Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1933, Page 8

{THE EVENING STA ‘With Sunday Merning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY......January 16, 1983 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company ‘Business Office: and Pennsylvanis Ave. st g ice: 110 East 42nd 8t ngland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Star 45c per month The Evening and Sunday Star when s B "7 PH7 soc ver montn nd Sunday Ster undays) . 65c per month The Sunday Star 5c per copy Collection made at the end of exch month ders may be sent In by mail or telephone Ational Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday 7., $10.00; 1 mo.. 85¢ Daily only yr. $6.00; 1mo.. 50c Sunday only . yr. $4.00: 1mo.. 40c All Other States and Canada. and Sunday...1yr.$12.00; 1 mo.. §1.00 v L1yr. $800: Imol. I1yr. $5.00; 1moll iy ailx only junday oniy . Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled | %0 the use for republication of all news dis- | tehes credited 1o it or not otherwise cred- | in this paper and also the local news published here:n. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved | - = The District Beer Bill. | ‘The hearings scheduled for tomorrow on the proposed bill regulating sale of | beer in the District—the hearings to be held by the Judiciary Subcommittee of the House District Committee— should be approached with certain fixed | principles of policy. | The District beer bill differs from the | national beer bill in that in respect to | the latter legislation the Democrats, or some of them, take the view that they are not bound by their party plat- form and by their leaders to commit- ments to prevent the return of the saloon, their commitment in this re- spect being that the question of the return of the saloon shall be left to the States. Their platform said: ‘We urge/ the enactment of such measures by the several States as will actually promote temperance, effec- tively prevent the return of the saloon and bring the liquor traffic into the open under complete supervision and eontrol of the saloon by the States. In the case of the District, Con- gress, as the District's State Legisla- | fure, will, of course, respond fully and | beartily to the invitation and appeal of | the platform of the majority party, and | will, as the Capital's local legislature, | effectively prevent the return of the sloon to the District. Since a Demo- eratic Congress as the District’s local IJegislature is pledged to prevent the re- turn of the saloon it will in good faith " me shape the pending local beer bill as surely to accomplish this result. It will not repeal the Sheppard prohibition law, which preceded national prohibi- #lon, without substituting & local liquor- trafic law which will at least be as drastic and effective in regulation of the liquor traffic as the licensing system which preceded the Sheppard lsw. It will not, as local legislature, merely repeal the Sheppard law and substitute a liquor-license system which, though pledged to prevent the return the saloon, facilitates return of a ting system. with far less effec- tive restriction upon the liquor traffic than prevailed under the local liquor law preceding the Sheppard law. It does not suffice to avoid the use of the word “saloon” if the places for the sale of liguor are multiplied and greatly exceed in number those existing in pre- prohibition days with far less restric- tions and regulation of such sales than under the high-license saloon system &t that time prevailing. The pending bill is subject to this | eriticism. Instead of preventing the return of the saloon, it licenses selling places of liquor with far less safeguards against the evils of the saloon system than were in force under the old high- license system. It is interesting and suggestive to re- | @all some of the regulations regarding sale of liquor in the District before the enactment on March 3, 1917, of the Sheppard la; and the liquor traffic in Wuhln(tonr three years before ratification of the eighteenth amendment. The Sheppard | law closed 267 saloons, including twenty- | two in hotels and nine in clubs, and eighty-nine wholesale establishments, ncluding four breweries. But the num- | ber had been steadily diminishing for several years previously because of the | gradual tightening of excise regulations. | In 1914, for instance, revenues from | license fees yielded the District $512,000. When the Sheppard act became effec- | tive, the yield had been reduced, by | gradual elimination of saloons, to $474,700. | Some of the regulations enforced by | the Board of Excise of the District, ‘which, by the way, originated in an act which defined intoxicating liquor as| that containing “more than two per- centum by weight of alcohol,” were that wholesalers paid annual license fees of $800 and retailers paid license fees of $1,500; no saloon could be located within 300 feet of “pl g places commonly | w1 “the trio responding together | ealled slums,” except by unanimous vote | of the excise board; ‘no saloon could be | placed within 400 feet of any public| school house, university, college or house of religious worship, No saloons could | be located at rallroad stations nor in *any residence portion of the District,” except for establishments which sold liquor in packages, not to be consumed on the premises. Not more than three | bar room licenses (except for hotels or | clubs) could be issued in any one block‘ on any one side of the street, and not more than four on both sides of the street. No saloon was permitted within & mile of Soldiers’ Home. Applicants Lae fcenses had to be twenty-one years @ sge, citizens of th- Thnited States, bona fide residents of the District not guilty of previous violation of liquor laws in the District and their character was investigated by the excise board. | Protestants against the granting of Heerses were entitied to full hearing. No liquor could be sold on Sunday, nor %o minors, and no hotel with less than 50 rooms for guests could be granted a Contrast these regulations with some of the regulations for sale of beer, ale, ete, of an ailowable alcoholic content, @s propased in the pending bill. In for sale of beer off the prem- no provision for licenses for ise s0c | |all the rest. In addition to the licemse, however, there is a local tax of $2.50 & barrel for all liquor sold in the