Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1932, Page 8

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AlL of Change in Procedure. Aside from the fact thai, as Scnator the e, which is the Censlitu- vident that expediency, both political and economicsl, has something to do with the suiden change of pans by House leaders who now intend to place before the House . joint resolu- tion proposing a Constitutional amend- ment on the opening day of the session instead of leading off with & beer bill. The grape grcwers are exerting pressure to be teken care of along with the brewers and to occupy & seat on the first wet band wagon set in motion. The distillers are watching with jealous eyes while the brewers are favored. Grape growers and distilling interests are not lacking in ability to exercise politicel pressure. But the beer bill has been hailed as | & revenue producer, and there are al economic considerations requir- attention in that connection. Al n-collar deficit, as well as a liquor | problem, awaits Congress. If a beer bill is to be construed as helping to balance the bucget, and a beer bill| meets a veto on constitutional or other | grounds from a President who has said | that “Our cbjective must be a sane solu- tion, not a blind leap back to old evils” | —the Congress would have been count- | ng chickens before they were hatched. | 1¢ a beer of low elcoholic content were | legalized, its consumption, especially by 8 class whose spokesmen are now referring to 2.76 beer as “slop,” might be disappeintingly low and produce profit only to the bootleggers. And if | a beer bill, sancticned by Congress and the President, met legal objections elsewhere, the potential beer revenue might be jeopardized by a court decision. ‘The revenue from a beer tax has been estimated from $260,000,000 & year to $1,000,000,000, & year. The latter esti- mate was made by investment bankers, not brewers or tax experts.. .The_ last year that beer and ale taxes were col- lected, in 1919, the revenue was $117,- 839,602 and the tex was thehigh war-time tax of $6 a barrel. The bankers suggest- ed a tax of more than twice that amount —8$12.40—and counted on selling at least as much beer as was sold in 1917. The last “normal” year before prohibition, 1916, beer and ale, taxed at $1.50 a bar- rel, produced $88,771,104. .If the pro- posal by Mr. O'Connor, for instance, to | tax beer at $7.50 a barrel were adopted, and as much beer is consumed the first year afterward as was consumed in 1916, the revenue yield would be in- the neighborhood of $400,000,000. Obviously, it would have to be good “beer. And ‘whether it would be consumed in large quantities without the help of the formerly ubiquitous saloon—outlawed emphatically and wisely in the party platforms of both parties—remains & question. On the other hand, there are forty- one State Legislatures meeting In January and cne additional Legislature meeting in April. Those of six States will nct convene in 1933, Most of those which meet in 1933 will not maet again until 1935. Thirty-six States are ncecscary to ratify an emendment. | Both the Damocr: and Republican platforms, and both the Glass and the ‘Wagner resolutions for modification and | repeal,» respectively, of the eighteenth amendment, specify that the new samendment shall be submitted to State conventions, instead of to State Legisla- tures, as was done in the case of the eighteenth. Such a process would re- quire more time than ratifying action by the Legislatures, but the Legislatures would necessarily have to designate the | time, the place, the number of delegates | and, presumably, defray the expenses | of the conventions. If Congress sub- mitted a new emendment to the States early in the year there is prospect of immediate acticn in many Stat>s and it is conceivable that ratification might follow by Mexrch, although that is higaly improbabie. | It is logical to suppose that proponents | of immediate beer, in addition to the | complex question of lawful alcoholic content, the contradictory demand !or\ & high tax and cheap beer, and the | demand that light wine be included, | are ng their greatest problem over | the method of controlling the beer | treflic to prevent the return of the £aloon and to protect dry States zgainst wet States—and of doing 2l this in advance of changing Constitutional pro- visions. It is to b2 remembered, addition, that a fight will b> made this | year to cut down, if not to eliminate, prohibition enforcement funds. It ap- | pears altogether wise that the pressure for legalization' of liquor be utilized toward that “sane solution” of the problem which President Hoover urged in his speech of acceptance, and ‘that the real and vitally important problem involved in revision or repeal of the elghteenth amendment be taken up and wolved before a bser experiment, of doubtful propricty and of doubt{ul suc- cess, is launched. ——v— Alcott Centenary. Washington has a particular interest suthor of “Little Women.” 1 was hers, in the Union Hospital, st Geosgetown College, that she Was & War nwes in howeves, many Deople Posipons sppil- - trouble,” (4 .November 20, 1932 1862-1863 and wrote the letters which, In revised form, appeared as “Hospital Sketches” and brought her the first authentic success she ever had known. Miss Alcott was a daughter of the philosopher, Bronson Alcott, and the friend of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and she has cer- tain importance as the one member of the Concord group whose influence upon children has been wide and constant. Nathaniel Hawthorne attempted a simi- lar achievement, but failed. It is through “Little Women,” “Little Men,” “Jo's Boys,” “Eight Cousins” and the rest of Miss Alcott's long list of pro- ductions that the cultivated and refin- THE EVEN cation for tags, there will be & con- gestion at the end of the period, in- volving hardship on the part of those who apply late for their tags and per- haps failure to secure licenses in sea- son for the new year. The cost of the tags will not be any less later than it is now. Nothing is to be gained through delay. The car owner who gets his month ahead of time loses nothing and gains the satisfaction of being prepared in good season. The one who delays until the final week finds himself jammed in a rush, losing time in wait- ing st the windows of the Traffic Bureau. ing