Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1933, Page 8

A8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. PUESDAY........August 8, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor, The Eventng Star Newspaper Company ness Office: 11th_ 8t and Penusylvania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd St hicagy Oftice. Lake Michizan Building. ropean Offce 14 Regent 8t. 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All righis of publication of Epecial dispatches herein are alwo reserved. | _— The Crisis in Cuba. ‘While the United States adheres to ts desire to refrain from intervention in the turbulent afiairs of Cuba, it is plain thai events there are developing on a scale that plainly may divert the Washington Government from its pre- wious purpose and eventually make the fulfillment of American obligations| under the Platt amendment no longer escapable last night's sanguinary clash before the presidential palace at Havana, resulting in a casualty list of twenty Kkilled and one hundred and twenty wounded, indicates that matters have reached a highly critical stage between the Machado government and | busy day at the office, takes his hes | ache home to the suburbs in hope of 1 merely suffers & metamorphosis. | rest, only to discover no less than eight of his nelghbors engaged in operating | lawn mowers. Philosophically. he awaits | darkness, believing that then, at least the din will cease. On the coutrary, it “The | garden manicurists, driven indoors by the descending night, turn on their radios and the wir is filled with jar: Bedtime, the sufferer imagines, may | bring relief, but the anticipation is vain. That it huppens, is the season for practicing the gentle art of backfiring. One ear-splitting concussion follows | another. An artillery festival appears | o be in progress. 1t is long after mid- | night before the promoters tire. And | then the dogs g0 iuto action, and a mighty chorus of canine utlerance a: sails the s ‘The victim falis asleep, ! exhausted. | No wonder the poet sighed for “a lodge in some vast wilderness” The ditticulty is that, were his wish grauted. | he probably would starve. Nolse is an | inevitable concomitant of business. A | quiel exrth would be one sunk in | destelude, & living death. Vibration | and activity are synonyms. There can | be no action without & reverberation | of some kind. But perhaps & compromise is possi- ble. Some types of noise, obviously, are | non-productive of real values. And many of the dissonances which assail| human ears by day and night are of that character. In the clrcumstances, it would seem that utilty should be | the accepted criterion. The multitude may love noise for its own sake, but| they should be educated into a more cultivated comprehension. For the huilabalco which has pragmatic signii- cance a large tolerunce peiforce is necessary. But that may be just another reason Wiy seiscless racket shouid be sel upon with whatever de- gree ol vivlence is required for proper | correction. The neighburhoed nuisunces Who willfully disturb & community should be disciplined in line with the . #he opposition forces so determined | wpon its dethronement. Reports that bhilosophiy by which squalling young- THE EVENING STAR hen they were young and for which they still have affectionate regard. With them ca their pilgrimage go their own small sons and daughters, and “a good time is had by all.” Tae | trip has been anticipated for months It is undertaken witi a thrill of excite- | ment, completed with exuberant joy. ‘The tableau of arrival is unforgettable; the car turns in at the right lane, it | speeds up the drive, it stops at the door, and there are Grandpa and ndma, waiting. They may be a ltie grayer thon they were, but no one notices the change. Thelir w shine with the old love, and they smile | a the old welcome. Ever;body talks at ance. Hearts beat high. It Is so won- derful to be together again. | WASHI D. C. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. He was waxing enthusiastic abaut some creamed codish he had eaten in New England a long time ago. here was only one thing the mat- ter with it,” he confided. “There wasn't | enough of it. That landiady had a mathematical mind. When she had served everybody the platter was empty and thece wasn't any more.” The truth is that the woman did him g-eat service, by demonstrating that # little is enough, when it is good. had more thau A mathematical ming shie was something of & philosophes, too | He gut one serving, and he remem- Aud other pleasures are in store. For | bered the codfish over all the years. example, theie is the moment when Dad takes small Junior to see thc thicket where the lynx was found and the cave where real Indians lved.|in And thers i1s the mo.ning when the whole famlly climbs Quaker Ridge to \fii'be e look doan on & hundied inland seas, & world of lukes. Anid the afterncon whiea Mom shows Baby Sister the tered desk n the tiny red school heuse | | ilad he received another helping he would have forgotten all about it. A ox ok % | The hot weather mora! of this edify- x tale 1s 1Ot to eat 100 mMuC {hings will taste becter it one eats lightly during the Summwmer, digestion remenbrance pleasunt. Keal Lot spells ave & way of enforc- | who | ing dietetic rules upon persons ordinarily woulds not observe them. Many appetites ure removed, wholly where she he self sat once upon a time. [or in part, in this impromptu natural And of a Sunday there is the service in the church where Dad pumped the | i So the time | gemand more drink and less food. i orgun when he was tuelve. pusses, and the difficult moment of parting arvives. But already plans are being formulated for next Summer. It may occur elscwhere, but “going home™ in this meaning of the phrase seems to be authentically American. In any case, it is excellent. Indeed, {t may be questioned if there is any other custom more richly felicitous. It de- serves & competent historian. “Prof. Skinner,” as the head of the Bank of England once called himself is said to be scheduled for an interview with J. P. Morgan. This may be one of the cases in which a professor hears & few enlightening lectures by way of & post-graduate course. ————— even officials of government depart-' ments are rebelling are of sp«mll\': ominous significance. The battle at Havana Was precipi- tated by reports broadcast by | chado's foes that his resignation frum| the presidency was imminent. The reports also had it that the American | Ambassador had presented to the rival| Cuban factions & peace formula involv-| tng Machado's retirement. Gathering | n their thousands to “celebrate” prospect. the President’s reply was to turn the guns of his police and soldiery on the crowds, wholesale bloodshed. Earlier in the day the Machado-dominated Congress at his instigation voted to resuspend constitutional guarantees and to sanc- tion a virtual reign of martial law All this having occurred in the midst of the general strike which has para- . lyzed Cuba last week, Havana and the whole island are plunged into a state of incalculable chaos bordering on revolution. Word comes from Hyde Park that President Roosevelt, while keeping closely in touch with the Cuban situa: tion and fully approving Mr. Welles procedure, retains hope that a sati: factory solution, without American intervention, may yet be achieved by peaceful means. There is ample evi- dence that Senor Machado is disposed | to capitalize for his own purposes any | semblance of “foreign interference” in what he calls the “independence of Cuba.” Machado has not concealed | his dislike of the mediation efforts latterly carried on by the United States Ambassador, Sumner Welles, with the full support of the Roosevelt adminis- | tration. Authorized spokesmen of | President Machado have sat in with delegates of the opposition at the medi- ation conferences presided over, by Mr. Welles, but whatever Drogress these negotiations were making has obviously | been wrecked by the developments of the past two days. | Senor Machado says he is willing to leave office if the Cuban people so will,| but will not be driven out at “foreign behest,” a veiled reference to the Welles | mediation. The Cuban President, Fears are expressed that attempts Ma- | sters, ndulging in Nts of tewper, are glven “something real 1o cry about, B Blue Eagle Racketeering. Gen. Hugh S. Jounson 1s wisely WAIning the peaple sgainst the various lorms of petty rackeleering that urnlf to be the inevitable accompaniments of | the Government-led recovery drive. There have already been some arrests | Blue Eagle. Gen. Johnson points out | clal listings as members of so-called | lionor rolis, and there are other schemes which seek. as Gen. Johnson puts it, “to italize the patriotism of those who have joined with the administrution in | putting over the recovery drive " | As the winning of & Blue Eagle in- | ! signia is primarily a matter between the | employer and the Government, there is. of course, no room for intercession by third parties. But there is a third | party—the buying public—which has | in its hands the power to make or break the workability of the Blue Eagle | scheme. The emblem itself stands for | compliance in co-operation with the ' Government, which entitles the dis- | player to some benefit in the way of public patronage, and it is the pur- pose of the N. R. A. authorities to work the same thing in reverse—-that will be made to use the Blue Eagle, as a disguise in profiteering. So far the eagle in its national demonstra- tions has always impressed what 18 colloquially known as a “wise bird.” D —— ©Of course the advocate of refusal to pay ransom 1 right in believing such & course would discourage kidnaping. this [oF unjustified sale and display of she | However, he is always an unimagina- | tive person who refuses to consider the | that some publications are seeking to ' Possibility that one of his own family with resultant | Charge merchants and others for spe- | MAY be selected as & victim. R Again the world is reminded of the ' loss of John Phillp Sousa. Of course there ought to be a Biue Eagle March— but the kind of march that only Sousa | would have been capable of composing e Members are being advised to equip the N. Y. Stock Exchange with gas masks. There is no genuine danger | from bombs and masks will not be effectual protection against bursting financial bubbles. R It will require much tact on the part of Hitler to prevent Hindenburg from looking as if his public function here- after would be limited to receiving birthday congratulations. v itself as! is to make the absence of the Blue IOPes are belng expressed that finan- | positive appeal Eagle as significant as its presence. | One of Gen. Johnson's problems here is prevent this scheme from assuming the aspects of & Government-supported racket in blind coercion. In this con- nection it s interesting to note the decision of the New York State and City Emergency Re-employment Com- mittees to base their campaign on me‘ of pairiotism, rather | than threatening, by indirect encour- | agement of & buycott, those who do | not sign. The ugly word. “slacker,” | has been avoided and the leaders are | averse to its use at any time. There are indications that the pur- | pose of the N. R. A. now is to have| every employer “signed up” within two weeks. After that well, the idea seems claims to be the victim of & purely per-| to be that something drastic will be cial experts may get together on an International Recovery Administration. - SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNBON. Beware! When August brings a heat intense, Vibrating in the air, The things i number grow immeunse Of which we must bewsre, Beware of what you eat or drik, Beware of what you say, Beware of even wiat you think Lest anger might Lold sway. Beware the old thermom so small Bewure the clock's sharp tone, Beware excitement—most of all gonal vendetta of hate, fanned by op-| position political agitators who have found it easy to foment antagonism to the government because of the calas trophic economic conditions long preva- | Jent in the island, mainly on account of the sugar situation —shrinkage of the| all-important Amerian market and de-| eline of prices to & point below cost of production. Machado Insists he has | only resorted to such “repressive” tac-| #los against his enemies as his officlal| duties required him to invoke for the, preservation of law and order. Be all this as it may, it is painfully | svident that a state of revolution has | gome about in Cuba that now compels this eountry to consider its responsi- | bilities under the Platt amendment. Under the amendment. which is pm“ of the Cuban constitution, the Havana | government “consents that the United | States may exercise the right to inter- | wene for the preservation of Cuban in- dependence and to maintaln & gov- ernment capable of protecting life, | property and individual liberty.” done to the tardy signers. If this 1s| Beware