Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1933, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sundsy Morning Edition. WASHIVNGTON, D. C MONDAY.......January 9, 1033 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company e S Benoeyivanta, Ave NonTy ot Offoe: TI0 East smd 5 Ohicago Office: _Lflca nrlcg:l lx‘gln d::; European m"kmlm r Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Star.. ..45¢ per month The ing and Sun enen s Bundars) - " 60c per month The Evening_and Sunday Star (when 5 Sundays). . .65¢ per month .5¢ per copy Sunday Star... g the end of each month it %:l’l:c::l; a‘fl::n? in by mall or telephone Ational 5000. te by Mail—Payable in Advance. 25 riu-yl.-nd and Virginia. Datly and Sunday....1 10 ily only .. Sunday only fly and Sunday. ily only ... Sunday only . Member of the Associated Press. ted Press is exclusively ehufi.e i S R in. rigl B e ehes hereln are aiso reserved. The Senate Repeal Plan. roposed resolution for Tepeal “1;:: f!fi:m:mendmmt, if the Senate recelves it in the form agreed upon by the subcommittee which drafted it, departs in one important respect from the platform pledges of both political parties. It proposes submitting the question to State Legislatures instead of to State conventions. Those who oppose the resolution because in this respect it repudiates party platforms stand, of course, on tenable ground. But with the gains registered in wet sen- timent, the question no longer pre- | sents the burning issue that it once ald. It will not make a great deal of difference, in the end, Wwhether ratification is asked of Legislatures or ventions. um'rhe really important thing is the form of repeal that the States—whether by Legislatiures or conventions—are asked to ratify. The Judiciary Commit- tee's subcommittee, which drafted the yesolution, has agreed on & very rea- sonable compromise. Both parties have insisted on protec- States tion of dry States against wet and have guaranteed to fight the return of the saloon, The main division be- tween the Republican platform and the Democratic platform, and the division now between the extreme wets and the dry element agreeable to ‘modification, is whether these bans should be writ- ten into the Constitution, orswhether available Federal legislation, to protect the dry States from the wet States, should be utilized and the mmlw:; of to the States. the saloon left entirely o tutional flatly prohibits, by new constl amendment, the shipment of lquors protect themselves against tates been adequately equipped to do it and adequately assisted by the Federal Government, there might not have been the demand for the 18th amendment. The merit of retaining that provision in the Constitution is the moral obligation that thus would be imposed upon the Fed- eral Government to enforce & consti- tutional prohibition. It is & guarantee, in other words, that what has been agreed upon by all as desirable will be done as far as it is possible. It is, in| addition, a sort of bulwark against the | sort of pressure from the liquor inter- | ests that would assert itself cnce the traffic were legalized. Still more of a compromise, however, is found in the section of the pmposed} amendment relating to the saloon. This | merely gives to Congress the power to legislate on the matter of regulating and prohibiting the sale of lquor “to be drunk on the premises where sold.” This is eminently reasonable. If, as the wets have argued, the States them- selves will quickly outlaw the saloon and guard against its return without Federal intervention, it is posstble that the Fed- vinced that defeat of ratification in more than one-fourth of the State Legislatures or conventions can more certainly be secured if absolute and unconditional repeal of the 18th amend- ment is proposed instead of its radical amendment. No Reorganization. The Democrats of the House Com- * | mittee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments tdday reported against President Hoover’s plan for the reorgan- ization of the Government, contained in fifty-eight executive orders sent to Congress in accordance with the law. This action had been foreshadowed practically since the receipt of the re- port. Indeed, it was foreshadowed when the present Congress in the last session passed the law “authorizing” the President to go ahead with re- organization of the Government and tied a string to the grant of author- ity. Either house of Congress may pre- vent the reorganization by the adoption of a resolution disapproving it. The Democratic majority of the Committee on Expenditures is now asking that the President’s plan be rejected. In the majority report on the reso- lution, which will be presented by Chairman Cochran, it is urged that the Hoover plan for reorganization does not go far enough and effect economies, and at the same time the report critii- cizes some of the proposed consolida- tions. One of the features of the plan presented by President Hoover looks to the consolidation of all public works. This proposal immediately aroused op- position in Congress, as well as in the bureaus and departments affected. Yet this is one of the most far-reaching and effective recommendations contained in the Hoover reorganization plan. As Mr. Hoover has pointed out, no other Gov- ernment of a large country fails to place all of its construction work in one department. The Democrats also declare that on the eve of the inauguration of President- elect Roocevelt‘and the incoming of a new administration it would not be wise to permis the reorganizations proposed by the rairing President, but that the whole mater should be turned over to Mr. Roosevelt. If the Congress cannot indorse the reorganization plan of Mr. Hoover, which it is now complained is too mild, what may be expected from the Congress if Mr. Roosevelt should bring in a drastic plan? True, it is now proposed—and there is much glib talk- ing in connection with the proposal— that Roosevelt