Evening Star Newspaper, May 20, 1932, Page 8

THE F,VEN.ING STAR, WASHIN ATON, D. C., FRIPAY, MAY T e — e . e e s e = 20, 1932. THE EVENING STAR With Sundsy Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company %, : Firopean 1] 8) e Sundsy Star the end e Bt sy At 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Eii ang sunda 7181900 1mo 5 "only YEo 3406: 1 mo. All Other States and Canada. E:',B sod Sunday...1yr. $1200: 1 mo. §1,00 day only 1 [233 1mo. Member of the Associated Press. .00: 1 mo., Associated Press 1s exclusively ectitled ?:”e \ise Gor ‘republication of all news dis- el lod es credited to it Or not otherwise cred- in ibis paper and aiso ws published herein. Doeii Giepatches her _— per mon! “Sach mont or telephone he local net Fiehts of publication of ein are also reserved. The Only Fair Solution. If a shortage of revenues threatens & deficit for the District of Columbia or a drastic curtailment of necessary ftems for normal maintenance and im- provement, existing revenue must be supplemented either by increase of the Pederal contribution to the District or by an increase of local taxation. The question, then, relates to the source of the increase—whether that source lies in an increase of the Fed- eral contribution or an increase in the local tax burden. Unrepealed substantive law, as amend- ed, provides that the expenses of the District—exclusive of certain funds, such as gas tax revenues and water revenues—are to be met by dividing the cost between the District and the Federal Government in the proportion of sixty per cent and forty per cent, re- spectively. Since the fiscal year 1925 the Fed- eral Government, through temporary, annual riders on local appropriation acts, has evaded the provisions of sub- staniive law. The evasion has been possible through application of a Hou:z{ parliamentary rule, the principle of | which is that legislative riders on ap- propriation bilis are in crder ‘when theyl reduce Federal expenditures. It is a| rule, In other words, that works only one way. As the expenses of the District have fncreased, the Federal contribution has been proportionately decreased. All ad- ditional costs of running the Federal city have been shoved to the shoulders of local taxpayers. There is no de- batable question in the fact that the District has met its share of the costs. not only local taxes, but Federal hm!nwmofme fact that there is no such his Federal taxes exceeding the Federal | fish or fowl as “a square gambling taxes of any one of more than half the | joint”; it is as rare as the great auk. States. The average per capita pay- All such places are as crooked as the ment by the States toward the lump men who run them—with fixed racing sum amounts to seven cents and seven | 0dds. tampered-with roulette Wheels, | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. «n | that, if any change in the amount of | mills. The Washingtonian's per capita payment to the same fund amounts to elevent cents nine mills and is exceeded by only four of the States. The only fair method of overcoming the problem of the threatened local deficit is, in the light of such showings, demonstrated to be the increase of the now inadequate Federal contribution. In the light of the demonstration ithe lump sum is to be made, it should | be increased, the decrease of $3,000000 ' loaded dice and especially treated cards. And “Honest John,” the well known gambler, served a jail sentence for stealing his grandmother's false teeth. ‘The people of Prince Georges should demand the closing of the cheap gam- bi joint. If this is not done, the officials should be thrown out with the tin-horns. ——————— Washington at the Conventions. Both the Republican and Democratic parties in the District of Columbia have in that sum proposed by the House Will | ;,oq eyercised the quadrennial privilege doubtless be rejected by the Senate 80d , o¢ electing delegates to their respective | poning their happiness. Some one once said of Daniel Web- ster that “there is no malice in the man, but broad good humor and much enjoyment of the hour.” The great buffalo of American ora- | tory knew how to take life as it came, in which valuable art we can all “learn” 1 lessons. Life often turns out not the way we want it, but the way it wants to be. Better equipped is he to meet its bad turns who has stored up the refresh- ments of the happy hours. “Much enjoyment of the hour—" There are all too many people who deliberately make a practice of post- | TRACEWELL. most of the precious things which almost have no names, they are 50 intangible, so closed in the heart and mind of humanity. What and how many are the mat- ters which no man talks of! There is more unwritten than .ever has been written; the hour is not yet at hand when the sublime man may take his pen in hand, with a divine vengeance, and tell all. In the meantime, what the man of philosophical inclinations can do is to Tealize the joy of the passing hour, as it passes, nor put off happiness until the latest inventions are purchased, the new games learned, the books of the hour read. i who make repeal of the eighteenth| resisted to the end in conference. e - Third Party Proposals. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi- dent of Columbia University, wants a new, liberal political party. His proposal is not new, although the platform which he advances for the party differs | materially from the platforms put for- ward by other proponents of a new and liberal party. For example, the late Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wlx-i consin, who headed the last effort to !establish a new and liberal party In this country, would never have swal- lowed Dr. Butler’s international plank, calling for cancellation of war debts, entry in the World Court and closest co-cperation with the League of Na- tions. Theodore Rousevelt, who broke away from the G. O. P. in 1912 to or- ganize the Progressive Party, would have had considerable difficulty recon- ciling all of Dr. Butler's fourteen points with his own views, including the But- ler proposal upon disarmament. Dr. Butler is an ardent and sincere opponent of the eighteenth amendment. An opponent of that amendment, in his opinion, is a liberal. Demand for the repeal of the amendment is the key- stone, the