Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1933, Page 8

{THE EVENING STAR ' ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. -_——— WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.......Avgust 14, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor $he Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 1 . and Pennsylval New York Office’ 110 E: 42nd St icago Office: Lake Michigan Bullding. uropean Office: 14 Regcnl 8t., London, England. nia_Ave. t | Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Star... .....45¢ per month and Sun T undays)...........60c per month d Sunday Star 85¢c per month .;.5c per copy month. phone Evenin Bta (when 4 The Evening an (when 5 Bun The Sunday Btar.. Collection made at the end of each ders may be sent in by mail or tele Ational 5000. Bate by Mail-—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. fly and Sunday. ?:lly only .. unday only All Other States and Canada. y and Sunda: yr., $12.00; 1 mo., $1.00 ily only .. yr, $800; 1mo, 1t R AN yr.. $5.00; 1mo. 50c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled %o the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise cred- fted in this paper and aiso the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatche: —_—— [ President Cespedes. Since yesterday Cuba has had a new President, Dr. Carlos Manuel de Ces- pedes, who succeeds the dethroned and fugitive Machado. With an American background of early education and several years of both private and of- ficlal residence in this country, the man to whose hands the destinies of the island republic have been tem- porarily entrusted takes office with the fullest confidence of the Cuban people, as well as of the United States Gov- ernment. He is well and favorably known in Washington, where for dif- ferent periods between 1914 and 19 he was Cuban minister and had inti- mate contacts with many men still in official life, including President Roose- velt. The various political and military elements which jointly precipitated the ignominious flight of Gen. Machado on “leave of absence” were united in the cholice of Dr. Cespedes for the pro- visional succession. Although he was secretary of state for the first year of Machado's presidency in 1925 and sub- sequently represented the late admin- 1¥r., $600: 1mo. 50¢c 1yr., $4.00: 1mo.. 40¢ istration at successive diplomatic posts, abroad, Dr. Cespedes was never identi- fied with the tyrannical and corrupt practices which made the Machado government feared, despised and mis- trusted, and finally spelled its doom. The new executive, presumably, will hold office until the next constitutional election in 1934. Experienced, world-minded and cul- tared, he brings to the helm at this grave hour of reconstruction all those talents for which the situation calls. If Cuba's shattered fortunes are capa- ble of rehabilitation, after the con-| vulsions and shocks through which' they have just passed, Dr. Cespedes is well equipped to lead his country toward that goal. The Cubans no doubt count it a fortuitous circum- stance that they have a president al- ready well intrenched in American favor, for it is chiefly to the United States that the island must look for tangible support in the achievement cont while electricity has gained 02| of its new destiny. Both President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull have promptly intimated that aid will be| commodities since June, 1929, has been | given Cuba through the earliest pPos- | 317 the tables above show the vast| sible consummation of a reciprocal'amount of difference between the de- | trade agreement. The administration signals in particular the intention of | groups. If the price level were changed | granting the Cubans a more liberal sugar tariff. Already $1,250,000,000 of American capital, mainly in sugar, is invested in Cuba. With the assurance of more stable political conditions, as the result of the annihilation of the Machado despotism, our funds in even larger volume should flow into the island. Armed intervention in Cuba was im- minent last week. President Roosevelt emphatically states that the dispatch of destroyers to Cuban waters for the | protection of American lives “involves no possible question of intervention.” This country’s whole philosophy about | Cuba is expressible in a few words. We have no wish for anything except the reasonable assurance that the Cubans are able to maintain a stable and independent government and dis- charge their international obligations. Once that is demonstrated, the Platt | amendment, for all practical purposes, might as well be scrapped. R Another old superstition has van- ished. There was once a popular be-' llef to the effect that the most of the work a diplomat had to do was to piay golf. Action Against Gold Hoarders. Since April 14 last, according to & story in yesterday's Star, cynically in- eclined newspaper men have been asking Attorney General Cummings when he expected to put the gold hoarders be- hind the bars. At intervals since that date the Attorney General has promised early action. And there has been. as & matter of fact, considerable acticn. Four thousand, seven hundred and forty-one persons have been asked by agents of the Department of Justice about hoarding gold. and all but about 415 of these have said that the agents were barking up the wrong tree—they had surrendered their gold. Two hundred and nine gave what they had over to the agents. But 206 said, in effect, “Come and get it—if you can.” Can these bold souls be made to stand and deliver, in court? The test should be made. Not because the amount of gold they hoard is of any great impcrtance to anybody. A million or s0 dollars of hoarded gold does not amount to a drop in the bucket. But the principle amounts to something— the principle of calling the Govern- ment’s bluff. Can it be done? The Department of Justice may have to create precédents when it prosecutes men for hoarding or possessing gold. It may choose to follow the cases of war-time food hoarding. There were prosecutions and convictions in war time, not only for hoarding food, but for violation of the thousand and one regulations against profiteering, waste and misrepresentations regarding sale of food. Whether feod hoarding and gold hoarding will be comparable in the eyes of the courts, taking into consideration the circumstances gov- erning legislation in both cases, re- .17, §10.00; 1 mo., 85c | investment | mains to be seen. Both the food con- trol law and the emergency banking —llaw placed great authority in the hands of the Chief Executive in the promulgation of regulations. Both acts are based on a declaration of emer- gency. While hoarding food