Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1932, Page 8

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The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- Patches credited to it or not otherwise cred- fted in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A New Farm Bloc. A new “farm bloc” in Congress has been formed, one hundred and fifty strong, according to the representatives of the American Farm Bureau Federa- tion, to press for farm relief legislation at the present short session. Presum- ably the bloc will carry over into the nev: Congress after March 4. This may or may not be good news for the farm- ers. It is not particularly good news for the incoming Democratic adminis- tration. Congressional _ “blocs” have caused more trouble for legislative pro- grams sponsored by various adminis- trations, Republican and Democratic alike, than any one phase of political activity on Capitol Hill. When a mi- nority group undertakes, in order to favor any single class, farmers, veter- ans or what not, the trouble begins. They are usually fanatical in their demands to a degree that reason flies out of the doors of Congress. What a farm bloc can accomplish in the present short session is problemat- ical both because of the lack of time in which to get consideration and ac- tion on farm legislation and also be- cause of the lack of agreement on just what should be done. It looks today as though the farm problem will have to go over until the next Congress—and it may go to many succeeding Con- gresses. There is at least one demo- cratic member of the House, Repre- sentative Nelson of Missouri, himself for years a farmer, who takes the view that what the farmers really need is & respite from so-called panaceas. Ac- cording to Mr. Nelson, measures that would reduce taxation and relieve the farmers from trade barriers would in large measure solve his problem. There is much in what Mr. Nelson has to say about the panacea form of legislation as directed at the farmer. Affer all, no system, however clever, can stand for a period of years against overproduc- tion. And no system that requires an army of government agents to see that it is enforced can relieve the farmers. Indeed, it would only add to the weight of taxation under which he suffers today. With a huge Democratic majority in the next House and Senate, ready, it would” seem, to put through a Demo- cratic program worked out by the Roosevelt administration, it would be unfortunate to find the Congress split into blocs, agricultural or otherwise. Attempts to fix prices for the farmers on their produce, firrespective of the amount of production and the demand for the produce, can only bring grief to the Roosevelt administration and the whole ocountry. The new farm bloc, it is reported, stands back of a four-point program which sounds well but is indefinite in detail. It proposes to expand the cur- rency, lower the value of the dollar, halt farm mortgage foreclosures and give agriculture equality with industry and labor. The best minds have struggled incessantly for years with the problem of placing agriculture on an equal foot- ing with industry. Industry, however, must be governed by the law of supply and demand, and it 1s. The farmers continue to insist that something be done for them which makes it possible for them to forget all about this eco- nomic law. It cannot be done. oo France finds it easy to secure a new cabinet, but difficult to discover talent that can work the combination to the safe. o Toys—Ancient and Modern. Goodness only knows when toys firsi appeared in the world. Doubtless they are as old as the race of men. Prob- ably the cave boys.and girls of a mil- lion years ago amused themselves with toys fashioned out of the bones of dinosaurs and dolls dressed in the fur of the shaggy mammoth. A universal phenomenon from that unknown day to this, toys may be traced across the face of the earth whefever humanity has wandered or paused. They sur- vive their owners. Archeologists dig them out of the accumulated debris of centurles. The children of the Nile Valley had toys of numerous and various kinds. Some of their dolls, constructed of wood, earthenware, stone and metal, grace the shelves and exhibition cases of the museums. Greek and Roman children likewise were rich in playthings. They had dolls with jointed arms and legs, and small models of furniture and other household equipment survive from both major divisions of classic times. Balls, tops, rattles, the implements of various games, and reproductions of all the tools and instruments used by adults, have been collected from every period and every racial and national community to demonstrate how little since the beginning the amusements of children have changed. Little folk imitate the conduct and employment of their elders, and find pleasure in pretending to be grown up. ‘That is a psychologic verity about which there is no serious argument Toymakers are familiar with the fact, and are creatively guided by their com- prehension of it. At a recent toy exposition in New ‘York there were on display stoves that cook, washing machines that wash and fceboxes that refrigerate, not to men- tion equally practical children’s editions | X Tegisters, adding mt;hmu, ; of rubber, modeled to life, scaled to nor- i ped with complexions and hair suitable mo.. 85¢ | | Everything must be “just so0.” | tions at fachionable private kinder- ‘n‘llis!lc toys that are most enduringly | popular. | today have any better fun with the toys | with the simpler toys of their time? | mons at London, as a result of which | typewriters and telephones. Fully equip- ped offices and stores of appropriate dimensions were shown. Safes with combination locks were obvious and necessary additions to these establish- ments. Toy money was not overlooked; ! neither were toy checkbooks missing. Toy railroad trains, steamships and airplanes, once built of wood or tin, now are constructed of more durable ma- terials and in larger sizes. Electric ele- vators, excavating machinery, farm machinery, bullding devices of every conceivable kind have been perfected. Even a grecnhouse of iron and gliss has been devised. Dolls have become all but human. They now are made of composition or mal proportions and weight and equip- to be washed. Their wardrobes are