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{THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. e e WASHINGTON, I, & WEDNESDAY. .. August 16, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor wears out the prosecution when it is sincere and determined. Political in- | fluence renches even the juries, certainly in their selection. In the course of the investigation into metropolitan affairs by the legislative committee of which Judge Seabury was counsel,- numerous cases were disclosed to demonstrate the corruption of the machinery of law enforcement. Several Whe Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office Ave. Ind_ St uilding. ndon, 2 E: Chicago Office: Lake Michiga European Office: 14 Regent St- England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evening Star. 45¢ per month Y.Wc per month 5¢ per month ¥he Sunday Star T copy % pe Collection made at the end of each month. | Orders may be sent in by mall or telephone NAtional 5000. Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. and Sunday....1yr., $10.00: 1mo. 85c only . 1yr, $6.00: 1mo. 50 Sunday only . 15yr., $4.00; 1mo., 40 All Other States aily and Sunds 1yr. aily only .. unday only ‘Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise cred- fted in thig paper and also the local news Dblished h‘«-\ AllTishts of pulication of sXiches I are also reserved. Consumers and the N. R. A. | There are probably no fundamental differences between the aims of the N. R. A, as they affect the consumer, end the suggestions with which Prof. ©Ogburn accompanied his letter of resig- nation. The interest of Prof. Ogburn is in behalf of the consumer, and one of the distinctive features of the philoso- phy behind the N. R. A. is the effort of the judges of the minor courts were smirched with evidence of their sub- servience to the political machine. One of them disappeared before the begin- ning of the inquiry and has never since been found. Much of the graft of the political racket was relatively trifling, but there was clear evidence that the big game was being played by those vested by the manipulated votes of the people with responsible offices. An associate of the subcommittee asked Mr. Medalle: “Don't you think the millennium in city government must | be reached as a necessary condition to eliminate racketeering?” The answer was: “That word is used every time it is suggested that we should be satisfled with rotten conditions in government, municipal and otherwise.” “Millennium” is defined as “any period of happiness, beneficial government, and the like.” To be cbntent with an evil because its cure cannot be conceived short of such an ideal is in itself ac- ceptance of corruption as a natural condition. It is the ancient plea of confession and avoidance which is the refuge of the gullty seeking release from a complacent court. —— e Irish Stew. Although the De Valera government during its year and a half of office has o benefit the consumer by increasing his purchasing power. In the recovery period through which the Nation now geems to be passing the purpose is to ncrease purchasing power before in- | freasing capital profits. Heretofore lhei process of recovery has increased cap- | {tal profits first, with the lag in pur- ghasing power of the consumer grad- yally catching up. But Prof. Ogburn is wholly correct in demanding that the interests of the gcnsumer, as & class, be protected by @11 adequate organization, equipped with proper personnel for gathering and in- | terpreting facts and figures relating to prices and quality, and that such pro- tection not be relegated to a position of aninor importanee. It is true, as Prof., Ogburn points out, that the consumer class is less represented than any of those involved in proceedings before the N.R. A The N.R. A is at present en- gaged in the task of perfecting the new partnership between Government and the various groups of industry and pusiness and is dealing with the repre- | sentatives of those directly affected ‘Another great arm of Government is at | present seeking to alleviate the troubles of the farmer by taxing consumers in his behalf. The sum total of all these | forces will be to raise prices. And unless the price rise is accompanied by an ac- tual increase in the consumer's pur- | chasing power, it is going to be too bad | Jor the consumer. | Prof. Ogburn’s_whole point is that there should be an amply equipped or- ganization to examine and to interpret | the effect of the new deal on the con- sumer. Thi® is a monumental task in itself that will keep the economists and sociologists busy for years to come.| For, although the temporary character | of the emergency experiment in rele- | gating competition in favor of a system . of planned control has been empha- sized, such a radical change of policy implies a certain degree of permanence. A Natfon ca'mot march up the hill and back again in the short space of two years. It is probable that partly as the ‘ yesult of Prof. Ogburn's suggest.mm.} | &haping themselves, the so-called Con- | sumers’ Advisory Board will become one ! of the most important agencies of | the N. R. A. o At present the world's economic sit- uation may be described as a problem in higher mathematics dependent on| calculations apparently remote, yet all | interrelated. Simple arithmetic, as em- ployed on the cash register and the adding machine, is not sufficient for all purposes, but as usual it plays a basic part. A conscientious public is waiting | to see the result of the calculations | and taking care not to disturb them | by irrelevant demonstration. R Cuba is renewing the old wonder- ment at the amount of disturbance | that can arise in so small an island| and one so well equipped for a life of ease and comfort. ot Racketeering and Politics. A Senate subcommittee on racketeer- ing, headed by Senator Copeland of New York, is now on tour of the coun- try, sitting first in New York, seeking | light on the problem of organized crime in America and possible remedies. Yesterday it heard witnesses of promi- nence in the legal fleld, two of whom gave it as their opinion that until poli- tics can be separated from the enforce- ment of the laws there will be no abatement of this evil. One of these was George Z. Medalie, now Federal attorney for the metropolitan district, and the other was Frederic Kernochan, chief justice of the Court of Special Sessions