Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1935, Page 2

L AL2 = EUROPE'S TROUBLE TERMED ECONOMIC _Readjustments Caused by War Only Intensified at Versailles. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Nobody won the war—the world was not made safe for democracy—mili- tarism was not vanquished. What an epitaph to write on the graves of the 8,500,000 or more who sleep in the battlefields of the World War! And yet today—16 years after the guns on the Western front were si- lenced by an armistice—the nations of Europe are rearming for strife. They call it defense against aggres- sion. It's the same old confession that human reasun and moral force seem unable to cope with physical ! strength and the brutishness of man- kind. Again America is standing aloof, fust as Britain did for several months. England Re-enters Drama. But England has re-entered the European drama. Germany's air What’s What Behind News In Capital Revolts by Congress Due to Be Feeble for Rest of Session. state secret. The six Senators who switched their votes to him on the BY PAUL MALLON. HE process by which President Roosevelt regained his grip or: the Senate has been a guarded talking. Some are doing none at all. Others are publicly offering what are obviously inadequate explanations. Cloakroom belief at the Senate is that Mr. Roosevelt passed around a few hidden slices of political pie. This may be partially true, but a more fundamental reason was of- fered confidentially to the deserted labor lobbyists by a Senator who said: “We must work with him for at least two more years. We can’t repudiate him now.” That tells the story. It implies that { force can reach London in a few hours. | .. S0 much for the political develop- ~ments. Coincidentally, the economic drama is being unfolded. Belgium is | being forced off gold. France and | Holland and Switzerland—the last | of the gold bloc countries—wait anx- | . dously for the next steps, and par- ticularly do they await America's . action to determine whether they 2 shall be forced off the gold standard. In world currency contests, America ' 1s not aloof. The big stabilization :'fund of $2,000,000,000 can overnight * drive France off gold. No such in- ' tention. of course, is apparent here. The American Government insists it is not using its fund for offensive but | for defensive purposes. Yet, in recent weeks, the pound has fluctuated greatly, and now Belgium has a monetary crisis, which is sure to ‘e followed by other crises in the cur- rencies of Europe. the President has little to fear from this Congress anytime soon, if he | watches his step. Congressmen, espe- cially Democrats and Progressives, realize, when they get right up against the gun, that breaking with the Presi- dent involves responsibilities they do not care to assume except in extreme emergencies. FOR A ¢ GOOD BOY | vate assurances from discretion in the wage matter. relief wage issue are doing a little | * “THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1935. OFFICIALS FINISH D.C.BILL HEARING Civic Groups to Appear Be- fore Senate Subcommit- tee Tomorrow. After hearing public school and | Water Department officials on the| need for items eliminated by the! House, the Senate subcommittee | handling the 1936 District bill today | completed the testimony of depart- ment heads and will start tomorrow with spokesmen for various civic or- ganizations. Bridges and public library needs are expected to be the first problems on which civic groups will be heard. In this connection the Southeast] Business Men's Association has sent | a letter to members of the Senate,| urging restoration to the bill of the $15,000 item for drawing plans' for a new bridge across the Anacostia River at Pennsylvania avenue south- east. The proposal also has the sup- port of citizens’ associations in the eastern part of the city. Water Meter Allowance. The subcommittee today was told of the need for an increase in the allow- ance for installation of water meters and more rapid repair of old meters. The Water Department is in a situa- tion similar to the Highway Division in that it will have a substantial bal- ance of water rents revenue lying idle in the Treasury that could not be spent for any other purpose under the reduced amounts allowed by the House. The House cut $238,250 from the budget estimates for the Water Department. Even if this is restored it would not use up all of the esti- mated water revenues. Among the items the House cut out were a new electric pump at the Bryant Street Station and $120,250 for a 36-inch main from Eleventh and Kenyon It is true that some of the labor | streets to Seventeenth and Taylor | Senators who switched received pri- | streets. the White House that Mr. Roosevelt would use | yesterday, completed their explana-| . ‘They | tion of the $252,759 which the House | School officials, who began testifying Long Crusader “SHARE-THE-WEALTH” HEAD IN NEW YORK. SHARP RISE SHOWN IN-TAX PAYMIENTS 29 Per Cent Increase in In- come Levy Collections for March Indicated. Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. By the Associated Press. Speaker Byrns scanned today a Treasury forecast indicating about a 29 per cent jump in March income tax collections, as compered to a year ago, and then said: “We're out of the depression. As soon as business begins to find that out our troubles will be over. “There’s nothing that gives a bet- ter indication of the true condition of business than tax payments. When they drop, look out; when they rise, that's a very healthy sign.” Urges Congress Speed End. He said, however, that to encourage Fusiness and the whole country, “Con= gress ought to finish up its job and go home as soon as possible.” Other Democratic leaders expressed the view that the tax figures indi- cated Congress may escape having to levy new taxes at this session. One, Representative Sam Hill, Democrat, REV. GERALD L. K. SMITH, National organizer of the share- the-wealth movement, photograph- ed in New York as he fur- thered his plans to increase to 15,000,000 persons the movement sponcored by Senator Huey P. Long. Rev. Smith said he left his pastorate in Shreveport, La, to crusade for Long. of Washington, went so far as to ven- ture that even the $98,500,000 initial DAMS T0 CONTROL FLOODS SURVEYED IMississippi Commission Head Asks $50,000,000 to i Curb Tributaries’ Waters. By the Associated Press. outlay in the social security program could be financed without increasing the taxpayer's load. Based on Revenue Receipts. The statements were based on In- ternal Revenue Bureau statistics fig- uring income tax receipts for the first “ 15 days of March at $191,358,909, as against $147,794,894 in the compa- rable period a year ago. Officials said this indicated the month’s receipts { would run more than $300,000,000, or about 29 per cent higher than last | year. | Meanwhile, collections were almost | doubled in the area consisting of the | District of Columbia and Maryland. | Income taxes paid in the District dur- ing the first 15 days of March rose | from $4,606,000 last year to $7,301,732 | this year, according to Guy T. Helver- Bullitt Tells of William C. Bullitt, Ambassador HOPKINS ASSAILED BY OHIO LEADER State Party Chief Says F. E. R. A. Head Using Smoke Screen. Soviet By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 20— Francis W. Poulson, chairman of the ©Ohio Democratic Executive Committee, launched . bitter attack todzy on Harry L. Hopkins, Federal relief ad- ministrator. In a statement, Poulson claimed | that Hopkins, in his controversy with Gov. Martin L. Davey over admin- istration of relief in Ohio, “pulls out a political chestnut in a futile at- tempt to create a smoke screen.” Says Roosevelt Betrayed. Asking “what is wrong, when prices are equal and qualities are the same, with directing the business of Gov- ernment to persons or firms that have helped in the campaign?” Poulson de- clared that President Roosevelt has | been “betrayed” by Republicans who | are serving in high office The appointment of Republicans to | high office by the President, he said, had caused Democrats in Ohio and throughout the Nation to rise “up in to Russia (left), and Chairman Mc- Reynolds of the House Foreign Affairs Committee shown yesterday as the arms.” The Democratic executive chairman said that “if firms doing business with former appeared to tell a closed session about economic conditicns in the Soviet. Today the Ambassador was to be called back to describe the set-up of the government and how it functions. —A. P. Photo. | the Ohio Relief Commission have be ‘shaken down.’ as Dr. Hopkins sa the shake-down was done by employ Wors 'Death and a Halo Were Rewards For Good Little Boys of 1822 'But Naughty Youngsters Had to Live to a Ripe Old Age—And Face in the Hereafter. | appointed by Gen. Henderson, while serving under Gen. Henderson and Dr. Hopkins.” Poulson charged that Hopkins “has | in his possession a statement taken by | him or his representatives from one | of the purchasing agents of the Ohio Relief Administration. This amounts to a confession of the purchasing ! agent having committed a crime. Why has Dr. Hopkins withheld this state- | ment? Why is it not made publi at once? “Dr. Hopkins’ main motive in th entire affair is to muddy the water so as to divert public attention from Gov, Davey’s unanswered charge against the administration of relief in | ing, commissioner of internal revenue. l ! Ohio. Fortunately the people of Ohio of the worst Mississippt Valley tribu- Hopes for Speedy End. This is the concluding article of |little reason to be merry, for those ' have the doctor's number. They ar tary floods in years was battled tcday | Byrns expressed the hope the ses- | @ series on children’s literature of | who are wicked have more need to cry | standing solidly behind their Got- by an army of engineers, Nationsl|sion would end by June 15. In the | the past. than to laugh." ernor. Guardsmen, convicts, Red Cross center of a circle of newspaper men, | Tabitha never could get home fast Sk nd yoliminere t off the House floor, where the | enough to repert any misconduct of | are saying that they impressed the | eliminated from their estimates | President with the Senate strength| Among these items were $70,000 for | of labor and that he will keep this | the ‘Woodrow Wilson High School and in mind while administering the act.