Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1933, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1933, A8 e N, e ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON. D. C. FRIDAY........August 11, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office and Pennsylvania Ave - 110 East 42n icago Office: S omean Ofce: 14 Regent St.. London. England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. The B\‘en‘tnx !tdlrs. s.l,l.r,l.'tc ‘per month Eve g an “The Evening and Si (when 5 Sundays)..... The Sunday Sll‘r i - NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Qdunte. Maryland al]ld V:l;gi;m.l . Sunday only J1yr. $4.00; 1mo.. 40c All Other States a:nld ‘gn:m“m ily and Sunday...lyr. $12.00: .0 g:u; only 1yr., $800; 1mo. Sunday only yr. $5.00; 1mo. mber of the Associated Press. T}?}eAssoflmed Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repun‘m-uouloa(u:pr:&:;cg;. t or nof £ s B b et and also the local news All rights of publication of 31.00 5c 0c While Men Hunt for Work. The National Recovery Administra- tion, putting on a burst of speed that leaves observers dizzy, is trying to have every employer in the United States subscribe to the principle of hiring more workers and paying more money for hours worked. This is to be done by Labor day. The theme is speed! speed! speed! The lagging em- ployers will get the big stick. If the N. R. A has time, it might interest itself in the following record regarding the hoarding of local tax money in the Treasury while men are thrown out of work and more men are denied the right to work: June 8—District appropriation bill passed by Congress, containing author- fzation for expenditure of $2,135,000 of surplus gasoline and water tax revenues on projects “to aid in the relief of un- employment” and to become “imme- diately available” when the Bureau of | the Budget gave its approval. June 23.—The Commissioners submit- ted to the Budget Bureau a compre- hensive statement regarding proposed use of the gasoline tax money, request- ing immediate permission to go ahead with the jobs that would put some 6,500 men to work. June 27.—The Commissioners asked the Public Works Administration for grants totaling $22,700,000 for construc- tion work here. June 30.—The Budget Bureau replied | that “such expenditures shall be in aid of relief of unemployment” and that, as the employment program was national in scope, it was deemed wise to wait awhile and see what was to be done about the national situation. July 15—The Commissioners sent a second appeal to the Bureau of the Budget to release the gasoline tax money and to put men to work. No reply was received to this appeal. July 21.—The Commissioners appealed to the Bureau of the Budget to release half a million dollars of hoarded, idle, surplus water revenues to give 466 men —on payless furlough—work. No reply. was received from the Budget Bureau. August 2.—Maj. Donovan, the District auditor, submitted to Senator King, at the Senator's request, a memorandum explaining proposed use of the Jocal | funds hoarded in the Treasury, saying, | with other things, that the jobs of 250 | employes of the Highway Department depended upon some decision regarding use of the money. Senator King ap- pealed to the Budget Bureau for release of the money. August 9.—One hundred and ten em- ployes of the Highway Department re- " ceived notices that they will be thrown out of work next Tuesday. More will follow. And the number of men de- pendent upon public charity for food increases steadily. August 10.—Senator King places the | matter before the President, possibly suggesting that something might be done. More than two months have passed since the jmoney was made “imme- | diately available” “to aid in the relief of unemployment” and to carry out necessary projects. Not a man has been given a job. Not a spadeful of earth has been turned. ———————— Pennsylvania soft coal miners will return to work leaving details of agree- ment to be adjusted. One way to re- lieve unemployment is to accept em- ployment when available without too much exaction as to terms. R Letters From Home. T the post office served no other pur- pose than that of being a link between the homes of the land and distant dear ones, it would be eminently worth while. Certainly, it is important that the cor- yespondence of industry and commerce should circulate; and # is imperative that there should be an efficient sys- tem of communication between the dif- ferent branches of the Government and their representatives, near and far. But: it would be impossible to over-estimate the significance of that large portion of the average day’s quoth of mafl which® is of purely sentimental character. It is upon the contact which it denotes that the spiritual entity of the people depends. It is the tie that binds. Necessarily it happens that boys and girls, growing to independent maturity, remove from the immediate home en- vironments to which they belong. In pursuit of success they scatter over the face of the whole wide earth. Months, even years, pass, and they perforce re- main away. Application to duty leaves them no opportunity to return to their native hearthsides, except on very rare occasions. They become parts of the new scenes they have chosen, and “go- ing home” is an experience which they only rarely can afford. In the circum- stances, penned symbols, written words providentially furnish a medium for the maintenance of the old affections, the old interests of childhood and youth. 