Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1932, Page 8

" A-8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.........May 23, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t ghicaso Ofice: Lake Michivan Building. ropean Office: 14 Regent S.. London, England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. ‘ e Evening Btar.... . .45¢ per wmonth he Evening and Suiday Siar (when 4 Sundays) . - .60c per month The Evening and Sund; (when 5 Sundays) 65¢ per month The Sunday Star c_per copy y -5 Collection made at the end of each month. rders mav be sent in by mail or ielephone Ational 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virg Daily and Sunda: aily only unday only .. All Other States and Canada. ily and Sunday...1yr.$1200: 1 mo.. $1 aily only .......l.1yr. $8.00: 1mo. nday only . ¥r. $5.00: 1mo. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively ertitled o the use for republication of all news dis- tehes credited tc it or not otherwise ered- publication of also reserved. = . e - Direct Tax Comparison, ‘The simple, direct method of meas- uring Washington's tax burden, elimi. nating controversy over methods of rep- resenting the tax burden either by “ad- | justed” tax rate or by per capitas and escaping criticism for the selection of cities chosen for the comparison, would be to compare such important totals as expenditures, tax levies and total tax receipts in Washington with those of the cities that approximate it in size of population. If such total in Washing- ton exceed such totals in the cities nearest in size to Washington, Washing- ton would thereby be shown to be adequately taxed. i ‘The Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations Between the United States and the District of Columbia has made numerous comparisons from all conceivable angles of approach to dem- onstrate the adequacy of the District’s tax burden. With these comparisons are those suggested above, where Wash- ington’s tax burden has been pictured in relation to those of Minneapolis and | New Orleans, the cities most closely approximating it in population. A de- tailed discussion of the results will be found in today's article, elsewhere in these columns, describing these and| other data placed before the Senate Subcommittee on District Appropria- tions. Washington's expenditures on munici- pal governmental functions are shown to be in excess of thosz by the other | cities with which it is compared. That excess is wholly justified by the fact that this is the National Capital. For obvious reasons more money must be spent on Police and Fire Departments, on streets, schools, recreation parks, playgrounds, etc. in Washington than in the average self-suppofrting cities. This excess of expenditures should not be confused with excessive expend®tures. Congress has not erred on the side of extravagance in appropriating for its National Capital. The error has been in the other direction. Proof of this lies in the many and important under- takings that have been postponed until later years because of a lack of revenue, in spite of the fact tha} expenditures here for necessary maingemance of Na- tional City functions e#e In excess of those in other comparable municipalities. In the table numbered 2 and ac-; companying today's article there is graphic showing of what Washington taxpayers are called upon to pay in comparison with the demand upon tax- payers in Minneapolis and New Orleans. When Washingtonians contribute nearly $5,000.000 more in total taxes (including special assessments) than taxpavers of | Minneapolis, and nearly $12,000,000 more than the taxpayers of New Orleans, and the greatest difference in population between the cities is 25,000, it is diffi- cult to maintain the assertion that ‘Washington is dodging any taxes. And when it is considered that Minneapolis and New Orleans are together paying more than $7,000,000 a year in interest on indebtedness, and their total taxes (excluding special assessments) are still below that of Washington (Minneapolis bfimlllury autocracy at Tokio. two terms as governor general in Kores, wer those of chlef Japanese | delegate at the Geneva Naval Con- ference of 1927—the so-called Coolidge cruiser conference. Ambassador Gb- son and the other Americans who Tepresented the United Stater on t-hlt' abortive occasion experienced the most | cordial co-operation at Admiral Saito’s | hands. As a consequence, Japan and the United States for the most part stood shoulder to shoulder against the British point of view throughout the attempt to reach a commonly agree- ! able basis of cruiser limitation. As an elder statesman, seasoned by, ripe experience and world cunhcu.I | Admiral Saito's choice will strike | foreign observers as a happy selection for the premiership of Japan at this!| critical hour. He is at least qualified {to realize the perils that lurk in a C e Prompt Action Demanded. Eleven outstanding Americans—out- standing in government and educational | flelds—have appealed to the leaders in | Congress to drop partisan politics, sec- tionaiism and class sentiment and act | promptly to balance the budget. The President of the United States has re- peatedly called on Congress to delay no longer, but to pass the legislation for | which the country has been waiting for ymonths. Up tc date, however, Congress | has not acted. As late as Saturday | night the leaders, while expressing thei | determination to keep Congress on th job until it does act, gave gloomy | accounts of the prospects for speedy | disposition of the important measures pending, including the revenue bill. In the list of signers of this latest appeal to Congress are six Republicans and five Democrats. The names at- tached to the appeal are known throughout the country. Alfred E. Smith, former Governor of New York !and the Democratic nominee for Presi- | (dent in 1928; Govs. Cross of Con- necticut. Ely of Massachusetts and | Ritchle of Maryland and Roland S. | Morris of Pennsylvania, former Am- | bassador to Japan, are the Demo- crats signing the letter addressed to the leaders of both parties in Senate | and House. Nichoias Murray Butler of New York, president of Columbia Uni- | versity; Willlam