Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1932, Page 8

A—8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WABHINGTON, D. C. ‘WEDNESDAY.....June 15, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 11en 8, B Offce: v 8t. and Pennsyly Ne: I ropean 1a Avi Office: 110 East 42nd 8t. OMRke. Michigan Sulld&nl. ce: 14 Regent fit.. London, England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. 'fie vening Star .. ... .45¢ per month e Evening and Bunday Biar, (when 4 Bung ) 60c per month 65c per month ay Star ..;.5c_per copy tion made at the end of each month. ders may be sent in by mail or telephone [Ational §000 Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. T + 34.00; 1 mo.. 40c iy ang Sunday. Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled fo the use for republication of all news dis- atches credited fo it or not otherwise cred- ted in Ahh peper and 8150 the iocal news nuul-‘n herein. - All riehts.of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Something to Shout About. Practically all of the color and the excitement at Chicago is furnished by the left-wing wets, those ardent advo- | cates of “repeal’ whose flamboyant banners and parades and monster mass meetings for the time being led some of the most wishful of thinkers at the convention to suggest the possibility of & “stampede,” when, as a matter of fact, nothing was more improbable. ‘Their's was the excitement that spread through the hotel lobbies and seized the spotlight in an effort to convince the delegates that only one important issue confronts the American people today, and that issue is the ruthless scrapping of the eighteenth amend- ment and all its works. ‘Their demonstrations, of course, are significant if only by contrast with the picture four years ago at Kansas City. | But most of the uproar is superficial. | There never was much chance that| the clamor would penetrate beyond the | tightly sealed doors of the committee | rooms, where the actual work of the | platform framers takes place. And merely because the paraders may lose their heads and the mass meeting ora- tors grow red in the face, it does not follow that the responsible leaders of & great political party will lose their's and aliow themselves to be swept off their feet by an artificially manufac- tured tidal wave. For the tidal wave at Chicago which finds expression in the loud talk for repeal and nothing short of repeal is, of course, manufactured. That veteran | observer at conventions, Mark Sullivan, | is struck by the contrast between the | atmosphere he left in Washington and the atmosphere he found in Chicago. Here the Congress, et the close of & long snd painful session marked by feverish attempts to do something that would constructively combat the ef- {fects of an unparalleled national calam- | ity, is literally beseiged by a strange army of ragged men whose real mis- sion has been to present, Wwith stark and tragic realism, a picture of what has happened to once Pprosperous America. Thousands of men are living | in shacks of tin or wood or cloth or| straw within sight of the Capitol dome. The atmosphere is tense, not so much with the expectancy of what might { happen as with the painful knowledge | of what already has happened. | But in Chicago the traditional| visitor from Mars would doubtless be | Jed to the belief that the one thing| wrong with the United States is the | eighteenth amendment; that the seurcej of all iniquity, moral and economic, As" the eighteenth amendment: that the; cure of every ill lies in repeal of the | eighteenth amendment; that the repeal of the eighteenth amendment would be followed by prosperity, sobriety, tem- perance in all things and the abolition of crime. This wildly extravagant emphasis upon one thing might be explained, in Chicago, as the underlying causes of the bonus march have been explained in Washington. The crowds in Chicago must have something tang with which to deal, something real and understandable to shout about. The! crowds cannot become enthusiastic over schemes of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation any more than they can shout themseives hoarse over the Gar- mer bill. They choose repeal of prohi- bitlon, just as the veterans choose the o as a means of dodging more complex and abstract problems. The hungry man in Chicago has probably been led to believe that when prohibi- tion is repealed he will have food, just as the wretched veteran on the Ana- costia flats has been led to believe that when the bonus is paid his troubles will end and a new day will have dawned. ———— Vice President Curtis at seventy-two years is told that perhaps he is too old for a Vice President. Mr. Dawes at sixty-seven is suggested for the place Youth will be served!” ! —————— ‘The keynote speech might have been safe in going so far as to mention pro- hibition as “a subject on which much femains to be sald.” A A Dot Upon the Waters. The story told by Capt. James Wilson of the tanker Circe Shell descriptive of the rtescue of Stanley Hausner, the Polish aviator, discloses the extremely narrow chance by which he was found in time to save his life. The lockout on the ship sighted something ahead that looked like a drifting buoy. but! with peculiar markings on the top that arrested his attention. The light was waning and the visibility was low, but the lookout decided that the object, though more than a mile distant, was an airplane, He notified the command- er, who ordered the ship's speed re- duced, closing in on the derelict. Soon the figure of a man could be seen. A blast from the ship's siren aroused him and he moved and waved. A lifeboat ‘was ordered away and, thcugh a rough sea was running and getting worse, the boat was taken alongside the plane and Hausner was helped into it. When he was taken aboard the Circe Sheil forty- five minutes had elapsed from: the time of the sighting of the plane and night had fallen. There was a very small margin be- fween. Jausner's rescue and his death. %! they | No other ship was near at hand. Had the lookout on the Circe Shell not spled the little dot upon the waters just as he did in a few minutes it would have been too dark lo see it. Had the ship passed on without finding and rescuing him in all likelihood many hours would have passed, perhaps several days, before another vessel chanced along within eye-shot of this bit of flotsam. Hausner would probably not have survived another day, and the | mystery of his disappearance would never have been solved. The plane itself might eventually