Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1933, Page 20

THE EVENING STAR With Sundsy Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. anuary 282, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES..,.Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: d Pennsylvania Ave. 110 East 42nd e Michigan Bullding. R(ltll 8t. London, Englan Rate by Carrier Within the City. Evening Star_.......... .45 per month The EVeninE ahd sundiy’ Biar 60c per month (when 4 Sundays) e Events hen” 5 65¢ per month .5c per copy t the end of each month. Orders may be sent in by mail or telephons NAtional 5000, Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunda; 1yr,$10.00: 1 mo.. 88¢ Dally only .. 1yr.: $6.00: 1 mo.. 50c Sunday only 1yr.. $400: 1mo.. 40c All Other States and Canada. Da yr., $12.00; 1 mo.. $1.00 By only . jundsy only > §8.00; 1mo., 8¢ r. 5,00 1mo. 800 Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of sl news dis- atches credited to it or Dot otherwise cred- I this paper and also the local new: published herein. All rights of publication of pecial dispatchés herein are slso ed. = Chicago Office: Li European Office: her] Compromise Is Desirable. It is impossible to belleve that the negotiations for peaceful adjustment of the rate dispute between the Public ‘Utilities Commission, the people’s coun- sel and the Potomac Electric Power Co. are to be broken down because the law- yers cannot concur on a word or phrase to express the principle upon which they are already agreed. The lawyers ate agreed that a satis- factory compromise is wore to be de- sired than a continued kfiock-down and drag-out court battle that will last for years and advantage no one, in the end, except the lawyers, depriving the public of the benefit of rate reductions in the meantime. Last week their conferences were ended abruptly, partly because they could not agree on phraseology, partly, perhaps, because they felt a cooling-off period would be appropriate. The con- ferences should be resumed. ‘The people’s counsel and the Public | Utilities Commission took the view last year that under the consent decree, pro- viding for the automatic adjustment of rates each year by an agreed-upen for- mula, rates were not being lowered as much as they might be in relation to the returns enjoyed by the power com- pany. The commission decided to scrap the consent decree and substitute a new formula that would produce lower rates. | ‘The company took the position that the commission could not scrap the decree, but the District Supreme Court held, in effect, that the Public Utilities Com- mission not only had the right to do it, but under the law was charged with the duty of fixing rates. From this de- cision the company has appealed. Now all parties have agreed that it would be better to reach a compromise than to continue the litigation in the upper courts. It is an unfortunate thing, but it is a fact that this litiga- tion would consume months, perhaps | years. The company wants to revive the consent decree, but with a new formula for rate fixing. People’s Coun- sel Keech, with the backing of Cor- poration Counsel Bride and his assist- ant, Mr. West, wants to preserve, spe- cifically, the commission's Tight, es- tablished in District Supreme Court, to modify the consent decree at any time in the future that such modification seems desirable in the public interest. ‘There appears to be a difference of opinion between the lawyers as to Whether this right would be recognized in a new consent decree. But there is little logic in regarding temporary failure to adjust the con- flicting points of view as a permanent impasse. The old consent decree worked equitably for several years. If a new one is drawn up now, it might work successfully again for | several years. But if at the end of the first year or the second year or the third year the commission finds that changing conditions make the rates too high in relation to the company's profits, what is to prevent the com- mission from abandoning the decree again? The commission's right to do this may be challenged. But has it not already met that challenge suc- cesstully? The commission, on the other hand, In Shaw’s case, of course, element of promoted fame. had such publicity as has been the of no other literary For two-score years he vertised by the world press. getting no less notice today than received at any earlier period. has been no decline in the friendliness which reporters and editors have man- ifested toward him. Nor does it seem that the subject has been overdone. Shaw has been an authentic news value; he still is news. So it is somewhat remarkable that Dr. Henderson's materials did not prove more highly profitable. They should have brought better prices. Possibly the explanation is to be found in the fact that there was nothing im- portant sold which had not already been printed. Dr. Henderson has been writing about his hero since 1904. In his books and magazme articles ut Shaw he has used the letters and Totes disposed of yesterday, The public, Shavian and non-Shavian, knows the Henderson collection well. That de- tracts, of course, from its worth on the market. But it may be that Dr. Henderson has other letters from Shaw, letters he does not wish to sell at present. If so, let him be exceedingly mysterious | about them. Let him keep their con- tents to himself. Then, in due time, he can offer them as so many pigs in | pokes. which, as any auctioneer will | testify, is a very good way to offer ! pigs. People will pay for mystery. ———ree Japan's Monroe Doctrine. While