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THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C TUESDAY.......March 28, 1833 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor ‘The Evening Star Newspa 11th Bt New York Office: 110 East 4 Chicago Office: Lake Michigan European Office: 14 Regent St.. London. Ensland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. | The Evening Star 45¢ per month | The Evening and Sunday Star | days) . . .60c per month ar ....65¢ per month The Sunday Star.. Sc_per copy Collection made at the end of each mont Orders mav be sent in by mail o. telephone NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday +$10.00; 1 mo.. 85¢ Daily only ... 1yr. $6.00: 1mo. 50c Sunday only . 1yr, $4.00; 1mo.. 40c All Other States and Canada. Dally and Sunday...1yr. $1200: 1mo. $1.00 Daily only . 1yr., $800: 1mo. 75¢ Sunday only . 1yr, $5.00; 1mo. S0c Member of the Associated Press. 7. “ssociated Press is exclusively entitled to the L. ‘or republication of all news dis- patches crediied 1o it or not otherwise cred- ited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Al rights of publication of special dispatches herein ere also reserved. = The Budget Recommendation. The depression has been likened to war, with all patriotic citizens lending their support to the President and will- ingly making those personal and other sacrifices necessary if it is to be waged to a successful conclusion. One of the major offensives now being conducted by the administration, in which citizens of every degree Wwill whole-heartedly join, is the fight against extravagant Feceral expenditures. This battle is being carried on now. The casualties, especially in Washington, are heavy. But 2all good citizens realize that the motivating force behind the broad- sides is founded on real necessity. The objectives to be reached are a balanced budget and a lowering of the tax burden. Yet Washingtonians, approving fully the objectives of the National economy drive, can with good reason protest the | utterly unfair and wholly unreasonable | Budget Bureau proposals represented in the estimates for the 1934 District | appropriation bill just sent to the| House. It the administration has decided to | make & blanket cut of twenty-five per cent in all Federal appropriations, the important po:&l is the figure from | which the twerfty-five per cent cut is to be made. In most cases, if not all of them, Pederal sppropriations have for years | been mounting steadily. But in the| case of the lump sum for support of the Federal Capital the Federal appropria- tion has been steadily diminishing both in amount and in proportion to the expenses of the Federal City. Each decrease has meant an increase in the total tax burden imposed upon the un- represented taxpayers of this com- munity. 5 Last year's lump sum figure of $7.- 775,000 represented a drastic cut below the previous year's figure—proportion- ately far in excess of any cuts that were generally applied to other Federal ap- propriations. Last year's reduction was made from a figure that had already been reduced far below the figure that would represent the Federal Govern- ment’s equitable obligation to the sup- port of Washington. So, when & 26.8 per cent reduction is applied to a figure that has already been reduced below what it should be, the reduction becomes un- reasonable and exceeds in its harshness and severity the reduction in any other form of Federal appropriation. There have been efforts in the past to conceive the Federal Government’s obligation to the support of its own Capital in terms of what it would pay in taxes to the municipal government if it were taxed on its property hold- ings as other property holders 2re taxed. The Bureau of Efficlency com- puted this single obligation—and there are others—as being $8,865,722 for the fiscal year 1932. For 1933 the Federal Government paid a lump contribution of $7,775,000, more than a million doi- lars less than that single part of its whole obligation to the support of the Federal Capital that is computed on a mythical “tax liability” alone. What the Federal Government has done in applying this drastic 26.8 per cent reduction to a Federal contribu- tion that was far from adequate to begin witb can be likened to the action of a municipal taxpayer—who happens to control exclusively the power to levy taxes—to reduce his own tax obliga- tion in the name of economy without glving the other municipal taxpayers the partially offsetting benefits of a like reduction. Instead of reducing his taxes by 26.8 per cent, however, Uncle Sam, if this budget recommendation is approved, will have cut his own con- tribution 40 per cent in the last two years (from $9,500,000), while the tax burden of the politically impotent partner in Capital City maintenance and development does not receive the benefits of a penny’s worth of reduction. If there is to be any tex reduction because of economy, the local tax- payer, and not the Federal Govern- ment, is the one to be relieved. The Federal Governmnt began practicing economy in relation to its contribution to the Capital ten years ago. The in- Jury now proposed to be inflicted on the local taxpayer is double-barreled in its scope. The local taxpayer has been | hit by the depression as other citizens | have been hit everywhere, His salary | has been cut, his business has fallen off, his Federal taxes have risen. Yet the local tax burden remains unfltered. And in addition to being forced to make up for what the Federal Govern- ment proposes to slice from its contri- bution, he faces more penalties, repre- sented in the drastic curtailment of all municipal functions, which means increased local unemployment, and the | piling up in the Treasury of his unused and unspent and non-interest-bearing tax dollars. The Budget Bureau recommendations are unfalr, inconsistent and represent a blow to Washington, the full effect of which is difficult to concelve. ) Japan Secedes. Proclaiming that “there remains no room for further co-operation,” Japan has formally and finally “seceded” from the League of Nations by com- mand of Emperor Hirohito promulgated 2% Tokio yesterday. Thus comes to the inevitable and long-expected end the Island Empire’s controversy with | perial h. | states that Japan “will continue to par- fon of the world, which set in with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria & year and a half ago. The League's condemnstion of that act of aggression, since solidified and sanctified by the creation under Japan’s tutelage of the puppet state of Manchukuo, made it certain that soomer or later Tokio and Geneva would part company. Em- peror Hirohito speaks the literal