Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1933, Page 8

; " THE EYENING THE EVENING STAR |sums. s portion of which has aiways | e had « beiliant mind and great per- With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D, C. FRIDAY.. .May 26, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES... .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company gone to the rank and file of their armies. On seversl occasions during one of these campaigns large bodies of troops have shifted positions, to fight against their former allies and com- rades. sjons at Peiping have “struck,” accord- ‘The bonus for which the two divi- | sonal charm; he was admired and loved. James E. De Kay, the naturalist, and Fits-Greene Halleck, a brother bard, were among his intimates. - For him the latter wrote the oft-quoted epitaph: Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my betler days; None knew thee but to love thee come and gone, HINGTON, ing to the dispatch from Tientsin, is | incident to a festival which is as highly honored as any date in the Americsn calendar. The practice of making cash gifts on that occasion goes back to the earliest times. The dragon festival is of peculiar significance in Cathay, for the dragen is a symbol greatly revered and respected and the day dedicated to it is one of the most significant dates in the entire Chinese schedule. v A Matter of Ethics. Mr. Whitney had explained to the committee further details of the trans- 1100 | Betion In Alleghany Corporation stock, s | in which certain favored individuals Soc | had been permitted to buy shares at $20 —their cost to J. P. Morgan & Co.— | when these shares were being quoted on the open market at $36 or more. The price on the market was determined, not by (he Morgans, but by speculation. “And you hoped they would recipro- cate’” Senator Couzens asked, “No, sir,” Mr. Whitney replied “What? You didn't hope Senator Couzens. Business Office: 11th_St. and Pennsylvania Ave New Yoik Of ice: 110 East 5 Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Buildine. European Office: M Regent. 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The Senate late | asked | Nor named thee but to praise. Worthy verse was rare in Drake's time. Indeed, serious attention to metrical composition commonly was | considered a waste of energy. Literary | interest was concentrated upon prose. Critics believed that the American scene was unsuited to poetical interpre- tation. It was in answer to that chal- lenge that the pcet wrote “The Culprit Fay —the occupation of three days in| might try making an_inspection trip | arcund his own grounds. Novelty will not be lacking. | | close to a thing to see it. Much can be done by putting one's | self_into the visitors shoes and calmly | looking at the home grounds from his | viewpoint. v | Then the unnoticed things will stand | out, whether for good or ill. | R Often this wholesome viewpoint is partly secured by escorting some one | master of the sclence of metric writing. | fold. a8 “The Croaker Papers.” August, 1816. But he did not presume |y, u0n the garden, when every blem- to think of himself as a competent|jsh and faull is magnified a hundred | i : | "One is so anxious for everything to | He published only u few satirical and| 3% %504 impression, and o down- humorcus poems during his lifellme. | o5 when he realizes that something | They were collected from the files of | or other does not. the New York Evening Post and printed | Yet this is but part of the personal | inspection tour. A When dying.| "5j0 good features of any planting | he enjoined his wife to destroy his| may'be overlooked In one's own “0"_] manuscripts as “of no consequence.” ' mess to them. It is impossible to see But fifteen years later they appeared the woods on account of the trees. in book form and received popular ac- | e e ! claim. His merican Flag” still is| The wholesome truth is brought home : : | to one, as the result of such & “garden given cocasionally at patriotic gather-| your inat quantit,, after all, has little | ings. How richly endowed with imagi- | to do with real sardening satisfaction. | nation the author was is manifested in| “I Want (o come around and see that | famous garden,” some one says. the symbolism of the lines “The gardener instinctively knows that | yesterday, by substituting its cwn Glass bill for the Steagall bill of the House, “No, sir.” | cleared the way for & conference be-| “I never heard of anything quite so tween the representatives of the two altruistic,” was the Senator's comment, | houses on this impertant legislation and | Mr. Whitney argued that it was not | & final disposition of it at the present ' altruism, and of course it was not.i session. No mcre important legislation | What was it, then? It may have been | —and perhaps none so important—has good business for the Hous: of Mdrgan | been presented at the special session, ' to distribute among influential men in although up to the present time the ad- | the business world an estimated $8,000,- ministration has not claimed the bank 000 in profits which the company yeform bill as part of its program. could as well have retained for its own The need for banking reform in this | use, But if there was no reciprocation ‘country has been evident for years. It was urged strongly upon the last Con- gress by Herbert Hoover, then Presi- dent. The Glass bank bill and the Steagall bill, which was patterned after the Glass measure, undertake to compel banks of deposit to do a strict banking business, the business of a commercial bank. It separates the so-called Invest- ment business, which in many in- stances might well be called speculative business, frem the ccmmercial bank business. Not only does the bill reach expected from these men, except in the poesibly intangible form of good will, why was it good business? These are questions that are difficult to answer. At this time, especially, when public sensibilities have become extraordinarily tender, the answers to such questions will be all too cynical. While those who accepted the Morgan favors were pursuing their private af- fairs before or after entering public office. and whiie it requires a low esti- mate, indeed, of the character of some the national and State banks in this | Of our outstanding public cfficiale to matter, but also the private banks.