Evening Star Newspaper, May 25, 1933, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY.......May 25, 1833 —e THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 1un_ 8t “and Penpavivania, Ave e york Office: 110, Eas d 8t. 3 ichigan Building. nt St London, Carrier Within the City. 45¢ per month 60c per month 65¢ per month 5c per copy of each month a e oo ail of Lelephone i e be sen fAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland u‘ld VIr‘garIau. . : 1mo., 85c Eny onl: nday o 3$6.00: 1 mo.. 50¢ | $4.00; 1mo.. 40c All Other States and Canada. jly and Sunday...1yr.$12.00: 1 mo.. $1.00 Euy only ... 1yr. $800: 1mo. 75¢ nday only . 1yr, $5.00; 1mo.. 50¢ Member of the Associated Press. e Associated Press is exclusively entitled ‘the use for republication of all news dis- tches credited to i or not otherwise cred- [ted in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of puhhnunne:( epecial dispatches herein are also reserved. e 2 Lok nd t in by mi y niy Indictment of the Income Tax. There has been high indignation as well as astonishment on the part of the average citizen on a salary to learn that while he was sweatipg to pay his | heavy Federal tax on his diminishing income in the years of 1931 and 1932 the partners in the House of Morgan ‘were alle to write off their taxes wnhj their capital losses and paid nothing. Some of the indiznation has apparently been transmitted to Chairman Dough- ton of the House Ways and Means Committee, who will call & meeting of his committee to see whether some- thing should or can be done. The-> was, of course, nothing particu- farly startling in the testimony that showed how the Morgan pariners and Mr. Morgan himself, one of the richest men in the world, escaped payment of mcome taxes for the two years close- ly following the crash of 1929, All that this testimony did was to re- wveal, in a highly dramatic manner, one of the inherent weaknesses in the in- come tax law itself. Congress could have easily obtained from the Bureau of Internal Revenue the facts to show how many other wealthy and noted Americans were able to take ldv.lntlgel of their losses in escaping income taxes | at a time when the contributions from | their wealth were needed more than | ever by the Government. Such facts have been known for & long time, and they have been pointed out before. Former Secretary of the Treasury Mellon used it as an argument against placing so much dependence on a tax that could not be expected to yield in hard times anything like the revenue ylelded in good times. In considering the fact that the Morgan partners were able to escape any payment of income tax in 1931 and 1932, it must be Temembered that they | paid the huge total of something like | $11,000,000 in 1929. For, when the in- | come tax law lumps capital gains along with ordinary income from salaries, rents, etc., the receipts pile up in good years. In bad years, when capital gains become losses, the receipts fall off. If capital gains are taxed as income, there is a certain amount of elemental jus- tice in the claim that deductions in tax should be allowed for losses. But it will be hard indeed to demonstrate the presence of elementary or any other kind of justice in a law which forces the man on a small, fixed salary to pay | a tax while his fellow-citizen of great | ‘wealth is legally permitted to go wholly | Iree. ‘The dramatic revelations concerning some of the inherent injustices of the | income tax law are made at a time when the Congress is toying with the idea, not of baiting millionaires, but of soaking the one and one-half per cent ! tion Mr. Skinner reached the Rogers law retirement age of 64, but President Hoover, by executive order, decreed his retention in the service, President Roosevelt is understood to be casting about for a suitable Am- bassador to Germany, the one major European mission not yet filled. Priends of Mr. Skinner sre urging his unique claims to the post. Probably no Ameri- cari now alive possessés the foreign service dean’s unique knowledge of German economic life. As consul gen- eral at the great port of Hamburg and later at Berlin he acquired expert acquaintance with German business conditions, practices and leaders. He knows the German mentality, or at least what passed for such untll the Hitler era. The Nazi mental processes almost baffie comprehension. The foreign service veteran has a fluent command of the German lan- uage. No less ripe is his familiarity with French and with French and British post-war economics. President Roosevelt would spotlight the merit in office principle as hardly any appointment at his disposal today could do by recognizing Robert P. Skinner's qualifications for the Berlin ambassadorship. American business, | which has been reading and relying on Mr. Skinner's consular reports from Europe for a generation, would particu- larly understand a promotion so richly deserved. Mr. Skinner's friends are, fully justi- fled in seeking it for him and in the interests of the country. On the sunny side of seventy, he has still much to give. | | —.— | "Dancing Children. This is the season for dance recitals. ‘The public schools and numerous pri- vate academies of Terpsichore are tak- ing advantage of the Spring to demon- strate the degree of skill and grace which their pupils have acquired. It seems right and proper that the vernal spirit should have this expression, and thousands of parents and' grandparents are reliving their own departed youth in the spectacle of their children dancing the age-old themes in manners both ancient and new. One of the first and certainly one of the most democratic of the arts, the dance, has its sources in the glad ex- uberance of the rhylhmic capacity of | the human heart. Every soul born into | the world has the impulse to respond | in terms of movement to the sound of measured music. The primitive savage shares the instinct with the heir of all the ages. The senses perceive the puls- ing melody, as it ebbs and flows, rises | and falls, and the very blood in the hearer's veins stirs and throbs in ac- knowledgment of its challenging spell. To dance, then, is as natural as to eat or sleep. A boy or girl destitute of the power to feel the charm would be ab- normally insensitive, But for generations the dance art was neglected. The ban of an unsympa- thetic puritanism, reacting to a com- | mercial degradation of it, drove it from | the temple, banished it from the court, exiled it from polite society. Of course, such & prohibition could not prosper indefinitely. The only question was as to whether dancing should return as a | mere department of theatrical enler- tainment or as a great folk movement, a great esthetic revival among the people. As it happened a number of | more or less accidental developments decided the issue, On the one hand | there was the flight of Anna Paviova from Russia to Paris, London and New | York; on the other there was the re- discovery by Isadora Duncan of the | compelling grandeur of the Greek ideal. Both were pioneers in their separate | felds. Now the fruits of their teaching | are common property; their methoas are employed without prejudice in every school, and both their technique and their ideology have been supple- mented and improved by their disciples. In their own time they were isolated; today the whole world is filled with dancing children who, probably with- | aPPly to battleships, cruisers and air- | craft carriers. Furthermore, it is indi- |, TH other illuminant does so wholly at his own risk, and if he is hit he will have no recourse in damages, or his family in the case of his death. In short, the new statute puts the burden of protec- tion wholly upon the walker after dark. Presumably in the daylight he likewise takes his chances. ‘The “good road” of late development in this country is & decidedly “bad road” for the pedestrian so long as it is not paralleled by a footway. It is time that the road planners and builders adopt the principle that every highway should be laid out with consideration for the mere walker, who, despite the great increase in the use of the motor car, is still & factor in the equation of trans- port and will continue to be for all time to come. ——— e Saving the Fleet. Reconsideration of & plan Whereby the economy program of the Govern- ;ment would establish a “rotating” nys-! tem for the fleet has checked that pro- posal which would have laid up a third of the Navy for six months at a stretch, in a condition which, according to ex- perts, would have rendered them unfit to meet an emergency. The system, as modified, will apply only to destroyers VENING STAR “Don't give up the ship,” “Never say die,” and “If you don’t succeed at first, try, try again” are some of the well known sayings applicable to human de- termination. ‘There is & phase of the matter, how- ever, which seldom discussed, and which has few memorable sayings to apply to it, since it is more private and personal in nature. ‘This is the feeling, which comes at times to all ‘men, that the daily work is getting to be too much to be borne. ‘The inevitableness of it, the simple routine—these are matters to ~which such mighty slogans as those instanced above do not apply, exactly. o ‘There is nothing historic about this feeling, and although the good slogan, “Do not give up the ship,” might be used, it can be utilized only by a stretch of the imagination. Determination of the good sort—yes. it is needed, but there is something more desirable. “Never say die,” indeed. | It is not so much a question of grand | determination as of the small personal stiffening of the backbone to carry on, to see a thing through. * K % % | and submarines, which are already ‘opennnl under the plan, and will not | cated that the economy orders will be | | 50 amended that officers not required | | for immediate service at sea or on shore | much for one. detall, in consequence of the lessening | of the active fleet, may be transferred ' beiter sort of routine and order. to other departments or the special emergency activities of the Government. | In consequence of this change of policy, the special board established to deter- mine how best to reduce the personnel of the Navy has suspended its work and there will be no wholesale reduc- tions for the present, perhaps at any time, This 1s grat'fying to those Wwho regard the Navy as the Natlon's first line of defense, and who have feared that the drive for economy in all| branches of the Government service | wculd seriously cripple it. The arbi- trary establishment of a limit of $270,000,000 upon the naval expend-' itures during the next fiscal year, by | the Bureau of the Budget, threatened the reduclion of the effective fleet and its auxiliaries to a point far below the | line of safety in preparedness. It would have put the fleet cn a reserve status which would leave the men untrained and the ships in no condition to go into battle, Secretary Swanson says, in reference to the change of oraers: “We expect to have the Navy in better ccndition | twelve months from now than it was when we took it over.” That may be accepted as an assurance that there will be no crippling of the naval esiab- lishment in the course of the economic readjustments necessitated by lhe! process of budget balancing. e ‘There has been no haste on the part of the Postmaster General in making new appointments to Government service. The economy program may | eliminate enough positions to make the | task shorter and yet perhaps more | complicated. —————— QGeneva is fortunate in being assured of & number Of visitors from abroad that European cities usually regard as desirable. Switzerland is not only the playground but the diplomatic workshop of the world. —————————— Some of the members of the U. S. Congress have become so enthuslastic in their work that a rise in the ther- mometer does not prevent them from disdaining & Summer vacation with pay. His ability to employ one of the most expensive of psychoanalysts is at least an assurance that Mr. Harriman's ex- periences did not leave him entirely without funds. — e The open door in China .may ,be found by traders with a Japanese pad- | adequate reply. “This is my work,” let a man say to_himself, when he needs to. It is a satisfying thought. Millions, indeed, would be happy to able to say it, in these times. It is only natural that at times the routine should seem to be getting too That, unfortunately, is one of the bad effects of routine and order, even the * ok X ox Sometimes, but not always, it is necessary to go away on a vacation. Upon occasion, & walk around the block will do! This is a simple expedient which many have found to be highly effica- cious for this complaint. Not all persons are situated so that it is available to them, but if it is, few cures are more sure. It does, in little, what the vacation ?l several weeks is supposed to do in the arge. *x ok x | Intellectual work, in particular, is| Htke&y to reach a “throw up the sponge” state. ‘The more