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A-8 THE EVENING tracked by the current investigation of local crime conditions. It is there- fore gratifying to learn that Repre- sentative Jennings Randolph of West Virginia, chairman of the investigat- ing committee, intends to make the enactment of the gambling bill one of the committee's tasks. Certainly there i5 nothing to be gained by further delay. For, regardless of other facts relating to local crime and crime- breeding conditions that the committee may determine, the need for this par- ticular law has been adequately dem- onstrated. The police and the prosecutors have been placed on the defensive by an aggressive committee, but, ironically enough, the gangsters and racketeers seem to be receiving the courteous consideration that is represented in being left alone. ——ee—s Bonus Compromise. While the friends of immediate cash payment of the soldiers’ bonus are fighting over the various merits of the Vinson and Patman bills, a com- THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C WEDNESDAY. . March 20, 1935 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company s E ivania Ave. 2w Fork. 0'3%. 0 East 4204 8t Chica 3 Michigan Building. Eurovean omu"u'n:dnn'z'kfian 2. Rate by Carrier Within the City. a .. .65¢ per month .. .bc per copy !dlllfl:).‘ ‘g Star. 7 :: 5¢ per mont} f the end of each Sunday 7o per mon be sent by mail or onth. Telenno Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. day. .1 yr.. $10.00; 1 mo.. 85e 1yr.. $6.00: 1 mol. 50c 1yr. $400i 1mo 40¢ Afl Other States and Canada. 1yr. 812!68': i I;: "f DO yi 8860i1mo; soc Member of the Assoclated Press. The Assoclated Press 1s exclusively en. titled to the use for Fepubiication of ‘8l Tews dispatches credited to it or not other- wise .redited in this paper and aiso thi local news published herein All rights of ublication of special dispatches herein sre also recerved —_— Europe's Divided Counsels. While Sir John Simon in Berlin | next week will nominally appear as | the spokesman of allied Europe in expressing resentment at Germany's defiant rearmament plans, it is evi- dent that British policy in the crisis which Hitler has created does not meet with wholehearted approval in the other countries at interest. In France, Italy and Soviet Russia Britain's attitude is assailed as “‘weak” and ineffectual. Here and there its mildness is pilloried as an outright capitulation to the Nazi government, and the British foreign secretary’s visit to Berlin is assailed as fore- doomed to inglorious failure. The Prench are so upset by Britain's refusal to take stronger ground that they are moving to bring about a Franco-British-Italian conference be- fore Sir John Simon goes to Germany, with a view to putting more iron into his mission. Recriminations reflecting divided allied counsels are so palpably water on Hitlerism's mill that it is earnestly to be hoped that means will prove promise proposal has raised its head. This compromise provides in plain English for the issuance of Govern- ment three per cent bonds to the veterans who wish to exchange their bonus certificates for negotiable paper. The bonds will mature in 1945, the to national purposes and national in- stitutions. Rather, there would be general agreement that the Govern- ment should do more and not less in the way of financing the Smithsonian Institution, the Bureau of Standards, the Naval Observatory, etc. But it also is plainly indicated that any at- tempt to correlate such work to an unnatural degree would be resisted. Mr. Sirovich entertains a grand and glorious dream, but it would be a pity it it were to come true. The intended beneficiaries of the plan would be the first to criticize it, 'and the public at large would be vastly skeptical of any professional group that approved. ———— Use of Available Highway Funds. The request laid before the Senate Subcommittee on District Appropria- tions for permission to spend about $125,000 of gas tax revenues in con- nection with work-relief highway con- | struction is reasonable and should be granted. Men on the relief rolls are now being given employment breaking up old pavement. The material thus obtained is used again as the base for new outlying road construction. After material, or else the base is subject to washing and deterioration. Under the present strict economy program the date the bonus certificates by law be- come due and payable. The face veterans plus the three per cent in- face value due on the bonus certifi- the adjusted service compensation al- lowed the veterans under the original highway department has lacked the | funds to purchase and apply this sur- the base is laid the surface must be | { | treated with bitumen or other sealing | BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Templeton Jones recently suffered from an upset stomach. This is & very