Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1933, Page 16

2 THE EVENING STAR ___With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. BUNDAY...........July 2, 1833 YHEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 4Ind gt cago Office: Lake Michigan Building. ropean Offce: 14 Regent St.. London. Enslan Rate by Carrier Withi: g: Evening Star_. Fvening and 81 (when 4 Sundays) The Evening and Sung (when 5 Sundays). The Sunday Sta: Collection max Orders may NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunda: Daily only -, Bunday only All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday...1yr. $12.00; 1mo., $1.00 1yr. 0., 8¢ Datly only ; 1mo. Buinday only [1yr, $5.00; 1mo. S0c Member of the Assoclated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- wise cred- d in this paper and also the ‘a:ll news blished herein All rights of publication of _ the City. 45¢ per month 60c per month 65¢ per month T copy -8¢ per at the end of each month sent in by malil or telephone 6.00: 1mo.. 80c | 3400: 1mo.. d0c | Library Needs. The old story of Abraham Lincon walking a score of miles to borrow & book from a friend is frequently told, but it generally is supposed to drama- tize & ploneer condition of life long since eliminated from American civili- zation. It, therefore, comes with a| sense of surprise and shock to the aver- | age citizen to hear that even in the Nation's Capital there are people who are obliged to travel great distances to avail themselves of the privileges of the public library system. And yet the| “fact has been given considerable pub- liclty. The difficulty in the circum- _stances is that it is principally the poor and lowly who are most directly affected, and it is an axiom of history that they, perforce, must rely upon the charity and fellow-feeling of their more fortunate neighbors for relief in exi- gencles of this kind. At present the problem of increasea Ubrary facilities is very much to tue fore. Conditions have promoted dis- cussion of it. The depression has driven thousands of new readers to apply for books. Men and women, boys and girls | who ordinarily have been able to buy most of the literary aids they have needed now simply do not have tne money to spend. Another large class, hitherto not interested in reading, also has appeared—they have employed their compulsory leisure in cultivating an appreciation of books, and the libra- Ties have been their source of supply. But the library system has been handicapped in its endeavors to meet the demand. First, its budget has been too small to permit of the acquisition of all the books requested and to allow for the engagement of all the compe- tent help required to perform the serv- ice implied by such a vast growth in the number of patrons. Second, & con- dition of overcrowding in existing build- ings has arisen and with this a coinci- dent appeal for new branches in the chief residential centers of the city. The District Commissioners have been consclous of the increasing acuteness of the situation. They have recommended the enlargement of the Main Library, New York avenue and Ninth street, and the bullding of the proposed George- town branch, at Wisconsin avenue and R street, and the Petworth branch, at Upshur street, Georgia avenue and Jowa avenue. These projects would cost a total of $800,000, a relatively small sum as compared with the ex- pense involved in other cultural enter- prises. They would be a mere detail in any large public works program. But there can be no question about the valuable social purposes they would serve. They represent an authentic need, not in any sense an unnecessary luxury. Their merits are commended for the immediate consideration of the administration. ‘There may not be any boys compar- able with Lincoln walking all the way across town to borrow books at the Main Library, but there can be no doubt that there are many who are in- spired by his example and are seiting their feet in the path he trod. They deserve to be admitted to the thought of those who now are engaged in plan- ning the Capital's share of the vast reconstruction design which the Gov- ernment has authorized and is sponsor- ing. ——e Mr. Carnera knocked Mr. Sharkey oold. Even in a time when physical magnificence is =0 much admired, Shakespeare students who like a lit- tle brains with their brawn will con- tinue to admire Gene Tunney. Is Russian Recognition Near? A letter from a reader published in Friday’s Star inquires, with a note of some anxiety, whether American recog- nition of Soviet Russia is another manifestation of the “New Deal” which may soon be expected? If so, the cor- respondent rightly expresses the hope that the question will be weighed at ‘Washington from the standpoint of the “benefit and welfare of the American people.” From the London Economic Con- ference there have come unofficial rum- bles that some of our representatives have been in touch with M. Litvinoff and other Soviet spokesmen at the con- ference and informally explored the ground that might lead to the recog- nition which the Communist govern- ment notoriously craves. As & bait to catch the American fish, our people were told that the Soviet has a billion- dollar order for certain commodities up its sleeve and will place it in the country where conditions are most favorable—favorable, of course, to Rus- sis. What