Evening Star Newspaper, May 22, 1933, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C MONDAY May 22, 1993 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Campany Business Ofce: and Pennsylvania Ave. Office: 110 East 42nd St Lake Michigan Buildi 14 Regent St. Lond Enla 1th_ St New York Chicago Oftice European Office Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Star 5¢ per moy W The Evening and Sunday Star (when 4 Sundays) 80c per mov A The Evening and Sunday Star Tnen S ounaart) B n(:n]'i:(!‘llnfl made at the end of each month. ders mav be sent in by mail or telephone 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virgima. v ! . . 410.00: 1 mo., 85¢ Bally anp Sunder:.- v Heee: 1 matide junday only .........1yr. $400; 1 mo. 40c All Other States and Canada. v ...1yr. $12.00: 1 mo., $1.00 l"' n.l:‘ld Sul\dlv‘ 1yr. $800: 1mo. T5¢ $5.00: 1mo.. 80¢ junday only . 1yr. Member of {he Associated Press. The Assoctated Press is exclusively entit 10 vne uce for republication of all news d Atches credited 1o it or not otherwise cred- (his paper and also the local news 'All Tights of publication af hereln are miso reserv | ted in published herein apecial dispatcti Internaticnal Tariffs. President Roozevelt is ted to ask of Corgross broad ers to enter into reciprocs] tariff agreements with for- eign nations, in furtherance of the ad- ministration’s policy to break down in- ternational trade karriers. The Presi- dont may send to Congress & special message on this subject during the present week. This is in line with the plans of his Secretary of State, Cordell Wull, whose dream it is that inter- naticnal trade may be again stimu- | Jated and the recovery of the l‘nrld;’ economically brought about through the | Jowering of trade barriers. | Im, unaccustomed to the job, m‘myuhm-mm overcome by the fumes snd fell in, and | with any useful degree of eaccuracy. then the others, in attempting rescue, ) Far better, it would seem, it is to con- also fell to their death one by one, | centrate the attention upon the larger, Here 1s another case of a dangerous, more readily discerned aspects of the condition in the heart of a large city, subject. Great folk movements, like the tolerated for a long time because by Crusades. for example, or the expan- { 800d chance it bas never caused trouble. | slon of Europe ta the colonial areas Yet there must have been emanations| 0f the earth, should b taught as from the vat, but nobody appears to' Qiganic entiti not broken up into have thought it to be a menace. Now fragments of biography and national | probably its further use will be for-| incident. So expounded, they would bidden on the ground of public safety,| hot be found prosaic or dull Just another casz of locking the door| But the current fashion for drama- after the horse is stolen. The space Hzing personalities and tendencies also beneath the sidewalk is, of course, not 18 dangerous. Valtaire was mistaken the proper place for such a metiod of | When he submiiied that “histors is drainage for deadly materials, even ONIy the register of crimes and mis- though the tannery is located in an| fortunes.” Tacitus was nearer the industrial section and there are very | few residences in the neighborheod. | Official attentlon was probably not ilarly, dangerous fire hasards develop in | that escape notice until a conflagr tion oceurs. ference on the part of authorities, s Sea Speech. | to be called to this condition simply because | words and deeds should fear an in- there had never been an accident. Sim-| famous reputation with posterity. | factories and business establishments man conduct and in human recoliection. | Neither should be overstressed. Many lives are lost and ' pius values as well as those properly millions of dollars’ worth of property | considered minus should be represented destroyed in this country amnually In historical writing, but neither sheuld through just such neglect and Indif-| be given greater altention than the | facts dictate. The fad for creating truth when he said: The principal office of history I take this: To prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil Good and bad are Intermixed in hu- The monstrous imaglnary poitraits of im- {ize him for & i sults, in her attempt to get back to her portant actors i the world drama STAR, WASHINGTO N C, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Not in years has shrubbary grown so luxuriantly as this Spring, with its con- tinued copious rainfall. The lesson it teaches the prim gar- dencr is that Nature knows nothing of neatness. She has something better. She has healthy growth. The desire to trim Nature out of the | cultivated garden is an casy one Lo ae- quire, and if one ever gets this longing he reldom gets rid of il Every time he sees a shrub of any sort he wanis to bring on the pruning | shears. ok ok % The better way Is to let bushes of wr sorts grow as they please. This attitude is instinctive with some home gardeners, with others it is a growth. The eyes see, the mind apprehends, until &t Jast the truth is bored in, th even in a cultivated plot Mother Na ture knows best. Leave her to herself, and she will re- ward the gardener with her greatest ireasures. Attempt & fussy care, she will long time with ug | | | enal- | y re- | | own plans. her own ideas of beuty, her own lines, * ¥ *x % | should be condemned. Few, if any, of Avast there! Pipe down on the | {pem have been the paragons of vice coarse language! Stow the oaths! | or virtue their biographers have p.e- Such is the order that goes forth gymed to suppose. They have been from the commander of the American ' pumen beings, with all the qualities fleet. Admiral Leigh directs all €M~ | that such status implies. manding officers to take immediate| why cannot history b2 presented to ters to eradicate the ‘“undesirabl?