there is nothing new in For- i eign Minister Count Uchida's declara- tion that peace in the Far East must be based on recognition of Japan as the mainstay of tranquillity in that part of the world, it has a significance at this hour outstripping the importance which would have attached to it if promulgated under other conditions. What the Diet at Tokio heard yes- terday from Count Uchida was in effect the formal proclamation of & Japanese Monroe Doctrine for Asia. That is its general implication. Its specific purport 15 & notice to Europe and America that the island empire | will brook no outside interference in | the arbitrament of such controversies | as her unofficial war with China, espe- |cially if her own method of settling them is undertaken as & measure of safeguarding Japan's ‘“national ex- istence.” In the pursuit of that pro- gram, Count Uchida asserts, Japan has no territorial designs anywhere on the globe and no intention of picking & quarrel with any one. The Japanese are a serious-minded people. A sense of humor is not in- cluded among their many admirable national characteristics. If it were, it is hardly to be supposed that Nipponese statesmanship would expect Count Uchida's observations to be accepted abroad at their face value when coupled with other portions of his Diet address. Apparently without the slightest suspicion that nop-Japanese will find anything incongruous between pledges of non-aggression and Japan's conduct in Manchuria, the Tokio for- eign minister addresses a solemn warn- ing to China to desist from further measures of self-defense. ~He warns Nanking that any attempts by Chinese forces to “invade” Jehol, the province adjacent to the Great Wall on the south and to the new State of Manchu- kuo on the east, will be viewed by Japan with the “gravest apprehension.” ‘Chim will prepare at her profound peril, she is told, to defend that terri- | tory against the troops of Japan and Manchukuo. Count Uchida speaks with no less disarming candor of possible Com- munist developments in China. While refraining from passing judgment on the question of whether the recent | Russo-Chinese rapprochement would intensify Communist propaganda among the Chinese, the foreign minister in- directly thrusts at it. He says that if red activity along the Yangtze River should increase, in consequence of re- sumed Moscow-Nanking relations, Ja- | pan would regard it as a menace so | serious that she could not ignore it. As in the case of China' | the Province of Jehol, events in the Yangtze Valley almost in “invasion” of might continue the present fight on i the language of a dictator who regards through the Court of Appeals. Suppose it won? Suppose its rights to abandon the decree and fix new rates were again afirmed? What then? Would not the next step be to draw up a formula for rate fixing that would be acceptable to the company? For, if not acceptable to the company, the company would again resort to the courts. Reasonable compromise s the only way to avoid this endless game of ring-around-the- rosy, and a new consent decree assur- edly appears to be the desirable form of compromise. v—.— | himself monarch of all he surveys. In Manchuria it was “bandits” who justi- | fied the great Japanese military cam- | paign which set in sixteen months ago. Might not “Communists” serve as the pretext for another Japanese armed ‘adventuu along the Yangtse? —_—— | ‘The Japanese gave some attention to the League of Nations; but apparent- |1y not quite enough to find out what it was all about. —_—rae———————— | Stepping Out, | Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President- Homicides of all kinds have become { elect, is stepping out. Apparently he s0 frequent that presently there will |has cast aside the hands-off attitude be nothing left for the films that spe- | Which he assumed toward the present cialize in grotesque sensation to tell. —— e Shaviana. In the autograph and first edition market the personal literary productions of George Bernard Shaw are not worth as much as might have been supposed. “Two hundred and four items of Shaviana were sold at auction in New Yopk re- cently. They brought only $7,887, a little less than $34 per item. Presumably, the admirers of the play- wright are just as numerous as ever. Dr. Archibzld Henderson of Chapel Hill, N. C, evidently had no hesitation in offering his collection for sale. Granted that this is depression time, he had reason to suppose that there were enough Shaw fans in the country to ensure spirited bidding for “the best collection of Shaviana in the United States.” Otherwise, of course, he would not have risked his treasures. Shaw himself has been conscious of a Shavian boom in recent years, and repeatedly has advised Dr. Henderson, his American biographer, to sell “while the boom lasts” The circumstances ‘were unusual. It is not often that the personalia of a living author has any extraordinary value. Being dead is one of the requisites in writers favored by collectors. Robert Burns had been abgent from the earthly scene for more than & century before a bibliophile was willing to pay for a single inscribed copy of & book of his verse a sum exceeding ell the money the poet ever saw in his whole life, and Edgar Allan Poe had [ Congress and its doings earlier in the Winter. During his brief visit to Wash- ington Thursday and Friday, Mr. Roose- velt made it clear to Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader, that he was anxious to get as much needed legis- lation through this session of the Con- gress as possible. Mr