in war time was punishable by a fine of $5,000 and imprisonment for two years, hoard- ing of gold is punishable by a maximum fine of $10,000, or ten years, or both. Last May the Attorney General said hoarders would be punished by ‘“pub- licity or prosecution.” Hoarding of gold does not seem to carry with it the war-time stigma of hoarding food. | Publicity, therefore, without prosecu- tion may become dangercusly near to | awarding a mark of distinction. It is human to envy anybody who has enough gold to hoard. If it is to be | prosecution—which also means pub- licity—the cutcome of the test may be important enough to affect other mone- | tary policies of the Government, be- sides its ban on hoarding gold. —— vt | Variations in Price Change. Glib talk of restoring prices, or the purchasing power of the dollar, | some “desirable” level, such as 1926, herein are also reseried. | which is a part of the talk about man- | — ! aged currency and controlled infiation, | fails to take into account one of the | important elements of the rise and fall of prices—this being that the prices of all commodities do not fluctuate in the same degree or at the same time. A valuable contribution to the dis- cussions of a “managed dollar” and the restoration of some so-called ideal level ‘ on the disappearance of Machado and le: to THE EVENI and when the eagle was proudly placed |upon a window, it could be seen by none but the occupants of the other rear lofts across an area way. Mr. Maramapus was disturbed. Later, in explaining his expedient to a New York Herald Tribune reporter, ne sald: “Blue eag’ on th' piece paper, she no good. My place got window, but window he see only next door house. Put my eag’ in my window, she see nobody, nobody see my eag'. custom’ no come to my place—I tailor shop get clothes, make fix, take clothes my place, take to tailor shop after make fix, see? Custom’ no_ see my blue eag'? Nobody see my blue eag’.” ‘Then came inspiration in the stillness of the night as he lay worrying. Tat- | too! 8o he hied him to the atalier of | an artist of the decorative needle and | now he bears the emblem on his chest, i ‘broad, commanding and assuring. When | he wishes to disclose his one hundred | per cent Americanism and his fidelity | | to the orders of his Government he bares his breast and proudly displays the token of his fealty. There it is, and there it will remain until the end of | his days. Nobody can doubt him. His| trade is assured. His workers have had | their pay raised and their hours short- | ened. He is now literally a man marked | for prosperity. All honor to K. Mara- | mapus, perhaps the only personal bearer | of the Blue Eagle on his broad chest in | this broad land. oo Ambassador Welles. In & report to the State Departmen t | S TAR, WASHINGION, D. C, Mo THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Recognizing persons one hasn't seen for a quarter of a century is no easy feat. Yet many a man performs it un- erringly. ‘Templeton Jones, who lacked this ablility, although he always fancied he had as good a memory for faces as the next man, had cause to marvel at it more than once this Summer. It seemed to him that every week or | 30 he met some chap who sidled up to him with a look of recognition in his eyes. “Didn’t I used to zo to school with you back in the sixth grade?” the stranger would say. “Probably you did, your face looks familiar.” But Templeton Jones couldn't remember the fellow to save his soul. x o k% “Your name is Jones, isn't it?” ‘Then followed the introduction, and, | sure enough, Jones remembered very well. He thought it must be his nose. Noses are easy things to remember. Everybody in France knew Cyrano de Bergerac because of his great snout. There have been other famous noses history. While Jones did not feel that he be- longed to history, in any sense, he was fully aware of the fact that he had a nose. A nose! And evidently every one else was aware of it, too. PR in For Jones was a modest man, and | could not think for an instant that he was as famous as he seemed to be. His name had appeared in print at ast 300,000,000,000 times, he believed, of prices by currency manipulation is| the selection of Dr. Cespedes as provi- | but that did not make people recognize the recent analysis of wholesale com- | sional President of Cuba, Ambassador | ! modity prices by the Bureau of Labor Statistics under the direction of the | new commissioner, Dr. Isador Lubin. Taking as the starting point June of 1929, this analysis shows that of the 784 commodities which make up the wholesale price index, twenty-seven of them increased in price through Feb- ruary, 1933; forty-two of them did not | change, and 715 of them decreased in price. Of this latter group, forty-eight commodities fell in price by less than ten per cent and seven of them by | more than eighty per cent. The re- | mainder fell in varying percentages be- | tween twenty and eighty. Considering the commodities by groups, we find the following percent- age of decreases between June, 1929, and June, 1933: All commodities Metals and metal products. Housefurnishings . ... Chemicals and drugs Fuel and lighting material Building materials Miscellaneous ......... Hides and leather produc Textile products Foods ...... Farm products All commodities other than farm products and foods. | Pinished products. . . Semi-manufactured articles. | Raw materials. . Selecting a few commodities by sub- groups, we find the following decreases: Bituminous coal. 126 Motor vehicles .16. Brick and tile. Other building material Boots and shoes Clothing . Meats . Petroleum products. | Live stock and poultry Crude rubber 9 s B bo @ S82RRREERINE 155 s. WD 113100k mhokehy i totobaky B85 - ® = 10 .19, 8. 3. 