truth when he says that continued co-opera- tion between them is impossible—im- possible, that is, as long as Japan maintains the righteousness of her con- duct in North China. Premier Saito, amplifying the Im- prociamation of withdrawal, ticipate in such international enter- prises as will be inaugurated for the purposes of furthering the welfare of | mankind. Japan does not propose to shut itself up in the Far East, but will endeavor to strengthen its ties of friend- ship with other powers.” To just what methods Nippon will henceforward re- sort to join forces with the rest of the world, in the name of international | welfare, only time can (isclose. The Japanese government moy discover that the circumstances undei which it has withdrawn from the family of nations, after defying it, will not assure it the future welcome that may be expected. The world’s memory of recent events in the Far East is likely to prove a | long one. The League of Nations is indubitably the loser through the defection of | Japan—the loser, it its importance and | influence are short-sightedly judged | from a merely size or numerical stand- | point. With the two greatest Far East- ern powers, Russia and Japan, outside the League membership, and with the two largest countries in the Western Hemisphere, the United States and | Brazil, also abstaining from it, the Geneva Parliament of man shrinks, on | its face, into the dimensions mainly of a European bund. But what the League loses through withdrawal of a powerful constituent like Japan it as surely gains in its moral prestige. In disciplining and condemning Japan, in placing upon its forehead the brand of international guilt, the League not only preserved its dignity and the excuse for its ex- istence. It saved its soul. v Masters of the Cosmos. Masters of the material world, they of chemistry. The American Chemical Society, now in session in Washington, is the modern representation of a | science that began in the twilight of civilization, when man began to study and speculate upon the cosmos of which he was a part. From the alchemists of almost pre-historic Egypt to the modern wonder worker of the laboratory, who is dividing the atom and ’transmutmx metals, is & link of curi- | osity that in its development during the ages has wrought marvels of virtual creation, widened the horizon of man and added incalculably to his riches. To the layman, whose mind is apt to be confused by the highly specialized terms employed in the identification of processes, chemistry can never be a commonplace, because of the successive achievements of the science, which have revolutionized physical life and permit- ted a miraculous advance in the facili- ties of everyday existence. The impos- sible of yesterday has become the ac- complishment of today. Into every branch of physical science chemistry has entered with its contributions. The great mechanical discoveries and inven- tions, the steam engine, the telegraph, the telephone, the airplane, the radio all owe their development to chem- | istry, which discovered the qualities of the elements and the metals and the minerais that permitted the combina- tions of ingenuity and craftsmanship in the form of these and other wonders of material nature. ‘The test tube, elementary symbol of the chemist’s power of discovery, is the scepter of a veritable monarch, com- manding the ylelding of nature's se- crets. It is the wand of the magician, creating new forms of energy and new materials for the service of man. In | the long-ago past, when man first be- | gan to speculate upon the nature of the elements by which he was surrounded and upon which he subsisted, the so- \called precious metals were the chief | objectives of research., Gold was the lure of the alchemists. To make it by incantation, to summon the agencies of the unseen world, was their endeavor. ‘The modern chemist is no dreamer or mystic. He is intensely practical, highly educated in the nature of cos- mic matter, insatiable in research, a true magician. But his methods are scientific, not romantic. He is content with achievement by degrees, and as he works onward in his specialized lines he is inspired not by love of fame or hope of reward, but by the zest of discovery and contribution. To the chemists of today, who are meeting here in convention, the past is & record of inspiration. They contemplate a future that will make the mechanism of this era appear but as a musuem of relics. The lay public cannot ade- quately follow them in their discus- slons, for their terminology is as & strange tongue, but it has faith in their skill and their fidelity to the highest principles cf science. — e German statesmanship is regarded as perfectly competent to form a govern- ment and liable to be bothered only by & superabundance of material from which to select. ——— The World Court Again. Democratic leaders in the Senate are moving for inclusion in the program cf the special session of this Congress the protocol for United States’ adher- ence to the World Court. President Roosevelt has been declared to be fa- vorable to the ratification of the proto- col. The propcsal to take up and dis- pose of this matter after years of de- lay is sponsored by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the majority leader of the Senate, who has announced that he will ask the Foreign Relations Ccmmittee to report the protocol to the Senate at tomorrow’s session of that committez. American Nation, acting through con- stituticnal agencies, to determine what its attitude toward the World Court shail be. Adherence to the World Court has been proposed by every Presi- dent from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin D. Roosevelt. While the latter has so far sent no special message to the Sen- have been called, the wonder workers | Certainly it is high time for the! TIIE EVENI the desire, in his campaign for election last year, that the United States ad- here to the court, with proper safe- guards to prevent the entanglement of this country in European affairs and to permit independence of action by this country. Once the Senate voted by the neces- sary two-thirds adherence to the court, but first adopted & series of reserv tions. One of these reservations, re- lating to advisory opinions which might be given by the court, caused a suffi- clent number of the member nations of the court to decline to accept Amer- ican adherence under such terms. Since that time a new formula has | been worked out, largely with the aid of that eminent jurist, Elihu Root, which is quite as effective in preserving | the rights of this country and at the same time is acceptable to the foreign nations. Former President Hoover rec- ommended to the Senate the ratifica- tion of the protocol, with this new formula. Other pressing domestic problems and the fact that a group of “irreconcilables” in the Senate per- sisted in their opposition postponed consideration and action on the court protocol. Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader, has made it clear that the re- construction program of President Roosevelt will at all times be given the right of way, and that the World Court protocol must stand aside for these do- mestic measures during the present spe- cial session of the Congress. However, he believes that the protocol should be dealt with—voted up or down, and preferably up. Some of the old op- Court have gone from the Senate. But there remain still Senator Johnson of California and others of the group which has fought entry of this country into the Court on the ground that it amounted to “back door” entry into the League itself. It does not. And further, the United States has been a leader for years in the demand that international disputes be settled peacefully. It ill be- comes the American Nation today to set its face against the tribunal created for that very purpose. Indeed, it is not the Nation which continues to balk, but a small group of obstinate men in the Senate. ———————— Assertion by C. Bascom Slemp that President Roosevelt will restore pros- perity within six months suggests & new version of the typist's practice line, “Now is the time for every good man, ! regardless of political party, to come to | the ald of the administration.” B — No intent is admitted of writing $1 per day Into reforestation programs as |a wage limit. In any event, as labor came into demand, hours could be shortened and the overtime prices be | boosted without restraint. —_— e Banking is a fleld of study to which | the public is turning with even greater | interest than that bestowed on contract bridge. A stage of enlightenment may | be claimed which enables the people to enjoy problems instead of fearing them. ——e ‘There will be no further “lame duck™ sessions. So busy & Congress could not | be expected to develop a group of states- men who would know what to do with 80 much idle time. ——e. In addition to the employment brewer- ies are expected to provide, account | might also be taken of the legislators, | counsel and statisticians who have al- | ready found overtime occupation. —— e | An element of the German public is ;evidently industriously intent on find- ings new varieties of grim responsibility, with the intention of ultimately laying | them at the door of the former Kaiser. ————e— Japan resents any suggestion of inter- | not go quite so far as to contend flatly | that she should be permitted to main- tain the Pacific as a private ocean. —raee— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A feast some cannibals prepared. Some were elated. Scme were scared. For each the ancient warning knew: “Too many cooks will spoil the stew.” The chief exclaimed in accents strong: “Something about this dish is wrong. ‘The cause is very quickly found— Too many cooks are standing 'round. Into the bubbling kettle fling The cooks themselves, all plump and nice. We need more meat and less advice.” No Ancherite, “Are you going into soclety much?” asked the old friend. ghum. “As a patriotic person, I con- sider it & duty to show that I can at- tend to my duties, however arduous, and continue to be perfectly cheerful akout it.” Jud Tunkins says & leader is some- times & man who gets a whole lot of people to agree with him, but oftener a man who learns to agree with a whole lot of people. Practice and Theory. Our cares in honest work we sink And are but little fussed. ‘We sit around and try to think And get our minds all mussed! Always More to Learn.” “After all these years you ought to know all about finance.” “Be fair!” protested Mr. Dustin Stax. “Nobody pretends to insist that after all these years farmers ought to know all about agriculture.” “Pride is ever an obstacle,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “It would be much easier to correct a mistake were it not needful before proceeding to convince some one that he made it.” Regular Program. . Old World, since first you started ‘To spin along through space Some one would rise faint-hearted To quarrel with your pace. And if no words were rising, ‘To blame your stress and storm, We'd sadly be surmising You'd gone clear off your form. “Grammar is s fine thing,” said Uncle Eben, “but dar ain’ no kind o’ langusge Gen.m and the organized public opin- 'ate urging ratification, he expressed'dat trouble can't jeamn to talk” ponents of American adherence to the | | ference with her plans in Asia, but does | “Bring on with haste more seasoning, | “Certainly,” answered Senator Sor- | SHINGTON BY CHARLES E. There are many symptoms of the common cold which ere not recognized a8 such. Yet it is desirable to be ac- quainted with them, because they occur usually before the better known symp- toms. Every one knows that a sneeze prob- ably heralds a cold, and that a peculiar ight feeling around the eyes, or a sense of dryness in the nose, means much the same. Not every one is aware, however, that if the morning trip over to the street car or bus lines strikes the office goer es unusually long, he may suspect that & cold is in the offing for him. Any indisposition, of course, might have the same effect, but the value of it, in cold detection, is for him who has discovered that it applies to him. ‘These unusual symptoms, then, are not standard, as those affecting the eyes, nose, etc., are; but there is enough likeness in humanity to make them more widely applicable than many per- sons might at first suppose. The fact is, apparently, that most human beings are not inclined to look at themselves critically in regard to symptoms. ‘They have been told that such action puts them in the class of hypochon- driacs, and, rather suspecting that the word is not nice, hastily drop the feel- ing of the pulse. Now, the feeling of one’s own pulse is, without doubt, a habit to be frowned | upon. It is phslologically and psy- | chologically wrong. Nobody but a dunderhead would try it. Taking nc f such symptoms as we propose to eiucidate here, however, falls solely in the realm of common sense. Such action is merely a good aware- | ness, a decent regard for the interac- | tion of the mind and the body, of the | mental and physical states, and thelr; Teactions one upon the other. | * o % x | Without the downward drag of an oncoming cold, many a person finds that the morning walk to the car or| bus is one of the small features of the day. X neat breakfast beneath the belt, the fresh air of the new day, the slight