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A8 —_—— THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASBHINGTON, D. C. ‘WEDNESDAY. +.July 20, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor per Company 1 3 New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t. Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Building. | European Office 14 Regent 8t., London, i Rate by Carrier Within e Evenine A ar he Evening and Sin (when 4 Sundays The Lvening and S (when 5 Bundays) . at The Sunday Star Orders may be sent NAtional Collection made 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dafly and Stnday.....1yr. $10.00; 1 mo., 8¢ Daily only I1yr. 3600; 1 mo.. 50¢ nday only Bu yr. $4.00. 1 mo.. 40c All Other States and Canada. ally and Sunday..1 aily orly .. Sunday only Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Prass is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news ri: atches ited to it or not otherwi ted in *this paper and also the loca! rews published herein. All rights of publication of #pecial dispatches herein are also reserved. — —— A New Link With Canada. Ever since the peace of Ghent, Bri- tons and Americans have rejoiced in the unbroken century and a quarter of tranquility which has prevailed along the unfortified border between the | Dominion of Canada and the United States—a model of neighborly living for & world loath to abandon faith in guns as a guarantee of good behavior along | common frontiers. In Washington this| weck a 181-mile link was forged in the | chain of Canadian-American amity and friendship. when the long-pending St. Lawrence Waterway treaty was signed. Thus is insured the cventual con- gtruction of a great water highway from the Atlantic to the uppermost reaches of the Great Lakes. It makes @ lively appeal to the imagination to conjure up the vision, planned to be- come a reality within ten years, of ocean liners entering the American continent at Montreal and taking their course unimpeded to Chicago, Duluth and in- termediate points. Immense as the Panama Canal project was, the St.| Lawrence-Great Lakes “ditch” dwarfs | 1t in magnitude, the $500,000,000 joint cost of the Canadian-American ship- way being just double the outlay on the Isthmian enterprise. Its completion will be a towering monument alike to English-speaking statesmanship and engineering skill. A subcommittee of the United States Senate is about to institute a compre- hensive survey of the tre: as a pre- liminary to its necessary ratification by the Senate, as well as by the Canadian Parliament.. Objections are already certain. On this side of the St. Law- rence New York State requires assur- ance that its rights are fully safe- | guarded, both with respect to its finan- cial contribution to construction costs and utilization of the almost limitless | hydroelectric energy to be developed from impounded waters. It was regard- ing these questions that Gov. Roosevelt | vainly sought a conference with the | President, but which Mr. Hoover right- 1y pointed out were issues that would arise only after a treaty with Canada was signed. The Ottawa government also faces a | ratification tussle. Premier Taschereau of Quebec threatens to take the whole affair to the Dominion courts. Quebec's mighty ocean port of Montreal natural- 1y looks askance at a development | bound to rob it of a good deal of its | prestige as the Atlantic-side gateway to Canada and far western North America. Railroads in both countries will no | dcubt protest, too, for freight-carrying | from the heart of the continent to the | sea is obviously on the threshold of | Tevolutionary developments. In acclaiming “the greatest internal {mprovement yet undertaken on the| North American Continent,” President Hoover recalls “the many and extremely complex engineering, legal, commercial and international problems that have been worked out by the representatives of both countries in a spirit of co- operation of which all North America can be justly proud.” The people of the United States will follow the physical materialization of the St. Lawrence ‘Waterway during the years just ahead | in the same spirit of pride, conscious | that it typifies a work of immeasurably practical value for both ourselves and our great neighbor to the north. eee—an Whether distant relatives of the late | ‘Theodore Roosevelt care for one another in current politics should not become too conspicuous a questicn. It would | be indeed undesirable to allow an argu- ment, already so complicated, to take on, in any degree, the aspect of a family quarrel. the City. 45¢ per month ar ) .........60c per menth unday’ Siar .65¢ oer month .5¢ per copy cach month. he end of in by mail or telepnone 00 i5c 50c o S Political spellbinders will be alter- nately pointing with pride and viewing with alarm this Summer at a rate to cause considerable confusion in the public mind. ] Running True to Form. Mayor James J. Walker of Greater New York has acquired a reputation as the tardiest municipal executive in America. Throughout his six and & half years of service at the City Hall he has been late for appointments so persistently that when by rare chance he has been on time for a meeting or a conference or some other engage- ment the happening has been regarded as news of first page importance. This trait of tardiness is now again in evidence. A few days before he went to Chicago as a delegate to the Demo- cratic National Convention he received & letter from Gov. Roosevelt asking him to reply as soon as. possible to the charges that had been filed with the Governor by the counsel for the Legis- lative Investigating Committee, who demanded his removal from office. The Governor set no date for the reply, but asked that it be submitted as quickly as possible. The mayor, with discreet lack of precision, announced that he would place the document in the Gov- ernor’s hands immediately after the convention. His friends said that at Jeast a week would be required to shape the response. A week passed and there was nothing doing. Inquiry was made and it was stated that the preparation of the mayor's case would take about two weeks in all. That fortnight has now elapsed and still the Governor awaits the mayor's answer. A third week has gone and the fourth is half over Intimation has ccme frem Albany fhe Governor is annoved at this that @alay and is preparing to make & | presumed he knows what he is talking {formal demand that the response be in his hands not later than next Mon- day, four weeks from the date of the mayor's return. When told of this hint of the Governor’s impatience, the mayor said: “The chances are that in any event the reply will be on the Gov- ernor’s desk by Monday; if he wants it on Monday I can see no reason