Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1932, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sundsy Morning Edition. -— WASHINGTON, D. C. MMONDAY.........May 16, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening st:: Ne'lp.)e Company Business Office: 11th 8t. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t. : Lake Michigan Building. Office: 14 Regent S.. London. England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. 45¢ per month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. mo., 85¢ % and Sunday.....13r. $10.00: 1 mo. 88 only . I ; 1mo.. lay only yr.. $4.00; 1mo., 40c All Other States and Canada. ¥r., $12.00: 1 mo., 1. yr., $8.00: 1mo. 1 3r. 36.00; 1mo. B50c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively ertitled o the use for republication of all news dis- ted in this paper and also the ‘ published herein. All rights of publication of #pecial dispatches herein are also reserved. Garner and Moses. The Speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives on Saturday delivered a per- sonal attack on the President of the United States in an interview given the press. Clearly the Speaker appeared to be smarting under the deflation which his leadership in the House has suf- fered so severely, first when his Demo- cratic colleagues rolled in the mud the revenue bill which was brought from the Ways and Means Committee, and second time when the economy bill was torn to shreds. But aside from his own feeling of irritation, the Speaker of the House seems to have allowed his sense of proportion and of dignity to lapse when he undertook to berate the President for seeking self-adver- tisement. The Speaker, it is true, has been urged by many of his friends to civilian government and restoration of the “imperial power,” which means s spurred and helmeted autocracy Tre- sponsible to the throne alone. Militarist organizations Fascistlike in their subversive purpose are said to be at the bottom of these recurring revolts against constitutional government In Japan. The malcontent elements have grown in numbers and impudence since the introduction of universal suffrage a few years ago. Recent military ad- ventures like those in Manchuria and Shanghai were painful evidence to the | outside world that the forces of reac- tion were gaining in suthority, too. The school of liberal political thought represented by such men as Baron Shi- dehara seemed to be doomed to cor- responding impotence. American friends of Japan will not abandon hope that the struggle for en- lightened government and foreign pol- icy at Tokio will go om, and eventually triumph, despite such terroristic imped- iments as political assassination. The Japanese nation has won a high and legitimate place in the world's esteem through the practice of the peaceful arts. The world believes that insensate militarism, as expressed by such events as yesterday's shocking affair, misrepre- sents the Japanese people as & whole. It wishes them complete success in their effort to stifie the forces of re- action and international disorder, how- ever prolonged and sanguinary it may be destined to be. B Fight Fire With Deeds, Not Words. A house is burning. The fire alarm is sounded. The firemen spring to ac- tion, following prescribed routes to the scene, the shortest routes. They go to their pre-assigned posts for water sup- ply, couple up, steam up, and fight the fire without the least delay. Time is vitally important. Every minute, every second indeed, counts in the contest. That is the modern method of fire- fighting, organized, trained, skilled and co-ordinated. In former times the fire companies dallied over their tasks. They fought for rights of way through arise in the House and defend that body from the attack which President Hoover delivered when he called on the Congress to effect and the country to demand prompt balancing of the Gov- ernment’s budget. Instead of taking the floor, the Speaker threw off & few re- marks to the press. He must not take amiss, therefore, the reply which Sen- ator George H. Moses of New Hampshire has made to these remarks, also through & statement to the press. Senator Moses is the elected presiding officer of the Senate, just as Speaker Garner is the elected presiding officer of the House. The President pro tempore of the Senate, however, under the Con- stitution, takes the chair only in the absence of the Vice President of the United States from the Senate cham- ber. Senator Moses has & reputation for caustic comment, and his present refer- ence to Speaker Garner bears out that reputation. The New Hampshire Sena- tor called attention to the fact that the Democratic leaders in Congress have clamored for word from the White House. Now, he