Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1932, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Bdition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. .September 29, 198 THEODORE W. NOYES Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th_St. and Pennsyivania_ Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Building. European omu:u Reg!nt St. ndon, neland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Star 45c per month The Evening and Sunday Star 60c per month r ..85¢ per month y Star 5c per copy n made at the end of each month. v be sent in by mail or telephone Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Sunday....1yr. $10.00 (1yr. 36.00 in 4.00: 1 mo.. 40c Sunday only ...l 1yr, nd Canada. £12.00: 1 mo., $1.00 38.00: 1 i5c $5.00: 1 50¢ Other States a nd Sunday...1 T 13t mo. 1yr. mo., Mrmber of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled for republication of all news dis- edited 10 it or not o er and also U rights of publication of served. = Destroyers. It is welcome news that President Hoover has ordered the construction of three of the additional London treaty destroyers. They represent one-half of the number of destroyers on which con- struction was suspended by the pre: dential order of a year ago. The Navy Department desired to proceed at once with the laying down of all six of the ships, because American destroyer ton- nage is ageing so rapidly that the fleet will be seriously unbalanced before the end of another year. Economy consid- erations’ evidently deterred the White House from acting on Secretary Adems’ recommendation at this time. Half or even a quarter of a loaf is better than no fleet bread, but the mod- est three-destroyer builé\hg program now to be undertaken still leaves the United States far behind the materiali- ration of the rights it enjoys under the Anglo-American-Japanese treaty of 1930. The pact aliotted this country the privige of constructing approx- imately onv hundred new units. With three destroyers just author- the N will have under cen of these vessels, eight destroyers, seven gunned 10,000-ton cruisers, bmarines, and one 13,800-ton craft carrier. In other words, & bare twenty per cent of the London treaty Navy has so far been laid down. Probably there will be an outery from the ized, n of Japan, because of existing political con- | ditions in the Far East, over even this slender expansion of the United States fleet. Possibly disarmament zealots both here and abroad may also assail the in- consistency of adding 4.500 tons of new destroyer strength to the American naval establishment, while this Government is pressing for reduction of armaments at Geneva. As to Japan, it needs only to be stated that the island empire is far superior to the United States, both nunibers of modern ocean-going de- yers and in the fighting capacity of other types of vessels now built or build- ing in either countrg As to disarma- nf usiasts, Uncle Sam has an equally good alibi. In the first place the United States has set a practical example to its naval treaty associates, Great Britain and Japan, in refraining, ever since the first limitation pact of , from building up to anywhere near the allocation of strength therein as- signed. The British and the Japanese, on the other hand, acting entirely with- in their rights, have chosen not to fol- low America’s lagging lead. They have taken advantage of their rights. This troubled globe is Tocking with eting conditions in all justify, and more than the tar but none the less commendable, ion looking to & bal- ancing of the United States fleet. ———————— There may be an element of unfair- ness in regarding Germany as seriously contemplating a fight with the neigh- bors while there are so many violent family differences to settle. = ————— A quarrel among coal miners at Springfield, 11!, brought on rioting. Fuel scarcity may bring cause for the poor to weep next Winter without the assist- ance of tear gas. B European nations accusing one &n- other of hostile intentions appear to favor the idea that history must consist of an ineradicable bad habit. X — r——— Dreamed Before Built. The Jaying of the corner stone of the new Post Office Department Building Monday was the obvious beginning of that great construction enterprise. It was a festival of inauguration which the people could see and understand. But back of it were long months of un- seen and perbaps unappreciated labor predicated on equally long months of thought and organization. Such a structure must be dreamed before it can be attempted. It must be visioned to a particular location and in 2 particular form. It must be adjusted to a particular purpese, and all its poetry and beauty must be related to its pragmatic utility. One architect may sketch the general design, but many architects must collaborate to perfect the plans. Each detail must be, formulated on paper, made perfect in its position with regard to every other detail. Each must be considered as a fractional value in the great sum total of the entire scheme. Each must be theoretically measured and weighed. A balance must be accomplished and maintained. Nothing useless or merely ornamental can be allowed to intrude. Every smallest element must be mathe- matically accurate, truz and purposeful. The engineer and the practical builder must co-gperate. Time is needed. Be- fore any actual beginning can be made something—the anticipated whole— must be finished. Time was when construction could be an experimental business. The builder in that dim and distant cay could be his own architect, his own engineer. If his walls collapsed, he could re-erect them. That was a wasteful policy, but there was no other. Gradually, how- ever, & science of projection, a technique of anticipation, was developed. Men learned how to see ahead, how to plan intelligently. Before the pyramids of Egypt were piled upon the desert sands the architect and the engineer had mastered principles and circumstances ! imperative significance to the art directions to and the sclence of enduring construc- | tion. Otherwise they could not have done what they did nor would their performance have been competent to 2 challenge the centuries. But since the ment in & shrewdly planned distribu- Pharaohs what progress there has been! The cathedral builders of the middle ages carried architectural plan- ning to new heights. They perforce employed the old materials, but they developed new technical control of them. Building became in the - thir- teenth: and fourteenth centuries a ver- itable popuiar madness. Noble churches, | palaces, civic halls, schools and mon- | asteries leapt against the sky. Each was the vision and the responsibility of | a master dreamer. Their