very justification, for his pres- ent appeal for the establishment of a new, liberal political party. He apparent- ly does not stop to consider how many really liberal-minded men and women there are in this county who are strong- ly favorable to the eighteenth amend- ment. Nor does he take into considera- tion how many consérvatives there are | amndment the desired end of all things. The wet cause, despite the other thir- teen points which Dr. Butler advances, is the mainspring of his present pro- posel for a new political party. It is not clear whether Dr. Butler lists Senator Wiliam E. Borah of Idaho as a “liberal” or Senator Robert M. La Follette, jr., of Wisconsin. Certainly his program for a liberal party would find these gentlemen on the outside, despite the fact that Mr. Borah would agree heartily with Dr. Butler cn his disarmament proposal and some of the other points outlined for a party plat- form. Mr. Borah has been considered | And it is an undeniable and demon- strable fact that the Federal Govern- ment has not met its share. The necessary increase of revenues for support of the Capital should be made through increase of the Federal contribution. This increase has been prevented, so far, mainly on the assumption that the District of Columbia taxpayers escape ‘what might be construed as a payment of fair, adequate local taxes. The theory has been that even though the proportionate shiYe of District ex- penses set forth in unrepealed law, self- imposed by Congress, has been exceed- ed by local taxes, these taxes are not productive of the local revenues that would be forthcoming if the people of the District were taxed as heavily as the people of other municipalities are taxed. Washington citizens have contended that such an assumption is false, be- cause the District, as is demonstrated in fair comparison with cther cities, is already adequately and heavily taxed. That demonstration was ccnvincingly made at the session of the Senate Sub- committee on District Appropriations last night by the spokesman for the Citi- zens' Joint Committee on Fiscal Rela- tions Between .the United States and the District of Columbia. Through a carefully compiled volume of statistical tables, the citizens delivered a tripie attack on the theory that Washmmn| is undertaxed. One set of tables showed the mis- leading and false conclusions relating to comparable tax burdens reached when, #s in the case of the House Belect Committee on Fiscal Relations (better known as the Mapes Com- mittee), the tax burden is pictured by utllizing a guessed-at ratio of assessed to full value of property in order to “adjust” a tax rate. When this method | of comparing tax burdens is utilized and applied to many citfes unbeliev- able and absurd showings result. ‘The demonstration was also made of the lopsided showings resulting when there is faflure to take into considera- tion and to eliminate from compuri- sons the proportionate part of local tax | burdens consumed by interest and sink- ing fund payments on indebtedness, and by the payment of State taxes— these items varying with local policies of expenditure and with State practice of taxation. When they are not elim- inated, there is no real showing of cur- rent city tax burdens, and the com- parison of current city tax burdens is the real objective. But when actual, not theoretical, guessed-at figures are used, either in! totals or in per capita, a more accurate comparison of city tax burdens results.| Such comparisons were made by the citizens and in tabular form presented | to the Senators as proof that Wash- ington bears a tax burden that is| normal in relation to ‘the ‘ax burdens of other cities, and is even Ligh when interest payments and State taxes arc/ deducted. When Washington's total per capita tax levy exceeds that of sixteen of the 22 cities with which it was compared by the Mapes Committee (tax levy being reduced to that necessary for current city maintenance) Washingtonians cannot be said to be undertaxed. When the same comparison is made between the sixty-four cities of the United States ©f more than 125000 in population, | and Washington's per capita total tax exceeds 54 of them, Washingtonians cannot be s2id to be undertexed. ‘The complaint is made that the eiti- #ens of the Nation, outside of Wash- ington, are taxed exorbitantly to con- tribute to the Capital through the lump sum. Such complaints were reduced to | reopening of the place—a lame excuse, 'said Uncle Eben. a dry and Senator La Follette a wet, yet both of these gentlemen would re- sent being labeled anything but pro- gressive. Dr. Butler contends that, the party of Jefferson and the party of Lincoln are dead: that the country needs a new party. He proposes that the two old parties unite on a “liberal” platform and go forward supporting it. After the two parties have united it is apparently the understanding of Dr. Butler that all those Democrats and all those Repub- licans unable to subscribe to the liberal platform will form themselves into an opposition party. He might find that under such conditions the opposition would far outnumber the members of the new liberal party he proposes. Great issues, not individual leaders, produce new political parties. It was thus that the Republican party had its birth. Dr. Butler apparently considers prohibition an issue of sufficient im- portance upon which to form a new political party. The rest of his pro- gram is incidental, although many of his “points” are 'of great importance. But the wet cause is to be the rally- ing point for the “liberals.” He might have made his plea on the need for a return to the old fundamental prin- ciples of the Constitution, with the rights of the States safeguarded. But Dr. Butler included in his program many proposals for paternalistic action by the Federal Government, designed to catch, perhaps, the so-called progres- stves in both the old parties. He would probably have been better off had he taken just one issue instead of four- teen for his new party. e Apparently Charles Lindbergh is in no mood to magnify resentment toward a | person who protests that he wis only | & silly mischief maker. When a great- bearted man has suffered deep sorrow he is likely to hesitate about inflicting punishment on others, however much it