Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1933, Page 8

{THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. -— WASHINGTON, D. C. $UESDAY.......August 15, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor $he Evening Star Newspaper Company usiness Office” and Pennsylvania Ave. M 110 Eq 43nd 8t. Bullding. London. Rate by Carrier Within the City. Evening Star_.. ... .45¢ per month Evening and Sunday’ v 60c per monith nday Btar e Sunday Star. il aseperio T oheckion mate at the end of each month. Orders may be sent In by mail or telephone NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 1yr.,$10.00: 1 mo.. “1yr. $6.00: 1 mo.. 30c 1yr. $4.00; 1mo..40¢c The Evening_and Sul (when 5 Sundays! Daily only . Bunday only All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday...1yr.$12.00; 1mo.. 31 Daily only . Jyr, 3800 1mo., 7 Sunday only . ‘1yr. $5.00; 1mo.. 8 Member of the Associated Press. “The Associated Press is exclusively rn\lflled %0 the use for republication of all news dis- tohes credited {0 it or mot otherwise cred- | Fred In this paper and also the local news ‘published herein. All rights of publi on of special dispatches herein are also reserved. —_— 00 Sc oc Encouraging Signs. Warden Lawse of Sing Sing told the Senate’s Subcommittee on Racketeer- ing that he could stamp out the busi- ness in thirty days, “if 1 were Musso- lini” Warden Lawse is not Mussolini, | national determination. nor apt to be, so that suggestion will| not go far. Edward P. Mulrooney, | former police commissioner of New | York, proposed revival of the whipping post for gangsters, commenting on! their love of cheap publicity and the | damage resulting to exalted ego from a publicly administered whipping—an interesting but possibly not a certain cure for kidnaping and kindred crimes. Grover Whalen suggested the “Amer ican Scotland Yard” idea. which also| has its defects and disadvantages. | But, as Prof. Moley told the subcom- | ever since the first issues were designed. The two values included in the initial set of 1847 bore portraits of Franklin and Washington. In the next set, 1851, Jeflerson was added to the list and the American eagle appeared in phila- telic use. The first memorial stamp was that in tribute to Lincoln, 1866. The series of 1869 included representa- tions of a post horte and rider, a lo- comotive and an ocean steampship, also of the landing of Columbus and the signing of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. The Columbian set of 1893 provided a precedent for the trans-Mississippi series of 1898 and the Pan-American series of 1901. The Louisiana Purchase set, 1904; the Jamestown set, 1907; the Alaska-Yukon stamp, 1909; the Hud- son-Fulton stamp, 1909; the Panama- Pacific set, 1912; the Victory stamp, 1919; the Pllgrim Tercentenary set, 1920; the Huguenot-Walloon Tercen- tenary set, 1924; the Lexington-Con- cord set, 1925, and the Norse-American set, 1925, constitute a gallery of his- torical views. Added to more recent fssues and chronologically arranged. they furnish a panoramic background for the annals of the present era. Now the N.R. A. stamp takes its place in the procession. It is a worthy addi- tion. It symbolizes a national hope, a It should be popular with all who love their coun- try, be they philatelists or not. b ——— A War Lord Stacks Arms. Gen, Feng Yu-Hsiang, best ballyhooed Chinese “war lord,” has stacked arms and retired to the summit of Taishan Mountain, China's sacred peak, to spend the rest of his days in such peace and | quiet as war lords are capable of im- posing upon themselves. Feng for years has been known to international fame as China’s “Chris- | tian general.” presumably because of his conversion to the western faith. Ever since the birth of the Chinese Re- public he has been a stormy petrel. | Sometimes his formidable army of | semi-regulars and banditti was a sup- porter of what passed for the Chinese mittee, “the hearing is of ennrmrusi value in bringing together the opin- e carantil i sy aed Goratines | the “Christian general” operated for jons of competent authorities.” And what 1s more, it is an excellent S&n | p o 0 ghichever particular pur- that some of the recognizedly COM- |0 pe chose at the moment to serve. petent authorities are speaking serious- | 11708 T T T T tuchuns. ly about teviving the Whipping POst|pong camo under suspicion of being a and resorting to such drastic meas-| ... 'yorq who fought for Japan rather ures as a modified form of martial| yan Ching and for a consideration. law to put the racketeers behind the | o .central government” of China bars, and possibly under the sod. | could ever be quite sure where or what It is encouraging because the Country | ye «Gpristian general” was. For the #s a whole for many years past has .o part, he was a thorn in the gov- seen an increasing amount of emphasis| . ente side and more often “ag'in” placed upon the business of reforming |y tnan for it. criminals, rather than punishing them | 11" juna of this year, Feng went by devices that would remove them 28| papriotic and nationalist in protest “public enemles” The flaw in the|againt Japanese aggression in Man- theory—for the most part & very g0od | chyria and south of the Great Wall theory—of reforming malefactors has| githin “China proper.” He and his been that it did not take sufficiently |troops seized territory in Chahar into account the fact that there i3 & | Province, to the north, and proclaimed recognized .element of the population | their intention of conducting a cam- that lives by crime and makes only | pajgn to recover China’s lost provinces, shadowy pretense of living by anything | 1ast week the “Christian general” made €lse, and these are plainly beyond reach | his peace with the Nanking government of reformation. The reforms in treat- | after its forces and Japanese troops ment of criminals have worked chiefiy | jointly initiated military operations to to the advantage of the professional | suppress his revolt. His widely ad- criminals. These have been able to!' vertised “people’s anti-Japanese army,” perfect & highly effictent legal mech- confronted by an enemy that was about anism for their protection, one that is | to annihilate it crumpled up and Feng strengthened by the American Consti- | surrendered, conscious that he was tution, the rules of evidence, the will- | through. ingness of some lawyers to sell their| On Monday the once widely-feared talerts for a price and the skullduggery | 8nd powerful “Christian general” pas- of crooked political machines. | sed ignominously through