Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1933, Page 8

A8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. .March 23, 1832 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Ofce: 11th St and Pennsyivania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St ghicaso Office: Lake Michisgn Buildine. ropean Office: 14 Rewent St.. London. Enrland, Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evening Star. 45c per month e Evening and 8 (when 4 Sundays “The Evening_and S (when 5 Sund The Sunday Star.. ... Collection made at the end of Orders may be sent in by mail NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Vir| nl:,lli = Dally and Sunday....1yr.$10.00; 1 mo.. 85¢c Daily only . 1yr., $6.00: 1mo. !Oc Bunday only 1yr. $4.00: 1mo.. 40c All Other States and C: Dally and Sund: 1 $12. aily only .. junday only . unday Star unday Btar RYS) .. 00t 60c per month 65c per morth “Sc per copy each month. or telephone nada. s c S Member of the Associated Press. The Ascociated Press is exclusively entitled | o the use for republicatfon ef all news dis- r not otherwise cred- ted the local news published herein. All rig of publica:ion of epecial dispatches herein are reserved. P - Senator King's Tax Inquiry. It is one thing to study the prac- ticability of substitute forms of texa- tion, designed to spread the total bur- den of taxation more equitably among all the taxpayers, and it is another thing entirely to study methods of plastering the taxpayers with new lev- fes that increase the total tax burden borne by all of them. Senator King of Utah, the new chair- man of the Senate District Committee, is considering the selection of a new subcommittee that might “work out a system of taxation here that will be as fair as possible. It is my hope that a material reduction can be made in real estate taxes, especially for home owners, by establishing a tax on incomes and inheritances.” ‘The efforts of the subcommittee would naturally take the form of a careful inquiry into the efficacy of substitute forms of taxation as productive of reve- nues and their effect on the taxpayers in correcting what inequitable dlstrlbu-i tion there now may be in present forms ot taxation. Every form of taxation has its advo- cates. Some of the advocates repre- sent the purely selfish group who would transfer a tax burden to the shoulders of the other fellow. Some of them are convinced, from careful study and ob- servation, that one form of tax is more equitable, easier to collect and produc- tive of more revenues than another form of tax. There is little hope of ever getting universal agreement upon | the effectiveness and the fairness of any one form of taxation. One of the many curses visited upon the taxpay- | ers in general during the last decade has been the willingness of legislative bodles everywhere to seize upon new forms of taxation—not so much with the idea of wiping out the defects of others as with the hope of producing additional revenue. The result has been a crazy-quilt assortment of every concelvable form of taxation and much duplication and overlapping between municipe!. State and Federal taxing bodies. And one of the ever-present threats to Washingtonians, who have their taxes fixed by some 531 legisla- tors representing every community in the Nation except their own, is the inclination among some of them to bring to Washington the forms of tax- ation that have won particular ap- proval in their own home districts. | When these varied favored forms of | taxation are combined and imposed ex- | cessive taxation results. i The effort being made everywhere in | the country now is to reduce the tax | burden by governmental economies. If , there can be reductions in the total tax | burden by more equitable substitute | forms of taxation, there is, of course, | every reason in the world to adopt the substitutes. Reduction of the tax burden, and not its increase, should be the desideratum. It is gratifying to note_that this view seems to be shared, in relation to the real estate tax burden at least, by Senator King. R The public has again realized what | poets have frequently pointed out—that gold of itself affortls neither subsistence | nor shelter. It is, however, a signal that commands work, and in the hands of ability may be the most wonderful of organizing influences. ———————— Occasionally in the process of inspec- tion a commercial enterprise comes to| notice which recalls the methods by | which two famous radio comedians con- ducted their “Fresh Air Taxicab” busi- ness. —— e Synthetic Beauty. ‘The International Beauty Shop Own: ers are in conyention in New York. | Their program includes consideration | of demountable lips, demountable noses, ear tacks, muscle oil, artificial eye | aparkle and pictorial decoration of | fingernails. The public may greet the discussion with derisive laughter, but the beauty culturists are in deadly ear- nest. Theirs is a business, and it is their intention to fell whatever they can persuade women to believe will make them more attractive. . But will a women with a demount- able nose be more charming than a woman with only a natural nose? Granted that there are noses which nature has modeled grotesquely, is it possible that a gold-plated frame cov- ered with molded wax and adjusted temporarily over a nasal feature not intended to serve any such purpose would be a commendable improvement? ‘Tycho Brahe, the celebrated Danish astronomer, is supposed to have had an artificial nose made of copper, but it is not reported that it contributed to his reputation as a man of hand- some aspect. Sir William Davenant, the presumptive son of Shakespeare, according to G. K. Chesterton, had no nose at all, but the deficiency does not seem to have restrained his genius as a literary craftsman and a statesman. A mcdern woman’s nose may be, artis- tically, s poor thing, but it has the merit of being her own. . If she con- ceals it with an invention resembling & nose in appearance but being of no other particular value, she.is guilty of 8 deception which may be more truly deplorable than the authentic feature of which she disapproves. And ss to finger nails, there already has been a good deal of experimenta- along that line. It is