| a similar amount for improvements | For that reason they expect pre- | at Armstrong High School. The House | vailing wages to be paid in the 22| also refuseq to reappropriate $55.000 | States which have prevalling wage | of an unexpended balance for addi- | U. S. in Currency War. America is involved in the currency war. There are differences of opinion as to what an abandonment of the old standard and the devaluation of the franc may do to France. It has MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 20.—One BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Shake-up Continues. her brothers and sisters, for “she * been contended that internal disorder or the establishment of a Fascist or Communist dictatorship might follow. On the surface, Europe’s troubles #re political. _ Actually, they are economic. The European nations have not absorbed their World War troubles. ‘The economic readjustments caused by the war and intensified by the » territorial rearrangements of the which brought Communism to Russia. Fascism to Italy and Germany, and a load of almost unbearable debt to Britain. ‘The League of Nations was sup- posed to furnish the machinery to end . wars. But the League has been power- less because the sceds of discontent brought by the peace treaty have not been eradicated. President Wilson's futile plea for a “peace without vic- - tory” seems, in recollection, to have ’ been prophetic of what Europe really | 7A (from a union standpoint) and | needed. Allies Blind at Versailles. For Garmany today demands equal- ity and aot the status of a vanquisked | nation forever. The allies were blind to this at Versailes and in the whole post-war perind. Consequently, 4 democracy in Germany perished and 4 Hitler today camtalizes on nationalis- | {'tic and natriotic feeling and tears up | the treaty of Versailles amid national | « acclaim. | The influence of the United States | - exerted persuasively in the post-war| period might have helped. But na-| tionalistic and narrow viewpoiats in the American Congress were as pow- erful as they were in the French Parliament. America demanded pay- ment of war debts The allies de- manded payment of reparations. And today the ‘vhole structure of war debts | has collapsed, leaving also a skeleton | of pre-war trade and enterprise. | Unemployment runs close t 30.- | ‘000,000 persons, of which America has one-third. Exports from the United States are the lowest in our nistory for farm products. and not much | better than 1913 for all other articles combined. | * World trade, indeed, has collapsed, | and what little improvement che last | ! year has brought is now threatenca by | ; unsettled conditions in Europe. | Germans Want No War. | Nobody wants the United States to | enter another war. Nobody in Eng- | land wants another war. And, if the ~truth were told, the German people swant no more war ¥ -Who, then, wants war? The noliti- if'l groups and dictators of Europe. who hink they can perpetuate themselves pétter in military displays because of sthe natural tendency of a people to Iconsolidate and forget internal differ- %ences when war comes. = «Is there nothing that can be done “egcept fold our hands and say “We | =zhave nothing to say and we shall do bthing about it. It's Europe's quar- | iwel, not ours?” | » .Unfortunately, this is what America sald at the outbreak of the World War, and yet she was drawn in, b, how. % sWhether or not we become parties %o a European military struggle, we .ase already parties to Europe’s eco- Fomic struggle for existence. 5 No Neutral Rights. » It is easy enough to say the rights | f neutrals should be revised. The act is there will be no rights of Jeutrals in the next war. There were | none in the last war. And that's why 2he United States found herself Xn-‘r wolved. | £ American influence for peace has | wlways meant something in the world, | Dut it can mean far more today. Cer- fainly the United States can avoid aggravating the situation abroad by tontinued threats against European eurrencies and by the beginning of Informal discussions leading to a eurrency truce. This would mean the fevival of trade. = And when trade revives there is opportunity for the unemployed th here and abroad to get jobs. hen there are more jobs European zcuwn will be less inclined to talk war and be much more interested . An economic armistice in world today would prevent a war arms. g BOOK KEPT 72 YEARS . 