added, when the Presi- dent stated the situation to the country clearly, indicating the breakdown in Jeadership in the House and its inability to function coherently, the Speaker of the House and other Democrats have been amazed and alarmed at the reac- tion of the country to the President's strictures. ‘The Speaker of the House, as Sena- tor Moses pointed out, is not only the presiding officer of the House, but also Is'a.candidate for the presidential nom- ination. Mr. Moses' advice to the Bpeaker is to forget for awhile his can- didacy for higher honors and to be con- tent with running the affairs of the House. This is sound counsel. If the Speaker had followed it earlier in the session of Congress he might not have taken the tumble which he suffered when the House Democrats ran amok at the time the revenue bill was be- fore them. Too often the buzzing of the presidential bee has disturbed the equanimity and good judgment of men high in office. In an effort not to of- fend the opponents of the manufac- turers’ sales tax and at the same time to go along with its supporters, the Speaker said nothing effective, exerted none of his then great influence to line up his colleagues for the commit- tee bill. If the Speaker, as Senator Moses advised, would be himself in- stead of a candidate for another of- fice, he might “give hope and confi- dence to the Nation.” ——— e A war on crime has been declared Wwhich calls for an army of citizens, with no limit as to numbers and no age restrictions. —— o ———— Demand is now made for detective genius to come out of the story maga- eines and get into the daily news. ——re——————— Political Murder in Japan. Before the world has ceased shud- dering over the assassination of Presi- dent Doumer of France, Premier Inukal of Japan has fallen victim to political murder. Yesterday's tragedy in Tokio is of far graver significance than the killing of M. Doumer, for Tsuyoshi Inukai, leader of the Selyukal govern- ment party, was laid low by a band of uniformed gunmen typifying Jap- snese militarism’s lust for power and & dictatorship in which the army and navy shall be supreme. Premier Inukal, like Premier Hata, assassinated in 1921; Premier Hama- guchi, shot in 1930, and Banker Takuma Dan and former FPinance Minister “nwuye, siain this year, were all lald ?low by militarist reactionaries who op- " posed the policies of international con- {efliation represented by these statesmen 1and business men. Messrs. Hamaguchi, and Inouye ranked as aggressive of the United States, a circum- stance which notoriously disparaged “them in the eyes of the Japanese hotspurs. Premier Inukai’s assassination on Sunday was accompanied by a series of wild excesses which clothe the tragedy with even more gravity than its prede- cessors. Something akin to terroism spread through Tokio as the prime minister’s cowardly assailants shot him down on the threshold of his own home while pretending to hold a political par- ley with the aged and defenseless states- the streets. They fought for access to the water outlets nearest to the blaze. They cut the hose of their rivals. Often they were intensely competitive political organizations, fire-fighting be- ing a mere incident, hence the disputa- tions, conflicts and interferences that made merry battle for themselves, but sorry loss for the owners of the prop- erty that was on fire. This country is on fire today, eco- nomically, industrially, commercially. It is in & distressful state, threatening the gravest disaster. The firemen, the legislators who are to provide the means of extinguishing the flames of this dangerous combustion, are playing politics now as they used to play poli- tics in the old days of volunteer fire- fighting. They are arguing and debat- ing and wrangling over methods, over the rights of way, over the waterplugs, over the hose lines, over the place to put the water when the pumps are at work. ‘This is & national crisis. Remedies for the adverse conditions are impera- tive lest catastrophe result. the guise of “consideration” is time dangerously lost. There is a definite limit of time within which Congress can act on the tax bill and the economy measures— the budget-balancing provisions for revenue raising and revenue spending— before, under the unwritten law of congressional procedure in presidential election years, adjournment is taken to permit attendance at the nominating conventions. Four weeks from next ‘Wednesday the first of these conven- tions will assemble. Thus four weeks is the time limit. Meanwhile, day by day, conditions grow worse as confl- dence is weakened in the ability as well as the desire of Congress to effect these remedial steps. If beginning at once the Senate should proceed as do the