have been found, though that is not certain. ‘This incident shows with what keen | vision the surface of the sea is scanned by the lookouts on the craft that ply | the ocean. They must be alert for everything. Everything that floats must be noted. There is always peril | on the surface. Although in con-‘ sequence of a wide-flung patrol of the seas in the safeguarding of navigation, | derelicts are lessened in number, still drift about to endanger ships. They cannot be seen in the darkness and then the peril is great- er. The chances of a ship hitting a low-lying object are, of course, rela- tively small. But occasionally disaster occurs from this cause. A floating airplane is but the most minute, microscopic dot upon the sur- face of the sea, visible only a little | distance as space goes in the great waste of waters. Yet this dot was seen by the lookout on the Circe Shell just barely in time, and another rescue in midocean was recorded. | e The Evacuation Problem. Gen. Glassford, Washington's chief of police, is preparing a plan for the evacuation of the bonus marchers when the time comes for them to turn home- ward. Nobody can tell when that time will arrive. They are apparently de- termined to stay until the last chance of securing legislation in their favor has | passed. That will be when the Senate, if the House should pass the bill, re- jects the measure or, if it should be passed by both houses when the Presi- dent vetoes it, as it is now assured | he will in that event. While a few of the marchers have already left, re- | alizing the hopelessness of the situation, the numbers of those now here are daily | increasing as new contingents arrive. The numbers of those now within the District are undetermined. No record | has been kept that can be relted upon. ! The estimates range from 12,000 to 18,000. To evacuate even the smaller number will be a task of magnitude, The District authorities cannot forc- ibly eject these men. The only legal method of disposing of them, in case they refuse to go upon request, is to| charge them with vagrancy, which| would entail their arrest and detention | as prisoners. That could only be done by impounding them in camps, where they would have to be fed and properly | ihoused. There are no facilities for their housing and there are no funds for, their maintenance. There are no public ! works upon which they could be em- ployed in return for their subsistence. Probably no American community | was ever so beset with unwanted| visitors in such numbers and in such | a spirit of determination to remain.| This is in truth not a local problem,| but it is, nevertheless, a local burden. H The details of Gen. Glassford’s plan | will be awaited with great interest. lfi he has found a way to get these men out of Washington, and, what is more, to insure their continued prog- ress toward their homes, so that they | will not return. he will, indeed, have | rendered a great service. | It would not do merely to take these men to the District boundarles and turn them loose upon the States of Maryland and Virginia in the expecta- | tion that those States would pass them on along their respect:ve routes home- ward, and yet that precisely what the States through which they have come have in effect done. They have in some cases facilitated the marchers in their descent upon the Capital. have provided trucks. have permitted {the selzure of trains, have supplied provender, have given, few exceptions, all possible aid and comfort to the thousands centering upon Washington. If the men go back as they have come, in squads and| companies, brigades and divisions, they indeed, with | will presumably be expedited througn the States, lest they stop on the way| and become charges upon the public bounty. —————————— European nations are saying that there is not enough interest shown in international affairs by American poli- ticians. As Ambassador Mellon deli- cately suggested—when a momentous national convention is under way there are still base ball scores to be read over the radio. —— raee = A dignified invocation did not go far in stimulating enthusiasm at the open- ing of the convention. If an early show of excitement was desired it might have been better to call in an old-fashioned evangelist. r———— Death in the House. Yesterday, for the third time in its history, the proceedings of the House of Representatives were checked by the hand of death. Representative Edward E. Eslick of Tennessee was stricken while he was delivering a speech on the bonus bill and, taken immediately from the chamber, died a few minutes later in one of the waiting rooms. When his death was announced to the House it adjourned at once in respect. and when the fact was made known to the Senate, it, too, closed its session. The first death to occur in the course of the proceedings of the House of Representatives was that of Repre- sentative Thomas Tyler "Bouldin of Virginia, who was mortally stricken while in the course of a speech Feb- ruary 11, 1834. The House then oc- cupied the chamber now known as Statuary Hall in the oldest portion of the structure. Fourteen years later, February 24, 1848, John Quincy Adams, who had been elected as a Representa- tive two years after he concluded his term as President of the United Btates, was seized with a mortal stroke while! sitting in his place in the House cham- | ber and was removed to the Speaker's room, immediately adjoining, where he died two days later. After his attack he spoke only nine words, immediately " Gulch?” asked the traveling salesma before his death: “This is the last of earth; I am content.” Mr. Eslick’s death is the first that has occurred virtually within the chamber of the House since the occupation of the present Pnl of assembly. Several THE EVENING members have died within the precincts of the Capitol, the latest death there being that of Representative Martin Madden of Illinois, who was stricken April 27, 1928, while ir. his office. The case of Mr. Adams is the one that is most notable, on account of his {service as President and his subsequent long-continusd membership in the House. He had hoped, upon his retire- ment from the presidency, to remain in private life, but was induced to permit his friends in Massachusetts to present his name for the “Braintree district” representativeship. He was continued in that place for seventeen years and was one of the most influential and effi- cient members of the lower branch of Congress. The place where he fell from his chair in the old hall of the House is