Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1933, Page 8

A8 {THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. PHEURSDAY........June 1, 1833 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor 8¢ Evening Star Newspaper Company 1th 8t hd" Fennevivants A . ‘and Pen: - 110 42nd Bics” Lake. Michigan Bulldins. Office: 14 Hatnl 8t.. London, Ens by Carrier Within the City. ar. .. .45¢c per month Rate Mail—Payable in Advance. ryland and Virginia. Bund: 1yr., $10.00; 1 mo. ., $6.00: 1 me AW Uther States and Canada. day...1yr., $12. mo., $1.00 Assoc! - 1y entitied lated Press is exclusively enf Vo e ek f0r republication of il news dis- ited to it or not otherwise cred- per and also the local news in. RS S ; herein. Al rights of publication of ispatches herein are also reserved. Reorganization Postponed. The decision by the President not to force a wholesale reorganization of the Government departments and inde- pendent establishmente at this time is eminently wise. Governmental reor- ganization is a subject that requires careful and prolonged consideration. If it were attempted at this time, with the expectation of receiving congres- slonal approval before adjournment of the special session June 10, meither careful nor prolonged consideration would be possible. The President has indicated that he may make & few changes by executive order which will affect the work of some agencles. But the reorganization plan discussed for the last few months is definitely shelved | until next Winter. In the meantime there may be de- welopments which will radically change the proposals already made. Before his inauguration the President at Warm Springs discussed with Mr. Lewis Doug- las, whom he subsequently chose to head the Budget Bureau, a scheme of reorganization. It was understood then that the administration planned to call Congress into special session about June 1. The interval between the inaugura- tion and the first of June would have provided time for drawing up a reor- ganization plan and submitting it to Congress with other elements of the the quarterback of a foot bell team try- ing to make s first down against all sorts of unexpected opposition. There has been little time for any shifting of the players io rew. positions. The Presid-at, meanwhile, has never given any specific indication of what he planned to do in reorganization. of his advisers have become very a8 to what they planned to do, of the plans of these advisers far as the President’s desk. bave progressed faster than At one time it was reported BEEER il it i the twenty commodity divisions of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com- merce will become the nucleus of the new machinery to be engineered by the Endustrial Control Board. There was talk, too, of skeletonizing the Department of Agriculture and doing away with some of the depart- ment’s valuable scientific bureaus. such talk did not take into account & wigorous young Secretary of Agriculture Who places great faith and reliance in the scientific work of his department. Instead of drastically cutting down the department’s personnel, the machinery to adminster the farm bill is crowding the corridors at the Department of Agriculture, and temporary partitions are being built to inclose new offices. Instead of retiring Army officers on balf pay and shaking up the War Department, the officers are being ealled for necessary service in the forests. Nobody can accurately forecast the ehanges or the new tasks required of | the Government when the work of administering the reconstruction pro- gram gets under way in Washington. More about it will be known next Win- ter, By that time a plan of reorgani- sation that is conceived to simplify the work of the Government and to prevent unnecessary duplication and waste may have been evolved. The economy pro- gram, meanwhile, is going forward without the accompaying reorganization —which s not necessarily to be re- garded as undertaken merely to save | money. ——————————— Statesmen who like puns might easily | be tempted to refer to Uncle Sam’s| money adjustments as an effort to get | off “the gulled standard.” ———e— Sherwood Redivivus. | Discovery of the long missing Russell | Sherwood, alleged to have been the| fiscal agent of former Mayor Walker of: New York, is reported from that city. He has been in hiding for many months. | Pound in Mexico City while the in- yestigation was in progress, and served | there with a subpoena to appear and give testimony regarding his activities and services for the mayor, he ignored the summons and again disappeared. He was declared in contempt and & fine | of $50,000 was applied to him. Now he | 15 said to have turned up not far from | New York and, on being interviewed, has denied that he was ever in Walker's employ or was ever pald a salary by | him, but declares that he simply car- ried on certain activities that had pre- viously been handled by the mayor's brother, Dr. “Willle” Walker. Inasmuch as Walker himself is defi- nitely out of the political and munici- pal picture, the investigation having been ended, it does not matter much whether Bherwood is within reach of the inquisitors. His story is not par- ticularly important. It may be quite true, and yet it does not in the least weaken the case against the former mayor, But it will not be generally be- one Junius Brutus. Still others think insists on carryin’ ‘em ‘urvad.themquewrhu lieved. It does not explain the reason for the flight and the deflance of the subpoena and the incurment of a heavy fine. Was it just friendship for Jimmie that caused this otherwise umimportant young man to flee and hide and involve himself in a heavy monetary obligation? Or was it because he was the possessor of information that, if disclosed, would have meant grave embarrassment, if not danger, to not only the blithe mayor, but others who were endowing him with wealth? Somebody has undoubtedly been malntaining Sherwood with funds during these many months. A fugitive from court cannot live on air. Somebody must pay hotel bills and raflroad fares. The thought comes that perhaps some- body did keep Sherwood thus supplied and then suspended payments, which would account for his reappearance. And it may be that his “discovery” is a shrewd notice to that somebody that the time has come to talk of many things, ships and shoes