Evening Star Newspaper, May 20, 1933, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning. Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.......May 20, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Compan 11n_st. “and Penoevivanta Ave . ‘and_Pennsy 3 New York Office: 110 East 42nd St fcago Office: Lake Michigan Buildi Topean Ofice: 14 Regent St.. Lond Enslan Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evaning Star. 45c per month The Eve (when The Sunday Star Collection made Orders mav be sent in by mai NAtional $000. at the end of each mon! 1 or telephone Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virgima. ...1yr.$1000; 1 mo. 85 Dally aniy Sundar: .-} 7. '36.00; 1 mo. 80c Stnday only yr. $4.00; 1mo.. 40¢ All Other States and Canada. v day...1¥r. $1200: 1mo..$1.00 | Dalir ang Bundar:.-17r ‘sage: 1mos ke of the National Legislature. Never ia his own capacity was he entitled to rise and speak. Instead, for sixty-five years he gave his time and energy to the preservation of other men's judgments, other men’s opinions. In the truest sense of the phrase, he wrote his coun- try’s annals during those six and a half decades, and not once, it is said, was his accuracy ever challenged. The Senate reporters are a distin- guished group of writers. That hac been noticed on many occasions. But among them Mr. Shuey easily held first place. He was their dean, their father. | ‘They loved him, and the affection which.f they entertained was mirrored by the Senate personnel and by the press gal- lery and all those other newspaper people who, while not assigned to that | post, are in more or less constant con- tact with it. | “The nimblest fingers and the quick- est brain” were his possessions, the | constituent elements of his genius. Even the most rapld and tempera- mentally exuberant speakers were not | beyond his powers. When discussion | iy anls * : Sinday oniy 1111111y #5000 1 mo. reached its most violent apex, he would Member of the Assoclated Press. soctated Press is exclusively entitled atches credited to it or not olh!rl'lul crr'; ted in this paper and also the loca ,n? - published herein. fl!,l rights of publicat! ol_\'% special dispatches herein are aiso reserved. -— — Is Sales Tax to Be Rejected? Notwithstanding the recommenda- tions of representatives of both labor and capital, the members of the House Ways and Means Committee are re- ported to be ready to ditch the manu- facturers’ sales tax as a means of rais- | ing the $220,000,000 additional revenue needed to finance the administration’s public works program and to levy in- | stead large increases in the normal income tax rates, taxes on stock divi- dends and an increase in the gasoline tax. This seems & particularly unwise thing to do. It seems all the more unwise since it is apparent that unless the continued deflation which has been going on in this country for more than three years comes to an end there is likely to be no eerly recovery. It is proposed by the members of the House | Ways and Means Committee to take from the salaries and wages of the people and from those who have com- paratively small fixed incomes an esti- mated additional $46,000,000 through Increasing the normal income tax n&es; from 4 to 6 per cent on the first $4,000 | of taxable income or any part of it, and | from 8 to 10 per cent on the next $4,000. Stock dividends, which are not subject to the personal income tax laws now because they are taxed at the source and should not be doubly taxed, are to be levied against. The burden of this taxation will fall upon the great middle class and upon those who receive small compensation. It will still further restrict their buy- ing power, already greatly curtailed. It will accomplish this result at a time when everything is being done to in- crease the prices of commodities. Where is the magician who can bring about greater production of goods under such circumstances? The suggestion is ld-\l vanced that the expenditure by the Government of $3,300,000,000 in & pub- lie works program is the answer. But when the Government has drained dry the resources of the people and has expended them in non-productive pub- lic works, what then? The chances are that both the Government and the peo- | ple will be hard hit. Repeatedly the suggestion has come 'from administration sources that the public works program will be advanced only when, as and if the need is evi- denced; that the money will be raised to finance the actual operation of the program only as it is needed; that the currency inflationary powers granted the President will be used only as the need arises. But when an income tax is levied upon the people it'is levied; there is no when, as and if about it.| The hope is held out that recovery in business during the Test of the year or the repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment and the Volstead act, or both, may make it possible not to go forward with the increases in taxation now proposed to finance the public works program. If the administration and the Congress continue to burden the people with added income taxes, and further handi- cap them with drastic cuts in Govern- ment salaries and wages and the elimi- nation of thousands from Government Jobe they have held, the chance of any | permanent improvement in business is | not great. | The income tax &s a means of rais- ing revenue has proved a distinct fail- ure in hard times and days when in- | comes are on the decliné. It is esti-| mated that the national income shrank | in 1932 below the income of 1929 by | 53 per cent; that it dropped from about $85,000,000,000 in 1929 to $40,- 000,000,000 in 1932, The per capita income of the people in 1929 was $701; | in 1932 it was $320, according to the | estimates. How can the Ways and Means Committee of the House give the country any assurance that increases | in the rates of the income taxes will | ¥ield the Govermiment the needed $220,- 000,000 revenue under such circum- | stances? The records show that since | the depression began Treasury esti- mates of revenue to be derived from | the income taxes have tnvariably been | too high. When the normal rates were increased last year, it was esti- mated that the income taxes would produce additional revenue. They have mot. They have produced far less. Blind adherence to a political theory that a manufacturers sales tax would be unpopular seems to be back of the oppesition to that kind of a levy, which would be reasonably sure of producing the required revenue. The men and | women of the country Who spend the | enoney would meet the manufacturers’ | sales tax and those who have the most | to spend would bear the greatest burden | of the tax. r——— The season for straw hats arrived | without serlously clashing with the de- | mand for umbrellas and overshoes. | R = Theodore F. Shuey. So much an institution that his sit unperturbed in the center of the storm, calmly recording every syllable of the oratorical tempest, and Wwhen | Senators came to read over their ut-| terances they sometimes marveled at| their own ability, their own mastery | referred to the currency as “dixies.” New Orleans thus became Dixie Town, or Dixie City, and the bank the Dixie Bank. Eventually the whole South was known as Dixie. There may be merit in this hypothetical genealogy of the Litle. But no one knows positively. In the | circumstances, one guess may be as good as another. Some authorities are con- tent to believe that Dixie is merely that | section which lles to the south of Mason and Dixon’s line, and that is all there is to the matter—a notion that constitutes the surveyor the par- ent of the word. In any case, it was Dan Emmett, the minstrel, who made the song popular, and it is & grand and glorious tune. —eoma A Policy That Worked. A large maority of the bonus seekers encemped at Fort Hunt have vindicated | the Precident’s confidence in them as reasonable men, responsive to consider- ate treatment and knowing & good bar- gain when they see one. Most of them are accepting the Government's proposal that they join the foresters and obtain employment, food, housing and thirty dollars a month until such | time as other jobs will be available. A | few of them may continue to shout for the bonus payment, but they will dis- | ‘What happens to the pamphlets, doc- uments, brochures and the like .sent out in such vast numbers all over Al:!l’lm?{ the into the te ost of them go in! was T basket, we are afraid. The d!m’mn has done nothing to slow up this deluge, | but rather increased it. A gentleman tore open an envelope, hastily loocked at the leaflet extracted, then threw it a A “I wonder why they keep on sending me these things?” he asked. An asscciate could have answered, but he did not. He might have said, “Because they credited you with more curlosity than you have.” Bk It remains & question, of course, how much miscalculation goes into such | things, all around. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. dislikes what every one else does, on general principles, has no place here. * X %X x ‘Those who belong to our first classi- fication would not like the idea, per- haps, that any one would think them |q lacking In essential curiosity. ‘They have what might be called a limited curiosity. If in some way it impinges on their jobs, or their plan of living, they are interested in it. If it is outside these, or seems to be outside thetn, they are not interested in it, and often sa themselves “‘a great’ deal of trouble,” as they say, by refusing to pay any attertion to it. ‘The members of our other class, which we cannot help but think the superior group, belong to the order of those who want to know, regardless of what such knowledge brings them. Thousands of dollars are spent on such booklets, many of them being little shoft works of art. The intelligence put into some of| * % X ¥ A philosophy of living is not_the same in practice as in theory, at least not necessarily so. them ‘s evidently large. No one would go to such labor if | he did not think that it would receive | a fair hearing. He knows, probably as well as_the next one, that it is asking something be interested in something he probably does not care about particularly. = KXW of a stranger. when he expects him to | | A man may theoretically approve h(;‘( intellectual curiosity who yet, in everyday life, seldom shows any. He may not want to bother himself with “things that do not concern him,” as_he might say. It is & very satisfying way to live, no doubt of it, if one possesses the exact therefore benefici: THE LIBRARY TABLE BY SARAH G. BOWERMAN. ESSAYS IN BIOGRAPHY. By John Maynard- Keynes. New York: Har- * court, Brace & Co. i ‘These are not biographical essays about poets, painters and musicians. One would not expect such & cholce from the author of “Economic Conse- juences of the Peace The bock is divided into two sections: The first containy sketches of politicians, the Councfl lof Four at Paris in 1919, Lloyd George, Bonar Law, Lord Oxford (Asquith), Edwin Montagu, Winston | Churchill, and Trotsky's views on Eng- land; the second gives brief blographies of economists, Malthus, Alfred Marshall, F. Y. Edgeworth, F. P. Ramsey. The nterest to the average person. With W0 or three exceptions, these essays are based on personal acquaintance. The essay on Malthus, one of the most interpretation, selects “those items of | | information which seemed most to con- | | tribute to a portrait, and, in particular, | to enlarge a little on the intellectual | | home and at Cambridge” = In view of first section will undoubtedly be of mrore | valuable for its economic material and | atmosphere in_which he grew up, at| BY FREDERI Many readers send in questions signed only with initials, asking that the answers appear in the newspaper. The space is ited and would not accommodate a fraction of such re- uests. The answers published are ones only. Al questions should be accom- panied by the writer's name and ad- dress and 3 cents in coin or stamps for reply. Do not use postcards. Send your question to The Evening Star In- formation_Bureau. Freceric J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. Is it possible to telephone from the United States to South America?— |8 M A. It is possible to talk to many places in South America by radiotele- phone, and the service is being rapidly extended. | Q. What is the alcoholic content of beer permitted in Sweden?—P. A A. No malt liquor stronger than 3.2 per cent alcohol by weight can be im- ported or consumed in Sweden at the that may interest many readers, rather | than the one who asks the question * ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS - C J. HASKIN. | reached for March, 1932, when transits were 363, net tonnage 1,864,896 and cargo tonnage 1643,952. Last March | transits were 399, net tonnage of ves- .‘fe'}gB z}_fllofl and cargo tonnage Q. How many guns are fired for a | Governor's salute>—J. C. | A They have received s 17-gun sa- lute, but on May 8, 1933, President Roosevelt directed that the Army and Navy regulations be changed so thai | Governors of States receive the same salute given cabinet members—19 guns. Q. Who was the Greek goddess of memory?—R. B. K. | A, Mnemosyne. She was a Titaness, and the mother of the Muses by Zeus. The word Mnemonic comes from the | same root, and means assisting or per- | taining to the memory. | _Q What is the difference between the Republican and Democratic parties of today?