spirit of the New Englend gen’uses cf the midnineteenth century comes| dovn to the children of today. That | spirit is gentle and kindly, altruistic in | the extreme, and it is good that it is | | mot lest. | At first glance Misc Alcott's lile seems cmpty and trated. She knew pov- erty and the ten<ion which poverty tm- plies, end she cled before her work | began to bring great returns in royal- |ties. With a heart capable of deep | affection, she waited in vain for ro- | mance to come her way. But there was | compencation in the affection which | her family and friends felt toward heri sincere and generous nature. It was her delight to enrich their lives out of | nee of her own. Her cisters | che adored, end her smell nephews eni | nixces she worshipsd. It wes for those that che wrote. It was Joy to fill her mother's empty purcy and to buy “a chariol” for her cear, | impractical father, and she made un- | numbered sacrifices for the children of | | “Meg” and “Amy.” Of course, it is easy to say that she was a “sentimentalist,” but the true and noble basis of her “sentimentalism” still has vast attrac- tion. That is her victory. Her books have been translated into some twenty foreign languages, and the stage, the movies and the radio have contributed to their enduring popularity. Designed for immature minds, they nevertheless have been a source of pleasure and edification to thousands of adults, Characters as rezl as “Jo” and “Beth” and “Laurie” take their place in the memories of their friends as though they were living people. They do not die, and their creator is in no canger of bsing forgotten. —————————— — The Franco-Russian Pact. ‘Prance ‘and Russia, allfes before the World War, are about to sign a new treaty which also may be destined to be of paramount influence upon the peace of Europe. It is & mutual pact | of ncn-aggression covering their mili- tary, political and economic relations. The primary purpcse of the treaty from the standpoint of the contracting governments is that it forbids armed aid to any netion that attacks either France or Russia. The French live in perpetual peril of war to be made on| them by a re-vitalized Germany. Should that ever come to pass, the Reich can now not reckon on Russian support. The Russians on their part contem- plate the possibllity of an attack by Poland or Rumania. Though both these countries are allied to France, the new pact would deprive the Poles or Rumanians of support by French armies. Poland is itself on the point of enter- ing into & non-aggression treaty with Russia. A Rumanian-Russian treaty has been in contemplation, but frus- trated hitherto by the Soviets’ refusal to give what the Bucharsst government considers sufficiently binding recogni- tion of Rumanian rights to the former Russian territory of Bessarabia. ‘These continental non-aggression pacts are logical supplements of the treaty of Locarno, wherein France and Germany go a long way toward guar- anteeing that France’s Eastern fron- tier, bounded since the World War by the “restored provinces” of Alsace and Lorraine, shall not be subject to change by attempted force. Under the Locar- no agreement Germany pledges her- self, too, to essay no violent effort to wipe out the Polish Corridor, thorn in the Teutonic side though that unfortu- nate child of Versailles is. Locarno also grants the Germans the com- pensatory assurances against violation of her existing territorial integrity. The Franco-Russian non-aggression pact sets up a conciliation board, which is to meet once a year for the purpose of discussing all outstanding questions and giving the two governments ad-| visory opinions on them: The treaty | pledges hearty co-operation in the field of trade and specifically inhibits meas- ures designed to hamper the normal | flow of commerce between France and Russia. Perhaps the purely political section outstrips in importance, from both the Paris and Moscow stand- points, the military and economic clauses. It is stipulated that Russia shall re- frain from Communist propaganda in France and refuse to harbor agitators for autonomous French colopies in the | Far East. France agrees to eschew all | actions designed to transform elther | the politicel or soclal regime in any part of Russla—to abstain, in otker| words, from encouraging efforts of any | kind to undermine the Communist| system. The Paris press is justified in hailing the Russian treaty as an important in- strument of stability in Europe, which continues to present in numerous di- rections the aspect of a house grievous- ly divided against itself. — e The fact that this Nation favors the political joker in its popular entertain- | ment shculd not encourage Eurcpe to | intrcduce the idea in international | | fnapce. ——— | Today Is the Best Motor Tag Day. | Now is the season for getting the automobile tags for 1933. The windows of the Traffic Bureau are open for the receipt of the license fees and the de- livery of the tags. Between now and the end of the year some- 125,000—perhaps 150,000—licenses must be obtained if the vehicles are to operate on the streets of the Capital. The director of ‘mmc has announced that after mid- night on December 31 no car will be permitted to be run without a new tag. There is no reason to expect an exten- sion of the time. Indeed, no extension of time is necessary. Common sense dictates an early pro- vision of the tags. Delay involves over- time work on the part of the traffic bu- reau force as the dally hours of ce- livery are extended to accommodate the | 1ate comers. It is meet that some con- sideration be given to this fact. That “grand and glorious feeling” of | being fully prepared for the new sea- son well in advance of the close of the i')'eat is cheaply gained. In the ‘matter of getting license tags as in other things “tomorrow” is a bad time for action. | It 80 often becomes “day after tomoi- row,” and even “next week,” and even “week after next.” Procrastination makes the days pass swiftly and brings the end of the year with speed. And eccording to the presant dictum of the licensing officials there will be no “next year.” Make “today” the day for getting s, and give toe District the satis- iying record of having every motor vehicle within the jurisdiction properly licensed and tagged for 1933. . ‘That charming actress Maude Adams, the particular artistic protege of the late