and sealing wax and cabbages and—mayors. —_— China Surrenders. Succumbing to the inevitable, China has signed on the dotted line presented by Japan, and in a so-called truce con- cluded yesterday accepts what the in- vader candidly describes as terms of peace dictated by military victors to a vanquished foe. By those terms the Japanese become indisputable masters of a vast area in North China, imme- diately adjacent to, though not actually embracing, the key cities of Tientsin and Pelping. The humiliated and hum- bled Nationalist government at Nan- king contends that the Tangku “truce” is merely “designed to give a breathing space to the sorely tired Chinese troops and the distressed population of North China, is purely military in purport and does not affect the nation’s territorial rights or international position.” Be this as it may, Japan drove an in- dubltably harsh bargain with her help- less and baffled adversary, and the “Five Terms” imposed upon him are destined to rank with the notorious “Twenty-one Demands” which the same conqueror extorted from the Chinese some eighteen years ago for the purpose of establish- ing Nippon's influence over Shantung Province, in Manchuria and other parts of China—a vast suzerainty largely re- linquished at the Washington Confer- ence in 1922 and to no inconsiderable degree at American insistence. Yesterday's “terms” aim, from Japan's immediate standpoint, at demilitarizing North China throughout a zone 130 miles wide, extending from Lutai, near the coast northeast of Tientsin, north- westerly to Yenking, passing a point ten miles beyond Peiping. The zone between this line and the Great ‘Wall, a stretch of some 275 miles, shall be wholly evacuated by Chinese forces except local police contingents in the intervening towns, and the line north of Peiping shall be the northern limit for Chinese armies. Japan agrees on her part that when assured the Chinese evacuation of the | demilitarized zone is complete she will ultimately withidraw her own forces to the Great Wall, which the Japanese claim as the boundary of their puppet State of Manchukuo. Within the “neutralized” area in North China Chinese police are required to preserve peace and order and to facilitate Jap- anese military reconnaissance, especially by sirplane, to insure Chinese military inactivity. If this is not strictly ob- already threatened “drastic” military reprisals. ‘What next in China baffles prediction. Nanking’s debacle seems as complete as it is undoubtedly pitiable. General Chiang Kai-Shek's efforts to preserve a semblance of national unity or to or- ganize anything savoring of virile mili- tary resistance to the Japanese foe have proved as futile in the North China affair as they turned out to be during the year and a half of the Manchurian tragedy. Extensive civil war appears once more on the restless Chinese hori- zon as China’s next ordeal. From all directions Chiang Kal-Shek and his hapless Kuomintang regime at Nan- king are threatened with grave opposi- tion, military and political. At Kalgan,{ in Chahar Province northwest of Peip- ing, the so-called “Christian” war lord, Gen Feng Yu-Hslang, is ready with 100,000 men to pounce upon whom and what may strike him as the most lucra- tive foe at the moment, Chinese or Japanese. Even from the Cantonese south, whence Nanking China, by what now looms as sad irony, originally de- rived its momentum, is in revolt against | the alleged pusillanimity of the Chiang Kai-Shek system of misgovernment, though it is difficult to follow Canton's reasoning that the Nationalists failed to offer a-sufficiently vigorous resistance to Japan in Manchuria. How could they, China being the inchoate, disorganized and factlon-ridden mess that it has| presented to the world for the past ten years? It is a wonder that the mailed fist of Japan has not been smashed in China’s face long ago. Deserted by the | Occidental powers, which the Japanese military opportunists for two years have found conveniently immersed in their economic woes, China has had no alter- native but to stew in her own juice, | which the truce of Tangku now makes more bitter and devastating than ever. Modern mankind has witnessed no grimmer international tragedy than is now enacted before its indifferent gaze in far Cathay. That might is right has | had a fresh and terrible exemplification | in a civilization supposed to have ban- ished that principle for all time. —_— e ‘There is so much guessing at present that even the Literary Digest does not undertake to define all the possibilities by means of a series of straw votes. —_— June. The year reaches its apex in June. Mathematically that is true. But, much more important, as judged by the reac- tion of the human spirit, it is at the midmonth that life is most worth living, most congenial, most happy. The sea- son has a kindly influence which even the least readily responsive individuals feel. It warms the soul, prompts gra- clousness, promotes health of mind and body. A goodly time, it is received with universal appreciation. There are several theories of explana- tion for the name. Ovid derives it from “funiores,” signifying “youth,” but he also makes Juno, the beautiful god- dess who, in the Latin mythology, was queen of heaven, claim the honor for herself as her own name month. Other ‘writers belleve it comes from the gentile name Junius or from the consulate of P of it as tracing from the title of the lower or junior branch of the original Roman legislature. But the etymology of the term does not greatly matter. ‘What is important is the obvious con- notation of youthfulness. That is so apt & connection that it may be readlly accepted. But the period of juniority it indi- cates is that of a certain maturity, a certain developed juvenility, not the stage of callow nonage. It is the blos- soming time, not the time of prepara- tlon for that burgeoning. Carlyle spoke of it as “the glad season of life,” and it may be presumed that he employed the adjective deliberately—perhaps he knew that tender childhood is not in- variably happy. The ideal simile might be that of high noon. The sun of life appears to reach its zenith at the moment when conscious youth begins. In any case, June seems the most democratic month of the year. Its blessing is equitably bestowed. All may have it for the taking. James Russell Lowell, in