Roosevel; has particularly in mind, it was explained, the passage of the farm ald bill, gener- ally known as the domestic allotment | bill, which passed the House with some modifications. He went so far as to request the Republican chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Sena- tor McNary, to discuss the farm bill with him, and to urge upon him prompt action on this measure. Mr. Roosevelt’s demand for legisla- tion at the present session should have been made earlier. With enly six weeks left of the present short session, it looks as though nothing could be ac- complished. It is true that the Presi- dent-elect, at & conference in New York with Democratic leaders in Congress, agreed to a program which included not only the farm bill, but also the an- actment of tax legislation to balance the budget and the passage of the beer bill. When that conference was held, not moré than two weeks ago, it was too late. In a short sessiom, if construc- tive measures are to be put through, the fight must begin at the drop of the hat. The great difficulty at the opening of the present short seasion Jay in the faet that the Democrats in Congress pre- T ferred to continue their sharp-shooting at President Hoover-to getting down to the brass tacks of putting through needed legislation. And now the Re- publicans are giving the Democrats a dose of their own med ‘The charge has been made, and apparently not con- tradicted, that the Republican leader- ship of the Senate aided and abetted the Long filibuster against the Glass bank reform bill. Certainly the Repub- lican leaders lined up with the Louisi- ana Senator, delivering their votes against cloture. Instead of seeking, through some | measure of co-operation, to make the short session of the old Congress. of some value to the country, both the Democrats and the Republicans have continued toplay politics. This may be political human nature. Unfortunately for the country it is an ingraimed habit on Capitol Hill. At first Mr. Roosevelt and his. Democrats = turned thumbs down on everything that bore the imprint of the Hooyer administra- tion. They decried that no appointments to office should be confirmed by the Senate; they declared that the Hoover plan for reorganization of the Govern- ment in the interest of economy and the onus of such legislation was placed upon the shoulders of Mr, Roosevelt. Let the Law Aot Swiftly! The apeedy solution of & murderous hold-up which occurred in this city on Friday is highly creditable to the police force, even though it was facilitated by the blunder of ane of the partici- pants. He was already suspected of implication in the crime through the fact of his former employment by the company, the paymasters of which were on their way with the pay roll when they were intercepted and shot by the would-be robbers. As a result of an immediate and effective inquiry into the circumstances and surroundings of the crime, the capture of the gang was accomplished in short order and con- fessions were obtained yesterday. In keeping with the speed with which the circumstances of this tragedy were brought to light, there shouid be an immediate trial of all connected with the case. It would be in the interest of public security thus to demonstrate | the law's effectiveness. Washington has been the scene of numerous outrages of this character of late. Gunmen have made free of the city, robbing and killing with little check. In only a few, cases have the perpetrators of these crimes been caught and in fewer still have they been punished. In this present instance lles opportunity for expedition of justice which may and should serve to demonstrate that there is still law against murderous highway- manry in the Capital. ————————— Meetings of President and President- elect show a desirable cordiality, al- though no conciliation can be expected equal to that in which former Governor Alfred Smith figured with so much | prominence. R Announcements are made that there will be no pork barrel, in spite of the | compliments extended to Mr. Roose- | velt as the man who “brought home the bacon.” —————— Lame duck demonstrations may cause many to favor the 9th of Novem- ber as the date of an inauguration. o SHOOTING STARS. 3 BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Outlooker. I'm lookin' out for burglars and I'm lookin' out for thugs, I'm lookin out for germs which science flippantly calls “bugs.” I'm lookin’ out for motors that are dashing down the street And for all kinds of taxes that are fearful hard to meet. I'm lookin’ out for this and I am lookin" out for that, 2 I am lookin’ out for debtors who insist on standin’ pat. I sometitmes take a peek around the corner with great care, ‘While hoping to discover that prosperity is there. . My state of wild confusion I admit just now is such ‘That I find I'm getting cross-eyed, just from lookin’ out so much! Just around the corner is a large and patient throng; I'd maybe join that bread line if it didn't seem so long. And so I just keep goin' in a state of weary doubt. I cannot get a look-in, always lookin’ out. ‘cause I'm Powerful Influence. “You are still the people’s choice.” “Of course I am,” said Senator Sor- ghum. “And all because of your pursuasive personality!” “It’s only partly that. The man who backs my campaigns holds mortgages on half the farms in the community.” Jud Tunkins says he can’t see much g0od in an education that only enables & man to say he's “impecunious” in- stead of broke. Conscientious Concerned. The promises were far from few, With much concern we view them. We're