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THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY...December 10, 1932 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star N per Company Busthess OfEE: 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York ice: 110 East 42nd 8t. icago Office: Lake Michigan Building. uropean Oflu"l Regent St.. London. neland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. 45c per month 60c per month | The Evening and (when 5 Sunda: The Sunday Star Collection made 65¢ per month | ders may be sent in by mail . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1932. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. . And, by the same | the flscal year 1931, immediately after remembered, their | the amendment which benefited John . Thus, the snow | Smith, his claim was part of a total the completion of payment by the Government of $26,- fund, still more | 689,567 in disability allowances. The dollars short of its | next year the aliowed claims of this any one in Wash- | class paid by the Government reached ot given, let him give| $75436.668 and the estimate of the | A has been said that this Win- | total of such claims for the current | ter will be the cruelest in many years. The prophets may be mistaken, but it | is not impossible that they may be correct. 1In the latter case, let it be also the kindest Winter in the sensc of human fellowship and humsan char- | ity and love. | Shelley, a greater poet than Cowper, | but usualiy a less optimistic one, is orth remembering as the white cur-| tain drifts down from the gray clouds of claims made up to October last was 948,278; on the same date claims hul’ been allowed to 435138, More than 13000 claims were filed in October | alone, Under the Presideht’s proposal, no “disability allowance”—which is sep- drate and distinct from “disability | compensation” for | APl topt [ 5t Teiephon [Ational 5070, th. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginis. L$10.00: 1 E $6.00; 1 All Other States and Canads. ily a Sunday...157., F:ny o i unday only | Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled | to the use for republication of all news dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise cred- rlfl in this paper and also the local news | published herein. Ail rights of publication of | #pecial dispatches herein are also reserved. | | . 85 1 me.. st $4.00; 1 mo., 40c sioo | 1y -— They Must Keep at It. The District of Columbia Chambe: of Commerce is to be congratulated on 1ts active sponsorship of the move-, ment represented in the newly formed Joint Transportation Committee, the purpose of which is to bring some| order out of the chaos of regulated and unregulated competition between local transportation agencies. But the movement must not be permitted to lapse with its launching. If any prob- jem ever required careful study and decisive action, it is the problem exem- plified in the inability of the street car end bus companies adeguately to perform, at acceptzble rates, their im- | portant functions in carrying Washing- ton back and forth between home and office and in the competition with such functicns offered by unregulated taxi- cab service. The companies themselves have been interested in a solution, but approach that solution from the selfish point of view. Congress should be interested in @ solution, s an exercise of its ex- | clusive power of locsl government, but never seems to have the time to get around to it. ‘The local regulatory body, the Public Utilities Commission, | is interested in a solution, but its hands | are pretty much tied by short-sighted legislation. The various planning| bodies are interested, but their mlln‘ business is planning—not action. The transportation service of the cuy“ 1s primarily in the interest of the citi-| sens. The Joint Transportation Com- mittee represents an organized effort by | citizens to bring some action by the, various official bodies to remove some ntJ the more obvious causes of the diffi-| culties which find increasing manifesta- | tions every year. One of these difficulties is the com- | traceable to war service—will be pl!dl to any ex-service man who is not totally | and permanently disabled. If this sin- | gle recommandation were accepted Iht‘ Government would make its largest | saving of those recommended by the | President in connection with the Vet- | erans’ Administration, the total of | which savings is estimated to lop off | | something like $127,000,000 a year. And | to the gray earth. With a genius which no melancholy long eould restrict, he 8l the truth when he asked: “O wind. if Winter comes, can Spring be iar behind?” B ] The League as Face-Saver, At Gencva the expected has hap- pened—the League of Nations has put things off again. It has referred the Sino-Japanese dispute to the Commit- tee of Nineteen, including in particular a resolution of the “Little Four'— Sweden, Spain, C:ochoslovakia and the Irish Pree State—which called for con- demnation of Japan on the basis of the Lytton repqrt. The Committee of Nine- tec. - .ue body set up by the League Assembly last March to deal with the | tion alone by Congress will indicate the | success or failure of the current drive | to cut down on benefits to veterans. | The veterans' economies have al ready been referred to a joint commit- | | tee of Congress, of which Representg- | tive McDuffie of Alabama is chairman. | Mr. McDuffie is opposed to extravagant veteran benefits, and his selection as fiscal year is $104.277.554. The number | o | the disposal of this one recommenda- o But the truth is that a g Manchurian imbroglio after the Coun- cil and the Assembly had vented their full conversational desires on the sub- Ject. The reference to this so-called conciliation agency is a species of that procrastination which characterizes Geneva’'s attitude nearly every time 1t tackles a major international issue. It is what is known in this country as “passing the buck.” In diplomacy time is everything. In Oriental diplomaey it has the added virtue of aecomplishing that all-im- portant thing known as saving of face. cheirman of the committee indicates that leaders in Congress are likewise opposed and intend to do something about it. Hearings soon will begin, and | a great army of veterans will want to be heard. There are others among | them than the John Smiths, for the | John Smiths are not the only ones af- fected by the proposed cuts. The mem- bers of Congress who sit on this joint | committee know they are in for a long | and heated session. B A specimen of high ball