Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1933, Page 8

T A8 THE EVENING STAR ___With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.........June 26, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th_St. and Pennsylvania Ave Y Oce Lak Michi Binain ce: Lake gan Bullding. jean Ofice: 14 Regent 8t.. London, Englan by Carrier Within the City. . .l.r.lbc per month 65¢ per month | Sunday c per copy Collection made at the end of each month ltanpu at destruction is a matter of | mystery. Just what is expected to be accomplished by them is hard to con-day, as in the case of the Interstate ceive. In a structure so vast and mas- sive as St. Peter's no single pdckage of explosive such as might be smuggled into the building could possibly do more than trifing damage, though it might conceivably, if shrewdly placed and its explesion well timed, cost many lives. Such injuries as would be inflicted upon the structure would be relatively | little more than a scratch. Only a de- E ranged mind could conceive such a crime, the success of which, if the re- THE EVENING greatest danger comes from ome that is ignited after the end of the working Commerce Building. The odfl thing about a tar pot fire is that while it makes the most show of smoke and is superficially the most menacing, actu- ally it is of small consequence because of its confinement to a limited space and the possibility of quick extinguish- ment. Thus the dense black smoke that rolled out from the top stories of the Justice Building this morning was of itself almost an assurance that there was actually no danger to the beautiful ligious faith itself were the object of | assault, could only result in strength- | ening it rather than in any degree or | new structure now approaching com- pletion, e STAR, Musically inclined persons can do no better than to study thrush music at this time of the year. Just why birds come at all to resi- dence neighborhoods, either suburban or city, when they have the 1,632 acres of Rock Creek Park at their disposal is & matter for conjecture. Our guess is that a tree is a tree, to a bird, it makes no difference where located. ‘When a bird sees a tree, it sees some- thing just as familiar to it as a chair WASHINGTON, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. D. C., MONDAY, | has no difficulty in following his every note. | "And in doing so the listener is in- troduced to music right out of the | heart of Nature. Loud, yes, but never | distressing to the nervous human ear. There is in this loudness no slightest suggestion of the “show off” spirit which | mars so many human performances of {all types. This honest thrush sings because he was made to sing. and in so doing he | achieves the artistic in a way that few | do, men or birds, who are peering JUNE 26, 1933. The Political Mill By G. Gould Léncoln. Representative Bertrand H. Snell of New York, Republican leader of the House, last night turned loose a blast attacking the Roosevelt administration and the Democratic Congress. It will be regarded as the opening gun of the G. O. P. in its effort to win the con- gressional elections next year. The issues outlined by Mr. Snell in this at- tack upon the Democrats are likely to be the issues which will be brought into the campaign by the Republicans, although what may look like an issue today may be thrown into the discard a year hence. Those issues made by Few Americans realize how much | |their Government does for them.| Readers of The Star can draw on all | Government activities throygh our free information service. The world's great- est libraries, laboratories and experi- | mental stations are at their command. Ask any question of fact and it will be | answered, free, by mail direct to you | Inclose 3 cents in coin or stamps for | reply postage. Do not use post cards. | Address The Evening Star, Information Bureau, Prederic J. Haskin, | Washington, D. C. Director, ANSWERS 'TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. libraries, rest rooms, etc., have been adapted to home or club idea. Q. Is the phrase “agreeable to” cor- rect in a business letter>—R. R. A. C. E. Buck says that this expres- sion is “a relic of the eighteenth cen- tury and a bit stiff. As requested is better.” Q. Does Al Smith receive a pension from the State of New York? If so, why?—F. A. D A. Alfred E. Smith was entitlad to | and receives a pension from the State of New York on account of his more | around to see if any one is looking at | them. Q. Why was Judge Mr. Snell go principally to the hugr! Colorado?—A. A. C manner Wweakening it. | Kidnapers, Take Warning! appropriations made by the Democrats | in Orders may be sent in by mail or telephone St. Peter's at Rome is one of the NAtional 5000. Lindsey disbarred 5 e than 25 years' service to the Stat:. Ac Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday....1yr. $10.00; 1 mo.. 85c | Daily only - 131, $600: 1 mo.. 50c | l&hll’ only $4.00: 1 mo.. 40c All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday...1yr. $12.00; 1mo., $1.00 Daily only .. $8.00: 1mo., 75c Sunday only $5.00; 1mo. 50c Member of the Associated Press.. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled 1y Toecial dispatches hegein are also reserved. No “Wildeat Prices.” Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, administrator | of the new national recovery act, last night put his finger on the danger spot | in the whole gigantic scheme evolved by the Roosevelt administration and the Congress for pulling this country out | of its present unemployment and de- pression of business. That danger lies | in the immediate or early boosting of | prices to a point at which it will b2 impossible for the public to consume the output of the producers. Once such prices have arrived, there can be no forward movement in industry or agriculture. As Gen. Johnson pointed out, and President Roosevelt before him. the producers and distributors of all kinds of commodities in this country must be willing to make their profits out of & greater voli of sales. If they follow such s course, then the prospect for more and more employment and larger payrolls becomes brighter. If! they pursue a different plan, however, | and undertake to boost prices to a high figure and to take as much profit as they can, the sales inevitably will fall | oft, there will be still further dimuniticn of production and the whole vicious chain of depression will be running at| full speed again. | Gen. Johnson, who delivered his| warning over the radio, gave assurance that the National Recovery Administra- | tion would tolerate no “wild price lift- ing.” The recovery sdministration has: wide powers, so wide that it may license | or refuse to license, or revoke licenses, of industrialists if they violate the so- called codes of fair competition which are to be set up by the various indus- tries in the country. The warning of the head of the recovery admimistra- tion may therefore well be heeded. The heads of industries in this coun- | try are as alive to the needs of the sit- uation as is the head of the recovery administration. Gen. Johnson asserted that “our best people understand that this is no time to get rich quick.” If industry gives its wholehearted and earnest support to the plans for recov- ery now being worked out, there is the chance of success. Indeed, there is great hope of success. But such co- operation is essential. And if those who are not among “our best people” under- take to throw monkey wrenches into the machinery, the recovery administration is likely to act with drastic severity in their cases. It is clear that the trade organiza- tions of the cotintry have become almost overnight of greatly increased impor- tance. It is through these trade organ- izations that codes of fair competition for the individual industries are now being worked out. No matter how great the individual unit in an industry may be, it would appear to be the better policy o join with the other units in the formation of these codes. Otherwise the rules of the industrial game will be set up without it, and once approved by the President will likewise apply to that particular unit, provided it con- tinues to operate in interstate com- merce. Gen. Johnson undertook to clear the air also regarding the relations which labor and employer face under the ad- ministration of the recovery act. He insisted that it is the purpose of the recovery administration to see that labor is paid a living wage. He said that the law specifically provides for the right of collective bargaining for the workers and that this provision of the law would be rigidly enforced. On the other hand, he said that he saw no necessity for labor to rush to organize and submit collective demands before tition, and no necessity for the employ- ers to set up “company unions” to cut off labor unions before agreements are submitted. In this the administrator is quite right. 1f employers or organized labor go into this movement with their minds made up to get as much as pos- | sible for themselves, the success of the movement must be hampered. Labor forward together. B Gangsters have been shooting at a |ignited, and for a few minutes a dense | Sixteen ounces make a pound, former tax assessor in nearby Maryland. | black smoke rolled out of the top story,| And yet in sadness we proclaim “Forty-five minutes from Pennsylvania | and fire apparatus came from all quar- | We don’t know as each day comes | Avenue” may become even more rural in its economic methods than “Forty- five minutes from Broadway.” e Bombs at St. Peter's. For the third time in less than two years & miscreant for some mysterious | siate Commerce Building caught fire just | purpose has planted a bomb at St.|after work was stopped for the day and | Peter’s in Rome. Yesterday the third of this series of attempts to damage that great structure, and perhaps 10 distortion of some of the steel mem- | destroy life, occurred. The preceding attempts were fruitless, the explosives having been discovered before detona- tion. ! cbjective for millions of people apart In the Summer of 1931 such an |lumber. world's great monuments. The ba-! silica, with its treasures of art, is an from thelr religious motives of visita- tion. T» injure it or deface it in any | way is an unpardonable crime. None | of the perpetrators of these three recent | attempts against it has been discovered. Perhaps they will never be found. A man is now held under suspicion. It may be that the same person has planted all three of these bombs. If so he will probably persist and in that event he is very likely to be caught. In that case his punishment should be such as to serve es gffective warn- ing to all other iconoclsts who may | have this same strange mental complex of destruction. — raee—————— Better Weather in London. Millennial achievements at the Lon- don conference are by no means just around the corner, but all accounts agree that a distinctly better atmos- | phere prevails than when proceedings began two weeks ago today. Prime Min- ister MacDonald has emphasized that all international conferences go through the period of infantile diseases before the shake-down into practical progress, and the monetary and economic con- clave at London, with sixty-six nations in attendance and ten times sixty-six conflicting views on almost as many basic questions, has certainly proved no | excepticn to the rule. That it has not already thrown up its collective hands in despair is really the surprising thing. After being held responsible by carp- | ing European critics, whose motives cannot be dismissed as disinterested, for stalling the engine at London, it falls to America’s lot to start it going again. On orcers from Washington, Secretary Hull and his colleagues have now defi- nitely declined to discuss the goldl standard and co-related currency sta- | bilization at this time or to enter into | tariff dickering. America’s contention | is that until its own industrial recov- ery program has had opportunity to effecutate advances in price levels, the United States cannot and will not do, anything in Europe that could arrest the vast plans just getting under way over here. Secretary Hull insists there is “no basis and no logic” in the thought that America's domestic ar- rangements are incompatible with inter- | national efforts to halt the world eco- nomic crisis. PFrom the American viewpoint, he asserts there is only one way the conference can go now, and that is in the direction of world-wide co-operation to restore price levels. On that nationalist, rather than inter- nationalist, line Uncle Sam, lke Gen. Grant, evidently intends to fight ‘it out if it takes all Summer. The con- ference at last knows “where it is at” and the air is correspondingly cleared. London appears to be looking upon Prof. Moley's arrival this week as that of a god out of a machine, who will miraculously salvage a badly disor- dered situation. The Assistant Secre- tary of State is hardly capable of work- ing magic. but he will at least give a direction to American policy, straight from the seat of authority—a forthright direction, which has been badly and sadly lacking to date, due to a variety of conditions for which no one in par- ticular seems to have been to blame. It may turn out, after all, that Will Rogers was wrong when he said that “the United States never lost a war or won s