Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1933, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR __Wlth Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY.........March 24, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES... .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: and Pennsylvania_Ave. Office: 110 East 42nd 8t Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Bullding. European Office: 14 Regent St.. London, Encland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evening Star. ...........45c per month e Evening and Sunday Stai (when 4 Sundays)..........80¢ per month Sunday’ St ays) €8¢ per month . Sc per copy al nd of each month. nt in by mail or telephone and undays) . Coliection mi Qrders may be fAtional 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday....1yr., $10.00: 1mo.. 85c ily only .. 151, $6.00: 1mo.. 50¢ Bonday onty 1 $4.00: 1 mo.. 40c All Other States and Canada. Datly and Sunday...1yr.$12.00; 1 mo., § ily only . BEL day only Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- atches credited (o it or not otherwise cred- ted in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. 1.00 i8¢ 50c —_— Recognition of Russia. | Many portents indicate that a new drive is on to bring about American | recognition of Soviet Russia. Despite circumstantial and persistent state- ments that President Roosevelt in- clines in that direction, he himself has lent no countenance to them and has not as yet, it is indicated, ap- proached the problem with any defini- tiveness. The pro-recognition group in this country is resorting to the argument which it has put forth in vain to in- duce four preceding administrations to 1ift the ban on diplomatic intercourse with Moscow. It is emphasizing that American trade with Russia is shrivel- ing because of non-recognition. The theory is that once there is a Soviet embassy in Washington and an Ameri- can embassy in Moscow, goods made in the United States will flow into Rus- sia in an irresistible and mighty stream, causing a boom in American industry, an appreciable decrease in unemploy- ment and other economic blessings. It is & fact that in 1931 the United States sold Russia wares valued at $103,000,000 and that last year our ex- ports amounted to only $12,500,000. This represents a decrease of eighty- eight per cent. During the same period, Germany's sales to Russia dropped only twenty-one per cent, while Great Brit- ain’s actually increased by twenty-nine per cent. All these figures are cited as exposing the fallacy of continued diplomatic boycott of Russia on our part. ‘Without doubt diplomatic recognition facilitates trade between nations. But the enormous volume of American sales to Russia up to and including 1931, during all which years there was also non-recognition, is evidence that that factor alone is not responsible for the dectgase in Soviet purchases in the Unfted States. Other causes must be sought. A palpable explanation lies in the fact that most of the trade America has lost has gone to the Ger- mans and the British. The German government guarantees orders from the Soviet to German manufacturers up to sixty or seventy-five per cent of their value. Great Britain gives s similar guarantee to her industry, although of a smaller percentage. It is plain as a pikestaff why the Soviet has been buying in the German and Brmah‘ markets, rather than in our own. There is yet another reason for & decline in our business with Russia. The United States Government for sound reasons has found it necessary to impose an increasing number of‘ restrictions on Russian imports, under existing laws concerning dumping, un- fair competition and forced labor. None of these things has anything to do with recognition or non-recognition. But they do explain, from the Soviet's standpoint, why it may not be minded to spend more on American imports. Calvin Coolidge, while President, suc- cinctly disposed of the more-trade- with-Russia plea as an argument in favor of recognition. He did not favor, he said, “the bartering of American principles for commercial profit.” What the sage Vermonter meant was that for the sake of an improved Russo- American trade balance he was un- alterably opposed to licensing Com- munism and the Third Internationale, which are the Soviet government of Russia, to conduct subversive propa- ganda on our soil and to wage its unrevoked “war” on “capitalistic” | states everywhere, until the Red “world revolution” is accomplished. The Coolidge policy remains the policy of millions of Americans, who| will want to scrutinize microscopically | the conditions under which any even- tual recognition of Russia may be | contemplated. = r—e—————— | ® It might be judicious for the former Kaiser to study the situation and make sure that he is not being pushed in line to bear the blame for every little | thing that goes wrong. — e At Last. For forty years, more or less, his American friends have been trying to| lure George Bernard Shaw to the| United States. They have assured him | & hearty welcome; they have made him attractive offers for lecture tours and other “personal appearances”; they have promised him every genercus sort of hospitality. But Mr. Shaw always has avoided an acceptance. He said he was afraid of being scalped by the Red Indians of Broadway or lynched by the Ku Klux Klan. He pretended to be apprehensive of Ellis Island. Dozens of excuses served his momen- tary purpose. In effect, his attitude was that of & professional “stay-away.” But his resclution has been dissolved 2t last. He is coming to New York to deliver an address before the Academy of Political Science and a gallery of the academy’s guests. The Metro- politan Opera House has besn hired for the occasion, and every seat has been taken. Mr. Shaw certainly is one of the celebrities of the age. He is constantly in the limelight in one connection or another. A man cf tireless energy, his| interests arz legion in number. Nothing | 18 too small to engege his attention, and by the same token nothing is tco large. But he is a defiant personality. It is | time. utterly smpossible o classify him, For lmtnmn-nh ‘lll!n&l war, but during 1914-1918 he wes the largest individual subscriber to Britich war loan bonds. Again, he has written coplously in defense of the former Kaicer, and yet is the author of the bitterest and most ludicrous satire | sbout