firemen of the organized safety departments of our American citles and, cutting out all wrangle, all argument, all debate, all so-called discussion, pass in the short- est possible order the bill that it knows it will pass eventually, the country would respond in business recovery at once Even 50 is a blaze swiftly extin- guished by a prompt, well disciplined, well trained fire-fighting force that is intent only upon the job of quenching the flames and has no disposition to play politics as did their forerunners of the “good old days” of volunteer fire-fighting. i Degree of provocation makes all the difference. Even the most earnest paci- fist will be found indorsing s war to the bitter end against child stealers. —r—————————— Public affairs become increasingly difficult to manage. Candidates this Summer will be measured for courage as well as wisdom. The Hunt Is On. It is stated that five men and e woman have been identified as the kidnapers of the Lindbergh baby. This information is said to be in the hands of the New Jersey State Police. It is also announced that on several occasions shortly after the kidnaping persons who were trying to solve the mystery were about to close in on four of the members of the gang but were for- | bidden to do 50 lest they jeopardize the child, who was then in fact already slain, Now there is no restraint on the score of the peril of the child. The pitiful hostege is dead. There is no barrier to the hunt for the wretches who stole him and slew him, Or for those members of the kidnap gang, or others “racketeering” on the original crime, who took & large sum in ransom, of course without making delivery. If the child stealers are known there should be no question of their capture. And, if captured, of their conviction and punishment. The hunt is now on, far flung over land and sea. An im- placable determination prevails to roupd up this gang wherever they are, however far they may have fled. If THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MAY 16, 1932. THIS AND THAT gh mediate organisation of & specific group of lawless people, and even these are prone to betrayal of one another. It is vitally important that this hunt be systematically conducted with the co-ordination of all the forces of inves- tigation and -pursuit. Jurisdictional Jjealousies should not interfere with the effective search for the kidnapers and murderers and the blackmailers. While speed 1s desirable, there is now no vitally urgent occasion for expedition. The culminating atrocity of the crime, the murder of the child, has been com- mitted. There is now no risk in press- ing the pursuit, or in awaiting develop- ments favorable to success. But whether speedily or slowly, these flends much be found, else faith in the guardianship of the law will wane into demoralizing panic fear of crime. — vt Robert Dollar. Robert Dollar, whose name has been carried around the world by his fleet of circumnavigating ships, is dead at the age of elghty-eight. As & poor Scotch lad emigrating to Canada with his parents, as a toiler in his teens in s stave factory and later in a lumber camp, a8 & lumberman, first on & small and then on & large scale; as ship owner, and eventually as the creator of & great fleet that bore the American flag continuously in the sun- light around the world—this was the life of Robert Dollar, an inspiration to youth. Dollar was primarily & lumber- man. He became a ship owner from necessity. He found difficulty in get- ting “bottoms” to carry his lumber from the West Coast to market. He decided to carry his own freight and bought & ship at & bargain. The ex- other. Soon he became “ship minded,” to use & current expression, and with Scotch thriftiness concluded that if he could carry his own freight profitably he could carry the freight of others as well, 5o he developed his little “Dol- lar line,” cautiously, but effectively, until his house flag was well known in the Pacific and to some extent in other seas. A few years ago &n oppor- tunity offered to acquire & fleet of ships from the United States, and with these he began his round-the-world service, in a continuous circuit of the globe, the success of which was demon- strated within a year. This sturdy Scotchman, an American citisen for nearly half a century, confributed richly to the development of the Amer- jean merchant marine and thereby earned the gratitude of his fellow citi- zens of his adopted land. —_—————— The experience of Charles Lindbergh may fittingly recall the reference to “the Divinity that shapes our ends.” He never asked for fame nor deserved mis fortune, yet has found both in & measure that would overwhelm a less manful nature. ——r——————— It would be easier to meet a cur- rency need by printing money off- hand, if Germany had not in com- paratively recent times issued bills in such sbundance that they lost value even among souvenir seekers. An assassination calls the attention of Japan that it has home problems that may prove more difficult and im- portant than the subjugation of China. 