Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1932, Page 8

A8 THE EVENING wr_E, W..Sivd {.7ON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1932. e ———————— S ————— e —————————eee e LA THIS AND THAT THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WABHINGTON, D. C. ! WEDNESDAY.....June 22, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office it 8t and Fenneyivanis Ave, Sauo” Oiice’ Lake: Mich Oftée: 14 Regen! Englan Carrier Within the City. ng 45¢ per menth I o e ....60c per month and Sunday Star when § Sundays) ..........85c per month The Sunday Star Ver copy Collection made at the en nj i o d of each month ders may be sent in by mail or telephone Ational 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryiand and Virginia. 'y d 8 ... 1yr.$10.00: 1 mo., 85¢ Sunday only 1yr. 3400, 1 mo., 4 All Other States and Canada. 31200 1mo., § Daily and Suncay :;;.xgzw } mo.. Daily only . tunday only . 1.llll1yr. $500: Imo. 50c Member of the Associated Press. 1 led in this paper and also the local new Eublished herein All rlents of publication o special dispatches herein are also reserved = i ‘l | Speaker Garner's Candidacy. There is no element of surprise in the announcement by Speaker Garner of his receptive candidacy for the pres- idential nomination. His hat was really thrown into the ring some weeks ago s definitely that he had been given the support of his own State of Texas and also of California. This, he says, was done without his solicitation, and he | graciously and frankly adds: "I appre- | ciate the support of my friends and am willing to serve my country and my party to the limit of my capacity.” Speculation as to the reason wny thu‘ statement was made, some time after the votes of Texas and California were | pledged to him for the nomination and | on the very eve of the convention itself, is stimulated by the unusual circum- stance of a definite announcement. The Speaker’s recent illness may have de- layed the declaration. The adoption of | the Republican prohibition plank may | have given the Speaker his particular | cue. But he does not confine himself | to a definition of his position on the prohibition question, concerning which | joading of the measure with most of | Its he is quite specific in advocacy of direct | repeal, based upon his own vote against the eighteenth amendment when it was ' before the House. | Mr. Garner'’s own platform covers a} v indicates that the fight game has per- haps been restored to popularity. But it cannot be gainsaid that the manner in which the decision was reached by & divided judgment on points rather than by a clear conquest is not calcu- lated to appeal to public support. For there is unmistakably a doubt of the squareness of the competition in the | minds of many who witnessed the en-| gagement and who listened to the re- port of it that went forth by radio. This, however, is not a new doubt. It has been felt and expressed often in the past. o Hope for Adjournment. Hope for early adjournment of Con-g gress flares alternately hot and cold not | only within the breasts of the legisla- tors but of the country at large. There| is, of course, enough work to keep both | Houses busy for some time to come, but, or the other hand, nothing to prevent | a speedy wind-up of the session's busi- ness if by some miracle the legislators could find themselves of one mind to bring it about. The ability of Congress to complete the relief bills and the remaining appropriation bills in time for the Democrats, already straining at | the leash, to get away for Chicago has been made doubtful in the last few | hours. Strangely enough, the Repub- lican leaders are willing to give their brethren the opportunity denied them- selves of sitting in on the proceedings of their party convention. But Democratic votes made possible the decision of the Senate, hot and tired yesterday evening, to quit, and to quit without any agree- ment on a drive of day and night work that would have to be the order if ad- journment were possible by Saturday. The final push toward adjournment | has come during consideration of the two bills that are probably the most important—excepting only the revenue | bill—of all the measures considered this | session. ‘The Wagner $300,000,000 reliet bill in the House, passed by the Senate, and the Wagner $2,000,000,000 relief bill that has been substituted in the Senate for the Garner bill are of fundamental importance, both as regards principle and detail. In the House the hearings | on the $300.000.000 relief bill are almost complete and the House will probably dispose of it in minimum time. In the Secnate the debate on the Wagner bill has become the omnibus for attempted | the various schemes that, in one form or another, have been talked about during the past vear, including even | the bonus. A bi!l that proposes the lend- ing of such a vast sum as $2,000,000,000 served that the State's sttorney should | not confess that he was not pig enough to keep the men protected and sug- gested that the witnesses should be able to take care of themselves. The prose- cutor rejoined, “Not when they are faced with & machine gun, your honor.” The case was thereupon dismissed and the gangster, according to the news re- port, walked from the court, “grinning widely.” Some years ago when the Black Hand operations were active and nu- merous in New York City, prosecutions, even when the identity and guilt of the extortioners were definitely estab- lished, were usually rendered futile by the failure of memory on the part of witnesses, who, when called upon to testify, were given a certaln sign of sinister significance by persons seated in the court room. Whereupon they forgot everything about the case in kand, although they had told specific stories to the police and the prose- cuting attorneys, and the cases col- lapsed. The dismissal of this case in Chi- cago is an evidence of the degree to which terrorism has supplanted law in the large cities of this country where crime prevails to the point of being commonplace. The wide grin on the face of the gangster as he left the court room, free of the charge which would have been definitely supported by competent evidence if it could have been presented, is a symbol of the demoral- ization that prevails in the large centers of population in this country. e = The Bicentennial Pageant. The Capital's observance of George Washirgton Bicentennial year was im- pressively marked last evening by a pageant at the base of the great shaft which perpetuates the name of the first President. This spectacle, given under the auspices of the District Bicentennial Commission, was witnessed by one of the