of New York, the former a Re- publican and the latter a Democrat. | In varying terms they declared that gangs are part of the machine for political control. Mr. Medalie said that “not until politics is divorced from municipal affairs will we get rid of the | gangsters.” Judge Kernochan told the committee how district leaders use the gangs on election days and protect them at other times. This is not a new or surprising accu- sation. It has been brought before, in one form or another. It is, indeed, recognized as the reasonable explana- | tion of the ease with which professional criminals, with long records of law breaking, escape punishment. The fault lies not with the police organi- wation, which is as efficien promotéons. ing organization, which gives the best of the “breaks” to the accused. The member of a criminal gang, caught with | binds the Irish Free State to Great | refusal to continue payment of | newspaper business. t as may be |Thousand Candles” and “The Poft of expected in a community where politics | Missing Men” to his credi;, he has dictates appointments, assignments and | known the celebrity of being a “best It lies with the prosccut- |seller,” and his “Hoosier Chronicle,” loosed and strained to the verge of the breaking point the tle that formaily Britain, the separatist program has not | gone far emough or fast enough to stifle political unrest in the Emerald Isle. The situation has suddenly reached & stage which o npels Presi- | dent de Valera to consider the early | dissolution of the Dail for the purpose | of securing wider power to fight the | elements which now threaten his gov- | ernment. .| The sudden and serious emergence | of a Fascist movement, launched and led by Gen. Dowd O'Dufly, former chief | of the constabulary and organizer of| the present Free State Army, is the principal menace. O'Duffy’s “National | Guard,” claiming forty thousand ad- | herents and an equally large number | ready to join them, was baffled in its | attempt to stage a great demonstration | of “Blue Shirt” power in Dublin last | Sunday, the government having in- | voked the drastic public safety act for | suppressive purposes, but Gen. O'Duffy | now plans a serles of nation-wide | “church parades” next Sunday, which | will reveal the extent and strength of | the “Blue Shirts” even more graphically The government is con- sidering the banning of next Sunday's demonstrations, too, but the difficulties of splitting up the police and military services of the country for the purpose are acknowledged. De Valera controls the existing Dail, but by a more slender margin of Re- | publican deputies than he evidently holds necessary for authority to squelch the Fascist movement With an iron hand. Another general election, sug- gested as possible in September, would | be held » der different circumstances than its j decessor, in February, 1932. Republicans who previously declined to become candidates for the Dail so long as the oata of allegiance to the British crown was required, now find the way | open to accept nominations, the hated | oath having been abolished by the De | Valera government. parliamentary support, it will him forward to new and further-reach- ing independence measures, because the younger Republicans are restless for complete severance of the British link. They are not satisfied with mere aboli- tion of the allegiance oath, the reduc- tion of the British governor generalship to insignificance and proposed consti- tutional amendments terminating the right of legal appeal to the London Privy Council Irish Pree State economics has been thrown into grave disarray by the| tariff war with Great Britain conse- quent upon the Dublin government's the are de- end land annuities. Both countries suffering. Yet the Irish are termined to press to the bitfer the struggle for “liberation.” O'Duffy’s “Blue Shirts” profess to seek no violent overthrow of the ex- isting order, but to constitute them- selves as a new and effective opposi- tion party which would appeal for support mainly on economic grounds detached from political, partisan con- siderations. ‘The Irish Fascists say they aim in particular at a union of North and South Ireland. “National unity” once established, Gen. O'Duffy says it will be time enough to decide whether Ireland shall go forward as a republic, a kingdom or a common- wealth within the empire. In whatever guise the “Blue Shirt” program is clothed, President de Valera looks upon it as a subversive move- ment. He is confident that if he goes to the country on a platform calling for the “National Guard's” ruthless suppression, he will not fail. But plainly the ingredients are at hand for a new era of bitter strife in John | Bull's other and tempestuous island. r————————— Naturalists say there are no sharks to be feared along the Atlantic Coast, excepting those who blow in from the land for underworld activity. — r————————— Authors as Diplomats. Meredith Nicholson, it is said, is to enter the diplomatic service. The re- port is exceedingly interesting. An eminent novelist, poet and essayist, he had his early training in the world of realities which goes by the name of the With such en- trancing tales as “The House of a “The Provincial American,” and “The Valley of Democracy’ have won him the high regard of a less numerous but the goods or in some act of violence, | more discriminating following. Among gelects - his “mouthpiece,” or attorney, | American writing men his position is according to the latter’s standing with |both elevated and permanent. His the political organization, who gains |books have a place in the ideal library his client’s liberty on nominal bail, de- |of the average citizen of the United lays and protracts his trial by subter- | States. u and thus As it happens, there is abundant right ahead workin' overtime.” fg@ and technicalities, | State Department, | Cuba’s problems has been worked out ! ! THE EVENING precedent for his appointment to repre- sent his country abroad. The list of eminent men of letters who have served in similar capacities is long and notable. John Quincy Adams, Washingtan Irving, Edward Everett, George Ban- croft, Charles Francis Adams, John STAR, WASHINGTON, Vine time is at hand. Lothrop Motley, James Russell Lowell, John Hay, Whitelaw Reid, and Walter |, NOW ‘n’i‘m‘},’r‘;fl!’;"g’o“v‘,‘” H. Page are on the roster of those who | bloom. 