|ihe child ss a pegeant? It was sa habit of profane and cbscene 1anguage” | viewed by Augustine Birrell, and the and to take suitable disciplinary aclch | ping may be woith trisl. The lite in the cgse of each infraction venorted. | tudent who “hates” history has filed . This is decidedly what is called &gy jgictment against the present man- large order.” For centuries seamen ' nor of teaching it. Her protest is have been “strong talkers." They have | gpundantly worthy of consideration. been ploneers In profanity. They Rave | gne speaks for her contemporaries, the made & vocabulary of thelr own, With | cjjjzens of tomorrow. Which one of sea slang of pungency that has creDl|ijem it may be wondered, would be into common usage ashore. A sailor's | talk bhas been proverblally lurid und" distinctively vivid. | Now there must be a change. | mankind offered in the form of a grand parade? The e immune to the lure of the story of | | It is noticeab!: that the longer ane works with flow and other factors in | whai might be called “exterior decora- tion.” the more he b2comes inclined to permit things to take care of them- selves, as far as possible. He grows, 100, &s well as his garden. Ouly the other day we were reading an article by one of the country’s lead- ing rose experts, & man who has worked all his life with the queen of flowers. His verdict, after a long experience, 1§ that there is entirely too much pruning. “Let them alone He says nothing, of course, agains needed and proper pruning, but he be- lieves that a great deal more of it is | done than is necessary. X x Xk Especially, one may believe, is there { too much trimming of the various orna- | mental shrubs, which constitute the backbone of many & home garden. | These fine old things, many of them | now in flower, or just finished bloom- | | | | | ing. evidently were intended, in the general plan of creation, to make a slow, he says, in effect. | When the proposal is submitted to Congress, it is likely to meet strong epposition. The protective tariff system, | forecastle must be fumigated of its under which the industries of this | forensic favor. The quaint and pic- | courtry have been built up in the past, | turesque largon that savors of the s | g still firmiy intrenched 1 the minds W2y be preserved if it is not profanc. The greatest show on earth comes | Steady growth toward an undetermined annually as & reminder of what merger | 1, this they greally resemble man- | can accomplish in putting three rings | kind itself. | under one tent. It illustrates an eco- | AS far as some of us can make out, o meny Americans, including & mul-| titude of Democrats. And the domestic market of the United Sta which | consumes the vast amount of the prod- | ucts of American labor today, is recog- mized as of much greater importance| Yo the people of this country than el the world tra The fear is that with the removal of trade barriers the | United States will be flooded With goods | made by poorly paid labor in foreign | countries. With consumption of goods | limited to the consuming power of the | American people, it is obvious that the | tmportation of great quantities of | eheaper goods in competiticn with | American goods would not be ad-| vantageous to American labor and in- | they will probably meet this new emsr- | pgijcally inclined listener who has just | dustry. | The theory of Secretary Hull has been that a breaking down of the tariff | and other trade barriers which have | been reered by nearly all the nations as well as the United States, in order to protect home markets, will put new life blood into world commerce. Thi: 18 in conflict with the theory of th ] protectionist and the supporter of na tional economic sufficiency. There may be a happy medium between thz two, | and it is toward such a medium thatl e "o Too e of the younger sailr | in order to gscertain when it is to be | Becretary Hull and the administration are hoping to work a way in the coming | World Economic Conference in London Protection through taiiffs is & fine thing | for a nation if it works only in one | direction. When the other fellow adopt? | the came proiective tariff system and | raices barriers to trade still higher, the | system tekes on another espect entirely. The Congress has in the past jeal Iy guarded its pover to raice or k torifl dutles. When the Republici Congress gave to the Presidnt several years ago the right under the flexibh‘i provisions of the law to raise or lower | tariffl duties by filty per cent after thorough investigation end report by the United States Teriff Commission, there was wide denunciation of the measure. Under Republican Presidents this power has been used sparingly snd few toriffs have been reduced. Picsi- dent Roosevelt still has that power if Ro sees fit to cxercise it. 1t is not the purpose cf the Secretary of State or of the administraticn 1o Jower tariffs and to pormit inflow of foreign goods into this country without obtaining from foreign nations agree- ments to permit the entry of American products into their borders through re- moval of existing t-ede barriers. A reci- procity arrangement is planned by which products of which the United States produces a maximum and the ether ccuntry a minimum chall, in ef- fect. be exthanged without tariff re- striction for products of which the ethsr country produces a maximum and the United States a minimum, thus eliminating, as far as possible, hurtful ecmpetition in our own markets be- tween domestic products and the eheaper products of the other country. The feer will exist in the minds of many, how that the balance of ad- vantage may be against the United Stotes, since this country is today the most desired market in the world. For- wmer President Hoover wamed in a #pecch in Madison Square Garden dur- g the campaign last year that if the Qeriff system of the United States was sbandoned grass would grow in the #treets of many American cities. He was derided for this remark at the| #ime. Nevertheless, with the heat of | the campaign gone, millions of Ameris | eans will consider this warning more soberly. R Although the Soviet is not recog- Shiver my timbors” moy come back into vogue, though probebly it has no. | been heard for a long time. Sea ialk | has varied with the changes in condi- tions, n equipment, in motive power. There s a lot of old-time language that cnce made the decks ring with | eloquence and that cou’d not be classi- | fied with the spesch which Admiral| Leigh now forbids, under penally of | itable diseiplinery action.” i Xt the rule is strictly enforced doubt- | less some new modes of expression’ will bz invented to meet the meeds of the | “gobs” to whom straight-away polile | cxpletives are inadequate. Sailors are | traditionslly inventive in this line, and | nomic tendency. A Hamkt with greater prophietic inspiration might have in- cluded the elephant and the clown as figures in “the abstract chronicle of | our time.” ] Veterans who decide to take an in- terest in reforestation with a privilege of sending money to keep the home fires burning along with the camp fires will find no reasan why each should not feel like & millionaire on & Summer vacation. vt — When redio snuounces that one person has “flied” ta snother & gram- gency with veriants that will pass muster on the quarler deck. i 1t is to be feared, however, that for a time the disciplinary officers of the | L R fleet will have & hard task dealing with An sutocratically