Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1932, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY........July 28, 1032 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busizess Office 114 Ave. New York Office: 110 Eest 42nd St Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Building. European Office:_14 Regent St. London, Ensland Rate by Carrier Within the City. he Evening Star. ... 45c per month he Evening and Sunday Star (when 4 Sundays) 60c per month The Evening and Sunday Star Iwnen s Sundavs)..... The Sunday Star - 2 Collection made at the end of each month. Orders may ge sent in by mail or telephone NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dafly and Sunday....1yr.$1000: 1 mo. 88c Dally only 1yr. 3600 1mo.. 50c Bunday only . 1yr, $4.00: 1mo. 40¢c All Other States and Canada. 1y and Sunday...1yr.$12.00: 1 mo. $1.00 1yr, $8.00: 1 mo. s 50c eily only Buncay only . 5.00: 1mo.. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled 0 the use for republicati> 1l news dis- atches credited to it - -o. otherwise cred- ed\n {his paper and z.-o the local news All rights of publication of rein are also reserved published herein specinl dispatches he -— — Germany and Arms Equality. Everything said in Germany this week, on the eve of Sunday's Reichstag elections, needs to be taken with a strong grain of political salt. Yet the utterance of Gen. von Schleicher, Chancellor von Papen's minister of de- fence, goes far beyond a merely pertisan pronouncement for ephemeral purposes. } It lays down a German national policy, | which the Reich's neighbers in Europe will minimize or ignore at their peril. The Associated Press correspondent at Beriin hardly goes too far when he de- scribes Gen. von Schleicher's demand for German arms equality as “a note of defiance to the world.” In a radio address Tuesday night ihe military member of the Government served virtual notice to all concerned— on such occasions, France is mainly concerned—that unless Germany is granted equality and released from the limitations of the post-war treaties she will proceed to establish her own se- curity by a reorganization of her armed forces. These are restricted by the treaty of Versailles to a standing army of 100,000 officers and men, under 8 non-conscription system, without tanks, artillery or military aircraft. The an Navy is similarly limited to the unimportant status of a coast defense force recruited cn a voluntary basis. Gon. von Schleicher bitterly argues thet the Germans are as fully entitled to cecurity as any other nation. He lambasts France for clamoring for se- curity for herself, while opposing it for the neighbor across the Rhine. The Reich defense minister identifies him- #elf with the theory of that Prancophile German, the late Gustav Stresemann, whom he quotes as having accused France of “hypocrisy” in its intransigent attitude toward conquered Germany. The Germans aspired to enforce their dcmand for arms equality at the Geneva Conference. They never submitted it with quite that categorical firmness now employzd by Gen. von Schleicher, but equality remained the leitmotif of the Reich's policy there. Because the conference cold-shouldered the prin- eiple, the German delegation refused last week to assent to the recess resolu- tion providing for continuance of the disarmament discussion next January. Gen. von. Schleicher does not sug- gest that Germany, in pursuit of her determination to look after her own defensive requirements, if other powers refuse to cut their establishments to her level, will proceed to spend money right and left on armements. She does not Ppossess the wherewithal, for one thing. The defense minister rather points out that within the framework of existing | limitations Germany can do much to | strengthen her armed power. He makes | the significant statement that while the itler storm troops will never be tol- private army of Black irts in Italy, the German Fascist or- zation does constitute a welzome training ground for German youth, de- barred under treaty provisions against conseription from being officially edu- cated in the art of national defense. The world has assuredly not heard the last of Germany's demand for a square deal in the realm of armaments, no matter whether the Hitlerite-Na- tionalists obtain power in Berlin next week or not ——— Those who like to 1mzgine what would | happen “if Theodore Roosevelt were | here,” doubtless assume that he would | venture to remind France of the eco- nomic complications that may arise from swollen fortunes. e eeea Great fortunes have dwindled, but the | fact affords no socialistic encourage- | ment. As the rich have become poorer, | the pror have been compelled to go the | same way - Billboards and the Courts. A new angle to the billboard problem 15 afforded by a case that has just been ed by the New York State Court of | ppeals. Two years ago a manufac- turing company began work on a mam- moth signboard near the approach to the new Poughkeepsie bridge across the Hudson River. The State Highway “mmission undertook to prevent its construction without success. Then an official of the commission propcsed to ercct a lattice work screen on the State property directly in front of the bill- board to hide it from view. He was &tcpped by an injunction which a lower court sustained. He appcaled to the Court of Appeals, which the other day sustained him, and unless the billboard construction is abandoned the lattice work will be erected to screen it from yiew at that site - his cpinion in this case Chief Juige Pound of the Court of Appeals was constructed to serve. Judge Pound concludes: Beauty may not be = queen, but she is not an outcast beyond the pale of protection or respect. She may at least shelter herself under the Wing of safety, morality or decency. This decision by the highest court in New York Staie is in line with re- cent holdings by other courts against the intrusion of disfiguring and view- impeding signs upon the flanks of the arterial highways of the country. Re- cently Justice Brandeis of the United States Supreme Court quoted with ap- proval the decision of a Utah judge distinguishing the billboard and other forms of outdoor advertising as a va- riety involving a special invasion of the public's privacy. Public sentiment is strongly adverse to these disfigure- ments and the day of their elimination {1s near at hand. ; S ———— Criminal Syndicalism. Evidence of a radical plot against the banks of this country has been dis- covered