Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1933, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASBHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY......April 13, 1933 | THEODORE W. NOYES... .Ed!tnr! The Evening Star Newspaper Company | Business Oflu:u el N : 110 East 42nd icago Office: Lake M uropean Office: n'ne-:g:"s't'.‘x'gl:da:; | Enxland. te by Evening gy B Carrier Within St ar todays and tomorrows of the season that counts and not one game or one series. The local ball park yesterday was as- suredly no manifestation of depression. The attendance demonstrated enough local affluence, despite all the losses and discouragements and menaces of econ- omy, to fill the higher-priced seats to overflowing, the only vacancies being in the cheapest sections. In this respect, | llkewise. today may tell another tale, |for it is one of the remarkable phe- ...45¢c per month Nemena of the sport that a capacity | indulge himself in so many luxuries; final outcome of all the yesterdays md' THE EVENING { kept finely shorn,” “some pretty tufts 1of fruit trees” “little low hedges,” “wall-flowers which are very delight- ful,” “honeysuckles so they be some- | what afar off,” rosemary, primroses, | anemones, violets, the almond tree, the | yellow daffodil, the daisy, the cowslip, the whitethorn, the lilac tree, straw- | berries, columbine, musk roses, grapes, poppies of all colors, holiyhocks “and | such like.” the constituent elements of “the true pleasure of a garden.” Not STAR, to plead for appreciation of “green grass ! Trying to be as scientific as we could, we wrote here recently on the effect of the ultra-violet rays in sunshine. Among several letters received we rather fancied the following: “In regard to your interesting article—the fact is that the sun means heat and life; cold means death. Very simple, scientists to WASHINGTOXN, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. | every modern amateur is prepared 10 (hc contrary, with all their guesses. To feel the benefit of the warmth of the | sun is sufficient—and we should hear D. C. THURSDAY, | accept statements of fact which they | are neither able to verify or to disprove. | Yet they never once stop to question. At the same time, without doubt, | there are thousands of persons who | pay no _attention whatever to the “latest findings of science,” but go | right ahead leading a life in a curi- { ously wrought universe. That is their | business. | If they prefer to feel that the Evening and Sunday St (when 4 Sundays) The Evening and Suj (when § S 65¢ per month ! crowd on opening day is usually fol- | not every one would care to attempt -60c per month | | lowed by a slim attendance, whatever | such comprehensive garden grandeur. rmth of the sun, rather than the invisible rays of the sun, is what | more about it.” | Perhaps the lady is right, after all. ung The Sunday Sta 5¢ per copy Collection made at the end of each month. Qiders max be sent in by mail oF telephione (Ational 5000, Rate by Mail—Payabk in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 1yr. $6.00: 1mo.. 50 1¥r. $4.00: 1moll 40c All Other States and Canada. ly and Sunday...1yr. £12.00: 1mo.. $100 1av ly . I s . $800: 1mo. 7ic yr. $5.00: 1mo. 50c Member of the Assoclated Press. The Associated Press is exclusivelv entitled 20 the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ited in this paper and also the Joca hed herein. All richts of publicatl, 1 dispatches herein ore also Making Both Ends Meet. The proposal has been discussed be- fore the Senate Subcommittee on Dis triet Appropriations that greater fle the outcome of that initial performance. | There sre some thousands in every | community who go to only one ball | game in a year, and that the first | one, unless the home team establishes litself as a prospective pennant winner, which is the fortune now hoped for in the case of the Nationals. e Monroe Doctrine, 1823-1933. This year marks the one-hundred- and-tenth anniversary of the Monroe coctrine. It was altogether appropriate that in his first presidential utterance on Pan-American affairs Mr. Roosevelt | yesterday, on Pan-American day, should | | define his conception of the dogma | which for more than a century has been the keystone in the arch of the: | United States’ foreign policy. He terms | the Monroe doctrine “a Pan-American ! that is thé unadvertised ideal which bility be permitted in the use of local| gooirine of continental self-defense,” appropriations by applying the savings | ypic; “was aimed and is aimed against that might be made in one line of | the acquisition in any mannr of the work to another and more important | oniyol of additional territory in this actlvity. In this connection, section hemisp by eny non-Ametican 317 of the economy act provides that! o CC ot to exceed twelve per cent of “any | president ere Roosevelt did not stress appropriation for an executive depart- ment or independent establishment, in- cluding the Municipal Government of | the District of Columbia,” may be | transferred to any other appropriation ! under the same department or estab- lishment, provided the Bureau of the | Budget approves and provided that no, appropriation is increased more than | fifteen per cent by such a lransftr.’ ‘This section, amended to prevent | money for public works being used to, retain personnel, is carried in the pres- ent cconomy act. If the provisions of this section were | in some manner broadened to remove the fifteen per cent limitation, it might be helpful in enabling such institutions as the schools and libraries to weather through. In the case of the schools, the millions appropriated as running expenses are divided into more than a score of separate and distinct items of expenditure. Even in normal years there is an unexpended balance of &p- propriations, made up from the savings in these various items of expenditure. If the savings could be transferred in the discretion of the school officials to prevent the threatened collapse of important functions, and the fifteen per cent limitation were removed, the trans- fers might be used to great advantage. Some such expedient may be neces- sary if the totals now carried in the District bill are not increased. But the major task facing the patient Sena- tors laboring over this bill is to restore some semblance of balance to the un- balanced local budget. The local budget is going to remain unbalanced so long as municipal services are severely cur- talled and personnel is discharged or furloughed while money considerably in excess of appropriations is collected from