him. He thinks cf himself as a teacher of ethies, but the net effect of | many of his dramas has been a general relaxation of traditicnal moralities. He is an Irishman, but he has made only a negative contribution to Irish national- ism. He i5 an apostle cf science, a prophet of the machine age, and yet s capable of pokirg fun at mschanical progress. A spokesman for youth, he has to his credit the most competent apolegy fcr old age penned in his time. A Socialist, he upholds individualism. Altogether, he is a contradiction, cease lessly charging, a mcdern Don Quixote, fencing with all varieties of windmills and yet now and again exhibiting an amazing sanity of opinicn, His lecture to the American public doubtless will be a memorable event, If it follows his custom, it will bristle with paradoxes. He will praise and he will blame. Its effect will be contro- versial. But good, bad or indifferent, it will be worth hearing, worth reading. H. G. Wells says that this is the era of confusion, and George Bernard Shaw |1s a contributor to the chaos; but be that as it may, he is one of the most colerful, intriguing and stimulating characters now alive, and as such he is welcome, heartily welcome, to the land he has professed not to love but the people of which, nevertheless, have a curious affection for him. — e Farm Mortgages. President Roosevelt is about to tackle the farm rellef problem from a new angle—the farm mortgage. Most of the efforts in the past to come to the aid of the farmers have been along lines of increasing the prices of farm products, for which various schemes have been advanced. It is quite true that if the farmers could receive higher prices for their produce they might be able to take care of the mortgages on their farms. However, increases in farm prices have been obstinate. They have failed to materialize. The experi- mental plan now advanced by the President and recently put thrcugh the House may or may not have the effect of increasing farm prices. It may also, | if finally adopted, bring about a great increase in the number of Federal em- ployes, a veritable army, costly to the whole people, including the farmers. The bill has aroused much antagcnism among the Democrats of Congress as well as the Republicans. Many of those who voted for the bill in the House did 50 merely because they wished to sup- port the President and not because they had the slightest faith in or approval of the farm bill. ‘The farm mortgage presents a differ- ent problem. It has been estimated that farm mortgages the country over total about $9,000,000,000, carried by approximately 6,000,000 farmers. the high rate of interest on these debts, along with taxation, that is crushing the farmers in these days of low prices and overproduction of farm crops. In addition, the American farmers are faced with trade barriers erected by other nations which force down still further the prices they receive, since their surplus products may not be sold in those countries. During the preceding Congress the present Speaker of the House, Mr. Rainey; Senator Shipstead of Minne- sota and Chairman Jones of the House Committee on Agriculture advanced bills calling for Government bond issues to take over a large part of these farm mortgages. Many of the institutions now holding these mortgages were found to be favorable to such a plan. Under it the rates of interest to the farmers, plus amortization charges, would be cut to about 31; per cent or less. These rates of interest run from six to ten per cent today. Mr. Rainey at that time de- clared that the farm mortgages bill would be one of the principal measures pressed for action. It looks as though Mr. Rainey was correct. The details of the President’s farm mortgage bill have not yet been announced. In a general way the bonds issued by the Federal Government will be used to take over farm mortgages. The hope is that there may be an adjustment of the principal as well as of the interest rates. In many instances there will be no need for the Government's aid, for millions of farmers are taking care of their mortgages. But there is grave need, in view of the many foreclosures throughout the country and losses which confront not only the farmers who |lose their farms and their homes but also the holders of the mortgages, that something be done to relieve the situ- ation which confronts millions of others. This the Roosevelt administration pro- poses to do. There is no miser 50 unhappy as one engaged in hoarding gold at the present He could not enjoy his money even if he wished to. “Born, Not Made.” A man without & college degree has become head of the public school sys- tem of Cook County, Illinois. Doubtless, there will be a tremendous fluttering in the dovecotes of the academic fra- ternity. Otto F. Aken, lacking even an A. B, will not be popular among thcse who think that passage through the rolling-mill of college and univer- sity experience is imperative to a peda- gogic career. The fact that he aggra- vates his offense by defending it will be remembered against him. He not only attains emiment position himself; he vigorously criticizes those who are more orthodoxly trained. ‘Teachers,” he says, “are born, not made. Out of one hundred and twenty-nine teachers under me as assistant superintendent, the six best had no college training.” Such sentiments, in the estimztion of the average educational nabob, approxi- mate treason. The pundits have la- bored for several generations to con- vince the public that academic approval is an absolute necessity for teaching. They have been amazingly effective. Due to their influence all sorts of ab- surd restrictions were arbitrarily en- acted even by the Federal Government to protect education as the pre-empted monopoly of a caste. Unless an ap- plicant could exhibit half a dozen diplomas his case wes hopeless. Only thcse who had half the alphabet strung | out after their rames could aspire to employment in the school system. Nat- urally, the result of such a policy was a hectic race for academic honors, Qo as ool ¢f enital achieregiend bt simply as signs of nominal victory in the scrimmag: for place and power. Diploma mills sprang up like toadstaols, and were just as poisonous. The whole business was a scandal. And it is against that background that Mr. Aken appears as superintendent of schools in Chicago. His elevation is a slap in the face