de- signcd as carefully as a debutante’s. The toymakers try out their produc- gartens and in slum scttlement houses. They find that it is the more drastically The question is: Do the children of | manufactured to order for their enter- tainment than less conspicuously for- tunate children generations ago had | No one can answer with assurance, E————— The Exit of “L. G.” Recent debate in the House of Com- the Bri'ish cabinct’s docision to pay the mid-December Americen €ebi in: stallment was approved without a | division, was nctable for the demon- strated political impotence of a states- man who tut yesterday was an all- powerful figure. With the exception of | Winston ~ Churchill's, David Lloyd George's voice was the only one raised in criticism of the government's action. Although they are the most brilliant living parliamentarians in Great Bri- tain, both had the House of Commons almost unanimously against them. In- deed, “L. G.” was nearly howled down, | and presented the pathetic spectacle of a man who, once the magician of the House, was left without a party or triend to support him. Commenting on this phenomenon, Mr. A. G. Geodiner, whose incisive weekly reviews of British politics are & | regular feature of The Star’s editorial | columns, states that “the incident showed that Lloyd George had entirely miscalculated the temper of Parliament and is taken to indicate that his polit- fcal star has finally set.” The dynamic “little Welshman” based his futile plea to the Commons on the argument of “No debt parley, no pay.” But what |set the House against him was his |attempt to wipe out & personal grudge against Stanley Baldwin, now the Con- | servative leader in Parliament and the man who negotiated the American debt | settlement at Washington in 1923. | The cup of Mr. Lloyd George's un- happiness in Westminster last week must have overflowed when one of his erstwhile most faithful lieutenants, Sir Robert Horne, chancellor of the ex- chequer in the former prime minister". government, threw him over and de- fended Mr. Baldwin. “L. G.'s” palpable desire was to exploit existing popular | resentment in Great Britain toward the United States against the Conservative | leader, who was chiefly responsible for | expelling the Lloyd George government from office in 1922. | Although the Liberal party, which he | once gallantly and effectively captained, | has become little more than a shadow in British politics, split two ways over the tariff issue and otherwise shorn of authority, David Lloyd George's star | fades at the end of a career of which his descendants will have no cause to be ashamed. His organization of vic- tory for Great Britain in the darkest days of the World War, when his high- powered energy fired his whole people with the will to win, alone assures the “man of Harlech” enduring fame. — e A complicating situation might be simplified if France and Germany could be persuaded to appoint responsible representatives to shake hands and positively mean it. —_— v The Persian government is engaged in an argument with a British company concerning ofl. In commercial conten- tion, ofl continues to speak all languages. ———————— A British Lion Roars. Just about the time last week when Senators of the United States were in- dulging in the unwonted practice of bridling their tongues and suppressing prepared speeches on the debt ques- tion, a respected spokesman of British public opinion, the Saturday Review of London, was letting itself go in the best jingo fashion. Anti-American outbursts have b periodical through the years in that particular quarter, yet even the Saturday Review, it might have been supposed, would control its habitual Yankeephobia at an hour when statesmen in both London and Washington are doing their human best to extract the poison from one of the most malignant situations that has ever grisen: between the two countries. In an editorial headed “God Help America!” the Saturday Review says: ‘When we have paid, God Help Amer- ica—for no one else can or will lift a finger. The economic consequence is clear enough to all save those who de- mand it. It is the price which they and we have to pay, as we have pald before, for the peculiarities of the Amer- ican Ccnstitution, and the divorce of America reason and experience from the control of American affairs. * * * There is scarcely 8 man or woman in England who does not bear in the inner heart a positive dislike of America and Americans in the Jump. The editors of the Saturday Review will probably be disappointed to ob- serve, as they must be observing if the British press is accurately reflecting current American public opinion, that sentiments like those just quoted are conspicuous by their absence over here. Comments are almost exclusively in the other direction. But it requires little stretch of the imagination to compre- hend that the American people, being after all merely human, might not be inclined perpetually to restrain them- selves in the teeth of such provocation as the Saturday Review's outburst of spleen. President Hoover is about to send an- other debt message to Congress. He has assured Great Britain in the course ofs recent diplomatic correspondence that the administration’s inclination is to recommend careful scrutiny of Lon- don’s claims. Congress is known in ad- vance to be none too favorably disposed of life in their own. That is one of the | season especially, toward even so non-committal & pro- posal as that. A few more “God Help America!” editorials like the Saturday Review's, and that undesirable denoue- ment colloquially known as the spilling of the beans might suddenly ensue. Or if a more pat idiom is called for, a goose may be killed that is possibly about to lay some golden eggs. ——oe—s Other Worlds. A child judges the rest of the world by the little world into which he was born and in which he lives. To the child born of parents blessed with the material riches of life.the rest of the world appears like his own. There is always food for every one; there are comfortable, warm beds for every one; there are shiny and interesting play- things for every one. Disillusionment is a gradual process. But there are other children who also tal - he measure of the rest of the world by what they have come to ac- cept as the inevitable accompaniments facts, in connection