Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1933, Page 8

HE EVENING STAR 'y With Sunday Morning Edition. ! WASHINGTON, D. C. WUESDAY........April 18, 1933 Y¥HEODORE W. NOYES....Editor Y R P e AN ¥he Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th_St. and Pennsyivania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t. {¥hicago Office: Lake Michigan Building. European Office: 14 He&fl!t 8t, London. Englanc o ~ Rate by Carrier Within the City. gfi _Even‘lnx [ AT 'sf-'r'“‘ per month nd 8u on 4 Bundass) . 60c per month w e Sunday Star Sc per copy ndays Collection made at the end of each month. Orders may be sent in by mail of telephone NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ¥r., $10.00: 1mo., 85¢ yr.. $6.00: 1mo., 50c Datly only Bunday only . yr. $4.00; 1mo.. 40c All Other States and Canada. Dally and Sunday...1yr., $12.00; 1 mo., $1.00 Daily only .... 1yr, $800; 1mo., 75¢ Bunday only 1yr, $5.00; 1mo. 50¢ | Member of the Associated Press. The Associnted Press 1s exclusively entitled %o the use for republication of all news dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise cred- et et AR R ot Bubheatton of ublished herein. rights of Epecial dispatches herein sre also reserved. — j fHonight's Anti-Soviet Meeting. | /Tt 1s fitting that Washington has been Bhosen as the scene of an impressive pational demonstration of protest peatnst the proposal to accord American diplomatic recognition to the Russian BSoviet government. Seldom has there Pbeen assembled in favor of a peace- time cause a more significant league of ppinion than that which will find ex- slon at the hands of well-known zens of all ranks in the Washing- on Auditorium tonight. Their words il have, as they deserve to have, an jpudience immeasurably larger than the Ivisible one to which they are to be ad- ‘dressed. Radio has few opportunities or the dissemination of more useful blic information than it will carry on this occasion. The American Legion geserves the country's congratulations for launching the meeting. A mere tabulation of the organiza- tions which will participate indicates the wide range of support arrayed ainst recognition of Communism by Ee United States Government., Among e bodies which demand continuance the anti-recognition policy main- by four Presidents in succession %eand, to date, by President Roosevelt— jpre the American Federation of Labor, [American Coalition of Patriotic So- tieties, Sons of the American Revolu- tion, National Sojourners, Junior Orcer Pt American Mechanics, Sons and Paughters of America, General Fed- eration of Women's Clubs, American War Mothers, Military Order of the World War, Disabled American Vet- ans, American Women's Legion, ::-swrn Star, National Patriotic Coun £il, American Vigilant Intelligence Fed- ‘pution, Daughters of the Union, League bt War Veteran Guardsmen, National triotic Council, National Security ague, Reserve Officers’ Association of e United States, United States ughters of 1812, United Spanish War Veterans and American Legion ‘Buxiliaries, The arguments against establishment bt official relations with red autocracy Bt Moscow are too well known to re- iguire restatement. The moral certainty that recognition would officially open the way to ruthless Soviet propaganda is the strongest of them. Less under- stood are the arguments of those groups Which are fomenting the drive to divert | the new administration at Washington from the path consistently trodden by Jte four immediate predecessors. Their | Yplea is based broadly on the contention that recognition would mean more busi- jpess for American commerce and in-| . Little or nothing is said of he Communist government's gnawing idesire, indeed its urgent necessity, to ‘obtain long-term credits here for pur- rhases, or, failing that, to hornswoggle the United States into some scheme of Government-guaranteed credits to Rus- ja, elong the lines which the British gfl German governments have found costly. ‘One thing, it would be supposed, hould suffice to give pause to those well- aning Americans who have become uaded, honestly no doubt, that rec- tion would be a good thing. That s that Soviet Russia is pledged, as it BIways has been pledged, to leave no *wne unturned to overthrow “capitalist” ‘governments like our own. As late as uary 7, 1933, Stalin addressed Com- unist party leaders in Moscow as fol- Vst Our own camp is being increased hroughout the world by the successes of Rhe five-year plan. This means that letarian revolutions are threatening he capitalist world and that these suc- esses are mobilizing _ revolutionary No one can doubt now that the orces of all countries against capital- eaning of the five-year plan, far from a private matter of the Soviet gnlon‘ has international potentialities h!hflut limit. 11t 1s the business of the American people and their government to see to that the Soviet “camp” is not per- tted to pitch its tents under the offi- 1 and protecting aegis of a Russian Pmbassy at Washington, thence to rry on its campaign for a “proletarian volution™ in the United States. * —————————— ¥ Babotage, one of the ugliest words in human speech, may yet be employed to plgnify the disabling of the entire ma- khinery of civilization. ——.——s Save These at Least. The statement of Dr. A. Barklie Coulter before the Senate Committee considering the District of Columbia mppropriation bill for 1934, printed in !The Star yesterday, was graphic in the highest degree. “I come,” he said, “to Btate the case of six hundred persons Who will die of tuberculosis in the Dis- frict during 1933. Most of these per- will die from neglect.” The words ¥ing with chalienge. No citizen, hear- fng or reading them, can avoid the guestion which they raise, the question Bt responsibility, the question of social pbligation. + 'Tuberculosis is, first, a curable disease, f@nd, second, a community danger. The “fact is that many, if not all, of those to whom Dr. Coulter referred can be ‘fltored to health, but in the event hat they are not so restored, each and “pvery one of them may be a source of dpontagion to others. There is, then, double reason why nothing should be to handicap physicians in their |3 ort, to deal with the problem which|the farm bill. Such assurance Was|world whether you scrap erma tuberculosis patients constitute, given the Senate by no Jess s -person- with them, They will die if they are neglected, but before they die they may infect double or treble their own number. Experience has taught thinking men and women that