District, ap- parently in addition to the Federal $5-a- barrel tax. Although beer to be con- sumed on the premises can be sold only at tables, and the license for such sale granted only to “bona fide restaurants, clubs, eating places or hotels,” there is no attempted definition of “bona fide” and the superintendent of licenses, who has sole power to grant licenses, has no discretionary powers in withholding them. The bill permits the location of | beer saloons, for such they would be, | anywhere in town. They could be open on Sunday. The old law prohibited the | sale of alcoholic drinks to minors. The | proposed law reduces the age limit from twenty-one to eighteen years, | formed bootlegger, an slien, a person | of criminal record or anybody else could obtain a license to operate & beer par- | lor, provided, as the conductor of an “eating place,” he furnished sandwiches 3’0' sale with it and sold it at a table. | Is this the sort of bill that would | respond in good faith to the pledge | against the return of the saloon? | If it is to be enacted at this time { prematurely it should be rewritten from | top to bottom, and, if possible, by those | whose knowledge of conditions in the saloon era has been gained from actual observation. e o King Pin in the Making. Passage by the House of the Jones farm bill and the possibility, as faint as it might appear now, that it will be passed by the Senate ought to make President-elect Roosevelt's choice of a Secretary of Agriculture one of the burning questions of the day. Com- pared with his choice of s Secretary of Agriculture, his choice of a Secre- tary of State, Secretary of the Treas- ury or Attorney General sppears trivial and unimportant, about as interesting now as the condition of the weather jon the Fourth of July four years hence. For, if the House farm bill should become law, there obviously must be a re-ranking of members of the cabinet. The Secretary of Agriculture will lead Matters of social prece- dence will in large measure be settled automatically, athough there will doubtless be some dispute over whether the Secretary of Agriculture should sit on a raised dais at social functions or merely wear an ermine robe and be- Jeweled crown. Certain it is that the Secretary of Agriculture will be the most powerful figure in the land, possessed of the authority for handing out negotiable Treasury certificates to the producers of wheat, butter-fat, rice, cotton, peanuts, tobacco and hogs who reduce, or say they have reduced, acreage or tonnage of hogs twenty per cent. And it will lle with the Secretary to proclaim the value of the certificates to be paid the farmers. He it will be who pos- sesses power unequaled by any other Government official in the matter of bonus distribution and tax levying. But more important still is the fact that he will be commender in chief of a new army of certificate-givers-out, the size of which will in time be numbered as were numbered the locusts of Egypt. Imakine his task! The census re- | ports, for the year 1930, that there are | in the United States: 3,535,119 farms raising hogs. 1,208,368 farms raising wheat. 1,986,726 farms raising cotton. 432,975 farms raising tobacco. 326,253 farms raising peanuts. 8946 farms raising rice. And goodness only knows how many farms producing butter fat. Not including butter fat-producing farms, these total something in excess of six and a half million farms. The farmers who run them will apply for certificates, or most of them will. But | before they can get redeemable certifi- cates it must be shown to the satis- faction of the Secretary of Agriculture | that they have not only reduced their planting or hog tonnage by twenty per cent, but have not planted the twenty per cent reduced acreage “for the pro- duction of any commodity of which, in the opinion of the Secretary, there is normally produced, or is likely to be which outlawed liquor | produced, an exportable surplus.” The | Secretary of Agriculture is, indeed, going to be a big man, no matter who is chosen by President Roosevelt. If he can administer this bill, however, he must be more than a mere man. He will have to be a wizard. et N e An oratorical contest may have to be decided as a draw, with Hiram John- son rated as the Demosthenes of Cali- fornia and Senator Borah as the Cicero of Idaho. ——————— Hitler and the Hohenzollerns. There were two events in Germany | on Sunday, each ominously significant in its way. In thé legislative elections of the small state of Lippe-Detmold, in the northwest section of the Reich, Hit- ler's National Fascists made striking gains. At Berlin the new chancellor- dictator, Gen. von Schleicher, addressed 8 fervid war veterans' meeting in the presence of President vor. Hindenburg | former Crown Prince Friedrich to the plaudits of the multitude. Of the twenty-one seats in the Lippe- Detmold Parliament the “Nazis” cap- tured nine. From the previous elec- tions they emerged without a single seat. Little further proof is necessary to uproot the theory that Hitler is “through” and that his vote-getting powers reached the peak with the Reichstag elections of last November, which materially decreased the number of Hitler's supporters. With the aid of | Hugenberg Natfonalists in the Lippe- | Detmold Diet the Hitlerites round out s Rightist bloc which will control the state’s affalrs against & minority of Social Democrats and Communists. Chancellor von Schleicher, now that the holiday political truce is about to end, presumably plans the early con- vening of the Reichstag. The interval has been busily employed by him in the task of attempting to form a coall- | tion majority which would work with | the Hindenburg-Schleicher government. | If that once more proves impossible, Gen. von Schleicher, still armed with | his emergeney dissolution decree, would unquestionably mot shrink from ordain- ing yet another Reichstag election, the third within a year. With the Lippe-Detmold returns at hand to show that the “Nasi” cause be wide test at to face another nation- polls with revived hope. A re- still flourishes, Hitler, on his part, will R | wholesale establishments or brewerles. | The victory there probubly is accounted as more than compenstion for the de- fection of Hitler's former chief ally, Gregor Strasser, who has gone over to the Schieicher camp. ‘While the Brown Shirts were reaping