in Pontiac, Mich., where the headquarters of a group known to be hostile to the existing system of gov- ernment in the United States have been raided, with the seizure of a quantity of letters that disclose a systematic at- tempt to incite Tuns on banks. The chief promoter of this scheme barely missed arrest and is now being sought. That many banks have been driven into difficulties and even into liquida- tion by the circulation of false reports of their weakness is too evident to be successfully disputed by those who deprecate attribution of subversive pur- poses to the Communists in this coun- try. There are too many specific in- stances cf runs that have been started by false rumors and have continued to the point of forcing the closing of doors. International conditions are adverse, as they have been during the past two and a half years in this country. The | banks are exposed to the mischievous enterprise of rumor mongers. Some- times they are simply nervous people who express their fears. Again they are malicious persons who hope to see Tuns started just as some mentally un- settled folks turn in false fire alarms to set the engines running. It requires no stretch of imagination to conceive a radical conspiracy to de- stroy public confidence in the fiscal institutions and to cause their col- lapse. That there is a closely organized party of radicals who seek to under- mine the existing form of government in this country is well known. Their purposes are manifested constantly at meetings addressed by speakers who plainly urge the overthrow of the Amer- lean system of administration. The papers seized in the Pontiac raid afford evidence that the plot against the banks was carefully laid and had been conducted with some degree of success. A system of telephone calls to bank depositors had been established, names being chosen fiom telephone di- rectories, and messages sent to them warning them of the weakness of cer- tain banks. This was done on the chance that the false reports would be spread. These conspirators against the bank- ing institutions and through them against the public security have worked upon the principle that the average person will spread bad news freely. Rumors of bank weakness travel with sometimes disastrous swiftness. In this city recently such reports raced through the community with practically no warrant, though four small institu- tions were in “trouble” owing mainly to mismanagement. But for speedy action by the other banks this “whispering campaign” might have led to a grievous disaster. In one of the Government offices, it is understood, a veritable mass meeting was held, at which speakers| declaimed against the banks in general and advised all to withdraw their de- posits forthwith. Fortunately calmer judgment prevailed and this mischiev- ous propaganda was of no material effect. But the danger was there nevertheless. In most of the States the laws pro- vide severe penalties for the incita- tion of runs on banks through the spreading of false reports. Th= hope is that those who have been engaged in this wicked work of instigating panic will be caught and given the limit of punishment. - The bonus campers are unanimously in favor of soap, but hasten to use the soap boxes for kindling instead of turning them over to oraters who | habitually choose them as pedestals. R 1t would be an historic disappointment if the world were to discover that the tremendous argument known as the Great War has not changed anybody's | mind about anything. - A threat of isolation by Europe might give renewed interest to this bicenten- nial commemoration of the man who was oppesed to foreign entanglements on general principles. ———— As the occupant of a skyscraper Ex- Gov. Smith has a lofty viewpoint for fortable spot to remain as & sort of political pole sitter. - — Campaign Cross Currents. Friends of Gov. Franklin D. Roose- lvelv, of New York are reported to be somewhat concerned over a lack of co- ordination in the campaign. There seems to have been a rather precipitate beginning of the fight for the Demo- cratic ticket, without the usual con- sultations and deliberatioss over meth- ods and arguments. First came the actions and speeches of Speaker Garner, Gov. Roosevelt's running mate, who interjected some new factors of dis- putation calculated to cause difficulty in the Eastern States. It is not def- initely known whether the Speaker and Governor have since conferred by wire or mail or phone on the subject of just gays that “no adjacent property owner has the vested right to be seen from the street in his backyard privacy.” He holds that it is the purpose of the highway commission official to “make the highway free from sights which weuld offend the public.” Furthermore, he indicates that “if the purpose is to shut out from view scenes which might ract the attention of the driver of, how far the former is to proceed with ideas of his own when, after his fishing trip in Texas, he takes the stump in that section of the country which is recognized as his particular bafliwick. Now comes the Governor's eldest son, James, who addressed a Democratic club at & clambake in Massachusetts. He is reported to have said that a spe- clal session of Congress to modify the surveying the situation, and also a com- | ported. One report of this speech which may prove to have & bearing upon the campaign states that the candidate’s son predicted “an artificial boom in the stdck market in September and October for the purpose of misleading the citizens.” Chairman Farley of the National Democratic Committee may have to do some speedy organizing to get & speakers’ bureau at work to keep enthusiasm within bounds and to head off wisecracking that may become troublesome boomerangs. Washington policemen are receiving deserved praise throughout the land for their forbearance and tolerance in deal- ing with the bonus marchers. That is as it should be, for they have duly won this praise. For nobody but a policeman— unless it is a footweary newspaper re- porter assigned to cover the “bonus story"—knows how hard it has been not to take advantage of opportunity and put into some healthy sock on the nose of a bonus marcher all the strength of healthy emotions that dis- cipline and wise leadership thus far { have curbed. These emotions, of course, are not born of any concept of the duties and responsibilities of citizenship that ance of bonus marchers in the Capital. ‘The policemen are not filled with right- eous indignation