Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1933, Page 4

A4 . #HE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Merning Edition. WABHINGTON, D. 0.. SATURDAY.......April 15, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor R e Copany The Bresing Star Newspe By Carrier Within the City. BUar, . ...l 45¢c per month snd iidas Biar Sc_per copy | made at the end of each month be sent in by mail oF telephone SR oo forests much of the strict discipline in- herent in the military system and nec- essary in building & system to withstand the shocks of war will be” relaxed. Instead of relying on the system, the individual officers placed in charge of the forestry army must depend upon their ability to stir the imagination of their men and-create a morale that does not rest on discipline for its strength of fiber. Upon their ability to build this | morale depends in large measire the success or failure of the forestry experi- ment. ‘The Army representatives in charge of the Washington recruiting have already made an excellent impression upon those who have watched their work. They have brought a high degree of efficiency into their task, preserving a degree of good-humored tolerance of Tate by Mail—Payabic in Advance. HR i All Other States and Canada. : 1mo.. $1.00 7 and Sumday..d 7r. $13.00; 1 ma g | 1375 85.00; 1 s0¢ B Member of the Assoclated Press. jated Press is exclusively entitl 1o'ihe A for Tepubiitation of il bews @ rl:d in this paper and also the local news in. All rights of publication of e Brtenes ‘herein sre aiso Teserved od | Inflation Proposals. The Senate has reached the stage in | consideration of the farm relief bill at which inflation of the currency is in| order. It has been apparent for & long | time that, sooner or later, the question of inflation would be forced to the front | by those members of Congress who be- | Heve that by increasing the amount of | currency, either through the use of the | printing presses or the -purchase of huge | smounts of silver, or both, the ills of the people today can be cured. And mow, under the leadership of Senator Huey Long of Louisiana, the inflation is- sue has been placed squarely before the Upper House. Mr. Long's amendment "proposes the purchase by the Govern- ment of silver bullion until the price reaches a ratio with gold of 14.38 to 1. Benator Wheeler of Montana has sub- mitted a substitute for the Long amend- ment, adopting the old 16 to 1 ratio of pilver and gold of the days of the late William Jennings Bryan. both come from the Democratic side of the chamber. But the G. O. P. 48 not without its inflationists. Sena- tor Prazier of North Dakota has offered a plan whereby the Government would refinance all the farm mortgages in the country, totaling about $9,000,000,000, snd run off the bank notes to accom- plish this proposal on the Government printing presses, with the value of the farms alone back of this new currency. The parliamentary situation will bring the first vote in the Senate on the ‘Wheeler 16-to-1 substitute for the Long amendment. Such s proposal was voted down, 56 to 18, when it came before the Senate in ‘the last Congress. The ‘defnand for inflation of the currency ‘Nas been on the increase in some quar- .ters in the last few months, however, ~and the inflationists may make a bet- ter showing in the Senate now. One trouble with currency inflation Mes in the fact that it would put more money into hands of people who already have money without necessarily adding a cent to the stock of money of those persons who have little or mpone. The. currency, while it would be more plentiful, would be worth far " Jess in actual purchasing power. Prices would immediately rice, and past experi- ments with currency inflation have shown that the increase in prices al- ways keeps ahead of the increase in currency. It is argued that what is needed in this country is an increase in commodity prices, and the currency infiationists insist that they present plans which would have an immediate effect on prices. They have. But what ‘earthly good would it be to & man whose nickel goes to a dime if the price of & Joaf of bread goes also from five cents #o ten? The mere incresse, in the amount of currency would not neces- sarily put more money into the hands of the poor, but cheaper money with " Jess buying power. The kind of inflation needed in this | country is business inflation, with greater employment and greater pro- ! duction, and with a greater and more | even division of the proceeds. When this kind of inflation has been achieved | the buying power of the people will | have been increased—inflated, if you‘I will. Mass consumption as well as mass production ‘will be at hand. It is idle to talk in one breath of curtail- | ing production and in the next of ex- panding the currency. It is just as ridiculous to argue there is overpro- duction when millions of people have mnone of the products which they need | and crave. The problem is make it possible for these millions to obtain and | consume the products of farm and fac- | tory. The answer is to make them producers, so that they may also be- €ome consumers. ———— | Tossing of the first base ball of the | season by the President will again arouse the envy of the eminent music director of this city who some vears ago ex- | pressed a wish that he could persuade | the President to toss a fiddle Into the | orchestra for the opening concert. —————— Some of the Senators feel that they |jeast better off with sufficient diplo- | are nearly out of the woods and arc beginning to whistle, though slightly ©ff the key with the administration. SN b T T A Job for the Army. In some ways the Army has been given the most difficult mission in its history in connection with the super- visory work with which it is charged in the rew forestry experiment. There is no doubt that the ‘best | men available for taking care of the | forestry recruits, overseeing their health and sanitation and physical training | and generally directing their activities, outside of the technical forestry work, are Army officers. ‘Their professional training has in latge measure been de- men. ' But in the miltary machine in which most of them have spent their lives. the system itself transcends in fmportance the personality of indivi- duals. The strength of the system makes up for the human deficiencies of indi- viduals, and & weak officer may survive because of the system. The system, in turn, gains much of its strength from