Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1933, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. ‘“WASHINGTON, D. C. 'RIDAY...... .June 23, 1933 EODORE W. NOYES....Edito Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office 11th St ‘and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St ghicago Office: Take Michigan Bulldine. uropean Office: 14 Regent St.. London, Ensland. T | I "H Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evening Star..... . 45c per month e Fvening and Sunday Star caused by the lack of a seasoned phre- nologist. And while there is consider- able talk of doing away with some of the scientific work of the department, | everybody ought to agree that the | Farm Adjustment Administration should | not try to weather through the hard days ahead without a pilot on the | bridge in the form of & “public rela- tions director,” who is in addition adept in the science of judging people by the shape of their heads. A phrenologist should be helpful—in fact. indispensable—in confirming the statements of farmers concerning the y5) . ...60c per month Sunday Star ay ..65¢ per month o7l 5c per copy he end of each month (when 4 Sunda: e Evening_and Sund: Collection mede at Orders may be sent in by mail or telephone |is & question of veracity, the farmers be well worth watching. NAtional 5000. J Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. | Maryland and Virginia. Datly and Sunday. 1yr.. $10.00: 1 mo., 85¢c Dally only .... .1yr., $6.00: 1 mo., 50c Bunday only .. " All Other States and Canada. Dally and Sunday .+ $12.00: 1 mo.. $1.00 Daily only . 1mo., T75¢ Sunday only . $5.00; 1 mo.. S0c Member of the Associated Press. ‘The Associated Press is exclusively o the use for republication of all ne atches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ted in this paper and also the local news published herein Al rights of publication of special dispatches he e also reserved. -— = et tled s dis- The Mitchell Acquittal. The acquittal of Charles E. Mitchell in New York of the charges of defraud- | ing the Government through his in-! come tax returns is a tribute to the ingenuity of lawyers whose business it has been to devise legal methods to take full adven.age of the income tax law. It is a reflection upon the loose manner in which the law was drawn | by Congress, particularly with reference to the capital losses clauses. The at- tention of the public during recent months has been focused upon the weak- nesses in the income tax law through the Senc's Banking Committee's in- | vestigation. Mr. Mitchell's indictment | and trial grew out of the testimony he | gave before the committee, showing that he had pald no income tax for | the year 1929 and had avoided doing 50 by selling stock to a member of his | family and taking a loss of $2,800,000 | on the transaction, which he deducted | from his income tax. his family turned out to be his wife. | He avolded payment of income tax in | 1930 by sale of stock to a friend. ! The manner in which income taxes | have been avoided in recent years by | men of great wealth through the use cf so-called capital losses provisions of the income tax law was further revealed to | the public when the Senate Committee | delved into the operations of J. P. Morgan & Co. and found that not one | siavia has a special interest in those, | lection: Paris has the Louwre and the of the twenty partners of that huge pecause of acrimonious strife between | Luxembourg. Italy, Germany, Austria, firm, all men of wealth, had paid in- come taxes in 1931 and 1932. At least one of the partners took advantage of | Danubian enterprise at this time seems | States has there been procrastination in | the provision of the law to sell stock 10| to be a desire to frustrate an Austro- | Providing a member of his family to write off 2| German union and fo include the Aus- | TePository for the frults of the esthetic| loss. And the partnership, by reorgan- | ization with a new partner, had been able to take the losses merely by trans- | ferring the assets of the old firm 10| ryiendly policy towerd his Adriatic rival | ImPortant public works arc scheduled the new and writing off the losses. | With these object lessons before it, ! the Congress undertook recently to| write into the tax sections of the new | industrial recovery act changes in the | income tax laws which would make it | impossible for Mr. Mi chell, Mr. Morgan | Quite evidently the states which seek | 8 possible. It would give work to thou. and ‘other men of wealth to avoid the | payment of income taxes, at least in the same way they avoided them in recent years. Under the new law the | old privilege of carrying over and de- | ducting from income for the taxable | year a loss sustained in the preceding tax year is repealed. This amend- | ment is effective as of January 1, 1933. | Another of the provisions of the new | law takes away from the taxpayer the former privilege of carrying over losses from sales or exchanges of stocks and bonds which are not capital assets and . applying these losses against gains from similar transactions in the succeeding | tax year. The new law also aims to make impossible the avcidance of in- come taxes by members of partnerships, for example, the members of J. P, Mor- gen & Co. Losses to the partnership through the sale of stocks and bonds | They do not seem inclined to wait for jyne goes lightly on her way; which are not capital assets, are not to be permitted to be deducted by the in- dividual members in computing income tax returns. And further, private bank- ers are denied exemption from the stock loss limitations provided in the act of 1932, under which losses from the sale or exchange of stock not cap- ital assets may be applied only against gains from similar transactions and cannot be used to reduce income from other sources How well the present revisions of the income tax laws have plugged the hc through which large have escaped toxation remains to be Another provision of the recently acted law may make it far e t know just what is going on when the time ccmes to pay income taxes. That provision calls for pub of income tax retur su the Pres! lief is gencral tha gated to making income iax returns publ Chief Executiy incomes will exercise i Having made a ation as an ob server, it Col. House has enough to provide many gestions in an international Pl is on A Phrenologist Might Help announced the appoi 8go of form Gov. Theodor of Mississippi to duties w Adjustmen said gt 1s a disconc of soir of the admin ion n and T bo's ¢ departm form Admir and other s emphasizes t fications, he istration would $6.000 & there e part e A of ting he