4 poetically begins to have gone to the court of St. James. Joel Barlow, the author of “The Columbiad,” once a Washingtonian, went to Parls. Bayard Taylor, Andrew D. White, David J. Hill, and Jacob G. Schurman served at Berlin. Thomas Nelson Page, Robert Underwood John- son and Richard W. Child were at Rome. Carl Schurz was Lincoln's first choice for Madrid. Arthur 8. Hardy was successively Minister to Persia, Greece and Spain. James W. Gerard, returning from Germany, and David| 4 R. Francis, coming home from Russia, wrote diplomatic memoirs well worth reading. Nathaniel Hawthorne once was consul at Liverpool and Willlam Dean Howells held a like appointment at Venice. An inclusive roll call would run to literally scores of names. And why not? It @oes not seem that there can be any @Restion about the propriety of selecting for such work men who fairly may be sald to personify in their own composition the best values |, of American culture. They may not be politicians, they may not be “high pressure” salesmen, they may not be “skilled intriguers,” but at least they are gentlemen. They have refinement and cultivation, good manners and tact. And in diplomacy, the experts declare, those qualities are eminently useful. - A Test That Should Be Made. ‘The short-haul, five-cent bus fare ordered by the Public Utilitles Com- misslon should be accepted with good grace by the Washington Raflway & | Electric Co. as a fair test of the theory that street car companies are losing a large portion of their revenues because of failure to give adequate service at a low rate of fare. The company will gain nothing, in the end, by bucking the order. If the experiment is under- taken the results can only be beneficial. If the low rate of fare fails to win back lost patronage gained by the taxicabs, the street car companies will have won & more sympathetic hearing from the public in their complaints against cheap taxicab competition. If the low rate of fare does attract patronage, the street car companies will have demonstrated one method of regaining lost business. It is a question, of course, whether a difference of five cents in fare is going to attract many people to street cars or busses who now ride in taxicabs | slightest interest in a friend’s collec- | The matter of convenience, as well as|tion of tropical fishes, if one is not| time consumed in the ride, i prob- ably as important to many us the amount of fare. The only sensible way of deciding that point is to try it out. | Th I [ than the banned Dublin march would | ¢, CXPeriment should be undertaken | have done. by the street car company in a way that will give the proponents of the five-cant fare the benefit of every doubt. The service should be adequate and efforts should be made to popularize it | The experimenting street car company has only a relatively small amount to lose, under the circumstances, and everything to gain. T e According to official report to the the solution of | entirely by the Cubans themselves. This |is in accordance with the strict proprie- ties and gives hope that they will be |able to proceed with the transactions before them with discretion and se- - | curity. R Hitler is an extraordinary man. yet If the President ;no( s0 extraordinary as the public he partly as the result of events now SUrely | ¢ reingrated with increased Republican | assumes to be leading impel |reflect in some degree the ideals of those A leader must whom he persuades to become his fol- lowers. ——on— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSOR. A Logical Assumption. With problems psychological And also geological, And meteorological And maybe theological: ‘With figures chronological And matters biological Or things criminological 'Mongst methods artful dodge-ical; Assistance astrological In chaos cosmological Our efforts philological We may Some day Get under way ‘To free our simple reasoning From heterogeneous seasoning And be, in times hodge-podgical, Plain, Ordinary Logical. Favorite Station. “Radio has gotten the public into the way of talking in initials,” said the man whose remarks are sometimes inter- esting, though unimportant. “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. And it's a matter of patriotic satisfaction to find every citizen so enthusiastic about broadcasting from station NRA.” Jud Tunkins says when a baby is born with & silver spoon in his mouth he has to be watched to prevent him from swallowin’ the spoon and makin’ hisself sick. A Grin Frivolity. When they are calling strikes, I find A discontented frame of mind. It may affect me much the same In busiriess or a base ball game. Investing in Brains. “Are you going to send your boy Josh back to college?” “Yes,” answered Farmer Corntossel. “I have decided that with all the problems goin’ around in finance, taxa- tion and general economics, we'd better raise some member of the family to be as highly intelligent as possible, in order to keep the old home goin’.” “Wars have made history,” Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “and by keeping a record of ancient quarrels and combats history has continued to create wars.” Embarrassing Abundance. A cure for care has been revealed And many of us wonder How we can go to Trouble Field And plow our worries under. “You kin limit de workin’ hours af an honest man,” said Uncle Eben, “but it's hard to keep 8 racketeer f'um goin’ said ‘The morning-glory, long a favorite with every one, again shows the world the reason for that preference. ‘These and other vines, however, long bfindxsphyed the best reasons for a favoritism on the part of most e gardeners. Habit of growth and foliage—these two account mostly for the real popu- larity of all types of ornamental vines. * % % % ‘Nn plant is more distinctive than a vine. It gives the gardener qualities which he finds nowhere else in the plant king- lom. This becomes overwhelmingly true when the climbing roses are included in the category, as they should be. A garden which contains no climbers easily sensed when one enters a yard where there are a profusion of them. If furniture helps make a house a home, as we have been told, then vines tend to make a garden all that a true garden should be. Without them, at least, something distinctive, in the best sense, is missing. * % ok % ‘Those who treat the various vines simply as so much cover materfal, with- out any right of garden entrance of their own, are making