sort of conditions answer that description from the Soviet stand- point? One the Moscow suthorities would have no hesitation in naming outright—long-term credits. About an- other they would not be so voluble, namely, a free field for the conduct of Communist propaganda. On that rock all previous efforts to obtain American recognition have gone to smash. Moscow has always known that & pledge to abstain from sub- versive agitation against American in- stitutions was the basic condition prece- of the other shibboleths on which the Communist state rests. In the fiscal year 1929-30 American goods to the extent of $132,250,000 were imported into Soviet Russia, but since then that trade has largely ‘been di- verted to Great Britain and Germany. Its recovery by American industry and agriculture would be very much worth while, but not, in Calvin Coolidge’s im- mortal words, if it can only be obtained “by bartering American principles”— that is to say, by facilitating the active ities in the United States of elerhents chiefly concerned in sowing this soll with the seeds of Communism. ‘There is also to be remembered that ind 1 goods now form 63.6 per cent of all Soviet exports. Great Britain has had disastrous experience with dumping of Russian manufactures pro- duced virtually on & no-cost basis under the Communist scheme of state- forced labor. That is a feature of Rus- sian recognition which this country, never so much as in this industrial re- covery era, would need to take very serlously into consideration, also. o The Child Labor Amendment. Notwithstanding the opinion held by some authorities that the pending child labor amendment to the Consti- tution has lapsed because of failure of ratification within the ‘“reasonable time” limit set down by the Supreme Court, efforts to secure the approval of the necessary three-fourths of the States are continuing. On Friday night a joint resolution of ratification was passed by both houses of the Ili- nols Legisiature. This brought the number of ratifications to 14, leaving 22 to be secured. Similar resolutions in Massachusetts and Oklahoma are regarded as still possible of adoption this year. However, the road to ratifi- cation remains @ long one. The resolution proposing this amend- ment, made necessary by two decisions of the Supreme Court adverse to laws enacted by Congress, was adopted by the House of Representatives April 26, 1824, and by the Senate June 3, in the same year. It has thus been pending before the Legislatures for a little more than nine years. It does not bear the time lmit of seven years carried by the prohibition amendment, which was repeated in the resolution to repeal | that same amendment, now pending. Thirteen States have definitely re- | Jected the child labor amendment, but these negative votes, it is held, may be changed, and the proponents of the child labor amendment, who have lately become more active, are moving to that end. The amendment itself does not carry a prohibition sgainst the em- ployment of juveniles. It gives Con- gress the power “to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years of age.” The second section of the amendment provides that “the power of the several States is unim- paired by this article except that the operation of State laws shall be sus- pended to the extent necessary to give effect to the legislation enacted by Congress.” In other words, if this amendment should be ratified and OCon- gress should, in exercise of the power granted by it, enact laws in lmitation, regulation or prohibition of the labor of persons under eighteen years of age, State laws would be still operative if not in conflict with such Federal leg- islation. It may be that the renewed drive for the ratification of the child labor amendment has been induced by the effects of the depression and especially the great increase in the number of unemployed. In the writing of codes for industry now in progress—the tex- tile industry having initiated this pro- cedure—the curtailment of child labor will be sought. This, however, will be by compact and agreement and not by law. Ratification of the pending amend- ment proposal cannot conceivably be effected, if at all, in time to have a bearing upon the writing of these codes, for after ratification must come legisia- tion. In any case, should ratification be accomplished there is & probability that it would be challenged in court on the ground of not having been secured within the “reasonable time” of the Supreme Court’s dictum. o ‘The county fair is passing out. In its dsy farmers were encouraged to com- pete for more and better crops instead of studying scientifically limited areas of production. A new word comes into prominence as “stabilizing” is used in oonnection with budget balancing. A Word for Dogs. ‘The District pound wagon, on its daily tour of the oity, affords & pitiful spectacle of fear and suffering. By some strange genfus of their own, dogs know the significance of the vehicle, and they dread it. Captured, they wilt visibly; their spirits droop; it is possible to see the agony in their eyes. Passers- by invariably are moved to sympathy by the picture. But by the grace of a Providence which notes the fall of the merest spar- row and has nospecial antipathy to the animal traditionally regarded as man’s best brute friend, the case is not as tragic as it may