Evening Star Newspaper, July 4, 1932, Page 4

o A4 TH e A THIS AND THAT THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY...... July 4, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor The Evening Star Nnm?er Company Rate by Carrier Within the City. ., .45¢ per menth Siar <.+ 60c per month "e5c per month oy o llection made at the end of each month sent in by mail or telephone (! T Orders ma: NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. (ly and Sunda: ally only . junday only . All Other States and Cana By and Sunday. Binday’ only " ily only . Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press is exclusively ctitle o the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited fo it ed In this paper a vublished herein All rights of publication of pecial dispatches herein are also reserved. = d also the local news The Governor's “New Deal.” Gov. Reosevelt's first move in that| “new deal for the American people” that he has pledged himse’{ and his perty to furnish has started the cam- paign off with a bang, and if his man- agers have other tricks up their sleeves | as spectacular as the Governor's dash through the air from Albany to Chiczgo and his triumphant arrival before the convention that a few hours befire had nominated him, the Summer months ahead wil not be dreary and time will] not falter nor lag. For the most skilled of showmen would have been hard put to stage a spectacle that for tense and meoving drama, beloved of all Americans, could have excelled the finale at Chicago. Even in these days when radio and travel by air are accepted as matters of course, there was something new in the Governor's decision to utlize both in breaking a hoary tradition. And every- b-dy loves something new. At the end of a long and weary convention, with the nerves and the bcnes of the dele- gates jaced and full of aches, the Gov- ernor succeeded in putting new life in them, sending them home full of fight and eager for the fray. Prom a hum- drum occasion, traditionally marked by the exchange cof carefully worded and too-often dull speeches for filing in the | party archives, the Governor turned the notification - and - acceptance ceremony into an intensely exciting event. What 1t lacked of the Message-to-Garcia thrill was made up in the dash and spirit D(I the Ride of Paul Revere. The Governor chose the manner of his arrivel as a symbol of the straight- from-the-shoulder directness with which he proposes to deal with the many is- sues of this coming campaign. He met | those issues squarely and he toppled ! them one by ome. He accepted his| party’s platform “one hundred per cent.” ‘There was no equivocation or straddling there. “This convention wants repeal. Your candidate wants repeal and I am confident that the United States wants repeal.” Nothing muddled or meaning- less about that. And he named his campaign keynote in the end when he promised a “new deal”—reminiscent of the “square deal” keynote of days gone by—for the American people. He made a fine and moving speech that, with the setting provided by the unprecedented occasion, came as wel- come relief to that oratory-drenched gathering. He hurled his polished words like javelins as he moved along the familiar routes to open his attack. First, the Republican party—no, not the party, but the leaders—and then the depression and the conditions Te- sulting from the failure of these same leaders effectively to deal with that de- pression. Then the picture of the in- terrelationship of credit groups—topple, one and all are toppled, “danger to one is danger to all.” The fault of the ad- ministration is failure to recognize the interrelationship of credit group:— “Statesmanship and vision, my friends, require relief to all at the same time.” The cost of Government is too high. Functions of Government must be abolished. Governments big and little must be made sclvent. The people have been robbed of their savings. Search- ing light must be thrown on the is- suance of securities for investment— *“publicity is the enemy of crookedness.” Public works for unemployment, not mere spending on useless public works, but on “self-sustaining” public works | when they are to be financed by bond | issues. Reforestation, the reclamation | of idle areas, the employment of one | million men, security for the bond issue | to be furnished by the “growth of tre- | mendous crops.” Abolition of govern- ' mental buying and selling of farm products. A denunciation of the Smoot- | Hawley tariff; what we need Is a tarifl for revenue only and a conference with ' the world on ways to stimulate trade. | A fine speech and a moving speech. w deal”? A new deal, per-! it the pack of cards from which | to be made has a strangely | lock. i familiar e Statesmanship 1s physically exhausted ‘\ and for a few days at least the world | may resume its attention to base ball. ————— A Reparations Agreement. More rapidly than any one dared to hope the reparation powers at Lausanne | arc arrived at the verge of an agree- ment. A perlod of what the Germans call “cow trading” has yet to be sur- mounted, but the basis of a compromise has been lald and conclusions seem tmminent | Broadly, reparations are eventually to be settied by & German bond issue in | favor of the creditor nations. i What its | total amount will be remains to be| fixed. In any event it will represent a | substantial reduction of the sum for which the Reich is obligated under the | Young plan. Lausanne is talking about | an aggregate of something between 720 and 1,008 million dollars. If this is the ultimately agreed total it will be a cut of sbout ninety-six per cent on the Young figures. There is a good deal of tinsel about the proposed “settlement” of the repa- rations problem. The German bond | considerable degree of optimism is re- ing more than scraps of prettily en- graved paper, Germany and her cred- that the United to “revise” the country. Evidently shoulder just turned to that proposition by both political