tuberculosis is s foe that cannot be toyed with. There is only one sensible way to deal with such an enemy, and that is the way of forthright, unceasing and relentless at- tack—a campaign for which money is imperatively necessary; not a great deal of money, but certainly enough. Some authorities belleve that the white plague, as it has been called, is funda- mentally & fruit of poverty. If that judgment be correct, then is it not plain that, regardless of what other arguments there may be, it is the height of folly to attempt & temporary saving of pennies at an eventual cost of thou- sands of dollars? Dr. Coulter did his duty. He spoke with intimate know®: ~= well as with Christian sympathy. Surely, his plea is generally echoed in the community, and just as certainly it must have awak- ened pity in the hearts of the com- mittee personnel. Granted that there may be need for saving in some fields of enterprise, no excuse can exist in present circumstances for penalizing the sick. The alleged saving is so small; the necessity for not practicing that #rrational kind of economy is so great. Obviously the people of the | District are powerless. All they can do |15 to petition the committee to be con- | structively charitable toward those who lie in beds of pain. Other losses they might endure with resignation, but they do appeal for Dr. Coulter's clients and for all other members of the brother- hood of suffering who so gravely need social aid in their struggle back to health. 4 —— et Scrapping the Army. Secretary of War Dern has received the Budget Bureau's orders, transmitted through the White House, and has in- | dicated that while the proposed cuts |in the War Department's 1934 expendi- tures would deal a drasgc blow to the Army, “orders is orders,” and his de- | partment will do the best it can if the proposed reductions are essential. ‘The second phase of the Budget Bu- reau’s attack on the Army followed. Gen. Douglas MacArthur and other War Department officials went into pro- longed conference with the civilian heads of the Budget Bureau to discuss the extent of the cuts and when and where they might be made. The detalls will not be known for some time. But what they mean generally can be un- derstood by the fact that the next year’s appropriations have already been cut by more than $100,000,000 under the current year's appropriations for the War Department, and the Budget Bu- reau now seeks to take away $144,000,- 000 additional. In other words, Con- | gress allowed the War Department | $467,458,000 for 1933. For 1934 Ccn-‘» | gress cut that allotment to $349,840,749. | The Budget Bureau now asks that this $349,840,749 be reduced by $144,000,000, or to $205,840,749, which is less than half the appropriation for 1933. How these cuts can be made without | putting the Army out of business is the task that has been handed to the mili- tary authorities. They probably mean the retirement of from two to three | thousand officers, the retijement or dis- | missal of from twelve to thirteen| | thousand enlisted men, abandonment of }most of the river and harbor work, | elimination for the time being of citi- | zens’ military training camps, Reserve officers’ training camps, reduction by more than half of National Guard | training expenses, which probably | means elimination of Summer camps| and severe curtailment of drill periods; | abandonment of some Army posts, re- | ductions in purchase of materiel and | cuts in allowarrces for transportation. | Taken together, the proposed reduc- | tions in strictly military activities, amounting to about $90,000,000, means | that in land disarmament this country | proposes to go further than anybody | ever dreamed of going and is as will- ing to scrap the military machine, with- | out international agreements, as it was | willing to scrap bettleships with inter- | national agreements. Nor is the amount of the reductions less interesting than the method of making them. As in the case of other proposed curtailments, the objective scught is a horizontal cut to an arbi- trary figure. The sacrifices necessary | to achieve this reduction are of sec- | ondary importance and are, apparently, outside the scope of Budget Bureau considerations. The task of the pro- fessicnal military men is no longer to build a military machine adequate to meet the demands of national defense, but to take the jig-saw puzzle fragments left after the Budget Bureau's sawing and to find out what the resulting pic- ture will look like. That it will jar all preconceived no- tions of national defense is beyond | doubt. And it is a question whether | the newly-acquired sanctity of Budget to prevent general understanding of the full effect of the Budget proposals upon the Army and national defense. There can be no such understanding until it is made known what retrenchment steps must be taken and what new policles are thus established to come within the limits laid down by the Budget Bureau, whose official personnel at the moment is concerned merely with figures. o Ponzi is reported still in jail. His idea was to pay dividends to old cus- tomers out of money brought in by new ones. It worked for awhile and then yielded to the inevitable proposition that |in every transaction there must be | somewhere an element of basic value. ——a——————— The Silver Vote. The Senate oppgnents of “free silver” and “16 to 1” yesterday turned down the Wheeler silver amendment to the farm bill. Many more such “victories” for the opposition, however, may find them in the minority. For the roll call vote stood 43 to 33 against the amend- ment, while in January last a Senate vote on a similar proposal showed silver losing by 56 to 18. Furthermore, & number of Senators yesterdsy voted against the amendment, believing that the farm relief and farm mortgage bill should be speeded on its way to final enactment into law, without the delay of a fight over currency inflation. Sen- ator Borah of Idaho, for example, de- clined to vote for the Wheeler amend- ment on the ground that President Roosevelt did not wish it attached to THE EVENING #TAR, age than Senator Robinson of Arka: sas, Democratic leader of the Upper House. As the vote stood, however, a change of six votes from “no” to “aye” would have adopted the Wheeler amendment. The demand for currency inflation— on the theory that it will send com- modity prices soaring and generally start the wheels of industry revolving— is growing strong on Capitol Hill. Men who a year or six months ago would have shuddered at the