Evening Star Newspaper, July 13, 1932, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY......July 13, 1832 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor per Company The Evening Star Newspaj > h‘nu:lnen OfMce: c Bt : Lake Michigan Building. uropean Ofice: 14 Regent 8t London, ngland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Even:nx Slal’l e Y‘h per month = (when 4 Sund 80c per menth t Collection made a! Qiders may be sent in by mal ional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Binday’ only 131 $4.00. 1 mo.. 40c All Other States and Canada. Dally and Sunday..lyr.$12.00; 1 mo. 3100 1yr. 3800 1mo. 1Y only Dl ; : sc Bahdas onty 13 $500: 1mo 80 Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news ris- patches credited to it or not otherwise cred- Hed in this paper and also the local rews published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Another Scrap of Paper. Party platforms are written to be fgnored, the cynic says. They have been ignored frequently in the past, in many details. But a chance is not usually given the voters to observe a political party in operation on a plat- form before an election is held. The uhusual has happened. The Demo- cratic party, meeting in national con- vention in Chicago, adopted a platform containing a plank pledging the party to support repcal of the eighteenth amendment, and, pending repeal, to sup- port modification of the Volstead act 0 permit light wines and beer. To the voters it would naturally appear that the Democratic members of the Senate and the House would be bound by such a platform declaration. But in actual practice this is found to be entirely erroneous. On Monday the Demderatic members of th> Senate were given op- portunity to vote on the legalization of 2.75 per cent beer. Did they vote for it> They did not. The record shows that twenty-four Democratic Senators cast their votes against the proposal, while only eleven of them supported it. When the Democratic liquor plank was written into the party platform in Chicago by a big vote of the conven- tion it was hailed as a direct, clear and unequivocal statement of the party’s attitude cn the question of national prohibition. Democrats congratulated themselves on having been so specific and contrasted their liquor plank with that adopted the G. O. P. national convention a couple of weeks earlier. The Republican plank, the Democrats s2id, was neither wet nor dry, but a straddle. Well, if the vote in the Senate, plus statements which are being issued by leading Democrats, means anything, the Democratic plank instead of being g'¢traddle is merely a prevarication, to use the milder term. And as such it is likely to labeled by the Republicans curing the coming campaign. There is only one way by which a political party can transiate its plat- form pledges into affirmative action. ‘That is through the action of its repre- sentatives in Congress and in the White | House. It is quite true that Senator Bingham of Connecticut, Republican wet, was seeking to “put the Democrats in a hele” when he offered his amend- ment to the home loan bank bill to| legalize 2.75 per cent beer. But that does not excuse the Democratic Sen- ators for failing to vote in conformity with the party platform pledging the people light wines and beer through the modification of the Volstead act. The platform calls for modification of this law, not for its modification or repeal only after the next election. In an effort to avoid the charge that they failed to support the party plat- form, Senate Democrats, through their leader, Senator Robinson of Arkansas, submitted a motion to refer the Bing- ham beer amendment to the Judiciary Committee. The vote came, therefore, upon reference to the committee. But this device will not fool the discriminat- ing voter. The Democrats had their chance to vote for 2.75 beer and turned it down, by more than a two-to-one vote of their party strength in the Senate. What may the people expect at the hands of the Democrats in Con- gress should they be given control of both houses of Congress in the elec- tion next November? Is there any real reason to suppose that the Senators and Representatives of the Democratic faith would undertake to carry out the plat- form pledge to modify the Volstead act immediately or that they would sup- port a resolution for the repeal of the | eighteenth amendment? There is not, in the light of what has just happened in the Senate. Daniel C. Roper, a Roosevelt sup- Pposter in the Democratic National Con- vention, has issued a statement saying tdat the prohibition issue should be ninimized in the coming campaign and c@ling upon the drys to elect dry Sen- agors and Representatives. These Sen- ators and Representatives are, of ra'urse. to be dry Democrats. Mr. Roper, life the Senate Democrats, seems to be intent upon making the party plank o® prohibition merely another scrap ofs paper. 14 o krgument as to war guilt calls for fifther explanation by historians as to | how the greatest conflict in history really happened. ——rete—s. Let Us Have Light. In every important European capital, eand likewise Washington, statements are forthcoming which leave the aver- age citizen in this country completely befuddled as to just exactly what has happened In the repatations-war debts business. “Gentlemen’s agreements,” indirectly entangling the United States with the plan to relieve Germany of her obliga- tions, are afirmed and denied. Par- ticipation in the Lausanne negotiations by “representatives of America” is al- leged in Europe and disavowed over here. Categorical affirmations of “se- cret understandings” are followed by specific refutations. On top of this mass of eontradictions comes a circumstantial story that Sec- retary Stimson told French Ambassador Claudel that Germany ought not en- tirely to be relieved of reparations and should be required to recognize the sanctity of private and self-created po- . Utical debts, The State Department “immediate” | [ disclaims any and all part in the Lau- sanne arrangements. Nothing whatever is or can be gained by letting this tissue of statements and counter-statements tangle itself into & still more confusing collection of claims. President Hoover or Secretary Stimson, or both, would do well without unneces- sary delay to clear the air. There is no fear that they have departed from the well established American policy on reparations and debts, as it has been openly and often proclaimed since the Hoover moratorium was projected in June, 1931. But European statesmen are bandying with the name and reputed purposes of » | the United States