Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1933, Page 8

THE EVE G STAR, WASHIN RIDAY, ALuUR 18, 1933. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Editi WASHINGTON, D. C. PRIDAY... ..August 18, 1933 PHBODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office" 114 . and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. icago Office: Lake Michigan Building. ropean Office: 14 Re:zn! St., London. England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. Star 45¢ per month nd Sunday Star O .60c per month Star -65¢ ver month Bunday Sta .5¢ per copy nl;o!lztuon made at the end of each month. ers may be sent in by mail or telephone fAtional 5000. fly and Sunday. y only . unday only . All Other States and Canada. ily and Sund: 1yr., $12.00: 1mo.. $1.00 aily only . yr., $8.00; 1mo. 75¢ junday only §5.00: 1mo. 50c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled o the use for republication of all news dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ted in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. — (w! Poor Advice. With the President himself in the thick of battle on the N. R. A. front, | new appeals from earnest inflationists for direct currency debasement seem more untimely than ever. Such ap- peals can only lead to the President’s embarrassment. A general who is busily directing the attack at a critical moment according to one mapped plan of strategy can expect little aid and comfort from counsel bidding him turn about and try some: thing else, just because some of the | lines scem to waver. The wavering lines right now are on the agricultural front. After their first gallant push, prices for farm pro- carefully | pers. Kennedy Moorhead was at Joel the last evening before he sailed for his rendezvous with death in Fran’ Those were the days when the res- taurant was an Americar. Athens. Conversation was practiced -there as a fine art. Writers, painters, sculptors, actors, soldiers of fortune, explorers, statesmen assembled around the tables to partake of Joel's delicacies and to share their experiences and observa- tions. No better news source existed in Manhattan. When there was “noth- ing doing” elsewhere in the metropolis, among Rinaldo’s guests. It is said that several Cuban and Mexican revo- lutions were planned under his roof. In March, 1917, the place was alive with political exiles from Russia ex- citedly discussing the dispatches from St. Petersburg and Moscow. Joel had a keen appreciation of with sketches of his friends. Again and again he had generous offers for | the gallery, but it was not for sale. | Now it is to be restored to the place |for which it was designed. | The hotel closed May 24, 1925. | it has not been forgotten. be many old-timers who will rejoice to hear that it is to resume business. Joel will be a trifie less young than he used to be, but that is nothing— his patrons also are getting on. It will be fun to revisit the well-remem- bered scene and again to meet the and again will be. D The Massacres in Irag. in the Near Eastern Kingdom of Irag, | formerly British-mandated ~ Mesopo- | tamia, with a situation not unlike that which a week 2go threatened to require American intervention in Cuba. Iraq, | like Cuba, is an independent country |and a full-fiedged member of the | League of Nations, but the British |retain a certain “Platt amendment” a story invariably might be dlscovered‘ draftsmanship, and his walls were filled But | ‘There will | philosopher whose forum it has been | Great Britain is suddenly confronted | had little difficulty in finding support for their arguments. The development .| of political gangs in the cities, of politi- cal cliques in Congress and in the State Legislatures, and of systems of gra‘t and corruption in the conduct of na- tional, State and municipal business confirmed their prejudices. They found joy in the discomfiture of criminals like Boss Tweed. He was an excellent ex- ample, they said, of the type of czar which the universal franchise pro- motes. The institution to which he be- longed, the infamous Tammany Society, they demonstrated, survives repeated exposure, and there are similar plun- derbunds, equally corrupt, flourishing throughout the country. That, they proclaimed, was the authentic democracy of the Nation. But in point of fact their judgment was superficial. There was another | variety of self-government in America | —the variety symbolized by the play- | ground tree. And that type, it may be hoped, is growing in the hearts of the | people. It is the democracy of*responsi- | bility, the democracy of mutual obli- gation. Its basic principle is that of civic duty. Under its provisions the citizen thinks first of his debt to so- clety, thinks more of his privilege of serving his fellow men than of being served by them. So motivated, he dis- covers the very essence of social free- dom, the joy of being truly self-suffi- clent, truly emancipated. He goes down the years beholden to none but himself, a good friend and meighbor, a patriot, in the best meaning of the phrase. He lives and dies master of his own fate, captain of his own soul. The little tree would have perished long ago had it not been guarded by a community of real democrats. It is a living monument to their ideals. —oe— | Roosevelt goes to Hyde Park for a vaca- tion and Hyde Park neighbors doubt- less say he goes to the White House for | a rest. Both of course are wrong. For ducts are showing a tendency to re- | responsibility for domestic tranquillity | the President every day is a working cede. its earls Nobady ever expected stages. that the troubles of the farmer would | turesque Arabian sheik made a state | be cured permanently in three months. And on the industrial front the ad- ' the royal pomp and circumstance that | stitution. vance seems steady., with something of a crisis indicated by the concentrated move toward the stubborn citadels of steel, oll and coal that cannot hold out | Cheistian minority in the north has | with | In the midst of all this, with the irregular soldiery consisting of flerce now, as prices will inevitably be ad. | much longer eountry “sold” on the N. R. A. campaign and with scores of millions of dollars ! occurred in the villages, and the regular | wage scales. | Feisal's realm. Recently that pic- | visi | visit to London and was received with | |used to be staged in honor of a Vi |from the pre-war Kaiser. | For the past few weeks Iraq’'s Assyrian 1sit been in sanguinary conflict Kurd tribesmen. Wholesale slaughter But the battle there is still in |ang good international behavior in King | day. S