Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1932, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WABHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. . .December 15, 1 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor Rate by Carrier Within the Cfty. 48¢ per month (when Sunday Btar. 5¢ per cop: n month. osdors ey Bo'ent th by mall of telepnons Nationai 5000, Rate by Mafl—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, {ly and Sunday....1yr,$10.00: 1m0, ls: aily only . $8.00: 1mo., 80c Bunday only $4.00; 1 mo.. 40c All Other States and Canada. 1., $12.00; 1 mo., $1.00 yr.. $8.00. - Bail; { 1mo. 78 Bondas ons’ 375 $500; 1mo. 80c Sunday only Member of the Associated Press. s exclusively entitled blication of ail news dis- £ 3710 SheToeal mews ted in tris paper and aiso the published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. atches cred Twenty Opportunities. 1In response to suggestions from many sources The Star is presenting to Wash- ington today “Twenty Opportunities” to help someone in trouble. Five of the city's charitable and wel- fare agencles were asked to select from their rosters of misfortune a total of twenty needlest cases. Funds contrib- uted to The Star will be made directly available to those designated by ocon- triputors. Christmas may mean a different thing to each of us. To some of us the Christmas season may recall tragedy and suffering of the past, the bitterness of which has been assuaged by the passing years. To some of us it may recall far happler Christmas seasons. To some of us it becomes & time of retrospection; to some of us it serves to kindle anew the spark of hope for the future. To all of us it volces an| appeal to the best that is in us. The | sweet tradition of the season is the inspiration to share the good things of this life with others. ‘Thcee who have suggested, in one form or sanother, this undertaking by ‘The Ster have been moved by a com- mon impulse. So feeling thcmselves, they believe that there are thousands of others in Washington who feel that, given the opportunity of knowing where need exists and in what form the mis- fortune of others has been manifested, they will respond to the opportunity to help meet that need and the misfortune that produced it. It is in this spirit that The Star presents the selected ‘Twenty Opportunities. ‘The presentation of these opportuni- ties is not linked with the Community Chest. The funds contributed to The Star will be turned over to the agencies concerned and administered directly and without charge for the relief of the specified cases. There may be those who, for one reason cr another, did not contribute to the Community Chest campalgn. There may be others who contributed to the Community Chest campalgn, but who wish to give more. But the appeal represented in these Twenty Oppertunities is not an appeal to any class of contributors. Each case listed merely represents an opportunity for those who, at this season of the year, wish to find ruch an opportunity. There are few of us, indeed, who, able to meet them, can let them pass. —_——ate. Boston Stump. Many Washingtonians who contrib- uted to the fund for the restoration of Boston Stump will rejoice in the op- portunity to hea: the chimes in the reconstructed tower ring out on Satur- day afternoon over an international radio hook-up. The music of the bells will signify the compietion of & labor which will guarantee the safety of one of the lovellest architectural monu- ments in Europe. That Americans have helped toward that end is & matter worthy of mention in the chronicle of national idealism. Two hundred and ninety feet high, the tower is supposed to be six hun-| dred years old. It was built when the perpeadicular style of Gothic was at its best. Seen across country, it is a deli- cate curtsin of lace against the sky. The visitor marvels at the patience of the old-time craftsmen who cut the de- sign out of living stone and set it up, piece by piece, to the glory of the Living God. No other structure of its type means more to Americans. It was from the neighborhood of Boston that many of the Pilgrims of New England came in the seventeenth century. Their affec- tion for their earlier home they mani- fested in the naming of Boston, Massa- chusetts. Their sons and daughters spread over the whole Western world, but to them, too, the memory of Lin. colnshire has been precious. It is no accident that there are twelve towns in the United States named for the Boston of the Stump, Some one has said that architecture aids mankind to remember. The epi- | gram is apt. And to Americans as well | as to the people of Europe belong the | great architectural monuments of Eng- Jand and the Continent. They were built by the fathers of the modern peo- ples of the Old World and the New. The chimes of Boston, ringing out on Saturday afternoon, should wake in hearts on both sides of the Atlantic echoes of ages that, being remembered, are not dead. —_——————— Economists are endeavoring to pre- wvent wealth loaned abroad from appear- ing to disintegrate into something worth even less than fiet money. —_————————— A Man With a Gun. Late Tuesday afternoon & man with s gun appeared in the gallery of the House of Representatives. He wished to make a speech, and brought his artillery with him in order to secure the attention