H. Crocker of Cali-| fornia, Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, former Governor; Charles Nagel of Mis- sourl, former Secretary of Commerce and Labor; John Grier Hibben, presi- | dent of Princeton University, and Alan- son H. Houghton, former Ambassador to Germany and Great Britain, are the Republican signers. Their letter to the congresstonal leaders is brief and to the point, If they awake or help to ! awake those members of Congress who | have not realized the vital importance | of speedy action on legislation at this | time, to their present responsibilities, | they will have accomplished much. These men demand that members of | Congress lay aside “every form of par- tisanship and of possible partisan ad- | vantage.” In considerable measure Mr. Smith's concurrence in this plea | is merely a reiteration of his demand | for non-partisan action in Congress[ contained in a public address he made a week ago. In the opinion of Mr.| Smith, Dr. Butler and other leaders, as | well' as observers of public opinion in this country, the time-killing meth- ods of Congress plus the effort on the part of individual members of the House and Senate to play politics are a serious menace to the public welfare. The country is awake to these facts, and 1t may be expected that Congress | itself will awake to them. It is an intolerable situation when the Congress dawdles and talks, largely for the rec- ord and campaign purposes, while the | country waits for legislation to balance the Government budget and maintain credit and restore courage. The in- ability of the Congress to act promptly in time of emergency has done more to arouse criticism of thai body than anything the Congress has actudlly done. The time has come whei th-.-f American people expect their legisla- | tors to buckle down to work in the in- terest of the whole people. It is no; time to consider the special interests and the “blocs,” the organized minori- ties, which have had ‘such powerful in- fluence in the Congress in recen: years. The immediate task of Congress is the completion of the revenue bill, now pending in the Senate. This bill is to | | far better cause. Now, in effect, they THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. MWAY 23, 1932. and better” billboards that are about to| rise under the new dispensation will more effectually conceal an unsightly spectacle incident to an auto-wrecking enterprise. It would really be better to have only one ruisance instead of two. The auto-wrecking work is a legitimate business, though it does not contribute to the artistic setting of the Capital. If it is to be shielded from public view it should be by a fence without “decorations.” ‘The billboard interests have not kept the faith in the matter of removing their signs from the highways around ‘Washington. They have shown a per- sistence in continuing the nuisance of disfiguring the landscape worthy of a trick the District Commissioners into granting a new lease of life to the city disfigurements on the plea of making improvements, If the law does not permit the Com- missioners to sweep these offenses out of public view it should be amended | Poo! with speed. An effort to secure such an enactment would probably be re- sisted. The interests involved are ex- tensive and influential. But opposed to such a “lobby” as would be set at work against a proper anti-billboard law would be a great mass of public opinion, both local and national, that should win the contest for a clean Capital. Oratorical contestants at the age of sixteen offer eloquent discussions of the merits of the United States Constitu- tion. Early genius such as this justifies the confidence of our forefathers that the Nation would be safe forever in the hands of posterity. . e » Assassinations are carrying horror throughout the world. The most ter- rible of them all was that of the Lind- bergh baby. It had not even the faint Jjustification of political fanaticism. ————— Assumptions, in connection with tax requirements, that the country is in a state of war {llustrate the exaggerated state of imagination that quite fre- quently mistakes a quarrel for a fight. —r———— Fact is proverbially stranger than fiction. Japan would be happier today ! if it were possible to depict her cus- toms in the comic opera spirit of W. 8. Gilbert’s “Mikado.” —_ . Underworld operators have evidently decided on a reign of terror. A reputa- tion for atrocity is regarded as a professicnal asset. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Endurance. Events had put the farmer in a some- what mournful mood. A mocking bird with melody had ven- tured to intrude. The farmer said, “This world is full of darkness and of doubt! I'd like to know, you silly bird, what you are singin’ "bout!” The flowers smiled at him when he was plowing in the fleld. He looked upon them all with a dis- favor unconcealed. He pushed a tractor over them and quickly laid ’em out, And said, “I'd like to know what you had found to smile about.” And yet he heard the mocking bird. 'Twas singing just the same. He found the flowers blooming in the cottage window frame. No matter how the shadows fall, Hope is forever strong, And there’s nothing so enduring as the smiling and the song. Unswerving Attitude, “Have you consulted your constitu- ents to ascertain what kind of taxes they prefer?” “Frequently,” said Senator Sorghum, “and the response is always the same. They don't like any kind.” Jud Tunkins says with so much fire- works going on promiscuously through the world, he's afraid he is going to lose his taste for the ordinary Fourth of July celebration. Luck and Pluck. ‘When a fiyer boldly crosses ‘Where the ocean wildly tosses, All admit that she was plucky THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘Templeton Jones stood on a street corner on a warm afternoon, in his right hand a paper bucket, in which reposed t! goldfish, one snail, and three oxygenating plants. He was homeward-bound, the reader will perceive, to stock his new pool, which nestled in a depression near the foot of a great tree behind his garage. He was going to restore the balance of nature. . Nature was somewhat out of balance, as it were, in the small