be givén the powers of a dictator to deal with the Government departments and bureaus in the interest cf governmental econcmy. The Demo- cratic members of Congress are saying that only by such a course will it be possible for the Government ever to be reorganized in the interest of economy. That in itself is a sad com- mentary on the Congress. It will be extremely surprising to those who have watched the “progress” of governmental reorganization, however, if Mr. Roose- velt is ever given such wide authority without & “joker” in the law which would enable Congress to veto such re- crganizations as it does not like. A big step will have been taken toward actual reorganization, provided, of course, Mr. - | Roosevelt takes advantage of the power accorded him. His advisers insist that Mr. Roosevelt would cut to the bone. That very fact is making some of the members of Congress less willing to authorize the President-elect to go slashing in the Government depart- ments without restraint. The wise and statesmanlike way of dealing with' the question of reorgan- ization would be to accept the Hoover plan and then to let Roosevelt go fur- ther and improve on it if possible. The Democrats, however, prefer to ditch .all Government reorganization at the present session of the Congress. If they ditch it now, their action will not and cannot be interpreted as auguring well for reorganization in the next Congress. The death of Calvin Coolidge called attention to & man so great that he could not realize his own greatness and remained simple and unassuming. — rat—— There is one thing no machine can do; that is to explain “technocracy” to the satisfaction of the popular intelli- gence. Some of the more liberal economists in contemplating substitutes for gold seem inclined to suggest that after all, a dollar is only a matter of opinion. Mexico Goes Naval. When BSecretary Hurley the other day announced the transfer from the eral Government need not utilize its constitutionally derived power to muti them, But suppose the States, in the| first flush of reaction against prohibl- | war Department lterally of tion, uncertake & varicty of experiments | that in some cases will work and in| some cases will not work, resulting in | a crazy-quilt type of regulation over the saloon, entrenching the worst features | of a liqu-r traffic run for private profit and leading to border-town evils from | It is con- nounced, to equip herself with a navy. | As her next door neighbor on the Guif, which dry States will suffer. ceivable that conditions identical with border to northern garrisons of United States troops long stationed in Texas, Senator Tom Connally accused the “seeing red” and succumbing to groundless fears for the safety of some of the country's urban centers. It is devoutly to be hoped that the distinguished solon from the Lone Star State will himself not yield to any childish alarms when he learns of Mexico's project, just an- those preceding the adoption of the v ‘Texas might well sit up and take notice 18th amendment would Teappear. ‘The advantege of such a section in the Ccnetitution lies in the fact that| should a majority of the people demand | Pederal regulation and concurrent en-| forcement against the saloon, it would be gained. But if the States themselves continue to be satisfied of their own ability to control the saloon and a ma- jority of the people in truth resented any Federal intervention, the States would be left to themselves. | The Senate resolution is assuredly more logical than the recolution for naked repeal which failed to get a two- thirds vote in the House. It is, in gen- eral, the type of resolution that will | enable the people to hold the gains | made under prohibition withcut resort- ing to hurtful extremes and attempting to throw the whole business. overboard. The adoption of the 18th amendment ‘was revolutionary, and as revolutions “never move backward,” the Senate resolution is probably the sort of reso- lution that in the end will be submitted and probably ratified. ‘Those of the drys who believe that 4f the 18th amendment is either repeal- ed or vitally amended, as proposed, yeturn of the saloon cannot be pre- vented and effective prptection of the dry against the wet States will become impossible, will continue, of course, to with all their might the amend- i s iy 31 of this unprecedented bid of Mexico for sea power. Fortunately, the great republic be- yond the Rio Grande essays no fleet capable of upsetiing either the equanim- ity of the cotton belt or the interna- tional balance of naval strength. The Geneva Disarmament Conference can proceed along its snail-like way with- | out anxiety. Mexico plans nothing but a comst-dcfense establishment, and to that end will shortly place orders in Spain for fifteen modern, armored ves- sels, specially adapted to that type of service, mounting mainly machine guns of moderately heavy caliber and with a speed of thirty knots. The -ships are intended primarily as a force to ward off smugglers, who from time immemo- rial have plied a thriving and virtually invincible traffic along both of Mexico's seaboards, which comprise, be it observed in passing, one’ of the longest coast lines in the world. Now and then come reports of poaching in the waters of Lower California, adjacent to the Mag- dalena Bay region, by American fisher- men. These, too, presumably would be the object of more solicitous attention when Mexico has an adequate guard n ._A-8 ¥ THE. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1933. N —_— Incidentally, American shipbuilders seem to have been caught napping in the competition for the business, as Spanish dockyards have captured it, notably the great marine industry based on Ferrol. The Madrid government, it 1s understood, will facilitate the trans- action by opening an indefinite credit in Mexico's credit.,, A large del- egation of Mexican naval experts will £0 %o the land whence hailed the an- cestral Conquistadores, to superintend the construction of a super-modern de- fense against the aggressors of another type and day. —————————— One People, After All Reports of the funeral of former President Coolidge indicate in a strik- ing way the essential solidarity of the American people. He had been a Re- publican, for more than forty years a party man, a party leader. He had carried the Republican banner through a score of campaligns, including those struggles in which his own name was the center of the hottest battle. But he had served the whole people, and it therefore was natural that the whole people should mourn him. There were almost as many Democrats in North- ampton Saturday to do honor to his memory as there were Republicans. Only a few weeks ago a bitter political contest, raging up and down the coun- try, might have suggested to a visitor from abroad that the American people were dominated by partisanism, drasti- cally divided into two or perhaps three political groups, warring with each other. A certain passionate violence marked the expression of political con- viction. Even ordinarily well-mannered citizens gave voice to their opinions in language of extreme vehemence. Even those who usually are conhspicuously rational in their thinking gave them- selves up to unreasonable dogmatism. In the heat of the debate many were guilty of misrepresentation, slander and 1ibel, devices which social philosophers have sometimes conceived to be char- acteristic of political activity in & democracy, but which, nevertheless, they deplore. However, the turbulence of such a contest is too exhausting to last very long. The moment the elec- tion was over sanity began to return, and within a fortnight the masses of the population had returned to a nor- mal condition of mind. Perhaps it is true that, as more than one observer has declared, there is little real difference between the doctrines of the Republican party and those of its Democratic rival. Perhaps party lines are only imaginary. In the halls of Congress and the Assembly rooms of the several State Legislatures orators may rant and rave, and in the columns of the press there may be a certain ex- travagance of language, but funda- mentally the differences between the two major partles are less numerous than their points of agreememt. Re- publicans and Democrats both talk par- tisanism, but when necissary practice an effective co-operation in the more important business of legislation and administration. Undoubtedly, it is an advantage to'the Nation that it should be so. Mr. Coolidge was a party captain, but oot a party President. In recognition of that fact, Democrats joined with Re- publicans to pay tribute to him. Thus, once again, as on a hundred other oc-. casions in recent years, the unity of the people, the community of their affec- tions and the, patriotism of their ideals ‘'were demonstrated for the world to see. Altogether, the incident is deserving of remembrance. The United States faces 8 crisis in its existence, and a change of administration has been demanded by the electorate and is about to take place, but it is well that we should be reminded of the fact that we are one people, after all. ———————————— In a number of communities it is not easy to sell property for taxes; one rea- son being that though the price is not great the responsibility for taxes in years to come goes with it. —————r——————— And even when the budget is balanced, some expertness will be required to keep it in & state of equilfbrium. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Underworldling. A microbe prowls with an intent Of causing great distress. He greatly likes to circumvent ‘Your hopes of happiness. And when a remedy you seek For his unhallowed glee, “Why harm,” he says in accents meek, “A little think like me?” I'd rather be a crocodile Or elephant in rage Or a gorilla, for awhile Out loose on a rampage, And Jet my foemen take a shot To end my fierce career Than wiggle in some secret spot, Malevolent and queer. Appreciating. “Do you enjoy listening to & speech over the radio?” “Very much,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “It's a comforting contrast to think of some other orator all dressed up and struggling in front of a micro- phone while I sit in dressing gown and slippers ready to doze off at any mo- ment.” Jud Tunkins says he kind-a likes a | parrot. It can gabble on without car- rying any gossip or bad news. Fishing. Each day’s a bit like fishing, ‘With various prospects stored. We may land what we are wishing— Or, perhaps, fall overboard. The Hard Part. “Can you tell what the market is golng to do?” “Anybody can,” answered Mr. Dustin | Stax. “The trick is to tell when it is going to do it.” “The possessor of much wealth,” said HI Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is inse- cure, since he must risk his reputation on those whom he delegates to spend it.” Limitless Possibilities. " So many kinds of taxes make . The citizen feel like a dunce And hope they’ll never undertake her home waters. 4 Mexico's federal finances are in sad disarray —as which governments’ ex- chequers nowadays are not?—and sur- prise is naturally occasioned by her sud- den on to spend s considerable amount of To try them out all kinds at once. all de b along de do i is not as fashionable It possesses a Victo- rian flavor, along with Miss Austen's stories, perhaps, but happily the com- plex against the persons and things of that great epoch 18 dying out of its own momentum. ‘The is comln, to see ngln that every period has its good points, no matter how much fun may be poked at other angles of it, and that it is impossible for anything -which men once seriously liked to be utterly with- out virtue. Reading aloud may not be a Populll' diversion any longer, but it still pos- sesses many good features, chief among which is the fact that it tends to make one use the ear more than the eye. Most human beings are in danger of becoming too eye-minded, as the phrase has it. k) It takes more intelligence to listen well than to see well. We do not pre- tend to know whether this is a scien- tifically correct statement, but at least that is the way it seems to one observer. Nor is this statement made as a sop to the great radio audience. Most lis- teners-in, as they like to call them- selves, do not listen well. They just listen—and how!