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JTHE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘WEDNESDAY.....April 27, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company | Business Office 11¢] and Penpsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. hicago Office: Lake, Michigan Building. uropean Ofice, 14 Regent England. .. London, Rate by Carrier Within e Evening Star . he Evening and Sun (when 4 Sundays) 60¢ per month Ths Everjng and Sunday Star (when 5 Sundays) ........ The Sunday Star ... 70 5c per copy Collection made at the end of each month rders may be sent in by mail or telephone Ational 5000, the City. ‘ ay Star 65¢ per month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. d Sunds $1000: 1 mo.. 8¢ nly $6.00: 1 mo. 50c only $4.00: 1 mo.. 40c Daily Buily unday All Other States and Canada. {ly and Sunday...1yr.$]2.00° 1 mo. $100 aily only ~.........1yr. $800: lmo. 15¢ nday only "..llll1 . $5.00.1mo. 80c Member of the Associated The acsociated Press is exclusively entitled 1o the use for republication of n s ed to It or not otherwise cred- paper and also the local news n Al rizhts of publication cf es herein are also reserved. Press. — The Richmond Conference. President Hoover and twenty-seven Governors of States met in Richmond today to discuss the problems which confront the American people. The as- semblage may also be said perhaps toin- clude the President of the United States for the term beginning March 4 next. It has been conceded that Herbert Hoover will be the Republican standard bearer And three of the Democratic Governors attending the conference, Gov. Frank- 1lin D. Roosevelt of New York, Gov. Al- bert C. Ritchie of Maryland and Gov. Gecrge White of Ohio, all of whom are candidates for the presidential nomina- tion. Former Gov. Harry Flood Byrd of Virginla, another of the Democratic | presidential “possibilities,” also is in | Richmond. | The Governors' conference this year | has taken on a peculiar political sig- nificance. Although at these confer- ences, held annually by the Governors of States, efforts have been made to keep away from political and contro- versial subjects as much as possible, the conference this year in Richmond offers & great forum for the expression of the views of the presidential candi- dates, and it does not seem humanly possible that they will be able torefrain from politics. Certainly what they say in their public addresses will be scanned closely with a view to its pos- sible effect on the coming campaign. President Hoover's acceptance of the Governors' invitation to go to Rich- mond to address the conference took many of them by surprise. In a meas- ure, the contrast between the views of the Chief Executive and his Demo- cratic opponents will be emphasizsed as a result of this speaking in the same forum. Opportunity will be afforded to compare the proposals and the poli- cles of the President and those of Gov. Roosevelt and the other Democratic leaders. President Hoover certainly could have picked no better time and place for calling the attention of the country to some of the problems that confront the Federal and State Gov- ernments today. All idea that the American people can be cured of their present distress by quack remedies and panaceas has vanished, except from the heads of a few demagogues. But careful planning for the future by the leaders of the Nation in government and in industry and finance may be exceedingly help- ful. Out of this meeting of the head of the Federal Government and the heads of State governments may come many valuable suggestions for the con- duct of governmental affairs. It will be unfortunate if at this conference too much stress is laid upon the so- called controversial and political issues of the day. With the Federal Govern- ment facing a huge deficit and many of the States and their subdivisions in similar straits, the questions of taxation and economy go hand in hand as the most acute which face the executives. The President is struggling with those problems today, torn between the need of balancing the Federal Government's budget and the added burden of tax- ation which must be laid upon they shoulders of the people. The Governors of States have their own particular _problems along the same lines. While expenditures of the Federal Govern- ment have grown greater in recent years, the appropriations and taxes made and levied by the State govern- ments have been enormous. The Gov- ernors of States cannot with justice place the blame for the pressing burden of taxation at the door of the Federal Government alone. Their own BState governments are ‘he chief offenders. R In this crowded year a reverential public will have time to get back from Shakespeare to George Washington be- fore being called upon to note the men whose names will go before the con- vention. r—————— The Schoolboy Patrol. Washington is to be the scene of another parade and it will be a unique and interesting one. On April twenty-five hundred boys of the Amer- fcan Automobile Association Schoolboy Patrol, headed by the thirty-two holders of merit badge awards for saving & life or avoiding & serfous accident, & by the Federal and local Bicentc Commiss high officials in the schools and the advisory board of the District of Columbia n of the A A A, will march along historic ansylvania avenue to the accompani- Jent of five bands. The parade is MesigneG to acquaint the people of Washington with the size of the organ- lzation which has so laboriously been bullt up in the schools over a period of years to give protection to pupils 82, ions, o) who are unaccompanied by their| parents on their trips to and from classes. Every motorist has seen these sturdy youngsters with the white Sam Browne belts or in yellow slickers on stormy days sealously guarding the children intrusted to their care, but probably few motorists realize that the schoolboy patrol in Washington is an organization of more than twenty-five hundred stu- dents especlally selected because of their qualities of leadership and their high marks in the class room and work by co-operation | 5¢ ver month streets to the members of the patrol. Begun in the Windy City in 1921, by Charles M. Hayes, vice president of ithe A. A. A. and president of the Chi- cago Motor Club, the Schoolboy Patrol is | now cperated by students in seventeen | hundred and s¢ five cities and the national organization has & roster of more than two hundred thousand satrolmen. 