Government in a manner that calls for the speediest pos- sible declaration of the facts at Wash- ington, whatever they are. The Ameri- can people are entitled to know them. They should be brought out before mis- apprehensions become rooted in the public mind and do injustice without warrant. | e { Busses on the Memorial Highway. Aside from its route, connecting the City of Washington with the home of the first President, the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway's particular attrac- tion lies in its almost complete exclusion of commercial features, to detract from the beauty of the scene. Save in the short stretch where it coincides with ;the principal street of Alexandria, it is free from all business factors. There are no filling stations within the area of the highway reservation, although one is situated upon private land a short distance toward Mount Vernon beyond Alexandria, and efforts are now being imade to acquire that land in order to | remove this establishment from view of the users of the highway. There are no billboards, save one that denotes the presence nearby of a tea house. There are no lunch rooms or “hot dog stands.” It is the fiyed policy of those in charge of this beautiful memorial road to keep it thus free of objectionable and dis- figuring structures. To permit the use of the highway by passenger busses, as now asked by a number of interests, seeking to main- tain regular scheduled service between Washington and Mount Vernon, would be in direct departure from the policy |it free of all commercial intrusions. It would diminish the enjoyment of the route by the thousands who use it weekly for pilgrimage or pleasure drives to and from the home of Washington. It would endanger them with a hazard of traffic that could not be avoided by the strictest guardianship. There is no occasion whatever for the maintenance of scheduled pas- | senger service on this road, dedicated |as a national memorial to the first | President. It traverses an area that | contains in all only one or two hun- | dred permanent dwellers, practically all |of whom have their own means of transportation. The so-called pas- serger service, it permitted on the road, | would be simply a scheduled sight-see- | ing run, competing with the chartered busses that are the only means of tak- ing great numbers of tourists to Mount Vernon and that must be permitted to {use the highway, although their pres- ence adds to the congestion and some- what to the danger of traffic. A short distance from the Memorial | Highway is a road that forms the link ‘belween Washington and Richmond. It is now the route of a scheduled bus service, which it is proposed to aban- don in case the application for use of the highway is granted. This change would deprive many people, those liv- ing on or near that road and those visiting them, of a service that is now necessary for their convenience. By use of this road the passenger busses can approach very close to Mount | Vernon—can, in fact, virtually reach it. They should be kept there. They chould surely not be allowed to make a commercial passenger route of the roadway that was built at great cost for the pleasure and the patriotic pil- | grimages of the American people Who | visit Washington. Nobody thinks of suggesting fewer working hours for members of Congress in one of the busiest Summers states- manship has ever known. Unfortu- nately this kind of employment cannot be passed around with a view to making the available pay go further among fel- low workers. .- It is estimated that a normal and reliable expansion can be effected if an | arrangement is made to give the I O. U’s taken from Europe a gold | standard backing. S Occasionally the highly financed play parties grow so wild that even an al- leged suicide, instead of seeming a melancholy event, takes on the aspect of & boisterous incident. ——————— Even if debt cancellation is denied, there is always scientific interest in the pursuit of the irreducible minimum, however miscroscopic. o The Speaker Goes A-Fishing. When he swings his gavel to sound the signal for the adjournment of the House of Representatives, perhaps at the end of this present week, Speaker Garner will go to Texas for a rest, a much-needed rest, indeed. He has been a very busy man for the past eight months. He is tired. He has’ presided over the House in a difficult time, a time of change, of contest, of stubborn problems, of important politi- cal developments, of persistent polemics. He has become the candidate of his party for the office of Vice President. In these last days of the session he has carried a double burden and it has weighed heavily upon him. So now he is going back to Uvalde, where he intends to forget visitors, telegrams and letters. “I want complete rest, and I don't want to be bothered about anything but fishing,” he says. After three weeks of fishing he will go to Albany to confer with Gov. Roosevelt on the campaign. Although the Speaker does not care o be bothered with telegrams or letters, he would better take some reading matter with him to his fishing grounds. There is one book that he should by all means have in his hand while he waits for the fish to bite, Izaak Wal- ton’s classic manual, from which he may derive comfort and perhaps guidance. Having just engaged in dis- putation concerning Government finance he may find a lesson in Walton's remark that “angling may be sald to be so0 like the mathematics that it can never be fully) learnt.” The statesman Woo essays the compounding of fiscal | |lations that those who appear to love jof preservation that has thus far kept! THE EVENING prescriptions should always have that i limitation definitely in mind. ‘The! Speaker will find another remark of Walton's serviceable: “You will find angling to be like the virtue of hu- mility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attend- ing upon it.” Philosophy learned with rod in hand may have a great value in the campaign soon actively to begin. Again, therz is this quotation by Walton of the words of Sir Henry Wotton, whora he calls “a most dear lover and a frequent practicer of the art of angling”: ‘“Twas an employ- ment for his {dle time which was then not idly spent, a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sad- ness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passion, a procurer of contentedness, begetting habits of peace and patience in those that pro- fessed and practiced it.” Surely the Speaker will profit by his three weeks of fishing at Uvalde if he cons his Walton with an open mind in preparation for three months of angling