1 JACKSON, Miss, March 20 ().— When a fellow keeps a borrowed book 72 years and then offers to return it, it must be some sort of a record for tardiness. ~The Clarion-Ledger yesterday re- céived a letter from Herbert G. Porter of Malden, Mass., which said: . “Gentlemen: Can you give me the dress of some descendant of M. tonia Richard, who was a resident Jackson before 1863? I would like te return a book taken Irom her Idrary at that ugle (Copyright, 1935.) laws. Also on Federal projects. This may be expecting too much, but there can be no question about | | Mr. Roosevelt’s determination not to permit his relief administration to| | affect private wages adversely. | Deal on Wagner Bill? There is talk in labor circles that | Versailles treaty have left a residue one part of the deal calls for Mr. | support the Wagner | The White: House le of hints lately | Also, Sena- tor Wagner saw Mr. Roosevelt twice Roosevelt to | 1abor disputes bill. has dropped a coupl implying that it might. | before he switched. | theless will way because of the failure of section the threat of strikes this Summer. Roosevelt is the only thing that will | save the Wagner bill. Soft Pedal for Hitler. There has been a gradual change | of attitude toward Hitler in the high- | est administration quarters. A year ago New Dealers veiled their personal feelings about him with only a thin tissue of diplo- macy which any one could see through. They called him a mad- man, murderer and worse when no ladies or reporters were present. Now they are picking their words more carefully. They dislike him as much as ever, but they seem to have a little higher estimate of his ability. They know now that he is smarter than they thought. This is one reason why the State Department did everything possible to put a quietus on any official re- actions to Hitler's army conscription order. The diplomats kept their mouths shut and also tried to keep | Senators from commenting, although | They did | that was a difficult job. not even like the mild remarks by Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. They know anti-German elements will bring all kinds of pressure to gain our help in resisting Hitler. They felt this was one fight we should stay out of. What the European experts among the New Dealers thought offhand about the move was that Hitler had | his eyes fixed on the east rather than on the west. Moscow was more frightened than London or Paris. The Reds have data to prove that Hitler is planning a colonization ex- pansion at their expense. Dr. Aljred Rosenberg, head of the Nazi party's “foreign political office,” long has been an advocate of Eastward German ezpansion. He is a native of the Baltic prov- inces and was born on soil which was Russian before the war. He has repeatedly declared Germany's need for “space to live.” This is why Moscow has been trying so ardently to hurry along a peace arrangement with the Jap- anese. Louis Howe’s Fight. No one outside of the White House | family has any idea of what Louis Howe has gone through during the last two years. He spent most of his life helping to build up the Roosevelt entourage for the White House. Six months after they arrived, the strain of the work revived his old heart ail- ment. Since then, he has led a pain- fully cautious life. His office adjoins his bed room, on the second floor of the White House. After weeks of careful restraint from exertion, he has occasionally worked up strength enough to get out (as when he accompanied Mr. Roosevelt on the Boston trip). Always these excursions have sent him back to more months of meticulously re- strained living. No greater example of physical courage has been noticeable around this city of flexible spines in ‘a long time. (Copyright. 1935.) Polo Player's Father Dies. * LLANO, Tex., March 20 (#).—I. W. ‘Williams, 76, pioneer Llano ranchman and father of the nationally known polo player, Rube Williams, died yes- terday. Funeral services were to be held today. » o The best authorities deny there was |a deal, but say Mr. Roosevelt never- | champion the Wagner bill, openly or privately, or both. They are confident he is leaning that An energetic indorsement from Mr. { tional land at the Phelps Vocational ! School. Amendment Agreed To. Meanwhile, House conferees on the | first deficiency appropriation bill to- 1 day agreed to a Senate amendment in | that bill allowing $35.000 for two local public school items. This in- cludes $20,000 to remodel the Adams building for a grade school and $15,000 to equip commercial classes in junior and senior high schools. In urging that plans be preparcd immediately for the Pennsylvania Ave- nue Bridge the business men of that section pointed out the present bridge was built in 1890 and is tco narrow for the present volume of traffic, per- mitting only one line of vehicles in each direction. Fourteen thousand | vehicles pass over the bridge daily, | they stated. | “Southeast Washington