Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1932, Page 8

NING STAR | With Slndl! "ofi! Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY July 18, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company n st "and Pennsvivania Ave New York Ofice: 150 East 42nd Bt Michigan Building. hicago Office: Lake B Bitce 14 Rexent St.. London. ' Engiand. City. 1 i e Within the siar'Se e Evening and o rining as Amfln 65¢ uAr month S moy s il made af thie cnd of e Orders may be sent in by mail or NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 1 yr., §10.00; 3 mo., 85c 1yr., $6.00: 1 mo,, 50c 1yr. $4.00. 1 mo.. 46¢ nd Canada. $12.00; 1 mo., $1.00 | 0: 1mo. T 00: 1 mo.s fly und Sunday. ily only Sunday only All Other States fly and Sunday..lsr. flv only nday only Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Pross 13 exclusively entitled o the use tor republication of all news ~fs- atches credited to it or not otherwise cred: ted in this paper and also the local rews pudlished herein. Al rizhts of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. = The Bonus Cause Now Hopeless. Two months ago large groups of men edvanced upon Washington from dif- ferent parts of the country. veterans | of the Great War, seeking to obtain from Congress an enactment giving them the remainder of their adjusted | compensation, or bonus, due in 1945 according to the previous legislation. They based their claim on their nceds, their lack of employment, their failure of hope for early succor from distress. In response to their demand th= House of Representatives passed the bonus payment bill but the Senate by a very large majority rejected it. Despite this Tejection, which definitely ended the chance of relief through this mcasure at the first session of the Seventy- second Congress, the bonus marchers remained and their ks were aug-| mented by new acrivals. Some came | only apout ten days ago, when there | was absolutely no prospsct of any | action. J Congress has now adjourned. There Is no probability of its reassembling in | extra session. All the urgent legicla- tion demanded by the economic condi- | tion of the country has been enacted. | Yet the leaders of the bonus “army avowed their determination to stay in Washington throughout the Summer and the Autumn, some in the hope that the President will summon Con- gress in extra session, some, without Tegard to that possibility, declaring that they will stay here in any case inas- much as they have no prospect of em- ployment at home and might as well sojourn in Washington as elscwhere. Thus far there have been no grave disorders as a result of the assemblage of these thousands of men in Wesh- ington. Their leadership has been effi- clent in restraining the ranks of the marchers from other than spectacular demonstrations, although on Saturday night a group of the more radical ele- ment undertook to picket the White House and were dispersed by the police with little difficulty. Today some of these malcontents demonstrated at the Police Court, where three of their | number had been taken in conse- quence of their actions on Saturday. Congress has pasced a joint resolu- tion providing funds out of the pro- spective bonus money for the trans- portation and subsistence on the way of such of these veterans as Wish to return to their homes. The time limit expiring on Thursday last has been ex- tended to & week from todsy. There is no reason Wky they should not all avail themselves of this opportunity. If they are urged by their leaders to refrain | from this aciicn, then, indeed, has their | guidance been evil. They cannot pos- sibly secure any advantage by remain- | ing. There are no public funds for | their maintenance here. There is no disposition on the part of the public | to assist them. They have been getting funds and supplies from some quarters, | moktly sympathizers with their plight | and purpoce, bub now that Congress ! has gone, and with it their last chance | of immediate or early legislative suc- | cess, it is probable that these resources will diminish and soon cease. | ‘Washington hopes and expects that | these misguided, deluded men will now | leave. It has treated them with toler- | ance, it has provided them with resting | piaces. It cannot provide them viet | emplorment and it cannot maintain | them. They have no gricvance against this community. They should no longer | visit it with the possibility of pesti- | lence, the risk of which lies in large gatherings of people without proper | food and adequate sanitation. If their | leaders with stubborn insistence con- | tinue their advice to remzin they should for their own sakes teke zdvan tage during this last week of the oppor- tunity to return to their homes with | greater facility and in better order, than in their futile advance upon the | Capital in a hopeless cause. | v ! The problem of accumulited wealth asserts itself in the case of France. How, to use the money for selfish satisfaction or for world philanthropy becomes one rightfully claiming attention of the best ' minds. — e ! accompenying unemployment, and the | toward balancing | budget. If the estimates of revenue and | relief program is evicence of the value | budget. | his way. | He proposed as a substitute the fur- | measure was strongly opposed by the | the ccnditions growing out of the busi- turned down the proposal that loans be made to private individuals by the Gov- ernment agency. The President re- ferred to that amendment especially as “the provisions for the establishment of a gigantic centralized banking busi- ness.” It was this proposal, known as the Garner amendment, which brought a sharp veto of the relief bill when it was first sent to the White House morc | than a week ago. The rellef bill is calculated to aid in the reconstruction of business and in the increase ©f employment. The two go hand in hand. The country is to be congratulawed that the Congress has finally passed this measure. If it has been unduly delayed, the country will | know where to place the blame for that | delay. o —— Congress Adjom"ns. The first session of the Seventy-Sec- | ond Congress, after nearly eight months | of labor, has ended. The great problems : which confronted the body when it met | e e s need for balancing the Governmont's budget in order to insure the credit and financial stability of the Nation. In the main, the Congress has carried out the program of relfef legislation laid down by President Hoover. Furthermgre, it has, by the enactment of additional tax legislation and by econcmies in goyern- mental expenditure, taken long steps the Government's of savings are