customs and certain in- stitutions were modified in ancient times by Chinese culture, they have kept pace with European and American civilization. a W Q Is alfalfa comparatively new?— | 'A.P. L. Haworth says that it is older than the Christian era. The word means “the best crop.” Q. When was the first book on char acter reading by analysis of handwrit- | ing published?—S. M. A. Three hundred vears ago, an Ital- ian named Camillo Baldo wrote such a | book. Q. What is meant by organized so- clety?—W. L. McG. A. Organized society is the aggregate of persons living together in a more or less ordered community, systematically arranged and mutually connected and dependent. It functions through cus- | tom, public opinion and law. | | Q. Please give the early history of Fort McHenry —J. S. J. | A. Fort McHenry was established in | 1794 on a reservation of 35 acres on | Whetstone place, Patapsco River. Md., 3 miles from Baltimore. Although the site was first occupied for military pur- | poses in 1775, it was only established | as & permanent fortification in 1794. It | was named after James McHenry, one | of Washington’s secretaries during the | Revolution and Secretary of War in TO QUESTIONS C 1. HASKIN. 1814, the fort bombardment by v Ad Cock- which sug- Star Span- September thstood ne Q many G. A. R are A. Appr How posts imately 2.000. 1d Dixon line S. M. P, emark that money did Demg * and sec- -Tunney 868 and the sec- 000 and t Dempsey eived received $204.000 cnd fight Dempse ed $42 Tunney received $990.445 Q. How many of our ships were cam- ouflaged during the World War?—M. S. A. The Department of the Navy says that it camouflaged 1127 ships during the World War. This included both n 1 vessels a gency Fleet Co Dempsey : o Q. Who wrote the verses ending “The cverlastin’ teamwork of every bioomin’ soul J. H. R A. While often attributed to Kipling, they were written by James Mason Knox, who was a great admirer of Kip- ling and net infrequently wrote in his style. Q. In the latform of Eamonn 1oV, ng: “The foster- e What does J. K is an Irish word meaning Free Q@ When will the gardens of Vir- v inspection?—C. E. R. ek in Virginta, rst theater built A The first building in England for public presentation of plays was in London in 1576. In 1698 speare and his associates, failing to secure a lease of the ground on which this building stood, pulled it down, car- ried the materials across the river, and erected the famous Globe Theater on the Bankside. as the street running along the south side of the Thames was called. Q. Who is Coin Harve: 1. P. D. A His proper name is William Hope Harvey. He was born at Buffalo, Put- nam County, W. Va., August 16, 1851. He practiced law from 1871 to 1884, afterward becoming chief executive officer of the World’s Money Education League. His home is at Monte Ne, Ark. Mr. Harvey recently promoted the for- mation of a third party. Q. Has England a silver the size of our dime?—J. J. A. The English sixpenny bit is simi- lar. It is slightly larger than the dime. It coin about D. As Centuries yAmerican comment on the observance of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Washington is devoted largely to (he{ quality of his mind, which displayed | traits associated with pure patriotism. His place among the world’s great is declared to have grown with the pas: ing of the years, and he continues, as at the beginning of national history, to be the model for his countrymen. “He set a nation on its feet,” de- clares the Dayton Daily News. “As a| soldier he ranks with Caesar, and as a | statesman—his country, now great and | rich and strong, still calls him Father. He fought and lost: but he fought again. Putting his country above his fortune, his love above his life, his duty above his doubts, his faith above | his fears, he passed zhead. He 5(‘(i his hand to the plow, his eves to the stars and gave the world a majestic example of the genius of fighting on. He had, as we all have, his routs and his retreats. Yet here he looms above us today, a constellation among the stars. From that eminence the George | Washington of our reverence looks cdown upon us here. He sees our con- fusions, our discouragements, our de- feats. He calls us to fight on to the goal that is never lost in that pursuit of duty which lifted to the skies the Washington * * * “‘Who never turned his back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break; | Never dreamed, though right were worsted. wrong would triumph; | Held we fall to rise, we are baffled to | fight better, Sleep to wake.'"” * koK K “Washington led a cause,” says the | with the Washington Fame Undimmed Pass in Review character was more deserving of venera- tion,” states the Rock Island Argus, with the tribute “the glory of his career can never be dimmed,” and that “in the words of Jeffersony his intimate friend, ‘never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a great man and to place him in the same constellation with whatever worthies have merited fiom man everlasting remembrance.” The Oklahoma City Oklahoman observes that “two centuries after his birth and more than* 100 years after his death the American people present Washing- ton as their universally