idea are now talking favorably of “some kind of inflation.” They prefer a “controlled” inflation if they can have it. But in- flation, like deflation, is almost uncon- trollable once it is started on its way. Other nations, since the World War, have felt the sting of cugency infla- tion. It has been demafded in the " United States many times before, and particularly when the late William Jennings Bryan in 1896 led the fight for free silver and “16 to 1.” Then, as now, the demand for inflation orig- inated in the West, where conditions of the farmers were hard and where sil- ver mines were waiting for the boost which free siiver would give them. Just as they are waiting today. The Democratic leaders in Congress are waiting to hear definitely President Roosevelt's ideas on the question of cur- rency inflation before they rush into the fray. ‘They wish to know how he stands on the question of free silver, on the curtailment of gold in the dollar, on in- flation by way of the Government bonds with currency privileges route. It has been reported, too, that the President may seek to bring about an international agreement looking to bimetalism and that he would much prefer not to have a law looking to the remonetization of silver passed in this country until such a treaty can be negotlated and ratified. In the past it has not been possible to get an international agreement wide enough to cover all the great nations of the v_rld an the subject of bimetalism. The interjection of the currency in- fation question in connection with the farm relief bill was inevitable during the consideration of that measure in the Senate. A number of the Senators are firmly convinced that through such inflation the farmers of the country will obtain higher prices for their com- modities. That they will also have to pay higher prices for everything they purchase is an argument that is brushed aside by the protagonists of | inflation. Inflation for a time, too, will give the debtors easler terms. They | will pay off their debts with the de- preciated currency. This may seem a trifie hard on the creditors—on the people who have put their earnings Into farm mortgages, home mortgages and other investments. oo ‘The Daughters of the American Revo- lution make it a matter of regret that G. Bernard Shaw should have felt com- pelled to leave us so soon. They have much to say that it would benefit him to hear. e —e—— China has a large population distrib- uted over a vast area. The nation is | hard to discourage for the reason that | when a small section of the country is| conquered it takes the rest of the popu- lace to learn exactly what has been going on. e Postponement of flight plans for the Macon will cause no general disap- proval. “Make haste slowly” is now recognized as a proper motto for one of the super-balloons. —— e Russia has promoted study of some eminent political economists, but con- tinues to put more dependence on her police than on her philosophers. —— e There is danger, admittedly, of bad beer and, if the gangsters maintain their grip on the traffic, of even a wicked bar. —————————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Neighborly Regard. “I'm goin’ to love my neighbor,” Said Hezekiah Bings, “Assisting in his labor Or when he plays or sings. And yet I must be careful, For neighbors, growing less Polite and nowise pray'rful, May give me some distress, Affections are capricious, It's mournful to relate, When neighbors grow suspicious And won't reciprocate. T shall not be benighted As one who humbly brings Devotion to be slighted,” Said Hezekiah Bings. Increasing the Supply. “Why do you favor government ownership?” “The only chance I see to take care of my deserving home folks is to put more jobs under the management of political influence.” Jud Tunkins says some boys go to Bureau recommendations should serve | college and get so up-to-date that they | think a yesterday’s ball game is ancient history. April Fooling. ‘The First of April came and went And still you are uncertain. The clouds that hide discontent Hang like a fluttering curtain. ‘We see a tendency so strong To an erratic ruling And say, “Won't you please go along And try to stop your fooling.” Fatalist. “Does the airplane impress you as an improvement on the locomotive?” “Decidedly,” answered Miss Cayenne. “It gets you where you happen to be going faster, whether it is in this world or the next.” “Tomorrow promises happiness,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “but we find with the sunrise that the day has changed its name and the promise is worthless.” Consultation. ‘The conferences still draw nigh, It is & busy season. We'll have thinge settled by and by; If not, we’ll know the reason. I this big world goes on to fret In general irritation, More doctors we can always get For a new consultation. “Money,” said Uncle Eben, “is a littte like religion. Nobody’s got so much dat he wouldn't feel benefited by more.” Scrapping. From the Lowell Evening Leader. It makes all the differepce in the o8 8CTRD i Lot i il Jane didn’t know why Bill hadn’t called on her in two weeks. Nor did any kind friend tell her, for she was odorless, her teeth perfect, her hair immaculate, and her skin the sort the movie stars are supposed to have. What could any one have told her? Poor Jane never would know what offended Bill. Bill was a queer guy, no doubt of it. Somehow, in his blood and bone, had been born the belief that all human beings were creatures of interest. N that was human was foreign 0_him. If an elderly messenger brought him & message, he greeted the man with a smile, or, if business was heavy, at least with a look. * K ok K Jane evidently had another system. She received anything from an “in- ferior” as if the menial didn't exist. The first time Bill noted this, he refused to believe it. The second time, he hoped net. ‘The '}hlrd, timTewe“, it was after the third time, that ve up c on beautiful Jane. SRFetpfes e And Jane never knew why! She couldn’t. * X % X% If the lovely lady hadn't worked o hard at being indifferent, Bill might have forgiven her. He would have put it down to tem- perament. Every one knew—or, at least had been told—that the more charming the girl, the more likely she was to be that way. Jane distinctly wasn't that way by “ahe had to steel f e steel herself against be- ing ordinarily human. * k x X Left to "herself, no doubt she would have noted keenly enough the real sparkle of intelligence in the old man's eyes. Picturesque? Surely! Well worth being put