Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1933, Page 8

' A8 = THE EVENING STAR i With Sunday Morning Edition. -— WASHINGTON, D. C. YUBSDAY.........May 16, 1933 THEEODORE W. NOYES....Editor Zhe Evening Star Newspaper Company o ce: Ivania_ Ave. 1o East 42nd by Carrier Within the City. 5 45¢ per month 60c per month 8¢ per month ning and Sunday Star 5_Bundays).. junday Star tion A Wate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virgina, 1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo.. 88¢ $6.00: 1 mo., 30¢ 34.00: 1 mo.. 40¢ made at the end ‘may be sent in by mall al $000. 7 ang Sunday. only . 1 a7 only' 1l | Member of the Associated Press. e Assoctated Press is exclusively entitl %o \ge use for republication of il news d atahes credited to it or not otherwise cr BScin this paper and also the o Te: hed herein. All rights .vg::ll:l dispatches herein Mr. Roosevelt Calls for Peace. In full keeping Wwith the boldness and pesourcefulness which have character- fmed his program of action in the purely domestic fleld, President Roosevelt to- day made a dramatic move for actlon in the realm of world peace. Address- fng himself by cable directly to the heads of the fifty-four states particl- pating in the World Economic Confer- ence and the Geneva Disarmament Conference, he solemnly calls upon them, in the name of the American people, without further delay, to agree upon “practical measures of disarma- | ment” in order that “all of us may| carry to victory our common struggle | against economic chaos.” Throughout the message, which is| fpractically without precedent in our in- ternstional relations, Mr. Roosevelt strikes the note which has been insistent and emphatic in all his recent appeals to Congress. The note is one which | stresses the grave importance of im- mediate action. The President leaves 10 doubt that in his belief further pro- erastination, such as has marked the futility of the Geneva Disarmament Conference to date, is the certain fore- | runner of world disaster. Mr. Roosevelt | points out that such delay is plrtlcu-i larly out of place in connection with the World Economic Conference. “This | “conference,” he says, “will meet soon and must come to its conclusions quickly. The world cannot await de- liberations long drawn out” In the| same pessage, the President reminds the nations that what is required above all is to “supplement individual domes- tic programs for economic recovery by | wise and considered international ac-| tion.” The day has gone, in other| words, Mr. Roosevelt suggests, for eco- nomic nationslism. Public opinion throughout the globe | fs certain to read paramount importance | in the President’s message into the pas- | sages relating to armaments and ag- gressive actions by military powers. The | world at the moment is almost trem-| bling in anticipation of tomorrow’s | events in Berlin, when Chancellor Hit- ler has convened his Reichstag in spe- cisl session for the avowed purpose of declaring Germany's determination to be master of her own destinies in the fleld of armaments. It goes wnhouc‘ saying that Mr. Roosevelt mentions no nation by name, But between the lines | ©f his references to governments which cherish the desire, “disclosed or hidden,” to enlarge their territories “at the ex- pense of a sister nation,” it is not diffi- cult to discern the particular govern- ment at which he is tilting. Certainly o government in Europe today makes 80 little & secret of its determination to expand its borders at the cost of neigh- bors as the Hitler government, which Jong has thundered its purpose to de- stroy the treaty of Versailles in order, among other reasons, to Testore to Ger- | man sovereignty some of the territory | of which the Nazis consider the Reich Dhas been illegitimately despoiled. The Presyent’s references to Ger- | many appea# even more pointed in his i obeervations regarding the steps which | need to be sgreed upon at once, if | definite and far-reaching disarmament | results are to be attained. The Presi- | dent says that it requires to be laid | down as s condition precedent to such | schievement that “no nation shall in- | crease its existing armaments over and | above the limitations of treaty obliga- | tions.” As all the world knows, the demand of Germany, which Herr Hitler is expected to reaffirm in stentorian | tones tomorrow, is that the armament elauses of the treaty of Versailles shall | forthwith and henceforward be re- regarded as abolished and abrogated, in order that the Reich may stand on | & level of “arms equality” with other countries. | There is not much room for doubt | that President Roosevelt has resorted to this challenging gesture in order to forestall what Chancellor Hitler may be | intending to tell the world twenty-four bours hence. That the mere prospect | ©f explosive utterance from the Nazl| @tctator has sent a shudder through all peace-loving and peace-craving peoples has become evident since Herr Hitler's | plans became known at the end of last | week. With that sense of psycholcgical | timeliness of which Franklin D. Roose- | went during his ten weeks in office has | wiven so many notable manifestations, | the President of the United States ob- wiously feels that not an hour is to be Bost in calling mankind's attention to Bhe imminent peril by which its labori- ously constructed efforts for peace and economic betterment are suddenly Saced. oo i Retention of the Merit System. ! One of the gravest threats to the imerit system devised in years was con- | tained in the independent offices appro- priation bill in the form of the provision that the apportionment of offices law— %n impractical, unworkable and unjust law in itself—should be considered in making reductions of Government per- sonnel in the classified service. The Senate Appropriations Committee has modified that provision, but it should be eliminated altogether. Since the provison was proposed, dis- oussion as to its effects has been re- Wealing. It has been shown that men their groups, might, under this poorly disguised return to the spoils system, be thrown out of work because they happen to have come into the service from the District of Columlia or one of the States that has furnished more Government workers than would be possible under an arbitrary allotment on the basis of population. Their only “crime,” for which they would thus be 80 ruthlessly condemned, was in having