confines of the Jonesian pond. A small hardy waterlily was there, as also a cattall, a water hyacinth and a water poppy. But these were not enough. What that pool needed, Jomes had thought, was a clam. But, alas, no one had clams. The fresh water clam, he had read, was a prime pecessity for the small 1 It has a habit of getting its food from' the water, filtering it out, so that “keeps the pool as clear as a crystal,” according to the book. Now Templeton Jones believed in Not that he believed everything he read, either, but books were books, after all, and nothing else in the world could quite tak: their place. He thought this, as he stood on the corner, sympathizing with his goldfish, and waiting for the public vehicle. He waited .50 long that he had time to impiovise the following Book Song done in the manner of the Negro spirituals: I's a-goin’ to hebben wid a book on mah knee, To teach de angel Gabriel his A, T'll be hyar a-readin’ Massa Gibbon’s “Rome” When dey tex me 'way frum mah earthly home. ©Oh, Lawd, gimme a Book, ©Oh, Lawd. le’ me look: Oh. Lawd. ah ain't tock Nothin’ to hebben but a lttle book. T'll be dar a-readin’ on de golden stair When de Lawd comes up an’ smoothes mah hair; One thing sho, if yo see me, Dey'll be a big book, a-restin’ on mah knee. Oh, Lawd, gimme mah Book; Oh, Lawd, let me look; Oh, Lawd, ah zin't took Nothin’ to hebben but a little book. I mayn't have wings, when yo take a look, But gqe,\":s one thing sho, I'll have a ok ; I doan care much 'bout a robe, ar such, But wifout my books, hebben wouldn't be much. Oh, Lawd, gimme a Book Oh, Lawd, let me look; Oh, Lawd, ah ain't took Nothin’ to hebben but a little book. Can you see this queer cuss, Temple- ton Jones, standing there on the down- town corner swinging a bucket of fish, making up his book song line by line to a melody of his own improvising? The fish were quiet in the bucket be- cause it was dark in there and the air was giving out. They had enough for two hours. the man had said; one ought to be able to get to Rockville in that time, or even points farther West, and Templeton Jones wasn't going that far. He was just going to restore the bal- ance of nature, that was all, and one | doesn’t have to go all the way to Rock- | ville for that. He felt sorry for the fish. They had been scocped out a big equarium, where they swam blithely with what looked to Jones to be hun- dreds of their companions, darting in streams of red-gold from place to place. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. and three of them came into th!:nxper bucket to begin a new life. wondered how it would feel Fransported o & pool airendy inhablted rans| 2 pool by a waterlily, & cat-tail, a hyacinth and & poppy. Perhaps it would help, if one were a goldfish, to feel that one were bound on the high mission of ance of nature. dition of a quiet piece of water, exactly 24 inches in diameter, and as round— as round as a washtub, exactly. ‘The sun shone on the water, trying lure the hardy lly, Odorata minor, to push a leaf out; and certain algae re- sponded, tending to give the surface & poor look. fio:" the snail wnuhL !'l: mfun mfl 3 ant oxygenating plants wol lve the fish air, and between them all the water would be ngc pure, at least pure enough for water! and goldfish. Jones felt like composing another song, to be entitled “Balancing Nature in a Tub,” but he didn't. There were enough songs in the world already, and enough poems, too. Consider those famous lines, “Ode on Goldfishes.” ver heard of a cat drowning of its own free will, and espe- cially in a tub of goldfishes? Jones shifted the bucket to the left hand. Suppose it should begin to leak? After all, it was nothing but cardboard, and the contents were not ice cream. It would be a calamity, he thought. if the bottom should come out, and those poor fish would flop onto the pavement in the hot afternoon sun. In such an event, should he gather the fishes up in his paper and run into the nearest store, hastily crying for water? Such a course would be embarrass- ing. to say the least, but Jones had been in many embarr time. Once he had taken a full-grown lemon pie home in a street car. If any one doesn’t believe this is difficult, let him try it, especially if the pie is merely wrapped in paper. It happened many years ago, but Templeton Jones still remembers that lemon pie and its inclination to break asunder, and the glances of the ladies, and the prods of thoughtless fellow pas- ae:_:‘%em' elbows. en there was the big electric fan which he bore home one hot Summer | afternoon. This was a street car jour- | ney, likewise, with every seat taken and most of the straps engaged. Balancing 8 heavy fan in one hand while trying to keep one’s own balance and prevent the contrivance from fall- ing upon some one's head— Well, it was a feat only exceeded in difficulty by that of personally trans- Emlnj—d.sc on public conveyance—a rge glass lamp shade, in the days cold, Wintry day when the wind was blowing strongly from the West. The man wrapped the shade in tissue paper, yards of it, securely entwined, as he thought and as Jones hoped. The windefooled them both. It whipped the tissue out like a bride’s train or the smoke from a locomotive engine. And when aboard the bus, there stood Jones—one always stood in those days—with yards and yards of tis- sue paper flowing down the aisle, the delicate globe in dancer of being shat- by what seemed to be a million rude elbows. Yes, Templeton Jones had ht ‘em home in his time—a bucket of gold- | fishes, a snail, and three plants were nothing at all to such a man. Let us leave him there, standing on the corner in the sunshine, swinging his bucket gingerly, waiting for his bus, | homeward bound to balance nature ina two-foot pool. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS As in the Lindbergh tragedy, be pre- pared from now on for almost anything in connection with legislative develop- ments in Congress. With the unex- pectedness of a thunderstorm, the tariff has burst into the situation to an extent which at this writing is incalculable. Scnators fear that tax, economy and relief bills all may be held up indefi- nitely if politics is played with the | tariff, following the inclusion of import duties on oil and coal in the Senate revenue bill. The question of adjourn- ment or recess is now wholly up in the air. Nobody knows what's going to happen. This week should be the crucial test. If Senator Tydings with his 500 tariff amendments and Senator Norris with his equalization-fee amend- | ment mean business, they can throw monkey wrenches enough into the ma- chinery to keep Congress on the job till the crack of doom. Business shudders at the thought. Rightly or wrongly business has got it into its head that the chief contributory causes of continuing Augustus Swanson, senior Democratic Senator from Virginia. Sitting far | away in placid Geneva, Swanson is thousands of miles from the madding | throng now bickering and barteriag at | the Capitol. With the daily necossity for decisions chock full of dynamite, the Virginian's detachment from the embattled scene fills Senators in both parties with green-eyed envy. Swanson | has a general pair with Senator Jones, Republican, of Washington, which in most cases prevents the Seattle states- man from voting. Secretary Stimson reported to President Hoover that Mr. Swanson is proving himself a tower of strength for the American delegation at Geneva. Although he went to Europe far from well, Swanson turned out to be the one and only member of the American contingent who has success- fully withstood the Swiss climate. * k x * One of the hardest nuts Col. Stim- | son has had to crack since his return | from Geneva is whether it's worth an Suddenty ok was oo, the net descended, amid the | Week was mad flutter of scores of little bodies, | 61 against to be a |ano restoring the bal- ' The goal, of course, was a sweet con- | Prohibition laws to |In8 a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of { assing positions in his | Tydings vote in 1o} the the revenue bill, legalized 2.75 per cent beer. This vote, fish didn't know anything about {85 other votes in the Congress it, of scourse, but Jones did, and amendment which would ha country. And it has made it er that the voters in congressional districts elect Senators and Congress who anti-| peal or day in dry Idaho, for example. The wet lead- ers in the Senate, however, are persis- tent and gluttons for punishment. Senator Bingham, the “big beer man~’ from Connecticut, is the author of an- other beer amendment to the revemus bill. He hopes to have at least 30 votes for his proposal, because it is not tied in with & public works program, as was the Tydings amendment. * X % % ‘Take a look at the way in which the Senate voted on the Tydings amend- ment. Only 16 of the 48 States were represented by Senators who voted for beer. Another State, Ohio, would have & Senator voting for beer, too, had Senator Bulkley, Democraf, of that He Was paired, State, been able to vote. and s0 would Minnesota, had Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite, been permitted to vote. Had all been permitted to vote, 18 States would have been represented in the wet column, although only nine of these States would have cast two votes for the beer proposal. Senators Reed of Pennsylvania and Moses of New Hampshire, both Republicans, Yyoted for a Bingham substitute for the amen nt, increasing the alcoholic content of the beer permitted slightly and divorcing the legalization of beer from the public works pro- gram. They could not, they said, stom- ach the whole Tydings amendment be- cause of the proposed public works P Notwiihstanding the howing mad n s! made in the Senate for beer on the Tydings smendment, the Senators themselves, talking privately, insist that the change in sentiment for repeal or modification of the dry laws-of the Nation is marked, even in hitherto supposedly strongly dry States. Furthermore, the ease with which the Government could gather in a large amount, of revenue from a beer tax is making its appeal to the hard- pressed members of Congress now working on the revenue bill. It is quite possible, it is said, that if the Republi- can and Democratic National Conven- tions, meeting next month in Chicago. should both include in their national platforms planks regarded as wet or lle to the dry cause, and the Con- gress remain in session thereafter, a new attempt to legalize beer and make it subject to a Federal tax would have a chance of favorable action. The Sen- ate would be the highest hurdle for the beer people to jump. What the President might do in the way of vetoing a beer bill if it ever got to him is still another question. * X %k X One vote that was noticeable in the Senate roll call on the Tydings beer | amendment was that cast by Senator Samuel Shortridge of California. Mr. SHortridge voted for the beer amend- | ment. He is up for re-election this Fall and he has a wei opponent for the Republican senatorial nomination. Notwithstanding the large dry vote in| Southern and Republican _California, Senator Shortridge has cast his lot with the wets. Perhaps the report that Wil- liam Gibbs McAdoo, who is seeking the Democratic senatorial nomination to run esgainst Shortridge, has indicated he will favor a referendum on the pro- hibition issue also had its part in de- termining the course of Senator Shert- ridge on the beer amendment. Serator Johnson. his colleague, voted against the beer amendment. * % x % > Only 10 States have not so far indi- cated in some manner their choice of delegates to the Democratic national department devoted . ‘This the services y capacity that capacity This service is of it deprives Information _ Bureau, Director, Washing- Q. Please give the record of the famous horse Exterminator?—M. C. A. earnings totaled $252,596. ‘What per cent of the wives who get divorces recelve alimony?—C. P. A. The Literary Digest says that ali- by only 9 per cent ing divorces in recent years, and it was granted to 6 per cent. i Q. What hand in cribbage counts 29?—S8. E. A. A hand consisting of three fives and a jack counts 29 when the turned card is the other five and is of the same suit as the jack in the hand. Q. Do farm horses live longer than city horses?—V. L. A. The average life span of horses is 14 to 15 years on the farm and 11 years in the city. Q. How many Americans enlisted in the Canadian Army during the World, ‘War?