the local taxpayers. Keeping in mind the proposed reduc- tion in real estate taxation, there prom- ises still to remain & comfortable sur- plus of revenues in the general fund. In some cases the amount needed to pre- | the peint, but there is plainly im- piicit in his address the affirmation of | the theory that the Montbe doctrine is nmo longer a unilateral policy ex- clusive to the United States. His de- scription of it as “this Pan-American doctrine is almost tantamcunt to & rechristening of the principle laid dow! by President James Monroe in 1823 The reaction of the sister Americas to Mr. Roosevell's innovation will be ly anticipated in this country. It ctrikes many cbservers north of the io Grande and the Isthmus of Panama as making a wide and statesmanlike | concession to the views often voiced by Latin American statesmen that until the colossus of the north amplified| Monroeism from & unilateral to a multilateral doctrine it could not claim | But each in his own way and in his| own place will feel the same general impulse and® give expression to it to | suit his particular fancy. | Possibly in that thought may lie the | authentic attraction of garden making ! &s it is practiced in the neighborhood of |the Capital—a constructive variation. | Not all gardens should be alike, not all | should follow a single pattern. Each { should have its own charm; its own de- light. Each should make its own con- tribution to the culiivated but natural | beauty of the city. It may well be that flourishes in the mind of each of these Lundreds of husbands and fathers, wives and mothers, sons and daugh- ters, who just now are preoccupied with | the garden game as it is played in suburban Washington. In any event,| whatever their motive, whatever their gcal, they appear to be happy, and that in itself is worth while. —o— iously doubied whether the Congressional Record can be made sufficiently interesting and informing to compensate for a curiailment of funds available for schools and librarics. - ————— A statesman who knows all about banking has to be a fast thinker in order to keep up with the rapid changes in conditions which affect securities and purchasing powers. e e 1t is s The simple theory announced by Hugo Eckener with slight elaboration that the Akron wzs not built to stand the stress of siorm is enlightening, but not in any degree conscling. ———— It is not to be suspected that Post- master General Farley believes that by There is such a thing in this world as studying too hard. One of Washington's most prominent physicians of the old school once ad- mitted to the writer here that he had “cverstudied” in his course at the uni- versity. He said that although no harm seemed to have been done him—and, indeed, his career was a brilliant one—he ever aft- erward noticed a numb feeling in his brain, snd that, in his opinion, his mind had suffered, just to what extent he did not know. EEENE | In the effort to find the truth of phe- stressed their own findings, naturally enough, rather than “play up” the aver- zge impression of the average person. Yet in regard to sunshine, as im- portant as the actinic rays are, one may feel that scarcely enough credit has been given to the infra-red and other types of pure heat rays. The heat is. after all, the big mani- festation, &s far as most persons are concerned. It is the heat of the sun which they feel, and remember, end talk about the most., as every one will be fully aware few months from now. he heat of the sun which wakes tation to a new life in the Spring. The ultra-violet rays may be great, as nomena of all kinds scientists have | counts, that, too, is their business. * k% % Surely the pleasant warmth of these first real Spring days is something to rejoice over. Maybe the world of recent years has gone too much in one direction, that of sun-tan, and not enough toward the goal of pleasant sun warmth. This, too, is worthwhile, in an esti- mation of those blessings with which | the Creator has dowered the world. At certain seasons one may tend to . think the sun heat a bit too much, at | others not quite enough, but from now: on, at least for one or two months or | | thereabouts, most of the inhabitants of | these parts will prefer to believe it just | about perfect. | This attitude of mind (and skin) will depend more than they realize upon the amount of moisture in the air. * X % % | Probably all heated homes have | | shown a hygrometer reading of 35, or | | even less, all Winter long, despite the {use of radiator pans and the like. A small hygrometer, actuated- by the ef- | fect of moisture on a human hair in it, has shown the ccmparative dryness of living quarters, unless they were meistened by automatic devices capable cf throwing relatively large quantities of_water into the air continuously. | _With the lessening of indoor heat at | party in control of the Governmen! may no doubt they are, but just how much | this time of year, barometer readings effect they have on the grass, and the therein have advanced to around 55 trees, and the shrubs, and the peonies, we do not know. Maybe the scientists | could tell us, but the queer thing is that not one scientist in a hundred seems to possess the ability to write plainly what he learns. He is hedged around with the stultification of his own brains. * ok X % In the Springtime the slightest warm- ing of the air in turn tends to warm the earih, and then every little seed Iving so patiently dcrmant there foels the divine stir, as the world of men has chosen to call it, the call to life and growth, Is the life there, or does the growth make the life? Perhaps it makes no difference; life is a mystery, any way one chooses to look at it, or attempt to | look at, for, truly, man’s looks at life | are not very precise, despite the thou- | sands of years of investigation. | It is interesting to speculate what would have been the result, by this time, | cutting post office wages he can ease the pressure of applicants for positions. ——— When the base ball bulletins an- | peints, which is about perfect with a | temperature of 74 to 76 degrees by the thermometer. It is our belief (which is not at all scientific, but merely a matter of commonsense observation) that mankind is happiest when the out- door thermometer naturally stands at 80 degrees and the hygrometer at | point 55. EIE | 1t we were to believe some of the | scientific pronouncements, no ultra- | violet rays can get through ordinary window glass, yet it is a matter of com- | mon knowledge that plants placed in a | cool room, where they get plenty of sun | "F‘Clrm’less