Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1933, Page 8

o’ A5 THE EVEXNING S S ——_ i i VA R— ———_—_—e— e i i i i ihi—i— THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY.......January 13, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company | Business Office: 11th_St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Ofice: 110 Bast 42nd Et Chicago Office: Lake Michizan Bullding. Earopean Offce: 14 Regent St.. London. Tosland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. | Ihe Evening Star ... ... 45cver month v r Wifi:;":“éu;’éayit‘."d” S 80e per month | The Evening and Sunday Star ,tw)éendb ssun 8Y8).en oo ns es=t=;r!;n::,\‘t‘=w he Sunday Star (] Collection made at the end of each month | rders ma> be sent in by mail or telephone | [Ational 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. 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Wzish has s=id: The century hes been hailed by many as the greatest in the history of hu- manity. the recent chang2 in estimation of the Middle Ages than this. No phase of human achievement in the intellectual ond artistic side of man is lacking in this age; products that surpess all others. 2inting and sculpture, in architecture, n the minor arts end crafts, in liter- ature, in Dhflosafhy. in education, in social work, even in the building of hos- many are represented by | - pitals and the care of the ailing, and most surprising of all in medical educa- tion end curgery, there was a wonde ful acccmplisk; t at this time, the history ef which was concesled from us until comparatively recent years by an | exaggaration of interest in classical an- tiquity and in the Renaissance. Friday the thirteenth occurs once or twice in any normal year, and the date | has no particularly tragic implication in the ann>ls of our times, An Emergency Appeal. It is fortunate that the President's| special me-sage to Ccngress on me; urgent need for revision of the bank- ruptey laws finds a Congrc&s‘ mere or less in complete agreement With him £s to the desirability cf .ae reforms for which he pieads. Housz l-acers arc reported to be ready to whip into shape a combination of measures by Repre- gentative McKcown of Oklahoma and Representative La Guardia of New York | that would bring about the relief sought | by the President. Senator Hastings of | Delaware is prepared to sponsor the measure in the Senate. These three members of Congress served together on a joint committee which studied the bankruptcy law changes recom- mended last year by the President, and | which have been urged both by the| President, and by the Attorney General. | Solicitor General ThacNer has devoted | considerable research, as a Federal judge | and later as solicitor general, to the | subject and his advice has already been | sought by the legislators. | The amendments to the bankruptcy laws propored by the President, and embodied in pending bills, are relatively simpls in purpace, but promise to end s serious condition that has beceme one of the inevitatle accompaniments ,of this period of forced liquidation. Foreclosure and bankruptcy sale of the assets of individuels and corporaic debtors, the President points out, “who through no fault of their own are un- able in the present emergency to pro- vide for the payment of their debts in the ordinary course as they mature, is. uiterly destructive of the interest of debtors and creditors alike, and if this process is allowed to teke its usual course misery will be suffered by ousands without substantial gain to their creditors, who insist upon liqui- dation and foreclosures in tiic vain hope of collecting their claims.” The principle emBodied in the pro- posed amendments to the bankruptcy laws is that individuals or corporations could anticipate bankruptcy by the filing of & petition in a Federal court, Tnaming creditors and assets and propos- ing a plan of financial reorganization. A majority of the creditors could ap- prove the plan, and with this approval and that of the court the plan would become a court order and carried out under the court's protection. The court order would carry with it none of the stigma associated with bankruptcy, and ‘would doubtless be successful in prevent- ing what otherwise would be inevitable bankfuptcy. While majorities of debtors and ereditors may be willing to make settle- ments and reorganizztions today and to avold threatened bankruptey, their efforts in this direction are often frustrated ‘by minorities who hold up the threat of bankruptcy and insist on bankruptcy in the thought- that it will hasten settlement of their claims, and when benkruptcy becomes inevitable there is in some cases a deliberate “milking” or wastage of assets in ad- vance of forced sale or receivership. Buch evils have been dealt with already by Canada and Great Britain, mainly along lines proposed by the President and incorporated in pending legislation. —_————— John Philip Sousa is now established &5 a composer of classics. His melodies are rewritten and issued without re-! straint or apology. ——————— Friday, the Thirteent. A senseless connotation of disaster and sorrow attaches to Friday, and to the thirteenth day of a calendar month, Especially when it happens that Friday is the thirteenth are prophecles of tragedy broadcast. And yet it is per- fectly obvious that the mnotion is only & superstition, utterly lacking in basis in histerical truth. Our world, certainly; is full of trou- ble; it always has been and presum- ably it always will be. But Friday is no more unlucky than any other ar- bitrary division of the week, and the| thirteenth is no more unfortunate than | any other date. Folklorists trace the evil reputation of Friday to its dedication to the god- dess Freya, the northern Venus, whose festival it was in very ancient times. The {ll luck which still is ascribéd to | projects or journeys undertaken on Fridey derives from the custom of celebrating her riles on that day lnd‘ the belief that her honor was disre-| garded by ell who, instead of partici- | pating in her festive worship, followed | their own pursuits and attended ¢o| their private business. On those who ignored her Freya