a big mistake. The best of our vines have a soften- ing effect scarcely to be secured in any other way. Yet it is secured so un- obtrusively that mere beholders dismiss these artistic creations without a thought: just something to cover old stumps and the like Nothing could be more mistaken than this attitude. A good vine, like any good plant, iy, Just as much s center- plece as you choose to make it. A garden architect can paint effective pictures with vines as well as with gladioli. No one will catch one of these gentlemen sneering at the climb- ers. Long ego they climbed into his affecticn because of the use he could make of them * ok %o Vines possess the distinction of really 800d clothes. They do not call atten- tion to themselves, but if one stops to lcok at them he sees how good they are. | with interest and those who look with- out_interest ‘The two types are so well-known that it would seem unnecessary to difter- | entiate them, were it not for the fact that there is a mistaken notion abroad them. Hobbles, in other words, let one “out,” |11 it 1s some one else’s hobby. * x % X According to this theory, which we lieve in error, one is excused from the | be | one’s self a fancier. | “Oh, you have a lot of goldfish,” is | enough, according to this way of | thought. |~ No. that is not enough, my dear sir. |In the first place, they are not gold- | fish. and, in the second. one does not | have many of them compared with ‘!h! several hundred varieties available. One would have to make one’s living quarters look more like a pet shop than they do, to have “a lot” of these inter- | esting bits of life. The seas and the WASHINGTON BY FREDERIC People are saying that “Roosevelt luck” that intervention in Cuba was averted at the very hour last week when it seemed imminent and inevitable. Jim Farley once recalled that even Old Sol was on F. D. R.s side in 1932, because it never rained occasion, especially on any day when the Governor was the star performer anywhere. Well, the sunshine certainly didn't desert the President in Cuba. That circumstance, White House callers thought, caused the celebrated Roose- velt smile to be more expansively in evidence than ever this week. The President seems to reflect in his de- meanor that he's had a “break” and is grateful and happy over it. * ok X x Intervention in Cuba would have cramped the New Deal's style in three separate and definite directions. First, it would have diverted the attention of the paramount task of national recov- ery; secondly. intervention, before the job' was finished (once before it took three years), might have cost any- where up to $100,000.000, which would have blown young Mr. Douglas' bal- anced budget full of new holes; and, finally, long-time presence of American | forces in Cuba would have seriously embarrassed the forthcoming Roosevelt | “good neighbor” licy toward Latin Ameri All in all, Pranklin Roosevelt feels fhat August 13-—despite the 13— was his lucky day, for it was then that President Cespedes took office at Ha- vana and definitely obviated the neces- sity of dispatching an American expeditionary force to Cuba. S Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, chair- man of Gen. Johnson's Consumers’ Board, who's just had a run-in with Prof. Ogburn of the University of Chi- cago on consumer policy, isn't the only Harriman mixed up in a little N. R. A. squabble. Her banker brother, W. Averell Harriman, chairman of the New York State Committee for Re- naturedly with Grover A. Whalen, chairman of the New York City com- mittee, over the progress of the Blue Eagle drive upstate and in Manhat- tan. Harriman claims that the State outside the city, with only 45 per cent of the population, has rolled up 62 per cent of the employment registrations and that Manhattan will have to get busy if she is not to remain outdis- tanced. Whalen retorts that “Manhat- tan has a carburetor thatll develop 500 miles an hour before we're through, as compared to upstate's 60.” * X K % With the now well assured success of the Century of Progress World's Fair at Chicago, two retired Army En- gineer officers, both former Washing- tonians, are conspicuously identified. One is Maj. Lenox R. Lohr, general manager of the fair, who has been in charge since ground was broken on May 1, 1929. It was while on active service in France in 1917 and 1918 that Maj. Lohr attracted the attention of Gen. Dawes, who eventually drafted him for the Century of Progress job. Maj. Lohr's principal coadjutor is Col. J. Franklin Bell, former Engineer Com- missioner of the District of Columbia, and since 1930 chief of the applied science and industry division at the fair. Harry S. New, commissioner gen- eral of the United States at Chicago, got a great kick out of a journalistic reunion there the other day. It con- sisted of newspaper men who “covered” the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, where the one-time Hoosier Sen- ator and former Postmaster General represented his own paper, the In- dianapolis Journal. * % ¥ * At last we have it, or at least the writer of a letter to the editor of the New York Times thinks he has. N. R. A., he contends, simply means: “Nom- inate Roosevelt Again.” * k% * Although he’s been on duty here only de Cin- since last November, the expectation is | Wi Cuban Ambassador Oscar that is lacking in something—a something | There are, in gardens as elsewhere, | | two sorts of lookers—those who look | that somehow special interests excuse | others from paying any attention to it's more | on a single major Democratic campaign | the Government and the country from | employment. has been clashing good- | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. rivers and the pools of the world are full of them. * Kk X % No ome can claim to look with inter- est on life, if he persistently limits his interest to just a few chosen interests of his own. This is one way, of course, but we do not think it the best way. It leaves too much out. It will not do to look apathetically at anything, to dismiss it with a few polite words. One misses, when one dismisses. Just because one has no particular interest in it, why, that is the very reason, of all reasons, why one ought to be interested in it! ‘What any one person knows, in such a great universe, is pathetically little. It is narrow, compared with the width of the world, or even the possibilities of