Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1933, Page 8

rA-8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. Square. The illuminating unit con- sisted of ten bulbs, o arranged as to SR burn successively. When one burned WASHINGTON, D. C. MUESDAY. 1953 {When the cighth bulb began to burn en crder wes placed for a new set, so that th-re should b2 no chenes of dark- ness, veral vree! ngo the Mght was | reduced to two lamps and an ordcr was | placed by the department of vater Cpp’y, gas and clectricity. Somehow | d up in the “system” and | the result was (hot the last bulb fiick |ered out before it was filled and the iontern was recltiged. Explanation vas given that th> order had to go -ough fo many channe’s in the rou- tine of th> department thrt it was im- possible to get the bulbs in season. The cxtinguishment of the ctsrnal | light in the war memorial is a symbol of the confucion that prevails in the | metropolitan administration, A wcll- o 1, cconomical business orga: | tion would not tolerate such l-pses. | Eut in the political system thai ha: Len ¢ for the adminictration of m-icopolitan affairs rasults arc not | salarics and pequii v principle of city admin- | ty kxcp the light forever 2 over the pa s window, | il the pariotic symbols fail through lack of efilcicncy. e America and the Far Eact. First and highly significant fruits of the recen’ lirizon in foreign affairs ’ | c-tablished btween the Hoover Bill Premature. |minisiraticn and President-elect Roose- Tke argument b2 mad> thet the velt are now epparent. There is to be presosad bill for conirol & th 2 of a complete cantinustion of Amcrican bzc: in the District, hoooings cn which ' poliey with respect to eurrent events in are beginning todoy, 15 as sevcre (e Far East, Inicrec. i foreign gov- .January 17, THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Businers Of 11th St and Pean: New York Office: 110 Chicaso Office: Lat- s N European Office: 14 Remnt St. Encland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Star 45¢ per mionth The Frening and § (when 4 Sund Tns Evening and ter (wien 8 Suncars) 65+ ver month Ths Sunday Ster...... ........ 5c per covy | Collection made ¢ the end of c<=y month | Orders mav be sent fa by mail o1 telephone Kational 5000. | indes Blar ) ... 60c per month le in Advance. and and Virginia. 4 Sunday. ..1:r.$1000: 1 mo. 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The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news di Datehes ccedited (0 1t Or Noi o:herwise cre ited in this paper end also the local newe | publ'shed heretn All rights of publication of Epecisl dibatches herein are also receried | All Other € nly o Cay only Lecel Beer not in the re:trictions it imposzs on beer | ernments hove been infermed that the ding places ss wcre the vestiied tration will adhere, in 3 sh-license cystom, , to tha doctrin: lald ure deals only with |down by Precident Hoover and Seerce beversges of a low alcoholic content | tary son, that the United States and s not representative of the typs Will withheld recognition of any situa- of saloon-outlawing legislation that will | tlon brought about in violation of the bs cought if end when the eighteenth | nine-power treaty and the Kellogg- amendment is repealed. Briand pact. As a matter of fact, enactment of | The United States, by the proclama- | any local beer law now is premature. |tion of that doctrine a yvear ago and Such a Jaw should follow both the Na- | its reaffirmation on recurring occa- | ticnal beer bill, if there fs to be|sioms in 1932 ovtlawed conquest one, and the repeal of ‘the eighteenth | achieved in defiance of international amencment. There s no force in the covenants. It fell to the lot of a Re- | argument that a poactizally unrcsirictive | Dublican President to enunciate a prin- selcon lew shouid be enacisd now for Uncd to be as far-reaching i er out another automatically replaced it. | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., TUESDAY, TJANUARY 17, 1933. the budget at this mflnnaccanm.' President Hoover is preparing, it is reported, to send to the Congress nest | week a budget message, calling upon |the legislaiors to balance the Govern- | | ment’t budget as a prime neccssity for | | the gtebility of eredit rnd recovery. | | He will, in effect, place the Demder: lc2dership, in Congress and out, I | D-pressions cause hobbies to thrive. on | The ocutstanding instances ‘of this a ! & nows {hat | 1hC_prezent tim: er presented in the | |the spot.” The country knows that |, yn Tortconn Byoore and tropical | | only through the Democratic J-adership | fishcs, which are not so far aparc & in Cengress teday can any material leg- | might seem at first glance, and to some. | islation be enacted at the short scs-| Each one of them represents an en- | 5 c 9 | thusiasm, & hobby based on_variety, | slon; that every plece | 1arity and the power to diveri the mind. | |lation suggested by the THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. I the so-called tropicals is that the (or-‘ mer demand more ox;gen, and the lat- | ter more warmth, It is better to have two goldfishes doing well in a given aquarium than half a dozen of them doing poorly,| yet this latter condition is the common | one. While the tropical fishes do not | demand so much oxygen, there s no; could be killed by the Democrats, wh> boid control of the House, end, to all incnis and purposes, control of the Scnate &s well. Ther:fcre, it bchooves the Democrats to stir themscives, either that cr admit frankly to the ‘country that they have no plan for bamneing the budget vhich can receive the ap- proval of the Congress and the Presi- dent at this time, and that the budget balancing must wait for a special ses- sion of the new Congress Perhaps the Democratic leadership would be wiser to admit frankly th: ncthing can be accomplished at the present short sessicn of Congress. Th might tell the country that under the circumstancas ther, the Democrats, will perfect a legislative program in the ro- maining weks before they tzk» com- plete contrcl of the Government, and hava it ready for action by the new Coneress in the carly Spring. With cuch a declaration they couid turn their | attention wholly to the pass:ge of the necescery