names are| lost, but the geniuses of medi:\'ali architecture are not forgotten. Theyl receive the grateful homage of all the builders of today. ! With the invention of :teel a new | era opened. In many ways it was & more complicated material than stone, | but through the first decade of the| present century its nature wes studied with vast care and intelligence, and by | the time Cass Giibert undertook the) Woolworth Building in New York it was thcroughly understood and appreciated. The new edifices in the Triangle devel- opment In Washington will be reflections of all the art and all the science of the past as well as of all the building | knowledge of the present. Stecl will be their armatures. In months to come the public may see them rise, piece by | plece. Zsiail by detail. And watching | their progress they may behold the con- quest cf circumstance by the instructed mind of their creators. They may find in them examples of what co-operation may do. Great men and humble have | dreamed them and will build them. That will be part of their glory and | | their beauty. - .- Coercing Al Smith. It is a poor compliment his friends pay former Gov. Al Smith when they attempt to tell him what to do about | the candidacy of Roosevelt and Garner. !Smllh has not asked their advice and all their suggestions, therefore, are rankly gratuitous. Had he been con- spicuously amenable to guidance in the past, the campaign to coerce him into active battle in behalf of the na- tional ticket might have had certain | excuse, but Smith does his own think- | ing and is responsible to his conscience. It is strange that people cannot un-| derstand that the effort to “bring him in line” is, in effect, an effort to rob | him of his status as an independent | | captain of the American Democracy. | When they appeal to him “to be just| a good Democrat” they are asking him | to retreat voluntarily from the ad- | | vanced position of leadership which his | talents and his labors won for him | over a period of a score of years. The inconsistency is obvious. | At the Democratic State Convention | Smith is expected to place in nomina- tion for Governor the name of his |friend, Lieut. Gov. Herbert H. Leh- iman. It is asserted that he is obli- !gated s0 to do because Lehman gave | }I\nnnclal aid to his candidacy in 1924 ‘:md 1928. In other words, Smith must |back Lehman to pay a debt. In the minds of Speaker Garner and of cer- tain New York proponents of Rocse- | velt, it seems to follow that Smith must support the national ticket for the same reason. The logic of the notion is de- fective. Smith is under no political ob- ligation to Lehman. The men are friends and have assisted each other, but their relation is ot predicated on dollars and cents. There are hundreds {of thousands of voters who admire Smith and sympathize with him in his | present predicament. They understand his desire to be at once loyal to his party and to himself. They are not ir- ritated by his refusal to betray his con- Victions. Smith never has done any- thing of that sort. The campaign to force him to violate his principles is, therefore, in their estimation, a cam- paign to reduce him to the ranks and to nullify his influence as a leader | worthy of continued respect. The zeal of Roosevelt's partisans has prompted them to overlook the ethical signifi- cance of Smith's refusal to “play ball.” | If Roosevelt cannot win without Smith's support, it may be doubted if he can win with it. It ought to be plain that it could not be spontaneous o: entirely sincere if it were to come now and because of coercion. A llrgc' section of the population would agree | that Smith had erred in the circum- stances. That would hurt rather than Lielp both men. - Germany is so busy with internal politics that she has hardly had time to exhibit the enthusiasm to be ex- pected concerning the victory of Max Schmeling over Mickey Walker. Per- haps the inability to relax occasionally is one of the causes of Germany's being | accused of an unsocial attitude. ——— Whilé India is seeking to break down her caste system, a number of countries are endeavoring to introduce something like it with various lines of distinction. In some parts of the world the man who can at will call a ham sandwich his own is ranked with high aristocracy. While insisting on the independence of Manchukuo, Japan allows it to be plainly understood that she will be at hand to offer neighborly advice as the new nation proceeds on the march of progress. vt Canny Connie Mack. Yesterday was an interesting date in base ball history. It was the beginning of the world championship series of 1932 between the New York and Chi- cago clubs of their respective leagues and it was the beginning of the! break-up of the former world cham-{ plon Philadelphia Athletics. The New York Yankees won the first game by a wide margin, won it in a fashion to | strengthen the belief that they will take the series and the supreme title of the sport. In Philadelphla Manager Cornelius - McGillicuddy, alias Connie Mack, started his scrapping process, which has been predicted througheut | the season, by selling to the Chicago American League team releases of three of his most useful players. This disrupts the team that won three league cham- pionships in & row in 1929, 1930 and 1931 and two world championships. It has been known for some time that he was disappointed in the performance of his team last year when it failed to cstablish an all-time record of three consecutive world pennants. Further- more, rumor says, the astute Mr. McGillicuddy has felt that some of his players were getting too much money. He has an economical tendency which | regarding bus lol crowded streets, not only for load- EVENING S manifests itself at times, as on the former occasion when he scrapped a great winning combination and scat- tered stars all over the base’ball firma- tion that relieved his own exchequer without building up too strongly any particular club in opposition. This present dispersal, it is expected, will follow the same course of shrewd trans- fer of high-priced stars without making a probable champion of any of the beneficiaries of this largesse. It is the established belief in all base ball circles | that Manager. Mack is not only the; canniest director of the game as played on the field but’ also the shrewdest, administrator of the sport as & business, | o Another Bus Terminal. It is assumed that the Public Utili- ties Commission ecnvinced itself that the advantages to the public of the off- | street bus terminal on the north side of | New York avenue between Fourteenth | and Fifteenth streets outweighed the | obvious traffic difficulties threatened by adding to vehicular congestion in