over the fact that the bonus marchers would willingly throw the Federal budget out of bal- ance. But the bonus marchers have been here for over two months. During that time the police have been denied leaves of absence. Many of them have lost their days off. Many of them have been hauled from their beds and away from their meals to answer some call for reserves, and all of them have lost time for sleep, rest and recreation. It would be the most natural thing in the world for a policeman, thinking of these and other things, to express some of his indignation with his night- stick and give a bonus marcher some- thing to remember him by. That the police have refrained and maintained excellent discipline while preserving order is something to be proud of. Old-fashioned balls planned by eight- eenth amendment repealers are of course intended as decorous hopes of an old-fashioned high ball. L Americans will always take their elec- tions most seriously in spite of con- vention efforts to make the prelimi- naries seem like merry persifiage. ‘The German mind might preserve greater serehity if it took more interest in sports. A Schmeling is much safer as a popular idol than a Von Papen. —————— In a general mix-up as to trading programs, Stalin does not neglect an occasional reminder that the Soviet is still doing business at the old stand. The story of vast wealth is often presented in two brief sentences: How did it happen? Where has it gone? ————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Memory Mismanaged. The things that we remember ‘Will too often cause a sigh That brings flame into the ember Of a grievance long gone by. ‘We recall the bitter speeches That impuylsively were made And the old mistake that teaches ‘While far better lessons fade. Generous kindness seems to perish As we harbor vain regret And the memories we cheorish Are the things we should forget. Relative Advantages. “I'm half inclined,” said Senator Sorghum, “to retire to private life and practice my profession.” “You would not be so prominent.” “Yes. But a profession enables you to get paid when you know you're wrong instead of being criticized when you believe you're right.” Jud Tunkins says he don't blame a man for bein’ a little superstitious, but there’s no sense in lookin’ for four-leaf clover when you might be cuttin’alfalfa. Tmpressions. That's how this old world goes along Through darkness and through light— And what today appears all wrong Tomorrow may seem right. “How'd the fight start?” asked the traveling salesman. “Same as most fights start,” answered Cactus Joe. [ other was blufin’.” “Well conducted barter,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “should have the purchaser with wares serving not only for practical use but as momentoes of a pleasant conversation.” Perversity. Just when we most deserve good cheer, Some circumstance will interfere, And leave no chance of moments gay In what should be a holidsy. There’s land to plow and seed to sow And folks to eat the things that grow. So, how can people think it right To waste good time and start a fight! “Sometimes,” said Uncle Eben, “I tries to tell my troubles. If it takes me t00 long to explain, I decides dat mebbe dey don't amount to much.” = e Los Angeles Booming. From the Pasadena Post. Los Angeles is not in the New York class yet, but is coming along. This month, this being vritten on the 16th, the Western metropolis has been the | scene of 13 murders, three whole days | having been missed. . Coming Clean. Prom the Roanoke Times. One of the residences built for oc- cupancy by & movie star in Hollywood has 19 bath rooms. So much for Will Hays' efforts to clean up the motion picture colony. g el Names in Oklahoma. Prom the Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman. If Oklshoma has a citizen named a car the superintendent may aim to| Volstead act as a means of unemploy- | Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis, he make the highway safer.” State expenditure on the highway alone gave the billboard site its value to the property owner, the State should be permitted to withhold that value when necessary to preserve the safety of the highway or the other purposes of beau- clambake speech, and even some doubt That seems a | ty, gegency snd convenience, which it - ernor if and when he is elected Presi- dent. When told of this statement the Governor, it is reported, refrained from commenting, but some of his friends at Albany expressed surprise at the a8 to whether it had been correctly re- Since the |ment relief will be called by the Gov- | certainly has overlooked a lot of pri- mary election possibilities. o A Solution. From the Hartford Daily Times. g xlong icely Sithout & iomach. along nicely [ 3 f o n unexpected solution for * S makes a policeman resent the appear- | “Each feller thought the BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Squirrels up trees are not novelties out our way, so the movements of this one did not at first attract attention. They are forever chasing each other around and around trunks, leaping from leafy branches to houses and back again to trees. No one is ever surprised at anything a squirrel does, from making precari- ous jumps to indulging in queer noises, best written as “crekking.” This particular squirrel, however, was biting off small branches of leaves, about two feet long, and carrying them down from the heights to a crotch some 20 feet from the ground. It was & mother squirrel bullding | nest. Ceaselessly she ran up and down the tree, no sooner biting off a branch, with one sharp snap, which could be heard for many feet. than she ran | down to the crotch with jt. And, having pushed it into place with her forefeet, she immediately ran back up the tree again and selected a new branch. Sometimes these were as long as two feet, thus making about a foot of leafy material protruding on either side of her jaws. Occasionally she would drop a branch, which would flutter to the ground from a distance of 50 feet or thereabouts. ‘When this happened the squirrel would peer over with its bright eyes, as if inquiring what made it drop. She would at once bite off andther branch and carry it down to the pro- posed nesting place. Busily up and down the tree, like a !sort of furry shuttle, she ran on her | seemingly never ending business of ! housing. There was never any delay, not the slightest: no sooner had she bitten off a branch, than she ran down with it. and as soon as she had placed it she ran back up