conventions assembled at | That might be his best course of mc-| tion. Or he might consent eventually | to make one or two formal speeches {in support of the nominee, though the framing of them would probably give him pain and their utterance great | agony of spirit. There is now open for him a course which has already been i | | BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. The eglantine has always been 8 ve not yet reached Switzer- | indicated, which was suggested btfol'e:hml!e flower of the poets, probably debt revision by the United States, but apparently, on objections by Germany, this provision was dropped. Chancellor von Papen, whose diplom- acy at Lausanne has been distinguished by a spirit of accommodation which creditor statesmen hardly expected from ment at Berlin, has on the face of g5 | things accomplished one of Germany's | prime objectives. The scheduled “set- tlement” of reparations will enable the o0 | chancellor to claim that reparations are ended through the plan to make one | | final payment. The Reich, on the other | hand, abandons its demands for equality in armaments. | “Cow trading” is certain to continuc ; for a while before a reparations bar- gain satisfactory to all is bred, but agreement is palpably on the way. A' quired for conviction that Lausanne marks the end of the tragi-comic rep- | arations mess. The world must derive such solace as it can from the fact that | progress toward complete solution ap- pears to have been achieved, Progress on the Relief Bill. The progress reported on the Wagner- Garner relief bills, now being shaped into one measure by thes conforees, is encouraging. The conferees, judging by reports of the nature of compromises already agreed to, have been willing to sink personal or partisan pride in this important legislation in the interest of expeditious action on the most impor- tant single measure to be enact- ed in this session of Congress. The President’s objection to the financing and the selection of the public build- ings program has received careful at- tention. The understanding is that the amount for Federal building has been placed at $500,000,000—but of this amcunt $200,000,000 will represent ex- penditure on projects already author- ized and appropriated for by Congress, the balance of $300,000,000 to be spent on projects probably to be selected, as recommended in the Wagner bill, from the list of those authorized but not ap- propriated for—the selection to be made by the Secretary of the Treasury. The financing of this $300,000,000 ex- penditure will be left, it is understcod, to the Treasury, and the Wagner bond issue has been dropped, along with Speaker Garner’s gasoline tax. There has already been agreement on the distribution of the $300,000,000 loan to the States for direct relief, the agreement representing a compromise between methods proposed in both bills and the principle of distribution ac- | cording to need advocated by the Pres- ident. Another administration con- tention, that the lending powers of the Reconsiruction Finance Corporation in regard to the $1,500,000,000 fund for construction of seif-liquidating or self- sustaining enterprises should be broad- ened to include aid for private in- dustry, as well as public and semi- public enterprises, has apparently been accepted by the conferees. After agreement in conference, the two main hurdles that the bill must overcome are in the Senate and at the White House. The Senate rigorously excluded, in the bill which it approved, loans to private industrial enterprises. And as late as yesterday the shadow of a White House veto of the bill was cast by reported statements of admin- istration leaders that i=e Federal pub- lic buildings proposals were still un- acceptable to the President. It is believed that the President will make known his views on the bill again, before its approval by the House and Senate, if th bill emerging from conference endangers final enactment by veto. The President is as anxious for the relief to be afforded through the sound proposals of this measure as anybody else. There is small likelihood of an adjournment by Congress before controversial features of the bill have been peduced to the minimum. Neither the President nor Congress would will- ingly place in jeopardy the legislation that, more than any other, furnishes the answer to what the FPederal Govern- ment plans as its major contribution to relief. o A picturesque touch of democratic management enabled the party to make a powerful bid for the large and increasing aviator vote. ——ra—————— The Unhappy Warrior. Eight years ago Franklin D. Roose- velt, advocating the nomination of Al- fred E. Smith at Madison Square Gar-l den for President of the United States by the Democratic party, referred to| the then Governor of New York as the “happy warrior.” Last Priday Mr. Roosevelt, now Governor of New York, | was nominated for President by that| party, with Mr. Smith as the “runner- up” in the contest. As the ballots that | made Roosevelt the standard bearer were cast Smith was in his hotel room at Chicago, listening by radio to the clamorous finish of the four-round fight. When on Saturday Gov. Roosevelt flew to Chicago to receive the formal noti- fication of his choice Mr. Smith was still absent from the convention hall. Both then and later, when he left for New York and again when he arrived in that city yesterday, he refused to make any comment upon the nomination of his one-time advocate and supporter and his successor as head of his party. The happy warrior of 1924 and 1928 has become the decidedly unhappy war- rior of 1932. Will the words of Marc Antony in his oration over the body of Caesar in the Roman Forum apply now to Smith: But yesterday the word of Caesar might | Have stood against the world; now he lies there, And none so poor to do him reverence. What will the unhappy warrior do now? Wil he sulk in his tent? Will he, after a time of sad contemplation of his loss of the title and its gain