Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1932, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY........April 2, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: and Pennsylvania A S Make Michisan Bulldine : Lake Michigan 3 2 Oce 14 Regent M., Tondos, England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. n‘ e .45¢ per month e inday ‘Sfar ays) . 80c per month Suniday Star - ays) ... ....63¢ per month The Sunday Star 2 Sc per copy Collection made at the end of each month ders may be sent in by mail or telephone Ational 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. fifly and Sundsy.....13r. $10.00 1 mo. 88 on] T 5 % nday only ! 135 3800 1 mo.. 0 All Other States and Canada. fly and Sunday...1yr.$1200: 1 mo. $1,00 ily only .. 1yr. $8.00i 1mo. 78c Enxu only 1111137, $5.00: 1mo. 50 Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively ertitled to the uge for republication of all news d atches crediied to It or not otherwise ¢ e ted in this paper and also the loel Lews Dublished herein All rights of publication of pecial dispatches herein are alzo Teserved = Now for Senate Action. The House of Representatives has passed the revenue bill, in terms which 1t regards as assuring a balance of the Federal budget. The Treasury. in esti- mates submitted yesterday on the eve of final action, holds that the measure as finally framed in the lower branch of Congress will fall short of a bal-, ance, as the costs of Government are now fixed, by some $71.100,000. The | bill goes to the Senate shorn of its manufacturers’ sales tax feature, but with the addition of numerous virtual sales taxes, with imposts on stocl transactions and issues of stocks and bonds and a 50 per cent increase in the first-class postage rate. The “bal- ance” is effected, according to the esti- mates of the House, by a reduction in expenditures to the amount of $200.- 000,000, while the Treasury computes that reduction at only $125,000,000. ‘Therein lies the chief difference be- tween House and Treasury in respect to the capacity of the tax measure to meet the requirements of administra- tion during the next fiscal year. It is now a question of whether the bill, which is certain to be subjected to considerable change in the Senate. can be finally passed before the pro- spective adjournment of Congress on the eve of the national political con- ventions, which are to be held in June. Tt it is not enacted by that time Con- gress must reassemble after the con- ventions and proceed during the Sum- mer to perfect the measure and effect #ts final enactment. There is the ut- most urgency that the bill be made into law before the preconvention adjourn- ment. Otherwise in all likelihood Sep- tember will have arrived before the Measure can be completed. A minimum of two weeks, it is esti- meted, wi'l be required for hearings be- fore the Senate Committee on Finance, those hearings to be started about the middle “of next week. - Nobody. can possibly foretell the length of time that will be required in the Senate for the discussion of the measure, that body having no” cloture rule. If the com- mittee makes report by the 20th of April six weeks will remain before June 1. Passage of the bill by that date would be an unusual achievement in ordinary circumstances, leaving only two weeks before the first of the two conventions, that of the Republican party, which mests June 14, in which to perfect the bill in conference. It will require constant enterprise on the part of the Senate to get-the biil to the President for signature before the Pre-convention adjournment. It can be done if the will prevails. It cannot be done if time is wasted in political de- bate. This is an emergency mezsure, as vital to the national welfare as any that was ever considered by the Con- gress. From a political point of view there is urgency in getting final action before June 14. The country demands the balancing of the budget. The party that effects that Tesult by the middle ©f June will be given credit by the peo- ple for good government. The party that prevents it will be blamed for the prolongation of & dangerous situation, Wwhich retards the recovery of business and prolongs the desperate condition from which all the people have been suffering for the past eighteen months. Responsibllity for delay will be placed upon those who insist upon prolonged gdiscussion, which cennot make (or‘ better legislation, but adds to the con- fusion. The Senate will sct an inspiring ex- ample if now it will proceed with the consideration of this measure in a bud-| nesslike spirlt, sceking the enactment | of the measure in the soundest terms in the shortest possible time, putting aside politics in favor of the national, welfare and making a record for prompt | fiscal legisiation in this grave national | erisis. ! ——— Hindenburg es President of a vigcrous young republic calls sttention to another | punctured proverb—the one to the effect ! that it is hard to teach “an old dog” new tricks. | e Writers of fiction persist in spite of the daily disclosure of news stories that | -gurpass achievements of wildest im-| sgination. Many proverbs have been punctured, but “Truth is stranger than fiction” still stands e The Bus Crash. i The Public Utilitles Commission is taking the eminently proper action in its decision to investigate thoroughiy the bus crash yesterday which resulted in the death of two perscns and injury to eleven. The faci that the collision occurred between two of these heavy vehicles at a light-controlled intersec- uon makes it Imperative that every phase of such an unusual disaster should be thortughly sifted to discover the cause. Traffic lights are supposed to be | the safest known method of eonlromnh the movement of automobiles, busses and sireet cars. Yet two busses, driven by presumably experienced opsrators, are in collision at one cf these intersec- tions. Obviously, one or the other of the drivers is to blame. In a case of this kind there can be no joint responsibility. 