again. Evidently the topmost branches were deemed best by her for her purposes, which came out of those huge | reservoirs which are unexplainable. ‘Words, whether the mightiest or the least, do not explain it. Up and down the tree she went, in answer 1o age-old instincts. The nest, as it fashioned itself, was scarcely & work of art, but perhaps it would do. The branches of locust leaves were | merely lald across the crotch of the tree, made at a juncture of several large limbs. It was while the mother squirrel was in the tree top, deftly selecting another bit of building material, that a cat stroiled across the yard. The squirrel peered down with its black, beady eyes. She stopped. With cne leap she sprang to another tree, and shortly was seen descending the trunk of another, at some distance. It is amazing how quickly these rodents can make their ways along their airy chosen paths. And she has never been back. She abandoned her home without completing it, probably figuring that it was not a very good site, after all. The fault, however, to a mere human eye, seemed to lie partly with the squir- rel, too. The site she chose was too easily accessible to other climbing animals. If it had been out from the main trunk, at some distance, in a perfectly safe place, she might have been able to continue her work with impunity. The impression she gave a beholder was that she suddenly realized. at the sight of a cat, that her choice had not been a one. She could do better elsewhere, and knew it. So away she went, and where she finally built her nest we do not oW, The withered branches of locust leaves, in their feathery arrangement, | of them could be seen to buzz in or out. remain in the crotch of the tree, as a Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands MPARCIAL, Montevideo: body lost a lion?” The foregoing inquiry, printed on a large sheet of paper affixed to a wall, at- tracted the attention of all who passed the corner of Marzo and Dura- nona streets, in one of the better Tesi- dential quarters of this capital yester- day. The police had previously incer- rogated officials at the “Zoologico.” and also of all the circuses now in the city, but without finding any that were lack- ' ing a lion. Nevertheless, just such an animal was captured early Saturday morning. It had been glimpsed in the Malvino district by some terrified dwellers in the villas there, no two of whom agreed as to the dimensions and ferocity of the beast though unanimous in assert- ing its leonine characteristics—tangled | mane, long tail with tassel at the ter- mination thereof, teeth prodigiously prolix and sharp and, some averred, smoke and flame streaming from its nostrils, A host of Nimrods, on foot and in motor_ cars, set out in search of the animal as soon as the alarm was bruited, but it was not until yesterday that a hitherto undistinguished citizen came walking leisurely, yet majestically, into Malvino, leading the elusive quarry by the ear. Jose Farina had captured the desperate monster without firing a shot. Jose Farina admits that he un- derstands all sorts of birds and animals It is said that he can even talk with | them! “Has any- | | * K K K Paris Tmproves Car Crash Problem. Le Petit Marselllais, Marseilles—Ac- cording to the reports of the Parisian police there was a marked improvement during the year 1931 in the frequency of automobiie accidents, and particularly with respect to fatal accidents. There were in the city proper a total of 241 deaths in 1931 as the result of traffic accidents, while in the suburban areas | of Paris there were 258 deaths, a total | of 499 fatalities. Registrations of acci- dents immediately fatal, or ultimately resulting in deaths, in these two areas, | totaled 603 in 1930 and 639 in 1929. Thus it will be seen that a definite im- provement has set in toward a reduc- tion of traffic_accidents, a trend ob- servable not only in Paris, but through- out the whole country. Most of the people mortally injured, about 61 per cent, were pedestrians, children pre- dominating. * X K ¥ Burro Plants Feet In Truck's Radiator. Diario Del Comercio. Barranquflln" came riding into town yesterday after- | noon, very cavalierly, on the most lively | of burros, the farmer, Moises Lara. packsaddle supported on each side of the sturdy beast various baskets filled with the fruits of the earth. The two moved briskly along, the donkey an- | ticipating with eagerness the salted bran and hay awaiting him at the ma ket place, but the thoughts of his mas- ter, Moises Lara, were busy with far | more laborious operations of a mathe- matical nature. He was trying to bal- ance the sum of what he expected to get for his vegetables with the total cost of all the different things he was commissioned to fetch home to his| senora. Lost in these anxious reveries, Moises let Chombo, the burro, pick his own | way through the thickening traffic as they came into the suburbs, and did | not notice, until it was too late, a gi-| gantie truck which, all unheralded, ap- peared in the very center of their path. It was then that the mind of the don- kep functioned more quickly than that of the man. To the latter there seemed no escape. ‘The vehicle would surely Overwhelm the burro, ets and him- self, bones and body, but at the very second destruction seemed ent the burro, sensing the truck a natural enemy, wheeled and planted a lusty mute evidence of Nature's workings. It will be interesting to see how long they stay there, under the influence of wind and rain. As far as we could determine, there was no nr.em;: at weaving them to- gether, or placing them in any particu- lar manner so as to prevent them from falling out. Evidently the squirrel is rather hap- hazard in its construction of nests, in this respect being entirely different from the hornets, or wasps, or what- ever one wants to call the prize sting- 1 ers of Summer. A small nest by these artisans (we will call them wasps, for the sake of convenience) has been begun over an open porch not far from the tree where the squirrel made her ill-fated attempt at_home building. The wasps' nest is attached to the top | of a roofiet which protects one side of | the porch. This puts the entire nest back out of the weather, to a great extent. Only a very severc rainstorm, sweeping in from the north, could touch i t. ‘The nest is now about the size of a human fist, white-gray in color, givin, the impression that it is made out of a length of clothes line, very cleverly colled for the purpose. This