why he can’t have it.” The impression at the City Hall, it is now reported, is that the document will probably be sent to Albany on Friday or Saturday. ! If so, this will be a fairly good record for the chronically tardy mayor. There are indications that the Governor wants to get this case settled quickly, to clear his desk of the most important plece | of State business now pending in order to devote himself to his presidential campaign, in which the Walker affair will probably figure largely, whatever the decision may be. ] Publicity of Loans. To publish or not to publish the | loans made by the Reconstruction Fi- nance Corporation in its efforts to aid banks and others becomes & burning question, so burning that Speaker John N. Garner himself may be called upon to settle it. Mr. Garner, it will be re- | called. was a sponsor for the publicity amendment now in the relief bill, which the President is soon to sign, providing for the publication of loans made by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. It would be strange, in- deed, if the Speaker did not lift up his voice and demand that the loans be published every month, especially strange in view of his apparent willing- | ness to take the lead on all occasions in this coming presidential campalgn. | Despite the really serious question involved, the situation arising in con- nection with the publicity clause in the | relief bill is not without its amusing | |side. Mr. Garner at the eleventh hour, after all the Democrats of the House had agreed to draft and support a bill in conformity with the recommenda- tions of President Hoover, emerged with the publicity amendment. Mr. Garner may have had nothing to do with origination of the amendment. Indeed, it has been rumored that the amend- ment, designed to offset the use of the | Reconstruction Finance Corporation and its loans as a valuable adjunct to the Republican campaign, was sug- gested to Mr. Garner by no less a person than the presidential nominee of the Democrats himself, Gov. Roose- velt of New York. And possibly the idea was presented to Gov. Roosevelt, it is said, by a more astute political brain. However, the Democrats lined up ! solidly for Mr. Garner and his amend- ment and there was a sprinkling of recruits from among the Republican progressives, The House stood firm. In the end the Senate and the administra- tion swallowed the publicity clause, be- lieving that the passage of the relief bill was of paramount importance. But before the gulp, the Senate, through its Democratic leaders, includ- ing Robinson of Arkansas, Glass of Vir- ginia and Wagner of New York, assured the Senate and the country that there could and would be no publicity of loans made by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation during the recess of Con- gress, since the reports of these loans would merely be received by the secre- tary of the Senate and the clerk of the Hcuse and held in confidnce until some action was taken by the two Houses, individually, to make these loans public or to withhold them. In view of the attitude of the House Democratic lead- ers, the Senate ostrich appeared to be sticking its head in the sand. And so it has turned out, seemingly. For Repre- sentative Rainey of Iilinois, the Demo- cratic floor leader of the House, has boldly asserted that if the clerk of the | Heuse does not make these loans avail- abl for publication in the newspapers as soon as he receives a report of them, it will be much worse for the clerk. Mr. Rainey has had a hard time keeping up with all the turns of Speaker Garner's mind during the past session. But it is | about this time. So the illuminating picture may be presented of the Senate withholding publication of reports of the Recon- struction Finance Corporation loans while the House hands them over to/ the newspapers. President Hoover, if | he desires, probably could beat the House to it, for under the law the re- ports of the loans are to be made also to him. Many bankers have urged that the publication of these loans to banks would be detrimental, possibly causing runs on the banks making loans and thus pre- venting the relief which Congress is seeking to extend. Furthermore, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is: to have under the new law a board of directors composed of four Democrats and four Republicans. It has been re- ported that the President has desired to place a very eminent Democrat at the head of the corporation, Owen D. Young of New York. In these circum- stances, it does not seem likely that the G. O. P. could use the corporation and : its loans for campaign purposes. But] Mr. Garner doubtless will think other- wise. — e While apparently content to let the prohibition argument go on without his personal assistance, Senator Borah makes it plain that he will not lose in- terest in his regular job as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee. N Sentiment against weapon carrying is no longer a matter simply of local concern, but extends itself to a demand for international regulation. Tunney Leads With His Left. Gene Tunney, former Marine and former world fistic champion, has taken the stump for Gov. Roosevelt's elec- tion for President. He made his po- litical debut yesterday at Columbia, Conn., where he addressed a garden party of the Connecticut Federation of Democratic Women's Clubs. He spoke as an adopted son of Connecticut, and he spoke as a lifelong Democrat. After his speech he wrote his name for ad- miring autograph collectors and a pleasant time was had by all. Mr. Tunney has made great strides since his defeat of Jack Dempsey for a brief enjoyment of the championship title. He has acquired an intellectual stand- ing by a talk at Yale on Shakesperean literature. He has married into an eminent social position. He has trav- ! this Summer. i Sorghum. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, “‘EI).\'ESD.