1f the accident had occurred at an un- controlled intersection there might be some basis for division of opinion as to whish driver was guilty of csusing it, but certainly the commission should experience little difficulty, in this case, in determining the offender. And when the responsibility has been fixed he should be brought into court the same 8s any other driver who violates the trafic rules. This collision should be a lesson to all operators of busses. Al:hough their task is a difficult one, they are in almost all cases and all should be pro- vided with every modern safeguard, such as air brakes, full vision and con- veniently arranged controls for the proper operation of their vehicles. Gen- erally speaking they are excellent drivers, but there is a dislinct tendency. as in the case of street car motormen, to chafe at the delay caused by lights or policemen and consequently an in- clination on their pert to “beat” the signal if possible. This practice is reprehensible if indulged in by the driver of a light pascenger car, but it is doubly so when drivers of large vehi- cles attempt it. The investigation will neither bring back to life those who were killed nor heal the wounds of the infured. but it will very probably result in the proper placing of responsi- bility and rerve as an object lesson to the operators of Washington's busses. The Taximeter Issue. ‘The members of the House who pro- pose to cut off the pav of Gen. Pat- rick and members and emploves of the Public Utilities Commission if they at- temot to enforce the taxicab meter or- der should at least be credited with preserving the jewel of consistency. For if the House of Representatives s to undertake the detailed regulation of public utilities in the District—a task heretofore delegated by Congress tn the Public Utilities Commission —it is wasteful and inefficlent to retain the Public Utilities Commission. It should be abolished without further delay. But there is, perhaps, & more prac- tical alternative. Congress possesses exclusive jurisdiction over the District of Columbia. If the Congress does not believe in meters on taxicabs it should enact a law forbidding taxicabs to carry meters, forbidding the Public Utilities Commission to take any step toward the regulation of taxicabs, forbidding all interference of any sort with taxicabs or taxicab drivers, and forbidding any member of the Public Utilities Com- mission to ride in a taxicab. By such legislation it could preserve both the rugged individualism of unrestricted taxicab competition and the Public Utilities Commission. And that, ap- parently, is the desideratum. But whatever the final decision, it is sincerely to be hoped that in the public interest both the taxicab-regulating members of the House and the taxicab- regulating members of the Public Utili- ties Commission will stick to their guns, neither side budging an inch until that final decisi-n is made known by Con- gress. For the difference of opinion over whether taxicabs shou'd be equip- ped with meters, and thus become amensble to regulation hitherto lacking, is of far less importance to the people of the District than the issue that this difference cf opinion has raised. That issue is whether the District is to be governed by Congress through the offi- cials at the District Building, to whom certain powers have by properly en- acted legislation been delegated, or whether the District is to be governed by a few influential members of Con- gress whese strongly-held personal opin- jons and whose strategic positions on committees enable them to dictate policy and procedure. The latter form of government should not be accepted without due consideration of its obvious defects, large among which is the in- evitable deterioration in character and morale on the part of the duly ap- pointed officials at the District Building. —————t————— Canine '“‘Fingerprints. A dog that was lost has been identi- fied and restored to its owner by means of its footprints, taken some months ago. This is an application of the fingerprint” system that is worth the consideration of all who possess and cherish pets. It was not previously known to a certainty that there wassuy1 | distinctiveness in the foot marks of the canine as to assure identification, as in the case of the hands of the human. Indeed, the cog has usually been relied upon to recognize its owner, in case of separation and recovery, Numerous cases have been settled in court, where ownership has been disputed, by the dog itself rendering decision by evi- dences of affection that could not be gainsaid. The dog's intelligence and memory are unquestioned. This case, however, suggests the wisdom of pre- serving prints of the paws of valued animals in order that identification may be made absolutely assured. For there may be instances in which the dog that has gone astray has been kept by its finder for 50 long a time that the animal has through gentle treatment and association become attached to its temporary possessor and in dispute over ownership will be confused and divided in allegiance. In such a case the paw marks will permit assured decision. This may not be regarded as of particular importance of those who are not fond of dogs and do not regard them as valuable personal property, but to dog lovers the matter of identification is a serious one | and the footprint safeguard against loss and alienation is well worth adop- tion = ———— Private automobiles are rigidly regu- lated by authority. An effort is made to extend the same supervision to a public bus, even though it is larger and perhaps regarded as more influ- ential e T — Japan Feels the Pinch. What it costs to embark upon im- measurable military 2dventures is now being brought vividly home to the pen- ple of Japan. It has just been dis- closed by Finance Minister Taka- hashi that bucget requirements make it impossible for the government to go forward with Japan's five-year plan for industrial expansion. The origi- nators of the program aimed at mak- ing the island empire self-sustaining in most of the important manufac- tures and incidentally at wiping out unemployment. It was the most ambi- tious economis undertaking ever pro- lected in modern Mippen. Although the Seiyukaior governm parly recently wcn the naiional elec- tions by promising to embark forthwith upon the five-year plan, Mr. Taka- hashi was compelled to inform the country this week that the treasury's condition does not permit ft. He on' THE EVENING thinly veiled the real reason. The ex- penses of the military campaigns in Manchuria and at Shanghai, he said, “are not yet ended.” Estimates for Ja- pan’s ordinary military and naval arm- jaments continue to show a déwnward trend. But the expeditions in China, commencing with events in Manchuria last September, put the budget in dis- array. It reveals a deficit of roundly $30,000,000, which is to be raised by a Joan. The Japanese would probably rejoice to feel that the bill they have to foot on account of Manchuria and Shanghai will be confined to the present budget shortage. Unfortunately, there is no prospect of that because, as the finance minister lugubriously reminds the na- ipatd. The army of occupation is still in Manchuria, and, pending negotiations for the withdrawal from Shanghal, im- mense forces are being maintained there. These revelations, which are the world's first indication of what the military and raval party’s policy has cost Japan, also graphically lift the curtain on at least one of the reasons why the Shanghai campaign was abandoned. That the Japanese possessed the requisite force to achieve almost any objective they might have set them- selves in China can hardly be doubted. 