Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1933, Page 8

APRIL 14 1933, ; Rk THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAYE THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Moerning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C FRIDAY.........April 14, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 1ith_8t. and New York Office: 110 Guicass Ofice: Lake Michigan Building. an Office: 14 Regent 8t . London. Enkland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evening Star 45¢ per month ing and Sunday Btar hon 3 Sundars) 60c ver month W3¢ per month e Bunday Star.. ;.5 per cop! T oltection made at he eiid of each month rders may be sent in by mail oi telephone Ational 5000. Rate by Mall—Payabie In Advance. Maryland and Virginia. aily and Sunday ily only . Sunday only . All Other States and Canada. day...1yr., $12.00: b:“i n‘nng .s.un G 1yr, $800: 1 mo. ndsy only 1yr. $500; 1 mo.. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled o the use for republication of il news dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise cred- jted in this paper and aiso the local news published herein. All rights of publication of @pecial dispaiches herein sre also reserved. = = d 5¢ 50c Easing Tax Assessments. 1t is probable that most of the cities end States are achieving desired reduc- tlons in their local tax burdens in this day of falling values by lowering as- sessments rather than by reducing tex rates. In the majority of Sidtes and cities the law requires assessment for taxation purposes at full value, but in actual practice assessments nearly The mayor has given out a list of names of those who are under delibera- tion, most of them police officers of high rank, some of them civilians. | The public will never know the con- "sldeuuonl entering into this selection. | Strange factors bear upon the determi- nation. One of them is the mayoralty election that is to take place next November. Revolt is in the air, revolt against Tammany gnd all its works, snd a formidable showing of opposition | was manifest in November last, when | a quarter of & million votes were cast | for & man whose name was not on lhr‘ election list, who had in a few weeks of temporary administration shown & spirit of independence of the dominant | | political machine. The suggestion is| not lacking that Gov. Lehman's ap-| conversations with Signor Mussolini anent his proposed four-power peace alliance for Europe. Although there developed, according to the Germans, a complete meeting of minds between | themselves and the Italians, nothing | savoring of an Italo-German treaty or| alliance seems to have been discu.u:d“ or negotiated. “We Germans are most anxious that the idea of treaty revision | may soon find practical application,” said Col. von Papen to Roman reporters. “Both Chancellor Hitler and I regard a close understanding between Italy and Germany as one of the basic prin- ciples of German policy,” supplements Capt. Goering. It is noteworthy that Col. von Papen’s visit to the Vatican proved less satisfactory. Pope Plus Ls’ said not to be convinged that Hitlerism THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Quality, rather than quantity, is what makes a hobby worthwhile. It is the quality in a big collector’s collection, rather than the number of items, which intrigues. ‘This is the thought that comes, as one stgnds amid a magnificent collec- tion worthy of a museum. And it is a very satisfying thoeught, for an amateur, because it puts him on the right track. When he goes home, instead of being dissatisfied, he can find cause for re- Jolcing. For he has gone about his small col- | lection in exactly the same spirit thit,th money to any certain extent is op- | pointment of Mr. Mulrooney for the will last and is not enamored of any | comed at City Hall and its uptown | {name a man for the police job who mo.. §1.00 Would serve the organization well in its bitions in this direction, coming test of popularity. ——— The Home Mortgage Bill. President Roosevelt has sent to the Congress his home mortgage bill, a companion piece to the earlier farm mortgage bill which has just been passed by the House and which will soon be acted upon by the Senate. In con- siderable measure the proposal for ald to the owners of small homes is in | | | line with that to aid the owners of |&nd the anti-revisionists, led by France, | For example, the | both read the covenant of the Lsague!rid of them ar neglect them. morigaged farms. new bill would set up & corporation, a Home Owners' Loan Coiporation, under the Foceral Heme Loan Bink Board, ~ State beverage control service was wel- premature concordat with it. As to revision of the treaty of Ver- 0¢ | directory as giving an opportunity to, sailles, German Fascist and Italian Their am- | Fascist hearts beal as one. out saying, face definitely uneompro- mising opposition by France. The French not only frown upon attempts to redraw the post-war map of Europe at their own expense, but resent the territorial and political injustices which would accrue to their sllies—Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Ru- mania—from such a procedure. It is diverting to observe how the revisionists, headed by Signor Mussolini, of Nations to their own respective ad- | vantages each time treaty tampering is projected. 11 Duce peiuts out that it goes with- | t his big one. * * It is the spirit behind the numbers, whatever they may be, which makes the gathering of specimens worthwhile. |~ Some require numerical strength to |spur them on, while others are more easily satisfied. In each case the men- tal attitude is the s:me. Each as good as possible—that is it. ‘The little collection comes on a par with the big one, when its guiding mind has achieved it with real interest, real work, real enjoyment. x % ok % How many hobbyists of all sorts there 4re who never put any real thought into | their recreation! ‘They may go-at it hammer and tongs, but scarcely with brains. | . They may achieve something, no one | knows what, not even themselves. Com- | monly they come at last to be dissatis- fied with their collections and either get | the other went abou | * % The real collector of items, whether in the class of big or little collector, cannuot be dissatsfied, because he had made the ss:arch, not the resulls, the with $2,000,000,000 &t its disposel to | Article 19 of the covenant provides that | real quest. refinance mortgages on homes valued | the Assembly of the League may advise | everywhere are far below full value— |at $10,000 or less. The new corporation | the reconsideration of international | in scme cases of past record as much as seventy-five per cent below full value. There