Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1933, Page 8

A_8 €¥» THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. .February 27, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Bustness Office 1ieh_ St and Penisy New York Office. 110 Ei Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Bullding. €uropean OHA('('" A‘R(durn St.. London, wlan er Within the City. v Car Rate by 45¢ per month The Evenin v The Evening Sunday Star (when 4 ) 9 e star ... 65¢ per month S5c_per copy | € at the end of each month 60c per month | N v Le sent in by mall or telephone 00, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. | Maryland and Virginia. v . 1yr.$1000: 1mo.. 85c | Dally any Suneay 135 "800 1 mo. st iy only . $4.00; 1mo.40c | All Other States and Canada. Daily and Suaday...1yr. $12.00: Daily onl: 5 00 Sunday only . Member of the Associated Pre The Associated Pre exclusively er = ‘use for republication of all new d 1o it or not otherwi publ special dispa Confusion of Issues. The issue is confused in present local discussion of legisiation to empower the District to borrow like the States from the R. F. C. Critics of the loan proposition treat it as a proposal to borrow quickly sev- eral million dollars with interest at 3 per cent for emergency relief instead of drawing for this purpose frem a possibly-available District surplus, by the ) method saving interest cha To this proposal no other than a negative answer is conceivable. Whether an individual or a municipal corpora- tion. no one with surplus funds of one’s own immediately available and subject to one's use will wisely borrow and pay interest. But the question whether to borrow or not to borrow is not for immediate answer, but will arise later. The im- mediate issue is whether the District shall be included with the States and ‘Territories when the Nation is granting to the latter the privilege of borrowing from the R. F. C. for emergency relief when private and public contributions, having been vigorou.ly and enthusias- tically utilized to a maximum degree, prove inadequate and are on the verge of exhaustion. This question is entire- 1y independent of the question whether | any money shall be actually borrowed from the R. F. C. Conditions arising or existing later will determine the answer to the latter question. Grant of the privilege of borrowing does not bind the beneficiary to borrow, and does not hamper attempts to get the full direct appropriation of relief money which will make borrowing unneces- sary. Indeed. a potential beneficiary under the loan plan, who, finding in the eleventh - hour that there is no neces- sity for it to aitempt to borrow, waives the borrowing privilege, will enjoy the hearty approval of the other potential beneficiarics whose greater necessities can be more completely met by reason of the waiver. Congress. representing the Nation, shows in this matter a praiseworthy dispositicn to modify slightly the axiom that the District is a State when burdens are to be imposed and not a| State when privileges and bounties are distributed. The La Follette-Costigan bill proposed the distributicn of millions among the States, Territories and the District, according to population, the money to be used for the relief of the distressed and starving. The Wagner bill, in addition to making available a | sum for outright gifts to States, Terri- tories and the District to aid tran-| sients, proposed that additional millions should be placed at the disposal of the R. F. C, to be loaned to the States,| the Territories and the District for the | relief of distress on proof in the case| of each applicant that there has been | 100 per cent of vigorous and intelligent effort to secure the maximum of private contribution and of public money ap- propriation and that in view of the extracrdinary needs of today the aggre- gate of private and direct public con- tributions is inadequate for complete relief. Thus both bills recognize that | the District as a payer of national taxes has a substantial stake in the national tax fund from which the propesed gifts or loa are to be taken and is entitled in ¢ to participate in gifts or loans of +.o kind proposed, since the Dis- trict’s contribution to national exceeds those of twenty-seven (or morc than hali) of the States. The Senate substituted the Wagner bill for the La Follette-Ccstigan bill and approved and passed the Wagner bill, including the District with the States and Territories in the list of possible borrowers, and in the list of beneficiaries of an additional fund of $15.009,000 to be given outright on application and R. F. C. approval fo relief to unemployed sients and to aid in th in training and work c: wise.” If we District residents had the same power that is possessed by citizens of a State to decide for themselves how much shall be appropriated for direct relief from public ‘Washingtonians, ter rchabilitation | nps pr of £0 large an amount by direct tion of public meney and by enthusias- tic contributions of private money that there will be no necessity or temptation to borrow relief money, even at a low rate of interest. 5 i | But being unrepresented in our na-, tional-state-municipal legislature w2 have nothing to say concerning the’ -nding our tax money, whether national or -municipal. Con- gress will say for us how much of our tax money shall be in direct relief; whether we shall share with the States the privilege of borrowing under | stringent restrictions; and whether the condition shall exist which will make exercise of the borrowing privilege necessary or desirable. Under these circumstances will it not be wise for us to put ourselves in | position to take advantage of every suggested alternative form of reliel i including the methods which we do not | prefer? ‘ Will it not be sensible for us to ac- cept with grateful appreciation the con- and equi made, | e enjoy th- ! attitude is consi | the Far Eastern imbroglio. | tracted review the privilege of borrowing under stringent | restrictions from the national tax funds for final relief. of the starving? can then werk with all our might with Congress to secure the direct appro- | priations and the wise utilization of surplus funds which will render actual borrowing unnecessary and lmpomb!e.! It by any mischance Congress should | fail at any time to supplement fully by appropriations or the authorization of | appropriations the maximum relief fund supplied by private contributors, privilege of borrowing for a short term at a low rate of interest from the R. F. C. would then be available to the District (as to the States) as a last- resort guarantee against eleventh-hour | unrelieved distress. ——— The United States Joins Up. Geneva dispatches