discipline and all the traditions of dis- cipline. The system has been bullt to ‘withstand the rigorous tests of war, These pro- rookie conduct that, while doubtless causing hard-boiled drill masters of the past to turn over in thelr graves, has struck the right note. These men of the forestry army must be regarded as the volunteers in a fight ta the finish against & new sort of war. The job facing the Army officers is to make real soldiers of them, make them feel that they are in truth honorable volunteers fighting a good fight, and do it without benefit of fixed bayonets, court-martial or that particular type of “kitchen police” that other recruits, since time immemoris’, have been taught to dread. et Ambassador Luther's Mission. Dr. Hans Luther, Germany's new Am- bassador to the United States, has reached Washington and will present his credentials to President Roosevelt next week. The American Government and people are complimented by the dispatch to this Capital of a German of Dr, Luther’s eminent background. Both because of his personal worth and achievements and the fact that he rep- resents a nation which has held high place in the world's esteem, the Amer- ican people will extend him a cordial welcome. They will wish him success in a mission undertaken under condi- tions not ordinarily encountered by the new envoy of a friendly government. The Ambassador of Nazi-ruled Ger- many will find himself called upon from the outset to essay tie task of re- buildfng the structure of good will which his two immediate predecessors—Herren von Maltzan and von Prittwitz—did so much to erect and maintain. Their joint labors, setting in a year or two after the close of the World War, suc- ceeded in almost completely obliterating the tragic memories and rancors of that cataclysm. Up to a few months ago, before the Reich fell under the sway of Hitlerism, it could be said that Ger- man-American relations were as nor- | | | never waived from Fort Ehrenbreit- stein-on-Rhine as the token of a Ger- many humbled and conquered in part by American force. The German peo- ple had become our friends again, and we theirs. On America's pam, proofs of reconciliation, of a readiness to let by- gones be bygones, were ample, diversi- fled and constant. Dr. Luther, astute and accomplished student of affairs that he is, will not be long on our soil before he discovers that American opinion of Germany has un- dergone a change. He will find the sub- stratum of respect for the German people as a whole possibly a little cracked, but not destroyed. What he will ‘indubitably discern is deep-seated and widespread resentment of the re- crudescence in Germany of what was pilloried in the British House of Com- mons this week as “the old Prussianism, with added savagery, racial pride with exclusiveness.” Dr. Luther will experi- ence no difficulty in learning that American public opinion, regardless of | creed, party or section, remains pro-i foundly shocked by events which have dragged the good name of the German Fatherland into globe-wide disrepute. ‘The policies which prompted those events are part and parcel of the polit- ical creed of the party now in digta- torial control of the German state. They are therefore German official poli- cies. The Nazis are enthroned by what they claim to be the sovereign will of the German people. What the Hitler government chooses to do within the Reich’s borders is a matter for it alone to decree. But it is no less within the province of the outside world to hold its own opinion of the humanitarian justice and righteousness of such rule as now is instituted there. Dr. Luther has come to a country whose political system is based on the inalienable equality of all races and faiths, a country which has delighted to accord some of its highest honors to men whose creed and origin are anathema in the Germany of this incredible hour. As he has opportunity to observe and analyze the American scene, Dr. Luther 1s destined to be convinced that as long | as Germany continues to pursue the policies of medieval oppression now in force “either his government nor his country can expect from the American people a continuance of that whole- hearted friendship which took slow but steady root between 1922 and 1933. s Russia has frequently been the scene’ of scandalous intrigue as & part of its internal policy. In letting in the light the country once called “darkest” is at | matic illumination to permit a diag- | nosts. e It is generally admitted that Huey Long has made a great deal of noise. His constituents are developing a sin- cere and wholesome curiosity as to what the shouting is about. - - Privilege and Petitions. Article T of the*first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United tates, generally known as the “bill of rights,” provides that “Congress shall make no law respecting the establish- | ment of religion or prohibiting the free | exercise thereof; or abridging the free- ble and petition the Government for | redress of grievances.” This amend- ment is now involved in a discussion which was begun in the Senate on Fri- idny in regard to the question of “privi- | lege” in the matter of a petition laid before that body a few days ago ask- ing the dismissal of a Senator on the ground of political misbehavipr. This Senator has himself propounded a par- liamentary inquiry on the subject, ask- ing that the Senate consider whether involving life and death and survival only of the strongest. In ‘this peacctime experiment in the in the press without the risk of action did such documents are privileged to the extent that they may be published malized as if the Stars and Stripes had | dom of spesch, or of the press; or the |’ woted to learning the trick of handling | right of the people peaceably to assem- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINC for libel, holding that if they are so privileged the Senate should amend its rules, and if they are not it should “take such action as is appropriate.” On motion by the leader .of the ma- jority party in the Senat¢ the ques- { tion was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, together with the pe- tition itself. Under the sixth section of the first article of the Constitution it is stipu- lated that members of Congress “shall not be questioned in any other place for any speech or debate in elther house.” Thus everything said by mem- \dehte is “privileged.” No stit for libel can be entertained by a court on | the ground of anything