Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1932, Page 6

THE EVENING - THE EVENING s WASHINGTON, D. C. SHURSDAY. .. November 17, 1032 THFODORE W. NOYES; ., ditor Star. N ropany The M’“ -w-:::pa Company 11th ivania Ave. Off« et o iy ol STAR Edition. ...80c pet month ay Btar ..88¢ per month | . S¢c per copy ¢ ih of each mont Ky grt] ' 1n'by mall of telephone Qiders maz Ational 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. | Maryland and Virginia. | {ly and Sunday, iy only ... . $10.00: 1 mo.. §8¢ | 1990 1 me 88 $4.00; 1 mo., 40c v only a3 only Member of the Associated: Press. jated Press is exclusively entitled b Gor republication of all news dis- | 5 eredited to it or not otherwise cred- rt:d in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publieation of | special dispatches herein are also reserved | _ o the ‘ur tehes Je— Special Session. 1t has been taken for granted gener- ally that a Special session ‘of the newly ‘elected. Congress will be calied for the Spring to carry out the campaign pledges made by the Democrats and thefr presidential candidate. There are | Democratic leaders, however, who would much prefer, if they are able to do so, to avold such a session. They would like to see the Democratic administration, headed by Roosevelt, firmly seated in Washington and functioning smoothly | before it tackles the job of dealing with | the Congress. The decision in the end will be up to the President-elect. | No one can say today just what thel eonditions will be in this country on March 4. There is hope that an upturn ©of business is on the way. No one can | say, either, how much or how little necessary legislation wii win through the coming short session of Congress. I ft is found possible to put through | messures dealing “with the prohibition | question, 'a banking bill and some measure of agticultural relief, then the Democratic leaders opposed to a spe- cial session feel that it might well be - -avoided. So far as the question of tariff | _changes is concerned, it i pointed | out that an international gconomic conference" is soon to be heid, and, further, that the Democrats are com- mitted to talking the matter over with foreign nations before any action is taken. It will be remembered also that at the last session of Congress, al- < though the House was controlled by the Democrats, the tariff bill brought in and passed by that body made no apecific -recommendations for changes in rates. ‘The present House is likely to follow e desires of President-elect Roose- velt in the matter of legisiation, if the leaders can know what he believes should be done. The Democratic Jead- ers of the House and Senate are to confer with the President-elect before long. The progressive Republicais in the Senate gemerally supported Roose- i in the campaign now closed. They 10 hold the balance of power the Bemate uniil March 4. Whether. will play ball with the President- is andther matter. It is entirely thin the bounds of possibility, and even probability, that some of these progressives will insist upon & special session of the mew Congress and, if necessary, force one by the old ex- pedient of holding up some of the ap- | propriation bills until after March 4,1f | they -believe that Roosevelt might lwii call a special session next Spring. President Hoover called a special ses- sion of Congress immediately after he came into office nearly four years ago It was not a happy venture. It did not | furnish the relief measure for which the farmers of the West were clamoring, al- though it did produce a tariff act which caused a lot of criticism. Roosevelt is going into office on the high note of | “Happy Days Are Here Again.” A wtangle for months in a special session of Congress, with business holding its breath and getting nowhere, is not a hopeful prospect to which to look for- ward. { e e The expense attending an effort to| evade a debt may amount to & sum which might have represented a fairly | good payment. on account. -t A European R. F. C. Not in a long time has news more | vith British aid, to make Burope s | ‘setter place to live in by providing | opportunity for idle capital snd oc- | cupation for idle labor. What fis ' planned seéms to be & European Re- construction Finance Corporation, with airhs Mot unlike those of America's with increasing frequency. Day by day the reports come in. Science is adding to populer knowledge of the his- tory of the race. Llay enthusiasts are Going their part. The net result Is an enlargement of earlier conceptions of the antiquity of man and of the world STAR. | great philanthropists. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which is his home, The practical.value but with the immensely more important | of such an expansion of view 'is a purpose of removing the gunpowder |greater degree of tolerance among men, from a highly explosive interualional | and tolerance is but a synonym for situation. . Business diplomacy, prac- | liberty. tical statesmanship, enters.the scene. | e et — Money talks in Europe, ‘as elsewhere, What the Election Did.. If success crowns the far-reaching' Before the national election recedes plan for which an American-born | to too great a distance in the memory Frenchman, Raymond Patenotre, s0n of the people it may be worth while | of w formet Prench Ambassador to the | 4o inquire about its sociological sig- | United " States and of an American | pificance. - Just what did it do to the | mother, is mainly responsible, Pounds | minds of men and women? There are | sterling, franes and marks will 5007 | yeveral partial answers, and, taken to- be talking a language far more con-| gether, they constitute an illuminating ductie to Buropean peace than the | oheervation truly significant. stereotyped and. sterile. language Which | In the first place, the campaign Old World statesmen employ. stirred the people. It took them out e e A of themselves. They abandoned under Ten Cents a Day. its mfluence their preoccupation with The gifts of the Community Chest their own business, their own work and now being reported are large and small. | worries, their own narrowly personal Some of the amall gifts may conceiv- concerns. For a few weeks, or at least ably represent more personal sacrifice for a few days, they were interested on the. part of the donor than the in large issues, vast national