in the political pool for the suffrages of the people. ————r———————— Europeans have often criticized Amer- icans for being boastful. It may be doubted whether there be any great sat- Isfaction abroad in seeing Uncle Sam in humble confession to his tax payers that his immediate pecuniary fesources are nothing to brag about. Fishing with the Japanese has al- | ways been a seflous business. Nevers theless there is surprise at seeing it developed to a scientific degree that equips fishing boats with surveying in- struments. ————————— There might be benefit to farmers in limiting crops if they had a stake to go into the market and take a speculative profit on the higher prices that scarcity causes. [ S — Eminent Democrats now appear con- fident that a large collection of favorite sons can be organized into a happy family of campaign warriors. e Romance is hindered by police reve- most deeply often shoot quickest. B e —— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Human Ambition. ‘Talkin' 'bout the weather, An’ talkin' 'bout the crops, ‘Talkin’ 'bout the tariff, too. Tne talk that never stops; ‘Talkin’ 'bout the riches Another man has made. Talkin' 'bout our chances, It we hadn't been afraid; ‘Talkin’ 'bout election, And a candidate, Talkin' harder every day, From early morn till late; ‘Talkin’ to your neighbor In an easy tone, Tellin’ things by telegraph Or by telephone. For his turn at talkin’ Everybody strives; Conversation seems to be ‘The object of our lives. Cold Criticism. “Do you consider him a great ora- i tor?” | “No,” answered Senator Sorghum, “he 1s one of those men who get repu- tations as orators simply because they happen to have a few easy audiences.” A Natural Result. “Do you think that the reading a boy | does affects his career as a man?” “I'm sure of it,” answered the pro- fessor. “The era of graft now upon us is the natural result of the juvenile literature about pirates and brigands in vogue when we were young.” Investigation. Alas the days are very few, Such is the mind’s inquiring state, When no one digs up something new For Congress to investigate. Jud Tunkins says he never yet saw | |a man who said he loved work that wasn't more or less fickle in his affec- tion, Preference. “Which do you prefer,” said the ar- tistic young woman, “music or poetry?” “Poetry,” answered Miss Cayenne. “You can keep poetry shut up in a book. You don't have to listen to i!.‘ unless you choose.” The Campaigners. Each lifts an Ananias club And smites the nearest head. The old-time wounds with salt they rub, And fill our souls with dread. The spear which brothers shall not know Feroclously they raise. Man waits in ambush for a foe And fells him with a phrase. With friendships of the past forgot, They rally to the fray. The Golden Rule is quite forgot In this flerce game they play. Yet hope survives that Peace will reign, Despite these methods rude. Cheer up! It's only a campaign. Thank Heaven it's not a feud. “Patlence is fine,” said Uncle Eben, |“ef it keeps a man workin’. But it ain’ much good ef it keeps him stick- !in’ to a erap game.” ———on—s— Point to Many Who Now Receive ‘““Dole” To the Editor of The Star: A. Mason’s letter to The Star was neither humane nor kind. , It indicates that he was one of the many who sat in swivel chairs during the war, on a fat salary, while most of his “unde- sirables” ‘went overseas. ‘They were forced from their jobs by an inconsiderate Congress to ‘protect the invested millions “over there,” with | glib promises of jobs on their return, promises which were as glibly broken by this same Congress—now these down and outers are ‘“undesirables.” My opinion is that any one who is 50 heartless and narrow and jgnoranb and smug should be made to study statistics of the “dole”—and find- there who are the really “undesirables” of our great and glorious country. A study of the “dole” handed to the Army rent, subsistence, retirement annuities (pure dole), etc., etc. etc,; etc., ete.; “dole” handed to the widows of Con- gressmen and Presidents, “dole” handed out as franking privileges, “dole” to Congressmen, their friends and fami- lies for free trips ontransports, “dole” handed to large banking and other cor- porations, “dole” handed to Congress- men for transportation—all of which and much more these “dole” grabbers accept shamelessly. Methinks the “undesirables” of our country are not the jobless in poor clothing and the undernourished fami- lies, preyed upon by the “dole” grab- bers and taxgatherers, but the inhu- man class of smug, unthinking, incon- siderate and dishonest dole acceptors. R. WRIGHT, Bedford, Va. = | who took the air while holding high York Governor's dramatic fiight to the |stunt_by plunging to the bottom of and Navy for free education, pin money, |- STAR, WASHINGTON, D THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. A booklover should reserve a few cases for his outgrown books, for one outgrows books just the same as shoes at a certain age. The difference between the mind and the feet is that the latter fortunately stop growing, and the former happily never stops growing a little. Even if some at times refuse to con- cede the continued growth of the minds of other persons, the person most con- cerned can see plain evidences of the same. One of these, little recognized, is the fact that certain .books which once aroused real enthusiasm in his mind and heart now stand simply as so many mute symbols of his progress. 1t is for these honored volumes that | the real friend of books will reserve a case or two, in which they may be treasured, not for what they are, but rather for what they were. They fitted his mind then. As far as he is concerned, they shall be honored forever because of that eternal fitness. He is at no time ashamed of his own mind's progress. He is like the independent in politics, who votes one way one election, and another way the next, without feeling that he has at any time repudiated past conduct by present. This wholesome conduct means noth- ing more than that he looks upon prog- ress not as a straight line, but as an intricate pattern, always in the work- ing out, and perhaps never to be ended. This is the reason for immortality, the necessity for it, since one life and one world are not enough for the brave progress of the human mind. It demands more, and should get more. A few years may be enough for dull- ing sense and an aching flesh, but they will never do for this keen instrument which uses past, present and futurs like toys, playthings for a moment in the ages. Monuments of ancient Egypt have left their marks on the sands of time no more than these