Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1933, Page 4

A—4 THE EVENING STAR . With Sunday Morning Edition. _ WASBHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.......April 22, 1833 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company th_st, “and Penasyivanta, Ave g nnsylvi 3 wew “york Office: 110 East 4200 L = England. by Carrier Within the City. ning Star. . 480 per month a) - .60c per month +++..85¢ per month .5c per copy th, The Col e end ‘of each month. In by mail o7 telephone Orders may be sent Rational 5000, Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. and Virginia. 1yr., $10.00; 1mo., 8¢ I, 3 1mo.. 80c {1yr. $400; 1mo. 400 All Other States and Canada. Dally and Sunday...13r. 312, Sinday oy REE ¢ Member of the Associated Press. patches credited to it or not otherwise cred- e, AT A B b eaon of oeia Gisbatcnes hereln are also reserved. _— Sharing Benefits of Economy. Park purchase and development in ‘Washington, Maryland and Virginia along the broad lines provided for in the Capper-Cramton legislation have been shelved and it may be many & long day before they are resumed. The Budget Bureau's order impounding un- spent balances of the National Park and Planning Commission’s park and playground purchasing fund—amount- ing to $840,000—marks an indefinite postponement in realizing one of the great dreams for the Washington of the tuture. ‘The question now is whether the local taxpayers are going to receive compen- satory benefits from the economies to be achieved by halting a scheme for which they are being taxed. A brief summary of the history of this legisla- tion and its subsequent workings should demonstrate the right of local taxpayers to whatever benefits are to accrue from halting park purchase and development at this time. ‘The original plan of developing the national and semi-national park sys- tem in and around the National Capi- , tal—a scheme of far greater proportions than any municipality of this size would for a moment contemplate—was to carry out this development as part and Zpreel of the National Government's de- velopment of its own Federal City. ‘Written into the original authorizing legislation was the thought that its financing would represent contributions of a penny apiece from the people of the United States. But the Capper-Cramton act as finally | ‘wrikten split the cost four ways between tne Wational Government, the States of Virginia and Maryland and the local taxpayers—the latter being assigned a far heavier share of the load than any- body else to pay for projects which, generally speaking, everybody but local taxpayers would take part in planning. Outside the District, and along the shores of the Potomac, Virginia and Maryland were to pay half the cost, the Federal Government paying the other half. In development of Maryland's valleys adjacent to Washington the National Government was to make an outright gift of one-third of the money required, the Marylanders to furnish the balance. But, to carry out the scheme without delay, the National Government ‘was willing to lend the citizens of Mary- land their two-thirds of the total Maryland's share of the fund will be raised to repay what has been advanced. Virginia's Legislature authorized an ap- propriation of $25,000, contingent on & ,like sum being furnished by Fairfax and |Arlington Countles for Potomac river park development, but none of this| money has been raised. =‘ For parks and playgrounds in the | District the National Government was to advance $16,000,000. The people of | !the District were to pay it back at the rate of a million a year. The National Government's contribution was to be that proportion of the annual repay- ment represented by the Federal lump sum contribution to the District bill— say twenty per cent. One inequitable feature here was that the lump sum varies—the proportion decreasing. Of a total of $5,000,000 appropriated | under the Capper-Cramton act, slightly thore than $3,000,000 has been spent in | the District. Two millions have been repaid, and another million is included ! for repayment in the pending 1934 Dis- trict appropriation bill. When the scheme was proposed it | was understood that the District would} repay its loan at the rate of one-six- teenth a year for sixteen years. As mat- | ters stand now, the repayment is de- manded at the rate of one-third a year, for the National Government ceased ad- vancing money two years ago. The item of a million dollars for repayment of the National advance was about the | only item in the 1934 bill that was not reduced by the Budget Bureau. The District needs that revenue now, either for application toward reductlonj of local taxes or to meet necessary run- | ning expenses. It would be the part of wisdom, and certainly the part de- manded by equity and fair-dealing, to reduce the arbitrary demand for this million in the fiscal year 1934, or to postpone its collection until the park and planning work is resumed with re- sumption of Federal advances. The Senate recommended that course in the District bill which died in the last session. It has been recommended again by Auditor Donovan as a means of supplying needed revenue. It is unreasonable to believe that Congress will decline to extend to local tax- payers at least part of the benefits of economy which result from sudden halt- ing of park purchase for which local taxpayers have been taxed. —_—e————— The New Ambassador to Cuba. More than ordinary significance at- taches to the appointment of Sumner Welles as American Ambassador to Cubs. In transferring him from an assistant secretaryship of State, to which Mr. Welles was named only