correct, that desired end has been atcomplished. The session will be remembered both for the measure of co-operation between the Congress and the President in deal- ing with important measures and for the bitter conflict on other measures between the Chief Executive and the cgislature. Political control of the| Congress was divided, with the Dzmo- crats in charge of the House and the Republicans nominally in charge of the Scnate. A coalition of insurgent Re- publicans and Democrats in the Sen- ate was in position at any time to over- ride the administration forces. Under such circumstances, the fact that Mr. Hoover was able to prevail upon the Congress to write into legislation his of that program. The President fook a firm stand against various unsound proposals for | rellef, including direct appropriations to aid the di in the country. He argued that such donations would be in effect a Government dole, and that once saddled with the dole, this coun- try would be unable to shake it off. The Congress has added to the tax burden cf the people by upwards of a | billion dollars, in order to balance the It discarded the general man- ufacturers’ excise tax, to apply special excise or sales taxes on a small number of industries. In its efforts to bring about economy and reduction of gov- ernmental expenditures, the Congress put through the “economy bill,” de- signed to save the Government & total of $150,000,000. The President here had He set his face against hori- zontal cuts in the pay of Government employes, as he has opposed wage cuts in industry since the depression began. lough plan, by which the rates of p were retained, but the Government em- ployes were forced to take furloughs without pay. Efforts to have the Congress put through a bill to authorize the payment | of the soldiers’ bonus failed. The House, ! by a vote of 226 to 175, passed the bonus bill, but the Senate turned the measure down overwheimingly, 62 to 18. This President and by the Senate on ihe ground that it would be disastrous to the finances of the Government and would add to the burdens of the already tax-oppressed people, all of the important legisla- nacted was of an emergency and temporary nature. The Congress, in- deed, dedicated itself to dealing with ness depression, side-tracking at least temporarily railroad, public utility and anti-trust legislation, all of which wore pressing for considération and which would be permanent measures. It did, however, early in its session finally put through the Norrls resolution for an amendment to the Constitution doing away with the “lame duck” or short sessions of Congress. Already a dozei States have ratified the amendment. Although the prohibition question was constantly agitated in both houses of Congress, the Senate and House continued to vote “dry” except for the final vote in the Senate. On Saturday, by a vote of 37 to 21, the Senate agreed to take up the Glass resolution pro- posing repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment. Effort after effort was made to put through a measure to legalize beer. All were overwhelmingly defeated. The wets showed, however, gains in both the Senate and House as compared to carlier years. The closing hours of the session were marked with bitterness as the Senate and House wrangled over the relief bill, and the home loan bank bill, the last of the great measures in the Presi- dent’s program of relief. In the end, the House had fts way with the pro- posal that the loans made under the Reconstruction Finance Corporation be made public from time to time. The | relief measure was sent to the Presi- | dent containing the publicity clause, strongly opposed by the administration The Relief Bill. President Hoover, commenting upon the “relief bill” which passed Congress Saturday, expressed his appreciation for :nd Se ;‘;’ I:nmmil“d btmkb ‘::; w:‘l-l the leadership in both political parties | 56" b e ! i:‘;egi; A ;:o_ which finally whipped the bill into & sound measure. The country will have P2 ceuse also to be appreciative of these | T e efforts. The bill as it stands, soon to 1o spite of bold promises, Russia fas| become law when the President signs 85 Y€t bee_n unable o evolve a social | 1t, provides a fund of $300,000,000 which System With much in it worthy of i may be loaned to the States which are imitation by the rest of the world. unable to finance relief within their own | J’ e d borders. It also increases the field of ules Jussérand. operation for the Reconstruction Finance, America mourns the loss of & noble Corporation, making it possible to loan friend. Jules Jusserand is dead. The up to $1,500,000,000 for reproductive 8entle and gifted soul who represented construction work of public character, France at Washington for the better and further aid is provided for agricul- part of & quarter of a century passed ture. With this measure in operation, as on in Paris today. The end came in the President pointed out. there should the seventy-eighth year of a life un- e no danger whatever that any person commonly rich in human achievement. will suffer from hunger and cold in this The people of the United States stand country. | uncovered at Jules Jean Jusserand’s i THE E he was the republic’s effectisy, and be- loved envoy here. Accredited about the time Theodore Roosevelt became Presi- dent of the United States, there grew up between the two men a comrade- ship that ripened into a lifelong friend- ship. Jusserand and Roosevelt were members of the famed “tennis eabinet,” which was a factor in White House life taroughout “T. R.'s” reign. Ambassador and President were bound by intellec- tual ties and ideals that produced an enduring affinity. * Before coming to the United States as French envoy, M. Jusserand married a charming American wemen, the fore mer Miss Elise Richards. So he entered upon his mission here full panoplied to understand the American spirit and the American {deal. Ambassador Jusserand omitted no opportunity to pay knightly tribute to the helpfulness of his wife throughout the twenty-three fruitful years they spent together on the Po- tomac. They were years destined to culminate In the second alliance hos tween Jusserand’s France and the country he had com= to look upon al- mest as his adopted land. supreme satisfaction to him when in 1917 the battle flags of the two re- publics were unfurled In & common cause. Even if Jules Jusserand had not em- barked upon diplomacy as a profession, he would have shone in literature. In- deed, the writing art wgs his companion occupation, and innumecrable works in both French and English stand to his credit. The catholicity