Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1933, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. BATURDAY.......June 10, 19383 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor vening Star Newspaj Company | siness o Bu: g 11th_St. and Pennsylvania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t. go Office: Lake Michigan Building. Offce; 14 Regent St.. London Enclanc Carrier Within unday Star the City. 45¢ er month 60c per month Bta ....68¢ per month ;...-5¢ per copy each month f il or telephone nd mal the suthority to spend the money, put men to work and give the local tax- payers the improvements for which they are taxed as soon as that tax money is The Industries Bill. Senate action on the public works and industries bill last night made sure the final passage of this act, so revolutionary in character as it relates to industry. Heretofore the Govern- ment of the United States has through its anti-trust laws undertaken to pro- vide for the freest kind of competition. It is true that when it was found that unfair methods of competition needed curbing the Federal Trade Commission was set up and has been in operation to prevent such undue rivalry. But now ; * 1 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1933. ment and the bigger and better outfits arranged for the Summertime forest workers would keep perhaps twoscore of long-service Government employes at work for & year. When heads are about to fall into the basket of official decapitation on the score of economy it is only justice to watch these corners of expense. AT Walter Jofinson's New Berth. To say that there was a general feel- ing of gratification in Washington yes- terday when it was announced that Walter Johnson had been engaged to manage the Cleveland American League base ball team is a mild expression of the reaction. Washington, in fact, was delighted to learn that Walter had landed a new job in the game with THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘Thunder rolled over Washington. Half a million persons heard it, and almost all of them feared it, in one way or another. 3 Some declared, brightly, “Oh, I just love a thunderstorm!™ Others carefully closed the windows, although the heat was stifling. The; had heard that no one ought to sit in a draft during such electrical displays in the high heavens. Others sought some favorite chair, and remained in it for the duration of the ltghtni.ng.‘ . * % And every one of them, whether he realized it or not, respected, and there- down celestial alleys. No wonder that image has worked itself into the legends of various peoples, t in our own version of “Rip Van ! > For all those honestly have no storm, therefore, do not pretend to speak. No doubt there are some such, but many of us will choose to regard them as happy fools. There is too much power and pos- sibility of destruction there mot to have an uneasiness, at the least, in its presence. | ‘The desire to be brave before others, the use of electric lights and window blinds to blot out the great glares in : ey, ‘persons who ithe electrical elimi | tions a Mrs. THE LIBRARY TABLE BY SARAH G. BOWERMAN. VARIATIONS ON A METAPHYSIC THEME. ‘Winifred Holmes. . By London: The Unicorn Press. ‘The author of this little volume of modern verse, some of which has The title poem, at the end, nates all conventional concep- of time and space and moves in ificance we are not entirely cer- But certainties are n®t of the essence of poetry. More concretely, | Holmes' poems belong to the ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘This is a special department devoted tc the handling of inquiries. You have at your disposal an extensive organ- ization in Washington to serve you in any capacity that relates to informa- previously appeared in English period- | tion. Write your question, your name, icals, was known in Washington sev-'and your address clearly, and inclose eral seasons ago as Winifred Young, |3 cents in coin or stamps for reply. when she spoke before a number of Do not use post cards. the clubs on present-day English au-|Evening Stsr, :ho{;d‘-nd on some of her experiences ' Frederic J. in a. Send to The Information Bureau, , Director, Washing- | ton, D. C. | Q. Where did Lewis Douglas, director fourth-dimensional realm of whose ! Of the budget, receive his higher edu- | moon's edge. cation?—F. H. A. He atterided Amherst, took law at Harvard, and a course in geology at Massachusetts Institute of Technclogy. merchants of Luback ip the Middle Ages. e Q. What causes the phenomenon known as Baily's Beads?- . D. h A. When there is an of thé sun, just before and after the sun's disk is entirely obscured by the moon, the thin, crescent-shaped unobscured portion of the sun seems to become a strand of bright points with dark '»spaces between, resembling a string of | beads. The phenomenon is caused by | irradiation and the inequalities of the It takes ths name from Francis Batly, who first described it. Q. How many specimens of sea api- mals are there in the Bermuda Mu- | | | the skies, the utilifation of some favor- fore, in a sense, feared, the mighty roll | jta superstition, or even the use of some and’ rumble in the clouds. | good ‘commn sense. Respect ususlly means some aspect| " These may help many to forget that | of fear; such is “the fear of the Lord.” | 5 thunderstorm is a thunderstorm, not | in religion: and such fear may be Ut- |3 gentle Spring rain, but they are only terly unconscious. palliatives to the rest of us. We are There may be some happy individ- | afraid. and admit it uals who honestly revel in a great * % *hi electrical storm, but one may feel con- vinced that their number is very, very| The usual way of putunw “Oh, | small in comparison * with the re- why be afraid of lightning, use as | Icng as you can see it you know it| mainder of us. For one might as well not be timid | hasn't struck you?” does work in in regard to these manifestations; aside | our case, because it is the thunder we happen to be scared of! from a few elementary precautions, which, after all, are nothing but com- When the vivid flashes of light are mon sense, there is little, if anything | connected so intimately with the vast a human being can do to avoid being ?&im. th}:n the total is just a little bit much. struck by lightning. . ok w e 1o T Tolse s what makes gne jump, ; e . 