conference.” Let us now hope for the best. —_——e———— It will be a matter of rejoicing if Doane F. Kiechal, a county judge in Nebraska, who put the marriage cere- mony into excellent verse, will enable the happy pair to evade a subsequent impression that matrimony is more truth than poetry. His action rep- resents a practical experiment which, if it works, will entitle him to grateful remembrances for many years to come. His home town is Nelson, which in | figure. The kidnaping of little Margaret McMath ends in the sentencing of Kenneth Buck to serve not less than | twenty-four years in State prison. A Jjury of Cape Cod landsmen found him guilty, and the presiding judge im- mediately imposed the penalty of the law. It is planned to remove Buck from Barnstable to Boston today. His brother Cyril meanwhile goes free—apparently he became aware of the plot only after it had been put into effect. Probably, there was general surprise among newspaper readers yesterday | when Wy first were informed of the price whteh the convicted child-stealer is to be required to pay for his mis- deed. Twenty-four years is a long time. Buck will be an old man when he is released. It is doubtful if he was conscious of the peril in which he was placing himself when his twisted mind conceived the scheme of which he now becomes the principal vietim. The gravity of the hazard, however, is recommended to persons who might be tempted to emulate his example. It may be that the fact that the kid- napers and murderers of the Lindbergh baby thus far have escaped capture may stimulate numbers of other fiends in human form to similar crimes. It so, the severe punishment of Buck may be useful in detgrring them from proceed- ing with their vicious programs. From coast to coast throughout the country the laws against kidnaping have been stiffened. Any man who deliberately contemplates violating them should know his danger. It will do no harm if he also is mindful of the risk of being Iynched—an outraged public is capable of mob justice in such cifcumstances. Buck, it may be granted, is a pitiful Unemployed, hard pressed for money, probably not of normal men- tality, he planned his wicked action in a kind of savage desperation. Even the child he stole is reported as being sorry for him. But society cannot compro- mise with such pathological cases. The same impulses which moved Peggy Mc- Math's kidnaper to take her might easily have prompted him to murder her. The psychological line between the one crime and the other is ex- ceedingly thin. All things considered, it is well that Buck has had Nation-wide publicity. The advertisirg he has been accorded may be socially useful. It should be an education to the denizens of the underworld, professional and amateur alike. Any scoundrel plotting a crime against childhoed should take warning from the spectacle of the fate of the Harwich Center miscreant. ——o—. If national recovery is not speedily | effective, it will not be for lack of learned doctors and vigilant nurses. At/ present much appears to depend on avoiding undue agitation. R Alfred Smith has received an hon- orary degree from Harvard. Neverthe- less and notwithstanding, he will be expected to go ahead and say “raddio” whenever he feels like it. —————————— Mr. Max Steuer, not many years uoi a struggling lawyer, has proved that he knows more about finance than some of the financiers, e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Sea Serpents. Bea serpents once haunted the wave And frightened the girls on the shore. But serpents no longer behave With the boldness they ventured of yore. But the bathing suits then were severe, Including hats, stockings and shoes. ‘When the sea serpent calmly drew near Girls were sights which would merely amuse. iThe bathing suits now are designed On patterns that puzzie the eye, time may be as famous as Reno, Nev., and in more cheering fashion. ——ee—s workers who have proved their qualifi- cation should be favored, if only to pre- vent “experience is the best teacher” from being rated merely as another of those proverbs which have ceased to function. industry submits codes of fair compe- | It is being urged that retention of | And courtesy is not inclined | To measure just how much and why. | The serpent in bashfulness turned | And sald, “T will put back to sea; |In Eden some chance I discerned, But these Eves are too many for me. Local Sentiment. ““Are you going abroad this Summer?” “No,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I'm going to stay home and figure on Fires in Rising Buildings. This morning downtown Washington and employer, under the plan of cam- | was treated to a thrill by a fire in the | jaz7 music with his news. Most of the | paign, must be allies and must move unfinished building of the Department | jtems aren't anything to dance about. | of Justice {being melted A pot of tar which was for roofing purposes ters. The blaze was quickly extin- guished without any damage. This is the latest of a series of small fires in |the Mall-Avenue triangle building igmup. the most serious of which oc- | curred about six months ago when the | false work and scaffolding of the Inter- |& spectacular blaze resulted, which caused & considerable loss throigh the bers, Other fires have been of slight | consequence, mostly the burning of | trash, packing materials and scraps of Tt is in fact rather remarkable “infernal machine” was found in the that in such a large operation as the basilica and about six months later, in | 1932, a dangerous explosive ' tures there has been so little trouble February, erection of this great group of struc- device was discovered hidden near the | from fires central altar. Yesterday a suitcase that | had been left at the package-checking | is necessarily subject to a rather heavy | A bullding in the course of erection taxes. Even when looking for trouble | I'm going to buy American.” | Jud Tunkins says he doesn't care for | Avoirdupois and Finance. “round How many dollars do the same. Belated Regrets. “Most people do things they are sorry for,” remarked the ready-made philos- | opher. “Trye,” sald Miss Cayenne. “But so many do not realize how sorry they are {until the news is printed.” “A bowl of rice,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “would be of greater worth if the grains were golden, unless starvation were near and there was none with whom to trade.” Cynical Summary. | should study thrush music, in particu- | with real interest. This is fortunate. for without this habit, this familiarity, on the part of our feathered friends, we should have { to go to the woods te listen to their | songs. Thrushes have been singing for two | months, but only the other