8. .705 as has increased in price by 9.4 per i per cent. | While the decrease in prices of all creases of commodity groups, or sub- by manipulating the standard of meas- urement (through decreasing the con- tent of the gold dollar, for instance) | | nothing, of course, would have been accomplished toward restoring the balance between those commodities which have decreased heavily and those where the fall has been slight. If we are deluded into raising prices by shortening the standard of measure- ment, the prices of things that are higher now than in 1929 would rise by the same degree as prices of things that are much lower now than in 1929. If, by changing the standard of meas- urement, prices of live stock and poultry or meats or crude rubber are made to appear the same as in 1929, the price of bituminous coal, building ma- terials, food and automobiles, to men- tion a few, would of course go out of sight, even measured by standards of 1929. The same thing shown by the tables above can be shown by any of the | 78¢ commodities, from white potatoes !at Chicago, which have increased in price from June, 1929, to June, 1933, by 104 per cent; to bar iron at Pitts- burgh, which has remained the same; to pepper, dried beans and shellac, | which have fallen 73 per cent, Each of the commodities, or commodity groups, | has been subject to varying conditions accounting for changed prices. The conditions that brought about a ten| per cent decrease in the price of wind- mills are obvicusly not the same that entered into the decrease of fifty per | cent in the price of slate roofing. | Readjustment of prices by currency | manipulation merely means continuing a distorted price structure, with ruina- tion for those who cannot adjust their jown salaries or earning capacity to | the new level. If we are to have a “com- | modity dollar,” what commodities are | to measure its value? ——— In plowing crops under, even scrupu- lous farmers will hardly be blamed if they select portions of the fleld which did not promise to do so very well any- how. | o | The Blue Eagle of K. Maramapus. returned, there may be preserved as souvenirs of the stress of depression |and the remedies of recovery some of the Blue Eagle emblems that are now scattered by hundreds of thousands through the land. Gradually they will be lost and discarded and worn out by handling until perhaps they will be so scarce as to be veritable museum pieces for future generations to note as tokens of a great national experiment in stim- ulated business, wage fixing and the regulation of working hours. One will last the lifetime of its owner, K. Mara- mapus, who is at present the proprietor of a very small clothing repair shop in New York City. Mr. Maramapus was one of the first to get his eagle when the call to economic arms was sounded. But his place of business was in the rear of a fourth-floor loft, In after days, when prosperity has ' | Sumner Welles states: “The solution E which "has finally been reached was worked out by the Cubans themselves.” | ‘That may be technically true, as far as| the outcome is concerned, but it does not begin to tell the whole story of the brilliant achievement that stands to the | credit of this forty-one-vear-old diplo- | mat. Seldom, if ever, was a more delicate | task entrusted to an American envoy. | | Unencumbered by any instructions from | Washington except to use his head, Mr. | it at the tender age of 8 years, when | in a vacant lot. | Welles was called upon to wade into| | the thorniest situation conceivable— | mediation, by a foreign representative, | | in purely domestic political strife that | involved nothing less than the exist- | ence of the established national govern- | ment. It would have been a tall order | anywhere, but in the case of “interfer- | ence” by the Colossus of the North in, the internal affairs of a Latin American | nation, the task took on a gravity which called for tact and acumen of the high- | est caliber. Pitfalls lurked on every| hand. | The United States was fortunate that | in Mr. Welles a man was on the ticklish job at Havana whose knowledge of | Cuba’s language and of the Latin tem- | | perament is thorough. He is entitled | to the congratulations of his govern- | | ment and of his country. That Ameri- | can armed intervention proved avoid- able must be due in principal measure | to the skill and persistence with which | he carried on his mediatory efforts. In| light of the United States’ new policy of more closely cemented relations with |orders from home governments, practi- | Washington, enacted the role of a Capi- the other Americas, it is satisfying to | feel that the Roosevelt administration | | has at its command such services as | | in Cuba by Sumner Welles. e | | 1t was stated early by Gen. Johnson that he expected a little trouble here and there with N. R. A. enforcement. | If all his expectations are finally ful- | filled with equal exactness there will | be little complaint from the public. — e Sometimes a New York stock broker | suspects that his happiest days are those when there is nothing to do with ticker tape except to throw it out of | the window 1in honor of a passing hero. | et | When the States get through voflng“ | against the eighteenth amendment they | will revert to pre-war days and work | | to restrain the use of “hard licker” as much as possible. | e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Old Sweet Song. | Again I long for that old song | Which loudly used to say That the bananas had gone wrong | And there were none today. | We now have shortages of bread And beans and sausage meat And other articles, 'tis said, Which we desire to eat. | We wish our economic laws Would bid those days draw near When a banana shortage was The worst we had to fear. Resort to Dulcet Persuasion. “Don’t you think you had better go | home and make some more speeches?" “What for?” said Senator Sorghum. “You've got to give the people what they want. Evidently what the party needs out our way is a good crooner.” Jud Tunkins says you won't be happy even if everything you say goes for au- | thority. He never saw a traffic cop | who looked rested up and comfortable | after a day's work. Negativities. The times of course are rather new. Strange is this mortal lot. Some men are paid for what they do; Some for what they do not. Appearances. “Styles change very rapidly,” re- marked the superficial ocean observer. “Not as rapidly as they used to,” said Miss Cayenne. “The fashions in lip- sticks and sun tan have not changed in several seasons.” “Wealth means prosperity,” said Hi | Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “unless it |is the kind of wealth that needs war- fare to protect it from dishonesty.” Discomforts. The nations near and far appear ‘To be in much disquiet Because they've taken something queer In their financial diet, And some that used to stand in pride Pind that discomforts twist ’em Because each has a cramp inside His monetary system. “Another thing we meeds,” said Uncle Eben, “is one o' dem codes fixed up to prevent Satan f'um workin’ twenty-four hours & day seven days & weelks' | will go over in a big way. | receive t—or him. “Templeton Jones,” some clerk, proudly. “T. Jones,” she would write down. “Address, please?” xox ok No. thought he, it is my nose. Surely, the Jonesian proboscis was & ature well worthy of attention. While not as large as the legendary nose of Cyrano, it stuck out consider- able. His enemies might have said, with some justice, that it jutted. His own attention had been called to he would tell fe: he had overheard Aunt Lily declare, “‘Yes, Templeton has a very large pro- boscis. Jones was very much ashamed, and especially of Aunt Lily, for using such a word in public. It wasn't until he went to the dic- tionary that he forgave her. * x ox x ‘The Jones nose was the sort called Roman. It should be added, in justice to the Romans, that all persons. the world around, who possess this type of beak are very proud of it It is the nose of power, they say. The fact that a great many rascals have had it makes little difference, after all. One cannot go farther than one's own nose, and a good solid nose is something to be proud of. when one considers button noses. and thin noses, and lopsided noses. People who recognize you after many WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Eyes of the world are on N. R. A. On cally every embassy and legation in Washington is watching and reporting the progress of the Roosevelt recovery program. All over the globe the great | Between June, 1029, and April, 1933.