now pointed out to visitors by the guides, likewise the room in which he passed from life. e To Lessen an Injustice. Some of the smoke from the nip and tuck battle among the conferees over the form that the pay cut will take is seen in the contradictory statements emanating from the conference room. Senator Smoot's positive assurance that the furlough plan will be chosen is as positively denled by other mem- bers of the conference, and as all are | honest men the Government employe— Who thus far has been presented with the choice between the devil and the deep, blue sea—is cruelly subjected to continued doubt. The conferees know that a pay cut without substantial exemptions is a vicious blow at a large group of faiih- ful men and wemen aiready poorly paid. They know that the furlough plan, if conceived as an enforced lay-off and not as an emergency measure designed to save the jobs of those who otherwise would be discharged, is a pay cut in an- | other form that in some cases would prove impractica Both houses of Congress have now refused to make the {pay cut in any form without exemp- tions. It is the plain duty of the con- ferees to exempt from any cut or fur- lough that majority of QGovernment workers who fall within the salary class of $2500 and under, and to treat the furlough plan only as a method of saving jobs when shortage of appropri- ations threatens dismissals. The con- ferees should hasten to decide on the | least injurious scheme as quickly as possible. They certainly owe that much to the already heavily burdened Fed- eral employe - R == Government bands are advised to play “Home, Sweet Home.” in hope of caus- ing the bonus marciiers to become home- sick. Anything that might help in the situation will be worth trying, but the men got so used to singiag “We Won't Go Home Till It's Over” that the line of thought may be a habit. B s Some experience as a newspaper writer stands to the credit of Calvin Coolidge. With the keen perception for which he is noted, he could not fail to recall that the only man who stampeded a conven- tlon was W. J. Bryan. And even if he thought of chocsing to run, he has little in common with Bryan. v SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. History Goes on Repeating. ‘Wa.ing flags and singing songs Loud complaint by thirsty throngs. Speakers with not much to say, Then the band begins to play. Same old bragging as of yore Seme old leaders keeping score, Same old smiling. same old frown In Chicago—same old town. Same old prophecy so wise. “Look out for sonie great surprise.” If it comes, you'll hear 'em say, Just the same old Grand Stand Play! THumination. “They say MNghtning never strikes twice in the same place.” “It isn't true” replied Senator Sor- ghum. “It's like the political spotlight. If you stand still it's about as likely to find you #s if you were yourself out chasing it " Jud Tunkins says the boys who used to get into the circus by carrying water to the elephants are sorry to see the Grand Old Pachyderm acting as if he wasn't thirsty any more. Specialists in Eloquence. Applause for speakers was far from im- mense, When the manager came with & bouncer. The speaker said “Wherefore demand eloquence, Since I am no radio announcer!” Business in the Old Gulch. “How are things going in the old n. “About as usual” answered Cactus Joe. “Nobody's doing any real business except the bootlegger and the bell hops.” “He who has but a poor argument,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “must vociferate in ord°r that those who might expose its weakness may not be heard.” Musically Related. Mighty melody abound>d. Politics was at its best When the keynote boldly sounded Prohibition played at rest. “I don't enjcy politics like I used to,” said Uncle Eben. “Dar’s gittin’ to be too much conversation an’ not enough music by de band.” A Way to Dispose of The Bonus Problem To the Editor of The Star: I wish to make a suggestion that appears to me and & number of my friends to whom I have submitted the idea as the solution of the very dif- ficult and distressing problem now con-, fronting the American people. Suppose that Congress pass a law granting the full payment of the bonus to the veterans under the following conditions, assuming that the aver: amount due a veteran to be $750: Pay 20 per cent, say, on July 1, 1932, and 10 per cent each month there- after until the full amount of the bonus is paid. This would carry the payinents over the next Winter, to March 1, 1933, and if by that time the present Government is not able to improve the economic condition and reduce unemployment, I am in favor of turning out the legislative and the executive branch of the Government . and putting the veterans or some other y of American citizens in charge of the Government, JOHN J. ENGELDRUM. STAR, WASHINGTON D. C., WEDNLS THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Bometimes it seems as if the less a person knows about & thing the more positive he becomes in talking about it. Hence one must always be suspicious of the decisive speaker who makes large important_matters, lack of real knowledge. The art of bluffing may be used else- where than in & poker game. Many persons rely on it without exactly understanding that they do. 1If they were to be told that they were bluffing, they would deny it indignantly, but let us see. Here Is a fair lady who knows noth- ing at all about anchitecture, and would be the first to admit it, if she was asked point blank about the subject. But show her a photograph of a fine | Colonial home, d n to tell her something interesting about the house, }n:tnntly she pops up with the fol- lowing: 'Oh, what an ugly-looking house! It's too tall!" Now, as a matter of simple fact, the house is very good-looking, if one hap- pens to know the slightest thing in the world about the true Colonial and its modifications to fit city situations. This is an old brick, made over under the supervision of one of the city’'s best would have stirred a finger on the project unless he had been convinced that the house was basically worth. while, and that he could make it a better property through the expenditure of his intelligence and somebody else’s money. client had hoped it would be, & par- ticularly fine example of old Colonial architecture, as found in a closely crowded city Yet the lady critic’s one plea was that the house was “too high” As a matier of fact, if the home had been built in the center of & large field, or park, it concelvably might have been open to some such criticism. Its