Peiping en Along with the demand for the iron l‘ route to his mountain retreat in North- tactics of a Mussolini, the whipping €ast China, humbled. unheralded and post and modified martial law, there | unsung. To assuage his chagrin, Gen. should be greater recognition of the |Feng has been given a competence to distinct difference between the man |enable him to live “quietly and com- who lives by crime and the man who | fortably,” according to the news dis- commits crime in the heat of passion | patches, for the rest of his life. Doubt- or through some possibly tempom-yiless his “pension” has certain good moral lapse. There is not enough of | behavior conditions attached to it. A that recognition today. When it comes, | loyal bodyguard of two hundred soldiers through the creation of a public senti- | ccompanied him to the sacred peak. ment now building, that curious| The “Christian general's” career sug- phenomenon of a supposedly highly | 8ests that while he may live “com- civilized state—the organized, rack- | fortably” atop Taishan's rugged heights, eteering gangster—should disappear. | it is far less certain that he will al- | Every decent man’s hand is against him now. but the hand is curiously para- | lJyzed by traditions and concepts of | crime and punishment that antedate ! the conditions of the day. The time may be near when recourse will be had | to the ancient practice of declaring | outlaws and setting fit prices on their | heads—delivered dead or alive. ——rmee———— Humble mountaineers who served sur- reptitious drinks from flasks concenled' in rough footwear have the distinction | of giving the word “bootlegger” an his- toric status in connection with some of the most delicate transactions in some of our most delicate public economies. — rate————— The “3 R's” once referred to s essential to popular education, standing for “Readin’, Ritin’ and 'Rithmetic.” have been superseded by the much greater demands of “Relief, Reconstruc- tion and Reform.” ———— Stamps and History. The appearance of the national re- covery postage stamp today illustrates 8gain the curious and interesting man- ner in which philatelic issues reflect the historical development of the Na- tion. In itself it is only a minor in- cident in the great campaign against poverty. It represents only a single | detail of the vast reconstruction enter- prise sponsored by President Roosevelt. It is “just an advertising stunt.” But in point of fact its significance is ever #0 much more important. It is a mile- stone set up by the side of the path- way which the people are blazing out of the past into the future. A century hence the tiny “scraps of paper” placed on sale August 15, 1933, will testify for the times and the troubles which brought them forth, and providentially they may bear witness to the opening of a new era of prosperity and progress whose fruits by that period long will bave been abundantly manifest. Perhaps it is chiefly for its histori- cal value that philately has such com- pelling attraction for thousands of American men and women, boys and | girls. It is obvious that no one can be a systematic collector of stamps without becoming interested in the stories they tell. They are, in effect, pictorial embellishments of the chroni- cles of the age. They dramatize and | democratize events, They commemo- | rete outstanding leaders, noble char- acters whose lives have been spent in | service to humanity. Like architec- ture, they help maakind to remember. The Government has been mindful @l the educational aspect of stamps ways live “quietly.” Seclusion and idleness are not Feng's forte, and time | will tell whether a “war lord” of his ' tempestuous and adventurous past is | permanently resigned to a place on| embattled China’s remote sidelines. | = e An offer to appear in films is re- ported for almost every person who at- tains sudden prominence in public at- tention. It has been said that names| make news, and the theory that they | also make motion pictures may be ad- vanced without seeming unreasonable. Daring aviators have been rrequently’ mentioned, but none of them has had | to take greater chances than Machado | in his airplane exit from Cuba. e Poor Bosley! Bosley is a two-year-old bison, and the New York Times reports that he has the sulks. No one can blame him much, in the circumstances. Like Uncle Tom, he has been sold. The city fathers of “the sap town of the uni- verse,” finding themselves with a superfluity of buffaloes on their hands, authorized the keepers of the municipal 200 to dispose of the poor creature for whatever he would bring. With a mis- cellaneous collection of other animals, he went on the block. “What am I offered,” cried the auctioneer, “what am I bid for this magnificent specimen of the shaggy monarch of the plains, this splendid example of the royal species bos americanus, this healthy and handsome bovine ruminant nearly re- lated to the true ox, this carefully pre- served survivor of a noble race now all but eternally extinct? Gentlemen, what will you give? Do I hear ten dol- lars? Good! Do I hear fifteen? Con- sider it, my friends; a genuine bison, the celebrated Bosley, beloved of the children. Am I bid twenty dollars?” In the end the unhappy animal was “knocked down” to a man who operates a “dude ranch” near Carmel, N. Y., “a place where imported cowboys—real cowboys—break bronchos and throw bulls for the benefit of the customers.” In a few days he will be removed to the establishment which in the future he perforce will be obliged to call “home.” There he “will have to let himself be thrown, and like it.” Such is his fate. No wonder he is sulky. But the average small boy, or, for that matter. the average small girl, acquainted with the possibilities on oc- caslon so enticingly displayed in the movies, will glimpse a gleam of hope in Bosley's predicament. The juvenile mind, prlmgsve and as yet insufficiently | Your plan is fine if you go through it— THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, disciplined, will not fail to observe the potentialities of a victory for funda- mental justice. Their elders may not guess it, but diminutive junior and his baby sister may be guilty of hoping, even of praying, toat Bosley may “let himself be thrown” only a sufficient number of times to make the denoue- ment interesting and that Bosley then may do s little throwing on his own account. Perhaps there are a few adults who would not be above enjoy- ing a report to the effect that one of the “imported cowboys—real cowboys” had met his match “for the benefit of