Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1932, Page 8

" A8 THE EVENING ‘With Sunday Morning Editien. WAfZHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY.......May 26, 1932 countries, virtually bankrupt, have been driven to it. Larger countries, by a series of economic measures tending to- ward economic isolation, are obviously drifting toward it. Had it not been wrecked by irreconcilable political dif- ferences among the constituent states, the proposed Danublan confederation, according -to Mr. Mowrer's elucidation of European developments, would have constituted international “autarchy.” Withou realizing it, Uncle Sam may be going in for a bit of “autarchy” himself. The Federal Farm Board for nearly three years has exercised “au- tarchial” authority in the domain of agriculture. The Hoover moratorium was a form of “autarchy” applied to| intergovernmental debts. The Recon- struction Finance Corporation is “ai tarchy”—an entirely novel type of Fed- eral ald to private business. If any of the vast emergency rellef bond propo- sitions now before Congress should be enacted into law they would amount to what “autarchy” appears to be. Pending a more illuminating and THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busin, d Ly 8t 'agd flfn‘:?m- Ave. Now Dace: 110 4and 8t B R i ke England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. 60c per month r‘l( per -lnfl"l Der i o, all STt one en ys) Bunday ‘Sai yar 3 w liection o nd ST Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. : 1 me and Sunday. only " y only | B, Member of the Associated Press. ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled fo the use for repulicstion of sll news dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ited in this paper and also the iocal news published herein. Al rizhts of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. = concrete definition of “autarchy” by the pundits of politics and economics, the common herd, to which most of us be- long, will probably have to be satisfled with concluding that in plain English it denotes a system of new measures to meet new conditions. It is evolution applied to government. It is not revo- lution. B — The European Powder Barrel. i Long ago the Polish Corridor mounted ,into the eminence traditionally held by Alsace-Lorraine as the powder | barrel from which some day a European | explosion might confidently be expected. {Late news from Berlin lends ominous { corroboration to the fears which Polish- German bitterness over the Corridor engenders. The Foreign Affairs Com- mittee of the Reichstag this week | adopted a resolution requesting the ington mAy b iyeternis (ofiithe wmd'uov:rnmem to notify e i any | War. But all of those Who march have | ooy yo polich raiders to interfere no real claim to be designated as vet-| Ly o Soyersigriy otk the e Glly o 'of Danzig—the sea-outlet of the Cor- The unemployed men now on theif: 4o goug pe considered an affront way to Washington are out for & lark. | "o e e resolution was intro- They are coming here, chiefly, DecauSe | yycoq by tne Hitlerite National Social- they have nothing else to do. ’me)"m group. e’ coming here ibecause [of - 9 rtun | The Reichstag's anxieties were aroused | of %, and bezsuse of the "”f om {TOM by advices of Poland's designs to seize | responsibility that is conferred bV |p.nup gt the first favorable chance mere numters. Because of this irre- | {and that all essential preparations have sponsible - spirit. and because the word ! prep: Feeding the Marchers. Some of the country’s radical ele- iments, ecwmoniy kno%n as Commu- nists, may be behind the so-called “vet- erans’ march” that will converge on Washington next week. But the purpose of the march is not to spread the doctrine of Communism. Some of the marchers may have a vague ides that the demonstration planned has something to do with the proposed cash payment of the soldiers’ bonus. But the purpose of the march is not to win the bonus. ! Many of the men coming to Wash- | unearned increment came to hand in a THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1932. I’I‘he STAR |strongly to aspire to it. Various .mnerl arrangement is made it can be brought up to & high standard. There is Tittle prospect of an atrport location on the south bank of the Potomac at eny other point :han that now occupied by the two combined flelds. Eventually an ares that has heretofore been suggested as a poesible the execution of the work and for the settlement of the soil. Meanwhile the airport needs of the Capital are urgent, and if this present suggestion of com- bination and lease to the Government with privilege of purchase leads to ex- pected result much time will have been gained and the public interests will have been well served. —————s Mayor Jimmie's First Day. ‘While no definite conclusions can be ! drawn from Mayor Walker's first day' on the witness stand before the Seabury Investigating Committee in New York, for the examination has yet to run for several days and much may be devel- oped not now in evidence, it must be | sald he did not give a very good ac- count of himself yesterday. He greatly pleased the large crowd of partisans who swarmed into the hearing room— mostly on cards issued by district lead- | ers which seemed to take precedence | over the official passes—and he was| loudly cheered by them, although his wisecracks and evasions, counter blasts and retorts were just as earnestly and vigorously derided by anti-Tammany | spectators. It was a good show, at any rate, and if the accommodations had been larger and admission charge had been levied for the benefit of a charity fund, undoubtedly a great sum would have been raised. The outstanding fact of the develop- ment yesterday was that the mayor, | without any investment whatever, re- | ceived nearly $250,000 in profits from a | stock-trading pool conducted by a per- sonal friend. No éxplanation was made 8s to