—W. A. T. A. A magazine contest by an im- partial committee of both Republicans and Democrats awarded the prizes {o temperament to make it natural and | | the widely varying opinions about the | Present time. | teachings of Malthus which prevail to-| Q. How many justices of the Supreme | day, there is significance in Mr. Keynes' | Court of the United States were ap- explanation: “If only Malthus, instead | pointed by President Hoover'—W. K. S. of Ricardo, had been the parent stem | A Justice Roberts and Justice Car- from which nineteenth-century eco- | dozo were appointed during President nomics proceedegi, what a much wiser | Hoover's administration. the world would be | Q. Are any British students coming the following definitions: Democratic viewpoint—“A Democrat believes in the doctrines of State's rights, a tariff on luxuries for revenue only and equality in all laws enacted, while a Republican belicves in a strong, ceniralized Govern- ment, a high protective tariff on man- ufactured articles and legislation favor- | credit themselves in the eyes of every- ! body and provide adequate demonstra- | tion of the fact that the opportunity | to shout, and not the hope of relief of English and their own forensic ca- pacity, dimly consclous of the debt in which they stood to their stenographer. He hopes to secure what is called | “reader interest,” & curious commercial term of some appropriateness. What he must take his chances on, of course, s the possible reader’s mental | ‘The process of learning is often sad. No one can ever tell when a few | words will cause him to be discomfited. EE I e told that Malthus, abous 1800, considered that prices and profits are determined by “effective dc- mand” and speculated 0 the reason why prices for provisions had risen so | to this country as Commonwealth ing special or vested interests.” Repub- | Fund fellows this year’—H. S. lican viewpoint—“A Republican belleves | A. Twenty-five fellows have just in a strong Federal Government, pro- been selected for 1933, and will spend tection to industry, free speech, press But it was part of his function to be | unobtrusive, and he was incapable of | presumption. He symbolized the good manners, the judgment and the mod- | esty, as well as the skill, of the group to which he belonged. Mr. Shuey surely deserves mention in one of those footnotes to history which often enough are more interest- ing than the formal text. All the his- torians of the period between 1868 and the present year must be aware of their obligation to him. He was the beau ideal of a legislative amanuensis. Those who knew him well will miss him, salute his memory with appreciation. s e The Fading Cause of Fusion. Another eminent New Yorker has declined to enter the race for the mayoralty next Fall. Samuel Seabury, counsel of the Legislative Investigating Committee that turned up so many | those who knew him not at all will| from their difficulties, brought them to Washington. The President has from the beginning | followed a policy in dealing with the | bonus seekers that by its sincerity and fairness has left them completely dis- | armed. Coming to Washington, they were not only provided with good food | | and comfortabfe housing and facilities | for holding their meetings, buy were furnished free transportation to and | from camp. They have been given a | reasonable time in which to transact | the business which brought them here, and, as that time draws to an end, have been given the alternative of working | in the forests or peacefully going home. | At no time have threats or hints of | compulsion been brought to bear in in- fluencing their action. They have been | honored by a Visit from the First Lady and their leaders cordially received at | the White House by the President. The President and his advisers knew | | | something new, anything at all, candalous conditions under Tammany | that such a policy was uncertain. They rule in the big town—and incidentally | were following a course that had not | turned Mayor Walker out of office—has | been followed before. There may have | followed the former acting mayor, Jo- | been doubts, on their part, whether the | seph V. McKee, and the former Gover- plan would work or whether the bel- nor, Alfred E. Smith, in refusing to ligerent attitude of some of the pro-| head a fusion ticket. Judge Seabury's statement has greatly disappointed those who are seeking to oust Tam- many from the municipal management, as he was regarded as the best qualified of available men to unite the anti- machine electorate. - He put his de- clination on the ground that he had previously declared during the investi- | gation that he would not be a candi- | | fessional agitators would be transmitted to the men in the ranks, with resulting trouble and disorder.” The bonus | marchers have removed these fears by ’lheir own response to fair and con- |siderate treatment. They have not |only vindicated the President’s good | | judgment, but themselves as well. Sed st e | | | | A sales tax is favored by organized curiosity. ‘The man may be an excellent fel- low in ever{ way, but one who is in- terested only in his own work and ideas, not in the work and ideas of others. He may have an ordinary amount of curiosity, but not what some call mental curlosity. There is a difference. Plain curlosity is just something most persons possess, in the face of something which intrigues them. It must be something which intrigues them, however. Mental curiosity is the state of mind which welcomes the chance of learning no matter what it may turn out to be. * ok * % All mankind might be divided into two on this basis. The largest section would be com- posed of those who have the ordinary | everyday garden variety of curlosity. ‘The very much smaller section would comprise those who are mentally curi- ous about everything. Members of the first group generally would throw into the waste basket the thousands of booklets which yearly find their office desks. As they cast them into that oblivion, they would wonder to themselves, if they did not ask aloud, “Why do they send them?” * ok % x Members of the second group will find time to give such publications an honest inspection, if for no other rea- son than to attempt to find out what the senders were up to in sending them. They ' are mentally curious, they see ail sides to every question, they are willing to look into anything what- soever just because it is something to look into! Between these two tempers there is no_attempt to judge. The intellectually curious man may | be sald to be a braver man, because he | 1s not afrafd of words or the ideas for | which they stand. | He does not put a comfortable life above knowledge. He somehow believes that the truth never