2, in addition to the super- icn of policemen and parents on the Nation's erowded highways, nearly a quarter of a millicn boys are lending aid day after day to the protec- f the scheol children of America gion can well be proud of its | hoolboy Patrol, which is ranked | &s cne of the most efficient ever organ- | |ized. And any m-iorist who is inclined | to be irked when he is forzed to siow | down or siop by members of the patrol | | who are guarding their charges should | | remember that Icss of time & | | tion ¢ is not com- | | parable to loss of life or injury to those | who in the future wil carry on the prestige of the United States. e The French Elections. This 1932 is a campaign year almost | without parallel. Before it is over, three | | great nations, in the order named, will 'have determined their political com-' plexion for the immediate future—Geie many, France and the United States The Germans are just mending broken | | heads efter a serics cf the most hectic | contests in their whole history. The; United States will not be in the thick | | of tts electoral batile for several months | |to come. France this week is winding up a campaign to choose a new Cham- ! ber of Deputies. Tie first balloting | takes place next Sunday, to be followed a week later by run-off elections in | districts where the first poll did not | result in decisive choices, M. Andre Tardieu and his valiant Nationalists are waging a fight for con- | tinued power, Aided by M. Pierre | Laval, whom the present premier suc- | ceeded in February, M. Tardieu seeks to remain at the head of a strong, mili- tant government whose chief concern shall be the security of France. That is an issue which always, and legiti- | mately, makes a lively appeal to the | French imagination, bulwarked, as it is, by the country’s painful memory of for- eign invasion twice during the past sixty years. M. Tardieu is preaching the doctrine | of security not only to the voters of France, but before the world in confer- ence at Geneva. He is to confer there Friday with Secretary Stimson, Prime Minister MacDonald, Chancellor Bruen- ing and Forelgn Minister Grandi in & supreme effort to defend the French thesis of “security before disarmament.” No French statesman risks disfavor in asking the republic to stand like Gibral- tar in defense of that principle. He is on especially safe ground in espousing it within the immediate shadow of Hitler's menacing victories in the Ger- man state elections. But the Nationalists' opponents, led by M. Edouard Herriot, former premier and head of the powerful Radical So- cialists, are not letting M. Tardieu sweep the country on vote-catching patriotic issues. They are charging the present government with responsibility for Prance’s mounting economic woes—a counterpart of the basic campaign which the Democrats are preparing to launch sgainst the Hoover administration. French industry is suffering because capital lacks confidence in the Tardieu regime, M. Herriot is thundering from the hustings. During the past year, he claims, there have been eleven thou- sand business failures. Unemployment is rising. Prance's supposed invul- nerability to world-wide depression turns out to be mythical. She is getting her | full and her increasing portion. For all these conditions Herriot accords the Tardieu government the lion's share of the blame. The premier’s pending proposal to internationalize offensive arms under the League of Nations—the plan for| which M. Tardleu is at this moment crusading at Geneva—is described by [Il. Herriot as an invention of the late Aristide Briand and of Senator Joseph Paul-Boncour. It is, therefore, M. Her- riot declares, nothing for which the Natlonalist premier may take credit. Prance is electing 615 deputies. There are 3,240 candidates in the field. Under the parliamentary system a government requires at all times to marshal a ma-| jority in the Chamber of Deputies in order to sustain itself in office. Either & perpetuated Tardieu cabinet or an- other Herriot ministry is imminent. —————————— It will require some time before Hawali will be taken seriously when sending out pictures and print describ- ing scenes of picturesque innocence. ——— Historians are pretty generally agreed that the time has arrived for fewer and better biographies. — o Political Plagiarism. The other day some embarrassment | was caused to Gov. Roosevelt of New | York by the publication of the “deadly | parallel” showing that in his St. Paul | speech on the 18th of April he used | in a reference to the tariff law the| identical words with which former ' Gov. Smith scored that measure in his speech in this city five days earlier. The parallel was perfect save that in one phrase Gov. Roosevelt used three r four words that did not appear in the Smith version. Ob either somebody in the Roosevelt establish- | ment had unwisely borrowed from Mr. | em speech in preparing the Gov- {ernor's St. Paul address, or else both | Mr. Smith and the Governor had gone to the sam arce for their rhet It now develops that the latter was the case. Explanation is made that the original material was a statement on the tariff written by Lindsay Rogers, professor of public law at Columbia University, copies of which were oblig- ingly sent to both the Roosevelt and Smith headquarters, Prof. Rogers ap- parently being disposed to play no fa- vorites in the distribution of his essay. It is explained, however, that Prof. Rogers really meant the matter to be used by Gov. Roosevelt in his first radio speech of April 7, that which | later evoked from Mr. Smith the charge of demagoguism. The Governor | did not use it then, but somebody blun- dered at Albany in not checking and | | double-checking on the Smith Wash- | | ington speech to see if it contained any common-property material. ‘This is not a vitally important mat- ter. It is well known that few public men prepare their own speeches. Their “ghost writers” get their materials from all sorts of places, Maybe they, in turn, in THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON D. C., WEDNESDAY APRIL 27, 1932. ceath on the Natlonal Capital's buly!en[ln lesser “ghosts” to do their rough drafting. And goodness knows that there is no lack of “literature” nowadays. Everybody is writing and distributing, as the daily mails attest, especially those received in newspaper offices. This incident at least suggests the wisdom of direct competitors for public attenti'n reading cerefuily the utter- ances of each other, to avoid the repe- tition of anything that m:y have been drawn by the first speaker from the common reservoir. -t What Do Inspectors Inspect? The District of Columbia, with other municipalitie of salaried plumbing inspectors, building inspectors and inspectors of this and inspectors of that. Not so long ago the collapse