Evening Star Newspaper, July 11, 1932, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR _ with Sundsy Morning Edition. _ WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY..........July 11, 1832 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business 'l . and Pennsy| 1a_Ave New York Office. 110 Chieago Office: Lake Michigan Building. Luropean OmceEN thunl S§t.. London. neiand r Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Siar 45 per month The Evening and Sunday Sfar Sunda 60c per menth 3 Siar, 65¢ uer month The Sunday Star ... Sc per copy Collection made at the end of cach month lers mav te sent in by mail or telepnone ional 5000. (when 4 The Even: (when 5 2088 e ; Orde NAU Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 1 yr. $10.00: 1 mo., 85¢ 1yr. 3$6.00 Bunday only $4.00. 1 mo.. nd Canada. $12.00; 1 mo.. § $8.00° 1 m: $5.00; 1 mo., Daily and S Daity sony S Sunday oaly All Other States a unday. 1 1.00 T5c 50c Member of the Associated . The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of ail news - is- patches credited to it or not otherwise cred- in this paper and also the local 1ews published herein. Al rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. An Invitation Declined. President Hoover in a retort courts- ous has declined Gov. Roosevelt’s invi tation to a conference 2t Washington relative to the St. Lawrence waterway negotiations with Canada. The Gov- ernor. in a message made public simul- tanecus with its dispatch to the White Heuse on Saturday, suggested that he would be glad to interrupt his vacation cruise this week and discuss the ship- way project with Mr. Hoover if it suit- ed the Presicent's convenience and pleasure. In a telegraphic reply . from Wash- ington, Gov. Roosevelt is politely but firmly informed that the President sees N0 necessity for the proposed confer- ence. “Having ardently advocated for cver ten years the great work of com- pleting this shipway from Duluth and Chicago to the sea,” Mr. Hoover points cut with some geographical allusions hat will hardly be lcst on the Governor of New York, “I am glad to know that it will meet with your support.” Mr. Roosevelt's invitation to himself to take a trip to Washington conveyed the idea that the Federal Government 15 not pressing forward with all possi energy in the matter of negotiati vith Canada. The Governor was told by the State power authority that the proportion of the shipway cost to be borne by New York is the question “which had prevented compleie ac- cord.” To straighten this out by a per- sonal confabulaticn with the President was the Governor's expressed desire. Without mincing words, Mr. Hoover reminds Mr. Roosevelt that interna- tional treaties, like the one required for the St. Lawrence project, “under our Constitution fall within the sole Jurisdiction of the Federal Govern- ment.” Notwithstanding this, spokes- men designated by New York and other States have been given ample cppor- tunity to present their views. The President sets forth that the negotia- tions with Canada, “involving a score of intricate problems, have been under way for nearly three years and bave now reached a hopeful stage.” The Qovernor is assured that “when an agreement has been concluded,” he will be duly advised. - Meantime, the Presi- dent affirms, with becoming emphasis, that neither he nor Mr. Roosevelt has 2uthority to enter into agreements over *“purely comestic questions” affesting the TUnited States and Canada, such as the disposal of the by-product of power. In such witching hours es these any exchanges between the rival candidates for the presidency of the United States are bound to have political significance read into them. Whatever Gov. Roose- velt's motives may have been for rais- ing the St. Lawrence waterway issue at this particular juncture, he will not be able to deny that President Hoover has met it astutely and in a manner that confines itself to the intrinsic merits of the situation. e Those who deny that there is such a thing as “luck” in life will inevitably pause for thought concerning the career of that admirable and gallant, yet sor- rowing friend of all men, Charles A. Lindbergh. e - As a friend of Lady Astor, G. Ber- nard Shaw may have acquired the im- pression that the only really clever Americans are those who go to Great Britain and become naturalized. e New York Rushes to the Sea. New York's problem of what to do with its population on- holidays and Sundays was illustrated yesterday when a burst of Summer heat was experienced and as by a common impulse immense | crowds poured by every possible means of conveyance to the nearby beaches. It is estimated that over a million went to Coney Island, while 400,000 swarmed into Rockaw Probably other throngs went to other places. The New York ‘Times, in its account of the great exo- | dus, sa; The city was almost emptied of its ' railroads | end rapid transit lines were taxed to inhabitants. Busses, boats, capacity with the shore-bound crush. Highways ewarmed with automobiles so closely packed together that they were barely cble to move. The oldest of the shore residents agreed that they had never seen anything like it. But, it is added. there were no drown- ings and the day's casualties were con- fined almost entirely to minor automo- bile accidents. Some people were cut by broken glass on the beaches and there were three cases of heat prostra- tion. One man was severely, perhaps fatally, hurt by a tumble from his bicycle. At the beaches people were packed 80 closely together in the water that swimming was out of the question. By noon all the bath houses at Coney Island were jammed to capacity and the doors were closed to further patrons. One of the problems of the day was the rounding up of lost chil- dren. of whom there were 250 at Coney Island and 40 at Rockaway. At night- fall a long queue of anxious parents geeking their stray offspring was lined up in front of the Coney Island police station. But despite these difficulties a pleas- ant time wes had by all, that is a pleasant time in the New York sense. No figures are at hand as to the at- tendance at the sideshows and amuse- ment features, but probably many thousands of dollars rolled inte the 1ills of ghese entc:prises, doing & gon- . wderabld bit toward the circulation of Dattanite, however partisan o s auyhow,” . ;1 mo.. 50c | THE EVENIN mayor, to hint at reprisal in November in case of his dismissal. The Walker case has become a mat- ter of national Interest. Its disposal : will be viewed by many as a test of Gov. Roosevelt's political courage. In | the absence of the mayor's formal de- fense it would be unwise and unfair to assume that he will be convicted on the charges brought against him, but there is nevertheless a prevailing feeling