|associate anything sordid with an op- Hereafter, for the sake of the protec- | bortunity to be on the “inside,” it re- tion of the depositors in banks, the so- | mains that the practice creates a bad called investment banking business, | impression and could therefore be which is not & banking business at all | called bad. in the strict sense of the term, is to be After all, the acceptance of such op- stripped frem banks of deposit. | portunities as those offered by the Into the bank reform bills have been | House of Morgan to its friends de- nserted provisions for insuring bank Pends upen individual ethical gonsider- deposits. Since the bank crash of last &tlons that are sometimes hard to February and March, when failure after | define. If one, thrcugh friendship with fatlure had brought the people to & & Mcrgan partner, is offered the chance fear of all money institutions and made | to get in on the ground floor and buy it necessary for the President to close stock at its purchase price, using one's all the banks temporarily, there has| OWn judgment theregfter as to whether been wide demand for a system of bank | the stock will be held as an investment it guarantee. It has been insisted, | O sold at & profit made possible by the nd with justice, that unless the con- | SPeculative fever of the public, or, ss in fidence of the people was fully restored | the case of Senator McAdco, held for in their banks Susiness could not hope | SUch length of time that it is retained o revive, Nothing, it has been con- | &t 8 1088, it is a difficult thing to judge tended, could so quickly restore confi- | 35 10 the right or wrong of the circum- dence as an insurance of deposits. | stances. What giues to the practice its In| bad odor are the obvious implications Con, demand for such legisla- preshyttie deman ¥ that sre drawn as to why it exists. The B e bxv;::: s b::p'zl’t’f result is 0 put & strain on the faith of or | & cynically-minded public in the hon- Buarantee for years have swung over toit. In the Senate the tide was strong | % ‘:“’ "l‘;l“'“";" of ’“‘:‘fl:‘k‘“ "'I“’ enough to compel the adoption of the | “:e': :,::hm: "lm‘_"::;::“ ookt Vandenberg amendment, which would | 43 provide for a temporary Federal bank | deposit guarantee up to $2,500 for the | period of a year, when the permanent nsurance feature of the bill is to be- come effective. The insurance of bank deposits is & Wide departure from the practice of the | past. It has been tried in & number of | his first public actions was to attend a | States and abandoned. It has never ' bull fight. He not only attended, but been tried before on a national scale in | he enjoyed it and gave voice to his this country. Successful bankers have approbation later in an interview which | opposed it on the ground that it would, has been cabled home, doubticss after | @s they say, put a premium on bad Publication in the press of the Spanish | banking. There is no good reason, how- | cepital. He says: ever, why it should not work to improve! I was tremendously impressed with banking, particularly es all the banks | !he spectacle. It evoked memories of ere subject to contribution for the | tocoicles in anclent Rome. I “have never seen such color and tensity in a insurance fund, and it will be to their | crowd. The action of the matadors was | interest to keep all losses at the mini- & most thrilling combination of beauty, | mum. physical rhythm. with the danger of | The bank reform bill has many pro- death. The placing of bancerillos by | special Porluguese horsemen was a | Visions to commend itself to the Ameri- | beautiful exhibition. | can people. And bank reform legisla- tion has been an imperative need. | | Ambassador Bowers' Diplomacy. Ambassador Claude Bowers, newly arrived in Madrid as the American Ambassador to Spain, has displayed his | native diplomatic ability by dotng “in | Rome what the Romans do.” One of of course, endear him | greatly to the Spanish public, whatever | \ \ | may be the effect upon the American | This will, | ——— While Mr. Pecora is an alert per-|miq which in former, Mr. Morgan has the impertur- | bable calm of the gentleman who is sit- | general is averse to ma‘ national Iberian sport. Just so wouldl When Freedom from her mountain | g, height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night It is only natural to assume that And set the stars of glory there. where there is much smoke there is | He was deriled opportunity to perfect | tome fire, or even much fire; that where his art, and so he has his place in the history of letters more tryly because of | his promise than because of his achieve- ment. An American Keats, perhaps, | he launched out o0 scon into the in- | tryth, | i | amazing h finife, and all that remains are scat- effort, and money, tered lines, & legend and five hundred | yarden, without dollars’ worth of Americana. splash, as it were. e One plunges in tulips, and surely there is a fine display for several weeks, [ but all the blooms have faded when callers drop in. | This seldom fails. | Let a gardener have some choice | | blooms, seldom is he able to show_them at their best. Usually the WAsilors | | select the wrong time. X oK ok % “I am SOITY you were not here last week,” begins the owner. “Then we | had—" ‘Who 1s there who has not heard that sad refrain? It is the gardener's alibi. His finest things always seem to have | been in the past, and whether that | lamcntable state of affairs is due to him® or to the perversity of visitors | will always remain a question. £k x Every yard has something worth see- | up of it, because that is what most per- sons do, in gardens and elsew here. place. { ) Ak Nothing could be farther from the truth, however. may be put into a | making any great | A number of personages now promi- nent in attention need a great deal of secretarial service in sorting “fan mail” whose contents may not be invariably gratifying. oo It has become & custom of the coun- try to assume that & possible resigna- tion rumor goes with every cabinet ap- pointment. — B ) The multimilliongire is often thrifty | and not too proud to enjoy a good bar= gain as much as anybody. - SHOOTING STARS. Y PHILANDER JOHNSON. ng. SY:ERICANDER. 