thought, * ok K % | ought to be proud, and mostly is, but brain, by bodily rejecting too much as of no concern to him. . He sees something, but he does not see it, because he does not want to see it, feeling that it has no particular concern for him two sorts of obsegvers, those who look with interest, because everything is in- teresting, rightly viewed, and those who look without interest, being vastly self- centered. In the garden, the real observer will see the old vine at its true value. How upward! does it. There are vines which climb by |twining, and others which send out little feelers to attach themselves to the surfaces over which they travel to | reach the heights to which they aspire | Those which twine must have some- thing to twine around, those which send {out feelers ought to have surfaces on | which to get & grip. Not every vine will do for every situation, or even Jevery material 1 * x % % | ‘Those who aspire to use vines prop- |erly must make a study of them. es- pecially in regard to their methods of holding on, and of traveling. It is a waste of time and of plant material to No other plant in the world place. The few essentials of ordinary cul- ture, however. are easily learned; the |important thing is to make the best selection of situation. For most of our easty; grown vines are messy, and noth- ing else, if grown in the wrong place. To be at its best, even the vines must be on a support plainly demands some such covering That is why no one need worry about the plainness of his fencing. If a fence is simple, bare by itself it veritably crles aloud to be covered with good vines 1t is the given opportunity which | handy. After the effect is achieved, all will call it good—even those who or- dinarily do not see what they look at— but it requires that one have the artist's eye to see the picture, in the garden or | k on canvas, before it exists | . Vines never should be planted | thev interfere with necessary wall any more than tables and the I should be placed at the foot of stairs. if they in any degree narrow the width of them, or give a sense of restriction With these few restrictions. the proper use of vine materials depends mostly on common sense and such artistic sense as the gardener possesses. OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. tas’ days in Washington are probably numbered. Though never an aggres sive exponent of the Machado regime, it fel to Cintas’ lot to be its expon in the United States. President Ces- pedes, it is felt, will want somebody else to speak for him on the Potomac in the reconstruction days just ahead. So it may not be long before Ambassa- dor Cintas returns to business life in New York City. Much sympathy is expresed in the Capital for Dr. Orestes | Ferrara, Machado's ousted secretary of state, and for Senora Ferrara. Many of his former colleagues in Washington considered Ambassador Ferrara the all- around best mind in the local diplo- matic corps. o oxox Speaking of ambassadors, opinion is crystallizing that Willlam C. Bullitt | special assistant to Secretary Hull, has the inside track for the ambassadorship to Soviet Russia, “if and when.” He was the American delegation’s go-be- | tween with Litvinoff at the London Eco- nomic Conference. Insiders think tha Roosevelt_ has another Sumner Welles. Former Senator Brookhart of Iowa, who's specializing in Soviet matters over at the Agricultural Adjustment Admin- istration, is touted in some quarters asour possble fifst envoy to Moscow, Brook- hart is an enthusiastic believer in the possibilities of Russo-American trade, * % % ox Herbert Hoover’s mail bag out in Cal- ifornia, the little birds are whispering, bulges these days with requests from his opinion on current events at Wash- But it is not on record that the former President has 50 far broken his self- imposed rule of inviolable silence on public affairs for the indefinite future. The suggestion is ventured that on some suitable occasion later on the spirit may move him to discuss the state of the Union. Probably there's no private American ' citizen on whom millions would rather tune in these days than the late chief engineer of the U. S. A. * ok % % N. R. A. snapshots—Prof. Walter Rautenstrauch of Columbia University, one of the patentees of technocracy, thinks N. R. A. is noble in motive—to Testore employment—but strongly ques- tions its “permanent effectiveness. * * * San Francisco's Chinatown re- ports that 75 per cent of its shops and factories have already gone Blue Eagle. * * * Norman Thomas, Socialist candi- date for President in 1932, calls upon trade unions not to surrender the right to strike under codes or the new Na- tional Labor Board. * * * The found- ing fathers (and mothers) of N. R. A. originally planned to code only some 20 of the badic industries, lika cotton textiles, oil, coal, steel and automobiles. "Twas an afterthought to bring every- body and everything under codes. * * * Gen Johnson looks for court deter- mination of the issue as to whether some industries doing a_strictly State business are subject to N. R. A, em- powered under the law to deal only with industries engaged in interstate and foreign commerce. ok x Mrs. Charles H. Sabin of New York, the Joan of Arc of repeal, just back from Europe, is “delighted to hear all about those nice little Southern States which have voted for repeal since I sailed on July 3.” She expects definite repeal to be in her Christmas stocking. * ¥k % Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt is one of the 1932 Summer vacationists whose plans suddenly miscarried. She had perfected all arrangements for a tip to Russia and had to cancel them at the last moment on account of unexpected legal obligations in California. Instead of a leisurely jaunt through Sovietland and European countries, “Portia” snatching American week ends hither and yon. There was once an uncon- Tent was minking of commssjoning the ment w of commissioning the former .isalstant Attorney General in charge of prohibition to act for the Soviet in a representative capacity at ashington. (Copyright, 1033.) NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM Margaret Germond. The resources of our Free Informa- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. | untarily swim far. ¥n 1924 an THE MYSTERY OF THE CAPE COD PLAYERS. By Phoebe Atwood Tay- Igg. xNew York: W. W. Norton & ., Inc. Asey Mayo is without