It now seems easy to get the eighteenth amendment out of the Con- The fight against old John | Barleycorn will, however, go on, perhaps | more effectually when conducted in the | open, with no speakeasy masquerading. o o ‘Thrifty persons are advised to buy vanced in order to permit more liberal being doled out to the suffering farmers Iraq army has done nothing to prevent authority is always worth heeding. No- to enlist their aid and co-operation in the reign of massacre. There has even body has ever regretted buying Liberty the gigantic experiment of crop control, | been some evidence that Iraq military ponds. can any one accept seriously the ad- vice of the inflationists to undertake systematic and direct currency debas ment as another boost for the farmer? As for the effects of inflation on the sgricultural situation, Secretary of Agri- | complaints to the League, which would | culture Walace suggests that “infla- tion takes the pressure off temporarily, but remember this also, that physical in former days was provoked by Turkish | readjustments in agriculture have to be made.” In the excitement of inflation- propelled skyrocketing of farm prices, what would happen to those “physical readjustments” in agriculture? They would be knocked into the traditional cocked hat of course. And, as Secre- tary Wallace recalls. “In the speculative markets it seems that when inflation starts the speculative farm products go up faster in price than others, and so 4 anything happens to stop the infla- tion the prices of the same speculative commodities fall faster than other things. This applies ospecially to wheat and cotton.” And when they fall again, the only remedy, according to the theory of inflation, is more inflation. By Herculean endeavor the N. R. A. is trying to bolster purchasing power and wages to keep pace with already rising prices. It is slow work. Could it be otherwise? There has been one difficulty after another. Could any- thing else have been expected in a drastic attempt to place the Govern- bud in Iraq before the drift from bad; ment in partnership with every em- ployer in the land? But once started, there can be no turnirg back without additional disrupticn of business. Re- covery along the lines mapped out by league. whose susceptibilities. where | the present N. R. A. campaign cannot logically contain inflation as one of its elements of strategy. Complaints of rising prices by consumers unable to meet that rise are already flooding the N. R. A, What will happen when ©Of Iraq by stationing a Minister Resi- | prices are inflated by direct currency debasement, with ten million people stil out of work and with the newly em- ployed millions on wages adjusted to present levels It will be a distinct gain for recovery when there is general recognition of the fact that a lcng, hard fight is ahead: that the solid foundations for recovery must be laid before there can be any recovery, and that currency debasement will more effectively unde: the foundations for real recovery than any other single act. B It is but natural for college professors to have differences of more highly educated some persons be- come the more likely they are to be set in their own ideas. R Much is being said about price levels. Incidentally a warm word is intruded here and there about prices that never ‘were on the level. Joel's Coming Back. Reports from New York indicate that Joel's 1s coming back. To scores of the initiated that will be good news. The old building in Forty- first - street west of Seventh ave- nue, half a second from Times Square, still is standing; the old furniture still is extant; the old pictures, world fa- mous, still are available. And Joel himself. the ideal host, is again active There may be youngsters to whom all this may mean nothing, but for the oldsters it signifies a great deal. Joel Rinaldo is a philosopher. Like Pio Baroja, it has been his pleasure to serve his patrons food as well as books. His dining room, two or three decades ago, enjoyed an international celebrity for its cuisine and for its literary atmosphere. governors encouraged the killings. In the midst of these developments King | Feisal conceived a sudden desire to flee his country and reach Geneva in order, |1t is suggested, to forestall Assyrian involve the newly formed Irag govern- ment in the sort of world scandal which butcheries in Armenia. The British government has prevailed upon King Feisal to remain at his capital, ancient Bagdad, to await arrival of the British Ambassador to Iraq, Sir Francis Hum- phreys. who will shortly return to his post presumably with stern orders to Felsal to end the Assyrian atrocities. The Assyrians, numbering a Christian minority of some forty thou®and in an Iraq otherwise overwhelmingly Mahom- medan, desire to assemble the scattered remnants of their ancient race in a colony which will at least enjoy unmo- lested religious autonomy. To date the Iraq government has not encouraged this aspiration. The seeds of deep-seated racial ani- mosity and strife are plentifully ex- istent in Feisal's land. with ample op- portunity for their spread into neigh- boring French Syria and other Neur Eastern trouble zones. The anxiety of Prime Minister MacDonald to interpose British pressure to nip matters in the to worse is therefore comprehensible. In any event. the Assyrian-Iraq con- trovery seems bound to project itself into the September Assembly of the the rights of oppressed minorities are concerned, have often been exemplified Britain took the lead in supporting Iiaq’s claims to League membership. | America recognized the sovereignty dent at Bagdad. United States oil in- 1| terests control about a quarter of the | rich oil deposits in the Mosul region, which a couple of years ago was the potential cause of grave international conflict in the Near East. This country, too, has thus an interest in the preser- vation of stable conditions in Iraq. r—— The profiteer will be considered as a special factor in the present situation even though, strictly speaking, a rack- eteer in his own way, who might in emergency be dealt with by the ma- chinery already in motion to suppress crime. ———— A Playground Tree. In the middle of the municipal play- ground in Eightcenth street there |stands a little tree. It is a small growth, but perfect in its symmetry, graceful and decorative. The time may come when it will attain full maturity and be a shade-producer as well as an ornament in the diminutive park. Its chances of continued prosperity seem ! exceptionally good, for it happens that ! it enjoys the protection of all the