Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1932, Page 8

v "A-8 ¢ THE EVENWG STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY......May 4, 1932 { THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor E Evening Star Newspaper Company 111 8e. "And Penmrivan v York : 110 East 42nd 8t. icago Office: ke Michigan Bullding. opean Office: 14 Regent ., London, s Ave. Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evening Star_.. +z. . .45¢ per month e Evening and Sunday Siar i § Sy 80c per month e Evening and Sun Cenen 5 Bundays) 65¢ per month The Sunday St S5c_per copy Collect:on made at’ the end ders may be sent in by mail Ational 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. . $10.00: 1 mo.. unllv only 1yr., $400.1mo.. ‘each month. or telephone oc joc All Other States and Canada. aily and Sunday...1yr.$1200: 1mo., $1.00 E:uv only 1yl p00 1 mos 7o nday only ! 1yr.) $5.00: 1mo. blc Member of the Assoclated Press. The Associated Press Is exclusively ertitled to the use for republication of wil news dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ted in this paper and aiso the local news publisied herein. All rights of publication of #pecial dispatches herein are giso reserved Some Hope for Economy. If the tattered and torn remnant of the omnibus economy bill really rep- resented what is left of the hope, once €0 brightly shining, of balancing the | Federal budget. it would mean that the American people, through their elected representatives in the Congress, have been committed to a blind policy of muddling through the economic crisis of dodging issues instead of facing them end of putting trust in some good fairy | who may eventually come along and! make everything lovely. But the blame for the emasculation | of the economy bill should not be placed entirely on the revolting mem- | bership of the House, which so thor- oughly tore it to pieces that the resultl stands as & hollow mockery of economy. | A good part of the blame rests on the | £ort of bill that was brought before the House. a bill that chose to place the | major burden of effecting governmental economy on the shoulders of low-sal- | aried working men ~nd women in the | Government; & bill that selected such colorful and drastic economy measures as merging the Army and Navy estab- | lishments, abolishing Army transport | services and, in effect, abolishing one of the most favored forms of State ald —vocational educational grants—and assembling all of these various schemes in a manner that, inviting heated pro- test over some of them, endangered them all. The leadership of both par- ties in the House bit off more than it could chew, and the result was that the House choked. More than one writer has commented on the spirit of “leave it to the Senate” that marked final action in the House on the economy bill. And there is still hope that the Senate may yet come to | the rescue in some fashion that will allow a new economy bill to be worked out in conference. The nature of the task awaiting the Senate remains, how- ever, to be determined by the House action in agreeing to the latest ten per cent cuts on the appropriations for the Departments of Justice, Labor, Com- merce and State. If the House ratifies this policy, it will mean that Congress, as the easiest way out of its dilemma over economy, has passed the buck to THE EVENING ported from the Ways and Means|1925, 1926 and 1927, totaling $182,000 Committee, tore it to shreds and, in a !and was sentenced to eleven years' im- panic, put through =a hodge-podge measure. And now, discarding all lead- ership again, the House has passed its so-called economy bill, as an amend- ment to the legislative appropriation bill, in emasculated form, and sent it to the Senate. Within the next few days the Senate Finance Committee will lay before the Upper House & revised revenue bill. ‘Whether the committee will be able to preserve this measure in form com- parable to that in which it passes from its hands remains to be seen. The Senate Appropriations Committee must deal with the economy proposal ad- vanced by the House, carrying salary | and other cuts. Too much is at stake in the country | for the Senate to permit itself to be drawn into'long, unprofitable debates, debates which rarely, if ever, change & single vote in the Senate itself. The business interests of the country and every individual taxpayer are awaiting action on the revenue bill. They have budgets to balance as well as the Fed- eral Government. They must have some assurance of what the tax burden is to be if they are to go ahead with their | business operations. | Should Congress fail to complete this legislation of vital importance, and should a recess be taken for the na- tional conventions, it may mean that | the country will be compelled to walt | until September for legislation which should have been on the statute books | by now e The Senate and the Navy. By a vote of 46 to 35 yesterday the | Senate decided to consider immediately | the Hale bill to bring the United States Navy up to the full strength allowed by the Washington and London treaties of limitation. Proposals to pcstpone consideration of the bill pending devel- opments at the Geneva Conference | were rejected. Democrats joined with Republicans in the demand for prompt action—a welcome and wholesome in- dication in these partisan times that, national defense is not a political issue. | but a patrictic duty. Senate debate on the treaty does not. unfortunatelv, mean, in itself, that the treaty Navy will be voted. The fate of the Hale bill ulti- mately depends, to a large extent, upcn the course of the tox bill and the even more tortuous course of so-ca'led economy meeasures which are now foot balls on Capitol Hill. Yesterday's vote, at any rate, indicates that Senate sen- timent in favor of safeguarding Amer- ica's needs and rights at sea is strong and preponderant. By accident rather than design, the Senate vote for the treaty fleet syn- chronized with debate at Geneva over the eternal question of what consti- tutes offensive and defensive naval units. It fell to the lot of a United States Senator, Claude A. Swanson of Virginia, & firm exponent of adequate American sea power, to espouse the thesis that both battleships and air- craft carriers are legitimate defensive weapons. The United States’ geographi- cal position and our lack of naval bases throughout the seyen seas require us to maintain the “floating fortresses” which 35000-ton big-gun battleships constitute. The Naval Committee of the Geneva Conference, by a heavy majority vote of small powers, insisted that battleships should be classed as offensive and therefore subject to abolition or internationalization. Navy . the departments. Instead of careful and deliberate choice of where cuts can best be made, the economy program of Congress will resolve itself into a blind ten per cent slash on everything. If this becomes the policy, it is neces- sary to give new consideration to the President’s furlough plan, perhaps in some modified form, that will prevent the demoralizing spectacle of ruthless discharge of Government personnel, and it is necessary to reinstate in the bill the provision for allowing fifteen per cent of appropriations to be inter- changed within departments. In other words, if the burden of effecting economies s to be placed on | the departments, the department heads must be granted authority commensurate | with such responsibility. To withhold this authority and to fail to safeguard the jobs of thousands of employes will be to plunge the governmental machine into unprecedented chaos, and in the desire for economy making a gesture that will be as damaging as it is futile. — ra————— There is always more sympathy for the man who lost a million in specula- tion than for the man who lost a thou- sand. Yet the loss of the thousand in many cases is likely to mean the greater | privation. e The Senate’s Opportunity. Six weeks from today the Republi- { can National Convention in Chicago will % be in full swing. The goal for which both Republican and Democratic lead- " ers in Congress are striving is to wind Yup the necessary legislative business * 0 that an adjournament may be had + several days before the G. O. P. con- vention gets under way. The Demo- cratic National Convention opens in Chicago alo on June 27. Just when it will close no one can now prophesy Ats business by Congress in advance of the opening cf these national conven- tions of the two major political parties, 8 recess of the Congress will be taken, probably for a month. At the close of such a recess Congress would be compelled, some time in July, to re- turn to Washington and carry on until necessary legislation is disposed of. The task of completing action on necessary legisiation before the first national convention opens may be diffi- «cult, but it is by no means imposcible. {The brunt of the burden falls on the Senate, with a reputation for delibera- tion which does not inspire hope for quick action. Here is an opportunity for the Senate to prove to the country that it has been maligned, that in an Senator Swanson, evidently supported by spokesmen of Great Britain, France and Japan, opposed this view, and bolstered his position with the argu- ment that the sea strength of the principal five naval powers is fixed by treaty until 1936, and should not be altered without their consent. It will not and cannot, of course, undergo any change, as far as the United States is concerned, by flat of an international conference, even if the one now wind- ing to an inglorious end at Geneva were to decree & change. Meantime the duty of the American Congress is plain. It is as plain as Geneva's now clearly revealed impo- ! prisonment, with fines amounting tc |a record that within a year after his| $50,000. There is no telling what would | have been his fortune if he had at- tended to the detail of letting Uncle Sam have at least a part of the tax usufruct upon his ill-gotten gains. There | is evidence that some of his !ellow= workers in the field of racketeering warned him of this risk. One of them | is quoted as follows: He wouldn't watch his step lIAnld the | 2 ot slapped down. vias | :l!v-;;lng stubborn. From the time Johnny Torrio brought him in here to bounce at the Four Deuces, Al was a know-it-all guy. It worked all right| in the gang for & while because he gave orders that nobody dared slip up on.| But he was too stubborn when he was wrong. Plenty of smart heads in the | gang told him to go in and get straight | with the Government on his tax. i “Hell, they can't touch me. I didn (J sign my name to anything” he told/ them. But the Government gave him the works and now look where he is Yes, look where he is! But look how | he got there! No “criminal’ law, reached him. It was only the fiscal law of the United States that finally got him. It must be said for the Federal procedure that it worked falrly swiftly when it was applied to the case of this | notorious public enemy. It is almost | indictment he is about to pass through the doors of the Atlanta Penitentlary, and thus the ponderous mill has ground its little grist | 1 | { Demands on the United States Treas- ury must be met by the taxpayers. The debate has narrowed down to an in- quiry as to whether the ultimate con- | sumer 18 not at the same time the ultimate producer. Curlosity shows & tendency to divide | on what the Lemgue of Nations is going to do about world affairs and what world affairs are going to do about the League. e — A large number of those who engage in “red demonstrations” are obviously too young to know exactly what it is| all about. " SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Man and Fellow Man. My Uncle Jim, He says. says he, It bothers him A lot to see A man whose thought Cannot arise Beyond his own Small enterprise. ‘Th: man who takes The biggest share, A blunder makes In selfish care. No life extends As one glad joke When many friends Are going broke. For how can you Amid distress Deem each hour due For cheerfulness? Don't be dismayed By shadows grim, But lend your ald, Says Uncle Jim. Double Duty. “You have to give your constituents what they want,” remarked the sym- pathetic friend. “The job's harder than that" an- swered Senator Borghum. “For pur- poses of future reference, in case their ideas go wrong, I have to try to educate them in what they ought to have.” Jud Tunkins says some of the band- wagon music will have to be pretty good to make up for the preliminary discord in tuning up. Economy. We fear Economy is going rash With prospects brittle. ‘We have to spend such large amounts of cash ‘To save 80 little. Browsing High. | considered. they are alike. it alive, and usually ends it, tence. Secretary Stimson sets sail| “Were you a bull or & bear?” from Burope today after experiences! “I dom't think I'd be properly clas- with