3 This is the wholesome fact to keep in mind, when, in a low gardening | moment, one feels that possible visitors, with too great expectations, would de- mand too much. One should keep close to the ancient truth, that intention is everything. If one had attempted a “show place,” {in any sense of the word, the visitor might well be disappointed. | The intention only to enjoy garden- | ing for the wholesome satisfaction there is in it was primary, however. The Silly Season. The “silly season” now draws near— At Jeast it should be so. A time when cloudless skies appear Relentlessly aglow, And we will strive for empty glee ‘With unrestrained endeavor. A season we shall hope to see That's sillier than ever. But let's beware the gleeful mood That in its reckless folly Pretends & method rash and rude 1Is something rather jolly. Fate's carelcss way may vex us some And by its fleeting magic A “sllly season” may become A period somewhat tragic. The June 15 deadline for war debt | payments is now only three weeks off, | with & pregnant silence on this sub- | | Ject on both sides of the Atlautic. Mr. A Constant Inspiration. | Roosevelt has let it be khown that he | “Do you regard the income levy as has virtually abandoned any idea of the most practical form of taxation?” |steking from Congress presidential au- s : thority to tevise the debt contracts or T don't know whether it's the most (, wyjve the installment payment now | practical, said Scnator Sorghum. “But | falling due. More than that, the White | for the purposes of the orator and House intimates that no propositior or | ® request has yet been received from any :::f:::“ it is certainly the most in-| ;"o ndividual foreign debtors with | respect to the June 15 payments. Swse France, having defaulted on the Decem- Jud Tunkins says money gets o much | ber payment, is not doing any worrying attention that a man who has a lot of | about the June installment. She has | already crossed the Rubicon. The next | it may resemble a manager trying to e et as Tranct &consbrned; s be as prominent as the real stars of | yp to the U. S. A. It is Great Britain | the show. | that is “on the spot” now. So far as " S Washington opinion is concerned, the | Bedtime Stories. surprise will come not if England fle;' The little bedtime story brought faults on the June 15 payment, but i By isanio s ma bl gt lehaine she makes the payment. Debt revision | Instead the narrative is fraught negotiations are likely to be Mr. Roose- With a recurrent sense of fear. jveu's preoccupation in the late Sum- | mer and Fall after the London Economic | And children at the close of day Who laughed so merrily of yore | Conferciice, and while Congress is en- joying Its well-earned vacation. Pull covers 'round their heads and say, | “Oh, please don't tell me any more!” | * ok kK The Roosevelt administration has taken on another professor, this time as | an_economic and financial adviser. He Is O. M. W. Sprugue, professor of bank- | e . ing and finance at Harvard. ver | “What has become of Mesa BII?” In- | \itpyel} Wentworth Sprague, no less, & quired the traveling salesman. | native of Massachusetts, an A, B. and | “He's tourin’ the country,” answered | M. A. and a Ph. D., all earned at Har- Caths Job. vard. In 1930 the Bank of England en- | “Whi 0 S | gaged him as economic adviser. The | S e | Bank of England is & coldly realistic in- | “Can't say. But Bill has one o' them | stitution and is not given to hiring its | pernicious natures that jest naturally | 1gh-priced help because of the curl| | of their halr or thelr smile or the way | Touring. | being.” WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. | line the White House swimming tank is | being laid this week. This means that | the tank is close to completion and that BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘Therefore from the home nrfl:ner';" tandpoint there can be no fallure in it. If a visitor does mot find what he, | expected, then the fault les in his ex- | pectations. These oriental poppies, | as they were last year) know no shame. - The sense of lack is never indigi- nous, it is brcught in from the outside, | in most cases. | Shame is the mud which is tracked in_on visitors' shoes. It is a mental debris which one must quickly get rid of, once his back is| u Every garden has something very well worth seeing. We have never seen | one yet, no matter how neglected, or | how well trimmed, which did not Pplease. | Sometimes bare yards with nothing | but grass nevertheless display a great love of neatness. The flower of such a garden is neat- ness. * ok ox ‘There may be a place much over- grown, where weeds have come in to add thelr share to the picturesque whole, Even here there need be no sense, of lack, or stigma of fault, because such gardening has its place, too. | Often a true picture is secured by lack of care, say what the neat gar-| dener may, to the contrary. We have seen rock gardens flourish- | touch of a human hand, in some cases beltering the most fussy care. % ®ix | 1t is not the display that might ap- | peal to & stranger. but the personal ex- garden. H This wholesome gardener's creed must be kept in mind. not as an ex- cuse, but solely because it is so easily admiration seen and heard on all sides. No tryer words were ever written than that “beauty is its own excuse for In them are comprised all that | one need know to find happiness in| gardening. If one’s opinions are forever at the mercy of outsiders, of visitors who may or may not have proper grounds fo; their likes and dislikes, or who, even if they do, may be mistaken in thinking all_human beings alike, then there is little chance for but one type of gar- dening This type is well known, the “show- off” place, where an obvious attempt has been made to excite the admiration of others. x x % Such a garden has its place, too. Its good features, however, are not to be charged up to the gardener who has made no such attempt. To him has been left the satisfac- tion of gardening as he pleases. What he has tried to do is every- | thing with him; what somebody else would or would not do is little, pro- vided he is sincere in his own doing. The more one gardens, the less use he ccmes to have for all set rules, either of so-called landscape architects or_others. These are useful, they have their place, gardens made according to_their rules turn out fairly well, but better than them all is the place gardened for the love of it. Its lovable mistakes mean some- thing. It is not frozen to command. vindication. The impeachment pro- ceedings from first to last are esti- mated to have ccst the Government in the neighborhood of a hundred thou- sand dollars. * oK ok % Gold clauses in bond indentures have been voided by the President’s procia- mation_ordering_the withdrawal from circulation of all gold coin and gold certificates. Such, at least, was the de- | cision of New York Supreme Court | Justice Phoenix Ingraham this week. | It is the first judicial decision on & | vital question which will ultimately | have to be adjudicated by the United | States Supreme Court. The New York judge held that there is at the