boys and girls, all the small citizens, who | frolic around it. Viewed in that light |it is worthy of citation as a monu- | ment to constructive democracy. | 1t may be that, as critics repeatedly | have said, the standard theory of | democratic government in the United | state is a negative theory. Its bedrock | principle has been that of extending | the privileges of freedom to as many people as possible. In that regard it is a reaction against the ancient concen- Ition of royal power Whereby the | sovereign was in effect a dictator and | could do no wrong. It arose in America | as a direct consequence of misrule. Men | saw that kings governed selfishly and | cruelly, and they set up against their | Even earlier 1t claims to “divine right” the notion that | e Followers of Machado who remained | in Cuba are being threatened with vio- | lence. One advantage in being a polit- ical leader in riotous demonstration is that he is one of the first to know when it is time to quit. ——— Japan is said to have a secret society | whose purpose is to bring about war with the U. S. A. Wise Japanese statesmen may be relied on to keep it as secret as possible for an indefinite period of time. - R Honest tools have become associated in figurative languages with adverse im- pressions. Highly respected as both im- plements are in their proper service, N. R. A. is not calling for either chisels or monkey wrenches. T ST N. R. A. emblems are in such request as to constitute a gratifying reminder that it may be desirable to develop temporarily a demand in excess of supply. R Riotous conditions anywhere are pretty sure to produce people who pre- tend to be patriots when they are in fact merely gangmen. TS S SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Getting Somewhere. We are getting somewhere When the murmurs arise From the ships as they fare Through the oceans or skies. | A quietude sweet | They disturb now and then, But the journey complete | Brings new hope to all men. Though the storm may draw near | And we try to take heed | Of the way we must steer By the chart that we read, | It's worth the demand On our patience and care If a glimpse of the land | Shows we're getting somewhere. | | “What we want to do.” said the ex- citable man with bristly hair, take all the money from the rich and give it to the poor.” “Grand idea!” ‘answered Senator Sorghum, “but how are you going to keep the same people from getting the money away from the poor, same as | they did in the first place?” Jud Tunkins says we don't have duels now, but it looks kinda like one when two high-power salesmen contact each other. A Very 01d Question. Oh, what is Peace? Is it to cease The ways that we abhor, Or only leisure to increase Plans for another war? Higher Plane of Action. “You will be obliged to pey more very soon,” said the saleslady. “Thanks for the information,” said Miss Cayenne. “I'm glad you mention it as an obligation. It will be much more pleasure to respond to a duty than to try to go without things.” “You are scrupulous in suppressing lotteries that award morey,” said Hi | Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “and yet | vou risk all you may have or hope to | gain on the turn of a political election.” | Currency and Fashiogs. The way of Fashion, it is true, Has frequently perplexed us much, was a favorite resort of the discrimi- | each individual himself should be & o rrodern this and that we view nating. O. Henry was a regular visitor, and the table and chair he preferred were pointed out to those interested long after his active pen had ceased ‘to toil. Mark Twain also came oc- casionally to dine and to talk. Booth Tarkington was an honored guest Eurico Caruso was a familiar figure. Edwin Mwrkham, and Horace Trapybel e ir frien”s (o midnight sup- king, enjoying “natural prerogatives” of his own. The proponents of that | philosophy of liberalism argued for the | greatest good for the greatest number. | Those who were opposed pretended to | find only & difference in degree between | misgovernment by one master and mis- government by a million. They used the word “mobocracy” to deseribe con- stitutional repubii-anism. And they Instead of old-time such and such. And the result we find most strange, With an increasing sense of doubt, When even styles in money change Until we almost go without. he is willin’ to tell all he knows,” said Uncle Eben, “tries to seem Amportant by doin’ more tellin' dan knowin'.” Washington reports that President A hint on Government | “is to| “You often finds dat a man who says | ‘Témpleton Jones was very fond of lemon drops. ‘Where some men smoked, and others chewed gum, Jones ate his favorite candles. In time he came to share them with a pet fly, which found its way to his high office. One drop out of every package was lnlld solemnly on the desk pad for the y. ‘There it found the yellow dinner without fail, thanks to Jones’ fondness for feeding things. While Mr. Jones consumed lemon drops on a large scale, as an aid to prosperity, the fiy buzzed around on one alone. * ok K And a time it had of it, too, eating in the infinitesmal quantities satisfac- tory to flies. Jones had a proper twentieth century bedded in the feet of all flies, so he was careful to remove the drop after awhile with a bit of paper. In this he wrapped the drop, the whole then being deposited in the waste paper basket forthwith. This feature of the daily program was | never put into force, however, Jones had satisfled himself that the fly had had enough for one day. * K ok ok Captious critics might ask how Tem- leton Jones knew when his small riend has enough. boresome. He knew his flies! Few persons nowadays were daring enough to feed flies in defiance of laws. Science had held up man as shudder- ing before flies for so many years that even Jones viewed his strange pet some- what aloofly. ! a lemon drop, however. Hz was not such a fool to science as to permit it to interfere with his love for feeding animals. * ok ok ok If he liked anvthing, in the everv- day life, it was placing “handouts” for brute creatures. The stray dog, or cat, always found a friend in him. Even starlings received their quota of breadcrumbs in Winter. As for downtown sparrows, these were his_perticular friends. On more than ore rainy dav he slyly sorinkled oatmeal cookies along side- walks, to the subsequent despair of careful janitors. ERE Y | | This outline of Jones is necessary, in order to explain the fly. | That it was the same fly, he was con- vinced, not so much by its appearance, as by its method of approach. Surely no two flies in the world