Charles Frohman and the accred- ited genius for the interpretation of the quaint humor of James Barrie, has been sued for $200,000. Her innumer- eble admirers will hope that she has that much money and that by the grace of impartial judicial authority she will be able to hold on to it. Al Capone would like to be out of prison 30 as.to help in organizing the beer business on new lines. Whatever the alcoholic content may be, the rack- eteers will naturally seek to render the percentage of legality as low as possible. ——— . On his retirement from the post of Secretary of the Interior Dr. Lyman Wi'bur will be able to give the medical societies some valuable opinions as to whether a political career is as much an ald to health and comfort as an aspirant to office usually considers it. ———————— The suburban police, laden with fire- arms and gas bombs in anticipation of marchers, are expected to qualify as expert motorcyclists. Any kind of a #pill would be fraught with peculiar and unlimited peril. ————— Hindenburg is not irascible, but as a man of advanced years spent in criti- cal observation he may be pardoned for being hard to please in choosing a chancellor. ——— e “Shop early” is now the popular slogan. Regardless of the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade, the home fireside during the Christmas holidays is one business stimulant that never falls, ————— ‘Withholding the Nobel peace prize for 1932 cannot be regarded as any- thing like a moratorium. It 5 in hand ready for delivery as soon as Europe | and Asia find assurances of peace rea- sonably reliable. When Thomas Jefferson was inaug- urated he hitched his horse to a tree. Improvements have so progressed in the same area, that instead of a tree he would probably find a& “No Parking” sign. —————— Instead of singing “The Sidewalks of New York” with the old crowd, James J. Walker is making a jaunty effort to attune his later career to the “Man ‘Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo.” ——— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Powerful Combination. What greater bliss could gather As this old world goes along— Is there anything you'd rather Than the tunshine and the song? = We'll have no trouble with the laws Nor want for generous cheer ‘With Congress and friend Santa Claus Together drawing near. It's a time when mergers proffer A relief from mortal care. This will silence any scoffer Anytime and anywhere— ‘The combination bids us pause In hope and not in fear With Congress and friend Santa Claus All ready to appear. Ups and Downs. “Your country calls you,” said the petriot. A “I hope it's for promotion,” answered Senator Sorghum. “You know, your country sometimes calls you up only for the purpose of calling you down.” Jud Tunkins ‘says the world is grow- ing sadder. The doctors used to have what they called laughing gas and now the cops carry tear gas. Latest Fashion. Paris says without regret That the fashions the will set. Here's the queerest ever met— It's the style to be in debt! Favorite Order. “What is the Order of Cincirmati?"™ asked the man who wants to join everything. “Well,” answered Uncle Bill Bottle- top, “when I lived in Oincinnati years 8go the favorite order .was.a pretzel and a glass of beer.” “Men who borrow their idess,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “become the saddest of debtors. If they had Ideas to pay in return they would not have been obliged to borrow.” I Trouble Brews. As problems grow smarter Which statesmen unravel, There now remain, after today, not can be secured. That is plenty of ¥ ovesybody will act promptiy. Let’s use & bung starter Instead of a gavel. “A good-natured man,” ssid Uncle Nben, “S o comfortable playmsate, but s fightn' man needs in you A 1033 license a | SATY | after govern the status of men who, Gray days have their place in the| scheme of things. They are as neces- as sunshiny ones, in a way, and happy is he who finds them so. haps the best feat performed by a lowering sky, aside from the essential one of replenishing the earth with | moisture, is to put a new aspect on | femiliar landscapes. Mankind needs to see old things as new things. Especially is this a necessity for the | | amid essentially fixed buildings, streets | | and parks. | Even when drastic changes are being | made. such as Washington knows south ‘cr Pennsylvania avenue at the present | time_there remains plenty of the un- | changed. | | | * % % % Nothing quite puts such a new aspect on thoroughfares as a rainy day, espe- | good measure. | Fog bas a sort of magnifying effect, | causing even the least observant way- farer to note something startling, al- | most, in the appearance of familiar Instead of being clearly cut against the sky, houses down the street do | thnt 3 kind has agreed to call | loom” when fog touches their bricks | and stones with its vapors. ! Mists, after all, are only accentua- tions of the ordinary grayness of a rainy day, and it is this feature which interests the observant person, especial- ly the lover of Naiure who finds enjoy- ment in all the appsarancas of the uni- | versal mother. | * % % x | The werd “nature” is a strange one. | It comes from the Latin “natura,” in_turn from “natus,” born. The primary meaning of “nature” is | birth, origin; the secondary, that which is the source or easence of life, the creative force; third, that which is pro- duced by natural forces, the existing | system of things in time and space, cl‘t.;':g)n, th; universe. condensed summary bri; ol rather clearly that Nnture’.y in r;g:m;tl means life, and living things, although :;l Je.he mznl Lik:iestm,lom of “the existing stem o ings” = °1“gfd- gs” are necessarily in. scoveries of science in the t hundred years tend to show the lnp':i relation of all things, the kinship being some sort of electrical arrangement, as | t not understood, as, indeed, no form of electricity is understood. Wordsworth said that if he could understand the flower he held in his hand ke would understand what “God and man is.” Men of today, whether poets or scientists, might make some- thing of the same claim in relation to electricity., o s The gray day, overcast or rainy, is one of the primitive appearances of Nature with a capital “N.” Perhaps the great Napoleon so loved that capital, and adopted it as his par- ticular own, because somehow he felt that it stood for both