with the dreary blight of these hard days, that, at this wring the heart. There are children who belleve that to be hungry is the natural state; that everybody is cold a good part part of the time; that the drab and colorless existence they know is shared by every- body, everywhere. If disillusionment for the child who is born to comfort and the care of loving parents always able to provide for him is cruel, there is comfort in the thought that it is, for most of them, a gradual process. But what a joy it is to share in the | disillusionment of those other children | —*n help in creating those circum- st - ces that will teach them to know the > is another sort of world after all, | a world where there is warmth and| shelter and food, where parents return | smiles with smiles, instead of tears! There are seventy-eight children in the families represented by The Star's “Twenty Opportunities.”” When one of these opportunities has been “closed” by the generous gifts of sympathetic ‘Washingtonians it means that for some of these children there is created a new world. The sweet promise in this new world must be as revealing, to| them, as it was to the wise men who| followed the star to Bethlehem. s The probability of bad weather in| early March is no longer urged as a| reason for changing the date of Inaugu- | ration. The move now is to get lh:“ new hands working early even if they | have to break into the season When | blizzards are normally due. | | up with ————r———————— Beer may be legalized, but there is no chance that racketeers who have been engaged in its illicit circulation | will suddenly Become law abiding. The | greatest misfortune of & crime wave lies | in the boldness and ingenuity developed in the underworld. | ey Government workers who cannot be | spared will not receive the three days of holiday leave. This may encourage them to hope for automatic exemption from any payless furloughs. R The holiday rush is likely to cause | irritation just at a time when courtesy on both sides of the counter is a pub- lic obligation. Shopping early will help to avold shopping surl e A new administration cannot reason- ably refuse information from the old, but may feel hesitancy about agreeing to take advice. et Stocks have been behaving rather well and brokers may yet feel suffi- clently enthusiastic to use ticker tape for Christmas tree trimming. B In international relations a course of | disarmament is being advised which will g0 even so far as to disarm suspicion. ———————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOIINSON. Elephant and Donkey Superseded. Santa Claus, they say, is meant For little girls and boys, And yet we hope he will consent To_ald maturer joys. His sleigh, they say, is near at hand, No politiclans rant. Let's think about the Reindeer and Forget the Flephant. The*Reindeer brings the holiday And is of greater use In bringing generous display Than Tiger or Bull Moose, So let’s salute him in our pride ‘While trying to keep cool. In harness bid him trot beside The Democratic Mule. Trying Not to Discriminate. “Are you going to have a Christmas tree at your home?” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Are you going to decorate it with many gifts?” A “Yes. I'm going to show that an American citizen can be just as generous toward his own family as he is expected to be to nations abroad.” Jud Tunkins says that if a man must filibuster, there ought to be some way invented to let him do it in stlence. Alcoholic Percentage. Oh, let's start the problem commercial once more, And as an inducement contrive To make the percentage 2.74, Marked down from 2.75. The World’s Worryer. “I don't think this debt discussion is quite fair, just at Christmas time,” said Mr. Dustin Stax. “Are you trying to think up some mode of settlement?” “Yes. Like everybody else, I worrled about our neighbors’ troubles when they needed loans and now I keep on worry- ing about how they can square up with least inconvenience.” “Forgotten favors,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “raise weeds of resentment in the garden where friend- ships were meant to grow.” Practical Poesy. Among the Christmas carols sweet, Amid the hurly-burly, We hear another song so neat, Whose charm is “Shop Early!” “I's done made & start foh Christmas,” sald Uncle Eben. “I still has to complete de financial arrangements to fll de | siderably below expectations. |dull and listless. stockings, but I has managed to earn enough to supply de hosfery.” 3 WA THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, Cold weather, despite the ill things which may be sald of it, makes one appreciative to an unusual degree. Appreciative of physical warmth, of human kindness, of inventions. Anything which tends to animate this divine spark is very much worth while. In order to be fully alive to the good side of cold, however, it is best to be “on the inside looking out,” as the old song puts it. Yet cven'the man in the snow, there because he has no other place to go, manages to feel the spiritual warmth of kindness. One such was shuffiing down Penn- sylvania avenue last Saturday at the height of the snow. 2 Hi: ;‘houhwere 50 flflnm gut he won- lered how he was manage to stick out the mrm‘fn order to try for & job as a snow shoveler. He would go to a shoe store, he thought, and apply for the job of clean- ing off their walk, in the hope that-he might manage to pick up an old pair of rubbers. _ Unfortunately, the business estab- lishment could not see it that way. As the man hung around the store before plunging out into the snow again, he noticed a young man enter, remove a pair of rubbers and purchase a pair of storm arctics, as they are called, . ‘The purchaser, after donning the galters, told the clerk to wrap up his pair of rubbers and departed with them under his arm. This was the jobless man's chance. He sidled out the door and caught the man in the new arctics. ‘Say, bucdy,” he began, using the old standard "greeting, “y an old pair cf rubbers, have you?” Now the other, who happened to be none other than our friend, Templeton Jones, was a man of ready wit, as well as soft heart. His own reactions to this request, made in a thoroughly decent fashion, were very interesting to him, he told us. His first thought was one of slight anger, mixed with one part