Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1932, Page 6

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Tre Assocjated Press is exclusively entitled %0 the use for republication of all news dis- atches credited to it o mot otherwise cred- ted in this paper and also fhe iocal news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Obstructive Tactics. ‘Threats by opponents in the Benate of the proposed general manufacturers’ excise tax to tie up the revenue bill for another month if the supporters of the manufacturers’ tax dare to write that provision into the pending bill sound like “a lot of noise.” In the first place, only a small group of Sen- ators opposing the manufacturers’ tax may be expected to go to the length of a filibuster against the revenue biil in the event a manufacturers’ tax is adopted by a majority of the Senate. Not all of the opponents of the tax would undertake to delay the passage of a bill for which the country is im- patiently waiting. In the secomd place, a determined front by supporters of the manufacturers’ tax could make it ex- tremely uncomfortable for a filibuster- ing minority if the tax were written into the bill. The Senate is already working long hours, meeting at 10 a.m. and sitting until 7 pm. An exten- sion of the daily sessions into the night would give the fillibusters plenty to do. If the manufacturers’ tax cannot command a majority in the BSenate when the test comes, perhaps today or tomorrow, rbviously it will not become part of the bill. But if there is a majority of the Senators who prefer this fair and reasonable and effective form of taxation to the special excise taxes and nuisance taxes now carried in the bill. and to higher normal tax rates on incomes, these Senators should not be deflected from the course they desire to pursue by the threats now put forward by a handful of Senators, be- longing to the Progressive Republican group in the main, to hold up the revenue bill indefinitely. There has been too much vielding on the part of the Senate to organized and belligerent minorities. The need for speedy disposition of the revenue bill in the interest of the people and business improvement is evident. Any group in Congress which undertakes by dilatory tactics to pre- vent final action on the revenue bill will have to bear the brunt of criticism | from the country. Attempts to lay the blame for delay of the revenue bill upon the shoulders of the supporters of the manufacturers’ tax, provided they are willing to vote promptly on the! ‘Walsh amendment, would be entirely ineffectual. That amendment, which | proposes a general manufacturers’ ex-; cise tax of 1.75 per cent, with food and | other necessities exempted, is entitled to its day in court, although supporters of the Couzens amendment to place war-time income tax rates on the people, ! with normal income taxes running as! high as 6 and 12 per cent, may deny | ibis. The debate by the supporters of | the Couzens smendment ran for many hours in the Senate. The rule of unlimited debate in the Senate is the club which has been used to defeat good legislation and to force bad legislation through the Upper | House and through Congress. The Senate should understand that at the present juncture what the people de- | ‘mand is action, not talk: that talk, after all, is not the matter of highest impor- tance to the country regardless of what it may be to a Senatcr. ‘The Walsh amendment proposing the general manufacturers’ excise tax should be adopted by the Senate. It should, in the interest of the country, be written finally into the revenue bill with the consent of the House. There ha¢ been much talk by its op- ponents to the effect that it is a bur- dent on the poor. As a matter of fact it is & burden on the rich, for it is the rich who make wide purchases of all kinds of commodities. It will touch those persons of great wealth in this country who spend their money freely. Many of these wealthy persons have their money invested today, millions of dollars, in tax-free securities of the Federal, State and municipal govern- ments. If it were not for this tax-free wealth, amounting to more than $20,- 000,000,000, there would be no need of levying additional taxes. But with this vast wealth entirely free from the income taxes, wealth must bear the whole burden of taxation. If it were possible to wipe out such freedom from taxation the country would be the gainer. ———em—s Assuming that a law systematically disregarded by the people is auto- matically nullified, a catculation might be undertaken to find out approxi- mately the length of time required for & law to turn blue. e The United States of Spain. ‘The mother of much that is the Americas of today, it is with & certain appropriateness that Spain should now be turning in our direction for a con- stitutional model. Premier Manuel Azana has just presented to the Assem- bly at Madrid a plan which would eventually convert the new republic into & union of federated states similar to the United States, except that they would be under complete control of the national authorities. ‘The government has hit upon this idea at the end of its laborious efforts to solve the delicate Catalonian prob- lem. Senor Azana’s pronouncement is the response to Catalonia’s suggestion of a limited autcnomcus government for the great Spanish industrial area Tadiating from Barcelona. The inde- pendence movement still fourishes | their fortitude and faith. the remainder of the | of propitiating it in scme substantial form. civilian or non-civilian service must prove ability to sing the national an- MONDAY, THIS AND THAT Fundamentally the special statute |them ‘rom memory, or write or recitn! under which it is proposed to conciliate the Catalonians allocates to their state government the right to employ the Catalan tongue, the direction of the educational, economic and social system, and the privilege of policing its own territory. Questions of foreign rela- ticns end naval and military protection are conceded in the statute to the; central government. Premier Azana describes the full separation of Catalonia from Spain, which extremists advocated when the monarchy was overthrown in April, 1931, as “unthinkable.” He argues that it “would bring weakness to Spain and misfortune to Catalonia.” The govern- ment’s “United