uncom-= to see & girl With stalped & hectic vermillion, By some strange per- version of taste such treason against | Nature has been conceived to be beau- | tiful, but surely the notion has not | been generally indorsed. To many persons the sight is repulsive. If the beauty specialists now insist, as rumor indicetes, that ladics of fashion shall have nalls to match their gowns, mere masks to be attached to otherwise nor- mel finger-ends, the present regrettable tencency will be carried to the ruthless extreme of absurdity for which not even these who make profit from the fad can have any reasonable alibi. Ths professional beautifiers of wom- ankind must not object if, in view of | current reports, their sincerity s doubted. They must be conscious of the fact that unnatural beauty is not | beauty at all. Indeed, half the charm | of loveliness 1s its authenticity. If a | charming woman were to be & mere | ensemble of mechanical devices and | artificiel embellishments, she might be :gmntcd a certain moderate degree of ‘ndmlrnuon from a distance, byt she never could endure the ordeal of “close- up” scrutiny. Beauty may be be only { skin deep, as the axiom declares, but it must be real and true to at Jeast that | degree. The primary object of feminine beauty is that of gratifying the innate esthetic | instincts of men. Dodge the conclu- | slon as objectors may, the undeniable objective of womanly charm is none other than that of raclal survival. The beauty shop owners either are con- sclentiously attempting to exploit irra- tional vanity or they are blundering up a blind alley of their art. In any case, synthetic beapty will not do. No prop- er man wants a synthetic sweetheart. | It was a naturally lovely beggar maid that King Cophetua came to woo, and | not & mere bought-and-paid-for collec- | acceseortes. R | Europe Looks at America. | Although evidence is plentiful here {at home that the economic pendulum | is at length swinging in the direction of stability, thanks to the kaleldoscopic | events of the moment at Washington, it is gratifying to observe that confi- dence on that score has spread across the Atlantic. It was attested last night in no less important a quarter than the House of Commons in London, Addressing himself to the subject of the forthcoming World Economic Con- ference, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer, held out encouraging hopes of a substantial change in the international commer- cial and financial situation. As evi- dence for his optimism, Mr, Chamber- lain cited developments in the United States since the inauguration of Presi- dent Roosevelt. He said: Only a few weeks ago, anybody looking at the situation in the United States could only have done so with feelings of gravest anxiety. Today, thanks to the initiative, courage and wisdom of the new President, a change has taken place which might almost be called miraculous. As a consequence of the ensuing at- mosphere in America, the British chan- cellor referred to the restored confidence of bank depositors and the resultant “sense of hope and anticipation of the future that is coming back to the American people.” Mr. Chamberlain declared that their confidence is being reflected in the London stock and finan- Europe. ‘The picture of the “new deal” thus painted in the House of Commons, which is, of course, wholly warranted by the facts, found tangible expression in the solidity of dollar exchange in Europe throughout the recent banking crisis in this country. There have been ephemeral fluctudtions in it, as theree normally are, but the dollar has weathered the storm handsomely. Presi- dent, Congress and people have all had their share in the bold steps taken “to maintain the credit of the United States.” That was the title formally and officially applied to the economy bill which became law last week. That it has immediately served fts purpose—the assurance that the Federal budget will be balanced—is gratifyingly proved by such tributes as have just been paid the American people by Chancellor Chamberlain. A woman “stunt fiyer” crashed near Knoxville, with results of death to one passenger, injuries to another and a fractured jaw for herself. No reason- able person can object to aviation for women, but when it comes to stunt fiying the knitting now so much in favor must be regarded as & safer and more suitable pastime. ——— e ‘There was no effort to sensationalize the story of the execution of Cermak’s assassin. It was an incident of dis- agreeable routine. Any sympathetic in- terest must relate only to the memory | of the honored man whose life was s0 wantonly sacrificed. The Jig-Saw Puzzle. The jig-saw puzele is not new. Its ancestors are on display in the museums of the Orient and of Europe. The idea of the interlocking mosaic is of vast antiquity. Long before there was any such instrument as that now used for tracing out the intricacies of modern patterns men patiently cut and fitted by hand wooden and tile pieces of sim- plor tut of equally defiant designs. The wall decorations of St. Sophia’s in Con- stantinople and of St. Mark's in Venice are jig-saw puzzles of a kind, and every now and again s fragment of Roman pavement is unearthed in England for archeologists to put together again in the traditional manner. The present vogue Tepresents a democratization. A few years ago it wes the Czar of Russia and the King of England who were amusing them- selves with jig-saw toys—the King still hes the habit, and could do wérse with his leisure. Calvin Coolidge was a devotee after his retirement from the White House.. Other eminent persons have played the game. 8Since last Autumn’ the' fad has spread to the com- mopalty, and millions of John and Jane Does have become addicts, racking their Lbrains to find the rooster’s eye or the landlord’s head, the highwayman's knee or that secretive fragment of the barn door which is needed to give a clue to the pattern. Of course, it is just a fad, and doubt- less' soon will be relegated to the obscurity in which ping-pong and Tom | Thumb golf are languishing. But meanwhilz it is a harmless and even & useful pastime. It has the educa- tion of demountable parts and artificial | cial markets and thence ramifying over | THE EVENING of