this' block. With four street car tracks and the loading platforms materially reduc- ing the street area left for automobile traffic, it would be difficult to name any | other block in downtown Washington that, from a traffic standpoint, is worse. The bus company’s plans for a drive- way into the terminal, preventing left- hand turns, and the commissions’ limitations upon the number of busses that megy use the terminal at any one time may, however, prevent the com- Pplications apparently threatened. In the meantime, it is encouraging to note the progress, even if it has been slow, made by the Public Utilitles Com- mission in its éfforts to bring some order out of the once chaotic situation | terminals. The New York avenue terminal and the Annap- olis Hotel terminal will take care of the majority of the “Class A" busses—those doing an interstate business between distant points—and get them off the street. Only one Class A bus line now will operate a curbstone terminal, nn} lower Pennsylvania avenue. There remam the “Class B” busses to | the suburbs and nearby communities, | wilch stil utilize the curbstone space ing and unloading, but for parking be- tween trips. These the commission has | sc far let alone, except for the prescrip- | tion of routes through town. The logical next step for the commission to con- sider is the exerclse of pressure toward | establishment of off-street terminals for these suburban lines. There is no rea- son why such terminals should not be | required. = In one respect it is one of the most | difficult of campaigns. Explenations of | the tariff are demanded and very few orators have succeeded in making the | statistics involved in that line of dis- | cussion genuinely popular. Occasionally a European statesman | supposed to be discussing peace appears | to drift away from that subject. and concern himself with rules and regula- tions for “the next war. It is a wise Wall Street speculator | who can tell exactly what he is worth | without stopping to look at the ticker | tape. e Multitudes have starved unnoted. Mahatma Ghandi has succeeded at least in giving individual distinction to hunger. e One of the most intensively occupied | of public offictals, Secretary Mills must be recognized as one of the Nation's men of wealth, but not of leisure, e " SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Boy and the Book. The boy has put away the book That tells of fairy power. He cares no longer to look Throtgh Fancy's mystic bower. “Jack and the Beanstalk” he lays by With cynicism grim. A building 20 stories high Is nothing strange to him. The magic carpet that inspired The old Arabian tale Is not so much to be admired Since aeroplanes prevail. The Seven League Boots—what good are they x When you would travel far? The boy cares not for them today. He wants a motor car. Yet all attentively he reads And occupies his mind With men who did heroic deeds And still were good and kind. The fairy books are laid aside. No thrill they now impart, For humbled is the elfin pride ‘To humsn brain and heart. Opinions of Importance. “Do you study:a question thoroughly before you make a speech?” “Not always,” replied Senator Sor- ghum; “sometimes I only throw out! some vague suggestions so that my con- stituents will come back at me and let me know how they stand in the mat- ter.” Diplomacy. “It takes diplomacy to get on with a husband,” said the woman who speaks her mind freely. “I believe it does” replied Miss Cayenne. “As I understand it, diplo- macy consists largely in seeming to be deceived whether you are or not.” The Law of Compensation. My son, beware the cares that lurk In z dishonest flurry. A grafter doesn't do much work— “But how he has to worry! Exchange of Bullets. “The pernicious custom of the duel has been abandoned forever.” “Enemies didn't do as much damage, however, when they met deliberately on the dueling field as friends now do when they accidentally catch sight of each other on a hunting expedition.” Jud Tunkins says economy is like a piece of music. It may turn out fine, but the person who practices it can't be very entertaining for the time being. i Picture and Frame. The optimist doth try to win Contentment for mankind, By making life a picture in In a gilded frame of mind. “A man dat shows off too much smartness,” said Uncle Eben, “gits s0 he enjoys about as much confidence as sleight o mwh:.‘n‘m" WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Rainy days have arrived.at a new dis- tinction during the past three years, that of being -looked forward to and welcomed by all interested in any degree in the growing things of the garden. They are rare, in other words, and take on all the charm of the good rar- ity, the phenomenon always desired but not so invariably secured. i It was not always so with rains. Once they were taken for granted, as a part of the meteorological dispen- sation. There were dry “spells” of course, but in the main no one worried about whether there would be enough rain for the best maintenance of lawns and flowers, and the adequate growth of the main vegetable and .grain crops. Seasonable rains were so steady at | certain periods, such as Spring and Fall, that they became something of a nui- sance to the average city dweller, who | at times was forgetful of the needs of growing things. “April showers bring May flowers,’ went the old proverb, based on centuries of normal weather expectation. The last three years, however, have changed all this. One is likely to find the amateur home gardener quite nervous over the likelihood of rain in his vicinity. He watches the weather news with | avidity, keeps track of rainfall in nearby States, and even goes to the extent of telephoning friends in other sections of the city to inquire if it is raining in their neighborhood. If he hears that “it” is, and yet there is no rain in his own community, he is very much upset at the information. ‘Will it never rain in Pleasant Valley? He scans the sky anxlously. He rejoices at every cloud, out of which he hopes there will be some pre- cipitation. ‘When ncne arrives he is frankly dis appointed; he makes up his mind to us the garden hose “if it does not rain by this time tomorrow.” Such is the nervous state to which he has been reduced by three years of comparative dryness. R The rairs which “do good,” in the gardening sense, are those which are heavy enough and of enough duraticn to insure sufficient penetration of the | soil to wet the roots of plants thor- oughly. Even what looks to be a nice shower often fails to achieve this result. It is amazing how much water the leaves of | trees, of shrubs, and even of small plants can keep off the soil beneath them. Every plant is its own umbrella, in & has