States of Spain” pro- gram evokes the approval of Catalonian moderates, who recognize that home rule, within the framework of the Span- ish republic, gives the industrial prov- ince every essential liberty it requires for its contentment and prosperity. Presumably & large measure, if not the full messure accorded Catalonia, of Spanish states. None of them boasts the history and racial traditions which inspire the Catalonians to think in terms of individual nationhood—as Catalonians first and Spaniartis after- ;erd. It remains to be seen whether the central government's “United States” project, with its definite limitations upon Catalonian sovereignty, will cut the Gordian knot of separatism. —— et Memorial Day. Memorial day, tenderest of American | holidays, is with us again, remindful of |the debt a grateful country owes the men who gave their all for its safety and perpetuity. Amid its preoccupation with economic stress, the Republic pauses to celebrate with plety and pride the deeds of bravery and patriotism performed by its sons on land and sea in the hour of emergency. It does sO in the reassuring confidence that should duty ever call again the breed will not be found to be extinct Its glory and its traditiond survive in the hearts of living Americans, despite the organized efforts of those spineless groups which deprecate national defense and are restless in undermining it. This day of remembrance of our heroic dead has more than ordinary significance in the grave times that are now upon us. Not long ago President Hoover described the economic emer- gency as tantamount to war. We in- voked extraordinary powers to win the World War, he said, and they can be utilized to conquer the enemy now within the gate. That enemy is not an armed foe trespassing on Amer- fcan soil. It is an ememy which has invaded the American spirit. Its name is fear. It is bombarding the Nation's confidence in itself and seeking to break it down. The need of the hour is for the stamina that has overthrown every armed enemy of the United States. The situation calls today for no whit less of courage, of perseverance, of the will to conquer than our forces have al- ‘ways displayed when they faced the foe. The United States, econcmically, is again at Valley Forge. On the Memorial day of the Washington Bi- centenary year, falling. as it does in another hour of crisis for the Ameri- can people, it is meet to recall the vicissitudes of the founding fathers and to derive inspiration afresh from It was these made their cause triumphant. The practice of them cannot and will not fail to bring us victory, too, in the war now engaging our energles and trying our souls. ————————— Raussian Hens Poor Communists. A Moscow dispatch states that the director of the Consumers’ Co-opera- tive Society has been cited by the Soviet commissars for prosecution on criminal charges and several managers of the is the failure of these organizations to maintain the quota assigned for the first quarter of 1932 in the production of eggs under the five-year plan. Only eight per cent of the planned collections for April have been fulfilled. Conse- jquently there is an acute shortage of eggs in the large centers of population State receipts of butter also are very scarce, amounting to only 36%: per cent |for the first quarter plans, while meat | | supplies are but 17.9 per cent of the, | prescribed quantity. No mention is made in this report of the reasons assigned for these deficien- cles. But evidently something is de-idedly wrong in the system. Does the fault rest with the hens and the cows and the beef cattle? Are they unaware that a five-year plan is in progress? Do they fail to respond to the urgir-; of the Moscow authorities? Has somcoody been stealing the chicken feed c: strip- ping the pastures? American hens occa- slonally go on strike and hold out on the consuming public, but nobody is prosecuted for these manifestations of independence. Nature is not entirely | subservient to mandates and programs of production. If the Russian hens are goind back on the Soviet system, foreign tourist visi- during the season of alien inspection. For according to most of the reports of those who have gone to Russia to see how the great experiment is working out, eggs constitute the major portion of the dietary. If eggs are scarce, the lot of the allen guest will be one of diffi- culty and hardship. Cabbage soup and black bread will make poor eating, and unless supplies are concentrated in tour- Ist centers these volunteer inspectors of communism at work will return with a low estimate of the state of things. ————————————— The veterans take to a box car, when circumstances permit, as easily as they did in the days when the Soclety of 40 Men 8 Horses was organized. ——— The Anthem Test. 1If the purpose of a resolutiof just introduced in the Housé by Represent- ative Puller of Arkanses is to deplete the Government service in the interest of economy it is werthy of serious con- sideration. The resolution directs the various heads of departments of the Government to pass upon the qualifica- tions of all' their subordinates by put- ting them to a unique test. Within sigty days after enactment, according to ¢ local autonomy will be granted to other | virtues, as well as valor in battle, that | Chicken Co-operative Trust have been | reprimanded for inefficiency. The cause - | one and one-fourth per cent of the plan | for egg collections for the first quarter for that period was completed, and only | tors to that country will be hard Rit: from memory the words of that song. ‘The overturn in the Government serv- ice incident to such a test would not be as great under its present terms as if it were confined to the singing of the anthem. Perhaps everybody in de- partmental employment could write or recite from mem:ry the words of the song after a lit!le study—sixty days would prebably suiice. But to ask that every- body sing the anthem as proof of fit- ness for continued employment would be perhaps too harsh a requirement. As a matter of fact “The Star Spangled Banner” is one cf the hardest of songs to sing. The range is really beyond the average voice. Coloratura sopranos can handle it well enough, but the musical “men in the street” and his wife, his i brother and his sister have to com- promise with the scale