largest audiences ever gathered in the history of the District for an out- door event not of a sporting character. More than 20,000 persons assembled at the Sylvan Theater and with the ald of exceptionally effective illumination every phase of the brilliant moving pic- ture of the career of Washington was enjoved. The pageant form of representation is difficult of devising and of presenting. direction requires great skill. The rohearsal of episodes involves a particular technique of management. Washington has the talent for such spectacular demonstrations and last night's wholly satisfactory presentation number of topics. He eriticizes high | conceivably might occupy an entire ses- | showed that it has been utilized to the tariff barriers as “practically excludmz‘ the products of foreign nations.” He urges the adoption of proper relief measures through provision of sumcnent‘ sion of Congress. The hope has been | in the Senate, however, that this week | would suffice for its consideration. | With this bill out of the way in the | best effect. Several hundred persons are enlisted in this work, giving their time and services freely for the sake of making Washington's Bicentennial work to keep the laboring class of the | go,ate and provided no unexpected ob- , offering worthy of the Capital which country employed; this being in line with his own relief program as G bodied in the bill which at his urging | was passed by the House of Repre- sentatives. He demands the collection | of war debts to the extent of the ca- | pacity of debtor nations to pay. He urges reduction of Federal, State and ! municipal expenditures by one-third. | He calls for the utilization of every pos- { sible means to fight socialism and com- | munism. These are the outstanding features of his personal platform, upon | which he will stand before the Chicago | convention next week as a candidate ! for nomination. | Whether this statement by Mr. Gar- | ner will have a bearing upon the “stop | Roosevelt” movement at Chicago Te- mains to be seen. He and former Gov. | Smith are the two largest holders of | anti-Roosevelt votes as the roll of dele- | gates is now compiled. That he sin cerely hopes to be the recipient of many | other votes than those already pledged to him 1s to be assumed from the frank- | ness of his announcement. That with | this platform and in this spirit of wil- lingness to accept promotion in the Fed- eral service he will be an important factor in the outcome of his party's meeting is assumed. All depends, how- ever, upon whether the Roosevelt strength, which now dominates, will grow after the first ballot, when the complimentary votes for favorite sons' who have no chance of nomination | have been cast. | - One way to decrease the sense of depression might be to put a special tax temporarily on “high power” sales- manship which persuades investors to get beyond their depth Opinion is undecided as to whether the meeting of Franklin Rooseveit and Alfred Smith will be a championship | contest or only a preliminary bout. By The New Fistic Champion. A prizefight that proceeds to a deci- | sion on “points” is not as popular an exhibition as one that ends with a positive knockout, which leaves no ques- tion in the minds of the beholders as to the merits of the victory. Last night such a fight was staged in a near- capacity crowded bowl on Long Island | and the decision was given to an Amer- ican-born contender for the world!| championship over a German pugilist | who has for two years held the supreme title, won from the same opponent on & foul. The new champion’s real name is Joseph Paul Cukeschay, born in this | country of Lithuanian parents. He for- mally adopted as his fighting title a | combination of the first name of a one- | time champion and the last name of a frequent contender for the title in the past. The title passes from Schmeling to | Sharkey in somewhat of a cloud of dis- sent from the decision. It was a di- vided verdict, two judges voting for Sharkey and one for Schmeling. The reports of the affair indicate that the finding was not popular. As in the case of many other prize ring events of the past, this fight will probably be con-| tinued for some time in an exchange of | verbal blows between partisans. But there is no appeal. The championship | goes to Sharkey apd if Schmeling | wishes to regain it he must become the challenger. i Sharkey is the eleventh holder of the world title in fifty years. This record, begins with John L. Sullivan, who wore, the belt for a decade, from 1882 to 1882 James J. Corbett ho'd it for the next| five years, Robert Fitzsimmons for two, | James J. Jeffries for seven, Tommy Burns for two, Jack Johnson for seven, Jesse Willard for four, Jack| Dempsey for seven, Gene Tunney for two, and then after a_lapse of two years, caused by Tunney's retirement from the ring, Max Schmeling held the title for two years. Last night's great crowd, which prac- tically filled the arena on Long Island, | 1t should strive to do that. | become prominent in political affairs, the House for the Garner bill, Congress should be able to finish in a few hours. | Congress is tired, the nerves of its members are frayed, their thoughts turn longingly, if fearfully, toward the battlefield of the next campaign, whence already emanate clouds of acrid smoke. But more than | that, the country is tired of Congress. It also needs a rest. The time for ad- journment cannot come too quickly. — —o— The Real Estate Tax Rate. As the Commissioners are forbidden by the usual terms of the pending Dis- trict appropriation bill to reduce the real estate tax rate during the coming fiscal year, all they can do toward pro- tecting the interests of the already heavily burdened local taxpayer is not to increase it. The decision at the Municipal BuxldA' ing to retain the current tax rate for | the next fiscal year is made at a time when equitable considerations and the | practical difficulties facing the local community demand a decrease. To the majority of local property owners the same tax rate for the next vear that prevailed last year means an additional burden of no small proportions. Th:‘ total assessment of real estate, to which the tax rate will be applied, will show | a slight increase over last year. While Mr. Richards says ther> have been some reductions and while the increase is accounted for largely by new construc- tion, the decreases in assessments will not be felt by the average home owner in any degree that compensates for the decline in property values, the business depression and for the additional taxa- tion imposed by the Federal Govern- | ment. The largest tax delinquent list in the city's history, the sharp drop in the revenue from tax sales and the in- creased volume of appeals against assessments are manifestations in them- selves of the difficulties encountered by | the real estate taxpayer already. For | the coming fiscal year, with the drop in the Federal pay roll and the antic- | ipated lay-offs without pay of an unes- | timated number of Federal wnrkers! —which means, of course, a like blight on practically all local private business— the lacal real estate tax will become even more burdensome. In many cases the actual danger that it will be the | straw that breaks the camel's back has become only too obvious. | - - Remarks which Joseph I. France in- tended to offer at the Republican con- vention are made available in the Con- gressional Record, whose business man- agement may have decided to intro- duce something slightly sensational in | order to help circulation. .