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only, their jobs given them s a means of support, as a veritable measure of Government charity, should have bet- ter kits thsn the men who enlist for & ! longer period, who are subject to dan- fe S | rerous duty, who are in fact the reli- | ance of the country for the preserva- THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor |, s 11e peace. Are the tollet neces- | — — |sities of the conservation workers The Evening Star Newspaper COmPany | . .ter than those of the soldiers? Or| llth, 8t and Pennolvania Ave |5 it the theory that the members of icago Office: Lake Michigan Building. the conservation army are accustomed repean Office M iand "t > LOM™ | {5 better and finer and more numerous | materfals for the upkeep of their per- sons while engaged in toil? No matter how the riddle of the re- 60c per month | sponsibllity for the high-rate contract | may be solved. this matter will rematn, | T e Ui w1 the uid of cach month, | L0 be answered some day by some one | AR S mail or telephone | i ynquestionable authority. Thus far | it has not been met with any satis- | tactory explanation. Meanwhile, it is in order to ask what the effect upon Army morale has been of this indul- | gence in more expensive and betler | | kits for the short-term forest workers than (hose that are issued to the long-| term bearers of Uncle Sam's arms. | Cyrus H. K. Curtis. One of the gentlest and the most THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C WEDNESDAY......June 7, 1933 Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evening Star..... . .. ...45cper month e Evening and Sunday Star (when 4 Sundass) The Evening and Sunday Star (when 5 Sundays) 65 per month Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ily d day....1yr.$10 00 U £ 11 Bindas only | 3400, 1yr. 1 mo - 40¢ All Other States and Canada. il d Sundayv.. 1¥yr.$1200: 1 mo. 3100 Bally amig SN0 135 Ym0 1mol 7 unday only . 1yr. $5.00: 1 mo. B80c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled 1o the ute for republication of all news dis- | re 1 news THE EVENING Federal Reserve banks in stock specu- lation. It would make it impossible for private bankers, like J. P. Morgan & Co., to remain banks of deposit and also to engage in investment banking. | It would make it impossible for officers or partuers of banks like the Morgan firm to remain as members of the boerds of directors of the great indus- trial and commercial corporations of the country. The deposit insurance feature of the bank reform Dbill has drawn the fire of many bankers and of the ad- ministration. As the Dbill passed the House the insurarce of deposits sec- tions were not to go into effect for & year. The Senate inserted the so-called Vandenberg amendment, providing for immediste insurance of bank deposits up to $2.500. Opponents of insurance of deposits say that it would put & premium on bad bauking: that some of the weaker Lanks would immediately close up and let the Insurance fund pay Off their depositors. and thus eunable the stockholders and the direciors of these banks to escape their personal bility under existing law. The answer to this latter criticism is that the weak- er banks have not been permitied to fo it or not otherwi ited in this Pap er and also the ioca published herein Al rights of publication of special dispate hes herein are also reserved e Widows' Pensions. There is so much confusion resulting from the wholesale reorganization of the pension system that even the au- thorities versed in such matters are be- wildered and unable, in many cases, t0 lovable of men passed to his rest early | Feopen. and thai until they are n a | this morning. Advanced in years, frail | Position 10 do business soundly they in health and recently deprived of the &ré mot likely to reopen. As for companionship of his loyal helpmate, | PULNE & premium on bad banking, |Cyrus H. K. Curtis has disappeared | !¢ systemis likely to make the con- | through the curtains of the infinite, and | t¥ibutors to the insurance fund careful this world will know him no more. The W compel good banking by all. occasion will be one of mowrning for| What the counwy needs is fully re- (housands. People who never had the | established confidence in ils banking privilege of cquaintance with the man | SYstem and Ifs banks. The American STAR, “Dear Sir: As a reader of your column, may I ask about the following | You have had several erticles in the past year deploring the difficulty of | raising good roses in the average home | garden, yet I noticed the cther day, | on passing your place, that you had some of the nicest roses I have seen. Permit me to inquire, in the vernacu- iar, how come? Sincerely, ! 3NN The best answer to that is the easiest one, that good roses are always worth the trouble they cause. Only the honest raiser of roses is willing to admit their difficulty. [Even the catalogues have reached the point, in this year of 1933, when they realize that discrimination 1s essential; there are roses and roses, and many of them have no place in the small home garden. If any one sees good roses in a gar- den, he will know that the grower thereof had enough common seuse 1o | select easily cultured plants, in the first place, and then to let them alone, as far as possible. There are simple rules, but, like most simple things, need interpre- tation, not only by some one, but by every one. That is, plain rules for good rose growing may be leid down by any one, but each perron who attempts to follow them must make his own inter- pretations of them as he goes along. Nothing will take the place of common sense in rose growing *ox ok o | There are now hundreds of varieties of Toses of the bush type. together with more hundreds of varieties of climbers. | The number of these which are suited | for growing in the average home gurden {18 wonderfully small. “Lhis mean for & second that the remainder | WASHINGTON, does 1ot | , D. C. WEDNESDAY. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. cate them in onc’s own garden, they brush the warning aside. Well. it is brave to grow them. any- way, and try for one’s self. This is the bravery of the garden, to attempt | something for one’s self. ‘There nothing like trying. after all. The writer here will never forget his first experiences with the beautiful Souvenir | de Claudius Pernet. ! the florist’s window. Surely any one might duplicate them outdoors. Well one did not. nor did any one else Gradually the catalogues admitted as much. that the flower was exiremely difficult to secure in its best state in the out of doors. And. of course, if one could not grow it to its maximum of perfection, one did not care Lo grow it at all. It had that sort of beauty. *oxoxox Proper selection, therefore, is the first rule. Stick to the better-known old favorites of everybody's garden. “The voice of the people is the voice | of God.” in the garden at least. Most people want flowers, with a minimum of fuss. To get them, one needs & hardy, trouble-free bush or climber. If one secures them, and has good roses as & result, he should laugh up his sleeve thereafter when he hears any one sneer at his varieties. The sneering business has been cverworked in all lines, and particularly among the flowers. The fact that he grows good roses, however, from his few and chosen plants, does not mitigate in the least the extreme difficulty of growing many of the others well. Frankly. they need more care than the mverage home gardener is going to give them. He may talk “big" at first Like yellow water| lllies, its blooms seemed, Teposing in | JUNE 7. 1933. Pleads for War-Time | Emergency Employes | To the Editor of The Star. Several times recently I have read in | | your valuable daily of the action urged | | the Senate selfishly by officials of the National Federation of Federal Em-| ployes to amend some bill or other, to provide, for themselves mainly, that em- | ployes appointed in connection there- | with be placed under civil service and under the classified act with regard to | alary. But there is a vast army, un- ortunately, unorganized as yet, who | see another angle of it and have not | voiced it. | The act was an emergency one. per- | haps not creating a permanent ad- ministration, sponsored and signed by | a beloved and alert President and passed by an alive and sympathetic Congress, | for the relief of a grief-stricken people, | s a new deal, enabling & few outside Civil Service to obtain &n appointment | after, perhaps, years of unemployment, | distress and anxiety. ] Then comes along those who have | enjoyed months, snd even years, of favored employment &s (o hours, holi- days and salaries in the Government, wives of husbands more than gainfully mployed, daughters of earning fathers | nd Government employes with large sums of money saved, whose precious health of body and of mind would im- prove by an enforced vacation, who seek |to hold their jobs and would seek the | return of those furloughed, to the ex- clusion of myriads of good. honest, well | educated, trained, ambitious, healthy {and needy men and women who fill the streets of Washington and of every | city of our fair land. Among these |needy are (a) crushed fathers of familles, (b) saddened widows with de- | pendents, (c) anxious single men and women, ~with dependents, perhaps | | orphaned by fate, with no one to look to for support in utter despair. The ranks of this army, I venture, is greater tiau auy bonus army. | ! “'With such conditions as exist today. T | | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. This is a special department devoted solely to the handling of queries. This paper puts at your disposal the serv- ices of an extensive organization in Washington to serve gou in any capacity that relates to infomation. This serv- ice is free. Failure to make use of it deprives you of benefits to which you are entitied. Your obligation is only 3 cents in coin or stamps inclosed with your inquiry, for direct reply. Do not use post cards. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau. Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. What is the purchasing power of farmers compared with the beginnings of the last two decades>—T. R. T. A. Using the last pre-war year, 1913, as a base representing 100, it is found that farm purchasing power now is 109, or 9 points higher than it was then. In 1930 it was 146, in 1920 it was 206 and in 1910 only 98. Q. Who started the Gold Star Mother :’Ip;' to the cemeteries abroad?—K. A. The Gold Star Assoeiation of America_organized & pi'grimage to France in 1927, and it was the ma organization interested in pushing the bill through Congress which authorized the sending of Gold Star Mothers to France to visit their sons’ graves. The act was signed by President Coolidge on | March 2, 1929. Q Why are gray-haired Japanese | scldom seen? Do they dye thelr hair? A. There are many gray-haired Jap- ‘anese. A few of them dye their hair, but this is not the usual custom. Q. What by hot-house in | | not watering it more than once a week. Set the lawn mower so it will cut the grass high. Government specialists found that crabgrass can thrive whem clipped closely, because it spreads along the ground, but that the blue- grass must have considerable leaf growth to develop a root system to compete with crabgrass. When given & chance to grow, the bluegrass can chok: out the crabgrass. Q. What papers written by a famous magazine author set forth the opposi- |tion of the Whigs to our war with Mexico in 1848?—T. A. R. | _A. The “Biglow Papers,” by Joseph Russell Lowell, humorously set forth the opposition of the Whigs. Q. Who is the legal adviser to the Chinese government—R. S. ; Judge Paul Myron Linebarger is, and has been for many years, the’ legal adviser to the Nationalist govern- ment in China. Judge Linebarger re- | turned from China last November an | spent part of the Winter in Mexieo in’ | the interests of the Chinese domiciled in that Republic. He is sailing soon for his post in Nanking. . Q. How much freight is hauled on the principal American canals?>—W. J. A. Erie Canal, 3,722,000 tons; Sault. Ste. Marie, 44,614,000 tons. Q. Is an improvement on a machine | patentable?>—S. D. A. In the case of Smith vs. Nichols, 21 Wall. 118, the court said, “A new idea may be ingrafted upon an old in- vention, be distinct from the concep- tion which preceded it, and be an im- provement, In such case it is patent- able. The prior patentee cannot use it (the patented improvement) with- % ic | hims : cople Liave been greatly is _meant estimate the direct result of the drastic himself. but who nevertheless lonored Peob! v o sbout the Decessity for much spraying [if I were a married woman With & jambo_ [, M. D, out the consent of the improver, and wnd sdmired him, will joln wilh those | who were fortunste enough personally | reductions which go into effect next July. But, as in the case of the revela- tions concerning the extent of the re- duetions to the actually combat-disabled veterans of the World War, the reali- | yation of what the pension reductions will mean to some of the widows of of- ficers and men who served in former wars is startling. The reverberationsre- | sulting from such knowledge, when it becomes general time to come. As the Army and Navy Journal has three pennies he entered upon & busi- pointed out, the new regulations Will ness enterprise