1t is reasonable to assume that about all the wnderworld information Al Ca- m-vmhnuiormeumeu:me is what he reads in the newspapers. Police are doing their best to serve notice that the unemployment situa- tion demands recognition in gangland. Good business judgment would prompt Hawall to avold publicity for & while and get back to her pineapples. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Long-Felt Want. For new sensations be prepared, Ye nations great and small! The Russians have at last declared They'll learn to play base ball! The catcher, when he needs the aid ©Of a sufficlent mask, May use the whiskers ready made, And what more could he ask? Leftfielderski will soon draw nigh, Likewise Rightstopovitz. Interpreters will vainly try To tell us which is which. 80, let us cheer them with a will, In terms of generous chaff, For if we do not get & thrill, At least we'll get a laugh. Timely Afflictions. “You must express yourself concern- ing this highly delicate matter. The interviewers are waiting.” “Tell 'em I'm not well enough to talk,” said Senator Sorghum. “But you can scribble a note.” “No, I ocan’t. I've got lockjaw and pen palsy, both at once.” Jud Tunkins says he's wishin' for childhood’s happy days when he held up his hand to show the teacher he knew the answer instead of holding up both hands because a gunman told him to. Turning. The world keeps turning on its way, May nothing make it stop! For at the present time, they say, ‘The underworld’s on top. In Memory of Cassandra. “Do you recall the box which & mythical lady inadvertently opened up, thereby releasing all kinds of human “Do you, by any chance,” sald Miss Oayenne, “mean a radio set?” “An honest mistake,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is to be deeply de- plored, because it shows the kind of intelligence from which more mistakes are ever to be expected.” Happy Auditor. Let me to a convention go ‘Where statesmanship appears, And all that T will have to know Will simply be three cheers! “One man say ‘Sflence is golden,’” “and another say BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Thirteen rules for good gardening have been sent us by a Washington gardener who keeps his eyes epen and who uses his head as well as his hands when he works with plants. His letter follows: “Dear Sir: Your writings in The Evening Star on gardens and flowers are exceedingly helpful. I have a gar- den in the country with natural sur- roundings where I apply ‘rules’ that may have a partial application even in the city. These, stated somewhat dog- matically, are as follows: “l. Don’t make beds, make borders; a round flower bed is a work of the devil. — “2. 't cut up grass plots, except by trees and specimen shrubs; gardens may be spolled by flowers, but never by grass. “3. Do not use complicated and arti- ficlal arrangements of plants; conceal your design. “4. Plant your flowers against & background of house, or hedge, or perennial shrubs. “5._Don't collect & museum of flow- ers. In one of the most beautiful plant- ings in Washington, that of the Na- tional Chamber of Commerce, only three kinds of plants are used, none flowering. “6. Garden chiefly with green, Na- ture’s favorite color; a plant's foliage Iasts six months, its flowers two weeks. “7. Remember that a gardener is painting & picture by means of plants; study your picture for harmonious and unll.'led meflrcu. “8. Plant each flower profusely; ::vre% pflume:lch of two kinds are e beau than two plants ea al‘t'ver;‘ty kinds. e e “9. Mass your plant! kinds sparingly. fnae st s “10, Keep your borders full of plants; | periment succeeded and he bought an- | dirt is ugl; “11. Study Nature's methods, im;;rzove on them. - “12. Read garden literature and look at fine gardens; 2 gardeners are made, “13. Do not follow these rules slavishly. ey ol “Very truly yours, “CHARLES O. PAULLIN.” * * X % These rules of Mr. Paullin’s, if th could be followed by all home mn? would add materially to the appearance of gardens, and lmmmunb%' to the afl:hc“on ‘which owners would take in em. Unfortunately, such Tules are neces- sarily written for the man who writes them, as well &s by him; they are the result of meditation, observance and study; he who has not similarly medi- tated, observed and studied will not be able to grasp them in their entirety, Not able to grasp them, that is, ex- cept theoretically, and it must be ad- itted that & theoretical grasp often is