| have just been so effectively rendered American experiment is being observed with the closest scrutiny. If it accom- plishes even a tithe of its purpose it is foreshadowed that many another coun- try may set up an N. R. A. of its own. Lloyd George has told the House of Commons_that Great Britain in par- | ticular will do well to heed the course of events over here. With the sole ex- ception of Russian Communism, the New Deal is considered abroad the most audacious and alluring adventure in na- tional economics which modern times have ever known. Foreign nations have a practical reason for hoping the thing Restored prosperity in the U. S. A. means bigger American imports and better business for everybody in the world's richest market. * ¥ ok x Keep your eves on laurel-crowned Ambassador Sumner Welles of Oxon Hill, Md. More is going to be heard of him. His gilt-edged job in bestowing the order of the boot upon President Machado without American interven- | tion puts Welles in the hall of pan- American fame for all time. President Roosevelt has returned to Washington loud in praise of his Havana envoy's diplomacy. There has been nothing to compare with it in our international annals. F. D. R. was never an inter- ventionist. He sent Welles to Cuba with instructions to exhaust every con- ceivable mediation means to restore po- litical stability. Intervention was al- ways the rod the United States had in pickle, but Welles had orders to keep it there until all other possibilities of tor- pedoing the Machado dictatorship were used up. Whatever future honors are in store for the Ambassador—you may put it down for certain that they will come along some sunny day—he is not going to be withdrawn from Havana for the indefinite future. His next job there will be as generalissimo of She New Deal which President Roosevelt has in mind for the Pearl of the An- tilles in co-operation with the Cuban government. * * lection of Dr. Carlos Manuel .dc C:;edes as President of Cuba is well d in Washington. He was the is- inister here at different periods and 1922, going back to ears ago to be secretary yas cabinet. Smallish ken and scholarly, far removed from 'pe of Machado, h the deposed anization. his carly land's Mi between 1914 Havana eleven y of state in the Za; of stature, soft-spol President Cespedes is the bluff, gruff soldier ty] though long identified wit] President’s Liberlld party 13:5 s a boy Dr. Cespedes rece! Qduz.uu’n in New York City. He speaks English, French. German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese and has Tep- Tresented Cuba in a diplomatic capacity in Great Britain, France. Italy, Greece and Argentina. His marriage to an Italian lady took place in New York City Hall in 1915, the knot being tied by Mayor John Purroy Mitchel. Dr. Cespedes was President Machado’s first secretary of state, in 1935, but resigned a year later to become Cuban Minister at Paris. He is 62 years old. Col. Theo- dore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders encountered him as governor of San- tiago Province in the Spanish-American ‘War. * ok % K Something brand-new in the Roose- velt patronage realm—a referendum among Virginia Democrats to decide who they prefer for collector of cus- toms at Norfolk—is proposed by an ac- tive aspirant for the job, Norman R. Hamilton, editor and publisher of the Portsmouth Star, who held the post during the Wilson administration. ~Al- though Mr. Hamilton mobilized un- usually impressive support for his can- didacy among some 20,000 Democratic business men, politicians and labor leaders of the State, Senators Glass and Byrd are recommending I. W. Truxtun Norfolk for the place. Mr. Hamil- ton’s rejoinder is a militant open letter to Senator Byrd, proposing a refer- endum to give Democratic voters a chance to express a choice for the col- lectorship. Hamilton tlhn‘:munoes {n: willingness to pay out of own pocket two-thirds of the cost of holding such an election. He charges that the oppo- sition to him is fomented by “the Nor- folk office-holding group” and a few other scattered foes. * % ® % Benator Willlam H. King, Democrat, of Utah, one of the large congressional years have to have something to go on, to hang remembrance to, as it were. x k% K A good strdng nose just fills the bill. “Didn’t I used to know you at the seashore?” asked the stranger. Templeton Jones took & good look. There was something familiar in the | glitter of his eyes, but that was as far as he could go. “Uh, huh.” “Your name is Bones, or something lke that, isn't it?” ones. “That's it!” If it had been St. John, or Worthington, or Taliaferro, the fel- low could not have acted as if he had made & nelur‘m:cnxer{. Then there was the stout man who | met Jones descending a flight of steps. He stopped him. “Say,” he began, holding out a de- taining hand, “didn't we go to the old Adams School together?” “Sure, we did,” agreed Jones, this time instantly, for he remembered the man perfectly. “You had a fight with John Allen, and you cut his cheek with & gold ring you wore.” *“Sure enough, I remember. Why, that was & long time ago.” “Mighty long time ago,” replied Tem- pleton Jones. “How could you remem- ber my face after all these years?” It was a question, however, to which he never received adequate answer. Maybe they didn’t know how they remembered him. But Jones thought he knew. x ok k% ‘The advantage of a big nose, he mused, was that one enjoyed the pleas- ures of aroma, fragrance and the like, more than the little-nosed. Little nose, little olfactory organs; big nose, great powers of scent. This sense is one very much neglect- ed by the populace at large. A smell must be vast to claim the at- tention of the average human being. But the man who prides himself