Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1933, Page 8

A—S8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunddy Morning Editton. WASHINGTON, D. C. arch 9, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES....Edftor The Evening .??Q Newspapér Compiny ~ v;nll 4 11th, Ave. 3nd 8t e ke Michigan 5 3 and . 1y B Shite! ! cnicass oég: (71 Bundine. - 14 Reégent St., London. European ice: ’lllhllr Cartier Within the City. > » .48¢ per month 60c per month pér pronith haky X lection made at the end of each month Gors a3 bé fent in by mafl ot telephond tional Rate by Mail—Payable in A|dvlu& Maryland and Virginia. . 0. 85¢ ily and ds 1yr., $10.00: lmO.w: fal o e im Stdtés and Canada. u-‘.lrlmogcn'au. }yr . )::33: {m $1.00 ¥ H an only ma.. 13¢ junday only . $5.00; 1mo. 50 Member of the Assotidted Press. The Associfited Press 13 lxclufl'fly éntitled %o the use for republication of all neéws dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ited in this psper and alfo the Joctl news published herein. Al rights of publiction z{ Special dispatchés herein are Also reserve — — 1y Expansion of the Currency. The situstion regarding currency ex- pansion plans s at the moment hedged about by a number of “ifs” and “buts.” and its clarification depends altogéther upon the President's plans, which are being outlined in part to Congress to- @ay, and upon the ability of Congress to put those plans into effect. Right now the issue, as proposed, of two or more billions of Federal Reserve bank notes, secured by Government bonds, is referred to correctly as ex- pansion of the currency, and it is be- lieved that such expansion, suthorised By laws already and about to be placed on thé statute books, is far preferable to the national issué of scrip, 43 at first discussed. It will rémain ex- pansion of the currency if certain other things are done, but if cértaln other things are not done, it ean very easily be considered inflation of the currency. It might be said, sgain, that as a Na-| tion we are still on the gold standard, (mit the fiction that Geneva has not| ionally popular man. Nevertheless But it can be argued that we are off the gold standard. We dré on the gold | English witticlsm about a decedsed per- | against receiving an envélope With bad standard if certain things are done, but |son who was pronounced “dead, but not | news in it. oft the gold standard if certdin things | quite dead.” Messrs. MacDonald, Simon | are not done. There are, generslly speaking, two wiys of “anchoring” the currency. One is to base the issue of currency on precious metal. The other is 1o “man- age” the curréncy by controlling its issue in relation to the demand for eommodities, Both of these have thetr disadvantages, and the disadvantages tesulting from a sudden detérmination, Actuated by fear, of most of the people to convert their bank credits into cur- rency, and & large part of eurrency into gold, are exemplified in the present | tituation. When currency is based on gold 1t is the “right” of every possessor to turn it into gold. But the eoun- trv's money consists of some forty-six billions of bank deposits, nearly six bil- lons of curreney and sbout four and one-half billions of gold. It is obvious- ly imposéible to eonvert bank deposits into eurrency and eufrency into gold at once, and when everybody- tries it 8t onee the present eomdition resuits. The disadvantages of & “managed” eurrency are the human weaknesses®in f$he matter of withstanding temptation. 1If the Government, managing the issue of currency, tries to meet its obligations by the simple expedient of printing paper money, inflation and all the Gursee of infiation immediately result. What our Goverhment seeks to do now is to take effective measures to restore eonfidénce by bringing hoarded currency and hoarded gold back into the proper channels as basis for credit. This will be done by embargoes and by steps of various kinds to make hoard- ing of gold and currency difficult and embarrassing. At the same time, the inconvenience and stoppage of business brought about by locking up the gold and currency is to bé offset by’ making dvailable & currency that may be used for the transaction of business. This new currency, backed by Government bonds, is “as good as gold.” Such eurrency has been issued before, and gradually withdrawn as the need for # diminished. It represents “managed” currency, and is safe so long 4s the managing authority can in reality manage it. Inflation results when the managing suthority, the Government, continues to spend more than it takes in and closes the deficit by issuing more Gov- emment obligations. When it becomés spparent that these obligations are lacking physical support they lose the | eonfidence of the public and therefore their value, and when they lose their value and their pufchasing power the currency become unmanageable in relation to prices. 