manage to grow and bloom nicely. Aquarfum owners whose tanks may not be made of so-called ultra-violet- ray-admitting glass nevertheless find that, under the influence of the sun- shine coming through ordinary window giass, thelr aquatic plants grow and | in this emergency. | gress to reccive their share of patron- | the complete or enthusiastic devotion | nounce that Spring hes positively ar- {of the twenty other Americas. | rived the weather reports make no President Roosevelt properly re- | difference whatever. minded the Latin American company | B to which he addressed himself that if | Hoarded gold as a frozen asset will the independence of all the American naturally be considered associated with republics is safeguarded by the Monroe | slippery transactions. Doctrine, it is mot te be forgotten that et each of them “must recognize the in- | SHOOTING STARS. dependence of every other republic.” | | The President did not take refuge in | platitudes, for from that assertion he thrust boldly at existing rifts in the When Every One Gets Wise. Pan-American lute. He is “disturbed” We gain cducation in every class. by “any armed strife between neigh-| The dunce cap is laid on the shelf. bors” and does “not hesitate to say Each lad and each lass Is entitled to | that I regard existing conflicts between | pass four of our sister republics as a bcck-% In learning that shows for itself. i ward step.” |Oh, what will become of the demagog ‘There is no threat of a rebirth of the shout Rooseveltian big stick in this declara-| Which once so successfully ruled tion, but it is no less & forceful remon- | When the world must admit, upon look- | strance against such violations of Pan- | ing about, That there’s nobody left to be fooled. | American fraternity as Bolivia and | Paraguay, on the one hand, and Peru ! £ r | and Calombis, an the other, have for | OF SCNeFal knowledge s growing so| many months been committing. As| ¢ were geiting well out of the| woods. long as a fifth of the republics com- | prehended in-Pan America are engaged | o jesting or song will prevent us at last From inquiring, “Have you got the | BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. L if tke genuine scientific wav of locking at the werld and life had prevailed over trlm centuries in the mazses of the peo- ple. In every age. almost since the” very beginning of man as we know him, there must have been at least a few men who wanted to know so furijusly thal they let nothing at all stand in their way. They were never many, however, and they had a battle to fight, a continuing which is still waged cn many . This conflict may be called in- human, in a sence, since it secks the truth regardless of humanity. Fx ok Several years ago an enterprising g-ntleman wrote tn intevesting book pointing out th: ange and almost fer- vid faith which many persons of today have in_the scientists and their discov- cries. People of all types and classes High Lights on the Wide World send up cxygen. | These well-known facts might be in- stanced as showing that it is the heat, | after all, which does the work, but we |do not know whether that would be |true. It may be that a certain small amount of the ultra-violet rays, of cer- | tain lengths, do manage to get through }omm-ry glass after all, and that this mall amount does achieve great results in_little. ‘Whichever way it is, those who do not want to bother with science, because | they have the supreme common sense to know that they do not know anything | about it after all, will find that the | warmth of the sun, in these days. is a beuediction to body, mind and spirit. It is no wonder that certaln peoplas worshiped the sun and that mil'ions of persons still worship it, in a different sense. And, whether it is rays or heat, it is all the sun. Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands A OPINION, Santo Domingo.—In cur honorable chamber of com- merce, Senor Raul Carbucca Abreau, in a spirit of progress and enthusiasm, has just made the proposal before a commitiee of vent actual hardship and disruption of essential community service is relatively | CIalms s the bedrock of Monroeism, is #0 small that additional amounts could | More honored in the breach than in be allowed without materially changlug‘“" observonce. The Americas bulld | when the world has been patiently | ©F the total appropriations under the bill, |OR sands, in their quest for common | Making these additions will not affect \ welfare, while four of them eschew the | the Federal budget, nor interfere with PAthS of amity and arbitration for the | the President’s proposed national econ- | flelds of armed strife. ! dmy program. | Flexibility in the use of appropriations | will be a decided advantage in meeting the emergencies to be faced in the nex! fiscal year. But flexibility in use of ap- propriations alone will not restore bal- ance to the unbalanced local budget. ———re———— The program of discussion . in fratricidal war, the spirit of neigh- borliness, 'Which President Roosevelt ac- | goods?™ | Oh, what will become of the salesman refined schooied Till every one shows & superior mind And there’s nobody left to be fooled? Selective Centroversial Method. | officers belonging to this icstitution | that lzssons in agriculture be ccmmuni- icated by radio to ell the farmers in the icntal district of the republic. As in other sciencas and industries, l£o in agriculture, new idoas sie con- |stantly being formulatod, and new dis- coveries made. Unfortunately, most of our people engaged in agricultural pur- |suits ncver hear of improvemenis to board visible both to the recipient and the dispenser of the expected services, making appear in red letters the timely assurance, “Shaffner kommt” (“The porter is coming!”). Thus the impor- tunate traveler is immediately soothed and his confidence In _mechanical con- trivances restored. The light also fa- cilitates for the attendant the speedy finding of the proper person, without disturbing haif a doeen others who re- quire not his attentions. A further benefaction is a fresh rub- ber bed-mat to stcp out on for every patron of the road, a triumph of hy- giene in 100-kilometer tempo. men- | The suggestion by G. Bernard Shaw that America sheuld feel repaid for war losses by the credit for changes in Europeen governments might prompt | & feeling that Uncle Sam should be ‘permu.led o cherge extra for so extra- ordinary a benefit. On the other hand, if irony is intended, the inference would “You debate fearlessly on finaifclal | questions.” | “Any time,” answered Senator Sor- | ghum “But I take care to selcct my | antagonist. It is always le to find | somebody who know about the | subject than I d be mad: in their methods and utilities until long after they have been placed «i a disadvantage bcause of the prev- elence of these betterments in other regions. These rural dwellers are littie inclined to read pamphl=ts on sclentiiic farming published by the government, and are still less inclinid to go long distances to listen to long lectures on the subject, but if they were abl>, sit- ting in their own homes, aftsr the * ¥ * ® Siam Halts Drive On Tax Delinquents. Bangkok Defly Mail.