on (his nasal ability, much as he would upon his deftness with the violin, is able to find intrigue everywhere. | * x ox % | There is no place that the big-nosed can go, but he can discover a faint | aroma of something or other. Most of | these perfumes are natural. such as come from an old stump, or the weeds | Secretary of State Hull, who is just back DAY, AUGUST 14, 1933. The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. FALMOUTH, Mass, August 14—In the midst of the intensive drive to put the Roosevelt recovery program into ef- ! fect in this country an international | problem of major proportions and of | especial interest to America interjected itself—the Cuban problem. When Pres- | ident Machado quit the job of chief ex- ecutive of the island government Sat- urday there was wild acclaim in Cuba and a heavy sigh of relief in Washing- ton, As s matter of fact, it looks now as though the Roosevelt administration has scored heavily again, has succeeded in s new kind of intervention in Cuba, without the use of the armed forces of the United States. Sumner Welles, the American Ambassador, was the man of the hour in Cuba, backed up strongly by President Roosevelt and the United States Government. That a revolution | was under way in Cuba was clear to| the man in the street, both here and there, but that it could be brought off without bloodshed and disorders that would make the presence of armed troops of this Government necessary was the real surprise. * ok % % Americans have a big stake invested in Cuba—about $1,500,000,000. It is in- vested in sugar, in public utilities, in Cuban government bonds and a host of other things. Cuba has been flat on ite back in the economic depression, just as has the United States and other na- tions of the world. Now that it has had a change of government, forced by this | silent and peaceful revolution—as revo- lutions go—it is quite apparent that steps must be taken as speedily as pos- sible to bring Cuba out of the economic depression or there will be more trouble. from his labors at the London Economic Conference, is expected to tackle the| problem, along with the new Cuban government, to see what this country can do to ald the Cubans. Undoubt- | ealy Cuba will find a sympathetic friend | in Mr. Hull and new trade agreements | will be forthcoming. * x x It was only a few days ago that Sen- ator Key Pittman of Nevada, chairman |of the Senate Foreign Relations Com- | mittee, on his return to this country from London, said that this country would have to decide on one of two policies—intervention under the “Platt amendment,” or non-intervention, leav- | _Rotting wood, for instance. at certain points into its transmutation, sends up | pleasing scents. Along certain stretches | of Toadside waft aloft smells reminiscent | | of the sea. What is the salty principle, | hidden there?> Only a chemist could answer, and his reply probably would | not_be intelligible ‘The nose knows nothing of chemical | equations, it takes what comes, and shifts it into the brain, which says | “good” or “bad” according to a thou- sand thousand past impressions. Wha is pleasant to one nose will strike an- | other as distinctly disagreeable. Thus | some men love the smell of wood smoke, others find it unpleasantly acrid. Templeton Jones had a nose like a ! rhinoceros, able to filter out whatever came to it. It was a good nose. and Jones was proud of it. But, above all, it permitted old friends of the long ago | to recognize him. When they saw his nose, they said. *That's Templeton Jones!” And, sure ensugh, he was. | | | group that is spending the Summer in tol guide the other day as a special compliment to Dr. Frantisek Soukop, president of the Senate of Czechoslo- vakia. It was the Senate chamber which chiefly interested the Prague statesman. He got a lively kick out of Senator King's invitation to take Vice President Garner's chair on the rostrum and imagine he was presiding over the world’s greatest deliberative body. * ok ok Col. Edwin A. Halsey, secretary of | the Senate, has discovered among the dust-covered archives of that body a | letter showing that in 1801 the Su- preme Court of the United States was | begging Congress for a single room for the court’s use—a curious reminder of other days, now that the bench will soon be occupying the magnificent new | “palace of justice” on Capitol Hill. | The letter, addressed to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the | House, reads: “Gentlemen: As no house has been provided for the judiciary of the United States, we hope the Su- preme Court may be accommodated with a8 room in the Capitol to hold its session till further provision shall be made; an arrangement, however, which we would not presume to make without the approbation of ; We. therefore, request that the sense | of that body may be communicated to | us on the subject.” * ok ox ¥ Did you know there’s a new electoral college in the United States? It was recently established for its own pur- ‘poses by the American Foreign Service | Association, which consists of men and | | women in the State Department and | in the diplomatic and consular service. | The college met for the first time a | | couple of weeks ago and chose Norman | | Armour, careerman American Minister | | to Haiti, as president of the association. |Mr. Armour won fresh diplomatic | laurels in the successful negotiation of | | the recent Haitian-American “executive agreement.” whereby the Marines will leave Haiti ahead of time next year. | * % % x N. R. A. Snapshots.—The Veterina: Association of Southern Clmorn‘;z | wrote in to ask if its employes could be | classified as nurses in order to be ex- empt from wage and hour restrictions. ... “NIRA! My Code to Thee!" has en suggested as the theme song for recalcitrant industrialists as Gen. | Johnson shows them the dotted line and makes them like it. * ok k% North Carolina, a repealist authority R:lnu out, and not South Carolina, will ve the honor of driving the last nail {in the coffin of the eighteenth amend- |ment by becoming the thirty-sixth State to effectuate repeal. He fixes | December 6, 1933, as the date on which repeal will be in force, with the Tar | Heel State convention’s ratification of | the repeal election of Nomember 7. * ok k% Newton D. Baker heads the Ameri: can delegation at the latest interna- | tional conference—fifth biennial of the | Institute of Pacific Relations, which opens today at Banfl, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. It is an unoficial parley. British, Canadian, Japanese, Chinese, Australians and Filipino |groups will attend. Sir Herbert Sam- | uel, M. P., distinguished Liberal leader, will lead the