Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1933, Page 8

A fTHE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY........January 6, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES..,.Editor SRR R e The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business 11th St New Y 1 icago Office: Baroean Oce 14 Regent England, ake 14 Carrier Within the City. ar.............45¢ per month d Sunday Star iays) . St an s ...60c per month Rate by Evening Evenin T ..85¢ per month | sy Btar..... I...5¢ per copy | ion made at the end of each month ders may be sent in by mall or telephone Ational 5000. Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Mly and Sunday....lyr, $10.00; 1 mo.. lg E; ouly Wdyr. 1 m 53 36.00¢ ay only 1yr. $6.00; 1mo. All Other States and Canada. i ly and Sunday. ux only .. a3 only Member of the Assoclated Press. e Associated Press is exclusively entitled S0 1k se for epublication of Al news dis- tches credited to it or not otherwise ered- md in this paper and siso the local news published herein. All rights of publication of oecial dispatches herein are also reserved - =Ho Calvin Coolidge. | ‘When history, in its cold appraisal of | men and their works, assigns Calvin | Coolidge to his rank among the Ameri- can Presidents there may be found wanting in his career those outstanding | | Plerce, Buchanan and a little more T death of Mr. Coolidge leaves a lapse afi al exactly two months before the expiration of Herbert Hoover's term. The number of former Presidents liv- ing at one time has diminished in late years. During the period from Madison on to Grant there were never less than two and in some cases three and four ex-Executives. John Quincy Adams survived through three full presidential terms and three-quarters of a fourth. Martin Van Buren exceeded this record, his span of life after leaving the White House covering the administrations of Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, than a year of Lincoln. The greatest number of ex-Presidents were living at one time during the early part of Lin- coln’s first term, when Van Buren, Tyler, Fillmore, Plerce and Buchanan survived, Tyler passing nine months from Lincoln’s inauguration and Van Buren half a year later. During Hayes’ administration only Grant survived. In Cleveland’s second term only was living, during Taft's ldmlmmmm‘ only Roosevelt. The roster of the ex-Presidents since 1797, when Washington yielded - the office to John Adams, offers testimony to the greater strain of life in the later vears. The task of the presidential of- | fice appears to have borne more hardly | upon the incumbents of the last 1ewf decades than upon those of the earlier | times. . ——t— Forward! mcts of positive achievement by which | posterity judges the great figures of the‘ past. For Coolidge belonged to the| generation which knew him, rather than | to the generations yet unborn. Those who | do not live today, unfamiliar with the | Coolidge tradition, may never be able| quite to understand the unique role he | played in his age and in his time. He! was part of an American epoch and he will always be remembered in connec- tion with that epoch. He himself lived to hear and to see the term “Coolidge | prosperity” applied first in adulation and later in cynical derision of a dis-| tinct and unparalleled period of Amer-| Scan history. Yet his close identification with the | period which may yet come to be| known as the “Coolidge age” was gained | fhrough contrast, rather than through| eny similitude between the character of the man and the character of the time. | Yhere was once a political slogan | “Keep Cool With Coolidge,” expressive both of the man and his day. It'was an accident that sent him to the White House and it was another, trick of fate that placed in his hands, @s yet untried, responsibiiity for dealing with what seemed to be an ugly crisis that concerned the honor not alone of his party but of his Government. He met that crisis firmly. But more, he met it calmly and dispassionately and sensibly, with the result that his coun- trymen found it was not their Govern- ment, after all, which was tottering on the brink, but merely the reputation of | eertain individuals who, if found guilty, ‘would be punished. The Coolidge policy | in dealing with the oil scandals was | characteristic. It may not have re-| quired any great degree of courage, any extraordinary wisdom, any great display of .moral fortitude. Assuredly it was matter-of-fact, rather than boldly colorful. But it was dictated by common sense, and, what was more, it was recognized as common sense. So recognized, it was comforting and re- assuring. E In the days whioch followed and which saw the beginning and the rapid inflation of the post-war boom, the thought of Coolidge in the White House continued to be comforting and reas- suring. There was & man who, in & gilded age, continued to personify the virtues of blunt honesty, common sense and simple dignity. When the only burning issue in an apparently care- free Nation seemed to be how to spend more money, he expounded the quaint doctrine of governmental economy. ‘When increasing agricultural distress wave birth to the first of many fantastic panaceas proposed as farm relief he | disposed of the plan as “economic folly.” In his own way he was a| master and well schooled from practi- | | on the evening of September 19, 1881, | August 2, 1923, a chosen chieftain, well | began. Each had served in the presi- ‘The grief of a nation is not a sterile thing. On the contrary it brings fron into the human soul; it strengthens the will and kindles the flame of brotherly love and sympathy in the | heart. By suffering. the spirit grows, and men never attain maturity until they have learned the lessons of pain and sorzow. " ‘There are many still living who can Temember the night of April 14, 1865, when the long roll was beaten in the Streets of Washington and whispered word went around that the Emancipator ‘was no more. They can recall, too, the solemn hush which fell over the Capital when the telegraph brought the news that a second good and gentle captain of the people had paid for his fame | with his life. And they have not for- | gotten how again, on September 14, 1901, yet another justly honored leader unseasonably breathed