Introspective it is, the more sure the llability. | Many men and women, whose dalily | task is mechanical, do not know how fortunate they are n having their tasks provided for them Nothing is more common, however, than for them to complain about this very monotony. * ok % % A type of work which calls for some- | thing of the self is a great deal more | apt to bring about a mental condition | which seems to call for rest. Then it will be found, if one is willing to mvesflflw this matter—and many are not—that the mind may possess its | own cure, | If the brain is capable of stultifying | itself, at times, it also is able to work | its way out of the difficulty without | consulting any one else. That many do not seem to know how to achieve this result is no proof that others cannot. * ok x % The truth is that every one knows sOme one man or woman who is able, | seemingly, to drive right ahead, day after day, month after month, year after year. “How do you do it?” is the question most often asked them, and usually | they do not know how to make any | d Or perhaps they have discovered the futility, in the main, of | argument. p ASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. It is all from the inside out, and how can any human being ee?hln that process? It has been tried for cen- turies, and they are still explaining. Many come to listen. but few really un- derstand. Indeed, the man who knows, it he attempts to eludicate the matter, is bound down by himself. He most commonly falls to realize that others, not having had his experiences, and his recise gifts, are not able to do what gl does. in the way of thinking and subsequent acting. That they do as well as they do, afterward, is a great tribute to them. P ‘Thus humanity staggers on, being led a little way along the path by truly great leaders, then dropping back one by one, not lacking the capacity for it. Yet there is hope for the individual, any individual, if he will make an at- tempt to use his intelligence in such aatters. It is another of the great problems which must be worked out by one's self, for one's self. ‘The way not to do is easier to ex- plain than the way to do it. To walk around lock, or go plowing through the busy shopping centers, is merely one man’s method. It may work with you, and then again it may not. Nothing is of much practical value until tried in the crucible of one’s own personality. To listen to the arguments of others is to defeat everything. * ok % ‘Therefore, one of the best rules to be laid down is simply this, that one must not argue about any feature of this matter. into this very common error is to flee from complaining to the wrong parties. We considered, in this column recently, ;lhe inability of many human beings to listen to well considered complaints. We did not refer at that time to the common habit, on the part of the com- plainee, of putting up his whine to the wrong persons. Realizing, as most do, even if not conscious of it, that there are few per- sons who are fair enough and big enough to listen to the troubles of other human beings, they do what ap- peals to them as the next best thing, they state their cases to any one who will listen to them. In the back of their minds, as it were, is the hope, never admitted, that the person to whom they talk will in some mysterious way carry their message to them. But he never does. * ok K % The futility of such complaining-at- large is easily seen, when presented thus, but commonly in life one does not whatsoever in talking to the wrong party. Talking to any one but the man who can right a wrong, saying that it ex- ists, is to invite criticism and worse, and to get nowhere rapidly. All that jt does is to create futile Therefore, flee it as ola- fashioned persons did the devil. Such conversation but helps to add to the stultification which at times overtakes even the best and happiest workers, * X oK x ‘The work which tends to corrode, | at times, is best kept in separate mental compartments, which may be more or less successfully closed. ‘Those who do not learn this happy trick seldom last long at types of in- tellectual work which vequire con- stant and unremitting application over the years. Perhaps the best answer, to any one who asks, “How do you do it in tones of real admiration, would be to reply, such people. Excerpts From Newsp: E PETIT MARSEILLAIS, Mar- seille—Quite a scandal was stirred up in the Academie des Beaux Arts at Paris yesterday, when the judges met in & col clave to award the grand prizes offered by the Art Institute of Rome for the best paintings displayed in the Spring exhibition. As a result of the decisions of these experts, 10 candidates for the honors joined in a definite protest. Some of them insisted on removing their pictures from the galleries and carrylug them away. Students in the Ecole des Beaux Arts, similarly dissatisfled with the there except when I am working. ™ High Lights on the Wide World apers of Other Lands Zurich 22,917 persons with the proper credentials for motoring, actually 2,700 more than 12 months ago. In addition to these there are 8,479 venturous in- dividuals authorized to operate motor cycles. There were 8,471 in this cate- gory last year. 3 Thus it is seen that the desire to ride is not entirely uncontrolled by consid- erations of comfort and safety, for only Plfht more persons in the course of a whole year have been added to this legion of temerity. As regards the tabulations for auto- mobiles, it is interesting to note that| now nearly 10 per cent of the drivers in | And ‘the only way to prevent falling | the person or persons who could help | stop to consider that there is no use | “I put my work in a water-tight com- | attempting to explajn such matters topartment, as far as I can, and keep 1t ‘The fli’d Tepercussions of the Senate ing Committee’s investiga- tion of the House of Morgan may be ‘widespread. be known as a bene- ficlary of this great private banking house, with the spotlight turned on that concern, is an honor from which some of the politicians, depending upon their stamina, may shrink. The committee has brought out the fact that the Mor- gan firm on at least one occasion, and it is presumed that there have been a number of such occasions, sold stock at the price it was sold Morgan—much below the existing market price—to a selected group of old friends. Most prominently mentioned in the list is| Secretary Woodin of the Treasury De- partment. Of course, the transaction happened long before Mr. Woodin