Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1932, Page 26

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 19, 1932—PART TWO. THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C., ...June 19, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St. and Pennsylvant York Office: 110 ‘ago Office: Lake Michi ropean Office: 14 Regent England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. 4he Evenine Star, .45¢ per month he Evening and St T (when 4 Sundays) ..........60c ber month The Evening and Sunday Star whe 3 65¢ per month 5 Sopy { ‘each by mail or telephone s Ave. 42nd Bt n Butlding. ... London, y Collection made Orders may be sent in NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday. . $10.00: 1 mo., Daily only . Bunday orly 1yt 5 151, $6.00: 1 mo.. 50c 1yr. $4.00: 1 mo., 40c All Other States and Canada. aily and Sunday...1yr.$12.00: 1 mo. $100 | aily only yri§800 1mo. o yri. $5.00 Bunday cnly i 1mo. 8dc| Member of the Associated Press. Tre Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled 1o the use for republication of all news dis- atches credited fo it or not otherwise cred- ted in this paper and also the iocal news publisned herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. The Extended Moratorium. territory suitable for landing field pur-|another, who similarly forgets to re- poses. The private interests cannot ex- | turn it. It becomes a wanderer as it is pand the fleld because of this barrier.|passed from hand to hand, the book If the Government were to take over|plate of the public library making no the field by lease or purchase it would | impression upon the latest holder. be in a position to relocate the high-| Every private library suffers similar way in its own interest as well as that|losses. Books are loaned with the ex- of the present private owners. pectation of prompt reading and return, Washington should have the bestfonly to be forgotten and mislald or possible and the most commodious field | perhaps pessed on to others. permitted by local conditions. The fleld: It is asked in behalf of the Public on the Virginia shore is unusually well | Library that every person who has books located with reference to convenience |at home look through them in search of of the patrons of the airlines. In only|volumes belonging to that institution. a few instances are landing flelds 50| No questions will be asked, no fines will near to the urban areas which they|be collected, and the library will be en- serve as that on the Potomac shore.|abled to meet its calls more fully and Whatever may be done later in the de- | satisfactorily. velopment of another field, if the estab- lishment of one should be undertaken, it could not be more satisfactorily sit- uated than that which is now in use. The complexities of the present situa- One of the features of this “fineless | week” effort has been the placing in! the library and its branches of “con- science boxes,” into which can be put books without any report or record. tion are easily resolved if the Govern- ment will take over the ownership or lease and conduct the field as its own, with private use permitted. As long as these complications remain no private interests can safely proceed with the extension and development of the area to meet the increasing requirements. s High Local Rents. Although there has been no real evidence produced before the Senate District Committee in proof, it might During the past week 152 books have been thus deposited. Most of these have never been charged to readers, in- dicating thzt they have been taken from the open sharves without record. Books to the value of §112 have been thus re- | turned to the ifbrav through the con- science boxes, which will remain during the second fineless week for the recep- tion of this literary flotsam that has been drifting around about for months and perhaps for years. ‘With the momentum that was observ- able during the last two or three days PRACTICAL RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D, Bishop of Washington. ‘Text: ~ James, “‘Lnusanne” Likely to | Last Until December BY WILLIAM BIRD. LAUSANNE, Switzerland, June 18— This was to be “a conference to erd 11.17—“Faith, if it)upon the success or failure of his ad-|conferences,” but the first decisions hath not works, is dead, being alone.” | ministration. Out of the inquiry a re-|taken make one wonder when it will Lonely Christians are unattractive. To the mind of Christ faith that was selfish and insular was unreal and useless. His whole teaching was de- signed to make religious faith and practice practical and useful in all the concerns of life. Those who imme- diately followed Him emphasized “the social implications of the Gospel,” and one of His strongest followers declared, “No man liveth to 1. Faith and practice are essentially and vitally related. Practice is the demonstration, the evidence of the value of faith. The story in “David Harum” of the deacon, whose sharp horse deals were the scandal of the countryside is an illustration of the folly of faith undisclosed and unprac- ticed in works. Probably no more se- vere censure is brought against the Christian church, and none more jus- tified, than that which we hear fre- quently of the hypocrisy of those who profess much, but who deny it in their daily habit, It is largely true that we segregate what we hold of belief or faith and keep it wholly unrelated to those prac- tical concerns in which we daily en- gage. Recently I asked the head of one of our largest industrial corpora- | tions whether he believed what he held of religious faith had any rela- tion to the large and very important raviable discussion ensued as to the relation of one’s Christian faith to every near and remote concern of life. Criticism of the unchristian world frequently leveled at Christian instit: tions is that there seems to be no re- lation between faith and practice or faith and works. In times such as these we are more carefully weighing life’s indispensable values. We are being compelled to make searching in- itself end. The ambiguous agreement |this week to suspend reparations and debt payments “for the duration of the conference” has given rise to a general belief that it may well last until De- cember at least and perhaps longer. | _Indeed, unless certaln governments | represented here do some pretty com- | plete aboutfacing, it will be absolutely necessary to prolong this conclave until | after the American presidential election. quiry as to our beliefs and convictions It is well understood that the State | and ‘their practical relation to the com- | Department will take no step regarding | mon concerns of every-day life. The war debts until after that date. Never- | strenuous President who maintained | theless, whether Herbert Hoover or his | that we must square our practice with | Democratic opponent 1s victorious, our faith applied it to all those large!something must be done before Decem- stration they give of their adherence | to their precepts in the practices and | habits of dally living. The church is but their worth resides in the demon- | With speed and decision not char- | be granted at the outset, if only for acteristic of Europ2an conferences, the | the sake of argument, that rents in the Lausanne conference on reparations District have not come down as they has extended the Hoover moratorium | have in many other cities of the coun- | for the duration of its deliberations. 