by his former ally and advocate, his spon- sor in political baptism, gird his loins {for battle? Will he then support his ! successor, or will he oppose him? ‘These questions are not of mere aca- the new militarist-monarchist govern- | ssue, for example, is to have no vuutl for three years, after which the Bank ' demic interest, although the chances for International Settlements would de- ! are that the now unhappy ‘warrior will cide when it could bz capitalized. It remain true to his party colors, nega- he actually threw his hat into the ring | for the nomination, which in the light : lof the conditions then prevailing was generally regarded as & mere gesture | of desire to prevent the nomination of Roosevelt rather than his own choice. | That course is to bide his time in peace and to be the candidate of his party in 1933 for the office of mayor | of Greater New York. | It is in the cards that Gov. Roosevelt | will cismiss Mayor Walker from that | office. His nomination without the support of Tammany, which remained | true to Smith to the end, increases the probability of that action. At one time it ws said that if Walker were removed | by the Governor he would ke over- | whelmingly elected, if the law permits, at the next balloting. But there is evi- dence that Tammany is tired of Walker and is not inclined to capitalize his “martyrdom.” Smith would have | & wonderful chance to make a great ! record in the office. He may find| there solace for his present sorrow and become again the happy warrior, fight- | ing in the cause of civic rightesusness. ——ee—e The Roosevelt Name. It is more than thirty years since the American people had to be instructed | in the manner of pronouncing the name of a member of the Roosevelt family, and now, with a new generation ac- tively observant and interested regard- ing another scion of the Dutch for- bzar who merged into the American commonwealth in 1644, it is necessary to set the tongue straight in the utter- ance of that patronymic. The founder ot the family in the New World was Klaes Martensen Roosevcit. He doubt- less spoke only the language of his homeland when he reached New Am- sterdam. There were many of his own nationality there and the need for ac- quiring a new tonnage was probably not felt. There is tradition that his name was then spoken, by himself and his family and his friends, as it is spoken now by those who have descended through seven generations. That pro- nunciation, In its long-stdnding form, is quite simple. The “double 0" of the Dutch is spoken as the long “o” in| “s0,” the first syllable being pncuely’ in sound as the word “rose.” The sec- ond syllable is spoken as it is written, “velt,” not “felt.” Thus the name is sounded as “Rosevelt.” All this was set forth frequently when ‘Theodore Roosevelt became a national ‘figure, when he was Federal civil service missioner, Assistant Secretary of thel Navy, commander of the regiment of Rough Riders in the Spanish-American ‘War, Governor of New York, Vice President of the United States, and finally President, first by succession and then by election. - With each advance into public attention the proper pro- nunciation of his name was explicitly made known by his friends. Now his fifth cousin—which appears to be about the relationship between Theodore and Franklin—comes into the national limelight and the manner of speaking the old Dutch name must be once more expounded. The Democratic nom- inee for President should not be men- tioned as “Roseyvelt,” or as “Rusey- velt” or “Ruzeyvelt,” or any combina- tion of that first syllable with the softer “felt” as a second syllable. It is just plain “Rosevelt,” one of the old Dutch “0's” being dropped into the dis- card when spoken. ————— Loyal supporters of Ritchie for Gov- ernor have the assurance that the na- tional democracy will not persuade him to desert them after all these years. e ‘There was so much talent to be ad- mired in Chicago that even the music critics could with propriety offer timely observations. ek e e A clight advantage was asserted over Senator Borah by Senator Norris in knowing precisely where he was going next. .o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Supervening Gratitudes. ‘We've given thanks of every kind For blessings that are ours, Especially those that are assigned By intellectual powers. We're thankful for the precept grave And patriotism high And for the loyal flags that wave As lusty bands pass by. We're thankful for the rong and dance Till dawn began to peep. We're now most grateful for a chance Of one good night of sleep. ‘Talent. “Do you enjoy music?” “Very much,” answered Senator Sor- | ghum. “And I am exceptionally gifted in a musical way. After a great na- tional convention I invariably find I can remember all the tunes and scarcely one of the speeches.” 1 Jud Tunkins says a good politician knows how to talk and a better one knows how not to. Variant Impressions. I heard each tune in splendid time, My heart went pitty patty. Some of the words were most sublime | And some a trifle catty. Fireworks. “Would you be willing to leave the | fireworks out of the Fourth of July?” “Not right away,” answered Miss Cayenne. “Some patriotic reminder is required and for some mysterious reason our enlightened public prefers seeing the pyrotechnics to listening to the speeches.” “One reason,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “that mechanism threat- ens to rule the world is that men can travel so much faster than they can think.” Back to the Old Songs. My Radio! My Radio! You brought me a delirious dream. I'm glad with you I now can go Back to tooth wash and shaving cream. “T allus applauds a speech,” said Uncle Eben, “so’s to incourage de talker to commissioner, New York’s police com- |fe because of the excellent rhyming quall- ties inherent in its name, one may suspect. Yet it is, indeed, a shy, modest sort of thing, which might be thought to| be pleasing to men of temperamental love of beauty. This is the