for the academicians, and they have richly deserved it, But that does not mean that any man with a penchant for directing edu- cational policy is qualified for such position. On the contrary, the country is full of grossly incompetent people who for one reason or another feel inspired to teach or to serve on school boards or otherwise to tinker with the preparation of youth for the duties and responsibilities of adult life. Many of them are faddists of the rankest sort, as dangerous to educational progress as even the most offensive of academic doctrinarians, Many represent special interests only too willing to exploit the schools for thelr own purposes. Many are just presumptively intrusive, cour- ageously interfering where they are neither wanted nor in any respect use- ful. From all such meddlers children, if not the institutions established for them, should be guarded. The natural question, then, is: How may the truly qualified teecher be identified> Mr. Aken’s comment fur- nishes a clue. The species of instructor who is wanted may be detected by ex- amination of the motives of his choice of educational endeavor as a profession and by consideration of his experience. The born teacher will have in his psy- chological character a sane :::1 gen- erous love of children, a balanced judg- ment with regard to what may be done with and for them, and a whole-hearted devotion to education as such rather than to any special notion about educa- tional methodology. His technique will be a natural, not an artificial one. His training will be that of the fleld in which he wishes to labor. He may be deficient in calculus, but he will know all that is necessary to know about arithmetic; he may not be skilled in the moral philosophy of Erasmus or the | Jjurisprudence of Grotius or the sociology of John Locke, but he will have heard of the Constitution of the United States |and of Alexander Hamilton and Andrew { Jackson, John Marshall and Daniel Webster, George Washington and tent to teach what children want to be | taught. He will be bred in the Ameri- (can tradition and will be loyal to American ideals. He will have his qualifications in his head, not necessar- {ily on his visiting card, and in his | {heart he will have the prime pre- requisite of successful teaching—a gen- | uine love of learning for its own and ! mankind’s sake. He will be born to | teach, not made. | ———rmte—————— | Income tax evasion may be effected | by fictitious salés at ostensible losses. | It will, however, be remembered here- |after that experience has made expert | accountants more expert each year. ‘[ pass unnoted. | e Mussolini has a European peace plan Telied on to be as patient in financing ! peace as he was in financing war. | The farmer is required to make a | close study of financial complications and in doing so0 is at the outset of his studies definitely listed as a tired busi- ness man, ————— ‘There were no cameramen at the exe- cution and the assassin was compelled to realize that desperate notoriety alone the movies. ——— e Statement that Hitler will enjoy full dictstorial powers is probably a mis- take. He may have them, but he will not enjoy them. —_————————— It required the American financial situation to show the world what a genuinely big thing a moratorium could become. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Favorable Bias. Like mountains looming to the sky, Like seas with storm o’erspread, Like specters that affront the eye ‘With shapes of awful dread, Like tempests dashing flerce and bold ‘While fields and cities quake, Appear the errors, I am told, That other people make. Like ripples on the flood of years, Like raindrops on the deep, Like zephyrs sighing through the tears ‘That Mareh and April weep, Slight agitations billowing o'er The tide on which we float Are those small blunders — nothing more— ‘Which in ourselves we note. Muking an Impression. “Your long speech did not make very interesting reading,” said the cruelly candid friend. “It wasn't meant to,” replied Senator Sorghum. “I try to make my speeches long enough to appear important, but not sufficlently interesting to invite criticism.” Many men give themselves credit for attending to business when they are only visiting around, exchanging funny stories. A Plea for Mendacity. Oh, better compliment & friend And charitably toast him ‘With fibs that serve no harmful end ‘Than tell the truth and roast him. Hopeful. “Does your husband play poker?” “I hope 50,” replied young Mrs. Tor- kins. “He has spent hundreds of dol- lars trying to learn.” Responsibility. “Is Bliggins a man to be trusted?” “In some respects. If he owes you you can place absolute reliance in his word.” Element of Excitement. ‘The base ball game arrives anew And bids us get together. A lot of its suspense is due To guessing on the weather. “Happiness,” said Uncle Eben, “is de ability to forget about de simple a system is no longer likely to | | concerning which the U. S. A. is to b'i kept informed. Uncle Sam is, no doubt.i does not suffice for the attainment of | something and says he can't pay you,| ;. THIS AND THAT ‘The familiar look. What is it? ‘There are some persons who instantly impress one as being old acquaintances. mething about them sets up waves of recollection, although they may be complete strangers. Often the i which one human being has for another is due in to the fact that this other struck this familiar chord in heart and mind at the first. All later reasons for preferring him or her give way to this prior ground, upon which one unconsciously leans ever thereafter. Usually one of four features is re- sponsible, one may belleve, for this familiar something which makes its a) 1 upon sight. e voice, the hair, the eyes, or the mouth, each may be responsible, in varying degrees, and often without the one to whom it IP eals really suspect- ing what it is Which suddenly makes a stranger become a subject of true interest. F * K X X ‘There are so many thousands of persons in the world, at any given time, that it is not strange, perhaps, that the same patterns are repeated over and over again. And this, too, despite the old belief that no two persons are exactly alike. ‘They may not be precisely so, but still be enough alike, in the essentials noted, to be able to make this sort of sympa- thetic appeal. Is the human ego at the bottom of this, too? Here is a likable stranger