- and professo Many doctors rs have | but gpparently there is still a chance for a man who is popularly saluted by his first name, R Machine Guns and the Law. Chicage, which has figured largely in the history of crime in America during the past few years, furnishes a striking illustration cf the power of the gangster over the iaw. In December. 1930. a bank in that city was robbed of $60,000 by six men, who used a machine gun to terrorize the employes. Danny Mc- Geoghegan, one of the city's best known beor hustlers, was arrested and identi- Tied by several of the employes of the bank as the leader of the rebbers. On the first trial of the case he offered an alibi, claiming that he was attending a funeral at the time of the raid. The jury disagreed. A second trial was had and on Monday the State prosecuting officer asked the judge to dismiss the charge on the gyound that two of his witnesses, officials of the Bank, had so requested. “They have been under guard in a hetel since April 29,” he told the judge, “and their families and the bank need them.” The court ob- | stacles arise to block its substitution ir | bears the name of the great American whose birthday is now being commem- orated threughout the country. Every Washingtonian should see this artistic pageant, which will be repeated tonight and tomorrow night. rem L Evidently conventions are not the prosperity makers they used to be. In spite of two of them, Chicago regards the task of balancing the local budget as pretty near hopeless. If music is arranged for the Ana- costia campers, the line in “Over There,” “The Yanks Are Coming.” may have to be changed to “The Jinx Are Coming.” Perhaps if Mabel Willebrandt could | | have been left to her own diplomatic | way the question of light wines at least | might have bcen arranged without nearly so much notoriety. - Bonus marchers must have diversion. If nothing else can make them home- sick, perhaps amateur entertainment will avail. - Germany, striving to be obliging, is willing to send her best talent, from the lofty intelligence of Einstein to a hero of the prize ring. ———— As a cold-water advocate Senator Borah goes so far as to freeze up. ————— TING STARS. SHOO BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Ticker Tape. Ticker tape was thrown below, Where it added to the show That was given in the street OQur new heroine to greet. “Ticker tape, float on yeur way,” A beholder paused to say. “For the benefit of man You at last have changed your plan. “Long we've studied you to learn How our hopes and fears would turn. For the first time you refuse To bring any but Good News.” Always Exceplions. “Bome of the demonstrations follow- ing your speech were not entirely fa- vorable.” “I was painfully aware of that fact,” answered Senator Sorghum. “However, you still have friends.” “Yes. Fortunately, you can't dis- please everybody.” Jud Tunkins says you can't always distinguish between a man who is werk- ing for the public and one who has the public working for him. Social Polities. Social Precedence, too, may come up for review In the plans of each Gallant and Free Party. So, it's time for each Girl in the great Social Swirl ‘To come to the aid of her Tea Party. Deglaration in Candar. “Are you in favor of light wines and beer?” “No,” answered Uncle Bill Bottletap. “Why not be candid? I want 'em both as heavy as possible.” “Musie,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “may be only the cosmetic of sound imparting superficial beauty to a commonplace subjeet.” Third Party. Sometimes a discerd must arise. Perhaps it is a method wise To set aside discordant elves To have a party to themselves. “Seems like,” said Uncle Eben, “dat dar is allus gineter bg folks dat thinks dey kin be happy by makin’ other folks miserable an’ then drawin’ compari- sons.” . / BY CHARLES E. TRA Intellect is but one form of physical vigo: r. He who realizes this will have every symr:thy with the modern education in its emphasis on sports. Not that brain power is a direct de- ive from muscle tone. By no means. Nor that the muscular man is neces- sarily the intellectual man. The connection between physical :ll:dt intellectual vigor goes deeper than at. It is a matter of driving power. The spark which sets off brains is the same which impeis the leg push in the hundred-yard dash. > mn is the take-off which counts, both i o doubt there is a tremendous mass of sheer brain power in the world held in check by lack of the physical spark to set it going, son,” some one pipes up. into our face. The truth seems to be that Robert Louis Stevenson was a man of immense physical powers despite the handicaps of lifelong sickness which he bore. ‘The world’s desire for a hero has managed to make him out a sort of martyr to sickness, striving mightly against the inimical forces which strove to pull him dewn, and which at last succeeded at a comperatively early age. If any one will take the trouble to look at the 30 volumes or so which he left behind him one will at once become suspicious. How could a sick man produce so much? The only answer is that a sick man did not produce them—he who wrote those splendid things, both prose and verse, was the well man in him, the ivreu part of him, if one wants to put t so, Clayton Hamilton, in his “In the Footsteps of Stevenson.” takes an en- tire chapter of a small book to make out a case along these lines, that Louis wrote best when he was ill, that he possessed the essential physical vigor, behind his predispositions toward res- pirational maladies, to be able to write, and that sickness simply freed him from the ordinary harassments of every-day life. Only the person who has had some experience along these lines can be in a position to realize the possibilities for truth