commonplace thing, of course, but it is not the illness we propose to chronicle, but the cure, the “pread-and-milk” cure. Everybody loves a cure. Every one has a remedy for every- thing, and if you listen to your dear friends you will be ill, indeed, from & plethora of remedies. what Jones always was called a “delicate stomach” in the old days when “biliousness” also was a fashionable term. Both these are rather out of date They have gone the way of “neuras- thenia,” once the pet of layman and doctor alike. Such words have their eras of popu- larity, then they go into the discard, along with the 400,000 words that | clutter up the big dictionairies. All such words are in the tomes, not | much used, but ready for duty at any time. * kK ¥ There will be a great many persons to think, however, that the term “deli- ate stomach” really stands for some- | thing. y S The man with a cast-iron digestive apparatus seldom has any sympathy with such a sufferer. He prefers to speak of “nerves” if thc_ patient is a woman, or “finickiness,” if a man. In families where such an ostrich rules, the poor patient with a “delicate | value of the bonds issued to the face material, with the result that | | money spent for work-relief in con- | terest coupons thereon will equal the | nection with new road work is apt to | ti {be wasted. The request for funds | cates in 1945. This means that the | Pending before the Senate subcom- | face value of the bonds will represent | Mittce is to permit this surfacing work | going are but samples. There are | to be done. There are other increases which the stomach” finds himself forced to con- | sume corned beef, stews, heavy breads and beefsteak “rare,” mostly on basis hat these are all “very nourishing. Templeton Jones' well-defined com- ! mon sense long ago directed him to give up such foods, of which the fore- | many such, all no doubt “good and nourishing,” but which nevertheless as addition to many other foods, or failure to chew it sufficiently. The modern tendency is to regard bread simply as an aside, a veritable stopgap until other foods arrive. Who has not seen people at banquets “fill up” on bread and butter and water; until by the time the first course ar- rived many had entirely satisfied their hunger? Yet, no doubt, they went right ahead, eating an entire eight-course dinner. Was it any wonder, then, that they got indiges- tion, and that one banqueter might place the blame on the bread, an- other on the coffee and another on “that lamb”? * ok Kk Jones, in giving over bread, did so with regret. Nothing in the food line struck his taste better than a fine glass of bread and milk. This childhood taste had persisted through the years. He could recall 20 years ago, when he ate many a luncheon of milk and graham crackers at a now defunct eating place on Fifteenth street across from the Treasury. In those days starch didn't hurt m! He was younger, by George! Part of the truth—Templeton Jones never felt that he (or any one else) could ever arrive at more than part of the truth about anything—was that in the old days he made a com- plete meal of bread and milk. Also he took more time at it. It is .probable, he thought, that if one ate bread alone, and took plenty of time | to give it the preliminary digestion by means of saliva which it requires, there would not be so much difficulty in handling it. * Kk k% Jones’ upset stomach continued for several da. He had long ago given hi i Senate should justly allow in highwa bonus law, plus the compound mmesf1 s e g : y on that amount up to the time of ex- | y program change. The veterans' bonds will not | Of the past few years the highway de- Dbear the face value of the bonus cer- | PArtment’s maintenance funds have tificates, therefore, a value that will | been reduced to tae breaking point, not be due until 1945. | despite the imposition of new burdens. The compromise plan has been Yet, under current appropriations | sponsored in the House by Repre- practice, unspent balances remain in sentatives Andrews of New York and | the gas tax fund. There is no economy Cochran of Missouri and in the Senate | fépresented in accumulating such | by Senator Tydings of Maryland. They | balances. Money raised by taxation | | must be passed up by the person who | possesses @ delicately adjusted inner | “works.” ' The great danger any such person | runs undoubtedly lies in too much at- tention to such matters. need not run to the extent of hypochondria, most often does not do so, despite what others may say, but | does reach to the point where one | becomes afraid to eat otherwise fine foods. | up expecting any particular sympathy. Sympathy is something the majority | of mankind give only to very appar- ent symptoms. A fit will bring a great | crowd, but a “sick stomach” will not. There is just that much difference. | | Only when the blood is drawn from | | the face, preliminary to the convul- sion popularly known as “throwing up,” will the average spectator admit | that the victim is really ill. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1935. THIS AND THAT NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM Margaret Germond. BROKERS' END! By Louis Booth. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. Too late by eighteen months to save its stock and bond holders from ruin, the brokerage firm of F. W. Strong & Company is forced into receivership. The unhappy members of the board of directors hear in silence on Priday afternoon the reading by their counsel of the injunction granted to the peo- ple of New York against the company which had successfully weathered va- rious financial crises in its time but which was unable to survive the crash that has for five years now kept busi- ness and industry in a state of col- lapse. On Monday morning Martin Hoyle, treasurer of the corporation, is found dead at his handsome mahogany desk, with a hole in his right temple, his jaw in a pool of blood on the other- wise spotless glass top of the desk, and his own automatic on the floor beside his chair. A slight slip in the set-up soon reveals that what had been intended to pass for unmistak- able suicide is nothing less than mur- der. Maxwell Fenner, investigator for the receiver’s auditors officially and criminologist on occasion, sees at first glance that Hoyle did not die by his own hand. quiet, elderly, inoffensive member of the board of directors, is shot dead while sitting on the rear deck of a Jersey ferry. The two bullets which ended his life were fired from the same gun that had been used to kill Hoyle. A well-written statement sent to a New York newspaper contains the confession of an individual, who claims to have been robbed by the corporation and the threat that each member of the firm will be slain in time. ‘Winthrop Parness, whose love affair | with the wife of Sigurd Strong has become known to her husband, is third to answer the call of death. In | an unlikely house in an obscure sec- tion of the city his body is found in | a gas-filled apartment, but death | resulted from another cause. Death | by a different method indicates that perhaps there is more than one crim- iral. The writer of the confession, | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERI A reader can get the any question of fact by writing The Washington Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Please inclose stamp for reply. Q. How many street cars and busses are owned and opeiated by the Capi- tal Transit Co. of Washingion, D. C.? —H. W. P, A. Btreet cars owned, 687; average maximum number of cars operated in morning :ush period, €09; average number operated in evening rush period, 601. Tota! miles of single track, 208.08, of which 172.48 miles are in the District of Columbia and 35.60 miles are in Maryland. In ad- dition to street car equipment this| company owns and operates 227 busses | over 385 miles of bus route, of which 185 miles are in the District of Co- lumbia and 100 miles are in the State of Maryland. Q. When did the United States Su- preme Court hand down its decision on the gold clause cases?’—A. B. A. It rendered its decision on Mon- day, Pebruary 18, 1935. Q Who was considered the fore- most actor of ancient Rome?—L. H. » A. Quintus Roscius, who died about 62 B. C, is said to have been un-| | rivaled for his grace of action, melody | A few days later Anthony Wheeler, | of voice, conception of character and | delivery. Q. Does the captain or a pilot steer & vessel out of a harbor?—W. L. A. A pilot does this. Q. How old is Lawrence Tihbett? Where was he born?—A. O. A. He is 38. He was born in Bakers- field, Calif,, November 16, 1896 Q. Does red infuriate a bull more than any other color?—S. H. C J. HASKIN. either perished with adopted by Indians. . T % ™8 Q. Did Homer Davenport, the car- 3 toonist, ever attend an XS art school? A. He did not. He was in turn a Jjockey, a clown, a printer's devil. He cid his first work as a cartoonist on the San Francisco Chronicle, Q. l;{ow long have people dancer? —H D A. Dancing pre-dates civilization, Savages had their courting dances, their war dances and religious dances. Q. Where is the eulogy on a vir- tuous woman in the Bible>—A. G. N. A. It is an acrostic poem in the | thirty-first chapter of Proverbs. Each | of the 22 verses begins with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet in regular succession. The poem offers a pic- ture of the ideal housewife. Q. How many historic houses are now being preserved in this coun- try?—T. 8. A. Over 400 are now owned and maintained by States, patriotic asso- ciations, and individuals. The PFed- €ral Government has some, but has | no definite policy toward acquiring and preserving historic buildings. Q. Why is some of the new safety glass tinted green and blue?