humilia- on. He was slightly angry because the fellow had so obviously taken advan- tage of him. He evidently had been in the store, had seen the entire transaction, as we have described it, and knew perfectly well that Jones had a pair of good over- shoes in the package. Jones might have said “No” in one sharp word and gone on about his business, but Jones was not a liar in any matter, and, furthermore, he real- ized instantly what must have hap- pened. ‘The man knew he had a pair of rubbers. Templeton looked down at the fel- low's feet. “What size you wear?" he asked. The man hesitated. “Ten,” he sald at last. “Then this pair I have here won't fit you,” went on our friend. “I have an unusually small foot and wear size 6. The man recognized Jones was tell- ing the truth. “Furthermore,” continued the latter, “this is practically a brand-new pair of rubbers, and I need them myself on rainy days. He looked down at the cloth affairs : | swathing his shoes and the bottoms of his trouser legs. “I can't wear these things in any u ain't got ! tinued, with the well known Jonesian The man out of’s (iob caught the flash of that smile and knew was talking to a kind-hearted man. “Maybe you might help me— The words froze on his lips, but Jones came to his rescue. “Glad to,” he sald, reaching into his pocket. A smile of genuine appreciation wreathed the weather-beaten face. “That’s more money,” the man said, “than I have earned in a year.” Jones suddenly wished his rubbers were the right size—he would have given them to him, too. Wished he had more money to give to the man. Wouldn't it be great to dispense largess with a free hand, in- stead of with the comparatively nig- gardly one which necessity imposes upon the vast bulk of mankind? Or would it? Jones never could make up his mind. He had read the words of a great Frenchman that one robbed another human being of self-respect when one gave alms. Jones wondered. Maybe it was bet- ter to lose one's self-respect momen- tarily and receive a little hard cash in the palm of the hand wherewith to alleviate very present hunger. ‘Templeton Jones decided that he would continue to give as he could and let those to whom he gave run the risk of a theoretical loss of self-respect. “I'd rather be on the inside looking out than on the outside looking in.” So_went the old popular song. It fits the situation as to appreciation of cold. Not much fun trying to sing praise of cold out in it.” Get inside, then look out—everything becomes rosy. But not, indeed, unless 0:.> i5 warm. Physical warmth is the basis of physical life. And an appreciation of heat and its necessity is the theoretical fundamental appreciation perhaps. All living creatures, except the so- called cold-blooded animals, love to be warm, and it is probable that even they prefer it. Certainly among human beings there is no substitute for the right tempera- ture. Hence the appreciation of those clever devices which permit entire houses to be heated with one central heating plant. Only one who lived in a small town in past years where “drum stoves” were the only means of heating can possibly appreciate what central heating means, and this whether the fuel is coal, ofl or gas. | Thoughts of appreciation extend to | the men down in the mines, on the oil wells, at the gas works, Those who cut down wood for fireplace use, those who garner the wood for homes and make the insulation materials to keep out cold blasts. Satisfactory physical warmth, based on human inventions, and the laws of | physics, leads one on to a proper appre- ciation of that spiritual warmth which we call human kindness. This is a warmth which may come | to a man in the snow as he receives it | from another. It is, in a sense, the finest type of warmth, growing from despair and all inimical conditions. | It is easy to be appreciative when | one is sitting warmly indoors, com- | fortably housed, well fed; quite another | thing to show genuine appreciation | when things are otherwise. Let no one | forget that among all appreciators the best and finest type is he who appre- clates the approach of human kindness when life seems against him. He does (ot lose his sclf-respect, but increases | his own store and the store of those | but & snowstorm, you know,” he con- | who help him. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC v Whether because of the dawning consciousness that there will be no “beer by Christmas,” or, for that mat- ter, “by March,” or whether for other causes, the great and loudly heralded beer debate in the House yesterday got off to a drab and dreary start. There were yawning spaces in the public gal- leries. Excitement was among the numerous absentees. The floor was filled with more than the usual number of members, but attendance fell con- Spokes- men on both sides of the question were If anything, the House showed most signs of life when opponents of the Collier bill were addressing it. Something savoring of an oh-well-what's-the-use lassitude seemed to depress the wets. When repeal was squelched two weeks ago. they said: “Wait for the beer bill.” Beer now undoubtedly will be voted by the House, but only its most sanguine “fcamenters” expect its approval in the Senate, while relatively few are opti- mistic enough to think Mr. Hoover will sign a beer bill. “Off the record,” the wets have buried their hopes of beer and repeal alike until the Seventy-third Congress and Roosevelt are on the job. * x ok % Distinguished representatives of the European and Asiatic press flocked to the Senate yesterday, expecting the branch of Congress charged with co- ordinate_authority in foreign affairs to plunge headlong into a discussion of President Hoover's momentous message on war debts, disarmament and the World Economic Conference. =~ What did they actually find in progress? Nothing more or less than a one-man filibuster by & lame duck Senator from Wisconsin on the burning issue of whether the street car companies of Washington should merge or continue as individual concerns. Incidentally our journalistic brethren from Great Britain, France, Germany and Japan witnessed one of those painful exhibi- tions when business vital to 500,000 dis- franchised citizens of the District of Columbia was being debated and de- cided without the participation "{m a single authorized spokesman of ghat community. Incidentally, too, the m;t elgn scribes saw_the “world's greate: deliberative body” frittering away preclous time st a critical hour on & question which anywhere else on o would be tackled by & town council. * % x X i apshots during the er mfi"‘é‘& fix;bg:‘:: Six-foot-four Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, de beer devil's advocate on the othzr‘sl‘e of the Capitol, hobnobbing with 4-foot- 5, 40-year-old House page “boy’ -Yo.l_'ulny McCabe, who gave the alarm, -Hey, Jook out for that guy with & gun! last week. * * * ?