that he was at least careless in his accept- area known as Greater New York and | ance of favors. and unless he can make its environs, with so many opportuni- | a better showing before the Governor ties for outings. And nowhere clse is than he made as a witness before the there such a great number of people | investigating committee that feeling | |avid for diversion and so willing to will reach the point of belief that he | suffer the discomforts of congested . has forfeited his right to remain as the | | vehicles and crowded highways and metropolitan exccutive. I densely packed strands es in that ] strange concentration of humanity Heavy Batting. around the mouth of the Hudson RIVer-| ' pgce 14yl patrons who kave bewailed S the lack of heavy hitth h e lack of heavy hitting in the games The About Face. of recent years, due to the high devel- Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City,! opment of the pitching art, have-reason | head and ferefront of the anti-Roose- | to rejoice in the happenings of the past velt movement in the pre-convention few hours. Beginning Saturday aft- | caripaign, has alrcady begun explain- | ernoon in the sccond game in this city, ! ing to the voters that he did not really | the Nationals, who had fallen into a mean what he said about the New York streak of inefTective batting that led to | | Governor in those hectic days before |a series of defeats, mostly by one run, | Roosevelt was nominated for Prcsident | went on a rampage against the Cleve- by the Democratic National Convention. 'land pitchers and piled up twenty hits, ! In vehement language Mr. Hague, the with a total of twenty-eight bases, win- Democratic boss of New Jersey, as-|ning the game by the old-time score serted that Gov. Roosevelt could carry | of fourteen to four. As though this | none ot the great Eastern States if he | were a signal, the barrage from th> should be the presidential nominee. | bats continued yesterday. In the local This included New Jersey. Mr. Hagu? game between Washington and Chicago even undertook to explain why Gv\'-‘. total of thirty-one hits gratified the Roosevelt would fail to appeal to the | admirers of doughty clouting, Wash- lvoters. He charged the _Gm‘tmor- ington making nineteen hits with a among other things. with being a dou- | total of twenty-six bases. and Chicago ble-crosser and a quitter. Mayer Hague | tyelve, with fourteen bases: Meanwhile, was desperate in his effort to “Stop” | two games were plaved in New York Rocsevelt. : that brought the bats strongly into evi- And now what a difference in th> dence, especially in the second game | !tunc of the astute Mr. Hague. THC|petween the Yankees and the St. Louls { mayor of Jersey City has recanted. He | Browns | insists that he will carry New Jersey | tests. currency. Nor was any record kept of the time required for the last visitor to the beaches to reach home, though probably it was long past midnight before all front doors were closed for the night. The movement of nearly a million and a half people in one direction for a few hours of pleasure is a phenome- non peculiar to this country. Nowhere else in the world is there so great a concentration of population as in the { i | the latter winning both con- In the first game New York | for Roosevclt and he is laying plans, 1| made nine hits with a total of fifteen |is reported, for an even bigger out-pases, and in the second ten for four- | pouring of enthusiastic Democrats in [ teen bases, or nineteen hits for twenty- 1;\:;;?«;;: ;:]:t:se;:;l (;\‘*:nma;fl?‘i::\; | nm: ht:hr\'.d\\hlle s': Lo:lls u{: meh fi:st | contest made seventeen hits for thirty- | out for Al Smith on a similar occasion ] Shree ibases ‘and.in the seoonditen h,{, |in 1928. Perhaps there will be meed | for fourteen bases, or a total of twenty- oifeRpetenidenon st oL S all i seven hiis and forty-seven bases. But | [ events, Mr. Hague failed to carry NeW | (ne prize package was that of a game | Jeis2y for Smith four years ago, and|pjaved in Cleveland batween the Amer- | failed by a rather impressive figure. |jean League team of that city and the | Mr. Hague and his supporters Will{ champion Athletics of Philadelphia, | seek ;n ebxp':uz:' a = ‘hflr[ ““k:"d‘\\mch Philadelphia won in the eigit- | remarks about Gov. Roosevelt on th2leenth inning by the heavy score of | i ground that, after all, they were merely | eighteen to seventeen, a total of thirty- trying to prevent his nominaticn and five runs. Philadelphia made twenty- to bring about that of G Smllh five hits with a total of thirty-nine b . i D. Beker. Gov. Ritchie or|ang Cleveland thirty-three hits with a some one else. However, the Volers | ota] of forty-four bases, the two teams | who lisiened to the heated remarks of | together making fifty-eight hits for | | Mr. Hague in June ma&'h“'cr:der if he ejghty-three bases. Eleven home runs really means what he has to <ay M were made in these games of July, August, September and OCWODCr | Saturday and Sunday. I this sort {about the New York Governor. After | of patting does not please the hit- jau. Franklin D. Roosevelt is the s2m2 | hungry fans and show that pitching is | man, presumably, that Mr. Hague in-|not the airtight art that it has been | sisted would make the weakest of all| supposed to be, then it is just too bad. | candidates wkom the Democrats could | ‘}put forward. It may be difficult to | make some of the Haguz-Smith follow- g in Jersey execute such an about : and therein lies the denger of the ‘Demccra!ir campaign in the States of | | o 1t 15 admitted that some of the litera- ture in circulation is exceedingly lack- ing in sedate responsibility. On the | other hand, there never was a time when the public requested so much in- s i ly in Jersey, L e h‘l' ;‘i‘;“‘;é‘r‘;‘ O i | struction in the most abstruse phases | setts, Connccticut and Rhode T | POUIEHL ceoninE | Tc arouse the hatred of a large number | of rs against Rocsevelt in earl A Parisian inventor has a way to i | Summer 2nd to allay that hntred and | mike home lighting much cheaper. He | turn it into affestion in November is a | will doubtless be glad to make it avail- I eal task: | able to the American citizens, who have Al Smith, in a half-hearted manner to pay more taxes and will appreciate | and without menticning the name of €ven a slight reduction in electricity | the presidential nominee, has declared | and gas bills. | his support of the Democratic party in e ! the coming campaign. As his soreness| There might be more confidence in a wears off and as the Republican attack | proposal to expand the currency it | becomes more insistent and irritating, | Germany had not some years 2ago Mr. Smith may become more partisan | flocded the world with paper currency himself: may really campaign