'try—New York, for instance. But that That is, of course, a vsr: @exible ar- ought to be explained readily enough rangement, for no one knows how long | without looking around for any nefar- the statesmen of Europe and Japan | ious ring of landlords who unlawfully will have their heads together. Eut have conspired to keep rents up. And the action taken meets an emergency it is rather difficult to draw any analogy which is just around the corner and | between conditions as they are today 15 therefore of immediate and practical | and the conditions during the crowded effect. Its main purpose is to prolong days of the war, when the Rent Com- the due date of thirty million dollars mission was brought into existence. | payable by Germany in July and eleven | Those conditions have been reversed. or twelve million of interallied obliga- | During the war the landlord was sitting | ticns also due next month, and to that | on top of the world with rising prices | extent give Eurcpe another breathing and an inadequate supply of housing epell. facilities forming the perfect alliance to The declaration by which this period | boost rents and gouge tenants. Today of grace is established Was signed by | the city is overbuilt, rather than under- Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium | supplied, with apartment houses. Prices and Japan within twenty-four hours | have fallen and the tenant is in posi- of the first week in the restoration of books to the library shelves, it may be expected that the second week will go far toward clearing the records and putting the Public Library in possession again of the missing volumes, e Some influential New Yorkers are favoring Gov. Ritchie as the presiden- tial nominee. At present New York has so much political business to attend to that a willingness to distribute the honors and responsibilities is not un- reascnable. P — e — Much favor of the nomination of Mr. Snell to a position of parllamentary control over the United States Senate may have been due to his disclosure of ability to conduct a series of long, hard meetings without splintering a single gavel. N concerns that he administered. The|a reservolr of spiritual power, but it executive expressed some surprise at| is not a reservoir of stagnant waters. my question and responded by saying,| Its streams must flow out into the “I have never been asked that be- | community, into every avenue of our fore.” I asked him whether he be- | life, and it must be a stream that is lieved that it was consistent to make | pure, wholesome and refreshing. We such an inquiry and he respended in|are being asked today as never before | I ventured to remind | in our generation to show our faith by | the affirmative. iim that it was in perfect consonance our works and we are being reminded with the expressed teaching of Christ, | that “faith without works is dead, that the answer to it bore immediately being alone.” Chicago Platform Puts New Spots Under The Skin of the Republican Elephant chance to add to the eighteenth amend- ment the following clause: “Congress is given the power to reg- ulate the liquor traffic in States which prefer regulation to prohibition, pro- viding only that Congress may not re- store the saloon.” * x ox % BY WILLIAM HARD. ’ CHICAGO, June 18—The Republican | elephant is starting off now on the hot | journey toward next election day with a lot of new spots under its hide. To get the chief abiding trick of this | elephant you have to remember that it always carried its new spots under the | concerns that have to do with our po- | ber ext allied debt pay- Titioat oclal: s bnisines) occupationg. | o ai’ e . (e TIEak L We are all conscious of the fact that those who influence us most are not those who prate most largely about their virtues, but those who exemplify | them in their daily conduct. It was said of the late Mr. Gladstone that every expression of vulgarity was | silenced by his presence. The very quality of the man rendered all that was indecent and unwholesome im- possible in any gathering of which he formed a part. Creeds have their place and value, ments are due, after the year's mora- . torjum. i * x x % Everybody here agrees that Germany | will probably never again pay repara- | tions, and the chief problem of this conference, so far as Germany is con- cerned, is to find a way, a5 the London ‘Times neatly puts it, “to reconcile non- payment with non-repudiation.” !ceuor Franz von Papen of Germany |seems to be taking & realistic view of the matter, and while just as eager as former Chancellor Heinrich Bruening to { have reparations abolished in principle as well as in practice, he appears to | understand that out-and-out repudia- | tion is unthinkable if Germany is ever | again to have any credit in the world's | financial markets. Vo koo But it is equally clear that with Ger- many not paying any of the allies, America’s claims against the latter will be practically uncollectable. Conse- quently, if Germany maintains the rea- sonable attitude of being -willing to recognize the reparations debt so long as it is not obliged to pay it. then the real crux of the problem is how to pass this handsome check alrcady stamped “no funds” on to Uncle Sam as quit- tance for war debts. * ok ok England says: “Let's accept this valueless check, give Germany a receipt in full, and then go over to Washing- ton and sce if the United States won't | be charitable.” The French reply: “Yes, but suppose the United States doesn’t feel philan- thropic? Wouldn't it pe better to try and see if we can find out beforehand whether Washington will accept it or not?” “I know TUncle | People Buying ‘The American people are continuing to buy in the stores of the land, but are | exercising greater discrimination in| making selections, according to a new | study which has been made by the De- partment of Commerce. This develop- | ment is regarded as promising well for | the future. Hard times and the neces- sity for close buying and getting one’s money's worth are constituting an