his “Vision of Sir Launfal,” wrote: June may be had by the poorest comer. It was he, too, who sang the classic| tribute to the season: And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays. The lines may be spoiled for modern readers by extravagant repetition, but thelr meaning remains unaffected. Pa- tently, earth as June makes its debut is in the most accurate natural tune of which it ever is capable. There may be disharmony among the natioms, strife between the classes, trouble in | the marts and courts of men, but that | is not the month’s fault. On the con- | trary, it is a contradiction of its char- acter. It is a pitiful mistake, in point of fact, that so fair and gracious a time should be so misused. The philosopher will exercise his peivilege of eschewing the turmoll. Instead, he will take him- self away to green flelds, verdant groves and qulet paths of peace far from the senseless struggle of “madding crowds” who do not know that June is here. Reports that former Mayor James J. Walker would like to return to New York and run for office are being pigeon- holed along with intimations that the Republican party will not line up in 1936 to assist in electing a Democrat. ———— An association of physicians to be known as “The Heart Association” will win immediate popularity if its by-laws include an admonition to “have a heart” when the bills are mailed to patients affected by high financial pressure. ——————————— Unemployment marchers may find lit- tle to interest them in this city except- ing an opportunity to sympathize with Government workers whom Postmaster General Farley finds himself unable to schedule for reappointment. e Congress is reminded that a warm wave approaches and inferential refer- ence is made to the ease and rapidity with which the United States Capitol may be emptied by observing the usual exit signals. " — A system of rotative furloughs may be admired, but it will not be admired by those whose depleted budget would not permit them to see the regular somersaults at the circus. Ancient humor used to play on the idea that Chicago girls have big feet. In its inordinate appetite for publicity Hollywood has appropriated even this inconsequential jibe. —_— ———————— Unswerving admiration of the House of Morgan still points to the gifts of pre-profit stocks as establishing one of the most magnificent bread lines known to American finance. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Reflection. Within a sylvan pool there springs A stagnate world of swarming things. Grotesque and strange they throng and press Complete in their unloveliness. Above it nests a creature gay 3 With light poised wings in quivering sway. It gazes down, but only sees The bright sky mirroring through the trees. The bird sings on in joy complete 'Mid blossoms delicately sweet— Our world, like this small scene, we know Has many shapes of grievous woe— And yet it need not seem unkind, Since to the contemplative mind It must reflect in guise sincere A higher, nobler atmosphere. Currency Compromise. “Do you prefer gold or silver?” “What's the use of being particular?” asked Senator Sorghum. “A neat, | friendly stock certificate from & reliable friend is as good as either.” Jud Tunkins says the prices of things | might not be quote so high if easy| credit did not require so many high- salaried bill collectors. Winged Safety. The small mosquito lucky is, On fragile wings it dashes. It gaily goes about its biz And somehow never crashes. Tribute to Chicago. “Are you going to the Chicago fair?” “Certainly,” answered Miss Cayenne. “Chicago has on unfortunate occasions | | shown how the world has deteriorated. | | She is entitled to her turn at demon- strating how it has progressed.” “The stories of war caused by beau- tiful women,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “are not invariably true. A woman sufficiently clever to direct a war may command reputation as a beauty whether she is one or not.” Always Possible. I much deplore all money greed, In accents loud and zealous. And yet this thought I have to heed— I may be slightly jealous. “Imitation,” said Uncle Eben, “is de sincerest flattery, but you don’t appre- ciate de compliment when somebody admires yoh clothes so much dat dey off.” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1933. | [The Political Mil THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Contempt for the older horticultural favorites continues to crop out. Here is a very estimable lady gar- dener who has written & book praising the French lilacs, at the same time casting a few choice reflections on the old-fashioned common varieties, the purple and white. Now there is no need of that. The French hybrids have their faults, too. The older bushes, beloved of genera- tions, have many good points about them, the chief one of which is that many like em. a * k% x Progress itself often comes a cropper right there. Against preferences, intelligence it- self is powerless. One might admit, if in the admitting mood, that blooms on certain of the French lilacs are splendid. Certain shades of pink, of light blue, are secured in them not to be met with in the older shrubs. * X ok % Syringa vulgaris, the common llac, is memory’s flower to so many of us that no Eroplgandl on behalf of newer, and perhaps better, varieties will ever shake our belief in it. Nor may a home gardener be alto- gether sure that there are better varie- ties, only different ones. A small individual experience with old and new sorts may leave him «doubtful. One Washingtonian, for instance, a {5“ ago this Spring purchased 16 acs. Ten of them were the French sorts, and half a dozea the old-fashioned “lilac lilacs,” or purple lilacs, as usually designated. All were “own root” bushes, not grafted, and came from a Northern grower. All were planted according to the best methods, under identical condi- tions. * K K ox It is true that a few of the French hybrids had & few blooms this Spring, while the old-fashioned sorts had none, but the general growth of the latter is far superior. Several canes of the French lilacs have withered back to the ground, and had to be cut out entirely. In the main, their growth does not seem to be as husky as that of the common lilacs. It should be said that all of these bushes, the entire 16 of them, were splendid specimens to all outward