would | insist on eating cigarette ashes as a | prelude to a full meal. Templeton Jores’ fly did just that Not that Jones smoked much, but friends did: it was their ashes, not his, which mostly served the fly. N * x ox % Every morning it would come and perch itself on the edge of the crackle- tray. Jones liked the saucer, the fly liked the saucer, they were brothers in saucers, each had an eye for a good saucer. But the fy had the advantage of BY FREDERIC Isn't this something? Dr. Julius Klein, famed Assistant Secretary of Commerce under Herbert Hoover, has Just gone into business at Washington with Roosevelt Secretary of Commerce Dan Roper’s principal law partner. The new firm is to be known as Julius Klein and Assoclates. The chief “associate” |is Clarence B. Hurrey. who has prac- ticed law with Secretary Roper for 12| years. The new concern has been formed to represent trade associations and other business groups before Gov- ernment departments, primarily. just now, in connection with the filing of N. R. A. codes. The firm will also en- gage in commercial research and special investigations in the interest of trade associations. As a Republican-Demo- cratic combination, with rare back- ground and “contacts,” Julius Kl=in and Associates should be able, in a man- ner of speaking. to catch 'em coming and going at Washington. They have already swung into action in a down- town office building not far from the White House. * * K % When Marques Sterling, newly ap- pointed Cuban Ambassador to the United States, takes up his duties in Washington he’ll find a right-hand man at the embassy who's been on the job there for the better part of the last 20 years—Senor Don Jose T. Baron—pro- nounced Barone—counselor and on nu- merous occasions in the past acting Ambassador. Senor Baron has seen half a dozen Cuban Ambassadors come land go at Washington. One of his chiefs here was Dr. Cespedes, the new President of Cuba. He is also an old friend of the new envoy. * kK X % From Western oil men now coding their way through Washington comes a yarn which would seem to prove there really is honor among thieves. It concerns the kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel, Oklahoma City oil man re- cently ransomed for $200.000. While they had him in captivity in parts tunknown the kidnapers now and then sought to inform themselves about the oil game and evinced particular inter- est in members of the industry known in ‘the Southwest as “hot-oilers,” or chiselers, who violate the prorata 0\\('- put agreement for secret profit. Urschei’s account of these cut-throat operators made a deep 1mpression on his captor: “The damned crooks” is what the kid napers called them. »x ki Paul M. Pearson. Governor of the Virgin Islands, is concluding an official visit to Washington. His particular business is to arrange for some new other points, because the Danish bank. on which the islanders have long de- pended, is pulling up stakes. If Gov. Pearson is on the way out, to make room for some deserving Democrat on Jim Farley's list, the,Swarthmore Col- lege professor hasn’t heard anything ebout it—yet. When the White House the other day was asked if Judge the Virgin Islands, the reply was: “Who says so—the judge?” ook % ‘When Dr. George Otis Smith leaves the Federal Power Commission by resig- nation in the Fall he says he's at last going to carry out a pledge he made himself when still a boy. It was to the effect that he would never accept public office. Dr. Smith's father was once secretary of State of Maine and perhaps impressions formed during that chapter of his early life may have im- pelled the famous geologist to swear off in advance, as far as a political career was concerned. At any rate. after nearly 40 years in Feceral activities of one kind or another, Dr. Smith says he thinks it's about time to make good on the vows of his childhood. He began working for Uncle Sam in 1896 as an assistant, in the Geological Survey and was director of the Survey from 1907 pto 1930. X X x Representative Sol Bloom, Democrat, of New York, went to bat at the N. R. A. this week in a case typical of thou- sands throughout the country. The proprietor of a tiny drug store in Man- sons, wrote to his Congressman that he felt himself hopelessly handicapped by the lack of a Blue Eagle, while his com- petitor just across the way—one of the modern “drug stores,” which are com- horror of the germs supposed to be im- | until | ‘The answer is so simple as to prove | This never kept him from putting out ware saucer which served as an ash ' banking facilities at St. Thomas and | of Chicago is under consideration for | hattan, employing only a couple of per- | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Jones; it saw the economic advantage of tobacco ash, which is classified as “foodstuff, A. No. 1 brand.” It was a pleasure, at least to Jones, to watch that insect eat ashes. This it would do, no matter if the lemon drop, to it a great wheel of yellow, were reposing already on the near side of the tray. Jones could make nothing more of this than that the fly wanted to begin its meal with cigarettes. * K Kk After it had walked around in the ashes for a while, it would come over and start on the candy. In time it came to be jn_this. Jones rattled papers in its very face, in"the best executive style, but the fiy showed the stuff it was made of by continuing to crook its various legs over the lemon drop. “ At one time the executive brought the | corner of a letter down to within half an inch of the creature, without causing it to budge. It was one of the most determined lemon eaters he had ever seen, and after that he never bothered it, but went on about his proper business, and permited the fly to attend to its own. * x x % After a few weeks of observation, Jones came to admire his fly very much. It was no hoggish insect, but rather finicky. For one thing, it would not eat an old lemon drop. The careless person, noting the dis- parity in size between the round of | the candy and the body of the fly would jump to the conclusion that the same drop would do for at least a month. But Jones’ fly did not see it that way. quite fearless | | the packet, fresh as new mown hay, as the cows say. devote to a bit of candy which had lost its pristine influence. %k + | “Here is a fly with a mind of its own.” thought Jones. Superficially. it looked so much like others of its kind that there seemed to be no difference at all, but when he stopped to consider its habits, he saw at once that it was a fly with a single- track mind Nothing, not even a pen point filled with ink, could divert it from its two main purposes on his desk, to eat cig- | arette ashes and lemon drops. And Jones, seeing this singleness of purpose, and sympathizing with it, felt | that he could do not better, in this regard, than to fall in with the fly mood, and help the little fellow out. * ox oxox Accordingly, if you enter the sanc- tum of T. Jones, esq.. at the right time, you will have the felicity of seeing an unforgettable picture. It will be of Templeton Jones remov- ing the top lemon drop from the pack | and solemnly placing it on the near edge of his ash tray. which is done in pale blue in the very best china If none of his friends have left any ashes in the dish overnight, Jones then lignts a cigarette, smokes contem- platively for a few puffs, and knocks off the ashes on the far side of the dish. He looks around for the fly. which, sure enough. comes right up. First, it walks around in the ashes. Then it ambles over to the lemon drop. Jones can begin work. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. bined restaurants and department stores | —had its windows filled with Gen. John- | son’s hawks. Representative Bloom took matters up at the N. R. A. and was able to inform his druggist-constituent that ways and means had just been found to cover the case of little businesses that are doing the best they can. ok ox It's an open secret that the N. R. A. issue raised by the Ogburn-consumers incident has to an extent unprecedented thus far taken the lid off public criti- cism of the big Johnson show. Private criticism has been rampent since the earliest code days. The revised news- paper code. with its special provision for free speech in the press, exactly typi- fies Gen. Johnson's own views about criticism. He expects it. gets plenty of it, and doesn't mind. “The N. R. A" is like one of the popular exhibits at the Chicago World's Fair. A concern that makes non-shatterable glass invites people to throw things at a great slab of its product, and then watch what | happens—or doesn't happen. The N. R. A. people—including any number of insiderz—know they're not perts of a perfect machine. but they believe that basically it's non erable and argue that brickbats can therefore be thrown at it without doing any real damage. * X x ¥ There's just been held in New York a_meeting of the Gourmets' Committee of the Society for the Advancement of Better Living. The committee’s spe- cial purpose is to reform the Nation's eating. Some time ago. on behalf of an American society that wanted to | publish a book of international recipes | various Ministers and Ambassadors of the United States abroad were asked to describe the best “eats” extant in the countries to which they were respective- ly accredited. From a certain capital somewhere in - came the reply: “There's nothing fit to eat in this country.” * ook ok The Blue Eagle on display at the White House executive offices is a con- sumers’ emblem only. It evinces the President’s purpose to have the admin- istration buy only of N. R. A. members 1t is not on record that any weg>s have gone up or hours down at the White House, any more than in other Gav rnment departments. where the rule this Summer is regular overtime with- | out extra pay. * k %k % “W1” Woodin, as President Roose- velt affectionately calls his Secretary of the Treasury, is pretty generally be- from the cabinet. His record of fivi and a half months in office, with the country’s biggest peacetime cash bal- ance on hand (nearly $1,500.000.000, as of August 15). and with 13,991 licensed banks operating without restrictions and only 2870 closed or on a restricted basis. is considered by Government financial authorities a showing which would entitle any Secretary of the Treasury in such times as these to leav office with flying colors. Woodin can stay in the cabinet os long as he pleases. That’s his understanding with F. D. R. When he leaves it will be for reasons of health. (Copyright, 1933.) S O — N. R. A. Hopes May Be Based on Santa Claus To the Editor of The Star: There is something peculiar about this recovery proposition. With wages rising and working hours being reduced, every- body knows that the extra money must come from some place. If all wages are raised equally, prices of goods must rise also, but an extra supply of goods must be available or somebody loses Yet, a3 far as any N. R. A. statements show, one would suppose the adminis- tration belleves that Santa Claus is preparing to make up the discrepancy. Economists know that there are only two sources of more pay for less work. If better methods and invention result in greater production by less man- power, then the N. R. A. scheme will mean hardship and reduced income for no one. However, it seems the inten- tion of the N. R. A. to hold production to present levels; if so, and for as long as stabilized production~continues, the only remaining source ofbigher pay for | workers and more of them is the sur- It liked its lemon drops right out of | lieved to be contemplating retirement Some Codes That the American People Need To the Editor of The Star: As a member of the bewildered public, I have been reading and listening inter- estedly to the reports of codes which are to make the workingman happy and of senatorial racket investigations which shall make it impossible for a a quarrel. projects! The working folk deserve a better deal all around, and the slot- least as useful The very moment when a jobless one sits on his step reading about his trade’s | new code, one like him, | to hang on to the family car. may with his entire family have crashed into a | forever. to school attendance by law but with- |out_adequate medical supervision, may | stages of tuberculosis (besides other diseases acquired by close contact in | unventilated rooms). workingman who will soon have his job back with better wages and shorter hours. If the fondest dreams of all |such were to come true, what have they then? | meaning more cars, more speed. morc pleasure, ~shallower living, with the | wide-eyed wistful children who were poor, now become rich, more wide-eyed {and " wistful, rushing about pleasure- bent with their parents. Let us have other codes, then., and back them up with Government money. Among them. one which involves rafety of limb for those who ride in cars—no grade crossings, no Grunken or incom- petent drivers, wide lanes for travel, | forethought | here we lose lives. The slot-machiné patron lost his life on his way to | pleasure, but thousands of other per- | haps more valuable human beings through no fault of their own, lost | theirs