submitted themselves to the competi- tive examinations, which are avallable to every citizen of the United States, and having been selected on the merit besis. Likewise, those with relatively low ratings on the basis of efficiency might survive because only & few of their fellow natives of other States had cared to apply for work in the Gov- ernment service. In these days of drastic budget cut- ting the security of work in the Federal service has been placed in jeopardy. There is little of it left. The Federal service is obvioushy w* 3ser, and the full effect of the crippling blows of sc |today will be felt for many years to come. It is only reasonable to suppose that if there must be large reductions of Government personnel for budget- balancing purposes, these reductions will be made on the basis of the merit system and that meritorious service and efficiency will continue to be regarded as worth while. o Public Works and Taxes. President Roosevelt, 1t sppears, has decided to leave to the Congress the actual selection of the method of raising additional revenue to meet the adminis- tration’s $3,300,000,000 public works pro- gram. He will go no further, it is now reported, than to suggest to the Con- gress half a dozen tax plans. Of course, this is thoroughly in accord with the provision of the Constitution which places upon the Congress, and particu- larly upon the House, the duty of writ- ing tax legislation. It had been ex- pected that the President’s bill for a public works program would carry with it a definite tax levy, and that it would be a manufacturers’ sales tax, perhaps dubbed & ‘“re-employment tax.” In- deed, it was confidently predicted in quarters which seemed to be informed that the administration had come around to the position of supporting a manu- | facturers’ sales tax. Immediately there was a roar from some of the antl- | sales tax members of Congress. How- ever, the sales tax is not yet dead. It may be revived when the members of the House Ways and Means Committee undertake to draft the law to raise $220,000,000 additional revenue. One thing the President insists upon; that the public works program, calling for the expenditure of vast sums of money, shall carry with it some definite provision for raising this money by taxation. If the President will stick to that proposal it will be just so muck: the better for the people in the long run. Congress has been in the habit over a period of many years of making huge appropriations for all kinds of projects without attempting first to ascertain just where the money is to be found to pay the bills. It may be very popular for the Government to spend money; taxation to pay the bills is by no means so popular. Those legislators who now demand that billions of dol- lars be expended for the public works program and for all kinds of so-called relief measures may squirm a bit when they are confronted with the need of imposing taxes on the people to pay for these public works. It is safe to predict that if the President will insist in the future upon having Congress at the same time that it makes big appropri- ations outside of the ordinary running expenses of the Government provide for the needed revenue through new taxation there will be fewer of these appropriations and ‘less chance of the Government's running behind and into the red. The President also is to urge that the public works program be financed through the issue of Government bonds, paying three per cent interest. It had been suggested that he might under- take to finance these big expenditures for public works through the powers given him in the farm relief-inflation law just enacted; that he would have Treasury notes or “‘greenbacks” issued‘ in sufficient quantity to meet these payments. That, apparently, is a hard fate which the country is not to en- dure. Some day the wisdom and value of a general manufacturers’ sales tax as| & revenue-producing measure, when | compared with other forms of taxation, may be recognized by Congress. Many of the State Legislatures already have seen the wisdom and fairness of the tax. At present the sales tax is like the pea in the old shell game: “Now you see it, now you don't. Gentlemen, the hand is quicker than the eye.” —— e Levin decided to go home and leave Fort Hunt to the regular bonus men. There are forms of notoriety that promise no advantage gven to a pro- fessional Communist. —————————— Overconfidence threatens to em- barrass Hitler, who, having more prob- lems on hand than he could attend to, immediately invented new ones. — v Thomas Circle. Residents of the whole city are con- cerned in the alteration of traditional policy which s proposed in the scheme for shaving down the park area around the monument of Gen. George H. Thomas at Thcmas Circle. The Public Utllities Commission has approved the plan, and unless effective public protest is registered immediately it will be car- ried out during the coming Summer. Superficially, only the people of the im- mediate neighborhood are concerned, but actually, as closer examination of the problem will show, the entire popu- lation of the Capital is invalved. Let there be no mistake about it: If Thomas Circle can be mutilated and defaced in the alleged interest of speeding up the pace of motor and street car progress, each and every other spot of green in Washington can be similarly treated. The logic of the argument of the proponents of the no- tion implies that the same plea of ex- pediency can be made an alibl for de- nuding the city of all the beauty which George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Maj. Charles Pierre LEnfant sought to preserve in their original con- ception of the Capital. To save & split and women who are rated highly as to efficiency, standing at the very top of - fraction of time the advocates of the chnnxewo(u_udd-troyoudtuuwm ) THE EVE~NING SiaRl, 7 T sanctuaries which the first designers of the center of the Federal Government with prophetic vision deliberately estab- lished. If they ‘are successful in this instance, there is nothing to for- bid them laying violent hands on Du- Pont Circle, Sheridan Circle, Washing- ton Circle, Iowa Circle, La Payette Park, Judiciary Square, the grounds around the White House, the grounds around the Capitol or any other so-called “in- terference” with the mad rush of traffic. Scott Cirgle already has been sacrificed in part to the fetish of speed. Washington