old books along the pathway of a life. What are the sands of Egypt. after | all, 'ln comparison with the pathway of a life? A book may be, and often has been, | quite as monumental as the greatest | obelisk of hewn stones. In a bookcase or two each individual | may keep as goodly a company of | monuments as the sands of the Sahara ever knew. | Here will be a few childhood books, beyond which the traveler has swept forever. Occasionally he may pick them up, and attempt to revive the consuming interest with which he read them years | | 0. The memory is vivid enough, but the | attempt is unavailing. : ‘The boy left the book & long time ago, and there is no way to get him back. The old familiar words—how well he recalls them. their very places on the pages! There is a dog-eared shect which other hands put there long ago; he remembers the acute stab of pain which rent his finicky soul at the sight. These are among the quiet joys of book lovers, not the fly-by-days who merely think they read books either for profit or pleasure. | The real boy or girl reader does not see a book as a book so much as an adventure. a going forth in quest of strange piaces and new gods. At that age few youngsters realize, it is true, how completely they are in thrall to questing. | Ask one of them, he will probably | say that he has a book, and is reading a book. Look into his eyes, however, as he comes reluctantly to dinner, and you will see that he has been abroad some- | where where there is no possibility of you going. ‘The best you can do, in all likelihood, is to share his secret with him. | The shining level of the years takes TRACEWELL. on a new meaning, in the light of these old books, so piously awaiting here, in their faded bindings, the read- ing hand, the glancing eye, the under- stand| mind and heart. Life’s Journey is not a stairs, as some have represented it, or a vast bridge with & draw in it, into which we pitch all_unsuspecting. It is not a mountain to climb, or a greased slide along which mankind whirls to & mechanical sort of doom. Life is, rather, a level, a straightaway, with both ends hidden in the mist. And we walk toward a sun which never sets, s0 it seems. That sun is named Hope. In its seduc- tive rays man walks along well pleased, reveling in the prospect before him. The younger he is, the more steadily he looks ahead. Often the older he becomes the more tempted he is to turn his head to the flattering prospects H shouts neither “No “Then!" To such a man the mists at the end of the path have become too black to be borne. He who can see a light in the clear- ing, no matter how dim, is never con- tent to twist his head about, nor to scream madly “Now!” for his little for- ever. but is willing to believe that the mistiness at the far end is not much different from the obscurity at the beginning. What little and even absurd things help to make the wayfarer see the glim- mering in the distance! It may be no more than a beautiful bird, seated for an instant on a tele- phone wire that crosses a much traveled road. It may be the touch of a hand in genuine fellowship, or a few printed words. In this happy result books hold one of the highest places of all, and well merit the regard which mankind has for them. Few books deserve to be thrown away, if they are of the right sort to begin with. Yet a reader does outgrow them, in | the most natural way pcssible. His interests change. This does not mean that he is fickle in his tastes or that he does not know what he likes, but rather that his tastes change. and that he decidedly does recognize those changes as they occur. Life would not be what it is if it could not do a great deal to one. Thoughts are things, and leave their impressions. They leave them on chil- dren, on adults, on men and women, even on animals, to a degree. Trends of different times are differ- ent; certain vibrations, or whatever one chocses to call them, are in the air, and the huge majority of the pecple respond to_them. Hence the books of one decade often impress the casual observe- of the next as having been futile. There are styles in books, as in clothes, and many read- ors seem to believe that “style’s the thing.” No proper sort of book. however, which was good once is anything but good forever. Changing habits of mind may change back again, bringing an old forgotten favorite very much into the limelight. It has happened before, and it will happen again. A few shelves, or entire cases, even, may be reserved for these older books, or samples of them. As a boy one may have been an enthusiastic reader of “Henty books.” Perhaps one had as many as 60 or 70 of that prolific popular author’s volumes. Maybe one's knowledge of history. such as it is, came mostly from those old books. The booklover always gets a “kick” cut of glimpsing the one Henty bool left out of the years. Prince Charlie,” no doubt kept in the family because of sentimental reasons. ‘That it stands, an old book, typical of all old books, unread, but not for- getten. Its very title does one good to see. It is an outgrown book. in & sense, but happily never outgrown. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. “Immediate beer” was annihilated in | the Senate on Monday by the votes of Democratic Senators from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippl, Arkansas, Ten- nessee, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona. This circumstance causes the baffled beer brethren to lament that | the South is still under the domination of the drys, recent events in the North Carolina ~senatorial primaries to the | contrary notwithstanding. If the Sen- ate Democrats had voted in anything | like the proportion their national con- | vention went on record for ‘“beer | now,” they would have plumped for the | foam and froth overwhelmingly, and, with the aid of the 14 pro-beer Repub- licans, sent the Bingham bill bounding over to the House with a bang. Repub- licans gloat over what they consider the now demonstrated division in the Democratic ranks on liquor. That the episode will be exploited by the G. O. P. in the 1932 campaign to expose the “in- sincerity” of the Democrats’ repeal and modification plank is a foregone con- clusion. Demccrats, on their part, con- tend that Senator Bingham's sole pur- | pose in forcing the beer issue at the| fag end of the session was to mflisleni up his own chances for re-election in Connecticut this year, and, incidentally, put the Democratic party in a hole. Whatever way you figure it, the Senate | roll call is a violent reversal of the 4-to-1 platform vote for beer at Chicago. * X K x Congressional