Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1932, Page 6

EVENING STAR ‘With Sundéy Morning Edition. _WASHINGTON, D. C. BATURDAY.ci. ... Mareh 19, 1932 B e ——— -_— The Evening Star N Company Business Office: L 8t and Peancylania Ave, k Office: 110 East 42nd St. ice: Lake Michigan Bullding. pean Office: 14 HeJl'nl = England. London, Rate by Carrier Within the City. R. ening Star.............45cper month e Evening and Sunday Siar undays) .80 per month 65¢ per month | unday Y Collection made at the end o ‘ders may be sent in by mall or lelephone Ational 5000. i Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. 5 Maryland and Virginia. d Sunday.....1yr. $10.00: 1 mo, 8¢ -Bunday only 4.00: 1 mo.; 40c i o All Other States and Canada. Sunday...1 yr,$]2.00: 1 mo. §1.00 enly "0000 1 vr. $500; 1 moi . Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press 1k éxclysively ntitled to the use for 1epu ation of all news dis- atches credited '0 1t OF not gtherwise cred- ted in this paper and also the locAl news published herein ehts of publication of Epecial dispatches n are aiso reserved. No Salary Cutting Now. One seeks in vain for the real ex planation of necessity that must be mdvanced to justify a program of Fed- eral salary slashing. It is stated from one quarter that Jdabbying activities by certain postal employes are Tesponsible for the changed attitude by House leaders. Is it to be sccepted, then, as fact -that Pproposals to reduce Federal pay are dictated by & certain amount ef vin- “dictive revenge? 1Is the fact that pos- a1 employe lobbyists succeeded in de- feating the measure barring pay in- creases to be seriously advanced a& & réason t6 cut all Federal pay? Do| these 1obbylsts Teally bear the brunt of responsibility for the way the House votes? And if they do, are all Fed- ~eral employes to suffer from the lobby- ing Activities of & few? Who is in the best position to control lobbying—the great mass of low-pald and largely vote- 1ess- Federal employes, or the members of Congress? It is stated from another quarter that the real motive in eutting Federsl pay s to produce & good psychological ef- fect throughout the country. What sort “'of psychology is expected to result? Are the millions of working men and women in this-country to breathe easler, to feel more confident of their own jobs and teir own future When they learn that the Feders! Government is setting the paee for wage reductions? Is the desirable effect oné to be shown in ac- [course will be popular. The manufac- ceptance of the theory that the way to fight the curse of depfession is further to cut down the purchasing power of Tnderpaid wage earners? - Will sny confidence result from the Govern- ment’s example n telling its thousands "ot einployes, tripled thou- dependents, that their pay i sbill. ;The agricultural bill, first to.reach conference between House and Senate, is still in conference. The revenue bill 15 now passing thé gantlet of the in- comeé tax enemies, the sales tax enemles. No one yet knows what the chances for budget balancing will be until the ap- “propriation bills and the revenue bills are in final shape. 1t 15'true that the situation today re- garding the Federal budget, as well s the budgets of industry, require diag- nosis and treatment by realists, and one of the phin’ facts to be realistically dealt with Is that befor® there can be sound recovery there must be & general readjustmeni of production costs to & new and lower level. But the sane way of going about this matter of Federal salary slashing is to Tegard the wage level in the Govern- ment establishment—a wage level that all the statistics 80 far presented show to be already low—as the last item to be touched. The budget should first be | examined from the new perspective | created by other moves for economy and revenue raising. And when this is done: the business of cutting salaries can be approached scientifically, by - eareful analysis of the actual amount in dollars and cents that must be saved by such & move, where the cuts can be made with the least amount of damage. | " Consideration at, this time of blanket | salary reductions made in the name of | “psychological effect” and under the totally erroneous conception of Federal employes as a favored class yet to feel | any of the blight of depression is wrong. L There are too many other steps that i should come first. S One of the disadvantages of wide- { spread unemployment is the extra time % affords many people to break into ! the spotlight of a crime investigation | with false clues. : e Strange Years. Man is & creature of weather. The race never can hope to achleve eomplete independence of rain and| snow, heat and cold, wind and sun-| shine. The eccentricities of seasons sweep over the world, largely determin- ing events and leaving deeper, more, 7 permanent traces on the face of nature “%han wars or elections. Social phe- nomena are, probably to an unsuspected . extent, the secondary effects of meteoro- logical phenomena. The invisible events % in the thick blanket of atmosphere | * wrapped around the world are funda- mental determinants in ail human ac- tivites. North America seems to be passing; through weird and exciting times. The . weather of the prst three years has had anomalies unduplicated in the memory ¢ of living men. First, in 1930, came the dryest year in history, so far as exact records go. Then came the hottest year. What will be the peculiar dis- tinction of 19322 No-mayr can predict ! obtain the votes for which they hope. | abolition of the oath of allegiance to | made to Free State farmers to enable ;Pr!! Stale. The annuitles were also ths “anomalies the preceding years were mnot restored to normality, but swung to the opposite pole of ab- normality. 