Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1933, Page 8

THURSDAY. JUNE 8, 193 " A-8 THE EVENING STA fTHE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. +..June 8, 1833 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 1ith St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Building. Buropean Office: 14 Regent St., London, England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. = .45¢ per month 2 60c per month e Evening Star e Evening and 8i (when 4 Sundays The Evening and Sun (when 5 Sundays) 65¢ per month The Sunday ..;-5c per copy Collection made at the end of each month. Orders may be sent in by mail or telephone NAtional 5000. iunday St Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday....lyr., $10.00; 1mo., 85¢ Daily only .. .1yr, $6.00; 1mo. 50c Bunday only .1yr. $4.00; 1 mo..40c All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunda: ¥r, $12.00; 1 mo., $1.00 Daily only .. yr., $8.00; 1mo. Tbc Bunday only $5.00; 1mo. S0 Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled lication of all news dis- Baicher craditad fo L o R O Tocal ‘aew Bublished nerein. All rights of publication of Special dispatches herein are also reserved. The District Loses. ‘The House and Senate conferees have reached agreement on a 1934 Dis- trict of Columbia appropriation bill that in substance represents the recom- mendations of the Bureau of the Bud- get. The same inequities and harmful results of drastic reductions that were so obvious in a study of the budget recommendations have, therefore, been carried into the bill. Most of the im- portant remedial steps proposed by the Senate Appropriations Committee and approved by the Senate in its passage of the bill have been lost. The fitems which still remain in formal disagreement between the con- ferees, and which must be submitted to the House for approval, do not affect by one penny the total expenditures under the bill. They relate to the transfer of funds from one subhead to another in the appropriation for schools, libraries, playgrounds, health department and public welfare—the thought here being that authority so to transfer appropriations might prevent some dismissals of needed personnel and, generally speaking, will give the responsible authorities more leeway in stretching their slender funds to cover the greatest amount of territory. An- other item remaining in disagreement provides for the transfer of special teachers to class room work when such transfers are necessary—thus permit- ting the filling of vacancies by this method. All that is left for the local taxpay- ers to hope for now is that these pro- visions will be approved by the House and remain in the bill For, if they are not approved, such important and even essential municipal institutions as the schools, libraries and play- grounds will, in addition to the drastic reductions already made in their allow- ances, suffer further harmful and un- necessary hsndicaps. o Even as the bill represents the rec- ommendations of the Federal Bureau of the Budget, so does it place new and powerful authority over the District of Columbia in the hands of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. The House provided that certain surplus funds from the gasoline tax and water reve- nues might be expended on construc- tion and employment-giving work if and when the President authorized it. The Senate increased the amounts that might be so spent from these funds, but left the discretion for their ex- penditure in the hands of the Commis- sioners. The Senate also left the au- thority to transfer funds from one sub- head to another in the hands of the budget officer of the District and the Commissioners. ‘The conferees have now decided to place all this discretionary authority, not in the hands of the President or the Commissioners, but in the hands of the Director of the Bu- reau of the Budget. That means, of course, that the busy Director of the Budget will put the matter in the hands of one of his assistants. By this act alone, any semblance of local repre- sentatfon that may have been ex- pressed in the authority of the Com- missioners to act in response to the sentiment of local taxpayers is lost. ‘The affairs of the District of Columbia and the welfare of the taxpaying mem- bers of the local community are more | strongly centralized than ever in the hands of the Federal Bureau of the Budget. The District has urged the justice of removing from national Bud- get control the expenditure of funds | contributed solely by District taxpayers; in response to this appeal Budget con- trol has been extended and strengthened. In this respect the District asked for bread and is handed a stone. The Senate conferees' capitulation to the House on the Federal contribution places that sum at $5,700,000. But even the Budget Bureau's recommendation of this amoynt was ccnditioned on the amount carried by the appropriation bill as a whole. It was intended to reflect the same reduction in the Fed- eral lump sum that had been made in| expenditure of local revenues. Increas- ing the allowable expenditures from local funds should have been accom- panied by increasing the amount cf the Federal contribution, and this the Senate recommended. Final failure to increase the lump sum in accord with the Budget Burcau's formula by which it originally was fixed demonstrates once again that the Federal contribution no Jonger represents equitable or fair con- sideration of the facts. The size of it represents the result of manipulation by every conceivable device at the expense ©of the District. The present bill will permit of some reduction in the real estate tax. A re- duction in the tax rate is taken for granted and will probably be ordered by the Commissioners in a few days. It will bring some relief to the real estate