problems, large ones. The four-year-old boy who world affairs. They felt themselves to gave his collection of a hundred pennies be portions of a huge organization of to the Chest—these pennics represent- | government and administration. They ing the worldly wealth acquired during realized that they individually were re- | convalescence from an operation, earned sponsible for policies of the Federal by patience and courage—might With state. A tremendously important de- merit elaim a position of hohor among cision was about to be made, and they He gave prac- were its makers. They recognized for tically everything he had. | the moment their function and pur- It has never been nor will it ever be | pose as citizens. It was a sobering the policy of the Chest to question the thought, but it carried s sense of size of anybody's gift, for that is & stimulation. matter that lies between the giver and In the seccnd instance, the political his own conscience. But it is inter- | struggle had a social aspect. The peo- esting to note that the average size | ple understood that they were neigh- of gifts—the average struck by com- bors. They saw that what o deeply paring the number of contributors with | interested one man likewise interested the total given—is surprisingly small. every other man. They were made This average to date represents $38.45 aware of the fact that no individual per person, or ten and a half cents & | matters very much in comparison with day, from approximately 15.000 givers. | all the other individuals in the country; Last year there were about 120,000 con- | that one citizen is & small figure as tributors to the Chest, and if the related to the great masses of the popu- average shown se far remnins un- |lation. But they realised, too, that no changed and there is an equal num- one was isolated from his fellows. All ber of contributors, the Chest Will be | were involved. It was everybody’s busi- overflowing. Ten cents a day is not ness. It was a corporate responsibility, a large amount to dedicate for the a mutual obligation, & common task. alleviation of suffering, for the help | To stand acide wss to submit to volun- of stricken families, for the life of | tary exile. To take part, to listen, to some. inbocent child. Unfortunately, | argue and to vote was to practice civic the average will probably not reach | fellowship. ten cents a day when all gifts are in. In each of these particulars the elec- The difficulty faced by the Chest is, | tion had a practical usefulness in no first, "to reach the average man in the | community for a direct appeal. For | the balloting. Individuals were con- this purpose there are the thousands of | sclous of three successive stages of volunteer workers now engaged in the | psychological experience. They felt canvass, who are seeking o bring their | their citizenship, they understood at message direct to every citizen, and that | once their importance and their un- | in itself is a task of major proportions. | importance. And In the end they re- The second difficulty is to convey to | alized that the ultimate verdict rested this citizen, busy with his own affairs| with destiny or Providence. To the in & busy world, an adequate idea of | philosopher all three stages of develop- the grim vonditions existifig in this city | ment were fascinating to wateh. and the necessity for dealing adequately | Perhaps in an ideal civilization the with those conditions. If both these | people would be amenable to these in- | things can be done, it s indeed diffi- fluences at all times. Civic duty would cult to belleve that Washington's aver- | be a constant and not merely an oc- age citizen cannot or will not con- | casional challenge. The populace would tribute & minimum of ten cents a day | be inspired to function daily and not | to help out in this crisls. There are |only for & brief month or six weeks tens of thousands whose contributions | every fourth year. But be this as it will and should exceed that amount. | may, it must be clear that at the ‘There are many letters received every moment when America went to the day by the Chest authorities. One of | polls, on November 8, the whole Nation the recent communications ¢ame from | was stirred, stimulated and uplifted as & man who, for the first time, realizec #t had not been in a long time. That the inadequacy of his former contribu- | momentary abandonment of selfish and tions of 35 s year when he reduced | rigidly personal interests was something | that total to terms of cents per day.| good to see and good to remember. His contribution this year of 336 'ui o made in the light of a sudden awaken- | 5 ing. There must be thousands of others | SHO?TI{(LSEAB o who, like him, have restricted their gifts merely because of a failure to understand, and not from mere selfish- ness or actual incapacity to pay more. | Our task, as a community, is to reach | them. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Vacation Dream. Sometimes, 25 we whiri so fast That it makes me blink, Wish I could find time at last Just to sit and think— Think about the stars so high, Wondering why they shine; Think about the days gone by And those friends of mine— Think about Thanksgiving day And the laughter light That went speeding on, iis way Through the moments bright— Think about old Santa Claus "As when long ago He was true enough, because We believed him so. ‘When the tears replace the smile And men’s fortunes shrink, ‘Wish that we could pause awhile Just to sit and think. et If there is to be freedom for liquor law convicts, Al Capone will naturally claim that he should, as a recognized | leader, be the first to come out. i | ————— Minnesota Maiden. Dr. A. E. Jenks of the University of | Minnesota has announced the discovery of the remains of a human being who | lived and died in what is now Ottertail | County, Minn., a small matter of twenty thousand years ago. According to the news reports, he has said that the skeleton is that of a 17-year-old girl, ho-had something of the Mongol and something of the ape about her.” He thinks that she “was killed and perhaps thrown into a glacial lake.” direct way related to the campaign or | ‘Taken at its face value, the find is so important that Dr. Jenks must be promising for real peace in Europe come patient while his brethren in science across the ocean than the announce- check his conclusions. They will wish ment of a Franco-German-British con- | to satisfy themselves that the remains sortium for industrial reconstruction really are those of a girl. They will in various continental countries. Under wish to study the skull before final semi-official French and German aus- | classification of its characteristics is ac- pices, a capital fund of $666,000,000 is cepted. They will wish to examine a to be raised by private bankers in Paris, | mark on the shoulder biade which has Berlin and London, with French and | been supposed to have been made by an British financiers contributing in the arrow or a spear “that killed her.” ratio of 40 per cent each and German | Above all, they will wish to see the spot 20 per cent, for the purpose of earrying | cn which the discovery was made. out large-scale public utility enterprises.