was supposed to visit 111 fortune. The superstition remained after the explanation had been for- gotten. In Christian ideology, Friday, of course, is set apart as the day upon which Christ was crucified. But since that day was accidentally chosen, no inherent disgrace distinguishes it. Primitive peoples in different sections of the earth fear Tuesday, Thursday Saturdey; those commonly consid- dreading “Blue Monday.” afflicted the race since men began to keep reliable recorés and not: how | {ew of them can b2 said to have chanced to tak> place cn supposedly uniucky | dates. There are no authentic Dizs Mali, cxcept as people stesped in anthropo- | morphiz superstition imagine tham. Our days ere largely what we meke | 2stiny, no 1z of Kismet, to dictate to mankind. En- | slaved to other foolish notions human- | ity may be, but there is no compulsion to the fetichism of accidents of the calendar. R Japan Presses On. In a temperature of forty below zero and over frozen ground that facilitates the transport of her heavy nrtule'ry,| tanks and other mobile forces, Japan | proceeds to “round out” the borders of | Manchukuo by solidifying her military | position in the Province of Jehol. Since the occupation of Shanhaikwan cn New Year day and this week’s capture of the | Chumen Gate in the Great Wall, ten miles distant from Shanhaikwan, there appears to have been no fighting worthy of the name between Japanese and Chinese forces. The seizure of the Chumen Gate was described at the State Department yes- terday by Ambassador Debuchi as “a small affair made necessary to protect the position of the Japanese at Shan- haikwan.” Asked whether Japanese troops are preparing to absorb all Jehol at this time, Mr, Debuchi said that de- pended on the activities of Marshal Chang Hsiao-liang, Chiness military commander in the north, and the mili- tary forces China might send into the area. In other words, there will be no war in Jehol if Japan is allowed to take the province without molestation. | Chinese spokesmen, ever since the Great Wall was penetrated, have signaled stout resistance to an invasion of Jehol. Canton's expressed readiness to join wholeheartedly with Nanking in resisting Japan's further pretensions lends credence to reports that an “all- China” front would be presented against the aggressor. Events at Shanghai a year ago recall to the world that the Chinese, properly led and adequately equipped, could indeed offer a defense of respect-compelling vigor ‘in the north. But it is patent that sooner or later it would crumble in the face of the vastly greater power Japan could and would hurl against it. Meantime the latest news from Geneva is that the League of Nations is about to throw up its hands in the Far East- ern mess. The “Conciliation Commit- tes of Nineteen” is scheduled to resume its sessions on January 16, but only for the purpose, it is reported, of winding up its abortive activities with a reso- lution which will neither condemn Japan nor identify itself with the Hoover-Stimson doctrine of non-recog- nition of Manchukuo. Any action short of definite condemnation would obviate the possibility of subjecting the Japa- nese to the sanctions penalties of Article XVI of the covenant. Such a denouement would be tantamount to Japan's complete victory at Geneva, at the end of sixteen months of adroit fencing to escape conviction before that bar of world opinion, and enable her to remain & member in good standing of the League. Geneva dispatches picture the League powers as remonstrating over the “un- certainty” s the United States’ atti- tude and hinting that it deters them from adopting a firmer policy, espe- clally in the form of outlawing aggres- sions committed in violation of treatles and covenants. There is talg of the “lack of American initiative.” That is another way of saying that Geneva would like this country to pull the League's chestnuts out of the fire. ‘The fact is that the solitary “initia- | tive” taken in the whole Mapchurian business is of American origin, namely, the non-recognition doctrine, to which the League Assembly last March feebly essented. If finis were to be written today to the sorry history of the Sino-Japanese episode, it wouid be the Tcague of Nations, not the United States, which posterity would blame for as bungling, timorous and cynical an exhibtion of statesmanship as contemporary man- kind has ever witnessed. r———— No plan for disarmament has been devised that promises to keep the un- derworld from laying in an unlimited supply of machine guns, i i Future Inaugural Preparations. With the proposed twentieth amend- ment to the Constitution already rati- fled by twenty State Legislatures and others approving it from day to day, it is practically certain®that it will be- come & part of the supreme law of the land within a few_weeks. This will assure that the inauguration of the | President who is elected in November, | 1936, will take place on Wednesday, January 20, 1937, instead of Thurs- day, March 4, of that year. That will mean that the work of preparing for the inauguration of the Chief Executive must be performed within seventy-nine every day in the week is held to be un- Jucky in one place or another. Actu- ally, it is all nonsense. ‘There are many alleged the bed repute of the :;‘3.’