for his | souvenirs and so reduced the transac- | former friend and more recent politi- | tion to the absurd. cal foe. But these schisms in the Dem- | e e ocratic party run deep. It is true that | the Democratic National Convention, SHOOTING STARS. | swept by a wet tidal wave, adopted the e | kind of a liquor plank that Mr. Smith ! advccated. There the Rocsevelt moder- | ates had to yield or risk an uncomfort- able fight and perhaps defeat in the, | convention. But it may take more | | than this wet platform, on which Gov. | Roosevelt has now taken a firm stand, | to swing tome of these Eastern States to the Roosevelt column in November. | | —————— — : Request by Gov. Roosevelt for a con- | But soon came an airplane, so swift ference with the administration, if | on the wing granted, might have been valuable at| A message of highest importance to | least as a means of changing the con- | bring { versation for a while. throng that ‘; N T impatient to hear An observation by Senator Borah to|Prom the new candidate who so boldly the effect that he does not know | drew near. | whether he has any party is only fair | enough since no party is often sure that ! it has Senator Borah. | | — —————————— Now for the Walker Case. | Now that the tumult and the shout- !ing at Chicago has passed and the Democratic nominations have been made to the entire satisfaction of the Governor of New York, that official must tackle the case of the mayor of | the metropolis. It was by common con- sent postponed over the convention period in order not to embarrass the mayor, who was a delegate to the meet- ing, or the Governor, who was an| “No. I'm trying fo be one of those aspirant for its preferment. Now me}happy worryers you read about.” mayor is back in town with nothing | = X | quite so important before him as the | Jud Tunkins says he’s still hopin® for preparation of his Teply to the Gov- the kind of relief thatll make corn ] BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Big Birds. The American eagle was soaring so high. Said he, “The great monarch of emblems am L With all these inventions nobody has heard Of a rival to me as the National bird.” To a stood walting The airplane that came with magnifi- cent swoop So startled the Eagle, he 'most looped the loop. In envy he shrieked, “I am astonished to view Such a youngster appearing in politics too!” Laughing It Off. “No matter how anxious about the future T may be,” said Senator Sor- ghum, “I keep a emiling face and give a gentle answer.” “Growing indifferent?” | have received none, ernor’s letter asking him to make an- swer to the charges filed by the referee |of the Legislative Investigating Com- | mittee. No schedule is set. The mayor has a reasonable time in which to study the record and make an accounting of | his income which will satisfy the Gov- | ernor that he has had no financial ald from friends not in accord with the strictest requirements of official integ- rity. The mayor has stated that he will account for every penny of what may be called extra income. Referee Sea- bury, who is reported to be anxious to go abroad for a rest, must wait for a summons to Albany to conduct the prosecution of the case. i this matter is idle. The political situa- tion has cleared to the point at which it is assumed that the Governor will act regardless of his own political fortunes. He received the nomination without the support of . Tammany, which stood by Smith to the finish. Members of that organization have in- dicated that they will remain true to the party. There has been no refer- ence in these pledges to the Walker case. That is a delicate question. It would be quite improper for any Mane Speculation as to the outcome of! more profitable by the bushel than it is by the pint. Tmpressive but Not Decisive. And still a statesman has to fret About the problems of the land. Nothing ‘was ever settled yet By cheers and music by the band. A Difference. “Have women made a difference since they took an active interest in State affairs?” “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne. “But 1 am not sure whether they have made society sound like politics or politics sound like soclety.” “He who cheats a friend,” said Hi Ho | the sage of Chinatown, “will do so but seldom, for scon he will have no friends to cheat.” Impatience. The citizen who ordered beer Not many weeks ago Is making a complaint sincere; “This service is too slow!” “f don't see,” said Uncle Eben, “why de grand folks allus holds de big dis- turbances in de heat of Summer, when * everybody is kind o' tired andgrritacious iy G STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. They looked and listened this year for Jimmie, but he didn’t come. Jimmie, the sweetest singer of all the thrushes! 4 Some might have claimed that cne thrush sings as well as another, but this family knew better. There was no singer in all Thrush- land like Jamer, he of the spackled breast end the brown back. It was true that Lis melody greatly resembled those ot othors of his kind, | and that to the average ear there was no great difference. To those who knew Jimmie best, however, there was no comparison. ‘While they were wil'ing to grant ihai all the birds of this interesting group sang well, they insisted that Jimmie | cang best. Somehow the name of Jimmie just scemed to fit him, his friends asserted, that was the reason | they gave it to him. He ecarned it two years ago, ‘when his flutelike call fleated down for the ; first time from the locust trees. Say what one will against the locust, | the thrushes love it. and that is enough to make it a good tree, is it not? Whatever a great singer admires— well, it must have good points, eh? The thrush Jimmie came in the cool of the Spring, just as the locust leaves were coming out, in their neatly ar- ranged rows, like feathers. Jimmie knew nothing about pinnate artangements, but he did recognize the locust grove as a good place for a whrush High he sang. and long. his magic melody of descending liquid notes. There were other thrushes there. but none of them had exactly Jimmie's bubble. The difference between thrush and thrush can never be demonstrated in mathematical terms, of course He who asked for proof. in a mat- ter so intricate as thrush songs, would either from the songsters or their human acmirers. Is not “proof” something vhich has been too long abused? Men are forever asking that some- thing or other be proved to them, when all the time Nature goes right ahead doing, not proving. Proof seems to have little if any standing in Nature. Whatever s, is right, with her; mathematical demonstrations of any sort come only as side issues, and even then hey need the prying eve and mind of man to interpret them. It would have been impossible for any