Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1933, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Merning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.. ..May 1, 1983 .. . Editor THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: aad Pennsylvania Office: 110 East 42nd St Lake Michizan Building. 14 _Regent St. Londen. Eungland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. ¢ Evening Star.............45¢ per month @ Evening and Sundey Star 60c per month \when 4 Sundavg) oo unda; T ) 85¢ oar month c ¢ Evening and (when 5 Sundays). .. -5c per €opy i #id of eacn montn The Sunday Star.... Collection made at thi §ittzs max be sent tn by ‘mail or telephone Ational 5000. 11th_ St New York Chicago Office Buropean Office ve. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. E\Ifl" only fly and Sund: i1y only 5 sy only . Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled | o the use for republication of ull news dis- | natelies credited (o it or not otherwise ited in this paper and also the local news published hereini. All rigits of publication of special dispatches herein are wiso reserved —_— Government and Business. Ty 1yr. §4.08: 1 mo. | are beginuing to think sbout camp- | spifit aa the menth of May” waa one|Oara to commend & battalion of em- of his delightful metaphors. Milton| gineers at Arequipa, s stronghokl of sang the season’s praises in one of his| opposition sentiment. The next year most graceful songs: Cerro led a vigtorious uprising snd Now h:h‘ w::xr.m morning star, @AY's u'm: flwmnmmcy from Laguis, who 1 3 was imprisoned on charges of carrup- Cames dancing from the east, and JeAd | ion in affice. In the Soeing of 1031 The flowery May, who from her green having lost much of his prestige by hg throws flagrant nepotism, ke was forced by & | The }r:.!uw cowslip, and the pale Brim- | new revalution ta resign the presidency. Hall, bounteous May, that doth inspire | the provisional government sending Mirth, and youth, and warm desire; | him op spother “military mission” to Yooda and groves ave of (07 Cieming | Prance. In July Oerro Teturned to Per Thus e salite thee with our carly song, | A0 In October was elected Preident And welcome thee, and wish theg long. | for @ five-year term. Of course, in our medern world the| Beaving within him no less than four- month is important only for the uae | teen bullets, received in militgry gction that may be made of it. Its copgepial and from wauld-be gasassins, Ogrro be- warmth and brightness, its indefipable | Weved that he bore § charmed life. He | stimulation, ave precious to ug prin- | 9id Dot lessen his precautions sgainst cipally as they promote the success of | SUrPrise attacks, however, but yester- | the wark we have 0 do. But at least | 9¥'s event proved thelr inefciency. it & not sR epemy, lke its wintry | While it is ta be hoped that this tragedy predecessors. ©On the contrary, it is g | Will lead to sounder wnd more stable ad- | friend, and as such creation hails its | Winistration in Reru, there is veason to| arrival. fear that the contrary will be the case, | for the passions of palitics are intense in that uuhappy country. e Gov. Rilph disapproves of horse racing. Iis evils are well known, and Califurnia already has more uun: ing. Hundreds of them already have arranged to spend same partion of theiunuunl material in Hollywood stugios | depicting the various detrimental influ- | +on—s Thinking About Camping. The boys and girls cf Washington President Roosevelt and his chief of-/ ficial advisers will have an opportunity this week to speak directly to the rep- rssentatives of American business. At the annual meeting of the Chamber of | Cammerce of the United States, which| opens here tomoriow. the President is expectcd to discuss his reconstruction program particularly as it affects pri- vate industry. Angd, after all, the re- | covery of the Nation depends at bottom entirely upon the success of private in- dustry. It must stage a comeback. The President has made it clear that the present administration wishes to be as helplul &s it is possible to be, that it stands Mmdy to take the lead in produc- tive employment of labor. At present Mr. Roosevelt has & commitice engaged | an a huge public works program which is to be submitied to Congress at an early date. Not only will such a program put to work many men and women now unsmployed, but it will also give to pTi- vate manufacturies the necessary orders for materials, thereby helping to turn the wheels of industry. The Federal Government. however, cannot do it all. It can lcad the wa it can provide credit facilities; it may undertake to provide for a minimum wage or to fix maximum hours of labor. provided such acts are held to be con- stitutional. But unless the countr prepared to have Government enter business on a huge scale and in the end absorb it all—thercby making every citizen of the Nation in effect 8 Gov- ernment worker—private industry must follow this lead to give the people Work and a livelinood. Means of mass dis- tribution of products must be developed, with mass consumption as its corollar This country has demonstrated to the world its power of mass preduction, which can be whipped into full speed ahead provided the production can be consumed. Apparently the only way in which mass consumption can be brought about is through development of mass distritution. This, indeed, is the problem with which American business men must con- cern themselves. It is as clear as the nose on the face that great volume of products can be consumed ouly by a great mass of consumers. And a great mass of consumers can be produced only when there is mass distribution. It has heen charged thai present methods of distribution place the great bulk of credit, money and producis in the hands of a comparatively small group. No small group can possibly consume ' the products of American industry. The President is seeking in every way to assist indusiry. Industty must be- stir itself. It is unthinkable that a so- Jution of the problem cannct be found with the Government and business co- operating. Up to the present there has heen great co-cperation on the part of Government and not so much on the part of indus! h of May in 10 b Gis- It is the merry mo which dull care is supps missed- pecially the Thoarding gold, which does not buy thing just now until exchanged 1.1 son other kind of currcucy. A Governme Summer in the woods of Malne or| Vermont, the hills of New Hampshire |ences which confront modern civil- | or Western Massaghuseits. 