the microphone! the plan, there are such grave risks| - In store for its backers that wisdom| Sacrifice. _ would udvise more caution. There has| . Of COUFs€, s & public ofiicial, you been an encouraging rush of signers | o€ L0 Muke sactifices,” said the habit i uai sympathizer. But under the surface, bob- bing to the top with increasing fre- quency, one hears reports of the “chis- eling” employers who have signed the code and beat the devil around the stump by penalizing, rather than bene- fiting. their employes. It is going to be difficult to make workers in the| shirt factories in Maryland and in this vicinity understand how the code has benefited them. Although their em- ployers have signed it, the factories have closed down. There will be other cases of the same sort, and that i obviously one of the “rackets” in code signing that must be suppressed. Reasonable delay to permit the con- scientious employers to make their re- adjustments on the principle of the blanket code will in the end be more important than trying to force every- body in the country to sign a code in Sorghum. “For instance, 1 am required W luterest myself in the flnancial difi- family s protesting against the hard- ship of trying to keep house with an unbalanced budget. Jud Tunkins says he believes in rota- tion in office, but there shouid not be 5C meny resignation rumors as to re- mind you of one somersault after an- other. Dogs and News. If a man bites a dog, That is “news,” they will say, As forward we jog In this long, weary way. ‘When the food's set to rights And & Bungry man's there If a “hot dog” he bites, That'’s Good News, all declare. “Beyoud & doubt,” answered Senator | up the cows on a dairy tarm. | he also rounded culties of the whole world when my own | The American people meantime may | two weeks. If that is done, Uncle Sam be assured that President Roosevelt will | may find himself involved in s racket countenance no premature intrusion by | that will assume dangerous proportions. this Government in Cuba’s Internal af- It took & good while to get into this fairs. He is represented as confident depression and it is going to take &/ that, the turmoil can be ended without any resort to extremes. He will be the fess inclined to sanction them because he s consclous of the complete extent to which American energies at the mo- | ment are concentrated upon an “inter-| wention” on the home front—upon thej “revolution” in progress here against the forces of depression and economic disorder. We may have a billion-dol- Jar financial stake in Cuba which is well worth safeguarding—and our Interest fn the island’s welfare and tranquillity §s abiding—but it remains the United Mtates’ ltvely preference that the Cuban people be given every possible op- portunity to work out their own prob- Jems and destiny. B — ] Quiet. A eommon observation is the remark, #Taere 18 1o such thing as quiet.” And werdiet is amply justified. Man- emists in a universe of sound, a Swrmoll of vibration. Silence and peace @ve unknown quantities. Even the frozen Arctic, explorers say, is not a realm of stillness. Noise is a law from which there is no escape. On oceasion the racket is exceedingly |er has taken its place to the effect good while to get out of it. R Rumor that Secretary Hull was going to quit has been disposed of and anoth- that he 15 just beginning his hardest work. B — “@oing Home.” ‘This is the season of the year when thousands of grown-up boys and girls, deserting the city for a holiday, are returning to the scenes of their child- hood and youth. Providentially, it is a thing that happens annually. It is an institution of American life. Business dictates that millions of the people should live in metropolitan cen- ters of industry and trade. Great num- bers of them are farm-born snd farm- reared, and if their preference were consulted the majority of them, perhaps, would be farm-domiciled. In the cir- cumstances, however, they have little choice. They perforce must dwellk “where the wheels go ’round.” But | during the brief vacation period in which thei: time is their owrn and they may do as they please, they “go hcme” to the flelds and meadows, the quiet m For example, there is the case ciiieen who, ot the clos o & . ¢ glades and the whispering brooks, the woather-beaten. cid Bowps thay know Taking to the Water. “Are you golng to the seashore this Summer?” asked the ever-anxious in- quirer. “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne. “Do you enjoy going into the ocean?” “Sometimes. It's & convenient place to go when the beach gets overcrowded with baskers aud spectators.” “Fortunate, indeed,” said Hi Ho, the Sage of Chinatown, “is the man who can live so free from strife 'as to be | successfully forgotten. Analysis. Psychoanalysis draws near, ‘With many & notion strange, And makes what used to seem quite clear Need scientific change. Perhaps professors old and wise Wil presently insist On stepping out to analyze ‘The psychoanalyst. “Seems to me kind of unfortunate,” ssld Uncie Eben, “dat so many big questions has to be argued about at a time o' year when everybody is jes’ nat- urally uncomfortable an’ resentful, owin’ to nuffin’ but de climate.” ——vaoe—e- Timely Title. From the New York Sun. town in Iowa is named Nira, and A S | | surgery. "{Li- heat acts as & depressant. auto- lly urglng the human system to casual ob ervance of consumers any restaurant st noon will reveal the piwin fact that thousands of men pay Do attention whatever to their faithful system's demand. The system conflicts with appetites, and the latter wins hands down. Old man appetite asks for a beef- steak, with potatces, bread and coffee and gets them, when a plain glass of milk would be sufficient, considering the heat. Intell:gence suggests that one of the prime reasons ior taking food fs re- moved, or lag removed, during hot weather This is the necessity for heat. Nobody needs food heat, in hot weather; the body is superhot already. R Yet & in au Nobody need eat now to make heat | to keep the body warm (to give tne body materials whereby it may enable the blood to keep itseif at the precise Nature). No one would have to eat a bite for this reason, during most of our Sum- mertime. Yet what do we see on all sides? People piling in food as if they were about to face a blizzard. Persons consuming great gquantities of calories, when eating according to calories, is now regarded as almost out- moded in many quarters. ‘The calorific content of foods is not now &s impcrtant, in most circles, as the vitaminic content. * ox % om Eating might now be put on an al- most spiritual plane, except for the simple fact that we ail like to eat That's the fly in the ointment—er, soup: the hair in the butter. If food did not taste so all-fired good there wouldn't be so much temptation to eat ore than one should, more, that is. than is necessary. After all, we eat to live. That is the primary purpose of food, dispute it who will It would be easy enough. if it didn't “taste good.” APE TIMES, Cape Town.