one, no matter how learned, to have proved to any one else that the thrush Jimmie had a different voice, in | any way, from those of his compeers. Were they not all thrushes, and did ¢ not all sing alike? es, they were all thrushes, and they sang alike—cxcept Jimmie. Jimmie bubbled. He hit each note, especially that high one, with an abancon which seemed to throw decorum to the high winds of heaven He went to the clouds each time for that high note of his, so far away that his voice left him, except for a thy | thin exquisite harmonic. A tuned ear—human—could tell the | difference between the way Jimmie hit | that high note and the manner in which any number of other thrushes ran up to it. Like some of these sopranos who slide up to a high note, clutch it firmly, and then bellow, these inferior thrushes made preliminary motions. Jimmie alone sprang full-fledged upon his high note. His song was not all he had. either. When ¢ came to sauntering around beneath the shrubbery, in_ the cool of the evening, he was in a class by him- gelf. particular | ] No thrush since has displayed the supreme nonchalance which ~marked | Jimmie, the sweet singer. | He would select the bank of rhodo- | dendrcns and proceed to pry around there as if he were in the depth of | several forests. The presence of human beings. dogs, made not the slightest bit of dif- ference to James. One of the most innocent looking of | all the birds, the thrush always has | this air of indifference to its surround- parable degree. He could not comprehend, seemingly, that the whirring mach(ns called a ;'l‘awn mower” was bearing down upon im. Calmly he would hop straight along his charted way, as if no propelled mechanism with whirling knives could cither catch up with him or do him any harm if it did. ‘When the machine came within two or three feet, still rolling intently in his directicn, Jimmie “would cock up| an eye, as if to inquire “What's this?” He woulds look bored, that was all, not afraid, and especially not resentful, Jimmie was a philosopher, who knew | that anger makes its ugliest mark on him who holds it. Quietly he would hop to one side, to | wait for the machine to roll past on its absurd mission of cutting down grass which would grow right up again. Then Jim would hop along as if nothing had happened to mar his | stroll. | He loved to fly up into a tree, as | darkness was coming on, and there sing a few bars, just for the fun of it. How his small throat swelled as he | sent forth his inimitable song. in its four phrases, its third climaxed with that supreme cxample of harmonic, its fourth sinking to a quieter but never quite concluded ending. Yes, it was an ending, al! right, but, like the “signatures” of radio broad- | cast crchestras, it never really came |to a conclusion. But instead of a | thoughtless, and one may suspect, a | neartless operator, cutting off the melody | With a lever, the thrush never ended his song yet, because, properly speaking, he has never begun it. Just as Venus is said to have arisen from the sea, perfect in all her attri- butes, although slightly devoid of cloth- |ing (in which she showed herself thou- | sands of years ahead of her time). the | song of the thrush, and especially of | the thrush Jimmie, had no beginning, in a real sense, because it was so much like its ending. If one happened to hear a thrush begin, without knowing that it had sung any previous measures, even the most skilled musician would not be able |to assert positively which section he was in; and if he chanced to hear the | conclusion, under the same unsatisfac- tory conditions. he might bz forgiven for believing that he heard the very beginning, not the ending. | Jimmie was a thrush, and. thrush, his song partook of their uni- versal nature, with this exception, that | his was more pleasirg. in every way, | more brilliant, more musician! Jimmie was a heaven-sent but he has not come back this y We do not know how long thrushes live, or whether an untoward accident hap- pened to him. or whether he discovered a bigger and better grove of locust trees. Still our waiting ears are open for his different song: we are sure that we shall recognizz it, and, lcoking out the window, see a familiar back and | a familiar chest. It will be Jimmie. in all his pride and glory, greatest singer of them all daring us, with perfect nonchalance to try to run over him with a lawn mower again. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC It's a fairly open secret that it will sult President Hoover down to the ground to have the Democrats make re- peal the pgramount issue of the 1932 campaign. Apart from the fact that the Republicans consider the dryer end of the prohibition controversy national- | ly still the politically stronger end, the stressing of repeal takes the curse off the depression issue. Every ounce of emphasis the Democrats lay on booze is, from the G. O. P. standpoint, just that much poison extracted from the one thing the Republicans don't want loud- pedaled—hard times. At Chicago Gov. Roosevelt branded economics as “the main issue.” That theory doesn't sit at | all well with the leaders who bossed the convention, even those who brought about the New Yorker's nomination. Their enthusiasms were overwhelmingly | and almost exclusively for repeal. De- pression got vlenty of oratorical atten- ticn, but only when war was declared on the eighteenth amendment did the | convention go jovously mad. The Demo- crats scattered from Chicago in the firm conviction that repeal is their big noise. If Roosevelt doesn’t play that card, early and often, there’ll be wail- ing and gnashing of teeth. The ex- | ® pectation 1s that he will glorify repeal where it will do the most good and min- imize it where it would do the most harm. * % ko Few political old-timers at Washing- ton can remember when any candidate for the vice presidency contrived at the outset of a campaign to hog the lime- light to the extent Speaker Garmer is now doing. Usually the people have a hard time recalling off-hand who the vice presidential candidates are. The Republicans are jumping on the Texan with both feet apropos his relief bill and overlooking no _opportunity to brand him, and the Roosevelt-Garner ticket through him, as “demagogic” 100 per cent. The situation isn’t un- like the one provoked in 1924 by the nomination of “Brother Charlie” Bryan of Nebraska as John W. Davis' run- ning-mate, except this time the Repub- lican effort is to paint the Democratic ticket radical from top to bottom. To the extent that by the same token the Republicans stamp themseives as hard- boiled conservatives, their anti-Garner vendetta is O. K. with the Democrats. * K K ¥ Gova Roosevelt's thwarted attempt to talk over the St. Lawrence waterway with President Hoover synchronizes with the presence in Washington of Col. Hanford MacNider, American Minister to Canada. Probably it's a mere coin- cidence, as the colonel finds himself here on the eve of the British Imperial Conference in Ottawa, at which he'il hold an important watching brief for the U. S. A. MacNider has specialized in Canadian-American shipway matters ever since he was sent to Ottawa three years ago. If Charlie Curtis hadn't made the grade on the first ballot at Chicago last month the stage was pretty solidly set to nominate Col. Mac- Nider for Vice President on the next round. The American Legion has the young Towa soldier-statesman in defi- nite reserve for national honors some sunny day. * ok x % One of French Ambassador Paul Claudel's vacation purposes in Europe this Summer is to attend the maiden performance of his new mystic pmy.