Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1933, Page 8

THE JEN ey Mevaieg Bives. WASHINGTON, D. C. February 17, 1083 ——— THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busine: i u ! 11 3 11 N n:wmrgfi Sice” 10 Eaet d2nt Gt ghicago Gffce” Leke Michiean Bundin. ropean Office: llllfidlenl 8t.. Loadon, nland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. o Erenine Star, __45¢ per month Evening and &uiday Star (when 4 Sundays) ening and Sunday Star when 8 Sundays) 65¢ per month The Sunday Star... 5c per copy Collection made at the end of each month Orders may be sent in by mail or telephone NAtional 5000. Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. ind and Virginia. Daily and Sunday....1yr.,$10.00: } mo.. 88¢ oy, o [1yr. $600: 1mo’. 80¢ inday only All Other States and Canada. fly and Sunday.. ;yr.. S:g 00: ::’:8 . Sl_gg ] { EE;‘J" o ¥ 1mo. 50 | poliey of “miseducation” which society | aTe avowed enemies of the established ¥i 00: 1yr.. $5.00; 1yr, $4.00; 1mo.. 40c | s ! | i TENIN & racy for which Washington Jabored and | ization of government. His sick brain EVENING STAR ‘unco‘ln died, there he stood at the bar | functioned only to the one point of of justicé, a juvenile monster, symboliz- ' secking the life of the head to be of !mg a social fault which cries for im- | the State, with perhaps a vague pur- | mediate and drastic correction. Harry Murch is a product of the nega- He has | concept to the point of the result of been made to order by forces over which | his crime if it had been effective. The ‘flve processes of “education.” | as yet soclety has no adequate control | Both he and his victim wee imitatc | of celebrated but infamous characters | exploited by the movies and the radio. | They aped what they saw, hcard and How els2 could they have been In what other wey couid 60c per month | they have developed cuch an ideolcgy | Constitution, more perfectly buttressed ] Through what other | @gainst interruption than ever, Probably | read motivated? |of vicicusness? | | channels could such degenerate notions ‘The | perm:ate the adolescent mind? murder of William Bander was pro- { moted, i not directly inspired, by the | agencies which thus far the schools, the churches and the constituted authoritics of the Nation and State have been un- able to reach. It was the fruit of a Member of the Assoclated Press. | cannot afford to tolerate. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise cred- n this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of public-tion of special dispatches herein are elso :oserved. e The Senate Settles It. The Senate vote on the Blaine repeal resolution yesterday undoubtedly marn} the end of prohibition by constitutional amendment. sentcd as being even more surpnsed‘ than were the drys by the result. If that is true, and all the indications are that it is true, the Senate vote was in | the nature of a shot in the dark. It| ‘Was more or less aimless, But it struck home. It struck home because it has dealt & mortal blow to constitutional prohi- bition. There is little doubt about the result to be expected Monday when the House takes up repeal for the second time and votes on the Blaine resolution under suspension of the rules. Six Wotes killed the naked repeal resolution voted on by the House on the opening day of the session. More than six votes ‘will be switched when the matter comes up again on Monday after caucuses of Democrats and of Republican wets. And with the submission of repeal to the States before March 4, there is every prospect that the ratification by three-fourths of them will be only a matter of time. That appears to be true for the simple reason that the source of any effective opposition to a change in prohibition laws is yet to be revealed. The question to be sub- mitted to the States will be change or no change. The manner of change, unfortunately, has recetved secondary consideration. The manner of change ~will not be the question submitted to the people. ‘The Senate method of repeal is open to criticism because nobody knows how effective it will be in guaranteeing to the people of this country that the evils of the liquor traffic exemplified in the saloon of pre-prohibition days will not return. The straight repeal of the elghteenth amendment, modified only by constitutional prohibition against shipment of liquors into States which chogse to remain dry, places again upon the States the same problem that they decided to solve by ratification of the eighteenth amendment. Their desire to prevent the return of the saloon now and their abllity to prevent it have been promised. The test is yet to come. The duty of wets and drys alike is to ac- cept the new challenge; to work in the States for the preservation of gains made under the eighteenth amendment, @and to prevent those gains from being placed in jeopardy by acceptance of the theory that it will be a simple task now to prevent the return of the saloon. It will be no simple task. It will re- quire vigorous and intelligent and con- sistent effort. Should this Congress, as in all probabil- ity it will, submit the prohibition repeal question to the States, problems confront- ing the special session of Congress will have been unexpactedly lightened. With the prohibition question out of the way, the special session will be free to con- centrate upon the more important eco- nomic problems of rellef and recon- struction. But both this Congress and the next may have to occupy them- selves with setting up a new and un- tried machinery for ratification of a eonstitutional amendment. Ratifica- tion by State conventions, favored by both political parties, will be the meth- | od directed by Congress. Congress is yet to decide whether the expenses and the rules governing such conventions are 1o be Federal or State responsibilities. ————————— Japen has assumed the right to a| concession in Manchuria for supplying | “this way out” signs written in Chinese, —————————— The Young Imitators. If any proof were needed of the sometimes ynfortunate imitative genius | of children, it would be abundantly| supplied by the story of William Bender | and Harry Murch of Queens County, N. Y. Twelve and fifteen years of age, respectively, they