| But if, in the end, scientists agree The electrification of the railroads of | that Dr. Jenks' theories are sound and | Poland, Rumania, Portugal and Irak sensible, he will be sure of universal appears to be the first field of ‘the | celebrity. He will be given credit for ponsortium’s proposed activities. French, | establishing the residence cf human | German and, British factories would beings in the Western world at a far| suppiy the material and equipment, and | earlier date than is generally. allowed. domestic labor in the various countries The significance of such a concession | concerned would bz employed on actual | would be very great. It would imply eonstructicn work. the opening of a-vast new field of in- International transactions of this sort | vestigation. Anthrcpologists and arche- and magnitude cut straight through the ' ologists would be obliged to app.y them- tortuous dealings of diplomats and | selves to a quest for the history of the ‘statesmen and make for peace auto- racial division to which the Minnesota matically. When French and German maiden belonged. Who were her peo- bankers and industrialists pool their ple? When did they first appear in money and their interests in common |the West? What was their eventual enterprises on terms of mutual confi- fate? Where are the remains of their @=nce and benefit they are laying the culture? Each of these problems would | foundations of enduringly friendly re-| have to be dealt with. | Jations and striking directly at their | Dr. Jenks, if his suppositions are cor- espective countrles’ ancient grudge. ' rect, has shaken all the prevailing be- | More and more the world is coming to | liefs of those branches of science af- be an economic entity. Hourly it dawns |fected by his announcement. He has increasingly upon nations, especially expanded the atea of anthropology and | those that must exist, as in Europe, archeology in America, He has raised | theek hy jowl, that the adversity of one | the curtain on a new scene. But, of s the distress of all, and that no single | course, like every other man who makes | eountry can hope to prosper at the ex- | challenging claims, he must submit his pense of the rest. The depression has ' ideas to the critical consideration of | taugit, if it has taught nothing else, his fellow scientists. That is what he | that the world is an interlocking eco- now has done. In the circumstances, | nomic universe. | the public must wait the verdict of the | Bo if is & stimulating and encoureg- jury It is too early as yet to give In."il(n that Prench' and German unqualified approval to the story as business men, aweary of the snall-like | Dr. Jenks tells it. | eflorts of Geneva, Paris and Berlin to| The occ::ion may be utilized to call | reach conclusions on - disarmament, 'attenticn 1n e fact that interesting security and the other shibboleths ot|lnlhmpol~ - 1 and ercheological finds rflhfiul statesmanship, are moving, are. being made throughout the world W F s 1 Incompatible States of Mind. “Do you think you can find some way to render Europe politically quiet and happy?” “The effort must be made,” replied Senator Sorghum, “In spite of & grow- ing impression that Europe never could | be happy if quiet. Jud Tunkins says they may joke about the electoral college all they want to; but it's the only college that issues a degree these days that is held in sincere and unanimous respect. Progress. Folks abroad would like to be Here at home once more, Good old friends you seldom see On a foreign shore, Old impressions often come To solace our distress. To get back where we started from Sometimes 15 to progress. Courtesy Demanded. “Any gangmen left in Crimson Guleh?” “Neo,” answered Cactus Joe. ut there is a new bunch so tough and speedy that they’ll take you for a ride in & minute if you refer to them as anything but perfect gentlemen.” “It is not an ideal leader,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “who in a reckless desire to be In front ruth- lessly rides down those he needs for a Confident Expectation. Our greatest minds have met for speech To bring enlightenment And show a proper way to reach The cause of discontent, The human sorrows that persist Are patiently endured. conversation can assist, ‘We know they will be cured. “De trouble bout runnin’ away from trouble,” said Uncle Eben, “is dat you runs into trouble dat you don’t under- tand as well as de kind you sort o' got used to" It W To_escape the lmpertlI:ell::t m:r: ‘common persons—woul “a consummation devoutly to wished,” too? ‘The only trouble with the common people, some one has said, is that they are so very in practically every one alive, a strik- ing testimonial to our animal heritage, perhaps. No man can rightly sneer at another, | on this ground, but he can at the same | time properly enough wish to flee from the type of remark with which we are concerned. It varies from the attempt to be in- quisitive about details of another’s life | business, to utterly uncalled-for expres- | and who is not?