‘ “The Satin Slipper,” at Cologne, Ger- many. It is a dramatized version of the cultured envoy’s book by the same name. Last year the premiere of M. Claudel's opera, “Christopher Columbus,” took place in Berlin. Americans are to have opportunity of hearing that piece at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1933. The French Government Building there is to contain a theater, and its opening rformance will be “Christopher Co- jumbus.” Ambassador Claudel is re- sponsible for the libretto. The score is the work of M. Darjus Milhaud, emi- nent French compgse: . * Little or nothing has cropped out since Pranklin D. Roosevelt's nomina- tion about the role played by that but sge old political bird, WILLIAM WILE. Edward M. House. For more than a year before the Chicago convention, the Governor consulted with House as his principal, though confidential, strate- gist. Their escquaintance began in Roosevelt's days at_the Navy Depart- | ment during the Wilson administra- tion. In the Winter of 1930-31, when the New Yorker began laying his far- flung plans to capture the 1932 plum, he invited Hous> to become the spiritus rector of the pre-convention campaign. “Woodrow Wilson's U-Boat.” as George Harvey famously dubbed him, accepted | the appointment, _and thenceforward no major move o' the Governor's be- half was made withou: the colon advice. A full year before Chicago, House predisted Roosevelt's nomination without serious opposition. ka9 Former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes has gone vigorously to | bat for Prof. Felix Frankfurter of Harvard, recently named for the Massa- chusetts Supreme Court by Gov. Ely. Frankfurter's nomination is bitterly op- posed by former Gov. Alvin T. Fuller | and others, who resent the professor's | espousal of Sacco and Vanzetti three 1 think the appointment is says Holmes in a public statement, “and consider it a great mistake to attempt to affect the ques- tion by the attitude of the appointee in a particular case. In matters of learn- ing, understanding of affairs, and passion for justice, Prof. Frankfurter is much more than ordinarily qualified.” The great liberal who so long adorned the Supreme Court of the United States is widely credited with having urged Gov. Ely to appoint Frankfurter. * ok ok % Among the superannuated e now being Tetired from- the '{v‘&é‘éfi service by the ruthless needs of economy is Charles B. Davis, with prebably the | unique record of 64 consecutive years |on Uncle Sam’s pay roll. He has been a“géesfinfieé i;-n the wl:lr Department | &in vi years old, datin, | And-ew Jonnson's S nation: | Davis, now 74 years old, glories in hav- | ing known personally all of the coun- | try's famous soldiers, from Grant to Pershing. * ok ok % |, Now that it can be told, various in- terésts with Soviet axes to grind were | busy at both Chicago conventions in the hope of squeezing planks in favor of Russian recognition into the Republican and Democratic platforms alike. They didn’t get anywhere. * %ok * | _Col. William J. Donovan of Buffalo, INew York City and Washington, has | just left for Europe after seeing & | healthy Republican Donovan-for-Gov- ernor boom sprout in the Empire State. Headquarters have been established on |Manhattan Island and when “Wild | Bill” is back in the country at the end | of the month his boosters say every- thing will be set for his nomination in September. He boarded ship denying he’s a candidate, but coyly permitting it to be understood that he would re- spond to the call of duty if it's loud enough. Dcnovan is another darling of the service-men gods. (Copyright, 1932.) Hoover’s Health. From the Nashville Banner. Mark Sullivan says President -Hoo- ver's physical vigor amazes the physi- cians. Senators Norris and Borah, as ] as a few other people we might mention. - ——— + The Universal Plea. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. Sometimes, maybe, a panhandler will be encountered who does not want a cup of coffee. We do not expect meet him, however. Modern Youth. From the Omaha Evening World-Herald. Intelligent child of today thinks B. C. means “before the crash” and A. D. “anno depressiono,” o . cats, | ings, but Jimmie had it in an inccm- | as a| administration. | JULY 11 1932. The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. The black cloud on the Democratic horizon today is the price of hogs. In three short months the price paid for swine has increased more than $2 a hundred pounds. If you don’t think that is something to give the Democrats cold chills, ask the reaction in Towa, Kansas, Indiana and Illinois. Had it not béen for hard times, in_all probability the Democrats would have had scarcely a look in this year in the presidential election. If hard times “go bed” on the Democrats at this stage in the game, it won't be funny for Gov. Roosevelt _and Speaker Garner. The price of hogs. and the incrcases in prices of cattle, too, may be only a small cloud in the sky today, but if thare is a better break for the Amer- ican farmers in the price of wheat, the Republicans will begin to sing “Happy Days Are Here Again.” Talk to the Progressives from the Middle West and the Northwest. They know their farmers If wheat should get to 80 or 85 cents a bushel, it would take more than the name of Roosevelt to carry these Re- publican States of the West for the Democraticticket. Furthermore, the wet atmosphere which prevailed in the Stadium in Chicago during the national | convention period is not altogether a {true gauge of what the farmers are thinking about the prohibition issue. P An upward turn in the price of hogs will mean, in all probability, better prices for the corn the farmers gro Most of the corn goes to feed the hogs and cattle anyway. the second largest grain crop of the country. Perhaps this depression, after {all, will be broken by the hog. All 1good Republicans will take to eating {ham if they have the interests