Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1932, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY... April 11, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor he Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Dfiu: 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 Eas: 0 e: Lake Michig: ce: 14 Regent England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. 45¢ per month 2nd 8. Bullding. . London, Star_ .. g and Sinday Star Thy s 5¢ per month | The Sunday Sta: T copy I Gorlection mads at the end of ench montn gffl(ll may be sent in by mall or telephone Ational 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Jly and Sunday.....1r. $10.00: 1 mo., 8¢ an only . ‘131, 3600 1 mo.. 50c | unday oniy 1yr.) 3400 1 ma. 40e | All Other States and Canada. iy only ¥ nday only 15r. $500: 1 mo.. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Pres Is exclusively $o the use ‘or republication of all atches credi‘ed (0 It or not ot ted in this paper and published herein Al 11 dispatches herei —_— —— Furloughs and Wage Cuts. ‘The administration suggestion for a fve-day week for per diem employes and a system of staggering the work of other employes through legislative au- thorization to heads of departments. | permitting them to enforce furloughs without pay, does not alter the fact that, as in the case of pay cuts. the sacrifice thus demanded would be made by those least able to bear it. A five- day week for per diem employes means the surrender of 52 days' wages, and | wages that are already small. Enforced furloughs would hit hardest the army of 891863 Federal employes, counting both military and civil groups, whose annual pay is Lelow $2500 a year. This small-salaried group constitutes approximately 87 per cent of the total number of Federal employes, including the miliary, and 83 per cent, excluding &1l but civilians, | Something of the same principle ap- plies in the case of the savings that | would be effected through retirement of superannuated employes. These. a small group to begin with, are for the most part men and women whose value to the Government has led to their retention. To cut them off now for the estimated saving of $3,000.000 in & bud- get of more than two billion would be cutting off the nose to spite the face. More harm than good would come of it. Value to the service is what counts. and arbitrarily to assume that those beyond a fixed age limit are no longer needed, when the fact is that their extraordinary value has led to their re- tention, is not economy and is not logical. The saving grace of the scheme to furlough some workers and put others on a five-day week would lie in its careful application as an employment- saving measure. This, it might seem, 15 what the administration officials who proposed it had mind. “The re- ‘duction of appropriations by the Con- gress will Tesult in the discharge of many employes,” the White House statement sald, “unless some provision #s made to prevent this contingency. Shis (the furlough plan) would permit the retention of trained and qualified employes and provide a somewhat re- duced income to some of the Federal staff in lieu of discharging those who cannot be retained on full time. The application of this principle into other services will produce effective econ- omies.” | But if the scheme is employed to ef- fect a saving of an estimated $45,000.- 000, it would not be an employment- | miding measure, spreading work among & large number who otherwise would be stricken off, but a salary cut under snother name. Most assuredly, if the| work of the various departments and bureaus is to be restricted by cuts in appropriations, the heads of depart- ments should be given authority to| *spread” the work remaining by a sys- tem of furloughs. The Government employes themselves would welcome such a proposal, and it would have the decided advantage of retaining salary scales at the present level, instead of Jowering them to a point that will re- ‘main long after the depression is ended. But furloughs and the five-day week should not be placed within the cate- gory of proposals to save money. They should be considered only as methods to save jobs. Budget balancing is a grim task that deals with realities and not with senti- ment. The less emotional the budget s100, i8c | 80 | ertitted ews dis- e ool Lews of publication of | are also reserved | the first place. When on Pebruary 8 he announced that he was willing to ac- cept the nomination if the Democratic frate, not be ruthlessly ignored and National Convention should select him {abandoned, as the Hitlerites unblush- | as the party standard bearer again, he ingly proposed, had they contrived to also said that he would make no cam- | win the presidential election. | paign for delegates. This was taken in Herr Hitler is deriving such cold M&NnY quarters to mean that he was not comfort as he can from the fact that T€AllY a candidate after all. his vote rose from 11,338 571 on March| Whether this late active entry of Mr. 13 to 13.417.000 yesterday, But it falls, Smith, through his friends, into the heavily short of the 15,000.000 ballots fight for the presidential nomination which Hitler bopsted would be cast for; Will have an effect on the situation is 'lnd economic powers the present Reich government intends to fulfill its inter- national obligations. These will, at any 60c per month | him. The “Nazi" increase of 2,000,060 votes did not equal the vote piled up last month for Lieut. Col. Duesterberg, | didate. Evidently the 717.000 Hinden- burg gain came from Duesterberg sup- porters and even from Communists, for the vote of Herr Thaelmann, the Com- munist candidate, dropped to 3.705.000 from his March total of 4.982,079. Hindenburg's final strength rose from 49.6 to 55.9 per cent of the gross vote. From every standpoint the forces of German law and order have reason to be decply satisfied with the history made throughout the Reich yesterday. For Dr. Bruening, the German chan- cellor, the results are pre-eminently gratifying. Hitler marked the chan- cellor as the “Nazis'" chiel foe, rather than the President. Had Hindenburg consented to dismiss Dr. Bruening. the “Nazis” would have permitted Hinden- burg to embark upon a second term unopposed. The deal was rejected. The ! wisdom of the governments action is vindicated by the election’s outcome. Another supreme test of strength be- tween the Hindenburg-Bruening forces and the National Socialists impends in the form of the Prussian Diet elections on April 24 Hitler signals another battle for control