the customers.” The problem is sub- mitted to the attentlon of the Provi- dence that sponsored the original square deal and never has canceled s guarantees of fair piay and no favor. oo A Prize Captive. Capture of Harvey Bailey and five other persons implicated in the kid- naping of a wealthy Oklahoma oil man is an achievement to the high credit of the Federal agents of investigation and detection. The story of their discovery reveals the scientific methods of pre- cision which are now in vogue in the pursuit of criminals. After his release Urschel, the kidnaped man, related his experiences and recited his recollec- tions of the nine days of his imprison- ment at some place unknown to him, which he believed to be in either Texas or Oklahoma. Though he was blind- folded throughout this period, his kid- napers had not thought to stop his ears, and he noticed that every morn- ing and afternoon a plane passed over the place, and that one afternoon it failed to come. With that clue the inves- tigators set to work to idendify the lo- cation by a study of airline schednlss. Through elimination they hit upon the probable route and, after interview- ing pilots and radio operators, they learned that on the day that Urschel had noted the absence of the plane noise one of the pilots of the service nad swerved from his usual course because of bad weather. That fart| circumscribed the possible area of the | search, which then proceeded with air- planes and by motors until finally a| farm house was located which seemed | to meet all the requirements. Inves- | tigation proceeded respecting the oc-|youthful years, no matter how much | cupants and when all was ready the place was surrounded and entered and | Bailey was taken asleep with an ar- senal of deadly weapons close to his | hand, which he was unable to use. Upon his person, reports state, was found $199.620 in marked bills cor- responding to the money paid for Urschel's ransom, sald to have been | $200.000. Furthermore, Urschel's fin- gerprints were found throughout the ! houseg Apparently the case is per-| fect. Bailey is known to have an ex-| tensive prison record. He is identified | as leader of the gang that slew four | peace officers and an ex-convict in front of the railway station at Kansas | City a few months ago, and also leader of a jail break from the Kansas Peni- tentiary somewhat earlier. He is a prize captive and his taking is a feather in the cap of the Bureau of Investi- gation of the Department of Justice. o It is still expected that some State vill vote against the eighteenth amend- ment, if only for the sake of attracting attention by seeming different. . It has been a hot Summer financially, but not hot enough economically to thaw all the frozen assets. —— o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Determined Support. He who will rise And say with zest, “I am more wise Than all the rest!” Finds an array Both near and far Of men who say, “We hope you are. Go to jt!” He who will show The simple way For men to go From day to day In justice to His fellow man We say anew, “We hope you can! The trick s great if you ean do it! Go to it!” Courteous 01d Custom. “How dii the old-time politician | meet & lobbyist?” “So far as I can ascertain,” answered Senator Sorghum, “it was a courteous custom to meet him half way.” Jud Tunkins says daylight saving | time is what keeps him from knowing whether he has set his watch or up- set it. Looking for the Best. Should I some day Adjudicate Midst a display Of problems great I'd heed the call To look and see What's best for All— Not just for Me. Good Style. “I wish you would refrain from criti- cizing my table manners,” remarked Mf. Meekton. “But you do get your knives and forks and spoons all mixed up!” “I know that, Henrietta. But you must admit I have shown pretty :ood style in always having plenty of food to perform on.” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “to make the rules of a game perfectly fair, but not possible to prevent unscrupulous players from find- ing means to evade them.” “It is possible, The Big Ride. This world is rather like , A motor car, New climates you will strike Near or afar. ‘Whatever you may hit, Through space you glide. You've got to stick to it And take your ride. “Mebbe de man dat told us we was gettin’ better every day,” said Uncle Eben, “got misled by not takin’ count of de racketeers dat was layin’ off waitin’ foh sundown.” - THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Adding insult to injury is well known, but how about adding injury to insult? Truly, there is no name for the fellow who says, “Getting fat, ain't cha?” and then pokes one in the stomach. The harshly severe nouns which one would like to apply to him rather overde it. There is nothing in the dictionary which fits him exactly. Usually he applies his queer disposi- tion under the guise of good clean fun. o x % % “Aw, be a sport,” he replies, it any remonstrance is made against his tactics. “Getting gray, ain’t cha?” he asks. It is such an uproarious subject, one ought to burst into veritable peals of laughter, evidently. How humorous it is, to have gray appear on one’s head! As for fat in the abdominal region, that is very amusing. * ok k * @ One may suspect that all this good clean fun comes about mostly because it is at somebody else’s expense. To be asked if one is not getting stout around the midsection when it is quite evident that one is, is bad enough, but to be poked in that portion of the anatomy. by way of emphasis, is a bit too much. It is curious what an uncanny eye such persons have for such things. An innocent person who is given to minding his own business might think that the very small matter of the ac- cumulation of a very few pounds of superfluous flesh might be entirely un- worthy of the attention of any one. Nothing, however, will so excite the attention of this type. It seems as if an ounce, even, added to the girth, at- tracts their eagle eye. One suspects them of going around with their eyes: forever glued to abdo- mens, in a figurative sense. x ox % x ‘There is nothing about a few extra pounds, after all, which ought to claim | the attention of any one. Heaven knows it is common enough. If all the superfluous flesh in the world were put together, what a moun- tain of meat it would make! Even the blue ribbon hogs would have nothing on such a display. There are few human beings, after they get “up in years” as it is called, who do not put on at least a pound or D. C, TUESDAY, has the will power, that it is possible to live adequately