of certain incompleted work on public bulldings raised the question of what building inspectors were supposed to inspect. A similar question in regard to plumbing inspectors is now raised by deaths from carbon monoxide gas poisoning, the deaths attributed to al- legedly improperly connecied g2s fittings. | Inquiry reveals that plumbing inspy | tors inspected the installation. but the | protection is the first law of nature, and inspectors felt that they “had a right to assume” that the pipes from the hot- water heaters were properly hooked up and they felt they were powerless to tear down the work of the plumbers to find out if their assumptions were correct. This is an important revelation. building, plumbing and other inspection in the District carricd out on the basis of assumption? Of course, plumbing inspectors have no legal or moral right to go into & completed structure and proceed to tear it apart to find out whether everything has been properly done The time to make the inspection is while the work is in progress. But if inspection is to be caiTied out on the principle of assuming that everything is proper, a worth while suggestion has becn conveyed to the House Economy Committee. In place of all the in- spectors, the municipality should have one master inspector. For eight hours A/ day, with doo: d windows of his office carefully guarded against inter- ruption, this master inspector should equip himself with a book by the late Emile Coue and a sct of plans for all work going forward in the District and do some concentrated assuming that everything is lovely. That would save money. And it would certainly work as well as the present system. When an inquiry concerning market methods is under way, it is not all a matter of cold, scientific investigation. Somewhere in the conversation voices are sure to be heard from the “hardy losers’ club.” B In addition to regular and exacting work, the Government employe is ex- pected to be held up to public suspicion as a salary grabber every time a states- man desires to make a reputation for sudden econom; ———t— One financial prediction can be of- fered with entire confidence: No mat- ter what disclosures may be made, the old Wall Street speculation game will emerge just as good as new. e Democrats in Massachusetts have made it clear in their attitude toward former Gov. Smith that they regard this as a free country where & man may pro- nounce “radio” as he chooses. e Disappointment will be general if Mr. La Guardia turns up nobody worse than some literary lad who was paid a few hundred dollars for being a financial ghost writer. v —ee— Finance has alw had a few fiction artists who think they can make up their owa money as they go along Ponzi was one of them. Others are more innocent. v SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Important Revelation. Investigation’s under way, I've tried to listen in. 1t scarce knows where to end, they say, Or even to begin. But echoes very sad I heard Of long but distant wails As various memories were stirred By speculative tales. The horseshoe which good fortune brought Hangs not above the door. The rabbit's foot is good for naught, New moons no longer score. When such confusion brings alarm The impulse grows immense To throw away each lucky charm And use plain common sense. Pet Names. “Are you a favorite son?" “I was one” answered Senator Sorghum. “But I am afraid these big appropriations will cause me to be re- ferred to as & prodigal son.” Jud Tunkins says he supposes they pick hot weather for conventions be- cause if everybody was comfortable the delegates would put in all Summer en- Jjoyin’ one another’s conversation. Cuckoo Clocks. This daylight saving makes & row Throughout this earthly scene. They say all cl re “cuckoo” now— I wonder what they mean. On Guard. “Crimson Gulch has a new editor,” remarked Cactus Joe to the bus driver, “Do you think he will last?"” “For a while. He's purty smart.” “How does he show it?” “He started in by riggin’ up a ma- chine gun to look like a typewriter.” “Our happiest hours,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “come so gently and unexpectedly that we do not rec- ognize them until they have passed.” Back to Earth. Where are the snows of yesteryear?” A pensive poet paused to sigh. And when prosperity was here— Where are the values piled so high? The scene has changed and swept away ‘The light, exhilarating mirth, Yet we'll be happy while we may And travel on plain solid earth. “When I see some o' dese pictures in de magazines,” sald Uncle Eben, “I think maybe it's foh de best dat I ain’® scholar enough to go on an’ read about is equipped with a force Is | ‘The idea of the impersonal is one of |the most difficult for the average per- | son to grasp. ’ Anything said in the presence of most persons is seized upon by them as ap- plying to themselves. ‘As for looking upon a really personal remark in an abstract way, that scems | the limit of the impossible to them. But is it? Are there not conversationalists whose abilities must be recognized and whese seeming personalities must be regarded | solely as abstractions? The ego. in many people, is forever on the alert for insults, so that ac- tions, even. are turned into direct ref- erences to them. Here is an honest fellow who has a wh-lesome fear of the sncezes of his fellow human beings. If some one enters a room and there- upon proceeds to sneeze, this honest atleman will promptly clap & hand- k his nose. I v people, Who themselves | realize the inherent danger in a sneeze, | metimes manifest displeasure at the 1ctive act of the other. to convince them that self- almost inst | His effort that his form of it, manifested in this isimple action, is in no way directed | against them, but against cold germs, |often goes for nothing, so wedded are |they t> the idea that everything is and | must be of personal application. “Love me, love my germs.” H * *x k % The consideration of facts in ordinary human beings for even a half-way grasp | of life and living, is hampered and held | back to an extraordinary degree because | ' honesty of thought is inhibited by the | average attitude toward the personal and the impersonal. | Perhaps it is asking too much of most | people, just plain average “folks,” to be- | | come peripatetic philoscphers, oblivious | |to the possibilities of being insulted, | | dense to the observation of the obvious. But surely they might be requested, in {the name of common sense, to think now and then of what they are doing when they insist on wresting all ob- servations to personalities. Honesty of thought, sometimes called intellectual honosty. is