Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1932, Page 8

" A-8 = THE EVENT STAR, WASHINGTO {THE EVENING STAR ___With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY......August 4, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: e ce. d St P t 4 5 ieago Office: Lake Michigan Building. ropean Office: 14 Regent 8t. London. ny Rate by Carrier Within the City. 45¢ per month 60c per month ‘Sundays) .. 65¢ per month The Sunday St IIil 7 8c per copy Collection made at the end of each month Orders may be sent in by mail or telephone NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 1yr..$10.00: 1 mo.. 88¢ 151 360000 1 mo. S0c 1YL $4.00; 1mo.: 40c All Other States and Canada. 1yr. 31200 1'mo. 31,00 1yrs 3800l 1m. 00: 1mo. S0c Bally o day on 131, 8 Sunday only ...l Member of the Associated Press. he Associated Press is exclusively entitled Lo i S e punhication of all news dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise cred- Rea i this paper and alco the local news published herein. All rights of publication o special dispatches herein are also resert ee—— — More Confusion Over Economy. The so-called economy law and the interpretations of that law by the Con- troller General's office share with the Einstein theory the distinction of be- ing understandable only to a small group of men, endowed by Providence | with super intellect developed along! specialized lines. But every interpre- tation of the economy law makes more definite the fact, recognized from the outset, that it probably represents the worst and the most thoroughly con- fused piece of legislation ever enacted | by the Congress. It has succeeded admirably in disrupting the govern- mental service and destroying what vestige of morale remained among em- ployes after the grueling period of un- certainty that marked the ups and downs of the bill in Congress. Through the decisions of the Controller Gen- eral—who is powerless to do otherwise than interpret the law as written— provisions inserted in the bill ostensibly to save employment appear now in the form of provisions that force unem- ployment. Heads of some independent establishments and of the Department of Labor who have gallantly em- barked upon the five-day week, thus to comply with what was originally intended to be introduction of this policy in the Government service, may now have to reverse themselves and start out on some new plan. Some of the employes in the Government service are relatively sure the worst that can happen to them under the bill's pro- visions is the loss of a month's pay, ‘while others, who are performing exactly the same sort of work, will lose | competitors, which s due, of course, to | the fact that this country is the scene of the games. The foreign contestants, however, are the pick of their respec- tive countries, having been chosen after sharp competitions in them. It may be that in later events the gap between the American and other scores will be lessened, but at the present standing it seems fairly well assured that Amer- ica will take the final first honors at the games. — rwe——— Outlawry of Conguest. Pan-American solidarity has seldom exhibited itself mote effectually than in the note of nineteen North, Central and South American states formulated at Washington yesterday and addressed | to the governments of Bolivia and Para- guay. The purpose of the message is to chain up, while there is still time, the dogs of war so angrily barking at each other in the two estranged coun- tries and impel the Bolivians and the Paraguayans to settle their ancient feud over the Gran Chaco by arbitra- tion. Both governments having ex- pressed to the League of Nations, of which they are members, & willingness to compose their differences, it is hoped that the communication from all the sister Americas will prove the final ar- gument in favor of peace. The United States’ directing hand in the Pan-American round robin sent to La Paz and Asuncion is apparent from the fact that it cites the *Hoover doctrine” first applied to Japan in con- nection with the Manchurian invasion. The concluding paragraph in the note to Bolivia and Paraguay says: “The American nations further declare that they will not recognize any territorial arrangement of this controversy which, has not been obtained by peaceful means, nor the validity of territorial acquisition which may be obtained through occupation or conquest by force of arms.” In effect, this is exactly what Secre- tary Stimson stated to Japan and; China last Winter, and what the League of Nations Assembly two months later identified itself with, when at long last it came to grips with the Manchurian affair. The United States, in thus projecting the doctrine of the outlawry of conquest, took its stand—as the nineteen Amer- jcas now take theirs—on the language and spirit of the Kellogg pact. Bolivia and Paraguay are reminded that "rr-‘ spect for law is a tradition among the | American nations who are opposed to | force and renounce it both for the solution of their controversies and as an instrument of national policy in | their reciprocal relations.” Renuncia- | tion of war as “an instrument of na- tional policy” is the keynote of the Kellogg pact. Passions remain bitterly aroused in Bolivia and Paraguay over their respec- tive claims to the strip of wilderness . 5 known as the Gran Chaco, and which 8 month’s pay to begin with, face an {p¢ peen a bone of contention between indefinite and additional loss of P&y |ihem for more than half a century. and furthermore have thelr very Jobs | Tpey know today that the other Amer- placed in jeopardy. icas are unwilling to see the contro- Mr. McCarl's latest ruling gives|yercy thrashed out on the battlefield. It priority to the so-called “legislative| i yneonceivable that Pan-America's re- furlough” over the so-called “adminis-| ponctrance against Bolivian-Paraguay- trative furlough,” which means that the |, war will be flouted by the would-be legislative furlough—or the furlough | peyjicerents, ordered by Congress as a uniform policy = in lieu of the straight pay cut—must be & 3y, used up before the employe may be TIs “Buzzards Point” to Pass? placed on the “administrative furlough,”| The National Capital Park and Plan- the furlough that the executive officers| Ding Commission is soon to consider a in the departments or establishments|new name for the area long known as may order to keep within their appro- | “Buzzards Point,” which is about to be priations. All the money saved by the | improved by the erection of a large legisiative furlough must be impounded, | €lectric power plant. A more dignified and as no employe can be furloughed | designation is sought