ap- pearances and seemed in perfect con- dition when planted. The owner recently informed us that while he would not say that he was disappointed in the Prench forms, he would be willing to declare that he was not as well pleased with them as he had hoped he would be. * K ok ok It was manifest that he looked with more pride on his old-fashioned lilacs, the so-called common ones. Their sturdy character pleased him best, despite the fact that they had not bloomed, and probably would not for two or three years longer. Neither this home grower nor the writer here would be willing to say, as a result of this one experience, that French hybrid lilacs are not all fhat is claimed for them by the enthusiastic lady who has written the fine new book about the lilac family. Both feel, however, that a great deal may be said in favor of the old-fash- ioned type. This has been said, of course, in many volumes. The highest tribute has been pald Syringa vulgaris ‘The greatest praise, however, is found in the persistence of its yearly sales throughout the nation. ‘The home garden test is the real test, after all. Not every gardener is equipped to give the newer things the attention they deserve. Average conditions demard average plants. This is not saying a word against plants not so average. It is just here that one might wish that those who have greater opportuni- ties would not go so far out of their way to damn the faithful plants of the past. * ;o x Some of these, such as the Dorothy Perkins rose, for instance, deserve to be_obliterated from the home garden. ‘With so many more beautiful, stur- dier, and more healthy climbers to be had, there is not much reason for keep- ing this one, so subject to mildew. The little lady after whom it was named is by far the best thing about this rose, as far as many have been| able to find out. It has been outdated, and its unfor- tunate habit of mildewing at the slight- est touch of moisture renders it unfit !gl; general planting in such a world as tl s. Only during the Spring of the great drought has it been anything but a disappointment to owners. As long as we have the Dr. Van Fleet, Paul's Scarlet and the New Dawn, to name but three, why sell or plant the Dorothy Perkins? ok ‘We do not believe, for one, that the newer lilacs, no matter how beautiful, will ever supplant the faithful old Syringa vulgaris. It is cheap, it is easily secured, and makes a beautiful, sturdy bush, whether permitted to run wild or kept to the tree form. When it blooms, its pannicles are, to the eye and to the nostrils, all that lilac blossoms should be, and much that some, at least, of the newer sorts, are not. * K ok X In these feelings, of course, the af- fections of the gardener are not to be discounted. No doubt some persons feel strongly prejudiced in favor of the Dorothy Perkins rose, despite its bad features. They will put up with it, mildew and all, just because they first planted it years ago. 3 But there are no such bad features to_the common lilac. Really the worst that can be said about it is that it is not new, and that it will not bloom regularly. 4 * K ok K Many explanations of its singularity in this latter respect have been offered, ranging from a need of root pruning to maore and better fertilizer. The truth is that this lack stirs no regret in the hearts and minds of its admirers. Its heart-shaped leaves still remain, along with the fact that it is the bush of their childhood. These suf- fice for them. It may be that the wiser course, both for those who affect to despise it and for those who love it to the exclusion of the newer sorts, is a wider outlook, a broader viewpoint. ‘The man or woman who believes in the majestic future of the French hy- brids might well keep a few specimens of Syringa vulgatis, for purposes of comparison. He who finds satisfaction enough in the common lilac no_ doubt ought to experiment with the French forms so by the most eminent horticulturists. E PETIT MARSEILLAIS, Mar- seilles—La Normandie, the new and luxurious liner which 1s to | take the place, unexpectedly enough, of the lamented At- lantique, has been practically completed and lies in the port of St. Nazaire while final touches ar 3 being given her ornate embellishments. It was not until this juncture that it was discovered that the enormous vessel is too large to get out of that harbor, truly an amazing discomfiture, but serving to show that human error is always in the ascendant, and that in the calculations of scientists, exact and | infallible as they are supposed always to be, some point or circumstance is overlooked, and generally, too, the most | important one. The ship is longer by 30 | meters than any vessel now in opera- tion, and the present locations of the piers and quays make maneuvering im- possible. It is acknowledged by the maritime authorities that extensive alterations must be made to the docks before La Normandie can leave the inner harbor. * kK ¥ Phone Advertising, Scored in Britain. Manchester Guardian—Rather an amusing suituation has arisen out of the present passion of the post office for advertising the telephone service far and wide and in all manner of ways. In various papers there recently ap- peared an advertisement which included these words: How many bills for needless visits does the telephone save! How many groundless fears does it dispel! In times of doubt you ring up your doctor, and | in a few moments that reassuring voice will be telling you what you should do, and whether the cost of a visit need be incurred. The proposition is not one that com- mends itself to some representatives of the medical profession who are strongly | of the opinion that patients, like Vic-| torian children, should be seen and not | heard—or at least not heard over the| telephone, where there is a risk of a little fee-dodging, in addition to the not unnaturally increased difficulties of diagnosis. | One of the doctors has been writing to the British Medical Journal to point out that if he were to save a “needless | visit” to an insured person by using the | telephone, and “if some unfortunate cir- cumstance arose through neglect of visitation,” he, the doctor in question, | would be “severely reprimanded” by the | ministry of health. Another doctor says that he has writ- | ten to the post office itself strongly pro- | testing against the advertisement and | indicating that “it is most unfair of a government_department_deliberately to | incite members of the public to extract | gratuitous advice of the medical pro-| fession.” ok o New U. S. Golf Tees Interest Australian. The Bulletin, Sydney.