Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1933, Page 8

A—S8 ITHE EVENING STAR W With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY.....April 19, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor Yhe Evening Star Newspaper Company | Business Office: 11th_St. ‘and Pennsylvania Ave. | _New York Office: 110 E: d St. i cago Office: Lake Michigan Bullding. Xuropean Office: 14 Regent St, London, I Ensland. T Rate by Carrier Within the City. g: Evening Star.. 45¢ per month Evening and Sui ind 60c per month 65¢ per month Collection madt 4 Quders max be sent in by mail jAtional 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. d Virginia. 1yr. $10.00: 1 mo., 85¢ yr. $6.00: 1mo. ily only 2 i Binday” 1yr. $4.00; 1mo. 40c Bunday only All Other States and Canada. Dally and Sunday...lyr,$1200; 1 mo.. $1.00 Daily only . ...1yr, $8.00: 1mo. 75¢ Bundsy only . 35.00; 1mo. 50c Member of the Assoclated Press. The Associated Press 1s exclusively entl to the use for republication of all news atches credited to it or not otherwise cred Red Iin this paper and aiso the local news published Lerein. All rights of publication of special dispatches hereln are also reserved. 1yry Balancing the Local Budget. Senator Copeland, always friendly and sympathetically inclined toward Wash- ington, has with persistent regularity asked witnesses appearing before the! subcommittee on District appropriations | the following question: Do you favor tax reduction or improve- ments? The question suggests there is some fssue which is to be met either (1) by tax reduction or (2) by local improve- ments; that there is & choice between two alternatives, but the choice of one precludes the acceptance of the other. As a matter of fact, what most of the eitizens have asked for is not tax re- duction that would preclude improve- ments, nor improvements that would shut out the opportunity for tax reduc- tion. They have asked appropriations that will represent a local balanced budget. And a local balanced budget that provides improvements as well &s tax reduction, by avoiding unnecessary surpluses of local revenue, is entirely practical, as the Senators who have spent weary days studying the pro- posed expenditures must now fully understand. Let us get the picture clearly. As the House passed the District bill, there would remain at the end of the next fiscal year, on the basis of present estl- mates, three surplus funds. After permitting expenditures in the discretion of the President up to $1,- 040,000 (over and above those specif- ically provided for), from the gasoline tax money, there would remain an un- used surplus of about $760,000. After permitting expenditures in the discretion of the President up to $635,000 (over and above those specif- ically provided for), from the water fund, there would remain an unused surplus of about $765,000. And after the Commissioners lowered the real estate tax rate from $1.70 to $1.50, as suggested In the House—al- though the amount of tax rate reduc- tion at this time is purely & matter of speculation—there would remain a sur- plus of general revenues amounting to about $3.400,000, mnot including the revenues from beer, which are to be added to this surplus. Senator Copeland may have in mind the fact that “improvements,” such as school buildings—for the bill as passed by the House allows noné—would have municipal service instead of hoarding surpluses in the Treasury, are not oon- flicting aims. They go hand-in-glove, together. ————————— Patriots’ Day. Patriots’ day is being celebrated | throughout the United States. Marking the anniversary of the victorious end as well as that of the courageous begin- ning of the Revolutionary War, it is an occasion of pride and rejoicing to the whole people. But in the District of Co- lumbia it has & character sardonically vicarious because of the fact that here, where the institutions of democracy are centered, the permanent community is denied participation in government. ‘The great struggle which terminated one hundred and fifty years ago today theoretically secured for all Americans an effective share in the blessings of representative sclf-government, but the men and women of the Nation's Capital, the several hundred thousend who have no other home, have been excluded from the privileges so dearly bought and so deeply treasured. Like felons and lunatics, they are debarred from representation in the National Legis- lature and from voting in national elections. Yet one of the major purposes of the War for Independence, commemorated on each recurrent April 19, was none other than the establishment of this basic ideal of civic lierty. The central thought in the minds of the Revolution- ary fathers, North and South, was that of self-determination, Granted that the National Govern- ment is justified in exercising exclusive control of ils principal seat, there is no justification whatever for excluding Americans residing here from participa- tion in that National Government. Nowhere else in the wrold is there such a contradiction. The civil popu- | lations of London, Paris, Rome and Berlin suffer no disability comparable with that arbitrarily inflicted upon | ‘Washington. In no other civilized capi- | tal are the people disenfranchised, | governed by laws in the making of | which they have no part, or taxed with- | out their consent. Only here in the Dis- | trict of Columbia is a resident of lower lsllndlng than an alien in respect to access to the Federal courts. To Americans familiar with the his- tory of their country, the anomaly must be obvious. Descendants of men who fought for representative government and to whom that tradition is precious live here unrepresented. They have all the common responsibilities of citizen- ship, but none of its most valuable pre- rogatives, For them the fruits of Bunker Hill and Princeton, Saratoga and York- town are but empty prizes. They nre; mere bystanders on Patriots’ day. Surely the plight of the people of the District of Columbia must appeal to| their kindred of other portions of the land, and the campaign to secure & con- | stitutional amendment providing for the extension of the national franchise to Washington must appear reasonable and just. Especially to such patriotic bodies as the Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution, now in congress here, the subject is submitted for careful study and such action as the merits of the case may warrant. . —o— Representatives of farmer interests are apparently impressed by the capacity of agriculturists to provide, in