8tll others | ization. The Governor appears to be nticipate 8 holiday in the Adiron- | undoubtedly entitled to some kind of & gacks, or the Calskills, or at congenial | bouguet for his stand againsi a demoral- places in the neighborhood of the! izslug ipfluence. Great Lakes. These have “registered” at one or another of the splendidly equipped apd efficiently managed Bri- vate camps which have the status of Summer schools. Their vacations will be spent in idéal surroundings, friend- Iy compapy, under the gusrdianship of experienced directors snd teachers, councilors and tutors. They will live iwenty-four haurs & day out of doors, they will have meals prepared with proper regard to the science of dietitics, they will be Instructed in swimming and | riding, the arts and crafts. They will return home filled with new strength, e Redugtion of wages for legitimate fly- | g service is likely to encounter popular Tesentment. The airplane has demop- | strated its usefulness and reliability in | many ways. It is oply fair, however, to assumie that the coast will be clossly | counted when serousutics makes dem- ! onstrations of & nature that is appar- | ! ently ta a large degree spectacular and experimental. S Abstruse comment o Telationships in- | volving love aud marriage continues tu! | occupy many magazine pages, although new zest for life. i the accredited best minds of the country Mauy adults also, of course. will be!qure frankly engaged in balancing the preparing for the particular kind of | national budget and providing ways and camping which especially appesls %0 means of keeping up with the grocery them. On the one extreme of this | bills group there are the men, who. like| S e those at Camp Racsevelt, Luray, will| It would not be possible to try sll the be fighting the depression in the forest | methods that are being suggested in the army organized by he Govenment; |y, ent of financial relationships. on the other there are those who, able A?:;?:mwm effort is confdently :f_ o mlm‘)lce their own flight from ‘lhe pected, even if a little delay is Invalved. city, will moter to some @ppropriate g apply the homely motto attributed to retreat for at least a few days of re- pa w&m‘., ‘Be sure y:u :rg right lief fyom routine labos and care in &0 and then go whead.” environment suited to their wmood and | ‘_t‘, s inclination. Whole families will (“‘i I xchool expenses cannot be supplied camping during July and August. and | hy qhe customary methods, an srrange- they will have “the time of their lives,” | yient might be made for an allotment of as the saying is. | ragio time for giving out lessons and But what uf the children Whose ygding to “fan mail” the examination parents are financially unable to send | papers to be corrected. them wway from the heat, the dust and | Saiet o the turmoil of the town? In moxe for- tunate years there have been many SHOOTING STARS. camps in the neighborhood of Wash- BY PUILANDER JOHNSON inglon where the young people were sma a:ummoduled at small im under the AN Rl general management of the Community | Everybody's movin’ Chest and its co-operating agencies.| Toward s better day. , But this Summer, s it now sppears, | ¥he World i§ sure improvin® Camp Good Will, in Rock Creek Park,| No matier what they say. Camp Pleasant at Blue Plains and Camp | The journey grows distressin’, Happyland, near Annapolis, cannot be| ~But there's bound 19 be EelEt operated. The reduced return of the| Well have our share ¢ blessin’ Chest campaign has eliminated all camp | A8 we've had our share o' grief. actividies except those which are com- ! : 4 pletely self-supporting, and the refuges | Everybody's gropin mentioned have been “social help”| ToWard & kipdiler Jight. camps, dependent upon the philan- | A-stiviw’ an' a-hopin \hropic instinct of the wore fartupate| AR’ a-tryin' to go right. | classes of the people. | Samehaw we'll be contrivin’ Some “scholarship” arrangements| To reach the day of rest taey be made possible through & palicy If each keeps on a-sirivin of mutusl #id on the part of the Girl| Aw a-doin’ of his best. Scouts, the Boy Scouts, the Girls'| Friendly Society, the Washington Boys' | Club, the Cluist Child Society, the Y. M. C. A the Y. W. C. A. and other orgunizations and various institutions. A few children could be taken care of | i this way, appreximgtely one-hali of (he normal fee being paid for each in- | divigual child. But funds are scaut,| and not much can be done, conditions | being ©s they are, unless gifts are of- | fered for the specific purpose. It may be hoped that those Who still are pos- sessed of means to help will wish to conwibute, Ten dollas will give an! underprivileged givl or boy & lorious | tay in a camp. and the inve-ment invariably produces abundant dividends in terms of health, stimulated morale ! «nd happiness. Genuine Specimen. “What's your idea of a true patriot?” “A man who can smile while he is writing a check for his taxes.” | Dilemma. If with other men’s troubles You busy yourself You'll hear it declared You're a meddlesome elf. If you mind your own business Youll speedily end In the grouch categary. Witk scarcely & friend. An Advantage Utilized. | “What did the editpr say when you read your peem to him? 3 “I can't repeat it." replied Mr. Pen- wiggle. “But I will say that in his chaice | of the BY CHARL’ES E. TRACEWELL. “Bet you can't guess what I just heard." shouted Templeton Jones over the phene. It was 8 o'clock in the morning, he was at his office, and had called up his e immediately upon arrival. “That our bank has opened at last,” ¢ back the rej @ e first thi vent on Jopes. “Bxaetly at 7:27 o'clock. as I was Dass- that big yellow stucco houge up next block.” ‘emp Jones never ppuld figure out why any one wanted to paint stucco Ia e standard yellow tone used and dis- he world around. But it made no difference. IR RE The bird, evidently, was not %0 fin- icky. e first thrush of 19331 No wopder - Jones, friend of birds, felt that he mage & genuine discovery. Por several weeks hie had kept his :ll‘i wl‘ nl'!k“m% tg:t g far e walts-like notes of the brown ek He was walking along. U of nothi in particular, and m all Selovad aongater. Scarcely had the first triolet wafted through the crigp morning air (too crl‘m’ x‘:‘u ysmd ndu.luuu than he ra in delight. Ah, ha! h%\zrc e was, for the first thne 0 many mopths, since late last ummer, to ke reasongbly exact. IR Jmau realized thgt his big “news” would be no news at all to thousands Qf_persons. he first thrush of the season, or the last, made no difference in the least to so muhy persons. Their