8o, while expansion of the currency now is the correct and obvious method of meeting the situation brought about by wholesale attempts to convert bank deposits into currency and currency into gold, and can be relied upon to meet present difficulties, its workability a8 an expedient really to bring order out of passing chaos is dependent upon the Government's ability and its courage in making outgo in Government expen- ditures meet income; in other words, it 16 dependent on the Federal Govern- ment’s ability to balance its budget. | Bank notes based on Government obli- gations are “as good as gold” as long a8 Government obligations are “as good a8 gold,” and these obligations are “as good 48 gold” when it is demonstrated that they are to be met, ‘The budget cannot be balanced over- night. But the Government's determi- nation t0 balance its budget .can be demonstrated in short order. This special session of Congtess, £nd the néw President, acting with quick determina- tion to that end, no matter whom it hurts, are in position to demonstrate that the budget will be balanced. o In the present crisis large cities afe Rot as much interested in the return of beer as they -are in provisions for free Junch. S The Senate District Committee. Senator King of Utah, after sixteen years of service on the District Com- mittee of the Upper House, becomes chaifman of that committee under the few arrangement 6f Demoeratic con- trol. He is thoroughly familiar with Matiérs pertaining to the Capital com- munity, through his leng identification with m‘wmmmee. He knows the local Y | 4 with reprasentatives of the Dl- trict he has manifésted & friendliness toward them that betokéns a sympathy now looks for & of that spirit. With him, & raaking Republi- éan member of the committee, will st Seriator Capper, late ehatrman, Wwith ‘whom he has eo-opérated in the past to thé énd of seéeuring progréssivé, éon- struetive legislation for the District. As be Senator Couséns of Michigan, who has manifested deep interest ih District mattérs. With this revieed personnel the Senste Distriet ittée may be expected to earry on in éoordanee with the long established policy of setving the District with consideration for its limitations and its lack of direct repre- sentation in the law-making body. | — e | Disarmament's Roeky Road. Prime Minister MacDonald and For- eign Secretary Simon are inYconference with Premier Deladier at Paris today bent upon a desperate éleventh-hour Anglo-American effort to rescue the Ge- neva Disarmament Conference ffom definite demise. ‘That thirtéen-month-old international conversation in reality give up the ghost, unnoticed by the world at large, on March 1, when thé famous “Afths |truce,” renewed for another four months {when 1t expired on November 1, 1932, truce, the device of theti Foreign Min- ister Grandi of taly, and its extension Were conceived in the fllusory hope of disarmament discussion. Geneva, since February, 1932, when the conference opened, has proved to be surcharged only with an atmasphere of disecord, de- lay and, finally; disappointmefit. ‘The British ministers, who will pro- ceed to Genéva after conferring with the | Preneh government, have, of eourse, no | hope of galvanizing the arms eonfer- | ence suddenly with life enough to spur |1t into action and agreement. The most that Anglo-French diplomatic in- | genuity hopes to aceomplish is- to bring | about some scheme of recess, adjourn- ment or postponement which will per- ’wholly passed out. There is an ancient and Deladier are constrathed to have it proclaimed that this disarmament coh- ference 13 not “quite déead.” ‘They have an important and imme- diate purpose in preserving, at least, thé facade of internationalism. The World Economic Confeféficé is just around the cormer. To have it meet in the shadow of complete and in- dubitable fiasco st Geneva might con- demn the economic parley to failure before it ever began. As an truce” was deemed necessary to create “proper atmosphere” for Geneva, so & | continuation of that abortive affalf in some guise, however tenuous, is now | deemed psychologically essential. It will be a slendet enough reed for the economic conference to lean on, but it may prove an adequaté prop. Half a 10Af of even seeming international co- operation i better than no bread of solidarity. Beyond peradventure of & doubt, the two developments which mainly sealed the doom of disarmament &t Géneva were the Japanese aggression in Man- churia and the ris¢ of militant na- tionalism in Germany. The spectacle of one of the world's great military &nd naval powers riding roughshod over 4 | virtually defenseless neighbor, and in violation of the most sacred interna- tional treaties, was of itsélf an event designed to givé other nations, large | and small, pause when they were asked to curtail théir réspective deéfensive es- | tablishments. Then came the direct and défiant threat to the peace of Eu- | rope, personified by the triumph of Hitlerism, with its avowed purpose of German disruption of the tréaty of | edged inequities, yet remains the post- war law of the Old World. The cause of disarmament has not | been wrecked by any weakness inherent in itself. It lies prostrate today be- cause force #4nd violence, east 4nd west, are still unbridled in the world, | requiring thé nationd everywhere to remain on what George Washington called “a respectable defensive pos- ture” if they would safeguard their rights, their fefritory and their sacred honor. allegiance to the prineiple of disarma- | ment. They are not blind to the con- | ditions which consign it, for the time |being, to the realm of impraetical | idealism. | ——r———— Some of thé names of members of | the cabinet were not universally familiar | to the public, but no group of officials ever got acqualfited more rapidly. ————————— Parades and Public Order. The trial in Police Court of those who were arrested the other day in this eity for attempiing to parade through the streets without a permit, which resulted in the conviction of thirty-five, who were released on per- sonal bonds, involved to some extent the question of what eonstitutes a parade in fact. This should not be difficult of definition. Any organized procession through the streets 18 un- mistakably & patade. On the other | hand, & movemerit of persons not as- | sembled in ranks toward a given point may not be so considered. If a hun- dred pedple start from a rallying place |and walk without semblance of organ- | ization to an objective along the side- | walks, mingling with other pedestrians, ! they perhaps may not be considered as | parading. 