election laurels in Lippe-Detmold a great war veterans' meeting was in progress at Berlin. On the platform, |still brothers i arms, were Fleld | Marshal von Hindenburg, Gen. von | Schieicher, ex-Crown Prince Friedrich | | Wilhelm and his eldest brother, Prince | | Eitel Priedrich. The atmosphere was| | thick with militant and military pa-| | triotism, as the chancellor expatiated |upon Germany's success in winning | arms equality at Geneva and lifted the | eurtain on his plans for reforming the | Reich's .defense system by organizing a | militla on the conscription basis. The | | ex-Crown Prince and his brother, the | cables narrate, “joined with President | von Hindenburg in the ‘hochs' the vet- | | erans sent up in support of that pro-| | gram " All of which—Hitler's partial come- back and the regalvanized military | | spirit in Germany—are signs of the| | times which should not be mistaken or | | underestimated. N ,,,,, ——— At the Cathedral Yesterday. The memorial service for former President Calvin Coolidge, held in the | great choir of Washington Cathedral | yesterday afternoon, was & never-to-be- | forgotten occasion. The congregation | | which filled the unfinished church was | constituted of the departed leader's friends and neighbors in the Nation's | | Capital. Probably the great majority |of the men and women present had known and cherished affection for the man they were gathered to honor. For once the Cathedral was & neighborhood sanctuary. Yet all the world was represented within the bullding's ‘walls. It was natural that it should be so, for a President of the United States perforce is & citizen of the whole earth, a leader in the whole race’s struggle toward the higher planes of civilization. Twenty- nine forelgn governments sent delega- tions to the service, and the reverence of their bearing bore testimony to the | sincerity of their feeling, official and | personal, for the Vermont farm boy who, by the processes of democracy, had risen to speak and act on equal terms with emperors and kings. The Bishop of Wasitington stressed the Americanism of Mr. Coolidge. In him he found the qualities which dis- tinguish an ideal American character— the self-possession, the quiet confidence, the sound and sensible judgment, the liberal progressive spirit, which are uni- versally appreciated, and vet, as the | preacher declared, not invariably prac- ticed by a nervous and sensitive popu- lace. He urged more general acceptance of Mr. Coolidge's faith in the institu- tions of religion, quoting the former President to the effect that “the| strength of our country is the strength | of its religious convictions.” The only slight service the under- world has done the police is that of re- minding the public that there can be | no thought of economy by & reduction | of the force. .. | His emphatic assertions that he| knows more about banking than Carter Glass himself has not led any vociferous group to mention Huey Long for Sec- | retary of the Treasury. ————— Reference by Mr. Farley to an “inher- itance of chaos” is rendered the more discouraging by the fact that there is no way of imposing inheritance taxes on figures of speech. TR e Nations by appealing each to its own population to buy at home reduce tariff | discussion directly to & questiop of whether 1t is possible to put sentiment | in control of business. When the Philippines were taken, question immediately arose as to what Uncle Sam would do with them. The | question is still being discussed. ‘ e A large demand for human intelli- | | gence exists even in this mechanized | | era. Some of the old political machines | have begun to squeak and rattle. ——r——— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, | | | The wintry day when skies were gray Once we would seriously deplore. We'd lock about and sadly say, “There are no roses any more.” And then what blossoming we see! It starts in the cosmetic shop, Yet very cautious we mu:ct be; 80 to examine it we stop. A patriot anything must dare, And so we have to take a chance. “The roses in your cheeks so fair— ©Oh, lady, were they made in France?” | Unexpected Response. “Did you hold your audience spell- bound?” “What do you mean?” asked Senator Sorghum. “Did you move your hearers?” “They moved sure enough. But it was in my direction and my friends had to | hold 'em while T got away.” . Jud Tunkins says when he was a boy geography was one of the hardest things he had to study and, owing to political | changes, it is yet, | Leaving It to Others. | [Economy I advocate. | One thing I've never gotten straight Is, what reems easy for the rest, For me should prove so tough a test. Conflicting Requirements. “You should try to be agreeable.” “It lw't always so easy,” sald Miss| Cayenne. “In certain gatherings you| can't make yourself agreeable to some people without saying disegreeable | things about others.” “Reforms,” said Hi Ho, the sage of | Chinatown, “often lead us to change cur expressions of opinion without departing | | from our usual course of conduct.” ‘Washout. ‘The water whieh in stocks they found Caused frozen assets to abound. And then with deep comsern we saw A deluge when they had to thaw. “SBome folks,” said Uncle Eben, “seems likes dey wants to go to heaven mostly #0's to be on hand to keep deir enemies out.” L | those classic English shades, Brandt Now that the big seed catalogues bave begun to come in, the fireside gardener has plenty of material to work with. Gray skies of January might seem to be a poor setting for this annual diversion, but, by contrast, they are eminently fitting. Leafless trees melt beneath the radi- ance of great glowing tomatoes, pic- tured with superb on page 48 of this latest volume. Bare boughs of the lMlac bloom again in their glory. Here gre all the old favorites, with many new ones, set down in a fashion to make the mouth of the garden en- thusiast water at the sight. * Perhaps few addicts to this form of literature have been able to solve clear- ly in their own minds just what sys- tem the makers use in deciding which flowers and vegetables to give the dis- tinction of colored plates each year. Seldom is there one of these books, however, without the red, ripe tomato holding down a page all its own. ost properly so, too, one decides, even if he questions the girth, as many a home gardener will do, when he com# pares it with his own