present time only one lawful medium of ex- change ghd that obligations can be col- lected only in “current funds.” decision was made on & request for in- structicns submitted by the Irving Trust Co. The legal fraternity is in | wide disagreement 8s to the enforci- bility of the gold clause in & promise to pay. oK K X ‘The ultramarine blue tile which is to Mr. Roosevelt, within another 10 days or so, will be able to take the first | plunge since his departure from Warm Springs, Ga., last February. How much use the President will have of his new swimming pool during_the next few months will depend on how much time he spends at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue, and that matter is still an open ques- tion. He is going to_cruise along the Maine coast in late June, bringing up at the Roosevelt Summer estate at Campobello Island, at the Canadian line. His stay there will be brief, and D. €, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1933. Peculiarities of Navy Department Economies To the Editor of The Star: I have a complaint to make against President Roosevelt and his new deal, a complaint which is a just one. It is this: The small wage earner, especially the Federal employe, has borne the brunt of the blow when the economy ax fell and will continue to There is such a thing as being too | glorious in color (but not quite as large | do so If the past is a criterion of what | Is to come. Let's look into the Navy Department, where the first large dismissal of clerks is taking place in the interest of econ- omy. Now that we're in the Navy De- partment, let's pick out the Bureau of Navigation, for there we know just what is happening. First, on March 4, 1933, the personnel in this Bureau were already having 8 1-3 per cent deducted from their base pay. Second, it was very soon after March 4 thal we re- | ceived an additional 6 2-3 per cent cut | for the low-paid clerks as well as the | The underpaid | highest-paid people, person was not favored with a graded pay slash, such as 10 per cent deducted on salaries of $1.260 per annum and less, 12 per cent for salaries of $1,500 and less and so on, thus taking the ]musl Off of salaries where it would hurt ess. ‘The third inconsideration for the low-paid clerk was and Is very appar- ent in the dismissal of 200 clerks in the Navy Department and this is a matter of my knowledge and is to be found in the records and pay rolls as far as dismissals in the Bureau of Navi- gation are concerned. As a rule the 00 great expectations have been built | ing in “for sale” properties without the | people dismissed in (his bureau were married and single people in Grades 1 and 2 C. A F. this means people eaming between $1.260 and $1,600 are those slated to go, and it means more people must be fired because of the fact +| there is genuine interest in gardening. | perience which comes to the gardener,| that it is the lower-paid people who there must be some Surpassing show |which constitutes the real worth of a | are being dismissed. People who are married and both employed in the Navy Department with | salaries amounting to $6.000 a year are allowed to stay in spite of the fact that ow much time and |overiooked. in the general demand for | the economy law intended that where both wife and husband were in the government one should be forced to resign. The intent of the law is certainly be- ing violated, but who has the power to see that it is enforced? There has been no action in this direction, so we see a new racket in our once splendid civil service, The powers in a Bureau are keeping their special friends, in. different to the inhumanity in the dis- missals they cause. I believe much money can be saved in running the Government establish- ments, but as it is now being done it is inhuman and uneconomical, for the high-paid ?wnle are still drawing their pay and, although they could be spared many more times than a lower-paid clerk, they are the ones who do the firing and hiring and they are not go- ing to fire themselves. I commend the Civil Service Com- mission for their attitude toward the Navy Department in the matter of wholesale dismissals, but I condemn Congress for failing to see that their constituents have not received a fair deal, to which they are justly entitled. As an example of what can go on unnoticed, I recall reading in a Wash- | ington local paper seversl weeks ago an article in which a woman—who is being dismissed from the Department as one of the 200 to go June 1— charged that a man in her office had been securing examination questions and selling them to officers of the U. S. Navy so that they could win promo- tions to the next higher rating. And the man, she says, has been making about $2,000 a year doing it. seems to be common knowledge in the bureau where 1 work that this is based on more than revenge and also it is quite apparent who the man is. ‘W. A. COPELAND. auce for the Goose Is Sauce for the Gander To the Editor of The Star: In The Star, on May 24, s letter by Mr. PrT. Green quotes an ancient his- | torian as saying “Most of Jackson's ap- pointees were incompetent and a few proved dishonest.” That is also true of Harding's appointees, except only a few proved to be not dishonest. If Mr. Green is fond of reading political scan- dals it is not necessary to go back as far as Jackson nor even to Jackson's party. Just recall what transpired under the Republicans from 1924 to He seems to view with great alarm the published list of all itions not under civil service, but he does not seem to know that the Republicans had a similar list printed in 1920 and used it for the same purpose. His theory ap- pears to be that when the Republicans shake a “plum” tree, they should get under it, but when the Democrats chake one there ought to be a drought. He doesn’t like the idea of the Demo- | crats filling the jobs resulting from the new farm relief ‘without regard to civil service. Did the Republicans fill the R. F. C. with employes under civil serv- ice? 