1t now seems apparent that when Tokio began to reckon the cost, not only in blood, but in treasure, counsels of eco- nomic sanity prevailed and stayed the hands of even the Japanese war lords. Money talks. It has seldom talked to 8 more useful purpose than when it brought a realization that the opera- tions at Shanghai, wholly apart from the damage they were doing to her prestige in the world, were capable of pushing Japan to the brink of national bankruptey. e ————— The purchaser of an automobile is deing something to make employment for factory workers, salesmen, gas-filling superintendents, repair men, policemen, and maybe a few trained nurses and doctors. r——— A statesman required to figure in billions naturally fails to feel at home when discussing his own salary. which at best amounts to only a few thousands a year. e long for a fight that they are inclined to insist on infcrmal attacks when the rules forbid regu'ar wariare. — e Tax legislation has gotten far enough to call Senat:rs with talents for investi- gation to the duty of looking it over. —— Educational experts draw the line at trying to regard a Communist demon- straticn as mere college humor. ——— A seat in the New York Stock Ex- change is no longer regarded as a financial easy chair. vt SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Prophet With Ho Though sounds of strife bring frequent fear Across yon narrow sea And mighty warriors still draw near To make men bend the knee. Though genius still steps in to lead The great inventive clan, To give our homage we proceed Unto the Weéather Man. Though statesmen face a rising storm And calm it with a word, ‘Though wizards of fnance perform And singers sweet are heard, One modest citizen we hear As changeful skies we scan, And humbly turn with joy or fear Unto the Weather Man. A place in high esteem you'll earn, Oh, brave, industrious youth, By seeking only to discern And to impart the truth. There’s just one personage we know Whose plain, perpetual plan Keeps human interest aglow, And that’s the Weather Man. The Hat. our hat in the ring?” 0,” answered Senator Sorghum, “I'm holding on to it. I've got to pass it around among my constituents to collect more taxes.” “Is Jud Tunkins says he went to the big town expectin’ a high old time and the only way he could enjoy himself all evenin’ was sendin’ letters to the home folks. Back Among the Home Folks. Quoth Uncle Sam, “My cash I see Confronting various dangers, Next time I won't be quite so free In playing games with strangers.” In the Wall Street Zoo. “Are you & bull or a bear in the market? “I don't know,” answered Mr. Dus- tin Stax. “I'm so scared and ready to run, I guess you might class me as a rabbit.” “It is not difficult.” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “to find ‘s title to fit a great man. It may prove less easy as time passes to find great men to fit the title.” Taxation Rule and Exception. We must pay taxes, all of us agree, But there’s a proverb that we learned at school, And nearly every one aspires to be The great exception that will prove the rule. “De trouble 'bout lettin' yourself be fooled too often,” said Uncle Eben. “is dat you gets so suspicious you can't believe good news, even when it's true.” = Thoughtful Grasshoppers. From the Bioux Falls Daily Argus-Leader. 1f grasshoppers are determimed to destroy our crops, it's nice of them to do so when the prices are low. Public Misfortunes. From the Seuth Bend Tribune. A feminine radio listener recognised a crooner as her missing husband and notified a sheriff. Unfortunately, oth- er crooners may have better matrimo- nial records. | e A Feriile Field. From the New York Sun. M:mbers of the House Ways and Means Committee propose to exempt and more m;mm s tae:‘n the sales tax, or} pro- ductivity ol’lme yield, :'t lnull“#::. l, ce, O] o T o Babe Futh o7 g, | |tion, the piper has not yet been fully TAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Thinking has its ebbs and flows, too. | men, as a whole, think beiter today ‘There are tides in the mind, as well | than they did a thousand years ago. as in the affairs of men ‘This gain has gone hand in hand “One day I am a doctor, and the | with a refinement of the feelings, or of next I am a dunce” Wwrote ® greai | the emotions. Often the two are in- American intellectual. extricable. When some sight or deed Many today would say that the fel- | appeals to the heart it is impossible low must have suffered from the “blues.” | to say that it does not appeal to the but it went a great deal deeper than |mind in the same way, although when that. #e 50 mix mind and heart we are talk- It goes much deeper, even today. ing in riddles, indeed. There is no one who uses his mind— | All the centuries that minds and at least to the best of his ability—who | hearts have been improving. they have does not know the “off days,” When one be-n waging the greatest fight in his- not only dres not car> to think, but | tory, that of life against life, the life when one cannot think. | which would rise against the life which Not think. that is, in the sense of | would pull down. There is in every mental work which results in some real | human being-—-and this distinguishes accomplishment. however small | him from the sheer animals—this great There is thinking and thinking, of | contest going on, waging incessantly, course. Nothing is easier to sneer at | never ending. 