his last in a distant city, while the masses wept. Even unripened youth holds remem- brance of a fourth occasion ingthe re- cent annals of the country when, on | beloved, journeying far from the Fed- eral seat of government, quietly moved out into the infinite to the sound of the populace mourning. Six other statesmen upon whom the electorate had bestowed the proudest laurels within their gift have passed from the earthly, scene since the century dential office and retired possessed of the gratitude of his fellow citizens. Each has been granted the homage of universal eulogy. But praise and sorrow are not enough. Lincoln visioned the truth when, at Gettysburg, he said: It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the ul work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to here dedicated to the gr!uh‘kmmunm(hflm\u.m rom these honored creased dead we take in- devotion to that cause for Which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly re- solve that these dead shall not have died in vain. He had particular reference, of course, to soldiers, fallen on the fleld of battle, but his words have even greater significance, applying, as they surely do, to all who, in peace as in war, have served their country and man- kind. Today America mourns. But the national grief is not an empty emotion, extravagantly expressed, soon exhausted and spent. It is deeper, more sincere than that. Yesterday's event has stir- Ted the people to the core. Men draw their lips & little tighter and, thinking of the work that is yet to be done, go with & new determination, a new in- eal experience in the art of politics. | tegrity of purpose, about the perform- | Yet he stood firm and faced one way | nce of their duty. Women, no less only on such politically dangerous issues | CONscious of the needs of the hour, 8 the soldiers’ bonus. ,If he was frugal | bravely translate their sympathy for with his words, he used them well, His | thelr Widowed sister into devotion to dally Toutine st the White House, his | the institutions to which she has given occasional public addresses and his | 5* Senerously and with such inspir- dealings with Congress were as un-| N6 Brace of her time and strength, marked by pretentious display and were | the institutions which are the bedrock 8 unaflected as had been the course | °F Western civilization, of his whole official life. But through them the people came %o know a personality that, never | sparkling, possessed a peculiar warmth | of its own. The people understood ‘ him, and, understanding him, loved him. | To millions of them he represented | tralts of character that from childhood they had associated with the sound citi- | #enship, decency and integrity of sturdy forefathers. Understanding him and knowing him, proud of an intimacy that linked him to them, they came to think of him as an anchor to windward, safe, trusted, dependable. Pew, if any, men who have occupied the presidency have left the White House enjoying the faith and affection that he received from his countrymen And from the White House the friendly thoughts of his people followed him to the tranquil life he bad resumed in peaceful Northampton. There was pro- vided the ideal atmosphere and sur- roundings for the final years. Death ‘wes kind to him, as was life. R Prof. Freud has written another book | sbout dreams. If it includes any chap- | ters on national finance, they should be printed in red ink. v No Living Ex-President. | For the fourth time in history there | 15 no living ex-President of the United | leaves a vacancy in the Tole that with | three prior exceptions has been filled | since the beginning of the present American Government. The first of | these vacancies occurred in the second | sdministration, George Washington | dying December 14, 1799, a year and nearly nine months before John Adams | ¥ielded the presidential office to Thomas Jefferson. The next occasion was the period from July 31, 1875, to March 4, | 1877, when Andrew Johnson's death | removed the only surviving former | President. The death of Grover Cleve- land, June 24, 1908, during Theodore Roosevelt’s second term, left a span of | mearly elght and s half months with | | idge, like most truly great men, had a wonderful sense of humor. aggressive, but was so delicately man- | aged that his sarcasms were often per- | | cetved only by himself until time had | elapsed; and then they impressed the | | affairs there has been no recent devel- | whys and wherefores of this plan, or There is no pause. The commlnd", | ever is: Porward! America accepts the | challenge and, gratefully conscious of Already roses seem to blend the high example of | plonecrs, marches on, fights on toward | I thank you once again, my friend, the glorious victory which it knows to | be its natural destiny | its splendid | s —o— It is now discovered that Calvin Cool- | It was not | intelligence, but left no sting. e Mr. Roosevelt Seeks Counsel. In the realm of America’s foreign | opment of more gratifying and promis- | | ing nature than Gov. Roosevelt's re- | quest to President Hoover for a con- ference with Secretary Stimson on the internationsl situation. The Govef- | nor’s desire, it goes without saying, will be granted, and a meeting between himself and Col. Stimson is to be ar- ranged at Mr. Roosevelt's convenience. Without splitting hairs over | the | what finally led up to it, its execution | will in & very practical sense go far toward carrying out the idea first projected by President Hoover for some | in pressing matters of foreign relations. It is true that the President-elect de- clined to participate specifically in “set- | ting up machinery” for exploration of | the war debts. But Gov. Roosevelt now proposes an even farther-reaching co-operation which prospectively will range over the whole feld of current international business, even though, obviously, the President-to-be mainly seeks information, as he equally obvi- ously does not purport to inject him- | self into the present conduct of over- seas affairs or commit his administra- tion in advance to any given programs. The - impending Roosevelt-Stimson | | enne. THE EVENING serve to be here at 23 an indica- tion that, to the it which our political system permits, there is to be a certain continuity of