may be deserved. — e — | Sometimes the original Moses of Egypt had trouble with his public and might have anticipated the modern Moses of New H@mpshire by referring to sons of wild jackasses, if he had| | thought of it. | v | Convention delegates may be limited !to a five-day working week, but never | to & five-hour da H ————— | Tin Horns and Wild Flowers. | The roulette wheel spins merrily—or | sadly, as the case may be—the crap- | shooter shouts his regard for his family, | inasmuch as the baby needs new shoes; the last race at Churchill Downs is called monotonously by the telegraph | operator—and “Jimmie's” tin-horn | gambling joint continues to do business on Bladensburg road. As in most in- stances, broken-down prizefighters, once known to the sporting fraternity as| | “horizontal pugs,” join with their silk- shirted brother sports in conducting the various games which separate a sucker from his salary. County officials walk | | on the other side of the road and keep | |a watchful eye on the State's wild flowers. In spite of the fact that a recent grand jury demanded that the tin-horn gambling joint be kept closed, the place | known as “Jimmie's” opened again for business last Saturday. It has been a thorn in the side of the public-spirited, law-abiding group of Prince Georges County for years, and it was closed temporarily while the alleged proprie- tor served a jail sentence. County officials have refused to cloge the place, and the “small-time big-shots” hold the upper hand. One excuse for the | | national conventions. At Chicago next month six residents of the Federal area will ¢it in the Democratic 2nd two in the Republican party conclaves and cast their votes for nominations for Presi- dent and Vice President of the United States. Should a messenger from Mars vol- plane down upon the Chicago Stadium and by accident land amid one of the District of Columbia delegations, it would be a pardonable mistake if he parachuted to the conclusion that as ‘Washingtonians take part in nominat- ing presidential candidates, they also have a hand in electing them. The | Martian would not and could not know that because of a grotesque and un- American inconsistency, such, unhap- pily: is not the case. It would be necessary for somebody to inform him that residents of the District of Columbia poscess less than half the right of their fel'ow Americans with respect to presidential elections. They can join in nominating, but are s fully debarred from electing iri suc- ceeding Novembers as if they were aliens. Washingtonians are the un- tcuchables of the American body poli- tlc—the outcast caste, which has all the obligations of citizenship, but is de- nied its most priceless privilege, the ballot. Arrangements will be perfected, it is to be hoped, for presenting to both the Republican and Democratic con- ventions, as has been done on previcus occasions, the national representation demands of the District of Columbia It is an ideal occasion for pressing them. Washington's disfranchisement | will stand out in all its hideous in- justice when it is wired by national convention delegates speaking as the; full equals of delegates from the States, yet compelled to admit that when the | | conventions adjourn they go home as politically helpless and ostracized as| if they hailed from the South Sea Islands. The District's convention spokesmen and spokeswomen at Chicago have & golden opportunity. They will earn the gratitude of their fellow-unfortu- nates at home by insisting that both great parties go unequivocally on rec- ord in ‘Washingtonian. Scientists are rapidly making the public aware of the importance of vita- mins. They are fortunately only inci- dental features of a proper health menu. Otherwise they would soon be vended in small tasteless capsules and sent out to deplete still further the joys of epicureanism. e An inclination to vote in the man- ner most likely to preserve their official usefulness might be expected of post- masters. In fact, they would construe such a course as a duty not only to country, but to home and friends; a| duty of which they would scarcely need | 2 public reminder. —_— e A legal tax on an illegal beverage | would probably have delighted the keen | sense of paradox that distinguished the | English poet, W. S. Gilbert. R ) Any one who denies that Mayor| James Walker is a hard-working official | should be provided with a memorandum of his enormous parade mileage. S R SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Grim Chronicler. Old Pather Time, you once appeared An entertaining party. Our thoughts you frequently have cheered ‘With promises so hearty. We thought as history progressed, We'd move with far less friction. Your promises, put to the test, Are largely idle fiction. | Old Father Time. when like the moon Our kope is softly beaming, To nightmares we return too soon, Instead of gentle dreaming. The tales that you have told once more Of peace and all its glories We fear are proving, as of yore, Just little bed time stores. A Depressed Ego. “Why don't you get busy and try to be as great a man s George Washing- | ton?” “What's the use?” rejoined Senator Sorghum. “The world has grown skep- | Even if I succeeded, we couldn't | been the case b tical. make the public believe it.” Jud Tunkins says he doesn't approve of calling it a psychological depression. What he reads in the papers indicates that fooling with psychology is liable to cost too much money. Survival of the Unfittest. When Prohibition sternly spoke Her voice was heard afar. Yet men and laws are going “‘broke’"— But not the two-quart jar. Not Se Thrifty. “Old Ben Franklin was thrifty.” “Not very,” answered Mis¢' Cayenne. “He did a little early kiting with elec- tricity, but he did not seem to have the faintest idea of its financial possibil- ities.” “If you are an artist,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “and work only for money you soon become no longer an artist, but a financeer.” Talking and Thinking. The general mind must now be led Unto confusion’s brink. ‘There Is 50 much that must be said, We haven't time to think. “Animals has a heap o' secret sense,” “When I hears a man absurdity by tables presentsd by thelat best—is that “Jimmie's” is in the say he don't like dogs, I suspicions dat