trying, since the campaign's through, To find a way to do them. Agriculture Militant. “People have at last taken the farmer “But they would not do it till he quit farmin’ and earried his pitohfork to » foreclosure sale.” “It is fortunate to be clever,” said Hl Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “especi- ally if you are clever enough to win your games always honestly.” Rudimentary Finance. A nation once grabbed all the gold. Its people soon may thare it When they have learned the truth so old, They ean't eat, drink or wear it. “Children thinks dey knows more dan parents” said Uncle Eben, “an’ de worst of it is dat maybe sometimes dey is right.” P ® TAKING FOR GRANTED BY THE RIGHT REBV. “They supposing Him to have been in the company.” This fragment from the story of Christ’s first visit to Jerusalem marks His emergence upon the stage of public action. Joseph and his wife, Mary, the mother of Christ, had made their annual pilgrimage to the Holy After the manner of the times, 'y had traveled in caravans with kinsfolk and friends. The great serv- JAMES E. FREEMAN, D, D, LL. D, ishop of Washingto: n. at_every 3 every conversation.” ly beautiful. The natural in- q is, what are the evidences that these affirmations? Is # a brief word of gratitude said at every meal to the giver of every good and perfect gift? Isita in each day Where the ices being over, ‘were NOw. returning to et e Nmm ton Presently they were conscious of the absence of their son, the boy Jesus. They thought Him for a while with His companions and friends, but after dili- gent search had been made consterna- tion prevailed, for He could not be found. Returning to Jerusalem, they found him in the temple in one of its chambers in the midst of the doctors “both hearing them and asking them questions.” This scene in the temple bas been immortalized by the great artist Hoffman in a picture universally own. ‘Thelr supposition that He was in the company 15 sugestive of an attitude of mind common to us all. Much of life is based upon supposition. We live mostly upon assumptions. As s matter of fact, our whole mhm}l;.nd commercial us faith and practice, it is remark- able how large a place supposition plays. ‘There is widespread recognition of the transcendent and incomparable place that Christ occuples as the fore- most of the religious teachers of the world. This is quite unchallenged. His place is u:‘mun and unduyuuld.d ‘!;(; teachings have never been equaled, as the Bavior of the world He has been universally revered. We call' ourselves Christians; we accept His name and His philosophy of life; we call the Na- tion & “Chris Nation” and thereby assume His will to be the law of the land. We suppose Him to be in our company. When we narrow this to circle of the home, we. think of our household as Christian, and of the great Master as its honored guest. We would repel the lug‘uuun that the place of our most intimate fellowship is in Christian quality and character. have been in many a Home where I have seen the legend: “Christ is the head of this house; the unseen guest the |spirit that accom character? Do we sup) Him to in the company of our hold, or there a deep consc! of the sanc- tifying influence of His presence? Broadening our theme to our occupa- tional life, what are the evidences, the conspicuous evidences, in counting room, places of trade, professional offices, that He is the guest whom we honor? We talk much of the Golden Rule; how large a part does it play in the trans- actions of the day's activities? Are the the places where we a larger world of action witne His d, lace where His honor dwelis. fhm we worship through praise and sacrament; we believe Him to be in our company in confirmation of His word: “Where two or three are gathered to- ther, there I am In the midst." fi.nmy in worship is not determined by the finest sentiment disclosed in our h or the besuty of phrasing in our W‘ ‘These are but means, aids to p; it is not the vehicle which our worship is ted, but the it, that deter- mines its efficacy. Surely here at the tion must be made true to you always” “I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.” All our suppositions concerning Him must give place to the sense of intimacy and fellowship. Reviving BY WILLIAM HARD. Debts of all sorts are again forging to the foreground for Washington's po- litical consideration. These debts in- clude domestic farm debts, domestic railroad debts, domestic general ‘cor- poration debts, debts owed by foreign governments to the United States Gov- ernment and also cebts owed by for- cign governments to private United States citizens. That last variety of debts is now occupying some of the attention of the State Department. With State Depart- ment encouragement an effort is going forward to organize a “council’—or the like—of private representatives of pri- vate American investors owning foreign | governmental bonds which are in de- fault’ or in threatened default. This move by the United States Gov- ernment is greeted with applause by the British “Council of Foreign Bond- holders,” located in Loncon. The Brit- | ish Council is a semi-official body cre- ated by act of the British Parliament and interested in trying to collect de- faulted interest and defaulted princi- Ffll of debts owed to British investors T oml governments in 26 countries, in- | cluding the United States. * x % x The State governments in the United States from which the British Council has endeavored to make collections are those of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina. These