by machines on their way to work. Bodily safety could be achieved and immediately, too, in the age of the new deal. But another more important code | should be our look toward the future— that is. for our children. Whie we | hand money right and left to th | needy little ones for their physical com- fort. why not hand out something for | their so Instead. the country over. we have steadily robbed and bled the school teachers, to whom we give ovcr our children’s minds and bodies for seven nours each day. How can>a cramped starved life inspire a child and build up in him ideals that will outlaw gangsterdom? With salaries too low for a decent standard of living with inadequate and crowded school buildings, perfunctory medical super- | vision, if any. with no rescurces with which to equip themselves intelligently for their jobs. teachers and pupils alike have had a_raw deal so far throughout our land. It would indeed be in keep- ing with the new deal if cif State and Federal governments would stand behind the teachers and our children in_a long look toward the future. Let us stiengthen our departments of education and of safety. Secretary Tugwell is right in thinking that our public officials stay too much at their desks. Some. it seems, rarely look up | from their books or off the speeches i i slot-machine patron to get killed in | a personal letter. More power to both these| cational idea introduced into the lives | i { | lucky enough | oped by the aeronautics branch of the flyer at a railrcad crossing—in one airway beacons whenever it gets dark. | moment their economic problems settled | By using this device, airway beacons | be hacking and coughing into the lasi | divorces in proportion to population?— Or, suppose that we must concentrate | divorces—one divorce for less than five our entire attention on this wishful =marriages. | | Did you ever write a letter to Fred-| eric J. Haskin? You can ask him any | question of fact and get the answer in Here is a great edu- | of the most intelligent people in the world—American_newspaper readers. It | machine patron ought somehow mever | is a part of that best purpose of a news- to be allowed to reach his slot machine. | paper—service. It occurs to me, however, that the | cept 3 cents in coin or stamps for re- new deal might be stretched a bit to| cover the safety and well-being of | Address Frederic J. Haskin, Director, others as varied and numerous and at | The Evening Star Infqrmation Bureau, individuals as these. | Washington, D. C. There is no charge ex- turn postage. Do not use postcards. Q. What is the “electric eye” devel- Department of Commerce?—N. P. A. It is a device which will turn on are switched on automatically whenever Q. In what country are there the most ' T. McC. A. Japan is said to be the country at present leading in the number of Q. Who drafted the industrial bill?>— T C A. President Roosevelt and his ad-| More leisure, more money, | visers drafted it. Why was the B put in prison?—D. E. A. After the Boer War he remained active in politics of Scuth Africa. always favoring scparation from Great Britain. Soon after the World War began he oer Gen. de Wet C. | headed a plot against the British gov- instead of hindthought. | fine. It had not time to|The victim of the racket loses money; | leased cn his parole not to engage in that some one else has written for them. | |Let us put the live wires to work in | these branches, as we have in the N. R. A. Then let us utterly loose them, by adequate appropriations, that they may be free to track down their subjects as the hound tracks down his fox—to the finish. E. G. THOMSON. ———— Blind Boys Should Not Goto Separate Camps To the Editor of The Star: iAiJ for Suburban 7Farmin | | ernment 1n South Africa, and was cap- tured at Waterberg. December 1, 1914. H> was tried for high treason, convicted and sentenced to six years and $10,000 About a year later he was re- political agitation Q. What is the difference between a franchise and a charter?—C. W. W. A. A franchis: is simply a commission to do one certain activity, while a char- ter gives the right to a body to carry on varied activities. Q. How many wind tunnels are there at _the Lengley Mcmorial Aeornautical v at_Hampton, Va.>—J. F. V. hat laboratory there are eig! t wind tunnels, of different characteris- tics, to serve different purpeses, includ- ing’such world-famous tunnels as the variable-density wind tunnel, using com- pressed air: the high-speed tunnel (ap- ately 800 miles per hour). the prop:lier research tunnel, with a throat 20 feet in diameter, for full-scale testing of propellers, and the full-scale wind tunnel, vith a throat 60 feet by 30 feet, for testiag full-size airplanes. Other unique wind tunn-ls at that laboratory are the vertical wind tunnel. for study- ing the spinning characteristics of air- planes, and the refrigerated wind tun- nel. for studying problems of ice forma- tion. A Where was auction bridge first played?—M . A Auction bridge originated in India. The first record of it is found in a let- ter, ublished in the London Times, January 16. 1902, outlining the game and referring to it as “the new game of auction bridge for three players.” Q Is there a traffic accident at the Century of Progress’—N. A. There is a traffic booth on the sec- ond floor corridor. between the Com- munications Building and the Social Science Hall. The cxhibit is of great | importance. because every 37 seconds another automobile accident injures some one in the United States. exhibit R. H . Q. How was the Soviet Amtorg Cor- poration established in the fted States”—B. N. M. A. It was organized and incorporated in New York State by Russian-borm Americans, who later transferred their stock to the Soviet Bank for Foreign Trade, in Moscow. Q. How do postmasters account for sales of stamps?—T. S. A. Postmasters are charged with the value of all postage stamps issued to them, and are required to account for all funds received in connection with sale thereof to the public. At the close of each quarter, the postmaster renders a report, showing the amount of funds received from the sale of postage stamps during the designated period, together with the dispesition of the accumulated | revenue. | Or, again, fifteen or twenty children the amount of light registered dimin- in any number of communities, forced ishes to a certain amount at dusk. | Q. Is it true that Paderewski insured his fingers for $300,000, or some such immense sum?—C. 8. A. A. Insurance authorities say that it is true. and that the famous pianist once collected a substantial sum on his pol- icy when he was afflicted with rheu- matism. Q. What is the name of the Summer theater at Westport. Conn.