Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1932, Page 8

" A8 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D.- C; kauDay, Auvuunt THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY. .August 5, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES... Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th_St and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office t 110 East 42n icago Office: Lak B o ) e Michigan Bullding. urepean 14 ‘meseat St Loadon. ngland, Rate by Carrier Within e Evening Star.. Evening and Sunday (wken 4 Sundays) ... ning_and Sunday Star ndays) ... . ter. . S TR oflection mede at the end of e grl ‘may be sent in by mail o al 5000 able in Advance. d Virginia. the City. 4bc per month 60c per month €5¢ per month Sc_per copy ach month. r telephone Btar Rate by Mail—Pay: Maryland ly and Sunday. ay only All Other States and Canada. ily and Sunday...13 Eflx o o nday only ... 1yr Member of the Associated Press. ssociated Press is exclusively entitied F he o Gor republication of all news dis- fred 1 Daper and also the IIIHPP special 2 Il rights of publication of a——— o reserve f, When and As Necessary.” Thirteen of the States have lined up before the paying teller's window of the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion, egch of them provided with what, two days ago, might have been con- sidered ample evidence of their right to draw on the $300,000,000 Federal fund available as loans for relief and welfare Work. Such evidence, in the wording of the act, consists in certification by the Gov- ernor of any State or Territory as to “the necessity for such funds and that the resources of the State or Territory, including moneys then available and which can be made available by the State or Territory, its political subdi- visions and private contributions, are inadequate to meet its relief nceds.” And upon presentation of such. evi- dence, the corporation is advised, in the act, that “nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the corporation to deny an otherwise ac- ceptable application under this sec- tion because of constitutional or other legal inhibitions or because the State yr. $10.00: 1 mo.. B5c yr.. §6.00: 1mo.. 80c [I1yr, $400: 1mo. 40c £800: 1 m $5.00; 1 mo., g ed herein A ‘dispatches herein zre or Territory has borrowed to the full | extent suthorized by la Head and shoulders above the rest of these thirteen States in size andin wealth stood Pennsylvania yesterday with an application, duly certified by Gov. Pin- chot, for a loan of $10,000,000 to be adyanced at once against the maximum total of $45,000,000 sought by the State. As evidence of Pennsylvania's need statements were presented to the corporation showing that the State has made, or under pending legislation will make, contributions from public and private sources totaling some $140,- 000,000 for relief. “These staggering figures represent,” Pennsylvania’s state- ment concluded, “approximately the limit to which our Commonwealth can go in this direction.” Yet Pennsylvania was told by the R. F. C., in a statement by Chairman | Pomerene, that while it is the cor- poration’s belief that the State should be extended “on proper showing” some re- Ief, “it must be borne in mind that we have funds intrusted to our board which are to be expended not in lieu of State or local relief but to be supple- mental thereto if, when and as neces- sary.” The corporation will defer ac- tion on the Pennsylvania request “un- il we know what the Legislature will do for the relief of its own people.” And Gov. Pinchot and the Legislature’s Jeaders, empty handed, have hastened back to Harrisburg to learn what can be done. The case of Pennsylvania provided the R. F. C. with an excellent oppor- tunity for restatement of its policy on logns for relief. Gov. Pinchot has been one of the leading advocates of the theory that the Federal Govern- ment should assume the burden of re- e 313 g0: 1mo 5100 | strip him of all claim to being a mn'tiUon now in connection with ¢he leap ! peace. - In an exposition of Fascism for the Encyclopaedia Italiana, just reproduced in the premier's old newspaper, Il Popolo d'Italla, 8'gnor Mussolint exalts war as giving “the seal of nobility to | peoples.” His dictum on democracy is less startling, but because not so novel. Branding it as a failure more. tyranni- cal than tyranny, Mussolini continues: “Fascism does not believe in the possi- bility of perpetual peace, It therefore rejects pacifism, which implies renunci- ation of struggle and cravenness in the face of sacrifice. Only war carries all human energies to the height of ten- |sion and gives the seal of nobility to] peoples that have the courage to con- front it.” Fascism is on the verge of commemo- | rating the tenth anniversary of the march on Rome. Perhaps Il Duce finds !it meet to stir the martial passions of | his realm in keeping with th: pomp | and circumstance with which the Black | Shirt conquest is to be celebrated. Per- | haps, too, this fresh outburst of mili- | i tancy, of a sort to which Mussolini has | not left the world entirely unaccustomed | during the first decade of his reign, ex- | d | plains the abrupt termination of Signor | | DIno Grandi's career as Italian foreign ! minister a few weeks ago. It seems only yesterday when that ac- complishd young statesman was in our midst, assuring the American people of the undying love of peace which inspires “the chief of my government.” It is at any rate a vastly different tune that; Mussolini sings in the Encyclopaedia Iteliana, with its glorification of war es the one virtue that “ennobles” a nation. e - Judge Seabury Repli The Walker casc pending before Gov. Rcosevelt 1is now “set.” Yesterday Bamuel Seabury, counsel for the Legis- lative Investigating Commiitee, trans- mitted to the Governor his rebuttal to the mayor's answer to the charges and now all that remains is for the State executive to study these documents, name a date for a hearing and then consider the question of the mayor's removal. It is understocd that he de- sires to settle the matter definitely as {soon as possible 50 as to clear the way | for his unhindered participation in the campaign for the presidency, for which !he has been nominated by the Demo- | | cratic party. Judge Seabury's answer to the may- or's defense is a caustic analysis of the Walker document. Regarding the plea | of “limitation,” in respect to alleged ac-, tions during his first term of office, the | committee counsel says: “It is & sorry | sight indeed to sce a person occupying | high public office, whose honor is im- ! pugned, taking the position that the’ | people must suffer him to continue in i public office becaus: he was fortunate | enough not to be caught in time.” De- | claring that the mayor in his reply re- peatedly contradicted