'The idea of the powers | than the mental processes of another |of gond and evil came out of it, the human being. imagery of heaven and hell came out | To think or not to think, that is the |of it. question, as Hamlet said, and between | Much of what mankind has achieved the two there sometimes may come an | comes to us out of this grand battle. inevitable hiatus. [ If one believes the very cells of the ‘This lapse often is found in books, a |body to be intelligent—and it is diffi- sort of intellectural “let-down." during | cult to think otherwise, even in such a which the suthor has permitted the |simple matter as the clotting of the threads of his work to wander as they | blood—it is easy enough to believe also will. | that our very emotions are kinds of | o intelligence—thinking taking another ull. The reader calls this portion of the work form, manifesting itself in body states. | "“This same mental hiatus often occurs | in music, especially in longer works, such as symphonies and the like. It | may be in the music, as written, or it | may be put there by poor musicians, or, ; what is worse, a poor conductor. | Sometimes one hears the belief ex- | pressed that a good orchestra needs no conductor, that the players could play as well by themselves, without the show of one man standing with a silly small stick in his hand, making gestures in their faces But the leaderless orchestra doesn't | work out very well. Even with him, these inevitable lapses occur in other- wise good compositions. Sometimes the | music is as fine here as elsewhere in the piece, but a slowing up in the tempo permits the auditor to get the feeling that the musicians do not know what they are doing. | At this point a really good leader will summon them to new effort, not only by what appears to the audience little extra work with his hands es, and sometimes even his shoulders, but also by an exercise of‘ sheer will power, when he throws into| their minds the needed stimulus to| take them on to a brilliant finish. = x %y | Unhappily, the average human being | 1 has no “leader” or “‘conductor” to pull | | him ‘out of mental depressions—none, that is, except himself, and it is that for the flaw in the first place. No, the term “blues” won't do, except in a very rudimentary way. The as- | sortment of mental ills to which the world gives the unscientific name of “blues,” while very well known to all| but the professional optimists, is largely | different from the feeling which in- spired the wise man to write, “One | day I am a doctor and the next I am a dunce” We belleve that this latter feeling is a revolt of the human animal against | For all of his great natural wisdom, he | the human brain. Let us look at it| this way: Mankind has been struggling | to create for himself a thinking mech- | anism, and it has taken him all these thousands of years to get it to the| place it now holds in the world of | living things. | There are so many millions of people, | however, that there cannot be said to | voices of the ages. as they well up with- | be any level attained by the entire body of men, except in a theoretical | way. Even two brothers may differ as | widely as day and night. One will| think vividly and correctly on many | problems, while the next will refuse lo‘ use what brain he has, preferring to live a more strictly animal_existence. | Nevertheless, it may be held, with | some justice, that the water level of | human thinking tends to rise, and that We think all over, as we live all over; prefer to call instinct, intuition, shrink- ing, fear, and the like. These are the mysterious, unconscfous “thinkings” of the body, which come to mankind out of the early jungies of life. The preservation of themselves was the first great job of the cells, and their work today is largely bullt upon this basis. Therefore, the fancy think- ing which a man does with his brain, | per se. must be looked upon by the cells of the blood stream as only so much foolishness. a2 Even when the cells of the brain function to help the cells of the blood stream, by directing experiments which will ald mankind to build up the hemo- globin of the red corpuscles in the blood gtream, the cells which will be aided are ignorant of the help, and stand pulling the wrong way in the darkness. Yes, they stand in the darkness, and they pull the wrong way. With all their little intelligences, they resent the work of the human mind, and if they had voices a sensitive human being could hear them cry, “Stop thinking! Sto] thinking! You are pulling me down The days when thinking comes hard, then, may be laid at the doors of mil- lions upon millions of tiny little bits of life. created God alone knows how, out s of God alone knows what stuff. for | Chinese and Japanese have waited 50 very person, indeed, who is responsible | God alone knows what purpose. These difficult days, in the high art of apply- ing the human brain, are the gra { life. For there is a gravity of life, as well as in physics, Its downpull may come to us at the least welcome mo- ments, and we may accuse ourselves of being dull, dispirited, pessimistic, igno- t. rant, “I am a dunce.” said the wise man, but he wasn't. The great clutch of the primitive living tissue. whose main job was and is to stay alive, was upon him. did not have the scientific attitude which would have enabled him to look upon his trouble with a viewpoint nearer the truth. The verlest school boy of today. bred up on cosmic rave and the like, hes a clearer approach to the_truth. The man who listens to the silent in him, may be called “moody” by others and accused of gross laziness, perhaps, but he will be nearer to the eternal springs and surer of such rewards as life has to offer. Let him not mind the criticisms of the ignorant, but go his way in peace, sure of the fact that if his intelligence is at low tide today it will be at high tomorrow, and that these waters are older than Pharaoh and come from a source farther away than Egypt. Highlights on the Wide World A RENSA, Willemstad —Depres- | slon, depression, depression! It seems that is all people have to talk about these days—the causes of the depression, the origin of the depression, the intensity of the depression. remedies against the depression, the cure of the depression the prevention of future depressions. Not since the Great War has so uni- versal and appalling a series of disas- ters visited the nations. For all are the victims of this new holocaust— both the victors and the vanquished in the martial confiict, and. indeed, the victors, in this economic stress. seem to have suffered the most, for| their position has become relatively | more discomforting. More used to plenty. they have been plunged into| poverty. A multiplicity of suggestions for ending this regime of discouragement and mistrust are offered each day and there are as many different schemes for bringing back prosperity as there are individuals projecting them. At bottom, in our opinion, politics is to blame—the selfish nationalism of each country that desires all sorts of profit and benefit to itself regardless of the rights and liberties of other peoples. This national selfishness which has placed the various nations at sword's point with each other