which in the course of | do a great injustice to many Wwidows |three score years was to witness such | of officers and men of the regular serv- ice unless remedial steps are taken. The widows of distinguished officers of lohg service, for instance, have had their monthly pensions reduced from $30 to $15—and as these widows are the survivors of veterans of the Span- ish-American and other wars of the more distant past, the reductions have | eome to them in advanced age. Many | of them are more than seventy years old. If they enjoy an independent income of more than a thousand dol- jars a year, they are wiped off the ence was unive immediate and in- pension list entirely. timate. Mr. Curtis became & force for One of the elements that makes this cultural progress in the homes of the | smile. He had the power to touch hearts far beyond the normal circle of is an event of national significance. The narrative of Mr. Curtis' career | forecast. | veloped three distinct ypes of peri- | odicals—the Saturday Evening Post, the and prosperous maturity. content as was made as nearly perfect in format and |and savings. humanly possible. | positor requires first from a bank s | less one is really experienced. learn that during this depression in Great Britain and in Canada there to have come within the radius of his have been almost no failures of banks | of deposit there, while in the United | main the cardinal rule for happy rose | States they have run into thousands, The | 8IOWIDg in the home garden, an ordinary individual's influence, and | supporters of bank deposit insurance Ope may put bushes in it is for this reeson that his departure | urge, and with justice, that proper re- | and get flowers, without in any sense | forms in the system, separating abso- lutely the commercial banking busi- is a “success story” fascinating to re- | ness from the investment banking, plus 1, will be heard for some view. He had his origin in poverty and | & reasonable insurance of bank deposits, | | obscurity. With no more capital than Will not only restore confidence, but | | will also help develop an impregnable | banking system. Not only will the failure of bank re- !'development, such expansion, as not | form legislation be & real blow to re- Peven his most ardent hopes could have | covery, but it will continue a system Out of his genius he de- | which has been shown to be a faflure. Too many bankers, in their efforts to | reac! Ladies’ Home Journal and the Country | mcney, have been permilted to engage | Gentleman. Each of these he nursed | either directly or through ‘“affiliates” | from inconsequential infancy to hardy | in many kinds of business which have | Each he ! jeopardized their depositors’ earnings | h out to make more and more After all, what a de- Nothing else in the world was quite | the surety that when he needs his like the result he schieved. Its influ- | money he will be able to obtain it.|averag - Henry Ford lays down the simple rule that the way to meet a situation reduction peculiarly unjust s its con- trast with the compensation which &, land. He was & clvilizing factor. It may be that the secret cf the thing he did lay in its essential Amer- icanism. His very soul was symptom- Iatic of the folk from which he came, and In his publications he managed to | | institutionalize the sulhentic ideclogy generous Government plans for the widows of men cf the Conservation Corps. These have all been covered under the benefits of the United States employes' compensation act. When & involving taxes is to pay them from the profits of & carefully-managed business. Mr. Ford may yet be men- tioned as a possibility for Secretary of the Treasury. ] By the time the eighteenth amend- are not good roses, but it dues mean | that they probably will not be good for | you! Tutelligent choice, therefgre, must re- ! e wish word “happy.” to the ground. | we could accent that | achieving happiness, either for one's | self or for the bushes. | The truth is that the easy flower to grow to perfection—and unhappily, perhaps. perfection is just what every one wants, even the new comer to the field. With other flow ers the amateur may be satisfied with mediocre results, but with the rose it is different. A bush which does not develop right soon informs even the most unobservant grower of the fact. A few blosoms of fair quality, on | stalks which somehow impress the in- | experienced -and _ rightly —with their ragged quality, will never satisfy. Truly one does not have to be an expert in any sense, to know mediocre rose growing when he sees it, even when he | sees it in his own yard * ok ox x ‘The catalogue, we are convinced, is | the last place to go to select roses, un- Where one should select them, in- deed, is out in the ground, in Ssome e garden Where they are grow- |ing. and where one can see them as they are, under average conditions. | No one can blame the catalogues for detailing the merits of each specimen Properly grown, each one perhaps lives up to the description. ‘Then, too, those who deal in such things are no differ- | ent from the rest of us: novelly in- trigues them as well as us. ‘The old stand-bys, however, the roses | which average citizens have found sat- isfactory, ought to be the ones chosen for the average yard. Yet every one has had the experi- e Tose is not an F and powdering and fertilizing, but in time his enthusiasm lags; he begins | to feel that Nature did not mean him to xbt a rosarian, honorable title though it is. * oK ok That is the truth. ‘There are only a few rosarians wor- | thy of the name in the world at any one time. By “rosarians” we do not mean hy- bridizers, creators of new varieties only, but all persons who really love this one flower so much that they are willing to go to any trouble and expense to grow it properly. | The average home-owner simply does | not qualify. He loves all the flowers, and wants to have as many as he can | all his time | around him. To spend potiering around his rosebushes is un- thinkable, as far as he is concerned. | * ok ok % He is right. In the average garden the rose has| its place, but only its place. Those who love roses the most are the first to admit this obvious, natural | truth. The better one loves roses, the | more he loves all flowers. If he has & small piace, he will have to choose be- tween a few specimens of many, and | a large number of a few. Most of us prefer the former, as it gives more scope, more flowers and, above all, more outlet for the human spirit of in- vestigation, that good curiosity which wants to know, rather than just to have. Possession of a garden of roses | will never compare, for the average person, 1o possession of a garden of many flowers, jucluding a few good roses. husband earning, I would be mortally | ashamed to sign the payroll. I would | feel my place was chiefly in the home. | Had I but $15 a month income, I| | would never have left my home a month ago to seek work in the Nation’s | Capital. 