why he should have been granted ; this very profitable privilege. He put ! the cash thus obtained into a safe at home—carefully explaining that it was not a “wonder box"—and it was spent by himself and his wife. This apparently period of about thirty months, which | would work out at the rate of better | than $8,000 a month. It is evident that | Mayor Jimmie has some very good | oo o conter. upon the | Deen made. Sections of the Polish press. | “veteran” seems con! i 1 S n: ol immunicy oo el | appeers, haver been irging Matata t K Pilsudski, the dictator oi Foland, QO; terference the police department s mak-| 4op0 40 woriq and make an end to an ing extracrdinary arrangements o €€ |, e gituation by annexing Danzig that the demonstration is kept Within | g pot prussta. What is mostly | bounds. . !feared 1s not that Poland with its army | The practical problem. for Which MO w014 oitempt to take Danzig by force, | solution has yet been advenced. is hOW p o vpg0 4ne ancient city may meet the | to feed these men—for they must Be | g,o0 of ying and be seized by “lawless” | fed. Washington's charitable and wel- | @ °F M8 P08 ¢ SEE Y ubs o fare organizations are hard pressed to!,, some other innocent guise, creating make both ends meet in caring for the a de facto situation that might be. deserving cases that properly rest 85 qimeult to undo. | & responsibility upon the community.| pansg which stands at the head of | The Commissicners have no money for ¢ne Corridor, the strip so ruthlessly | such purposes. The organized Vel-|caryeq oyt of the heart of the German! erans, like the welfare organizations,|fyineriand, as the Germans ceaselessly ! are hard pressed for funds to care {0 | reming the world, is not only coveted | thelr own. by the Relch for thoroughly compre- Two of the Btates through which the | pengsible reasons, but elements within marchers have passed on their slow trek | Germany rival the Polish extremists in | eastwarc—Illinols and Indiana—have | clamoring for its acquisition by extra- . provided the men with transportation |jega] methods. During the recent presi- | friends greatly concerned in his perconal | welfare. Yesterday's examination did not cover all the high points of the inquiry, which | have been accumulating during weeks | of patient investigation by Referee | Seabury. It may be that today’s and | subsequent sessions will produce mcre tangible results. But certainly the text of yesterday's testimony is not going THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. “What a large mouth you have,| bringing strength and health ‘to gold- | political spotlight. location may be reclaimed and graded, | grandmother!” said Templeton Jones, | fi2hes | but that will require a long period, for using the famous words of Little Red Riding Hood, as he looked down upon onel of the three goldfish in his lily pool Jones was learning a lot about fish, and one of the things he had discovered was that a goldfish, as perhaps every fish, has a perfectly enormous mouth. There was a laugh In every bite, as a fish opened its faintly pink mouth to l’wbe a choice morsel of prepared Here was a creature expressly made for depression times, evidently, for all it required was a pinch every other day. This one pinclt, indeed, held between thumb and forefinger, would do for three goldfish, so light was their appe- tite. It seemed rather a shame, some- how, to give them no more, since they were very greedy. It was the first day since their in- stallation that they had appeared at| all interested in the surface of the| water. Jones had attempted to beguile them up upon several occasions, but each time they insisted on remaining down at the bottom, safely ensconced beneath the roots of the water hyacinth. Occasionally they would make one of their darts across the water, and Jones would hold himself in readiness | to_see some real goldfish antics. | But elways it turned out to be a false alarm. The fish were merely| transferring their abiding place from the roots to one of the oxygenating plants. | Maybe they necded oxygen. Jones had read to many books and catalogues about water gardens that he had his data all mixed up. Some said that the plants did not begin to create oxygen in the water for several days, and others declared they began at_once. s Some works stressed the fact that #s long as the goldfish stayed at the bottom of the pool they were all right, while cther writings did not seem to put much stress on this. For three days the red trio remained at the bottom, and Templeton Jones did not know whether they were afraid mochhere which changed the locks of | O to come up, or were getting used to their new quarters, merely. Several times he had tried sprinkling a bit of food on the surface, each time with exactly the same lack of success. No fish was hungry. Even the smallest one refused to eat. This Sunday morning, however, with the sun chining brightly, Jones found the fish frisking around at a lively rate, making orthodox gold fish darts. stick- ing their heads up occasionally, but evidently not in quest of air. It was grub they wanted, the im- memorial desire of all living things. Whatever a human being may think of nature’s system, as worked out over the centuries, it is obeyed explicitly by the animals. Big things eat little things. and so on up and down the scale. Nor is man, with all his boasted mind and scul, any exception. The other creatures he eats are legion and run into the millicns upon millions every year. Mankind has delegated certain ele- He had a box of health in his right- hand pocket, & “little tin box” full of dried particles, smelling suspiciously of meat. % The smell was not exactly pleasant, s0o Jones gave up his sniffing, having extremely sensitive olfactory organs. After all, if the goldfish liked it, that was all that mattered. Every creature to his taste. Cows liked grass, men liked cows, cats liked cows; there was no tellinz what