perception. It has the social aig- nificance of keeping people at home when otherwise they might be wander- ing all over the neighborhood map. It has the economic utility of making work for thousands of hands at a time ‘when employment is scant in their trade. Paychologists and soclologists agree that it is exceedingly helpful in all these respects, , All the world is a good deal of a | puzzle these days, and in the circum- stances the jig-saw puzzle may have its place. It has been noted that when an individual attempts to put such a design together he desires to “stick to it” until he has succeeded. Perhaps i the whole population of the earth is | playing the universal jig-saw game of | civilization, and may achieve some | gratitying sort cf victory. o The Sultan Signs. The perennial ballyhoo over the | stipend of the base ball player who has | come to be known as the “Sultan of Swat” has ended with the inevitable | signing of a contract after weeks of | discussion and negotiation and pub- | Ucity. This ennual disputation has come to be regarded as an assured incident of the training season. In- deed it is almost a necessity to main- ihln interest in the chief financial figure in the national game. There is | never any doubt as to the outcome. | Everybody knows that at the well known psycholcgical moment, just be- | fore the bell rings, the contract will be | signed. Whether the issue is as to a demand for an increase of pr7 QF over a proposed reduction, it is assured that the “Babe” will sign his articles of in- | denture, He can do nothing else. | However much the club needs him, he | needs the club more. To refuse to sign, to become a hold-out, to be barred from | | the playing field and the “spangles” of the sport, whatever the scale of com- | pensation tendered and refused, would mean the final eclipse of this unde- | niably waning star. And in eclipse his | commercial vaiue would cease, with all the side lines of emolument accompany- | ing active participation in the game. This is the twentieth year of Ruth's| participation in professional base ball ‘;lnd counting the amount just con- | tracted for he will, at the end of the| | 1933 season, have received in all no! less than $837,900, or an aversge of $41,895 a year. He has just taken a cut of $17,000, but at $52,000 he is [still the highest-paid ball player and | one of the most richly pald men in | America in any occupation. Is he worth it? The club that employs him is evi- | dently of the opinion that he is, not in point of actual playing services huz‘ as a “box office attraction.” He un-| doubtedly draws the crowds, hoping to see him send the ball over the fence. | The moment he slips in this capacity | as & slugger his value diminishes, for outside of his batting he is now merely; a mediocre player in the field. The| present cut in his pay is doubtless due in part to the need for economy and to the fear that he will not make as many home runs irf the coming sea- son as heretofore and therefore will| not draw as many patrons through the | turnstiles. The negotiations for the| 1933 contfact have been cleverly pro- longed to whet the public interest.| Now that it is all over it remains to | be seen which one of the parties to| this annual argument has guessed cor-| rectly. | — e Germany is & nation that produces “doctors” in liberal numbers. Among, them there may be found a “business doctor” capable of handling the present financial and political symptoms. —_—re—————— Dry orators will not be entirely de- | prived of opportunity for their talents. | There will still be percentages to argue about. —a—. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Good Old Days. The Good Old Days we sing about | Were wondrous good, beyond a doubt. | | Some men drank deep, played games | and swore. Pantastic clothes they often wore. And some worked hard and paid their way And went to church each Sabbath day. Some men made money by control That let them claim & mighty toll. *Twas hard to raise the price, no doubt; And those who couldn't went without. The statesman spoke; the people cheered. ‘When Fame grew fickle, people jeered, While arguments were set afloat About the way they ought to vote. The Good Old Days we sing about Were much like these beyond & doubt. His Trouble Supply. " “Are you looking for trouble?” asked the man with the big volce and the bristly mustache. “Looking for trouble?” echoed Sena- tor Sorghum, who had sccidentally Jostled him. “No, sir; I never look for my constituents or in the newspapers.” A man who learns to.get on. with four hours’' sleep s day is not really s0 much to be envied and admired as the one who can make relisble ar- rangements to get eight or nine. Wealth' and. Happiness. Oh, wealth does not bring happiness; No truer word was ever spoke. And yet this fact man must confess: He can’t be happy if he’s broke. “When & family seemed pinched in was whether & woman'’s husband played the horse races.” “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne. “Now the first thing we ask is whether a man's wife plays bridge.” A Satirical Gardener. “Do you resd much fiction? “Yes. I take s lot of magazines that tell me what & fine garden I can make in my back yard.” Enjoyment. A lot of worriment would end I all could only know It's much more fun to help a friend Than ‘tis to knock a foe. “Some people’s idea of s contented | downward, maintained for a few days, trouble anywhere but in. letters .from b circumstances the first thing we asked | 4pon ¢’ :sition,” said Uncle Eben, “is bein’ willin’ to sit down comfortable an’ walt foh meal times whilj somebody else does all do S S i v N STAR, WASHINGTON. If & wet March is followed up by normally rainy April, this should be one of the most beautiful Springs in the history of the city, Already enough indication of that beauty has appeared to make the re- alization certain to those who study the with more usual interest. , be it known, there are thousands and thousands of to whom the appearing of fresh green at this time of year is nothing, or less than nothing, if that can be. Rain, to them, is a nuisance, no mat- ter what it may mean to the flowers and the shrubs and the grass, and especially to the hundreds of home gardeners. Rain waters