—as the youngsters say. It is one thing to listen, and quite another to listen well, as any one will discover who, having become accus- tomed to reading to himself, suddenly attempts to listen to a book read to him by some one else. The voice, no matter how well be- loved, distracts him. He misses the feel of the covers in his hand, the fa- mi caress of the pages, the appear- ance of the army of words, rank and file, page after page, regiments and divisions of them, veritable grand armies of thought, on their way to a new conquest of the human mind. It is an enthralling picture which a good book presents to the aware reader, and gmblbly he is never quite so aware as when his eyes behold the type. There is a place, however, for the listener, eyes closed, in this kingdom of books, one which has been missing him, perhaps, for many, many years. It is customary for betrothed couples, or at Jeast it used to be the custom, to read aloud to each other. The sound of | the sweet voice of the beloved, and that sorf of thing, no doubt, and in the main. Times change, and the individual with It is no longer fashionable, perhaps, to read aloud, or to be read to, but the practice has many features to com- mend it. The principal one is that the mind, as it were, is taken out of the eye and put back into the mind. The mind discovers itself anew. has been fo do away with the human mind in actual practice, by a prior use of some one human mind. Many of the inventions on which we, as & race, pride ourself the most, have chemistry for the workings of the mind of man. One mind worked, in inventing, then millions of minds are relieved of further thinking, in regard to some daily proc- ess R::dTnot}Ler, ‘whltever it may be. ng is. from one vie int, habit, like other habits. Shemndis ‘When one reads much, he becomes used to reading, finds certain stimuli in the sight of the page, the type, the bind- ing and so forth. He reads mechnmcall{’v in a sense, ;v‘l:hhm!sn eyesddgxll.\varmg the messages to his brain, anc instances doin the work of the bnhw s Every one has caught himself, at times, while reading, in the act of Mankind's oldest organization for the preservation of amicable international relations, the American Peace Society at Washington, founded in 1828, pro- poses to President-elect Roosevelt a scheme for American entry into the League of Nations. With the advice and consent of Congress, the Society in- vites Mr. Roosevelt to consider the for- mation of “a non-partisan commission t0 study our relations with the exist- ing league.” The understanding would be that, “following the report of the commission, conversations be opened, again with the advice and consent of | Congress, between our government and | the League, with the view of ascewiain- ing what changes, if any, the mem- bers of the League would be willing to make in the terms of the covenant, to the end that our country may take part more fully iu that form of ‘pacific means’ | subscribed to by us in the Kellogg- Briand pact.” John J. Esch of Wis- consin, co-author of the transportation act and former chairman of -the In- terstate Commerce Commission, is president of the Amerihcan Peace So- clety. Its executive roster includes Gov! McNutt of Indiana, Henry P. Fletcher of Pennsylvania, Elihu Root of New York, Henry M. Robinson of California, Dr. James Brown Scott of Washington, D. C., and Frank B. Kel: logg_of Minnesota. The “suggestion’ to Mr. Roosevelt is made in World Affairs, quarterly organ of the Amer- ican Peace Society, of which Arthur Deerin Call is editor. E \Word came from Nanking during the week end that Dr. Alfred Sze, who has been in Washington on a semi-official mission _since last Autumn, has just been officially designated as Chinese | Minister to the United States. his second assignment to that post. Dr, Sze was transferred from Washing- ton to China’s ministership to Great Britain some five years ago, and now returns to the scenes not only of his) former diplomatic duties, ‘'but 6f * his boyhood. “He is a graduate of Central | High School at Washington, which only | a trophy for his distinguished achieve- ments in public life. Dr. Sze resumes his mission here at a time of grave | crisis in China, .due to Japan’s. new | aggressions. “He was the Nanking | government’s spokesman at Geneva, when the Chinese first’ took their Man- churian troubles before the League of Nations in October, 1931. Dy. and Mrs. Sze and their interesting brood of chil- dren are well known and liked through- | | out Washington. X kX % Bouquets and cheers for the first bright idea of 1933 indubitably belong to Harrison P. Brown of the Macomb County Republican Conimittee, at Mount Clemens, Mich. Mr. Brown suggests that it would be a handsome thing for President-elect Roosevelt to invite Her- bert Hoover to remain in Washington §s a member of the incoming Demo- cratic cabinct. politician alco thinks the country would appreciate a similar gesture by Mr, Roosevelt in the direction of Nor- man Themas. His proposal appears in the January issuz of the Forum. S e Prom aeNew York publisher’s press there came at the end of 1932 the last book about Calvin Coolidge to appear before his untimely departure from the American scene, It is entitled “The Rise of Enln‘vallvln." and the author supplied Miss Gilfond with the text for her dedicatory words. “The best a man,” he told her one THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. The whole tendency of modern science | substituted the laws of physics and | WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. a