Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1933, Page 8

' A8 THE EVE NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. ) MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1933. THE EVENING STAR —__With Sunday Merning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY........March 27, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company e Penonivants_ave R iR ee: 14 Regent 3. London, Rate by Carrier Within the A City. | Jrenine star.c. .48¢ per month | ing and junday #tar § 4 Sundays) ™ e Sunday ders may be Ational 5000. Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. | But that is stupid nonsense. they like, and licensed pilots are mot above gambling with fate on frequent occasion. The environment of & popu- lar airport is & veritable inferno of noise, confusion and impending disas- ter. With twenty or thirty planes in | the air at & time, the law of averages implies that every so often there will be & crash, and the victims are as apt 88 not to include mere bystanders, the helpless inhabitants of the district into which the port has intruded. ‘The accident at Oskland illustrates the peril. The plane was fiying low for a landing. It was raining, and the pllot’s judgment was faulty. Given these conditions, & smash occurred. ‘Thirteen persons paid for it with thelr lives. It is all very well to say that they have been sacrificed to progress, and that nothing can be done about . Some- thing can be done about it, and some- | thing should be done about it without delay, not only in California, but every- 38 | where, in every State of the Union, by # the use for tches credited to it Or not other Re&in Chis paver and aiso the i news Sublished herein. All rights of publication o special dispatch rein sre reserved. Consolidation. Oonsolidation of the agricultural eredit agencies of the Federal Govern- | ment is to be the first step of President | Roosevelt in the reorganization of the QGovernment service. Five separate | agencies are to be included in the plan to unify these activities, the Federal Parm Board, the Federal Land Banks, | the Joint Stock Land Banks, the Inter- | mediate Credit Banks and the Agricul- tural Credit Corporation, set up by the Reconstruction Mnance Corporation. tion. d municipal, State and Federal legisla- It is wrong that the Federal authorities cannot reach cross-State fiyers. The Department of Commerce may be doing its best, but the States and municipalities are remiss. An aroused public sentiment is required to force the necessary reforms, and such incidents a8 that of Saturday night at Oakland ought to be enough to stir the least responsive individual to clamorous in- dignation. ————rt— A Word to the Wise. In a somewhat cryptic communique issued at the State Department on Sat- urday Secretary Hull wafted a gentle intimation across the Atlantic in the direction of France and our other war In view of the fact that all of these | agencies deal with farm credits, there | seoms no good reason why they should | not be consolidated and many reasons why they should. President Roosevelt | has estimated that, in addition to| bringing about more efcient govern- | ‘ment, the unification of these services will result in an annual saving in Gov- ernment expenditure for administration | of $2,000,000. In its various attempts to come to the ald of the farmers of the country the | Oongress has at different times set up | new credit agencies for agriculture. The ] result has been & patchwork system. It | 18 to get rid of this patchwork, the re- | sult of piecemeal legisiation, that the | President is now moving. The advo- { eates of each new move to extend further credit to the farmers have in | the pest insisted that & new agency of | sdministration be created, instead of #iving new duties to earlier agricultural | oredit agencies. Whether this was be- | ctuse of pride of suthorship or because | 1 was deemed that old agencies could | ot effectively handle the new duties is | of little avail. The result was to di- | versify governmental administration and | o add more and more persons to the | Qovernment pay roll. The President is soon to send to Con- | gress & message and & bill to bring about the refinancing of the mort- | $ages which are erushing the farmers, ‘The plan looks to & reduetion of in- terest charges and to & scaling down of principal where that 18 found to be possible. The administration of the proposed farm mortgage law doubtless Wwill be placed under the direction of the new consolidated farm credits sgency. This, the first executive order of the | President in compliance with the econ- omy legislation enacted by the past and the present Congress, is awaited with the keenest interest. It will be followed 00, it is sald, by other executive orders drastically rearranging the Governmént service, Ome of them is likely to be & eonsolidation of those agencies dealing ‘with the problems of transportation and other methods of communication. For years there has been a demand that the Pederal service be reorganized for two Purposes, greater efficiency and less cost $0 the taxpayers of the country. When the late President Marding took office, & special committee of the Congress, on which the administration was also given representation, worked for months on a plan of reorganisation. Former President Hoover strongly urged upon the Congress that he be authorized to reorganize the service. Congress gave Mr. Hoover a meager degree of authority and promptly turned down what he pro- | posed in the way of reorganisation under that grant of power. To Presi- dent Roosevelt, however, the Congress | has given full powers. It will not be | i a position effectively to veto any of the changes the President orders, since 1t would require a two-thirds vote in both houses to override his disapproval of any measure seeking to curtail his Ppresent powers of reorganization. | ————— The present situation may have its advantage in promoting wholesome in- eredulity in the type of investor who was Mable to buy an alleged gold brick every time he went to town. v No resentment of reforestation plans | will go quite so far as to contend that the woods should be undisturbed and managed exclusively for picnie purposes. — raee Another Airplane Crash. A report from California Saturday | aight told the story of a particularly fragic airplane accident. A transport plane, en route from Los Angeles