previded them with this em, not as protection from rain, but as essential chemical lab- oratories, or light laboratories, rather, in which sunlight is elaborated into something else. The shielding tendencles of leaves is an aside of Nature, scarcely meant by her, and one normally not conducive to the best interests of the growing things. Every gardener realizes this as he ex- amines his stock after a rain. Often he finds (hat what seemed to be a very good rain has not wet down as much as two inches deep, and that in some ‘places, under large shrubs, no watcr has penetrated at all. Every one knows how large trees, such as oaks and the like, resist the penertation of rainfall for a long tim ‘There will be dry spots under si trees for many minutes after a rain begins, in some instances, eepecially if the precipitation is what is known as a Na! | “drizzle.” never wet over. To do any good, then. in a herticul- tural sense. a rain must be hard enough and of sufficient duration’ to wet the earth thorcughly, not only over as wide an area as possible, but also as deep | as feasible. These nagging little rains, such as some of the suburbs have been having this Autumn so far, are little better than so much sprinkling with a hose. And we do not mean real watering with | a hose running full blast for three or four hours, but the sprinkling which lasts about 15 minutes, mostly put on with the fine spray. A great many people who ought to . . 3 Highlights to follow up uninterruptedly all Excerpts From Newsp. evasions of the tax and excise laws by clandestine dealers in contra- band. The vigilance of the section en- gaged in the apprehension of illegal liquor dealers has been particularly suc- cessful. Two agents participating in this campaign. identified by the num- bers 1860 and 1846, respectively, dis- covered Saturday a capacious distillery of alcohol in a building on the Avenida Iquitos. in the Lince quarter. An atmosphere of suspicion had sur- rounded this establishment for some time, but it was not until Saturday that the two agents assigned to this district were able to effect an actual entrance. After watching the place all night. at 6 o'clock in the morning, when life in the neighborhood was already begin- ning to stir, the watchers, accompanied by several gendarmes who took strategic posts to prevent the flight of the per- son or persons who might be within, ap- proached the street door. In response to his knocking was heard that to-be-expected query, “Who's there?” The agent, not caring to answer this question pounded the door again, whereupon a window near the door was slowly opened, and a pair of appar- ently drowsy eyes peered out. “Open the door!” urged the vigi-| lantes. L COMERCIO, Iima: Renewed efforts are being exercised by the Bureau of Bond and License e key is lost!” replied the sleepy i idual. “Find it, pronto!” commanded the agents. “It's in the house somewhere—per- | haps I can get it,”” replied the other. He closed and left the window, but | the agents did not wait. They re- | opened it. and, entering, found the first room entirely vacant. On one side, | however. loomed a strong wooden door. The custodian, saying that he kept the doors locked for fear of thieves, was finally obliged to open this portal, and, passing through, the officers found | themselves in a sort of covered poyltry- yard with a partition at one end. In the partition were found the copper still and apparatus, and also a truck, which could enter and leave the build- ing through a sliding door adjacent. In the center of this room were some large wooden tanks, lined with gal- vanized iron, containing liquid mash | in full process of fermentation: The distillery, with its pipes, retorts, receivers and other eqipment, has been | installed with every evidence of tech- | nical precision and according to the only person found on the premises, who gave his name of Nicholas Lopez, be longs to a certain Manuel Gomez, a| resident of Callao. * K k¥ Chilean Police Claim Communists in Plot. EL MERCURIO, Santiago: It is re- ported that secret police agents of the, government have intercepied a tele- graphic message from Buenos Aires, which originated in Moscow, giving codified instructions to the Communist leaders in the capital relative to con- certed action in political affairs, this apparently being deemed an opportune | moment to seize the chief executive | offices. At a time when the present supreme council is engaged in the for- mation of a constituent Assembly for | the preparation of a charter for a socialistic republic, these fresh and conflicting discoveries instill a new anxiety among all patriotic citizens. The Assembly will be composed of members elected by all entitled to vote by virtue of their names appearing in the electoral registers, which are now know better love to “sprinkle” their yards in this latter sense. Of such sprinkling, it may be said that it is better than nflhm,l. It washes dust off foliage, helps the “black-spot” of roses to get a nice toe- hold, and generally freshens up plants and grass. Perhaps not too much stress should be placed on the strictures of the “ex| " to the effect that such light watering will induce a surface growth of grass roots, which will then be killed at the first touch of frost. Many a scrupulous home owner, read- ing such advice, has refrained from using the hose at all, when he found it impossible to devote several hours to the task. Others compromised by giving & really good watering to a very small section of the garden and per- mitting the remainder to go unwatered. The real fault with typical “sprinkling” lies rather ip the utterly inadequate job which it does in getting down to the plant roots. That is where moisture 15 needed, and if it cannot be got down that far, it might as well not be put on at all. In fact, Nature can endure dryness as well ‘wetness. She has to! And all her children have learned this trick from her. Human beings, brought up to rush for indoor shelter when a rain 3 must first put themselves, mentally, in the place of the plants, firmly anchored in_the soil. These are growing things, too, but they cannot run. They must stay “put,” as the ver- nacular has it. | They have their roots in the ground, and they cannot get them loose; whether the rain falls, or dryness pre- vails, they must stay there and take it. So Nature gave them a great tol- erance, 2s the physicists say, much “leeway,” as most of us put it. Plants can stand an amazing amount | of water. on the one hand. and an | even more amazing amount of drought. Tt is not so much a surplus of moisture | which hurts them as a failure of that ! moisture to begin to dry out later. Similarly, it is not dryness which harms them so much, in