Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1933, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR ___With Senday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C WEDNESDAY. . .January 4, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Office: 1ith_8t. ‘and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East : Lake Michigan Bullding. ¢ St.. London, .t ~ Rate by Carrier Within ‘lle City. B B 5c per month 60c per month ek 4 Collection mi 5¢ per month Sc per copy ad he enid of each month $EErs mag be sent 10 by jonal 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, 1yr.$10.00; 1 mo.. 88c 00 1mo. 00 1mo.. 40c | All Other States and Canada. Sunday...1yr., $12.00: 1 mo.. $1.00 1yr. $8.00; 1mo., 1yr, 3500 1mo. 80c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitied %0 the use for republication of 5il news dis- hes credited to it or nes gtherwise cred- in this paper and siso the local news ished herein. All rights of publication of ecial dispatches herein are also reserved. — Japan at Shanhaikwan. TImmediate causes and underlying motives are so inextricably linked in the embittered and chaotic relations be- tween Japan and China that time must elapse before the true inwardness of the Japanese occupation of Shanhai- kwan becomes fully apparent. On its face, the assault upon and capture of the strategic point where the great wall meets the sea and Manchuria merges fnto “China proper” is the latest move by Japan to “round out” the puppet state of Manchukuo by gobbling up more Chinese territory. The Japanese make no bones gf the fact that this is their objective, though Tokio spokes- men are at pains to deny that the op- erations at Shanhaikwan are in any- wise connected “with the intentions of the Japanese army ultimately to make the adjacent Province of Jehol unmis- takably & part of Manchukuo.” It so happens that Shanhaikwan is strategic- slly so situated that it would be a log- ical base of both military and naval op- erations in case Japan should determine to launch a definite campaign for the conquest of Jehol. An explanation of Japan's latest ven- ture, which is bound to shock & world not yet reconciled to her treaty-defying aotivities in China since September, 1931, will be found by many observers in the recent rapprochement between Soviet Russia and the Nanking govern- ment. The Japanese government and people, long suspicious of Russia’s de- signs in Mongolia and North Man- churia, apparently discern in the re- sumption of diplomatic relations be- tween Moscow and China a threat which Tokio cannot afford to ignore. That Japan would eventually meet that threat with a military demonstration eould hardly be doubted, with army leaders like ‘Gen. Araki and other soldier-statesmen in the saddle st Tokio, It is also suggested that Japan has ehosen this particular moment for “con- solidation” of her position in Man- chukuo and the “elimination” of Chinese elements capable of afresting her advance through Jehol because evidence is plentiful that neither the League of Nations nor the United States is prepared to come materially to China's rescue. For a while, two months ago, when the Lytton Commis- sion report held the limelight at Geneva, 1% seemed as if the League powers might be forced to resort to some sort of drastic action against Japan. But when the whole issue was transferred to an innocuous “Conciliation Committee of Nineteen” Japan obviously came to the eonclusion that nothing now projected by the League need deter Gen. Araki and his party from carrying out their further purposes in China. ‘The United States has stated its own position, over and over again. It be- leves that the establishment of Man- chukuo took place under conditions distinctly violative of the nine-power treaty and the Kellogg-Briand pact. So holding, this Government has pro- . claimed its intention of refusing to reoognize the validity of the situation thus created. From that attitude there 15 no indication that Washington in- tends to withdraw. Meantime Tokio can be in little doubt that the American people support their Government whole- hearteily in this policy. Japan can be equally certaln that her American friends regret that she has given the world fresh cause to suspect the in- tegrity of her purposes toward China and her loyalty to the international peace machinery she herself helped to set up, to ourb aggression and protect She rights of weaker countries. ———— As Japanese and Chinese fight, Stalin may be thinking over the old schoo! book story about the big boy who set- tled a quarrel over a nut by giving each combatant half the shell and keep- ing the kernel for himself. y ——— — Special Sessions. Representative Blanton of Texas does not believe in special gessions of the Congress; certainly not at this juncture He told the House yesterday that a epe- clal session of the new Congress next Bpring would cost the country millions ot dollers; even a hundred million. He sald that the people’s money would be ‘wasted in new and half-baked projects. But more particularly he warned his Democratic colleagues that a special session would be a “starting out toward unpopularity of the new administra- tlon.” ‘The gentleman from Texas did not show that confidence in the Democratic | Congress recently elected which might have been expected from so ardent a Democrat. ‘mail or telephone | Either he does not believe that the Democratic Congress is capable ©of meeting the campaign pledges of his of his Democratic colleagues also find themselves. There is, apparently, a dread lest the country be disappointed with the performances of the Democrats. Perhaps these gloomy Democrats are correct in their estimate of the situa- tion and of what might grow out of a special session of the new Congress. Howevér, it is not what the country ex- pects. The new Oongress and the new President were elected last November because’ the peaple desired a change and wished for the kind of legislation which the Democrats were promising. They should have been on the job now, | in order the quicker to give the people a taste of Democratic administration. It is idle to postpone the taste. Either the people will like what the Demo- crats bring or they will not. Nor does | it seem consistent with the promises of the Democratic party to the country | to put off for more than a vear the be- ginning of the program adv.