to @ fiying fleld at Oskland, crashed into & residence, exploded and burned. Thirteen persons were killed, four chil- d@ren among the number—innocent victims of that form of mechanical progress which is called aviation and! which, because it is an authentic form of progress, is supposed to be some- what sacrosanct. ‘The Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Com- mnerce, charged with general oversight and regulation of interstate flying, is investigating, but, since the plane was operating in cross-State service, it is powerless to do much in the circum- nces. The new hasard constituted by the of planes over inhabited areas heoretically is covered by an mct of Pongress governing air transport. Ac- ally, however, it is & State and mu- hlcipal problem, and nothing adequate has yet been done to protect the popu- tions of neighborhoods contiguous to The busier flelds, like thoss the vicinity of New York, Chicago d Cleveland, are & source of danger o millions of people. Planes fall, are wrecked, men, women and ehildren are killed, and the legislation behind the need. Unlicensed pilots offect are free to take any chance debtors who saw fit to fall into arrears on payments due in December last. “As to the governments that are in default or have deferred their payments on the intergovernmental debts,” the com- munique says, “I cannot at the present time say that we would sit with those governments in future discussions of their obligations.” Stripped of the diplomatic circumlocution which cus- fom and courtesy demand on these oc- casions, Secretary Hull indicates rather pointedly that until France, Belgium, Estonia, Hungary and Poland have squared matters to date, discussion of their debts to the American Treasury, with & view to revision downward, is problematical. It would seem as if an announce- ment from Paris were responsible for evoking the State Department reminder to all whom it may concern. This synchronized almost to the hour with cables reporting that M. Andre Lefebvre de la Boulaye, the new French Am- bassador to the United States, would signalize his arrival at Washington negotiations. Hitherto it has been supposed that President Roosevelt is | willing to treat all of the Européan debtors on the same footing, payers and defaulters alike. The French and the others know now that uniess they settle up, the American attitude will be to shut up, as far as any palaver with them is concerned, looking to eon- Cessions on the part of the United States. Since the recent banking crisis in this country, measures have been initiated in the Prench Parliament aimed at re- oonsideration of the government's mid- | Winter decision temporarily to repudiate American debt payments. It was re- ported that certain Parisian statesmen, previously opposed to renewal of pay- ments, had eome to the conclusion that, in the United States Government's fiscal plight, 1t might de the part of en- lightened French self-interest to bring the aceount, which fell into disarray on December 18, into balance by tardy accounting of the annuity, which then fell due. Prance knows today that, in Wash- ington’s opinion, she would be moving slong linés leading to her own ad- vantage by emulating the examples of Great Britain, Italy and others who, even though reluctantly, met their ob- ligations on time. The defaulters are now told, in effect, that for them it may be & case of better late than never. e Kellsboro Jack, the American horse that won the Grand National Steeple- chase at Aintree, England, does not know it, but he called attention to & spirit of fair and friendly sportsmanship and did what a quadruped could with timely hoof beats to extend the idea of hands across the sea. —————————— Hollywood continues to announce new and better pictures in assurance that domestic complications are not, to any serious extent, taking the minds of stars off their studio work. ————————— Anti-Tammany Fusion Proposed. ‘The possibility of a fusion of Repub- licans and anti-Tammany Democrats in the mayoralty campaign which is to be held in the Autumn in New York is increased by the proposal of & ten- point platform by the chairman of the Republican Advisory Committee of New York County. This comes close upon the announcement that upon & final revision of the votes cast in the emer- gency mayoralty election recently neprly a quarter a million ballots were accredited to Joseph V. McKee, who succeeded Mayor Walker upon his resignation and served until the new year. In the few weeks of his short term Mayor McKee made a record of efficiency and independence of Tam- many dictation that won for him s large and enthusisstic support, irre- spective of party, and it is believed that it he had been regularly nominated he would have been elected to finish the term of Walker. ‘The Republicans who now propose & fusion platform to the anti-Tammany forces have themselves to face a party schism, a considerable fraction of their organization preferring the agtual alliance with Tammany that has pre- valled for some years under the cloak of an ostensible maintenance of regular party lines. The present proponents of fusion are encouraged by the fact that Tammany will be somewhat weakened in as much as it will not have the share of Federal patronage which it has heretotore enjoyed when a Demo- cratic administration is established at ‘Washington. ‘The proposed fusion platform just advanced calls for & new charter for the City of New York which will pro- vide for the concentration of executive authority in the mayor, Including responsibility for the preparation of the budget, for abolition of costly and three weeks hence by initiating debt | useless bodies such as the Board -of AMermen and for ineligibllity of ity officials to political party office. It proposes drastic reductions in the city budget, resulting in a substantial les- sening in the tax burden, and for fair- value and undiscriminating assess- ments of property. It declares for the maintenance of the five-cent fare, unification of the rapid transit lines on safe terms, non-partisan administra- tion of relief works, improvement of housing oonditions, minimum wage legisiation and other reforms. Fusion movements have been suc- cessful heretofore in New York and may succéed again. The scandals of the Walker administration developed by the Seabury inquiry may not have & lasting effect upon the public mind, but the