of the Parliament of Germany's largest state. A “Nazi" tri- umph in Prussia would go far toward wiping out yesterday's victory in the Reich. But the blasted hopes with which the “Nazis” emerge from the Ger- | man presidential election betoken that they have Lttle better to expect from the campaign to. capture the Prussian Diet. — r—e———— Thé Lindbergh Mystery. The pitiful mystery of the Lindbergh baby's kidnaping is deepened by the disclosure that ransom money in the sum of $50,000 was actually paid to those who were identified as the steal- ers of the child, without result. A defi- nite announcement to this effect in be- half of Col. Lindbergh nas caused a chock to the American people only slightly less than that which marked | the taking of the infant. Two theories are at once suggested. One is that the child is dead and, therefore, cannot be returned, the thieves nevertheless tak- ing the ransom money. The other is that the kidnapers are bent upon ob- taining a larger sum. Either hypothe- sis presents a spectacle of unspeakable villainy. The old adage that “there is honor among thieves” is no longer acceptable. Heretofore the business of kidnaping— as it has virtually become—has been conducted upon the basis of fidelity to promises. A person is taken by force and is held for ransom, the sum being named, and when that sum is paid the stolen person is returned, m full health, unharmed. If there were no confidence in the restoration of the hostage there could be no dealings with the thieves. Therefore, it has behooved these wretch- es who have made a ecommodity of human life to preserve scrupulously the “property” which they have held for ransom. ¢ So far as is known there has never before been case where kidnapers have failed to “deliver” when the ran- som money has been paid. The sorrow- ful thought comes at once that the thieves in this instance were unable to fulfill their part of the bargain, but carried through the negotiations never- theless. Which magnifies their crime, making them murderers as well as | thieves, and doubly thieves for their repudiation of their bargain when the impossibilty of delivery developed. To say that there is no adequate punish- ment for such a crime is to employ a futile form of expression. The hope, a slender one, to be sure, remains that there has been some mis- carriage in the transaction, perhaps due to the thoroughness of the concealment of the child, who may yet be restored to its parents. Renewal of negotiations may effect a satisfactory settiement. The publication of the numbers of the bills delivered to the kidnapers' agent, however, may have brought about a situation that precludes further deal- ings. Yet until there is positive evi- dence that the child is no longer living hope will persist that eventually the balancers become the better it will be for the Nation It is granted that many employes must lose their jobs in any large curtailment of governmental ap- propriations. But the curtaliment should proceed without adding to the vicions circle of attempting to right one wrong by resort to another, and this will be the inevitable result of any of the vari- ous moves, under any disguise, to cut down the already small pay of the Fed- eral employe. Such moves are backed by the highly emotional theory that be- cause the Federal employe is a Govern- ment worker and has a job, while mil- lions of others, including the farmer, ere not Federal workers and have no jobs, the Federal employe should be made to suffer. It is not an intelligent theory in the first place, and as shown over and over again the so-called “'sav- ings” to the Federal Government are not only small, but are to be effected at the cost of dealing another harsh blow to millions of small-salaried work- ers throughout the Nation whose em- ployers will follow the lead of the Fed- eral Government, e Discipline is likely to suffer a little when & professor is expected to wajch his step if he is to get a puff in the college paper. v ———— Hindenburg's Victory. Congratulations are due the German people for their schievement in re- electing Field Marshal von Hindenburg President of the Reich. His total vote of more than 19,000,000 and plurailty of, roundly, six million over Adolf Hit- ler, the National Socialist candidate, constitutes & victory the significance of which will not be lost upon the reac- tioparies and repudiationists who march under the “Nazl" banner. The nation has rebuked de- that token it o the extent-of #ts phyzical hideous bargain will be consummated. This strange sequel to the crme of March 1 intensifies the public feeling that the crime of kidnaping must be written into the statutes of all States and of the Nation as of the first mag- nitude, punishable by the extreme penalty e Another matter for subsequent con- sideration may be to avoid budgets so large and unwicldly that they are hard to balance. e Still in the Race. Alfred E. Smith has become an active candidate for the Democratic presiden- tial nomination this year. There seems to be no other possible interpretation of the letters written to his supporters in California, Connecticut and Penn- sylvania and made public by the former Governor of New York Friday. Their publication came immediately on the heels of a suggestion by Senator Key Pittman of Nevada that Mr. Smith's friends should not continue to subject him to such defeats as he has re- ceived at the hands of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the New Hampshire and Wisconsin primaries and in the Demo- cratic State conventions in Maine, Minnesota and Iowa. Senator Pittman was at pains to urge that Mr. Smith was not really a candidate for the nom- Ination and was making no campaign for the nomination and that he should not longer be placed in such an embar- rassing position. Mr. Smith has disdained the good of- fices of his friend Senator Pittman. He has informed his supporters that he is in this fight to a finish; that he is a real candidate for the nomination and not a “stalking horse” either for or againct any other candidate. Mr. Smith, | naving put his hand to the plow, is going to the end of the row. the Nationalist and Steel-Helmet can-| difficult to forecast. It will certain¥ put vigor into the efforts of his sup- porters in some of the States. On the other hand, it is likely to add to the | determination of many of his op- ponenis not to permit Mr. Smith to | nomination. To those politiclans and | observers who read the signs, however, | Smith has never been and never can be a successful candidate for the presi- dential