citizens, which show how the Washing- category of ‘‘square gambling joints.” de dogs has looked him over tonian, contributing at both ends, pays But the gagjpler and his victim are to have de first dislike.” ‘n' decided favor of Americanizing lhe. | be adopted without a knockdown and | |out most platform differences. | Al Smith’s radio address to the Nation | | | realize the little happinesses of the every day which are theirs in the liv- ing. To keep their eyes so persistently on the years ahead that they fail to live fully in this and in time come to make a habit ot hope. There is nothing in life greater than hope, but when one puts off laughter to futurity, he gives expectation a greater place than it deserves, we think. The great mansion one dreams of, sitting on an eminence in the sight of all men. may never come, but the sim- ple cottage of the passing years is warm in Winter and cool in Summer. He who can get much enjoyment of the hour—any hour—at the time of the hour’s passing is perhaps in a better position than he who eternally looks to the future for happiness, or who prefers to look backward to it. The honest enjoyment of the hour is a sane adoption of a leaf from the ani- mals’ book. The creatures do get & great deal of fun out of living, which they accept without sense of shame. ‘Where is the owner of pet dog or cat who does not know their vast satisfac- tion in a tasty dinner or the great out- | of-doors? Many a dog derives vastly more pleas- ure from its master’s autemobile than the owner thereof. Yonder shrimp, sit- ting there in the right-hand scat, loves the free flow of air around its ears, the sense of motion, the exhilaration which comes with the consumptipn of space. dogs. The house cat secures its best pleasure by the simple fact of being out in ‘the air, which is pleasant to its nostrils. Every owner of a cat knows the animal's keen enjoyment of fresh air as it comes in at a window. prived of the real thing, they will sit fairly content in open windows for hours, sniffing the air now and then and watching with the greatest interest everything which moves outside. In a sense only can it be taken that the best enjoyment of the passing hour comes to those who are careless and in- different. Such undoubtedly enjoy their hours, but inasmuch as they put no thought upon them in passing, they fail to reach to the heart of this situation. For the mind is all-important. If menkind is to bz different from the animals, In this or any other matter, it must be so by the use of the brain, the consclous realization of felicity as one goes along. Now it- must be admitted that for thousands of human beings the great failure in life comes, not so much in failure to reach desired objectives as in failing to realize that one would never get there, after alll More disappointment is caused more ! people by this than by any other one thing, perhaps. It is self-caused. too, and therefore all the more hurtful. Dream as large as one may, he can never be hurt too badly who under- stands as he goes along that there is llt;lje likelihood of ever reaching his goal. This is not defeatist philosophy, as some prefer to call it, but the homely old attitude known for generations as common sense. ‘The combinations which bring about what the world chooses to call great success are not in the province of thousands, and of these the real ar- tists in life are those who scarce would choose to utilize them if they were. Hence it becomes essential at times for such people to put away worldly things, in a sense, and to make the Evincing their determination to make | harmony the keynote of their national convention, it is now certain that the Democrats’ will assemble their Resolu- | tions Committee at Chicago on June 23, four days before the convention proper opens. State organizations were invited by the National Committee to name resolutions committeemen as soon | as delegations were elected. Practically |in their entirety all 48 States and the territories have already made their selections, thus insuring the platform pow-wow. There is, of course, no guarantee that the Resolutions Com- mittee will devise a set of planks which | will be accepted by the party without a fight. That isn't the Democrats’ way. It particularly won't be the way this time, because the wet plank sure to e in the donkey's platform will hardly dragout on the convention floor. But it's expected that the advance meeting | cf the Resolutions Committee will g’?in Vi dently the Democrats want to save their energies for the Roosevelt-Smith brawl. e ¥ No political pronunciamento from any | quartcr in recent history has evoked the | general commendation called forth by this week. The bouquets hurled at the idol of Manhattan from Republican di- rections are conspicuous. On practi- | cally all hands former Gov. Smith's pro- | gram for national and international re- | covery is acclaimed as courageous, con crete and comprehensive. Even in quar ters which do not go along with Al on | every count there is ungrudging praise | of the statesmanlike character of his proposals. Smith enthusiasts will tell | you that the speech has paved the way to the former Governor's renomination. It has hardly done that, but undoubted- |1y it will enable Smith to throw more | forked lightning into the convention, to | Roosevelt’s undoing, than would have efore the new prestige | Al's “raddio” talk has brought him. FEN % Here's an up-w-dfi):e Cal (:Xaolidl":‘ arn, said to possess the unusual mer: Tt urath, Congress has just voted $2,500 for a portrait of the former Pres- ident to be hung in the White House. The distinguished artist for whom Cal sat is accustomed to get twice or thrice that amount for anything he does in ofl The painter appears to have la- mented to Mr. Coolidge that congres- sional parsimony was robbing him of the usual fruits of his art, expecting that Northampton's best-known lawyer might use his pull at Washington to jack up the price. Instead of encour- aging that hope in the artist’s bosom, Cal replied that he trusted the low fee wouldn't affect the quality of the paint and canvas that went into the picture! * x x x The Rev. George F. Dudley, rector of | St. Stephen’s Protestant Episcop:l Church, Washington, has been named as an alternate delegate to the