1If they may not see Mother and Father frequently, they at least may write to them. Their letters and the answers they stimulate are the amalgam of civilization. Of course, it is the messages from ‘thome which are especially noteworthy. The wandering sons and daughters of the land may have fascinating experi- utterly unselfish devotion. The explana- tion is obvious: Parents have the power to express & special kind of love. They are endowed with an affection for their children which must be akin to that which the painter feels for the canvas he has painted, the sculptor for the figure he has freed from the crude stone. They have created the boys and girls, the men and women to whom they are writing. They are givers of love. Granted, they may have the fault of a too great sense of possession, it still remains true that the basic motive of their attitude is that of Sponsors. . It would be & task of delight to search the famiiy archives of America for characteristic letters from home and to arrange them for publication within a single binding. So displayed, they would constitute a memorable sidelight on the forces which have made America all that it is. Their literary aspect might not be notable, but their spiritual connotations would be deeply impressive. o Revolution or Intervention? The best that can be said about the Cuben crisis is that hope, however slender, still lingers that good sense will yet prevail at Havana to the end that crisis may not drift into catas- trophe. The good sense will have to be exer-| cised by President Machado if disaster is to be averted. From the United | | States’ standpoint armed intervention | would savor of the disastrous. Not | that this country fears that such in-| | tervention could not be successfully | | carried out—that is unthinkable—but to be compelled to resort to such n‘ | solution would from every standpoint | | be the quintessence of undesirability. | Undoubtedly Gen. Machado is exploit- | ing to his own advantage our undis- | guised reluctance to have recourse to the ultimate. He has summoned the | Cuban Ambassador at Washington to a conference in Havana today. Fresh from personal interviews with President Roosevelt and the State De- partment, Senor de Cintas is in posi- tion to reflect accurately to President Machado the attitude of the United States Government. There is no secret as to what that attitude is. America’s good offices have been offered through Ambassador Welles, in cordial co-opera- | tion with all Cuban political elements, | including President Machado's own | supporters, for the purpose of inducing | | the Cubans to compose their own dif- | ferences. A formula designed to bring | about & settlement has been submitted | to President Machado. It calls for “patriotic” sacrifice on his part—for| nothing less than his retirement from ' | the scene obviously condemned to re- | | main controversial and critical as long | | as he dominates it. Late advices indicate that, backed | by his Liberal party leaders, Gen.| | Machado is determined to hold on.| | The Welles mediation formula is re- | jected on the ground that acceptance | would imperil the independence and | | sovereignty of the republic. | 1t that is Machado's last word revo- | lution or intervention plainly becomes | the sole alternative.” The United States, | in the event of revolution, would be/ face to face with the responsibilities it shouldered under the Platt amend- | ment. We are pledged to go into| Cuba for the preservation of life, prop- erty and individual liberty there when- ever these are threatened. Revolution would automatically threaten them And America’s duty in the premises would as automatically arise. Machado, his Liberal politicians, Sec- retary of State Ferrara, Ambadeador de Cintas and all the rest with whom the Cuban President may now be taking counsel must know that American in- tervention, once undertaken, would be pursued, whatever the cost, till its end was accomplished. All Americans | would deplore its necessity. It would inevitably mean sacrifice of blood and treasure, and diversion of our national energies from the urgent domestic tasks now claiming the Nation’s un- divided attention. It would revive, however unjustifiably, the theory of “North American imperialism” in Latin America. It would to that extent psy- chologically compromise the ‘“good- neighbor” policy toward the other Americas to which the Roosevelt ad- ministration is so sincerely committed. ‘These are considerations that cause this country to ponder deeply before making the fateful decision to dispatch | an intervention expedition to Cuba. But the Machadoistas mistake the | temper of the United States and its | Government if they delude themselves | into the conviction that even such in- hibitions, formidable as they are, would eternally deter the American people from doing their unescapable duty in Cuba. Already foreign powers, whose | national interests in the island are im- i periled by the chronic unrest prevalent | there, are asking the United States what it prcposes to do about abolish- ing this situation. That is not the | least of the reasons which require the Washington Government to face events in Cuba with realism, resolution and | promptness. ——————————— One phase of Machado’s official policy is perfectly clear. He is unalterably ‘opbosed to the idea of introducing for his own use the furlough without pay. —_————————— Tradition. It has been said that the youth of the United States is insufficiently en- | dowed with interest in tradition. The charge may be true. If so, the circum- stance is to be regretted. But before a proper correction can be made in any such matter of popular psychology it is necessary to examine with care the elements of the