documentary evi- dence and other witnesses in an effort |to avold damaging admissions, Judge Seabury says: “On this record of equiv- | ocation, evasion and contradiction the | mayor has demonstrated himself to be | unworthy of belief where his omclal‘ | conduct is called in question.” With persistent and detailed analysis iof the testimony the committee counsel | | presses upon every point of the mayor’s | | reply. With reference to the mayor's | repeated rejoinder that transactions of which he was beneficiary were merely |, | | i | | |sad but open in alert watchfulness, | of “Cal" from the plane, 1,800 feet above the earth: ‘The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that sever deserts him, the cne that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and poverty, in health and.in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where| the Wintry winds blow and the snow drives flercely, if only he may be near master’s 'side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, he will | lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert he re- mains. * * * If fortune drives the mas- | ter forth en outcast in the world, | friendless and homeless, the faithful | dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him to guard agsinst danger. to fight against his enemies, and when the last scene of all ccmes, 2nd death takes the master in its em- brace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by the graveside will the noble dog be found, | his head between his paws, his ecves ' faithful and true even to death, —e——— Chicago’s Costly Fire. Memories of the great fire of October, : 1871, in Chicago, which swept over more than 2,000 scres and destroyed property valued et $187,000,000 and, it is estimated, three hundred lives, are revived by the report of a conflagration which at this writing is still raging. The present estimate of the loss thusi far is $6,000,000, a trifie compared with | the destruction of sixty-one years ago. But the values in the area of this pres- ent blaze are much more highly con- centrated than at the time of the fire of 1871, and a spread to an area of only a tenth of that covered by the great conflagration would cause a loss even greater than was then suffered. But the structures of the region now beset by the flames are much more substan- tial than were those of 1871, which were for the most part not even what is now called fire resisting in material. Furihermore, the fire-fighting facilities now are much more efficlent than were those then available. Yet there is a| point in these tremendous outbursts of flame at which not even the largest possible concentration of pumpers and hose lines can make headway in re- sista In some cases of furious city fires the only means to check the flames is to destroy by explosion properties ly- ing beyond the immediate reach of the fire, to check its advance. It is prob- | able that the fire in Chicago will be conquered today. Already the loss, however, is very heavy and a partich- larly grievous effect is the fact that the destruction of the packing plant, which was the chief sufferer, will throw at| least 1,000 men out of work, adding seriously to the economic problem with | which that city is now confronted. Constant declarations by the Tam- meny glee club that “Happy Days Are Here Again” do not suffice to persuade Al Smith to step into the role of “Happy Warror” with his former con- vincing alacrity. et As nearly as some of the amateur | political economists can make out, a! moratorium is the preliminary of a| receivership involving big liabilites and no assets to speak of. e e Salary cuts for film stars have gone' Dignity is scmething which touches all_men upon occacion. No one of us can say when the time will come when he will have to stand on his_dignity. Perhaps it may be a case of having nothing left to siand on. In such a position, happy is the man whe actually sses, and is able to Mmake others feel, the dignity which every human being craves. He is able to “save his face,” as the They have no monopoly on that feel- ing, however. It 1s well known, to human beings the world around. Often it is better to “save one's face” thar to make an actusl gain. In all this the question of human dignity is uppermost. We would confine the discussion to the every day, where dignity plays its part quite as much as among the great and the mighty and during events ex- citing and tremendous. Dignity preserved at the price of a |sort of inhumanness is scarcely worth it in the every day life. Consider a ‘common case, such as may and does arise in the -case of thousands of city human beings. Here is an operator of a public vehicle. A passenger greets him with an hon- est smile, as he hands him his fare, and gets a smile and spoken word in reply. ‘That's democracy, good American fellowship. and all that sort of thing. The passenger is not deterred from |being human by any considerations whatsoever of differences in the social scale, money-making capacity, rank, and so on. As far as he is concerned, the public vehicle man is a good public vehicle man. and that is all he wants to know. Evidently the other figures that his passenger is a good passenger, and that is all he wants to know. Thelr mutual good will goes on for several weeks, until one fine morning, when the passenger offers his fare and his usual greeting, the utilities man accepts the one, but refuses to reply in kind to the other. sense of his own dignity, one of these “touchy” dignties which can brook no slight, he will feel somawhat hurt about this, and wonder what he has done to offend the fellow. If he carries his dignity with a smile, however, secure in the belief that it can take care of itself, he will forget about ihe matter. The next morning he will speak as usual, as if there had be>n no breaking of the unwritten contract between the twe. If the fellow persists in his sullen streak. the passenger then and thecre proceeds to wipe him off his slate of speaking acquaintances, and thereafter treats him to a dose of his own actions. In doing this much, however, he is careful to sponge off the slate of his mind the inner resentments which naturally spring from such a proceeding. It is right here that so many human tacts, and make a sort of fool out of their dignity. True dignity does not require accept- ance on the part of others. “A slave, and maimed in body; beggar, and dear to the immortals. Such was the epitaph of Epictetu: ancient philosopher, who understood the workings cf the human mind better than many a modern psychologist. It pictured perfectly the man of dig- nity, despite conditions which tended, with the majority of men, to hide this precious quality. Dignity is, after all, one of mankind's most dearly becloved possessions. There are four main definitions of it; first, as