1f they take 1o the midde of the street, even though they are not arrayed in ranks, they unmistaka- bly, are paraders. | The regulations now in force in the | District, which should be strictly main- | tained, forbld organized mass move- [ ments through the streets without per- | mit.. The granting of such a permit is a matter of diseretion with the suthor- itles. Vdrious circumstances are to be | taken .into account in the issue or the denial of such permission. If a | parade 18 likely to cause a dangerous | congestion of the streets it may be | denied. If the parade on feaching its Inbjecun is apt to draw a large and unwieldly assemblage of onlookers it may in the intefest of public ordet be refused permission. | The primary purpose of asparade is to attract attention, to draw a crowd, to arouss pulijie interest and sympathy. Presentation of petitions by organized with their fi¢eds. TO him 'Ilhhnml & new member on the minotity side will | eamé to A end. Both the original| providing & “proper atmosphere” for | “arms | Versailies, which, despite its acknowl- | The American people retain thelri THE EVENING Groups maceing in rinks thréugh the streets i destgmed to foment agitation and trouble. This sinister purpose i# present particularly in the case of thosé who have in recent months undertakén to stage such demonstrations in thid city with the Naton-wide economtic dts- fress &4 4 Dackgtound And with & threat of subversion of Governmeént. Runnisd thtough the fiews feperts ate clues cot- necting avowed &iémies of he dstab- lished order with thésé enterprises. Their names hive become familiar to the lotal publie. Thelr recotds 4s agi- tators aré kfiown. Their iténmions are evident. Parades and demonstrations of thié thardcte; cdn dérve no good Ppurposd. They aré not’designied to do 0. ‘Théy are intended for mischief. Sympathy may be felt only for thosé who aré beguiléd into partieipation without thought fer the harm that may be done to their own interésts by such siniister manifes- tations of disconitent. The Sourt has been merciful in deal: ifig with this matter in remitting penal- tles, 1ts action justifies the coutse of the police in accepting the chdllénge to the law which was ifivolved in the at- tempt to parade witheut permit. Banking fhréughout the éountty sn- houncal 4 willinghésd to do what authorities regard ad necessary to restoré trading to ususl conditions; and the |pubm shows an inclination to co- operate with good grace. Thit ih deéfinable something khown &e the | American spirit is proviig¢ 4 mast valuable national asset. e New 1deas 43 10 governmentd] needs | are forcing themselves upent public st- tention. That of affording District of | Columbta the privilege of fulfiing the | plain duty of citisenship at the ballot box may be among them. il g Hollywood saldries are to be reduced. Authors who can mafiitain interest | without production extravaganee méy | find greater encouragement with & | corresponding development of intél- | lectual resourcefulness. —oatns. The Postmaster General is af excep- | cannot guarantee many Willing work | Gov. Ritchie 8 an expérienced official who when he meets with political ad- | visers should be aceounted quite |likely to give sound advice a8 10 Teceive it. S e Russia may be inclinéd t0 welcome |the day when she etn employ her undesirable literary talents in writing more workable Jaw and less propagands. — bt A money situation lke that now in | evidence has & speciAl value in dis- | tinguishing the financier from the | profiteer. There are monients in financial stress when it is better to pass the high hat |16t goid than to wear % in formal conference. —_— e | Russis is now prepared to demon- | strate whether her diplomatists até &4 | ¢apable 48 her admirabié drtista &f the theater. — SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Faithful Signal, !-n.e wind it came a-blowin’ And the yath began to fal, | The flowers stopped théir growin’ And the song birds ceased to éall, But presently before us | Was & signal bright on high |80 we all joined thé chorus, | “There's a rinbow in the sky!” | The world has had its sorrows When the storm was ragifig fast, | There were diways the tomértows When the sun shone bright at last. So we'll hold to our endeavor ! To be happy by and by, | For no “depression” ever | Chased theirainbow from the sky. | Plain Speeches. | “Do you intend to make sany moré | after-dinner speeches?” | “No," snswered Senstor Sorghum. “t | may make speeches, but I won't call | the attention of my constituents to the fact that 1 am dining.” | Jud Tunkins says mebbe edueation would be easier if the teachers could | get & little radio time with the young- sters in between the songs and merry | quips. | Mechanism Dfaws the Line. The cash register utteréd a wail As neglected it stood on the shelf And said: “Don’t blame me if I fail To, do businéss sll by mysel.” Appearanees. | “A man should slways take his hat |off in the presence-of & lady,” said| Mr. Oldschool. “Of course,” said Miss Cayetine. “But considering the clothes we may now be wearing, how is he going to know she's a lady?” “There