who, one suddenly realizes, has a peculiar twist to his mouth exactly like the smile of an old familiar acquaintance. Curious that this had not struck one before, but it had not, and it undoubt- edly was the truth, now that one saw it. ‘The ego, having once made a selec- tion, no matter how long ago, would always make the same selection again, not only because it 5o desired, but more because it incessantly labors under the necessity of supporting its own choos- ng. If the familiar feature, whatever it is. | is not recognized as such, it may lead | to tragedy or comedy, upon occasion. Consider this staid middle-aged gen- tleman, a real Victorian, who finds himself attracted by the bright appear- ance of a young lady at his office. If he ftealizes the truth, that the young woman's bright locks are ex- actly the same as those of his wife when she was 18 years old, he will be able to rationalize his instinctive pref- erence, get himself mixed up in one of these | affairs which are the basis of so many | of our modern novels. * K ok ok Nor, on the other hand, should every | young woman who finds herself plainly | preferred, in this day and age, by some as the popular saying has it, fondly imagine that she is hovering on the brink of forbidden romance. It's her voice, that's all. ‘There is something about it familiar to him, some quality, which the singers like to call timbre, which has a dis- | tinct appeal. | "It is no real charm on her part, nor | any divine possession of herself, which | | brings that look of liking to his face. ‘What he may be preferring, if the | truth could be known, is the voice of some one of the long ago, who in some When the other Roosevelt left the White House in 1909, he authorized the farewell statement that he'd “had the | time of my life” in the presidency. | Pranklin D. Roosevelt exudes at every | pore indications that his experiences at No. 1600 Pennsylvania avenue to date are providing him with genuine enjoyment, too. This does mnot, of course, mean that he is taking them lightly or failing to recognize the seri- ousness of the conditions he confronts. It merely means that the man seems to thrive on work, no matter how grueling, and on responsibility, no mat- ter how heavy. of the President, outside of his White House staff and the cabinet, as the hundred-odd newspaper men and wom- en who confer with him Wednesday forenoons and Friday afternoons. Cor- respondents who've been quizzing Presi- dents for 25 years—a few are still extant—can't recall such gay and festive White House press pow-wows as those now in progress. Amid the real business of the conferences F. banter, and gets it. Peals of laughter in which he joins are frequent. The President conveys the impression that every one of his waking moments is tull of zest and thrill. He infects his inquisitive visitors with his own en- thusiasm. They seldom leave the exec- for good stories. As a newsmaker, they've already decided that Mr. Roose- velt is the best thing that's happened to Washington for many moons. * ok k ok Every new President lives through a period which has come to be known as a White House honeymoon. The press of the Nation is friendly. Congress passes with little or no delay any legis- lation he asks for. The mails and telegraphs are freighted with copious expressions of confidence and good will from what Mr. Bryan used to call “the plain pee-pul.” Everything is lovely and the goose hangs high. But there inevitably comes a time when the going isn't so good. honeymoon spirit wanes. Editorial criticism begins to appear. Congress becomes balky. The President finds that all is no longer merry as wedding bells in June. Frank- lin D. Roosevelt has had far more of the early “breaks” than fall to the lot of the average new President. Emerg- ency conditions gave him his oppor- tunity, and he grasped it. What people are now asking is whether, when the opening phase of the new deal is over, and the country settles back to the grim realities still to be faced, the Roosevelt smile will retain its Xrlmne radiance? Will the President discover that he rules over a capricious America, as ready to assail as it was to acclaim? All that is on the lap of the gods. Today, at the end of three weeks in office, it can only be recorded that his stock is still booming, with no sign of a slump, * Xk X % Col. ore Roosevelt, who left Manila last week following his relin- is coming back to the United States by slow stages. He and his family aren't expected ,at their rural home near Sagamore Hill, Long Island, until late Summer of early Autumn. They intend visiting the Dutch East Indies, India and Europe in the meantime. Young Teddy's farewell report on the Philippines is in the War Department’s hands, to be made public on March 27. Although he was on the job out there only a little over a year, islands under his regime experienced one of the most constructive eras in their American history. Theodore Roosevelt, 3d, is completing his fresh- man year at Harvard. His class of 1936 will have the honor of gradual in the year which will mark the “J Harvard's” Fate seems to decree that the new administration and the American Fed- eration of Labor should be at logger- heads. Their recent run-in over the itment of Secrctary of Labor Per- kins is now followed by President “Bill” | Green's heated o the “mill- | | braham Linealn.s He il Y | If not, he may be in a fair way to old gink who “ought to know better,” | WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Nobody sees’so much | D. R. frequently invites good-natured | utive offices without plenty of “leads” | quishment of the governor generalship, ! BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. way or other made s like appeal. In fact, his liking may be the pref- erence of his grandfather for the voice of his grandmother, cropping out again after all these years. R ‘These instinctive likes are not con- more manifest among men. Every man who has at some time or other stopped to think about his friends has wondered what it is which makes him a pal of another. Discounting similar tastes, likes and dislikes, the same occupations, perhaps, and mutual hobbles, there often seems to be no real reason for & friendship. Yet no two men are better friends. What is it which, from the very first, appealed to each? Surely it was a cast of countenance, particularly in the mouth, or