than this tradi- ‘without his consent for more than five | tional title, which originated in a re- days—with surrender of six-and-a- | mote period of Washington's earliest de- quarter days’ pay—in any one month, a | velopment. Exact knowledge of how it barrier is thus set up which prevents|came to be applied to the section is .. the application of the administrative | lJacking, but presumption is that the furlough for at least six months. The | Government establishments which must | apply the administrative furlough to | save employment are those which suf- fered, in addition to other cuts, the flat ten per cent cut in appropriations which | originated in the Senate, among these | being the Interior, Commerce, Labor, | Justice and State Departments, and| such independent establishments as the Civil Service Commission, Farm Board and Personnel Classification Board. The full effects of the various interpre- tations of the act are not yet known by | the department executives to whom they | have been given. Each succeeding week, | apparently, presents new probiems that | call for new interpretations. Nobody can accurately forecast what the result of all the interpretations will be in De- | cember, when Congress returns for its | short session. ©Of one thing there should be no un- | certainty. The Central Labor Union | is already preparing its case for pres- entation to the next session of Con- | gress, the plea then to be presented to | ask for a correction of the many in- | equities alrcady apparent. Other or- | ganizations will be prepared to submit | additional evidence of the vnworkabil- ity of this law. To hear this evidence and to prepare corrective measures im- mediately upon the convening of Con- gress, committees of House and Senate should meet in Washington at least a month before Congress assembles. The corrective measures should be ready for report cn the first day of the ses- slon and enacted as speedily as possi- ble. It was the implied understanding, when the hodge-podge economy bill was 50 hurrledly passed, that Congress | would be able to amend the bill in De- | cember. Certainly no time should be lost, and department executives should | be as lenient as the law will allow in| the interval between now and the first | of the next calendar year. Action still | may be taken by Congress to make up, in the last half of this fiscal year, for some of the injustices that have shown themselves in the first month of the new fiscal year — r——— ‘Turning his back on elephant and donkey, Senator Borah favors the sphinx as his political emblem. America Leads. American athletes have taken first honors at the Olympic games at such & rate as to put the United States far in front in the international score. The actual point records so far reported vary considerably, but the lowest record stated leaves this country a seemingly unbeatable margin over its nearest com- petitor. This is always the case in the first stages of the Olympic games. The scoring system is complicated and not until the final official records are com- piled is the standing of contestants actually known. The scores are kept by nations and not by individuals. The wmmmmmnma | tions. point was a favorite roost for buzzards. It was long a veritable no-man’s land, owing to its marshy condition and the proximity of a foul stream, virtually an open sewer, although very close at hand was another point on which a military establishment was located, for many years known as the Arsenal, as it was literally a storage place for Army muni- In later vears the Arsenal be- came Washington Barracks, which is its title today. But Buzzards Point re- mained unchanged in name even after habitation began to creep in, and even- tually a considerable part of the area was settled. There is no particular local pride in the title, but it persisted simply because it was nobody's concern to ef- fect a change. Now that this space is to be given over to an important indus- trial establishment there is some ap- prehension that the plant may be given in the public mind the old namc of the area as its distinguishing title. There is now a “Benning” plant for the pro-| duction of power, and unless the Park and Planning Commission formally changes the name of the area to Car- rollsburg, which some sixty years ago was proposed as the title of & subdi- vision projected for that region, a proj- ect that never developed, there is a chance that this addition to the equip- ment of the power company may be | known as the “Buzzards Point” plant, which in some minds would be unfortu- nate. It really makes but little differ- ence just what the place is called so long as it is improved and utilized for a useful purpose. And there will be probably some regret at the passing of a place name of such long standing. even though it does celebrate a bird of low esteem but useful service, e - It would have been cheaper in the long run for the bonus claimants to employ the old-fashioned lobby that handed out polite phraseology and plenty of cigars. - The Marchers to Disintegrate. It 1s reported from Johnstown that the bonus marchers assembled there {are now to break camp and return to their respective States. Also that it is planned for them to concentrate at the capitals of the States and there to establish themselves in such accommo- dations as may be provided by the au- thorities. There is no specific project of organization, and it now remains to be seen whether Harrisburg and Co- lumbus, Indianapolis, Springfield, Du- buque, Topeka and the other capitals will welcome these self-invited guests and give them shelter and sustenance. More likely is it that they will be as unwelcome in such cities as they were in Washington and as they have been |ing succor to these sufferers and all ! others. Johnstown’s experience was due to the impulsive action of its mayor, who, without any local support, invited the veterans on their eviction from Wash- ington to assemble there. Immediately upon their arrival the people of Johns- town protested. The mayor fulminated in deflance, but finally had to yield, and now he is as determined upon their de- parture as he was upon their coming last week. He told them yesterday that he would “knock the teeth out of any of them” who were still squatting in the neighborhood on Friday. His conver- sion to the eviction policy, it is related. was effected at a conference with a group of substantial citizens of Johns- town who offered him the opportunity, as one dispatch relates, “to shed the embarrassment which the B. E. F. has become.” One of them later said that “the mayor snapped at the proposition like & hungry lion.” ‘The march of the bonus seekers has been a