—To the Editor: I have been much interested in a description of an American invention High Lights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands that he can be sure he is correct in his taste. tion all the gravity it represents, the afalde (mayor), Don Isidoro del Solar, has called a meeting of all the influen- tial and opulent in the capital, and especially those characterized by their philanthropic efforts in the past, to decide upon the best measure tending to minimize this peculiarly painful misery. Lack of proper food and clothing as well as grave deficiencies in housing have long been the common experiences of children in the home of the agricul- tural and nitrate worker, but the stark privations of the last few years were needed to bring their natural protectors to such a state of desperation that they deliberately forsook their offspring in the final effort to prolong their own existences. It is conjectured, however, that some perents in abandoning their progeny entertained no visionary hope that after they had disappeared from the scene of afifiction the care and pro- vision of their children would imme- diately devolve to more competent hands. It is understood that all the smaller children and infants found deserted will be placed in asylums, and the older boys and girls removed from the perils and temptations of the streets into private homes of those charitably disposed, to be maintained by a general fund. ———————— Injustice of Liberality And Economy by U. S. To the Editor of The Star: On May 25 it was quite interesting to read the paper and note that there are ! laws for the wealthy and other laws for the working class. ‘The bill to discontinue making appro- priations to Congressmen's widows and dependents was defeated by an over- whelming majority, $9,000 being given to a widow who was a bride of five days when her husband was called by death, On another page the Navy Depart- ment insisted on dismissals and not fur- loughs for married persons where hus- band or wife is also working for the | Government. And the great majority of | these clerks are getting a salary of one thousand to fifteen hundred dol- lars a year. Yes, probably one out of every 1,000 gets a salary of $5,000 a year, which is cited in newspapers for | effect. Yet the small-salaried Government clerk’s wife must not be allowed to work, and no provision is made for his widow. It is quite an offense for the wife of a man who is a $1,200 clerk to work. What is the poor man to do? Every- body can't be Congressmen, Senators, Speakers and Vice Presidents, which would permit their wives to work. It is quite evident that a man must get $8,500 or more if his wife may also hold a Government position. Is there any wonder that the public is getting more socialistic every day? Just today, when the papers were filled with Morgan’s evasion of income taxes, a clerk with fifteen years in the Government walked out, fired, because her husband held a little clerical job in for picking up wooden tees. Tees cost| another department, which was the a shilling & hundred and naturally the | Navy. She was a most splendid worker possible loss of one revolts Scotsmen | with high efficiency, always loyal to her and American millionaires, both greatly | job, hoping that some day with their addicted to golf. | combined salaries they might have a This improved tee has a tiny magnet modest little home. attached to it by a string. The wooden | clubs have a steel button at the grip end, and by placing this on the magnet the tee comes to hand without any necessity for bending. With the irons the head of the club is used, of course. COL. DAMURIZE. * K K X Needy Abondoning Children in Chile. 4 El Mercurio, Santiago.—The authori- ties of the city of Talca are extremely occupied these days with the problem confronting them in the abandonment of children, observed especially in cases where the parents belong to the unem- ployed laboring classes. There has been a lamentable mortality among these ill- fated innocents, due to deficiency in food and loss of domestic shelter and P Gonceding to this distressing situs- ' March Is there any wonder that she felt the injustice so keenly that she could hardly keep the tears back. The fact that she was always on time did not count. Having done her work most ef- ficiently for fifteen years did not count. They admitted she was about the most efficient clerk in the office, but she was guilty, yes, guilty in the eyes of Uncle Sam because she, a few years ago, mar- ried a man who worked for the Gov- ernment rather than one employed else- where. Yes, it is asinine, but quite true. A. TOWNSEND. Fence Building. From the Roanoke Times. One of the duties of the Government. Reforestation Corps is to rebuild fences. Just the job for some of those sional 2ml ducks who were oft was “sent to conference” by the Senate and House last week. Ordinarily con- ferees on important measures of this kind meet almost immediately and get down to work. But the conferees on this measure have held no meeting up until today, when it is understood the first conference may take place. It is quite true that the conferees on this | measure, including both Senator Glass and Chairman Steagall of the House Banking Committee, have been busy with other matters, and Mr.. Steagall had the so;called gold contract bill on his hands. Nevertheless, there is a fear among some of the supporters of bank reform legislation that secretly an effort is being made to delay and stall off final action on the bank bill. If it can be held back until the last minute—with the leaders pressing for adjournment June 10 or soon thereafter—possibly the measure might be sidetracked. Of course, this would be strenuously op- posed by Senator Glass, who has fought in season and out for bank reform legis- lation of this kind, which has been just as stre usly, though less openly, op- posed some of the great banking interests in New York. * K ok % ‘The administration has given fts blessing, according to Senator Fletcher, chairman of the Senate Banking Com- mittee, to the investigation of the house of Morgan