British delegation. Sir Robert Borden, former premier, and Vincent Muufl, former Minister at Washington, will represent Canada. (Covyright, 1933.) ——ve—s The Final Test. From the Lowell Evening Leader. So far as the restaurant proprietor is concerned, it is the balanced diet | when you have settled with the cashier. — e Shade Preferred. From the Rochester ‘Times Unicn. ‘What the average man seeks in these days is not his place in the sun. ————————— A Domestic Rift. Prom the Topeka Daily Capital Sympathy is due that Boston man whose wife objects to his smoking be- cause it is too expensive a habit for both of them to indulge in. e One Achievement. From the Pasadens Post. The London Conference was & sort ing. the Cubans free to settle their own differences and other foreign na- | tions at liberty to intervene in Cuba to protect their nationals and their interests if internal strife should threaten them. As a matter of fact intervention of a peaceful and diplo- matic kind was already under way and had been for some time, through the good offices of Ambassador Welles. * % ox x For & long time the determination ' has been growing in this country to keep out of Latin American troubles if it is a possible thing to do. The, Marines have been recalled from Nic- | aragua. They are coming out of Haiti. | where they have been for years. And now, just when this policy of with-| drawal from Latin American countries seemed well under way, along comes this trouble in Cuba. It is rather tough that the Roosevelt administra- | tion should have this added burden placed upon it, when it is exerting every ounce of strength to get the United States back on its feet econom- | ically, through a process that is utterly lmlzTI in some of its implications, | and which amounts really to a social | revolution—carried on entirely peace- | fully—within the confines of the United | States itself. %% % The _so-called Platt amendment, which was added to an Army appro- | priation bill back in March, 1901, was sponsored by Senator Orville Platt of Connecticut, then chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. | Eventually it was accepted by the Cuban Constitutional Convention, which regarded the Platt amendment as a kind of ultimatum by the United States Government. The treaty of Paris, which closed the war between the| United States and Spain, provided that the United States should pacify Cuba | and protect private property in the | island country. The Platt amendment | went further. In effect, it pledged the | Government of the United States to see | to it forever that there should be stable government in Cuba. While it contains eight sections, it is to the third section | of the Platt amendment that the ad- | ministration must look in connection | with the present situation in Cuba. This section #ays: | “That the government in Cuba con- sents that the United States may ex- ercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, | the maintenance of a government ade- quate for the protection of life, prop- erty and individual liberty, and for | discharging the obligations with respect | to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris | on the United States, now to be as-| sumed and undertaken by the govern- ment of Cube.” *x ok ‘There_are other important features of the Platt amendment, including a provision that Cuba must make no foreign treaties which might impair her independence, nor permit any foreign power to alienate her territory. There is a provision, too, that the Cuban government must not incur debts be- | yond ordinary revenues, and another that the United States might buy land for coaling and naval stations. Inci- dentally, a perusal of the Platt amend- | ment may make many Americans wish that something had been written into | their own Constitution to prevent the | Government of the United States from | incurring indebtedness beyond the cur- | rent revenues. But that is water over | the dam. | | | * ok ok X There is always the possibility that the abdication of a ruler in Cuba may | not prove the panacea for the island’s | {lls that it is expected to be. Cuba has been hard hit by the depression. Ma- chado, the President in power at the | time, is blamed for the depression, just | as any President of the United States| who happens to be in office when a depression grips this country is always, blamed. * kX ¥ The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relatiéns Committee, Mr. Pittman, in an interview in New York, declared that the Monroe Doctrine does not apply so far as the Cuban situation is concerned, that the Platt amendment | was the governing document or policy. Indeed, he went on to say that the Monroe Doctrine was an outworn icy, that it was no longer needed and that it should be scrapped. Such & suggestion, emanating from a chair- man of the Foreign Relations Commit- tee of the United States Senate, is an indication of the extent to which the country has traveled in recent years as regards its foreign policies. Senator Pittman’s suggestion would have been received as little short of treasonable a comparatively few years ago. It has been under the operation of the Monroe Doctrine, which warns the nations of Europe and Asia they must keep the armed forces out of the republics of the Western Hemisphere, that the United States has intervened in Central American countries, in Haiti and else- where, to preserve order and prqtect lives and property not only of citizens of the United States but also of the nationals of other foreign countries. More and more the idea has taken possession of Americans that it is the duty of Latin-American nations to work out their own destinies, without the intervention of the United States and in this connection that American interests which go into those countries need not look to America for a battle fleet and the United States Marines if disorders -rlu.* S Sznator Pittman's statement regard- ing the Monroe Doctrine, considered in connection with the 'h made by Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, Another member of the Foreign Relations Committee and considered | of triumph, after all, the delegates not bein':dmld at each other as they sep- arated. e . o T R julphur , declaring e United States was “through” with gen- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERI Any reader of this newspaper is wel- come to make use at any time of the free information service of this depart- ment. Address your inquiry to The Evening Star Information Bureau, ;Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- | ton, D. C., and you will receive a per- sonal letter in reply. Inclose 3 cents in coins or stamps for return post- sge. Do not use post cards. Be sure to | state your question clearly, and to write your name and address plainly. Q. How long should a person stay in the water when swimming at a Sum- | mer resori?