>—F. W. A. The Country Playhouse. It is lo- cated just off the Boston Post Road. Q. Can a person bring in a dog from England without leaving it in quaran- tine?—E. W. A If a dog brought in from England is a pet. it will be inspected. but will not be held in quarantine unless some evidence of disease appears, and then it may be detained for observation Herding dogs are placed in quarantine Q_What is the cabala, referring to the Scriptures?—J. C. C A Cabala (spelled many different ways) is a system of occult theosophy, or mystical interpretation of the Scrip- tures. among some Jewish rabbis and certain medieval Christians At first such interpretation was oral, but later was reduced to writing. Unde¢r this sys- tem every line. letter. number and ac- cent of the Scriptures holds a hidden nse or meaning Q. When will the James Gordon Ben- nett balloon race be held this year?— H. G_F. A. September 1-4. at Chicago. Q. How can sprout’ coming up around cherry trees be eradicated?—M. A. The Bureau of Plant Industry savs that the only way to get rid of them is to cut them off individually a little below the surface of the ground. Q. In the event the eighteenth amend- ment is.repealed, what will be the regu- lations governing dispensation of spe- cially denatured alcohol for manufac- turing purposes prescribed by the Fed- eral Government’—G. B. L A. Th~ Bureau of Industrial ‘Alcohol says that the repeal of the eighteenth amendment would have no effect on the regulations for the distribution and use of specially denatured alcohol for man- ufacturing purposes, as such distribution n ance of permits for same are fiot connected with the Bureau of Pro- hibition Q When was Ellis Island first used as an immigration station’—G. T. S. A. In 1891. In 1897 the buildings were burned and newer types of build- !ings were erected How much has the price of oats fluctuat-d since 1900°—L. L. W. A. The Bureau of Agricultural Eco- nomics says that the lowest recorded price per bushel received by producers of oats since 1900 was 23.1 cents per bushel in 1931. The highest was 70.9 cents, in 1918. Exception is taken to an article pub- | lished in ycur paper and others in the city last Sunday regarding camps for blind boys. This article spoke at length of the “experiment” made with a bind boy of Alexandria, who was taken to the Y. M C. A. Camp to see if he could get along well with other boys. The article goes on to state that he did what sigated boys did, and did it just as well—in short, he was a normal boy like all the boys. Because of this the general sec- refary of the Y. M. C. A. advocates a camp for blind boys. Why I cbject to these periments.” Sightless pe ple have ben cxperimented upon by well meaning sighted people, who know nothing about the blind or | their needs, for a lcng time. and, to | quote an old lady of New England, “too much is quite sufficient.” The Y. M. C. A. the Y. W. C. A., the Boy Scouts, the Girl Sccuts and all other character-building organizations e doing a wonderful w rk and should o encouraged. But why do they leave a person out of all this because he or she is biind? The sightiess person is fully capable of taking his rightful place among other human bongs and should be allowed to do so, wearitg “no tag.” Scparate camps are not needed for | the blind F. S. HUFTY. o Praises Star Editorial on “Slogans and Realities™ To the Editor of The Star: It has aiways seemed to me that Washingion is fortunate in having, always alert and ready to speak in the cause of justice, a powerful voice like that of The Evening Star. Somchow, the columns of this journal seem to sence the necds of those most in need of protection, and to voice the opinions of those who without it would remaim unrepresented. In your recent editorial on “Slogans and Realities” vou earned the gratitude of every modest-ralaried wo.l: who, beset with all the responsibilities of liv- | Ing under present-day condi s, strives to make the familv income almost meet by service in cafeteria. lunch room elevator or what not. Could any on2 in his sober senses dream that thes2 asks are undertaken for pleasure megely, and with the malicious intent of depriving some one less fortunate of bread? If one who has only labor to give. may not sell his energv to better his | condition, then indeed have we arrived | at a horrible system of slavery. The modest worker accepfs wita gratituce vour splendid suggestion that h= modest outsid> earnings of stenosra- phors. mescengers and porters rema‘n unhempered vn‘il the sp'endid hon riums of higher officia’s ave carefully scrutinized. MARY MASON JONES. e Mr. Mallon Referred to The Wrong Cespedes To the Editor of The Star: Many Cubans and Americans were | greatly amazed to read in Tuesday's ! Star the highlv erroneous statement by { Mr. Paul Mallon in regard to Mr. Car- los Manuel de Cespedes, n<w President of Cuba. ‘The literary picture given by Mr. Mal- lon' in his statement is that of Corlos Miguel de Cespedes, not related to Pres- ident C:spedes, and one of Machado's right-hand men. The Washington Star should be very ment, to keep its read:rs well informed. RAFAEL CABRERA. plus bank accounts and enormous in- comes of our still numerous million- aires and monopolists. Unearned incomes of predatory pluto- crats, little and big, seem about to re- ceive a knockout blow, although not much is being said about it. W. C. DUNCAN. v If I make this cbservation it is be- cause a newspaper of the reputation of | careful, especially at this critical mo- | . Promise of future population changes is believed by some Americans to be involved in the aliotment of $25.000,000 from Federal funds to aid subsistence farming near the cities of the country. A substantial “back to the farm” move- ment is reported under way, and with the mcmentum to be imparted by funds provided, it is predicted b; cbservers that a permanent condition will be developed. It is believed to offer safe auxiliary support for some industrial or business workers “Of spceialization in farming.” thinks the Dayton Daily News, “there will un- doubtedly bs more and more. Of mechanization there will be here more, there less. And there will always be the fundamental difference between the farmer who farms as a business and the farmer who farms as an artist. The surburban ‘farmer’ who thinks of his acres primarily as a home will be one thing: the ranchman on his far-flung empire of blocded cattle and sheep will be another. Scme natures will be served by one situation. other natures by