taxpayers. But, because of the dis- proportionate burden in financing the Federal city already placed upon these, and because of the steady shrinkage in tax collections and the consistently high Jevel of unreduced real estate assess- mments, the relief will be small. It will hurtful effects of this bill on necessary- municipal functions. Sure to be ecrip- pled, the degree of their crippling re- mains the only item of uncertainty. Lieut. Col. U. §. Grant, 3d. ‘There is an opinion to the effect that the descendants of great men are handi- capped. Their endeavors, it is supposed, are overshadowed by the fame of those whose names they bear. Nothing they may accomplish, however worthy, is es- timated for its innate value—on the contrary, it is conceived to be only an echo, a repetition, of the achieve- ments of their progenitors. The theory is that genius is an abnormal phe- nomenon, occurring only once in any given family. Of course, the notion is| not invariably scientific. The case of | John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams, and the case of the celebrated Earl of Chatham and his equally dis- tinguished son, William Pitt, come read- ily to mind; and Washington during the past eight years has had opportu- nity to observe the development of still another contradiction of the doctrine. Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, has dem- onstrated that it was feasible to add honor to the name of the eminent soldier, the eighteenth President, who was his grandfather. Perhaps he found his inspiration in the career of his more immediate forerunner, his father, Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, who served with distinction in four cam- paigns and was minister to Austria and police commissioner of New York City. Be that as it may, he amply has justi- fied his place in his line. Since Jan- uary 1, 1926, he has been director of public buildings and public parks of | the National Capital, and the post has afforded him a stage for the display of creative and administrative talents of the highest order. Shortly his term of service will close. Before he departs to other work the community will wish to express to him some sign of its gratitude. ‘When he took charge of the plans for the beautification of the city, the Capi- tal knew Col. Grant only as a soldier and an engineer. It did not realize that he was an artist. But that con- viction has been impressed upon the intelligence of Washington day by day and month by month as his labors have borne fruit. His duties have included supervision of many of the constructive changes which have been undertaken and completed to date as part of the new Greater Washington project. His name will be indelibly associated with the story of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commission, the George Washington Memorial Parkway, the George Washington Bicentennial Commission, the Commission of Fine Arts, the Lincoln Memorial, the Meade Memorial, the Titanic Memorial, the Ericssqn Memorial, the Arlington Memorial Bridge, the Capital Plaza De- velopment, the Red Cross Building and a score or more of other enterprises, all useful, all necessary. He has built him- self into the city’s history. It has been a proud privilege, and he has been happy in discharging it. Bidding Col. Grant a momentary farewell and conscious of the fact that he never will cease to be interested in the Capital's progress, Washington ex- tends a hearty welcome to his suc- cessor, Col. James A. Woodruff, a man who appears to be ideally qualified to carry on. e —rae———————— Conservative Forecasting. The “weather man” is a traditionally conservative person in foreeasting. His nickname of “Old Probabilities” had its origin in this trait of caution. Better perhaps than any other he knows that weather is a fickle factor in human affairs. Even with the great develop- ment of meteorological science and in the extension of the news service of the Weather Bureau it is impossible to predict with accuracy. And when the word “probable” is used in the bulletins it is the closest approach to assurance that is permitted under the laws of prediction. Yesterday the. conservatism of the forecaster for this area was manifested in a statement that there was “about one chance in fifty” that a thunder shower late in the day would bring temporary relief from the intense heat. That was a long chance. But it made good. The city was visited by a lively thunderstorm late in the afternoon and then another one occurred shortly after midnight, The earlier storm brought the much needed relief and the later one, for good measure, brought a cool wave that permitted sound sleep after the subsidence of the racket of wind and rain and lightning. Yesterday's experience may perhaps cause the forecasters to shorten the odds in their prognostications. There is no complaint, however, on the score of the extreme conservatism of the prediction. Everybody knows that thunderstorms are highly temperamental things and are often disappointing. Many a time black clcuds develop toward the close of a blistering hot day only to swing | about and miss the sweltering city or | pass over without precipitation. Mem- ories of the protracted drought of three years ago are still lively. During those trying menths without rain in this| region the skies often clouded and gave promise of relief only to scatter and | leave the parched ground without | succor. It is better for the forecasters | to err on the side of conservatism than through undue optimism. BT | Efficiency once appled to getting | more work out of men is at present! concerned with geuing' more work for | men to do. ————r—— Frozen Pay of West Pointers. A kink in the red tape which now and then tangles up the affairs of‘ government threatens to keep some | $300,000 in back pay from the