1 em an orphan. with no one to look to for support, but well fitted to take | care of myself if. given an opportunity. who, in 1917, when the cannon were, | belching death over Europe's western | front, and members of the bonus army | | were ' manning them, read on the | movie screens, “Without clerical force: | at Washington, our armed forces Wi | fall,” left everything and came here | and remained five years with the Gov- | ernment. I felt that if the Unitec ! States Government could be so mag- nanimous with its veterans it coulc do something for its workers in tem- porary need, whose supreme sacrifice | heretofore unsung, in the influenza ep- | idemic in 1918, in Washington alone was over 500 young women. | Having permanent civil service | ctatus, after successfully passing over seven examinations, I certainly have | no desire to break down such & factot for good in the greatest of all Gov-| ernments, but there is reason to al | things. I am, however, inclined to be- | lieve that the vote of last November elec- tion was indicative that a new deal was | desired, that some new people woulc | like a show at some new appoint-| ments; that the money, so long| | hoarded by a few, be changed from | some pockets to others, to the end| that during this brief life on earth| all may enjoy three meals a day anc| at night a safe place to stay. | | { During the World War civil service | barrfers were let dewn considerably. | Why can’t they be temporarily le! | down now, especially on these bills en- titled “emergency relief”? Could it be thought by the Federa’ Employes’ Union that civil service rule: The selection of easily grown roses which, at the same time, are good roses, 'is the first rule. The second is to let them alone, as far &s possible. Too much care of roses, s of most | | lowers, is worse than none at all, far | worse. More roses are worrled to death A. The term is applied to any Winter lambs born out of season, which are prepared for the market about Easter time. Such lambs have to be housed indoors, hence the term. Q. How long have railroa trains been air-cooled?—R. A. The first air-conditioned car was a dining car on the Baltimore & Ohio in 1930. The next year a completely air-conditioned train was put in serv- ice on this railroad for the first time. Q. How old is Lenore Ulric>—M. T. A. This American actress was born in Minnesota in 1892. Q. Were Romans required by law to wear certain costumes?—G. N. d_passenger D. A. Custom rather than law governed | The toga was worn by | Senators as a matfer of custom. How- | most_costumes. ever, a law of Constantine required that Senators and comedians must wear dif- ferent garb so they could be told apart. Q. How much s the admission to the | fair grounds in Chicago?’—S. R. A. The admission to the fair grounds is 50 cents. The majority of the ex- hibits are free. Q. Please name some of tl manufactured of wood—S. C. A. Smokeless powder, oils, insulating materials, rayon, cellophane, dyestuffs, soap. Q. Where did the Marquis de La- yette die?>—N. R. A. He died in Paris, May 20, 1834./ Funeral services were held in this| country, when the news of his death was received, because of the services the Prenchman had rendered in the | Revolution. 3 Q. What can be done to get rid of | crabgrass in a bluegrass lawn?—T. L.| A. The Department of Agriculture rec- | ommends letting the lawn grow from an | he products C. fa the latter cannot use the original in- vention without the consent of the former.” Q. Did a son of Alexander Hamilton fight a duel>—S. G. A. Philip Hamilton fought s duel st Weehawken, N. J., in the place wi the Burr-Hamilton duel occurred three years later. Young Hamilton was shot. and mortally wounded, dying 20 “hours al t by “stik saflors?” le Q —M. M. A. This term is applied to making emergency parachute from airplanes in the United States. They are also spoken of as belonging | to the Caterpillar Club. The member- ship is now 552. Twenty-three of this hat is m M. once in this manner. Q. Why is so much work in marine biology done off the coast of Bermuda? —N. B. | be carried on throughout the year, and the waters furnish excellent examj of marine life. The Bermuda Bio- logical Station has recently been erected | and equipped with the latest laboratory | equipment. | | name?>—G. D. A. The word is French, being the diminutive of cigare. The Jatter is de- rived from the Spanish, Portuguese and Italian cigarro, which was originally the ml:: of a kind of tobacco grown in Q. Is the name of Lot's wife men- tioned in the Bible?—C. H. N. J A. Tt is not. Biographical data con- D85 number have escaped death more than . A. The climate is such that work can Q How did cigarettes get their cerning Lot simply state that he was % the son of Haran (a brother of Abra- ham), who died before his father, ‘Terah, who brought up his he Conservation Corps is|of the oWherwise inarticulate masses. | ] % U member of the C Ps | ment is dispensed with alcoholic rev-|ence of hearing the merest amateurs than are killed in any other way, even | 8¢ more vital than human lives? | inch and a half to two inches high and ' Killed by being struck on the head by a falling limb of a tree, for instance, his widow will receive a monthly benefit of about $45 as long as she lives or [ of the men and officers who served in the Spanish-American War, the Philip- pine Insurrection or the Boxer Rebel- | the materials to compose the chronicle | until she remarries. But the widows | He knew the national mind, and it was his joy to mirror it. nothing was too large and nothing too small to be omitted from the picture ss he ccnceived it. The historian of the common folk of the United States will find 1n the files of his magazines There can be no better As it happened, | Mon, or all three, will receive $15 8 of the age. month in place of the $30 a month they | source. were formerly receiving. The member | In the field of daily journalism Mr. | ‘of the Conservation Corps who dies as | Curtis made many trials. His most the result of an attack of Rocky Moun- successful ventures were the Philadel- | tain spotted fever, suffered after the phia Public Ledger and Evening Ledger, | ®ita of & tick, will leave to his wWidow & | and the New York Evening Pcst. He | pension of $45 a month. But the was at an age when most men would | jwidows of the men and officers Who pe contemplating retirement when he | rished aboard the Akron will now re- took charge of their