shameless extravagances brought to light, adding so grievously to the tax burden and lessening the efficiency of municipal government, are not likely to be quickly forgotten by the people. A reorganization of Tammany may occur, would seem in- deed to be indicated as a necessity for the continued retention of power by |don the organisation that has so long and 90 profitably controlled the great municipality. The McKee vote may be & portent of a great change in one direction or the other from which the people of Greater New York may benefit. Civic Zeal and Science. ‘The holding of a “coroner’s inquesd”’ over the deaths of those who lost their lives in the earthquake which recently ravaged & section of Southern Cali- fornia would seem to be rather super- fiuous, as regards the determination of the cause of the calamity. It was as- suredly well established immediately after the catastrophe that it was due to subsidence of the crust of the earth, sgainst which no measures of precau- tion and protection could possibly be effective. But a question remained re- specting the possible responsibility for the pursuance of methods of construc- tion in the area, which had been long since known to be subject to such dis- turbances. The coroner's quest has not been concluded, but it is definitely indicated that there will be no pre- sentments for liability. It is indicated that the coroner’s jury | will attribute the collapse of structures| in the quake in most cases to “ignor- ance in building instead of to willful negligence.” On this point it is to de recalled that for some years past warn- ings have been given by scientific au- thorities that the ares recently shaken was due for such a visitation. Seismol- ogists have pointed out that readjust- ments In the crust of the earth in that section were in fact overdue. Urgent advice has been given to adopt a more dependable system of construction, suit- | able to the degree of risk incident to these conditions. That advice has not been taken. ‘The question arises ‘whether the ignoring of these warnings constitutes negligence. One of the construction engineers eonsulted by the coroner’s jury has ad- vanced the view that the destruction at Long Beach and other places within the sone of the quake “was due largely to a lack of foresight in construction and to the fact that Southern California com- munities grew so rapidly they did mot keep pace in some instances with all safety practices.” It may be asked whether civie zeal for expansion should not be moderated i accord with the laws of safety as dictated by scientific measurement. ‘There are enough genuine agricultur- ists in the Senate to make any appro- priation neediess for the purchase of slmanacs to show that the planting sea- son admits of no delay.in farm rellef. —_— e A demand for percentage aceuracy in | the brewing product will not go so far 43 to define the exact number of calories to be included in the free Junch. . v SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. As the Days Lengthen. The days keep growin' lenger An’ the sunshine’s gettin’ stronger. Pretty soon old Winter will be left! behind. An’ the robin will be singin’ On the blotsom bush an’ bringin® Us & amile while he is singin’ “Never mind.” For & moment, all forgetful - Of experience regretful, The world will loiter in its busy grind. ‘With the warm wind blowin’ o'er us An’ the open sky before us We'll jine in an’ make & chorus: “Never mind.” Prudent Oratory. “Are you going to make any speeches in Congress?” “If I have to,” replied Senator, Sor- ghum. “I'm going to make 'em as early as possible, 30 that if opinions change out my way there’ll be time for ‘em to be forgotten before another election.” Evelution. “Are you the ultimate consumer?” “I used to be. But mow I'm the man who goes without.” A Crude Comparison. The tariff, like Uncle Jim’s barn, big and old, Is a source of incessant endeavor. The more we repair it, the more we are told ‘That it needs fixing up worse than ever, Unrecorded Munificences. “I suppose you have made many donations to which you have not invited public attention,” said the biographer. “Yes,” replied Mr. Dustin Stax. “Say all you like about the institutions of learning to which I have contributed; but you needn’t mention the musical comedies I have backed.” Circles. “What is meant by the phrase ‘diplo- matic circles’?” “Posaibly it refers to the lines of reasoning someiimes pursued in inter- national discussion.” A Statue in the Park. A man of goodness far from small, ‘The world could never doubt him. ‘They put him on & pedestal And then forgot about him. “Some men Kkin allus convince you in an argument,” said Uncle Eben, “because dey’s got sech-a fine fiow of language dat no matter whut dey says, you's afraid to talk back.” Templeton Jones met his friend, J. e Mooy Binems e ot lancy pl ‘Where eve 18 nickel and glass, not a nickel a slass—yet. Bab Brook has such furious opinions upon every subject and theme in the world, Jones finds it extremely difficult '°m"3.“8n't'“:uum.mi. Babbling has met every one worth mmlnfi Indeed, he knows ‘em all intimately. He says 0, man, “v‘dfir ‘:fit of yhubnc';:te. and Mr. you how §reat man mln “Bab,” just so. In the second place, he has been every place. If there is & in the wide yorld that has not feit the impress his feet, at some time or other, J. B. can- not place it. His orbit, no less than his acquaint- ance, is amazing. feels quite as much at home in Lon- ‘Wash! a8 in . In the third place, he finds no per- sonal need for knowing %e.uomlly about a subject, a8 much as claims to_know all men. Men, evidently, must be known, but the lesser fry of this life and world can be trusied to the brain, which sees all, hears lll, knows all. * K x % ‘Temp Jones is & plain man, just the opposite of his omniscient friend. He doesn't know everybody, thank heaven, and he hasn’t been everywhere. Nor does he have a furious opinion on every subject and theme. knowing, and even if he had been every- where worth going, he still would not be able to voice an opinion on anything and everything. Brook can do it, but Jones couldn't. Especially Jones wouldn't. Above all, he would not voice a furious opinion. LR Perhaps every one does not know what a furious opinion is. If so0, he hasn't met Babbling Brook. ‘To have a furious opinion about & thing is to do as Bad Brook does—not burst into’ exclamations, or get red in the face, as common men do. J. Babbling Brook prides himself on keeping his head. No matter how irate his opponent becomes at what he, the said adversary, is wont to brand as the other's “pig- headedness,” Brook calmly sets down his arguments on paper, one after the | other. He favors the “1, 2, 3 and 4" busi- ness, done so that the other is driven to_desperation. No matter how wild the speculations are, the jotting of them down calmly in pencil, with numbers in front, goes & Jong way to assuring Brook that he s right. Since he is always right, of course, he | might as well keep his bookkeeping to himself. * Jones, who is a right simple man, has | long harbored the naive belief that it | is much easier to bave a definite, cor- rect opinion about men, without seeing them, than about matters at large. Even if he did know every one worth | it all. Select at random any well known | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. 