\Y, JULY 20, 19 He is a fine figure of & man, has a good voice and, it is re- ported, speaks freely and forcibly. Of course, he is well versed in economic questions. The expedition which he displayed in acquiring a comprehensive grasp of the most complicated literary question the world knows, that of Shakespearean authorship and signifi- cance, has been manifested in the study of the issues of this campaign. But he does not let his knowledge of these profundities lead him into mere gen- eralities. He gets down to brass tacks. He goes after the solar plexus of the opposition. He says: There is, my friends, & lot of hokum in the Republican party. We must not let the Republicans get the jump on us. ‘The country is tired of Republican pros- | perity. With all of our shoulders to the wheel. the victory of the Democratic party now seems assured. With these inspiring words Mr. Tunney starts his fight for the leader of his party. Well may the Republicans quall in apprehension of the force of this crusader for the forgotten man. — e Some Chicago Financing. Chicago's pitiable financial plight, with several thousand municipal em- | ployes suffering from arrears of pay owing to the strike of taxpayers, who dispute an assessment of several years ago, has caused keen distress. School teachers, policemen, all grades of city workers have been waiting for many months for their salaries, with occa- sional doles of small amounts to meet their most pressing needs. Now a case has occurred which shows up the sorry business in its worst light. A city elec- trical inspector to whom is owed some $850 in back salary has lest his home for failure to pay & tax bill of $34. A foreclosure sale has been held and now the former owner can redeem his prop- erty, which he has developed into a most attractive place, only by paying | not only the back taxes, but six per cent interest on it, together with twelve per cent to the purchaser at the tax sale and all reinstatement charges. If and when he gets his back salary, how- ever, the city will not pay him interest for the period of its delinquency. This is & problem in civic finance which passes understanding. ——— Aviators and athletes are particu- larly fortunate in times such as these in being able to command the cheers of the multitude without expressing any political bias whatever. e Uncle Sam must submit to being called Uncle Shylock, even though he acted on generous impulse in lending money and is most anxicus to guard against sacrifice of human life. History repeats itself in the case of | old John Barleycorn, who despite as- sumptions of geniality proves on oc- casion a rough politician. Victorious Communism in China would introduce some new and interest- ing complications into Japan's suspected plans for future Asiatic relationships. ——or—s. A frank inclination is shown to re- frain from extending the sympathy felt | toward the empty market basket to the empty “pork barrel. — vt Adjournment does not stop the argu- | ment by any means. Members of Con- gress are now talking things over with | their constituents. . SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Day’s Sport. It's fun to go a-fishing when the day is bright and warm, When the clouds float high and fleecy with no threatening of storm, When the waves were softly plashing 'gainst the bottom of the boat And the sunbeams in the water look | like diamonds efloat. It's fun to fling the line into the water | and to see The bubbles rising to make plain just where your hook may be. And you feel a placid patience as you idly sit and wait And wonder if some foolish fish will nibble et your bait. It doesn’t really matter if the fish refuse | to bite, | Provided only that the lazy day is warm | and bright; In fact, 'mid your enjoyment of the | zephyr and the shine | It seems an interruption to be pulling | in a line. And so it is a joyous and a profitable day, E'en though when homeward bound I have no trophies to display And everything is peaceable and friendly as can be. I have no grudge against the fish and they have none toward me. | Exhausting Experience. “What's the matter with our morose friend?” “Political indigestion,” replied Senator “The pork barrel and pie counter were too much for him.” True Devotion. “Of course, you love your country?” “Love my country! Didn't I go abroad | once and then turn 'round and face sea- | sickness all over again in order to get back to it?” The Heathen. Though the heathen may rage And in conflict engage, You've got to admire Their warm weather attire. Elevated. “You say our friend is rising in politi- cal life?” “Yes. He's rising, all right. He used to be on the level, and now he's known as the man higher up.” A Lucky Genius. “Did you writc that beautiful song entitled, ‘Welcome, Merry Sunshine’?” “I did,” replied the popular bard. “Well, you're lucky. Any man who could write that never had a good re- liable case of sunburn or lived in the vicinity of the kiosk, where the tem- perature went to ninety and over.” The Champion Busy Thing. The honey bee, he hath a way To his employer’s liking; He works all day nor talks of pay And never thinks of striking. “De man dat puts in & lot o' time, eled widely, and now he blossoms forth as a political campaigner. He may be a drawing card at Democratic rallies braggin' 'bout his family,” said Uncle make his family. brag. ‘Raut hlm.” 39 2. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. People who insist on being “cute” at | any cost, especially in their writing, Many of them do not read at all, if they can get out of it, and are willing whether in letters or otherwise, are |to admit, if you pin them down, that always a bore to serious-minded per- sons. The aspiration to be thought clever has even invaded women's cooking recipes in the world which a mere male, | chancing to pick up one of the big | high school “woman’s magazines,” find attempted wit. | Yet there it was, right in the middle | of a recipe for chocolate ice cream. | “Whip these ingredients,” it went on, | “until they are old friends.” | This is about the last place | who have been ' they get a great deal more “kick” out of looking at good illustrations of all sorts. Then there are all these good people going to read” certain books for years on end. Maybe since days. Somehow they would expect to | pever “get around” to them, and the years slip by with the masterpiece un- read. To date it has not seemed that the masterpiece minded, in the least. The incipient reader, however, ought to mind. Occasionally he may. Then Up until the past few years no self- | he takes down the book, with a con- respecting originator of ~such things | would have wrilten more than “Whip | well.” It may be submitted, respectfully, | that “Whip \well” would have been | quite enough, and entirely to the point. | How did the “old friends" part of it | help the product any, or even the read- ing of the recipe? All it did, to many a reader, we are convinced, was to leave a bad taste in the mouth, for, as an ancient once said, there is a time for everything. There is a time for serious I'l'ltll’l!'