nomination this year. As Sen- | ator Pittman indicated in his inter- view urging a withdrawal of Mr. Smith's candidacy, his nomination is not the cards in 1932. Mr. Smith is irked because of the frequent reports that he is a “stalking | horze,” merely in the race to head off the nomination of Roosevelt or to ald | the Roorevelt candidacy. Naturally he | does not like to appear in such a role | But whether he likes it or not, it is a | role that ma of the anti-Roosgvelt Democrats have forced upon him. They admit that Mr. Smith has no chance of nomination, but insist that he will serve their purpose by taking many delegates from the Roosevelt group, delegates who otherwise might have been pledged to the New York Governor. His entry into the race was hailed by these anti- Roorevelt Democrats as a great step in the movement to “stop Roosevelt." As a matter of fact, Smith's entry into the race has merely resulted in giving Roosevelt a greater and still gieater bocst for the nomination. The suggestion emanating from some quarters that Smith is a stalking horse to ald the Roosevelt candidacy must give these opponents of Roosevelt a laugh. Smith and Rooseveit lock horns again in the Massachusetts and Penn- sylvania primaries on April 26. Many of the Democrats who have espoused Smith's cause in Massachusetts heartily sick of the whole business. They have seen the Smith-Roosevelt smash the Democratic party to smith: ereens, and they do not like it. They may carry the State primaries for they look with dread on what may hap- cause of the present intra-party war- fare. Even if Smith wins a majority of the delegates in Massachusetts, he is likely to lose the great bulk of dele- gates in Pennsylvania, and Pennsyl- Massachusetts. So far Mr. Smith has succeeded in having one single dele- | become a serious contender for the ! in | are | contest in their State threatening to| Smith, as they are expected to do, but | pen in Massachusetts in November be- | vania has twice as many delegates as | | jany | trial one. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Many people lament their procrasti-| nation, but the trouble lies deeper. Most | often it is a failure to get an early start, to give themselves enough time to do what they want‘to do success- fully and with the least strain wpon themselves. Not all human beings reguire this Zorm of self-protection. There ere some people who can plunge into an under- taking with little or no preparation, without the slightest effect on their nerves They are able to make a late be- ginning without worrying in the least about it. For them there is no need of a warning to avoid a late start. A very large proportion of mankind, howaver, is ill at ease under the pres- sure of something to be done which must or ought to be done, or probably both Many are like a chap we once knew who. the moment he was given an additional task, no matter how small, began to fret and worry about it. * % & % Actually he consumed more time talking about what he had to do than in doing it If he had plunged in at once, care- fully refraining from all talk, he could have completed the extra task without hurry or bother. But he never did. You see, his temperament was the other way around, as It were He needed the advantage of an early be- ginning to keep his nerves steady, his head cool, and his tongue quiet. He worried himself so much, by talk- ing about what he had to do. instead of doing it. that he unconsciously be- came a nuisance to others and a real hindrance to himself. 5% Now this unhappy attitude was not just pure “cussedness” on this man's part. Such a diagnosis was easy, but it was as unfalr as most such nap judgments are. The only consideration worth while, either on his part or on that of his superior officers, should have been that, he happened to be a person constitu- | tionally and temperamentallly unfitted for a late beginning. It is the problem of many person: in industry and otherwise. Firms com- monly attempt to help such workers by setting early beginning hours, but this s not striking at the root of the trouble. This problem is not solely an indu Primarily, it is one of t. individual, wherever he may be situ- ated. Almost always he is one who is worried by a late beginning at any task he has to do, but almost as in- variably he gets a late start How does this come about? Is he afraid of himself? By no means. Often the best doers are those who make a great to-do in beginning. They must+go through a certain amount of winding up, as a base ball pitcher does before he throws the ball. | ‘The sensible course, then, is to allow | for this winding up process, just as the man on the mound does. No pitcher of any ability at all would stay out of his box until the very last moment, then suddenly step in to flip the ball down to the catcher. Such a maneuver is reserved for the exceptional occasion, probably when a tough batter is the plate, and the pitcher has decided to fool him by the unexpected. The human being who has something | done it no better. gate pledged to him. Not much of &to get done may profit from the ex-| showing. ample of the sportsman. The differ- ) ence will be that, under average con- Narcotics have been smuggled in toys. If in the confusion of evading the law the toys had gotten into the hands of children, it would have been too bad, but only in line with what children have to expect at the hands of the underworld, ey An inventor who says his mechanism can destroy a city thousands of miles away manifests the curious trait which frequently enables genius to expect congratulations on the discovery of a new means of working infinite mischief. - The light that was recently placed in the window for the Lindbergh baby is still shedding a ray of hope for all the big brothers and sisters who constitute the Nation's population. AR e S LR Economic theories that the prices quote2 for stocks represent approxi- mately normal values will never appeal strongly to persons who bought them at the old-time figures. ———. SHOOTING STARS. RY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Book of the Year. We seek a man who has the time To write a masterpiece of rhyme Or as an essayist excel With phrases formulated well. But 'mongst my favorite fellow men ‘Who ply a patient plodding pen, Each with a high but furrowed brow Is busy with a check book now. No story of adventurcus chance, No volume rich with rare romance, His fancy recently has led. He dips his pen into the “red.” Chianti pink once helped him think. Lately he uses it for ink. For all important things, I vow, Are written in & check book now. Requesting the Limit. “Do you resent harsh and unjust criticism?