is, in the first place, an apparent- | will be authorized to issue bonds up| ! to_the two-billion-dollar mark for the | | refinancing of the home mortgages. As | conditions whose continuance might en- | danger peace. France retorts that Arti- cle 10 definitely eommits members of ly general recognition of & tundumenulf in the case of the plan for the aid of | ths League to respect the territorial in- difference between assessments for taxa- owners of mortgaged farms, bonds will | tegrity and existing political independ- tion purposes and assessments or valua- | be substituted for the mortgages by this | ence of all members. tions for sales. In the second place, the tendency of assessors in the States, Tolding political office and directly Te- sponsive to the wishes of their con- stituents, is to give the taxpayers the benefit of every doubt and to under- assess for taxatfon rather than to over- assess. In the third place, since in these States and cities a certain sum is to be raised by combination of assess- ment and tax rate, it makes no differ- ence to the taxpayer whether the assessment is high and the rate low or the tax rate high and the assessment | percentage low. If the legal hundred per cent assessment valuation is halved in practice the tax rate must be dou- bled.to produce the needed revenue. In these days of falling values, as- Government agency, with the holders of the mortgages accepting the bonds as subslitutes and the Home Owners' | | Loan Corporation accepling new | | mortgages on the homes. i That Italo-German combined iaflu- ence will always be exerted for treaty revision against the influence of the French group is a foregone conclusion. Yesterday the House of Commons at | Tune clear purpose of the bill is 10 London cheered to the echo an attack | make 1t possibte for the owners of Ly Sir Austen Chamberlain, one of the small homcs to meet & crushing burden | guthors of the Locarno pact, against | which now i3 making it impossible 0r | turning the treaty of Versailles into & them to keep their homes. Under the |scrap of paper for the benefit of Ger- | Roosevelt plan the holders of mort- 'many and her old and new friends. { gages on these homes would be benefit- | The demonstration is designed to fur- | ed also, since they would obtain bonds.imsn food for thought in Berlin and on which the interest is to be guaran- | Rome. | teed by the Government and which it | SR |is believed would have a ready mlrkel! The indignant claim that trunkloads | |in case the present morigage owner | of Communist literature were discovered wished to realize cash on them. The in Berlin announces an attitude of re- | interest cn the bonds would be four |sponsibility for artistic discrimination. per cent, while the home owners' in- | If the critics are called in to decide * ok o x This is perhaps the most important int in the whole consideration of the obby, of vhat one does with it, and what it does to one. Not numbers, but the quest itself, is the real object, as many have found out too late to their sorrow. No grounds are found for the criti- cism of the lu‘e collection, or the smagll one, in itself. All depends on the individual. A numerous fuens may tion of the | display s fine an apprecia- more subtle points of col- semblege done in the right spirit. The small grouping, on the other hand, often impresses because of its real completeness and quite cvident grasp of the subject. * ok kK Willingness to study—— | That is really what makes a collec- flun good or bad, whether it be small or rge. And it is amazing how these matters crop up, aithough the owner may not be present. We stood the other day amid 8 mag- nificent collection and were delighted and impressed with all we saw. The favorable impression, however, was not only because of the specimens, but even more because of the evident | study and love of the subject which sggregation of speci- | lecting as is manifest In a lesser as- | | week, | way, that the small collector comes on | "No propaganda or ballyhoo was nec- | cssary; the good points stood forth | plainly to the discriminating. | Those not reasonably well acquainted | with _the subject of this hobby no doubt would be impressed, too, but for a dif- | ferent reason. } “A lot of money represented there” | perhaps would have been their unspoken comment. * ko % Yes, but the money was secondary. | It was the intelligent interest which dictated and directed the spending of the money. Whether or not one chooses to spend | tional, | 'There is no given point in any hobby where a man may rest satisfied. He is only satisfied at any point when | hie has done his best, solved the prob- lems, used his head, loved his work. | kox & | Such is the attitude which makes the point attained immaterial in the best sense. In popular parlance. he who has at- tained it is called a “philosopher.” ‘Well, then, there ought to be more philosophers in the world. Everything that is done would be done better if the inner essence of the work- ings of the mind of such a “philoso- pher” were grasped. Unfortunately, the real point, as we have tried to elucidate here, is too | often missed. To be a philosopher, in the general acceptance of things, means to Ll isfled with little. | As a matter of fact, the satisfaction | with little is satisfaction only when it is accompanied by study and common sense. The two are not the same. Any one can study, but not every one has common sense. Not every one has | the common sense to try to prove to | himself that one can be &s happy with | Iittle as with much, if the getting and | the keeping of his treasures is done in the right spirit of intelligent progress. * x * Additions to 8 collection will be neces- sary, from time to time, but the rate of increase is another matter. There is the gist of the matter. ‘There every one must be his own judge and jury. ew imens sre essential. They help to keep up one's interest in the | best sort of way, in fact at times in the only feasible wa; | Yet they have little to do with the spirit of the collector. That is in his own mind. Ho had better learn some- | thing new about what he has, every than add specimens without proper study of them, especially when may simply increase the out the undrrnmdlnh o This is the way, and perhaps the only wi | a plane with the large. He may have | found out as much, or almost as mucn, | with his little, as the other finds with his much. | He may put exactly the same spirit | of devotion into his gems, whether they | are flowers, or bulldogs, or fishes exo- tique, or postage stamps, or paintings. | It is possible to collect old bottle with more devotion than another man | | should not be forgotten or be lightly| Van Dyke’s Work for International Copyright To the Bditor of The Star. | In your editorial of Tuesday, you paid | a gracious tribute to a distinguished | American, Prof. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton. You could not, in the space allotted, enumerate all the pubjic serv- ices he rendered his country during & long and active life. One such, how- ever, which was associated with Wash- ington was of national importance and Did you ever write a letter to Fred- eric J. Haskin? You can ask him any question of fact and get the answer in a personal letter. Here is a great edu- cational idea introduced into the lives of the most intelligent people in the | world—American newspaper readers. It |is & part of that _?_e;t pu‘l;pnse o‘l“n news- r—service. ere is no charge ex- passed by. I refer to his efficient ac- | ce‘g{ 3 cats In oolks Or stempiSox Te- tvity in helping to clear the United | {ulh L itace Do not use post cards. States of its unsavory reputation 8S 8 | acdress Feederic J. Haskin, Director, P o Ny P | The Evening Star Information Buresu, Richard Watson Gllder, the editor of | washington, D. C. the Century. in his interestin book, | e “Grover Cleveland: & Record of Friend-| Q 15 the trainer of the Chicago ship.” says that when he was visiting | iyt n or & Negro?— at the White House he refrained as & & e SO% & White ma o guest from speaking to Mr. Cleveland | about the then burning copyright ques- tion, though his own interest in that matter was very great. But the Presi- dent turning to him said: “Mr. Gilder. tell me why you take so much interest |In international copyright?” Mr. Gil- | der replied that he regarded it as a moral question, and that the “attitude of America in permitting the piracy of the works of foreign authors was a na- tional disgrace.” pleased and satisfled and remarked that Mark Twain had said the same thing in bringing the matter to his attention, and Mr. Gilder adds that Mr. Cleveland, “convinced of the moral bearings of the question, by every s in his power promoted the cause, and that it was largely through his efforts that the copyright measure, under the subse- quent (Republican) administration be- | came & law.” International copyright dishonesty was very decicedly a moral issue with Dr. Van Dyke. He preached a strong sermon on the widespread evil from his own pulpit, which was published and widely distribut>d under the title “Our + Naticnal Sin of Literary Piracy,” ana must have had a strong effect in arous- | ing the public indignation and protest | which finally led to the enactment of | the copyright act of March 2, 1891, and Iremoved from our statute book, after a | book piracy contained in the act of ess of nlL!l. 1790. ‘To the very iast Dr. Van Dyke was slive to the moral issue involved in any question of copyright and in 1931, | when he was 79, his attention being | called to efforts being made to free the United States from the reproach of de- laying since 1887 its entry into the In- ternational Copyright Union, causing wrong and injustice to authors, both Mr. Cleveland looked | full century, the legal authorization of | ‘A 'Willlam Buckner is the trainer. He is a Negro. Q. For what races are horses entered before they aré foaled?—E. W. A. For_ futurity races. The dam is entered before the foal is dropped, or the foal is entered when a few months old. The race is not run unti! the foals are 2-year olds. The three important futurities in the United States are: The Futurity, Westchester Racing Associa- | tion; the Pimlico Puturity, Pimlico, Md.; the Breeders’ Futurity, Lexington, Ky. Q. Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial made? —W. W. A. It is executed in white marble. Q- Are many whole barrels used m breweries?—W. A. M. | "A. Most barrels used in breweries are one-hall and one-quarter barrels. Few whole barrels are used. Some breweries e"len use one-eighth and one-sixth bar- rels. | Q. Are we exporting as much to Ja- pan and Germany as we import from them?—B. V. Z. A. The exports to Japan are a very little larger than the imports from Japan. The value of exports to Ger- many is considerably higher than that of the imports. Q- Why is an operation for appendi- citis called “McBurney’s Incision”?— M. F. 7 | _A. Dr. McBurney of New York city | was one of the first to descibe the oper- | ation. He was also one of the first to perform it. | Q. What is the emblem of the Future Farmers of America?—F. E. A. It is a cross-section of an ear of foreign and native, he at once responded | corn, surmounted by the American with forceful letters to public officials. eagle. There is a rising sun in the back- It is greatly to be regretted that he did ground snd a plow in the foreground, | not attain his very dear wish to be al- on which an owl is perched. Future lowed to hail and acclaim the entry of Farmer colors are gold and national his country into the great literary com- blue. monwealth of nations; the ons great “hil copyright = advancement he believed Q How many children did the par- should be accomplished. ents of Enrico Caruso have?—B. T. THORVALD SOLBERG, | A. The great tenor was the eight- e g eenth of 20 sons. The couple also had !one daughter. All the children except Congress and the Enrico, Giovanni, and the daughter, As- " | sunta, died in infancy. U. S. Constitution | q cive me some facts about the To the Editor of The Star. —L. G | Story Magazine. ¥ Gen. Ansell, one of Washington's well known attorneys, had an article A. The editors of this publication, Whit Burnett and his wife, Martha Fo- ley, say that it was first published in ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. | vides the words “preserve, protect and defend.” | —_— | Q Why was a statue of Moses by Michelangelo given horns?—C. C. B. | A. They were introduced because of | 8 mistranslation of the word “cornuta.” | The translator used the word “horns” | rather than “an irradiation of light,” |in the course of interpreting a descrip= | tion of Moses. The sculptors have for | centuries adhered to this mistranslation |in executing a figure of the great leader. Q. How many miles of paved road | are there in Rock Creek Park in Wash- ington?—N. N. A. According to the report of June 30, 1932, there were 13.066 miles of paved road in Rock Creek Park, which covers about 1,606 acres. Q. What are the political divisions of Yugoslavia?—W. T. N. A. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia—a name officially adopted by royal decree of King Alexander, signed on October | 3, 1020—had. its old provinces abolished {in 1930. The country was then divided into nine banats, called banovinas in Serblan, and the district of ., which corresponds to the District of Columbia. With one exception, the new political divisions are named from the Of what material is the statue of |rivers of Yugoslayia, by the same system used in France. Q. What was the origin of the May day flower gathering?