—An attack on the cinema was made by Dr. F. J. M. Potgieter of Stellenbosch at & meeting in the banqueting hall of the city hall last night. held under the auspices of the Alliance of Honor. v, bodily heat less and one's | point set by & mysteriously knowing | Na one would be tempted to overeat, | or undereat, perhaps, i there was no distinct pleasure about the way food tastes. Bul because there is, and be- cause mankind has spent countless years attempling to better tastes, every one I8 open u-‘u plain templation, x % % One may pause to wonder, at times, why Nuture maade the taste of food. stuffs, such us we use, pleasant, in- triguing, alluring. It would seem, at this distance from | the creation, thul self-preservation would be cause enough, that it would | have led man, through all these cen- | turies, 1o be as caretul as he could be about what he ate. History tells us that man took what he could get, in the way of food, and tlen made the best of it. As life be-| came civilized his food became re- fined, as we call iL today. i All the time., however, the lure of | taste led mankind to eat more than it | should, whenever it got the oppor- | tunity. Surely it would have eaten enough, even if it hadn't tasted as' good as it did. Or maybe mankind | would have denied itself? *oxox o The centuries have left the city man with his appetite, whatever else civ- ilization, which is nothing but city- ization, has done to him. Perhaps one-fourth of the food the be sufficient to satisfy all the plain| wants of Nature, [ Yet every person ing until the tood before him no longer tastes good to him Taste, not necessity, is the gauge. | Every one eats until he can hola no more, Summer as well as Winter. It is bad in Winter, but it is worse at this time of the yea - r oo % prevailing opinfon. in this as in any other matter, and watch the reaction of | that small section of the public imme- | diately around one. think, would satisfy every legitimate | need of the system for lunch, especiaily | in the case of the so-called sedentary | maun. “What's the matter, you sick”" oes Tight on eat- | | fied JGUST 8, 1933. Is Japan Right or Is the World Wrong? To the Editor of The Star: Apparently it is the purpose of the present admunistration to attempt to reconcile the present differences of the world by urging upon the various na- tions the necessity of preserving the peace and of arriving at mutual under- | This of | by compromise. ll.lndlnf.s actuated by the desire to re- course store world trade, and incidentally to! preserve good fellowship among nations. | It §s noted that the Japanese were among the first to congratulate the President of this country oh this policy. No doubt this is in keeping with their | present front of decepiiun. They would stand to benefit by a_general recovery from the depression, yet they cannot conclude an honorable peace with China. Japan, from s military and naval standpoint, is as isolated &s before | Ccmmodore Perry came to the island. | A camera in the hands of a foreiguer in Japan means that he runs the risk of being accused of ing military secre.s. ‘This is en unnatural situation in an ern which has brought out the military | sirength of nations and means for re- ducing that strength. It is an attitude of mistrust antl suspicion of all for- eigners which dates k to the days before 1852. It is an altitude which defeats the purposes of those well-mean: ing persons who are persuaded that now all nations can be brought into a | brotherhood to keep the peace and iron | |out all differences at the council table | instetd of by the sword. Japan wants naval parity with the this country as far as an army s con- cerned. We ere superior in potential nan-power at present, though what the gradual amalgamation of China will produce is uncertain. Is Japan justi- in asking naval parity with this courtry? The Japanes: Navy is at a greater advantage in its home waters against a foreign aggressor than the United States Navy would be. It has are farther apart. Japan reaily wants ing the power of other by A mutual agreement Military sccrets are really secrets in Japan. Very little is known of the nations reduced practically nothing of the mandated is- iands. One has to take the word of the Japanese that no bases are being pre- pared in mandated territory. This man- Such will be the inguiry of some one us because of Hawall and the Philip- in the group. | Add & smull glass of orange juice to | this diet and you are immediately placed in the category of the mildly in- | sane, | = x ox s | Any one who has tricd the combina- tion, owever, knows that it is the ouly way in which many (who do not know it) can take orange juice at all Babies ought not to have any monop- oly on such a sensible combination. | Yet the average eater, especially the city fellow who wolfs a farm hand meal every day for lunch, regards such & mixture as a plain way to suicide As & matter of fact, persons with finicky stomachs may be amazed to find that orange juice, which they think they cannot take, can be consumed quite eas with milk. | Just try it, that's all, and you may be surprised. Some enthusiasts mix the two together, but that is unnecessary ! Drink slowly a glass of oange juice and follow it with a glass of milk. It's | & fine hot weather meal. High Lights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands | | | | “party” is clearly the watchword of | both camps. l | The followers of both Communism !and Facism are willing to plunge their | respective countries into all sorts of in- | ternul dissensions, and even into ievo- | lution, to gratify the ambitions of the “Ore of the most potent factors in | self-secking minds which lead them pines. The Japanese violate the spirit. if not the letier, of the Arms Conference, when they continue to buiid fighting | were | vessels in lurge numbers which ot limited by mutual sgreement among the powers at the conference, and force other nations to do lkewise at in- creased cost