1t 1s not possible to be accurate about tropical fishes, for instance, unless one h’?\';pum l.! reading jones was an article, written by & woman, an article intended as a popular introduction to the ‘subject of the pleasures of the modern home aquarium. It began well, and well begun is half d lone, indeed. Jones, with his fancler’s kno Chafeaiag Indace recreation. Tead chay loor recreation, 4l with pleasure until the lady dufl’w the so-called sebra fish as possessing black stripes. ‘Then he quit. * * % He knew what had happened. The lady did not know anything about i had never seen one of the sleek blue and silver striped “zebras,” but merely had inf 'wed some professional lers. He had told her about the various types, and had described the fish in question properly, but the lady had gotten her notes mixed up. Jones read the article through. Not bad, of owu; but the writer didn't know her fishes. No mention made at all of the fasci- nating angel fish, favorite alike of the old-timer and the newcomer. d one, in writing a beginner's article, with intent to lure, leave Ptero- phyllum scalare completely out of the picture? Only it one wasn't personally ac- uainted with this fascinating creature. a'hen 1t would be easy enough, !olrn no ow He has been all over the world, and | breed man, or woman, either, can really LI Human beings, on the other hand, are easy to understand, in a way, be- cause every one is human. Every one is not & tropical fish. If you want to know tropical fishes, or law, or medicine, you have to study th em. You have to dig down and find out. You can tell a whole lot about a man, however, merely by looking at him. Now, some men are particularly gifted along this line of knowing other people without b;lnl introduced to them. Jones, for instance. For all that he would have disclaimed the gift, he really has a remarkable faculty for getting the low down, as it is sometimes called, on another human being. - x % % Templeton Jones doesn't claim to be a psychologist, but he is seldom fooled. If you pinned him down, how he knows one man for great, and another for & fool, before the mass of the people do, he will tell you, very modestly, that if he does at all it is solely due to intuition. Intuition is something many persons are afraid of. Immediate insight into a person or a thing is not remarkable, however. It is very common. Every one utilizes such a gift, at times, but some persons more consciously than others. A scoundrel, a fourflusher, and & bounder, rings a bell every time with T. Jones, esq. He never mistakes the we‘ Similarly, he picks a good man & scaffold, or out of a ditch, and years Iater has the pleasure of seeing He finds evidences on all sides cof his choice justified before men. men who have opinions about things Jones always enjoys listening to the of which they really know little, and | furious opinions of his friend, J. Bafi- which are therefore shot thgough and bling Brook, however. s WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. through with mistakes. ! foreign countries sprin that otherwise months, even years, | might elapse before they could be | into effect. As covenants with other | governments, they would require, in the ordinary course, to run the gauntlet of senatorial confirmation under the Con- | stitution. The Senate is traditionally | addicted to tearing treaties to pieces | before Tatifying them, and then some- | times not ratifying them at all. In the {case of tariff treaties, delays, it is feit, | would be unlimited. Members sections of the country which felt that lacal‘ mter:u‘ ;\:re mg ncnncem ..: would regard it incum upon to oppose and do their utmost to find enough other Senators to join them to prevent ratification by the necessary two-thirds majority. For all these rea- sons, it has been contemplated ever since it was known that a Roosevelt administration would be in office, that ways snd means would be sought to empower the President to sign reciproc- | ity treaties and by that act have them become law. *x xR to how Congress will remain in ususwn. n’o::u bceg the White House | view that the business of the special session, despite the monumental legis- lative program President Roosevelt has dished up for consideration, might be finished by mid-May. Capitol Hill be- gins to think that is an optimistic hope. Some authorities belleve that Mid- summer is & better adjournment guess. Much depends on the course of the farm bill in the Senate, where it is due for much rougher going than it | date F. D. R. has had such smooth l’rlolllnl with Congress that having it on eeable emotions. Special sessions are i‘g:ucuhble things, once they get going. Herbert Hoover called the Seventy- second Congress into special session in 1929, hoping for & short, snappy perlou of action on farm relief, “limited” tarift revision, and then adjournment. It sat for months and months, with the Haw- ley-8moot act finally coming out of the together with the Federal It's to be noticed by wise- acres mm that Roosevelt pat- ronage plums of the first magnitude are being systematically withheld from Democrats_who ranked as pre-conven- tion anti-Roosevelt men. The Demo- eratic woods are full of men and women who were hell-bent-for-leather for the ticket, once it was nominated, but a check-up of whose records indicates that they were for almost anybody for President except the Governor of New York. These chickens are now coming home to roost, with the result