colled appearance probably would identify it at once to any “wasp expert,” or the like. Those human be- ings who spec! asps and hor- nets and yellow-jackets, with various other stingers thrown in for good meas- ure, surely know the types of houses made by each variety, and how and why they make them. Not being a wasp expert, in the slight- est sense, we will simply stick to our home-made description, that it looked as if the creatures had taken an old clothes iine and coiled it around, be- ginning emall at the top and making! larger loops as they went down, the coils s0 close together that they made a waterproof house. The door was at the bottom, as with all these insects. It was barely large enough to permit one of the rightful occupants to enter. Occasionally one Here were two natural habitations of the lower creatures, as they are called. Each pointed to a keen knowledge on the part of each type of its own de- mands, ‘The squirrel nest, although quite ru- dimentary, was a better home from the standpoint of protection from curious eyes. If one had not seen it actually being made, even a keen observer might have overlooked it. or at the most wondered u::y “how those dead leaves got up there.” After having seen the performance, we recalled that upon several days be- fore this we had noticed fallen branches of fresh leaves, and had wondered about them, there having been no storms at that time. Evidently the squirrel had been mak- ing tests of various branches, to see which limbs bore leaves of just the precise quality to suit her. Or maybe she had been doing noth- ing of the kind, but had made more than one attempt to establish a nest. Probably the daddy squirrel came along, and said, “Can’t you see that there is & cat down there?” The wasps do not seem to plan the location of their large toplike nests with any particular idea of concealment in mind, if they can be said to have minds. ‘The present house is plainly in sight. Last year a very much larger wasp nest was constructed by these busy fel- lows in the corner of an upstairs win- dow, the construction preventing the lowering of the top sash. Previously they had made two at- tempts to build & nest in a letter box, a site which seemed to make a power- ful appeal to the wasp instincts, but which did not exactly take into con- | sideration the daily visits of the mail- man. kick with both hind feet uj the radiator. This added shock. threw Moises clean over the burro’s head into a clump of bushes, while at the same time it assisted the gentlemen of the “horsepower” to stop the truck much more promptly than they otherwise could have done. Fortunately the in- cident resulted without great detriment to the assinine integrity. The burro was knocked down, but immediately got up again. The motorists, however, had to lament two deep hoofprints in the radiator, which by no means improved | the appearance or function of that device. The vegetables, it is perhaps unneces- sary to state, were reduced to “olla| podrida” (Spanish stew), and the bu get of Moises is now in less satisfactory | balance than it was before. Kok % Old Traditions Fade in Spanish Republic, La Vanguardia, Barcelona—Many old | traditions and ceremonies faded away | with the monarchy. Titles, of course, | no longer exist, though they are, from 4 force of habit, sometimes still bestowed. | It is hard to break the habit of a life- time overnight, or even in a yes ‘The changing of the guard at the executive mansion is now a simple and unpre- tentious affair, involving not more than half a dozen men, instead of a proces- sion with military music. Association among all types and cultures of people has taken on a new character and mmrndeshir. ‘The workman has quite as much right to the sidewalk as the late aristocrat. and no longer doffs his cap in salutation. ‘Whether this leveling of all classes means the elevation of the once sub- merged, or the submerging of the once | exalted is a question which only time] will solve conclusively. As yet it can- not be said that this new neighborli- | ness and fellowship has had any detri- mental consequences, apart from the uncertainty, in some quarters, as to whether the rich or the poor, the edu- cated or the ignorant, the sleek and well garbed, or the meager and squalid, have been the instigators in some most unfortunate manifestations. ~ Women still wear the comb, the veil and the mantilla—but they want the vote! The bullfight is still the vogue—but not yet under electric lights, though the illu- minations of the capital are constantly | increasing. Not many years ago the streets were comparatively dark—but | now the illuminations of Madrid are excelled in scarcely any city of the continent. So aspects both of the old and of the new exist and persist in & curious combination. I If the evenings were formerly the' “days” of Madrid, now it may be sald with equal truth that the nights have' A | become the evenings, for it is then the the Congressional Record th city most pulsates with excitement. | Now, if only would abate the crisis !'! But then we would not have so much time to enjoy the cloudless blue of our Summer skies! ! G - = The 40-60 Ratio. From the Christian Science Monitor. 1t is estimated that 40 per cent of the families in the United States had radio sets at the end of 1930, in which case probably the other 60 per cent didn't need sets of their own. et Booing Ballots. Prom the Detroit News. Convention spellbinders might find | solace in the thought that writing “boo” on a ballot renders the same null and void. r———n The Southern See-Saw. Prom the Loulsville Courier-Jour Chile and Peru have martial law or a revolution, according to whether the administration controls the army or army controls the adsninistration. | hop to the Roosevelt band wagon by A veritable barrage of Democratic talk is to be let loose this week end Tomorrow night Senator Pat Harrison o()w-lwl'fllmmm'ndlow answer, it is said, the speech delivered by Ogden Mills of the Treas- ury some time ago, the Demo- crats and alleging National Committee takes the air also. The radio, it appears, is to be used even more than usually in this presidential campaign. Gov. Roosevelt has a good voice for radio talk and his supporters intend to make the most of it. How much of this radio campaigning is to be paid for out of the campaign chests and how much is to be free of charge might be an interesting question. x x * x The newspapers today carry reports that Gov. Roosevelt and Gov. Joseph B. Ely of Massachusetts, who led the fight for the nomination of Alfred E. Smith in the Democratic National Convention, had reached “an agreement” in a two- and-a-half-hour conference at the Governor's mansion in Albany yester- day. Both the Governors, however, kept mum about the terms of the agreement, with the announcement that Ely would issue a statement on Mon- day which would make clear his pos!