} and there is a time for cleverness. Surely the trick, if one may call it that, of introducing one sort where an- | other naturally belongs, is a somewhat | cheap one, making an appeal mainly to those whose bent of mind is frivolous, | or whose mind is jaded. There is simply no need, in the writ ing of cookery recipes, and in hundreds of other endeavors, for that matter, for the introduction of attempted witti- cisms. Wit and humor have their place, but not in chocolate ice cream, or in sugar cookies, or corned beef and cabbage or the like. What these things need is plenty of good ingredients, plus skilled, even in- spired, cookery. It requires plenty of inspiration to make hot baking powder biscuits right, and even more to master the intricacies of good mashed potatoes. As a lover of these and similar delica- cies, the writer here has eaten them as prepared in many places, by all types of cooks, and is here to say that not once in a hundred plattersful does any human being eat mashed potatoes “as is” mashed potatoes. Many ultimate consumers think they are eating them, when the honest truth is that they have never tasted them as done properly, and, therefore, have no background for an intelligent apprecia- tion of the real thing. Now properly prepared potatoes, in any of the multitudinous forms in which this tuber may be served, are a neces- sary knowledge if one aims to pass judgment on separate turnouts of them If one has not eaten anything but lumpy mashed potatoes, he will not resent lumps, will he> He will think that somehow lumps are essential, and may even go to the extent of refus- ing smooth, creamy ones. if offered him. At the least, he will be able to see no difference. Consistency, however, is only one of the many elements which enter into better mashed potatoes. The blend of the seasoning must be just right, an- other mystery which no amount of “cute sayings” will supply. Stubborn attempts to be “funny.” in any sort of writing, on a subject where there is no particular amount of humor resident naturally, are apt to pall. Perhaps they are designed for the jaded reader, who has got to that un- happy point in life where the old lure of the printed word begins to go back on_him This is & sad state of affairs, little | recognized, and often overthrown by the mind, once it is recognized. This ‘means simply that the mind, which, through the eyes, does the world's reading. often refuses to admit the possibility of the reading faculties be- ing jaded. in any serious sense. Yet there is no fact more evident than that many people, even comparatively young persons, are permanently Jaded in their reading tastes, trite heart, and proceeds to attempt to read it. But he finds the old delight gone, where old delights go. Valiantly he tries to bring himself back to the old-time zest in the writ- ten word. His efforts are useless. The shouting and the tumult of words dies, | just where, in the march of his years, he does not know, but know he does that the strange light which illumi- | nated words in the old days is no more for him, except upon occasion. It is a sad revelation he makes to himself. As likely as not, if he has any sense, he keeps it strictly to him- self. In time, even, he may tend to fool himself about it. He no longer reads as much as he used to because he does not care to read as much as he did. There are at least a score of erfectly valid reasons for it, he tells himself. The appetite for words does become jaded in many a case, not only for readers, but also for writers | latter find themselves eagerly adopting | strange combinations of phrases, which, like as not, sprang frora sources which they would not care to recognize. Because others use the same phrases. these combinations tend to take on all the semblance o wit and humor. under the stimulus of & certain number of repetitions. 5 Just how much repetition a “cute word, phrase or saying may stand, no man knows. Some of them can tol- erate an enormous amount of punish- * ment at the tongues and pens of man- kind. Even these are as nothing, however. to that other trick to tickle the jaded word appetite. That is the simple ex- pedient of using words of a type which should be used elsewhere. The listener or reader—for many speakers have used this device to at- tain attention—finds himself startled, even intrigued for a time, at the nov- elty of finding the worst sort of slang words used in discussions which by no means call for such words 2 If he is not what we call a serious- minded individual, or a person who | sees through such tricks easily, he is Very apt to be “taken in” by them to the extent that he feels that he hearing or reading something “pep| It may be admil destroying our general thesis, we be- lieve, that now and then one runs across an individual with a flair for| this sort of thing. He possesses a gift. A prominent “wisecracking™ always manages to get the best of his opponents, in repartee, but nobody ever remembers what he said two days after he said it, because the stuff wasn't there; it was just verbal trickery, which left its mark on jaded hearing appetites _only. ‘Sometimes seriousness is tiresome, no doubt of that. Solemn honesty will not appeal to all natures, and for those to whom it does not appeal there are countless avenues of escape left open It may be claimed for it. however, that it is in its place and has &ll the dig- nity and decency of the right thing in the right place. This is something. a great deal. one may think, when asked to mix banter with chocolate ice cream. and badinage with chocolate layer cake. Make your cakes that way if vou want to. ladies, but most men would prefer just a fine old chawklut cake with the ingredients “mixed well” and covered with thick—not sticky—choco- ‘late, nice and crunchy. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Eighteen Senate seats now in Re- publican possession and 15 held by Democrats comprise the one-third of the Upper House to be elected in November. One Republican Senator (Brookhart of Towa) and one Democrat (Morrison of North Carolina) fell by the wayside in the primaries. The 17 re- maining Republicans who will face the guns four months hence are Bar- bour (New Jersey), Bingham (Con- necticut), Blaine (Wisconsin), Dale (Vermont), Davis (Pennsylvania), Glenn (Illinois), Jones (Washington), Moses (New Hampshire), Norbeck (South Dakota), Nye (North Dakota), Oddie (Nevada), Shortridge (California), Smoot (Utah), Steiwer (Oregon), Thomas (Idaho), Waterman (Colorado) and Watson (Indiana). The 14 Democratic Senators whose terms are expiring are Barkley (Kentucky), Black (Alabama), Broussard (Louisiana), Bulkley (Ohio), Caraway (Arkansas). Fletcher (Florida), George (Georgia), Hawes (Missouri), Hayden (Arizona), McGill (Kansas), Smith (South Carolina), Thomas (Oklahoma), Tydings (Maryland) and Wagner (New York). * ok X % “Uncertainties of 1932,” which would | be a good name for a political play of the year, are such that except for the | Democrats aspiring to re-election in southern States no senatorial in- cumbent is at this writing sure of | keeping his job. Casualties are bound to be numerous. Because of geographi- cal conditions in the North, East and West, devastation will be heavier among the Republicans. Probably