was sub- mitted to the Ways and Means Com- | wills flabb; For nearly a year and a quarter, fol- lowing the inception of the Manchurian affair on September 18, 1931, Japan has been under fire at Geneva on the ground that its action constituted ag- mittez with a request for favorable consideration. So far beer has been the subject under consideration. It seems a little early to go into the | abstruse complications of mixed drinks. | gression against China within the meaning of the covenant. In that indictment the United States, though not a League member, has joined, tak- ing its stand on the nine-power treaty and the Kellogg-Briand pact. Amid the welter of a full year of futile diplo- matic hemming and hawing the one positive development which ensued has been the proclamation of the Stimson doctrine, enunciating the principle that the United States will not recognize 8ny international situation brought about by treaty violation. In March, 1932, the League Assembly in essence identified iteelf with the Americen pro- gram of non-recognition, with respect, of course, to the creation of the “in- dependent” State of Manchukuo under Japanese guns. Then came the appointment of the Lytton commission and, recently, its report, which found Japan guilty on all petition between the city's two street| ymportant counts. The smaller powers car gystems, both of them enjo¥ing, of the League, discussing the report in some of the protection that results from | the Assembly this week, demanded that public regulation, both of tbem suffer- | the League take the only action justified ing some of the handieaps of such regu- | ynger the circumstances and pass upon laticn, neither one of them being able | japan a verdict which would register to make both ends meet nor furnish the | tne world's protest against her conduct service it should furnish. Street €ar |y Manchuria, even if such a protest riders, instead of being taxed, through | would not cause the evacuation of that their feres, for the support of ome | territory and its restoration to China. company, must support two companies | yesterday, more or dess openly at the that to some extent overlap in service | instigation of the stronger powers, in- and build up wasteful overhead repre- | ciyding Great Britain, Prance, Italy sented in two separate and distinct of- | ang Germany, Japan’s face at Geneva ganizations. The companies should be | wag sayed, as it has been continually merged. Citizens should work to that|ang copsistently saved on each occ: end, not necessarily accepting the | gsion when the sands seemed to be run- proposition by the eompanies, not nec- | ning mgainst her. The non-recogni- essarily accepting the proposition of | tign doctrine, which nine months ago those antagonistic to the companies’ | cnlisted the League's adhesion, was not r———a | Farmers were received with the greatest consideration. With the most able economists striving to provide farm | relief it is naturally desired to have ideas that may be available from those | educated in the practical school of hard experience. —tee Einstein feels that he is doing Amer- ica a favor to come to this country as an instructor; and perhaps he is, al- though the sky is full of airships and the land is brilliant with electric lights |ns reminders that Uncle Sam can think up things on his own account. o e Belief -is expressed in legislative cir- cles that haste is undignified. This impression has been popular for a long time, but is being contradicted by ad- mirers of work done by airship and radio. r—v— Literary and scientific work are mentioned by Trotsky as occupying his attention at present. The practical applications of both literature and science are hard to explain in advance | of publication. ] - Strictness in keeping out imported |labor is widely commended. Other | nations cannot be expected to be simi- | larly rigid in discountenancing imported | employers of labor. ——————r———— 4 Japan is perfectly willing to go along | with the League of Nations so long as | mssured of the back seat driving privilege. .- SHOOTING STARS. Fplans, but seeking sensible conciliation | mentioned, although the bafed “Little of conflicting policies and principles ' Four” powers labored unceasingly for its that will make merger of some nn‘ incorporation in the resolution con- effective. | demnatory of Japan. The United States | Another source of trouble results | and Russia, both non-League members, from the fact that taxicabs, Which are to be invited, Geneva dispatches | €ennOL TOW RO ean they ever per- | state, to participate in the forthcom- | form the function of mass transporta- |ing deliberations of the Commit- | tion with which the street cars are (ee of Nineteen. But whether the charged, are snjoying the right of vir- | Washington Government will generate | tually unregulated competition with the | any emotions! enthusasm for partner- | strictly regulated strest car companies. | gnip in the game which the Lesgue of | ‘To permit this competition to continue‘ Nations is playing in the Manchurian merely because of the temporarily 1ow | gsiness is very seriously to be doubted. eab rate, itself resulting from ecut- | . BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Appetite Appeased. Looking for the old dress suit Packed away so long, Par from lecturing astute And from merry song. Saw the moth holes in & row, Openly displayed. Where food marchers chose to go On a big parade. Viewed the remnants of the feast throat competition among the cahs, is to invite the slow deterioration of street car service and resulting loss of a necessary form of transportatior ‘without providing any substitute in its place. ‘The Citizens’ Committee, under the | Chamber of Commerce, correctly con- | ceives the local transportation problem as a whole, not to be solved by one step, but by many. What Washington <ds is concerted insistence by its cit- ians that there be recogmition of the problem by official agencies, and action initiated toward its solution. ———— All the farmers appear to desire is Without ire or dread, As I saw that some, at least, Had been amply fed. Tastes of philosophers differ. Albert | Einstein is as desirous of coming to | America as G. Bernard Shaw is of | keeping away. | Swan Song. i “Just what is s lame duck?” asked The Case of John Smith. the distingulshed visitor from abroad. John Smith, s nephew of the cele- “A lame duck,” said Senator Sor- brated John Doe, was drafted in the ghum, “is a bird who mistakes himself Summer of 1918 and was preparing to for a swan and thinks he's due to sing il for France with a unit of the loudest just before he's ready to quit.’ Chemical Warfare Service when the ¥ armistice was signed. He always re-| Jud Tunkins says sometimes hard gretted his misfortune in not having | Juck gets so thick that youre afraid to ceen foreign service. But he had done | 100k cheerful for fear of being regarded his duty and before being mustersd out | 5 & hypoerite. had served ninety-one days in the uni- Time and Money, e | seme simple plan by which they may form which now hangs in mothballs in raise all they can so as to permit others | the attic. 1o eat all they need. | Two years after Smith's discharge he | i r———. | was helping to decorate the Sunday | school room for a Christmas entertain- Snow. ment. Standing on & stepladder, he There was little drama about the | yas about to weave a sprig of mistletoe coming of the first snov" of the Winter. | into the chandelier when he slipped The skies simpiy accumulated & leaden | ang fell, fracturing both arms and in- welght, then quietly let it {all. Wash- | juring himself to such an extent that ington woke to find it lezily descending. for a time it was a question whether | ‘The morning was not quite cold enough | pe would recover. He did recover, but entirely to congeal the metamorphosed (nere were complications resulting from | rain. It melted on the streets the mo- (e fractured arms. ment it touched them. But it was real * 1 June, 1030, Congress passed an snow, and as such merits an historlan. ymencment to the World War veterans' Winter, beyond all question, SO 15 | oy of 1924 which made John Bmith here. The obvious joys Which it brings .jcinie for a “disability allowance.” He | are the delight of childnood and YOulD. | \o® 1ot 1o e ity per cent disabled Sledding, skating and snow battles are o .o eyt of that fall from the step- forecast. Hockey sticks will emerge \oqjer pe had an honorable discharge from attics and cupboards. Christmas from the Army, he hsd served ninety and New Year will brighien e season |dass, he had heen mustered into the 'fwmm‘ . 1‘:‘2";', m“" ™ easts | Service previous to November 11, 1918, pleasures assqeiated with these feasts |,y g oo paig an income tax in the will warm the heart of even the least year preceding his spplication under reaponsive. The poet Cowper had (neke |, 4 yonded act and his injuries were | ;h;':;"l'::du::":(h;:;fi delights, N0t the Tesult of his own willful mis- Pireside enjoyments, home-born happi- conduct. Since thep he has been re- from the Government a ness, ceiving And all the comforts that the 1oWlY ponmly check of $18. He has a very ot m:flmrb'a retirement and the 800d job, by the way, and is happily hours married. A ©Of long, uninterrupted evening know. 1t is to the new army of John Smiths | But Winter also signifies stress and who are on the rolls of the Veterans' suffering. The poor find Nature fight- | Bureau as drawing “disability allow- | ing them. The snow complicates their ance” that the ax would be applied | problems, adds to their difficulties. The most drastically under the President’s | cold hampers and afflicts them. The recommendations for economy in the | - fey North wind, sweeping down from | Veterans' Administration—this sdmin- the Pole, brings them a burden of|istration now accounting for about peralyzing pain. All their needs are one-fourth of the Pederal budget. I ) | tol | We must debate from day to day And try to do our very best. Though for each moment of delay ‘We're charged enormous interest. Musie Critieism. “Have you heard ‘The Internation- ale'?” “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne. “How were you impressed?” “The public as well as copyright own- ers should give permission before some of these later tunes can be played.” “Admiration,” sald Hi Ho, the Sage of Chinatown, “is a token of true value, but flattery is the shakbiest of counter- feit money.” Drawing the Line, The League of Nations views the maps And counsels us aright, Remarking, “Quarrel on, dear chaps, But do not start a fight.” “De man dat jes' keeps makin’ prom- ises,” said Uncle Eben, “is bound to find hisself one o' de worst sufferers from what dey calls overproduction.” R Protective Reversion. Prom the Loulssille Courier-Journal One reason why men are said to be ¥olz: back to pipes is that the women- olks have not yet learned to master the art of rolling cigareties out of pipe cCO. Educational Cross-Currents. Prom the Rochester Times-Union. ‘What the professor said: “Basket ball viduality snd initistive.” coach said: “Get in there o do exactly as I tell you.” / ind | confusion forced regime responsible “I don't want to take your valuable tlau‘ he said, sitting down and tak- g it. Curious, how many people there seem to be who do what they say they do not want to do. If one takes them at their word it is one and if at their actions, dis- tinctly another. What is one to believe of them, their words or their actions? Actions, of course, for “actions speak louder than words.” There is a world of wisdom jn most exceptions, there is much truth in them at_bottom. i In such a case as cited above there is no intention to deceive, of course; the fellow says v2at he says out of liteness’ sake, bec:ise il sounds good, and is the usual thing to say He does not expect any one to pay any attention to what he says. He would be’tremendously surprised if any one seriously accused him of saying one thing and doing another. reat many human beings far too little value suiting the action to the word. Words, with them, are merely words. not things, and they siing them around in the most careless way. Probably it is because mankind, as a mass, dis- covered this a very long time ago that the world today possesses contracts and the like. The sanctity of the signature, the bin®ng power of contracts, are the only possible answers to the habit of mind which is willing to say one thing. for whatever reason, and then do pre- | cisely the opposite, without ado or thought about it, one way or the other. | The rezl danger of saying one thing and doing another, however, is not to other people, but to one’s self. It spells incecision. And indecision is a great basic disesse of our day, cn~ which cuts into the moral fibre of peoples and renders their y. A flabby will means that one is never sure of what he wants, or which way | he is going. | What is wois?, in some ways, is that he is never satisfied. no matter | what he gets, or which way he goes. | Always the thing he did not acquire looks better to him, the road he failed to take appears more alluring. Perhaps this is why one hears so many men say, in confidence, that “if they had it ail to do over again” they would go into some other business than the one they are in. They don't mean it, of course, at| least not exactly the way it sounds. but | there is enough truth behind the state- | ment to show up the indecision which | causes it. It gets back to a flacid will, caused by indecision. in turn caused. in part, | by 2 bad habit of saying one thing and | doing another. 