of his audlence. Of course, he failed. The incident is one of those “footnotes to history” which make fascinating reading for their value as symptoms. Marlin Kemmerer 6f Allentown, Pa., ‘was known in his home environment as *“a steady, level-headed” young Ameri- can. Telegraph reports indicate that he never had been in any trouble. But he ‘was thoughtful, introspective. He pon- dered the ills of humanity, worried | significance. Kemmerer is not an iso- | lated psychopathic case. | uct of the demogoguery which has run sbout the economic plight of his coun- 83./ATo him there came, tably, get it right. Laugh at him y will, the fuct remains that he is but one of ten thousand reformers of soclety whose names are writ large or small in the chronicles of mankind. He belongs to “the noble army of mar- tyrs.” His impulse to immolation has ample precedent in John of Leiden, Rienzi and a long list of others whose {rrationality was social in elementary character. But Tuesday’s comedy has & wider He is a prod- rampant over the United States during the past three years. Men with better sense than himself have stooped to the cheap trick of stirring up the masses for their own political advan- tage. They have gone up and down the country instructing the populace in discontent. They have stimulated nat- ural dissatisfaction. They have slan- dered national institutions and vilified national leaders. Now their chickens are coming home to roost. But the vast majorliy of the people are not deceived. They are sane. Demagogues may rant, agitators may fulminate, but they will not be dis- turbed. Their faith in their country is strong, and their bellef in suthentic American ideals and methods is un- damaged. China and Russia. Few events in the kaleidoscopic chain of things happening in the Far East, or in Europe with reference to the Orient, outstrip in significance the announcement that China and Russia have resumed diplomatic relations. They have been at official loggerheads for the better part of five years, follow- ing the expulsion from Chinese territory of the hordes of Russian consular, mili- tary, trade, advisory and secret police agents, propagandists all, who were honeycombing China with Soviet nests and exploiting her civil war for Com- munist promotional purposcs. Of somewhat ominous import is the fact that the agreement whereby Nan- king and Moscow now agree to renew international intercourse does not debar Russia from spreading Soviet doctrine. While the new state of affairs may thus imply certain political advantages for China, pre-eminently in her feud with Japan, Nanking may have cause to rue the day when the minions of Com- munism were licensed to resume the subversive game they were playing at the time Russia was ordered out in 19217, It is the circumstances in which, as well as the moment, the Sino-Russian entente was announced that clothe it with singular importance. To M. Litvi- noff, Soviet commissar for foreign af- fairs, now functioning at the disarma- ment conference in Geneva, fell the task of proclaiming the news. It synchro- nized almost to the hour with Japan's refusal to admit Russia and the United States to membership in the League of Nations’ “Conciliation Committee of Nineteen,” to which Geneva has just transferred the Sino-Japanese dispute. M. Litvinoff’s announcement had all the effect of a bombshell at the League, particularly in the Japanese delegation. Toklo's immediate concern is with the effects of the Sino-Russian development on the situation in Manchuria. The Japanese know that Russia’s action in closing the breach with China will be , g0 boating on the Seine, drink adulterated wine, hoard centimes in a sock and read Le Rire, just like their human brothers. By the same logic, the pigeons of Westminster may one day profit by cricket, seeing the Derby and writing to the Times. And the starlings of Washington! Can it be that they, too, may become “wholly respectable” under the in- fluence of the cultural conditions of their capitolian residence? It seems unlikely, but miracles do happen, and millenniums hence the remote descend- ants of the present swarms may be re- fined and cultivated birds deserving to be called lovable, cheery comrades of thelr human neighbors. In that distant | taken " age the metamorphosed starlings may drive around vainly seeking parking space, patronize the movies, read The Star and in all other ways behave themselves like other Washingtonians. The sparrows of Parls have set an example to pigeons and starlings alike. Their reward is the praise of good Dr. Gueniot, who has had a full century of experience with both birds and men. ——raee People who specialize in collecting similes will like that congressional Tef- erence to prohibition as having “as much chance as a paper shirt in & prairie fire” The droll comparison also discloses some slight value as an eco- nomic suggestion. Paper is warm and might be utilized as apparel, neat, though in case of comic picture supple- ments, a trifie gaudy. —e—————— Tt is feared that the result of the next investigation will when summarized re- semble the essay of the college student who in discussing future existence de- clared “the immortality of the soul is very great, indeed.” The rent problem 1s eternal. ———rt—————— ‘The man who drew & gun in the House of Representatives was promised