no- body faces a fiercer fight for his po- litical life than Jim Watson in In-| diana. He was re-elected in 1926 by | the slender majority of 11,000 under | conditions far more favorable than to-| day's. Glenn takes the field in an Tllinois, which went 720,000 Democratic | for Senator in 1930. Bingham tempts | fate in Connecticut, which went Demo- cratic for Governor two years ago. Col-| orado has displaced a Republican Sen- ator with a Democrat since Waterman, Republican, who seeks to retain his | seat, was elected in 1926. Now and then Democratic optimists talk of un- horsing Reed Smoot _in Utah, but the first apostle of the Latter Day Saints is about as impregnable as Gibraltar. P His local admirers, who include many members of Congress, will tell you it’s a good thing Hoover and Roosevelt were nominated by their respective parties before Pelham D. Glassford - had a chance to do his stuff with the Wash- ington bonus marchers. All over the | Capital men and women are saying that the District of Columbia’s statu- esque police chief has proved he’s made of the stuff from which presidential timber should be hewn. They recall | that Calvin Coolidge began the trek which led him to the White House by ing with a far less ominous situation than the B. E. F. created in Washington, viz., the Boston police strike. Opinion is common that Gen. Glassford is about the only one in authority hereabouts who handled the bonus dynamite with vision and vigor. Sir Robert Peel creator of Scotland Yard, once said the ideal policeman is the cop who carries an iron hand in a velvet glove. That's Glassford. ERE Already it's painfully evident that one of the principal camgaign confusions of 1932 is going to be claims and counter claims of credit for the relief legislation recently enacted by Con- | creased nor gress. Democratic Leaders Robinson and Rai can Leaders Watson and Snell bursh & iney this week no sooner issued | modern methods of Eben, “generally ain’ doif} much to plasts saving “we.did it,” than Republi- | can be practiced.” forth with assertions that the elephant. | not the donkey, is entitled (to mix the | metaphor a bit) to the lion's share of the glory. If election time nears leaving economic conditions just about where_they were before neither party may be so anxious to pose as the country's savior. P No rest. from the Washington date line is in prospect for the newspaper readers of the country just because Congress has adjourned.” No fewer than four first-class senatorial investigations are in immediate prospect, each imypor- tant enough to command front-page space any day. Senatcr Borah heads a committee which will probe St. Lawrence | waterway matters. Chairman McNary of the Senate Agricultural Committee | is designating some one to head the in- quiry into the Federal Farm Board, Senator Norris having refused to serve. Senator Norbeck is planning to resume the Banking Committee's investigation of the stock market. Senator Couzens and a group of fellow sleuths will turn the searchlight on the operations of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. If occasion offers, still a fifth senatorial fishing expedition is in the offing—an investigation of campaign funds, insti- gated by Senator Howell. * * % x Sticklers for the letter of the law are abroad in the land, gravely suggesting that Herbert Hoover has “nullified the Constitution of the United States” by docking his presidential pay 20 per cent and taking a cut of $15,000. They call attention, in support of their claim, to section 6 of article II of the Constitu- tion, reading: “The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services & compensation which shall neither be in- diminished _during _the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that_period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them.” ok ok X Julius G. Lay, American Minister to Honduras, has just returned to his post at Tegucigalpa after an annual leave of absence here at home. the Honduran banana industry, biggest of its kind in the world, has been hard hit by a mysterious blight, which has wrought some such havoc as the boll- weevil in our cotton fields and the grasshopper pest in the wheat and corn belts of the Middle West. Agricultural scientists think they have at length coped with the evil, and that Honduras will continue to tickle the palates of the globe with its succulent specialty. The light cruiser squadron which the United States Navy keeps in Central American waters is known as the banana fleet because it clears for action periodically to protect American citi- zens in Caribbean fruit-raising regions. * x ox x Another Washington scribe, Orville Merton Kile, who writes of the soil, has just turned author. “The New Agricul- ture” is the title ot his new book just off the press at New York. Farm au- thorities call it a thought-provoking volume, which may well become the basis of a new viewpoint in developing our national agricultural policy. Mr. Kile thinks larger-scale farming is a basic solution of farm distress. “The average 160-acre general farmer,” he says, “‘does not deserve to make money today any more than the village blacksmith or the cobbler who persists in following an outworn system in this modern ma- chine age. Such a farmer is not in step with the times and either wastes his time on obsolete equipment or else utilizes only a small portion of his time in productive labor. Evidently a great deal of consolidation of farms into larger units must take place before fmnlent farming (Coprright. 1933.) | ployed,” but what percentage of the B. The | tted, without at all} executive | | Washington and a_citizen. He says that | ‘Bonus Seekers Not the Only Ones Who Suffer To the Editor of The Star: Like many other readers of The Star, I have read letters for and against the presence of the B. E. F. in Washington and I wish to reply to one from A. Johnson, who writes from the viewpoint | of his own position, not that of the average member of the B. E. F. For instance, Detroit, from which he hails, may have “no funds for the unem- E. F. comes from that city and is it any reason why the citizens of the Dis- | trict of Columbia should be called upon | to make good on what Detroit, or any other city, has {alion down on? There | |are thousands evo in the District of ! Columbia with “no job, no money,” and often no home, walking endless’ miles | looking for work or aid which the pres- | I ence of the B. E. F. makes doubly hope- |less. How would these B. E. F. vets | view a horde of citizens of the District of Cojumbia, or any State, descending on their home town, voluntarily living | in insanitary conditions with no proper ! provision for welfare of members, with | its ever-present threat of epidemics | hanging