and range of his talent are irdicated by the titles of some of these books: “English Way- faring Life,” “The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare,” “A Literary His- tory of the English People” and “With | Americans of Past and Present Days. Many of cur great universities bestowed honorary degrees upon Jusserand. He was a favorite speaker at commence- ments and on other occasions. All America knew his voice and bearded mien. He rejoiced in his membership of the foremost learned societies of the United States. On all hands his wide scholarship was recognized and ac- | c1a'med, alongside his sleepless’ zeal in (1> cause of Franco-American friend- hin. Perscnifying the highest traditions of the cultural spirit, Jules Jusserand claims an imperishable place in Amer- jcan hearts. Our national life was en- | riched by his lengthy presence in our midst. To the gracious widow who sur- vives him American sympathy goes forth today in fullest meed. PSRN Wiser elements in both Chinese and Jspanese statesmanship may be dis- inclined to engage in sericus war at a time when the peace sentiment of the world is not quite sufficiently organized to step in and try to discover what inducements will part them. e Estimates of the amount of revenue to be derived from brewery taxes do not | acter that perhaps it is better to hold | politics, but also in attach much significance to the fact that many of {he most famous tax-free speakeasies are now found unable to pay their rent. R American statesmen have often been reminded that cn the eve of each elec- tion the eyes of the world are upon them. The assertion was never more to the point than it is this Summer. e So many citizens & financial promi- nence are frankly admitting / pecu- niary embarrassment that “depression” threatens to beccme positively fashion- able. o The literary custom of describing crowds as “milling” will be more encour- aging when the word refers to the conversion of abundant wheat into necessary ficur. ————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The July Journey. De lazy day come driftin’ along. De breeze is singin’ a lazy song. De sun rise slow foh to staht de day, And he takes his time as he slides away. So, whoa dar, mule! It’s a long, hahd climb. Mind yoh betters And take yoh time. De bird is a-swingin' on de limb 'Cause he ain't got nothin' a-botherin’ him. De fish is dozin’ in de stream Till a fly come droppin’ to 'sturb his dream. So, whoa dar, mule! 'Cause don't you see ‘When you pushes yohse'f, You's pushin’ me? Looking to the Future? “I guess I'll make a lawyer of Josh,” sald Farmer Corntossel. “But your wife wants him to be a physician.” “Yes. He's got to be a professional man and we'd want to show our con- fidence in him. And T think it would be a heap safer to take Josh’'s law than his medicine.” Unterrified. - “There are microbes in a kiss,”. sald the scientist. “I don't care,” replied the Summer resort beau. “A microbe can't be a witness in a breach of promise case.” Shameless Insect. The fly his impudence repeats In undisguised elation; He makes himself at home and eats ‘Without an invitation. Doubtful. “I suppose you read my speech,” said the etatesman. “Yes,” replied the constituent. saw it 1 the Record.” “Did you find it interesting?” “In a way. I've kind o' got a curi- osity to see the audience that provided all the laughter and applause you've got marked in it.” Getting His Measare. “Isn't that young man rematkably fond of outdoor sports?” “No,” replied Miss Cayenne. “He merely enjoys having his picture taken o1 Wisely the Congress, meeting the bier, sharing whole-heartedly in the views of the President, refrained from 'sorrow of the France he loved so pas- including in the relief bill provisions | sinately and served so long and ably. advocated by Speaker Garner and the, M. Jusserand came to Washington Democratic House, among them the | early in his career. Entering the diplo- 100,000,000 public charity or Govern- | matic service on attaining his majority, ment dole proposed as a substitute for | he was French Minister to Denmark they Government loans to States. It!for four years and then was promoted ellvnlm entirely the “poriggbarrel” to be Ambassador to the United States. in outing clothes.” Energetic Ignorance. The busy bee doth daily go To work with ardor undismayed. The silly creature does not know That it is 90 in the shade! “Imitatin’ de busy bee is all right” said Uncle Eben, “if & man is satisfied tohyuphmeytonm*e‘!m'mp It was a| VINTNG STAR, WASHINGTON, |-~ THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Conservatism is one of the old stand- bys in human character. A conservative is a man who prefers to use an old, scratchy pen instead of a smooth-writing fountain pen. He likes high-seated chairs, the sort | he was brought up on, in his younger | days, instead of these newfangled low- lying ones, If he is of a certain age, he dos not take kindly to telephones, especially to i the dial type, or these cne-handed ar- rangements. In his garden he sticks to the old | flowers, preferring them to any of the | novelties. He reads old books, such as the novels of Dickens, and even those of Bulwer-Lytton. In his house he likes best dark-col- ored walls, tans, greens, and the like. Older types of furniture secure his back appreciation. even if he has to go bacl o Colonial times for them. None of this “modernistic stuff” for He is, above all, suspicious of color, and giadly eschews ft. On principle he is instinctively afraid 1 of new things, new ideas, new scenes, ust because they are new. It will be realzed that here is a very common type of human being, in which | some of the good points and some of the bad points of humanity are wrapped up. No two conservatives are like, that is why it s rather futile, and somewhat .