on about one-fourth of the average amount of food dally consumed. An even smaller amount might be possible, but one does mot wish to be put into the class of food cranks, what- ever they are, With many persons & “food crank” is any one who differs/ from their own estimate of essential food quantities. Quality usually has little to do with it. ‘What many persons fail to take into account, in regard to superfluous fles! is that they happen to belong to & line in which such piling up of fat is as much a fact as the color of their eyes. ‘They would do it even on the smalier amounts of food advocated; no wonder that they become fat on average in- takes. LR As for the efficacy of exercise, in the reduction of an overfat tummy, that is | mostly hokum. Only those support this theory who are lean and have no need for it, anyway. ‘The fat man who has tried it will know that fat disappears off the stomach last of all, if ever. He would | have to reduce himself to skeletonic | proportions everywhere else before he would lose a pound there. Exercise for reduction is one of the great remedies offered by every one €lse to the fat or near-fat individual. In conjunction with starving, or near- | starving, it may work, but mostly it is the lack of food which takes off the ounces. It seems as if the system of the fat person highly resents any direct appli- cation on the fatty portions and be- gins to work overtime to replace them 2s speedily as possible. * X % % ‘Wherefore, the person given to taking on fat finds that his unwanted pounds accumulate as fast as he takes them off. Their worst feature, undoubtedly, is their tendency to attract the roving eye of the fellow who delights in nothing so much as such personalities. “Getting fat, eh?” he remarks, with a vigorous poke of his right index finger. Either would be too much, but to- gether, remark and poke, they are much too much. They rub one distinctly the ;-(:gng way; they insult mind and hurt | "A swift punch to the jaw ought to |be the response, but since the whole | to compel these farmers to accept two. |thing is supposed to be such a huge Few. that is, with the exception of the naturally thin sort of individuals. These never gain an ounce, as the years roll, but keep the flatness of their they eat. * ok x especially is Excess fat. in men. | caused mostly by eating more than the being ask in this world? system demands. Few persons are willing to credit the | very small amount of food which will support & mature human being in health. Even scientists, investigating that very subject, seem loath to admit that a man can maintain himself in good health on less than the standard amounts of food per day. Yet most have known cases of young men in college who not only lived well, but seemed in perfect health, on a few handfuls of dates and some milk each day. Whether they later suffered from such abstinence is not recorded, in the nature of things. i ‘The fact remains. and almost any adult can prove it for himself, if he High Lights on the Wide World| | Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands bandit, Spada. has been arrested at Coggia by gendarmes. For many months past he has been very depressed; also very incon- spicuous. Most of the time he has been hiding in the “marias” (swamps). but found little privacy even there, being driven from haunt to haunt by the re- lentless minions of the law, who now seem as determined in Corsica as else- where to end banditry once and for all. Spada—his true name is Spada Ga- vini—has really not been himself since his own brother was arrested earlier in the year. That blow struck a little too close that he could much longer be sure of any immunity for himself. That one of his own family should have to sub- mit to such an indignity—the thought was almost _intolerable. Most of Spada’s outrages and depre- dations in recent years were either in or near the seaport of Ajaccio. This town was also occasionally remembered during this hectic period as being the birthplace of Napoleon. His terrorisms had persisted for more than a decade, | and he had acquired wealth and in- fluence, not only in his own vicious circle of acquaintance, but even, it is said, with many whose function and duty was to Testrain crime and avenge the law. At the time of his arrest the malefactor was wearing a garland of flowers around his head and a religious emblem upon his breast. His first statement to the heavily armed gendarmes who surprised him while he was on a stealthy visit to the home of his parents in Coggia, was that he was there but to pass the night, and the floral and churchly accom- paniments were intended to indicate to his father and mother, as well as to any other persons interested, the great change which has taken place in his disposition since November, 1931, when the police began their indefatigable search for him. Thanks to the cue re- cetved as to his whereabouts, and all precautions taken, the capture was ef- fected without bloodshed. entirely certaln whether Spada’s new and rather sudden piety was genuine or assumed, so it was deemed advisable not to trust him too implicitly until better acquainted. Witnesses of the capture . reported that Spada was preparing to retire when the gendarmes silently encom- passed the house. -He was saying his prayers when some of the squad walked into his room. He looked up from his orisons, and with arms lifted high in the air, asked, aggrievedly, “Good heav- ens!—what did I do?” He was no longer the gay and debonair brigand; his velvet jacket and pantaloons were torn and muddy. Life in the marsh is not conducive to the prolonged pre- sentability of one’s clothes, even when of rougher fabrics. It is hardly neces- sary for us to add that not only the towns of Ajaccio and Coggia, but all of Corsica, are rejoicing that the bandit Spada has finally been made a prison- er. It is felt throughout the island that this felicitous event has definitely abolished the maraudings and murder- ings of armed bands of outlaws throughout its area. * x kX Increased Liability Asked in Gar Crashes. La Noticia, Managua.—Among the new projects of law being considered by the state ministry and the executive power is one which will make those uilty of causing automobile accidents fnble not only for property damage, but also for the medical bills, hospital ac- counts and funeral expenses which may result from their manias for speed and precedence. It is justly felt that those financially enabled to possess these ve- hicles are likewise competent to defray the damages they do with them with- out the coercion of civil suits brought by the injured parties. Insurance against all such risks may soon be re- quired of all motorists. * ok ok k¥ Australian Novelist Wins Fame, After All The Bulletin, Sydney.