onto canvas, if you asked Bill, but Jane never did. Evidently she wanted to give the im- pression—at least that was the way he doped it out—that receiving telegrams was nothing new in her young life, Rawther ure:ome, :rhn? * % x Indeed, Miss Jane did “protest too much,” as Mr. Shakespeare put it, so long ago, in regard to another matter. If she had given the fellow just one swift glapce, and then paid no further attention to him, Bill would not have thought much of it, one way or the 34 vealtzed e re that not every one in life had his viewpoints. Despite the fact that he had been accused, at times, and by various persons, of being that curi- ous creature, one who knows it all, in reality he was very humble in his esti- mations. What he knew. however, he felt he knl:‘:‘, beC;u!; l“h}lx;nhe knew had the m wonderful t! in the world— background. : i * x ok X It was an amazing thing, Bill often had thought, to observe the vast num- bers of those who thought they knew, but really could not know, simply be- | cause they did not have the background !o’xl'(‘:mw, ey were too new to knowledge. Behind them lay no battery o? edu- NOITE, Rio de Janeiro—It is very primitive, the method by which cargoes are transported to Cantareira. A flat-boat with A | wind s in the right direction, provides | the means of communication, and the round-trip is generally made twice a week. Yesterday a craft of this de- | scription, - pretentiously styled “A Guanabara,” received, among the other lading to be dispatched, a cart and team of mules, consigned to one Manoel Silva, at Cantareira. But cart and mules, though duly loaded and ured upon the platform which con- stituted the only deck of the boat, never arrived at destination. The rea- son for this default may be told in few words. The affectionate burros, seeing their previous owner, Antonio Soares, still standing on the’ dock, after their barque had pushed off and begun its journey up the stream, spontaneously leaped overboard and swam to shore, taking the wagon with them. Fortu- nately, the latter was unloaded, and floated in the water, instead of sub- merging and dragging the struggling animals down with it. After a frantic swim of about 60 meters the equipage reached shallow depths and the mules dragged the cart again on shore be- fore the astonished gaze of their orig- D nianlo Soa o res krows nothing else to do but load the cari and mules on the boat again later in the week, and this time accompany them as cicerone. His friends suggest that he and his devoted mulez be first supplied with life-preservers. * * * *x Buddhist Priests Warned About Loans. Bangkok Dally Mail—Hereafter any Buddhist priest who has his property attached by allowing it to be used as security for loans of other persons or who otherwise becomes involved in en- tanglements over financial affairs will be stripped of his robes and ousted from the church, according to a new order just issued by H. R. H. the Prince Patriarch of the Kingdom. . His Royal Highness the Prince Patri- arch declared such cases reflect on the dignity of the Buddhist church. This decision was handed down fol- lowing the case of Priest Yui of Chang- vad Bajraburi, who stood security for a loan made by Nai S8aguan from Nai Luan. Nal Saguan was unable to meet the loan, whereupon the money lender approached Phra Yul. The latter was asked to be disordained so that he might fight the case. * K kK Colombians Worried By Minor Crimes. El Tiempo, Bogota.—Very numerous were the bloody affalrs transpiring in Bogota during the past 24 hours. In practically every instance the occasion was found to be the intrusion of liquor in quantities too appreciable. Crimes involving property were also abundant, most of them, however, being larcenies of minor importance. It is some relief to our feelings, in glancing over the register, to be able to affirm, with truth, that no grand robbery is recorded. The evilly disposed, for this day, at least, confined themselves to the lesser crimes of pocketpicking, umbrella stealing and the snatching of ladies’ purses. The monetary value in each case was insig- nificant. * K k% Teachers Urged to Use Fewer Textbooks. Patria, San Salvador.—Dr. Prancisco Espinosa, chief of the technical de- partment of the public schools, stated to a representative of this paper yes- terday that he would appreciate our assistance in making known to all the professors in the schools the prejudic economic, mental and discip , in- flicted on the pupils from the con- stant and arbitrary adoptions of new textbooks for use in the various courses. The average employment of a book by pupils in the first six grades is not much more than namom.h. and rem sents expense and annoyance justified at any time, and much less a donkey engine and a mast | for the auxillary of sails, when the| during a period like the present. Chil- dren of the elementary classes rarely mm the possibilities of any book re- | o8 U ax- o, o fae sams' o cated and feeling and knowing human beings. They were newcomers to the knowing m. upstarts, as it were, in glorious come wonderful the; d, b b-c{crwn , triumph of Nature, Nature was all background. l‘iéu had a background, and was proud of What he knew, he felt he knew, be- cause it was based not only on intelli- gence, but on that divine superintelli- gence, common sense. * K K ok Raw Nature, in the form of human beings without cultural background, forms a very poor estimation of what it has the most of—common sense. Instead, as with all the “new rich,” this Neture (in human form, be it re- membered) strives mightily to put up the appearance of what it hath not. If it would go ahead and be itself it ‘would be distinctly all right. Instead, it “puts on airs,” puffs itself up and is unseemly, trying to pass itself off for what it is not, when it might as well be what it is. PR Bill's cardinal belief was that every last man alive was in the world as much a5 every other man alive, and that the more difference there was between them, man and man, the more interesting each became. Thus, no matter what the social “set- up,” every man definitely had his place in it, and was to be esteemed, at least in an intellectual sense, precisely for what he was, as he was. Suit me? That had nothing to do with it, according to the philosophy of Bill, Jane's erstwhile friend. He valued each human being s a specimen of the human family, all in the same boat (world) together. Common sense could not do otherwise. * * x *x Poor Jane worked so hard to put the world into its place! s She