“onner Gcorgh_ Representative “Willie Upshaw, afn companied by his crutches, sitting the body of the House as & former member, keeping his bone-dry ;gg peeled on the situation, getting spe'n. d by the chair for illicit applause. a Col. John Philip Hill of Maryland, another ex-member, keeping an eeul.llz vigilant wet eye on proceedings. ° 7 Represemath;; F‘lorenlce me; rgm L rnia, flashi displeasure I‘(%en grey eyes as the wineless beer bill goi under way. * kK X Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, chair- man of the M‘::elt :,:d ta:;ne: Inauguration Committee, et foretaste of what awaits the incoming Democratic President. He's run ragged by men and women whn vant Inaugural Committee jobs. Tvery mother’s son and daughter of them has a deserving Democrat record which calls for the admiral'’s special consideration. To begin with, the Inaugural Committee hasn't & ghost of a notion how much money it's going to have at its disposal. In the second place, the number of gaid positions available will, under the circumstances, be very limited. Grayson says that if he could place shoulder to_shoulder all the people anxious to hire out their services in connection with March 4, 1933, he'd have the of an inaugural pro- cession as long as Pennsylvania avenue. : * K kX Herr Adclf Hitler, militant leader of the German Fasciste, has just stationed an official spokcsman in” Washingion. WILLIAM WILE. He is Kurt W. G. Ludecke, who has press. Herr Ludecke, who has lived in | the United States on other occasions, | says he has a dual mission—to provide the American pecple with a clearer and fuller understanding of the aims of Hit- |lerism and to convey to the 12,000,000 | readers of “Nazi" (Naticnal Socialist) | newspapers in Germany a better picture ‘of the Yankee scene than, he claims, is portrayed for them through existing European press channels. * ok ok x Senator James J. Davis, Republican, | ¢f Pennsylvania, has resumed his place in the upper house, apparently unwor- ried either by the lottery proceedings pending against him in' the Federal Court of New York or by Gov. | Pinchot’s reported intention to give him |a “tainted election” certificate. Mr, Davis' friends say the case in which Ccnrad H. Mann, Kansas City Republi- can_politician, has just been convicted on lottery charges is wholly dissimilar from the proceedings in which the Senator is defendant. If the seating of Davis in the new Senate is made a party issue, his prospects at the hands of a h‘usc Dlefi'nocnnc majority, pllaxs progres- sive al are nct consider Vi radiant, o SR * ok ok % “Of Thee I Sing,” super-Br Vi | tional politics, winds up a record one- year run in New York this week and is headed for Washington, where it's due at the end of January. Since the play opened in December, 1931, it's done $1,400,000 worth of business. United States Supreme Court justices (the butt of precious ridicule in the piece) have seen it, and so have various cabinet of- ficers and scores of members of Con- gress. Neither President Hoover nor Vice President Curtis, as far as known, has had a look at the satire dcemed worthy of the Pulitzer dramatic prize for 1932. Gov. Roosevelt was a visitor to “Of Thee I Sing” early in its run. French Strother, White House research secretary, saw it a second time last Sat- urday night. Perhaps he'll sell “the Chief” the idea of taking a night off whex;d thcennhow comes to Wi on, President Hoover, un! isn't & theatergoer. TR P LAdy, * X ok X Now that disarmament is about to enter upon its second year at Genev: in the guise of a plous aspiration, l)rl Mary E. Woolley, president of Mount Holyoke College, and one of America'’s delegates at the conference, tells of sug- gestions which reached her over there how to make the parley a success. She thinks the most diverting one came from a New York East Sider who wante ed to know if it couldn’t be arranged to fight the next war with ripe toma- toes and rotten eggs instead of machine guns and heavy artillery. “Armies could figojt\}xlac nb;:ut as l;mc% damage to one er,” he argued, “but nchody would be killed. They'd just lo-: bad and smell worse.” (Copyright. 1932.) Correction as to Canadian Banks To the Editor of The Star: Articles on banking should be ac- curate. Yet James Montagnes in Sun- day's Star says “there have been no bank failures in the Dominion since 1922. The one before that was in 1914.” In British Columbia there were 28 1y’ nkers’ Directory for January, 1914, and January, 1915, will confirm what I say of British Co- lumbia. Neither the banking laws of Canada nor their administration offer much to copy with profit, WILL ATKINSON, 2 arrived here to represent the Hitlerite | BT JTINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1932. Capital and Labor Must Co-operate for Prosperity To the Editor of The Star: ‘The d’ unemployment. pur- cl me’r, with attendant pros- pects of her reduction in profits to capital, affords the latter an excuse for further nt of investment and expense and consequently increased un- employment ad infinitum. A continu- ance of this progression means the final exhaustion and collapse of our present industrial structure. The in- terim, unfortunately, affords the oppor- tunity for a certain limited element in both capital and labor to extend its unwarranted and dangerous propa- ganda. A certain small class of capital always seeks just such a situation to reduce labor to a totally subservient and acquiescent condition, while an equally small percentage of labor uses such chance to force upon public attention what they denominate as tyranny and exploitation of their class. In this breach has developed the deplorable conflict between the administrative and productive elements of our industrial life—the growth of inordinate greed on one side