- “ted during the campaign—however indefinite the program may have been. Mr. Blanton takes the view that the old lame-duck Congress, controlled half by the Democrats and half by the Republicans, should carry out the Demo- cratic platform pledges, except for beer and repeal. Mr. Blanton has had long | experience in Washington. Heknowsthat it is not practical to put through impor- tant legislation in a session which expires eight and a half weeks from today. He knows that even thpugh the Democratic House might act speedily, there is the | Senate, with its unlimited debate rule, to delay these important measures. And he, in effect, calls upon a Repub- lican President to sponsor the program | of his Democratic successof. The Demo- | | crats have been slow, Mr. Blanton might | reflect, to give President Hoover sup-| port for his own program. v A Proposed Local Beer Bill. 1t is to be noted that the bill for the regulation of the sale of beer in the District of Columbia, introduced by Representative Loring Black of New York and sponsored by the Crusaders, is intended as & sort of stop-gap measure pending a more carefully prepared plan of liquor control if and when the eighteenth amendment is repealed. Aside from the merits or demerits of the Dbill itself, this fact is significant. In the States, as well as in the District of Columbia, there will doubtless be a strong tendency to set up hit-or-miss machinery to deal with legalized beer, postponing until some indefinite tomor- row the construction of the far more important legislation relating to con- trol of all liquor. Legalization of beer in advance of the repeal or modifica- tion of the eighteenth amendment will thus create two distinct problems. There is obvious danger that if legalized beer, treated at one and the same time as a non-intoxicating and as an intoxi- cating beverage, gains a foothold, the | ability adequately to control other | forms of intoxicants, when legalized, will be weakened and the task made more difficult. The Black-Crusader bill represents the ideas of the wets, however, as to control of beer should beer be legalized. If beer is to be legalized there is no time to be lost in giving thorough and serious consideration to the situation | then to be faced. The House District Committee should seek the advice of representatives of the dry organizations and of local citizens in making the bill | for the District as much of & model | for the States as possible, even though it deals only with & beverage statutorily | removed from the category of intox- | icants, The Black-Crusader bill includes one | important section, denying to brewers or wholesale liquor dealers the right to have any direct or indirect financial in- terest in the business of those licensed | to sell béer at retall in the District. The aim of this prohibition is com- | mendatory. If it could be enforced, it | would strike at one of the recognized | evils of the old liguor traffic. It is one |of the practical safeguards against the | return of the old saloon as it was known before prohibition. But .there will | doubtless be objection to the fact that | the local beer bill places licensing &u- |thority in the hands of the superin- tendent of licenses. Such authority, | | with broad power to revoke licenses, should certainly be vested in a board or commission of citizens representative | of and responsive to the wishes of the local community. It is believed, in ad- dition, that if licenses are granted to | sell beer by the glass to all who fulfill the qualifications outlined in the bill, of being “bona fide restaurants, clubs, cating places or hotels,” there would be few establishments, indeed, that could not so qualify. — o | Announcements are confidently made | that the Congressional Record will| hereafter be so interesting that there will be little chance for independent | publications to coppete either in po- | litical philosophies or personalities, | —_—— Friends of the Blind. The anniversary of the birthday of | Louls Braille—1809-1852—is being cele- | | brated today throughout the world. Naturally, perhaps, his name means Iit- | tle to those who, fortunately, have un- impaired sight; but to those who live | in total or partial darkness he personi- | fies all the scores of noble men and women who, with unpretending devo- tion, have earned by their labors the right to be listed among the friends of | the blind. | Braille was born with normal powers of vision. An accident cost him one eye | when he was but three years old; soon he lost the use of the other organ. He became a pupil and eventually an in- structor in the Institution des Jeunes Aveugles, Paris. There he adapted the system that bears the title Braille from | that invented by Capt. Charles Barbier, | # young French cavalry officer. The| new alphabet of embossed dots was| published when its sponsor was only twenty: an improved form was brought | leaves tyrned over at the opening of the | “Jack, up in Boston they say that out five years later. However, like many THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. writing master cast & movable leaden type with the same object in mind. Pins inserted in cushions and large wooden letters next were tried. It was Valentin Hauy—1745-1823<~who first embossed paper for blind readers, Prom movable type set by his pupils he pro- duced books embossed -in large and small italics. Capt. Fraser tels the story. could decipher several letters on card. Immediately Hauy traced with the handle of his pen some signs on paper. The boy read them and the result was printing in relief, the great- est of Hauy's discoveries. But as early as 1827 John Gall ox‘i Edinburgh had printed in a triangular | modification of the common nlphnbet; the first book for the blind produced in the United Kingdom. A Dr. Fry, of London, in 1832, won & prise offered by the Scottish Society of Arts for a better code of letters. Dr. Samuel | Gridley Howe of Boston was inspired | by Fry's work to set up a press at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum (now School) for the Blind. Howe was the husband of the author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” written in Washington. During forty- four years at Perkins he campaigned and toiled for the children of the dark. %n His genius educated Laura, Briggman, who was deaf and dumb as well as blind, and paved the way for the triumphs of Helen Keller. By the end of the nineteenth century there were twenty-three different meth- ods of embossed printing in existence. The question was: Which is best for | universal use? Braille's met all the | tests. With slight revisions, it has| passed into world-wide use. There is a cynical proverb about “the blind leading the blind.” The saying is ages old, and Braille and & thousand others have shown it to be wickediy wrong. John Stanley, Mile. Paradis, Dr. T. R. Armitage, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Francis Joseph Campbell, Henry Fawcett, Dr. William Moon, Bir Cyril Arthur Pearson, Henry Martyn Taylor, Alfred Hollins, William Wolstenholme all were blind and all were great lead- ers, great inspirations for both their similarly afflicted brethren and those not o handicapped. . Defendants in a New York plagiarism trial were awarded several thousand dollars to be paid by the plaintiff, If when the show goes on the road a charge of plagiarism could be incited from town to town, a reasonably prosperous tour would be assured. Like Gen. Dawes, former Gov. Smith has asserted himself in favorable | tention as a musician. Neither is in~| clined to risk neglect of high responsi- bilities by taking the encores that would be welcomed. ——————————— in view of the activity shown by the | member of the prohibition subcom- mittee from Washington, the good old dill pickle should have a prominent place when free lunch is restored. ———— By reducing the purchasing power of the dollar economists may hope to make debtors feel that it 1s not quite so hard to part with. e e e S An investigation report is leldomi sufficiently fascinating to show & chance | of balaneing its own budget by heconh; ing 8 best seller. ——— e A low alcoholic content of beer will not reduce intemperance if bootleg spirits are permitted to circulate ad lib. ‘The Philippines may have occasion to give thought ag)> whether they are attaining independence or being left on a door step. SHOOTING STARS, BY PHILAMDCR JOHNSON. - More Missionary Work, ‘We need more missionaries In this enlightened day To guide the mood that varies In countries far away. We must be kind and gentle And calm each neighborhood With Janguage sentimental And tell 'em to be good. If those impetuous creatures Our teachings would desert, Expressions of our features Must show how we are hurt. If in their course erratic They recklessly persist ‘We must become emphatic And slap 'em on the wrist. No Argument. “What kind qf & tax do you favor?” | “I never argue about my medicine,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I just take it whether I like it or not.” Jud Tunkins says his only objection to shorter working hours is that the idea will give people still more time to experiment as radio entertainers. Big Job. | Here is the biggest job of all As men attend their country’s call. The job that never seems quite through Is tellin’ Congress what to do. From college hall to corner store We're called upon to meet once more With the great purpose still in view Of tellin’ Congress what to do. Thinking Times. “What advantage do you claim for this technocracy?” asked Miss Cayenne. “For one thing,” answered the pro- fessor, “it will give the people more time to think about other things.” “Time enough to think out exactly what it means?” “I regret to learn,” said HI Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “that the only new year by neighbors at home were those party or he does not take much stock | another innovator, Braille had to wait |of war maps.” n some of those plecges. The latter s undoubtedly true in regard to the come until two years after his death.| Democratic platform’s declaration that| various changes have been made in the | the eighteenth amendment should be alphabet in the past five decades, but repealed and that legislation modifying Braille's celebrity has been in no way | for fame. Official recognition did not | | the Volstead act should be enacted, per- | submerged by these alterations. mitting the manufacture and sale of | It; may be worth while to note the beer. Mr. Blanton has flatly dtc‘m!dilong process of development by which to go along with his party on-the ques- | the doors of the world's treasury of lit- tion of prohibition repeal. Clearly, how- | erature have been openéd to the sight- ever, Mr. Blanton seems alarmed at the | less. Capt. Ian Fraser says: “The idea of turning the Democratic Conrrul[muut authentic records of tangible Joose in Washington when the Roosevelt | letters for the blind describe a plan administration takes command of the of engraving the letters upon blocks executive branch of the Government. of. wood, the invention of Francesco Ws s » state of mind in which some Lucas, & Spaniard” In 1640 & Paris . ‘ Influential Expression. A speaker thus addressed the throngs Who came to greet him with applause, | “If you will let me write the songs, I care not who may write the laws.” When Moses brought Commandments Ten Perhaps he mentioned a regret He couldn’t find the time, just then, To have them each to music set. “Dar’s a difference,” said Uncle Eben, “between inside an’ outside. Only a brick wall separates a speakeasy outside f'um loud an’ boisterous, conduct.” i t | | | | | | {his_hotel residence. The other night| rominent United States Senator | t0daY. 1150 miles of snow-capped WEDNESDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. In looking over a glorified new cook- book the other day we found ourself in- stinctively stopping at the sections de- voted to pancakes, waffles, biscuits, cakes, cookies, popovers, cornbread and, of course, bread. Some might hesitate long over