po: tion in a crowded block, however, in one of the older sections of the city, | squarely removea it from being subject, at _least fairly, to such a remark. Its apparent height was due, mostly, to the !on one side. What the passerby did, of course, was look at it from the side, from which position the width was not | subject to reproach. There was plenty of width there. Yet the lady in question, without once stopping to make a real inspec- tion of the photograph, without know- ing a thing in the world about the re- lation of houses to their sites, spoke forth boldly and very positively on the first theme that came into her mind. This, of course, is a natural proceed- ing: alas, too natural! Due to its wide- spread cissemination many woes are caused which otherwise would not add their weight to the already heavy bur- Iden which the mind of mankind car- ries. Ordinarily these positive speakers do not hold their fire, or wait to see in which direction the attack of the enemy (for that, apparently, is what they take the remarks of others to be) will be Cirected. All they sense, apparently, is that something will be expe_ted of them, and this unkncwn demand is more than they are willing to face. In a mild fcrm their action is in response to the ancient precept, that “the wicked flee when no man pursueth, but the righteous are bold as a lion."” It is amazing the number of appli- cations this proverb has, and none more apt than in this matter of at- tempting to attack a subject inimicably, rather than run the chance of being involved in a conversation in which one may plainly expose themselves to the charge of ignorance. One does not even receive the bene- fit of honest criticism, for the person making the charge—as in the case of CHICAGO, June 15.—In one respect this Republican National Convention is a blessing and a boon. Nobody is talking about depression. Prohibition is responsible. That's the whole topic of conversation and discussion, morn- ings. noons and nights. Were a mes- | senger from Mars suddenly to descend on the embittered and embattied scene, he would be bound to conclude that the salvation of the republic depends at this hour not upon normalizing the | economic situation, but exclusively upon | retention, revision or repeal of the eighteenth amendment. If the conven- tion had been condemned to devote itself to the current indoor and outdoor sport of America, that of wailing over the hard times, Chicago would have lent a most sympathetic ear. Natives at another cate tell us that up to the hour tne elephant pitched his tent here this week Mayor Cermak's fellow townsmen, too, were victims of the depression complex. The throbbing metropolis of the Midwest has been ter~ ribly hit. With the possible exception of Detroit, probably no big community in the ccuntry has felt the financial blight more keenly. T If Charley Dawes resists a iren call to run for Vice President on ti:e Hoover ticket, the real reason w!ll be that his bank feels that “Hell and Maria’s” firm hand cannot be spared from the Chi- cago economic throttle at this critical heur. Vice President Curtis, should fate to morrow decree his dethrenement from the Senate rosirum, siill has a chance to run for the Upper House from Kan sas Filing time for August primary nomin: | tions does not expire in the Sunflower State until next Monday. The vetera statesman, who began life as a jockey. 1s accustomed to homestretch finishes 'and he can get under the wire yet if he architects, a men who by no means | the critical lady who did not like the house, so she aaid, because it was “too high"—the critic is criticizing in words only, not through conviction, and espe- | clally not through knowledge. Conversation, the oft abused, now use of the “tone of command” on un- 8el8 another siap in the face. | In the last analysis, the thing gets Maybe he is just trying to cover up"flown to the necessity for holding one's tongue, not permitting the first thought to leap into sound. One’s first thoughts on strange sub- | jects normally do not amount to much. Every one knows that, but every one does not speak in that faith. It is a blessing, nothing less, which nature has showered upon us, this abil- ity to refrain from speaking out one’s inner thoughts. There is no compulsion in the mat- No one can tell what a person is (glnkin(, 50 long as he keeps his mouth shut Here is one province where expedi- ency and decency ought to rule. To say exactly what one thinks, at the time, arcely ever expedient, lndd is not ays the decent thing to do. One cannot do it in print; the libel laws take care of that. But in speech many foolish and ut- terly unneceseary things are said off- hand by people who ought to know better and who, sure enough, do know better. Knowing a thing and doing it, of course, are two entirely different mat- ters, as mankind has been finding out all these centuries. It does seem a great deal of a shame, | however, when nature has endowed us The result was all that he and his | with such a splendid brake on thought. the tongue, which must be put into action before the thought goes on dis- play, usually. that we are not able to use 'this retarding quality more, but must slide along the easiest road, saying right out the thoughts which pop into our heads, whether they be silly thoughts, or idle thoughts, or mean thoughts, or good thoughts, worthwhile thoughts One may be inclihed to think, there- fore, that the man or woman who is always making caustic criticisms about | beople and facts is thinking from the act that it had been placed | sidewise on the lot, the entrance being | | should go. point of the tongue, not from the brain. ‘The very positive manner, in ordinary conversation, s somewhat wearying on the nerves of listen and no doubt tends to “give away” the person who knows little but wants to make that little appear much. The real autherity, in any line. a| most never adopts the so-called “tone cf command.” the rather loud. rapid, and extremely positive accents com- monly associated with talk to an in- ferior. When this way of speaking is brought into play in average conversation, on the great grist of matters about which human beings ordinarily talk, it is a dead giveaway. as it is sometimes called. There is no need for it. Why does this person use it? The ranking architect, if he had criti- clsms to make of a house, would prob- ably preface it with some good point in its favor which he had managed to discover, along with the faults. This instantly would show that he had taken a real look at the