her statesmen which must leave [sified either way." answered Mr. Dustin him both disappointed and disilllu- | Stax. “The way I broke for the tall sioned. If he could be greeted on his | timber might entitle me to be called a return to home waters next week by the news that Congress' answer to Geneva 1s an American Treaty Navy, the Sec- retary of State's excursion to “Disarmament” Conference will have a happy and a fruitful ending. — e Method employed by Huey Long of divesting himself of chairmanships will be regarded by publicity experts as lavish. He could have made the thrills more frequent and impressive by send- ing them in one at a time. e ———- The Whimpering Gangster. The spectacle of Al Capone whimper- ing and sniveling in his cell in Chicago ‘v\hen told that the Supréme Court had | refused to review his conviction for evasion of the income tax laws and his sentence to eleven vears' imprisonment puts the hard-boiled gangster, promoter of murder, manipulator of police, organizer of vice and crime, and all- with exactness. Barring completion of |270und outlaw, in a rather ridiculous light. There has never been any sym- pathy for him, although many have thought that “getting him” on the in- come tax evasion charge was an un- worthily roundabout method of dealing with this “public enemy number one.” If one-tenth of the criminal charges against him are justified, there is enough in his record to have sent him to the gallows a dozen times and to |prtwn for many spans of human life. Yet the best the law could do was to catch him in a matter of bookkeeping, so to speak, and this is somewhat of = travesty upon American justice. But even in this proceeding, Capone’s chief plea for relief by the higher court was based upon the claim that he had been “double crossed” in the matter of & bargain to accept a much milder sen- ‘emergency the Upper House is capable of sound work and does not lose itself in the mazes of trresponsible debate. The House, dealing with legislation “designed to balance the budget of the ‘Government and maintain the sound credit of the Nation, has virtually thrown up its hands and turned the task over to the Senate, although un- der the Constitution the House is the body which should lead in such mat- fters. The duty of framing a revenue bill and also an economy program lay ‘before the House. In an exhibition of it against the leadership of the never before equaled, body t accept the reven re- i tence than that which was given him. Now Capone is on his way to Atlanta Penitentiary to serve his term of eleven years, which with “good behavior” may be cut to about seven and a half. It was originally planned to send him to Leavenworth Prison, but at the last moment decision was made to change to Atlanta because others of his criminal gang, notably his former business man- ager, Guzik, are at Leavenwoerth. -His brother, Ralph Capone, is held at Mc- Neil Island, off Seattle. This pretty widely separates the Capone eontingent. | DIAT Capone was indicted June 8, 1931, for evasion of income tax payments for existing giraffe.” “Our idols are not made beautiful,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “because popular imagination is more impressed by fear than by admiration.” Knocking, Might works with harsh ceercion as of yore, And into disappointment we are led. While gentle poverty knocks at your door ‘The gangster comes and knocks you on the head. “When I hears a man usin’ special long words,” said Uncle Eben, “I never feels sure whether & man is tryin' to tell me somethin’ or keepin' a secret.” ——— Furlough Plan Held Unfair to Workers | To the Editor of The Star: Some of the injustice apparent from & close reading of the so-called Hoover furlough plan: It deprives all Government employes of their annual thirty days' leave, and compels them to pay a day's wage for each day of leave that they do take. It will make many employes, particu- Jarly Department of Interior employes, work four hours on Saturday mornings, in order to get credit for one-half day’s work. St. Elizabeth’s Hospital employes | Will be an outstanding example of | Where this rule will be used to the dis- advantage of the low-salaried employe. It is broadcast that a five-day week will be instituted, which means that 26 of the 30 days' furlough that the Gov- ernment employes will be forced to take will be digtributed over a year (half day each week) where office superiors have arbitrary discrcuon, so that two or three week vacations will pass out of the picture. Policemen and firemen are not to be affected by the pay cut and furlough. A leutenant in the Army, though he has spent the best part of his youth at- tending school in order to obtain a higher education, is shown no such favor. This, notwithstanding the pay of the policeman and fireman is higl than the licutenant and that the day of the two latter classes is much shorter. By all means if we must cut the Gov- ernment worker's pay let us have a straight 11 per cent cut, such as the Democratic leaders are suggesting. The furiough plan takes away the annual leave and cuts the pay of the lower- paid clerks more than 11 per cent. ‘Where is the economy of a furlough that cuts the pay of present em- and then requires the 2 STAR. 1 All conversational*— do not fall in| the same class by any means. Just because most human beings talk every day to other human beings does not mean that, conversationally The truth is that men and women differ here as in most other regards, some being monologists, others give- and-take talkers, some calm, some ex- citable. Every one knows the special topic talker, the man who has one ax to grind and grinds merrily, Every one is familiar, too, with the joking ‘talker, usually male. who refuses to be serious about anything. | On the other hand. there are many fine examples of the serious conversa- tionalist. Not always, however, can this fellow be listed also under the title of ‘“‘calm talker” Many a conversationalist is serious enough for all practical pur- poses yet is very easily upset. | The man or woman—and the list is| almost equally divided here—who in- | sists on hogging the conversation, is & very common type. Usually such a person is not at all conscious of his defect, regarded strictly ‘Ymm the standpoint of the other fel- ow. He finds his own chatter so inter- esting that he would not deprive the other of a moment of it! ‘Therefore he begins the talk, keeps to his huge satisfaction, if