required in such a world as this. It is possible for the mind of man to conceive other worlds in which such honesty might not be desired, but it would appear at this date in history that it is a very good thing in this one. By desirable one could not mean popular. Popularity does not lie in the | path of any one who tells people what they ought to know, but solely what they want to hear. On the other hand, truth telling | which is of the so-called “blunt” va- riety is not the sort meant here. Peo- ple who indulge in this form of “truth” merely take advantage of a half-truth to hurt others. * | | * * | The true impersonal. the attitude | which permits essential honesty to have its innings in a deceptive world, comes | {mostly in the consideration of facts and fancies which may or which may not be derived from other human be- | ngs. The point is_that these others must | realize as much and yet be able to| view the whole question as an imper- | sonal one, since they are by no means | unique in the world. If they are able to recognize their inship, yet feel that the discussion is about a type, rather than one isolated human _being, they are in a position to | appreciate another’s struggles for a truthful approach to the path mhich leads to understanding. | To feel one's self used as a repre- | sentative of a type—often this in- stinctively repels, even the intelligent person, until he stops to think of the | class, instead of himself. | This is one of the fundamental splits in human thought. Those who | cannot master it increasingly tend to | think of themselves as unique in a! Tom Heflin established his fame for all time yesterday as the Barnum of politics. He staged the greatest show on earth, at least as far as the United States Senate is concerned. And how he loved it! Packed galleries, a crowded | floor, five solid hcums all to himself, cynosure of every eye, and Heflin the sole theme—what a man, what a chance! No matter what becomes of the big Alabama noise, whether his leather lungs exercised themselves for the last time in the Senate chamber or not, Heflins yet unborn will be entitled to Tecall the occasion with ancestral pride. No man in Congress, with the possible single exception of Borah, | could have magnetized such an audi- ence to Capitol Hill. Tom was at the top of his rabble-rousing form. His voice is as inexhaustible as a foghorn. It was as resonant at 5 o'clock as when he went into action at 12. Senators and squirrel-heads (Heflin's pet name for newspaper men) snickered at his theatrical flights of pathos and bom- | bast, but the galleries were spellbound. By their votes he would have won his case hands down. Unfortunately, Tom's fate rests with the men he once in-| advertently called “fellow Senators.” It's extremely doubtful whether he harangued a single one of them into changing his vote in Heflin's favor. Sty Some of President Hoover's defenders | come forward with the interesting dis- closure that, when you deduct the fabulous sums spent during the past three years on veterans’ benefits and { Federal construction, the current (1933) Hoover budget ($2,554,202,000) is lower than any of the last four Coolidge budgets. These (subject to the same deductions) were, in 1926, 1927, 1928 and 1929, respectively, $2,886,854,000, $2.791,579,000, $2,649,426,000 and $2,720,- £91,000. iconomy Cal,” according to the figures, which are of official | origin, seems to have had nothing on | “Economy Herb” Gen. Hines, the | administrator of veterans’ affairs, told the Ways and Means Committee yes- terday what these have come to repre- sent in Tressury outgo. President | Coolidge’s 1926 budget provided TO!‘ $563.134,000 in veterans’ aid. ‘The| Hoover 1933 budget earmarks $983.160,- | 000 for that item. In 1926 Uncle Sam | spent $135,000.000 on construction; this | year, he's spending $575,548,000. R Washington friends are just in re- ceipt of the full text of Col. Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural address as Gov-| ernor General of the Philipoines at| Manila on February 29. It wound up| with a brand-new plece of political | history. “This is a most solemn moment in my life,”. said Young Teddy. “Not only have I always had an abiding interest in the Filipino people, but the same held true of my father. When Governor of New York he wrote to his intimate friend, Sen- ator Lodge, that he did not wish to be a candidate for Vice President because his ambition was to be Governor Gen- eral of the Philippines.” ok ® If the economy wave rolling over Congress should eliminate ropria- tions for the Navy Band, Capitol Hill is likely to hear from the country's 20,000,000 or 30,000,000 radio listeners. For the past few years Lieut. Charles Benter and his melody men have been tremendous favorites with them. Their | music is an almost daily coast-to-coast broadeast feature on the programs of both the National and Columbia chains. Through the co-operation of all Navy Yard commandants at Wash- ington, a well equipped auditorium for the special purpose of putting the band on the air is now available. ‘Thus, instead of being an organization whose music used to be heard by only a handful on occasion, radio has con- verted the Navy Band into & truly na- tional institution. conversations, so essential to average | 4, | appreciation of the impersonal. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. world which gives them the laugh a thousand times over on every street. These are the isolationists, the stand- patters, the ultra-conservatives and the like, who play an important part in the world, sometimes the highest, but who aimost always end a conversation by becoming hurt about something. Those who are able to master the idea of the impersonal, although they at times may silently feel rebuffed, or even insulted, fostinctively recognize the right of another human being to | use them as representatives of a class, 50 long as this is done without ill will or malice. Those who master this idea are the so-called radicals, mostly men whose bark is worse than their bite. Let them bark, all ye who fear! They are merely trying to reach the truth, to put the searchlight of reason on a dark spot—at least it seems dark to them. 2k & “It is a pity that meetin; versation should end as quickly as they ordinarily do,” once wrote the Emerson. “They end as soon as the blood is up and we are about to say daring and extraordinary things.” Who is there who has not felt this? ‘The real trouble lies in the fact that these very daring things, which every one feels are about to be uttered, and which they know should be uttered, must be predicated upon real people. And these