was lald out to be & garden city, and for a century it has developed along the lines dictated by that intent. But constant vigilance has been necessary to protect the plan. Every few years there has been some organized threat against it. Those who have loved the breathing spaces of the city have had to fight to save them. The Thomas' Circle scheme is just an- other of & long series of moves against the Capital as its founders conceived it, against the parks as they inten- tionally were instituted to adorn and enrich the composition. All that the iconoclasts can plead is that their policy may save a little time—a few seconds. Were the circle to be butchered as they suggest, the result would be increased pedestrian hazard, a heavier stream of trafic and a greater confusion than now exists. Property values in the neighborhood would be injured; that section of the city would be hurt, rather than helped. The scheme is ill-advised. It should be abandoned. Judge Coffin of Colorado decides that 3.2 beer is intoxicating and that its sale violates the United States Con- stitution. His arguments may be im- pressive, but to the average citizen they will seem something of an effort to unmake history. —_—rae——————— No one will regard Postmaster Gen- eral Farley as desirous of postponing a general rejoicing. It is more likely that & kind heart inclines him to de- lay some of the bad news as long as possible. e Perhaps some of the enthusiasm concerning beer was in the imagina- tion. Some of the brewers were below the 3.2 mark in alcoholic content, but very few customers were sufficiently discerning to notice the fact. ——oe—. Pending arrangements for a more abundant currency, effort will be made to enable the country to go on by re- quiring what it has to work harder and faster. B ‘The name “Boulder Dam” will be re- stored to the big structure across the | Colorado River. This at least simpli- fles its conversational status and work | may go on without interruption. —————————— A sales tax is favored by many who belleve that the public might as well have all kinds so long as a special study is being made of the subject. —————————— So many strange stories have been told by Gaston Means that attention wearies and attorneys show no inclina- tion to ask him if he knows any more. —_—————————— Bolivia and Paraguay do not claim | to be conducting a very extensive war, but consider it large enough for the League of Nations to practice on. ———r——e— Bome of the so-called “Communists” probably showed good judgment in going back home instead of remaining here to be converted. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Successful Bill. My brother Bill, he has big feet And freckled hands. His eyebrows meet. His hair is red as hickory fire, His mustache looks like rusty wire. Of grammar he makes scant display And modest is his weekly pay. My brother Jim is rather slim. The ladies often glance at him With eyes to sentiment inclined. They say “Oh, is he not refined!” But Jim's a bachelor who goes To night clubs and to music shows. He spends the daytime by himself Devising schemes to gather pelf, While Bill has bought a cozy home From which he never wants to roam. His wife will smile, The kids will sing. ‘They think Bill is the real thing. ‘When people look at brother Jim They frankly say they envy him. ‘While Bill has never cared a lot Whether folks noticed him or not. Bill's life is modest, but I guess We'll have to call it a Success. Good Faith, “You have a great admiration for our friend.” “I approve of his sincertiy,” sald Senator Sorghum. “You think he can be depended on to believe all he says?” “Believe it! Why he actually under- stands it!” Jud Tunkins says there is as much difference between talkin’ sensible and actin’ sensible as there is between givin' a note and payin’ it punctual. Change of Form. We wonder why, when children show As fathers tell, such wondrous wit, So often as they older grow i ‘They get completely over it! Critical Distinction. “He writes me the most beautiful letters imaginable!” said the senti- mental girl. “Yes, my dear,” replied Miss Cayenne. “But is that love or literature?” “Wealth has its disadvantages,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “Faith- ful friendships are best tested by poverty.” Unrestricted Planting. The statesman tells of crops and rains. The farmer’s way he notes. He plants his speeches with great pains That he may harvest votes. And ss with industry and grace He goes about the State He knows no limit to the space ‘That he may cultivate. “It looks like & mistake,” said Uncle Eben, “foh a man to make tco much money, if he don't know nufin to buy |4t &e'lmuan‘exm A According Wit 1t except trouble.” “w Vo —ivu A UN, 2 D. C, Tuopay, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. News that America may become the home of nudism, since the Nazi govern- ment has banned it in Germany, will be received with mingled emotions. Many most proper persons will shud- der with horror. Some may wink. Others will feel that the prospect has one or two good features. Most may be willing to bet that c‘m:nu will become nothing of the nd. It is difficult, if not well-nigh im- possible, to visualize flocks of and gentlemen in just absolutely’ nothing at all roaming around the countryside in P oo of s, i 1t equally impossibl e of us eq possible to contemplate the personal prospect of the like anywhere. LI Not only education, but training, and, above all, the habits of the centuries,y are against it. The theory and the practice are just a little bit too far apart. There ought to be good points to it. There should be no vulgar curlosity as to the differences in anatomical archi- tecture, now so potent & lure, especially with the young. Fortunately, many will think, the climate of the greater part of the United States is very much against the ractice. Also, with the great lack of clothing ‘worn on beaches and at play any more, there is no particular reason for taking off what little is still on. * ok ok *x It is impossible to conceive of the United States “going nudist,” except perhaps as & fad, and then only by a v small percentage of the populace | Zn! at Jarge. No doubt the overwhelming and righteous majority would not care to 50 “show off” because they would real- ize that they did not have much to show, after all. One would have to be pretty sure of himself and his own physical perfec- tions to want to