him and Nature, of r:zhlch he seemed to be such a vital part. Every one knows certain men who seem to typify Nature better than the average run of mankind. Nor do these men necessarily act crudely, or “in the raw,” although often enough they do. Somehow they seem to incorporate into their words, their actions, and especially their thoughts, something of the restless energy which even the most timid human being feels is rep- resentative of the ves. “existing sys- tem.” * x ok x The gray day is even more natural than the bright one, for in Nature there must have been, in the beginning, only gloom. Sunshine must have been an after- thought, as it were, one of the divine strokes of genius which are known to human authors, and therefore why not to the Author of all? Sometimes, in ERLINER LOKEL ANZEIGER — All men "are a little crack brained in one or an- other not consci , perhaps, nor due in any respect to their own determinations, but rather traceable to a provision of Nature which, in the last analysis, makes them all equal in ability and accomplishment. _Scientists, doc- tors, lawyers and philosophers are, therefore, no exceptions to the rule. But at present, and for once, at least, we want to talk about the bats in the belfries of the technical geniuses, and, incidentally, about the trams in the beautiful city of Mannheim. These experts wanted to know the exact number of passengers that traveled on some of their lines. “Noth- ing simpler!” one is inclined to reflect. And that is just what they thought in Mannheim, t0o. So they .installed an automatic device at the entrance of each car—a sort of treadle which, being stepped upon, made contact with an electrically operated register. “Just the | thing,” said the street car directors | when they introduced -this -clever- ap- | paratus. But after a little experience therewith they were not so sure. Pas- sengers, enjoying the novelty of the miniature springboard, were inclined to hop up and down a few times before finally entering the conveyance: The_technique of the invention was thus discovered to be faulty, and the statistics derived therefrom quite wrong. But there must be amiss wlnti all the minor Mannheimers, too, since they seem erally to have the pro- pensity to jump about like a flock of water wagtails! * oK KK Chilean Rauling Bars Strikers From Jobs. El Mercurio, Santiago—The director general of industry, who has just re- turned from an investigation of the strikes in the Province of Coquimbo, has established a ruling which shall here- ha work, relinquish it voluntarily and then seek either to regiin their employment or the benefits of public as- sistance. In the district mentioned these provisions apply especially to the Sote (02 muttics of ‘Saoatly casesie ul of e capable Unemployed in that ssme. zone. have surrendered their jobs because of dis- satisfaction with the rates of pay. The fact of the matter was that the mine operators were endeavoring only to distribute their work over twice as many workers as were actually required to prevent larger numbers of the local | population becoming beneficiaries of the already hard-pressed fiscal department. | In doing so wages necessarily had to be | uced in the case of each man em- | ployed, but this | better ‘than halving the force and giv- ing those retained twice as much as they needed for actual subsistence and m%:amenrk 3 e workers who did not submit the inherent justice of this tenet m': impetuously gave up their jobs because of ‘their réduced emoluments are now uplls of ?fi:luy“ sterner discipline and more eog:-nz of the fact that half a loaf is ter than no bread. To put these subjects immedi- ately into free lodging houses and on the dole would, however, in the opin- lon of the director general, he but put- ting a premium upon selfishness and indolence. The advance guard of this disfranchised group has already arrived at Andacollo on foot and is arra to spend its first night on the hard ground under the open sky. Is it these men that the fiscal ought to help, and | xlx.m those in distress hecause they have thing at all? e Emfiu Fetieving [ | shows that they are not all grayed, uni- High Lights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands rocedure was thought | U writing, & sentence will grow into being almost spontaneously as a solid but bright result of previous ideas, one after another. sunbeam in a dark room, yet one never intended it, exactly, but merely hoped, in the beginning, at last. If cne is interested in any of the particular manifestations of Nature, such as flowers, or trees, or animals. or city dweller, who daily goes around | birds, he will find something of a dif- | American family had formed a sort of | ference in studying them under the subdued lighting of a rainy day, or in an atmosphere darkened by overhang- ing clouds. The imagination attempts to see the world of thousands of years ago, and sees it gloomy. It must have been so. At any rate, the imagination so pictures it, and perhaps it is right. *x %% ‘There is one good thing about a dark made houses and street, at such times, he is ceriain to find everything beauti- ful when the sun shines. | Nothing makes a city thorcughfare | more dismal, from every aspect, than a rainy morning, when everybody is hurrying, and the more cheerful aspects of things are darkened and displayed in | the worst possible light. How tawdry these stores appear, with their garish™ colors, and their ‘crude attempts to attract attention! ~Yet there is life and motion there, and a certain fort of appzal, since in them 2 great many human wants and | satisfactions. One discovers that they are not es | bad as they lcok, upon seond glan and third end fourth glances show them as right smart little buildings, after ,all, which will fairly gleam again when' the sun comes out. Here is a certan store, with the name of the proprietor in huge letters across the show window. It might prove in- teresting to study, under this subdued lighting effect of rain, just how he managed to make his name stand out quite as large as it does, since the let- ters seem no whit larger than those used by some of his rivals in trade. The thought comes: Perhaps those letters stand out larger only to your eyes! Per- hepe hundreds of other persons, pass- ing by, never give those magic letters a glance, as they hurry along intent on their own combinations of