seem. It happens that the District poundmaster is a civilized human being. His name is Walter R. Smith, and his work deserves to be bet- ter known and more abundantly appre- ciated. A graduate of a farm near War- renton, Va, he speaks of himself as having been “raised with dogs and horses.” As & youth he studied all the available literature on the subject of the scientific eare of canine pets. And now, with more than fifteen years of practical experience with all breeds of dogs, he is making of the pound “a hos- pital and a temporary home” for the strays which the wagon brings to him. The public thinks of the establish- ment as & death house. - But the con- trary is the truth. It really is a house of life. Only those dogs which are recognised as incurably diseased are de- stroyed, and the end of these poor cres- tures is rendered as merciful as it may be. For others found to be {ll careful i nursing and medical treatment are ar- | ranged, while dogs in unimpaired health are held for forty-eight hours awaiting dent to diplomatic relations with this country. The Soviet government has ‘eonsistently refrained from any indica- tion that i is Teady o dissvow “world of dogs THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY 2, 1933—PART TWO. lhlppedduuhwnuudmtu' Arizona. Some are sold, and some are practically given away, but the great majority are placed. No dog worth sav- ing is sacrificed. Thus the trip to the pound is the beginning of a new lease of life, in most cases to a happier ex- istence. has brought hardship to thousands of city dogs. Hard-hearted owners in- continently turn out pets of which they have tired, or which they consider “to0 great an expense” Of course, the dogs suffer—until at }ast the pound wagon rounds them up. Far better jwould it be in the circumstances, Mr. ! 8mith declares, to telephone his office | and let him send for the cast-off ani- mal at once. Summer is supposed to be the time of the year when dogs are most apt to go mad. In point of fact, veterin- arians say, it should not be so dan- gerous & season. On the contrary, dogs glven fresh water twice a day and good but simple food once a day, are in no particular peril of rables. Dogs as & class are not much bother. In- stead, they are a source of compan- fonship worth having, & source of amusement worth enjoying. They jus- tify to the full all the rational con- sideration accorded them. Such, in any event, are Mr. Smith's views, and it may be hoped that there are many who share them. Just Thirty-One Public Servants. ‘Thirty-one foreign trade experts, forced to resign from posts abroad, have returned to their native land. They were so-called career men who had been sent to Europe by another ad- ministration to serve as commercial attaches and trade commissioners, and who now, as victims of a change in policy, are relegated to the army of the unemployed. But they are not compiaining, On the contrary, they are monumentally philosophic. Their training as professional public servants and their character as gentlemen stand them in excellent stead in the circum- stances. But they have had a nerve-racking experience with “the new deal” For months they were fed on rumors as to their fate. From one source they heard that they would be kept where they were; from another they heard that they would be recalled, but no date was specified. They did not know what to think. Therefore, they could not plan. At last the ax fell. Some of them had a8 much as seven days’ notice, some had only three. All were hurried to Havre without regard for even the most elementary ameni- ties. “Come at once,” was the com- mand, “or pay your own passage home.” Of course, they did as they were or- dered. Houses and apartments had to be given up instantly. Furniture had to be sold or given away. Children had to be snatched from school. Ser- vants had to be paid three months’ wages in leu of proper notice. Alto- gether, seventy-three persons, men, women and youngsters of all ages, had to detach themselves from the peace- ful routine of ordinary existence, sever the ties of years, prepare for a trans- atlantic journey, all in s single week. It was a heart-breaking business, but it was done. Now the thirty-one erstwhile public servants are back in the United States. Their spokesman insists that “they are not complaining and they are not criti- cizing.” They will disappear from the news. They will settle into other work. They were merely public servants, and queer things happen to such people. Fortunately, “they can take it on the chin—when they have to.” —————————— Investigation of stock transactions still insist on digging up “the ground floor” to see what motives may be buried under it. ———————— More should be heard from the emi- nent diplomatist who said some months ago that there was not going to be any swapping. ———— SHOOTING STARS. | BY PHILANDER JOHNBSON, Little Business Journeys. ‘When you pack up your bundles and hurry away Where waters that sparkle are swish- ing, . A brook is preferred to an ocean, they say, The brook where you like to go fishing. Or if to the ocean you hurry once more ‘Your comfort is rather more lasting. If you manage to stay rather close to the shore And be busy with baiting or casting. But #t's hard when you journey far over the blue On business sternly directed, Concerning some contracts now long overdue And accounts