emergency, theic own currency by using scrip, pieces of wood or even butter and eggs | in direct barter. The economic situation i is one which offers temptation to allow, | for a time, nature to take its course. —— st | | | of Mr. Moe Rosenberg, Chicago political Investigation of income tax returns to come out of the $3400,000 general ! revenue surplus. In connection with this surplus, the fiscal officers of the District realize that an additional million may have to be appropriated in the next fiscal year for relief; that the high level of real estate assessments may automatically be lowered, by falling values, by as much as $60.000,000, which would reduce revenues by an- other million, and that there are con- tingencies to be anticipated. such as & shrinkage of reventes by more than | & million by fallures to collect local taxes. It is to be remembered, however, that one of the most alarming feaiures of the local appropriation bill is the whole- sale cutting of personnel salary items, which mcans that teachers, librarians, firemen, policemen, must be discharged retired or indefinitely furlouged, le: ng the institutions they serve unde an- ned. The amount necessary to restore these items and to prevent outright dis- missals and resultant erippling of im- portant municipal services is relatdvely small. In the case of the schocle li- braries, Police and Fire Departments, it 1s less than a guarter of a millicn dol- lars. There are other departments, of course, where additional funds should be made available to prevent dismissal of personnel. But the amount for all of them is not large. In addition, the District auditor, Mr. Donovan, has made {wo highly valuable suggestions. One is that something more than a million dollars, appr that it will be ‘years before that rosy dream can be realized. should be made available for school construction, where | the need is immedia‘e and pressing. An- other is that as the Federal Govern- ment has already relieved itsell of an- nual advances under the Capper-Cram- ton park legislation, the District’s re- payment, of these advances, amounting to a million dollars a year, be for the time being postponed, or reduced in proportion as the Federal advances have been reduced. Both of these are fair and practical considerations that would add two millions to general revenues available for construction. That is the situation, In round num- bers and in gen terms. facing the Senators 1s to restore to the District bill those items necessary for the basic and non- avaganl main- tenance of the municip functions and the utilization cf avail- able revenues for employment-giving construction. If ihis is done there will be a surplus which can be utilized in reducing the heavy real estate tax bur- den, by reducing the asscssments in line with depreciated valuces, as has been done everywhere else, and by ths im- mediate reduction in the tax rate to whatever figure is justified by the out- look at the beginning of the next fiscal year. Tay.reduction and a local budght which preserves sta lanced - | shortly after the war between Japan The task ' leader, is to be undertaken by the grand | | jury. Those who argued against the income tax had not enough foresight to offer the objection that it might prove too easy too beat. | ————————— | Regulation of world manufactures and | their market is a large subject and gives |'Secretary of Labor Perkins' suggestions | as much importance as those per-| taining to tariffs and treaties, | st - The Chinese Eastern Railway. | Apprehension is expressed lest serious | | trouble develop between Japan and | | Ruzsia over the Chinese Eastern Rail-| | way which traverses the territory of | Manchuria, This line is a short-cut | branch of the Transsiberian Rallaay | | from Chita to Vladivostok. It was built | i | and China, fought in 1895, on the basis | | of a treaty beiween Russia and China | negotiated 1 1896 at St. Pctersburg— | | now Leningrad—between Count Witte, | then Russian premier., and Li Hung | Chang, who went from Peking to Russia | as special envoy on the occasion of the | | coronation of Nicholas II. Under its| | terms the road was to be owned jointly, with equal shares, by Russia and China. When Japan defeated Russia in the war cf 1904-5 and compelled its with- crawel of its holdings in Manchuria, | the Chinese Eastern Railway remained | in Russian hends on those terms of | partnership with China, Its manage- ment has been & source of constant | friction between Russia and China, cul- minating in the Summer of 1929 in & brief conflict which was settled by ad- justments with which China was com- pelled to be satisfied, though they still | | left the administration of the line n | Russian control. When the new state of Manchukuo was organized aboui a year and a half | ago it took over China's interest in the | rcad. It was then expected that Japan | | would endeavor to acquire the line as & ; part of the South Manchuria Railway, | although at that time there was no | physical connection between the two, | the Japanese-owned line ending at | Changcinun, about 150 miles south of | Harbin, through which the Chinese | | Eastern runs, That gap is bridged by a | | | Chinese-built line which has been taken | over by the new state. Now, according to a dispatch from . Moscow, the Japanese are demanding the return of engines and freight cars' | which were withdrawn by the Soviet | government during the suspension of | traffic due to the Manchurian conflict. The Russians claim that these engines and cars did net bzlong to the Chinese Eastern and that this demand is but & subterfuge The Japanese, on the other hand, maintain that the rolling stock removed belongs to the line and, further- m that the Russians have been tranrporting war materials to Viadi- vostok by the cld route which skirts the northern boundary of Manchukuo. The international ownership of the Chinese Eastern has long been recog- / THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1938. THIS AND THAT present altuation. It is not to be pected that Russia will yleld its share in the property, which is of such vital im- portance as & pari of the Tranasiberian system, nor is it to be believed that Japan will indefinitely assent to inter- national ownership in a line of such strategic value to a potential enemy. Isvestia, the Soviet government organ at Moscow, declares that “Japanese circles” in Manchukuo have decided upon definite seizure of the line on the 1st of May. If that ahould come to pass the Far Eastern situation may be- come even more complex