a creature would prefer in the food Mme. Jones took a pinch between his fin- gers and let it float down on the pool. Gobble! There was a flash of red-gold, a curi- ous sucking sound and a bit of the food was gone. It was this point that Templeton Jones realized the width of a gold- fish's mouth. In ecomparisen with the total length and breadth of the creature, that | mouth is enormous. But there was some architecture to it, after all; it was not just an opening, but might be compared to the end of an_old-fashioned shoe hox. The goldfish’s mouth, when open, did not ccme to a sharp triangle, but iad an up-and-down dimension as well; it was, in truth, rectangular. Just why nature had blessed this poor fish with such a large mouth, to take in such a tiny amount of food, could have been explained better by any ichtryographer. Jones made no attempt to do so, but remained poised above the, poo! in rapt | admiration. He was one of these humzn | beings, of whom there are fortunately | many in the world, who receive as much of a “kick” from small natural happenings and things as other and, (one may think, less gifted people get | from elaborate manmade stage settings and the like. Sunsets of a certain type froze him ‘nto silent admiration. He knew the difference, although some might not have seen it, bztween the appearance of the landscape on certain days and ordi- nary days. Just what it was in the at- | things, which gave the very grass a greener look, which made the flowers stand cut in new colors, he could not have said, nor did he think any one could have explained it very well. But cf the fzct of that difference to him there was not thé slightest doubt. He wasted no words in attempting to explain it to others, especially to those hard-readed persons who cemand visi- ble proof, documented and in what they call order. Nature, he knew, has no crder in the way she arranges and rearranges her elements—those e.ements of trees, grass, flowers, hills, plains, rivers, lakes, oceans and the like, which strike the eye of man as beautiful. Divine chance takes care of nature's beauty. The more it is left to fortune, the more beautiful it becomes. Temple- ton Jones put great store by bo_ks— books of exposition as well as of enthustasm—but, after all. he put more in things as they are. That was why he could get pleasant enterta: ent “Little old New York™ holds the ‘What happens in the metropolis in the next day or two may have a very decided effect on the, coming presidential campaign. Mayor “Jimmie” Walker went on the stand yesterday in the Legislative Committee investigation of New York City’s gov-: ernment and admitted he had received $246,692 from a joint stock account with Paul Block, a ne publisher, | although Mayor Walker made no out-! lay whatever. The mayor insisted that this transaction was perfectly O. K. He took the money and put it in a safe in his home and spent it as he needed it. this munificent gift it has not yet beem d':;.yelaped. He goes on the stand again L The mayor matched his wits against Judge Samuel Seabury, counsel for the Legislative Committee, at yesterday’s session of the committee and was backed by Tammany leather lungs, who had been admitted to the court room when others were turned away. The “organization” is not lyilng down on the mayor, and its demonstration yes- terday was well staged. However, the end of the inquiry into the mayor’s con- duct in office is mot yet. When it xs.l Gov. Pranklin D. Roosevelt, Democ- | racy’s leading candidate today for the. presidential nomination, will have to decide whether the mayor shall stay mayor or be ousted, just as he ousted Sheriff Farley of tin box fame. If the mayor is shown to be guilty of im- | If the mayor gave any return for fing ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 4 BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Have we had the pleasure of serving ington Informa- to you in your problems? Our ll!olurnhhy ycuplwfihmeh- formation, and we invite you to ask us any question of fact in which you are Ev Star Inforimation s Viwt D. C. Inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Q. What is meant by “milking the cards”?—N. B. C. Q. Are Decoration day and Memorial day the same?—P. G. A. Both names are now applied to May 30. A generation ago Decoration day was May 30, while the preceding Sunday was Memorial day. Upon this day veterans of the Civil War usually attended church. Q. Of the employes under Civil Serv- ice, how many are emploved in the Dis- trict of Columbia?—P. W. A. On June 30, 1931, there were 71,693 persons on the Federal execudve Civil Service roll in Washington, D. C. Outside the District there were 545,144, making a total on that date of 616,837. } gnv;lhrn do gila monsters grow? A Scme of them attain & length of 2 feet, |1s not being | stetion, but. is being maintained and for the homar the public It i under the custody of the Weather Bureau, Department of Agriculture, and operated now as an active kept in repair by caretakers of this bureau. The Secretary of Agriculture proper action and he is thrown out, { what then may Gov. Roosevelt expect | !from the “organization” in New York City next November? On the other | d, if the Governor takes no action | against Mayor Walker and permits him to remain at the head of the city gov- ernment, what will happen out in the rest of the country? Big as New York | City may Jook to New Yorkers, it can- | not elect or necessarily defeat a Pres- {ident of the United States. The late | President Woodrow Wilson was re- |0 elected Chief Executive in 1916 de- spite the fact that he lost the big | electoral vote of New York State to his ponent, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. Q. How many places were selling liquor when war-time prohibition went into effect>—R. T. H. A. On July 1, prohibition became effective, there were 177,790 retail saloons or stores, 669 brewerles and 74 distilleries. Earlier than this, in 1918, thers were 1,002 breweries and 236 distilleries. Q. What disease was Marat supposed e?