the prelude to actual comprehension and bellef. So that there can be no doubt of the real value of such dog- matic knowledge, especially if & reader is able to profit from such material. Just how many persons, out of a given hundred, are both willing and able to derive help from abstract pronounce- ments will never be settled: too much depends upon ancestry, education and environment. At the best, however, the home gar- dener who has not already come to somewhat similar conclusions, as a re- sult of actual experience, will scarcely be able to put such rules into effect, because he will not realize thoroughly enough their absolute necessity. Consider No. 1, for instance. A great many home gardeners who were brought up in small towns throughout the country, and who never “Land's sakes” they will declare. “What is prettier than a big round bed of red cannas in the front 11:“?“ Now if one feels that way about it, what can any one else say in reply? Absolutely nothing, of course. ‘The only thing to do is to let that happy gardener alone, until such time as he or she shall have come to another realization, through some mediation, much observation and enough study. That was partly what Mr. Paullin meant by his rule No. 12, “Read garden literature, and look at fine gardens; gardeners are made, not born.” There is no forcing matters of taste; they are scarcely formed by reading; the ®est that writings can do, in any case, is to give the reader something to think about. * x * % An_almost instinctive desire with | most human beings, on coming into pos- | session of & house and den, is to rush into the back yard and dig & flower bed, but after they have done it they will come to wonder, in time, what is the matter. Then they will realize that “gardens may be spoiled by flowers,” indeed, “but never by grass.” The nged of the back- ground for flowers is strikingly illus- trated in all good gardens, large or small, but usually it is so artfully done that the beholder, unless he has studied such matters, is not at all aware of what it is which meets his approba- tlon. ‘The warning to abstain from the at- tempt to collect & museum of flowers is & necessary one; even old-time gard- eners, with small parcels of ground at their command, find it necessary to re- sist_the temptation. N “Garden chiefly with green, nature's favorite color,” is & wise rule, one which landscape architects make the basis of their activities. If they were to tell their clients as much, in so many words, some of the aforesald patrons might Tebel, but the astute architect says nothing of the | kind, but simply goes ahead and does it. And his customers are delighted! The idea of the “outdoor' living room,” one which is gaining ground every day, is merely an attempt to de- scribe a satisfactory garden built and maintained along the natural lines of our correspondent’s rules. The lawn is the basis of all gardens except the so- called Japanese garden, the rock gar- den and the water garden; it has been described as the background, or the “frame” for the whole garden, but as a matter of plain speaking it is the garden itself—in a sense the very basis of what civilization chooses to call the garden. Tt follows, then, that the lawn must be conserved in all its beauty, not cut up by beds, round square or other- wise; that the green of the lawn, in combination with the green of tree and shrub foliage, plus the foliage of plants of all sorts, makes the true beauty of the garden; that the plain simplicity of the lawn is duplicated necessarily in flower plantings, but that such flow- ers as are planted should be set out in sufficient numbers to hide bare earth, and that many of the laws of painting and architecture, as worked out by mankind over the centuries, may be applied in the small compass of & home back yard. Dirt is ugly, black earth is not as bare as red clay, and sometimes possesses & beauty of its own. Borders with red clay show- ing are not artistic, or even pretty, as the world says; this color may be toned down by the application of humus, as such, or peat moss. Our correspondent's _eleventh rule, to study nature’s methods and “improve on them” is an advice of perfection which most gardeners need. There is nothing presumptuous about it; in the small province of the home grounds it is often ble to create effects which nature rself would applaud. ‘The twelfth and thirteenth rules given above happily climax the lst; reading makes & better gardener as does looking at fine s; as for the “lucky thirteenth,” that is as important as any. Gardening should mean happiness, above all; if you like & round flower. bed, why, dig your- self & great big one, and forget about J‘anlw". advice, no matter how good yes; but looking WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Very newest under the political sun um:c«.n&u-m-ymwmmm Democratic but not for the Republican Convention at Chicago. Only by a miracle, even with night sessions, can the mountain of business requiring ac- tion be transacted between now and June 14, when the G. O. P. conclave sets in. Including , there are be- tween then and now on days left. The House and Senate might as well sit through the Republican Convention is based on the tbeory that there will be no contests there—nothing absolutely requiring the presence of party leaders, If it carries on at Washington while Hoover and Curtis are being renomi- nated in Chicago, Congress would gain a full fortnight by remaining in session until June 27, when the Democratic fracas begins. With good will on all sides, Capitol Hill authorities believe they can clear the decks by that time and avert the necessity of reconvening in September. * ok k% Expectation is pretty general that the beer-for-revenue bill is scheduled for defeat, though perhaps by a slender majority, when it comes up in House of Representatives on May 23. What is positively certain is that the record vote is golng to cause serious embarrassment for plenty of statesmen, who would prefer not to have to stand up and be counted in this year of un- certain grace. ‘Throughout the country the fate of many members up for re- election will be decided by the booze issue, In the past a lot of them have managed to be sufficiently non-commit- tal to get by unscathed. The beer-for- revenue roll call is_decidedly a horse of another color. It looms up as a nightmare for congressional gentlemen (and & woman or two) who have hith- erto straddled, and won. * x X ¥ Speaker Jack Garner was chatting the other day with H. V. Kaltenborn of New York, who “edits the air” for the Columbia Broadcasting system. The {,gonm radioscribe was complimenting e Texan on his recent victory in the California Democratic presidential pri- maries. Garner took & fresh tug at his cigar, scored & bull's-eye on a lor six feet away, and chuckled that a friend came in to congratulate him on the California results the next day. “Jack,” the friend said, accore to the Speaker, “you run like hell where they don't know you, don't you?” % % X % O’Connor, whom President ‘hairman is apparently out to beat Mellon’s record as & perennial Feds oflc..lu. “T, V. ut.hl: lg;'el;’;e.mh suc- cessive year on p] " President Harding made him vice chair- man and now two Presidents in suc- cesslon—C and _Hoover—have X Davis unded into the picture in 1921, the one-time Buffalo stevedore was in the ral | the Wilbur’s Lincolnlike hulk piled into Joslin's room. “Mr, Secretary,” a mem- ber of the group asked, “why'd you park your car out here?” He had Iett his limousine in the official parking area inside the White House grounds, but, stepping to the window, he surveyed the truck and, without batting an eye, rejoined, “Yes. That's all Congress left me.” * ok ok % It'Il be surprising if Second Assistant Postmaster General W. Irving Glover doesn't get into hot water as the result of his advice to Missourl postmasters to get out and hun.\eh for Hoover or re- . _Glover is so uncommonly clever that his friends are somewhat at a loss to explain what seems to most of them indiscretion. celebrated in Post Office Department annals is the call-down Postmaster Willlam Wallace of Indianapolis re- the | ceived from a United States Civil Serv- ice commissioner named Theodore Roosevelt some 40-odd years ago. Mr. Wallace, in T. R.'s eyes, had been of- fensive in political activities, He prob- ably would have walked the plank ex- cept that he was a friend and ap- pointee of President Benjamin Harri- :a‘xtx P!l;vll;l‘zp. Gll:ver is n‘:l incorrigible 3 7] e was ly joking in Missouri on Saturday. : £ EE Little birds are w that the G. O. P. has Xnmd%;fi‘mwm angel, who, at the proper time in this year of slim , come across lccepubiLtor the cause. His name is sald to Henry L. Doherty, Cities Service Co. magnate, whose aul - raphy proudly records that sald hold- ing company ites more than 100 public utility and petroleum properties with assets of $600,000,000. Mr. Do- herty seems to have bobbed into the Republican campaign finance picture through his friendship with Postmaster General Walter F. Brown, Hoover po- pitical generalissimo. At Mr. Brown's recent official dinner for the President Mr. and Mrs. Doherty were among the notable out-of-town guests. Last week the Postmaster General was Mr. Do- herty's guest at the dedication, on the oil magnate’s 62d birthday anniversary, of the Cities Service 67-story skyscraper in Wall street, third tallest building in the world, * ok ox % Jouett SBhouse, executive chairman