sweetbrier, Rosa rubigi- nosa, which makes the unpoetical think immediately of “big nose.” Its dainty white flowers, of the true wild rose type, possess a fragrance which, once smelled, is never forgot- ten, yet seems to lack memory asso- ciations. This is another odor which one might think offhand would be a great favorite with the perfumers, but which does not appear to be so, after all. It is not a pungent fragrance, despite Dryden's lines— “The fresh eglantine exhaled a breath Whose odors were of power to raise from death.” Dryden was never a great poet, but he seems to have been peculiarly un- successful in that couplet. In the first place, we have been brought up on modern advertising and feel that no properly reared eglantine | should do such a thing as “exhale a | breath.” It seems rather silly to speak of the “odors of a breath” and that whole second line is very clumsy. What Mr. Dryden seems to have been attempting to say was that the odor of eglantine, once caught, would be remembered forever, Leigh Hunt, who was not in Jdry- den’s class, except in a few fufitive | poems, nevertheless did much betier in| describing the odor of cglantine. “Wildrose, sweetbrier, eglantine, All those pretty names are mine, Angd scent in every leaf is mine, And a leaf for all is mine, And the scent—oh, that's divinel “Happy-sweet and pungent fine, Pure as dew, and pick'd as wine.” Leigh was laying it on pretty thick, there, but perhaps the eglantine merits 2 bit of extravagance, just because it is such a modest small flower in itself. It is happily sweet, and pungently fine, especially with the dew upon it. Whether it is as “pickled as wine” we | leave those better able to judge to say. The best known quotation containing our subject is from Shakespeare’: id- summer Night's Dream,” surely one of the most felicitous titles ever coined, a work of genius in itself: “I kno:hn bank where the wild thyme WS, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet Brows: Quite overcanopied with luscious wood- With s:neei musk-roses and with eglan- | ties. Sir Walter Scott was not exactly a poet, or was he? Boys and girls used to be forced to read “The Lady of the Lake” and “Marmion,” and as we recall it, none of them protested because of vigorous swing and rhyme. But his reference to the gentle eglan- tine is not exactly poetic when he tells . eglantine embalm'd e air.” (From “The Lady of the Lake.”) That was going rather far afield for parison ‘like better, who, in his o mn une! ofu the most dmufl a read of all poems, suc- cinctly: “Rain-scented egdantine Gave temperate sweets to the well- ‘wooing sun.” In another connection he says “Its s{:z Il plant with dew-sweet eglan- tine.” It is said that Milton got his flowers come sort of vine in his “L’. " “Through the sweetbrier, or the vine, | Or the twisted eglantine ” Perhaps he thought 1t was another | name for kle, less fre- quently called the woodbine. No doubt the old herbalists were nearer to the truth, and quite as poeti- cal, when they described it simply as shrub with white flowers. | Although a great lover of poetry, we | always have been able to see why the | poetical art often strikes perfectly pr le @ ‘unlnlnthenec 2 use the unlovely but vigorous modern | expression. | If one will read over again these | characteristic quotations from some of our best artists, he will see that their authors were werking rather hard to make out a case for the eglintine, | which, in its own modest beauty, needed no advecate. This plain Jane will finally come to | the notice of all ¢ who love flowers, maybe in its own right, as something to | be selected and planted, or as a gift of a few blossoms in a vase. | So this is the eglantine! | Insllnctlv:l{ one wants to pronounce | it with that last syliable rhyming with | “een.” But how could the poets make it rhyme with “vine,” in that case? So “the eyes have it.” | ermore shall we call it “eglan- t.eeni unless we forget, as no doubt we shall. | "It makes no difference, how one calls ; what does count with this flower is its sweet odor. The poets were right, after all, in bearing down upon the fragrance of the eglantine. Like the odor of lilacs, it is keen but not heavy; unlike lilac, it scarce can cause & flood of memories. It will be noticed that none of the poets quoted claimed that this flower had an odor of memory, one of those intangible fragrances which seems to stir old wounds and old triumphs in the human heart. What is this quality? Maybe it is no quality at all, but merely chance, in the individual case. Guy de Maupassant is forever in his novels causing one of his heroinés to waft certain perfumes, which no doubt w‘er:“tohe fashionable odors of the Paris o . The eglantine is a sort of a wild rose, then, with its few petals smaller and whiter than most, and with its odor somewhat lemonlike in quality, sug- gesting the “simples” of grandmother’s garden, which smelled sweetest when crushed beneath the feet. It is an old-fashioned garden cus- tem to grow these things in paths. The English were particularly fond of plants which gave off sweet smells when walked on. ‘We of America have not time for such customs; we are fond of thinking, prid- ing ourselves upon our rushing. But perhaps we would have time if we chanced to know about such curiosi- confused and thought the eglantine was 'Allegro’ It will be name of this plant is sometimes spelled with an and sometimes with an # th ‘sweetbriar,” and brier.” The former, we believe, is the Amer- ican, and the latter the English. There are several varieties of these small “sweet- similar roses called Austrian briars and Scotch briars. Rose history has been in the making, however, in the last half century. Rosarians have left the old-time things standing at the cross- roads, planted and honored only in a comparatively few gardens. One of the losses of modern rose grawing lies in the lack of fragrance, or in a less pleasant type of odor. Too many of our roses have cloying pe'l:umu of a Tather