meats, others at soups, some at seafoods, but we take our stand unresistingly ‘with pancakes, waffies, biscuits, lng %0 on, and so on. No sorts of foodstuffs better show th | good cook, and the appreciative con: sumer. You can tell women from certain sec- | fied. tions of our great and glorious land. for instance, by whether or not they can make good soda biscuits. The art is indigenous to some States. ‘The craft of bakery is handed down from mother to daughter, so that in time every last daughter of Eve for miles and miles around is able to turn out perfect biscuits. Her very standing in the community depends upon it. And this even in an era of sophis- tication, when, according to certain persons (who would require that we ac- cept them as arbiters) no woman is in- terested in cookery of any sort, and especially not in the branch pertain- ing to the articles mentioned above. Every one who is interested in the yaricus facets of this many-sided: life ows perfectly well that there are thousands, perhaps millions, of women Who cannot make & good soda biscuit. Hence willing manufacturers have yune to great pains to mix ingredients or them, all deftly put together in a neat box. All that such women have to do, according to the label, is to mix ‘em up a bit and pop ’em into the oven. Surprisingly - enough, some of these affairs turn out very well, indeed. One must be an old hand at biscuit eating to tell the difference. Some unsuspect- “:i persons might even say there is no difference. The connoisseur, however, will feel that there is a difference, and that he | is able to detect it, and that it sets him apart from ordinary feeders and makes him something of g food connoisseur. ‘The liking for certain articles of food is inborn, as it were. No doubt the man who prefers hot breads will heartily dislike sp In g, it may be as well to note that the spinach vogue is on the wane, and we don't wonder, Every time we say something about this we recelve from assorted house- Wives in all parts of the District of Co- lumbia, Maryland and Virginia various and sundry recipes, proudly proclaimed to make spinach fit for human con- *Patiently we b ently we have had these reci) :ll?letg out, in order, always with like 2:.- We do not like spinach, no matter how it is cooked, or not cooked, or served, or garnished, Even in sclentific circles, we believe, the popularity of this stuff is waning. 1t is something of a fraud It is no longer being crammsd down the throats of defenseless children, at lesAst kxigt ;mh nee old-time ardor. as got & chance of escapi from its flabbiness today, whereas l;";lc- terday he had to sit and take it, whether he liked it or not. Now flour products of various kinds are about as far removed from spinach, in every way, as dishes could be, and that is one reason, no doubt, why we like them. Secondly, they are invariably tasty, if properly made. irdly, they sink home. Fourthly, they somehow satisty a primitive taste, which is in addition to a plain and honest satisfaction of the well known taste buds situated on the 4 1 Piace phor i et gemeras Tocaity 2 The' how! " .il;mhg“rly went up W of hot breads of dif- granted that he uses common sense, has pretty good chance of doing him some Notice that the above is well quali- Common sense ought to reign here as elsewhere. One may feel mtt{t sure that few of us will ever permit common sense to run away with ;nh}ilnu. Most often it will be just the er ‘The ‘way around. common sense of such foods as we have enumerated is not to have them too often, nor to eat too much of them when they are at hand. Perhaps most will find the first re- striction easier than the second. Who is so dyspeptic, faced with fine ncakes, right off the stove, that he not tempted tc eat more than he should? Or waffles? Some persons prefer the crisp, barred brown of the waffle to the round of | the pancake. the griddle cake, corn cake, the buckwheat cake. Just why a waffle must be square, or e'en triangular, and never in the round, is a gustatory mystery. Similarly, most of us would hesitate at square griddle cakes, so in bonds to custom are we all. Consider hot biscuits, by which we mean soda biscuits, and none other. Some fanciers are so wedded to cus- tom in regard to them that they will | not eat them in what they choose to | eall the wrong size. Custom has decreed a rather large | biscuit for masculine tastes, and a | smaller one for feminine; many men | proclaim their inability to relish the small biscuits; many women will not bake the former for themselves. | The truth of that matter is that | there are only two thihgs which count, in regard to these delicious edibles: First, they must be made rigl 8econd, they must be kept hot. ‘There is, perhaps, a third requisite, | that they be from the first bal , not the second. Commonly the second bak- ‘mg is just enough drier than the first | to have lost the true essence of good- | ness which distinguishes the first. Hence the necessity for keeping the first batch thoroughly warm. Here nothing has ever surpassed the folded cloth, but that is no reason W)gfi something could not be invented whis | would outdo it. Perhaps in time a dar- ing manufacturer will make a flat- | shaped dish with air-exhausted walls, | into which the biscuits can be popped at the right time, and from which they may be served by a clever me- chanical arrangement which will deliver | one at a time, without endangering the heat content of the remainder. We do not hesitate to say that the maker of \this “Hot Bistuit Dispenser” will make a fortune, if he is a true lover of good hot soda biscuits, and really brings out one that works. Cakes, cookies, popovers, cornbread, | and, of course, just bread—these some- | how fall into the same category since with great relish. Cakes are suppossd to “fall,” or do something equally un- pleasant, if cut when hot, but who cares? Not even the enterprising cre- ator, any more. This is a day of doing as one pleases at last in the face of the centuries. For hundreds of years | people have loved to sneak a piece of {nm bread® but in 1933 they eat it that way unas/dmed. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Is Franklin Delano Roosevelt—to use the description once applied to Disraeli —"a master of the us art of man- aging men"”? The country should have a pretty good line on the President- elect’s capacity for leadership after this week’s confab with Democratic con- gressional moguls in New York and when he beards those lions in_their own den at Washington later in the month. Few Presidents have come to the White House more experienced in the field of political lion-taming than the recent Governor of New York. During most of his four years at Albany he had to deal with unfriendly or hostile party influ- ences, and generally subdued them. He may not fd it so easy to deal with political friends. A distinguished Re. publican, now a lame duck once ol served that perhaps Herbert Hoover's principal shortcoming as President was an inability to realize that Con- gress consisted of “531 men who are rugged individualists, t00.” The appar- ent completeness with which certain Democratic leaders have curled up on the sales tax since it “horrified” Mr. Roosevelt would indicate that he has a way with him. Capitol Hill rather ex- pects the first fur to fly when the in- coming President and some of his progressive friends — Democratic and Republicant alike—fail to see eye to eye. ok ok * Carter Glass of Virginia, though his locks and his vigor utterly belle the statement, is 75 years old today. He will celebrate that diamond jubilee of his life by taking the Senate floor to- morrow on_behalf of the baniug form bill v hich bears his name, Sena- tor Glass ic now the father of the Senate, age, not tenure. It is 3¢ years since he embarked on a public career as a member of the Virginia State Senate. Journalism competes with politics as his main interest, and | the science and economics of banking | are the hobbies of the statesman who | plloted the Federal Resarve act into law as chairman of the House Banking | and Currency Committee during the | first Wilson “administration. Senator Glass still cowers under bouquets which cratic campaign speech on the eve of the | November election. He'd never broad- cast before, yet it was one of the radio events of the epfl?. * % | Some of the utility people who've been shivering in their boots ever since President-elect Roosevelt announced that he and Senator Norris are going| to give Muscle Shoals the once-over together recall that the Governor has| a distinguished utility ancestry. One of his progenitors, Hilborne L. Roose- velt, was a founder and for many years a “manager” of the original “Telephone | Company of New York,” out of which | grew the Bell interests and the vast| A.T. & T. of today. * ¥ x X Speaker Garner, as Vice President- elect, adheres relentlessly to the rule of no telephone calls after 9 p.m. at a called up about half an hour after the deadline, only to be told by the nymph | at the switchboard that the message would have to be relayed to the Speaker. Next day, a little warm under the col-| lar, the solon remonstrated to him: ‘Lowells speak only to Cabots and Cabots speak only to God.' You seem to have improved on that, because when | a Senator wants to talk to you he can| only speak to & telephone girl.” * k¥ % “State Government,” monthly organ of the American Legislators’ Association, about to convene in Washington, adorns its January number with a frontispiece of the Colorado State Capitol, captioned: “When this graceful plle was set at the crest of Denver's Capitol Hill 37 years ago one of the portico steps was marked by a horizontal line exactly 5,280 feet above sea level, and dubbed ‘i first | milestone on the road to Heaven’ One so fortunate as to stand upon it sees Rocky Moun. tain peaks. Here the Legislature of the Centennial State congregates on Jan- uary 4. And almost simultaneously (be- tween January 2 and 16) regular ses- reach him for his devastating Demo- | |slons will convene in 41 other States, | When Florida follows suit in April, all the Legislatures will have met in 1833 except those of Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Virginia.” Incidentally, they will write the final doom of lame duck Congresses by ratify- ing the Norris amendment. ok % 3 Cheer up, all ye deserving Democratic sisters! Jim Farley, future distributor in chief of Roosevelt Federal ple, au- thorizes the statement that the fairer of the party species after March 4 may confidently count on the squarest deal |the sex has ever known since it broke |into national flolmu The President- elect’s Warwick attributes ¥. D. R.'s Iandslide victory in no small degree to woman voters, and he intends to see that | they come into their own under the new deal. * kK % Having only begun to grope its way through the maze that is called tech- | nocracy. the country presently will be | required to learn a new national catch | phrase—-domestic allotment.” It's the rade mark under which Representative Marvin Jones, Democrat, of Texas, law- | yer chairman of the House Agricultural Committee, will shortly introduce the | latest plan for farm relief. Predictions | are rife that the average citizen will be |able to understand about as much re- garding “domestic allotment” as he got from “equalization fee,” that farm fetish | of yesteryear. 