a week or two ago, President Roosevelt sends to Havana a man who is regarded as one of our foremost authorities in Latin American affairs. Sensing an abnormal set of condi- tions in Cuba, the administration ob- viously indicates its purpose to be rep- Tesented there at this troublous moment even more important, is an experienced student of the Latin temperament and psychology. Our neighbors to the South long have been inclined to complain that the diplomatic representatives dis- patched to them by the United States too inadequately understand the peoples to which they are accredited. President Machado and other Cubans will not be able to make such & com- plaint with reference to Mr. Welles. His extensive career in the foreign service has been devoted almost exclusively to questions affecting our relations with the sister Americas. A former chief of the Latin American division of the State Department, he was commissioned by President Harding to negotiate with the Dominican Republic, incidental to the withdrawal of American Marines. During the World War, Mr. Welles was assigned to a special mission in Argen- tina, where German influences were strong and dangerously at work. 1t is evident that President Roosevelt concluded that the background and talents pcssessed by Mr. Welles would enable him to render more vital service in Havana than at Washington. He will take up his duties there at a time when, both in Cuba and some quarters in the United States, demands are heard for another American interven- tion under the provisions of the Platt amendment. Unfortunately, there are all too many indications that the Ma- chado regime has generated political turmofl and unrest far more serious than outward signs of tranquillity in Cuba would suggest. There is little doubt that something resembling a reign of terror is the rule under which the island at present has its fevered existence. The United States Government, in any event, will soon have at Havana an official observer who is fully qualified to elicit the facts, to gauge them in their true inwardness and to report the un- varnished truth to his superiors at ‘Washington. The rest of the country will do well to await such developments before jumping to rash conclusions abont the “Inevitability” of intervention or otherwise. —_—e——— Condemned for Faithful Service. There are hopeful indications that the proposed amendment relating to compulsory and arbitrary retirement of Government employes who have served thirty years will be modified. It should be modifled materially. In heartless cruelty and lack of reason it stands alone. One might argue that the ruthless process of deflating governmental costs must continue, hurt whom it may. That argument has nothing to do with this proposal to retire everybody who has served the Government thirty years— except for those specifically removed from the ranks of the condemned by presidential order. The illogical part of the proposal lies in the conception that after thirty years’ service in the Government an employe is ready to be singled out and put on the shelf. That in itself is gratuitously insulting to thousands of the Government's most capable and valued men and women. But if ap- plied as proposed, the order would re- tire one man of fifty-one years of age who had served the Government thirty years, leaving unmolested another man fifty-one years old, doing exactly the same sort of work, who entered the Government service a few years ago. The proposal is to penalize faithful and efficient service to the Government, and to strike a paralyzing blow at the very backbone of Government service. It is true that the President, by spe- cial order, could exempt certain em- ployes and continue them in service. It is true that many of the thousands of men and women who compose the Who's Who of distinguished public servants might thus be spared. But there are others, as deserving and as efficient, who would not be spared. And those who remain in service would con- tinue at work with a Damoclesian sword suspended above them by the hair of bureaucratic approval. The petty tyrannies, the vicissitudes of poli- tics, the creation of sycophants plead- ing for another year of work at the pleasure of superiors are the dismal and obvious prospects. Instead of making mandatory retire- ment the rule and giving the President power to make exceptions to the rule, the amendment should be changed to give the President the authority to retire those who by length of service are eligible for retirement when such action is in his opinion necessary. That would be far-reaching in itself. But however it may be done, the amend- ment should be modified. Budget Di- rector Douglas’ statement that the amendment, as prepared, would not re- sult in the retirement of all employes | of over thirty years’ service is far from assuring. ————— A special train brought Premier Mac- | Donald from Jersey City to the Nation's Capital. The fact that he did not stop over in Manhattan will not prevent him from hearing Wall Street's side of the great financial story. s William the Silent. The celebration of the quater- centenary of William of Orange, com- monly called William the Silent, has reached its height in the Netherlands this past week, and the world seizes the opportunity to pay tribute to one of the most remarkable personalities of Euro- pean- history and to the sturdy, unpre- tendingly good and noble people whose hero he is. Perhaps it is not too much to say that all the fundamental virtues of the Dutch nation were embodied in the great prince born at the Castle of Dill- enburg in Nassau on either April 15 or Aprii 25, 1533. His devoted