day there | arrived a new type of thrush singer. Since we have never seen him, we cannot describe him, except by hfis} music. He is far louder, in the first place, than any other thrush it has been our privilege to hear during the past three | Summers. His song has more varia- | tions and twists in it. It is more cheery than most. * K X % Why any one, even the Nature lover, lar, is not a difficult question to an- swer. The thrush, in any of its varieties, of which several are to be found in this locality, is, to many investigators, | the sweetest of the common singers. It is one of the few birds whose song has a definite pattern showing musical | inventiveness. Most of our better known songsters have pleasing musical outpourings, but mostly they are just outwellings of sound, as it were, which, though they | are always more or less the same, never seem to merit the designation of mu- sical pattern. g In\'::nvenesa, in the musical sense. seems lacking. A boy with a whistle could do about as good. But with the thrushes the listener has something more. Its song is divided into a per- fect four-part arrangement, suggesting the old-fashioned rounds once SO popular. * X X * As standardized as this song pattern is, however, it gives the performers Te- markable latitude, as any one will dis- cover who takes the trouble to listen | | re is listening and listening, of | courte® That which is done off-hand. | without” any particular attention being | paid, listening which is done uncon- | sciously, is one sort. This is the }.cind | of listening done when one <2 ‘Oh, e thrush hes a pretty song. [h’n:? other type of listening is con- scious, with the mind of the listener Used to separate the component mu- | sical units of the song, in order that | it may be differentiated from other songs of the same variety. Until one has tried deliberately along this line, he will scarce believe thnt! thrushes are as individual in their songs | as we here claim. Yet a little investi- | gation, we know, will reveal the vast | difference between song and song, be- | tween the individual “stars. * k% k¥ L Between each of the four parts o the thrush song the bird interjects a series of quavers and semi-quavers, | slight trills and “flourishes” of the best sort. It m ust remain a question whether these are musical, in the best sense; if | the listener chooses to reject them, he | may do so by paying me attention to, them, since the bird has to be very close, in most cases, for them to be heard by any but the closest listeners. Our new thrush, on the other bough, sings so loudly all the time, both in his major and minor phrases, that one National Chairman Sanders and| Republican House Leader Snell have | just fired the opening guns in the cam- paign to bring the G. O. P. back to power, first in the congressional elec- tions of 1934 and then in the presi- dential contest of '36. All concerned concede that at this writing everything | is on the lap of the gods and that hope- ful long-distance views of the elephant’s prospects are little more than wishes | which are father to the thought. Many straws indicate even thus far in vance that the Republicans intend mak- ing all the whoopee they can out of so-called Roosevelt _dictatorship _and tampering with the Constitution. Such indications are categorically forthcom- ing from the two men regarded at this time as the most promising Republican presidential white hopes—namely, Ogden L. Mills and Representative James w. Wadsworth, both of New York. Each of them during the past few weeks has found occasion to take flings at the new deal, especially in its more revolu- | tionary aspects, and strongly hinted that the situation is bound to present the Republican party with a national issue. As to this, of course, everything depends on how the deal works out. If “happy days are here again” a year from now, it won’t be easy for the Re- publicans to capitalize politically the clleged, liberties whick the Democrats are taking with the Constitution. That issue will be decided both in 1934 and | 1936 by the conditlon in which the country finds its pocket nerve. * X % X | Two naticnal Democcrats have re-| | cently had something to say about the | Roosevelt dictatorship, too. When he received a degree at Amherst, Newton D. Baker expressed the view that no damage has been done by clothing | Franklin D. Roosevelt with extra-con- stitutional powers, “because the Presi- dent is a patriotic and devoted public servant.”; But Mr. Baker thinks it needs to be remembered that Congress may be establishing a possibly danger- ous precedent, should some chief execu- | tive less trustworthy than Mr. Roose- | velt some day receive dictatorial euthority. Therefore, Mr. Baker holds, an adequate amount of congressional | authority requires to be reserved, in the people’s interest. In a commence- | | ment address last week Owen D. Young | warned against the peril of letting the | new deal turn its back on too many | of the lessons taught by experience, | and suggested that forthcoming experi- | ments which fail to take due account of them are doomed to failure. * Kk K * It appears that jt pays to be not only a deserving Demccratic woman politician, but also to be the husband | of one. At any rate, the story is cur- | !rent that the next governor of the | Olesen, husband of Mrs. Anna Dickie | Olesen, former Democratic national committeewoman from Minnesota and Democratic nominee for the United | | States Senate against Senator Henrik | Shipstead, Farmer Labor, in 1922. Dr. | Olesen is registrar of Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., and, if he goes to the Virgin Islands, would succeed another college professor, Dr. Paul M. | Pearson of Swarthmore. * % % * While ages come and ages go | Across this earthly spot. | Men wonder why some things are so And others things are not. booth at the main entrance just outside fire risk because of the accumulation | Some names high up in fame we view, of the central door exploded, and al-|of inflammable material. A carelessly though the great edifice was thronged | flung match or burning cigarette stump with worshipers and many were pass- may start a blaze at any moment. The | ing through the doors at the time, only | strictest supervision is necessary to four were hurt and but one of them combat this risk. A fire starting during seriously. to the building. ; pwpgee of such dastardly et aud as quickly No material damage was pot this morning, is quickly discovered working hours, as in the case of the tar extlnguished. The change Bakes mych While some in scorn are bawled. This is because some bluffs go through ‘While other bluffs are called. “Anybody kin change his mind,” said