sorry business from the outset. It was conceived in a spirit of co- ercion. It was doomed to failure before the first contingents reached this city. Despite the large vote in the House of Representatives in favor of the im- mediate payment of the bonus, there was no chance of concurrence by the Senate, and even upon the passage of the bill no chance of presidential; approval or in the case of veto, which | was assured, of passage over the velo. The persistence of the marchers in re- | maining here after Congress adjourned | and the last possibility of legislative re- | lief had passed was due in part to un- wise leadership and also to the mis- chievous enterprise of radicals who sought to create disturbance under the bonus banners. pily executed without the infliction of grievous hardship apart from the lam- entable results of the first melee when the police undertook to execute the orders given them to evacuate squatters upon public property. A Communist while pretending to work for ultimate human benefit never hesitates to seek selfish benefit by play- ing the traitor to those who are striv- ing as best they can to earn their way through life. — e A historic habit of thought causes a certain element of French opinion to wonder what money is for if not to finance military equipment. o ST Events have at least demonstrated that more serious troubles can be put in circulation than those manufactured by Al Capone and Gaston Means. B i As a States rights man, Gov. Ritchie promptly asserts the right of a State to protect itself against im- practical efforts at colonization. — e With “prosperity just around the corner” there is need of special caution not to risk reckless driving that tries to turn corners too rapidly. e If every trade conference produces its share of result there must even- tually be an abundance of trade. v Another man who had his own way and is now wondering what he will do with it is the mayor of Johnstown, Pa. - It is undeniably a difficult situation that requires the citizen to study the tariff and the riot act at the same time. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, The Vast Paradox. Dame Nature is smiling, with jusé now | and then A pause for a bit of a storm. But soon she is gentle and kindly again, With a heart that beats steady and warm. She brings us the blossoms, the birds and the bees. Homely corn and potatoes abound. Yet man is perplexed when so often he sees That there isn’t enough to go *round. The great world has duties for many to do. ‘There are hearts that are eager and strong. Even toil is reserved for the fortunate few And we're wondering what can be WTong. The great and the small have made bold to complain, As they listen to reasons profound. Though Nature is lavish, again and agaln, ‘There isn't enough to go 'round. In Luck. “I understand you lost a great deal during the depression,” said the kind but tactless friend. “I haven't lost my most valuable asset,” answered Senator Sorghum, with dignity. “I am still in full possession of my vocal chords.” Jud Tunkins says he's afraid to get out of debt. If a man isn't borrowing any these days, it's taken as a sign that his credit must be awful poor. Babel. A thing that makes you feel a dunce So frequently is this 'un, So many try to talk at once There's no one left to listen. Disturbance in the Line. “Of course you're in favor of farm relief.” “Of course,” answered Farmer Corn- tossel. “All I'm afraid of is that us farmers are liable to get into & po-| litical quarrel about which of us are going to get relieved first.” “He falls into embarrassing confu- sion,” said Hi Ho, the sage of China- town, “whose importance leads him to mistake a personal annoyance for a public grievance.” Cross-Word Puzzling. These turbulent events annoy! The interruptions I deplore. ‘I'm 5o disturbed I can't enjoy My cross-word puzzles any more! Words have their uses, as we know, But when they bring thought too intense, Please set them forth in patterns, so in Johnstown and in the State of {Maryland. Each State has its own {problem of caring for those who “are afflicted by the depression. Each city has its problem, but to the cities belong the specific task of render« They look well, but do not make sense. “I don't believe no talk.” said Uncle Eben, “bout luck in a rabbit’s foot. If de foot had been lucky it would have helped de rabbit 1o & SRR « | D. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1932. THIS AND THAT One aspect of home upkeep that has not been mentioned, as far as we can recall, is that of very minor repairs. A great deal has been said about re- building, and that sort of thing, about large changes which might be made, but not very much emphasis has been put on the hundred and one small matters which need fixing. Here is a field for the extension of employment in a legitimate way, utterly without, the necessity for resort to bally- hoo, blubber and gush. of his house “lifted,” he may tell you he prefers it as it is. If he can feel, however, in his own mind and heart, too, that a broken pane in a window is a nuisance, and that the old pillow he has stuffed in it does not look very well, the chances are very large that he will get it fixed Perhaps there are few homes, how- ever well kept. in which there is not at Jeast one small repair which might be fome reason or other, is not able to make with his own hands. Not every home owner is his own plumber, by any means. Or his own carpenter, glazier, tinner. If he is noi, he tends to take off his hat to the handy householder who can wield a big monkeywrench with the best of 'em. But he cannot. Some men who can buy houses can no more take care of them than a good- sized rabbit could, that is, could not personally make the necessary Tepairs. Screens will stick, window cords break, or get off on the garage dooNhave a disconcert- ing habit of refusing to budge at the most inopportune time, There are, no doubt, at least 1,000 garage doors out of order in Washing- ton every day in the yvear. One has to open them by tricker: as it were, If you are “in the know they respond only to the fellow who possesses the secret He presses down heavily on the right side, gives it a kick, and presses up on the left. ‘With much groaning the door finally opens. ‘Whenever any one else in the family wants to take the car out he or she must call in the “master mind” who possesses the exact combination. There are at least 5000 kitchen doors which refuse to open without much jiggling of the key in the lock. These locks, in a stubborn mood, have added a little mystery of their own to take them out of the class of | just ordinary locks, which “do their | stuff” easily and pleasantly, as all