had drawn up, consciously or unconsciously, a list of titles. Those in Group A she had mentally marked “Worth While,” in great big letters, just like that, whereas Group B she had marked “Not Worth Noticing.” It never seemed to occur to her that those in the second classification would not like it. Above all, it could not possibly occur to her to suspect, even, that some of | those in her Class A would not like it, either! * k x % When Bill approached. Jane smiled. The funny thing about Bill was that he wanted her to smile when somebody in Group B came up, too. And Jane just wouldn't do it, of course. Poor Jane just couldn't do it. She had told herself so many times—either consciously or unconsciously—that a "serving person” was not exactly on her plane, somehow, that her eyes just naturally seemed to overlook him, Actually, however, he stood on the same flooring, and his very decent blue eyes were exactly on a level with her own. That was the common sense of it, and the man knew it, and his comrade in a strange journey, one Bill, knew it. Everybodlé knew it Ibu"I"Jk:ne' and she never would, poor gal. That was whi Bill said "zood-by,"‘.a)anm % High Lights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands could still be used for reviews and a better grasp of the topic in the higher msixfsf th ring the early stages of education the teacher should beg'the children’s book. They should learn from him, and not so much from the printed page. If the use of books continues obligatory and essential;"then their ef- ficiency ‘may be able to replace the functions of the pedagogues. At any rate, both are not required, according to Dr. Espinosa, who has observed with regret the substitution of quantity for quality in our educational system. The children fly from book to book and are crammed meanwhile with a small por- :znon from le'n:h one, without achieving y complete or serviceabl orsun};thmr. le knowledge uch methods are not in conformi elther with the needs or economic c!:{ cumstances of the poorer classes of our society, which, after all, are the only ones which send their children to the public primary schools. Cleanliness, order and attention suffice. These are | the habits children should learn in the first years of school. The luxury of splendidly embellished texts, of rare presentation, in rapid succession, in- vests with serious difficulties the fa- thers of families and, unless obviated, is likely to prohibit elementary education entirely. - ‘We are gl to give this expression to Dr. Espinosa’s views, and shigl await the results with special interest and advertence. The reform he advocates will be one transcendental in our scho- lastic routine, but perhaps none the less beneficial. D Divorce Law Reforms, From the Chicago Daly ¥ribune. Two bills introduced by Senator R.V. Graham and now pending in the Illinois Senate should have the active support of the press and public opinion. They are intended to . liberalize existing divorce laws in accord with present conceptions of social welfare and to correct the scandalous abuse of alimony. As Senator Graham, who is far from radical in his theories of marriage, points out, our present legal grounds for divorce were fixed sixty years ago. In this period social conditions have been greatly changed and experience has dis- closed serious evils arising through a narrowness and rigidity of the laws governing divorce and marital relations which conflict with present conceptions of justice and morality. Restrictions upon the dissolution of the e bond which offend these conceptions result in evasions which are as injurious to the individuals concerned as to the social health of the community. They give rise to subterfuges and injustices demoralizing to the law and to private conduct and result often in the very evils they are intended to prevent. Also the law and procedure as to alimony are creating a recurrent public scandal and need a thorough reform. Alimony has become a racket, exploited by unscrupulous women and lawyers. The depression has accentuated this evil, which keeps in jail victims who are in no way responsible for their inability to pay the exactions while the fear of unjust penalties is used for blackmail. ‘These conditions are well known to the bar and judiciary, and leading lawyers and judges support Senator Graham'’s measures of relief. It is hoped the Assembly will realize the need for this reform and take favorable action at this session. —————— Atrocity. Prom the Jacksonville, Florids, Times-Union. The Japanese have s umg!wne band at the front. If that doesn’t make the Chinese mad, they are deaf. —r———— Dearest, Perhaps Best. From the Louisville Times. If cost is any indication of quality, American local government should be the best in the world. Helpless. Prom the Lowell Evening Leader. A Philadelphian climbed fourteen flights of stairs to pay his taxes and 85 DEsbeny tgo e ouk of P o g b i S P ot Bl ot WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1933. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. THE GREAT ROMANTIC; Being an Inf jon of Mr. Saml. Pepys and Elizabeth His Wife. A Adams (L. ‘York: Doubleday, Doran Just a little more than three hun- dred years ago a male child who was destined to be one of the most extraor- dinary men in history was born—Sam- uel Pepys. He lived fully, usefully and m‘olmpermnl&m for seventy years, and at queathed to Magdalene College, Cam- bridge, were six calf-bound volumes, bea the family arms and crest. to which no particular attention was paid for a period of one hundred and sixteen years, In 1819 the Rev. John Smith, an undergraduate of the college, was assigned the task of decinbermg the strange symbols with which the pages o these volumes were filled, and after three years of labor saveraging ebout fourteen hours a day the almost unbe- lievable diary of an almost equally un- bellevable man was ready to be rre- pared for publication. In 1825, when it made its first appearance in print, it was greeted with profound smazement, and to this day it is just as profounaly amazing as it was then. Many parts of the diary have been published in as many different editions and condensations, though from the beginning it was plainly evident that the notes were never intended to be read by eyes other than those of their maker. No keeper of a diary intended for publication would ever reveal him- self so frankly and nakedly in his weaknesses as well as in his nobls in- terests. But, what the world would have missed had not the master