the other. In the history of human nature there is plenty of evidence that the plans of the President for a com- bination of rural and industrial advan- tages will meet the yearnings of vast numbers of people. Are not the roomy surburbs to which the wealthy of the cities have fled a sufficient witness to | that?” “Theoretically. it seems to be the sort of population readjustment that will in- crease sclf-support and develop better citizenship.” acccrding to the Santa Monica Evening Outlock, which holds that “the possibilities in the proposal | are great.” and offers the suggestions: “A Dbetter distribution of popu’ation with regard to employment is highly ‘. and may well be regarded as | ntial fcature of national eco- nomic planning. If, through the com- ing years, industries might be trans- planted from teeming citics to suburbs or country cities, the human bene- fit in terms of a better living and greater individual self-dependence would be_incalculable.” It is pointzd out by the Youngstown Vindicator that the Bureau of Reclama- tion of the Department of the Int-rior has been providing hcmes for unem- plcyed for years, but its activity has been ccnfined to arid regions in the Wes' " Of the present movement, the Vindicator offers the indorsement: “The fact that this work has demon- sirated that such a movement as sub- sistence farming can be made self- financing gives added interest to the administration’s plan of combining the farm and factcry systems. It is not a back to the farm movement that is pro- posed. but a rural home movement as, security against industrial risks.” “The movement is cne of the most atiractive features of the domeslic ro- covery program.” declares the Cleveland | Plain Dealer. That paper suggests that { “it will not be easy to restrict agricul- tural preduction and to increase agri- cultural population at the same time,” but offers the prediction: “In the be- ginning it is_expected the new farm pepulation will be located on small farms and will engage primarily in| raising focd and vegetable products Iori its own consumption. In due time per- | haps bountiful harvests will again be a boon instead of a bane and in that| event the new agricultural population | will no longer be looked upon as an| encmy by the old.” | “The Government is taking on a big | job to turn thousands of urban families | back to the farms,” in the opinion of | the Topeka Daily Capital, “but it is a | worth-while project just the same, and | much good can be accomplished for | future years” The Oshkosh Daily Northwestern looks forward to “farm- ing on some of the unimproved and uncleared land in Northern Wisconsin,” and advises as to future treatment of the matter in that State: “There is a large amount of such land, much of it having reverted to the State on account | of unpaid taxes. Nct a little of it would be suitable for farming if| properly cleared, planted and cultivated. The State could well afford to be pretty | jenient with seéfers on this land, help- | ing them to clear it and eliminating all o > Believed to Promise Chance or most of the tax burden for a term of years. In the end the settlers would hold their property free from debt, win a living from the soil and be able to pay some return to the State in taxes upied by non-agri- cultural workers” are .seen by the Philadelphia_Evening Bulletin to have increased, and the Bulletin comments on these developments: “Though not farming for profit. this class doubtiess wrings sustenance from the soil, raising all or a part of the family food.” The Charlotte Observer. speaking of the de= velopment of 1i~ in such communities, states “The slide to the populous cen- ters has been checked and arrested. It has been definitely held up not only, but the tidal swing is now in the other direction. The people are returning t0 the country side. Statistically it is provable that more people are today residing in rural regions of America than has been the case for two decades and the sweep is not yet at its crest, sociologists believe.” _ “Return of farm population.” in _the judgment of the Fort Worth Star Tele- gram, “is a _trend to be encouraged for purposes of restoring the economic balance,” and that paper makes the prediction that “it is not likely this Nation ever again will see so great a migration from farms as it saw in the past years of industrial expansion.” On the other hand. the Rutland Herald holds that “very few of the unemployed, comparatively speaking, desire to be re- turned to the soil.” Psychology of the Nazi Movement in Germany To the Editor of The Star Count Carlo Sforza in his article, “Hitler's Conquest of Sccialism.” ap- pearing in The Sunday Star, informs us that the “German never fails to thank fate for being born a German and thus having been saved from the moral levity or lack of intellectual depth prevailing among all other peo- ples.” If this is true of the German national psychology, the reas'n why every German is behind Hitler is readily explained. Ard if the present political system has been copied from Italy, be- cause it was found to have been b:st adapted to counteract forces which hcve developed since the war. and which have prcved inimical to the nationalistic aspiraticns of Germany, it shows the mental alertnecs Germans and their ready recentivity ideas conceived or devel neighbors. Inst-ad of. h: . Italians expecting any rToy for biing the criginators of a new poLtical idea, they are more then glad to see that their system is being adopted by th-se who prove themselves c-pable of appre- ciating its superior merits. This has been the case with conceptions and adoption of religious ideas, and b th Fascism and Naz.s. are loved almost with religious fervor by their respective votaries. This writer has not made any special study of politics, but one fact has been too obvious not to notice— that is, by abolishing the organizations of German workers the government has once more reiterated the principle that the state—and not sectional—interests should be endowed with all powers whatever, that every individual may be assured of equal protection and privi- leges, and not those who happen to belong to one or other club, party or organization. This seems to interpret the idea of freedim that goes hand in hand with the idea of subordination to responsible, central authority, C. v their e Lemon Problem. From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. ‘They are reported to be in difficulties with the citrus fruit code. It would be ;z_. Tt:nmw?fld has been trying for g lemons into dom 4 tions, and look at that ruultelnm S The Old