real people, these human beings, may be and most often are right there in the room, party to the conversation. One instinctively knows, after school at least, that to boldly reach out and speak the truth, for once, is to |run the very large risk of treading upon their precious toes. Now, roars of pain, fri never did and never wi path of truth, except in very rare in- stances. The moment a mental toe—and the mind, unfortunately, has vastly more toes, it would seem, than the physical Ieet—is stepped upon a shriek is likely to be emitted by the average person in average conversation. A roomful of Emersons might be able to conduct itself on a Mghlg impersonal and in- telligent plane, but the sad fact is that a meeting of ordinary human be- ings contains few Ralph Waldoes. Mostly people in conversation shy away from the subject at its very crux. What comes next demands a frankness which can be reached only through the applicaticn, the acceptance and the Out of the personal the impersonal must be formed somehow; if this one, and that one, and this other one, is to feel hurt, offended, wrathful, how can the con- | versation get anywhere? It cennot, and that is why, perhaps, it perishes, just as the gathering real- ized that it ‘was on the point of some- thing exceptional. An easy explanation is this, that it died for politeness’ sake. 8o a crime is committed in the name of courtesy. Upon some oceasions, and under certain circumstances, this may be_necessary. Even then the astute will watch with regret. The impersonal idea, after all, is not for every onme. It means that one has bid farewell to self, in a cer- tain sense, and is willing hereafter to make truth his goal, no matter how much it may dismay or hurt. After all, few human beings get very far along this divine road. There are many who have believed and will con- tinue to believe that the truth is not attainable in this world, that is why we require another one, perhaps. Most of us need all the help we can get in this laudable endeavor; one of the best aids is the idea of the imper- sonal, personally applied. From it the right sort of man will wrest as much truth as he can stand. The other sort must not be expected to imbibe too much truth; it is a heady doctrine, an¢ calls for the impersonal out of the per- sonal. Truth in large doses gives them indigestion: no one can blame them for not wanting to be ill. For them the pap of ballyhoo is just right. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Under the solemn caption of “Pres- entation cf Senator Moses,” the Con- gressicnal Record discloses that the noblest wisecracker of them all is now the possessor of a club adorned with the legend: “Regards. Sons of Wild Jackasses.” The bludgeon wasn't sent to the senior solcn from New Hamp- shire. It came to Senator Nye of North Dakota from the Galesburg, N. Dak., Farmers’ Union Local, as Nye stated on the Senate floor, “with some rather broad insinuations as to how it shall be used.” Exhibiting it in the chamber, he said: “Mr. President, considering the insinuations which accompany this weapon and knowing my limitations at moments when temper might be lost, I am not one who would keep anything 50 dangerous about me. I am, therefore, geing to ask that this cottonwood club be presented for safekeeping to the euthor of the ‘wild jackass’ utterance.” It was s0 ordered. * k x % Will Pat Hurley and Charle: be statesmen suddenly out of Qg:n}‘; Congress merges the War and Navy De- partments into a department of national defense? That's the expectation at the Capitol. The idea seems to be that President Hoover, who presumably would | be happy were either dear charmer away, would name some third deserving Republican as secretary of national de- fense, and appoint Hurley and Adams, respectively, as the new cabinet officer’s military and naval chief assistants, * oKX % x “Raising Hell for Justice” is the sl adopted by Hattie Stein, woman candi- date for Governor on the Republican ticket in West Virginia. Her platform, unwomanly brief, reads: “No slates, No votes bought. No election clerks bribed. No trades made. No characters assassinated. No graft permitted. No corruption tolerated.” * k¥ % When Senator Smoot of Utah pre- sides later in the year at the dedica- ton of the new Mormon Temple in | Washington he’ll have a stirring story to tell of the propagation of that faith. Today the Latter Day Saints count 700,000 members, with branches all over the world. Few American denomina- tions have so many foreign missionaries as the 1,703 young men and women now preaching the Mormon gospel abroad. All serve voluntarily, either supporting themselves or being sup- ported by relatives. “Radio and the eutomobile,” a Latter Day Saints spokesman has just explained, “have broken down which formerly separated the Mormons from the rest of mankind, and people are beginning to realize that the church has a forward-looking social, recrea- tional and religious program.” * kX % A straw from Ohio—the Buckeye delegation at the Democratic National Convention will be instructed to vote for Gov. George White for six ballots. If he isn’t nominated at their end, the g‘e&q“:‘l&:’ w;ttl.l enter h: huddle and de- m there. Many still think it '1510:.0 to another Ohioan, named Baker, at what will then be & psychological moment. (Copyright, 1932.) ——— A Bell for the Cat. Prom the Detroit News. A radio device, just brought to per- fection, will start, steer and stop a war- ship. It remains to be seen if an enemy ;’&ulfldmwnunt to our installing these in ST More Work to Be Done. From the Dayton Daily News. A Hollywood authority asserts that the vogue of the horror film is over, which ;l’lll‘.lh be welcome news _¥ 0 many comedies weren't 0 horrible, -~ for con-| the the distance barriers | \ule Allowing Picketing A Violation of Rights' To the Editor of The Star: A news item in the local press of the 23d it stated, among other things, that the District Commissioners had -e- quested Marx Lewis, attorney for the local fur workers' union, to draft an amendment to sections of the District sign regulations which have been in- terpreted as preventing picketing, and that it is expected that the regulations will be amq 50 as to it picket- ing, as it was never intended to prevent it by the regulations as they ar.. ‘To thus picketing is to violate the most elementary and constitutional liberty and property are fundamental. They are not created by the Constitu- tion, but are simply recognized therein and their violation prohibited. The word “liberty” was not used in the Constitution in any narrow sense. It embraces all the natural rights of { man, such, for