Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1932, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR e Wb Sundly MersingRbition WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY. YHEODORE W. NOYES....Editor I_la lndu'm Newspaper Company 11th St vanis Ave. New Y ice: 8t exeo’ Ofice’ Tate Michigar Butlding Brotean Omce: Regent 8. Lon Enxlan Within the City. h*.bh.r‘u- per month .- --60c per month 5¢ per month Sc per copy each Gors may be sent 15 b5 mall of elevpone {onaT $000" able in Advance. d Virginia. 17, $10.00: 1 mo.. 88c 36.00: 1mo . 50c Mail—P: Iahby"ll‘“: All Other States and Canada. and Sunday...1 ;;.uz. xmo.u,iu i B 1mo. Member of the Associated Press. The jated Press {8 exclusively entitled to e AeGox Yepublication of all news dis- peiches credited to it or not otherwise cred- fted i sibiche this paper and aiso the local news special dispatches herein are also reservi and Sunday enly 4 3 Tyl y only d herein. All rights of publication of The Debt Conferences. The coming conference between the President and President-elect Roosevelt on the foreign-debts question, to be fol- lowed immediately by a conference be- tween the President and congressional leaders, should serve to inform the country of the true status of the debts and the debtors. Lack of definite in- formation is perhaps clouding the judg- ment of members of Congress and cer- tainly of the American people. For an inte]ligent consideration of this prob- lem the fullest information is desirable. If the foreign debtor nations, having agreed among themselves that they will reduce Germany's reparstion payments, have also agreed to s concerted action to force the United States to take a reduction in the debts owed her, ‘whether or not the debtor nations are able to pay, it is well that the people of this country should understand it. If, on the other hand, the debtor na- tions are in such straits that they cannot pay without gravest danger to their financial structure and possibly | L0 CATTY ou: at least that portion of the their ruin, that, too, should be known. Much of the discussion of this ques- tion of the debts by msmbers of Con- gress is based on very little, so far as knowledge of new conditions as of to- day is concerned. Many of them took & position against any postponement of the debt at the last session, when, for one reason or another, they were per- fectly willing to embarrass President Hoover because he had initiated the one-year moratorium. Members of the Senate and the House have rushed into print without regard to the question of what may, in all the circumstances, be the best course for the country now. 1t is popularly believed that Americans are opposed to any debt revision or debt cancellation. That, apparently, is mittee, which will have charge of debt legislation, if there is to be any, should help to clarify the situation. The President undoubtedly, however, will submit to the Congress such recom- mendations for dealing with the debt question as appear to him to be sound. Congress must then take them or leave them. It may be remembered that the last session of Congress declined to go forward with a recommendation from the President that the World War Debt Commission be re-established. In some quarters it is now suggested that the President will again recommend the revival of this debt commission. Undoubtedly, a great deal will depend ++.November 18, 1932 nih. | | reduce unemployment. Germany’s desires provides that “limita- tion of the Reich's srmaments should be accomplished by the same disarma- ment convention which will define the limitations of the armaments of others.” Such a proviso would sutomaticaily wipe out the military clauses of the treaty of Versailles, which deny the right of Germany to have military sircraft, tanks, heavy artillery and a standing army of more than 100,000 men. The same clauses also restrict the number and nature of warships which the German navy may possess.| In addition to an expressed wimn‘-: ness to subject other powers to the same | method of limitation imposed upon the | Germans, Sir John Simon voiced a| | readiness tq concede the Reich “quali- | tative equality” as well—i. e., the right |to certain types of arms now barred | |even give Germany the privilege of. powers agree to maintain. But it Is| | stipulated that under no circumstances | THE EVEND tating verdict. Perhaps it is true that Shakespeare and Moliere, Goethe and Schiller, Ibsen and Strindberg have no equivalents in our modern world. ‘The sentiment is reminiscent of others: which have been fashionable among critics in ricent years. There were observers who affirmed that there were no great military leaders in the World War. There were others who be- lieved that there were no great states- men. BStill others denied the existence of great poets and great philosophers, great painters and great architects, great scientists and great inventors. To a certain modest variety of nihilist nothing modern can have any authentic worth. There appears to be abundant evi- dence to answer the apostles of racial degeneration, tut no one troubles to |to them. The British proposal would | collate it; no one bothers to make it| conveniently available. Possibly that | 1yr. $4.00; i mo. 40¢ | building battleships as big as any other | neglect is, in itself, a sign of compara- tive health and sanity in the twentieth century. Mankind is so busy being nfi | shall the gross warship tonnage of |what it is that it simply cannot be per- 80,000 row assigned to Germany be exceeded. Under present restrictions | Germany may not have submarines in her fleet. The Simen plan would permit | her to do so—all within the “global | tonnage™ 1imit now allocated to her. | | Deiails of the British proposal, i | 8oes without saying, do not as yet com- | compromises and adjustments whxch' | should appeas: Germany and induce | | ner to re-participate