Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1933, Page 30

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JUNE 18, 1933—PART TWO. — . e e e THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition.. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.........June 18, 1933 food supply. ‘The people are a distinct ethnological group. They are called Finns by their | neighbors, but they speak of them- selves as the Suomi. Their origin is lost in mystery. Most authorities con- sider them allied to the Hungarians or Magyars, but they also are thought to have strong Nordic affiliations. They appear in history in their present locale about 800 AD. Perhaps they are de- scendants of the Scythians of Herodo- tus, a race which disappeared about 100 ! B.C. No one knows for certain. But it is incontrovertible that in modern times they have been consistently celebrated | for their hardihood, their courage and their persistency. In the twelfth century they were conquered by the Swedish King, Eric | IX, better known as St. Eric. Chris- 0c | tianity was brought o them by Hem'y,‘ | Bishop of Uppsala, supposed to have| | been an Englishman, now the nation’s | particular patron. The country long | was the scene of conflict between | | Sweden and Russia. In 1809 the whole ntitled | territory was absorbed in the Russian B e i Vot s mot ol v??g’c.»?f' | Empire. But a code of “fundamental e e e A Mia’o! pubnication of | 1aWs," sacred to the masses, survived special dispatches herei: 1so_reserved. | g]] the carnage, all the changes of " |centuries, and because of it Finland The Road to Recovery. was accorded a constitution when other President Roosevelt’s strong appeal to| Portions of the Czar's realm were industry, to labor and to the whole Na-‘ denied even the merest shadow of self- tion to give the recovery progrem, as| government. Nicholas II tried in vain embodied in the industry recovery and | to Teduce the population to serfdom. public works act, a chance to operate | When he abdicated the Finnish Diet will be read by all Americans with the Seized the opportunity afforded by the Keenest interest and sympathy. This, Tevolution. The republic was formally if ever, is a time for co-operation. I established on June 17, 1919. selfish interest can be laid aside, th»| Culturally, Finland is akin to her| interests of the whole people, employer ' Scandinavian neighbors. Education | and employe alike, will move forward. Was not compulsory until 1921, but| The first end to be attained is re- there are three universities and a fine | employment. With re-employment will | System of secondary schools. Native come 8 wider purchasing power and a | arts of the household variety are an power to consume the products of farm | esthetic tradition among the women, and factory. :and excellent wood carving is done by The Chief Executive did not let the the men. There have been some ink grow dry on his signature of the €minent painters and some great recovery bill before he launched his Masters in the art of fine printing. orders setting the machinery in opera- | MUsic, however, appears to be the most tion. For weeks the President and his authentic utterance of the people. aides have been preparing. It is now up | 11ey have produced the composer Jan to industry and labor, as well as to the | i:ber;li:; l:'l.:d a number of other talented m;‘:",‘:;:e_” foryasdlin the d“".‘ Altogether, Pinland deserves to be To- industry the new law gives the better known, better appreciated. She right of establishing codes dealing with | 27 D¢ small, she may be remotely e production, prices, | Situated, but she is admirable. Many ‘hours WREEA | of her children have come to America, to. 1t has been the plaint of industry, | opq yhey pave made good citizens as the President pointed out in his| g appeal for support in carrying out the | TN Tecovery act, that because of unre-| The Hamilton National Bank. strained competition, the inability to[ Since the fourth of March more unite, industry has been hampered in' than $25,000,000 has been idle in a doing things for labor and for the number of the banks of Washington people. The new law changes all this. Which did not reopen after the bank With the approval of the Government, | holiday ordered by the President to codes are to be estabiished and through | tide over a period of difficulty and the licensing clause of the act are to be | danger. After the recpening of some | enforced. Already a number of the in- | of the banks, upon demonstration that dustries and industrial groups have their affairs were such as to justify prepared such codes and within a com- | Immediate resumption of business, paratively brief time they will be in| ther¢ remained a number that were| operation. They look, and necessarily | 20t in & technical position to warrant | must look, to increases in wages and | L2CI Tenewal of operation. In a short | time, however, a plan was formulated E2nvpaney dn Houss ot espIopnent | |y Swhich) bwo.of £ | masor it THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office 11th St ‘and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd t. icago Office: Lake Michigan Building. uropean Office: 14 Regent St.. London, Encland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. 