** “No,” answered Senator Sorghum, “not if it's sufficiently harsh and in- Jjust to make fair-minded ' people feel sorry for me.” Jud Tunkins says some creatures are Jjust naturally talented. A cow can give a note so rich and clear that any saxo- phone player might envy it. Glorification. The Stage announces with much pride The Girl who has been Glorified. | We now expect the Girl to learn ‘To Glorify the Stage in turn. Partinership Dissolved. “You and your wife are partners in everything?"” ditions, and solely dependent upon the individual, the necessary period for preparation will be much longer. Every small boy knows the necessity for the preliminary remarks in run- ning a hundred-yard dash: your marks! Get set! ! ‘The “go” comes only after the get- ting ready and the getting set. * % ko | All these harassed faces one sees dally, making their way downtown, and | around the town—there can be little | doubt that many of them are caused, not by sorrow, or iliness, or real trou- ble, but principally because of the time element. They do not allow themselves enough timeage for their mileage, if one may put it that way. They stint themselves on their time allowance, and thus pile up worry and fretting and plain “stew- ing around.” One of the most dramatic instances of this was a young lady who dashed into a restaurant at 5 minutes of 9 the other morning, not far from a great Government department. Ordering & cup of coffee, black—she had no time for cream—she stood at | the counter, mnd, while the cup smoked eyes, drank it down, at a in her draught A soldier in the trenches could have Then she dashed away. It was her breakfast—and what a breakfast ! * o= ox % If this lady had smiled, if she had raised her cup with the reckless air of a cavalier, and given the impression that she was enjoying her coffec, & critical ~observer would have been silenced. But no, she did not enjoy it at all It was just something to be got down in a hurry, to fool her own mind into the belief that she had done the normal thing and eaten breakfast Warmth there was “in her little in- side.” as W. S. Gilbert put it, but her face frowned, and her hands trembled slightly She was one of those nervous young creatures who should have taken at least an hour to eat the morning meal. And she took but 30 seconds, by |actual count. * * & One who was not meant by Nature to live that way can live that way, undoubtedly, but he cannot be said to do what the vernacular means when it says, “gets away with it.” How strenuously such people try, however! If one-half the energy they put into hurrying, at the last moment, were spent in taking time and doing the job, they would live more successfully, and above all be more of a pleasure to their friends and acquain‘anees. | We witnessed one of the #émall near- tragedies of every-day life ome morning recently. It was caused solely by the sort of thing we have been talking about. These two men were old friends, having known each other since they were 8 years old. Not many people in a large city can boast of such long- continued friendship. One of them came downtown without breakfast. He had arisen late, and the lack of breakfast did not improve his disposition. The other had got up early, eaten a leisurely breakfast, and had | come downtown in plenty of time to enjoy the sights along the way, always old but ever new. The well-fed gentleman, thinking he would like another cup of coffee, asked the poor, hungry guy to accompany him to & nearby restaurant. The hungry fellow ordered a full breakfast, naturally, while the leisurely one contented himself with his third cup of coffee that morning. ~ * x % % These two men often indulged in the small banter which is a part of con- temporary American life. When the fat, placid fellow had fin- ished his coffee he smiled at his com- panion, still laboring through his oat- meal, and innocently asked, “Have I got to sit here while you finish that?" This, uttered with a smile, ordinarily would have evoked only a smile in re- turn and a bit of counter-banter from the lein gentleman. But he was feel- ing rather poorly that morning, evi- dently. Hence, he took umbrage at the re. mark, and the ridiculous spectacle was presented to the world of two old friends on the verge of a quarrel over nothing. It was a striking lesson, however, and one which ought to be learned by all those men and women whose disposi- tions call for an early start in any untdxelrtaklnl, ‘They should see that they get it. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. One of these days, when the proper time comes, somebody high in authority | in these United States 1s likely to have | a word or two to say to Europe on the subject of “American lawlessness.” The Lindbergh kidnaping tragedy will be the smooth-shaven, which s essential to the story—took a night off recently in New York and went to see “Of Thee I Sing,” the musical satire on American politics now packing ‘em m at a Broad- way theater. Almost the cleverest skit text of the sermon to be preached to & in the piece deals with the Supreme seoffing outside world. What Euro- | Court. It introduces tne entire bench peans are going to be told, in effect, is | of nine, every man made to look like & that facts and figures are available to | twin brother of Mr. Hughes. A friend show that a staggering proportion of asked the Associate Justice in question so-called American crime is crime com- mitted by aliens. Gangaom notoriously is full of them. Frequently the crooks are aliens living in the United States illegally, having broken mto the coun- tfy, or stayed in, in violation of the im- migration laws. It is an open secret that at least two persons strongly sus- pected of “inside job” connection with the Lindbergh case come within the category just mentionea — Europeans subject to deportation for unlawful res- idence. Few Old Worid comments on the “reign of lawlessness” 1n our coun- try are honest enough to call spades spades and explain the natlonal origin 0i many of “America’s” criminals. : * * Before many hours are past Judge Wilkerson of Chicago should know his fate at the hands of the Senate Judici- ary Subcommitiee. Opinion in Wash- ington is about evenly divided as to whether his confirmation for a higher place on the Federal bench will be 1ec- ommended or disapproved. An impres- sion prevails that Senator Borah, al- though he has only one vote, actually holds the balance of power, and that as “Big