yet really hurt any one, although | 1t might make him feel vastly uncom- | fortable for a time. ‘The happy thing is that the hurt wears off, the good remains, if there is {any good. There may not always be | good, no one makes such a claim, that |is where the members of the other group commonly err. “Oh, looking at everything that comes one’s way never gets one any place!” It all depends on whether one must | necessarily “get” somewhere all the time. * K % % Is it not desirable, now and then, to feel that one is under no necessity whatsoever of “getting” any place at all? If one is to call a tangible, evident and easily proved “gain” of some sort the only worthwhile urge toward in- spection, then there might be some point in a blanket refusal to look at anything outside the daily routine. There are many gains, however, which are not to be boiled down to such pro- portions, There are many things in every man's philosophy which others have not dreamed of. ; If they will not credit them, perhaps that is their loss. ‘We would make an appeal, therefore, for the careful inspection of all brochures, documents, pamphlets, trea- tises, booklets and the like. ‘There is time enough to throw them into the waste paper basket after you have looked at them. Suppose the man is crazy? What of it? He may have an idea or two in the back of his head which have escaped more normal minds. Then, again, he may not be crazy at all. Commonly, the man who is “crazy” is the man who has its place, and each person does not agree with us, and he is the acts as seems best to him. The com- much more than could be accounted {for by deficiency in the harvest. “He found the cause in the increase in working class incomes as a consequence of parish allowances: being raised in proportion to the cost of living. essay “The Council of Four, Parls, 1919,” gives interesting descriptions from observation, of Clem=xceau, 1 hose aspect was that of “a vay old man | conserving his strength for important | occasions”; Lloyd George, making = | private ad hominem argument to Pres- ident Wilson; the President, who, “like Odysseus * * * looked wiser when he | was seated,” and Orlando, more or less | left out in the cold. “Clemenceau,” Mr. Keynes says, “was by far the most eminent member of tjie Council of Four, e&nd he had taken the measure of his colleagues.” to Keep It. York: Dodd, Mead & Co. ‘The author of this book is not an economist par excellence, ’but he has | had much specialized economic exs perience as personnel director and ad- dustrial companies and a prominent New York hotel. He first suggests a little self-analysis for the job seeker. ‘What are his views about the nature of a job—does it mean to him just a pay envelope, with no interest in the work and the dull necessity of putting in so many hours a day, no more, no less? In that case it is safe to assume that employers soon find out his atti- tude and tak: him at his own valua- tion, which is a low one. To another group their work is the thing of most imporiance, a chance for some con- tribution to the business of living. Such persons are likely to be the last to lose jobs and the first to find them. They are wanted by employers. There is some discussion of the question of changing a vocation and Mr. Pickard advises against change merely because The { YOUR JOB: How to Get It and HOW“ By R. O. Pickard. New | vertising manager for several large in- | two Winters in American universities and one Summer in travel in this country. | Q. Was the flower garden at Mount | Vernon there in Washington's time?— L. O. S. A. There was quite a garden on the | estate during Washington's lifetime, | and every effort has been made to| | preserve the entire grounds in as nearly the same condition as possible. The | garden is at present surrounded by | a neat box hedge, and there are several | small individual gardens within it set| off by box borders. There is also a| hothouse in connection with the garden | which makes possible continuous bloom | during the growing seascn. Most of the flowers are of old-fashioned garden ornamental type, which were popular at the end of the eighteenth century,| and there are in addition a number of | Very valuable and historic trees, some | of which were planted by Washmgtun.i Q. Was there ever a public execu- tioner named Jack Ketch?—P. K. A. He is a real character, who was appointed about 1663 and who died in | 1686. He was notorious for barbarity. | and- religion; continued separation of church and State law enforcement, & high standard of living and economy in government.” Neutral viewpoint—"A Democrat seeks to find in the interpre- tation of principles as established by Jeffersan, Cleveland and Wilson, the ideal government, while a Republican seeks the same result in the interpreta- tion of principles as set out by Lincoln, Roosevelt and Coolidge.” Q. How long has England been off the gold standard this time?—W. W. B. ‘A. It went off the goid standard of- ficially September 21, 1931. Q. What organization has jursae. tion over playground base ball>—M. T. A. The jurisdiction of a number of games known locally by names such as mush ball, soft ball, diamond ball, twi- light ball, and more commonly as play- ground base ball, are directed by the Playground Base Ball Rules Committee of the National Recreation Association, 315 Fourth avenue, New York City. This committee has secured fairly gen- eral acceptance of standard rules and regulations by cities throughout the United States. Q. How many American submarines | have been lost by accident in peace- | time?—B. R. B. Q. How many bands were there in the last naugural parade?—M. M. B gl o gle| A Six. They are the F-4, F-1, H-1, e | 05, §-51, S-4. In all, 130 lives were Q. For whom was Downing Street in | lost. London named?—B. D. How many people died in the A. It was named in honor of Sir | George Downing, a noted parliamen- | tarian and Ambassador in the seveii- teenth century, who served under both | Cromwell and Charles II. i — Q. How were the ranks of mandariré distinguished from each other?—A. G. A. The nine ranks were distingvished by the buttons on the caps: 1, ruby: 2, | | coral; 3, sapphire; 4, an opaque olue | Q. Black Plague epidemic?