to taxpayers. They vio- lute treaties in & more real sense when they continue to refuse to let any one visit the mandaied isiands on & peac ful mission. (The United States N. Wwas on two occasions refused permission | to allow one of its ships to visit islands in the mandated area.) Consequently, there are rumors afloat about gun em placemen's being constructed, which is not permitted under the mandate. The question is, what has Japan to conceal? She was forced to lay her cards on the table in regard to China, and has at last suffered unfavorable publicity. in spite of the camouflage of propaganda sent to this country. Even now many people in this couniry believe that Ja- pan is being guided " “military” party, who is responsible for the offensive attitude of the Japane: Others are blind to all but trade ad: vantages Japan will not work with this country in international conferences. Manchu. kuo takes shape as & state, and tentacles reach further into China. But apparently that's all right with the world. The world first hedges. then backtracks. Japan must be right WILLIAM P. THOMAS. JR. No Hysteria in 7;'hile House Since March 4 To the Editor of The Star: ‘When Luther K. Long wrote to you some point about your business or per- sonal life that puzzles you? 1Is there something you want to know without delay? Submit your question to Fred- eric J. Haskin, director of our Wash- ington Lyformation Bureau. He is em- ployed Buicau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing®n, D. C., and inclose 3 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Do not use post cards, Q. What provision is made for med- ical and dental care for the boys in the reforestation camps?—B. A. F. The Civilian Conservation Corps says that the Medical Department of | the Army is taking care of the dental and medical attention required in most reforestation camps. In _some camps | which are not large enough to have an assigned dentist, in case of emergency # local or nearby dentist will be brought in. Q. Who has the authority to hold a | train for a passenger who is a few min- utes late?—C. M. A. The station master has the author- ity, but dces so only when he deems the need a legitimate one. Q. How old is Walter Winchell?— | B.C. A. About 36. Q. How can a map printed on light- average person eats in Summes woulq ! United States. It is already supcrior to | welght paper be given a cloth back- | ing?—W. R. S. | 'A. The map may be backed with lordinary cotton muslin. It is applied by covering the map with a coat of | bofled starch or with flour paste. The face is then sized with thin white glue and varnished with mastic. | Q@ What became of the “rolling | boat” built in Toronto, Canada. about | the advantage of distances. Our bases | 30 years ago?>——P. A. B. A. The boat was invented by F. A Yet honestly try to fly counter to increased raval power, rather than hav- Knapp of Prescott, Ontario. !proved a success and was eventually |sunk at its moorings and was covered by the earth filled in when the new raflway viaduct into Toronto was com A simple glass of milk, one may well | defenses of "the islands proper, and | pleted. Q making gliders?—M. What klndTh;vood is used in | "A. White pine and balsa are the | dated territory 1s of vital importance to | Woods generally used. White pine is | 'strunxer, balsa 1s lighter. Q. How does a man become a mem. iber of the Governor's Foot Guard of | Connecticut>—H. L. 8. A. The two companies, Governor's | Foot Guard. are not part of the Na- | tional Guard. They are purely State | troops chartered in 1771 and 1776, re- spectively. and who are privileged to bear arms as State militia under the provicions of the national defense act f 1787. Membership in the Foot Guard is controlled by application to and elec- | tion by members thereof. Q Do pineapples have seeds?—E McC. A. They do. Their seeds are con- i tained in the flower bracts which ap- pear in the ripe pineapple as sections ]uf the fleshy mass which make up the fruit. Pineapples, however, are very (.wldum raised from seed except for the production of new varieties, and 10 years is often required to bring such ‘plnm.s into bearing Q. Do young elephants have a coat of hair?>—W. G. A. Elephants are fully covered with hair at birth. but this coat of hair, | which is soft and downy, drops off in a few weeks and adult elephants com- | monly have only a tuft of hair at the end of their tails d sometimes a little growing about Studied as Recent diplomatic gains by the Rus- | What do you need to know? Is there help you. Address your in- | quiry to }he Evening Star Information | ;Dil;lomafic éains rby‘Russ the distortion and even the destruction of & youth’s sense of values is the cine- ma,” he sald. “If Bertrand Russell in his’ book, “The Scientific Outlovk,” has come to the point where he has to say that the cluema has more influence on the youth of Western civilization than all the schools and churches combined, it s time for us (o wake up “The Hollywood producers are the new priests of m new religion which abolishes what is dear to every- one. The time has come for us to up- hold our principles by cutting out the cinema. “I am sure" he sald, “that a child who regularly visits the bioscope is mentally and morally distorted and has o sense of values. Nothing imbresses it and nothing can shame it when it comes in contact with real lite.” * x %o s Dogs Praised In New Zealand. Evening Post. Wellington—Has any | one ever calculated what the dog sheep dog. cow dog. cattle dog worth to New Zealand farming? services are unpaid: he may even unfed, or. &t any rate. but half fed is His be He { does what nelther man nor machine an do. “Wirlhana" writes to the New Zewland Raflways Magazine concernlug u collie, Glen, that regularly rounded One day up the dozen or so sheep kept on the place. Wondering why aud being attracted by the excited manuer of the dog, his owner (after counting the flock and finding missing) _followed Glen's lead to ar open drain where he rescued the miss- g shecp. which had fallen in and nearly drowned. The conclusion he ar- rived at was that Glen. with a dog’s sense of reasouing. brought the sheep together —u thing he had never done before so that the fact of one missing could be detected. *x X %k ¥ Prince of Wales Held Sydney Union Member. The Bulletin, Sydney.