opinion is divided as to the merits of Senator Couzens' resolu- | tion for turning the searchlight on the | operations of the Reconstruction Finance | Corporation. If the object of the in- vestigation is to disclose in detail the | help which banks throughout the country have received, the consensus seems to be that such revelations on | the whole would be undesirable. Those who think so hold that depositors in | such banks would be needlessly alarmed. | Authorities who favor bringing out the | fac and figures assert, on the con- trary, that depositors’ confidence C‘ni only be revived and strengthened by the knowledge that Uncle Sam's mil- | lions have been put at the disposal of their banks. Secrecy was provided for | when the act was in February. | Capitol Hill gossip is that some persons who don’t like Gen. Dawes are yearn- ing to “show up” that his Chicago bank | was liberally aided by the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation, which he formerly headed. ~There are uncon- firmed and published reports that the amount was $80,000,000. * ok ox % Franklin D. in't the first Roosevelt &nd responsible office. Since the New Democratic convention at Chicago, it has come to light that Theodore Roose- velt, while President, took a trip.in the original Wright airplane at Fort Myer, across the Potomac from Washington. To fly in those days—28 years ago— meant something. It wasn't long after that “Teddy” did another adventurous New York harbor in one of the Navy's earliest submarines. The incident caused the old New York Sun observe that it was the nearest Charles W. Fairbanks, then Vice President, ever came to being President. Presi- dent Coolidge was urged, once upon a time, to cruise in the ill-fated Navy airship Shenandoah. He declined, say- ing he didn’t think Government offi- cials ought to fly, except on duty. * X ko Spezking of “Cal” and during these days of rumor, recrimination and re- morse over war debts, Washington re- calls the immortal Coolidge wisecrack on the subject, when visited by a dele- gation advocating cancellation. “Well.” drawled Cal, the President, “they hired the money, dldg‘t*th:yr: . Beeoch Aizathek Adminisizalive R sistant to President Hoover, will blossom out next week as a novelist, when his first book, a love story entitled “Maid | of Athens,” will be published. | with the romance of a young American | It deals diplomat stationed in Greece and a beautiful Athenian actress. The scene is laid variously in Athens, Paris, Wash- ington and California. The book’s theme is to contrast the ideals and conventions of Greek womanhood with those persisting in modern America. Mr. Strother absorbed his Hellenic local color four years ago while in Greece with former Ambassodar Henry Mor- genthau, to whom the novel is dedi- cal Morgenthau functioned on be- half of the League of Nations in con- nection with the settlement of a mil- lion Greek refugees driven out of Asia Minor after the sack of Smyrna. The Hoover literary aide took a Sabatical year from White House duty to com- plete “Maid of Athens.” * ok x % Believe it or not, Congress isn't burning with anxiety to pack up and face the folks back home. There are various reasons why Representatives and Senators aren't in a hurry to leave Washington. One is the universal realization that Congress is in bad with the country at large. Another is that every member knows he’s going to have the life pestered out of him for jobs, Federal aid, and what-have-you. The longer the evil day of home-coming can | be deferred, the better many statesmen and stateswomen will like it. Few of them expect to find the bands out and Main street decorated in their honor. * x x % Speaker Garner has an inviolable rule which his friends try to break at their peril. He insists that official business and politics absolutely are ad- journed after 6 p.m. no matter how urgent they may seem to_others who want the Texan's ear. e Speaker and Mrs. Garner live modestly in a Washington hotel. Telephone calls and visitors’ cards are taboo, once the Demo- cratic vice presidential candidate and his connubial chief of staff reach their rooms. It's said that during the Chicago convention & certain distinguished favorite son sent Jack an S O S on the long distance. As the hour was past Mr. Garner's dead-line, he told the switchboard to say he couldnt be bothered. * kX X Senator Gerald P. Nye, Republican Progressive, of North Dakota, takes first Hoover blood in 1932. The Northwest- erner's smashing victery in the recent senatorial primary over his regular Re- publican ‘opponert, Gov. George F. Shafer, amounted to a clean-cut defeat of administration forces. Shafer, at any rate, ranked as the Hoover candi- date. Nye is still one of the babies of the Senate—he won’t be 40 till next December. He came to the Senate in 1925 by appointment for the unexpired term of his deceased predecessor, Sena- tor Ladd, and was elected to a full term on his own account in 1926. As chair- man of the Senate Committees on Pub- lic Lands and Campaign Expenses, the young editor-statesman from the wheat to | belt has made a real place for himself in the Upper House. (Copyright, 1932.) —————— Chicago’s Considerate Gangs. From the New York Sun. Chicago's mayor reports that crime in that city dropped last year below a 10-year record, partly the result, no doubt. of a rise in the efficiency of gangdom's system of self-annihilal ——— e Too Much at That. From the Dayton Daily News. A psychiatrist says that the average the and yet we had no ides \Werage. RELson was sa It is “Bonnie | tains only one-fifth of what to C.,, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1932. IA Bonus Marcher Tells Why He Will Not Leave To the Editor of The Star: After reading your editorials of re- cent dates one would come to the con- clusion that we, the “bonus marchers” now in Washington, are no more than a group of misguided children. I know it is useless to pen this Jetter to your reactionary and ultra-conserva- tive sheet. However, I feel that the writer of these editorials should learn first hand that there is some zound sense and a goodly bit of intelligence among our ranks. You continually harp on the subject of our departure from Washington— stating that our presence here can serve no useful purpose now that Con- gress has acted on the bonus bill. Most of us did not expect any favorable action by Congress at this time. In fact we do not expect any actfon until our ranks are increased to fifty or one hundred thousand strong, and these we will have in the course of a month or_so. ! Why should we go_home? In Detroit, where I came from, the