problem. Tradition, obviously, is not its own excuse. Nothing has authentic sur- vival value merely because of the fact of having already enjoyed a lengthy ex- istence. Antiquated things are not necessarily admirable solely on account of their excessive age. Progress im- plies a gradual emergence from the conceptions of the past, a gradual de- velopment of intelligence, an orderly substitution of greater ‘knowledge for lesser. In the process a certain amount of damage is inevitable. And when the pace is extraordinarily rapid, as it has been in recent years, there is bound to be a good deal of loss. Men and women, boys and girls are apt to neglect much that is worthy of re- membrance the while they struggle to absorb new verities, new ideals. The old knowledge is rejected in preference for the new. So #t happens that there are young nitely dated. They are familiar with nothing but the affairs of their own period. It probably would be sn error to say that they entertain a contempt for times that are gone. But, on the other hand, it is undeniable that they have no particular affection for man- ners and customs which they deem out- moded or for theories and doctrines which they arbitrarily judge to be ob- solete. The difficulty is that of in- structing them with regard to the evo- lution of the present out of the past. They are what the past has made them. ‘They are not the product of spon- taneous generation. Instead, their very skepticism, their agnosticism, is an ef- fect; a fruit of causes operating cen- turies ago. They think as they do be- cause their remote ancestors thought as they did. They are not naturally iso- lated from their origins. Any divorce of antiquity and modernity really would be unnatural. And American youth ought to be too authentically pragmatic to be willing to risk the dangers of an artificial separation of that kind. Tradition, it would seem, should be visioned as accumulated experience. Some of it, certainly, is tedious and dull; some of it is tragic. But, by the same token, some of it is richly notable for its qualities of authentic folk wisdom. ! Not all the progenitors of the living quota of the children of earth were fools. Intelligence is not the exclusive prerogative of the twentieth century. Instead, study of anclent Greece and Rome, medieval England and France discloses a fascinating capacity on the part of history to repeat. Knowing little or nothing of tradition, how are latter- day nations, latter-ddy leaders to avoid the mistakes of long ago? How are they to profit by the example of thinkers quite as competent as themselves who perforce faced similar emergencies, tried similar expedients, in their own not entirely dissimilar times? Granted, the past is no fetish, the| truth remains that mankind is traveling a road undertaken millenniums back, | that there is continuity in mankind's ex- perience, and that the memory of the losses, the gains, the sorrows, the joys of ages remote should be a practical | aid in the negotiation of the trials and | troubles of ages current. ————s President Roosevelt holds an occa- sional conference which is generally expected to get more rapid results than some of the more widely publicised assemblages for purposes of economic discussion. ———v—e——— Beauticians are included in the code for employers. “A thing of beauty is |8 joy forever” requiring, nevertheless, much hard work and patience to main- tain it in proper condition. — vt John Barleycorn will continue to re- quire governmental supervision, with the difference that the bootlegger will resume the more picturesque title of ‘moonshiner.” Cotton is being plowed under. Re- ports may yet be heard from the Jap- anese of a plan to enhance the value of silk by chopping down mulberry trees. ———————— Putting Gandhi's wife in jail & few more times will be likely to give India 2 high-power feminist movement in ad- | dition to other national problems. — e Adopting the terminology of toil, the N. R. A. resents “chiselers” while try- ing to do something for the man with the hoe. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Reassurance. Each day the future brighter grows. It's clearly understood That a reward for merit goes For trying to be good. Likewise it's being made quite clear ‘That consequences grave Inevitably must draw near For those who won't behave. As so the drama old we see, Enlarged, yet much the same, Where Virtue will rewarded be And Vice be put to shame. ‘We are expectantly content As we are sure that Sin Is sure to find its punishment And Righteousness will win. The New Trust. “What will happen to our so-called Brain Trust?” asked the interviewer. “Very possibly the usual thing that happens to trusts,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Somebody may try either to smash it or else tie it up in technicali- ties so that it can’t work normally.” Jud Tunkins says it's annoying to be misunderstood, but the person that talks too much may find after while that he was luckier for not having made himself exactly clear. Inevitable Discomforts. Again the Summer season warns That with each rose there must be thorns. ‘The honey bee discomfort brings ‘When it lays off its work and stings. The man who tries with skill and pluck By chiselers is sometimes stuck. To seize each pleasure as it flickers ‘You've got to take a:chance on stickers. Cards. “Mesa Bill has gone away up in so- clety since he gathered up wealth,” said Rattlesnake Pete. “I still aver,” answered Cactus Joe, “that he and his tribe are a bunch of card sharps.” “That wouldn't have anything to do with society.” “Yes it would. The way they pliyed | the soclety