itself and of itself. as the failure of that dryness to give way at last to a necessary wetness. Nature works in a wide swing, or | curve, in which toleration is great to- ward two extremes, toward tco much of good things and too little of them, between too much of inimical forces and too little of them. These same extremes apply even more pointedly to mankind. but we are (fortunately) not concerned with them here. Every one who recalls the drought of 1930 knows how well plant life, in the main, withstood those three months of practically no rainfall at all. In some communities use of the garden hose was forbidden, and many lawns, as well as plantings of evergreens and shrubs went without a drop of water for as much as eight weeks. That is a long time to go without a drink of water, and nothing but plant life, perhaps. could stand it. Certainly the higher animals could not. Just how well the plants did stand it is a matter for some dispute. Mankind has no liking for long-time judgments. Most persons want to pronounce a ver- dict. on a moot question, and get the matter done with; few people are willing | to wait for several years before attempt- ing to pass upon a question. The question of whether or mot the drought of three years ago actually and | permanently injured trees. shrubs and evergreens is not settled vet. As with most such questions, the verdict of the experts would not exactly coincide with that of the amateur, in that the latter would be more unwilling. perhaps. to account for recent injury by something which happened two or three years ago. | We had a fine evergreen, for instance. 12 feet tall. which was gloriously green until the blizzard of March 6 last. The | | wind bent it over, and after that it has never looked the same. Today it i< all brown with the exception of the top. The blizzard, especially the wind, gets the blame—but still we have a suspicion that the big drought had something to do with it. The curve had gone too far. on the Wide World apers of Other Lands being inspected by a board appointed to see that there are no fraudulent or unqualified entries. The whereabouts of the chief Com- munist leader, Senor Elias Lafferte, are at present unknown. but it is be- lieved he is in the capital. waiting to avail himself of any opportunity to elevate his party to power. * o ox % ish Census Proves Big Help in North Sea. NORTH CHINA DAILY NEWS, Shanghai: The idea of taking an an- nual census of the finny tribes of the North Sea was at first regarded by | many old fishermen &s a joke. Now | there is no question of & joke about it. | The “sea census” is regarded by the | fishermen, trawl owners and fish mer- chants as a scientific achievement of | the greatest possible economic value to every section of the fishing industry. By means of the census it is possi- | ble "to forecast not only the quantity | but the quality of supplies from 18| | months to two years ahead, a form of | “market supply” information which is not available for any land industry. As an example of what is being done by the marine biologists responsible | for the work, the haddock census since 11926 may be taken. The forecast in | 1926 foretold prime condition and a | high yield for the Autumn of 1928 and | throughout 1929. That in 1927 re- vealed poor condition ~and small catches for the whole of 1930. The 1928 census declared that haddocks would be good, but not prime, and supplies average for 1931 and the early | part of the present year. The accuracy of these forecasts ruled out any ques- tion of chance or coincidence. is why the grade is not too happy about the prospects for the remainder of this year and the first half of 1933, for the census issues the warning that haddocks will be fewer and smaller for the next 18 months! So far only the haddocks and the herring “population” have been investigated, as they are the most important commercially, but it is now proposed to extend the system to all marketable species. ——— Clam Bakes and Beer. From the Hamilton (Ohio) Evening Journal. An interesting possibility in ln{ Te- turn of legal beer is that the political clam bakes can again offer some incen- tive to those who don't like clams. v Safety. From the Arkansas Gazette. Note on the times—Mail-order suit bought by a neighbor arrived with the pockets sewed up, and he's leaving them that way. ——v— All Over the Lot. Prom the New York Sun. ‘The thought occurs that if Gov. Pinchot ever did play center field' it must have been pretty easy for left and right flelders. ——ee—s. Feminine Footgear. From the 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. Maybe the apparent increase in size of women’s feet will find an explanation | in the fact that women at last are wear- ing shoes that fit. e No Insurance. | Prom the Newark Evening News. Fire Prevention week doesn't ocour until October 9. 8o it isn't of much benefit to those excess job holders in New York. ‘That | | [The Political Mil By G. Gould Lincoln. “Every State west of the Mississippi” will cast its electoral votes for Roose- velt, according to James A. Farley, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. This sounds & little mild for Mr. Farley, who has been in the! habit of declaring he would not con- cede President Hoover any one of the 48 States of the Union. However, Mr. Farley is just back from the West, mgpm; Jong encugh in Chicago to make his prediction about the prairie and mountain States. He has been traveling with the Roosevelt party on the Democratic presidential candidate’s long swing and came back ahead of time to iron things out for the Demo- crats in their coming New York State convention, October 3 and 4. * ok x % Gov. Roosevelt has drawn big crowds | on his Western tour. He has chucked at least two Western Republican Pro- gressive Senators under the chin and made them smile—Hiram Johnson of California_and Bronson Cutting of New Mexico. But he is not the first presi- | dential candidate to draw big crowds. A presidential candidate, after all, is a curiosity, a drawing card. No one, not even Mr. Roosevelt, has drawn bigger crowds or more enthusiastic than did Alfred E. Smith in 1928, or William Jennings Bryan in 1896 and thereafter. Nor is Mr. Roosevelt the first Demo- cratic candidate to seek the favor of Republican Progressive Senators. * ok ok x Hiram Johnson is credited with hav- ing lost California to Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican presidential can- didate in 1916, because he believed Mr. Hughes snubbed him when he visited California that year. Senator John- son’s dislike for Mr. Hughes is or was at that time a mild thing compared to his hate for President Hoover. But in 1916 Senator Johnson was in the zenith of his power. He wis Governor