the enthusiasm of gar- deners almost as much as it does their gardens. It brings no frowns from them, but only unuttered thanks that their pets are being hel 80 lavishly. Firs. indication of the good health of vegetation is the flowering of the forsythia bushes, which on every side have opened their small yellow flowers. ‘This does not happep to be one of our favorite shrubs, but we must say that this scason it looks very well, in- deed; it strikes a real ncte in the landscape after a fairly severe Winter. While long-continued rains have brought floods and misery in certain sections of the gountry, in this vicinity they have merely replenished the un- derlying water table and helped keep up the temperature of the air. Even the slightest rise is grateful to the things which grow in the earth. A few degrees, to them, at this time of year, mean a great deal, Two or three degrees upward, not put all the growing things on their several toes, as it were. They prod their intelligences—and plants have minds, too, of & sort, there can be no doubt of it—into sending forth unworded messages to the vari- ous growing parts. “Do your stuff!” they order, in the parlance of the young world. Every branch and bough responds to the best of its ability. \ Already the Washington world has| forsythia bushes in bloom, their grace- ful, sweeping branches covered with yellow, which, next to green, is the true | color of Springtime. Is there, however, any distinguishing color in Spring besides green Green is what one thinks of, despite | the beckoning yellow blossoms of the | narcissuses (or however any one wants to spell the plural of narcissus, or| however one escapes from the dilemma | by calling 'em jonquils). Grass is getting greener all the time, and if that is a commonplace state- | ment to you, then you probably need | a jolt yourself out of yourself, and see the world again with eyes which be- hold it as fresh as nature is trying to make it. Greener grows the grass, and the branches of climbing roses. Greener becomes each iris leaf, now up several | inches. old apple gnarled against the sky. are budding out? They are! Closer inspection shows green there, too, along with the in-| creased green of lawns. | trees, picturesque with | seem misty green | Can it be that leaves | Even plots which had assumed the | going to be, it must be a good specimen. | D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1933. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. one!” Nature does not work so singly as that, nor does she do things so all- of-a-sudden. Her method is a gradual change, in | Mmmmltttm. :: slow that it is im- e to see the grass grow, or even the flower buds to unfold. The number of flowers which one can catch actually in the process of unfolding their petals is very few, indeed. What one can do, however, is note the changes appearing overnight on al- most any morning now. One will not be able to point out any particular change, perha some such thing as a flowering shrub, but the observer will be able to see » distinct difference, just the same, an appearance which was not there in the evening. Happily there will be no one there screaming “Prove it!” Nature func- tions without the necessity for proof. She is her own proof, her own justifi- cation, her own reason for being. of her very few have succeeded in going very far; most human beings only are able to accept Nature. Per- haps that is enough for the time being. Maybe the truth of her cutward man- ifestations would be more than we could bear to lknow with complete knowledge. For there is a knowledge which is incomplete, but which is knowledge, nevertheless. This is the little knowledge which every lover of the Spring 5. For many years it was popular to at tempt the expression in verse, as if by some magic rhyme better fitted the spirit of the season than prose. Fortunately, the so-called “Spring poet” hadh seen better, days. He no longer feels impelled to capture the season in song; if he exists at all, he carefully keeps his identity secret. The truth is tha® the little girl who spoke of “exstacises” when she meant exercises, was looking at the world from the viewpoint of the home gar- dener. Spring, today, in this very modern age, means more exercise than ecstasy. | e poets long ago put on paper about all that can be said about it. Now one wants to go out into the garden, when the sun warms up a bit, one desires to play 18 holes of golf, or roll the tennis court, after the rains. There is a heavy roller to be pushed | on the court, and there is nothing to be done but push it. On the links, one must knock a ball around, and walk after it. But in the garden, praise be, one may | do a great deal of standing and looking. Every one knows how it is. Much gazing must precede acticn, as if somehow it were necessary to look a very long while at a given spot before one is able to vizualize it as it shquld be and probably will be some day. Some gardeners never acquire this uncanny ability, to pose before a bush, that isn't there, as women do in front of a mirror. It is safe to say, however, that it is an_acquirement which adds im- mensely to the joy of living, this thing of standing in the garden at this time of the year, sagaciously gazing for minutes at a time at a certain spot, where one hopes to see a new lilac, or | some other sort of shrub, bush, plant, or any other matter. The new shrub is not something to be dismissed lightly. Whatever it is , with the exception of | The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. ‘The Roosevelt control over the House continues unbroken. No greater evi- dence of this fact could be asked than | the vote taken in that body yesterday afternoon on the President’s experi- mental farm relief bill. It Pund with 315 voting “aye” and 98 “no.” This is not intended as a criticism of the President or an attack upon the Houe. In the condif that confront the country it is_essential that s President—the President—should the lead, and that the House and the Senate, too, should back him up. The farm relief bill as it came from the | White House is a big dose to swallow. It is admittedly an experiment, and lge President has I]!lkcll h?l'l‘:l lblm:lnol: the experiment quickly does