patriotism, his modesty and moderation, his dogged persistence in the face of strenuous difficulties, his sincerity and loyalty, his willingness to labor tirclessly and. for small reward, his adherence to the high- est ideals of truth and freedom derived, it would seem from his “Duitscher” spirit, the basic character of the Dutch people. He was the George Washing- ton of his country, its father and its best exemplar, but he might have lived and died in vain had it not been that his age provided men and women ccmpetent to appreciate him and to hand down to later generations the traditions of his deeds and dreams. Honoring him, therefore, the people of the Lowlands honor the finest qualities in their own nature. William's biography makes fascinat- by an envoy who nrot only speaks the of the country, but, what is ing reading. He was knovn bv tI sobriquet ‘Silent” not because of auy oppressive taciturnity, but rather be- cause on a dangerous cceasion in his youth he had the genius to hold his tongue. . Actually, he was fond of con- versation and was a brilliant ‘talker, a skilled expositor, a gifted orator, not- ably eloquent. The common notion that he was inordinately stolid likewise is an error. On the contrary, he was a man of action, ceaselessly busy, pecullarly apt and quick. He was sn excellent horseman, a good sailor, an intrepid campaigner; he enjoyed swimming and played tennis. In his own day he was mistakenly supposed to be lacking in interest in scholarship and learning, but that, too, was & baseless legend— he had little time for academic pastimes, but he entertainéd a warm appreciation of the arts and sciences. For philosophy also he had high re- gard, and for his religion he was privileged to die, the victim of an as- sassin to whom he had shown charity. Possibly, if he were remembered for nothing else, he would be recalled as the first statesman in Europe to make a practical application in government of the principle of toleration. Between the people of the United States and those of the Netherlands there are numerous bonds, but the most notable of these, doubtless, is that which traces back to the founder of the | Dutch Republic. Many of his followers came to America and shared ifi the work of establishing & liberal civifl- zation on this side of the Atlantic; their descendants have been among the most eminent of national leaders, past | tha; and present. And one tie is especlally significant—it was the American his- torian John Lothrop Motley who wrote the best chronicle of William's achieve- ments, a Trojan labgr of research, com- pilation and analysis. —————————— Aviatrix Amelia Earhart told the D. A. R. that they should be willing in emergency to bear arms for their country. The general attitude of these representatives of American patriots has always been one that could be expressed in the simple and homely phrase “Bring on your emergency.” ————— Distinguished visitors are .welcomed by a magnificent array of stock quota- tion mnrovemenu—cn_evm more con- vincing way of using ticker tape for Happy Day demonstration than its em- ployment as confetti. — e Some French editors refer to the action of the U. S, A. in relinquishing the gold standard as “American black- mail.” Impulsive epithets are menacing the admired reputation France has en- Joyed for studious politeness. ———————— A system of regulated inflation is likely to place Secretary of the Treas- ury Woodin in the position of an engi- neer closely watching the steam gauge on the boiler. ot Germany at present is presenting the jigsaw puzzle which the world is sup- posed to interest itself in solving. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Bright Conversation. ‘When Money Talks about the way It’s going to behave next day, ‘We swiftly change frem grave to gay. No more Depression's specter stalks, When Money Talks. We listen when we get the chance To anything about finance And spurn the ragtime and romance. At frivolous themes the radio balks, ‘When Money Talks. Like music, when it seeks to please, All languages it speaks with ease As frozen wealth seeks to unfreeze. Stock prices gleefully it chalks ‘When Money Talks. Something to Be Encouraged. “Do you resent opposition tp your ideas?” “Not a bit,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “A little opposition is to be en- couraged s0 as to remind the home folks that I am still a plain fellow citi- zen, willing to argue and not trying to be a dictator.” Jud Tunkins says there's never much to be expected from a politician who hollers so loud that you wonder whether he has mistook Congress for a camp meeting. Always Something. The cherry blooms now fade away, There will be others soon, they say. And as one charm recedes from view, Another brings us joy anew. This is why life, with frown or smile, Brings ever something well worth while. Delaying Procedure, “I overtook two fellers from Snake Holler who said they were on their way to the Gulch for our Saturday night poker game.” “Why didn't they come with you?” “They said they'd have to turn back. I told ’em about Three Finger Sam's new habit of dealin’ contrariwise in- stead of from left to right. They sald they was sorry, but that would make it obligatory to stack the cards all over again.” “It is not enough to have money in your purse,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “unless those about you are producing things that are worth your buying.” Terrible Fear. As plans are progressing In many a land, I'm sadly confessing I don’t understand. And when they're explaining I'm sorry to say T fear, while complaining, That neither do they. “I has follered many a brass band,” said Uncle Eben, “but de finish always was dat I had to walk back home wifout no music to cheer me.” ——oe—s Myopia. From the Columbia (8. C.) Record. Approximately 250,000,000 persons, or 29 per cent of the entire adult popula- tion of the world, suffer from 3 or near-sightedness. But this some- how doesn’t explain why so many my- opia victims go in for politics. If Mark Twain Lived Now. From the Boston Evening Transcript. kady talk enzihing. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘The world's stock of hope is larger today than ever as a direct result of the be “Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die,” sald Alexander Pope, who had a way of saying a great deal in a few words. And there is that couplet of his, known to every one: “Hope springs eternal in the human Man. never is, but always to be blest.” * k ¥ X ng hmunnmtme nius, l:ieltngdhnpeonlylt"m ‘m:\um “Hope dead lives mevermore, No, not in heaven.” heh“:dmm ; of one “who against hope lieve ope.” An Enflllxl: novellst said that who- ever bid hope, in that very word had “restored peace and transport to his soul.” ‘Whittier, our own, expressed himself as follows: “Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbecams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left His hope with all.” Even the misanthropic Duke de la Rochefoucauld could say nothing worse n: “Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at mnwue) lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road.” * x % * These are fair samples of the things that have been said about hope over the years. Not all is favorable, and that is a good thing, for there are two sides to every question. In the main, however, the world belleves in hope, and is glad that such & quality exists in human nature. - hopes are not always realized,” said Ovid, “but I always hope.” One of our Senators said almost the same thing the other day when he announced: “How do we know these bills won't work? Nothing else has.” Oliver Goldsmith, in his famous lines, said: “The wretch condemned with life to part., Still, still on hope relies; And every pang that rends the heart Bids expecml;mn X:se" * ‘Hope is expectation and desire c-m- bined. ‘When we hope for a thing it is with expectation and desire. And we never give up! “My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope!” * That was written hundreds of years ago, but it is as modern as the sun- rise. It shows very well how little human nature has changed over the centuries. What has changed is that such good hope is available for more ple, es- pecially in such a dear own. - * kX % It is just as well to remind ourselves that even hope has been denied persons in the past. Hope, as old as it is, is still new for many. And through its immortal qualities, it remains ever new to those who accept it in the right spirit. Patriotism was once called “the refuge of scoundrels,” but there were | to be, the real gold, after all. B e e High Lights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands HE BULLETIN, Sydney, New South Wales.—Parsons and lay publicists are perpetually telling us that morality is decaying in this post-war depression age; which, of course, only means that morals are changing. One fundamental thing that is hap- pening is that young men are taking the position in the family economy ! which young women formerly occupied. That is to say, they are growing up with the feeling that they will prob- ably not find jobs, while their sisters are growing up with a reasonable hope that they will find them. ‘Thirty years ago the leisured young woman was still not a phenomenon, but a part of the natural order of ex istence, 50 she had a good conscienc about it. She learned a bit of cookini and a bit of needlework, and for the rest her business was to look decorative and eventually catch a husband. Today the young men are in this position. Most of them have a bad conscience about it, and many feel re- sentment against their womenfolk. But those who have the intelligence to worry things out for themselves are be- ginning to see that there is something radically wrong with a system which can only survive through replacing males by females in industry; still, it was the old men who made the system, so why should they worry? Conse- quently the resentment is shifting to the old men, who naturally can't see that it is their fault. The change from a patriarchal to a matriarchal society ought to bz com- plete in another generation, if things go on as they are going at present. When the time comes we will have a woman's morality instead ©f a man's morality. There will be more neu- rasthenia amongst men than women, and it will be men instead of women who will make the fortunes of aspiring manufacturers. Men, being the pur- suers, will dress beautifully instead of | jigion horribly. Of course, none of these things may come to pass, because women may claim and get equal wages with men, when it will no longer be- worth while to employ them in place of men; or society may disappear altogether through too many women being withdrawn from their job of maternity. * K kK London Writer Misses Baked Potatoes. Morning Post, London—A corre- spondent ‘wrlm to ask what has be- come of the baked potato merchant, whose barrow used to be, on Winter evenings, so familiar a feature of the London street scene. It is an interest- ing question for those whose ‘memories go back to the pre-war era, and who are now reminded of something lost and gone, whose passing they had per- haps failed to notice. ‘What influence has thus made the baked potato_man one with Nineveh and Tyre? Is it an economic influ- ence or a