thoughts ana interest were elsewhere. | | selves, | commonest mistagkes is that a simple | Keenly aware of his difference fram the so-called average citizen, in this re- spect, he no hurt from the oh(‘znlemp‘ which sometimes enfol m. He believed he had the best of the tal battle there embodied; eve: beautiful things cause conflicts in r 1@ valyes. He who holds to ope jue will ta another to be cast- i disves) upon the values he i%#u is is natural, but too many per- sons permit the contempt involved to become intensely personal. Thus a gen- tleman with & pair of big tropical fishes which he no longer cares for calls up another fancler, and asks him if he Il gceept them as a present. “When the second says he believes he does nat want them, the first is slightly offended, simply because another human being, By exercising a choice of values, hgs seemed to cast a slight reflection upon lwfl“"& choice. Human beings are peculiar. ¥ Xk % Jones had made the first thrush “hig news” for himself. He had built up a value there which others had not built up—how could they expect to find it? Jones found it, becavse he hgyd been listening far it for several weeks. ‘Those who construct values for them- instead of always permitti others to tell them what is valuable, a what is not, are in a much better pcsi- tion, as far as happiness is concerned. Wit if others st times, perhaps in envy, tend to brand such happy per- sons’ as slightly “balmy”; ene of the branding of apother human being, either in words or thoughts, makes hi 0. Jongs naively insisted an believin that he had (he best of It. that M iype has by far the best of it. in such | |a world, und in such a life as this. | Beauly and Lappiness are theirs at no cost, snd particylarly st no compulsion. Que hgs but to stop and think of sll the sights wnd scenes which cost some- thing “tp realigg that there is some b:,g it x& thuse which cost nothing. his is @ small gain. however, in comparison with the happiness receipts | acciuing from things of beauty whose | wppreciation is by no means compul- | jory. From infaucy man is told what | he should admire, until in time he | comes to have no real ideas of his own. | He accepts the judgments of other per- sons, instead of forming his own: he admires and dialikes r part of a crowd. rather Uian for and by himself, and | L \“nv wauld tegard word of some action in politics. whose right or wrong they would not understand. as far more important than word of the first thrush heard in the Springtime. Jones, on the other hand. had the supreme good sense ta realize thyi after all. he knew little about national and h"-fl'fllfll\m;‘l aflufl. Furlhepmore, he had the honesty not to pretend that he did. He tried to evaluate matters in their correct pro- portions—to him. For him. at least. and for gil thase like him, the joy in the thrush's sang was very real. Hg could understand that. even if z0ld stapdards and iniation snd ve- fation left him befuddled. He had a secret hunch, as the new: paper men say, that everybody elsc was befuddled. too, about such large mai- ters. but found it inexpedient to admit as tauch. * ok ok % Templeton Jones got &s much pleasure out of his first thrush as many another person does out of & new car, or would cut of the discovery of that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAN WILE. Amid the encircling gloom—or joys— (you pay yeur depreciated money and you take your choice) it has escaped general notice that President Roosevelt, in addition to having become monetary dictator, will have the oppartunity gdur- ing his term of cfiice practically of re- cahstituting the Federal Reserve Board. Only one of its fuur now cceupied mem- berships (there are two unfilled vacan- cies) runs beyond 1936. Gov. Eugene Meyer, who has resigned. was appointed | to serve until August, 1938. Dr. Adolph C. Miller, reporicd as Meyer's prubatle successor, is hlling @ term which - | res i August. 1934. Chayles 8. Ham- B vas ie-sppoinied by President Cool- idge for a trm ending in August, 1936 Géoige R. es is the only prosent member of the board whose commission would outstrip even two Rocsevell terms, as his term is not up until April. 1941, President Hoover did not ap- paint 8 sueesssor to Roy A. Young. who Tesignyd to become governer of the Federal Reseive bank st Boston. and who Wwas serving a term expiring in | April, 1933, When named. the suecessor | will serve until 1942, The so-called dut farmer membership. which Presi- dent Hoover gave to Wayland M. Magee, carried @ term thal wound up in Janu- avy, 1933. Mr. Magee failed of cop-| firmation in the Senale. When Presi- Gent Rocsevdt names his sucecssor, the Tatter will hald office until 1942. Mossts. | Being right or being wrong—what is it, | | Jones—at least till L B Many human beings are so desirous | of being “right” that they lose sight of | all persepective. | Is it not amazng. how every ome | thjnks himself right all the time? halesame ¢ynicism comes in here. | in the majority of cases, except a mere | atglement of what ane thinks? Perhaps there is no possibility of ar- | rivipg ai a defuite, standard “right” | in this werld. Maybe it is all in the | way one happens to look at things. | One raches a pesk of individusl| wisdom wh.n he wchieves respect, first, for his own likes, and, second, for the | likes of others. It is the second part of this program which sees the most fajlure. Almost any one can follow the first part of it. ¥ ok oxox Many }Lt:soni are wrong in their | opiplons cpuse the subjects about which they have opinions are far tog big_for them. You se: men everyhere exuding men- tal sweat, struggling with idegs which ar¢ far beyond them. It is praiseworthy. po doubt, to at- tempt. but it is common sense to refuse | o wark too hapd, in such things, when | unc’s brain whispers that one ®oes not understand, and never will understand. | One of the real, but little regarded, | secrel Tepsons for the failure of hu- | manity at this hour is that the leaders, overpuwered by the camplexity of civ- iligatign, are struggling with questions too large for them Kappy is the man. such as Templeton ¢ the delug:—who realizes that the happiness of listening to the thrush is something tangible and as worth while as any. “1 don't believe any of ‘em know what they are talking sboyt.” said Jones, re- | ferring vaguely to certain great mat- | ters. “But I do know something about | this thrush. I know that I heard it foy the first time this year at exactly 37! minutes after 7 o'clock on the last Pri- | day mornipg in the month of April.” | | unusual