sickening char- acter. One has but to smell the eglantine to discover the difference. Monroe Doctrine for Japan Stirs American Criticism Remarks made by Viscount Ishii of Japan at a dinner given in Tokio in honor of America’s new Ambassador to that country, Joseph C. Grew, have as- tonished the world and the attitude revealed in them toward the United States is examined with special atten- tion by the press of this country. “The viscount is quoted as saying that armed conflict between the United States and Japan could happen only in two improbable contingencies,” relates the New York Sun, these being “if Japan attempted to interfere unduly in the Western Hemisphere and if the United States attempted to become deminant in Asia or sought to prevent Japan ‘from her pacific and natural ex- | pansion in this part of the world.'” | The Sun replies to the viscount by say- | ing: “The American policy of the open door is well known to Viscount Ishii | as being a disclaimer of any intention on the part of the Uhited States to | seek dominant influence in China as well as a declaration of American policy in opposition to domination there by any | other non-Chinese power, The tradit; friendship of the United States and Japan has survived differences of opin- | ion before and will survive them again,” concludes The Sun. Analyzing the remarks of the Japan- | ese statesman, who is a former Am- bassador to this country, the Birming- ham_ Age-Herald says: “Japan claims | for itself as to the Orient what Lhe‘ United States claims, under the Monroe | Doctrine, with respect to the Ameri- | cans. But why does this warning go out specifically to the United States?” asks | this paper. “To be sure,” it continues, | “we have been very zealous in seeking | to curb Japanese imperialism. But | whatever this country has done has had | the confirmation of the League of Na- | tions. Geneva has spoken as positively | as has Washington with respect to re- | cent happenings in Manchuria and China. The whole world is committed to the proposition of preserving the ter-| ritorial integrity and political inde- pendence of China,” argues this journal. | But the Toronto Daily Star, comment- | ing on the incident, recalls that “Japan warned the League of Nations a week | or so ‘ago that she might withdraw from the League if any attempt were made to interfere with her freedom of action in Manchuria. Thus Japan &l:alnly has declared that she will not swayed from her imperialistic poli- cies in Manchuria either by organized world society or the great North Ameri- can republic,” notes this paper. * &8 F That the comparison of Japan's stand to that of the United States in the Monroe Doctrine is an incorrect one is pointed out in several quarters. On this question the Hartford Daily Times remarks: “No comparison could be less just. The Monroe Doctrine was not a declaration asserting the right | of the United States to expand in the Americas. It was a declaration of self- defense and of the defense of infant republics on two continents, in the Western Hemisphere, against inter- ference from Europe. It is a new Japan which speaks today from the posture af saber-rattling and usal of imperialistic policies responsible for the spirit of the truculent address of | Viscount Ishii,” claims this plg:r, as it | states with ~positiveness “that the | United States would sign a blanket indorsement t any nation may claim the free privil to the outrage can- n The Nashville discusses the Monroe Doctrine, saying: “The United States has set up a other nations of the world off terference in the Americas, and tion of the principle has its al not. 1 | cern that warns | gesture or one anywhere near like it.” The Cleveland News thinks that Japan | {& compromise nomination made. Illinois and Indiana, neighbor States which had agreed to stick together in the Democratic National C(Iul:!nuon_ missed a chance to put across the nomi- nation of Gov. Pranklin D. Rooseveit of New York for President in early morning of July 1. Together these two States 88 votes in the convention, the exact number which Roosevelt lacked for the two-thirds vote to nomi- nate him on the third ballot of the convention. They lost their opportu- nity. When the fourth ballot was taken, the night of July 1, Texas and Califor- nia turned the trick for Roosevelt. Mayor Cermak of Chicago, head of the Illinois delegation, arose and announced that Illinois and Indiana, acting in co- operation, wished to cast their 88 votes for the New York Governor.’ William Gibbs McAdoo, chairman of the Cali- fornia delegation, who made known to the convention the determination of California and Texas to vote for Rose- velt, was the hero of the hour, * K ok X Now that the convention s over, Roocevelt supporters are admitting that the case was extremely serious for their candidate when the adjournment was taken early Priday morning, after the all-night session and the the third ballot with no choice for President. They feared a break in some of the Roosevelt delegations on the fourth ballot. And undoubtedly such a break might have occurred, had it not been for the decision of McAdoo and the California and Texas delegations not to let the convention become hope- lessly deadlocked, with perhaps another week of balloting and dickering until could be vention it was there should be no repe- ' tition of the Madison Square Garden fiasco. * * % In private conferences, ve: rivi indeed, the situation was l:i’;ipbcr;:: McAdoo and some of the other Cali- fornia leaders and before the Texans. us to play the game Hague-Ely faction of the whether they were willing to convention to a close. Quite the question of second " John N. Garner, could have the if they would make it possible for Roosevelt to nated for President. Despite the fact that there were a number of leaders in the Texas delegation inclined to Smith side, Texas finally swung over, particularly when they knew that smur Garner was agreeable to the g‘mmdmrudytomuuuudele- * K k% noted that the common |his ® What do you need to know? Is there some point or personal life that puzzles you? there something you without delay? Submit your question to Frederic J. Haskin, Director of our ‘Washington Information Bureau. He is employed to help you. Address your inquiry to The Star Information Bu- Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. and inclose 3 cents in coin or stamps for return | bostage. | Q. How many race horses have won more than_$200,000 in their racing years?