is one parthership,” said HI | Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “that M| dangerous t0 dissolve. Money and brains should néver try to work in- | dependently.” Plans A-plenty. Some novel plans have we, A risk we will not shirk, We'll tty 'ém out and see How theéy are going to work. If one results can't bring, Another we shall try; A plan is still one thing On which we'te never shy. “De world is growin’ better,” said Uncle Eben, “but f'um all I kin héar, f# certainly do have some growin' pains.” ————— Probably a Profit. Prom the Nashville Bannér. | At a cost of 45 ctents this advertiser | | sold two fine milk cows. Pfomotion | story. Well, he probably cléaréd some- | thing ofi the deAl with the salés cost | down that Jow. e No Sectionalism. Prom the Toledo Biade. Radio has revealed that New Eng- land and the Middle West, coughs are practically the same. Tax and Quality. Prom the Lowell Evening Leader. formances STAR, WASH BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, plants. T sl s e vy : . %o the ehe. 4nd . | Learn to like it, if you have not, or | it you by any ehance find it discon: certing. The ‘more one likes, in this :I;Mlndumrely,mbmaul\ If rain, or anything else, can teach Us this lesson, it has déne a great deal - intended purpose. This 1s & lesson, indeed, which most | " he. worid ‘e Biled ‘worl with mbl entirely above what is nceeuf“ry url!‘sr‘ there s essential grumbling, needed grumbling, sincere grumbling. professional optimist doesn't know exactly what he is talking about When he makes a wholesale depreeation of all grumbling, grouching—knocking, | as it is called. | Certain situations call for it, just as too much dryness calls for moisture, and | too much moisture for dryness again. What is not necessary in this life is that one stiould build up faise disiikes | based on nothing more than prejudice. Prejudices, of course, have their place, too. Pur teo y of them, however, are hugged with pride when they do | nothing but prevent the holder from | enjoying something or pther which “he | othérwise would enjoy. | Rain may be just as good a text in this respect as anything else. | A hearty dislike of it is heard ex- g:elnd on every hand on any raimy y. Not onily the wetness thereof, but the | lack of sunshine, is & principal cause for complaint. | And this, in most cases, by persons who aré not particular friends of the sun. The chances are that the very man who comiplains 0 bitterly in the elevator | about “the dismal day” rode down to office the day before with the biind pulled €lear down at the side of his street car seat. He is a sun hater—and yet he de- plores rainy days! I Every one of us is & victim of many | such ineonsistencies. That is why we must, ffom time to time, look over our | likes and dislikes and try to determine | whether they are genuine likes, real dislikes. If they are real and genuine, we ean | world, High Lights on the Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands HE WAR CRY, london—In & lfi"&rhm the Times, Pro:M.v?:n urphy protests Against o lacies that there is & betting “instinct” and that gambling i | one of the pleasures of the poor. He| describes gambling as “a parasitic hy- brid frem two legitimate forms, the propensity to acquire wealth or the means of well-being, and the propensity | to take fisk for the sake of pleasurable | excitement,” and asserts that gambling | is too closely bound ua‘wuh the despet- ate needs and anxieties of the poor to be a pleasure. With the last statement the Army heartily agrees. Too is gambling resorted to as the only | way out of immediate financial difficul- | ties. That is why we want to see the means 0f gambling drastically reduced. Poison, often seen in the same category, | is carefully controlled. | ok x x Ecuadot Street | Vending Is Preblem. El Telegrafo, Guayaquil—The gov- | ernor 6f Guayas Province has been asked to form a commission which will | appoint definitely the posts to be oc- cupied in the city of Guayaquil by all | the various vendors of merchandise who | offer their articles to passersby in the | streets. The goods consist usually of | cakes, candies, tamales, periodicals, raf- | fle tickets and toys and novelties, which interfered greatly with the business of merchants with regularly established | shops. | ‘The sales of toys and games, par- ticularly, were resented by the store- keepers. who, in many cases, now have large stocks of the same merchandise | left on their shelves. It is claimed by | these latter, who point out that thgy; pay most of taxes, that their business | will be fuined unless some measures are taken to restrict the activity of the peri- | patetic trade which caters to that part of the public not unwilling to eat and | play, as well as read, while it runs. It is not sufficlent justification for| these stalls, it is claimed, that they may be said to add a certaln charm and color to the environment. Nor can they be justified as conferring any real service or convenience, when in their absence one would but have to enter & shop ot restaurant. But inasmuch &s it is generally conceded that these ven- dors must live, too, it is hoped that the gubernstorial commission may be able to find & compromise whereby the su- perfluity of these stands may be obvi- | ated. with a corfl!?ondln( attenuation of the political efforts to keep unob- | structed the sidewalks. | * k% % French Rogue Gets Fat to Escape Police. Le Matin, Paris—There are thieves and other rascals, who, to escape de- tection after they have committed some