1s there any relationship between the insettled state of the weather and the restiess dissstisfaction of the age? Human behavior is lsrgely & matter of an organism’s reaction to the stimull of fts environment. Weather is ‘the most considerable single factor in the environment of the human. Is it not concelvable that its eccentricities are being reflected in the eccentricities of soclety? The stimulation of weather is more than skin deep. T extends far into the subconscious levels of the nervous system, to whose reactions the higher reactions of reason and volition | often are little more than irrational | adjustments. So it must be 3o long as | man is an integral part of nature and nature itself dominated by the unseen forces whose behavior is revealed in the observations of the meteorologists. These are strange years They may reasonably be expected to Jeave strange debris behind them as they pass on into the infinite of forgotten time. The Tax Bill Revolt. Panicky House members are under- taking to destroy a carefully formulated tax bill, designed to wipe out the deficit in the Treasury and to balance the Gov- ernment’s budget. They believe they are doing & popular thing—popular with the voters. Their demand is that the tax burden shall be placed on the shoulders of those best able to bear it, the wealthy. With that contention there ¢an be no quarrel, provided by such & course it will be possible to raise the necessary revenue to balance the budget and restore the credit of the Government to its high state of a year or two ago. There is grave reason (o doubt the efficacy of the amendments adopted in the House yesterday, in- creasing the surtaxes on incomes to the wartime rates, with 65 per cent as the maximum, and an increase to 7 per cent of the normal tax rate on incomes above $8,000. Big incomes in this coun- try have shrunk greatly during the de- pression. The estimate made is that these changes in the income tax rates will bring in an additional $150,000,000. They may ndt yleld that amount, but considerably less. “These changes in the income tax rates are intended as a substitute in part for the so-called “sales tax.” a tax on manufacturers of 2.25 per cent on their sales. Other amendments will be offered by opponents of the manu- facturers’ tax designed to help make up' the necessary revenue. These op- ponents of the manufacturers’ tax are iritent upon wiping the “sales tax" off the slate. They belleve that such & turers’ sales tax, it has been estimated, will bring In & total of $895,000000, or more than one-half of the amount pro- posed to be raised by the entire tax bill, The manufscturers’ tax s a sure producer of revenue. The increases proposed now in income tax rates are by no mesns sure, The mantfacturers’ tax falls on all Xinds of producers, except the farmers snd the producers of foodstuffs and the producers of certain other “neces- sities.” It is equitable §n that it does not single out one producer for either favors or tax burdens. The opponents of the general manufacturers’ sales tax, ‘however; will seek to select a number of individual producers and impose on them the tax burdens, through so-called excise taxes. These taxes are “sales taxes,” too, just as much as the pro- posed manufacturers’ tax, but they are sugar coated with a different name. ‘The country has had “sales taxes” for years, imposed on various industries, as, for example, the tcbacco industry. But they have been Llllod excise taxes. In Committee of the Whole, the House yesterday overrode its leaders and start- ed to tear to shreds the tax bill report- ed by the Ways and Means Committee with the support of beth Democrats and Republicans. The votes, taken by di- vision and tellers, showed less than half or little more than half the House mem- bership voting. But in the turmoil it was evident that the revolt against House leadership came principally from the Democratic side of the chamber. ‘Where the revolt will end remains to be seen. The Democratic leadership in the House has worked smoothly up to the present time, gaining the Demo- crats, and particularly Speaker Garner, much cregft in the country. The dan- ger to the Democratic cause now lies in disintegration of the House organi- zation's control. The need of balancing the budget and wiping out the deficit is clear to the entire country., If this end is to be jeopardized for the sake of vote-seeking members of the House it is not likely that these members will, in the end, et Buggesting that Vice President Curtls Tetire from the ticket sounds like try- ing to penalize an official whose posi- tion in political affairs gives him no opportunity to give offense. The Irish Free State Issue. As & Yesult of the recent election in Ireland, Eamon de Valera, head of the party advocating an independent re- public, has become president of the ex- ecutive council. His campaign was based upon two principal propositions, the King and the withholding of the land annuities in repayment of loans them to buy out their landlords. The oath is prescribed by the constitution of the Free State in conformity with the provisions of the treaty of 1921, which permitted the organization of the Irish provided for in the treaty. Reorgani- zation of the Dail Eireann, or the lower house of the Parliament of |Ireland, having been effected, an- nouncement has been made that it is proposed to abolish the oath of al- legiance and to suspend the annuities, on the ground that the oath is not mandatory and that the annuities are 1ot morwlly or legally payable to Great { Britain, which, 1t is contended, was acting mercly s an intermediary be- tween the tensnts and those from s THE EVENING tude of the government st London, though not made with direct official suthority. The indirectngss -of the warning is doubtless due to the fact that as yet the prospect of the aboli- tion of the oath and the suspension of the apnuities lies only in an announce- ment of intention at Dublin. A direct issue on these questions would revive the serfous troubles that preceded the establishment of ‘Southern Ireland as a virtually Independent state. Abolition of the oath would be regarded by England as a repudiation of the treaty, which provides that before tak- ing his seat every member of the Oireachtas, or Parliament, must swear “true faith and allegiance to the Con- stitution of the Free State and to be faithful to H. M. King George V, his heirs and successors by law, in virtue of the common cltizenship of Ireland with Qreat Britain and her adherence to and membership of the group of na- tions forming the British Common- wealth of Nations." 