reflect the tem- | pered gratification aroused in League of Nations quarters by son’s note expressing American ap- proval of the Manchurian report adopted by the Assembly on February 24. The United States Government's 2d as establishing a “united moral front” between the League powers and the one great non- European power outside of the interna- tional organization. Geneva is prompt to discern the res- ervations with which this country takes its place alongside its sister nations in Secretary Stimson, acting on the heels of a pro- of the situation with Senator Hull, whoewill shortly head the State Department, conspicuously ab- stained from sal cne point. cretary Stim- He left unnoticed Geneva's | express invitaticn to all signatories to | | the pact of Paris and the nine-power treaty “to associate themselves with the views set forth in the Lytton report and, if necessary, to concert their ac- ticn and their attitude with the mem- bers of the League.” Thus, while the United States acknowledges that it is “In general ac- cord” with the conclusions League Assembly and that this country and the League are “on common ground” in their affirmations of the non- recognizability of Manchukuo, complete freedom of Amecrican action hencefor- ward 1s implicitly maintained. The U d States continues “earnestly to hope” that Japan and China will vet find ways of composing their difference by “pacific means,” admitted, in the face of the news from Jehol, where open warfare is raging, that such “hcpes” on America's part. however “earnest,” foundations, Secreiary Stimson’s reply to the League is probably more significant for its omissions than for its guarded state- ments. It refrains from any intima- tion that the United States is prepared to go the length of participating in Geneva sanctions against Japan. It holds out no encouragement that this ment is ready to join in an arms embargo against the Far Eastern bellig- crents. It blasts the expectations of any League authorities who imagined that the presence of the American fleet in Pacific waters for annual maneuver operations at this particular time meant that the League would have an instru- ment ready to hand, for the purpose of exercising at least moral suasion upon the Japancse. Even the unofficial sug- | gestion from London the other day that, | if desired, Great Britain might permit our Navy to use her great Singapore I naval base did not evoke the emotions lin the United States for which, per- haps, Geneva locked. The United States’ communication to the League faithfully reflects the pres- ent temper of the American people. They identify themselves with the | world’s condemnation of Japanese pro- cedure in China, believing it to be ag- gressive, indefensible and violative of in- ternational law. They will hope to the last that statesmanship and wisdom, bulwarked by an enlightened self-inter- {est, will yet dissuade the island empire from a reckless policy. e — Conferences have been held by Mr. Hull and the Secretary of State, but the time is a little too short for Mr. Stimson to communicate all of the great amount of information he has acquired cencerning one of the most complicated | positions in the world. = ———— A wise man puts his meney into 2 bank and leaves it there until he needs it. It is only the silly depositor who insists on drawing it out merely to amuse himself with the assurance that | his check book works as well as ever. e The Wind-up. The wind-up of the Seventy-second Congress is at hand. On Saturday at noon it ceases iis labors end gives place | to its successor. In the few remaining days gr effort will be made to put through important legislation, much of which has been pressing for weeks and months. If the passing Cengress can cncet firally into law the annual ap- propriation bills for the Government, it will have accomplished at least as much as is generally expected at a duck” session. And in so doing it will have clc:red the way for the new Con- gress to give its entire attention to the isiative pro; with the econcmic lems which confront the country. Scnate has ctill to pass three of the appropriaticn me:surss, the bill for the District of Co! propriation bill, and the second ficiency bill. All of these bills have passed the House. Hanging in the balence is the Treas- ury and Post Office appropriation bill This measure carries in it the economy program, so-called, and confers wide powers on the President-elect to re- organize the Government cepariments end bureaus, and alco the Bratton amendment, calling for a five per cent cut in ectual cxpendiurcs below the ap- propriations made by the Congress. This meastre. because of the cofitro- versies © zveral of its features, is in danger of failure of passage. The Congress has before it a list of important measures dealing with bank- ing, farm mortgages, farm relief, relief of the unemployed. the manufacture and sale of beer and wine of “non- intexicating” character. Some of these bills have passed the House, some of them have passed the Senate, but most of them appear to have little real chance of being enacted into law, notwith- standing the last-minute pressure for aciicn by their suoporters. If it were i e States Both our | net for the fact that it is well under- | e saare in the transient relief fund and stocd a special scision of the new Con- scieniific tg get paid for. We | the | ing the League on | of the| though it ‘must be | rest on rather fiimsy | “lame ! am of thz new admin- | bia, the naval ap- | THE EVEN gress, beginning in March or April, will ! be called by the incoming President, the efforts to obtain action on some of these measures might be more success- ful, even at this late date. But an inclination has existed in th> Congress ! for a long time to put off until the spe- cial session of the new Congress prob- | lems threatening trouble in the present session. The Glass banking bill, designed to bring about needed reforms, is await- ing action in the Houge. It should be passed. But the chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency has not been disposed to give it con- sideration.’ There is legislation dealing | with farm mortgages which should be speeded. A bill amending the bank- ruptcy laws is pending in the Senate as its unfinished business. The great obstacle to the completion of legisla- {tion now lies in the strange political divisions existing in the Congress today. ‘The expiring Congress, much to its own surprise, finally acted upon the Blaine resolution proposing repeal of the eighteenth amendment. It has been urged again and again by Presi- dent Hoover and his aides to take action “.o bring about a balanded budget fol" |the Government. This would have| | meant tax legislation as well as econ- | omy in Government expenditure. This | is a matter, however, which has been | left for the Rooscvelt administration. Indced, the incoming administration | will find on its doorstep many problems | of great importance, due largely to the fact that the old Congress has not found it pessible to deal with them. The Gale. The gale which swept over Washing- | ton yesterday was not unseasonable. | Indeed, at this period of the year such ! blasts are more or less traditionally in order. March is not the only month for high winds; February inyariably has | a full share, especially as the end of its span approaches. One of the premler changes in the climatic arrangement of | the seasons soon will take place, and | the tempest was a preparation for it. | The wind has had many historians— | Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Shel- | |ley, Thomson, Emerson, Bryant and| Whittier among the number. Perhaps it was of such a repetitious hurricane | as yesterday's that Charles Dickens wrote: A wailing. rushing sound, which shook the walls as though a giant's hand were on them; then a hoarse roar, | |as if the sea had risen: then such a| whirl and tumult that the air seemed mad: and then. with a lengthened howl, the waves of wind swept on. | Longfellow also was familiar with that kind of storm, for he sketched it in the line: | | The wind is rising: it sefzes and shakes The doors and window blinds and makes Mysterious moanings in the halls; 1 The convent-chimneys scem almost The trumpets of some heavenly hos Setting its watch upon our walls! But nene of the pocts appears to have noted what is, all things considered, the most remarkable fact about a nolsy tempest, namely that its bark is worse | than its bite. The elemental force which | the successive blasts represent, the tre- | | mendous motor energy of them, is awe- | | some to listen to, but singularly in-| | effective in accomplichment. To judge | | by the sound of the disturbance, the | | whole world is being torn to pieces; | !'actually very little damage is done. The | late-Pebruary turmoil is not as destruc- | | tive as it seems. Its principal achieve- | ment 15 that of blowing us nearer to | Spring. | — e | What some Geiman savants are ap- | parently looking for is one of those | mystical old doctors who could nullify | the effects of time. In fact the whole | werld would be happier if the Kaiser | could be replaced cn the throne and | everybody made to believe that the | World War never happened. ———— i Taxpayers everywhere are struggling | | with the common problem of how to| | enjoy luxurious public improvements | without dispensing too far with the | necessities of private life. S Few Governors have managed to| gather in more applause than Albert Ritchie, as exponents cf the art of making quick decision. ) SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Inaugural. Just a day of “How-dy-do,” With the sunlight shining through, And a promise in the air Of a time serenely fair— Or perhaps a day of storm For stout hearts still beating warm | 'Mid the greeting that each friend Hastens gladly to cxtend. For a day we shall forget Future fear or old regret; Cares seem for awhile but few— Just a day of “How-dy-do.” Financial Motor Care. “How’s the financial machinery in| our town?” asked the visitor. “All right.” answered Senator Sor- ! | ghum. “All it needs is a few days’ rest so that we can oil it up and replace a few worn parts.” Jud Tunkins says another of thosz! forgotten men is the one who used to laugh out lcud at Henry Ford. He Will if He Can. Friend Weather Man, please fix your glance On fair and warmer for a day, Thus giving to big men their chance And keeping treacherous germs away. A Woman's Right. “Why are so many women wearing men’s clothes?” “The charges of dressmakers have | become smaller than thoss of tailors,” | said Miss Ceyenue. “Among the rights women dmand is always that of being | expensive.” 5 I dwell far from the scemc of war in my country,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “I realize that men Go not always fear to be shot at, but in their hearts crave the opportunity.” | Moratorium. For happy days we will prepare And to no gloom succumb; We'll join in finding for dull care A moratorium. “Everybody knows,” said Uncle Eben, “dat worry is harder dan work. But fum what I kin hear, 4t. seems like some of de worry sin’ been sufficiently { in-the-wool open-shopper. NG STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C., THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES Rose dreams at this time of year are very likely to be fulfilled shortly. Almost before home gardeners are aware of it, the time for planting bush- es will be here. Then the most alluring descriptive matter will be spread before his wide eyes as he attempts to decide in his own mind which and how many roses he must have to be happy. Although something might be said to deter the ambitious gardener from planting any roses at all, especially if he is & newcomer to the gentle art, it would be time worse than wasted, be cause the rose is the one flower all amateurs want. ‘Wherefore, nothing shall be sald here of the difficulties of rose growing. Every one finds that out for himself, in time. He learns the shortcomings of the varieties, the defects of roses in general and the considerable trouble they bring in their lovely trail. Every one who loves roses soothes himself with the reflection that all things worth while seem to demand a great deal of care and attention. It is the price human beings must pay for an_approach to perfection. One who has grown only one perfect rose blossom has come close to seeing perfection in bloom. These perfect flowers, attained every now and then, are what keep the love of roses alive in so many and various breasts. Not the bushes, surely, nor the small part they play in landscape gardening, is responsible for the tremendous a;n]m;nt of interest displayed in all walks of life. It is the flower itself which secures the devotion of such widely differing types of human beings. Something there is about its petals and its color, whatever it may be, which binds the hearts of its admirers. If you ever fall in love with the rose, you Will never lose your admiration. There may come moments of cool- ness, wien you are able to forego new additions to the gard:n. At times, because of injudicious se- lection, you may be able to steel your heart to tneir appeal, and even give them away. do a great deal to bridge a particularly disagreeable gap in garden manners. In the first place, no one should ac- cept a gift of plants unless he honestly needs or desires the sorts or varieties offered. Yet there are so many “timid soul” gardeners, evidently, that