and other private | banking hotses, now under way. And the hearing, with its sensational dis- closures of names on “preferred” lists of Morgan clients—men whose names are known far and wide—has to some extent shoved into the background the bank reform bill, which is designed to curb the very operations into which the committee is now inquiring. Up to date the administration, however, has never given its blessing to this bank reform bill. And some of the more restive friends of this kind of legislation are asking “Why not?” It is quite likely that if the bank reform bill is not considered and reported from conference at an early date some of them will rise on the floor of the Senate and ask publicly for a show- down on this legislation. * X x x It is no secret that Secretary Woodin of the Treasury Department has been opposed to the Glass bank reform bill; that he has done all he could to delay it. Mr. Woodin's name has been on the lists of so-called “preferred” clients of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co, In- deed, it was found also to be on the latest list of men to whom the Morgan firm sold stock of United Corporation. The Secretary of the Treasury was not at that time in public office, and it would have taken a wide stretch of imagination to place him in the Treas- ury Department today back in 1929, when these stock transactions took place. But Mr. Woodin is in the Treasury Department now and what he does or does not do about bank reform legislation and legislation which pro- poses to deal drastically with such pri- vate banks as the Morgan bank is of considerable importance. * K X % This Glass bill, whose author has been held up to the public gaze as a friend and defender of the house of Morgan, would compel the Morgan firm to give up either its business as a bank of deposit or as an investment house within a year; it would provide for regular examinations of the Morgan bank if it remained a bank of deposit, and it would prohibit its partners hold- ing directorates of public utility. and other industrial corporations if it re- mained a bank of deposit. Does any one suppose that Mr. Morgan and his partners are anxious to have the Glass bill enacted into law? Yet the admin- istration, because it is heralded that the President has given epproval to preash(fl:}ow inquiry by the Senate Com- mittee ifito the Morgan firm's operation, is. described as no friend of J. P. Morgan & Co. At the same time, through its Secretary of the Treasury at least, the Roosevelt®administration has been opposing the passage of the Glass bill. ¥ * K X * The Glass bill contains provision for the insurance of bank deposits. The administration and the President him- self have been reported to be opposed to such insurance. Yet the demand for some kind of guarantee of bank de- posits has grown so strong on Capitol Hill that it has-been written into the Glass-Steagall bank bills by overwhelm- ing votes. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, Republican, succeeded in having placed in the Glass bill as it passed the Senate an amendment pro- viding for immediate guaranty of bank deposits up to $2,500, as a temporary measure, until at the end of the year the more permanent structure for in- surance of bank deposits under the bill goes into effect. The Michigan senator, unless there is prompt action on the bank reform bill, will offer his bank deposit proposal as an amendment to the public works and industries bill or one of the other bills that has yet to come up for consideration in the Sen- ate. He believes that he can have it written into one of the measures, if necessary. Of course, the Glass-Steagall bill m be brought out of conl?r‘;nce With!‘yn the next few days and agreed to in both houses preparatory te being for- warded to the White House. Certainly that is the hope of the great bulk of members of Congress. But the course. of that measure will be watched with rt‘:;t: rrgmunow on by those who fear efforts to hamstring it ke g it are being % XK Republican ‘politics have been prett; much in abeyance since the ppr:senyb Congress met last March. True, some of the Republicans in the House and Senate have risen in their places and denounced the administration’s inflation proposals and more recently have at- tacked the proposal to wipe out the gold contracts for the payment of Gov- ernment and other bonds. How much these questions will figure in coming campaigns remains to be seen. The Re- publicans, too, have undertaken to make as much as they could of the soreness among the World War and other veter- ans at the administration’s paring down and elimination of payments to them. However, taking it by and large, Republicans politics have been largely adjourned during the last few months. * ok Walter Edge, former Senator from New Jersey and more recently Amer- ican Ambessador to France, is being talked of as a possible treasurer of the Republican National Committee. So far, the matter is understood to have gone no further than talk. However, some of the Republicans are anxious to have Mr. Edge take over this job. In the first place, Mr. Edge is a go-getter and the Republican finances need bol- stering—quite a bit of bolstering. Joseph L. Nutt of Cleveland is at present the National Committee treasurer and has been struggling with the deficit coming over from the last campaign. It won't be long now before the G. O. P. will seek to start building up again, in prep- aration for the congressional campaign of 1934. An entire House of Representa- tives must be elected then and one-third of the membership of the Senate. Funds will be needed. The Republican Na- #onal Committee will be looked to by the Republican Congressional Campaign Committees. Tardy Light. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. It takes 40 years for light to come to the earth from Arcturus and it takes some people nearly as long to see the light. ————— Tutoring Congress. From the San Antonio Evening News. Henry Morgenthau, jr., ccnducted & short course to explain to Congressmen the farm bill they had just passed. The idea is worth trying on lawmakers gen- them before | Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS | BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Thousands of government experts are working constantly for the benefit of all citizens of the United States. They will work directly for you if you will use our Washington Bureau. This newspaper employs Mr. Haskin to act as an agent for its readers. He will take your matter to the proper author- ity. ‘State your inquiry briefly, write clearly and inclose three-cent stamp | for a personal letter in reply. Do not use post cards. Address The Evening Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. How many keys has the standard- size plano accordion? Can modern dance music be played on 1t?