—Some doubt has been expressed as to whether the Prince of Wales is really a member of the Vic, Billposters’ Union, which has been the proud boast of that organiza- tion ever since H. R. H.s visit. Accord- to an official pronouncement on the a faith | ‘The only interest which either Fascism | cr Communism has in the tenets of any | orthodox persuasion are their poten- tialities for arraying one part of the | people against another, in order that through jealousies &nd repugnances | subversive political schemes and thesis may be advanced. Both Fascism and Communism thrive on discora and confusion. The “lib- erators” of either stripe pitch their own private pavilions upon the only salu- brious vantage ground within the pesti- lential morass which then engulls the | masses. Fascists and Communists may deride the constitution of a true re public, but our’ own has now endured | Tor & full century and a decade besides, and there be few among us so perfidious or disaffected that they would care t exchange it for some foreign tyrrany. In Colombia. the freedom of every son is guaranteed, in his religion, in his vocation. and in his solaces and | pleasures. These liberties are curtailed only when the exercise of his prefer- about Mr. Roosevelt's “ecstatic and Sian Soviet have turned attention to- hysterical” campaign he must have Ward the desire of that country to es- been in the grip of nervous depression ' tablish favorable trade conditions with aud mental fog. Mr. Roosevelt can Other nations. It is felt that if the keep his head when all the rest of us Communist state can make the grade as are losing ours and blaming it on|a good neighbor. it is better for the Morgan. world that unnecessary restrictions His supremely cool and methodical should be removed. British relations mind has saved us from more than one discussed and the recent recogni- disaster. At the time of the first Fiench | ticn by Spain is considered in its bear- default fsolation fanatics were inflam- |ing on prospects in Latin American ing the public mind with the gospel of | countries. universal hate, which breeds war. Mr. | An attitude of aloofness is suggested Roosevelt, with one stroke of publicity, by the New York Sun, with the state- diverted the attention of his country- ment that “the British-Soviet trade men to his vast Tennessee Valley plan, | agreement was not reached without ex- | and from that time the foreign debt | pressions of grave dissatisfaction by impesse has remained far in the back- } men in public life.” That paper quotes giound. where it belongs. He took office in the midst of the worst financial panic in modern his- ~ | tory. He had to cope with the public | cylated swindling. psychology of complete despair which was destroying the credit and hente the life of the Nation. His leadership re- No | Lord Newton's statement that “Soviet | relations with the British government had been marked by ‘deliberate and cal- *» and recalls that | the Marquis of Londonderry stated that “during the period of the British-So- viet trade agreement Great Britain ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. When will the next Paris exposi- tion to be held? How high will the tv(}l'e’; be which is to be a part of it?— A. The exposition is scheduled for 1937. The world tower contemplated will be 2,300 feet high. Q. What is the other name for the blanket code, now being offered”>—S T. A. It is known as the President’s re- employment agreement. | Q. Is Russian bank played with two decks of cards or with one?—P. T. A. Usually it is played with two packs |of cards. There are. however. in_ rules for card games, directions for playing with one pack. | _Q Who was Bill Williams, for whom Bill Williams Creek and Mcuntain in Arizona were named?>—C. M A. He was a famous mountain man. In his early years he visited most parts of Arizona and was said to have been a Methodist preacher in Missouri at the time of his death. He was killed by Indians. | Q. Which of the new Government or- ganizations is known as the A. A. A7 ‘A. This s the Agricultural Adjuct- ment Administration Q. What became of the famous Clc ‘¥nll in the town of Ypres, Belgium A. The Cloth Hall, which was begun in 1201 and finished in 1342. was re- i duced to ruins during the World War. The remains of the building are pre- served as & memorial of the war. Q. Is hock a wine or an ale?—T. R A1t is & German wine produced acar Hocnheim. In English usage, hock often includes all Rhine wines. Q. Who was Lucky Baldwin?>—L.R. 8. A. Elias Jackson Baldwin lived from 828 to 1909. He discovered the Ophir mine, Nevada, and amassed a fortune of $3.000,000. He lost his money in reai estate ventures. He tried to recoup his ’ ul;tunen in Alaska, but was unsuccess- tul. Q. Did Indians have large or small | families when they were living in their | original environment?>—E. E. A. The aboriginal Indian inhabitants 1of the North American continent were largely semi-nomadic. They for the | most part engaged in some agriculture |and in some craft. However, their semi- | nomadic habits and their constant war- fare kept the birth rate down and their families may be said to have been smaller compared with those of more civilized peoples. Q. What is the State flower Pennsylvania?—J. L. A. On May 5, 1833. Gov. Gifford Pinchot signed a bill officially desig- nating the mountain laurel the State flower of Pennsylvania. | Q. Are plebes at West Point Military Academy permitted to play in varsity games . X ML | A. Capt. J. M. Young. assistant graduate mauager of athletics of the | United States Military Academy. West Point, N. Y., says that plebes at West Point have not been permitted to play in varsity games. beginning with the foot ball season of 1928. Q. What is a Caudle lecture?