example, as freedom of locomotion, freedom of contract with respect to the ordinary and usual mat- ters of daily life and intercourse, pri- 'vate ownership of property, with security in the use and enjoyment thereof, and tht to engage In the pursuit of all legitimate business and professional undertakings for pleasure or profit, without let, hindrance or interference, except in so far as such pursuits may be affected by a public interest and which may therefore be subject to govern- mental regulation. The liberty to engage in a legitimate business, free from coercion, molestation or intereference by others, is unques- tionably a right recognized in and guar- anteed by the Constitution of the United States. Now, what is the object of union labor in picketing one’s place of business, whether it be peaceful or with violence? It is to coerce the owner into acceding to the demands of the parties whom the picketers represent, and that, too, often without regard to the practicability or Jjustice of the demands. Under such cir- cumstances, what becomes of the con- stitutional liberty of the proprietor, of his rights of property, and of the free and untrammeled conduct of his busi- ness? To sanction or approve of picketing, no matter how peaceful, is to make a hollow mockery of our constitutional guarantees, to encourage violence, to deny the business man the “equal pro- tection of the law,” to take his property “without due process of law,” and to strike a fatal blow at the fundamental rights of the ownership and security of property, which are the bases of social order and bulwarks of civilization. ‘These securities once destroyed, revolu- tion and anarchy will inevitably follow, to the detriment of the laboring man as well as to all other classes. Aside from the injury to the person whose place of business is picketed, and the infringement of his most elementary rights, picketing is also an annoyance to and an encroachment upon the rights of the p;lblic. wfl';o are henfiflf% 'in ingress and egress from a place of busi- ness without molestation, and is well calculated to and often does lead to violence and the disturbance of the peace and good order of the community. Such a regulation would be unconsti- tutional, some courts to the contrary notwithstanding, and in addition would be contrary to a sound public policy, and instead of legalizing picketing, it should be prohibited with appropriate penalties for indulging in it. ALEXANDER SIDNEY ———— Basis of Holbrook’s Aspersion Questioned To the Editor of The Star: ‘Would it be asking too much of A. J | Evening Star of Priday, April 22, 1932 to inquire what he does for a livin’ and by what authority and on whose | time he has made all of his cbser {tions on the activities of the clerica force of the United States Governmen Just how many departments has he visited and how many days has he spent there? We hope that A. J. Hol- brook will not think this inquiry too impertinent, but when any one is 50 sure of himself as this person it seems feasible to ask him to substantiate his statements. In the department In which I am employed as a stenographer we are working eight hours per day, and have been since January 1, 1920. When I say work I mean work, too. There are several of us in that department who have been holding down two jobs for over a year, the incumbent having re- signed or been transferred to another department and the economy budget not covering money to give another jman a job. And as for money: know of any average Government clerk who has two or three bank accounts, a half dozen houses, maids, chauffeurs, etc.? The average man in the Gov- ernment service juggles his money to pay his bills, clothes his children d cently, pays his taxes, supports his church and is a law-abiding citizen. Look around, Mr. giving further vent to your feelings and please be sure. also, that you give your boss, no matter who he is. Uncle Sam or a private ea{mpnntmn, his s rth of your e. PGSR yD. V. COAKLEY. Two Impressions of the | Senate Wall Street Probe To the Editor of The Star: In the columns of the editorial page of The Star reference wis made on April 21 to the very apparent inability of the Wall Street Senatorial Committee to uncover anything of real benefit to the people. Either this particular in- quisitorial body, with its special counsel in the person of & “Philadelphia law- yer,” is woefully weak in its possession— or rather lack of possession—of the requisite stock market knowledge to successfully carry on such an important investigation, or the picture as painted by Mr. Whitney and Mr. Bn is a correct one, and the American people have been led to believe falsely that Wall Street has exercised an evil influ- ence over our economic structure. I am of the opinion that the former 'is nearer correct. I was among the spectators at the committee meeting, and two things stood out prominently in my mind after the meeting. One was the picture of these august sena- torial representatives of the sovereign States of America, grouped together, in the fashion of school children, listening to a lecture from a learned professor, of whom they appeared deathly afraid. It is generally accepted as wise procedure to keep quiet if you do not understand a subject under discussion, but if this | was the trouble with the committee | why, then, did they call the Wall Street | gentlemen? |it is certainly a fact that no commi years has appeared so asinine |and ridiculous and so helpless as this Wall Street committee. To thoughtful people, however, I be- lieve it will show that this sort of thing takes place only too often in our Con- gress. We are harangued with all sorts of political oratory, from one year's end to another, on generalities, but wkfin these legislators get down to specific cases and are forced to deal with details they prove themselves, only too often, inadequately equiy situation. Much of our happiness rests in their hands. It seems to me that all we can do is just “hope and pray” that et T carried sprouting : shoulders. Perhaps it was the sunlight in the room, but whatever it was, there were the wings and just a faint outline of a halo at the top of his head. Dur- ing some of his testimony—if that is what it is called—it wouldn't have sur- prised me if the committee members had burst into tears of shame for hav- ing connected this kindly, open-spoken, rights of the citizen. The rights of life, | Does this person | Holbrook, _before | Regardless of the reason, | to handle the | f¢ ! ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘This great service is maintalnsa oy The Evening Star for the benefit of its readers, who may use it every day without cost to themselves. All they bave to do is ask for any information desired and they will receive prompt answers by Questions must be clearly written and stated as briefly as possible. Inclose 2-cent stamp for re- turn postage and address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. Is Neil Hamilton’s hair naturally curly?—M. F. A It is not. In a recent picture it was necessary for him to have curly hair. weather took out an ordinary curl, he resorfed to a permanent wave. Q. How old was Exterminator when { he raced in the Cofforth Handicap at Tia Jauna in 1924°—C. 8. A. He was an 8-year-old. Q. Who candidate of the Prohibition party?— L AP A. The Prohibition party was or- ganized in 1869, in Chicago, Ill, and the first actual prohibition candidate put forward by tion party was Mr. G. C. Smith, in 1876. Q. How many performers did the original Floradora production have in New York City—T. R. A. Five hundred and forty-seven. Q. Please publish Mark Twain's satir- ical prayer for war time—T. L. A. It Is as follows: “O Lord our God, help us to tear their scldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling flelds with the pale forms of thelr patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of guns with the shrieks of the wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavalling grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their children to wander unfriended through wastes of their desolated land—for our sakes, who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, making heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask of one Wwho is the Spirit of love and who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset, and seek His-aid with humble and contrite hearts. Grant our prayer, O Lord, and Thine shall be the praise and honor and glory now and ever. Amen.” Q. What is bagasse?—F. T. A. Tt is the fibrous residue which re- mains afier the julce has been extracted from sugar cane. Q When did American missionaries first go to Hawaii?—P. C. A. They arrived in Hawail in 1820. Q. Does a man who has been in prison lose his citizenship?—K. H. A. He does not lose his citizenship. Generally the right to vote is among the rights lost. Civil rights are ac- corded by the various States, and the rights of a citizen who has been sen- tenced to prison depend on the laws in the State of which he is a resident. Q. To whom was Gottschalk’s “Last Hope” dedicated?—T. C. A. To his cousin, Anna Meyers. Q. Where was Byzantium?—G. D. A. On the death of Theodosius the Roman Empire was divided, and his | Holbrook, whose letter appeared in The ron Arcadius took the eastern half, with | tional coat of Byzantium as his capital. This ancient Since the dampness of the| was the first presidential | national Prohibi- | city occupica the most easterly hill of the modern city of Constantinople. Q. How much time elapses in the “Lady of the )ake"?—-W K. A Each canto presents one auy. Q. Who is »Sugfme’Ea the Astec Club | of 18477—G. A. This society was founded in 1847 by officers of the United States Army for the purpose of keeping alive the memories and traditions of the Mexican | War. A member of the club nominates | his first-born son or some other male blood relative to succeed him. Q. Please give a list of historical sites in New Yor¥ Citv—A. M A. Among them are* Praunce's Tavs ern, St. Paul's Chapel, St. Marks on the Bouwerie, Jumel Mansion, Fort Green Park, Van Courtlandt Park, Dyckman House, Poc Cottage, Roosevelt House and Gracle Mansion, Q. Where is the Isle of Man>—H. R, A. It is a small island in the Irish Sea, nearly equally distant from Enge land, Scotland and Ireland. It has an area of 237 square miles and & popula- tion in 1931 of 50.000. The Isle of Man is not considered & part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but is a separate British island. Q. How many of the ballads of our early days are known?—C. W. A Mrs. Donald Clark says that there are 354 known ballads, including 305 traditional ballads, in the United States of which some definite record has been taken. Q. Why s furniture?—A. . A. The term is suggestive of the at- tempt, developed since 1850, to classify various types of antique furniture in groups, according to the period of their origin and popularity. These groups ure named elther after the monarchs, English or French, under whom given styles of furniture flourished, or after the designers of certain styles. Q. Are rugs and furs as well pro- tected from moths when put in storage vaults which are protected by fumiga= tion as when put in cold storage?—W. L. A. The Department of Agriculture says that this method of storage cou- | ples tight storage with the principles of | fumigation. When intelligently operat- | ed, the protection against moth ravages | is excellent and is equal to cold storage. Neither method has an advantage over the other in preserving the luster and natural ofls of fur. Q What is the acid in tomatoes? A. While there are other acids prgs= ent in small amounts, the principal one is citric acid. Q. How does a whale manage to stay under water so long, since it hasn't gills to breathe with?—S. G. A. A whale has a very special breath- ing apparatus, consisting of very ca- pacious lungs and an exira air cham- | ber for the storage of oxygen, which enables it to stay under water for lon; periods, sometimes as long as a hal | an hour or more. Q. What is meant by a merchant | flag?—W. H. P, A. It denotes the flag of & country ordinarily used by merchant vessels, as opposed to the standard flown by ves- sels of war. In a good many countires the two are the same, though in some | cases the man-of-war flag has the n: arms displayed in the center or on the union of the flag. | | | | furniture called period N, Roosevelt Reply to Smith 7 Viewed as Plea for Harmony “The olive branch” is declared by the public to have been extended by Gov. PFranklin D. Roosevelt of New York in | his St. Paul speech, which had been | heralded as a reply to the address of |former Gov. Alfred E. Smith at the | Jefferson dinner. His elaboration of his | views in favor of the “little man” is ex- [tensively analyzed, in view of _th charge of setting “class against class | There is definite support for his posi- | tion on national issues, though there is some demand for further clarification. “Alfred E. Smith could not have been jcratic), “when he took that invidious and utterly illogical dig at a great fel- low Democrat on the anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birth. Fortunately | for the party, so petty an explosion will |make no rift in its forward-marching ranks. Franklin