of the college, s0 many years after the Eng- |land which Samuel Pepys served, had |all but forgotten him, been attracted by the hieroglyphics in those six calf- | bound volumes! | Once again Samuel Pepys is pre- sented, this time in an entirely new raiment, and by no less an artist than | E. Barrington, who has in p:evious pub- |lications most worthily novelized the I'ves of historic persunages. In putting “that curious fellow Peoys,” as Sir Walter Scott described him, into a novel, |this gifted author has kept faithfully to the picture of the man as revealed by himself in the recordirg of his pub- g(c life, Liis private liie and his domestic | The romance of Pepys and Eliza-| | beth, his beautiful French wife, was| both tortuous and blissful. He adored | her and cuffed her in passions equally | violent. He was ungovernable in his| rages of jealousy and shrewd in the; art of deceptive contriteness if he felt | sure he could regain her favor thereby. | | He was not deceived by his own follies | and he imposed fines upon himself for | | the philanderings which he almost to himself and his Maker the moment a pretty woman crossed his path. | Rich material was at hand for the| | use of the artist whose skill was equal |to the task of molding into exquisite l,{orm a vividly picturesque novel of the | life of the famous diarist and his Eliza- | beth, and of the England of the Res- | toration period. No other writer of the present time could have more faith. fully and beautifully achieved the r |lation of this glamorous, historic ro- mance than has E. Barrington. | | * * ox % GOD SAVE THE DUKE! By James Saxon Childers. New York. D. Appleton & Co. If there was ever a man who needed saving it was the “Duke.” Any Eng- lishman, as & matter of fact, whose knowledge of American manners and customs has been confined to the ob- | servation of tourist throngs and the| characterizations in theatrical per- formances, if he be so bold as to land on these shores without a guard- ian, needs to be saved. The young hero of this novel is sorely in need of salvation from the moment he steps Off the train, but with the firm resolu- tion which is a part of the British character he sticks by his guns and | | plays the game to the end. i. P‘:Ler I.:rdv,h])tm‘ u;utel’, Earl of Don- | caster an ttington and Baron of Littleborough, at the invitation of an American iriend, accepts an invitation to becone assistant professor of Eng- lish literature in one of the large State universities of the South. Arriving at Cherokee with his English bulldog and {a valet, he is met at the train by a chap 'who introduces himself as “Dopey,” and is promptly whisked off in a rickety Ford to & “pep” meeting in preparation for a foot ball game to be played the following Saturday. A somewhat boisterous introduction to life in an American co-educational in- stitution; but the professor is game, though heartbreakingly homesick, and for many weeks thereafter he devotes himself, aside from his classes, to_the task of trying to understand these amazing creatures with whom he has cast his lot for a year and to becom- ing a regular fellow with them. Being a handsome as well as a wealthy peer places him at & consid- erable disadvantage, for it is but nat- ural that nearly the entire female en- rollment falls in love with him—and college girls in this country are not famous for their retirement and mod- esty when there is a “catch” at stake. The boys like him only fairly well at first, but it is not long until they accept him wholeheartedly and prompt- 1y dub him “the Duke.” | For the rest, this novel is one of | life as it is lived in the big co-educa- tional schools in America, full of com- edy, a bit of tragedy and a wholesome love story. The picture drawn by | James Saxon Childers, who thoroughly knows university life, is not altogether a pretty one to contemplate, for it is a severe indictment of the system/ which not only permits but which fos- ters in many instances the laxity of discipline and supervision in smaller as well as the larger seats of learning in this country. The book is not in any sense a plea to clean up the col- leges and universities, nor does it con- demn the prevailing system. It is a well-written, entertaining and highly amusing story, but it contains much material for ponderous thought on the part of parents, who might, if they wished, bring about some much-needed | reforms. * * ¥ % RAIN IN THE DOORWAY. By Thorne Smith. Illustrated by Herbert Reese. )l{nw York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., c. “Rain in the Doorway” takes the reader back a few years to “The Beg: gar on Horseback,” a comedy of highly commendable quality which lived a 1ar shorter span than it deserved. Thorne Smith is considerably more daring in his relation of the experiences of Mr. Hector Owen, but, then, these are more daring days, days in which there is not much room for a kindly disposed gen- tleman with inhibitions. Untortunately for Mr. Owen, he had lived thirty-eight neat, orderly, inhibited and, conse- quently, uneventful years. At the opening of this breezy account of the extraordinary adventures which crowd- ed upon the poor inhibited gentleman he is standing in the protection of a doorway on a dismal, rainy afternoon in New York, waiting for lis wife. It seems’that almost anything can happen to a sorely inhibited husband who must stand for endless time in a very wet rain and wait for his wife, who may or may not show up at all. Mr. Thorne has had a good time in this new book poking fun at every liv- ing human being. He has drawn his hero as the average man, with all the inhibitions of the average man, and then turned him loose and made him do all the things which every individual secretly believes he is capable of doing and would enjoy doing. Mr. Owen 1s d;llcmua compu.ny' for a couple of hours of en nt. ] Counts and Cleanliness. Prom the Boston Transcrit. Law schools may cut down the supply of towels and soap, but litigants, at b o s ~ | ice is free. 1703, among the books be- | Haskin, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. de it devoted solely to the handling of queries. This paper puts at your disposal the services of an extensive organization in Wash- ington to serve you in any capacity that relates to information. This serv- Fallure to make use of it deprives you of benefits to which you are entit] Your obligation is only 3 cents in coin or stamps inclosed with your inquiry for direct reply. Do not use post cards. Address The Washington Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. , Director, Washington, D. C. Q. How far does a golf player have to drive most of the time in order to be a long driver?