were members of a “secret society” of boys, engaged in gen- ersl mischief in the neighborhood in | which they lived, a suburb of the me- tropolis. Their misdemeanors included beating and robbing an elderly woman. Bender told his relatives of that “ad- venture.” Knowledge of his violation | of the “gang law” of silence reached | the ears of Murch. He “watched his | chance for revenge.” At last his op-| portunity came. He inveigled the “traitor” into an abandoned house, | trussed him with rope, rammed a gag down his throat and stabbed him to death with a knife. Two weeks later the body of the executed ‘“snitcher” | was found by the police. | Future historians, in search of data | for the judgment of the present era, will do well to include this tragic nar- rative in their notes. It throws a blistering light “on conditions which bring the blush of shame to the cheeks of every thoughtful Amesican. It in- dicates a major problem of this genera- tion. What explanation can there be of such a shocking incident? These boys ‘were beneficiaries of the most generous- ly endowed and theoretically the most competent school system the warld ever has seen. Presumably, they were not isolated from normal religious mm.i ing. Supposedly, they were not exempt from police supervision. And yet both were “hard-boiled” criminals “on the make,” and one now is a confessed | cightzenth amendment. e The Senate Moves. The Senate apparcntly has taken a | new lease on life and within the last tW0 | cent Leon Czolgosz to Buffalo in Sep- veeks it has passed five of the annual | appropriation bills and put through @ | he, poor wretch, was acting upon his resolul repeal of * the In the two weeks remaining the Upper House, if it ticn propesing The wets were repre- | Mmaintains its present disposition to get nals and they should be restrained. action, may accomplish a great deal, including the final disposition of all the appropriation-bills. It is true that the time is brief. No b:tter demonstration, however, of the ability of the Senate to move quickly once it 50 determines has | been given than in recent days. Having | fiddled away in useless bickering the first two months of the short session, and with only a month remaining, the Senate has buckled down to work and given a real demonstration of what it can do. The House, always in a position to act quickly, if properly led, because of the rules that prevall in that body, is well up with its work. It has only the District of Columbia appropriation bill, the Navy bill and a deficiency bill to put through to clear the decks cf sup- | ply measures, except so far as agree- ment with the Senate on amendments | 1is concerned. Under these circumstances | the last “lame duck” session of the Congress may yet redeem itself and leave the Capltol with the record of | some accomplishment. This uemed‘: utterly hopeless a fortnight ago. | Many important measures, however, | are still knocking at the door, and most f of them must fail in this Congress and | go over until the special session of the new Congress. Despite the prompt adoption of the prohibition repeal reso- | lution—so prompt that it left the drys| gasping and the wets utterly lurpruedfl at their victory—the chances for action | on the beer and wine bill now on the | Senate calendar seem dim. There are| also pressing for action the bankruptcy | relief bill, the domestic allotment farm bill and the La Follette bill proposing | a fund of $500,000,000 to be appropri- ated directly for relief of the unem- | ployed and the destitute, of which | $200,000,000 is to be allotted to the States according to population. The La Follette bill has been made the unfinished business of the Senate. Involved in the conference between the two Houses, now in progress over the “Treasury and Post Office appro- priation bill, is the qdestion of authority to be given the President-elect and his department heads. The Senate has written into the bill the Byrnes amend- ment, granting power to reorganize the Government agencies and bureaus, and | the Bratton amendment, calling upon the department heads to spend five per cent less than the Congress appro- priates for their departments. Speaker | Garner has proposed an even greater grant of power. There are signs, how- ever, that the matter may be bitterly | fought before action is taken upon the | measure. Even should the Congress perform a' miracle and put through the beer bill, the | farm bill and the La Follette relief bill, these measures would have to run the gantlet of presidential veto. Nor is it entirely clear that the President would accept some of the provisions which it 1s now proposed to place in the economy section of the Treasury and Post | Office bill. | ‘Whether the activity in the Senate | has been due to the absence of Senator Huey Long of Louisiana is a question. | At all events it has been sychronous | with the present sojourn of Mr. Long | in his native State. The Senate com- mittee which is now investigating the latest senatorial election in Louisiana, at which Representative Overton, a sup- porter of Long, was elected, may not have had in mind removing Senator Long from the Senate chamber in order to bring about a semblance of unity among the Democrats and to make it possible to get action as well as words in the Senate chamber, but it has at least achieved those results, —————————— It is asserted by fish experts that a fish cannot be too fresh unless perhaps in case of a Louisiana Kingfish, ———e—s. Zangara, Examination of the records has in- dicated that the mart who attempted to kill President-elect Roosevelt at Miami Wednesday night has no connection with any radical organization or group. He is a naturalized citizen, having tak- en his final papers a little less than two | end a half years ago. He has no police record, either in Italy or in this coun- try, as far as can be ascertained. He seems to have developed an anarchistic complex. In his pocket was found 8 clipping giving an account of the assas- sination of President Lincoln by Booth. He declared that he was “against” all police and all Presidents. He asserted that he had attempted the life of the King of Italy, though this is doubted. Probably this man is a paranolac, dangerously