-. days from election instead of the one hundred and seventeen days which the Committee now has for the LTRARES Nothing shows more clearly | In | Name the | more important disasters which have | this present occasion the preparatory period is the shortest possible under the existing law, the election occurring on the latest possible date, November 18, With election day falling on the 24 of November, one hundred and twenty- four days are available. Under the new schedule the lcngest possible period is eighty days. | Orgenization of an inaugural commit- | | tee cannot, of course, be perfected until | after the election, although each candi- | dat2 for the office may be prepared mi | advance of the balloting for immediate | anncuncement of his seletion cf chair- | man in case of his election. Bu: with | the utmost promptness in organization, the inauguration committee will, under the new dispensation, be faced with a | heavy task. Survey of the activities of the present | Inzugural Committee, which began to | function soon after the balloting on November 8, discloses the weight of the burden which will rest upon the shcul- | ders of the men and women of the in- | TAR, WASHINGTON, B, €, BRRIDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ! ‘What is it which makes some persons practically free from the common cold? These bodies might have come down ‘ln the germ plasm generation after These co.deree men and women are | generation, having been built up cen- a study, one to which medical science might turn. | turies ago by a race that conquered | colds, How these anti-bodies were Everybody/ knows one or more of transmitted to just this one person, cen- these happy people. They do rot look any healthier than other persons, most of whom suffer one or more times every Winter from a | cold, grip or influsnza. Mostly the person practically immune to the common cold practices no par- ticular hygicne to ward it off. H> doesn’t have to. Very few of these fortunate ones have any idea what it is they do or do not do which keeps them free from sneezes and sniffles. . In fact, many of them are frequent sneezers. 2 A sneeze, much. It is here that many persons who are afraid of colds, and tend to run from With them, means nothing | turies later, and to none other, would | prove another of the unsolved mysteries of science. Yet here the man stands, free from | colcs, although he violates most of the so-called rules of hygiene, and does not know enough about the remainder to know whether or not he follows them. Nor, indeed, has he any interest in any of them, either to observe them | or to break them. His comparative freedom from colds | most often fails to impress him in any | way, for he is quite used to it, and | what a man is used to mostly fails to interest him to any great degree. | In many cases he rather prices him- | self upon being ignorant of all things | medical or pseudo-medical. He loftily | augural committees of the future under | sneezes, make a mistake, for there |says, it he can be induced to eay any. | the new schedule. They will, of course, | Seems to be no danger te be anticipated | thing, that he leaves such matters to ' have the tenefit of the exp:rience of | | the groups that have preceded them and | they will satisfactorily meke full pro- | | vision for the event. They will have | | the advantage of speedier ccmmunica- | | tions than in the past. No elaborate structural works requiring a longer | period than the new schecule affords | are necessary. The amendment of the schedule will not in any manner lessen | the likelihood of a completion of all the | duties which fall upen the inaugural | workers. e If it gots the family money, a wail from the Reynolds baby, now in a Philadeirhia hospital, will reprssent more income than the most popular effort of a radio songstress; a fact that : renews attention to the adage to the effect that it is better io be lucky than | clever. | ————————— | By assigning the task of working out | a plan for liquor control in New York | State to former Gov. Alfred Smith,| the happy warrior will have something | to fight, even though congressional de- lay may cause it to lock.a little like a punching bag. ————————_ ‘The changes that come as time passes are again recalled by the great Chinese | wall, which long ago ceased to be in| a landmark for the purpose of measure- | ment$ in military calculations. | e | Gurgeson to think it would be easy to | pass himself off in this country as a | prince simply by assuming a lofty man- ner and keeping his trousers pressed. e There is no doubt that there is an abundance of work to be done in po- | litical reorganization, This is one| branch of ingustry in which a machine | age does not create any lessening of demand for work. R The underworld financier Volps has been ordered to go back from Chicago to Italy, where he can be of little use as a promoter. Her neighbor Greece may perhaps be considered more fortunate in getting Insull. To many Democrats who see the | lights of possible offictal appointment glittering in the distance the 4th of | next March looks like & bigger day | than Christmas. Y e ‘The story of Ivar Kreuger is a re- | minder of the speech in an old play “a financier is a pawn broker with im- agination.” The match king pledged life itself to his fanciful ideas. e Bales tax differs in one important re- spect from direct income tax. Once paid there is very little possibility of getting & refund. A little energy seems necessary to | continue shaking up the beer legislation in order to keep it from going flat. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Tip. “I'll bet we're goin’ to get along” Said Hezekiah Bings, “In spite of apprehension strong, Concerning various things. 8o if your fortunes chance to slip And hopes are growing thin, T'll offer you a little tip. That certainly will win. ‘The birds have not forgot their song, Each year its harvest, brings; T'll bet we're goin’ to get along,” Said Hezekiah Bings. Law of Self-Preservation. “What are you going to do about the | tarifr?” | “I haven't decided,” answered Senator Sorghum. | “Aren’'t you going to make any speeches?” “I'll express myself. But I'll be cau- tious. My entire career may be influ- enced by & few wofds. What I have to consider is what the tariff may do about me.” { Jud Tunkins says he wonders if some of those “ghost writers” didn't originate in what's called “the graveyard of po- litical ambition.” Daily Homicide List. ‘Warlike impulse let us smother. Facts reveal, when analyzed, Folks keep killing one another Without being organized. A Dry. “Are you a wet or & dry?” asked the offhand interviewer. “Financially speaking,” sald Mr. Dus- tin Stax, “I'm & dry. I've had more trouble than I can manage with water in stocks.” “Men seek to save themselves the trouble of thinking out problems of government,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown; “and yet they laboriously count the small change in the shops,” ‘When Japanese Were Jolly. How dear were those Gilbertlan days ‘When “The Mikado” told In many a quaintly flippant phrase ©Of his adventures bold. His Japanese would take their ease ‘When anything went wrong, And-told, while striving still to please, ‘Their sorrows in a song. from the flying spray from thelr nosss and throals, &5 unplegsant as it may be from an esthetic standpoint. With som> men this is a sort of inherited tendency. One +well known Washingtonian sneezcs every time he comes out of a building into bright sunshine. He rarely suffers from a cold, but cannot walk 50 feet in the sun without the friend afraid of colds, terrifying manner. It s noticed that many persons al- most free from catching colds are of a thin build, almost to the point .of frailness. Is there anything to be surmised from this? Not much, the think. No® every thin man is free from colds. by any means, nor every fat one infected with them. Here again generalities, always 80 dangerous, are worse than nothing. t must be something more than weight, after all, for cne may happen to know a typical jolly fat man who is no more prone to catch a cold than his neighbor, if as much. Let us look for a moment at the dally habits of one of these’ cold-free per- sons. Consider the strange case of Mr: A. He is a typical American citizen, lay oberver may citizen likes. Commonly he stays up every night radio. % During the day he smokes inces- santly, using two of the three popular forms—the cigar and the pipe. He wonder that he does not. It just seems l;:b1 be accidental that he does not smoke them, If we go to lunch with him we dis- developed. He eats nelther as a technologist nor as a scientist. He eats because food tastes good. Perhaps he eats two or three times as much as he cught to, Jjudged as & sentient being. He may felicitate him:elf on his ability to keep free from colds, when all the time he knows nothing at all about it, arrogating to himself a knowledge which he does not possess. We may wonder ju:t what a medical man would meke of him, if anything. Once upon a time there was a “class” fcrmed of persons who were submitted to certain types of food experiments, Something of the same sort of thing might be done with a grcup of these apparently cold-free human beings in an effort to determine what it is that “makes them that way.” It might be found, for instance, that they poscess certain anti-bodies, or something or other, which incessantly work to keep them free from colds. the physician. | The physician, in all likelihood, | would wish that he didn't, would show an intelligent interest in | health, and not wait until disease | strikes him. For the interesting thing is that this ‘same man who is abnormally free from |colds and similar allments may be a | victim of any one or more of & num- | sneezing in a most resounding. and., 10| per of other disorders. Or is he? Here again only intelligent observa- tion, on a scientific scale, could ac- tually settle the question. It is no small one. Do the apparent anti-todies, the pro- tective elements in his system, as the layman believes, serve to protect him from other diseases, too? Can such elements be isolated, named, and then be introcuced into the blood streams of persons who need them? This gets dangerously near to the subject of vitamins, but here it is nec- essary to mention again the plain fact that most of the cold-free persons are ruthlessly uninterested in vitamins or any other health factors, and that, for the most part, they do not observe the laws of hygiene any more than any one else. In fact, as previously stated, many of them would be regarded by the average lay observer as persons who are in fact unhealthy, with the | | |liking ‘the things which the typical|one exception of being free from the | common cold. | Here egain it would be dangerous to | until midnight or after listening to his |rush into the belief that this lack of Jntelligent curiosity on the part of such |persons is a victory for common sense, or the basic idea that one is better off if he does not concern himself with any sense & barrier and became only | does not smcke cigarettes, but it is a | his own health. This queer idea, once very popular, | has received some solid shots during re- | cent years, not only from the medical | profession itself, but also from certain Certain fictions concerning modern | cover that he is totally ignorant of | famous writers, who have pointed out royalty may have encouraged Harry |micdern food sclence as it has been |in popular style the Cesirability of every one knowing a few elemental | points about the physical body. Thousands of years ago the Psalm- | ist wondered over the mysterious con- | struction of the body. Today the | hardiest scientists, confronted with the | everyday mystery of the so-called “sta- | ble states” of the body, wonder no less devoutly than he. Perhaps there is one hyglenic factor, long disregarded, which the average cold-free persons—we almost had called { him the normal cold-frez person—in- | corporates into his daily life habits. It may be that it is some simple thing so apparent to all that no one at all has ever noticed it! Such strange things have happened, | and might well happen here, for colds are so common and so easily disregard- ed by so many who possess the power to resist them, as they say, that we are all of us, doctors and patients alike, in danger of not being able to see the cold for the sneezes. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Mussolini told Rabbi Silver of Cleve- land one day this week that what America ngeds is a master,mind. With the Rome that is Washinfton burning in a dozen directions, while the scene swarms with fiddling Neros, there’s more truth than poetry in what Il Duce says, as far as the political situation | is concerned. Of :course, the Fascist chief means that what the United States needs is a good 10-cent cigar like him. The Mussolini brand of dic- tatorship is neither wanted nor required in Washington, but not in a long time has there been such a general craving or opportunity for leadership worthy of the name. If things congressional were ever at sixes and sevens, that moment is now. The budget-balancing problem is a mess. It's reached a point where one's afraid and the other daren’t. President Hoover essayed leadership in war debt matters, Government re- organization, economy and taxation. Congress will have none of it. Then came President-elect Roosevelt's maiden venture in Capitol Hill leadership, on budget affairs, and that was ship- wrecked. The Senate is tied in a knot by a filibuster on the banking bill. The two houses are at loggerheads over beer and repeal. Time marches on, but statesmen in charge of the United States Government refuse to keep step with it. * Pranklin D. Roosevelt after March 4 will be a man of many homes—no fewer than five, in fact, and probably more than any other President ever had. First, there’ll be the White House; then the ancestral country place at Hyde Park, N. Y.; then the town house | at 49 East Sixty-fifth street, in New York City, and finally the two vacation homes, at Campobello Island, Me., | where the President-elect was stricken 12 years ago, and at Warm Springs, Ga., site of the “Little White House.” If the Roosevelts decide to use the Hoover camp on the Rapidan, the new President’s various vines and fig trees will number an even half dozen. Rep- resentative-elect Utterback of Bangor, Me., has just visited Gov. Roosevelt in Manhattan, to urge him to spend his presidential Summers on Campobello Island. ; e Since his recent political intimacy with President-elect Roosevelt loosened his once tightly tied tongue, Col. Ed- ward M. House has revealed publicly, for the first time, his authorship of an anonymous political novel, written some 15 years ago. The book is entitled “Philip Dru, Administrator.” This ob- server once upon a time hit upon the cipher by which he convinced himself that Woodrow Wilson’s gumshoe artist was the writer of the book. In a cer- tain chapter the hero establishes his headquarters—he is the eommander in chief of the army bent on capturing Washington and setting up & new deal there—at & tavern called “Mandell House.” The colonel’s name is Edward Mandell House. His book is an imag- inative dip into the future and con- cerns a political movement that had to resort to military tactics to accom- plish its purpose. The incumbent regime at Washington, facing certain defeat, bowed to the inevitable and instituted sweeping governmental reforms. * ok kK If the sun is shining in Washington on March 4 smoked glasses will be the to the Kansas City Star, the 54 uni- forms required 15 miles of gold braid, 1,096 golden buttons and 250 yards of cloth. The swords used 270 pounds of metal and 80 persons found employ- ment in making up the uniforms. Each outfit cost $90.70, commred to $175 four years ago. The colonels | are going to show us. * ok ko One of Washington's foremost physi- cians is authority for this tale. A young Japanese resident in the National Capi- tal had to undergo an emergency opera- tion. He was on the operating table and the anaesthetic was about to be administered. Suddenly the patient sat up and sald: “Stop! I've got something to do.” The doctors and nurses, astounded, asked what it was. “I want to pray,” remarked the Japanese, quietly, and proceeded to do so. couple of minutes elapsed, and then he exclalmed: “I'm all ready now. I am Buddhist again.” He wanted to die (and did) with his conscience clear for having once renounced the faith of his fathers for Christianity. Coolidge anecdotes keep cropping up. Mrs. James W. Wadsworth (whowasonce is now the wife of the Representative- elect from the Rochester, N. Y., district) once hurried through a Washington dinner party to get over to a meeting at which President Coolidge was speak- ing. Meeting Calvin next day, she bub- bled: “Mr. President, I got there late, and had to wedge my way in, but I did it and stood up throughout your entire speech.” Quoth Cal: “So did I1.” * ok ok X ‘This didn’t get into the Congressional Record. On January 4, when Senator Carter Glass was celebrating his 75th birthday anniversary, Senator Borah en- tered the Senate, all primed to celiver a eulogy of the, veteran Virginian, only to find Senator Ashurst of Arizona on the floor, beating him to it. But that wasn't_the only reason, so the story goes, why Borah didn't deliver his panegyric, too. The low-down is that Borah's Idaho colleague, Senator John Thomas, also has his birthday on Janu- ary 4, and the foreign relations chair- man decided he couldn’t hurl bouquets at Glass without throwing some at ‘Thomas, so “Ole Man River, he didn't | say nuffin, he jest kept rollin’ along.” ko | Possibly with a view to making us | forget the circumstances under which her last military attache left Washing- ton, Germany's going to send & soldier of the rank of major general to the United States as her next a 0ob- | server. He is Maj. Gen. Priedrich von Boetticher (pronounced Bettiker), at resent commander of the artillery | schodl at Juterbog. During the war he | was_a general staff cap! in charge | of German railway operations in Bul- | garia. From 1922'to 1925 he was chief of the foreign armies section of the ministry of defense at Berlin, in which capacity he visited this country. He's an authority on the life and period of Frederick the Great, whose post-war restored statue Gen. von Boetticher will find shndm%'}n front of the Army War (later Chancelor) Fritz von Papen walking papers in 1917. (Copyright, 1933.) ————————— Treasure. Prom the San Antonio News. | Perhaps the gold discovered on Mount | Ararat is the pot at the end of the original rainbew. JANUARY that he | Alice Hay, daughter of John Hay, and | 13, 1933. Married Women and Federal Employment To the Editor of The Sta There was published in a recent issue of The Star a letter under the head- ing, “Should Govermment Hire Both Husdand and Wife,” Which was in fact & challenge of the right of women to be employed other than in a domestic capacity, whether in the Government service or elsewhere. The writer of that letter apparently allowed his knowledge of the legal phase to blind | him completely to other phases, such as economic, social and moral. | . Admitting that & man is required by law to support his wife and children, it wife should be denied the privilege of desires by