has developed within the respective populations be- cause of personal and corporate selfis! ness and greed. New theories of lil erty and license have sprung up every- where and not only human, but even divine, indorsement sought for the most _outrageous and indefensible be- havior, whether private or corporate It is hardly to be expected that while powerful interests seek the priv- | ileges of unrestricted traffic in drugs| and liquor, because they prefer to com-| Tercialize ‘men's appetites rather than promote social welfare with useful merchandise, because of larger, regard-| less of how tainted, profits. When the world gets back to decency—when a struggling minority no longer strives to check the avalanche of immorality | and evil indu'gences now threatening to Ingulf the world, patronized by politicians bescuse of a perniciously resumed popularity of the times—| hen, and not till then, will peace and | plenteousness return. | Without true principles and purity of act and motive. there can be no social or commercial resuscitation. It is idle and presumptuous to think that we can gamble, drink or drug ourselves back to economic stability, or that wars and concubinage wili help us more than they did Sodom and Go- morrah! More than ever before, the werld needs men of character, ideals and sympathy to direct its affairs oo Water Shortage Shown in Jerusalem. Palestine Bulletin. Jeruselem —The acute water shortage in Jerusalem is clearly shown by the figures of the total rainfall today, compared with the total today a year ago. Up to the end of January, 1931 the rainfall in Jerusalem was 294.3 mm., whereas this - only 180.6 mm. have fallen so far. year the rainfall was below the | average and far below the city’s needs. * * ¥ % Leopard Proves Detriment to Owner. Cologne Gazette—A rather unfortu- nate affair occurred a day or so ago mn| Fried®neu (Berlin suburb) in the home of a picture print-r who, in his earlier days. had d-ne considerable traveling in” Africa. As a souvenir of his ex- periences, and for the pecuniary benefit occasionally derived from loaning the animal to a moving picture studio, as well as for the presentation of it in his is artist kept | the Americen pattern, Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands ture was supposed to be gentle and tame, but as a matter of precaution was generally chained to a bolt in the floor This particular morning a lady dwell- ing in the same house enterd the studio to borrow something or other. with her little daughter upon her arm. As soon as the leopard saw the visitors, whom he probably thought intruders. he strug- gled at his bonds. and soon broke the chain, for he was a large and powerful brute, and fell upon the mother and child With teeth and claws the beast attacked them. inflicting numerous wounds. The woman tried her best to protect the infant. but unsuccessfully, though the artist and herself did every- thing in their power to subdue the beast. It seemed that the leopard con- sidered the child its special prey, and wis only driven away from it when the shrieks of the mother and the painter brought to the scene the husband and father, who, with 2 hammer, drove the snarling animal to a corner of the room There it was again secured, and the po- lice, arriving soon after, sent the child and mother to the hospital. The owner of the leopard was ar- rested. It seems that he had been ordered by ago to turn the animal over to the Zoological Gardens, but had neglected to do so. He claims that the leopard was a necessary adjunct for his liveli- hood in these bad times. It appears more likely now that the leopard was a decided detriment and mischief to him if any harm befalls the mother or child in consequence of his reversion to savagery. ———— Anli-Hoa;ding lirive Brings Out Old Bills From the Morgantown Dominion-News. The first visible sign that the anti- hoarding campaign is getting results Is the reappearance of the antiquated cur- rency, which for the past year seemed to have been entirely retired. The large size bills, now that we have be- come accustomed to the newer and smaller ones, look awkward and out of place in a normal bank roll. Usually the holder makes haste to rid himself of a bill which does not size up with its fellows nor fit snugly into the modern billfold. There are millions of dollars of these old bills still hidden away in trunks, teakettles and strong boxes. In these hiding places they lose their earning capacity and become as so much wrap- ping paper and are subject to ever- threatening loss by fire. Sometimes a mouse chews up a small fortune. The anti-hoarding crganization is hearten- ed in its efforts at the sudden reap- pearance of these old bilis. Every city from coast to coast hes produced some. which are immesiately retired and re- placed by the United States Treasury. - Beautiful But Not Dumh. From the Nashville Banner. A professor at Columbia says brains and good looks ordinarily go along to- gether in children. That being the case, how did this stuff about “beau- tiful, but dumb” ever get such head- way? —_— et Filipinos Welcome to It. From the Nashville Banner. 1f the Filipines still want liberty after t 'em havs it, 've 'em right. = —— et Two War Points Setiled. From the San Francisco Chronicle. The Great War proved that arma- ment won't prevent 3 that lack prevent it. say w2, end Chins won't these intellectual processes we the authorities some time| APRIL 2, 1932. THE LIBRARY TABLE BY SARAH G. BOWERMAN. ‘When Eden Philpotts turns back from his more recently practiced de- tective stories to his older type of real- istic tales of Devonshire life he is still capable of interesting us in his farm- i,n‘ hedgers, dairy maids, shepherds, dlers, country doctors and villagers. | He probably will never again write novels equal to “Children of the Mist," | “Sons of the Morning” and “The Port- 'reevc but his latest novel, “Storm- bury,” contains a good number of strongly individual characters who are involved in enough events and in- trigues to furnish sufficient plot inter- est. The scene is a Devonshire village and the countryside surrounding it. Stormbury Is Very near to the market | town of Honiton, which, in turn, is only about 16 miles from Exeter. ‘The homes into which we are introduced are Stormbury Farm, where live Adam Veryard and his widowed mother. Bes- sie, and his brother, Disney; Stormbury Cottage, whose inhabitants are Ralph Veryard and his wife, Lucris, and his niece, Martha; the modest home of Dr. “Johnsey” Disney at Stormbury: | Willom Farm, whose master is Hugh | Diment; the villa of Sargeant