Uncle Eben, “but he’s gotter be high an’ important to make folks think de | _ News dispatches from Nantucket | Island last week failed to record the | | fact that smong those who anxiously | awaited President Roosevelt’s arrival in | the harbor aboard the Amberjack II | was Alfred E. Smith. For hours before | | the President’s arrival, Mr. Smith stood guard on the edge of the dock scanning the horizon with a long telescope. He happens not to have Been the great “Al” | in_person, but ‘Alfred E. Smith, Nan- ‘tucket plumber, whose shop overlooks the old whaling harbor. Mr. Smith was Republican postmaster of Nan- | until much | Virgin Islands is going to be Dr. Peter | If the listener does not choose to re- ject the interludes, he will find them good by considering them in the light of contrast. This thrush is a “modernist,” in the best sense. All unconsciously he has hit on what many of the musical “mas- ters” required centuries of progress to evolve, a sort of dissonance, whereby the purity of pure tones and round notes are brought out at their true value by following immediately upon notes not so round or so pure, but even harsh. l After one of its four sequences, our | thrush gives three short, metallic qua- verings, as if some one had struck the reed of & tuning fork very much out of tune. At first hearing, these notes, if they may be so called, strike upon the hu- man ear as very much out of place, but subsequent hearings reveal some- | thing more, a real retationship to the pure notes before and after. * kX X Has the bird enough artistic ability, as a singer, to rejoice in this bit of in- | vention on its part? This must be left to the belief of every hearer. Our personal opinion is that this particular bird is a real artist, in every sense of the word, and some- how, in its unconscious way, has a full knowledge of what it is doing. Surely that perfect aplomb could not be wholly chance, although the supreme loudness of the whole performance might be. One does not wish to mis- take tone quantity for a directing brain, or even for tone quality, but this bird has both. Although his song is loud, it is very sweet, and does not stale by repetition, nor strike the ear as overdone, al- though it never ceases from morning to night. It begins with the first| touch of light, and ends only as night descends; but when it quits, it quits all over, at once, tout a coup, as the ; French say. Y Even more beautiful, in thrush mu- sic, was the song heard for half an hour one glorious Sunday afternoon. High in the branches of a tall locust, this unseen singer, as in the wings of 2 mighty outdoor theater, sang a song which for sheer softness and perfec- tion outmatched anything of the kind we have ever been privileged to hear. It was as if a violin were playing muted, or some one, With an artistic spirit, rather than a desire to impress the nelghbors, had turned down a ra- dio to the point where its music lost | that insufferable feel of “now listen to us boys, because we are now earning | our living, and are extremely peppy.” The metallic quavers, of which we have spoken, were present in this song, toe, but suffused with real sweetness, and, high at the very end, i)stead of the soft chuckling sounds uttered by others, were two perfect, rounded notes, h and sweet. mi}uppny the very hearty singer also has these two notes. Like a real artist, he is very chary with them, not ‘wishing to do his best too often. He reserves them for odd moments, so that they will fall on listening ears as a sweet tonal surprise. The rest of his sgng is common enough, but these prize notes | stand out sweet and clear, and all the | better for being heard seldom. e s s i SR ok IR WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. may have wanted to cast an anchor to windward with F. D. R, to get his old job back. * k% Senator Henry F. Ashurst, Democrat, of Arizona is one of the numerous members of Congress who are not gl::; ning to return to their home later in the Summer. Asked how they’re putting in their time, now that Congress is no longer in session, Mr. Ashurst says: “For the most part, getting acquainted with the contents of the bills we passed with such dizzy and dazzling speed during the special session.” _Senator Ashurst, a stickler for good English, finds that some acts of Congress were even drafted in slap- dash style. He instances a bill which slipped through committee and houses tautologically as fol- lows: “Whereas it is necessary to pro- vide the American people with the necessaries of life,” etc. * ok ok ok The addition of Guernsey T. Cross of Albany, N. Y., to_the legal staff of the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion widens the former Roosevelt offi- cial family circle at Washington. Throughout . D. R.s governorship of the Empire State Mr. Cross was his private secretary. Under the set-up at Albany that official is a member of the gubernatorial cabinet, and Cross car- ried on in that capacity under Gov. Lehman. Now, with Col. Louis Mc- Henry Howe, Miss Margaret Lehand, Miss Grace Tully and others who served the President while he was Governor, Mr. Cross is again near the chief at Washington, He was a tower of strength in the Roosevelt pre-conven- tion years and a confidante and ad- jutant of Jim Farley. x ok x K Prof. Willlam E. Dodd of Chicago University, who is about to take up his duties as American Ambassador to Ger- many, is winding up his private affairs on his acres not far from Washington at Round Hill, in Loudoun County, Va. He has lived there Summers for many years as a gentleman farmer. A friend of Ambassador Dodd relates that the professor, a distinguished historian him- self, thinks he may owe his appointment to a chance observation in a recent public address, which came to the ears of President Roosevelt. It was to the effect that only rarely does anybody be- come an Ambassador of the United States who could pass an examination in history. It is also of record that while Dr. Dodd was paying his first visit to tne State Department and being passed around from office to office in that labyrinth he lost his hat. But one of the higher-ups promptly wisecracked that the important thing is for a diplo- mat “not to lose his head—it doesn't make so much difference about his hat.” * kK K Vice President Garner’s rejection of a $1,000-a-week radio contract recalls the fact that the late Cyrus H. K. Cur- tis unsuccessfully tried to induce Vice President Calvin Coolidge to write a weekly article for the Philadelphia Pub- lic Ledger at a salary of $25,000 a year. Mr. Coolidge was not disinclined to con- sider the offer, but was finally dis- suaded from doing so, he said, on the advice