not that of the other fellow. The monologists may be divided into two main classifications, those who say something, and those who say nothing. The desire to impart information to an erring world is the dominating trait of the former. What the members of |the second class want to do is hear An explosion would if members of themselves talk. occur, it would seem, | these respective classes ever attempted to talk to each other. As far as is known, this anomaly never occurs, for such people recognize each other in- stinctively and give each other as wide a berth as possible. The give-and-take talker is the dlrect opposite of these gentlemen, and accordingly must be awgrded the high- est honors waich the conversational world gives. This is quite different from the ora- torical world, in which men step to the front of & platform, speak their piece, and arc applauded. Most often there are judges of such contests, m who are good speakers themselves, and who thyrefore may be expected to render a verdict as near perfect as Muman beings may achieve in_such matters Two conversationalists, met on a corner, or at lunch, usually have no audience except themselves, and no other judges. If each one is to enjoy himself, and give himself the only award which such impromptu contests permit, he mus play some vital part in the conver- sation. Afterward he wants to be able to look back upon something good he said, some point he scored, some con- tribution he made to the talk. This sense of having actually been a contributor to thought, is the great reward of sane, normal conversation, and he who deprives another human being of it, as the monologist does, has deprived him of much * % ox k This brings us to the calm speaker. Without & certain measure of this | ingredient, no conversationalist, no | matter how informal his talk-fests, can | merit the full honors of the glorious talker, the “give-and-take” man If he becomes easily irritated, he will want to do all the talking, and when he does all the talking, what is he but a monologist? | WASHINGTON, D..C(C., | special axes to grind. [ THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘The ideal talker (if there is any such thing) is calm, and that means serious. He is not easily irritated by the words or ideas of another, but holds his re- torts well in hand, preventing them at all times from becoming what is usually ca'led personal. The too nal conversationalist is one of the greatest pests in the talking world. It might seem offhand as if every person bevond the first grade in grammar school would realize the ne- cessily for abstract ideas. Neither life nor friendship can be carried on without them. There are thousands of theoretical ideas which must be approached in every-day con- versation and yet which imptnge upon the lives of all human beings, but which must be separated very carefully from any one life, if the conversation is not to take a nasty personal tinge. It is right at this point that many otherwise happy conversationalists ‘fail miserably to make the most of their abilities. They insist on injecting the personal into every thought, thereby showing their ego-centric approach to the problems of life. x ok oxox ‘No doubt this unfortunate habit of theirs is responsible for the fact that they are so easily irritated in ordinary daily conversation. r minds present multitudes of sore mental thumbs, which other people, without the slightest awareness of their | fault, insist on kicking, or punching, or treading on. The typical "kidder,” or funlover, as he thinks of himself, is & subvariety of | this interesting specimen. The joker covers himself up better, perhaps, and thus saves many & mental toe, easily irritated. from becoming the victim of & swift-descending Intellectual boot. He loses & great deal, however, for those who talk with him are mostly ill at their ease, never knowing when an attack may be launched upon them. This uncertainty forces them to keep their mental energies ready to meet the | ble onslaught, rather than spend part of it imparting to the other such cleverness or wit or knowledge as they may possess. Thus the “iddder” really kids himself, because he euts himself off, automatically, from any real return from conversation. * ok ok * And there is no doubt at all that next to reading, one receives more real information in this world from talking to others than in any other way. Only the rare soul is able to go through life wisely and alone. Most human beings, no matter who they are, find that some amount of associa- tion with other human beings is neces- sary. Sane conversation, bility, personal bias, is one of the greatest benefits from friendship and acquaint- anceship The abstract talker is the crown and peak of conversationalists, because he alone is able to use the human mind as it may be used and therefore ought to be used. In this happy process he can succeed best when talking to a like ind, one which is free from the innumerable special topics which make so many conversations wearisome. Do you mnot know some man who can talk about nothing but airplanes? Or some woman whose one topic is clothes? Such people are earnest enough, but they are a weariness to the spirit of pos free from f{rrita- man and a blight on any tunversntiun; in which they engage. There is a crying need in the world now for calm, sane conversationalist without special topics to harp on or How ¢an man- kind get anywhere, intellectually. if most of its members cannot talk ;mther without becoming red in the ace? WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM Every second man you meet in Wash- | ington nowadays has a cure for the | cal. It is a sign of the times that a | dictatorship, to bet set up by unanimous | consent and with a definite time limit, is frequently suggested. Proposals that a third party is the way out are com- monly heard. Current chaos, with its | travesty on leadership and party gov- ernment, gives rise to many schemes for avoiding the kind of mess into which Congress has snarled itseif. One projected remedy is that members ought to be robbed, by constitutional amend- ment, of the temptation to play politics | with the people’s business by making them ineligible to re-election after a four or six year term. An immediate panacea is that which, it is declared by its proponents, is in the hands of President Hoover. They submit that if he would get Capt. Boone, the White House physician, to