approvriation bills snd such ¢ neeecsary bul mon-contrevarsil tiers as are &t hand. The Scnatemizht even bripg forward for con-ideraiion {he new proiocol of adherence to the Werld Court. which kas hung fire for 50 1a2ny years, If it has become clear, and many be- leve it to b2 the case, that there is no chance of enacting into law the bzer bill, the budget-balancing tax legisla- tion, or the farra relief bill—for what- cver cause—would the Congress not be justified in turning to other legislation which it can enact? Of the pres- (nt session there remains exactly seven wecks. Up to the present time, although the Congress has been in fossion singe December 5, the Senate has passed n: of the big annual supply bills, Its onl cpprepriation bill to go through so far | show that, despite the depression, th> | these can be crowded is false. They no| e | dispute beer, and that later this law shculd be cut down and deprived of its saloon- permiiting features when other liquors | than beer can b> scld after re the eightecnth amendment. Beer sales ccnstituted 81 per cent (by volume) of all the liquor sold in 1914 in calcons. If beer sales are legalized in cdvence of the repezl of the eighteenth amend- ment, with more saleens and less re- strictions ihan under thc old high- lesnse ©o-tom of pre-prohibition days, the ncyr cctem of beer distribution thus estall; d cannot be alierci and re- formed when the volume of liquor sales is increased by a mere mine or ten per cont after repeal of the eighteenth arendment. P Cocngress cannot consictentiy repeal the Sheppard law or mcdify the Vol- stead jaw and thoough local legislation set' un a multitude of selling places for beer ¢l over the District wic “on sale” licenss that, while avoiding the word salcon, extend and intensify some of the worst evils of the old zaloon sys- tem and later change over radically the beer saloon systom to one that sat- isfies the anti-saloon piedges and re- stores, at least, the old safeguards against salocn evils. f The saloon system for beer should not be restored, with less regulation than under the old high license law, merely with the promise or understanding that the system will be revised and the sa. locn eliminated when distilled liquors mey be sold with beer. That would be marching up hill only to march down again. Or it might be a more appropriate figure to say that it would be marching down hill, With a tentative agzresment to march up again some time if possible and if corfvenient. A local beer bill, when enacted, should | seek to apply accurately and specifically 1o the conditions which will exist when it shall become actuelly operative. If enacted at this session, the pro- csed local boor bill should be in- £p: d. measured carcfully as to each item from beginning to end and radi- eally ¢ ed from the form in which it hes been wriiten and introduced. The cid saloon could not, under the pre-prohibition. high-license system, be located in a residence section cf the city or within 400 feet of a church or school or within a mile of Soldiers' Heme. The “on sale” saloon can be located anywhere. The old saloon could Tot sell to minors, tut the age imit is | adept the program laid down by his | predee its consequences as Jchn Hays open | iS # deficiency measure. Goor policy. To a Dcmocratic Presi- | When the President-elect and his dent-clect comes the opportunity to|Democratic friends in the House and Senate get together for conferences, the cesor of the opposite political | Program which thelr party is to ad- faith, | vance in the new Congrcss should hold Gov. Rocsevclt has not hesitated to | Attention. Afterall, that is to be the test. let it become known, gt & singularly | APFarently they can do nothing at this apprepriate moment, that’ partisanship | Session. Even cuch ‘egislation as they in the United States ends at the water's | aPpear to desire, likc the beer bill and cdge. Not In a long time has thers | the farm relief bill, stand no chance of been a more wholesome demonstration | boeoming law because of the opposition ¢f constructiveness in the domain of | Of President Hoover and the Repub- American forelgn policy. licans in Congress. In the next Con- There is no definite stetement that 8Tess, however, with overvhelming this development is the direct result| Democratic majorities in House and of Secretary ‘Stimson's recent confer- | Seénate, the country will expect a posi- ence with President-elect Rooseveli, | tive and beneficial program of legisla- But plainly that s its explanation. BOR—3 Program that has yet to be Otherwise thcre would have been | Prought forward. neither rhyme nor reason in the dis- patch by a State Department, whosc | suthcrity will end in barely two | months, of instructions to our em-|3et. becsies and legations in Europe and | Asia that the American non-recogni- | be as much needed in co-operation with tion doctrine is to undergo no change. | the administration as he was during In Eurcpe that information arrives at | the campaign. a psychological moment “for it syn- chronizes with this weeX’s resumed ses- slons of the League of Nation’s “Con- ciliation Committee of Nineteen.” Presumably it is deemed useful at Washington to reaffirm the Hoover- | Stimson doctrine at this partieular | ; hour, with supplementary mmc-mn':‘“d“ tax cales with pitchforks and that it i slso the Hooseselt dostrine, | 0204 selling so slow that they could because of word from Geneva that the | o DEUaLE Inthale nd iy paning “Conctliation Ccmmittee” is about to| " ooro wash the League’s hands of further R concern in the Sino-Japanese im- broglio. Cables carry the intimation that the most to be expected of the committee is that it will slap Japan on the wrist with a bundle of pages from the Lytton report, and let the Man- chukuo episode go at that. The United States now does all that lies in its power, short of a resort to force, which has never been seriously considered in this country, to place Japan on notice that the American | Government and people are irrevocably oppesed to territorial aggression. Once again, as Secretary Stimson did in Feb- ruary, 1932, in the state paper he ad- dressed to Senator Borah, the United States invites other powers to align themselves with the American Nation | in outlawing conquest. It is.Precisely | o forune far away. that “mobilization of world opinion” | gome one is holding all the chips for preservation of world peace and | ang 14 one wants to play. world law which has been the watch- | pbeideon | Misunderstanding. - - tion of what appointment Al Smith will He may decide for himself. Mo- ———— Many efforts have been made to “de- bunk™ one tradition or another. Some 80 So far as to imply that what the world in general needs is decivilization. ———— Some of the Western farmeérs at- ————— Japanese say they are pacifying their neighbors. Even pacifism has to depend at times on punitive measures as dis- tressing as war itself. — e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Game, Commerce is a pleasant game. Men ride where oceans toss And smi'e in friendship as they name A profit or a loss. But games will sometimes seem to be Ungenerously beld ‘When feet that used to dance with glee Are getting rather oold. No more are we awaiting ships ments may easily arrive when he will | lowered to eighteen in the pending bill, | Word of President Hoover's foreign The old £aloon could not open on Sun- | Poliey throughout his occupancy of the day, but vnder the proposed bill “cn| White House. Col. Stimson has been sale” saloons could be cpen on Sunday, | It #ble and unremitting exponent The applicant for a license under the| It 15 & cause for national rejoicing— old high-liccnse system had to meet it May turn out to be no less a cause certain qualifications as to age, char- | 10f international gratification—that acter and previous record in liquor law Franklin D. Roosevelt has chosen to cbeervance. But under the proposed ™0d the immediatcly ensuing foreign bill for the Distriet anybady, appar- D°'-C¥ of the country along similar lines. ently, could get a license to sell beer, provided the beer ghcp met certain pitate the withdrawal of Japanese cherecteristics of a bona fide urant, club, “eating place,” etc., and the licensce was not a brewer or wholxale liquor dealer. Under the old Ex Board the grenting of a license cculd be refused. The proposed bill grants no such diseretion to the suparintendent of licenses. The old Tix- cise Board pocted public notice of ap- plications for licensas, and gave pro- testarts an opportunity to object to the granting of such licenses. Under the propoced bill the license would appar- ently be a matter batween the licensee nd the superinterdent of lie=n: to prevent the establizhment of a b selcon in any neighborhood whors Zoning regulations permitted a *club” or an “eating place.” ————— As literature has been running, criti- cal readers might think 3t a hardship to buy only novels written in the U. 8. A. — ——— Tammany's Eternal Light. New York City has not only a very ex- pensive government, but, owing to mul- tiplicity of bureaus for the sake ol place-making, one of great complexity as well. Some aver, indeed, that it is not a particularly efficient’ organization #s a result of these conditions. An in- stance is just reported. Nine years ago the late Rodman Wancmake: 1) the city an “eternal ligh furs of the war memorial in ’ PR s from the frozen plains of Man- chukuo or to mountain valleys of ad- | jacent Jehol, through which they are now battling their way. But Japan’s attack on mankind's laboriously con- structed peace machinery has received a check which, in th= years that are but yesterdays in the lives of nations, may turn out to be as effective as if the world had rushed to arms in de- fense of its invaded rights. et Lame ducks are reported sufficiently robust to utilize retirement in laying wn as the case may be. hatched or thro! £ C R R More Conferences. President-elect Democratic leaders are to confer again, Thursday and Friday of this week, pre- | sumably on what shall be the Demo- cratic legislative program. This time, | however, the Presicent-elect, like the mountain, will come to Mahomet. He | plans to stgp in Washington on his way | to Georgia. Mr. Roosevelt and the Demo- crats at their New York conference evolved a budget-balancing plan which | was announced to the world, and the Democratic leaders came back to Wach- | ington seemingly with every intention of putting it through. Unfortunately the plan was not popular; admittedly it was practically discgrded. Either Mr. Roosevelt will have to breathe new life into this plen, or find en emended plan, or give up all idea of balancing Rooseyelt and the | “Were you never tempted to become a | iinguist?” “What's the use?” rejcined Senator |'Sorghum. “Even the people who speak | the same language are no longer able to | come to an understanding.” | Jud Tunkins says a social gathering | looks to him like an occasion where people are under sufficient observation 2 event is not designed forthwith to | to keep them fighting whether they like | M. Smith is the person dwelling nea each other or not. When Chinese Were Quaint, | Oh for thore gocd old ancient times When Chinese wars would be Expressed in bland, proverbial rhymes ‘With fireworks and tea. Percentage. “What percentage of alcohol do you favor in beer?” ; “I refuse to answer,” said Uncle Bill ‘Bomelon “I am incapable; of the arithmetical calculaticn invelved.” | “wny, | simple!”. anq | Political eggs for the future, to be| iy ynt, The sicohol in the first|in South Africa Scored, :ah:s a man drinks might be fairly lib- eral. But it should be reduced from | glass to glass until finally it's nothing at al.” “Do not trust your, philosopher when | he says experience is the best teacher,” said Hi Ho, the sage cf Chinatown. than learning law by litigation or medi- | cine by fliness.” A Modern Marriage. “The wedding was a great success!” Exclaimed the bride's big brother. “Although they've quarreled, more or less, i They haven't shot each other.” “Human nature is what it is” said Uncle Eben, “an’ dar ain’ no use tryin’ to it. I mever could unde:tand why I'd ear & ropbsr sy ‘Hold up yoh bands’fHan poor little “ghost holler the proposition seems very “Few things are more disappointing | | businesses whica have to do with these things are flourishing as never before. 