change of taste or Habit? As the price of potatoes has not rhen_. the latter is the likelier explanation; and it is impossible not to hazard the conjecture that the laws and regula- toes. | o highly-trained mechanics and also * for bright ctant feet porSIRes. ave seiom ebeiea 3 Usuelly they come in the guise of ! d as our | | hal, is said to have been instrumental grows larger and larger ‘as the needs it more. It is self-expanding, meeting all ?glg.l'ahewmldhmhhm,flm gold. Few men know what gold is, after all, but everybody has experienced hope. It there is anything immortal, it is hope, which rises above all, and tri- umphs at the very grave. * ok k% It is well to hope, and to keep on hoping, because in dealing with this commodity, indeed, every one deals with ;u;m;}hmg which he knows how to ndle, It is not so of money. the hlx:\groper spending of the little th . gxt hope is so common, se universal, that it requires no training. A man may be rich in hopes without exciting envy. He may hope when others have given up hope, and as long as he achieves this quality in himself, no one else can take it away from him. It thrives on hardships, nor fears scorn. * k ok % No one should get the ides that hope, as thus practiced, is easy, or among those things chosen because no other course is open at the time. Hope must be intelligent. That is why a spurious optimism, long on words and on deeds, can never take the place of honest hope. Hope of the right sort is based on intelligence and faith. A human being can no more away from some use of intelligence and sant'ne use of faith than a fish can from water. If he does, he suffers. The intelligent mind cannot fool it- celf, at least not very far. It is its own check and balance. In this pleas- ant task it brings in faith, the real, based on no mean survey, but upon the aspirations of mankind. * x % x ‘There is every reason to feel that ‘the world-mind of man, in the crisis | which confronts the nations, will be able to think along hopeful lines. | The goal is plain enough. | The maximum hope of the world- mind ought to be the sum of the mini- mum hopes of individual minds. More hope, not less, is needed. Here is a _chance for every citizen to think hope, rather than talk calamity. The latter is a bit more exciting, but, as talk, calamity has a nasty way of working itself out in its own kind. Hope pays—or, at least, we still hope | it does—in the gold of a happler life as we go along. And that is, or ought | perhaps unpleasant, tasks. In novels | and on the screen we are entertained by stories of young men and women who | achieve a high degree of success by a | single and spectacular act of genius. Maybe it happens like that in life some- times, but much more often a worth- while structure is built brick by brick. Most of us will go through life with- out meeting the great opportunity | which will pull us up overnight. What- ever we accomplish will be the result of seemingly unimportant, almost trivial, acts and thoughts repeated day after | day. One day we will all come to the | time when our active years are over. If | we are able then to look back clearly over the years, we will realize that every act and thought has carried us toward r away from our goal, that there is no such thing as an act or thought without an effect. * X % % Evangelism Fzvored To Lead Youth. Evening Post, Wellington.—A. Lind- say Glegg. chairman of the Execu- | tive Council of the Mildmay Confer- ence, gave a luncheon of welcome to the | Rev. Lionel Fletcher at Hotel Victoria, | when the attorney general, Sir Thomas | Inskip, presided. | 8ir Thomas said that the youth of | our land was waiting, he believed, for a fresh message and fresh direction. There | s, gmthmghmc{e tragic than to think | | of e youth of a nation wing up | | without hope. S “We, all of us, deplore what is called | the anti-God campaign in Russia,” he ! | continued. “I am told on very good authority that there are indications of | that campaign being transferred or be- gun even in this country. I could give iparuculnn which have already been drawn to my attention of places in which a very active and determined campaign has been begun of actual hos- tility to religion in any shape or form, but particularly to the Christian re- igion. “We deplored that. It is deplored almost all the political plmee‘: in :fi"é state. But to meet such activities by mere protest is a very ineffective method. “The best antidote to such efforts, if they are being made—as I believe they ;x;efl—l:ua definite campaign of evangel- on. In Alien Service. From the Rockford Reglster-Republic. The spirit of adventure which calls men of one nationality into the service of another is understandable to most of us. They seek out sections of the werld where they find fascination by taking part, often in humble roles, in momentous events there occurring. But almost invariably their partici- pation under such circumstances reacts against their own country. A case in point is selection of Lieut. Col. Mario Bernardi, famous Italina aviator, for chief of the air fcrce of the Republic of China. Gelazzo Ciano, Premier Mus- solini’s son-in-law, stationed in Shang- intment. in _effecting the ap) to China a group Bernardi is to tal get| I can do no . THE LIBRARY TABLE BY SARAH G. BOWERMAN. The withered leaves of industrial enter- prise lie on every side. I Yet MM& comes from no failure of . ‘We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Nature still offers her bounty and hu- man efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a gener- in the very 1s no vision the people perish. Small wonder that confidence es, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor * * * on faithful protection, on unselfish “armlnc::“ i them canno ve, e have fled from temple. may now t temple to the ancient truths. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true ny is not to be ministered unto,but to minister to ourselves and to our fellowmen. oI For the trust reposed in me I will re- turn the courage and the devotion We face the arduous days that lle be- fore us in the warm courage of na- tional unity; Wita the clear consciousness of seek- ing old and precious moral values; With the clean satisfaction that comes from thndmrn performance of duty old and young mby great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. The peopl:dol the United States have not falled. In their need they have registered a mandate that they want direct (and) vigorous action. They have made me the present in- strument of their wishes. In the spirt of the gift I take it. In this dedication of a Nation we humbly ask the blessing of God. May he protect each and every one of us. May He guide me in the days to come.” * ok ok % THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN EU- ROPE, 1453-1932. By Sir J. A. R. Marrictt. New York: G. P. Put- nam’s Sons. For a time, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it seemed that modern Europe was evolving toward a logical and relatively harmonious or- with the unification of only a brief an semb) . ‘The elements of discord involved in that ominous phrase “the balance of power” soon burst into renewed ac- tivity. ‘This brief history by Sir J. A. R. Marriott, lecturer at Oxford and the University of London and a former member of Parliament, is intended both as a work of ready reference and a text book for advanced students. It is s0 lucidly written and in such an orderly fashion that it will also appeal as eral reading to those interested in )pean histcry. Events of the remoter past are treated only in sum- mary, as a preparation for the discus- sion of modern Europe and its complex problems. The French Revolution is the beginning of the pericd of rapid change frcm autocracy to democracy, from decentralization to centralization, from ¢ frank, unexcused warfare to diplomatic warfare, in which each na- tion attempts to justify itself. Genea- Icgical tables of the Hapsburgs, the Guises and the Bourbons and 16 small maps assist the text. MY_BIRD BOARDERS. By Frank Bond. Washington, D. C.: The Green Lamp League. The author, chairman of the United States Geographic Board, has for 25 years conducted at Cleveland Park, D. C, a bird cafeteria, which has paid | well and balanced its budget, because | the pleasure of bird friendships has | seemed to have value beyond statement | in monetary terms. Mr. Bond disclaims any attempt to educate by his "bird stories, or to give thrills by telling of | unbelievable episodes. He hopes only that his “restcure occupation, after and before business hours,” may appeal to others as a satisfylng substitute for “the daily and Sunday automobilechase with its nerve-wrecking, ever-présent danger, concluding with the nightly movie show.” His jungle lot is on the south slope of a wooded hill down which Reno road formerly led toward Klingle Run. Though the cafeteria patronage includes both seed eaters and insect eaters, most of the species which come eat whatever is offered. An excellent example for human beings! However, Mr. Bond evidently offers & good mixed diet of appetizing food, with drinking and bathing pools in addition. After seeds, bread crumbs, suet and delicate insects have been served, raisins and small ripe fruits are brought on for dessert. Some of the birds which enjoy the pri of this de luxe jungle are the catl , robins, flickers, cardinals, woodthrushes, finches, bluebirds, mock- ingbirds, juncos, titmice, chickadees, woodpeckers, warblers and native spar- rows. We wonder how the proprietor manages to keep the rapacious starlings away from his restaurant. The small book is illustrated with many drawings by the author and contains a classified identification list of cafeteria patrons. BE A PUPPET SHOWMAN. By Remo g:)mno. New York: The Century “I believe that children should be encouraged to make their own marion- ette productions,” says Remo Bufano, He | can be strained to the breaking point. The Salt Lake Dese: Es Hy ] i % S < J i ] B ¥ E jwhere it is beyond the power of the : | Herald emphasizes the fact that “this | struggling to to an equi di mghm:lfm&emm' - ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Stop & minute and think about this fact. You can ask our Information gent pecple in the world—American newspaper readers. It is a part of that best purpose of a newspaper—service. ‘There is no charge except 3 cents in coin of stamps for return postage. Do not use post cards. Get the habit of asking questions. Address your letter to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, ‘Washing- national * has an equitable right in case of the insolvency and dis- ution of the bank and the nml::; ment of a receiver to have the to his credit at the time of the in- solvency applied to the payment of his indebtedness on the note.™ Q. Of what kind of wood are beer kegs made?—E. M. M. A. The Forest Service says that the type of wood most commonly used in r.klxi manufacture of beer kegs is white o Q. How did England acquire a con- trolling interest in the Suez Canal?— E. J. C. A. English shares in the Suez Canal were obtained from the Khedive of Egypt in 1875. This ruler found him- self compelled by heavy debts to offer for sale his 176,602 shares in the Suez Canal. Disraeli, at that time prime minister of England, received early in- formation, borrowing the necessary | £4,000,000 from the Rothschilds. This | made England, which had originally | opposed the canal project, the heaviest owner in it. Q. How fast is paper run through large newspaper printing presses?