—J. E. B. A. There are 27: Sun Beau, Ksar, Gallant Fox, Zev, Isinglass, Phar Lap, | Donovan, Mate, Blue Larkspur, Twenty Grand, Display, Victorian, Extermina- tor, Man o' War, Coronach, Amounis, Massine, Rocksand,. Sarazen, Rayardo, | Top Flight, Gloaming, Mike Hall, Sar- t;:mple, Lemberg, Crusader, Flying X. Q. Please give the amount of money cpent in Republican and Democratic | Presidential campaigns from 1900 to the present time.—E. N. | A 1900—McKinley, $2500,000; Bryan, $425,000. 1904—Roosevelt, $1.-| 900.000; Parker, $1.200,000. 1908—Taft, | $1,655.000; Bryan, $900,000. 1912—Taft, $1.076,000; Wilson, $1,134.000; Roose- | velt, $671,000. 1916—Hughes, $2.441,- | 000; Wilson, $1,680,000. 1920—Harding, | Cox. $1,590,000. 1924—Cool- | 00; Davis, $1,230,000. Is complex. Each noun, for example, hu; 27 forms. . Does the Government enrm'ce1 the anti-lottery laws when foreign lot- | teries are employed and the malils are not used?>—M B. § | A. The Department of Justice pro- ceeds against all known lottery activ- itics and recently obtained convic- tions against a lottery ring which dis- | tributed British and Canadian lottery tickets in the United States even though it used express companies and | not the mails. The fact that the tickets were distributed in interstate commerce proved sufficient to convict. Heavy fines are imposed. Q If a drink before was called a night-cap, what mlore breakfast called?>—J. H. A. It was called a dew-drink or a cer. | Q. What edifice occupied the site | of St. Peter's Church in Rome before | this church was built>—A. H. R. A. St. Peter’s Church in Rome is built on the site of an ancient basilica which was begun in the of Con- stantine. This anclent had be- come ruinous in 1450 and it was de- cided to replace it. The modern struc- ture dates from the sixteenth century. | Q. How does the number of Pederal civil prisoners compare with the number there were 20 years ago?—L. M. A. The number in 1910 was 2,037. In 1929 the number had risen to 9,049. Q:mm-fiwmmu7 ; e o st ol satisfled to go calling for submission of a luticn, like the proj wet minority in the Repul But the anti-prohibition wave became a tidal wave during the early days of the Democratic convention. It swept aside the opposition in the Resolutions Committee and wrote plank that Al Smith himself it have penned. Seeing the appro: storm, Roosevelt leaders, no matter what their preference, ran for cover. Statements were issued declaring a i 8 it & g i “will have a sizeable job on her hands | gty in enforcing her decision, should the other nations object.” The Boston Transcript points out that the “United States, while maintaining the Monroe Doctrine, does not claim the right to annex Mexico or Central America or any part of them.” Ambassador Grew is bejng compli- mented on every side for the restraint and wisdom of his impromptu reply to the viscount'’s unexpected pronounce- ment. so unusnal for a ceremonial din- ner of the nature of the one at which this unforeseen incident occurred. Said Ambassador Grew, as quoted by the Indianapolis News: “‘The desire to uphold and strengthen the structure of peace constitutes the principal in- terest of the United States in world affairs’ Prankness and adequate re- gard for the rights of all were urged as necessary for a constructive approach to a solution of the issues.” The News comments further that “there is no American desire to interfere with Japan’s growth in the Orient; the con- shared by outside governments in general, is solely that the open door for every country be preserved and that force be avoided.” R Naturally the world realizes that Japan has a large population, crowded into a comparatively small area. The Rochester Times-Union describes the situation as “a population of 60,000,000 on a group of islands having about the area of the single State of California,” and declares “it is clear that Japan is badly crowded, and that its home terri. tory lacks the natural resources to af ford a secure base for expansion of in- dustry.” But, continues this pzper, “it is not clear where the Japanese can or will go.” Claiming that “Japan has a right to feel uneasy,” the Danbury Eve- ning News says: “Mistakenly or not, the United States is an Asiatic power. Its possessions and territories consti- tute stepping stones across the Pacific Hawalian group, the Midway Islands, Samca, Guam and the Philip- pines. It rules over some 14,000,000 yellow and brown people, ranging from primitive savages to Mohammedan princelings,” and “Japan sees this living arm stretching forth from continental United States right up to its own back door, where it ends purposely.” The Charleston Daily Mail considers that “in the light of the present situa- tion, the viscount might have done his country a greater service by withhold- in the platform debate in the conven- tion the supporters of the minority submission plank were Roosevelt sup- porters, while the proponents of the wringing wet majority plank were for the most part Smith and favorite son candidate followers. Smith himself leaped into the debate, the only occa-~ gon on which he addressed the conven- jon. o e So Smith takes home one victory at least h{mrl‘fl cthhlx;‘ ucol;\éenuun. But the way in wl old en Gibbs McAdoo, stuck the mknlhvl,n% and turned it around in the matter of the presidential nomination is a thing Mr. Smith is likely to remember for a long time. At last the swing around the Roosevelt-McAdoo-Smith triangle has been completed. Roosevelt and McAdoo