thus spoken. | Quite recently the Senator who now | complains of the publication of the furious attack upon a citizen and upon dmonition by a fellow Senator that | he was abusing his privilege of im- | munity he waived that immunity, at | first without restriction as to place of | sutt, and then with restriction to the | State which he represents in Congress. | Suit has been filed in the courts of the guage was uttered and where the offense, if any, against the law was committed. The question of privilege in respect to public documents, including peti- tions addressed to and received by Con- the press. Thus far no serious ques- tion has been raised regarding it. | adoption of & rule by the Benate would | possibly not deny privilege to sucl': | papers. A question of constitutionality would arise as to whether a mere rule could supplant the guarantee granted abridgement of the freedom of the press and permits the presentation of peti- tions. In any case, the question would be more effectively and appropriately raised by one who has not himself so greatly abused his own privilege of free and unquestioned debate. —— e Dr. William H. Walker, brother ot James, was acquitted along With asso- ciates of charges that funds were ob- tained fraudulently by fee-splitting. A reform in the method of appointing physicians by city officials was recom- mended. All of which is a little remi- niscent of the Scotch verdict, *“not guilty, but must not do it again. —— e A report that Lady Astor threatened a camera man with a golf club creates no surprise. Photography in politics is a matter of course, but Hobody likes to be interrupted when trying for a diffieult play on the links. e —r—e— ‘Washington base ball started the sea- son cheerily and all will be well if the temperamental uplift throughout the town, including the United States Capi- tol, can be maintained throughout the season. ——————— If an arrangement can be made to prevent future wars, an enormous sav- ing to the taxpayer may be effected simply by eliminating the one item of overhead pertaining to espionage. o ‘The police are successful in dealing with ordinary bank hold-ups, but re- quire time in dealing with some of higl: finanée’s “inside jobs.” — raeye————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Eternal Price Tag. You may struggle for picture or poem, ‘You may toil with inventive finesse; The people—you think you can show ‘em, Superior ways, more or less. Regardless of all your endeavor To work an improvement so vast, In a way, unobtrusive but clever, The price tag looms up at the last. It will lurk in prospectus or charter, It is there in the eloquent speech— Even conscience gets into the barter ‘When Wisdom’s assuming to preach. And whether we're rugged or gentle, Or going too slow or too fast, Like an ancient display, monumental, ‘The price tag locms up at the last. Ownership. “Do you believe in Government own- ership?” “Not yet,” answered Senator Sorghum, “Of course, the Government holds a lien on everything anybody owns. But I | don't think it will ever feel compelled to foreclose the morigage.” Jud Tunkins says the devil doesn't take the hindmost as often as he does the fellow who rushes to the front too fast. Use and Pleasure. | A golden dollar, like an ax of steel, Is not for mortals merely to enjoy. A mighty usefulness it may reveal, But it is fraught with danger as a toy. Aids to Attractiveness. “Philosophy is & great help in pre- | serving a lovely, smiling countenance.’ “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne. “So | is a cosmetic shop.” | / S | “It will be difficult to get rid of war,” long as poets, artists and inventors con- tinue to glorify it.” In All Languages. The Tower of Babel reappears After a wondrous lapse of years. Although confused is the acclaim, The general motives are the same. And makes the enterprise a flop. {said Uncle Eben, “but if dey keeps | makin’ workin time shorter an’ pay | smailer, I 'spec I ain' g'inter have no business.” ] A Ten-Year Plan. From the Schenectady Gazette. If only an act of Congress could qualify Americans to govern themselves in 10 years. e The Geography Teacher. | Prom the Cincinnati Times-Star. Japan resumes her self-imposed task of instructing the world in Far Eastern ¢rom the Dayion Daily News. A turtle died recently in London at uu”:otm. But then s turtie never vel the pace GP kills, | bers of the two houses in the course of | gress, is one of great importance to| The | by the first amendment, which forbids | said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “so | Each struggles hard to reach the top | “I tries to mind my own business,” | “Doesn't this place smell good?” The customer who made this remarx | was walking through the section of the | store devoted to plants and gardening | supplies. All around him were freshly-dug | shrubs and rose bushes, wrapped in | horticultural moss and burlap, the roots thus kept moist. It was this earthy, damp smell, com- bined with the natural Iragrances of various barks, which blessed the sensi- tive nostrils of the discriminating. It is this same rich odor, the fra- grance of the good earth itself, which itself. ok % % It is not enough to smell & good smell, not every second of the time, but some of the time, at least. ‘There is more intelligence in the nose than many persons would give that or- gan credit for possessing. On every side the world is filled with are possible to be tasted only through the nostrils. Tha late Henry T. Finck wrote a book, “Food and Flavor,” in which he proved, at least to his own satisfaction from food odors. In his book entitled “Gardening with Brains” he says that “fragrance is the of music and flavor the soul of food. girl without a soul.” EEE During the past year several new and glorious garden bovks have dealt largely with this same matter, that of fra- grance, especially as manifested in those old-time favorites, now happily coming into favor again, the herbs of all kinds. Mr. Finck, remembered by many as a great, if not the greatest, musical critic, made it a habit to carry a tiny vial of oil of bergamot in his pocket. This he brought into use in the con- cert hall, if atmospheric conditions got wfl.ovemowerlng for his sensitive nos- trils. Bergamot is the old-fashioned ‘“bee balm"” of grandmother’s kitchen garden. There is a place we know where tne darker variety of it grows entirely around the base of a great tree trunk. Just now it is getting green again, preparatory to shooting aloft its full two feet or more. It is a green collar around the tree, and if the inquisitive strayer that way happens to break off one of those slight stems, and applies it to his nose ne will whiff a natura: essence, right out of the ground ana the dew. * ok * ‘To smell and to taste bits of leaf and branch seems to be a habit witn many garden lovers. It is one to pe recommended, except to those fastidious persons who perhaps swallowed the “germ theory” too completely in thew row legendary youth." Everything about a garden has a fra- grance, if one's nose is attuned property. In addition to all the individual smells of varieties, there is the grand aroma of the place itself. This varies from day to day, and season to season. The smell of Spring is different from the flavor of Autumn. Winter blankets many fragrances, but sends up one its own. Summer, on a stagnant day, has a Excerpts From Newsp: E SOIR, Brussels.