—W. F. W. A. There were 35599 Americans en- listed. Of these 2,138 died or were killed in action, Q. How did the French Panama Canal Co. get its pay for relinquishing its rights?>—H. S. H. A. When the United States negoti- ated the purchase of existing canal rights in Panama, John Pierpont Mor- 000,000 in gold to the French Panama Canal Co. Q. What is the derivation of the name Cinderella’—W. C. C. A. The name means just what it says. ‘The girl's name was Ella. During the period of her persecution and employ- bment as a kitchen maid she sat among | the cinders of the hearth. She was given the name of Cinder Ella which, in the repetition of the tale became Cin- derella. Q. Where do the Moros live’—L. M. A. The Moros are people inhabiting | the southern islands of the Philippines. They are Mochammedans by religion. The origin is Malay, with a possible mixture of Arab. Q. How muych land around Wakeficld, | the birthplace of George Washington, is owned by the United States Govern- ment?>—W. T. K. in the reservation known as the George ‘Washington Birthplace National Monu- ment. Q. Why was the “Madonna del Viog- gio” so called>—O. P. A. Because its cwner, Grand Duke Ferdinand III, prized the painting so greatly that he took it with him on his travels and into exile. The picture is gsok called “The Madonna of the Grand | Duke.” Q. If a salvage company raises a ves- sel, does the cargo and ship belong to it>—R. H. P. A. If a ship is salvaged whose owner | is known that ship belongs to the orig- inal owner, and the salvage company ANSWERS TO QUI'TIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. gan arranged for the payment of $40,.- | A. Nearly 400 acres is contained with- | | company concerning the amount it may oct on the value of the salvaged pr@perty. If the owner of the salvaged sh cannot be located, the salvage | company has title to the property. | Q Was Walter Damrosch born in this country?—L. R. He was born in Bres- A. He was not. lau, Prussia. Q. What was the vehicle called which Indians dragged behind their ponies to carry luggage?—H. E. O'H. A. Travois was the name given to & temporary combination of tipi poles and tipl cover used when moving camp. It was so constructed that it formed a lit- ter upon which houschold belongings, including somet. the old people and children, were c; d possible. Four-leaved | clovers will not come true from seed, as they are mutants or sports, but can | be propagated by cuttings. | z | @ What is the decoration known ss the Purple Heart>—M. K. | "A. One hundred and fifty vears ago Gen. Washington wrote the general or- der establishing the Purple Heart as |a badge of distinction in our Army. | The badge was to foster and encourage | every species of military merit and re- ward not only instances of unusual gal- lantry, but also of extraordinary fidel- ity and essential service. Those to whom it was awarded were permitted to wear on the facings over the left , breast the figure of a heart in purple cloth or silk, edged with a narrow lace or binding. Q. Does a cup of coffee stimulate a person who does not often drink coffee as much as it does a person who drinks coffee regularly?—W. K | A. A Cornell survey the non-user receives a tion. points out that greater stimula- | Q. Do goldfish sleep>—E. B like other fish do mot s of closing Goldfish. Slecp. They hav | their eyes and thy which comes to higher ar | sleep by merely remaining quiet. Q. How often do expert wood chop- pers sharpen their axes?—J. H. F. A. The Forest Service s depends on many thing: axes themselves and the which are being fe'led. Generally, how- ever, the men wh 1t thelr axes in everv ‘The limbers. on tb as a rule, have th axes after every day's work. Th in the limbs dull them ve Q. What is the m cal_instrument, excluding p: —T. B. A. Prckably a ge violin. Q. We have a_photograph taken of a soldier during the Civil War. On the back is a blue stamp. It is an Internal Revenue 2-cent stamp. y is it on t ex Stradivarius W the picture?—H. M. R A. This was placed n the photo- graph to ind: tax had becn peid. Tl method of raising revenue g the Civil War period. Q. What will el taste in milk?—W. O. A. The Bureau of D: is no remedy which ca stroy the taste and od or garlic in milk. It cows should be taken or seven hours before way the onions will } the garlic e e (e must make its arrangements with that pass through the system Discovery, many weeks after he had had been stolen from the home of his famous parents, of the body of the demand, not only that the kidnapers and murderers of the child be speedily apprehended and given the extreme Lindbergh baby stirs the Nation to a ! convention and presidential candidates. | Penalty, but that punishment be made Four of these States pick their dele- |S¥ift and sure for all criminals. It is gates this week. They are Texas and pomce‘d out by many, however, that Delaware tomorrow and Colorado and | the biame lies in the failure of the Utah on Saturday. Texas Democrats | People as Well as of law-enforcement will instruct their ner, mvmghuw votes in the conven! of California are added to the Lone Star State’s quota. The delegates from Delaware, Colorado and Ut of 26, are expected to be lined up for Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Roose- velt strength has been variously and deviously estimated. But any way one looks at it, the chances now appear very er & total o1 90 favorable for the New York Governor |P®, to receive more than a majority of the delegate votes on the first ballot in the Democratic national convention. Here is a list of States and the delegates they are sending instructed, pledged or promised tion when the 44| | forces of gangdom in the past. Inter- mixed with sympathy for the parents | of the child, horror at the enormity of ! the crime and desire for revenge is a | could happen in this country. Condemned, also, are the activities Itacts with the kidnapers, leading on | with false hopes both the baby's rents and a sympathizing world. “I¢ is literally the heart of the world that is touched,” says the Des Moines ‘Tribune of the universal sympathy for Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh, coming