disposed leader the crews, lo whom the use of strong 2 4 speech s as matural as the very winds | must be diplomatically resourceful in | order to convince his constituency that that blow through the rigging. For a | - time, 1t may, be, fhey will have to he| D 900 Dok dasiie War and ds-af the concaiedlly aed ol hearing Teiwhi|#850, Hme Do 1 ‘ths least afraid %o equire & veritable evolution to bring | engage in it about & more modest line of lingo. Pos- | sibly classes may have to be organized tuned in understands at once that the subject under discussion is base ball and not aviation. ] The tariff continues to be studied men in the substitution of softer texms | regarded as & necessary means of reg- for those that have bien veritably the | ulating commerce and when as an in- prerogative of the sea for gemerations. | fluence tending to suppress it entirely. Recruiling officers may have to put applicants for naval jobs through tests respecting their ability to find synsnyms for thelr favorite expressions, and if tho enlisted force is to be Teduced in | Unsuspecting Victim. accard with the program for na\'nl!ygun‘ Mrs. Flifkins loves to go cconomies perhaps one of the tests Yor | p see a temperamental show, retention will be the =zbiiity of the where, with magnificent display, jackies to conform to the new order | A famous “Actoress” holds sway. of clezn speech on clean decks. e Farmers in Wisconsin did not know | the milk strike had been called off and neglected their cows in order to march on to the State capital. In a situation | ghe prances up and down the scene where no one is standing back, even | And is an idol of the screen. the S. P. C. A. may be called on to Qur interest she will soon engage take a hand. | I awful but artistic rage. | r—eme VSVHGOTINO STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. | ghe diligently represents Grief, Hate and kindred sentiments. But she is most impressive when | She hits & tantrum, now &nd then. After studing retorestation, many o the bonus marchers have decided tha ihe way to get out of the woods is to get into them. g | Jack Flifkins has & simple heart. ¢ | He thinks his wife just dotes on Art. He never dreams she has in mind | The Art of Quarrels most refined. She studies temperamental wrath « | That cows the man who blocks the path et “I Hate History!” A little girl, attending a Washington public school, declares, “I hate history!” There is passionate resentment in her tone. She expresses an abhorrence in the utterance of her opinion. Noting the outburst, the guestion arises as to why any small citizen should entertain such violent dislike for the annals of human- kind. Obviously, the case should be quite otherwise. The story of the evo- lution of civilimation properly should be the most attractive, the most fascinat- ing. of all the branches of knowledge, end the student, far from hating the chronicle of that development, instinct ively should wish to embrace it with affectionate ardor. Perhaps the faull may be traced back |to the method of teaching. Certainly, history may be rendered dull and stupic [by overwelghting it with meaningless | dates, empty names and sterile philoso- phies. Thucydides is supposed to have | said that “history is philosophy learned | from examples,” but there is danger in | the idea. | human records arbitrarily, mungling them to suit his own prejudiced fancy, | exaggerating or suppressing details to| place,” asked the neighbor. plead a special cause or promote a particular theory, is guilty of a kind | tossel. of treason for which there can be no | great help.” The writer who deals with | Of woman wild, with drops and curves | ‘;T'Ill indicate & state of nerves. | She notes them all—the latest kinks, In flerce, but ladylike high jinks. And thep, Alas!—Ilikewise Alack!— She tries them out on poor old Jack. The Quest. “Everybody is now looking for worl sald the casual visitor, “Not everybody,” sighed Senator | Sorghum. “Some of the constituents wha look me up appear to desire only | a position and a salary Jud Tunkins says if Drofanity sll by itself helped any, & poll parrot would | be one of our most Intuential debaiers. | Prodigality, By Nature's riches, never scant, We're taught to be extravagant. Why strive to paint the twilight sky And snare its glories, ere they fly? We let 1t fade without regret, There will be others finer yet. | “How are things goin’ on the old “Better,” answered Farmer Corn- “My boy Josh is goin’ o be & there was no intention, on the part of | Nature, of pruning them except by her- elf, by disease, frost and the like, in- cluding accidents. Their habits of growth mostly bear cut this contention. R ‘The true beauty of almost any shrub !is realized only when it is permitted to | gvow unchecked. Then the saaying masses of leaves | and boughs have &n opportunity to| | demonstrate anew the undoubted abil- | ity of Nature as an artist. | It is here, of course, that the mind | | of man enters. To many an eye a flourishing mass | of shrubs is mot pretty. “Pretty,” to thew, means preuyfled“ or artificial, in the Jast analysis. | * %X x ¥ Such a gardener honestly thinks that he can improve upon Nature, but the | | ‘There is here no particular question of | formality or informality; the most for- | mal garden may show little clipping. whereas the most informal plan may | reveal an indiscriminate use of the | shears, the saw and the knife. This latter is what some of us call | surgical gardening. 1t satisfied a certain mature, dut 1t docs not please those who prefer the other typz. Y * K K x Most of the lack of “neatness” which the advocates of bigger and better prun- ing deplore is rather a question of lazi- ess than anything else. And here is how and why: Some of the untidiness which resides | in such & garden is due to lack of trim- | ming with the grass shears, & plain bit of garden laziness. It will b discovered, in many cases, that it is not the large mass of shrub- bery which is decried gs much as the untidy grass line commanly left be- neath it. ‘The iarger the mass of shrubbery. the more essential it becomes to keep all grass growing beneath or near them properly trimmed at all times. DR Every one who does garden work knows how it is. An average-sized lawn is not the | casiest task In the world; by the time the thing is done the operator of the mower is tired of his task. He is willing to let the trimming job go_over. In a day or two, he tells himself, he will trim around the edges and the borders. ‘There will be plenty of time for that! Days go by, however, and the entive lawn is ready for cutting before “gets 'round to it.” * %k % ‘The net result. in all