of the State. His power today is not so great nor is his following. Furthermore, Mr. Hughes was a son of New York and Herbert Hoover is a son of California. But if Johnson really becomes active for Roosevelt and against Hoover in this campaign, it is to the disadvantage of the G. O. national ticket. There is no other way of looking at it. Just how far Mr. Johnson can transfer his personal grudge against Mr. Hoover to | the Republican voters of California is a question. In the first place, the Re- publican voters know and understand that it is a personal matter with Mr Johnson, and, after all, that is not a very good reason for some one else to | vote against a presidential candidate. * oE v o Senator Cutting, whom Gov. Roose- velt called to his side during & stop in | New Mexico, has been a severe critic of the Hoover administration on many oc- casions, and one of the progressive group_on the Republican side. The | New Mexico Serator is credited with owning more or less both the Demo- | cratic and Republican parties in his| State. His friendship for a Democratic | | i not be surprising. Cutting was not always of the Far West He is an Easterner and a graduite of Harvard, just as is Gov. Roosevelt. If| | be Democratic on election day than is| California, for Cutting is the big frog | in the political pond of that State. How much the entry of Senator | Brookhart of Towa into the senatorial race in that State as a “progressive’ |independent candidate will help the | Democratic cause is a moot question. | Presumably Mr. Brookhart is more in- | tent at present on helping himself than he is on helping Gov. Roosevelt. His | entry may make it more difficult for | Louis Murphy, the Democratic nominee for the Senate, for it will split the op- i position to Henry Field, the Republican !nominee. He is likely to draw as many votes which would otherwise have been cast for Murphy as he would Repub- Lcan votes from Field. This may cut | down the Roosevelt vote for President | in Tows, the Brookhart supporters fail- | ing to vote a straight Democratic ticket. | One thing seems likely, and that is the | election of Henry Field to the Senate. x x % % | The Towa Republicans and the Re- | publicans of the Middle West and West generally are counting on President Hoover's speech in Des Moines next Tuesday to help them out in the cam- paign. They consider his coming west a very good move and many of them wish he would make other speeches in the West. Mr. Hoover's speech accept- ing the presidential nomination did ihim a lot of good out in the Middl It gave the Republicans courage | | when they had none. But that speech was made in August and the Repub-| | licans in this section bgieve the time | has come for the President to ‘strike |again and to strike hard. In Michigan | | the speech of acceptance restored to| { the President the support of a lot of | | Republicans, many of them men of| wealth and ccntributors to past cam- | paigns. who were ready to flop over to | :};;nDzmocnts on the prohibition issuct e. | * ok ok X | ,_Gov. Roosevelt. according to reports | from his special train. is to cut out his | | presumptive speaking engagement in| | Chicago Saturday night. ring his! stay in chmfia. however, he will at- tend the World Series base ball game between the Cubs and the Yankecs and confer with a lot of Democratic leaders. Illinois presents a peculiar political sit- uation. The charge has been made that | | Len Small, the Republican candidate for Gavernor, is willing to throw votes to | Roosevelt provided the Democrats will help elect him Governor. Small has| i many Republican enemies in the State | “\’.'no are quite prepared to vote fur his Democratic opponent. But if Roosevelt is not to speak in Chicago the people in Detroit are looking eagerly to his visit_here and a speech from him on Sunday. Plans are being made for | him to address 25,000 persons at the | Detroit Naval Reserve Armory. Only, | 5,000 can get inside the armo: but there is a park nearby where J more may hear the speech by mezns of an amplifying system. * ok % x Tt isn't often that the opportunity of hitting back at a political opponent comes as quickly and as easily as did | that which came to Jouett Shouse. new president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, to strike at Willlem Gibbs McAdoo. Mr. McAdoo cut the ground from under the feet of the opposition to the nomination of | Rooscvelt for President at the Chicago convention when he arose and an- nounced that the California and Texas delegations, pledged to Garner, would vote for Roosevelt. Mr. Shouse had be- come the target of the Roosevelt fac- tion, along with John J. Raskob, for- mer Democratic chairman. After the Roosevelt nomination had been con- summated with the aid of Mr. McAdoo there was apparently no place in the Democratic organization for Mr. Shouse, who had been head of the national headquarters by virtue of being execu- tive chairman. He went out. But not long afterward Mr. Shouse was made president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, in which Mr. Raskob has been a powerful figure. Op- portunity to take a crack at McAdoo came when his association decided that it would support Tallant Tubbs, the Re- publican wringing wet candidate for Senator, against McAdoo, who is the Democratic nominee for that offiee. Mr. McAdoo waited eight years to get back at the Smith outfit for what it did to him in 1928 at the Madison Square Garden convention. But Mr. Shouse had to wait only about eight weeks to take a shot at Mr. McAdoo. Mr. McAdoo may claim he is a wet and as wet as the Democratic platform, but he doesn’t look like a wet to the Asociation Against the Prohibition Amendment, nor is he likely to Jook like & wet to a lot of Smith Democrats in Northern Cali- Prom the Indianapolis Star. The politician with his ear to the ground these days must get something worse than the caulifiower variety. | years.” ANSWERS TO QUESTION BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘This newspaper puts at your disposal & corps of trained researchers in Wash- ington who will answer questions for you. They have access to the Govern- ment departments, the libraries. mu- seums, galleries and public buildings and to the numerous ascociations which maintain headquarters in the Nation's Capital. If they con be of assistance to you, write your question plainly and send with 3 cents in coln or stamps to ‘The Washington Star Information Bu- reau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, ‘Washington, D. C. Q. What is the length of the Boston Hzlt marathion swim?