nothing is more common than for one of them to accept a bushel basket full of tubers or plants simply because a friend has of- fered them, and the poor soul does not know “how to get out of it.” Getting out of it, as the commen ex- Ppression puts it, is an art in itself, thor- oughly mastered by a few persons with what is called “poise,” but terribly mis- understood and abused by most persons. ‘There are a thousand perfectly well bred ways to “‘get out of anything” one doesn't want to do, but the worst way of all is to accept what one does not want, At the time it seems to be the easiest. | Here comes old Temp Jones with a | wide grin of brotherly love on his face. | “Say, don’t you want some of these | hollyhock plants? I got enough to choke | the Potomac!” It happens that one has no place left in the garden for these tall growers, which demand a place all their own, else they will not look right. Instead of thanking Jones, however, | and stating as much plainly, one grins | foolishly, and says: “Why, er—that would be great!” ‘Whereupon the aforementioned Jones, in an excess of good fellowship, hands over two bushels of plants, rather than the one he had intended to present. ‘The result is that one finds one’s self | in the possession of far too many holly- | tain situations. One hasn't the situations. From time to time during the grow- | ing season, one realizes, old Jones will | cast his eyes across the fence to see | how his hollyhock plants are coming on. | That's the trouble in & nutshell— | they are still his plants! With rosebushes, a great deal of this CPPOs¢ What they did in the Senate they had reached their maximum psychology of the garden vanishes. | hocks, as desirable as they are in cer- | MONDAY; FEBRUARY 27, 1933. The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. ‘The activity in the States over the question of national prohibition repeal, which has been submitted to them by the Congress, is becoming more and more intense, The repeal amendment is to go to constitutional conventions in each State. The make-up of these con- ventions is agitating the wets and the drys. The opponents of prohibition would like very much to have the dele- gates to these State conventions elected “at large,” that is, in State-wide elec- tions. Then if a majority of ihe voters ia 4 State supported repeal the whole list of delegates chosen would be “wet.” The contention has been made if the| rural and sparsely settled political di- visions of the States are given equal rep- resentation in the conventions with the more populous and urban divisions, the majority of the people will not really be able to express their will in the matter. There is in the making a fight by the wet organizations to bring about “at large” elections of the delegates to the conventions. On the other hand, it is contended by some of the repealists that it would be a mistake for the wets to launch such a drive, when it might | conceivably delay action by the State | Legislatures and cause dissension. The theory of the latter is that the senti- |ment for repeal of the eighteenth | amendment is so strong now all over the | | country that repeal will be accom- plished anyway. ok ok ok It has been said by some of the drys that members of the Senate and the House who voted to submit the repeal | |amendment to the States would go | back to their States and districts and | | fight the adoption of the amendment. | From a practical political point of view this does not seem a likely thing to | happen. When the members voted for | submission they voted “wet.” Ask any | | dry crusader if that is not & fact. And, having voted “wet,” they will have to take the consequences, whatever they may be. Instead of going home to! and House, they will, perforce, go home | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Take advantage of this free service.|men, which is short and rounded and have patron! mApl“ you have never used the serv- ice, begin now. your benefit. Be sure to send your name and address with your question and inclose 3 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Do not use post cards. Address The Evening Star In- It is maintained for zll{;}d} | to Inflict bites painful or even dangerous | | formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, | Director, Washington, D. C. Q. Please name some motion pictures which feature foot bali:—A. D. B. A. “The Spirit of Notre Dame,” “Al- ways Kicking,” “Blocks and Tackles,” “Developing & Foot Ball Team.” “Carry On,” “Foot Ball Work," “Notre Dame Foot Ball” and “Pigskin Q. How many kinds of fish are there? —D.G. A. The number of named species of fish in the world is between 14.000 and 15,000. There are undoubtedly many more which have not as yct been de- scribed. ‘This statement applies oniy to the true vertebrate fish and does not include all marine fauna. Q. Did George Washington import the suit of clothes in which he was inaugu- rated as first President of the United States?—H. R. A. He wore a complete suit of home- spun. The Vice President also appeared in a sult of American manufacture. Q. What are Lombard loans>—A. T. A. Loans which have a large ele- ment of speculation in them and which, for that reason, bear a higher than average rate of interest. The name comes from Lombard street, the old Wall Street of Londan, where moncy lenders made such loans. Q. When did Asiatics begin to come to ihe United States in large num- bers?—H. F. P A. The gold rush attracted the firs Asiatics to California about 1850. By 1852 there were 25000 and by 1800 of 107,000. After 1870 they were denied Every one loves roses, and every one| 0 Justify what they did, or else they | Daturalization. is glad to get the bushes. If you have any bushes to give away. | will find themselves hated by wets and drys alike and in a bad way the next | Never for a moment, however, Will | there will be many claimants, if the time they come up for nomination and your admiration end. There even seems to be good in giv- | ing them away, since the bushes are al- likelihood of such generesity is made known. Every one knows the difficulty often | election, particularly for nomination, | | On the other hand, if they can prevaii | | upon their States to ratify the repeal | ways received with such genuine grati- | encountered in raising good roses. Every amendment they will feel that their| tude by some one or other. Every gardener knows how it is with | plenty of sun. and knows that they ;n;m have been sustained; they will so many flowers and bulbs. One has a surplus and thinks how nice it would be to give some to Jones. Jones is queried. Yes, he would like some of those bulbs—ves, he could use a few. At the same time, he plainly ind!