—W. A. B. A. The National Bureau of Stand- |ards says that the green or blue tint in the new safety glass is pro- duced by adding iron oxide to the batch from which the glass is made. Glasses containing iron do not trans- mit the ultra-violet or actinic rays as much as those free from iron. The actinic rays are said to be responsi- ble for the deterioration or discolor- ation of the plastic used in making laminated glass. Since the actinic rays cannot get through the blue or A. Experiments made at the Uni-|green glass in question, the plastic versity of California have proved that | should not discolor as much as would a bull's reaction to the color of red | be the case if iron were not added is no more than that to any other to the glass. color. In fact, judging by the con- — duct of the steers tested, it seems| Q What is the talked-of project doubtful whether they can tell red &t Passamaquoddy Bay, Me’—L L. R. from green, white or blue. It is even| A. There is an immense tide at possible that the animals have no Passamaquoddy Bay and an effort is realization of color at all. | being made to make arrangements e, to retain the water at high tide and, Q. In Hugo's “Notre Dame de Paris,” > what is the hunchback’s name?—T. H. by letting it out gradually, produce a * % X K Thus every one nowadays knows | Templeton Jones began t0 SPECU-| jngeed, becomes so bold as to deny | late on all the terrible diseases one | paiiner WU 10 G 08 1 der large amount of power. A. His name is Quasimodo have had the aid of the Veterans' | should be spent, or returned to the some one or other who refuses to | Administration in the dralting of the bill, and, according to Mr. Andrews, President Roosevelt has not said that he will veto the compromise bill if it comes to him. On the other hand, the President has not said yet that discoverable for composing them be- fore conversations with Germany ensue. It has notoriously been Berlin's hope to drive a breach be- he will approve it. certain, however, is that the President will not sign either the Vinson bill | or the Patman bill, which call for the tween London and Paris ever since | jmmediate cash payment of the bonus, the Anglo-French accord for EUropean | otaling more than $2,300.000,000. pacification was launched. “Divide | pe supporters of the compromise and conquer” is the Nazis' strategy, | ) insist that it is better for the vet- 8s far as the Versailles powers are | ergns to take their bill than no bill concerned. |at all. And they predict that in the Meantime. with that genius for|enq the House and the Senate will doing the wrong thing at the right| come around to the Tydings-Andrews- time which Germany has so often dis- | cochran bill. From the point of view played, Berlin s comporting itself in | of the Government and of strict justice What appears | the best possible way to produce a| united front against provocative Nazi plans. Goebbels blusters that Ger- many’s munition plants are already practically on a war footing. Another qualified spokesman asserts that even under present conditions the Reich can mobilize one million trained men equipped with motor transport so| speedy “that an expeditionary force could reach Moscow, for example, in | two days.” Last night Berlin was the scene of large-scale air maneuvers, to | test the capital's readiness for warfare | in the sky. As the heavens roared with the rumble of Goering’s scouting and bombing planes came indications | that Germany’s next assault on the treaty of Versailles may be the abro- gation of the clause providing for demilitarization of the left bank of the Rhine and the construction of ex- tensive new fortifications in the Rhine- land unless France agrees to demili- tarize corresponding areas within her | borders. There is at the moment no war spirit in allied Europe. Suggestions that the western powers resort to armed force to rebuke Germany arouse little enthusiasm. Hitler's tactics are unmistakaoly based on that realiza- tion. But every move he is now mak- ing must impress the Versailles pow- ers with the fact that sooner or later his pretensions will require to be sternly resisted and that mere diplo- macy will not perpetually suffice as 8 weapon with which to thwart them. 8ir John Bimon may be trusted to point that out in Berlin, It is a prospect designed to give the Nazis “furiously to think,” to cause them to ponder carefully the wisdom of driving allied Europe to a point where “preventive war” to curb an aggressive Germany would no longer be avoid- sble. ———————— In some circles of German states- manship there appears to be an idea that the way to make the League of Nations a success is to establish a system of rounding nations up with tanks and machine guns, - Why Not Tackle the Gangsters? Recent revelations in Philadelphia, end especially in New York, have demonstrated again the sinister rami- fications