3 | No doubt many human beings would | be more sure of themselves, and thus | happier persons to live with themselves, | if they were more scrupulous in match- | ing their words and their actions. How much better it would have been | for the gentleman quoted above, if, instead of having said he did not want | to “take one'’s valuable time.” and then | sitting down d taki it, had frankly stated that he ‘something | to explain, or a favor to ask. | A small chan surely, but an im- poseible cne for the mind which hap- pens to “run that way.” | _ One may think that there is, always, in such cases, an ingrained intent to deceive. In such a slight case it may make no | difference, but in a larger instance it | might make a very great deal of dif- ference. It brings one squarely around to the realization that there are, basieally, | more, b | | two great divisions of mankind, con- taining those who are honest, and those who are dishonest. | ‘The proportions of these groups are | | widely different. | "No matter how many persons one knows, or meets, he will be fortunate | if he runs into one in the former divi- sion to a hundred, or maybe a thou- | sand, in the latter. ‘There is no animal quite so rare as a truly honest man, with whom one has | no fear. A great many persons have never met injuries directly | sugh homely aphorisms. While they are | 5,ch a person. hence they are mot to | not universally applicable, having many | pe blamed, perhaps, he does not exist | Unfortunately, if one believes only in | mankind in the’dishonest classification. one will tend to meet fire with fire, and | be dishonest. to a greater or less de- | gree, one’s self. It must be kept in mind that dishon- esty does not mean money cishonest From some standpoints that is a minor virtue. There is & whole wide world |of dishonesty outside that limited sphere, in which the wayfarer meets | some curious specimens. | There is that curious bird, the man |or woman who ndver buys anything | for himself or herself, but invariably for the benefit of some one else, at | least so he or she says. Even if he is well off, in the worldly sense, he shrinks from admitting, espe- | cially to himself, that he is. spending ! on_himself. | So he purchases something or other | ostensibly for some one else, but usu- | ally manages to get as much good out of it as they do, which is not surpris- ing, seeing that every one else is fully aware of the fact that he bought it for himself in the first place Then there are a great many per- sons who have alibi babies. They can't do so and so, b&luse baby has to have & new pair of shoes; if they want a new car, they do not buy it because they want a mnew car, that and nothing “because the children neeu fresh afr. There are shcals of persons who are dishonest witih themselves about a thousand matters, no onz of which makes any real difference. ‘They “save their face” to themselves, and that seems to be all that matters with them. “There is, however, a pleasure in being one’s personal motives, 50 on. | Occasionally one runs into such a | human being. It hastily should be stated that never is he the type which confuscs honesty of mind and purpese with “frankness” of tongue. Most often the latter is sheer nasti- | ness, just as “temperament” is mostly a nasty disposition. The typical honest man simply does not fool himself, that is all, ncr make any attempt to fool others, even by the usual use of conventional phrases, such as utterly trivial, and calling for no such formality. ‘The honest man never finds it neces- sary to say, “Oh, I don't want to take your last cigarette.” The cigarette is offered, it happens to be the last one in the packet. he accepts it with thanks and smokes it. But the members of the great primary group of the dishon- est invariably make a great hullabaloo about “taking’the It shows their inherent dishonesty, their suspicion | lurking under the form< of politeness. Show us & man who t:<es .~ last cig- arette without a word of apoiogy and we will show you an honest man. But you will have a long way to go to find him. Out of 100 men tested recently for assuming that | strictly honest with one’s self abour | desires and beg your pardon,” for offenses | iy THE LIBRARY TABLE BY SARAH G. BOWERMAN. | “I am going to die * * * and unfortu- | nately you and your children are the only living souls that beaf my name. | Nant Escob has been in the family’s s possession for seven hundred years. * * * It is mine to dispose of absolutely, Ihave often debated what I should do with it, | and have come to the decision that my | duty to the name must outweigh my | like you as little as I liked your | father.” In this way Griffith Tregaron, in Francis Brett Young's novel. “The | House Under the Water,” is notified by ' his kinsman, old Col. Tregaron. of his| inheritance of the long, low stone house | of Nant Escob and 17 square miles of Welsh mountain, moor, forest and tor- rential streams. It is difficult for an author to create an original character ! in fiction. If results indicate anyth: 4 most novelists do not even attempt Francis Brett Young has, howeves . | achleved originality in the character of Tregi | Griffith 0l inality and con- | vincingness at the same time—for | Tregaron is no mere imaginary eccentric. | He is a real person. as his daughter says of him, “a lovable man in some wa; quite hateful in others.” Son of a Welsh Tregaron and a Provencale peasant, hating his father from child- hood because their temperaments werc too much alike, he began his none too savory life of independence and ad- venture when, at the age of 15, he ran away from school and shipped as a sailor on a coasting schooner. When the story of his later life begins he is | 45 and has never seen the home of his ancestors until the visit to Nant Escob | at the summons of his dying kinsman | He is a red-headed, melancholy-eyed. stocky Tregaron, resembling some of the family portraits of Tregarons of | | past centuries. He is by nature a "‘boundrr." a “plunger.” is excessively proud and resents both his short stature and his mother’s peasant origin because they make him feel inferior, He is suspicious of every one, excent