letters called sentences, called thoughts, called ideas. S e e The study of lighting effects need not be carrled on solely indoors, in theater, gallery, hall or home. ‘There is plenty of room for such in- terest in the great outdoors, where the sources of all light exist in their abun- dance. Closer inspection of natural objects formly, by clouds and lack of sun- shine, but still reflect what light there | is according to their natures. Thus one tree will have an appear- | ance different from adjoining trees, | owing to a different sort of bark, or position, which permits reflected light | to filter to it. Houses, in particular, appear in en- | tirely different lights on days dark and mimical, as we say. It may be said of them, in particular, that if they appear to advsntage on a rainy, gloomy day, they will shine like jewels when | the sun is throwing its ams upon them. No one should ever purchase a home | without first visiting it on some gloomy | day, preferably when it is “pouring cats | and dogs,” as the old saying has it. If it looks well then, it will please always. Something of the same pleasant phil- osophy might be applied to all life and living, but we would not care to press the matter, for so much depends upon the individual, and his ability to ac- cept, as well as to utilize. Our only point is that a gray day is not necessarily an uninteresting or really gloomy sort of day, but may be quite as interesting and cheerful, al- most, 8s any T, Placed arbitar: upon the worker in the stead of employment, or as an ternative, more or less willingly ac- m substituting maintenance in for hard work at small pay, it relaxes the morale of the worker and | impairs his capacity and appetite for labor in any form. X * * ok * Gives Full Name To Avoid Danger. El Comercio, Lima.—We very apolo- getically publish the following explana- tion and regreat that any embarrass- ment was occasioned Senor Gamarra Velasquez: “Senor Director de E1 Comercio, Lima, El Peru. “Muy senor mio: I have observed that your worthy D‘K‘r, in the issue of the same for the day before yester- day, reported that a certain Alfredo Gamarra Velasquez has been taken into custody and detained in the station of the sixth precinct on a charge of rob- bery. Though my friends assure me there is no likelthood of my identity being confused with that of the indi- vidual arrested, nevertheless, as a mat- ter of precaution, I feel that I should be allowed the opportunity to state, through your columns, that I am not the person who is at present languish- ing & the calaboose. As much more is likely to be published regarding that unfortunate, I prefer to forestall the chance of any misapprehension by communicating my full name, includ- ing my maternal l}:pelhtlou. as it ap- pears at the foot of this letter. “Requesting that you accordingly publish this statement for the safe- guarding of my honor and reputation, and with anticipatory expressions of gratitude, I subscribe myself, “Your very attentive friend and servitor, “ALFREDO GAMMARA CALLERO VELASQUEZ.” — o Heroes. From the Portland Oregon Journal Welldiggers felt queer as they dug down in excavating a new well near Vancouver, Wash. They ascended to the top. J. A. Winston, a professional well- digger, later had himself lowered into the well. Soon he shout=d for those at the surface to draw him up. Half-way up his limp hands slipped from the rope, and he fell, a victim of deadly monoxide gas. Arthur Ames, 25, volunteered to go down to bring the unconscious victim out. . He attached a roge to Winston and gave the signal to be ralsed. He clung to the rope, and when half-way p, he, too, was overcome by the gas, which snuffed out his life. “The whole story of the wreck,” says a description of the lost Nevada, “is one ding seamanship and hero- ,” marred only by loss of the Nevada and most of her crg. In a 4 at and is reckoned among the lost. ‘There's your story of the real heart of man, In the moment of peril, when help is-needed, there is always the hero —young Ames, who went down into the ges-ridden well; the radio operator, who locked his door and stayed with the ship. In these days of crime, rackets and disrespect for law, days of bootlegging and graft, these acts of heroism stand This bright ray of mental | sunshine plays over the rest like a| | first glimpse of the hero of this tale. | litical history by way of one of its | leaders, both leader and period of such out as a beautiful isle in & murky sea. all kno goodness, nobility and - , all bhw&g* fi;wma A NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1932. THIS AND THAT BY. CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. NEW BOOKS - AT RANDOM L G M. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. By Bennett | paper puts at your disposai the services | Champ Clark. Illustrated. Boston Little, Brown & Co. | | In an fronic slant of passing ill| | humor, James G. Blaine once said that | | public office and stepped out of official | | life, finally, only to slip into the grave. | | Merely another way of saying that this | idynssty of patriotic citizenship and | distinguished public service. | At many a rough spot on the loug | road between Colonial struggles and | current national and international | | problem, menace even; an Adams may | be seen standing guard. And of them | all, marching this road “of political | growth in America, none is more ar- | | cially if a touch of fog is added for | dey—if one can find something pic- |resting than John Quincy Adams, as | turesque in it, end especially in man- | famous for his enemies as for his | friends, but on either hand invulnerable | to charge of less than passionate and fiery zeal for the good of his country. 