the privilege of making a speech before he would surrender. The promise was promptly withdrawn; otherwise he would have set & dungerous precedent in parliamentary procedure. —_————————— A heavy task confronts the next ad- ministration, although hard times has been so much emphasized in current discussion that any slight improvement may be pointed to with pride as an achievement, ————e. Some French statesmen with a liking for myth metaphor regard Uncle Sam less as Shylock than as Midas, who had more gold than he knew what to do with. ——————— In playing the international game of “Who . has the dollar?” Uncle Sam slightly resembles the chess expert who plays with a number of opponents at ~ the same time. — et Asiatic unrest has become such as to create apprehension that even if the Philippines acquired independence they could not hold it long enough to give three cheers. ——ae— Japan has long favored the thought that the Manchurian territory is a nat- ural resort for gangsters who stand in need of arbitrary discipline. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNEON. A Dependable Friend. Heard that good old Santa Claus is doing what he can To show he's still the friend of every woman, child and man. He said he had a workshop way up yonder by the Pole And frozen assets put the factory out read throughout the Far East as a| signal that the Soviet is now on the | side of the Chinese. Hopes that Mos- | cow would recognize the new state of | Manchukuo are shattered and the difi- | culties of “consolidating” the Japanese | position there are intensified. The Nip- pon militarists can no longer take it for granted that Russia will tacitly ac- quiesce in the loss of her old position | in North Manchuria. When the Jap- anese armies were cannon-balling their way through that region in the Winter of 1931-32, the world received the defl- nite impression that Russia was some- thing more than a disinterested by- stander. There were almost earmarks of a Tokio-Moscow understanding. That view now turns out to have been un- founded. There are indications that the re- sourceful Japanese will seek to convert the Sino-Russian compact into an in- ternational argument for their pro- cedure in Manchuria. Tokio dispatches already are saying that the world will be dismayed at the reopening of China to Russian influence, and will realize the force of Yosuke Matsuoka's claims at Geneva this month that Japan's action in Manchuria was necessary to preserve it from communization, with the rest of China as the Soviet's next prey. —_—e——————— It is evident that Chairman Grayson favors an inauguration that will call for dancing slippers and no snowshoes. s — The Sparrows of Paris. Dr. Alexandre Gueniot of the French Academy of Medicine is a hundred years of age. When his professional brethren gathered\to do him honor on his birthdsy he gave them s discourse | on the sparrows of Paris. The bird, he told them, “has become a lovable, cheery comrade whose presence adds a pleasure to our walks and outings.” The “rightly detested” country sparrow is a barbarian, he declared, but the town sparrow has acquired “refinement and culture” and is a “wholly respest- able and agreeable” member of soclety. ‘These views of the civilizing influence of urban life may seem rankly heretical | to those who presume to imagine that cities are inherently unnatural, abnor- mal and disgenic. They certainly are novel i an era when the vilification of cities is fashionable. But perhaps Dr. Gueniot is correct. Perhaps the sparrows of Paris have ab- sorbed enough of the cultural atmos- phere of their environment to deserve his compliments. Perhaps they have become as suave and mannerly as he of his control. His food supply was short. He ate the reindeer on his way. He stopped at his garage and put a motor on the sleigh. He sped in apprehension, far across the SNOWy scene, That he might not make the distance for the lack of gasoline. He is still as resolute as any saint you ever met. Each year we've waited for him and he never failed us yet. Though we quarrel like bad children as we seek to shift the blame, ‘We know we'll be saying “Merry Christ- mas” just the same. No Bouquets. “Do you remember that little war song, “Somewhere in France is the lily close by the English rose?” “No,” answered Senator Sorghum, “and I don’t see the point of it. None of us international choir members is engaged in throwing bouquets just now.” Jud Tunkins says he gets mixed up in seeing children taught how to play and grown folks educated to do less work, Parleyvoodoo. New language is a subtle thing, As everybody knows. Great happiness its use may bring Or cause our greatest woes. A debt with me has made no hit. My feelings it will wrench— Perhaps I may get rid of it By learning to speak French! Dining to Discord, “Soclety,” said Miss Cayenne, minds me of & minstrel show.” ' “Where they say ‘Gentlemen, seated’?” “Yes. seated.” ves be Only they gspy, ‘Ladies, be And then the ‘music’ starts!” “The power of woman,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “must be con- , D, C, BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Templeton Jones has long been & stanch aedmirer, advocate, and up- holder of the old Post Office Depart- ment Building. If he had anything to do with it, it would never be torn down. 8ince he has nothing to do with i, #t gnnrohblyl‘fll.butthltmflbotdh- loss to the city, according to Jones. 