too many a gar- den, is that the wf'lx and trimming never get done at all, cr at best at long intervals. And in some cases nobodv ever thinks to trim under the shrubbery until the gin to collect there. It will be found, ip practically all such cases, that thorough snipping be- neath and sround all shrubbery, as a constant practice, will prevent almost any shrubbery from looking wild. The wildness is at the battom, not at the top. It is this untidiness, and not that of the shrubs themselves, which permits strictures to be cast upon the theory, and the practice (or rather non-prac- tice), of lessened shrub pruning. X% k% ‘What Is more beautiful. indeed, than a fine massed planting of shrubs? This is their greatest time of beauty, when their white, pink and yellow flow- ers, upon various species, fill the small- est yards with a glory of bloom. Most home owners have learned that if you want these flowers you must not trim the bushes until after the | blooming. Many still have to realize, evidently, that if you want them to perfection, year after year, you must go slowly with | the pruning shears at any time. Usually & shrub requires at least a | full year to get over a severe pruning, and this period normally includes one | full blooming season. Let shrubs grow! Suppose they do tend to become a bit too large, what of it? The lines of Nature are baauty's own lines, far surpassing the sttempts of man. Man can make a better pair | question remains: Can he? Congressional okay of the Roosevelt industrial recovery-public works bill, the last and largest item on the ad- ministration’s program for the present | special session, loaks to be just around | the corner. The bill is scheduled ta slide | through the House this week in rapid order under a special rule limiting de- bate_and precluding amendment. In | the Senate action will be expedited by | the promise end threat of winding up | the session as soon as this bill is dis- posed of. The President has esked and | received promises from his lieutenants in both branches that Congress adjourn | by June 10 at the latest. Mr. Roose- velt had to cancel his trip to Chicago | this week to open the Century of | Progress Exposition, but he does not want to cancel his vacation yachting trip along the Maine ccast in late June. | More than that, he wants the con- | gressional sesslon behind by the time | the London Economic Conference gets under way June 12. It is asking a good | deal of the Senate to require it to come | to & final vote on the Glass banking bill, on the railroad bill and on the in- | dustrial recovery-public works bill all in the space of 18 legislative days. Such & performance would seem to b> & veritable miracle. But since March 4 the country has seen many miracles. * %k k Congress and the country appear, for | the most part, to b: willing to take | both the Roosevelt contral of industry proposals and the public works pro- | als pretly much on faith; to give to | e President blanket authority over | capital and labor, and to give to him | virtually & blank check so far as public works wre concerned. Big business is | disposed to take the counsel of those | of its leaders who are urging that it would be a tactical mistake to oppose | the bill and that business should go | along with the President, put their fate | in his hands, and co-operate with him and pray for the best. The only real fight now in sight is on the taxation | aspect of the bill, and that fight will be staged in the Senate, with a strong | drive there for a “temporary” general manufacturers’ excise tax in substitu- ticn for the tax expedients preferred by the Houce. * * It was not so many weeks ago that it was being freely whispered about the Capital that Bernard M. Baruch, for & decade Democracy’s rich and generous | financlal angel, was on the outside Jook- ing in rather than on the inside look- ing out so far as the Reosevelt family circle is concerned. How baseless such | whispers were has been smply shown Ly recent evemts. ‘The Wall Street financier and philanihiropist is revealed os high in the President’s favor and | @5 one of his most valued advisers. For | ihe moment Mr. Baruch appears 10 out-top any of the all-star aggregation of college professors and smart young lawyers who have been popularly re- ferred to as the Roosevelt brain trust Though the President declines to can- firm published reports that he has al- ready picked Brig. Gen. Hugh S. John- son, soldier, lawyer and manufacturer, to administer the almost unlimited pow- ers over Industry conferred upon the Government by the pending industrial regulation bill, nevertheless, the belief is persistent that Gen. Johnsan will ulti- of pruning shears, but not a better shrub. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS the South. He planned an $8.000,000 reclamation project for the St. Francis Valley In Arkansas and has drafted and devised drainage codes for nearly a dozen years. Two more members of the Tennessce Valley Commission yet remain to be selected by Mi. Roosevelt from s list of approximately 150 spplicants. * %ok % Volume 1, No. 1, of “Happy Days,” the authorized weekly newspaper of the Civilian Conservation Corps, sub- scription price $2 a year, made its first | appearance Saturday. It is put out in | the regulation tabloid format and the | first issue numbered 12 pages, heavily | sprinkled with news photos of the for- 3-column eut of Mr. cigning the reforestation work bill and the lead story was captloned “Forest Camps to Be Filled by July.” It was pointed out that to accomplish this would require moving 5400 men into rale of movement would be greater War. The story stated further that “a total of 1950 farest camps will be needed to accommodate the 275,000 m'n." The plans of the forest service were said to include the construction of 13,000 miles of telephone lines, 900 miles of fire breaks. 