deranged mentally. Just so was Czolgosz, who slew President McKinley, and, despite the verdict of the court in that case, 5o was Guiteau, who tock the life of President Garfield. Neither of these men was a representa- tive of an organization of murderous enemies of organized society, although | Czolgosz had been tainted by them. Zangara's purpose, avowedly to de- stroy the President-elect, was maniacal, and to an extent symptomatic of the murderer—at fifteen! Brought into court yesterday he swaggered, bragged end boasted like s veteran. The heir «f insteen centuries of Christian clvili- mion, en inherttor ofthe free demoo- unrest incident to the depression that has prevailed for the past two or three years, His delusion appears to have|“is | been one of resentment against the in. @ividual. representative of the organ- | commercial exploitation of crime by| | since, by direction of Congress, at a THE EVENING pose to attemot that of the President in office. He did not reason out his | Government of the United States would. of course, have carried on without de- | rangement if Mr. Roocevelt had fallen. | It has carried on in three cases in the past when the actual Executive has been slain. It is even now, by virtue ‘ar a newly-adopted amendment to the’ | Zangara took no thought beyond the evolution of his crazy idea to aim at & | single exponent of administration, who | chanced to come within his range. While there is reassurance in the | analysis that indicates that the crime | | at Miami was that of an insane indi- | | vidual, nevertheless it is the duty of | the State to watch closely those who order, whose doctrines are destructive, whose aim is the overthrow ‘of the pres- ent system, whose weapons are ma- { nipulated disorder, confusion and actual | | conflict. It was their influence that | tember, 1901, to slay McKinley, though | own initiative, That influence 1s po- | tent now to stir murderous maniacs to | extreme deeds. They are the real crimi- | e r—e—— Problem in Political Economics. Among the “Thou Shalt Nots” con- tained in the pending District appropri- ation bill the prohibition against oper- ation of the District’s two new trash- | h disposal plants and the prohibition agiinst operation of the District's laborats#y for testing materials used in highway construction take high rank as whimsical legislation. These legislative proposals provide curious commentaries on the method of legislation for this municipality. The trash-disposal plants were erected by direction of Congress at a cost to the taxpayers of about $800,000 in order to end the disgraceful nuisance of the trash-burning dump across the Potomac. The laboratory for testing highway material was established some time ago and has been in continued use ever heavy annual cost to local taxpayers. But the maintenance of these two es- tablishments costs money. So out they go. Neither the problem of future dis- posal of trash nor the problem of the future testing of highway material has been adequately solved. The taxpayers are out of pocket to the tune of several hundred thousands of dollars repre~ sented by investments made for them by one Congress, but the wisdom of which is disputed by a succeeding Congress. ‘The harassed local taxpayer is in- vited to make his own computation of the savings thus so generously made in his behalf by his legislators. Good roads are a blessing to civiliza- tion, So are motor vehicles and air craft. But they all represent merciless competition for the patient and long- suffering railways. —— . ‘The economic situation in Louisiana brings a regrettable reminder to the superficially informed that the keynote of life in New Orleans is not sounded altogether by Mard! Gras. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Our Neighbors in Space. They tell us we have neighbors 'way up yonder in the sky. T gazé into the sparkle of the stars. As, here on Earth, I ponder on the wherefore and the why I wonder What they talk about on Mars. Have they any prohibition to call orators to teach And let the drink go flat while putting bubbles in a speech? Do the Spring styles call for bootlegs, with a flask in easy reach— I wonder what they talk about on Mars! T wonder if they're using Anglo Saxon or Chinese When they argue in speakeasies or in bars. While various dialects are heard that seem go-as-you please, I wonder what they talk about on Mars! Do they make a plan for peace and then prepare to have a fight? Do gangs assert themselves withr an assurance impolite? And get their laws mixed up until they don’t know wrong from right— I wonder what they talk about on Mars! Responsibilities. “Why don’t you thank me for electing you?” said. the friend with local in- fluence. “I do,” answered Senator Sorghum. “But I'm afraid that if my troubles get any thicker I'll forget about thanking you and begin to blame you.” Jud Tunkins says most anybody can tell anybody else what to do, but some- how or other nobody seems to do it. Twenty Years After. Now Rip Van Winkle grimly croaks I find in hometown morals, Some brand-new folks—but the same old jokes And the ancient family quarrels. Josh Has His Side of the Question. “How's your boy Josh doing at| college?” | “He thinks he knows more than the | professor,” answered Farmer Corntossel. | “Are you going to call him down.” “I don’t know. professor talk over the radlo, blamed if I don’t think maybe he does.” “When political perplexities arise,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “it is a wise man who knows when to go fishing.” The Un-American. He stood in the breadline Till morning’s bright ray Came marking the deadline 'Twixt night time and day? ‘Though food he was craving He thought it more fun Each coin to be saving To buy & new gun, After hearin’ the | 382! STAR, WASHINGTON Every one’s problems are worked out alone. It is impossible for another, no mat- ter how willing, to enter into them fully. Superficially, another person may do 50, but the real help is in one’s self. There is no human being who ever explained everything to another, and unless this were done there could be no chance of complete understanding. Even if there were full knowledge, there is some doubt whether it could be utllized for the aid and