of the “numbers racket” in the underworld and the tremendous sums of money collected in the “take.” Recent testimony in New York brought an estimate from a gangster's Jawyer of payments of $100,000,000 a year in Harlem, Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx to an army of collectors working the policy racket—another pame for the numbers game. In Philadelphia an investigation has indi- cated widespread gangster activities centering around the lucrative num- bers game. Here in Washington police officials have testified that the numbers game is the biggest gambling racket and one of the most difficult to cope with under existing law. There has been uni- versal demand that the anti-gambling laws be strengthened and that the police and prosecutors thus be given beavier ammunition in dealing with the business. The strengthened gambling bill has and accounting the compromise bill doubtless would be preferable to the other measures. A veteran who traded in his adjusted service certificate for a Government bond would be at lib- erty either to sell the bond or to hold it, depending upon whether he wished immediate cash or preferred to wait until the date of maturity and realize the eventual full value of his certifi- cate, a value that is not due until 1945. In the meantime, however, it is ex- pected that the demand for immediate cash payment of the bonus will be too strong in the House to permit of a compromise, and that either the Vinson bill, backed by the American Legion, or the Patman bill, with its “controlled inflation” proposal, will be passed by the House and sent to the Senate. What the Senate will do becomes the important question. The Senate has But the bonus payment advocates claim today that a cash payment bill with the greatest of ease. then only & presidential veto can halt it. - Clarence Darrow is back in the arena of discussion, but has not yet resorted to his occasional expedient of having somebody psychoanalyzed. Department of Arts and Sciences? Every now and again some well- intentioned idealist appears in the national scene advocating the estab- lishment of one or more new Govern=- ment departments. The latest of such proposals is that of Representa- tive William Sirovich for a Depart- ment of the Arts and the Sciences. In tune with the desires of his con- stituents in Greenwich Village, he has sponsored a bill calling upon the President to introduce into his cabinet an officer to be known as the Secre- tary of the Arts and the Sciences and to have control over “such bureaus, sections, officers or other elements of arts and the sciences.” In theory, the suggestion may have merit. Mr. Sirovich, doubtless, has in mind the desirability of Govern- ment aid for those citizens who devote their lives to ideal ends—a class of men and women who, undeniably, stand in need of recognition and as- sistance. But it may be that the plight of the artists'and the scientists would be rendered additionally un- happy by a scheme which might bring into existence an official stand- ard for esthetic and research enter- prises at present reasonably free from that sort of interference. The idea has been tried. Both Frederick the Great and Catherine the Great experimented with it, and Soviet Russia has regimented creative workers as well as less gifted laborers. Genius, however, has a teldency to appreciate liberty, even at the expense of poverty, and the worthiest artists and scientists resent chains arbitrarily inflicted in exchange for subsidies. Indeed, Mr. Sirovich would have difficulty in meet- ing the challenge were he asked to cite a single instance of Government control in the creative field where the gain was greater than the loss. | No one will quarrel with the prin- slready passed the Senate. It might have received immediate attention ciple of national support for artistic twice before rejected the Patman bill. | will ride through the Upper House| If it does, | the Government which deal with the | | taxpayers in the form of tax reduc- tion. . Speaking of the Cheshire cat that always grinned, Donald Richberg re- fers to Gen. Johnson as a humorist, meaning perhaps that he has stirred | | what to do with. | e Another reason for Uncle Sam's staying out of war is a European in¢lination to make racial prejudice | a basis of contention and so throw ‘flrwnrks into the American melting | pot. B — In the search for revenue the pos- | sibility of a heavy alimony tax might | suggest itself. This would relieve a | romantic demand for righteous retri- ! bution of any mercenary aspect. et In order to maintain a brilliant | record in a war on crime the police | may find it desirable to call on the voice of safety to offer warnings against crashing into politics. s - Any competent doctor will agree that a probe is of little practical | benefit if it serves only to irritate & sore spot. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Boy and Matches. Oh, boy, with the box of matches | And a powder keg nearby | If one of those matches he scratches It will send us en route for the sky. | Bo we give you our best salutation; We soothe you with many a toy. Oh, please do not blow up creation— Which mortals so truly enjoy, ©Oh, boy! Oh, boy, with the big sky rocket Aimed straight for the dynamite Safe in your bosom lock it-— That yearning to start a fight. We'll cuddle you up and cheer you If your efforts you'll employ To make 1t safe to come near you, With no fear that we might annoy, Oh, boy! Following. “You have a large following?"” “I have” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “But there have been some low growls which make me wonder what | the crowd will do with me if it over- takes me.” Jud Turkins says politicians say such things about one another that there’s danger of getting the plain proletariat into libel as a popular custom. Desirable Minimum. Do you speak English or German or French Or Russian, that brings to your larynx a wrench; Or maybe the language of ancient Japan, The language of China or else Hin- dustan? When orators call with acclaim or small Perhaps he does best who says nothing at all. Specialization. “What did your boy Josh say when you told him about the Japanese beetle?” “He told me he was not interested,” said Farmer Corntossel. - “He was studying political economy and not entomology.” Might Be a Dud. That swastika is spinning With marvelous gyraticns. It threatens a beginning Of fireworks 'mongst the nations. It is, we may be learning By public demonstration, A pinwheel brightly burning In transient celebration. “I ain’ objectin’ to & man dat tells all he knows,” said Uncle Eben. “De one dat worries me is de man dat tries to make up talk 'bout things he ain't _in the House had it not been side- and scientific efforts directly related'yet found out.” ;‘, [ 7 drink coffee, or eat bread, or eat| meat, or some substance generally liked by mankind. In most such cases 1t will be found | | that the person has decided, whether | rightly or wrongly, that the one | might have. Probably these thoughts come more to stomach sufferers than to others, owing to the very intimate connection between the stomach and | the sympathetic nervous system. Jones chose several very horrible diseases, then rejected them, one by | article is responsible for the ills to| ne. All he knew was that he wanted up more wonderland than he knows | which he is heir. . | nothing to eat, that he felt faint every | Right here the outsider must be ! poc™h ol S 0 "Such food as he con- | very careful. for as often as not the | gumeq did not remove the gnawing victim is right. sensations. Ulcer of the stomach, at Templeton Jones' great fear Was ihe very least, was his portion—— | starch. | " Then he thought of a glass of bread | Carbohydrates in any form gave'gnq milk. It had been some time him indigestion | since he had indulged. This grew upon him over the years, | Carefully he poured out two large so that during the past year or twWo pgigsses and carefully he crumpled up he had practically given them up. | slices of bread, filling each glass to The practical result was that the the top, pushing down the bread with indigestion which had cursed his days a spoon until’ each tumbler was prop- left him completely. | erly filled. No medicine. no “cure,” no “noth-| Then Jones set to. The first spoon- ing,” as the old darkey said; just a ful tasted fairly good, the second good, complete ending of a former discom- |the third excellent. | fort. | Jones lingered over each mouthful, | | | terest. which that distinctive imprint But is his second statement true, or is it a blind? Is the first one true, | or is the confession merely the crav- ing of a maniac for the limelight?> On the other hand, is the murderer a member of the Strong firm, or an em- ploye, or one of several frequent vis- itors to the sumptuous offices of the once successful corporation? And how many more of the original eight ssible victims will meet death before ‘Shorn” is trapped? It is a lively story, well set up 2gainst the now familiar background of big business. It is a Red Badge mystery, with all of the thrills, the speedy action and the absorbing in- implies. ki THE BUDAPEST PARADE MUR- DERS. By Van Wyck Mason. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. The Budapest Express, speeding to- | ward the Austrian capital with dozens of delegates to the new peace confer- | Q. Where is the Prontier Nursing Q. Which of Stephen Foster’s songs | Service operating?—L. C. is considered his best>—G. D. A. Its headquarters is at Lexington, A. Any one is entitled to choose Ky. The service operates in rural his own, but “the Old Folks at Home | Kentucky districts, chiefly in Leslie (“Way Down Upon the Swanee River”) | County, in co-operation with the is usually considered his masterpiece, | State health authorities. Foster's songs are notable for the S quality of tenderness. | Q Please describe Abraham Lin- | eoln’s birthplace —E. H. Q. What does the word Deuteron- | omy mean?