honor just accorded him in | Santo Domingo, where he arrived at the outset of @ tour of literary exploratian | in Latin America. In_the 400- | old cathedral at Santo Domingo is the tomb ot Christopher Columbus. At the specigl ipstigation of Gen. Malina, Pres- | ident of the Dominican Republic, the | tomb was opened for Col. Powell’s in- | spection—a_privilege rarely accorded to any one. ¢ canon of the cathedral having relezsed the three massive locks which secure the bronze sarcophagus and lifted the heavy lid of the leaden caskel within, the American writer by | candle light ed upon the boues of “the Grend Admiral of Spain, Viceray | of Hispanicla and Iustrious Discaverer of the New World, Cristobal Colon.” Cul. Povell wiites this wbserver: “In a lifgtime of interesiing esperiences, I have never had a greater thrill. And | to make the setting complete. the great | dguble doors of the cathedral had been vivned and the tomb was bathed in. the radiance of g Lropical moap.” *ox % x Qrdiparily the American Law Insti- tute, which is holding iis eleyventh an- nual meeting in Washington this week, hears ounly frum lawyers when at its wind-up banquel. ‘Ihis year the prin- cipgl speaker is to b the sociologist, Frances Perkins, Secrelary of Labor, who 1s expected to elucidate her plan for contro! of industry and presumably | prices of commodities. Indeed, the main | | Hayde! i:‘ tank. | bed an’ bo-ord f'r a while but I don't The whole problem is brought to the of language he tcok every advantage Hamlin and Miller are co-deans of the | discyss its legal gspecls before the eru- to fecl lik2 a when he calculates the percentig: of his pay he is required to turn back into the funds of his fore by the Camp Esp.siiion to b Leid at the Y. W. €. A. May 5 end 6. All other important phases of the sub- ject are to be presented. The pubiic is mvited to sliend. Presumably many who are thinking about camping will taie wdvantage of the oppostunivy the Lwo days' program of leziures and dem- onstrations will afford. SV May. ‘The pleasantest month of th AT the month to which the pocts wpply the compliment of “merry.” is here last. Third of the calendar divisions of the snzient Romans, it hal spocial significance to them as the time the annual processicn Lo the grotto ol Egeria. May day was the occasion of the Floralia. In later peviods, par- ticularly in Eugland in the reign of Elizabeth, ail vaited in the sports and games of & huliduy releas:; | the whole population “went u- Blosson boughs _wire carried marching throngs, and the Maypale was set up in & convenient epen spac: for dances and ficli ppropriate o the fostival. The Puritans abolished ti colebration when they came to power in 1644, but at the Restoration the old customs were revived. Even in our own much more sale genc: he tr dition is not ¢-ad. 8ince il.@ organ- jsed labor has cbserved May 1 as an internaticnal orkers' feta, and still more recently the day has ben taken | over by welfare agencics as a date for urging the cvie and philinthropic pro- teeticn of the health of children. But without regard to these ware of | less arbitrary employments of the be- ginning of the monih, May has besn appreciated for iis own sake. The hu- man spirit rises in scme peeuliar way | beyond the reach of scientific analysis, | he heart swells with & naturel if some- what irrational sense cf joy, the discon- tent of Winter drops from the mind like a cumbersome, unwanted garment cast aside, and the whole soul break free cf the Londs of riuiine habits of complacent ennui. Hope is riborn. The Pecu’s aray, vhen he was in Burape rece catches new eour { on en cytended “leaye of abiep.e” he sunny skies and hur.ies on in its quest | s ried in the Lalian, yrench and Span- for the ultimate Eden of its longing.|ish armies, secing same active guty i Shekespeare, who knew so many Morocco in the campaign agsinst Abd- other things, knew May's magic also.|el-Krim. When he returned to Peru in Nineteen references to the month are|1039, President Laguis, sgainst the e be found in his plays. “As full of wymngs of his edvisers, Dromoted Science is strcng as ever in G.rmany and may go so isr as to provide a system of psychopaihic analy=is fur any cspirants to unlimited dictatorial puw- s, for ———————— The Slaying of Sanchez Cerro. Proident Luis Sanchez Oeiro Was 8= assinated yescerday at Lung aiter hav- ing ruled Peru us constiiutianal Presi- dent singe December, 1931, 11 s & sa@ commentary upon the condition of at- fairs in that country that the tragedy is not a surprise. 1t has indced been cxpected lor some time, for Sapchez Cerro had gained his position af politi= cal dominance in Peru by cogreive muizary methods—aitouga he had Lo n formally elected Present in the Au.umn of 1931—and he had avoused classes Le of the pubiic mind W the coun- wry would scurcely fuil 10 seek murder- wiis vengeance. “Phe identity of the gssassin is not clearly established, Lut he 15 believed 10 have been & meaber of the radical party. He was almost lumediately n o afier rtally wounuing the Prosident. Reprisals ave 10 b expect gainst &ll who have been in any way conspicuous in Gpposition ta Carro. Luis Sanchez Cerro was a chronic revolutionist. He had expevienced exile and impriscnment. Durimg one of his codd vaea s from aclive duly comilies tnat n the heated | | Federal Reserve Board, both having of the fact that his words were not | come on when it was created in 1914. o e intended for prinl.” i Even in politics, he who laughs last *n.‘u. best: At sny rate, thats what (hat eminent Hoover lume duck, Pui- | vick J. Hutley, late Secrclary of War. (hinks about current evenis. Pal was the pzrsanal ta1get of & devastating at- tack by Senator Carier Glass in the — Virginian’s now lmmo;mllp;’;;‘h(‘tilu‘l: b Ve ost welcome | radio address of November 1, 1932. Thi |an earthquake or an, explosion.” " |try. with all the eloquent snarl of Uncle Eben, “fon de sake of thinkin'|which he alone is capable: | 'bout how it 'ud scare up some folks | In this connecticn, the newspa- ‘“y don't like.” pers report that Secrelary of War Superficiglity. Now optimism, though well meant, May in effect be bad, If it is not @ sentiment, | But anly just a fad. | i Hurley has openly proclaimed from the public rusiyum that should the Democratic party succeed at the No- vember election “the United States will be driven off the gold stand- ard” For the sake of decency, it must be hoped that Mr. Hurley did nut say that. If he did say it, he was guilty of a dangerous calumny. If he said it he is totally unfit for official responsibility, and