¢illy to lump them all off as “conserva- [ tives.” alone, as If there were some | deadly stigma attached to the very ! lnbel. Many a conservative is more radical than a radical, and, conversely, many a man who prides himself on being | “radical” is really at heart an ultra- conservative. There has been a great deal of loose | thinking and lnlk*g in America with | the one word “radical” occupying the center of the verbal stage. Ofien those who scream “radical” the stitutes radicalism. In their own very hearts and minds they may harbor {if their true nature could be pointed out to them. What these pecple need is better defi- nition, so that they will know what they are talking about, and just how far they go when they use words. It is an old need, not a new one, nor one confined to one word alone. In ordinary conversatien the word “progressive” is a much better word than “radical” It fits better as the antithesis of “conservative But the joke of the matter is that there is no such great cleavage at all; the very man who is so tremendously radical about his neckties, glorying in loud ongs, is one of the most con- servative men allve when it comes to his politics. The true conservative, utterly aside from things political. is he who believes in the things that have been, not 1 things as they will be, or might be. He does not like to experiment. He likes the present line-up, which is more or less satisfactory to him. Surely he has a right to his views. It not “sitting as pretty” as he would like to be, at least his position is not Ibad. and he feels with an old char- fast to that which he hath rather than {Tush into matters of which he knows little or nothing In this attitude it must be submit- ted that the conservative has a divine right; no smirch can fairly be plas- tered upon him because he chooses to reghrd matters in this light. His rewards come in familiarity, al- ways pleasing to men of his type. Lacking the experimenter temperament, he finds old things much more pleasing to his sight. In them he gets his reward. The true conservative carries his at- titude much farther into the smaller Congress is gone, unlamented and un- sung. Few outside its own membership deplore its departure. Could the country be polled, its verdict would un- doubtedly be: “Good riddance Yet, now that all is said and done, t's fair which wound up a sesslon of Seven dreary months were actually so bad as popular opinion painted them. Con- gress cannot legitimately be accused of lack of accomplisment since last De- comber. It idled and loafed on the job, but its final record is_one of monu- mental achivement. No session in peace-time history ever matched it. proper perspective of its work can only be had by remembering that Congress this year was called upon to enact al- most_exclusively emergency legislation. Before it got through it had voted roundly $4.500,000.000 of Federal funds, in outright money or Treasury credit. for relief of the Nation's unparalleled economic plight. Every branch of the country's life—finanical, industrial and agricultural—is revitalized by 1932 acts of 'Congress, | The mountain called Capitol Hill labored longer than often secmed necessary. _But history will 1y brought forth. EE Inevitably in a session compelled to concentrate on emergency necessities, much vital and fundamental legisla- tion was lgnored. Agriculture in par- ticular feels that it was the Cinderella of the session, despite the new millions voted for farm aid through the inter- mediate credit banks and for “agri- cultural credit corporations.” The transportation industry, hard hit by depression, waited in vain for Con- gress to euthorize the long-awaited trunk-line consolidation and pass other railroad measures. There was legisla- {tion affecting banks and the currency, but nothing as far-reaching and com- prehensive as financial authorities be- lieve to be necessary if the United States’ monetary system is to be placed on a thoroughly modern and sound basls. All these things, vastly important as they are, had to give away to the more pressing needs of retrenchment, revenue and relief. These were the all-dominating three Rs of the tempestuous session just ended. * % x % Hardly a single member cf Congress, Representative or Senator, Repub ican or Democrat, wends his way toward the folks back home with any assurance that his or her official career—in case he or she is up for re-election—will be prolonged. All Congress faces the ides cf November with cold feet. There is healthy realization of the fact that Congress is in wreng and in bad every- where. Hence, a corresponding dread that voters may go to the polls four months hence with blood in their eyes and Tuthlessly punish Congress as a whole, regardless of individual merits. Primaries all over the Union are pro- gressively indicating this revolt against the ins and a mounting passion to con- vert them into outs at the earliest possible moment. * x x % In the New York Times the other day was & cartoon of Senator Borah crouch- ing terrified in a shell hole labeled “In No Man's Land.” Over the Idahoan's leonine head Republican and Demo- cratic shells, marked “Liquor planks,” were sailing and screeching. The idea was that Borah's dislike of both parties’ prohibition attitudes leaves politi- cally stranded. This observer asked “Big Bill” i he’'d seen the cartoon. “Yes,” the Senator replied. “It reminds me of an old mini prospector they used to.tell about in Idaho in the days when Indians still spread terror through the West. The old man was warned that the redskins were on the war- mh.nfimthle‘hlm. He loaded shotgun and awaited the attack. . geatures of the Gamer bil, %%, and Uninterruptedly, from 1002 until 1025 ‘round fryin' fo sting somebodi . Maxt day the miner wes disconeeed loudest | haven't the slightest idea what con- | ideas at which they would be horrified | to ask whether the House and Senate | record that no mere mouse was eventual- | affairs of daily life than into the grand tactics of politics, ete. There are literally millions of men in this country, 50 years and older, | who insist on rasping away on paper with old-fashionad pens which rust | and sputter. " you mMdly suggest | that they purchase a fountain pen, for | their own satisfection, they shrug their shoulders. The pen manufacturers have scarcely tapped their market. - in the newer types of chairs, which are | | buflt much lower to the ground, with | lower backs. These chairs require that the intending sitter cast himself down with some abandon, and no doubt the “middle-oged” and thereafter refuse to | become abandoned, even when it comes | to sitting in chairs, | There is a great deal to be said for ‘lhne low-type chairs, however. Their | very atmosphere suggests the modern. .8 sty] | They are, above all, le in chalrs. They are tvpleal of this perlod. An- | other ‘decade. ana a return may be Tade fo ihe high-seated, high backed lounging chairs of 1910 to 1920 and thereabouts. The present chair radical, who revels in the low ones, then wili find himself a chair conservative! He | will refuse to become comfortable in | the “new” chairs with high seats and | will insist on his old, beloved chair of | the vintage of 1932, with its “old-fash- ioned” low seat. One of the queerest conservatives is | the older man who is suspicious of the | telephone, even after all these vears There are some men who do not take kindly to telephones. They incline to | shout over them, as