in disarmament | discussions. Until she does, Geneva’s | hcpe of successful resulis, which were | newr tco bricht, will bocome more illusory than ever. What is going to happen at Berlin, with the Von Papen cabinel out, nobody |at the moment is foreshadowing. Ap- | parently President von Hindenburg will | continue his Diogenes search for & | do with greatness. It has puzzled them,| ministry of “national concentration,”irritated and angered them. Suppose | | representing all parties in the Reich | stag ready to sacrifice partisan preju- | dices for the common good. The next {few days are expected to show whether he can find a chancellr who can | command both his confidence and that |of Parliament. Such an appointee, ! | according to the presidential distum, | must agree to continue Germany’s for- | | eign policy as at present conducted, and | von Papen economic policy designed to Extending the Economy Act. The Bureau of the Budget follows the general practice of applying to the es- timates for the next fiscal year the legislation directly affecting the ap- propriations for the preceding fiscal year, But the so-called economy act, passed as & rider on an appropriation bill last Spring, applied some of its provisions, notably the furlough, or eight and one-third per eent salary cut and the ban on promotions, for one vear only. The reported proposal of the Buread of the Budget to carry forward the provisions of the economy act in the estimates now being pre- pared for Congress savors of initiating legislation, something that the Budget Bureau is not supposed to do. It certainly emphasizes the fact that the drastic burdens imposed on low-paid Federal employes by the economy act are not of the “temporary” character described by their proponents and that they take on an uncomfortable degree of permanence. That is always the danger of such backward steps as those represented in the economy act. But if the employes have been able to adjust themselves in a degree to the salary cut represented in the furlough plan, they have not become adjusted, nor will there ever be any smooth ad- justment, to the many inequitable and unworkable features of the economy act which became apparent even before its enactment and which have become increasingly apparent since through the multitudinous interpretations of the act by the controller general. There is | no equity in a legislative instrument | that forces some of the Government personnel to take salary cuts of eight and a third per cent, while others are taking salary cuts amounting to as much as twenty per cent and over. | There is no equity and there is little |reason in an act which denies the | employes the scanty advantages which might lie in spreading their losses from enforced furlough through the year, | rather than harshly requiring them upon the attitude of the President- elect and his party, so far as the action of the coming session of Congress is concerned. Should Governor Roosevelt give hisapproval to a revival of the Debt Commission another picture might be | presented. Abroad, if not here, there has been a general idea that the coming of the Roosevelt administration would meen a more sympathetic consideration of the problems of Europe. But to judge from the views recently put for- ‘ward by some of the Democratic mem- | bers of House and Senate, Europe has misjudged the attitude of the Demo- eratic party. It remains for Governor | Roosevelt to clarify this part of the aftuation. A TR Possibly it will be a relief to both the Jeaders in the recent campaign o ex- ehange views without the intervention of & microphone. The German Kaleidoscope. @erman politics during the past four @ five years has fairly well baffled foreign | eomprehension, but there has been no single day’s developments that will strike outside observers as more in- eomprehensible than what happened yesterday, respectively, at Geheva and Berlin. Addressing the bureau of the Disarmament Conference, Sir John Simon, British foreign® secretary, defi- nitely paved the way to Germany's re- turn to the conference by offering s basis for the achievement of the Reich’s cardinal aim—arms equality. Bir John's proposals already had the tacit approval of France and Italy. ‘While this diplomatic victory for Ger- many was being recorded at Geneva, Chancellor von Papen and his cabinet were toppling from power at Berlin. Their inabllity to form a Reichstag soalition willing to co-operate with the Hindenburg government induced the President to accept the ministry’s resig- pation. The irony of Von Papen's fall st that precise moment lies in the fact that it was under the .direction of his eabinet that Germany lsunched its whole, but in sufficient pelieved, to persuade the piace at the Dis- |to surrender pay as furlough is taken, | The act itself provides that no employe shall be forced to accept s legisla- | tive furlough of more than five days curing any one month. But there has ! been the administrative furlough to con- tend with as well. Employes have |found that it is sometimes difficult to | draw the line between being “forced” ilo take a furlough and being invited to-take & furlough. The chief inequity arises from Mr. McCarl's deeision that | pay must be deducted as furlough is | taken. There is no good reason why furlough pay losses should not be de- ducted throughout the year in menthly | installments, if the employe desires it, | thus permitting the employe to use his | turlough ss a substitute for the vaca- | tion-with-pay, which has been elimi- | nated. | The Congress, early in the game, | should concern itself with remov- ing demonstrable inequities from the | economy bill and making its provisions uniform throughout the departments. The adoption of & uniform aystem of granting sick leave—a matter which Congress requested the President to | study and upon which to geport—is merely one of a number of