edu- | cation in values which will react to the | benefit of Americans. The department has completed its| semi-annual credit survey, covering the last half of 1931, a period in which wage cuts were made effective. The generation which has grown into responsible adulthood since the war has known practically nothing of values. Price constituted practically the sole index of value for a majority of buyers, an index which Europeans and Amer- icans of an earlier generation have long known is not a reliable ore. Ina period when it is imperative that every dollar g0 as far as it can be stretched, shrewd inquiry into real values begins. Where their purses are involved any people will learn the lesson of real values rather quickly and decline to be sold inferior goods. The new trend Is seen in the dimin- ished number of returns and allowances in the retail trade. In previous times of high wzges and steady employment, the people have been shopring very cas- ually. Something which catches the eye | will be purchased without close exami- nation and ordered delivered. At home the purchaser changes his mind or dis- cevers he does not quite like the article and returns it. The store makes an allowance on his account. The large volume of this sort of lost motion was costly to the stores and they welcome td-he more careful buying which is being one. Keynote of the Times. Nowadays . the purchaser is not likely to enter a store without his mind being ’[zllrl_v well made up as to what he wants. His eye is not so readily se- duced by a garish advertisement or an attractive window display. He has o little money that he must buy closely. Therefore, he looks over the stock with the utmost care. He shops around more than previously and compares notes When he finally finds what will fill his need and meet the limits of his purse, | he buys. With so muca preliminary study given the matter, he is unlikely to return any purchase that he makes Such purchases as are returned are likely to arise from discovery of some unemployment was general and many | after the conference convened. It is | tion to get his revenge. If rents have hide and not on it, where they might | ‘Those few words are basically and | fault rather than merely a change of England retorts: He never re- been slow to follow the decline of other United States, although Germany’s | prices, it has been because of the rela- creditors, being America’s debtors, are | tive stability of the Government pay concerned in the highest degree with | roll to date, a pay roll that influences, the attitude of this Government toward more or less directly, every business & world-wide wiping out of intergov- | transaction in the city. There are, in ernmental debts resultant from the war. | addition, sucn other factors as original This, apparently, is not Lausanne's kinvestment, during boom times, in objective for the moment. Its instant | rental preperties, and undeclining real goal is “the improvement of European | estate taxes. These, of course, play an conditions.” It is “firmly convinced | imporiant part in maintaining the that these prcblems require a final and | rental level. definite solution, and that it must be “ There is inescapable irony in the fact pursued henceforward without delay or | that while the Senate District Com- interruption, with a view to its real- | mittee, and rightly so, is interested in fzaticn in the framewcrk of a general | ths question of lowering rentals, Con- ecttlement.” | gress is on the verge of taking the ac- That sooner or later Europe expects tion that will precipitate a decline in| the United States, voluntarily or at her | rentals faster than anything else. That! invitation, to enter into e frame- ‘\acucn lies in the arbitrary reduction work of a general settlement” is not |of salaries and in the discharge of &, disguised anywhere in the old world. | number of employes, difficult in num- ! Lausanne itself goes as far as it feels |bers to estimate. There will be eloquently silent with regard to th: no it is safe to go at this juncture, when ' question then about the decline in rents, | the moratorfum extension agreement ! for rents will fall fast enough. The refers to “the increasing severity of |reduction of purchasing power by sal- the economic and financial perils which | overhang the world.” The implication is only thinly veiled that Europe believes America’s own in- terest will drive the United States into wide debt concessions. | The conference buckles down to work on the first anniversary of the Hoover moratorium. That project, hailed last | Summer with jubilation and high hope throughout the globe, was envisioned as | indication that America had at length | broken with its previous policy of look- | ing upon war debts and German repara- | tions as unrelated issues. President Hoover interlocked them. Europe be- | lieved then that they would never again | to put asunder, and so believes now. She | considers that debts and reparations were married in Washington a year | ago and she is opposed to s divorce. | Lausanne may not go on formal record | against divorce proceedings, but | Europe's views on that score are well | known. The Congress and people of the United States do not have squarely to meet the debt issue until next Decem- ber, when payments from our creditors fall due for the first time after expira- tion of the “Hoover year” on July 1. During the intervening six months the presidential election, with its multi- tudinous angles, will engross the “country’s attention. But eventually, if| not in the meantime, America will be squarely up against the debts problem. Such mental energy as statesmen can Jspare from more urgent preoccupations can well be devoted to formulation of ithe pelicy that will finally have to be wdopted. The day of decision cannot be eternally postponed. Meantime «Americans rejoice at the hammer-and- tongs manner, of which Lausanne 3s a token, in which Europe is proceed- ing to put its economic house in order. “The more tangible progress she can mchieve in self-help, particularly along the line leading to reduction of arma- ments through sane political settle- ments, the more hopeful may Europe be that American public opinion will incline toward pulling an oar in the internatiorial boat, that it may the sooner reach placid waters. ————————— The wets agree that an extraordinary pathos has been put into the remark of one Carolina Governor to another, “It is ® long time between drinks.” S The Airport Problem. Although there is no chance for its enactment at the present session of Congress, which will probably end within a week, the legislation proposed tc settle the land title controversy on the Virginia side of the Potomac River, where the airport is now located, should