miserable produc- tions. Such flowers as rotes snd gladioli, too, almost always get into the color plates. This, too, is right. All flowers are beautiful, but none more so than these. They are such universal favorites that they claim, merit and receive the most generous treatment in return. They scarcely can be pictured too much.” Their beauty not only attracts perpetual friends and devbtees, but al- ways makes converts. Thus new hosts of friends are made . for them year after year, and the happy thing is that these are true | friends forever. Such friendships are not broken by carelessly spoken words, showing how thin the veneer of civilization is, after all. ‘The liking for a particular flower, once it has been born in a mind and heart, is endless. Nothing ever changes it. Fortunately the flowers cannot speak, and thus are saved the misfortune of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. therefore they are never harassed by unkindness, thoughtlessness and the like. He who has sworn his devotion to a rose will find his love returned on every branch in Summer. Here is a supreme interest, one in which the gardener never tires. No matter how often he decides that roses areé “too much trouble,” and de- signed only for experts to grow, he returns to them each year. In time he may come to approach them more temperately than he did in his _younger days. Then, alas, he rushed in where angels might have feared to tread. Now he goes softly, knowing that a few well-grown roses are worth whole | beds of lesser breeds. His enthusiasm for the queen of‘ flowers, far from cooling, has become | tempered by facts | Every enthusiasm needs such toning | down, and, indeed, most of them get | it, in time. Few hobbles are able to resist the | wear and tear of facts, as applied over the years. The sensible man comes in time to realize that numbers, after all, mean little here. He sees that one rose, one perfect flower, is more to be desired than an When is Huey Long going to be spanked, and who's going to do the spanking? That the operation is in prospect is regarded a foregone conclu- sion. Opinion differs only as to the time and the person who will undertake the chastising role. In light of current events, Senator Carter Glass would seem to be cast for.the job. He has the in- testinal fortitude and the ability to do it handsomely, to say mnothing- of the inspiration. Senator Joe Robinson would seem to be anointed for it, in his ca- pacity of Democratic Senate leader, but the Arkansan, who long ago eleval Long to the dignity of a pet aversion, might shrink from the suspicion of seeking to wreak personal vengeance. Perhaps it will remain for President Roosevelt, when he is such, to tell the Louisianan where he heads in. Cer- tainly if “Hooey” become. & professional and chronic sniper at legislative pro- grams which have his party's sanction, it would be difficult for the Democratic administration to sit back and let the master showman of the Senate play ducks and drakes with the Nation's busi- ness, as he is now doing. * oK K X It was precisely such ruthless pro- cedure as the present filibuster which led Vice President Dawes eight years ago to shiver the timbers of the Cham- ber by proposing drastip revision of the Senate’s unlimited debate rules. No other parliamentary institution any- where on earth permits the senseless horseplay of which “the world's great- est deliberative body” is now the help- less victim. It’s the kind of thing that Justifies dictators of the Mussolini stripe in branding representative government as “the bunk.” One of Washington's distinguished foreign newspaper men, sitting in the press gallery last week while Huey Long was clowning, ex- pressed wonder why the Senate con- tinues to tolerate filibusters. The only answer seems to be that no Senator is willing to put an end to a practice which he concelves may some day serve | & purpose of his own. From the United States embassy in Paris coples have now reached Wash-| ingten of specimens of French “debt| conscience letters” received from French citizens by Ambassador Edge, following the December default of their government’s debt payment. Here's a typical text: . “Your Excellency, I feel that a state must pay its debts, as a simple citizen should. If I am not in er- ror, the payment that was due in Washington on December 15 repre- sents a sum of 10 francs for each French citizen. As my family con- sists of six persons, I am sending you enclosed a check for 60 francs, which thus eases my conscience, I understand very well that such & small sum cannot be counted in the debt, but I should like to ask you to be kind enough to give it to some good cause for American citizens in France (students, war veterans, the American Hospital, etc.). Believe me, Your Excellency, your faithful servant and that of the great Amer- ican nation you represent.” * K kX Raymond P. Brandt of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, president-elect of the National Press Club, is accounted prob- ably the most “cultured” scribe who ever was awarded the blue ribbon of Washington newspaperdom. He won his A. B. at the University of Missouri, later became a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, where he received his B. A. a couple of ‘years later. Soon after quitting enlisted for service with the American Army in Prance, and, after the armis- tice, served in Herbert Hoover's Amer- ican Relief Administration in Austria, and subsequently in Russia. Writing isn't Brandt's only accomplishment. He's a clever cartoonist and amuses himself by whiling away time in the Senate with drawings of dignitaries in action on the floor. * ok k¥ ‘Talk persists about recognition of Russia soon after Franklin D. Roose- velt enters the White House. From a ‘wedge e stationing of an official United States thade com- missioner at our r Moscow. more internationally minded wiseacres BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ANUARY 16, 1933, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO | THIS AND THAT tire garden of poorly developed He loves more by loving less. In this simple phi y his purse fi;y co-operates with mind and The philosophy of the seed cata- logue, too, he is convinced, as he l&endl delightful minutes over it and its brothers, is much the same, al- though seemingly different. On the surface, the books present a