Repub- lican National Convention from the District of Columbia. He feels that the mantle of his lite father, famous “Blocks-of-Five” Gen. W. W. Dudley of Indiana, has length descended upon him. The senior Dudley was Benjamin Harrison’s successful presidential cam- Bclzn manager in 1888. The Rev. Dr. ucley was the hero, when he donned the cloth 35 years ago, of a wise crack in the Democratic New York World. ‘W learn,” said the old Pulitzer “that a son of ‘Blocks-of-Five' has been ordained a minister of Protestant Episcopal Church. It needless to say that he takes after mother.” *xxw Ma). Gen. George O. Squler,, U.S. A., retired, hasn't had to wait, like Lin- his This they do, in part, by failing to| Men are space eaters, and so are| Many a boy will get more out of his dog-eared one - volume than all the “experts” together will de- rive from their most recent choice selections. The home owner in his little garden, no matter if no larger than a pocke handkerchief, may enjoy its cultivation | tate thrills at the grand vistas through his trees, It is all a matter of knowing how, and often the most “successful” man is in reality something of a failure— you can tell it by the harassed look in his_eyes! This is the leveling process which Nature carries on all around, as if in training for the great equalization of those last days which come alike to all created things. There is more than one kind of suc- | cess, evidently, although in the hurly- burly of recent historical eras man- kind has come mo:e and more to look | upon “success” as meaning but one | thing. 1t has been much like the deflnition of the word “gentleman.” Every one thought he knew what he was talking about until in the end the term came to describe superficlal and ou}wlrd manifestations. The word “lady” had | to be dropped almost altogether. Still, no one in particular thought fit | to point out that there are hundreds of | correct definitions of a gentleman and | that every one of them is necessary, ac- | cording to the time and the place. This man, who drinks his soup out of his bowl, mevertheless may have a surprisingly beautiful attitude toward women; a stickler for convention, in- deed, would be he who would deny him an honorable title. There is more than one sort of suc- cess. Often the man who has “ar- rived” one way has failed on another route. The thing for every man to do is to map out his own successes and gaze steadfastly at them, not in con- | ceit, but in simple justice to himseif. | One of the best ways of do this is |to be happy over such interest! and fine things as come %ge'u‘gy. confidently expecting the , one may well be giad for whatever good things arrive. It will not do to get in the habit of being interested in great affairs alone, unless one happens to be one of the great ones of earth. And even then one may find one's se!f in the of | poor Darwin, who lemented late in life | | time to music. | There are more things in heaven and | earth than this famous man, to say | nothing at all of Horatlo, knows of; he | would find many in full possesion of | their faculties rejoicing In matters which he no doubt would scorn—to his | own cost. The enjoyment of the hour consists |more in a conscious knowledge andein- |terest in all knowable and interesting | things. The range is wide. All that man has known can be known again; | all that he has dreamed must be dreamed anew to be of much good to the man; all that he has looked but a little way into still lies liks a beckoning | finger to the interested mind. Webster was Webster. He had broad good humor “and much enjoyment of the hour.” No one else's enjoyment, then or now, could have been, or can | be, the same. It must not be, because that would lessen the scope of enjoy- ment, make it physical and momen- tary, whereas it is, rightly viewed, | spiritual and eternal. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. %oln nmir hl:em‘ for t.hehputhummn onor of Vi a way named after him. The wxnlu.;uwl-z'd of the Army, who now lives in Washington, ' | for years has endowed a hobby on his | native heath at Dryden, Mich. He maintains there a full-fledged country club for the exclusive and gratis use of the farmer folk from miles around. It embraces the Squier ancestral acres, which have been in the family since the time, now nearly 100 years ago, when the property was deeded to it in a warrant signed by President Martin | Van Buren. Recently the State of Michigan laid out a new road which connects the Squier Country Club with do some of the nearby arterial highways. It was decided that the children of the county should by baliot select a name for it. The returns are just in. By an overwhelming majority the youngsters voted to call the road “The General Squier Highway.” k% x Dollie Curtis Gann's current - making activities are mmn;? Mfii creasing attention and appreciation in ' G. O. P. circles. Word comes fre nearly every place she stumps that tol;’el Vice President’s Brunhildelike sister never fails to put it over in smashing style. Most of the people Mrs. Gann addresses never saw her before. They're agreeably surprised to find she’s not the mere social climber which the Gann- Longworth precedence flare-up seemed to depict her, but a fine, wholesome, homespun American woman. Some less kindly comments evoked by Dolly's swing around the circle credit with seeking to ingratiate herself with the | Republicans so as to insure Brother Charley’s renomination. All r doubts on that score v.nm.