State governmental debts— which have nothing to do with the war between the States—were incurred mainly in the course of local govern- mental promotion of banks and rail- roads. The repudiations of them, rightful or wrong, began in 1842 and terminated in 1884. The total princi- pal involved is some $77,000,000. Prin- cipal plus interest at 5 per cent would bring the grand total sum in dispute o_approximately $300,000,000. New notice has been focused upon this particular g\uunan by Mr. 8. O. Levinson of Chicago, author of the “Outlawry of War” and author of re- peated plans for the soiution of the international debt problem. In com- pany with other notable Chicagoans Mr. Levinson this week promulgated a new plan for the quieting of the debts controversy between European govern- ments apd the United States Congress. ¥ x % Mr. Levinson proposes that we ac- cept $1,350,000,000 in final settlement of the debts owed to us by European governments to which we advanced money during and immediately after the Great War. The present face value of those debts, in banking terms, Mr. Levinson calculates as being— roughly—$5,000,000,000. He would ac- cordingly have us settle with our debt- ors on & basis of 25 cents on the dollar. Many financial and political experts here think that Mr. Levinson is too optimistic. They think that his suc- cessful cxperience in the reorganiza- tion of industrial and railroad cor- porations has inspired him perhaps with an excessive conndence in nego- UaLONS IOr LAE SAIVAGIE Of 8Ssuis. ‘4Ney dount iI OUr EUroucan deolors wil eyer Day Us as mucu as 30 cenws on tne Guuar. rRey incine to De- Leve that Zu Cenis wowid De & Io:ie accurale Prognosucation. * % % % Others here think, contrariwise, that Mr. Levinson is giving away a bit 100 much beiorenang. ‘iruey would not pe content to try lor §1,25u,000,00v. ‘rhey would aim at $1,500,000,000, or even $1,- 750,000,000, None of them—of information and of experience—seems 10 imagine thau we could possibiy arrve av negotiating ourselves into getling as mucn as $i, 000,000,000. Mr. Levinson, however, adds two con- dicions 1o fus wilingness to compromise with our debtors on tne other siae of the Auantic. ‘The first condition is that they shall Teauce thelr aimaments and accora- ingly enabie US Lo Teduce our OWn arm- aments on @ scale winicn he calculates Wolg save us some $4,000,000,000 aur- ing the next tweive years. The second condition 1s: “In order further to promote good will and & general appeasement, the contested claims which have been as- serted—particularly by British citizens —against certain of our State govern- ments shall be abandoned and released.” LI Mr. Levinson seems politically to cal- cwate that in this way it might be pos- sible to commend a genera; European debts reduction and settlement to the United States Senators from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, 3 , Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and South | er Carolina. Some of those Senators have been very vehement against “repudia- tion” by European governments of their debts to the United States taxpayers. Interest Abroad in Collecting | Debts Defaulted by Some American States 1 | lands o last year the Amsterdam Stock Il.:‘x‘ghln(e? Th!:’cll'cuhr empha- sized particularly the debts alleged to| | be owed by the State of Mississippi— | ever since 1842—to numerous Nether- land citizens. Those debts were declared legal by the Mississippi Supreme Court, but | were subsequently outlawed by popular | referendums in the State and by an | amendment to the State constitution. Ak earliest days of the Mississippi original | defaults was made in 1843 to the Sec- retary of the Treasury of the United | Btates by Col. William Robinson, who | had been commissioned by the Secre- | tary to try to borrow money for the | United States Government in Lon-| |don. Col. Robinson was unable |to secure the money. He report- | led that the defaults had ruined American national credit and he added: “Many persons of small incomes in England have invested their whole es- tates in American securities, and the fajlure to pay interest on those se-| curities has left many families in utter destitution.” It is true that some of the defaults |and repudiations by American States | were popularly jus\fied by illegalities or unconstitutionalities in the contract- | ing of the loans. It is also true, how- | ever, that some of the defaults and re- | pudiations never by any argument con- | ceivable could be clothed with any such | justification. Mr. Levinson's idea is |to draw & sponge over the whole slate | of the repudiation episode in our na- | tional history at the same moment ‘whm we arrive at an ultimate accomo- | dation, with our governmental debtors | abroad. * k% % It is now thoroughly understood here | that the intergovernmental debts diffi- | culty must be put on the way toward | clarification before the difficulties | which will arise in the International Economic Conference of next Summer can be surmounted or even approached. 