—F. Y. A. Since early times in England it | was customary to go out early in the morning of May 1 to “fetch the flowers fresh,” as Chaucer put it. Hawthorne branches were carried home about sun- s»t amid much mersy-making. The name, the may, was given to the haw- thorne, and the ceremony was called | “bringing home the ma: | Q. Who is the musician who has put to music the poems written by several prominent persons?>—C. P . | A. Maury Madison has composed mu- | sical settings for several. Among them are “My Poor Resistless Heart,” George Washington; “The Open 3 “The Quest” and “Watch-Fires,” by Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, and “The Valiant,” by Helen Keller. Q. What is the smallest re] the American continent?—R. A. El Salvador. It has an area of only 13,176 squares miles and has a population of about 1,500,000, Q. What provision is being made for | the entertainmgnt of children at the fair in Chicago this Summer?—H. O. |. A. An enormous playground is be- |ing arranged where children will be cared for and entertained. It is called the Enchanted Island. Q. How long has “Hail to the Chief” | been played when the President of the | United States appears?—J. W. | _A. It became popular to herald the President’s appearance with this air ‘Surtxing President McKinley's adminis- ration. Q. How much dees it cost to make a 3-cent postage stamp?—L. A. P. A. The ordinary 3-cent stamp of the regular series costs the Government $.0062 each. public on C. sessments nearly everywhere—with the | collects rare works of art. It is being in a New York paper a few days ago Vienna a few years ago, and later moved Very marked exception of Washington— have responded directly by decreasing as the values decrease. That is an automatic reaction, generally preserv- ing the ratio, whatever it might actually be, between assessed and full values. In other cases the law which fixes assess- ment at ons hundred per cent full value remains unchanged, but the standard of assessment is by decree horizontally reduced, the reduction applying to all property. The Associated Press reports the action by the State Tax Commission of Kansas in deciding to order a sixteen and two-thirds per cent reduction in Kansas real estate values for tax as- sessment purposes this year, and the tax officials estimated that the cut in| assessments would result in a saving of about $7,400,000 to taxpayers. Cen- sus reports, quoting assessment officers terest on their mertgages payable 10 what Is literature, the situation becomes the new corporation would be five per | desperate indeed | cent, or one per cent higher than the vt | interest which the farmers will have to| Sentence of an English cfficer to five | pay on their mortgages under the new years' imprisonment for selling military farm mortgage bill. {secrets is a saddening reminder of & President Roosevelt has aptly de- | failure to establish & confidence among scribed the purpose of the home mort- nations expected years ago that would | gage legislation in his message to the make military secrets unnecessary. | Congress. That purpose, he said, is to| .t — end the “fear and despair among both | The conferences of nations will rep- home owners and investors.” The Presi- | resent an exchange of views, with the | dent urged the need of protecting and | grim possibility to be considered that | aiding the owners of homes as a na- | none of them will have enough tangible | tional policy in-the Interest of the whole | Value to permit reference to the occa- | rinkage in values, Sion 88 & swap. | people. The great shi B L was there displayed. S That is the sort of thing which speaks for itself. It is the sort of thing which makes every intelligent person proud of pure intelligence. One did not have to see the owner to know him. His work spoke for him. BY FREDERIC | demonstrated every day, and by per- | sons who have never crashed the gates of publicity as collectors. This is the reward of the student col- lector, he who may not have much, as counted by numbers, but who knows what he has, and above all knows the | futility of mere size, if unaccompanied | by intelligence, WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. | on “Constitutional Limits.” With reference to much of the re- | cent legislation of Congress he said, among other things, that. “The express lprohibluons of the Constitution enjoin- ing both Federal and State govern- ments from pasting any laws impair- ing the obligations of contracts * * all fared rather badly and found few | defenders.” | The Constitution has been so often | violated by the Congress in the pest decade, and has receded so far into | the background, that it seems futile to discuss il in these times. In fact, the saying, “What's the Constitution be- tween friends?” has now a |to the Island of Majorca. Although |Edward J. O'Brien says that Story is | the most distinguished short story magazine in the world, its publishers say that its circulation has never been |over 600 coples. They state that when |it was moved to New York recantly it ' had only 69 fully paid subscribers. Q. How was the oath of office mis- quoted st President Hoover's inaugura- | ton?—J. F. A. Chief Justice Taft administered ! the oath of office to Herbert Hoover and |used the words “preserve, maintain and | protect,” whereas the Constitution pro- ‘waxed from linoleum?—M. E W. A. Scrub the linoleum with vinegar and hot water. Use two parts of vinegar to one part of hot water. Q. What elements compose the finger nails>—R. E. L. A. Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, sul- phur and oxygen. Q. How many different occupations are there in the United States?