—M. D. , The accepted distance for the sw.a from Warren Bridge Charles- town, to Boston Light is 12% miles, But the route varies from year to year. With perfect conditions, the shortest route is about 9 miles, but with adverse tides, it is nearer 15. Q. When arid how much has the salary of a member of the House of Representatives been changed’— M.M.8. A. The salary of members of Con- gress has been changed several times. Originally Representatives received $6 a day, in 1789, whica was raised to $8 almost immediately. rate of $5,000 a year was granted. In 1874 an act was passed raising the salary to $7,500, but this act was im- mediately repeaied and the salary re- mained at $5.000 until 1900, when it was again raised to $7,500. In 1926 the salary was raised to $10,000 a year. At the present time, this smount is reduced to $9,000 during the general cut in Government silaries. Q In how many cases are automo- bile accidents due to mechanical failure in the automobile?—H. G. A. In 1.281400 accidents studied. in only 56.330 cases were the accidents | due to mechanical difficulties. This-is only 1 time in 23. Q. When and where are boats sold which hive been confiscaied for viola- tion of the prohibition act?—C. W. H. | A. The Bureau of Prohibiticn says | that each prohibition district las its | own clz.flng house for cunfiscated | 0ods and that an effort is made to| ep it as cleared up at all times n’ possible. A notice concerning the sale of confiscated cars and boats is posted in the local papers where such sales are to take place. These :ales are ccn- | ducted as public auctions. | Q. Who originated the card display | used by the Naval Academy at foot Lall games’—N. N. | A. The card displays were introduced at the Naval Academy during th i930 foot ball season by Midshipman N. C. Copeland, & member of the 1931 class. | However, it was not Copeland's original ide:. He received his informstion re- garding these stunts from Stanford | University, at Palo Alto, Calif. Q. Why will ivy live in water>—M. B. A. The Bureau of Plant Industry says from the stored up material in the | plant itself. Ivy planted in water will | not continue to grow indefinitely. It length of time depending upon how | much plant food there is in the plant | and in the water. Q. What is the correct way to eat a | sandwich? Should fork or fingers be | used’—F. L. H. i A. It depends upon the time. place and company. The general rule for eating sandwiches is to use a fork if one is provided and it is possible to do 0. Q. Did Sol Smith Russtll, the come- dian, fight in the Civil War>—W. H. F. A. He was born in Brunswick, Me, June 15, 1846, and died May 2, 1902. He served in the Union Army as & drummer boy. th. Ho\!\‘t mugh r;mn?i!]_ was spent in is_country by the allies duri World War?>—R. T. P. e A. The only record of indebtedness of European governments or corpora- | tions to Americans is the record of | funded indebtedness. What is owed | on open account is not a matter of public record, although likely to be re- | flected in the exchanges. In 1914 the | otal of governmental and corporate | mean?—T. funded indebtedness to this country was $44.670,000; in 1915, $817,520.000: in 1917, $720,297 ‘This is believed to furnish an excellent index to the pur- chase of war supplies, as most of this was governmental debt. The bonds of the allies sold readily here and the pro- medn were used largely to buy muni- lons. Q. Is a gallon larger in Canada than in the United States>—F. M. § A. It is slightly larger, as Canada uses the imperial gallon, which equals 1.2 United States gallons. Q. When did Ziegfeld enter the the- atrical fleld?—S. H. T. A. He started in Chicsgo in 1892, and brougfl. military bands from Europe for the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893. Q What ‘;ioen the name “Honolulu” A. “Hono" means harbor, luly,” smooth or quiet. Q. Which Government department is operating on a five-day week?—B. W A. The Department of Labor. Q. How far away is a cloud which can be seen with the naked eye’— In 1865 a fiat |B. L. . M. A. The distance at which clouds aw visible to the naked eye varies greacty with one’s positicn and the kind of clouds. If one is in an open flat coun- try and the clouds are of the broad stratus or layer type, he may not see them more than 30 to 40 miles away, and even not half so far if the air tends to be misty or hazy. On the other hand, when the air is quite clear a well developed cumulo-nimbus, or thurderstorm, cloud may, under favora- ble circumstances, be seen when more | than 100 miles aw Q. With what kind of a pistol was President Garfield shot, and where is this weapon at present?>—H. H A. The Army Medical Museum says that President Garfield was shot with an English buildog pistol, No. 42 conical bullet.” It does not know the where- abouts of this wearon at present. . Hew many different papers and periodicals are sent through the mail l_ng ;hn does it cost the Government? A. The approximate number of news- papers and periodicals publishers entered as second-class mail matter is 29,000. The postage rate is 1i; cents for reading matter and 2 to 10 cents for advertising matter, according to the zone. In 1931 the revenues from this source were practically $26,000,000. The expenditures were approximately $123,000,000, making a deficit of more than $96,000,000. Q. Who was Countess Potocka and who painted the famous prrtrait of her?—M. L. K. A. Sophie de Witt, Countess Potocka, was & famous beauty, known chiefly from Anton Grafl's pastel portrait of candidate for President therefore need | that ivy planted in water gets its sus- | her mede in Berlin, where she lived for In addition Senater | tenance from the air, the water, and |some time and where se died. She was the daughter cf a Greek shoemaker of Constantinople. She married a Rus- slan general and. after her divorce Cutting goes for Roosevelt in New | Will. however, under favorable condi- (from him, married Count Stanislas Mexico that State is far more likely to | tons thrive 'for quite a while, the |Felix Potocki. Q. In what year did the big erup- tion of Mount Pelee occur?—J. P. A. The last important eruption of %agg&zl’elu occurred in the Summer Q. When did the term deuce orig- inate in tennis?—A. J. D. A. It was used as early as 1598, if not arlier. In 1878 Julicus Marshall in his ' page 134, has the following: “Scaimo (in 1555) then tells his readers that (the scoring is) ‘at two (a du s it is called when the game is reduced cr ‘set’ to two strokes to be gained. in order to win it. The term ‘a aue’ is still preserved in ths French orm, & deux, corrupted into the English deuce.” Q. Was Gecrge Washington ever in l;lecwhik House in Washington?