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A-S THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘WEDNESDAY. . December 14, 1832 The Evening Star N Business Ofice: 11th_St. and Pennsylvania Ave. Che Oice: Lak Michies B Ene. cago Office: Lake Michigan Bul b g4 Regent 8t. London. Englan Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evening Star 45¢ per month © Evening and Sidiy Star § n 4 Sundays). at thy rs may be sent in by mal Ordes or telephone NAtional 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. 2 Y e i mo. e a7 8oy Bundar:.:135: *ie00: 1mo. sac unday only 135 36.00; 1mo.. 4o All Other States and Canada. afly and Sunday...1yr. $12.00: 1mo. $1.00 1 1 iyr, $800; 1mo., T8¢ Bl omy 135, $5.00; 1mo. 80c ‘Member of the Assoclated Press. ciated Press 1s exclusively entitled Lo the \ise for Tepublication of all news die- rllchu credited to 1t gr lxlfll ?;12"1:5'-] ;l':'l?; also N Ciiihed nerera: All Tlahts of publication of ublish herein. e herein are also reserved. special dispstches — France to Default. With the force of a profound shock comes news that the French Chamber of Deputies has overthrown Premier Herriot’s government and that in con- sequence France will deiault on her $20,000,000 interest inst-.iment due in Washington tomorrow. Let it be rald at once that American emotions with regard to this unexpected development are merely emotions of surprise and regret. No one in France can imagine that her action fails to awaken dis- pleasure in the United States, but that Frenchman would be equally wide of the mark who thinks that American reprisals will now be the order of the day. The Americen Navy will not be sent to the Southern Atlantic to seize Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Mar- tinique, St. Pierre and Miquelon. The French Parliament, presumably reflec- tive of public Bentiment, has made its bed. It will be the disposition of the United States Government and the ‘American people to let France lie in it and to let her accept whatever con- sequences logically follow the choice she has made. Meantime, there will be nothing but admiration for the gallant, though futile, fight waged by Premier Herrio to save what he rightly termed “the honor of France's signature” by tender- ing the December 15 payment and al- lowing the future to take care of itself. The Chamber of Deputies voted down the government's proposal by 402 to 187. ‘Thereupon, in accordance with French parliamentary practice, M. Her- riot and his cabinet resigned, toppled from power by & more than two-to-one vote of no confidence. The premier’s appeal to the Chamber to respect the sanctity of France's plighted word; not to “break the Franco-British front”; not to belleve that the French treasury in reality is incapable of accounting to the United States for a sum, which, rel- atively speaking, is but & budget flea- bite—all these arguments fell on ears deaf to any plea which neglected to provide that, in paying tomorrow,’ France should do so only on condition that the United States agreed before- hand to an intergovernmental war debts conference. This country firmly de- clined to enter into any such commit- ment. * Belgium will follow the lead of her French. ally and protector, and also default on this week's obligation. Great Britain and Italy will pay. The British will attach an “understanding” on their part that their $95,000,000 payment is & contribution of a “capital sum” on account of s readjusted total debt. There 18 no occaslon for the United States to refuse the British money just because it is tendered with that string to it, as long as there is lacking any explicit American acceptance of the proviso, In his final note to Great Britain, Secretary Stimson indicated the entire willingness of the Wash- ington Government to join with Britain in a fresh survey of the whole subject of war debts, with special reference to the British debt. This survey would be made in connection with “preparation for the International Economic Con- ference.” It involves no binding ad- vance pledges on America’s part, but 1t registers a certain progression in the United States’ position, which hitherto had specically excluded debts from the scope of the forthcoming economic con- ference. As to certain points the French must henceforward be assured. When the time comes, as come it must, sooner or later, in that form or this, for a re- view, 1 not revision, of the whole debt structure, events of the hour make it obvious to the point of certainty that debtors who paid face a far better pros- pect of leniency at, American hands than debtors who defauited. The Brit- ish have submitted an immeasurably more convincing case for their inability to pay $95,000,000 than have the French for their incapacity to turn over $20,- 000,000, The possessor of the second largest gold reserve in the world can sccount for $20,000,000 without peril to its financial safety. The French Chamber knows that as well as anybody else, —_——————————— As modern economics have developed, 1t sometimes becomes necessary to in- quire whether some of the political organizations have departed from the | original Constitution and by-laws and become rackets. ————s Near beer has come to be regarded #s a chronological description as well Bs & trade title. —_———————— Panic and Courage. Yesterdsy’s episode in the House of Representatives, when an armed man interrupted the proceedings from the gallery, demonstrated two psychological phenomena, the mass movement of fear and the individual action of courage. When the intruder arose, with gun in hand, and, starting to clamber over the railing, cried out his demand for the privilege of the floor for a twenty-min- ute speech, there was an instantaneous break for the doors on the part of all but & handful of the members. They did not stop to question the sincerity of the invader, did not pause to consider whether he would carry out Ris threat -nh‘(arwcs-someonenmut him. They went away from there at once and in & hurry. Just a few re- mained. Two of these, a man and & woman, walked over to the point where