when they essay its rendition. Singing in chorus, they can get by without detection, but when they undertake sclo work the result is Just too bad. It is probably with this fact in mind that Representative Pulier wrote his resolution in its more liberal | terms and granted the concession of the | alternatives of writing or reading the words of the anthem. But why “The Star Spangled Banner” rather than the Declaration of Independence or the pre- amble to the Constitution, which have been used for patriotic tests in achools for many years? Why, indeed, any literary-patriotic test when the dolng of the Government's business is con- cermed? Everybody who accepts & job in the Federal service has to take an joalh of fidelity, and if that is not !enoush of a pledge surely the memor- |izing of the words of & song or the rendition of its melody wculd not guarantee the incumbent to be that ideal person, a hundred per cent American. l ——ee— With characteristic ingratitude, rack- eteers In Indianapolis have terrorized motion picture theaters in which they have been exploited, as in other cities, | as romantic heroes. It has long been evident that there is mo use trying to mollify a racketeer. Flattery only makes him worse. —_— e No explanation is offered of the con- certed desire to des... one scene of unemployment in orde® to journey to a place where work is even scarcer. | When work is provided, the traveler |may find that he has missed & job ‘thaz was waiting for him in his own home town. ———— Proposal to exempt medicine from e sales tax should find favor with each one of the physicians in Con- | gress, who know, presumably by pro- | fessional observation, how devastating an attack of sickness may be on the budget of any home. — The ancient pork barrel is back in legislative discussion, but there is hesitancy about relying on it to bring back the equally ancient reference to the full dinner pail. e All mention in print may be valuable. { The marchers to Washington, D. C, |gave a good Maryland town some ! Nation-wide prominence by the decision to see Cumberland. e The office of mayor of New York has always been only one of the hardest { jobs in the Nation, but for one reason | or another one of the most difficult. ——— Revival is warranted of a pleasant old parofly beginning “I don't want to play in your yard” and “I won't holler down your pork barrel, if you won't be good | to me.” e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNBON. Naive Sympathy. | A fine little lad of his father inquired— | They were paying & sociable call— “Oh, why must the man we've so great- ly admired Work so hard in the big City Hall? | The amount of his pay I have learned with a sigh, As of high cost of living I hear. I wonder in sadness how he can get by On twenty-five thousand & year? “His tailor will show him no mercy at all. The grocers hold out on the weight. | His jewelry’s always so modestly small! He has only one car, up to date. Does he have to make speeches on this and on that scatter kind words and good cheer, ‘While wondering how he can keep up the flat On twenty-five thousand a year!” | | And | Power of Eloquence. “Are you going to the convention?" “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Will you make a speech?” | “I hope not. I just want to be | around to exert a restraining influence in case of emergency.” “Eloquence sometimes exerts an ir- resistible spell, you may recall.” “That's why I'm going to stand by. 1 want to do what I can to prevent the delegates from getting rattled and start- ing a stampede for a radio announcer.” | Jud Tunkins says sometimes you can’t believe half you hear, and the half you can believe is the one you wish you hadn’t heard. Avoiding Unique Attitudes. “Why does the farmer complain so ! much about the way things are going?” “I don't know,” answered Farmer Corntossel. “Speaking for myself, it's because I don't want to seem different from everybody else.” “To be sure your words will be re- peated,” said Hi Ho, the sage of China- town, “say that what you tell is so | significant that it must be held in deep confidence.” : High and Low. The good old times once more seem here! | The good old speeches greet the ear And bring sgsin the good old ery, . “Both rent and taxes are too high!” The good old times agaln we note The good old comment still we quote, | Remarking on the passing show, Our taste and morals are too low. “I likes to have a friend tell me my faults,” said Uncle Eben, “ ‘cause it gives me a chance to come back an’ do Him de same favor.” i BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. It used to be a rcdio, but now it is just a talking machine. ‘What gave promise, to many of us, cf becoming the most fruitful musical in- strument of the ages, has turned itself into a perfect aerial geyser of gush. Music is a side issue, nothing more. ‘The old-time “talking machine” really did very little talking: most owners pur- chased musical records, only occa- sicnally indulging in a straight record- ing of speech. One grew very tired of “Abie on the Telephone,” and that sort of thing. Even the great speech of Marlowe, “The Quality of Mercy,” from “The Merchant of Venice,” was held in reserve by the average phonograph enthusiast, to be trotted cut on specisl cccasions. 1t was a “talking machine"—that is, it could talk, but nine-tenths of its out- put_was musical. The radio, which began as a music machine, has turned itself into & loud speaker, figuratively and literally. |~ This was all the more evident to those cld enthusiasts who found themselves turning on their sets less and less as the years went by. When they did tune in fcr what they hoped to be an hour's diversion, in a musical sense, they discovered that they had become very much out-of-ate. If somebody wasn't making a speech, then some one else was singing. (The old human voice, in a fancy setting.) If no one was talking, then several scmebodies were busily screaming at each other in the guise of drama. It none of this was going on, and mostly some of it was, then a very effi- clent-sounding announcer was doing cne of two things: 1. Telling the audience about some- thing they had just listened to. or 2. Telling the 4,000,000 what they would listen to next. So largely has the use of the human voice grown upon the broadcisting sta- tions that