—When one does not have the occasion to speak it, one very promptly forgets any language, ‘even a language ma- terial. Such a phenomenon is| rticularly noticeable in the United | tates of America; the formula there now is more than ever one country, one | language, one people. With the virtual races there are fusing with a corre- spondingly increased rapidity in the great American crucible. The parents may speik yet their Polish, their French, their German, their Italian, but their children speak only English, and take into no account the odds and ends of the parents’ tongue which they per- haps may be able to gibber. The off- spring then generally finish up by marrying sn American having in most cases no knowledge whatever of a for- eign speech or dialect, and so their last association with an ancestral vocabulary goes by the board. Due to this sime abatement in im- migration, newspapers published in a language other than the English are fast disappearing, too. In spite of their best efforts, riodicals in Ger- man, PFrench, Polisf, Italian. Yiddish. Swedish, Yugoslavian and Dutch are losing most of their clientele. Some are discontinuing. Foreign languages in America are on their way. It is only a question of time until English elone is heard and written. The young- er generations, regardless of their an- tecedents, are all Americons. They think and live like Americans and re- member no more the land or speech of their parents or grandparents. “Ubi bene ibi patria” (“Where it is well with you, there is your country!"), said the old Roman. Americans, native or for- eign-born, thus imitate, and emulate, the Romans. Herein is seen for the United States one and perhaps the greatest benefit of the depression, for we are beginning | to see that there have been some bene- fits in the depression. The checking of the torrential immigration from abroad has given that land a chance to assimi- late more completely all the varied and oftentimes mutually discordant elements which meet upon her shores. Had these portentous invasions not been drastically restricted the whole character and des- tiny of America might have changed, and not changed for the better. It is apparent, even without any dissimula- tion of the present facts, that the pres- tige and idealism of that Nation have been brought not to a more elevated and progressive sphere, but rather low- red and deteriorated in the striking of new averages. * | * ok ok Marvels of Baptist | Mission Farm Told. Bangkok Daily M3il.—A Sino-Baptist | farm colony in Siam, where the soil is miraculously fertile, where even the pariah dogs grow to a terrifying size and where both children and grownups, un- der the auspices of the local Baptist movement, are so fat and healthy that they have no difficulty in holding the | the Bangkok Rotary Club at the weekly luncheon meeting yesterday by the Rev. Adam Groesbeck of the American Bap- tist Mission. Mr. Groesbeck is stationed |in China, but is visiting Bangkok in | connection with the property matters concerned with the Baptist Church in Samperg. “The only way those people down there can grow rice,” he said, “is by making a dam across the ‘crick’ that runs through the colony land, but the trou- ble is the dam won't hold the ‘crick’ back after it's been raining for 9 or 10 weeks, because they don't have any stones or rocks or anything—only this rich soil—to make the dam stronger with, and 50, if any of you architec- turally-minded men could draw a de- sign for a dam that would hold- the water in the ‘crick’ after the rainy sea- son and ff youll do it up in Englisn Tl do my best to put it into Chinese and I can assure you it will be & boon to those people down there in solving their problem.” * % % % Rose Gardens Protected In Rhine Province. Cologne Gazette.—The municipal &u- thorities of Trier (Treves), in Rhine province, have decided this year to petition in question engaged in o Must be kept in mind mn the garden | one must be thoroughly conscious of it. | | 8 number of things, and some of them | | District of Columbia, wherein the lan- and to many of his readers, that nine- | tenths of the pleasure of eating arises | soul of flowers as expression is the soul | A blossom without it is like a beautiful | stoppage of immigration, the diverse s dogs, was described to the members of |- iTON, D. C., SATURDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. | lush quality wrapped in heat, lending a perfume delightful. P Surely the odor of fresh earth is like nothing else in the world. It was this aroma, finding its way | through burlap, whigh caused the store | customer to wrinkle his nose, like a rap- I'bit with lettuce, and exclaim: “Doesn’t this place smell good!