the trespasser was hanging on the gal- lery rall, gun in hand, and the man, Representative Maas of Minnesota, calmly called to him, “Throy me your gun and Il see that you get twenty minutes.” Alongside of him stood the woman member, Representative Rogers of Massachusetts. The man in the gal- lery hesitated and then dropped the gun into the waiting hands. That ended the situation save for the arrest of the intruder and the subsequent rather sheepish return of the fleeing members. No one can blame those who fled. th. | Their reaction was natural in the cir- cumstances. It was highly fortunate that two of the members of the penic- stricken body kept cool and by their | intervention prevented a tragedy. It | does not matter that the young man later declared that he had no intention of shooting. He right well have done so in the excitement of his emotional outburst, which was checked by the as- | surance that he would be given the privilege of speech if he disarmed. The very movement of the members for the doors was calculated to precipl- tate the threatened catastrophe. The trigger finger is a nervous one that might easily in this instance have flick- ered to a tragic pressure. But the quiet voice from the floor was just the ele- ment needed to ease the tension. Thus | quick reasoning and bravery averted | disaster. po SRR Relief in an Emergency. The Bureau of the Budge has acted | promptly in forwarding to Congress the Commissioners' request for a deficfency appropriation of $1,250,000 to augment the almost depleted funds of the Board of Public Welfare for emergency rellef to the unemployed. The money to be appropriated represents District reve- nue. It is to be hoped that the Ap- propriations Committees of House and Senate, realizing the serious condition confronting some 6,000 familles in this city, dependent almost entirely upon this source of Telief, will be able to act immediately. The scale of relief administered to the unemployed from this fund has been cut and cut again. Decent stand- erds of living have gone by the board. A decent standard of living no longer figures as a measuring rod by which to determine the amount of rellef that can be given. The amount of relief is deter- mined altogether by the amount of money available for relief. When it is understood that there are families, with children, subsisting on & bare $4.70 & week, and that even this amount cannot be continued unless the supply of funds is increased, the need is so obvious that it cannot be disputed. The Commissioners cut the Board of Public Welfare's request for $1,500,000 to $1,250,000. Their decision was dic- tated, in turn, by the slim margin be- tween a balanced local budget at the end of the current fiscal year and a deficit, which under the law cannot be incurred. But even the million and & half dollars estimated by the Board of Public Welfare has been termed inadequate. It is to be remembered that this money is intended to last not only through the current fiscal year but to be spread over the next fiscal year—at least until Congress comes back in December a year from now for its regular session. The budget just sent to Congress does mot include & penny for public relief. It is obvious, therefore, that the District is not cross- ing bridges before it comes to them, and, in addition, is apparently taking no account of the fact that the bridges ere in existence and will have to be crossed. The fact that Congress con- trols the purse strings and that Con- gress does not remain in session the year round should be given careful con- sideration during the hearings on the appropriation bill for 1934. The alarm- ing increase’ in the number of appli- cants for relief and the fatlure of the Comunity Chest to obtain its quota should lead to further study of what is going to be done to assure relief, and actually to prevent starvation, should the amount now sought by the Com- missioners prove, as alleged, to be in- adequate. ‘This problem should be solved in advance and after careful deliberation. It is not one to be solved by snap judgment. In the meantime Congress should see that the money now sought is imme- diately made available. After that the question of future policy can be studied. ‘The suspicion of strangers has become 50 great that even Santa Claus may have to come into the District of Columbia under police escort. —————— Useful Latin. Nowadays Latinists are generally sup- posed to be at a discount. No one boasts of his Latin any more. On the contrary, people are a trifle ashamed of any knowledge of that great old tongue that they may have, or they pretend to be ashamed of it—which amounts to the same thing. Latin began to go out of fashion when business became respectable. That was several generations ago, and in our own time it has been & positive vogue to ridicule the language of Caesar and Cicero. Of course, schoolboys always have complafned about it, but there was little anticipation that the day would dawn when their antip2thy would be shared by men no longer young enough to hate anything as strenuously as they did the Gallic Wars and the Orations. However, the fateful hour struck at last. The notion got abroad that Latin was no ald whatever in the game of dollar catching. In- deed, it was supposed that Latin was & handicap in that all-engaging occupa- tion. But when Dr. Julian D. Taylor of Colby College, Maine, went to his eternal reward the other day it was re- lm!mhered that he had believed that | Latin is helpful “in playing the stock | market.” At the close of sixty-five years of | teaching, he could say: The_whole bud:x‘eu gr life is fy‘:xw- et fi“%’.f?&‘.’ & Toan"oan stutt brain with knowledge and not have power. In translation, a man must have facts, but his success depends upon his judgment in applying and in- o me:ln. elz dm".:u pn;:rwd Siiemaent ¥ the sarme degree s Latin Since many of his graduates were sucoessful business men, Dr. Colby could offer “proof of the pudding.” But even if his theory was not exactly sound, as many have held, there can be Mitle | of the World War. THE EVENING doubt about the power of any language, anclent or modern, to enrich the cul- tural life, the leisure of an individual. ‘The time may come when all mankind will speak the same tongue, but until it does appear no one will be the worse, in pleasure if not in business, for the possession of acquaintance with a man- ner and style of speech employed by genluses of unchallenged authenticity and standing. Latin may no longer be imperative, but it still is useful. The McFadden Resolution. ‘The House yesterday declined to al- low its intelligence to be insulted. By a vote of 361 to 8 it tabled, without discussion, the resolution proposing im- peachment of President Hoover offered by Representative McFadden of Penn- sylvania. The vote in the House was indicative of the feeling and temper of the body toward the charges brought in the resolution against the President by the Pennsylvania member. The mo- tion to lay the resolution on the table, which effectually killed it and at the same time prevented debate on the proposal, was made by a Democrat, Representative Pou of North Carolina, & veteran of the House and chairman of the Rules Committee. With the ex- ception of seven of their number the Democrats followed the lead of Mr. Pou and supported the motion to table. ‘Mr. McFadden is a Republican. A year ago he made in the House an attack on the President of the United States on the ground that he had sold out America to the foreign nations owing this country debts growing out At that time he was heartily condemned by members of the House. Furthermore, the Federal patronage usually accorded a member of the House was denled Mr. McFadden thereafter. Since then Mr. McFadden's spleen against the Hoover administra- tion, and particularly against the Presi- dent, has grown and increased, appar- ently, until yesterday it flowed over. Last month he was re-elected a mem- ber of the House. The resolution in which Mr. McFad- den yesterday proposed the impeach- ment of the President of the United States undertook to mske it appear that Mr. Hoover had betrayed the in- terests of the United States when he proposed the moratorium on the foreign debts owed this country. That mora- torium could have been prevented had Congress voted it down. Instead of that, by a large vote the Congress sup- ported the President in this move to prevent a financial crisis in European nations that might have had a disas- trous effect on the whole world, includ- ing America, had it not been met. 80 long and, in the opinion of members of the House, so ridiculous was the attack upon the President that efforts were made to halt the reading and take action upon it before the clerk had concluded, but that was not possible under the rules of the House. In the end, however, the treatment accorded the resolution was what it deserved. Its end was speedy. —_————— Much that is resplendent in the way of theater has come from Moscow. If tales told of Stalin’s unfriendly atti- tude toward everything except the Soviet are true he might be cinematized, with & theme song referring to an intention to do nothing for anybody who has never done anything for him. Beer-soaked brains have been at- tacked as the cause of the World War. This Nation having experienced a long official abstinence, should be clear minded enough to get back to plain business methods, without threats of further abnormal armaments. A snow flurry before Christmas would be rather welcome if weather scientists could offer the assurance that the supply of inclemency is in process of exhaustion prior to the 4th of next March. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Shifting the Debt. December! Month of glory! Again you bring the day To tell the income story, And pay and pay and pay! Of course, it #Would be better It we could only think In terms of the Red Letter ‘Without the plain “red ink.” This city will be much relieved If, as new times we view, Financial news is not received From W.I1. 0. U. Getting Something Acrose. “Why did you go to so much pains to tell that caller you were giving him information that was absolutely confl- dential?” asked the political aide. “You are quite aware that he carries to the other camp.” “It was something I wanted him to remember,” said Senator Sorghum, “so that, for purposes of my own, it could be communicated more impressively and inspire greater credulity.” Jud Tunkins says he used to hang up his stockings on Christmas eve, but now no stockings are big enough to hold things the youngsters ask Santa Claus for, such as automobiles and airplanes. Charming Stepchild, ‘While beauty ccntests come and go And often make a charming show, The prettiest stepchild seems to be Miss (Voteless) Washington, D. C. Favoring Novelties. “Are you in favor of a sales tax?” “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne. “Even if it costs a little more, it will replace a kind of tax which, so far as myself and friends are concerned, has gone entirely out of fashion.” “The mistakes we make,” said Hi Ho, the gage of Chinatown, “are too often remembered a&s the only original creations that have approximated per- fection.” . Tenaclous Disposition. I went to see a little show. All gratitude T lack For effort all well meant—and so I want my money back. T'm subject to much vain regret. I seek betimes to slack, And even when I pay a debt— I want my money back! “When & man wants his own way alt de time,” said Uncle Eben, “he’s liable ot 0 @i i even once i § whila™ " STAR, - WASHIRGTON, D. C. W EDNEST 'Y, DE( (\iBER 14, 1932. BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. “The snows are not as deep as they were,” sighed the old man. “And, do you know, I don’t think they are as white as they used to be!” ‘They are white enough, however, to make a house painted the same color look somewhat dingy. Cream color shows up to better. advantage. Modern snows are still white enough to make the landscape look supremely beautiful. White enough to give the children a merry time. White enough to make cats hold up a reproachful paw as they gingerly yen- ture forth all on a snowy morning. ‘Youth snow