good locks should. | These particular specimens have to | be coaxed open. Merely turning the key gets one nowhere at all. The key | must be turned just so far, then given | a shake. After that it must be turned one- fourth a turn backward, after which it i1s given another shake, ‘Then it opens easily enough. Usually there is only one member of the family who has patience enough to work out the solution of this really trying problem, He—or she—is the One who can open the Kitchen Door. If any one else wants to go out, he must set up a clamor for the official | | Tell 2 man he ought to have the face ! made, but which the householder, for | Je roller; the hinges | they can be opened, but if you are not. | BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. the purpose of keeping the window up. He remembers seeing a window along another street held up by a child’s drum. Somebody had denuded little Johnny of his favorite toy, evidently. | The drum had been occupying its post at the window ever since Christ- { mas, Jones noted not long ago, as he went along that way. Broken windows seldom are fixed, especially if the crack is not the sort to let in water. They are unsightly, however, even if in the back of the house, or at a cor- ner not easily noticed in any position. Home owners go to all sorts of shifts | to make broken articles do, when it would be a great deal pleasanter to buy new ones. Here is a front door lock, which, ow- ing to just one small screw in its little insides, has become very stubborn. The ' entire family groans in spirit over the wretched thing. But nobody does anything about it. By sheer power of wrist the handle of the big front door may be turned, zuz it protests more and more every ay. Finally the hour strikes when the latch simply won't move. The head of the family, instead of calling a locksmith, or a carpenter, who ought to know about such matters, and does, decides that the latch must be pulled clear back and the door locked thereafter by the use of the so-called night latch. So this makeshift is put into effect. Mostly the family forgets about it and stubbornly paws at the door, in the belief that strength is the solufion, Jwhen all the time all one has to do Is to give a pull. Or the attic window won't open when it is shut, or it won't go shut when it | is open. | It is amazing how stubborn that attic window can become. The builder evi- dently didn't put s much thought on his attic windows as he might; at any rate, this one is stubborn. | Nobody does a thing about it, how- | ever. Kept open most of the time in Sum- mer in the naive belief that somehow it | “helped keep the house cool,” the win- | dow always refuses to go down in a hurry. Hence, when a sudden thunderstorm | comes up, bearing in with black clouds filled with wind and rain, all hands must go aloft to get the attic window | down. It is a regular rite. First one member of the family and then another struggles with it. Like these street car windows, which nobody can get up or down, seemingly, except the conductor, and of course it is his job, the old attic window refuses to come down until the thunder and light- ning starts. Then, just as every one has given it up, after much heaving and tugging, and growing purple in the face, along comes some one with the magic touch. The window obeys instantly. “See?” he says, in an irritating voice. “I did all the heavy work and got it loose,” says one of the others, “and then you come along and of course it goes down for you, after I had worked it loose.” “You have got to know how to do such things,” says the other, trium- kitchen door opener, phantly. Thbe window cord is broken in the pantry. A real “handy man” could fix it in a few minutes, but Templeton Jones is no hendy man. he wonders why he doesn't call in a | carpenter to fix the blame thing. In the meantime—and it is a mean- time which has lasted about a year and a half—he sticks a book under it, to prop it up. He keeps the book there solely for Excerpts From Newsp L COMERCIO, Lima—The news- paper El Oriente of Iquitos is sponsoring a beneficial proj- Every time he puts that window up} The joke of it is, he is right. One does have to know how to do | such things. And not every one can, in the very nature of things. Handiness with tools, and with the things which tools build, is not every one’s portion. Locks and the like which are sup- posed to turn, but which won't turn, are a terrible nuisance; often the cause is a ridiculously small one. But “the man who knows” is required, here as elsewhere. Highlights on the Wide World apers of Other Lands ‘London and other places were anything | but new chapters of misunderstandings, | disagreements and anxieties. ect with the idea of mprovlnx‘ One can do nothing but gain the certain districts of Loreto de- | firm conviction that every financial and partment with sylvestral plantations. | economic trouble and grievance in Eu- Not that there is any scarcity of trees | rope is operating slowly, perhaps, but in Peru, generally speaking, but there | surely, to array all the nations in hos- | be are some sections where deforestation has been carried on excessively for many years—we might more properly say, centuries—and particularly in the neighborhoods of the larger _cities, with a_corresponding _detriment both to the beauty and healthfulness of the denuded regions. It has been proposed by El Oriente that the present opportunity to relieve some of the unemployed, and at the same time to restore a natural charm to some areas now sadly deficient in this respect be recognized and im- proved by the departmental admin- istration.” We are informed that these officials are considering the proposi- tion favorably, and that the efforts which at first were suggested to en- hance hygienic and scenic aspects of various environmets will likely be em- Pployed to a material and economic ad- vantage as well, by planting trees in | bare and barren vacancies which as they mature and supplant one another may furnish in rotation a diversity of timber suitable both for the several requirements of local industry and to supply foreign demands as well. It is urgently necessary that our country develop all its resources in an intensivee program of development and rehabilitation, along both agricultural and industrial lines, and it must be readily acknowledged that the valuable suggestion offered upon the initiative of El Oriente of Iquitos has provoked an interest in sylvan —restorations which will have effective and capital results not only within its own zone of republic where similar action e ex- pedient. Though immigration to this country was virtually prohibited by a_supreme decree dated