™ It is compounaed of what? Nothing more than real things, cer- tain elements, as they are called, which, | by themselves, would “smell strong.” as | we say, but which, blended with par- | ticles “of crumbled 'stone, as earth is, result in a blended fragrance. One must be conscious of the enjoy- | ment. 0 get the full flavor. It will not 1 do to walk in the dew without talking | about -the dew. * ok %o Let us say, “This is the dew,” so | that it may receive its full meed of | praise at the time. Perhaps somewhere there exists an intelligence which rejoices whenever its work is praised. The most lowly person may feel this, if he is permitted, or, if he permits him- self, he may feel sure that he has right to judge of the far-lying intelli- gence, great though it may be, by the | little one which he calls his own. He has no other way of judging. That was why Emerson said that thoughts of turtle must be all turtle.” * % X Even these clods of earth, lying here beneath the trowel in the Springtime, :mi‘.e clod thoughts, one may feel cer- ain. Thoughts are emissions; are_emissions. ‘The means of detection are different. It is not foolish to believe that cer- fragrances ceive fragrances than other persons. There can be no doubt about it, cer- tain noses do smell a great deal more than other nostrils. The good and the bad of the olfactory organs comes to him who smells keenly, appreciatively and knowingly. The scent of violets is but one of a long list, known to all who wander at times fn gardens, large or small. “The fragrance of flowers exhilarates and intoxicates me like the music of | Schubert, Chopin, Wagner or Grieg,” | wrote Finck. Such scents may be so delicate as to leave the nostrils of less appreciative | persons cold. Not by its quantity, but by its quality, is a fine fragrance to be judged. Here again the superiority of quality shows itself, not the gross quality, often stressed, but the real thing. * ok ok ok ‘Water may be a poor transmitting agent, as it is sometimes called, but it | has & power all its own to bring out the ;ldi:vou and fragrances of a home gar- n. No doubt that is one of the many rea- sons the gardener loves the rain, it brings to him the homely odor of grow- ing things in profusion. Wherever he goes, during a rain, even along the street, there comes to him these simple | odors, fresh from the very heart of | Nature. Then there exists no reason ifor being other than he is, if he is able to grasp these simple treasures of the everyday. He consoies himself for lack of other graspings with the fact of his grasping of these. Who shall say, in that famous long run, that he is not the wealthiest person alive? High Lights on the Wide World apers of Other Lands “Park”), with iron rail of the same déscription as those which separate the public from the more dangerous zoologi- cal exhibits. Not that the populace of that environ is in danger of the thorns and brambles, but rather because of the Perils the roses are in from the public. These beautiful roses, of all varieties and colors, continue to exert an irre- uble temptation to flower lovers, se name is legion. These not only desire to look at the blooms, but to carry them away as well. In sea- sons, often scarcely enough were left on the bushes to justify the trouble other people with higher concepzions of civic pride and neighborly duty took to visit the floral displays, or rather what were intended to such. An animal sanctuary is also to be established on the Kestenberg, where mountain goats, deer, elk and roebuck can roam and graze undisturbed in the wildness of their native haunts. The barriers about this domain will serve a double purpose, rrevennnc both the wandering away of the animals and the quite likely impulses of divers nature lovers to secure a shoulder of Alpine mutton, or a haunch of venison. Op- { portunities enough exist for poachers without encouraging their filchings. * F ok X British Auto Toll Brings New Rules. Irish Independent, Dublin.—Every year over 6,600 persons are killed and 200,000 injured in road accidents in Great Britain. In order to compensate the sufferers, the House of Lords has, with the lord chancellor's approval, given second reading to a bill which ‘Eowa a fundamental change in tne w. Pedestrians or their dependenui are, it is proposed, to get compensation for such accidents without having. to prove that the motorist was in any way negligent. This principle has al- ready been adopted in other countries. Lord Buckmaster, in the course of the debate, called attention to an an- omaly that the Irish Independent has often discussed. As the law stands, 1t @ boy or girl is killed through the neg- ligence of a motorist, the parents caa not recover a penny compensation, nut even medical or funeral expenses. The present traffic bill gives the Dail an opportunity to change this unsatisfac- tory state of the law. ——— e Getting Together Again. From the Schenectady Gazette. ‘There are indications on both sides of our Northern border of a desire, with the advent of the new Washington administration, to further the cause of friendly commercial relations. Plans in the United States and Canada alike have this object in view. Our Northern neighbor is a customer whose purchases in the past have been in the hundreds of millions of dollars The trade war inaugurated by the passage of our Hawley-Smoot tariff seriously interferred with this, driving Canada toward England, although sep- ated from it by thousands of miles of ocean. To seek to recapture a large part of our lost trade is far from a hopeless undertaking. Canadians prefer to buy many things from us rather than from abroad. And they have articles to sell us which it would be to our advantage to_buy. But_while Washington has been en- gaged® in the near-sighted policy of throwing up higher and higher bar- riers against Canadian products to fur- ther the interests of the comparativel few interested in this policy. and wit the Dominion retaliating, our trade has suffered heavily. A most desirable mar- ket for our surplus has been closed, with its natural result of having add- ed to ‘the unemployed in the United States. Restoration of friendly commercial relations with our neighbor to the north will prove of mutual benefit. The fact that a demand for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of our goods exists beyond that invisible line that separates two great countries is sufficient incen- tive to induce us to effeci a friendly working agreement with the Cana- dians. The gain to the vast number of our people will offset any possible loss protect the rose gardens in the Weis»- hauswald (“White House Wood,” -er to a few who might be adversely af- tected. “the | tain persons are better endowed to re-| APRIL 15, 1933. THE LIBRARY TABLE BY SARAH G. BOWERMAN. MODERN ITALY. By George B. Mc- Clellan. Princeton: Princeton Uni- versity Press. The professor of economic history, emeritus, of Princeton University, with- out attempt at original scholarship, here tells in informal fashion the story of the rise of Italy to a position of im- portance in Europe, from her unifica- tion in 1866 to the present time. “The close of 1866 found United Italy, at long last, in being, but with Rome, her logical capital, still to be won.” Na- poleon was, perhaps, the first to con- ceive the idea of a united Italy. When he invaded Italy