feels that it has been neglected,” the letter stated, “that it has paid for the improvement of other sections, while conditions in that particular section have remained obsolete.” The letter also pomnted out ihat the Southeast section has had to harbor the garbage disposal plant for | the whole city. The letter stated that | citizens of the Southeast do not ask | |for a pretentious bridge. but merely an adequate, safe structure. D. C. WOULD SHARE IN ROAD FUND | Senator Hayden Offers Amend- | ment to Work-Relief Measure Providing for $487.000. The District with all the States. cated a definite portion of any public road funds distributed under the work-relief bill as the result of an amendment Senator Hayden, Demo- crat, of Arizona, had added to the pill in the Senate this afternoon. As the bill came from committee, it contained a provision indicating { various types of projects for which | the $4,000,000,000 should be used. While this list included highways and grade crossing eliminations, these were re- of Columbia, along would be allo- without definite allocation. Senator Hayden's amendment would require the highway fund to be ap- portioned on the sane basis that has been followed in emergency legisla- tion of the past two years, namely, according to the area, population and jurisdiction. A sample table prepared for Sena- to Hadyen shows that if $100,000,000 is distributed for highways out of the pending bill, the District would be en- titled to a grant of $487,000. FIGHT ON BLANTON PLANNED BY CITIZENS Every Civic Organization Will Be Asked to Join in “March on Capitol.” | Plans for a proposed demonstration March 28 to request the House to remove Representative Blanton, Dem- ocrat, of Texas fronf his assignment on the House Appropriations Commit- tee were discusseq at a meeting last night of the Executive Committee of the Federation of Business Men's As- sociations A “march on the Capitol,” where petitions would be presented to Speak- er Byrns demanding Blanton’s re- | moval from the committee, was pro- posed. Every civic organization in Washington, it was stated, is to ke invited to participate. Arthur Clarendon Smith, president | of the federation, who initiated the | move for the demonstration, criti- cized Blanton, commended the Crime Committee for its courage, and point- ed out there could be no effective en- forcement of law until the Police De- partment is divorced from politics. Smith also called a special meeting of the Federation in the La Fayette Hotel at 6:30 o'clock tonight to fur- ther plans for the proposed demon- stration. De Mille Presents Diplomas. NEW YORK, March 20 ().—Wil- liam C. De Mille of Los Angeles, Calif., dramatic author and motion picture producer and director, last night re- turned to his alma mater to present diplomas to the members of the fifty- first graduating class of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. De Mille ;I.I;Lmdunm from the academy in ’ The swirling rellow waters were giving less trouble to the north in Missouri but southward in Arkansas and Mississippi they offered new threat to lands and homes. Gen. Harley B. Ferguson. president of the Mississippi River Commission, announced plans at Vicksburg, Miss., to reccommend to Congress the con struction of a $50.000.000 reservol em to curb further rampaging of | | ! Inspects Seven Dam Sites. | Gen. Ferguson made his announce- ment after an inspection tour of seven proposed reservoir sites in the Cold- water and Tallahatchie Basins of North Mississippi. The rese-voirs, with basins suffi- ciently large to care for all surplus water the rivers might be called upor: to carry, would be created through | the erection of dams. Three would be | placed near Greenwood, on the Yalo- | busha River, one near Batesville, on | the Yacona; two on the Tallachatchie and one on the Coldwater near Arka- butla, The Coldwater and Tallahatchie | $2 000,000,000 bonus bill was being de- bated, Byrns declined to give an opin- | ion as to what might be done about | tax rates, saying he would leave that to the “experts.™ Hill, who is ranking Democrat on :he tax-levying Ways and Means Com- mittee, said: | “We will, of course, have to extend | the nuisance taxes that expire this vear, but uniess present signs are mis- leading we ought to be able to finance our normal expenditures without ad- ditional taxes.” Hill and Chairman Doughton of the Ways and Means Committee said, | however, that a final decision on taxes | would have to be delayed until near | the end of the session. LANGER FLUSTERED AS CASE IS ARGUED | | Appeal Marked by Admission He | Solicited Relief Worker Funds Rivers were receding today. They usually are among the first of the mileage of rural mail routes in each | Mississippi River's tributaries to be- ccme vnruly following excessive rains Convicts Sandbag Levee. It was the Yazoo River that was giving the most trouble in Mississippi tyday. One hundred and fifty State Prison convicts were sandbagging a “danger point” in the Yazoo Levee at | Swifton, 30 miles south of Greenwood. |~ In Arkansas the Cache River began | to misbzhave. A break north of Devals Biuff late yesterday scnt water over 10,000 acres of land and forced 200 families from their homes. 