—D. M. A. Black Death was an acute infec- tious disease caused by a specific microbe which spread over the world in the fourteenth century. It took its name from the black spots which appeared in the skin. In almost all cases the vic- tim died within two or three days after the attack. The exact date of the ap- pearance of the plague in China is un- date for mayor and also that he be- | labor along with an increased income lieves that he can be of greater service tax. The idea, assuming ability to pay, in the effort to rid the city of Tam- many Hall's domination if he is not interested as a candidate in the out- come of the election. | While efforts will be made to induce | Judge Seabury to reconsider his de- cision, it is not likely that they will | succeed. The anti-Tammany cause is undoubtedly handicapped by these three refusals of highly qualified men to ac- cept the nomination. The outstanding figure in the fusion picture now is for- mer Representative La Guardia, who is, however, somewhat at odds with his own Republican organization. He has already run for the mayoralty, as a Republican, and has been defeated. ‘That fact handicaps him considerably, especially as he is now engaged in & bitter fight against certain of the lead- ers of the Republican party in the city, who, he declares, have been rewarded by Tammany for their support of t,hei regular Democratic ticket in 1929. He asserts that the nomination of a fu- | sionist candidate for mayor this year by the regular Republican organiza- tion would be fatal to the cause. In these circumstances the outlook | for & successful drive against Tammany this year would not seem to be particu- larly bright. By November the scan- dals of the Walker administration will have been more or less forgotten. Walker himself will be quite out of the pic- ture. Tammany has regained its wind, after the serious deflation caused by the Seabury inquiry and the virtual ouster of the mayor. The Tiger has a way of recovery, especially when there is a dearth of fusion material, as at | present. e Bandits who shoved half a dosen salesmen into the grocery refrigerator escaped With only $136. They con- siderately left the refrigerator door un- locked, thus avoiding a new and pain- ful problem in frozen assets. e “Dixie.” Every time & parade goes down Penn- sylvania avenue and the bands play the stirring strains of “Dixie,” the ques- tion is asked: “How does it happen that the South is called ‘Dixie Land'?” There long has been curiosity about the origin of the nickname. Certain scholars have made a serious search for its source. But as yet there is no agreement on the subject, and it may be that there never will be a univer- sally accepted opinion. “Dixie” is one of the mysteries of history. According to one theory, the word comes from the name of a slave dealer fn New York, a Mr. Dixy, whose prac- tice it was to fatten slaves he was about to sell by giving them plenty of food and no work. When they had at- tained the desired ponderosity, they were disposed of by weight. Dixy's reputation spread throughout the coun- try. His cognomen became a synonym for plenty of good things to eat and nothing to do. Presumptively, the South was imagined to be that kind of para- dise—a garden of delectable edibles and little labor. But, since it was not ex- actly that sort of territory, there is a good deal of doubt ebout this suggested: explanation of the familiar term. Another theory is that “Dixie” comes friends considered him an almost Pet- | from & species of banknote sponsored manent fixture in the Senate chamber, | Theodore F. Shuey nevertheless was o distinct personality, richly endowed with his own peculiar qualities of unpre- by the Banque des Citoyens, the Citl- zens' Bank of Louisiana, with head- quarters at New Orleans. French was the language of the Crescent City in tending integrity and dignity. He was | those days, and the notes, therefore, & quiet man, self-possessed, at once a were printed in French, the word “dix” proper trifie remote and detached, but | being used for “ten” on some of the always generously helpful. As an official | most common bills. Rivermen mis- Teporter of debate, he was & shadow of | pronounced the phrase — normally the .u-mlmhlp of the Upper’House ! spoken as though spelled “dee”—and * . | stmplifies the situation. With enough | | different kinds of taxes, any deficit may be met. | e As an economist Charles E. Mitchell is charged with going a little too far | |in trying to save the expense of book- | | keeping. B P — ‘The recent remarks of Hitler develop | a line of comment which would have | been even more valuable if he had | thought of it eerlier. Weapon carrying is” proving a hard practice to supervise, not only in com- munities, but also among nations. SHOOTING STA RS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Hez Draws a Line. “I won't keep cheerin’ all the time,” | Said Hezekiah Bings. “I won't say everything's sublime ‘That some one says or sings, | So many arguments disclose A superabundant shout. | T1l wait to hear some one who knows Just what he’s talkin’ ‘bout. | My generous mood I'm goin’ to drop And give myself a guess, Tl take s little time to stop And think before T “ves.” T'll hark to reason or to rhyme That patlent study brings | And not keep cheerin’ all the time"— | #aid Hezekiah Bings. Reaching a Solution. “How are you doing your part toward solving the economic problems before | us?” . | “By patient and careful calculation,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I don't undertake to announce every answer; |offhand. I don’t assume to be a light- | ning calculator.” Jud Tunkins says before another campaign arrives he hopes, in order to| ! keep peace in the family, they'll have two radios in every home, one Demo- cratic and the other Republican, Reporting Progress. So here we are! Though distant still | Prom wishes we would fain fulfill. | And yet we find on glancing back We've made some progress on the track That marks the cqurse we must pursue To leave the false and reach the true. | And so we find, with consclence clear, At least we've got from there to here. Spelling Reform. “Are you in favor of spelling reform?” “In some degree,” answered Miss Cayenne. “I am still an advocate of politeness in print. There are some words which should never be spelled | at ah.” 1 “Sometimes,” id Hi Ho, the sage | of Chinatown,g “civilization ceases to | march onward, but dances in careless | gayety; moving baekward or forward, caring not whose toes may be trodden on and eventually getting nowhere.” | | Debate Renewed. ['nn frogs are calling once again. It sounds just like the old refrain That frogs have sung in days of yore— Even for centurles before. | The big frog tells each little one | Another season has begun. Thus they assemble every year | And try to make their problems clear. “I once knew a plitical gemman,” sald Uncle Eben, “dat started by tryin’ goin’ wrong hisself.” - mon brand of personal criticism, which very one we need the most. High Lights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands A NOTICIA, Managua.