game was by doin’ trick shuffies with the visitin’ cards.” “Obedience,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “in some respects resembles debt in seeming a simple matéer when owed by others than ourselves.” Cash Basis. Our troubles we may all unload THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. In the name of one who was lost for days, a wanderer in the heat of a Summer of long ago, he put out at night a big bowl of wheat biscuit and milk and a pan of water. Call him sentimentalist who will, he also performed a civic function, because in the morning the bowl was clean and the water gone. A dog had been saved. A tramp, she had come up the drive- way, and partaken of the fare. ‘The next day he saw her, a liver- colored animal of the police type. She was afraid of humanity. Her big bat ears laid back at the sigp: of her benefactor. Quickly she slunk away. She did not know good from evil, for she was only a tramp dog, a “menace,” some might have said. * X X % In the daytime she skulked from street to street. Few pald any attention to her, be- cause she was not a bad looking animal; some one owned her, they thought. Her coat was good, although of & peculiar tinge. At first she seemed rather slow of motion, but after a few nights of biscuit and milk she gained in speed and loped | easily where before she had merely slunk. It was impossible for the householder, however, to get her to come near. ‘The most wheedling whistles, “here, pup, here, pup,” done in the best style, afforded no lure to her. She was afraid of mankind. * Kk ‘The friend of dogs was seated in his outdoor living room (they used to call it back yard) on a sunny afternoon. He heard a rattle. Looking up, he discovered the old dog nosing at the edge of the garbage can. Knowing better than to pay any at- tention to her he slid into the house very carefully, so as not to disturb her, and prepared a plenteous repast. “Surely,” he thought, “with this bowl in my hand, she will come up.” = R The dog's ears began to lie down, and she looked furtively at the man and his bowl. “Here, boy, here, boy,” he called. All | dogs are “boy” when you are trying to call them. | The tramp began to move. | _ Bowl or no bowl, food or no food. she | feared mankind. Even when the food was taken to the edge of the driveway, by the hedge, she refused to appear. ‘Where she spent her days her friend did not know, but in the middle of the night he would hear the lid come off the garbage can and rattle down on the concrete. She was up to her old tricks, after eating the bowl of biscuit and milk and drinking entire the big pan of water. * X K % Nobody could tell him that such a dog ought to be “taken up” or “put out of the way.” With food and water, she would be able to take care of herself until such time as she happemed to be able to establish herself. Just how those benefactors were goingz to induce her to come near, however, was & problem which the other would leave to them. It would be their problem, after all; his was to do his part by keeping her supplied with grub at night. ‘While political strife rages in Havana, Cuba is fighting for her economic life at Washington. The occasion is the reassembly here this week under Agri- cultural ~ Adjustment Administration auspices of the Sugar Stabilization Conference, which first opened June 27. Her sugar crop being the island’s all vital sustenance, Cuba seeks an augmented quota for it in the American market, in competition with domestic cane and beet and the sugar which Hawaii, the Philip- pines and Puerto Rico sell us. In the boom years 1922-1926, Cuba mar- keted here an annual average of 3,262,- 000 short tons of sugar. In 1932 the volume fell to 1,647,000 tons, a drop of roundly 50 per cent. The quota now tentatively roposed woul permit Cubans to sell about the 1932 volume, or 1,700,000 tons, accounting for some- thing less than one-third of the total of 4,515,000 hereafter to be imported into this country, as against the do- mestic supply of 1,835,000 tons. The Cubans demand a quota of 2,525,000 tons and have threatened to withdraw from the conference rather than ac- cept a lower figure. Cuba argues that the more of her sugar we take, the more of our wares she buy. Amer- jcan exports to the island slumped in recent years at about the same rate that Cuban sugar sales to us shrank. Dr. John Lee Coulter of the United States Tariff Commission is the A A. A. sugar administrator. * x k Kk “Black Jack” Elliott, California oil “independent,” and the man who put through the McAdoo-Garner Chicago convention deal that resulted in Roose: velt’s nomination, is a vital factor in oll code negotiations. When Walter C. Teagle (Standard of New Jersey) was selected to represent the big oil corporations on the Johnson industrial advisory board Elliott was chosen to speak for the independents. He is given credit for dividing the big op- erators into rival factions—Standard on one side and Sinclair on the other— thus venting adoption of the code formulated by the American Petroleum Institute. Elliott’s feat was considered a victory for the independents, chiefly East Texas and California interests. Twenty-five years ago an A. P. re- in Washington, Elliott was Gar- ner and later McAdoo campaign man- ager in California. He may be the Democratic candidate for the Senate in 1934 against Hiram Johnson. ERE Joe Sinnott, veteran doorkeeper of the House of Representatives, testifies that never since the war have there been so many members of Congress visible on Capitol Hill during the recess as in this Summer of Roose- velt recovery and repeal. N. R. A. and patronage are what