true worth, or excellence; Now, if the passenger has an exalted | beings fall down in their human con- | WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. | second, high estate, or estimation; third, | office, Tank or title: fourth, elevation | of manner, proper stateliness. | _The first and the fourth of these are | the most interesting. | Every human being with any concep- | tion at all of ethical conauct feels that | he possesces a certain inherent worth, or | excellence. | After he comes to this conclusion, the | remainder of his life is spent in trying 1o make other paople accept him at his own valuaticn. | Perhnrs in nine hundred and ninety- | nine cut of every thousand cases, hu- manity feils in this mission, not only because too often the valuation is en- tirely too high to be accepted, except by a few, but often because the person | mainly concerned does not possess the | precise combinatton of factors which | will enable him to convince others. | " There are a few fortunate men who | from childhood seem to know just what | to say and whet to do to get others to | accept them at their own value, their | face value, as one might say. Ofsen they are aided by nature, which has dowered them with what the world of men calls “good looks.” On the other hand, there are cases known to every one of huge successes, as such things go, made by miserable-looking speci- mens, both physically and facially. The mystery of why some succeed | and some do not has never been solved, | and it probably never will be in a world where every human being has to begin all over again from scratch. There .is true_dignity, and there is false dignity. Every one has known some pompous fellow who emulated the airs of some old-time Senator and suc- ceeded in “putting Limself over” in certein times and places. He was “dignified,” yes, but not in the t sense. ‘The bast dignity is that real worth which exists, whether oihers know it or not: it must remain the secret satis- faction of all the millions of people who | fail to have the “'spotlight” of publiz | Tecognition turned upon them. | 'The next best dignity i3 that eleva- tion of manner which visibly baspeaks | a proper pride of a human being in mself. ‘This is not dependent upon clothes, although they play thair part. It is sim- | ply easier for most people to be diz- |nified when they are well dressed: it | is easier for them to impress others— |those others who so often judge of | character from outward appearance, | having no ability in themselves to pene- | trate intc mind and heart. | ‘There is something appealing about the dictionary definition of “a proper | stateliness.” Yes, that is dignity, of a sort. It means that one has eschewed juvenile flightiness, and taken one’s | side in the ranks of the serious, since Adam's day, who have looked upon life and found that, while it is well, |since it cannot be helped, thcfe are many unexplained matters in it. A certain amount of dignity, or proper stateliness in demeanor and con- | duct, as worked out by civilization over the centurics, is an essential of in- telligence. It shows that one is, like the early | Christians, in protest against the world |as it is constituted, and unable to re- |gard this vast whirl as anything set- tled, or anything but a vast problem to be solved somewhere else, not here. Dignity is the surest index of this fceling, that is why religion is dignified. Divine cervices of a light, or even| !frivolous nature, are a misnomer, be- | cause they contain none of that es- sential ingredient, dignity. | Dignity is a good thing, and one | which ought to be its own reward. | One may present it freely to the world. if able, and desirous, but if it is not | accepted, do not worry. Here, better | than most places, one may be too proud i to fight. I | | | | | of the American Legion in the District. chance happenings that in no way ! far enough to avert any possible appre- bore upon or were related to his offi- hensions that as large taxpayers they | clal position, Judge Seabury says: “It | might aspire to overwhelming influence is submitted that a mayor is not en- ' in running the Government. titled to any more ‘coincidences,’ to the | e benefit of any more doubts, to the priv- | Threats to bring Clarence Darrow | ilege of any more improbable explana- | into litigaticn concerning the Anacostia tions than any other person, nor is he events seem to indicate possibilities of | I entitled to have his word taken in pref- | inviting in psychoanalytic experts lol BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. that Gov. Jo- husetts already Now that danger of a Bolivian- | shapes up as 1932 timber destined to| guayan conflict seems to be averted, | grow taller and taller from now on.| Washington breathes more easily. There Ely is assured of the support of the was the gravest anxiety at the State|undying Al Smith contingent in the | Department that hostilitles might not | Bay State, and now that he has made have been localized and could have | his peace with Gov. Roosevelt, that spread, sooner or later, into a confla- | wing of the Democracy would appear | ‘This week marks the eighteenth an- | circles, but they do niversary cf the outbreak of the World | seph B. Ely of Mas: Wa: simply because he is the mayor.” As to the Governor’s action there is He has here- { ‘- no basis for speculation. | before indicated, in the case of Sherif | erence to that of numerous others complicate the situation further. ) — In considering disarmament, Senator Borah has made his position positive on one long debated question—the hope | graticn involving wer throughout the South American world. Inflammable material in plenty exists all around the frontiers of Bolivia and Paraguay and beyond, and no one in Washington | to be Ely-minded, too, if certain even- tualities come to pass. * o ox ok Frederick Moore, journalist, author and diplomat, is about to leave Wash- | Farley, that he is not swayed by polit- | of reward is more powerful than the | | ical considerations from the course |fear of punishment. { of justice. This present issue is more et | complicated, covers a brozder ground| poen though Congress is not in knew where the sparks from battle in | the Gran Chaco might have lit. If the | “Hoover doctrine” of ncn-recognition of | . territorial conquest, with which ail the | fiye vears between 1921 and 1526, Mr. Moore was foreign councilor to _the other Americas identified themselves | - in the round robin to Bolivia and Para- | JiPenese forelgn office at Toklo. Pre- ington, where he lives, for his tenth or eleventh trip to the Far East. For Hef work in the States, and before the | "y, )05 even more definitely the ink was dry on President Hoover's sig- | nature of the relief bill it was apparent | that Gov. Pinchot would be first in line with a demand