Clay and the hut of Willie Yaw, a spinster and the “wise woman” of the neighborhood. The story opens with a scene in the hay field at Stormbury Farm, when Bessie Veryard and her dairy maid, Milly Venn, who love each other mone too well, bring the midday meal to the men working at the haymaking. A fete champetre follows in the shadow of the growing haystack, where all the | farm laborers, Adam and Disney, the mistress and her daughter and Martha Veryard, who has hanpened along, all pariake of the pastries, beer, cider, apple tarts and cake. * ok ox % The peaceful scene in the hayfleld | which peace by no means rules in every home and heart. These dwellers in the beautiful Otter Valley, under the brow of Stormbury Fort, are as subject to petty jealousies and animosities, van- as if their environment were less lovely. Bessie Veryard, too frivolous and pleas- ure-loving for a middle-aged widow, at least so think her neighbors, dominates her weak son Adam and freely wastes his money, for the farm is his. She tries to prevent her daughter'’s mar- riage to the son of the man who has, in her own youth, jilted her; her ostensible reason that it is sure to be a case ot “like father like son” con- undying pique. Raiph Veryard is an unusually selfish hypochondriac. Doc- tor “Johnsey” tells him that he has nothing real in the way of illness, but Ralph resents this dirgnosis, also being told that he looks well. There is no surer way to his favor frail. His worry over himself is his most pleasant recreation. Naturally he has no interest or sympathy to expend on any one else. He domineering as well as completely self-centered, and his wife, Lucris, hopss intensely and in her sister and a few others) that she will outlive him and have a period in \Iwhl(‘h to enjoy life before she herseli dies. She is herself not so agreeable that she has many friends, but most | who know her pity her for her ill- | assorted marriage. Noah Hart, the | master of the Disney Arms at Storm- :bury, whom Lucris had refused to | marry in their youth because of his poverty, does not hesitate to remind her of her mistake whenever hs meets her, so that she often goes out of her way to avoid him. He concludes one of his tirades, when he has met her on the Stormbury road, with the shot: ‘You never guessed the one would groan longest who groaned last.” able antagonists pitted egainst the tempssiuous Bessie, the selfish Ralph, and the acrimonious Lucris, are Ser- geant Clay, Milly Venn, Frank Caani- ford, the pedler: Hugh Diment and above all Doctor “Johnsey” and the | “wise woman,” Willie Yaw. * x % x Love affairs flourish in the little Stormbury community. There is only one beautiful girl in the neighborhood, Rose: Veryard, but Frank Canniford and Adam Veryard do not demand beauty in their matrimonial alliances; they are satisfied with brains and com- mon sense. There is one romantic elopement, frcm Stormbury Gross, on a {rosty December night, in a very mod- (ern runabout. The peir of middle- aged lovers are perhaps the most de- | Storms of temper on the | | voted of all. | part of the lady in nowise weaken her icver's determination to call her fe. We have our fears that all is er when Bossie Veryard, convalesc.ng | from pneumonia, hurls at the face of iSs‘rgL Clay the pineapple he has brought her as a present. but the gal- lant sergeant picks up the pineapple, resolves in the future to be more tact- ful in mentioning forbidden subjects, | and goes on loving her. Bessie has a | devotion she does not deserve. | tend two weddings in the village church | and one wedding supper, which i- ma: festive by port wine fr-m Noah Hart's | tavern. The other two weddings take place away from Stormbury.. There is | page of an old-fashioned novel like “Stormbury” and finding that every- thirg has ended happily—that lovers are married, that injuries are forgiven, that grievances are laid aside, that for the time being at least the selfish are co-operating harmoniously with others. To be sure. the married couples v not alweys be happy, new griev- ances and animosities will ari and the selfish will vsually be selfish: but a beok must end somewhcre and may as well end cn a high note as a low one. Not all women are Electras and not all houses are houses of mourning. * ok % ¥ which Elihu Root is honorary presi- dent and John W. Davis is president, proposes publishing annually a volume giving an account of American foreign relations during the preceding year. The first volume in this series has just appeared, “The United States in World Affairs,” 'by Walter Lippmann, in col- labration with Wiliam O. Scroggs. This plan will provide “an annual history, prepared almost contemporaneously with events and published while their influence is still active.” Judging from the present volume, the series will form Tecent history, and will be as interest- ing for general reading as the best newspapers. The period covered by “The United States in World Affairs” is “from the beginning of the third session of the Seventy-first Congress, on December 1, 1930, to the beginning of the first session of the Seventy-sec- ond Congress, on December 7, 1931." The chapters divide our foreign rela- tions in the following way: 1. The Economic Depression; the Evolution of American Opinion Prior to December, 1930. 2 The Doctrine of Self-Contain- ment: The Seventy-first Congress. 2. The Deepening Depression in the First Half of 1931. 4. A Generalized View of the Effects of the Depression. 5. Con- ditions in Latin America. 6 Attempts at Economic Stabilization. 7. Critical Levelopments in Central Europe. 8. Conditions Leading up to the Morato- rium. 9. A Respite from Reparations. 10. The British Crises. 11. The Ameri- can Crisis of October, 1931. 12. The Hoover-Laval Conversations. 13. Col- labration with Europe: Armaments and the League. 14. The Manchurian Af- fair. The volume contains many footnote references, a selected bibliography, eight appendices, two maps and s in- dex. Mr. Lippmann says in epi- logue: “Of the events described in these pages, none has been concluded. The worla-wide depression, with all its vast social, political, economic and financial | consequences, had nct ended. * % The evolution of policy and opinion was still rapid under the pressuze of emergencies. To say more would be to attempt to predict history. * * * The story has no conclusion. The plot is not unfolded. The end is wn. zm»h no pause in the march of is the prelude to a tale of rural life in | itles, rivalries, and unworthy ambitions | ceals from no one her real reason, her, resents | than to inquire for the conditin of | his kidreys or to tell h'm that he looks | | secretly (except that she has confided | his | We at- | de | | certain pleasure in turning the last | ‘The Council on Foreign Relations, of | a valuable work of reference for very | BY FREDERI Did you ever write a letter to Fred- | eric J. Haskin? You can ask him any question of fact and get the answer in a personal letter. Here is a great educational idea introduced into the lives of the most intelligent people in the world—American newspaper read- ers. It is a part of that best purpose of & newspaper—service. There is ho stamps for return postage. Address | Fredric J. Haskin, Director, The Star Information Bureau, Washington, D. C. Q. What is the mile ice-skating rec- ord?