in this diagnosis. There is many a writing man who will tell you much the came thing. One may rest assured that the ap- parently sick person who nevertheless produces a great deal of work in this vigor at bottom. We are 5o used to regarding health as health and sickness as sickn>s® that ordinarily that there are millions of border line cases, in which the aspects of illness simply cover up. and tend to obscure the lines of health. Physical vigor came to BStevenson from his Scots incestors. They were lighthouse buildess, rugged engineers who battled the elements in the appli- cation of their minds to stubborn phys- ical problems. Brain power and physical power are two aspects of the same thing, almost. This does not mean that they are not tremendously_different. But each helps the other, each has something to contribute to the human. No doubt there have been instances of sheer int :nce which worked nobly and tirelessly without the aid of the physical being, or from it. | stances have been rarer than is com- monly supposed. and that cases the lack of physical powers is more apparent than real. | BY FREDERIC CHICAGO. June 22 —Over the por- tals of Rocsevelt headquarters in the Congress Hotel nangs a huge map of i the United States. As you approach it from a distance it seems to be one sin- | gle blotch of lurid red, ana when you scheme you observe that the States in red are Roosevelt territory. They are the ones which have instructed for the Governor or those in which Roosevelt delegates are pledged. Half a dozen other Stat>s are black, green, pink, brown, lavender or purple, and indi- cate favorite-son territory held by Byrd, | Reed, Lewis, Murray, Ritchie or White. Three States, New Jersey, Massachu- setts and Rhode Icland, are in blue and | allocated to Smith. California and Texas, in pale and almosi indistinguish- able saffron tint, belong to Garner. New York State, depicted in a neuiral white, is no man’s land on the Roose- velt map. It is an undeniably impres- sive piece of political gecgraphy. It ex- actly conveys the idea that Jim Farley, foxy Roosevelt manages, had in mind when he had the map made, namely, | Roosevelt. No one can look at it and escape the conclusion that the Gover- nor's convention strength is so na- tion-wide, so far flung and so numeyi- cally preponderant that his rivals, singly or combined, are of insignifizant im- portance. Psychologist Fariey may have slipped a cog In putting Rookevelt in the red. Nowadays, especially in im- poverished Chicago, the color is omi- nous. e Only one guestion is on all lips as the Democratic fray approaches: Can Roosevelt be stopped” Among & dozen observers, prognosticators or boosters of this or that aspirant for the piesiden- tial plum you will find a dozen differ- ent opinions. Manager Farley, who staked out his claims before the Roose- velt lw.lffl’i pitched their various tents, contrived to ssturate Chicago pretty effectually with the belief that the Governor has the nomination in the bag. Until the roll call is actuslly over hardly any one is in pasition to challenge the Farley boast that Roose- velt will have 691 votes on the first ballet. That is uncomfortably close to the 770 necessary to a cnoice. At least two or three delegations now under in- structions to support favorite sons are natoriously full of Roosevelt sentiment. If Farley's nose-count is accurate, only 79 favorite-son delegates will need to slip their moorings to put the Gover- nor over early in the game. e But Al _Smith is in town now and the rosy Roosevelt mirage is scheduled to be clouded up a bit. If the Roose- velt stoppers are going to do any stop- ping. to Al is assigned the role of chiel stopper. That he will Jeave no stone unturned to play it successfully s & foregone conclusion. 'er there was a fight to the death in American poli- tics, Chicago is about to be its scene. The rival factions know it _means po- litical extinction for the losing side. No quarter, therefore, is the cry with which they will enter the arena, Smith. battle-scarred veteran that he is, arrived this morning with his fighting blood stirred L& ‘lhlm:'llhm ‘ni; m{‘m‘far: bat inj ¢ Who knows it. Nominally, his own hat is in the ring. Actually, Al's 'only am- hmm‘u to knock Raosevelt’s lid out % e “ If it is not going to be Roosevelt, who will it be? t is the other question on almost all lips and one to which, also, there are widely divergent apswers. If Rooseyelt is denied vic- tary, he can hantly be dei the power to thwart the choice of any candidate objectionable to his follow- ers. Should the two-thirds rule pre- vau, 6t’mj it qu the Governor tain enough strength to veto any nom- ination he dislikes. He may, in other words, npt be able to force his prefer- enee on the convention which has re- jected him, but can blast the hopes of some pet aversion—Smith himself, for instance. Gov. Ritchie ranks fore- hysical and intellectual education. ! “Oh, but look at Robert Louls Steven- | | We knew some one would throw Louis world possesses a great fund of physical | we do not like to believe ' under handicaps | One may feel. however, that such in- | in many | CHICAGO OBSERVATIONS are close enough to inspect the color | that virtually the whole U. 8. A. s for | WELL. ‘The true stimulus which healthy tis- sues, all the way through, add to intel- ligence lies mostly in the drive to do, to_achieve. Even the sick man, prodded by events, might turn himself into a doer, an achiever, a go-getter, without pos- sessing any real physical health, ‘The point is, however, not that this may happen, but that in literally thou- sands of cases, perhaps hundreds of thousands and maybe millions of in- stances, who knows, true intelligence never comes into the light of recogni- tion because the vital spark of fresh ngvln;blmdunmm e to start it o ‘When children needlessly scream and jump around it is surplus energy in them, which rightly directed in later years, might make a new heaven and earth. Mostly it won't make & new heaven, or even a new earth—that much h been proved by the millions upon mil- lions of human beings who have gone before. 