than it is at present. oo The Moscow Trial. Probably the outside world will never know the true inwardness of, or the complete truth about, the sabotage- esplonage trial just ended at Moscow with the conviction of two British elec- trical engineers, the deportation of three others, and the acquittal of one. Of eleven Russian co-defendants, ten were sentenced to terms up to ten years, and one was cleared. Of the convicted Britishers, MacDonald, the only one to plead guilty, received a two-year prizon sentence. The other, Thornton, de- scribed as a military spy by the Rus- slan prosecutor, was sentenced to a three-year term. The trial became an international episode of the first magnitude because of the vehement protests lodged with the Soviet government by the British government. The London authorities claimed from the outset that the whole case was & “frame-up,” lacking any sort of evidential foundation that would | have been admissible as testimony in a British or American court of law. The indicted men for a long time were de- nied advice of counsel or conference with their official countrymen. They were subjected to the third degree, Ogpu model; kept in solitary confinement, and made victims of & variety of other forms of pressure designed to bolster up the case which the Communist “law” au- | thoritles were determined to maintain at all costs. Doubtless there was some fire where even this Soviet smoke appeared, or was made to appear. But the fact that the British government carried its pro- test to the point of withdrawing its Ambassador from Moscow and threat- ened to terminate commercial rela- tions with Russia is sufficient proof that the entire stmosphere in which the prosecution was instituted was suspect in the highest degWe. The Metro- politan-Vickers Company, whose em- thinks of the Soviet procedure by prompt reinstatement of the men who were charged with wrecking the im- portant works which the British cor- poration was erecting in Russia. This morning’s news from London that the privy council had been sum- ; moned in special session at Windsor Custle, with King George presiding, for the purpose of effectuating a procla- speaks for itself. It may be that the to induce Moscow to set aside the ver- dicts against the convicted Englishmen, them. The British market for Soviet cannot afford lightly to lose. No matter how the whole business turns out, it is patent that the cause of Anglo-Russian relations has not been promoted by it; snd it is little less evident that the outside world's confidence in the trustworthiness of the ,Soviet system ‘has not been strengthened. Moscow is destined to realize sooner or later that the jurldical i-comedy it so elaborately staged Wwas & costly performarnce. o that will prevent & committee from keeping & congressional bill out of circuiation. et SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Destination. We've traveled through the sunshine and we've traveled through the snow. We've traveled sometimes when we thought we had no place to go. ‘We've had our hours of happinzss, We've had our hours of care. But %o long as we keep travelin’ we are sure to get somewhere. Each sunrise is a sign post that will point the road anew. Where we're leavin’ from won't matter much as where we're goin’ to. There have been some dreary places, but the hills are bright and fair. And 50 long as we keep travelin’ we are sure to get some where. Equality of Chances. “What do you think of my chances of getting & post office?” asked a con- stituent. “They arfe as good as anybody's” replied Senator Sorghum. “That's good enovgh, isn't it?” “No. Thet's no better than the in- ducements to play a lottery.” Jud Tunkins says many people who came to see the Japanese cherry trees went home happier, imagining that they made certain that one part of the fruit crop couldn't be a failure this year. Non-Hoardable. The gold is in the sunset sky. To heard it I shall never try. T very often wish that I Could leave it in the bank nearby. Same Old Styles. “How did you like the new Spring styles?” “There was nothing striking on view ™ {sald Miss Cayenne. “The umbrellas and the raincoats were about as ysual.” “Patience and forbearance are de- sirable,” said Hi H, the sage of China- town. “Yet they should not go so far ever spoiling the dinner.” According to Program. With apprehension we may shake Because of speeches that men make. And fear the worst from day to day, Quite sure there is the deuce to pay. And still the blossoms on the trees Qive welcome to the honcy bees. The specches that men cannot quit, Don't ‘change thoses things a little bit, “I got & tip on a good hoss” said Uncle Eben, “but de trouble wif de nized as & troublescme factor in Asiatic snimal is dat while he ability he olummicum-nmmm-qm o ployes were involved, shows what it mation prohibiting Russian imports immediate purpose of such action is at least to the point of not imprisoning | wares is something the Communists There 15 no anti-hoarding authority as to encourage the cook to go on for- | Strawberries make their annual comeback shortly, although they have n‘evxer ‘heen away exactly, as a matter of fact. The local market has had' the best shipped-in berries in years, at reason- able prices. However—and this is & matter of local pride—there is something about home-grown berries which endears them to the taste of lovers of good shortcake, ‘When one thinks of this berry, which isn't precisely a berry, so the books say, one ‘mut think of strawberry shortcake. * ok X X Is there any delicacy more typically American? Beer is German, after all, but straw- berry shortcake is United States all over. No matter whether it agrees with one or not, every one eats it, and happy is he who gets the genuine article. Not every one does, as every one knows. The trouble comes in & fake “short- cake,” which is not “short” in the cooklng sense, but swee! Ought to be called sweetcake,” but it isn't. It masquerades as ‘“something that it ain't,” and the umhappy thing is that thousands of sinners,” who are punished for their sins by not being permitted to taste the real thing, scl- emnly never know the difference, * % t. & “strawberry One sees these misguided wights in eating places consuming huge concoc- tions of sweetened dough liberally plas- tered with berries in the bellef that they are eating shortcake, He who is acquainted with the real thing can feel sorry for them and glad for one’s selfl at one and the same time. | That feeling, after all, is one of the real | Joys of life. An ancient Roman Knew it some 2,000 