- cates that he doesn't really care whether he gets them or not. If he does take them, he never there- | after has a word to say about them, so that the donor is not able to learn whether they grew or did poorly. 1t is not that the giver expects grati- tude in such things, but he is inter- csted in his plants, even when he gives them away, and wants to know how they are coming out. Every one who accepts gifts of plants and bushes ought to keep this in mind. which he, as much a gardener as the other, knows quite as well as the other. If no mention is ever made of the outcome of the transpianting. the donor has nothing much to think except that the plants did not do well, or even died in their new home. Here is just one small field in which a bit of consideration for others would | one realizes the demands of roses for | will not do well without it. | Giving them away, then, may be | accounted for in many ways. none of | which will be to the detriment of the giver. This, unfortunately, is exactly what 1s done, with the best will in the world, in the case of so many other types of plant gifts, especially when really forced on the recipient The rose is always wanted by some- body. The plant that does poorly for one gardener may bloom like the proverbial | rose in the desert for another. It is mostly a question of situation. Situation is everything to a rosebush. Not under trees, not in the shade, not in soggy soil, not North—these are a few of the “don'ts” ard the “shalls” are largely their opposites. Above all, not too much water, but too little, if anything. Early planting in the Spring, the earlier the better, and the home gar- dener is likely to have roses before he knows it After that, his troubles will begin— but thev never occur in rose dreams, do they? WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Dazed and_disappointed b sence from it of “supermes ‘Wash- | ington is still trying to divine the why and wherefore of the kind of a cabinet President-elect Roosevelt finally picked out for himself. At least half of the designations continue to be inexplicable to the politicians, Democratic and Re- publican_alike. That F. D. R. has fashioned an official household in which his dominating personality will be su- preme is an_appraisement which finds wide belief. Opinion is crystallizing, too. that Gov. Roosevelt's choices at least comprise an average cabinet and one that needn't fear comparison with its| redecessor, _portfolio for The Woodin. Perkins, Roper immediate portfolio. | and Ickes selections come under critical Labor spokesmen assail the new Secretary of the Treasury as a “dyed- Wallace for Agriculture is hammered not only be- cause he makes “the third Republican’ in the cabinet, but also because he's suspected of harboring money views that shiver the spines of men like Car- ter Glass. Nothing but commendation is heard with respect to Hull, Walsh, | Swanson, Farley and Dern. x k% % “Dan” Roper’s Secretaryship of Com- merce caused many eyebrows to be raised. The South Carolinian, who is understood to have surrendered his offi- cial domicile in South Carolina for resi- dence in voteless Washington, isn't a business man, though he chalked up an efficlent record as Wilson's internal revenue commissioner. Men are say- ing that Roper's real assignment is to become the Roosevelt ax man, with the | special duty of chopping down super- fluous bureaus, agencies, commissions and other Federal appendages, includ- ing even major departments. eral weeks Mr. Roper, together with former Representative Swager Sherley of Kentucky and Budget Director-to-be Lewis Douglas, has been hatching the | reorganization scheme which the new Presidert wants to carry out with all possible dispatch. When Gov. Roosevelt first visited Washington after election, he took a witty after-dinner shot at the monumental dimensions of the Depart- ment of Commerce Building. Subse- quent events convinced insiders there was more in that quip than met the ear. They are sure the President-elect plans major surgical operations all over de- partmental Washington, even to the point ot abolishing executive branches. | The Department of Commerce itself- Herbert Hoover's particular pet and | ride—if certain reports are verified— x,;w,v wake up some day to find ifl?}l merged into, say, the Interior Depart- ment. * Kk * x Extraordinar wers which Congress last week vole{d' ‘:?12 President did not specifically grant authority to wind up or amalgamate executive departments. But the story now is that if the Roper- Sherley-Douglas recommendations _go that far and earn the approval of Mr. Rocsevelt, he will not shrink from ask- ing Congress for their adoption. House and Senate, on their part, traditionally eager to dodge responsibilities loaded with politiéal dynemite, would not, it is believed, deny the President the privilege of running the executive es- tablishment through the wringer, if he thought it should bz cone. Generally speaking, F. D. R. can get about any- thing he wants from Congress if he doesn't wait too long to ask for it. | After the honeymoon stage of his ad- ministration is over—say, next Fall— the course of true love may not be soh smooth. * % % Organized labor_would take sullenly to Miss Frances Perkins' appointment to the Secretaryship of Labor. Not be- cause the is a wcman, but for the underlying purpose her selection would signify She would become the first head of the Labor Department since its creaticn who didn’t come from the ranks of the labor movemént. The unions have been prone to look upon the department as their own private playground. Hence, the American Fed- eration of Labor’s stern (and continu- ing) opposition to Miss Perkins., As tary of Labor, she would typify the theory that the department is no r to be regarded as an institution fimlned exclusively in the workers interests. 