'They did not. Perhaps it will interest him to know that it was President Wilson placed the civil service, but it was President Hard- ing who put the spoils system back into full force by making them jobs of pat- ronage. He opposes governmental re- organization by rebuking the Demo- crats for their utter disregard of the meritorious civil service system. But it is nevertheless a fact that about 60,000 Federal employes under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover were placed under civil service, not by an open competitive 'p ANSWER Did you ever write s letter to Frederic J. Haskin? You can ask him any ques- | tion of fact and get the answer in & S TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, 10. its either s not considered Q. What is latent heat>—R. G. S. | personal letter. Here is a great edu- cational idea introduced into the lives | of the most intelligent people in the world — American newspaper Treaders. It is & part of that best purpose of & newspaper—service. There is no charge except three cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Do not use post cards. Address Prederic J. Haskin, Di- rector, The Evening Star Information Bureau, Washington, D. C. Q. Who owns the St, Louls Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs?—G. D. A. The St. Louls National League club A. It means a quantity of heat which has disappeared, having been employed to produce some change other than elevation of temperature. By ex- actly reversing that change, the quan- tity of heat which has disappeared is | reproduced. Maxwell defines it as the quantity of heat which must be com- | municated to a body in a given state | in order to convert it into another state without changing its temperature. Q. Who was Lady Godiva?—G. H. A. She was the wife of Leofric, Earl | of Mercia, celebrated in the annals of And it | who | 20,000 postmasters under | is owned by & stock company of which Sam Breadon is president. The Chicago National League club is owned by the Wrigley estate, of which Philip Wrigley is president. Q. Which breed of dog is larger, the St. Bernard or the Irish wolfhound?— J.J. C. A. The Irish wolfhound usually has a little more height, but does not welgh as much as a St. Bernard. Q. What countries besides ours have “United ?'.Ilfl" as & part of the name? —B. M. I A Other republics which use the i titles are the United Mexican States, the United States of Venezuela, and the United States of Brazil. | compensation?—T. C. | A, On February 28, 1833, there were | nected disability compensation. There | were 434,953 veterans receiving non- | service-connected disability allowances. Q. Does the Government or the bank pay the salary of the receiver of a closed bank?—J. B. | "A. A bank receiver is paid from the | funds of the bank. Q. What punishment did the British Government determine upon for the signers of the Declaration of Indepen- dence?—A. W. A. The signers and their famiffes ‘were proscribed as traitors and rewards of five hundred pounds were offered for their apprehension. Q. Where are dead persons buried in Venice?—M. R. H. * A. Burials in Venice are in the | Campo Santo, a burial ground on one | of the islands. After the funeral serv- | removed by boat to the cemetery. Q. What should swallows be fed?— J. D. A. Swallows feed only on insects wing. | tuted _only for flying and are unable to walk. They will rarely allow them- | selves to be fed by hand and for this | reason are difficult to keep in cap- | tivity in the ordinary sense. Q. How old is China, according to history?—C. E. A. ‘The history of China goes back | at least 4,000 years. The Middle Ages | knew it as the Empire of Cathay or |the Land of the Ceres. The first| | European accounts of China are those given by Marco Polo about 1260 A. D. Q. Please describe the Purple Heart | medal—L. A. M. | A, The revised decoration of the Purple Heart consists of a heart- shaped medal with its center of purple enamel. On the obverse is a relief bust of George Washington in the uniform of a General of the Continental Army. On the reverse ap| 's the inscription “For Military Merit.” The Washington coat of arms is mcorporated in the ring which attaches it to a purple rib- bon bordered with & narrow white stripe. Q. Wnat s normal blood pressure? A The normal blood pressure is usually measured by adding the age of the individual to 100. A deviation of words “United States” in their official | Q. How many of our World War vet- | erans have been xecelving disability | 1338,725 veterans recelving service-con- | ice in the parish church the body is| | which they customarily take on the| In fact, they are birds consti- | | Coventry, Warwickshire, England. She was a woman of great beauty and piety, | the benefactress of numerous churches !and monasteries. According to legend, | she begged her husband to relieve Cov- entry of a burdensome toll, and he con- sented on the condition that she should ride naked through the market-place. This she did, covered only by her hair, and won relief for the people. In some versions of the story, the people were commanded to keep within their houses, and not look upon her. One fellow Peeping Tom—disobeyed and he was miraculously struck with blindness. Her festival is still celebrated at Cov- entry. Q. How soon is it planned to have | the "“reforestation army” at work?— . L A. It is hoped that 275,000 men will be at work in forest camps by July 1. Q. How does a ventriloquist throw his voice?—E. F. A. He does not “throw” his voice. | In practicing the art of ventriloquism | the words are formed in the normal | manner but the breath is allowed to | escape very slowly, the tones being muffled by narrowing the glottis and the mouth opened as little as possible, while the tongue is retracted and only its tip moves. On the stage ventrilo- quists employ gestures and facial ex- pression to assist in the deception by stimulating the imagination of the listeners and to distract their atten- tion from the speake: Q. Is Pranchot Tone, who made his talking picture debut in “Gabriel Over gleDWhte House,” a college man?— A. He is a graduate of Cornell Uni- versity, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the honorary scholastic fraternity. rQ‘A yfll 8 child outgrow crossed eyes? A It will not. The National Societ for the Prevention of Blindness s:yz that it seems almost inexcusable that there should be any children left with cross-eye:, when we realize that it is an affliction which usually can be eorrected early in life. The cross-eyed child is | frequently a behavior problem because he is self-conscious and suffers from a sense of inferfority. The society is striving to inform parents, through popular literature, lectures and the newspapers, of the urgency of early mfiment for the young cross-eyed Q. Who was the last reignin Ve ereign of the House of smmrisfmz, A. Anne, daughter of James II. was :}71;1 last. She reigned from 1702 to Q. Is there an embargo against ma- hogany in this country?—H. M. A A. There is no embargo on mahogany coming in the United States. It is dutiable at 15 per cent ad valorem. Q. Did President Franklin D. Roose- velt hold a political position before he ‘was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy by President Wilson?