'This is }unly because certain other problems of debts will undoubtedly gain attention in the course of the proceed- ings of the conference itself. The con- ference will in all probability consider, for instance, the debts owed by default- ing governments in Europe and in South America to investors all over the world, including investors resident in the States of our Union. Such investors may be citizens of defaulting State governments among us, while at the same time they afe creditors of de- faulting national governments in for- eign parts. In the International Eco- nomic Conference an attempt will be mace to organize a sort of general in- ternational framework within which the problem of the collecting of debts from defaulting national governments may be co-operatively advanced with equal justice to all creditors concerned. The conference will also undoubtedly address itself to the possibility of the adoption of monetary measures for the e::}l‘mnclnl o’t nru:e‘:—&';neh issonly an- other way of sa] “ - ronp it K ying “for the lighten Te are at least 40 bills in the rrmnt session of Congress for the ightening of debts within the United !states tlhroug}r) ;he reduction of the ace value of farm es and through the hcmuflanmmmxmy proceedings for industrial and railroad corporations and so on. While this process of liquidation is moving for- ward at home, the Interna Eco- nomic Conference will be endeavoring in London to make it easier for debtors to pay their debts by making it easier for them to get more money for the fm'if‘ki“: whie'h they produce. It looks el s great year for debts and (Copyrisht, 1033.) Prosperity Believed to Be Creeping Back BY HARDEN COLFAX. A sudden decline in predictions as to when business conditions will improve has oocasioned much comment among observers here within the last few days, and there is a decided inclina- of returning economic health. of every new year are used in house-cleaning, -ut.:umuu in undunut Mr. Levinson apparently hopes that|eral they may look upon a little “repudia- tion"“by those gevernments with a more lenient eye if along with it they can secure an elimination of the charges of “‘repudiation” brought by European in- vestors for now these many years sgainst their own States. The feeling in Europe toward those States is always very intense and often very active. A circular on the subject was throughout the Nether- t business leaders have decided to fight of talking. PR Moreover, it is to be noted that the current year has thus far ‘without that t “the fnancial® of 1932, and s huneb, characterized m&:fl. nmhy“h say experts, nevertheless Iunmmrhm{ato&nmm- fellowships of the office, of the club, of | suite, A report on the consequences in the | term tion to view the situation as indicative | &TY Considering that the first few weeks | real turn business £ | i 5! 4 | i i | i 5 i E g § P £ g ¥ 5 ] g ! g £ g § 3 g g i i ¢ H i ¥ AT 3 A 2: All members who have served nine TMS. Noon, January 24, to noon, January 25: Members who have served eight | Noon, January 25, to noon, January 26: Members who have served seven terms. Nocn, January 26, to noon, January 27: Members who have served aix | terms. Noon, January 30, to noon, January : Members who have served five terms. Noon, January 31, to noon, February 1: Members who have served four terms. Noon. February 1, to noon, February 2: Members who have served three terms. Noon, February 2, to noen, February 3: Members who have served two terms. Noon, February 6, to noon, February 7: Members who have served onme Noon, February 7, to noan, February 8: Membars who have served less than one term. Noon. February 8, to noon, February 9: Former members of Congress. From February 9 to February 19: New members. * % % ¥ On the morning of each legislative day of Congress printed copies of all proceedings of the previous day's ses- sion are available to members and the public. This includes bills, resolutions, reports, hearings, legislative calendars and documents in addition to the Con- gressional Record, which is the dally | newspaper of Congress. The Record varies from 8 to 192 or more pages and averaged about 80 pages dlfl{nd\u'!nl the last regular session. Of this Record there are 35,500 copies printed daily. The copies of the daily and bound od{- tions of the Record average $700,000 annually. The Government Printing Office has been in operation for 72 years. It was aut] by act of Congress to pro- vide printing and binding for Congress and the Federal departments, bureaus and independent offiges. It now occuples 32 acres of space in buildings There are approximately employed at an annual compensation of approximately $10,000, Modern equipment valued at $5,315,000 gives the Government Print! Office first place among the world's ~equipped rinting plants. The annual value of its products in 1932, based on cost, was $14,333,000. floor $5,300,000. 160 persons ——————————m The Right Sort. From the Dayton Daly News. A London hotel bellboy left an estate of nearly $100,000, showing the advan- tage of hotel tips over on the stock market. ——r—t—————— Dual Authorship. Prom the Detroit Pree Press. One of the popular mistakes of this Losses of Manufacturing: Industries BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN; The huge sum of $45,469,459,000 rep- Tesents the losses sustained by the manufacturing industries of the United represen of the mon wealth to t of about $3%0 for each man. woman and child in the such a period there has occurred, ac- cording to_these official Government figures, a shrinkage of more than $45, 000,000 in only one branch of as tivity—marufacturing. Somewhere in the neighborhood of department of of the farm- losses 000 for the man No Census Bureau figures have been complled to show what losses in other are, but some judgment may be formed from the status of manufactur- | mi'n view of the fact that some 10- 000,000 people in the United States are estimated to be out of employment, the relatively small number out of work in of a surprise. In 1929, at the boom, there 8,838,743 workers employed in the manufacturing industries. In 1031 