—D. K. A. “True Stories of Immortal Crimes.” by Ashton-Wolfe, states that Jean Paul Marat, who was slain by Charlotte Cor- day, had leprosy. | Q How are matters concerning |chureh law handled in England’—G. +W. L. ok ok o The wet and dry issue for the Re- publicans is becoming more acute daily. The reports that administration leaders have been engaged in drafting a plank | for the national platform calling for England to which are submitted, all | matters pertaining to church law, also matters i in which the chureh might resubmission has set the drys on edge. | cither & e might be laintiff or defendant. This President Hoover, however, has given, court nsg mm‘és menusuance of no approval of any proposed plank SO mgrrigse licenses and other matters of far. it is said. More and more it JoOkS | chyrch discipline. Actually the ecclesi- as though the national convention it- gstical lav of England is dependent self would have to deal with this|ynor®ine authority of the state, and matter and settle it one way or another. 7 ecclesiastical courts for the most part There are plenty of Republicans in!gre officered by laymen, whose subordi- Congress, some of them who have al-| nation to archbishops and bishops is ways voted dry In the past, who arelnurely formal The final court of ap- confident today that the platform will | on ecclesiastieal’ ‘matters is th contain a resubmission plank. Thflificl i see no other way out of the dilemma’of the Nation than to promise a vote on the eight-| g eenth amendment. And sooner of| Q. What occasions the title “La Belle iater President Hoover may be com- Feronniere” applied to a portrait credit- pelled to take a stand on this matter. ed to Leonardo?—S. C. Prohibition is of interest to 00 many| A. The belief that the subject of people, both drys and wets, to permit | the portrait was the wife of the French | 1919. when war-time | A. There is an Ecclesiastical Court ln‘ al Committee of the Privy Council | ments of soclety to this work. Emile out of feeding his goldfish for the first | & ther of the presidential canaidates | advocate of Feron won for the picture to be particularly agreeable reading at | 71, “yith his usual frankness, wrote of Albany, where the Governor of the |the market people in Paris as long as | State, who has pronounced political | 70 years ago. The literal translation aspirations, will, without doubt, soon | Of his title is “The Belly of Paris” but - o |to avoid offending squeamish Anglo- ' have to pass judgment upcn the mayor. | Saxon readers the name is usually e given as “The Pat and the Lean,” from Veterans who are coming to Washing- ton, D. C., to indicate a very positive | interest in the bonus question might put in their time profitably by studying, Uncle S8am’s Government at close range | and gaining an idea of what it is costing | the taxpayer. vt and food and passed them over to the next State. There will be no passing them along when they get to Wash- ington. And as the exclusive govern- ment of the District, including the ap- propriation of its money, rests with Congress, that body should pause long enough to take cognizance of the situ- ation in advance arnd determine what is to be done. It should not take many minutes to authorize the War Depart- ment, for instance, to set up kitchens and furnish the men with food, allow them a reasonsble time to stage their, | dential and Prussian Diet campaigns | the Naais, especially when fulminating on the stump contiguous to the Polish \ frofitier, made few bones about their |dreams. These frankly comprehend the reacquisition of Danzig and the Corridor some day, through revision of the treaty of Versailles, if possible, or by other means, if necessary. | By and large, the Polish Corridor re- | mains a problem crammed with dyna- | mite. The statesman who can solve it will hold the key to a more durable European peace than any other now in ‘When Premier Laval of France a phrase in the story. What right, Jones mused. had the American people to expect better things of a certain great city, which from its beginning almost had been dedicated to the mass killing of ani- mals? The idea was too far from his small pool, however; he gave it up and came back to the goldfish, now .darting around, evidently hungry at last. There The police have no further need to| heing no mosquito larvae to consume, Ifear publicity in pursuit of the Lind-|the fish helplessly turned their round bergh baby's kidnapers. The tramed'ey;; 'M{h. reporters can forget rivalries and co- helpmt'hu ”m,:_' :a"hu:tu li':ngm;‘: operate in getting the biggest ews of | creature on the edge, which shadowed the decade. the entire watery world below, was ———— Railroads are necessary to civiliza- tion. In time they may rgvive their old prestige and assume as much promi- nence in the maps printed for free dis- tribution as is now accorded the auto- | mobile routes. . ———e—s demonstration and to get out of town.|sight. No such authorization may be neces- | was in Washington last Fall he branded | sary, but there should be as carefully | the settlement of the Polish-German 1aid plans for seeing that the men are | controversy es quintessential to any soft adequately fed and housed as for see-|Of reconciliation upon which any re-l’ ing that they follow prescribed routes hopes of European disarmament can be should they have a parade. And all| bullt. At present, short of an adjust- the responsibility should not be placed ment through the arbitrament of war, on the local community. i no statesman who is a reilist sees any oo immediate prospect of abating the feud. Poland will not give up the Corridor. Germany will not renounce her claims to it. That isa sialemate uncomfortably barren of promise for those who would see the Old World converted from an armed camp into a continent of| Referring to eminent