that cannot be col- lected. Water and Steam. “What's your objection to water in stocks?” “Water,” answered Senstor Sorghum, “when conditions warm up too fast, turns into steam, which, if mismanaged, is liable to explode.” Jud Tunkins says & man who tends strictly to his own business doesn't look %0 good if his business happens to be racketeer'ng. Keeping the Change. Investigation draws its lines. It levies penalties with care. The victim simply pays his fines And still has much small change to spare. Estimating the Product. “Do you favor repeal of the eight- eenth amendment?” “My opinion mskes no difference,” answered Uncle Bfll Bottletop. “But I will say the objection I see to it is that 1t has been productive of & lot of bad arguments and worse liquor.” “A sense of humor,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is s misfortune when it teaches up to laugh only in scorn.” Fashion’s Fancies. She changed attire five times a day Of yore beneath the Summer ray. But now her change of dress is small— In fact she wears ‘most none at all. “From what I overhears,” said Uncle The depression, Mr. Smith believes, | . WEIGHING THE VALUES BY THE RIGHT REV. / phrase often heard today 3 stands at the cross-roads.” The implication of this is that a great transition is at hand and that changes are impending that threaten to dh.l:)‘an the very footing-stones on which the eys | of solving it?” superficially the conditions of life as reflected in the daily press, he reaches the inevitable conclusion that household of which he is a member is hopelessly sick and immune to the remedies that have hitherto effected a cure. Our vices as a people bulk so large that for the while we seem to for- get our inherent virtues. One un- wholesome t, & single disclosure that betrays cr!n:mll me‘tfh";dn in the admin- | tha istration of an industrial or commercial corporation is the occasion for sweeping generalizations, and a hasty judgment |served affirms that the whole economic condi- tion is in process of decline and decay. We magnify out of all rtion our weaknesses, and we fall to take due cognizance of those elements that con- stitue our srength and our stability. Only recently we heard a man large intelligence say over the air that the hope of our existing civilization ‘was wholly dependent upon what issued from the Economig Conference now sit- ting in London. ‘e do not believe it. Doubtless there ate high hopes and e tions that something valuable will issue from this supremely impor- tant conference, but even should it fail to give satisfactory pronouncements, we do not believe that our ship of state will founder or be headed for utter de- struction. We dare not accept the dic- tum that what we have builded through lonf‘ years of effort and struggle is to perish from the earth. ‘There is a happy mean between de- structive pessimism and unreasoned optimism, and we shall hardly mend our ways by an excess of to one extreme or the other. After all, the great body of our people is sound and normal and there is decidedly more honesty than dishonesty, more virtue than vice, when we survey our situation as & whole. A brilliant ye lawyer of the younger generation ed to me that the present situation which his genera- tion was inheriting was admittedly result of the bad judgment and worse JAMES E. FREEMAN, Bishop of Washington. the | from D.D,LL.D,D.C.L, | management of the elder generation. “You have made things,” added. “What is there for the mn:erwnnenunn to do in such a situation. We are the unwilling heirs of what our elders have created. How are we to face the situation in the hope Admitting much of his contention we still affirm that, taken by and large, the on-coming generation the | is inheriting the richest treasure that 'was ever transmitted to a people. Com- pared with what the youth of other countries are receiving, America pre- sents in traditions, principles, ideals and resources that which is incompara- bly the richest kind of an inheritance. Granted that there are bad spots and it economic and industrial conditions are confused and disordered, we may not forget that there have been pre- to us elements of value that those of any country in the world today. Granted again, that there are problems, multiplied problems, that face the rising generation, let us be reminded that we have risen to our fullest stature, our finest endeavors and of |our largest accomplishments where re- sistance was our course. Our great sur- vivals have come out of the days of our adversity. History is the record of triumphs wrought out of see defeat. If the retiring or the on- generation is to BuC the serious issues of the hour it must reckon with those elemental virtues—virtues that grow gmtlned religious faith, that have marked the days of our greatest advance. It is still true that, funda- mental to life is the religious profes- sion and practice of a people. In spite of all our dereliction we believe we are still committed to Christian ideals, and it is to these ideals we must look for our emergence from our present dis- orders and confused life. We commend Ruppert Brook's senti- ment to the youth of our day: “Now God be thanked who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth and wakened them from sleeping.” ‘The world is saved, great causes are set forward by those who have the will and the capacity to light their torches those that have fallen from hands that are impotent and failing. A Close-Up of Personalities at International Economic Conference BY WILLIAM HARD. LONDON, July 1.