of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. (Copyrisht, 1933.) ———e— Confirmed. From the Indianapolis News. Former Warden Daly of the Indiana State Prison says prisons do not reform, and that's what a good many of the prisoners have thought all the time. ——— Stimulus, From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. And perhaps the recruits from the college graduating classes will contrib- ute a “brain trust” stimulant to the turket during thg Coolidge administra- ten, and it is Qust pdcsible that he' solution of the pfilem of the army of the unemployed. | pendent | talkk of during the special session, to an in- | crease in Federal taxation also pro- | vided during the session just closed, and | to the establishment of bureaucratic | control of agriculture and industry. | ‘Whether they will be effective issues will depend upon the success or failure of the industrial recovery act and the farm relief act. If business and agri- culture o2 benefited; if millions of the unemployc ! are put back to work dur- | ing the next year, the attacks of the | Republicans along these lines will be | futile. On the other hand, if recovery | lags, if the management of business and agriculture through Federal agen- cies, as provided for in the laws re- cently passed, proves irksome and bur- | densome, then the Democrats are in | for a bad time when the 1934 election rolls around. * o ok % The Republican leader of the House! did not mince words in his indictment | of the Democratic administration and | Congress. He asserted that the Demo- crats had run wild on a ‘“spending spre2” which would leave the country facing a greater public debt than at!| any time in its history, except for one year during the World War. He! charged that the Roosevelt administra- | tion Was undertaking to fool the people by keeping a “double set of books.” | Appropriations, he said, had reached | the stupendous total of $4,400,000,000 during the special session of Congress called by President Roosevelt, although ! the appropriations for the entire Gov- ernment, except the independent offices and the District of Columbia, had been made in the previous Congress. In- g::: of urvd}x‘:mg taxes, he said, the ocra d added more Federal taxes. a0 * ok ok X Mr. Snell's reference to a “double set | of books” was aimed at the habit the | Democratic administration has of de- scribing the ordinary annual expendi- tures for the various departments of the Government, including the inde- offices, as the ‘“ordinary budget” and the other expenditures, for | the operation of the recovery act, the farm relief act, and all the other new legislation, ~as the “extraordinary b:g'g;lg;’ Thi lalleribuldlet covers the ncy” or “capital expenditures.” Mr, Shell ‘Insisted that it was idle fo “balincing the Government budget” when the “extraordinary bud- | get” had been run up to billions of | dollars; that all the money to pay for all the expenditures had to come out of the pockets of the citizens of the coun- try, no matter which budget they came under. He denied flatly there had been balancing of the budget, despite the claims of the Democrats. It was just a case of “tricky bookkeeping,” Mr. Snell insisted. Instead of reducing expendi- tures by 25 per cent as the Democrats pledged they would during the last campaign, he sald, they had doubled expenditures in the brief three months | the special session had been sitting. * x k¥ Of course, the Democrats take a very different view of the situation. Only | a day or two ago Representative Byrns | of Tennessee, Democratic floor leader of the House, issued a statement, which, like that of Mr. Snell, will be published in the Congressional Record, extolling to the skies the Roosevelt adminis- tration and the acts of the Democratic Congress. He declared that the bu had been balanced, that the had been marshaled at last for an #°- tack upon the depression, and that the Democrats were leading the way to better times. The economic situation in this coun- try next year will be the key to the | political situation. If it improves, the Republicans likely will be howling against the Democrats in vain, although under any conditions it may be ex- ted that a number of the seats held y the Democrats in the House now will be won again by Republicans. If conditions of the farmer, the laborer and the business man are no better than they are today, or if they should be worse, nothing on earth can save the Democrats. * ok ok % The Senate Banking Committee’s in- quiry into private banks and bankers will be resumed tomorrow, with Kuhn, Loeb & Co. under the microscope this time. It may have its political repercussions, just as did the investi- gation of the House of Morgan. The records doubtless will be scanned for participants in lists of “favored clients” of this great bank as they were to hrmg&oa us%ori:u:@;s of J. P. Mor- an . e inqy in the Morgan fibfis had its effects outside of erg:l- ington, for example in Massachusetts. This is because Lieut. Gov. Gasper Bacon, as the prospective Republican candidate for Governor next year, appeared on one of the Morgan lists of preferred clients. The disclosure brought an announcement from former Gov. Alvin T. Fuller, for long ‘the stormy petrel in the Repub- lican politics of the State, that he should contest the nomination with Mr. Bacon. Ex-Gov. Fuller frankly says in substance that he has never been wholly satisfied with Lieut. Gov. Bacon as a candidate and has always looked upon him as an ultra-conserva- tive. The fact that the Bacon family, father, sons and in-laws—Lieut, Gov' Bacon’s sister having married George Whitney, a partner in the Morgan firm—have long been connected with the Morgan concern is cited by Lieut. Gov. Bacon in explanation of the trans- action in which his name figured in the testimony before the Senate com- mittee. * k k% Ex-Gov. Fuller has in the past shown great strength with the Republican voters in Massachusetts. He defeated the Republican organization decisively when he first entered the political arena as a candidate for the Republican nomi- nation for Congress in a district which was composed in part of the Boston tropolitan area. He served two terms in Congress, 1917-1919, when he resigned because he found the work more or less irksome. For a part of the time at least while he was a member of Congress he refused to draw his salary. Later he became lieutenant governor of Massa- chusetts, and he was twice elected Gov- ernor, serving from 1925 to 1929, inclu- sive. It was during his term as Gov- ernor that the Sacco-Vanzetti case be- ! came of international interest. Gov. | Fuller refused to interfere and the law took its course. Unless Mr. Fuller reconsiders his ad- mittedly “hurried” decision to enter the field against Mr. Bacon, Republican voters can look forward to a hot cam- paign a year hence. Republican lead- ers take Mr. Fuller's announcement with a grain of salt, however. It is possible that in the event of Fuller's nomination Gov. Ely may him- self be a candidate for re-election for a third term. Prior to the last election Mr. Fuller was vitrolic in his criticism of some of the policies of Gov. Ely. ‘The latter has been represented as hav- ing had _enough of the governorship, but the Fuller candidacy might inspire Gov. Ely to lead the Democrats for con- "-ll;l:ed control of the State administra- —.