years ago when he wrote, “Is it not & joy to watch from the shore a sallor struggling with the oars, not self is safe?” He who is familiar with genuine shortcake, in which the berries provide the taste, may feel & similar satisfac- tion as he watches anogher laboring with & big spoon over a shortcake that is no shortcake after all. * & % x The province of the dough, in the genuine article, is merely to act as a sort of super-dish for the berries. Also, it tends to fill one up. Indeed, there is no more filling arti- strawberry shortcake, made with the best of ingredients, and topped, not by for the ladies, but merely covered well with fine cream. This cream need not be all cream, so rich is the mixture beneath it. Some of our best connoisseurs use half-and-half, as half milk and half cream is called throughout the restaurant belt. x % % % Whether or not true shortcake agrees with one depends upon that mysterious | organ, the stomach. | Some will find it expedient, at a meal where it Is served, to eat lightly, or not at_all, of the preceding dishes. | For this “crown” of the feast is not always as digestible as it might be, as many a person has found out. We | break out. but solely of those to whom the combination of starch and berry acids is not agreeable. WASHINGTON BY FREDERIC It was a brain trust outside of the Moley-Berle-Tugwell combination sup- posedly supplying intellectual gas to| the Roosevelt ergine that hatched the production-control plan _recommended by Secretary of Labor Perkins as an| | amendment to the 30-hour-week bill now before Congress. Capitol Hill | heard that the incubator frcm which the scheme emerged was in the Brook- ings Institution, across the way frcm the White House in Jackson place. The chief architect is understood to have | been Dr. Harold G. Moulton, president of the Brookings Institution and co- author of a recently published and widely discussed book on war debts. | | Moulton was a former New York mem- bank president, Dr. Meyer Jacobstein, who ranked while in the House of Rep- resentatives as its most brilliant econ- omist. Still another reported collab- orator was Col. Frederic A. Delano, uncle of President Roosevelt and chair- man of the National Park and Plan- ning Commission. ‘The Moulton- Jacobstein-Deleno plan for “a meas- ure of production control to eliminate unfair competition” was “sold” to most members of the cabinet, inciuding Sec- retary Perkins, before finally winning the alleged approval of the President. x x % x ‘Washingion becomes an ever-grow- | ing Mecca for the Nation's writers, es- peclally thcse in quest of authentic source material. The latest to pitch his literary tent on the Potomac is James Truslow Adams, author of “The Adams Family,” “The Epic of America” and “The March of Democracy,” who recently returned from London, where he lives much of the time. Mr. Adems has settied down in Washington for a while to gather data for his forthcom- ing new book on the history of the Civil War. Next month another liter- ary light, Lothrop Stoddard of Boston is coming to Washington ior the pur- pose of making the National Capital his future home. Mr. Stoddard’s “The Ris- ing_Tide of Color,” “The New World ot Islam” and “Lonely Americe” have given him international fame. * * x x ‘This observer started something when he recently christened the President “Franklin Dynamo Roosevelt,” and re- produced some suggestions as to what N. D. stands for, in addition to New Deal. Now comes in an envelope stamped “Calvert County, Md.. God's Country,” this: “In view of President Roosevelt's splendid work so far, F. D. R. stands for ‘Finest Democratic Rec- ord. " * % o X One night not long ago_the mine- teenth century comed:ans, Weber and Flelds, in the course of a fortieth anni- versary turn on the radio pulled this one. Joe asked: “Lew, if I should put my hand in your pocket and take out & roll of bills, what would I be?” Quoth Lew: “You'd be a wonder.” Recently Senator Robert R. Reynolds of North Carolina, who, like everybody else on Cepitol Hill, is besleged these days by job seekers, waved a $10 bill to em- phasize a point during a Senate debate on currency expansion. Next day Rey- nolds’ office was stormed by th= biggest throng of visitors the season 30 far has teen, * K X % On two different occasions within a week more Senate Democrats have voted against the Roosevelt administration than have stood by the President. A few days ago Senator Jo2 Robinson’s supporters ran amuck on the farm relief bill. Monday 25 cut of 48 Democrats went on record for the Wheeler 16-to-1 silver plan in the teeth of Fobinson's stat:ment that President Roosevelt op- posed it. One of the striking features of the votc was Senator Borah's lining- up with the administration cause. The Idahoan's devotion to silver is compleie, but he decl'n=s to favor inflation as long as th2 President is against 1", Borah is convinced that nothing b;fl:fi— . e that he is in danger, but that one's | whipped cream, although it is allowable | speak not here of those on whom straw- | | betries cause & mysterious skin rash to | Working in close co-operation with Dr. | ber of Congress and now a Rochester | 'BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Despite an attempt to prove that there is no such incompatibility, many per- so0ns have found that they must be, in this matter, the well-known laws-unto- themselves sbm;t whl:h ‘thly often read. * Find out, then, your limit in the mat- ter of shortcake. Remember that this is & potent berry, even if it isn’t exactly a berry. ‘What, not a berry? Sorry, but the big books define it thus: “Juicy, edible red fruit of any species of the rosaceous genus Fragara; not properly a berry, but an enlarged pulpy mgepnclz, bearing numerous seedlil achenes.” Like most dictionary definitions, this leaves us rather badly off. What is an “achene”? It is a long time since we “took botany,” and maybe we didn’t even know then. * x ¥ % ‘Well, her¢ is “achene”: " "‘.: small, dry indehiscent, one-seeded ruit. There we have nd word, right out of the mother Iunfie. “Indehiscent,” indegd! ‘Why, “the show was positively in- dehiscent”—no, that won't do at all. Here is the real meaning: ‘“Remain- ing closed at maturity.” * x x % ‘There are sald to be four species of strawberries from which our cultivated varieties have descended. They are Fragara vesca, from the Alps; F. vir- giniana, the Eastern United States; F. chiloensis, South America, and F. nmschnu. or hautbois, & European va- riety. The scientific name, Pragara, is ‘;A'orthy of the berry, as