—D. K. A. Pietro Deiro says that it has 41 piano keys and 120 basses. All the modern dance music can be played on this type of instrument. Q. Please describe the airobot or automatic pilot.—G. H. A. The new automatic pilot is a de- velopment of the Sperry device intro- duced by the late Dr. Elmer Sperry and his son. The apparatus is incased in a metal box about & foot square and adds but 30 pounds to the airplane’s weight. ‘The device, gyroscopically controlled and hydraulically operated, includes automatic turn control, automatic climb and descent control and specific elevation control. It is not designed to take the place of a pilot, but merely to relieve pilot and co-pilot of active manipulation of the controls. Q. How much has the domestic wheat carryover increased in the last few years?>—F. D. J. A. In 1927 the carryover was 71,000- 000 bushels. In 1§30 it had mounted to 215,000,000 bushels, and last year it was 277,000,000 bushels. Q. What is the monetary loss in- volved in stolen automobiles?>—C. P. A. On the basis of the loss of insured cars, which constitute about 43 per cent of the cars registered, the total loss last year was estimated at $72,000- 000, and that for 1931 at $75,000,000. Q. How old was President Pranklin Roosevelt's father at the time of his death?—W. M. A. He died in 1900, at the age of 72. Q. What s Pennsylvania's State flower, bird and tree?—T. N. J. A. The mountain laurel is the officlal State flower; the hemlock, the State tree, while the ruffed grouse was chosen as the bird. Q. When was the Arc de Triomphe erected in Paris?—A. K. A. The Arc de Triomphe de I'Etoile was begun in 1806 by Napoleon I, but not finished until 1836. Q. What is the hot north wind in Australia called?—A. L. A. It is known as a brickflelder. During November, December, and Janu- ary it is very severe. The temperature in Sydney sometimes rises to 107 de- grees under its influence. Q. Upon what basis is the estimate of the national wealth of the United States made?—E. L. A. It is the sum total of sical assets within the country. e fact that the national wealth has declined sharply indicates only that the value of these assets has declined, not that the assets themselves have vanished. The estimate does not include stocks, bonds and other securities, as these are merely titles to wealth. Q. Why is the celebrated mosque in geu;l called the Jamma Musjid?— "A. The first word is from the Sans- krit, Yamuna, meaning great, and Mus- jid is Arabic, meaning mosque. Q. What proportion of salt should be Pledge by Davis As Defeat Norman H. Davis, American Ambas- sador at Large, has aroused new inter- est among his fellow citizens in world peace and prospects of arms reduction by his statement of American policy. It offers co-operation by the Roosevelt administration in dealing with the causes of war and practical measures for maintaining peace. This develop- ment is considered a defeat for the isolationists. The position taken by the United States is summarized in the statement: “We are willing to consult the other states in case of a threat to peace with a view to averting conflict. Further then that, in the event that the states, in conference, determine that a state has been guilty of a breach of the peace in violation of its international obliga- tions and take measures against the violator, then, if we concur in the judgment rendered as to the responsi- ble and guilty party, we will refrain | from any action tending to defeat such collective effort which these states may thus make to restore peace. We are heartily in sympathy with the idea that means of effective, automatic and con- tinuous supervision should be found whereby nations will be able to rest assured that as long as they respect their obligations with regard to arma- ments the corresponding obligations of | their neighbors will be carried out ln‘ the same scrupulous manner. The | simplest and most accurate definition of an aggressor is one whose armed forces are found on alien soil in violation of treaties.” “These steps reflect high honor upon the administration,” declares the | Rochester Times-Union, while 1he“Bnlu- more Sun feels that Mr. Davis “spoke in the manner of a statesman and of a | man” with a “courageous acceptance of realities.” The Charleston (S. C.) Evening Post avers that “his attitude is | as practical as it is ideal and is thfifi very essence of wise statesmanship.”| The European response, in the opinion of the Oakland Tribune, “indicates a new harmony wave is rising in the Old World” The Providence Journal is| convinced that “there ;‘:; never a bettei | to outlaw war every proper | gr’z‘éeeflective device available,” and the | Nashville Banner states that “for the | first time progressive disarmament is a reasonable expectation.” The Buffalo Evening News concludes: “The United States has now laid its cards on the table. It is up to the other powers to| follow suit. Together they can by their | united efforts lift an intolerable burden bearing down upcn the backs of the | peoples of the world and establish real peace.” g | “Force of circumstances has made | American_isolation impossible,” advises the Topeka Daily Capital, a position which is taken also by the Sioux Falls Daily Argus-Leader, while the Lincoln State Journal believes that “cur ‘isola- | tion’ policy has been no more than a | name and has not existed in fact,” and the Des Moines Tribune, in & published dialogue, quotes an imaginary person | as saying that “most of the arguments | against our ‘playing ball’ with the rest of the world were just hocey.” The Newark Evening News asserts that “if armies can be so stripped of their offen- sive power that they have to stay &t home our remnant of isolationists will not have to worry about being dragged into war.” The Chicago Tribune offers | the judgment: “If the American decla- rations have the effect of smoothing the way to beneficent results in interna- tional relations without sacrificing im- portant considerations of our people's security and tranquillity, President | Roosevelt will have accomplished a great feat of statesmanship, and this we and | all the Nation will sincerely hope.” Noting the connection between the new declaration and the provisions of the Kellogg-Briand pact and Covenant of the League, the Fort Worth Star- Telegram says that “the effect is to! remove as as be the disabili- ties under which the United States and the cause of world peace labor Te- sult of this eou_!