—Scene: The New Museum of Practical Geology. Occasion: The International Mone- tary and Economic Conference. Character: The Meditative Reporter. Guess I'll really have to start doing some work. “No, thank you, Jim. I've just been saying to myself, I've got to go to work. ‘What are you writing for your paper today?” “The conference is a failure.” “Thoi‘ém‘ you wrote that yesterday.” “I did.” “Write it for me tomorrow, will you?" “Sure. This is the last international conference that ever will be held.” “That’s the news I sent out from the international conferences at Genoa, Brussels, Stresa, Lausanne, Barcelona, Geneva, The Hague, Washington, Basel, Rome and Ouchy. You're too opti- mistic. I'm going to prophesy interna- tional conferences at Bombay, Oslo, Madrid, Moscow, New Orleans and Budapest. Every nation is turning itself into a competitive business trading firm, and they’ll have to have confer. ences to try to trade one another out of their eye teeth. When an awful lot of teeth have to be pulled at the same time, it's a conference.” “You're feeling cheerful, aren’t you? Run along.” “I'm sauntering.” No, boy. No copy for the wires yet. No, boy. No copy yet. No, boy. No!! That's how any news at all ever written out of here. It's those T'm going to ge: :*way from them. * x That looks like a nice staircase to walk up. And now so does that. And here's another. Ah! The delegates’ lounge. Plenty of vacant space, on that side of it, for walking about and picking up other ts b?yn. delegates. Plenty of tables, on this side | the of it, for sitting down at—and for bes ing hospitable to other delegates. Also for looking at the bar and for count- ing how many different kinds of glasses there are on it. Nations seem to dif- fer, not only in their drinks, but in the glasses they drink them in. There are more sorts of glasses on that bar than anywhere else on earth. Good luck! I'm sitting at a table right next to the table of Neville Chamberlain. Let's go to work study- ing a British chancellor of the ex- chequer. Many delegates wear ordinary busi. ness c Th for them dsor . But Mr. Chamberlain wears very formal clothes. Coat long and black, all right. And trousers striped, all right. And there's his v,omn, resting on the floor. He an amazingly small head. It's 8 tiny head. His features are quite firm. He has a small, black moustache. His hair is remarkable. black. But all around it, in front and at the sides, and behind, th!hr:’l a nd, fringe that's quite white. ir is like a plate, the center of which is | then black and the rim of which is white. * kX X% is said to be very, very honest. ‘Bfle looks it. Everybody in British pol- cs says you can trust him personally, absolutely. And he's been in politics all his life. Must have had a wonder- ful character to start with. He looks quite anxious. He has a right to. He's the head of the British delegation; and the British delegation is in favor of lowering tariff barriers, but not too much, and of inflating the world's currency and credit, but not too much, and of returning to the gold standard, but not too soon, and of lift- ing prices, but not too far, and of re- suming the loaning of capital from country to country, but not too fast, and not too slowly. It takes a smart chancellor of the exchequer to keep up with the British experts on these points. * K ok % the chmcaegar.hkm 4 thm'l“l? of 5 l"amt:m with him in Wi T've talked with him here. I'm gl not an expert for the American delega- tion. I'd like worse than to against Sir Frederick Leith- He's now leaning over toward Mr. Chamberlain, instructing him. He can lean. There's t.gllt:xny of him to do it with. He's . He's heavy. He's frightfully stalwart. Ang his face is te | fair It is quite| Quite thin. Very different in appear- ance from Leith-Ross. I can't believe it; but there are people in the conference here who say that Pirelli, as an expert, actually knows more than Leith-Ross. These people maintain that Pirelli is the greatest expert in the whole international world. Pirelli, like Leith-Ross, has been at it for years and years and years. He knows all about international monetary exchanges and all about international tic conferences. And right by other 3 . He's sald to be almost as good as Pirelli, though perhaps not quite. He's principally a scholar. Pirelli, besides being & scholar, is in practical finance and also in practical industry. Buy Pirelli automobile tires. Besides which, for Italy, there’s Guido Jung, whose people were experts in international banking several genera- | tions before he was born. He's an hereditary expert. * % % ‘Wonder what Pirelli is saying to Gutt. If we could only overhear these experts, we might be able to write something. Grand expert, Gutt. talk with him the other day about copper. He's in the management of the big semi-governmental copper mme' in the Congo. The Katanga Mine. It's| one of the lowest low-cost copper pro- ducing mines in the world. T accused him and his mine of being responsible for preventing a production | control agreement among the copper companies of the world, including the American ones. This he denied and really did prove to me that I was wrong. He comes to America a