doubt the most unique detective in American mystery fiction today. Though he cannot in any way be likened to the “late” Charlie Chan, he is equally as extraordinary a character and he possesses all of the charm and fascination needed to make him as popular and as lovable as the famous Oriental. In the first place, Asey is a Cape Codder, and in no other section of this broad continent has there been so lit- tle change of temperament and of that elusive something peculiar to the natives tion Bureau are at your service. You stag took to the sea to escape the hunt ard invited to call upon it as often and had nearly crossed the English as you please. It is being maintained | Channel when it was picked up off Dun- | solely to serve you. What question can | kirk by a trawler, but this was not a we answer for you? There is no charge at all except 3 cents, in coin or stamps, for return postage. Do not use post cards. Address your letter to The Eve- ning Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. Who will be the captain of the Notre Dame foot ball team for 1933? —5. W. A. A captain will be appointed for each game and then a captain elected at the end of the season. Q. For whom is Wiley Post's airship, | wi Intelligence is a thing of which man | too often he stultifies it, in his own | e | Winnie Mae, named?>—A. T. e ;}:‘be‘;‘;’"fi’fthe"‘d",‘):‘,‘"[ A. It is named for the daughter of east Yankee. One of the unusual things | F. C- Hall an ofl man in the South- about Asey is that he i not a regulas | West, who backed the Post-Gatty fight detective, and that he positively re- in 1931 fuses to become one. He is well off | financially, and works or not, just as| the spirit moves him. He is a good | . Is it possible when taking a trip abroad to get an automobile pass that Thus we have the| neatly it clasps the tree trunk, climbing | | put the wrong type of vine in the wrong | best of | in the 42-vear-old diplomat President | old-time supporters for expressions of | ington, especially recovery developmenits. | carpenter and does not hesitate to en- gage in that trade if he is disposed o do s0. Also, he has substituted for the chef at the Weesit Inn. He is a good mechanic and sometimes works at a garage. If somebody needs a lawn | mowed, Asey mows it. On more than one occasion Asey has been offered an cfficial position in the county. His response to the offer was “Parker, I got a lot of respect for you. You're a good arm of the lawr. I even admit they's good points to any p'rfes- sion. I c'n see where there'd be times when it'd be a real pleasure to be a gravedigger or & hangman” No argu- ment or persuasion could make him ac- cept the job. Nowhere in the world could such a character as Asey Mayo be found except on Cape Cod. Foliowing the same procedure in this new novel as in her other two mystery storfes, the author gives second place to & delightfully fine and wholesome woman some yvears beyond the period of youth, endowed with a keen sense of humor and plenty of hard common sense. Mrs. Ballard is a widow, with a grown and married adopted son, whose chief characteristic is a domi- nant disposition to manage his mother. his wife and every one else within range As the story opens Mrs. Ballard is just coming through safely from a siege of pneumonia, and her son is managing her into a vacation on Cape Cod to hasten her recuperation. He has selected and engaged a house on the cliffs beyond Weesit and is at- tempting with all his might to make his mother accept the companions he has chosen for her to be persuaded to go to the cape, but she rebels at her son's choice of com- panions and takes along with her a staff of her own choosing. Arrival at Weesit affords only a dis. | couraging outlook. ‘The house is ou of sight and out of hearing of neigh- bors of any sort and the pounding of the sea 1s the only sound which breaks upon the silence of isolation. Night has scended and utter loneliness and tion seems to have settled li e pall over the place. weary from the tr 11 well that daylight s the gloom of da M Ballard prepares to little company into their herself go to bed at work already, t of the fog and ble 1t comes a troupe of pla |lost in the mist. the truck and {in v h they a traveling disabled Knowing nothing of the roads or of the people within the area in which she is located. Mrs. Ballard is unable to give them directions and offers them shelter they accept The next morning one of the mem- bers of this gallant band of strolling entertainers is found murdered not far from the front door of the house ey Mayo, on his way to deliver a telegram to Mrs. Ballard, is first to stumble upon the tragedy. Mrs. Ballard, out for a bit of a 1 before | From this van | is work breakfast, the two next to- | nobody definitely heard above the roar |of the pounddug surf, and which nar- rows and widens alternately in it circle of suspected murderers until the {reader is more befogged than the stunned and nearly terrified assort- | ment of people involved in the story. | Clues range all the way from pape | elips and tooth paste to skunks, with {the latter finally bringing to book the perpetrator of a murder | “planned to dum well.” | the family of Miss Taylor has been es- tablished on Cape Cod, and all of its members except herself were born there. She knows the Cape, its language, its history, its traditions and its “atmos- phere.” Her people are real, her plots are exceptionally clever. and she is a splendid story teller. Her creation of Mayo was an inspiration, end al- he gives promise of becoming the most_superior detective of fiction since Charlie Chan. * o ox % THE BROKEN O. By Carolvn Wells. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. With more than thirty feathers al- | ready in his cap of victory, Fleming Stone steps again into tie picture as a master golver of crime puzzles, this time meeting the really most baffiing mystery of his long and strenuous career. In the home of a wealthy family on Long Island the last-minute plans and details of a large and briliant wed- ding are in progress. Everything takes place according to schedule, and the happy bride and bridegroom begin their wedding journey by motor, going South through Philadelphia and Washington. with Richmond, the ancestral home of the groom, as the final destination be- fore returning to New York and settling down. Corey Malden is fourteen years older than his lovely bride, is very wealthy, and epjoys a wide circle of acquaint- ances and friends all through the east- ern section of the country from Boston to Richmond. In Washington he has a number of friends, and on their arri- | | | She allows herself | for the night and food, which | gether on a mysterious shooting which | that was | For more than three hundred years! will permit you to travel throughout Europe in your own car’>—D. T. A, A Carnet de Passage en Douanes —=a booklet which passes the car by the customs of thirty European coun- | tries—may be obtained before leaving this country. It costs about $45. I Q. How long has it been since liquor was served as @ part of the Navy ra- | tons?