give him a shot of the serum known to political doctors as T. R, the reflex action on Capitol*| Hill would be magical. T. R. is an an- titoxin which manifests itself in the | inoculated subject by filling him with a passion to grab a big stick and wield it. * * % X Representative John Q. Tllson, Re- publican, of Connecticut turns up in the House these days in trousers that convey the impression they haven't had recent contact with the pressing fron. That isn't the reason, the former Re- publican House leader's friends. say. Their explanation is that Col. Tilson gets down on his knees a couple of times & day this Spring and thanks a mericful Providence that he failed to realize his ambition to become either Speaker of the House or leader of the Republican minority. There are unof- ficial reports that Représentative Bert Snell of New York isn't the happlest man on earth, either. SIx weeks ago, when the House ran away from the Garner-Rainey-Crisp leadership, Re- publicans chuckled over —anticipated political advantages from Democratic “Jegislative incapacity.” The G. O. P. having come to inhabit a glass house of its own, isn't harping on that tune | quite so vociferously just now. * x x x Owen D. Young of New York., who once more ranks as & Democratic dark horse, is going to have a psychological opportunity to get the country's ear right on the eve cf the Chicago national conventions. He has accepted an invi- tation to deliver the annual commence- ment_address at Notre Dame on Sun- | day, June 5. Mr. Young to date remains adamant to all suggestions that he toss his hat into the ring. Meantime rumors persist that Al Smith and Tammany regard him as their favorite son. Rev. Dr. Charles L. O'D-nnell, president of | the “fiighting Irish” university, is a visitor to Washington this week. He has comre to invite a distinguished offi- cial to deliver the dedicatory address at the Hurley School of Commerce, which Edward N, Hurley of Chicago has endowed at Notre Dame. xR ‘There’s nothing new under the sun. A current George Washington bicen- tenary moving picture, depicting the trials and tribulations which beset the founding fathers after the Revolution, contains this caption, “Unpaid Soldiers Threaten Congress.’ * ok x * If Senator Huey Long, Democrat, of Louisiana, doesn’t get to serve on Senate committees, he’ll have a hard time keeping busy in Washington. The work of Congress is done almost en- tirely in committees. Sj are made on the floors of House and Sen- ate, but, In nearly all cases, decisions are made in committees. A man or woman with committee influence is a far more potent person than a mere ws the air and clut- Record. | like Will Rogers,” the President VILE. If the firebrand from the tall cane isn't careful, he’ll soon be as r Alabama, * x % % Charles G. Ross of the 8t. Louls Post Dispatch, the Washington press gallery’s latest Pulitzer prize winner, has another claim to distinction be- sides his eminent journalistic abilities. He's a double of Will Rogers. Once upon a time, when President Coolidge wanted to hold converse with Ross about a story the St. Louls scribe had submitted for final approval, Cal couldn’t for the moment recall Ross' name. “He's that fellow who k:‘: to Secretary Everett Sanders. Mr. Ross' prize-winning newspaper article is en- titled “The Country’s Plight—What Can Be Done About 1t?" It was pub- lished last November. LR N Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur's Com- mittee on the Costs of Medical ‘Care has just compiled the statistics about the money spent annually on “healing cults” in the United States. The com- mittee (which is & purely private and not an Interior Department affair) estimates that approximately $125,000,- 000 a year goes to 36,150 practitioners who are not doctors of medicine, or about 12 per cent of the sum that finds ts way to 142,000 physicians and sur- geons. Christian Science practitioners number 8848; osteopaths, 7,644, and chiropractors, 1's,nu. " * x Dr. Wililam M. Mann, director of the National Zoological Park in Wash- ington, confesses he's an ardent circus fan. He is proud the distinction of being the only non-professional showman in the country who holds a union card in the trade immortalized by Barnum, Bailey, Forepaugh and the Ringlings. The Washington Zoo's glant 14-foot cobra, largest in Amer- ican captivity, continues to be a big drawing card. The Singapore serpent's arrival in the District of Columbia in | a sleeping car berth gave it national me. It'll interest snake fanciers to know that Dr. Mann's scaly pet lives on the flesh of other snakes—and ex- pensive ones, too, to the despair of the Zoo's economy experts. During his eight months’ residence here the cobra has done away with exactly 108 linear feet of other snakes, mostly of costly South American origin. * ok x Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby of the Board of District Commissioners spoke recently at a Washington convention of parents and teachers. A young mother, seeing his name on the pro- gram, exclaimed: “Oh, T wonder if that Night, Sweetheart? " wind of the thing, and opened his re. marks half an hour later as follows: | “I regret to say I have already disap- | pointed half of my audience by not | belng ‘Bing’ Crosby.” ! (Copyright, 1932.) — e |One Way to Solve Unemployment | To the Editor of The Star: The unemployment situation will be can offer them support and begin to employ men and unmarried women. In many instances a man or single | girl is kept out of employment s'mply because a married woman wants to buy clothes or an automobile, etc. I blame the business men who show the . “Mrs."” preference when advertis- | ing for help. ETHEL GLICK. ———- Doing Something, Anyhow. FProm the Boston Evening Transcript. mummu-.m-fi- people to WEDNESDAY. MAY 4, too much joking and an intense | g | | Nation's woes, both economic and politi- & gallery god as the late Senator from is Bing Crosby, and will he sing ‘Good ! Gen. Crosby got 1932. Printing Press Money Good If “Acceptable” To the Editor of The Star: A Star editorial asks for “an explana- tion from the proponents of inflation as to the difference -between printing £2,000,000,000 in paper to pay the sol- clers' bonus and starting the printing presses to balance the budget. And that Iexpllnlunn will be worth anybodv's study.” While T have good reason to be a bit doubtful as to the sincerity of your challenge, nevertheless I shall assume Isuch