for his share of the money. He has not been unop- posed in his own State in his de- termination to get his part of the| Federal loan. It has been contended | in Pennsylvania that the State has not drained its own taxable resources, snd the Commonweslth has not reached ' the stage of hopelessness when it must hold out the tin cup in | ‘Washington. And while it cannot be | sald that Pennsylvania has been idle | in its own efforts or that what Gov. Pinchot thought should be done has been done, the effect of compliance with his request for the Federal loan can readily be understood. It would have given new impetus to the rush of the States for the loans. It would ob- viously have served the purpose of thwarting, it not of destroying, the prospects of new relief plans now pend- ing in the State Legislature. If the money could have been obtained from the Federal Government, what would possibility of injury to his own for- tunes than that affair. Rejection ol the mayor's plea of avoidance is as | potential of political peril as denial of | the counsel's accusations. Truly the present position of the Governor of New York is fraught with emtarrass- ment. ——e—————— Having served successfully as Secre- tary of Commerce, Mr. Lamont may b2 regarded as one who has lcarned much about the iron and steel trade; some- thing always carefully considered lnl connection with the Nation's business prospects. The Governors of Maryland and | Pennsylvanfa possibly regard them- sclves as both better off for bcing compelied to remain favorite sons with no campaign cares to complicate their responsibilities for the bonus sc2kers. »—o—n Some of the best comedians have been disappointed because their public insisted on levity. Mayor James Walker | may at least have the satisfaction of | I be the purpose of adding to taxation in Pennsylvania to secure it? The effect of the refusal, on the other hand, is even more obvious. Pennsyl-l vyanis, and the other applicants now standing In line, are given to under- stand that where the Federal Govern- ment is concerned charity does, in truth, begin at home. Applications for Joans now before the board of the cor- poration, including Pennsylvania, call for some $171,500,000; in other words. practically & fourth of the States and knows seriously. The Dog and His Master. The relationship of dog and man has become a symbol of faith and un- selfish affection. No matter what the circumstances, the dog has implicit confidence in the master who has won {that affection. This is illustrated by an incident just reported from St. Catherines, Ontario, where Hal Brooker, o cwe—————— territories have asked for well c\‘er,pnmmm‘e ‘jumper, leaped off the wing | half of all the money available. and Tl fiying at 1800 feet and 4 plane fiying at 1, within & month after the relief bill Was| lled to “Cal” a four-year-old police signed. The granting of thelr Tequests., "o pyooeq with a parachute, to without the careful investigation of :ht”cllow him. Without hesitation, when Estionny omn efet "",':‘ £l ll‘: | the master called his name the dog e sts h“.mcmedd“,mznp%‘, > | jumped. Both landed safely; the dog. I'ould!:o: :rr::;)ul;n sl hf:: In reserve ! the dispatch says, was wagging his :\I::‘; wt‘al Bfes ks wRiin thr Btates, 1 88 it he had enjoyed the experi- of their own fund-raising machinery. It is with satisfaction that the | ence. | This incident immediately brings to mind that classic of American oratory, ing that he is now b2ing taken | his turn to say ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ " | | thinking about. R. P. C's irm determination to prevent such consequences is to be noted. r—o— Incalculable Mussolini. 1t is diffic “get” Benito Mussolini. himself st one season Wl with the ideals of disarmal Jast month he excoriated the Cenference for its to mankind's expectations of | cilned, as & gesture of protest, Jtaly's name to the resolution of recess. New 1l Duce comes forward with a master. face to masterpiece of gloquence deserve repe- Zulmination that seems on its ult for the outside world to sel for the owner of the dog, who sued He identifies for damages. At the final trial of the holeheartedly case, which had gone through several ment. Only phases of verdicts and appeals, Coun- Geneva sel Vest, who later became a Senator failure to measure up of the t and de-| Off its feet With a‘speech that lasted to attach less than five minutes, in which he George G. Vest's “Eulcgy on the Dog." delivered 1n the course of a lawsuit over the killing of “Old Drum,” a Mis- sourl hourd, in 1869. Vest was coun- United States, swept the jury | than a homely woman with a much session, the President finds himsell | with much work on hand which closely | corresponds to the exercise of the veto. - — TING STARS. SHOO BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Tomorrow. Suppose we've done the best we knew While journeying on our way. Tomorrow will bring tasks anew— But that's another day. The earth is firm beneath our feet As step by step we stray. Tomorrow may bring change complete— But that's another day. There's always duty to be done, Sleep softly while you may. Nor fear to greet the rising sun— For that's another day. Brevity. “A statesman should understand the arts of orato! “He should,” answered Senator Sor- | ghum. “But sometimes he's got to de- | pend on plain monosyllables when it's s says it's hard to make | Jud Tunki friends with & person who never laughs | and one who laughs all the time. You, can't find out for sure what either is| Figures. Arithmetic still meets our gaze. We claim, just as of yore, That figures hold their 'customed ways And 2 and 2 make 4. But in the economic game We find ourselves perplexed. And 2 and 2 don't seem the same With “billions” mentioned next. Considerate. i “Would you marry a man who has, lost his fortune?” | “Why,” responded Miss Cayenne.! “should I add to his anxieties?” “A man who disguises ill thinking by fine phrases,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is no more acmirable painted face.” Turn About. That old stock market steps along And joyously prepares, Since turnabout cannot be wrong To let bulls chase the bears. guay, tuins out to be the thing that stopped their war, chalk up a big victory for the Kellcgg pact. The round robin specifically borrowed the pact's lan- guage about renunciation of as “an instrument of national policy.” August 27 will mark the fourth anniversary of the signing of the anti-war pact at Parls. Former Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg, its parent-in-chief, will c2le- brate the event in a Nation-wide radio broadcast from Minnespolis. *x % x However inhospitable the bonus marchers may have found Washington, the country’s automobile tourists en- counter a welcome when they enter the District of Columbia. Midsummer finds