perh:g- the eyes, which somehow struck the familiar note, the homely appeal. Just as certain royal houses of Europe were distinguished by unusual chins, or noses, or mouths, so certain huge secticns of mankind show like features, or the same general types of features. Perhaps it happens that if one is brought up with persons of a certain type of mouth shape, he either comes i:‘k ti::tne to prefer that type, or to dis- e it. If the latter, he falls without our dis- cussion, but if the former, he instantly becomes the possessor of an instinctive preference for that certain type of mouth. To such a person, although it may be unknown to him, this certain mouth is normal in appearance; it possesses the homely note, the appeal which arises from the familiar. * X X % ‘There is a real human satisfaction in Efie well-known fact that “like likes e.” And nowhere is it more apparent than in this matter of the familiar note in a human being, which some- how or other makes a distinct appeal to another person. This voice, which, heard even over the telephone, instantly causes the hearer to look up at the other side |of the room—is it not a voice known to one, although the speaker has never been seen? ‘There are voices which belong to one, no doubt of that. The popularity of certain great actresses is in part due to this plain fact—their volces belong to more people, that is all. The power of a great voice is indis- putable; it sways mankind as nothing |else; it touches ears and hearts and minds. Still something of this quality carries | over in the ordinary voice which yet | makes a great appeal to some one human being. The world is so used to reading romance into men and women that too |often it blunders in attempting to! build up such situations when none! | exists. A voice may register a great appeal without in any way being ro- mantic. The voice of a certain qu: ity will catch one ear precisely be- | cause of that quality and leave another | unaffected. And then there is a total effect that one human being can have upon an- | other, an unexplained sway, not to be | traced to things physical, in any sense, | | be it voice, eves, hair, mouth or any| | other feature, but due no doubt to that intangible thing called, for want of a better name, personality. It is not| | unreasonable to believe that like per- | sonalities draw like personalities, just las “birds of a feather flock together.” ! dent’s civilian conservation corps scheme to put 250,000 idle men to work on re- forestation' and flood control. The | White House isn't upset by the A. F. of | Ls criticism of the plan. It ridicules the notion that workers are going to be | regimented and dragooned on the bar- | racks system. explaining that only such order and regulations will be maintained | as “common sense” dictates in connec- tion with large camps of men. Nor | does the President believe that wage |standards for unskilled labor will be | upset by a pay scale of $1 a day for work plus food, shelter and clothing, which account for another $1. Skilled | 1abor, it is indicated, will be remuner- ' ated according to prevailing scales. x K % ¥ There's just arrived in Washington a |late edition of the London Economist, | John Bull's financial and commercial loracle. In an article from its Wash- ington correspondent it prints a review of the new administration, in which there's a typographical misprint refer- | ence to President Roosevelt's professional bodyguard as “the brass trust” instead of “the brain trust.” * ok x x Little or nothing has cropped out regarding Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes' early associations with conservation, which he will now so largely direct. He is, in fact, one of its pioneers. After the first conference of Governors, which was held at the White House in 1908 on the call of President Roosevelt, “T. R.” dispatched Tom Shipp, then a Washington news- paper man, who was general secretary of the Governors' conference, to Chi- cago to interest Walter L. Fisher. of | that city in organizing the “National Conserval Association.” PFisher told Shipp there was a very able young| lawyer in Chicago named Harold Ickes, who was taking a lively interest in conservation, and - that if Ickes would accept the executive ucreury-t ship of the new association, he, Fisher, would take the presidency. Ickes con- sented and became chiefly responsible | for the association’s success, whic marked the real beginning of the con- | servation movement. Mr. Fisher him- self_eventually joined the Taft cabinet | F"Se;ureury of %lhe tInter:or.xthg port- | olio young lieutenant of 25 ago has now inherited. T * X x x The college professors continue their Toyal progress through the new deal. The latest of their ilk to join is Herman Oliphant, professor of law of the In- stitute of Law, at Johns Hopkins Uni- general counsel of the Federal Farm Board. Prof. Oliphant is a Hoosier and a one-time colleague of Profs. Moley and Tugwell .: O:lumbh University. * *x Is President Roosevelt, by accident design, down the alphabetical in his lative program? Here it is, to date: Banking, budget, beer, economy, farm relief and forestation. (Copyright, 1933.) Proposes a Tax for All-Night Parking ‘To the Editor of The Star: ‘While so much is being said for and fined to the two sexes, but are even P°5¢ versity, who has just been appointed | Pect, Histori¢ ‘Structures on Mt. Vernon Boulevard To the Editor of The Star: I note a published statement by Col. grn-ntummemndnotmonuet Abingdon, the Nellie ‘Custis. This was occasioned by the gift of $300 by the Soclety for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities for that purpose. As director of the Office of Public Bulldings and Grounds, Col. Grant's statement of the bureau’s in- ability to use his funds for that pur- comes with authority. It would have been of additional in- terest to the members of the 8. P. V. A. had Col. Grant added the further information that there was appropriated a fund of $2,500,000 for the ‘“‘comple- tion” of the Mount Vernon Boulevard and to acquire adjacent lands in order to “preserve” the historic character of the memorial highway. ; u’l;;lo :go:i hul;l million dnlhhr: {s in; ly ing figure, even 1l back to the days before the depression. Riding the boulevard, one looks in vain for some “historic spot” or “historic ground,” the character of which has been preserved by use of the funds