prance around in the sunshine clad only in sunburn. Even then, perhaps, he wouldn't care to do it, on account of all those cen-| turies of clothing behind him, stretch- from fashion to fashion, absurdly differing, but always clothes. * x % % It is impossible for most to live down the gigantic past so easily. He who can do it, most will think, is either a very brave man or consider- able of a fool. Unfortunately, it is much easler to brand the fellow who will do something that you can not or will not do, “a fool” than it is to make an honest at- tempt to see if he is braver. Por a man of a certain type to walk F street clad in a grotesque costume, according to conventional standards, 18 quite impossible. | He simply would not do it 5 Another man, of diametrically op- posite mentality, could do it without batting an eye, as the saying is, and {Iulflly himself by an appeal to tbe ighest standards. ‘The curious thing would be that he might be right! | * x % % ‘There can be little doubt that there are many sincere nudists, men and | women who have become convinced that honesty of physical expresisons is | just what the world needs at this t\me.i The easy thing to do, of course, when | one sees a picture of such a group, is | to brand them immoral, and let it go| at_that. Usual photographs show much caper- | ing in the sunshine, a type of outdoor | caprice which certainly would not ap- | peal in the least to most people in| their so-called right senses. Perhaps' High Lights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands RISH INDEPENDENT, Dublin.—The economic depression has reached Hollywood. There was & substan- tial decline in the output of the| American studios last year, accord- | I ing to the report of the British Board | of Film Censors. Now, to make mat- ters worse, the banking crisis has come and the great flim corporations find themselves unable to pay the fabulous salaries of their stars, or any salaries | at all. Contracts have been suspended by leading companies, and business will be at a standstill until the crisis has passed. Even then funds will be by no means as plentiful in Hollywood as they were before, and substantial cuts in salaries will have to be faced. ‘The result may be all to the E Hollywood's European rivals will have cause to rejoice, for America's misfor- tune gives them a fiul opportunity. We can hardly hope, however, that the in.ant industry in the Saorstat will grow up in time to profit by Hnlly-\ good's ill-luck. More's the pity that that should be the case. xox ok * Mexicans Hail Coal Orders From Japan. El Universal, Mexico, D. F.—The ministry of industry and agriculture has uttered an official announcement to the effect that the Japanese gOV- ernment has placed orders in Mexico for 250,000 tons of coal, deliveries to begin immediately and to continue with all possible expedition until the re- uisition is completed. Most of this ?uel will be supplied from the mines of Coahulla. ese advices have been recelved with exuberant enthusiasm and re{o{cmz in Saltillo and other in- dustrial centers of the state, where business in general, and mining activi- ties in particular, been extremely decadent for the past three or four years. * % % * Russians Stress Advances in Air. U.S. 8. R. Economic Bulletin, Moscow. | —Ten years ago civil aviation in the u.| 8. 8. R. comprised only & few ancient | out-of-repair glwa& The first steps forward were wholly on foreign machines and engines. Now the first Soviet dirigibles are flying above the union, and preparations are under way for construction of ships of the semi- rigid dirigible type. Soviet civil avia- tion now ranks third in the world for number ntldpauemfl &lmfil yn.n: journeys made. During the et in re?l:w over 50,000,000 kilometers have been traversed, over 100,000 pas- | sengers transported, and over 3,000,000 kilograms of freight and malil carried. The total length of the air lines at present is 47,000 kilometers. The utility of aviation in national economy has also been widely devel- oped. In this respect Soviet civil avia- tion ranks second in the world for aero- photography, and first in agricultural activities. In the last year, for in- stance, 58,000 hectares of arable land were sown by glm:e.* % Sly British Fox Outwits Hunters. The War Cry, London—The courage and cunning of the fox which gave the Quorn Hunt so long & run the other day, putting an express train and a river, among other things, between itself and its pursuers, will no doubt be long dis- cussed by the red-coated sportsmen. They will, of course, get him in the end, but by his prowess Brother Fox sits in judgment upon the whole elaborate business of blood sports. If he must be killed, is there no more merciful way than that of pursuing him with hounds and horses for mn.ny‘erugl miles? s * * Spanish Eviction Causes Disorder. El Sol, Madrid—Yesterday afternoon an urgent solicitation was received in the Puenta de Vallecas police station vast | prophecy would have received, say 10 | Anglo-Saxon, | burns, major burns, as they are called, | ment of rent for nearly & vear, | Agriculture, predicts s population these nudists go sbout their dally af- fairs in a sane spirit, but certainly the pictures of them which one sees, as & general thing, show them rather other- It 15 not so much the nakedness, perhaps, which the staid individual would dislike, as the collectivity of it. ‘The feel of fresh air on the body, the joy of being perfectly unincum- bered in the s ine, the joy of free- dom—these do appeal. Even the person who growls the most at the jdes of nudism may have a sup- pressed envy or jealousy of the appar- md{h:uv y, care-free persons he sees in Pphotographs. g * % ¥ % Most good, honest folk have never seen such pictures, and would gasp with horror, if they did (espec! when other persons were present), but these phneoen;{:n, mostly out of Ger- many, seem to be perfectly legal now. Only a year or 5o they were banned, as being indecent, but a liberal court opinion or two seem to have made a great deal of difference, so that no governmental agency feels that they will corrupt public morals. Just how much “indecency” is there in indecency, after all, and where is it located? A friend of the writer's about a year or so ago received some of the German nudist magazines, now, as we und nd, perfectly legal in this country, but then quite banned. | A letter from the customs inspector apprised him of