there still were 6,- 511,647 st work in the mills and fac- to! wil in 3! depression. number thrown ouf of employment was manufacturing industries lost $4,395, 386,000 in purchasing power in two years. That is enough to ext; h in iwo years the.entire British debt which amun was given Dot 2 but 62 years pay. A good many things could have been mm:gued by that monol. On a per capita basis it means that each of more than 2,000,000 lost about $1,900 in income, Losses in the economic sense are dis- tributed widely in s0 complex a system as that produced by modern civiliza« tion. For example, in 1929 the manu- facturing industries of the United States spent $38,549,579,000 for fuel and raw materials. The steel industry spent hugely for iron ore, the copper indus- try for copper ore. In 1931 this ex- pense figure of the manufacturing in= dustries had shrunk to only $21,420,« 124,000. Here was a decrease of $17,- 129,455,000 in iwo years in sums paid out to other industries. There must be taken into account some overlapping in these figures. For instance, the manu= facturing industries buy as raw mae terials some things which already have been partially manufactured but, how- ever it is ed, there has been a tre- mendous lg:nkm in outgo. This means that these other people have re- ceived less money with which to pay their help. ‘The transportation industry has been called our greatest industry. It has been the greatest single customer of some lines of manufacture in past years. But because of curtailed output the manufacturers have had less goods to | ship by freight. This has lessened the revenues of the railroads and short- ened their ability to buy goods from the manufacturers. So the loss must | be followed on down that channel. Right now there is pending a question of wage policy between railroad com- | panies and their workers. Thousands ve been laid off and wages have | been cut. Had there not been this | shrinkage of more than $17,000,000,000 | in _money paid by the manufacturing | industries for supplies, the railroads, as 1 well as others, would today be in better | financial condition. Taxable Property Declines. | ‘The consumer may find a crumb of 2,327,006. This is less than one-fourth | comfort in the fact that this situation of the tote] number claimed to have has lowered costs to him, but it is cold been out of work in all lines of en-|comfort in cases where he has nothing deavor. How many of those who lost | with which to pay for what he desires jobs in the manufacturing industries to consume. No matter how chezp an ound work in other lines cannot be | article is it makes no difference if the stated. | theoretical customer has no money with | which to meke his demand 3 Losses Widely Distributed. | Y00 chio vilos e e Much has been said to the effect that terials by the process of manufacture, loss of purchasing power by the farmer, | by the work done upon them, amounted due to depressed farm prices, has been | to $31,885,283,000. In 1931 the value ble for continued national woes. | added by manufacture was only $19,- But the loss in wages to those displaced 912,984,000. Here was a shrinkage of in manufacturing also has been tre- | $11972299,000. It might be argued mendous. In 1929 the wage bill of the | that the consumer has saved this manufacturing industries amounted to amount or something like it. That is, $11,620,973,000. In 1931 it had de- he has been required to pay about $12.- clined to $7,225,587,000. Here was a 000,000,000 less for the output of the shrinkage of $4,395,386,000 in cash mills and factories. In a direct sense money to the workers of the land. Some | that is true, but inssmuch as, in a of this decrease was due not directly to | country organized as the United States complete displacement, but to the cut-|is, the producer and the consumer are, ting of wages of those who remained at | in an economic sense, the same man, he work. However it is to be figured, the 'is merely taking this saving out of him- fact remains that the workers in the self. Britain Diverted by ] Cricket and Ireland | Flfty Years Ago BY A. G. GARDINER. ; In The Star LONDON, January 21.—A visitor | col to England this week would| The following news item in The Star have ounhd the mum ;nmm‘. g l‘i‘mh | of January 16, 1883, indicates the early two problems—not churia, which | resumption of ac- has now reached a most critical phase, | Potomac Flats tive operations in Operations. nor the World Economic Conference, the reclamation of which hovers like a phantom on the the Potomac fiats, horizon. Both questions concern the internal relations of the British Commonwealth. for which Washington had been long waiting: “Mr. P. Sandford Ross, the contractor mass-production age is the belief that two persons can write a better book than one. ———————————— Buzz Money. From the San Antonio Evening News. Electric dollar would stabilise prices, ascerts Prof. John P. Norton, economist. But wouldn’t it shock the financiera? creasing frequency that the feeling of impending disaster is not in general existence as it was a year or two years ag haps for several years when the of the depression was passed, ol tions are drifting into Government of- fices in increasing numbers in which it is taken for granted that last June was the low point. Recognition or accept- ance of that date as a fact has had and is having an influence that can- act to the con- shag Es¢ EEEi One, relating to Australia, is comic. for the improvement of the Potomac The other, relating to Ireland, is seri- | flats, arrived in the city last evening ous. It is