engaging in some gainful occupation. The tone of the letter indicated a presumption on the part of the writer that women are women, that they are all alike and should be held well within the sphere of domestic activity, ignor- ing the fact that some of them might have an aversion to or an inaptitude for domestic work, and in fact might have inclinations and talents decidedly in other directions. But we must rec- ognize that the same modern concep- right to suffrage also has freed her from domestic slavery, and has given her more or less freedom as to choice of occupation. The reference made to the marriage vows indicates that the writer of that letter is better versed in law than in matrimony. Any one who has attended modern wedding ceremonies and lis- tened to the marriage vows knows that there is nothing expresced or implied which obligates a woman to devote her entire energies to domestic duties. On the contrary, she may engage in any | gainful occupation and delegate the household duties to a servant or some one else, without any violation what- ever of her marriag> vows. It cannct be denied that expcrience along busi- | ness lines helps to make a woman a | | better wife and mother for the reason | that such experience enables her to i!ympnthlbe with her husband and her | sons in their daily toil and also for the reason that it gives her a better realization of the value of money. With particular reference to positions in the government service: Is i fair to g:ohlhlt the employment of both hus- nd cnd wife when their combined salaries may be less than the salaries of some individual in the government service, or when they may have rela- tives dependent on them for support, and at the same time permit the em- ployment of any number of individuals, | other than husband and wife, -cf the same family? Why should married peo- ple be penalized? It may be well to re- call that some of our congressmen have employed their wives as secretaries. Why should such employment be lim- ited to the legislative branch of the government? It seems that civil serv- ice employes should not be discrimi- nated against. Is it fair to dismiss some women from the Government | service who happen to have husbands employed also by the Government, and to retain other women whose husbands are employed outside of the Govern- ment service? Why should people in the Government service be discriminated against and people outside the Govern- ment service be specially favored? It is a well known fact that some of the women in the Government service by reason of long experience along cer- tain lines or by reason of natural apti- tude for accuracy, neatness, etc., are better qualified than men for certain classes of work. Is it in the interest of economy to dispense with the serv- ices of such women for the simple rea- son that they happen to be married to Government employes? There are numbers of single women employed in the Government service who might be favorably inclined to matrimony. 1Is it a wise policy for the Government to discourage them along this line or to restrict their field of search for husbands, and is there any Jjustice in discriminatory measures which in this respect give to men out- side an advantage over those in th Government service? A WILLIAM HALL. Wave of Revulsion in The World Against War To the Editor of The Star: The question of economy and reduc- tion in armaments, will soon be up ?;!n before the Congress, the execu- ve branch of Government and the public for discussion and debate. Be- cause of the urgent necessity for dras- tic elimination of many capital ex- penditures in order that the budget may be balanced and the public credit mli:tamed, we must now treat this important question of military curtail- ment with more realism and less nar- row-minded patriotism than we have in the past. g disarmament,’ George Wi said that if every country were armed to the hilt, there would be fewer wars, because the countries would be afraid of one another and each would hence hesitate and ponder over unknown and possible risks be- fore becoming an aggressor nation. While there is some truth and reason in his statement, there is more truth in the common opinion that if all countries were disarmed, the period that would then be devoted to planning |and preparation for warlike activities | would be utilized by the pacifist and peace-loving forces, for arbitration. I still have enough faith in the man- kind of today to believe that its civili- zation is far enough advanced above the primitive stage of barbarism to be willing to make some conciliating sac- rifice to avold the destructive effects :é!dwu with its accompanying blood~ Many persons insist that human na- still, and always will, clamor for war as being the most satisfactory means of settling international disputes, It is easier to believe, however, that just as man is progressing in his physical environment, comforts, and culture, so is his estimation of human life increas- ing and brotherhood of man develop- ing. A wave of revulsion against the use of force as an instrument of na- tional policy has been sweeping across the world the past few years that is not very much unlike the present grow- ing rebellion against the domestic pro- hibition laws. It is growing in volume and intensity. Perhaps if the United States entered the League of Nations it would be suf- ficlently influential to persuade all its members — brother-members then — to disarm to a greater or less degree. It is my personal prediction that it could; and I believe the present controversy between Japan and China would have been settled last year if the United States had been a voting member and an active power in the League. Just what are the real objections of our statesmen to entering? I see nothing frightful in co-operation, but rather discern a better understanding and in- creased liking for our country by oth- ers that is certain to follow participa- tion. I J. WINER. e Spartan. From the Boston Transeript. With the salary of its mayor cut to $30,000 & year, New York City may be said to be entering upon dod of a Jeffersonian simplicity, me litan model. b Still Dusting. Prom the Loutsville Courler-Journal. ed cars mean porters have no dust to brush off, but that never has bothered George ———— Short Measure. From the Ind:ancpolis News, They are wearing gingham for bath- ing suits in Florida, but not much of it. | does not necessarily follow that the | contributing to that support if ghe so | tion which has given to women the | ture has never changed, and that men | rush ANSWER _l; FREDER the handling of inquiries. You have extensive organiza- name, and your address lose 3 cents in coin or stamps for reply. Do not use post cards. Send to the Washing- ton Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. Is & member of Congress who did not stand for re-election considered a lame duck during the last session of Congress?