offense, shave off their mustaches, grow beards, leave off or put on a red wig, of adorn their countenances with dark glasses. Others envelope them- selves in rose-colored mantles, and go about for a day or two disguised as women. But another wretch of whom, we have lately heard ad & device much more tedious though far superior in protection. ‘This gentleman made off with 500,- 000 francs, and for a long time eluded the snares of the police. Finally ar- rested 4s a suspect in another offense, several years latef, his real identity was . The police, very curi- ous, asked how it was he had eluded detection so long. The man was very | frank sbout it. Hidden ini & safe re- treat he spent most of his time, and night, eating the most, broths, pastries and stuffings he ever heard of; everyt cooked with eggs, milk, flour and butter, until he actually increased his propettions te three times their previous Voltime. His father himself would never know him. When he was finally as fat, enormous as a prize pig, he ssunteted never fecognized this martyr to obesity were looking for a svelte indi- How could they w‘fi:‘"" this ‘which tographs i emp the pho- | against ,t-h. native | garded as supremely dangerous, in the It is the old war between the man who deals in abstractions and him who | understands particularities only. If & harsh remark about an imper- sonal class i made in the presence of & man who fancies himeelf in that class, instantly he draws himself up, feeling | himself rebuked and insulted, whereas the maker of the tremark was merely thinking sloud, with no intent to in- clude the other at all. One should not think aloud, evidently. Nothing eould be clearer than that, if | g(ne .gellru popularity and the approval | Thinking aloud is dangerous, not onl because many hearers will not. under. stand it and will not approve of it, but principally because they insist on tak- | ing it as personal, merely because it is | addressed to them. Abstractions, therefore, may be re- | everyday life. It may be interesting, from time to time, to utter a few, lnfi watch the fur begin to fly, but the draw- backs are more than the benéfits, Many honest persons are discrimi- nated against, in a sense, because they foolishly insist on “being themselves,” as | hh!yusll‘y. ur\dhreluu ;fl undetstand the mitation of the ular mind fi to the -bnruunp iy If more charity were used in relation to these singularly obtuse persons, many & person who now harbors resentment would experience the delight of moving forward in genuine liking, rather than | away in mistaken dislike. Action is necessary. There must be something done besides stand and con- | template and decide whether on “likes” or whether one “dislikes” another. Something of the same holds true with regard to so many of the ordinary preferences and their opposites. The rainy day holds dis-ease for many | largely because they have not put them- ! selves in the position of seeing its good points, its picturesque qualities, its es- sential helpfulness. Move toward it, however, along the garden path, and the rainbow straight- way appears, shining in the heavens. There may be no pot of gold at its foot, but there is something better, there is honest liking and supreme content, beauty and happiness amid the flowers. Wide World ‘The ides i not & bad one—for those Wwho wint 16 evade uit, or start life over again with a clean siate. All that is required is a little patience, and 4 strong stomach. Besides all this, a fat man confidence almost every- where. olves are generally thin and a lamb! * % % Reich Rivers Locked By Cold Weather. Berlinger ‘Tageblatt—The unusually cold wedther of the past few days has resulted in the complete over of the Elbe st Hamburg. Vessels are finding it increasingly difficult to enter or leave the port. In fact, such move- ment is impessible without the aid of ice-breaking craft, which frequently have to be extricated from the ice them- selves by the assistance of tugs and other ice-breakers. Fishing vessels are immovable. Some of the fishermen are striving to eke out their vanishing prospects. by fishing through holes in the ice, skating back and forth to the shore with their paltry catches. At Duisburg-Hamborn similar conditions obtain, all shipping being as firmly frozen in the Rhine, which in many places is covered with ice to the depth of a foot or more. So far, all that have profited by these unusual conditions are the lovers of Winter sports, who are skating and sliding around to their: hearts’ content, without any danger of/| breaking through the frozen crust. Fads and Prosperity. From the Des Moines Tribune. £ Dr. Julius Klein's somewhat fanciful | suggestion that the rise of the jigsaw puszle craze may herald the early re- | turn of prosperity is not altogther | facetious. 