the motor tourist camp maintained for their benefit by the Federal park authorities under Lieut. Col. U. S, Grant at the zenith of its popularity and usefulness. Nowadays an average of 70 cars, carrying some 350 persons, registers at the camp in Potomac Park near the Speedway. The management says business has dropped off around 35 per cent from last year. There are ists in 132 cabins, 20 of them new. Campers have the privileges of the whole establishment for 50 cents a person per night. They have.the use of a fine new bath house, a laundry, a plenty of parking space. License tags indicate that the Capital City is the mecca for cars from all quarters of the Union, including even regions as re- mote as the Canal Zone. * ok x * Here's a rich one. Japan is flooding the country with small American flags manufactured by cheap Nipponese labor and sold in the United States for a American _manufacturers. ~ Some Of Representative Clyde Kelly's friends among the postal workers of the Pitts- burgh district refused the other day to wear any made-in-Japan editions of Old Glory when they were distributed in connecticn with the Washington bicentenary anniversary of the postal service. Local officlals explained that the Japanese flags were purchased from a wholesale dealer ana sent out for distribution before the foreign label was detected. * o Of course, it's a long, long way to Tipperary but already politicians who ven't anytning better to do have it Treasury Ogden L. Mills is alread anolnted ss the Republi-an candidate for Prcsident in 1936, Whatever be- tides in November for the fortunes of Herbert Hoover, these long-distance | wiseacres will tell you that iu's all set | for the greatest Secretary of the Treas- | ury since Mellon to inherit the G. O. F. eerth four years hence. Mr. Mills will be in the thick of the, campalgn this Fall. He's one of the hardest hitters in the administration team and his special assignment is to shoot holes in the Roosevelt economics outgivings. Mills 1s an original Hoover man. He was out for “the Chief" early in ti epitomized the relation of a dog to his A few sentences from that “Dat fortune teller told me I ginter git rich,” said Uncle Eben. “Of course, T don't exactly believe all she says But I respect het for her fine ideas.” | @ 1928 game and was one of the powers ibehind the scenes at the Kansag City ltonvennun. LR Nothing so concrete as the Mil's horoscope is rampant in Democratic now bed accommodations for 700 tour- | cafeteria and a store, and, of course, | little less than they car be produced by | | all doped out that Secretary of the | | vious to that he was an American news- | paper correspondent in China. He scored a historic scoop in 1915 by pub- | lishing the first news of Japan's fa- | mous “Fifteen Demands” on China. Moore hankers for a look-see over his old stamping grounds in Asia in the -light of recent Sino-Japanese events. * ¥ ¥ x | Circumstantial reports are current | that the United States will scon pull out of Liberia, the African Negro re-| public in which for 20 years Uncle | Sam has bossed the show. Since 1812 the control of customs revenue, Which carried with it virtual control of the country. has been in the hands of the | “general receiver and financial adviser” ‘dengrmwd by the United States. The immediate future of the siate which | Harvey Flrestone has been trying to turn into the world’s greatest single source of rubber supply will be de- termined by negotiations this month | between Liberian officlals and an in- ternational commission of the League of Nations. The commissicn has drawn up a reconstruction and re- | form program which is said to have | American approval. The plan is the outgrowth of revelations early in 1931 regarding slavery and forced labor, in Liberia. Raymond Leslie Buell, re- search director of the Foreign Policy Assoclation, thinks that if the Li- berian-League negotiations fail, the country may be plunged into revolt | and chaos, " necessitating intervention |either by the United States or some European power. S Organized railroad labor is mobilizing | | against the “big four” merger for con- | | solidation of Eastern railroads. recently approved by the Interstate Commerce | Commission. David B. Robertson, presi- dent of the firemen's brotherhood, de- | clares it's impossible to estimate how | many men will lose their jobs under the | merger plan untjl the great systems in- volved make known exactly what they have in mind. “We do know.” says Mr. Robertson, “that there are now 500,000 { members of rail labor crganizations out | of work. And we do know, on the au- thority of President Willard of the Bal- | timore & Ohio, that 80 per cent of the economies under the proposed merger | will come through reductions in pay | rolls. We will oppose the mergers so; | long as the rights of the workers are | unprotected.” | (Copyright. 1532.) - ——— France the Real Debtor. Prom the Charleston (S. C) Evening Post. | Now that Germany's enemies have finally give her about everything she has asked for, the Hitlerites announce they weret stand for it. Perhaps they want France to pay reparations. = ————— Ahe;d of Time. From the Cinctonati Times-Sta The philosopher who first stated that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time lived before the advent of political platforms. | | One Way to Go Ahead. Prom the Miami Herald. 1t all the knockers would buy ham- | mers, that alone would Jaunch an in- | dustrial revival, = i stand that they are, then the present | fact that people so overworked cannot Answers Critics of The Bonus Marchers To tbe Editor of The Star. I have read the four articles appear- | ing in your columns Wednesday from | folks who'seem to support the admin- istration’s action a week ago in driving | the B. E. F. from Washington. Ap-! parently all four of these people are! either biased in their views or else they have been misled by newspaper re- ports of the affair and the composition and motives of the B. E. F. In the first place, it must be pointed out that there were two distinct groups of these men. The first group, comprising the larger percentage of the men, were all ex-service men. They would not permit radicals to affiliate with them. They complied with police regulations and conducted themselves admirably while | in Washington. There was no justifi- cation on the part of the Government | to rout these fellows in the manner in | which they did. The other group, how- ever, were mostly Communists and only had a handful of ex-service men in their organization. They were here to cause trouble, and it was this group that started the fight with the police and no one has any sympathy for the treatment they were accorded. But why take advantage of the trouble started by this group to persecute the entire B. E_F. force? It is noted Tom Shanton