of the G. O. P. at heart. * % x % Financing the coming presidential campaign looks like a tough propo: tion. There has been no rush. so far as can be seen at present, to contribute money to the campaign funds. The Democrats many months ago launched their “victory fund” campaign. They hoped to raise about $1,500000. Of this in round numbers one-third was to go to pay off the party’s deficit com- ing over from the 1928 campaign. An- other third was to take care of the Democratic activities up to the time of the convention and $500,000 was to be a nest egg in the Democratic treasury to start the campaign a-rolling. The convention has come and gone, and the Democrats still have a deficit Itheir treasury of approximately 1$425,000, victory drive or no victery drive. Of this amount about $125,000 |is owing to John J. Raskob, who re- | cently retired as chairman of the Na- |tional Committee and who has very | graciously declared that he need not Be paid until after this year's campaign. Mr. Raskob, who has been the finan- } cial ‘angel of the Democratic_party for the last four years, is out. He may continue to contribute to the party. It must be a habit with him by this {time But Mr. Raskob, despite re- peated denials on his part, was re- ported to be anxious that some other | candidate for the presidential nomina- |tion than Roosevelt be the party choice. Just how much money he | washes to put into the fight to elect Mr. Roosevelt is not now clear. Other Speaker Garner is making it diffi- cult for the Democrats, it is said, to open the coffers of the men in the East with money by his insistence on radical measures in Congress which do not meet the approval of hard- headed business men. Furthermore, there was a first-class propaganda job |done in the preconvention campaign to make the business interests all over the country believe that Franklin D. Roosevelt is a radical and not to be trusted in the White House. His Dem- ocratic opponents were among those | most responsible for spreading such re- ports. Out in Chicago Frank Hague, Democratic boss of Jersey City and Al Smith’s floor manager, issued state- ment after statement declaring that Roosevelt could not carry New York and New Jersey and the country, in- deed, and the inference was that the business interests in these great in- dustrial States did not trust him. * x x o ‘The G. O. P. is not going to find it easy to raise money, either. But the Republicans at least do not start with a huge deficit in their treasury. What they collect can go wholly into the campaign. They have several very astute and very capable raisers of money in the Republican party. They may need all their wiles to bring the dollars into the party treasury this vear, however. Treasurer Joseph L. Knutt, a Cleveland banker who knows what he is talking about, has warned the party that the campaign must be run - economically this year; that volunteer workers must be lined up. and that paid workers will be the excep- tion, not the rule. The campaign in | this respect is likely to be in Vi:id con- trast with the 1928 fracas. Both parties spet money regardlessly four vears ago. The Democrats were so regardless that they found themselves with scme- thing like a million-dollar deficit at the close of the campaign. The Re- publicans paid as they went. But they spent cven more than the Democrats. * x x % Since the Republicans adopted their national platform, three weeks ago. there has been no attempt on the part of President Hoover to interpret the The President will have an opportunity to make his position clear on this sub- ject when he delivers his speech of ac- ceptance. He can indicate that he con- siders it a dry plank or a wet one, just as he pleases. His Democratic oppo- nent, Gov. Roosevelt. has already made his acceptance speechy and in it. Roase- velt declared that he stood firmly upon the wet plank in the Democratic plat- form “I am for repeal,” he said, and the galleries cheered in Chicago. The Republican plank declared for the sub- mission of an amendment to the Con- stitution revising the eighteenth amend- ment, not repealing it, so that States, if they desire, can vote themselves wet, but leaving in the hands of the Fed- eral Congress the power to see that there be no return of the saloon. It did not undertake to commit the party, the President or Republican members of Congress to vote for revision of the eighteenth amendment; it merely com- mitted them to support submission of this question to the people of the va- flous States, acting through constitu- tional conventions. For a while in Chicago it looked as though the whole world had turned “wet”"—that is, the whole voting world in America. Perhaps it has. But some of the politicians and the voters them- selves are heginning to catch their sec- ond wind and wonder whether there had not been a bit of hysteria in the national conventions. The Democrats are counting on their espousal of the wringing wet cause to carry States in the East, even though there may be a hesitancy on the part of Fastern voters to support the Democratic ticket, now charged with radicalism. * % * x ‘The Republican President, now that Gov. Roosevelt has had his say, accept- ting the presidential nomination, can sit back and make reply to Roosevelt and the Democrats at his leisure, so to speak. This is something new. Usu- ally the Democrats wait for the Repub- licans to sound off. Then they make answer. They held their national con- vention this year after the Republican convention, as has been the custom for years. No_other Democrat, living or dead. has presided for so many hours over Democratic national conventions as has Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. He probably will go down in his histary as the great presic officer of nnungs 0 | conventions. The Montana Senator a wonderful job in Madison Square Gar- den in 1924, when he wielded the gavel for the two weeks' convention. He lost none of his reputaticn as a presiding lofficer when he- served as permanent chairman in the recent con- vention at Chicago. Senator Walsh speaks, be speaks With authacity, And corn fs | in| much-discussed plank on prohibition. | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ). HASKIN. The resources of our free Informa tion Bureau are at your service. You are invited to call upon it as often as you please. It is being maintamed sole- 1y to serve you. What question can we | answer for you? There is no charge at all except 3 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Address your let- | ter to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Prederic J. Haskin, Director, | Washingtcn, D. C ¥ Q. How are points counted in playing |a Nassau in Golf?