>—L. E. L. A. The 1930 census listed 534 occupa- | surface Everett Sanders, chairman of the Re- | Service Journal there's a reproduction publican National Committee, is rather of & front pege article from the Corriere seriously ill at & Washington hospital, | della Sera of Milan, Italy, s faithful | reality in the enactment of laws, and |it would seem to hold at this time only sn academic and an antiquarian due to the depression, and the inability | of owners of small homes to find em- | ployment and therefore to meet the payments of interest and principal due | cn their homes are factors which have made necessary this step by the Gov- | There is no disposition to make work easy for the Secretary of Labor, who is expected to know all about manu- facturing conditions here and also about the operation of tariffs at home 5 | and abroad. of Kansas, give the ratio of assessed to ernment to give relief. | ey true value in Kansas as being one hun-| The home owners will be given & Pe- | (o (' nover magnificent. Little pre- dred per cent, although it is generally | riod of fifteen years to meet the indebt- |}, o oo of sabotage, esplonsge scknowledged that the ratio, &s a matter edness on their homes, with small PaY-| /o™ iepging propagands should at of fact, is below one hundred per cent. The Kahsas State Tax Commission has Ordered a horizontal cut in assessments, presumably leaving untouched the | ments made monthly, and a moratorium | of perhaps three years, if & moratorium |is essential, Where the indebtedness | may in the interest of the parties con- | once establish a determination on the | part of the world not to swallow the | entire dose. et ——— | dacks Summer White House in “legal standard” of assessment. | cerned be scaled down, the reduction In the annual report of municipal|{would further aid the owner of the Aetivities for the City of Cincinnati for home. The offering of the bonds to the | Its fiscal year of 1932 the boast is made | mortgage holder would be up to eighty | g3 that the city has come through the per cent of the value of the property. | “Who Survives Conquers.” stresses and storms of the depression | Because of the shrinkage of values, that | There's a queer little tune that I hope | with a small cash balance in its operat- | percentage of the present value might | will be caught | SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. ing funds, with all its obligations paid, with its bonds still quoted at a pre- mium, and “the city tax rate for 1932 of $9.59 per $1,000 assessed valuation was the lowest for any city of 300,000 population or over.” Ohio cities follow the practice of assessing at one hundred be less*actually than the amount of the | original mortgage, it is said. The system of aid to the home own- ers is to be operated through the Home Loan Bank Board. Under the proposed legislation it is planned to set up & sys- tem of Federal savings and lon asso- clations for financing home building in By the organs they're playing by | hand. Our minds are with wonderment fre- quently fraught When we see what the public will stand. The raw racketeer draws audaciously per cent of true value, and their actual | ratios are traditionally high, relatively | communities not now provided ade- | en speaking, because of State laws which place maximum limits on municipal tax rates. Yet Cincinnati's total assessment on which taxes are levied has shown the following decrease since its high- ‘water mark for the fiscal year 1931: 1931 1932 1933 That is a decrease in total assessment of twenty per cent, and in the same period the total tax levy paid by the citizens of Cincinnati has also been shizhtly reduced. The chief reductions in tax burden, however, have boe) brought about by reducing assessments rather than by lowering the rate of taxation. 2 - It is but natural for Stalin to be irri- tated by the necessity of accusing an Englishman of throwing a monkey wrench just when the Sovict was ex- pecting bouquets, - The New York Police Job. Edward J. Mulrooney hav.ng res.gned 85 police commis: ioner of Greacer New York, to become head of the nowly created Siate Alcoholic Beverages Con- trol Board, Mayor John P. O'Erien is corfronted with tiie necessity of finciig & suitable man to take his place commznd of the local law eniorcement organization. Mr. Mulrocnzy has made a good record as chict of th: met.o- politan A policeman hinself with a long and honorable career of service in successively higher ranks, he has been involved in no dificulties, ha administered police affairs with quiet efficlency and has made headway against the tide of crime from which the metropolis perennially suilers. Un- like some of his rec nt predeces i he has not been & broadcrstir of pur- poses and plans, but has stuck quictly that ton and the big city in a v for him gencral ad now has brought him promotion to a highly State-wide | which the Nazis went much further important of Jurisdiction. pesition The selection of & successor is not, back, indeed, as the Spanish inquisi- | in the hands of Mayor of course, O'Brien, although he will sign the com. n of the new chief. Higher.politi will make the choice. have been in Rome All week conducting dumb.” to his job of doing the police work ol has won Assuming &n air of command, And we frequently comment in accents | * severe On the things that the public will stand. | quately with such facilities. How far | the Government should go along that line, however, is a question, desirable as it is to have & nation of home owners. Another serious question is involved. |1 it is planned to have two billions of | We are dictated to as to what we bonds issued for the aid of home owners | should do and another two billions of bonds for When we travel by sea, air or land. the farm owners, and, s it is proposed, And we're proud as we view more suc- four or five billions of bonds for a public cess coming through works program, and all of these bonds| Of the things that our public can are to be tax free, the already huge stand. total of tax-free Government bonds in this country will be augmented by noarly $10,000,000000. The tax-free Government security has bzacome a menzce in this country, providing as it does an escape for vast amounts of wealth from taxation. It is time the Government called & halt to all such tax exs | | | | | Overworking an Idea. “Do you see evidences of the five- | day week?" “Oh, yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. | “Some of us have gotten it down finer | than that and adopted the five-minute | hours.” | Jud Tunkins says maybe it's & mis- | take to show so many poor but as yet | honest grand jurors short cuts in ways to making big money. . ————— Unless the Legislature enacts meas- ures which will bring relief, the Gov- ernor of Minnesota will declare martial | law. This may not salve the situation, but 1t will assuredly render it more in- teresting. No Happy Medium. The April climate is to hlame For joys that are abating Too chilly for the base ball game And still too warm for skating. - German-Italian Rapprochement. That Germany and lialy are in a state of “close understanding.” as an- ncunced at Rome yetgrday by Capl. down in Crimson Gulch?" Goering, Chancellcr Hiller's Man Fri- «we compel the boys to sit down,” 4y, Is like the reporter’s story of the answered Cactus Joe. “It sort o' folds deg that bit a man. It can hardly b2 'em up and prevents them from as- classed &s news. 1t there was ever & | gimilating the 3.2 per cent too rapidly.” state oi political affinity belween two - " systems of government, it is presented | “We still put our faith in posterity, by the spectacle which Germany and | said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, Italy now offer to the wcrid. Herr “trusting we shall be luckier in that Hitler made no secret, duilng his '¢sbect than our ancestors” dizzy ascent to power, of his desire to another Mussolinl” But it musl be d to the everlasting credit of 1l Duce that the racigl and religious cppression now in progress in Germany under governmental auspices is no leaf taken from the original Fascist primer. Thau is & species of political eruelty for | Pecition. “Do you drink standing up or sitting Economic Gatherings. To splendid meetings we return And all the world rejoices, In «pite of what we've lost, to learn That we ratain our voices. Bassos and tenors rise ane Again will stand before us; Altos and some sopranocs, too, Will amplify the chorus. “Don’t try to 'splain what you don't | tion | understand,” said Uncle Eben. ‘“Jes’ | Vice Chancellor von Papen and| act like you had settled sumpin’ an’ - | Minister Without Portfolio Goering | make de other feel dat he's de one dat’s | back than the Muscolini era—as far and some of his friends are filled with concern over his recovery. Requiring at first, two weeks 2go, to undergo an operation for appendicitis, Mr. Sanders’ condition developed unexpected com- plications, and a second operation for gall bladder became necessary. Of rug- ged physique and constitution, it is hoped that these will stand him in suf- ficiently good stead to tide him over the crisis. Except for a siege of ill- ness that overtook him while on duty with President Coolidge at the AdA]x;;;;— Mr. Sanders has always enjoyed ex- cellent health. The loss of his wife a couple of years ago was & blow from which he never fully recovered. Last Winter the G. O. P. gzneralissimo took a brief vacation in the Bermuda:. to recuperate from the rigors of the 1932 campali Mr. Sanders is 51 years old. He recently disciosed in a magezine article documentary evidence that Cal- vin Coolidge realized that the former President was a sick man. PR Being & Republican Senator these days has one compensat- ing advantage—he isn't run ragged by Pederal jobhunters. They're, of course. devoting all their attention—and how! —to Democratic members of the Senate, 2nd in lesser degree to House members, as lords of all patronage creation in their respective States. Fourteen Sen- ators who are the only Democrats from thelr States are in particularly tough spots. They include Costigan of Coll rado, Lonergan of Connecticut, Mc- Adoo of California, Pope of Idaho, Van Nuys of Indigna, Murphy of Iowa. MC- Gill of Kansas, Tydings of Maryland, Clark of Missouri, Brown of New Hamp- shire, Bulow of South Dakota, Neely of West Virginia, Duffy of Wisconsin and Kendrick of Wyoming. Nobody on Capitol Hill can remember the like of the current pressure for places on Uncie Sam's pay roll. Senators from nearby States, like Meryland and Virginia, are literally besiezed. One of them has had constituents threaten to commit sulcide in his office unle's he places them. Former business executives who once drew five-figure salaries are com- mon seekers for Govrnment positions paying anything from $2.500 uj. R M. Edouard Herrict, former vremier of France, who'll ocn be stretching his Gallic legs under the White House ma- hcgany. speaks little or no English, but President Roosevelt handles e pretty well, so the conversational engine will not be stalled when they get t gether. Once upon & time, W] Franklin R.csevelt was Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy, he was assigned to do the honors aboard the Mayflower when a Brazilian dignitary came to Washingten. Secretary of State Bryan and former Secretary of State Elthu Rcot were officially on hand to greet the statesman who'd rolled up from Rio. Bryan and Root knew nothing but Eng- United States Mussolini organ, explaining (Norris) amendment to the Constitu- tion of the United States. The article says: “The newly-elected Conrru.mln | remain at their homes, following their usual vocat¥ns, and do not take the road for Washington until after four months, to arrive there on the fourth For this reason they are ducks." " *xox % William J. Collins, superintendent of the Senate press gallery, has just en- tered upon his twenty-fifth successive year there. He began as a messenger in | 1909 under the one and only Jim Pres- ton, became assistant superintendent in | 1919, and superintendent in 1931, Presi- the newest of March. alled ‘lame | interest Nevertheless, however, when it is quoted its antiquity and the great rev- erence and respect in which it was once held by our people entitles it to | be quoted accurately. I therefore beg leave to correct the error of the gen- eral through your esteemed columns. Eyes are turned to emphatic popular votes in Michigan and Wisconsin in favor of repeal of the prohibition The express prohibition of the Fed- eral Constitution inst impairment of the obligations of contracts applies only to the States and not to the Fed- eral Government. In fact, such a pro- | amendment of the Federal u- | tion. The two States represent, in the | popular mind, what the Baltimore Eve- | ning Sun describes as “the starting of | hibition as to it would have been_in- consistent with the power given Con- gress by the Constitution to enact bankruptey laws, which not only im- pairs contracts, but destroys them. At- tention in this connection might be dent Roosevelt has just autographed his | T 0% * the “legal tender” cases as portruit. for Collins, making “Willies” | Called residential collection, each picture per- | SIOher case in W‘"‘t-h j . R. Two “Willies” now | r [T the press nilrise ut the upitol | 50 OERE, 2oe) Oulipmionns ecrure i e House side, Samtuel Whlietice Bei, | ¥ould be unjust and immoral in many of the New York Herald Tribune, has | Instances to do so, this duty has by just been elected chalrman of the | Standing Committee of Correspondents, freshly chosen with each new session of Congress. ‘ * ok ox % Woman politicians of both parties are ‘laud irf their praise of the distinguished | honors their sex has received under the New Deal—a cabinet office and & first- | class diplomatic mission. Although Her- | bert Hoover, it used to be said, was | | elected by the women of the country, | they always felt they had short shrift | 8t his hands, as far as really importan Government jobs were concerned. It |an open secret that the Democratic | ladies are in receptive mood for patron- | age plums on & wide scale. Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming. vice chair- |man of the National Committee, is ex- |pected to bag the next big prize, a | Civil Service commissionership, now that Miss Perkins and Ruth Bryan Owen have been taken care of, Post- masterships are in favor among the party sisters, and revenue collector jobs |also are much sought for. Numerous woman lawyers are lobbying to become | assistant United States attorneys or |Jegal counselors In Government offices. Her friends had confidently looked to the retention of Miss Jessie Dell, a Democrat. &s a United States Civil Service commissioner, but she is appar- ently to walk the plank and give way to Gov. Moes, * oK ok One of the late Admiral real achievements was to “sell” the United States Navy throughout the Middle West, far remote from salt wa- | ter. He acomplished that feat while in | charge of the Great Lakes Naval Train- | ing Station, outside of Chicago, during the World War. In addition to admin- istering the station's afii Admiral | Moffett specialized in touring the terri- MofTett's | ho means been always observed by the Congress, but, on the contrary, has | been very much honored in the breach. ALEXANDER SIDNEY LANIER. ——————— | Dismissal of Workers Is Needless Hardship { To the Editor of The Star. the bandwagon,” with evidence of “the reversal of opinion in the country.” The Goshen News-Times believes that “Michigan is representative of the Mid- dle West at least,” pointing out that “the big dry vote in that State was not confined to the cities.” The Oshkosh Daily Northwestern records of th> Wis- consin vote that “a great majority of | the farmers registered against continu- ation of the umr;dmsnt.l' ;Xt‘;mt\lxgh ;i‘u':e dry opponents of repeal had hoped to mrzki‘ Psl;:m showings of strength in the rural communities.” osition to these conclusions, th> Oklniomu City Times declares that “repeal is still far from an accomplished fact,” emphasizing that “Michigan Is an important industrjal State, with one of the largest four cities of the Nation In_op border State.” The Times advises that “the final triumph of the anti-prohibi- tion forces, if they win, w.ll result from the change of sentiment in several within its boundaries,” and also “is & I am not a Government employe and | States that had State prohibition before {have no relatives who are, nevertheless |1 think it would be inhuman for the | Government to discharge so many thou- nds of their older employes during | these hard- times. A great many of these | were encouraged by the Government: to educate themselves for highly special- the elght-enth amendment was adopted.” “It is said,” according to the Roanoke Times, “that the dry board of stralegy. undisturbed by the overwhelming wet victories at the polls of Michigan and Wisconsin, plans to concentratz its campaign to block ratification of the iged work with the intimation that their jobs wowld be permanent ones. Be- cause of this and because of the pen- | sion provided for their old age a great | many have made little or no provision for the future, but, instead, have used | their surplus earnings for the support of needy relatives. The great majority | of this class of employes will never be" able to find work elsewhere, will even- tuslly lose their homes, and finally be- come pitiable objects of charity. The amount of savings effected is compara- tively small and if a reorganization is | really necessary, surely this Govern- ment can afford to walt until more normal times to bring it about. Surely | such harsh treatment as wholesale dis- missals of old employes in times as hard as these is not really necessary. Respectfully, H. L. NEBEL. PO AL A ‘Dumb Dora’ Puts Some Pertinent Queries To_the Bditor of The Star. | I may be, as the modern idiom has | & dry State. eighteenth amendment in the Middle West and the South. Members of the board are confident that they can hold a block of the requisite number of States to prevent repeal. In view of the unmistakable indications that the voters of North Carolina, Alabama and Louisiana, which can certainly b2 termed regrennt:uve Southern States, are overwhelmingly in favor of repeal, it may turn out that the confidence of the dry leaders are misplaced.” “Advocates of prohibition reform gain a decided psychological advantage,’ avers the Cleveland News, with the statement as to the significance of the Iatest development: “Michigan has been It is the State which en- acted the ‘life-for-a-pint’ law, one of the most drastic and oppressive of all the prohibition statutes. It treated vio- lators of the dry laws Erem' harshly. It tried to make prohibition work and found that it couldn't. It has shown a reversal of opinion in the matter of the regulation of personal habits by law probably as marked as that anywhere Crescent recalls that “Michigan was one of the original dry States” and that it | tory on both sides of the Mississippi for the purpose of addressing schools, col- leges, universities and business organi- zalions on the meaning of sea DOwer. A filend, President William Mather lish and . the Brazilian knew &lmost everything but English. It fell to Mr. Roa. evelt's lot t> put nd keep the trio cn speaking terms. He lost at least ten pounds in the process x % % % Apropos the poll now being taken by the Intercolleglate Disarmament Coun- cil to determine how the students in 730 colleges throughout the country Moffett put & stop to hazing at the Gregt Lakss Stetion. It was discovered that some of the older men took delight in making life miserable for rook:es. Moffett thereupon issued a regulation feel about the question of participating | that any one caught hazing a new man in war, this observer recalls & bit of | would have to enter the boxing ring doggerel perpstrated in London during | the following Wednesday afternoon with the World War. It was evoked by|g fellow of his own size and weight in a Woodrow Wilson's celcbrated “Too proud | knock-out match. As a result, some to fight” evisode and by the then cur- nhulk of a bully would generally find rent American pacifist ditty, “I Didn't | himself facing & clever boxer, possibly Raise My Boy to Be A Soldier.” The|g fieet or local champion, who would London ~Spectator. famous political | gjve him a terific beating. In about weekly—it was before Uncle Sam en- | four wecks hazing stopped. tered the war—sugg sted adding the | ik following stenza o the scnt: I d'dn't rai‘e my son to be A soldier. 