criticizes the action of the department com- mander of the American Legion in his attack on the President. Knowing Tom Shanton, 1 want to point out that he is not qaulified to express the opinion The attack made by the department commander is O. K. with the members of the Legion in the District. It is nothing more than any other good citi- zen would do when fellow countrymen are treated in the shameful manner that the bonus men were treated when they were conducting themselves law- | fully and in pursuit of their constitu- tional rights. Pauline Wooster Insists that the bonus marchers were in violation of law. This is a poor excuse to justify the treat- ment accorded them. If they violated the law, why were they permitted to re- main here six or seven weeks: why did not the police put them in jail where law violators belong? Why wait until efter Congress had adjourned and then gas and bayonet them out of town? It does not take an intelligent person to see the motive behind the whole affair. It is noted she pokes a little fun at the ex-soldier—“could there be a sol- dier without a bonus.” Might I ask her if there could be a Government em- ploye without a bonus, a manufacturer, a mechanic, & business man wr any other civilian without a bonus? .De- cidedly yes, and that is why Gen. Butf¥: suggested the drafting of all citizens in time of war. It would prevent the “stay-at-homes” from getting bonuses and profiteering at the expense of the Government and reducing the Treas- ury's balance to the deficit point. There would be no need of a bonus if every one were in the service. On the other hand, if it were necessary to pay a bonus, every one would share equally. Pauline Wooster apparently believes in letting George do the dirty work, get nothing for it and then, when tae dan- ger is gone. ridicule and make fun of him because she believes he is after some of the ill-gotten funds she and others hold as result of taking advan- tage of governmental distress in war, MAURICE BAILEY. Glassford Entitled To Praise for Work To the Editor cf The Star. Washingten §s fortunate in having as its chief of police a man of the high caliber of Maj. Glassford. This is not intended as & letter of criticism, vet it necessarily becomes so when a defens> is attempted of Maj. Glassford's activity. In reality, he needs no defense. yet it is the duty of every one who aspires to be a good citizen to not pass unnoiiced the many veiled criticisms from high sources. Perhaps a few questions might clarify the situation: 1. When citizens “squat” upon Fed- eral: property, whose duty is it to main- taim orcer? 2. After permitting “squatting” for two months, eviction be done at night? 3. Is not two months # sufficient; lengih of time for the Department of | Justice to have established the status of | each and every !ndividual “squatter”— | 1. e, whether veteran, Red or bum? 4. When the Federa! Government calls | upon the Metropolitan police for help. | as at the Capitol, should the police b2 | hampered with orders and counter orders? 5. Has there not been sufficient time for Federal forces to have thrown guard around their property? 6. If the citizens were so relieved at | the eviction, why were tha “squatters” | cheered and the military not? 7. If the number of “squatters” had dwindled as fast as the Federal G ernment stated (thréugh, Veterans' Bu- reau), would not a little more patience end still a little more patience have seen a more peaceful evacuation? 8. Did any violence occur before the eviction orcer? 9. Was not Giassford correct In in- sisting upon legal authority for action? | 10. Can one imagire Theodore Roose- | velt in a like situation? 11. Can one imagine Abraham Lin- | coln’ being pleased at the glow in the ' sky from the burning of Camp Marks? 12. If the Government recognized a debt by passing the adjusted compen- | sation, is that not sufficient excuse for many ill-advised veterans wanting that cempensation when they need it? | 13. Is it not evidence of a bigness when a superior commends a subordi- nate for an activity of which the su- perior should have been advised, but was not? It is not good to criticize in these times, but let's not cbject to the cane, humane, safe and masterful manner in which Glassford has handled this situ- ation. All fair-minded citizens must feel a sense of personal shame that those in high office succumbed to a feeling of their own importance and displayed a lack of appreciation of even the simplest meaning of authority. In comparison, a rense of pride must be felt in the actions of Washington's own product. Maj. Pelham D. Glassford. Let us not make the fatal error of losing so able a man because of the hysteria of high officials. JOHN C. ECKHARDT. | the so-called should 1 R. F. b Overwongl:i;xg Inadequate Force ‘To the Editor of The Star: It would seem with the thousands of people hungrily seeking jobs, hundreds of whom are here in Washington, that it is absolutely wrong and unjust for? the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion to be working its present force long hours of the day. late into the night and on Sundays and holidays. If these facts be true, and I under- ' force is inadequate. It is a well known give their most efficient service, and it would seem that efficency of the highest quality would be required in so_great an undertaking. I would like to ask why, in the name of humanity, when people are suffering for the necessities of life because of the lack of work; when the Government is advocating a five-day week; when in- | dustry is agitating the same, should | not this corporation, a Government in- | stitution, not spread out its work for ' jobless ones, many of whom are right | here in our own city? And why should | | any one who is highly qualified to fill | b a positior with that corporation be denied an opportunity to earn a living from that source because he or she' cannot command _political influence? | Every available job, in these times of | stress and suffering, not under Civil Service, should be awarded to citizens of this country who are mentally, morally and physically fit to fill same —else this is not a democratic form of Did you ever write a letter to Pred-| eric J. Haskin? You can ask him any | question of fact and get the answer| in a personal letter. Here is a great| educational idea introduced into the| lives of the most intelligent people in the world—American newspaper read-| ers. It is a part of that best Wl‘m“‘ of & newspaper—service. There is no | charge except 3 cents in coin or stamps | for return tage. Address Frederic J. Haskin, Director The Evening Star Informetion Bureau, Wgshington, D. C. Q. Which heavyweight bout had the most slugging or fighting in the first seven rounds? Where did it take place, % . 