—J. L. | A. At an approximate rate of 54 miles | per hour. Q. Has Stribling or Sharkey made | mcre money?—N. O. N. | A. Stribling has earned more money | in the prize ring, but it is reported that Sharkey has been more fortunate in his investments. Q. Where is the driftless area in the United States?—S. G. | A. Tt includes several hundred square | miles in Wisconsin and adjacent por- ticns of Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. It has never itself undergone glacial action of any kind. Just why this area | should have escaped the glacial action | that went on all around it is by no means clear and has never been abso- | lutely explained. Q. How is Delano accented in Presi- | dent Roosevelt’s name?>—M. B. i ! A. Tt is accented on the first syllable. st | Q. Why does a human being consume | more oxygen in the light than in the | dark?—A. M. V. | A. Generally ‘speaking, it is because 3 a pérscn is more active in the light | “s: than in the dark. Q. What is Chancellor Hitler's pro- gram for Germany?—C. B. | A. Included in Chancellor Hitler's | program are the eccnomic rehabilitation of Germany with the repudiation of reparations; the revision of the Versailles | treaty, particularly with respect to Ger- | many's present limitation of arms; also an effort will be made to obtain for | Germany a return of at least a part of | the colonies which she was obliged ta cede under that treaty. Q. How many home owners are there _|in the United States?—H. T. A. According to the census of 1930, there are 14,002,074 homes owned in !hehunned States, or 46.8 per cent of Jomes. Q. What is the name under which the various farm credit offices are to be united?—M. R. A. There will be a reorganization into 4 single unit known as the Farm Credit Administration, under the terms of an executive order issued March 27, 1933, Q. What is the seating capacity of the Notre Dame Stadfum at South Bend, Ind.?>—G. H. C. A. The seating capacity is 60,000. Q. What is the Chinese population of New York, Chicago and San Fran- cisco?—A. W. A. New York City, 8414; Chicago, 2,757, and San Francisco, 16,303, Q. Does any highway bear the name of President Monroe?—H. E. H. A. At ‘the present time none does. ‘There is a movement on fcot to name & new highway the James Monroe High- way. It seems particularly appropriate, since it passes Monticello and extends to Florida, purchased in his administra- tion, and ends in New Orleans, part of the Louisiana Purchase. Q. To what family of plants does the sweet potato belong?—L. R. W. A. It belongs to the morning glory family, convulvulaceae, and«ts blossom resembles that of the morning glory. Q. Who was Billy the Kid?>—T. W. G.. A. This name was used by William H. Bonney, who lived from 1859 to 1881. He was killed by a_ bullet fired by Sheriff Pat Garret. Bonncy was only 22 years of age and he had killed 21 men (not including Indians) dur- ing his six years of outlawry. The modern consensus of opinion is that Billy the Kid was perhaps the most notorious gunman the West ever had. Q. How many research agencies in the social field are there?—D. D. A. The Social Work Year Book for 1933 lists 207. Q. Before standard time was adopted, how did other’ countries fix upon the time they used?>—I. H. P. A. Generally speaking, the various countries used the time of their capi- tals as standard. Q. What is the value of Rubinoff’'s Stradivarius violin?—N. B. A. It is reported that Rubinoff places a value of $100,000 upon it. A. What period in history is the Moyen Age?—M. M. A. Moyen Age is the French term for the Middle Ages—the periodin history that extended from the fall’ of the Ro- |man Empire to about the fifteenth cen- tury. Q. Please name some plays in which Osgood Perkins of “Good-by Again” has appeared —H. M. A. Some in which he had leading roles e on Horscback,” asque of Ven- ‘Loose Ankles,” With _ Flowers,” * ‘Women Go on Forever,” * 'The Front Page,” “Uncle ¥ “Tomorrow and Tomorrow,” “The Wiser They Are,” “Wild Waves,” “Foreign Affairs,” “A Thousand Sum- mers” and “Chrysalis Q. What was the maximum spoed of the Akron?>—G. W. C. A. The maximum speed of the U. S. S. Akron was 728 knots per hour, or 84 miles an hour. ‘Home Mortgage Plan Placwed Among Costly Enterprises 1t is testified that many home owners of the country are in need of the relief that would be provided under President Rocsevelt's plan for mortgage aid in connection with such ownership. It is| also estimated that there is a possibility | of the expenditure of large amounts on | such relief, and the success is believad | to be dependent on the approach to the individual cases and the caution shown | by the Government cfficials in charge. | “The President’s program of economic | and social restoration,” in the opinion | of the Charleston (S. C.) Evening Post, | “has come none too scon to the security of the small owner of a home, in his| possession of this essential to the family life upon which our whole scheme of | society is based.” The Evening Pcst| states that the measure “seems sound encugh znd will prove greatly beneficial, | provided it be so administered as to extend assistance only to those who are | actually staggering under mortgages or. are about to Jose their property.” i “It is pcssible that the whole plan will stimulate considerable refinancing without recourse to Government aid.” ks the C:klards Tribune. with an| explanaticn of the plan: “The main | item