1f the de Valera government of Ire- land can abolish the oath it can like- wise discard and denounce the treaty. Contrary to the claim of De Valera that the oath is not mandatory, the constitution, based upon the treaty, specifically provides that the oath “must” be taken by each member of the Parliament. Hence the oath is in fact the test of the validity of the treaty. If one provision of it is ignored all provisions may be disregarded. Chan- cellor Chamberlain’s warning, though unofficial, is to be regarded gravely as notice that the British government will resist denunciation of the treaty. To what extent and by what means must await events. It may be that in the light of the warning just given de Valera and his party, now dominant in the Dail Eireann, will be content with the gesture of deflance without actually proceeding to the point at which an issue will be drawn, with pos- sibly tragic tonsequences. —r——— Chauncey Olcott. Chauncey Olcott is dead and his golden voice is stilled forever. Seven years ago he made his last appearance on the stage, falling critically ill in the course of & dramatic performance. He recovered from the immediate tack, but was unable to resume his stage career. He was exceptionally gifted, possessing a marked ability as actor, while his voice, though not of operatic quality, was capable of the rendition of ballads in a manner to charm multitudes during many years. Attractive in personal appearance, agile in action, with an emotional quality and a sure sense of comedy, Olcott was & favorite on the stage during two generations. Eventually he specialized in Irish songs and characters, and to these he owed his chief hold upon public appreciation. Personally he was & lovable character, genial and upright, with friends in all parts of America. He gave great pleasure to millions of people and is mourned now deeply and sincerely, even though he has been long enough off the stage to have been for- gotten by some of the younger theater- goers, who had not known him in his best days. e ———— It is claimed that prohibition has en- abled many citizens to save up private funds. At this juncture in the Nation's progress, it is devoutly to be hoped that this is the case. ————— Not so many paid income taxes this year; and those who did pay regarded it as a little harder than before. For- tunately, the American temperament never admits that there is a situation which sincerity ought not to face and which courage cannet conquer. R Were it not for the talented Wil Mays, the public might begin to fear that the motion pictures are inclined to play a little roughly on the heart strings. Mr. Hays is one of the rare personalities who can always be relled on to supply the tactful word of cheer. —————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Police. Just When most hopefully we say “AIY sinfulness must cease,” We find & crime wave under way And call for the police. We think to dally with the cup Where night club joys increase. But when somebody says “Hands up!” We call for the police. And even when the nations proud Demand s world at peace, ©Of soldiers we may need a crowd. We call for the poiice. Journalistic Responsibility. “I suppose you are glad the old Po- lice Gazette went out of business.” “I am,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Real statesmanship is now taking an interest in discovering and suppressing crime. I think the Congressional Rec- ord ought to have as little frivolous competition as possible.” ~ Jud Tunkins says a favorite son is likely to be & very agreeable candidate, but you're llable to get more positive action out of & red-headed stepchild. Moth and Caterpillar. Oh, friend, beware the butterfly ‘That dazzles the unwary eye. It brings along the grub so sly, ‘Who unrelenting, by and by, ‘Will tamper with the food supply. Trylng to Please, “Crimson Gulch has put its new jail on top of the fine, new court house.” “Yes,” answered Cactus Joe. “A jail is likely to have distinguished guests these days, who will want rooms with plenty of fresh air and a good view.” “Great leaders,” said-Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “learn & feeling of fel- lowship with the humble toilers, who must persevere at a task however diffi- cult or*ll paid.” Forgetting Troubles. The gentle optimist draws near With effort that redoubles And tells us all in accents clear it, but the stripling year already has started breaking age-old precedings and gives little promise of settling down to _meteorological conformity after a wild “ ‘youth. On the edge of Spring the flood gates of cold were opened on the cor- tinent and there was an unseasonable from the Arctic such as is " wndunlicated in the records. =he peculiav cond.lons respenible for whom the money was borrowed. Yesterday Neville Chamberlain, Brit- ish chancellor of the exchequer, in statement made to his constituency in Birmingham, gave WATnIng to the Free State that- the British Government would view with “the gravest concern” any effort to abolish the oath or to sus- regarded as an expression of- the atti- We must forget our troubles. The budget's needs may cause' regret, But protest won't delay ’em. The only way you can forget Your taxes is to pay ‘em. "Be bootlegger,” said Uncle Eben, “is » man dat's liable to ve yoh fam- pend thefhnnuities. This statement is ily of what ought to be paid to de shoe- e e e "‘:t‘, She o epend maker." . | one can manage it. STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES K. TRACEWELL. Vines ought to be planted more often than they are. Nothing gives a new neighborhood | such a settled 100k as good vines; few plants are more responsible for that air of “people-living-tbere” noted in old communities. Yet it will be found that in both old and new neighborhoods there are many situations which might be improved by the judicious use of the proper vines, especially when kept under control. One of the ressons they are not planted more often than they are is their tendency to spread so rapidly, coupled with the dislike of so many gar- deners to wield the pruning shears. Vines left unchecked often become an unmitigated nuisance. Perhaps that is the chief reason many home owners | shy off from planting them, % e When one thinks of vines, one is apt to think principally of such things as the Dutchman’s pipe, so-called, and the wistaria, and the clematis, but there are twe climbers which must be con- sidered first. These are the rose and the grape. Climbing roses strictly do not come | under the classification of vines, but they are so largely used for the same purpose, and are so universally popular, | that they almost lead the list. | Such climbers as Paul's Scarlet and | Dr. Van Fleet, s00n to burst inta bloom, have been planted by the hundreds of thousands, and