1f physical health can keep human being reasonably healthy, we say, more or less free from active hurt, the world of mankind feels that it has done its God-ordained share. But has it? In all but a small percentage of cases it has failed to touch the spark of mental achievement. How this is to be done is a study for future ages. Although some few dreamers have approached the problem in every age and in every naulon, the surface of a great problem has only been scratched. The vast tides of energy now going annually into tennis, swimming, traci athletics, golf, foot ball, base ball, bas- ket ball, lacrosse and a hundred other | sports have not gs yet been made to ! yield up their super-dividends of intel- lectual accomplishments. | These yields are there. | They are in the making in thou- ! sands of human beings who by no | means suspect their presence. That mankind believes they are there | is shown by the sayings of the people. | In Prance it was said, and believed, | after the time of Napoleon, that every | soldier carried a field marshal’s baton in_his knapsack. In America every mother likes to think, although she may not say so openly, that her boy has a chance of | being President some day. These are traditions which tell of the hope which springs eternal in the human breast to make more of life than mere physical existence. It 1s realized that through brain power, and through the mind alone, the path of humanity in eternily shall differ irom that of the apes Physical conquest is essential. but it is a part oply of mankind’s long search for the truth. The laws of nature and of life are being discovered through the applica- tion of intelligence working with phy- sical forces, ceaseless wonders which re- | search tends mcre and more to show are not so different from the spiritual, after all. Even in the making of such an in- telligent thinz as a great book a man must expend physical energy, and must | have physical paper, types, etc., for ils | issuance forth into the iight of day. Greatest of all contributions, however, is the divine physical spark which says “Go!"” to a human mind, which stands there in the darkness of the blood stream, amid the mysteries of mysteries, and prods a men into do.ng his best. In the ancient days it was customary | to call this “inspiration” and to look above for its source. Today its source is the same. but we have a new way to look at it, and a new respect for everything that God made. Shall the physical go on forever being sneered at, and contemned, when the very stars to whieh we raise our eyes are | made of the same divine dust? | | | | WILLIAM WILE. ! most as an eventual heir to Roosevelt | strength. Newton D. Baker—with Owen D. Young irrevocably out of the | picture—holds high favor with the | Smith group. * ¥ ¥ % Things may liven up and loosen up when the Democratic clans are gath- ered, but to date it must be recorded | that Chicago, convention c has | | been amazingly and incredibly dry. | Let it not be supposed that no corks are popping at all. But let it be chronicled to the city's eiernal credit that drunzenness is conspicuous by its absence, liquor all but pub- licly invisible, and the whole atmosphere of the town one of utter sobriety. Con- sidering that Chicago politically and | habitually is one of the wettest spots in | |tle country, and popular sentiment here | is overwhelmingly anti-prohibition, con- | ditions strike most cuaventionists as | bordering on the phenumenal. Perhaps old man depression has got in his work ' in this direction too. He is held re- | sponsible for almost everything abnormal nowadays. * ok * % From Waterloo, Iowa. the Tribune has a communication which suggests | that if Henry Field succeeds Smith W. | Brookhart in the Senate it may be a | case of jumping from the frying pan |into the fire. “The nomination of Field,” writes the Tribune’s correspond- | ent, “was & keen disappointment to the | intérests that organized the campaign to defeat Brookhart. Ffor radicalism. | Henry Field is out in front of Senator | Brookhart, and he has indorsed even | more of the radical legislation proposed or pending in Congress than Brookhart did. The very crowd that put Henry Field into the campaign cannot con- sistently support him next November. |and it is an even bet that Murphy, the Democratic candidate, will show up the | winner at election time."” * % % ¥ Demands for tickets to the Democratic convention outstrip the requests for Republican pasteboards more than two to one. The explanation, of course, is that next week’s events will bristle with scraps from the word ‘The tip is out that the Democrats will squander all their enes on the presidential nomination fisticuffs. The row over the prohibition plank is to be settled in the Resolutions Committee, which buckles down to work tomorrow. No minority report, such as threw the G. O. P. con- vention into a row, is expected. Jack Garner's declaration in favor of repealing the eighteenth amendment is sensation No. 1 for the Democratic con- vention. Many _interpretations are placed upon the Speak:r's action. One of the commonest is that it is a move itow‘a';ld an anti-Roosevelt alliance with | Smith. * % or % American politics has produced | shrewder fighters than John J. Ras- | kob, but never a more modest ang re- | tiring one than the Democratic national chairman. A pompus politician would utilize his waning hours of glory for personal aggrandizement and fade from the pleture in a blaze of ballyheo. Ras kob submerged himself from the mo- ment of his arrival in Chieago yester- day, shunning interviews, radio tglks, cameras and everything else capable of dragging him from the obscurity whigh, he says, most becomes him. When he has finished the task of formally de-' claring the Democratic copvention as- Tembl;fld‘o? o::ned'fi‘: ?‘_nknh will take | o adieu ifl?fldfi declare that h.mu'.” ties. s enjoyed his expensive experience. (Copyright, 1932.) e —— Dampening Time, From the Lowell Evening Leader. There’s a growing belief that those who want to be in the must not be afraid of mepgunt.m L g ——— Dampness. From the Dallas Journal. The Republican idea seems to be tha 3 plank of the ht :van‘t s IMVPEGE' degree of dampness Sympathy for the Unemployed Citizens To the Editor of The Star: My first visit to the veterans’ eamp at Anacostia left me with a feeling of shoek beyond deseription at the con- ditions of the camp, where 100 per cent American citizens are living with- a word of complaint among them. They are the highest type of man- hood to be found. Of course, there are without doubt somy very undesirable ones among them, $ho are being taken out of the so-called bonus army camp every day by men of the intelligence deg-tmme of the unemployed army. n't let the innocent ones suffer for the few bad citizens. Many of those that are here to stay say there are thousands more coming. It is our duty to feed and clothe these very de- serving American citizens until there is work created for them, and it must | be done at once if we want this great country to continue to go on and be Pprosperous always. We did all we could gladly for these boys to go to the great World War, and it is now more our duty as Ameri- cans to help them in every way . sible when they are destitute. lork must be created for them at once, Let the Government re-enlist every ex-sol- dier or sailor unemployed in the Army or Navy, as both branches are way be- low quota. The physically disabled should be taken into Government hospitals at once, and let the men who are work- ing eight hours a day on the railroads or at other jobs or positions divide their time with the unemployed. Every good American citizen has & right to demand a living from his country without violence and should be given work some place at once. Do not wait any longer, until some horrible epi- demic breaks out among ali of us. Do it now, not tomorrow, or next day, or next week. The sooner it is done the better for all of humanity. Since my first visit to the camp I have been begging every day for these most deserving men, and have found the sympathy of the people I have asked in the District, and they have been very gemerous in giving food and clothing to me for these men, which is being delivered as fast as I get it. So get to work today to help in any way, large or small, as it will be greatly appreciated by those men who are so deserving. I am giving all my time to | these men gladly, and think all other real Americans should do the same. MRS8. BRADY G. RUTTENCUTTER. — e Parked Cars Unjustly Obstruct Pedestrians To the Editor of The Btar In coming to my work Monday morn- ing in one of the Government depart- ments I came through the small parks between the Ellipse There are regu- (at least, I suppose they were originally intended as such), and a small army treks back and forth mornings and eve- nings. Unfortunately, some motorists | cannot bear to see even so small a space reserved for the humble walker, so i frequently happens that these 1k: are completely barred by automob t s es | parked squarely in the way—an old- | time Washingion custom. The favorite | time chosen for such parking is in rainy Seaite andrine ihe pedestrian has to pick his way around between ma- chines—if there happens to be space enough left for him to squeeze through, as often there is not—and walk along the soft. muddy ground 2lc.g the gutter. Just as I was crossing this morning a motorist drove up in front of me and blocked the walk. I had to go down to the third car beZore I could get through. Then I said to the man (ves, it was a man), who was just locking his car: “This is a regular crosswalk. and hun- dreds of people come through this way to work. When the way is blocked it means that we have to wade the mud.” I can give you the actual words of that man’s reply. but I cannot put in cold type the insolence of his tone when he answered: “Too bad about vou—just too bad, isn't it?” I rejoined that I thought it a hoggish trick for any man | to monaopolize a public passway. and our conversation ended. The man walked away, however. and left his car parked across the walk. Two men whom I know were just coming around the barred way, and 1 asked them what they thought. One was quite certain that if he should attempt a thing like that he would get a ticket. I asked for a pencil and took the number. I could not find a traffic officer or a park | policeman, but gave the number to a guard, who said he would report it I know that some one is going to say that the pedestrian is always butting n | in front of traffic, but I know that as a rule the pedestrisn does not try to usurp the right of way unless that is the only way to get his own rights re- £pecied. There are still people. even i \f‘:lchlngmn. who walk because they like it, but they are given small recogni- tion anywhere. ETHEL BOWERS. Place VCuning a Terror To Government Clerks To the Editor of The Star: In an editorial on June 15 vou | championed the rights of Government employes in the struggle now going on | in Congress over the pay cut. If the uncertainty of the size of the future incomes is a veritable Damoclean sword dangling over the heads of these employes by a single hair, what is the uncertainty of thase who face the lo: of their positions through the propose cut in the Interstate Commerce Com- mission appropriation? Seven hundred and fifty of these em- ployes are threatened with the terri- fying and unnerving prospect of being added to the ranks of the city’s un- employed. Many of them have given vears of service to the Interstate Com- merce Commission. Many of them have large families, sick dependents. or other problems which complicate the situation. Most of them must stay in Washington. Can Washington give them jobs or take care of them? Senators supporting this cut are no doubt thinking of the appeal the sav- ing of $2,000,000 will make to the voters at home, rather than the wreck it will make of 750 homes here. The thought of the coming election is/ werping their judgment. Such men ought not to be in powerful positions at this critical time and every Con- gressman who voies another man oul of a job at this time ought to be voted ' out of one hi It would be pure madness to elim- inate the Bureau of Valuation without consideration of the money and labor which has gone into its establishment or the fate of those who have served it It would be poor policy at any time. Right now it would be cowardly and criminal because of the suffering it would cause. serving a vital need (and it is doing so under the present law) it should be eliminated in the proper way and not wiped out by the cutting off of its ap- propriation in a moment of panic. can't think any Senator in his right mind could call this proposed cut econ- omy—it is plainly a bid for votes. KATHERINE CHASE. e A W:y to Make Outdoor Advertising Endurable Ta the Bditar of The Star: Your campaign for the abolishment of signboards is most laudable. How- ever, its success must necessarily be slow on account of the power of the signboard companies and the adver- tisers. It is my belief that progress uch faster if a suitable sub- stitute were offered which wouid be compatible with the interests of all. Such 8 substitute does exist. one I is as follows: There is a dearth of places along our highways where one may get good fresh water or one may stop to refresh and rest one- | pl self. Tourists frequently prefer to eat their ngop meal quietly under some grove of trees rather than in a city or town. Should the gas companies erect small stone drinking fountains, seats QIF permanent nature, plant trees, ang make the whole the work of a land- seape artist, emdeavoring to make it l and Pifteenth | If the bureau is not| 1| ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Of the vast number of questions an- wered by this utgrumnn only a few can be published in this column. The ones that are printed must be of gen- eral interest and not personal in their pature. Do not, therefore, m:x sign your initials to your letter and that the answer be published. Give your full name and address so that you ma receive & personal letter in reply. In- | close 2 cents for return tage. Di- | Tect your letter to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Prederic J. Has- kin, Director, Washington, D. C. | N Qs Whit are !he;flm of polo?