exercise, the cheer of sunshine, per- haps—these are some of the factors which tend to make the walk pleasant. Even if the distance is considerable, as judged from city standards, never- theless it becomes an opportunity for Nature study, always interesting to those to whom it is interesting. If the walk is suddenly lacking in| intrigue, if it seems longer than one had thought—beware a cold! | While other diseases’ might have | something of the same effect, and other | factors might tend to induce the same | feeling of too many blocks traveled, | still the chances are, if one has studied | himself in this regard, that he is right | in_his diagnosis. If the full force of this escapes one, as it often will, at the sight of a| squirrel walking the tightrope on a telephone wire, or a new flower burst- ing into bloom, he has another chance after he seats himself on car or bus. Ordinarily the ride downtown does| [ not strike him as long, nor tiresome. | There is always something to look at ! | outside or inside. Life is a game, and all things show it. There is no need to bury one's self solemnly in a book; one's fellow travelers are a much bet- ter show, any morning in the week. If this study of human nature palls upon one who ordinarily is devoted to ' it, he may feel sure that he is coming VENING TIMES., Glasgow. —TIt was our painful duty to do some domestic shopping the other day. While waiting to be served a buxom woman was taking up all | the attention of the shop assistant. Be- | sides getting her “messages” the dame | was pouring into the girl's ear a full | account of the first return home of her | daughter, who had lately been married | and who lived at a distance. This was | | one passage of the narrative: “So when Flora came in we just sat doon at the | fireside, put our airms roon’ ane | anither’s neck, an’ had a guid greet. But | I telt her that a pun’ ap’ a hauf o’ but- | ter did us & week noo. and it haurdly | did us a week end when she wis at | | hame.” * X x % | Australia Feels | Slump in Blankets. The Bulletin, Sydney.—In our output | of blankets a serious slump has oc- | curred. The production dropped from 1,097,178 in 1916 to 875,888 in 1930. Single blankets require approximately 4’3 pounds wool; three-quarters, pounds to 7 pounds; double, 7 pounds | to 8 pounds; large double, 9 pounds to 10'; pounds. The loss of wool con- | sumption involved in this reduced out- put of 221,129 blankets is thus substan: tial. Kapok, a vegetable fiber, is pro- duced in large quantities in the East | Indies (black labor). As it is not grown in Australia it enters the country sub- ject only to a 10 per cent primage duty. It is the chief packing for bed quilting. The extent to which this has displaced wool can easily be assessed by the above | figures. Much of our cheaper wool | snould be absorbed in this branch of | | woolen manufacture; but with knpoki competition it does not pay the grazer | to send his locks (chiefly table locks) | to the sales when the distance is over 80 | or 100 miles. This represents a serious | loss to Australia, and it is all avoidable. * Kk x ok Reich School Periods To Be Reduced. Berlinen Tageblatt. —The 50-minute hour, at present the vogue in most of | the public schools, not only in the Ber- lin ~ district, but rather generally throughout the nation, is proving rather burdensome to the children, and will very likely be reduced during the next sessions to an hour of 45 minutes, which used to be the length of the pe- riods for study or recitation. Five min- utes may not seem long, but when added to every one of the eight periods into which the scholastic day is divided, some wearying effect upon the scholars, especlally the younger ones, is inevit- able. The return to the 45-minute hour will enable the children to leave their lessons from half an hour to 40 minutes sooner, and thus the new schedule will give them additional time for rest and play before tackling their books again at home in the evening. The prime caution is, of course, always to make their tasks as easy as is con- sistent with real success in education. * kX % Santo Domingo Hails New Administration. La Opinion, Santo Domingo.—Action in victory! That is the keynote of the new administration of Gen. Rafael L. Trujillo Molina, and in honor of this esteemed and helpful policy which has been displayed in_the interests of all the people, Senor Don Antonio Estevez, president of the Junta Communal of the Partido Dominicano (Central Com- mittee of the Dominican party), has distributed invitations for a great civic manifestation with which the people of the capital, and, indeed, of the whole republic, express again their gratitude and loyalty to our beloved President. This appreciation will be acknowl- in a series of ceremonies and functions which are to commence during the latter hours of Saturday afternoon. There will be promenades and dancing in ghla costume and masquerade before the presidential palace. The' capital orchestra will dis- course sprightly and mel s strains; the music will be calculated to stir the most dormant, and even the most de- spondent, of our population. If there be any who never sang or danced be- fore, upon it these, too, will be D. C, TUESDAY, M . TRACEWELL. down with a cold, unless he takes the necessary steps to avert it. Riding to work, whether in one's own car or public vehicle, is a habit, and, like all habits, possesses elements of kindliness. feature of a habit. No matter whether good or bad, the doing of it soothes cer- tain paths of conduct. Those who travel downtown in the morning soon come to make of it & period of interest, since there is no es- cape from the fact that if they do not do so it shortly becomes a bore. Once one has built up a certain amount of amusement along this line, he will be quick to comprehend its lack, and should be even quicker to place his finger on the sore spot, in all likelinood the effects of an inciplent cold. x x % x Another unsuspected symptom is the inclination to become irritated over trifles. No other ailment, in the average life, | so builds up mental irritation as the common ccld. “The usually calm-tempered man, the sweet-tempered woman, will be willing to argue, quarrel and even fight when the insidious germs of a cold begin to spread through the system. Often the other side to the argument is not in the least acquainted with this kindly theory, and instantly puts the blame upon the pure “cussedness” of the other, when all the time it is not, he who is responsible, half so much as the unmannerly wight who sneezed into | his face the day before yesterday. He who is willing to feel the pulse of his cold symptoms, nor be afraid of critics, will be keen to