Fisher Lodge has closed, the thousands of men who were being cared for there have been turned out to shift for them- selves as best they can. The City of Detroit has no funds to care for the unemployed. strongly advocate our returning to our homes you should give some thought to the condition in our home cities. The writer of this letter was em- ployed in 1929 and 1930 by the Ray- mond Concrete Pile Co. 140 Cedar street, New York, at a salary of $350 per month and expenses in Colombia, South America. Since the Spring of 1930 T have been unable to secure & position of eny kind. I am married and have two children. My savings were exhausted in the Sum- mer of 1931; since that time I don't know how I and my family have lived— I should not say live, that's not the word—existed. As a construction superintendent or foreman worth $350 per month in 1930, it seems to me by all fair rules of the game I should at least be worth some- ! thing at present, if nothing more than to keep body and soul together. Of course if you have Fungry, have never seen your famiiy suffer for the bare needs of life, no cne can expect you to have th: same point of view as we who have been through these things. 17 this country which we gave our 21l to protect in its hour of need. this country which is bursting with an overload of the things we need so badly todav, cannot give us or will not give us what we are justly due, then it is the most ungrateful country and peo- ple the world has ever knowr #nd will deserve the destruction of its Constitu- tion, which will surely follow. Therefore, we expect to remain in to us either in the payment of onr so- called “bonus” or the providing for us of work so that we may support cur- selves and families. worth the powder and shot it would | take to kill him. If he has money in his pocket or some one to carz for him be had no business hers in the first | place. On the other hand, if he is in need and goes away he deserves the | condemnation of his fellows. | No job—no home—no money—I might s well be here, and here I shall | stay even if in jail 1 A. JOHNSON. Camp Anacostia. - * Mount Vernon Memorial |Highway Is Correct Name To the Editor of The Star: I have noted the prevailing tendency of the public and the press in referring to the new Mount Vernon Memorisl Highway as the Mount Vernon Boule- vard, or often Mount Vernon Memorial Boulevard. This is not strictly correct iyour efforts to counteract this hao- hazard reference to such a splendid ican memorial to our First Presi- nd especially during this Bicen. year when our anniversary visitors are with us. “Boulevard” is a French word used often, and meaning a more or less formal city avenue. Its formality was usually emphasized by its display of trees along its barders; for “show,” in the French style. “Highway” is a more Latinized-Amer- jcan word substituted for “via,” the | Latin word for road or way: s highway of travel or traffic; a public thorough- | fare: a common or open way—a public | road. The congressional act calls it The | Mount Vernon Memorial Highway. This {is the only really correct titie that should bs used and I would appreciate your doing whatever you are able in the press to correct this misusage. The Mount Vernon Memorial Highway is de- veloped informally throughout. Every effort has been made to have it appear natural, as though it had been there for vears without the appearance of the hand of man having taken a material part in its development in the least. There are no formal rows of trees, there are no usual straight avenues of foliage; on the contrary, natural groupirgs of follage masses have been planted with studied informality so that nature may do her part in creating the final results of this memorial with the maturity of the years. It is simple and unostenta- tious, it is democratic, it is not regular, as the French term ‘“boulevard” might imply. Therefore, I urge the more liberal use of the word “highway” and the aban- conment of the f{ll-chosen French “boulevard” in reference to this splendid and truly American memorial highway. ILBUR H. SIMONSON. o Thanks The Star fo;- . Aid to U. S. Clerks To the Editor of The Star: As one of the many thousands of Federal employes who have been dealt the unjust wage cut, may I personaliy thank you and your staff for the won- derful ‘way you have supported us in articles in cur behalf, both in your news and editorial pages? I am writing to enlist your further help now. The past few days have shown how thoroughly unworkable the present economy bill is, and how differ- ent from the intention of President Hoover when his furlough plan was first presented. = Congress, now in session, should re- main in session until a workable and just bill is passed, abolishing the pres- ent bill with its untold miseries and unfair tactics. It is not necessary to wait until next session to correct the evils. The undesirable features ot the present bill can be corrected and & new bill written and passed in a few days. Personally, I think the recent death of Dr. Burgess was caused by his trying to plan the administration of the econ- omy bill in the Bureau of Standards. Many more deaths, suicides, mortgage foreclosures and heartbreaking miseries, :fiich Wfitlfi this &lme cannot foretell, result from this most outrageous plece of legislation. ALLAN A. TAYLOR. A Personal Prerogative. From the Columbus Ohio State Journal. Of course, Alfalfa Bill may have reprimanded that man for patting him on the back because he was accus- tomed to attending to that himself. ——— Fifty-Fifty. From the Hamilton Spectator. ‘The sentence of their leader, Veregin, having been cut in half, the very least the Doukhobors can do to show their . | appreciation is leave their underwear on. R Puzzled. Prom the Nashville Banner. It is perfectly maddening for things be mp!mchl{ confused mess that a ticlan can’t tell half the time what Peguie WaDS D to be fon . 1t seems to me that before you so ! never been | ‘Washington until justice is meted out | Any man who leaves us now Is not | | | | I nor desirable and I should appreciat: | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Of the vast number of questions answered by this department, only a few can be published in this column. The ones that are printed must be of :general interest and not personal in their nature. Do not, therefore, merely sign your initials to your letter and ask that the answer be published. Give your full name and address so that |reply. Inclose 3 cents for return postage. Direct your letter to The Evening Star Information Bureau, ton, D. C. Q. Is George Sisler still in profes- sional base ball>—S. L. A. He has just resigned as player- manager of the Tyler Texas League base ball club. He is returning to St. Louis where he has business interests. Q. What effect has the depression had on the millionaire sport of yacht- ing?