that a lot of worthies, who consider them- selves deserving, are likely to remain outside the administration breastworks. * x x % ator Borah is going to have the ap;f:\unuy of welcoming_ & distan kinsman when Dr. Hans Luther, th new German Ambassador to the United Btates, arrives in Washington. ‘The senior Senator from Idaho traces his lneage back to the family of Dr. Mar- tin_Luther, author of the Reformation. Indped, some of “Big Bill's’ pugnacity is sometimes ascri to the ¢ German churchman who, in his fim indignation, Lutheran history once threw an ink pot at the Castle, scene of Wagnerian musical legends. Rotary clubs in the United States will welcome the Hitlerite envoy as & fellow member. Dr. Luther has lorig been active in German Rotarian circles. A wonderful Rotary story comes from Bhanghal. The local club one day this Winter wanted to enter- tain George Bernard Shaw, then in port. He declined curtly and was quoted as having calied Rotarians “overstuffed monkeys who gather around a lunch- eon table.” When the 8hanghai Eoury wmhmdfit Mm'-m;" = mom-u: toxane t, more. That's why we invited Shaw.” * % %% Visitors _at his desk observe ' that Pruidg: Roosevelt has his big blotting surrounded with neatly a memorandum blocks, each the printed name of a member of the cabinet. F. D. R. calls them “chits.” Instead his hands has conjured up no dis- |\ Tyl it dion” Ghich at least: sn | two of its important components, has put ' time-saving and | | QGuessing is rampant in Washlnnan‘ experienced in_the House last week. litical | ¢ records, devil while interned in the Wartburg| California i bles and be 1 | ple need of writing the executive depart- | been pressed into Old Bab Brook & card, as they say. Proposals to clothe President Roose- ) ment chiefs long letters about this, that velt with full powers to negotiate and | or the other thing, the President is ac- | conclude reciprocal tariff treaties with ' customed to dash off a rapid-fire memo- | from the belief | randum. He says he used the “chit” system to ndv-nz:/fi at Alun{.‘ finds it adopt it here. k% American intervention in Germany, in protest against maltreatment Germans and Americans of the Jewish faith, has ample precedent in our dip- lomatic practice. On two other occa- sions Jews were the object of official solicitude on the part of the United Btates—in Russia and Rumania. Presi- dent Taft threatened a breach of of- ficial relations with Russia because of the czarist government’s discrimination inst admitting American citizens who were Jews by refusing to recognize their passports. In Rumania Wash- ington’s representations concerned defi- nite outrages against Jews, of the sort to which they have recently been sub- jected in Germany. Remonstrances to Turkey in connection with oppression of Christians have in the past ema- nated from Washington, so Secretary Hull, in his present activities at Ber- lin, is on the firm ground of precedent. * 2 % % Uncontrollable rumors are in circula- tion that the prosecution of Charies E. Mitchell by the Federal law au- thorities is the forerunner of a dragnet drive against some more highly placed financiers and others in the field of income-tax violation. Incidentally, the arrest and impending indictment of Mitchell promptly exploded the myth, which had gained currency, that the di ice of that arch-foe bt evil- doors, Thomas J. Walsh, from the | attorney generalship would usher in a moratorium of prosecutions for wealthy malefactors in general. * x X % Beer becomes legal under the aegis of always ranked as bone dry. Secretary of State Cordell Hull fought the good, but loeing, fight at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago for an anti-wet plank. Secretary of Com- merce Roper for years has been one of the pillars of the prohibition church. ;xl;:m mutantur, et nos mutamur in (Copyright. 1933.) ———— Back to Elemental National Life. Prom the Pasadens Star-News. Back to elementals in national life is the need of the hour. Life has be- come 0 eomxlex, that the people be- come confused and bewildered in times Dletities were Amplined, perticuiarts n plexities were simpl cularly & period like this. ‘There is need of going back to ele- mentals in national life with reference to paternalism in government. There is a growing tendency on the part of too many to look to government to bear all the burdens, deliver: out of -all trou- esponsible for cares and responsibilities which properly belong with the a,eople themselves. The peo- hark back te the old days and the old ways, when the individual American had the courage, the initia- iive and the resourcefulness to attack the problems of rlbl.lc and private life without leaning heavily upon the gov- e}x;nment itself to help him in these ings. ‘There is need of that old-fashioned courage which dispelled gro or exaggerated fears, Californians today would do well to study the history of during the last century, par- ticularly during the days of the gold rush and subsequent thereto; study the trials and hardships and vexing prob- lems which confronted California in those primitive times. Much inspira tion can be derived from such a ‘There is need today of al fishes herself, probably bastc Of | & the The Political Mill By G. Gould I:'noh President Roosevelt's first three weeks in the White House certainly do not show him in the role of seeking to win a second term by attempts to placate organized ties, special groups or what not. Wijth & '"l:.lch has lacking on Capitol , Presi- dent ran ocounter to the demands of veterans® forcing through Congress economy bill. Under it $400,000,000 is to be lopped off the Government's annual billion-dollar roposal, insisting that it would set a dollar-a-day wage acale for labor, that it would result in the “regi- mentation” of labor, and would be worse than “Hitlerism,” “fascism” and the like, L | . A President who is willing to arouse | the antagonism of the veterans and of leaders of organized labor in his efforts | to bring benefits to the whole country | can scarcely be accused of playing self- [ 1sh politics. _Already it is being re- | ported that the veterans are intensel, | resentful because of the economy act. | The word is passed here and there that veterans are not going to vote the | Democratic ticket again—not certainly | 1f Mr. Roosevelt is to be the nominee of the party for President. Mr. Roose- | velt, as a matter of fact, has