detect the first slight ruffiing of his otherwise happy disposition. He must have a happy disposition to ruffie, of course. That is the first es- sential. Then he must be able to note the first signs of its ailing, because these signs are, in all likelihood, the first_manifestations of a cold, which as | yet has not maneaged to show itself out- wardly in red eyes and a dripping nose. A subsymptom of this sympton is this, that then one is inclined to brook no opposite opinions on any subject. This is almost a sure sign with many. | All other signs may fail, but this one seldom. It is a special signal, not applicable to those wonderful souls who never argue, but solely to those persons who normally like to argue a great desl. If they want to dispute everything more than usual—ah, that is the point! Only such a person, of course, can pos- sibly know where his own dividing line is. He will know, however; leave it to him. And if he does, the first step he takes over it should be enough. He is coming down with a cold, and forewarned is forearmed. S The desire to eat heavy foods, on the | part of a person who ordinarily has no craving for them, in particular, is one of the surest of all cold signs. Such a person may feel quite certain, when he is assailed by a desire to eat a big meal of foods usually regarded as | heavy, timat he is marked for three days | in bed unless he is careful. In time one may become such an ex- pert as this type of detection that he is able to pin the thing down to baked sea trout, for instance. Whenever he feels a hankering for sea trout he suspects a cold. It may be waffles; whenever their thick tastiness seems particularly ap- propriate, he hies himself to the medi- cine cabinet, rather than to the kitchen. High Lights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands moved to participate in the gayety, in- spired no less by the rhythm of the music than by the charm and glamour of the whole Venetian setting. We have no hesitancy in making these prognostications, for we have seen some of the festal garb, and we have been privileged to hear the or- chestra at practice. A little later, early in the evening, there will be pantomimes and clowns and puppet shows for the edification of the chil- dren—but not alone, we are sure, the children. Sports and games will be a part of the carnival; all who desire may participate in them. Cakes and sandwiches, mild beverages of various kinds, and congealed custard will afford refreshment, after which the dancing | and the music will continue to as late an hour as the devotees desire. Long hours of joy and happiness are eagerly anticipated and it is only proper that we should be merry in acclaiming and venerating the execu- tive who has won the confidence and affection of us all. Gen. Trujillo has shown himself to be a man who fulfills his promises; one who strives with in. telligence and energy to advance his | country and his people in every werthy fashion, not forgetting tne least of the assurances made prior to his election. ‘This morning President Trujillo, in company with his consort, was present at & solemn mass, held in the parochial church he has so long attended, and prayed for continued sirength and guidance in his important duties. * X X x Vienna Band to Play At World Fair. Neues Wiener Tageblatt, Vienna.— The famous “Deutschmeister Kapelle” (German Bandmasters’ Union), tradi- tionally composed only of Viennese mu- sicians, will give a series of 118 con- certs at the World Fair in Chicago this year. When the mayor of that great American city, Herr Anton Cermak, was here last Summer he invited the par- ticipation of this band in the functions | honoring the completion of a hundred years of progress in Chicago and sub- sequent negotiations have resulted in definite assurance of its services. Several years ago this same band toured South America and won the encompiums of artists and music-lovers in every country visited. There is no question but that the appearance and performance of the Deutschmeister Band in Chicago will prove a most beneficial advertisement for Austria, and particularly for Vienna, already famous for its beautiful waltzes and operatic arias. Blind Wards. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. ‘The “blind pig” and the “blind tiger” will be put under the supervision of the States by the latest Federal prohi- bition order. The animals will continue to be fed by the public. - Financier. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. The great captain of finance was the fellow who happened to have more than 50 cents in his pocket when the bank holiday opened. ) Solid Currency. From the Nashville Banner. ‘The slump is said to have had no appreciable effect in Alaska, where they are, no doubt, fully accustomed to frozed conditions. P —_——— Keep the Cash at Home. Prom the Rockford Register-Republic. ting municipal scrip is one way of o People spend their money at -—— o mkUndecided. om the Oskland Tribune. The Chinese who were going to hold to Jehol to the last man probably have not decided which one he is. R Gilt Edged. Prom the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. It is beginning to dawn on the coun- try that confidence is & gilt-edged in- That is the distinguishing | ARCH 28, 193 NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM M. G. MAN'S MORTALITY. By Michael Ar- len. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. To say that this new novel, in a totally new class, by an entirely | changed Michael Arlen is a “stupend- ous” gesture is putting the case mild- ly. Even the word stupendous shrinks into smalliness and inadequacy as an able definition of the theme and the force and quality of its development in “Man's Mortality.” Scme preparation for what is to come is afforded in a note preceding the story, for it explains the organization and functions of the “Pax Aeronau- tica,” which was born way back in 1935 and had during its more than half a century of operation spread its influence into the furthermost parts of the earth. Thus, the stcry itself covers that period in the world’s hic- '2.43;}") dating between the years 1985 and To attempt to portray the world more than half a century, perhaps a century, from now may seem fantas‘ic. Mr. H. G. Wells says that it is a “big, worthwhile gesture of the imagina- tion.” But is it actually either fantasy or imagination? ‘The foundations for such a world as Mr. Arlen pictures are by no means bullt in sand, and it is| possible that his book, whether he in- | tended it so or not, may serve as a wedge to crack and weaken the corner stone co that the grotesque superstruc- ture may never materialize. During the last quarter of this pres- ent