the wife whom he has always neglected and insulted, but to whom he always returns in times of need. He is a di: agreeable. quarrelsome neighbor. a di trustful, tricky elient for his lawyers, 2 mean man to do business with, and an utterly irresponsible husband and father. He is and always has heen obsessed by women and has never been discrimi- | | pating in his numerous affairs. | | * % ok ok The story of “The House Under the | Water” is the story of the rapid vibra- tion of Griffith Tregaron between po erty and wealth, his wild and unrea soning speculat.ons, his delusions o grandeur, his frequent, sugden flaches of canniness almost amounting to gen- ius, his extravagances, his brutalities, and his final retribution. When he un- | expectedly finds himself transformed from a tenant farmer in the Midlands to a landed proprietor in Wales, his excitement is intense and he plunges | emotionally and ignorant! into the usiness of farming and sheep raising |in his mountain domain. At the first evidences of Nature's hostility, when his grain is destroyed by floods and his sheep are killed fn a blizzard, he im- patiently deserts Nant E:cob, leaving his sons to quarrel over it, and rushes into South African gold speculation. A fortune is made—and seattered. A new fortune comes to him through the sale of his ldnds and streams to the North Bremwich Corporation for giant dams and reservoirs, and Nant Escob be- comes “the house under the water,” when the last reservoir is finished, This | fortune is put into an investment cor- poraztion and a mine, after Tregaron, | more inflated than ever, has first pur- |chased Stoke Priory, the estate on . | return tage. );ersaml feelings. Let me be candid. | A“m’?fimg J. Haskin, Director, | proxim ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Did you ever write a letter to Pred- question (:r fact and get the answer in cational jdea introduced into the lives | of the most intelligent people in the | world—American newspaper readers. It is a part of that best purpose of a newspaper—service. There is no charge except 3 cents in coln or stamps for Do not use postcards. The Evening Star Information Bureau, ‘Washington, D. C. Q. How many Christmas trees are cut for the market in Canada’—S. B. A. About 4,000.000. New York City alone takes about 700,000 or 800,000. Q. Who are the smallest foot ball players on the Notre Dame team f 1932?—M. F. P. | A. According to the varsity foot ball roster cf the University of Notre Dame 1932 squad. the smallest players are Robert Daniel Knappman and Laurie Vel}Ir. both of whom are 5 feet 6 inches tall. Q. How old a man is this Prof. Moley who is adviser to President-elect Roose- velt and how did Roosevelt acquire him?—G. M. H. A. Prof. Moley is 46 and it might be said that Mr. Roosevelt inherited him from his predecessor as Governor of New York, for the professor an un- official adviser of Gov. Alired E. Smith. Q. Is there & Pederal law dealing with inflg: letter. Here is a great edu- | (number of the population of thé | erfe J. Haskin? You can ask him any | world?—J. M. R. | A. Rats are considered the most gen- eral pest in existe: Q. How will the new Chicago Post Office compare with others in size? —H. B. A. It will be the largest offic building in the world. N com: pleted the structure will contain ap- ately 2,309.000 square feet of floor sp: covering an area of c- |Heally 50 acres. It will be 800 feet long, 350 feet wide, and 200 feet high, It will have nine storles in the rear and 12 stories in front. Q. How much will the Lakes to the Atlantic Waterway cost?—F. J . Estimates range {rom $543,000,000 $1,250,000,000. to | Q. How far should a woman stand ifrom a mirror to se: hersclf a: she ! would appear to a person standing four | feet away from her?—S. G. A: | "A. She chould stand two fest from | the mirror. The distence to be con- | #idered is the tolz] distance traversed ;.r/ t)llht between the eye and the ob- ect. Q. Does a sin?—| A. Ga g is not mentioned. The casting of lots, which is a form of | gambling. is spoken of many times in | the B and apparently without criticism. Q. Where do the people, who live in Washingtofi, D. C.. vote in presidential the Bible ;ny that gambling P.C. M mmatory talks over the air?—J. Cc.B. eleciions?—M. D. B. A. The Pederal Radio Commission| A. Oniy such persons as have actual | says there is not such a statute. The | residence in other States while engaged | courts have held, however, that parties |in government or other business re- are responsible for slander spoken over quiring their temporary residence in the air but this is a matter of local civil | Washington can vot>. ~ This situation jurisdiction. The commission has, in a |results in the fact that in a popula- number of cases, held that a broadcast- | tion of nearly 600.000 people, approxi= ing station should maintain a certain | mately only 50,000 or 60,000 have a program standard and if “wild” shpe(chen | right to vote. arc made over the air or other ex- T | tremely bad programs offered, the com- | Q. What types of aircraft does the mission has said that such’ programs Navy use?—R. P. |are not in the public interest. Other| 'A. Tite various types in the naval | than holding the station respoasible in the United States are: a way for furnishing a program which , ambulance, general | cannot be said to be in the public in- | observation. patrol, terest, the commission has no direct authority. | | N Q. Can the Senate convene in exira session without the House of Repre- sentatives?—L. T. A. It may convene in extra session upon call of the President without the House. Mist"? 2 A. A wild race of Scotch Highland- |ers in Scott's Legend of Montrose. ;Landszc.