—A novelist from these parts, disheartened at hav- ing failed to take London by storm, put her just-returned masterpiece in the grate and looked around . for & match with which to set it alight. She couldn't E MATIN, Paris.— The Corsican | It was not | joke, this would put the offended in the | | guise of offender. | * ook % | And that, of course, is mankind's | | finest, neatest and slimiest liftle trick. | | "To put the offended in the role of of- | fender at last—what more can a human | | When he achieves that he pats him- self on the back as being intelligent clever and shrewd, and almost every | one else hails him as such. | _Every one, that is, except the man | cflended—in’ this case the plain citizen suffering from a pound or two of fat around his waist | | He needs no one to call his attention |to it. It does a very creditable job all by itself. And it sticks very closely. Twice as much golf as Bobby Jones plays would scarce budge an ounce of it It could be banished, of course, if one | had the will power to go an a Spartan diet and stick to it. Short of that, the person harboring a few extra pounds of fat could wish for two things—that ‘cn;en keep their mouths shut and don't | poke. | find one, so she left the MS. in the grate | and went to bed. She was aroused next | morning by a great rapping on the door. An agitated messenger stood | there demanding her MS. at once. It| had been returned in error, having actually won first prize in a competi- | tion. The lady fished it out of the grate and collected the cash and the | limelight. We have been waiting ever | |since for her to publish “A Matchless Moment.” or something to that effect, | but so far the opus has not arrived. | * % ox % Egyptians Helped | to Visit Seashore. | Egyptian QGazette, Alexandria —Yes- terday was the first day of issue of the new combined railway travel and hotel accommodation tickets which | provide residents in Cairo, middle and | upper Egypt, with facilities for short | seagide holidays at moderate cost. The reasonableness of the charges is not the only attraction of these arrange- ments, for they enable holiday-makers to know from the start exactly what the visit to Alexandria, Port Said or Ras el Bar will cost—with the excep- tion, of course. of expenditure on such | things as drinks, cigarets, etc., which is governed by personal taste and ! habit, and which, too, is easily cal-| culable. | ‘We do not think that anybody who | studies the rates at which these tickets | are issued, as published in the E. S. R.'s | advertisements now appearing in local newspapers, will deny that they do hold |out the prospect of a pleasant escape | from the heat of Cairo for those who | | are unable to take a holiday in Europe | | this Summer and who, at the same | time, do not want to spend too large a sum on week ends or longer visits to | | local seaside resorts. ——e— Apply the N. R. A. Rules To Government Employes To the Editor of The Star. It doesn't take a very close scrutiny to see many faults in Mr. Roosevelt's proposed national recovery administra- tion. For the very foremost and out- standing problem we find the Govern- ment departments are being cut to the very bone; they are not only receiving & 15 per cent cut in salary, but the | majority are getting a seven-day fur- lough every month besides. ‘This makes them lose approximately three months out of a year. Some might say it affords them more recreation, but this is comparatively too much of a vaca- tion. Mr. Roosevelt proposes to make it compulsory to come under the N. R. A., and live up to its rules. Some of these industries have instituted a six- hour day week instead of raising their wages. This gives the employes a breathing spell without sapping their lives out with a 15 per cent cut and a seven-day furlough, inclusive, which Mr. Roosevelt has on his Government departments. This is just the sort of plan Mr. Roosevelt should establish, which he is practically forc- ing outside industries to do. Why could not & six-hour day week, with a 15 per cent cut be established in the Gov- ernment departments, instead of a seven-day furlough? EDWIN E. GREIGG. R Let’s Get Used to Them. From the Rock Island Argus. It is high time we¢ are understanding the abbreviations made use of to desig- nate the new administration, corpora- tions and authorities that have been called into being of late. The symbol NIRA, for example, means National In- dustrial Recovery Administration. This body will be much in the public eye for some time to come. A partial list of other abbreviations and their meaning follows twm Reccnstruction Finance Corpo- ration. AAA—Agricultural Adjustment Ad- ministration. CCC—Civilian Conservation Corps. FCT—Federal Co-ordinator of Trans- portation. FERA—Federal Emergency Relief Ad- ministration. AUGUST 15, 1933. Public Lacks Knowledge! Of Milk Price Conditions To the Editor of The Star: I have read with the interest of a trained and experienced dairyman, the review of press comment on the milk market published in last Thursday's Star, and I beg leave to comment to the extent of pointing out the lack of comprehension which the public seems to have of the most salient point at issue in the conflict over prices. The lack of understanding is due to the misrepresentation as to prices received by the farmer that is being broadcast everywhere that allegedly “co-operative” associations have been organized ard members paid on a “classified” basis by the dealers. ‘Thus the Chicago Dally News states | that $1.75 is the price to the farmer under the Chicago agreement, but falls to note that this is the “base” price and is not received by all farmers for all of their milk. e farmers are classified, as well as the sale of milk at various prices for the same grade, and it 1s this attempt to compel some pro- ducers to accept less than others for the same product that has roused such bitter opposition. The “health” regula- tions have been used in attempts to prevent those shippers in low-price classes from breaking through other than the established dis- tributing corporations, so that they have adopted the plan of the “cheapies” and started selling cash-and-carry oui- side the regular sanitary jurisdictions. The Agricultural Adjustment Adminis- tration is then invoked in this attemp* a price that is lower than an open, com- petitive market would afford