1If there is any eleventh- hpur change in the Roosevelt cabinet -up, cdds are laid it will involve the portfolio. he ab-| Ever since midnight of November 8, 1932, there have sprung up in Wash- ingtcn and all over the country, like dragons’ teeth, men and women with hitherto well concealed and wholly unsuspected Democratic inclinations They've just been christened. They're called “Hoovervelts.” * X % % Next to the unfolding of Franklin Roosevelt's political program, nothing intrigues Washington more than innovations which Mrs. Roosevelt will introduce into the usually stereotyped life of the First Lady. On the eve of her arrival in the White House, she has made one significant announce- ment. She intends holding weekly press conferences of her own. to which only newspaper women will be admit- ted. At these conferences, Mrs. Roose- velt says, nothing of political nature will be disclosed or discussed. just be heart-to-heart talks “among us girls,” and deal particularly with the varied activties in which Mrs. Roose- | velt will continue to interest herself. * x % x Busy as she'll be the day before in- | auguration, Mrs. Roosevelt has consent. led to be the guest of tho Woman' National Democratic Club at its hand- some New Hampshire avenue club house on the afternoon of March 3. Qnly club members will attend. Mrs. Charles S. Hamlin, wife of the veteran member of the Federal Reserve Board, who has just been elected president of The Roosevelts and the Hamlins are old family friends. Mrs. Hamlin for several years has been the Washington York State Democratic Women's News." * ok ox % Unquestionably one of the steller, events of the inaugural week end will electors, first of its kind on record. Already electors from more than 40 of the States have announced that they will be present, totaling over 250 men and women. The idea of bringing to Washington for March 4 the per- sons who actually “elect” the President and Vice President of the United States was the genial brain-wave of Michael Francis Doyle, Philadelphia lawyer, an elector from Penn State. Generally, they assemble for their constitutional duty in January and then scatter to the four winds. At their pre-inaugural banquet on March 3 they'll listen to the Democratic Demosthenes, Claude G. Bowers, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian historian. Jim Farley will preside. * k% x Depression? There ain't no such ani- mal. Mrs. John Allan Dougherty, field marshal of the inaugural charity ball, proudly announces that every solitary box available was sold days ago. They contain altogether about 1,500 chairs, which fetched $15 apiece. Mrs. Dougherty has a waiting list for 148 other boxes. Single admissions at $5 are still to be had. As the princi- pal unemployment reiief feature of the the joy of its promoters, aroused en- thusiasm throughout the country. (Copyright. 1933.) Hasten, Herr Hitler! From the Louisville Times. Hitler. advancing a four-year plan, should make it four-minute, if his term is to be like those of his prede- Cessors, oo Shirts Soon in Demand. From the Miami Daily Nerws. One naturally looks to the haber- dashery business to show the first signs of recovery, as nearly every man you meet claims he’s lost his shirt. Mexican Holidays. From the Detroit News. As regards the State banking uation, it could be worse. Mexico, it is recalled, husamethhullkezs holidays. Denatured Onions. From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. San Prancisco genius claims to have evolved a method of making garlic odor- less. This is literally a breath-taking achievement. the | They'll ! the club, will head the receiving line. | correspondent of Mrs. Roosevelt's “New | be the assemblage of the presidentlal‘ inauguration, the charity ball has, to | | votes in Congress on the repeal amend- be in half so much danger of defeat at the polls as if their constitu- I R. ents had turned down repeal and at | the same time turned them down. | * ox ok x | “Lame ducks” who voted against | submission of repeal. on the other hand, | may return to their States and dis- tricts and get into the battle for the! drys, in the hope that a dry victory would restore their own lost™ political | fortunes. The position of the lame ducks is in marked contrast, therefore, | with that of the members who were | | re-elected and who will serve in the | next Congress. Some of the lame ducks, however, are by no means dry. Take | Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecti- | cut, for exampie, who has been vir- tually the wet Republican leader of the Senate for several years. Senator | Bingham owes his defeat in Connecti- | cut last Fall to the fact that a number | |of dry Republicans backed an _inde- pendent dry candidate for the Senate | | against him and his Democratic suc- | cessor, Augustine Lonergan, now a| | member of the House. When Senator Bingham goes back to Connecticut it | will not be to work against repeal of | | ihe eightecnth amencment—anything | but. | ok ox % | ‘Two very prominent lJame duck mem- bers of the Senate—James E. Watson of | Indiana and George H. Moses of New | Hampshire—will, hike Senator Bingham, | |not raise a finger to help defeat the Tepeal amendment. While Senator |Watson in the past voted “dry” be- cause he believed that his State wished for national prohibition, he feels no | such compulsion now, since the Repub- |licans and Democrats of the Hoosis | State both went “wet” in the campaign | last year. The approaching departure of “Jim” | Watson George Moses from the | Senate was responsible for a dinner given in their honor Saturday night by | the Gridiron Club at the Willard Hotel. One of the skits at the dinner was a | dialogue between “Mr. Finnigan” and | “Mr. Flannigan,” impersonated by Thomas W. Brahany, in which the Te- | turn of these veteran Senators to pri- vate life, the change in the times and customs of Washington since they came |to Congress, were discussed. “It won't be long now,” said Mr. Fin- | nigan, “’till Jim Watson an' George | Moses are out iv public life.” “Not at all” said Mr. Flannigan, | “not at all. They're just intrin' public | life. La-avin® th' Sinate is th' first | sthep. They've wasted a lot iv time | tubby sure, but at last they're headed | fr fame an’ fortune. There was a | |time whin Congriss was known an’ | | ray-cognized fr'm pole t' flag, as Bill |McNally says. It was called tn'| pal'ajum iv our lberties, th’ crownin’ | achievemint iv pop’lar_gover'mint, an’ its mimbers were betther known an’ | more poplar than th' base bail playess. | | Within an hour afther he landed at th’ | Cap'tul an’ drew his mileage, a sin'tor was a public kay-rackter. But that's | all long past an’ gone. “Th’ public is no longer inth'rested | in its public min. Iv th’ two branchss | iv Congriss were t' march tin abreast | in th' Inagruls parade nixt Saturdah. | they wud'dnt get as many cheers as | |th’ Rockville Fire Day-partmint. * ok x % “Th’ 18th Amindment caused min t' |lcse ray-spect f'r law but what caused thun t' lose ray-spect fr law makers | niobody knows. Some blame it on th’ prim'ries an’ some on Hoover an' some on th' day-pression an’ some on France. As £'r meself I think its just wan iv th’ signs iv th’ times that has t' run its| course like th' hay fay-ver or Tom Thumb golf. “How times have changed. Whin Jim | Watson came here George Norris was fightin’ th’ bosses. Now he’s bossin’ th’ fighters. He has more promisin’ lads in trainin’ than Jack Curley—most iv thim middleweights fr'm th' Middle West. Shoomakers bar an’ Hancock's cafe were runnin’ full bhiast an’ iv a | late Winther afthernoon at