Bill".decides, so the committee will vote, There's considerable uncer- tainty, too, about the final attitude of Senator Blaine of Wisconsin, another Republican Progressive. * Any day may witness a Senate vote on the Hawes bill for Philippine inde- pendence, following last week's land- slide for the Hare bill through the House. Senator Hawes, Democrat, of Missouri, who is sponsoring the Fili- pino cause, doesn't think there'll be more than 15 votes against it in the Senate. One hears some talk of writing into the Senate bill a provision for liberating the Philippines in five years instead of the eight provided for by the House. If the Senate so determines, & cenference, in accordance with custom, might reach a compromise to haul down the Stars and Stripes at Manila in, say, six and a half years. The Hoover veto ax is already sharpened and will be swung with neatness and dispatch the moment the Hare-Hawes proposition, bearing full congressional approval, reaches the White House. Even Japan's little witticism—about a treaty with the United States to respect Philippine | | how he liked the show. “I concur in | the court’s being rezzed,” he said, “but |1 dissent from being given a set of | whiskers,” 'EER ‘Whit Democratic politicians are call- | ing a “Roosevelt junta” has besn set up | in Washington for advancing the cause |of the New York Governor. The "junta” | consists of three one-time members of the Wilson administration and a United States Senator. The Wilsonians are Dan Roper, former commissioner of in- ternal revenue; Bob Woolley, former Interstate Commerce commissioner, and | Huston Thompson, former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. The senatorial member of the “junta” is Clarence Dill of Washington. Roper, | Woolley and Thompson once upon & | time were all high priests in the Mc- | Adoo church. They didn't choose to run with their erestwhile idol in the Garner - for - President chase. Another Rowsevelt soctal item. Homer Cum- ! mings of Connecticut is said to be | slated for his old job as Democratic innlional chairman if the Governor walks off with the bacon at Chicago. * ok ok K | Newton D. Baker, in town for the week's Jeffersonian festivities, was asked by a Washington admirer why the Ohioan isn't making it possible for his friends to be out in the open, cheering for Beaker's nomination at Chicago. “Don't u think I've had about all the responsibflity coming to one man?” ‘lhl' rejoinder. The little Buckeye Na. | poleon is without doubt the most boy- ish-looking 60-year-older on the face of the earth, * % % This would be an ideal hour for Cal- vin_Coolidge tosvisit Washington. He ought to feel perfectly at home, with the cherry blossoms of economy in fuller bloom than ever he knew them, even in his thriftiest days. (Copyright, 1932.) ———— ‘Proper Salute to Flag | Is “Up to Individual” | To the Editor of The Star: Your editorial about the lack of “With one exception,” answered Mr. Meekton. “When it comes to cardseach of us thinks the other plays a terrible game.” “Success,” sald HiI Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “depends partly in_ having your own way and partly in pretending that you are doing so.” Large Responsibilities. The Statesman goes his weary way. His best endeavor he extends To make all stocks hereafter pay Their good old-fashioned dividends. He strives, although his head may ache With efforts that must not relax For plans reliable, to make “The other fellow” pay the tax. “1 sometimes wish,” said Uncle Eben, s“dat I was educated enough to make the Perhaps Mr. Smith could have helped an assignment instead of always bein' by making such & ststement, {n s’ plain krokes® independence—will hardly change the | proper salute to the flag of our country Fresident's mind. * & k& Edward Tuck, American banker and philanthropist residing in Paris, wrote a Washington friend the other day that | “I understand things in Wall Street are so quiet that you can hear the divi- dends pass.” Xk ok X ‘Two Easter tourists—both women— happened to be “doing” the Capitol on the last day the Supreme Court, prior to the late recess, was devoting itself to admissions of atlorneys to practice be- fore Uncle Sam’s tribunal of highest resort. Fifteen or 20 candidates were on the scene, each accompanied by an | introduc lawyer already in possessior of !hecg‘r*ld privilege of elpoundms the law to Chief Justice Hughes an his colleagues. The incidental hub- bub aroused fhe curiosity of the tourist indies. “What on earth is it all about?” one of them asked the other. “Why. don't you know?" was the reply “They're getting .. Jury.” - ¥ S e o B TR |Is timely, but, like the story-teller in | Webster’s cartoon, “nothing can be done about it."” ‘The public's apparent indifference is, perhaps, due to neglect of proper train- | ing while young and in school on the part of :hm: llu fhlmuzf them. But you must not single out the good people of Washington or its excellent l:oll:ce force in point of numbers as negligent |in the matter. | _In a recent police parade in New | York of some 16,000 policemen there | were probably 7,000 or more American in the parade, and while some New Yorkers tipped their hats, it was not by any means a fixed event. The in the stands on the Avenue | the doings of Tammany Hall, while all tending to make a rea new: X the salute to or mu& The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. The Democrats are all set to cele- brate the anniversary of the birth of their patron saint, Thomas Jefferson, on Wednesday. There is much regret iamong local Democrats that Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, the leading candidate today for the Demo- cratic nomination for President, is not to be prosent. Much speculation goes I on regarding the reasons for withdraw- al of Gov. Roosevelt’s acceptance. It it widely reported tnat the New York | | Governor is not coming here because he and his friends believe that the gathering will be unfriendly, engineered | by the anti-Roosevelt Democrats, and that big demonstrations will be staged | for other candidates for the Demo- cratic presidential nomination, includ- ing_Gov. Bitchie of Maryland, Alfred E. Smith of New York and former Gov. Hariy Flood Byrd of Virginia, in an | attewupt to make the Roosevelt can- | didacy look insignificant. Such a pro- ceeding would appear to be chilaish. to say the least, on the part of the anti-Roosevelt group, even if they had it in mind. But for whatever reason, | Gov. Roosevelt is not coming to Wash- ington. He has probably made up his mind that he gets