the Pres- ident should have booted him out of office hefore bregkfast time of the following day. Ingdecency. even iR a political campaign, has its lim- itations. This alleged declaration, if made by this strutting trumpeter of the Presicent, was not far short of treason to the country. The “strutting trumpeter” is holding forth today in Senator Glass' own State as Phi Beta Kappa oratar gt Wil- Yam and Maiy, on g“h and Centralizaion of Government.” R Doubtless it's ip agcord with the eter- nal Atness of things, remembering what happened &t Chicago last Juty,‘{mt at any rate ope William Gibbs McAdgo is doing very well ip matlers of Roosevelt paironage. thank yeu. He has jus €ffected (lie reconstruction in Wash- ington of his ons-time Los Angeles law firm. Early in Apri} the junior Senator from Calijorpia landed & former part- ner, John Dickinsap, ip the assistant secrelaryship of commerce. Last week came the ‘rppalmaunl of § secgnd for- mer McAdga law _assopiate in An- gelss, J. F. T. O'Connor, as control- ler of the currency. Having previously landed his long-time political lieuten- &nt, Daniel ;t T, ll&s binet gs B‘;c.n:arv of 51 i ruw; i 8 hln:- verage in the new desl {3 mount- [nl- W»t?kamm- L&zf of &}wrt. Jjust nomin: ted as Am| fl&vt 'fl; ¥ i o Was erly & McAl chureh, L ‘ . | Appeals for and Against | Recagnition of Russia To the Bditor of The Star: | Two bodies of advisers, much cap- cerped about Russia, ing to Mr. Roosevelt, Pr Upited States. One group, led by Im- | [presaria Leopold Stokowski of = the | Philadelphia Orchestra, besought Mr. | Rooseveli to please begin ~recognizipg | Ruasia, because by our delay in doing so we were lusing enarmous benefits of | Russian art and oullure. Another | equally elcguent sct of patriots, spon- | sored by {he Senators from Massachu- | selts, pleaded with our foytupately well poised Bresident not 1o wake any oyer- | tures ta the Soviet state, because in that state religion and sl that per- tgins (herela were being agyressively chlteraicd by relentless Bropagands. ‘Phe Massachusetls petitigners have 8 | gefinjie and _consistent basis for their’| appeal and their disapproval of Russia. | | ’;niy are senpitive to the culture and art in religion. It is impossible to find |any lagie or consisiency ameng the Siokowzki adherents, becauee in Fhila- delphia, just r few days previgus to the publication of his appeal for R\wlt‘ he | was giving Feligicus concerts, explain- ing hir:seli the beauties of mf !‘arslllm{' and Wagner themis and analyzing thelr u\mwij». w!m‘w had iis ption in profound ef all Teliglos | themes. iow ean Mr. Stakewsk) and his jellow petitjon:ys reconpile their ad- | mivation of the heauties and mumnfi: at il . 7 s e 0 10 Tepudiate I the mast | sAme time BE 3 sounl t *E s | ."7 . ) Col. E. Alexander Powell, globe-trot- Wi vean oo WERY T BE 2 Constitution | ¢ | heariug bonds. dile bench and bar audicnce she'll ad- s. ‘The others on the program are Edmund M. Morgan of the Harvard | |Law Schpol and Cuthbert W. Pounds, chief judge of the New York Court pt | Appeals. Miss Perkips almost always | speaks extemporaneously. and generally wjth assurgne: icw broadcasters boasi Of, even When she's st the microphone. | * xox % | Anybody who wants to see Senator | Borah at the Capitol nowadays, uRless Big Bill_is on tne floor, will need a | gwide. Evicted by the fates of poli- | tics from his old headquarters in the | Foreign Relations Committee room on |the first floor. the Idahoan has beep | assighed a secluded office on the sec- ond Meor in the general region of the Supreme Court. IUs easy enough {0 | ind_ after you've been there once, bt {on a first irip you're likely to lose the ! | way in the purlieys. The gquarters | until recently were occupied by formes | Senator Swupson of Virginia. | * K ¥ ¥ | Punning apparently is still an ad- | missible form of British wit. At any | rate. a_member of Prime Minister Mag- Danald’s recent party in Washington said the American ship of state must be all right because it now has such a Hull. ¥ x k¥ William Jennings Bryan's soul goes marching on. Free silver, about to be- come law, takes its place alongside that nehle constellation of other one-time reviled Bryan “isms,” like prohibition, women's sufirage. popular election of United States Senators, et al. A Clpi- inuL wag says lllernfw deal hsfiukvun | taken # leal out of the Bryan notebopk | by p'nugecla)g a great pu%{z: works pro- | gram 1o he financed by public bonds. | The Peerless One favojed non-interest- | Even thess wre 39 longer phenomena in the Uniled Blates. (Copyright. 1933.) —_— ey Reforestation. | Prom the Christian Science Monitor. About ten million trees planted in connection With the Washington Bicen- tennial seem enough to pay, with com- pound interest, for the cherry tree—|f he cut it. ey . Tnsull's Limitation. Prom the Pysadppa Post. Insull, safe in Greece, is said to live like & king, which shows his modesty. If he still has money in the quanti , he could afford to put op distator, whe gives 8o far as the Congress is concerned, the. question of currency inflation has heen dispased of. There is to be in- fiation, provided the President exer- clses the wide powers given him in the farm relief bill just passed the Sen- ate. It js true that the House has still to act upon this measyre. That the| Hoyse will pass the bill by a big vate| is s foregone conclusion. Ta all in- tents and purposes, the President is| empowered to expand the currepcy uj “free silver” policy and to accept i :35 Tarelgn dfimr nations up to &m,-i .000 on the principal snd ltl:ren of their dfiu in silver, taking the sil- | ver at & value not in excess of 50 cents #n ounce. %3 Whether President Roosevelt will exercise these powers, or how many of | them he will exercise, 3ins to be seen. There seems no m\.