- tion. Perhaps the Governors were only setting the stage and whetting the pub- lic appetite for news in delaving this announcement. Perhaps there were others to be consulted before a state- ment was made. Al Smith himseif may be in the picture before this matter is finally given full publicity. The reti- cence of Gov. Ely when it comes to talking about the Democratic national ticket and his own plans for the future during the last few weeks has been mystifying, to say the least. Not from the day of the nomination of Gov. Roosevelt up until the present has Ely said he would support the ticket in so many words, for publication, at all events. * x k¥ The Massachusetts situation is no bed of roses from the Democratic point of view. The Massachusetts Democrats were heart and soul for the renomina- tion of Mr. Smith, and they sent a fighting delegation to the national con- vention pledged to Smith. Gov. Ely placed Smith’s name in nomination and made what was widely acclaimed as the best nominating speech of the conven- tion.” Mr. Smith has had the faculty of getting good nominating speakers in the last threc Democratic National Conventions—Gov. Roosevelt made the two before Gov. Ely was called on. For a month Ely has bided his time. The question may have arisen whether a Gov. Ely would aid €ither of the Gov- ernors, provided the rank and file of the Smith Democrats remained “sore.” Smith carried Massachusetts by & nar- row margin in 1928. It remains to be seen whether Gov. Roosevelt can turn the same trick in this hitherto Repub- lican State in 1932. He must have the aid of Gov. Ely and of the Smith ad-| herents in the Bay State, if he is to succeed. That explains the strenuous efforts which have been made recently by Chairman Farley to bring about eonciliation of Ely and the Smith forces, not only in Massachusetts, but also in New Jersey. £ % 58 Gov. Roosevelt is to speak in Co- lumbus, Ohio, on August 20. This is the speech in the Midale West to which Chairman Fariey reieried wh:n he was in Washington this v ence with Democrat.c Senaters and Representatives. It will b> tae Gov- ernor's first campaign sp-ech outside of Albany, and marks the intention of the Democrats to make a great batile for the big States of the Miawest, Ulinois, Ohio and Indiana. Ohio has uot gone Democratic in a presidential election since 1916, when Woodrow Wil- son carried it by about 100,000 votes, much to the surprise of the Democrats themselves. President Hoover carried Ohio against Smith in 1928 by 763,000 votes. In 1930 Ohio elect:d White, a Democrat, Governor, and Bulkley, a Democrat, United States Senator. In- diana gave Hoover a lead of 287,000 over Smith, and Illinois went Republi- can by a majority of 456.000 in the same election. In Illinois two years ago Senator Lewis, a Democrat, de- feated Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms by more than 700,000 votes. Mrs. McCormick's defeat was _attributed, however, in large part to factional Re- publican troubles and the rag2 of the dry Republicans because she announced she would b2 bound by & referendum on_the liquor question. ‘The Democrats are looking to hard times and unemployment in these great States of the Midwest to win for them in the coming election. They believe that a desire for a “change,” any kind of a change, will influence the voting in Ohio, Illinois and Indiana. Furthermore, they believe that there has been a wide shift in opinion in; Ohio and Indiana over the liquor ques- tion, and in Downstate Illinois, and that their platform for repeal of the eighteenth amendment will help them in these States. L ‘The_appointment of former Senatcr Atlee Pomerene of Ohio, a Democrat, by President Hoover to be a member of the board of directors of the Recon- struction Finance Corporation has set | the political tongues awagging. Mr. Pomerene is to become chairman of the board and also his appointment gives the Democrats a majority of the board. The Democrats have been planning an assault upon President Hoover and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. They have been prepared to charge that millions of dollars were being loaned to insure Republican votes next Novem- ber. The President’s selection of a Democrat to head the board and also| to make the board Democratic in ma- | jority rather takes the gimp out of this line of attack. He is being charged now by some of the Democrats with attempt- ing to place on the Democrats any bleme for the failure of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to aid in the re-' turn of business and employment. As a matter of fact, the President is far more interested in having the Recon- | struction Finence Corporaticn prove | useful and & success than in any failure it may have. It is oniy the Democrats who can gain from failure, and that because of a continuance of hard times. The Democrats must watch their step lest the country become convinced that they would be satisfied for a continu- ance of hard times until after election day, November 7. oo ‘The retirement of Col. John Q. Tilson of Connecticut from the race for Con- gress this Fall, as announced h{ him in s week, makes & problem for the Republicans in Col. Tilson's old district, the third. It has been a fighting district for a num- ber of years, and Col. Tilson's personal popularity has carried it for the Repub- licans when another candidate might have fared badly. Col. Tilson has not been particularly hnmy in his congres- sional service since the Republicans of the House last Fall turned him down and gave his old place, Republican lead- er, to Representative Bertrand Snell of New York. Tilson has gone along with the Republicans faithfully under the leadership of Mr. Snell, however. But now he is planning to return to private life and the practice of law in his home, New Haven. Connecticut is likely to b= a real battleground in the election this | od president of Rutgers University, New | %k for confer- | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS & BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘This newspaper puts at your disposal a corps of trained researchers in Wash- | ington who will answer questions for you. They have access to the Govern- the libraries, mu- buildings, hich Q. What city had the first all-salaried | base ball team?