>—N. F. W. A It is 2:411/5. This record is held by F. J. Robson and Morris Wood, who tied for the record. Q. How many trucks were in acci- dents Iast year? -A. 8. A In 193Q there were 3480933 trucks registered in the United States. They are listed as commercial ears There were 137.790 commercial cars in accidents in 1931. The number in fatal accidents was 6,060 and the num- ber in non-fatal accidents, 131,730. Q. How many radio listeners are | there?>—J. C. W | A One estimate places the number | at 50,000,000. Q. Do members of Congress_smoke while Congress is in session?—B. T. A. Smoking is not permitted on the floor of the House of Representatives or Senate. Q. Where is the biggest differen ebb and flood tide on the coast o;‘eui]r; United States?—J. 8. A. The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey says that the largest periodic range of tide on the coast of the United States proper occurs in ‘the St. Croix River. Maine. In this lo- feet and a spring range of about 23 feet. In Turnagain Arm, Cook Inlat. Alaska, there is a mean range of ap- proximately 30 feet and a spring range of approximately 33 feet. The largest known periodic tides in the world occur in Minas Basin, Bay of mdey. rNt‘);n's;:oun.d Whe;efl.n & mean of eet and a s range of 45 feet have been remmd‘ 4 Q. How much money has been ex- pended for Civil War pensions? How many people are still recelving them?— G. M W A. At the end of the fiscal year June 30. 1931, $7,492,456,764.46 had been expended in Civil War pensions, On the same date the number of persons_receiving pensions on account of the Civil War was: Soldiers, 39,436; nurses, 23: widows, 153437, Q. What is the meaning of the In- dirn word Seminole?—A. H. H. A It is the Creek word for separ- who left themselves their tribe and established in Florida. shipped to and from the port of Mil- waukee?—B. R. A In rormal times the total in bound and outbound freight amounts to eight or nine million tons, with a valuation close to $150,000,000 yearly. Q. Does Canzda have any general gxpi’rv:smn of the ligquor traffie—J. | A. The Canadian Government In- formation Bureau says that the con- | @ol of liquor traffic is recognized as a | distinctly provincial responsibility. | Bach province makes and enforces its _own liquor laws, and there are as many systems, or modifications of systems, of liouor control as there are provinces. |During the war period the zeal for As | Public welfare and national efficiency | circumstances pe: charge except two cents in coin or | cality there is an average range of 20 | atlsts and was applied to the Creeks| Q. What is the value of the freight | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS C J. HASKIN. | brought about a condition of practi~ cally complete prohibition—a condi= tion generally accepted in those times, but which, with the return of peace, gradually fell into disfavor until today |only one province—Pririce Edward Island—still adheres to the policy of total prohibition. Q. Please compare the lation of };;w Ysork with that gt‘!pumum_ A. The differences of political organi- zations make actual comparisons im- possible. However, New York withuy 3 radius swung 20 miles from City Hall has a population of 9.830.873. Loncon within a radius of 20 miles from Charing Cross has a population of 8912873, Q. What is instrument > A The piceols is the highest toned wind instrument. After the piccolo, the following are the highest toned: The soprano oboe and the sopranino saxophone in P. the highest-toned wind M. K. Q How many national cemeteries are there in the United States?—C. F. A There are 83 within the United States and one in Mexico City, Mex~ ico. There are eight American ceme- | teries in Europe for burial of our war | dead. Q. What causes oil to flow from wells after the wells are drilled’—W. D. P. A. Gas pressure forces the oil up~ ward. When the gas in a well is ex- ’hausud. the oil ceases to flow. It is | estimated that only one-fifth of the |oll in a pool is thus forced to the sur- face. Lately, oill companies have | learned to capture the gas and pump it back into the oil pool, where the pressure is restored. Q. Please name a person who was a- child prodigy and became a great th.nker or writer.—H. T. A. John Stuart Mill may be taken as an example. His father began to* teach him Greek at the age of three, Latin at seven, and algebra, geometry and calculus at 12. He began the study |of logic at 12 and political economy |at 13. He became a leading l!;flhh |social and political reformer, philoso- | pher and economist. Q. How is Natchitoches, name of a |town in Louisiana, pronounced?—N. L. A. It is pronounced as if spelled Nak-i-tosh, and is accented on the last syllable. Q. What Indian School corresponds to the colleges of the white race?—T. H. A. Haskell Institute most nearly ap- proashes college standards. Q. How many voters will be qualified to cast ballots in the presidential elec- tion next November?—P. E. A. On the basis of age and regis- trat.on, approximately 58,500,000 men | and women' will be eligible to vote. Q. What is lespedeza?—A. K. A. 1t is a type of clover, sometimes called Japanese clover, introduced into |the United States by the Department | of Agriculture. 1t grows best in the | southeastern section of*the country. 1 Q How did it come about that | graduation exercises were called com- | mencement?—D. L. A. Originally it was really a com- mencement, as it marked the inception of the pupil graduate as a tedsher and his recognition as such by his master: and other members of the profession. Q. Was Washington confirmed? Did he receive holy communion?