necessary amendments to $he hastily, passed and considerably botched economy bill., The savings from the economy bill| | are pitifully small to the Government when compared with the hardships worked on the employes through that instrument or when compared Wwith the field for economy represented in other expenditures. Those savings do | not represent real or sound economy. | e | | | Trotsky has gone to Denmark, where | the public is so gentle and idealistic that it threw flowers and confetti at Explorer Cook. No Great Dramatists? Prof. Robert S. Hillyer of Harvard University has said that in our day there are no great dramatists, “Shaw,” he is reported to have declared, “is archaic, Galsworthy is not in the arst rank, and Eugene O'Neill lacks humor and a sense of proportion.” Since he does not mention any other playwrights suaded to take seriously those indi- viduals who are so anxious for it to be something different, If Prof. Hillyer were to go out into the street, crying his wares, people would stop to listen to him only long fenough to discover the nature of his discourse. Then they would hasten on in the direction al- | mand general support at Geneva, b“"‘reldy chosen. That would be unkind, | | undoubtedly the way is now open for | doubtless, but it would be natural. Men | Were closed at night, in time of peace, and wonten are so preoccupied with sur- viving and measurably prospering in the world that they simply have not time to consider being great. And it may be wondered if greatness is as important as it has been imagined to be. It is a matter of history that those who have been great have had rather unhappy experiences as a result of their superiority. The masses never have been quite certain about what to that there were a few great dramatists alive today: Would they be popular? Would crowds of groundlings flock to see their plays? The proper answer is: Not very likely. Lombroso and Nordau, s generation ago, summed up the obvious case against human greatness. They ex- amined it meticulously, they analyzed and classified it, they labored for years over its component details, and in the end they decided that it is a disease. Did the generality laugh at their con- clusions? Ah, no; they accepted them, they agreed with them. And when Lombroso and Nordau turned their backs for a moment, the masses slyly denominated them great, also. Is it not possible that what is wanted, what really and truly is needed in the world today, is not greatness, not su- perior individuals, but rather a leav- ening, an uplifting, a cultural sdvance of all humanity? That is the demo- cratic ideal, and there may be more in it than a first glance would indicate. Benator Wesley Jones is suffering & collapse after a hard campaign. He fought hard, with the courage of his many convictions under the drastic 5-and-10 law, and conscientious cour- age in any cause is to be admired. —————————— Greater security may be felt because stocks did not dash into a rise in what might be called a manner of balloonacy. They tried that not so long ago and the result was far from nt.h!lmry\. —————— Access to foreign markets are deemed requisite in spite of the fact that there are undoubtedly enough hungry in the cities and villages to eat all that agri- cultural regions can produce. ——a—————— In order to be Prince of Wales & man must have tact as well as courage. England has been fortunate in finding predestined men qualified to All s0 ex- acting a position. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Cryptic Eloguence. “I do mot understand you, sir,” Most humbly I declared. “Although your various speeches were With greatest skill prepared. “Your wisdom seemed so very great T'd use it second hand. Yet some of it, I blush to state, I do not understand.” ‘Then the illustrious one replied: “Bome things I have to tell 1 leave 'mongst words employed with pride, In mystery to dwell, “Bo do not into grieving fall Like a discouraged elf. ‘You would, if you could grasp it all, Be wiser than myself!” Free Speech. “Of ocourse, you approve of free speech.” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “But you can't expect too much in these days of sclentific eommercialization. Nobody hopes to be a deadhead on & radio hook-up.” Jud Tunkins says & lame duck can't exactly be in the swim, but he can still be a high fiyer. Ancient Demonsiration of Sympathy. Nebuchadnezzar, Once so proud, Heard the farmers Murmuring loud. Nebuchadnezzar In his grief, Nibbled the grass For farm relief. Cold Analysis. “Do you believe beer prosperity?” “It never did in the old days,” an- swered Uncle Bill Bottletop. “Maybe il turn out in the end to be just something else to blame a period of depression on.” “It is indeed a wise generation,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “whi¢h can leave behind only such debts as posterity will be proud to pey.” will bring “ » I heard a communistic choir Sing out, “In our distress It is our very great desire ‘To see mankind progress! “And so we'll struggle for a plan, ‘Which loudly we'll rehearse, Exhorting all our fellow man To go from bad to-worse.” “Dis here 'pears to me like a new of consequence, it may be presumed there are nome. he is corveot in his devas- kind o' hard times,” said Uncle Eben, “when it's wrong foh & man to work & flflmlhhb‘nfl." G STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, THIS AND THAT Doors are interesting. It is obvious that they lead Some- ‘where and close out a great deal. ‘They have been taken as symbols, but we consider them here cnly as actuali- ties. That is enough. There are few things in house construction used more than doors, and few to which less thought is livev in the everyday life. A door is an'eminently natural open- ing, perhaps more so than a window. To be able to look out of & building | is not entirely necessary, but it is es- | Sel:tul that one be able to get