work as it is hoped it will work. The measure now goes to the Senate, where amendments will be in order and debate unlimited. Yet even there the bill is likely to pass in much the same form, although it may have coupled with it the President’s coming proposal to ease the mortgage burdens of the American farmer and the small home owner. President was wise, indeed, when he | let it be known yesterday, a few hours | before the farm bill was to come to a vote in the House, that he intended to send to Congress almost immediately & bill dealing with the farm mortgage and home mortgage situation. x k ok X Only 23 Democrats in the House turned against the President on the farm bill. This was a better showing than the Democrats made in the House on the President’s economy bill. But the farm organizations were support- ing the farm bill, while the veterans’ organizations were opposing the econ- omy measure. The greater part of the opposition to the farm bill in the House came from the Republicans, T4 of whom were registered in opposition to the measure. One Farmer-Labor member also voted “no.” The Repub- lican leadership in the House, which has gone along with the President in his banking, economy and beer legis- iation, declined to accept the farm bill, on the ground that it was dictatorial, unworkable and would cause to spring up a huge army of Government em- p&yu all over the country. * k% % | Incidentally, the debate on the farm | bill brought before the House the new Republiian Representative from New | York—James W. Wadsworth, jr, an | old, or rather a former, Senator. Mr. ‘Wadsworth is looked upon in some | quarters as the White Hope of the !G. O. P. If there is a swing back of the pendulum in the next few years toward conservatism, there is none | more likely to come forward as a leader | than Mr. Wadsworth. He is able. He | hatls from the Empire State. He is & ! wet of the wets, a pioneer wet when {the G. O. P. was closely allied to the ! prohibition movement. He is also a | farmer, and & farmer on a large scale. | During his speech in the House yester- | day—confined to four minutes—Mr. | Wadsworth attacked the farm bill, { which he said would build up a huge | bureaucracy with its headquarters in | Washington and “its tentacles reaching | all over the country.” | member did not confine himself to at- | tack, he suggested other remedies to | aid ‘the farmer as follows: “It strikes me,” he said. “and has ugly brown-gray which some types of Did nature not take at least two or struck me for many. many months, that grass unfortunately do take on, as the | three years to grow it on (as the the things that the farmers of this result of Winter, now manifest an un- | mistakable tinge. | It would be difficult for the most Spring rains another. Shall we felicitate ally a local dut; horticulturists insist on saying)? Earthquake and flood one place, country need most of all are, first, re- | duction in taxation, and this is especi- second, any measure ambitious amateur gardener to put his | ourselves, or, more humbly and properly, | of relief which the Congress can afford finger squarely on any one blade of | thank God for a garden, as the song|to them under the Constitution of the grass, and say, “See, here is the green | said? High Lights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands next war will be over in as many | weeks as the last war took years, Gen. Sir Ian Hamllton Dbelieves. In the rush to secure bases for [ aerodromes and ofl depots, the mecha- | nised motor-driven forces will meet in | one battle that will decide the war, after which the victors’ tanks and air-| anes will eat up the hostile infantry d artillery and wipe out the civilian | population. The airplanes laden with, chemicals will, Sir Ian says, be the worst devils. The prospect is none wo‘ pleasant; but Sir Ian's object is to make the disarmament conferences get down to brass tacks. If there is to be 2 next war, it is well to know that the | military experts have put their cards on the table. So long as the people who pay the piper, and who constitute the gun fodder, allow admirals and generals and politicians to evade the issues of world peace, they have only themselves to blame. If the nm:nreo- ple showed they were really determined to abolish war, the politicians would do as they were told. * K K K Nicaraguans Start Drive Against Outlaws. Ls NNoticia, Managua: The entire population of the town of Matiguas, in the northeastern sector of the depart- ment, has determined once and for all to put to an end the ravages of the bandoleros which have been making well-nigh intolerable the further exist- ence of not only those inhabitants, but also and more particularly that of the dwellers in the adjacent rural com- munities. ‘Though most of this peaceful citi- zenry belonging within and without the town were destitute of firearms, they gathered such weapons as they could of this description, mostly ancient and decrepit devices, while for l.!:l rest sufficed pitchforks, axes, scythes, and even bows and aITows such as were used by the Indians of antiquity, and, still as_ heir- looms and wx;lmmu in many homes and lic buildings. 'rhew: e which has finally im- lled the people of this on to gneemd action was the ation of the species. No quarter shown, and the fact that the outlaws, for the most part, are better armed, and el opponents, are advan! will afford them no greater security in the ultimate acts of this drama, for the defenders have all the power and in- against the enraged citizenry formidable than is expected. TR Cologne Officials Bar All Parades. the Cologne municates _that ical or mitted wi will any meeti m&d under the e, halls, churches and other suitable buil d&mfl- #5¢ =§?