his crime. He went to see about it, protesting that, in all honesty, he could see nothing vulgar or indecent in the photos in the maga- es. “What is wrong with them?” he asked. A shocked inspector placed a blushing finger on certain well known portions of the human anatomy. “Why, they show the focal points,” he said. Focal points, indeed! A focus for the eye, as directed by the mind. So the fault, if it were a fault, lay in the trusty old human brain, eh! PN Well, this is a question which has been much discussed over some thou- sands of years, and it does not appear that “talk about it and about” has ever got any place particularly. Every one has his ideas of what is right and wrong and what is decent and what indecent. There is not much chance of changing them. Maybe it we lived two or three lifetimes, in- :und of just ome, the thing might be one. About the best chance the average g}e‘rhnp-. has of being a “nudist” is in “bawth” and in Sum- mer sleeping. There is a big oppor: tunity in this latter activity for whole- some changes looking toward bigger and better skin breathing. The epidermis is a sort of breathing agent, e person Who suffers severe dies as much from suffocation as from anything else. The extreme Puritan modesty ungder which most of us labor follows one even in sleep, demanding some sort of covering on the hottest Summer nights. Sleeping “in the raw,” as some wag called it, is & natural solution of & seasonal difficulty. The cooling capacity of the .bare back, for instance, is enormous, and must be tried to be appreciated. It is amazing, and s little bit pathetic, to think of all the millions of human beings who smother all dressed up in the dark. There is no need for it. Nudism, to this extent, at least, is sensible and wholesome, and is com- ing to be more and more practiced in the United States, approved by health authorities, even if not by the customs inspectors. . the family occu- pa; owner of the - d he pying these premises had made non desired very much to regal on and install another family which prom- ised to be more punctilious in this re- spect. However, the present tenants were very much averse to making their exit. not knowing, probably, where they could engage another house on the same easy terms, and notified all their friends and neighbors to be on the alert to as- sist them at such time as the landlord proceeded to put his unkind threat into execution. Yesterday was the day selected for this epic. About noon the landlord with two stalwart peons arrived and, forcibly entering the house after the formality of knocking at the door was seen to be of no avail, began to put the furnish- ings out in the street. This was the signal agreed upon, and immediately all the denizens of the neighborhood, most of them alson favor of the “free-occu- pation” theory, gathered at the scene and prevented the landlord and his servants from continuance of their pro- gram. They immediately carried back into the rooms the few pleces of furni- ture which had been removed, and threatened the proprietor and his| statellites with dire and immediate vengeance if they did not instantly va- cate the quarters, a demand snomalous enough, considering that the owner was the person thus summarily disqualified. ‘The latter, after summoning the agents, scon had the satisfaction of seeing all the- movables transferred to the home of a sister of the unwanted tenant. This transfer was effected, finally, after no little molestation. by a wagon belonging to the municipal Sov- ernment. Two men were detained as ringleaders in the obstruction and up- ToRT. o Crystal Gazing. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. Among the other factors which should concern our industrial planners is the | factor of future population, s very im- | portant one which even that golden- haired youth of economics, Stuart Chase, does not ponder as often as he might. Dr. O. E. Baker of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Department fi 150,000,000 for the United States in 1960, to be followed by & decline after 1570. His figures coincide roughly with of Bureau oving some kind of population contr man Malthus may yet have his day. years there has 5,000,000 large, and even if it more than half of the increase will effected through migration to f Ten years ago there were about enough children in the large cities to maintain the population of those cities perma- nently stationary without accessions from outside, but today there is about s 25 per cent deficit. The migration from cities to farms is well along. An average increase of about 1,000, people a year for the next 30 years would mean that the industrial planners must set very definite limits of expan- sion. Factories could not be permitted Todtatmal o ;‘ufiu“d' Chiiders us! Po) jon were positively re- o on a short-week basis, steps would have to be taken, perhaps by the Government, to discourage the inven- tion of labor-saving machinery. The bleaker days of the depression caused this latter expedient to be discussed in many countries even before this. Two years ago the Austrians, evidently a shoe-making people, refused to buy fac- tory made shoes. Anyway, Dr. Baker's & lot more attention any such been | which was to develop into the strang- MAY 16, 1ys3. NEW BOOKS . AT RANDOM M. G. BLUE MEADOWS. By May Stanley. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. . High up on the cliffs of the coast of Maine, in a sheltered cove of the great| bay, nestles the little village of Good- haven, where lives Capt. Elijah Bickers, a “big, upstanding man, broad quiet and slow of tongue, with far-gaz ing blue eyes, & body strcng as a rocky cliff against which the seas may break in vain,” and at the age of thirty mas- ter of the fast and seaworthy fishing schooner Va'halla. When Lige first saw Abagail Hosmer she was standing on the front porch of her uncle's dwelling, looking out toward the sea. He knew at once that he loved her, and two weeks later they were married. did not know that his young bride hated the sea, or that she regarded the neighborly and sturdy villagers as heathen. It was, therefore, a blow to his happiness when he learned that Abagail had no intention of mak- ing the , old white house on the cliff her permanent home. Four gen- erations of Bickers men had gone out to sea from that house, and four gen- erations of Bickers women hpd lived under its roof, gazing out over the roll- ing