1 _one | This fear is 50 old that many Will | fapCene o be of the jumpiw variety. tell you that it no longer exists. The possibilty for d: ‘seems 10 In the early days of man 8s We|pe wrapped up in both Of them: the know him (not as perhaps he may|common debate among timid souls is have been before that) lightning Was |yhether it Is safer on the first floor or thought to be the direct instrument of the ruling powers of heaven and earth, | % ‘e second. - (We p,’"“ SpoiTR) The terrible grumble overhead was 1t 15 Tortunate for wila. distike which his name has been brilliantly identified for more than a quarter of a century. This sentiment was shared by those responsible for the termina- tion of his services as manager of the ‘Washington club. Their reason for re- placing him with a younger man of different temperament, perhaps better seum?—G. T., A. This is dne of the mast interest- ing collections of the kind in the world | the administration has urged that in- dustries be permitted to adopt codes, with the approval of the President, which will deal with production, hours of labor, wages, methods of competi- tion, etc. In the twinkling of an eye the old principle of free competition lis to be wiped away. Industry is to| be controlled to the nth degree, and |suited to the requirements of the local the Government is given authority mimm, were accepted by the public 50 | compel the producers to live up to the jand there was hope that he would codes established through a licensing | quickly land another berth. His pitch- provision. Never before has there in | ing days, of course, were over. Base this country been such an attempt to ball was his business, not chicken farm- manage industry. But this is the day |ing, in which he had engaged as a of government management. pastime during his playing and manag- The industries control bill is writ- |ing days and to which he resorted as ten down as an emergency measure.a means of livelihood when the marke: | Its period of life is to be two years.|for his services was closed. Now. hw | Its proponents believe, however, that goes to take up the burden that has when it has been in effect for two years | just been lifted from the shoulders of miktes Which Bandied (el Bit the system will be continued indefi- |another man in another city, a former appfepriation bill in the House finds| : | nitely. They look to it as a sort of |teammate at the Capital, as much a 3 x B “mfit&mx:n:w?iz;"{:;z‘cm'au for the indusirial ils of the |star in his own position as Johnson | thelr displeasure, made manifest to the |, {1, 15 ITHRACE T0F (0% he TEUE ;8;; In nc:le first, place, it reduces| COWNtY, in which production, wages,lin his, but now the victim of the hos- | "It any poor mortal was struck, it Iit)mchn most of them occur in day- | uhcpe. : 8 | nours of labor and like have been in-|tility of his home public because of the | was a direct vengeance. If he hap- |LEHL. - e Sapebstiiastwentyclien par oniiEens slump of his team after a brilliant be- | Pened to be walking with a companion, | There is a substantiality to the worl | volved. The proof of the pudding is| A = 0l . |around us in light, which somehow in the second place, it balances the| T " iing. The American people are |ginning of the season. To his new post | na the latfer was struck, he Who ee | (ooms%o withdraw, to a certain extent, District budget.” [oE b n sy g . | restive under too much Government Walter Johnson will take the best wishes | happiness at deliverance. | during the night. The. District budget 18 not.Belanced of Washington, although, of course, the | That this attitude remained in tn- | Night storms would be by far the | regulation. e o wres| M il depend. upmn the way in Capal wil Bope to ee i tam beaten | FSIS, 08 e i, to0wm 1y 1 1| 7 ™o ‘e ‘it " “fl mbe n‘;;:;c e e‘;z:.:slve uxa‘tinn | which the industries act is enforced.|by the Nationals whenever the two may 'many centuries ago, entered the priest- | Dest) sleep has been secured. iy " hurtf l'!-me danger is that attempts will be meet. For friendships cease in base |hood as the result of such a vow, made do:‘ehismlu‘\_"exc hthieliit::;: x': ubehasl; zA:;m; ’,‘;’:;:dym“ on is hurttul| = de to curtail competition to an ex- | ball when the umpire signals the pitcher | Under the stress of such circumstances. 3 i sleepy that he is, in a sense, drugged | | tent which would place a huge burden | to deliver the first ball of a game. But e i | to the visible extent of the late night Houeh the ct bill the Federal| ' % suming public. The great|if Washington must be beaten for the | Yet some 1700 years before him a Gove t has been able to great Latin poet, Lucretius by name, | storm. Without this hnppyr;:;::a m:;;h rnmen! able to save som¢ | n . T s ame. | storms would be f ore 3 t"'mmion dollars, & part of its in-| difficulty in this country has not been | pennant this year it will be gratifying I Sared to stimd up before mankind and B ThOr | overproduction, but the fact that pro- adeqoa tion to his old friends at the Capital if the |declare that thunder and. LEHtINg | uiesend o be dot. Night: mbgaifios = e OnD e e 0 be lost. magnifies o!m:lt:::“(’; 1m‘:n:h:h;‘$;f‘ duction could not be properly distrib- | team that beats it is the one which |¥ere nofhing but manifestations of | everything. will represent a u:nll iwarc of the wu‘.’l‘l uted. There is no overproduction of | Walter Johnson now heads. = le, whe le | e Core o e | shoes, for example, when many people b T R T least cultured of men; 50 prevalent, Sa¥ings ‘which, . the ‘administration i Uncle Sam s invited to forsake his | are unable to have shoes. U indeed, that one must force himself, :::‘": ww‘":m:'h““:z ;’ F"’”:‘ The Senate has written into the in- | policy of isolation. In the meantime, i Teading “Of the Nature of Things, et. Everybody grani necessity | to keep in mind the daring of the poet’s dustries bill a large number of amend- orchestras abroad will be rehearsing | pronouncement. for bringing the Federal budget into ments and two of them deal particularly | “Have You Ever Been Lonely, ane; The laws of meteorological disturb- balance, and sacrifices are being asked " |ances, no matter how well they may with the tax system of the country.| You Ever Been Blue?’ | of everybody to that end. The District| g ‘o0 ‘Glutary provided they can ! has no complaint with emergent steps be understood by a duly educateu b T Y L T | modern person, do very little to assuage iy to bring the Federy] | D€ made to “stick.” The first provides| A vacation is necessary, but many | are taken ng i issue in this count p thto e, against the furthur try the ancient fear in his heart. | immediately intérested in congressional| This Ekisl*;i;t :gd ismverymsolrxd. leg f tax-exempt securities by the Federal, | procedure agree that it is going to mimme say what they will e fear of | B the (abiem S0 handls Uis: logat sntnu and :mnlcipcl governments. In|a hard-working vacation. thunder and lightuing s by no MeAD: | creen and red roses very red. appropriation bill and the expenditure the past it has been held that it would . SR T RN It likewise tends to make poor lawns of local revenues as if these had any ki titutional amendment to de- earthly connection with the balancing | or, ® oot confined to women, although men may | A divorce will free Max Baer to marry | IO A MU0 sbod e ADySer ol lare ainst tax-exempt Government of the Federal budget or t::.mpnlx'v.x_c it better hide their emotions. e g !cellent. indeed. again without delay. The wedding ring '1;:‘nex-ex ;re i;l a gomti fl“{“fiflt“fi‘gm! Onah mniy pu't u;; ;vith the nervous o i _ {such mighty forces at worl ey | apprehension of a bad storm to secure iy ; wn_|fi“r;::‘ 1::‘;0::: in some fl“:-""" it i:f:?i:::‘:e‘; r::‘e”;;s;‘“ S compel the respect of the least intel | these two guins, this fine light on the M: o justmmcsclon o IR o el mmunt.{u.fm'x'he mmcem ent person. | garden an e mental relief which ever either i}t theory or in fact. In re- has led to tremendous governmental ex- | Wall Street speculation goes on briskly ducing local expenditures by twenty- | irgvagance, money easy to raise.| in spite of disclosures that some of the five per ceft, this being the amount|y; nas led to great avoidance of the by which Federal expenditures are to Surely, such powers could, if chance | follows. happened to turn them another way, Some awful calamity, which might most reliable profit taking is not reg- income taxes, with billions upon bil- | istered by the stock ticker. be reduced to help balance the Federal | jjops of dollars—estimated to run as budget, the people of the District would X easily wipe out entire communities. have been, has been averted. Let us This is realized. give thanks to God, and go down in Listen to that great roll, as of a|the basement to see if that place in million million tenpin balls rolling | the foundations has leaked again. ———————— i high as $38,000,000,000—escaping income Japan shows Oriental reverence for ordinarily pay in taxes nearly $10,000,000 | t5yes by this route. Such treatment antiquity to the extent of wanting the | more than will be spent. This surplus| ot g huge part of the wealth of the| Great Wall restored to respect as a will be reduced to the extent of some | country is inexcusable. $2,600,000 if the tax rate on real es- stream of consciousness school (school is too formal a wbrd) of literature, of which Virginia Wolf and Dorothy | Richardson are among the best ex-| ponents and the followers of James Joyce consider him the leader. The “metaphysic theme” is perhaps the | aimlessness, the futility, the gloom, | the upheaval of our modern life. The variations wander into the lines and out again, like waifs seeking a home. Babies, “with their ears so pink and! | frilly,” must be fed and must have| clothes and a house, “and what would | they work at when theyre grown?” | The profile of London, through a mist, | points spire fingers to the East, im portuning “Christ for hints of heaves The bare branches of the Winter trees| are repeated like a refrain. Will the Spring come again? Will “this zero| { hour” be ultimate? No; there will be | a stirring of new life. L “Walk on the waters of such time | ‘With steady feet, my soul, my friends, And shudder not their touch is chill, Their progress imperceptible. Or be embrined; The gulls will put out soon And the trees decorate their bone, Although we reach an unexpected Q. In how many States is the use of | safety glass in public vehicles compul- sory?—A. H. L. |and contains 1,500 specimens of sea A. Massachusetts, Michigan, New | creaturas. York and Nebraska have adopted legis- | — lation making compulsory the use of Q For what principles does Interns~ safety glass in vehicles such as buses tional Labor Defense stand?—¥&. & and taxicabs. | _A. A letter from International Labor — | Defense says: “It is a defense orgalii= Q. What American poem has brought | zation which defends all workers re= the greatest financial returns’—D. B. | gardless of creed, color or political be= A It is stated that Edwin Markham's | liefs in all cases which involve their Man With a Ho2" leads all poems in | basic rights as workers. But there are returns. a few points which must be noted in particular—the Internacional Labor De- fense does not believe only in trial and defense in courts. It koows that the courts are owned by the rich and that the worker does not get a square deal there. Unless mass pressure is exerted bydml};rr u-;:rkmz}.1 both 1‘n the “&?‘L’Z A The clergy, n and throughout the country (soms composed e hmaies, and Commons | 1 ernational Labor Defense cases be- Burke referred to the press gallery of | COme international in scope, as for ex- the Commons as representing the fourth | 8mple, in the Scoitsboro case), the estate. The expression fifth estate is| Worker is condemned. The Interna- sometimes used to represent that branch | tional Labor Defense is the American of organized knowledge known as|Section of the International Red Aid, science, which has 70 sections in as many coun= S tries.” Q. Has Otis Skinner ever | — besch ™ part of Uncle Tom be!orz?xiaEy.wR,m!; Q. Who has been chosen to succeed ; | A His present role in the revival of | DI A. Lawrence Lowell as president of Of the twenty-three shorter poems “Uncle Tom's Cabin” is not his first| Harvard University>—W. M. most_are in a minor strain, but, like POrtrayal of the part, for at the age of | A. Dr. James Bryant Conant is pres- Matthew Arnold's poetry of an earlier | 19 he was Uncle Tom in a stock com- | ident-elect. \ generation, they have an inspiration of | Pany at the Philadelphia Museum. Q. Where is John Brown, who led courage. The first in the volume, “The | o w0 foungeq “Vassar College? | the_raid at Harpers Ferry, buried?