are found togther as they were back in 1920, when Roosevelt favored McAdoo's nomination out at the San Francisco Democratic National Convention. In the dozen years that succeeded, Roose- :e}lféx:.rlslnz!h w!fl‘:l Sllndlt:dunlu this year, m| an cAdoo were both aligned against Roosevelt. . * ok ok This Democratic National Convention just closed saw control of the party swing to a new group. Not that the members of the new group in control are not old-timers at the game, but merely that they have ousted the old control—the Smith-Raskob outfit. Mr. Smith and Mr. Raskob are out. There is still a sizable debt to pay from the | last convention, something I The party still owes Mr. Haskob wiaeost $125,000. Anti-Smith and Raskob Democrats are saying that the removal of these gentlemen from party control is cheap at the price. In that respect, therefore, the wet, Eastern wing of th party has been a'loser in the conven- | tion. On the platform, directing the convention were Dil of m‘n:f ton, Wheeler of Montana, Kremer of Montana, Arthur Mullen of Nebraska, and, of course, Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, the permanent chairman of the convention, and Sen- ing his warning as well as by refrain- | the ing from emphasizing Japan's need for expansion. His comment on both sub- Jjects supplies ammunition to jingoists, and is not calculated to do the cause of peace any gcod,” claims this paper. Declaring that “it is entirely patent that the island empire desires to dominate conditions in Asia,” the Deseret News of Salt Lake City remarks: “As long as her growth is a natural expan- sion and pacific, the world cannot object. We fear, however, that Japan will spell ‘pacific’ with a capital and make it refer to geography rather than behavior.” The Columbia (S. C.) State is rather of the opinion that “a good, workable ‘Monroe Doctrine’ for Japan and Asia might prove a solution of many of the problems that troubls and imperil the liberties and progress of countless millions in that vast region.” The Escanaba Daily Press is of the re | opinion that “Japan's pride recelved a severe jolt in the sorry mess its army made of the invasion of China, and now it is trying to convince the world that it is still .a nation to be feared by all others.” — et Ohio’s Onward March. | Prom the Des Moines Tribune. An Ohio court t a man _has to Ohio in evidence, too, although most ut'h‘!: directing was done behind the scenes. He made no speeches to the convention. Robert Jackson of New Hampshire was New England’s representative in the control group, and he the platform would make more of the anti-prohibition issue than he desired, was a real power in the convention, aiding with his counsel and advice the Roosevelt leaders. Judge Hull was at one time in the past chairman of the Democratic National Committee | BY FREDERIC ). HASKIN. about your business | want to know | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS x sparkle of the diamond is caused by the refraction of light from the facets of e diemond, and these do not appear naturally, but must be cut. It would be difficult for an amateur to a diamond as it came from the ground, and any mined product of this kina | should be tested by experts in order to determine its true value. Q. Who was the first President to a¢- tend a theatrical performance in Wash-~ ington?—S. D. A. The earliest record of a President’s ettending a theatrical performance states that President Monroe and his family in 1819 attended a performance at the Washington Theater. Q. Are two glasses of water daily con- ;ldered enough for a person to drink?— W, ‘A. The Public Health Service says from 6 to 8 glasses a day is considered the required amount. Q. Was there a time when maypoles wcre forbidden in England?—L. E. D. A. An act of the Puritan Parliament of 1644 prohibited the setting up or dancing around the maypole, a custom which had existed throughout the his- tory of medieval and Tudor England. ‘The Restoration brought back the may- pole and one 134 feet high was set up in the Strand, London, by 12 British sailors under the personal supervision of James II, then Duke of York. Q. How old is the playwright, Noel Coward?—O. T. A. He was born in Teddington, Eng- land, December 16, 1899. Q. When a motion is laid on the table, must a written motion be laid on a physical table?—W. P. A. This expression is figurative. A record is made of this motion in the minutes and simply means that the matter has been laid aside for the pres- ent, its consideration to be resumed when a motion is made to that effect or opportunity offers, Q. Was cotton grown in the United States to any extent at the time of the Revolutionary War?—S. T. A. According to McMaster, cotton in 1784 was never scen growing except in gardens among rosebushes and vines, A little had been sent to Liverpool five years before the of the war, In 1784 eight bags were sent to Liver- pool, but the customs officers seized them, claiming that it was well known that so much cotton could never have come from America. Q. What is the technical name for a tree which sheds its bark?—P. T. A. A tree which sheds its bark dur- ing certain intervals of the year is called a decorticating tree. Q. How long have heels been put on shoes?