be- came head of the Treasury Department, indeed, back in February, 1929. But the fact that in the past Mr. Woodin was allowed to purchase a block of stock of the Allegheny Corporation, one thousand shares in all, at $20 a share, when the market price was from $35 to $37, is something that may be Lield up to public view whenever the { Secretary of the Treasury has to pass | upon matters affecting the Morgan firm |or any other banking house. * kX% Mr. Woodin is by no means the only man who has been or is in the public eve who benefited by this generous ges- ture of the Morgan firm toward its friends. Senator Willlam Gibbs Me- Adoo of California is another who was permitted to purchase a block of & thousand shares. The stock went as | high as $50 a share, although since the |stock market crash it has tumbled as |low as $1, according to the testimony of George Whitney, a partner of the { Morgan firm. Now Senator McAdoo, at | the time, was not in public office. He | has been looked upon as a progressive in politics and scarcely one to accept favors at the hands of Mr. Morgan. * K K X The former Secretary of the Navy, Charles Francis Adams, who was draft- ed for that office by former President Hoover soon after the private offering firm, was on the list as one of those who were offered the stock at $20 a share and who apparently bougnt it. Owen J. Roberts, now an associate justice of the Supreme Court, and for- mer Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania, not to mention John {J. Raskob, former chairman of the | Democratic National Committee, are | yound in the list of those who had this opportunity presented to them and who seized it. Mr. Raskob was then chair- man of the Democratic National Com- | mittee, but Mr. Roberts was not ap- | pointed to the Supreme Court until | more than a year later. He was a prac- ticing lawyer at the time and there was (no reason why he should not accept this chance to make money if he de- {sired to do so. Mr. Pepper had been out of the Senate for several years, * % % x The Morgan list of beneficlaries— of the Allegheny stock the M legheny by lorgan glass, ANSWERS TO QUESTIC BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. The answers to questions printed here each day are specimens &hd from the mass of inquirles handled by tained in Washington, D. C. uable service is for the free use of the public. Ask any question of fact you may want to know and you will get an immediate reply. Write plainly and inclose three cents in coin or for return postage. post cards. Address The Evening Star In- formation Bureau. PFrederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. How many World War veterans of tPheCAmerlcun force are still living?— | A As of January 1, 1933, there were about 4,250,000. Q. Of what kind of fiber is the ;:;:msmon household broom made?—E. 'A. Tt is made of broom corn, a va- riety of sorghum grown extensively in the Mississippi Valley. Q. Why do members of the House of Lords wear their hats during a session, while members of the House of Com- mons_sit bareheaded?—G. S. R. A. The peculiar custom indicates that the Lords in session are subject to none but the King. If the King were in the House, the Lords would remove their head covering. The Commons are sub- Ject to a higher body than their own. S during the financial period, and to show at the end of that period the nature and value of the and of the liabilities, also the amount of the net worth or capital. Q. Do members of the United States Secret Service wear badges?—H. G. A. Its members do not usually wear badges, but carry them. The Secret Service badge consists of a five-pointed silver star with the letters “U. S." in §hefl center, dmfh:h:d words “Secret Serv- ce” aroun . The badge struck from coin Mfier and has n: scroll work in the border. Q. Is “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentle- |men” an old poem?—M. C. T. | __A. Not very. It was written by Dinah Maria Malloch, who died in 1887. Q. How long have windmills of the present type been in use?—M. A. F. A. It is not known who invented the first windmill. Devices based on the same principles have been in use from very early times. The windmill in its | present form was in use as early as the twelfth century. Q. When the first Senate convened in the United States Congress how was Q. How are gasses and liquids sub- jected to great pressures?—C. J. used. Q. What is the signficance of the tulip as a motif of decoration? early Dutch settlers often used it.—S. P. A. Because the flower blooms early, it long ago became a symbol of the resurrection. . What is the ) — IQD capital of China?- "A. ‘The present capital of the Chinese Republic is the city of Nanking. Q. What is the English term for a bu:‘ vase?—A. G. N. Q. What was the average of the signers of the Dechnflm.%: Inde- pendence?—J. D. M. A. The average was 45. Twenty-five signers of the document were over 45. Q. What Cross?>—L. S. A. It was originally & badge of the four Q. What size is the largest gun used in fortifications in the world>—C. 8. A. The largest of which there is rec- jord is 16-inch bore and approximately 68 feet in length. Q. Please explain the value of book- keeping—E. Z. A. Bookeeping, the art or science of | members of which might have made as | much as $37,000 profit on a deal in & | thousand shares of Allegheny stock and {could have made $15000 if they had not include men prominent in the pub- lic service of that day. To that ex- | tent_the report that J. P. Morgan & Co. have held the whip hand over men in public office has not been borne out by the publication of this list, at least. L The Governor of Nebraska, Charles | Bryan, brother of the late Willlam | Jennings Bryan, has finally appointed Judge Wililam H. Thompson to fill the vacancy in the Senate caused by the death of the late Sen- j ator Howell, Republican. There were rumors that Gov. Bryan wanted to come to the Senate himself and was ready to resign as Governor and have himself appointed to the upper house, as did Senator Erickson of Montang, who was Governor of that State when the late Senator Thomas J. Walsh died, just before he was to leave the Senate and become Attorney General in the Roosevelt cabinet. If Gov. Bryan had any such ideas, ap- parently he discarded them. He has been ill since the elections last Novem- ber and it was doubtful that he would be in shape to come to Washington if he did’seek to have himself ap- pointed. Furthermore, the procedure | by which Senator Erickson reached the Senate has been under attack, and if another Governor had sought to obtain & seat in the Senate by the same method the Senate might have felt constrained to take some notice of it. As 1t is, a subcommittee of the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee has for weeks been supposed to be investi- gating the Erickson matter and has made no report on ‘it up to date, although Senator Hebert of Rhode | Island, a Republican member of the | sold it the day they took it over—did | Roosevelt’s World Message recording business transactions in a | systematic and convenient form, is an | essential element of modern business. | The objects of the record are not A. Some special form of pump is The | To the English, it is a specimen |iD8 iss the origin of the Maltese | Knights of Malta and was formed of | barbed arrowheads with their | | points meeting in the center. it decided which Senators should serve ‘tAwo : yous, four years, and six years?