Democratic National = " (Copyrisnt, 1832 ————— Fiction! From the Nashville Banner. A girl up in Massachusetts laughed so at a screen comedy that she very seriously ill. That's one of the pictures we haven't seen. Back Fence Issues, n_-m ok ‘Times. claims & pouliry mags- e in his back "Any e Political Mill Kansas Democrats in State conven- tion will select their delegates to the Democratic National Convention M-y.l The managers of Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt's pre-convention campaign will be greatly disappointed if the Sun- flower State delegation is not instructed for their candidate for the presidential nomination. If reports are correct, the delegation will favor the New York Governor. There is some interest, 100, in political circles here about what is done with regard to Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Democratic National Executive Committee. It has been un- derstood that Mr. Shouse, who is slated by the Committee on Arrangements to be permanent chairman of the Demo- cratic National Convention, is persona non grata with many of the Roosevelt people. The opinion was expressed to- day, however, by friends of Mr. Shouse that he would be picked for delegate-at- large in the Kansas convention. * % ok H. D. Kissenger of Kansas City, Mo., in & letter to the Editor of The Star, suggests that the Democrats, in their selrlclf for a presidential candidate ' “See the undertaker With Newton D. Baker.” He adds that he is likewise con- vinced that the Democrats Wwould; “Surely get stung With Owen D. Young." But he is capricious politically for he adds that it need not be inferred that Miss Democracy; “Cannot win the belt ‘Without Roosevelt.” Nor does Mr. Kissenger cotton to Al Smith, whom he pictures as turn- ing “on the man who fights for the man at the foot of the ladder.” * K X ¥ The present week will see delegates to the Democratic National Convention picked, too, in Montana, tomorrow where Roosevelt has the support of both Senator Wheeler and Senator Walsh. New Jersey will elect its dele- gates in a State primary. They, the Jersey Democratic boss, Frank Hague insists, must be for Al Smith and any way, against Roosevelt. Hague is the head and forefront of the anti-Roose- velt campaign among the Democrats. Not very clubby toward the Governor of = neighboring State. Connecticut is expected to choose 16 delegates for Smith tomorrow. New s):::co today selects its delegates in eonven- tion, Oregon holds s State primary to elect delegates to the national con- ventions on May 20, and the District of Columbia has a primary to pick its representatives to the Democratic Convention on Wednesday. Vermont also del this week and Roosevelt managers to have them all. *x x* Under the leadership of John F. Cos- tello, Democratic national committee- man, and John B. Colpoys, chairman of the local Democratic Committee, vari- ous factional difficulties among the Dis- trict Democrats are sald to have been ironed out and the prospects are for the election of an uncontested delega- tion. It may be said that it is expected the District will, under the unit iule, cast its six votes in the National Con- vention for Pranklin D. Roosevelt, de- ite the fact there will be among the legates some anti-Rcosevelt senti- ment., Furthermore, it is expected that primary will show that the delega- has been instructed for Roosevelt. tes ope will bring to the Roosevelt standard may not nominate the New York Gov- ernor, but it will have its effect and furthermore will be & reminder of the days of 1920, when & delegate to th; about that nomination. The re-election of Mr. Costello as national committeeman for the District and Mrs. J. Borden Harriman as national com- mitteewoman is said t:’n be’;:nd Th:: tic organizal e Distri skill and that Roosevelt dele- for membership in the on rules md“aedenuu&:t the coming Democraf ational = vention. They are anxious to have in both those im- ‘The time may to break the velt delegates In cases where contests for delegate seats may arise. They are not so anxious about the membership of the Platform Committee, for they believe their candidate will be able to stand on the platform written by the convention. But they do not intend to let the organization of the conven- tion get away from them, not if they can avoid it. LR Speaker John N. Garner, candidate for the Democratic nomination for President, has opened fire on President the prospective Republican and injures the that Mr. Hnov;r"'hu to A The Speaker been pref 5 vertised himself in recent months. Mr. Garner, however, has been extremely chary about stating his own views on public questions of importance. For example, no one has yet been able to drag & word out of him about national prohibition. He may figure, like Roose- S e il b abie 0 al has had his own the presiding of the House and the titular head party in that body. ifF Eg“ i g 3 ] bill that body. 