if still doubtful | that the other party can hear them: | they regard the whole contraption as a | bit mysterious and tricky, to be ap- proached in a very firm manner. | The new dial phones came, to this | conservative, as just another sample of | radica'®m running hog-wild. What | yas the matter with the old type> | These new dials simply made the | do_the work, etc. g |~ In most cases this dangerously con- | servative fellow got over his pet grouch at the dials. but replaced it with a spe- “peeve” against the one-handed, or “continental type” instruments. Now he can tee no use for them. You us® orly one hand in handling the old | type, he voints out, correctly enough. The merits of the respective instrn- ! | ments. however. have little to do with | our case: the noint is that our friend | shows his conservative nature by re- | Jecting the “new-fangled” instruments, simply because they are new to him. He fs susnicious of new things on | principle. and in his defense. if defense is needed. it mav be stated that this is an attitude which is very much needed. as a rort of brake applled on | the “enthusiasms of the born nrogres- sive, or experimenter, or radical, if one insists. ; | Al Smith more or less summed the | matter up in his post-convention stat ment when he said: “We are living | under a svstem of two major political parties. The party out of power should constitute the check and audit upon the party in power.” | . We have no desire to apnly a parallel | here, excent in regard to the use of the | 1{d(‘a of two “n:fllf‘ " and the pecessity | | for one constituting a “check"” 1 | the other. ¥ g | Conservatives always thus keep check | upon those who are not conservative, | if we may put it that wav. not only in the thousand and 1 one walks of every day life, where the question of what eolor to paint the | kitchen wall may loom a great deal larger. for the moment, than the fate of nations. Many a human being can work him- |s°lf into & rage over the failure of a painter to secure the exact tint which he had visioned for his house, but | somehow fails to get excited over a | tale of cruelty and injustice. Are we not all conservatives and radicals upon oceasion, with the seeds of both In us, each waiting for a chance to sprout, according to the way life | treats us? WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. | the sagebrush somewhat disheveled, but alive and undaunted. ‘Well, did they | get you?' he wss asked. ‘They got mv |cabin’ he said. ‘but I got them. What do you make of that, Watson? * x ox x Everybody knows that Mrs. Garner is the “right-hand man” of the Speaker of the House and Democratic candidate for Vice President. Relatively few peo- /ple are aware that Representative Rainey of Illinois, Democratic House | majority leader, is similarly served by | his wife. Mrs. Rainey has been at her white-haired husband’s elbow ever since ‘ho entered public life in the Fifty-eighth | Congress. Researching on his behalf | has been her principal activity. She's ‘pal_'!n‘u!xrlv proud of having done the | investigatory work for the House Naval Affairs Committee that led up to_the |legislation for bringing John Paul ‘Junrs' remains back to this country and entombing them at Annapolis. | Mrs, Rainey says she never knew what | polities really is until she began func- | tioning as the House majority leader's | buffer during the late unpleasantness, * X x * Where do they get that stuff about Herbert Hoover's having no sense of humor? Three or four years ago he contributed a preface to a book on ‘indusmal progress. Last week a copy | reached the White House with a re- |quest for the presidential autograph. | The volume was returned with the | following inscription: “This is a book, except for the foreword. HER- BERT HOOVER." * X K x “Jim Jabs Jim” would be an appro- priate headline for the run-in_which Senator Watson had with Senator Couzens in the waning minutes of the session Saturday night. The Wolverine and the Hoosier went at each other hammer and tongs. though Watson kept his temper. Old-timers cannot recall an occasion when even a nomi- nal Republican like Courens publicly called for the defeat of a fellow Re- publican and the party leader at elec- tion time. The episode made “sen: torial courtesy” look a little bagey at the knees, * XX % Basil Manly, Washington representa- tive of the New York power authority. was one of the privileged few to invade the privacy of the Myth II as Gov. Roosevelt's yawl passed through the Cape Cod Canal to Buzzards Bay last week. Newspaper men trailing the yawl megaphoned the Governor to ask what Mr. Manly told him. “A lot.” was all Roosevelt Teplied. ““About. power?” the reporters persisted. “Yes," Governor. Roosevelt of it.” That ended the interview. supposition is that Manly supplied the Governor with the latest Washington low-down on the St. Lawrence water- way developments. (Copyright, 1932) Will Leaks Be Allowed? From the Nashville Banner. Often the same man refuses to sit | Connecticut, Everything considered, we are ponder- now and then over what the politi- cal effect would be if a Congressman were apprehended this Summer be- his trunk was leaking. ———— The Utopian Trend. Prom the Milwaukee Sentinel. Well, if it keeps up, we shall be in the long heralded Utopia, everybody working for the Government and no- body having any money. - ———— Garden Language. From the Escanaba Dally Press. ‘There are timesdwhen the amateur dener calls a s lot D. C, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1932. ! The Political Mill I By G. Gould Lincoln, For better or for worse, Congress has | quit and gone hcme. congressional tempers were strained al- most to the breaking point before the ! final gavel fell in both houses, and for a time it looked as though there would be no adjournment because of the bit- ter feeling engendered. When a Re- ublican Senator, even a Senator who as been; generally speaking, anti- administration, in open debate in the Kagn enemn T el Lut ensed o tns Republican side of the Senate that he Noges e LewOwas M we Repubu- ran lesAmeg home ftote—Indinna—will defeat him for re-election next Novem- ber, things are getting a bit rough. It's not a clubby thing, either from the standpoint of the G. O. P. or, indeed, of the Senate itself. But that is what happened Saturday night when Sena- tor Couzens of Michigan wished the Indian, or Indiana, sign on Senator “Jim”' Watson. Senator Couzens, by the way, has seen the Democratic tide vising in his own State. He does not have to run for Te-election himself this year and he stands pretty weil with the Democrats anyway, o e Senator