from the above referred to appropria- tion. An occasional boulder bearing a bronze plate tells the diligent tourist that some chapter of the D. A. R. is dedicating some tree or plant in the memory of Washington, but no legend to show that Washington “walked here.” Abingdon is swiftly by, and the traveler is unaware that he is missing one of the spots 80 closely ascociated with that great character for whom the highway is & memorial. Wellington, the home of Col. Toblas Lear, in whose arms Washington died, is located east of the boulevard on a part of the original Mount Vernon estate, occupying one of the most com- mandj views of the Potomac. Curi- ously, the boulevard turns west at this point, denying the traveler the priv- ilege of visiting this historic spot, even though the original house js com- pletely intact. Col. Lear, more than | secretary, was a kinsman and first friend. The collection of Lear papers is an indisputable proof of the place that he held in the heart of Washing- ton and of the Washington family, verified by a statement by Dr. James Craik. (See pa?! 136 of “Letters and Recollections of George Washington.” m gxwk is now, I understand, out of ‘There is a painting of a village in France with the legend below, “Caesar walked here.” Washington walked and | talked in this house with his beloved friend and kinsman. To one who believes and feels (and there are many) that these material evidences and relics of a sacred and | historic past are of inestimable value, | as well as pleasure, to the present and future youth of our country it seems | tragic that the administrators of this memorial project seem insensible to | the importance of United States owner- ship. thus opening these homes to the public, who deserve that privilege. Can the writer be advised of the | restoration of any historical point ac- | quired with funds frcm the above re- | ferred to eppropriation of $2,500.000 for the “preservation of the Memorial Highway? I do not refer to any build- ings in the town of Alexandria. ALICE GOODE BOULDIN. Bruce Barton’s Criticism | Held to Be Untimely | To the Editor of TH® Star: Bruce Barton, in his preachment en- | titled “Glory” (Sunday Star) has per- | mitted his facile pen to lead him into a tirade against officers and enlisted men with a venom that completely ob- scures the fact that these individuals donot wage wars, and that the glory that he finds so offensive is largely a matter of propaganda resorted to by civilian poli- | ticians to lure men into a type of con- | flict for which they have, normally, little g. I fnd Mr. Barton's criticisms a little untirely and quite out of date. At a junctire in current events when the veter-n is soon to "=l tangible evidence of the short-lived ~opularity of war glory Mr. Bdrton talis c women gush- | ing cver the uniformed man who, he " ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Have we had the pleasure you through our Wi tion Bureau? Can't we of serving Informa. information, and we invite you to ask us any question of fact in which you are interested. Send your inquiry te The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- ton, D. C. Inclose three cents in coin or stamps for return postage. not use post cards. Q. In what business or vocation are the most motor trucks used>—R. E. A. Rural free delivery carriers are first with 579,000 trucks; groceries and food products purveyors use the second n’un%eor. and contractors are third with 194,500. Q. Can an American Minister to one | of the middle European countries live within the salary paid by the Govern- ment?—H. R. A. The statutory salary of such a Minister is $10,000 a year. At present the salary is reduced by the economy bill. A Minister, especially if he has a family, should have a private income of $5,000 to $20,000 a year to maintain passed | his position. Q. Who said “Man’s extremity is God's opportunity’ P. D. A. John Hamilton, born 1706, said “Man’s extremity is God's opportunity.” John Flavel also expressed this idea in a book published before 1691. Q. What was slipware?—R. T. A It was a glazed pottery antedating tinware, and was used for baking in brick ovens. Q. Did Paderewsk! resign his govern- mental position or serve out his term? — D. A. office of premier and minister of for- eign affairs of Poland January 26, 1919. The unsettled affairs, both na- tional and international, prevented the successful workings of the Polish gov- ernment at this time, and Paderewski resigned the 27th of November, 1919, the cabinet following the 1st of De- | cember. After an effort to stabilize the government Mr. Paderewski aban- doned his political career in 1921 and returned to his m profession. Q. What is meant by a killer in rela tion to stamp cancellation?—C. G. A. It is the name applied to a for- mer hand stamp used to cancel stamps which made some kind of a dot or black mark on the stamp. Q. Is licorice grown commercially in this country?>—F. Y. H. A. It has not become a successful commercial crop. large areas in Spain, Italy, southern Russia, Asia Minor and southern Asia. This country, however, uses quantities of liccrice. Ninety per cent of it, finds its way into the tobacco indust: about five per cent into confectione: and about five per cent into medicine. Its principal medicinal use is to dis- guise the taste of acrid drugs. Q. If diamonds and coal are both carben, what is the difference between them?—J. C. A. Coal is impure carbon. A dia- mond is pure carbon, crystallized. That | is, the diamond has its carbon atoms arranged in a definite form and rigidly fixed in that position. Q. How is felt made>—N. R. S. A. Felt is made of wool, or wool and hair, or fur. The wool is carded into laps of the length and breadth of the web to be made. Layers of these are placed one above another until the desired thickness is secured, the outer | layers being generally of finer texture than the interior. be of some help | to you in your problems? Our business | is to furnish you with authoritative | . | Ignace Paderewski accepted the It grows wild over | The whole is now | | passed between rallers partly immersed in water. In the machinery by which felt fabrics are produced rollers with a rubbing and oscillating movement have generally an important action. | The materials commonly used for felt | hats are the furs of the rabbit and other animals and the wool of sheep. Q. Who is the rector of the Little Church Around the Corner? Where is the church?