1t is at least & coincidence that the | dissipation of previous depressions has Seemed to accompany the development | and fise to popularity of new types of | amusement. ‘The bicycle, automobile and radio indusiries, whether by sccident or not, sprang \3‘111 earlier business slumps, and are often eredited with having fur- hishied the new impetus that rescued general business from its doldrums. The mah jong cfaze came during the darkest days of 1921 and enabled peo- ple to forget their financial troubles until those troubles were gone. Manufacture of jig-saw puzzles be- Game & $10,000.000 industry even in 1932. It is expected to be considerably hTer this year. ts volume has siready atiracted the attention of tax-gatherers, who hope to call it & sport and collect & 10 per cent tax on its products. The manu- facturers, on the other hand, think it is only a toy, and consequently exempt from the tax on sporting goods. Dr./Klein's theory, of course, does not explain the cross-word pusszle, minia- ture golf, ping-pong and the yo-yo— some of which achieved poprilarity dur- ing prosperous years, while the others, rising out of depression, did eeed in g business. R Enlist and See the World! From the Lousville Courler-Journal. Japanese soidiers are th for possession of mountain pn:'e-h lnn' tem- peu‘:l‘n seven d(etrnenu below zero. En- some of scenery omif rectuiting posters. e Corn and Motors. ho'm the Reanoke Times. low they're 10 make motor fuel out of ht"‘l‘t'm has t.ebg same effect on the engine that it does on the driver, look out for trouble. Carrots and Comeliness. Prom the Nashville Banner. A beauty specialist issues s warning eating too many 'carrots, but gm-vwhyumwtlu- team, the House and Senate. And the Democrats in Congréss will have their first. chance to show how théy will per- form. If there is anything in num- bers, the Democrats should have an easy time of it, provided they will stick together. In the House the Rainey- Byrns-Cullen combination is in com- mand, to the great grisf of the members who pinned all their hopes on Mc- Duffie of Alabama in the recent speak- ership race. Over on the Senate side Robinson made his motion to make a majority vote in the party caucus of the Senate bind- ing onl against him. One was Long of Louisiana, who has sought to bat the Democratic leader ever since he, l%mwmllmlh. year ago. The ‘were MeGill of who have feared an sat- tempt to bind to vote for & beer bill, when the Sunflower State still eclings to the water ‘wagon, and of Colorado was the third. lfimn Costi- D #an is & kind of Demoeratic La Pollette. * x x % If the Congress takes & recess, after passing the Roosevelt emergency bank- ing legisiation, for two or three weeks, there will be loud wails from some of | the members, who insist that now is the time to tackle budget balancing, farm Tellef, beer bills, unemployment relief and a lot of other measures. However, President Roosevelt has indicated that there has been no time in which to prepare permanent banking legisiation, nor s program covering other .major problems. ‘That being the case, the ad- ministration would be glad to have the Congress off its hands for & few days after the emergency legislation has been put through. This would give the Presi t an opportunity not omly to et his le:u tive program in readiness, but woul him to go ahead and tl!ll g: L y y;‘-m;n: in the Govern- ment. During the banking emergency the appointing of officials has come almost to a standstill, aithough the Capital has been swarming with candi- dates for all the many thousand jobs which are now to be filled with Demo- crats. * % x The movement for som® Rind of Gov- ernment insurance of bank deposits as 2n inducement to bring the people back to & normal use of the great headway, despite the fact that up to this time the President has given it no encouragement. As a matter of fact, it lcoks as though something must be done to help the situation that grew up in this country since Gov. Comstock issued his proclamation closing the banks in Michigan for a “holiday.” That was a signal to the depositors in the rest of the States and they were off in their wild scramble to take cash out of the banks and put it in the sock. When Maryland fell in line with a bank holi- day the jig was up, and a nations] holi- day the only thing left that wis possibie to keep any money in the banks. Now if the banks are opened up aj for | to be played in a small room or hall by | (e danger, 00 Teaer |8 Small group of instrumentalists and | business as usual, the danget, it is fear- ed by some members' of Congress; is that withdrawals would be continued as before, unless the Government in some way bolsters up the banks and gives the | Was Joseph Haydn, who wrote le:;x‘! l“!‘ | people confidence. In some quarters it is said that the thing to do is to let the weaker banks go to the wall. Well, that is what has been going on for a !,hougrthe whole structure was going to , when the President stepped in and declared a naMonal holiday. * % % % ‘The other side of the picture is the danger to the Government, and more particularly to Government credit, if it becomes too much involved in the bank- ing business. The credit of the Govern- ment must be maintained at all costs. President Roosevelt has made it clear he is bent on maintaining the Govern- ment ecredit whatever happens. Por- mer Pre: t Hoover used to insist that this could be ddne only by balancing the Government budget, so that the Gov- ermnment receipts would approximate | meager in their flesh, when they steal | Government disbursements. Mr. Hoo- ver urged the Congress again and again to pass legislation calculated to do this thing. With the Democrats in control of the House and the insurgent Repub- licans holding the balance of power in the Senate, a recommendation from Mr. Hoover had about as much chance in the last Congress as a lump of ice on Pennsylvania avenue, in July. *x % 8 There is & loud demand in impottant quarters that a law be nal- izing men and women who hold their money out of banks. Well, if the Gov- ernment is to seek to coerce these men and women into putting their money into the banks the corollary is that the Government should give these people some assurance they will be able to 't the money out of the banks when hey need it. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, wants a hig tax on hoarding of gold and currency. But he also sees the justice of a Govern- ment guaranty of bank deposits under all the circumstances, and advocates such & guaranty for all solvent banks. ‘The crying need of the moment is some medium of exchange, whether it be the existing currency, new Federal Re- serve notes or scrip issued locally by clearing houses. This is a matter that the administration is expected to deal with today in the recommendations of the President to Congress. It is one thing to close up to banks. It is other to make them open up again| and do business as heretofore. x x ox Col. Edwin A. Haleey of Virginis who today was elected secretary of the Senate, has been in the employ of the Senate for more than a quarter of a century. For years he has been the trusted Democratic secretary—his title has secretary to the minority. He knows more about the working of the Senate, and more about the work- ings of the ocratic Senators than the Senators do themselves. He has proved himself many times worth his weight in gold to the Democrats of the Senate, even in these days of monetary strin- geney. He was sergeant at arms of the Democratic Natiohal Convention in Chicago last June, and has held similar secr -treasurer ocratic luuta%l Campaign Committee for several years. Col. Halsey's- name has been put forward many times by the Democrats as their candidate for sec- reuz of the Seénate when, because of the Republican majority in that body, he had not the of show to be elected. His many friends in the Capi- tal were greatly pleased, therefore, when the Democrats agreed upon him for secretary when the gift was in their possession. Indeed, from the time that the Democrats won the senatorial ma- jority last November Col. Halsey’s elec- tion was a foregone conclusion, so highly is he regarded by the Senate Democrats. Another veteran Democrat cg.‘lven hlgn tion in the Senate is esley W. urney of Texas, who today was elected sergeant at arms. Mr. Jurney came nks has gained | ,, riod, and finally it looked as| ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS i e i -3 g g £ i i i b i i i ag' Hy h § 3 H .,. BE 2 i Ld have signified s drive of animals or a hunting ground, but in this in- stance is em; ed figuratively. The savage inhabitants were driven before Inca troops like game in s hunting drive. The name given t0 the reglon s Gran Chaco. . Q. Who 18 the ident of the Amer- jean Ping Pong Association?—N. K. A. Mr. Sidney S. Lénz, the bridge expert, i8 the president. . What modern appliances are in- L on Old Ironsides? Is shé motor- | driven?—E. T. H. A. The U. 8. 8. Constitution, known as Old Ironsides, has been réstored as /she was in 18312. The only modern on the vessel are the com- | padses, the electric lights, and the fire | extinguishers. She has no motors, and | if under her own power would have to be driven by the wind in her sails. | Q At what season of the year should & tourist visit Death Valley, Calif.?—B. M. C. A. At any time except Midsummer a trip can be made through this inter- esting region in comfort. | @ Who was the first musician | compose chamber musie of importance —C. L. B. Chamber music is music written 9’ A | is familiarly applied to solos, quartets | and_quintets. e first musician who | wrote any chamber music of importance | string quartet compositions. | importance came Mozart and then Beethoven. Q. Could oplum be raised in | Michigan and the seeds sold>-E. Q. | A. The successful cultivation of there is not an excessive rainfall and where the climate is tropieal or sub- tropical. Also, the industry ean be successfully carried on ofly where labor and land are sufficiently cheap | Poppice ot the progucticn of oprumn s | poppies for u op! | therefore fot possible in this éountfy opium poppies is podsible only Where '\ o 'Mew | Q18 “sawed-off AT | varvel BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. unGoubtedly ot be sl- 1 were feasible. Q nmrucmmu-n outside the - k] et Y i e . It s 1 | e s worn outside the wings of T significance. | is ‘due to the beert { Raned b b::wmc:::htm Unitea Biates and | n counf i tries, the phrase | is now | Q Who made the remark, “God r and the ‘Go " Wash- | m;AwnJmu lives" 7y, Grw, | - James A. Garfield used the ex- | préssion in addressing 4 crowd from the balcony of the New York Customs House folloy the dea House following th of Abraham Why is only one side Q of the visible from the earth?—T. N. | A Th r'!od of the moon's rotation % ion its & colneides with its period of revolution around the earth. Due to the moon's libration in latitude and longitude, at various times small por- tions beyond the poles and #t the :-r:hm-.tmmvmblemmn » P Q. What unknown minerals were dis- eovRend in the United States last year? . G. A. Clarkeite, fervanite. schairirite and krausite were the contributions of the year. Q. Whieh were the five largest cities 'in the United States in 1790>—C. E. S. York City, 49.401; Philadel- 532; Boston. 