‘:fiwe\wr.v that if he is convinced that large meas- | ures of inflation are necessary to raise | 2 y_prices in this country, there will be inflation. If the recent con- ferenges at the White House, between | the President and representatives of' Great Biltain, France and Cqnadg, de- | veloped anything, they developed the fact that the drive is on to increase object of the coming World Conference in London is to bring gbout a rise in the cammodity prices, so that the pro- ducers may receive more adequate | recompense for their labor. Perhaps it would be more correct to say that this rise in the price of commedities is the means to an end. rather than the end itself—the end being a return 0 prosperity. * * % % President Raosevelt has urged uj nl the Congress the need of a “Coptrolled inflation” of the cwirency. The &#u- thority which is now quickly to Xves' hi;n leaves the control in ki hands. It is » tremendaus power, and if it is used unwisely will do lfillculhhle | harm. Some of the inflatign features of the bill, or at least one of them, is | not opposed by the Republican die- hards who followed the lead of Sena- tor Reed of Pennsylvania against the Thomas amendment. ;‘k?t is the pro- 1 {0 have the Federal Reserve nks buy Gavernment securities in the apen markes for the purpose of is- suing greater amounts of currency against them. ‘; * x ok % mendment offered by Senator of Arizana, Democrgt, to the Thamas inflation amendment. raising the amount of silver which the Presi- dent may accept from the foreign debtor nations in payment of their ob- ligations to this country to $200,000,- 000, has more than one purpose. It is calculated not anly to make 1t easier for the foreign governments to pay those debts, but also and more particularly to advance the market value of silver itself. Such an advance would stimu- late ver produciion and set thou- sands of men to work in the mines of this country. Alsp it would make it more possble far the great sliver cur- reacy ccuntries of the world to pur- ¢hase American gaods, including China, the trage with the United States, y large, 1s capable of very great The a; ¥ 5 The Havden amepdment would make it possible for tie British and other | foreiga nations wore readily to meet the payments on their debts to the United States on June 13 and also to | take care of the arrears due this coun- | by jem December payments. Britain has a great store of silver and is owed millions of pounds by India. which can ¥ in silver. Other nat either | have silver or could go into the market | and buy it. This question of June debt payments is a ticklish one, with | the World Econcmic Conference ta ppen | in London June 12. The faiiure of the foreign goverpmenis to meet this pay- ment would not create good feeling in the United Btates, and the insistance ' of the payment of these debts in gold | by the United States is held to be an irritant_in the forcign nations which ' would not tend to increase co-opera- tion at the conference. Those 0ppo- nents of reduction or scaling down of debt payments, in the Senate, object to the Havden amendment on the! ground thet it will let the foreign debt- ors off part of the debt they owe this country. However, when those debts were incurred, the gold dollar was less valuable than it is or has been in re- cept days. Senator Hayden presented figures to the Senate showing that the total June paymenis plus the default- ed December payments op the debis amounted to $184.073.221 and could be covered by the silver pgyments. Thomas W. Brahany, “the Irish philisopher.” speaking over the radio on the topic of inflation, had this to say -Oppakchun'ty knocks ony wanst but | inflation nas been gt th' dure manny times. Whin it came in '96 we handed | it th' full dinner pail an’ it wint on fts | way rejycin. Now it'’s here agin an’ weg have nothin’ t' offer but th’ impty Maybe we'll have t' give it think we'll injye it as a reg'lar lodger. | I ony hope we'll be sthrong enough t' | throw it cut iv th’ Jiouse whin th' time | comes an’ sind it back t' Mexico or| Rpo-sha or whereiver it is that it has a permint home. Eomctimes in thinkin’ iv it I'm pay-minded iv poor Terry Malone whin he was found drunk w t road b O'Shane. T stharled dbripkin' t' for- get me thrubbles’ says Terry. ‘Yis. sgys his Rivrince. ‘sp’ th' ony thil %e forgot was L' sthop dbrinkin,’ say, e. “An’' so they're at if in Washin'ton hot an' heavy. Iy ye let it in at all’ says Sin'tor Dave Reed. ‘we'll all go on a jag an’ wake up th' next mornin’ with a headgche an’ our pockets impt. 'Iv ye don't let il jn yell have no use £'r ye'er pockets,” says Sin'tor Joe Rob- sop. ‘It ma-aus _ upbalancin® - our thrade’ says Bert Snell. ‘It ma-ans balancin’ our budget’ says Hinnry Rpiney. Wan man will tell ye that with th' comip’ §v inflation fifty cints will be worih a dollar, while another will say a dollar will be worth fifty cints, Tt farper’s home is a hot bed iv inflation. sgys Sin'toy Tom Con- | nally. ‘Maybe 50, says Sin'tor Fe: ‘hut ye can't cool off th’ house be put- tin' th' thermom'ler in th' ice box.'| An’ so it goes.” | Repeal of the eighteenth amendment ! presses on. While only two States have | actually so far recorded themselves mi favor of ratification through action of | State constitutional conventions as pro- vided for in the resolution of Congress | submitting the guestion, the Legislatures | of 34 States, Jouett Shouse, president | of the Association Against the Eight-| eepth Amendment, points out, have completed action for setting up the ma- chinery for repeal of national prohibi- tu:n. He explains the situation as fallot { “With_elections already held in two | States, dates for cjections in 1933 have been st definitely in 24 others. There are eight States in which it is antici- ted the electicns will be held this r. In three others it is optional | h Qovernors to call special elections South Dgkota gnd Nebraska | have fixed their elections for Novem- | , 1934. In Oklahoms the law pro-| i for an election next year unless there is a special State-wide election in the meantime. There is sound reason to believe Oklahoma will have such an election in the Autumn of 1833 “Theat gives us a tolal of 3§ States in which elections either are set for 1933 or in which we have & reasonable ex- pegtation such referenda will be held. “Wez do not concede the loss of a; sipgle one of those States.” R — Broncho Tacties. From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. It is sdid to be the idea of the ad- ministration to “keep a firm contrcl over the inflationary process.” That to the idea with t sets out to side iv th’ Faither PR ¥e wil this year. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Any resdes of this new: is wel- come use at any e of the service of depart- free men. our inquiry ta The m atar lormation _ Bureau, J. Haskin, tar, Washing- top, D. C., and you will receive & Rcr- letter reply. Enclose three cents in coin or stqmps for return nat;g. Do not use postcards. Be sure state your gyestion clearly, and to write your name and address plainly. Q. Where were the living quarters on the Akron?—C. H. W. A. Living accommodations on the U. ted near . 