along very well sticking to his job In New York, while his friends contine to elect delegates | to the National Convention piedged to his candidacy. * ok ox % Just which one of their candidates for the presidency the Democrats will undertake to liken to Thomas Jeiferscn on this auspicious occasion is not yet | clear, Probably none of them, or all of them. It is not likely that the sup- porters of these candidates would agree to have their man left out in the cold when it comes to picturing a single one | of the group as the Thomas Jefferson of today. At the Democratic celebra- tion of Jackson day this year, indeed, the Democratic speakers barely fhen- tioned “Old Hickory.” They spent their time talking about the Repub- | lican President, Mr. Hoover. Perhaps they will do the same thing on Jrflt‘r-i son day, although it would seem to be | the sensible thing to present a candi date of their own instead of merely trying to tear down Mr. Hoover. As it is, the Democrats have come close to talking Mr. Hoover back into the sun- shine, with their constant attacks, charging him with responsibility for everything from earthquakes and fam. ines to the disruption of the Demo- cratic leadership of the House during the revenue bill contest. * X X ¥ Sepator Key Pittman of Nevada, = close personal friend of Alfred E. Smith, recently sought to find a way out for the Smith candidacy, declaring that | Mr. Smith’s friends had no business putting the standard bearer of 1928 in & position to be humiliated in repeated contests for delegates to the Democratic National Convention. He called atten- tion to the many States in which the | Smith forces have been worsted by the | | Roosevelt supporters, and urged that it | was time to stop, particularly as Mr. Smith was not really a candidate. iSennlol‘ Pittman’s suggestion that the | | Smith candidacy be withdrawn by the former Governor's friends had, however, been public only a day when Mr. Smith ! himsel gave out a collection of letters he had written to his friends in Cali- fornia, Pennsylvania and iConnecticut, ‘dech\rlnl that he was a real candidate | for the nomination and not a stalking | horse for or aginst any other candidate. So Senator Pittman's well meant efforts to cure a situation that is threatening real and lasting dissension in the Demo- cratic party got nowhere, * X x ¥ In corrgspondence with Smith sup- porters 1X?Cll]!0mh, the religious ixfie was interjected. It was reported that a son of Isidore Dockweiler, the Demo- cratic National Committeeran for Cal- Yornia, who is supporting Roosevelt, John F. Dockweller, in addressing a Roosevelt rally sald that “it is more :lt.ll. to elect a Democratic President than to try to préve that a Cath- | olic can be elected President or that the Jwet sentiment is stronger than the dry.” It happens that Mr. Dockweiler is himself a Catholic, like other mem- bers of his family. The Roosevelt peo- ple say that the Smith outfit is ap- parently deliberately raising the re- ligious ~ issue in this preconvention campaign and insist that what Mr. Dockweiler had to say was no effort whatever to raise such an issue, but rather an attempt to lay it. What may happen in the national election, if such | an issue becomes rampant among the Democrats in mary of the States in the prenomination campaign, the Demo- cralic leaders hate to contemplate. They feel that a victory by Roosevelt | in the national convention, which now looks more than probable, might be the signal for a lot of knifing by Smith followers in the election in November. While Gov. Roosevelt is not to be present at the Jefferson day dinner in this city, some of his chief lieutenants will be on hand, among them Chairman Farley of the Democratic State Com- mittee of New York. They will be here to look after his interests. * x % % C. Bascom Slemp, for many years Re- publican national committeeman for Vir- ginia and at varicus times member of the House and Secretary to the President, goes off the national committee this year. The Republican State conven- tion picked as his successor Joseph L. Crupper, collector of customs at Nor- folk. Mr. Crupper is reported to be 2 friend of Mr. Slemp and a ‘power among Federal office holders in the State. He defeated for the place Henry | W. Anderson, a leading Republican at- torney in Richmond, who served as a member of the Wickersham Commis- sion and suggested a plan to get rid of the preseut national system of pro- hibition. His plan certainly made no hit with the arys. * X ok % Senator Brookhart of Jowa has re ceived word from his friends in Iowa that things are looking rosy for his re- nomination in June on the Republican ticket. His opposition is split into half a dozen camps, which is naturally an excellent situation for any candidate, | The Progressive Republican Senator, | who jumped clean over the political fence in 1924 and supported the La Follette-Wheeler presidential ticket, and who was one of the wheel horses of the Hoover campaigm in 1928, was marked this year for defeat by the regular Republicans—as at times in the past. But Mr. Brookhart, if re- ports are correct, is in a pretty strong position today in his State and is likely | to win again. Polls taken by news- papers in Iowa have indicated a strong swing from dry to wet. Brookhart is an-ardent dry. e does not take much stock in the polls, however. Xy Democratic supporters of Roosevelt are confident that their candidate will have the support of many of the Pro- gressive Republican voters in the North- west this year—the Dakotas, Minnesota, Towa and Wisconsin, for example. They ! see this in the big votes Roosevelt has rolled up in primary elections in that section of the country. But the regular Republicans _have by no means given up hcpe. They do not visualize such an overturn, although they admit that the discontent in many of these States and in Michi has been very great. The Iuomlutg%oru of all come from | | | | | care for & fur coat is to nave it sent ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. What do you need t. know? Is there some point about your business or per- sonal life that puzazles you? Is there something you want to know without delay? Submit your question to Pred- eric J. Haskin, director of our Washing- ton Inforraation Bureau. He isemployed to help you. Address your inguiry to The Washington Star Information Bu- reau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director Washington, D. C., and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Q. In contract bridge, which wins the . the side winning two games or de with a larger score through ies?