aye-thur| place ye'd la-arn more iv polit'cal econ-my than Prof. Mooley cud tell ye in a day's walk. Pol'ticians fr'm Louis- |yanna came to Washin'ton f'r their sugar insted iv gettin’ it at home. Mim- bers v Congriss lived in boardin’ houses on Aist Cap'tul street ean’ wint home t’ lunch. Now they have two marble of- fices, a son an’ a daughter on th’ pay rool, an’ most iv thim wud sooner miss a roll call then an’ afthernoon tea at | wan iv th' imb'ssies. Whin a mimber died his widdy was given a ya-ar's sal- ary an’ a free ride home insted iv a sa-at in th’ House iv Rep'sintives. * koK ok “Annyhow I'm glad thit George an’ Jim are la-avin'. As Joe Cannon, used |t say, they're goin’ out in th' fullness | iv time. They have their life t’ live an’ i they might become contam'nated iv | they stayed here snother Winther. I| |don’t know. what their plans are. I don’t think Jim will go back t* Indy- anny. He has t’ make a livin’' an th’ banks iv th’ Wabash are too near th’ banks iv Mich'gan. Maybe he'll go out t' Omaha or Dinver cr some other for- | eign place an’ grow up with th’ coun | thry. If he does go t' Indyanny, I think | he'll hang out his shingle in LaFayette. There's a gra-at fight comin’ ' th’ conthrol iv th’ Ray-public'n parthy, an’ whin they're lukkin’ 't a can'date can say, in th' immortyul wur-rds iv Gin'ral Pershin’ ‘Here I am in La- ette.’ ™ * k k¥ ‘As 't George Moses, well th’ La'ague press agint, an’ nixt t' th’ Japs, George knows more iv th’ wa-ak pints jv th’ La-ague than annywan isle. I can see him now callin’ on’ th’' City Ed'tors. “‘Here,’ ,81ys he, ‘are four iv th’ best ray-sarved sa-ats ' th’ nixt Balkans Wa Iv ye'er iver over in Genevy dhrop into see me. Ye'll find me in th’ tep room jv th' palace’ But maybe iv Nations is sadily in need iv a good ! tes! Q. When will the impounding of th;3 I'ét?l’ by the Hoover Dam begin? . The storage of the waters of the Colorado River in the immense reser- voir created by the Hoover Dam will prebably begin early in 1935. Q. What country was the United States' best customer during 19327— 'A. Great Britain received the larg- est amount of exports from the United States during 1932 of any country. Q. What size was the Mayflower, ;huh brought over the Pilgrims?— . G. A. The Mayflower weighed 120 or more tons and was about 82 feet long. Q. What instrument is the most deli- cate heat measurer?—B. T. A. The kampometer. an invention made by Dr. Charles G. Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution, is the most sensitive. Q. Is & spider an insect>—D. D. A A spider is not an insect, but an arachnid. The phylum Arthsopoda, or jointed invertebrate animals, has three principal classes, insecta, arachnida and crustacea. The class arachnida in- cludes such familiar creatures as spi- ders, order Araneida: scorpions, order Scorpionida, and harvestmen, or daddy- long-legs, order Phalanjida. True spi- ders are distinguished from insects by possessing four (instead of three) pairs of walking legs, and by having the body | divided into only two main divisions separated by a narrow waist: a ceph- alothorax, bearing the legs, mouth parts and eyes, and an unsegmented abdo- | of the thousands who bears two or more spinnerets at the oataaty sed *the bureau, write us | posterior end, for spinning sik threads. Spiders are predacious and have poison near their jaws, some being able to man. The young develop without & metamorphosis, such as is typical of in+ sects. Q. What proportion of the school houses of the United States are of the | one-room type?—D. T. A. Approximately 60 per cent of all | pukiic school buildings are of this type, |In 19230, there were 148,712 one-room | schools. | federac: Q. Distinguish between Orenburg and Oldenburg —N. D. F. A. Orenburg is a city and district in the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Re- public of Kirghiz, one of the 11 au- tonomous republics of the Russian S. F. S. R., or Soviet Ruscia proper, the prine cipal constituent republic of the U. S. S. R. Oldenturg is a city and free state, one of the component units of- the German Republic. HQJ Was Sir Thomas More sainted?— A. The Roman Catholic Church in 1286 added to her list of saints this “martyr to faith and frezdom.” Q. What ;‘u the capital of the Con- S. A. The Confederate States of America had two capitals, Montgomery, Ala., became the seat of the first government February 9, 1861, with Jefferson Davis of Mississippi as President. The Con- federacy then consisted only of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Virginia did not secede from the Union until later. but, upon doing so. the seat of govesnment was moved o Richmond. Q. Have the laws placing legal re- strictions upon hours of labor of men in the United States been held con- stitutional by the Supreme Court?— IS A. The laws have been upheld quite generally when there was a reasqnable basis for the restriction and the pur- pose was to protect the lives and health of the workers or society in general. Q. Wos Emma Gillette, who took the law co%ee at Howard University, white or colored?—E. E. C. A. She was a white woman. & mem- ber of one of the well known families of the National Capital. When she and Ellen Spencer Mussey wished to study law every door of a law school was closed to wemen except that of Howard Iniversit an educationzl institution N Miss Gillette and he colored in order thai they might en- ession which mast interested them Iy, Miss Gillette became the first weman dean of a law school 1n the history of the world. Q. How much revenue w2s raised by the tax on whisky?>—M. M - nd the A yeir, the tax vitharawn for use amounted to 414.959.39, $76, rough by used successf A. He believed he was objection to the use of Different critics, howeve that the diffic rather than vanquished was so brok color that Sir Joshua meant hat a warmer tint for the dress would have made the painting even more able to the eye Baruch Bernard M. Baruch, in leading off | the testimony of business men who have been called to advise the Government on ecoromic matters, gets the attention of the ccuntry as he places chief emphasis on the importance of sound creit as & basis for improvement. His ideas ae declared to be valuable in theory, but to offer difficulties in achievement. It is felt that he delivers another strong blow at the idea of inflation. His high position in the Wilson administration cornects the problems of the war with those of the depression. Several requirements set forth by Mr. Baruch are recognized by the Charlotte Observer, which offers the comment “He would proceed no further in his program of reconstruction until this shall have been brought about. And yet, reports indicate that the budget will not be balanced. The Government has committed itself to such formidable outlays in public funds that it is counted all but impossible to bring it back anywhere near an adjustment of its spending to its revenues. To lay | this mudsill under the structure of a rebuilded economic life in America would require, of course, drastic surgery and radical programs of retrenchment. When a Federal Government runs into debt at the reported rate of around a | million dollars a day, one can get some sert of a comprehension of the extent to which economy would have to be invoked to stop off this oceanic drain upon public funds. that some time and somehow this fear- ful discrepancy between income and outlay must be curbed at all costs. No republic can survive with such an un- intelligent financial set-up as is now being tolerated in Washington. 