—V. H. | "A. An act of Congress, approved | July 14, 1862, provides “And be it | further enacted that from the first day | of September, 1862, the spirit ration |in the Navy of the United States shall | have ever ceased and thereafter no dis- | tilled spirits, liquors, shall be admitted jon board vessels of war, except as | medicine stores and upon the order and | under the control of the medical offi- cers and to be used for medical pur- s This is the law i force in the Navy today. 1 Q. What will prevent sun glare com- | ing through a skylight’—M. W. C. A. help. | @ Where is the largest printing press in the United States?—B. B. It is not quite clear what is | meant by the largest printing press, | since printing presses are composed of units, which run in various combina- tions. For instance, a 28-unit machi: is really four presses in one. The lar | est press, based on producing capacity | is located in the plant of the New York | Times. "This machine has a running speed of 50,000 to 60,000 32-page papers an hour and is equipped with aut matic paper-replenishing devices. know as Autopasters, whereby the press is not stopped or slowed down to charge paper rolls, but does this automatically at the full speed of the machine. Q. How many restaurants are there in the United States?>—V. D. W. There are about 80,000 restau- | Two coats of white paint will | voluntary feat. Q. Which is Sousa’s compositions is carved on his monument?—N. R. A. The opening stralns of “The Stars and Stripes Forever” are etched on the slab beneath which liss the composer’s | body in Congressional Cemetery, Wash- | ington, D. C. Q. What was the first name of the city of Paris?—H. E. M. A. Paris is first referred to in his- tory under the name Lutetia. The his- |tory of the city is traced back as far {as 53 B.C. Q. How many cars can the new Gold- en Gate Bridge accommodate’—E. J. C. | A The Golden Gate Bridge is being built because of the demands of traffic. | The total capacity of the bridge is 260.- 000 machines per 24 h The bridge proper has a total le or 11-5 miles. The grand total length, including the two appr from Waldo Point in Marin Coun the Marina Gate of The Presidio in San Francisco, all embraced within the project, is 7 miles. Q. When were envelopes first used? -C. A. R | Al It has not been established defi- ly d envelodes scem to heve ce, possibly as le -of the seventeenth century, though in limited quantitiss. y Were not in general use in aay y prior to 1839-1840, when they became common in England about 1845 nearly all letters were ed, in this cou so that an u portion came on the outside for the dress, though even then there w certain demand made for envelopes, sll of which were m hand. Graduai- ly the use of 1830 practi in them. Q. What is the French phrase for | peanut butter’—V. H. A. There 1s no French word for pea- nut butter. This article of food 15 very little known in France since the peams is an American product likely that the words would he eg pressed in French simply by using the | e ' English words. translation of R e, Cato the Elder concliided he made in the Senate Pigly: Who was the first American ofiger 2 €. D. ned?— Wi rants in the country, serving an urban | population of about 69.047.000 persons or one restaurant for about every 863 persons. Q. Will oiling rubber boots help to preserve them?—J. A. R A. The Bureau of Standards says that rubber boots should not be oiled. Grease oil, wex, etc., are deleterious to rubber The only care which rubber boots re- quire 1s to wash them with water ai store them in a cool, dark and reason- ably dry place when not in use. Q. What does “Citizenship A. D. 1" on a discharge from the Marine Corps mean?—B. J. L. A It signifies “Citizenship American Declaration Intcntion.” Q. Do land animals ever qwim | distances?>—A. H. A. Except in such emergencies undations, land animals. excep polar bear, otter and beaver never vol- s St. Peter's, the Vati- \useum. covering more Vatican gardeis i between V. office; of t Sub Regno C; Q. In what Preakness? —W. H A Tt was in 1920 C. Kummer vear did Who v th Naval Rivalry Among Nations Seen as Logical Adjusiment ' With general recognition of the fact that naval rivalry has developed, Ar | ican opinion inclines to the conclusi | that future disarmament efforts will take place under conditions of greater equality among the leading nations Present American policy is deplored in some comments, but majority support is given to the proposal that money for increased employment in the United States may properly be spent in reack ing the naval strength authorized by treaty. lans in England and Japan attract attention, while national interest here is aroused by the letting of con- tracts for new vessels “The building program thinks the | Oakland (Calif) Tribune. “is in no sense a gesture of defiance or swash- buckling.” for the new ships leave our Navy within the treaty limits.” The Rutland Herald emphasizes the necessity for “commanding respect in any world port. as a matter of pr | tection of our flag and our national ‘lhxle the Port “Huron Times-Herald | feels that the Nation must favor “prac- tical reduction or actual expansion.” and that “no one cr two nations can ever bring about anything like disarma- ment.” The Hartford Times advises | that “the present spurt. if it may be so called. does little more than 4o off- | set the previous delay.” in addition to | “making jobs and assisting business.” | The Yakima Daily Republic sees “stern | realities as to the surety of future in. ternational conflicts.” ‘and conclude. | that “the best thing this administration | is doing is to plan for something like adequate naval construction.” | | It is called “the greatest naval