bbe prepared speedily to be in shape for | consideration when Congress recon- wenes in December. It will then be weady for action at the short. session, thus permitting an early adjustment of & troublesome problem. The National [Capital Park and Planning Commission thas gone on record as favoring the sug- gestion that the Department of Com- mmerce be given authority to purchase or lease the airport now operated by private interests and to this end will @mid in the rerouting of Military road, | Whether the decline has been in pro- | have been drawn from its shelves by ary slashing and the fact that large numbers of people have been thrown! out of work are the chief factors ac-| counting for the dacline of rents in other cities. For rents reflect merely the ability of the tenants to pay. When the ability of the tenants to pay is re- duced, rents are automatically reduced in some proportion and the cutting is done by landlords who are seeking to save their scalps, without being moti- vated by any extraordinary eltruism. As a matter of fact, a comparison between rents today and those, for in- stance, in 1927 and 1928 would in all probability show a decline. The in- formation should be cbtainable by the Senators without great difficulty. portion to the decline in other citiss of comparable size is another thing. Another matter for investigation is the relaticnship here and in other cities between the level of rents and the level of assessments for taxation. It will probably be found that there is a very direct relationship. The matter of high local taxes has a distinct bearing on the issue of high rents. It has been charged before the Senate committee that there is an unlawful combination of some sort that has op- erated to maintain local rents at a high level. The charge has been made that rents here are extortionate. 1If either is so0, the Senate comrmittee should work not only to bring the guilty men to justice, but to remedy a condition that is inexcusable in any city at any time. Neither charge should be allowed to lie without definite proof that it is true or untrue. N With reference to mud, the campers at Anacostia are disposed to follow the rule, “Endure it if necessary, but never throw it.” ——e— Borrowed Books. For the past week the Washington Public Library has been making an effort to secure the return of books that readers and kept without return or re- port, with fines remitted as an induce- ment for restoration. Of the 3,334 that were missing at the beginning of the week, 865 have been brought back and put again in circulation. Every day brought larger returns. This response to the call of the librarian has encour- aged him to continue the appeal for another week, and it is hoped that within the next six days the library | shelves will have received a much larger percentage of the volumes that are still | out in circulation in disregard of the library rules. A public circulating library is valu- able to its users in the degree that its | volumes are available to readers. A book that is drawn and kept beyond the ! permitted time normally required for | its reading becomes unavailable to others who may be waiting for it. The restoration of these missing volumes, therefore, is of importance to every library user. The reader who takes a book and keeps it beyond the time limit and then from disinclination to pay the fine which is exacted upon its return | continues to hold the volume, is also, depriving himself of library use, for he | ‘Which at present is a serious obstacle Ro this accomplishment. The present situation at the airport cannot draw another book while he is in An idea reminiscent of old-fashioned days may have led former Senator France to assume that it is the privi- lege of every free-born American orator to arise and make a speech wherever he finds a crowd. o Absence of Capone from gangster | haunts may have destroyed the kind of | discipline gangland had bullt up and permit a series of irregular and entirely | unauthorized assassinations. i PREERE S T | A heavy tax program is being scruti- nized by numerous European statesmen | with a generous willingness to tell what | to do with any spare change left over after the budget is balanced. R | It is feared that playing “Home, Sweet | Home” to the bonus seekers will not | cause many of them to wish to return immediately. It did not have that effect ‘I in France. A few more calculations reaching to the billions will warrant suspicion that the “robot” era is demanding a Govern- ment for, by and of the cash register. RS SHOOTING STARS. —_— ! BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. | Critical Objection. I heard a critic, very gay, Who showed us more and more He liked the modernistic way And scorned the ways of yore; “I don't like Dante,” he declared, “Who threatened to return us Down to the basement, all ill-fared, To tend the flery furnace. “I don't like Milton, who explored ‘Those shadow nether regions, And into conscious strife restored Demoniac battle legions. “I don't consider what they wrote Good for small boys or ladies, For much of it, I'm sad to note, ‘Was simply raising hades.” Adjustment. “Many believe we are due for a pericd of adjustment,” said the solemn adviser. “That is the way politics has always | Republican psychelegs, look disturbing. The outside of the grand old party must always seem the same. It must always giv confidence” to the “sane, solid sense” of the com- | munity and to the old-timers who rode on its back when they were children. The donkey may be a wild donkey. The elephant must always be a safe, tame elephant. It must subordinate and even conceal the noveities which ft is about to ca to the legislative mill. Grasp_this fundamental proposition of and you will entirely understand the course of tr ing which the elephant gave itself in its convention at Chicago and the spirit in which it approaches the coming campaign. * ok ok % time for experiments politic,” said Mr. James R. Garfield to the Chicago convention, as he read its proposed platform: and | the delegates applauded in comfortable, | assured conviction that the country would feel that nothing new, nothing upsetting, was coming to be imposed upon it by Republican party action. Then Mr. Garfield, in an unobteisive voice, proceeded to deliver him #lf of item after item in a long list o sur- Teptitiols newnesses. _He proposed the governmental acqui- sition of immense areas of land for “watershed protection and grazing and forestry and public parks and game reserves” in order to remove the “sub- marginal” and less fertile acreages of our country from all possibility of pri- vate exploitation, which might mean private fiflure and loss. The power of Government and the purse of Govern- ment