—The police campaign of rounding up poll tax de- linquents in Bangkok was halted ab- rupily at noon yesterday when it was found that after only one day and & half more delinquents had been taken into custody than the government can tloned by Secretary of State Hull indi- | b* that it would serve him right to be cates a hesitation about trying to set- | tle all the great prcblems of the world ‘@t the same time. B | Some of the microphone artisis who were compelled to remain silent wish | that G. Bernard Shaw would come to | the platform oftener and not stay so | long. e | Off to a Good Start. | ‘While a single victory is very far from constituting pennant winning, the Initial performance of the 1coiganized Wash- | ington team yesterday, in the first | game of the season, appropriately opened | by the President of the United Siates, himself recently inaugurated, is greatly heartening to loy:l local devotees of the sport. Playing on a soggy field, with a| ehill air prevailing, in thc precence of & | muititude of nearly 25,000, the Nationals under their new lcader demonstrated kil aficld and prowe:s at the bat that betoken & promising bid for champioa- | ship honors. The “boy menager,” far | from being overwhelmed by his new re- | sponsibilities, proved to be the siar per- former, with faultless ficlding and weli- nigh per batting for the His | lvely spixit infused his fellows with de- termination to win. The newcomers on | the team justified their s. ion by their contributions of oiiense and de- fense. An old-timer, returned after a vacation in the West, gave evidence of his joy at rest ion to the local lot Snappy double plays nipped alien rallies | in the bud. It was s good base bl game from eny poini of view, and an especially good cne frem the Washing- ton standpoint. Having won two pennants and one world champlonship, the Washinzton team is now in the maiket for fur- ther henors. It has boen 1M plenished with taleat, both ascured promising. It is, by the common judg- ment of competent crities, ad d to be a flag contender. S. ace quite generally grented to it, “on form. Yesterday it beat the club that nosed it out of that position last scason, but it wes a depleted Fhilagelp! that thus succumbad most formideble hilters of this season’s enrollment and also the astute veteran manager, who put too much trust in the early weather reports and remained @t home. Today may tell a different etory. Indeed, in base ball it i) penalized, —————— There perhaps never & time when efor(s to ge. the machinery of | government g smoothly were not | more or lecs emb: by conscious- ness that the gentleman with the monkey wrench was standing by as usual. 5 S As a national sport base is bet- ter than the sedentary crose-word | puzzle. The element of physical action | hes valuible stimulation. The fact that the Chinese held the world’s mah jong championship Las availed them nothing. ————— Garden-Making Time. It i« garden-making time in the viciuity of Washington. Men, womey and children are answering the call of tie Spring, and bickyards and front lawns are profiting by their enthusiastic {labors with rpade and hoe. Nurseries and scedsmen arc doing a good busi- ness, with their cfiices and stores cronded with cuclomers. In the lat afternoon the sigus of the times are manifested by the bundles of clese- wrapped shrubs, polted plants and oc- casional rakes and lawn mowers which | homeward-bound office workers carry aboard suburban street cars or fasten along the running boards or over the backs of automobilcs. Even the Pub- lic Library and the bookshops fecl the reaction—people are asking for books | of garden lore. And all of this is, of course, as it should be. Fiancls Bacon, Shakes- | peare's contemipo.ary, summed up the ! philosophy of the cubject when he said: God Almighty first planted a parden. d, indeed, it is the purest ¢i human atest refresh- pirits of man; without ¢s end palaces are but and a man shall ages grow 1o civility | and elegancy. men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely: as if gardening were the greater perfection. | Tree, the cuthor had a lord chan- ‘cclior’s conecption of what a garden | Ang hat w agaregation | should b-—with “a royal o.dering” of | Will g one of its | flowes for oll the months in the yoar | over an arca of not less than thirty acres of “a greon in the entrance; a heath or desert in the going forth: and the main garden in the midst; besides alieys on both sides.” But disregarding is the such extravagance, he was well advised at the Jud Tunkins says he's not saying enything today for fear of being classed | with a whole lot of people who take! their own remarks 0o reiously. When the Joke Comces. Al criminals are rather queer, Though few are very funny Till psychoanalysts draw ncar And testify for money- ! Co-ordinated Purposes. “Are you going to have a new gown | for Eister? “Certainly,” answered Miss Cayenne. “I have an idca that T sm more likely | to do my best in life by trying alvays to look my best.” | *To break a promise is easy,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinctown, “but it may | injure your credit, even to the extent 1 of destroying your faith in yourself.” "{x'bms Those Ineviiable Interrupticns. When you would do the bett you can, Frepared to labor hard, To b:nefit your fellow men Or dig in your own yard Your good intentions ceem to flop. Your hopes geows cold as ice. Some one Is sure to make you stop. And listen to advice, “It’s specially hard,” said Uncle Eben, “to find work foh anybody who don't feel qualified to be anything ‘ceppin’ de boss R 'Who Can Find This | To the Ed.tor of The Star. Some 8 or 10 years agd there was printed i The Star & poci in the na- ture of & companion piece 1o “Cascy at the Eet,” o often recited by Le Wolf i . 