13.330; Baltimore, 13,503; Providence, 6.380. " 8 slal name for & pistol or is there such TAPR B il shotgun, with the 3 waved o '‘Arms Embargo Americans | ‘The placing of an embargo on arms ilhlplnm" to the Orient, in which | Great Britain has taken the lead, is | looked upon in this éountry as a real problem, because the Chinese are in need of arms for defense, while it is | maintained that the Ji are | already well supplied, and shipments to | Chiha alone are viewed as in line with |an act of war. | , Noting congfessional sentiment “wl | hasty action in this country,” the h- | ester Times-Union says of the situa- |tion: “If an arms embargo were im- | posed against Japan the Japanese would ‘be Jikely to retaliate with s bhcm of the principal Chihesé ports. t | would the powers do then? Are they | willing to apply ecoéfe! either eco- | nomic or militaty? regarding such a measure as an act of war? Could they avoid taking uine measures to combat it? ‘The States in the Far East ought not to be h'::.tuy determined. Too much is at stake.r “Premier MacDonald'’s t.” records the San Francisco Chronicle, “is determined that Btain shall not be drawn into this Japanese-Chinese conflict. Arms on the wsy to could eulzl be seized by Ji m they were in British bottoms, trouble England wishes to aveid migl be on her hands. It is a point worth looking at. At any fate, .we sre now behind the other major arms and mu- fitions making nations of the world in this important step of declining to help along the war business in China and in South America. Let Congress act at once and give the President power to bel expressly disapproved.” “The nrsu-: move,” as uuflt.l by the Spfingfield (Mass.) Repubiican, “involves the assumption that Japanese cratisers would not hold up and search, or take into Japanese ports, any British vessels whatever simply because of the British ban o ex) of war material. This explanation is consistent with Sir John Simon's unqualified _announce- announcement that Great Britain will k«; out of the Sino-Japanese under any oconoeivable eircumstaneces. All that need be said from an Ameri- can viewpoint is that, whatever attitude may here be taken con ng an em- bargo on arms, the United States weuld be idiotic or cragy to permit itdelt to be drawn into the orlental war, with Great Britain grimly resolved to hold & detached position.” . Condemning “the flow of munitions from neuttal nations inte the flames and ferocity that the panese war uj the enst- maniacs are ern world,” the and Oregon Journal asks: “When will this eivilisa- tion put humanity above doilars? When will our own country put human life above profits?” The Oakland Tribune here years ago from the Lome BStar| trad State. He served as secretary to the | u late Senator Culberson of Texas, and more rmntx he has been secre Senator Royal 8. 1and of New Mr. Jurney, like Col. Halsey, has & of friends iri the Capital. Why Worry? nm Phliadeiphia Bvesiing Bulletin. ‘who have ‘worTying how to ce Jehol are g;y matter, because Jaj tends to ehange it to —— e An Towa Idea. Prom the Rochester Times-Union. In the interest of retrenchment, Jowa has eliminated the State bee inspector. Good idea, particularly since all the taxpayers have been stung. evidently ok, | at . | o host t | the su the com! mendation by the Boston for the embargo ides is given in Sdtement: “EngliAfia has seted al powers jol embargo will have littie efféct upori ly of war materials resshing tants from ottside their own territories. But there is the possibility that through the League of N‘n’uau, with the they avoid | uture of the League and the United China 1t | T Impresses as Big Problem out long enough, Japan might fare the worse. | "It is not easy to figure.” seeording {to the New Orleans Times-Piéayune, | “how the extension of the embargo to | China can be other than harmful to | that country, in whose behalf the League of Nations has been striving so | long to exercise its good offices.” The | Chicago Daily News sees “manifest in- | justice in making no distinction be- tween such unequal combatants,” and believes that “Americans generdlly do not favor a policy that would penalize the injured party sand merely annoy the aggressor.” The Youngstown Vin- dicator suggests: “To avold seisure of British merchant vessels, with the at- tendant risk of bringing Britain into war, is the explanation of why there are to be no Arms exports from Britain to China, and so there can be none to Japan. With this precedent, the way to be pursued by our own country will be clearer.” | “Britain’s embargo,” mn the judgment of the Jersey cn{ Journal, ““ean do nothing to aid world peace, and it may do much harm.” The Lexington - er advises American officials that “to plate an embargo on arms means to deprive the Chinese of the meéans of #self-defense, without injuring Japan.” e Fort Worth Star-Telegram con- cludes: “The sort of an embargo pro- posed by QGreat Britain and France in the present instance can be of no value in curbing Japanese aggression in Manchuria. To be effective, the embargo would need to be directed 4gainst Japan alone, leaving China free to purchase arms and munitions from Europe and America. Such &n em- bargo, however, would inevitably lead to seizure of some shipments by Japa- mese naval vessels, and thereby produce an act of war which could not be ig- noted By the mations concerned. Un- léss the Western nations are ready to embark on a course which inevitably must lead to war, an embargo exclu- sively against Japan should not be laid, and if this measure is not to be taken there 18 no real occasion for any less drastic action.” No Stamps, No Sales. Prom the New York Sun. A woman sold $2,000 worth of stock to a lawyer, who was also secretary of the eorporation that issued the stock. NoO transfer tax stamps were affixed to the stock certificate. The seller offered fo the purchaser 10 cents, the precise Athount of the tax due. The purchaser said, “Never mind, I will put the stamps on myself” In an action Drought on & note given -in part pay- ment for the stock the purchaser in-