operas were put on the air with intermittent comment while the music was going on, a thing unheard of before in the history of art. Maybe this auditor’s experience has been "exceptional, but it seems as if every single time he has turned his set on in recent months somebody has been running off at the mouth. He wonders how many other persons immediately switch the set off, too, and g0 back to their paper, or book, or conversation, or garden, or theater, or |nv.her occupation, or amusement. Even musical programs must be laid in supposedly foreign settings, and the announcer must decliim as follows: “The moon is tinting the waters golden. Far to the east the great mountains stand aloft in silent majesty, while the people of the town come down to the water's edge to see the boat come in. There is mystery in the air, and the orchestra plays ‘Majestic Moun- tatns, Don't Fall on Me.'” It is all rather silly. The auditor, sitting in his living room, surrounded by his family and his books, his furniture and his familiar walls, wonders what the words have to do with it have to go to all that trouble, to take somebody’s time to write’the words, and somebody else’s to say them? | He asks himself honestly, “Does the | descriptive bit, continuity, or whatever it is called, add a single blessed thing to the program, as far as the listener is concerned? And isn't the program for him, after all, or does he just sup- pose that it is?" i If this sort of rant is gotten up to | appeal to the famous “mentality of a | 13-year-old child,” he feels as if some | distinguished psychologist has woefully underrated the aforesaid mentality. | There is nothing a bit backward | about the mental processes of a boy of jthat age. He should be treated by others, we suspect, exactly as he re- gards himself, as a sentient being with considerable powers of appreciation, WASHINGTON BY FREDERIC Washington is host this week to a distinguished Japanese, Dr. Inazo Ni- | tobe, who has come to the United public opinion has turned against Ja- pan—as Nippon thinks it hss. Inci- dentally it appears to be a part of Dr. Nitobe's mission to clear us up about Japan’s real motives in China, especial- 1y Manchuria. He believes the Japanese case is not fully understood in this country, and that when it is our judg- ment concerning the Manchurian occu- pation and the Shanghai affair will undergo a change. Up to a couple of years ago Dr. Nitobe was the Japanese member of the League of Nations secre- tariat, and won an eminent place for himself at Geneva as an enlightened statesman. He is now editorial adviser of the Tokio Nichi Nichi and the Osaka Mainichi, two of Japan's leading news- papers. Ambassador Debuchi is enter- taining in Dr. Nitobe'’s hapor at the picturesque new embassy on Massachu- setts avenue, * * x Although progress has been made in transforming the American diplomatic service from a patronage orchard into a “career” profession, plums are still retained for parfy faithful. desirable jobs will be filled. and the expectation is that they'll be handed over to deserving Republicans. One is the Ambassadorship to Poland, from which John N. Willys, Ohio automobile magnate resigned. The other is the Ministership to Greece, occupied by another Ohioan, Robert P. Skinner, until his transfer to Latvia. Various “‘career” men are evincing commendable desires for promotion to either Warsaw or Athens, but, at a time when cam- paign contributions are bitterly needed, the claims of butter-and-egg men have an irresistible appeal. The Rogers foreign service. law permits ‘“career” men to aspire up to the grade of counselor of embassy, but chiefs of missions (Ambassadors and Ministers) are unrestricted presidential appoint- ments. Notable “career” diplomats who have reached the top are our present envoys in_ the Far East—Ambassador Grew in Japan and Minister Johnson in China. * X % x Representative Ruth Bryan Owen, Democrat, who is in the thick of a pri- mary renomination contest in Florida, was addressing a meeting of woman voters at Jacksonville the other night. She was glorifying the achievements of her sex in public life and subtly con- veying the impression that when all is sald and done, it'’s the women who have always cut ice in the world. “Where would the men be, anyhow, if it weren't for the women?" asked the vivacious Ruth. There was a man or two in the audience, and one of them shouted: “In the garden of Eden!” * k% x Over in the War Department is a memorial tablet erected under Gen. Pershing’s direction in honor of the horses which fell in Prance. Despite increasing use of mechanised cavalry, the horse has by no ‘means galloped out of the military picture. believer in the four-footed h U. 8. A, and Army’s most’ expert, saddle- Ithough 1t d is undoubtedly the most efficient Cav- alry of army in the world. It has attained t eminence amid recurring congressional vicissitudes. Periodically cheese-paring appropriation committees smuggle jokers into the War Depart- v: ry authori- m convinced that in future wars “combination cavalry” (mechan- ized and horse) will serve vital pur- posee—each with its mission and its limitations and operating separately to chtain its maximum efficiency. Why did the broadcasting sm!mn‘ States to find out just why American | As 5 | the presidential campaign proceeds, two Inerlmlynblewnmlnlweunwm |1t is offered to him. Lack of experience is the one dis- believe that there is any h in sheer brain , N that many a man. and boy, too, ad- ventures more surely and far at e than nlndy another man, or boy, does Iu_‘glu lown to the sea in ships. long and labori all, nothing more than | Yor “Eymmaeit el tiat teachers pla experience. Each ceivably find out that his books and ce before him, but, of course, he does not, and scarcely could, cuch is the bulk of all that is to be known, and so short the years in which one may discover facts and fancies. We have too high an opinion of the mentality of the average 13-year-old boy—or girl, either, for that matter- to believe that he (or she) is any more \mlgruud with the excess of radic talk than we are, es an individual listener. Helpless in the face of the t gush, we are reduced to turning off the set, while wond just why the {:um‘hA: voice g the chief place n A Somehow we are reminded of the old “man on horseback,” the hero of past