them, so that a few favored farmers can be paid a “base” price that is at a “parity” with the purchasing power of the 1909 figure, and the next scene is in the Supreme Court! The News also makes the mistake of comparing the present agreed price witn the 1909-1914 price without any allow- ance for parity with the general price index for the two periods. It does not follow that $1.75 is a higher price now | than $1.45 was in 1909 on & parity basis. ‘The* system of conditional permits for enforcing sanitary originated in the nineties, has led to many grave abuses in attempts to con- trol the market. Violent price wars | have often resulted, and organizatiors have sprung up. recently exempted from anti-trust laws, for no other pu:- pose than to establish a corner on the market, and these have not hesitated to attempt control through sanitary rules that establish highly restricted “milk sheds.” The need for standard- ization to prevent such political machi- nations is evident, for price-fixing monopolies under the control of larg2 dairy combines are not going to suh- serve the transcendent rights of the public unless and until they come under public o‘T:erahiR s | Calls Roosevelt Edict Unconstitutional To the Editor of The Star In a recent issue of The Star Paul| Mallon says: “You cannot go on with existing cur- rency conditions forever. Some day some dollar standard will have to be fixed.” This leads to the question: What is a United States dollar? Before President Roosevelt took the helm of state a United States dollar was—potentially, if not actually—a gold dollar. Gold was circulated to a negligible | extent; silver is too bulky to be popu- | lar as a circulating medium, and the chief circulating mediums were gold and silver certificates, respectively. However, the law guarantees the pari of all United States moneys: hence sil- ver dollars and silver certificates were convertible, directly or indirectly, into gold Gold convertible certificates were ! specifically into gold; hence President | Roosevelt's suspension of gold pay- ments is clearly unconstitutional. for the Constitution says that the Congress shall pass no law impairing the obliga- tion of contracts. Can the President make laws that are forbidden to the Congress? Moreover, all debts contracted before Roosevelt's demonitization of gold were payable in gold at its present weight and fineness. No man can predict what the United States Supreme Court will decide, but the foregoing are the only rational in- terpretations. The talk of a commodity dollar is nonsense. And the specious plea that Gov- ernment hasn’t enough gold to pay its debts is too puerile to merit refutation. By a parity of reasoning every bank in America could be declared bankrupt. President Roosevelt has the confi- dence of our people; and. in my opin- ion, their faith is well founded. I have supported, and still greatly admire him, believing that he is in dead earnest in his efforts to ameliorate the deplorable condition of our people. However, he is not above ecriticism, and there is no shadow of doubt in my mind that his edict in regard to gold is unconstitutional and, moreover, ‘a gi- gantic economical blunder. M. M. JAYNE. ———— Unfair Competition By Federal Workers To the Editor of The Star: Representative Cochran of Missouri says, “One fob to every person,” and addresses a letter to President Roose- velt stating that the employes of the Government violate this principle. The Star, editorially commenting on the epistle of Representative Cochran, de- fends the workers who work more than one job, and Attorney Avery also de- fends this practice. The Hotel and Restaurant Employes' Union, affiliated with the A. F. of L., has fought this selfishness on the part of some Government workers for years. ‘The Washington Central Labor Uninn has indorsed the stand taken by our organization. 1 will concede that the Government ought to pay fair wages for reasonable hours—in short, should be a model employer to teaca other employers. Two wrongs do not make a right The Star's editorial cites poorly paid Government employes and the article by Attorney Avery does the sam What about the Government worke: who receive better pay and still wo: as waiters, barbers, taxi drivers, etc.? There is not a line in Washington in which they are not competing unfair- ly. They have no regard for estab- lished traditions. make the waitresses who have tramped all day long looking for a job unsuccess- fully believe that the Government sten- ographer is “fair” in working for her board in order that her @Government pay may go for fineries, while the non- Government waitress does not eat. ‘What is the sense of sanctioning such a practice and then supporting through charity those who would be working if some Government workers were not so_selfish? I admire the Civil Service Commis- sion, which sent out a warning. Plenty of our members were forced last Win- ter to apply for charity because Gov- ernment workers took jobs at under pay. jobs that but for this unfair com- petition would have gone to our pecple. Our organization will not knowingly permit a member to hold two jobs while some starve. In the code of fair competition we hope to write this down as an unfair prgctice. One job to a person is a good slogan. It is up to the Government workers to organize, to insist on their rights for fair pay and not adopt as a subterfuge the idea of robbing other workers who have no jobs, no bread and no hopes because of this unfair competition. CHARLES E. SANDS, Secretary, Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ Alliance, Local 781. —_— e The Usual Greeting. From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. "ol:ow—flome Owners’ Loan Corpora- PWA—Public Works Administration. TVA— Valley Authority. ‘Ten to one the first thing the Syrians sald to Rossi and Codos when they landed at Rayak was, “Well, you're & long way from home!” into the market | regulations, | BY FREDERI ‘Take advantage of this free service. If you are one of the thousands who have patronized the bureau write us again. If you have never used the service begin now. It is maintained for your benefit. Be sure to send your | name and address with your question and inclose 3 cents in coin or stamps | for return postage. Do not use post- | cards. Address The Evening Star In- | formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, | Director, Washington, D. C. Q. What is the average admission paid to big league ball games?