higher 1 confirm ncement and come o be flat-foote tha has inted nate. While Mr. Bil- been defined at the it as “assembling current in- n records from been s have for 1tk news, magazin irces.” Mr. Bilbo himself at, with other qu is something of a phre- nologist, and he told the Associated Press in add n that he expects to be “kind of a shock absorber, a trouble shooter or, as some of the big indus- tries describe it, ‘a public relations director.” It has been felt all along that the 1on Parm Adjustment Administration was that the team that leads the league smart enough to talk by de hour, but‘ lacking in something. It was hard to pin it down and say exactly what it | It does not always work out, but it was | in' sumpin’ dat kin ruin 'em in five was, but the elusive void was probably true in 1924 when the Capital's aggre- minutes.” | international extent of their acreage reductions when these farmers apply for bonuses awarded for reducing acreage. If there should be ordered to Washington and | paraded before the Official Phrenologist. | it is well to recall that in 1914 the | | who will be seated on s raised plat-| Boston Braves of the National League form. permitting a full view of all sible precaution would be to have all | farmers accompany their applications | the Athletics In the World Series by | for subsidies with photographs, profile, | winning four straight games. full face and shot from the rear. Be- | fore checks are forwarded, disbursing' Proceed With the National Gallery! | clerks ahonid receive the “O. K.” of the | Official Phrenologist. So it 1 moped that if there is any question about the employment of & phrenologist at the Farm Adjustment Administration it will be settled quickly. Such important matters should not be permitted to lag. o Economic Self-Help on the Danube. While the Ioncon Economic Con- ference marks time or rocks with dis- sensions, the little countries bordering the Deznube Basin have revived the long-cherished profect for a Danube customs union, of which Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia would be the principal members. The leading delegates of these three countries at London have evidently been employing their spare time there on this scheme for economic self-help in Southeastern Europe, while statesmen of the Western powers, including the United States, were running around in circles over such matters as currency stabilization, trade embargoes and other issues on which they have so far only been able The member of | to agree to disagree. Dr. Benes, foreign | minister of Czechcslovakia, and Yugo- | slavian Foreign Minister Jeftitch are now in Paris discussing the Danube plan with the French government, which has a practical interest in any arrangements contem- plated by the allied Little Entente. The latter holds that a solution of Franco- Italian political differences must pre- cede & Danubian combination: Yugo- | i | | i THE EVENING STAR. gation won the flag for the first time in histéry, Washington's percentage be- ing. 577 and that of New York, .551 | on that date of significance. And | it was true also in 1925, when the | Nationals took thelr second flag. the | | July 4 standings then being Washing- | !ton, .671; Philadelphla, .648. It is, | | therefore, a comforting feeling to find | ;:3:;‘:1 h(}; Efi:;‘\fis :;J;‘e&":{- ll:'z)"_-. | the home team tied for the lead on the | good cr indifferent. i eve of that supposedly fateful date, and | Early morning, and the twilight hour |if it should return from its present| Both, happily enough, are available Western trip a few points to the good, | toher tioe ot me dtommsal . ¢ |or even shoulder-to-shoulder with New | The morning has long been praised. | York, there will be great cheer in but not so much has been said about | Washington. The two games that are | h¢ EloAming, or J““’;‘l‘*%‘e"&e‘"&;&'f“"m scheduled between those aggregations !on Independence duy in New York will Two times of day are peculiarly The great difficulty about the former period Is the getting up. *x x Almost all home gardeners would en- y the freshness cf the cool of the With respect to the July 4 lrndil!on’ to “snap out of it” in time | were last in the race on that date, | ‘They have lost the old necessity for 00: 1mo..40¢ | ponds fore and aft. And & purely sen- | fifteen games behind the Giants, and being on guard, of awakening imme- d | diately, of being alert immediately. | Clvilization has “bred out” in a ‘ sense, that prime necessity of the ani- mal ; Even hcuse dogs and cats in time come to imitate man in this respect; | they become as difficult to arouse as he The first exhibition of the collection| _Perhaps there is no need that man e | should retain, in its full force, | | of valuable objects of art presented 0| gncieny ability to arise like a shot, and his countrymen by the late John Gel- | meet the enemy with blazing eye and | latly brings to the fore again the prob- | able muscles. |lem of making adequate provision in | | Washington for gifts bf that kind. Ob- [ viously, a building is needed for the | do better than they do L this respecl, protecticn and proper display of such | groaning.as if arising were the awful treasures. ‘That has been conceded for | task which they seem to make it. | vears, and it has been generally agreed | There are many physical reasons for | that a National Gallery of Art should | this attitude, but ihere can be little | | question that most of it is habit. be one of the necessary units of the | Instead of opening their eyes sharply. comprehensive plan for the greater as if they meant it, they permit them Capilal. | it takes as much as half an hour for the propcsed edifice was superficially | (hom to turn over preparatory to aris- judged to be “idealistic” rather than | ing. “practical,” there has been delay in| “When you begin to turn over. i's beginuing oousteuctic. | time to turn out.” said a great soidier. The passage of time, however, has neat saying, there is a grain of whole- brought & change in the attitude of the | some advice in it. people toward “productive” as | *E ok % tinguished from “non-productive” pub-| He who arises naturally, Without lic works, and the traditional objection forcing on his own part, will be in bet- has been eliminated. Instead, it now is | realized that a mational gallery would be an eminently useful institution. On‘ th E e Louraay : o % the one hand, it is perceived that since | f:;] ;}2 t&‘f ‘"W lemfl ""‘?m ixc o8 aoie man does not live by bread alone, all| yhich consists of seeing what Nature cultural shrines have practical value| has done during the night. as centers of spiritual inspiration. On| If there are