—D. N. | A It is a curtain lecture. The term is derived from a series of papers by Douglas Jerrold which were published in Punch in 1846. These papers rep- Tesent Job Caudle as a patient listener to the diatribes of a nagging wife after the couple had retired and the bed cure tains were drawn. of ia Factor in Trade and that “some profess to see in the action of Spain similar decision shortly on the part of several Spanish-speaking countries of South America. Litile stock is taken by the Worcester Telegram in the theory that our recog- nition of the Soviet would facilitaie comnunistic propaganda in this coun- try, and that paper feels that “if the Russians want to firance such a cam- paign here now there is little to stop them.” The Lowell Evening Leader. on the other hand. asserts that Britain discov mercial 2 confine to business affairs.” The Cleveland News advises that “Russia is in the world market for many artic manufactured or produced in Amer ard that “American business men should make every effort to facilitate ;:;dg_xrhuge of commodities with that “The world might as well recognize Russia,” believes the Danbury News- Times. “Those 150.000.000 people need to be recalled to the economic fold. for one | versed that psychology overnight. ‘ecstatic and hysterical” President could have done that. After the bank holiday and the brief speculative boom that followed it. values took another nose dive which threat- ened to wipe out all investments and all industries. Suddenly Mr. Rooseveit | took us off the gold standard. deflation ceased, prices rose and hoarded capi- | tal poured back into productive enter- prise, thus converting despair into con- fidence. Nor was this the work of an ‘ecstatic and hysterical” President. With Wall Street gambiing houses again doing & rushing business, Mr. | Rooscvelt received the solemn advice of | the rugged individualists to let weli nce. enough alone, since everything was re- | The editorial was followed some days ' viving as naturally as buttercups in the later by a published letter from Mr. | springtime. Mr. Roosevelt, William M. Stuart suggesting that it | believing that it would take more than | was_unfortunate to have omitted men- | a gambling spree to put 12.000.000 people tioning Mr. John Howard Tasker, who back to work. proceeded to mobilize in- is arranging the programs and making | dustry in a drive to eradicate human these broadcasts. | suffering. In the meantime, the gam- It seems to me that it may not be | bling fraternity again demonstrated its amiss to additionally suggest public | childish incapacity by inflating values | mention and acknowledgement of the to the breaking point and then pre- | real source of the outstanding and ex- | cipitating a stampede of selling which cellent work that i8 being done not only | wiped out a large percentage of the re. |to make better known the remarkable | cent price gains. The President kept | range and character of music and songs | his head as usual He took steps to that were produced by Stephen Collins | protect the farmer against the specu: Foster during his all-too-short existence, | jator and went ahead with his program ences interferes with the rights and se. curity of others. | — ] Preserving the Fame of | Stephen Collins Foster To the Editor of The Star: Your splendid editorlal of July 320, 11933, dealing with the general character {of programs broadcast by radio and em | phasizing particularly the excellence of | those in which the life and music of | Stephen Collins Foster constitute the | subject, was, I am sure, genuinely ap- | preciated by many of the radio audi- e however, | subect, Edward P. made complimentary | but to right the great wrong that has | on Melbourne boardings, remarking that they were the art of the people. This references to some stickers he had seen | been done by defamers of his life and | character. For Foster was not only a | poetic and musical genfus. He was a so delighted the union that it decided |man of high character and a gentle- to make him a life member and he was duly informed by letter of the distinc- tion conferred on him. His private sec- retary replied, stating that the prince appreciated the compliment and wished the union success, and each Christmas since a card has come from the prince’s secretary conveying greetings to Mel- bourne comrades. This appears to dis- pose of the matter finally, and no com- plications are expecte unless the union happens to be on strike and the royal member persists in pasting post- ers up in London. oK K K Colombians Scorn Communism or Fascism, El Tempo, Bogota—We, In this country upon the other side of the globe, are not so much troubled yet with either Fascism or Communism. There have been emissaries, it is true, who have endeavored to inculcate among us these new creeds and policies, but these efforts have been chiefly dis- tinguished by & success startling only in its mediocrity. ‘The champions of both movements claim a m minence in thought and method. ir cry 1s the freedom of the individual, yet nowhere is that in- dividual more oppressed with govern- ment and supervision than in Italy and Russia. The German fascists, called in that land the “Nazistas” (“Nazis"), make much of patriotism and religious liberty, but events since their accession to power & few months ago have shown ingredient in its real essence as factors which make or mar a democratic state. That they have no either term js peen in the fact that they have no appreciation of either | {man to the time of his death. In the suburbs of Indianapolis, Ind., | there is a delightful little stone building | i!urmnlly entitled Foster Hall, and af-| | fectionately known as “One Little Hut | Among de Bushes.” In that building Mr. Josiah K. Lilly of Indianapolis has | not only collected and is still collecting | everything of value that is available re- lating to the life and works of Stephen Foster, but he is organizing and scien- { tifically collating the material and by preparing and distributing reproduc- tions, etc., to libraries and other public institutions he is not only making the same known and available to the public everywhere, but he is thereby preserv- ing as completely as is humanly possible | | the precious items against ultimate loss or_destruction. It is a genuine labor of love to the { memory of Stephen Collins Foster, to honor an outstanding but neglected American whose genius is today recog- nized throughout the world and whose chaxacter has alas, as is-so often the ease in such instances, been misunder- stood and maligned. Incidentally there is no kinship in- volved that causes me to write. R do think the work of Mr. Lilly, in be- half of Foster and for the benefit of the public, should not go unnoticed in connection with these weekly broad- casts. B. G. FOS8' e Storm Center. From the Lowell Evening Leader. The ecenomy program which elimin- | ated a number of weather bureau sta- to restore mass buying power. So again trading is orderly and we go forward. Shocks have followed setbacks. Fools | and cowards have done everything in! their power to discredit the new deal. But the people, as a_whole, have faith in the President, the President has faith in the people, and no hostile force can | long withstand such a combination. There is hysterla, indeed, among the routed defenders of the eighteenth | amendment, among the worshipers of a mythical gold supply and among ad- vocates of a