October 7, 1931, there are many destitute foreigners among us whom it would be wise to put to work on such projects. Particularly does such a plan secm worthy of adop. tion since these people came here as colonists and they should be dis- tributed in the remoter parts of the country, rather than be allowed to add to the congestion of the cities. The recent closing of the “Hotel de Immi- grantes” in this capital, by government order, because of the present economic situation, has made the removal of such as were cared for there a matter of immediate concern which may be solved by removing these indigent pub- lic guests to the proposed tree planta- tions, * ok ok X Hostility to France Deplored by Writer. Le Petit Marseillals, Marseille—Just where are our friends? One does not desire to throw oil upon a fire already burning with sufficient vehemence, but it really does seem that our French patience must be put to further tests! Though our successive governments have always shown themselves con- ciliatory and friendly to other nations, it appears that these tenders are less and less appreciated and reciprocated. We are expected, nevertheless, to ac- cept each new rebuff with typical French good humor and politeness. We voluntarily evacuated the areas of the Rhine a year or two ago and this pleased Germany. But now Ger- many is no longer pleased, nor is Italy. ‘They have since accused us of ex- ploitation among the countries of the Danube—really subversive efforts of their own, upon the incontestable suc- cess of which the press of both these nations is already exulting. It cannot averred that M. Tardieu, at the time of his latest visit to London, was welcomed with spontaneous cordiality. Nor can it be denied for a single in- stant that the most recent conversa- tions at ot influence, but in all other zones of the | 1 acketeers, e | tility to France. Our best efforts in | behal? of peace and accord are misin- ‘terpreted and belittled. We constantly | find ourselves confronted with a wall of contradiction and chicanery, at the base of which are political masons | whose capacities are far more effective |in erecting national barriers than in demolishing them. The time has arrived when it is clearly our duty to ascertain who are | our real friends. If some have hugged | us very closely to their bosoms in the | past. perhaps it is not wrong for us to | conjecture, in the light of later events, | that they did this so they would have | a better chance to squeeze the life out | of us! e Religious Zealots | Dispute Over Tombs. Ceylon Daily News, Colombo.—The | discovery of two tombs at Madhavbaug | which are claimed by both Hindus and | Muslims been the cause of some | excitement in the locality during the past week. While Muslims have taken | possession of both tombs, claiming them | to be those of Pir and his wife, Hindus on their part have brought to the scene the image of God Maruthi, and there is | thus witnessed a unique spectacle of | followers of both faiths offering prayers side by side. Alarming rumors of the | imminence of communal trouble we~ occasionally afloat, but in no .y founded on actual situation, Wr'-i is quiet and being closely watchec by the police. | ———— | What Voters Want | From Politicians From the Danbury Evening News. | What do voters want this hard cam- | paign year? Do they want hokum and | bunkum, do they want evasions and | oratory, do they want drivel and | ranting? | Not The people are earnest about things today. They have passed and | are passing through critical times. | They are interested in vital things. | “'The old-time political cant and | “hurrah boys” won't fool the voters this year. What the people want is straight-from-the-shoulder talk, the | sort of sincere telk that tells things | and does not _evade. Abuse of the other party is “out.” And personal attacks won't go, either. “Turn the rascals out,” won't fool any- | body, and pointing with pride and view- ing with alarm as vote-getting methods are in the discard. People today want |the truth and they want candid | speeches and frank discussions of men | and measures. | This is no time for a campaign of |bland “party first” propaganda. The | voters want, as never before, to put the best men in office. They see that this is a crucial period in the life of the Nation, they see the world in turmoil and anything possible. They see that strong competent men, men of judg- ment and superb intelligence, men of purpose and high principle, are needed in high place. The citizens realize “that the ballot is a thing of tragic im- portance; that politics 1s vastly more than a scramble for office among the self-seekers. And they are thinking these things as they look the candi- dates for office over, listen to their say- ings and observe their actions and scru- | tinize their records. e Less Time for Gangsters. Prom the Cleveland Plain Dealer. We favor the five-day week, or less, 'n and the whole e ¥ | The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. NEW BEDFORD, Mass.,, August 4.— Despite the fact that Gov. Joseph B. Ely of Massachusetts, after waiting a month, has announced that he will support Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, this State of Massachusetts today is no easy battleground for the Democrats this year. Gov. Ely has announced that he will be a candidate for re-election. This was much desired by the Roosevelt supporters, on the { theory that it would aid the national ticket in this State and indicate that Ely was really wholeheartedly support- ing the Roosevelt ticket. Gov. Ely, in his statement issued Monday, said a | kind word for Roosevelt and two kind | words for Al Smith, the idol of the | Massachusetts Democracy. He may have had his own political future in mind when he phrased the statement. If Al Smith were the Democratic presi- dential nominee this year, there would be no slightest doubt that the Bay State would go Democratic. But put- ting Gov. Roosevelt across here will be a very different matter. xx %% The difficulty lies in the soreness growing out of the primary fight, when the Democrats divided—very one- | sidedly—over Smith and Roosevelt and | sent a solid Smith delegation to the Democratic National Convention. It lies also in the fact that Smith was turned down at the national convention, in, part, by the old Smith foe, William Gibbs McAdoo. The Democratic leaders here, realizing that after all a national Democratic victory may be won this year with a united party supporting Roosevelt, have gone over to the New York Governor, Ely being the last to go. | But the rank and file of the Smith Democrats is ancther matter. Many of these Democrats say they would rathec {vote for