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The gains to the pro- ducers should come from the immediate development of a much larger market for their prodficts, with workers re-em- tions and a number of the smaller ones were to be merged in a single bank under a joint management with a com- bination of assets satisfactory to the requirements of the Treasury Depart- | ment. Subscriptions to the stock of | the new institution were sought from | the stockholders of the member banks to be merged into one institution and ployed. from di | £ epositors and the business com- To the workers the President has|upity generally. That stock has now issued a warning that the new recovery peen sunscribed to within & compara- act “is not a law to foment discord and | ively small fraction of the total nec- it will not be executed as such.” He has essary to permit the opening of the Pointed to the “new charter of rights” pank with the full approval of the given labor—the declaration of free-| Government. The business interests of dom to organize—under the law. B“"lthe Capital, appreciating the urgent the President has called upcn labor 10r | gesirability of an early opening of this the utmost co-operation at this critical | pey institution, which will release more time. The workers must, he insists,| than $10,000,000 in a single day, are stand with the industries in the for- now seeking to complete the subscrip- | ‘ward march. | tion of stock speedily so that the bank The recovery act has two main func- may open by the first of July. tions. It undertakes to aid the private| The tying up of millions of the de- industry to get upon its feet again and | posits in the banks that are now, it is 4t casts the great purchasing and con- | noped, soon to be reopened in merged suming power of Government itself into | form, has been a serious handicap to the scales to create more employment, | pysiness in Washington and to the gen- to create more production and more ers] weifare. This money has been consumption. The operations of the greatly needed in trade, in the meeting Government are intended to give stim- | ¢ obligations and for the meeting of ulus and encouragement to private in- living expenses. Those suffering from dustry. For it is to private INdustry | thi; deprivation have been remarkably that the Government must go for all its | patient, although the lack df funds materials and it is to the great group hgs indicted grave losses in some cases. ©of workers—millions of them now un- | The hope of recovery has rested upon employed—that it must turn for the the prespect of a reorganization on labor to put into operation the projects sound foundations. Such a reorganiza- which are estimated to cost $3,300,000,- | tjon is now in sight, and only a rela- 000. The President has promised that tively small amount is necessary to as- this huge sum cf the people’s money | gure the cpening of the doors of the | shall not be thrown away on useless new bank, successor to those that were projects. After all, the only source of | pu¢ permitted to open in March, and Government revenue is the pocketbook | tne release of the greater part of the of the people, tapped through Federal geposi; funds for business snd per- taxation. It is conceivable that once ! gona) yses. | the ball is started rolling. and industry In the spirit of co-operation which | stages a comeback, the greater part of s now manifest on the part of the this huge sum of money may not be expended. That is a problem which must be met by the administration. At present it is the purpose of the Presi- dent and the men he has chosen to car- ry forward this public works program to get as many men to work and as speed- ily as possible. The recovery act is necessarily a great merchants of Washington who are pro- posing the subscription of the final re- maining thousands of dollars of capital stock it cannot be doubted that success will quickly be achieved, and that the new Hamilton Nationsl Bank will be | able to open its doors on the first of July in sound condition, officered and administered by competent and de- experiment. It is based upon a desire | pendable men, who have the full con- to give employment and to restore busi- | figence of the community. Immediate | ness and to make America 8gain 2 penefits will flow from this opening to | great market for American products. It | reach every section of the Capital and | is the most stupendous and ambitious | directly and indirectly all of its people. project ever tried to overcome a great e depression. The President has warned | A vacation is not contemplated with t move great cheer when it serves only to af- e to succexd a stalesman an opportunity to go this effort, if they are to set their fe k and tell the home folks the bad on the road to recovery news abcut patronage. ———— s —ee . st No Dress Suits. A perfectly dreadful scandal has de- veloped in dear old London. American TR | es to the World Monetary and Little Finland. Economic Conference, stopping at Other natlons of Europe may default, | Claridge's Hotel, have transgressed reg- but not little Finland. A mere pigmy ulations as rigid as those of the cele+ among the glant powers she may be, | brated Medes and Persians. They have but honor means something to her,| Ppeared at dinner in ordinary street Bhe pays her debts. On Thursday lest, | &ttire. The shocking sight has out- when the stipulated hour arrived, she Taged major domos, head waiters and stepped up to the cashier’s window and | other flunkeys to whom kings are a made good her pledge. Her fulfiliment | Commonplace. A formal protest has of her obligation entitles her to the been registered. The management of yespect of the American people. | the establishment has asked the Yankees Pinland is “the land of a thousand | o confora to the sartorial dicta of the Jakes” which formerly was a grand | hostelry or—well, eat with the servants! duchy of imperial Russia. She bscame Former Gov. Cox and Senator James independent December 6, 1917. Of her Couzens, a special dispatch to the New total area of approximately 150,000 York Herald Tribune says, are removing square miles, about thirty-five per cent| to leased houses of their own. Other According to various experts tunes of war” must be ccunted in de- pleted currency. | | pens to know its London will have re- course to a certain made-to-order hab- erdashery at Oxford Circus where mir- acles are worked while the customer walts. It seems absurd, but from time immemorial clothes really have had a good deal to do with the making of a man. Proper raiment conduces to a| proper feeling of comfort and confl- dence. Perhaps it was a mistake for the American delegates to go to the conference without bothering to take their “dress-up” habiliments. The oldi rule, “When in Rome do as the Romansi do,” applies. If the