§%5’ as can be readily appreciated, for the better protection and safety of the pub- lic, both those actually participating in the functions, and perhaps more par- ticularly the innocent bystanders who, far too often, have been made fellow sufferers with those directly or indi- rectly contributory to the riots and dis- orders which have afflicted s0 many conclaves and demonstrations of late. These provisions are aimed especially at the Communists, who overlook no opportunity to make any concourse of citizens the scene of disorder and dis- cord beneath the distracticns of which they may the better sow the seeds of their unwholesome propaganda. ‘Whether the drastic prohibitions of | this new ordinance will be successful in terminating the open-air meetings of the Communists themselves is a matter about which there is some debate. They have not shown themselves amenable to any laws yet enacted to restrict or mitigate their doings, and it is feared they may still find some way of evading the embargo and will boldly continue their processions and other activities the same as in the past. The likelihood of these disturbances being aggrevated to the same dangerous proportions as has been lately mani- fested in Spain, and in other countries of the Continent, has given impetus to the procedure of public officials which have now been ratified in definite form the peace and security of the lives and property. If indoor meetings protract in any degree the same discomfiture, it is likely that permission for them, too, will be re- scinded, at least for the present. e Much Money Is Being Paid to Wrong People ‘To the Editor of The Star: - Comments from the Milwaukee Sen- tinel, reprinted in The Star of March 7, are based on & mistaken notion of what constitutes earning capacity. A large income does not prove earning capacity; incomes have many sources, oft-times mysterious, like black satchels and tin boxes, to say nothing of enor- ing was the only way to obtain any income. If any man now earns and receives more than $10,000.00 per year, his elimination might be a damage to the country, but there are not many earned incomes that big. Psychologists report, from comparative brain tests, that the highest possible earning_of one excep! y pe From this, it 13 plain that much money is being paid to the people. ‘When it comes to actualities, the av- erage productive capacity of the in dividual has been multiplied something like 75 times in the last 100 years; this means that the average individual is nsible for only one seventy-fifth of income, while he is indebted to soclety for seventy-four seventy-fifths. Every person should understand v.ht: {when he receives much above a ba 1 he is being paid more than he could possibly be worth as an individual living by himself. ‘The best that can be hoped for, in a material way, is that national income will be divided in proportion to individ- proposal of a 100 come in excess of $10,000.00 is & good ‘W. C. DUNCAN. * Retroactive Suggested. From the Boston Tranacript. Now if President Roosevelt were able to reduce last year's taxes the count would indeed arise and call him No Prejudice. | Pzem the Lowell Evenins Leace Issue the o , 80 far S B U e £y St~ United States in the matter of the in- terest on their mortgages; and, third, Mr. Speaker, and most important, in {my humble judgment, is the taking | down of that multitude of artificial bar- | riers erected by governments all over | the world, which are today stifling in- | ternctional trade.” | = | Th> demand by ~r. Wadsworth for the climination of tra<d: barriers which RISH INDEPENDENT, Dublin: The| These measures have been adopted, | have grown up, including high tariff allotments and the | | walls, embargoes, | like, strikes a new note from a Re- | publican leader in the Eastern part of the country. It sounds more like | progressive thunder from the West. Cer- | tainly it is in line with the coctrine | the new Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell | Hull, has preached and is continuing | to preach. | * ok ox % ‘The Senate is wrestling with a prece- dent. In vain has a search of the | records been made to find the case of a | Governor of a State who resigned his office and had himself appointed a Senator to fill a_vacancy, until the present case of Senator Erickson of Montana. When it was first announced that Mr. Erickson had ‘decided to quit as Governor of Montana and that the Lieutenant Governor upon _ becoming Governor would appoint Mr. Erickson to the Senate, Senators szii ' “at, of course, such things had happened in the past. But unlgss further searches of the rec. ords reveal a precedent for such a course, ‘Senator Erickson's case stands as prececent making. ‘The Senate is particularly careful about precedents, and individual Senators do not care at all for this particular precedent. In fact, they regard the course of Mr. Erickson as distinctly open to criticism. The only thing that is g the Senators is what they can or should do about it. A subcommittee of the Privileges and Elections Committee, headed by Senator King of Utah, Demo- crat, has been appointed to delve into the matter, * * ok * When the late Gov. Sproul of Penn- syivania had to fill a vacancy in the Senate in 1922 caused by the death of Senator Boise Penrose, the Gov- ernor had senatorial ambitions him- self. He asked a number of his friends in the Senate and out to advise him. They told him not to do it. The man whom he appointed, former Senator George Wharton Pepper, said when he came here that he had been prepared to advise ‘the Governor not to resign and have himself appointed, althongh he never gave the advice. Senator Pepper reasoned it out that a man who became trustee either of power or money was not entitled to use that power for his own advancement or benefit. A Governor of a State, he argued, was intrusted with the power of making appointments to fill vacan- cies in the Senate temporarily and he had no right to use that power to put himself in the Senate. When Senator Pepper was called in by the Governor he was prepared to make such an agru- ment. But the Governor did not ask He merely asked Mr. Pep- per whether he would like to to the Senate. . Pepper, Governor, immediately said * X X % Senator Ashurst of Arizons, now chairman of the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee, is the author of a resolution not “yes Green Cotton and Currency. Prom the San Antonie Express. Supporting the President. r“"f")‘: the Omaha YVorld-Herald. g 1d. - | The Evening Star ‘The New York | Did you ever write a letter to Frederic J. Haskin? You can ask him any ques- | tion of fact and get the answer in a| letter. Here is a great educa- | tional idea introduced into the :m:, ‘:r n the | American newspaper readers. It | is a part of that best purpose of a newspaper—service. There is no charge | except 3 cents in coin or stamps for re- | turn postage. Do not use postcards.