approbation of & plan to finance projects that will pro- vide employment, Speaker Garner re- fers to an indorsement of “my pro-| pesal.” It sounds like an echo of “my | policies” so frequently mentioned in old | A SUISSE, Geneva—An instance Many governments have unbalanced budgets and have still survived. The; malady is regarded as serious, but by no means necessarily fatal. et — SHOOTING STARS. of fortitude and presence of | mind is reported from Vienna, where, during a performance of “La Flute Magique,” in one scene of which a large serpent makes its ap- pearance, Mlle. Wanda Achsel, singing the part of the heroine, and about to be attacked by the simulated reptile was struck by a spear hurled at 1t by the actor taking the part of her rescuer The weapon struck Mile. Achsel in the leg. inflicting a painful wound. But, though weakened through shock and bleeding, Mlle. Achsel con- tinued her part in a manner which led the audience to believe that the mischance was an intended feature of BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. | Word Wasting. My Uncle Jim is very keen In sizin’' up affairs. He thinks too many folks are seen Forgetful of the cares time. | Maybe he cculd not recapture that' | first thrill, but it mad: no difference. | Nothing exists for any one until that! one has personal experience of it. Real! things might as well be verbal theorics until one actually b:comes acquainted | with them Plop! Plop! And every ‘“plop” represented the gulping down of a bit of fish f-od into the very large mouth of a very small fish. Jones was glad to see these shrimps eating at last Man and fish must eat to live. It.is the law. Jores wondered just what these ancient laws are and why no one has drawn them up in their entirety and published them. Jones wondered if Le couldn’t do it. He saw that there are certain fundamentals inherent in the ccnstitution of the universe which are commonly overlooked and scarcely ever mentioned. It would be a great book to come out of a tub of goldfishes. Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands ports must be notable, unless the moratorfum for our foreign debts is made perpetual. *x 8 Costa Rica Bank To Resume Loaning. La Tribuna, San Jose —That begin- ning next week the Banco Interna- cional will resume loaning money to | the agriculturists of the country is in- formation received with rejoicing in every quarter, for the farming indus- try is the foundation of our national wealth even more so than is the case with any other people. The authen- ticity of this report was verified to our representative by Senor Don Juan this year to travel along without some kind of an expression of opinion. Unless the President makes a statement now modifying his former position he will be considered a dry. as he was in 1928. The ardent drys are against resubmis- sion, generally speaking, alttough a | 1s title. The theory is now discounted. | Q What name did the family at | Mount Vernon give to George Washing- ton Parke Curtis?—A. N A. His family called him “Washing- ton.” believer in prohibition might well | justify support of resubmission on the' Q HOW are names selected for the !ground that a vote is demanded by a |Hall of Fame?>—L. McP. very large section of the population.| A. The roll of fame is selected by an And a dry might vote for resubmussion ; electorate consisting of 100 of the pres- beileving that the country again would | ent-day leaders of the Nation, repre- g0 overwheimingly for national prohi-|senting college presidents, professcrs of | bition. hist scientists, authors, editors, high | public officials, men of affairs and judges, both national and State. Names * x % % Some of the Republican dry leaders | has autharity to sell this property under 'a provision contained in the tural appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1922. Q. When is Pocahontas first men- tioned?—J. O. | A. She is first menticned by John | Smith. who, in 1608, wrote of her as & child of 10. Q. Has the hill pro cmall home owners L. R H. | A It is still pending before the | Committee cn Banking and Currency of the Senate. Q. Where did Robert Fulton make his first steamboat experiment?>—M. P. A. It is claimed that it was made on the mill pond of Rock Creek, In ‘Washington, D. C., in 1806. Fulton was 'the guest of Joel Barlow and the boat was made in the barn back of his house by local joiners and blacksmiths. Q. How many and who -were the wives of the popular motion picture star, Robert Ames, who died In Decem- ber, 19317—A. G. | "A. He was married four times and | his wives were: Alice Gerry, Frances | Goodrich, Vivienne Segal and Muriel {Oskes. The first three were actresses and the last a society woman. Q. What is forage painting, used in book! ding?—W. L. A. This is a corruption of the word fore edge, used to describe the delicate painting or decoration applied to the extreme front edges of the book. When the book was closed only biotches or masses of colcrs showed, but when the leaves of the book were partially spread delicate tracery, artistic designs, and sometimes elaborate pictures were re- vealed. Samuel Mearne, bookbinder to King Charles IT of England, is credited with originating this form of decora- tion. Q. Is the number of wild animals in the national parks increasing or de- creasing?