‘:i“':fli It'll be Hoover and Curtis :g]nln by every Indication now discern- e. * % % % In days gone by trust-busti, an occasional occupation. N!:)‘w.w.li | would appear, it's become a profession. At least it's being made a by Oswald F. Schuette, mu&?m? mi‘nlag Jevspaper man and _former president of the National Press Schuette S trust” to cover and having the Rad: Corporation of America Anmd‘ih -mn.tg indicted as violators of the anti-trust laws. A couple of weeks agq the Radio | Corporation and other interests amal- | gamated in the National Association | of Broadcasters drafted Schuette to con- | duct their copyright contest with the | American Society of Composers, Authors |and Publishers. Those who know the | resourceful crusading qualities which Schuette uncorked against the “radio | trust” predict that the “copyright trust” will know it's in a fight before it's | through with him. ok % | .. Washineton seethes | tales of forthcoming sensations in the | Lindbergh case, whisperingly described as making everything that's sound like mere bedtime stories. (Copyright, 1932.) ——oe— Alice in Blunderland. "flf‘.:.. the Springficld (Mass.) Dally Repub- The original of the heroine of “Alice in Wonderland” finds America a land, with many features book. She came at the right ——— The Fulcrum. From the Schenectady Gasette. ‘There isn't any way to balance the ' budget except on the taxpayer's neck. Shakespeare | more than the owner of some vast es- | | that he had not been able to give any | Constitutional Status of Married Employes | To the Editor of The Star: Relative to the letter appearing in a recent issue of The Evening Star writ- unbyuhum:h:rb.l&m- in | their editorials on the “injustice of married women working whose hus- nds are gainfully employed,” it is de to bring.to the attention of both Miss Eberly and others of like mind a few “cold facts” on the subject which are worthy of consideration from an angle of a broader and more viewpoint and at the same time without the injection of the personal appeal into | the matter. | The Constitution of the United States | grants all women the right of franchise, | together with all privileges as those of men, does it not? Then, under such act and Constitution it becomes both illegal and unconstitutional to legislate rulings which say to these legal resi- dents and voters of the United States, “If you marry or are married and are employed in the Government service :‘rl:d if your husband is aleo so em?tl’nyed erein, you must resign your jon.” Should this unwmuwnammldl- tion be passed to oust msarried women, wotld it not be placing a severe penalty upon marriage and, tco, would it not be one of the strongest means of de- stroying the marriage state and tend to { ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. realize how much Star can draw on |all Government activities through our free information service. The world's| greatest libraries, laboratories and ex- perimental stations are at their com-| mand. Ask any question of fact and it | will be answered, free, by mail direct to | you. Inclose 2-cent stamp for reply (Information Bureau, Frederic J. Has- | | kin, Director, Washington, D. C. | Q. What strokes are used in paddling | | & cance?—C. B. R. A. Bow stroke, jay stroke, pushover, | draw, crocs bow rudder, sweep, back- water stroke. feathering. Q. How tall is the new Citles Service m:d%i&l?:; York?—G. L. g erected by the Henr L. Doherty interests known as Selma'y ‘Wall Tower is 67 stories high. Its spire Tises 950 feet above the street level and it is surpassed Empire State and the Chrysler Build- ing. The gross floor area is 1,045,000 square feet and the cost is estimated at The recovery is called eliminate the moral code among this | particular class of Government em- | p'oyes? And, too, why should they be | dismissed and at ths same time exempt | | those married couples whose husbands ' 1 *service in private industry? Is not, too, this Government service | |open to all persons, male and female, ! | married and single, regardless of their marital status, provided the required | examinations for such employment? | Would it not tend to unlimited ineffici- ency in such governmental service were such a ruling enacted wherein there would be single persons retained who may be inefficient while often the mar- ried woman would be dismissed due to the enactment—and she might be a mush more efficient employe? No, legislation of this nature as it is now proposed eliminates entirely the American democratic idea of all citi- | zens, whether male or female, martied |or sing'e, having equal rights, and con- stitutes an unfair discrimination nar- which If such legislation is contemplated it should therefore be proper and just! from a constitutional point to revoke | that part of the Constitution of the United States wherein it grants all| ’righu and privileges to all perzons, and ' place women back on the status they, formerly had—without rights whatever | | and therefore no penalty on their mari- tal status or relationship. HARRY E. RIESEBERG. ——————— {Mouse Masters Rattler Despite Inferior Size "o the Editor of The Star: I read with intere-t 2n article headed | “Tiny Mouse Com=- Out Victor in Fight | With Rattlesnake-,” which appears on | the frong page of Thursday's issue of The Star. | At the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.. during 1929 and 1930 I collaborated | with Drs. Essex and Markowitz in a series of studies of the physiologic ac- tion of rattiesnake venom. We found that the snakes which we | were keeping would not eat in captivity. | ‘We thought that perhaps they required !a live animal to tempt their appetite, | !ond accordingly offered one of them a | live mouse. Nothing happened immedi- fetely and we left the two together over- | ni7bt, hoj that his lordship the .=l‘mlke would eat during the quiet of the 1 night. | Morning reévealed the startling fact | that net only was the mouse unharmed, t he faken a nice meal from the | 't of the rattlesnake’s neck, which | ' ultimately resulted in the death of the, snake. An explanation which has been | tendered is that a snake will not strike | 8¢ 50 small, obj:ct. 1t is & fact that | at a ea. , with fatal results. o These facts most likely explain why it is that the mouse can exhibit so much courage. Another interesting, | though not very plausible, explanation is that the mouse trades upon the reputa- tion of the mongoose, a little animal which preys upon snakes. It should be comforting to know that mice in the house should materially re- CGuce the unpleasant possibility of some snake making its residence there. It* seems to prove that even a mouse is good for something. V. H. BURROWS. Expepses Must Be Cut To Restore Prosperity To the Editor of The Star: There has got to be a reduction n expenses tefore a permanent restoration of prosperity prevails. Old Man De- getsllon may die of old ag> or he ma; killed, and it would not be considered murder, but costs have got to come wn. Man requires so much more to live on nowadays than he did a few years ago. The car has to be in good running shape and the gas to propel it has to be accessible and fluid. There is a cer- tain objective to be obtained, viz. to keep up with and pass the Jones and | damn the cost. | in the buflding. Q. Why is a cantata so called?