mainly keeps them on the job. Many freely admit that, because of deserving Dem- ocrats with ardent designs on the Fed: eral pay roll, life in Washington just now is far more comfortable than among the folks back home. sentative Wright Patman of Texas, the veterans’ friend, says he's in Washing- ton because he can at least sleep at Demoeratic of Congress least & thousand applications for jobs on * ¥ X X name and , Dr. Ri- Alfaro is 'fhro, the present envoy of that the Minister -accom] former President of Panama, ‘The new ‘When each man finds his proper CODE |’ ‘We'll hope quite soon to drop the E And run all business C. O. D. “I got a letter dat began ‘Dear Sir’|Lat and ended ‘Yours Respectfully’ an’ dem was de only kind words in it.” Sweets in the Mails. | WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. A tramp dog, if it can get food and water, is no more of a menace than many another dog which sports a collar and tag. The chances are against it, undoubt- edly, but it all depends upon the dispo- sition of the dog. Probably such a wanderer is no more annoyed by fleas, for instance, than the pet of some one who will not go to the trouble of keeping the pests off. It is impossible for any one to know whether such a dog is lost, has merely strolled away from home, or has been dumped down by a pessing car. * k k¥ Kindness to animals, therefore, calls for icular sympathy in such cases. ‘There are more ways of heln{nkl.nd to animals than are imagined the lexicon of those who know but one way. It is a practical thing to put out food at night, good clean food, not old food, so that the four-legged prowlers ean get something decent inside them. If we were dogs, we must continue to think, this sort of care would more appreciated than all the fine words in the world. When a fellow is wandering around and hasn’t any place to go, he is glad to find something good to eat wherever he can. ‘The dog lover will get a real “kick” from preparing such meals and placing them where wandering dogs and cats can get them. If he has a fondness for cats he will double his pleasure. No doubt some well-fed animal may take, but ll;nt‘clnnot be helped. * * Feeding pet animals is a form of amusement which some human beings relish as much as their own meals. They get an intense delight from the mere sight of brute creatures con- suming their proper foodstuffs. They share the plain pleasures of the ani- mals. But there is a divine urge there, the urge to live, which shows itself by the greediness, as humans call it, with which the brutes devour their food. Animals have no particular eti- quette in eating. Mostly it is first come, first served, and he gets most who pushes the most and eats the fastest. The friend of animals will take no shock from these traits in his small friends. They are proper to them. When a human being eats after such a fashion, he is called a “pig”; what is all right for the hog is distinctly otherwise for men and women and children. * K x * Even among the animals, however, there is manifested a certain dainti- ness of feeding. One particular animal, for instance, will insist on waiting until the others are_through. ‘Thus_there will be no food for that one unless the human friend sees to }t that this one's meal is laid aside or it. ‘This is not timidity on the animal's part, but simply in its nature. Whether one chooses to call it niceness of man- ners is another question, but surely | it is so called when manifested in a human being. ‘These are the “dog days.” Tt would be well if houscholders would leave out at night at least a pan of water in order that some wandering dog might quench its thirst. If this is done care should be taken that the vessel is kept clean and that the water is fresh each evening. mer students that while the Roosevelt recovery program is ‘“magnificent an admirable,” it must be placed upon an international basis to achieve per- manency, and that to accomplish its pu , it should deal with war debts, trade barriers and currency stabiliza- tion. Evidently the wet G. O. P. sage | of Morningside Heights hasn't heard | what happened in London recently | when the World Economic Conference | tried to tackle the problems he would | now wish onto Gen. Johnson. * * x X One of the earliest of repeal pros-| pects, it is said in interested quarters, | is that I zation of whisky will have \ to be followed almost immediately by | enormous importations of foreign sup- | plies, so inadequate does the domestic | stock on hand now promise to be when | Yankee throats may be constitutionally | slaked on hard liquor. * kX % The polls, as far as these observa- tions are concerned, are positively closed to further suggestions as to what N. R. A stands for. But a late arrival is too good to be suppressed. It's to the effect that the country’s now best knownu.ize:‘iiq'.).s mean: “Not Readily * x x % n'J'he National (Ehll;llhl'a newest nick- ame 5, le’s nest.” Local hotels, restaurants, taxicab companies and big stores are finding it a well feathered nest. Trade in all those lines has not been so thriving and throbbing, according to general report, since boom days. * X k% N. R. A. close-ups: As to that strike truce, it's being pointed out that the trouble is not with the big shots of 35{‘:}25‘ labor like ?ll;'e‘e’il. Lewis et al.; your irrespor le walki del- te and the “locals” out in thinfuckx ;lvesm gencetnu'zd pgwen \}nder them- , and actuat y purely neighbor- hood conditions rather thl{l nx:guanu considerations. . .The laugh of the mo- ment is on a group of high-powered in- who at a private code hear- ing lambasted a certain competitive corporation as