blue meadows of the North Atlan- tic, waiting and watching for their men to return to its shelter. Abagail had been born inland and lived inland until she came to Good- haven to care for Uncle Dan’l Hosmer, rheumatic and crabbed, though a phi- losopher of sorts. When she married Lige it was with a definite plan in her own mind that she would make him sell his holdings, take him inland and turn him into a farmer. But, much as he loved her, Lige could not give up his heritage. His livelihood, his hap- piness, his very life itself depended upon salt water. He tried desperately to make her happy. but. as Uncle Dan’l 50 aptly puts it: “Trouble is that you're land and Lige is sea. They don’t mix. Never have—and never will” Rebelling against s fate which thwarted her own ambition. Abby de- votes herself to plans for her son. He will hate the sea, she does. and he will be a great preacher. But instead of the expected son & daughter is born, and in this child all of the mother's fear and hatred of the sea are intensi- fled. As a youngster she adores her father, but maturity brings realization of her hatred for the things which mean life to him, and she seeks ful- fillment of her own ambitions and those of her mother in marriage to a mission- | ary, with whom she gces to the Dakotas | to_iive. | Born in the prairies, and educated so | Rarefully that he may never know what | even a small body of water looks like, | Martha's son is to be the great preacher of her dreams. Not the kindly, helpful, | loving shepherd which her husband strives to be, but the thunderous, fire- | spitting variety who will scare the peo- pie into religion. ‘Torn between love and admiration for his father and an unconquerable fear | of his mother, David grows to a man- hood filled with doubts and misgivings, but strictly to the pattern laid out by his mother. He is a model son. He is studying for the ministry, he is being engineered by his mother into marriage with the daughter of the wealthiest man in Glendale, he knows nothing whatever of the lives and the occupa- tions of his ancestors—and then across a span of forty years and fifteen hun- | dred miles of territory the sea reaches out to claim its own. | Around these four individuals Miss Stanley has woven one of the most de- | lightful stories of recent vears about the fisher-folk of the rockbound coast of the North Atlantic. Lige Bickers is the central figure in this moving drama, in which the land and the sea, religion | and the simple, logical philosophy of those who know and love the briny blue meadows, are engaged in bitter, | continuous conflict. ~ Other notable | characters in the book are Hannah Apne Parse, housekeeper for Lige Bick- ers; Lissie Caton and her daughter Rose Ellen; Hosea Norton, husband of Mar- tha; Uncle Dan’l Hosmer, and Manuel ‘Tay. seeker after buried treasure. “Blue Meadows” creates a desire to feel and to smell the tang of salt wa- ter and to make the acquaintance of those neighborly souls of the Good- | haven stamp, who understand the roar | ‘0‘1‘ the waves and the whisper of the es. * X % ox COLONEL WEATHERFORD AND HIS | FRIENDS. By Gordon Grand, au-| thor of “The Silver Hon New York: The Derrydale Press. Coincident with Washington's _en- thusiastic enjoyment of Horse Show week comes this beautifully made-up companion book to “The Silver Horn.” | It is a series of short tales about Col.| Weatherford and his friends, his neigh- bors and his associates in the horse country of New England. There are tales of men who own horses, men who show horses, men who sell and train horses, and men and women who ride to hounds. Also, there are tales of horses and of hounds. Almost every chapter is a story within itself, and yet each tale is so closely related and | connected that the whole is a thor- | oughly delightful narrative calculated to | give the utmost pleasure to all lovers and followers of horses and hounds. The volume is handsomely illus- trated with drawings by J. Alden Twachtman, and is incased in an un- usually attractive binding of red and | gold in library style. It is a book which | all those who know horses, and dogs, | and men will want to own, for it is replete with the incomparabie philoso- phy of the stable boy, with a keen sense of appreciation of the common sense and the manners of the greatest of all | beasts, and also with a deep under- standing of the fidelity, the intelligence and the tireless endurance of hounds. 1t is a valuable contribution to the col- lectors of horse stories, and a_worthy companion to “The Silver Hom,” which made its appearance last year. * X X X PASCAL'S MILL. By Ben Ames Wil- liams. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc. An old mill that years ago ceased to grind is made the background of this new novel by one of America's most popular fictionists. Less than one hun- dred feet from the railroad tracks over which dozens of trains thunder in the course of each twenty-four hours, the mill is so peculiarly situated that it can be approached only by horse or on foot—and by a path that is generally conceded to be “the longest four-five miles you ever saw.” Bob Druce came to know the truth of that remark be- fore he reached the mill on an errand est experience of his career. @ In the dilapidated old house which was a part the mill Druce was to find the object of his visit, but in far differeht circumstances than those he had expected. Dora Pascal, the beau- tiful foster daughter of Judah Pascal, had inherited an estate from her d- ung Bob Druce had come . Living in this wreck of a building with old Judah for many years, she had enjoyed no con- tact with any other living soul, and as & result she was regarded by the near- villagers as a bit queer. ueer, but . Mysterious Phe wreckage of e the poverty surroun the ve:amon rotting in stagnation. Judah had a brother who came mys- teriously every so often, and as mys- Of widely differ- nd natures, the two brothers were the bitterest of en- emies, and it was following immediately upon one of their violent quarrels, gets | resulting in the disappearance of Zonas Pascal, that Druce arrived. Converted to the belief that the old years ago. The world is slowly but testing the to the testimony of the 150% fhe Tatlee Bt be permitisd 10 ure take care of iteelf, | o cma. mill holds some mystery, Druce deter- mines to solve it, but finds his efforts eftectively thwarted. He is gripped by fear on more than one occasion, and | sects and tree diseases. | Rockford Register-Republic fee | > L S aihat | Cincinnat! Times- an evil atmosphere | The e place. - Filth and | tends: ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERI What do you need to know? 1Is there some point about your business or personal life that puszles you? Is there somet| you want to without delay? bmit your question to Pred- eric , of our Wash- lormation Buresu. He is em- ployed to help you. Address your in- Q to The Star Infor- rector, Wi : 3 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Do not use post cards. Q. Who was the most popular athlete at the University of Notre Dame last year?