surfeit. They show everything. And practically everything is “the best” and “the finest,” of course. An outsider might wonder how the “fan” finds his way amid these enor- mous lists of plants and varieties, each apparently so enticing. How does he resist this endless lure? A little experience in the garden is all that is necessary in order that one may tread the true paths of “never too | much.” In the garden, as elsewhere, there Js & school of hard knocks, as some one called experience. One soon discovers that there are two real limitations, first, the old pocketbook, and, second, one's indi- vidual likes and dislikes. Both of these operate powerfully to keep the amateur gardener within bounds, else he might leap the fence and take unto himself a thousand-acre farm on a city lot purse. He is like the newcomer to the de- lightful hobby fishes, .who discovers at last that a tank with & few perfect specimens in it is far better than the same aquarium filled with many sick animals. ‘The gardener soon learns that the limitation of his purchasing power, while at times disconcerting, mostly operates for his own good in steering him clear of the danger of clutterinz his yard with specimens too much alike. He also learns, what- perhaps he should have known anyway, but mostly doesn't, that no amount of catalogues, or books, or magazines, or other per- sons, can take the place of his own tastes in his own garden. His great hankering after the beau- ! tles of the gladiolus, or the iris, or the rose, will offset the lure of scores of other flowers. In time he may even find (he often does) that the beauty of one par- ticular variety of any one of these is so great in his case that he can confine his activities to it alone. At the same time, if he is wise, he will keep alive in his breast a willing- ness to experiment with new things. This does not mean that he will still want to order one packet of every flower or vegetable in every catalogue he picks up. He will do better. He will let the photographs and the descriptions sink into being, until he is ready to make up his mind as to the new things | he wishes to plant this coming Spring Not very long now, that Spring! Just over the horizon, as it were. No matter how few new things he | grows, or attempts to grow, undoubt- edly he will find that he has made a few mistakes. will not be as fine as he thought it would be. Another may not please him by its habits of growth. * The gardener is used to this. Per- fection is no more the rule in Nature than in man. Everywhere he sees things falling short of thg ideal, and he can do no less: Even his roses may fall, or his gladioli get the thrips. The January sky is very depressing. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. foreshadow that one of the arguments destined to weigh heavily in the recog- nition scales at Washington will be the political situation in the Far East. ‘There's not a shadow of foundation for recent Japan-inspired tales that the Russian-Chinese rapprochement was en- eered by American Minister Nelson . Johnson at Peiping and Nanking. Nevertheless, a lot of Americans who don’t confine their thinking to the 3-mile limit believe the time may come when Uncle Sam would find a Russia useful for his business ted | on the other side of the world. * K K x Under the leadership of a newspaper owner, Jack Willlams of the Waycross Journal-Herald and pfesident of the Georgia Press iation, a movement is afoot in the Cracker State build & permanent “Georgia White “House” for President-elect Roosevelt. Of course, it would be located at Warm Springs. A lar subscription fund of $100,000 will be sought for the purpose. News- paper editors-throughout the State will take chlrg of the subscription cam- Paign In their respective localities, and :anhm. bn:ler, Albert J. Maxwell, serve as treasurer. The t Roosevelt “Little White House” Me Warm_Springs Foundation estate is a comfortable, but petite establishiment, and wholly inadequate for protracted vacation .purposes or guest accommo- dations. DR e 0 able young New Englanders, who have been Assistant Attorney Generals of the United States during the Hoover administration, have promptly ot themselves berthed in new jobs. Charles P. Sisson of Providence, R. I, has been elected chairman of the Rhode Island Republican State Committee, a post carrying a $9,000 salary, but which will not ‘prevent Sisson re-entering private law practive. Charles B. Rugg of Bos- ton, Mass, a son of the chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, }fi;anbee? ln;:_!ed ;oni)om the prominent on law firm of , Gri & Perkins. s ey et * Kok % Senator Jim Watson of Indlana, Re- publican majority leader in the se'nm. is going to break with a time-honored lame-duck tradition and not practice law in Washington. Hoosier papers an- nounce that “Sunny Jim” will return to the legal profession at Indianapolis after March 4, dividing his time be- tween the State capital and Chicago. Before devoting all his time to public service Watson had the reputation of | being a fine Vi be .“( lawyer, especially in jury * x ox % Secretary of the Treast Mills, who will discuss -The Socaerci Budget” on The Star’s National Radio Forum program tonight, will on Thurs- day receive a distinguished honor in New York City. The Town Hall Club will bestow upon him its gold' medal, | the annual award to the member achiev- ing “an_accomplishment of last: merit.” Evidently it is Secretary Ml‘l?xg' work at the Treasury during the past year of fiscal stress, especially in con. nection with Uncle Sam’s gold, tha brings him the trophy. (Copyright. 