were to be used on a vast scale to expand Government ownership of land for the purpose of improving private profit in the operation of the rest of our landed domain. No clearer case of governmental intervention, financial and administrative, in private business development could exist. The conven- tion let it go into the platform noise- lessly, Sopr Mr. Garfield then also suggested, with success, that the Republican party should impose a new governmental regulation upon investment companies atnliated with banks. He also suggested, and again with success, that the Re- publican party should impose a new governmental regulation upon electric current carried across State lines into interstate commerce. He further sug- gested, and once more with success, that a new additional governmental mo- mentum should be given to the labors of the Federal Farm Board in the di- rection of supplanting private grain dealers and cotton dealers with co-oper- ative marketing societies financed out of the Federal governmental treasury. These drastic experiments a conven- tion which had rejected all experi- mentalism accepted with pieasure, Then came the one resl outburst of been,” commented Senator Sorghum.! fervor greetin; v g any subject—outei I “There has never been a time when | prohibition—in th{- pla{form pmggeg-] one group of patriots wasn't trying to ings of the convention at any time dur- | adjust another group out of office and ng its stay in the Chicago Stadium. | themselves in.” This outburst followed Mr. Garfield's | Jud Tunkins says time was when comprehensively the whole of the icea. But the elephant would not think of carrying them patently on his skin e implicit under the skin. Out- y there are all the words about the desirability of enforcement and the deplorableness of nullification and the rctention of “progress” and the pre: ervaticn of the “gains” due to prohib tion and to jts enshrinement in the Constitution. Inwardly, written upon the sub-cuticle of the elephant, there is the substitution of onal “you the dealings of the Federal Government with the wet regions of the count this reason that wets who n the prohibition plank was adopted have now dep: 20 quietly but happ! Mencken, wettest of all wets, smiling only because he is stunned with Joy. He is expecting some day to see a wet Congress. What sort of regulation of the liquor traffic will a wet Congress impose upon wet States. Mr. Mencken views that prospect with elated satis- faction. ,Thus the elephant proceeds toward November with a conservative and dry bhide mottled with suffusions of radical and wet under-cover pigment. (Copyright, 1 e Mails Are Carrying Tons of Sales Prints ! P BY HARDE) The typical Ameri of the country receives by mail from manufacturers every week nearly four pounds of circulars and other printed COLFAX. advertising matter which, he tells the | Department of Commeree, “he neither reads nor saves for reference.” In campaign, with _industry cut out department acked some. storekeepers in cities of less 50,000 Inhabitants about the propor- tion of printed matter received through the mail which they find usable. It was announced today that the re- sponse had given a quite complete answer to certain makers of nationally advertised goods who were anxious to know just how much of their adv tising material hits the mark and how much goes to waste. * x ox x ‘The merchants reported six months before the qu put to them they had received an average of 20 pot of uscless pro- motion material for distribution to cus tomers. This mass of printed matt describad as 2lmost entirely “mot | usable, not requesied by the dealer or applying to lines he handled.” More- over, a goodly proportion of it was stamped with the dealer’'s name and therefore, could not be saved for fi ture use or any other purposes. More than 50 of the stores reported receiving supplies of circulars cr other so-called “dealer helps™ for lines of goods that they did not carry at all. thy reta than waste 500 that in the ons were is not H Sam better than you do. holler before you're hurt, he can be pretty tough. The first thing he’ll ask vou is, ‘Lets see this rubber check youre talking about?’ cept it first before he This puts Premier Herriot in a diffi- cult position, because the French Par- liament almost certainly will not accept cancellation of Germany’s without some assurance that its own payments to the United States similarly will te canceled. That is why the Lausanne Confcrence will most likely | drag along indefinitely in the hope that ! something can be wormed out of Wash- ington er the election battle smoke | clears away. e'll talk to you.” 1932) Copyright. - Proposes a Plan to Dispose of Bonus Army To the Editer of The Star The assembling of the “Bonus Arm: in Washington is an unaccountable | psychological phenomenon. It is like unto and as fantastic as the Crusades {in medieval times, and the migrations of entire tribes and peopies in Eurcpe in the third century. Whatever ifs fundamental inspiration, it is symtomatic | ) | | fuses charity; but when you begin to| So you've got to ac-| payments | mind or a passing whim. It may be some time before the | American people will again expericnce such a period of careless buyiog as that | which marked the decade leading up to the depression. The extent to which Americans ignored high prices was the scandal of the more thrifty Europeans A great many people were under the impression that the more they paid for | an article the better it was and lost all their acuteness and discrimination | Judging. The younger generation did | not know how to judge 2nd no one took | time to teach it. | A remarkable phenomenon of | period, now only a memory, advertising slogans as that us | brand of cigarcites. the as such d for a It read: “The Fifty Years Ago In The Star lations with the Fed- th reference to the water supply { District's Share hav: been a 0f Water Expense. perennial mat- 1 | eral Government o retail dealer | in_co-operation | three colorlessly enunciated sentences in | favor of an essentially socialistic con- | trol of the production of petroleum. readin’ and writin’ was all you needed to understand politics. Now the arith- metic has got to be somethin’ terrible. A World More Safe. The jail is now handy For “hoaxers” 5o neat, And children with candy Are safe in the street. Diplomacy in Sentiment. “How did you treat that persistent suitor?” “Most cordially,” answered Miss | Cayenne. “I invited him to a dinner prepared by my own hands.” “Did it work?” ! “Perfectly. It scared him off.” | “In oraer to be sure of instant| | obedience by the masses,” said Hi Ho, | the sage of Chinatown, “study is neces- sary in order to ascertain exactly what commands they prefer to hear.” Little in