—J. B. P. A. The honor probably belongs to James Harris, left guard, who was voted the most valuable player of the year and elected president of the Monogram Club, which consists of men who have won athletic monograms. Q. Has any country recently de- valued its gold coinage?—P. W. A. On April 1 Austris cut the gold content of its crown so that it now is worth 18 schillings instead of 1.44 schillings. This means that the crown | has gold content of 11 cents per schill- ing instead of 14 cents. Austrians doing domestic business must continue to ac- cept at the old rate. Q. How long has embroldery been | known?—W. D. A. The art of embroidery dates from earliest times. Remains of Egyptian embroideries still exist. Q. Has the Government enough forest | land to furnish work for the men who | are to be thus employed?—G. B. L. A. There are already 150,000,000 acres of national forest lands in the United States, of which 2,500,000 are in need of improvement, and 800,000 in need of | eradication of major infestations of in- Q. Which city in the United States was the first to have a municipal sing- ing tower’—K. 8. A. Albany, N. Y., was the first. It| was dedicated September 18, 1927. The carillon is a fine one of 66 bells, with modern mechanical and artistic im- provements, Q. What is a kibitzer>—A. B. C. A. It is a Yiddish slang for one who meddles with others’ affairs. In bridge playing it is specifically a person who, although not a player, makes sugges- tions and gives unasked advice to the players. Q. Who composed the song “My Love Is Like the Red, Red Rose”?—D. E. A. It was composed by Frederick| Brandeis, & Viennese musician, who came to this country in 1849 and be-| came organist at several Roman Catho- | lic churches and a synagogue in New | York City. Q. How long did it take to build the Empire State Building?—L. 8. | A. About 14 months. It was com- menced in March, 1930, and completed | by May 1, 1931. | Q. What is lace bark?—T- C. Lace bark is the inner bark of species of trees, the best known being the lace bark tree of Jamaica, and is readily detached in sheets or layers like birch bark, each layer be- ing a delicate network of fiber. Q. What were the cardinal virtues? | —G. G. A. According to the ancients, the cardinal virtues were the virtues of justice, prudence, temperance and forti- tude. An attempt to modernize them led to the classification: Benevolence, justice, truth, purity and order. Q. How long is Pennsylvania avenue s’ C J. HASKIN, southeast, Pennsylvania svenue is a proximately five miles in length. P Q. What is an eisteddfod?—W. W- A. This is a Welsh word applied to the assemblies of people meeting in w‘T‘rtmon in Welsh poetry, prose and music. Originally its purpose was to admit duly qualified individuals to the position of recognized bards or min- strels. At present it holds a high place in the intellectual life of the Welsh people. ‘The national eisteddfod is at- tended by thousands of people. Q. What is the word used in the southern part of the U; el il nited States for A. The word often used is “bayou.” _e. PAIW large is the Hope diamond? A. The Hope diamond is a be blue brilliant of 441, carats, nn:éw; bably a portion of a large jewel stolen from Prench crown jewels. It is l.;.l}f:-m“;h‘ Hope [dlamend" because ed a part of the coll 5 e ollection of Q. What material was used for the first hooked rugs made in this coun- |try?—N. T. A.In the early days fishermen's wives used a foundation of sailcioth and hooked rags into them to make rugs at small cost. Q. Was Hypatia a real person or s character in fiction?—N. O. K. A. Hypatia lived in the latter part of the fourth century in Alexandria, Egypt. She was the daughter of Theon, an astronomer and mathematician. Her learning made her the most in- fluential teacher in Alexandria. Q. How can nicotine stains on the fingers be avoided>—D. B. A. Do not permit the smoke from the cigarette to rise through the fin- gers. It is the smoke and not the cigarette which causes stains. Soaking in soapy water, then a scrubbing with & nail brush, usually removes these stains. Lemon juice will help with stubborn stains, or a light rubbing with pumice. Q. What country produces the most and the best wine?—C. J. C. A. Prance is the largest wine-pro- ducing country in the world. In all of the ninety French departments, ex- cept a dozen, the farthest north and northwest, vines are grown and wine is made. The average production of wine in France is over a billion gal- lons yearly. Italy is the second largest wine-producing country and she is also the second largest wine-consuming country, so that the surplus of Italian wines available for export is compara- tively small. The greater gnajority of Italian wines are beverage Wwines of no particular merit and are consumed while practically young. Q. Why is carbon monoxide so fatal to human beings?—L. F. S. A. Carbon monoxide is poisonous to human beings because of its property of combining with the haemoglobin of the blood so that the haemoglobin is kept from carrying oxygen to the tis- sues of the body. Q. How long and wide is the Polish Corridor?—G. B. A. The so-called Polish Corridor, which is the part of the territory of the present republic of Poland taken from Prussia and which separates East and West Prussia, is about 100 miles long from north to south—that is, from the heart of Poland to the Baltic Sea, and approximately 50 miles wide east and west between the two German borders. Q. Where will the Canadian exhibits be found at the Century of Progress?— in Washington, D. C.