>—L. R. A. Nassau system—One point for the first nine hoies; one point for the last nine holes, and one point on the match. Three possible points. Generally used | in team matches, low ball. In indi- vidual handicap matches, net low ball. Q. When and where will the St. Leger be run this year?—J. E. 8. A. This stake race will be run at Doncaster, England, September 7. Q. What makes the black bread of Russia so dark?—F. F. A. The so-called black bread of Rus- | sla is not black, but exceedingly dark colored, due to the fact that its princi- | pal ingredients are barley and rye. Q Who invented the electric fan?— M. T. A. Tt was invented by Dr. Schuyler S. Wheeler in 1886. Q. What is the lame duck bill>—E. B. A What is known as the lame duck bill is actually an amendment to the Constitution, proposed by Senator | George Noi's of Nebraska. It provides that the President should be inaugu- rated and the new Congress should con- vene in January of the year succeeding the election, instead of in March, as at present. thus doing away with what is known as the Lame Duck Congress, in which a Congress actually functions which has in some part at least been repudiated by the voters. The amend. ment is now before the States for rati- fication. f Q. How many printing establishments | were there in this country in Colonial days?—W. J. R. A. Previous to the Revolutionary War there were 100 printing establishments in the country, mostly in coast towns. | Q. In 500 Rum, who wins the game, 'the player who declares Rum or the | one having the most points, when both | are over 5002—G. W. A If in the final hand two or more | players score 500 or more, the player | having the most points wins. | Q What is the difference between | Venice turpentine and ordinary turpen tine?—J. L. | A. Venice turpentine is a balsam, | similar to balsam of fir or Canada bal- sam. and a thick liquid of siruplike consistency, imported from France, ! while the crude turpentine is a thick. soft. white substance and is only worth | one-tenth of the price of Venice tur- | pentine. Genuine turpentine is now a | rare article, and commands a rather | higher price, while artificial Venice tur- | pentine is cheaper. | - Q How does strength of the present Army compare with lts numbers be- fore the World War>—J. 8. W. | ""A. In 1914 the United States Army had 8,794 officers and -119,251 enlisted i men. In 193) there were 12,177 offi- | | cers and 125443 enlisted men. Q How can cherries be candied without cooking?—D. J. B. A. Stone, scak in vinegar 24 hours ‘to make firm), drain well. Mix cher- ries with an equal weight of granu- lated sugar, spread on platters, keen in a cool place a week, stirring once a day. Seal in jars. Q. What name did Richard Hard- ing Davis give himself when a corre- s_p%n 'nt in the Russo-Japanese War A. As John Fox, jr., once wrote: “Nine months passed, and we never heard the whistle of a bullet or shell Dick called himself a ‘cherry-blossom correspondent’ and when our ship left those shores each knew that the other went to his statercom and in bitter chagrin and disappointment, wept quite | childishly. Q Can a right-handed person by practice make his left hand as dex- trous as his right?—N. M. K. A. The Public Health Service says this cannot be done, but practice will increase and improve the use of the left hand. Q. What is the salar; dent of the United States’—W. H. A. The President’s salary is $75,000 a year, with an allowance of $25,000 a year for traveling and entertainmen. expenses. of the Presi- Q. How many physicians had per- mits to prescribe zicoholic beverages last year?—F. C. A There were +87,623 permits n force on June 30, 1931, for physician: %o prescribe and use alcchol or ot intoxicating Jiquor. N erent locali- and religious communities from the size of a small coin on the crown of the head to a removal of all the hair except a fringe around the edge The tonsure is not worn in this coun- try. but is of obligation for the clergy in Catholic countries. K ry for diffy Q. How is carbon bis: de used to free golf greens {yom an: E A A. The Canadian government experi- mental farms system has been giving its attention to the problem and has announeed that ants can be controlled even annihilated, by the use of carbon bisulphige. It is prepared in liquid form and when released turns into a heavy gas, which has deadly effects on nts without affecting the gr y way. The principal method of appli- cation is to place a small quantity of hi ant hill and the oys the colony. A wel t square placed over the hi§ efter it has been treated will hold the gas in the soil and make the destructive effect mcre thorough. The gas is highly inflammable. Q. Do bees destroy grapes>—S. D. R A. The Bureau of Entomology says that bees do not destroy grapes. Their mandibles are too soft to break the skin of grapes and the punctures frequently seen are generally caused by birds. The bees will of course flock to the grapes after they are punctured, since the juice is attractive to them. Nomination of Franklin D. Roose- velt by the Democrats for the high office | of President is viewed by the country as offering a political contest along tra- ditional lines. The New York Gover- nor is hailed as a liberal leader and one who will be likely to create a united | Democracy. His popularity in the West and South is emphasized, anc he is credited with an appeal to citizens who | believe his party is determined to fight | out the problems of the moment. “The nomination means a united and victorious Democracy,” according to the | Atlenta Journal (Democratic), which feels that “he will rally the party’s | ranks and the independent voters as no other captain has since the days of Cleveland and Wilson.” The New Or- | Jeans Times-Picayune (Democratic) be- lieves that “he enters the race at the head of a party united and harmonious | | as it seldom has been in recent years. | splendidly equipped by long political | experience, by honorable and efficient | official service under the Wilson admin- | istration, and currently as Governor of | New York—with a Trecord, in brief, | which has won national praise and con- | fidence.” The Fort Worth Star-Tele- gram, (independent Democratic) holds that “Roosevelt and Garner, upon the Chicago platform, should have greater strength in the South and West than would have been possessed by a ticket with any other of the prominent con- vention candidates except Garner at its head, or, indeed, greater than would have been possessed by any other com- | bination.” The Scranton Times (Demo- cratic) sees in the New York Governor “an unbeatable candidate,” while the Dallas Journal (independent Demo- | cratic) feels that “it should be a win ket.” ace a sea of troubles trinm y.” says the Omaha World-Herald | (independent Democratic) “calls for courage, initiative, vision. It calls