'N&e mm;‘}éu:v m‘llacx'll the advocates of new -1 ldings slur and slander the pruenn't buud.lu‘lm the south. side of Pennsylvania avenue be- tween Eleventh and Twelfth streets, many ~thousands of Washi mcl:ellhnlturunybflnfloouu “All it needs 1s & bath.” sald Jones. photograph, new ht, with well He pointed to a recent rom the south, construction to left and the Post Qffice tower aloft in the background. about m have “T ask you,” he said, “which is the | the Post best, 1 butlding in oo is 18 old one It’s got some arc o ne tecture, to my way | vague Jones says he doesn’t know why the nt Post Office Department lg\md. g has always appealed to him. Perhaps it is because he built a model t with & set of stone blocks when a “mc;?' ha nd he he pref to bellve thia—it s ‘Dechme e as 3 greater grasp of true beauty than most, not being swayed in his Judzmexam by “new” an The new architecture is based solldly So.ih ld, e Tl there & motaing never has been, f . There always has been s tendency, gfewever, t‘: regard ‘{;he construction of moment as somehow more satisfying than that of the past. Time often proves that it is not. Temgeum Jones feels that the Post Office is definitely the of o is different eno h to Whether it conflicts too much with the “building " he does not know, but he declares, at least privately, that too much uniformity makes any ogT He believes in looking at things as they are, taking them at their face value, and if they stand the inspection, letting them alone. If the program were conducted on this basis, he feels, both the Post Office Department and the present Dis- trict Building would be retained. The latter is absurdly like the ele- phantine new Commerce Department Building, he asserts, and is willing at any time to point out the similarity. A thorough cleansing and revamping, by the latest methods, and the District Bullding would look quite as well along- side the Commerce plant as the latter does alongside it. All this, mind you, accor pleton Jones, who hold no d! any school of architecture. He has, however, what most human beings have—likes and dislikes of his own. ‘What he fears for the pretentious building program, in which he takes as much pride as any one, is that uni- formity will be overdone. If all the buildings look as alike as peas in pods, not so much in actual ppearance as because of underlying “style” of architecture, the result will be deadening to the powers of appre- ciation. . This was Jones’ honest opini He wondered what people’s the to Tem- oma from fon. opinions No doubt, he t, he suffered, mnowimlrm-fivmm was always because he was never sure about any- thing—if America could afford to for- Europe so completely as it has done in its skyscrapers and the like. Walt Whitman was s great old man. His basic idea was right, that we should be Americans first and Xuro- rward, He could not have meant, however, that we should divorce ourselves from thoughts and forms complete- first place, it couldn’t be there would it we tower on the Post Office Jou like » tower, no smount of against change your opin- nor ever make you regard the build- but & proper sort of ‘The building thoughts of the race are shot through with jowers, with steeples, with peaks, with various adornments over and above the rectangular. wiFour straight sides, even if broken tute the ultimate dream in buildings. There is room for towers, Jones thought. He would not give the Taj Mahal for all the office buildings in the world, although he was willing to admit that the Indian structure would make a poor office building. The best of the old should be kept with the best of the new, that was his idle: rather than to make a clean sweep of it. ‘The artistic blending of the old and the new—that was the European idea, he believed. The old was utilized, and made use of, not junked just because it was old, or did not fit in with some- body's ideas of what ought to be. Every person who, in his home, makes use of an old chair, when perhaps he would rather have & new one, is follow- ing the old-world model, rather than gu new. We are all Europeans at eart, which is just another way of saying that we are all human beings. Templeton Jones, as a human being, finds something highly satisfying about the old Post Office Department Build- ing. Even its ancient clock, which of tells a different time on every face, is likable, he says. High Lights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands L UNIVERSAL, Mexico, D, F— The ship of the gov- e secretary: ernment and the Natlonal Con- of Com- efforts to federation of Ch: merce have united in prevent the disappearance of many in- teresting customs and itions long romantically characteristic of the re- iblic. € puAmonx these ancient practices are the serenades which to he ren- dered at least twice a week in every Mexican town and hamlet. In most communities, too, the people have been entertained by concerts given after the church services early Sunday after- noons. These programs have been supplied either by regimental bands from bar- racks in the vicinity, or by local mu- sicians who have offered their services gratuitously in perpetuating the pleas- ant custom. In the case of the sere- nades, which consisted largely of na- tional airs played more or less infor- mally