century almost the entire world is part and parcel of Pax Aeronautica, symbol of the great comity of nations, in which, theoretically, peace over all the earth prevails and is supreme. A few small countries remain obstreper- | ous, and Italy and China have failed to fall into line to complete the dream of the founders of Pax Aercnautica, the splendid drezm of peace. Growing | jout of the chaos which trailed for | nearly twenty years in the wake of the Great War, this new world policy dwelt in the hearts of men and gave them courage. What price peace? Peace at any price. Tyranny, aukocracy, @estruc- ton of entire races if need be, but peace at all costs! This is the new world policy—and for the salvation of humanity from war! Theoretically the institution which has brought peace to the world, sctually Pax Aeronautica is the tool of a great aeronautical cor- poration, known as Internaticnal Air- craft & Airways, Inc., a group of international financiers who have arro- | gated to themselves absolute power over all nations. Heartlessly, mercilessly | and diabolically it has bent to its will | nearly every nation and every race | on the face of the gicbe. It has wiped out nationalism ond forbidden it to {Tise again. Wherever resistance has :mlnlrestm itself a “lesson” has been promptly taught—-the complete annihi- lation by an attack from noiseless air- |craft of a well or thickly populated | | section or city of the country, or a | valuable port. International Airways | has sovetized the world, and it brooks no opposition to the autocratic and rapacious power which it has assumed It is an age of unbelievable inven- | tions. ‘There are invisible alrcraft cf many varieties. equipped with silencers, magnetizers which control and direct unerringly projectiles more deadly than | anything which grew out of Germany's campaign of frightfulness in the Great War; sensitizers which locate other travelers in the skies as well as opposi- | tion forces on the ground, and beams of light which kill any living thing touched by their rays. Science, cold and | deadly, is the weapon which teaches a recalcitrant people the lesson of peace on earth. Who dares to rebel> Who knows enough to rebel? International Airways controls the press, and it prints under orders. Only those brave enough | to desert the service of I. A. are in- formed. and as soon as they desert they | }é’cl"(k:l that they are marked for speedy _ This gigantic air corporation is dom- |inated by a Russian woman whose | ruthlessness compares favorably with | the cold-blooded cruelty practiced by the tyrant czars. But one member of the board of directors possesses any | spark of genuine feeling for man as an individual, and he is Julian Crad- | dock, president of Great Britain. Re- signing from the board because he refused to be a party to some of the | plans for breaking the wills of the so- called weaker nations, he devotes him- self to interest in the activities of | young David Knox. inventive genius of the century. Mr. Craddock is a char- acter to enjoy and to love. Who could help developing a deep affection for a | president of Great Britain whose kindly tolerance, sense of humor and homely | applications of common sense, and | whose sensitive, aching feet. seem to be the only evidences of sanity left un- defiled in a world gone mad? The pacifists, communists and | others who are endeavoring to sovietize the universe. to crush out nationalism nd to legisiate into a comity of na- tions peoples of the earth who have no | medium of understanding each other will not like Mr. Arlen’s lesson as it is ' taught in “Man’s Mortality.” It is too big, too powerful to be assimilated by | | those whose comprehension of interna- | tional politics is limited to the belief | that if no more fire engines are built there will be no more fires. Yet the | story is not an argument against | communism, or sovietism, or against | the sincere efforts of thinking groups | for world peace. It is, on the contrary, a compelling argument for | sanity and reason in the delegation | | of power to the end that if and when | the millennium arrives and the splendid | | dream of peace on earth comes true i | will be through the gradual and there- fore complete understanding which | | is attained by laborious application of | intelligence and sanity to world prob- | lems and not through chasing rain- | bows of idealism for pots of gold which do_not exist. There is not & dull page in this stir- | ring romance of nearly a century hence. It moves swiftly and surely | through air battles in which planes | equipped with shining blades cut | through steel and concrete as though such materials were straw. It pictures international intrigues and political sit- uations in vivid and dramatic colors. It relates the romance between David | Knox and Carlotta, his cousin, in a | whirl of motor engines and scientific inventions which befuddle the brain. Through all the madness in the con- test between Airways, Inc., and David Knox for supremacy of power Car- lotta and Mr. Craddock hold the bal- ance of reason and give a promise to humanity. It is a great production, overpower- ing and enthralling in its concept and | dynamic in the force and manner of its telling. What Mr. Arlen has done in the past is eclipsed. “Man’s Mortality” is an achievement which is likely to cause many noteworthy authors to wish they might have been first to conceive and produce so .extraordinary a mas- terpiece of modern literature. ——o— Alcohoi and Music. From the Rochester Times-Union. A Chicago physician says alcohol is full of musical vibrations, phenomena noticed particularly between the hours of 1 and 4 am. ——rets. Another Forgotten Man. From the Dayton Daily News. T ‘The forgotten man is the wal W] used to be remembered after the meal. Reincarnation. Prom the Charleston Evening Post. Adolf Hitler no doubt derives much inspiration from the fact that Napoleon, too, was once an army corporal. ] Hast; From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Milwaukee man who sold eagles at $2.50 each was in too much of & hurry Ito get off the gold standard, | on the continent. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Any reader can get the answer to cny question by writing to our Information Bureau in Washington, D. C. This offer applies strictly to information. The bureau cannot give advice on_legal, medical and financial matters. not attempt to settle domestic troubles or undertake exhaustive research on any subject. Write your question plainly and briefly. Give full name and ad- dress and inclose 3 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Do not use post cards. The reply is sent direct to the inquirer. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Has- kin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. Will walking races be included in the next Olympic games?>—H. N. A. They will probably be included in the Olympic games of 1936. If so, they will be at 50,000 meters. Q How much longer than the Graf Zeppelin will the U. 8. 5. Macon be?— G. D. ‘A. The tendency of modern airship design is in the direction of a& more curved profile, making the ship appear shorter and fatter. The Macon is only 9 feet longer than the Graf Zeppelin, but has nearly twice the gas capacity. Q. Have President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt any brothers and sisters? —F.J. M. A. Both Roosevelt are only children. Q. Can the concerts given at Moun- tain Lake Sanctuary be heard over the radio?>—P. W. Q. A. The carillon recitals at the Moun- tain Lake Sanctuary.will not be broad- cast this season. Q. Will there be Century of Prog- Tess postage stamps?—L. M. A. Postmaster General Farley and other officials have decided that there will be a 1-cent and & 3-cent stamp re- ferred to as the Century of Progress stamps, and it is possible that there may also be a 5-cent stamp. The ques- tiop of the 5-cent stamp is still being considered. It was originally planned to issue these stamps June 1, but on account of the wide publicity given the subject an attempt will be made to get them out earlier. Q. Why was Prof. Salvemini exiled from Italy?—J. R. M. A. He was exiled on account of his anti-Fascist activities. Q. What does Monongahela mean?— 0. C. "A. It is a corruption of the Delaware Indian word “menaungehilla,” mean- ing river with sliding banks. Q. Is the Pantheon de la Guerre painted on canvas or directly on a wall?>—J. M. M. A. It is executed on canvas. It is being exhibited in Washington, D. C., in a temporary building constructed to house it. Q. What musical instrument reaches the highest note?—J. F. A. The piccolo reaches the highest | note of any wind instrument. The violin reaches the highest note of the stringed instruments. Q. Who first divided the Bible into chapters and verss>—R. J. A._For many years the division of the Bible into chapters and verses was attributed to a priest, Lanfranc, Arch- bishop of Canterbury, in the reign of William I of England, about 1085. This is now considered to be erroneous, and the division is attributed to Cardinal Hugo de Sancto-Caro, in 1236. Q. Do nouns ending in “ics” take a singular or plural verb?>—P. H. A. There is a rule to the effect that these nouns are followed by verbs in the sllnml{zr rather than by verbs in the plural. the President and Mrs. | Q.dl;x‘ lll'u'.:m_clrv:unmnm' does a poun eal s weigh more than pound of iron?—N. R. > A In a vacuum a pound of feathers will weigh exactly as much as a pound of iron if the same standards are used. There is an old saying that a pound of feathers is heavier than a pound of iron. This is in a sense true because of the buoyancy of the air. The fol- lowing experiment pictures this fact: Counterbalance in air a hollow sphere | against a small solid sphere. Place the | balance under the receiver of an air pump and exhaust the air. As soon as the air is removed the balance is no longer in equilibrium, the larger sphere then overbalancing the smaller one. Thus bodies which apparently have equal masses in air are found to have different masses in a vacuum. The large Lx;}llxaw[;pherc }C‘Orresponds to the pound eathers: the small s the pound of iron. id ephese o Q. When did the manufacture of artficial ice become of co; - po;tan_}z;:vm e mmercial im. . The manufacture of fce industry was begun as early as 1866, but only reached a degree of commer- clal importance about 1880. The be- ginning was in the Southern States, where natural ice was less available, Q. Can a banker_charge a fee for fislfinEBGO\crnment pension checks?— | ~A. A banker may charge a small fee for cashing a pension check. However, the check will be cashed without charge at the post office. Q. Please give some information about the new Supreme Court Build- ng—J. W. A. The new Supreme Court Build- | ing, the corner stone of which was laid by President Hoover October 13, 1932, |is estimated to cosi $10,000,000 on | completion and it is hoped that it may | be ready for occupancy for the 1934 | term which will convene in October of |that year. The plans were drawn & | Cass Gilbert of New York, and the site |selected by William H. Taft, Chief Justice. The building will be 385 feet |long from east to west and 304 feet | from north to south. Q. In a bull fight, would a cape of | any other color be as effective in at- tracting the bull as a red one?=— |K. S H. | _A. It has been more or less definitely established than any bright color has the same effect on a bull as red. Q. What is the standard size of the cup on a golf gresn?>—R. S. | A. It is 4%, inches in diameter. The edge of the steel rim must be sunk at least three-fourths of an inch below ‘lhe surface of the turf, Q. When are men and women con- sidered bachelors and old maids>—L. S. A. There is no arbitrary rule. In fact, the term “old maid” is no longer in good usage. By the time a man or woman has entered middle life, that is to say, at about 35 or 40 years, the terms “bachelor” and “single woman” begin to be applied. | What are the two bright stars which appear_in the east in the eve- ning?—L. O. D. A. The plancts Mars and Jupiter are now visible in the eastern sky and are the brightest of the stars. Q. How many men were in Winter quarters with Admiral Byrd in the Ant- arctic>—V. V. A. He took with him 60 men all told, of which 42 wintered in the Antarctic. Q. At what age did the iste Anton J. Cermak come to this %untry?— AR ‘A He was born Mey 9. wi3 8l Kladno, Bohemia, and was brougag to this country the next year. Mussolini and MacDonald Raise Hopes of War Delay + While various sections of Europe were rushing in the direction of violent con- flict, Premier MacDonald of Great Eritain and Premier Mussolini of Italy, in the opinion of Americans, met and formulated plans which served at least to turn attention to the poscibility of checking the belligerency that has be- come a cause for fear of another war. It is held gratifying that the British statesman chose the psychological me- ment for going abroad and that Musso- lini stood out as a stabilizing influence. Quoting MacDonald’s statement to Muscolini, “We have no time to waste,” the Oakland Tribune suggests that what | was “more significant than what was said” was the fact that the British leader and Sir John Simon traveled in haste to meet the Italian leader “and that the greeting was so cordial.” That paper adds that the incident may lead to “some of the most vigorous