2 who have in »me meas- igated, as newe.mers, the prevailing interest in the “trcpleals, thcy arc called, can understand the sprepd of the vogue for fishos, This intcrest, of course, is no new thing, but somehow the prevailing dis- content has sharpened it, given it |edge of interest keener than ever be | fore. If we seek to understand why this is, why a nev azine devoted to thi hobby has tcorcd & big success, in its when mony old periodicals are | of a diverting | Medical years Iave told | ired business men” that they should | get themsclvcs & ‘hcbby and atick to it | for all it was worth E | The aquarium hobby, for instance which seems recently to heve taken hold of Washington as never baforz, i3 one which ensbles the devote» to g2* cuiside himself. 1t 15 reasonable to presume that many man folloving it does so because he i not surc what m appen in_the 1d in the next five years, and, ha ing found tomething which interests him = great deal. he is detcrmined to enjoy himself bef the night cometh, These tropical gems from South erica and other warm countries—do they not represent. now mere than ever, pan’s urga toward beauty, that beauty rmits cae to share in the di- vince creation? Not every sori of hobby does this, but and stamps and fish do. A quar- terly devoted to the interests of the| | book collector has had' its two best | years. People who still have the money | | to_collect are doing it more than ever. | This does not mean an_indifference to the state of the Nation, in any sense, but simply shows that men in -this world do what they want to do, when they can do it. That is a pretty plain way of putting it, one which may be but we believe it is so. gists say that when a friend apologizes for net having called on you, e might as well save his breath, | you have studied tkeir sclence you will | know that the very fact the gentleman has not been around shows that he did not wani to come. He would have ! called, if he had wanted to come. The craze for tropical fishes is one built solizly on the goldfish, that in- teresting member of the carp family that never goes out cf style. It is sold in this counéry in ever-increasing num- bers, scme say as high as 50,000,000 & ear. F€What becomes of that many every year? ¥ The newcomer to the aquarium world cen tell you instantly. Most of them die. The great fault of the beginner is that he insists on cramming too many fiches into a given number of gallons of water. Efficient aquarium management is a thing not to be grasped offhand. Each type of fich has its poculiarities, and exch must be handled according to | these peculiarities. "he great point of | flerence between the goldfishes and Psycho! Interest is being shown in the ques- | | E PETIT MARSEILLAIS, Mar- seilles—M_Leon Treich points out, in L'Ordre, the partialities of that other review, Le Masque, which is fond of regaling its | readers with various little problems in | deductive logic. It is reflected in the latter periodical that the Anglo-Saxons | are much given to this kind of mental | exercise. | "Behold one of these problems, for which we are necessarily indebted to| both publications. It comes to us fromi America: Three railroad employes were en- gaged in their normal occupation of | running_a train. Their names were | Smith, Robinson and Jones. One of them was the stoker; another was the engineer; the third ‘was a brakeman. Upon the train also were three business | men; their names were the same as those of the three railroad employes, Smith, Robinson and Jones. Read on, | and gain some further information re- | garding these six men: M. Robinson lives in Detroit. The brakeman lives midway between Chica- nd Detroit. M. Jones earns ex- $2000 a year. M. Smith is| markedly superior to the fireman at| Dbilliards. The closest neighbor of the | brakeman is one of the voyagers in| question. His yearly income is exactly | three times that of the brakeman. The | traveler with the same name as the | brakeman lives in Chicago. That is all, and it is supposed to be enough for anyone possessing some good sense, a little logic and a great deal of patience to ascertain the name of the enginecr. Have you time to work it out your-| selfy No? Well, then, we will give| you the solution of this braincracker. The brakeman who lives half way be- | tween Chicago and Detroit, and the | nearest neighbor of that railroad em- | ploye, one of the business men traveling | { on the train, are, neither of them, the | M. Robinson who lives at Detroit. nor | | is either of them M. Jones. another business man, since his salary was not | | stated to be divisible by three, while the | | eernings of the nearest neighbor of the | brakeman is exactly three times that of | | the brakeman. The name of this 4 neighbor must be, then, Smith. So, if est to the guard, and if M. Robinson lives in Detroft, then M. Jones must be the man of affairs making his home in Chicago, and his name must likewise be the same as the brakeman’s. Therefore the name of ths brakeman must be Jones, So far, so good. Nowethe fireman may be called either Smith or Robin- | son. But he cannct®be called Smith | for certain, because it is stated that the | fireman is’ always beaten by Smith at billiards. _The fireman's name must | then be Robinson. So much for the | names of two railroad men, and con- | sequently, the name of the engineer must be Smith. * ok ok o Killing of Wild Life | | Cape Times, Cape Town.—The “mas- sacre” of South Africa’s wild life by indiscriminate hunting was condemned by E. K. du Plessis, a student of Af- rican fauna, in an Interview with the Cape Times. 1 am convinced,” Mr. du Plessis said, “that in 10 years' time, if things g0 on as they are at present, the only big game in the Union will be found in the reserves.” The chief enemies of South Africa’s wild life were the conscienceless tour- ist, the natives and the hunters, who killed thousands of animals to make money. an asset our fauna is to the country ::Ms:;(‘l“ it is our duty to protect it,” e “We South Africans do not even ap- :Rdlte the' National Park, here our infinitely interesting wild 2nimals can be stus with ease and comfort. “Americans, in fact, seem to value the park more highly than we do. They mqfilulhmprmmolwcl ! ing more. | an aquarium is cailed whose sides are High Lights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands J| faction, is not in el “We have only lately realized what more like crowding than the goldfish, althcugh they w They sh by gasp! | g at the surface for aj-, but| other troubles. NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM M. 6. THE EGYPTIAN CROSS MYSTERY A Prcblem in Deduction. By Ellery Queen. New York: Frederick A.