as a thing devis- ed for its happiness. Maturity looks upon it as a spectacle, in which one invariably finds beauty. Officially, snow is regarded as & nui- sance, e:geclally in and around a great city, although in times like these it may furnish employment. Unofficially even the most critical person perhaps is able to discover the good points of a snowstorm, if he can view them from the vantage point of physical comfort. From any other viewpoint snow is a treacherous demon, a monster capable of destruction, like'an angry sea which only a few hours before presented a lovely and deceptive picture to the beholder. ‘The snow which comes at the week end is seen and appreciated by thou- sands of persons who thus have the opportunity to view it calmly, and, as it were, in a perfectly detached man- ner. If it were on a weekday, so-called, it would be the recipient of many a grouch and a grumble, but when it comes on Sunday it has an audience of many thousands of persons who see it _through warm window panes. ‘Warm on the inside, that is. What wonderful stuff window glass is! It takes a snowy, sleety day, with a fair wind blowing, to make hurrying mankind realize the sheer miracle of these fragile but strong sheets, shat- tered by a comparatively slight blow, yet withstanding severe winds. ‘Their tensile strength is equaled only by their resistance to heat and cold. In view of their transparency ;:fl.‘;. latter :u".‘ ml;v.elouhphenoi-;l:mi one of those happy haj a which mankind, even “w?p:xfi these centuries, may hug itself in warm con- gratulations. Suppose Nature had andowed glass with other qualities, r~cner than with those which it had? Mankind could | have done little about it. Glass would not have been glass, it would have been something else. Water, and snow, and sleet, and even gigantic hailstones, may rain against these slender sheets, they take all :geu blows, and are seldom hurt from em. How pleasant it is, on a snowy day, to look out into the yard and watch the familiar becoming the unfamiliar right before one’s eyes! Here is a transformation stranger than any in childhood's story books. It is stranger because it is truer, and as_common as daylight and dark. It is so old that man requires an ef- nl:]n of the will to think about it at| al To think about it, that is, conscious- 1y enough to realize its essential won- der and its sheer beauty. One is brought face to face again, if only for a second, with the mystery of the why of loveliness. We say a thing is beautiful, and we think we know what we mean when we use the word, but why is it so, what makes it so, and, if it had been other- | wise, In the bounty of great Nature, \ would it still have been lovely to us? Is beauty in the thing seen, or in what our eyes do to it? Do our eyes the beauty, or does beauty exist for and in itself? ‘These questions, as simple as they seem, plunge one deeply into meta- physics and philosophy, to say nothing of science. All that, and all that! Surely all that would be too complex, on such a morning, when Nature has spread out a white cloak over all Pay Cuts, Depression And Home Mortgages To the Editor of The Star: Your editorial of December 7 on the proposed pay cut deserves commenda- tion for its frankness in dealing with the question. The furlough plan has hindered business recovery more than it has helped. Call it what you may, you can- not dispute the fact that it is, in effect, & pay cut and, while effective for one year only, it is one that will never be given back to the employe, because one more supersede it. ‘The President’s statement that living gs, transforming the familiar into|is the unfamiliar, to honestly ut things, ving touches of beauty structures and centage does not apply to rent, taxes insurance. A One does not have to be a meta-|and physician, a philosopher, nor yet a scientist, to enjoy a snowy day. All one has to do is look. If out in it, one adds to the fun by taking part in it, physically becoming ? pfimon. as it were, of the very snow tself. This will be & bit strenuous for some, especially on a quiet Sunday, if the snow falls on that day. In fact, it may be believed by such that the best part of the storm is to be seen only from the vantage point of the windowseat. When one is out in the thick of it, the finer points may be missed. One cannot see the snow for the flakes, to paraphrase an old saying. Out there one is too busy blowing one’s nose, and trying to keep one's fingers warm, to have an adequate ‘The depression is a result of the policies and actions of the Government and of business instead of being the cause of wage and price slashing, as 50 many would have us belleve. It is only when we look at it from this viewpoint that we see constructive, and not destructive, action is necessary to bring business back to normalcy. Today we find that while the dollar will buy more of the necessities of life than it would three years ago, it is much harder to get and the worker can- not buy in the same that he formerly could. condition has placed the home buyer, who contracted to his home before the start of the depression or before he received & wage cut, in a deplorable situation and it was to this situation that I wanted to direct your attention in this comprehension of the sheer artistry of | letter. yonder garage, with its sugar icing. Memory suddenly blows up visions of little honest structures in the rear yards of country towns, transformed in | snowstorms to mintature palaces, roof- ed with thick slabs of sparkling jewels. Now one gazes out at a garage, a plain thing, ordinarily, but today adorned with & downy roof seeming as light as a feather, but in reality as heavy as water. 