sincerity and gladly point out the difference, as it was elucidated by the late James, Holden, “first monetary sclentist” and greatest monetary genius the world has known, and also by his | disciples, Hopkins, Donovan, Barnhill, Wolfe, Dr. Frank Crane, Dosch-Fleurot, | Jean Eckley and others. The difference between paying the veterans with legal tender cash instcad of inter other hand, having the Bureau of Printing and Engraving simply furnish in paper money tokens any deficiency at all which may arise in the Federal Treasury is simply one of the accept- ability of the money emitted! Mutual acceptability—resting upon { the prepotent legal tender function of primary money—is the sine qua non Possible “depreciation” is not the real issue, since there is no such thing as a “gold standard of value.” No material yardstick, such as gold metal, can easure an immaterial concept, such this reiscn, and also for the reason that such a phenomenon as “intrinsic value” fs an unthinkable impossibility & modern camouflage for primitive idolatry—absolute papcr money is quite as good for all exchang> purposes as any metal, yellow, white or other in- triguing color. The case against what is ingenuously called the single tandard, or the wor- ship of metallic disks, is much better proved than that against a scientific, correctly issued, paper medium of ex- change. All we have to do is to look around us and find glaring, innumer- able proofs of the idiocy of trying to balance the enormous cone of the world’s industry upon a mere speck of gold metal at its point. That cone has never yet balanced itself upon its yellow, inverted apex. Why not set the cone firmly upon its base—the land?~ Why not issue your circulation in a scientific way upon land or wealth values, instead of upon & useless, treacherous, idolic metal, like gold? Why put off an inevitable necessity until the wealth of the country becomes illth—so utterly deflated that currency issued upon it would not be acceptable to the people? tain, mutual accepiability—no more, no less—is what money necds. If money has “more” than this it immediately becomes an idol; and nothing could be worse, morally or practically, than an idolic system such as the present one. Proper money is a joint product of the government and the people. Land or wealth money fulfils the require- ments perfectly. A soldier's bonus cur- rency would fulfil it for all practical purposes, since we confront a grave | emergency—a tragic dearth of cash— and such money would represent the of services performed enough to assure ent money symbols. Why call upon a high-priced surgeon to extract a Litle sliver when & second s work with an ordinary pin will do as e It is high time to dish the grussomc failacies of the gold money period ant push repidly on to an_iniinitely beite: money syste CHARLES M. RICE e | Consider the Children in Cutting Family Incomes To the Editor of The Star Is the National budget to be balanc-d at the expense of family budgets? 1Is Congress going to cut salaries or so cut appropriations as tp abolish jobs with- out even finding out how many chil- dren depend on these salaries and jcl for maintenance? The children's char- ter proclaims “the right of every chiid to grow up in a famiiy with an ad quate standard of living and the se. curity of a stable income.” Business in general has not recognized this right. But that is no reason why the United States Government should ignore it. It would not require a very expensive sur- vey to find out, before final action on ‘“‘economy” measures, how many chil- dren will be hit by them and how hard they will be hit. Among an employe's dependents, children are entitled to first considera- tion, because temporary privation causes them permanent harm. Protecting small salaries will not protect small children whose dally living depends on the somewhat larger salarics, which may not now be a dollar too large. One man's earnings form a small and pre- carious base for the helpless young, but that is the base sanctioned by law and custom. One in Congress would not tamper with without due considera- tion, without exact knowledge of what they are doing, without counting the children and allowing for their support. KATHARINE WARD FISHER. ———— these earnings Corrects Senators On Use of Language To the Editor of The Btar: Since so many of our statesmen are careless or indifferent in their use of the English language, may I suggest that the American radio companies follow the example of the English companies and establish some sort of standard for the guidance of those who are permitted to broadcast? It is_annoying to hear a United States Senator speaking of something that had been “broadcasted.” instead of “broadcast,” and another speaker of still higher office saying “politics are” instead of using the verb in the singular. All these Instances of very | recent occurrence. And. oh yes, “vehement,” three times with the ac- cent on the second syllable. ! The radio is a great medium for the improvement of our national standards of speech and we ought to make the best use of it. The radio companies should censor addresses for errors in language and make every effort to have the pronunciation on the air strict] ¥ COVIARGARET L. VERNON. Mockingbird Gives an All-Night Performance To the Editor of The Star’ The songs of all the birds of the eighborhood came from one tree in Tekoma Park last night. Several times Intely residents of the section near the Chestnut. street railroad crossing have heard & mockingbird singing, but this was his star performance. From 11 o'clock until daylight he sang contin- uously, not even allowing the noise of a long freight train to disturb his out- pourings. To a bird lover it Was & re- markable performance. . Among the bird notes distinctly imi- tated were the bluebird, robin, cardinal, titmouse, whip-poor-will, flicker, cat- bird, Maryland yellow throat, chewink, pewee, bluejay and ovenbird. as well as crickets, frogs and tree toads. It is not uncommon to hear a mock- ingbird sing on a moonlight night in Midsummer. Perhaps this fellow mis- t-absorbing credit and. on the | as beauty, goodness, truth or value! For | For, I main- | actual “value” (most undefined word) | the acceptability at par with all pres- | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Any reader of this newspaper is wel- come to make use at any time of the free information service of this de- | partment. Address your inquiry to The iEvening Star Information Bureau, | Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Wash- i ingtcn, D. C., and you Wwill reccive a | personal Jetter in reply. Inclose 2 cents | for return pesiage. Be sure to siate | your question clearly. and to write your name and address plainly. Q. Is there any State that has no speed limit for autcmobiles touring?