representatives of Senegal and Abyssinia, Irak and Al- bania come to meeting in top hats and | striped trousers, it would seem that those of the republican colosssus of the| West should do no less. Of course, starched shirts and swallowtails are a | dreadful nuisance, but if Claridge’s regulations demand them the point| might as well be conceded. There is no | particular virtue in being “outlandish.” | But it may be hoped that the con- | ference will not degenerate into a mere fashion show. There was scmewhat too | much of that sort of thing at Ver-| saflles in 1919. What is wanted is application to business, and it is possi- ble that the American delegation would be as competent to do its work if it had registered at some unpretending pension in Russell Square instead of Claridge’s. There need be no dress suit about the results of the conference if they are otherwise helpful. The| weary multitudes of the earth gladly| will accept a solution for their problems | in any raiment. They would take it in | pajamas, if necessary. —————————— A marathon which proves how well one man can resist exhaustion as com- pared with others, may have a basic sig- nificance in social development. If all that science tells us about glands and hormones can be completely verified, the great primary test for attainment, intellectual or athletic, will be found in the capacity for physical endurance. As the Prench proverb has it, “he who survives, conquers.” —————————_ The King and Queen of Siam will come to America next year. The King's left eye needs treatment. He should be splendidly welcomed. His defective vision is partly physical, and anyhow there are no international debts in- | volved that might cause anxiety because | of his inability to see them. o o | The formal preferences of Senator Glass will be satisfied in some degree | by a postponement of further financial | investigation until all circuses have gone | Into Winter quarters and can assert | no competition. { e Many a disquisition on the complexi- ties of fizz=ce closes with the remark | of Lord Dundreary in the famous Eng-{ lish comedy after periods of sententious soliloquy, “That is one of those things no fellow can find out.” — e e Nobody ventures to revive the Shake- | speare-Bacon inquiry. There is more | curiosity in the present study of em- ployment distributicn, as to who finances the big musical shows. ———————— Congress has perfected a most inter- esting mixture of legislation on the eve of a Summer vacation. Implied fur- place and let it simmer. —_————— | Minnesota bandits kidnaped a St.| Paul brewer—possibly for immediate | profit and possibly to intimidate legiti- mate manufacturers in ozder to protect | bootleg beverages. | - | 1t is intimated that the return of Mr. Norman Davis is not in the nature of | an exit but only for the purpose of | meeting the stage manager for further | rehearsal. | . or—s SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Learning. We've listened to the speeches By radio day and night And what experience teaches ‘We've endeavored to recite, But this world is rather youthful, As has been remarked before.- If it would be wise and truthful, Why it's got to learn some more. We've learned electric lighting. ! We have even learned to fly. But we still talk on of fighting As in ancient days gone by. We'll still keep bravely dreaming Of the peace that is in store Free frcm all dishonest scheming— But we've got to learn some more. Cheers, Idle Cheers. “My speech was received with loud cheers,” said the young man in politics. “That doesn’t mean that you made any converts,” commented Senator Sor- ghum. “Don’t forget that people are most likely to applaud you for telling | them what they already believe.” | | Jud Tunkins says a man don't s(and? up to give a lady a seat in a street car | since women went into politics, but he | wishes he could do that instead of hav- | ing to give his seat in a salaried office | chair. | Fireworks. famous loud speakers passed on their way We look for a safety and sanity day. Oratorical fireworks we cannot deny Bring more peril than those of the 4th of July. ‘When have Eminence. “Do society men leave names that go down in history?” “Many do,” answered Miss Cayenne. “In some cases the only deserved prom- inence a soclety man's name receives is when it is posted in his club for unpaid dues.” “Reforms are essential to progress,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “They must be attained by learning not only what is po:sible, but what is impossible.” Gardeners Expect Too Much. The seeds are planted here and there. At presert all that’s needed Is just a little patient care To keep the soil well weeded Where great ideas soon will sprout In joyous ostentation And make this life beyond a doubt Just one long celebration. “Advice.” said Uncle Eben, “is like is forest land and about eleven per| members of the group, it may be sup- | medicine. You gits worse and worse cent inland waterways. Manufactur-| posed, are rushing away to the tailors | off if you tries to take to many different 4ag 1 1be principal industry snd the of Bond street. The minority that hap- kinds.’ » | and strivings. GRATUITIES BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D, D, LL.D,D.C. L, Bishop of Washington. ‘The most valuable things that come every part of the land is facing a larger to us in life we earn. Work has its| world of action. They will presently compensations and they mean more to|learn that all attainment, emoluments us and serve us better than any gratuity and rewards are costly. There is a which a generous hand bestows upon | kind of mendicancy in which reputable us. One who has had wide experience | people sometimes indulge that is utterly in professional service affirms that “the | unworthy and reprehensible. It finds most expensive way to acquire anything | expression in such phrases as: “The is to have it given to you.” On first world owes me a living.” It finds ex- examination this seems highly improb- pression again in the lives of those who able, but the more we reflect upon it|are seeking for profits of one kind and the truer it seems. Take education as| another that they have .never earned an example. Nothing can come to the | and that come out of the pockets of student except through his own efforts other people. We endeavor to correct He may find the three| this form of mendicancy through legis- “R's” difficult to master, but he will|lation, but laws on the statute books never master them if the teacher is| rarely, if ever, effect changes in the overindulgent. No one ever comes to| moral qualities of men. any degree of eminence because an- ‘We have been learning some serious other does his work for him. les;otlm‘ in ktlhese n:uc*m trfl:}:‘ yunt, Everything we get and have has a| and let us hope that one of the mos market value, and to acquire it we pay | valuable we have learned is that which the price. Angelo was right when he | CONCerns a just compensation for just said: “Genius is a hard mistress.” He &nd well done labor. Every American knew this from long and laborious work | boy and girl should be seriously ad- as he painted his immortal pictures or! monished, as they face the new age carved his matchless marbles. Webster | in Which we are living, that their only | declared, concerning a passage in one|hope and security reside in securing of his most notable utterances, that he | -rewards through effective and loyal had treasured it and studied it for service. To get something for nothing many years seeking the opportunity to|is destructive of both efficlency and uuh it L:L the right time and in me‘mi:“:fer'uk e right place. | e a survey e exhilarating to note that those who There are thousands of students| graduating from our schools and uni- f&"e lt"x“n’é'd u:hf ‘most no:.able gheu versities at this time of the year. Many, u’h °‘l"m h“‘ “i economic an beW- probably most of them, have worked | jical fife have, w ithout exception, e hard for thelr honors, and those who |TMen Who pald the price and paid i¢ ey have acqu come to them, % % not through the favor of the teacher, | qlumnz of those strong moral qu-u& it throush long hours of PBIICRON | by we' face ‘diicult situations, we sands of other students who have barely | find that they are acquired through attained the passing mark, but will re- eflort and struggle. ceive thefr diplomas, who are consciqus| The fathers and virtues of our | in their inmost souls that the distinc- | mothers we may respect and honor, but | tion that they have attained has been | they prove of little worth to us when, secured to them in large part through |alone and single-handed, we face the the efforts of others or because of an|emergencies and exigencies of life. undue dependence upon the generosity | Jesus affirmed: “If any man will of those who have supplemented their | come after Me, let him deny himself deficiencies. In a word, their diploma |and take up his cross daily and follow is a gratuity and they need to be re- (Me.” This means the subordination of minded that the most expensive way to acquire anything is to have it given to them. This army of young people in our selfish wills to His, the recogni- tion of the old adage that “Virtue is its own reward.” Treatment of Progressives Under The Two Roosevelt Administrations BY KATHERINE DAYTON. We never did really believe that old | one about it hurting whoever spanked | us more than it did us. And since the | _As we said, President Roosevelt has goings-on here in Washington this| Deen kindness itself. Two of them— past week we believe it less than ever.| Senator Johnson of California, the last As a matter of fact, after comparing | 0f the old school, and Senator Cutting the differences in disciplinary methods | of New Mexico, typical of the new—he of the first, or Republican Rooseveltian | invited into his cabinet. Could any- dynasty, and this present one, we be- lieve it not at all. After the thorough cordingly. But that's just the ques- tion—how is one to treat them? * K ok K | ing, ;:nxypm? They ff’lm?.és :a;‘l £e and convincing demonstration we have | Wanted them to go as delega e been witnessing we are prepared to | London Economic Conference. Was come out plunk for the swear-word as| this, or was this not, old-fashioned | thing have been more, politically speak- | mightier than the pen, and the effi- ciency of the big stick as superior to the velvet glove. Moreover, we agree that to spare the rod does spoil the child, and that soft words butter no parsnips, particularly when the parsnips, so to speak, are members of Congress. And even more particularly, what are known as its Progressive members, who are spoiled children of politics. Theodore Roosevelt, doubtless be- cause he was one of them, understood them thoroughly—we mean the Prog- ressives of his day, who differ consid- chivalry at its finest? We will not pause for a reply. | . He has given them appointments, he | has given them legislation, like a | benignant Santa Claus he has stuffed | their stocking with everything they ave asked for these many years— | inflation, silver, public works, Muscle | Shoals He has even gone so far, in the case of ex-Senators Blaine of Wis- | consin and Brookhart of Iowa, as to | look after his Republican neighbors’ | Jame ducks. Verily, there has been all | the joy over these Western iblic- ans who repented that one could think | their hearts would require. Yet what ther directions are to set it in a warm | | only externally but under the skin. | who could lick his weight in wildcats, erably from their brothers of today not do they do to requite 1t? * K k% Mr. Cutting, beetle-browed, stoutish, low-voiced, pouts protests against this and that activity of the administra- tact with the actual stuff of living. tion. Mr. Johnson, the sole survivor of AL PR | the oratorical school which lifts eyes |to high heaven and the press gallery Today's Progressives are thoughtful, | the while he rolls resounding “and, well tailored inheritors apparently sirs” and @aye, sirs” around, about, chiefly concerned with translating | athwart