American foreign policy after March 4. Pre: eminent in the international concerns now engaging the thought of the Hoover administration and the American people are the Sino-Japanese war, the Genava Disarmament Conference, the forth- | coming world economic and monetary conference, and the Paraguayan-Boliv- ian strife over the Gran Chaco. The war debts issue is apparently left where it was wheh President Hoover and President-elect Roosevelt agreed to dis- | agree on the question of pooling their | minds prior to the advent of the Demo- ‘ Rto adkiniesason, | that an apple won't keep the doctor Unless he cherishes®views of which | the country has hitherto had no ink- ling, Gov. Roosevelt, as arbiter in chief | of the United States’ external relations, | will not turn his back on any of the major policies adopted by his predeces- | sor. There is no likelihood of any re- | tirement from the Hoover-Stimson doc- | trine of non-recognition of territorial situations created in deflance of treaty obligations. That doctrine applies alike | to Manchuria and to the Gran Chaco in South America. Nor is it probable that any change will be ordained in the disarmament program to which the United Statés is adhering in Geneva. As to the agenda which President- elect Roosevelt favors for the World Economic and Monetary Conference, time doubtless will be required for for- mulation of his administration’s views. To date, all that President Hoover has done in that connection is to appoint American experts to consider with those | from other countries what might be appropriate themes for discussion at the conference. The Opportunities Closed. It was the pleasant privilege of The Star yesterday to announce the closing of the Twenty Opportunities by the generous contributions of ‘Washing- tonians. The total amount raised in money exceeded $10,700. The only appeal to the contributors was the ap- peal of the cases themselves, and when it is considered that there was no per- sonal solicitation, that the vast ma- jority of contributors made no attempt | to sotisfy themselves by personal visi- tation or inquiry as to the condition of the needy familles, the response was remarkable. The Star cannot attempt to thank the contributors, for-that would be in a.manner presumptuous. The contributors know, as does The Star, the gratitude that the bene- ficlaries ofethe fund must feel, and that is enough. The Star does take this opportunity to acknowledge the help and the spirit of good will exempli- fied on every hand by contributors who sent their money to this office, who wrote or who telephoned their ap- proval of the presentation of the Opportunity Fund. ———— President - elect Roosevelt discusses economy with congressional leaders, who | hope possfbly that encouragement will be offered in'a few months to the dis- cussion of more liberal systems of ex- penditure. It has become customary to hold so many conferences that the President- elect should perhaps be encouraged to get as many as possible out of the way before the actdal work of administration starts. A motion picture star promises to g0 to work, and a breach of contract suit against her for nearly $200,000 is withdrawn. Art and the sporting world still have some lingering evidences of true prosperity. Regulations to outlaw the saloon will call the ofd dictionary into action. Many statesmen will insist on explicit elucidation as to what constitutes a saloon. —————————— ——oe—e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The New Calendar. A calendar a friend has sent To tell from day to day How seasons as they pass are meant To cheer us on our way. And so I glance along the line And laugh to see how soon I meet the promises so fine Beneath the legend “June.” A journey through a page or two Transports us to the hours When skies are all serenely blue Or rainbows tint the show'rs. ‘Their perfumes through the air. ‘Who sent a gift so fair. Not Yet Informed. “Are you going to Europe this year?" asked the confidential friend. | “Not that I know of,” answered Sen- ator Sorghum. “I haven't read today’s | peper. Have they started any new in- | vestigations?” > Jud Tunkins says true greatness will be recognized. Counting Treasury notes and postage stamps, George Washington gets his pleture printed | oftener than even a motion picture star. Preoccupation. How often does fate play a trick, Which disappointment newly brings. We do so much arithmetic We've scarcely time for other things. Credit. “Do you drive your own car?” “Not exactly,” answered Miss Cay- “I'm responsible for its good behavior. But I exchange for new models, and I never yet had one that was complefely paid for.” “Were I to judge by appearances,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, States. The death of Calvin Coolidge Fform of co-operation with his successor | gy, . uld decide that the gentleman you designate a drum major was the great- est of all your generals.” Still Wondering. We wonder why when farmers raise Abundant meal and meat, So many have to go their ways ‘Without encugh to eat. ‘We wonder why, with vacant halls Where taxes must be spent, The landlord when a tenant calls Cannot reduce the rent. “When you's talkin’ ‘bout taxes,” |said Uncle Eben, “I kin say f'um ex- perience dat de most uncomfortable conversations will, nevertheless, be man is de one dat’s so pore he don't mo former President alive. Now m'mwmwmmd.uunyu- nnwwmenug_' | | “An spple may happen to be better given than eaten,” says an old garden proverb. I It is an antidote to the popular rhyme about “an apple a day keeps the doc- tor_away.” ‘The tyranny of the apple has been tremendous. Many persons are as much a slave to it as serfs were to their lords and masters in the old days. They think they must roll over and play dead when ever any one mentions an apple. It is & sort of lesse majeste to imply away, or words to that effect. Just why any one should be so set on “keeping the doctor away” is some- thing of a mystery, since most medical men are very pleasing gentlemen, well | worth paying for if one can't induce them to call any other way. No doubt most persons would be better off if they made less attempt to keep them away, and had them visit them more often. The beneficial effects of the apple on some constitutions is very marked, but upon