Hoover, though they do not care particularly for the President, or | not vote at all. * K ok Kk Published in the Massachusetts news- papers with large headlines is a quota tion frem former Senator Thomas J. Heflin of Alabama, saying that he in- tended to stump the country for Roose- velt. this year and predicting that Roose- velt will sweep the South. This is not just the kind of publicity that will aid the Democrats in their fight to carry the Bay State. The Democrats here have no love for Tom Heflin. Further- more, they remember that Mr. Heflin did not support Smith in 1928 and that | the South did not go solidly for their beloved leader. * * % The New Bedford Times, an anti- administration and Democratic news- paper, commenting editorially on the Ely statement of support for Roosevelt, called Gov. Ely's statement “faint praise.” Under this heading, it said: “Gov. Ely showed careful choice of words, Sunday, in his guarded approval of Gov. Roosevelt as a Democratic can- didate, contrasted with repetition of former uncompromising stand for Alfred E. Smith. “‘A man of expressed convictions and positive action,’ is the way Mr. Ely describes Mr. Smith. “‘Gov. Roosevelt has convinced me that the platform of the Democratic party adopted at Chicago will be car- ried out by him with earnest and ener- getic action’ The faint praise with which he swings to Mr. Roosevelt. “There are apt to be wide differences in actual value between the man of positive action and the man who merely | carries out -party platforms, however | ‘Search for Gold Creating New Army of Adventurers ernestly or energetically. “A man of the character of Alfred! + Emanuel Smith would be far better for the United States at the head of its cffairs without any party whatsoever | then a man of the character of cither | Herbert Hoover or Franklin Roosevelt, even though such a President had with Lim the combined support of both ma- jor parties.” e e This editorial continues to express the feclings of many of the Smith, Democrats. When it is remembered that Massachusetts has been Republi- can in presidential elections, except for Al Smith’s victory in 1928 and for Wil- son's victory in 1912, when the Repub- licans were divided between Roosevelt and Taft, the task the Democrats have on their hands to ‘“put over” Gov. Roosevelt in Massachusetts next No- vember is considerable. Hard times and the liquor question are the issues on which the Democrats are relying. Roosevelt's radio speech Saturday night stressed the fact that he would under- take to see that Congress acted to re- peal the eighteenth amendment. This probably was what Gov. Ely had in mind when he said he was convinced that Roosevelt would act to carry out the national Democratic platform. Of course, Gov. Roosevelt if he were Presi- dent could only recommend to Congress that steps be taken to submit a repeal amendment to the States for action. And such action could be obtained only with Republican support in_ iCongress, for no one really belives that the Demo- crats will have two-thirds of the mem- bership of the Senate and the House in the mexi Congress. It requires a two-thirds vote of both Houses of Con- gress to submit an amendment to the Constitution. * X Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, if press reports are true, is angling for support of his recert proposal for an international confr-ience on economic problems, which would cover _debts, Teparations and armaments. He Is quoted as say 1g that he will support the presiden al candidate who comes out for his vlan. Gov. Roosevelt in his Tadio spc--h declared that he would summon an international conference for t - stabilization of currency. He hac" more to say about the war debts, # | agreed with Senator Borah that .ae recent Lausanne Conference had aved the way for some kind of action looking to better relations in Europe and throughout the world. On the other hand, from administra- tion sources have come intimations that Borah's gmn for an economic confer- erce might be adopted. Senator Wat- son, the Republican leader of the Sen- ate. before he left Washington to go to Indiana came out flat-flootedly for an agreement for disarmament in Europe, | which, with the reduction of the Ger- | man reparations, is Borah's price for a | reduction or cancellation of the debts owed this country by Europe. It had indicated, too, in other administration quarters that the Borah proposal was being studied carefully. Therefore, should the administration swing to the Borah plan, the way would be paved for the Idaho Senator once more to leap }into the national campaign, fighting for {the Republican ticket. The adminis- tration may wonder, however, whether such & plan would sit well with the! voters. The cancellation of the debts! owned this country by European nations has not been popular in this country 50 far. ok John J. Raskob, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is | to meet Gov. Rcosevelt soon, it is Te- ported. Raskob, the Roosevelt people always insisted, was hostile to the nom- | ination of the New York Governor, al- | though Mr. Raskob himself declared | that he was not anti-anybody. If Mr. | Raskob can be won over to the Roos velt side of this fight it may mean a lot to the Democrats. Mr. Raskob rep- resents big business. He has for the last four years been the particular and bright “angel” of the Democratic party, making large Joans and contributions to Democratic campaigns. If he is lined up for Roosevelt, there will remain only Al Smith himself to be taken into the fold. * x k% The Democratic Governor of Mary- land, Gov. Ritchie, turned thumbs dow: on the establishment of a “B. E. F."” camp in his State. Virginia, another Democratic State, would not receive the bonus army. Up here in Massachusetts there is Democratic criticism of the ad- ministration because it turned the bonus army out of Washington. But ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘There is no other agency In the)| world that can answer as many legiti- ‘mate questions as our free Information Bureau in Washington, D. C. This highly organized institution has been built up and is under the personal direction of Frederic J. Haskin. By keeping in constant touch with Federal bureaus and other educational enter- prises it is in a position to pass on | to you authoritative information of the highest order. Submit your queries to the stafl of experts whose services are put at your free disposal. There is no charge except 3 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Address The Evening Star Information Bureauy, | Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- ' ton, D. C. | Q. What events make up the de-| cathlon and pentathion at _the Olym- pics at Los Angeles?