Much. How often will science occasion surprise As knowledge we're patiently gleaning By producing some word of an infinite size And an infinitesimal meaning. “One of de things I most object to 'bout unemployment,” said Uncle Eben, “is dat it gives folks too much time to listen to speeches.” — e Help Wanted. From the Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman. Add help wanted. male or female: Some one to tell either Republican or Democratic leaders what to say to the farmers. ———————— Booming Prom the Nashville Banner. It there is any slump in the honor- ary degree business we can't tell it from reading the newspapers. arrears. In many cases this failure to return books when they have been read decidedly unsatisfactory. The space is due to forgetfulness. A book is ow available is tiadequate. It can- be extended bicause of the location perhaps passes into the personal shelves most interest, promptly put it in her ts m‘mm which bisects the n\v,nme of the borrower, or maybe is loaned to stocking. l perused and laid aside and neglected, | — e Winnie's Safe. Frem the Salt Lake City Deceret News. ‘Winnifred Woggins, when told to put They were beiutifully guardedly worded sentences. They said: While many different lines of manu- | factured goods were involved in this of a serious social situation, and the ter of di presence here of these 13000 men, Fifty years ago it was sents tndlhe pfg:;l;‘ 0{1 V}'fl:huxrr:sit:‘n evidence in the considerat a ve condition t calls for a2 R = W, T | Tnedinte remedy. They are a menace to e don She noresseiof ¥ ‘i“ their own lives and to the health of the | Star of June 13, 1832, rc pas- people of Washington. for an epidemic | sage by the House of Representatives of among them is inevitable sooner of 1a€f o piy’ providing for this work. An if they are allowed to remsin here.|;mendment to put half the cost of the 1 Furthermore. the psychoiogical impulse . roiect on the District of Columbia was that brought them here is liable to take : Qithiarawn ‘ona replaced by an amend- | a dangerous turn, and mey produce 2 ment to charge against the District tax situation that may make it NECESSATY jevy interest on the c ta ot to put the city under martial lav. 365 per cent annually. These men are Uncle Sam's veterans. | ia same date said cditoriall and it is his duty. and not that of the | “rna water works are owned by the people of Washington, to look after and ' Gover: § ot the United States: rolels provide for them. b and ent! and the Governmeni The following suggestions are offered po¢ part with its share the for the solution of the problem: A spe- ' gymership of t! th anybody cal act of Congress authorizing and clce. Therefore, District put Qirecting the War Departmert to €n- moriey into an improvement or exten- roll these men in the Army and oI- | sion of the property it would cnly be ganize them into a division. to be donating the money so invested to the known as the *Emergency Division of Uniteq States. This being the fact, it the United States Army,” the enroll- is manifestly unjust to require the Dis- ment to be only of those who are oW | trict to bear a part of the expense of here. and for one year, subject 10 improving the property. It is true the muster-out or discharge at any time residents are supplied, inadequately | within the vear if, in the discretion of | with water from these Government the President, the improvement in in- | werks, but ther pay a regular water dustrial conditions makes it probable | rate. notwithstanding the fact that they they will be able to secure employment, have been required to pay for laying and any men to be discharged at any ' nearly the whole of hundreds of miles time upon his own application if he is| of mains in the City of Washington offered employment. All of the general If the District could obtain ownership | and field officers of this division should | in the wcrks, by such investment, it be by detail from the Regular Army. | might not be unreasonable to require it. | Among these men are many who were Suca ownership would necessarily leave non-commissioned officers in the World | to the people of the District the right War. Such men and their records ! of exercising some voice in the ccntrol should be ascertained. and from them cf the works and direction of the water the requisite number of company offi- supply.” cers should be selected and given tem- | porary commissions as officers of this | i * division. The division should be ten-| Another point of protest arose in con- tatively organized immediately and uni- necticn with this measure, eliciting the formed and equipped from the surplus ' following from The of a meas- | stores on hand from the World War Fish-Way at Star in its issue of “The conservation of oil is a major | survey. the department reports that problem to the industry and the Nation. | the practice of sending useless printed ‘The administration has sought to bring | material for sales promotion was pa co-ordination of effort through the |ticularly prevalent among manufac- States, the producers and the Federal | turers of paint, elcctrical apparatus, | Government. Progress has been made | SPort goods, houschold goods, and the effort il continue.” innd novelties. ot e P * % What did that mean? The oil States| On the other and positive side of the knew; and their attending citizens, in- | picture ‘some interesting things also cluding millionaires, evidenced raptur- Were learned by the :nquiry. About ous approval. It meant that the Fed- k one in every five of the merchants re- eral Government would continue o and then marched to Camp Leonard June 15, 1882: Wood, in Maryland, and pat tnder can- OTeat Falls. TN G0 0 be set- vas until temporary buildings can be tled that Congress has the power to put constructed, which should be done by | such burdens as it may pleace upon the the men themselves, for there are many | people of the District of Columbia and carpenters and mechanics among them. | to deprive them of such rights as it The men should receive the same pay may choose, and that the latter have and allowances and be subject to the | only to submit, whether they like it or | same routine, training and discipline as | not. It will, however, be cxceedingly | the regular service. ~All this involves | difficult to convince them, or any other many details that cannot be even sug- fair-minded community, for that mat- gested in the limited space that may . ter, that there is any propriety or jus- issue estimates of prospzctive petroleum production, together with suggested “al- locations” of that production, to the several States; and it meant that those States would thercupon, each within its own territory, impose a local gov-| ernmental set of “allocations” upon