— . D. F { A. Tennessee has no speed | | driving in the country and a T | of Siatcs provide thal a “reasonable” | speed shall not be exceeded Q. How many foul balls can a bat- {ter hit after two strikes have boen called’—E H A. There is no limit to the number Q. At contract bridge increase the vale of th bidding and making a F. C. ! "'A. The premium bidding and | making a small slem or a grand slam | is not affected by the double, but there |is a difference if the bidder is vulner- jable. In that event, the premium for ! small slam 1s 750 instead of 500 and | for a grand slam. 1,500 instead of 1,000. | does a double premium for le slam Q._How many the Fall electio: It is estim that the total | number of women who might be l=gally entitled to vote i s 28,000,000 women can vote in w. C | | Q How man s can States destroyer A. The Dep: v that while at anchor in port a de- stroyer may fly as many flags as it pos- sesses. At sea, however, only the colors which are flown from the gafl and the commission pennant appesr. Besides the regular flag there are pennants which the ship wins in gunnery pra tice, ete. At anchor some of the flags which may be flown are the ensign, that is, the colors; commission pennant, the unfon jack, other pennants, and ;’n the case of a flagship the admiral's ag. Q. What were the sources of in- ternal revenue other than income tax last year?—R. F. E. A The ch spirits, oleomargerine, habit drugs, au- ;omll.lc plstols, estates, admissions and ues, a United E Q. How is Howard financed?—G. G A. The Federal Government makes annual appropriations toward its up- keep. In addition, there is also in- come from tuition and other fees, and the university has several endowment funds. University Q. How many cubic feet are there in a ton of cement>—N. M. J. A. Cement in casks will measure 46 cubic feet to the ton. Q. When was the postage on letters more than 3 cents?~L. C A. The Post Office Department says more than 3 cents prior to 1883. Q. How many members were there of the Donner Expedition to California, which was snowed in on the mounta top in the Sierras, and how many sur- vived the experience?—J. K. O. A. Eighty persons comprised the ex- nedition. Starvation and illness reduced he company to 15. Capt. Donner, the | ef sources were tobacco, | that the postage on first-class mail was organizer, starved to death and his wife was driven insane What should be the pulse count of & boy of 127—A. C. A. From the seventh to the four- ¥ age the pulse count m 85 to 95 per minute. hand is the torch held atue of Liberty?—A. F. A, the right hand. The left s a tablet inscribed July 4, id be fro; When did the Easter Monday Z_start on the White House B. On Easter Monday asked to leave. They rched to the White House and re- mod their play. From that time on te hes taken place on the White lawns. Q. What Asahi m A. I' means morning sun and is used the name of two of the largest news- ers of Japan, the Osaka Asahi and ‘Tokio Asahi. does the Japanese word >—A. L. B. a I the Q. Did lege?—M. A. He was a st sity of Vir room Is p visitors. Edgar Allan Poe attend col- 5 udent of the Univer- Charlottesville. His rved and is pointed out to will the royal courts occur -F 11, 12, June 23 and May June 24. Q Why is a book called a volume? E. L A. Egypt developed papyrus. A book was written on cne long strip of papy- rus, which was then rolled and tied. This accounts for the word volume, which comes from the Latin word meaning to roll Q. Which painting by Tintoretto is generally conceded 10 be his master- P. N A. “The Miracle of Saint Mark.* Q. Are the salaries of the President | of the United States and members of Congress subject to income tax?—M. M. A. The salaries of all Federal office- holders and employes are subject to in- come tax except the salaries of the resident of the United States and Federal judges. Q. When was the Pony Express dis- continued?—C. E. A The regular service was discon- tinued upon the completion of the line of the Pacific Telegraph Co., in Octo- ber, 1861. Q. Are the stars or the sun used for teiling time?—E. S. W. A In astronomy there are three kinds of time—sidereal, apparent solar time and mean solar time. The first is used for astronomical purposes exclu- | sively; the last is the ordinary time of civil life. Sidereal time is the time de- fined by the rotation of the earth with respect to the stars, and a sidereal day is the interval between the passage of the meridian across a star and its next succeeding passage across the same star. Soler time is defined by the rotation of the earth with respect to the sun. Since the motion of the earth is got uniform, solar time is not satisfactory for daily use, and for this purpose mean solar time has been devised. The mean solar day has the average length of all the solar days of the year. Mation Stirred by Stories Of Stock Market Methods portance is attached to the at im| 2. dicc.osures of methods used in their way through the modern invest- ment jungle. These millions have had et transactions by the ma- | their faith shaken because of what has v of these who comment on the | heppened to them. Merely showing up t'm'ny taken at the congressional hezring cn the subject. A legal curb on thece methods is suggested and the creation cf artificiel values is con- | demned. A few defenders of the ex- | change, however, belleve that traders merelv take advantage of fluctuations resulting from changes in business con- | ditluns. | the shorts will not restore their con- | fidence.” Referring to the investigation as “a bear hunt,” the Fort Worth Star-Tele- gram asks, “Can it be that the hunters are merely staging an act illustrative of the way to hunt bears when the hunters will not know exactly what to do with the bears if perchance they come upon ‘A summary of the disclosures, as set | them in a blind financial canyon, or |forth by the Duluth Herald, appears in this statement: “That often men get together to meke money by boost- ing certain stocks; that sometimes | these are - really good stocks, worth more than they are selling for, and