5 ok Uncle 8am is publishing a new maga- zine, Fugitives Wanted by Police. It has nothing to do_with chain gangs. The United States Bureau of Investiga- tion, J. Edgar Hoover, director, gets it |out monthly. The purpose is to dis- tribute among all law-enforcement offi- cers data forwarded to the bureau’s | identification division by police officials | about “wanted” persons. | (Copyright, 1933.) | —————— Boys’ Clubs Effective In Crime Prevention To_the Editor of The Star: I have been an avid reader of letter: |to the editor published in your paper and have been very surprised that the | question of crime prevention has not | been given more discussion—this is a | matter of great importance, involving, as it does, a tremendous amount of suffering and needless expense. ‘There are many methods of crime revention being used. One of these, which seems to be given a minimum of thought and yet promises & maximum in resuits, is the boys’ club movement, which starts at the bottom and works I.llgl through education in good citizen- p. + To eliminate the thief, the gangster and the bandit of tomorrow, more thought should be given to the boy of t Although there is no other organiza- tion more intimately and effectively in touch with the type of boy who is actually on the borderline of delin- quency, it is surprising to no.e that other cities are far ahead of Washing- ton in the number of boys' clubs in existence and in the number of boys wholesomely and constructively served by them. There is need in this city of ours for a better understanding of this work, Police Commissioner Mulrooney of New York City, said: “One boys' club is worth a thousand policemens’ clubs.” A. B. HINDS. R Fifty-Fifty. Prom the Schienectads Gazette. We'll soon attain that ideal and equal division of Iabor—one-half imposing taxes and the other half paying them. - Consolatipn. Prom the Minneapolis Journal. Former King Alfonso smiled eon- when he read that the Repub- lic of Spain had exiled his dentist. , the cart before the horse. the | | most of them may be eaten hot or warm | again to take issue with him. JANUARY 4, 1933, Technocracy Is Putting Cart Before the Horse (false) power of the lordly bromide, ‘“ when rent day a ‘way of doing, how humble a man can bel The engineer sees no way of turn- ing higher mathematics into legal tender, and the poet finds his landlady umrgmm;lmprund by non-negotiable flight ancy. These fatuous engineers are putting Basically, the problem is not a machine or energy problem. For machines are useful or detrimental in exact proportion to the | working of the national money system. Every avenue of ethical speculaf debouches at once into the broad rcad which leads directly to the United Btates Treasury Department. Every problem, in other words, is & money problem. If the money system is un- | 18ir at ihe start; if it automatically en- riches the worst people and impoverishes the best people—then, of course, every human relationship and activity will become distorted and perverted! Why try to make a very simple thing com- | plicated beyond all comprehension? |” Gold money has obviously faled. | That is a circumstance every one | knows but those who still want to “kid themselves. All thinking modern econo- | mists realize that & gold standard cur- | rency constitutes ample cause for every |human ill, earthquakes and “acts of God” excepted to some extent! But why jump from the gold dollar of idolatry to an emergy dollar of gas? The American people, during the past 50 years, have been offered a score of monetary plans more logical and feas- ible than monetizing energy. Why can't silver be monetized; not to mention the war bonds, by which some $25,000,000,000 of perfectly good legal tender could be put into circulation? If this weuldn't | sufice to replace a money deficit of around $50,000,000,000, land, public utilittes and the railroads eould ‘also be monetized at just appraisals of value.| Why permit the gold owner to have to hlmurl mlone7 the all-important monetiz- | ing_privil cp' co;‘;’ut the simplicity and per- fection of the above plans with the ut- terly vague plan of giving energy the legal tender function and then ask your- self whether America is going stark, Eur ns stigmatize Americans being The most gullible veogl: on earth. When we stop to consider how Couelsm swept the country and is now complete- 1y forgotten, perhaps those of us who are not morons can understand why “technocracy” is doing the same. Both have great appeal. Both promise much without eriticizing us for the sins of greed and idolatry which have. alone caused our fall. But I venture to say that until we humbly admit the idiocy of our gold jdolatry and strive to erush it at its source, not a single “erg” will ever be monetized. ROBERT RUSKIN BURNS. State Sovereignty and Federal Constitution To the Editor of The Star: e’ advioe Having followed carefully the advi of my friend, J. W. Cheyney, in the December 20 edition of The Star, I wish The phrasing of the national Consti- tution cannot prevent differences of opinion from arising regarding the limits of power of either the National of State governments, Indeed, many of the best statesmen that the United States has produced have often been engaged in lively controversies on the subject of State sovereignty vs. cen- tralization of power. Mr. Cheyney in several letters to The Star has quoted differerit sections of the Constitution to uphold his argu- ment that no State can make a com- ct or treaty. I am convinced tha e is too literal in his analogy of these . In a previous letter to The Sm' oted from a ecollege texthook several instances where -States have ts or treaties with neigh- boring 1 would like to cite one of these in particular. “(b) An agree- ‘ment of 1922 among seven States con- ing of the basin of the C"&mdfl River, and heving to do with the allocatjon of rights to the waters of that stream.” e record of this detion is to be found: E. “The Seven-SBtate Irrigaf TT Curr. Hist., XVII 992-1002 (Mar. 1923). I am of the opinion that Mr. Cheyney ing this controversy I find that Mr. Cheyney persists in using quo- tations from the Constitution and at- tempts to analyze them himself. As heretofore stated, it is difficult to define cortain sections’ of the Constitution without fllew them a broad interpre- tation. view of the fact that State compacts and treaties are now in ex- istence, I think that Mr. Cheyney has failed to support his argument to the contrary. JAMES H. QUAIN. S Czechoslo;akian Chairs, American Typewriters | To the Editor of The Star: | I read with interest a statement of Representative Mrs. Plorence P. Kahn pointing to the circumstance that Amer- ican legislators sit on chairs made in Czechoslovakia, - and statements of others that employes in the new Com- merce Department Building do their work on furnishings from Czecho- slovakia. May I be allowed to point out that Czechoslovak legislators and clerks are using almost exclusively American type- writers, American counting machines and other office equipment