>—M. D. A. This Itallan word literally means | word meaning to sing. Q. Has any Vice President resigned the office?—V. B. A. John Calhoun resigned as Vice President in 1829 over payment of tariff duties and entered the Sencte from ! South Carolina. Q. What is the difference in level be- ;weén Lake Superior and tidewater?— | | A There is a difference of 600 feet.| Q. Please explain how_h: | festened to chariot H A. In the chariots vsed by the ancient Greeks and Romans tke pole was ap- parently attached to the middle of the | axle and at the end cf the pole was & | yoke which consisted of two small saddles fitting the necks of the horses orses were T latter should have no place in the' minds of oth-rs than those concerned. | fnd fastened by broad bands around Besides this the harness of { each horse consisted of a bridle and a pair of reins, mostly the same as in use now. The reins were passed through rings attached to the collar bands or yoke, and were long enough to be tied around the waist of the charioteer. Q. How can a living cell be distin- guished from a dead cell under a micro- scone?—R. G. A. It can be recognized by its ap- pearance and motility. Q. How many bottles of soft drinks oes the average person drink in a year’—G. P. A. More than 90. This average would ireu.: infants, as the total consump- t!on in the United States is more than 11.900,030,000 bottles of non-alcoholic beverages annually. Q What was the population of Jerusalem when it was destroyed in 70 A. D.?—Q. R. A. Josephus says that the population of the city was 1,000,000. Tacitus places it at 600,000. It is now believed that these figures are exaggerations and that the population was between 30,000 and 45,000. Q. When did iden Lane bscome the center of the jewelry trade in the United States?>—N. M. A. About 1830. Q. Please explain the process of float- ing mmg.uud by col —J. K. A. In iting stamps to remove the p:-pet which adhere to used sl put Place use a fairly shallow pan and about one-half inch of water. the stamps In face up—that is water, sculling and silent or under- | in height only by the | | $15,000,000. The Cities Service Co. will | ‘ occupy 16 floors tage and address The Evening Star| the Q. cago, I, Y A. Thirty-four railroads enter Chi- | cago, and 19 enter Toledo. Q. Which are the three largest is- lands in the world?—H. H. A. If the island continent of Aus- tralia is incluced, it heads the list. The second in size is Greenland, and third is New Guinea. If Australia is ex- cluded, Borneo must be added as third i in size, Q. What is the present form of gov- ernment of Greece?—K. S. A. Greece is a republic. The present constitution of the Greek Republic was published September 22, 1926. It was | revised in November of that year and proclaimed June 3, 1927. The Legis- lature is composed of two houses of Parllament whose 150 members are | elected by direct, universal and secret | voting on the basis of proportional rep- |are employed outside the Government sung music, coming from the Latin |Tfesentation, and the Senate whose 120 | members are elected partly by the peo- ple, partly by the Parliament and the Senate in common meeting, and partly by corporations of different professions. The two houses of the Legisiature elect | a President for five vears. The cabinet rises and falls as other European cabi- | nets on the party system. Q. How long does it take an illiter~ ate adult to learn to write?—R. D. A. In the Moonlight Schools there were few mountain women who could not write a simple letter after three weeks' instruction. Many learned in less time, PO What is a farthingale bench?— A. A. It is a broed-seated chair without arms made in the reigns of James I and Elizabeth to accommodate the hooped skirts or farthingales of the women of that time. Q. Please give examples of Gothie, Norman-Gothic, Renaissance, Roman- esque and Byzantine architecture in Washington, D. C.>—H. E. K. A. Gothic: (English) The Washing- ton Cathedral, Mount St. Alban’s, Wis- consin avenue and Woodley road. Nor- man-/ : Smithsonian Institution, the Mall. Renaissance: Library of Cone= gress, Capitol Hill. Romanesque, Sac- red Heart Church, Sixteenth street and Park road northwest. Byzantine: The Catholic Shrine (Cathedral) Catholic University, Brookland, D. C. Q. Are the erprints of identical twins alike?—T. .mfl A. The term identical twins means identical in appearance. Identical twins are always of the same sex. Usually even such minute items as the fingerprints of the right hand of one twin are more like the right hand prints of the other than like those of his or her own left hand ones. Occasionally one of a pair of identicals is right handed and the other left. In such | cases the right hand of the right- | hander is usually a perfectly good re- | versed carbon copy of the left hand of the left-hander. Q. Please give a short of the Bank of Pnn'o}e? LY. R.M'm | A. The Bank of France owes its ari- gin to Napoleon. It was founded om Pebruary 13, 1800. It does not belong | to the state, but to private sharehold- ers. At the time of its foundation it had a capital of 30,000,000 francs and | g_fi;;u r““lladhby m& 182,500,000 , which has been capital | the bank since 1857. * Hoover Veto of Tariff Bill Seen as Factor in Stability Importance of stability in the busi- | The Nation and the rest of the world ness world is emphasized in the com- | are crying out for some leadership out ments on President Hoover’s veto of the ' of the mess. And all the President can | tariff bill which was sent to the White | do is say, ‘There has never been a time | House by Congress. Opinions differ | somewhat along party lnes, though | there is recognition of widespread oppo- | sition to the existing tariff law. Ad-| visability of meeting business condi- tions, especially in a campaign year, is considered in some comments. The| measure would have provided for inter- national negotiations and would abolish | the flexible provision of the tariff. Hesitancy in industry and trade is emphasized by the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin (independent Republican), and | | that paper offers the opinion: “The | precipitation of new uncertainty as to | | the protective tariff, covering the wide | \ field of producing enterprise, would be | an inexcusable blunder. To abandon | | the present flexibility of the tariff act, | . which is adequate to meet all insistent | | need for modification, is bad enough; to | | go backward to the log-rolling precess | of general tariff revision, which would | have been ifivited by the Democraiic " bill, would be worse.” On the other hand, the Atlanta Jour- nal (Democratic) holds that “the lib- We will have to secure new assets or | eral tariff bill pointed a way to the re- won trust-busting fame a ' year or so ago by driving the radiy | with incredible | of ne before | the obtain that very necessary balance of | budget and other things that are sup- | posed to make for peace and happiness. |, The Government budget cannot be | balanced with extravagant expenditures and the income n to offset such spending lacking. We have the Tesources, but seem to be unable to use them in a crisis like the present. A doctrine of dollars alone it seems will not do. Something to substitute for dollars, as incentive to induce people to forget and stop dwelling on the theme of bad times, in orcer to restore the world to a better place. Now let the master minds of the Re- public stop knocking each other, get together to devise some plan that will help conditions and think more of the good of their country and their fellow citizens, by putti a plan in operation, than they do of their credits for non- productive actions and their tenure of office. If the master minds are unable to do the job. let the office boys have a chance at it, but for the public good let something be done by somebody that will help. CHARLES J. SIMPSON. e Mr. Stanton Answered As to Reserve Officers To the Editor of The Star: Merel, in Wednesday's Star, hasn't the slightest idea of what a Re- serve officers’ two weeks’' camp con- sists. He seems to have some quarrel with the “young officers, who number sbout half the trainers, the balance men up to 60 years of age. Mr. Stanton knew anything about these camps he would know that they are chuck full of good, hard work and prac- tical military problems which train the ers—both old—to more alter our mode of living before we can | message,” according .| Transcript (indepen vival of international trade” and “pro- vided, among several things, for the calling of an international conference | to consider the removal of barriers to | the world's commerce which are lnrgelx | responsible for the existing depression.” The Journal offers the esiimate of the proposed conference that it favored the | worl out “of & system of reciprocities | | whereby each country, without surren- | | facilitate the general exchange of goods. | The contrary course, with its exoroftant import duties, its retaliations and its economic wars,” continues the Atlanta paper, “has brought us to the brink of international bankruptey. Surely, the time has come for a liberal and con- structive policy. But President H‘oovet vetoes it. The bill also altered the ‘flex- ible’ provision of the existing tariff law by transferring from the Chief Execu- tive to the power to change import duty rates upon the Tariff Corq- | mission’s recommendation. Mr. Hoover's | ousy of his prerogative in this re- | spect may be natural, but certainly the power to fix tarifls, which is a power to | tax, belongs, under our Constitution, to the legislative and not the executive function of government. The veto was not unexpectad. It simply confirms the hopelessness of relief, from the prsunt administration, for intolerable ills. * kK * “Protection, like armies and arma- ments, is & world-wide fact,” declares the -Review folly for the dent Republican), hich, however, to an “interest- 14 | _ "It is disappointing” i dering a right of its own, could help 10 | gycaqt) in the history of the United States when tariff protection was more essential to the welfare of the American people.” This is the Hoover from whom was hoped some light and leading—some slight willingness to listen to the intelli~ gent voices of the times.” o “The record in the case,” the Buffaio Evening News (independens lI’tlepubucnx;), !.(s ;me of the most pm e examples of Jegi:laf for pol issues 'nlane that has cot:g up lnmuent ." The Newark Evening News (independent) agrees that it “was mane ufactured for campaign purposes and undertook to make political capital without assuming party responsibility.” That paper, however, believes that “the iniquitous schedules of the Hawley- Smoot law brought some of our present troubles upon us.” The New York Sun (independent), seeing a political move, holds that “to negotiate riciprocal agree- | ;g'\.{:l:: :‘:;htoe?flsln gatlon.s would be to | ariff and trade wars raf | than to end present ones.” i Lo‘ the Spring= fi (incepende to find Mr. Hoover so ln?!nsllle: to ?l:: havoc created by the exaggerated and intensified ‘economic nationalism’ now rampant in the world.” The Baltimore Sun (independent Democratic) asserts: Having done Trojfan service in knock- ing most of the world off the gold standard, what does Mr. Hoover propose to do about it? To retrace some of the rous steps which have been taken, as would be done by Senator Cordell Hull, who was correctly prophesying the present debacle while Mr. Hoover was envisagi twWo cars in every 9 Not a His plan is to countries which have been kicked Off a stable currency base by embargo tariff follies another kick by ere additians to tariff walls against them to take account of their depreciated cur- Tencies. It is his concept of statecraft to continue the race around field (Mass.) Republican occasion still E gl;ltlecuve"l:rrlfl.u, until at long last :: mgdmanc’) or starves in complete ‘self- .gio:'m"r" veto,” as viewed by the (Re- | will look —————— Should Be Fifty-Fifty. h?l.;he the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator. suggestion has been made that all bridge during this period S Rl o & lem of what to do with bum I. Of B Liquid Lightning. Prom the Florence (Ala.) Herald. It is sald that in the -m:‘.phhoe. kind does. 8 never strikes it sometimes Backtrackers. 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