and of viclous vindictivenes: on the other. So long as thls spirit is tolerated the deat’ -dealing chasm be- tween the two will (-ntinue to broaden. Capital or wealth indefinitely unem- ployed becomes non-sustaining and un- profitable; labor continually unem- ployed becom>s vitiated and inefficient, and in this co-dition both become de- structive of thcrselves and of each other. Since our present industrial constitution proviies no restraining PQWgr over such a tc , therein lles its weakness and danzer. Consequently ‘we cannot hope for a satisfactory emer- gence from our soclal morass without a complete reformation of our industrial ideals and policies. The first step in this direction must be the elimination of distrust and misuncerstanding be- tween capital and labor, and instead of antagonizing cach other, to the destruc- tion of both, we must adopt & mutual constructive program which will recog- nize the basic and incontrovertible prop- osition that the two are component and equally indispensable parts of one body, in the products and profits of which each must equitably share, There are varlous ' processes through which the minutiae of this consummation can be worked out, all of which, however, must recognize the fundamental principle of co-operation, both morally and physi- cally. A model instance would be a plant owned jointly by investors and actual employes, this made possible by the retention of a small percentage of salaries to be applied to the purchase of stock up to at least a half ownership. This would not only conduce to effi- ciency and contentment, but would pro- vide for perpetual expansion and the | gradual return of industry to those most | vitally concerned and upen whose in- terest it depends. At all events. until capital and labor, which in the ultimate includes all. can decide to cease their emulation of the | fabled Kilkenny cats and unite in a | constructive program for the public welfare we must all suffer the inev- itable consequences of our own folly. DAVID A. TAYLOR. —_————————— ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, ‘Washington is the world's greatest storehouse of all kinds of knowledge. You can draw on it frec of charge through our bureau here. Any ques- tion of fact you may asi: will be an- swered promptly in a persc.al letter to you. Be careful to write ¢ -arly, give your full name and address, and inclose 3 cents for reply postage. Do not use post cards. Send your inquiry to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Hedexl;iccl. Haskin, Director, Washing- ton, D. C. Q. In cribbage, may an opponent gmnt points that a player misses?— . G. A. Should a player neglect to peg the full value of his hand, crib or play, his adversary who first discovers it may add the neglected points to his own score, calling out “muggins,” then pointing out the omission. Q. Where did the founder of the 10- cent stores get his idea?—D. R. A. Frank Winfleld Woolworth while \ltl‘l,ld‘l young man worked in a dry store and waited on a counter 8O where 5 and 10 cent articles were sold. | ‘This gav: him the idea and in Febru- ary, 1879, he opened a store in Utica, N. Y., where L2 dealt only in articles which cost 6§ and 10 cents. Q. Are there many illiterates in Can- ada?—T. W. A. The Canadian census of 1931 shows that 92.34 per cent of the pop- ulation over 5 years of age can either read or write. Q. What is technocracy?—B. T. A It is @ functional organization of engineers who have made over a 10-| year period an extensive analysis of our industrial and agricultural growth, 2pplying a_quantitative measure to the social mechanism. Q. How is the birth of twins regarded by the Indians?>—I. P. A. Twins are usually regarded as un- canny and are rather feared as pos- sessing occult power. Formerly the birth of twins was regarded as abnor- mal by some tribes and one or both were killed. Q. When was the Prophet Moham- med born and of what nationality was he?>—I. R. W. A. There is some dispute as to the exact year of the birth of Mohammed. The traditional date is 570 AD. He was born at Mecca, Arabia, and claimed descent from Abraham. He was the son of Abdallah of the family Hashin and Amina of the family of Zuhra. | His father died before his birth, and he was adopted after the death of his mother by his wealthy grandfather, Abd al Mittalib. He married when quite young Khadija, a wealthy widow, 15 years his senior. Q. How many camels or mules travel in a caravan?—S. A. L A. The number of camels or mules in a single caravan varies from 40 or so up to 600 and more. Sometimes, as on the reopening of a long-closed route, it reaches 1,000. |England’s *“Ear-Marked”| Gold Should Come Here To the Editor of The Sta | | Why is this “ear-marked” United States moratorium payment of gold by | England left in its full amount in the | Bank of England? Why has not, say, 5, | 10 or 20 million doliars of it been | shipped to these United States Govern- | | ment at once? Last authentic reponi states: “Bank of England has $470,000,- 000 of gold.” Why leave it to the Fed- | eral Reserve Bank of New York City | when to call for the amount we want shipped to us? Was not the Federal | Reserve Bank of New York City one of “Clarence Skinner's” consuitants upon his last mysterious visit to these United States? Has Congress no voice as to| when the United States is to receive this English payment? Was it not Con- | -ess that made the Hoover moratorium | possible, which France now says is “the | | cause of all the trouble about the World War_debts of the European nations to the United States.” | It Prance, at her own sweet will, if | ever, concludes to pay her overdue after- the-armistice moratorium debt, with a | string-reservation attached, with her $3,- 320,000,000 of gold, twice as much, per capita, as the United States now has, | will she, in “accord” with England, | mark” the United States gold also and | ki it in the Bank of France? | the case were vice versa would | these nations permit us to “earmark” our gold payments were such due from | us to them? “Shylock Uncle Sam” they have called us, but only since we sent them 2,000,- 000 American youth, soldiers, paid trans- portation—passage for them overseas to save the rest of Europe from World War defeat—sure defeat at that—by Ger- many. We poured billions of our bond buyers, tax-paying citizens' dollars and credits into their begging hands.