1t was a vindication of the al Casey who had so ignomini- iled &t & eritical time in the base me the Mudville nine was play- 1 a copy of it, but have lost it, and wish to get another, but am un- | sble to find one, or even to identity the | fsue of Thne Slar in which it appcared. I now writ: to ask if anv of the reads: of 'The Star can aid me in my search it or supply me with a copy. I will #tly appreciat> any information that 1 assist me in recovering my treasure. ROBERT E. MATTINGLY. ot R R ! The Pilot. | Prom the Lowell Evening Leader. The Democrats in Washingion have a new Steering Committee. it at last account President Roosevelt was I ball g - * Poem About *“Casey™?! | labors of the day are over, to hear buief discussicns, accompanied Wwith music. telling th how they can derive creatcr pooduction sna profits from their land and eitoris, most of them undoubledly would listen attentively to the instructions atd edvice. | Senor Raul Curbuccia does not ove loo: the fact that as yet few iarmers |ire” fo-lunate enough lo have instru- meatl; for sadio recoption. Untll this equipment is meore general, he sug- gests that & special broadeasting station be blished in this city with recep- 10 tural centers, Planters cnd farmers from the contiguou: districts could thus | have opportunily to gssemble nesr the'r homes =nd obtain the bancfits of the jatest discoveries in Ggrarion pursu.ts hich the corstant pregress i this | ficld of cndeavor has brougat forth in |the great farming countries of the jworld. €ince egriculture is the very | Lasis of our natlonal life, it is appro- priaie that our rural industria'ist: be- come speedily as proficient in their as is possible within the lmi- of our small country. With the rictions imposed both as to our ‘tory and our means, it is necessary t resort promptly to intersified loitation of our every resource. We that the honorable chamber of ommeres will view with faver the idea ugaested by Senor Raul Carbusciar | LR | English Ax-Blade Inierests Ausiratian, The Bulletin, Sydney.—Timber cut- ters will hear with intirest cf the ar- rival of an English ax-blade designed and constructed in Sheflield for use on Australian timber. So far practically all « have besn imported from America or | Sweden; English marufacturers up till turn out an article to compete with (hese. The new Sheffield blade is re- ported to be the result of two years' bid for the Australion market. * X K K Improvements Make Reich Travel Easier. Berliner _Tagcblait.—Sleeping cars, those traveling hotel:, have for a long time hac many of their comforts end conveniences exaggerated. But con- tinual improvement the trend in nearly eviry practicality today, and now th> passenger finds readily ac- cessibie to his hand, even when he is 4, a puchbution which both rings a 1 and flashes a number in the quariers of the sieward. Not that such were irely unknown in the were not of such dou- . nor of such infallible ion that cn» always knew whether | his signal had boen reccived, and his | needs administered. Now the “Schefin>r” can arl | ring a bell in the compartment of the passenger to let him know that his still | summons has been heard. The same electrical communication illumines a in all the more fmportan: agiicul- | used by Australian choppers | lately seem to have made no effoit to | experiment, and represents an eainest | provide work for at the present time. Further crrests will thus be post- poned until next month or until the men arrested this wesk have worked out their tax payments and are re- leased. On the first day, incorplete figures made public this morning showed, more than 650 tax delinquents—men ungble to pay the annual head tax— had been rounded up by the police. Before noon yesierday another 200 had bzen taken into custody, when the order went out that no more delinquents | could be taken care of for the present and the campaign was then abruptly ended. Police say that in many cases the tax delinquents sought out the police, raither then vice versa, the men evi- dently welcoming the opportunity to work for two weeks—the period re- quired to meke up the unpaid tax. During this period they are given food of a sort and in some cases sheds are made available for them to sleep in. The delinquents arrested in the brief campaign will be employed on various public works. vt When Banks Were Closed. Trom the Portland Oregon Daily Journal. When E. C. Argo, former president of the First Netionel Bank &t Cottonplant, Ark., arrived in New York City during the bank holidays he was unable to cash a $100 Government check. Without money, he applied at the municipal | 1odging house for shelter. “The policemen who directed me were friendly,” he related; “the culinary de- p:riment was clean, and my cot had two clean sheets and & clean pillow. I was particularly impressed by the spirit | of cordiality. I got a large bowl o(" wholesome clam chowder, and the man | who give me the bread :ald, ‘Take ail | you want, buddy.’ I was only one of 5,000 taken in that night at the cily stations.” Mr. Argo, now a Federal income ac- | countant, cashed his check the next day at the post office The incident has a meining, and it's 2 big meaning. For one thing, it means | that, until there is a bank holiday, we | don't realize what the banks do for us. | That blank check, for instance, that the banks furnish us is & mighty conven- fence. We scribble a few words on it, sign our name to it, and the storekeeper hends us the !htnfia we call for end smiles a golden smile as we hand him | the check. It is but one of a lot of services the | bank renders us. We didn't realize | | | what these services amount to in our | greal lives until the banks all closed. They guard our gold, they make the transiction of our business almost a pactime and watch over us in many ways, as Mr. Argo of Arkansas dis- | covered when, becauss no New York | bank was open to cash his $100 check, |he had to go to the fres municipal (lodging house. 