>—O. M. 8. A. From Rock Creek on the north- west to the Anacostia River on the w. C. A. Canada has a space 70 by 80 | feet’ facing the main entrance in the Travel and Transport Building. Partnership With Industry, Roosevelt Plan, Is Discussed President Roosevelt's proposal that| the Government act in partnership with | various forms of production, as given | in a radio address, is made the subject of a wide variety of comments. Indus- | tries and agriculture, as suggested by | him, would be self-governing, but the Nation would furnish the compulsion under which minorities would be de- prived of power. Adequate wage scales | are expected and withdrawal of some provisions of the anti-trust laws is con- sidered. Many editors believe that under the plan employment would be provided for an increased number of persons. “It will make the United States a country of greater security for capital and of a larger reward and happier living conditions for labor,” thinks the Youngstown Vindicator, while the At- lanta Journal, viewing this project with other policles of the administration, | offers the verdict: “Although new in method, they are as old in principle as the genius of American democracy. They are practical applications of a philosophy of government made to serve the people.”” The Haverhill Gazette | suggests that the plan “gives private enterprise all the oppertunity it needs to put its house in order so that it can function for the good of all,” while the it is “basically much more American in principle than the original 30-hour week bill, which sought to make the Govern- ment a virtual dictator over the Na- tion’s industries.” * Declaring that the plan “has im- pressed the country,” the Birmingham Age-Herald states that “the bewilder- ment in our industrial life today is ample proof that some sort of planning, some scheme of symmetrical order and development, must supplant the system that brought us to this plight.” "It is called ‘revolutionary” by the Omaha | World-Herald, which adds: ‘“Whether we like it or not, it seems necessary, unavoidable. At least, some console themselves by saying, until the emer- gency is passed. But it is extremely doubtful if there will ever be a return to_the old, unrestrained order.” Pointing out that the partnership will not extend to profits or sales, the Cleveland News adds that “there will be no curtailing of individual initiative, either in trade or labor,” but that “the aim is to get the various groups in in- dustry to controlling themselves.” The Fort Worth Star-Telegram observes that the aim of the Roosevelt policy is “to make an umpire out of, the Govern- ment,” with the understanding that “so long as the industries play the game and keep within the rules, the umpire will not be called upon to penalize Changes ' the ani-trust Jews & changes anti- ws er- mit such co-operation aie nlnmcr by the Rochester Times-Union, the Salt Lake Deseret News, the Rock Islan Argus and the Oshkosh Daily North- feeded | by business and not anti-business” and the Lincoln State Journal attests the approval of the idea by the United States Chamber of Commerce, while the Springflield (Mass.) Republican sees & similarity to the War Industries Board. The Indianapolis News states that the plan “gives to the industries themselves the power to do what the Labor De- partment wished to do through a Fed- eral commission.” The Uniontown Herald, taking up the legality of the matter, declares: “If the Supreme Court should rule that the present eco- nomic distress is an emergency equiva- lent to war, most Federal laws to re- store prosperity might be ruled consti- tutional.” As to the Roosevelt demand for the right to prevent unfair business practices, the Rutland Daily Herald states: “In some form, and with such modifications as the President may see fit to make, that is what we are going to get.” - '1!he impression that was made on the country by the President, with his state- ment as to this plan, is a subject of fa- vorable comment by the Des Moines Tribune, the Hartford Times, the Jer- sey City Journal, the Buffalo Evening News, the Morgantown Dominion-News, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Chicago Daily News, the Connellsville Daily Courier, the Baltimore Sun and the New York Herald-Tribune. The Star holds that “his statement was particularly encouraging to moderate and conservative opinion,” and the Altoona Mirror, the Port Huron Times-Herald and the Charlotte Ob- server record that there have been wage increases “in response to his leader- ship.” The Philadelphia Record savs “the President has shown his willing- ness to meet public needs.” The Dan- bury News-Times gives assurance that “business men are, indeed, ‘tired of being in the red’ and are prepared to work under enforceable trade agreements.” The opportunity for business to help itself and to overcome the disadvantages of unapproved minority methods is de- clared by the Oklahoma City Times, the Newark Evening News and the Scran- ton Times. The Oakland Tribune com- ments: “He sounded a note to halt some reckless and short-sighted policies which have been followed by some industries in the effort to meet the strain of the times and capitalize on the necessitics of & part of the public.” The President’s care in dealing with the subject of inflation is lauded by the As| Park Evening Press and the Nashville Banner. His statement that he had “no expectation of making a hit” every time hg came to bat is & sub- ject of much comment. Its “sincere human note” is commended by the Philadelphia Public Ledger, its agree- ment with “the realities of human life™ y the Boston Transcript, and the President's ability to make a sporting record is asserted by the Texarkana Gazette and the Abilerie Reporter. The Daily News believes it is “bound to be a historic statement.” A minimum of fivemmem participa- tion in business demanded by the (Mass.) Union " and the Courant. The San Francisco Chronicle is skeptical of the results, the Sioux Falls Daily Argus-Leader asks if the United States is ready for this “step toward a modern Utopia” and the Boise » | Idaho Statesman, feeling that the Presi- dent, “so far as strategy is has put it all over Congress, that “the battle is not yet over. Akron Beacon-Journal oppeses refer- ences to foreign affairs and adds that “on the rock of that error the Hoover | admnistration was wrecked.” No Destination. Prom the Omaha Evening World-Herald. One-Eyed Connolly has quit as a gate-crasher. It's more exclusive not to try to, these days. A Ground Floor Members. From the Loweil Evening Leader. Interested in the club move= ment, we infer, are cutworma.