others it is distinctly nill. Yet every one, despite his personal preerences, is supposed to sing the praises of this fruit, whether he likes it or not. Our old garden proverb proves that the prevalent slant on the doctor and the apple was not universally held. Can’t you see some old worthy wink- ing one eye, as he mumbled to the world in general, “an apple may happen to_be better given than eaten.” No doubt it was a direct answer, as |it seems to be, to the more familiar | quotation. Of course, it is possible to read the such would be the meaning. | At random, however, special settings, it means that some- body or other dislikes apples enough to prefer giving them away to eating them. Pleasant enough to look at, and often fine for what ails you, if you heppen to have a certain physical constitution, the apple nevertheless falls down in the eating thereof. It is a messy and undignified fruit, its admirers, but, what they should never forget, not worth it to those who see it otherwise. to get other people to see a thing as it differently! | Millions of words, both oral and | written, are expended annually upon | this task, with just how much net re- | sult of conviction nobody knows; for it is impossible to measure such things. | Many persons are convinced who never | will admit it. The great trouble lies not only in the | genuine inability of so many people | not to be able to see the other side of | that writings for a thing are eagerly | accepted by those who already are for it, and those against a thing by those who are agin t. With respect to the great god Apple, we can only say, as ought to be appar- ent to any one, that we are agin it, and believe that there are many other per- sons in exactly the same basket. In the first place, the word “munch” has been too long assoclated with it. One cannot eat an apple in the ordinary sense but invariably must munch it. Now, of all the words in the lan- guage “munch” is in some respects the worst. Not in that it refers to the grinding by the animals of the fodder BY FREDERIC | Calvin Coolidge's five-and-a-half | years in the White House constituted more than an administration. They | marked an epoch. Invincibly unemo- | tional and unspectacular, the Vermonter | nevertheless left upon ‘the presidency the impress of a personality unique | and indelible. It is difficult to think of | him as having succumbed even to heart | failure. He was a paragon of good | health in Washington, though he did habits, except walking, supposedly requisite to physical well being in | middle life. One can hardly ever re- | member a sick bulletin from the White House, as far as the President himself was concerned. He lived rationally, | refused to worry, and specialized in confining himself strictly to what he considered to bz his own business, offi- cial and private. Yet beneath his im- pervious exterior and Sphinxlike de- meanor Calvin Coolidge took thi seriously. It may well be that the responsibilities he had to shoulder in Washington weighed upon him to a degree unrecognized even by his medica’ sure its possessor an uncommonly long lease of life. * ok k¥ Posterity may not acclaim Mr. Cool- idge as one of the “great” Presidents of the United States. But the history of the Republican party, if it be faith- fully written, cannot fail to honor him as its savior at one of the most critical points in its existence. When Coolidge ran for President in his own right in 1924, the G. O. P., reeling under the shock of Nation-wide revulsion in con- nection with the oil scandals of the Harding administration, had every right and reason to expect rebuke at the polls. Nothing but the country’s un- shatterable confidence in the probity of the Republican nominee preserved the party from defeat. No truer word on the subject was ever uttered than the alliterative aphorism of Senator Moses | that the Republicans’ sole asset that | year was “the calm and cautious Chris- | tian character of Calvin Coolidge.” * % x % Men sprung from the loins that gave the Ccolidges birth are not accustomed to wear their hearts on their sleeves. But all who had intimate contact with the President during those sad times knew that he suffered two blows from which he never entirely recoverd—one | was the loss of “Little Calvin” at the outset of the 1924 campaign, and the other was the death of “Father Cool- | idge.” was the tempera- mental image of the President, as well | as very much his physical counterpart. There was a beautiful devotion between | them, and ties of no less affection be- | tween the President and his own father. | A story of which this observer has knowledge is to the effect that while | his heart was still bowed downAwm: | grief over the passing of “Little Calvin, iM‘r. Coolidge said he would far rather | have lost the presidency than his boy. | * ok kX | As sure as anything in American pol- | itics has ever been Calvin Coolidge put away the crown of a second term in the presidency. Until the hour of his | immortal decree from the Black Hills in Augyst, 1927—"I do not choose to |run for President in 1928"—no Re- publican in the country had a chance Calvin, Jr. | denial the nomination was indisputably | within his grasp. Unless it some day may be revealed an__authorized quarter, it will remain’ wholly a matter canniness which so distinguished him, Coolidge saw what was coming -and determined to be no part of it. He in consequence deserted the political scene with the lal:nd of “Coolidge prosperity” untarnished. The legend persisted through the depression, and many an authority was convinced that Calvin Coolidge might have led the Republican hosts to triumph even in 1932. His hold on the popular imagi- nation was never broken. Men went 80 far as tor, that, despite the age of 64, which Mr. Coolidge would have attained by 1936, he alone pe haps could have brought vie years hence to the party so recently devastated at the polls, and particularly STAR, WASHINGTON, D. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. proverb as an encitement to generosity. | If said by an elder to a child doubtless | | and without in many respects, being worth it all to| What 15 so difficult in this world is | you see it, especially if you both see | | any subject but also in the plain fact | not go in for play like golf or the other | advisers, and undermined a constitution'| that seemed to be shockproof and to in- | | for the prize. Before that act of self- | of surmise as to whether, with that| C, | as they eat, but rather solely because |1t 1s an ugly sounding word in itself. | Ugly is as ugly does, too. To a certain order of mind there is n more unlovely than the sight of & human being munching an apple, same human being trying to eat corn on the cob. Let no one assert that an apple may be cut into sections and eaten as grace- fully and, if any one insist, as artisti- | cally as any other foodstuff. It may be—but the point is that it | never is. The average apple eater insists on consuming the fruit in the round, so that in approaching it to the mouth a | g:mon of the entire countenance must lost to view. And food which brings this about is a dead loss from the artistic stand- point. If it be further insisted that eating is not art but alimentation, the reply may be made that mankind since the cave days has been striving to make it both. In some circles it may be questioned whether eating is so much just plain eating as art in a particularly pleasing form. One has but to stop to think of the damask, and the gleaming silver, and shining glassware, and the flowers, and the delicately contrived dishes to agree that eating is often more art than food. This is as it should be. Even the serious eater, who is not able to work up much merriment about meals, but it were, nevertheless appreciates the niceties of modern dining. . It is a far cry from the up-to-date table to the days when human beings literally fed themselves and then threw the bones to the dogs in the rushes on the floor. Your confirmed apple eater invari- ably insists on eating his beloved fruil skin and all. This requires much crunching and munching, together with a faclal application distinctly un- edifying to the spectator. If one' replies that the spectator should mind his own business, we reply that this is precisely what the apple addict will not permit. Such an one insists on bringing his | apple right into the living room, just as you are luuninwk the radio or trying to read a good S Then crunch, crunch, | munch, munch, munch! ‘The thing becomes maddening. One longs to rise in the face of the “Fifth Symphony” and smear an | amazed face with what is left of & mute and inglorious apple. One mightily resists and tries to listen to the music. Tum-tum-de-dum. Now they are beginning on the core (not the chorus, alas). Crunch, crunch —all the core is not gone yet. Allegretto, indeed! The last of the core is now vanish- ing—one knows it and cannot help it and cannot do anything about it. It it were not for the blamed core, the sacred American apple would not be so bad. We are tired of the old joke about “Mister, save me the core” and “There ain't gonna be no core.” Both are mmmmsr and shocking | displays of S The core sometimes functic as a missile in street ribaldry, which 1s just another score against it. Perhaps the apple should not be blamed for its core, nor for the misuse to which it may be put by human be- ings. Maybe an apple a day does keep the doctor away, that anclent wisdom which says that an apple at times may happen to be better givem away than eaten. crunch and WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. |so_if it should be Franklin D. Roose- | veit's fate not to restore the country to the Calvin Cool EE | _ Who would have thought that Dwight | Morrow and Calvin Coolidge would both | be cut down in their prime and within |a year of each other? Coolidge |was only six months older than | Morrow. The Vermonter was much affected by Morrow's death, too. With the single exception of Frank Stearns, his Boston merchant iriend and long-time benefactor, Coolidge had no closer comrade than th: late New Jerseyman. He definitely expected to see Morrow President some day and had a deep pride in having paved the way to the Nation’s recognition of the lawyer - banker - diplomat - statesman's talents for lizubnc service. Morrow, on Mis part, had boundless faith in Coolidge Col. Lindbergh's father-in-law used o say he was proud of having earned a reputation for good judgment, but that never in his whole life had he guessed half so well as when he prophesied that the man “who would go farthest” of the 1895 class at Amherst was Calvin Coolidge. Morrow and Coolidge, by the irony of fate, shuffied off under almost identical circumstances. i | Two greater opposites hardly ever mated than _Calvin Coolidge and Grace | Goodhue, yét their marriage, occasion- ally unkind suggestions to the contrary | notwithstanding, probably approached | the ideal. The unfeigned vivacity and cordiality of the Burlington school | teacher was a perfect fofl for the unre- | lenting sternness of her reserved and | reticent consort. Mr. Coolidge was not | unaware of the political strength which | accrued to him through the First Lady's | popularity. Once -upon a time, just after Mrs. Coolidge had left a breakfast conference with party leaders at the ‘White House, the President turned to his guests and said, “Mrs. Coolidge is just the kind of a wife I need. She always leaves the politics of the Cool- idge family to me.” * Jox. Washington news writers will cherish Calvin Coolidge'’s memory in grateful regard. They salone, possibly, knew how unfounded was his reputation for taciturnity. No member of the con- temporary corps of correspondents can recall a President who was actually more loquacious in his contacts with the press. He sometimes invoked the Talleyrand theory that language was given to men as a medium for con- cealing thought, for the President fre- quently at newspaper conferences talked freely and said nothing. The scribes liked Coolidge, too, for the wealth of anecdotes that were constantly being weaved around him. Many lacked any basts 6f fact, but Mr. Coolidge liked to say that one of his political principles was “never to deny anything.” * k% % Mrs. Coolidge becomes the fifth widow of a President. The ommmg?e' in the order of their respective hus. bands’ terms of office: Mrs. Thomas J. | Preston (formerly Mrs. Grover Cleve- land), Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs, William Howard Taft and Mrs. Wood- row Wilson. All five of the Presidents in question passed away after their terms in office were ended. Mrs. Ben- )mn‘, sflgnkgn bxs :]xo alive, but she married her husband after h | the White House. . © hatiiery (Copyright, 1933.) — e A Centenarian’s Proof, From the Pasadena Post. | _ At the opening of the Civil W | Towa man was rejected by the enml“ “: | nation board as 00 frail for military | service. As he celebrated his 102d | birthday anniversary in California re- | cently, he had almost reached the con- é:l‘,j[;lnn that the board had been mis- | en. | . John and Henry. Prom the Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman. The next thing in order is a confer- ence of g:x;r“ur mg‘ Henry 'P.mdet con- fain things done before Christmag, unless, indeed, it be the sight of that | oo ut we like bettery “h.pfly days” it knew under | FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1933. 