—L. H. A. Some of the more prominent pro- fessionals and amateurs are short drivers, say 175 to 200 yards, while the long-driving players average generally around 250 yards consistently, taking into consideration weather conditions and the topography of the course. Q. How many feet can a running horse cover in each leap?—A. G. A. What distance a horse may cover in & leap depends, of course, upon the horse, but it was the boast of the Eng- lish that Eclipse, one of their fastest gunnlng horses, covered 25 feet at one jump. Q. Where is the largest dog show in this country held?—K. W. A. The largest is the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. It is held in New York City about the middle of February. Q. How -did the expression, “As poor as a church mouse,” originate?— W. A, B. A. It is found in English literature as early as 1659. The idea implied is that due to the lack of food within a church building ‘a mouse inhabiting it would be without means of support. Q. Has Mary Garden, the opera singer, ever been married?—S. 5. M. She has never married, Q. Is rotenone, the new insecticide, a commercial probability?—H. J. F. A. At present its cost is prohibitive | because of the expense of raising the plants from which it is obtained, the small content of active material therein, and the fact that the toxicity of the poison is so soon lost on exposure to bright light. Q. Please give the history of the Cardiff Giant—J. M. P. . This famous hoax was a gypsum statue unearthed at Cardiff, near Lafayette, N. Y., in October, 1869. For some time antiquarians and paleontolo- gists believed it to be either a work of ancient sculpture or a fossilized man. It was exhibited in many cities in the daily foreswore, forgetting his pledge | United States, but eventually was dis-| Grant memorial dollar in 1922. covered to be a fraud. The statue had been cut from a quarry in Iowa, wrought in Chicago and buried in Cardiff. J% What is a “string of tools"?— ‘A Ol workers call the drilling equipment a string of tools. Q. How much alcohol is there in wine?—A. B. A. It usually ranges between 9 and 14 per cent, depending upon the kind of grape and sugar content. Q. Have the regions about the North and South Poles ever had a hot cli- mate?—A. R. A. There seems to be ample evidence that climatic conditicns have changed in the Arctic and Antarctic. It is be. leved that tropical conditions existed as far north as Greenland between the g M rolig an lal conf . N. A. 1t is said to have contained 3,000, Q. In what circumstances can the post office_authorities open first-class mail>—H. F. F. A. The Post Office Department has no authority to open first-class mail if it can be delivered. If the mail cannot be delivered it is sent to the Dead Letter Office, where it is opened. How- ever, in the case of persons under sus- ‘Picion, the Post Office Department may apply to a Federal court for a warrant authorizing the opening of a letter. The application for the warrant and the warrant must specify what illegal mat- ter is contained in the letter under sus- picion. Q. Why was the heir to the throne of France called the dauphin?— F. T. A. It was originally the appellation of the lords of the Province of Dau- phine. The last of these, dying child- Jess, bequeathed his possessions to the grandson of Philippe VI of France, on condition that the heir apparent to the throne should bear the title of Dau- phin of Vienne and govern the prov- ince. Q. Why is the croaking of frogs sup- pose to presage rain?—S. L. B. A. This superstition is common in the dry country of Southwestern United States and is traced back to the Arawak Indians, who were its early inhabitants. A “frog cult” existed among the primi- | tive peoples of the West Indies at about | the time of Columbus. Q Why do Chinese say Melican in- | stead of American?—M. D. A. The Chinese language has no “r” sound, so many Chinese find the sound difficult and substitute the “1” sound. Q. What is the origin of the mourne ing band?—H. J. A. The custom of wearing & black band on the coat sleeve in token of mourning came from England. It was introduced there for liveried servants, whom it was not thought necessary to fit out in black uniforms. Q. What is meant by positive and negative electricity?>—B. M. A. The Bureau of Standards says that the flow of electric current is now supposed to be really the passage of | electric_charges through the conductor; | these charges are either positive masses | (protons) or negative particles (elec- | trons), or both, depending on the kind of conducting material. The positive charges go in one direction, the nega- tive ones in the opposite direction. The direction of the current flow is that in which the positive charges move, Q. When was the gold dollar last made?—I. A. A. The last gold dollar issued 'u'g; | last regular gold dollar was issued in | 1889. This doller is found to be too small to be convenient. Q. When was the aqueduct st Sego- via. Spain. built>—R. K. A. Probably it was built under Tra- jan, who lived about 53 to 117 AD. The entire aqueduct is from 10 to 12 miles long. It brings the waters of the |Rio Frio from the Sierra Fuenfria down to Segovia. Q. What is the status of the Philip- | pine Islands at present?—M. H. A. A bill was recently passed in the United States Congress providing for the independence of the Philippines | after a period of intervening years, but this has not yet been ratified by the | Philippine Congress. i Q. How many Civil War veterans are still on the Federal pension rolis>—P. glacial epochs. No explanation has, as B. 8. yet, been offered to which the majority of scientists subscribe. "A. About 35000 Union soldiers are on | the pension roll. Failure Predicted in Effort To Change German Religion Hitler's attempt to establish a state church in Germany, based upon the rejection of the Old Testament and substitution of Teutonic mythology, along with World War personalities, for that portion of the Bible, produces amazement in the United States, where predictions of failure are widely made. ‘The project is described as extreme na- tionalism, and likely to arouse much antagonism among the German people. “It is beyond the power of Hitler or tials of religion and make them over | according to a new pattern,” asserts the | Rock Island Argus, with the convic-| tion that “if he lays rude hands on