in and out. Hence a door is far more important | to a house or other edifice than any number of windows. A movement has grown, indeed, in recent vears, to do | away with windows, cr at least to keep | | them closed always, relying upon arti- | ficial ventilation and ultra violet rays. Ordinary window glass keeps out such | rays of the sun. People who pride themselves upon their common sense will continue to think that it will be many a long year before windows are abolished, if ever; nevertheless, stranger things have hap- pened in the architectural world. * x * The history of the door is an ancient one, into which there is no need to go now. A door is, after all, just a sort of gate. Every walled town of antiquity had | gates in its mighty walls, gates which | | and kept closed continually in war. | Hinges, one of the great small inven- tions of ‘mankind, are just as impor- | tant, in a sense, as the door itself. They make & door what it is today, a conven- ience, rather than a hindrance. If doors had to be removed bodily from their openings every time one went in and out, they would be nothing but a nuisance. “Door way,” of course, is the correct | name of the opening itself, but the term “door” commonly includes both the | spacg, the swinging door, and the vari- ous abutments, such as the fan-light, and so om, if any. * ok ok * A door may be a simple flat piece of | woed or an elaborate thing of metal. Gates of brass figured in biblical history, ‘There are some striking bronze doors in Washington, notably at the Capitol, | Library of Congress and new Commerce Department Building. interesting as these special cre- ations are, in their settings, they must take second place with most of us to :im more ordinary doors we use every | ay. Of these, home and office doors win | easily. There are many other sorts, of course, but the doors of house and office are more familiar. Office and store doors, in Winter, BY GHARLES E. TRACEWELL. often are of the swinging variety, or merry-go-round type, in which the slow- moving person is likely to find himself | caught like a squirrel in & cage unless | he steps lively. | Whatever such persons may think of them, however, they offer séveral ad- | vantages, the chief of them being that | they keep out cold air, at the same time | permitting the entrance and exit of a steady stream of humanity. * dieny ‘The choice of a front door for one’s is a matter which day by day is coming to be more widely recognized as & matter of real importance. If the windows are the eyes of a house, & good doorway is a sort of | upcl'l-.ext. an architectural feature only | excell by the general design of the | building and its proper construction. | A door may make or mar the appear- ( ance of a home, and the curious thing | is that often the most finicky persons | not stop to realize this. | ‘They are accustomed to taking their doors as they find them, without much Gov. Roosevelt is bringing with him to Washington next Tuesday for the debts conference with President Hoover the man who was head of the President. elect’s late campaign “brain trust’ | Prof. Moley, professor of public law at | Columbia University. Dr. Moley will sit at the Governor’s elbow in the same capacity that Secretary Mills functions | on President Hoover’s behalf. It would | seem from the professor's choice for that delicate mission that he is not likely to be missing from Washington during the forthcoming administration. There are even suggestions that he may be given a cabinet portfolio. Of Gov. Roosevelt’s abiding confidence in his knowledge and judgment there is no doubt. Some authorities thought that | the President-elect’s Washington ad-| viser during the debts seance with Mr. Hoover would be Bernard M. Baruch or Owen D. Young, both insistently men- tioned for either the State or Treas- | ury portfolios, or both. Baruch is an uncompromising anti- cancellationist, Young is more open minded f Moley's specialty is crime. Perhaps Roosevelt thinks it would be a crime to cancel the debts. o gt * About the time the order for extra- dition of Samuel Insull was being signed at the White House the quaint story was_being retailed in Wflsh.lnfi ton that Insull's financial troubles, in | part, sprang from his “patriotic sup- | port” of President Hoover's depression policy. Specifically, s0 the yarn runs, Insuil, having been invited to the President’s conference of industrial leaders in the early Winter of 1929- 1930, responded so literally to the plea to maintain wages and employment that “Insull properties” underwent rutnous financial sacrifices. The trouble with this tale is that none of. the Insull operating properties—the ones that employ men and pay wages—is in any way involved in the scandals for which Insull is about to be called to account. The Commonwealth Edison, the People’s Gas Light & Coke, and the Public Service of Northern Illinois companies are not in receiverships and are all ing strong. Their earnings are af- g:wd by prevailing conditions, but each of them is earning and paying bond interest and stock dividends regularly. * x X X Dr. Julius Curtius, former German foreign minister, who two years ago was one of the arbiters, of Europe, 18 makimg his first acquaintance with ‘Washington and American public men, except Secretary Stimson, who met him in riin_in 1931 moratorium days. Curtius, Rhinelander by birth and lawyer by profession, is in his early fifties, small but stalwart of stature, smooth-shaven, dark, bald and suave. He conquered the English language practically within the past year, for the purpose of his present American lecture tour. ‘Trusted counselor of former Chancellor Bruening at the foreign office, Dr. Curtius preceded his chief onto the scrap heap because of the wreckage German-Austrian tariff “Anschluss” scheme, which was Curtius’ brain-child. When the World Court branded it illegal and Germany'’s always delicate relations with France were strained by the proposal, Dr. Curtius was retired from the Wilhelm- strasse. He is accompanied on his American travels by his tall and hand- some son Claus, a student of law at Columbia, and by Frau Dr. Curtius. * % Among the several thousand Ameri- cans who recently received considera- tion for jobs with the Reconstruction PFinance tion—and got 'em—was one who has & warm place in Herbert Hoover's heart. He is 75-year-old Charles David Marx, Palo Alto neigh- bor and friend, who was professor of civil engineering at Stanford University when the President was a student there in the early 90s. Prof. Marx is chair- man of the R. F. C. | part their goods are unknown. | sood. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS " BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. s | Huey Long js most commonly named as thought that “anything can be done about it,” especially after the house is purchased. time they find a distaste for their front door growing upon them, if it happens to be of the type so|paid often seen, which has no particular re- lation to the house itself. Just something to get into and out of a house by is not enough, if a door is to live up to all its possibilities. | Often doors, no more than men, live up to their best. & hon [y ‘Whether a door should oven on the right or left side is a question to which there seems to be no real answer, at least as far as this investigator has been able to discover. Like gates, some doors open one way, some the other, even in related bufld- ings, wherein one might think a cer- tain uniformity desirable. In stepping up on & porch, some householders prefer to reach to the left to insert the door key and others to the right. Often such matters are settled by interior arrangements and design which necessitate the placing of a door a certain way, regardless of other con- siderations. We have seen \an entrance door so placed that it swung inward and against the cornice of the wall behind it, calling for a wood bumper there, rather than in the usual place occupied by the traditional doorstop. * % x x These and other clumsy arrange- ments are due to faulty designing, or carelessness, often it is difficult to de- termine which. In the last analysis it makes no particular difference, since such faults are committed before the | average person ever has a chance to have any say in the matter. There is nothing equivocal about a| door. An open door says “Come in"” and 2| shut door says “Keep out” as platuly | as such words. There is no door that may not lead to happiness or pain. It is therefore the duty of every— what shall we say?-—determined person to see to it that in so far as-in him| lies h‘he will own doorways paths to peace. The door may stand for anything— why should it stand for unhappiness, if it is humanly possible to prevent it? Often, alas, it is not possible, and there the door deserts us as a symbol and becomes ju:t : door again. - % From a strictly utilitarlan stand- point a door is particularly useful in keeping out cold and canvassers. ‘The thicker and heavier, the better it does both jobs. The winds we have with us only at times, but the modern house-to-house salesman we seem to have with us always. While one may have great sympathy with these people, especially in such times as these, the fact is that their multiplicity has made them a vastly larger nuisance than ever before. Even the most kind-hearted person finds it impossible to buy much from them, not only because there are too many of them, but because for the most One often wonders why, when these men go from door to door, they do not carry with them something or other which householders might want, and which they also might recognize as good There are any number of well adver- tised commodities, in which the average householder has full confidence, but so far we have never been offered any of these by the door-to-door canvasser. He seems {6 specialize on things we don't want, And never have heard of, and gives ug cause to be thankful again for doors, especially when they are aided and abetted by a latched screen into which no foot can be thrust, and to smile at all the help, whether he knows them or not. Prof Marx taught civil engineering to Mr. Hoover at Stanford, of which he is now emeri- | tus. Previously he was at Cornell and | the University of Wisconsin. L Representative John E. Rankin’s fiery thrust at his prospective rivals for the speakership of tne House looks to scme | surveyors of the political scene like the first crack out of the box from which many a Democratic ruction is destined to spring. The Mississipplan’s allega- tions of sectionalism against Northern candidates for the Speaker’s job, to say nothing of charges that even fellow Southerners would consort with Tam- many bosses, all foreshadow that the Democrats’ bumper crop of 300-odd members in the new House isn't going to be a 100 per cent phalanx of brother- ly love. Bets are already offered that President Roosevelt will scrap with some of his own campaign supporters before he’s in the White House a year. the one who'll not be trotting in ad- ministration harness very long. Almest equal odds can be had on the propo- sition that the Roosevelt-Republican rogressive bloc is headed eventually or the divorce court, too. y L Diplomatic and official Washington welcomes back to the fold Senor Dr. Don Ricardo J. Alfaro as Mirister of Panama, following his brief career in the presidency of his country. The Alfaros seem to be Panama’s ruling dynasty, §s far as its White House and Washington affairs are concerned. Min- ister -Alfaro left here in 1931 to be- come President of his country and was succeeded by his brother Horatio. His brother is now the Panaman member of the United States-Panama Mixed Claims Commission, and Dr. Ricardo Alfaro comes back to Washington to take the