4 Here is B new biography of Johnl Quincy Adams. High time, too. It is | now more than half a century since his | story was told in full. More than 40| years since that biography was revised. One of the deeply interesting facts | about the book in hand is its author, | Bennett Champ Clark. idd] Western Democrat, a devoted follower | and admirer of Thomezs Jefferson, al- | most an idolator of Andrew Jackson, | entirely out of sympathy v.ith Adams in | his New England insularity and in| many of his political views.” That | author here dating himself and from | this exercise going on to tell why John | | Quincy Adams is worth his time and | | that of readers. - Shaken a bit, this self-analysis dis- closes a Democrat. Why not? An ideal- ist, patterned upon Jefferson, whose | noble vision of human equality applied | to rvernmem has as yet made hardly a dent in gereral practice beyond its periodical uses in campaign oratory and methods of vote-getting among legis- lators. Andrew Jackson, violent liberal, opportunist in political outlook. rough- shod and hard-fisted in authority. The “insularity” of New England is a re- minder that through those narrow half- shut doc"3 entered the literary culture of the Old World and the zeal for scholar- ship that came to mark the New World. Notions of caste are here in scant allu- sion to the “small farmer” set off pre- sumably from the erts of life that stamped the plantation and its serfdom | of Jabor. Despif of difference calcu- lated to drive apart this author and his subject, they come together in sin- gle bond to many a deep strain of col mon political conviction. In tempe: ment, too, both are courageous, fort right and, upon occasion, not a little caustic. Definitely, one is engaged, at this point, in revitalizing the other for fresh appraisal by such stamdards of public need and service as have suc- ceeded those of that Adams period. In essentials the book is a long search- light upon J)olmml America by way of one of its dominant figures. To one’s imagining, the author stands neck deep in original material for this Adams enterprise. Here is the personal diary in many big volumes. And here an almost equal bulk of let- ters, public and private. ~Formidable stacks, besides, of pamphlets and sim- ilar publications on both domestic and fYoreign problems bearing upon the new country. Literally, a monumental body of words from which the author de- signs to bring forth, alive, an Ameri- can who has, so far, outstripped his countrymen in the variety and im- portance of high offices held by him. Bennett Champ Clark was himself brought up in the political atmosphere of the National Capital. A university man. A practical politican, a success- ful one at that. This as equipment for the work in hand is, in part, es- sential; as a whole, distinctly ad- Van( us. Now, for the workman himself. The one who knows a man from a marionette. Able to select, in certainty, the required touch of his- tori~ background, the blood-flow in its control of health and inheritance, traits of disposition half-legacy, half-habit, surroundings of shaping influence, emergence by self-direction into an ex- panding unit of political aim and achievement. Such, sketchily thrown in, appears to be the job of young Champ Clark in respect to John Quincy Adams. In 1775 the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought. Upon the surrounding heights women and children stood. Among them Abagail Adams, holding by the hand her son, 8 years old. Our Again, when the boy was 11, we come upon him in Prance, with his father. Seemingly engaged chiefly, the young- ster, in eating up languages, French and German and what not. At 14 he is in St. Petersburg, engaged in his first diplomatic service, secretary of legation. A brief introduction, but long enough to give prompt notice that this is, in- deed, “a moving story.” The youngster that has s!eg‘ned out here bears the stamp of “prodigy.” g the modern mother who is still bottling and coddling her son of that age. However, if this were the place, comforting things might be said for this day and its prcgeny as against that other day and its occa- sional prodigy. No time to stop for asides in this book. Onme has to race along to keep up with John Quincy Adams, who came back to America to.gei an education and to study law. The second of these pursuits left him deeply depressed over the idleness and general vacuity of the average law business. Politics was his passion, the disputations of political theory as applied to government his mental bread and meat. In due time, therefore, he came into his own, stack- ing up a dazzling array of honors in the political fleld. Emissary or Min- ister, in turn, to about every country of Europe on every sort of international errand, in every period of special inter- national stress, he became at home State Senator, United States Senator, President and after that for 16 years member of the House of Representa- tives, “serving here with s brilliance and distinction which have made that the outstanding period of his whole life and perhaps his greatest claim to fame.” At this point the thought comes that only a big man could follow defeat for another presidential term by accepting the mandate of his State for a seat in a ul with statesmanly service to the country. Every man’s life is an adventure, to be sure. Every great man’s life is a great adventure, provided the times are ripe for it. And the history of America has provided scope for the play of high personal endeavor. Reading this story, one is sure the times and the man were well met when John Quincy Adams and the perilous days of the new Re- public came together. One is equally certain that young Champ Clirk appre- ciated fully the drama of the periocd and the man, since he has produced, without question, one of the most ab- sorbing and useful of historic studies of the earlier United States by way of the life adventure of John Quincy Adams. Buried under material, one would think, yet from the selective and power of this author a pe- | Proi mun-nmbed adventure issues into the open. As history of the valid sort, the study As narrative it outstrips all but the best of that class. As a seizure of character, an elusive character at that, 1t is surpassing. Certainly “John Quincy Adams” was | not designed for popularity. Rather, for | the serious survey of a period of po- vitality and moment as to move up into the present, J.mztrucnveY and revealing et, as | Gaif ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERI ‘This is a 5 solely to the jal department devoted dling of queries. This of an extensive organization in Wash- mfton to serve you in any capacity that relates to in: free. Fallure to make use of it de- prives you of benefits to which you are that it would shine | the Adamses fell from the cradle into | entitled. Your cbligation is only 3 cents in coin or stamps inclosed with your inquiry for direct reply. post cards. Address the Washington Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. With what material is the new ar for the Macon at Sunnyvale, . %0 be covered?