given the World War veterans the first real check they have met in their demands for compensation. They don't like it. They | have had their way with the Congress | until President Roosevelt took command land called a halt. It is true that the |late President Calvin Coolidge vetoed the soldiers’ bonus bill and that Presi- dent Hoover vetoed pension bills and lwl&ht to cut down the expenditures | for veteran compensation. But the Con- | gress overrode both Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Hoover and gave the veterans what they demanded *xx % It has been estimated that as the years continued the annual expendi- | ture for the veterans—unless there were some change in the attitude of | Congress and the country—would see i the annual bill for veterans’ compensa- !tion and pensions reach the $2000,- 000,000 mark and even higher. Presi- dent Roosevelt's firm stand on this sub- ject of compensation is reminiscent of the stand taken by the late President Grover Cleveland back in 1887 when he vetoed special veterans' pension bills | by the thousand and also placed his disapproval on a bill which would have given disability pensions to men who could not trace their disability to their service in the Army and Navy. And | while Mr. Cleveland's defeat for re- election in 1888 was due to other con- ditions, ft is true that he failed to get the votes of the veterans in that cam- | paign. * % % President Roosevelt's first act—in which organized labor was particularly | Interested—was the appointment of Miss Frances Perkins to be Secretary of Labor. The American Federation of Labor had its own candidate. Purther- | more, it demanded that a woman be not placed at the head of the Labor | Department. The President, however. knowing the abilities of Miss Perkins and believing that this recognition should be given the women, went right | ahead and mppointed her, despite the | threats made against him. After hearing the violent protests of President Green of the American Fed- eration of Labor, the Senate Education the Labor Committee rewrote the re- | forestation bill, taking out all mention of the wage to be paid the men, and camps, iving the President auth to employ unem- | ployed men in reforestation and flood | control work. The President, it is re- , said he would not object to the clnnfi 8o the members of Con- | gress, if they pass the reforestation bill |in the pr amended form, avold | the risk being labeled enemies of the Amerjcan bor. | They ‘mfin responsibility to Presi- | dent velt to pay the men a dol- | lar & day and to put them into camps if he beligves that is to the best inter- est of all. And the President has the courage to go lh.mu.gh with it. * * ‘The President has the backing of the country today. If under his lea the Nation scrambles back to better |ganized labor will have a hard time |beating him for re-election—if they |undertake to beat him. The people | generally are not likely to let the Presi- | dent down under such circumstances. ment and destitution continue to stalk the land, these opponents of the Presi- dent's relief program are likely to be influential in the 1936 campaign. The bills denounced by these organized | groups has almost taken the breath out |of the politicians. He may be able to make these groups themselves see the value of his proposals in the end. * k k% ‘The farmers and their friends in Con- | gress again show themselves unable to 't gne President urged them to unite on a bill that would be satisfactory and said he would try to get it through . ‘The result was the admin- istration’s farm bill. It has in it almost everything but the kitchen ktove. has it pleased all the farmers and their representatives in Congress? It has Union has denounced the measure in unmeasured terms. Some of the Dem- ocratic Senators, including Senator | Smith of South Carolina, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, like it 1ittlé better than Mr. Simpson. The bill was passed through the House in | jig time, under a special rule. But now there are threats of delay in thé Senate. The President i not likely to |sit down quietly under this assault on | his farm Dbill in the Senate. He does not relish the idea of delay and more delay. - * kX Out on the farms, despite the wide publicity given the provisions of the farm bill, few of the le really know what the proposal is. They realite, however, that something is to be done to raise farm prices. That is an end they have desired and hoped for in vain for years. So they are willing to have the President given a free hand in this matter, according to the reports that are coming into the Capital. And, not- withstanding the talk of revolt now going on in the Senate, the President’s farm bill is likely to receive the neces- sary votes in the Senate to put it through, with some amendments. The so-called farm mortgage bill. ah- other measure for the benefit of the farme?s, is to be tacked onto the pres- ent farm bill during its consideration in the Senate, the spirit of the Argonaita of that sariier dar ward ‘There is need of -hnumm‘lnd & stauncher hope among the le in the security and perpetut) Ameri- can Government and institu- tions. In a let “Back to Ele- mentals in National Life” be the slogan of this troublous time. Breakless “China.” Prom the Loulsville Courier-Journal. The projected rubber dinnerware, oo i, s fof A comed by those husbands who have service at the sink. Royal Residence. the Dayion Daily News. s reported that Buckingham Palace ship | times, veterans’ organisations and or- | | It times continue hard, and unemploy- | audacity of the President in presenting | together on & farm relief measure. | But | not. 8impson of the Farmers’ National | dictum, t devoted ueries. This the services you in any capacity that relates to information. This serv- it deprives you of benefits to which you are entitled. Your obl is only 3 cents in coin or stamps inclosed with use post cards. Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. Where is the largest ice skating rink in the United States?—E. A. M. A. It 18 in the Chi Stadium. The rink is 145 feet by 245 Q. What is the weight of the airship th | Akron?—H. W. E. A. Its empty or dead weight is esti- mated at 221,000 pounds. new ones devised?—E. C A. Coats of arms have been newly created peers in European countries. Q. Will ultra violet rays penetrate glass>—A. R. N. A. They will not penetrate ordinary window glass. A is manufactured that these rays do | penetrate. i = | Q. How long a roll of | New’ Testament?