every one calls L. fragrant, of cou another gri heart of the probability, from the resemblance of the runners to straws. There are many plants which have such runners_among home aquariums, the so-called eel grass, or Vallisneria. ‘The runner method of propagation is nature’s own “tip” to the gardener to leave some room between plants, not to attempt to cram too many into a given space, as amateurs are wont to do. * kX % Some there are, we are aware, who look upon strawberries and cream as the ultimate. No one would quarrel with them. ‘They have the sanction of literature cle n the whole bill of fare than a real | pehind their taste, and that is a great | deel. | As yet no poet has arisen to celebrate properly the affinity of man and straw- | berry shortcake. i ‘That he will come into his own some |day there can be no doubt, but until | thet time comes the literary horizon must be content with a few prose notes on this sublime delicacy. *x x ¥ Many will gladly suffer indigestion for the pleasure of gorging themselves on real shortcake, now that the time is ' ai_hand. . | For those less hardy, it may be note: | that strawberry ice cream and sherbet, | espeeially when mede with good. rich | cream, is not at all indigestible, even to the finicky, but may be consumed in tl;n;nproper quantities, as befits a good di In any form the strawberry is good, better, beet. It is world-wide, but typically Amer- fcan. Figure that out. OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. | higher and more menacing. Thc-s who | are fomenting it were among ti~ most ardent “original Rooseveli m.." in 1932 and before. *x % Millions of Americans this week are getting for the first time the low-down on the men behind the new deal throne from their own lips through the medium cf a Pathe news reel now showing in nearly & thousand movie theaters. Gus Gennerich, Mr. bodyguard, talkies: “My job is to keep away from the President the people who shouldn’t get near him. When I zet orders to keep them away. they stay away, and I don't mean maybe!™ Prof. Moley, chief of the brain trust, says: “My job is to seek out the best advisers for the President and then, after taking thelr advice, get it into |the best possible form for presentation to the President.” Prof. Tugwell con- fines himself to a brief statement that he is Assistant Secretary of the impor- iant Department of Agriculture, "Prof. Berle ejaculates: “I am a lawyer. A lawyer is an intellectual jobber and | ccntractor. My job is to assemble fig- ures and statistics for the President.” | Col. Louis McHenry Howe, having been | when “newspaper” dog Balto received al |asked by the camera man if he has much time for recreation, replies: “I've made an analysis of this secretaryship job and find that I can have a good game of golf every other year.” k% x Just before he boarded his steamer ,(or home at Seattle recently, Yosuke Matsuoka, the Japanese state:man who was in Washington esrly this month, | tarried in Portland, Oreg.. to pay a | tribute to the memory of isabelle Dun- | bar Bevericge, his benefictress when he first reached America as a lad of 13. A native of Scotland, Mrs. Bever- | idge, whom the ycung Japanese came | tolook u})tm as his second mother, | evinced a friendly interest in him and | took him into her home at Portland. | Before leaving America the Nipponese | diplomat_ decided to visit the city and place a wreath on Mrs. Beveridge's {grave. On the occasion of an earlier visit to the United States he unveiled a granite tombstone wuich he erected in her honor. X k% x “McCall & Gold” will shortly be the name of Washington's newest firm of lawyers, both women. They are Miss | M. Pearl McCall, who expects to be re- | lieved of service ss an assisiant United Stetes attorney for the District of Co- lumbia, and Mrs. Martha R. Gold, for 18 years private secretary to former Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire, Miss McCall began her public career as an attache of Sena- tor Borah's office, and, like Mrs. Gold, later became ated with Senator Moses. Mrs. Gold, who is a Hoosler, is admitted to the bar in the District of Columbla and to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Few American women can clalm her wide acquaintance with national leaders. (Copyright, 1033.) o Gifts to Women’s Colleges. From the Atlanta Journal. Out of the sixty and two-thirds mil- lons of dollars given by Ameriéans to | educational institutions in 1932, wom- en’s colleges received only two million. Twenty-seven and four-fifths ‘millions went to men’s colleges and universities, twenty-five snd one-half millions to co-educational schools, and upward of five millions to foreign universities. Commenting on disparity, the heads of seven eastern colleges for women attribute it to the fact that “the habit of giving to higher education for women has not become established on the part of the public as it has long since been established for men's col- leges and universities. “It is not, however, possible to wait for time to effect this. The need is so urgent that we must emphasize it now. There is encouragement that the value of the contribytion of women's colleges to contemporary life is being felt, in the fact that two-thirds of a more was given to them in 1932 than in .” There should be no decrease in It is just another way of saying! ‘The term strawberry arises, in all | them being one familiar to all who keep | Roosevelt's brawny | Aliens Favored by Labor Department To the Editor of The Star: It seems that the United States Labor Department has become more interested in the welfare of foreigners than of citizens. Miss Perkins, Secretary of Labor, started upon her duties by an- nouncing to the press that she was going to make the discredited Wicker- sham report her “Bible” in deportation proceedings. She said that she wanted to follow & “humane policy” with re- spect to allens; but a humane policy toward aliens may imply an inhuman policy toward American citizens who would be deprived of jobs by alien laborers, whose standards of living would be lowered by alien competition and whose institutions would be undermined by allen radicals and racketeers. Miss American citizens with respect to immi- gration. After announcing this policy, she pro- ceeded to dismiss a large number of Federal employes whose duty it was to break up alien smuggling gangs and to Tespecting alien contract labor. The dismissal action was followed up by asking for the appointment of Mr. Mc- Cormack, & naturalized citizen, who was, therefore, once himself an alien, to be