the black sheep of that particular flock, which had to be curbed at all costs. The candid gentlemen hadn't the faintest notion they were uugng their troubles to one of John- son’s assistants who has been loaned to N. R. A. for code purposes by very outfit which they were knocking. . . Lamentations from and on behalf of the small business man continue to pile up. Many of the little fellows are writing to their Representatives and Senators. Con; is sure to get the back-wash of all this next Winter, un- less meantime the “forgotten men” dis- resort 3 to that recourse. whether J operat (Copyright, 1933.) Better for All to | minded. The blind of this city, thein Camp for*Blind A Backward Step To the Editor of The Star: My attention has been called to the article in your Sunday paper on organ- lzing & camp for the blind. I am without vision myself and feel that I am in a position to comment on this plan. I greatly appreciate the interest that a {:; ited ht;xz in those w::hnuh'.‘éulnn. e pl suggested absolutely obsolete. Fifty years ago this would ‘have been considered an excellent idea, because at that time the public under- stood the = question less thoroughly. There are so many things that a per- son without sight can do with the aid of his sighted brothers, that setting the blind off in a world of their own is absurd, to say the least. Most schools for the blind throughout the country are now sending their stu- dents into the public high schools to re- celve their education because the con- tacts with the sighted students mean far more than words can express to the sightless student. It gives an op- portunity to make more friends and teaches him to live in a sighted world as he must do after leaving the school. Some States have no schools for the be | blind, but are doing a far better thing by sending all those without vision di- rectly into the public school system. The writer has just graduated from the' Baltimore City College this past June and knows whereof he speaks. If those interested in establishing a camp for the blind would only turn their efforts toward having the camps for the sighted throughout the Nation accept those without vision in their midst, then their efforts would bear a worthwhile fruit. Since one boy without vision has made good in a sighted camp, why not allow others to join in the invigorating exercise of outdoor life? What those without vision need is to mingle more with their sighted brothers and sisters. I might say that they would do this more if the sighted population would not shun them and cause them to feel that their company is not desired. The orchestra leader at Camp Alry, Thur- mont, Md., whom I know personally, is without vision, but enters into the ac- tivities of the camp life there the same as his sighted brothers and sisters. By taking his place in the activities of the camp he teaches the sighted to better understand the sightless and their need. I am living here at present at Toc H and would not think of giving up my life with these young men to go and live where there were only those without vision. For the blind to live only with the blind tends to make them narrow- or any other city for that matter, would be a | great deal better off if the sighted around them would only take real and friendly mwm{ in '.her.::.mi)nrf vite them to go on outings with you and to join in your parties and entertain- ments. We learn in life mainly by our associations with others and exchange of ideas. Then why not exchange ideas with those without vision? Let them know what is going on in the world and consider them as normal as yourselves, for they are in reality. After all, we think with our minds, not with our eyes. To establish a camp for the biind | would be only taking a ste lieu of a step torw-‘l’-d. S CHARLES W. METZGAR. Boosting Food Prices Behind Blue Eagle Label To the Editor of The Star. | The naive and childlike belief on the part of Gen. Johnson that purveyors of the necessities of life will not increase prices faster than wages are increased is not justified by the facts. Rumblings and mutterings of protest on the part of the buying public are daily increasing because the chain grocery stores are doing that very thing. They started it at the first hint of inflation and every day sees an increase in their prices on | several articles of food. Are these in- creases justifiable? Take potatoes as | an example. They were already high enough, in all conscience, yet recentl: they advanced the price {o nppmxlz mately 4 cents a pound. Just about the time the stores here advanced the price on them I read a letter on the editorial Ppage of the Baltimore Sun from a farm- er on the Eastern Shore of Maryland complaining most bitterly on the fact that the farmers are getting so little for their potatoes! If the increase in the price of potatoes is not justifiable, how | about the price jumps on hundreds of other articles of food? -Is getting the difference? Don':h:z:k.:n:: laugh! True, some of the increases are small, but in the aggregate they are large. It seems particularly contempt- ible and indefensible to raise the price of potatoes, an article of food that the very poor are practically compelled to have. However, that is probably the reason they did it. If they are going to continue this course I would suggest that they at least refrain from adding insult to injury by heading their ad- vertisements “Big Food Values,” “Bar- gain Week in Foods,” etc. That N. R. A. sign in their windows makes me grin. To them it means “Now Reap Abun- sty e el 5 e O ] ell, n loog at the wiord sgeo." SE peaking of food prices, did ever :.e:d