>—N. B. A. Last year more yachts were docu- mented than in any year since 1903. The largest increase, however, was in !sail yachts, which are less costly to operate Many are small yachts owned by persons in moderate circumstances. A. When woven 50 as to show a pat- tern, table linen is known as damask patterned silks of Damascus. Q. In what part of the country are mounds found?—J. H. H. A. Mounds in the United States are the Gulf of Mexico and from the Rockies to the Atlantic Ocean. They are especially frequent in the valley of the Mississippi along its tributaries in Arkansas and Kansas, and in the basin of the Ohjo. Similar structures extend southward through Mexico, Central and South America. Q May a man without a coat enter LA A. It is definitely stipulated that he | may not. Q. Which is the oldest college in this { country?>—M. O'C. A. Harvard University is listed as the oldest institution of its kind. The Nathaniel Eaton. Therefore, the oldest school in the New England section. as well as in the United States as a whole. Q. What is meant by “values” in | speaking of a picture’>—F. R. L. A The term refers to degrees of light and shade or of color intensity. Q. In TItaly, during the period of neutrality preceding the World War, | there were partisans who were pop- | ularly called the “guerrifondaji.” Who | were they?>—N. H. T. A. These were the Italians who were urging war on Austfia. Q —o. A. Tre game of draughts or checkers is said to be of the greatest antiquity. Pieces of checker boards and men have been found in tombe of Egyptian rulers of a_day not later than 1600 B.C. Somc of these are at present preserved in the | British Museum. Homer in his “Odys- | sey” speaks about this game being { played by the suitors of Penelope. Q. Where was Graham McNamee born?—M. E. V. A. In Washington, D. C. Q. How long is it necessary to keep receipted bills>—C. R. C. A. While it is a matter of personal preference how long bills, canceled notes, etc., should be kept, it is the ad- vice of many business men that any such document should be kept to the termination of the period of the statute of limitations on that document. Q. Why was William Penn at one | time painted in a suit of armor?— E B "A. Penn, professing Quaker prin- How old is the game of checkers? L. R. you may receive a personal letter in | | Prederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- | Q. Why is table lln;n called damask? | J. B. 8. because of a resemblance to the famous | to be found from the Great Lakes to | | the Mountain Lake Sanctuary, Florida? | first building was erected in 1637 bv | this ¥s¢ ciples, was sent by his father, Admiral Penn, to Ireland in 1666 to manage his estate Jn Cork. When mutiny broke {out in Carrickfergus, Penn volunteered llor service and was offered the cap- taincy of his father's company of foot. |1t was at this time that the portrait | was made. | “Quakerism” occurred at this time. His complete conversion to | Q Why do canned strawberries lose ‘t!heh color after they are canned?— H "A. 'Light and warmth in storage tend | to fade the color. Keeping the fruit in a cool, dark place aids in keeping the | color. | | Q. Why is twilight longer in higher latitudes in the Summertime?—L. 8. W. A.- Twilight persists until the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon. It thus follows that the length of twilight in- creases with the latitude. At the equator there is practically no twilight, the sun sinks very rapidly, while in | latitudes greater than 48.5 degrees twi- light lasts all night in Summer. The | actual duration of twilight varies con- siderably with different places due to | the character of the atmosphere. Q. What was Cagliostro’s real name and where was he born?—A. W. A. Giuseppe Balsamo. He was born at Palermo. | Q. What was the statement by some famous divine to the effect that only gy Bobnety may freedom be attained?— A. William Magee, Archbishop of York in the last century, said: “It | would be better that England should be free than that England should be com- | pulsorily sober. For with freedom we | might ettain sobriety, but, in the other alternative, we should entirely lose both | freedom and sobriety.” Q. What kind of spider webs are %seg for engineering instruments?— A. Various dark spiders supply the | web for cross hairs of engineering in- struments. It is necessary to have the dark web, which is not transparent. Tropicel spiders produce excellent wets for this purpose. However, different thicknesees of web are used according to the type of instrument. Q. What are Alpine Clubs?—A. N A. Alpine Clubs are societies estab- lished primarily to promote a spirit of fellowship among lovers of the sport of mountaineering and also foster mountain exploration and scientific re- search. They are to be found in most |of the leading countries. The largest | Alpine Club in the United States is the Appalachian Mountain Club. On the Pacific Coast are the Sierra Club, the | Mazamas and the Mountaineers. Q. At the time our Government was founded were there two parties?>—S. P. A. from the beginnings of govern- ment there have been at last two po- litical parties or points of view. The earliest were known as the Federalist, which advocated a strong central gov- | ernment with a great amount of control of the States, and the Republican party, which was an equally strong advocate for the right, of the States to be self- governing in all domestic affairs and to permit Federal supervision or Gov- | ernment only as far as national defense | and security, as well as the integrity of |the Union, required. The present Democratic party is the offspring of the former Democratic-Republican | party of Thomas Jefferson's time. The | Pederalist party was succeeded by the Whigs, then by the National Repub- ‘licnn. and later, in 1856, by the present Republican party. g Ir?o fish worms make any sound? A. Angle worms do make a slight sound. It can be closely imitated by | moistening the lips and then opening |and closing them without moving the | jaw. Whether or not they hear has not been decided, but they do not ses !in the true sense of the word, as they have no eyes. Letter Postage Studied as ‘The increase in letter postage rates, | its effect and reception are subjects of | wide comment. Opinions differ as to | its importance as a revenue getter and there is much speculation as to how the general public