not only from this country but from all nations and peoples. “The Lindbergh jof those who pretended to have con- | Murder of Lindbergl; Bahy Incites War Again S i ( the Pasadena Star-News through cowardice or , RO ernment and people accept this crime without a tidal wave of condemnation and indignation sweeping the land and outlawing such crimes, then God pity the United States” The Columbia | (8. C.) Record affirms that “the blood of this baby and the other babies that | will be slain will be on a nation’s head, |a nation that delivered itself from | decency into the hands of the foulest delegates for Gar- | 3gencies to act against the ruthless |tripe that degenerate brain or gutter | morality ever spawned.” R ‘The Ann Arbor Daily News calls the . & total | feeling of shame that such & thing |crime “a symbol of awfulness, a threat against the foundation of human happi- ness, the last straw for a publ: long tolerant of ruthle: |safer and happler, and mothers less fearful of what may overtake them, as | & result of the hard sacrifice the world- known baby and his parents have been | compelled to make.” | “Only a fiend could be guilty of & deed of this kind,” says the Schenectady . hat’s more, exceeding lucky. ' in some way to Roosevelt: - . - $1,718219 less; New Orleans nearly Snddx chaos are the public's uncertainty as to | E broken heart finds echo in the sym- Gazette, with the conviction that ‘“no- $6.500,000 less), the adequacy of Wash- | be followed by the economy bill and by Where Congress Wil breek out next and | Sqia mmyioq gtares Feer in the P - 34 North Dakota..... 101 DOnCR NN AN humanity.” aseerts | tice must be served that fustice will b ington’s tax burden is irrefutably es- | & relief program. The House made a B the endless delay in balancing the| cjq. g while longer. The extra cost . 28 South Carolina.... 18| the Meridian Star. “Criminality which | speedv and merciless.” In like manner, lished. grevious error when it destroyed the| “A crooner has a svmpathetic voice.” | budget. is entailed mainly by the presence of | Ko 35 Jouth Duxota.-.- 33 | strikes at the cradle strikes at all man- | ‘he Hartford Times views the murder as teullates . bill brought to it by its Ways and| “I appreciate that” said Miss Cay- srnd i the Atlantic Fleet, which went to_the | Kenfucky 1 2€ Vermont :78|kind” The general feeling is ex-|“the most diabolical of all crimes” SE o : o “ ime I listen to one, I, First honors for the neatest descrip-| west coast last Winter when the Jap- | Maine i1z W 18| pressed by the Rock Lsland Argus in its | while the Boise Idaho Statesman be- It is explained by Mrs. Amelia Ear- | Means Committee, discarding the manu- | enne. “Every time = » Ttion of Capitol Hill's procrastination | anese invaded Shanghal. In light of | Michiza s W 38| comment that “our personal distresses | lieves that “‘unless we are to Sink into hart Putnam that she flew for fun. A | facturers' sales tax, which fell on all | feel the need of sympathy. c%x:e r&e’;tyFnuélw belanginé;uco Sen; recent developments -at Tokio and 1{,. fi va X ] : and perplexities fade into “}‘fig%mmms \, state worse than anarchy, the problem : ' i r 4 enn, Republican, of| yManchuria, the State Department as our thoughts turn to the bereaved | must be solved.” sense of humor is a variable quantity industry alike and substituted for nI e A 3 6 6! b ’ < t man,” sai Ho, the sage | Illinois. Addressing the Senate the | called upon to ponder carefully the wis- | N 8 Hawail ... § parents, whose grief, like unto our sym- | Only condemnation is found for the ; in the human make-up. To a public | special sales taxes and nuisance taxes. ‘A greal d Hi 5ag other day, Mr. Glenn recalled that Nero gaom . g k&?fiwing Flon i e _,1 gT! g e e T e anxlously awaiting news of the out-! come, the adventure was strictly serious business. e ———— The fame of Lindbergh is safe so fong as it is deemed necessary to com- pare a successful flight to his achieve- ment. —————— The New Japanese Premier. Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito, 74- year-old veteran of the Japanese naval and diplomatic service, has been in- wvited by Emperor Hirohito, on the ad- vice of Elder Statesman Prince Saion}i, to become premier in succession to the recently assassinated Suyoshi Inukal. Tokio dispatches report that the capital and the country breathe more easily, following & week of almost unprece- dented gravity, over the prospect of & strong emergency cabinet headed by Admiral Saito. With the Seiyukai, hitherto the ruling party, and the opposition party, the Minseito, participating in a new cabinet together with members of the House of Peers, the expectation is that Premier Saito will preside over a government satisfactory to all elements. Presumably the impending regime will strongly reflect the militarists’ demands for nationalist, rather than political, policies, particularly such policies as are comprehended by the Manchurian affair. One of the first decisions the new ministry will have to make is the provision of further funds for the Manchurian army, which faces prob- lems that were not fully anticipated ‘when the invasion and occupation set in last September. Meantime there is cause for satis- faction, especially abroad, in the repu- tation for moderation which Admiral Saito possesses, even though his rst| eems 15 to walt until a billboard has| gratulate loyalties must be to his naval tradi- tions. For ten years he was Japanese ‘viceroy in Korea, where his rulership Was of the type personfied by the iron | mischief is that permits have ever been ' SPPArently hand within the velvet glove. His latest | Both House and Senate have erred in | seeking to attach 'as riders to the rev- enue bill tariff taxes on oil and other commodities. The Senate has a chance | to revamp the bill and send it back to the House. It still has the opportunity to restore a manufacturers’ salestax com- parable to that presented by the Ways and Means Committee and to take out the embargo taxes on oil, coal and other commodities. The great and initial mistake was made in the House when the committee bill was torn to pieces. Many of the leaders of Congress realize that fact today. Had the action been