11,700 miles of range fences, 3,600 miles of forest high- ways, 54,500 miles of minor roads and treils, the clearing of rubbish from 1,500,000 geres. the erection of 1,400 administrative buildings, and so on. * % e Col. Louls Hawe, the President's de- voted chief of staff, when feted by the National Press Club at a dinner a few weeks ago, was presented with a broad- sword as a token of his bravery and skill in battling for Mr. Roosevelt. Last week Col. Howe received another token when he dined with the Men's and Mothers' Club of a Baltimore church. On this occasion it was an cmbossed scroll on which was inscribed under the caption “Finest Friendship in America,” the following: “To Col. Louis McHenry Howe, in admiration of his sterling friendship for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Friendship is the fairest and sweetest flower that blooms in the garden of life.” As glowingly reported in the Baltimore Sun, “Horatio has gone down in history as the man | Who held the bridge; John Paul Jones |achleved Jfame @as the man who won baitles in a leaky scow. but Louls Mc- |'Henry Howe, confidential secretary to | President Roosevelt, last Thursday | night was enrolled in the hall of fame | of the First Methodist Episcopal | Church for his lasting friendship to his chief.” Col. Howe, on returning to the White House from Baltimore, found a letter awaiting him from an admirer in California requesting his permission to have his name bestowed upon the | writer's Persian cat. It is all in a day's | work with Col. Howe. * k% K Assignment _of space in the new House Office Building is on a basis of seniority. with the result that virtually | all members of the House whose serv- ice antedates March 4 this year have | moved over into palatiml quarters in he | grass grows so high that mosquitoes be- | esters and thely camps. Page 1 earried | velt | work camps each day and that this than that of troops during the World | mately turn up in this position. Gen.| the new building and th old building Johnson, who had & large hand in|is now almost entirely tenanted by th: excuse. The notion that characters and | cvents, manifestly accidental in cause ing pized in formal international society, & is always care'nl to have its address and telephone number where Uncle $am can find them. and effect, may be editorially arranged | to support & preconceived “schema,” imperiously chosen, is unscientific—a e ‘ mere literary excursion up a blind alley | 5 2 § | eath Under the Sidewslk. ;:l':f::m"z T&':W‘;"nr ::L:'::‘_ A tragic story comes from' Newark, | venience, is susceptible to no partisan Where yesterday five men were drowned | use. On the contrsry, faithful registre- @ a vat at & tannery. Some were en-|tion of human phencmena i destruc- gaged in cleaning the tank, containing | tive of vested interest and factional $he waste fram the plant, which was of | prosperity. This must have been the # deadly corrosive nature, comprising | thought which prompted Robert Wal- arsenie trioxide, sulphuric acid, sodium pole’s reference ta the “falsity” of his- ehromate, sodium bicarbonat: and kero- tory. He had in mind the willful dis- sene. The vat was situated under the tortion of circumstance which too often wdewalk, being covered with heavy|passes for the truth. planks. 1t has been the practico to| vemove this accumulation about once but the srmature of the story of the s month, and the work is always done race. and overemphasis upan them en Suncay when there is little traffic| is unwice for a multitude of reasons. 4nd there is least chance of danger| Granted that they may constitute an .M‘Id\bm One ¢f *ae quiline, it is ridiculous 1o imagine that ' frieke® As for dates and names, they are | “No, but he is in line for a Govern- ment job and will be able to pay board.” “A monument,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “Is a reminder of great- ness, 8nd also, too often, of the fickle- ness of fashion in art.” Cross Purposss. ‘The things I meant to do, I find, Are in oblivien left behind. Perplexities still rise anew From things I did not mean to do! And yet inertia holds no charm. Though action often brings alarm, To struggle on, we must contrive To prove that we are still alive. “Pride is dangerous,” said Uncla Eben. “It's when a man gits busy braggin' 'bout what a good card player “Does he know anything about farm- | grafting the bill, has a suite of Gov ernment offices at his disposal and has leased a house here for immediate cccupancy. He is & clcse friend and associute of Mr. Baruch and has been acting as a liaison officer between Baruch and Mr. Roosevelt. George N Peek. lnfalnted to administer the farm relief bill, is another Baruch protege. IR Ong president of Antioch College, 8t Yeuo& Springs, Ohlo. attal natiopal fame in nationa! affairs. He ls Senator Simeon D. Fess of fi_‘mp\m\lun Qld QGuard, and champ! of the Anti- League and_one-time chairman of the Republican National Committee. Another president of Antioch College stepped to the center of the national stag> lest week when the President an- noupced the appaintment of Dr. Arthur E. Morgan as chairman of the Tennes- see River Valley Commission. which is to operate Muscle Shoals and to create an industrial empire in the Tennessee 1:::;: n\{:ne‘v. Momnm is mufi nning. and_ directing &l conservation and flood control works, including the Miami River project near he is dat he's likely to losin’ Dayton, Ohio, and the Pueblo, LR 1| Mr. Tinkham important and rookie members who are serving their | first term. There are scme exceptions, | aud one is Congressman Gearge Holden | | Tinkham of Massachusetts. Mr. Tink- ham still lives in the same twa-raom | suite in a Washington hotel into which he moved when he came to Washington 20 years v:im He still occuples the same_one-! office in the House Of- fice Building, and has declined a prof- fer of @ new suite in the new building. did, however, make one wholly unprecedented change this w He relinquished his place at the of the list on the Re- publican side of the premier House committee—the Appropriations Com- n’mtehe.—m take & place at the bottom | of list_ap the Foreign Affairs Committee, that he mlfi‘u better carry on his crusade agalnst urn-uun:mm and against entangling foreign alllances. (Capyright. 16433.) MONDAY, MAY 22, 1938, The Political Mill By G. Gould L'ncoln. President Roosevelt and Seeretery Hull of the Department of State have laid great stress upon the value to the | world and to the United States which may accrue at the coming London Monetary and Eeopomic Conferen The radio address of the Arsistant Sec- retary of State, Raymond Moley. on urday night, & which 3e the country that it must not expec: the London conference to cure sll th: ills of the world, comes as a surprise. to say the least. had in mind building up a cushion on | which the administration could fall back in the evept that no great ac- complishment; flow frem this London conference. Indeed, unless the Assist- ant_Secretary of State is entirely out of line with Secretary Hull on thisy subject, that seems to be the oply ex- g]hnlllon for this 1adio address. Mr. ull has emphasized from the time he went into office as head of the State Department the need of breaking down international trade barriers and thereby permilting the freer flow of commerce | the as & major thf towara worid recovery. The removal of these trade barriers, he has insisted, is a sine