never once have they failed to delight their owners and to adorn the place where they grow. | There are many other climbing roses, however, which deserve a place on fences and trellises and porches. Even the old Dorothy Perkins, in those happy seasons when it does not suffer from mildew, is a thing of true beauty. | *oxox o ‘The grapes, kept within bounds, offer | a pleasant variation in the home vine | presentation. To city people who came from small towns they bring into the | yard & bit of childhood, perhaps. Fortunate is the man or woman who lived near s great arbor of Concord grapes, where the bees loved to buss, and where paper bags were put on the bunches, at the proper season, in order to keep the birds away. yhntm;_hn. few vines will be found sufficlent. bee problem will not loom large in the city, but there are other difficulties in the keeping of grapevines. One of these is that of proper placing. Undoubtedly the arbor, time-tried and honored, is the best place for them, *oxox When the amateur gardener thinks of vines he necessarily thinks of ivy. It is the vine of poetry and romance, but probably more of Englih than of American poetry and romance. The trouble with ivy—the main troudle with it—is that it is the vine of a particular situation. Whether it happens that ordinarily one associates ivy with bricks, or be- | cause ivy really belongs to bricks, the | average home owner will not think of ivy unless he lives in & brick house, or | has a brick wall around his garden. Brick walls are popular and cheap, in England. but are not so popular over here, partly because they are so very expensi’ and partly because they are not the style. | It is an unfortunate part of the American public mind that walls are Jooked upon as “‘up-stage.” Maybe this is good Americanism, but it is not so good in the simple realm of the garden, where nothing is more beautiful than a good wall after it has aged. * xox % Another fine vine, likely to be over- looked because it is so excessively com- mon, is the morning glory. ‘The Japanese brought this humble flower to its present perfection. It is | sald that among them a single blossom | is regarded as precious, equal in value to a whole fence full. Perhaps we of . if | purple flowers, and the Clematis panni- | no other word for it—where the home that. Jover of flowers has no grester feast, for all his fine roses, and gladioli, and breath-taking peon! irls, than the sunrise glory of the morn- ing glories with dew upon them. Somehow the dew, crystal clear, makes them complete, gives them » perfect finish, not only for the eye, but, even more important, for the seeing mind. x % x % And right here we would speak s word for the honeysuckle, even the old common varieties, which run wild un- Tess kept in check. Actually the old-time honeysuckle is nothing more than a weed, but there are many clay banks and piaces where it is needed. The nurserymen list glorified honey- suckles, with pink and even red flowers, which ‘are easier to train and keep within bounds. The sweet scent of honeysuckle, known to every one, is loved the world around. Over in Hawail they have even written waltzes in its honor. No er, not even the althea blossom, is more ' popular with bumblebees and children, than the small trumpets of the various honeysuckles. xox ok ox ‘The wistaria is & vine more honored in the mind, perhaps, than on the tree or house, although no one will gainsay that fine specimens of it attract a great deal of attention. s Was there not once a great vine of it on Eleventh street—wasn't it just above Massachusetts avenut?—which became as much a part of Washington as the very public buildings themselves? But it is another vine which calls for a particular situation. You eannot just put one any place. You might, of course, there is no law against it, but the chances are 10 to 1 that you woul be sorry in a few years. The clematis (accent on the first syl- lable) somehow associates itself with the wistaria, although they are not much alike. The {wo most popular forms are the Jackmanni, with large culata, bearing & mist of white flowers in Augxm. « Bach is a good porch vine. The white form excells for thie trellis in other situations, such as at the corner of a w@ | e madeira vine is old-fashioned, bul remarkably good . 50 is the bittersweet, which often fails to perform properly in the matter of bloeming and making fruits. It is not| l;;]mn’uy known. that tl;-o forms -of s vine are necessary, if one expects’ the best results. Dutchman's pipe is swell—there is owner wants a real screen. Planted on a porch, its heart-shaped leaves quite overlap, forming a perfect curtain. Its flowers are curious, but not worth much. The silver lace vine, so-called, is popular with the ladies. It is, indeed, & nice thing to plant, and ought to be seen more than it is. S A curious vine is the Kudzu, supposed to grow 60 feet & season, It scarce has & place in the city or suburban collec- | tion, but might be planted as & euri-| osity. Gourds make interesting speci- men_vines, easily kept under control. | People who delight in oddities ought to plant some. A relative of the morning glory, the moon flower, sesms to d6 weil | for some people and poorly for others. These are but a portion of the available ;I.nel, but the most usable are included ere et | Encouragement for Franklin D. Roosevelt is found by the public in his | successful fight in New Hampshire for | delegates to the national convention. The defeat of Alfred E. Smith is con- | sidered significant, especially in its, bearing on what is described as the “stop-Roosevelt” movement. “As an Indorsement of Roosevelt's | candidacy, it is in’ line with the man- ifest sentiment and judgment of other | great contingents of the party, North, East, West and South,” says the At- lanta Journal (Democratic). The Bos- ton Transcript (independent Repub- lican) sees, "in the background, the feeling that, whether or not Mr. Roose- velt is the ablest man the Democratic party could nominate, at the present outlook he would make the most ef. fective candidate against the Republic- an nominee.” The Omaha World- Herald (independent Democratic) de- clares: Te 8 no other Democrat that could have made the showing against Roosevelt in New Hampshire that Alfred E. Smith, loved of New England Democrats, made. The result | puts an end to the stories, so widely circutated here in