—S. W. J. question, your clearly, and inc! at election are known as lame ducks. Q. Is it within the law to make a copy of the face of a dollar bill, en- larging it to twice the size of the real bill?—D. K. A. The Secret Service says that Sec- tion 150 of the Federal penal code states that currency of the United States shall not be reproduced, re- gardless of size. Q. Are all countries divided into time zones such as those in the States?—S. A. B. the entire earth. Standard time has most cases reckoned from the meridian of Greenwich, England. silver?>—J. A. B. alloy, in the proportion of 925 as the standard of fineness of British silver coinage. Q. Does the Salvation Army send part of its collections to the parent organi- | zation?>—R. B. B. A. The central fund (that which is | associated ~with international head- quarters) is concerned with the whole world, for it bears the cost of the gen- eral oversight and management of the army, the ufikeep of the International ’menmi College, and provides finan- cial ce for misslonary work in non-Christian and other needy lands. This central fund is supported by a proportion of the net proceeds of the self-denial a donations, sub- scriptions and legacies, also by profits from lishing, life assurance and other auxillary undertakings (the funds of which are, however, quite dis- tinet from those of the Salvation Army). Q. What is the oldest United States postage stamp?—M. 8. A. United States stamps were first isued in 1847. The first United States postage stamp was a 5-cent stamp bear- ing the portrait of Pranklin. Q. To whom does this Persian proverb apply, “When the it prince Cellg» to live Persia ceased to gmspex"?-—L. 3 A. Shah Abbas, who lived st the time of Queen Elizabeth cf England. Q. Which President’s wife refused to have wine served at ths White House :,ndcwts nicknamed in consequence?— A.' Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, from 1877 to 1881, refuted to permit wine or | spirits to be served at Wiite House dinners or__receptions, . sul lemcnade. Mrs. Hayes was by some nicknamed “Lemondde Lucy.” Q. What is used for the founda- tion for chewing gum?—R. J. A. At first resinous exudations of the spruce, cherry, etc., were em- ployed in their native state, but with the increase of the habjt the spruce supply nearly failed, and recourse was had to othe ed. Of late years a , an elastic gum the naseberry, a tree flnéogl?d'ih of lm“:‘renmt Cal- in e lversal for his wmut:xy.l.m. national the country had heeded his advice the tfi:&:‘( the depression might have been al “In an orgy of wild speculation,” sa; the Meridian Star, “he ever wunul:’d’ caution. In a day of feverish material- ism he sounded a note of spiritual things. In a regime of folly he spoke the voice of wisdom. Amid extrava- gance he ever and always urged econo- erica.” town Vindicator believes that “had his coun- trymen in those years followed him in his simplicity and frugality, his pru- dence and modesty, the history of our country in the nine and a half years since he became President would “have been quite different.” The Schenectady Gazette asserts: “As time passes and the history of the 1920- 1929 era comes to be written with the aoper mpe;flmve u:be“\txenlquedposmon oceuy] pe T understood. ‘That period was perhaps the most hec- tic in the history of the Nation. Money was spent recklessly, publicly and pri- vately. Materialism was dominant. The old virtues of the American people had been })nctienlly Xor:otten in the mad or wealth and to enjoy the op- unities that followed naturally. ith all this about him, Calvin Coolidge retained his balance; he maintained his New England, especially Vermont, char- acteristics of thrift, of caution, of sim- plicity.” * X x % “The people liked his plainness his virtues,” emythe Co!um‘l:‘lfl (S. ©) Record, “even though they themselves in their mad scramble for wealth had apparently abandoned any Pretense to the simplicity and frugality that the Pfesident whom they supported typified. Coolidge as President did nothing officially to curb the boom ex- cesses, but in his private capacity and his private life he set an example, which had it been followed by more of those Wwho voted for him, would have greatly :;ienmul,:)l:d Ilzot.h the boom and the de- E ‘-!‘;‘Ll"-‘w" Was easier to praise than = great influence,” in the opinion of the- Lexington Leader, “was due to the simplicity of his character, which which clung to a detested all display, of thinking and a way of life re- moded moved as far as le fre - slon and ostentation, to m:n;fi:kfln_ Tect approach to every problem, and to a philosophy which was based upon a few fundamental principles of reasoning and conduct.” The Sioux Falls Daily Argus- Leader concludes: ‘The ideals of Cal- vin Coolidge are identical with those Which have been largely pesponsible for the remarkable progress of the Ameri- can Nation. A return to them now on en velopments that could take place.” The Jersey Oity Journal states that “his humble, Mt’ spirit % loved by many and respect by all,” Wwhile the Hartford Times thinks that mmt“mnmmlu-olnna:: influence toward American character.” The.Akron Bea- fitness con Journal lauds called him,” and adds: “In this hour of emergency, both public and private, we only know that the ruthless hand of councils one whose poise A Prom the Toledo Blade. Factor. This is a special department devoted any | most of the A. Only members who are defeated | United | A. Time zones do not extend over | been adopted in various countries—in Q. How much is the alloy in sterling A. Sterling silver 1is defined s uux S of silver to 75 parts of copper, legally fixed Coolidge as Figur Contrasted With S TO QUESTIONS 1C J. HASKIN. of 1 South Ameri mmwg the India rubber“. tree, has come to the front as the foundation of gum. Q. What precious stones are men. tioned in the Bible?