betterment of a second person, Every one looks at life through his own temperament, and no two of these curious affairs are exactly alike. No matter how close two persons may be, they see the world through their own eyes. Their most difficult job in life is to see it through the eyes of the other. Failure is more common here than is realized. We all fool ourselves every day by thoughts of success along these lines, when all the time, perhaps, we are really failures. ‘Whatever pride we may take in an apparent accomplishment, it is due not | so much to our acumen. as to the ef- forts of those who are kind enough to permit us to gain victories—at least in | our own minds, To think, or not to think—that is the question, indeed (as we were told leng ago, and scarcely half believed). To think is everything, in certain situations. To act is something else again, and many times is not possible. There are scores, even hundreds and thousands, of situations in which action | is forbidden, or impossible, through one reeson or another. One is thrown back squarely upon cerebration, for better or worse. Even unconscious cerebration plays its part ere. There 1s numb ache, in certain situa- tions of mind and heart, which some- how think themselves out at last, much to the person’s ultimate relief. There are as solid pains here as those of the flesh; they hurt just as much, or gawlt and take quite as long a time to eal. It is impossible to tell just how one goes about thinking. in such cases. One mulls over a problem, as the word is called. The certain fact is that thinking is not all surface, or conscious, or appar- ent thinking; part of it surely goes on in the lower, or unconscious, parts of the brain, where certain processes are car- ried on for the welfare of the body as & whole. ‘Time heals everything. it is said, but no doubt in human affairs part of this good result comes about through thought, applied deeply as well as upon the surface of being. It is easy enough to put 2 and 2 to- Rether and proclaim the result as 4; that satisfies a certain part of the mind. Not so easy, however, is the placing of misunderstanding alongside careless- ness, or lack of ability to comprehend, and yet to get understanding and love out of the mixture at last. Molnar, in his play, “Lillom,” came about as near to putting this into words as it has ever been done. Out of ap- ent trifles he built up a human situation in which many elements of misunderstanding and anger mixed to bring about a final feeling of pity and forgiveness. The implication in the play is that it took another world to bring about this result; perhaps so: at times it looks to be necessary. A like result may be achieved in this WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. ‘Washington, seene of the assassina- tion of two of the three martyred Presi- dents and official home of them all, is naturally shaken to diu Iounw"wm by the attempted murderous outrage on President-elect Roosevelt. Things like these obliterate party lines. Sympathy for the Governor and for Democratic Mayor Tony Cermak found instantane- ous unqualified expression among Repul ns and Democrats alike. Ther: cannot, of course, be two Presidents at the same time, yet when House and Senate on Pebruary 8 in joint session polled the votes cast by the electoral college on January 4 Franklin Roosevelt became the duly anointed President of the United States. By the same token, John Nance Garner would automatically have become President it Roosevelt had been killed at Miami. So the National Capital, like the coun- try at large, stood aghast at the nar- row escape of the man who may be de- scribed as de facto President, though not yet inducted into office. The situa- tion bristled with dramatic possibilities unparalleled in national history. ‘Wash- ington opinion is pretty general that Zangara's crime, despite his mldflm. symbolizes the spirit of unrest abroad, not only in this land, but everywhere. * ok kX = attack on the life of Her! Ht:‘vllg‘rl ll:y time since 1929 would hard- ly have surprised the Secret Service, which, ever since McKinley's assassina- tion, has been officially responsible for the safety of our Presidents, in addi- tion to its fundamental duty of safe- guarding -the national currency. Con- trary to popular belief, that sleepless branch of the Government is not a de- tective force. Sometimes Chief Moran's men enact the role of Hawkshaws in the regular line of duty, but theyre neither cops nor sleuths. President Hoover has moved pretty well all over the Union during the past four years. and, although for three-quarters of that period depression has hung over the country, souring and searing ren’s souls and filling them with desperation, noth- ing savoring of an attempt on the Cali- fornian’s life has ever come to public notice. Few imagined that Gov. Roose- velt, before entering the White House, would become an assassin’s target. The law places Presidents-elect under the watchful eye of the Secret Service from the hour of their election in November. * K K K w that both branches of Congress hn’:: ‘voted for repeal of the eighteenth amendment—though the House has yet to record the requisite two-thirds ma- jority—something the average American a year or two ago would have called a miracle has been accomplished. Even ardent wets admit that Congress was yanked off the water wagon with a speed they never dared, in their more honest moments, to predict. The cus- tomary used to be that it would take at least two or three more Con- gresses, running up to 1934, 1936 or even 1938, before wet sentiment would be sufficiently strong to knock out na- tional prohibition on Capitol Hill. Here we are, with 1933 barely born, and the noble experiment, deserted by some of its old-time stanchest supporters, is reeling against the ropes and about to take the count. It once was said that, while the House might soon be swung inst the amendment, prohibition was safely anchored in the Senate for a long time to come. But Sheppard, Borah, Glass, Capper, Brookhart and the rest of the dry Old Guard yester- day saw their house tumble in on them with stunning decisiveness. 