place, had used his braln, and his eyes, too, be-! cause he had not spoken out as the re- sult of one instant and fleeting glance. Instead of being suspicious of him. the observer would be prejudiced in his favor from the very beginning. The man used his head as well as his eyes. The fair conclusion is that instant fault-finding criticism. whether of a house, & book, or a man, is the criti- cism of ignorance, in most cases. It should be dismissed as such. and usually is, when the other party to the | conversation = permits the irritation h the remark caused to wear off “Like water off a duck's back that is the way most conversetion “Into one ear and out the other” —most instant rejoinders, such as we have discussed. deserve no better | fate. Even one ear is too good for 'em. CHICAGO OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. mayor of the convention burg, be- lieves it pays to advertise. All policemen in the city are wear- ing white armlets emblazoned with this legend. “Welcome, G. O. P, A. J. Cermack, Mayor.” *x ow o= Within the next 36 hours Charles G. Dawes may be calied upon to make a vital decision. Here is a story, vouched for to this observer. indicates how the wind may blow. June, 1924, when the Republican con- authoritatively which vention at Cleveland nominated Dawes | for Vice President, after Frank O. Lowden of Illinois had refused to be drafted. Gen. Dawes was sitting in the | ancestral home at Marietta, Ohio, with a couple of his brothers. They were listening in on Cleveland by radio. Soon there came over the wave lengths the news that Dawes would be given second place on the Coolidge ticket. One of his brothers and asked, “How about it, The exact reply is not available, but it was to the effect that if the call cames Dawes would feel he had no | right to turn it down. * REE* Senator Fess of Ohio, chairman of the Republican National Committee. who rapped the convention to order half an hour late yesterday. wes man- ifestly perturbed by its refusal to be punctual. At anv rate, he got things taried without prayer, which Bishop Freeman of Washington was all set to deliver. Proceedings were actually under way 10 or 15 minutes before Senator Fess | suddenly recalled that the divine bless- makes up his mind to aspire to his old- | time Senate seat. Former Gov. Ben Paulen has announced for the Repub- | lican nomination, but so far. or at least {up to yesterday, had not filed for the | primary. Chicago is speculating whether the Vice President would take advantage of is opportunity, in case he is not re- | placed as a G.'O. P. standard bearer. Mr. Curtis would, of course, start with a handicap should he determine to fight it out with incumbent Democratic Sen- ator McGfll in November. | x X ok ox | Victims of the spirit of revolt against all “ins,” of which the political season ,everywhere brings daily evidence, re- ceived notable additions in Chicago this week. The casualties in the Republican Na- tional Committee, especially among woman members, attract particular at- tention. The moet eminent bobbed head to fall is that of Mrs. Ellis A. Yost, dis- placed as national committeewoman from West Virginia afier having in that capacity since her sex crashed | the gate 8 or 10 years ago. Mre. Yost's position as chairman of the women's division of the Republican I i e darimess ] Tl a8 o an solent feud with. Weat. Vir- e ginia’s national committeeman, Walter S. Hallanan. buhzr;u ;fll'l mzn:l, ny that nothing usy over her in- ential coptacts ‘st Washington and in the Republican party led to her banishment. It is expected she will be retained at the head of the wom- en’s division. which has been efficiently organized under her direction. Two other committeewomen who lost their jchbs at Chicago are Mrz. Na- | thaniel Th!gr of Massachusetts and Mrs. Bina West Miller of Michigan. Batle s S S~ . fair-haired ‘West Virgini CRE R Tony OCermack, the burly Democratic ing had not been asked. . Thereupon, Bishop Freeman's sono- rous voice, which does not need the benefit of amplifiers, boomed through the stadium. B % K ‘What is wrong with this convention, which opened in a blaze of unparalleled | dullness, but will be a vastly different kind of & show before this day is over, is the absence of stalwart old-timers. ‘The congressional set, which ordi- narily bestrides a convention like the Colossus of Rhodes, is almost totally missing at Chicago. It's hardly like a Republican pow- wow at all, with Senators like Jim Wa son, Bill Borah, George Moses and Ar- thur Capper not answering “Preseng.” On the other hand, the cabinet set has not for years been so conspicuously represented. “The extreme wets are bitterly peeved over that circumstnce. They're talking about Hoover’s “packed jury.” One of the dampest brethren thinks the President should have done what Cal Coolidge did in 1924 and forbid any member of his official household to turn up at the Clevel:nd convention. Alice orth and former Repre- sentative rmick uth Hanna McCo served | Simms are renewing their comradeship at the convention. The late Speaker’s widow is easily the most popular woman movietone pictures and radio 5 Mrs. Ian‘:vmh lately was & whoop- ing cough victim, but the Chicago breezes seem entirely to have allayed her bark. s President Willlam Green of the American Feceration of Labor said at a big convention trades union luncheon for Secretary of Labor Doak, amid thunderous applause: “All of us have faith in the indus- tries of the country. We will pull through. there is no doubt of that. I am proud of the record of labor during the depression.” L I A Dry political leadets were fiabber- DAY, In! JUNE 15, 1932. Revive the “Home Club” To Reduce Expenses To the Bditor of The Btar: ‘The onslaught made upon incomes Q'M saiaries of Government clerks in some prices necessaries of life would seem to call for an awakening among the Federal work- c:: and an attempt to meet the situa- tion. Various attempts at co-operative buy- ing on & large scale have been made in this city, with indifferent success. When times were reasonably .good and there was no menace to the pay of clerks they did not see why they should bestir themselves to save money, but now the time has come for serious action. Co- operative buying units should be formed | on a larger scale than tried heretofore to meet the cuts in pay and le in- come taxes that threaten a double bur- den to the already poorly pald workers for Uncle Sam. Perhaps the most ambitious plan ever tried in this city to help the Govern- ment employes was the Home