in different quarters of the towns, small contributions tossed from windows and balconies were not resented. At the sundd.ly . fi%‘fi.’s“x&mm iven in broad day! ' lunera- gum were expected. Another habit of venerable vogue is that of eating a late supper in out under the glamorous stars. Fore! joy particularly the a) seasoned Mexican under circumstances which are, them, so novel and delightful. * ¥k X X 014 Fight on_Growth Of Taxicabs Recalled. Cape Times, Cape Town—At the meeting of Cab Owners’ and Cab Driv- ers’ Association, called in Cape Town 24 years ago to consider methods of re- tarding tke introduction of motor taxi- cabs, one speaker declared that the gen- eral use of those vehicles “would n only prove the ruination of the cab proprietors and drivers, but would, too, most serlously affect many branches of trade. “In the first place,” he said, “the farmer would be severely handicapped in the 1 of oathay mealies and bedding—in fact, he would have no market for those commodities at all. “Then, in the mfln:xbnm w”heutxtt.l: , the r merc] y ironmongers, ths, arrie es partaken of for TS and most of the trades concerned in the construction of cabs, coaches and carriages and the feeding and care of horses. “It was the duty of the association to draw the attention of all these sec- tions of the community to the danger menacing them.’ Another member maintained that even one horse and cab would give em- ployment to & ter number of men than_any half- motor_cabs. “The introduction of ~motor cabs would throw a very large number of men on the streets, and this fact ghould be especially brought to the no- tice of the councilors. These gentle- sidered superior, since no man can be | 0§ their wiser than the woman whose advice directs him.” Home Sweet Home Extended. The roadway signs all look alike. ‘The houses in a row In every city that you strike Are similar in their show. The differences are so slight, No matter where you roam, Each journey makes you think you might As well have stayed at home! “Speakin’ of toys foh chilluns,” said Uncle Eben, “I has a large family dat'll dey kin thinks. % The instinct to make environmental be mighty pleased ay as much as dey likes ad an’ butter an’ ‘lasses.” % From time to time, now and then,] nevertheless, the expert is fooled him- self. But, “errare human est” (to err is human), and there is no man, no Ppoor man like us of the generality, who claims for these more gifted individuals a vision exactly as prescient as that of the all-controlling Deity. So, fortunate- ly for him, an occesional error of the expert, no matter what its direful con- sequences, is quickly passed on to its classification under “profit and loss.” Even though several such irreparable mistakes do finally discredit the pecu- liar qualifications of an expert, thanks be, the race is prolific, and we soon have another as yet infallible oraclar genius to fill his shoes. These wizar: march in _constant procession from across the horizon, coming from no one knows where, to prove to us that the vital difference between what is true and what is false is that somegimes the truth appears less probable. * ok kX Irish Writer Puzxled by Untouchability Issue. Irish Independent, Dublin.—Refer- ences to the depressed classes of India have been so frequent of late that one wishes for first-hand information as to what constitutes untouchability. A few days ago the Manchester Guardian pub- lished a letter on the subject from Dr. Shyama Shankara of Benares. One would imagine that a Pandit of the Holy City would know all about the matter. ~Ac to untouch- ability is not a question of caste, but of cleanliness, and untouchability can only be displaced by general sanitary education. To this a missionary replies, giving two examples of his own experience. On one occasion all the puplls in a school declared that they would leave it two boys quite as clean as the best ‘were admitted. in, a Hindu Christian, well edu ciean and with nice manters, found himself ostracized, not because he was & Chris- tian, but because he had come from the outcastes. Untouchability must be something more than skin-deep. *x k X Power of Consumer Over Industry Seen. Diarlo Del Comercio, Barranquilla.— Have you ever thought of the power you exercise, along with all other indi- and production? " Laboratories analyze foods and medicines, that you may have aliments and drugs which will be THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1932 on with fts work, the prospects for dis- position of important matters does E 2 4 fainty yet ‘sbout the nnel of the Roosevelt, cabinet. - Gov. J reported to ha Gov. Roosevelt plications. He may have & few names of his own to add to the list. A Presi- dent may know pretty ‘wants, but he cannot always get it, even in the matter of s cabinet. For ex- ample, there are men prominently db’hbzm pursuade to take office. But con- ditions are such in the country today that some of &e‘:emmumen cannot be m esses. If reports be true, that is the case of Owen D. Young, who has frequently been men- tioned for Secretary of State or head Treasury Department. s, do not necessarily consti- | Of the * ok ok % President Hoover must face the solu- tion of the foreign debts problem for the next three months. It remains to be seen whether politics will halt at the water’s edge and whether the