religion he endangers his political su- premacy.” That paper calls it “an im- possible program,” charging “effrontery. impertinence and irreverance.” Scranton Times recalls that “history shows most, if not all, governments which endeavored to control the reli- glous beliefs of subjects have d away,” and holds that “the Nazi will find its latest designated task more difficult than any of the others it has tackled.” The Birmingham Age-Herald feels that “the very proposal shows how unwise are the forces now in con- trol of Germany.” Under this movement, according to the Baltimore Sun, “Germans must be deprived of the moral grandeur of Moses, the lyrical pessimism of Job, the sublime cynicism of the write? of Ec- clesiastes, the beautiful imagery of the Song of Songs and the inspired pro- phetic wisdom of Isaiah and Jeremiah.” The Sun adds that “Thor and Wodin and other Wagnerian deities in goat skins suit Herr Hitler's purposes bet- ter.” The San Francisco Chronicle calls it “madness” that “the prophets are to have no place in German re- ligion.” The Cincinnati Times-Star observes that “the clanging gods of Valhalla are to take their place in religion, and Wotan, the one-eyed wal- derer, is to supersede Jehovah.” While it feels that “when Hitler talks of add- ing to it a peerage of World War saints and martyrs, he clutters his project with a good deal of intractable mate- rial” the Times-Star suggests that “without these additions, the evolution of a natlonal religion, based on the forest-born legends of the blonde tribes of ancient Europe, would be worth watching.” The Salt Lake Deseret News feels that “a dangerous phase of the movement is the spiritualization of war,” and that “to make martyrs of the two million* German soldiers who lost their lives in the fury of that conflict would certainly influence the thought of the future.” “Laying of rude hands upon sacred things” is condemned by the New York Times, which suggests that “it may be partly a conscious imitation of the Soviet model.” The Charlotte Observer remarks that “Hitler would have Ger- many go Russia one better in the mat- ter of subduing religion,” and con- cludes that “Russia, without any Bible, is better off than Germany with these substitutions.” The Dayton Daily News advises: “Neither Communist or Nazi will succeed in destroying religion. The only way to stamp out religion is to stamp out man. That can't be done. ‘What good is dictatorship with nobody to dictate t0?” The Springfield (Mass.) Union avers that the proposed religion is “a fantastic compound,” and declares that “it seems almost incredible that the idea of creating a state religion ct sort should be entertained, ever by the astonishing Nazis.” The Youngs- town Vindicator is confident that “in time the good sense of the German peo- ple will reassert itself, and those who are temporarily carried away by Hitler's propaganda will have a rude awaken- ing,”” while “friends of the old Ger- many, which gave the world so much that was fine and ennobling, will do all they can to speed the day when decency and self-respect will return to that land.” The Port Huron Times Herald ::l “not one single constructive act to ’ O Siroace bas e any other dictator to alter the essen- |qq, ‘The | |itself into the mess; it must now find { the way out.” | __Referring to the ultimate goal of the | Hitlerites, the Newark Evening News | comments: “The ideal is described as a leveling process. A world gone | bourgeois is the goal. The effort is to be directed toward elevating the mid- | dle-class tradesmen and craftsmen and |lowering the so-called upper classes | until they meet on a common, demo- cratic level.” “The Niebelungenlied, saga of magic, of passionate love and sanguinary trag- ly,” comments the Chicago Daily News, “may fill the gap left by the junking of such books as Joshua, Judges and Ruth. The Psalms of David may be traded for the poems of Goethe and Heine and Schiller. When it comes to substitutes for the prophets, among many possibilities are Kant and Hegel and Schopenhauer and, of course, | Nfetzsche. The movement did not originate with the Nazis. As long ago as 1927 the monarchist Deutsche Zei- | | . It singled out Abraham, Jacob and David for vehement denunciation. About the same time Gen. Eric Luden- |dorffl of war fame organized the Tannenberg bund, declared his belief |In Wotan as god of all the world, and | began a crusade for return to the pagan |faith of the Germanic tribes.” Reviewing the history of the move- | ment, the New York Sun offers the analysis of the situation: “One face | tion "has insisted that the most press- ing duty should be to strive for doc- | trinal unity; another has asserted with | equal vehemence that it should be io restore the church to its former status &s a powerful arm of the government. The new Nazi undertaking is clearly |an espousal of the second of these theories. The Hitlerites are going | about the business with characteristic thoroughness. They want = state | church as a branch of the government |and seem determined to organize it in ‘such fashion that there shall be no | doubt of its complete acquiescence to ‘muoml aims. How far they may be able to get with this design is prob- lematical. German Lutheranism as a whole has never yet been regimented under secular control and there is no reason to suppose that it will be so regimented in the near future.” Courtesy on Old Ironsides. From the San Francisco Chronicle, One of the finest things found in looking over the story of Old Ironsides is the record of high courtesy set by her commanders. Capt. Isaac Hull's thoughtful consideration for both the crew and the commander of the Guer- riere made a lifelong friend of Capt. Dacres. « As soon as the Guerriere struck her flag Capt. Hull sent a boat over with | an offer of his surgeons. He declined to take Capt. Dacres' sword and he took some trouble to rescue from the wreck a Bible which pt. Dacres’ mother had given hjm. Commodore William icacy toward the dying Commodore grlg?béoldn in appreciation of his cap- In after years this impression the captains of the Constitution had made on English naval officers was reflected in the honors that were glways paid to the ship and her crews whenever Old Ironsides fell in with British warships. Though she had humbled their finest, !.‘n%u.sh naval officers held the Consti- tution an hondred ship. - On one oc- casion the entire British Mediterranean fleet hoisted the Stars and Btrx- and saluted it in hnl!fll'l?‘!e the Constitution. | e st ey 2 W