sometimes they are bad stocks which ! are to be unloaded on the suckers; that tn this end these men form a pool and | sesk to manipulate the market opera- {tions end spread tales calculated to | serve their purpose, and that sometimes | they bribe writers to carry cn their bellyhoo.” The Herald concludes that “the revelations could be important something?” The Charleston (8. C) Evening Post draws the conclusion, “The chief lesson that the public will learn from all the revelations, if it has not already learned it, is that when the small outsider engages in stock specu- lation he is a plain sucker., He may as well shoot craps, ard if he does his gambling that way he will get more action for his money and can at least see it go This applies not to legiti- mate investment in stocks, which has nothing to do with the case and is not but with the pure speculation in which upport of the | would suppose that the men and women | . spare unwary buyers. ;flle subject of the Senate investigation, | only if it were necessary to prove that he who goes gambling in the stock market needs a guardian, and another | guerdian to keep that guardian sane and honest.” | The Long Beach Sun holds that “the story the professional ‘;trldel’s made fortunes as Wall Street 50 large & part of the public partic- ipated during recent years. Most of the big men who try to beat the game lose in the end, as Wall Street sta- tistics prove bevond a shadow of & doubt. For the small man there is not the semblance of a chance.” | * kX % bulls in the hectie time leading up ttlc‘ the crash of 1929, and how since the | «praging companies” demands t crash thev have made mILions 85 | Cicage Daily Newe. Cust nut b p:f bears.” The Sun concludes: “Buying | migieq to screen the principals in short= and selling by the general public are | coing raids, which have depressed the the ebbing and flowing tides of the | market and driven stocks far below their true values.” That paper adds, market; the professional operators are only skilled navigators of the dangerous | uprecident Whitney's defense of the | Stock Exchange was made with the atr waters.” The Hartford Daily Times of cne who believed that institution to thinks that “for the moment, nlnkny 3‘- vestors will feel very much like the | A Y occupy a rarefied atmosphere of - lambs they are supposed to be, but not | STTUPY & ratefied simosphere of m_ lation. He resents rude intrusion upon wholly without porer to gt anery and | insist on more light being shed into the |y 7yoe ong mysterfes. But the Ameri- can people are not convinced by his ! inner recesces of the exchange or quar- | ters related to it where their slaughter | (8%, Peoble are Fot convinced by his | has its lepitimate functions, but it is | is said to be planned.” * K ok K so subject to grave abuses, and there is good cause to believe that, for reasons “Is there any reason" asks the Janesville Gagzette, “why there should | that shun the light, it has been used deliberately to hammer values to un- not be such restrictions that stocks shall be sold and bought only as in-| justified low levels. To measure Amer- ican capacity for recovery by the syn- vestment for cash at full price—over the counter—as one buys bonds at a| copated vardstick of Wall Street bears bank for investment or cheese at a is to cheat confidence. The cheating trick must be exposed.” store?” The Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail suggests that “whether| “Business should demand that the market be not manipulated,” avers the there can be found a way to preserve the good and eliminate the evil is & Salt Lake Deseret News. The Cincinnati question.” ‘The Rochester Times- | Times-Star comments, “Wall Street has ‘Union believes that “as a matter of the reputation of being the place where fact, the market has seen such a money is ‘made’ rather than earned. sweeping, unlooked-for series of de-| Can it afford to get the popular repu- clines that everybody connected Wwith tation of being a place where booms are the ownership of stocks and bonds has made also and then disastrously un- suffered sharp shrinkage in wealth." | made?” The Topeka Daily Capital “Most of the optimistic market let- | offers the opinion, “Mr. Whitney's case ters from brokerage houses.” according | was weakened by the comparison he to the Asbury Park Evening Press, drew between the short sale, or selling “were prejudiced and” overenthusiastic. | something not the property of the sell- Some undoubtedly were colored to en- er and the practice of the building con- tractor of bidding on a contract when But it must alto be acknowledged that even in » o their wildest moments the writers "f‘;v';n‘:lmwm. y%??fiil«'fi'fi??’-."mfl' the market letters were strictly in &c- 't such obvious sophistries there fs cord with the spirit of the times and | something wrong with the ease of 1egal with the advice of national leaders.| gambine®inaiits o At the time most of the market bally-| ™4 ction by the committe and C hoo was written President Coolldge| groes chould remove some ncrl:; and Secretary of the Treasury Mflh“[lbuses.“ contends the Lincoln Stats had made it a mark of patriotism t0| journal. The Spokane Spokesman-Re. be loose-minded on the value of st0ckS | view finds that the Senate. Bankicg and everything else. It was the be-| Gommittee “is on a hot trail » ginning of the short-lived ‘New Era’| guoting Senator Watson on 3-...»'& when d:llllv ex?r:t oo ‘fl:ml hiesmert [of the relation of the market to war e defivering sk pawich ::ul_!g;bu. that paper concludes: “Senator s .infllwud Bopm and_ dwarfed] ‘atson’s conviction that a ring of im- Jjudgment.” ‘ mani, reveals how * ok ok ok as a = Boston Transcript, while the lndlgz,vmncmic depressions glre:;m" lor-t:: ook the hl‘l(ht light at the cressing for the full moon. HARRIET M. BUGBEE. —— Fluid Capital. Prom the Philadeiphia Evening Bulletin. M. apolis News holds that “enough America, appears to have subs been brought out to show that bear g tantial Boois have been in operatiam, thRE the | T oruon M fact sole object is to make money in the, price fluctuations of stocks and that the market will be ‘when sible” The Springfie! T Safhes 5t ine preaent D o system is related directly to the help- rflkmmmmm lessness of of small now, it really seems foolish for not or gamblers, in making | to go to all that trouble. e Why Bother? .| Prom the Dayton Daily News. “Alfalfa Bill” Murray wants to give the Gmmmt‘ ce? to