Dzmo- crats will back up the President in this serious_situation regarding the debts. There has been ncthing so far to indi- cate that he will have the Democrats of the Congress with him in anything he may do. However, there exists still public opinion in the United States and It may yet have its effect on Congress, if the people themselves get back of any move made by the President, looks more and more, however, as though the debt situation would have to be considered by the Congress, even though that body may wish to avoid it, and has indicated through its leaders that no new agency to deal with the matter of revision would be set up. The attitude in Congress up to the present has been: “Let the debtor nations de- fault if they think that the better policy. We will not grant further post- ponement nor eny. fion of the debts which might be construed as in- dicating a willingness to cancel or re- duce cebts further.” Now France and one or two others are not to pay today, much to the surprise of the members of Congress. * % * % ‘The default creates, in a measure, a problem for Congress. It cannot well afford to fold its hands and let the matter slide. The President must first, of-course, discuss the matter with the defaulting nations. But that is all he can do. Congress is the determining factor in whatever is finally achieved in this matter. At all events, it is now clear to what extent France and some of t'ge other nmtcnis! are prepared to g0 bring about, '-hfl’ Ccan, some readjustment of the whole debt struc- ture. If the United States fails to rise to the bait of default, France may be compelled to make some kind of & move herself. There has been talk of re- taliatory measures to be taken against defaulting debtor nations. But the soft pedal has been put on this talk up till now. It seems sure, however, that the ds [American people will not be quite as uiescent as that if nothing is done bring about a plan for further pay- ments. It does not seem to have seeped into the consciousness of Europeans that the Americans are not willing, be- cause France and other nations have agreed to cut to the bone German reparations for the war, to wipe off the debts owed this country, a I part of which was incurred lfler‘:ie. ‘war bad ended. L Discussion looking to tion of the Republican n.uon’fx“é'o’“"mxm is in full swing. far is getting nowhere. All the mm- tions so far made regarding new chair- men of the Republican committee have not registered with the progressive Re- publicans. They see no virtue in turn- ing from Everett Sanders, the present chairman, to Senator James E. Watson, for example, or to Charles D. Hilles, the commitieeman from New York. They are demanding a “new deal,” but not the kind of a deal that the Old Guard opponents of the Hoover ad- ministration are seeking. One of the men suggested for the chairmanship, Col. Prank Knox, publisher of the Chi- cago Daily News, a Bull M back in the days of 1912. He might be more acceptable to the progressives than some of the others proposed for chair- man, although a lot of water has run under the bridge in the last 20 years. * kX X Chairman Sanders has, it is said in some quarters, no intention of getting out. Certainly he might not be in- to leave the ch: ip to turn it over to Senator Watson, accord- ing to reports. They are both Hoosiers. Back in 1924, when the Republicans moet beneficlal for you. Machine hops | presidential furnaces grind, polish and flare that you may have the very best mate- rials and adjustments in your typing e machines and motor cars. Designs, fashions, fabrics and con- veniences of multitudinous varieties are invented to appeal to you. As the consumer it is your desires, your tastes , your erences that, directly or indirectly, con- tral all the shops and industries of the whole world. In conforming to your edicts, the leading merchants of Bar- ranquilla presen in this paper their reports on what they have to of- fer for your greater service or com- fort. Their advertisements are always inf , even as indicative of the e times. accurate registers of hu- man progress; it is both instructive and profitable to read them regularly and with care. B A lwml:he.m-hmm and your pref- | pay Under an amendment to the rules anym:ex:m d by 16 mef::e'r: o jorce they representwu ma—e-c?:rosnu two members of the comfnittee, second and third genera- Senatar tion of the family usually do pretty effective work. The Real Loser. Prom the Loulsville Courier-Journal. A man who bit & worm in & of ‘tobacco -m:@n for damages. ‘worm ‘wasn't represented it the case. %.:mm its veto the gth on charnges But reorganization so | ing ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. e effective November 16, 1832, the owner or pilot of United Btates registered aircraft shall secure suthorization from the Department of - Commerce prior fiight, except on to scheduled tion, over any Torelgn ‘country other . than Canada, Mexico and Cubs. Such suthorization mbe issued after permission for the t has been accorded by the coun- try or countries to be visited and the ry of is satisfled that aircraft and airmen utilized are : d 1 of fight - i . ‘What is the silver cup worth which was won by Hartz, A.A A, l,MJ pion at lndhm;{h this year?— A'Th more than coniains. g's',’oo% ot o8 e and cost $10,000. Q. Does slavery exist in Africa?