‘ has painted a picture with the zame title in this manner, only two came through | which he was once a tenant farmer with fiying colors, They, were, indeed, | with all its furnishings, tapestries and .;;:;un of their fate, captains of their old masters. But by this tims a very Von SclIleicher Behind Politics in Germany Gen. Kurt von Schleicher, who has been appointed as chancellor of Ger- many, is believed to be & more forceful | figure than his predecessors because of his personal influence with all classes in the country. He is celled the power behind the government and a new “Iron Chancellor.” His interests are identi- fied with those of the Mongrchist party, and it 1s concluded in this country that he may have a long term f office. “He doubtless realizes,” according to the Charleston (S. C.) Evening Post, | % “that he must govern without parlia- mentary authority or support, if he is to govern at all; that there must be, in fact, a virtual dictatorship estab- lished. If the old warrior at the head of the government has made up his mind to see that through, and if Von Schleicher is the man be is supposed to be, the movement of the German republic toward the Right and on the Ay to a restored, if modified, monarchy would seem to have begun.” * % x % He is called “a bundle of contradie- tions” by.the Cincinnati Times-Star, which offers the explanation: “Though generally believed be a Monarchist at heart, he has dismissed all talk of & Hohenzollern restoration as ‘idle chat- ter” A maker and breaker of cabinets, he vet opposed the undemocratic changes that Von Papen would have made in the Weimar constitution, A member of the Junker group, he has managed to win the friendship of the trades unions and the support of the Center parties, as well as the admira. tion of several Hitler lieutenants. The sum of all these opposites seems to be a genius for getting things done. Whether Von Schleicher’s efficiency | roduces a military dictatorship, with ts ever-present threat of revolution, or the miracle of a working German co- alition, is on the knees of Wotan. At the moment he seems more likely than any other man to unite Germany in the task of economic reconstruction, as he is the only one capable of handling Hitler.” : “Representing the = militarist and Junker class,” in the opinion of the Akron Beacon Journal. “the new chan- cellor will give only mock devotion to the forms of the republic, with its fic- tion of popular rule. nation seems to want a sirongly cen- tralized government, it will probably be better served by Chancellor von Schleicher than by the restless and am- bitious Hitler. Europe knows what to expect from the caste that the chan- cellor represents. Its nerves would have been eternally on edge if the alien and uncertain Hitler had been elevated to power, backed by the motley aggrega- tion of fell just short of controlling its recent election. it is essy to risk the predicticn that by no warrant of the Parliament or the ballot box will he be beoted out. If his authority is disputed the next step | will be the restoration of the throne, with some member of the house of Hohenzollern called to the succession. By their indifference to the progress of autoeratic plottings the German peo- ple condoned this transition, and they will have to abide its ultimate effect upon their civic fortunes.” L It is reassuring to the Baltimore Sun “that the German people themselves are showing a measurable stability in the face of kaleidoscopic political changes,” and that paper infers “that the funda- mental Teuton solidity has not been broken up.” The Louisville Courier- Journal sees “everything cut and dried” for the present regime, snd offers the analysis: “The Von Papen ministry was | doomed from the start, There was no hofl that it would get to first base with solid opposition against it. The general elections last month, however, demon- strated that the Reichstag could not organize a stable ministry and that it would not support sny ministry which might be named. Its own division and an extra-parliamentary only to President von possible revealed to Tregaron that he is suffering from a progressive disease of the nervous system, and that “Na- eannot replace nervous tissue.” 3 final lapse of his * fortunes o | professional specialist has as kingly s Called Force There are several duties which | Q. Is it necessa; 'y to take a r devolve upon the Senate that do not | ., = require the concurrence of the House of | Gogls %, mPing OF Thing Sehy Representatives. A. There is no need for a revolver as a weapon for protection. It is neces- !Q' AF‘,'“Ade“m of the same shade | ;ory 5 get a permit to take & revolver O O ey aré hor. The skin is of vari- | OF Pistol into Canada. and a permit to carry either one. Unless a person ex- shades of brown, tinged in youth, Fticularly in the cheeks, with the red pects to hunt, a firearm is an unneces- Of the circulating blood. New-born in- | “8FY encumbrance fants aze of varying shades of dusky red.| Q. Wasn't the | gotten Man” used in earlier political Q. What is a wash-bear?—R. L. speeches in the United States tham A. It is a raccoon. those of Gov. Roosevelt?—A. M. sex== A. In 1883 Willlam Graham Sumner, then professor of political and social science at Yale University, described “The Forgotien Man.” Prior to that A. The principle of the rocket de- the term had been used by Byron, and upon Newton's third law, which | still earlier it was used in a poem states that to every action there is an | called “The Common Lot.” equal and opposite reaction. As each ~ rocket explodes it propels the carrier | . Do animal traincrs cominate ani- forward, the faster the escape of the mals by hypnotism?—D. R. gas from the rocket, the more reaction | A. Scientists do no. .ueve ‘that the or kick it gets. In an experiment, a janimals are hypnoil.c They are rocket was placed in a long specially idomlnlt:d by fear or kin ) Bom constructed tank. The air was ex- | times trickery enters into thc methods hausted to 1-15,000 of atmospheric | employed. \pressure, and the roc:z: v‘:fl. ?fléi ‘The Q pressure registering e indicated | Q How not only that the rocket ¢id not de- Ings be started?—H. W- B pend at all on the pressure of the at- | A Bankruptey actions are b“"“‘ by | mosphere to push against, but that a | mflfllm of a w&goz;:mmw ey | rocket exerts 20 cent me Lifting | adju a titi ¥ be per | power in a vacuum in air. I of & debtor on, of his cred- Q What pest affects the greatest | itors 2, oy High Lights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands | Q. Is it necessary for a rocket to have air to push against when pro- pelled by explosion?—L. B. may " bankruptcy proceed- | ERLINER LOKAL ANZEIGER.