commissioner of immigration. Presum- ably, a naturalized rather than a native- born citizen was requested to be ap- pointed to this job because it was felt that his heart would melt when a for- eigner applied for admission. Miss Perkins has now, without giving any ex- planation, rescinded the order requiring printed. When a citizen enters the Army or Navy to serve his country or is employed by the Government his smeared with ink. ered a disgrace, as it is a means cf Labor Department is so sympathetic with aliens seeking to enter that it can- not bear the idea of an alien being in- convenienced in having his fingers smeared. The fact that fingerprints would harm no alien other than the one seeking to come unlawfully makes no difference in the eyes of our Labor Department—a “humane policy” must extend to law violators as well as tc law observers. It would seem, therefore, that the American people cannot expect much in respect to enforcement of the immigra- tion laws during the present adminis- tration. I am a Democrat who sup- vorted the party ticket at the last elec- | tion, but am ashamed of the immigr: | tion policy being pursued. Can it be | that the New York wing of the Demo- cratic party, which has been tradition- elly opposed to the restriction of im- migration, has gained control of our Labor Department? F. WILSON, ——.e— Togo, Not Balto, Was the Hero of the Serum Run To the Editor of The Star: On March 16 in Cleveland. Ohio. & dog named Balto died. The news- papers carried this news, as he was the popular hero of the diphtheria epidemic in Nome, Alaska, in 1925. Magazine ;lrtlclex were also written about him. | A statue has besn erected to him in { New York City. | " Those who are interested in dogs | might be desirous of hearing the facts in the case as set forth by the one per- | son who should know. Ieonhard Seppala was requested to | make the run with his dogs to bring in | this serum and he did so. | "In a verv interesting book entitled | “Seppala, Alaskan Dog Driver.” by | Elizabeth M. Ricker, printed by Little, | Brown & Co. Boston. in 1930, occurs the following enlizhtening information | sbout the dogs who made the run on this occasion. “Although later relay drives were de- cided upon. Seppala’s team, with a dog jramed Togo as leader, was chosen by the officials to make the entire trip from start to finish. and his team with Togo leading traveled over the ice and | snow about 340 miles in the interest of the serum. No other team made more then 53 miles. Balto, of course, was not & member of the team that made the long jcurney. Sepnala states that he | was amazed and amused that Balto had become a hero. “Balto was bred and raised by Sep- pala. He had often tried him in a fast team, but he could not qualify. so he was used in a slow work team. The dogs | in the team with Balto were sold after the drive to a moving picture concern in | California_for a small sum ‘and Balto | for & much higher figure on account of the publiciiy given to his “glorious | achievements. " . | “Seppala goes on to say: ‘There was | plenty of scandal connected with the | drive, and there were many rumcrs as | to various individuals commercializing it. The chicf thing which disturbed me | was that Togo's records were given to | Balto, a scrub dog, who was pushed into | the limelight and made immortal. It | was almost more than I could bear | statue for his “glorious achievements,” | decked out in Togo's colors, and with the claim that he had taken Amundsen | to Point Barrow and part way to the Pole—when he had never been 200 miles north of Nome! By giving him Togo's records he was established as “the greatest racing leader in Alaska " | when he was never in a winning tea I know, because I owned and raised Balto, as well as e ‘The moral, if any, is that the fellow the credit unless he is wise enough to have a press agent. the copy books to the contrary notwithstanding. Those who understand and appreciate dogs know that Togo—he went to the happy hunting grounds on December 5, 1929—was satisfied, knowing that he had done what his master wished him | on the old boy. R. E. ACORN. Ground Rent Proposed As Basis of Taxation To the Editor of The Star: The excellent summary of the faults of sales taxes and income taxes recently contributed to The Star by W. C. Dun- can leaves little to be added. That little is to point out that, by depressing sales, sales taxes tend to reduce income taxes and thet income taxes, by taking earnings, tend to reduce sales taxes by diverting the purchasing power of earn- ers, who are already taxed through their rent, either for the public benefit or for private gain. - Any who have seen the barricades of income tax returns in the corridors of the State Heuse in Boston and realize the relatively great expence, both public and private, of collecting these mutu- ally and generally destructive taxes probably understand the fact that a tax upon ground rent, which measures fairly the value of government to those who enjoy its benefits, would, because such a tax requires only the usual local machinery of taxation for its collection, be a means of securing both justice and economy in the collecting of public revenue. JOSEPH L. RICHARDS. Boston, Mass. P ] Sunday Star Portraits Of Cabinet Members To the Editor of The Star: The pictures of the members of the cabinet, as appearing in The Sunday Star, are 50 ‘Woodin it be & Dern good idea for one to save the Huil set? RAYMOND L. ROSS. —e—a A Home-Staying Plan. From the Cincinnati Times-Star. Gold intended for export has been halted with the polite request to “See America first.” ————— Not a Stein Law. S | RS e or legislation. on with beer Perkins has sald nothing in behalf of | oust aliens here in violation of our laws ¢ aliens seeking admission to be finger-| fingerprints are taken, and no one has| ever displayed any emotion because he had to have his fingers temporarily ‘This is not consid- | identification. Presumably, the present | | who does the work always doesn't get | to do. But it does seem sort of tough | ANSWERS Any reader can get the anwser to any gauuon by writing to our Informa- tion Bureau in Washington, D. C. This offer applies strictly to information. ‘The bureau cannot give advice on legal, medical and financial matters. It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles, or un e exhgustive research on any subject. Write your question plain- ly and briefly. Give full name and address and inclose 3 cents in coin or mps for return postage. Do not use postcards. The reply is sent direct to the inquirer. Address The Evening Star, Information Bureau, Frederic J. Has- kin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. How far has a base ball been hit for a_home run?