| Stokes Co. | | For fantastiz conception and design | { | in the business of weaving the fabric| return pestage. Do not use post cards.y C- for tales of mysterious murder the laurels go to Mr. Ellery Queen. When, his readers felt that this time he had reached the high point of creating thing as o limit to the infaginative | a3 | by developing a variety of diseases and | ability of this welcome narrator of gory events and the brilliant @etection of | ANSWER ‘The resources of our free information please. It is being maintained solely to serve you. What question can we' an- swer for you? There is no charge at all except 3 cents in coin or stamps fox Address your letter to The Washington Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Reports from all over the country question that the belief of meny that| “The Greek Coffin Mystery” came along ' Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. S TO QUES BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. the first city to adopt the recall, the | bureau are at your service. You are | amendment to its charter in 1903 bes | invited to call upon it as often as you modeled after th> cantondl law of usen, Switzerland. Q. When did the manufacture of sil- verware begin in the United States?— , Schaffha | A. Silverware manufacture in the | United States dates from 1942, ‘ Is the service of the White House & Q. In contract bridge does the bonus _will stand more of it.| hair-raising episodes and weird situa-|for the rubber go to the side that wins w their discontent at last, not | tions, but apparently there is_no such|the two games or the side that wins the rubbcr on account of having higher score through penalties?—M. C. A. The bonus for the rubber is put Thoss who have not entered this their instigators or perpetrators. “The|in the honor column of the side tha interesting hobby literally have no idea of the great interest which exists in it. | enough in its very title to arouse the U Egyptian Cross Mystery” is distinctive wins two games. The scores are hen added, and the side that has the Like all hobbies, it has had jts addicis 'curiosity, and when the name of Ellery net score (the difference between their years, until at last there comes &| Queen is observed its author—then total points) is considered the winner | the ears of the|that settles the question of “What shall | of the rubber. That point h: arrived with tropical fishcs in this| ceuntry. Here of endl Xp:r nce is sceured in the doing, but wh theory and facts do perpeiual battle, with the victory cfien to him who can talk the loudest. | All the books advise a water tem- perature of 70 degrees and above for the beautiful “angel fish,” Pterophyllum | scalare. Yet here, in front of a 5-and-10-cont store display, is a large man with Ge anic countenarce, who i3 holding the | rowd of enthusiastis epallbound. i “IU’s all bunk about these fellows | neading 70 degrecs,” he says. had 18 | is an interesting little world| fascinatio: ches of snow on my tank the The water was o cold that | my hands. “And you ought to see my angel fish! They enjoy it. Ii's all nonsense, aboui 70 degrees. Why, you can't get it too| cold for 'em, except freezing, of course.” ! A small gentleman with eyeglasses weits until the big man_.goes away and turns to another enthusfast. “What do you think of him?” he| asks. “I think he is a liar, that's all,” says the other. But was he? It is a whole little world of fact and {al every newcomer has a great deal to earn, and that is one of its joys. He will find out, of course, that in the main, the old hands are right. They téll him to plant his tank first | (7% and let it stand a week or so befere he puts his fish in, but he is in too big a hurry for that. But they are right. They tell him to put in a few fishes, and se> how they get along, bafore add- He wants more, 0. he crams’the tank full and then suffers at the sight of | his sick and dying fish. They were right. He plants his aquarum too sparsely and huddles it over in a dark corner. He discovers that a “green tank,” as covered inside with algae, is far getter for his fishes than one without them. He finds that a v&riety cf foods, fed| olternately, are better than just one| food, no matter how convenient the| Iatter may be. | He finds that nothing takes the place | of sunshine, no matter if it does grow | algae. You have to taks the green| e with the sunshine, and the little | fishes love them both. Millions of men are out of work and worthy establishments have closed, but | tropical fishes are selling like hot cakes | 1l over this dear land of ours. If you, want to know the reason, look into the minds and hearts of men. Ascension Island Has Odd History. ‘The Egyptian Gazette, Cairo.—The fascination that hedges islands bids us think these days of Ascension, which | came under the British flag on October | 15, 1815, in connection—what connec- tion is not so easy to sce, since the IWB‘ are 760 miles apari—with the ndopuony of St. Helena as Napoleon's prison. f Thenceforward it became—like the | more celebrated Whale Island—a ship. | When Carwin visited the place in the | Beagle he found the marine garrison | “well contented with tfheir station;| they think it better to serve one-and- | twenty years ashore, let it be what it | may, than in a ship; in this choice, 1t T were a marine, I should most heartily agree.” (Darwin, apparently, despite his long voyage, concurred with Dr. Johnson, | “being in a ship is being in a jail, with too | | the chance of being drowned.’ Officers found Ascension none gay. ome 40 years back, could only number its attractions as cricket (on an asphalt wicket), shooting wild goats on the rose-red hilltops, and an interminable | diet of turtle. Possibly naval and ma- | rine officers—and their wives—were not | ill-pleased when, 10 years ago, it ceased | to function as an empire outpost. xR Ok X Sunday Film Approved in Birmingham, England. Daily Mail, London.