—S. T. A. He had been a State Senator in New York. Q. Where is the famous statue, “The . Dying Gladiator”?—S. B. H. A. The correct name is “The Dying Gaul.” Tt is probably a Greek original ind is in the Capitoline Museum in ome. ‘While Congress has undertaken to solve the mystery of the disaster to the dirigible Akron of the United States Navy, public estimates of the official report indicate that there is a tendency to believe that the question of possible | error will never be answered. Com- | mander Frank C. McCord receives the | benefit of the doubt. “The secret of the Akron,” in the opinion of the Newark Evening News, “if at any time there was tang- | ible evidence that human shortcoming was responsible for the crashing of the giant fabric into the sea, died with her. It seems doubtful that Congressional in- | quiry can yleld any new facts.” The | Evening News concludes as to the future of these craft of the air: “The Akron is gohe, and time has tempered the distress which followed the loss of the ship and her officers and Uncertainty in Akron Report Leaves Perma_nqnt Mystery the court’s conclusion that Commander McCord erred is not consistent with its further declaration that it had little direct knowledge of the considerations | on which the commander’s judgment | was based and that he may have been | justified by all the facts in the case as | they were known to him. In harmony with Admiral Pratt's remarks, Secre- tary Swanson says of Commander Mc- Cord: ‘We don't know what informa- tion he had when he directed the ship | to go a certain way. It'is very easy to | know when a man makes a mistake after it is aver, but you don't know | what information he acted on.’” “The moral is clear,” advises the Akron Beacon Journal. “It isn’t enough to build the world’s best airships; we must also have our best men fly them. No matter how high the abilities of the late Commander McCord it can hardly be argued that his knowledge of lighter- than-air approached that of Com- mander C. E. Rosendahl, the Navy's crew. 3 Undaunted, her sister ship, the Macon, | most experienced Zeppelin pilot. Rosen- has taken her maiden and several sub- | dahl has o business being at sea, as sequent flights. Alrplanes are follow- | this newspaper pointed out when the ing the air lanes of this and other | higher-ups shifted him from the avia- ‘The U. S. S. Macon, due the Ambassador from Spain make §00d | keep a man beln’ put out o' one town in this country by going to a base ball| gerer another.” | game at GriMth Stadium and proclaim- | examination, but by a stroke of a presi- dential pen for their protection and “‘awards for service rendered.” After reading Mr. Green’s letter one nations. Private ownership of planes | tion service. Tcreasss as progress mukes Ihese | shortly to leave here, should be entrust- heavier-than-air craft simpler, | ed only to such experts as Rosendah! more airworthy and more dependable. and Alger H. Dresel, present skipper. they wear their clcthes. For three | he will come back down the coast on a years Prof. Sprague has been living in | naval cruiser to Norfolk and thence to | London and serving the Little Old Lady | Washington. ~With July and August | of Threadneedle Street in & satisfactory | still ahead, it has been announced at ting behind the skyscraper stack of blue ¢hips. “Civilization has gone far.” sald Hi The S—— | ing his admiration of the spectacle, as | Uncle Sam rejects isolation at least| ol and exciting and thrilling and | to the extent of making an occasional | gine | trip to Europe for first-hand informa- |~ ppe pull fght which Ambassador | tion as to what it is all about | Bowers attended was a specipl affair in R i | honor of the beauty queens of Europe. Chinese Bonus Seekers. | Thus his presence on such a particular + While literacy in China is at a low | occasion was likewise a diplomatic Ppoint—it Is estimated at less than ten | gesture, for the Spaniards are devotees per cent in a pcpulation of between four | of feminine beauty and without doubt | hundred and six hundred millions—it greatly appreciate the presence of the is evident that news of American hap- | representative of the Wesiern npub!ic.‘ penings is known to large numbers of | which holds pulchritude in such high | the people over there, and particularly | esteem that it maintains beauty contests | to the soldiers. In a dispatch from | by the score each year, though without | o Tientsin descriptive of the complicated | the accompaniment of sport in final _mituation around the Northern capital, | glorification. .upon which the Jupanese forces ar S snarching. it is stated that the soldiers Senator Borah demands a Secretary | ©f two divisions have refused to obey | of the Treasury who, like Caesar's wife, | the orders of Ho Ying Ching. Chinese is ahove suspicion. This, of course, is | war minister, to evacuate the city unless | classical rhetoric and will not suggest | they receive the usual bonus attendant {4 any investigator a necessity for going upon the dragon boat festival, which ' gyqy back into Caesar’s family affairs. | takes place next Monday. e e e There will be no bonus march of these | g . of tne Senate testimony reads Chinese troops upon Nanking in de- | | like & report of a grand lottery drawing, mand of their rights and privileges. with many persons disappointed by the ol +They are already at one of the capitals |\ o smonnation as to how tickets ©f the country, und they propose to re- 4 may be obtalned for the next draw. main there umtil they get their ‘rum~} P shaw,” which is Chinese for bonus, or ! gift, or grawity, or what not. Per- | Forgotten Bard. haps they will change their minds if | The original manuscript of “The Cul- the Japanese persist in their advance. | prit Fay” was sold at auction in Ne { This incident is characteristic of the | York yesterday. It brought five hun- Chinese military forces. *money fighters,” just as certain mem- bers of the American base ball profes- | & stick of type in the metropolitan sion are known as “money players.” | press. So much for fame! The poem They are strictly professional in their | once was celebrated, the author lionized. performance of military duty, having But a relentless century has done its Jittle or no loyalty to their immediate | work with them-—they are forgotten. commanders except that which is paid | Even the name of the lost bard is un- for in cash stipends or bonuses in the | famliar to modern readers. He was