day or two ago presented him with |y, The Macomb County | listening to some voice, actually under- standing what the voice is , and yet, at one and the same time, going right ahead with his reading. It something like to read and lister to the radio at the same time; neither end is achieved very well. Such an instance illustrates how me- chanical may become, even in the best hands. It is possible to read a book while at the same time the reader thinks over the facets of a personal problem, and even solves it. Every one has done it. The best book in the world, the most exciting, will not drive worry away, If the worry is keen enough. To be read to, on the other hand, after the novelty of it has worn off, makes a demand upon the mind which is different from that made when one | reads alone, the book before one. This only, of course, if the listener takes the reading in a sane, serious mood, no matter how diverting, light or pleasant the story or other matter may be. “In one ear and out the other” is easy enough. In fact, one may go to sleep, and no dnazt.nscm!:e gg* in 1umxlnr situations. y to n, in order compre- hend, is another thing. o/ o It calls for concentration of the best sort, which is bound to be somewhat wearisome, especially when one is not used to it. Any one who reads to a sick person, or convalescent, should begin gradually and rather read for too short a period than too long. This will be particularly the case if the patient has not been accustomed to hearing the reading voice. As to just how one shall read, in what tone of voice, and so on, that Is a matter for the two individuals to de- cide. Or perhaps, what is more likely, :}k:ey m:?t read - they can; and accept e reading as it comes, wif choice in the matter. chfzut e Some persons naturally assume a stately tone, in reading to others; it is almost always possible to tell, even when persons are hidden, where con- versation ceases and reading begins, x‘-,x:)eizely by the change in the tone of e. Usually reading brings about a sort ?! mnotfl:&i or L]oe"l of voice, which s disconcerting to some persons intriguing to others, o i Many persons criticize the radio ad- dress delivered in this way, but the fact is that the monologue tone of voice is more pleasing to many persons than the “elocution” ~which attempts = to range through the entire gamut of the human voice. Such gymnastics may be in order on the stage, or even on the radio (al- | though heaven save us, one and all, | from the vocal histrionics of the av- | erage “radio play”), but they become entirely depressing in the quiet hour. Their effect on the sick surely would be anything but beneficial, even in the reading of the pleasant novels of Jane Austen, wherein nothing more exciting than a slight fall down an embank- ment ever takes place, A pleasant, rather monotonous, tone of voice, perhaps would be the best for such reading. It would allow the lis- tener to grasp, without side thoughts, the entire irony of the writer, who was sald by eminent critics to have been the only woman in the history of the world who ever had such a gift. No patient at all able to listen to reading could help but be diverted by the history of that lovable valetudina- rian, Mr. Woodhouse, in Miss Austen’s “Emma.” Here is the best story in the world to read at such a time.” If one has somehow managed to have saved it through the years for just such an emergency, his illness may be count- ed & fortune to him, at least in.a reading sense. | parishioners at the door. know these people2” 2 he know these people?” another re- Joined. “Why, he could tell you who pmlzyfid truant from church this, morn- * ok ok % Henry Adams Bellows of Minneapolis, who has just assumed his duur in Wi n as resident vice president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, was appointed to the Federal Radio Commission by President Coolidge in 1927. When Bellows resigned from the Radio Commission, Mr. Coolidge sent him a cordial letter of regard and re- gret. Last Friday afternoon Bellows was hanging over his new desk in the Shoreham Building . building a frame contli.nlnflt.he letter. It had just been put in place when an .office colleague rushed in to announce that Coolidge had been found dead at Northampton; * ok % % E Jim Farley’s Baltimore Jackson day speech bristled with inside stuff about Franklin D. Roosevelt, Here's a sample: “I ean &mmm you leadership in the new President. There never was a man more avid of advice, more dili- gent in seeking the ultimate grains of information on any subject on which he has to make a decision. But when he has listened to every shade of opin- ion, has explored every evenue through which knowledge can come, he makes up his mind, and thereafter there comes into play a quality of Dutch steadfast- ness—perhaps of stubborness—as im- movable as the Rock of Gibraltar. Once ‘he is convinced that he is right, he ’suys right.” \ * ok % % It’s understood there's a good-natured | rivalry afoot for the titular rank of | dean of the Washington press gallery, Oulahan of the New York Times. He | isn’t accredited to the press galleries of | Congress, but there can't be any active | writing man in Washington more en- | titled to a deanship, in terms of service | years, than David Selke. He's 87 years |old and still on the journalistic firing e. His specialty is marine and shipping news, which he compiles from a downtown office as a daily task. Mr. Selke, who lives in Chevy Chase, was born in Schleswig-Holstein when it -was | still part of Denmark. He has made his | home in Washington since the Civil | War. Rugged in mind and body. walk- |ing is his grand passion, and he can | outstride the average person 30 years' his jungse. * % oy | France. unpopular enough on Capi- tol Hiil these days, hasn't improved her | status there by launching an interna- tional campaign to do away with ora- |tory. M. Herve Lauwick, Paris jour- | nalist, proposes a “League Again: | Speechmaking.” His