1933.) —————— Progress. From the Omaha Evening World-Herald. The other day the forces of nature undertook a slight rearrangement of the mountains of Nevada; pushed them a little higher, made them, in certain spots, a little steeper. ‘The change wasn't acually very great. You could measure it with a yardstick. It was just a slight move- ment of ‘the rocks, a slight piling up, a slight increase in altitude. Compared with the readjustments which have, in the course of a few millions of years, Ding ‘of the Nevada. fauls was hardiy pi G t was mvn fin‘nnlcllnl’. was accompanied by terrific shu that seemed to shake the earth to its very core. People of four States felt the walls and floors of their homes tremble. Many fled into the open, fearing that a great natural ca- tastrophe was about to strike. But it was not a catastrophe. It was progress. The world on which we live was changing; forward on the path of its of keeping tropical | Perhaps one flower | The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. How & “contact man” for Al Smith threatened that Mr. Smith would run as an independent Democratic candi- date for President and how Gov. Albert | C. Ritchie of Maryland set his foot | down on the plan, when William Gibbs McAdoo and Speaker Garner deserted the “allies” in the Chicago National Convention of the Democrats, is one of i the political stories that is going the rounds of the Capitol. In the heat of the ons aroused by the falling away of Mr. McAdoo and Mr. Garner, according te the report, Mr. Smith sent word through one of his “contact men” to the leaders of the “allies” Roosevelt, that if they would hold off and not vote for Roosevelt at any time during the convention, even after the McAdoo-Garner flop, he, Smith would enter the lists as an independent can- didate for the presidency. * k% % ‘When the contact man reached Gov. Ritchie with the suggested plan for the elimination of Roosevelt—at least in the general election—the Governor of Maryland said emphatically he would have nothing to do with the plan. The Maryland Governor is reported to have told the contact man that he proposed to follow the choice of the national convention; that the allies would have won, if they could, by picking off the Roosevelt delegates, just as Roosevelt was winning by picking off the delegates from Texas and California. And that was that, except that the contact man let loose & lot of abusive language and Gov. Ritchie told him to be on his way in no uncertain terms. Whether the contact man Was actu- ally speaking for Al Smith in this pro- posal or not, he insisted that he was | doing so. He was a Tammanyite and | | Roosevelt at any cost. He was active im presenting the plea to other Demo- | crats besides the Maryland delega- | tion, among them the Ohio outfit. If Mr. Smith, in the heat of his indigna- tion at what he considered the bad faith of Mr. McAdoo, did propose to run as an independent, he gave the plan up, although there were days when some of the Roosevelt leaders feared that just such a move might be made | by Mr. Smith and his followers. An | independent candidacy by Mr. Smith last November might have cooked the Democratic goose, just as the Roosevelt candidacy in 1912 made it certain that Woodrow Wilson would elected President. There's many a State that would have been counted into the Re- | publican column had the voters op- posed to President Hoover divided their strength between Roogevelt and Smith. x5 Can the Democratic party in the Senate) et slEg (wiks gD lesdect Senator Robinson of Arkansas and Senator Huey Long of Louisiana? That is something the Democrats will have to consider. Robinson is the elected party leader. Long is the irregular, guerrila captain. In the present ses- sion Long has leaped into the leader- ship of & group of Democratic Sen- ators who have been labeled “liberals.” | The contest between the two groups of Democrats has centered in the main over the bank reform bill sponsored by | Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, to | which Long and his followers have taken a violent dislike because of the | so-called branch banking features which would permit a wide extension of branch banking. | While the differences between the two groups of Democratic Senators in the present session have tied the Senate | into & double bow knot, the real in- terest lles in whether the same kind of intra-party warfare is to be con- tinued into the next Congress when that body convenes after March 4. It has been obvious for weeks that the present “short” session could accom- plish nothing in the matter of major legislation, so the filibuster now carried |on by Long and his followers against | the Glass bill means little really. But | if the Senate Democrats are to be di- vided in next Congress as they are to- day, what hope can the Democratic President-elect have for his legislative am? Logg seems to be intent at present upon the La Follette of the Democratic party in the Senate. * % * * ‘The “liberal” Democratic Senators | may have to do a little thinking over | tids situation themselves. They will lowers, although Long is a newcomer to the Senate, and they, for the most part have been in the Senate for a term or two. If they are going along with Senator Long, they will have to be his followers. Huey Long will not be con- tent with following some other Sen- ator's lead among the liberals. That is quite obvious. Some of them may become fed up with their new and self- appointed leader. At least that is what the regulars are hoping. It locks as though President-elect Roosevelt might have a tough job on his hands reconciling the fighting fac- tions among the Senate Democrats. If Huey Long can override the regular Democrats in the present session, he is not likely to lay down to them in the new Congress. The only hope, as some of the older Senators view it, is for Long to be “taken for a ride” in the Senate as soon as possible. Their diffi- culty today lies in the fact that the Republicans are enjoying the Demo- cratic strife, just as the Democrats used to enjoy the ructions on the Re- publican side of the Senate chamber, with the Progressive Republicans under the leadership of Norris, Borah, La Follette or another, throwing harpooas into Hoover program of legislation. It s obvious that unless some kind of party harmony can be evolved, the Democrats will be in bad shape when they start to put through their prom- ised program after March 4. The Democrats will have 59 members of the Senate in the Seventy-third Congress, a huge majority. But if Long could get a dozen to follow him, instead of the elected Democratic leader, and should have the aid of the Republicans, it would be a bad situation for Roosevelt. So far the President-elect seems to be keeping his hands off, despite reports that he has tried to get Long on the telephone to talk things over. =% R Are the Progressive Republicans— those who followed Roosevelt in the last campaign—to be recognized in the Roosevelt cabinet? dent-elect to place & woman—the first of her sex in such a position—in the cabinet? Woodrow Wilson, a Progres- sive Democrat, did neither. It is