qua non. e Now Mr. Moley comes forward with the assertion that the domestic policy of the United States is of paramount importance to the people of this coun: try. And, further, he advances the sug- | that the failure of interna- | gestion tional conferences arises from two mis- takes, the fist of which is that the general public is led to expect too much from such international action, and the second is that the participants if conference, through enthusiasm, off more than they chew. These warn- ings may be timely, but at a time when the London conference is about to get under a lot of people are going to wonder just why ihe Assistant Secre- of State aired these views. It is and Mr. Hull have thrown themselves with so much enthusiasm. * x K K President Roosevelt apparently is go- ing along with Mr. Hull to the utmost in the matter of bringing world trade back to the fore. Democratic leaders expect to recelve from the President within the week a speclal message ask- ing for powers to enter into reciprocal agreements with other nations looking to lowering of tariffs or removing tariff barriers. Undoubtedly the interjection of this question into Congress is likely to stir up the tariff question. It prob- ably will lead to some political debate. The tariff has been essentially 8 po- litical question, with the Republican party taking one side and the Demo- cratic party the other, despite the fact thgt more and more Democrats have in recent years leaped on the protective tariff wagon. * ok x Mr. Moley in his address Saturday tock a shot at the Republican campaign talk to the effect that the depression in this country is part of & world de- pression. He sald in this connection: “It is overwhelmingly clear that a| good part of the ills of each country is dcmestic. The action of an inter- natipnal conference which attempted to bring about cures for these diffi- culties solely by concerted International measures _would necessarily end in failure. In large part the cures for our difficulties lie within ourselves. Each naticn must set its own house in order and & meeting of representatives | of all of the nations is useful in large | part only to co-ordinate in some measure these national activities. Be- yond this there are relatively few reme- dies which might be called international remedies.” While it is true that Mr. Moley sald that some good may flow from this Lon- don conference, the note of pessimism in his speech seems rather remarkable. | Mr. Moley so far has not been desig- nated as a delegate to the London con- ference, although his chief, S:cretary Hull, is to head the delegation. 1In some quarters it is reported that Mr. Moley may yvet go to the conference. If he does nof, he will be in Washington, and in @ position to interpret, perhaps. the happenings of the conference as it proceeds. * oK ¥ The new administration public works and industries bill, which is soon to be reported by the Ways and Means Com- mittee of the House for action in that body, has been considered more recently from the point of view of the new taxes which the President insists must be levied to finance the public works pro- | gram. As a matter of fact, the tax features of the bill are probably the least impartant, although they will be felt by the peeple once they are im- posed. George H. Hull, jr., of New York, an economist who has given much study to the problem of economic re- covery in this country, appeared Satur- day before the Ways and Means Com- mittee and was permitted to place in the record of the hearings a statement in which he attacked with vigor the proposals coptained in the administra tion bill. My. Hull's whole theory is that the production of goods in this country should be increased, not cur- tailed, and that there should be mass distribution and mass consumption, as well as mass production. He contends that it is stupid to curtail production in the hope of bringing back better times. He has & plan of his own for the dis- tribution of products through & system of “production warrants” distributed to the workers and to holders of stock in corparations. * K % % Discussing the acministration bill in his statement to the committee, Mr. Hull said, in part: “The funds are to be devoted prac- tically in their entirety to ‘public works.' Construction enterprises of that nature are neither self-liquidat- ing mor self-supporting mnor self-per- peluating. This means that the Gov- ernment borrows $3,000,000.000 of the people’s money through the sale of Government bonds and although this money could be put into enterprises of @ nature that would be self-liquidating, self-supporting and self-perpetuating, thus enabling the Government to pay off its bonds and to pay the interest on its bonds out of the proceeds of said construction enterpiises, the adminis- tration bill deliberately cuts itself off from the opportunity of invecting all or any substantial part of this money in such produclive self-supporting en- terprises. “Public_works construction does not raise the living standards of the people. Slum clearance and the rebullding ef dilapidated quarters into modern, sani- tary quarters for the working classes is the best way to start raising the living standards of the people. But if we ceek to accomplish this by allowing the Federal Government to borrow meney from the people end donate it to States and cities to rebuild the slums on a non-self-suppoiting Lasis we thereby embark on a program which ts Soclalism and from which it auld be very difficult ta get back to aur individualized system. “Under the administration bill there is no way in which to repay cither the principal or the interest of these bonds except by more taxation. “After the $3,000,000,000 of Govern- men{ money IMs been expended the em) ent and the industrial activity thus artificially stimulated would come to & sudden and complete end and in- dustry would again go over a vertical precipice.” e The Safest Place. Pram the Boston Evening Transcript. After all other schemes for protectil pedestrians have been trled“.r it may ‘;: suggested that they remain indoors. et el Bahies’ Table Manners. Prom the New York Sun. 1f the baby bs for his food, says a psychologist, will grow up to be can keep his L W ——— Culture, Prom the Omaha Evening World-Heysld. Al Capone is more courtesy, a deferential manner, 8t Atlanta. The pen is mightier than the machine gui. - Mr. Moley may have | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Any reader of this pewspaper is wel- come to make use st &Y of the free informstion service of this depart- {ment. Address your inquiry to The |Evening Star Information eric_J. Haskip, Director, Washingtos, D. C, and you will receive a personal letter in reply. Inclose (hree cenis in |coin or sismps for relwrn postage. not use post cerds. Be ture to state your question clearly, and to write your | name and address piainly. of members of the House of Represent- atives removed from the Howse’—P. S. Do | Of medicine, wrote a good Q. When were the individual desks | BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. | whese advantage,” but is usually eme ployed i modern times as the equiva~ !lent of “what's the good?” | Q Who was the first physician to write o treatise on surgery?