in 1796 he found it a loose group of about a dozen states, with little in common. Austria domi- nated Northern Italy and Hapsburgs tuled in most of the duchies there. ‘When the downfall of Napoleon came Metternich was practically master of Ttaly, and the aim of unification seemed to have been given its quietus. The diplomats at the Congress of Vienna (1814-15) partitioned and parceled out | Italy according to the usages of such post-war congresses. The Austrian yoke was heavier than ever. Then came the remarkable patriotic movement which centered about Victor Emmanuel and |the House of Savoy and in which Mazzini, Garibaldi and Cavour were leaders. In 1860 the Kingdom of Italy came into being and in immediately succeeding years Sicily, 1870, after the Franco-German War had compelled France to withdraw her LIFETIME. By Lord New York: Henry protectorate of Rome, a plebiscite was held, which resulted in the union of | Rome with Italy, and Victor Emmanuel | entered the city as his capital. Today his grandson is King of Italy, some think a puppet king, with Mussolini as | dictator. Italy and the World War and the rise of Mussolini to power, with his government philosophy of Fascismo, are treated with brevity and excellent selec- tiveness. The chapter “Fascismo at Work” presents a compact summary of | government organization and methods |in Italy today. Prof. McCellan bal- ances his judgments and is neither | denunciatory nor enthusiastically sym- | pathetic. For example: “All of this, it may be said, offends our democratic | sentiments, but Fascismo has never | claimed to be democratic, and has in- | sisted that inefficiency is the price of | democracy.” Education and social wel- | fare have fared well under Fascismo | and “during its decade of life Fascismo | has done more for Italian art than was | accomplished during the preceding half | century.” LESSONS OF A | Baden-Powell. Holt & Co. | “I didn't want to write this yarn ‘Ib:)ut myself,” says Lord Baden-Powell of this autobiograpiy. “but several dif- | ferent people have asked me to write |some of my experiences because they | might be helpful to some young fel- | lows in aiming their lives.” This states | the purpose of the founder of the Boy | Scout and Girl Guide movement. which | has spread to all parts of the'world. It | probably sums up also just what tne book accomplishes. |ten, without any attemt at literary quality, with pleasantly didactic mo- | tivation, and many good anecdotes. Lord Baden-Powell has lived two lives, |not in any discreditable sense and not | simultaneously. His first was as an | army officer and ended when he was | retired at 53, as a major general. Then began his second life, when he married and founded the “vast family of Boy | Scouts and Girl Guides.” He has seen “this movement grow from the tiny acorn of 25 boys encamped on Brownsea Island into a brotherhood and sister- hood which embraces almost every Clv- ilized country in the world, with a cen- sus, this year, of 2,900,000.” GREAT AMERICANS AS SEEN BY THE POETS. An anthology. By Burton Stevenson. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. 5 “The Home Book of Verse,” prepared and edited by Burton Stevenson, is the most comprehensive of anthologies. It is the piace where one is most Lkely to find 2ny elusive bit of verse which haunts one's mind from the remote or nearer past. If any verse which has ever had many readers has escaped Mr. Steven- son in his different editions of this large collection it is a mystery which he him- self will have to solve. He is also a writer of many mystery ies and ro- mances of adventure. “Great Ameri- cans,” though a smaller anthology than “The Home Book of Verse” still has considerable bulk. It includes modern verse, as well as that of our older poets— Lowell, Lanier, Whittier, Holmes, Bryant, Longfellow, Julia Ward Howe, Poe and Whitman. A few English poets appear, as Thackeray, “Poczhontas,” | whose poem, “Henry Wadsworth Long- | tellow,” is quoted. The classification is | by subjects: Great Presidents, great statesmen, great soldiers, great sailors, great writers, great adventurers and “A Miscellany,” which gives harbor to such poems as Longfellow's “Paul Revere's Ride,” Whittier's “Barbara Frietchie” and Thomas Buchanan Read’s “Sheri- dan’s Ride.” There is an excellent in- dex of authors, of titles end of first lines, as well as the classified table of contents. BLUE DAYS AT SEA. By H. V. Mor- ton. New York: Dodd Mead & Co. Mr. Morton's books of travel, though practical enough for any one not a technocrat or a technologist, are far from the ordin; guide-travel books. They are delighttully written essays about the history, literature, scenery, jpeople and customs of the countries concerning which he chooses to write. His four searches, “In Search of Eng- land,” “In Search of Scotland,” “In Search of Ireland,” “In Search of Wales,” can be guaranteed to make any one but the most inveterate stay-at-homs long to take the next boat for Cobh, Ply- mouth’ or Southampton. “Blue Days al Sea,” of less size than the four books mentioned, is written in the same hap- py, shrewd style. It consists of one long essay, “A Visit to the Navy,” about 2o short ones on subjects connected with travel and the people one meets while traveling—or ‘while staying at home. A book which is destined to find a place in many a suitcase whose owner is starting off on a trip, if it is only a trip to New York. THE BROWNSVILLE MURDERS. By B. S. Keirstead and D. Frederick Campbell. New York: The MacMik lan Co. Mystery stories come and go—come in ever increasing torrents and go with | corresponding rapidity. The pattern or | framework shows too plainly through | |the padding of most of them, but oc- casionally one presents a riddle less easily discerned, with characters and atmosphere above the average standard- ized type. “The Brownsville Murders” is such a tale. The drive of Brian ‘Woodworth and Isabel Fairweather, the girl of his choice, at least for the time | being, from Quebec to his home in Fredericton, is not as peaceful as a drive in rural Canada should be. First the car nearly runs over the body of a man lying in the road. a man who has obviously been recently murdered. Nearby lies the body of a girl, bound hand and foot. This is nearly enough to upset Brian's masculine poise and to shatter Isabel's feminine nerves, but it is not the end of the shocks of that dark night. Within an hour another murder is committed under Brian's eyes. This looks very