—but knows a hundred instances of this disagreeable “nosiness” on the part of certaln acquaintances. Certain persons, indeed, seem to specialize in the disagreeable habit of “Butting in,” conversationally speaking, | wherever they can intrude. Since ordinarily they are not held | back either by good manners or delicacy |of any whatsoever, it may be | realized that their fleld is wide, and their opportunity daily, if not hourly. * k% % | These persons are, in themselves, the | most_striking testimonial to the truth |of the old saying, that “familiarity | breeds contempt.” | Mostly they are extra polite when | they do not know one very well. | 1t is possible, almost, to tell their | future course of conduct by their initial | attitude. If “butter will not melt in their mouth,” as a homely adage has it, if | they. are scrupulous to a point beyond ! which the moment demands, one pretty safe in regarding them with suspicion. | Now suspicion is a good thing, if | common sense is used in handling it. | Even inimical characteristics may | if well padded with kindness, good | humor and plenty of common sense. Some call common sense ‘“horse sense, | but there is no use giving them a | monopoly. Common sense is merely pflcm‘:l sense, s way of thinking and acting based on facts rather than | fancy. So be slightly suspicious, if choose, of the man or woman who-“lays it on too thick” at first. The chances are that such a person shortly will ask you why you do this, and why you don't do that, and if it is true that -your grandmother took in washing, and whether or not you never go to the it so, what you have t movies, and, | against 'em. | * k x * Almost always it is not so what is asked, after all, as the very asking, which distinctly rubs one the Wrong way. Foolishly enough, it is true, but none | the less one expects to be treated the | way one treats other people. In a very small province of life and living one tries to apply the Golden Rule, only to find out that it is un- | known to 50 many others. There is none of the “holier than | thou” attitude in this. ¢ It is amazing, and very encouraging, | to find out one’s own superiority, in a world such as this, where there are so many superforities, and at - times it seems that other human beings have so many of them and one has so few. It is encouraging to realize that one | may be, actually and without doubt, a better man than the much-praised Gunga Dinn, after all. * ok Between these two types of mind, namely, the sort which minds its own Manchuria Daily News, Dairen.—The Dairen Shimbun, in a recent issue, re- ipmdnced in full the Japanese trans- Iation of the progress of the interview that took place between the late Ma- Chanshan, as governor of Heilung- kiang and vice commander of- the Hellungkiang army of the Northeastern Frontier army, and Dr. Lind of the Algemeine Zeitung, Germany, at Tungho (across the Sungari, opposite Fang- cheng). We understand that before the original text fell into the Manchukuo authorities’ hands it had been photo- graphed anc a copy thereof was sent to the home government and’ another to the League's Inquiry Commission. Among a long series of 82 queries and interest : clined most friendly to China? A. Russia has rendered most help, and the most friendly power is the United States. Q. In what form do you expect the United States to help China? A. T expect lupgly of funds and mu- nitions. “But for the United States help China would have been dismembered before this. » Q. What help has America dered China? A. In the 24th of Kwanghsu (1898) the powers threatened to disembowel China. Then the United States stepped forth and contended for the open door. and China owes her existence till today to the American support. ren- Q. Since the United States does not | much | Q. What country do you think is in- | asked the traveling salesman. | care to fight Japan, what suitable help can she give China? A. Supply of munitions will be ef- fective, from my experience of fighting | Japan, lq. Have you ever asked America for elp? | he ] ¥ Apart from what Nanking govern- ment ‘mey know, I understand that, after Japan has taken Manchukuo, in five years she will invade Soviet Rus- sia_and the United States. ~ Q. Have you received monetary gifts from the United States? A. Three times. gl‘n“ and anti-aircraft guns, it would | easy for me to beat Japan. Q. Granting that Japan has occu- | pled Manchuria, in five or six years' time, what might be Japan’s policy in Manchuria? A. The Japanese troops will be sta- tioned in Manchuria and the Japanese police system will be established. | Regent Pu-ki will be put on the regal throne like Prince Ri of Chosen. ‘Then, several Q's, A's, being skipped | over: | Q. The Japanese side has been re- porting about the presence of Russian corpses and firearms left on the field | after the battles. A. There was not a Russian soldier. ‘There were some Russian chauffeurs, though. As to Russian firearms, there were tens of thousands of what once belonged to Semenoff’s army and were | seized at Manchouli a few years ago. | ‘The foregoing. as we have intimated, comprise some of the more salient in- terrogatories and expianations that { Provided with air- | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. | business and the sort which likes to | poke its Jong nose into the habits and be | business of other people, there will never be anything but warfare. The one cannot understand the other. | therefore, there has been a turnover | service is for the free use of the public. | and never will. The sad fact is that the common, inquisitive mind will not u‘fl’:’llcznce i3 a virtue unknown to | them, or, if not unknown, least not | thought much of, and seldom used. | Yet reserve in speech is cne of the finest flowers of civilization. The avoldance of saying all one | knows or feels marks the gentleman as | nothing else does, perhaps. | Civilization is, in some measure, the | purely natural, It is natural to say | from frank speech. | Yet all the finer points of civilized | life often call for this delicacy, and un- | less one is willing to frown upon it as | suppose, “she-women," there is no es- | cape trom the value of it. It ‘would seem. at least to him who values this quality of heart and mind, ies‘lbfllhefl in our secondary schools | and colleges. man service in converting roughnecks, on & large scale, into some semblance, | A well equipped Professor of Reticence could earn for himself a lasting place | being unworthy of “he-men” and, we ‘ * * x x ‘, tHat a'course in reticence ought to be A Chair of Reticence might do yeo- | at least, to culiivated gentlemen. in_the esteem of the Nation. His might be a thankless task, but it | | would have meny rewards for a sane man, who, as he looked at the end prod- uct of his skill, would feel encouraged 1o keep