will react to this form of taxation. Recalling that “Congress and the Post Office Department expect the higher rate to produce $160.000,000 in additional revenue,” the New Castle | News is inclined to believe that “events during the next few months may sho them to have been overly optimistic. The probable course of events is fore- statement: “The higher letter postage may for & time cut down the country's Jetter writing for other than business reasons. It may also reduce business letters to essentials. But in a short time all but the big mailers will be back in the mails again, as ready to write at three cents as for two. The big mail- ers will find ways to keep down their mail volume even though their bills are as high as now, or higher. And the sucker lists—they may come down to the habituals, with the hazy prospects relieved of annoyance.” “Forunately,” thinks the Davenport Democrat, “heére is one of the numerous tax increases made by Uncle Sam which little concerns the average citizen, or, as we might say, the man at the bottom of the economic pyramid. He and his family as a rule write but few letters, and therefore the increased postage rate is insignificant to him. But it is quite a different story with merchants, manu- facturers, jobbers and corporations do- ing a heavy mail business. To them the increase will add considerably to their overhead.” The Democrat points to the announcement that nually of $325.000.” ¥ “For the third time in the Nation's history,” says the New York Sun, “the United’ States has imposed a three- cent rate on first-class mail. There are other changes in the mail rates, but the one which will affect the largest number of persons and which br! in_ the greatest amount of rev- enue to the Government is the change in the first-class rate, effective today. Increases in taxes often bring avold- ance or evasion; it remains to be seen whether a decline in business or social correspendence will follow the increase in the first-class rate. The effusive writer who malls a thick letter that requires two 3-cent stamps is a patriot from now on, putting two more cents into the Federal coffers.” 1t is recalled by the Rochester Times- Union that “the postal deficit was car- ried along for a number of years,” but that paper adds that “when balancing the budget became difficult it was de- cided that the postal service must be made more nearly self-supporting,” and that “raising the rates on letter mail was chosen as the easiest way of get- ting the additional revenue.” “It may be poetic justice,” declares the Oklahoma City Oklahoman, “that a 50 per cent increase in first-class postage rates becomes effective almost at the same time the Congressmen who helped foist this added burden upon the country must go to the polls in their quest for Tenomination.” The Lincoln State Journal voices the similar warn- ing as to the effect: “Most people have purchased stamps all their lives for two cents, barring the World War interlude, and the three cents of today is irri- tating. If the new postage rates serve to keep the citizen reminded of his duty they may prove a vast benefit to the country in the end. If the citi- zen is thereby reminded to register and to vote whenever occasion offers, and of e cast by the Minneapolis Journal in the “one mal-order | house will pay additional postage an- | Pr Journal. lection | “Spinach,” asserts er, “is good lors&p nerves, the m&'fia the come ' BLio B8 .40 W0 ek Increase Budget Remedy certain that a vote for this billion-dol- | lar appropriation and that billion- dollar scheme and a refusal to cut gov= ernment expenses would be followed by defeat at the next election, the men in Congress would act with more caution.” “In addition to remembering the need for a 3-cent stamp, where a 2-cent stamp has served heretofore.” accord- ing to the Buffalo Evening News, “the citizen well may recollect that this is one of the substitutes for the proposed manufacturers' sales tax, which was re- ected by a revolt of Congressmen claim- ing that they represented the interests of common people. The three-cent post- age is a pertinent example of the cost of substituting demagogism for sensible reasoning in government.” |, “Of all the nuisance taxes this stamp | tax is going to be the most unpopular.” | according to the Akron Beacon Journal, which states as to the average citizen: | “When he sticks that extra stamp on | his letters he knows what officialdom at ington has done to him, and his complaining will be loud and bitter, and become more so as he feels the pinch of other levies. The conviction that this sacrifice need not bave been exacted of him if Congress and the administration | had slashed costs instead of increasing | taxes will put him in better temper in the Fall election. When he hears state- men boast of how they balanced the budget he will know who really bore the brunt of sacrifice to this end, and he will take pleasure in voting to end the ?:rhucmumr n’d everybody responsible le squander that used deficit.” o s Recaliing the history of the letter rate, the Fort Worth sur‘-"‘z“el}:f gram says: “A 3-cent letter rate was in effect from November 3, 1917, to ’June 30, 1919. The additional revenue ‘pmduced during these 20 months was $116.000,000, or $70.000,000 annually, | In the 12 months following June 30, | 1919, with the 2-cent rate again in ‘eflecl. the postal receipts were about | the same as in the preceding 12 months | under the 3-cent rate. The Post Office Department maintains that the revenues held up in the fiscal year 1919-20, as compared with 1918-19, pri- marily because the later year was one of much better business conditions than | the earlier, and because many mail- order campaigns were delayed until the 2-cent rate again went into effect.” | Thomas Jefferson on Legislative Loquacity To the Editor of The Star: Inclosed you will find a short quota- tion from Thomas Jefferson so apropos of the present situation that I thought e on e rt 1 bard's “Sciap’ ook “I _served with Gen. Washington in the Legislature of Virginia, before the Revolution, and during it with Dr. Franklin in Congress. I never heard either of them speak 10 minutes at & time, nor to any but the main point, which was to decide the question. “They laid their shoulders to the great points, knowing that the little ones would follow of themselves. If the present Congress errs in too much talk- ing, how can it be otherwise, in a body 1. which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything. yield nothing and talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.” ELIZABETH N. HAMM. Spinach and Pie. the hamilton