'n Sen- ator Sheppard, author of the amend- ment, says it “will never be rep'e_tled, if submitted to the States,” his friends are confident the wish is mainly father to the thought. * Kk ¥ K Well, a lame duck member of the House of Representatives may not be able to make much of a quack in Con- gress, but he can hold up a State din- ner at the White House 10 minutes, thereby achieving an all-time record. That's what happened at the function given by President and Mrs. Hoover this week in honor of the Supreme It was a Southwestern member D. | Wars, the War With Mexico, the Ctvil D. C. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1933 THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. | world, however, if the person involved wills it that way, or thinks it that way; there is not much difference. | A great deal of hokum has been writ-’ ten about will power, but after all it is| | not much more thansolidifed thinking, | | as 1t were. | We may picture to ourselves an in- | | tangible thing called thought. in the | form of a sheet of mist; will power is | | simply that mist solidified into a sheet | of glass. | Will power is merely the taking some- | | thing intangible, say thought, and mak- |ing it into sbmething tangible, say an act, or a resistance, or a determination. There is no use in any one else trying | to help another human beyond & cer- | tain point, because the help (other than | superficial) must come from within. | This “within” includes of necessity the | sublime depths of communion with the Great Helper. The point at which help from other human beings must cease is not com- | monly understood. Owing to this lack | of comprehension there is a vast amount | of fussing and fuming going on in the | world, all of which is worse than use: less, since the possibility of aid is not | there: but also it is irritating and vex- ing, preventing the ene who needs help the most from concentrating on the only way to receive it. All peoples have forms of meditation, whether it is called prayer or silence or what not, in which they attempt to Solve their most difficult problems in the only possible way—from the inside out, not from the outside in. Ald may and often does come from | the outside, but this only when it arrives | naturally and as part of the real essence of the situation. It cannot be such if it is forced in any way, if it is hammered, if it is labored or strained. This is the point, in many cases, where the difficulty of attempting to help another comes in, for it seems to be impossible for many to understand that they possess any lack of under- standing. ‘The elemental understanding they must have is that after all they cannot give much aid, that the real help must come from other sources and be put into motion almost solely by the person con- cerned the most. Few human beings can (or would want to) fully understand the workings of other people's minds, Nor is it nec- essary that they should. Mercifully, life has granted to us the boon of concealment, The story of the invisible cloak is a parable which applies to the mind. Our thoughts are invisible, except as they show in words, or deeds, or appear- | ances upon occasicn. There is no real invisible cloak, but every one cloaks his thoughts, to a more or less 3 The sad part of it is that few are ever given much credit for this mercy displayed toward others. To all those who might have said much but who said little let us give thanks, belleving that while the king- dom of the dollar may be outside us, the kingdom of heaven is within us still. To those who withheld the fussy ben- efit we did not ask for, and gave us silence wherein to complete our own silence, let us present flowers of beauty and perfection. To those who, in the general mass of deeds, seem at times to understand the need for inactiom let us give mahy thanks. Especially to those who, in the welter of words, comprehend the n:cessity for silence are our thanks due. & Supreme Court justice asked her august lfiuu who the culprit was. He replied, a stage whisper: “Misrepre- sentative —. * 'k % ¥ ‘World War veterans properly object to the wide prevalence of a theory that the whole of the current $945,878,404 appropriation for relief of veterans is on their account. But the lion’s share of it, $609,635,000, or approximately two-thirds (64 per cent), is. Of the balance, $219,930,000 is for payment of pensions to veterans, or their depend- ents, of the War of 1812, the Indian War, the War With Spain and the Regular establishment, while $116,313,- 404 goes for the cost of administration, including hospitalization. As of Decem- ber 31, 1932, the net disbursements for relief of World War veterans, or their dependents, amounted approximately. to $5,654,698,014. This amount does not include loans to veterans on their ad- Jjusted service certificates or Govern- ment life insurance policies. * k x % Fielding H. (“Hurry Up”) Yost, famed coach of the 1932 Watl;m Conference champion University of Michigan foot ball team, is a vistor to Washin, 3 His brother, Ellis A. Yost, is chief ex- aminer of the Federal Radio Commis. sion. The Ann Arbor gridiron mentor has been seeing Senator Couzens of Michigan, who wanted his views on the $22,000,000 project for Government care of homeless youth, a scheme in which Yost is deeply interested. *Hi Up” has many hobbies outside of fcot ball. In his non-athletic incarnation he’s by way of being a utility magnate. He )::e%!o l;:|un-enctl1y ;bre:nt o!dworld affairs, e and abroad, and can discuss them like a statesman. * ok ok % Lawrence Richey, President Hoover's long-time confidential aide, is ing to devote himself primarily at' Washington, When he opens offices here after his re- turn from California, whither he's shortly to accompany “the Chief,” to the affairs of the great Hoover War Library on Leland Stanford campus. Established and endowed by Mr. Hoover, the library is already the world’s richest storehouse of World War bibliography. The President is keen on its further g;::l'zment, and Richey will take it in * ok oKk o Stanley Hubbard, who conducts Sta- tion KSTP, at St. Paul, recently chap- ercned a couple of pedigreed Irish set- ters from Washington to Minnesota. He knows the National Capital well enough to understand the magic of political . Hubbard was at Union Station, about to board one of the crack West- ern limited trains with his dogs, when the conductor informed him the rules required them to be crated. The train was ready to pull out, but Hubbard broadcast that “these dogs belong to Senator ——, and he'll be mad as —— if they don't get aboard.” So the train, almost for the first time in its proud history, pulled out eight minutes late while the crating took place. Hubbard's static wasn’t over, though. When he reached the Min- nesota line on another train he was told the State laws bar uninspected dogs. That didn't feaze the KSTP executive, who simply long-distanced St. Paul and had the Governor issue a :eh}:phgic exetcuu‘\lrzem order permitting setters’ entry Minnesota with- out further ado! - (Copyright. 