—The Iberi-, For peace, after all else has been of discontent, without logical reasons. If failure to recelve promotion is the reason, he suggests that perhaps the trouble is with the person himself. not, other possible causes should b= well considered. The chapters all deal with practical problems—how to locate an opening, preparation for interviews, the interviews themselves, following up prospegts, starting a new job, holding a job, gaining promotion, advice to executives, the recent graduate who is hunting & job, the girl in business, va- stone; 5, crystal; 6, an opaque white | known, but from 1333 to 1348 the mor- ;7 wrought gold: 8. piain gold: | tality Was great. In 1348 it spread to 9, silver. Europe, probably by various caravan 5 — | routes. It is not possible to estimate | _Q Is there any improvement in | the entire mortality produced by the | Panama Canal traffic>—P. R. N. plague because of lack of statistical x| | A. For the first time since 1928 the | number of transits of the canal have | shown an improvement for March, and for the first time since 1929 the net ton- | data. In China 13,000,000 are said to have died and in the rest of the East nearly 24,000,000. London lost over 100,000, 15 European cities about nage of ships and the tons of cargo havc | 300.000, Germany, 1,244,000; It2ly, one- shown an increase. The point was | half its population. I Spaniards and Portuguese dis- covered the way to the Ameri- can continent, and were the original explorers, conquerors and set- tlers in these new lands, the most beautiful and the richest upon the ter- restrial globe. These valiant ploneers were quick ! to recognize the limitless possibilities | of the vast and fertile plains and the | wealth latent in the mountains and forests. With a courage and deter-| mination that has never since been| equaled, these inspired and skillful nav- | igators planted their banners upon | every widely separated shore, and | claimed the region with all their sav- age inhabitants as territories and sub- Jects of their respective sovereigns. And 50 these great expanses remain today after more than four centuries of cul- | ture and development. They are still united in language, in Christian re- | ligion, in sentiment and aspiration. The political bonds with the two | mother countries alone have been | broken, but they were the least im- portant and essential of them all, a purely nominal relationship which re- moteness inevitably first weakens and then annuls. But all the other affec- tions, and sympathies have been | strenkthened between the old nations | and purity the love between parents | and their children. We honor today as being among the chief of those who forged the first | links in this_great transmarine uni- | fication the Portuguese captains and | navigators, Sacadura and Continho, | and the Spaniard, Ramon France, all | of whom have left their records and impress upon our coasts. * ¥ *x x Puerto Rican Burden on Taxis Held Too High. El Mundo, San Juan —Publication has been asked of the following open-let- ter, a request to which.we accede with pleasure: “Senor Presidente, Federation Insular de Chauffeurs de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico. “Senor:' I desire to express my con- cordance with the recommendations presented by the body which you diregt | ans have always been the first! | | must and the new, as ever grow in strength | & analyzed and weighed, is unmistakably the crying need of the world today, and it may be attained only in adherence to, and practice of, moral law between nations as well as between individuals. Now religion is the only force that, so far as we know, the history of the world has been able to provide sanc- tions for thai moral law. Present-day | Russia is making an attempt at moral | ontrol without religiom, and from all accounts seems to be making a hopeless | mess of it. Lack of vital religious sanc- tion for morals has, in the West, led to the present revolt of youth against moral standards. It is the problem of religion, then, to make possible a moral basis adequate to the coming brother- hood of internationalism. ‘The present madness of nationalism pass as it is moving contrary to the general stream of human advance- ment. War also must sooner or later be banished for its stupidity as a means as settling international affairs is as evident as that of personal combat in settling ‘affairs between individuals. With the progress of mechanical con- trol of nature we must inevitably be drawn even more closely to each other as one human family. Therefore, there must be some moral sanction for international relations em- bodied in an institution of an authority unquestioned as that of the law courts settling the differences between individuals. The present spectacle of Japan and the League of Nations shows | how imperative that is. But how is religion to furnish that moral sanction? The lecturer plays with the idea, often suggested, of & League of Religions, parallel with the League of Nations, to which all the re- | ligions shall contribute what spiritual | value they have. This, of course, as- sumes that there is no ultimate truth or final word of authority possessed by any one religion, & proposition that every Christian will immediately reject, |and it forgets that there are certain religions of the world which, though professed by millions of people and providing a very strong social unity, are spiritually bankrupt. Nationalities may join in a league to provide some com- mon clearing house for their mutual difficulties and protect their mutual in- terests, but surely the moral sanction for internationalism could only be some rious fields and their offerings, learning to sell. The book begins and ends wi , “What does a job mean? which shows that Mr. Pickard places great emphasis upon the attitude of a | man or a woman toward his or her work. By implication he often notices | Humor in Rivera’s Red Art Features Public Comment bne religion with such an authoritative pronouncement on ultimate moral and | before the legislative assembly of our country. | spiritual values that it would be uni- ‘While the public automobile fills | versally recognized by all humanity. A | & constant and pressing necessity in| League of Religions is pure phantasy.| the transportation of passengers and |1t is not a new idea. Theosophy has parcels, and simultaneously gives em- | tried it, and Behaism has tried it, and | ployment and support to the little in- | in the endeavor to make some-com- | ! dustrialists engaged in the labors and | posite picture of the contributions of | the importance of personality, but a whole chapter might well have been given to that crucial consideration. Many a person hes failed in life be- cause of a disagreeable personality. BOWSPRIT ASHORE. By Alexander H. Bone. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co. Entrance into the world of romance from the world of the commonplace has been for many a boy through run- ning away to sea. So it was for the Scotch boy, Alexander Bone, who traveled the world on sailing ships for 12 years, then signed on aboard a steamship. Recently, on shore leave, he had the happy idea of writing about some of his sea experiences and his writing developed into & book whose setting is the seven seas, and whose characters are many of the sailors he knew on his various ships and many of the people he met ashore. His first ship was the barque Killoran, of Clyde; then came the Loch Ness, of the Loch Line; sailed into San Francisco just in time for the earthquake of 1906; the Shenan- doah, the tallest of ships; and the Strathyre of Glasgow, which was load- ing at Hankow when the Chinese Revo- lution broke into action. During the World War he was a first lieutenant with the mine sweepers in the North Sea and later with the gunboats on the Danube during the Bela Kun disturb- ances. Since the war he has con- tinued his wanderings, among them participation in the activities of the rum fleet in the waters off New York. Alexander Bone belongs to a family of people who do things. One of his brothers is Muirhead Bone, the etcher; another, James, is editor of the Man- chester Guardian; Jock is an Edin- burgh printer, David is a master of the R. M. S. Tuscania and author of “The Brassbounders”; and his niece, Freda, has done the woodcuts which illustrate his book. It is said that Alexander Bone was fuGVed iv wTite his book by astonishment that his brother David, a seaman like himself, could produce & book, and the con- viction that if David could, he could. He makes no pretension to literary art, and writes as simply as he would talk, but he knows his subject matter, which is so full of color and action that imagination is hardly needed. the Lovernbank on which he | Humor-us condemnation of Diego Ri- vera's inclusion of Lenin and conspicu- {cus red flags in the decoration of the | Rockefeller Center is the public’s chief reaction to the situation which resulted in the Mexican artist losing his job |there. The question of his cbligation |to those conducting the enterprise is lightly treated in various phases. “He paints what he has a mind to paint,” s the Louisville Courier- Journal, “putting into the picture his own conception of life, moral convic- tions, estimates of men and social theories. They may be right or they may be wrong, and it is a far-reaching assumption that art validates every- thing it covers. Indeed, there wasn't a thing in the group remotely to sym- bclize *human intelligence in control of the forces of nature,” a subject fit only | for ironic treatment and, in so far as | intelligence utilizes the forces of na- ture, restricted to research science. Art or no art, this was propaganda. It | should be allowed to remain, however, nct out of reverence for art, but for the glorification of the American sense of humor. Bolshevism depicted on so magnificent a scale in Rockefeller Cen- ter becomes the apotheosis of the comic strin ™ “How did it happen that an artist of well known communistic sympathies was hired for the work in the first place?” asks the Providence Journal, with the further statement: “The sit- uation is grotesque in the extreme. A portrait of Vladimir Ilyich, otherwise known as Lenin, piastered on a prom- inent capitalistic wall for all the world to look at! It certainly does seem like pushing communistic propaganda too | far. If capitalism could stand for that, how would Senor Rivera like to go to Moscow and paint a mural portrait of Mr. Rockefeller in the Kremlin?" Noting that “crowds of ‘unemployed’ people are in the background, waving red flags,” the Des Moines Tribune remarks: “Here is surely proof of Rivera’s artistry. Anybody Who can deserved only to be summarily sup- pressed,” says the Port Huron Times Herald, while the New York Sun ana- lyzes the situation with the statement: “It no more belongs in a public build- ing in the center of Manhattan than & panel with Mark Hanna benevolently joining the hands of capital and would befit the walls of the If the sincere and industrious Ilyich were still in the flesh this attempt of his Mexican admirer to immortalize him on the battlements of capitalism would bring a smile from grim lips.” l:f‘sNelu-ner side,” advises the Baltimore ‘ Sun, “has any need to get excited. The | way is still open for Rivera to sell his | painting elsewhere and the way is still open for the Rockefeller Center to get an artist to its own liking to do the projected frescoes.” ———— | Co-ordination of Education. From the Oklahoma City Times. Many friends of education will watch developments of Gov. Murray’s plan for the co-ordination of institutions of | higher learning into one greater Uni- | versity of gsllhoml, ll}e!ol’! giving it | whole-hearts approval. |gram _ contemplates _co-ordination of | sectarian schools as well as of the tax- | supported institutions. A part of the | tentative program is the establishment | of a foundation from which all schools would benefit. One chancellor and | board of regents would have authority over certain features of curricula and educational standards, but it is the pur- pose of the plan that the independence of the participating schools shall not |be abridged, except in’ provisions de- | manding a standard of education that | will strengthen the prestige of such & | greater university. Some of the ideas . involved are in operation in European | universities, and the University of To- | ronto, perhaps, bears closest Tesem- | blance to the super-university planned | for Oklahoma. paint people with such skill that the‘ Sponsors of the change feel it can beholder knows at a glance whether | pe inaugurated without additional cost or not they have jobs must surely be of any consequence, although oppo- a great artist” The Indianapolis nents of the plan see it as an enter- News suggests that “like Mr. Dick of |ing wedge for struggling private and Dickens’ 'David Copperfield’ who_was 'sectaflan schools to secure some meas- unable to keep the head of King ure of public support. No such support Charles out of his manuscripts, Rivera is provided in the bill that now fosters found himself unable to keep the head the program, however, and those who duties of this profession, not alone the | drivers, but mechanics, electricians, | | painters, etc., as well, the government | | yet endeavors to restrain and burden | |the modest profits of this mutually | | beneficlal business by ruinous taxes, and ‘mu'mu(»s in the cost of gasoline, not to mention heavy fines and assessments |against the chauffeurs for minor and | | insignificant infractions of the motor- | | ing code, even