lot. He naturally can advise the Belgian gov- ernment very well about copper, but he also can advise it about everything else in the practical business line, and he’s been doing so for years and years and years. I notice also, as he walks about in walking part of this lounge, that he knows virtually everybody here— except perhaps some of the Americans. He can point out to me virtually every foreign expert in the conference and tell me all about him. There has come |to be such a thing as a professional international conference personnel. from conference to conference and It understands itself. Gutt knows all about the problems of these interna- tional conferences, and he also knows the inside thoughts of most of the le in them. That's even more portant perhaps. * % % % Oh! There's our American financia] expert, James Warburg, coming out of the subcommission on finance; and there’s our economic expert, Herbert Feis, coming out of the subcommission :gelr n;n't 3}:’ sm:n Promf Lot e out. mising Guess I'll scribble. e ‘Our experts are as good as any in That is, T mean, they can | need to do is to take Jimmie | to these shows for Usually we send our fellows Li:c:ye::fi Tetire them. That's not the way to get a Pirelll or a Leith-Ross. War- and Fels are keen as tacks. If sense keep ob steadily from now ve of changes of ad- Wi —they'd 3 in sledge hamms (Copyright, 1933.) ministration STOW Up to be Sugar Industry Under Farm Adjustment Act BY HARDEN COLFAX. Special conditions aff = tion, mdmflbuunnmmd vlg::‘ f&wufl'nce sugar indus = izes itself to meet the '.;ryov.&ogs %?.tge new farm adjustment act. Producers must meet, not only domestic dificul- tles—including the cut-throat competi- tlonwhtchnnboenlom(mm-yem £ Soa fon ek uation arising competition, largely due e loted production dur- All the troubles of the sugar have been aired at a wnfueneepe:fl: of nearly 200 representatives of the in- dustry and Dr. John Lee Coulter, a member of the Tariff Commission, who is acting for the Department of Agri- culture, under the farm adjustment act. It is true that sugar is not one of the basic commodities coming under the provisions of that act specifically and 1t | W Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Three veteran employes of the Na- tional House of Representatives were very agreeably surprised to find them- selves eulogized in the Congressional Record—and by one who has contrib- uted more of criticism and censure to that daily record of Congress than of praise and commendation—Represent- ative Thomas L. Blanton, Democrat, of Texas. He asked his colleagues to carry with them to their homes an appreciation of “three splendid officials who faithfully serve us daily on the House floor, and who are to remain here hard at work with their many cares, burdens and responsibilities hanging heavily upon their shoulders every day, every week and every month between now and next January.” Here is what he said of them individually: “Our able, efficient and ular clerk of the House, Hon. South Trimble of Kentucky, while a farmer by occupa- tion, was twice elected to the Ken. tucky House of Representatives, and served as Speaker of the House dur- ing the last year of his second term. He served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Pifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con- gresses. He was the Democratic nom- inee for lleutenant govermor of Ken- tucky in 1907. He was elected and served as clerk of the House of Rep- resentatives for the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth and - fifth Congresses. And when the Demo- crats resumed control of the House he was re-elected and has served as clerk the Seventy-second and this Seventy-third Congress. He is universally well liked and is most accommodating and obliging to every member. “Our capable and always dependable sergeant at arms of the House, Hon. | Kenneth Romney of Montana, has | been serving the House of Representa- | tives continuously for the past 19 years. During the time Hon. Champ Clark was Speaker of the House, Ken- neth Romney was the assistant ser- geant at arms. During the 12 years the Republicans were in power Rom- ney served as cashier in the sergeant at arms’ office. As soon as the Demo- crats regained control of the House, in the Seventy-second Congress, Ken- neth Romney was elected sergeant at arms and was re-elected for the Sev- enty-third Congress. No official em- ployed in the Capitol is more courte- ous, more obliging, more painstaking to serve, or more depencable than know him personally have deep affec- tion for him. Numerous members frat- ernize with him socially, and no man in the Capitol has more friends. Ken- neth Romney is well educated, with training in the University of the State of Washington and the George Washington University here. He has a splendid young son who has just reached the age of 21. Kenneth Rom- ney has been the official talley clerk in the last three Democratic National Conventions, and is a loyal, patriotic party Democrat. “Hon. Joseph J. Sinnott of Virginia is our always dependable doorkeeper of the House of Representatives and is one of the best-known party Demo- crats in Washin; During the seven gton. . | years Champ Clark was Speaker, Joe Sinnott served as doorkeeper of the House. On the many occasions during the war Congress thought it was necessary to assemble