form of permitted loot. In the course | Joseph Rodman Drake, a tragic genius of the civil wars that have racked China | who lived but twenty-five brief years. «during the past few years—a very few His whole career was a preparation, indeed compared with the long history | abruptly terminated by consumption. of the one-time celestial empire—war | A whimsical destiny granted him lords have frequently changed sides on | abundant favors with one hand and M oash besls, With the payment of large sustched- them awey with the othss, ' its change of ownership was accorded |di P They are dred dollars, and the circumstance ol, | th Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “but it has, fashion. His acquisition by Presfdent | g | ROOSevelt was hailed as a great streak | not taught us to be as gencrous toward | o gooq fortune for the U. 8. A. Prof. the faults of others as we are toward | Sprague aceepts at “heavy financial our own.” | sacrifice” He is credited with being | the greatest living expert on the m-{ tricacles cf foreign exchange. He does not belong to the inflationist school. | * o ox x There is & good deal of raillery go- | ing around. some good-natured and | some otherwise, respecting Mr. Roose- i penchant for professorigl ad- | sers. Certainly no administration | cver had so many, and the point of the jest seems to be that professors as & class are supposed to be thgorists and idealists rather than practical states- | men. It may be pertinent to recall | that Henry Cabot Lodge was a pro- fessor prior to his entry into public life; that Woodrow Wilson and Chief Justice Hughes and the late Chief Jus- tice Taft and Justice Brandeis were | college professors at various stages of their careers; that Senator Simeon D. ; s ' Fess is_ primarily a_profesor: that Dr. All Taxpayers Are Not | Jii.) Klein, the Hoover expert in the | 4 xS _ | Department of Commerce, was & pro- | "Alllal Before the Law | fessor, not to mention Ray Lyman Wil- | To the Editor of The Btar bur, who is back on the academic_job | Certainly “our necessary debts can be | After an interlude of four years as Sec- met with & sales tax,” us the “Economic | retary of the Interior. Thus it does Oculist” says in Sturday's cartoon in | 1Ot seem that Messrs. Moley. Tugwell, he Star. Often bad taxes are ef- Morgun and the rest of the savants now | fective in raising revenue, for a time, laboring in Washington need necessar- and there is little choice among them, | Iy be ashamed of the handle to their | It would take sn “Economic Oculist” | Dames of “Prof. to tell how a man with “depleted in- * ok K x come” can bear a manufacturers’ sales | After the final roll call in the Senate, taX any essier than the proposed com- in the impeachment trial of Federal bination of taxes on incomes, stock | Judge Harold E. Louderback of Cali- ividends and gasoline; if the same peo- fornia, and with the formal announce- le pay the money it comes out of the | ment by Vice President Garner of the same incomes. | judge's acquittal, six members of the | According to the sales tax editorial in | Senate hurried forward to grasp the the same issue, May 20, the burden of | judge’s hand and offer their congratu- | e combined taxes will “fall upon the |lations. They were Huey Ling of | great middle class and upon those who | Louisiana, Reynolds and Bailey of | receive small compensation.” It might | North Carolina, Hatfleld of West Vlr-i | be pertinent to inquire upen whom tax- | ginia, Goldsborough of Maryland and | atlon 1s expected to fall, and why. Ap- | Vandenberg of Michigan. On the first | | pavently it did not occur to the writer | four ariicles of impeachment, each re- lating 1o a specific charge of miscon- | {that the man who gets the service ought | ! to pay the cost of that service, in taxes, | duct, Judge Louderback had on his side |and in his favor the majority of those | regardless of “ability to pay.” While in this instance, the alternate | voting. On the fifth and final article, which was in the nature of a blanket roposals will affect the taxpaying :hnuln approximately the same man- | indictment, the vote was: Guilty, 45; not guilty, 34; not voting. 10. This e A e e ity for conviction, but far has wi uj e fa Was a majority for col , hive. oo o short of the two-thirds required for his Prosperity. Prosperity is just around The corner, we are told, And it will speedily be found By searchers keen and bold. ‘The lesson will not be forgot And prove to be in vain; We'll try to see that it is not By chance kidnaped again. “A good politician,” said Uncle Eben, “kin ask me how I's gittin' along in a way dat makes me fohgit all about de way he let all my relations lose deir Jjobs last year.” - | Park, N. Y., but that plan is still in the White House that the President hopes to spend & considerable portion of the Summer at his home at Hyde the lap of the gods. EREE The “Federal Associates,” newly cre- ated and little publicized organization with the avowed purpose of rebuilding the Republican party from the ground up, is making satisfactory headway, according to its or,amzers who are the political legatees of the Hoover admin- istration. The Washington offices of the Federal Associates, its national headquarters, are in charge of Irving Glover and Arch Coleman, who were the trusted assistants of Postmaster General Walter H. Brown. Mr. Brown is & leading spirit in the new organiza- tion. At least thirteen States, though not exactly the “Original Thirteen States,” have already been organized by the Federal Associates and before the year is out they expect to have cov-| ered the entire forty-eight States. They | are amply financed and working wholly ‘L independently of the Republican Na- tional Committee and the Republican Congressional Committees. (Copyrieht. — v Furrows. From the Scranton Times. | If the farmer starts a “holiday” when | it's time to plent and plow. instead of furrows of golden grain, helll just have | more furrows on his brow. s Shunning a Big Job. Prom the Philadelpbia Evening Bulletin. It begins to look as if some people who might do the trick don't think New York is worth saving. —_— e Tears on the Milk Front. From the Chicaro Daily News. Pickets routed by a tear gas barrage in Wisconsin may disbelieve the old adage that there is no use crying over spilt milk. e Sub-Zero Dialing. Prom the Dayton Dally News. An automatic telephone system has been installed in Iceland and we're won- dering how the subscribers can use the be different clai of tax- me’:'u‘mhfl m.not Q -;Ion the [ removal. Judge Louderback said that il N R DUNGAN