—S. T. A There are now more animals in the parks than at any time since they became game sanctuaries. The park rangers look to the welfare of the eni- mals in the Winter and supplement the wild forage with feed when necessary. | for viding loans besn passed”- have feared for weeks that if the na- tional convention writes into the plat- |form a resubmission plank, the drys will undertake to form a third party, with Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania or Senator William E. Borah of Idaho as its presidential candidate. Indeed, the formation of a third dry party is a| threat that has been held over the heads of the Republicins by some of the leaders of the dry cause. Such a third party could not elect its cmdi-l dates. But such a third party might | draw such strength from the Republi- can fold that re-election of President | | Hoover would be impossible. The Re- | yublimn party has been the dry strong- hold, except in the South, where the Democratic party controls alone. In the South the drys have controlled the Demorrats. No one e: the Dem- ocrats of the South to bolt their party ticket this year, wet or dry. One hope of the Republicans has been that the Republican and Demo- cratic platforms both will declare for resubmission of the eighteenth amend- ment, and that with such platform Ceclarations the prohibition issue would be lifted very largely from the national campaign. The renewed threat of the drys to organize an independent third party and nominate a presidential can- didate, however, puts a different face on the matter. * x % % according to form, Gov. Proposed Reduction in Army Arouses Vigorous Protest Action of the House of Representa- tives in favor of the retirement of 2,000 Army officers has stirred vigorous protest. It is maintained by the press trat the proposed action would weaken the cnal defense, with only mod- erate saving of funds, and that in case of emergency the necessity for train- |ing new officers would delay act'on and prove as costly as in experiences of the past. “Retrenchment which cripples the national defense is shocking waste.” in the opinion of the San Antonio , which ealls the provision legislative torpedo which would wreck the national defense plan if enacted.” The Express notes an “ignoring of the sharply threatening conditions in several parts of the world,” and adds: “It is a military axiom that everything in war, or for war, can be improvised save trained officers. Nowadays the country that lacks such officers would under a heavy handicap in & war with a nation possessing well-instructed training camps,” in the judgment of the New York Sun, “would save the Government nearly as much money as would the other measure, and would interfere far less with the Army's formanc: of its various missions.” Milwaukee Journal advises: “If we have to suspend some activities let us, at least, do it in connection with those that do not endanger the country as & whole.” The Jersey City Journal as- “There is no real economy to be accomj by throwing 3, commissioned officers out of the serv- ice. Their worth is not to be measured solely in dollars saved, but also In dollars already spent on their educa- tion and training. Each trained man thrown out is a capital asset of the Nation tossed aside by reckless squan- dering of the Nation's truest th— trained and loyal men—for a penny- wise and pound-foolish policy. Good officers do not spring out of the ground. They are trained by slow processes of education. Even the urge of the World ‘War did not produce good officers with: Which each should manage in the way Plain duty brings to view— the presentation. The dramatic action of the opera was enhanced, rather than Rooseveltian days. Mr. Garner has sev- eeral broken gavels to his credit and has had conspicuous encouragement in re- hearsing for a performance with the still famous metaphorical “big stick.” e aaa Senator Borah, though not in so emi- \ nent a position as Mr. Coolidge was ‘when he said “I do not choose,” creates a political sensation when he presents a similar thought in more elaborate form, though relating to less exalted distinction. ————— Frayers are being offered for Congress. If it is on its way to Avernian regions, 1t 13 not finding the descent as easy as classically indicated. RS, “Autarchy.” Reference was recently made in these columns to present-hour economic trends which threaten to give trade and commerce in Europe an entirely new orientation. Broadly, their pur- pose is to put governments more and more into business and to a cor- responding degree obliterate private enterprise. Current negotiations be- tween Soviet Russia and Turkey for an exchange of each other's commodi-' ties on a state basis, and not as be- tween the merchants or exporters of the two countries, were instanced as signs of the times in the Old World. In The Sunday Star Paul Scott Mowrer, writing from Paris, describes this “new capitalism” and discloses that it has already received a strange- sounding name, “autarchy.” It is de- pressed Eurcpe’s latest remedy, appar- ently—others having failed—to cure depression which reveals symptoms of ‘becoming chronic. “Autarchy,” says Mr. Mowrer, “means complete control of & nation's economic and financial self-sufficlency raised to the highest possible degree. It implies a strong revolt against what is assumed to be a disorderly and uncontroilable system under which most countries have been living. It has no special political im- plications. It is equally sympathetic to Communism and Faselsm, though it is diametrically opposed to the old laissez faire economics and competitive “Autarchy” finds its principal ex- emplification in Russia. Fascist Italy s it tg some extent. Germany seems brotherly love. % In a large city like New York there is necessarily a conspicuous element that does not care how much wealth an official accumulates so long as he can make good as an entertainer. B By remaining at home Senator Borah will eliminate one possibility of stam- peding & convention by personal elo- quence. R ‘To the naturally gifted filibuster artist, “Brevity is the soul of wit” is merely another of those punctured proverbs, RSSO The Proposed Airport Plan. An arrangement has just been pro- posed for a solution of the Washington airport problem that will overcome serious physical and legal difficulties that now intervene. It is planned to combine the two airport areas, Hoover Field and Washington Airport, and to lease them to the Federal Government for operation by the Department of Commerce. Heretofore