—C. B. A. The rector of the Church of the Transfiguration (Little Church Around | the Corner), New York City, is the Rev. Randolph Ray. It is located 5 East Twenty-ninth street. Q. Is a kilometer more or less than a mile>—A. K. A. A kilometer is equal to 3,280.8 feet, cr nearly % mile. Q. L v did Nag's Head, in North Carolina, get its name?—W, B. A. Nag's Head is on the coast near Cape Hatteras. In Colonial times the famous pirate Saxon Teach, known as | Blackbeard, lived near there. He would fasten a lantern to a horse’s yhead and, at night, the lantern bob- bing up and down with the movement of the old nag’s head, would look, from the sea, like a ship's light riding the | waves. ~ Other ships, thinking there | was a channel or an anchorage, would | follow and go ashore. The pirates then | would take the disabled vessel. Q. What fumigants are usually used for moth control?>—M. H. K. A. The fumigants most commonly { used at the present time are, in their | alphabetical order: Carbon-disulphide, | chloropicrin, the ethylene dichloride- | carbon tetrachloride mixture: ethylene |oxide, alone or in combination with carbon dioxide; hydrocyanic-acid gas, | naphthalene and paradichlorobenzene. | @ How long have cross-word puz- zles been popular?—W. L. A. Puzzles similar to the cross-word | puzzles were known to the ancients. | What is believed by some authorities | to be the oldest cross-word puzzle was | made by a Cretan about 2,000 years | 2go, a copy of which now lies in the archeological museum at Johns Hop- | kins University, Baltimore. This puz- | zle is called the Phaestus disk, and was | found on the Island of Crete by an ex- pedition many years ago. Q. How many people attended the movies last year?—B. T. | A. The average attendance was Of- 000,000 a week. This makes the as- tounding total of 3,120,000,000 admis- sions, or about 25 shows for every per- son in the United States, Q. How much higher than an air- plane did Prof. Piccard ascend?—N. P. A. He ascended 10,954 feet higher in his steel ball than the airplane altitude record of 43,166 feet, held by Lieut. Soucek. Q. If a person were killed in a crevice on the glacier, Mer de Glace, is it true that the body would be preserved for years?—C. L. A. The Mer de Glace is a glacier in Switzerland which, like other glaciers, |1s caused by a body of ice at & high altitude which does not melt because of |the low temperature but continues to flow down the side of the mountain. It is true that bodies buried in ice of this kind are very apt to be preserved for years with very little deterioration. | Q. How is traffic in two directions managed in the Holland Tunnel?—C. R. A. The Holland Tunnel, which con< nects Jersey City and New York City, is composed of twin tubes. It is 9.250 feet in length. Each tube is of 29 feet 6 inches external diamenter, with in- terior roadway width of 20 fecet and clearance height of 13 feet 6 inches. Enlch tube has traffic in one direction only. Naming says, has al s been “slopped” over | with sentiment. As a matter of fact, | this statement is so far from reality that | Army officers and enlisted men on duty | in Washington are required to wear civilian clothes in order not to deepen the prejudice of the populace against the service, : | I do not find anything particularly en- nobling about the statement of Emest | Hemingway, that he stayed in Italy | rather than in Prance because he was | less likely to get killed there. The average man does not rush forth to meet death. He does not, to be sure, or- dinarily flaunt his fears of death to the public, because physical courage is usually the mowuhr virtue. In| other words, I tl Mr. Hemingway's reactions were average, normal — not astonishing, “refreshing, frank.” 1I| fear that Mr. Barton forgets that Ern- | est Hemingway was not in America at the time of our entranc: into the wag, and therefore scarcely exposed to the avalanche of bombastic, overwhelming, blood - curdling, hair - raising, bosom- heaving patriotic propaganda that de- scended upon a gullible public, to make of them, by hook or by crook, a people morally intent upon waging a war for rightousness’ sake! ETHEL RAYNOR McDONALD, Perfect Currency Is Now the Nation’s Need To the Editor of The Star: 1t will be 157 years ago next July that we decided to manage our govern- ments—we had thirtzen of them—with- out outside help. Five years later we decided that we would have to work together in matters of common interest. We put in the machinery for doing so, and put it in charge of our hired men. Six years of this federated effort showed | us that we were not putting enough | power into this machinery. So, after | two years of preparation, we set up our present Federal Government. We set down in black and white what we | wanted it to do. Our courts have been explaining our wishes to Congress ever since. We pay in the money it costs to run this Government. For several | years we have been paying or pmm-l ising to pay, around five bililon dollars | a year. We pay the money. Do we | get back what we have a right to ex- what we desperately need? If we do not, it is our own fault. In the ble of the Constitution we say that the new Government is set up to promote the general welfare. Can this be done? Congress given us a money meeting these specifications? Far be it from me to ::g they have not tried to do it. Indeed, I question whether proven that any Congress Prom the Charleston (8. C.) Evening Post. The trouble with this latest earth- quake is that California cannot find any other ncme to call it by, Tl o am Missing Masterpiece. TFrom the Lowell Evening Leeder. In this age of self-revcalment the sensation caused by the famous “SBeptember Morn,” i§ the news this was c that' wonderiul men who wrote the, of New Diplomats Viewed in Light of Records | evitably confront an American diplomat ‘Three diplomats announced by Presi- dent Roosevelt are discussed by the country with unusual interest because qualifications. Judge Robert W. Bing- ham, publisher of the Louisville Courier- Journal, for envoy to Great Britain; Jesse Isidor Straus, New York business man, for the Paris post, and former Secretary Josephus Daniels, publisher of the Raleigh (N. C.) News and Ob- server, for Mexico City, are appraised with full recognition of personalities and fitness. “They will do honor