—B. R. | A. Cincinnatl the Red | zlsoocuu-. the first all-salaried team, in | 868. | Q. How many inches would a 10-hour | rain produce if it fell at the rate of the | heaviest shower known in the United States?—F. H. | A. The heaviest shower produced 1.03 inches of water in one minute. Such rain falling for 10 hours would produce 618 inches of water. . How many States have thus far ngflm the “lame duck” constitutional amendment?—W. M. R. 3 York, Mississippl, Arkansas, Virginia, New Jersey, Ken- tucky, Michigan, South Carolina, Maine, Rhode Island and Louisiana. Q Who is the president of Rutgers? —D. K. A The Office of Education says that Robert Clarkson Clothier was appoint- Brunswick, N. J., March 1, 1932. Q. What is the name of the recon- | structed village which Henry Ford is| making at Dearborn, Mich.>—M. J. L. A. The official name given Mr. Ford's museum project at Dearborn, Mich., is the Edison Institute of Technology, which includes the museum, its collec- tions and the supplementing historic village cailed Greenfield, which covers approximately 250 acres. The historic village, perpetuates the name of Green- fleld Township (the birthplace of Mrs. Henry Ford), which was founded in 1826 by Myron Otis, and has since been absorbed the growth of Detroit. In past are presented as they were prac- ticed in their original environment of public buildings and residences, which in their turn {llustrate the development of architectural types. As in all Colo- nial communities, the public buildings are arranged around a common or green. Q. When did the last person die who actually fought in the Revolutionary War?—N. L. A, A. The last actual pensioner of the Revolutionary War was David C. Dake- | man, who died in 1869 at the age of 109 | years. Q. How much money did Thomas A. | Edison leave?—J. T. H. A. He left an estate of $14,000,000. Q. What is the record for sea div-| ing?—M. L. Y. A. William Beebe established a new record in 1930 by diving 800 feet in a steel ball in June of that yeer. Dr.! Beebe is a well-known zoologist, and his | purpose for diving was to study sub-| marine creatures. Q. What kind of buildings with- fiu‘:‘d earthquake shocks the best?— | The subject of earthquake-proof truction has been studied much of late. Houses so calied have roofs that are exceedmfly light, chimneys that are short and thick. Arches are avoided and rafters run from the ridge pole to the floor sills. The essential point, as !wu shown in the Japanese earthquake of 1923, is that the building should be A. consf this Vunsythe handicraft arts of the | the bodily as one block with fts founda- tion. In 1923 the brick buildings erum- bled almost immediately; wooden houses withstood the shock fairly well, but and nearly half of those in Tokio es- caped unharmed. Q. How were the South African diamond flelds discovered?—E. C. A. The South African diamond fields were discovered near Kimberley in 1866 when a child picked up a stone weigh- ing 21V, carats. which rough for $2,500. In 1868, a_ Hottentot Negro found a diamond of 83'; carats. He sold it for $2,000 to a dealer who got $56,000 for it. The stone has been valued since at $125,000 and is the famous Star of South Africa. Q. What is the steamship time rec- ord between New York and Rio de Janeiro>—G. O. W. A. The Munson Steamship Line says that its steamship American Legion has covered the distance in 10 days 22 hours and 50 minutes between New York and Rio de Janeiro. It has no knowledge of this having been bet- tered by any other ship. Q. What is the origin of the pip- pin?—M. T. A. This name was given to a certain class of apples probably because the trees were raised from the pips or seeds. They seem to have been intro- duced into Great B:itain from France, and were little known there until about the end of the sixteenth century. I” the time of Shakespeare pippins were delicacies for the dessert. Sir Hugh Evans in “The Merry Wives of Wind- sor” says: “I will make an end of mZ dinner—there's pippins and chesse to come.” The ribston, golden, Newton and the small Scotch oslin or arbroath pippin are favorite sorts. Q. What does lis pendens meas ~ regard to real estate’—H. 8, A. According to Black's Law ¥#, tionary it is as follows: suit vln(- ing; that legal process, land, which amounts to legal poena Where statutes require some record. Q. Is Wiliam Randolph Hearst & Harvard man?—G. A. M. A. He was a student at Harvard from 1882 to 1885. Q. What are cosmic rays?—J. H. E. A. The cosmic rays, according to Dr. Millikan, are rays of extremely high frequency and penetrating power pro- duced probably beyond the earth’s atmosphere or mnearly beyond it by transmutations at atoms continually taking place through interstellar space. These rays bombard the earth from all directions. . Do more girls marry when 20 to 25 vears old or between the ages of 25 and 302—C. M. P. A. More marty between the ages of 20 and 25, Q How large a ranch s King's Ranch?—J. R. B. A. The largest singly owned ranch in the United States is the King's Ranch, at Kingsville, Tex., which com- prises 1,280,000 acres of land. This ranch borders the Gulf of Mexico for 1 100 miles and more than 100,000 calves are branded on it each season. Kings- ville is a town of about 5000 people is the center of this vast estate, and which is largely suj by the in- dustries of the ranc] Q. What per cent of water Is thers in cow's milk?—R. M. A. Cow's milk is 13 per cent solids | so framed and braced thaf it will move and 87 per cent water. 'Jusserand Had H gratifying icans ow ! 1t s gratifying to Americans to i that words of praise which are being | heaped upon the memory of the late Jules Jusserand, for 22 years Ambas- sador of Prance to this country, are only repetitions of friendly expressions that went out in large measure to him while he lived in Washington, and fol- lowed him overseas when he returned to his native country. “Though it is now seven years since Jules Jusserand was French Ambassa- dor to our Republic, the tidings of death at his home in Paris bring poign- ant regret to the American people, says the Atlanta Journal, as it notes that “he was more to them than a dis- tinguished diplomat; he was an alto- gether admirable man, and, to those who had the good fortune to know him rsonlla"..