otherwise in the House, the bill would have been in the President’s hands long ago. 5 e Motion picture magnates are accused of stock juggling. They are not sup- posed to rival the film player in assum- ing the role of the self-sacrificing hero. ——r—————— New Life for Billboards. i Bigger and better billboards is now | the rule at the District Building instead of fewer and poorer and eventually none. The new dispensation provides. for the replacement of slightly but not fifty per cent deteriorated billboards at & certain corner with larger and more conspicuous structures. There will not be as many of the new as of the old, fourteen replacing nineteen. But the new ones will be more extensive and stronger and, by all the canons of mlb-l lic taste, more obnoxious. Indeed, Lhm‘ is no strict rule of public taste in this' respect save that a billboard, whatever the size, whatever the color or the lit- erary or pictorial contents, is an offense. It is a great pity that the Commis- sioners feel that they are impotent under the law to rid the District of this nuisance. The best they can do, it depreciatel beyond half of its value and then order its removal and refuss to grant a permit for replacement. The granted for these nuisances. of Chinatown, “causes his name to be mbered long after his teachings are forgotten.” o Crowded Hours. A legislative sigh is heard, As through the calendar we slip; “Our politics can’t be deferred. * ‘What time is left for statesmanship?” “It's easler foh de police to stop a crap game,” said Uncle Eben, “dan to regulate stock gamblin’. In a crap game nobody ever has to count as high as a million dollars.” ¢‘Calf-Track’ Architecture Relic of Greek Sophistry To the Editor of The Star: Reading repeated eulogies of Greek architecture, one is reminded of a poem on the calf tracks of the mind. The calf made its crooked path through the woods, man followed that path. The path became a lane, then a village street, then it bore the traffic of a continent—all still led by a wandering calf some centuries dead. The Grecian age was an age of soph- istry that penetrated reasoning and spared not architecture. Marvelous lyildings, beautiful in design, marred by a superfluity of protrul colossal columns of ponderous weight that held up a little dinky roof of little consequence and stupendous uselessness. colossus of columns held up a roof that is a roof of nothing but an approach to the building, while it hides and obscures all that might be made magnificent in the main part or center entrance. Attaching wings to the right and left of mediocre appearance pre- sents & structure in which the non- essential detracts from the beauty of all and gives to & noble edifice the ap- pearance of elevating to first promi- nence the most useless appendage of the whole. It must be that the ancient Greeks still Jaugh in their graves over the copyists’ labored reproduction of the sophist age of architecture, and con- themselves on their power ere & R oking supet-embe ishment, While they laugh, we may lament because American arcl genius stll is unsble to gu‘l&z s&gl pressively American !:.uu American is said to have fiddled while Rome burned. “The United States Congress.” declared the husky Illinoisan, a stanch Hooverite, “is a whole symphony or- chestra fiddling while America burns.” Senator Glenn might have continued the metaphor without straining at the truth and added that Congress is also an orchestra that insists on playing re- gardless of its leaders, with the in- evitable result that it produces far more discords than harmcnies. And it is also within the facts to assert that the Nation-wide audience earnestly wishes the congressional orchestra would wind up its program, pack up its instruments (mostly of the wind variety) and go ‘home. * k k% Another Senator—though in the privacy of the clcak room instead of the floor of the Chamber—harked back to Rome for a pat simile last week. For many days this Spring—almost avery day, in fect—Senator Howell, Repub- lican progressive of Nebraska, has raised his voice in behalf of the downtrodden farmer. Invariably Howell’s peroration ist “Agricultute must be saved!” Sen- etor Vandenberg, young guard Repub- lican of Michigan, buttonholed the Nebraskan after one of his dally decla- mations, and said: “Senator, you re- mind me‘of Cato. who never wound up a speech in the Roman Senate without thundering: ‘Carthage must be de- stroyed!” ” * Kk X % How’s this for an up-to-date stunt? Members of Congress have discovered they can address their more or less admiring constituenis by radio frem ‘Washington without either speaking through a local station or going back home to broadcast. This is_how it’s done. They go to WMAL in Washing- ton, strike an attitude in front of a talking machine, speak into a tiny microphone rigged up inside it, and within 10 minutes have “recorded” three or four grooved discs. These are then sent to their home broadcasting stations and thence sent spinning onto the air as “transcrintions” The art is so verfectly developed that hardly anybedy but a radio expert can tell the difference between a “transcription” and an address spoken into the “mike" i the ordinary way. Some members of the House are keeping in touch with eek by week by this method. * k k% At an informal Senate Iuncheon room caucus not long it was voted that positively the of waters the unprecedented concentra- tion of American naval strength now | there. Another poltico-financial prob- ‘When the Roosevelt Democrats seized |lem that's been perplexing Secretary Stimson concerns the Nicaraguan_elections. supervised by the Navy. adays for regular service purposes, without bullets. now, and Marines will be on the job. x K K X Mrs. Charles D. Walcott of Washing- | ton, one of the two woman members of the Board of Indian Commissioners, has just returned from a periodical trip of inspection of Western reservations. Her tour took in the northern sections of Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa. A particular object of study was the great Indian School of Agriculture main- tained for the Chilocco Tribe in Okla- homa, where 8,000 young redskins are taught practical farming. Mrs. Wal- cott, widow of the long-time secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, was ap- pointed to the Indian board by Presi- dent Coolidge in 1927, in succession to her late brother, George Vaux of Bryn Mavr, Pa. * k k% Herbert Corey, Washington _writer, has taken up the cudgels for Herbert Hoover. 