for wisdom that is neither foggy with doubt nor mildewed with age. It is these qual- ities that Franklin D. Roosevelt will| bring to the service of the American people in the day of their distress. The Columbia (S. C.) State (Democratic) | declares: “Those who heard Franklin | Roosevelt at Chicago heard more than | the speech of a candidate for the pres-| idency. They heard a message of hope to a people who need hope; they heard a message of courage to a people who need courage. and they heard a message with a spiritual touch.” The Houston Chronicle (Democratic) feels that he “stands four-square on a platform which voices with admirable clarity and sim- plicity the aspirations of the common ‘man,” and that “the people of America are invited to stand with him for the advancement of a liberal program which will place the Government of the Na- tion once more in their hands.” i “Gov. Roosevelt.” says the Phila- delphia Evening Bulletin (independent Republican), “has been the recipient of some handsome votes from the people of his own State, particularly in the up-State territory, which normally is Republican, but it is hardly of a char- acter to offset the handicap and in- adequacy and inefficiency shown at Washington.” Declaring that “the election of Roosevelt would be a con- demnation of existing conditions and would voice a popular demand for im mediate relief,” the Oklahoma City Oklahoman (independent) avers that “without a change im some of our na- tional policies, there can be no hope for an early restoration.” The Mor- gantown Dominion-News (independent Democratic) declares that “to Mr. Roosevelt and-Mr. Garner the people must turn” and that “Mr. Roosevelt has only to stick to that high plane of courage end resourcefulness which he points to in his speech of acceptance to win for himself a high place in the heart of the Nation.” The Texarkhna Gazette (Democratic) feels that “with Roosevelt and Garner, ‘the forgotten man’ has a great chance of victory in November.” “Gov. Roosevelt is now the candi- date, with his fortune largely in his phantl How he stood the gruelling all-nigh session of June 31-July 1 is a mystery. But he was very much on the job when the convention reconvened the night ot July 1 for the fourth and last ballot of the presidential contest. It is true hLe called on Mayor Cermak to quiet the Chicago ies—augmented by several of Tammany Democrats—but trainloads be knex whed WPmake the call, _ ‘Roosevélt las Liberal Leader Received With Enthusiasm own hands.” thinks the Dayton Dailr News (independent Democratic) the warning that “tco much reli cannct safely be plated upon govern- ment by negation” The Butte Mo tana Standard (Democratic appraisal of the situation: velt has the opportunity to capture the hearts, not only of the Democratic voters, but of the whole voting popula- tion. Never since the tragic days of the Civil War, which brought with it its own revered leader, has the Nation been in such dire need of inspired lead- ership. ‘The time is ripe, the opp tunity is bere and the public mind 1 ready to accept a leadership that will rouse the Nation and carry it out of the shoals and whirlpools of its pres- ent political-economic stagnation. If Roosevelt can measure up to those quirements, this Democratic ¢ tion, despite its hysteria and its c fusion, will be treasured with blessed memory. “He is not the biggest man the part could have chosen for the responsibility states the Newark Evening News (indc- pendent). “He was the most am- bitious. That ambition made him too anxious to please everybody, and he lost stature as a result. Now that hi ambition is realized, he may grow int the measure of the man the coun needs.” The Springfield (Mass.) Re- publican (independent). voices the opinion: “This much is to be hoped for the country’s sake, that, now he has been nominated, Gov. Roosevel will reveal a power of leadership, & moral courage, a grasp of affairs and a mastery of public questions that have not hitherto been_attributed to him by his critics. His opportunity f1s boundless. He will start his campaign against President Hoover with his pres- tige for political success unimpaired and with a family pame that still exerts in some degree a magical spell over the American people. He will be alded by a rare combination of cir- cumstances politically favorable, ac- cording to all precedents, to Demo- cratic victory. His being the oppor- tunity, his also is the responsibility for the best use of it in a period when the Republic needs great men in the conduct of its affairs.” ‘Some Republican newspapers present their objections to the candidate as an opponent of the present occupant cf the White House. 'The Spckane Spokes- man Review (Republican) feels that he is “playing the radical role this year, as Bryan played it in 1896, while the Akron Beacon Journal (independent Republican) calls _him a “colorless standard bearer.” Republican satisfac- tion that he has been chosen is cx- pressed by the Lexington Leader (Re- publican), the Yakima Daily Republic (Republican) and the Des Moines Tribune (independent Republican) and the Idaho Statesman (Republican). “Gov. Roosevelt,” says the Rochester Times-Unicn (independent), *is an amiable, well intentioned man. He lkcs to advocate vague schemes for ‘human betterment’ which rarely seem to get anywhere. The call of the hour is ior |a Chief Executive made of sterner | stuff.” The Salt Lake Deseret News (in- |dependent) advises that “failure for Mr. Roosevelt is, pernaps, most likely if the depression continues downward to the point where, in verw awe before | the threat of catastrophe, the people | dare not thange to an untried leader.” | “Franklin Roosevelt has launched the | campaign on a bigh plane, a definite plane, a constructive plane,” asserts the Roanoke World-News (Democratic), | with the conviction that the party “has | chosen a leader cf courage and con- | viction, and of vigorous speech as well as of magnetic personality and driving force.” Of the whole ticket, the Bal- timore Sun (independent Democratic) gives the judgment: “The party has offered the Nation two experienced and competent workmen in pclitics and gov- ernment, and has placed them on a platform which in general is excellent.” The Asbury Park Evening Press (in- dependent Democratic) concludes: “The New York Governor has visualized a program of economic and social reform that beckons better days, and his party has respcnded with rare enthusiasm.” The Youngstown Vindicator (independ- ent Democratic) declares: “The coun- try has had many Presidents who did not measure up to Gov. Roosevelt either in ability or resolution, and it may be that, having gone this far, he will go ;flll {:ert::l.bmuch will depend up”n ow velops during the next four ROnlbA" :