gradu- ates of the United States Military Academy who will next week enter the Regular Army. Under a system that | has long been in vogue at West Point | $14 is withheld monthly from the pay | of each cadet to form a fund for the purchase of equipment and uniforms on graduation. The cadets sign the pay roll monthly for the full amount of their stipend, but the deduction is held by the finance officer of the in- stitution as custodian. It has been the practice to deposit it in a bank for safekeeping. It so happens that the bank in which this fund has been placed is one of those that was closed a few months ago and has not been allowed to reopen. It is therefore a for disbursement when the cadets re- ceive their diplomas and are ready to step out as officers of the Army. The Controller General has ruled that in- asmuch as the cadets have signed the pay roll in full the deduction is not a debit of the Government, but is legally | a private saving of the cadets, and that it is not now a liability of the United States. The justice of this ruling may be questioned. The deduction from the cadets’ pay is required by the regula- tions of the Military Academy. The cadets have no voice in the matter. The ficticn of receipt of the full amount attested by monthly signature is a fea- ture of the regulations to which the cadets must subscribe. The finance officer of the academy is a representa- tive of the Government, and he doubt- less makes the deposit in a bank, not only with the approval of the War De- partment, but at its order. The rule of reason would certainly require the full payment of this sum from Government funds, the Treasury itself looking to the liquidation of the bank for its reim- bursement. Rulings by the Controller of the Treasury are non-appealable, and in the circumstances it would seem to be proper, if necessary, to enact emer- gency legislation before the adjourn- ment of the present session of Congress to permit the payment of this $300,000 of withheld pay to the cadets, who, in a few days, will be under obligation to vrovide themselves with fittings for their careers for which the Government has been training them for four years. American iiterature has its elements | of perplexing influence. It is impos- sible for an American citizen to refer to political discrimination or racial per- secution in Europe without having “Uncle Tom's Cabin” flourished at him in ostentatious reproach. Hitler in a manifestation of racial prejudice makes no distinction in favor of scientific knowledge; thereby injur- ing materially what Germany has men- tioned proudly as one of its most im- portant assets. ——————— The New York stocking exchange, with the aid of Broadway musical pro- ducers, is conducting rehearsals with a | view to prémoting the practice of un- hoarding money. ———— ‘When Senator Glass pleads for more dignity he realizes the difficulty even the most austere personage will find in appearing dignified with a wilted collar on a June day. —————————— Aviation has taken such a hold on the fashionable youth of the country that something in the nature of sky polo may have to be invented. —————— As a campaigner Bishop Cannon may be rated as industrious and painstaking; but it is coming to be generally admitted that he is no mascot. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Trying to Be Good. ‘When you were just a little boy “A-tryin’ to be good,” How frequently you would annoy The peaceful neighborhood And hear your father say anew, As tears fell fasy and hot, “It hurts me, son, much more than you'— You knew that it did not. Your brother laughed at your disgrace As you refused a chair. Your mother kissed your tear-stained face And smiled and said, “There! There!” For mothers more than all the rest Have always understood How boys may fall who do their best “A-tryin’ to be good.” It needs experience so stern To make life’s pathway plain; It needs & Iot of years to learn To curb a restless brain. Some boys grow up as men of note For courage, strength and skill And some, though old enough to vote, Don't learn and never will. If you should help at duty’s call ‘To mold the social plan, Reproving follies great and small That fret your fellow man, A moment now and then employ— 'Twould help you if you could— With recollections of that boy “A-tryin’ to be good.” Trouble Quest. “I don’t like the idea of going abroad looking for trouble,” said Senator Sor- ghum. “Why not?"” “It doesn’t seem patriotic. We have a plenty that's made right here in America.” Jud Tunkins says Barnum got rich by his discovery that the public likes to be fooled and is willing to pay lib- erally for it. Economic Assertion. Supply exceeds, a student states, Demand and always will. That’s why there are more candidates ‘Than offices to fill. The Grand Idea. “He seems to have no ideas except of money,” said the critical girl. . “There is at least one advantage in that,” replied Miss Cayenne. “He has no difficulty in persuading people to accept his ideas.” “We have inventions,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “that enable us to speak to one another from great dis- tances, but none, as yet, that enable us | to understand one another perfectly.” Impalpable and Mysterious. This stuff called gold seems just about A ghost to folks like me. It's something that we talk about, But very seldom see. “Don't walk de floor worryin,” said Uncle Eben, “You jes' wear out shoes without meetin’ anybody dat’ll lend you money or give you good advice.” —— b —— The Acme of Fatigue. From the Altoons Mirror. There are fifty-six kinds of fatigue, says Dr. Donaid A. Laird, Colgate | psychologist. The worst case, probably, is that of a husband whose wife makes him help with Spring housecleaning. | Bar the “Handlebars.” From the Rochester Times-Union. It's all right to bring back the bicycle popularity of 40 years ago, but early action should be adopted sgainst I mustache, 0L opensate for the mwfmmmmnml.mdhmm & return ol the BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. An astute observer will not like the |and the like which they use toward per- person who can’t look at him, when in- |sons they do not know well. troduced, or who looks too long, or who merely offers the tips of his fingers. There is & mean in such things ob- |large that he will say, * If a chi ask the the street to ces are very , can ap stops you in thne, the chan served by cultured men and women; it |you tell me what time it is?" ought to be imitated by others who would desire to pass as such. Here is a gorilla all dressed up. The observer might forget he is a gorilla, How much better it is to ask, “Can you tell me what time it is?” * % % Avoidance of embarrassment seems if he had any of the manners of ato be at the bottom of all such sub- human being. Gorillas might fool a great many, if they would ape some of the better hab- its of mankind. * ok ko ‘The introduction is perfunctory, of course, it doesn't mean anything, and both parties to it will have forgotten the other in an hour. Such is civilization. Nevertheless, if one human being is presented to another, it is customary for each to make a pretense of interest, a falr display of orderly manners. Such is a decent compliment to the | °F, third person who makes the introduc- tion. No one need expect any particular praise Tor being courteous. It is its own praise, and its own reward. Sk ‘This gorilla, however, extends a flab- by hand in such a manner that the other, with the best will in the world, is able to grasp but the tips of the fingers. There is, of course, no intention on the part of this animal to shake hands, he is merely going through the mo- tions of it. And only doing that in such a way as to constitute an obvious insult to the other. The way one shakes hands, it is sald, shows a great deal about him, but our observation is that the way he doesn't shake hands shows a great deal more. Any one can fake a genial handclasp, but one cannot disguise a genuinely un- desired shake. The thing speaks for it- self. There are many degrees, ranging all the way from the grip of a vice to the flaccid type instanced. The true interpretation is made by watching the eyes of the shaker. If he really means it, his eyes will tell you so. If he doesn’t mean it, no matter how firm his clasp, the wavering glance often gives him away. Not always, of course; some eyes fairly gleam, but with insincerity. S If a person doesn't wish to shake hands, there is always a good way to get out of it. 1t is so simple that a great many men and women forget about it. Just don’t offer to shake hands. It can be done in sach a way that no offense is given, just as ncne is in- tended. A smile, a genuine look from inter- ested eyes, these make the other forget, at the time, that no hand has been extended. If he remembers, later, he may or may not like it, but the chances are that the honesty of the eyes and the smile will win the dny.* The simple ways of doing things are usually the best. It is better not to shake hands at all than to do it half-heartedly. If one can’t shake hands decently, 1t is better not to try to do it at all It is the same with the use of names. Many acquaintances insist on calling each other by various names, when they would get along better by forgetting aii | acquaintances. He con | | terfuges, but one may stop to wonder about it. It would seem, off-hand, that the simplest way would be the least em- barrassing, but there is a quirk in human nature which almost always re- fuses to be simple, in the sense of plain, straightforward, innately honest. To address another, particularly a stranger, by such a title as “judge,” or the like, when one knows that the man is probably no legal dignitary in any sense, is to invite his resentment, if his mind happens to turn that way, his contempt, one or the other. The fact that the one so addressed makes no outward comment, or, in- deed, indicates in any way that he does not like it, in no way proves It just shows, in most | cases, that he is grounded in the| that he does. fundamentals of politeness. e ‘There are many persons today who, although well dressed and apparently possessed of money, seem to have been brought up in a stable, to use the old phrase. Not only do they not know the usages of polite society, but experi- ences do not seem to have taught them any of their advantages. ‘Their immediate interest is all they see, hence, if, as our gorilla, they are introduced to some one who is in no way connected with their scheme of the moment, they extend to him the tips of their fingers and honor him by failing to look at him. He can't help ‘em any! * koK ¥ ‘They see as much at a glance, and draw away. If, in the future, he should come into their scheme of things, they will take the necessary action. How simple it will be! Instead of offering him the tips of their flabby fingers, they will extend hands glowing with appreciation. They will put sparkles into their eyes, and tones of hearty admiration into their voices. His likes and dislikes will become, and immediately, matters of huge in- terest to them. No longer will the poor fellow feel left out of their majesty, but he will be gwlced inside the pale of thelr admira- ion. He can help 'em now. And what a difference that makes! * kK X Let us suggest to the subject of this, our theme of the moment, that he is wasting his talents by offering jelly- fish fingers to strangers. He should reserve them splely for those he intends to insult, not offer them freely to those who have no pos- sible bearing on his case. By the latter course he merely stirs general ill will. And it is a question how x}:nuch of b:l:urden of ill will any one human can carry . around with him. . He may not realize it, but he suffers from it, and makes others suffer. In the case of the gentleman l, he could avoid much by extending his hand decently, and at his new vably might about the “doctors” and the “senators” | want to recognize one of them again. High Lights on the Widg World Excerpts From Newspal;ers of Other Lands VENING TIMES, GLASGOW.—A Glasgow minister wants to see in print actual verbatim speeches, the hummings and hawings o(‘ the speakers, and even bad ! The Rev. Dr. Arthur C. Hill, who presented “John Citizen’s” view of the newspaper to_ the Glasgow Publicity Club and the Institute of Journalists in Glasgow at & joint meeting yesterday, said that a report of what was said should be true and genuine. Generally it _was, so far as it went, he remarked. But the newspaper ought to give the reader a mental image of what actually happened. “Let the reporter put down the words used by the speaker so long as they are not blasphemous or indecent,” he said, “the hummings and hawings, the bad grammar; in a word, the real utterance of the man. Then it would be that on reading a newspaper we would have a series of real mental visions. “T still hope to see in cold print what the bailie said—not what the reporter or subeditor thought he should say— when he was replying for the sewage committee. It might make good reading.” * ok kO Panama Troubled By Auto Parking. Diario De Panama, Panama—Quite a few days ago the municipal 3 Senor Don Alcibiades Arosemena, re- mitted to the alcalde of the district, Senor Don Carlos Morales de la Ossa, an interesting note in which he made advertence to the fact that many owners of automotive vehicles left the same stationed in front of their resi- dences throughout the night, a practice highly prejudicial to the business of garage owners who have space to rent at very reasonable rates; and aug- menting likewise the difficulties of the firemen, who, from the same consuetude. find their progress both retared and endangered during the obscure hours when they are summoned to a fire. It was unquestionably the desire of the municipal treasurer, Senor Arose- mena, that the alcalde would take measures, however drastic, to end this anomaly, since the garage proprietors, or at least the majority of them, pay their taxes and assessments promptly, and the rest would undoubtedly do the same were they to receive a little more support from the district governmens. Don Carlos, the alcalde, however, found it impossible to bring about the intend- ed results by the vigorous exercise of his authority, and certainly not by a single stroke of power. He did, it 1s true, immediately issue an order forbia- ding automobile owners to leave their cars in the street at night, but this edict of the municipal primate was treated with little respect. The first night following this promul- gation, the police reported 150 serenely occupying their accustomed places, re- | gardless of the prohibition. The own- ers, summoned to court to pay a fine, announced in chorus that they haa never heard the warning, and begged exemption on those grounds. This clemency being granted, the foi- lowing night 150 cars, none of them pertaining to the first assortment, were noted by the police as guilty of the same infringement. The owners plead- ed the sape excuse, and secured the same excufpation. The third night, 150 other cars were had never been imparted to their re- sective proprietors. Fortunately, there are not so man cars in Panama, or in the district, that hope of apprising all the owners or these vehicles regarding the new traf- fic ordinance must be abandoned. The labor is pursuing its natural course, and eventually, in some good hour, the streets will be unobstructed during the nocturnal sessions, instead of being used as free storage for motorists. And so the sagacious idea and sug- gestion of Senor Don Alcibiades, mu- nicipal treasurer, will be seen not w have been In vain. * x ok X g-lhi Stand on Jews t . Palestine Post, Jerusalem.—Fuller re- ports of life in the New Germany throw much needed light on the situa- tion; but even so the news is not such #s to convince one that Hitlerist dicta- |and tariffs which | torship is the unmixed blessing thak its supporters maintain. It is not enough for the German citizen to lead a peace- ful and industrious life for life to be made peaceful and profitable for him in return. A new doctrine—new at least to most of Europe since the end of the eighteenth century—seems to be coming into force. “Jewish emancipation” is to be but a relative term; how relative still remains to be seen. Capt. Goering, , insists that Germany is a safe and peaceful country for its own citizens or foreign- ers to live in; furthermore the German government will not allow people to be persecuted merely because they are Jews. Jewish citizens, he announces, have nothing to fear, provided that they keep themselves “within certain limits.” This proviso deserves a good deal of scrutiny. “Certain limits” looks extremely like branding Jewish citizens of Germany as “tolerated aliens,” who will be tolerated just so far as they do not assume to themselves the right to act as free Ger- man citizens. It is an unfortunate phrase, and one hopes that it will be repudiated both by word and act. * ok % x French Reservists Eager for Service. La Razon, La Paz—In vast numbers and with the greatest enthusiasm the reservists to the quotas of 1933 are to the colors. Many of them, indeed, have not waited for the official notice from the war depart- ment to arrive before reporting at the barracks ed to new recruits. We are informed on good authority that these quarters are already so crowded that many of these young men have to spread their blankets on the floors and to lie in so confined an area that when one sleeper turns over all the supine ranks must do likewise, so closely are they wedged in the restricted space. Far from being reluctant to engage in niilitary service, there is a universal eagerness to answer the call to the col- ors in this hour of the country’s need, and besides those whose ages now re- quire this response, there arrive every day at the stations of enlistment, even from provinces distant many leagues, mere boys, 16, 17 and 18 years of age, who plead to be incorporated in the first regiment leaving for the battle front. Though none of such brief years were intended for the contingent of the present year, a few of the older appli- cants have been accepted. These aver that the disappoinments and depriva- tions of peace are not easily to be sur- passed by the dangers and hardships of war. In the army all are assured food, clothing and shelter for at least a few | days in advance. ——— “Protection” for American Artists Prom the Oincinnat! Times-Star. A number of American painters have banded together under the rousing name of the Advance American Art Commis- sion to protect native artists from the competition of “mediocre” foreigners. If “mediocre” American painters were included in the ban, here would be an admirable campaign. Unfortunately, the commissicners are concerned only over the preference of American patrons for | foreign painters merely because they are registered as offending. The new order | {%i€D. Wherever it exists, this is, of course, a | silly preference. But it is not to be overcome by the “legislative pressures” the commission recommends as weapcns. Our poor cus- toms men have too much to do as it is without being burdened with the job of deciding what is or is not mediocre art. More sensible is the commission’s plan of educating the art public. Here is & field in which criticism might and fone. suspediod ‘that. cariain, Butopeas suspect painters, much admired in the United | States, are daubers, and would be only too glad to see them exposed. But honesty forces the admission that cur own land is not innocent of daubers masquerading as masters. Uultimately, we suppose, the only way to induce Americans to buy more works by native talent is for the native to ks of such merit that the for- President Roosevelt, victorious to a remarkable degree in his fight to get through Congress his economy act cut- ting the compensation and pension of veterans by $400,000,000, has come face to face with a polifical factor which proved too strong for other Chief Ex- ecutives. The political power of the veterans of the World War, combined with the power of the veterans of other wars, has been shown to be tremendous. ‘That power has been exercised members of Congress. A demand for legislation by the veterans and their organizations has been just too much for the majority of the members of the House and Senate to turn down, no matter what their own ideas regard- ing the demands may have been. First it was the bonus, and since then it has been ever mounting and every swell- ing compensation of the veterans, with thousands upon thousands of veterans obtaining disability compensation when their disability had no provable con- nection ith their itary service. When President Roosevelt took office last March he quickly announced a determination to put an end to this orgy of spending, which threatened, unless it was checked, to put this coun- try into a morass of debt from which it could not escape. * * k% In the months that elapsed between | the passage of the economy act and the passage of the independent offices ap- propriation bill, which carries the ap- propriations for the Veterans’' Adminis- tration, the veterans have been busy. There have been cases found where the cuts in compensation of men who were actually disabled in combat have been drastic. With these instances the vet- erans and their friends in Congress have gone to the bat and are insisting on putting back on the rolls of the Govern- ment practically all of the veterans who were to be taken off the pay roll through the operation of the economy act. Pres- ident Roosevelt has insisted that he is fighting for a principle; that he favors the compensation of all veterans whose disability is connected with their mili- tary service, but that there shall be an men who g.n the out of their own lates . President will have the ba of lions of the people in his posif * ¥ ¥ ¥ It looks as though the Democratic leaders in Congress, and firhnps the administration itself, had been asleep at the switch when they permitted week after week to go by without bringing in the independent offices appropriation bill and forcing it to an immediate passage. Had it followed right on the eels of the economy act, it would have been a law long ago and in the shape which the President demanded. The long period of time, however, enabled the veterans and their supporters to bring the pressure to bear necessary to force into the appropriation bill an amendment by the Senate which adds $170,000,000 of expense and restores to the Government rolls thousands of men mil- amendment Senate amendment in their devotion to the veterans, * k kX Grover Cleveland was the Presi- dent who has in the vl 1 He set his back against the payment of pensions to veterans of Civil War whe had no urvbe-mnocgdf disability when Congress was flooded with bills to zy pensions indiscrimi- nately. His vetoing of these bills helped e next to bring about his defeat at th election. When Calvin Coolidge vetoed the soldiers’ bonus bill > bonus over his protest; 3 b}uu‘r‘“égofi"u wa;m e ht.h.t had the of o e ht ha come ir party fight in - | based on Will any of the States which popular vmameprmnnmn: the eighteenth amendment, now sub- mitted in the form of a constitutional amendment, vote against ? The question very well arises following the remarkable outcome of the vote this week in Indiana, Indiana not long ago was & banner dry State. It had the most stringent State prohibition en- forcement act perhaps in the entire country. The vote in Indiana stood 554,000 for repeal to 312,000 against. The result was the election of 246 wet. delegates to the State contstitutional con- e e lelegates. The organizatic including the Antl-snlgg: League, am led vigorously in the Hoosler State n an effort' to stem the tide against national probibition. Their represent- atives are attempting to discount the result in that State. But the fact of the matter is that sentiment for repeal seems: to have run far'stronger in all the States than any one visualized a few " Gommehting Inay en! on the lana Jouett Shouse, president of the Asocm‘flt: tlon Against the Prohibition Amend- ment, urged that other States take early action, so as to put an end to the struggle and make it' possible for the Government to obtain the revenue from a licensed liquor trade and that trade be taken away from the under- world. Mr. Shouse said: “Prohibition leaders have proclaimed for weeks that the result of the election on repeal of the eighteenth amendment in the State of Indiana would be thoroughly repre- sentative of the country. They have based their hope of defeat of repeal upon the expectation that Indiana would remain dry. “The sooner the matter is settled, the better for all concerned. As long as the country remains in a state of suspended animation, there is less possibility than ever of any real enforcement of pro- hibition laws. ‘The cause of temper- ance will be promoted immeasurably by the quick accomplishment of repeal and the re-reference of the vexed ques- tion of liquor control to the various States.” ———— Army Strength. From the Pasadena Post. Premier Daladier says that the army of Prance is strong and must be kept strong. But, of ccurse, it would not be to keep it for an necessary offensive war. The Panhandler’s Immunity. Prom the Pasadena Post. h | Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- Washington is the world's greatest storehouse of all kinds of knowledge. You can draw on it free of charge through our bureau here. Any ques- tion of fact you may ask will be an- swered promptly in & personal letter to you. Be careful to write clearly, give your full name and and inclose 3 cents for reply postage. Do not use post cards. Send your inquiry to The Star Information Bureau, ton, D. C. Q. What is the future outlook for ‘women in aviation?—Q. P. A. What the future holds in store for the feminine enthusiasts can best be Jjudged perhaps by a glance at some of the positions filled by women up to the present time. They are: Pilots, flying instructors, saleswomen at aviation schools, airport operators, airport man- agers and assistants, al hostesses, miscellaneous airport positions, airline representatives and managers, hostesses on air liners, gir travel advis- ers, aircraft saleswomen, accessory sales- women, aeronautical promoters, aerial advertisers, interior decorators, factory workers (chiefly sewing of fabric cover- ing on aircraft). Q. How many eggs does a queen bee lay in a day?—A. H. A. A queen bee can lay her own weight of eggs in one day (2,000 eggs a day and more during the peak of egg }l-yir)u, just before the main honey low) . | Q. What hour is considered “supper time” in city hotels?>—N. R. A. Eleven in the evening. At this time supper dance music is played. Q. Please give a biography of Claude G. Bowers, the new Ambassador to Spain—C. §. M. A. He was born in Hamilton County, Ind, in 1878. He was an editorial writer on the Indianapolis Sentinel, Terre Haute Star, editor of Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, and after 1923 editorial ‘writer on the New York World. Always prominent in Democratic politics, he was temporary chairman of the 1928 National Democratic Convention and made the opening speech. Q. In the quaternary period were there horses and cattle in England and in Prance?—W. T. A. Goats, cattle and horses already existed there at that time, but they had not been domesticat Q. Who is the President of Portugal? e 'A. The President of Portugal is Gen. Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona. Q. What csuses astigmatism?—E. V. A. The Public Health Service says that astigmatism is due to an irregu- larity in the shape of the eyeball. Q. Is it true that the United States has had a different flag for every war in which it has A. It is. For Revolutionary War the of 13 stripes with 13 white stars in a circle on a blue fleld; for the second war with Eng- land, 1812, it comsisted of 15 stripes with 15 stars; for the Mexian War, 1846, it consisted of 13 stripes and 29 stars; during the Civil War there were 13 stripes and 34 stars and before the war ended two new stars were added to represent West Virginia and Ne- vada; for the War with Spain, 1898, the flag had the conventional number of stripes and 45 stars, and for the World War it had 48 stars. Q. How far is it from Washington, D. C, to Chicago by automobile?— R. N. A. It is 729 miles. Q. How can rugs be stored at ipated?—H. A. C. | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ‘BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. P the liquid evaporat should be place. on the Equator that Q. How can I make indelible autographs that are written In cil?—S. P. A. Spray with the fixative used artists for preventing the smudging crayon and 1 drawings. t fixative is a weak solution of bleached shellac in alcohol. The color is 80 pale and the film of shellac left on the paper is so thin that it cannot be noticed. Be careful not to close book or turn the pages before the alcohol evaporates and the shellac loses its tackiness. Artists’ supply houses sell a cheap tin sprayer, but an old atomizer for spraying the thraat can be used. The solution should be well rinsed out of the tubes wih .mo‘gnluma;mmmruwb-m again. Q. How much Hoes priate for the general pucr'ém’m.n of books by the Library of Congress?—M. S. A. One hundred thousand doflars s year. Q How long are coral reefs?—L. C. A. Of the three types of coral reefs, fringing reefs, which cre connceted with the shores upon which they are | built, vary from one-fourth to one-half mile in width and an indeterminate length. Barrier reefs may be of ex- treme length and of varying distances from the coast. For example, the Great Barrier Reef of Northeastern Australia is over 900 nautical miles in length, and the lagoon which rates it from the coast varies in from 20 to 70 miles. The third of coral reefs, atolls, or coral may be anywheie from less than s mile to 40 miles in diameter. Q. Is it true that the - vannah, supposed to be the first ship cressing the ocean, not did steam for the entire trip?—E. C. P, A. This vessel crossed the M.h* from Savannah to Liverpool in 1819, used steam power during only 18 of the 29 days consumed in sage. The first ship to cross the William from Quebec via Nova Scotis and Isle of Wight to London in 1833. Q. When was the Philadelphia Or- | chestra established?>—C. M. | _A. The first public concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra was given No- vember 16, 1900. Its genesls, however, goes back to 1893, when the Phila- delphia Symphony Society, of about eighty amateur and semi-professional players, was formed, with Willlam Wal- lace Gilehrist, founder, 1875, of the Mendelssohn Club, as its leader. 7] Q. Who first said “There, but for the grace of God, go I"?—H, K. a2 A. The remark has been atiributs several prominent men. but most ally to John B. Goff, temperance re- former, about the middle of the nine- teenth century. Mr. Goff at one time was a drunkard, and becoming trens- formed through conversion, entered the work of religious ‘and temperance re- form. On nolicing a drunkard reeling down the street while in convarsation with Charles W. Spurgeon, he is said to have remarked: ‘“There. but for the home?—G. B. A. First they should be thoroughly grace of God, goes Jochn B. Gofl.” those d as Presenting the background of who regard the treatment g: gol an , the Om: ‘World-Herald : . “The objective is to make the an one. Obviously a dollar that is worth, in terms of goods, commodities and services, as little as 45 cents in one year, and as much as $2.93 in another year, is anything but honest. It con- { ducer and worker at its capricious mercy. An honest dollar is one of reasonable stable value, and it is such a dollar that President Roosevelt is striving to establish.” In answer to this, the Baltimore Sun condemns such action as “an inglorious course,” and suggests that “at some future and less excited time the quality imparted must seem to be little less than capricious.” The Sun views the course of events as “borrowing dollars of high P power and endeavoring to pay back with cheap dollars,” and em- phasizes the point that there is “no “Delicate questions of public policy and public ethics” are recognized by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which offers the verdict: “Even those who approve the Government's action must feel a tinge of regret at what amounts to the formal repudiation of an obligation. Yet, until prices in terms of gold are raised, the enforcement of the gold clause would involve for a large part of private debtors under gold contracts, a still further increase in the | already heavy burden of taxation re- quired to meet service on public debts, and bankruptcy for many local units.” “There is an old saying that neces- sity knows no law,” suggests thé Hart- ford Times, with the conclusion that property of any person without just .” With a quotation from ‘Webster that “justice is the great in- Treatment of Gold Clause 3 Reveals Radical Differences . The Cleveland News bcieves that while “another big experimont is under way,” retreat “in case of faiiure is not impossible.” The Boise Idaho Statesman that “if this policy leads to an resumption of na- tional ecomomic health, probably the breach of faith will be justified.” m:A wvmue]dn(s pr;zmhe." declares Springfield (Mass.) Republican, & position which is upheld by the Yakima Daily Republiz, the Chicago X the New York Times and the Lexing- ton Leader. The position that the courts will ultimately decide the mat- ter is taken by the San Francisco Chronicle. The New York Tribune feels that “the great mi concludes: “For the ended with March the exports of gold from the United States were 849,657, 398; the imparts were $173,817,946. The | abandonment of the gold standard, and even the volding of gold contracts, ap- pear the more amazing in face cf this fact that gold had been coming inio the country more than three times as fast as it had been going out. It is true that for the month of March alone the exports were $28,122,565 and the imports were only $14,941,526. Fhis, however, was not sufficient turn in the tide to warrant any alarm, especially when the country had reserves of nearly $4,000,000,000.” e ““Cost of Living” Not a Fair Basis of Economy To the Editor of The Star: ‘There is no justice in reducing sal- aries sccording to the cost of living when those salaries arc already below the American standard. On its face the reduction of Government employes’ salaries to accord with the cost of Hv- ing sounds fair. Actually it is but a further injustice to a ciass of workers who have never received anything but economy, or, as it might have mere properly been called in the prosperity period, parsimony. In the pursuit of a basis for their preconceived opinions, certain interecte terest of man on earth,” The Times | gjon i gs