on. The trials and tribulations of the teacher of physics, chemistry, biclogy, mathematics, Greek, would be his: at the same time he would be engaged in a nobler task than any of them, to wit, he would be making better human beings, kinder and more decent men | and women, who, in the long history of living _creatures, would be triumphs wrought out’of nature in the crude. | Since there is no escaping the fel- |low who makes impertinent remarks, | it would appear at first blush as if there were nothing to do but put up | with him as best one may, and this | is, indeed, the course adopted by the | largest number of sufferers. | " Another and s smaller class of men, however, have shown that another method is very effective. These are the men who, by reason of certain ad- vantages of birth, are able to adopt, s | to the manor born, a certain hoity-toity attitude commonly called “high-hat,” | in the vernacular. ‘The truth is that they have a right to this appearance, if for no other rea- | son than that they do represent. in | themselves, the fine reticence which distinguishes, perhaps more than any other one quality, men from brutes. | In order to keep their own souls | from the profanation of others, as | they in turn respect the rights of others, often enough they adopt & policy | of the guarded life, as if they lived | always with a subtle but nevertheless | very solid wall around them. Every one knows such people, and sometimes resents them, in a way, but a little reflection proves them to be eminently right and sensible in their conduct. ‘They are practical philoso- | phers, who carry out a plan for acting like gentlemen themselves and for | forcing others to treat them in as | gentlemanly a manner as some of these | others can be brought to adopt. The | commonest, not the common, touch, | smears them not; they are forever guarded by an invisible cloak, through which profane hands dare not pry. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands | author is a member. There are over | 39,000 ~employes, _including _general | workers, clerks, officials ane and it is estimated that if all con- tributed to the scheme for & loan of a week's wages that -this, would yield at | least £140,000 to the corporation.’ It is suggested that the money should | be loaned to the town council at the | | low rate of 1 per cent interest. x % % * | Quits Barber Shope | To Avoid Giving Tips. Manchester ~ Guardian—M. Jean | Charlot, who, because of his determi- nation not to give tips, is finding life | rather difficult in Parisian clubs and | cafes, would have had the sympathy of | suffered in a similar cause. Having a conscientious objection to tipping bar- | bers, and being unable to shave him- | self, this hero had to travel consider- | ably over 100 miles in one year, at a cost of some £5 in fares, in order to find | new shops where his unbending atti- tude on the tipping question was un- known, since it was impossible for him | to find efficient service a second time in | any one establishment. Finally, having | exhausted the whole range of London and suburban barbers, he gave up the struggle—not by tendering tips but by growing a beard, which, presumably, he trimmed himself. * ok ok % Gratz Climber Is First To Ascend Needle Penks. Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna.—The well known Grats climber, Herr Rutolf | Schinko, fdrmerly a Bischofsburg school | teacher, has become the firs: man to | conquer, according to the latest edition | of the Gratz Sechs-Uhr Blatt to arrive here, the supposedly insurmountable needle peaks of the “Kleiner Winkel- | kogel” (Little Triangle), in the Foel- zalm district of Hochschwab. Herr Schinko not only accomplished this un- precedented feat, but also required but | seven hours for ‘the ascent, the great part of which is fraught with the great- est, difficulties and gravest dangers. it Republican Co-Operation. From the Charlotte Observer. | Following the admirable sentiment expressed by President Hoover in doing his utmost in support of the aims of |the new President, comes Secretary Stimson, who during the campaign, held | the best balanced poise of the Presi- | dent’s cabinet official family, comes for- |to co-operate closely with the new | administration on all matters of for | elgn policies affecting this Nation. Sec campaigners, also makes statement ap- propriate to the day. He “congratu- | lates” Gov. Roosevelt and Speaker Gar- ner on “the country’s vote of confl- dence” and couples this with advice tha to be “helpful” to the administration, whenever they can, in meeting the diffi- culties that lay ahead and “in common | welfare.” As indication of the co-oper- | ative spirit of general development on teachers, | | ward with declaration that he proposes | it is now the duty of all the people ‘The Political Mill By G, Gould Lincoln. i ‘The Democrats took nearly 100 seats | away from the Republicans in the re- | held by the G. O. P. in the present Congress. In a space of two years, of nearly 150 seats in the House from | o<ty | the Republicans to the Democrats, for | A touch of this same failing is found | even try, nor can see any reason for back in 1930 the Democrats picked up | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘The answers to questions printed here each day are specimens picked from cent elect!oms; seats which have been | the mass of inquiries handled by our great Information Bureau maintained in Washington, D. C. This valuable Ask any question of fact you may want to know and you will get an immediate | reply. Write plainly and inclose 3 cents |52 seats and then gathered in some | jn coin or stamps for return postage. | more in special elections to fill v | cancies. As matters stand today, | cording fo the records of the clerk of | the House, there will be 314 Democrats, | 114 Republicans, and 5 Parmer Labor members in the Seventy-third Congress. | This leaves two congressional districts still in doubt, the twentieth California 1lnd one at large in Minnesota, where T HEE | In the first two ycars of the Hoover | administration the House was a domi- nating power on Capitol Hill. It was strongly Republican and strongly or- ganized, with the late Speaker Long- worth, Col. John Q. Tilsori of Connecti- cut, floor leader, and Bertrand Snell of New York, chairman of the all impor- tant Rules Committee. The- Senate, almost