these two fields have been distinct properties, though lately operated as a unit. has been need of extension and par- ticularly the elimination of an im- portant road bounding the present fleld. Questions of title also have arisen with a prospect of legal pro- ceedings in behalf of the Government in case of any effort at extension on the part of private interests. The im- mediate plan is that the Government should take over the whole area with | the privilege of purchase at any time, the annual rental paid meanwhile by the United States being a moderate sum. i If this arrangement can be effected there will be no barrier to the proper development of the airport, which can be eonducted as a Government field with commercial use under regulation. With the relocation of the highway that now obstructively bounds the field an expansion is possible that will make this one of the most efficient airports in the country. It is already one of the busiest and is certain to grow in use rapidly and steadily. Owing to the uncertainty of tenure and development the structural equipment at the airport is not satisfactory. If the proposed | | diminished, by the courage and dis- simulation of the young lady, and the | audience applauded the reality of the episode with grand vigor and enthu- | siasm. | The folks who have too much to say And not encugh to do. | | |If every man set out to play A simpie, honest part; If no one ever got too gay Or tried to be too smart, We'd lose the sense of much suspense If folks would stop the row That's raised in askin’ “Why?" and “Whence?" = N And simply tell us “How!"™ * e Newspaper Suspension Deplored in Spain. A B C, Madrid—A month and a; half has passed since El Debate was| ! suspended. \ | perfectly the spiritual vexation and | the bodily fatigues which have been laid upon this grand periodical and' its numerous and talented stafl, and how much the continued abeyance of | a favorite journal is deplored by its| ! host of readers, and almost as equally regretted by the enormous majority of the people who have the true interests of the country at heart. | And yet we do not believe that either | the public, or even many professional newspaper men, fully grasp just what | the suspension of El Debate represen'si }in the general economic order, or how | | Coaxing the Lightning. “You look for a political storm this Summer?? “I do,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Nomination lightning may strike almost anywhere.” “What will be your position?” “Perfectly upright, in en effort to | their important activities. | confidently _expected. | new and enlarged cultivations will soon But there look as much like a lightning rod as possible.” Jud Tunkins says Hortense McGee has at last proved that she can be a help to her mother. Mrs. MoGee ran for office and Hortense voted for her. Discord. ‘The good old Summertime draws near. ‘The birds are singing sweet and clear. | ‘The big band wagon comes too soon And overwhelms the simpie tune. Familiar Sound. “What makes you so sure the man | who just landed from the train has been in the Gulch in the old days?” “He knows the customs of the com- munity,” answered Cactus Joe. “When an automobile tire blew out with & loud report he stuck his hands up imme- diately.” | “War,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “usually resembles the ex- i plosions of your old magicians in an | effort to turn lead into gold.” Art's Power. ‘When David played the harp so sweet He brought the public to his feet. A New York mayor, with his lay, Much like King David now holds sway. High Art ‘will make us all behave, Employed by Jimmy or by Dave. “I hes followed many a Uncle Eben, “and I never public question settled hy ' i ' great an injury is done to industry in | the cruel and unconscionable destruc- tion of private business to the extent of hundreds of thousands of pesetas. Such a punishment is entirely out of | proportion with the default, which was | at worst but a technical departure| from the rigid letter of the law, with- out even a remote infringement of its; spirit. Should such implacable rigor be employed against a humanly bene-; ficial institution merely for the ex- pression of an opinion? Such is the inherent right pertaining to all man- kind; such is, in the spoken word, a social prerogative, and the very es- sence of every conversation and dis- cussion. Do our daily and ordinary expres-| sions become jeopardous and sub-| versive the moment they are put into| print? Surely an epochal event such as the banishment of the Jesuits is & matter about which two divergent views may properly be held, and surely neither an individual nor an establish- ment should be subjected to disciplin- ing so severe because the opinion hap- pens to be “con” instead of “pro” the action of the government. The press of the entire nation, we are sure, con- curs with us in this assumption. * K ok % German E: o Drop Stirs ls. Cologne Gasgette.—The decrease in German export trade is continuing to alarm the dgournmmL Last year our foreign trade was particularly encour- aging, at lesst until the middle o the year. Then a decine set in, which has not yet shown any abatement. Our exports must not only be more than our imports, but they must be con- sideraby more if we are to show a trade balance favorable in all respects 1n and - constraining | “ to the involuntary obligations to which- we may be. held. The margin of our exports over im- | Rafael Chacon. chief director of the financial institution. Senor Chacon has further advised that the banking experts who negotiate with the planters in the matter of these loans have already been ap- pointed and are prepared to enter upon It may be therefore, that be developed, with a substantial in- crease in the nation's resources at the time when they will bé most valuable. The public understands All the laborers in the sofl will take | up their tasks with new diligence and courage. . o ox o Germans Make Train Wheels for Mexico. El Dictamen, Vera Cruz.