anything wu;elt 'u::h nongg:hnee utter cont W] milk combine he'rept s e soaking the people of - ington for milk and cream? o S. H. MUMFORD. Register of Unemployed Is Urgently Needed Here To the Editor of The Star: It is gratifying to know ‘board is to be appointed by uum-fi;finm- tion, similar to those named in' the States, for the purpose of relieving the unemployment situation in Washington. It would seem to me that it would be an excellent plan if such’ board . R.'s “if, as and when” in other words, la u' Z"m' = rgely tm on | putting Earn a Livelihood | bt i positons. s To the Editor of The Star: Although I fully appreciate the fact that Representative Cochran is well pre- pared to defend his own statements di- rected to President Roosevelt wherein he avers that he favors only one to a family, I am replying liwin.mAwry’. e:amm‘&n‘m This newspaper ts at your dis- posal a corps of tral researchers in Wi who will answer questions for you. They have access to the Gov- ernment departments, the libraries, mu- seums, J;nllenn and public buildings, | population in and to the numerous associations which maintain headquarters in the Nation's Capital. 1If they ean be of assistance to you, write your question plainly and send with 3 cents in coin or stamps. Do not use post cards. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Haskin, Director, Washing- Q. How did Jack Lovelock's time for | running a mile compare with Nurmi's record?—G. N. A. Nurmi did it in 4:10.4, while Jack Levelock ran it in 4:07.6. Q. How does a robot fly a plane?— E. 8. M. A. The robot, or automatic pilot, is really two instruments. One, mounted in the center of the instrument board, consists of delicate gyroscopic devices which are so sensitive that they respond at once to the slightest deviation of the plane from stable flight, either laterally or horizontally. The other is an actuating unit, placed just below the other, which through oil pressure, powered from a small engine-driven pump, conveys the corrective signals, transmitted by an air system from the gyroscopes to the controls and thus moves the conventional controls of the plane, aflerons, stabilizer and rudder. Q. What is the Manchuria?—J. L. A. It is now the Japanese protected present status of H. semi-independent State of Manchukuo. Q. How many people were killed in the enforcing of prohibition last year? six;‘ceuthe beginning of enforcement? A. The number of persons killed in | the enforcement of the prohibition law | during the fiscal year ending June 30, | 1932, was investigators 9, civilians 13; total killed since the beginning of pro- hibition through June 30, 1932, inves- | tigators 79, civilians 175. Q. Was Matthew Thornton a mem- | ber of the Continental Congress which drafted the Declaration of Independ- ence?—M. C. A. He was not elected to the Con- gress until September, 1776, but was allowed to affix his name to the decla- | ration. Q. Please give a short biography of Miriam Hopkins, who played with Lionel Barrymore in “The Stranger's Return.”—C. C. O. A. Miss Hopkins was born in Sa- vannah, Ga., and was educated at God- dard Seminary in Vermont and at Syra- cuse University. In musical comedy she appeared in “The Music Box Re- vue” and in “Little Jesse James.” Her first film was 1929. Since then she has been in “The Smiling Lieutenant,” “Twenty - four Hours,” “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” “Two Kinds of Women,” “Dancers in the Dark,” “The World and the Flesh,” “Trouble in Paradise” and “The Story of Temple Drake.” Q. What is a dumdum bullet?>— C. K T. A. It is a bullet formerly used in the British army, where it was called “Mark IV.” It resembled the ordinary service bullet except that the leaden core was left uncovered. By making the casing weak at sthe apex, the bullet spreads out immediately en striking a bone, usually with fatal results. It was first made at the Dumdum Arsenal in India. Q. Will the Panama Canal accommo- :tt.e’ t‘:le largest ship in the world?— A. The Panama Canal can accom- modate any ship afloat at the present time, being 110 feet wide in the lock chambers. The largest vessel in opera- tion at present is the S 100 feet 1 inch wide. . viathan is the widest American vessel and has a breadth of 100 feet 3 inches. “Fast and Loose,” in | low many towns in the United g’% 1{." populations up to 5,300?— A. According to the census of 1930 there were 1,332 places of 2,500 to 5,000 the United States; 3,086 incorporated places of 1,000 to 2,500 population, and 10,347 places over 1,000 population. Q. What causes hens’ eggs to hav thin_whites’—8. T. i A. The hens are not eating enough mash. . Qfi ‘What is another name for alfalfa? "A.'It 15 also called lucern. Q. What are lines above and below the staff on a sheet of music called? —Ix B A. They are called ledger lines. Q. What is the scientific explanation of “t,he N}ce mine near Coudersport, Pa.? A. The Chamber of Commerce of Coudersport, Pa., says that a great many different scientists have visited the ice mine and each of them has ex- hibited his own individual scientific ex- planation for the cause of this phenom- | enon. No two of them agree. | Q_ What causes undertow at the | seashore>—T. S. S. A. As the waves break on the shore, the water runs back into the ocean. Other waves coming in climb over the | receding water. It is the receding wa- ter which is called the undertcw. Q. Why is it difficult to walk in a %raighl line with the eyes shut?>—G. A. Few people take exactly equal | steps with the two legs. With eyes open, this is automatically corrected when necessary. Q. What was meant by a in the World War?