to the President and the country,” says the Atlanta Jour- nal. While recognizing that they are “all intimates of the new President, and theirs may be called personal appoint- ments,” the Cincinnati Times-Star comments: “They are also representa- tive Americans, and, as friends of their chief, are likely to give a good account of themselves.” The Roanoke World- News advises that “Mr. Roosevelt has made an excellent start in his diplo- matic appointments,” and the Charles- ton (S.C.) Evening Post offers the judg- ment: “The selections are well made, on the whole, in accordance with the customary American policy of appoint- ing to the major diplomatic posts lead- ing members of the party in control of the Government, rather than, as most other governments do, promoting ‘ca- reer men’ in the diplomatic service. Diplomacy is not a profession in the United States, at least not in the high- est grades.” The Providence Journal avers that “all three have long been friends of the new President, and in their far separated offices they will be joined to him by ‘more than merely | formal and political ties.” “Mr. Bingham,” states the Chicago | Daily News, “is & scholarly gentleman, acquainted with his world by travel, and having an informed interest in public affairs.” The Baltimore Sun declares: “The court of St. James is, quite natu- rally, the most coveted diplomatic post in the gift of an American President, and Judge Robert W. Bingham, whom President Roosevelt has elected to fill it, | possesses qualifications which _should make him more than an acceptable suc- cessor to Charles Francis Adams, Joseph W. Choate, Walter Hines Page and John ‘W. Davis. In his participation in the affairs of his party as well as through his newspaper Judge Bingham has sup- ported enlightened and progressive mdu. an attitude which should make particularly valuable in approach- ing the difficult problems which will in- would) north to the Lake of the Woods on the Canadian border, and south to the lower reaches of the Mississippi. And they knew that gold was the only means of payment that one could ex- pect to have accepted throughout that territory. Indeed, in many wild regions, the only trade was barter. Furthermore, pobably more than one of them knew the histoy of Eurcpean chartered banks, from that of Bar- celona, started in 1401, down through the great career of the Italian banks at Venice, Genoa, Milan, and other cities, for the two centuries in which they dominated the Western World. In | these day The Sun also refers to Mr. Daniels as “an old school liberal | who can be relied on to approach the |of the bellef that they have special Mexican domestic situation with under- standing and sympathy,” and to Mr. | Straus as one who “enjoys a family | heritage of liberalism and philanthropic | zeal,” with the background of “a bril- liant business career.” Mr. Bingham is praised by the Hart- ford Daily Times as “one of the Na- | tion’s outstanding journalists, a man | of academic culture, of knowledge in international law, of social prestige and wealth,” while that paper refers to | Mr. Daniels as “a patient, kindly, sym- | pathetic, conscientious man,” and sug- gests that “the more men like Josephus Danlels there are in public service ihe better public service will be.” The Springfield (Mass.) Republican avers: “No Ambassador to Mexico can in these days ask a better verdict on his service than that it compared not un- worthily, in cementing friendship and removing differences, with that of the late Dwight Morrow. .Josephus Daniels falls heir to no such difficult and com- plex situation as Mr. Morrow had to deal with when he first went to Mexico City. But Mr. Daniels has one quality in common with Mr. Morrow—a great {riendliness and a tolerance of differ- ent opinions and points of view, which seem the essence of diplomacy.” “Mr. Daniels is gifted,” acording to the Charlotte Observer, “with those graces that will make him suave, dis- creet and productive of a spirit of amity and good will between peo- ples. * * * His long experience in | public life, the extensiveness of his travels—few men in North Carolina have spent so much of life on the rails | —his knowledge of public affairs and his versatile abilities will fit him in with this ambassadorial situation and give him a connection with the present administration in which he can be ma- terially helpful and influential” The Omaha World-Herald adds its tribute: “The Nation as a whole knows Josephus | Daniels best, and reccgnizes at omce | that his genuine love for his fellow man, | his unquestioned democratic sympa- thies, and his knowledge of American affairs, peculiarly fit him for the mis- sion of representing this country in Mexico City. He will further the ex- cllent work done there by Dwight Mor- row and Ambassador Clark. In a post in which perscnality of the envoy is of greater jmportance than in any other, perhaps, on the diplomatic list Mr. Roosevelt has placed a man most likely to succeed because of his personal qualities.” “Mr. Straus belongs to family,” says the Houston Chrenicle, “which has made a definite impress upon the Na- tion's financial and philanthropic life. As head of a great department store in New York City he has made an im- pressive record. Jewish charities in Manhattan have benefited from his ac- tivities. His selection will be welcome to Paris, where members of his faith hold important posts in that city's banking and business circles.” The Springfield (Mass.) Unicn adds: _“He is a man of wide culture, with a fluent command of the French ge, who has passed much of his time in France and is thoroughly conversant with the French character. These attributes, to- gether with the fact that he is con- the economic problems which have entered largely into %‘1’; r:; of | 1ations with Prance, may serve ':I:’E.'m_dmt 4 unlimited, was the only thing that could give a country the ability to :;:um: the value of its money. This y gave to Congress. Under, the practically perfect bankihg oug hnkeny hava d:v:ifiped. vision, can give fect medium of ex- good stead in his diplomatic post.” . plou’ well selected the jud'nwnt: “The public expects a shifting of certain of these. high dig- fitaries, a new set to come with the lee] elsewhere corps the e: and the experienced should be allowed to continue to give the Nation the benefits of their abili- ‘Today of the 56 important