—Birmingham is to have Sunday cinemas. This announcement was made re- cently by the lord mayor of the cit; Alderman Burman, sitting as chairman of the Birmingham justices to hear an application on behalf of local members of the Cinematograph Exhibitors’ As- sociation. J Harold Roberts. who made the appli- cation, requested that the opening hours should be from 6 pm. to| 10:30 p.m. o Protests Use of Edison’s Name by New Institute To the Editor of The Stat: Over seven years ago Thomas A. Edison advised a new policy for public tilities to follow. Because it was not accepted at that time, the National Electric Light Assoclation, one of the oldest andy most influential organiza- tions of its kind in the world, is now to be dissolved and a new association formed, as the old one seems to' be damaged beyond repair. In taking the name Edison Electric Institute, the new association will haves much to live up to, for Thomas Alva Edison was of & kind and generous nature and took great pleasure and in- terest in helping others. He knew that real progress, real m real satis- 1 things, but is spiritual, divinely mental—in true Ohly a3 1 enabled him o cacry BRE good works, s Tat A new era is da for America and a golden ity awall Edison muzrlc%:,y ld'l:o: ::lis i shipet 3 I|somewhat ecceniric schoolmaster 1 do tonight, or read?” Down in West Virginia, where the mountalns crowd upon each other ju ™ massive dignity, and where settlements | of human_habitation are few and far| between, Mike Orkins and OI' Pete, riding in from the hills in the gray| and eerle dawn of Christmas day to- | ward the little village of Arroyo, come | upon a gruesome find. Frcm the weatherbeaten signpost 2t the crcs:-| Toads, half a mile or so from the town, | hangs the decapitated body of a man, nailed to the tips of the crossbar of the sign and the ankles n:i'ed to the centerpost. Investigation brings identi- | fication of the body as that of the! g the region, and also the knowledgs that | his slow-witted man-servant is miss Ellery Queen is attracted to the because of one startling feature appears concistently in all ph: the affair. The conjunction of th formed & huge letter “T"; the siznpost to which the body was nailed presented to the eye a large ", the body of | the crucified man, minus its had, re- cembled a “T.” and on the door of the | schoolmaster’s house, not far from the crossroads, the letter “T” had been, scrawled by the murderer in the blood of his victim. ncy, of theory and practice, in which | gy tection breaks the record. Howeve closely the reader may apply that cold logic recommended by the author a: he nalytico-deductive method” of detection, the solution of the West Vir- ginia case and the two “T" murders | which follow it remains as much of a | mystery as the author himself—and, b; the way, there is an interesting photo- Q How doss one get & radio license? A. The Federal Radio Commission says, in accordance with an act of Con- gress, one applying for a radio license must first apply for a construction per- mit. After he has been permitted to build and his station is completed, he may apply for & broadcasting llesnse. To be eligible to this license he must fill out an application blank for a cer- tain frequency upon which to operate and give particulars relating to the sta- If this is agreeable to the com- mission, he may be given a license. Q. Who won the figure skating events for men and women in the third Olym- pic Winter games at Lake Placid, N. Y., in February, 1932?—M. D. A. Sonja Henle of Norway won the omen’s event, and Karl Schafer of Austria won the men's event. How much money has been in- vested in motor vehicles in the last 12 years in this country?—B. R. A. It is estimated that Americans have invested $20,000,000,000 in motor vehicles in the last 12 years. In addi- tion about $10,000,000,000 has been in- vested in garages and filling stations. Q Whenldld the Pascisti come into A. Fascisti is the name given to the members of & movement formed in Italy in 1920 to offset the work of the “reds” and radicals in that country who had become _powerful du the World ‘War. The Fascistl, headed by Bendip Mussolini, seized control of the Itajle: government on October 30, 1922, #.ad affirmed their allegiance to the King. Mussolini’s government has practically become that of a dictator, although he graph of him on the inside flap—until | has been supported by the King. The | IN | Walling. finally comes to a dead end as | his own brilliant application of his| cmblem of the Fas particular brand of logic brings the | the word fasces, which was a climax. A couple of hours of breath- taking shudders and chills for those who love them. * K k% | THE UPPOLD FARM MYSTERY. By A. Fielding. New York: H. C. Kin: sey Co., Inc. A more suitable place and circum- ance for the evolving of a death plot could hardly bz sel rambling farm house, peopled with a group of artists—paying guests who find the quietude and beauty of th country beneficial to inspiration an achievement. Those resident at Upfold Farm on a fateful day in April were the fétmer and his daughters, one of them blind; three painters, a pianist and a writer of detective fiction, two ycung men from the rectory who have a bent for practical jokes, and a maid. Two members of the household are found murdered, one of them in a bramble-grown ditch in a stretch of in the dining room of the house, One has been slugged, and the other has been stabbed. Evil happenings were foretold by the farmer when he dis- covered elder branches burning in the fireplace, thrown there by one.of the artists who had broken them off to sketch. “He's called up the devil,” says the farmer, “and let's see what the devil will do to him.” Rank supersti- tion, of course, but, superstition or not, it is that particular artist who is found in the ditch. Ancther tcuch of mystery which plays an important part in both mur- ders is the extraordinary appearance and disappearance of an ornementa brass box supporting a damaged St. Mark's lion. The box does not stand for anything; it contalns no papers, money or valuables that dny ene knows of; it has no intrinsic value in itself, and there is no reason to suppose that its appear- ance and disappearance is an omen or a warning. Yet it is directly responsible for the second murder. There is still another death which is closely associated with the two others. But for the third victim no superstition, or brass box, or other mysterious cir- cumstance is introduced to bedevil the already harassed and disheartened Su- | ent Gibbs, devotee of detective rintends i who has been unable to get literature, untangl the mysterious deaths at Upfohi! "fl: In the end it requires the skill and reaoning of Inspector Pointer | to run the assassin to earth. This third mystery story by the author of “The Wedding Chest My:tery” | and the “Death of Jchn Tait™ is as| substantial in plot as its vredscefsors.