'lflflwr Income Taxes Rather Than Sales Levy To the Editor of The Star: When vdrious congressional leaders announce that, much their wills, they are being forced o advocate saies taxes as the only possible source of new revenue, they are only clearing the way for imposing a new sacrifice those taxpayers least Stop a minute and think about fi ‘You can ask our Information answer h.. great educat idea in this Bu- id—American newspaj It lpflflfiltb&m‘: ‘There is of & newspaper—service, Do n post cards. the habit of asking i\:uflom. Address your letter to The ening Star Information Bureau, Trederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- Q. Where did - e ul':lb‘y‘ ogcmn.u‘ W.B, Q. How does a Greek letter fraternif choose the Greek initialssoat o T tion ‘higher ‘Th still leaves $450,000.00 to the recipient of a million dollar income were increased to leave only $100,000.00, that taxpayer would be able to survive much better than would the paver of a sales tax out of an income of $500.00. Any sales tax restricts business out of all jon to the amount of the tax, while the income tax merely re- duces the purchasing power of the tax- payer. The sales tax does not change the relative status of rich and poor, while the income tax, with usual exemp- tions and surtaxes, effect takes money from the rich and gives to the T, If our Congressmen do not wish to redistribute incomes, if thev do not wish to incregse the purc! power and consumptive csmuyh{:}n{hzlr poorer- paid constituents. then lef them per- sist in their mistaken notion thal the incom~ tax has reached the point of diminiching returns: let them go back to the ol custom cof soakin~ the poor for the benefit of the rich and see what happens. ‘W. C. DUNCAN. who prefers to take them straight, as |poo: Champion Speaks for Anglo-Saxon Women ‘To the Editor of The Star: I read with rather amused interest the eminent Prof. Umberto Gabb's views with regard to Italian and Anglo- Saxon women. In what to me appears a most un- gallant and “unprofessional” article, he n;ukes the fl:ll:‘n woman the “mirror of graces” and gives a very sorry opin- fon on the Anglo-Saxon type. “Family life attracts them but lightly, and they are not greatlv concerned with modesty,” says this eritic of the Anglo- Saxon woman. It's true that they are not greatly concerned with modesty— false modesty, though. Seldom one will find in Avglo-Saxon circles the hypo- critical, smug, conventional modesty that is so very characteristic of many Latin tvpes of women. Rather one will find a healthy bit, perhaps. of frankness, matter of family life, so causti- cally commented on by the same critic, I shall dismiss by calling attention to the solidity of home life in Germany, England and our New England, where the lo-Saxen stock most abounds. It is true, no doubt, according to Signor Gabbi, that the Nordic women have “little grace and delicacy of form,” whereas It women “are delicate of muscle and sentiment.” I shall not at- tempt to go into an ungallant account on this matter (which species of literary attack Signor Gabbi chooses to em- ploy), but, just as Anglo-Saxon tastes run to tweeds and somber colors, so their tastes run to the conception of beauty in woman. Practical respect- ability and healthy, comfortable vigor are much more acceptable than a pale, Madonna-like, sentimental product of a sequestered Italian convent. And, lastly, T am not an Anglo-Saxon, 5o prejudice becomes a very small fac- tor. 1 wish I could say as much for the learned head of the Parmese Med~ ical . _LOUIS CHARLES KAPLAN. {Drop the “Miss” as A Title for Women | To the Editor of The Star: No dcubt many of your readers will | rgret with “Mrs. E. D. Jerome” that | the title “Miss” should be dropped when a girl becomes of age. y should a woman have to spend the rest of her life explaining to the public whether she is “Miss” or “Mrs.”? The clerks in the stores are far more particular to get the title correct than the address. Every purchase sent hame requires that the purchaser make it very plain to a salesman whether she is married or not? Why does he have to know? Married women who work have often found their title a disadvantsge. They are subject to unp! t glances, Te- marks and criticism, for taking work away from the unmarried. And yet, they may need it as much as the un- married woman, Then there is the woman whose hus- band is dead. She combines the “Mrs.” with her maiden name, if she follows the rules of etiquette. But often she doesn’t know this rule, and retains her husband’s name, which causes confu- sion, as her signature does not fit her condition. So we have “Mrs.” for the woman who is married and also for the woman who was married, but is no longer. Let us have one title for adult wom- anhood, just as we have for man- hood. ~ “Mrs.,” the abbreviation for mistress, may designate a woman who has become an adult. and confusion averted, and a woman's condition be her own private matter. The epoch which made the distinction desirable, if- such epoch ever existed, has gone forever. e MRS. MARY E. WALLACE. e Garage Rents Low With Streets Used for Parking To the Editor of The Star: Replying to Mr. Carl Bishop's letter of recent date to The Star, I beg to say that I personally know of 100 garages in wide, well-lighted and clean courts, having heavy brick walls, elec- tricity and facilities for washing cars. for rent for $5 and $6. Are they rented? No. And the streets all around them are lined to their utmost capacity with cars whose owners prefer the free garage in the streets of the city, a con- dition not tolerated elsewhere. If the District persists in supplying free gar- ages to the public, the owners of such property should be excused from paying a tax, since they have no protection and no means of earning anything wherewith to pay. Owners of property, as well, should demand the privilege of parking their own car in front of their own home in the early evening. This is now not possible, since some other car is occupying the space for the night. 1t seems incredible that the District Commissioners and Congress will per- mit this practice to continue. O. C. McCARDELL. | Drunken Sleigh Driver Run In. | From the Newark Evening News. Demonstrating that this age of dizzy | progress has advanced to the 1898 | stage, a man was arrested for driving a | sleigh while intoxicated. e Prizes for Rail Passengers. Prom the Louisville CouriersJournal. ‘The German railroad which offers a prize to every millionth may by every one to wait for 999,999 's to precede him. R Seemingly Irreconcilable. Prom the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. ‘The largest present discrepancy be- tween the ideal and the practical de- mocracy is the difficulty in fixing & ; if the taxes | c! energy Jor | side their own plants, A. The usual ure is to choose e e St Pracedure e te chooee o haracter and purpose of the club, This is then translated into Greek. A.Qé ‘What is neat’s-foot oil made of?— A. It is a pale yellow fixed oil made by the feet and shin bones of . It consists almost wholly of | olein, and makes a fine lubricant and | dressing for leather. Q. How many submarines have Great gflgmb France, Japan and Italy A. Of 52 British submarines 44 are in full commission and eight in reserve commission. _Sixty-two Japanese sub- marines are fully manned. At last re- m !"i-mu had 46 submarines and Q. Who discovered the first diamond in the Kimberley field>—A. P. A. Diamonds _ were discovered in Kimberley by Dr. W. G. Atherstone, who identified as a diamond a pebble | obtained from a child at a farm on the ?nhh u!{ the Orange Rl\;;r. annifi" was rush of prospectors to the ct and mining began. ?— Q. How long does a hostess walt for tardy dinner guest?—S. N. A. For rules of etiquette I e or a tardy ore the dinner without him. Q. There is a flag in the Lincoln Museum and one in the Treasury .El.n each of which the tale is told t Booth caught his spur on it when leap- ‘é‘agn from t! Pr:lxldenn box after Lin- 's assassination. Which there?—A. D. i in A. The flag recently presented to the Lincoln Museum by Mrs. E. Palmer | Gavit is a President’s flag, while the one which has for some time been on exhibition in the United States Treas- ury Building is a United States flag, or national colors. It is entirely possible that Booth caught his spur on either or both, or neither of these flags. The presidential box et the time of the assassination was draped with several flags, and Booth’s spur may have raked across more than one as he leaped out of the box onto the stage. Until more definite historical data are unearthed than are at present in the possession of the Government, it is safe to assume znt the claim is authentic for both gs. Q. What wood is best for a Colonial bed room?—O. N. A. Maple, pine, walnut and mahog- | any were used in Colonial times. Ma- hogany, however, was better known the Southern Colonles. Q. How much fuel and power is used in manufacturing?—L. C. A. American manufacturing indus- tries spent $1,498,228,952 for fuels of all kinds in 1929, a special the census of shows. In addition, manufacturing industries spent, in 1929, $475,634,377 for kilowatt state | arst jce ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIR. public power plants. A part ofmnuu wés generated the tion of fuel in public serv ice power plants, but neither the quan- tity nor the cost of this fuel is covered by these figures. Q Who were the “Argonauts of '49"?—L. P. A. This was the name applied to th fortune seckérs who emigrated to Cali- fornia in the years immediately fol- lowing the discovery of gold in 1848. Q. Was Brigham Young a native- born American?—P. ¥, A. He was borp at Whiitingham, Vt., June 1, 1801, and was of native Ameri- can ancestry. Q. What is the significance of the pyramid on the revessc side of the great seal of the United States?—L. C. A. The pyramid signifie; strencth and duration; the eye over it and the motto allude to the many interpositions of Providence in favor of the American cause. The date underneath is the date of the Declaration of Independence and the words under it signify the begin- ning of the New American Era, which commences with that date. Q. How much does the electricity cost to run a washing machine?—S. 8. A. It costs about 3 cents a week to run the average washer. Q. Where was Fort Blunder?—N. O. A. The fortifications were started in 1816 at Rouses Point, N. Y., under the supervision of Col. James Totten, & United States engineer. The plan of the fort was octagonal. It was to be 10- bastioned and occupy about three- | fourths of an acre. e walls were to be about 30 feet high. It was believed that the fort would be of great strate- glc value, but in 1818 it was found that the fort was located within the lmits of Canzda, and work was abandoned. | It was known for many years as Fort Blunder. Its ccrrect name is Fort Montgomery. By the Webster treaty of 1842 the fort was ceded to the United Stal Q Who invented the ice cream freezer?—D. L. A. It is generally believed cream freezer was paten Nancy M. Johnson in 1843. However, there is a memorandum in Washing- ton’s cash book to the effect that he purchased an ice cream machine May 17, 1784. Q. Who was the first person to see & germ?—C. S. A. Anthony van Leeuwenhoek. He lived almost 300 years ago. While he did not invent the microscope, he is | sald to have made 247 lenses. He was the best lens-grinder of his time. " Q. What inscription is carved into the wall of the Gordon Memorial Chapel in the Khartum Cathedral?— s. . . R. A. Gen. “Chinese” Gordon is thus memorialized: “Praise God for Charles George Gordon, a servant of Jesus.” Q. In music what type of composi- tion Is a bacchanale?