from the start of the Hoover administration, was, a stumbling for the President and his policies, beczuse, although the Republi¢ans had a paper majority, the progressives from" the West declined to follow Mr. Hoover's lead. In the opening session of the next Congress the overwhelming lead the Democrats will have in the House would indicate a stronghold for the Roosevelt policies. Much will depend upon the organization of the House. Garner, the rresenc Speaker and former Democratic leader, is passing from the House to | Vernon estate says the vice presidency and his dutles in | hooked rugs at Mount Vernon. | the Senate as presiding officer. Rainey of Illinois has been floor leader in the present Congress and is a candidate for | © Speaker. For efficient management in the House, it seems essential that the new Speaker, flcor leader and chairman | much higher when seen from a of th~ Rules Committce be not only strong men but willing to co-operate. The choices for these places will mean | V€. a lot to the Roosevelt administration. * ok x ok William Gibbs McAdoo has every in- tention of serving his term in the Senate, to which he was elected in California, according to his close friends. He has no desire to become a member of the Roosevelt cabinet, they say, even | i he could. His appointment to high | office by Gov. Roosevelt would be fol- lowed by charges of a “deal” in the Chicago convention to throw the Cali- fornia delegation to Roosevelt and so bring about the latter's nomination for | President. His success at the polls has | made appointment of Mr. McAdoo unnecessary even if it had been con- templated. Mr. McAdoo has served in the cabinet in the past as Secretary of the Treasury in the Wilson adminis- | tration. He prefers the more inde- | pendent_position of a Senator of the | United States, it is believed. Whether | Mr. McAdoo will become recognized in the is another He will be a newcomer to i'he Senate, but not to governmental affairs. His is a strong and definite | personality. *x kX Probably there will be plenty of am- \::t‘wus gentlemen on Clppiml Tl next | men | ator matter. of President-elect Roosevelt. Huey Long of Louisiana is not | likely to suffer himself to be eclipsed, if | he can help it. There is no more ambi- | tious man in the Senate. As a matter | of fact, if the administration is wise, | it will speak to the Senate through the | mouth of the elected Democratic leader of that body. Present indications are that Senator Joseph T. Robinson of | Arkansas will continue as the leader in the Senate. pasf However, béen careful not to make such charges in the Senate, where the Arkansas Senator could answer them. guey Leng is the only Democrat who Democratic leader of the Senate today. 3 t he knows of no disposition Senator Robinson from his present position. It does not seem that the Senate Democracy is quite ready to accept the dictation of Senator Long in this matter, if Long should undertake to make a fight on the continuance of Robinson as leader. As a matter of fact, the Democrats have operated rather closely under the leadership of | the Arkansas Senator for a number of answers, the following will be found of | a friend of Henry Labouchere, Who years. Many of them feel that he is entitled to retain the leadership of the | party, now that it is about to control the Senate. | * ok kX | At least one member of the & Benate has an eye on the rloouvek cabinet, if reports be true. Senatot “Jack” Cohen of Georgia has a desife for & cabinet post, and that desire may. be fulfilled. No one has been closer to' the Roosevelt campaign, for the nomis nation and for the election, than Sen= ator Cohen, who hails from Roosevelts second “home State.” He goes out of the Senate the first of the year, wi | his successor, Gov. Russell, will come fa Washington. Senator Cohen was . pointed to fill the vacancy created the death of the late Senator Williany J. Harris. He did not seek the nomina--| tion this year to succeed himself. .Fer years he has been a member of the Democratic National Committee. If re-- ports are correct, Senator Cohen would, like to have the naval portfolio, or. bar- ring that. he would be glad to be Secre- tary of War. He was a midshipman at the Naval ademy for a time in his younger days. Also he served in the Army during and after the Spanish- American War. * * a'% There is one Democrat to whom the conversation turns quite naturally when the selection of a Secretary of State is | under discussion—John W. Davis. His name is mentioned also in connection with the office of Attorney General, and undoubtedly he would be cansidered, it is said, if the time came to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court. A high regard for the qualifications of Mr. Davis is responsible for these rumors. His ex- perience as a public man has been wide —member of the House from West Vir- ginia, Solicitor General of the United States, Ambassador to Great Britain and the Democratic nominee for President in 1920. Mr. Davis ‘was active in the recent campaign, speaking for Roosevelt. * kow Not many men have the distinction and honor of serving as chairman of retary Mills, the fiercest of the Hoover | | the Senate Foreign Relations Com- | Former farmers who have been unable mittec. The list of chairmen of that committee is a list of Senators of high tanding and capability. Senator Swa son of Virginia, the ranking Democrat on the committee today, is slated to become its chairman when the Demo- crats take over the Senate organiza- tion. In more recent years the chair- who will wish to be the spokes- | of Montana is the assistant between the personages men- | Beed. Ty > Proposes Employes’ Loan to Glasgow. Evening Times, Glasgow.