‘ and in the telling is an improvement over both of them. * K X% TIME FOR MURDER; Another Investigation by the Curious Mr. Tolefree. By R. A. J. Walling. New York: William Morrow & Co. Trailing a motor car from early after- noon until after midnight, through winding country rosds and lanes little | used by travelers either riding or walk- | ing. expecting scme extraordinary hap- pening at any turn, the commendable | Mr. Tolefree, who has figured so satis- | factorlly in previous books by Mr.| the blue roadster which has been theg object of his curiosity for so many hours | vaniches with as much mystery as at- | tended its meandering course through- | out the afternoon and evening. Fifteen minutes or :o later it is found in a narrow driveway, almost obscured by the heavy growth of trees, with its driver missing. Not to be outwitted ted than a big,| t ! | woods, and the other a few days later cist, originated in bundle | of rods, containing an ax, carried by the lictors before the magistrates of ‘mclem Rome as a symbol of authority. Q. How many daily newspapers are published in the United States>—L. M. A. In 1932 there were 2,415. Q. How should a fish bone or meat bone be removed from the mouth?— |S. N. A. Remove it by grasping it betwe the thumb and first finger. Lay bone on the edge of the plate. Q. When was the recall first practiced in American politics?—L. J. A. Contrary to general opinien, the | recall s not an innovation of modern politics, but has been known since Rev- olutionary times. Pennsylvania's dele- gates to the Continental Congress who | refused to sign the Declaration of In- | dependence were recalled and others | sent in their places. Los Angeles was een the | patd for by the President or by the Gov- ernmynt?—L. F. R. A. Cooks, chambermaids, laundry | women)_butlers and pantcymen, about 20 in al, are provided by the Govera- | ment. S personal servants as the President and his wife may choose to | accompany* them to_the White House are paid for\ by the Executive, ont assignable?—P. O. or whole# interest in & patnt is transfexred for valuable con- sideration the indrument by which this is done is called %_asunmenm Q. Please explafp why $100 in gold |is not worth $119 Jn Canadian our- rency —W. E. 8. » A. The Federal Resicve Board says: “American gold coin i less valuable { than American parer wmoney in Can- ada, because the gold canuot be shij out of the country, while jn Can: | has by law the same -aluc’as Canadin | money. Paper money, on* the other | hand, can be shipped to the United | States, where it commands, &' premium over Canadian money Q. How does one secure & tedch! position in the United States detach Territories>—F. F. | "'A. Application for teaching positions |in the United States detached Terri- tories should be made to the following | offices: Alaska, Depurtment of the In- terfor, Washington, ¢ D. C.; Hawail, | Superintendent of _Public Instruction, Honolulu, Hawall; Psnama Canal Zone, | Panama Cinal, W:shington, D. C.; Philippine Service, Civil Service Com- mission, P at Seventh street northwest, Washingten, D, C.; Puerto Rico, Chief of the Bureau of Inrular Affairs, Wash- ington, D; C.; Virgin Islands, Governor of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, Vir- gin Islands. Q. For what invention was the first United States patent issued?—OC. C. A. The first patént was granted to Samuel Hopkins of Vermont on July 31, 1790. It was for & process of mak- ing pot and pear} ashes. The second patent was grant:d to Joseph Stacy Sampson on August 6, 1790, for the manufacture of candles, flour and meal. Q. How much water is removed in producing California’s dried fruit prod- | ucts?—L. 8. A. About 272,000,000 gallons of water are evaporated snnually from the Cali- fornia fresh fruit crop to convert it into dried fruits. Q. Is it true that there are churches within the Tower of London?—G. H. J. | ~A. There are two historic church within the precincts of the tower—=8t. John's Chapel in the White Tower and St. Peter’s in the Tower of Green. former is Norman, probably built about 1078 by William the Conguerer. The White Tower was originally called Caesar’s Tower. In this the remains of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, Jane Gray and the Duke of Monme are buried heneath the altar, Q. If radiators in rooms which are not in use are shut off, will more heat go into the other radiators?—C. E. A. If the steam is maintained at the xzm%&rmure. more heat will go inte | the other radiators. Comments on prospects of the Federsl budget, with at- tention to results of the conference be- | tween President-clect Roosevelt and representatives of his party, indicate & | belief that there is some confusion | which calls for vigorous assertion of leadership. New taxes are viewed with disfavor, and the proposed economy through reorganization is believed to face a hard struggle. o “Mr. Roosevelt will serve his party and the country,” advises the Baltimore can prevail upon congressional leaders to formulate a program based on recog- nition of the attainable in the short ses- sion, and consistent with the larger pro- gram Mr. Roosevelt presumably will of- fer after March 4. If the congressional | leaders could actually make up thelr minds on what they intend to do mz would find the doing of it much easier. The Texarkana Gazette (Democratic), | recaljing “a promise that a free hand | will given to Roos:velt after he en- A handbook of military stations, | roq it tgrough the adoption of methods | ters the White House, to reorganize the |used by s favorite fictional sleuth in | Government,” voices