—L. 8. A. The record is held by William Barrett, who in 1925, while with Dan- ville, knocked a ball 502 feet 7 inches at Raleigh, N. C. Q. What is meant by a wood-burning automobile?—M. B. D. A. In Germany a wood-gas generator is in use. whereby wood is burned in such a way as to generate a gas which takes the place of line vapor. Only heavy trucks and busses are using it, as the fuel is heavy. It 'takes about 2Y; pounds of wood per mile. Wood is car- ried in a rack beside the driver’s seat or on the running board. Wood-gas generators also are used in China. Q. Does an assistant postmaster have to give bond?—J. M. A. He is required to give bond. Q. How old is Prince Wilhelm Fried- rich of Germany?—M. I. A. He is the eldest son of the ex- Cro Prince of Germany and will be 27 years old on July 4. Q. Is the gold held in this country but belenging to other countries count- ed in the total amount of gold stock here?—E. C. W. | power | | country is not counted in monetary | stock. . In the early days of the Republic, were elections for presidential candi- dates held on the same day in all the | States?—D. S. A. Congress has power to determine | the time of choosing the presidential electors and on March 1, 1792, enactea | that the cholce should be made within 24 days preceding the first Wednesday in December. All States did not choose |the same day. On January 25, 1845, ‘oonsrm passed an act providing that | presidential electors should be chosen lon the Tuesday following the first | | | | | Monday in November. Q. What are real wages?—S. O. A. .The amount of purchasing power represented by nominal wages are the real wages. Q. held?—W. H. |,.A. This annual oren rowing contest is held in July. It lasts three days. The regatta was established in 1839. Q. How is henna obtained?>—M. M. A. It is obtained from the leaves of a shrub called henna, which grows in Northern Africa, Arabia, Persia and the East Indies. Henna is also culti- vated for its fragrant flowers. Q. Was the League of Nations projected by Wcodrow Wilson before | ence?>—H. B. | A. The project of the League of Nations had long been an ideal of the War President. It is item fourteen in the famous fourteen points. Q. What is the foundation for the liqueur known as Curacao?—R. S. A. It is made from the dried peel of the Curacao orange. It 1s a system | A. Foreign earmarked gold in this| When is the Henley Regatta he " sttended the Versailles Conter-‘ TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. In what part of England is the lake district>—M. A. N. A. It lies within the counties of Cumberland, Westmoreland and a small portion of Lan e. The district is about 30 miles from north to south and 25 miles from east to west. It contains about sixteen lakes. It was made famous by a group of poets who made it their home about 1800. Q Did Rembrandt make many etchings of his mother?>—P. T. A. The etchings of Rembrandt's mother executed by the artist are nu- merous. Probably the greatest one is in the British Museum. Q. Do prisoners in Federal rnums have to wear their hair clip] close to the scalp?—J. L. N. A. It is no longer the practice to shave the heads of criminals in any of the Federal prisons. Q. How old are some of the cricket %un; scores which have been kept?— A. The earliest matches of which copies of the scores have been pre- served were Kent vs.® All Enlhnf in 1746 and Hambledon vs. Kenf in 1772 Q. Please name some cities which are built on plateaus—H. J. A. Among them are Mexico City, Mexico; Denver, Colo.; Madrid, Spain, and Lima, Peru. Q. Was Thomas Paine English or French?—G. E. A. He was born in England in 1737. He came to America in 1774. In 1787 he returned to Europe and became nat- uralized in France. He returned to | America in 1802 and died in New Y®rk City in 1809. Q. Are the States to have buildings of their own at the Chicago Fair?—S. A. A. One great building will house all of the official State exhibits. It is called the Hall of States. Q. In the survey conducted at Stevens College, “How did you select the last Zoolé (};ou read,” what reason led?— A. Twenty-nine per cent of the total said it was because the book had been recommended by a friend, 19 per cent replied “convenience” and 16 per cent replied that the subject was of special interest. Nine other reasons made up the total. ! Q. Please give a biography of Tze- | Hsi, the woman who ruled China— J. W. R. A. Tze-H<i, the Empress Dowager of China, was born at Peking in 1835. She was selected for the imperial | harem when only 16, but by study and | by good fortune became the virtual ruler of China in her 26th year. She was the wife of Hsien-Feng and on his death became co-regent during the minority of her son, the Emperor T'ung Chih, and on his death in 1875 | obtained the succession for another minor, remaining dominant during his | boyhood. She had much political wis- {dom, but was unable to prevent the | Boxer Rebellion. It resulted in her | encouragement of the progress of mod- crnizing China. It was largely through | her influence that the opium traffic was discontinued. She died on November 115, 1908, | | | Q. Many recipes call for pepper corns. What are they?—H. K. F. A. They are the dried berries of the black pepper. Q. How much does i | 3-ccnt_postage stemp? |~ A Tne orcinary 3-cent stamp of the regular series costs the Government | $0.000062 each, not $0.062 as pretiously stated. The latter price is the price | per 1,000. t cost to make a —L, 3 Government M ove Awaited ~ As Limit on Hoarding Is Near Government orders that all hoarding of gold shell cease on May 1 under | penalty of fine or imprisonment arouse strong expectations of unusual proceed- ings when the time limit is reached. Compliance with the order is placed by the country on the basis of good citizen- | ship, and the general conclusion is that the need of control over the gold supply of the ccuntry is urgent. “Arbitrary, very arbitrary” says the | Hartford Times, “we must admit. But | necessity, and clear, insistent national emergency are the arbitrators. People owe them obedience and respect, citizens, and as men and wom loyally and courage.” The O: Tribune emphasizes the fact that gold is needed by the country and thal which is hoarded serves no purpos and declares that the executive order ‘15 aimed solely at those who have ig- norantly or selfishly s-creted the mefal or the certificates.” “The