5 1 N APRIL 13, 1938. The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. Democratic insurgency in the Senate and in the House has raised its head. ‘The Roosevelt leadership has been chal- lenged. Senator Smith of South Caro- lina, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, started the ball rolling in the Upper House, and Senator Huey Long of Louisiand pushed it along. So far this insurgent spirit has not been vocalized by other Democrats on the floor of the Senate, although & number of the Democratic Senators laughed and chuckled as Senator Long ridi- culed the reforestation act, which he called the sapling bill. There have | been rumblings, however, and an indi- | cation that several other Democratic Senators were becoming restive. Over on the House side of the Capitol yester- day & new member from California | who was elected in the Democratic | landslide last November, John H. Hoep- | pel, castigated the whole Roosevelt legislative program that has come be- fore the House up to date, saying that “there has not been one constructive measure, except perhaps the beer bill, | which has been put through this ses- | sion of Congress.” He centinued even more bitterly: “‘The New Deal,’ in my | opinion, is taking on the character of a | raw deal, the most peculiar deal which | has ever been handed to the American | people.” Like Senator Long, Mr. Hoep- | pel took the view that Wall Street was | having too much to do with the admin- | istration's program. | *x k % Sporadic cases of in.sur:r.:?y iQ_any be expected. And so far the Democratic insurgency has been just that. The President still has practically absolute ccntrol and the party leaders on Capitol Hill are following his lead. Should the Democratic party in Congress become really divided and unwiliing to go along with the administration, the situation would be indeed chaotic. During the last two years of the Hoover adminis. tration, and even before that, the Re- publican insurgency in the Senate caused delay and defeat of the proposals of the administration. Delay and defeat of President Roosevelt’s program is not what the people are loollnqgr today. They want something done. eir hope is centered, not in Democratic insur- gents, but in the White House. In- surgents, whether they are actuated by principle or by politics, will make no particular hit with the American people ok ok X A lot has been said and written about the failure of the Democrats in Con- | age—of Federal pap, appointments for their friends and supporters to Federal office. It has been said that the Presi- dent is deliberately withholding this patronage until he has been able to get the measures he desires enacted by the ss. Probably no President who has come into the White House in re- cent years has ever been so pressed by problems of huge public interest as President Roos2velt. Other Presidents have not had the Congress on their hands at the very outset of their ad- ministrations. They have had time to give to the consideration of filling offices and more offices. President Roosevelt | has had no time to do anything but work on the problems which have con- fronted him. It the appointments to public cffice have lagged, there is a good reeson for it even beyond the supposed reason that the President was holding a big stick over the Senators and Rep- | 1esentatives. EE ‘There is a bigger stick than patronage which the Presiuent holds toaay. That is the favorable sentiment of the Ameri- can peaple. If he can retain that faver bhe aces not have to worry about jobs for the polliicians, The members of Congress must pay attention to public cpinion, Indeed, it is one of the things that they pay most attention fo. Fi quently they mistake the demands- mainly selish—of minority groups for public opinion, The President has trod on the ioes of some of these mi ity groups already since he came into office, while members of Congress have &t his temegity. They have done all they could to let him take the blame for these acts, and to avold responsibility themselves, It is quite true that mem- bers of the these minority groups are 1l do all in of Congress— in the past—to attack his program. L use the President a plece of legislation does not of make that piece of tion el wise or advantzgeous to the However, the President has been el Chief Executive by the people with the idea in the minds of the pcople that he is to take the leadership in meeting the giave problems of the day- all of them. He is taking that leader £hip. He has the advice of whom he has Up &ruznt time his progral rgely deflationsry, in an effort reduce the expenses of the Government. rrom the present time forward, program must look to putting men and women back to work. This cannot al e done by the Government. The great trouble with the world today is nob too much production, but tco liitle c.n- sumption. The efforts to coatract pro- duction have led to less and less power of consumption on the part of ihc le. If a plan could be devised td ng aboui “mass consumption” the blem of mass production would no mnr exist. It is a tough nut to crack. But it certainly looks as though there must be in some way a greater distri- bution of the profits of production or of the uction jtseif to the workers. It is idle, for example, to say that there are to many shoes produced when there are miliions who have not a wholc pair of shocs to their feet. The difficulty lies in tne distribution. * ok ok x ‘The President has cut Government expenditures, or will scon do so, by about a billion dollars, one-quarter or more of the entire outlay. This means reduced buying power and thousands more people out of wcrk. There must | be a swing to the other side. Some- | thing must be dore to increase the buying wer and increased employ- ment. ‘esterday the President sent telegrams to the Governors of 13 In- dustrial States urging that they give attenticn to the minimum wage law recently enacted in New York State and ruggesting that similar laws in the other States would be advisable, 50 as to check unsound reductions in wages. This is & ne wtrack. For hitherto the administration has cut pay of Government workers right and left. If the industrial concerns throughout the country follow the lead of the Gov- ernment in this matter, it is clear that | the buying power of the ple is to be still further reduced. Unless that tend- ency is corrected, there can be little chance of recovery. It does not follow | that the wage scales must be fixed. But when production is increased in- creased consumption should be made | le by a flexible and increasing | ribution to the workers and pro- | aucers. Just The New Money. From the Fort Worth Star-Telesram, United Siates engravers complain that (he new mcney is not ariistic. ‘That’s its democratic charm. We love it for its homely, rugged, unsophisti- | cated personality. r—————— Footprints and Fingerprints. From the Loulsville Courler-Journal. In former times youth was admon- ished to follow the footprints of the t, but that was before - print method of identification was dis- covered. RS RS One Sure “Saving.” From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. on ing s That it It never the troubles of & lused are Board of Trade, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. The answers to questions printed here each day are specimens glcked from a mass of inquiries handled by our great Information Bureau maintained in Wi , D. C. This valuable service is for the free use of the public. Ask any question of fact you may want G. N to know and you will get an immediate reply. Write plainly and inclose three cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Do not use post-cards. Ad- | dress The lvepm‘ Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Dlrecwr“ Washington, D. C. . What orchestras were selected by the Music Corporation of America for its All-American Orchestras for 1932?