'And water weighs some eight and & third pounds to the gallon. A day such as this makes trees stand out, literally and figuratively. Even those varieties which are not all that they might be, in comparison with their betters, today become things of true beauty, proud giants of the plant world. | shou)d ‘Their rough limbs show beneath, where the snow has not managed to lodge. The tall trunks are darker than usual, against the universal whiteness, or lack of color. And again one resents, at least in- wardly, the fact that white is not a color, but rather absence of color. ot a color? hat could be more colorful, what is more colorful, than this spreading snow, lending enchantment, especially where untrodden, to what before was partly a man-made scene. Now that nature has taken a hand, or rather, another hand, in the land- scape, the observer sees that she is. in fact and truth, the real beauty maker. Without her there is no beauty, nor any approach thereto. The Roman poet Lucretius said the same thing 2,000 years ago; he used the name of Venus, but he meant Mother Nature. Many of her faces are beautiful to us, until man come along to mar them. Even the most beautiful of his crea- tions somehow has a certain fussiness about it, as if he were not quite sure how to proceed. Nature is not that way. What she does, she does on a lavish scale, and without any hesitancy at all. Behold the snow! Not as white as it used to be? Bless you, old man, it is twice as white, and we hope you will live to see it even whiter, and that all of us will. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Representative McFadden’s baffled | attempt to bring about the impeach- | ment of President Hoover is the only case of the sort on record since the impeachment of President Andrew Jt n. The last incident of the kind | was aimed at an Illinois Federal judge. McFadden vented an anclent grudge against Mr. Hoover when the Pennsyl- vanian sought to bring the Chief Ex- ecutive before the bar of the House for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” All | Washington recalls the Representative’s | tirade against the President a year ago | when the inter-governmental debt mo- | ratorium was up for ratification. At that time McFadden went the length of accusing Mr. Hoover of having “sold out the country” to the international bankers. In addition to being roundly spanked in Congress for uttering this libel, the gentleman from Pennsylvania found himself cut off from post office and other patronage in his home dis- . It was not long after that he conducted & victorious primary fight for renomination against Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, and in November last was tri- umphantly re-elected to a tenth suc- cessive term. McFadden’s ‘“grouch” against the administration ramifies back to a ruction between the 'n'euur{ Department and a Pennsylvania ban! in which he was at one time promi- nently interested. The Keystone dele- gation in the House has already asked for McFadden's resignation from its secretaryship. A move to_oust him as ranking member of the Banking and Currency Committee may be the next thing. ¥ EE William Tyler Page, veteran official of the House of Representatives, has compiled some striking figures about the composition of that body in the newly-elected Congress. It will con- tain 163 new members, or 37 ’x;:r cent of the total membership. e 313 Democrats wmbnl?mpnuzz{'.gd per ceeexlx:.t: the 117 Republicans, 26.90 per and the five Farmer-Labor members, 1.14 per cent. The Democratic ma- jority will be 191; the Democratic plurality, 196. It will be the largest percentage majority in history. The next_largest was the Republicans’ 69 per cent in the Forty-third Congress. Sixteen States represented by Repub- licans in the present Congress will not be so represented in the next. In the Congress to take effect on March 4 26 States will be represented by solid Democratic delegations, and only three by solid Republican delegations. New Democrats total 130; new Republicans, 29, and new Farmer-Laborifes, 4. The new Democrats and Farmer-Labor members, plus 11 Republicans, or 145 altogether, could force a bill out of a committee under the present: dischdrge rule. Even if the rule were changed to require 218 votes, that many Demo- crats could discharge a commitiee, with 95 Democrats to spare. * ok k k From & source which has proved re- llable in the past, there comes to this observer a diverting tale of a member of the Hoover “little cabinet.” Although he was actlvity itself on the stump for O. P. during the late cam; : ddrened & to Franklin he mmpm of Minnesota, who enacted the role of an individual disarmament conference in the House yesterday when a it demanded the right It can already be predicted with as- surance that Mrs. Dall, the only daugh- ter of President-elect and Mrs. Roose- velt, is going to be s vivacious and popular figure in the life of the White House when the “new deal” gets going. Already she has been dubbed “Prin- cess Anna.” Devoted to and greatly loved by her distinguished daddy, she is his almost unfailing companion when Mrs. Roosevelt is absent. Tall, blond, slencer and pretty, “Princess Anna” is 2 skillful horsewoman and is fond of spending most of her waking hours in her riding kit. She is light-hearted and gay, friendly to everybody, tre. mendously interested in politics, and up to the minute in all things. Her husband is a member of a New York Stock Exchange firm with offices in Washington, and it's been suggested that he may be transferred to the Capi- tal branch after March 4 so that “Prin- She must be somewhere around 25 years of age. * X X x ‘Washington’s own encyclopaedia, the Congressional Directory, is out in a new edition, as usual, with the opening of the new session. It has a tomato red cover. Honors for brevity in the auto- biographical sketches of members go again to Representative Emanuel Celler, who supplies his name, and not a soli- tary other thing—not even the fact that he was born or represents a Brooklyn, N. Y, Democratic district. What a name for a rabid wet—Celler! The New Mexico delegation’s biographical story discloses an interesting ‘coinci- dence. The two Senators and one Representative who compose it (Sen- ators Brattcn and Cutting and Repre- sentative Chavez) are all 44 years old, each of them having been born in 1888. Mr. Chavez is the only native son. Bratton emigrated into New Mexico from Texas, and Cutting came from aristocratic Long Island. Senator Walter