1 brouzht him up to know that he is free To refis» | PreM the Portland Oregon Journal. Search of the country home of Ein- stein failed to reveal a huge store of arms and ammunition, bul the Nazis may find some hidden away in the fourth dimension. | — rate——— An I nternational Disappointment Prom the Cincinnati Times-8ts The disappointment of extreme over beer's return is nothing pared with that of home, or me! If the nati.ns will not arbitrate their | quarrels, My duty I shall none the less fulfill; Burn and ravish, if they will, Thev'll find me saying still: “I didn’t raise my son to be a soldier!” % k¥ In the current American Foreign drys eom- Lewis of La ayetle College, recalls how ! | it, an wwful Dumb Dora, but I cannot | “enforced prohibition with a reasonable |see the economy in shifting an em- | cegree of tightness,” sending people “to ploye of one department of the Gov- | prison for life because, upon their fourth ernment onto another. For instance, if | conviction, they were found with a pint & person is on the Labor Department’s | of moonshine.” The Rock Island Argus pay roll, where is the economy of put- | gives figures showing that “in 1916, by ting him on the forestalion pay roll? | s popular vots of 353,000 to 284,000 an Or if he is in the Posi Office, turning | amendment was written into the State's him out of that and putting him on | censtitution—a 5-to-4 vote—while the the welfare lists? Is it just so the pay |other day, by a 3-to-1 vote. Michigan lisis of the various departments may | declared in favor of repeal.” not look so big that it looks as if the _ “Michigan has had,” according to the Government is being run on a more | Leuisville Courier-Journal, “more than economic basis, or is it just pure and |its share of bootlegging, gangsterism and | simple camoufiage? Government comes corruption spawned by the eighteenth | out of the people: all of it, be it labor | amendment. Being at the gateway to or welfare or what not, therefore, what | Canada, , the State has served as & |expense do the taxpayers gain by a | pascage for the transportation of vast man being transferred from one de-‘qunntiuu of liquor smuggled through | partment to another department, or | {rom across the border. The people of from the Government's to the welfare’s | Michigan, in a large majority, are sick care? of this order of things. They regis- While I am asking knotty questions | tcred their disgust with it last Novem- I might as well ask this one. Can a ber by voting for repeal of the State | depositor in a defunct bank collect from | éry laws, and now they express their | the Government the amount of the de- | will with’ even greater emphasis on the posits that he had in the bank when it | straight issue of repeal or retention of |failed? I say yes! Wiy? Because the eighteenth amendment.” the Government employed & bank in- | “An indication of what is to be ex- spector to see that banks were doing pected when the other commofiwealths business honestly. Now, it is certainly | begin to express themselves” is sug- not the fault of the depositor if that |gestefl by the Cakland Tribune, while inspector has not done duty; that |the Port Huron Times Herald sees “an is the concern of the people who hired | advance expression of the national sen- him, the Government. timent,” lh-hmlgl.'l it advises that “what- ou can not fool all of the people ] tions and occupation groups. S ‘Two States Stir Con\?;i'cffih That Prohibition Is Doomed. wisdom and faithfulness with which th: laws to be created for the control the drink business are enforced.” Tne Newark Evening News voices the warn-, ing: “The vate for repeal in Michigan and Wisconsin proved how eager the people are to mop up the mess prohibi+ tion brought us. The politicians who' defile that spirit by their greéd for new powers are playing directly into the hands of the two groups who profited the most frem prohibition—the profes- e ating that “the mvaonu 1 prohibi tating t “the 's of prol o ltlon and Volsteadism were cogxmend- | able but the scheme wouldn't work,” the Yak'ma Daily Republic feels that “these | great majorities for repeal indicate a sentiment that probal prevails in ev- ery other State.” e Springfield (Mass.) Republican reports a ‘“growing conviction that the dry forces will not be able to muster the necessary 13 States.” The Greenville News recog- nizes the need of prompt decision, and is convinced that “special sessions of Legislatures in some States, in whica | action is ltkely to be postponed for sev- | eral years under the normal procedure, would probably be advisable to proviae | for immediate referenda.” ——— Lower Age Limit for ‘ Federal Annuitants | To the Editor of The Star. | There is considerable unrest among the Government employes just now, ow=- ing to the cuts in appropriations, and many are asking questions concerning retirement. If Congress would only lower the age to 60 years and 30 years of service this would ease the minds of many clerks, just now, of the fear |of being involuntarily separated from |the service, which would lower their |annuity in such a case. If the 60 years of age and 30 vears’' service were al- ;lowed. the full annuity could be |granted. If the percentage of salary on retirement were raised to 412 or 5 |per cent, the Government could easily grant 30 years' service to all instead of age limits. This has been proven Dr. Biller of the Pension Office, through his statistics on the retirement question. I hope Congress will con-ider this question. E. LATIMER, e Gold Is Best. | Prom the Philadelphia Public Ledger. During these duays of dislocated finance many persons turn to the gold standard. Others have convinced themselves, perhaps, that it | would be better to abandon gold alto- gether for monetary purpoces. Toyirg | with the idea of “managed currency” | has been & widespread pastime. But among practical financiers no | such .doubts or notions prevall. In a | perfest world, théy admit, gold would probably not be required as the basis for currency, But humanity, being | what it is, demands something con- crete for its money to rest n. And | nothing better than gold has been dis- | covered. Mr. Leon Frazer, who for the next | three I"" will be president of the Bank for International Settlements at Basel, was asked the usual question— whether the countries off gold would | return to more orthodox ways. He | answered: “We are convinced that gold is the best international monetary | standard, that those countries that are | off are desirous of returning to this standard as soon as conditions permit.” The idea that countries go off the | gold basis of their own free will has | gained considerable attention. The | simple-fact is that none has taken this | step until forced to do so. And all | will be glad to go back “as soon as conditions permit.” ——— Going, Going, Conc—)hyl;e. Prom the Rochester Times-Union. Newfoundland wants to sell Lab all of the time.” MARTHA M. SEAVEY, dor. Where is the nation with the sales resistance? Q. What can be used to remove & are doubtful e {in the country.” The Appleton Post-| whether the world will ever again re- 9