over them to bring sickness, trouble and possible death to loved ones of the B. E. F. families and with fre- | quent appeals for aid to them who had | had not enough for themselves? I have | been approached many times to buy various articles and for financial aid and have responded. Mr. Johnson and his buddies during the war were not the only ones to “give all” in protecting their own and each others’ homes, as well as the country |at large, for The Star readers know of many families who went into small ! poor houses, cut down to bed rock on food rations, wore old and insufficient clothing to buy Liberty Bonds to fur- nish funds for the winning of the war. One case in particular 1 know of, a gently nurtured woman who had vol- untarily economized in this way and gave the food to husband, who must be nourished to earn the money; to the kiddies who must have their strength to grow, but grew so weak on the little food left for herself she wondered why she trembled so in doing the hard labor she was not accustomed to. Many homes “know what it is to go hungry” then and now, but the soldiers | had to eat, they had to be looked after | and the money had to come from the American homes somehow. When the war flu struck this country those same poorly-nourished homefolk were the first to go. These men demand the bonus, not due until 1945, from a harassed Government with so many others also to provide for, “or work pro- vided for you,” where there is none for any one eise, and call your country un- grateful if you get none, with a further threat of “destruction of the Constitu- | tion"—anarchistic! You _have your | troubles, members of the B. E. F. and | we have ours. I, personally, have given nearly a year's free rent of a small house I own to a tenant who has had but 2 days a week work. During the | war you “did your bit." So did we. “They also serve who only stand and wait.” CHARLOTTE THOMAS. Bonus Men Not Vagrants But Only Seek Their Own To the Editor of The Star The article in your paper several da ago by Edith B. Newman, in which s calls the ex-service men now in Wash- | ington vagrants and that the be thrown out of the city, prom; to defend these men the same as many thousancs of Washingtonians are in- i clined to take their part. These men | lare no mors vagrants than any other | | reputable citizens. Because they are | ragged. out of work, discouraged. hun- | | gry. etc.. does not make them vagrants | They have bchaved themselves while | | in Washington and command the ad- | { miration of all. These fellows are part | I {of a small percentage of the popula- |~ Farm Smiles Are Expansive {tion of the United States who have | rendered a service to the Government of the highest order. They are now |in a class higher than the remainder of the population who remained out of | | the military and naval service, waved | flags and profiteered while war was | threatening They have demanded in a peaceful what they think they are entitled | | to. their demands being made in the jsame way that the New York bankers. | the railroads. the farmers, organized labor have mde their demands; in | the same wav that the Government employes made demands on Congress | when the recent salary cut was pend- | ing. However, these ex-service men | are being condemned. Many veteran ! | organizations, societies and individuals, | once against them, are now with them. ! Congress has appropriated money for | {the big banks, the corporations, the | Government employes, even provided | | another big sum for a disarmament conference and_a vacation for som diplomats in Europe. Congress has seen fit to adjourn without doing any- {thing for these fellows. It is now {hoped they will go home and wait { until November, then begin their fight | again at the poils. i The ex-service men should now. and | before it is too late, organize them-! selves for the purpose of having en-| acted a universal draft law, so that in | event of war every man and woman, | regardless of age. can be drafted for service. GEORGE A. MOORE. Replies Vigorously To Edith l\ewman'; To the Editor of The Star: Having read the letter printed in your column written by Edith New- man, a self-styled decent citizen and taxpayer of Washington, wanting to know why the bonus marchers were not arrested and the city ridded of them, I, being an ex-service man and veteran of the war, want to sy to her and all other ungrateful American citizens that if these men have no right in Washington, who has? They have as much right here as this woman who asks that they be arrested for vagrancy when they have been denied the right to work by a Government for whom they fought and suffered. can hardly conceive any. American woman or man being so ungrateful as to write such a base article. I want to remind Edith Newman that if it were not for these same men, whom she wants to so ingloriously rid the city of, she, in all probability, wouldn't have a bed to sleep in, much less an office, and 1 wish to say that I am a resident of RAYMOND C. WILLIAMS. ———————— Edith Newman Praised For Letter on Bonus Men } To the Editor of The Star: I wish to commend Edith B. Newman for her letter to The Star, and also ‘o add a word of my own in regard to these misguided bonus seekers. These men constitute a grave danger to the peace and health of the residents of the District of Columbia, besides ruining the appearance of our beautiful city by spreading out in a disgraceful manner on private and public property, to say nothing of their ridiculous demonstrations at the Capitol. Instead of being given an opportunity to leave the city if they wish, they should be forced to leave immediately and all new arrivals should be refused admittance. Why give food and shelter to them while our own deserving poor are in need? Better by far that this money be turned over to the Com- munity Chest than to be wasted upon an army of men who have shown themselves unworthy to be called American citizens. L. K. ADAMS. RS, : Licking Taxes. From the Dayton Daily News. ere was a rush to mail letters be- effort to lick the stamp tax as well as the stamp. Wider Roads, Wider Trucks. From the Schenectady Gazette. ! temperature of 32 degrees C. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERI This great service is maintained by The Evening Star for the benefit of 'its readers, who may use it every day | | without cost fo themselves. All they have to do is ask for any information desired and thef' will receive prompt answers by malil. Questions must be clearly written as possible. Inclose 3-cent stamp for return postage and address The Eve- ning Star Information Bureau, Fred- PYXCC J. Haskin, Director, Washington D.C. Q. Is horseback riding considered healthful>—R. P. R. An authority on value of exer- cise says that it exercises the back, abdomen and thighs. There is only slight demand on nerve control and pulse, blood pressure and respiration The mechanical shaking has a distinct therapeutic effect. However, for people advanced in years, or in poor health, a physician’s advice should be followed as to indulgence in this sport. Q. 1s Newfoundland a part of Can- ada?