destinies, but he ceive a flat pension of $22 a month, lived to see them approximating the iwegardless of rank, with eight dollars ideal he held for them. They are great ‘additional for one child and four dollars papers, invaluable to the communities 'for each additional child. A widow with they serve. Sthree children whose husband died However, Mr. Curtis was not merely hen the Akron crashed will receive 8 g talented and fortunate publisher. He fon of $38 & month. This will com- | had many other interests to which he g::: with the $45 & month to be Te- gave generously of his time and| eeived by the widow with no children strength. Music was one of these, and Pwho survives the member of the Con- he did much to aid in the democrati- | pervation Corps who died in the woods. | zation of the art. Through his concern | There are other inequities ard in-| for worthy illustrations for his periodi- jqualities that wiil doubtless become 8p- | cals he exercised a vast constructive | ent when the full effects of the pen- | jnfluence upon drawing and painting. | fsion cuts are known. They will not be He was the sponsor of far-reaching | ectified, of course, by reducing the|improvements in advertising and in the Jpension of the Compensation Corps printing craft. He supported the best | @widow to the level of the pensions re-|in architecture. Above all, he con-| ved by the widows of the Akron vic- | tributed toward the elevation of civic | ims, nor by reducing &ll of them 10 gnd social standards. A man of lib- he level of the $15 received by WidoWs eral temperament, he never essayed 10 | Spanish War vetcrans. And to in-| dictate; he was content to persuade. Tease the pensions is to cost more! ) his methods were as gentle as his oney and knock the administration’s | opjectives were helpful, kind and good. | dget-balancing plans askew, just as| .The Little White Father” was the he removal of inequities in Velerans'| nickname by which he was known mpensation have disarranged these among his employes. The title was | lans. amply merited. It might be used for | But injustices to these widows must pis epitaph. | e removed. Some of them can be re- i B S “ f“"“’ by & more thorough re-examina-, mpe coron crop will be marketed | on of the effect of the orders. But &' . "\ ot this year, experts declare. obvious that too many dollars have |y, nave again asserted economic en "’““_“;" = "“"’d; "““‘;" CAME ower by their decree that cotion shall rom the widows and orphans of men 1o be et ¥ M unfortunately solved even by admirable tact in get- enues may be rendered comparatively | small by the fact that so much taxes in other directions have been required of | the consumer. ] Diplomatists sometimes find them- selves handicapped by the fact that while & formal foreign audience does not take their remarks in absolute on doing so. e A tax may be equipped with as many disguises as the detective in a melo- drama, but after much dialogue it al ways turns out to be the same old “Hawkshaw.” e Marchers constitute a problem which cannot be completely ting them out of town peaceably. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. No Alibi. My Radio! My Radio! When you directly quote No young reporter you can show Who “garbled” what you wrote. There’s n compositor to take ‘The customary blame; There's no proofreader you can make A martyr with no fame. My Radio! My Radio! Though your assertion flat May bring embarrassment, we know You said it; and That's That. The Grim Future. “How are you going to enjoy yourself this Summer?” “I'm not going to enjoy myself,” an- swered Senator Sorghum. to put in my time, as usual, worrying about next Winter. Jud Tunkins says it begins to look to him as if it were either wonderfully | openly disparage such _sterling things as Radiance and Red Radiance. They prefer, they say. certain newer roses, immense specimens of which may | be seen in the florist's window. Point |out to them, even gently, that per- | haps one might not old | be able to dupli- | by insects and fungi. One way of pes- tering & rosebush is to water it all the time. The good kind instancec need amazingly little water. They are veritable camels. In such a wet sea- son as this they need no human assist- ance in so far as water is concerned. || WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS seriousness, the home folks may insist | The extra session of the Seventy- third Congress is headed toward a | stormy close. Congressional insurrec- tion against the administration’s cuts |in veterans' pensions and compensa- | tions is attaining the proportions of a full-fledged revolution. ~The whole ecenomy scheme and the budget” are in jeopardy. The Prest: dent says to Congress in subsiance | If you give the war velerans more | money, you must givé the country more taxes. If you want to do both, go |ahead and let the consequences be on your own heads. The banking bill is pocketed in a conference committee. Congress insists on provision for the immediate guaranty of bank deposits. The White House and the Treasury strongly object. The result may be | no bank bill at this session. A tariff resolution and ratification of the St. Lawrence treaty remain in the offing. The national industrial recovery act, | industry control-public works taxe: | looks to be en route to speedy passage | by the Senate, but it packs many ex- i and the old adage. t the cup and the There is to | | | | “Many a slip 1ip.” is highly pertinent. | & manufacturers’ faint hope of success. tainty of the | Congress does adjourn convene until after New Year, 1934 * ok ok % Col, Louis Mcienry Howe is worry- ing about kittens rather than about kits. The kittens are of Persian ex- traction and California vintage and one 'm is scheduled to bear the mon- 'Col. Howe," provided its sex per- The chief of the White House i mits. worTies | secretariat made public his | bow last Sunday night. He told also | London Economic Conference, how busy they were with pad and pencil trying to figure out how to keep within the six-dollar-per-diem limitation in their expense account. ‘The colonel indulged in other gentle spoofing com- “balanced | be a last-minute attempt to substitute | les tax, but with | The only cer- | moment is that when | 1t will not re- | | New Mexico, according to the glowing prospectus. If these treasures be now :ocated our money troubles may disap- pear as if by magic and President Curtis may be the hero of the hour, as well as rich. * oK K K The Roosevelt plum tree bore addi- tional fruit this week, and, as before, | the plums were bestowed upon those who were aboard the Roosevelt band wagon “before Chicago"—who helped in “the pre-convention fight. M. S. Szymczak of Chicago landed a place on Lhe