———— Welcome Defeat. From the Indianapolis News. If unofficial husiness improvement should beat offieial action in bringing prosperity out f¥gra behind that corner, no doubt the satesmen would sccept their defeat witia good grace. A. Judge Lindsey was barred from the Colorado courts on account of an accusation that he had been guilty of unprofessicnal, unethical conduct, em- bracing acceptance of fees while he was judge. The case cited was acceptance of fees in the case of the W. E. D. Stokes estate. Judge Lindsey's defense | was that his connection with the Stokes case was “disinterested from the work of the juvenile court in which he was judge, and that he acted merely as arbitrator and mediator.” Q. Is it possible for men in the emergency conservation camps to re- ceive more than $30 & month?—S. B A. By executive order, President Roosevelt has increased cash allow- ances to be paid 13 per cent of the en- rolled men. Five per cent may be paid $45 and 8 per cent $36. The increases will reward energetic effort and recog- nize outstanding leadership. Q. In which States is only one license ! plate required on an automobile?— A. Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and Oklahoma. Q. Does any point of land in Canada extend as far south as the latitude of Northern Nebraska?—W. K. A. At one poin the Dominion of Canada is at least a degree south of the latitude of Northern Nebraska. Q. Three streets in New Orleans are named Polymnia, Euterpe and Terpsi- chore. What significance have these names?—R. W. H. A. They are names of mythical Greek gods or muses. The first, ac- cording to Greek antiquity, was the muse of the sublime hymn, and of the faculty of hearing and remembering. According to some authorities she was the inventor of the lyre. Euterpe was the muse of joy and pleasure, patroness of flute players, associated often ‘with Bacchus, the god of conviviality. Terpsichore was the muse of the choral and interpretative dance. Q. Please give a biography of Robert H. Gore, new Governor of Puerto Rico. —E. G. A. He was born in Davies§ County, Ky., May 24, 1886. Worked his way through college. From 1909 to 1921 was in newspaper work. Developed & very prosperous newspaper insurance business and later the largest mail order insurance business in the world. Q. What is polarized light?—E. O. A Tt is a condition of the rays of and ultra-violet parts of the spectrum, resulting in their exhibiting different properties in different directions. Ordi- nary light is due to vibrations trans- verse to the d‘lélecfiontof }:he ray, b\rxt va 50 rapidly as to show no par- ticwuh’.z‘dmtwn {)( their own. When these vibrations are given a definite di- | rection, light is said to be polarized. Q. How does McMillan Hall at Wells ings?—H. H. A, 1t is furnished throughout in the manner of a fine club or a large coun- try house. Class rooms, faculty offices, light, including those of the infra-red | College differ from other college build- | cording to New York State lay pension is one-fourth of the saiary recipient was getting at the time of leaving public office. Gov. Smith's ary was $25.000 and he is entilled $6,250 pension. r mule A. They pack about the Each can carry from 150 ic if well packed, and th i was being made that cert n b enriched themselves while others fc and bled; that the chauvinists of the sixties were the bondholders cf the seventies. The seventics svas a period of disillusionment—the drab years after the panoply of war; for the land was filled with the halt and the discased and the impoverished; agitators roamed at will; and social problems unknown in their particular form before the war | now loomed on every political and In- ;dustnsl siy.” | Q. Please give some of the industrial uses of air—W. F. A, | A. The industrial uses of air are numerous. Oxygen is used in oxy- | acetylene blow-pipes in many industries. | Nitrogen obtained from the air is | changed both by natural processes and | by industrial processes into raw food materials for plants. Argon and nitro- gen are used in incandescent lamp bulbs of high power. Argon is used in the bulb of rectifiers. Neon is in signaling lamps and now for - tising signs. Q. What kind of | in planting the Whi E.C.C. A. The Office of Public Buildings and | Public Parks says that the grass i the White House lawn is composed of | two parts bluegrass, one part redtop | and three parts red fescue. | | Why is gold cold?>—C. V. A. 2 'l‘m:y Bureau of Mines says that gold is not cold. It is merely a good conductor of heat. Therefore, when the temperature is lower than the tempera- ture of your body, it appears cold, and when the temperature is higher, its body appears hot. Q. In the Soviet Republics how often does the rest day come?—N. M. A. Every fifth day is a day of rest. The work is arranged so that every one does not rest on the same day. Q. What is the origin of the quota- tion, “the pen is mightier than the sword”"?—H. A. K. A. It is a line from the great drama “Richelieu,” by Bulwer-Lytton. Q. Is it dangerous to eat erabs or | shrimp and drink milk at the same | meal?>—G. N. D. | "A. The Public Health Service says | that if the milk is fresh and the crab- | meat and lobster are fresh, no bad re- | action should follow the eating of these | foods together. soed 15 ouse lawel?