—N. T. A. Newfoundland is a separate entity of the British empire and bears the | same relationship to the empire that Canada does. It has its own Parlia- ment, premier, ministry, and issues its own money and bonds without regard to Canada. Q. How much does & man sweat at hard work on a hot day>—S. J. A. The Public Health Service says that according to observations made by scientists the average quantity of sweat in 24 hours may amount to 2 or 3 pints in a person clothed and at an average Persons engaged in unusual muscular effort or under other unusual conditions of tem- perature, humidity, or other factors may excrete considerably more than this amount or, under certain conditions, less. Q. What is the meaning of the letter | C in a circle, as seen on newspaper cuts?>—R. F. A. The letter C inclosed within a cir- cle that is found on newspaper cuts, prints, etc., means that that particular picture has been registered in the Copy- right Office. Q. When did we begin coining money for the Philippine Islands?—D. A. A. Money coined for the Philippine Islands first arrived in the Philippines from the Philadelphia and San Fran- cisco mints in June, 1903, and was first placed in circulation in July. 1903. This was done in accordance with the pro- visions of a tentative law passed in 1902. On June 23, 1906, an act was passed to establish the standard of value and to provide for a coining system in the Philippine Islands. From that time on the San Francisco mint, when requested to do so, has coined money for the Philippines. For the past few years the United States has not struck coins for the Philippines. The old dies are still in use. Q What was the name of the first Gilbert_and Sullivan opera’—B. G A. “Trial by Jury” was the first Gil- bert and Sullivan comic opera. It produced in London, March 25, 1875. Q. What did the Indians use to scent or perfume smoking tobacco?—E. V. S. A. Kinnikinnick, an Algonquin word signifving “mixed by hand.” is used to designate a mixture of tobacco with some other plant, either for the pur- pose of imparting a more pleasant odor or to reduce its strength, as the trade tobacco alone is commonly too strong to suit the fancy of the Indian. Among the western tribe< tobacco was ordinar- d stated as briefly | C J. HASKIN. |1ly used by mixing with it gum, sumac |and bearberry. bark. leaves, and roots of two kirids of willow, manzanita |leaves, Jamestown weed, touchwood dogwood bark, arrowwood and a variety of other woods, barks, leaves, twigs anc even insects. Q Is the Dismal Swamp public land? A It is not. Tt is owned by private individuals and by large lumber com- panies. Q. Is the Southern Cross visible any- where in Mexico?—M. W. A. On very clear nights, at the proper time of the year, a part at least of the Southern Cross may be seen from even the most- northern part of Mexico. Q Why is a form of corn bread called Johnny cake?—A. L. S. A. In colonial times such bread was called journey cake or cakes. and was probably cooked for carrying on a jour- ney. The word has become Johnny 2 1t lost its significance. Q. Did Cotton Mather actually believe in witches>—B. M A. Cotton Mather did literally sub- seribe to belief in witchcraft. In 1685 he wrote “Memorable Providences Re- lating to Witcheraft and Possessic). in which he told of cases he had ob- | served. During the Salem witcheraft | excitement in 1692 he published “Won- ders of the Invisible World” to confirm believers in that kind of demoniac pos- session. Q. What is the name given to taking a score overlooked by an opponent at cribbage?—E. K. S A. The term is muggins. Q. How can a hawk soar to great heights without flapping its wings?- G. T A. The Biological Survey says that the same principle is involved as that by which a kite is flown. The bird rides an ascending air current. Q. How can T tell when to use the word healthy and when to say health- ful>—T. W. D. A. Healthy means possessing health while healthful means causing health A person is healthy, a place is healthful | @ How much building is being done in this country this year? A. The Architectural Forum ®sti- mates that from October, 1931, to Oc- tober, 1932, building in the United States will amount to $4,000,000,000. Q. What is meant by the statement that the arms of a certain family are recorded in the official visitation of Kent?—C. W. A. Visitation in England was a peri- odic journey of personal inspection for purposes of obtaining information of an_ecclesiastical, charitable or heraldic nature. The heraldic visitations were made by the King at Arms or other heraldic official with commission under the great seal to examine into pedigrees and claims to bear arms. The results of these journeys were entered into visitation books. Q. Is Gov. Roosevelt of New York a Tammanr man?—A. C A. He is a member Hall. Q. What part of aur population is composed of college graduates?—J. 'A. The Office of Education says that one person in 72 of the total population for 1930 has graduated from a college. Q What makes wood decay?—S. M. microscopic in the wood of Tammany and destroy its structure. As HogWLead in Price Gains Substantial gains in the prices of hogs ' and increasing confidence in the gen- eral live stock market are impressive to the whloe country, especially to agricul- tural areas, as an omen of better times to come. The rise in hogs has been steadily maintained, and it is believed possible that commodity prices all along the line may be lifted. “Nothing could be more cheering to the country than the embarrassment of the experts,” exclaims the Portland Oregonian, pointing out that “in the face of their dire predictions, hog prices marched up the stairs out of the eco- nomic cellar for 28 days straight, and cattle prices have climbed at the same time.” The situation suggests to the Oakland Tribune that “not all pessi- mistic predictions, though honestly pre- dicated, come true,” as it recalls that' three months ago “producers were warned that overproduction was more serious than ever. and they could look for no improvement in prices. “If present tendencies continue,” ac- cording to the Topeka Daily Capital, “stockmen will experience the much- hoped-for ‘relief’ which Congress for 10 vears has painfully, laboriously and un- successfully endeavored to give them. Returns from live stock aggregate In dollars about one-half of all returns of agriculture, so that a profitable