bad for Canada, and the authors are Canadians. They have been courteous in not having these thred-fold horrors happen in the over- burdened United States. The detective work following the murders is shrewd and not of the transparent sort to bore an intelligent person. . * kK ¥ In the five stories of his book “This Feople” Ludwig Lewisohn embodies the conflict between Hebrew loyalty and the indifferent, or antagonistic, general social environment in which the He- brew must live. There is much of mar- tyrdom in the stories. Sometimes the conflict is between members of the same family or friends, because one adheres to Jewish tradition, while an- other has become or wishes to become assimilated into the Gentlle society of Naples and | Venice were added to the kingdom. In| It is simply writ- | , | that “to Grover Cleveland belongs the BY FREDERI ‘There is no other agency in the world that can answer as many legiti- mate_questions as our free Informa- tion Bureau in Washington, D. C. This highly organized institution has been built up and is under the personal direction of Frederic J. Haskin. By keeping in constant touch with Federal bureaus and other educational enter- prises it is in a position to pass on to you authoritative information of the highest order. Submit your queries to the staff of experts wi services are put at your free disposal. There is no charge except 3 cents in coin or stamps | for return postage. Do not use post | cards. Address The Evening Star In-| formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, | Director, Washington, D. C. Q. Who has batted a base ball the farthest?>—C. S. A. The record is held by Ed Walsh of the Chicago White Sox, who drove a ball 419 feet !, irich on Comiskey | Field day at Chicago, September 30, 1911, / Q. What is the police name for the | scrutiny of suspects under a glaring | light for the benefit of detectives in| a darkened room?—G. S. C. A. It is called the platform line-up. Each morning many cities have such a scrutiny and it is usually called the morning line-up. Q. What are the leading organiza- tions for and against censorship of motion pictures?—V. I. A. There are several assoclations for censorship in the United States and several against censorship. The lead- ing organization sponsoring censorship {of motion pictures is the National | Board of Review of Motion Pictures, | 70 Pifth avenue, New York City. The | leading organization against censor- ship is the Natonal Council of Free- dom From Censorship, 100 Pifth ave- nue, New York City, which was or- ganized by the United States Civil Lib- erties Association. Q. How many capitals has Guate- mala had?—F. A. A. It has had three. Ciudad Vieja, Antigua and Guatemala City. A vol- canic eruption destroyed Ciudad Vieja and an earthquake caused the removal | of the capital from Antigua. | Q. How many fairs are held an- nually A. Al in the United States?>—L. V. bout 2,400, Has a collection of Answers to ons, by Prederic J. Haskin, evt | been made in book form?—H. F. W. | A, Two such collections have been | made. Each of these books contains | 5,000 Answers to Questions. The sec- ond volume has just been printed, and Mr. Haskin is offering his readers a | limited supply of autographed and | numbered copies at $1 each. His ad- | dress is Washington, D. C. A."When a person is invited to dine at 7 o'clock at what time should he ar- | rive?—E. F. P. A. It is correct for a dinner guest to | arrive approximately 10 minutes before the dinner hour. Q. Did Caruso —;c_sn San_ P'n!‘:ctsco e night before the earthquake and fire?—L. T. A. He sang in “Carmen” with the Metropolitan Opera Co. on the evening of April 17, 1906, and was scheduled to sing the next evening. The e, | with its attendant fire, came early in | the morning of the 18th. Q. I am working on a paper about | the geography of the United States and Q. | Questi ANSWERS TO QUESTION s C J. HASKIN. mmppfl’?tdldvmhnmrfi- Huzh.—ll . of thé le of the United States and one-] of the peo- ple of Canada live within a night's ride from Pittsburgh. . How large is the main m poolQ in front of the Lineoln in Washington?—C. P. A. The reflecting Jong and 160 feet 3 Q. What does it mean when a vote is I;kd'n (mdunu' &n‘lul,: 2 i of voting?—M. A. It indicates his decision not to vote on the measure. Q. What was the real name of the lutt;u_rqvhx wm\N under the name Bul- wer?—G. A. N. . His name wids Edwatd Earle Bulwer. After his mother's he inherited her estate and assumed her surname, Ly?.\lmnl known as Bul- wer-Lytton. . He was raised to the peer- age as the first Baron Lytton. Q. How large were the b the Temple of the Sun at 8. P. A. The limestone forming the Te:?le of the Sun was quarried in that vicinity. Some of the stones were 60 feet ling and 13 feet thick. Pifty-four columns supported the roof, and these were 72 feet high. Q. Is there a law which makes vet- erans of wars exempt from taxation in all States?—J. T. . A. There is no Federal law which makes veterans of all wars exempt from State or local taxation. Some States make provisions for exemption for cer- tain veterans. Q _Is the island which is a memorial to the late President Roosevelt called Roosevelt Island or Theodore Roosevelt Island?—J. C. A. It was first named Roosevelt Island, then by act of Congress, ap- proved February 11, 1933, the name was changed to Theodore Roosevelt Island. is 2,027 feet stones in eck?— Q. Are peas and sweet corn better on the days they are picked?—W. M. A. They lose half their sweetness in 24 hours at Summer temperature. Q. When were the present $100 gold- backed certificates first Illued‘I-L.."l", A. The first delivery of gold certifi- cates, series of 1928, was made to the 'ln'ell'l;;rer of the United States October How long has Sakhalin been dn- ed>—S, R. F. . Sakhalin’s history begins with the Stone Age, relics of which and of the Bronze Age are still extant, as seen in houses, bones and ‘implements discov- ered. The isiand formerly bel to the Chinese Empire, but early the nineteenth century it was annexed by | the Japanese, who ceded it to Russia in 1875. By the treaty of H. (1905), following Japanese War, the southern Q habit; A Q. What makes a person eligible to be listed in Who's Who?