—A Glasgow municipal employe has put forward a unique scheme for the solution of the fl:nd&l problems of Glasgow Corpora- ! He has suggested that Treasurer Morton's committee, known as -the “Big Seven,” should invite all the em- ployes and officials to give a loan of a week's wages to the corporation at & | nominal rate of interest. He suggests | this plan of dealing with the town council deficit’ as offering a better method of securing equality of sacrifice | from all employes than the 1 to dismiss workers and to put others on short time, which has been made in a number of departments. The scheme is to be considered by the trade unjon branch of which the part of administration and leaders, is | men have been Borah of Idaho, Lodge report that President Hoover may short- [ of Massachusetts, and Stone of Mis- ly invite President-elect Roosevelt to | souri. Senator Swanson, as chairman the White House to confer on problems | of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign | likely to have an effect on the incoming | Committee is given high gnue by | administration. Senator Tydings of Maryland, for the In the case of co-operation by Secre- | success of the Democrats. The next tary Stimson it would be eminently in | Senate stands 59 Democrats, 36 Re- order, for the policies of the new ad- | DUP!WIN and 1 Farmer-Labor. ministration én the interests Secretary ( “Only twice before in the history of Stimson represents differ from the pres- | the country,” said Senator 'n%;, ent administration in only minor par- | “has either party ever had a majority ticulars. It i§ of record that Gov. approximating the Democratic ma- Roosevelt's views on war debts, dis- jority in the Senate in the Seventy- armament, the Far Easiern question |third Congress, and no party has en- and strengthening of the peace treaties | joyed such a majoriiy in modern times. are very nearly like to those advocated | —— smee b by President Hoover and Secretary | S Fish! . The developed spirit of co- | Some Fish! operstion by the Republican leaders is From the Roanoke Times. bound to prove a helpful influence in = Speaker Garner's fishing trip election forwarding the policies of President ' day turns out to have been highly suc- Roosevelt's administration, It is better | cessful. Among other catches he hooked ' to help than to pout. Charley Curtis’ seat, 4 Evening 1 block | qubscribing an _obligation to observe | | | | b 3 "Credit Do not use postcards. Address The | Star Information Buréau, | Frederic_J. Haskin, Director, Wash- ington, D. C. Q. What is considered a “perfer:t‘ game” in base ball>—J. L. A. It is & game in which there are no runs, no hits and none reaching | which strictly are none of the inquirer’s | triumph of the unnatural over the they elected the entire State delegation | first base. | at large because of failure to redistrict | | sions of opinion regarding other people. | right cut what one thinks, and it is un- | the State to meet the new apportion- | No one interested in human beings— |natural, in many - instances, to refrain ment law. Q. How many boys and girls are gainfully employed?—L. 8. A. According to the 1930 census there were in the United States 9,562,- 495 boys and 9401318 girls between the ages of 10 and 17 years. Of these only 1425236 boys and 720,723 girls were gainfully employed. Q. What are the restrictions per- taining to liamentary Tnu or lobbyists in land?—D. T. R. | A. In England no person is allowed | to act as parliamentary sgent without | and obey the rules and orders of the | House of Commons. Such persons niust give bond to the sum of 500 pounds, be registered, and besides have a_certificate of respectability from ‘member of Parliament or a member of the bar. y Q. Are there any old hooked rugs at Mount_Vernon?—L. M. M. A. The superintendent of the Mount | that there are no | Q. How high a wave has been re- orded at sea during a storm?—F. B. A. Waves rarely than 50 feet, but they appear to be | ship In | the open ocean. ese es fre- | quently have a greater height, how- in breaking upon a wck};”caut. highest: wave re the jphic office of the United States Navy nt was encountered in the N Atlantic Ocean December 23, 1922, by the British steamship Ma- jestic. Its height was estimated at 80 feet. ‘The C ,Au English sparrows good to eat? | A. Their flesh is palatable, and al though their bodies are small, their numbers make up for their sige. In the Old World they have been served for centuries. Q. What is an Oregon boot?—E. R. L. A. The Oregon boot was invented by | ‘William H. Leini r of Oregon and | patented in 1876. It was a shackle for | securing prisoners with more safety and less discomfort. When attached it was of compact cylindrl;ll ;h.preu:ltl.;mn jecting parts and suppo . i‘:’l’nedmlwlmumewpot‘ the shoe. Q. Should banjo strings be loosened when the banjo is not in use?—K. E. A. They should be. Q. How can a person fell when a coconut is ripe?>—L. F. D. | A. The Bureau of Plant Industry | | the only sure way is to open it. If the coconut is desired for the milk the nut should be gathered just before ;’.T""‘ that is, before it is ready to | Q. Could & negative taken about 10 years ago be developed now?—C. H. D. A. If stored in a dark place it éan still be developed. George’ Devon on ol the 5 Dame one must have had an ancestor ‘whio held some position or honor in the ave a greater height | — public life of & calony. ; It is also 1o be invited to join by ber in good stanging, end must be with the:branch in the of which the applicant 1§ & resident Q. In what year was the earth which destroyed Messina, Sicily?—J. N. A. 1t occurred on ber 28, 1908. Q. What is the origin of the werd, rat,” in the expression “Drat ‘the A. The Oxford English dictiodary says that it is a minced form of ogth, ‘od rot, meaning God rot. This is pne| of the several so-called minced ofths Wwhich were common in hundred years ago, Crueifixion of Christ. to the cross. Q. How many factories in the w States make tobacco pipes?—H. W, H. A. There are 22 establishments manu- facturing an output valued at more than $5,000,000. Q. In the color scheme used by the early Fgyptians what colors were pris- oners painted?—N. A. 4 Prisoners were painted yeliow. Birds were blue and green: water ‘was blue; men and women were painted red, the men being redder tham the womien, Q. How is gold grodueflun in -Bvorg g;mplr!nz with previous nlrlg A. Pigures compiled to August 1 indi. cate that more than $500,000,000 will be produced for the calendar year 1933. This will be the highest on record. Last year's production was $440,518,000. South Africa Jeads, with Canada sec- ond, and the United States a close X the State of Pennsylvanis ever gone Democratic?—C. W. K. A. It has not, since the foundatiom of the Republican party, voted a plu- rality for the Democratic ticket. In 1912, due to the split in the Republican rty, the vote el Frogruive, G436 Tuh 273,305; Wilson, n-m Republican, 3058 Q. Are Panama hats made In Pana- ma?