Watson, however, has a real battle on his hands in the Hooslerdom. The signs of revolt against the Repub- lican party have been many in recent years in Indiana, and four years ago, even in the days of the great prosperity, the State might have gone Demceratic, because of local conditions, had the Democratic ticket been headed by an- other than Alired E. Smith. This year the ticket of the Democrats has a Roosevelt at its head. During many years, however, Senator Watson has campaigned up and down his State and he has a host of friends. Furthermore, the old factions which fought him in the past have come round to supporting Watson. What the Senator from Michi- gan said about Mr. Watson on Satur- day may be more helpful to the In- diana Senator than hurtful out in that State. But any way you look at it, if Senator Watson wins this year it will be by a narrow margin, and with the gdu:! apparently at this Wwriting againsi £ * F x % Benator Watson is one of many mem- Dbers of Congress who are going home now to mend their fences and who face hard fights in the coming campaign, Just how these returning Senators and Representatives will be received is a question—whether they be Republicans or Democrats. There has been a lot of criticism of the Congress in the last six_manths because of its slowness and obduracy. One-third of the member- ship of the Senate has to be re-elected and the whole membership of the House. To win control of the Senate the Democrats have to pick up cnly two seats now held by the Republicans. It it be a Democratic year, this will be an easy thing to do, with senatorial contests ccming in Indiana, Colorado, 1llinois, Washingls Ne- vada, for example, where Republican in- cumbents must fight to be returned. * x ok x ‘The blow has fallen. The Senate on Saturday voted by a considerable majority to take up for consideration the Glass resolution calling for the re- peal of the eighteenth amendment. Nothing that has happened in these last months, and plenty has happened, is a better indication of the great wet sweep of sentiment. The vote was 37 to 21 to take up the resolution, and undoubtedly had it come to a vote in the Senate the resolution would have received a majority vote, though wheth- er it would have received a two-thirds vote, the necessary vote to put through a resolution proposing a constitutional amendment is another thing. It missed having two-thirds on the motion to take it up by a couple of votes only. The Glass resolution, it is true, follows more closely the Republican platform than the Democratic on the liquor ques- tion. But nevertheless the Democrats rallied to it pretty thoroughly, with 20 Senators voting for taking up the reso: lution and only 4 against it. The Re- publicans, on the other hand, were much more evenly divided, with 16 for the resolution and 17 against it. If the Democrats wished, as they probably did, to show the country that they were really in favor of doing away with the rohibition amendment and that the epublicans were not, they helped to paint that picture on Saturday. Per- haps they felt it necessary to do some- thing about it in view of the refusal of the Democratic Senators to support the Bingham beer bill a few days earlier, although _the Democratic platform promises the people beer immediately. x x % x Among the 20 Democratic Senators who voted for taking up the Qlass re- peal resolution were plenty of Southern Senators. Indeed. Senator Glaes him- self is a Southerner and reted for years a confirmed dry. Voting with him were other confirmed drys, includ- ing McKellar of Tennessee, Barkley of Kentucky, who' used to make speeches for the Anti-Saloon League; Black of Alabama, Ashurst of. Arizona, Neely of West Virginia and Fletcher and Tram- mell of Florida. A prohobitionist must rub his eves in wonder when he reads this array of Senators voting for repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, on Friday lashed into the Republicans and ridiculed Senator Bingham's beer bill. offered as an amendment to the home loan bank bill and to almost every other piece of legislation considered. Senator Harrison had explained to the Senate and to the Republicans that the Democratic wet plank, adopted in Chi- | cago, was intended to be a guide in the coming National campaign, and that it was not intended to pledge the mem- bers of the present Congress at the session just closed to vote for beer or repeal of the eighteenth amendment. On Saturday, however, his Democratic colleagues secmed to take a different view of the matter and valliantly went to the front for the wet cause. This made Senator Bingham inquire what Senator Harrison had meant when he said that the Democratis were not bound at that time by the platform plank on prohibition. Scnator Harrison, however, in his address to the Senate, made it clear that he expected the Democrats to carry out the pledge in their prohibition plank if they win at the polls next No- vember He said: “No one ever dreamed that the ques- tion would come up fin this session of Congress, and from & Democratic standpoint it would be a foolish thing for us to try to take action now. Let those who want to modify, whether it be in Connecticut, or up in Rhode Island, or in New Jersey, those who want_the Volstead law modified, vote the Democratic ticket, vote for the platform that insures that; and after the 4th of March, if they will give us enough votes here, we will put it over for them.” * ok x % Among" those Senators who are off to the Middle West to take political stock is Sehator Stith W. Brookhart of Towa. Senator Brookhart, one of the Republican Progressives, was defeated in the Republican primary for renomina- tion by Henry Field, who has sold seeds and overalls to farmers and has talked to them by the radio for years, Brook- hart is considering running as an inde- pendent in the Senate election. He has been told by some of his friends that he has & good chance in such friends of Mr. Brookhart insist, i8 a Joke as & senatorial candidate, and that the Republican regulars went too far when they cast_their votes for him in the primary. What the regulars had intended to do was to force the nomi- nation of a Senator in the State Re- publican Convention, which they hoped to control. - Now, it is said, they are repenting. ‘The Democratic nominee is wringing wet, Louis Murphy, & news- paper publisher. Democyats have been pretty flat in Towa for a long time. So Brookhart is going back home to think things over and to sound out senfiment. The date for filing as an independent candidate is not more than 60 and less than 40 he Novem! | end hilarity of a campeign th: not ; felt_he had ber ' made his ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘Take advantage of this free service. again. I you have never' used the service, begin now. It is maintained | for your benefit. Be sure to send your | name and address with your question, and inclose 3 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Address the 1/ash- | ington Star Information Bureau, Fred-| eric_J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q What is the basis for the idea some people have that if a bridge player gets a hand that has neither an ace nor a face card in it he may de- | mand a new deal?