— E W "A. ‘The Committee on African Wel- fare says that slavery exists in Africa, chiefly in areas controlled by Africans - | themselves, There is also a vast sys- tem of forced labor, which is equally bad or worse. Q. Who gave the Lakes of Killarney to the Irish Pree State?—L. J. A. Wiliam Bowers Bourn of San Mateo, resented to the Irish Free State uge tract of land con- taining the Lakes of Killarney. The Killarney Estate belonged to Lord Kenmare's family, whose ancestral seat was Killarney Castle. In 1913 the anclent castle was swept by fire and g‘n in nnga By 1930 the own;lrl :g e y were no longer able pay m and Killarney went for sale on the auction block. It was purchased by Mr. Bourn, who now returns it to the Irish government. Q. Can one see a marble copy of “Death Staying the Hand of the Sculptor” anywhere in New York?— H. B. A. A marble replica is owned by thé Metropolitan of Art. French executed the original in 1892, in bronze It is in Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston. Q. How many Anchor Line ships were lost in the World War and what were their names?>—F. O'R. A. Seven Anchor Line ships were lost during the war, five of which, the Caledonia, Transylvanis, Tuscania, Cal- ifornia and Cameronia, were in the New York-Glasgow service and two, the Perugia and Tibernia, in the Mediter- 1t | renean service. Q. Please give some information about the school built by President Hoover near his Summer camping place.—N. E. A. The President Herbert Hoover Community School was built upon privately-owned land, which was do- nated for the purpose of erecting the school. The money was given by President Hoover and his friends. was equipped by Mr. and Mrs. Hoover with the money donated by them and their friends. It is located at Criglers- , Virginia. . H names are on the cheratm:: i’!’r‘snymu of Queen Mary? -E 8. A. The publication. the Queen says It| that her majesty’s list includes 1,300 names. e e e T itself @ person. A ration mey own land, "but the indiviaual members of the corporation have no rights therein. - | A corporatioh may owe money, but the corporators as individuals are under no cbligation to pay the debt. Q. Does the expressiou “free trade™ 2s commonly used mean absolutely fres exchange?—H. M. L A. As commonly used “free trade™ s | Tefers to exchange restricted only by moderate revenue duties. QAWhn invented vestibule trains? A. George Mortimer Pullman, who built the first sleeping car, also put into execution the idea of vestibule Q. What was the ultimate alm of Alexander the Great?—K. F. A. Alexander sought to subject the entire world to the Greek spirit; to stamp the customs, the language, the culture and even the thoughts of the ?hr;eks upon sumandlng mg‘om. For purpose an losophers accompanied Bie " afmmies.” 1" the deserts of Bactria, and Syria, and Libya, he founded Greek cities.” Q. When is the term “comntry bank” ‘used?—N. C. A. In classifying the national banks the Controller of the Currency des- ignates as a country bank one which is not situated in a reserve city or & central reserve city. Q. How far-reaching is the Yours Men’s Christian Association?—R. O. L. A. It has been extended until it 18 now active in 56 cquntries, autonomous- ly organized under the World Coms= mittee at Geneva. There are 9,754 associations, employing 7.396 executive officers, with a membership of 1,601,967, of whom 474,922 are boys. The value of the ty and funds is $263,- 636,070 O o L Q. To whom did the American Acad- emy of Arts and Letters award the first 8old medal given for work done outside the field of letters?—T. T. A. To Cecilia Beaux, painter, Q. Who was known as the Robin Hood of El Dorado?—N. L. M. A. This name has been given to Joaquin Murrieta, the most picturesque bandit of California history, who was | the terror of the State in 1850-1853. |Harry Love and his Los Angeles Rangers finally captured him and his head became an exhibition piece in San Francisco, with admission of $1. | Murrieta had' 300 murders to his | record. Q. Is the present Ku Klux Klan & continuation of the organization of the | Civil War period?—J. F. V. A. The Ku Klux Klan originated in Pulaski, Tenn, first as a social or- ganization and afterward as a means of preserving the white supremacy and | combating the misrule which arose dur- ing the reconstruction period. It bee came corrupt and fell largely into the hands of a lawless element of soclety. It was suppressed by the Force bill, passed by Congress, April 20, 1871. The later organization known as the Ku Klux Klan claims as its principle the cnforcement of the laws of the Constitation and the bringing together into an organization all those sessing “100 per cent Americanism.” Do Europeans spend as much money on elections as is spent in this country?