the Senate chamber, excori- Those of the first dynasty were rugged, raw-meat men, who wanted a leader | by golly! Their ideas spring from con- ideas into living. President Franklin D. Roosevelt has assumed—or had, until just now—their leadership. He has accorded them every consideration. He has been tact itself in his dealings with them. He is the first politician of either of the major parties who fully realized the importance of the ‘West, from which most of the Progres- sives hie themselves, in nominating as well as choosing a presidential candi- date. From now on it must b2 realized, in all plans for presidential nomina- tions and campaigns, that the hitherto dispised four and six and eight and twelve electoral votes of the vast West- ern States with small populations have all the power of David’s sling to pre- vail against suclr Goliaths as New York and Ohio and Massachusetts, for in- stance; and they must be treated ac- ates any lessening of the war debt obligations by so much as a penny, sir! It will be interesting to see if the | foundations now being laid for a stronger | Western wing, as it were, to the Demo- cratic party will be a help or a| hindrance to the policies, foreign and domestic, upon which the main struc- | | ture must finally rest. | teresting, too, to see President | Roosevelt continues to catch the Progressives by putting salt on their It will be in- i stronger methcds, |, Personally, we do not advocate a re-’ |turn to the big stick. It isn't neces- | sary, with Congress constituted as it is | at present. In our opinion, & few smart raps with ye olde carpet-slipper ought to be sufficient. (Copyright, 1933.) Commodity Prices and Decline of U. S. Dollar BY HARDEN COLFAX. Just how much of the rise in com- modity prices is local and due to the decline in the gold value of the dollar? How much, on the other hand, is due to more fundamental causes underlying real business recovery of, perhaps, a world-wide extent? In other words, does | the present fise come from inflation or does it mean recovery? dollars, was 103.4 per cent of the March fliure. but only 99.5 measured in sterling. The index figures for France, Germany, Italy and Japan bore about the same relation in April to those of March as in the United Kingdom. Figures avail- able for May indicate that during that month the general wholesale price index | for the United Kingdom advanced some 215 per cent, while in the United States | the rise was fully 315 per cent. | “Although the decline of the dollar | has presumably played a real role in | commodity price advances all over the | world, that role has not been the only one—perhaps not even a major one. (Copyright, 1933.) | tails or if he is compelled to resort to | Washington observers believe there | are evidences of a real business upturn | all over the world. They believe that| a comparison between wholesale com- | modity prices in the United States dur- ing the past two months and in other | | commercial ~countries, notably Great | ‘§3ri‘t,tain L!i;;d C:nadn, 'I““liu thm& ]mme | light on is subject. ey are inclined WILL | to regard the gain in commodity prices B ke e | s the herald of a general upturn, and| _ PARIS, June 17.—Attention in both | point out that, just as a price decline | British and American diplomatic cir- has always preceded a major economic | cles has turned to the naval aspect of depression, so, when the slump has lost | German claims to equality in arma- its impetus and an upturn is due|ments. It is understood that this ques- wholesale prices of basic raw materials | tion figured largely in the three-cor- usually lead the way. ‘ nered conversations here between Am- * x x % bassador Norman Davis and the British Speaking in general terms, it may be | 2°5 French. said that since April 1 there has been a | ; Fublic opinion in England and the substantial advance in the prices of raw | United States has until now looked at materials in the United States. This|the question of German armaments al- rise has been reflected abread. e | most_exclusively from the point of view prices of raw materials we buy in for- | Of land and air forces. From this point elgn countries, such as rubber, hides, |Of View there is no doubt that, on the tin, copper, cotton, wool and silk, have | ¥hole, opinion has been favorable to gone higher probably because Ameri- | Gérmany. The average citizen has felt can buying of these staples has been |that $he allies, in the Versailles treaty, stimulated. | had morally bound themselves to a re- ‘ On_the other hand, grain prices in | duction of armaments and that this re- the United States have been urged for- | duction ought, in principle, to be as | ward by causes which are undoubtedly SWeeping as that imposed on Germany. more local in character. American | This opinion was the easier to swal- wheat and corn are used much at home, |10% in that it did not appear to affect | The rise in these staples, it is believeq, | the situation of eigher England or |15 largely to be accounted for by un- |America very seriously. The principal | favorable growing conditions in this sufferers would be the French and their | country as well as by the effect on the 8llies, and there was something of a | popular mind of legislation to limit |Secret satisfaction that France and the | output and raise prices to a calculated System of alliances between the French | pre-war level. |and the Poles and the Little Entente { A comparison of price indexes for should be pulled down from their su- | commodities in wholesale quantities in Premacy. different agricultural and industriak countries is not easy. The bases of these indexes are not the same in all cases and the methods of computation vary. Moreover, the commodity groupings a not always the same. At best only approximations can be made. In most of the European countries the base is 1913, the last full pre-war year. This ] Germany’s Claims to Armaments Equality Ak But when the naval side of the ques- tion is examined, the matter looks dif- ferent. The Germans until lately have