1933.) Boon to the Coroners. From Pasadens Post, Arizona legislators have removed the speed limit for pleasure automobiles, and raised the limit for stages to 45 miles an hour. If the coroners over there are paid by fee they will find business picking up soon. ———. Sacred or Scared? From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, New York mayor says municipal is a “sacred duty.” Con- the circumstances that have A Thrilling Adventure | With Alaskan Buffalo To the Editor of The Star: As an old Alaskan sourdough, I was thrilled with Mr. Matten's account of his 30-day hike from Seward to Fair , Alaska, last Summer in of a job, as published in The Star of February 10: The la; Alaskan colony ‘ashington here in Wi likewise must have got a huge kick out of the adventure. Of ccurse, the best trail from Seward to Fairbanks is the Alaska Ralilroad, | | Government-owned, which serves the | Paper readers. It is a part of that best | community about as well as does any | Eastern railroad in this section. Not so luxuriously, perhaps, but good enough for the “rough » Stations and section Rouses are a quately provided along the route, suffi- clent to keep the road in excellent con- ition. What thrilled me particularly was Mr. Matten's account of his thrills while walking along the 500-mile trail, | particularly where he says he was| “chased by buffalo, bears and wolves, and had no gun.” 3 It is a terrifying experience to meet a buffalo along the Alaskan trail. They are more voracious and subtle than the wolves and the bears. These Alaskan buffalo are not the ordinary American bison, now nearly extinct. They are an entirely different breed, but very bad. They are indefatigable’ cn the Seward-Fairbanks trail, lurking behind boulders and liable to spring out at a hiker on the slightest occasion. They have eight legs, four on the under and four on the upper part of the body. When they get tired using the lower four in their chase of railroad hikers | they simply flop their body over and start running with their upper four. They simply wear & hiker from Hyatts- ville all out. 1 recall a trip that “Jake” Hammond, Harry Munson, Roy Chase, . Elmer Cassel and I (now all Washingtonians, but former Alaskans together years ago) made to the Willow Creek mines. We started from Seward one June riorning after midnight (it is light at midnight in the Summer in that sec- tion), Each carried a rifle and Colt’s revolver and plenty of ammunition. Each also carried his trusty bucket of sourdough over his shoulder, for biscuit purposes. About 10 miles out of An- chorage, Chase sighted an Alaskan buffalo crouched behind a cheechaco bush, a hi beast, with bloodshot eyes. His unu four legs, rampant aback, were rigid. The four legs then supporting him were pawing the moss ferociously. What can humans do but quail when they envision such a sight? We 7unued, all five of us. We were buffaloed. With a roar and flendish wail, the Alaskan buffalo charged. The end of the world had arrived. We broke for timber; all of us except “Jake” Ham- mond. He stood his ground. His knees sounded like castenets, but, always cool mentally, he unsh his rifle. His excellert eye for distance served him well. He had calculated that the buf- falo must flop over to use his extra four legs at the identical spot where he was then standing. He determined to fiip him on the flop. On rushed the beast. “Jake” had calculated accur- ately. As the buffalo flopped his body, losing bis objective temporearily, “Jake” fired. A sigh, a grunt, a groan and a quiver, and all was over. The buffalo steaks were excellent. CHARLES W. JONES. ———s Rest, Fasting and Diet Proposed for Colds To the Editor of The Star: Edith M. Barber recommends light fruit juice diet for turning off incipient colds, in The Star of February 13y and also recommends a day or two in bed. This is good treatment, but is not radi- | cal enough for those who wish for quick and more lasting results. For any one who can take a day off, or for those who cannot, a complete fast can be expected to work wonders. Alkall products, fruit juices, etc., before and after the fast, are excellent, but during the fast pure rain water or dis- til'od water in moderate quantities sufficient. In this connection, it is well to remember that not all so-called safe drinking water ‘s good for digestion— most city water “~s enough chemicals to cause indigesticn. Indigestion ‘ac- coripanies colds and is usually the main F. cause. Cathartics relieve a cold immediately, | but elimination of peison by means of a high enema is much better in every way. The latter method should be learned by m{lone who wishes to get well and stay well. As for a normal, adequate diet, there is practically no such thing in general use today. As long as people base their meals on quantities of white bread, re- fined sugar and potatoes peeled before cooking, and then mixing everything indiscriminately, they can be sure that their diet is unbalanced and will cause trouble; they expose themselves to almost every ill from colds to goiter and appendicitis. W. C. DUNCAN. Lithuanian Diplomat Placed Eden in Spain | 5,520 To the Editor of The Star: In last Sunday’s (February 12) edi- tion of The Sunday Star there appeared an article entitled “Garden of Eden Is Placed in Spain by Theory of Hebrew Philologist.” It is, indeed, a very interesting article and quite a new theory. However, I do. not wish to dwell upon the merits of this theory. Soms else prompts me to write this letter. The