— Machine-gun killing of four police- men and their prisoner by four gang- sters in Kansas City arouses the coun- try anew to the menace of armed gangs, and there is a renewed demand for regulating the sale of firearms. It is alsq held that the Federal Government must join with the States in putting crime out of business. Evidence is found by the San Antonio | Express that “gangdom in this country | has developed into a sort of state within the State—a de facto power to be bar- | gained with.” That paper advises that | “the Government must take up the challenge or confess itself helpless. The Baltimore Sun sees the country “stirred up to a new sense of the men- lace of organized crime,” with this “glaring light thrown on the audacity of the new type of desperadoes.” The Sun adds: “It is a threat which must be met, a challenge to law and order which, if unpunished, will encourage gangdom to believe that society cannot cope with its depredations. The Attor- ney General of the United States has said that all the power of the Depart- ment of Justice will be put behind the effort to break up organized crime. This is necessary, since most of the States seem unable to accomplish the job, and all are handicapped by move- ment of gangsters over State lines.” “America is undergoing, not a crime wave, but rather a flood of brazen tled barbarism,” declares the St. Joseph Gazette, with the further statement of public need: “Are we reverting to bar- barism, or are these phenomena just part of the great cycle of change which we are experiencing? Did prohibition start this thing, inculeating a lust for easy money in the minds of the rack- eteers which has led on to kidnapings, description? How far is it going to go? How can it be stopped? These are not academic questions, as the issues they raise are getting closer to the lives of each one of us every day.” “Assuredly the Kansas City crime was one to startle and shock the whole ter Times-Unicn, which states as to the need of arousing public-sentiment: “In what other civilized country could such a thing happen? Right in the heart of a large city, in front of the union station, these gangsters opened deadly fire with machine guns on a group of officers, including a Federal police agent, who were taking back to the Federal prison at Leavenworth an escaped train robber and bandit. This murdering of police officers, this out- rageous exhibition of criminal violence, demands the most determined, the most persistent effort to round up the gang- sters who dared commit such a crime, and thus brazenly and murderously defy and show contempt of the law.” “Crimes of violence are a reproach the Boston Transcript, finding ‘“evi- dence that lawlessness impudently de- fies the social order.” The Transcript points to one factor of importance ‘which gives force to the menace: “Con- ditions in the United States are in large measure due to the fact that in no other civilized country is the com- mission of crime made easier. For one thing, this country contains many more automobiles than are to be found in any | other land, and the automobile has given the criminal assistance of inestimable value to him in his criminal enter- prises. The result is that the gangster knows the chances of escaping punish- ment at the hands of the law are all in his favor. He robs and kills and dashes away that he may rob and kill . “When effort is made to induce citi- zens to put down the terroris: the Portland Oregon Journal, “nobody | responds, nobody seems to care. The | machine gun and the revolver are for criminality, hoodlumism and unthrot- | wholesale murders and crime of every | Nation,” in the opinion of the Roches- | to all the States of the Union,” asserts | Kansas City Crime Arouses New Hostility to Gang Rule LY defense, and is made only to murder. Yet, when the National Crime Commis- sion sought help in getting legislation to forbid manufacture of the machine gun, nobody responded, nobody carcd. And the rackets and racketeers go gaily i on, blasting citizens into bits and burn- | ing out lives.” The advice that “machine guns should be sold only to Government di- vistons, for use only by the officials of sueh divisions,” and that “fo poasess | such a weapon should be made a se- | rious offense,” is given by the Lincoln | State Journal, and the ‘Topeka Dl;‘ly | Capital, while blaming lack of “honesty and competency” in city polic? organi- zations, wonders “why any murderer or gang of murderers is permitt:d to carry firearms.” The Charlotte Observer comments: “It is evident that the Gov- ernment is going to allow itself to con- tinue in the power of the gangsters and the kidnapers, or force them to sur- render to its power. These two partict- lar challenges are not to be ignorec. The Texarkana Gazetle proposes open season on bandits,” contending | that, as they themseives ‘“show no mercy,” it is advisable that “the coro- ner and not the judge should handle their cases.” 5 = “Prior to the Kansas City shooting recalls the Cleveland News, “Attorney | Gereral Cummings announced that his department was organizing for a Nation-wide drive on gangsters and | racketeers of every description. ‘It is | ‘warfare, pure and simple’ he said, in | announcing his campaign, ‘and some- body is going to win. Americans i:ave sufficient confidence in the strength, | ability and loyalty of the Federal De- | partment of Justice to believe that it, | not the gangster, will win. We can think of no better use for the police and prosecuting powers of the Federal Government than in going after these enemies of society and legitimate busi- ness in deadly earnest. It will mark a welcome change from the highly un- popular activities of the Department of Justice in ‘enforcing’ prohibition. And, best of all, it should accomplish real | good.” Taxes in Triplicate. | From the Buffalo Evening News. Owners of automobiles in New York | city are the most unfortunate of mo- | torists, for the municipal government, deep in the red, purpcses to put upon them a local tax equal in it to that which they pay to the State for registration. By this means Mayor O'Brien estimates that $15,000,000 will be_collected. That isn't all. Motorists from other parts also will be taxed to keep the government of New York City func- tioning. All car owners who are not licensed by the municipality will pay a tell of 10 cents when they cross Harlem River bridges and 26 cents when crossing the East River. Besides, there will be a tax of 5 cents on a taxicab ride. From thesq sources the | government expects to collect about | $6,500,000. Here is triplication of taxation. For the Federal Government collects a manufacturers’ tax on automobiles, also taxes on gasoline and oil. Then the State government steps in and makes a heavy tax for registration and on gasoline. And on top of all these taxes | the municipal government piles ancther tax of large proportions. In this, as in other matters of taxa- tion, the 1aw or principle of diminish- ing returns is certain to operate. There is a limit to the ability of automob’e owners to pay. e The Way to Popularity. | From the Sioux Falls Daily Arsus-Leader. If you want to make friends of your neighbors for life, open all of the doors and windows, find a good speech on one and only one purpose—to kill. A machine gun, for example, is strictly an | offensive weapon. It cannot be used in the radio—about rice culture in the Yangtze Valley or something . —and then let 'er snort. ll.‘k_ofihlt