Club, or- ganized in the Department of the In- terior by Secretary Franklin K. Lane in 1915, or perhaps a little earlier. Seventeen hundred employes of that department, each paying Cues of 50 cents & month, se- cured reductions in the purchase prices of groceries and other commodities rang- ing from about 10 to 15 per cent. A board of directors, with Secretary Lane at the head, was formed of officials, who served without pay and outside of working hours, and in turn there were commit- tees and subcommittees from the same source who came in contact with scurces of food and other supplies, which enabled the members of the Home Club to secure those supplies at wholesale prices or less, saving their membership fees many times over. A paid manager attended to the business of collection and distribution of groceries, etc. The writer was chairman of the Committee | on Food Supply and succeeded in se- | curing farm produce, canned goods. | meats, etc. at wholesale prices. The late E. J. Ayers, then chief clerk of the Interior Department and later holding the same position in the Department of State, was one of the first proponents of this Home Club and a leading direc- ! tor, and later was interested in the opening of cafeterias in Government buildings. The results were far-reach- ing and important, and Mr. Lane was so enthusistic about it that he endeav- ored to organize a consolidated Home Club and co-operative buying units for all department clerks in W i Mr. C. J. Medzikhovski, then commer- icial attache of the Russian embassy. took much interest in this movement | and assured this writer that without co- 4 operative buying the employes of (he‘ Russian government could not exisst. Of course, the retail merchants of the city did not relish the situation. and they took steps to combat the Home Club's co-operative operation. Home Club, fostered by one of the most brilliant men ever in the Federal em- ploy and aided by the volunteer efforts of numbers of devoted fcliowers, went out of business, although there are various co-operative buying units still in existence. The writer recently purchased a dozen eggs at a chain store where the prices are supposed to be at a minimum There was some objection to the price. and a clerk in the store admitted to the | customer that he himself was buviag eggs from a farm deliverv wagon for 7 cents under the store piice. and that| was at least 2 cents over the ordinary | wholesale price as shown in the daily market reports No one wishes to undermine the re- tail business, but the interests of the | |public and especially those of the | mothers and fathers of families, many | of whem are about to have their source | of income curtailed, are paramount | It is better that the already swollen incomes of some merchants should jsuffer a little than that the bread | winners and suppcrters of children and {other dependents should be driven to the wall to meet their living expenses. ' What is needed is for Federal employes !to organize on a grand scale on the lines of a big home club to buy food and other supplies by the trainload, if necessary, from farms and factories. jand meet the situation. 1In view of the low and still falling prices of bread | @ratns, the price of bread has no excuse for remaining at the present figure, and it is the same with other commodities. The remedy is organization for co- operative buying. LINDSAY 8. PERKINS. | Advises Congress to | Read Lincoln’s W ords To the Editor of The Star: 1 have been a patient at Emergency | Hoepital for about three weeks now. and ii's getting very lonesome. After ! reading The Evening 8tar I thought I| would donate a few words to the mem- | bers of our Congress. I have ne\‘eri seen the inside of a high school. but | I understand the difference of down- | hill and uphill. From my personal | human point of view the Nation has| done business downhill in the lasi | three years. Engineers in the Congress | are struggling and working hard to keep the Nation's applecart from go- | ing into the ditch. Evidently Congress | needs an adequate supply of honest | words in its vocabulary. They have | failed to study. Our dear Abraham Lincoln's speeches and works are with- | in their resch. Deluded are the ton»‘ gressmen that doom the American | people for the seasons to come. We | realize that there is no end to knowl- edge and no end to progress. And the works of Abraham Lincoln will be car- ried on_forever. Abraham Lincoln | warned Congress and future Congresses | in bis repeated liberal speeches. If| we don't inherit the backbone from our | forefathers we become a weak Nation. EROW. | ——— /A Plan to Redeem | The Bonus Marchers | To the Editor of The Star: | The veterans in Anacostia Park are a symbol of a serious problem in this country that has not beeh solved by | Congress, the churches, the Associated | | Charities or the Community Chest. They are Americans and represent millions I who cannot get work and who suffer for | the necessities of life in this country | 'of vast wealth. Handing out doles; in the form of money, food. clothes. | etc.. does not solve the problem. There are many million acres of waste land in this country. Why can- not the Government, either Federal. | | State or both, build homes for workers on this waste land and have the land | planted for future forests. The workers could pay rent out of the money they| received for work. A tree crop is too slow a crop for an individual to depend upon for a livelthood, but it would be an investment for the United States or any individual State to transform waste land into magnificent forests. A constructive Nation-wide movement of this kind would furnish work for people along all lines and result ih permanent wealth and beauty for the United States. BLANCHE C. HOWLETT. e Long Time Since Tom Marshall. PFrom the Toledo Blade. Possibly we rolled along too serenel: under the impression hat all the coun | try needed was a good 5-cent cigar. —————e——— Roosevelt's Handicap. From the Toledo Blade. Since Clarence Darrow has declared for Roosevelt for President we look for an acquittal or a deadlocked jury. gasted last night by a suggestion ten- dered to them that John D. Rockefel- ler, jr. should be nominated for Vice President. The proposal was hotly re- jected. “Why should we put a premium on high treason to our cause,” was the retort resentful. [Even the prospect| that John D.s presence on the ticket would have certain financtal advantages ! in these lean times failed to evoke en- thusiasm. (Copyright, 1932.) | vate concerns?