—M. 6. A. Garrison’s “History of Medicine® mentions that Fppocrates. the father deal on sur- gery. This is the earliest information evailable s a treatise on surgery, but | surgical operations existed ages befove. | Hippocrates lived 460-370 B.C. \ . Where was Edwin C. Hill edu- | cated? J. C. C. A. He was born in Auremw, Ind., and A. They were removed and benches | reces higher educal installed in the Summer of 1911. ol Tt hs o et i Q. Is the customs house at Yorktown, Va., the original one?—T. R. C. A. It s the original one. It has lately been restored to good condition. Q. Was a poem or prose selection called “The Unknown Soldier” read st dedication service for the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Cemetery?—P. E. D. A. President Harding, st the burial service of the Unknown Soldier, gave | the only sddress. No poem o prose | selection was given at that time. Q. Are divorces common in Scotland? A A. With a population of about 5,000,- 000, there were only 469 divorces in 1930. Q. Can & man who entered the coun- try illegally in 1923, then married an American gir], become naturalized now? 14 L. 3 | legally before July 1, 1924, he is not Nbject (o deportation because of il- lepal entry. However, he cannot be- C Possibly he might | make arrangements to lesve the coun- |ty voluntarily, bave his wife petition !X his entry as the husband of a citi- zen of the United States, end then upon e would be eligible to apply lug' tiNs country made?—N. D. or stone, of cementd Saiine a Uvipg?—L. C. G. Blaine ar w = a A. Of the fam¥)y of seven ehildren, two are living, Blaine, now Mrs. Harrlet 8. Blaine, Beale. . From what play “Who steals my purse s | Bow Mrs. ‘he guotation, | Shakespeare’s play “Othello.”| matician Euclid live?—E. 8. A. Little is known of Euclid his works which have survived. lived about 300 B.C. He taught Alexandria, Egypt, and probably was founder of its mathematical school. Q. What metaliic elements are lighter than aluminum?—J. B. A ium, magnesium, potassium, lithium, calcium and beryllium. Q. What is the gurmn of the Civil | Liberties Union?—H. C. F. A. The Civil Liberties Union, which succeeded the National Civil Liberties | Bureau in 1920, has as its purposes the | protection of freedom of spsech and press and assembly by combating re- pression legislation and acts of officials in violation of civil liberties; to aid in the defense of cases in court and to carry test cases to higher courts where the liberties of eitizens are concerned. Q. What does “eui bono” mean?—C. A. The latin phrase means “for A. Since he entered this country il- | what material were the first A. Tig early ones were made of brick with & smooth costing the children of James Th re Margaret ~n§¥ &mmflch. and Blaine s trash”?— A1t is from act IIL dyene 3, of Q. Where and when did thé\mathe- t £ . | supported the he! | newspaper man practically ever since. | Q Please name the women who have represented the United States in diplo- matic_or consular positions—R. M. D, | A. Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen of Plorida, present Minister to Denmask, is the first woman to be appointed to the head |of a diplomatic mission of the United States. Other women have held diplo~ | matic positions as vice consuls and sec- retaries of legations, These women in- clude the following: Miss Lucille Atcher- son, formerly third secretary, United | States legations at Panama City and Berpe, Bailzerland; Miss Pattie PFleld, | formerly United States vice consul at | Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Miss | Frances Elizabeth Willls, formerly | United States vice consul at Valparaiso, | Chile, and now third secretary of the | legation at Stockholm. Q. Is it true that the literary men in the days of Rome’s glory were not of & robust type?—N. A. A. Stobart says: “Almcst every Ro- man known to us in literature was either an invalid or a valetudinarian.” | | | ol | Q. What is the inscription on the ‘World War Victory Arch at Newport News, Va.?—J. R. P. A. The Vietory Arch in that city was constructed in 1017 by the American Legion and has the inscription, “Greet= ings With Love to Thase Who ;u'iflumwuhnmmm“m p.” Q. What ingredients are put in the famous Potsdam punch?—J. R. R. A. This punch, which was served a¢ the imperial palace in Berlin, was made of boiled red wine to which tea was Mldded.& A fine Rhine wine was then Q. Is the pressure of the atmosphere high or low at the Poles?—J. W. G. A. Where the pressure is high the air flows spirally outward, and where it is low the directions of the air currents | round about are more or less inward. As a rule, the surface gir flows outward \from the' region of each Pole, and | course a corresponding amount of | upper air inward. The conclusion is | reached, therefore, that the surface pressure in the general regisn of each Pole is high—at least higher than that of the air at the same level at some considerable distance round about. This conclusion is supported by the rels- ‘vel{’o {:‘w observations obtained near \ When were parties first called and Tory?