the West, that| Roosevelt could not be elected because the East would reject him." “Unquestionably,” in the opinion of the Roanoke World-News (Democratic), “Gov. Roosevell’s victory lends much | impetus to his campaign for the nom- | inatjon, but he by no means is assured of being the convention choice. With the number of favorite sons in the fleld, it is unlikely that he will go to | the national convention with enough | pledged delegates to secure immediate victory.” The Charleston (S8 C.) Eve- | ning Post (Democratic), however, feels that “the New York Governor's suc- cess in the first open trial with his predecessor and former friend is sig- nificant and has put new spirit into the Roosevelt candidacy, which has shown some signs of wilting during recent weeks.” | * X ok % “Numerically the victory is not impor- | tant,” thinks the Nashville Banner (in- | dependent), “but as it marked the first | skirmish of the pre-convention battle the result will be construed as having s | distinct significance.” The Newark Eve- | ning News (independent) agrees that it will give his followers in other States | added confidence, inspire them to work | harder for him 'snd help hold to his | standard that part of the voters which | likes to be on the side of the likellest | candidate.” The Altoona Mirror (Inde~ pendent) is convinced that it “will have a strong influence in Ris favor in other | States.” Assuming also the effect of increased | confidence. the Chattanooga Times | (Democratic) adds: “Another effect has | been to discount in the mind of the | public the seriousuess of the ‘stop-| Roosevelt’ movement which s held by | many to be the meaning of the Smith | candidacy. Roosevelt supporters have been quick to assert that the movement is dying. Some are optimistic enough to believe it has been stopped.” “The result,” according to the New Orleans Tribune (independent Demo- cratic), “Indicates that the Smith name lacked the magic to break the Roosevelt logjam that had already been pretty well formed In New Hampshire when Smith was entered. What the results might have been had Smith and Roose- velt entered the field at the same thne, on equal terms, is not at all clear, The primaries, however, do clamp the New Hampshire delegates more strongly to Roosevelt than they were before.” The Providence Journal (independent) agrees that it “will proclaim far and wide that | i the ‘stop-Roosevelt’ movement has suf- fered a serious check.” The Blooming- ton Pantagraph (independent) thinks that it “does not add to the strength of that movement.” lyzing the New Hampshire “The Manchester vote, while New Hampshire 7 Democracy Aids Cause of Roosevelt | Mayor Curley of Boston had to do with | this aspect is uncertain, but an impres- | sota was of a kind that brought a bolt strongly for Smith, did not come up to expectations in size. The majority was impressive compared with the showing | elsewhere, but nevertheless was short of the hopes entertained by the Smith leaders. Just how much the speech of sion prevails that while he ably did not win any support for Roosevelt he may have impelled many Demo('rnts‘ who favored Smith to stay away from the polls because they accepted his rea- ! soning that Gov. Smith was not a will- | ing candidate." * X % “Without a doubt,” Scranton Times (Democratic), “the Roosevelt supporters will stress the strength of their candidate with New Hampshire farmers as indicating = cer- tain swing to him by rural voters in the Middle and Far West, which many ob- servers say will be the real battle ground in the presidential campaign. The result in New Hampshire will give an impetus to the Roosevelt drive, par- ticularly in the other New England Btutes.” The Buffalo Evening News (Independent Republican) concludes that “the ‘stop-Roosevelt’ effort merely stimulated him to a little more speed,” and the Cleveland News (Republiean) thinks that “primary popularity is very likely to be interpreted by hopeful Democrats in terms of go-getting in the nations] campaign.” The Charlotte Observer (Independent Democratic) of- fers the estimate of results: “Roosevelt has wiped up Smith in New Hampshire and the Roosevelt ‘run-over' in Minne- suggests the by the Smith faction—and the bolting process 18 generally taken to be an ad- mission of defeat. Anticipation is that Georgia is going to give Roosevelt a boost of a kind that will be significant of the actual launching of his boom. Smith has scorned the suggestion that he withdraw, for he would let his friends have their own way.” S race, of course,” says the Bolse Idaho §tatesman (Republican), “is not yet run and it would be a foolhardy person indeed who would predict, with- out qualification, that Gov. Roosevelt will win hands down. But this does seem fairly certain: Either Gov. Roose- velt will be nominated on the first few ballots taken, or the convention will go into & deadlock, which means the nom- ination of Mr. Smith or Speaker Gar- ner or a lesser light.” Impressed by Roosevelt's strength in New England as indicated in this test, the Oklahoma City Oklshoman (Inde- pendent) declares: “Probably the New | Hampshire voters who favored Smith were a blend of anti-Roosevelt and pro- Smith citigens. If all of them had been anti-Roosevelt merely, the result would be disquieting to the Empire State ex- | ecutive, for a corresponding anti-Roose- velt strength throughout the country | would make it impossible for Roosevelt | to garner two-thirds of the delegates in | the Chicago convention. While New Hampshire has given the Roosevelt | candidacy a helpful push, the limited majority is not sufficiently impressive to Teveal him as an unconquerable ¢on- tender. The fight for the Democratic presidential nomination is destined to end in the natfonal converition and not before Lthe convention assembles.” .- Figures Seem Similar. From the South Bend Tribune. ‘The mil way's estimated diameter is 200,000 light years. The estimator apparently is the same fellow who is reducing government expenses In Wash- ngton. ———————————— Good for Radiators. From the San Antonio Evening News. New mmiline dye which will photo- graph int heat-rays may show d';hyy the rad is hottest on a balmy SATURDAY, MARCH 19, d | home on leave, is killed in action. 