real tasks to be finished, the other, it is understood that the 413 one positively bas o ofher HC Nation would profit in a material sense morning will do. It will have to do. if the gallery were erected—many ad-| But the grass is wet, and the dew is ditional gifts would be offered by|on flowers, and the mood of the ; gardener is not exactly up to digging patriotic citizens if suitable shelter for | 570 GHEr e Y0 (I 1ow forcetully them were available. he swung himself out cf bed. London has a National Gallery and | T a National Portrait Gallery as well as| S0 much has happened. even in the the Tate Gallery and the Wallace Col- not only won the pennant but defeate o L Yet a great many persons ought to garden. We do not advocate any real labor at this time. The morning hour in the smallest garden, during the night hours, that the best thing the watcher can do is to look. herself and Italy. The incentive to a renewal of the trians in a tariff treaty among the Danubian states. Premier Mussolini is represented as willing to adopt a snd neig of preventing an Austro-German al- liance, which the Ttalians fear might | eventually extend to the Tyrol, part of which came to Italy as a World ani prize. hbor, Yugoslavia, as the price | a Danube customs union place more | faith in a purely regional bund, or; “zollverein,” than in any economic Te- | lief likely to be meted out to them at | London this Summer. It is a logical | pooling of interests #hich they have in | mind. Altogether, in area and popula- | tion, the Danubian states, inclusive of Austria and Hungary, comprise an en- | tity of about the size of the Mississippi Va¥ley in this country. But in most re- | spects their interests are closely inter- locking and interdependent. The tariff barriers they have erected against one another are abnormal and arbitrary. The Danubian statesmen have long | been of opinion that the oblitcration of | ! such obstructions to the natural flow of trade across their respective frontiers is an obvious and practical necessity. the London Conference to remove them, but to be invoking the theory that Prov- idence helps nations, like individuals, which help themselves. B e Radio has become an influential fac- tor in public affairs and there are| prophets who say that former President Hoover may yet recapture the micro- phone. | e — Tied for First Place. Few denizens of the Capital are so deeply absorbed in the difficult prob- lem of making both ends meet in these days of dismissals from office and re- ductions of salary and forced retire- ments as to be indifferent to the con- sC between the two leading teams of the American League of Base Ball Clubs h all the anxieties that now pre- regarding the practical affairs of daily existence, there is still keen con- ern for the success of the Nationals, who have from the start of the season chasing the New York Yankees Yesterday the gap between the two ubs, steadily narrowing for ten day or was with Washington's victory in Chicago and New York's defeat in St. Louls. The two teams are now tied for first place, each with the same number of games won and lost dees not necessarily ngton will the There are still many games The season s not yet half been closzd mes nlay. 1 questions are pending. Will shington pitchers, who are now well, continue their good Will the New York pitchers e unmistakabiy faltering, recover their skill and effe eness? Will the w ington batters, who are now lead- ing the lezgue, as a team, carry on with thelr wands in the remaining games at Will Heinie in going work? wh their present turious rate? Manush has now hit twenty-five consecutive game caped & break yesterday by & narrow margin—continue his successive slug- ging to establish a new record of con- tinuous performance? Will New York's murderers’ row,” which recently has been lapsing into minor crimes, regain thelr prowess with the willow? Will | the god of chance favor the Nationals or the Yankees most greatly in the matter of immunity from disablements and illness? There is an old saying in base ball who salely he on the fourth of July wins the pennant. | ment opportunities for the jobless. es- | Most flowers open up during the Spain and Russia have many galleries, such an unfolded state that they can large and small. Only in the United spring their petals at the first tcuch of the sun. What is more delightful, in all of Summer, than tc wander through the garden to see which gladioli haye opened? Of all flowers, none looks better with the dew upon it than the gladiolus. ‘While this is a charming time in the beauty life of any blossom, it is pecul- jarly so for the gladielus, no matter what the variety. It will be difficult to find one of these an appropriate national character of the people. But at present | there are special reasons why that tardiness should be corrected. Other | to be undertaken as part of the Govern- ment's program for creating employ- It follows that there is no excuse for| further neglect of the National Gallery project. It should be started as promptly N sands. When completed, it would be nn‘ enrichment of the city and of the| Natlon. Mere announcement of inten- tion to proceed would attract further gifts of the type presented by Mr. Gellatly. This observer risks a prophecy. It is not based on any semblance of offi- cial authority or inspiration. It be- longs purely in the hunch category. The prophecy is that before many months are past President Roosevelt will give the country an audacious lead in the direction of debt revision. The further guess is hazarded that with his incomparable hold on public confidence the President will so successfully influ- ence public opinion in favor of the § ’ licy he advocates that when his nego- Attention must be be paid to what & {5, itk "debtor nations are ready dollar will sell for abroad as well as to| for submission to Congress his recom- what it will buy at home. mendation of corresponding agreements S o AU will command the necessary support on | Capttol HUlL. Much of this horoscope SHOOTING STARS. | | - International debts have managed to | make a system cf furlough without pay | work with more satisfaction abroad than it does over here. T e is predicated on the assumption that | debtor nations now in default will in O SRR, | desk and square eccounts, at least to {he extent that the British and Italians have done by way of “token” payments When F. D, R. is ready to tackle the debts along generous revisionary lines {he countty may expect to hear from him over the radio, as is his wont on major occasions. * Crop Report. | { We shall all regret her. Perfumed whisperings will say, “We are glad we met her.” For she