e toeardad e cuicam aa & sapaisle L%"“"&%m‘“_w wearing the latest is inciined to believe that he is trying to create the impression that the Re- publican party has been reborn and rededicated to the principles and wis- | dom of justice and that they has adopted as its national slogan, 0 tice, when expelled from other places | of habitation, make this (the Republi- can party) thy dwelling place.” J. J. CRAWFORD. r————————— A Reminiscence of Porter J. McCumber To the Editor of The Star. The passing of Porter J. McCumber, former Senator from North Dakota, recalls vividly to my mind a passage from his early career, which may not be_without interest to your readers. He graduated in law from the Uni- versity of Michigan in 1880. A year or two before that, probably in the Winter of 1878-79, he taught a four- month term. in the Kingsley Corners School, in eastern Olmsted County, Minn. It was & country cross-roads, eight miles from the nearest town. The salary was probably forty dollars a month, but might have been a little more, as he seems to have come very well recommended. His success as teacher at the Corners was notable. I lived just outside the district and went to the next school, but he boarded with my uncle, Reuben Black (an_uncle, by the way, of Gen. William M. Black, the retired Army engineer). He was full of energy and voluntarily took over & share of the farm chores; this activ- ity was possibly for the purpose of keeping warm, as the climate was se- vere and there were few warm rooms in the houses, none of which were bed rooms. I remember hearing McCumber's praises sounded all Winter, but it was the “last day” which lingers in my memory. I attended and sat with my cousins, The usual “speaking pieces,” including some “dialogues,” constituted the bulk of the celebration. Then the young pedagogue surprised everybody by bringing out about a dozen prizes and distributing them among _ the pupils. It seemed he had not offered the prizes in advance, but had bought one or more articles for the children of each family, ingeniously discovering some quality in each recipient justify- ing the . Everybody was very happy and hlll: x;‘me wu”remembend many yesrs 3 3. M. ALDEICH, his new ten-passenger plane, as lux- native Spain, the inventor of the auto- 4 . have| giro is honcred by one of America's oldest scientific societies for his contri- butions to safety in fight. Thus the puny wings sprouted by humans so aster fails utterly to clip them.” “A down current of wind of great force struck the dirigible,” says the Dayton Daily News, “forcing it to the water ‘before the downward course could be checked.’ So ended that great ship of the air. Commander McCord contributed to the tragedy by ‘not set- ting such courses as would have kept him in the safe semi-circle’ and thus avoiding the storm conditions which de- stroyed his craft. From this latter con- clusion of the court Admiral Pratt and the Secretary of the Navy dissent. So ends-the tale. There are twistings and turnings and boilings and churnings of the air above us which are not dreamed of in the philosophy of the people on the ground.” “Only three eye-witnesses to the ac- cident survive,” observes the New York Sun “Their stories, told before the naval court of inguiry, showed haw little can be geen by any one person of an accident of that sort, which in a few seconds destroys an airship of enormous size. Though there were more than a score of survivors of the destruction of the Shenandoah, the court of inquiry which sat in that case was not able to piece together a con- vincing mosaic from the testimony given.” “No general agreement on important points” is seen by the Lincoln State Journal, declaring that the investigation achieved very little—that “information is meager and opinions on questions in- volyed vary greatly.” The Providence Journal believes that “to the general public a large question is as to whether there is anything intrinsically defective ! | | | | { | | time, the Graf Zeppelin goes on. her extraordinary way, carrying mail and | passengers between Europe and South | America.” inquiry, the Journal recalls: “Admiral Pratt, chief of naval ?enum. and Becretary of the Navy Swanson, while approving the report of the court of inquiry in the mh‘m with its airship. - commander of Pratt holds that Prince of Wales takes his first trip in urlous as a yacht. Arriving from his | short a time ago become sturdier; dis- | in the Akron type of dirigible airship.” | ‘That paper remarks that “in the mean- On the conclusions of the | Only after long instruction from such men should new officers be placed in command. Both Rosendahl and Dresel can well be used in training work. Why not recall the one now at sea to his proper sphere?" “These ships are picturesque, if ex- | pensive, playthings,” things the Colum- bia (8. C.) State, “but their limitations should be recognized, and neither the lives of our naval men nor the millions of dollars put into them should be risked by sending them aloft except | when there is guaranty of fair weather.” The Indianapolis News offers the judg- ment: “In spite of the report, the country knows that the Navy approved the design of the ship, fixed its navi- gating regulations, trained its crew, and assigned it to a mission on which its commander and nearly all its crew died.” The Springfleld (Mass.) Repub- lican concludes that “the hazardous nature of airship operation is apparent from the text of the report.” - — e Star’s ‘Wetting the s e o Powder’ Editoriai To the Editor of The Star. Your very commendable editorial of May 13, “Wetting the Powder,” was gratifying ta patriots. Its greatest bene- fit is in awakening the selfish citizens whose desire for economy warps their sane judgment. One correspondent of The Star, about three days later, seemed unimpressed with the fact that the Army is on the pay basis of 1908, with minor changes in plan only, effected in 1920, except that now the 15 per cent pay cut has reduced the 25-year-old pay schedule. ‘Those willing to sacrifie national de- fense strength. now should be asked to show what became of the extra profits made ' by ' Messrs. - Average Citizens in 1928-29-30. Did they raise the pay or strength of the Army and Navy? People pocketed the increased incom A game of “heads you win, tails I lose, as far as the Army and Navy are con- cerned. - Such editorials as yours will save the country from reductions in defense and resulting national humiliation, The doubting Thomases will be surprised if this country is called upon in consultant compacts to assist in world