true that Mr. Wilson, when he had to ap- point “Republicans” to the various bi- partisan commissions and independent agencies of the Government, according to the law, chose “Progressive Republi- cans,” men who had not followed Taft in 1912 and who had helped to make the Wilson victory certain. But he never appointed a Republican to his cabinet—not even during the World War. Republican Presidents, however, have sometimes placed Democrats in their official families. President Hoover today has a Democratic Attorney Gen- eral, Mr. Mitchell. It is true that Mr. Mitchell has been ted to being a “Hoovercrat” in 1928, but nevertheless he is rated a Democrat. If Mr. Roose- velt should pick a “Progressive Re- publican” for the job of Attorney Gen- :l"‘l it surely would tickle the Progres- sives. The claim is not made that the ‘women elected Mr. Roosevelt to the presidency. On the other hand, it is quite true that a_huge number of them voted for the Democratic candidate, now President-elect. Would it be a political move to take a woman would Secretary of Labor. If so there will be & lot of sore labor leaders. Serip. Prom the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. If this municipal scrip craze con- tinues, the advice not to take any Wwooden nickels may come tc have a |out to prevent the nomination of | have.to make up their minds whether | they wish to be known as Long's fol- | Also is the Presi- |3 BY FREDERI name and address with your question and inclose 3 cents in coln or stamps for return . Do not use post- cards. Address The Evening Star In- formation Bureau, Prederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, Q. What is the limit for y Scouts?—N. T. o o A. A boy may not become a member of the Boy Scout organization until he | reaches the age of 12, but there is no | top age for scouting. | | Q Did Rubenstein America?>—E. W. A. Anton Rubenstein, famous musi- cian, was in this country in 1872-73. Q. Which paper was first published dison snd Richard Steele ever come to on January 2, 1711, and the Spectator presgnted its first ‘issue on March 1, 1711. ‘The Spectator was modeled on the Tattler but was considered a great improvemert on the former sheet. Q. What is the derivation of the word neighbor?—M. E. A. It is from the Anglo-S8axon, neah, | meaning nigh or near, and gubor, | meaning dweller or farmer. Q. How did it happen that it was duck amendment?—W. E. T. A. This subject is one in which Sen- ator Norris has been interested for a great many years. During the Hard- | ing administration a club of farmers sent a petition to Congress with refer- ence to the members of both bodies who had been defeated at a preceding election. Inasmuch as they were re- ferred to as lame ducks, this petition was, in a spirit of levity, referred to the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Senator Norris was chairman of this committee at that time, and, although it was a matter which should have properly come be- fore the Senate Committee on the Ju- diclary, he used this tion as the vehicle for pmoltnl the abolishment of the so-called “lame duck” sessions of Congress and a favorable report was made thereon to the Senate by the Agriculture Committee. Why are there no ves of British soldiers at the site of the Battle of New Orleans’—R. L. 8. A. Most of the British dead were buried by American troops in trenches, and their graves remain unmarked. Q. What is the meaning of the words, Rosh Hashana?—O. T. A. It is Hebrew and means “head of the year” The name is given to the Jewish New Year, the first of the month, Tishri. Q. What survey did Woodward and Saffery make?—J. M. M. A. Nathaniel Woodward and Solomon Saffery made a survey, at the instance of Massachusetts in 1642, between Mas- sachusetts and Connecticut, which has usually been mfll of as the Woodward and Saffery 3 Q. How many “National Monuments” are there?—B. K. A. There are 37. The newest one, the | Grand Canyon National Monument, was | established January 6, 1933. It is about | 50 miles down river from the point on |the south rim, now so familiar to tourists. Q. Why was the Parliament called by | Bdward I of 1295 called the “Model | Parliament?"—J. A. ; A. It was model in that it has been e e e WaS com) , spirftual peers; and abbots, with Each archbishops, bishops heads of military establishments. Senator Norris who introduced the lame ; ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS C J. HASKIN. will wik issu Q. If an allen refuses %o oath to bear arms in defense United States, will his papers be withheld?—O. C. A. The Supreme Court has ruled in several cases, notably those of Douglas Clyde Macintosh, Marie Averil Bland and Rosika Schwimmer, that one who will not take this oath does not meet the requirements imposed on ts citizenship .;55"."‘&';.: for by the nat Q. Was the Elizabethan period one of prosperity in England?—J. F. A. W. J. Long writes: “The Age of Elizabeth was a time of intellectual liberty, of growing intelligence asd com- fort among all classes, of unbounded patriotism, and of peace at home and abroad. For a parallel we.must go back to the Age of Pericles in Athens, be disposed of and no more ed. | or of Augustus in Rome, or go forward a little to the magnificent court of Louls XIV, when Corneille, Racine and Moliere brought the drama in France to the point where Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson had left it in England half a century earlier. Such an age of great thought and great action, appeal- ing to the eyes as well as to the im- agination and intellect, finds but one adequate literary expression; neither nor the story can express the whole man—his thought, feeling, action, and the resulting character; hence in the age of Elizabeth literature turned instinctively to the drama and brought it rapidly to the highest stage of its de- velopment.” Q. Please give & few gypsy words of cheer —L. J. A. Bax or bakt, meaning fortune; bavlo, rich; buteder, better; gil, ; é kusto, good; sals, morning; disiola, dawns; mor be atras, don't be afraid. Q. Who is the author of the famous Latin hymn “Dies Irae,” and what do the words mean?