price for live stock is of wide benefit to the farmer. This is true, notwithstanding that much of the crop returns are con- tained in the price paid on the hoof. It makes little difference where the farmer gets it, provided it comes in somewhere. If the farmer is not ready to take ad- vantage of an improved market, never- theless his credit is benefited. He can borrow from banks to hold his live stock until ready for market, and many farmers will accordingly be saved from ruin.” L “The advance in prices in the past month,” says the Providence Bulletin. “has added approximately $350,000,000 to the value of live stock on the farms of the five States of Nebraska, Iow: Kansas, Missouri and South Dakota.” | The bulletin adds: “In addition, there has been no rush of farmers to send their stock to market and thus produce a glut which would encourage falling prices. Their course is due in some measure to a more intelligent marketing | policy and in some measure to the fact that low prices, poor pasturage and other unfavorable conditions in past months have brought about an actual reduction in the number of hogs and cattle on the farms. It will, of course, take a lot more than good live stock prices to pull the American farmer out of the depression, in which he has been mired even longer than the rest of the country. But the West, perhaps not without reason, looks upon the advance in hogs and cattle as an omen of & lifting of the clouds that is to come.” “This {s no time,” advises the Duluth Herald, “to be short of the market on America, which may snap back suddenly into prosperity any day, though it is more likely that the country already has started a slow but steady climb up toward the heights of —Heaven forbid! | —another boom.” The Philadelphia In- quirer remarks: “Hog farmers are making money, and so are the cattle raisers. Beeves are up. There is activ- ity in the markets. The president of the Burlington Railroad. Ralph Budd. declares that ‘o other thing that has happened since the depression began has heartened me so much as the con- tinued rise in live stock prices.’ If com- modity prices go up, he adds, then the purchasing power of the farmer will be restored. ~Daylight is breaking on the Western farms. It is a Ropeful sign.” “The ray of sunshine has been get- ting _stronger and _brighter,” recor the Omaha World-Herald. That paper made will be held, “if, indeed, further gains are not recorded the next few ‘weeks,” and continues: “The demand for meat is good, packer stocks are moderate and the mgply coming in to the market is somewhat below normal. filled. Live stock commission men say that. wheress a few weeks ago their custcmers came in morase and gloomy with hardly a word of greeting, today they arrive with broad smiles spread across their faces and eager to talk We don't suppose the unbeautiful hog, all by himself. is going to end the de- pression in the farm belt. but he cer- tainly is doing his porcine best to tem- per its chilling wind to the shorn farmer.” * % ox % “With live stock growers and farm- ers beginning to feel encouraged,” states the Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail, “the country at large is justified in taking a more optimistic view of conditiors, for prosperity in agriculture is likely to be reflected in business gen- erally.” The Indianapolis News thinks that “if the hog is to lead the pros- perity procession, it will displace the American eagle for a few weeks.” “The mighty experts,” comments the Akron Beacon-Journal, “in their past expedient of taking the customary 40 years {o lead a distressed Nation through a 40-mile depression wilder- ness have never relied upon the hog as even a remote factor in their plans. The trouble, they assured us variously, was in Europe’s debts, repara- tions, overproduction, tariffs, taxation, monetary systems, failure of sales ef- forts, overcapitalization, 1929's craze for speculation and lack of confidence in Hoover. In the twinkling of an eye they have scrapped all these theories and guesses and find the hog to be the grand repository of our every hope and prosperity. Let us believe it. It has at least the merit of giving a rest to the idea that the American Nation cannot thrive until it lifts the ox of Europe out of the pit into which its | own folly has plunged it.” | Busses on the Memorial Highway To the Editor of The Star: I have noticed with regret the partial attitude taken by your paper abemml proposed use of the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway by busses. The residents south of Alexandria can rest assured that justice will be meted out by the board of inquiry now | considering the case. Up to date, about all the major objections presented about bus traffic by The Star have been ad- Jjusted to the satisfaction of most parties concerned. The editorial of the 15th, however, takes up another phase of the matter. The reference is I1:'\mde to the 10 bus stops and kiosks between Mount Vernon and Alexandria and your queries as to reasons for placing them in their present locations and authority for so doing. These kiosks seem to the residents of the community to be properly located and are acceptable to them, I believe, in every way. While they do not shelter one from storms, they were not erected for this purpose. They serve as dis- tinctive marks as stations, afford shelter | from moderate rains, and, being simply | constructed, were inexpensive. Those | that are now located a few rods from | a path or road can easily be reached by paths to be provided or by wall against traffic for a short distance -ll‘é'flfi | the curb of the highway. ‘ About 500 people will use these scheduled busses between Mount Vernon |and Alexandria. The bus line takes over the transportation suspended by the electric line, which in the course of about 25 years built up a thriving | community in this section. Men and | women will use it in going to work or to go to either Alexandria or Wash- fore the three-cent postage became |finds it encouraging to see expectation | ington to shop; childre; effective. This seéms to have been an |among live stock interests that the gain | go to and rrnl:n uhoéx.".;'(é“d‘.iiéi 1? | both_cities will use it when visits are made. This stretch of country between Alexandria and Mount Vernon cannot be expected to be made a wilderness because of lack of public ta- tion, or a select residential tract only Making highways 40 feet wide won't We suggested previously that this con- | for the wealthy who have an automo- effect much change except that the width of trucks will be 35 feet. “dition That ‘would (dause Nebraska to smile. prediction has Yrepally been - ! bile for every member of the fami] VSO lu&. .

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