build- | ‘;ng program ever undertaken as a unit |in"the history of the United States,” |by the Rock Island Argus, and that | paper states as to the details: “It has | been estimated that 18400 men will be | directly employed for a total of 2 1 430,000 man-work weeks on the | vessels Four men in allied industries val in the National Capital they are|are employed for every man directly much feted and received. Returning |t Work on the shipbuilding. Adding to their hotel suite late at night, they | these 73,200 men to those directly em- sit and talk for a few moments on a Ploved, a total of more than 90.000 men subject which Malden has postponed | Will be carried on pay rolls throughout until the last minute—his mother. The | the country during the life of the w mond, and Perilla has to be told that |that 85 per cent of the total cost of her mother-in-law is a horrid, malicious | & Ship is spent on labor. If the whole and evil_creature. ~Philosophically in-| amount of $238.000,000 allocated from clined, Perilla is unconvinced _that | the public works fund for naval pur- mother Malden will not be a lovable POSes is spent, this would mean that person, and determined to be hf.“’p""i:%.‘géfw‘wg" will be distributed right. v d = around eagh ol}}:er luror nhgoo;i-mcg;;t}g:rf;(‘er‘s‘ll}o;“:;bg‘t:tvzgcr;;nce& by Hsmp Isses her he % X lonths. W fapses’ and falls to the floor, dead.|eVer, 125 contributing trades and indus Death from an unsuspected heart weak- | tries will feel almost immediate benefit. next morning they are to start for Rich- | The Navy Department officials aflirm | in | ness is the verdict. Less than a month later a former suitor, one of a party on a motor trip sleep. Another case of a physically sound and healthy young man the vic- tim of an unsuspected heart weakness. On the former occasion of death Perilla and her husband were alone in the hotel room. On the latter occasion the young man was alone in his room. In neither case can evidence of foul play be found. Yet Perilla is suspected of murdering her husband and also of having a hand in the death of the second man. The motive in the first instance might be the inheritance of a large fortune. In the latter case it couldn’t be. Perilla knows she is not guilty, but she believes that both her husband and Bob Coles were murdered. She engages Fleming Stone, and without clue, with- cut evidence and without positive knowl- edge that murder has been committed, is|this astute detective sets to work in earnest and eventually unravels the best mystery of his career. — e The Girls Ahead. From the San Antonio Evening News. Aren't the girl babies named Nira get- ting a start over the boys named Newdeal? to California with Perilla, dies in his | A 5-day, 40-hour week will be put into effect at navy vards and_the pay will be_the same as at private”yards.” The Navy Department,” records the San Antonio Express, “has assigned the work on the 16 warships to be built in the Navy's own yards—ranging from light cruisers to submarines—in its yards at Portsmouth. Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Norfolk. Charleston, Mare Island and Bremerton. Those vessels— to cost about 108 million dollars—will be finished by 1936. The Government also must provide $9,362000 for 290 | | cluded in the latest construction pro- gram.” “American naval expansion is not a causc for immediate alarm,” advises the OL’-Joma City Times, “but it carries mcuacing possibilities for the future.” planes to be placed on the two aircraft | carriers and the four light cruisers in- | however, ca fears “the example of will be used bulding ‘The es that ion is demmde T again serve The Jersey Cii thinks the Memphis peal. “that Treaty prov nations, includ up to limits. and th from satisfacto; tion.” omm see country, ament — When All Lands “Talk American™ From the Pasadena Star An Englishman. writing from Esex predicts th: \der the influence of the “talkies,” the time will come when Il England w “speaking Aner- " Alread stes. there has been a disti lteration in the sprech of the yourger folk, who are beconing Americanized in their use of langiage and perhaps in other respects. Y. people in E: 14 to 26, in movies at least ce a weck and a becoming accustomed to American pro- nunciation and manners. If in England, then in many aher ters of the earth where Englis s spoken; and even in cou English is not the nat visit | tongue practice. moting in understanding are in the keeping producers of American sound fil The privilege is mnot li neutralizing of coc nfusion of the Hollywood there are, in fact, innumerable aver for effective work in popula America_and all things Anvrica foreign fields. e A Train and a Dog. From the San Antonio Ex A veteran engineer on the Rock Island Rajlrcad’s Golden State Limited valucs | his reputation for bringing in the train on time. Yet he (Martin J. Conway) stopped the locomotive at Topeka to lct a dog trot across a trestl. There was not room on the bridge for both tha |train and the dog, so fhe Ilatter was given right of way. Wiliam Cowpcr would not count as a fiend the man who, “though graced wita polish'd man- ners and fine sense, yef wanting sensi- bility,” needlessly sets foot upon a worm. The author >f “The Task” doubtless would have een glad to wel- come Conway into his circle. | The engineer's corsideration for a | dumb animal might be commended to | the motorist —particalarly the “wild" | youth—who, in a huTy to get nowhere, will step on the “g@s” and “unavoid- The New Castle News contends that | &P1y" run down a kitten or a puppy. “it is easy to see that America is not SUch a motorist cegainly is more want- bent on unduly increasing the strength | g in sensibility than the poet's man of its Navy,” but that “employment will be greatly increased.” The Asbury Park Evening Press feels that “with the American Navy again second to none on the seas, the security and diplomatic Who steps upon a yorm, yet he probably prides himself or gentlemanly traits, However, that engineer's precedent should not be arried too far. He | would not alwayt find it practicable to prestige of this country will be raised |Stop fcr a motaist who was disputing to the point where its efforts in the in- | the Way at a gmde crossing. There i terest of world peace will be doubled in | a limit beyond which that manner of strength.” . Fhe Santa Monica Qutlook, | chivalry would Sease to be a virtus.