Federal Reserve Board as a post- shumus award to the late “Tony” Ce:- | mak, Chicago's mayor. According to the legend, it was at Miami—on the very day when Mayor Cermak was the target of an assassin’s bullet—that he | had obtained a promise from “F. D.” and from Jim Farley that the mayor's trusty lieutenant, Szymczak, would be given “a good job” in Washington, That promise is now fulfilled, for a Federal Reserve Board membership is rated a super-excellent jcb. Carroll Miller of Pittsburgh was given a place on the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion. His politics is in his wife's name | —Mrs. Miller is Pennsylvania's Demo- cratic national committeewoman, and her brother is Joseph F. Guffey, Penn- sylvania Roosevelt leader. EE | Another title for the Tennessee River | Valley Authority, as now constituted, | |may well be Mcrgan, Morgan & Co Mr. Roosevelt's chairman of this board |is Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, president of | Antioch Callege, Ohio. Another Mor- gan is now added to the board, and, like | his Morgan colleague, he is a college president, too—president of the Uni- versity of Tennessee. The Tennessee about the kittens in his initial radio | Mr. Morgan is an entomologist, geolo- | | gist and horticulturist. He was con- “I'm going | al] about the American delegates to the | Nected with the Louisiana State Univer- Experimental | |sity “and Agricultural | Station from 1889 to 1904, when he | became entomologist for the Loulsiana It might be well to remind somc that there is a more far-reaching | mandate of God than any civil servicc regulation, the one to those who, hav- | ing the substance of this world, anc see_their brothers in need. Personally, after a year's unemploy- | | ment, I feel like paraphrasing thc wm".us of the illustrious Patrick Henry to “Give me a job or give me death.” = | M. TERESA McKENNA. ) !Lower Interest Rates A Financial Paradox | To the Editor of The Star: ‘ Much has been written of late the justice of lowering interest ::23;‘ because of the difficulty experienced by | borrowers in finding funds wherewith lo!:neel theh’— obligations. ‘ | However, it would seem that this | question might " assume & difersng | | aspect according to the standpoint | from which regarded. i | As a matter of fact. when the dollar | is scarce and is therefore said to be | orth more than 100 cents,” why | | should not the amount charged for its | use be increased, rather than dimin- Ished? Suppose that several years ago, when | money was low and commodities high, | A wished to buy a farm held at $7,000, | but, having only $5,000 available, de- cided to lend the money to B at 6| per cent. Along comes the “depres- | sion,” bringing prices down, and the | aforesaid farm drops correspondingly to $5,000. A asks B to repay the loan | so that he may take advantage of the | low prices and buy the farm with the | Pproceeds, but B alleges slack times as | a ground for inability to repay. and not only demands a “moratorium.” but a reduction of interest, and even hints | at a paring down of the principal itself! © Where is the justice here? Would it not be trebly unjust to A to have to accept less interest, sacrifice a part of his capital and forego the | opportunity offered of acquiring his | coveted rural domain all at the same | time? Would it nat be a sort of financial paradox if one man enjoying the use of another man’s savings should be | authorized to pay only 60 per cent of | the original charge for such use at| the very time when the money had | risen 40 per cent in purchasing value? Perhaps some may say that these | arguments are all from the lender's | | Experimental Station and crop pest | | commissioner. He went then to the | | University of Tennessee, where he be- | point of view. So be it! They a; submitted with an invitation thayt c:'s fectual counter-arguments be brought : grandson, Lot, with Abraham and his other son. Great I:a;kes W May Prove Decision of the United States Su- preme Court that the State of Illinois must accept the responsibility for delay by the city of Chicago in pi ring to reduce the diversion of water from Lake Michigan through the city drainage canal may, the public believes, affect other States. The lake city has been ordered by the court to reduce the amount of water taken, and this in- volves expense of $139,000.000 for con- struction of a Chicago sewage plant. Chicago is unable to raise the money, and the State will have a heavy burden, though the possibility of aid from the Federal Finance Corporation is sug- gested. 2 “There is no clear way,” according to the Chicago Tribune, “in which the people of the State can find the money in time to satisfy the court’s mandate. The Tribune adds “This compulsion throws the obligation upon Federal revenue. * * * The right to Federal funds to meet Federal requirements is apparent. Money for the sewage dis- posal plants must be supplied by the R. F. C. or_from some other Federal distributive fund.” Observing that the Chicago_sagitnry district “is in_financial straits, the New Orleans Times-Picayune refers to the complaints of neighboring States which initiated court action and states: “The appeal of those States has been granted, despite the Tllinois contention, first, that it should not be held re- sponsible for the sa;m.:ry district’s ob- igation—and, second, {(g raise the necessary funds. To the representation that Tliinols cannot -pro- vide this money, the court of last re sort replied: ‘Despite existing ‘economic difficulties, the State has adequate re- sources, and we find it impossible to conclude that the State cannot devise appropriate and adequate ~financial measures * * * to the end that its obligation * * * as adjudged by tl‘fls court, shall be properly discharged. ecalling that the complainants were Mghigfln. gM'mnesou, ©Ohio and Wiscon- sin, and that the requirement is for the reduction of the diversion of water to 1,500 cubic second-feet by 1938, the Buffalo Evening News offers | the explanation: “This project has| December 31 hat it Is unable | > | ater Deecree Costly to States: | This water belongs to the Great Lakes and the Niagara and St. Lawrence s ready"to dispose “Chicago now_gets | of its sewage by other draining the Great Lakes the Mis- sissippi River,” avers the Dayton Daily News. The Rock Isiand re- the money ments: land has held that the Chicago sani- is to come from,” com- of Illinois. ~ This attributed relations! will cost Illinois about $139,000,000. The district, whose treasury was looted in the whoopee days, has furthermore | been ‘exonerated.’ Illinois, resenting ‘the imputation of parentage, will en- deavor to persuade Uncle Sam to take over the foundling, left on its door- step. “What the Governor of Illinois and the taxpayers outside of Chicago said when they heard of the decision hasn't been reported yet,” says the Escanaba Daily Press, “but possibly the Gover- nor and the Illinois Senators will not hereafter be so zealous in helping Chi- | cago oppose the St. Lawrence water- | way because she resents interference | with an unlimited supply of lake water | for her sewers. N |Gas Tax Makes Motor Owners Pay Too Much To the Editor of The Star: All this gasoline tax controversy around the District of Columbia but goes to show the inequality of the whole | tax system. Virginians seem to be put- ting up the biggest kick, and with reason, for their tax is the highest, but | the discrepaney between States and the | District is not the fault of the ol companies. If dealers and citizens want a change, let them go to their :cglls!;a'i:ms; legislators knew what voul appen when they imposed the Lndl‘!ens&b'ig gasoline tax. 4 = Users of roads ought to pay for them, and in proportion to benefits, but the Argus, & marking that “nobody knows where all | e highest tribunal in the - tary district is the ‘baby’ of the State - ot gone ahead as fast as it should go, | 2o the contesting States, which repre- | sent that water levels have been re duced by the Chicago diversion to the of shipping on the Great to bear in refutation. WILFRED STEVENS. e pounding a fifteen-minute radio cock- | came director of the agricultural ex- tail, which had a favor faintly rem- | Perimental station. In 1913 he was | iniscent of & blend of Will Rogers, Ed made dean of the college of agricul- | Wynn, Uncle Josh Billings and Mr.‘“‘" of the university and six years | gasoline tax makes users pay too muen. The cost of all roads should be as- sessed, first, against all land according to actual and potential rent of same, hom the Government owes a debt leasy to make money or absolutely impossible. ———— e its budget at the expense of wid- The Bank Reform Bill. Confusion. later became president. Eu Government cannot expect to bal- e s and orphans. The bank-reform bill, passed by huge e votes in both Senate and House, is in With evidence that business is get- danger of being sidetracked, first, be- | Eu. better every day comes the unmis- | cause of the failure of the two houses akable Assurance that it is also grow- | 10 agree on its final terms, and, second, | ing more interesting. | because of the opposition of the admin- —= | istration to any immediate guarantee of bank deposits. No other legislution | proposed during the present session of | the Cangress is more vital to public in- terret and to recovery in this country | on permanent and stable lines | than this bank reform measure. If it fails to become & law the people will | have Just cause for complaint. The differences which exist are not in- | superable and are capable of adjust- | ®f the army of the unemployed than Ment. Sliff-necked opposition at this | the members of the Regular Army. Juncture, with Congress approaching only excuse for the higher price , adjournment, is, after all, merely play- Rhat was so oddly arfanged for by the INg into the hands of those bankers Weritable chain of authorities was that Who are opposed to this kind of legis- Bhe kit was to be larger, containing |lation. nore articles and of a better quality. ~ What does this bank-reform bill seek r———— Better and Bigger Kits. When all is said and done about the | atter of the contract for the “Kits” r the conservation workers, which as caused much potiier of explanation d cross-explanation and a confusing hifting of responsibility for the trans- tion, the final question is why there ould have been provision of & better uipment for these temporary workers [ There was a statesman long ago Whose argument went flat. He paused ‘mid eloquence aglow And said “Where am I at?” We find our country now and then, Discussing this and that, ‘Takes counsel with all mortal men And seys “Where am I at>” Too Small Even for Jest. “Dg you approve of jokes about bath- ing suits?” “No," enswered Miss Cayenne, “any- thing as small as a bathing suit is not worth mentioning.” “War,” said Hi Ho, the sage of vive. You can make it. But it cannot be unmade.” Authoritative Notice. ‘The date for an adjournment named No longer bids us scoff, Since the thermometer exclaimed | Dooley. Prot. Moley's initial literary piece, which was widely published on the same day, was pitched in a different ey—a more serious tone. Prof. Moley adverted to the rapid gait at which affairs are moving and Dbespoke the difficulty the administration officials were encountering in finding time to think, A ok x % The removal of Mr. Hoover's name | from the great dam on the Colorado River at Boulder Canyon has aroused {the ire of Thomas E. Campbell, former | Governor of Arizona, to the extent of two solid columns in a letter to the | New York Herald Tribune, and pub- lished in that stalwart Republican jour- inal. It is an act of “petty political | litical malice.” The writer points out | Chinatown, “causes hatreds that sur-|that we already have a Roosevelt Dam, | a Coolidge Dam and a Wilson Dam, named for these past Presidents, merely because they happened to sign the act of Congress which authorized their con- struction. But in the case of Boulder Dam, as Mr. Campbell sees it, to Her- bert Hoover goes the lion’s share of the | credit for converting a dream into a | enite” “according to Mr. Campbell and | more than an ordinary exhibit of po- | | administrator for the State of Ten- nessee in 1917, The third member of | the board—the “& Co.” part of Mot gan. Morgan & Co—is David E. Lilien- ol consin, V] - thal_of a flawless pro. | * X Xk ¥ Restoration of the old fortress of | Louisburg in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, | which was captured by &n expedition- | ary force from New England in 1745, | 1s being underiaken by Canadian go ernment engineers. The fort, built by the French in 1700, was at one time the strongest fortress in North Ameri- | ca and its cap.ure by the expeditionary force from New England was one of the major mililary exploits of the eighteenth century. Engineers in charge of the work of Testoration are keep- ing in touch with these who are under- taking some Colonial restoration work in Virginia. Copyright, 1933.) e Polite Silence. From the Scranton Times. ‘The American Railway Association, announcing from its Washington head- quarters that not a paying passenger He was food | bled Veteran Asks for Justice | To the Editor of The Star: | I read in the papers where the | House members have been informed that they would be violating the prin- ciples of the Dgmocratic party if they passed certain legislation