—A. | A. The migrations of polo are among the most curious of any game. Cen- turies ago the game originated in Per- sia. Prom there it moved westward to Constantinople, then turned eastward again, being found at successive dates | down threugh the ages in Turkestan, | Thibet, China and, finally, Japan. From | Japan it turned westward, once more and reached Manipur. Next it was in- troduced into India by Maj. Gen. Sherar of the British Army, who im- ported teams of Manlpuri natives to | play an exhibition match at Calcutta. In 1876 the game reached Hurlingham, in hthnd. where international matches are played to this day. In 1886 John | Watson™ brought the game to America. More recently it has reached South America. Originally there were eight players on a side instead of 4, as in modern polo. Q. Was Mozart a German composer? —C. R. A. He was an Austrian. Q. How many members of the present gonyareu are college graduates?—V. | "A.'According to a late estimate the | number of college graduates among the 431 members of Congress 1s 283. Q. When will the pianet Venus be in conjunction with the sun?—R. W. B. Venus is now rapidiy approaching the sun and will be in conjunction on June 29. For a few days 1t will be too cloge to the sun to be seen. Q. Who furnishes the American flag which drapes the casket of a deceased veteran of the World War;—C. R. F. A. They are furnished by either the Veterans' Administration or the Quar- | termaster Corps of the War Depart- | ment. The Veterans' Administration | customarily supplies the flags if the veteran was not in active service at the time of his death, whiie the Quarter- master Corps generally furnishes those for active service men. Tne flag should not be lowered into the grave with the coffin, but should be removed st the | point in the burial service when the casket is started downward. The flag | 1s customarily turned over to the rela- tives of the deceased. Q. What makes a bee hum?—W. M. A The sound is due to the very rapid vibration of the bee's wings. Q. How much longer is a No. 5 shoe than a No. 412?—H. L. A. A size in shoes differs from the next by '3 inch. Q Dpid Washington fish frequently? A. Paul Wilstach says, “ * * * Wash- ington only occasionally went gunning, and less often did he try his s{ul wit] hook and line.” Q Please nage the English poets laureate since Vordsworth—R. H. A. Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth. | then came Alfred Austin, Robert | Bridges. and the present poet laureate, John Masefield. Q. What was the incident referred to as the revenge of Zoutpansberg?— T, T A. In 1854 a Zulu chief named Ma- kapan massacred a party of 23 Boer | settlers in South Africa. including wom- | en and children. Marthinius Pretorius, | | | | ! ters Boer commtnt-rnm.l Transvaal Colony, foree of Boers against Makapar's natives and block- aded 3,000 of them in s great cave at Zoutpansberg. The entire 3,000 were either starved or shot w death as they emerged from the cave. How large an_estate was left by James B. Duke?—J. P. O'B A. His estate aggregated about $100,000,000. Q‘, g]hll is pork barrel legislation?— A. The term is applied to legiZamon secured by Congressmen to benefit their constituents or the locality from which they come, and in many cases set up Federal projects in the vicinity thas are not necessary. Q. Who coined the expression, “Say #t with flowers”"?—M. W. A. The late N. P. Lindberg of Rugby, N. Dak., was credited with the coining of the phrase. It is merely a slogan calling attention to the fact that flowers are an appropriate gift on all oceasions. Q. What is the significance of the plaques seen on some of the old houses in Georgetown, D. C.>—L. R. H. . They were originally used to designate the houses which were in- ton was all owned by the volunteer | firemen, and the company originally | placed these plaques on the houses | which were insured in that company so |that the firemen might know whether |or not any particular house in which there was a fire was insured with the company in which he held stock. Q. Which echildren’s book received the 1931 Newbery award?>—P. N A. “Waterless Mountain,” the story of a Navajo Indian boy, by Laura Adams Armer, won the Newbery Medal for the most ~ distinguished _contribution to children’s literature published in 1931 by the section for library work with children of the Amencan Library As- sociation. Q._ Did any other peoples. aside from the Indians in this country, ever scalp their enemies® = A. Scalping was not unknown to the Old World, as it was mentined by Hero- dotus as practiced by the Seythians. Q. What will remove paint from an old brick wall>—M. N. A. Dissolve 10 pounds of tic soda in five gallons of water ang stir into the solution five quarts of theap mineral oil; then add enough sifted or fine sawdust to yield a pisty mass that will cling to the wall without running down. Plaster this thickly on the old paint and let stand a few hours. Then scrape off and wash the surface with water. . Who published the first furni- ture catalogue?—F. H. A. The Gentleman and Cabinet- maker’s Director, published in 1754 by Thomas Chippendale, was the first. ! Copies sold for £5 each. Q. What makes beans jump®-—O. T. A. The jumping bean is not, in fact, a bean. It is the fruit or seced of & shrub. The larva of a tiny moth en- the seed and eats its contents. The contortions of the fattened larva causz the movement of the hol'ow shell. The moths emerge in the S ng and Fall and the bean ceases to ‘v 1p. Q. Was “Uncle Remus"—Joel C. Harris—a church member?