brought her ‘customed When all men were viewing With historical alarm What the world was doing | P Seeing that President Roosevelt is | conferring with Col. House at this | critical international juncture, it is in- teresting to recall what that sage coun- selor had to say in print a few months ago, while reflecting upon the foreign policies of the new deal. In Foreign Affairs for January Col. House fore- shadowed that Mr. Roosevelt “would proceed to the decisions necessary to a final liquidetion of the war in the spirit he imbibed as a member of Woodrow Wilson’s official familly,” ie.. courage. common sense and foresight.” Later on, in specific dis- cussion of the war debts, Col. House declared that the American people, emulating allied Europe in disposing of the reparations question once for all, “must be ready—as practical busi- ness men, for reasons of cold common sense—to do what is necessary in order to dispose finally of the war debts as a political question.” charm As we study everywhere What the earth produces | And observe with greatest care Quantities and uses, June will bring, whate'er befall Treasure that discloses Lavish loveliness for all In the crop of roses. with Figures. “There are big figures involved in modern calculations,” said the observant person “Very big."” agreed Scnator Sorghum. “Maybe one of the troubles of the time | is that so many of us are not yet able to count any higher than the eighteenth amendment.” Of all the eminent Democrats popu- larly believed certain six months ago to be members of the Roosevelt admin- istration—men like Owen D. Young Al Smith, Newton D. Baker. John W. Davis, Gov. Ritchie, et al—it turns out that only one, Bernard M. Baruch, is actually in the picture. If this were Europe instead of the United States, the great “Barney” would be known as a minister without portfolio.” As things have shaped up, there is today no other member of the Roosevelt offi- cial household who approximates Baruch's actual status in Washington. His authority and influence ramify into every branch of national and interna- tional affairs. On no one, without a dcubt, does President Rocsevelt rely more strongly for advice than on the tall, silver-haired New Yorker who made his reputation as chairman of the World War Industries Board. Two of Baruch’s key men in that service are now, respectively. at the head of the nation’s industrial and agricuitural re- covery administrations—Gen. Hugh S. Johnson and George N. Peek. That they will frequently look to their wal time chief for guidance in the cam- paign @ depression may be taken safely for granted. Jud Tunkins says he always wanted to have enough money to keep him from worrying about the future, but he never | vet saw anybody who had managed it that way. Finance at Sea. When on Finance we are afloat We should not knock it It's safer w0 help row the boat Than ‘s to rock it Seeking Relief. “What makes our friend Mr. Dumley keep talking about the weather?” “Maybe to keep his mind off it.” said Miss Cayenne. “He is one of those peo- ple who never think about what they are e ving. Astronomy. The earth will take a fall complete Into the sun some day And every Summer, with its heat, Proves that we're on the way. Mr. Baruch's hand is seen in the dis- patch of Herbert Bayard Swope, former (xecutive editor of the New York World, to Europe this week as the guide, phi- losopher and friend of Prof. Moley Swope and Baruch have been basom friends for many years. The journalist- diplomat, who will presently assist in sprinkling oil upon the troubled waters of the London Economic Conference, thoroughly knows his way about Eu- 1ope and has a wide personal acquaint- ance among present-day Old World tesmen. He acconpanied President Wilson to the P-ris peace conference as a member of the dist.nguished Amer- .. | ican press brigade that “covered” po: are war developments. He acted as chair- man of the newspaper delegation and ‘was a member of the conference’s Com- mittee on Publicity. Of great personal charm. and with a flair for diplomacy, Mr. Swope is expected by President “We should never rejoice at another's | misfortune,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “lest we lose valuable time which should be emploved in averting nmusforunes of our own.” Government Ownership. It is a thought of gentle mirth My modest fancy now invents; Let governments own all the earth— And let me own the government. | | “Bome men” said Uncle Eben, haven't sense enough to keep from say- WASHINGTON, D. C.. FRIDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. if they could induce themselves ' But because the function of | to open cnly a little at a time, so that | | Whether one admits the truth of this | ter fettle to enjoy the early morning night, or at least put themselves into | the meantime step up to the captain’s, I UNE 23, 1933. fine flowers which is not at its very best in the very early morning. Then the first touches of light have kindled its warm heart to a glow all its own. ‘This is the morning communion of the gladiolus lover with his newly opened flowers, and we do not believe that there is a finer sense of satisfaetion in all flowerdom. Possibly much the same can be said for the rosarian and his roses. but somehow the gladiolus grower and his “glads” seem in a class by themselves. * x % Moisture on grass and lea! and bough is not so enticing as on fower petals. It has & way of finding the hole in the bottom of one's left shoe. Why is it that left shoes get holes in them first? orning dew, so fine to talk about (i write about) has a very bad habit 0. making one’'s feet wet, if one is not a: well shod as no doubt one ought to | be, both for his own sake and that of the shoe manufacturers and sellers. | Very careful persons, therefore, will do one of two things. or possibly both, | when venturing into the early morning garden, They will wear stout shoes, or walk ionly on paths. oo The last way of eluding superfluous dew s to be recommended for the look- ing gardener. rather than the working gardener. The latter will not mind & little thing like dew. but the former may be upset by finding water gained admittance to his shoe (left) through the unnecessary Sut very patent hole. [What a District Citizen Experienced in a Dream To the Editor of The Star: There now seems to be some ques- tion in the Senate as to whether Con- gress has the right to regulate rents in the District of Columbia. Of course, as Senator Copeland says, Congress can pass & law permitting the Federal Gov- ernment to go into & State and regu- late a business doing an intrastate busi- |ness. He then pertinently asks, “Why | not & law to regulate rents in the Dis- | trict of Columbia?” | " After_reading the above the other I night, T had a dream that I believe |explains why they will not pass such !a Jaw. | In this dream T had a very definite | sensation of having slipped this mortal |cofl and_ being bound for unknown | places. T seemed to be traveling at a | high Tate of speed in utter spacc. Sud- (denly I landed with a bang. I had reached my destination and it was a weird looking place. I could hear a great babel of voices. It sounded like several hundred men all speech at the same time, none of which nade any sense. Although I could {hear all this hubbub, I could see only {one man. He was an impressive looking | personage, with a long-tailed coat, & | broad-brimmed hat, & flowing tie and |long hair. In one hand he held a | pitchfork and in the other a gavel. This_gentleman I timidly approach “What is the name of this place?” T inquired | “Hell!" he replied. | “well,” I asked, “when do I go to | work? 