1932. ‘THE LIBRARY TABLE BY SARAR G. BOWERMAN, then Mary Hervey, ® sturdy, obstinate of & large English “That Was Yester- ting Hervey Russell, grand- @hughter of Mary Hervey, is ::lther the girl mor the woman her grand- mother was. With her self-pity and her constantly flowing tears, her entire lack of an ordered plan in life, she is an unworthy nt of the woman who forced her uncle, Mark Garton, to take her into Garton's Shipbuilding ‘Works, and then after & few years suc- ceeded him as owner and manager. In her alternations of stubbornness and sentimentality Hervey is not unlike her grandmother, but her stubbornness never accomplishes anything and her sentimentality recurs too often. Her- vey's hrrednz derives partly from her scholar grandfather, Hugh Hervey, who struggled for & period against his domi- neering wife and then succumbed for all the remainder of his life, It seems Yesterday,” for at the close of the book Hervey Russell Vane is only in her early twenties and has just taken a step which promises to help her out of the slough in which her marriage with Penn Vane has landed her. * X k% “That Was Yesterday” has for its setting the period of the World War, but 18 not & war story. The narrative does not leave England. Penn Vane makes many and successful efforts to keep from being sent to the battle {front in France, so he remains in England, and more than half suspects Hervey's secret wish, unacknowledge even to her- self, that he would go to France. This feeling of bers almost comes to the sur- face when her young brother Jake, after winning many honors in the Flying , Which it embarrassed him greatly to have mentioned when he 'Ilol! n his last leave, which he at Danesacre with his mother and Hervey, Jake difidently recommends that Penn “4ry for the Plying Corps.” *“I don’t mean as a pilot. He could be an equip- ment officer. They—er—stay on the ground. * * * Why not? Some one bas to—to keep the rest of us in the air.” Penn secures the appointment in the Flying Corps and is then—significantly —transferred with great frequence from one stores. depot to another, so that Hervey is continually packing up her own small belongifigs and her baby's folding cot, bath and carriage and mov- ing from one town and one set of Wmomwmomu. Love does not ve on this mode of life and on Penn's habit of spending a large pro- portion of his small pay on himself, while Hervey often lives almost entirely on bread and tea. els, growing ever more violent, alternate with recon- ciliations, growing ever more perfunc- lory. Yet Hervey refuses the cordial in- vitation of an American captain to di- yorce Penn and marry him, By ‘The intense feeling of Storm Jameson for England, which marks every pai of “her trilogy, is also evident in thi book. Hervey says to Capt. Gage, “T'd rather be poor and unsafe in England than rich and safe in America.” The home -of Hervey's mother, Sylvia Rus- sell, is at Danesacre, in Yorkshire, near the Garton works. Storm Jameson's own home is at Whitby, one of the oldest of Yorkshire coast towns, the scene of & German maval bombardment during the World War. Such an at- tack on Danesacre is described in “That Was Yesterday.” Hervey, visiting her mother, is awakened in the morning by the “clattering noise of shells crashing | Highlights on the Wide World into the town” and hastily dresses and rushes up the path to the top of the cliff. “Either she was not afraid or she did not realize that shells are meant to damage something or some one.” She sees the German ships ngt far out “from the shore, just changing their_course, and a. shell Jands a few hundred yards from her and splinters into the road. A yoi box her away hi very whether he should fire. Next to her Danesacre setting, which she obviously loves best, Storm Jameson treats with most color the village and countryside on the Hampshire downs, where Penn is for a time stationed. “This corner of Hampshire has a loveliness one can only call England. Nothing is grand or startling; there are no vivid colors, no splendors. The downs are washed in delicately on & clear sky: the edges are delicate and rounded, yet firm. * * * It i€ a lnzh:d simple yet civilized.” * x % sentry in his rom the cliffs. 8ir Walter Raleigh was not obliged to spell his name with monotonous uniformity, as 31 different spellings were in use, according to his latest biographer, Domald Barr Chidsey, in his “Sir Walter Raleigh: That Damned Upstart.” The violent subtitle is per- haps hardly justified by the material of the book. Raleigh seems just to have missed success all his life and to have shared the unscrupulousness of his age, but he had some good qualities and was probably no more of & “damped upstart” than many others of the Elizabethan reign. The Roman Catholics of England perhaps thought of the Queen herself as something to which such an epithet might apply. Raleigh was ohe of Queen Elizabeth's favorites, yet he was imprisoned in the Tower for 12 years and then uveheaded ‘The Earl of Essex, another favorite and much closer to the Queen than Raleigh, was also beheaded. Heads were not very securely anchored in those days, especially in London and at the court. Coke, who prosecuted Raleigh, called him a “spider of hell,” “a viper” and “a monster.” He was evidently not much liked in some quar- ters, yet he was handsome and ene of the most fashionably dressed men London, with his white brocade gwblr-thl. silve <bdrléded black velvet panish capes and huge pearl earrings. Raleigh, like Essex, attempted to sub- due Irish, but falled. He iutro- duced tobacco into England, but the popular luxury was named after sn- other man, the Frenchman Nicot. e took some colonists to Virginia and de- serted them there. Ironically, he was a functionary at the execution of Es- sex and fell heir to some of the con- fiscated lands of Babington, a fellow- conspirator of Mary, Queen of Scots His own turn at the block came not long after. % Ages ago, about 300 B. C. Epicurus taught his disciples in a garden, by means of short maxims or propositions. the philosophy that human happiness is the greatest good and that the senses are the source of mind. But his con- eeption of happiness was a high one. not to be summed up in the maxim popularly su d to represent his philosophy, “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” He said: “We declare pleasure to be the beginning and end of the blessed life,” but he also said: “A right conception of pleas- ure itself conduces to right living, since it is mot possible to live pleasantly without living wisely and well and doctrine, which does not reach as high & plane as that of Epicurus. Mr. Powys is & frank hedonist, He holds that mind 5"' from the senses and that with the blotting out of the senses in death the mind goes mlso. He appeals to youth to live “recklessly and danger- ously,” rather than not to live at all. He believes that “chance has called us up out of nothing” and that all human beings can do to get the better of their fate is to emjoy life intensely while they have the power, for that power will end all too A nervous and wondering | "ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERI Stop & minute and think about this s can ask our Information can newspaper readers. It is a part of that best purpose of a newspaper— service. 