%:ry'l fail: n;edmfrmclcem-thom?— 8. A. Prof. W. E. Ayres of Cornell Uni- versity, says that one part of salt to six parts of ice. Crack the ice fine and have the freezing fub one-third filled before salt is added, then put in alternate layers of ice and salt. After the freezer is packed with the salt and ice, pour cold water over the ice until the water starts to run out of the overflow hole. This makes a bri== at once and the ll’eezfl‘)g1 cold brine takes the heat out of the mix and turns the mix into a frozen mass. The freezing time is cut to half by adding the water, he says. Q. Has the name of Ekaterinbu been changed under the Soviet regime? —H W. A. It has been changed to Sverdlovsk. Q. When was the “Mona Lisa” painted? —C. 8. ¥ A. It was probably begu: n 1500 and there is a tradition to the effect that the painting was worked upon during a period of at least four years. Q. Have many boarding schools re- duced their rates recently?—E. W. A. A recent survey shows that 40 per cent of the boarding schools of the country have reduced their rates for next season to meet the exigencies of sheir patrons. E Q. What was meant by a bounty jumper in Civil War days?—B. P. A. It referred to a man who enlisted in the Army when bounties were being paid for enlistments. After receiving the reward, he deserted. Often, the same man would collect several boun=- ties under different names. Q. What is the date of O. Henry's death?—C. P. G. A. He died June 5, 1910. Q. How many foreigners live in Lon- don?—L. T. A. The annual report of the com- missioner of police of the metropolis (London) for 1930 shows the num- ber of aliens over 16 years of age as 135,001, divided, in part, as follows: Ri , 46,463; Italian, 13,933; Ger- man, 11,886; French, 10,228; Swiss, 8,460; American, 6,357; Polish, 5,783; Dutch, 4,565; Belgian, 4,069. Q. Who first used the expression marriage?—E. J. A. It is thought that the term, com- nionate marriage was first employed Dr. Knight of Barnard College in an article published in 1924. Q. What were the weights of Corbett and Sullivan in their fighting days?—, C. H. G. A. According to the boxing record books, Jim Corbett’s weight during his fighting career was 187 pounds and John L. Sullivan's was 196 pounds. Q. How many people have committed suicide in the United States since the World War?—E. 8. A. An estimate based on the num- ber of suicides in the Death Registra- tion Area gives a few more than 195,000 deaths from suicide in the United States during the 13 years from 1919 to 1931, inclusive. Q. Where is the oldest railroad sta- tion in the United States?—T. R. A. Mount Clare in Baltimore is the oldest station not only in_the United States but in the world. It was buiit in 1830. It is now being used as a freight station. What gives lai Q. gh undry soep the yel- low or brown color it has?—L. W. T. A. Colophony being one of the fre- quent ingredients of laundry sodps, like all r es to the soaps a yellowish or bro color. Is Accepted for Isolationists and done quickly—to tional confidence.” “opens the way for world benefits equal to the domestic benefits now being pro- moted in this country by the policy of the President.” Salt Lake Deseret News states that the policies “may make us, without entering the Le-g\la as powerful in the cause of peace as we had taken that step.” The Harte ford Times sees a “purpose to presenf the United States as against selfishness and fear.” Among practical considera- tions, the Daily News mene tions the necessity for American par- ticipation in -éh permanent anmalznenl commission; the Dm Daily News, removal of “a main le to the sub- stitution of justice backed by ‘fifl!fl force, as distinguished from military Houston Chronicle, the San Antonio Express, of governments force, for the violence of war”; ting of stacles from the path of disarmament the ¥ ene from becoming tangled in unprofitable interventions™; the Indianapolis News, “lack of syme pathy with any longing on Germany's part for an army capable of leaving home,” and the Cleveland News, the warning that “there must be no ree armament, unless the whole race in armaments is to be run over again. Definiteness of the proposals is eme phasized by the Morgantown Dominion News and the Birmingham Age-Herald, The Danbury News-Times and Toledo Blade commend the limited nature of American participation, and the New York Times sees now in progress “a struggle between intensely nationalistic and international-minded conceptions.” “No surrender of our freedom of judgment by specific commitments for joint participation in acts of war” is expected by the Springfield (Mass.) !J_mont;hubu lfi:ron Eue:con Journal de- nies thal pul supports _“this amazing change of policy”; the Boston Transcript wonders if “we are not laying up future trouble for ourselves”; the Milwaukee Sentinel doubts existence of sentiment for ‘“collaboration in the maintenance of the status quo ia Europe,” and the Spokane Spokesman- Review warns against “a dim, une charted future.” Car Driver Protests Anti-Gas Tax Tags To the Editor of The Star: I am “boiling” with patrifitism this morning. There is a new gu:omcb.l. tag out which reads “Reduz' the Gas Tax.” I guess I am about as owner as there is to be seern: I am a Government clerk, ing care of my mother; am making sorts of sacrifices to run a car at all and want to keep it for my mother’s isake, but | Tl be darned it I would | like that on my car, when= the desperate need for ra +and the fact that a stai | stated that a gas tak was= | biggest revenue sources at of the Government. It seems there are still ple who are pen: P - a car a though I 't possibly few coppers extra for such Like a big circus about a little flea bite. r a car ese days, Golf and Fatigue, Prom the Davton Dally News.