— —A. 8. | I\fxtugxc is not for us,” is reminiscent ! C.E. M of his poem, “The Last Word” In ~ 4 I fS- iy ' burled at < - ; - It was founded by the phil | A John Brown's body is - Park Gate.” one of the lighter Poems, | pit” Matihew Vassar. Ho: aameeitaoy | North Elba, N. Y. a fortune as a brew | the silk-and-lace-clad figure of Charles | iy II :gllnr wglks thelsandzxme pmfi-‘ —— Q. What is the average height of enade of the watering place on the Why is block-pri ; | bulldings in New York City?—D. S. banks of the Dee in Cheshire which | considered superior” o el prekeh | A. The average height of Manhattan he created. The ghost of an old woman, | —W. P, prints? | ildings is only five and three-quarter with face distorted by terror, haunts| A. The block surface is softer, being | StOFi€s. the place where she was nearly mowed | mostly of wood, and. carmier the iE | e down by the “devil-stcered” traffic “In | better. In block printing each color | & HOW,does the number of drinking Shaftesbury Avenue.” Mrs. Holmes | dries before the next is applied while | places 1n Paris compare with the num- shows in her poems imagination which | in roller printing the ‘Glors " faliax | Pet in England and Germany?—T. L. K. goes far beyond the superficial, is |each other immediately. The invention | A. France has one drinking place t0 sometimes macabre, nearly always|of the block as it is used in printing | cVery_50 inhabitants, as compared with deeply thoughtful. Her versification is | Wall paper is attributed to Jean Papil; |ODC such establishment to every 430 of thyme and meter, but has abundant | 1on, & Fronch engraver. in 1688 inhabitanis in Engisnd, and of g entirely free from the older conventions | — ' every 264 in Germany. | rhythm, and her phrasing is remarka- | . & Who wrote the Book of Job?—| @ Please give a short sketch of | bly varied and original. | D Rivera, the artist whose murals |ENGLAND THEIR ENGLAND. of the author is not | pave’ sroused so much controversy— A. G. Macdonell. London: | —_ |A.F. J. millan & Co. | . Q_ Who invented association tests>— | A. Rivera was born in Guanajuato, A Scotsman looks at England and so | W, R, | Mexico, in 1886, and began to draw at A. The technique was devised by Dr. | three years old. In 1897 he joined the C. G. Jung A list of words is read to | Preparatory school of the Academy of | a person, who responds with the first | Bel , and subsequently Wwens | Jord that occurs fo him. Psychiatrists | Sama 'ht::hhe Sfl@d‘;yf’ <. Pu:efl! In | thereby get an insight into patients’ | Italy he mu a_ study of earty | secret warries. * s {rescoes, from which e derived_ his — echnique of p of plaster, | _Q What kind of a tree is chapar-| an almost lost craft. In 1929 the Amer- ral>—M. G. can Institute of Architects awarded A. Chaparral refers to a dense ‘ | him its fine arts medal. growth or thicket. Sometimes it is - 3 gmm o{h dw“ri evergreen oak trees— 2 wié“’:" a E;.l:mn?_l"l M. e Southwest it is usually of cacti. - e n stringed okt ment played with a bow, used by wan. 5 Q. What is the origin of the word | dering minstrels. It consists of half ‘sterling” in English currency?—O. T.| round gourd, over which is fixed & A. It came from the easterling, a sil- sound-board of skin or with ver coin introduced by the Eastphalian High Lights on the Wide World Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 10.00; 1 mo.. 85¢ 00; 1mo. 50c 1mo.. 40c All Other States and Canada. .1yr.,$12.00; 1mo., $1.00 Bally g Sundar.. 135 "1800: 1mo. sc Sundsy only . $5.00 1mo.. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republicaiion of all news dis- atches eredited to i} or not otherwise cred- ted {p “his paper and slso the local news All rights of publication of — “The Relief of Unemployment.” Chairman Cannon of the subcom- Q. How many golf courses has Chi- cago?—N. C. A It has 175. Q If the newspaper field is the oun[})a estate,” what are the others? herein. “ spatches L e R Nature seems to have established a | partiality for late aftcrnoon storms, asily explained by science as the result f accumulated heat masses and low air pressures. | _The best part of our typical local | thunderstorm, aside from the para- mount fact that the air temperature usually is lowered by them, is the beauty of the aiterglow in the garden. This is a spectacle not sufficiently or often enough praised. This peculiar light makes grass very ‘A The name By | known. Mac- | iucorporates himself in the character of | his hero that we cannot tell where | Denald Camerson ends and Mr. Mac- donell begins. The events of this mix- ture of fiction and fact had their origin, we are told, in a conversation between Donald Cameron and Evan Davies, a Scotch and a Welsh artillery officer, in a pilf-box (the corner farthest from the | door) on the Western Front, upon the slopes of the Passchendacle Ridge, in October, 1917. From their vantage point of conscious superiority, they fell to discussing the English as soldiers, and then as other things. Cameron told of an English colonel who wore an eye- glass, read the Tatler and talked like the Tatler, and one day walked up to a Bosche machine gun emplacement with a walking stick and came back with 58 prisoners. Davies remembered an Eng- lish subaltern who used to run and ex- tinguish fires in ammunition dumps to | | | | Chicago’s Expositioh Hailed As Defiance to Depression ——.— boundary line. The second far-reaching provision tate is cut to $1.50, and it may be re- duced still more by the falling off in revenue collections. But there will still remain a large surplus of idle ‘money placed to the credit of the Dis- trict, without interest, in the Federal Treasury, unavailable for budget bal- ancing or anything else. Now, about $2,000,000 of this surplus, | Yepresenting collections from the gaso- | “nne and water taxes is made avail-| able for expenditure in the discretion of the director of the Bureau of the \hiudxetfl But Chairman Cannon, has made a strange interpretation of the conditions under which this money can | be spent. He told the House: But I wish to take advantage of this gommity to emphasize the terms of | section auf this additional expenditure only in such emergency. If. as it is expected, there is no increase in unemployment in the District, these additional funds are not available, and | the director of the budget alone is au- thorized to determine when there shall have been such an increase in unem- ployment over present conditions as to m!.y recourse to these additional It has been