both houses in joint session to hear President Wilson deliver his famous messages to Con- gress, and on the occasions when all high officials, foreign and domestic, would be present, it was Joe Sinnott who with so much dignity and ef- clency formally announced them all as, in line of seniority, they appeared at the door. Joe Sinnott has been door- keeper of several Democratic National Conventions and has rendered many courtesies to numerous members. As doorkeeper of the House he has under his jurisdiction and personal control many scores of employes and he is kept busy every month in the entire year. He is a fine official, a good friend and a loyal Democrat. * x % % One young member of Congress— the bridegroom of the session. Representative Jennings Randolph of ‘West Virginia, who finds his greatest gratification for public serving in the opportunity it affords of extending hu- mane assistance to some of the under dogs of life, got such a thrill this past week. He was suffering much in spirit over the misfortunes of another young married man who had encountered a series of bad breaks, was out of work, underfed, and his morale was breaking down. He wasn’t looking for a patron- age job, or a white- work and a seeking just p that would buy food and pay house rent Then Randolph happened to remember that he had addressed the employes of a large mercantile establishment in ashington inspirationally on the joy of service, on the aristocracy of work, on their duty to help build up business. In desperation he called ':F the mana- ger of that store and id the story of the mlt'lgéor whom he was seteynn'g work—poin! opportuni reclaim a human derelict and make him a self-respecting wage earner. He asked merely that he be given a chance in some menial to earn bread for himself and his wife. He was put to work—and Repre- sentative Randolph feels prouder of that service than of any political ap- pointment he has able to secure for his district. He feels that he helped to save a man. Rico, the Virgin Islands, Hawail and the Philippines—would be the most ef- fective remedy for the evils of the sit- uation. It was said at the conference here that any allotment scheme should be based on the average domestic con- sumption of sugar over & number of years and that such a quota plan should be enforced on foreign suppliers . Appropriate lon may be s to the law- Rodies of ‘the aiferent siand of production. Last year an investiga Was by the Tariff Commission into the costs of sugar {»Il;oducuou fi over the o;vorld. ‘This was in response to protests of pro- ducers against a “joker” in the tariff law o(rx:; ‘The duty on imported raw mal sources ingly, they asked either import duty or, at least, a “differen on the refined product sufficient to cover the difference in the labor refin- ing cost in Cuba and the suggestion of the dent. it is believed, the Tariff has as yet made no direct recommendation in this matter, pending the adoption of an_allotment scheme. Producers are inclined to favor some tariff preference for the Cuban and Puerto Rican product over that of the Philippines, last named is largely under of foreign capital. ‘The planters and refiners and cane have informed Board that g gs § gs EEER £ gs be worked out, and they are given an | han tarift increase—even a slight one—in rates so that they can shut out “un- competition” from Java, Czecho- to | slovakia and other foreign producing thinge. areas, J,hey ‘:m m’pmmf;xnher t.hent' on" to & eren R s S5 wikhe. Rt Puertg through a binding agreement principal producing countries strict exports. A reduction of 20 per cent has been effected means, A modification of this known as the Cuban was in London this week by the (Copyright, 1033 Kenneth Romney. Many members who | judgmes ¢ | of the season the Monument would have to the American market by a eonu:: luxuris country. At|ghe There is scarcely & unit of the pop- ulation which has not felt the clammy grip of the depréssion in one way or another. Even children .and very old people have been subjected to the rigors of the times. Even movie actors and actresses have had their $5,000-a- week salaries cut in two and have been compelled to limp along on only three —practically iniless. ‘This ad ty hes affected people in two different ways, depending on the people. Not a few have succumbed to the deadening influence of poverty and vanishing - are doubtless tens of thousands of indi- viduals who had good jobs before 1929, but who aly!l w’}fiyed TS o(hthe unemp! . Some have il monpipe Som: e have learned how to be content with the precarious half-living they can pick up by exercise of sharp and unscrupu- lous wits. Others have calmly given up and, bereft of all ambition, have become the urban equivalent of beach combers. The great majority of Americans, however, have been stiffened by the demand for pastime —novels, magazines of the lighter sort and en- mmni literature generally—has in- | creased, but the most notable increase of a in the demand for volumes textbook nature. There is a clear | temporeshy " ndigont, have ‘vecn bent ent, have their enforced leisure by attempting educate themselves in | some line of endeavor which will en- able them better to grasp ities for economic preferment at the next | spin of the wheel of fortune. Office of Education of the De- partment of the Interior has noted | this tendency and has