accepted national hero.” The Lexington Leader attests: “He combined in himself, har- moniously, all the qualities of human greatness, and his character has in- vested him with a djgnity and splendor which time can Thever inish or obscure."” * x K % ‘Observing the beneficial effects of a wide study of Washington's life, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram remarks that are privileged to have a wholesome spectacle of a man laboring tremendous problems of a nation in the travail of birth.” That paper adds: “He was a very human person. He lacked tremendously in qualifying as a ‘Democrat’ as the term often is employed. He had no false notions concerning ‘equality.” He was a Virginia aristocrat and he believed in ‘stock’ and ‘stock markings’ on human beings. He has thousands of followers today. He lived the life of a man of his rank in his day and time.” “After two centuries.” states the Hartford Times, “this Nation, chang- ing, developing, expanding, faster than it realizes, recalls with gratitude the birth of one who so guided the laying Portland Oregon Journal. e was the | of the foundation stones that through home-chosen commander of & ‘phan-|past and present storms this Govern- tom of an army.’ farmers in tattered ment has safely endured. Basically un- homespuns, at & time when the colon- changed, it is capable of serving its ists had been offered full restoration 120.000,000 citizens justly and help- without punishment under the British | fully in the future. Thankful memory crown if they would lay aside resis-|of the ‘founding father's' mind and tance. Men went on fighting who had | deeds, as they span the marvelous dec- a nation to build conceived in liberty |ades of this Republic's growth to and dedicated to the proposition that | world eminence, may well be an in- all men are created equal. They re- |spiration for our becoming more sisted a present security and offered | worthy heirs of his patriotic estate.” their lives as the capital investment in| “Washington's patriotism was some- the democracy from which we draw | thing alive; it was inseparable from rich revenues today. Is it to be wonder- | himself,” avers the San Antonio Eve- ed that the fact that Washington stood ning News. The Meridian Star pays firm in the fluid heat of violence has | the tribute: “We who think we have come to be the evidence of the metal | our tragic troubles may well pause a of which this Nation is made? Is it| minute to think of blood-red foot- to be wondered that because pomp and | prints in the snow—footprints from the power were forced by sacrifice and de- |valley of defeat up to the heights of votion to stand aside in the time of the | victor Neither Washington nor his Revolution we still extol in the life owers knew how nor when to quit— of Washington and his co-patriots not | some of us seem the rankest sort of glory or circumstance, but patriotism, | ‘vellow quitters’ The founders of this resourcefulness and the will that said | Republic in face of the supreme eternaj ‘Go on!" when every argument urged sacrifice bravely stood their ground; retreat? Is it to be wondered that in | some of us facing a little business stress the final triumph of Washington's | that we in the main have brought upon leadership the verdict was for men and | ourselves—we turn and run. Wash- not for might?” . | ington led the cause of freedom with- “We feel assured that America never out a hint of pay: modern leadership produced & public man more worthy of at times seemingly: gives far less our faith and trust, or one whose lhnuegdh[ to giving service than to being servi | ———— comes ill from a Democratic Senator | 3 4 who has franked out to his constituents Hands Off! many political speeches delivered by | From' the San Antonio Express. himself in the Senate and designed to| Like Don -Quixote’s “beneficiaries,” influence the voters to whom they are | China presently may beseech the sent. Mr. Hyde points out that the | League to remain neutral. Government pays for the transporta- oo« tion of Senate speeches as well as for _ the statement franked out by the Sec- . No Buyee! retary of Agriculture. Prom the Milwaukee Sentinel It is no secret that the franking| With respect to Japanese products privilege, which is extended to all mat- | China continues to exhibit a strong ter published in the Congressional Rec- |sales resistance, ord, has been used to cover the coun- e try in campaign years with millions of N i addresses delivered by both Democrats No Such Critter. and Republicans. The use of this Prom the Florence (Als ) Herald. franking privilege for campaign pur- | A writer declares that contented eiti- poses costs the Government a whale of | zens are a town's best assets. But who & lot of money, no matter who sends | ever knew a contented citizen? out the speeohes. Furthermore, a can- didate for nomination or election to Congress who is opposed to a sitting member of Congress having this frank. ing privilege is at a distinct disadvan- tage, an advantage for which the Gov ernment foots the bill Ou- Sirange Speech, From the N O Times-Picayune. shcur English language: Ten o'clock arp means eactly the same thing a8 10 o'clock flat, ¥ r——— |