supposed, of course, that the fundamental purpose of the ad- ministration recovery program was to increase employment, and therefore | purchasing power, ard thereby recovery —not to wait until it is discovered that | unemployment is still incressing be- fore doing anything. If the exercise of the extraordinary powers conferred on the President to spend billions | of dollars were dependent upcn statis- tics gathered by the Federal director of the Budget Bureau indicating that un- employment continued to increase, and | that some emergency even greater than the current emergency was to arise, the Nation would be pursuing a strange course indeed. The money collected from the local taxpayers is needed now for street and water system extension | or improvement, or i should not be| collected at all. The need for it} has been sufficiently demonstrated in the past without any reference to un- | employment conditions, which, as every- | body knows, are distressing enough. If it iy not spent, it merely means that men who need work will go without it, improvements and extensions that should be made will bé indefinitely postponed— | and the Federal budget and the lm:al} taxpayers will not have benefited by the extent of a penny in savings. Fortunately, Chairman Cannon’s odd | interpretation of the law is not justi- flied by the language of the bill, which | states: “For additional street and road im- vements and repair to aid in the re- E: of unemployment, to be allotted for such projects and purposes and in such amounts as the director of the budget may approve (including the allocation of additional sums to any ani all of the general items herein charge- able to the gasoline tax fund) there is hereby appropriated out of the gaso- line tax fund to be immediately available such sums (not to exceed in the aggre- gate $1,500,000) as may he deemed sur- Plus in'such funds. * * * ‘The appropriation of water fund sur- plus, amounting to $635,000, is made in language which is practicelly identical. ‘There is no reference to the budget director's refusing the expenditure un- Seas there is an increase in unemploy- iment. ‘This money is “immediately available” “4o 2id in the relief of unemployment.” The District authorities should imme- diately proceed to itemize their pro- relating to the tax laws is that for the publicity of income tax returns. The amendment, offered by Senator La Fol- lette of Wisconsin, was adopted by & vote of 55 to 27. The revelations be- fore the Senate Banking Commiitee of the way in which men of great wealth, keeping within the law, have been able to avoid the payment of income taxes |1s responsible for this amendment. Publicity is likely to put an end to this kind of thing. And if persisted in the income tax laws may be amended to close up the holes through which the tax evaders move. ————————— Why women admire gigolos is one of the questions that the most industrious writers on modern manners have been unabie to solve. Possibly as the doll foretells the mother interest, the gigolo interest reverts to the doll. e — 1t Secretary Woodin should resign he may become even more influential as the man who writes a Nation’s songs. - The Real Question as to Kits. It seems to be established, to the satisfaction of the Senators who are looking into the matter of purchase of 200,000 toilet kits for the reforestation “army” that the price pald for them, in the course of somewhat unusual ad- ministrative procedure, was not exces- sive, that the articles in the kits were properly priced, worth all that was paid | for them, although the Army authorities | who deal in such matters hold that the | bigger and better kits could have been assembled in the open market for less money. Apparently that will be the substance of the finding of the inquiring committee. ‘That finding, however, will not alto- gether meet the case. There will still remain the question of why the kits provided for the ccnservation forces, re- crulted from the uhemployed, were bigger and better than those that have for a long time been supplied to the| | soldiers of the Regular Army. These are economy days, Govern- ment costs are being trimmed. Govern- ment clerks are being dismissed and the survivors reduced in salary. Bu- reaus are being consolidated and even eliminated. The budget is being brought—at least in theory—nearer to a balance by these savings. Yet here, early in the process of cuts and squeezes to effect retrenchment, is a bit of ex- travagance that, while it amounts to a small fraction of the deficit, is never- theless in itself a large sum. One esti- mate puts the difference between the price paid for the conservation kits and the price for which the Army could have duplicated the outfits at something like $110,000, on the basis of a 200,000 | | order. That computation may be wrong. It may have been impossible for the Army to get the bigger and better kits for the price which its representative declares. But even sb the question remains unanswered why those bigger and better—and more expensive—kits should have been issued to.the conser- vation workers, who are engaged—or in truth given a chance to work for the Summer as a means of relieving their immediate stress. It is just a jumble of inconsistency. Perhaps it is well to have happened, as an object lesson to point to the need | posed expenditures of this sum and re- gl Sram the disectar of | Ny A of practical economy. The difference For the plain forgotten man the in- come tax is a simple affair. He pays it and goes on about his business earn- ing the next installment. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Statesmanship in June. Somewhere winds are softly calling Far across the briny deep And the shadows gently falling Lure the weary mind to sleep. Yet the brain goes on forever Faithful, meeting evéry test Of a dutiful endeavor— But my larynx needs a rest. When the locust blossoms offer Sweetest nectar to the bees And the rose flings from its coffer Golden pollen to the breeze Life is fair from early daytime Till the twilight marks its close. T would still prolong the gaytime, But my larnyx needs repose. Second the More Important. “After all” said Senator Sorghi | “there are only two great financfal| problems.” “What are they?” asked the lady | with a notebook. “Where did the money go and, more | important, where is more coming| from?” | Jud Tunkins says when spectators crowd into a hot room to hear testi- mony it shows how the innocent suffer with the guilty and somehow seem to enjoy it. Big Arithmetic. ‘W2 cherish still resplendent dreams Of problems to be met. The whole world now a budget seems. It may be balanced yet. Unenvying. “Are you going into any beauty con- tests this Summer?” “No,” answered Miss Cayerne. “The winners of beauty contests I have met are like prize plays—well constructed and well advertised; but, as a rule, not very interesting.” “Contests,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “are most enjoyed by those who admire energy whether it accom- plishes anything useful or not.” Common Humanity. Now have we not become polite As we with interest intense Hark to the detalls of a fight Along with patriot eloguence! ‘To the same plane folks high and low Approach. Prize fighters making good Do to each other, blow by blow, ‘What statesmen sometimes wish they could. “Tain’ gettin® into politics,” said Uncle Eben, “dat shows a man’s smart- ness as much as de way he gits out.” ———— The First Eviction. From the Toledo Blade. After all, nobody's losses have been as heavy as those suffered by Adam and Eve when they received their ejectment notice. —_———————— Superfluous. From the Indianapolis News. The California man who kiiled him- self with four poisons probably didn’t Chicago's Century of Progress Exposi- tion is held by the country to represent, in its spirit and the force of its ex- ample, conquest of the depression. Cour- | fuln age of citizens who made the fair pos- sible is lauded, and the example of suc- cess in the face of difficulties is viewed as an encouragement of the Nation and the world. “Holding the exposition*at this time, | while the world is still struggling with | depression,” declares the Nashville Ban- | ner, “is but another demonstration of | the dauntless spirit of Chicago,” while the Pasadena Star-News remarks that, “instead of acting as a deterrent, the depression is expected to increase at- tendance.” The Abilene Reporter sees| “a distinct: contribution to national re- | covery, in showing the way to success through courage, energy and singleness of purpose.” “It opens at a favorite time psycho- logically,” says the Charleston (8. C.) Evening Post, “when a whole nation is coming out of the doldrums into the hope of a better day, and when there is evidence on every hand of a desire to get away from and forget the depression.” That paper adds: “1t is not improbable that the fair will prove an important stimulating factor in such a movement and thereby makes its contribution to a much-desired end.” The Indianapolis News finds “augury of the return of better times, contributing to trends to- ward reawakened confidence.” The New York Times asserts: “No one will quar- rel with Chicago if she goes on to argue that the success of hy big show will be the last nail in the coffin of de- pression, the final step in the Nation's | swing around the corner. Any man or | any city that can make us prosperous | nlgllanhl! assured of all the laurels de- sired. “The greatest show of all time,” states the Cleveland News, “it raises its multi- colored towers, flaunts' its gay banners in the face of the depression.” Recall- ing that it was “planned and started before there was a depression,” the News holds that “its greatest achieve- ment to date is that it didn’t waver when hard times came along,” and re- cords that “with the fair it was ‘busi- ness as usual’ during many long and dis- couraging months.” Therein the Cleve- land paper finds “the message it will bear from America to the world which comes to its gates.” Measuring its scope, the News concludes: “Built on ground lately taken from Lake Michigan are 85 buildings that house the exhibits of the exposition and represent an out- lay of $26,000,000. It was money not wasted, however, for it furnished labor for armies of men; it will continue to supply work for thousands as well as | entertainment for millions during the five months that follow. The exposition grounds are 3!, miles long; they con- tain 82 miles of streets along which the greatest array of human handicraft ever assembled is placed on display for amusement, profit and education.” “Stimulus to the constant renewal of efforts to move forward” is observed by the Buffalo Evening News, along with a “new feeling of pride in the civilization which it depicts,” while the New York Sun declares that “the most colossal thing of all is not some tower of steel and glass, but Chicago’s courage in pre- senting to the werld this spectacle of mankind’s progress in this hour of trib- ulation.” The Louisville Courier-Jour- nal remarks that “Chicago has done it again,” and that it “seems to be meet- ing expectations in the way of attend- ance.” The Omaha World-Herald avers that “Chicago has scme reason for feel- ing that one should look to it and say, ‘Behold the wonder of a hundred years of progress’.” Finding symbolic importance in the fact that the fair was set in motion by a ray from Arcturus, the Atlanta Jour- nal comments: “The incident is more than pleasingly poetic; it is profoundly illustrative of a world and an age whose power is really ‘fire from heaven,” and of a city whose epic is that of a fortunate, instead of an ill-starred, Prometheus.” The Journal feels that “its progress during these hundred years is one of the marvels of Ameri- can history,” and it voices the judg- ment: “Like another Holland, it has wrested st holds from jealous wa- know that there is a campaign under the budget i kit cost between the Army equip- way to abolish duplications, v ters, and, like another Venice. has wansformed ugiiness into bzauty. Moreof long sianding. in the impressive, even, than its attainments | tinghe in industry and commerce are the fruits of its civic planning; the health- ess, the convenience and the come- liness which it has brought out of problems that once appeared well-nigh hopeless. Its parks and recreation cen- ters are noted for their variety as well as extent. Its architecture has rare distinction and originality. It is the home of great universities. It is a na- tional center of science, music and art. Such achievements by a city which is still, as history reckons, in its adoles- cence, shows a fire that is truly Prome- | thean.” “The Nation is under obligation to Chicago,” in the opinion of the Spokane Spokesman-Review, “for this magnificent reminder that