| Address Frederic J. Haskin, Director. Information Bureau, ‘Washington, D. C. | Q. In horse racing, is the inside po- | sition at the post considered most de- | sirable?—J. 8. A. Trainers of fast-breaking horses covet the inside position; but a Rorse slow to find his stride is better placed on the outside. Q. Please give a biography of Boake | Carter?—A. A. A. Boake Carter, radio news edito- rialist, was born in Baku, South Russia, in 1900. He is the son of Irish-Eng- lish parents. Was taken to England the age of 4. and was educated there. | Served with the Royal Air Force during | ‘World War. Went into newspaper work shortly thereafter, traveled widely, and is now working in Philadelphia. | Q. Do birds live longer in the wild | A. Ordinarily wild birds live from | 10 to 15 years if they are not killed by their enemies. Birds in captivity live normally twice as long as those which | are wild. Q. Of what racial stock are the peo- | ple of Argentina?—F. L. | A. The Argentine Republic is chiefly | inhabited by descendants of the Span- ish settlers. Some of them have inter- married with the native Indians, but the Argentines have less Indian blood than most other South American peo- | ples. The other European nations whose blood is most representative in Argen- | | tina 15 the Italian. Spanish is the | official language of the Argentine Re- | public. Q. What causes rigor mortis>—M. R A. Rigor mortis means stiffening of the body and usually occurs from one to seven hours after death, due to tne hardening of the muscular tissues in consequence of the coagulation of the | myosinogen and ~paramyosinogen; it disappears after from one to six days. Q. How is the name of the new First Assistant Postmaster General pro- | nounced?—F. C. | . A. His name is Joseph C. O'Mchon His last name is pronounced O-May ny, with the accent on May. Q. Why are the people of India for- | bidden to make salt?>—B. 8. A. The government of land does not prohibit the people of India from making salt, but for a great many years | the small tax on the manufacture of salt has been a source of government | revenue to defray the expenses of the | government. This is similer to the tax | | placed upon liquors, tobacco, etc., by the | United States Government. | Q. What was the alcoholic strength of beer before prohibition?>—P. M. | A. It was about 4!2 per cent. | Q. What is the philosophy of Kis- { met?—T. C. | _A. In Arabic the word is “kismeh” and means fate. This word was used by Mohammed when he preached in the | Koran the duty of submission to all that God had preordained. He believed |that a man's every action was predes- tined, yet he never suggested the folly | of struggling against an adverse doom. | The doctrine of Kismet has prompted Mohammedans to utmost heroism and fortitude in the cause of their reli-| gion. | state or in captivity?—F. K. | thy ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS | BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. . Q. When was the club known as the TUnion League, in New York Oity, founded?’—W. H. N. A. It was organized in 1863. It now has about 1,800 members. Q. When did Japan suffer its worst earthquake shock?—S8. K. A. The worst disaster in its history occurred September 1, 1923. More than 100,000 people were killed and about 150,000 injured. ¢In 1930 Tokio cele- brated the completion of her recon- struction following the earthquake and Q. What State has the most Negro churches?—@. H. A. Georgia leads with 5201, Alabama Is second with 4,284 and Mississippi third with 4,034. Q. Is a constitutional amendment submitted to the President?—E. H. L. A. An amendment to the Constitu- tion, after having passed both houses of Congress by a two-thirds vote, does not 80 to the President for his signature. Ii is sent to the States to be ratified, either by their Legislatures or by con- ventions, as Congress shall determine. Three-fourths ratification is necessary. Q. Are the mountains on the Eastern coast of the United States older than e Rocky Mountains?>—M. M. A. The Adirondacks are believed to have been the first land that rose from the original chaos in the Western ‘World. Q. Is the portrait the same on all $1 bills, on $2 bills and so on?—R. C. A. On the new currency of reduced size the portraits are uniform on the different kinds of paper currency. On the $1 bill appears the portrait of Wash- ington; $2, Jefferson; $5, Lincoln; $10, Hamilton; $20, Jackson; $50, Grant; $100, Franklin; $500 McKinley; $1,000, Cleveland; $5,000, Madison; $10.000, Chase. Q. What is the derivation of the word remorse?—S. 8. A. It has a Latin origin, re meaning again and mordere (morsus) to bite. Q. Why are orange blossoms con- jldevrvedH-pprupnute for weddings?— A. The orange blossom is the sym- bol of chastity and fecundity. Not only is the orange tree an evergreen, but it is said to be the only tree which produces fruit and flowers at the same time. The custom of entwining orange blossoms in bridal wreaths is of com- paratively recent date in Europe and in America. It came to this country from the French, who in turn have derived the custom from Spain. In the latter country the custom is traced to the Moors. — Q. Who planned the first com- munity trust?>—T. V. A. Credit is given to Ju F. H. Goff, who in 1914 introduced a plan in a trust company in Cleveland, Ohio. His object was to accommodate per- manent funds Jeft for philanthropic purposes to changing conditions. Q. What place is called the “Sun- —A. M. H. shine Cit; - M. K A. St. Petersburg is called the Sun- shine City because it has an average of only six or seven days in the year | without sunshine. Q. Please name a few of the largest buildings in Europe.—E. B. A. The Vatican, in Rome: Versailles Palace, Paris; Kremlin, Moscow, and the Tower of London. Q. How much money was added to DMO“EI savings deposits in February?