'Or has the depression struck this place, too?” “What was your business on earth?” yhe asked. I told him and, just to be | sociable, asked him what his had been, | 1 was in Congress,” said he, “and has | I'm running this place just like we ran Congress.” | ““Is that why they call it hell?” I | innocently asked. He glared at me then making a| ANSWZHS TO QUESTIONS | e —- BY FREDERI its readers, who may use it every day without cost to themselves. All they have to do is ask for any information desired and they will receive prompt answers by mail. Questions must be clearly written and stated as briefly as possible. Inclose three-cent stamp for return postage. Do not use post cards. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Fréderic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. How many railroad officials in the United States have salaries of $10,000 or more?—-J. J. Y. A. As of March 1, 1932, there were | 1.343 positions in tlass one railroads paying high salaries. Of this number, 336 pald less than $10,000. Q. Have any of the camps for un- employed women opened?—H. H. A. Camp Tera in Palisades Interstate Park, N. Y., the first experimental camp for unemployed women, is now open. ‘ Q. Where were the desert scenes for | Rex Ingram's “Garden of Allah” taken? —R. S A. They were taken at Biskra, Algiers. | said to be the locale of Robert Hichens story. Q. Please give a biography of Pecora, who was prominent in the Morgan hearings_—J. F. R. A Ferdinand Pecora was born in Nicosia, Sicily, in 1882. He was brought to New York State at the age of 5 by | his father. After passing through the public school he spent a year at St. Stephen’s College on & scholarship. He If one is to stick closely to the and informed me that I would not be gave this up at the age of 15 to help ery good additions to a garden must in my new habitation. Imagine my walks, however. it will mean that these | Permitted to follow my earthly vocation | his father support the younger six chil- {dren. He worked in a law office until he have been so placed, In the beginning, orTor and disgust when he assigned | saved enough to pay his way through | that they bring one close to the flowers. There are all sorts of ways of adding walks to gardens, and all manners of material out of which to build them. It is not possible for the average home gardener to join the choice spasm of dismay which certain garden writers set up over garden paths. Even the ‘glar- ing concrete,” as they choose to brand |4 very fine building material, will do very well, if too much white is left out | its composition, and if the green growth on all sides is good. There is such a thing as too much walkway, in a garden, and too wide walks, but it scarcely seems necessary to many of us, as some would insist on, that all walks should be as invisible as possible. A good walk ought not to be ashamed of itself. * k% x The hour at the opposite end of the day 1is liked even better by many home gardeners. Then they can sit out the cool of the evening.” and enjoy | the products of their cultivation from ‘nn easy chair. (And how much easier garden furniture is, nowadays! This.is !a major reform about which little has been said.) Light conditions are just right, in the gloaming, to cover up the multitude of little faults which even the best garden possesses. Especially upon some favored evenings, for reasons which only a scientist could explain, perhaps, do all | things take on added aspects of beauty. The grass looks greener, and the red roses redder, or more red, as one chooses. It is at this time that the home gardener is likely to sense the need for more white flowers in his borders. The experts always have said as much, but it does not become real to one until one notices it for one’s self. one’s self is best. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. Roosevelt to be of yeoman service at London in this cantankerous hour. | * ok ox % Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt is making the same kind of & reputation for strenuous ac- tivity in the department as those two other Roosevelts—Theodore and Frank- lin D.—achieved in the same post years | ago. Across Col. Roosevelt's desk is said nowadays to be routed the lion's | share of the multifarious details asso- ciated with the construction and admin- istration of the Navy. s prominent role in the carrying out of the 32-ship building program just au- thorized. Secretary Swanson, Who per- sonally “discovered” Col. Roostvelt and brought about his appointment to the assistant secretaryship, rejoices in the fine account the former Marine is giv- ing of himself and in the widespread popularity his chief departmental aide has already won throughout the service. %k In the District of Columbia courts & ccse s soon to be tried which may es- tablish the legal right of a finder of lost arccies lo claim a reward. Last Win- ter a well known Washington woman | recovered a costly collection of jewels left in a taxicab. Five hundred dollars was offered the honest driver by the lady’s husband, but the chauffeur found nimself compelled to go to law to collect a balance of $250. X Political gossip persists as to some of the reasons which induced former Federal Reserve Governor Eugene Myer to plunge into journalism by acquiring the Washington Post. One of the end-of-the-session stories that rumbled through the lobbies of Congress was to the effect that the Post, under its new ownership, is going to come forth some sunny day as boomer and groomer in chief of Ogden L. Mills as Repub- lican candidate for President in 1936. Should there be a Mills presidency, the same yarn had it that Eugene Meyer would be Secretary of