private producers. This experiment in the petroleum industry is the most col- lectivistic and governmentalistic ad- venture in all American business; and the Republican elephant is about to| trundle it into revolutionary existence | among us while trumpeting: “No ex- periments.” A precisely similar theory of bshavior | was illustrated by the Republican Chi- cago Convention in its most discusced proposal—the proposal regarding pro- hibition. Thz convention declared itself against the “repeal” of the eighteenth amend- ment. That was recessary. The ele- phant must never seem to be eliminat- ing any of our institutions. never seem to be “destructive.” It must always be engaged in improving, harm- lessly improving, ‘‘constructively” im- rroving, whatever institutions we may have. Therefore the Republican party could not promise a bold end blood- curdling twentieth amendment. What it could, and what it did, in essenc, promise was a bigger and better eight- eenth amendment. This enlarged and perfected amend- ment will preserve the abolition of the saloon. It will also preserve the au- thority of the Federal Government over the liquor traffic throughout the whole United States, even within those States which may vote themselves wet. Ap- peals by this writer to ex-Senator Henry Allen of Kansas and to Secretary of State Stimson, high carpenters of the Chicago convention’s prohibition plat- form, for an authoritative interpreta- tion of it Iave left him in no doubt that the rlank, if distilled down to the | It must r money where it would draw the true energizing sap in it, could be writ- en as follows: ) “We favor giving the country a | porting declare that, while they could find no use for a good part of the printed material sent them by the | menufacturers, they did find very helpful some of the counter displays and other similar devices, particularly those that could be temptingly ar- ranged in windows. Stores serving family trade in particular found the demonstrations of apparatus by rep- resentatives of the manufacturers ap- pealed to the people who were wanted as customers. * ok k% Many of the merchants reporting in | the survey agrecd that the mailing lists used by the manufacturers were very poor. Just as the private citizen is so often annoyed by having mail ad- dressed to him at an incorrect or old address, so these dealers expressed an- noyance at having mail reach them ;c an 1r}§or{§ct al;ldress. safely, per- | haps, on rough tne ingenuity of e Tepol ving receive = cate circulars at his Siore adggesgml)rl}d his home address from half a dozen concerns which apparently had bought the same mailing list. Another was still receiving mail intended for a prede- | cessor who had been dead for 15 years. | Apparently only a comparatively small | number._of people are aware that the Post Office Department has a mailing list correction service. (Copyright, 1932.) ——.— Wise Fish. | From the Minneapolis Journal, | Carveth Wells, the explorer, says | there is a fish of the Malay jungle | which can wink its eye. Perhaps it heard Mr. Wells judging its weight. A Big Order. From the Harricburg Telegraph. An Italian inventcr says he has in- vented a foolproof airplane. But maybe he doesn't know how many focls there are in th'.world. be allotted this communication. This proposal will cost much less than the bonus at this time, or the costs that may eventually arise from temporizing with the situation until it becomes acute and some untoward in- cidents may require drastic action that would be deplorable and unfortunate. This plan would give these men im- mediate employment, preserve their self-respect and morale and greatly strengthen their patriotism, so much needed by all the people in this trying period of general demoralization. These men, instead of being a poten- tial menace to peace and order would then be supporters of the Government and defenders of the social order. In view of the fact that Brig. Gen. Glassford appears to have the entire respect and confidence of these men, gest that he be made a temporary major general and detailed to command this division. ALEXANDER SIDNEY LANIER. o Doolittle’s Little Jaunt. From the New York Sun. Maj. Jimmy Doolittle is going to visit by airplane in one day all the places that George Washington visited in a lifetime. Note to posterity: looking for houses where Maj. Doolittle spent the night. ° — e Speak for Yourself! From the Columbus Ohio State Journal. Doctor says juries don't know any more than a rabbit what alierists are talking about. And probably if the bare ?lcf.! were revealed the alienists aren't exactly clear on it themselves. —_— ra—————— A Change of Oil. Prom the Deyton Daily News. and is an officer of distinction, I sug- | No use| i tice in compelling them to share with the general Government the $50,000 ! expense of building a fish-way at the . Great Falls of the Potomac, as proposed |by the Garrison and Hewitt amend- ments to the water supply bill. That | point is a long way outside the limits | of the District and nearly 2) miles from the City of Washington, and its i people have no more jurisdiction over it than they have over the falls of the Ohio at Louisville or of the Mississippi at Minneapolis. As the Potomac there and for many miles above and below constitutes the dividing line botween the States of Maryland and Virginia an | West Virginia, there might be an ap- | parent show of excuse for requiring the people of those cormonwealths to pay a portion of the expense of the contem- plated improvement, if the general Gov- ernment felt that it could not afford to pay the whele bill; but their repre- sentatives in Congress would doubtless successfully resist such spoliation, on the ground that the advantages arising from a fish-way there are general and not local in their character. “The people of the District, being by the Constitution under the e: jurisdiction of Congress, can, ho s | only suffer what they have not the | power to prevent. Still, one would nat- | citizens of Washington ttat body should | not ignore all regard for decency and all the principles of justice. To make them pay a part of the cost of the pro- posed work in (}uexuon is precisely as if the people of St. Louis were com- the byls for improving Fox River. up in Wisconsin. They have the same kind and degree of special interest in the hoped-for results of that expensive work that the people of the District have in_the prospective benefits of a | fish-way on the upper Potomac. In morals there is no escential difference a | world crisis. urally think that in dealing with the | pelled by act of Congre:s to pay half | of mo B A dry leader warrs that the prohibi- ' between the vaszage of the-e amend- | tion machines is still operating, but it ments