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The purpose of the parent-teach. er association is to create an standing between the parent and teach. er and the work that each is accom= | plishing in the educating of the child, ‘The association has stirred the parent- hood of the Nation in creating an in- terest in what the school is doing for parent-| T association organs ized and supported projects for the pro= motion of health examinations for the child. In some cases organiza and ‘cloghing ‘for "ehidren and cl for ¢l w) the needs could not be met in It has carried on & pro; the betterment of community condis tions in the immediate school district, other Peril of Political Fanatics Observed as Doumer Is Slain The death of another President of France at the hand of a political mad- man wakes America’s sympathy. Com- ment on President Doumer's assassi- nation warns the nations that they must increase their vigilance in protect- ing their leaders against just such dangerous fanatics as Doumer’s mur- derer. “News of the assassination causes a thrill of horror throughout the civilized world,” says the Roanoke World-News, while the Lincoln State Journal holds that “Paul Doumer’s sacrifice is as though he were a battlefleld ‘That paper adds that “his appealing figure to Americans,” for “of his five sons he lost four in the war,” “his rise to prominence reads like m.geplnl American story of the self- man.” The South Bend Tribune is impressed by the fact that “through- out his public life he was respected for his istrative qualities and loved for his human sentiments,” and feels that “the Russian who killed him robbed France of a mnoble leader and the world of a t man.” The Rock Island Argus declares that “of the many Who rule over the nations of the world it is & cruel gentl lest and kindliest should be e Chronicle ith e tims of persons afficted com- bination of murderous mania and egolsm have included the most sometimes inoffen- sive and the best loved of public men.” * % xx “The most a) feature of such assassination,” the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “is the utter futility of the act and the sheer waste of human life. President Doumer was not a ty- rant and had clination nor the velop an urge to kill in the mind of trick of fate that one of | the of the m . “It is fortunate for the peace of Eu- rope,” in the opinion of the Dayton Daily News, “that the White Russiang of France are exiles, men without & country, and this crime by one of them leaves no foreign government respon- sible or suspect.” The San Anf Express, recalling the past services of President Doumer and his patriotic sons, voices the conclusion that “the French police doubtless will watch White Russians more closely, and Paris no longer may be a haven for men who favor a monarchial restoration in Rus- sia—as it has been since the Bolshevist revolution of 1917.” The St. Joseph Gazette points out that “France is an ally of Poland,” and that “to believe that France is a friend of things Com- munistic is ridiculous.” The Columbus Ohlo State Journal adds that “it is not mer Wil have aay partiewiatly impor- T ve any ly impor~ tant political significance.” The le- ington Pantagraph feels that “rarely in the history of the world does a crazy assassin, from the death of Caesar to the murder of Doumer, has accomplish< ed nothing of & beneficial nature® “It 15 to be hoped,” advises the Mil- waukee Sentitnel, “that investigation will prove that to the diseased mind of a fanatic sole responsibility for the death is to be attributed.” The Salt Lake Deseret News calls the murder “one of the senseless tragedies that hold back progress,” remarking that “the French have been dominated by fear since the war, and the politics of the protection.” ‘The exhibited in the development of a great deal of political th t since the war. Certainly there have been too many persons whose acts have been directly in reverse of what natural reuonm{ would be expected to produce. President Doumer had been in office but a short time, and a French President at best usually exerts little influence in na- tional or international affairs, since the d premier is the executive in practice. M. Doumer, however. had built up a great career in French public life and he had gained wide respect. The world already suffered too many tragedies without having this aimless crime added to its afictions.” “In view of the shock caused by the assassination.” the Chicago Dally News holds that “the outcome of the recent Germany.” That pa) the fact that there were ries in France,