—R. 5. veral volumes. Had all of the pooks on one roll, 200 feet long. Q. In what kinds of currency are $10,000 bills made?—J. McL. A. They are made in gold and Federal Reserve notes. are paneled in red cedar? The color in the wood is fading.—B. E. B, A. The Forest Service says that cedar | 1s bound to dull with time. By shaving cedar walls with a plane or even rubbing | them with sandpaper, the dull surface will be restored in the portion of the wood which still retains its color. Fin- ish this restored surface with a light coat of shellac, then rub it down; the color will probably remain. Q. Does the Post Office Department open or censor mail in times of peace? A. It does not do so. Q. What is the oldest newspaper still in existence’—R. L. M. A. The oldest newspaper in existence at the present time of which record is available is Berrow's Worcester Journal (published in England). which was es- “b}‘;;‘oed as the Worcester Postman in - Q. When was pneumatic action first used in pipe-organ keyboard construc- tion?—G. W. T. A. The principle of pneumatic action in pipe organ construction was turned to practical account in 1867, although cuch a theory had been advanced years before. It was applied to an organ that was publicly shown at the Paris Exposition of that year. Its importance was recognized by Henry Willis, who in- | troduced it, with improvements, into his organ at 8t. Paul's Cathedral, Lon- don. in 1874 and employed it extensive- ly at Alexandra Palace. Q. Is placer gold mining permitted in the national parks’—J. H. G. A. The Forest Service says that placer t ice 18 free. Failure to make use of from | feet and the ent in track which can be laid out is ten laps. proper | | papyrus would v, |1t take to contain all the books of the | ey A. Papyrus manuscripts contained | staried>—S. R. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. m]ddu ml:{nlngku nottp:kmmu in any exce, National 'P-lrrk. Alup Srasickoly Q. In mvelfi,anhoul‘d 4 & woman pre- & man going ough a train Pullman to diner’—E. W, B. A. It is customary for & man to >~ cede & woman from one car to ano‘wr, largely because of the fact that the our inquiry for direct ly. Do not d00rs of the cars have such he; b e Mfl% Evening | Prings that the man can be of great uns"h tance to the woman in npt?n!ni m. Q. What causes dry rot?>—P. M. I, A. Dry rot is caused by microscopic fungus, ‘the spores of which are pres- the air and which develop undes circumstances in wood. Q. Whet was the gart nsea for mourning in the land -t Moab in the time of Ruth and Naomi’>—M. 8. F. A. The Bible is not explicit, nor are Q. Are all coats of arms old or are there exact historical data as to the precise color of mourning in the time of Ruth and Naomi. It is certain that grant | in the past and are still granted to the material of mourning was sack- cloth, which was a coarse dark cloth of camel's or goat's hair—probably a dark brown was the principal color Q. Is maple sirup used to any extent {al kind of glass except on the dining table?—F, T. A. Maple products are consumed in large quantities in the tobacco industry and in the making of ice cream and Q When was the Oxford Press A. The first book printed at Oxford of the New Testament been inscribed is the very rare “Commentary on the it would have been over | Apostles’ Creed,” attributed to St. Jerome and bearing the date 1468. This was coeval with the first book printed by Caxton in England. certificates | Q Was the Roman Empire at any time larger than the United States?— Q. What can be done to walls which | E- M, K. A. The United States has a gross area of 3,026,789 square miles. At the time of its greatest expansion the Roman Empire is estimated have in- cluded approximately 1,544,000 square miles, Q. What kind of paper is the purest’>—J. N. C. A. Cigarette paper is considered as the highest state of perfection, in point of purity, that has been achieved by the paper-making industry. Q. For what purpose had Libby Prison been used before the Civii War>—R. B. _A. It was a ship chandler’s warehouse in Richmond, Va. Q. If an automobile is going swiftly enough around a corner to hzve two of ihe wheels leave t ground. are they the inside or the outside wheels?—A. K. A. The inside rear wheel of a car acts as a pivot in turning a corner. The power of the rear wheels is momen- tarily transferred to the outside, that it is the outside wheels which leave the ground. Q. What are love birds>—J. F. A. They are small parrots that show great affection for their mates, espe- cially those of the genera Agapornis, inhabiting Africa. and Psittacula of South America. They are usually most- v {lreen or delicate gray. often marked red and blue. Many are kept as cage birds. If one dies its mate some- times pines away. Q, What is the greatest number of shares handled on the New York stock market in one day?—O. B, A. The peak was approximately 16,- 400,000 shares, on October 29. 1920 Nature Fiction Made Fame For Connecticut Humorist Winsted. & small community in Con- | freak achievements necticut. is declared by the press of the Winsted fauna and Nation to have shared the fame of Louls T. Stone, creator of famous humorous | to | | cepted as the product y to be ranked | amusing imagination. storles in the realm of the “nature ‘!IM." This modest journalist, death, receives tributes as the modern Munchausen and worth: with Mark Twain and other American ‘humonsw The products of his imagi- nation were distributed by telegraph, adding a unique feature to his life work. “Even now,” says the | m&s-flnlon. . | expectant of a special dispatch | from the world beyond, s:;nm Stone.” That pa declares that | ‘rare humor” made him “the most loved liar of modern times” and “he made Winsted famous far wide.” The Hartford Times states: Stone had many friends and the respect and regard of the community. His years of work for the Winsted Evening Citi- ren, of which he became general man- nfzr, gave him an intimate and valued piace in the life of eastern Litchfield County. After Danbury's Bailey, Mr. Stone had carried an infectious mirth farther across the continent than any other Connecticut newspaper man. His ability to ascertain and report the ‘new, strange and startling' as occurin within hilly Connecticut’s sight an hearing has not been surpassed, if ever it was equaled.” “AS_& young man,” says the New York Herald Tribune, “he found Win- sted just another Connecticut town, and his fanciful tales did it nothing but good. Indeed, one Lou Stone in such a town may be well worth more than any num- ber of chambers of commerce and boosters’ clubs. The citisens of Win- sted glve him much credit for develop- ing the town and the adjoining section. He was pleasant, whimsical and re- markably well informed. His stories, brief, straight-faced and with just the right restraint (some of them were terse 88 the Coolidge anecdotes), were of the sort that give the lie to the journalistic , “There i8 no harmless fake.’ " Observing that he was called “the 20th century Munchausen,” the Rock- ford Reglster-Republic reviews his work with the statement: “Millions of American newspaper readers have chuckled over antics of Jim, Pete and Dick, the tunneling trout; the tree on which grew baked apples, the cow which ve ice cream after it had been acci- etally locked in an ice house, many other droll items written by Mr. Stone during the last 20 years. The taller and more impossible the tale, the more certain it emanated from Winsted. His little news fables were never in- tended to deceive. They were so ob- “Mr. laughing. pose. Mr. Stone recetved many tempt- ing offers to go to larger flelds of en- He found happiness in Winsted; fame and & fair degree of fortune, too. There, in the region which he had known from boyhood, he obtained the inspiration to make a weary world pause occasionally and smile at his drolleries. And it is something of a major accom- plishment in these troubl days to make restless millions laugh even for a TR Vas a hard “ WAS & -working newspaper man who turned out the celebrated New Orleans Times-Picayune, with the bellef that “they were so cleverly con- structed that casual readers swallowed them whole.” " That paper comments further: “As Medicine Hat is famous— or, if you please, notorious—as a weath- er breeder, 50 Winsted became noted as the center of weird events, the seat of mysterious and sometimes miraculous formances by men or beasts, or even birds. In the middle nineties the story of Winsted's ‘wild man’ attracted wide attention ular intervals, through subsequent years, the country was told about Winsted's ‘whistling cat’ and its accurate rendi- tion of ‘Yankee Doodle’ and other pop- ular alrs; about the Winsted hen that = Rochester | informed, ‘newspaper editors are | try editor | | | | | viously impoasible that they left readers | And that was their sole pur- | deavor, but wisely he refused them all. | yarns in his spare moments,” says the | almost | | train, the shivering cow which yiel of countless other flora.” “His output was harmless;” aocording the Toledo Blade. “No human be- ing could feel injury from the amus- ing stuff he wrote. It could be ac- of & lively and Stone was & good-humored liar.” The Providence | Journal sees “a vacant chair in Winsted that will not be filled,” and pays the tribute: “Intelligent and exmxge{y well he became a competent coun- Wwho could write wisely as well | s humorously, and he served his neigh- his | tively early be- | country wil that | who invent and | his hens for market with a vacuum His death at a compara- age i8 to be regretted. The I miss the Winsted citizen ed the farmer who picked cleaner, the three-legged bullfrog and its gymnastics, the deaf and dumb pig, the bald-headed man who painted & spider on his bald spot to scare away the flies and the hen that laid red, }vll;:xwg_ and blue eggs on the fourth of y. “After all.” thinks the Spris eld (Mass.) Republican, “he nnmpm?:fiv.he true tradition of American humor. For the essence of his yarns was their ob- vious exaggeration. ~The humor of oth- er peoples may be more subtle, some of them proudly admit it, but of that hu- mor which is most characteristically American, and often incomprehensible to others, exaggeration is the very pith and marrow.” The Cleveland Plain Dealer offers the estimate: “Stone visioned impossibilities beyond the imagination of less gifted men, gave them a plausble verbal setting, and de- lighted the newspaper readers of & na- tion. He tinctured truth with an audac- ity worthy of Naugatuck Valley brass. But the product was wholly delightful. Who can forget the hen that laid an egg on the cow catcher of a speedmg deq ice cream, its overly modest sister that refused to be milked by a man, the verdant green fish in Highland Lake, which turned out to be a bold bad bass which had been spying upon a feminine bather and got tangled up in one of her stockings when it dropped in the water? Stone purveyed to a realistic modern age fine flights of fantastic fancy worthy of Bret Harte, Mark Twain and Artemus Ward.” e and | Minister of Enlightenment. From the Atlanta Journal. President von Hindenburg has proved to Germany and the world that he is a man of finesse as well as power in his appointment of Dr. Joseph Goeb- bels as minister of publie enlighten- ment. For a neatly turned phrase, & subtle play on psychology, one could search through the history of politics without finding a jewel like that. What Dr. Goebbels to accomplish, of course, is the “selling” of the Hitler doctrines to the people. He has been . | & leading member of Hitler's Nazi party for years, but in those too candid days he was known merely as director of propaganda. Now the celebrated orator and pub- Hecist is to cease, we gather, the pro- duction of propeganda. He will not seek anything so crude as publicity. His whole effort, directed in a spirit of highest altruism by Hitler himself, is to enlighten the public upon matters which are near to their interest. Dr. Goebbels will control all government avenues of publicity, such as the press department, broa stations and movies. He will have a multi-voiced instrument in his campaign of enlight- enment, and broad powers of discre- tion in his use of it. It his reputation is deserved, Dr. Goebbels will be not only the first but one of the of all ministers of pub- lic enlightenment. We are attracted here, however, not by his probable suc- cess, nor by speculation on the fac- tors which in the Germany of today are lkely to influence failure, but by the immense cleverness of the title which Hitler and Von Hindenburg have given him. It will gleam with an indie luster in the inside polit - flulalm? el tory of