Walker, Democrat. of Calorado, filling the brief unexpired term of the late Senator Waterman, adds one more to the Senate colony of professional newspaper men. * % Xk X Before she left Washington last week the Viscountess Astor had a long visit with ‘Senator Hattle W. Caraway of Arkansas. As the first woman elected to the House of Commons in England, “Lady Nancy” desired to pay special respects to the first woman elected to g United States Senate. Afterward 8 high Caraway’s political flair and for her a career of which her sex is going to be proud. Lady Astor listened to a debate in the Senate from the floor as a guest of Senator Swanson of Virginia, her home State. * k¥ ¥ One of Maine's spokespren in Con- gress brings to town a story about a newly naturalized citizen in his State. The former alien was in the act of getting his last papers entitling him to all the rights of Uncle Sam’s grown-up children. As it was on the eve of elec- tion, the judge said to him: “I hope the candi- tion during the late uprising. (Copyrizht, 1932.) New Victims. Prom the Newark Evening News. That Atlantic City thinks it has in | found some liquid assets is indicated by a plan to tax bathers. of Mrs. | doubt. ‘The person who is buying a home finds he is obligated to make his pay- ments in the amount and at the time promised or lose his home. He bought his home at a pre-depression price and agreed to pay with money from a pre- depression income, but he now finds the former has not changed, while the lat- ter has. As a result thousands of homes have been foreclosed, the buyer has lost his equity and the mortgagee has, in most cases, also lost because the property at resale would not bring the amount of the mortgage. I do not advocate the reduction in the amount of each monthly payment alone, as that would only postpone the inevitable. I believe the amount of the mo: a'0 be reduced sa. Rezl estate has value and the value of the mortgage, which is secured by the real estate, has likewise decreased. This idea may sound revolutionary, but under present conditions a good many more homes where neces- decreased in holders will lose anyway. Where the home buyer has received a pay cut I recommend that the amount | of the outstanding mortgage against | the home and the monthly payment be reduced in proportion to the pay cut up to a limit of 15 per cent. Where the home buyer's income has not di- minished I do not recommend & reduc- tion in the amount of the mortgage, as he already is better off than he pre- viously was. I have not gone into the details of this plan or_discussed the constitutionality of any legislation that may have to be enacted to put it in effect, but I believe the principle is clear and that it merits consideration, OLIVER. |Cancel the Debts as | A Step Toward Peace To the Editor of The Star: Let us recall that war is loss and that the greater portion of the debt repre- senting the great war is loss of mate- rials and things gone up in smoke, sunk in the ocean and otherwise wasted In equally futile endeavor and expense which can never be recovered. There- fore, would it not be better, wiser, to regard this debt as loss, Write it off the books as loss and make an internation- al agreement to forget it and set about establishing a new and better day on & new principle of peace, based upon exact justice in industry and com- merce, abolishing all fictitious earnings and values, establishing the hours of labor &s an international stendard of | costs and values; with fair and helpful co-operative trade agreements, lay aside |interest usury in all industry and finance, and make a solemn pledge to ar and disarm |and universally elect an international commission for peace, justice and good will and invite the great common peo- ple everywhere to take an organized, united stand in carrying out this pro- | gram and living up fo the pledges and agreements universally? Establish a new basis of industrial commercial justice, upon which civi- ilized nations may reasonably hope for ‘M‘l;]i expect permanent peace and good will. In weighing this suggestion in the | balance of our judgment let us not for- | get that through depression and market | breakdown, caused in part by war debt uncertainty, the common folks, working people and farmers, are annually losing in low wages, no wages and reduced farm income a large portion of the value of the war debt. Then if cancellation will, in & meas- ure, promote even temporary revival of industry and trade, will we not gain by so doing? And especially will we not, in view of the growing belief that the great war debts can never be paid, much af it might be desired to do so— then may we not as well cancel them and be on the road to recovery and a better day? Presumably the chief reason and pur- pose in attempting to collect the debts is return of the money loaned to Euro- pean debtors; then if cancellation will bring & return of prosperity, with re- turn of an equivalent sum ‘in produc- tive income, and bring it more promptly than can be hoped for through attempt to enforce payment, then it would ap- pear more logical to cancel or extend the debt indefinitely. But in view of the fact that America at heart believes in peace and good will as exemplified by her international life and activities, it will regard it as only or eventual cancellaton shall be made conditifhal upon the definite agreement of mfl;le“;ma “I:leot.her nlnlmu to dis- arm neously, completely an the near future. PREY it Cancellation upon such terms and upon completion of such a program would be a money-saving proposition and a life-saving probability as well, no It is reasonable to believe that in this way may be driven home to the and minds to civilization the great lesson that war is folly, and determine us to lay it aside forever. LYNN M. HOLLIS, Rushton, Mich. ‘Treaty’ and ‘Compact’ Are Not Synonymous To the Editor of The Star: are going to be lost and the mortgage | | simultaneously | in right and fair that indefinite extension | I and | march home, the ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘Thousands of Government experts are working constantly for the benefit of all citizens of the United States. They will work directly for you if you will use our Washington bureau. This newspaper employs Mr. Haskin to act as an agent for its readers. He will take your matter to the proper author- ity. State your inquiry briefly, write clearly, and inclose 3-cent stamp for & personal letter in reply. Do not use post cards. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Has- kin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. How many bills and resolutions were introduced in the last session of Congress?—M. L. A. There were 4,986 Senate bills, 210 Senate joint resolutions, 35 Senate con- current resolutions, 13,005 House bills, 479 joint House resoluti 39 concur- rent resolutions and 204 resolu- tions introduced. Q. Is Prof. Auguste Piccard a small man? He is frequently referred to as “the little professor.”—W. N. A. The world-famous scientist is six | ] feet three inches tall. Q. What is a favorable balance of trade?—G. T. A. When exports of merchandise ex- ceed imports a balance is due a given country and there is said to be a fa- vorable balance of trade in favor of the country which has sold more than 1t has bought. Q. Which college was the first to es- tablish a course in tion?—G. H. A. The world’s first four-year course | in hotel administration was established | at Cornell in 1922. Q. What is a dari?—M. E. A. The term is applied to a pileless cotton fabric peculiar to India. It is a form of carpet unknown in other Far Eastern countries. Q. Have any States rejected the child labor amendment?—T. P. A. The child labor amendment has | been rejected by both Houses in Con- necticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Caro- lina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginis, Washington, West Virginia. . Q. What is the distinction in the use of '.hLe words “raised” and ‘“reared”? A. A person is reared. An animal is ral Q. What characters of Charles Dick- ens have become synonyms of vices? —A. T. W. A. Pecksniff for hypocrisy, Jonas elty, Urlah Heep for deceit, Mr. Dom- bey for pride, have become almost household words. Q. What is & shop right?—B. F. A. If an employe uses the time and equipment of a shop for producing an invention a shop right is automatically cll;eolp!ed on behalf of the owner of the shop. Q. How much did Vickli Baum re-/ ceive for the motion picture rights of Grand Hotel?—M. 8. A. She is said to have received only $4,000 for the motion picture rights. Q. How can I make candy toys to hang on Christmas trees?—S. M. A. Sugar toys may be made accord- ing to the following directions: Four pounds of sugar, two ounces of corn hotel administra- | sirup, one pint of water. Boil to 240- 242 degrees; then stir until cloudy and ur in plaster of Paris moulds that ve been soaked in cold water for two or three hours and drained. Q. What is the object of the world- widAe I;:flng movuenmwfl—v. B. L AVOWS & urpose: To re- generate the world with adveriising of fasting kmowledge as an act of phi- lanthropy; to provide free facilities for fasting in Chicago, as an act of phi- lanthropy; to regenerate its followers to act as free instruments of God in the new civilization at hand. Q. Where is there a memorial to Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer?—P. B. A. Frederick H'bbard's bronze statue of the two boys was presented by Mr. George Makhan to Hannibal, Mo. Q. What is the Society of Fort; Elfiht?—! E. D. s y . It is a secret soclety, the offic! title of which is La Bocltyw des Qfl‘.lll:5 ante Hommes et Huit Chevaux. The organization is an association of those who saw active service in France, and who were transported to the front in box cars containing 40 men and eight horses. Q. How many flower bulbs were re- cently destroyed in Holland because of overproduction?—W. H. A. Fifteen million. Q. What Frenchman of the past is sometimes compared with the Russian statesman_Stalin in ruthlessness and cruelty?—V. R. A. Jean Paul Marat, born 1744, one of the leaders of the Jacobin party in the French Revolution, was insatiable in his desire to destroy utterly all the eristocracy or capitalistic class, demand- ing “300,000 heads” He was abso- lutely honest, asking neither honors nor friends. At the height of his power he was assassinated in 1793, while seated in his bath, by Charlotte Corday. g. }”‘A! Immanuel Kant an atheist? A. Strictly speaking Kant was not an atheist. He was a German philoso- pher, born 1724, died 1804, and among the cardinal tenets of his philosophy were the beliefs that “human wisdom is not sufficient to discover what is di- vine,” together with his ideal, “every man his own doctor, every man his own lawyer, every man his own priest.” Q. In auction and contract bridge is it permissible for the declarer to pass | his hand across for dummy to see bee fore the play begins?—W. C. | . A. There is no rule against it, but it |is an offensive practice. It disqualifies dummy from participating in the play | of the hand. Q Does'a beaver use its tail in build- | Chuzzlewit for avarice, Quilp for cru- |inz a_dam?—A. | A. The beaver's tail is constructed | primarily for use &s a propelier in | swimming and is never used, as is | sometimes supposed, as & trowel in | building dams. | @ How much money is spent for ! lipsticks and lip rouge in a year in the | United States?—J. T. C. A.In 1931 about $4,792,000 was | spent for these cosmetics. | Q What is_the Amtorg Trading | Corporation?