hoarder,” in the opinion of the {San Antonio Express, “is comparable | with the slacker in wartime, and is not doing his part in keeping up those activities which are essential to the Nation’s life.” That paper regards him as “a public enemy, perhaps, unwitting- Iv. his own enemy.” The Dayton Daily | News holds that the present policy. “now obviously wise and necessary, puts our money system in a new light.” The News adds: “If there is to be no pri vate gold, then gold, as a money base, is a Government possession with purely a psychological effect. The change opens the way to such a management of money as to forbid the extreme price fluctuations which go with panics and the hoarding of gold. * * * It may point to a much more stable dollar—a more stable price level—than hitherto has been possible.” “President Roosevelt apparently is very determined,” in the opinion of the Blcomington Pantagraph, “that what hoarders there are left in the country ‘The Glendale shall be smoked out.” President’s mere appeal to the hoarders should be sufficient to convince them of the wrongfulness, the selfishners and the waste involved in the attitude they have adopted.” That paper concludes: “They rest in fancied security if the: think themselves safe from detection. An alert administration is intent upon reforming them and has the pcwer to resort to drastic methods in doing so. Fine and imprisonment are provided as penalties for their offense. jected to either penklty, they would be the losers. Part of the possibility is the loss of money, while there is & certainty that loss of reputation would ensue. There might be an excellent les- son in placing some of the hoarders behind the bars. ‘Then the others would be assured of the serious purpose of the Government.” “What they fear,” according to the Charleston (S. C.) Evening Post, “is inflation, but if all the gold now in the country is available to the Federal Reserve system as a currency basis, there will be less: danger of inflation than if a substantial part of it is kept out of use in lock boxes. And if any- thing like currency inflation should arrive, it is quite certain that the Gov- ernment will see to it that nobody who has gold will be able to do anything with it but turn it over to the Govern- ment. At the present time a gold dol- lar will purchase exactly as much as a paper dollar anywhere in this country. and no more. There is no likelihood that it will be able to purchase more at any time.” Quoting from the Treasury report of the movement of money in March, the New York Times brings out the fact that Government efforts have already had an effect on the hoarding situa- tion. The paper concludes: “The most striking change of the month was the substantia] return of gold coin and gold certificates to the Treasury and the Reserve banks. Only $760,000,000 in of money was ‘in cir- these two types culation’ on with (Calif.) News-Press suggests that “the| Sub- | average for recent years. In order to find a figure as low as that now report- ed by the Treasury. it is necessary, in fact, to go back nearly a decade to May, 1923. This clearly shows the ertent to which gold has come out of hoarding.” Upholding the “Nation’s right to de- clare that the channels of circulation shall not be ciogged by avarice,” the Fort Worth S: Telegram states that “the best news of the vear will be the story of the first captured and prose- cuted hoarder of ‘his own’ gold.” The Lowell Evening Leader advises that “the hoarders have had fair warning and one sensible course to pursue,” while the Akron Beacon Jour- | nal predicts that the gold still kept out of circulation *“will be loosened up when the Federal Treasury proceeds to apply the drastic penalties set up under the law.” The Buffalo Evening News, re- viewing the current discussion of gold | certificates, asserts that “public inter- est is injured by storing away any kind | of money in idleness.” The Danbury Evening News says that “the presence | of gold, centralized in the coffers of | the public Treasury, enables business | to proceed with greater certaint The | Lincoln State Journal records: “The | time for the return of gold and gold | certificates has been extended three | times end it is_beginning to look as ' though the administration was playing a game with the hoarders. If you hoarders do not produce by a certain date, the Government implies by its action, the time will be extended and you will have another chance. The public has responded in a very com- mendable manner to the call for the | surrender of gold. But there is no | need of trifling longer. After May 1 the |Govemmem, might as wel] try its own | strength end see if it can make the | generous penalties it hgs offered stick.” i o Public Works on Pay Basis From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Presidert Roosevelt is reported as | favoring tolls for all future waterways projects _underiaken by the Govern- | ment. He believes such enterprises should be sclf-liquidating, making clear that he does noi refer to channel im- rovements and maintenance of rivers nd_harbors. | The National Transportation Com- | mittee, in its recent report, lays down | the general principle that every exist- ing or projected waterway improve- ment should be tested by application of the principle of self-support and that any project which cannot meet the test “should be abandoned without hesitation as an unwarranted waste of public money.” They advised against ratification of the St. Lawrence water- way treaty if it could not meet this test of seif-support. | Outside of the question of fairness | to the railways, natioral budget con- | siderations urge application of such a rule. The President may have in mind in this connection the experience of New York State, whose governorship he has so recently vacated. The con- stitution of that State ¥rbids the im- sition of tolls on the New York State rge canal and financially it is a white elephant which Alfred E. Smith says the State maintains because of senti- ment rather than common sense. ‘The St. Lawrence waterway plan will not be as attractive a vision to the Midwest farmers and the business men of the port of Chicago and its seaboard if a schedule of amortizing toll is to attend its opening. The port’s travel will lose its favor if Uncle Sam starts to collect. Lawns. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. These are the days when many & lawn which looked pretty good last ;lll is obviously in need of a conservator. ————. Cash and Crime. From the Port Wayne News-Sentinel. Sing. R