— A. The Whiteman, Lombardo, Bernie, Olsen, Vallee, King, Denny, Lopez, Ly- man, and ArnHeim orchestras were chosen. Q. What banks must be members the Federal Reserve System?—L.A. A. A National bank must be a mem- | ber. A State bank may be. Q Why are some beaches hard enough to drive a car on, while some are 5o soft that walking is difficult?— of | B. . R. A. It is due to the shape of the grains of sand. When they are round, the sand is soft, when they are sharp- cornered they pack and make & harder surface. | Q. When were hermetically-sealed ;:MB first used in the United States?— | | A. They were introduced and the in- dustry established in 1920. Q. How much weight does an Ameri- (:x(zl sx;‘ldler carry when fully equipped? A. When a soldier carries a rifle, ammunition and full equipmen! the weight carried is 65.51 pounds. When he carries a rifle, an automatic pistol, mmunition and full equipment he | carries 78.85 pounds, and when a pistol, | ammunition, and fuii equipmeni are carried the weight is 52.07 pounds. ‘What minerals are more valuable gld?—s. D. 8. rylllum, platinum, radium, palladium, osmium, iridium and vana- dium. Q than A. Q. Do all cities have chambers of commerce?—C. T. A. Not all, but most cities have some sort of organization comparable witl a chamber of commerce. Other names Business Men's Ascociation, Board of Commerce. Association of Commerce, Commercial Club and Merchants’ Association. is Q What meant by “dying a natural death”?—S. E. A. Death from a disease is consid- ered a natural death. Accidental and violent deaths are not natural. Q. When will the addition to the| Library of Congress be completed?— T. C. ‘ATt is scheduled to be completed August 27, 1933 Q. What is meant b cent co-insurance clause”?—L. H. A. It refers to property coverege for fire insurance. That is, the policyholder must carry insurance totaling 80 -per cent of the appraised value of his prop- erty in order to get full loss benefits. Q. Of whit kind of cheese is pimiento cheese made?—J. M. y A. Pimiento cheese is any kind of chesse to which pimiento or Spanish e 80 per L. H | peppers have been added. the most com- | ticall { mon type cf cheese being Neufchatel or Haw cream: pimientos are sometimes added to club cheese or cottage cheese, and | occasionally to hard Cheddar cheese. | Q. When was Senator McAdoo & member of a President's cabinet?— A. He was a ted Secretary of | the Treasury in 1913 and served until late in 1918, Q. Are living creatures -found at great depths in the ocean?—B. P. A. Since all depths which have been explored contain living creatures, it is deduced that the waters are everywhere inhabited. Such faunas are adapted to the locality in which they are found. Q. When did Eugene V, Debs die? —S. L. H. A. He died October 20, 1926, just be< fore his seventy-first birthday. Q. Who discovered the Sargasso Sea’—A. B. A. Christopher Columbus encountered it. His ships were entangled in the weeds for two weeks. Q. What is meant by a trial bal- ance?—N. 8. E. A A trial balance is the testing of a ledger to discover Whether the debits and credits balance by finding whether the sum of the 'sonal credits in- creased by the difference beétween the debit and credit sums in the merchan- dise and impersonal accounts equals the sum of personal debits. The equality would not show that the items were all cerrectly posted. Q. When were the fortifications of Quebec begun?—A. L. A. Quebec has bcen fortified from the earliest times, the first structures being built by the French. In 1783 a temporary cit:del was begun and the | remains of these works, still visible, are crroneously referred to in some guide bocks as of French origin. In 1823 the British government undertook a com=- prehensive scheme of defense, the main F&;Ls of which are in excellent repair ay. Q. In poker are the chances of im- | proving a hand changed by the number of players in the game?—F. L. A. The chances of improving a hand |Temain the same irrespective of the | number of &uyem. The relative value |of the hands decreases as the number of players increases. Q. What horse holds the record for % mile, ¢ mile?>—J. A, H. A. Bob Wade holds the record for |} mile, August 20, 1890, at Butte, ‘Mum.. time 21Y, seconds. Donay holds | the lo-mile record, March 30, 1909, Los ‘ Angeles, time 46 | Q. Does Pennsylyania pump enough | oil from its own soil to supply the n | of that State?—J. G. 8. | A. It does not. Pennsylvania prob- | ably produces about one-fifth of its re~ | quirement. Q. What does Finland collect through | its state-operated liquor monopoly and | how would the same system affect the | United States?—H. D. A. Figures for the most recent nine- | month period show collections of $2,- | 560,000. The ratio of Finland’s popula- | tion to that of the United States is such | that ‘the same amount ognl:eunnm would produce $80,000,000 in same period here. A Q. How far toward the Hawafian Is- lands do the Japanese mandated 1>~ lands extend?—Q. T. | _A. While they are mere dots upon tae | Pacific Ocean, these islands begin prac- at_the western limit of th¢ n Is'ands. 4 seconds. Akron Crash Loss Mea,sur-ed& In Terms of Those Who Diec The country, stunned by the destruc- tion of the Akron, echoes the words of | “Ships can be re- | build President Roosevelt laced, but the Nation can ill aford to such men as Rear Admiral William A. Moff:tt and his shipmates, who died to the end the finest of the United States Navy.” ters on the heroism of offi- honor duye those who died, the length and caliber of the cas- ualty list resulting from the greatest disaster | the Port Huron Times-Herald, “ques- tionable whether the United States will any more craft of this sort aft the Macon, sister craft of the Akron, launched. e Topeka Deily Capital, however, i§ of the opinion that “the remarkable perfermance of German Zeppelins under a variety of condi- tions entitle the lighter-than-air ships to favor.”” The Newark Evening News in aviation’s history, and the | disast question of the usefulness or practica- Nlltg of these glant ships of the zir. ; Nation’s first and profoundest feeling in the