| In these non-Andrew Jackson days Uncle Sam is just an “easy mark” to all Europe. No easy mark to 12,000,000 un- employed, 25,000,000 dependents and average $1,300 “beggarly salary” paid Government clerks, Keep your gold, Eu- rope! Give up 8'3 per cent plus fur- loughs without pay, you Government clerks. Beware, Uncle Sam! There might be, there may come, an “Ides of March,” for the “Gods grind slowly but exceedingly well. W. E. RYAN. Protests Comment as To Filipino Missions To the Editor of e Star: As a faithful and enthusiastic reader of Mr. Wile's columns I, a Filipino, must, for the first time, say that his column of Monday about the Philippine Mission and the Hawes-Cutting bill is loaded with inaccuracies. I want to point out those inaccuracies for the reason that that column is surely going to be used in the islands as a justifica- tion for the expenditure of $150,000 which the five members of that mission have spent here since they came last year. In the first place, “joy reigns uncon- fined” among the missioners because they had a bill passed, irrespective of whéther that bill carries the worst pro- visions imaginable. The entire Filipino people are against the bill as The “politicos” in Manila are against it. How, then, could Filipinos be joyful at such outrageous treatment that they have received from e Senate tl h the co-operation for personal purposes of the mission here. In fact the mission will have to ex- plain to the Philippine Legislature why it has disregarded its instructions to obtain immediate and complete inde- pendence. It was very obvious during the discussion in the Senate that that kind of independence could have been secured if mission had expressed themselvs publicly and unequivocably or it. As to Senator Harry Hawes being considered among the Filipinos as the “Edmund Burke of their fight for free- dom,” Mr. Wile is most grievously mis- taken. As long as Senator Hawes worked for a five-year independence pe- riod, for which the Filipinos paraded in his honor in Manila, he was their hero, but when reversed himself and advocated a 20-year plan, with the most unfair limita- Q What is the inscription on the New York post office>—W. C. S. A. It is “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” . What are some of the achieve- ments of the “Grange"?—T. R. A. Strictly speaking, this is not the correct title of the agricultural organi- zation, the official title being Society of Patrons of Husbandry. The grange is equivalent to the term *lodge” used in other fraternal orders. It originated in a secret association of farmers Oliver Hudson Kelley, a Minnesota farmer, who was deputed by the Gov- ernment, 1866. to make a tour of in- spection throush the Southern States conditions and the best means of im- proving them. From this small begine ning the organization has grown to its present enormous proportions and claims as a part of its achievements the creation of the Department of - culture as a cabinet of ', the founding of State egricultural experiment sta= tlons and of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Q. Who Is George Luks, who won first prizz in the thirteenth biennial exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art?>—M. T. M. A. Rilla Jackman calls him “one of the most independent of our younger artists.” He was born in Williamsport, Pa, in 1867. “Though he studied in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, in Paris, and for & time In Dusseldorf and London, he now claims to scomn all academic training.” Q. In the construction of new build- ings what is the relative cost of labor and material>—A. O. P. A. For 15 citles studied by the Bureau | of Labor Statistics in 1931 and 1932, it was found that 63.6 per cent of the money spent in the erection of build- ings went for material and 36.4 per cent for labor. The percentage received | by labor was slightly higher on resi- ;ien!lzl than on non-residential build- ngs. Q. How is the title to a trade mark acquired?—F. A, A. The title to a trade mark is ac- quired by adoption and use. It may be purchased. Q To whom was the nickname “PFighting Quaker” applied>—G. I. F. A. It was often said cf John Bright, British statesman in the Victorian era, that “if Le had not boen a Quaker he must have bcen a prize fighter.” He was elogus Q. Do finished manufactures ccnsti- {ute a large percentage of our domestie exports and general imports?—F. U. A. For the calendar year 1931 fin. ished manufactures formed 47.1 per cent of cur domestic exports and 26.2 per cent of our general imports. Q. From what was the name Mazda derived?—M. L. A. To the followers of Zoroaster, | Mazda, or Armazd, was the good spirif who represented life and light and cree ated all that was good and pure. Q. What is a “verified” radio station? —P. W. A. It is explained as follows: An individual may hear a program and write to the station which he believes That station will verify n by sending him a verifica- This is not done so much now as it was when broadcasting was new and the average listener was inter- ested in getting distant stations. Q. How many physicians and dentists grr now p!rsacncmg in the United tates?—D. B. A. The Committee on the Cost of Mecical Care reports that 121,000 physicians are engaged in private prac- tice, with 21,000 in medical institutions | or selling medical supplies. There are 56,800 dentists in private prectice and 5,600 engaged in institutions or selling dental supplies. | Q. Which is heavier—a gallon of milk or a gallon of water>—R. U. | A. Milk is heavier. A gallon of water | weighs 8.345 pounds at maximum den- |stty. A gallon of milk weighs 8.60 pounds. | Q. Who were the Cambridg> Apos- tles?