—8. K. / A. Canon Dunlap says: “George | Washington, although never ed, received the col n as oftén as Coolidge Advice on Taxation. - . Taken as Spur to Vigilanc | Recent statements by former Presi- (dent Calvin Coolidge on the accumu- | lated results of excessive taxation are interpreted by the public in the light of his own economy slogan when serving as Chief Executive. It is widely be- lieved that existing evils represent the aftermath of heavy expenditures in Na- ticnal, State and local matters. The remedy is viewed, "however, as difficuit to determine. “The one flaw in the Coolidg> pre: | sentment,” in the opinion of the Akron | Beacon Journal, “is that he makes no specific rebuke of any official, now or in the past, responsible for the crash that riotous extravagance has invited.” The Beacon Journal advises that “what the Nation really needs is monitors who will couple their warnings with action, and who will fight rather than try to babble their way out of existing trou- bles.” With the interpretation that “there should be extensive and powerful organization of the rank and file cf the people to compel Congress and the vari- ous Legislatures and county and loc:l governments to take such steps as will make a reduction of taxes possible,” the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel advises thai “it is not at all easy to effect such re- forms by the governments themselves in |the absence of strong support and strong insistence from the rank and file.” That paper concludes: “Unless the public is prepared really to do something about high taxes, let them cease railing and ranting " “One of the best of his sentences,’ according to the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, “is this “To be safe and cound, taxes have to be earned.’ That ought to be the first reader of the course of taxation. But & lot cf people, even though they are taxpay- ers, do not seem to understand it The Bulletin adds as to the Coolidge analysis: “And so the story of taxation | | | rious points, emphasizing and re- emphasizing the fact that everybody pays the tax bill, and when that ag- gregate gets beyond the limit of every- a chunk out of capital. which is the power that makes things go in pros- perity.” * ok ok ok “He raises the interesting questio “whether majorities actually rule in the United States” and that paper con- cludes: It is & debatable question. If one accepts the word of Mr. Coolidge as final, he must conclude. that minori- ties instead of majorities rule. majority is unorganized and vocal. Moreover, the majority is in- different until pay day comes. Its voice usually is one of belated protest after the mischief has been done. And while the majority is silent, vigilant and active minorities are inducing the Congress to lay upon the people a burden of taxation which in days of depression becomes _intolerable. — In- cidentally, the expenses of State and county and municipal governments are increased in the same way. “If there is one man in the country who, by every right, is qualified to say, ‘I told you so,’ that men is Calvin Coolidge,” declares the Providence Bul- letin, with indorsement for the thought: | intolerable heights, raised 1o = g} - trade, sucking their initistive laying waste their capital, draining their re- cuperative powers. He knows that when industry, business and trade are soaked the rich alone do not suffer; the average workingman also alty." v people,” comments the Boise, I “As Idaho, Statesman, “we are constantly rlrm-~inT for ‘improvemcats’ We de- mend this and we dcmend tha!, aic¢ © so many gowing arguments Iun ade on the desirability of & and its burden is brought home at va- | body's, or anybody’s, earnings it takes | says the Oklahoma City Oklahoman,, n-{ pays '«hel & wants to stay in office has né alterna- | tive but to yield to the pressure. And | when the time comes to pay, we, the people, ‘with awful wrath upen those whom we virtually forced to do our bidding. Governmental e will never be reduced until the grea | mass of the voters m2ke up their minds to be more consistent.” 5 . * ok o* ¥ Empbasizing “the call for a non-par- tisan organization to control finances," the Cleveland News suggests that “whatever our previous governmental | extravagences have been, the strictest economies now sgem capable of no-more than holding the situation in abeyance | uniil better times arrive.” Spokane Spokesman-Review feels that | the ex-President knocks over the | demagogic contention that the Govern=- | ment, State and national, can tain high taxes, roll them still higher and get the needed revenue by ‘soaking the rich.” The Detroit News draws the conclusion that “the fsult lies with the people who demanded more and more public expenditure,” and concludes: “What about farm relief? The tarmers are heavily tayed:; Mr. Coolidge finds that in the period 1922-27 the averags tax was 23.3 per cent of their net income. What about it> Mr Obolidge puts it in one sen- tence: ‘As the taxes farmers pay are mostly local, the remedy would seem to be in their own hands.' So any one ‘who goes to Mr. Coolidge for balm | will find about as much as can be ex- tracied from a stout hickery stick. After the spree. the headdche; to | which Mr. Coolidge would add not only a promise to reform, but a resolution to stick to it.” “The main objective of the former President in his excoriation of govern- mental extravagance.” as viewed by the Minneapolis Journal, “is the Con- gress, even though he does bid the people to have a care as to their local and State expenditures. But his coun- sel is just as pertinent, just as directly applicable, in any other umit. The way to taxpayers’ rehabilitation is largely through hard boiled elimination of non-essentials from the tax budget, So long as revenue is the prime con- cern in the minds of the appropriating powers, just so long will outgo continue ;o. 'gpnllm'e the taxpayers’ ability to Keeping America Pure By Exalting Mediocrity From the Des Moines Tribune. Both houses of Congress have passed and have sent to the President a bill to extend the immigration ban to all alien instrumental musicians. But why stop there? Why not ex- clude the future Carusos as well as the future Paderewskis? And if American musicians are en- titled to protection against immigrant competition, should not our writers, our | painters and our sclentists be given similar berefits? What a shame it would be if some future Conrad or some embryo Einstein | should slip into this country through Ellis Island and later outdistance some of P§7Ilr Anx;!lve talent! Be 0; erica must be kept pure and d even if that m&n above genius. rarely . Atomergs in Politics. Prom the Lowell Bvening Legder, The atom: which is to | ' of the lesser known po!lfl;ft.‘nfldl'u e — Some Drivers . » ee Tej of the k juige ported some men drive better