8. Akron were concent amidshins sbresst the airpla compartment. On the port side there was & crew's toilet and wash room and seven rooms, each having a floor area of about 8 by 10 feet and each being fitted with four canvas-bottomed bunks and locker spaces. . How much does one thousand dollars in gold weigh? In silver?—C. O. A. One thousand dollars in gold coin weighs almost 3.7 pounds. One thous- and dollars in standard silver dollars weighs 58.9 pounds. Q. Did Joe E. Brown of motion pic- ture prominence ever play major league ball>—R. H. A. He never played in major leagues. He had a trial with St. Paul about 20 Years ago. Q What State is the Panhandle in?>—W. C. P. A. Three States have districts called West Virginis. | ¥ How often does 8 setting hen turn | m her s over?—J. L. W. A ere is no record. She turns them aver countless times. In an in- cubator, the eggs are turned four or five times a day. Q. Did Henry Adams know what the memorial to his wife was to b before St. Gaudens executed it>—C. F. P. A. This famous memorial, erroneously called “Grief” was executed during Mr. Adams’ absencg from the country. He started on a trip around the world | s0on after giving the commission to the sculptor, St. Gaudens. The artist of- fered to show him a sketch. This Adams refused to cxamine, fearing that he might be disappointed, and that. if he were, he would carry his disappoint- ment with him on his travels. Q. What are the names of the chil- dren of the Duke and Duchess of York?—B. R. A. There are two daughters. Eliza- beth, aged 6. who is in direct line to the throne of England, and Margaret Rose, aged 2. Q. ths’h & college called where students s™dy part time and work part time?—H. B. A It is called a co-operative. Q. How long has cribbage been played’—G. C. A. No definite time can be set. Un- der the name. noddy. it was mentioned by 8ir John Harringion in 1616. Q. What will remove moss or lichen for ald fruit trees?>—E. D. B. A. The Bureau of Plant Industry says that green moss or lichen may be re- moved from old fruit trees by means of &praying the affected areas of the tree with Bordeaux mixture. It is possible that it may now be too late in the seasan for iPfl)‘an sipce this should be done while the trees are dormant in th: Winter, but the mixture may be used as a paint at this time. Q. When is the Federal Council’s ne hanger | Church Conference of Social Wark to be held>—S. N. o . zhA'Nnti:mlbé h?ld in c ion with e National onference of i or] in Detroit, Mich., June lo- 1. ok Q. How much money did Enrico Cg~ ‘nuoL {(ecelvn for making records?— A. In talking maching royalties $1. 825,000 was pald to Caruso during the life of his contracts, to January, 1920, an average of more than $125,000 vear. After his death, the sale of rl: | records jumped tremendously. For the | year 1921 to 1922 the royalties received by the Caruso estate reached the sum | of $400,000. Thus & tatal of $2.225,000 | was earned through this medium. Q. Are daffodils and jonquils the same?—F. J. C. | A. They are not the came, but they | belong to the same plant family. They bath belang to the genus Narcissus. Q. Who is St. Ives, who is the patron saint of lawyers?—F. B. | ., A The American Bar Association says | that St. Ives was Helory Ivo or Yve, | born at Kermartin, Brittany, 17th of | October, 1233. He studied at Paris and | practiced law at Rennes and Irequier. Later he studied for the priesthopd, and | after his ordination in' 1284 he was | parish priest at Tedrez and Lorrance. | He was known as the bishop’s judge, in- teresting himself greatly in ecclesiastical legal matters. He was also the lawyer j of the r, strictly just and honorable, and. what was a marvel at that time, | strictly inaccessible to bribery. He be- came in his later life so full of solici- | the Panhandle—Texas, Oklahoma and ' tude for the poor and helpless that he | turned his own home into an orpha age. He died March 19, 1303, at Ke! artin. His relics in the Cathedral of Irequier were respected and saved in the French Revolution. He was canon- ized by Clement VI in 1347, and he was | adopted as the patron saint of lawyers, | Q How are automobiles timed on thelr speed trials 4t Daytona Beach? | A They are timed by a trap laid at the start of the mile and a wire at the end of the mile. Wien the car passes over them an insirument clicks in the | Judge’s stand. . What became cof I. T. T. Lincan, author of “Revelations of an Interna- tional Spy H B A. Lincoln, a former member of Par- liament, was extradited, tried in Eng- land on charges of forgery and con- demned to several years of penal ser Upon his release after the war, he went to Germany and headed the ill-fated Kapp revolution. Foliowin: |that he went to Hungary and mg:? in some sort of political activities. Finally he journeyed to Tibet and be- came a Buddhist monk. He was in Europe a year or two ago arranging for | the sale of a new bock which he had written. | Q. What deck games are played on | ehipboard?—L. H A. The usual ones are shufficboard, bull, quaits, deck tennis deck golf. | A popular gamec on me; ners is bet- |ting on wooden horses moved over a o % deck especially marked off. Q Is Broad street. Philadelphia. the longest street in the world?—M. M A Broad street, in Philadelphia, is 12 miles long and ¢laims to be th> long- est paved and lighted strect under one | neme in the United States. It was en- larged to its present widtl of 113 feet about 1850. Q. When will the “City of Washing- ton” begin its trips down the Potomac River’—T. C. | A It will' inzugurate its Summes season on May 11. Army Cuts Declared Unwise In Face of Existing Needs The provosal of the Goyernment to reduce the Army, in an effort to achieve economy in that direction, has received little support from the press, which emphasizes the point that the present military establishment is at or below the minimum required for national de- fense. The majority arguments also include the contention that until the world disarms, the coun needs the training that is represcnted in the present personnel of that branch of the public service. “No organization,” declares the New York Sun, “can take the place of the Regylar Army: no other organization, in time of emergency, will be able to produce so many trained men for key positions in an expanded force or so many men capable of training and leading large bodies of men. The trained persopnel of the Regular Army is national insyrance: it remains to be seen whether the Nation wants to can- cel a substantial pert of its protection.” The Atlanta Journal agrees that ‘“re- | trenchments should not be pressed to! the point of endangering national safety.” and that paper argues: “The Army now has an enlisted personnel of one hundred and seventeen thousand . assured more than reasonable prudence requir Should it be cut down. as has boen suggested, by twelve thousand to filteen thousand. the sgv- ing in money would be inconsiderable, but the loss in efficient defense would be marked. So. too, the proposal that from two thousand to three thousand officers be retired raises a serious ques- tion as to wiether such economy would not be paid for too dearly in impaired sel . During the Sixty-ninth Congress.” 