—S. K. A. The following events will make up the decathlon and pentathlon in the Olympics for 1932: Decathlon— 100-meter run, broad jump, shotput, high jump, 400-meter run, 100-meter hurdle, discus, pole vault, javelin and 1,500-meter run. Pentathlon — Fenc- | ing, shooting, swimming, cross-country run and equestrian. Q. How school?>—N. | _A. The National Education Associa- tion says that it was found that the | number of persons enrolled in courses of educational subjects totaled 273,148 last year. Q. How can color cured?—A. O. A. The Public Health Service says| that there is no cure for color blind- ness. By careful treatment and con- stant application a person can improve | his ability to distinguish between green and red colors. but the mixed shades he | will never be able to distinguish clearly. | Q. What s many peszle 8o to summeri LG blindness be a motion pieture screen | A A heavy canvas, especially pre- pared and usually surfaced with alum- inum paint, is ordinarily used as a mo- tion picture screen. Q. What is Volapuk?—D. C. D. | A. Volapuk was a proposed universal | language and was invented about 1879 | by Johann Martin Schleyer of Con- | stance, Germany. The name means ‘world speech.” Volapuk was received | with great favor immediately after the s'i'herge was published, but later de- clined. HQé What duty is paid on coffee?— ‘A. Coffee comes into the United States duty free, except coffee imported into Porto Rico. Q. Where is the Rapidan River?— V. B. W. B. A. It rises in the Blue Ridge Moun- tains of Virginia and flows eastward into the Rappahannock. It forms the southern border of Culpeper County. Q. Please tell something about the early life of James Ramsay Donald—E. E. A. Premier MacDonald was born on October 12, 1866, at Lossiemouth, a little fishing village on the Moray Firth. His father was a laborer, his first home a “but and a ben.” At Drainie board school he received an elementary edu- Mac- | 12-16 a week as & clere. He continued his own education by evening classes, laboratory work and incessant reading. A breakdown in health ended his scientific career and sent him into journalism. Q. What jewelry did Joan of Arc wear when she “embraced the saints"? A Two small cheap rings. Her par- ents and one of her brothers had given them to her. Three crosses and the words “Jesus Maria” were on one of the rings, both of which Joan regarded as very precious. Q. How long does it take to fly from coast to coast by established air sched- ule?—P. M. A. Twenty-seven hours eastbound and 31 hours westbound. Q. When was the Saturday Evening Post given this name?—B, W. A. As founded by Franklin in 1728 the periodical now known as the Satur- day Evening Post was entitled the Pennsylvania Gazette. The name was changed in 1821 to avoid confusion, be- cause at that time there were six other papers in Philadelphia using the word gazette in their title. Q. How did the tune “Old Hundred” get such a name’—G. 8. The melody was known in the fifteenth century. In England it wes used for Kethe's version of the Hun- dreth Psalm, “All people that on eartn do dwell,” and was called the “Hundreth Tune.” The word old was added when the psalter was revised. Q. Who was Ri who compiled the thesaurus which bears his name?—A. T. A. Peter Mark Roget was an English physician and scholar born in London, 1%79; died in 1869. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and re- moved to Manchester, where he became physician to the lunatie asylum, the fever hospital and the infirmary. He set- tled in Londcn in 1808. and was long secretary of the Royal Society. Among his works are “Animal and Vegetabla Physiology” (1834) and “A Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases” (1852), which paised through 28 editions in the author’s lifetime, was edited by his son in 1879 and became a standard work of reference.® Q. Why was the Carlisle Indian School discontinued?—M. B. A. The Indian Office says that the Carlisle Indian School was originally an old Army post which the War De- partment turned over for a school in | the East for Indians about 1880. The |agreement was that when needed the | Indian Office would give back the post | to the War Department. This was done |in the latter part of the war and the schcol was used for rehabilitation work. The date was December 21, 1918. Q. On what date did President Wil |son march in a preparedness parade in Washington, D. C.>—O. C. "A.muuwu the Flag day parade, June . 1916. Q. Who is the champion cross-word | puzzle worker?—F. C. | _A. J. Van Cleft Cooper has held the | New York Herald Tribune champion- ship Cross-word Puzzle Cup since 1928. He won the National Puzzlers Leagus contest this year and for the past three cation and continued as a pupil teacher | years has contributed puzzles to a large Coming to London at 18, he worked at press syndicate. “Time will run back and fetch the age of gold,” said Milton, the great English poet. Is a new gold fever start- ing today? Raising of buried bullion and clinking coins from the sea, open- ing of new mines, procpecting Wwith better methods in abandoned shafts, searching possible claims, all are going on at the present time, and the spec- :xc]de-!ls arousing much interest in many ands. “Probably more men than ever be- fore are prospecting for gold, not only in this country but in other lands,” states the Pasadena Star-News, listing new activities in this feld: “One recent dispatch told of a rich discovery in a remote part of Asia. News from Cordova, Alaska, now announces the discovery of a gold-bearing ledge, de- scribed ‘as the ‘biggest in the world.” This ledge, in the Copper River Rail- road area, was uncovered, it is believed, by a change in the course of the stream. Nevada is excited over a gold quartz discovery at Summit Springs, thirty miles south of Hawthorne, once a flourishing mining camp. Other strikes have been reported from time to time.” The Star-News concludes: them may have merit back of their claims, and others may be purely pro- motional in character. While such re- ports should not always be accepted at face value, yet there is good reason to watch developments. That out of this thorough search of Mother| Earth’s rugged bosom there should come worth- while finds, perhaps bonanza locations, need surprise no one.” Laying the boom in gold mining to the fact that low costs of food, wages and materials make it profitable, the Spokane Spokesman-Review remarks: “Now that an ounce of gold will buy so much more of everything than it| could buy a few years ago, ores then unprofitable are ‘inviting now. The United States Department of Commerce | calculates that in 