the comic episode Which is | and was today occupied in superintend- the chief preoccupation of the public | ing the unloading of the cars and tools, mind. | which had beer sent on from Balti- The legend of Nero fiddling while more, and arranging for the continue Rome was burning is not inadequately | ance of the work. The locomotives that paralleled by the frenzied quarrel | are to be used on the trestle work have which has sprung up between England | been completed and will be sent here and Australia on the subject of cricket. | in a few days. The newly finished An English team touring in Australia | steam dredgers, two in number, are has won two out of three test matches | now in Jersey City, waiting for good 50 far played. It has won them large- | weather to make the trip here. Every- ly by concentrating its attack on the | thing is at a standstill just now on ae- “leg theory” of bowling, which the Aus- | count of there being no piles of suf- tralians regard as dangerous and un- ficient length. Mr. Sanford, the part- fair. | ner of the contractor, is now in the * ¥ x % | Rappahannock Valley superintending & The Australians take cricket with €ang of men who are cutting piles. enormous seriousness and the whole Some are already on the way here and country is in a fever of resentment &S s00n as they arrive, with favorable against the English methods, although | weather, the work will be resumed in the English point out that the Austra- | ernest. lians introduced these methods in Eng- | . land ago. Feeling culminated at - Adelalde this week in demonstrations| The problem of keeping the side- of unprecedented bitterness, with 50,000 | Walks of Washington clean in Winter- people keep an uproar of jeers'su_ ts i time was as difficult 50 Whenever the fast English bowler, Har- | SUI€€ts I years ago as now, as the old Larwood, bowled on the leg theory.| Winter, following in The Star of Before the conclusion of the match the | January 19, 1883, indi- Australians’ cricket board of control cates: 5 cabled the Marylebone Club, British| “The action of the authorities in headquarters for cricket, formally pro- | bringing up with a round turn those testing against the methods, calling | Who refuse or neglect to remove the for their discontinuance and declaring snow from the front of their premises that unless body-line bowling were | is proper and is to be commended. Peo- stapped the results threatened to have | Ple who shirk their plain duty as citi- most serious consequences on the| 2ens in this respect show little regard friendly relations of the two countries. | for the safety and comfort of others, uestion is now the subject of | 8s well as a disregard for the laws, and * 0. h it cannot be known - | be Althoug! 0 dop:t.h universal heated debate and abandonment of the tournament is be- ing discussed. Two test matches re- main to be played, and in the present mood of the Australian public it is felt “| that & repetition of the scenes at Adelaide might lead to serious harm— if not to the relations between the two countries, at least to the English play- ers_engaged in the games. ‘The gen: comment in the English K" is that if cricket cannot be played the spirit of sport it had better not layed at all. test match duel between Eng- land and Australia has been the great- est event in the cricket world for over half a century, but never before has it the occasion of ap- even | they should be punished accordingly. So far as the general public is con- cerned, however, its interest would be still further promoted if the authori- ties would remove the beam from their own eyes, as well as require the ree moval of the mote in the eyes of other people. There is little advantage to .. pedestrians in finding the sidewalks |clean and dry if they must wade | through snow and slush at every street crossing every time there is a fall of snow; and it is to this point that thase in authority should direct their atten- | tion, as well as to shortcomings in in- | dividual cases. Whenever there is need | for cleaning the sidewalks there is | equal and generally greater need far cleaning the street crossings, and when {the one work is required the other 1 a g roaching the present Dbitterness of ?uuu. * k% Turning aside from this serio-comic should be promptly undertaken. If it be said that the Commissioners have no money with which to defray the ex- pense of such work, the answer might quarre]l to the more serious problem of very properly be made that the neces~ ‘Eiég sary labor for the purpose should be mmlimeah from the work.hnul:. ple who pay the expense of carry- ng on that establishment are entitled to some substantial and visible return for their outlay and in no way o its inmates be more advantageously employed than in keeping the streel and street crossings in cleanly a passable condition for those who are obliged to go about the city on foot.” 13 omerary he anmounosd his detarmiot: announ srmina- to achieve Ireland’s complete ce, political as well as eco- Elsewhere he declared he would no peace with Great Britain un- the rnmon of Ireland had been William Cosgrave, former President State, who stands for main- * “Minister Lowell has written a let- ter to Speaker Keifer,” says The Star o Parliament xxéa]é’ “in ‘whigh !h'e icloses the newly And Congress. ot Tules of rccedure by which it is hoped to con- ‘0l and expedite business in the House of Commons. Mr, Lowell takes the op- portunity to say that he rds the new rules as of already physically with it. A thousand bills are now on the calendars, with favorable and in unanimor