1 { [ Most of the trouble in Southeast souri appeared at an end. Guards M continued to patrol levees. however. | The White and St. Francis, still | | over thousands of acres of farmland, and about 15,000 lowlanders were out o ftheir homes. |SACKETT SEES ACT | PARTLY JUSTIFIABLE ferred to only in a lump sum and Former Ambassador Says He Saw i No Indications of War While in Europe. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 20.—Frederick | M. Sackett of Louisville, Ky., former ;Unitsd States Ambassador to Ger- | many, said last night upon his arrival | on the Majestic that he thought Ger- many's rearming was a “partially justifiable act.” Sackett, who was accompanied by his wife, attended the London con- ference called by the Carnegie En- dowment for International Peace. Asked if he regarded Germany's re- arming as justifiable, Sackett said: “I'd say it is. Partially justifiable.” Sackett said he would remain in New York for several days and then would go to Washington to visit the | State Department before returning to his Louisville home. The former Ambassador praised the London conference, remarking that while he was in Europe he saw no indication of war. “There is no money for wars; nor credit in the United States to man them,” he added. SPANISH COI]-NT SEEN ASPIRANT FOR MOVIES Covadonga, Whose Allowance Was Cut Off by Alfonso, Refuses to Comment. By the Associated Press. CANNES, France, March 20—Count Covadonga, whose allowance has been discontinued by his father, former King Alphonso of Spain, because he refused to attend the wedding of his brother, Don Jaime, may enter the movies in the United States, it was reported today. The count, who is living in a small villa on the outskirts of Cannes, re- fused to confirm or deny the reports of possible movie work. “This is a personal matter,” he said, “gnd I am not ready to discuss the future.” ‘The count recently expressed resent- ment that his father gave permission for his brother’s marriage to a com- moner while he withheld permission when the count married Edelmira Sampedro in 1933. ) ising in North Arkansas, had water by Mistake. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, March 20.—Seck- ing solace in cigars, William Langer | former Governor of North Dakota, | faced another session before a three- judge appelate court today as attor- neys argued his appeal from a felony conviction. Convicted in Federal Court on con- | spiracy to obstruct Federal relief work by soliciting relief workers for political purposes, the immaculate, keen-eyed Langer listened intently vesterday to arguments in which he was compared to a burglar by a Gov- | ernment attorney. | His face flushed as P. W. Lanier, | United States district attorney of | Fargo, N. Dak., opened the arguments by which the Government hopes to | sustain the conviction, as well as an | 18-month prison sentence and a $10.000 fine. Francis Murphy, one of Langer's attorneys, conceded State employes were solicited to contribute 5 per cent of their pay to the deposed Governor's political organ, The Leader, and ployes” in the State Relief Bureau were solicited by mistake. “It is upon this accidental solicita- tion of a handful of relief employes that the Government predicates its case,” Murphy said. He argues that solicitation of relief employes was no concern of the Gov- ! money which the Government had | loaned or given the State. JUST A FEW REPAIRS | Comedian’s Son Has Tonsils, Ade- | noids Removed and Arm Broken. | HOLLYWOOD, March 20 #).— | Joe E. Brown, jr., 18-year-old son of the screen comedian, experienced a hard day at the hospital yesterday. The youth first had his tonsils re- moved, then his adenoids. Then his right arm, which was fratured in a base ball game two years ago, was rebroken and set. Physicians reported he withstood the ordeal in fine shape. Graduate Nurse Dies. NEW YORK, March 20 (#).—Mrs. Annie J. Winans, oldest graduate nurse in Oklahoma until she came East to 10 years ago, died yesterday in the Roosevelt Hospital of pneumonia. told the court that “five or six em-| ernment since they were paid with | live in this city and Stamford, Conn., | Peace to the pious shade of Rev Jomes Janeway, minister of the gospel. Back in 1822 there issued from this leerned cleric’s pen “A Token for | Children.” in two volumes. designed for the edification and enlightenment of the young. It is the choicest item in the collection of nincteenth century children’s b now being assembled at the Library of Congress. and well may ciaim the distinction of having been the most terrible publication ever to come from the press For. Rev. Mr. Janeway held tle children were