offering relief is that which pro- | vides for the exchange of mortgages | for Federal bonds at 4 per cent interest. | The investor whosz money is in mort- gages abcut which he may have reason to be doubtful thus will have bonds the | interest upon which is guaranteed by the Federal Treasury. Th: home owner | will be refinanced, starting off new, and with a lower interest rate, 5 per cent, in | addition to a protective provision which permits him, in cases of extreme need, | to postpone both interest and principal | payments. It wculd seem obvious that | there will be a great number of persons | in both cases who will eagerly accept | the opportunity.” “Its simplicity and its soundness are | its great virtues,” advises the Rochester | Times-Union, while the Cleveland News | belipves that “it should relieve the wage earner of the worry incident to the possible loss of his home through lay- offs or curtailed income.” The T:peka Daily Carpital calls it “an experiment | worth undertaking,” while the Nashvilie Banner sees resson for the system b2- cause “many owners negotiated loans four or five years ago, before the depres- sion began, and find increasing diffi- culty.” The Portland Oregon Journal concedes that “new plans fcr national policy amsze and startle many an ultra- conservative, but change is ordained as a part of destiny.” “Reduction of the mortgage burden, mortgagor to carry it,” says the Phila- delphia Evening Bulletin, “is generally approved, but the procedure ought to have careful consideration.” The Bul- letin also points to the existence of building and loan organizations, but- tressed by the Federal Home Loan Banks, and suggests that “it is not clear that there is greater service under the new plan than might be had through the perfected operation of the old.” The Sioux Falls Argus-Leader declares that “the credit of the United States Treasury is not inexhaustible and it ret News sees the danger of “socializing the farm and home mortgage investment field.” This view is taken also by the Lincoln State Journal, while the Port Huron Times- is g purely emergency and measure.” The Fért Worth Star- agrees that “the wage earner in a ob- Jjects of relief on eco- nomic horizon,” but adds thag “under millions of such circumstances, the problem is L. unanimity. in the country in suj of the - m." states . the W- g division e lew, “but with as to the plan of approach.” The ‘Toledo Blade feels that “it will be up to the Federal agents who make the lcans and the appraisals to exercise good judgment and fine discrimir The Akrcn Beacon J al ary “depositors and stockholders in p. building and loan associatiol hardly be henefited by Gove sompetition.” The Abilene Reportor ad- Vises that “to be effective, the plan must be very simple and capable of ing worked at high speed Lowell Evening Leader holds t has been an approach to “agencics de- signed to protect us from what were formerly regarded as the risks we must take on our own responsibility.” The Chicago Daily News concludes: “To make the refunding of mortgages available to even the minority of dis- tressed home owners, two amendments of the plan appear to be advisable. The $10,000 limitation well might be applied to mortgages instead of to tho total v2lue of the mortgage: t | amortization of the gages should be 3l siderably longer period e Safety on tie Rails. From tre R v Not a killed on = the year 183! lieved to b2 The onc pass was a railroad employe, cff duty, riding “deadhead” in a MOLCr passcrger Car which was in collision with a train. The record of not a single passenger fatality in 1932 compares with 1931, when four passengers wcre killed in train accidents, that having been the best previous r. There were seven passenger fatalities in 1930. The one passenger killed in 1932 com- pares with 480,000,000 carried. Against this ratio of one to 480,000,000, there was in 1931 one fatality for every 149,- 807,000 passengers carried; and in 1930 | one for every 101,141 000 passengers car- ried. Passengers injured in train acci- dents last year numbered 410, a low record as compared with 493 in 1931. As ccmpared with more than thirty thousand deaths on the highways of the United States last year, it is obvious that train travel has it all over motor travel for safety. Comparative figures are not available as to regular airplane carriers, for it is to be remembered that the large majority of fatalitics in air- planes are emeng stunt flyers, and that accidents have been reducsd to an amazing minimum amceng regular char- tered passenger planes flying on definite schedule. Now that the railroads have achieved a degree of safety that was not believed to be possible a generation ago, there is hope that they may cne day turn their attention to comfort and cleanli- ness, in which elements they are still a generation behind the times. The motor bus could give them pointers on venti- lation and the larger passenger air- planes on seat design. About the safest Pplace one can be is on & moving railroad passenger train, but it is nct yet the flt%xemt or the mest comfortable place 0 ————————— Operations. Prom the Pasadena Post. It is singular that a people not enjoy- ing an ex-patient’s account of the oper- ation seems to enjoy details of a movie divorce, which is one of the most com- mon of operations. Four Years Will Suffice. Prom the Roanoke Times. Hitler pleads with the Germans. to let him have charge of the country for just four years. After that nobody will want it, anywa; —_———— Relieve the Unrelieved! Prom the Charleston Evening Post. ywright d voice D"mfl.m Government completes its ure for &ewgl'&ve“w&m - glet > unreliev: classes.