—K. A. M. A. Precious stones in the Bible are: Diamond, beryl, sardius or sardine, to= . Onyx, jasper, sapphire, emerald, carbuncle, adamant, pearl, jacinth or hyacinth, te, amethyst, chalcedony, chrysolite, rase, ruby, sardonyx, ligure. Q. How old was the Empress BEue- genie when she died?—I. B. A. She was 94. She was born May 5, 1826, and died July 12, 1920, Q. Was passage paid for the Amer- ican Expedglomry Force in the World ‘War?—N. 8. A. Excepting for the few Army transports in service and the voluntary loan of one Brazilian ship for a time, passage was paid for the A. E. F. Gen. Teyton ¢. Mirch, wrting chist of staff, recently'said: “In the great troop move= ment abroad we carried 45 per cent of the men in our own (American flag) ships; British ships carried 49 per cent, French 2 per cent and Russian 1 per cent—and when I say carried I mean as paid passengers.” Q. What form of dress did Dr. Mary Walker wear?—J. McK. A. Dr. Mary Walker during her mili- tary service wore a uniform. After the war she became noted for her lectures on dress reform and suffrage, always appearing in a man’s suit, with frock ccat or full evening dress for men Q. How many stations broadcast the Pope's address at the time of the opene | ing of th> Vatican station?—D. A, W. " A. q.nde drstauo; (Hv.:t)hbrudcnlsn; m= ope’s 'ess during the opening o the Vatican station, and approximately 300 statioms. throughout the world re- broadcast rogram. ‘The Pope's broadcast was delivered in Latin. He “lfgn. the Itallan pronunciation in his 5 Q. What is the instrument on board ship which indicates the knots trave eled per hour?—E. D. H. A. Tt is called a log. Q. When were letters of exchange in-" troduced to take the place of the transe fer of actual money?—S, B. A. In the twelfth century p business change was wrought. by the substitution of symbolic transfer for actual trans- fer, by replacing real money with & re- ceipt which became a letter of ex- change. The Florentines and the Lom- bards were addicted to this kind of ‘commerce. The latter were the finan- ]ci:x;onhlkmnolmnumdm- Q. What is the “unpardonable sin”?—H. I. A A. The “unpardonable sin,” accords ing to Mark, 1ii29, is: “Whosoever shall blaspheme against Spirit hath never forgiveness, guilty of an eternal sin.’ Q. What are consols_which are is- sued by the United States Govern- ment?—G. M. K. A. The term “consols” used in ref- erence to government bonds is a con- traction for “consolidateds.” Consols represent a consolidated debt. At a given time there is‘a general refinanc- ing, and all previous issues are consoli- dated into one refunding issue. From then on the new bonds are termed ¢on- sols. United States consols were bore rowed to finance the government be- fore the Spanish War. These bonds are a consolidation of old issues. The fact that bonds are consols means that they represent no money borrowed at dnce, but over a period in the past. Q. What is the pay of a juryman in & Pederal court?—A. C. R. A. He receives $4 and is entitled to pay on each day he is asked to at- tend court, whether the case in which he is to sit is called or not. re. of Thrift its Atlanta Journal ‘was molded to the vir- “His tues of the tables of stone. Right was right to him, and wrong was wrong—a philosophy that simplifies things won- f | derfully and that often makes for ma- terial success as well as for the most accurate moral bookkeeping. For though it lack the warmth and winsomeness of a faith that will sit down with publi- trimmed. * * * How was it that this quiet American, who wore no plume and lifted no lance; who never courted the crowd and yet was its idol; who grew, one might almost say, popular without gopulmty and famous without fame— ow was it that he wrought such s miracle of politics? Sturdy abilities were his beyond question; practical judgment, tireless industry, resolute thrift, Plymouth Rock honesty and that rare gift of the discreet gods—capacity for saying nothing when there ia noth- ing to say. But of all the explanations his career, and of all the tributes to his worth, this, we think, strikes near- est home: ‘He believed in the old American copybook maxims’ He be- leved in them simply, utterly, sincerely. It was Calvin Coo{ldae himself who sald: ‘The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it. * * * If lack learning and virtue . * * * There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do_the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed. * * * The nation with the greatest moral power will win." If this be not the faith that moves moun- tains, it is certainly the creed for suce cess.” His standing as a “great American™ is attested by the Rutland {Vt.) Herald, the Cleveland News, the Uniontown (Pa.) Herald, the Buffalo Evening News, the osh Daily Northwestern, the New Castle (Pa.) News, the Lincoln State Journal and the Spokane Spokes- man-Review. The Boston pt feels that “he has seemied an ever- present influence in American life, & citizen asset of the highest value, & counselor of his fellow-men, to whom in time of emergency they might turn.” ‘The Rockford Register-Republic offers the tribute: “Something strong and fine seems gone from life with Calvin Coolidge dead. we know that this shy, undemonstrative man, entirely | locking in showmanship, was not only the strongest influence in our national life, but the most dramatic personality | of our day.” ) | * ok kW | His sympathy with the ordinary eiti. | zen is the theme o the Fort Werth Sta: ‘Telegram, the Baltimore Sun, th: Da ton D:}lllycflew-, t.l;.;. ‘g.n Antonio Ex- press, the Chieago News, the Rock Island Argus, the Haverhill Gazette, the ‘his amazing for the exalted station to which fate had | Danb death has removed from the Nation's | ton