— A They were increased by $63,032,« 370 to a total of $1,005,572. App Decision by the United States Su-| preme Court that the organization of Appalachian Coals, Inc., is not in vio- | lation of the Sherman Anti-Trus | legislation, is received by the country |as a step toward better conditions. It | is called a “life line” for the coal in-| dustry, and viewed as evidence of a | liberal spirit on the part of the court. | | The corporation s formed for co-opera- | | tive purposes by 137 operators in West | Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky and Ten- nessee. The court holds that they are not acting in restraint of trade, while public comments uphold the view that| | their purpose is to give vital ald to the trade. The decision is expected to inspire similar efforts among other | producers of commodities. “This is history making in its po- tential meaning,” says the Newark Evening News, with the conclusion that the Sherman law “is liberalized,” and that “the decision is not only & basic restatement of the effect of the anti-trust law, but the herald of a changed viewpoint in its application.” The New York Journal of Commerce calls it “a virtual major amendment of the anti-trust laws,” and holds that “it is better that the law be modern- jzed in this way than that business be hampered indefinitely by obsolete re- strictions.” Of the opinion that the court “made judicial history” and that | the opinion “is based primarily upon broad economic rather than technical legal grounds,” the Journal of Com- merce suggests that “the lumber, oil and other raw-material production in- dustries are now in position to curb excessive competition in their Tespec- tive fields.” “Every one must now realize.” thinks the Roanoke World-News, “both the wastefulness of an_unbridled competi- tion and the fact that in the long run it is the public that pays for the waste.” That paper suggests that the “fcrmation of a joint selling agency follows very much along the pooling -eements sanctioned and even requ! by the Government during the World War.” The San Jose Mercury-Herald observes that, due to the fact that “overproduc- tion and destructive competition forced prices below cost” the industry “has been prostrate for years” and ‘“could not pay adequate wages or maintain steady employment.” The San Jose paper refers to the court statement as “common sense, but it makes a deep dent in this rigid law.” Noting the court reservation that the decree may be reversed “if future events justify cuch action,” the Rochester Times-Union concludes that “thus the soft coal men go ahead improving their industry and the public rights are protected against future abuses.” The Indianapolis News points out tha: the court makes it legitimate to engaze in erative effort for the acquisition of full infor- mation as to business conditions, the correction of abuses and bad practices, and for the stabilization cf business on fair price levels of competition.” “By this decision,” declares the Louls- ville Courler-Journal, “the Supreme Court proves itself to be truly liberal. Chief Justice Hughes, in his opinion, which reflected the views of all but cne member of the court, held that the establishment of a selling agency by 137 land has “Evidently lnm alachian Coals Decision Hailed as Trust Law Change son. As Theodore Roosevelt long ago pointed out, big business and large aggregations of capital are not menac- ing because of mere bigness. As in- | dustry and trade develop and expand, and particularly as this country comes into keener competition with foreign countries in the markets of the world, large units are essential and trade asso- ciations and combinations should be ot devlo Into orpuniatons 1 1o n elop into ol ns in re- straint of trade.” “Reduced to the simplest terms of its implications,” according to the Brook- lyn Eagle, “the decision means that prosecutors should quit stretching the anti-trust law for the annoyance of producers and distributors of commodi- tles.” The Eagle concludes that “of course, there was no real monopoly, for it would be almost as easy to monopo- lize air or water as soft coal in the United States.” The Baltimore Sun sees an authorization of “a long step toward the commercial unification of the coal industry,” and the Providence Journal “the creation and maintenance of an intelligent economic policy and an adequate conservation program for other natural resources, notably oil.” The Birmingham Age - Herald feels that the court “has given a fresh and practieal impetus to the emergence of coal as a major factor in the Nation's well-being.” The Cincinnati Times- Star avers that “the Supreme Court has thrown a lifeline to one of the country’s basic industries, which has been & major casualty of the slump.” “What is a restraint of trade?” asks the Wall Street Journal, with the com- ment: “The court held that selection of a common selling agency by a num- ber of producers is not one any more than the common practice of bringing a number of units under one owner- ship. The real question is whether there is an attempt to monopolize, Doubtless an attempt to fix prices through monogolmlc control would be &n unreasonable restraint of trade. But if such organization does not pre- vent falr competiticn it cannot be guilty of an undue restraint. * * * It is evident that the court sees that a real restraint of trade, eventually hurtful to consumers and working men as well as producers, comes through an unbalanced production which eventually leads to price instability. “Neither farmers, coal miners nor manufacturers can Jive if their prod- ucts bring no profits,” contends the Columbia (S. C.) State, with a plea for fair prices and fair wages, as of- fered under the practices approved by the court. The Morgantown Dominion~ News, agreeing to the benefits conferred by ,‘.";.S‘i“‘,'f’“ voices doubt that the ill “agree upon any propo- sition that they prefer to the old cuts throat competition.” Subway Suggested to Relieve Traffic Jam To the Editor of The Star: Wi . admittedly in the near future, will find it necessary to uflectul’- 1y relieve traffic conditions and this can be accomplished by the construction of subways. Why not anticipate such relief and proceed now, when unemg'hmn: is so prevalent, the project to be assumed by ::un District through the Reconstruction ce of some of ition. JAMES T. DAVIS. ——es Good Vet. Prom the Toledo Blade. It's still an honest dollar, v ) @ s'“_f