—A large shipment of driving wheels for loco- motives, consigned to the Perrocarriles Nacionales. arrived recently at this port on the German steamer Wester- wald, proceeding from the Krupp mills at Essen. As soon as the wheels were unloaded by the steemer they were placed on fiat cars and sent on to the capital of the republic. . iy | Congress Must Choose From Two Alternatives To the Editor of The Star: The letter of President Hoover to Mr. ; Parker, president of the American So- ciety of Civil Engineers, setting forth his reasons for opposing large bond | issues for Government works, and the wild schemes proposed by the Demo- | crats, should be sufficient to convince the thinking portion of the'population that the salvation of the country does | mot lie in a Democratic victory in the ' next election. The Democrats have shown their utter lack of business ability. Like a flock of sheep they permitted a New York Congressman, representing an almost solid foreign-born constituency, to bring about the defeat of the sales tax. the country would now be well on the way to recovery. Congress is faced with the choice of doing one of two things: It can pass gz necessary tax measures to program f | and by that method 90 cents for every ing man will get out of it, and by the same action so destroy public confidence as to make it necessary for the Govern- Ri Roosevelt picked up six more delegates | military leaders, ready to employ thelr | to the Democratic National Convention in Delaware on Tuesday. They were ! chosen in State convention and in- structed for the New York Governor. | Delaware is the State of Chairman John | J. Raskob of the Democratic National | | Committee, and the Democratic chair- | man has not been one of those sup- | porting Gov. Roesevelt. Indecd, he is | declared to have been one of those | strongly opposing Roosevelt. Roosevelt | is expected to get the Colorado and ! Utah delegations at State conventions to be held Saturday. x x x % Tuesday marked also additions to the | lists of delegates supporting Speaker John N. Garner of Texas and Alfred E. Smith of New York for the Demo- | cratic presidential nomination. The . Texas State convention instructed the | 46 delegates to the national conven- tlon for the Speaker and New Jersey Democrats in State convention bound their 32 delegates to Smith. Speaker Garner as a result has 90 delegates Instructed for him, those of Texas and | armed attack is false and dnnzeroua.”‘, * % x = | recources of men and material quickly ' and effectively.” “Army officers, if they are efficient, are products of long and intensive training,” it is pointed out by the Chicago Daily News, with the declara-| tion that they ere “not the gift of & bountiful Providence.” and that “in any past time of national peril, the scarcity of trained officers for Army service has proved appalling and enormously costly in human lives.” The Daily News concludes: “Tte costly lessons of the great war are being rapidly unlearned by a forgetful Na- tion. Wise national economy is a great and necessary virtue, but the sort of economy which, while passing with ap- proval elemsnts of enormous govern- mental cost that have no special value to the Nation, cuts deepesi into our | moderate basic safeguerds against | | “Every time the word ‘economy’ is| mentioned,” according to the Danbury Evening News, out the of time for tri And it is not clear that we shall ways have a host of prepared allies to protect us while we train some officers as well as raise an army.” * x x “Unless the House can show that there will be no more war, the pro- posal is not an economy,” avers the Indianapolis News, while the Rockford Register-Republic quotes statistics from an Illinois source shewing that “the average age of officers to be retired, regardless of the system used, would not be over 46, with the result that, “straightway in Con- | der gress comes a great hue and cry to|need to If the sales tax had been passed g g:nvlmorlm‘:.. It does -f:, appear umy[ ve more. Smith people ! v -cums! are claiming that their candidate has .;'“..‘,‘&,,‘:‘ ,X'é\é’;ffilfar“.’m p'.‘;&'.' 137 instructed delegates with Jersey's jsm. The News believes in delegation. In the selection of dele-|in government, and has said so i gates yet to be made, Smith like Gar- | plain words many times. But it is he cut down on Army and Navy expenses! ner, will have no accretion of strength. Yet Garner and Smith are the two candidates for the presidential nomi- nation who will go to the national convention with more delegate stren than any of the rest of the ing Gov. The oppo- to Roosevelt does net make an imposing array. Nor is there the slight- est chance, for example, that the Gar- ner Texas or his California delegates could ever be swung to Smith in the national convention. It prob-; ably would be just as difficult to Smith's Massachusette, New Jersey Connecticut delegates to Garner. * k% X Belief among Democrats g W Ry :;w‘zo:“k Governor zfll be “x;omlnlted P opposition o g. Some '«t!lug lpnnn‘ghprlvmlv d fil’mfl- the ntial admit ey see no “]m‘u chance _ of fl Mell.“ tion “uri:n b m“e‘l‘;’ | hotm New Jersey e Massachusetts it to . Gov. Ritchie of Maryland or Baker of Ohio seem to afford vaildble rallying grounds. in New have sent a delegation that !ookedm:nh favor on Roosevelt, after it had voted for Smith once or twice, if it had not been for the effort that Mayor Curlev of Boston made to obtain control of the it. Up“’ ht economy | rialize. not and | lishment, The Treacherous Ey:lid.‘ From the Oklahoma City Daily Oklahomsan. Some fellow has figured out thaf person’s eyelids mtenvel 7,0&0 Il.ix“ in And to think that a single wink often to | leads to trouble. But They Are Poor Fish. Prom the Haverhill Evening Gasette. It they ever run out of fish to put in the river where Hoover fishes, we might that some of the Wall Btreet