unnamed author of the article mentioned above says that the said interesting theory “is advanced by a Hebrew philologist, O. V. de L. Milosz.” This statement is an obvious mistake. T happen to know Mr. Milosz quite inti- mately. It is t: that he is a master of many languages, renowned poet and philosopher, but he is not a Hebrew philologist. Mr. Milosz happens to be 8 Lithuanian and comes from one of the oldest Lithuanian families. He is eminently connected with the Lithu- anian diplomatic service and at present occupies the position of counselor of the Lithuanian legation in Paris. His full name is O. V. de L. Milosz-Milasius. B. K. BALUTIS, Minister of Lithuania. N Plan to Help the Farmer Proposed To the Editor of The Star: I notice in the Literary Digest of Feb- ruary 11, 1933, several plans for helping the farmer. I would like if you would Ppublish the following, which I think Wwill compare favorably with any of them: Let the Government issue paper money. to be redeemed with gold, and pay off all the mortgages on farms with this paper money and reduce the inter- est to 3 per cent. The Government to hold the mortg: and redeem the paper money with gold from year to year as the foreign governments pay their, debts, in gold, of course. Also pay the farmer $2.06 per bushel for one-half of his wheat crop. He can feed the other half to his stock. This would only put the price of bread up one-half cent & loaf. That was what bread dropped when wheat went down from $2.06 per bushel to 30 cents in Minnesota. THOMAS KELLEY. ———— Groundhog Vindicated. From the San Antonlo Express. Sundhop Knew s st peeie b groundhog knew er the first robin, ———— Domestic Styles. From the Newark Evening News. Women are welcome to wear trousers if husbands are permitted the wifely privilege of going through the pockets during the night. Insull in Greece. Prom the Rochester Times-Union. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Stop a minute and think about this fact. You can ask our Information Bureau any question of fact and get the answer back in a personal letter. It is a great educational idea introduced into the lives of the most intelligent people in the world—American news- purpose of a newspaper—service. There | | is no charge except 3 stamps for return . Do not use | | postcards. Get the habit of asking | | questions. Address your letter to The | Evening Star Information _Bureau, | Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- ton, D, C. | Q. Does it take more gasoline to drive | an_automobile over poor roads?—F. D. . Jowa State College has malle a | | survey which shows that gasoline cost | \1s progressively higher as roads are | poorer, as are costs for tires and tubes, | maintenance and depreciation of the | automobile. Q. How many business organizations | in the United States have pension sys- | | tems for their employes>—W. L. A. More than 600 business organiza- | | tions with 5,000,000 employes are known to have formal, funded pension plans in operation. cents in coin or | N investments of more than $50, expenditures of $62,500,000 yearly for food, and the emplo; t of 20, . ployment 000 Q. What are the annuity payments that Irish farmers are obligated to m:%; to the British government?—G. A. The annuity payments which are at present the partial object of De Valera’s contention are annual pay- ments on accourit of & sum which was advanced by the British government Some years ago as loans to the Irish Free State to permit tenant farmers and others to acquire the lands on which they were located by purchase, and to hold them in dently. This money was obtained the British goverument from loans, bonds, etc., which became a charge upon the Brit- ish people as a whole, Conseguently, any default in the d Irish pay- ments would ultimately devolve upon the general taxpayers of England. Q. What is the origin and meaning of the name “Nazis,” given to the fol- | lowers of Hitler>—H. C. V. A. The German political party, headed by Adolf Hitler, who has re- Q. What is the name of the book | dealing with evolution that entered | into the Scopes trial in Tennessee?— | Biology.” Q. How do film producers obtain the use of some of the magnificent estates used in many pictures>—R. C. A. In many instances this is accom- | plished through the agency of the As- | sistance League of Southern California, | a charitable organization sponsored by Los Angeles society women. The league maintains a film location bureau, con- ducted by Mrs, Lee Wray Turner, Own- ers who could not be induced to permit thelr property to be used for any sum, will comsent when the charity aspect is presented. Through the Assistance League, the studios pay the owner a certain amount for each day's work on location. Of the total sum, one-third is donated to the day nursery run by the league, while the remainder may be turned over by the owner to some charity in which he is interested. Q. What are bank holidays?>—L. F. A. Days on which banks in England and Ireland are legally closed are thus known. They are Easter Monday, Whit-Monday, the first Monday in August, Good PFriday, day and December 26. Q. What country is called the Mother of Gardens?—T. S. A. China has had the title from time immemorial, Q. In building tall buildings, how deep are the foundations?—D. N. A. In the construction of skyscrapers, the usual practice is to excavate the foundations 30 to 50 feet and then to sink steel caissons to permit concrete plers to go to bedrock. Q. When was the motto, “In God We Trust,” first used on American coinage? A. In 1864. Q. Upon what grounds was Oscar Hartzell, promoter of the Drake estate in England, ordered deported?—S. L. M. A. He was described by British offi- cials as an undesirable alien. He has | been in England 10 years. Q. Was Missouri the last State to ap- prove the lame-duck amendment?—F. V. A. Missouri was not the last State to ratify the 20th amendment, but was the 36th State, which made the number necessary for the amendment to become a law—three-fourths of the States. Q. Is_there an organization of own- ers of lunch cars? How large is the A. 1t is Hunter's “New Essentials of | cently been appointed chancellor of Germany, is known by the abbreviated term Nazi, from Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei, meaning the National Socialistic German Workers* party. This is the party of Labor, | Q. For what purpose was the Lean- ing Tower of Pisa built? How much does it lean?