the Ameri- can system is the crowning wonder of the . Similar tributes are paid by the 'fifwen Evening Leader and the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader. Remarkable financing by the citizens f Chicago who brought the enterprise completion, and outstanding qualities of both the exposition and the city, are subjects of comment by the Hartford Times, the Rock Island Argus, the Miami Daily News, the Roanoke World- News, the Houston Chronicle, the Rock- ford Register-Republic, the San An- tonio Express, the Providence Journal and the Topeka Daily Capital. o Liaison Officer and Government Employes To the Editor of The Star. Regarding the proposal of Represent- ative Sirovich to create a liaison offi- cer to hear and settle grievances and complaints of employes of the Govern- ment against their superiors, it is an interesting fact that the Government of the United States is one of the few governments of the world without such a provision. Provision for it is found in the British civil service act; and a few days ago I came across a statute in the India government act making it the| duty of the governor of a province to ear and investigate the complaints of rovincial employes, which they may present to him without prejudice, and to settle such comlplalm.s as justice and equity may require. qE\'en under the old Ming and Manchu dynasties in China there was what was known as the Council of Censors, whose duty, among many others, was to_hear appeals from subordinate officials against their superiors, and to settle such controversies as justice required. Congress should by all means create a | council or court of appeals to whom employes of the Government could pre- sent their grievances and complaints without prejudice and with the assur- ance that they would be settled in ac- cordance with the demands of justice and equity. To be of any value, how- ever, such a court or council should be composed of at least three men, without any other connection with the Govern- ment departments, and made by the law of their creation absolutely independent ‘of Executive authority, and accountable only to the Congress, as is the controller general. Anything short of this will be futile and of no value to the employes. ALEXANDER SIDNEY LANIER. Back to the Mines. From the Toledo Blade. Coal mines in Southern Ohio are be- ing reopened and within a week 5.000 men who have been out of employ- ment on account of labor troubles will return to the workings. During the last few years both the owners of Ohio mines and the work- ers have suffered heavy losses. Their difficulties are attributed in large measure to cut-throat competition, which made payment of adequate wages impossible. New legislation modifying the so- called anti-trust laws and the ap- pointment of mine arbitrators by President Roosevelt and Governor White are solving & serious problem !ish. and terial J. C. ber of work. tion. based new many counts ter, sche Own from erate Askin advoc ing ] world cott. | states New jured land. tempt, also, to sift evidence. tion inspires the style. ‘writers. the World War. rehearses the events affecting the Jews which took place immediately after Hit- ler came into office. ters tell of the reaction of the world to the treatment of the Jews in Germany and suggest that the reaction has not yet been vigorous and practical enough. save government money. He was buried e little cemetery back of Vlamer- e, Davies reflected. But, said Davies, “Why do they have a Welsh | prime minister and a Scotch—" “Not | Scotch. rapted Cameron. i commander-in-chief and a Scottish first sea lord of the admiralty, and think it funny?” should write a book about the Eng- Scots. Or Scottish,” inter- “Sorry. A Scottish Davies thought Cameron Then, after the war, when both were fortunately alive, they met quite by chance at the Black Cat, in London, the book was mentioned again. Cameron began seriously to collect ma- and was soon puzzled by para- doxes. Why, for example, when he had sought out a group of people reputed to be prilliant, did they all persist in talk- ing merely flippant nothings? Mr. Hodge, editor of the London Week- 1y, Don: much abeout the English. It is to be surmised ‘Through met many people and learned that Mr. Hodge is the poet Squire, to whom this book is ded- icated. As private secretary to a mem- f Parliament Donald had election- eering experiences and accompanied his chief to Geneva for committee He also had abundant oppor- tunity to watch the English at their sports, especially cricket, foot ball, and to speculate on the mindedness of their attitude. scription of a cricket match is one of the most entertaining parts of the book, which blending of humor and serious observa- golf, ruzlhy single- The de- is a clever and illuminating SWASTIKA: THE NAZI TERROR. By James Waterman Wise. Harrison Smith and Robert Haas. ‘The anti-Semitic part of the Mazi program which, according to newspaper accounts, has developed with such ra- pidity since the beginning of the Hit- ler dictatorship. is the subject of Mr. | Wise's small book. His statements are New York: upon newspaper dispatches and private correspondence and give little information. There is little at- Indigna- Though Ger- has not been the first or the only ry in modern times to carry on an anti-Semitic campaign, Mr. Wise finds the Nazi attitude especially disastrous because of its plan for destroying Jew- ish business and participation in the | Charles Dickens’ Son rights of citizenship. In his first chap- ‘The Advance Guard of Hate” he places early responsibilities upon Nietz- and other nationalistic German The chapter “Out of Their Mouths,” made up of quotations the writings and speeches of Nazi leaders, shows that stimulation of anti- Jewish feeling was conscious and delib- | through all the periods following “The Brown Terror” Succeeding chap- g “What Can Be Done?” Mr. Wise ates four measures: Alleviating the condition of Jewish refugees by financial assistance and admission to the United States and other countries; appeal to the people of Germany against their government (this did not work well dur- he World War), organization of public opinion, and economic boy- The economic boycott has been frequently suggested as a means of in- ternational pressure in other tense sit- uations, but the general opinion of men and economists seems to be that it is “loaded”-—probably with war, Mr. Wise