days, the mighty military leader who carried his country's armed forces into | victorious conflict, and was rewarded wl]t!h & fine equestrian statue of him- sel [ What will future generations do about this? ‘Wh:n ge' l'..l‘mumofhlmeuh are put up in the parks, will the images be p?nud in symbolic motor cars. or will custom mount them on steeds they never rode except in parades? The human voice is now in the radio saddle, and while the com is by no means exact, it is fair to say that it appears to be hogging the show. Infrequent listening brings this home to an erstwhile “fan.” The steady listener has grown used to the change. He does not notice the increasingly |large part which the voice, either in | speech or song, plays in the broadcasts Only the man who bemoans the trend of the day is in a position to realize Jjust how frequently the voice of man or woman cuts in on music. This pre- sup-oses, of course, that he wants music mc.e than he wants speech. It is | understood by him that there are many radio listeners who feel exactly the other way about it. He presumes that the radio genjuses | would say that all the talking and sing- |ing is in response to the constant | urging of listeners, who fairly clamor | for it all | He reserves the right to wonder, how- ever, if it does not in part arise from | the old love of humanity for the sound | of_its own voice. | That is a powerful urge, brethren— |one known to man since the earliest |days. In the shadows of mountains | Moses hurled his powerful orations, | which gave sanitation, law and light to his foliowers. | ~ Centurles later the great Napoleon | declaimed in Egypt., “Soldlers, 40 cen- | turies look down upon you.” At Gettys- | burgh the sublime Lincoln pronounced |a few simple words whose sonorous | glory shall sound on forever. | The place of speech in human activity is assured. All that one radio listen | Goubts is that radio broadcasting should |add to the heady overflow. A re- | ceiving set ought to be. he believes, | primarily and mainly a musical instru- ! ment, not a talking machine. OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, Vice President Curtis' sister and official hostess, will make her debut as a radio star on Wednesday. She will be inter- { Viewed at the microphone by Mrs. | Henry W. Keyes. wife of the junior Senator from New Hampshire. The | penwoman of the Senate, better known {under her writing name of Frances Parkinson Keyes, is concluding & not- | able series of broadcast talks with wom- | en in Washington political society. Mrs. Keyes plans to be on the air from both Chicago conventions next month. and | then hie herself across the seas again in quest of material for her next book * o ox ox Senator Long. Democrat and king- {fish of Louisiana. has a claim to dis- " tinction which few. if any, of his sena- torial colleagues can boast. A Puvllman sleeping car now running out of Wash- ingten is nlm!‘d "‘Huey." * % It's now & practical certainty there’ll be no adjournment of Congress for the Republican Convention, even though G. O. P. leaders predict the party's business at Chicago will not take more than three days to transact. “Convene, adopt a resubmission plank, renomi- nate and adjourn” is the scheduled program. The presence of only a hand- ful of Senators and Representatives in- sures a minimum of spelibinding. By the same token, the convention will be Tobbed of much of its color and inter- est. Speaker Garner would like Con- gress to quit for the Demccratic Con- vention. But certain Republican Peck’s bad boys may be just mean enough to prolong the agony at the Capital so as to spoil the Democratic convention, too. * % ok % When Mrs. Hoover attends the an- nual luncheon of the District of Co- lumbia Federation of Women's Clubs this week she'll sit alongside the guest g_eaker, who's a Democrat — Senator illiam J. Bulow of South Dakota. The federation prides itself on its non- partisanship. Last year its luncheon orator was a Republican, so this time it was decided to serve a Democratic course. Bulow won his oratorical spurs at the Jackson day dinner in Washing: ton in 1928, but they haven't done much clanking since. (Copyright, 19 | ) Reduction and Harmony. From the Nashville Banner. of two hitherto unknown saxophone players in the orchestra, —_———————— Wrestlers. From the Darton Daily News. Over in Turkey they claim to have a wrestler who is 115 years old, but you can’t stop & wrestler from faking even his age. T T ol Cook and Curtis. From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. As everything is comparative, Doc lc’:g:mmnd.m.we'm Buried Civilisation. From the Columbus Ohio State Journal. hlz‘hlddnt(o'nmhrlmwaln been unearthed, hidden beneath a heavy covering cf taxes. The Slap in Time. From the Minneapolis Journal. A slap at the g D T use day in September. N Momentary Madness. From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. It's a queer thing that you never hear of anybody who has done a good deed claiming to have sane, | ballot were: Clark, 44014 Wilson, 324: cool | words, there is to be no pork barrel to begx temporarily in- party MAY 30, 1932. tinguishing difference between the boy | Past. and the man. One may hesitate to | Convention. He s majority of the ballot, aithough he was never nomi- Wi majority of the convention He did not, however, have of the votes when the first ‘The results of that majority Harmon, 148; Underwood, 117%2, & scattering of votes to other can dates. EE A dozen years later, in 1924, there was another battle royal in Madison usre Garden, New York, with the “fleld” seeking to tear down Willlam McAdoo and succeeding. McAdoo, although he had s far greater block of delegates in the national convention of that year, never had a majority. His top strength, on the sixty-ninth ballot, was 530. It took, however, 103 ballots of that convention to pick a presidential candidate, John W. Davis of New York and West Virginia. ¢ * K ok K Although it was clear before the Democratic national convention of 1928 opened in Houston, Texas., that Alfred E. Smith was to be the presidential nominee of the party, there was “fleld” arrayed against the New Yorker, con- sisting of favorite-son candidates, put forward in main by States where the Democrats did not wish the nomination of Smith. In that convention Smith was nominated on the first ballot, re- ceiving more than the two-thirds of the delegate votes necessary to win. His actual count on the first ballot was 73425 votes of the 1110 delegate votes in the convention. In the fleld against him were Senator Cordell Hull of Ten- nessee, who received the highest number of votes next to Smith, 71 5-6 votes; former Senator James A. Reed of Mis- souri, who had 48 votes; former Senator Pomerene of Ohio, 47 votes; Senator George of Georgia, 521; votes; Jesse Jones of Texas, 43 votes; Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. 