the Treasury in such a set-up. And finally, so the story went, it would be difficult for any President to make a more appropriate lection. Senator Carter Glass ranks as one of the men who. despite the difference in their political faith, holds Mr. Meyer's financial genius in high regard. * All the members of the United States foreign service, both Incumbents and newcomers, find President Roosevelt deeply interested nected with the personnel of the serv- ice. He has indicated to them that his interest springs to a considerable extent from the fact that the service now functions under the Rogers law, whose author was the late Representa- tive John Jacob Rogers of Massa- chusetts, husband of Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers. The member a classmate of F. D. R. at Harvard. graduating with him in 1804, and their friendship perpetuated throughout their respective public careers. Prof. Moley has left Washington just about the time some of his colleagues in the State Department begin- ning to know him. He has earned the reputation there of being a bit of a recluse and not keen to extend his acquaintance throughout the stafl. Not long #go a junior official swanked that he had succeeded in breaking the ice and getting to know the head man of the brain trust. Forthwith the envied official became famous throughout the | rambling and ramshackle old mansard monstrosity known as the State, War and Navy building as “the man who met Moley.” (Copyright e Trade Commission And Radio Programs To the Editor of The Star: Spoken words are but wind. That is 19:3.) [e are not written or printed ‘t is diffi- Icult to_prove them. If the Federal Trade Commission’should make a rec: ord of radio programs, words and mu- sic, action might be taken whfirfluct | the public as to morals and misleading | sales tale, THOMAS W. GILMER. In or out| of the garden, what one finds out for | He will play a | in everything con- | former | from the Lowell district was | n old saying. meaning that when words | to me my work. My job henceforth, | said he, was to take all the garbage |and empty it over a nearby cliff eve | morning. * It seems that, true to con- | gressional tradition, there was quite an | accumulation of unfinished business. So |he intimated that I had better get | busy. Getting my first cargo to the | edge of the cliff was a hard job, but I | managed it. Just as I was_getting | ready to empty it over the side I looked |down and saw a great multitude of people down below. I sought out the chief who had set me to work. “I can't empty the garbage over that " said I “There are a lot of people right under it.” “Oh, don't let that worry you,” he replied contemptuously. “Empty it right on them. They are all from the Dis- trict of Columbia and there’s not a vote in the whole bunch.” S. H. MUMFORD. e sa T Public Schools Should | Teach Pupils Expression To the Edito~ of The Star: Don’t you agree that expression should have a much greater place than it now holds in public school curricu- | lum? If the arts are to live and grow ! in America, the people must develop a | capacity of appreciation. In our in- dustrial civilization esthetic subjects have been grossly neglected. The re- cent failures of the principal opera groups, of our theater stock companies, are directly due to a lack of educa- tional preparation in cur public schools. We Americans are willing to instruct our children in commerce, finance and politics, because we want them to make | | a just government. Why don’t we realize that an ideal balance of happiness can be obtained only through attention to the spread of artistic appreciation? How can we hope to achieve a worthy goal if we live only to earn money to give our chil- dren pleasures which they have not been trained to appreciate or value? | we educate the youth of America to earn money which in turn is used to educate their children to earn money, what have we accomplished? Surely to educate them to understand and love the finer things of life is a much nobler object. nents cf cpera said in a recent article that what this country needs to stimu- late interest in good music is the trans- | lation of opera into our own language. This is taken as a matter of course, but how can Americans make intelligent, appealing translations unless devel- oped and educated up to the fulfillment of that purpose? Isn't it rather hard to picture our jazz band leaders com- posing acceptable versions of opera? But these men are jazz leaders because our public educaticnal facilities have not given cur public the cultural tastes to desire anything better. They are the raw material which might have been made into something infinitely finer. The temporary pleasures of a jazz- mad existence may be stimulating in small doses—but what a let-down aft- erward! The pursuit of light pleasure may give us amusement for a short time, but only cur progress in attain- ing higher standards cf intellectual and esthetic appreciation will live after us | | | | | | in that bond of brotherhood' which is | mutual human understanding. RITA KESSLER. e Families in Office In Federal Service To the Editor of The Star In Washington we find not only a man and his wife on the Government | pay roll, but sometimes nearly every member of the family. Instances have been known where | husband, wife, sons and daughters all |had Government jobs. The combined | salaries of such families was quite a large amount. There are men fully competent to fill these positions. These men are married, have no job, and are in great need. A great injustice is being done in placing more than one member of the family in a Government position. Another injustice in Government em- ployment is the giving positions to boys and girls in the 'teen age, having no | financial obligations: their parents are | well-to-do and have large incomes. One may well ask when will this injus- tice cease? They can easily be reme- died, if the proper authorities will lcok into the matter JULIAN H. STRONG. — e S Injustice in Interstate Commerce Commi ‘To the Editor of The Star. They certainly gave the little fellows in the Bureau of Valuation, Interstate Commerce Commission, & raw deal. The bosses saved themselves, about 10 of them receiving one hundred thousand dollars between them | are over_about one hundred and_ fifty people. They did not want the furlough plan to be put into operation because it would affect themselves. The ex- service men were supposed to be given | preference; that was just & joke to them. They did everything possible to hold their own jobs and push out the little feilow. sion an adequate living wage and formulate One of America’'s foremost expo- the New York Law School. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1909, at the age of 27. He was vice chairman of Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Republicans in the State of New York. Later, however, he affiliated with the Democratic party. In 1918, he was made deputy assistant in the district attorney’s office. In 1922 he was appointed chief assistant district attorney. In 1930 he established him- self in private practice. Q. Where is the headquarters of a hay-fever organization?—J. S. A. The American Hay Fever Associa. tion is located in the Audubon Building, New Orleans, La. Q. How did the founder of Reuter's News Agency become a baron?—J. H. L. the title of baron by the Duke of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha, and by a special grant of Queen Victoria he and his heirs were authorized to have the privileges of this rank in England. Q. What does the word Tammany mean?—J. T. C. A. It was originally the name of the chief of the Delaware Indians. In the aboriginal language “the affable.” Q. How much maple sugar can be made each season from the sap from one tree?—S. D. F. A. The Bureau of Plant Industry says that from 5 to 40 gallons of sap is cbtained from a tree during a sea- son; on an average between 10 and 20 contains about 2 per cent of sugar, although it may vary from 0.5 per cent | to as high as 7 or even 10 per cent. The sugar content varies greatly with the tree, its location and its past growth. One tree can be counted on to give from 1 to 7 pounds of sugar per season, or, expressed in sirup of lon, although the average from year to | year and from tree to tree is about 3 pounds of sugar or 3 pints of sirup. In a normal year, then, 1 barrel of sap This great service is maintained by | The Washington Star for the benefit of A. Paul Julius Reuter was in 1871 given | the word means | gallons. Normal sap of an average year | standard density, from 1 pint to 1 gal- C J. HASKIN. (32 gallons) should produce a gallon of sirup or 7% pounds of sugar. Q Isn't coronary thrombosis, from which President Cool and Senator ‘Walsh died, a rare condition®>—F. J. G. A A study of th among licy holders of the Metropolitan Life surance Co. shows that among in- dustrial policy holders this disease in- creased from 4.7 per 100,000 in 1930 to 7.0 in 1931. and reached 9.4 in 1932, a Tise of 100 per cent in two years. Among ordinary policy holders, the rates were 11.1 per 100,000 in 1930, 14.0 in 1931 and 171 in 1932. More than two-thirds of these deaths affect per- sons 60 years of age or older. Q. Where are the original versions of the Bible?—N. C. A. The original manurcripts of the Bible are nct preserved in their en- tirety. The tlree great original ver- sions of tne Bthle still in existence are the Peshito, the Syriac and the Aquilea. These are respectively in the possession of the Vatican at Rome, the Museum of Great Britaln, and in tbe possession of the Boviet government of Russia. The latest information from Russia | was that the version is housed in the museum at Moscow. Q. When did Paderewski compose his | “Minuet”>—L. H. A. It was first published in 1894 in Germany Q. Please explain the “untouchabil- ity” which Gandhi is trying to eradi- cat . W. 8. A. Untouchability in connection with caste in India means that below the innumerable subdivisions of the four great castes there are approximately 61,000,000 persons of no caste who ar> considered by the governing body * | have neither political nor social rights and who are barred from the exercise of most actlvities and fronr privileges. They may not engege in any of the | professions mor in the industries prac- | ticed by the castes. It is to raise the | condition of these people that Mr. Gandhi is working and offering himself as a sacrifice to fasting. etc. This means of persuasion would not be as powerful in any other country as it is in India. Q. Did Singer patent the first sew- ing machine?>—C. W. C. A. The first sew ing machine was | probably made by an Englishman | named Thomas Saint, who received a patent on July 17, 1790. Thomas Saint’s patent was discovered within recent years by a searcher among the patent archives of the British Patent Office, where it had lain unncticed for almost a century. Isaac M. Singer, in 1851, patented a sewing machine hav- ing a fixed overhanging arm and & vertical needle. He also introduced a foot treadle, but his most important contribution was the presser foot with a yielding spring. Q. Why are Italian words used in music, such as allegro and andante? —E. 8. 4 A. Itallan terms used to indicate time, speed, etc., have become tradi- tional because the first systems of mod- ern music notation were originated by | Italians. | Q In England. is a tram a street car | or a bus?>—M. M. A. A tram is a street car. Q. How long did rounds last in bare- | knuckle fighting?—E. P. A. Under the Londcn ring rules, s round ended when a man was knocked, fell or was thrown to the ground. Some rounds lasted many minutes, others cnly a second or two. Q. What process is used in painting a screened-in porch so that those in- side may see out, and those outside can- not see in?—L., 8. A. Paint the inside of the screening black and the outside white. | | | | | i Vice President John Nance Garner receives the applauze of his fellow citizen by rejecting an offer of $52,000 a year for broadcasting five minutes each week on a nation-wide hook-up. The country thinks he maintained the dignity of his office, and avoided set- ting a precedent which might even- tually lead to a practice hostile to good government. “The American pecple,” according to the Memphis Commercial Appeal, “will appreciate Mr. Garner's keen sense of propriety. He very correctly sensed the wishes of the people in this matter and turned down the proffer promptly. This adds much to his prestige. Since he became Vice President he has conducted himself with statesmanlike ability and has contributed much to the progress of President Roosevelt's program.” The Spokane Spokesman-Review declares: “It takes character to put aside so en- ticing a temptation and Mr. Garner gave the correct reason for his refusal— that he did not consider it proper for a man in his position thus to discuss government or public affairs, meaning for pay from private interests. Of course the Vice President, like any other public official, is entirely free to discuss | government or public affairs, but he cannot do it with dignity or propriety for hire.” fied. not to say improper.” says the Columbia (S. C.) Record, with the be- lief that he “deserves commendation | for his giod taste in refusing to sell the prestige of his