— |A. M. A. On May 15, 1789, the Senate de- |termined by lot the classes into which | the membership should be divided. Q. How many sermons did Bishop Asbury preach?—B. K. A. “The Prophet of the Long Road” preached over 16,500 sermons. Q. Is there danger of explosion when fllne is poured through chamois?— A. When gasoline is thro chamois skin there is Mpoummty t‘h‘l’: static electricity will be’ generated. If the chamois skin is “grounded” by be- in contact with some large metal object there is little danger. It has happened, however, that in pouring gasoline _through a chamois strainer into the tank of an automobile, enough electricity is generated to cause a spark and set fire to the gasoline. Q. How many men are there engaged as base ball scouts for the major league clubs?—V. T. A Sutton in the American | Magazine says that there are 45 men besides himself listed as official scouts for the 16 major league clubs. A. Are all the peasants of Russia en- gaged in collective farming?—H. E. W. A. At the close of 1931 it is said that 15,550,000 peasant families lived on col- lective farms. This was sbout 62.3 per cent of the total number of peasant families. Q. On which side of a reader's chair should a lamp be placed?>—N. T. 8. A. The lamp should cast its light from the left side of the person using it. Appraised a American comment on the message |of President Roosevelt to the nations |of the world demanding a ban on | aggressive weapons of war and on the | crossing of national boundaries by mil- itary forces is largely in praise of its dramatic force and convincing nature. It is widely declared that peace and success of the Disarmament Conference are advanced. Hitler's reply in behalf of Germany is viewed as a surprise, though some Americans feel | European harmony is still in doubt. “The plea of America’s President for sanity and forbearance ‘in interna- tional relations is one of the notable efforts of modern history,” says the Cleveland News, while the Port- land Oregon Journal sees ‘“splendid statesmanship, in which America rises from her place among the nations and appeals to them to end the manufac- ture of the more horrible of the of- fensive weapons and to agree to & ‘solemn and definite pact of non-ag- | gression.’ ” The Oakland Tribune de- clares that “there was a call for a strong assertion from the nation best qualified to make it, and that call has been answered.” That the world “need- ed a forceful leader” is the conclusion of the Port Huron Times Herald, and the Atlanta Journal, commenting on s Nation’s Voice fire of presidential autocracy against the greater autocracy of Hitler, of Stalin and of Mussolini?” Similar tion comes from the Boise Idaho Statesman end the Yakima Republic, while the Hartford Courant declares that “the ap- peal resembles those of his predecessors in being long on exh on but short on " The: Lincoln State Jour- nal thinks “another Monroe doctrine, applying to Europe, brings the American people up with a start,” but véices the thought that “every one hopes he will get results.” ‘The message plainly hits at France as well as Germany and Japan,” in the judgment of the Youngstown Vindicator, while the Cincinnati Times-Star, point- ing to the valid fears of both France and Germany, concludes: ‘“President Roosevelt’s words cannot do harm. In their striking and emphatic quality they may do a great deal of good.” The Rockford Register-Republic raises the question whether France’s security de- sire will be met. “Hitler ‘came in and gave himself up’ to the concert of nations being organ- ized within the Roosevelt and MacDon- ald system,” declares the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and that this concilia- tory attitude of the German leader is favorable to a better situation is the opinion of the Charleston Evening Post, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Phila- of the population which for the calendar | oyt knowing it, are the beneficiaries of | year 1931 paid income taxes with more | their genius. | | both ™ the Roosevelt message and the | Hitler speech, asserts that “these two this canton are women. Their number | has sscended to 2,136. This means, of | subcommiittee, has prepared a state- geiphis Eublic. Ledgers: el Dunhiiry judgments rendered, marched in a body News-Times, the Uniontown Herald, the fitted to it. w5 l__— to the academie in'the afternoon, and .- and heavier forms of the same nx.] Ninety-five per cent of the income tax payers pay taxes on incomes of $10,000 or less, and these incomes will be fur- | ther reduced by the salary cuts which | have gone into effect since the calen- | dar year 1931, { Coupled with the injustices threatened under the proposed plan of boosting | income taxes and imposing double taxation on stock dividends, there is the element of uncertainty as to yield. | The yield from inccme taxes has been overestimated every year since the advent of the depression. In his message | to Congress last week the President, warned that “the revenues so provided (to amortize the cost of the public | works program) must be adequate and certain rather than inadequate and speculative.” Instead of imposing new and more | injurious hardships under an income- | tax boosting program, and making | frantic last-minute efforts to lock the, door after the Morgan partners’ income | taxes have gone, Congress should | examine anew the advantages which | lie in & general sales tax thal exempts | the essential and necessary needs of | life, As an organizer Mr. Morgan is re- garded as