—| Women May Get Jan Johansen, the Bouth Pole| Vote in Argentina. whale hunter, returning home afler a long journey, ived in the port of Christiania, Nor- way. His family, of course, were very ‘Tregaron's family is second only in: anxious to see him again, and not less | curious to see what he might bring i'll.h him from the wet regions. Nor- | way, as you know, is very dry. for his part, had considered the er carefully. think it will work all right,” he said to himself, as he packed an as- sortment of bottles containing cognac, Hollands and schnapps, together with some other exotic delicacies into a roomy basket. On top of all this he put his beautiful, big, black tomeat. Then securcly fastening the lid, he cauntered down the gangplank, a smile on his face and the basket on his arm. He seemed like a homecoming tourist, glad to be again on “dry” land. His friends waited hopefully in the background. But they felt a little ner- proposition whatsoever which does not | have its defenders and opponents, it is to be expected that this subject has not | progressed without debate in our sister | republic, not only in the X tive { bodies, but in the discussions of ail the people. In so much, however, as the proposal has now passed the Chamber of Deputies, and _is awaiti action by the Senate, the afguing is a more serfous turn and jocular allusions to the innovation are not so frequent. Relative to conjectures as to what the women of Argentina Will do with the ballot, if bestowed, there is, never- theless, much uncertainty. It is claim- ed by opponents. of the measure that she will be dominated by her husband, | father, or some other masculine relative, But since the | | | | and his health comes at the same time. In passing, notice thould be taken oi the skillfully drawn physicians in the bt | novels of Prancis Brett Young, himself s |a practicing physician in South Deyon | Hindenburg, who gslone has the support | @nd a medical officer in East Africa cf the majority of the le.” | during the World War, before he n “Many Germans believe.” cbserves the to devote himself entircly to writing. |New York Sun, “that Von Schleicher | Nearly every one of Dr. Breit Youngs | constituted the real power of the pre- | recent novels introduces some intere:t- vious adminjstration and say they would | Ing (from the medical standpoint) dis- rather deal, with a principal than with | ease, whose symptoms are described | & subordinate masquerading as princi- | With considerable detail, but never to | pal. Moreover, Von Papen's failure to such an extent as to exchange artistic develop even a show of parliamenta; ‘ror pathological values. | support would have made his reappoint- | * X x & !:?::n:ufceh':lt an wmecessary affront to| | ag. It can at least be said | interest to himself. behalf of the new cabinet that it Lucrezia, of the nzub‘hu.’}‘::l);g‘; came into power after the exhaustion | family of the Roecaneras, solid, poised, of reasonable efforts to form a coalition | resembling the statue of a Caesar, con- cabinet representing a majority of the | tains hidden fires of jealousy (for her | Reichstag. It can be argued that when | children, not on account of Tregaron's driven to make choice between adminis- | infidelities) and intrigues . unserupu- | rative chaos on the one hand and | lously for them. Otherwise her calm authoritarian stability on the other the | fatalism in the face of all the vicissi- !presldfl:'. took the course which he be- | tudes that life and ‘Tregaron have | lieved to be to the best interest of the brought her is undisturbed. Rob, the German people& | eldest son, by his common sense and * % & 3 | capability justifies Tregaron's suspicior: Several papers pay tribute to the | that, though the child of a first wife, patriotism of Von Hindenburg, as Ger- | he is not a Tregaron. Gerald is a: man executive, and to the capacity of ' pleasure-loving as Rob is hard-working, von Schleicher. The Oakland Tribune and as tricky as Rob is honest, as declares that *the republic has been | predestined for failure as Rob is for | torn by many factions, but in the center | suecess. Virginia, whose only asset is | of things the old general, who is of the | | old order of empire. has been the bul- wark of its strength.” The Chicago Dally News believes that “Germany’s | foreign relations should be more stable than when Hitler seemed to be in a | position to precipitate a crisis.” The | | Atlanta Journal concludes as to the President: “To the older soldier, duty and loyalty are supreme. Happy the | nation where such ideals survive.” | |, "In one sense” thinks the Rochester Times-Union, “the new appointment is '-n e;o‘r‘w;a:m to 'h;oh Tfie liberal ele- yman itics. The presi- dent obviously wished to relalnpvon Papen. But the former chancellor was | anathema to the trades unions and to | labor generally. His reappointment would have been an incitement to these Toups. And so0 he eliminated himself Tom the list of possibilities. Moreover, Von Schleicher has not reappointed Baron von Gayl, minister of the interior. ;n}: mti:)}lorw:wmxm with vniousl‘ ifying the German con- stitution, in the interest of the conserv- | ftive elements. His disappearance may | be taken as & sign that no immediat constitutional changes are in the wind. ———— i . . | Epitome of Foreign Debt Situation | To the Editor of The Star: | As Will Rogers says, “I only know | what I see in the papers.” Certainly | Black Shirts and grievances that | 8 high percentage of the American | Flebbe) people form their opinions on national the daily papers. For that reason, permit me to present what in my judgment constitutes a epitome of the entire foreign debt situ | tion, a perusal of which leads to an | inevitable conclusion: Owe Us _Armament Dec. 15 Expenditure Pet. $19,261,430 $466,960,000 2,400 95.500,000 465,255,000 500 2,125,000 33,303,000 1,500 1,245,437 248,946,500 19,900 Country | Prance. . Britain. . Belgium. | Italy ... money from my neighbors with which to repel invaders from my pri y and protect my family, and now pleaded in- ability to repay the loans, st the same time spending from five to nearly two hundred times the amount of the loans annually in building spite fences, stone walls, ditches and barred gates, what would be the inevitable conclusions which my friends would reach? HENRY MACE PAYNE. ot No Discount for Time Of. From the New York Sun. ‘The cost of medical eare in the United her beauty, makes of it a cult for the purpose of securing a desirable husband. She overplays her hand, wins only a third prize, and slumps early into middle - aged embonpoint. Diana, swarthy, passionate, musical, fiercely envies Virginia her beauty and is bitter toward everybody and everything, until happiness makes her selfishly contented. Philippa, the youngest daughter, is the one whose life we follow with most interest. Her childlikeness and longi: or high romance linger to her thirties, and her love for the Dol Escob valley, Radnor Forest, and the crouching lion shape of Forest Pawr we know will endure as long as she lives. All the minor characters of “The House Under | the Water” are also entirely real—the Delahayes of Glan Elan; the Wieners, Jewish financiers and new landowners in Wales; the single-minded-young en- gineer, i the sentimental but crafty Jewish-Italian business ma Vero Red Pugh, sly Welsh peasan who acts as informer for Tregaron