1931 gold enjoyed | a purchasing power approximately 40 | “Some of | Calify per cent above 1926 levels, and its buying power is even greater now than it was in 1931. So gold mining is| taking a boom all over the world.” | “The old days of romantic gold | mining are long since dead, but gold fever can never dle,” thinks the Boise | Idaho Statesman, taking cognizance of the reported gold strike of rich pro- portions in Northern Idaho, though it discounts predictions of & bonanza. | “Nevertheless,” declares this paper, | “the temptation to contemplate the| advantages which would accrue were | a series of fabulously rich stakes made | are too great to resist. Money would be brought into the State, employment furnished to the jobless, our whole in- dustrial life would be given a power- ful stinfulant. Nor would the benefits be confined to Idaho. A new source of gold pouring into the country's eco- | nomic structure would constitute a | powerful factor in business recovery. With thousands of prospectors scour- ing the hills, there is always & chance, remote though that chance may be.” | Referring particularly to the mines in Alaska, the Nashville Banner de- | clares: “In the light of the history | of its purchase, it is especially inter- | esting to see indications from time to | time that the real value of Alaska to the United States is increasing as we learn more of it. When Secretary Seward bought Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $7,200,000 in gold there was a great outcry on the part of an in- dignant public. The territory was pop- ularly referred to as ‘Seward's Folly,” and people said there was no ac- counting for the senseless extrava- gance in which public officials would induige, and so on. Recent geological surveys in Alaska have emphasized several facts about Alaska that make the biting criticism of Secretary Sew- ard in days gone’by all the more amusing.” “The gold trails of '49 and of later years once more shake to the tread of booted prospectors, and stream beds forgotten since the days of Crip- will continue to seek to make political capital against President Hoover be- cause of the ejection of the bonus army from tke National Capital. * % % it is drubtful whether, if the bonus army_came knocking ar the doors of | this State, Gov. Ely would welcome it any more cordially than did Gov. Riichie of Maryland, ¥et Demograts A is the most cheering news the The recent senatorial and guberna- torial primaries in Kansas show thal the Sunflower State is still “dry t | if not in realit: This s - ple Creek's glory are belng combed for overlooked vestiges of the wealth they once held,” says the Minneapolis Journal, as it pictures “the bearded and grizzled optimists who for half a century and longer have haunted the valleys of California, taking out just enough gold here and there to yield a meager living, now joined by an army of younger men, most of whom know little or nothing of gold or of mining.” The Journal points out that “ft is not generally known that the world today is producing more gold annually than at any time between 1870 and 1908, and suggests that “the higher its value, in terms of commodi- ties or labor, the more of it will be gotten out.” “One good result of the ‘depression’ is renewal of the search for gold, and all over the belt of North Carolina pros- pectors are pecking away and bringing up ores of varying value, some of con- tent giving promise of profitable re- turns,” announces the Charlotte Ob- server, as it praises the metal of that State. “North Carolina gold is said to be ‘yellower’ than the gold produced in ornia, and, what's more, the ores here assay & heavier production of the {:’lhv metal to the ton than any ores own. Our people walk over gold mines every day. What can be done to bring up the ores and transfer the gold from the ground into the pockets of the people? If the Government lends a hand to the West, it certainly should extend a helping hand to the South,” claims this paper. The Walla Walla Daily Bulletin ex- claims: “Gold! Gold! The report spreads like the wind, and already scores, even hundreds, of Testless men have shouldered packs with their crude mining equipment and started the over= land rush to the wild country that holds out the attractive diggings to the few who are fortunate. But how dif- ferent the picture of today will be from that of decades ago when Walla Walla was at a high pitch under the conta- glous fever of the fortune that lay over the hills.” Not only from the dark recesses of the earth is gold bcing taken, but the sea is being forced to give up its long- inundated treasures. To this the Ap- pleton Post-Crescent calls attention, saying: “Had one listened intently the other dav to the soft Eastern breezes there might have been heard a cry that has lighted the fires of human pas- slon and greed ever since commerce set the mark of selfishness upon the yellow metal. It was the cry of ‘Gold, gold, the Egypt's gold at last!’ as the first gold bullion and coin was raised from that sunken liner off the coast of Frarce. After four years of effort, gold and silver bullion and British sovereigns valued at milllons of dollars have been uncovered and are now piled in heaps upon the salvage ship Artiglio's deck with every heave of the gral Noting that “new methods in deep diving developed by the Artiglio’s crew promise interesting possibilities for undersea ex- ploration,” this paper suggests: “Many ships and countless millions lie about the muddy bottom of the sea. What other riches or sources of adventure the ocean depths may hold. no man | knows.” | A similar effort is to be made in the | Atlantic Ocean, 65 miles off Cape Henry, where lies the Merida, which sank on May 12, 1911. The Baltimore | Evening Sun advises that “what makes | the salvage of the vessel an enterprise | worth considerable effort is the fact | that its passenger list included some of the wealthiest persons in all Mexico, and they were carrying to what they hoped would be safety some four mil- | lions in money, gold and silver bullion and jewels.” Cocos Island, in the South Pacific, is | again luring gold hunters, notes the | Atlanta Jourpal, referring to expedi- tions to “that olden haunt of pirates in | the South Pacific,” in search of “treas- | ure fabled to be worth between 25 and 75 million dollars—a treasure that has long proved a will-o’-the-wisp,” accord- ing to The Journal. “But,” comments this paper, analyzing the persistence of the search. “it isn't the gold merely that | these smitten hearts desire; it's the sea ;wlnd, the lonely beach, the forest tangle, the very hardship and danger that iift | life above humdrum in their foretas Men will ever