peace effcrts that have been made in years.” The San Antonio Express voices the thcught that “Great Britain and Italy may exert a restraining influence upon Germany” and concludes: “A five-year truce in the armament competition now burdening most European lands would save great sums and help bring lasting peace to the most troubled continent. Some observers consider that the con- versaticns at Rcme opened a better era, in which the Kellogg-Briand anti-war pact will be observed genuinely.” “The world takes its hat off to Pre- mier MacDonald and Dictator Musso- lini” says the Charlotte Observer, “for getting together and avoiding what threatened to become a major disester ‘The Disarmament Conference was about to go on the rocks when these two executives | reached an agreement for a drastic |arms reduction and allowed Germany | the right to an equitable defensive force. It is apparent that the ground | is being broken now for a readjust- ment of the Versailles peace treaty which must be brought about if Europe is to have any continuing peace. The rigid and unreasoning terms of that pact have kept the mind of European statesmen disturbed for the past decade and more, and not until it is revised and there is written into it a fairer spirit and juster provisions will the war clouds lift from the continent.” ““Though he proposes only a five-to-ten year political truce and arms holiday,” says the Cleveland News, “Il Duce hopes to assure peace to Europe for a generation. Such a thing may not be ible. If disputed points are threshed out and all signatories even fairly well satisfied before the agree- ment is signed, it will hold for a time. | If not, the same disturbances that now occur with marked re; ty may be expected. While the four-power pact, which the nations are studying, is re ferred to as an agreement ‘within the scope of the League of Nations,' the new alignment is meant in some re- spects to supersede the League, as Poland has pointed out. The has been lamentably weak in the Japa- nese crisis. Italy and Britain and the Test may have no intention of dabbling in the affairs of the Orient, but they will want those of Europe placed on a more secure is. ‘The remaining moves in the plan to stabilize Europe politically, in advance of the Economic Conference, are to get Germany into line and secure the sanction of Amer- jca. France thus far has approved the proposals only ‘in principle.” The task in Germany admittedly is a heavy o&e. the temper of the people con- sidered.” cy m&emc to call off the Provi- dence Journal. pointing out that “civili- zation is in no ghape for another great conflict,” holds that “intelligent states- men at every capital must put that fact first of all in the diagnosis of the needs of the present day.” The Hart- ford Times feels “it is a hopeful siga that negotiation and friendly contacts atmosphere whick was rapidly beeading atmosp! W] Was Ta] g distrust and fear.” - / Speaking for “an honest desire for peaceful adjustment of the differences now so gravely threatening the con- tinent’s peace,” the New Orleans Times- Picayune offers the judgment: “A five- vear breathing space, with & rest from saber-rattling, verbal warfare and the frenzied incitement of national resent- | ments, jealousies. hatreds and bitter- nesses, “would promote, visibly and | mightily, better feeling, sanity and economic recovery as well. The ‘Mus- solini plan’ appears broad and liberal in its conception and entirely practic- able if there is sufficient statesmanship in the present counsels of European governments to bring about its adop- tion. Unhappilv. doubts &bout e survival of that saving degree of states- manship arise from the very fact that Europe’s rulers have permitted—in some instances have actually en- | couraged snd invited—the drift of | European affairs and relationships into |a condition so critical that its threat of another war is frankly recognized by such able leaders es MacDonald and Mussolini.” | “The Mussolini plan,” in the opinion {of the Louisville Courier-Journal, “not only puts France on the defensive, it |isolates that nation. If France wants peace it must help put Europe on & peace-time footing. If it wants security |it must help recrganize the continent |on the besis of equity and justice in- stead of force. If it would prevent an- |other war it must collaborate with Germany, Great Britain and Italy. As |a rational and lcgical nation, France cannot summarily reject the rational |and logical plan of Mussolini. Its | newspapers may say that it is a case !of sour grapes on the part of the | Italian premier, since Italy was denied | its share of the spoils of war. Its | statesmen, however, must face the facts, and some modific2tion of the unyield- | ihg attitude of the French government toward the status quo may be expected. Intransigeance at this time will spell |almost certain calamity,” | _That the attitudes of both Mac- | Donald and Mussolini are “based upon the Kellogg pact outlawing war” is the | conclusion of the Topeka Daily Capital, |and agreement with this peint of view | is voiced by the Nashville Banner and the Yakima Daily Republic ‘The | Newark Evening News suspects that | “MacDonald offered his plan to shock the delegates at Geneva out of their | trance.” ~ The Columbia (S. C.) State | calls the MacDonald “maneuver bril- | liant and epochal,” while the Cincinnatl | Times-Star avers_that “Mussolini has | the whip hand.” The Fort Worth Star- Telegram believes that “the greatest | peace agency in the world today is the | financial depression.” The Sioux Falls Argus-Leader sees the “European war threat dissipated for the present.” “With Europe in its present mood™ declares the Chicago Daily News, “even a temporary breathing spell s welcome. It is salutary to have Mussolini, at least momentarily, on the side of the peace- makers. Recent Italian maneuvers in Central Europe and on the Yugoslav frontiers have threatened peace, snd Mussolini's belligerency doubtless has stimulated the nationalistic exuberance of Chancellor Hitler. Now Mussolini apparently undertakes to temper the ardor of his Austro-German disciple, while MacDonald tries to persuade Prance and its allies that Germany and the other defeated nations can no longer be held down in the vengeful spirit of the Versailles treaty.” Not Standing on His Righta Prom the Milwaukee Sentinel. A pedestrian may have the right of way, but he usually indicates pretty (ouil“judmem when he doesn't insist on .- Expert. From the Dayton Daily News. It is said the directcr of the National Economy League gets $15,000 a 3 On that salary he should be able to show people how to savé money, |

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