—J. A | of oplnion by ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. & special department devoted dling of inquiries. You have your disposal an extensive organiza- tion in Washington to serve you in any capacity that relates to information. Write your question, your name and your address clearly and inclose 2 cents, In coin or stamps, for reply. Send to The Evening Star Information Bureau, l;:degc él Haskin, director, Washing- Q. Do drivers ever fall asleep while driving automobiles>—C. R. A. Many accidents are caused because tired drivers momentarily lose con- sciousness while driving. This is true not only of men who make a business of driving. but of those who on pleasure ;;Yr ;;r‘:u on beyond a safe limit with- rest, Q. Do mai Alr?—F. W. A. The Air-Graph says that among ny movie stars travel by the recent travelers were Douglas Fair- | banks, Mary Pickford, Richard Barthel- mes, Will Rogers, Ann Harding, Ever- ett Horton, Wallace Beery, Lil - over, Lawrence Tibbett, Nancy Carroll, Dolores Del Rio, Bebe Daniels, Lupe Velez, Zasu Pitts, Victor McLaglen, Claire Windsor, Harry Langdon, Sally O'Neill and Marie Duncan. Only a short time ago movie contracts prohib- ited stars from riding in airplanes. 5 Q Hes Spain any crown jewels?— "A'In the strict sense of the term, Bpain has no crown jewels. Q When will the Olympic games Postage stamps be put on sale>—M. D A. On June 15 in Los Angeles, Calif inations. Q. When is & man too ol in the Army and Navy’—E. A» The maximum age for enlistment is 35 years. d to enlist C Q. How mary miles of water front has Massachuseits?—Z. H. L. A. The mainland of Massachusetts has a water front of 420 miles. The island water frontage of the Common- wealth is 250 miles Q. Are the various concessions in | Government buildings operated by pri- | i W A. They are operated by the Welfare | an organization composed of Govern- Most of the cafeterias are ral this association. WERALTE Q. How long did it take Lewis Car- roll to relate “Alice in Wonderland"?— The | M. E. A Almost the entire narrative was told “at one sitting” on the afternoon of June 2, 1862. The poems were later added to the story. Q. What is a nagaika’—L. H | A. This is the name of a Cossack nold lame?—J. W A. Serious thigh wounds received at Quetec and at Saratoga occasioned his having a shortened left leg. He re- ferred to himself as having “become cripple in the service of my country. Q. What was the origin of the name Shelter Island, Long lsiand, N. Y.— D. A. Shelter Island was bought in 1651 for 1.600 pounds of Muscovado sugar by the Sylvester family. On it was es- tablished a shelter and refuge for per- | secuted Quakers from New Engiand. Q. Where do the 4-H Club members camp while in Washington’—C. C. A. The tents are now being pitched on the Department of Agriculture Rockf;ller’s Statement grounds for the 6th annual national f;flwoélib camp, 10 be held from June Q. Are the fossilized remains of the Jave ape man supposed to be those of & man or & woman?—W. R. A. Dr. Alex Hrdlicka of the Smith- sonian Institution says that they are | believed to be the remains of a tall | elderly, pre-human woman. Q. Who is the author of “One is nearer God's heart in a garden than any place on earth?”—E. G. A. The i by Dorothy Pri Gurney and is called “The Lord | & Garden.” Q. What is the value of the gold | & 820 gold plece? What alloy does ‘s coin contain?—B. C. L. | A. The value of the gold in & $20 | gold plece is $20 at the time it leaves | the mint. of t is lost by abrasion in circulation. Copper is the alloy used in gold coins. The value is a negligible amount, as only 51.60 l'r‘un: of alloy are contained in the coin. Q Who ls the new premier of Japen? A. He is Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito. He is 73 years old, and is & Liberal. | | Q When was | erime in New York?—T. E. B. | A. A statute passed in New York, 1657, prohibited rides for pleasure in boats, carts, and wagons, and all other amusemenys, flshing, running. and rov- ing in search of nuts and strawberries, land too unrestrained and excessive AP Planted classed as & ittee | The stamps are of 3 and 5 cent denomi- Playing. The first offense was punish- able by fine of 6 guilders, with a double sum for the second offense. For a third transgression, the culprit was to be summarily punished and corrected on the body. Q. Are the British Isles and Ireland considered part of the great European continent?—L. M A. They were joined to the European continent within the last few hundred thousand years and have always been considered geographically and au- | thentically & part of Europe. Q. Wsas Wiliam Randolph Hearst | ever elected to Congress?—J. A. C. A. He served in the Fifty-eighth and | @nd Recreation Department. which is Fifty-ninth Congresses, from 1903 to 1907. He was elected from the eleventh ' ment officials and is not profit-making. | New York district. Q. Should peonies be transplanted in the Spring or in the Fall>—A. R. A. Peonies may be transplanted while they are dormant, late in the Fall or early in the Spring. Unless peonies are artificially cultivated or forced they ' usually should not be expected to bloom until the year following their trans- | plating. Q. Is there a new picture gallery in Vatican City?—C. 8. T. A. A new bullding designed to house scientifically many fine works of art has recently been constructed. It will soon be formally opened by the Pope. | Q. What is cannel coal>—D. L. A. It is a grade of bituminous coal + believed to have originated from mate- rials different from those ordinarily termed bituminous coal. It is charac- | terized by its high percentage of vola- | tile matter and its burning readily with a long flame. Cannel coal is used in | the manufacture of illuminating gas and as a domestic fuel for open-grate |fires. It is also used for steam pro- | duction, like ordinary bituminous coal. | Q_How wide is the roadway on top | the Great Wall of China’—J. M. A. It is 15 feet in width Believed Strong Wet Asset The statement of John D. Rocke- feller, jr. that he and his father have become convinced that the prohibition mcndment should be resubmitted has oused national interest because of thre former strictly dry stand of the two men. While some press comments dispute the correctness of the facts in his stztemert that drinking has in- creased under prohibition. it is gen- erally conceded that such a reversa a_prohibitionist carries of weight. ~Originally a friend of the move- ment,” says the Milwaukes Sentinel, “he has been converted observing the expericnce