—M. N. W. A. It is a campanile or bell tower. It i1s 181 feet high and 51! feet in diameter at the base. It is inclined 13 fest 8 inches toward the south. About cne-half of the sinking tock place dur- | ing construction. Q. What makes wool warm?—T. D. A. It is the tmullunf quality of wool which makes it desirable as a protective covering rather than any inherent pow- er to generate heat. Wool fibers in themselves offer little resistance to heat transmission. The “kinks” or “waves” which are 5o, distinctive a characteristic of wool give it its protective qualities. These waves or kinks, of which the fibers have from two to 30 to the inch, give something of the characteristics of a colled spring, and when the fibers are woven together tend to create a resilient fabric with innumerable tiny air pock- ets. It is this finely divided and trapped air to which wool fibers owe their quali- ties of warmth. Q. What is a diorama?—S, A. A. It is an unusual method of dis- play, combining a modeled foreground with a ited background, thus form- ing a picture which has height, width, and depth. - Q. What is an English shilling worth in the United States?—W. D. A. According to the exchange on January 31, 1933, it was worth about 17 cents. Q. When was the Department of Labor organized?—B. S. A.Originally the Bureau of Labor the Department Q. My hair is curly in the Summer, but becomes straight in the Winter. What can I do to keep it curly the year round?—P. H. A. In cool weather, dam will make a wave resembling a ‘A permanent wave may be in the same way. eila the gor Q. Does rilla fight with other large animals?—W. W. Apparently, unprecedented sentiment exists throughout the country as to the advisability of giving Mr. Roosevelt full control of Government reorganization when he becomes President. A few com- ments emphasize the danger of dicta- complications make it imj to take the necessary action. “This seems to be one of those occa- sions,” in the opinion of the Birming- ham Age-Herald, “when the national wellbeing can best be promoted through the concentration of power in the hands of an Executive held t6 an account- ability which cannot otherwise be em-. forced.” The Providence Bulletin ex- claims: “Let him have the power! The country wants the job done!” The Lou- isville Courier-Journal declares that the public “wants action and the only way it can get it is through stronger Execu- tive authority,” while the Newark Eve- ning News, referring to it as “an amazing surrender of power,” adds that job must be delivered to responsible hands capable of executing it.” “The granting of wide powers to Mr. Roosevelt,” says the Lincoln State Jour- nal, “may be the solution to the situa- tion. If it is, it is best that action be taken. But if it is the solution, then Congress has admitted and proved that it is vastly overrated and so organized as to be too cumbersome and unwieldy to function under pressure.” The San Francisco Chronicle draws the conclu- sion: “Congress knows in this instance that it, by its own action, never would eorganize the departments. It is only fair to say that Congress cannot do it. All its members are under too many po- litical obligations and under too much pressure to do & fair and square job in- volving so many of thelr friends. Yet the public pressure that this job be done is now very great.” * K X % Necessity for concentration of power as a means of effective action is empha- sized by the Texarkana Gazette, the Hartford Doily Times and the Des Moines Regi-tor. The Charleston (8.C.) Evening Post defends the theory on the ground that “inc proposal is that Con- gress employ the President to do for it what' it realizes it cannot well do for itself.” The Springfield (Mass.) Union sees it as “a great opportunity for Mr. Roosevelt to do something for his coun- try, which is likely to pray that he will have the force and courage to do The Buffalo Evening News recog- “it is also a necessary one” and that “the | Th 0| stantly increasing case 18 | simply-we Country Is Preparéd to Let Roosevelt Control Changes duiruo(n:eeo\mfi;ihwleed the Milwaukee Sentinel, !um:nu:ylve- ning Sun, the Akron Beacon Journal, the Houston Chronicle, the Morgantown Dominion-News and the New York Sun, while the Chicago Daily N 3 “Congress, of course, is not averse to shifting the bility, What it feely it ecannot do, use of outside - sure and inwaj ‘:le"'n- and Nmrflrl?y. it is glad to “It is far better,” thinks the Charlotte Ol T, “to prostitute for the time being the ideals of representative gove ernment than to suffer the evil conse- quences of delay and tem; e New Castle News odore Roosevelt's ‘ nklin ‘Th that “this will be an easier job for Con gress to tackle when it meiu again in extra ,” while the Rochester m-!}n‘m utters the warning: “But is one vastly important fact to remember about dictatorial powet:. It is much simpler and easfer them than wvnnm them.” e S Urges Frankness About ‘Great Killer’ Disease To the Editor of The Star: The press in general has been & stanch ally to all forcss engaged in promoting health. Newspapers publish helpful erticles and items on tubercu« losis, cancer, diphtheria and other enemies to public health. But when it comes to dealing with that diseass which Osler, wisest physician of modern times, named “the great killer,” some inexact and often misleading term is us:%.“mwtxy this discrimination againsg syphilis? It is not a “disease of yice” cases, such, for instance, disease’ are other | {:u heutg' obmm-::hn r public attaching to it nmprrll connota which serve only to intensify ignorance and prejudice which round it. The District Health Department Social Hyglene C’llnlz_h.wd“h ]hueggn! evidence of the need for te, cclentific public ine District Gmm“cemlnw of actlon, 'Rl; the transfer of power from Congress tested by the Philadelphia Evening Bul- b tge Boston Transcript, the Nash- Banner and the Omaha World- Roanoke World-News acts with orded, formation in this field. of Columbia Social Hygicne Society opportunity and channel our gun& ...