—O. S. A. The Public Health Service says that there is certainly little to be gained from a health viewpoint by lolling in the water for several hours at a time. | To obtain the beneficial effects of a swim one should not remain in the water longer than 30 minutes at most, this period being coupled with appro- priate short rest periods unless the swimmer is unduly hardy and accus- tomed to the vigorous volved. The practice of “drying off,” often in a chilly atmosphere, is one to be condemned because of the possible chilling of the body. It is much better to enter the water several times dalily, taking a brisk rub after each swim and changing into dry clothes, instead of a! lowing the clothing to dry on the body as some do at the seashore. Q. Where will the Notre Dame-Army g:otxhnu game be played this Fall?— A. It will be played in New York City, December 2. Q. Is a new airport being built in Rio de Janeiro?>—F. M. S. A. Brazil is bullding an enormous | airport at Rio de Janeiro, which will | accommodate land, sea, and amphibian planes. A mast will also be erected for | airships. It is said that this airport | will be one of the most complete and modern in the world. Q. Why are Mocha and Java coffees 50 often sold as a blend”—T. H. H A. Genuine Mocha is a little too acid and genuine Java is not quite acid enough for the average consumer. The blending results in just the right pro- portion of each element to produce the finest flavor. Q. What will remove the oil stains from a white cement drive?>—R. F. A. The Bureau of Public Roads says scrape as much of the grease away from the concrete surface as possible. Over the spot place about one-half inch of Fuller's earth and saturate this with benzol. Keep the Fuller's earth satu- rated with benzol. The benzol will act as a solvent for the grease and this will be absorbed by the Fuller's eart! After several hours, remove the Fuller's earth and scrub with soap and hot water. Q. Why is a point on the elbow called the funny bone?>—T. H. A1t is a pun on the word. humerus, the name of the upper bone of the arm. It is the end of this bone which is called the funny bon Q. Should a hoe be sharpened on the inside or outside>—B. B. A. The best practice is to sharpen a hoe on both sides. Most of the sha pening, however, is on the outside, that on the inside being merely sufficient to remove the rough edges. Q. Does an ostrich bury its the sand when frightened?—E. A. It does not. This is merely a myth and is never heard among people who live in ostrich country. | Q What are the official languages of Palestine, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hun- | head in R exercise in- | | recently created such a sensation? R C J. HASKIN. |gary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, | Syria and Yugoslavia?—H. V. A. Palestine—English, Hebrew, Arabic; | Czechoslovakia—Bohemian, Slovak; Es- | tonia — Estontan; Hungary — Magyar; Latvia — Lettish; Lithuania — Lithuan- |fan; Luxemburg — French, German; | Syria—French, Arabic; Yugoslavia— | Serbian, Croat. Slovine. [ Q. In the Roman Catholic Church | what is meant by propaganda? —R. S. E. A. It is a committee of cardinals who control foreign missions. Q. How much more space does steam occupy than water occupies’—H. S A. Steam at atmospheric pressure will | occupy nearly 1,700 times the space of | the same weight of water at that pres- sure. | Q Who is Father Divine? F. s. A. “Father Divine,” whose real name | s Major J. Divin, is a Negro. a forme: | resident of Sayville, Long Island. He ganized a religious cult with his o residence as headquarters, which w named “Heaven Among the Faith| Here “Father Divine” fed and houscd pilgrims and converts, at the same time conducting such lively revival scrvices that he was indicted and convicted as a nuisance, and sentenced to pay $500 fine with one year's imprisonment. He appealed and the verdict was reversed He then left Long Island for New York City, where he conducted revivals and | broadcast. At the present n | “Father Divine” is touring several cit He appears to have ample funds wh ;plp_urently are donated by the “faith ful.” Q. Why is an invalid's chair called a bath chair?>—S. L. A. They were first used at Bath | where many invalids went on account of its hot springs. Q. When was Broadway, in New York City, given its name?—A. O. A The first mention o Broadway was in 1643 when a land 1 oughfare being a broad way manner that highway received its & pellation. The Romans their roads above the adjac drain off the water, hence a highway is higher and a broadway is broader than a lane. Q. Can you give me the quotation about “happy the man who can call this day his own"?—J. H. N. A. The quotation is from Dryden’s “Imitation of Horace"; “Happy the man, and happy he alone. he who can call today his own: he who. can say, tomorrow do thy have livid today.” Q. What is the record number of d ferent golf courses played by one ma se withir , for 1 A. Ralph Kennedv of the Wingea Foot Golf Club is believed to h h record. Early this season he had pl: more than 1,100 different cour: at one time he played 36 diffe; courses i 15 days. d L rent Q. What can you tell me about Craw- ford. the Board of Trade operator. who T A. Edward A. Crawford was born Florida. He is a dentist and chiropr tor by profession. having practiced ir Georgia and Florida. His first mark operations were on the Cotton Exchange in New Orleans. In 1919 he went to New York. He is said to have made and lost fortunes of a million or more several times. Q. What was the year of the panic in Columbus. Ohio, when it was re- ported that the dam above the city had gone out?’