carefully kept their naval ambitions in the background, following their usual tactics of getting satisfaction on one point at a time. ‘Then, at the naval review at Kiel, is the case with Italy, France, Germany, Sweden and some others. Great Britain, however, uses the price figures of 1930 |as 100 per cent; Poland, 1927; South | Africa, 1910; Japan, 1920, and Canada, | 1926. Finally, currencies fluctuate, and | this often causes considerable variation between the price as expressed in terms of gold and that expressed in paper money. | *ok ok In Canada last year at this time the wholesale commodity price, converted to the United States dollar equivalent, was just above 61. This week it was 55, whereas in the Dominion dollar it was 65. In the United Kingdom the index for April, measwred in United States Chancellor Hitler let the cat out of the bag. Talking to the officers of the fleet and to a huge throng of enthusiastic followers, “Der Fuehrer” said: “The government has come to Kiel | to salute the German fleet. Their visit is at the same time a profession of faith. Our desire for peace is strong, | but our decision is absolute to regain for the German people their liberty and equal rights with other peoples.” It is impossible to interpret this speech otherwise than as a warning that after obtaining equality in land armaments Germany intends to de- mand naval equality lkewise. This would mean that Eneland would i be asked to reduce hereflcet to the pro- Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. | Leaders of public thought and effort are coming to appreciate that most im- portant changes in our national affairs come in cycles, and that in times of | depression, unemployment and financial stringency it does not do much good to | add mental aggravation by thinking too | intensely on temporary troubles. —For example, some of the legislative Moseses of the present day nre decrying cen- tralization of governuent, business, or what have you. They do not know that the same sort of cry has been going up for “Lo these many years,” with not much of anything done tq change the natural laws of attraction, adhesion, and cohesion, which brings business (governmental as well as private) as well as peoples closer together as our Na- tion grows. Even the present crush and jam, pull- ing and hauling for political appoint- ments and for Government jobs, pat- ronage, demands for State quota appor- tionment of civil ‘service jobs—the hue | and cry against Wall Street, “the House | of Morgan,” and the money marts—all these are old stories, history repeating itself to those who refresh themselves | now and then by reading the record | of the past. One of our bright young men in pub- lic life and in Republican party activi- ties, Robert G.s ons of Nebraska, while in the House was much exercised time and again over some of these con- di . As a member of the House Appropriations Committee he sought to | correct some of them—centralization looked like a big menace to him. Re- cently he has been doing some research work in the Library of ess and came across an in 4th of July oration by Charles Francis Adams, jr., on July 5, 1869, the 93d anniversary ! of the Declaration of American Inde- | pendence, after having served as Lin- coln’s Minister to England. That Adams was the son of John Quincy Adams and grandson of John Adams, a “signer.” He made that speech when his namesake, the recent Secretary of the Navy was 3 years old. In his speech made 64 years ago his voice echoed down the corridors of time to “Bob” Simmons and other statesmen of today insinuatingly—that time changes such lc‘:admm l.:l they orate about—very le. Here is a striking quotation: “Centralization is the order of the day, and centralization breeds corrup- 0% tion abuse,” he declared. and what do you of office seekers, a mob at each other’s bones, while they disgrace our age and by & system of Government Republicans—we are all Federalists?'— it is not heard in the White House—it is not heard in the customs house— more frequently it appears in another rendering, to the effect that an asso- hief is better than angel. “Go to New York"—that evangel of a historic family suggests—“New York, 50 rapidly becoming at once the heart and brains and the cancer of the there as character vernment—are the morals of the people—is the elevation of pub- lice inion—greater or better than heretofore or elswhere? We all know it is not. The sad story need not be fraud, of depra and of corruption, which is forever recorded against the first city of the continent; every one knows of the morals of the gold board and stock exchange, where gambling is a nmuedafurm!t: every one knows the history of those bubble frauds and ! vast swindling enterprises which seem | in their very magnitude to be peculiar to our own i And while the swing of time's wheel | throws before us in cycles the same pictures, and while a perusal of some ' | of these speeches of statesmen of elder ' | nunciations and s outeries against abuses of their day that grew | out of the avarice and selfishness of hu- how little Sroups-—ihis counity ust kespe Bl ) just lug- | ging ahead, growing greater—and all as the result of the right thinking, right | living, patriotic feeling, devotion and uumedm of the great mass of American . el * X ok ok That grand old man of the National | House of Representatives—Representa- tive Edward W. Pou of North Carolina, the “dean gf the House, now in his 70th year, serving his thirty-third con- secutive year in Congress— hour of the ?ec.fd sessi = Usually jour lon. Speaker and majority and minority leaders are extolled. They were again this time in the midnight-morning hour of Friday just before adjournment. But to Mr. Pou went the unusual distinction | of being lauded by as many speakers as could get recognition—House , Leader Byms, Minority Leader Snell,” Repre- nor of New York—the latter two serving under the chairmanship of Mr. Pou on the Rules Committee. Representative Cox pald tribute to Mr. Pou as “the sweetest, the gentlest, P Snortty Leader