and Gerald, and Evan Vaughan, dreamer and master of the farm, Trenant, who is so_close to the valley of Dol Escob that he is almost.a part of it. He says to Phil: “They (the North Bromwich Corporation) can never own it; Forest Fawr belongs to its ravens and Kkites and buzzards; to the ghosts of the men who have fought over it and toiled in it —and just two living people; a Vaughan and a Tregaron.” * K ok Beulah Marie Dix (Mrs. George H. wrote college themes about | Roundheads and Cavaliers, and after Now that Von Schleicher is in | problems from day-to-day scanning of ' she leit college wrote novels about | them—"Hugh Gwyeth,” “The Making of Christopher Ferringham,” “PFighting Blade,” and others. Her last novel, “Pity of God,” departs from her tra- dition of historical fiction, and tells of the happenings of one day in the life of a California family, the Vickers. They are all together in the home in S Andreas Canyon one Sunday in | —Joe Vickery and his wife Ethel | and their three children; Joe's widowed | sister, Cornelia; his secretary, Monica, |and Ethel’s father, Capt. Pryor. There If. a few years ago, I had borrowed | are also the two servants, Hertha snd Mary, and the chauffeur, Wesley. Su- perficially this seems a happy, prosper- ous family in a charming home. But the author, who is omniscient, knows better. Joe is really tired of his tact- | less wife, and in love with his secre- tary; Ethel is blundering badly in her treatment of her son, Rob and her daughter Rosamond is on the road to mental derangement if her day dreams are not discovered and checked; Cor nelia, who has recently lost her daugh- ter, is haunted by the urge to suicide. Altogether the Vickery family well fl. lustrates that “things aYe not what seem.” ‘There is a dramatic cli- States is put at $3,650,000,000 a year, waiting rooms. Ywithout counting time spent in doctors’ | fii meY, ‘entiely odiside "the Yariaus con cting emotions, fn which elemental nature provides the eatastrophe, ng | “felis domestica.” and that instead of expressing her own vous. Between them and Jan Johansen | will at the polls, she will merely by the stood. all on the alert, the grim customs | instrument whereby some gentleman in officer. Jan was just about to put his | her personal esteem will be possessed foot on shore when he hrard a stern | of two votes instead of one. voice inquire, in accents of ambiguous| Reforms in many policies of govern- | authority, “What have you got in that ment and economics ate sorely needed basket? Take off the cover! {in Argentina, and also many sociai and The official stepped forward to ac-| moral reforms. In these last-named celerate that exposition, but no sooner | the unhampered vote of the | was the lid detached than, “Wipp!” out | woman would most probably be for up- | Jumped that fine black specimen of | lift and improvement, but whether she Away darted the cat | can determine wisely for herself and the along the wharf, Jan with his basket in | country the issues reiative to finance, | hard pursuit. Soon he captured the | tariff, taxation, commerce and industry | animal anq stowed him back in the is another matter. wicker. i Like their sisters in otiser Latin coun- . “Want to see him again?” was his| iries, the women cf Argentina have been impertinent query of the customs of- | entirely detached from commercial and ficer, who was now regarding him dis- | industrial pursuits—at least, the women dainfully. “Raus mit ihnen! Machen who will be most likely to exercise the sle dass sie weitcrkommen!” “Get out!|franchise when they obtain it. They Be on your way!” was the growled re- | are perfect novices in their comprehen- sponse. * ok ok ok District Libraries Closed in Glasgow. The Evening Times, Glasgow.—The Libraries Committee of Glasgow Cor- poration decided to close five district libraries to give effect to the corpora- tion decision that the depertment must reduce expenditure by £5.000. The li- braries are Gorbals, Pollokshiclds, Den- nistoun, Couper Institute and part of the Stirling Library. Mr. Pitt, the city librarian, informed & Times man that timely notice would be given to the public as to the date of the closing of the librarics, and he 2dded that there would be a limiied | number of suspensions as a re: the closing. oK K ok | Education of Girls | Btressed in India. Bombay Chronicle—In the course |of a lengthy address on the oc- | casion of the women's conference held at the Hyderabad residence, Mrs. Key- nes felt strongly that the education of ls was not being built on the right 'oundstions. The foundation upon which | the whole superstructure rested was the | home, and the corner stone of the home was the mother. Mothers had the | power in their own hands from the very start—to use badly or well. an’s home was the growing place for the new generation—there was inclina- tion to leave all the responsibility to others—to school authorities, to ig- norant ayahs, to doctors called in when the children were ill, The mothers realized that their girls | must be educated—but having sent their children to school, they thought | that their responsibility ended. The | home was the place where all the | eharacter was formed, where all the influences should be found, and where the health of the child should be built up. | lic offictals spend {sion of business affairs, but this is s ‘ddm which we believe they will not be slow in correcting, for women no- whese else have clearer vision or more innate intelligence. It is hoped that feminine suffrage in | Argentina will promptly lead to a gen- | eral exodus of radiczl and self-centered |elements in the two legislative bodies. | Feminine influence in 1930 furnished the | impetus for the reforms which brought on a new era in pelitical agende. and |civic tendencies. If this stmiulus was felt then, befoie it could be fortified with concrete expression of opinion, it is likely that the Argentine woman in s will be significant, irctead of a tuent in the hatlonal r decisions will ng and reducing and in all in- Dollars and Farming. From the Schenectady Gazette. What's the use? You can't start farming without a thousand dollars, and if you have that much it isn’t necessary to farm. | ! Domestic Harmony. | Prom the Toledo Blade. Many a husband, knowing n |of music, learns he can produce rea) | gnd;mmy in the home by playing second e. | PSR S Taxpayers and Spenders. From the Sioux Palls Daily Argus-Leader. Everything would be lovely if citizens could pay their taxes as easily as pub- the money. Hard Times Universal. n-uAm the mfi"fi“ Times-Dispateh. m‘ that b say tions have been