20 votes, and | Representative Ayres of Kansas, 20 votes. There were several others who | received votes on this ballct, too. Some ! of the delegations changed their votes when it became evident that Smith had won, and when this had been done| Smith had a total of 8492, votes. Ap-, proximately 150 delegate votes never | went to Smith, although an effort was made to have the ncmination made “by acclamétion” after it was clear that Smith was to be nominated. £ x % x This year in the Democratic camp it is the “fleld” against Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. His opponents | | insist that he will not have the neces- | sary two-thirds of the 1154 delegate | votes when the first ballot is taken, or 770, It is generally ccnceded, however, | thag the New York Governor will have between 600 and 700 delegate votes on the first ballot, and with the tide running strongly his way, he may,! through changes of vote, reach the two- thirds needed before the result of the first ballot is announced. He will be in better position on the first ballot | | than were either the late Speaker Champ Clark in 1912 or McAdoo in 1924. With the exception of Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, who is a| favorite-son candidate, none of the | contestants against Smith in 1928 are | among those who will be put in nomina- tion against Roosevelt in Chicago nex\} month. Ohio will have a favorite son candidate in the perscn of Gov. George | White. but Indiena will present no' | candidate for the Democratic nomina- | | tion, unusual in the Democratic history of the Hoosfer State. * = o * ‘With the Republican National Con- venticn due to meet on June 14. little more than two weeks off, and the Re- publican National Committee called to assemble in Chicago on June 9 to make final arrangements for the conventio there is still much speculation as to the choice of President Hoover for the | chairmanship of the National Com- | mittee, the manager of his campaign for re-election. he party leaders are | reported to “have somebody in mind” for the job. The announcement is yet to be made, however. Postmaster General Walter F. Brown, whe has becn selected for national committzeman from Ohio. it has been widely pre- dicted will be the choice for the chair- manship of the JNational Committee. Although Mr. Brown is reported not to desire the job, but much perferring to remain in his present post, he will take the chairma should the President ask him to do so. Mr. Brown has been recognized as one of the leaders of the wet wing of the Republican party. If the National Convention writes into the national platform a plank calling for resubmission of the eighteenth amendment, a plank that many ardent drys will proclaim “wet some of the Republican leaders figure | that the dry Republicans, upon whom the President must count in the coming campaign, may be further incensed if Mr. Brown is put in charge of the Na- tional Committee and the conduct of the national contest. . Another member of the President’s cabinet who has been frequently men- ., tioned for the position of national chairman is Secretary Pat Hurley of the War Department. Mr. Hurley, like the | Postmaster Genera), insists he has no desire for the chairmanship. But Mr. Hurley would take on the work if the President asked him to do so. There| has been talk of returning to the man) who successfully ran the Coolidge cam- paign in 1924, William M. Butler of Massachusetts, and his appointment as chairman of the national committee would be satisfactory to & number of the members of the committee. While neither Mr. Hurley nor Mr. Butler are regarded as quite so ‘“wet” as Mr. Brown, they are supporters of resub- mission of the eighteenth amendment, too. The present national chairman, Senator Fess of Ohio, is a simon pure dry. Undoubtedly retention of Senator Fess as chairman would 'Sml to the dry Republicans and would not be re- sented by the wet Republicans if they get their plank in the national plat- form. But Senator Fess is emphatic in his declaration he will not, under any circumstances, remain &8s national chairman during the coming campaign. If the President has a “dark horse” for the national chairmanship in mind, he has yet to produce him. * x % % None of the States select candidates to the Democratic National Convention the present week. June 7 is the date set for the State conventions in Mississippi and Florida, and both of them are expected to add to the Rooseve't strength. During the last week Cov. Roosevelt had instructed for him the delegations from Delaware, C~ ~ado and Utah, while Speaker Gar T s own State, Texas, tied its delega- on, 46 strong, fast to the coattails of the Speak e er. Col. Edwin A. Halsey, sergeant at arms of the Democratic National Con- vention, has issued definite notice to all candidates for office as assistant sergeants at arms and other assistants on the floor of the enn'v‘;nuon g-fi they accept their appointments “witl the understanding that the privilege of -Mn.‘t.h:n mnvem.m;nn and having qmomml observe proceedings Wi m&wu full compensation for services rendered.” Col. Halsey adds: “The honor of serving in the convention that will nominate the next President of the United States, and the opportu to show party loyalty should be it remuneration.® In other be unlimbered for the benefit of Demo- crats who seek these positions in the convention. However, plenty of applicants for the jobs. Rec- ommendations by national committee- men and national committeewomen, by | Senators and Representatives and other are gnecm'b obtain such aj answer for you? | quest™ ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ' BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. serve you. What question ‘There is &t all except 2 cents in The ; delegate vota Soing a5 Hgh 4s 556 oh the tenth | Veabington several varie- ties. For instance, there are 13 varie- | ties of oak. There are at least two va- rieties of each kind of tree. Q. Who was the first woman to own #nd operate a flying school in the United States?