when entirely innocent | |and harmless In their consequences. | “The private car is a Mxury reserved | these days only for the opulent, who | contribute nothing in the way of com- fort or convenience to the general pub- lic, and who in’ most instances are but mildly chastised for any liberties they may take in traffic, and are required to pay but proportionately trifling im- posts to the government. The public automobile, on the other hand, is the motor-vehicle of the poorer classes, and instead of paying taxes should be granted subsidies by the government for main- taining an indispensable public service. “MANUEL VILGUINA." EEE I | Religion Stressed | to Combat Nationalism, different religions have produced but pure stupidity. Mr. Bentwich has painted the picture for us of the relation of religion to in- ternationalism, and has set us the problem. It is ours to answer it for the future welfare of our common hu- manity. PO — The Perennial Kick. | From the Dayton Daily News. It's a contrary old world and when times do get back to the boom stage rnu'll hear the same old kicks about the ong freight trains tying up the street cars. e Discrimination. | Prom the Pasadena Post. A woman talked from the congres- sional gallery and they put her out. Nothing was done to the man on the floor. He went right on talking. ) An Alternative. Prom the Indianapolis News. Instead of placing one-third of the SHORT STORY HITS: 1932. An In- i terpretative Anthology. [Ed. by | Thomas H. Uzzell. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. | The arrangement of the stories in this hology, by a former editor of Collier's Weekly and the author of “Narrative Technique,” is somewhat unusual. Mr. Uzzell does not group the stories accord- ing to type, as mystery, love, western, sugary-sweet, adventure, problem, etc., but according to the type of magazine in which they appeared. So there are | three parts: All-fiction magazines, Big circulation magazines and literary mag- azines. This is a practical classifica- tion; reader can tell immediately in which group he will be most likely to find something to suit his taste. In the first group are such stories as “With the Night Mail,” by Leland Jamieson, and “Dragon Smoke,” by James W. Bennett. The second group contains “Hon Policy,” by Faith Baldwin, and “Big Girl,” by Katharine Brush. In the third group are “A Sick Call” by Morley Callaghan: “To the Pure,” by Kay Boyle, and “Silent Snow, Secret Snow,” by Conrad Aiken. Mr. Uzzell's critical comments in his foreward and in his long appendix contain his principles of of Lenin out of a conspicous place in one of his murals” That paper is convinced that “arguments in favor of | the use of art for propaganda’s sake { may have the effect of arousing popula | feeling in favor of ‘art for art's sake.” | The Charlesion (S. C.) Evening Post | argues that “gertainly it is not good lart to perverf an entire conception,” and that “Rockefeller Center is no | place in which to apotheosize com- | munism.” “An old question arises,” to the mind of the Oakland Tribu: which offers the query and comment: “May the man of talent, wielding brush, put upon wall or canvas that which he wishes to portray or must he be expected to follow the desires of those who pay him for the effort? Five or six hun- dred persons who hold to the theory of art for art’s sake and free hand to the painter. expressed themselves in the typical manner by parading. Others will prepare speeches and articles or sponsor debates. Rivera, who has been in_controversy before and knows the | values in the same, will be subject of conversation for many moons.” | “A piece of ‘which fear it is an effort to strengthen church influence in State schools ad- mit there is no more than a shadowy | basis for their misgivings. There are constitutional safeguards against any union of church and State, and this is no_effort to nullify basic law. The plan would be more impressive if it contemplated more consolidation, along with the co-ordination; certainly more appealing from an economic | standpoint. But, even with this law, the plan is still in & somewhat nebu- lous state, and only results will accu- rately gauge its worth or weakness. It is a change of policy that has possi- bilities of improvement. That may be | faint praise, but, now that the move- | ment is legally launched, it becomes | the concern of all who are interested in education, deserves their interest and their best efforts to make it a notable improvement as well as & change. A new co-ordinating group is to be se- lected, and care should be exercised in an effort to include the ablest pro- gressive educators of the State. vt Harvard’s New Prexy. impudence = — | From the Indianapolis News. Harvard University's new ident ).s to set everbody right an' finished i!l have in “The Religious Foundations of Internationalism, & Study of Interna- tional Relationships Through the Ages.” the English version of the first course of lectures delivered by Norman Bent- wich in Jerusalem as the Weizmann professor of international law in the University of Palestine. It is peculiarly fitting that these discourses should have been given in Jerusalem—that is, in the ancient Uru Salim—the "“City of Peace.” Egyptian Gazette, Alexandria.—We | American Navy's ships in the reserve &s an economy measure, the Navy might 80 on a 30-hour week. ) A Broken Precedent. From the Omaha Evening World-Herald. One of Omaha’s new commissioners shatters precedent by getting his pic- baby—after ture in the papers holding & election, i selection. He also gives in the appendix suggestions for students of the short story, presumably those who study in order to write, and a technical analysis of each story included in the volume. A supplementary list of other stories, from the three magazine groups, and a list of the magazines used in his fiction survey Co. bulletin reports a prize_contest for | order of your preference 20 living au- thors whose biographies you woyld in- clude 1 a supplement to ving librarians on the question, “Name in the | 8 chemist, which may mean that some 1 attention will be given to the ibill- ties of a synthetic endowment fund. e Authors’” (a valuable reference book, | by the way). Pearl Buck fook first | Back to the Dark Ages. place by a substantial margin, with 164 From the Boston Transcript. are supplied after the foreword. Fifty- ven magazines w‘ere consulted. * x o o A recent issue of the H. W. Wilson votes. The next three were Stuart Perhaps the burning of pernicious Chase, with 116; James Truelow Adams, | books by the Germans means simply with 108, and Charles Morgan, suthor lvl.hn they have a hankering to restore of “The Fogntain,” with 102, the good old times of Gve centuries ago.