former’s place at the legation. Both the Minister and his gracious con- sort are widely popular in Capital so- clety. * X x Manhattan Island, Capitol Hill hears, is sending its champion mixer to Con- gress in the person of Theodore Peyser, who recently defeated Representative Ruth Pratt for a seat in the House. Mr. Peyser evidently hankers for the fame of Theodore Roosevelt. At any rate, he’s known throughout the New York midtown region which he'll pres- ently represent in Washington as “Call Me Teddy,” and is said, according to an informant of this observer, to carry that cheery legend on his visiting cards. x x x % Because of Uncle Sam's pay roll, | P ‘Washington has been less hard hit by depression than any other community of its size in the United States—a cir- cumstance which should make our Community Chest drive an unqualified success. The Washington City Post Office is reported to have done some of the heaviest money-order business in its history during the past three years, be- cause of the regularity with which steadily employed men and women here have remembered the less fortunate folks back home. (Copyright, 1932.) ———— Easier to Understand. From the Schenectady Gazette. Another reason why orators stick to platitudes is because they want the l;::l?u to know what they're talking about. Rain Schedule. Prom the Atlanta Journal. Geologists find that tHe first hard rain fell a billion and a half years ago. And the next one will fall when that foot ball game we are specially anxious to see is scheduled to be played. The Talk Test. | several large “cliff dwelling ;;lccuons with garages alongside the From the Schenectady Gazette. really old until lose You aren't interest conversation the h‘ the begins to talk. NOVEMBER 18, 1932. garages in rear of my . alley is well lighted, well paved wide. The section is one often referred to in papers as select, etc. The taxes are not exorbitantly low and must be o or not. it in 1920 no apart- ments existed within a long block. Now " have been erected, overshadowing the neighbor- hood. Most private homes own garages. 1 Strangely, before the apartments cnme‘ i my garages rented fairly well. Dur dozen garages were for rent in this al- ley at the same time. | Every day about 4:30 pm. the street | is lined with cars, bumper to bumper, | not 3 feet apart! | All sorts and vintages, but not all | cheap by any means. No home owner | Michiga has any chance of parking in front of t.hgrg.mperty he pays direct real taxes on. air is filled at divers times with the acrid fumes from exhausts, the din of horns, screeching brakes, knock- ing, balky engines, backfires, etc. Sometimes an impromptu workshop is set up. Bhe din is especially pleasing | on warm Summer mornings during early | fioun. I 'elddl:enm pouuau“u a rear ni; y, cars woul practically imj luxuries for the mere householdgp:“‘h Granted that the streets belong to the people, but for traffic, not storage space. In his valiant attempt to bolster up & ridiculously weak case, Mr. Wel— apparently forgot to mention one t, great advantage to the parking et™: It helps prevent jay-walking. You can't pass between long rows of cars, bumper to bumper, from one end of the block to the other end. A great help to fire- men, too—especially when four or five feet from plug. Another great help is the habit of | parking against stop signs. Have geen car | after car fly by such sign, after narrowly | avolding a collision acrass from my home because a “smart” dolt’s car ob- | structed view. N | The street is literally piled with leaves and trash. A great help to sweep- ers are many Cars a ently left stand- ing by “squatters” day as well ar night. \ But what's the use! What we need is officials with slightly rigid spinal col- umns and a few feet of Iintestines. Having no vote, we can take what's of- fered and like it or move out as & dry “Jegislator” from the South advised. JOS. A. RICHARDSON, M. D. Against Alley Garages. To the Editor of The Star: About a month ago when the first letter of Mr. regarding all-night pDarking you printed N. LaMotte in Wash- ington I wondered whether or not he| W owend a car, as it is usually those who do not drive who object to the parking all night. I failed to find name listed in the telephone directory, but since the apj letters last night in The Star I see that he says he is a car owner. Where does he park? I am unable to find his name listed in the city directory. Is he a tax- &lyer? I am, and feel as though there no misuse of the city streets by all- night parking of private cars. Rental agency cars take up much of the down- town streets in the evening with their cars. I live in an old section of Washing- ton where there are few back alleys for garages and no public garage, of the type Mr. LaMotte claims are being left empty, within 11 city blocks from my home. I dislike to leave my car out in the wind and rain, to say n of snow and sleet, but my back yard will not permit of a garage, although it is on a 10-foot alley, as the is three feet above the level of the alley and held up by a cement wall which it would cost much money to tear away. Here is another angle of the imprac- ticability of a regulation to prohibit night parking. Many women drive cars and cannot always have a man to ac- company them in sumnl a car in a garage in a back alley. Some women are timid; those who are not should not have to take unnecessary chances with dangers, and would not be able to drive a car in the evening, knowing they would have to park it alone in an slley, many of which are not sufficiently lighted. I am not lacking in courage, but why risk being knocked over the head to park a car in a garage in an alley? It is all very well for those who bave bungalows in the less congested ouses. Who sees the cars parked in the street after midnight beautiful after midnight? For Seventy-five per cent of the the city have no reason