affecting dis- abied n:r’velzrins I read further where a certain se tion of the platform reads, “We d- | vocate the full measure of justice and generosity for all war veterans having & service-connected disability.” How inconsistent is the above state- ment! I remember how good your paper was while we boys were in the | Walter Reed Hospital at Washington after the war. Hence I ask the favor | that you publish my little story, so that the House can read it and see just what actually happens to the real disabled veteran, proving that the mem- bers of the House are right and know more about veterans’ pensions than they are credited with knowing. writer served with & combat outfit and was severely wounded in action. I have an amputation of the right leg and gunshot wounds in the detriment Lakes, asked the Supreme Court to steps to see that its orders. were ::.l&:ied gut to the letter and on time. Since the sanitary district is the crea- tion of the State of Tllinols, the court holds that it is responsgble for com- pliance with the orders.” With ref- erence to the effect of the decision on other States. the Evening News says: “On the strength of the ruling it would seem s if the State of New York would be held responsible fof the failure of, say Buffalo, '°x"°’"fll$ v:;;l!\"lnmfix;t;:: cease lluting s lwolm its se};onge. Of particular interest is the case of New York City, which the Supreme Court, acting on complaint of the State of New Jersey, put under orders to cease dumping garbage at sea and so befouling New Jersey’s Sum- mer playground beaches. New York City has been slow to comply with the orders of the court, and New Jersey wants to know what's to be done about | the matter. In V\C"l of tl’w;ecmlon"‘g‘ the Chicago case, it may expec that Lhe“c‘oun will rule that the State of New York is responsible.” o “The Chicago sanitary district. charges the Rochester Times-Union “spent a lot of money during the flusb | preferably by the Federal Governmeat; if ‘this were done, land-owners would | of necessity collect the extra amount from motorists in proportion to use of roads, and with little or no unfairness |to anybody. Land-owners now collect rent from tenants for availability as well as use of roads; this is double taxation, in part, the land-owners | keeping one tax. The oil companies ought never to have assumed the difference in gas taxes: if this had not been done, deal- | ers would have gradually moved to the | more favored locality, restoring the |balance. Every new tax on sales puts | somebody out of business, and the gas tax is no exception. Any tax which does not bear on every ci W pro- portion to service rende! dis= criminatory. usually favoring one ‘Busi- ness man at the expense of another. If the oil companies know what for themselves, they will let. the m work out of their difficulties by the only logical method, repealing ust . Monrovia, Md. w. C‘,‘%Uflc‘m. - Space Is Not Empty. From the Danbury News-Times. Naturally, such & kit would cost more. to do? It would confine banks of de-| Even 0, the Army authorities declare Posit to 8 commercial banking business | What the larger. better kit could have and compel them to give over the busi- | feen provided in the open market for | ness of dealing in securities and resl es- | smaller sum than that agreed upon tate. It is no secret to any one today | ‘mysteriously. that many of the bank fallures that | The difference in the cost, on the have occurred in this country have Anothel fosis of & 200,000 order, works out into| been due to the combination of com- . oodly sum. That in itself is worth | mercial banking and so-called invest- Rare Bir z :ot'ul e thic i of ity | famb banking, Thabits the Teash why | Fre 1B Colinbis (B, C) v S e i ’;":m";?n“{f’“;‘,:“‘,‘,‘g kuttingfpersonnel diemi-rals end bther | 5o many of the closed banks today are | It might be possible to get & Secte- |leadership proposes to dn its bit toward 10 years of prodigious effort to remove the obstacles in the path of the project. Dr. Otto Struve assures his fellow space is practit All the gas and id m:‘lz days of Cook County politics, but very | luele of it went to creating sewage scientists that disposal plants. Now the district can’. | empty. raise any more money.” In its review through which the light from distant of the subject the Times-Union de- | stars must pass could be com; he clares: “This decision helps along the | thinks, into a cube only mmdh,h St. Lawrence waterways treaty, tc|on a side. This is proof that matter is which Illinois was objecting because it | scarce, but not proof that is embodied this same restriction on thc | empty. Space can be filled with many amount of waler diverted from Lake | things, and matter perceptible to us by Michigan by nitary canal. New as scarce as that. York State andj® lake cities also havr | Matter is a kind of emptiness. It is in " the amount of wate: | more ace than anything else. It . Chicag: | shoots o parts of itself and in time began with a modest diversion anc | disapp The o - e left hip. I was receiving $99.60 per month, which was little enough, all considered. Within the past year I have been cut to $60 aer month, effec- tive July 1, 1933. This is a cut of ap- proximately 40 per cent. All that I ask is to see some of the “justice” that is being so much talked about, I am married and have a child. My physical condition prevents me from earning a sufficient amount to support my family. I am willing to take a cut within reason, and I don't feal it uuaoanmg to :“ man wt;; is m'cx;. pacitated, I do see why we, d, should suffer. was Lilled by any road last year, has the self-restraint to omit referring to the Tecord of the lines’ great rival, the auto. “This is where you get off.” * ok K X Charles Curtis, lately Vice President “Dis world,” said Uncle Eben, “begins to seem to me like a lodge where you is scared foh life wif one imitation after (of the United States and whose sister is the well-remembered Dolly Gann, is golng in for gold bullion in & large way. He is going into the hills for it. Mr. Curtis has accepted the presidency of —_———r——————— Round Trip. From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. It seems that when a prison warden is taken for a ride he has some chance of coming back. (2 e China’s Price. From the Cincinnati Times-Star xtreme ways arid means of economy.|unable to recpen. The bank-reform |lary of the Treasury who had never getiing the nations of the earth back heard of J. P. Mo & Co, but | 0 k it 1) ut the question persists, why these|bill also would provide drastic rules|what king of & o Bl jea = "““‘ ‘., Tiches of the forest workers, Rired for the Summer 3 e use of the vescumoes Of the’ WY B g R A R whete