especially remarkable for being able to maintain so large & relinue | gigen fimey the wayfarer used lights to! of secretaries and other associates and still conduct a strictly private line of business. SRS No disclosures can prevent a sense of relief in reading the d-.ails of an inquiry in which Gaston Means has nol crashed the center of the stage. Thirty-Six Years of Foreign Service To have represented the United States abroad honorably and uninterruptedly any American might well be proud. It stands to the credit of the dean of the | | known as the “wrong sids" of the high- | American foreign service, Robert Peet Skinner of Ohio, now in Washington on leave from his post as Minister to Latvia and Lithuania. matic posts. The range of his duties has been almost world-wide. consul at Marseille, consul general in Hamburg and Berlin, consul general in Lendon, consul general in Paris and Minister at Athens and Riga—the latter hispresentassighment. Twenty-fiveyears #go he negotiated with Emperor Menelik The miracle in_the circumstances is | the rapid pace of progress which danc- ing has experienced since the close of the World War—that tragic lesson which humanity had to learn that it might more deeply appreciate the priv- ilege and the joy of living. In Wash- ington in 1913 there were not ten teachers worthy of the name; at pres-| ent there must be at least a hundred. Attendance at the recitals they are sponsoring suggests that they are doing excellent work. Their pupils are for- tunate. —ee—e—————— The law of supply and demand again comes under Congressional considera- tion with too much banking and not enough currency. ————— Pedestrians on the Highways. Progress sometimes works backward. | This is illustrated by the action of the | Delaware Legislature in the passage of a bill, which the Governor has signed. forbidding all pedestrians on “any im- proved hard-surfaced highway used for motor traffic outside of corporate limits without carrying a lighted lantern, { flashlight or other similar reflector.” | This 1s not designed to effect a com- | pulsory lighting of the way for the walkers along the roads, but to protect them from the vehicular traffic. In eep him in the path. Under the new | Delaware law he must carry a lantern for some other illuminant to afford a | warning to drivers. ‘[ The use of the highways by pedes- | trians is fraught with peril, especially |at night. In New York State a law has just been passed requiring those | walking on the roads at night to “face the traffic,” which means to use the left side of the road. lanes of frequent travel advising pedes- triars thus to keep on what used to be In Pennsylvania. | Maryland, Virginia and some other for thirty-six vears is & record of which | States signs are displayed along the enne. " SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON From year to year we tried to learn Our reading and our writing. Arlthmetic we now discern As something more exciting. At present we must think about ‘The lender and the pledger And undertake to figure out Some big financial ledger. We plodded through the spelling book | And tried to b2 grammatic, To pictures we a liking took Or measures operatic. We find that we again are due For a pursuit of knowledge And are compelled to take anew A course in Business College. Taxes and Oratory. “What kind of-a tax do you prefer? “So far as political speaking is con- cerned,” answered Senator Sorghum, “I haven't much preference. One kind is| about as easy to find fault with as an- | cther.” Jud Tunkins s&ys one of the penalties | of fame 1s that & mean has to look pleas- eut and be photographed whether he Likes it or not. Investigation. ‘We censure or we lift our loud applause And follow every word with interest warm, And feel at home on this big earth because Old Human Nature's running true to | form. New Experience. “Where are you going for the Summer | this year?" “I'm looking forward to & new and interesting experience,” said Miss Cay- “The family is going to remain al home.” “War decides no point of superiority,” way. | With the development of the high- Originally ap- Wways as motor courses there ha been | pointed to the consular branch in 1897 practically no care for the walkers, | by President McKinley, Mr. Skinner has |and in only the rarest instances have | vy Radio! My Radio! since served successively under eight footways been provided, separated from Presidents in both consular and diplo- the vehicular lanes. Strange as it may | Straight way a-purchasing I go ! seem to many drivers of cars, there is He was |still a considerable use of the legs for | ony yet I fear, my Radio dear, | transport, and the pedestrian undoubt- | edly has certain rights of which the law has been negligent, especially in the | matter of giving him a path of his own, i which he is secure. It is to be assumed that under the the first Abyssinian-American treaty of | Delaware law a person walking along eammface. During the late adnfiistra- the road at night without s lantern or tions instead of one.” id Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, ve that of who possesses the best equipment for crueity and destruction.” A Large Order. You are melodious or wise. Of all the things you advertise. You have me looking like a dunce When I attempt with trusting cheer To take all your advice at once! “After I listens to both sides of & | | Ttaly Resumes Buying vehemently voiced their f.ymp‘lhl'lm; objections. Gaining access to the | “salle des seances” (auditorium), where | the officials were having their weekly meeting, the pupils indulged in further | hostile demonsirations —against _the | academie and all its works. Thre members of the committee MM. Henri Devambez, Albert Laurence and L cien Simon, strove to calm the inte lopers. But this was not possible. Shouts of “A bas 1' Academle. “Esc- rocs!” and “Crouteurs!” (“Down wi.t.h the Academy!—Dupers and daubers!”), rent the air until, finally, police sum- moned by telephone, re-established or- | der. For some lime subsequent the| manifestations continued outside the building. The iommutee remained firm in its selections, nevertheless, and regardless | of the ntment of the disappointed | artists. and their student friends, the original awards will be properly rati- EEEE Of Coul From Wales. Manchest: Guardian.