to be out after midnight but occasionally, and those who are out are bent on business and not interested in the beauty of the streets; except perhaps the racketeers and thieves. Would their aestheticism bev;':unded? at would Mr. LaMotte to do with his car should he ntt‘;rn & late theater show and want to stop for a bit of supper? Pay 35 cents to a public ga- rage for a half-hour in which to eat? Should he be playing bridge with friends at their home and they only had one garage and his car was parked on the street and there was a rul to be played, must he leave at midnight and rush his car to his own {mcfl How ;ebo:: r:ix;l%ingnl. curlz“‘]vd .l’ midnight to ver wo orget his waesv'?n the Iutreet? bial o would dig out the alley to per- mit using the car after a hel’vy mpne:- storm when taxicabs are at & d when one must get to work or lose @ day's pay? If I am satisfled to risk my investment in a car by ledving it out all night, whose business is it? ‘Where would night workers who drive to work park after midnight, inelug newspaper men, who are out at al hu%?:n? 11 this y al publicity about the tion? Why not let "Al{epln‘ LM whom? of dogs ALLEN. Voteless Washington. To the Editor of The Star: I want to thank you, also Mr. - {h.ge,dti:x‘- theh!;z:rmtym mutl;kil{l‘m:n e ranchisement of the tizens of Washington. S On the night of the election for President I sat at my radio listening in to the returns, listening—yes, listen- ing was all I could do, since the laws of the District of Columbia do not allow its citizens the privilege of voting. At my radio also sat a lady, a friend, taking in the returns, she being an active political worker for one of most popular members of President Hoover’s cabinet, yet she is not allowed to cast a vote for him, nor for the Pre:ldent of the United States, as to at. The talks that Mr. Littlepage gave the night of the election, between the flashes, were so much appreciated by me—and I feel sure that they will prove helpful in giving the citizens of Wash- ington a chance to vote. I wanted to thank him at once for his intense interest in our city and the helpless disfranchised Washingtonians. -« What’s the matter with the law- makers, are they too old to i importance of making helpful changes? Please, let's keep trying until every citizen in the District has a right to vote and can boast of & free Tance of another of his|dreas t? Why need the city be |p Ty | o Sttt b L ot o ent, ly & few this column. The Q. What States have already ratified the lame duck amendment?—C. E. S. A It been ratified by Virginia, New YMMM, Arkansas, Ken- tucky, South Carolina, New Jersey, n, Maine, Rhode Island, Louisi- ana, Illinois, West Virginia, Pennsyl- vania, Texas and Indiana. Q. What percentage of the dead is crg:ut’ad 1’1"“ of the regular burial? A There are no statistics compiled which cover the country. In 1931, in one city where there were 5,143 deaths, there were 104 cremations. Q. Can any ship which can enter the port of New York also enter the port of New Orleans?—A. J. M. assures 35 feet of water. large now demand a 40-foot depth at low water. The harbor at New leans, with unlimited anchorage space, 40-foot depth at the edge of the wharves and 200-foot depth in midstream, would accommodate the large steamships if the passes mentioned above were deeper. The Hudson has a depth (natural) of about 40 feet. .The East River has a depth of 30 feet and the bays mostly around 30 feet. Since the large steam- ships demand 40 feet at low water, several channels have been dredged and cut open to enable them to be maneu- vered conveniently. Q. What is the word to citi- ther .yuk: Bout naturalization papers?— "A. Citizenship which 1s _sccorded through the naturalization of another person is called derivative citizenship. Q. What are all of the names of the Prince of Wales in the Welsh lan- guage?—G. E. M. A. So far as there are Welsh equiva- lents for the names of the Prince of — Edward, Albert, Christian, George, Andrew, Patrick, David—they are as follows: Edward, Iorwerth; Al- bert, no Welsh equivalent; Christian, Cristion; George, Sior; Andrew, An- ; Patrick, Da Q. thnwnuuwedflln(rln first ' The origin of th dm: ring of the wed is unknown. The Egyptians were prob- ably the first to use rings and in their hierogl; 2 circle represents eter- nity. e Romans used a plain iron ring, which was placed upon the finger of the bride by tpe bridegroom. Among the Anglo-Saxons the groom guve a gled.u or ,‘wed” to the bride at the and this pledge was a ring placed on the right hand. It was ding, when it wi ltnL recorded was used by Chi 860 A.D. changed to the other. t, the wedding ring ristians as early as % Which State had the first State highway department?—H, E. A. New Jersey was first, establishing such a department in 1891. . With what selections. are the concerts of the new Virginia Memorial opened and closed?— ca War W. A A. They open with “Westminster worn on the right hand until tre wed- | BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. What is Yogo?—D. P. | A It Is a new Winter wheat which is being given a limited trial in Mon- tana. Q. How many Federal employes are connected with the Veterans' Adminis- tration?—C. H. L. A. The total number of Federal em- ployes connected with the Veteran: Administration hout the United States is 36,879. total roll 15 $60,727,856. - . Did Wi follow the o(QLhe Nibelungentied _closely ring operas?—W. 8. er hl;e'pt the essence of the of his librettos is his own. Q. Where are most of the finc meerschaum pipes made?—M. L. P. A. Meerschaum is obtained in vari- ous places, from Asia legend: I his | blocks are then classed as quality. It is then sent to manufacturers, Most of it is Vienna. Q. What is the annual e gperating the rural mail H. in 1932 was $108,400,000. AQ)" Who invented the arc light?