>—D. G. 8. A. This was British slang for an offi- cer of the general headquarters staff. Q. Is it true that people who work at night do not get as good sleep as those who work in the daytime?— M. G. A. The Public Health Service says that a sound sleep at any time is rest- | ful. It makes no particular difference when or where it is taken, provided | the steeper 15 comfortable. ~ &eep in | the daytime owing to disturbances may be less sound than during the normal | hours for sleep at night. Q. Is there any place that the spoken classical Hebrew is in daily use?—D. M. A. Dr. Shapiro of the Library of Con- gress says that within the last 50 years remarkable strides have been made in | bringing back classical Hebrew in Jew- ish families. This is particularly true in Palestine, where the university is sending out young men to further this | worthy purpose. “brass hat” 8. | Q. Is it correct to say two pairs or two pair when playing poker>—T. G. D. A. The expression two pairs is cor= rect. Books on card games use “two pairs.” However, the use of the col- loquial expression, two pair, is often heard and is not particularly objec- tionable. |, Q What is the musical air to be used ;in t'i'let lrlflxuc }(1“ Nations’ Association contest for a hymn of amity am nations?>—H. W. % i A. The hymn is to be sung to 16 | measures of the “Ode to Joy” from Bee= thoven's “Ninth Symphony.” Q. Who started the Rookwood pottery works in Cincinnati?>—0. G. | . A. Mrs. Bellamy Storer was the foun- der of the Rookwood Dotterv. Q. What kind of wood is used for good base ball bats?—C. W. K i A. The best base ball bats are mad- from second-growth white ash. Q. Did the poem “John Brown's , | Body,” by Stephen Vincent Benet, win u“A P]ulnur Prize>—W. L. P. . It won the Pulitzer Prize for poete Iy in 1928. b Moley’s Place in Research Raises Hope Assignment of Prof. Raymond Mo- ley, Assistant Secretary of State, to head the Government's survey of the crime problem, with special attention to kidnaping and racketeering, is com- mended by the public, because of that official's experience in research. It is believed that he is an asset of the ad- ministration in the present emergency, and that his knowle of crime in va- rious States will lead to effective ac- tion in the direction of national police administration. “It is explained that he knows much about the criminal problem and has made it more or less a special study,” says the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, observing that he will contribute “par- ticular consideration of the ways and means of a national drive” The Providence Bulletin adds that he “un- doubtedly has as good an idea as any one in the United States, not_only of the extent of the crime problem, but of the difficulties that lie in the way of its solution.” The Des Moines Tri- bune testifies that “in that field he is admitted to be considerable of an ex- par- emnm one and as g well fitted for it. garded 1926 and 1927 -ne served as research direclor of the New York Crime Com- mission and it was while engaged in that work that he first attracted Mr. has t.hu. cond 'k: - '%m he eff ucted or in Missouri, of Crime Club ! pers the police. It cannot be other- | wise; the lawless police would be ine | tolerable. * * * The use of the authors ity of the United States in pursuit of lawbreakers of several classes is famil- iar. Its agents commonly work in har- mony with State and city police. Yet the varying jurisdictions of existing forces sometimes lead to misunder- standings and prevent information pos- sessed by one force from becoming im- mediately available to another. Dr. Moley should be able to suggest means to correct this. He warns the publie that he is not a magician and that he is not hunting fugitives. System, not Pl ik St achieves’ idation of Police agencies, there will still remain the question of how to treat the con- i S can be st ALl that is needed is the right s:re.poe?eflun and real intelligence,” asserts the Gary Post Tribune, while the Akron Beacon Journal offers the interpretation of the situation: ;He ‘I; é)ommjsaianed to erect police a sort of national Scotland Yard, to be at the service of every community whose own law en- forcement agencies are unable to ride hard upon tribute-taking desperadoes of the underworld. In normal times the local districts of the Nation might re- sent the intrusion of Federal authority into their police jurisdictions. Their e ice with Federal sleuths put to enforcing the prohibition laws inspires no happy memories. The appearance of some of the agents employed, and listed | their handy way of riding down civil £ i Fa ggsa Eifis Y % & 5 » I = £ § L 44 k E¥ 125 i - EE §ig g § § B rights, shooting unoffending travelers and terrorizing households with their raids, brought more torment to private citizens than_ to the bootlegging cian. It may be that Dr. Moley’s Scotland Yard will hold to her ideals and policy, and conduct itself upon the same disinterested plane of service as the Coast Guard and the efficient officials who run down counterfeiters and vio- lators of the internal revenue laws.” o| Protests Removal of Store Window Signs To the Editor of The Star: Your item in Wednesday’s issue cap- tioned 2,000 Illegal Signs Removed By Drive” is of sad significance in more senses than one. The creation of the removed signs, none of which was less square, had been of ap- ble help in giving employment. it source of relief is now apparently ‘The falling dried up. monetary I upon merchants now m«s every sacrifice in support of a program is very real and wholly un- . ‘The power of a municipality to E nll:logxt:nmubeym%eb‘;fi:-