—T. I. N. A. The words are freely transiated “Day of Wrath” and while the author of the chant, or hymn, is not fully su- thenticated, it is most generally eom- ceded to be Thomas of Celano, com- panion of St. Prancis of Assisi. It is estimated that there have been 150 versions in English of this chant, which is ranked for nobility of phrase with the poems of Dante or Shakespeare. BSir Walter Scott makes use of a ti tion in “The Lay of the ZAast Minstrel.” The first English translation was printed in the seventeenth century. Q. Who owns the National Motel in Havana?—G. S. A. This property is owned by the Na- tional City Bank and the Plaza Hotel interests of New York. ”It is built on ly re) tative legitatures. 1t | of | bishop brought with him one elected representative from the Cathedral staff, and two elected from each diocese from sofls_are ela; wet but too very d for Proposal in the United States Senate for repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment is subjected to severe criti for failure to carry out the pledges the {wo major political parties. Particu- Pederal are believed by some to longed political agitation. the resolution hold that it goes as far as is likely to gain the approval of a sufficient number of States to effect the desired reform. “It is & repudiation,” says the Balti- more Sun, “of the pledge in the plat- form of the Democratic party, which the election was won. pledge was that the question of repeal should be submitted to conventions. * * * State Legislatures would not be chosen solely on the issue of repeal.” That paper finds further violation of the party platform “by retaining con- current power to ‘regulate or prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors to be drunk on the bremises where sold” a provision containing & police power in the Constitution of the United States “which the Demo- cratic_party is pledged to eliminate.” The Uniontown Herald maintains that “poth parties, in the recent campaign, | supported State conventions,” Wwhich | that paper terms “the only sane, sensible and non-partisian manner in which to decide the question.” * kX % “The people voted overwhelmingly for repeal of the eighteenth amend- declares the Portland, Oreg., “as pledged in the Democratic platform.” Convinced that the section of the measure relating to the saloon “means kcepm? prohibition as an issue in national politics,” while “the mind of a majority of the American people fixed on getting liquor out of national politics,” the New York Sun holds that “no half-measures will do.” The Sun also believes that “there will be no patience with the clause in this resolution which would require its ratification by the State Legislatures.” ‘The Roanoke World-News argues: “The objectionable features of concurrent police powers and of legislation in the Constitution have already been pointed out. Thelr retention in the proposed amendment, merely furnishes another | illustration of the unwillingness of the | Federal authority to give back to the | States any of the powers it has un- Ml.:el{ usurped.” erring to the action of the Senate Judiclary Committee, the Buffalo Eve- ning News suggests that “it is not what the wet leaders want; it is what they can get.” In explanation, the News continues: “Always it is to be remem- berezl fi:lt three-fourths of the States must e up to repeal the eighteenth amendment. To put the utthm an- other way, 13 Sates can keep the amendment in the Constitution. And more than that number were dry before prohibition became part of the basic law. If the Democratic ticket was suc- cessful in more than 36 States it does not follow that all the States carried by Roosevelt und Garner are prepared to fall in line for repeal. The vote on the Garner resolution indicated the uncer- tainty of things. It may be that Con- gress—if not the one now sitting, then the next—will decide to accept the compromise amendment reported by the judiciary subcommittee as promist somewhat better than half a loaf.” * k% x ‘While the House has already defeated repeal,” says the Oakland R -hl; ro Tribune, “jit the measure called Senate Proposal for Repeal Runs Gauntlet of Criticism ve! 3 points out that “it was the saloon created the intense feeling over the Nation that resulted in prohibition.” “That there are Senators who will insist on independence in this matter,” according to the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, “should not be wondered at. Indeed, if State conventions should be e | thereto representatives; they would stand for election as delegates either as cham- pions or opponents of the constitutional amehdment presented to the people. In this fact members of Congress may find some justification for approaching the question of prohibition repeal with a certain detachment from obligation to be by a campaign slogan.” * ok ok “Obviously a program that conflicts 50 sharply with the views of the wets, and which offers nothing to the drys, is not even an intelligent compromise,” asserts the Park Evening Press, while the Rutland Herald is convinced that “the most courageous thing a lame-duck Congress could do would be to recognize the will of the people as expressed by 22,000,000 votes.” The Akron Beacon Journal calls the resolu- tion “a weak compromise” and the Boston Transcript, “a denial of the peopie’s right.” The Morgantown Do- minion News protests “perpetuation of Federal power.” “There is no prospect of the resolu- tion being adopted by this Congress,” in the judgment of the Newark Evening News, while the Scranton Times feels that “many Senators ordinarily favor- able to repeal are uncertain with re- spect to the resolution.” The Hartford Times concludes that “clear-cut action on the matter is likely to await the next Congress,” and the Loulsville Courfer- Journal predicts that “such a as was voted on in the House will get through the new Congress.” ——————— Metal Dollars Pretty Snappy. From the Macon Telegraph. Scientists who propase to change an electric dollar x:mulfl b:omrprlled : know how much of a shock we get out of the possession of the kind now in use ——— Fifty-Fifty. From the Nashville Banner. The population seems fairly well @i vided :lev.w'!efin dgeorpla who l‘yn afral who fear it won't, o A Tip to the Skeptical. From the Sioux Palls Daily Argus-Leader rofessor says that within the nest the various will mq leaving o you don leve him, A hun of humani| one race, and see, No Static Currency. From the New York 8un. & aybe it isn't an electrie dollar that is needed so much as an :Inmcn;olh.! Vocabulary. Prom the Miami Dally News. with no sssurance “%v&dm new wr‘; ®