—H. P. A. Miss Catherine Stinson. She opened & flying school in S8an Antonio, Eexfil.‘oon after the World War started | Q. What was the first permanent Lhelc Afiercbuflt on Manhattan Island?— ‘A Tt was the John Street Playhouse, which was bullt in 1767, and it remained until 1798, practically the only theater in New York City. Q. When will Yellowstone Park open and close?—H. M A. The season extends from June 20 to September 19, during which time the park utilitles are operated. Between June 1 and 20 and September | 19 to October 15 limited accommoda- tions of an informal character are available at certain places in the park for motorists. Q How old are the Mills brothers? A John is 21; Herbert, 19; Harry, 18, and Donald, 17. Q. Who invented the household elec- tric clock?—M. M. A. The electric clock that operates from an outlet supplied by alternating current was invented by Henry E. Warren of Ashland, Mass, who also invented the Warren master clock used in power houses. Q. Why does the Confederate battle flag of 1863 have 13 stars when only 11 States seceded’—E A. P. A. Although the Federal Govern- ment considered the States of Kentucky and Misouri as members of the Union, these States actually had representa- tives in the Confederate Congress and were represented in that body during the life of the organization. These | States were considered by the Con- federacy as members of that govern- ment. Q. What was the meaning of thumbs down in ancient Rome?—A. D. C. A. In glaciatorial combats in Roman times, thumbs up meant that the van- quished gladiator should be spared: thumbs down that he should be killed. Q. When was th st correspondence course in art given’—S. A. A. It was a feature of the old chau- | tauqua course and was taught by Prank Fowler in 1880-1888. Q Who was in command of the Norfolk Navy Yard during the War of 1812?—E. N. A. Norfolk Navy Yard was formerly known as the Navy Yard at Gosport, Va. Capt. Samuel Evans was in com- mand from May, 1811, to August 10, 1812, relieved by Capt. John Cassin. Q. Who made the matches that Lewis and Clark are said to have car- ried on their expedition to the West? —S. D. A. Dr. Saugrain, a French physician, who had settled in the Spanish garri- son at St. Louis in 1800. in “The Con- | it is stated that “he made matches for Lewis and Clark that were National cK. | impossible little matches glowed like Lucifer's own. “‘You can make the sticks your- self,’ he sald. ‘I will seal the phos- ‘p-h’t:\xgg' in these small tin boxes for Q. How long has the game of - cheesi been played nl;cordl.nz !op:hrv Ppresent rules?—A. J. n:er;nwd um- mtnde»muked e according & standard design which has not varied for llmns? 70 years. Q. Who sat for the “Spanish b)"‘s::r(em;—u B. Poanth Berens, armela Bertogna, a Spanish girl | whom Sargent saw in the south® of | Prance. Q. Are people smoking fewer cigars and cigarettes?—P. R. A. In April, 1932, the number of | cigars sold was less by 110,028,839 than |in April, 1931. Cigarette consumption fell off 1908330926 in the same 12 months. Every kind of tobacco, in- cluding snuff, showed a heavy decline for the first time in many years. |_Q I Mexican onyx & kind of quartz? ATt isnot. It is a variety of marble. Q. Can an alien become a Mason in the United States>—D. E. A. We are informed that the question of citizenship does not enter into the qualifications of a Mason. An alien residing in the United States would not because of lack of citizenship be ineligible to become a Mason. Q. Does a fish have a heart. and, if ce, where is it Jocated?—H. C. M. A. All fishes have hearts, but in the lowest forms, the heart is reduced to a simple pulsating tube. The heart of a fish is located in the front part of the body, directly behind the neck. It is not necessarily located on the left side, as in mammals, but may be lndlht middle of the body or on either side. Q. Are there any so-called interplan- etary ships now in process of construc- tion?>—W. J. B. A. Experiments in interplanetary communication are being conducted in several localities in the United States and in Europe. Prof. Robert H. God- dard is building a rocket plane in New Mexico. He recently stated that it was to_say when it would be ready. Cleve Shaffer is studying rocket propulsion in San Francisco and Har- vey V. Bull at the University of Syra- cuse N. Y. A rocket is also being bulit by the American Interplanetary So- clety in the vicinity of New York City under the direction of Edward Bendray, David Lasser, H. F. Plerce and Dr. H. H. Sheldon of New York University. A rocket fiying feld, known as the Rak- eten Flugplatz, has been established near Eerlin, Germany, where experiments are ';!'llrlm conducted and rocket ships being uilt. Q. How many solid gold rings about the size of a wedding ring would it take to make an ounce?—F. L. 8. A. An average gold ring weighs ap- proximately & pennyweight and a haif Therefore, about 14 rings would m: ip an ounce. Q. Which end of the Rock of Gi- braltar is the highest>—H. S. W. A. The highest point is at the north end, toward Spain. The highest poun of the rock is 1,396 feet above sea le Its north face is almost perpendi It terminates at its southern extr in Europa Point, which runs down to the sea. The west side is less than the east, and between end the sea is a narrow leyg! the town is built Votes on Beer in Congres S Called Campaign Material With the defeat in both the Senate and House of Representatives of bills providing for taxation of becr, the country looks upon the proceedings as an interesting preliminary to the meet- ings of the party conventions and the elections in the Fall. In some respects the roll call results are viewed as a test of wet-and-dry sentiment. “Wets, drys and neutrals,” in the opinion of the Roanoke World-News, “are alike disgusted with the spectacle | Congress makes of itself in turning aside from the serious business of the session to make of the wet-and-dry issue a personal and political foot ball.” The Boston Transcript holds that “no prog- ress in the direction of any