'Th2 | erable And yet it is obvious | Democratic party that goes into power | at this critical moment in our national history could do no better than shuck its coat and apply its energies and its inteliigences to this task, without favor or fear of consequences. “The Baruch speech.” according to the Oakland Tribune, “was a stimu- lating utterance directed cgainct in- flation and the maintenance of causes | for international friction, which, to his mind, can only aggravate conditions. Presid=nt.” Hcover is emphasized also by the Chi- cago Daily News, which says of his series of suggestions: “He is opposed to any form of currency infiation, and believes that the balancing of the Fed- | eral budget by means of economies and a few fairly distributed additicnal taxes 's the indispenseble ccndition of economic recovery. He has no faith in the political plans for farm relief, but stresses the necessity of rather drastic| 1,04 “hody could fail to comprehend readjustments of agricultural end other debts. Some of his concrete suggestions in regard to the sacrifices to be de- manded of creditors will provoke dissent. bal doubtless they were offered tenta- tively 2nd provisionally. Congress would do well to give hoed to Mr. Baruch's suggestions, His uncompromising op- position to currency tinkering, to end- less borrowing by the Federal treasury, to the financing of huge national defi- cits by the banks and the jeopardizing afther all he'll day-cide t' write th’ in side story iv, the Sinate. Iv he does, an tells th' thruth, well Big Jim Farley’s most important day-cision since he left Msd'son Square will be countin’ it out on account iv not bein’ fit t’ go through th’ mails. But annyhow, I wish both iv thim happ'ness an’ proesper’ty. We'll be seein’ thim whin they come back t tify. “Dzn't ye think ay'thur iv thim will iver again come t' th' Sinate?” asked r. Finnigan. u“l d.lnl::‘w," sad Mr. Flanigan. “But wan is certzin. Iv Moses wud move t’ ny an' Watson duw take up his res¥ince in New Hampshire, both iv thim wud be ilected t' th* niz® Sinate.” {In these views he stands with the | Agreement with President | setticd definicely,” Emphasis on Credit Called Valuable Federal Guide of the Government's credit by wasteful expenditures dce: flati m of American: the settled col elect.” The warning that the budget m balanced and that the nations must be maintaind. as viewed by the Oakland City Times, “should carry weight with Congress and the people.” That paper calls for “adjustment with a minimum of additional taxat: Th2 Philadelphia Evening Bulletin cc ments on his advice: “It would be boot- less to berate an expiring Congress for its failure to grasp the budget bull by the horns. But it should not be futile to point out what is the first and most imperative job cof the succeeding body— the seiting in order of the nat finances, to the end that the cred: the United States shall continue to oc- cupy an impregnzble position and that the rest of the world may be set a help- ful and encouraging example.” “He presented a program.” in the judgment of the Houston Post, “much of it quite desirable, but to carry out which would require an extraordinary exercise of power, as, for example, a slashing reduction of principal and in- terest on farm mortgages, Guite appeal- irg. but beyond the paie of legislation, put forward doubtless by Mr. Baruch to cover his retreat from inflation of the currency. One way out of this farm mortgage difficulty would be a consid- increase in the silver coinage, even the two-bit pieces, but evidently Mr. Baruch is dead set against any such policy, favoring instead ‘an international agreement on silver’ Mr. Baruch's suggestion of a reduction of the Fed- eral budget by saving is good, as also is his proposal to abandon present methods of Treasury financing, for the Treasury ought not to be mixed up in the country’s banking and currency concerns to the extent made possible under the Federal Reserve act.” fcst of his points are good,” de- clares the Spokane Spokesman-Review, while the Louisville Couricr-Journal of- fers the comment: ‘There is no sounder authority on economic condi- tions. has proved his soundness at every turn since his chairmanship of the War Industries Board under Wood- row Wilson. He has proved it so noiably that every President since, and including Wilson, has sought with profit his advice. The views of no man in America on the conditions which are the subject of the Senate committee’s inquiry are more worthy of thoughtful consideration than the views of Ber- nard Baruch. And he is as clear in defining them as he is firm in holding them. When he expressed them before the Senate committee no member of vill hope that it reflects ictions of the President= their meaning cr could doubt their sin- cerity. And the sincerity of a mar like Baruch is a powerfui force ir itself. He did not minimize the des- perate situation he was asked to dis- cuss. He did not dodge its difficulties or blink at the penalties of unwise treat- ment of it. But wise treatment of it will insure full restoration of national healih. And wise treatment is simple; there is nothing confusing or compli- cated about it.” This _testimony impresses the New York Sun as indicating that “the in- vestigation is not as idle hs it prom- to be,” and that paper presents the query and comment: “Will the members of Congress who were present and those who were not present believe that Mr. Baruch spoke for the Nation when he urged a balanced Federal budget as the very foundation stone of Tecovery? Though Congress has paid greater heed to economy at this ses- sion than at the last, there is still no convincing evidence of a disposition to take balancing the budget as seriously as :: g:s'erves ul, be “:sltken. as seriously as taken, for instance, by & man like Mr. Baruch. Congress seems in- clined still to temporize with an issue thet neels ‘s bo graped frmly and