—T. R. A. A survey by Dr. J. K. Pollock of the University of Michigan says: “Larger sums are expended in Ger- many than in either France or Great Britain. In none of thece countries do we find a8 much money spent om elections as in United States.” Improved Banking System Accepted As National Need Approval is given to the advice of President Hoover, in his mesfage to should be improved, so as to be to handle more efficiently such e Some_ belleve crises as the depression. that reform should go further than to|banking adopt the measures provided in the pending bill drawn by Senator Glass. Others are convinced that the matter is s0 important that it will take a long time to achieve desired results. Reviewing the financial record of the last few years, the Altoona Mirror de- clares that “there is room for overhaul- ing,” while the Rock Island Argus em- phasizes the President's opinion that “the banking system failed at a critical time in the Nation's history,” and that “inflation of the currency or Govern=- ment conduct of banking must play no part in banking reform.” Lauding the message because “it outlines with clarity and conciseness the outstanding real- ities with which Congress must wrestle,” the Boise Idaho Statesman gives force to the statement of “flaws in our bank- system,” and to the “challenge to Congress to find a remedy, for the need is great.” “Wise reorganization of the country’s banking system” is seen by the Chicago Daily News as one direction in which Congress “may contribute to strength- SRS ot FOToES ot Thag MY, Hoover t out that Mr. Hoover “Serves more than one Warning, directly or indirectly, against attempts to enact measures repugnant to ingrained Amer- ican individualism, measures calculated to substitute paternalism and bureau- cratic dominaton for voluntary and enlightened co-operation in the eco- nomic field.” e Lexington Leader, observing that “he suggests. what hs has recommended since early in 1929, that the banking system be strength- ened and certain Imperfections rem- edied,” adds that “the Congress itself and the Federal Reserve banking au- thorities have made exhaustive investi- gations and the facts are known.” The Spokane Spokesman-Review sees “a new note in his vigorous recommenda- tion for thorough reform of the system. or, as the President puts it, the woeful lack of a syster:.” * ok k% “The evil to which he points cannot longer be ignored,” advises the Roanoke ‘World-News, declaring that “many i lieve that any at- banking authori ies believe me% banks and cialize in particular limited fields, such as industrial loans, real-estate loans or sutomobile paper.” The World-News recalls that the Federal Reserve Board “has made a number of suggestions for changes in the Glass measure” and adds: “The main purposes of the bill as now pending are: To prevent use of benk funds and Federal Reserve credit gestion that Congress proceed with consideration of the Glass bill” while the Asbury Park Evening Press pre- dicts “agitation for reforms that go beyond the provisions of the Glass measure,” and concludes: system would resemble centralized bank plan followed in Eue rope, abolishing competition between | banks and excluding them from partici- | pation in long-term loans, whi¢h would be confined to non-banking institutions. Under this plan the branch banking | system would be extended to all banks, thus strengthening the position of the small independent bank.” * K kX Calling it “a question for another Congrass and another President to answer,” the Miami Daily News feels that “the answering, no doubt, will involve one of the great struggles of the coming four years.” The Bf 8- ham Age-Herald holds that “it is fairly obvious that relatively little progress can be made in this direction during the current session.” while the Youngs- town Vindicator finds “no need for haste,” and advises “careful considera- tion.” The Springfield (Mass.) Union states: “It is a very complicated subject, demanding great care and a complete knowledge of conditions and needs. ‘Though proposals for such reforms are already befcre Congress, definite action in the short session is rather dubious.” The Rochester Times-Union thinks that “the States ought to work with the Government in effecting this im= portant reform.” “The need of reform,” in the ju ment of the San Francisco Chronicl “is only too clear. The President makes no specific recommendations. Some E:tnr.s are cbvious. Never again should nks be permitted to start with capital sufficient only for fair weather. This obligation, however, lies more on the States than on the Federal Govern= ment, for it was the little State banks that went down in windrows in some parts of the country. On the larger side of the incapacity of the system as a whole to meet emergencies, reorgan= ization calls for a high desree of wis- dom. In cf the example of Great Britain, which has had no bank failures in the face of conditions worse than ours, the President might have added that' the soundness of British banks is not obtained by a barbed wire fencs of laws. It is a product of accumulated banking experience rather than of legislation.” Ancient Victim. From the Minneapolls Journal. A New York sportsman thinks that the Minnesota Girl, found under the old lake bottom, was mistaken for a deer 20,000 years ago. S e T Change of Parentage. From the Columbia (8.C.) Record. ‘The war debt problem, as Gov. Roose= velt intimated, is Herbert Hoover’s baby now. After March 4 it will be Roose= velt’s baby and howling worse than ever, The Really Vital Question. From the Omaha Evening World-Hereld. . WIll Congress take time off from beer and decide the proper amount of alco- hol for a small car? Environment and Opfhion. Prom the Oskland Tribune. lmnlmu‘mm'bo-;"m this- country needs is a dictator,” goes home and changes his mind. g Silly. From the Schenectady Gasette. . mnmhmhmh‘ when there are so many legal ways ¥