scrambled budget. But there has been no hysteria in the White House since March 4, Luther K, Long | to the contrary notwithstanding. J. HILLYER. ——or—e Amenities. From the Jersey City Journal. xxdmger Walter McGee has received the death sentence for kidnaping Mary MCcElroy, daughter of City Manager Mc- Elroy of Kansas City. Her testimony on the stand did much to convince the jury of McGee's guilt. McGee, when he set the captive free, gave her roses. She sent him lilies. Garden Seed Days. Prom the Eausas City Star. “Sometimes,” says Jack Harris, “some- times we long for those relatively simpler days when men were born, grew old and died without ever dreaming of getting anything more from the Government than a few garden seeds. e The Borrewer’s Bad Memory. From the Dayton Daily News. A good many persons who used to I:l's(t about their long memories now can’ the dollar they rowed remember 3 3 ~ | bought from Russia & great deal more |than Russia bought from Great Brit- ! ain; that the Soviet was using the ster- ling credits obtained from sales here to | finance purchase of goods in other countries.” The Sun concludes that “to be good neighbers with the commu- nistic despotism is not eas! A different point of view is presented by the Birmingham Age-Herald, with | the statement that “for a long while Russia has exhibited a capacity for self- | restraint and negotiation which merit | the praise of all thoughtful onlookers. That paper especially points out that “Moscow’s refusel to go to war Wwith Japan, despite the severest provocation, | proves conclusively that Russia knows what it is doing, and that happens to mean it ‘cught to be a powerful factor for stability.”” The Age-Herald also offers the opinion: “The position which Russia now occuples would have seemed impossible a short time ago. It could be considerably weakened by an internal | breakdown of some sort. Yet that can scarcely be looked for. The present government is firmly seated and it has | at its command a great and magnificent | | army. Moreover. the Soviet leadership as come to evince a fine grasp of di- plomacy. A |7 “So far as protecting | of American citizens in Russia is con- | cerned ” thinks the ‘Topeka Daily | Capital, “we certainly can handle that | the interests | the world's sake as much as for Rus- sla’s. 1t may be that Trotsky will be sent to Spain as Ambassador. As Rus- sia gets prosperous her prople are like- Iy to remember ihose who served them, and be sorry for the penalties they imposed on Trotsky, because he was un- able to go along With the policies of Stalin. A fat and happy Russia will not be so determined to carry dis- turbance to other countries.” _ “There are growing indications,” says tiie Akron Beacon Journal, “that Amcr- ican recognition is on the way. It is an event hastered by the example Old World nations. which while prgf testing the internal policies of Russia, have recognized that government be- cause they wanted a better advantage in trading with it. The statement of | Envoy Litvinoff at London that Russia is a potential market for one billion dollars’ worth of imports, including farm machinery and live stock, has spurred many American manufacturers and stock breeders to active support of closer relations with the Moscow | government.” — Street Railways Need Fewer Hours, More Cars ‘To the Editor of The Star: In Sunday's editorial, “Unregulated Competition,” second paragraph, u make the statement: T “The adoption of a shorter working week means the employment of more better if we are dealing with the So- viet government as legitimate and re- sponsible than as an outsider.” The | Capital feels that the Soviet. at the London conference, “furthered _the possibility of recognition by our Gov- ernment.” and in commenting on_the us money which it refuses to pay. directs attention to the position taken by other foreign governments. Belief that Litvinoff “is developing a policy almost as nationalistic as that | followed by the Russian Empire, but far less aggressive,” and that “it seeks to extend Moscow's influence through commercial agreements,” is voiced by the San Antonio Express, with the con- clusion that “Moscow and Washington soon may adjust their differences, if the commercial credits recently granted the Russian official trade agency at New York shall open a large market for American commodities throughout the territory within the Soviet Union.” The Des Moines Register emphasizes the fact that “encouragement to to trade with Russia” comes through the R. F. C. and that “for the first time we find ourselves at least ap- proaching the fairly common European governmental practice of guaranteeing credits extended to Russia.” “Behind the scenes” records the Scranton Times, “there is & scramble for Soviet orders. England and France have eased credit terms—for fear the United States will make better terms. Russia has some big orders up its sleeve, New York believes. For one thing, the Soviet government plans to cease doing business with Germany under Nazi ru'e. Last year Russia bought $110,000,000 worth of German goods.” also mentions the fact that “Spain is the twentieth nation to Rus- Mexico has American attitude that “Russia owes | our nationals | The Times street car men. The hourly rate of pay will remain the same, or substan- tially so.” Very good. Shorter working hours | and more men, also more cars, is what the railways need. Confidences extend- ing back over years indicate damnably long periods of work for some employes, inhumanly long periods of waits for work for others, neither contributing to safety of the service. However, to shorten working hours and employ more men does not sub- stantially increase expense. The real loser is not the railway but the indi- vidual worker, who, working fewer hours, gets less money, being paid by the hour, for the benefit of others need- ing work. Unless you can advance some other cause of expense, I can but take your statements in the following para- graphs as a wild venture and propa- ganda of the sob variety in behalf of | the railways. We have heard these ! hard luck tales before and seen them refuted by the annual financial sheets. W. E. ALLEN. ) Long Negative Report. Prom the Toledo Blade. It's going to require considerable space to report all the London Conference didn't accomplish o Mules and Motors. From the Topka Daily Capital The War Department should keep a few Army mules around just to pull the motorized artillery to the front after the enemy has shot the tires full of