5 A. Jobn J. Romano, authority on boxing, says while the Dempsey-Firpo contest, which took place September 14, 1922, in New York City, lasted but two rounds, it is generally conceded by experts and fans alike that more actual slugging took place in the 4 minutes, odd scconds, than in any boxing con- test in the history of the game, as th actually crowded more fighting in ol round then in the customary 20 rounds. No fewer than 11 knockdowns were crowded into this battle. Q. What business building contains the most floor space?—D. T. A. The Chicago Merchandise Mart is the largest business building of its type ever constructed. It hes a mil- lion more feet of floor space than any other such building. 1 Q. To:whom did Harvard Univers! give honorary degrees this year?—E. A. Master of arts, Edward Reynol doctors of divinity, Frank Hugh ter, Charles Edwards® Park; doctors science, Lawrence J&seph Henders Robert Andrews Miltkan: doctors law, Richard Bedford Bennett, Jol Dewey, John Livingsthn Lowes, Ogd Livingston Mills, Lewis Perry, Samufl Seabury. y Q. Where is the Daniel Guggenheirh Airship Institute?—B. 8. 8. A. It was dedicated recently in Akron, Ohlo. The institute was created with a fund of $250,000 furnished by the Daniel Guggenheim Foundation for the Promotion of Acronautics, estab- lished in 1926 by the late Daniel Gug- genheim, together with $100,000 ad- vanced by the city of Akron. he in- stitute has the world's largest Vertical wind tunne! for testing airship models. Q. Which field station of the Vet- | erans’ Administration costs the most to maintain?—R. G. A, Tre activity at Hines, Ill, which is & combinatien of hz{ltal and re- gional office. Q What nation cont the most ccpper?—N. O. H. 2 A. The United State;. Ia-addition to the enermous deposits at home there are three American companies whih contrel copper in Chile, representing 45 per cent of the world’s total. Q. Are many patents grante England?—L. P. s? -2 g A. The patenting of inventions has in been steadily increasing in England, 21,949 having been granted in the last year, an previous year. tive patents are the leaders. Patents issued per capita are more numerous than in America. Last year the United State Patent Office issued 47.799 vat- ents, but the United States has three times the population. Q. Has construction work on the { Hoover Dam project been postponed | day he due to shortag: of funds?>—K. M. H. A. Construction work on the Hoover Dam has not been postponad. As a matter of fact, the work is ahead of schedule. Q. How many people have been denled citizenship in the United States on account of refusal to bear arms?— IM 8 L A. There are no figures compiled which show this. Some of the more important cases are: The case of Dr. hen, and who were the fighters?—| . W. B. increase of 1184 over the| Electrical and automo- | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Doliglas Macintosh, a Yale professor and former Canadian chaplain, who made the reservation that he would not promise to bear arms unless he believed the war to be morally justi- fled; the case of Miss Marie Bland, who served as nurse with the Ameri- can Army in_ PFrance and offered “to defend the Constitution and laws of the land as far as my conscience as a Christian will allow”; the case of Rosika Schwimmer, who was also op- posed to the use of military force. | Q When were the French spolia- | tion claims settled>—E. H. B. A. In 1885. Redress was then ob- tained in the Court of Claims for awards amounting to nearly $5,000,000. Q. Do people spend more money for | drugs and medicines ordered by phy- sicians or for things of that sort which they think they need themselves — D. W, A. According to the Commit the Cost of Medical Care, the a | bill for medicine in the United States is $715,000,000. More than 70 per cent of the total expenditure for drugs and | medicine iz for_self-medication. Q. How many whorl subclassifica- tions are possible In the entire Henry | system of identification by finger- prints>—W. C. A. In the Henry system the number of primary classifications is 1024, all but one of which include whorls. The “iumber of secondary classifications is in the tens of thousands and the | number of subsecondary classifications i3 in the tens of millions; that is to say, the further the divisioa the great- er the number. Q. How many stars can be seen with the naked eye’—L. T. L. A. The number of stars in the whole celestial sphere bright enough to be seen by the average eye on & clear, mocnless night has been esti- mated to be between six and seven thousand. As one-half of this number lie below the horizon and haze near the horizon hides many more, the total number visible at any one place cannot greatly exceed 2500. The blended light of many million stars in the Milky Way may be seen, but not the individual points of light. | . Does the poet laureate of Eng- | land receive compensation for services in that poeition?—S. F. A. The compensation that goes with the office is $360 per anrum. Q. Was the late Ivar Kreuger an en- gineer?>—G. L. A. He attended the Stockholm Tech- | nic21 School from 1896 to 1900, taking diplomas in mechanical engineering and construction. g e give a brief history of the harp—M. L. < A. It is the oldest of stringed instru- ments. The Bible mentions Jubal as the inventor. The harp has been used by all nations in one form or another. The improvemefits which hive rendered | the modern, harp an efficient musical | inctrument are due to Sebastian Erard, | who in 1794 took out a patent for & harp with seven pedals, and agiin in 1808 for a double-action harp with the same number of pedals, each of which effects two changes in the pitch of the strings. Various improvements over Erard’s harp were mide during the | nineteenth century, Q. Did John Galsworthy write of his own experience in “Justice'?—D. J. A. The Golden Eook says that Pput on old clothes, wrapped a {brct in brown paper, ctopped in frent jof a !empnnz-lcoku:] ;llte-glnss vin- |dow and let fly. nder an assumed | name he spent the next six months in | prison, ‘and"the pley “Justice” wes the | result. Q—What was the weight of the golden rose which Constantine placed on the tomb of St. Peter?