— A ‘The production of the electric arc He demonstrated before the clety in London. Thomas an Englishman, was the first to patent an arc lamp, in 1845. ington, which was the opening battle of the American Revolutionary War, April 19, 1775, is so characterized in & poem by Emerson, Q. Please explain the so-called “de- pression plant” in which water, salt, luing and mercurochrome are poured on a plece of soft coal, making s beau- t\:u!wgnvz]wth on the coal in a few days.— H A. The probable explanation is that the solution is absorbed by the more or less pcrous picce of coal and when it starts to dry, the salt forms a crystalline de it on the surface of the coal. This | deposit continues to grow as more and | more of the solution is drawn to the surface by capillary action. The bluing and mercurochrome are left behind when u?." water evaporates, and they Q. How long have cartoons been used in papers?—A. C. A. Benjamin Franklin was the first to print a cartoon in his Pennsylvania | Gazette. TPhere were rumors of war with the French and on May 9, 175¢, Franklin published an “advice” for Maj. Washington that the fort in the forks of | the Monongehela had heen surrendered’ ioon Tepreening » smake cut inio sghi Te] n & snake cut into t m the head representing New Eng- and the seven other parts York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, land, Virgiria, North Carolina l!outn Carolina. ything except ;_h: ll’tls“m tic !lpil’lt inl lt; hD’:]ectrl;e fonl:l. e universal appeal of Wol the readers of all nations it held.t:m:h' great credit. “He has decorated the list of prise ;lnmn." the ‘s tradition writing,” and a “mastey of Engl it has been written during the last 30 years.” That paj holds that “in all prol he rank with the classic writers of English literature long afte: pa invested since its inception,” the Balti- more comments that he “knows how to tell a story, how to char- acter and also how to enliven his pages R::amm f d"h orthy for his 1 on of Galsworthy for serious and intelligent novels and dramas on social problems could not long be denied, because of the com- man authority of his position !n terature,” in the world of the Rockford Register-Re) , which many different races—R. F. A. Sully: Prudholme, Th. Mommsen, son, F, Mistral, J. kiewlcz, G. Carduccl, Selma Bucken, Lager] Maeterlinck, G. Hau) ‘Tagore (there was no award in 1914), Romain Rolland (1915), Verner Heidenstam, K. Giellerup, H. Pontoppidan (no award in 1918), Carl Spitteler (1919), Knut Hamsum, Anatole France, J. Bena- vente, W. B. Yeats, Wladislau Reymont, G. B. Shaw, Signora G. Deledda, Henri Bergson, Mrs. S. Undset and Thomas Mann. The list shows un- worth wherever found. France, Germany, Norway, Spain, Poland, 1taly, England, Sweden, Belgium, Bengal, Den- mark, Ireland and the United States have been represented by the winners. No award was more justified than that of the present year.” * x ¥ “Among all the novelists of the day,” according to the Atlanta Journal, “he has probably come nearest to universal esteem, for even those who do not find his suave and immensely English nov- els delightful can find nothing in his writings to displease them.” The Jour- nal holds that “few writers of any day have produced the volume of first-rate work which stands to hbmcudlt." citizen of the United States. MRS. 8. A. BARKLEY. shucks, Governor, what's the harm in reminiscences? . Soon Will Be No Novelty. Prom the Cleveland News. M Turkey reports i ern bank But it Tobbery. that such kly become mmc.mnnqme The Real Question Abroad. the Forth Worth Star-Te "' Fhe great, injernational subject ls the European debt question how settle ii—the question, not the debt. 1o | esty an him mends.” “He is one of the giants in the world ,” avers the Providence Bul- letin, that he “has for immortality the life and his race from the sunset of Vicf ism, through Edwardian days down to the new :edjudieed recognition of great genjus and Galsworthy, as Nobel Winner, Lauded for Universal Appeal ¥vening Bulletin states: “Both as hast and tinued later, the story of a family and its experiences in the rapidly world in which the author has lived as 8 keen observer and social will stand out, forever, as his most notable achievement.” The Cin- cinnati Times-Star pays the tribute: ‘One can think of no other in the realm of fiction that would be of greater aid to the historian of the future in under- standing the first three decades of our century. And as for Soames Forsyte, that faithful and appealing embodiment of & vanishing English t; mod- ern English hun‘ture 4 char- acter more sure of lghcemuunlhry of fictional imm - 01 ?” * ko “No social movement has escaj e,” asserts the Chicago Dall; News, “and no important quel't‘ifln hl.yl been overlooked by him. But he has not been conselously didactic. not subordinated art to propaganda. He has dealt with labor troubles, cor- porate abuses, the law's delays technicalities, class divisions, conflicts of duty and eonscience, but his phi- losophical idealism has’ not betrayed of specific reforms he Wisely has reserved for frank essays. Humor Mr. Gal - .n,‘fii.’? himself of any particular novel or dr as a recognition of the nnublem-u‘n'z "'uif t’;l o{! his literary and dramatic achieve- ents.” “No_British author,” attests - bury Park Evening Pma“ “has %o:‘ed the popularity that is Galsworthy’s here. mmmn]rew luz;:;lun writers have firmly appealed to 2 R e Sy worthy combined most of the great fea- tures oéu &:i(lhh hwm:n; lmnvlgur:us eep human Bt i e Scape were woven into a set of novels that equal the greatest in the literature of the world. Other writers have climbed to heights on other courses, but nf:: ll‘lu trod trt‘:‘e broad road of com- terary achievement so f T, S St W with i and undertsanding. “He writes o;luu::li versal qualities and he universal appeal. world's highest literary prize 204 | Contaated¥ The ’Kerchief Scale. generation of will receive the award with that y which have ) fgure.” The