—C. L. | A. It was probably handed down as| one of the traditions of the game of whist, and it is ible that in some pleces some people did play whist on that basis. However, there was never such a rule in the laws of whist, bridge, auction bridge or contract bridge. Q Who was the first base ball cditor?—W. E A"The late ex-Senator Willlam Cauldwe]l, editor and proprietor of the old New York Bunday Mescury, was the first man to write up and print anything on base ball. His articles were first published in 1853. Every- thing relating to base ball prior to that time is merely hearsay. Q. To what use can reindeer skin be put?—T. T. A. The skin makes a fine type of | leather, suitable for _gloves, riding | breeches and purses. The hair is long and can b2 u.cd for the making of mattresses. Q. How did Conrad Hubert make his | money?—S. T. A. Conrad Hubert, who left $6,000- 000 of his $8.000,000 estate to charity. | was the inventor of the flashlight. He developed and promoted its manufac- ture, and entered many other related flelds of manufacturing. When two or more pronouns form the subject of a sentence which ones should be first?—A. C. A. An authority on correct English speaks as follows in regard to the posi- tion of personal pronouns connected by the conjunction. “When two or more personal pronouns in the singular are connected by ‘and’ the second person precedes the first and the third, and the third person precedes the fi when the pronouns are used together in the plural number, the first person precedes the second and the third. and the second person precedes the third.” Q. Are edible? -D.N A, The meat of the cygnet or youne swan reatly esteemed delicacy and “swanpits” are maintained for the fat- tening of these birds. A royal license | is required for the keeping of swans | in England, the birds formerly having | been exclusively the property of the Crovn. Q. What is the meaning of A. P. A.? J. D A The abbreviation A. P. A. stands for American Protective Association. Q. Is Czechoslovakia densely popu- lated?—S. T. E. A. The country is slightly larger than ‘Wisconsin and has five and a half times the population of that State. Villages and_towns are about 2 miles apart, and cities of 15,000 to 30,000 population are encountered about every 15 miles. The average size of farms is about 25 acres. . How many people in the United | States have defective speech?—L. B. D. | A. It is estimated that at least| 1,000,000 persons have some form of speech disorder, and of these approxi- | mately 500.000 are school children who | stammer or stutter. swans considered Q. Why was the dollar bill having Benatorial and If you ere one of the thousands who |a picture of History Instructing Youth have patronized the bureau, write us|withdrawn from circulation?—A. K. A. The certificate is of the series of 1896, which had as the ornamental pic- ture the figure of a woman pointing out to a child the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution, of course, was in very fine letters, so fine, in fact, that only with the aid of a powerful magnifying glass could the letters be deciphered. The word, tranquillity, was misspelled, only one “1” being used. Be- cause of this and other defects, t misspelling not being most important, the certificates were withdrawn from circulation. Q. What is the inside of a loaf of bread called—the part that is not the crust?—F. R. A. Tae soft, inner part of the loaf, as distinguished from the crust, is called the crumb. Q. What composer has been called "The Man of a Thousand Melodies?"s A P¥anz Schubert has been so called. although the Etude in writing of this says that it is “a libel upon his enor- mous fecundit ter be termed because he might bet- he man of two thousand melodies.” It is probable that ho other composer of history produced 50 many #hemes, many of which are immortal. Q. When was Cumberland Gap dis- covered?—G. 8. A. Daniel Boone discovered this pase sageway throuzh the mountains in 1769 while on a hunting trip. Six years later he 2nd his companions blazed a trail through the gap. which was after- ward known as the Wilderness road and played an important part in the Civil | Var, Q. How can we know that stars are still in existence when it takes so many years for their light to reach us?— LCV A. The N: we do not kn which we see is now actu: ence; but the continued e: stars genera no cause is cease to € al Observatory says that w positively that any star ly in exis rn language is most The modern E h language has bly ilary than any of t other spoks languages and therefore is more fitted to expr the many and varicus shades of meanings of one’s thoug Q. Do States supy —J IR A. “Some States supply occasionally to z00s, 2s do also some of the national parks. Q. How much money do Am women spend in retail stores?—W. A. The Department of Commerce de- clares that cut of a total of $53.000.- 000,000 spent in American retail estabe ents women spent $40,000,000,000. What is the interpretation of the etching “Melancholia,” by Alfred Durer? —A. R. L A. Endless speculation has been aroused by this most famous of Durer’s engravings, but, in spite of many theories advanced as to its meaning, it remains to this day an unsolved enigma. Q. How are the Washington family Bible and the Mertha Washington prayer book protected?