—I. D. A. The golden rose, inscribed vith h's own and his mother's names, weighed 150 pounds. | 1 Chicago Grain Market Fight Is Linked With Farm Policies The long and bitter controversy be- to give it the privileges it claims under tween the grain exchanges and the | the law the commission ordered the Federal Farm Board over the activities | Board of Trade to rescind its order, on of the latter organization is held chiefly | pein of being closed up. Whether it dis- responsible for the action of a special | charged its duty under the law is & commission, composed of three mem- | question to be determined by the courts, bers of the President’s cabinet, in or- dering bars against grain-future trans- actions for a limited period unless d sired permission for marketing acth ! is given to the Farmers’ National Grain Corperation. This co-operative organization was created under plans mads by the Farm Board. “The grain futures act” in the opinion of the Fori Worth Star-Te: gram, “is a congressionel attempt to aid producers into channels of co-operative ‘futures’ protection.” The Star-Tele- gram adds that “just how much of that is cheer idealism or how much it may or can inaugurate reform in stock and grain market transactions is one of the keenest of our considerable num- ber of acute controversies.” Recalling that there has been war over this mat- ter “for the greater part of a century,” that paper adds: “The conflict is the immediate concern of the industrial and political forces of the Nation. It swings as a pendulum bitween the theorists, who charge the late ‘bull mar- ket' with the entire list of present economic ills. ard the opposite group, | which asserts that defensive weapons arc forever dargerous in the hands of reckless and ignorant persons.” * k% in (he event that th: grain exchange stands by its order. That the members of the cabinet are the President’s ‘job- holders’ has nothing to do with the | merits of the issue. The judges who | Wil decide this question also are ‘job= holders’ in the same sense. The presi- | dent of the Board of Trade is a ‘job- holder’ of that organization, who does it no credit by publicly expressing con- tempt of the Government of the United States.” The statement that h e statement that “the co-opera- | tive did not meet the Board of ‘.ler'ado | rule that concerns, to be eligible, must | have belonged to the clearing house | before April 2. 1929." is discusced by | the Indanapolis News with the com- | ment: “The cabinet members say that Ithe rule was changed when the na- tional agricultural marketing law, call- ing for the Farm Board, was pending: |and that the fact that the legislation | was Dbefore Congress ‘mag have had | some relation’ to the revision. The | application of the altered policy is held arly to contravene the grain fu- es’ statute. Until recently the Farm- | ers’ National had trading privileges as | & consequence of acquiring an interest |in the Updike Co., a clearing house cles ur “The Farm Board and its co-opera- member. The arrangement was made tive system have been, from the be- |impossible when the company lost its ginning, the subject of bitter attack by | Membership, a happening that brought the grain exchanges in most of the into the open the bitter struggle.” cities where such bodies exist,” says the | _“The blow at the grain trade,” is de- Buffalo Evening News, which adds: | plored by the Dayton Daily News, and “These have undertaken to represent |that paper assails the. Farm Board, the anti-administration feeling of those | 'With its’ confusion of the grain mar- farmers who are disappointed at the |ket and with its ill-starred efforts to Farm Board's failure to produce higher | G€iy the laws of economics.” The Min- prices. The pending case is likely to figure conspicuously both as a legal and a political issue.” “The Government agency,” advises the Charleston (S. C.) Evening Post, “owes it to the agricultural interests ot the country to proceed cautiously, re- gardless of the attitude of the board, since it would be an extremely serious matter for the grain farmers to put an end to trading in Chicago. However, much the farmers may cry out against the exchanges, they know that they cannot depend upon a ready market for their product without them. Wheat has recently reached the lowest prices for all time since statistics were kept of such things, and the closing of the Chi- cago Boara of Trade for two months would be calculated to send it further into the doldrums.” R Pointing out that “the private grain trade has resisted the invasion of its realm by the farmer groups, combined into one large selling organization by means of credit furnished by the Fed- eral Government,” the Walla Walla Daily Bulletin remarks that “a mcans may now be provided, out of the battle now brewing, to determine whether one system shall prevail and the other pass from the picture, or whether there is room in our economic system for both the private and Government-aided mar- keting systems.” The Bulletin predicts that “the decision is going to be pre- ceuetd by bitter contests and plenty of eat™ Replying to charges that the action against the Chicago Board of Trade was taken, in the words of President Carey of that zgency, “by the Presi- dent’s jobholders,” the Topska Daily Capital argues: “The cabinet commis- slon in charge of regulation of grain markets has before it the law, which gives the farm co-operation access to grain markets and marketing. When neapolis Journal believes that “there | is right and justice on the side of the Board of Trade,” and doubts that “the Farmers’ National, if deprived of Fed- | eral financing and of the privilege of passing its losses over to the Grain | Stabilization Corporation, could mak any convincing showing of salvency. As to th> proposed action, the Omaha | World Herald quotes grain men rs co- claring that it “would compleiely de- | moralize the market at its most crii- | ical period—as the new crcp is kenz shipped.” * % % “The cabinetecers will suspend | board ~for _certain alleged 7 ul practices unless the board extends its facilities to the enemy to help him carry on his work of destruction,” pro- tests the Yakima Daily Republic, while | the Salt Lake Deseret Ncws holds tiat | “co-operatives should be encouraged | because it is necessary, in our highly | organized industrial situation, thaf tre | producers of such things as wheat ans> corn should be interested in the prou {uct until it is_purchased by the mills * | _“Had the Farmers’ Natiopal Grain | Corporation,” according to the Chi- cago Journal of Commerce, “had a le- gitimate claim to the status of a co- operative as defined in the grain fu- tures act. it would have been permitted all the rights inherent to that classi- fication. Mr. George S. Milnor, one of "1: ;‘}Ag‘gzyfl:ar?hufir‘u, himself ad- ™ e al c tion was not justified. To '}fdem fa- vorable place in spite of the Federal law, Farmers’ National indulged in the most obvious of subterfuges by pur- chasing the Updike Grain Co. and in- tentionally withholding the informa- tion of its_ownership from the pit | governors. For doing this and for al- Jegedly operating a corner on May wheat, both Updike and Farmers' Na- | tional recelved just what other firms the government, and how can it preach to Mr. Carey's private organization of | deserve for violating rules which are industry? ROSAMOND B. MEACHAM. grain brokers ousted the Farmers' Na- {lonal Grain C:iporuuon and refused aliowed existence in law—a punt over the goal post.”