—The Italian Stute Railways are Lo resume immediate | deliveries of coal from South Wales. Contracts aggregating 1,000,000 tons will | e placed within the next 12 months. Under ‘The Hague agreement the Ital- | ian government undertook to purchase 3,000,000 tons of British coal over three years, but after taking 2,000,000 tons purchases were suspended in May last, ou the ground that the Hoover mora- | torium relieved Italy of her obligation | | under The; Hague arrangement. | Seversl thousand miners in Wales are promised regular employment for & year as & result of the shipments which will now be made to the railways. Italy is the second best market for Welsh coal. She bought 3,600,000 tons in 1930, 3,000,000 tons in 1931 and 2,300,000 tons last year. * * *x Liniment Protects Horses in Panama. Diario de Panama, Panama.—To ob- viate the frightful torments to which | horses are subjected from flies during the especially sultry weather we are now | experiencing, we recommend the follow- | ing liniment, easily made by any novice | from the ingredients cited: Mix of pow- dered aloes and quinine each, 25 grams: of steeped oxgall and rue, 10 grams eac! of frankincense, 5 grams; of oil of ci ron and vinegar, 100 grams each. When this concoction is thoroughly stirred to- gether, smear the animal with same from nose to tail, not too copiously, but in such manner that every part of his| hide is ancinted. The persecutions, not | orly of files, but of all other insects, cease immediately, and the horse travels | freely and happily. The mixture has an | odor” somewhat acrid, but to this the driver soon becomes accustomed. We recommend the specific to all whose beasts are restive and unmanage- able. L O O | Autos Still Increase In Switzerland. Vaterland, Lucerne—In spite of the unparalleled economic depression statistics show that more motor car question,” said Uncle Eben, “‘all dat gen- erally happens is dat I has two ques- %) drivers have been licensed in the Kan- ton Zurich for the current year than for any similar period in the history ef that region. There are now in Kanton course, 2,136 women are licensed to be actually at the wheel. We understand, however, that 90 per cent of the driving is done by them. anyway, when they are in the car, in the capacity of unofficial . both by well-timed warning and or by these assistances rendered st junctures not o timely. Lady motor cyclists number only 18, but the deli cute touch upon the throttle of one of these machines femininely propelled does nol lessen to any great degree’ the hock of impact. While the index of accidents in- creased somewhat last year, that is to say, to 1,052 from 1024 in the year preceding, the number of those fatally injured decreased by an inverted ratio of 58 compared with 83 in the previous twelvemonth. Those deprived of the right to drive for longer or shorter periods during the past year, inciuding licenses permanently revoked, reached the total of 272: of these 17 permits were canceled on account of some physical defect or disability, and the remainder for driving while intoxicated. While such measures seem to many people severe, no censure should attach lo the traffic officials, who resort t these extremes only in the supreme in terests of public the good of the unfit motorists them- selves. e ; o ’ Waves From Milky Way. From the Buffalo Evening News. Scientists engaged In radio research are hearing far and distant cries from space. Dr. Karl G. Jansky of the Bell ‘Telephone laboratories at Holmdel, N. J., announces that he has caught a new type of short wave which, he is Inclined to think, emanated from the Hercules cluster of the Milky Way, far beyond our solar system. Before the Institute of Radio Engi- neers Dr. Jansky demonstrated that the newly caught waves differ from any form of pickup hitherto known. Un- like the cosmic waves, which come from all directions and do not vary with season or time of day, these from the heavenly galaxies appear to come, he says, from one definite source and vary greatly from time to time. They are said to be of so low a frequency that they can be recorded only by the most delicate instruments. ‘The world would like to know more about these strange radio waves, which appear to come from a galaxy so far distant that its light requires 30,000 ars to reach the earth. Perhaps the Milky Way has some worthwhile pro- grams to offer The people there may chortle over newer jokes than Joe Miller's book provides. They may have survived crooners and gone on to some- | They may know how to| thing bctter. suppress such as Al Capone without re- sorting to an income tax law. They may never have had the infliction of statesmen and war debts. They may even know how to avoid depressions. More wer to the savants who seek to establish contact with them. T Hitler’s Myopia. From the New York Sun. After Hitler's identification of Uncle Sam as guarantor of European peace it is plain that his frown comes from nearsightedness ra than & bad safety, as well as for | | ment for the committee showing that | no such course has ever before been | | taken by a Governor of a State seek- ing to become a member of the Senate. Mr. Hebert is understood to feel strong- |1y about the matter, and he plans to | make a statement in regard to it if the ubcommittee fails to bring in a re- port. e Judge Thompson has long been a | close friend of Gov. Bryan. He is 79 years old, and presumably is not likely to undertake to become a candidate for nomination and election to the Senate | when his appointive term expires, a year ! from next Fall. In that event the field |will be open to Gov. Bryan to make the race, if he has recovered his health and so desires. Many of the friends of former Senator Gilbert N. Hitchcock | of Nebraska had hoped that Gov. Bryan | | might see fit to name Mr. Hitchcock to | the Senate vacancy. But Mr. Hitch. | cock has headed one Democratic group | in the State and Mr. Bryan another for a number of years, and Mr. Hitch- cock himself had no illusions as to what was going to happen when the Gover- | nor got round to making the appoint- | ment. | | * ok ok % ‘The newly appointed Senator from | Nebraska is given a clean bill of health by Senator George W. Norris, who said: “Judge Thompson is & very high-class citizen.” Senator Norris and the late Senator Howell were friendly, although Senator Howell, & Republican, stood by {his party in the national elections of | 192¢ 1928 and 1932, while Senator Norris openly espoused the cause of Al Smith in 1928 and President Roosevelt | in 1932, and in 1924, while he did not come out openly for the late Senator La Follette, then a candidate on the Progressive ticket, was supposed to