aim to achieve | “approximate silence” in the French Parliament and at public banquets ‘and then spread the movement throughout the world. M. Lauwick asks for a world covenant to prevent more than three 10-minute speeches 4t banquets. (Copyright, 1933.) et Hard Times, Indeed. From the Miam! Daily News. Times are so hard that a good many women can't afford to divorce their husbands even when the latter refuse to learn the new bridge rules. ECRt i SV The Inexpert Expert. From the Schenectady Gazette, Our chief trouble is that each citizen knows how to control mankind and wishes he knew how to control his three kids. . ——— Easy on the Brain. . Roanoke Times. held for 50 many years by the late Dick | pe re-election to the Senate next year The Political Mill By G. Gould Liscoln. The passing of Calvin Coolidge may or may not have affected greatly the political situation as it relates to the G. O. P. _Undoubtedly there were those is|in the Republican party who firmly believed that Mr. Coolidge should be the party nominee for President in 1936. ‘They would have liked to nominate Mr. Coolidge in 1932, but it was early ap- parent that Mr, Coolidge would not per- mit himself to be entered in the race and also it was clear that it would have been impossible to defeat Mr. Hoo- ver for renomination. The Democratic trend in 1932 was so strong that no Republican—including Mr, Coolidge—in all probability could have won the presidential election. It will be recalled e ation as well ident Hoover was under fire of the Democrats during the cam- paign. * x % % Henry L. Stoddard has now published the fact that he was authorized by former President Coolidge less than a month ago to declare to the country that Mr. Coolidge would not again ac- cept public office and that he was and would not be a candidate for the presi- dency in 1936. Mr. Coolidge, having made up his mind, was not a man to be shaken from his purpose. In 1928 he might easily have been the nominee of his party for re-election. Indeed, had he not issued the famous “I do not c to run” statement undoubtedly he would have been renominated and re-elected. Republican leaders in all perts of the country were rallying to the Coolidge standard at the time. It was insisted that he would not in an; sense of the word be a “third term” President, since he had merely taken charge of the administration half way through the Harding term of office. But having made his announcement that he did not choose to run, his friends could not shake the attitude of the then President. Probably they could not have done so in 1936 had Mr. Coolidge lived. * x % x In 1936 the Republicans will again turn to Herbert Hoover or they will select as their standard bearer a candi- daté who is yet to be brought forward. The Hoover people in the G. O. P. are biding their time. They believe that there will be a reaction in favor of Mr. Hoover as the months pass. What Mr. Hoover himself will have to say about the matter is another thing. Probably he will m{ nothing, for no man can possibly tell what the next few years will bring forth. Already, and even more strongly since the death of Mr. Coolidge, there is talk of Representa- tive-elect James W. Wadsworth of New York, former Senator, as a new leader for the Republican party and its presi- dential candidate when the time rolls round. * X % x It is easily conceivable that the eighteenth amendment will have been repealed by 1936. It would be difficult t;)dag to tpi::x imtsmusl"i’;‘m would stand out against repeal Congress should immediately submit a new amendment to the Constitution killing the prohibition amendment. Once the eighteenth amendment has been elimi- nated from the Constitution, it is not likely that a serious attempt to repeat the national prohibition experiment can or will be undertaken for some years to come. Mr. Wadsworth was an offering on the sacrificial altar of national pro- hibition. In 1926 he stepped boldly forward as an opponent of the eight- eenth amendment when he was a can- didate for re-election to the Senate. Whereupon the ardent drys in New York put up an independent Republic- an candidate and took from Wadsworth enough votes to throw the election to his Democratic ent, Senator Wag- ner. * With prohibition as a national issue removed, Mr. Wadsworth may easily become an outstan leader ‘of the Republicans. He was highly re- garded when he was & member of the Senate, both for his courage and his ability and wisdom. In those days his colleagues talked of him as a probable presidential possibility. But when in 1926 he went down to defeat, it looked as though he would never stage a come- back politically. The great reversal of public sentiment on the prohibition question, however, in-the last eight years has changed the situation ab- solutely. * ok % Mr. Wadsworth, still a wet, will enter the House when the new Congress meets. It is expected that through sheer ability he will be an outstanding figure in that body. Two years hence he may become Republican candidate for - ernor of New York, or he may seek the Senate seat now held by Senator Cope- land. As a rule, the office of Governor of New York has been a successful step- ping stone to the presidential nomina- tion. The last two Governors of New York, both Democrats, were nominated for President by their party. Chief Justice Hughes, who had been Governor of the Empire State, was the Republican nominee in 1916, and the late Col. Theodore Roosevelt went from the Gov- ernor’s chair in Albany to Vice Presi- dent and to the- White House. Many former Governors have become presi- dential candidates and few Senators have had that honor. * ok k% Mr. Wadsworth is in his fifty-sixth year. He hails from up-State New York, as distinguished from New York City. It is the hope of many New York Republicans that Mr. Wadsworth will play a prominent part in the Republi- can State organization; perhaps step into the leadership. The party has been at sixes and sevens, needing strong leader.hip. One criticism made of him when he was in the Senate lay in the fact that he did not give enough at- tention to the party leadership in the State, that he gave his attention to natjonal affairs rather than to those of New York State. Mr. Wadsworth can- not by the widest stretch of imagination called a “progressive.” However, many of the progressive Republicans from the West who served in the Sen- ate with Mr. Wadsworth had a real admiration for him. In another four years the country may be looking for a not too radical candidate for President. And certainly Mr. Wadsworth is no more conservative than Calvin Coolidge was. * x o x Mr. Wadsworth is by no means the only Republican whose name is being mentioned in connection with national leadership. Ogden Mills, also of New York, at present Secretary of the Treasury and rated one of the ablest men in the Hoover cabinet, is fre- quently mentioned in this connection. Mr. Mills was at one time a member of the House and a candidate for Gov- ernor of New York against Al Smith, in 1926. The progressive wing of the Republican party will put forward can- didates of its own, probably more than st | one, for the progressives wear no man’s collar. Just to whom the progressives will turn is a question. Senator Norris of Nebraska, who is over 70 years of age, is not likely to enter the list. Senator Hiram Johnson had his fling a number of years ago. Senator “Bob” La Follette 0f Wisconsin stands out among the younger progressive Repub- licans. He has to run the gantlet of * x % % . Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland | probabl would be an asset to-the Roosevelt ad- ministration if he could be persuaded to accept a cabinet post. Whether he will be invited to enter the cabinet or whether he has already been so in- | vited remains to be seen. It is a fact, however, that his presence in the cabi- net would be viewed with pleasure by well as the more conservative brand. Senator DIl of Washington, an ardent Roosevelt man early in the pre-con- vention campaign and a leader among the proguasivu, is one of those who looks with favor on the Maryland Gov- ernor, for example. Gov. Ritchie would doubtless fill any one of a number of cabinet -, from State to Commerce. Whether he would accept such a post his do nop profess B e E i o he would eans ‘What do you nteod wm; Is there some point about your ess_or - sonal life that puzzles you? Is tg:e something you want to know without delay? Submit your question to Fred- eric J. Haskin, director of our Washing: ton Information Bureau. He is em ployed to help you. Address your in- quiry to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J, Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C., and inclose three cents in coih or stamps for return postage. Do not use post . Q. How old is the game of Jacrosse? A Lacrosse of today was baggataway on the North tinent. The Canadian Indians originated it cen- turies ago and called it taway. In later years when the French-Canad- lans saw it played they referred to it as “Ia crosse” because the netted stick that was used resembled a bishop's crozier. The name has lingered. . What salvage ship is recovering tha'go‘l;d {;""‘ the sunken ship Egypt? A. The fourth cargo of gold from the sunken Egypt was recently depos- ited at Plymouth, England. The work has been done by the salvage ship Ar- tiglio II, in command of Capt. G. Quaglia. Q. called a deck of cards?>—B. W. A. The origin of the term is ob- scure. The word is from the Anglo- Y | Saxon “theccan,” meaning a cover, and the earliest recorded use in application to playing cards is in 1593, Shake- speare’s “Henry VI.” d Q. Where is the land which was given to Gen. Lafayette in appreciation of his aid during the Revolutionary ‘War?—G. M. 8. A. The land granted to Gen. Lafay- ette is in Florida. All of township 1 north, range 1 east, containing 23,028.50 acres, was granted by Congress to Gen. Lafayette December 28, 1824, and title passed to him July 4, 1825. It was sold by order of Gen. Layfayette many years since and it is now owned by a great many different persons. Q. How many people are employed by the United States Senate?—M. C. A. About 800. Some of these work in the Capitol Building and some work in the Senate Office Building. The sec- retaries and stenographers are appoint- ed by the individual Senators. Other employes are generally appointed mrrg;gn patronage of the majority party. Q. Is there danger in manufactur- ing an invention while the application for patent is pending?—L. J. K. A. The principal damger in manu- facturing an invention while a patent application is pending.is that one may become involved in an interference procedure. Q. What is the name of the Chinese woman who is known as Long John Silver’—H. E. K. A. She is Lai Chol San, & woman pirate, who i8 said to operate 13 pi- rate ships. Q. What is the Pederal Council of Churches?—H. F. A. The Pederal Council of Churches of Christ-in America was originated at Philadelphia, 1908. Thirty denomina- of yesterday—the oldest game played | American Conf When was a pack of cards first| ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. tions united for the purpose - e e e & % resul 1o €0 slone; o A B e into service for Christ in the 'A:fi:l: large; to encourage devotional fellow- ship ‘and mutual counsel, and to se. cure a larger combined interest for the thurches of Christ in all matters af. fecting the moral and social condition of augopu. The headquarters is 105 t!:"t.t‘yt enty-second street, New York Q. How many people now live in the country where ancient Babylonia was situated?>—E. H. H. A. Iraq is the modern Arab king- dom, which occupies approximately the region of ancient Babylonia. It has an area of 143,240 square miles and & pop- ulation approximately 8,000,000, Q. I am interested in the correct use of the title, “lady."—S. K. A. Armiger's “Titles” says that the title “lady” is held by all peeresses under the rank of duchess, by all d:u'g‘l:nera of the tgre:, hé\f.m ranks of the peerage, an wives. of banonets and knights. Q. When was the Army War Col- lege established?—J. H. M. A. It was established in November, 1901. The objects of the War College are the direction and co-ordination of military education in the Army and in civil schools and colleges at which of- ficers of the Army are detailed under acts of Congress, and the extension of opportunities for investigation and study in the militia of the United States; to provide facilities for and to promote advanced study of military subjects and to formulate the opinions of the college body on the subjects l;udé:g for the information of the chief of staff, Q. What is the Ohio idea?—E. B. A. From 1868 to 1876 the Democratic party's demand for paper money and the taxation of Government bonds was S0 insistent that the inflation move- ment was comme known as the ©Ohio idea. Q. Please give the dates of the open~ ing of some of the large chain-store systems.—L. A. The first of the existing chaine store systems appears to have béen the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., which was founded in 1858. The Jones Brothers Tea Co. was established 1872, Woolworth's Five and Stores in 1879, James Chain G 1885, C. Penney Stores in 1902 and the United Drug Co. in 1902. Q. Where did the custom of tipping originate?—H. A. C. A. It originated in a coffee house lnmmndm%. xfx"nm'e“m there was a which patrons desiring spe- clal service put a certain amount of money. On the box were the words “To Insure Prompt Service” The initial letters of this phrase developed into the noun “tips.” . Q. What is an empirical formula— A"t is & chemical formula express- ing merely the results of a quantita- tive analysis. Popular discussions of the world’s nations toward the gold standard as point where new suggestions, such as modities, receive unprecedented atten- tion. The idea of & uniform standard based upon electrical energy Was put forward by Dr. John Pease Norton, the Advancement of Science. It would employ certificates of 40-kilowatt\hours as standards of value. The discussion at_present is largely academic. “The electric dollar, in the long run.” uously circulating.” mf‘Dn ll%onon'n 40-kilowatt hour meas- ure of vaiue,” in the opinion of the New York World-Telegram, “seems to have enough kinship with the ‘calorie’ idea of family dlspuv.e&—firidg of authorship being what it stil however, in discussion and even in quarrels that will open the popular mind to new realization of the arti- ficial nature of money, as & measure of value—thereby helping to cut new pathways through densities of the older, outgrown economics. But when the Smithsonian _Institution promises to show the scientists a method of more than doubling the rate at which grow- ing wheat stores up food energy we feel, somehow, slightly off the track of present need. The man who ‘makes two blades of grass or wheat grow where only one grew before’ is not quite the fine fellow he was in Dean Swift's time—not for a present civili- zation, whose chief difficulty is that its mill won't grind because it is so choked with corn. First ‘electrify’ the dollars, galvanize trade, get the food that already cxists in plenty to the millions who desperately need it and would be only too glad to work for it. Doubling processes applied to pro- duction can wait quite a while. The mere sugegstion makes a sick world sicker still.” “If as much mental effort were ex- pended in eliminating artificial barriers to the smooth worl standard as is now t on devising Journal of Commerce states: “Now thal of rapid increase in the world monetary gold supply of the past year or so, there are two basic reasons for advocal new standards of value. The first an most important is that the in- troduction of a large quantity of some didate for Gotvernor of Maryland again, or, failing that, that he might enter the Senate. That he could be renomi. nated for Governor or nominated for gold supply and the attitude of various | future Sechnocracy to produce some enlivening | f of the gold| spen 1 fanciful substitutes for it,” contends the New York Journal of Commerce, “the| menting on the general subject, the t the gold shortage myth has been gen- erally abandoned, especially in the fzce - Electric Dollar and Barter Enliven Currency Debates tary standard is the desire for in of a basis of money have reached the|is that of the electric dollar and the use | 25 of old-fashioned barter in many com- | peen Dot readily i of trarsmis- overdeveloped in Ivl.llh! mbee.dm'!hc a £ Slon lines 1o others, ars economist, before the Association for | th many who have turned recently to monetary an lvog:flnn ve kind deserve a good deal consideration.” References to the quantity and quality of the kilo- is. We see good, | Perl dgp{ent:‘::' trying to ute for 1d dol- lar, Dr. Norton has thought gll, some- that all the others have missed, Contrary to popular belfef,” declares the Yakima Daily Republic, “this coun- try is not suffering from a shortage of money, of which thare is just as great & supply as ever. There is, in fact, & greater supply of money than can be safely put to work; that is the real trouble. No one knows today where he can invest & dollar and be assured of two necessary factors—reasonable cer- tainty of refurn and a profit on the investment. The fact that the Govern- ment can still borrow at ridiculously low rates is proof that the money of a:‘ country has not vanished. It is idle t,uf:l&h ‘That cmdi:{mn cannot be over- come by S0m. and callin mtgn:y lwhen : ht n:.t." % . velopment of rter as an al business is observed by the Bpfln“%.‘): (Mass.) Republican with reports of bar-~ ter exchanges, “some with large_operations,” and located “ Iy finished my tured £00ds of the cities, without he see of e k‘: ct}:' g:uu form. Already in y the scrip or credit money Issued by the mi t of the barter <@ use there are no jobs for it to -