2lls the San Francisco Chronicle, he conclusions as to the absolute minimum strength of the Regular Army necessary (o carry out the duties imposed on it by the national defense act pointed to 14.000 officers and 165- 000 men. the minimum for routine duties and not enough to permit ‘effective preparation in time of peace of a timely and ade- quate mobilization in the event of a national emergency.’ Contrast with the provisions of the national defense act and with these conclusions as to mini- muym requirements the present strength of the Army s stated in the last re- port of the Secretary of War. The acwal figures, as given, were 12.180 officers and 110,888 enlisted men. ‘This. says the report, ‘is below the point of safety.’” “Among all the principal powers.” observes the San Antonio Evening News, “this country maintains the smallest armed force—and even that has been reduced to but a fraction of the sengible minimum strength.” The | Evening News calls the proposals “glar- ingly false economy.” and states fur- ther: “Few units are large enough to fynction satisfacterily. Altogether, Reg- ular officers and men would be called upon to defend, by land and air, the United States and its Territories and ssessions, stretching from the Virgin E’!ands to the Philippines. In any de- fense scheme, strategists agree, the avia- tion branch is sll-importaut. With so much territory to cover, it is indispensa- ble to this country. Then to reduce the Regular Army sirman’s flying time from 300 to 50 and the Reservist’s from 30 to 14 hours annually would cripple that service in any future war. Furthermore, keeping the country's trade routes open is vital in both peace and war. The ost important artery, the Panama gnnal, is in the Army's hands; the gar- rison there now is far too small to pro- tect the waterwsy. Today the world is in disorder; wars rage on two conti- nents; nationalism has flared up fiercely in Europe Qg‘d Asia. With interests cverywhere, 1' United States holds no gugrantee of permanent peage.” A Yadiionally the. Ay has been starved by Congress,” avers the Hart- ford Daily Times, with the suggestion that “every officer in the Army repre- sents an investment by the Government is education and through which a rodeo i:n umru“ :1“ Iyur:.!"m 'r‘?e n':c"émfi s bucking a This. it was stated. was only | a serious world situation,” and points | out that the Army personnel “is made tup of men, both officers and enlisted, who are trained in a profession which is complex and highly specialized.” In support of the proposals for ree duction, the Baltimore Sun argus “The cut represents a straight-out e fort to deflate our military establish- ment, which is still on approximately the same basis on which it was placed ten years ago. And the deflation is to be welcomed. We have been spendin; larger sums for military and nava preparation than any nation on the face of the earth. For the fiscal year 1933 our military and naval appropriations amounted almost to one-third of the total tax income of the Federal Govern- ment. It is clear that the outlays for these purposes have been entirely in- consistent with the position of the Treasury and the taxpayer. Mr. Roose- velt is to be commended for cutting the Gordian knot with which such expendi- tures have been tied in the past and in insisting on_ retrenchment.” 1t is believed by the Salt Lake Deseret News that “the President is secking to influence world opinion by this policy.” That papcr continues: “Facts, rather than promises, make his sincerity mani- fest. Such an example is nceded In this fear-ridden world. which could raise its living standards ten per cent with the present cost of maintaining armies. War with our neighbors on this caoptinent is. of coursé, unthink- able. We have not a single fort along |our land frontiers. If we go to war it will be in Eurcpe or Asia. Public opin- ion would certainly not support a wal now to settle boundary disputes of Czechoslovakia or Poland or possession disputes over Dalmatia or the Rhenish provinces. Neither would it support war Jin mp_onc;‘u.l £Xcept as part of a police orce in vhich the great powers mij unite (0 maintain orger oo T [ n May Try It. ns T.mes-Picayure. tion is cne of the | remedial p-ojects talked about tha cou try over, but seldom tried. | Alma, Wis., comes word that two Wise | consin_counties are considering a mers ger. One of the two needs a new jail and court house and evidently lacks the wherewithal. Doubtless. too, the belicf prevails there, as nearly everywhere, that county expenses and taxes are ex- cessive. Members of the Wisconsin | University faculty have surveyed the | situation and find that congolidation of | the two ’countle: would save their tax- | payers, from the start, not less than 1$12.000 a ycar. shan One of the counties has 7.450 in- habitants, the other 15,330. Elimination of one of the two county governments would save the cost of one complete set of county salaries, #s well as the cost of building a new court house and jeil. It would permit a reorganization of the publie schools, both for economy and efficiency. A combined population of less than 23,000 chould be 2ble to get along with one ccunty government rather belter than with two. The wrgument for consolidation, strengthened by the findings of the university men who made the survey, certainly is convincing. A bill authore izing it is being prepared for introduc- tion in the Wisconsin Legislature. It may be confronted there by the opposi- tion of the cffice-holding clans of the two counties. That sort of oppasition at least has blocked similar projects elsewhere. But if the taxpayers are strongly for it, the chances of the pro- pouc‘ merger's success should be better at this time than ever before. And one such county consolidation ought to blaze the trail for others. Soon or late there will be many such mergers, thanks to the growing reccgnition of their practi. cal wisdom. st A Good Place for Grass. From the Port Vzyne News-Sentinel, We don't know about grass in the streets, but wwldn‘fmnan m ® little mors in the Mok yards Wisconsi