of the Nation this costly follv. And that admission carries much more weight than could the uttcrance of any man who had not been enlisted in the dry cause.” His statement Arbor Daily cause it cor ton of th a great dea s a cle t delinea- itude of many former who have become ‘antis’ s. not because they have me fond of liquor, but because they believe the disadvantages of prohibi- tion offset its advantages.” His letter “has a deep significance and is likely to have a powerful influence,” is the of the New York Tim “Not in recent years have the ad-/ vocates of a dry Nation received such a heavy blow.” avers the Oklahoma City Oklahcman, pointing cut. however: “It is nothing but his obinion. Many people will differ from him. Despite hic positive assertion. many still re- main unconvinced that the amount of liquor consumed is increased by the difficulty of cbtaining it. Many citi- zens who know the country’s habits just as well as Rockefeller kncws them firmly believe that drinking has dimin- iched. It is a1l a matter of opinion and most opinions are colored by local conditions e Rockefeller, as the public is according to the Roanoke i “is mot given to precipitate or impulsive statements. He has at his command probably the most extensive and expert research organization in the world. He has not come out against the eighteenth amendment, the country can rest assured, except after careful and intensive study of the facts and figures bearing on the situation. His statement shows that. Undoubtedly he has the requisite information about the way prohibition has worked—or, rather, has not worked—to blow the league out of the water if it pushes him too closely. The league will be well advised to let Mr. Rockefeller alone. It has troubles enough of its own as it is.” The Davenport Democrat is convinced | that this leading Baptist and philan- thropist “has come reluctantly to his decision,” and feels that he offers “rea- sons enough to make an open-minded friend of temperance change his views.” The Escanaba Daily Press upholds the view that “the moral and social angles of the prohibition question are of para- mount importance.” The Charleston (S. C.) Evening Post holds that “the merit of the Rocke- feller renunciation of national prohi- bition because of the balance of evil 1t has brought against any good it may have accomplished lies chiefly in its completeness.” The Evening Post con- “There is confusion and chaos immediately an alternative to the eighteenth amendment is oroposed. There is nothing complex about the motion for its repeal. t would lay the whole problem open to free dis- cussion and to trial of various systems by the several States,” each according to the persuasion of its people. The eighieenth amendment was a colossal error. It ought to be renounced.” * k k% “Amer! people.” says the Omaha World-Herald, “but their minds are open and subject to change with changing conditions. ‘They experiment>d nobly, as other peo- ples have done, in the world-wide war against the evils of strong drink. They have stuck to prohibition after all other nations thag.gesorted = to it have aban- icans may mot bs a mercurial | | doned it as a remedy worse than the disease. The signs are rapidly multi- plying that they, too, are preparing to admit they have marched into a blind alley, and to retrace their steps and seek some other avenue of progress. It | has been a commonplace of the discus- | sion that 13 States could and would block ind=finitely the repeal of the hteenth amendment. In enother | year or two that opinion may have been reduced to an absurdity. The Minneapolis Journal feels that “resubmission is & fair and honest plat- form for both wets and drys, but there ought to be submitted not only tre question of ccntinuing or abandoning prohibition. but also a sounder alterna- tive—if such there be.” Th> Newark Evening News observes that “the drys are increasinglv on the defensive,” and states in detail: “Corgress has cut & chunk out of the enfcrcement avbro- priat the first time prohibition didn't get all it asked for. The eco- nomic argument against it is harder to enswer than the moral. The d even some of the partiallv recanting drys, live Dr. Mott, ask: ‘But what will you substitute for the eighteenth amend- ment? The Constiiution alreadv pro- vices for that. All powers not delezated to the Pederal Government are retained by the States.” . ‘The Altoona Mirror, while conceding that “Mr. Rockefel'er’s views on prohi= bition have great weight with the plat- form builders of both political parties,” denios that there is “more drinking now than in the days before prohibition.” The Topeka Dailv Capitzl asserts: “As the drys gee it, charges that prohibition ‘does not work' fail to touch the ques- tion. No regulation of liquor ever worked mn the sense demanded by the anti-prohibition wets The question is not of absolute prohibition, but is one of relatlvity. If the wets after 12 years stll refuse to propose a workable sub- stitute, the only explanation of their | abstinence in this respect is that they | haven't any, never have had any and show no present prospects of having any in the future. If Mr. Rockefeller | has any the public would be interested to hear it.” “We do not accept.” says the Salt Lake Deseret News, “the facts on which Mr. Rockefeller beres his crange of heart. He states that ‘drinking gen- erally has increased. that the speakeasy has replaced the saloon not only unit for unit. but probablv twofold, if not threefold.” Therz is little doubt that 1f saloons had continued after the -war | drinking would have Increased. ‘The immense growth of the cigarett hebit at least indicates that. But in Utsh it | has definitely decrcased, and that is true of many other parts of the cauns try. Moreover, the lessening of drink- ing has been among the class least able to afford to drink—the poor.” ‘The statement by Dr. John R. Mott also impresses the Rutland Herald as rlvlnwded force to the declaraf by Mr. kefeller, and that paper the comment: “Even though Dry qualifies his statzment by along with resubmission some proposal for a substituge: hibition, the concurrence The Matrimonial from the Omaha Evening W Annapolis grads mugt go .to sea for | two years before they marry. “And then they'll be at sea permanently. No Cut There. From the Nashville Banner. A casual acquaintance reports that | depression has taken a slice from every- thing he has except his golf game, | | Prgl the Glenda'» Nev ' -Orese | iglish scientists have split an atom, & much . .u h.‘;nu pmmnthawmun‘