Saci ader Snell emphasized distinction that his = B herst—is paying to his fellow alumnus, Speaker Rainey, on the latter’s fiftieth %Wufinl Speake sel on( our T, in him the degree of doctor of laws.” The House leader, Representative Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee, was lauded because “he has led by persua- sion, by kindness, and as a result of the confidence his colleagues have had in him it has been easy for him to lead.” Of Minority Leader Snell, Majority Leader Byrns said: “I want to express my appreciation for the kindness and We have worked together during this ses- sion with a splendid co-operaton and interest in the great legislation which has been passed th months.” o Of President Roosevelt, Mr. Byms said: “Wi , when President, was known as the father of his country. Seventy-two years afterward Lincoln was its savior, and 72 years thereafter Franklin D. Roosevelt is its preserver from the economic ills which have be- set us.” * o x % The other day, while Representative Sol Bloom of New York was presiding over the House, he was handed a tele- gram addressed to Hitler, which read: “Beware—hold everything—Bloom is in the chair.” It was all a joke, as Mr. Bloom realized when he found that it was signed by his colleague—Repre- sentative Shannon of Missouri, who en- Joys practical jokes. of the German fleet, falling which Germanv would claim the right to build an unlimited navy. As the American fleet under the Washington treaty is on a parity with the British, America also would have to reduce its navy proportionately to the German navy, or else allow another armament race to begin. Thus it is clear that the disarma- Almost as much money was spent last year for repairing old residence build- ings as was spent in the erection of new ones, a survey of the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals. This is the | first time in the history of extant sta- | tistics that such a situation has ob-| tained. In view of the fact that in many cities of the United States cham- | bers of commerce, commercial clubs, boards of trade and civic organizations | generally are carrying on campaigns urging the renovation and remodeling of dwellings, it seems likely that the | current year will see the national re- | pair bill greater than the investment in new construction. The building industry has fallen to a lower ebb than any other major in- dustry because of the depression and, in spite of the fact that the repair bill is 50 high in relation to total expenditures | on buildings, it is below every previous year for the last twelve; that is, since the last period of hard times. That | statement serves to emphasize how far the drop in new construction has gone. | What is of vital importance to the country now is the knowledge that this tremendous deficit in construction and repair must be made up. It has been pointed out by 2 number of commenta- tors on earlier depressions that recovery has been built largely on the develop- ment of some new fleld. Railroad build- ing, the rise of col te business, the automobile, the o, and so on, it is claimed, have furnished ladders on which the Nation could climb back to prosperity. It seems not unreasonable that this extraordinary deficit in both new construction and in alterations and repairs may result in so expansive a | Loom in the building line that the whole | country will be benefited. There is scarcely any industry which can aid others so much as the building | industry. Development stimulates land | dealings and appreciation of values. | Depressions Call for Repairs. | It has been estimated that for every man actually employed on the imme- diate task of constructing a building | 10 have been put to work by the proj- | | | NATION’S HOUSE REPAIR BILL BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ness. The seldom | thinks of having his shoes half-soled. ‘When the soles wear thr the shoes away and buys new pairs. But in hard the shoes newly soled not long as there are uppers left anything to. So it is with building. be sure, there are a great many old houses, residences, which the own- ers would not raze under any considera- tion. They would far rather spend twice the ‘cost of a new dwelling on though, Americans, espec: West, have a fondness for shiny, glittery things which give an impr of brand-newness. Atmosphere is rather at a discount west of the water tower, and when the repair bill runs up it means that the people simply cannot afford the new. Huge Sums Spent. In 1930, the first depression year, the percentage of money spent for repairs jumped to 14.7, or just under what it had been for the 1920-21 depression. Had times improved as speedily as they did at that earlier period there is no doubt that the percentage would have abruj tlg dropped again. But 1931 saw 1tclfm to 15.3 and last year to the record figure of 21.2—nearly 6 per cent in a single year. Most re] are for residential struc- tures. While some of the money spent on commercial buildings, it is not as much and not listed separately. fice buildings constructed of steel and concrete last as they are, as a rule, until pulled down. To be sure, there are always minor repairs for plumbing and the like, but so far as the major repairs are concerned the residential buildings require more expenditure. Residential structures, of course, In- clude apartment houses. In the high year of 1925 the sum of $2,461,546,000 was expended for the construction of new residential ings. This was 61 per cent of all the money spent in the bullding industry that year—office buildings, post offices, ect. Men must be employed in iron and copper and lead and zinc mines. The timberlands must be logged off and theaters, hotels and everything. d | tlon would provide car loadings for the an opposing | pair the sawmills set spinning, while the quarries must echo to the blast. Brick kilns must be fired and blast furnaces set going. There is an almost endless chain of activity set in motion and, not least in national importance, such ac- railroads. Repair bills