—C. A. B. A. In contract bridge, the side hav- ing the net score wins the rubber. Law 52-c. At the end of the rubber the total points of a side are obtained | by adding together fits contract score and its hono:r score. Subtracting the smaller total from the greater gives the net score. Q. Who proposed the adoption of ship lanes across the ocean?—A. R. A. Following a collision at ses m 1854 Lieut. M. F. Maury, U. 8. N, superin- tendent of the depot and observator: Navy Department, included in his < ing directions a section on steam lanes across the Atlantic. He recommended and outlined lanes for ocean travel Q What does “Erin Go Bragh" mean?—F. McC. A. It means Ireland forever. Q. Should a fur coat be put in cold storage?—T. L lA The Biological Survey advises that the safest and most satisfactory wav pena 10 cold storage. There are methods of storing furs by means of wrapping in air-tight containers and by the use of naphthalene, phyrethum powder and | other methods, such as fumigation While the above are effective, the life| of the coat will be lengthened by plac- ing in a cool temperature, because of the fact that no matter how well a skin is cured there is a certain amount of decomposition going on. When sub- jected to the cold this process is re- tarded. ‘ Q. Who owns the original deed for | the purchase of Wakefield? Who weas the original owner?—G. N. A. Dr A. S. W. Rosenbach. The orig- inal owner was Hercules Bridges. He sold it to Daniel Liston. Q Was Anna Howard Shaw a physi- cian or a minister of the gospel’—E. B e was both. Sne was ordained Methodist Protestant Church and her M. D. from Boston Uni- | Q. What is “okolehao”?—T. M. A It is an_Hawaiian distilled liquor made from the root of the ti plant, | Cordyline terminalis, Tne root is| mashed up into a woody, spongy sweet mass, which_ ylelds on distillation a | alcoholic drink. The word is od to refer to a number of dif- ferent types of bootleg liquor. Q. Did the person described in Theo- | dore Dreiser’s “My Brother Paul” really the brother of ! Theodore Dreiser, despite the variation | in spelling of the surname. Paul Dresser is perhaps remembered best as} the auther of “On the Banks of the| Wabash” and “Just Tell Them That You Saw Me.” Q. Does the Constitution of the | United States give citizens the right to |after she sought | Q How far do salmon travel?—B. 8. A A red salmon marked by the United States Bureau of Pisheries in Alaskan waters in May and caught 44 “days later in a Siberian stream was found to have traveled 1,300 miles in that time. Q. To what extent ars American farms mortgaged?—H. V. A. The Bureau of Agricultural Eco- nomics reports that farm mortgages in the United States amount to $9,360.- ©00,000. The value of farm land is estimated at $34,000,000,000, s0, on an average, less than one-third of the equity in farms is mortgaged. This varies widely, but only 12 per cent o all farm mortgages are for more thar 75 per cent of the value. Q. What s a cholr a cappefia’— M E O A. It means in the church or chapel style; that is. vocal music, unaceom panied. It is so calied because thr music of the Sistine Chapel at Rome was purely vocal. Almost all of th~ old manuscript motetts and madrigals were “a cappella.” Q. What became of Marie An- toinette’s daughter>—s. D, A. Marie Antoinette's daughter, Marie Therese Charlotte, was born in Decem- ber, 1778. After the French Revolution she was released from prison December 19. 1795, and taken to Vienna. There- refuge in various countries, returning to France at in- tervals on the re-establishment of the kingdom. She married the Duc d’An- gouleme in 1799. Her husband died on May 31, 1844, and the princess herself died at Frohsdor{ October 28, 1851, and was burjed at the Franciscan Convent. She had no children. Q. Who owns Stonehenge?—E. D, A A. This remarkable pile of monoliths is considered the oldest structure in the British Isles erected by the hand of man. Sir Edmund Antrobus, the last hereditary owner, died in 1915 and Stonehenge was sold to Sir Cecil Chubb. He presented the historic site to the nation. Q. What was the name of Charle- magne's horse?—R. D. A. Tencendur. Q. In the following sentences how is |the word gallant pronounced—“He is a gallant gentleman,” gallant”?2—J. H. A. In the first sentence gallant is an adjective and is accented on the first syllable. In the second gallant is a oun, and may be accented on either syllable, preferably upon the second. Q. When will the wild pony round-up @nd sale take place on Chincoteague Island?—L. F. V. A. It will be held on July 28. Q How much gold was hoarded in England prior to the drive to bring it and “He i a | out of hiding?—G. H. A. Estimates vary from 300,000,000 to 1.000,000.000 pounds, or & billion and a half to $5,000,000,000. Q. What does “nitchevo” mean?—J. PP A. The Russian word ‘“nitchevo” is one which is used in the sense of the American slang phrase, “I should worry.” Q Is the bell to be hung in the carillon at the University of Chicago the Jargest one in the United States?— vote?—K. T, B | A. It will be the second largest tuned A. Tt does not. This right is reserved | bell, the one in the belfry at Riverside to the States. The Federal Constitu- Church, New York City, being A tion says that, in granting such right the States shall not discriminate on ac count of race, religion or sex. This safeguard was inserted in the Consti- tution because, in the Colonies, local governments forbade Jews, Catholics, Quakers and Baptists the franchise. Both were made at a famous Cro) | bell foundry. | 2oy | Q Is Tony Wons an American?— €. McD A. He is. He was born in Menasha, Wis. Wins Ameri Announcement from London that the British budget has been balanced, with & moderate surplus over expenditures for the year, is held by Americans to offer encouragement to those who are seeking to accomplish a similar result in the United States. Taxation, it is observed, has been practically universal, and much heavier than in the United | States, while the standard of living has been made to conform to the require- ments of nativnal finance. “Britain is paying its wa; Newark Evening News, 383,200 in the bank. Its confidence in itself is justified. The lion has grown a new coat and cut another set of teeth.” The Evening News also remarks that the people across the water have taken themselves “by the scuff of the neck, and faced the cuty of paying current expenses out of current reve- nues”; that “it has been a bitter dose to swallow, but it has been gulped down"; that against the wall and fought its way through, and no one can be churlis enough to deny it the acmiration it has says the t | | and that “if we dont watch out, be Britain instead of the United States that has the distinction of leading the world back to prosperity.” “A year ago,” according to the Oak- land Tribune, “the world felt sorry for John Bull, and many were ‘the doubt- ful comments and gloomy predictions. Noting that the coalition governme “was ruthless with the pruning knife, the Tribune emphasizes the results of the policy adopted: “At the end of the year in place of a deficit there is a sizable surplus in the English treas- ury and every one over there feels bet- ter. Times are looking up, the specter of falling currency and bankruptey has departed: bills are paid on time, and |the government makes sure that a | deficit is not to return. The lesson of Britain is before the world. While the needs are nowhere near so great, it is one to be taken to heart by this country, which will feel the immediate benefits once it has made sure that its budget, also, will balance.” N “It was no easy accomplishment,” marks the Atlanta Constitution, with the statement that “the whole nation went on a starvation basis so far as comforts and luxuries were concerned, while “country homes and shooting e~ lodges of wealthy city dwellers were | closed: heirlooms were put on sale, and gold plate was melted up so that the metal could be used in the pavment of taxes. The Constitution notes that “they are in cheerful mood,” and offers the advice: “If the people of America will follow this example and keep their heads up and their spirits cheerful and confident, the heavy tax burden that and has $1,- Britain has put its back | England’s Balanéed ];udgt;ti can Admiration | tidings of the day.” Speaking of the | revenue bill in this country, the Boston | paper suggests: “The American people should have it enforced upon their con- | sciousness that it lays no burdens as heavy as those imposed by revenue measures in England If comparison is made, taxes here will still be light.” * k% % | With a tribute to the stamina and | courage and real patriotism of he Brit- |ish people, the Lexington Leader sus- ge “they are canny, too, ana thing that threatens Briish credit or that creates hazards for British com- merce brings out all their innate courage |and tenacity of purpose.” Reviewing |the detafls of, the proceedings, ‘the | Leader states: “The tariff act and the abandonment of the gold standard have together had a most ll\m\;l:::nl :‘flecv. uj trade and upon proj y values. | The people have also been turning in | their old jewelry to replenish the gold | supply and the officials have been amazed at the total amount so far made |available. The transactions have been | profitable to those who have had gold to sell, but the addition of the gold stock has been advantageous to the government at the same time. India alone is supposed to have accumulated, | by private agencies, at least three billions |in_gold.” | “The entire population,” remarks the Cmaha World-Herald, ‘has taken a step | dewnward in the scale of living and | has done so without any startling social | revolutions or troubles. The victory has been hard won and it will be harder to bold. But the British are deter- |mied to hold it. Such an example must be followed by other nations, in- | cluding ours. There can be no false hopes of easing the burden. Embarked upon a career of public spending and burdened as well by the stagering debts left from the Word War, there is only one thing to do.” “Every man, woman and child, |states the Nashville Banner, “has had o greater or less part in the great | drive. ‘That per also comments: ‘The statement that the budget has been balanced was received with pride and enthusiasm and those emotions were altogether justified, for it repre- | sents one of the most noteworthy tri- | umphs lately achieved in government financing and stands as a tribute to the willingness of the British people to send partisan politics to the junk heap and unite in effort in a period of national emergency. The psychological effects will certainly be tremendous, especially |since the victory comes at a time when |{the British are moving out to renewed efforts with the best spirit and humor they have displayed for years. It all brings to mind the remark of Napoleon that the British were a queer sort of | people who rarely ever won a battle until the last one.” e s e they, too, now have to shoulder will be easier to carry. More than that, the clouds of depression will soon roll away before the economic sunshine of opti- mism and faith, and increased profits will make the larger taxes less of a drain upon individual revenues.” “The rejoicing,” according to the Boston Transcript, “is shared by people of moderate means, who pay income Michigan, where Republican leaders themselves have taken to saying pri- vately that their State would go over- whelmingly against Roover today. They may get their courage back later, but today they sre pretty well sunk, Democratic victory in the by-election in the eighth ccngressional district of Michigan last Fall gave them cold chills, from which they have not yet recovered. * % k¥ President Hoover has had the ad- vantage politically of his stand-against wage cuts in this country. If he euchered now into -rting slashes in the wage scale for the great army of finvemment employes. as. mnnd of the ouse members, blican o wish the dose thia mdvantage, will e|the future which must obtain if the is|to begin slashing private wages and Demo- the Go taxes at a rate that would make an American howl with anguish.” With the thought that “the balancing of the budgets is a spur to that confidence in present troubles of the world are speed- ily to come to an end,” the Tran seript feels that “the news from Eng is to be included in the cheerful thrcughout the country will seize upon the Government pay cuts as a signal salaries all over again. is reported to be sticking to his opposi: tion to the reduct'on of wege scales for ' Gove |Handling of Traffic Declared Inconsistent “To the Editor of The Star: Your editorial comment in re “Traf- only a few traffic officers, whom I have noticed, who are consistent in givi uniform and intelligible signals, and is of interest to know that this eondi- tion has recelved official cognizance, S. D. ASHFORD, Avarice Talks Timely. Prom the New York Sun. A resident of Hartford, Conn., advo- cates lns:‘rucu::hnl fihn young in the ave . It seems picious time to begin. e Wild West to the End. ing as an