sym- pathize with him. The appointment of Judge Thompson fills the roll of the Senate, giving the Democrats a total of 60 members of the Senate, to 35 Republicans and one Farmer-Labor. Such a majority in the Upper House has not been attained by any political | party for years. ———— Rendezvous. Prom the Brooklyn Eagle. | “I'm thinking of opening a movie | | theater.” “Well, there’s good money in | that business.” “It isn’t the money so much; but I'd like to see my wife and kids once in a while.” ———— st ———— Wrong Way About. From the Chicago Daily News. Gentlemen who kill ladies with whom they think they are in love and who| then kill themselves make a tactical | error by not reversing the process. o r—eee A Cranium Corner. From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Relaxation of the Sherman law has already been effected in the case of the brain trust. ———— Simplified. From the Indianapolis News. Hair colored to match a gown is ony ave one.good dress matters ave ve one mal are simplified greatly. utterances are the most important the world has listened to in many a year.” The epochal nature of this develop- ment is recognized by the Charlotte Observer, the Des Motnes Tribune, the Oklahoma City Times and the Topeka Daily Capital. The sensational or amazing nature of the Roosevelt mes- sage to the nations is attested by the Scranton Times, the Abilene Reporter, the Boston Transcript, the New Castle News and the Meridian (Miss.) Star. “Lofty idealism” is lauded by the Nash- ville Banner, the Connellsville Daily Courier, the Jersey City Journal and the Buffalo Evening News, while the Pasadena Star-News, finding in it “logical development of the foreign policy enunciated by a succession of American Presidents,” avers that “the doctrine advocated by President Roose- velt is as American as the Monroe doctrine.” Its appeal to the common people is pointed out by the Altoona Mirror, the Texarkana Gazette, the| Omaha World-Herald, the Providence | Journal, the Boston Herald, the Lowell | Evening Leader and the Goshen News- ‘Times . The New York Times states that Mr. Roosevelt “fired a shot which is heard around the world,” and the New York Evening Post that he “performed momentous . ket The Memphis | Commercial Appeal is convinced that | “no single historical event since the | armistice has so emboldened the hopes | of a discouraged world.” The Spring- field (Mass.) Republican observes “an advance over policles pursued since | President Wilson's administration, es- | pecially in the bold assumption of | world leadership in a highly dramatic crisis involving peace or war.” Its advantage in being directed to “a | debt-ridden world” is seen by the Akron | Beacon Journal, and genersl approval is given by the Dayton Daily News, the Rock Island Argus, the Houston Chron- icle and the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader. The Mobile Register states that “it is beund to receive world approval,” for it is “not wholesome, not just, not con- ducive to either progress or human hap- piness for governments to fear unwar- ranted aggressions.” The Richmond | Times-Dispatch asks: “Will the Old World be wise enough to see that in the American proposal alone lies happi- ness?” “The plea i8 sound, logical and ought o be convincing,” in the opinion of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin—"a ring- ing note opportunely sent around the world,” but “it adds little to the decla- ration of the Kellogg pact and it lacks the definite declaration of United States interest that was in the Knox formula | of years ago. The Indianapolis Star heils “horse sense” and the Boston Globe “a new, lucid, unambiguous for- eign policy.” The Wall Street Journal sees “a common struggle which no American, no Gefman, no Frenchman or Briton can make anything else.” The Rutland Herald avers that “the nations of the earth are fully warned as to our ideals and policies.” The Asbury Park Evening Press hails the act of “con- Louisville Courier-Journal, the Balti- more Sun, the Birmingham Age-Herald, the Roanoke Times, the Rochester Times-Union, the Haverhill = Gazette, the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the Des Moines Tribune. The Columbia State concludes: “A pacific Germany would create a millennium of tranquil- | lity, a new golden age.” ‘The New York Herald Tribune ob- serves “no peace in Europe, even now,” a view which is held also by the Phila- delphia Record, and doubt as to the ef- fectiveness of the Hitler words is ex- pressed by the Milwaukee Sentinel and the New York Sun, while it is believed | that neighbor nations in Europe will be skeptical, as observed by the Indianap- clis News, the Chicago Daily News and the Ashland Independent., and the Hartford Times points to the emphasis placed upon the arms contention of Germany. The Newark Evening News emphasizes a change of “German tac- tics to gain equality.” The Salt Lake Deseret News declares it is “well for Hitler to understand the state of mind of America.” A Righteous Judge. From the Nashville Banner, A Federal judge set an admirable ex- ample the other day in sentencing to the penitentiary four election inspectors in New York, representing both parties, who had conspired to make false re- turn of the polls of last November. ‘The proof showed that they had agreed to return figures different from those registered on the machine, b2- lieving that there was practically no chance that the .returns wou'd be checked back. In this expectation, however, thev were grievously disap- pointed, for the fraud was discovered, an indictment followed, and strorg prosecution instituted. A verdict of guilty was rendered and a sentence of two years in jail, the severest, it is said, for such an offense in New York, was fixed by the judge. Of course, election frauds have be- come so common in the United State: in all parts of it, and in both partie: that the culprits enjoy practical im- munity. Corruption of the ballot box and the manipulation of the returns are a cancerous sore upon the body politic of the nation. It pollutes the fountains of government, debases * and often nullifies public opinion. But incidents such as that witnessed in New York will be rare indeed until the pub- lic conscience is vitalized and public opinion becomes assertive. In the last analysis, it is the people themselves who are most at fault. They commit and condone the abuses tributing immeasurably to world peace’ gt the Escanaba Daily Press o end.’ is “a radical ally tion taken,’ view aska: