Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1933, Page 8

)" A8 THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY _ s e THE EVENING STAR lcipnl vietims of the strife. Each nme'mv.posm. in the same category as thcl P Spok f. Enli dY ' THIS AND THAT P ek Penion Eowie | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS :J With Sunday Morning Edition. a car goes by they perforce must bracs | carpenter or the plumbcr in that he | . § A 5 o Men Asks Pension Equity ! ' BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. 5 themselves to resist the concussion of its | repairs the human body instead of WASHINGTON, D. C. | passage. They may beccme inured to buildings or machipery. Therefore the | To the Bditer s The Btar: FRIDAY. .. .June 9, 1933 Conscious resentment in the circum- receipis frcm the sale cf tangible prop- | Your editorial “Widows' Pensions” in ' " | stances, but their tortured sensibilities erty to thc dentist must be reported Wvd]n!sd‘&\;m"e T good _ex- Editor | fecl the blow just the same wy the seiler, who will be tazable fori }g;‘:‘l_s %m’u:’ ";_fi;fiifiwirrznmg" l;e:; 3 On the cther hand, physicians know | them | “On, listen to the mocking bird!" quality lacking from so many out-|apparently taken from the Army and & corps of trained researchers in Wash- The Eventag Star Newspaper Company |(hat “quiet is et Possibly they | If this principle is susiained by the |, Wan? S0 S Rt 10 S0 it et b L e selea] semee, | T ey | e have assess o, th Goficic sy ko Oee: o W | do not invariably express the thcught Cowrts there is no good reason WhY. wopdered why 1t was so vociferous, in the human sense of melody and de- | cquities are even more glaring among | Ment departments, the libraries, mu- New York Office: 110 East 42nd St in the identical phrase, but it is their A along a parallel of reasoning, the physi- | scarcely resembling & bird song. |sign. He is one of the very few birds|the enlisted men who have bgen dis- | seums, galleries and gublic bulldings. wwghog{l;”'A,f'er:!‘g};;"s;"B,:"::“,'g,',; standard practice to_ recommend re- cian himself chould not be rated as a mu&t-;];xfi:fixam;nmfiv L(lx\‘icl e;uf:‘l.me‘:);?l :3::‘:- fé’"f :2{;‘21 e"x"sr::{v"sx‘)“‘;frh x:cu:; | ?rjsii:nflnc‘?n&p?;:g:l ‘RF:!‘:“llv]d (‘iiflan;‘ll | and x‘: mehn-.xén:l:xru‘:"-‘?‘clttl‘?n:hv:il::_t: okl | trcat from the turmoil of town life to | Tepair man as well as the dentist. He | g, “iire iy o manner suggestive of it hasn't been done. With the aid of a | cer. eIm Bnd the oM | ital.. If ‘they can be of sssistance Bate by Carsier Witkit ke Cly, | thove unfortunaies ‘who, no lager|mends (e human Bocy, thoulh-obJ|ine cong. o ghbor. | COUPIE of futes. the composition might | The Civil War veteran gels cre pen- | £ you. wite your question plainly. and e e ST atn | competent to resist the ceascless beat- means of medicine, just as the sur-| ‘There L it present in our neighbor- e Bvening and Synday Btar o er month | ing. suffer nervcus collapse. And, of | | course, town turmoil and street car h s t AEEers Whk be verv “'vl: worth while in & suite of | sion, the Spanish War veteran comes send with three cents in coin or stamps. ! ERT " hood one of these true singers. whose “Bird Sketches. ander a_diff rale. as does the Do not use post cards. Address The geon makes repairs by means of opera- | iy 154 ‘mocking of other birds sets | x | e ncise are largely synonymous. Cars on rubber tires may be the solution. I so, THEODORE W. NOYES This newspaper puts at your disposal |the using of bound;;::y. m were originally nomadic. | place to place in search of food. During the various migrations favorable condi- tions of climate, soil productiveness, ete., would induce them to settle In a cerfain locality, where they would have the opportunity to develop. These tribes generally established themselves in regions having definite geographic boundaries, such as mountains, rivers, or seas, which could be easily defended from aggression. With the progress ot civilization these boundaries became | clearly defined. | Q What is the Payne Fund, which * x x | Indian War veteran. Then comes the | Evening Star Information Bureau, So amazing is the variety of notes| World War veteran, who gets more ' Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- put out by our particular mocker that|than any of them in some cases. And tom, D. C. it is as impossibie to keep up with him | last. but by far not least. comes the as not to hear him peace-time soldier or sailor. They all (when 4 Sundays) The Evening and Sunday (when 5 Suncays) month Sunday Star r copy lection m.ac: st the end of each month Orders may be a:at 3 by mail or telephone | tions. It does not matter at all to the | fiim ‘apart from the flock. public—the “consumers” of the services The man who wrote the old mocking hese highly skilled artisans who | bird song must have known msany such ey artisans —who | & ient singers as a matter of course. Star : 65¢ pe 3¢ pi NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 15¥r.$10.00: 1mo.. S1yr. 36000 1mo 1yr. $400; 1mo. 1 1sr 1yr Daifly and Sunday.. v onl 8,00 Iy 2 nday only L $5.00 Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Pre. t otherwise ¢ jon of published her A special dispaiches — | Bank Reform in Jeopardy. President Rooscvell and the Demo- cratic leaders in Coniress are driving for a wind up of the present short _session by tomorrow night or early next weck. Apparently they from th which » R cm. Pefore adjournment is taken, the Glass Steagall bank reform bill This is the measure which is to bo sacrificed, to be 1aid on the shelf, although cvery mem- ber of the Congress knows, and pre-| sumably the administration knows also, that the bank laws of this country need to be reformed in the interest of the people. The bill has passed both houses of Congre: It has bcen in the conference stage for nearly two weeks. Yet nothing has come out of conference. It seems, too, quite like that the Hcuse and Senate conferees could come to terms cn ihis measure if they were left to consider thelr dif- ferences without outside interference. = With the need of bank reform le pays the taxes on the materials used 5 | | wide and general application of such | & method is to be desired. But it is not only street cars that |render the experience of the city dweller hidecus. | stitutions of discord almost as repre- ble. ing of ill-adjusted radios dedicated 2 the violent disharmonies of marathon dance electric atic drills, riveting machines—all nt clamor of human ac- tivity quite as definitely demands cor- Doubtless the millennium of pe be atlained. But & compromise ly might be zchieved—the uproar could be de- creased by hslf, at least. Silent street cars would help toward the end so fervently to be wished crchesiras, rection, perfect ce never can su The Gold Hoarders. After some weeks of inquiry and re- search, a partial list of the b gold has been submitled to the Depart- ment of Justice for possible action uncer the proclamation of the President. It contains some 10,000 names, and ihe total of gold held by these individuals is |stated at approximately ~$34.652.000 | Twenty-one cities are represented, New York naturally having the largest num- | ber of names and the greatest holding of gold, 5,505 persons there having an aggregate of $29,.451581.11. Just how this works out to odd cents is not !stated, nor is the item of pennies ex- plained in the Chicago list ¢f 219 names, with a total holding of $1,540,648.75. Agents of the Depariment of Justice have personally interviewed 931 arders of st There are other in- | ‘The honking of moter cars, the |in trestmcnts or operations. Ii all goes nto the bill anywey. The con- | sumer always pays the tax in the end But it is just a little difficult to accept the likening of tbe human system, tissues, organs, teeth and other bor to plumbing and floorings, to furni- ture and kitchen ware. Yet, after all, there is an undeniable likeness in the services rendercd by the craftsman who mends broken goods and fabrics and apparatus and those of the and the physician snd the surgeon. There is, of course, diftcrence. 1f a plumber o pente or & mason doss & poor piece of work the result in all but the rarest cases Is merely some discomfort and additional | expense. Whereas if the dentist or the | physiian or the surgeon errs life itsclf | be sacrificed to the b.under or the | carelessness or tke error cf judgment 1 s, however, well to bear in mind the fundamental likeness between the | corrective professions that have to do| with the human organism and the skilled trades that have to do with! | purely physical material. Both should | | be kept in the highest order of effi- clency. Neglect cf the teeth and the | tissues and organs of the body is harm- ful and even dangerous and costly, even as neglect of the dwelling and its equipment is expeisive and sometimes Lazarcous. dentist | e Creditor nations have not succeeded in persuading debior nations to come {0 ultention as promptly as the U. S cilizen when contronted with | | | does me vital | jormal notice from the jncome lax collector. pected persons to obtain their explai ticns or to determine whether they had | tually hoarded gold., In addition, it was found thet 249 names on (he “sus- | pect” Jist were fictitious, the gold hav- | tion to this measure, have discovered |iNE been withdrawn from the banks | that there are more ways of killing g | Under false names. Of these called cat than by choking it to death with | UPon 408 persons had returncd the gold | eream. Influences of that kind work | PHior to the visit of the agents in the | in devious ways thelr wonders to per- | &mount cf some $6.000.000. Forty-two | His extraordinary confidence in abil- form. _|turned in their gold after the mgents |ity to sway elections in his own end The Glass bank reform bill was|had called. | adjacent States may, 'if Senator Huey passed by the Senale in the last Con-| No decision has been reached on the | iLong is not discieet, embolden some one gress and sent to the House, where it | 5COre of prosecutions. Thirty-seven of | to refer to him as a demagogue. was allowed to die. The House passed | those interviewed by the Government | S & bill for the guaranty of bank d,p(,ms; agents admitted withdrawlng gold Lu} International politics and finance will, and that died in the Scnate, The pres- | the sum of $233064 and refused 1o it is hoped, restore the Golden Rule to ent benk reform bill carries all the return it to the banks. If it is decided | the extent of persuading nations to ex wital reforms proposed in the Glass bill | 10 Proceed with the application of the | tend mutual assistance in the delicat to strengthen the banking system and | 1AW these will be the cnes haled to ! task of budget balancing. alto a temporary provision for the in- | court. The Attorney General says that e surance of bank deposits. Is this kind | DiS primary purgose in conducting the of legislation never to receive atten- | investigation was to bring about com- tion? Are the American people to | Pliance with the President’s proclama- have no repairing of the banking sys- | tion, that he does not desire to prose- tem which failed them so terribly dur- | cute, but that he will “do so cheerfully” ing the past four years? |if it s necessary to make an example. The late President Woodrow Wilson | However, he adds, “There certainly will put through Congress the Federal Re- | be some prosecutions of those who are serve act, regarded as a great step fa | defying the Government.” advance in our banking and financial| It vill be highly interesting to observe | tem. He put it through Congress at | the Proceedings in these cases. Pre- 8 time when there was great division of | Sumably those Who are deflant of the Jation admitted on all sides, the Con- gress and the executive appear particu- larly futfle, and will appear more s if this bill finally fals. Almost it appeacs | that great banking hou e mo——— An inclination is manifest to get the repeal of the eighieenth smendment out | of the way and permit concentration of uaticnal thought on matters of greater importance in world economy. SR | that the soldiers of one generation are | likely to become the politicians of the next. ————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. More Moratorium Requested. Miss Summertime, your cruel mood You venture to assert. There is much in history to indicate | opinion among members of the Senate and House over provisions carried in the measure. It is probable that fur- ther banking reform legislation will never pass the Congress until a Presi- | President’s proclamation have had legal advice, and they will probably resist prosecution with the aid of counsel. ! There may be some lively proceedings. | If the test cases succeed—and judging Your messages are very rude, You don't care how they hurt. The old thermometer goes wild With terror sad to see And hands to woman, man and child : 4 from the usual rate of judicial pro- dent is willing to do what Mr. Wilson | fro e usual O Juical e The ninety-third degree, did and put .his shoulder back of ¢edure it will be some time before the such a proposition. It has been charge¢ Metter is deteimined—the anti-hoard- | that President Roosevelt so far has nor | ing order, despite the fact that the ma- Yfted a finger to aid in the passage of | JOFity of the withdrawers of goid have the bank reform bill now pending. 1f | complied with it by returning their gold he had taken a firm stand in the mat- to the banks, will have been a failure. fer—outside of opposing some of the That will make more business for Con- Seatures of the bank bill—is there the | BTess at its next session, assuming that slightest doubt it could have been put the question Is settled by that time. through? Particu'arly in view of the 5 T @xtraordinary legislation giving the Open-Air Picture Shows. Government control over industry and, A Camden, N. J., motion picture en- fabor that is in process today of being terprise has been inaugurated in an pushed to final consideration. effort to solve one of the gravest prob- The Senate, With a great air of Vir- | lems confronting the screen industry fue, has adopted resolutions to deive |today, that of accommodations for gurther into the firm of J. P. Morgan | patrons who like to go to the shows in {®nd the income tax returns of the part- | their own transportation. Parking diffi- | mers of that firm. Its Committee on | cuities in citles have, it is believed, | mnking has paraded the control which been one of the principal factors in the is great money house has in bank- | falling off of attendance. There are $ng. industry and other lines. But does other elements in the case, such as lack | his parade in itself bring about bank- |Of sufficlent attractions on the screen ng reforms? It does mot. The Senate end the repetition of threadbare themes. | s about to expend $100,000 more of But parking is just now the trouble Taxes in Society. C‘m people’s money to carry on this in- | that some of the exhibitors are trying | “Are you in favor of a sales tax?” ves Each ill you say is under way Is pretty sure to come, Oh, grant us humbly, we all pray, A moratorium. As Information Accumulates. “Some Senators think they more than ordinary men.” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “And after they have served in a few investigations they are sure of it.” Jud Tunkins says money can't be the supreme social test. A prizefighter | makes more monev. but he is never supposed to move in the same circle ium clergymen and college professors. know Frivolity Triumphant. His arguments were bold and strong, They didu’t help & bit. He told & joke and sang a song, And made a real hit. stigation of banking houses. But |0 overcome | “Only for social reasons,” fihen it comes to passing legislation to | CRmden's expedient consists of the!Miss Cayenne. “It differs from the in- starting of an open-pir picture theater | come tax in not compelling you to re- for motorists. A suburban plot of six | ceive letters .from people with whom and a half acres has been provided, In | you have not the slightest acquaint- amphitheater style, with eight inclined gnce.” rows arranged in a semi-circle arourfd |a gredt screen. There are accommo- | dations for about four hundred auto- mobiles. The patrens sit in their own | continue to ch: cars to view the show. On the opening | they have fo ! night two hundred machines were thus ball vl “This device has its drawbacks. The ! majorily of motor cars nowadays are | f the closed type, with & poor chanuce tor those on the back seats 1o see & prevent the Morgan firm and other '{mu from conducting the business of bank of deposit and of an investment jouse, it seems bent upon accomplish- Bng nothing final ————s “The people demand leaders” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “and nge them until at last nd A master.” ‘The Minister to Spain describes a bu Might with diplomstic enthusiasm. In his co it is customary for a higl pfficial to throw the first L O the seas it come embarrassing if the U. S. Mizister were 10 be given (he compliment of an dnvitation (0 oss in the first matador, Heroes, The aviator sails the sky And 1s a hero none deuy, But there are other heroes true ‘Who in esteem arise anew. ar ion might be- ! ‘The land was younger. then. perhaps | that very birds were more exuberant. i) There are mocking birds and mock- ing birds. One must hear one of these loud singers before he can say that he | has heard the breed. | "Such a bird sounds more like a calli ope than any other man-made instru | ment. | He has steam behind his notes They come welling out of him with carrying power, flashing to the far cor- ners of the neighborhood. He does his best singing in the early morning. but manages to do quite well in the evening, thark you. Perhaps it is not only because he actually imitates the songs of other | birds, but even more because he seems to be mocking them, that he is named s lie is. Hear him try his throat successively cardinal, catbird and blue jay. 1 the bird Le s imitating has & song of Lwo noie followed by four in an lower pitehl, our voe rous mocker puls ten or a dozen notes i the second group. 1t seams to human listeners that he dds the extra nowes just out of playful | ~Oh, 1 know malice, much as if to say but what do how he does it, of cour you think of my versio The listener cannot think much of | it, really, because it is absurdly loud. where the original is always soft. and | the numerous notes in the second part mewhat off key. But the bird on the bough there sings it with such gusto, that a listener is in- ciined to join with him in his evident merriment, sl o x No doubt it is the spirit of fun which & Luman being reads into the mocking bird's outbursts which makes them so cheering. though at times irritating et if & morning comes when our mocking bird does not sing, there is & distinet loss felt, which fades immedi- ately at next daybreak, when he re- turns Lo roar over the neighborhood in Lis best manner. Our specimen no doubt is the com- mon polyglotius, of the genus Mimidue throated mimicker.” These peculiarly American birds, which include as allies such well known singers as the catbird and thrashers, | are said by the books to be very precise imitators of the birds they mock, but | our particular set of ears has not been |able to hear them that way. Mostly their imitation seems to be a more or | less deliberate attempt to vary the true | songs, LRI One song which our mocking bird had not attempted was that of the thrush. . Maybe he had too much respect for it, r maybe again he could not quite do it. The thrush's song has pattern to it, onal ratification of Mr. | Roosevelt's plan for a “partnership” | between the Federal Government and sion. The surprise was rather in the character and the quality of the pro- testing minority. Huey Long eclipsed all previous performances in his violent { bl There was no surprise in_that. |But the Louisiana Kingfish did not stand alone. Instead, he found himsell |in strange company. Senator Bennett |Clark of Missouri, of distinguished Democratic lineage and _tradition, | whose father but narrowly missed tne presidency, was no less severe in his denunciation and in his charge that the |bill did violence to every Democratic principle and pledge. and Clark came Senator Fess of Ohio. | Whose Republicanism is of the purest water, whose intellectual capacity is | sbove reproach. Dr. Fess is one college | professor at least who does not emi- Following Long the bill as an infringement of our | liberties, violative of our Constitution and as inviting disaster. Senator Reed | of Pennsylvania, Republican conserva- |tive, was in the same boat with Huey Long, and Clark, and Fess on this issue. Last but not least, the Idaho state: man, the great Borah, invoked “God's | pity” upon those who must live under the new regime—namely, “Mr. and Mrs. American Citizen.” Whatever history may have to record with respect to the consequences of this “new deal” for busines; and industry, historians will a:t fail to note the dire prophecies of doom and failure and tyranny indulged in this week by a conspicuous minority in the halls of Congress. Senator Bennett Clark, in support of | his motion to eliminate in its entirety title I of the “national industrial re- covery acl"—the control of industry sec- tion—declared: “Title I of this bill is a flat, open and sweeping repudiation of the platform declarations of 40 years. 1t is a repudiation of the last national platform, of the State platform upon which I ran in Missouri and of the pe sonal platform on which I was nomi- | nated. To the repudiation of that doc- | trine on which the anti-trust laws were | based, to the reversal of the whole policy of our Government for nearly 50 years, I find myself totally unable to To my mind it is &s revolution- as anything which has happened | in" Russia.” Jected 31 to 49 ’ _— * | A high light of Huey Long’s philippic against the bill was as follows: “Every tault of Socialism is found in this bill, without one of its virtus Every crime of & monarchy is in here, without one of the things that would give it credit. It is a combination of everything that is impracticable and impossible under the Socialistic system, and everything all of which might be translated “many- | private business was & foregone conclu- | excoriation of the control of industry brace the Federal control of industry | scheme with open srms. He assailed | The Clark motion was re- | A dozen new birds might come into | the neighborhood and we would think it was our pet up to new tricks Unlike the small boy of many years ago, he is more heard than seen. Occasionally his white-edged wings flash through the trees, but in the main he stays safely out of sight. Graciously he permits his powerful | voice to speak for him, which it does unhesitatingly. Those of our readers who think that they. too, have mocking birds will never know what & mocking bird is until one of this stentorian variety flies in for the Summer. . At first he irritates. by his loudness, then he amuses by his twists to well | known bird songs, then he pleases by his invariable good humor and perfect gest for living. Ordinary mocking birds do all of this to some extent, but only the ex- ceplional specimen, we are convinced, does it Lo pertection. How can one tell if the real thing Is present” By his loudness. ‘I'his s the quality which sets him apart from the flock If, at ay time, one happens to hear 2 bird singing louder than it ought to sing, he may feel sure that one of This and That's famous special mock- | ing_birds has flown from the South. Until one has heard this peculiar | breed he may safely feel that he does not know the genuine article On a clear, cool morning its imita- tion of the beloved cardinal may be heard at least a mile. Now it launches into a set of chirps and squeaks which make a perfect pic- ture, musically speaking, of bird hap- piness. Above all, he is never still for a sec- ond, but trills and thrills minute after minute. ‘The morning he does not sing some- how seems lacking in one of the great- est principles of & good morning. How silent it is! Other birds are cheeping from ever: bough, but the great voice is still. | Why, cur mocking bird is not sing ing! Now what do you suppcse hi | happened to him? | We listen for him in the evening, but }'Ile isn’t there. If he were present, all | feel sure, there could be no doubt of it. Maybe he has flown over to Rock Creek Park to try his wiles in that neighborhood. Perhaps—- Well, well, well! There he is now! Welcome back, old timer! ‘When it comes to mocking birds, you | are the real thing. | And so you've picked up a new tune over there in the woods, old fellow. | Let's heat it. That's great. Swell. We knew you could do it when you tried. Thrush, ¢h? Not bad, not half bad. Y WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS given one of the Republican places on the Federal Home Loan Board by Mr. Roosevelt. Russell Hawkins, prominent lumberman of the Pacific Northwest, and Republican leader in Oregon, was given one of the Republican vacancies on the board of the Reconstruction Fi- nance Corporatior ‘Taken all together, it was a big day's job done for Patron- age Dispenser in Chief “Jim” Farley. ‘The large field candidates for the two commissionerships of the District of Columbia remain on the anxious seat. The appointments long overdue are now momentarily expected. At the outset Jim Farley had before him a list ot more than 60 men and women who as- pired to the posts. he has sald to have now whittled down to about ten. When he will whittle down to two de- pends on when the big New Yorker finds time for whittling. In the mean- time the candidates are like so many nervous bridegrooms. % % ‘The Federal economy ax is no re- spector of persons. Even the gratutles bestowed by a generous Congress upon the widows of deceased members are being subjected to the percentage salary cut. Thus Nieves Mana P. C. Walsh, the beautiful Cuban bride of the late Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, | who was stricken on his honeymoon, re- | ceives only $9,000, instead of $10,000, out of the contingent fund of the Senate. | The widow of the late Senator Howell of Nebraska receives $9,000. The widow |of the late Representative Clay Stone | Briggs of Texas receives only $8,500. | That was because the 15 per cent salary | cut had superseded the 10 per cent sal- |ary cut in congressional salaries a few | duys before the death of Representative | Briggs. | * % % ‘ ‘The first romance of the Roosevelt administration to come to happy con- |clusion is the engagement and Im- pending wedding just annouced of As- | sistant Secretary of War Harry F. | Woodring, until recently Governor of Kansas, and Miss Helen Coolidge, the tali and lovely blond daughter of Sen- ator and Mrs. Marcus A. Coolidge of Massachusetts. The bride's father in | private life is a millionaire Bay State | manufacturer. Miss Coolidge has won | & high reputation as a portrait painter | end many members of the Senate and | other Capital notables have been por- | trayed on canvas with her brush. The ccuple met for the first time at a Dem- ocratic dinner here in December, 1931. It ~was not until the following April, | when the Kansas Governor was in the East to attend the Governors' confer- rnice at Richmond, Va., that their paths crossed ngain. During the past year |they have met often and during the past few months, with the Kunsun occupying & prominent place in the Rousevell administration, the romance | cate into full bloom, p | Q. Did Frances Perkins, Secretary of K. Why, no one Labor, attend college?>—R. F. |sided the Motion Picture Research are treatea differently. knows. Suppese from the Akron there had | been a chief petty officer saved. but | who was totally and permanently dis- abled, who had nine years' service | His pay would be $144.90. plus 50 per | cent for flying duty, or $217 a month, which was in addition to his mainte- nance. But {rom this we may take 15 | per cent reduction in pay. This man | would draw in pension exactly $30 a | month for his total disability, less | than one-seventh of his pay. Had this happened during the war he would | Teceive $80 a month, even since the “New Deal.” two and a half | times as much. suppose he was | just one step higher in rank; he would | then be entitled to retirement of | three-quarters of his pay if he was as much as 10 per cent disabled. In peace-time service the cfficer gets by far the best of the deal. The above- mentioned man would draw about 141, per cent of his pay because of total disability. The officer would draw 75 per cou. of his pay because of 10 per cent disability. ~ This condition s sometimes justified the claim tha the officer enters the service as career, but what is the enlisted man Going who has served over a period of vears? His very service indicates that he expects to serve until he is refired. It is just as much a cereer to him as | it is to the officer. Probably the real difference being that the officers have a powcrful lobby, and the enlisted men | have nothing. = Disability is just as | cruel and painful to cne man as to | another. and his earning power is just | as much curtailed. WALTER JOHNSON. r——— i | | Of the Austro-Germans To the Editor of The Star Your recent editorial about Austria land the Nazis seems to me to justify | a reply by an Austrian to make clear to the American public the problem as seen by an Austrian, and surely by the ma’ority of Austrians, as the elec- | tions of the past month have indicated. | First of all I want to stress that 97 per cent of the popylation of Austriz are Germans, and government came tending to be pro-“Anschluss.” It has since_broken its word, as did the lead- er of the Fascist Heimwehr, who prom- |ised unrestrict:d co-operation with | Hitler and now, without any popular support, for purely personal has reversed his policy. Behind thc | present government are about 20 to 25 per cent of the population. Dollfusc ruthlessly suppresses the rest, the ma- jority of people being in favor of Hitler There is not the slightest idea which is the basis for the action of the pres- ent government. Austria is and re- peace treaties, even if Dollfuss and his terror bands, paid by Italian money, are fighting against the majority with machine guns, an army which is made a party guard, a polic¢ and a staff of officers, who are forced to swear an oath of allegiance to persons of a party which has broken the constitu- tion. While the American press objects | to the suppression of the opposition in Germany by the majority-supported | Hitler government, it does not seem to {use the same standard in the case of Dollfuss, where a party with hardly one-fourth of the population behind it | fights the rest of the population with machine guns. Where this party of a German Smfi holds itself in office by | breach of the constitution, and with | French and Italian money, thereby de- laying the day of union with Germany, ‘C'ehlch must come if Europe shall ever | pacified, since the Austro-Germans |and Germany claim the same right for | self-determination which others have been conceded. We Austrians cannot |live in the present political state of | Dollfuss, ordered on the street by the Bank of France and Mussolini, can- not provide for the maintenance of 7.000,000 Germans in Austria. Take the unprecedented case of Dollfuss’ in- tended lecture at the University of Vi- enna, where the students, who are 90 | per cent in opposition, refused to let him come in, as they consider him to be a traitor to his country. The uni- ;V_el’slty was founded in 1356 and often | since,” even in absolutistic days, espe- cially in 1848, was the stronghold of opposition to the emperor. Never did | the police even dare to enter. Dollfuss took two companies of “his” army, en- tered by aid of machine guns, and after that had to retire because he was in danger. This, of course, cannot last long. It will be over within a few months, but it seems fair to me that the American pubhc should also hear the voice of the majority of the people in Austria, who are longing for a change from a state in which they are the vassals of Prance and Italy— this present “free” state—into a state where they are members of the body of people which they belong to in ail eternity, the Germans. CARL SMETANA. | Protests Pollution of | Potomac River Water ‘To the Editor of The Star: The newspaper announcements that Maj. Gottwals is laying plans for the purifying of the waters of the Po- tomac should strike a responsive chord in the hearts of all who love their Naton’s Capital City. When one stops to think, it is an amazing paradox that we spend hundreds of millions of dollars to erect beautiful buildings, parks and works of art to make this one of the world’s most beautiful cities and then spoil the whole by allowing one of its greatest and God-given as- sets, the Potomae, to become nothing but a disgusting open sewer. Any one can prove for himself that it is a na- tional disgrace by taking a boat ride during the coming Summer meonths, States “‘Anschluss™ Views | hat the present | into office by pre-| | mains one of the monstrosities of the | affairs, and even the machine guns of | A. She attended Mount Holyoke from which she graduated in 1902. She| taught a year in Chicago., spent some | time at Hull House, studied economics | and sociology at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Chicago and Columbia. Q. What is the exteént of bus travel in the United States at present?— W. M. C A. Of the 104,000 motor busses in | the United States last year, the 32213 listed s common carriers transported !1,736,000,000 passengers and covered 1.797,000,000 miles, grossing in revenue $348,800,000. . Is the eye or the ear more sensi- tive to impressions?>—C. N. T. A. The Public Health Service says that the eye is sixteen times more {'sensitive than the ear. | Q. How long has Arthur E. Morgan been presicent of Antioch College?— R. L. A. Dr. Morgan has been president of Antioch since 1922, He has recently been appeinted chairman of the Ten- nessee Valley Power Authority. Q. What is the record made by Cannonball Baker up Mount Mitchell? —H. A A. Baker made the 22-mile climb, which has 378 curves in 42 minutes 33 seconds. The descent was made in 42 minutes 15 seccnds. Q. What was the epitaph whi Andrew Carnegie prepared for himself? —A. D R A “Here lies a man who knew how to enlist in his service better men | than himselt.” | Q. What proportion of the sun’s rays | directed toward the earth, actually reach it>—M. O. A. The Smithsonian Institution says |that on a clear day at sea level with the sun in the zenith, about 75 per| | cent of the solar rays are transmitted to the earth through the atmosphere. Of the remainder, part is scattered and reaches the earth in the form of sky light, part is selectively absorbed, and part reflected back to | space. directly Q. How much does the average | Llewellan setter weigh?—T. S. | _A. The mature and the bitch between 35 and 40 sounds. reason: | Q. Is “aspirin” a trade mark or the name of the product?—B. C. ! manufactured product. Upon the ex- | product and must be so considered. Q. How were boundaries established | criginally?>—W. W. H. A. Va b ch | 4 og of this breed should weigh between 40 and 55 pounds | piration of the patent, the courts ruled |that the name had been generally ac- | cepted by the public as the name of ‘ R imitive races of mankind influenced | the time of St. Hilda’s death (880 Councll in its report on children’s re- actions to the movies?—A. L. A. The Payne Fund is an organiza- tion which promotes research into fac- | tors in modern life affecting young peo- ple. It was started flve years ago by descendants of the late Col. Oliver Payne of Ohlo as a memorial to him. The organization has headquarters at 1 Madison avenue, New York, N. Y. Q. Who is the Englishman who divides people into four classes. one of which is promoters?>—R. C. A. The Elcock stem, devised by | Hcward Elcock, divides all human na- ture into four categories—promoters, producers, developers and distributors. Q. Are poison same plant?—H. 3 A. They are not the same, although the names are confused in some parts of the country. Since some forms of peison ivy do not climb and some forms of poison oak do, it is hard to distin- guish between them. The fact remains that both are to be avoided. When was “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” ramatized and by whom?—F. L. H. . The dramatization of Harriet Beecher Stowe's book was made by George L. Aiken and was begun while |the tale was running serially in the National Era. Both the book and the rlay appeared in 1852 under the title of “Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly.” The play was first presented at the museum of Troy, N. Y. Q. Have insect pests common to the United States ever been introduced into | other countries from here?—A. R. N. | A. This does happen occasionally. A | case in point was the yellow plant louss l'on the roots and leaves of wild Ameri- | can grapes. They were carried into | France with some grape roots and caused widespread damage. Q. May one ever say “If I am?” Must it always be “If I be?"—C. T. A. Josephine T. Baker says: “The indicative mode is used when the sug: position is regarded as a fact; the sul junctive when the supposition is re- garded as merely thought of, or when doubt or uncertainty is expressed.” Q. What does Watts' painting, “Hope,” sigpify?>—D. S. A. The theme is symbolized by the figure of a woman seated with bowea head. She still clings to_her Iyre, all | the strings of which, with the excep- | tion of one, are broken. This is to sus- | gest the dominant quality of hope | which prevails underseven the most ivy and poison oak the D, | A. It was originally a trade mark of a | adverse circumstances. | 2. S | Q When were church bells intro- duced into France?—M. A. H. A. They were probably introduced In the seéventh century Bede mentions a bell brought from Italy | bv Benedict Biscop for his abbey at | Wearmouth and speaks of the sound of rious factors acting upon the | a bell being known at Whitby Abbey at ). Attack on Hug The ruling by the Reconstruction for officers are inconsistent with the avor by the public. It is held that if the reciplent's executive ability is the | basis for the very large salary, he | should be able to maintain the organi- | zation’s financial stability without re- course to public funds. On the other | hand, there is some protest that dic- | tation in the matter should be re- strained, because of the difficulty of de- termining the value received by the company from the highly paid official. “Two recent developments,” says the }Chicago Daily News, “may combine to |end a flagrant corporate abuse. The swollen profits of the boom decade per- | mitted an unprecedented increase in | the salaries and bonuses paid to many | corporate officials. When surplus earn- ings were succeeded by deficits during | the depression those official incomes re- | mained at or near the high levels, and, | in many cases, were a sericus drain on highly necessary cash reserves. Stock- holders who sought to enforce salary | reductions were defeated by the votes of stock and proxies controlled by the | highly paid officials, Within the last few days the United States Supreme Court and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation have disapproved of over- stuffed salaries and excessive bonuse: ‘The Finance Corporation, in ruling that the higher railroad salaries must | reduced sharply as a prelude to further Federal loans, sct a precedent that | probably will have a broad influence on | sentiment outside the field of trans- | portation. The Supreme Court, in de- | ciding a tobacco company case, out- lined clearly the grounds on which a dissenting shareholder may seek Tre- dress. Reviewing the court case, the Daily News emphasizes that the ruling | is against “salaries so large as in sub- | stance ard effect to amount to spolia- | tion or waste of corporation property,” |and sees it as a “powerful weapon” in the hands of “the frequently forgotten stockholder.” “The occasion of the ruling,” it is pointed out by the New York Her: Tribune, “was the grant of a loan of 1 $23,000,000 to the Southern Pacific Co. | Finance Corporation that high salaries granting of government loans to cor- orations is received with considerable e Salaries of ‘Borrowing Firms Applauded them it will have to look elsewhere than to the public Treasury for relief. It is quite likely that both the theory nne the rule will meet the roval of thi taxpayers who, ini the analysis, have to provide all the money which the Government elther gives or lends.™ “It is a sound business policy,” in the opinion of the Asbury Park Evening | Press, with the conclusion that the Re- construction Finance Corporation ‘“‘has shown wisdom in terminating the situ- ation.” That l|;lpe:' also declares: “Any corporation that is in such desperate straits that it must borrow public funds is not economizing when it ryl its president $120,000 a year, as a few rail- roads on the Reconstruction Finance | Corporation list are reported to do. It these executives were worth that much, | their firms would not be at the point of | bankruptcy.” ‘The . ‘Times quotes a statement by Sennor'-gl:fl 2 of | Alabama in the Senate that “ :g figures on one railroad which ha | rowed 31,000,000 while paying three . | salaries of more than $100,000 a year and ‘many salaries’ of $75,000 to $100,000.” - Feeling that “there is room for re- spectable protest against having the | Reconstruction Finance Corporation ake tach to its loans provisos about sala~ ries,” the Baltimore Sun questions the | value of the “element of inflexil y’ |and adds: “The Reconstruction e nance Corporation has come forward with the outline of a set of strings which it has tied to a railroad loan. | The outline emphasizes the importance | of room for discretion and the inade- iquacy of a flat salary maximum. | Whether this railroad loan arrangement | is wisely devised we do not pretend to know, nor do we see how any one can know without a comprehensive knowl- edge of the particular situation to which it applies. But it requires no such Dhenket salaty Tl s not “&mé anket salary rul nof | to the sensible handling of ters.” 3 | ters. Cause of Depression Is Bad Taxing System | To the Editor of The Star: |A teport to the Interstate Commerce | : Commission last June showed that this| The entire Nation looks with confis company paid the chairman of its board | dence upon the measures which the '1“315'00? s’»\] T r&t lrr}:m . v&evk:us | administration has adopted for the re- gh o 50.000; that it paid its vice Z X | chairman $76.500 and its president $90,- | C°VerY of normal conditions and s 000. What the plain citizen will note €ven ready to approve of a degree of lis that each one of these gentlemen, baternalism that in ordinary times even on the basis of & reduced wage, | Would not be in order: It must, how- was receiving in June, 1932, more than €ver, be remembered at all times that | the President of the United States. A |the fundamental cause of the depres- o e Slhsicie Aine 6oy = |16 of Lwenty salaries peid by other |sion is & perverted system of taxatiom, getown to Hains Point. y e A and very little attention has as yet - that has robbed us in disasters under The study of prehistoric animals has | fheen made so fascinating by sclece | car will be developed for this particular | at statesmen. in discussing co-ordi- inated wealth are inclined to prod into 4the political squarium acd stir up the wld “octopus picture screen. Perhiaps if the open-air show 1s successful & new type of motor A man with senses all alert That we mey travel without hurt, Let us salute both far and near | use. Or maybe each family will have | two cars, one of the closed type and cne of the romdster type, or & convertidle | machine, the top of which can be low- | The locomotive engineer. He does not pose for camera men, He knows where to go and when. | th> monarchial system. It is & com- bination of every evil thet can pos- sibly be imagined, worse than anythin | proposed under the Soviet, because in | this thing we go into the realms of the imaginary and the unknown. You do not know what you are voting for. They | will have more monarchs and sub- ‘Jefl'erson Coined Phrase “Entangling Alliances™ To the Editor of The Star: On Wednesday evening I listened in We are about to embark upon a vast program of public works involving the expenditure of billions of dollars. Al- though the main purpose is to “make” | roads at the same time shows eight of them in excess of that which goes with the occupancy of the White House. Per- | haps the latter is not a just criterion. | been given to correcting this wrong. Something like sixty years ago Henry George comprehended a_similar s Certainly it bears no remote relation to | tion with the wisdom of a philosopher the value of & President’s services. Yet and gave to the world a remedy for !it is arguable that if he is able and the conditions which he so clearly ap- willing to get along on it there is little | Prehended. His book, “Progress reason why railroad executives whose Poverty” was quickly accepted as one work, that does not relieve from the necessity of getting value received. Every penny of these billions is even- tually coming from the pockets of the Time tables brief that all men read | ered. Co-operation between the picture | Are all the fame he seems to need. | and the mcior industries may become | treeq | BCCESSATY to give the fuilest value to i e 470! | tnts method of catering to the movie- | *De man who trists to l?c)k1i< said minded public. | Uncle Eben, “is liable to fee! e an- | other victim of misplaced confiden: " ———— Silent Street Cars. In Brooklyn yesterday a silent ear was given a trial run, and the ex- periment appears to have becn a com- 5 plete success. The car sped slong With | ne Krupps represent a large and | N0 more noise then that of an electric | com s t e smprchensive capitalization, but this| R P egg-benter. Rubberizea tires and springs | et will not encourage any iden of - | Yandalism at Chevy §-n the secret of the quiet operation of | yating “Big Bertha” to the dignity of Chase Circle Fountain the vehicle. Half a million dollars has | 4 national myth. | N X | To the Editor of The been expenced in developing the orig- e ik eblGiE N oeskary Jat ihis Repair Men. inal design. The money seems to have | fine 1o il o, the sttentitey. of ‘the been well invested | 1In an opinion just handed down by | PESPle living in Chevy Chase and j s vicinity that the beautification of Chevy Certainly, silent street cars are & | e pead of the New York State Tax - — ate————— = Chase Circle, which is now in progress, “consummation devoutly to be wished." | commission fn & pending case a den- | is apparently mnot appreciated by all Much of the incessant din of Modern | yit 55 to be rated in the law as a| The Stonework of the fountain basin | cities traces back to the contest be- - Th wag | 15, diready being marred by vandals, } repair man." The matter at issue was | who have broken the edges of the stone tween steel end stcel implied by trol- | who should pay the tax upon materials | rim i many places with \'xcl:ims in- transportation. A kind of conflict " . : or | tent. Presumably it has been dene by 4 ‘:.i,, el birass abeold and inatle | (L1 10840 the Sanfal operRioes, WheY %1 thougtitiess Peilidren=lily i». ». - guchl s P betwee .| the manufacturers or wholesalers of | but at any rate attention is called to and the racket of the struggle is deaf- | roteilers. The head of the commission | it with Lhehgupe that, the ‘parents of ing to human ears, maddening to hu- | he o children w play there wi warn enirg 11 olds that although the dentist rendeis their off o ct the place and gnen nerves. People who reside in|a health service comparable with that| noy mutilate that wmlcn is_not yet ;___,mg.lwrnunulretheyflnvdmm,h&h,mmllfl\ completed. WQBD » 28 ; 4 : X | on the excellent talk of Senator Arthur R. Robinson of Indiana on the subject | of our mixing in with European S('raFi, |but was surprised to hear him refer |twice to “Washington’s admonition | against entangling alliances.” This phrase was not Washington's, the state. | ment from his farewell address from monarchs, more dictators, administra- tors and supervisors set up over the sundry and various industries, so that before we get through with the swine industry they will have & chief super- | visor over it, and then they will have a man to regulate the ordimary side meat end of it, and one over the ham industry end of it. and then the mat- tress industry which uses the hair end of it. and the glue industry end of it and the sausage irdustry end of it. We | will not be through with it then. We will have 25 different codes to be writ- | ten up to regulate that kind of an in- ! dustry.” * % % x A large grist of Presidential appoint- ments long overdue reached the Sen- ate in two batches Thursday afternoon. There was one Ambassador, four envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipoti- ary (two of them from Texas), twelve collectors of internal revenue, three col- Jectobs of customs, an Assistant Attor- ney Generzl, three Federal judges, two Federal district attorneys and one ‘United States marshal. Walter H. New- ton of Minnesota, Hoover secretary, de- nied a Hoover appointment to the Fed- eral bench through failure of senatorial confirmation at the last session, | | which it is often erroneously quoted being, “It is our true policy to steer | clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.” Th familiar phrase “entangling alliances’ ;wns coined by Thomas Jefferson in his first inaugural address, delivered March |4, 1801: “Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations—entangling alliances with none.” GERTRUDE E. MACKENZIE, - Discounted. From the Charleston Evening Post. One good thing about the new French | default on the war cebt is that it will be no disappointment. Thy Morkey, Weench, | Prom the Roanoke Times. | There's nothing that upsets a dis- armament uggestion of 7 ol A conference so much as the | disarmament, | tax-paying public—and that_includes those living in the District. It should be spent for things which will benefit all. What better way could a small portion of this money be spent than to erect a system of sewage-disposal plants which would return this river to the people for its many potential forms of enjoyment and as an example to the rest of the Nation as to what can be done in the matter of river purification? Here is one way in which money can be spent to the direct benefit, not only of every one living in or near the Capital, but also to the penefit of the future generations who will have to repay most of the money now being borrowed. ‘The Potomac is one of the world's ot beautiful rivers. During its trav- el§ from the mountains to the sea it presents in varied forms every pic- turesque vista which the nature-lover can ask. It should be returned to its pristine purity, so that the wonderful [ facilities it offers for bathing, boating and aquatic pleasure in_general may | bs safely enjoyed by ail, so that it/ may cnhance, rather than serve as a | noisome distraction from the man- made beauty it traverses as it flows past Wi " ARTHUR W. DEW. properties are not earning their fixed | of the world’s great books, wes trans- | charges should demand more; why, in ' lated into practically every modern lan- | fact. they should not be content with guage and his adherents are organized | less.” | today in something over twenty of the | “The corporations must prove that lcading countries of the world. In one | the salaries are not excessive,” observes | City, New Westminster, British Colum- | the Nashville Banner, with a review of | bia. his plan of taxation has, so far as the provisions made: “The cuts will re- | possible, beén adopted. . There ares no | main in effect until the loans are liqui- dated or until the corporations meet | fixed charges out of revenue. The ac- | tion taken by the Reconstruction Fi- |nance Corporation directors is aimed at such corporations as are paying salaries which the directors feel are higher than is warranted, at least while the bor- rowing institutions are unable to finance thelr own requirements and are apply- ing for Government funds. A number of railroads and possibly some banking institutions and insurance companies are affected by the new procedure. At 25 are secking | banks paying high sala loans.” “The theory is” according to the Omaha World-Herald, “that if a crpo- ration is in the grd. losing menev, un- able (5 pgy its debts, in danger of benk- | T t cannot afford to pey big| to its executives. And the ruls | city taxes there whatsoever, the neeffed | revenue being secured from economic | Tent or land values, and the success of the experiment is beyond question, . The annual rental value of land in | the United States is calculated to. | thirteen Dbillions of dollars. Most , this goes into the hands of and land speculators. Should this be taxed as suggested by Mr. can easily be demonstrated that all other taxes might be abolished, | bring into existence forces - | fluences’ for prosperity that never present, however, few of the larger | fore in the world’s history have. realized. Prosperity can. Never be se- cured so long as the present unjust | system of taxaticn, which falls so heay- !1ly upon incomes, imports.and tries, is allowed to eontinuse. We must frade and a & is to be that if it insists on paying have international ftse eingle tax upon-land Wichita, Kans, _,