unbeclievably hey would be rewarded exceedingly y dying when they were 10 or 12 and going to heaven. Thus they would avo'd the sorrows and temptations of this vale of tears. Only for children who were very, very good was such a | hope held forth. The naughty ones | could live to a ripe old age and be damned for it. | if lit- good, Always Went to Heaven. | The work consists of “true” biog- raphies of about 20 children, with most of whom Rev. Mr. Janeway wWas |acquainted personaily. Each con- | cludes with a highly edifying death- | bed scene. Of cou | went straight to heaven, and about the { worst fate one could wish for the | pious minister is that he was con- | demned to the same place and utterly abandoned in his torture by a relent- less Satan. { ! Thus he addresses himself to the child mind of 1822: “You may now hear, my dear little lambs, what other children have done: how dutiful they were to their parents; how diligent at | their books. Can you forget what questions they were wont to ask? How much they feared a lie> How much | they abhorred naughty | How holily they lived? fully they died? “But tell me, my little lambs, tell | me truly, do you do as these children | these children | (af playing he found out a school of | Meanwhile the shake-up of the Ohi Relief Administration continued to- day when C. C. Stillman, assigned to administer Federal relief in this State announced the suspension of three men, who were named in affidavits on held it was the duty of parents. mas- to lood vessel in her lung.” but, the consciousness of such an emplary career of tale-bearing be tical “shakedown™ in Ohio relief. Stillman suspended William R McNamara, director of the surplus commodities division, and his a | sistant, Thomas Jones, both of whom signed affidavits, which will form the basis of a grand jury investigation Thursday of Hopkins' charges. He also suspended John E. Lee, who was named in the affidavits. Stillman said the three men would remain suspended pending the out- come of the investigation. Robert Owens of the relief department en- gineering division assumed McNa- mara’s job. Davey Revolt Grows. Meanwhile rebellion brewed in the ranks of Gov. Martin L. Davey as a Democratic legislative leader disclosed a move to place the State's $2,500,000 a month relief contribution in the hands of Stillman Stillman yesterday dismissed six m;‘nor employes and George E. Eppley, S R i S - who has been designated by Davey e g nis, JUdging | ¢ pecome director of public works as tle too young to be sent to | in the Governor’s cabinet. Eppley was school, let him have his liberty to play | assistant to William A. Walls, Davey's a little about his home. But instea®| aPpointed State relief director.: McNamara, in a statement, asserted e had “nothing to conceal i his own accord, hard by, and went to | nutire. Investieations Lo 0 this the mistress and entreated her to| teach him to read. He then had a very great hatred of whatever he | knew to be wicked, and would be | much displeased if any gross sins | t she might go to heaven, and she did with a great deal of cheerfulness give up her soul.” ‘The leader of Rev. James Janeway's troop of pious children in Paradise doubtless is John Harvey. Of zll the good little girls and boys whose edifying lives the learned cleric recited, John is entitled to the blue ribbon. The others appear to have contented themselves with reproving other children for wasting precious hours at play. John. firmly but kindly, reprimanded his elders for their oc- casional lapses into worldliness. | This paragon makes his appearance | in Rev. Mr. Janeway's pages when he is 2 years and 8 months old—but long before that he must have indulged in some profound reflections on the deeper meanings of life and deter-| mined on the road he would follow. Revealed as a Prodigy. MARTIN J. INSULL were committed before him “When he was at play with other ren he would be oftentimes put- | ting in a word to keep them from naughty talk or wicked actions. Nay, | once, hearing a boy speak very pro- fanely, and that after two or three| | admonitions, he was so transported | | with zeal that he could not forbear | falling upon him to beat him, for he could not endure foul words from so wretched a boy. “When he perceived either his brother or sister pleased with new | clothes he would, with a great deal of dignity, reprove their folly, and when his reproof signified little he would be- wail their vanity.” !did? Did you ever see your miserable | state by nature? Did you ever get by yourself and weep for vour sins? Do | you ever go to your master or mistrigs, father or mother, and beg them to teach you what you should do? ‘Whither do you think those children go when they die who will not do as they are bid, but play the truant, and lie, and speak naughty words? Why, I will tell you. They must go to their father, the devil, into everlast- ing burnings, and when they beg in | hell fire they will