go up in depression times. People do not want to lay out money before they know how things are going, provided they have money, while those who lack are unable to undertake any- thing but temporizing repairs. In 1921, for example, when the Nation had not yet emerged from the 1920-21 depres- and alterations was up to 15.2 grew better and, immediately, the re- bill sank. By 1925 it was down to only 58 per cent of the total, and normal can be regarded as somewhere to the huge sum of $1,859,429,000, and many leaders in the in ad to $426,270,000, and last year only $103,- was expended on new sion, the amount of money spent on |last repairs retold. lveryoe;ymmth:hhmryo(- | was projected 50 years ago in Wash- | days shows how futile were their de- | can be begun the | to architects sentatives Cox of Georgia, and O'Con- between 5 and 10 per cent. This does not mean that people ceased to make repairs. The law percent- | age means that often, instead of spend- ing money to repair old buildings, they built new ones. The building industry is quite comparable to the shoe busi- %Fifty Years Ago In The Star An ambitious amusement enterprise BY A. G. GARDINER. LONDON, June 17.—The first week the World Economic Conference Connecticut Avenue hmwmwnm“fl ino- ‘vel .- Casino-Theater 1:‘11:. s el scribed in The Star une 14, 4 “The stockholders of the proposed new casino and theater on Connecticut avenue have invited architects to pre- sent sketch plans of the new building. | Any architects in the city desiring to | present plans can do so, and a limited competition will be allowed to architects | outside of the city. It is the intention to have all the plans in by the 28th of June, so tlntt the w_\lwtuo( building at once. suggestions call for plans for a casino and theater combined, the former to cost $40,000 and the latter c ,000, an e d furnish the posed to complete an building for about $175,000, al the capital stock is $200,000. theater will be 80 by 75 feet, the depth of 75 feet not including the stage. It will seat 1,650 people. Mr. Samuel W. Fort, the manager of the Academy of Music in Baltimore, has been chosen manager of the new theater and he will direct both theaters. The same com} ring at the Academy of Music appear here. The stock- holders of the new enterprise have not as yet elected a permanent board of directors, and in wmw“!‘;:'d nn’umun chosen. 3 le of have been - M e & Co. is acting treasurer anc H. Paine is u:fin"sec!!ur! * * “Considering the objections made in many quarters to the number of eques- ‘Memorial Arch strian statues occu- E laces in Washing- I8 Bced a)n " says The Star ington, brighter pying prominent| Autumn. Meanwhile the shadow of war has been lifted from the e of June 16, 1883, “and in view of the further fact that other memorial struc- tures are certain to be erected here from time to time, the suggestion is respectfully offered that a wholesome departure in that line could be made by substituting an imposing and hand- somely decorated arch for the conven- tional statue, whether equestrian or pe- destrian. A site for a structure of this character should, of course, be on the highest suitable ground attainable and it should also be made to span an important street or avenue. These are indispensible and inseparable conditions. It should, of course, be massive in its proportions and durable in its material, and it could be built plainly, or pro- fusely ornamented with groups of statu- ary, reliefs, etc, according to public wish or as the funds available for the purpose would allow. “Few things are more pleasing to the eye or more suggestive to the mind than a fine archway, as those who have S B hirope. uniformly sestity, 1t cl Tope . will be remembered that at the time Congress was considering the question of finishing the Washington Monument project to take down the unfinished shaft and construct from its materials a grand triumphal arch instead found a number of very ardent advocates both in and out of that body. The pro- priety of finishing the column as origi- nally contemplated seemed to be gen- erally conceded, however, and so the i:roject ‘was dropped in that connection. t Nas not been forgotten, however, and the suggestion is made now in the hope that its merits may be fairly con- sidered and means finally adopted to carry it out when the opportunity of- fers. The undertaking would perhaps be too great to be assumed by such an o ent and reared a common memo- tChnn.(etexu:a"uwl‘,t.h :'-'mlrd ‘ked effect e prospects for eliberations. Chamberlain’s speech to ence on Wednesday went identif; Great Brif scheme of* con!f active side of d d‘l:l the r made by experts of-the two coune tries in reaching an agreement on the vital question of stabilization of the dollar and the pound. ‘The feeling vails that provisional stabilization of the pound and the L P ient of e , bring the discussions o? the oul: Conference much nearer world reali- ties and go far to assure the success proceedings. confer- of the 3 France, however, tends to discussions. European gmm. with Belgium and Italy, tend themselves Chancellor Chamberlain’s idea o ce the only practicable way of restoring equilibrium to prices and costs and to associate themselves with France's in- sistence on the restoration of the standard as a preliminary a {:vonble mh:un. was vital disagreement financial policy which accoun the resistance to the aj L the American delegate, as of ag’ ergles rial structure of this character, which would have been at once a worthy me- morial of themselves and a monument of which not the National Capital alone but the whole country might well be proud. It is, of course, too late mow | to carry out the ides in this form, but | it is to be hoped that the time and the occasion are not far distant when it may be put into tangible shape. “Another gineer, to whom the National Caj is indebted fcr its system of bunfumn. broad and convenient streets and ave- The charm suggestion, and th some suitable and conspicuous the city to the honor of Maj. Plerre t, the distinguished en- | joyed.