- most lovable one.” Point- out t, in his tenure of ambassa- dorship here, he had “the longest con- tinuous assignment in the history of Washington’s diplomatic ,” ~ the Scranton Times comments: “When the many upsets in government in France are remembered, this long service of itself is a testimonial of Jusserand's diplomacy, his ability to get along with all sorts of people and leaders in his own nation.” It is the thought of the Providence Evening Bulletin that he | represented the “Old France,” “the grace, the wit, the charm, the high cul- tural and esthetic values of the France that has been submerged—for the time being, at any rate—by the new, harsh spirit.” “The long-time dean of the diplo- matic corps succeeded as perhaps no | other Ambassador in his time in giving | to international relations a warm, = sonal cordiality,” declares the' )‘ml Daily News, as it states: “Not only Permanent Place as Friend of America The Charleston, W. Va., Daily Mail believes that “the broad and sympa- thetic understanding of this country which he possessed was a great aid to him in meeting successfully the issues and in steering Pranco-American re- lations safely around the rocks.” The Jersey City Journal holds that “if all the makers of the worlds' destiny were of the caliber of Ambassador Jusserand there would be little to fear about the | future,” an opinion shared by the Port | Huron Times Herald, as it remarks: “It would be a fine thing for the world if we could have more men like J. Jules Jusserand filling the diplomatic posi- tions among the nations and directing our national thought and policies.” The Houston Chronicle notes that “his death comes at & time when relations between country and our own are a trifle as a result of the alleged Franco-British secret pact, and it is to be hoped that both in America and in Prance the passing of the venerable Ambassador will serve to calm the angry voices of intense and partisan nation- L “Scholarship and diplomacy were the Awo consuming interests in the life of J. Jules Juseerand,” declares the Nash- ville Banner in calling attention to two expressions of his genius. Charac- terizing him as “the observer, critic and commentator rather than the creat artist,” this paper predicts that “Ji serand’s literary work will be more rather than less esteemed as time goes on.” Summing up his work these fields, the Baltimore Sun says: “M. Jus- serand was a man of letters and a lit- erary historian as well as an Ambas- sador; he was the scholar and critic rather than the creative artist that the present French Ambassador, M. Paul Presidents and cabinet officials, but many thousands of men in private life | grew to love Jusserand and to see PFrance through kindlier eyes because of him. His name was attached to no | outstanding treaty and his modesty made it difficult fo measure his influ- | ence in world affairs, but with a genius for friendship he established a closer | bond between the United States and | France than ever was sealed by official document.” . | L How lasting was his interest in America is noted by the Rock Island Argus with the comment: “On April 10 of the present year he was heard over the radio in a farewell message pleading for the friendliness of France and America. But a few days before | his passing his thoughts were of this country. Next to his native land he | loved America.” The Asbury Park Eve- | ning Press feels that “although he ex- | Tegret at the occasional mis- | understandings that arose between the | two nations, he must have found sat- isfaction that the foundation cf the amity he had created remained se- cure. With this knowledge he died assured that had pz‘umd & spirit of ini friendship that will live far beyond him.” As the Omaha | World-fle‘rl&chgh it: “He knew us. If all Frenchmen Enew us as he did. | most Frenchmen, we dare say, would | think pretty well oot our it W France and | much more n, wculd feel warmly toward them us may at this writing.” | The foundation of his success was| knowledge. Says the Lowell Evening Leader: “Undoubtedly he came to know | us better because he was an enthu- | siastic student of American history. His marriage to an American woman was | another tie. In his death France has| lost an able and conscientious diplomat Fall. ok ox X The Federal Farm Board is under violent attack by witnesses appearing before the Shannon House Committee, now in Kansas taking testimony. There is & cry from the farmer witnesses to take the Government out of the farm business and to leave the farmers alone. | This is something new, after all the :K; peals from farm organizations to and the United States a good I | Government to go to the aid of the‘ farmers, running over a period of more | than 10 years. The attacks cn the| Farm Board cratic ears, during the Republican control of Con- g:u:uemmmmm- & many of | of Claudel, is. And this training in the broad flelds of thought and expression— a training which was begun with Taine, with whom Jusserand prepared the last edition of the famous ‘History of Eng- lish Literature, unquestionably gave him an insight into the English and American spirit, its leading ideas and most profound motives, which could not be learned in the longest of purely diplomatic careers. Through these studies he came to believe in a cultural and intellectual unity which in the long run was far more important than any military or diplomatic entente.” The San Antonio Express lists some of his writings: “He began with ‘The Theater in England, From the Conquest to the Immediate Predecessors of S| > His ‘The English of the Middle Ages" (1884) was crowned by the French Academy. The ‘History of the English People’ (published in three volumes be- tween 1895 and 1909) is standard. In 1913 Jusserand wrote ‘Roussard.’ Three years later that was followed by his last book, ‘With Americans of Past and Present Days.'” The New York Sun describes him as having had “many accomplishments; he had acquired great learning; his mane ner and his interests proclaimed ripe culture,” but concludes, “These do not explain his success as an Ambassador though they coralrlbuud to it. ¢ and heart, which inspired & fe dignity of official place, n: dkhea‘ll::ug: scholarship could establish.” The Springfeld _ (Mass) Union appraises him as @ “fine, courtly, yet simple anq um!!ec;:dm::m.” Who never in all the period service gured Elngie disagrecable incigentt 0 1B & The Cadd e A From e Clt:veh‘ud lh!l Saeed ly SLruck on the head by a 1l is refused dam ot ball is re _ura‘&ooo by Ken. tucky courts. it the game of one hazmra, o