—S. C. D. A. It happened in the vear 1913 Morgenthau ’s Fear of Wamrr Points to Conflicting Views Testimony that Europe is arming for war, from Henry Morgenthau, sr.. is received with some skepticism, although he is credited with ability as an able analyst and keen observer. Delegate to the Geneva Wheat Conference and an adviser to the London Economic Con- | ference, he is believed to have had op- | portunities for observation, but his con- | clusions, it is pointed out, differ from | those of some other Americans who | have been abroad. Accepting as important his belief that ‘'war clouds are gathering and it will | not be long before the storm breaks,” | the Rockford Register-Republic states ' that “Secretary of State Hull visualized | an entirely different scene,” and could see “only a desire for co-operative effort | among nations, with a view to estab- lishing lasting peac The Register- Republic concludes: “Mr. Morgenthau is essentially a realist, and his problems deal with facts. Secretary Hull is a theorist, whose internationalistic views amount almost to a passion. It is left | | to the American people to draw their | own conclusions as to which of their | own representatives. if either. may be | right. Certainly the two opinions can- not be reconciled, hence one must be | | wrong.” Representative McReynolds, one of | the American delegates to the London | Conference, is quoted by the Charleston | (S. C.) Evening Post as saying that | “he saw not the slightest sign of war- | mindedness during the six weeks he was in London, mingling with representa- tives of sixty nations.” That paper con- cedes that Mr. Morgenthau “is an e: perienced diplomat and should have usual opportunities for acquiring infor- mation.” The Evening Post adds: “Now | that the Economic Conference has failed | —it was said by many that its failure | would be an international tragedy— | there is a recurrence of war talk in Eu- | rope, although it can hardly be said that. in a popular sense, there was per- ceptible. any widespread repercussion from the collapse of the conference.” The Charleston paper quotes a cor- respondent of the New York Herald Tribune as reporting that on the occa- sion of England’s observance of the nineteenth anniversary of its entrance into the war, he observed “less of the spirit of revulsion against that frightful slaughter and more of a disposition to regard it not only as an inevitable and a justifiable event, but also as an en- | nobling experience. That is a change,” it is added, “from the stark horror with which it was regarded in the years im- | mediately following the conclusion of | peace, when virtually all who had gone through the shambles were resolved | that never again should there be such & searing of humanity.” | “Referring to the Morgenthau state- ment that ‘France is working tooth and nail to be self-contained and is offering a bonus on wheat,’ the Baltimore Sun comments on the conclusions drawn: ‘A struggle for national economic sel containment in preparation for war may, for all we know by way of de- cisive proof, be the proper explanation of the French governiment's subsidy of its wheat farmers. However, the ex- planation of the wheat subsidy offered by many French politicians is at least worth noting in this connection. They say that, far from being directed to war purposes, the wheat subsidy is the French government's peace offering to the peasant farmers of France. be that preservation of internal politi- cal peace with the French peasants and preparation to have the international peace broken both play parts in the motivation of the French wheat subsidy. But at any rate the motivation offered eral international conferences, is re- garded as additional indication that the policy of the United States will be here- after to paddle its own canoe. Mr. Lewis expressed the opinion that the United States would revert to its old | policy of dealing with each individual | foreign nation and would avoid any | attempt at concerted action by a large group of nations. It may | by Mr. Morgenthau seems a bit too simple, as does most of his outl why ‘all Europe is ready for war. Declaring that this diplomat is “more free to speak his mind than the other American represent: the recent Economic Conference, Jersey City Journal observes that his view “lacks nothing in the way of sim- plicity and frankne: and suggests that “in the Wilson days he earned a reputation as a careful analyst of con= ditions.” His frankness “seems surpris- ing” to the Altoona Mirror, which feels that “he is in a position to know the exact situation,” while that paper voices the opinion that it is “inconceivable that nations that are still paying for the World War would be considering, much less preparing, for another armed conflict.” The view “is disquieting” to the Oak- land Tribune. which holds that it “can- not be regarded as idle gossip. especially in view of the huge outlay by European powers for armament,” and as to the advice from the diplomat that “Europe will not look to us for man power again,” the Tribune replies that “the man power that now seems ample would not hold up under the terrific punish- ment of modern war machines.” That paper finds great respect abroad for the power of the United States. but continues: “American opinion will be solid in the belief that Europe should at least wait until the staggering bill for the last war is fully paid before in- dulging again in this extravagant form of insanity.” “One thing is certain—Europe is not ‘ready for war,’ economically speaking.” concludes the Columbia (S. C.) State with a warning against -the danger of rumors d gossip dealing with such matters and tending to “create bad feel- ing between peoples.” The Lincoln State Journal, admitting that “most countries are ready for war most of time,” is convincing that “they are u willing to be pushed into a struggle.” ——.—— Canadians Overhaul Banks. Prom the Newark Evening News Although no Canadian banks were closed in the recent depressed days, a governmental commission is to 100k into the banking system of the dominion. The commission will not confine its quiry to present conditions, but will explore the whole field of finance and trade. Particular attention will be given to relations with the United States. ‘The commission is to be headed by Lord MacMillan, author of the famous report that informed Britishers and many others as to conditions in the commonwealth of nations. It is ex- pected that one of the commissioners may be taken from the United States. The basic banking act of Canada provides the code must be revised every 10 years. Every revision has resulted in improvement. Developments within and without the dominion have brought to prominence such issues as gorvern- mental supervision, establishment of a central bank and the handling of for- eign exchange upon which this com- mission may be expected to file a report worthy of the most careful conside tion in this country. The Ottawa Eco- nomic Conference did not produce a definite program because of the then approaching world conference. but the indications at London of greater inde- pendence on the part of the Canadians | gives hope that the latest commission will meet economic questions more squarely and more informatively to us. Penalty of Progress. Prom the Ban Diego Union. If Marconi is right about telephone out of business. at what is the small boy to alm his kite? oo Lay Off! Prom the Newark Evening News But one peril threatens the national recovery act. It is that some one will term it & noble experiment. |