is a prominent young Jew of York and has_written, naturally, with much feeling. His book will arouse in many readers the indignation which Carlyle called “inverted love,” the love of “some right * * * which has been in- and which this tempestuous feel- ing issues forth to defend and avenge.” R The real name of the author of “The Enchanted Winter” is Zoe Girling. She employed the pseudonym Martin Hare because she feared her book might be disapproved by her family and ‘friends. She is the daughter of a Protestant clerevman living in County Cork, Ire- Until she was 18, her home | | | E PETIT MARSEILLAIS, Mar- seille—The municipal couneil of Paris has adopted the memoran- the prefect of police recommend- ing an establishment to be maintained by the city in fashion similar to the police- dog-kennels, where cats of su- perior strength and intelligence may be bred to assist the authorities in the extermination of rats. igree and training, in ad natural gr rat catcher yet devised, and far more efficient than the most elaborate scien- tific contraptions. The idea of the prefect is to develope an auxiliary of domestic cats weigh- ing in the neighborhood of five kilo- grams, which, both by strategy and prowess, will be able to engage the rats with far more success than has been evinced by past feline generations. For the rat is a creature both wise and wary, and amply supplements with his sagacity any arrears in sizz and strength. dition to his * ok ko Proposed Liberties In China Outlined. China Press, Peiping.—General prin- ciples regarding the rights and lib- erlies of the people to be embodied in the proposed permanent constitu- tion were decided upon at the fifth regular meeting of the Constitution= Drafting Committee of the Legislative Yuan yesterday. The following is a free translation of these general prin- ciples: 1. All citizens of the Republic of China shall be equal before the law, | irrespective of sex, sace, religion, caste or occupation. 2. Citizens of the Republic of China may exercise the rights of election, re- call, initiative and referendum in ac- cordance with law. 3. The people shall have the liberty of the person. with law, no person shall be arrested, detained, tried or punished. * ok k ok Arrives in Egypt. Egyptian Gazette, Alexandria.— Sir | Henry Dickens, who recently retired | from the post of common sergeant of the City of London, and Lady Dickens, have arrived at Port Said. Sir Henry, who is 83, is the sixth and only sur- viving son of the famous novelist. R Unfairness Scored On Public Pay Roll. Patria, San Salvador—The gloomy paradox of our departmental situation has long seemed to be that the higher the salary, and the more important the post, the less is the service rendered by the office-holder. Quite a large part of the unofficial family—that is to say, the bulk of the population—has always been rather of the opinion that no one on the pay roll of the government, whether municipal or national, does any work at all. This feeling, for all its usual consensus, is hardly fair. We have seen clerks in the ministerio de hacienda not only busy, but working constantly, and with unremitting in- terest. Laborers cleaning the streets, and the police and firemen, burdened with the safety and protection of our citizenry, are faithful in the perform- ance of their duties, and the last men- ticned also undergo great jeopardies and hardships without complairt or subter- fuge. But these, as we have intimated, represent, after all, the lower ranks of political employment. These earn well their meagerly stipends. It will be a happy day for our country when all those of loftier station attend to their duties with .the same devotion and was on several occasions raided by reb- !e)l:(')k b-.s:‘d L h.m“el experfi - are on personal m which accounts {mp:he vivid redlm“:'( the story. Leaving her home, Miss Gir- ling went to Liverpool to.a position with the Times Book Club Library, but she was tn a small rectory, which, in the | has now given that vp, in order to de- revelutionary activities of ten years ago, vote her entire time to writing. i dum presented to that body by An able-bodied he cat, of proper ped- edatory instincts, is the best Except in accordance | Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands energy. The pervertéd ‘ritlo between | work and pay seems uated - throughout the whole civic and truly feel the pinch. temporary e: ted their intelligence, philan votion to duty, rather than f‘:g ancestral and pecuniary 5 ¢ % * ok k x Daily Mail,* London.—“Ng a lish housewife in a hundi'eg Tx?thl}:i.sml led at domestic cuisine (2 eve! at our reality should be blamed for this sad exists, suspicion of anything new which Ihe is eating, and if & soned. He likes the same will eat with a certain amount of {give him “bouillabaisse” in |“Bigger and Better Kits” | | Your editorial, “Better and Bigger teresting. This buying of costlier kits Men Blamed for Jibe At English Cooking. 3y i ohe Eng- alleges a well known American novelist. is just a sample of the sort of | by uncharitable foreigners. In our menfolk, rather than our - aflairs, for the Englishman’s conservative taste and | the enthusiasm of aspiring cooks. often than not he does not | new way of doing an tured upon he thinks he year in, year out; bacon and b , bread and butter mfl:’ joyment an¥y sophisticated | served in a_restaurant or sbroad, | home and he will ask for bully beef. , £ |For Reforestation Men, To the Editor of The Star: % Kits,” dealing with the unusual method of Government purchase, was very in- as well as other preferences being shown_the foresters over the enlisted: justly so. Not only is the enlisted finding fault, the taxpayer, who has : foot the bills whether regulgr or | wants to know the why of such |80 many folks that have never been | convinced there.was undue wastage in war material during the great war will | now, since this unusual. procedure of purchase of Army kits, consummated without due authority or proper author- ity, will be led to.believe such were used in war days. This | Congress should act. Let such C should sales be 1‘ established as a precedent, then we use Uncle Sam tc dump all our un- | profitable goods. Right now we farmers ave lots of cheap t make awful Radio in the Next War. From the Detroit News. Marconi contends that the next war I‘Donso‘ er'fli?”- Th:‘dverumby . 3 , our ma7 guaraniee the peace of the entire