—E. S. A. They were members of a debating | society founded 2t Cambricge b John Sterling in 1826, and remarkakle for | founded at Washington, D. C., Decem- | the talent of its undergracuate mem- | ber 4, 1867, through the influence of | bers and for the success to which they | attained in after life. Among them | may be mentioned, besides Sterling him- | self, Frederick Denison Maurice, Riche | ard Chenevich Trench, John Kemble, |and to report vvon their agricultural | Spedcing, Monckton Miles, Tennyson and A. H. Hallam. Bill for Philip pine Freedom Strongly Assailed by Public Very little support is given to pro- posed legislation before Congress for the freedom of the Philippine Islands. It is charged that the bill, while amended in some particulars, has for its purpose the protection of American products, and that management of the islands, having tended to limit the Philippine trade to the United States, has created a situation in which the cutting off of the American market will be disastrous to this American possession. “Thuggish economic handling of the question” is charged by the Baltimore Sun, which suggests that the purpose is “to give the islands a start toward political independence at some future date and at the same time to make provision to cut the throat of the islands economically at once.” The Sun finds agreement among “normally sensitive people,” with a statement by Senator Hawes of Missouri that “if human liberty has come to be meas- ured by sugar in the United States Eenate, we_ have sunk to low estate.” The San Jose Mercury-Herald main- tains that “there must be no ground for & suspicion that sordid motives prompted our action on independence of the islands.” That paper offers the judg- ment on proposed treatment of the matter: “We have assumed the role of guardian. Should it appear that, after helping them to build an economic foundation for independence, we wrecked it at the demand of domestic sugar interests, we would be discredited in the eyes of the civilized world.” * * x X Holding that “we have bre t about a condition in the islands which will make it extremely difficult for them to recover their former markets,” a writer in the New York Herald Tribune states Philippines as ,” and concludes: sugar tragie, unworthy and selfish ending of a national undertaking, which has up to now brought us monumental credit, would receive the well deserved rebuke of history.” “The Congress of the United States,” states the Providence Bulletin, “has acted like a lot of hucksters in its treatment of the question of independ- ence.” That paper avers that “the bill plans to strangle the Philippines while freeing them,” and voices the warning: “We are planning to initiate withdrawal machinery at a time when our prestige in the Pacific depends to a considerable extent on maintaining what the Orientals call ‘face’ Such an act would be construed on the other side of the Pacific as weakness. when our Far Eastern policy seeks to be firm and resolute.” On the other hand, in discussing the policy represented by the bill before Congress, the Dayton Daily News de- : “The Philippines have been‘ ax: ac So the idealist is willing to let the Filipino go. Now that no profit appears our adventure there, the imperial- him go. The pres- producers, zeal for the free Filipino. military view we find the a corn-sown foot stretched World-Herald, The 10 most beautiful words: * report at your old job at the old g spell, and those of h | training | main America’s possessions, they are due to cost us a billion dollars, 10 bat- tleships_and 100,000 men, sooner or later. The entire situation is remindful of the owner of a cocky fox terrier watching it playing in a street largely filled with treffic. If he undertakes to protect the pup, the traffic more than likely will get him. But the pup is doomed. So what to do?” * X X % Statements from Filipino sources are quoted by the Columbia (S. C.) State to show that “as the sentiment for inde- pendence developed at Washington it faded in Manila.” The Boston Tran- script believes that “after all their bluster for a generation, the Filipino politicians will be as much relieved as will the American people to have this question laid over until another day, when it may be discussed more impar- tially than is possible during the de- pression period.” Quoting Winston Churchill, British statesman, to the effect that “the hauling down of the Stars and Stripes at Manila would not be & signal of peace, progress and tranquile lity,” the Houston Chronicle comments: “That is the Churchill theory, and no doubt it is one held by most English- men in the Far East. The United States will wish to do what is best for the Filipinos themselves, and it is pos- sible the ideas of the British should carry weight. At least Congress and the American people will be inclined to give them serious consideration.” The pure pose of the bill is referred to by the Springfield (Mass.) Union as “sham in- dependence,” while the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern quotes Filipinos as de- claring that the measure is “unrespon=- sive to Filipino political aspirations,” and the Hartford Times concludes: “The inspiration of the Hawes bill is neither commendable nor honorable. Tt has little regard for the welfare of the islands and their inhabitants, but is concerned entiroly with the competition which their agicultural products offer in our markets. It will not be to the credit of the Americans if Filipino in- dependence is withheld after they are ready for it, or if it is forced upon them too soon for such reasons as those which inspired pending legislation.” A Tribute to the Late Mrs. Ida Gilbert Myers To the Editor of The Star: As a graduate of the Washington Nor- mal School, I wish to express through your columns my appreciation and the appreciation of hosts of teachers who were trained for the teaching profes- sion in your schoole for the educational genius of Ida Gilbert Myers, whose death took place in your city on Sun- day night During the 10 years in which Mrs, . | Myers was at the head of teacher train- ing in the city of Washington she ex- srted an influence upon progressive edu- cation that to me, as I look back upon it, was nothing of marvelous. To us who had the rare good fortune to observe her model lessons, the techniques of this remarkable teacher will always remain an example of the ideal in class room procedure. It is now 35 years since I first worked with Mrs. Myers professionally, and I can remember distinctly many of brilliant demonstration lessons that I saw her give before our class—such was the vividness of her personality and the concreteness of her method. Her influence in education will long endure. All of us who came under her us who_are now teachers, students to be , pass on as well as we can the inspired mfim which she so strikingly ex- EDWARD HARLAN WEBSTER, State Teachers® College,Montclair, N, &