D. Roosevelt is unit- ing its liberal elements as they have not been united since the days of Woodrow | Wilson and is mustering to its standard hosts of independent voters as well, for the reason that he does stand up for equal rights against special privi- leges and does plead the cause of the forgotten man. If Democracy is to win, or deserve to win, it must be true to itself. Its mission is vastly greater than soothing disappointed personal ambitions or pretending to run with the hares while hunting with the | hounds. It turns today to Franklin D. Roosevelt because it is returning to the truth from which it was born.” “Roosevelt has not set class against class,” declares the Portland, Oreg., Journal (independent). “He has not set the rich against the poor. He has not set the poor against the rich. All of that, so far as it exists in America, has already been done. It has been done by these times. by the concentration of wealth, the centralizing of power and the departure from the simple Jeffersonian principles of individual rights and equal oppor- | tunity, which were extolled at the very | dinner Gov. Smith addressed.” #h Ee ‘The Omaha World-Herald (inde- | pendent Democrat), quotes Gov. Roose- velt’s statement: “I am pleading for a policy broad enough to include every part of our economic structure, a policy that seeks to help all simultaneously, that shows an understanding of the fact that there are millions of peoi)le who cannot be helped by merely help- ing their employers. Not only among the sections of this country, but among its economic units and the various groups in these units, there must be common participation, planned on the basis of a shared common life, the low as well as the high. In much of our present plans there is too much dispo- sition to mistake the part for the whole, the head for the body. I plead not for class control, but for a true concern of ; interest.” On this the World-Herald comments: “This is not radicalism. is not a demagogue’s unscrupulous plea. | It s sound Americanism. It is the | wisest conservatism. It is the spirit of | true democracy that exalts no class over another, no section over another, but places all on an equal basis of right and privilege, and understands that the foundations must be preserved if the superstructure is to stand. When Gov. Roosevelt pleads for such a policy he is defending the vital interests of the rich the same as of the poor, of the employer the same as of the employed. ‘There may be those so blinded by a stupld sel that they cannot see it. If there are, one can only say, in the light of existing conditions, that they are bears for punishment.” “For the most part,” says the Scran- ton Times (Democrat), “Mr. Roosevelt's address was an elaboration of his po- litical philosophy, together with a re- view of his beliefs regarding utility control and the tariff. As for the utili- ties, like power, he favors State control confidential and helpful gentleman with any evils peculiar to Wall Street. JOHN THORNTON, Deferred Payments. Prom the Cincinnati Times-Star. When & rich hoarder do their fault, - and holds with Democrats generally that the present Smoot-Hawley tariff bill carries excessive rates and is one It has been done | & principle; he did take a stand that commits him. He did give an illustra- tion of how he thinks government must operate to bring about that ‘true con- cert of interests’ for which he speaks. It is a strong start and any critics who feel like calling it ‘demagoguery’ will be under the necessity of making it clear that they do not speak for the power interests.” That Gov. Roosevelt held out the olive branch to the rival Democratic candi= date is the opinion of the Rock Island Argus (independent), the Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail (independent Re- pubican), the Roanoke Times (Demo= cratic) and the Lynchburg News (Dem- ocratic). The Lynchburg paper come ments: “They have said a lot of mean things about Roosevelt, but not even Al himself has realized the extent of meanness. Here Al goes and de- nounces him as a demagogue and threatens to take off his coat and his brown derby and throw away his cigar In order to fight him to the last ditch, wherever that is, and what does Roose= velt do? Why, he says Al is a nice fellow. If there is anything meaner than that, what is 1t? "Is there any- thing a fellow spoiling for a fight hates more than to be patted on the back and told that he means well?” » b &8 “The Smith attack,” in the opinion of the Hartford Times (independent Democratic), “was so evidently excited and unfair that it did not merit am different response than that whicl Gov. Roosevelt has tactfully given it.” The Boise (Idaho) Statesman (Repube lican), however, observes that Gov. Smith is “in the ring to fight until the referee blows the whistle, despite the odds against him,” adding that | “Americans admire fighters like that.” | “That the address was disappointing | in its substance is the judgment of the | Minneapolis Journal (independent Re=- publican), the New York Sun (inde- | pendent) ‘and the Akron Beacon-Jour- nal (independent Republican). The | Newark Evening News (independent) |asks: “What has Mr. Roosevelt done | there by way of social or economic re- liet which is original, which is better | or more effective than is being done | elsewhere? What plans has he pro= | duced, what actions has he inspired, | to make his State an outstanding ex- ample of better government? What, in his speeches, does he suggest Washing- ton do to relieve conditions that it has not attempted? Nothing at all." The Buffalo Evening News pendent Republican) charges that Gov. Roosevelt_evaded the challenge of Gov. | Smith. * The Baltimore Sun (inde- pendent Democratic) asserts: “It is evi- dent that his predecessor in office has | provided the opportunity, not to say the necessity, for an elaboration of some ideas which Mr. Roosevelt had previcus- ly shrouded in mi His position on the tariff is more definite and he has | flluminated a little the reasons why he considers Mr. Hoover’s method of af- }lordmg relief to banking and indi v | inadequate as rellef to the ‘little f {low.” If his attitude on control of electric power remains for the moment in the region of pious declaration, there is ground for hope that further controversy will sharpen and clarify it.” ——————— (inde- |Move to Reduce Rents Proposed To the Editor of The Star: me that if we must accept a salary cut, we certainly should not be expected to pay the same high rent. It is of the direct causes of our trade loss.” CERE) “One principle is not a platform,” Milwaukee Journal (in- red couldn't