reason- able solution of the liquor problem can be attained by measures which are either unconstitutional or unsatisfac- tory.” “the people might find 2.75 beer so poor a substitute for what they want that its sale would prove very limited.” “The truth is,” according to the New York Sun, “that public dissatisfaction | with prohibition does not rest on any such insubstantial basis as the amount of alcohol in legally potable beer. Beer parades and beer roll calls do little to settle the fundamental question. If the ! Anti-Saloon League, which lately has seemed to be losing its grip, wanted to | defend the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act in subtle fashion, it might accomplish something by en- couraging frequent roll calls on beer of every concelvable alcoholic content. Such votes would take a lot of attention away from the main subject.” * K X % “The event will be lightly regarded,” thinks the Indianapolis News, “against a background of revenue and tax leg- islation on which the people’s attention is concentrated in the hope that they will get such action.” The Duluth Her- ald, remarking that “there ceases to be doubt that even the Republican Con- vention, long a bulwark of prohibition, will demand resubmission in a form that will test public sentiment,” con- cludes that “most discussion will be more or less fruitless until that test is made.” The Cleveland News feels that “with prohibition a live subject await- ing possible consideration by the party conventions, and with the more pro- gressive leaders of both the wets and drys favorable to a referendum, Con- gress waits until the people shall have spoken a little more definitely on the matter.” “Both Houses of Congress will be less dry after the next election”.n the opinion of the Columbus Ohio State Journal, which adds that “the Senate is likely to remain definitely dry for at least two or four years longer.” The New Orleans Times-Picayune comments on the results: “The roll calls in both Houses brought practically the entire | th, memberships out into the open. Speaker Garner was not called upon to vote and Tef from exercising that right. There were some ers, bound by standing ‘pairs’ and a few absentees. But the main of Benators and Representatives stand publicly commit~ ted for or against I tion and tax- ing of a be that an impressive body of Scientific opinion has pro- nounced ‘non-intoxicating.’ Their con- stituents will have that unescapable record for tifeir guidance next “Between the long struggle to bring the subject to a vote and the celerity with which the proposal was rejected,” suggests the Charleston (8. C.) Evening Post, “there is a curious contrast, espe- clally in view of the many evidences that the sentiment of the country is moving strongly toward modification of the prohibition law.” The Milwaukee Journal argues that “adoption would mean the return of many of the evils of the old days without the loss of any of the evils of the present,” while “as a revenue producer it would be bound to prove a digappointment to the Gov- 3 The Transcript suggests that | ernment.” That paper states as to the nature of the Senate proceedings: “By & vote of 60 to 23 the Senate of the United States has refused to recognize 4 per cent beer. By a vote of 61 to 24 it also refused to recognize 2.75 per cent beer. Since these are the first oppor- tunities the Senators have had to indi- cate their positions officially cn hibition, the votes are Coupled with the recent they indicate that Congress is s | long way from ‘nullification. what this legalizing of beer woul | tainly be called by the drys Congress would be equally indisy to consider favorably some real plan f liquor control other than prohibition is of course, still nct known, for no such |plan has ever received congressional | consideration.” * x ok % Satisfaction that prohibition has been | upheld in Congress is expressed by the Rochester Times-Union on the ground | that “any such measure would raise the | whole issue of regulation of sale in the several States,” and that “it would also raise a legal question of conflict with ‘the intent of the eighteenth amend- ment, though the amendment does not undertake to define specifically the alcoholic content which makes beverages ‘intoxicating.’ ™ The possibility of in- terpretation of the action as “nullifica- 4ion" is brought out by the Spokane Spokesman-Review and the Altoona Mirror, while the San Jose Mercury Herald sees as “pure illusion” the thought that “the whole country is up in arms against prohibition”™ The Hartford Times holds that “prospects of early repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment are not roseate.” Calling it “a real pity that this simple method of raising money for the Gov- ernment and creating employment could not be adopted.” the Buffalo Evening News suggests that “what may happen another year will depend a good deal on the state of public opinion as re- vealed in next Fall's election.” The St. Louls Times advises that “it will be necessary to strike at the root of the |evil by going after the amendment it- self,” and the Rock Island Argus sees some expectations of ** gains in the coming elections.” while the Baltimore Sun says that “there can be no serious question in any one'’s mind about the prevailing view on a beer tax " “The one outstanding' fact.” accord- ing to the Providence Journal “is that the wet cause is gaining strength in the country.” The Milwaukee Sentinel declares that “while public sentiment is rapidly turning toward legalized brewing, the elder statesmen at Wash- ington don't know it” The Newark Evening News concludes that “maybe in another 10 or 12 years Congress will catch up with the true sentiment of e country.” B Misnamed. Prom the Miam! Dally News. You'd think a horse with a name like Economic, which finished second in the Kentucky Derby, would have saved enough early speed to win. ———— The Life Saver. From the Nashville Banner. We do not credit in any meusure dismal predictions that the ship of state is apt to founder. 1If it does, though, we dare say Capt. e Fried will be right there with the leboats. Abundant Supply. From the Rochester Times-Union. The Bank of Internctional Settle- ments had a good year and the business of making international settlements cm!?:u':l..' with plenty of raw material on