made in | America? May I also add that prac- | tically the whole population of Czecho- slovakia eats California products on tablecloths made of American cotton? It may be of interest to know that the balance of trade with the United States is unfavorable to Czechoslovakia in the ration of 2:1. If by any chance this fact will afouse Czecho- lovak legislators, as it did Mrs. Kahn, the resulting reduction of mutual ex- change of goods will hardly act in | favor of American exports. The ques- | | tion occurs how thankful for such an| action will be those who on both sides | of the Atlantic are still employed. | FERDINAND VEVERKA, | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plen- ipotentiary of Czechoslovakia. |Garage Owner Quotes | Taxes Versus Rentals To the Editor of The Star: | I noticed in tonight's Star a state- | ment of Carl Bishop in regard to, excessive garage rent he has pay- ing for & metal garage—no light or | heat—at. high rate of $15 per |month. I can’t imagine any one pay- the city is erowded with empty ga- |rages from $5 up—good garages at |that. I consider it his own fault for doing so. If he would only take the | | trouble to look around he could find | plenty at $5, and surely it is worth that | for protection of any car. I myself {have a one-story brick, opening on | street and next to alley, which I rented several years ago for $10 per month, but | when we bought a car, of course, we used the garage ourselves. But re- cently we were compelled to sell the car and are now renting the 'gann for §7 per month, and glad to get it. There has been so much pro and con in The Star recently about garages and tenants in general that I think it time for owners to have a say. I should like to hear from others on the garage question. I believe the tax on |a garage is $6 or $6 (minimum), so | you see it is not all profit at that. Just |a drop in the bucket. L. McCBOYER. PR Beer and Postage. | From the Lowell Evening Leader. Some _ naturally are wo is | which numbers winds from 1 to 12. ing so much for such a garage when |, | The Courier-Journal adds: ANSWERS TO QUESTI( BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Thousands of Government experts ;t" .‘lv]orhnz constantly for the benefit -cent stamp for a in reply. Do not use post cards. Address Evening Star Information Bureau, Prederic J. Has- kin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. How is hurling played’—S. H. A. The hurling field is 140 yards long and 80 yards wide, and scoring is ac- complished in two ways. If the ball hurled by the stick lands in a net strung between the goal posts, it counts for three points; if hurled over the crossbar, it is one point. The goal post crossbar is 21 feet wide, the uprights 16 feet high, and the crossbar 8 feet from the d. The game is made up of two 30-minute halves, Q. Did more French or English girls come to this country as brides of | American soldiers after the World War? A. Up to March 15, 1920, 2205 Prench brides and 1,101 British brides had been admitted to this country. Q. How many cublc feet of gas does a pflctc light on a gas range consume?— F. C. A. Approximately 150 cublc feet of gas per month, or 1,800 cubic feet of gas per year, Q. Are the birds atop the new Post Office Building ’lnufllrgmd. Conn., eagles or dragons?—H. P. S. A. They are eagles & & sedaiiotts design, and to the casval observer may resemble dragons. Q. Are there people who really are fir;{»el!erzx, or do they resort to trickery? A. Houdini in his book, “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods,” is of the opinion that fire-eaters accomplish their apparent magic by means qf tricks. As early as 1702 there was pub- lished a book the exposed ptru-d‘ the mouth and lips lmbermh to heat, Where burning charcoal is a) eaten, coals of another mktmn do not conduct heat are mixed with the charcoal and are apparently consumed by the fire-eaters. Q. What terms are used for the va- | rloAu velocities of wing?—F. W. . The Weather Bureau uses the following terms: Light, gentle, mod- erate, fresh, and strong winds, gale, whole .gale and hurricane. In aero- nautics the Beaufort scale A. How many Indians were there in the United States at the time of its discovery by Columbus?—Y. T. A. There could have been no authen- tic census of the Indians in 1492. A | Government expert estimates the num- ber of Ihdians at that time at 1,115,000 Q. What does the rose window in the Rheims Cathedral depict?—B. O. R. A. The original rose window dates back to the thirteenth century, when books were few and the church put into picture form Bible stories and the lives of the saints. The rose window shows a seated figure of Christ in glory, surrounded the archangels and prophets. The outer circles are filled with half-length figures of saints, in- aor;ed within borders of painted pat- Q. Please name twu famous men of letters who did not excel as students in their school days~O. D. L. A. David Thoreau answers the re- quirements; so also James Barrie. Of him it is said that “he was an indif- ferent pupil, seldom opening his books (at the Dumfries Academy), except to draw pictures in them.” Q. In writing ‘& business letter to a , - German and Italian firm, hrase should T use in the salu- A. “Muy Senores nuestros,” “Geehrte herren,” “Spottabile ditte.” 8] what a convention of all the States. Thig | ie_,d._,to the Constitytional Convention ¢ Q. Is the new Federal pwcnentiary } | %, Pa. ., was formally on November 11, 1932, and sosn after re- ceived its first prisoners by transfe directly from mfll. The capacity of the ut 1,500 persons, it planned to keep the number of inmal tes | down as nearly as possibly to 1,200. It is called the Northeastern Penitentiary. l prscss: | Q. Do women receive as much as men for the same work?—C. F. A. According to Miss Mary Ander- son, women receive one-third to one- h‘“k"‘ pay than men for the same work, lore | His fables were written in Sanskrit, the | first English translation appearing in | 1570. The quotation in full is “What is bred in the bone will never come out | of the flesh.” | "o,.r V‘lho were the “Straightouts”?