—A. B. A. Shoes or some kind of foot cov- ering have been used since ancient times. Up to the seventeenth century, soft leather shoes without heels were Q. How much money will the new automobile taxes bring in-—aA. B. L. A. It is estimated that the added gasoline tax will amount to $130,000,000 utomobiles ed to some extent this E. ,:‘IE‘I.LIQ describe the German flag. A. The present national flag of the German republic has three hori. republic standard in the union portion at the staff end of the black stripe. CHICAGO OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. CHICAGO, July 4—If the &fhflv!gy Teception encountered by Franklin D. Roosevelt at the hands of the Democratic National Convention on Saturday is any criterion, his nomina- tion fails to stir the party’s blood. Per- haps the Chicago convention had ex- hausted its lung power and its march- feet and waving arms were tired after six long days of ballyhoo and up- roar. Whatever the cause, Mr. Roose- velt did not plunge the convention into thing like that frenzy of acclaim the dramatic circumstances of his ap- pearance. Possibly the delegates and the galleries were peeved by the fact that the Governor kept them waiting while he basked in the sunshine of a public reception by Mayor Cermak's while the convention sizzled and fretted 3 miles away in the Stadium. The hominee got a hand and a rousing cheer, but never while he was on the platform did the mighty audience give itself over to a tumult of joyous en- thusiasm. Throughout the convention week there were a dozen demonstrations more fervent, and much longer, than the greeting accorded Gov. Roosevelt. * ok ok ok What the nominee ran into was thor- oughly typical of the convention's thetic conduct every time name cropped up. Of course, it was a Roosevelt-packed body. It exploded pe- riodically as things went the Governor's way. When his nomination was ac- | tually accomplished Friday night there was a din with vigor and volume in it. Yet observers had the enduring impres- ; sion that they were tributes lacking in | red blood and in the hell-bent-for- | leather spirit such as burst out like thunderclaps every time Al Smith's | name was mentioned. It will be inter- esting and important to note, as the | campaign develops, whether Gov. | mbbl velt has the capacity to rouse the | rabble. 1 B Only those on the convention plat- form and in the nearest seats on the | floor could gather an idea of the nom- | | inee's physical disabilities. That he surmounts them to the degree tbat he | does is nothing short of amazing. As | | the Governor stands unsupported at | speaking table, as he did on Saturday, | he cuts the figure of a robust, sturdy, | handsome American in the full prime of perfect manhood. It is only when Mr. Roosevelt navigates that his in- firmities become painfully apparent. He can neither rise nor walk unassisted. When on his feet he is attended usually by one of his stalwart sons, who grasps the Governor’s right arm, while the left hand clings to a heavy walking stick. The extent to which ‘the Democratic | standard bearer has triumphed over in- | fantile paralysis tells eloquently of his indomitable spirit and herculean re- | serve strength. Beyond the shadow of | a doubt, the Governor’s airplane flight to Chicago was intended to be a spec- | tacular exhibition of his spartan cour- i age and to destroy the theory that he | lacks the prowess to withstand the rigors | of the presidency. * X % x By all the ruthless laws of politics Al Smith is a dead duck, at. least as far as a future in national affairs is | concerned. He was beaten to a frazzle at Chicago. The stop-Roosevelt machine, of which Al was the chief engineer, re- mained pitifully stalled. It never hldJ idol, followed by admiring eyes aid accompanied by a bodygusrd as he moved about. The mayor's only dra- matic moment here was when ar- nvedhmmmfimm:nul‘::nd- £ 2t e ) and against Gov. d Tammany’s defi- New York votes in him ennings , who put over Woodrow Wilson at | reputedly uncomp! the glimmer of a chance of making & dent in the stone wall of Roosevelt strength erected under the invincible leadership of Jim Farley, newest star in the Democratic firmament. Smith anyt] which might have been expected under Walker. more in 1912, it was William Gibbs . Adoo who turned the trick fiu-‘n fellow citizens down on the lake front. | jjn D. Roosevelt at ‘What will there be in it for McAdoo Roosevelt becomes President? what many Democrats were they pulled up stakes and scaf the four winds during the week Senator Moses thinks McAdoo hankers for his old cabinet job, the secretary- ship of the Treasury. A more view here is that the man who th:es Cll.l(ornil-':l:xudhhh o votes to Roosevelt and thus victory within his grasp wants to be, as Bryan did, Secretary of State in the Demo- cratic administration, if such there is to be. e No heartier handclasp was extended to Gov. Roosevelt on the convention old chief in the Navy Department, former Secretary Josephus Daniels. The North Carolinian was an Roosevelt man. * k x % ‘To the general astonishment, Gov. Roosevelt specifically elevated d!rl’fl- sion, not repeal, to the dignity of the Demogratic paramount issue—“main issue” is what he called it. The low- down on this is that Mrs. Roosevelt's romiing da'ie views have a good deal to do with her dis- tinguished husband’s unwillingness loud-pedal the repeal note. R The two youngest Roosevelt boys— Pranklin, jr., and John, who are prep- ping for Harvard at Groton, busily read the sporting pages of the Chi a scheme, attributed to Mayor Hague of Jersey City, to place sentative Mary T. Norton of N in nomination for the vice The plan was said to have ing of the entire Smith group and been hatched as a form of protest | the California-Texas Garner deal. * X X % Nobody here has had time to look it up yet, but the guess is risked that never before have the presiding officers of the two Houses of Congress been pitted against each other for the vice presidency. The Democrats, way, did not give heed to the age ob- jection so vociferously urged at the Re- publican convention against nominat- ing for Vice President a man of advanced vintage. Jack Garner must be climbing toward 70, though still sub- stantially on the sunny side of it. Texans in the convention were Joath sur- House job f - ible "m“% job for;a gaml on the president; From the Boston Evecing Transcript. A careful count of Manhattan’s speak- deals | ®88les shows that instead of the re- altruistic, o make & lic appears that in this interval, during tively at least. He has sald something stop while he's makin' & good impression :E'E"- miich geparation bonds would be moth- about taking ® in Burope, and let de parade start” <, but it has yet