—L. L. H. A. It is to be covered with corru- gated, asbestos-protected metal. The covering will be composed of layers as follows: One layer of asbestos, one layer of metal, and another of asbestos. The framework is all steel and the corru- gated asbestos is in huge sheets. Q. To what extent has organized labor relieved unemployment . distress through the payment of unemployment benefits?>—F. L. A. In 1929 unemployment benefits were paid by labor unions to the ex- tent of $276,717, which is about normal for periods of prosperity. In 1930 this {2se to $3,311,279 and in 1931 to $9,- Q. How m: India?—L. 8. A. There are at least 20 distinct tongues, each of which is spoken by at | least 100,000 people, and there are more than 200 vernaculars. Q Where does the Reconstruction gmmco Corporation get its money?— . M. A. Established by act of Congress, it | started with $500,000,000, supplied from the United States Treasury. The re- maining $1,500,000,000 may be raised by public sale of its tax-exempt se- curities, guaranteed by the Government. or the United States Treasury may sell Government bonds to this amount and turn the funds over to the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation, accepting the semlmuu of the corporation as collat- eral. Q. Was any |‘un of the “underground railroad” actually under ground?—F. D. A. Not in a physical sense. This term was applied to the secret trans- portation of escaped slaves. It was systematic and co-operative. persons who would receive the Negroes. feed, clothe, and conceal them until they could be sent farther North in safety were called stations. Q. How many schools are granting diplomas to trained nurses?—J. M. W. A. The American Nursing Institute says that there are about 1,800 nursing schooly Q. Did the expression “Father in Heaven,” used as & synonym for God in the Lord's Prayer, originate with Jesus Christ?—A. H. A. It was a common phrase expressive of Jewish religious ideas and has its parallels in Jewish liturgy before the time of Christ. Q. When did the French Huguenots | come to this country?—J. R. A. The Huguenots began to arrive in the Colonies with the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. They settled in several Colonles, but the Santee River region of South Carolina received the largest number. soldiers, politicians, merchants a literary men of South Carolina were of this stock. Another Huguenot settle- ment was on the James River near Richmond. Another on the Pamplico River in North Carolina began well, but was nearly extinguished in the Indian ‘War of 1711. There were also many who settled in New York. formation. This service is | Do not use | any dialects are spoken in | Houses of | Some of the leldl:h C J. HASKIN. Q. How high is the Great Pyra- mid?—L. M. L. A. The exact measurement of the | Great Pyramid has shown a h¢ of 48115 feet and a width of each at the base of 755%; feet. Q. How many acres of land wers taken away from owners in the Russian Revolution?—S. M. W. A. During the revolution over 1,080,- 000,000 acres of land belonging to the landowners were acquired by the peasantry. In addition 48,000,000 | acres belonging to the richer class of peasants were also taken for use in egriculture by the Soviet government. Q | John Moore”?—J. T. D. | _A. The Rev. Charles Wolfe. Sir John | died January 16, 1809, following the | Battle of Corunna. By his own wish |he was buried before the following | dawn in the ramparts of Corunna. Q. Will you give me the origin of the expression to “read ‘the riot act”f— 5. H A. The use of this expression really applies to glving warning to those en- gaged in wrongdoing, and has #s origin in the riot act, an English statute of 1775. It provided that if 12 or more persons were assembled unlawfully and disturbing the peace, any mayor, justice of the peace, sheriff or under-sheriff could by proclamation command them to disperse. If they refused and re- mained together for an hour after the proclamation, all of the persons ticipating were guilty of felony. any one interfering with or preventing such proclamation was guilty of felony. | Q. How many students has Howard University?>—H. B. P. A. This Negro university, supported by the Federal Government, had a total enrollment last year of 2464 students. In June 362 men and women received degrees. Q. How old is Jackson Barnett, the wealthy Indian?—M. L. A. He is about 80 and now lives in Los Angeles. Q. Senator Cutting of New Mexico was born in New York. To what as- sociation or heritage is his accent at- tributed?—C. N. J. A. Senator Cutting comes of an old |New England family and as a youth | attended Harvard University. He has as a result a marked New England ac- cent. Q. How many of our soldiers over- seas deserted?—A. C. A. Among the 2,004,000 who went overseas, there were but approximately 11,200 deserters. | @ wnat 1s the motto of the Free | State of Maryland?—O. W. A. The motto appears on the scroll | below the coat-of-arms in the great |seal of Maryland is “Fatti Maschi, | Parole Femine,” which is Italian for | “Manly Deeds, Womanly Words.” It was adopted on August 12, 1648. There is another motto, in Latin, in the bor der of the seal, as follows: “Scuto Bonae Voluntatis Tuae Coronasti Nos,” which means “With the Shield of Thy Good Will Thou Hast Covered Us.” Q. What kind of armor did the an- clent Greeks wear?—L. W. . The Greeks of the Homeric age had helmets, cuirasses, greaves and the same pieces of bronze armor, developed them so0 as to hFruuct whole body more thoroughly and quently used & corselet of quilted linen of Oriental design in place of the metal cuirass. The shield was smaller tha® the Homerlc shield. Unemployed Insurance Debated Action in favor of unemployment in- surance by the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor is sympathetically received in comments throughout the country. State systems would be created, with funds estab- lished through contributions represent- ing & small percentage of pay rolls. It is held that the subject is likely to become & matter of considerable public debate, especially as Wisconsin has such legislation, and a favorable report has been made in Ohio. Chief objec- tion to the federation plan is that the employe has no obligation to contribute to the fund, and that the burden falls upon