—B. L. N. A. Thero were constructed for them made frames in which they scaled under giass animals to zoos? an specia ere 1 identical wit of the Declaration of Independence. Q. What is dactylograph: A. It is the scientific s { prints as a means of iden Upshaw _é;llled Ideal Leador Of Prohibition in Campaign Nomination of former Representative Upshaw of Georgla as the Prohibition Eurty's candidate for President is ailed by the Nation as most appro- priate. The militant Atlanta orator is credited with conspicuous zeal for the cause and rated as an_untiring advo- cate of the dry law. Suggestion that he may retire in favor of Senator Borzh arouses universal skepticism. becausz of the latter’s long affiliation with the Republizan party. “Upshaw will add in large measure to the picturesqueness and the harard glittering and _glam cutting curlicues in the dri of our politics and traditions.” in the opinion of the Columbia (S. C) Stat which also comments “If Upshaw himself In this campaign. the country | may confidently etpect the most turesque scrimmaging from stump, platform, pulpit znd every form of hustings that it _has witnessed since Old Hickory or Uncle Abe faced and mocracy. For he is what they call gui generis. a law unto himself. Fiuent a tin whistle, he is never at a loss { a word, or for long strings of words. | He has been harangving all his life, Whether shrilly espousing some reform in the red hills of Georgia or trying to elevate the House of Represen‘~ives during those four terms of whiihemt cnthusiosm in the cause of prohibi- tion.™ “Like & wraith from the past.” savs the Springfield (Mass) Union, “the figure of former Congressman Upshaw has emerged into the limelight as the Prohibition party’s nominee for Presi- dent. In national convention assembled at Indianapolis the small, but unterri- fied dry party by a vote of 74 for Upshaw to 62 for his nearest competitor has pinned its presidential label on the proud bteast of the stormy petrel of the Democratic minority in_ Congress from 1919 to 1927 and former high light of the Anti-Saloon League. Unless Up- thaw has changed remarkably since his unappreciative Georgia constituents re- tired him from public life six years ago, the Prehibition party might search far and wide without finding a more picturesque and colorful stndard bearer. 2"+ +THis reputation for vitriolic oratory promises some lively campaign- ing. espectally if he devotes some at- tention to certain dry notables, such as Dr. Clarence True Wilson, Deets Pickett and Dr. Dinwiddile, who have heen rether indifferent. if not actually hostfle. to the idea of launching a dry ticket.” “As for the effect of the Unshaw oratory,” says the Baltimore Sun. “there may be sonmre question. With Senator Borah as a candidate. the drvs might really hope to drum up a substantial following bv November, for whatever may be said of Jis inconsistencies. it cannot be denied that the Senator from Ideho carries great weight. But with Upshaw as the head of the ticket the prospect for a huge mobilization of prohibition votes is by no means bright The Prchibition party has never en- joyed the suffrage of more than 300.000 citizens in any presigential campaign. It may get a much lafger number in a year in which the major parties seem to have the drys on the run, but it cision. It takes only a thousand sig- natures on a petition for filing an in- dependent candidacy for Senator in Towa. One Tammany Democrat is extremely sore with the vice presidential nomi- nee of the Democratic party, Speaker John N. Garner. He is Representative O'Connor of New York, ranking Democratic member of the Rules Com- mittee. He is sore, among other things. because Mr. Garner when he left Wash- ington Saturday efternoon to go to Texas named McDuffie, an Alabama Democrat, to preside over the House instead of picking Mr. O'Connor, who a prior right. O'Connor I known vocally on cowed to their will the unterrified de- | would have to accumulate strength like a snowball to cut any really formidable figure in November.” ng_the Prohibition Roanoke Times, rprohibitionists is r that banner. This newspaper, for hails Mr. Upshaw’s nomination with satisfaction and approval. He is one who does not merely skulk and show his teeth, as does Borah. but he has he ¢ of his con tions, though knowing well that these co! tions run counter to those held by a majority of countryme: Upshaw has legisiation. H dent on the fectly logical.” , iy ¥ d to the n Borah, if s it.” thinks the Buffalo while the Akron Beacon Journal declares: “The Nation has not forgotten the effort made when Georgia's Representative in Congress to persuade his colleagues to be as dry b! as their votes the name r because he them entreat- gn a total a ence paper. had followed his counsel it ter have become the charge at Southern ports to look the other way when dry con- gressmen came back home with lea ing suitcases from junkets to wet na tions. To derrick such an enthusiasm from the ticket in the name of party expediency will do the cause a Violent wrong. and we hope he is permitted to follow through to the end. He may not get many votes, but flaming zeal in missioning effort will be rewarded. Be- | sides. whatever courted vanity takes his place will get a beating.” \ “Accepting the Prohibition nomina- | tion.” remarks the Morgantown Do- | minion-News, “stalwart Upshaw auick- | 1y pledged himself to withdraw if Sena- tor Borah or some other outstanding figure should agree to lead a third party dry campaign. Here is an authentic | examole of the sacrifice supreme. Here is_demonstrated the capacity for self- | effacement of a true devotee of The | Cause. Considered rationally. of course, | Mr. Upshaw sacrifices nothing by a ‘pomb]e withdrawal. If there ever was a time in the recent history of this country when a Prohibition third vartv hasn't the ghost of a show to get to | first base, that time is now, when anti- prohibition sentiment approaches | peak.” | “Assuming that he will stick on the | ticket, Mr. Upshaw shou'd be in nis { element during the next four months | he has been a professional prohibition- ist time whereof the memory of man | runneth not to the contrary.” says the Birmingham Age-Herald. _As to Sena- tor Borah, the Newark Evening News | voices the iudement: “When the peo- | ple of the United States arise in their wrath, fired by a great moral indigna- tion, and defy the Republicans and the Democrats to force beer down their throats and revive the forgotien and forbidden trade in alcoholic beverages | against the express will of | people—then Mr. Borah | President. And probably be elected, too. That will be the same vear that the pecple rise and demand bigger taxes, lower pav for longer working hours, snow on the Fourth of July and poison ivy as the national flower.” —— e eattee A Chance for a Pioneer. From the Forth Worth Star-Telesram. The pioneers are not all gone. There is another one in the offing. He will Dbe the bird who opens a studio for the teaching of the first 10 incorrect ways of playing contract bridge. Classifying Columbus. From the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Herbert Spencer Dickey insists that good explorers do not have adventures. Which leads us to wonder whether istopher Columbus was & bum ex- S Ly | Prohibitic any one w Evening them to If they would not of customs officer its