— A. They were a small faction of the opened to the public in 1927 co-operation between the Q Please ?Nn “artist’s proofs” of .~ etel s 8 m:vol\monofut-n:"h- the design is back LG ?gsfié‘fiemg;fi : Marines, Leaving Nicaragua, Stir Congratulations Here ‘Withdrawal of forces of Marines from Nicaragua, after service under the police power of that gountry, is a subject for congratulation in the United "States, where there has been criticism of the practice of sending these fighting men to the Central American republic to defend existing governments against the activities of rebels. While citizens here hope that the Marines are out for good, there is some fear of trouble over the Central American treaty which was adopted with the purpose of discrimina- tion against governments created by revolution. “The Marines began preparations to depart as soon as the national election returns were in" says the Pasadena Star-News, explaining that “they had F}Ifdnd a fair ballot, and even though e results may have disappointed some native politicians, to the United States | the outcome should make no difference 50 long as the cholce was made consti- tutionally, and if this country has no further responsibilities there under the Monroe Doctrine.” The Star-News hopes that “there will be no future necessity for the presence of United States troops In any pert of Latin America.” That paper sess the si- bility, however, that <“delicate itin American issues may face the new ad- ministration at Washington,” and com- ments on the existing treaty: “It is significant that during a period when many South American countries have been in domestic t oil the Central American republics have been compara- tively tranquil. One exception is El Salvador, where Gen. Maximiliano Mar- tinez has been able to establish himself in power by revolution, and he has successfully maintained himself, not- withstanding the refusal of neighboring powers to accept his regime as regular. and therefore as official. More than that, the existing unrecognized Salva- dorean government has launched a drive to abrogate the 1923 treaty. Costa Rica is taking leadership in this un- dertaking, and Salvador is importuning Guatemala, Naturally, Washington is tion endeavor with much concern. * ok ok o In explanation of Costa Rica’s attack on the treaty the Louisville éounex- Journal remarks that that country de- sires to “recognize the stable and legit- regime in Salvador,” though it “came into power through a military coup d'etat, when its constitutional President fled,” but “has since been | recognized by the National Assembly.” “Where it Tuns counter to the treaty of 1923 lles in the fact that its President, Gen. Martinez, was minister of war in the preceding government, and ministers of war, according to the terms of the | Self appeared. , are barred from the presidency, he idea being that in this way military dictatorships may be obstructed. The ostensible purpose of the treaty to pre- vent revolutions would be laudable if it were the voluntary and united wish lics and if they alone were signatories to it. The United Stafes, however, forced it upon the little tries. It carries out its provisions as a purely executive function, with the chief object in view of exerting pressure on those ‘g:nm- ments not to our liking. In case Honduras and Nicaragua to join forces, in which case the treaty | | 5 doomed. | watching the progress of this renuncia- | ernment, though the system of non- | Tecognition has seriously harmi Costa Rica.” askance upon the policy but their fears t it forewarned imperialism have proved groundless. Apparently our ‘leathernecks’ in Nica- ragua have maintained their well earned reputation for fearl>ssness and effi- ciency. They have had not only to Tight at times and to suffer some but to serve as schoolmasters for native military forces and as political mechan- ics to set up and operate election ma-~ | chinery. It'is to b: hoped, but not to be expected too confidently, that the results of the good work they have done will be permanent.” As to this perma- nence, the Houston Chronicle homthn “we are well out of the mess at this time, but there is no way of kno how stable Sacasa’s government prove to be.” The Chronicle feels that in case there is a formicable revolt against his regime we probably will be {?@scedum }‘t;e "mm'trymn though the Tal of counf express an protests.” 7 it * k x ¥ . Learning that Sandino, rebel chief, “is rerm'ted willing to surrender,” the Miami Dally News sees the possibility that he m‘:{y"‘ a government position and amne: for his followers, and offers the comment: “Dr. Sacasa, the man whom the Marines originally were sent to Nicaragua to keep out of office, achieved the presidency in the recent election under their supervision. San- dino's desire for peace as the American troops evacuate shows that our armed intervention, far from putting down revolution, merely served to prolong it at tremendous cost-in both lives and money. By such ‘surrender’ the rebel leader is in reach of a moral victory | much greater than any he could possi- bly have achieved in the field of battle.” While recording rumors that “San- dino will not accept the new regime and is merely awaiting the chance to take the field again,” the Roanoke World-News hopes that there is “a definite end of an unpopular military occupation.” The San Antonio Express finds it favorable to better conditions that “Dr, Sacasa is inclined to more | conciliatory ways than his pre | Moncad: Leo Seems Human. Prom the Des Moines Tribune, Jackie, famous movin, is reported from Honywo?)dptlomh:eu& haved quite humanly at a premier of | his latest starring vehicle, a jungle tness the first wing, | Invited to wit “his most rapt atten- | Jackie reserved | tion” for the scenes in which he him- performers bored we have demom- leveling influences ———t— ton | Potential Diplomats and Deficit. ondering whe! 8 per cent beer will be the same Tind ot 1p 3-cemb postage ta- 'hl ec"::l:.dlt ve I 3 however, the bas not caused the collapse of the t Prom the Clneinnat! Times-8tar. Demoeratic National Committee announces thats baseadors a it of $300,000, and 4 , would-be Am- TG >