office.” The Abilene | Reporter is of the opinion that he | “probably has no vain regrets,” al- | though that paper emphasizes the fact | that “getting paid $52.000 for four | hours and twenty minutes of rather pleasant work would strike most people as an offer that calls for serious con- sideration.” “Mr. Garner is not a rich man, points out the Scranton Times, ‘‘and he has little more than his official salary on which to live. In Washing- ton he occupies modest quarters, and his elevation to the Vice Presidency Ras not materially changed his mode "of living. His rejection of: the radio broad- cast offer recalls that William Jennings Bryan, when Secrtary of State, engaged in a series of Chautauqua lectures. Mr. Bryan said he needed the money to supplement his salary. Nevertheless he was criticised freely. More recently Mr. Howe, President Roosevelt's chief secre- tary, has been giving radio broadcasts and writing magazine articles touching on affairs in Washington. One of his | radio talks was commented on in Con- | | These ten bosses | gress and the question was raised as to | plants, with railroads inci the propriety of any one so close to the President giving public addresses be- | cause of the possible inference that he | might be speaking authoritatively for | the administration ” “The company making the offer, observes the Rock Island Argus, “ tended to recognize the office he holds. It is very much to the Vice President’s Garner’s Judgm As He Rejects Radio Offer “He declined the proposal as undigni- | ent Lauded cism, some of it, | admit himself, | fundamental quality of the man is exemplified in the promptness and deci- sion with which he has refused to al- |low his name or the high office he holds to be identified with a project conducted for private profit.” “To his eternal credit,” asserts the Richmond Times-Dispatch, “he turned | a deaf ear to all entreaties. He was | not willing to lower the dignity of his office nor to profit pecuniarily by the | tremendous prestige it carries. His view was that he had no moral right to trade on the Vice Presidency. ‘Cactus Jack’ for a long time has been known to his countrymen for his homely sterling virtues. He is not averse, it is true, to playing pork-barrel politics on occasion. But that is no re: on the moral character of the man. | Politicians have been like that since | Pericles was the head man in Athens. | When it comes to the crucial test of | honesty and integrity the Vice Presi- | dent is all wool and a yard wide. It requires a man of the best quality to turn down an offer of $1,000 & week in | these days of economic stress. But ‘Cactus Jack’ had the courage to do | that because he did not believe the | work offered him was consistent with his dutfes as Vice President. All honor to him!" “The magazines have been diligent,” | records the Charlotte Observer, “in reaching out for public men who are induced to become _contributors at | fabulous pay, the finaneial reward | offered being altogether out of pro- | portion to the value of the service rendered. Now it is the radio people who are alive to opportunity. Mr. | Garner did not hesitate to turn this | offer down. He saw the impropriety of using his official status in & manner | of that kind. He could not countenance | the proposition to use his official posi- | tion for private gain. He is being gen- | erally commended for his decision in | the matter. | |Coal Mining Takes On New Life | From the Connellsville Courier. The resumption of plants of the Pitts- burgh Coal Co. in the northern end of the county and of Frick mines in the southwestern section is to be accepted as very definite proof that the coal in- dustry is undergoing a marked measure | of improvement. Increasing _activity ———oe—s at industrial reasing their | requirements and the by-product coke | plants taking larger shipments, the de- mand has undergone an appreciable change for the better during the last | few weeks. The beehive coke trade has not re- |sponded correspondingly, although a contract for furnace coke has been the outstanding development, but ship- Why does the Government allow such | credit that he refused this financial ments thereunder are not scheduled for }injuctices like this to go _on? E. HARVEY. ) A Great Boon. From the Boston Evening Transcript. lure. We think Mr. Garner, in the first | place, s too conscientious to consider | such ‘an offer. In the second place, he | | has had many years’ experience in pub- | lic life and 15 too shrewd. A study of Mr. Garner's biography reveais the fact some days yet. Once under way there will be an increase in production. Al- ready shipments are ‘exceeding those of last year and have been for two months or more Any improvement in the fueling in- We are told that appendicitis wss!mn: he is not the sort of man Wwho dustry in the county cannot be other- first recognized in Boston, and several | would be at all likely to accept such a | wise than beneficial to business as a generations of victims who have talked | about their operations apparently have | regarded 1t as a happy discovery. e The Real Victims, From the San Francisco Chronicle. There is really no downtrodden class in this country, unless you count those who have seats on the aisle. B Zowoe alose Something To Be Thankful For. From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Well, at that, England didn't try to umennmemo,ndcundnwnlnd a dollar a week, | lucrative _post—under the = circum- | ances.” The Argus adds that although | n this particular case the end sought | is legitimate, the public has no gulr-‘ anty for the future.” “There is an element of high de- cency in such a refusal, for which Mr. | Garner ought to get a real cheer,” de- clares the Baltimcre Sun, with the fur- ther comment on the incident: “This Iatest manifestation of vice presidential | restraint reflects great credit on the author. Because of his skill as a rough- and-tumble parliams and hi realistic attitude toward the proverbial barrel, been pork. Mr. Garner has the urgetox:.re:tmo(hmuhcfld- is | In that event the effects The calling of men to employ- ment is perhaps the most noteworthy feature. It will mean the removal of 'a considerable number of persons from the relief lists and to that extent will reduce the demands upon the county and the local relief agencies. ‘The several towns of the county are patiently awaiting a season of revival, but it is generally realized that the im- rovement will come slowly. mt will Ee infinitely better than & sudden'boom which might prove to be but temporary. ‘would be more f;‘mmm nnnwwlfl. the result 2 reversion to & deeper depression, has prevailed. 3 whole.