Akron disaster is sorrow for the loss of heroic rons. * * * The lives of such officers and of the gallant crew are above all price” Thus does the Atlanta Journal express the unive men who went to their death in it, to call them fools.” The Toledo Blade like- wise believes that the United States |should “carry on,” and the Salt Lake | Deseret News is convinced that “this creature of man will * * * continue to grace the airways of the world.” The Ym Island Argus, however, thinks we sal sontiment. Says the Altoona Mir ror: “The most appalling feature of the loss of the Akron is the untimely snuffing out of the lives of the men of fine type who were aboard the craft. ‘The most notable of those was Recr Ad- miral Willlam A. Moffett. He was one of the really big men of the United States Navy.” The Fort Worth Star- Telegram declares that “some valuable human beings went into eternity wien should make an end of building these “serial monsters.” ‘The Ashland Daily Independent re- marks that “on the face of things it appears that the only nation able to master such ships is Germany.” “San Francisco,” declares the Chroa- {icle of that city “feels a personal loss |in Admiral Moffett. He was a very |good friend of this city, and a stanch one. We had learned to admire and to the lightning sneered at the man-made thing which had the temerity to invace its realm.” ‘The Providence Journal is impressed by the bratery of the men on the doomed eitship. who “knew, before the great craft struck the water, what In all probability was about to befall them yet there was no confusion, no desper- ate struggle, no show of cowardice.” In similar vein, the Springfield (Mass.) Daily Republican reports, “In the heart of the wildest storm the oficers and men of the United States Navy upheld its finest traditlons.” This faci al=o appeals to the Milwauke Sentinel and the Omaha World-Herald. “Particularly lamentable,” is the way the Charleston (8. C.) Evening Post describss the fate of Admiral Moffett. “He had such pride in this great ves- sel, for which he had contended,” records the Post. “That it should have betrayed him and almost in the last of his brilliant career as chief of the naval Air Service chould have crushed him in death is poignant drama.” By his death the Buffalo News feels that “the Navy has lost one of its finest officers.” T Columbia (8. C.) Btate calls him * devoted, 1! capeble officer, a high-minded, clean-hearied and gal- lant gentleman.” The Asbury Park Evening Press voices the hopz that “from the tragedy that overtook the Akron's crew some- thing will be learned whereby the lives of their succezsors in airship transpor- tation may be saved.” The same thought impresses the Akron Beacon Journal, which expresses a peculiar community grief at the loss of the dirigible named in that city's honor. “The Macon, sister ship to the Akron, is soon to emerge from its dock,” says the Beacon Journal. “Its command and crew should have the benefit of the expert knowledge derived from the naval court’s inquiry and all the pro- tective measures which it suggests. Lel's take no more blind chances on the loss of precious live:.” In considering whether, as the New Castle (Pa.) News expresses it, “there is increasingly great b. that na- tional experimentation with the gigantic dirigible type of craft is justifiable.” the Connelisville Courier reminds us that | “the ‘early history of railrocding was marked by frequent loss of life.” The New York Sun, on the other hand, holds that the analegy is not a close one, on the grounds that “the sacri- fice of human life for the development of a useful acquisition of the race may be dfended, but what the advocates of the dirigible have to defend is the sacrifice of human lives, almost in- variably upon a large soale, for the development of something whoce use- fulness either in peace or war is far from demonstrable.” “The tremendous cost in men and l:nl;meg and the growing conviciion that . thing about daylight sav- | money’ dissipated |love the admirel and to respect his | wholehearted devotion to the ceuze of | Fghter-then-eir aviation in the Navy. A good sailor, a trusty friend, a fine gentleman and a patriotic Americen, |his loss is a blow. Th2 country was | cxceedingly proud of the Akron. It | wes American built, like the Shenan- |doah, We are proud likewise of the Los Argeles. But neithsr the Los An- | geles, nor yet the ill-fatad ZR2. which was destroyed over England before we had even brouzht it home, was built |in this ccuntry. The Akron was entire- |1v and completely our own. It jars us | to have this go as the Shenandoah did |end the ZR2. Still. we recognize that these huge eir adjuncts of the Navy are experiments.” ey | More Power to Them. | Prom the Baltimore Sun. | " Overburdened taxpayers will be highly | pleased if the American Legion carries out the advice proffered by its national ccmmander, in answer to the applica- ‘ticn of the economy ax to the pension | eystem. This advice is that, since the | veterans have been compelled to “iake the rap,” they beccme zealous waich dogs o the Treasury and see that “cvery dollar spent in eny Government eciivily goes farther, and dos mere than zny | dollar ever did before.” | A letter contaihing this admo | has gone to 10,000 posts. | creat2 a corps of vigi'ant obse-ters 1a every congressional distriet and in ¢ ‘ery community. Their business sha!l be w0 | condemn unnecessary outlay of pub’ic | money, to urge elimination of u-e.css activities and to endeavor to apply tie same drastic economies in all govern- | mental agencies that the veterans have been forced to accept. It would be a welcome but unexpected sequel of the President’s course if, as a | result of the $400,000,000 cut in allow- ances to veterans, this large body of citi- | zens should support every movement | that sought to reduce the taxpayers' | burdens. If Senators and Representa- | tives, who fearedl to touch the pension {rolls because of the veterans’ power, | could be brought to fear equally thewr disapproval of extravagence in all de- partments, one of the gregtest obstacles | to the program of economy would ‘be | eliminated. e | Chicago School Strike. | Prom the Springfield, Mass., Daily Republican. The Chicego high school teachers have not ventured to strike for thelr | unpaid sclaries, but ‘14,000 of their pu- pils did the job for them, fe¢ling that they had ‘“nothing to lose but their chains”; and, besides, it was a fine Spring dey. % . ——— Satisfied Solvers, Prom the Milwaukee Sentincl. Any one of 21l the nations cpuld solve the world's troubles—to its own sati-