>—N. T. A. Billy Evans say that average runs about $1 per person. The estimated crowd at a major league ball game is | therefore easily translated into dollars | as an estimate of the gate. Q. Do tips count in calculating fair walgesLunder the national recovery code? A. A preliminary ruling says that where tips are a regular receipt of the employe, as in restaurants, an average weekly income from tips may be cal- culated as part of the wage. Q. Has the Harper 1933 been chosen? 4. wr ¢ O ©f A “The Fault of Angels Horgan of Roswell, o N. Mex., has been Q. Do snakes see w do they hecar by tongues’>—P. K. A. Snakes are able to see with their eyes as well as “‘hear” with their tongues—that s, they receive visual ger:epuqns through their eyes and vi- | brational or sound perceptions b; of their tongues. R P ith their eyes or extending ~ their Q. Had the Harvard crew which cele- :lrll;ed a fiélle‘th rtglli"m’n this year Ac!llli- rowe: ether ie s ned “r;g as undergradu A. The members of the class of 1 who held their fiftieth reunion at Cnal':s- bridge on June 19, 20, 21 and 22 placed on the water a crew consisting of eight members of the class and a coxswain who had rowed together at various times during their college career from 1879 to 1883. Seven of the nine men in the boat were over 70 years of age. These | seven men had not rowed together in | college as a single crew. but at various | times had rowed together in various | crews because rowing at that time was awarded the $7,50 T 1933, $7.500 Harper prize for ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS C J. HASKIN. | dents? How does this compare with | men drivers>—A. J. | A. One in 3,558 licensed female driv- | ers was involved in a fatal accident in a recent survey. One in 726 male drivers ‘ldlcmud was involved in a fatal accl- ent. Q. What kind of air fleet did Balbo take to Brazil>—N. B. A. In 1931 Gen. Balbo flew to Brazil with an armada of 10 planes. The planes used were double-hulled Savoia- Marchetti monoplanes. They had a wing | spread of nearly 79 feet and an over- | all length of 54 feet. Each was equipped | with two 500-horsepower motors, mount- 1ed in tandem above the wings. Q. Where is the large ony in the world>—J. E. A. The largest i3 located at Culion in | the Philippine Islands. | est leper col- C. | Q. Who operated the first taxicab {in New York City?—E. H. | "A. There is no definite record. but it is thought that Benjamin Riley was first. In 1904, he operated a Frenca car, probably a De Dedonbontin. Are United States postage stamp | engravings made singly or in blocks? s A. The original engravings for new postage stamps, known as the master dies, are made in single units. After |approval of the master die, printing plates corresponding thereto are pre- pared, containing the desired number of subjects, usually in multiples of 400 Why are boys who carry golf | bags called caddies’—C. C. A. It is a shortened form of cadet |and was formerly in common use in | Scotland for errand-boy or an odd-job | man. Q. Who wrote the poem containing the lines, “I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, and what can |be the use of him is more than I can |see”?—B. F. B. | A It is called “My Shadow” and ! was written by Robert Louis Stevenson | Q Is the synchron | stations successful? —M. } | "A. The success of synchronization of | radio stations is a point in controversy | As far as the exact synchronization is concerned. it is successful. However, as !far as the public is concerned. some ation of radio N a far less formal matter in college than | listeners suffer considerable interfer- it 1s at present. It is also true that | ence. seven of the men at various times rowed in the university crew which represent- | ed Harvard in various outside races. Is there a difference between pimento and pimiento?—C. B. | A. Pimento. as used for flavoring. is |an allspice cobtained from the dried, unripe. aromatic berries of the pimento ‘lrer. Pimiento is a Spanish sweet | pepper. | @ Where did Koscluszko render his chief service to the American Colontes? E. S A. At Saratoga. Kosciuszko was re- | garded as a “hero of both hemispheres, Raclawice being the scene of his great- | est Polish victory. | Q Please describe the burial of Rich- ard Wagner—E. F. H. A. The Etude says: “The friends of the family and the officlal personages alone followed the body to its last rest- | ing place, but no discourse was pro- | nounced over it. and in response to Wagner's oft-expressed desire, they sim- ply said the prayers and benedictions used in the Protestant Church. At the close of the ceremony all retired. In death. as in life, the man was guarded by his dog.” Q. What per cent of women automo- | bile_drivers are involved in fatal accl- Q. How was the Hermes Oracle con- sulted?>—E. A. M. | A. The Oracle of Hermes at Pharae was conducted as follows: The con- suitant came in the evening to the statue of Hermes in the market that stood by the side of a he: to which bronze lamps were attached: having kindled the lamps and put a piece of money on the altar. he whis- pered into the ear of the he wished to know: he t | closing his ears with his | whatever human speech he heard first after withdrawing h ears he took as a Q How much does a gall weigh>—J. M A It weighs 833 pounds Q. How long did Senator serve?—J. 8. A. There have been two U: Senators named du Por Henry Algerncn du Por was elected to served until 1917 cessful candidate for 1916 and died in 1926. man du Pc Del; re-eiected in 1924. He tion in 1830 and died on 1930. i ‘ Lauded as B Many words of praise greet the an- nouncement that the President has es- tablished a truce between capital and labor, by means of which, with a board Tepresentative of all interests, media- tion in industrial disputes will take the | place of strikes and lockouts. The per- scnnel of the new body is accepted by numerous observers as a guarantee of | successful treatment of such matters. It includes Senator Wagner, chairman: Fresident Green of the Federation of Labor, Dr. Leo Wolman of the Clothing Workers, John L. Lewis, mine chief; Fresident Teagle of the Standard Oii of New Jersey, Gerard Swope, General Electric head. and Louis E. Kirstein, general manager of the Filene firm. |~ “The moral force of decisions rendered {by this board should be irresistible,” thinks the Hartford Times, predicting “arbitration on a grander scale than the most ardent liberal may have ex- pected.” The Times concludes that “there could not be a board more rep- | resentative of the best thought in mat- | ters affecting American capital and |labor.” The Charlotte Observer holds | that “ridding the Nation of industrial | strife