not be forgiven, but | must stay there forever. Oh, this hell is a terrible place. It is worse |a thousand times than whipping.” The Case of Tabitha Bates. But heaven also has some disad- | vantages, among them the presence ilhere ot dear little Tabitha Bates, | who was one of Rev. Mr. Jam‘wuy's’ choicest specimens. For of Tabitha he relates that “when she was about | J | e ' | Once his mother bought him & new | suit. The child saw that it was deco- rated with bits of ribbon. “Will these things keep me warm?" he asked his mother, sternly and re- provingly. John Dies, of Course. “Why, no, my child,” admitted the | pious woman, conscious now of her great guilt. | “Then, mother,” said John, drawing | | 4 years old she had a conscientious sense of duty toward her parents. | When she came from school she would with grief and abhorrence say that other children had sinned by speaking grievous words, which were | so bad she dared not speak them | again. The poor little thing would be | ready to counsel the other children. | When she saw some of them laughing | whom she judged to be very wicked, |she told them she feared they had Price $1 ! at_ The Evening Star Business Office. or by mail, postpaid The Evening Star This Worth-While It explains the permanent departments of the Federal Frederic J. Haskin J| Government and the Alphabet Bureaus of the New Deal. Every American should read it. Order today. | NOME secececesecrsnsecesecasnene €8 seessesssssrcsresscassvsnces i | e Offers Its Readers BOOK Order Form === | their commands, himself up to his utmost 8-year-old dignity and self-righteousness, “why did you permit them to be put there. | You are deceived if you think such | vanities please me. I doubt not there | are some that are better than we that may want the money this cost you to | buy their bread.” At other times he would sternly ad- | monish_his mother “to have a care | of gratifying a proud humor in his | brother and sister, lest it endanger | their immortal souls.” But withal “he | was exceedingly dutiful to his parents | and never did in the least dispute except when he thoughs they might be contrary to the commands of God.” But he would “put his brother and sister upon their duties and observed whether they per- | formed them or not. When he saw any neglect he would warn them of the torments to come.” John was too good for this world, and when, just past his 10th birthday, he realized his last hour was near he scornfully refused some delicacies a grieving father had brought for him. “Oh, what a sweet supper I have making ready for me in Glory,” he exclaimed. Boy Slayer Held Insane. VINITA, Okla., March 20 (#).—Jack | Campbell, 14, who said he killed his | father, Rev. Earl Campbell of Carter, in fear of a reprimand for possessing | obscene pictures, was placed in the | Eastern Oklahoma Hospital for Insane | here yesterday. A murder charge was dropped after he was ruled insane. WILL BE DEPORTED Action Under 0ld Order Would Prevent Former Financier Be- coming Public Charge. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, March 20 —Immigration officers announced today that Martin J. Insull, who once handled millions, will be deported here Friday because he might become a public charge. The 69-year-old brother of Samuel Insull will be excluded under a de- portation order issued last March, when he was brought acrass the border from Canada to stand trial in Chicago on an embezzlement charge. He is a British subject and carried on a strenuous legal battle in Canada against his return to the United States to face charges in Illinois growing out of the collapse of the Insull utility companies. The immi- gration officers said Insull would arrive here at 7:50 am. Friday. He will be escorted across the Detroit River to Windsor, Ontario, by In- spector James Warner. MANAGER'S MOTHER DIES PHILADELPHIA, March 20 (P).— Mrs. Susan McCarthy, mother of Joe McCarthy, manager of the New York Yankees, American League base ball club, died yesterday in the home of a niece. She was 75. A telephone call was made to the Yankees' training camp in Florida and word was received that McCarthy lett the club and took a plane imme- diately for Philadelphia. He had often referred to his mother as his “favorite rooter.” Congress in Brief By the Associated Press. TODAY. Senate. Debates work-relief bill. Finance Committee hears Clarence Darrow on N. R. A. House. Debates bonus. Interstate Commerce Committee conducts hearing on holding company control. Labor Committee hears William Green on labor disputes measure. YESTERDAY. Senate. Rejected Byrd and Adams amend- ments to work-relief bill. Labor Committee heard John L. Lewis assail Donald Richberg. House. Passed cotton-control extension bill, began debating benus. $ Marriner S. Eccles, Federal Reserve Board governor, told Banking Com- mittee fears of inflation are exagger- ated. Merchant Marine Committee started hearing on proposed ship subsidies.