as r posed and the ‘stand and longer is being lubricated with deliver’ of a Lrutal and well armed tandard OIL highwayman.” More Carefully BY FREDERIC J. HASKI. largest selling cigarette in spite of the low price” This was the whole key- note of the times. It required em- phasis to make people think that a low-priced article could be good. Here was a complete reversal of the whole system of merchandising as the trad- ing world had previously known it. Another remarkable advertisement of the halcyon period, sometimes spoken of as the Coolidge age, offered an automobile. The sole recommendation given for the car was that it was the highest-priced car in America. It was not an unusual spectacle to see a shopper of the golden age find something with which he was satisfied and then turn suspicious because of | the reasonable price asked. *“Can't you how me something more expensive?” he would say. Mcst retailers tried to accommodate such customers. Volume of Sales Unchanged. The type has practically passed. With the new poor added to thosc that we have with us alvays, buyes have become careful essessors and saiesmen must be on their toes and employ a combination of truth snd persuasiveness in both advertising mat- ter and the spoken appeal over the | counter. Shoddy goods no longer can be palmed off at the price of better articles, and when good prices are paid | the buyer insists that the quality be present The remarkable fact ascertained by the Government survey is that, taking the country as a whole, the volume of goods purchased by the American public has remained approximately as high as it was the previous year. Sales in terms of dollars show a marked de- crease. That is, a store which sold $100,000 worth goods in 1930 may be selling only $75,000 worth today, but yard for yard, pound for pound, |article for article, approximately the | same volume of gocds 1s moving from seller to buyer. There are some changes in the type of goods. More solid, durable and use- ful items are being purchased by the public than before. People want to know whether goods will wear well and the like. Sales of luxury goods have fallen off. The largest drop has been in jewelry, where a decline of 28.3 per cent from 1930 to 1931 is noted. With all adjustments made, however, the to- tal volume of goods purchased remains fairly constant Americans are showing a great deal of restraint in this low income period. They are spending their money wisely and for useful t but they are pay- ing for what th Collections re- main good, with only a slight increase in bad debts on credit accounts. For le, the ratio of bid debts to total has increased only from .35 per to .44 per cent from 1930 to 1931. passing of bad checks for goods at es and the like hes not Business is fir from undergone some alter- ns which. in the long run, probably be better for both merchant and ale cen The The period the coun- p:ssing through recalls es and, now and then, there renewal of the old shopkeep- 1t that his goods were worn before they were sold by customers feeling qual; British Leadership Evident at Lausanne BY A. G. GARDINER. Lausanne inion here is tion de- for the as presi- nce is testimony to n wilderness ications are rezarded not un- Much significance is at- lacDonald’s declaration that nts solemnly entered into can- unilateral repudia- n. coupled with the corollary that 2azements proved incapable of fulfill- must be revised by agreement. nder of the sanctity of p not mer identally Ireland, Iy, including Brit- ers the basis of e . which is equally applicable, is taken to imply t am stands for drastic revis complete abandonment, of reparation: on the grounds of eco: French Pren subsequent entire indorsement to the ss of MacDonald’s speech suggests hat he has surrencered the Young plan and even the sanctity of unconditional nuities and is prepared to accept the sclution imposed by the desperate con- dition of the world. A rapid change perceptible in French opinion. stimu- lated by the devastating effect of the crisis on Pa nakes agrcement be- tween Herriot d Chancellor Franz von Papen of Germany more possible than at any time, and the only ques- tion is whether Herriot will be as ad- vanced as his own people. On disarm: ment he notoriously lags behind popular feeling. The chief criticism of MacDonald pursues’ a similar line. It is argued that if he means to lead the troops to take the Castle of Despair by storm, and 1 his plea for instancy of action is sin- cere, he should have given a more deci- ndication of British aims. Why cclare the British view that the omic world would be immensely the ner by removal of reparations and debts from the scene aitogether? Suspicion still persists at Lausanne that MacDonal contemplates postpone- ment of his decision for six months in order to see the coursz of events in the presidential election in the United States. This, in view of an impending world calamity, would be a fatal delay, which is contrary to overwhelming public opinion in this country. The policy of waiting on the presidential decision is widely discountenanced. The cleaner the slate is wiped 2t Lausanne, the bet- ter the prospect of ultimate agreemnt with Americ: MacDorald’s axiom that engagements which cannot be fulfilled must be re- vised by agreement applics to all forms of cbligaticns, uding the war deots | payments, in gold instead of goods, are largely responsible for the If Lausanne acts deci- cly and instantly, it will have an immediate efect on the world complex and, in presenting the United States with a fait sccompii, greatly simplify the problem fcr America. L John Maynard Keynes, the econo- mist, has formulated a scheme of co- | ordinating European action with Amer- ican claims. He proposes that Leusznne should reach agreement in regard to cancellation of the whole or a part of ieparations and war debts, make the agreement contingent on indorsement by the United States and approach the President and party leaders in America with a policy for immediate action. The assumption behind the proposal 'i:: that the United States will agree to | take the debt question out of the polit- |ical and presidential controversy and | that both parties will go to the country } equally under the stigma of having for- | given Europe its war debts. But, as the London Times remarks, | such action is much more likely to en- courage both political parties to attempt to make electoral capital out of a pa- trictic determination not to let Europe | ¢ff with one cent. Responsible opinion favors all-around cancellation in Eu- rope and a plain, unilateral declaration of Europ>'s inab.lity to pay on the ex- isting basis, leaving the question of war debt Tevision for post-presidential con- sideration. (Copyright, 1232.) l