may prove the greatest accom- ] piishment in the history of the coun- | try The Observer suggests the possi- bility that the system may become per- manent, and believes that “it could have been brought about years ago if only the leader had developed.” The Tex- arkana Gazette declares “that there is | assurance of just treatment for all in- | terests, employers and employes alike, and in turn justice to the public, which has as much at stake as those directly |involved.” The Santa Monica Evening Outlook approves of the thought that |“it is a time for considerate treatment 1oz both sides and not for an aggressive | attitude by either employe or em- | pleyer.” “Mediation of costly and-destructive |strikes will be commended by the country,” avers the Akron Beacon Journal, with the feeling that “the Na- | tion can not afford to have the recovery program wrecked by the stubbornness of either side to a labor quarrel.” The Salt Lake Deseret News voices the judg- ment as to this latest development: “In the history of industry there have been times when strikes were necessary and the conditions of labor improved by them. In themselves, however, they are, of course, a negative force, waste- ful, and frequently associated with bit- nerness and social conflict. Now, how- |ever, it is manifest, the march toward | | recovery should not be hindered by It is pretty hard to, strikes or lockouts and the public will expect a faithful performance of the promises given.” The Deseret News also remarks that “the new privilege given | industry to combine, through the Gov- |ernment’s waiving of the anti-trust |laws, may compel labor to maintain a | greater solidarity for the protection of | wages, hours and conditions.” “The self-extolled half of the in- dustrial picture,” says the Fort Worth Star Telegram, “could not have existed | without the employes as producers, and there would have been no distribution | of produce had they not been out there |ready to buy it The Star Telegram concludes: “The worker never will be | fired out of the overhead again; he will be arbitrated out of proposed strikes and picketing; he will be looked upon as an industrial entity which, if it earns more, will become a better cus- tomer.” The Chicago Daily News finds satisfaction in the fact that “the slug- ging, intimidation, lockouts and strikes, which are weapons of capital and labor, are likely to disappear. “It is essential,” advises the Charles- ton (S. C.) Evening Post, “that there should be a truce to conflict between employers and workers while this eco- nomic exgerimmt. is being tried, and it is creditable to the leaders of both that they should have come together: and voluntarily proposed that the President appoint a sort of court to deal with any disputes that may arise and to pre- vent conflicts which would be dlzu- trous to the whole scheme. Appreciation of the spirit of co- operation such as has been shown is expressed by the Abilene Reporter and the Scnn? Times, while the Houston Peace Pact in L:;bor 7&&](] ig Achievement Chronicle calls the declaration of these “outstanding American lead in favor of “the right thing and helpful thing.” an “act of patriotism.” The Milwaukee Journal offers the opinion: “How far Government control goes de- pends largely upon the reasonableness of both capital and labor. So far most of the threats of serious trouble have arisen because of the resistance of the Tory section of capital. But of this everybody may be sure—the millions of both overall and white-collar men, after three Winters of s ring, are now in s frame of mind that will brook no in- terference with the effort at recovery. Those who cannot bring themselves to conform will have to stand aside. No matter how ‘important’ an industrial leader may think ie is. not one is use- ful now unless he is willing to help.” “The creation of this board should be greeted with rejoicing bv the whole Nation,” thinks the Birmingham Age- Herald, with the conviction that “much is to be expected from them.” The Age-Herald especiallv feels that “the Selection of Mr. Wagner was made with wisdom.” and that “if anv American succeeded in anticipating the huce Fed- eral recovery program. that man is Gerard Swo) The Greensboro News holds that “regimentation of life de- mands that co-operation with Govern- ment shall come first, and the rank and file of labor perceive that thev have in Government a more effective instru- (ment than they have in their craft organizations,” while the Haverhill Gazette warns that “organized labor must use justly the new opportunity that has been granted.” The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot advises: “Employers who have made a strong point of the con- tention that they are ready at all times to treat with their own employes, and that their objections run only to nego- tiating with outside leaders having only a diluted interest in the local situation, will be hard put to it to find a valid ab,vegtmn to the new form of unioniza- jon.” “That the leaders will be vigilant in suppressing any unpatriotic tendency to | break the agreement goes without say- | ing,” according to the New York Times. o |Mexicans Peddle Drugs To California Children | To the Editor of The Star. Recently Mexicans peddling mari- |huana were arrested at a California | public school entrance. They allegedly | were selling this drug to little children {Its use generally among the Mexican | population, it is now spreading among | the whites. Experts say the first re- |action is that of delight. With con- |tinued indulgence, there develops a feeling of heroism, and a tendency to commit crime. California thinkers for years have urged an exclusion act against the alien | Amerind (American-Indian) peon. Not |a Caucasian, he is ineligible to citizen- |ship. Throughout our great South- west. he today is the principal charge on charity. Naturally, he accepts any l'%i‘r:g condition, however degrading to es. With machine age conditions, we have |all the white labor we nced. Why should legislation enacting a quota ‘:tgamst Mexico be blocked, year after . |Year, in Congress We have had for |12 years such a quota against white British, Irish, Germans, Scandinavians. C. M. GOETHE. Sacramento, Calif. —oe—s Bob, Alias Gen. Johnson, Chases Babe the Chiseler To_the Editor of The Star: I have two very fine cats, Bob Babe. Bob weighs 25 pounds. Blbemg what the N. R. A. calls’a “chiseler.” Bob is very beautiful and much ad- mired. (Not for sale.) I now call Bob “Gen. Johnson.” He chases Babe the chiseler all over the place. THOMAS W. GILMORE.