—R. N. A. Shortly before his death he was received into the Catholic Church. Q. What causes gas heaters to gen- erate carbon monoxide>—C. R. A. If air passages in the bottom of the heater become clng‘:d‘ or the air supply to the burner cut off for any reason, carbon monoxide is gen- erated. Mexican jumping Unprecedented commendation for a member of Congress upon the occasion of retirement from that legislative body has been given to Ruth Bryan Owen, as she avoids the “lame duck” status. Having been defeated as party nominee in Florida, she announces that che will resign in advance of the expiration of her term in order to avoid serving be- vond election time. The daughter of William Jennings Bryan takes a posi- tion of consistency, and offers an ex- ample to other defeited candidates. in the opinion of the press of the Nation. “William Jennings Bryan, were he alive today,” states the St. Louis Times (Repubiican), “would approve the po- litical course of his daughter, who, de- feated for renomination by a great ma- jority. announces that she will resign, so that her opponent, whose nomination means election, may serve for the ‘lame duck’ term. Under the law Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen might remain in cifice until next March 4. Hiving favored the ‘lame duck’ amendment, however, she consistently does noi wait for it to become effective. She will get out of | the way as soon as her opponent is in a position to take her place. It is a | fine example that many others should | follow.” | “Let ‘the boys' have their jibes about | women in politics.” advises the Jersey City Journal (independent Republican). | “Along comes & woman and sets an ex- ample that the male officeholders could well copy,” is the tribute of the Journal | to the “daughter of the Democratic standird bearer who was known to| fame and posterity as the ‘Boy Orator of the Platte’ and ‘Great Commoner.' " | The Journal adds: “No hanging on to the bitter end for her. She let it be | known that she had always opposed | lame duck representation and that she | intended to act in accordance with her | convictions and resign. She is setting a good precedent.” * x “Mrs. Owen'’s stand, commendable at | any time, is especially so at this mo- ment," declares the Nashvilie Banner (independent), as it notes that “the | constitutional amendment that would | put an end to ‘lame duck’ sessions of | Congress is before the people of the | country, and Mrs. Owen's example will | doubtless go far toward hastening the adoption of that eminently salutary bit | of legislation.” “What else would you expect of the daughter of William Jennings Sryan 2sks the Milwaukee Journal (inde- pendent), as it states that “it is an en- couraging. if unprecedented, thing to see at least one member willing to forego & few months more of power in the interest o’ principle.” The Newark Evening News (independent) credits Mrs. Owen with having “too much pride, too much native decepcy and too great an appreciation of cit- izenship to be a lame duck.” As the Roanoke Times (Democratic) puts it: “If all ‘lame ducks’ possessed the same sense of responsibility to their con- stituents there would be no need of the Norris ‘lame duck’ amendment.” ' As to the personal gualities of Ruth Bryan Owen, the Omana World-Herald (independent Democratie) sa) “This as pleasant as possible, they would be considerably more r than are now, Recently, gasoline vender has market. A few of these p! the road would save some one & long Drevent the piople hom.Geing ‘earant preven people from n of the name :t eeulr benefactor, & ul:ull rtesy 2 the saying “henesty is the best policy” is becoming honesty is the best business, so universal beauly is becom- ing good business; it is leaving the realm of the econnoisseur and entering the realm of every man. ROGER LORENZ. Irs. O\;en Leaves Congress Amid Praise for Her Courage | (independent Democratic) they | our daughter of the ‘Great Commoner’ is more than a fine type of American |womanhood. By study and training and natural endowment she is better quali- fied than many a Congressman for & seat in the halls of our national Legis~ lature. Like her father. she is brilliant, witty and eloquent. More than that, she is wise and thoughtful. And she has the invaluable quality of common senze. Congress could have spared s less dependable member—and it doubt- less will gpare a good many of them after the votes in the coming election are counted.” Expressions of real re- gret are widespread ove. the defeat of Representative Owen, salthough appre- ciation is not lacking ror the capabili- ties and qualities of her rival, Mark Wilcox. “She will be missed in Washington, because she combined real ability with a natural aptitude for public life.” says the New Castle (Pa) News (Repub- lican), which also credits Mrs. Owen | with having “that elusive quality which we call charm—something not easy to describe. but which makes itself felt in a positive manner. It may seem strange that such a woman should not be returned to Congress, but it appears that Mrs. Owen got on the wrong side | of the prohibition issue in her distriet for the paper. time being.” ‘The Baltimore remarks this Evening Sun echoes this regret, saying: “Mrs. Owen has been beaten, but by this announcement she snatches out of her defeat a larger share of the respect of the country han she ever commanded in victory. Plenty of others have said they do not believe in lame duck Congresses, but here is a member who not enly said it, but told the truth when she said it. More than that and stranger than that, here is a member of Con- gress who will not seize a personal ad- Vantage stmply because it is legal to In the opinion of the Dallas Jour- nal (independent Democratic), “Mrs. Owen's decision is in line with sound conception of what representative gov- ernment should be, and its mal does credit to her.” The Port Huron Times-Herald (independent) thinks “it is now possible that the amend- | ment will have been ratified by a suf- ficient number of the States by that time to give it effect for the next ses- sion of Congress,” consequently it is by Mrs. Owen's personal choice that she will not be & lame duck this next session. Will any other defeated Congressman follow this precedent? As the Mil- waukee Sentinel (independent) says: “Prom present indications the pri- maries this Summer will eliminate nu- merous Representatives who, under ex» isting laws, will be able to serve as ‘lame ducks' until next March. We recommend Mrs. Owen’s bright exam- flk to them as being worthy of emus tion, without much hope of a gen- eral acceptance of the suggestion.” ‘The Miami Deily News (Democratic) notes that “by her example Mrs. Owen makes this (lame duck seating) in- creasingly difficult for others. She has va' not Florida alone, but the entire ation, a striking example of ‘practice what wu preach.’ Were there more of sugl honesty in dealing with c _affairs, hypocrisy, = the cubus that weighs agajpst progress, would dissppear,” sug- gests this paper. ———v— Will Some One Tell Tillie? Prom the @pringfield (Mass) Union Credulous Tillie wants to know why, if Mayor Walker has all that money, he wants to be mayor. ——.— “ank Holiday. it News. ho.‘kl:.m! m:own cehhute'd "l civie on reopening of Bank-Iro lend that B, Hebry toreh. the ry mueh.cg bank might have 1oz the holidsy. Trom the