observed it with keen interest, and librarians of public libraries all over the country have been unable to escape realization that a wave of earnestness in connection | with self-education and professional studies has swept the country. A survey of the type of books which have been in demand points toward the ambi- tions which are harbored by those now seeking to lbetfier thexrh.:d&uu’mt;: ipment. It reveals wl e joi fud nt is as to what line of work | will’ offer the best chances of profit on the return of better times. Most Popular Subjects. In any kind of times the student, who, ims 0dd hours, wants-to help edu- cate himself toward a better job has been wont to brush up on accountancy. Probably this is because his own finan- cial condition has kept him ing and he sees the value of careful . Test comparisons have been made as to book withdrawals in a library in the prosperous year of 1927 and the badly depressed year of 1932. In 1927, for ‘the test period, were 634 withdrawals of books on accountancy. That subject led the list. It still led in 1932, but the number had jumped up to 923 withdrawals. ‘The second place has remained the | same in both the good and the bad | years, but with a world of difference in number of withdrawals. Investment Ambitions of the Rising Generation BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. automobiles and half a dozen servants | "1 only , while advertising showed 371 with- drawals. In 1927 advertising had been fifth with 225 withdrawals. year banking took fourth place with 351 withdrawals. in 1927, list with ship “appears 'as ffth with 380 with- p a as : drawals. Interest in New Subjects. m larger number of withdrawals in 1932 than in 1927. In the earlier year there ;;re lth th'"-hdg'u.' ginvelnl eighth ce e subject, wl last year there were 249. Business English, a study which ap- peared in the 1927 list in ninth place, and accounted for 179 withdrawals, has been supplanted by psychology, & sub- Ject which did not appear on the earlier list at all. Sufficient interest had been business English its place with 218 withdrawals. Librarians have been much interested in the growth of the study of psy- chology. = Although the subject stands only ninth on the list in 1932, it has come from so far behind that it did not appear on lists of the earlier year at all. It was a study popularly be- lieved to relate to the treatment of nervous or even psychopathic ailments. Business conditions, it appears, have prompted students to look into the science of human behavior and examine its relation to business success. Other subjects which have attracted the attentive study of library readers include marketing, business law, credit, buflding and loan operation, corpora- tion management, office management nnld‘ m&be n‘t.un law. e g of in this survey it seems not -tmly that future million-dollar psychoanalyzing their customers as they pick over the stock. good to both. S ey 00 Fifty Years Ago In The Star The Washington Monument slowly rising 50 Z!ears t:“l’u :;);un} ;;.; isi timal t o The RiSiNg feet The Star of June Monument. 25;‘& 883, says: is expected that by tonight the Washington Monument will have reached a height of 370 feet, an increase of 30 feet so far this sea- |son. It was thought that by the end been increased in height by 100 feet. It is feared now, however, that the work has come practically to a standstill, for some time to come at least. All of the marble that was on hand at the opening |of the season has been used and the shipments by the Lee Marble Co. of Massachusetts, the new contractors, have been insufficient to allow of any further material progress. On the 8th of June 13 pileces of marble were re- celved from the quarries and on Satur- day 16 pieces more were received. Upon examination, however, it was found that two-thirds of the amount received was not suitable for the work for which it was intended and will be rejected. Capt. Davis of the Monument office is now making an examination of the Lee quarries for the purpose of seeing what the prospects are for obtaining marble in any gquantity !hi-l Season.” * “What with the Western floods, the fall of stocks and the collapse o{hlm i great corners in wheat Bwnom.xf and pork last week,” Conditions. says The Star of June 5, 1883, “the bears are in the ascendency just now, but there is nothing particularly discour- aging in the outlook ahead. The pros- pects for average if not abundant crops are good, and though the products abroad may not be large enough to keep up the flush times of 1879-80-81, when we were feeding the world, so to speak, there does not seem to be any reason why this should not be a fair business year. It may be Doriations of Toregh Foods. i order o ns lore; order to keep the balance of trade even, but very well do without expensive les.” * * X ‘The automobile was unknown 50 years ago, but hmpg:ungn Was. xgev?{:heleu izardous. Star Unknown ¢ June 2, 1883, is & 1et- Heroine. ,:f written by immedia used | illusory and the ultimate 5t sfigs 0 o was that will do no harm. The public can these - British Fear Landslide Without Stable Dollar in the United States was on the point of getting out of hand, with catastrophic to world e . This strengthened by abundant 1Amerleln investors were The result of effect of wl would make the world financial chaos infinitely worse at t. ; fie ] g LI