—G. L. A It is a composition, usually in song or dance form, celebrating the Festival of Bacchus, the mythological god of wine. Q. What were the principal causes of the beginning of migration from Europe?—P. N. A. In modern history the spirit of adventure and the search for gold in | first led men to leave European coun- tries. Next trading centers were es- tablished and colonization naturally followed. ; Q. In the early days of the Republic was lhue;l quantity o’ wine consumed? A. Prom September, 1791, to Sep- tember, 1792, an amount equal to about 244 gallons of wine and spirits for | hours of electric out- in ‘Widespread discussion has | the n;:gmt ‘r'.ol:: mdmt—olm 3 of alternatives cy to believe that in balancing the national budget it will be necessary either to adopt economies or to establish the general tax. 105 sntagonism, according 1o ihe velt's an ,” ace Charleston (8. C.) Evening Post, “comes with something of a shock and is cer- tainly disconcerting.” That paper holds that “the general sales tax is the best plan for bringing in revenue to the National Treasury that could be adopted,” and “it would distribute the cost of government over the whole body t- ‘women and child in'ofines words, 33,008,447 gallons: New Sales Tax ControVersy ; Presents Few Alternatives “has taken to heart the platform of his y, which means that the broad way back means the elimination of extravagance.” Economy is made the dominant theme accomplishe: peka Dalily Capital advises that “theo- retically any sales tax, tends to check consumption,” and contends that that n with the gasoline tax. With a better return for labor, the Salt Lake Deseret News concludes that that the' ted by of citizenship in equitable portion.” That such a tax will be npro to the Oakland Tribune, the Boise Idaho Statesman, the Christian Science Mon- itor and the Providence Bulletin. The Haverhill Gazette calls the tax unjust, but avers that “it appears to be the only tax that will bring in revenue adequate to the balancing of & budget of present proportions.” “If there is a democratic in the future “the sales tax may well come to be one of the means of main- taining Government expense.” As to its effect, the Portland Oregon Journal argues: “As Lord Pitt explained in pro- posing the sales tax to ‘my lords’ in the British House of Peers, ‘You can |tax a great many articles of daily use |and necessity so indirectly that the peogle will pay them and not know it And that's the idea—by a sales tax you iple | can ‘tax a great many articles of daily ‘Time will be saved | princ] of taxation,” says the Fort Worth Star- Telegram, “the sales tax is its name. Keeping it from food and clothing, but applying it to every other plece of pro- ductivity, manufactured in America or imported, is a democratic elemental. Five dollars is taxed. Fifty dollars ex- periences it. Five hundred dollars makes its contribution. The tax might be five cents, fifty cents and five dollars, re- spectively, and every purchaser would be registering as to his proper oc- cupancy of & niche in democracy. Each could afford it. There need be nothing of a ‘nuisance tax’ about the process.” * k X ¥ “In_the end the Democratic leaders may find that a sales tax is inescapa- ble,” thinks the Oshkosh Daily North- western. Of the opinion that Mr. Roosevelt “probably would be no less horrified were Congress to contemplate such an extension of the income tax as would enable the Goyernment to take a share of small incomes now ex- empt,” the Chicago Daily News sug- gests that “to be forced to that alterna- tive for a sales tax would. send cold chills ap and down the al columns of en,” but that it is “obvious that one® or other of those methods must be used to obtain suff- | cient revenue.” The Daily News says of the sales tax, “The time may come when use and necessity so indirectly that the pecple will pay them and not know it.’ And the thousands upon thousands of unemployed and partly employed and the unemployed existing on emergency relief—they would have to pay the sales tax. By that method you ‘can tax the last rmhom the back and the last bite from mouth without causing & mur- mur against high taxes.’” Bonus March Inquiry by Congress a Waste of Time To the Editor of The Star: It is surprising that Congress, that has so many more important things to consider and is trying to avoid an extra session, should think of spending time on such a trivial thir~ as the evacua- tion of the B. E. F. i1on Washington. That has already been : :I'~tsd thread- bare, and the facts are wc.! known. It is the general opinion that there would not have been such a horde here if word had not gone out over the coun- try that they were being sheltered and fed. They didn't know it was being done without authority from either the Government or the city. No other city in the United States would have sub- mitted to such an invasion as Wash- stimulate travel, if the idea isn't sefzed || that tax will re-enter as the rescuing |ington did. For example, the Governor hero, flinging itself across the chasm of the nearby State would not even to make a bridge for safe passage of a |consent to a very few living on land balanced budget.” Admitting that ullhl'- was given to them, where they a result of State action there might |could support themselves. If Congress be “double taxation,” the San Antonio has so much time to investigate it Express concludes: “If a double bur-|would be well to examine the bills for den must be imposed it obviously would of thelr mem- be carried more easily if spread out |bers. thin, as in the general sales tax.” Fair- ness of the tax is upheld by the Mil- waukee Sentinel, while the New York | privileges. Rcceptance, snd ts Srnchod (Masss ane e 3 calls it “undeniably the it to a balanced budget,” although it sees “an increasing ten- dency to favor Government borrowing rather than heavier taxation and econ- omies.in the Government.” e should they have a vaca ment expense l:k: a Ia:hgt. when they had "1'%’?: time is e short, 50 much be accomplished. 3. P ” 414 Arundel ave., Hyattsville, Md. ——— Too Many Pockets. acceptance, Republican cut That paper finds that the Prwdenm it-elect h’l’ interested in reduc- governmental expenditures.” The rMel"’d!.!n. (Miss.) Star sees a demand common viewpoint for the railroad en- gineers and truck dgivers. Rrtale nd Ty Ao S oy