the belief that “a lot of Congressmen had their fingers crossed when they talked so freely of a ‘free hand,’ " since that body “wouldn't be running true to form if it permitted any reorganization in which it didn't have a hand.” This paper concludes: “With some cheese paring here and there, they are proceeding on the as sumption that the vast eral machine is to be retained virtually intact, and that the deficit will bs met with new taxes despite the evidence that tax boosting is driving capital further into hiding.” EEE “It is unfortunate,” declares the New York Times (independent), “that the meeting which Mr. Rooseveit had with the leaders of his party in Congress should seem to have been marked by hesitancy and divided counsels.” The Milwaukee Journal (independent) urges that “Democrats. apparently in con- fusion, need to show that they can cut the pie counter out, cut out good things, even desirable things, that the country cannot afford. Then we can listen adds the Journal for new taxes.” The Buffalo Evening News (independent Republican), observ- ing that “publication of the proj resulting from the New York conference started a prompt movement among Sun (independent Democratic), “if he e “to_their proposals | - | who greeted the New Year so anything after all those hours of playing hide- and-seek with his quarry, Mr. Tolefree and his faithful friend Farrar follow that blackich drive afoot, to learn that it leads to Pitway House, hcme of Maj. Cramb, and that they are just in tine for murder. Pitway House and its occupants are total strangers to Mr. Tolefree. From those who live there and from those who are guests, evil seems to seep and spread as does the blood.of the victim, whose dead bgg lies under a large center table. e author has drawn | & cast of characters whose eccentricities | and pecullarities of temperament qual- ify them all for the role of mur- derer. Cross-motives and cross-pur- | poses abound, to the confounding of | the minds of Superintendent Fiddick and' Inspector Murdoch, snd to the mind of the reader as well. But Mr. Tolefree declines to be confused or led astray by the obvious. An insatiable curlosity impels him, on the strength of an_anonymous note which started him ¢ff on that long motor ride in the first place, to get to the bottom of the reason for that note and the momentous occasion to which it led him. ‘Tolefree is an old friend to readers of Mr. Walling, and his admirers will wel- come wholeheartedly this new mystery Democrats to get away from them,” yet finds cause for commendation in the “principle that the budget must be bal- anced by taxation in some form.” The Lincoln = State Journal (independent Republican), quoting statements that Mr. Roosevelt "will not try to as a dictator in the matter of balancing the budget,” adds that “no one wants to be responsible for any misjakes Con- gress may make in imposing taxes and | raising revenues, or even ™ reducing @penditures. “The ®untry looks to Mr. Rootevelt, the head of his pa wie Newark Evening* | that the situation which has developeq in Washington consfitutes & new ana graver challenge to Franklin Rooseve powers of leadership.” Too Much Greeting. Prom the Indianapolis News. Here and there will be found citizens they haven’t greeted v An Ideal Candidate. Prom the Memphis Commerelal Apeal. Do doubt the technocrats would actually port Mr. Robot for President. ”’-hfln 'wm ‘New Taxes Strongly Assailed In Budget Balancing Effort lesson definitely. 'If it be fear of pul Phuuu which is keeping eaders from striking out | have misresd the country’s AP “I¢ will uot be noeu-r'i:o Louisville income taxes,” suggests Courier-Jovrnal lmflmndmt&.e Such a ryduction would remove of thi wrong_procedure. putting cart before the horse. Pirst cut down expenditures; it will then be clear whether higher taxation is necessafy, and if it should be, how much higher. It is the Courier-Journal's conviction that if Congress will give Franklin Roosevelt full authority to re- organize the Government as it should be reorgar.ized and will supplement his work by waring to the bone appropri- ations, trs budget will be , without mwaking the burden of taxation any heavi, r.” * X ok The proposed increase in income | taxes is et by the argument from | the Roangke World-News (Demecratic) | that “the jeneral feeling is that it is dif- ficult enowgh to gather an income these days with,ut giving it to the Govern- ment aftey it is gathered.” That paper adds: “If Congress is to do any real budget bajancing, it will have to come to something the taxpavers have been crying for for some time—economy in governmeit. And absolutely nothing— not even a sales tax or an increased income tix would be harder for Con- gressmen . to swallow, For economy means se/)arating some of the faithful from thelr singcures. That is some- thing Congress will do only as a last resort. It begins to look as if the m: neuvers of Hoover and Roosevelt, con- ducted swparately, have placed Con- gress in a positfon where some genuine economy ‘yill be the only way out.” The Columbia (S. C.) State (Democratic) wamns thet “men can be taxed out of business, definitely encouraged, and even driven to put their money where it can- not be reached, instead of putting it where it will give employment.” As & substitute for existing D! the Oshkosh Iially Northwestern voices the conclusion that ‘“economic common | sense approves a general sales tax, but political prrtisanship is against it.” “When we had more than enough money,” argues the San Francisco Chronicle (Independent Republican), “perhaps we could afford to d some of it in taking care of of Congressman, whose friends would, in | turn, take care- of the Congressman. What if it did co«t‘:nkno.m Mm often mucn more, eep & man in a $10,000 job?k It yas .the othe® fellsw's money anyway, and we could aford to have him spend it. So at least we thought. But no longer! Now weeknow that it is our and that we cannot afford to one dollar of )t except for & dollar’ ’ of service,” ————— No Warrant for Fasting. Prom the Minneapolis Journal. A conference of Hindus has piotestad 's series of unl-“hfi Man’s Failure. From the Schenectady Gaif tte. o1 he carvesdivids his food supply as well as t2e cattle dog - s i'rance and Austria.