industry. “All the possible disputants,” accord- ing the Newark Evening News, “agree on one proposition—some provision has to be made for the willing worker who is unemployed through no fault of his own.” That paper finds “it is general- ly agreed that there is no better time than the present to bring the problem to the attention of the las A the commission of Gov. White of Ohio impressively showed in its estimate of what could have been done if such a plan were made effective 10 years ago.” ‘The Indianal News points out that the Ohio commlission’s view is that such insurance is desirable, “but that it 'should be provided entirely by the em- ployers and the wage earners,” and that paper voices the opinion that the plan “avolds the most objectionable features of such plans in requiring no contribu- tion of tax money, and has some merit as indicating a feeling that some form of compulsory wage saving may be beneficial to the social structure.” * ok ok Kk Ory labor’s proposal, as viewed by the Omaha World-Herald, upholds the view that “the worker has an equity” in employment, and the Omaha paper belleves that it “helps clear the air, gives a basis for discussion, and may point the way toward united action against the miseries of unemployment and the loss of capital. It concludest “In one essential respect the statement falls short. It docs not define labor’s duties with respect to the new pro- gram.” The Baltimore Evening Sun observes “a very decided shift in the traditional policy of the Labor Federa- tion, recalling that, under the leadership of Samuel Gompers, the federation “emphasized its non-political character and stood out strongly for collective bargaining between employer and the employed.” The Evening Sun that in the present utterance the fed- eration leaders favor a plan which “is not & dole in the style of the European doles, for, though regulated by govern- ment, its funds would be supplied en- tirely by industry.” “The interdependence of labor and industry,” in_the judgment of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, “is a compelling reaton why they should be able to get together on a just and workable plan of discharging society's cbligation to those who, able, willing and competent to work, are denied op- portunity because of the maladjust- ments of the machine age and the instability of production.” That paper makes the comment on the federation 18 of the highest account. | b¥ di pulsory only if industries fail by a certain date to instituts approved plans of gorresponding scope under their own control. The labor councilors want flat compulsory insurance, paid out cf funds wholly supplied by industry, ac- cummulated in and disbursed frcm a comnion treasury without reference in distribution to the amount of funds as State Project It urges the necessity for State solu= tion, Federal action being constitution= ally \impracticable; it holds that legise lation must vary with varying condi- tions in different States; it emphasizes the fact that an unemployment insur- mw d serve as an incentive to llization of production; it insists that the percentage of contributions shall be such as would produce, by actually determined contributions, the necessary reserves and finance reason- able payments for reasonable periods.” * Xk % Ralising the question of the effective working out of the federation plan, the Youngstown Vindicator remarks that “employers would be forced to raise their standard of employment, so that fewer men would be able to get jobs, and they would put in more labor-sav- ing machinery to save the 3 per cent on their pay roll which the plan con- templates.” The Vindicator also asks: “Does the provision of a single fund, into which all employers would pay, mean that one industry would pay for the seasonal unémployment in an- other?” The Youngstown paper points out that “the federation’s plan puts all the burden on the employer, instead of | dividing it between worker and employ=- er, as in the Ohio law,” and it asks: “Is it not possible that these vast ex- penditures would be such a charge upon industry as to defeat their purpose?” “Nation-wide compulsory unemploye ment insurance,” declares the Spokane Spokesman-Review, “might work with industry prosperous and earning gen- erous profits; but what would happen in periods like this, of industrial losses or lean earnings? Industry would say it could no longer bear the burden. Labor could say that it could not as- sume it. Would there not then be & Jjoining of industrial leaders and labor to shift it to the Government? Thal has been the course in Great Britain.” . ks “Many grave obstacles confront the advecates of the plan, and it probably will be years before anything definite can be done,” thinks the Abilene Re- porter, pointing out that “the five-day | week and the six-hour day are the only alternative for solution of unemploy- ment problems." “The platforms of both major parties favor the shorter day and shorter week plan,” says the Fort Worth Star-Tele- gram, pointing to the prospects of & rail brotherhood drive for action by Congress, and voicing the “public reali- zation of need for readjustment in,order to spread employment.” Such & project is advocated by the Pasadena Star- News and the Lexington Leader em- phasizes the fact that “for industry, transportation and the building trades | generally it has been found feasible.” | | Want the Board Wiped Out From the Charlotte Observer. The leaders of the movement for abolishing the Federal Farm Board are making concerted plans to that end and are arranging for a conference with President-elect Roosevelt in ad- vance of his inauguration, so as to have the ground plans laid. The opposition e isconsin | to the Farm Board will not be satis- fied with the proposition for reorgani- zation on the non-partisan basis, or for that matter. They want wiped out, so as to put an end once and for all to the controversy. The leaders arraign the board’s poli- | cles as faulty and destructive to the revolving fund that had been placed at its disposal for the benefit of the | farmers, and they will bring organized pressure on Rogsevelt to agree on going | the whole eourse in dismentling the Board. The Hne-up plairly indicates that the future of the Farm Board is now actually menaced. Can Color It, Too. Prom the Hscanabs Daily Press. ers can move the sceneryl any other, the board