—T. F. | A The Amtorg Trading Corporation | is composed of representatives in the | United States of the principal trusts, syndicates, trading agencies and other | economic organizations of the Union of | Soviet Socialist Republics, with the ex- | ception of the all-Russian Textile Syn- 'dicate and co-operative organizations. As Country Results of the hunger march to ‘Washington, in the opinion of the coun- try, were at least negligible, while it is held by many that the effort to h-né)ress the Government was irregular and - mental. It is pointed out that petitions to the government should be delivered a different way, and the influence of radical leadership is deplored, espey is exerting every “What did they get out of their trek?"” asks the Cleveland News, with the re- ply: “Sore feet, fatigue, hoarseness, some soup and sandwiches. They would have been better off if they had stayed at home. Their ‘demands’ could just as well have been sent by mail.” The Co- lumbia (S. C.) State is convinced that “all that can be done to change con- ditions and help the people will be done, but in the meantime the mob can have no good place in government.” Hold- mtbemm x:eéw Jxm wl;:lr’ a d:ée gran ese people,” the Lincoln State Journal maintains that “if the government should be contemplat- ing the establishment of a dole, it would be administered snd distributed locally, ”t::.tt tt}.lhem would dbe some assurance e persons deserving ald were getting it.” * ok x “At the movement's best,” concludes the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “it may claim nothing beyond a parallel to Com- munistic propaganda. With the best of intentions, it is a demonstration that can have no other effect than aggra- vation of a state of affairs that any form of destruction will only make worse. Carried to its farthest possible operation, the appeasement of the hun- ger that is the immediate urge tends only to reduce the efficiency of the sys- tem now being created for a continuous food suj .” The Oakland Tribune feels that the marching method “is be- coming a racket,” and suggests that “if all these men are in the same need as are the unempioyed and penniless the country over, they are by their tactics asking more than can go to their fel- lows.” “The marchers think,” according to the Appleton Post-Crescent, “that their appearance and the presentation of thelr unfortunate predicament will bring legislation that will assist them— and this in spite of the fact that the entire Nation has for tonnd-nywmmm ml‘wnwhl-: legislal sist them without crippling the rest of | salary the country—and perhaps crij permanently. ‘Though the tolerate some of the will undoubtedly mean the adoption of a policy hold- ing all marchers at the Washington city limits, but permitting them to send into the city delegations of a reason- able size to present their requests or suggestions or to make such arguments as they deem fit to the proper depart- ment or officials. The adoption of such a poucynwfll mean the end of the Recalling that, having presented their petitions, they mobilized the return Observer of- chapter in it is find : “Another p ess was ended, bu public f it ‘will 'Hunger March Called Failure Studies Results march backers are unfriendly to the American form of government and American institutions. Their aim is to overthrow our Government and they are using every means at their come mand to foment distrust and discon- tent to achieve the ends they seek. No :t‘xx:l d:l'gpuld be misled by their propa- Observing a difference between the handling of the bonus marchers and the latest group of visitors to the seat of government, the Charleston (S. C.) Evening: Post asserts: “The Washing- ton ce, under Gen. Glassford, cod= dled and petted the bonus men, pro- vided quarters for them and raised funds to feed them. From a_ handful of men, no more than the number com- posing the hunger marchers the bonus army swelled to thousands, attracted by the hospitality which was extended to them by the Washington police and the encouragement given them by members of Congress. In the end it was neces- sary to call out the Army to disperse them, with some tragic consequences. The manner in which the hunger marchers were handled gave them no opportunity or justification for demon- stration against the Government nor for putting the authorities to scorn, as the bonus marchers had in such full iTreasury Note Sales And Pay Reductions To the Editor of The Star: The United States Treasury offered $350,000,000 of notes for sale, matur= ing in 1936. These notes are non-tax- able, paying 2% per cent interest an- nually. Subscriptions for offerings to buy them were $6,677,000,000. The 34 per cent certificates maturing Thursday— $250,000,000. $4,128,000,000 were offered. These certificates also were non-taxable and interest-paying. To sum: $6,677,= 000,000 plus $4,228,000,000 equals $10,« 905,000,000, in toto, to buy $600,000,~ 000 both Treasury offerings of notes and certificates. Thus the two offerings to buy were 183 times more than the Treasury called for; this in the face of 83 per cent cut salary, plus fur- loughs without pay, with an added recommendation of 10 or 11 per cent further salary cut, or 18'3 per cent tax vs. 18Y5 times oversubscrip~ tion , for $600,000,000 non-taxable, in- terest-paying bonds, certificates, notes, in the sum of $10.905,000,000. Did the Bard of Avon prophetically have in mind us of these United States in 1932 when he wrote: ‘“What fools these mortals be”? Did Abraham Lin- coln, when he wrote: “I fear the day of Caucasian_ slavery” in the United States? Is our dictum now (with 12,000,000 unemployed, 25,000,000 de- pendents, of whom thousands are in ‘Washington) “He that hath shall be given but he that hath not the little he has shall be taken from him?” Or, in the language of the street, Sock the hand-to-mouth Goverament clerk and coddle the rich non-taxable interest- paying bond buyers. ~ W. E. RYAN. Arlington Democrats Op- «|posed Federal Pay Cuts To the Editor of The Star: I read with Interest your editorial on the subject of the pay cut of Federal employes in The Evening Star of De- ber 7. The Arlington County Demo- cratic Executive Committee, of which I am secretary, went on record early last Spring on my motion opposing pay cuts for Federal employes. At the the [ meeting of the Arlington County Civic a Federation, to which I am a delegate from Ashton Heights Citizens’ Associa~ tion, a resolution was further e and the pay cuts at this ‘was instructed to appoint & committee to represent the Civis Fed- eration st any congressional it 1o, duci lame et President 3 ’

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