—S. B. je names Whig and ‘Tory were udd in 1679 in England during over the bill to exclude James, of York, from the succes- sion to ths crown. The term Whig was used of cattle and horse thieves and was thency transferred to the Scot- tish Presbyterians. During the seven- teenth century, therefore, it denoted Presbyterianismt gqnd rebellion. Tory was an Irish term suggesting a Papist outlaw and was apylied to those who xTy right of James Catholic faith. ‘Whi, A introd the stru I in spite of his Rom: South America’ Better peace machinery may be ex- pected, according to comment in this country, as a result of the recent for- mal declaration of war between Para- guay and Bolivia, incidental to the hos- tilities which have been going on for months between these two nations over | the Chaco district. Failure of the pres- ent agencies to prevent war is recog- | nized. Violation of treaty restrictions |and inability of the hos negotiate their differences is with commentators pointing oul war'y destruction of life and Tty fail to produce results of value to either country. the Kellogg-Briand pact, outlawing war, again has been considered a mere ‘scrap of pfigl’.' ” the Boise (Idaho) Statesman e that | fact that “Bolivia claims all the Chaco | district between the Pilcomayo and | Paraguay Rivers, whereas the Par: | guayan claim cuts Bolivia off from the | Paraguay River.” In its review of the conflict, the San Antonio Express states | “Bolivia and Paraguay—neighbor lands, sharing a common tongue, faith and culture—are struggling to possess the region. Both belligerents have poured | troops into the Chaco Boreal during the | past eleven months and are planning further mobilization. hold practically parallel lines running through a wilderness for 200 miles. Each | belligerent has 50,000 to 60,000 officers and men in the war zone. Argentina— sent & considerable force to the Pilco- mayo's southern bank some time ago. The bearing of this dispute on | eral peace conditions interests the | ark Evening |of its relation to the effectiveness of | peace agemcles: “Apparently, the Kel- | logg-Briand pact doesn't apply because | ew- So it is thought Paraguay's action is not in violation of that treaty. There |is less doubt that the League Covenant | has been vialated, but the United States and other nations that have been most active in trying ta effect a settlement | are either not members of the League lor are out of sorts with it. The im- | partant thing for the world at large is | disclosure of the incompleteness of our | peace machinery. The Kellogg-Briand | other ‘agenci to lean upon until all the nations h been brought into them, giving the peace-loving mations ecourage and strength to deal with such situations as | Manchuria, Leticia and the Chaco. By | co-ordinated effort the Paraguay-Bo- | livia war should be liquidated without | great difficulty. Perfection of the means |to peace remains the great problem.” | 'l'g‘:! this, “the first formal war there |in half & century,” is an indication that “things are no better in South America than they are in Europe,” is the con- | clusion of the Charleston (8. C.) Eve- ning Post. With its proposal that “the jes for preventing war, dis- du'“wwj will be frail reeds ave to unite among themselves to prevent | these senseless wars between their les- !ser neighbars,” and that “Argentina, | Brazil and Chile should keep their con- itinent in order,” the Evening Post recognizes that “unfortunately in these same countries, richly developed as they are and with resources for a mag- nificent civilization, there 15 turmoil and strife for control of the govern- ment and a vast confusion ‘of au- thority.” “This country and 1§ gther non-com- batant nations in the Western hemi- sphere,” says the Akron Beacon Jour- nal, “exhausted their effarts to patch up the troubles between Paraguay and Bo- livia. In spite of good intentions thev had to give it up. As for the war itsell rot much is to be said. For @ gen- tury Balivia l:fld. Paraguay to have learned | w} easual- et k| Of the opinion that “it means that the dispute arises from the | Their soldiers | bordering upon both warring nations— | News, with this statement | Bolivia is not a signatory of that pact. | treaty, the League Covenant and all| strong nations of South America ought | s War Likely To Force New Peace Measure |over to the League at Geneva 1t cause much less anxiety there than abiding in the problem of China Japan.” “There is no such thing as victory in™ the Armageddons of today.” advises the Houston Chronicle, declzring that “Eus rope learned the lesson a decade ago.” The Port Huron Times Herald holds that “the pity of it is that there are foolish people left who are willing to risk the whole stake in war, rather than try to divide it with a neighbe? who certainly has just as good a claim.™ The Hartford Times believes that co-operation with the League of Na- tions the United States should join in an international assurance that the dif- ferences between Paraguay and Bolivia can be adjudicated fairly by the World Court.” The Columbia (S. C.) State offers the judgment: “A declaration of war is now a work of supererogatien, and is merely put out to make the scrap seem regular and quite in order even if it may mean the betrayal of & whale people” and the wreckage of & nation.” “A neglected war” is seen by the San Prancisco Chronicle, with the comment: “There has been an almost unnoticed sanguinary conflict raging there. Air- planes. machine guns and tanks have been operating on the frontier with deadly effect. Thousands have been Yet a very small section of American public opinion that considers itself fairly well informed about the issues involved in conflict in Asia has even the remotest notion of the fine points in the boundary dispute that has been reging in its own geegraphieal &phere.” | killed. ———- { -On an Appointment. | Prom the Baltimore Evening Sun. | Eugene R. Black, whom Mr. Roosevelt | has just made governor of fthe, Federal | Reserve Board, is, we are ed to record, no ordinary jolrpl m has { been a lawyer and bankef hout most of his, mature ywsu% is no evidence in the record :}e has | cherished a yearning to] the ex- Eoeprgt Rveire i 100 2y g3 Considering everything, this is g good | augury. It may mean tha) deral lneur;el lemrd isigomg back, fihally, to | its original principles. P : When the system was”lestablistied, back in 1913, the intent was that 1t should be as far removed from politics as is possible in a d ic land. The first board was as nearly 1, in this respect, as such a body be. But the war came on and the boart insfead of continuing as the business of the country, 8, naturally enough, the servant efi the Government. Its policies we: the pressure of the emergency the good intentions with which it started-.were | wellnigh forgotten. | This was not only natural, it wes-also praiseworthy, but it was upsetting, nevertheless, to see the politieigns, once the war was over, assuming-that they would continue to control its policies. The campaign to put a “dirt er” | on it was characteristic of the new atti tude and a dirt fasmer it got, thou it turned out, of course, that the dfi farmer selected had spent all of his mature years playing politics in the wmtltlndmuzalmlmnnmmm pay rolls by the national needs rather- ordinary banking practice, an v Wasted Talents, From the Indianapolis News. Powerful trucks are to orses in lhzllln!llo‘nnl Guard, m?m long a_ mule river won't whatever for his vocal '? et L haed e — Blissful Oblivion, Prom the Rochester Times-Union. An advantage in joining the forest sy is that to the g on gd