—@G. Cf‘:". A. Eligibles are of two classes: those who are selected on account of 17y, and thoss whi bitrarily country, jose who are arl included on account of official position or | T want to know whether you can give —civil, military, naval, equcatianal. Tradition Gets “In Veterans’ Cutting of $400,000,000 from veterans’ compensation by order of President Rooszveit is re by the country as a reversal of the traditional policy of great liberality to those who have |served in war, The action is credited to courage on the part of the Executive, in view of ancient practice and modern political expediency. “It is simply an unprecedented per- formance in American public finance,” says the New York Times, while recog- | nizing that “in no other way could he | have even approximately redeemed his campaign pledge to save 25 per cent of |the Govgrnment _ expenses.” ‘The Charleston (S. C.) Evening Post recalls credit for the first stand” on veterans’ compensation, and the Post exclaims: “How that sturdy statesman would re- joice at the achievement of his suc- cessor!” The Buffalo Evening News, however, - points out that “with the $400.000,000 cut fronv pensions by Pres- ident Rocsevelt, the expenditures on account of the veterans still will be ut equal to the combined cost of maintaining the Army and the Navy.” “Times have changed,” observed the Richmond Times-Dispatch. “Economy {bad to be practiced. It was fortunate that at this juncture a man came to the presidency who was not afraid to act.” The Salt Lake Deseret News adds that “in the spirit of the scrvice they gave to their country in another crisis, the veterans will accept the meenc action with fortitude.” The coln State Journal holds that “the President must be congratulated for hundun¥ this matter in a brave, fair way.” The. - idence Journal comments: “He could do no less. His own high sense of honor compeiled it. The electorat expected it. The budgetary situation demanded it. The future, as well as the present, we‘llhre of the Nation required it.” Full provision is made, in some cases increased,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle, “for those who were disabled by the war and for the dependents of those who died in it. This is the first debt of America and must be paid, no matter what else has to be omitted or curtailed. Provision is also made for disabilities in peace- time military service, and even for the more severely disabled whose condition Wwas not caused by the war. Most of the non-service disabilities are eut out, but there is provision for reapnsider- ing any classes of these for which a real case can be made, prior to the date of the next payments. This is a sacrifice, by men who sacrificed be- fore, but it .comes at a time when everybody else is sacrificing also.” “The 'President's position on the subject,” in the opinion of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “is one of the most valuable of his present or po- tential accomplishments. “He has cut the Gordian knot of politico-veteran | influence in government in such de- cisive fashion as to place a criterion at the disposal of his chain of suc- cessors.” The Omaha World-Herald, from a similar standpoint, offers the comment: “In justice to the veterans it must be said that they alone were not responsible for these demands or | ( victims, in a measure of politicians and many a man in public office, seek- ing to carry the favor of a great or- ganized group, exploited the nobility of war sacrifices in order to keep afloat the puny ybubble of his own political fortun€. Yhe new order sweeps away a disgraceful period and restores the self-respect of the veteran.” “The retrenchments square with the of both pledges es,” states the grnne Spokesman-Review, while the lahom: people are aroused a City Times asserts that “the to a point where economy in government becomes good politics as well as good government.” The Rutland Herald avers that it took “nerve, resolution and a very high type of patriotiyn.” The Boston Transeript offers the judgment: “Temporary re- the majority. “The Saint” is the story of the martyrdom of a young man, son of a wealthy rationalistic father, who {Hor these payments. They became the | p Heavy Blow Pay Reduction denominations and accentuating differ- ences in polity of creed. The organiss- tion cf the Pederal Council of Churches of Christ in America was a face-abcut from isolated depominationalism. Neo surrender of creed is_involved on the part of any one of the more than & score of denominations with a present communicant membership of more than 22,000,000. This is rather a unism, indeed, in behalf of causes and activities which they can unitedly suj . ‘There has been found to be enough unil ‘L: the great central things for which several denominations stand to common ground fer action. ‘The movement is not an effort ‘to create unity, but a recognition and ex- ession of & unity that already exists. lere is gocd reason to expect that from this acting together advance will be made to a greater measure of fellow- ship in things of the spirit as well as co-operation in the “temporalities” which are incidentzl to spiritual enhm: ment—the practical needs cf daily And while it is a federation of Protest- ant churches, it has been also “a bridge” between them and the Catholic Church, on the one hand, and the Synagogue, on the other, cultivating a breadth of sym- pethy for these great religicus bodies and fostering an attitude of mutual respect and good will among the diverse . groups. On&oltl:esuudm;olfis council was to secure & larger combined influence for the churches of Christ in all matters affecting the moral and social condition of the pscple. lally has it given voice to the desirq for m'm flll earth mt? in’llm of inlon- national co-cperation for promoting it. But more important than any of concrete programs of werk which Federal Council has carried out is fact t the council is itself a demc stration of the spirit of unity. In fts own fellowship and in its relationsh! with other bodies it has shown that churches are not soctarian and sepa- ratist in spirit, but can and will work together in a great common cause, give Awarded the Weapon. From the Dayton Daily News. wives who haven't learned a gun. Women’s - Talent. From the Omaha World-Herald. E Miss Perkins seems to be the first Secretary of Labor we have had some time who can think up ideas for putting men to work. Women always have been good at that. Movie Morals. Prom the Dayton Daily News. Some one charges that the movieX morals are getting locse. In fact, some producers admit that they are cleaning up, even at the box office. Chances. Prom the Dayton Daily News. devotes r;i.r:la:lr toht.he ul’Wc‘e'lk of the % A . “Bolshevik” trays & victim of gfli ti-Judaism,