—L. JA. The White House was begun in 1792. Owing to difficulties in financing it, the work had progressed only so far that ir 1799 Gen. and Mrs. Washington were able to make a tour of inspection through the rocins. Roosevelt Railroad Speech Is Classed as Conservativ Conservatism is seen by the public | Salt Lake City on the railroad situa- tion. The Democratic candidate for President. some declare, would under- | take to furnish a permanent remedy | for railrcad difficulties, offering spe- | cific propesals, including the co-ordi- | nation of all means of transportation. | His political opponents charge that his suggestions differ very little from those which have been made in the past. “Summed up,” according to the Lit- tle Rock Arkansas Gazette (Demo- | cratic), “his proposals are: Avoid finan- clal excesses; adjust the plant to the traffic; co-ordinate all carrier service; above &ll, serve the public reasonably, swiftly and well. In no way has he found refuge behind generalities, * * * Especially happy was his statement that lasting improvement in transporta- tion will come from Government en- | couragement and co-operation rather than irom restriction and repression.” The Sioux City Tribune (independent) declares: “He brought more common sense and sound reasoning to the con- sideration of the plight of the railroads than has been uttered by any other sin- gle statesman in two decades.” That paper recognizes that he “submits a concrete plan for immediate action which is obviously fair and easily un- derstocd.” The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle (Democratic) emphasizes the fact that “he stressed the co-ordination of all forms of transportation; the railroads would be better off if they had fol- lowed this principle in the past few While objecting to some who - tributed to the nomination of cl?lflr, Roosevelt, as radicals, the Cincinnati Times-Star (Republican), declares that his rail speech “was éncouraging in that it indicates that this phase of | national policy will be in good hands, no matter who is elected in November.” | The Times-Star records that it has never subscribed to the general belief that Mr. Roosevelt is by nature a rad- ical,” but it holds that “his record and his more recent utterances give justifi- cation for the belief that by nature he is a Wilsonian liberal.” On the rail- road problem that papers says: “The speech was conservative if common sense is to be regarded as conservatism. It is obvious that practically every American has a vital interest in the reasonable prosperity of the railroads.” The Rock Island Argus (independ- ent) avers that “his recommendations e constructive in character and indi- cate that, in the event of his election, the railroads would not suffer from un- fair competition by motor trucks, which wcuid ‘come under Federal regulation, nor allowed to destroy each other by competition within the rail industry.” The 8alt Lake Tribune (independent) attests that his address “indicates keen appreciation of the depths of the pres- ent railroad difficulties, and he dis- cussed the problems confronting them ably and thoroughly.” The Schenec- tady Gazette (independent Democratic) quotes the “heads of some of our great railroad systems” as declaring that “his ideas are constructive and business. like.” The Charleston (S. C.) Evening Post (Democratic) believes that “it is thle kl.ngh of l%rc:nm the railroads them- selves shou ave urging upon the Government.” The Haverhill Gazette (independent Republican) points out that “Roosevelt urged & na- tional policy of transportation, which was in accord with his theory that medern economy must be ordered, but this theory is one that Hoover has re- | ent Democratic) | have been publiciced sisted.” That paper adds that “the | in Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech at trend of experience is toward an order- ed _economy.” Declarations in favor of the perma- nency of the Roosevelt rail policies are made by the Charlotte Observer (in- dependent Democratic), the New York Times (independent), the Scranton Times (Democratic), the Youngstown Vindicator (independent Democratic), and the Asbury Park Press (independ- The Miami Daily News (Democratic) locks upon his plan as similar in principle to that which reorganized the banking system of the country. “The recommendations that he makes,” thinks the Waterbury Repub- lican (independent). “are generally good. and generally feasible, but would require the inauguration of a long- range program, based on a greal mass of evidence and knowledge of railroad operation, accumulated for some vears. The main facts are not disputed. * x x ¥ That the Roosevelt policies in this fleld are similar to the Hoover policies is pointed out by the Springfield (Mass.) Union (Republican), the In- dianapolis News (independent Repub- lican), the Lexington Leader (Repub- lican) and the San Francisco Chronicle (independent Republican). The Cali- fornia paper states: “Gov. Roosevelt's proposals are to be found in President Hoover's messages to Congress. Some of them are to be discovered also in President Coolidge’s state papers. They in extenso in newspapers and mageazines and books over quite a few years. Still. one would not charge the Governor with plagia- rism. What he has picked up for his program long ago became common COil like old saws and maxims. Regul 3 of motor carrier competition by Interstate Commerce Commis . Elimination of raflroad Consolidation of railroads? for railroad workers? heard of these hefore? President has been urging these ma - ters on Congress. Mr. Roosevelt ol t00.' Most interesting D. Rocsevelt’s railroad bids is his propgsal that ‘the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, working with the interstate Commerce Commission, share the work of planning the reorganization or readjustment for the protection of public investments and those of inno- cent security holders.’ If one can be- lieve the public prints, the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation, with the aid and counsel of the Interstate Com- merce Commission, is exceedingly busy right now with this very task that Gov. Roosevelt proposes.” “The collection of adequate freight rates,” remarks the Minneapolis Jour- nal (independent Republican), “is an amazingly simple thing in the Roosevelt view. rge whatever is necessary, but no more, for—'we must pay the fair cost of this transportation, which is in truth a tiny fraction of the selling price of commodities’ And how this naive assumption that freight rates are only a trifling consideration in the market- ing of the farmers' products is going to amaze scme hundreds of thousands of Roosevelt's supporters, some scores of Roosevelt leaders cut here in the farm- ing country! The Western faimers’ dissatisfaction with low crop prices is fomented and intensified by the fact that, at present levels, the freight :l'\uu sometimes_taki