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Get the habit of asking questions. Address your letter to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Wash- ington, D. C. Q. How many of the motion picture in the United States are A. ly Year Book says that out of a total of 18,715 theaters, ,589 are closed. Of these, 3,314 were not wired for talking pictures. Q. How much area is covered glaciers in Oregon and Washington?— E. "A. There are more than 140 glaciers in the two States, covering a total of about 90,000 acres. Q. Are the National Guard and State Militia the same organization’—K. K. likely that Storm Jameson is commtnc-i A. The correct name for the State ing another trilogy with “That Was Militia is now the National Guard. Q. What is the history of the preju- dice against a third term for Presi- dents?—R. L. A. Washington declined a third term in his farewell address. Some Ameri- cans were offended because they be- lieved John Adams would have liked to have the presidency changed to a crown. Jefferson thought the danger of personal control so great that he proposed a constitutional amendment providing for one term of seven years. Several times in the history of “the Republic a single term of six years has been proj In 1913 this propos got so far to be passed by U Senate. Q. What is a recidivist>—R. E. V. A. The term is applied to one who has been convicted of crime more than once; especially a repeater in a penal institution. Q. Was Hamlet insane?—F. McL. A. Whether or not Hamlet was in- sane is & question which has disturbed critics for 300 years. It is inmemns to know that most of the profoun thinkers who have given the question deep consfderation regard Hamlet as sane. It would seem that if Hamlet was insane there is no point to the | drama. Q. What is the origin of the Shinto religion?—F. A. H. A. Tt is impossible to give the precise origin of the Shinto religion of Japan. sects. native religion of the early Japanese. Q. Is.a_window shade made of linen or cotton?—C. W. B. A. A good window shade is usually (made of linen and a cheap shade is jcften made of starched cotton. A “Holland” shade is & linen shade which can be sponged off with soapy water and wiped dry. The cheaper filled or starched shades will crack "and if sponged must be handled most care- fully. Q. How did a motto, such as those used in heraldry, originate?—S. R. A. Often the motto was in early times the battle cry of its owner. |, Q Wnat is the difference between lager beer and other types?—H. M. A. The term lager indicates a spe- cial brewing process. Lager beer is pro- duced from bottom fermentation, while other tvpes are produced by top fer- mentation. Tlhe fermentation also &k‘u place at a lower tem 5 jer | beer is aged longer zm%\l |and takes its' name from. that. fact ORTH CHINA DAILY NEWS, Shanghai: That “stanch lover though unkind critic of his own countrymen, H. L. Mencken, quoted in his Americana a few years sgo & paragraph to the effect ithat as a ‘preliminary to s legisiative session the Senators of a particular State had held a ple-eating contest on the steps of the State Capitol. If Mr. Mencken held that ple-éating—as ap- parently he did—in the direction of great legislative effort was akin to Nero's efforts on the violin while Rome was burning, what can Europe, with its real pharistical love of Mr. Men say when it finds that the | tention of been recently centered on a dance con- observance of economy coupled with an | effort to produce something looking like | assets. Apparently not so, but rather | the fact that 18 couples are still dancihg after 49 days and nights, and that one English girl collapsed just short of that period, is apparently at- tracting wide publicity. On the whole, it might be argued that Mr. Mencken's despised pie-eating contest had a greater economic value than the danc- ing competition. ERE Mark Twain Quoted to Advertisers. La Prensa, Willemstad: Most of our readers have heard of the famous | American, Mark Twain. He was the| editor of & newspaper in that country, and one day he recelved a letter from a subscriber who stated therein that a very strange thing had just occurred. ‘There is no charge except| al he | This is a mild form of ancestor wor-{ ship and lists 14,000 gods and has ]!i It appears to have been the| ever so many of jts inhabitants has ! test at Nice rather than upon a certain | C J. HASKIN. storehouse and fore lager beer is storehouse beer. country is called the gook- great 2| Q what duced into the lives of the most in- |Pit of Europe?—B. L. telligent people in the world—Ameri- | A. Belgium has often been so called, | becayse it has been the site of more ‘mropun battles than any other coun- Ty, | Q. Where is the dee spot in the | Atlantic Ocean?—J. A.pl:“ A. Its greatest depth, 28,000 feet, is |near Porto Rico. Q. Why is it said that the wealth of the country is controlled by women? 5 A.It was estimated that in 1931 more than 41 per cent of the individual wealth of the country was controlled by women. Two years ago, out of $95.- 000,000,000 of life-insurance policies in force, in eighty out of every hundred cases the beneficiaries were women, by | Among some of the largest corporations women comprise more than one-half of the stockholders, | Q. Please suggest a book which por- | trays the life of the Chinese outside the cities —H. F. A. The “Good Earth.” by Pearl Buck, |is & ‘vivid saccount of the miserable | existence led by the vast majority of the Chinese. Q. In hilly cities have elevators ever been used to facilitate getting from one level to another?