1In a book entitled “The Truth About Hoover,” to be published June 1, Mr. Corey pi | there was some question about the cost | ing that Nicaragua casts ballots | of the delegates from the Keystone ithout All's been arranged | State when it comes to & vote in the | In the hide off | the forthcoming | control of the Democratic State Com- They're to be | mittee last week in Pennsylvania, oust- But as the | ing Jehn R. Collins, Navy needs every nickel it gets now- | leader, as chairman and putting in a anti-Roosevelt man of their own, it became clear that Roosevelt is to have the bulk national convention. “Joe” Guffey, who has been a strong Roosevelt supporter in that State, insists Roosevelt will have 67 of the total 76 Pennsylvania votes. The Roosevelt people are counting now on not less than 60, despite the Smith claims of 44 for Alfred E. Smith. In New York itself the Roosevelt delegate strength on the first ballot, it is claimed, will be not less than 45. no matter what John F. Curry, the Tammany leader, may undertake to do about it. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana has practically promised to deliver his State's 20 votes to the New York Governor, and the Roosevelt people are counting on 18 ;’ate( from Arkansas and 6 from Porto ico. ‘The States which select their dele- gates to the Democratic National Con- vention in June are: Florida and Mfls- sippl,’ June 7; Virginia, June 9; Idaho, June 10; North Carolina, June 16, and diana, June 20. Roosevelt has good chance to take all of them, except Vir- ginla, which will send its delegation to e convention instructed for former some of the President’s ccntemporary tnduuo;n He says: “As a jo:mllia{; 1 scented something stirring when I be- gan to see book after book on the idea that President Hoover was something he oughtn’t to be. I got into corre- spondence with the people that have done business with Mr. Hoover. They produced original documents. I have run down the truth.” Author Corey began life as a cowboy, sheep-herder and stage driver on the Western plains. (Copyright, 1932.) —_—e Not Ornamental As a Rule. From the Indianapolis News. Some householders seem to think that A Good Field for Them. Prom the Lydehburs News. &n’&:fiumgm?mtu Gov. Harry Flood Byrd. lican ently. Four years ago the delegation ook | {ne Eomoepianis | 3 sands And ‘world.’ W.| people are on ot which pathy, is too deep to find adequate ex- in words.” * ok x % Calling it “a crime of crimes” the Portland Oregon Journal asks the in- evitable question: “Is orderly govern- ment supreme, or is gangland the real government!” With recognition of the fact that “no child is even compara- tively safe,” and that “the country is infested by an insolent criminal popu- lation,” the Fort Worth Star-Telegram feels that “the tragedy is sufficient provocation for a law enforcement Tevolution in the United States” and sees evidence of a purpose to construct “a legal and social code of ethics which shall forever remove the profits from all forms of criminality.” “The one course open,” in the judg- ment of the Osakland Tribune, “is to accept the challenge of the gangs and fight it out until the Nation is freed of the influence and rule of the under- world.” The Dayton Daily News de- mands: “Let's make not merely one conspicuous murdar, but murder gnffll. a risky business in the United ates.” Morgantown Dominion-News sees “a nation hungry for revenge” as a result of “the greatest crime in modern history.” The Gary Post- Tribune agrees that “the American ;»eoplg demand that the criminal pay for his crime,” while the Sioux City Journal voices the belief that “law enforcement must be made hard and merciless and unyielding.” The Apple- ton Post-Crescent goes further in its assertion that “the Nation must do more than merely ‘rise up its wrath,’ * * * it must wipe out w of humanity, the ghouls and The San Antenlo Express volces a thought that occurs to many in its statement: “Confronted with the hide- ous in this proud, civilized land, Amer- shamed before the whole that “ American before world,” pression | scribed by the Newark Evening Ne | as “leading the distracted parents on |a_brazen swindle.” That paper addls: “It was a hoax, not upon the Lifid- berghs alone, but upon the Govern: | upon the country, and upon the | world, which has been straining it eyes | for every bit of hopeful news.” opinion that “the penalty for tho who have deliberat Roanoke World-News declaref “men like Curtis have done drag a red herring across the | . Says the Philadelphia Evening Bulle- tin: “Gangsters we know—a yellow crowd, degraded humans, without heart or soul or any of the essentials which | mark the difference between intelligent civilization and the savagery of bar- barism. Kidnapers we recognize, even if we cannot quite comprehend how any villain could steal and murder a baby. | But the Curtis type, as confessed, that | could deliberately add torture to the | woe of that father and mother, forge In| false hopes, impose added and futile | burdens, perhaps help the kidnaping gang to escape justice by diverting at- tention to faked trails—that is almost beyond realization. Real men and women do not want to believe that there could have such despicable | knavery.” e A Rare Opportunity. | Prom the Milwaukee Sentinel. | What we are loaking for is a great statesman who will invent a lot of taxes that nobody but the other fellow will have to pay. e A Ham Hand-Out. From the South Bend Tribune. Chinese bandits spared an American home when they were served baked ham. The Chinese ought to try it on the Japanese. Perhaps the Worst Is Over. Prom the Toronto (Ontario) Datly Star. Now that May day is over and now that the atom has been split without the world blowing up, a restored confi- dence ought to make itself felt. The Con Game. From the Ann Arbor Daily News. Considering the action of the national House on budget reductions, we are dis- to put the n