—J. W. H. P.AA Mw‘t“by-l.‘ & some extent in nama, ar the largest propore tion of them is msde in Ecuador. Q. How many Jews are there in the world?—L. G. A. Definite statistics concerning the Jewish population of the world are not available, as those of Jewish extraction usually give the country in which they were born as their nationality. There are about 16,000,000 Q. What is the correct name for the principle of the trick of vision whereby| it appears that pictures of & canary and an empty ‘mergé into one picture| e;nm appearing to be| resulting ir the Q. Is there a college in which both students and teachers support them-| selves H; other than educational pure suits?—P. C. A Nashville Agricultural Normal| Institute at Madison, Tenn.. was estab- lished nearly 28 years ago with the defi- nite purpese of making it possib's worthy young men and women who have| no money to obtain the benefits of thorough education. The institution h no money endowment and never has any. Neither has it ever solicited any)| money either for the purpose of payin, teachers’ mlaries or supporting any stu-| dent in schcol. On the contrary, il operates a farm of about 900 acres and something like 25 or 26 other tive industries, from which faculty and) students alike must earn their support. ‘There are now over 300 students in attendance this school year, all of whom| have the opportunity of working their| way . through school and at the same| time doing regular college work. ich is produced first—thunder| ?—V. R. M. manner.- 1t can thunder follows 1 Light travels m sound, so reaches the before thunder is heard. - g Statistics f;.m t.::‘ Dspn;tnun: u:r ‘Agriculture ve wn 8 tion 6f the country to a definite “back to the -farm” movement in the United States, which is believed to have been. due in part to the depression and to Gflér one means of reducing the de- mands for relief. Migration in both directions still continues, but the net gAlR for the farms is declared impres- sive. -It is estimated that by the end ‘ot this year the toial rural population will have reached 32,000,000, about equal | | ‘Movement Back to Farms ed With Relief Value . The old homestead and home community look good to like- the shadow of a rock in & we land’ Relatives. and friends are coming them, and they are returning start life over again out where the po toes and the apples, the grains, w bles, the fruits and the good cows yield their nourishing an relishing abundance. There may not so much money back there, but w] gold_surpasses the golden butter? O what silver the shining dishes on th the high mark preceding the . 1t | old home table laden with the delicaci s observ of , however, that the | which only the farm can produce? 0 e jirs | thinks of Eden as a place where th part gain is due to the practice by city work- ers of living in the country. “This new hegira,” in the opinion of the Chicago Daily News, “essentially a quest for subsistence, promises to take | many thousands of the unemployed and | their famillies cut of dilapidated slums | into the frech air, sunshine and good food that are the minimum heritage of | every industrious farmer. As & form of | self-help in a Nation where cheap farm | land is still plentiful and available __l easy terms, the movement has no equal. ‘The Daily News states that “the farmer €N joys nuUmerous uevb‘b;: advantages in ving that “even though he worrles over his unpaid mort- , burns corn for fuel and sells wheat the lowest price in 280 years, he is| in one respect much better off than the | urban unemployed,” for “his troubles | are caused by food surpluses rather than lack of fecod and the home larder is surfeited with good things to eat.” * % ¥ ¥ “Because of the present overprmluc-l tion of m}cunnnl comtnodities,” say$ | the Chai (W. Va) Daily Mail, “the increase in the farm population dcesn't appear to brighten the pro:pect of solv farm problem. It, never- theless, an encouraging acpect in its effect wpen the problem of relief, to make a living in eities shouid be able to do this, at leest, on farms. Their return to the soil, therefore, reduces the need of relief work by that much and cuts down unemployment.” “It is this ability to shift surplus labor into localities | one 1 was lots of money?” As to the former movement away from the old homes, the Star-News remarks: “Some went to the city to piake more money; some went to feed an ambition; others went because the glare and the excitement | and the white lights of the city lured them. Whatever the actuating pus many went to the city who she not| have gone. They did not succeed in the) city. ‘They suffered. Many of them be-| came parasites; too many of them d ed into vice and crime: too many them made & mess of things and bec burdens to the community, rather useful assets.” o “Everybody who lives in _the ! try,” advises the Columbia (S. C.) State| “is_mot .running or helping to run farm. On the other hand, almost e in the eity contributes to tl fund, pays it tribute. The auto ias made it possible for a mer- chant or other business man to ha his - store or office in the town really live miles away in the wholesoms exists which has wrtually unknown in the United States in normal times,” according to the Eau | ang Claire Leader, which offers the judg- ment as to the movement in both direc- tions: “Here are more tenants for idle | ratner farms, cheap farm Jabor, new consumers | Pro of farm products at the source of Pro- | explanation of one e of the ph duction and rellef for city welfare agen. | hev ARATOR O O9¢ Phase of fhe F cles. Back to the soll for many of them many of the hundreds of tho : means the difference between privation and three square meals a day. Indus- trial neovezuwill again reverse the di- rection of migration between - city and farm, luring farm boys and girls to the city, converting tenant farmers into city workers, and again evacuating the least fertile acres. Which is well, for the country has to many food producers an not enough food consumers.” * ok ok % “Multitudes of the former farm girls and boyz, married and single” r>~~vds | the lena Star-News, “are going | play at gardening if they country homes scarcely to be J 25 farms have been available at srices. This sort: of migration does mean much increased agrien'turel | Cuction, but it does the lanted city people more ‘elow ottar nir to breathe, and a cha want ja*