—R. H. | A. In Bahia, Brazil, thete is such a | system. The business section of the |city is 195 feet below the residential | portion. A tower of reinforced concrete was bullt which is connected with a structure on top of the hill by a bridge, In the tower are two large express € vators which carry pedestrian traffic between the two levels. Q. What are the dimensions of the new bridge over the Potomac River at | Washi ’—E. E. H. A e dimensioris of the new Ar- lington Memorial Bridge are as follows: Length, 2,138 feet; total breadth, 90 | feet; breadth of roadway, 60 feet; | breadth of sidewalks, 15 feet on each | side; height above water in center, 45 | feet; length of center span (the ‘one which contains the draw), 184 feet, Q. When was Sad Palm Sunday?— A. This was March 29, 1463, the dey of the Battle of Towton, the most fatal of all the battles in the Wars of Roses. It was estimated that more than 37,000 Englishmen were slain, Q. What was the northeast to India?—N. M. R A. This was a projected route to In- dia from Europe around the northern extremity of Asia. The northwest pas- sage, likewise, was a route that many mariners hoped to find after the dis- covery of America. Explorers sailed up the bays and rivers on the eastern coast hoping they would lead to a route to India. Q. Who cgl;'lced the phrase, Mutual Admiration fety?—M. A. A. Oliver Wendell Holmes used 1t in “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.” Q was the guillotine intro- duced into Prance?—J. W. A. The guillotine was introduced into France at the time of the Revolution, but similar instruments of capital pun- ishment had previously been in use in Scotland, England and various parts of the continent. I® use in France was suggested by Dr. Guillotine and the first guillotine was erected in Paris in 1792. Q. Where was the English Pale?>—8. B. A. In the fifteenth century this name was given to that part of Ireland wl had been colonized in the twelith ccn- tury by Henry II—the districts of C Dublin, Drogheda, Waterford and We: ford. It was only in these districts that English law prevailed. hence the pi , Within, the pale, Outside ,the . < They are now used figuratively egncetning”socisl comventions. T Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands progréss in-all which is ancs of the help from the their4ma; icken, | O culpabl e | an ind nt citizenry would be within its rights if it swept 1t out of office cn this score alone. * hx Dentist to Seek Peace In African Retreat. Neues Wiener Abendblatt, Vienna: In a peculiar fashion will the well known American dentist, Dr. Goddard, who has had a U actice in Paris for the last 12 years, and amassed a for- tune sufficient to carry him through his declining years, spend this so-called evening of his life. ‘With his nature-loving wife he will within the next few days sail from Rotterdam to Kamerun (Cameroon) and there take up his dwelling among the Kamerun Mountains of West Africa. He intends to build himself & sort of hermitage in the neighborl of Buena, at an elevation of some 3, meters, This region, as is well known, was formerly a German protectorate. Dr. Goddard plans to hunt gorillas and He said that at the very moment he opened the paper a big spider jumped‘ out. The subscriber wanted to know if there was any significance in that event. | Mark Twain read the letter and re- plied: “The spider that jumped out of vour copy of our paper was on & hunt | for & house of business which does not | believe in advertising. A spider likes | a place where it can live in peace and quiet, without anybody sround to mo- lest or disturb him.” Moral: “Advertise in La Prensa, which circulates in all sectors of this island. | “When some one ceases to advertise some one stops buying. When some one | stops buying some one stops selling. | When some one stops selling some one | stops working. When some one stops | working some one stops earning. When everybody stops earning. then every- | body will stop buying, and then what?” | * x x X Water Shortage Stops Jerusalem's Growih. Palestine Bulletin, Jerusalem: The helplessness of the municipal au- thorities in the face of the unprece- dented deficiency of the water supply into which the whole populace is al to descend involves more than per- sonal privation and sacrifice. It is aimed at the very growth of the city of Jerusalem. Cut on such short and casual notice, important suburbs are doomed to sterility. The expansion in | = | snatch st happiness with passionate eagerness.” * ok % % Lady Qercldine Rivaz has & week end party at her country place, Syran- wood, and there are gathered together Hugo Pott, successful aramatist; Gibson Grey, publisher; Corny Cooke, enter- taining gossip who has raised her gos- siping to an art; Ford Usher, discoverer of a malaria cure; Sir Adrian Upward, fastidious literary eritic, and Lady Melotte, famous beauty to whom all pay court. At this party human relations lop into complicated comedy, which ret Kennedy tells ey “Return I Dare elephants by way of recreation. Austrian Newspaper Sketiches French Troubles. Neues Wiener Abendblatt, Vienna: About 25,000 unemployed industrial, factory and _clerical workers held s meeting in Paris to protest the dis- charge of 2,000 wharf employes at St. Nazaire by the transatlantic steamship companies, The falling off in freight and passenger business has been as- signed as the reason by the corpora- tions. The projected construction of the new French liner, the Super Ile de Prance, while there is no employ- ment in connection with the vessels al- ready existing, was also anathematized by the idle workers. In Limoges 300 additional shoe fac- tory hands have been discharged. In protest meetings held by the destitute ers there were frequent clashes between the manifestants and the police. In several instances the “watch” advanced on the crowds with naked sabers, wounding several of the more obstinate objectors. The shoe factory now threatens to close core- pletely till better times. Poets Snowed Under. Prom the Roanoke Times, Something mighty funny about the recent snowstorm. Thus far not a single poem on the beautiful snow has been received in this office. But per- haps the poets are still snowed under. e Now for Longs and the New Orleans Times “Senate votes probe of stock ex- changes.” 8o now we will find out t.:: real Jongs and shorts of the mat- F e Going to the Dogs. From the Ann Arbor Daily News. “‘Government enters flea-raisi