—C. C A. It means the law repeated. Q. How long has the name, S8ambo, been given to a Negro as one of pleasant familiarity?—D. § A. It dates at least to 1795 when a Negro character gained popularity in Murdock’s play, “Triumph of Love.” Q. Was Virginia Dare, a family of importance in the tolony? —M. B. A. Her mother was the daughter of | John White, the Governor of Vir- ginia sent over by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1587. Her father was one of the the first | white child born in America, born to | A. The cabin in which Lincoln was | born was built of logs. The floor was | packed-down dirt. One door swung | on leather hinges. At the left of the door as one faced the building there was a little window. A stick-clay chimney was at the right end of the cabin. It was 232 miles from Hod- genville on the Big South Fork of | Nolin's Creek in Kentucky. Q. In how many countries are lot- teries permitted for the purpose of | raising public revenue?—F. W. A. They are being employed in | about 30 countries. Q. When is the Be Kind to Animals week?—G. T. Tell vour average citizen that he | can live without bread and he will put you down as a candidate for the | asylum. | “Why. bread is the staff of life!” he | will assert with smug righteousness. | However that may be. bread is good | food for most people. Where the trou- ble comes in seems to lic mainly in | overeating it, or regarding it simply i | WASHINGTO! r BY FREDERIC Gen. Werner von Blomberg, Hitler's war minister and spearhead of the plan to create a great German con- script army in deflance of the treaty of Versailles, knows the United States’ | | military establishment from top to bottom as the result of a visit to this country in 1930. Then merely a general commanding the 1st Division |of the Reich’s army, Von Blomberg iinspccwd our land defense system from coast to coast, including the Army War College in Washington, va- rious service and staff schools and im- portant military posts throughout the country. Later Maj. Gen. William D. Connor, now superintendent of West Point, went to Germany, where his visit was looked upon as a call of courtesy in return for Gen. von Blomberg's tour of the United States. American military officers who have seen the present German Army hold the highest opinion of its quality and efficiency, and for its size regard it as probably the finest in the world. | * % X X American interest in Germany's re- OBSERV much as a gourmand might be pic- tured as tackling some famous deli- cacy. | Within an hour, Templeton Jones’ | headache was gone. Within two hours, |all traces of his upset stomach had | vanished. The next day he felt fine.| Jones had taken the bread-and-milk | cure, his own patent, and benefited | mightily. WILLIAM WILE. 11936 outlook, especially as to the ne- cessities of the situation from a West- ern standpoint. G. O. P. presidential | candidacies will bulk conspicuously in the little council of war. * * % x | . Somebody who likes arithmetic has | been doing some fancy figuring in | connection with the $4,880,000,000 | work relief fund about to be voted by | Congress. He reckons that if the use | of the money had begun with the year |1 AD. it would have been necessary to spend $4.80 every minute up until shortly before the end of 1935 to get | rid of the entire amount. The mathe- matician gets that way by calculating that there are 525,960 minutes in an average year and about 1,017,732,600 | minutes in 1935 years. The same | authority has figured out that if | President Roosevelt were to spend $4,- | 880,000,000 in a single year the money | would have to be disbursed at the rate of $9.278.27 a minute. * X * X Plans are being discussed for a na- | tional observance of the centenary of the birth of Grover Cleveland, twenty- | | scene of the first of a series of baf-| ence among its passengers, is the| fling murders that threaten to wreck the conference and to throw the world into another armed conflict as well. Sir William Woodman, eminent Eng- | lish pacifist, carrying incriminating evidence against munitions manufac- turers, poison gas distillers, dye works and other industries closely related to the making of munitions, is slugged and his murderer escapes as the train stops at Gyor. Maj. Kilgour of the British foreign office and a corre- ! spondent of a New York newspaper, occupying another compartment in the same coach, are first on the job as | | unofficial investigators. Capt. Hugh | North of the United States Army In- | telligence, in from Italy, boards the | train as the murderer escapes and be- | comes immediately involved in the search for the criminal. | In Budapest the news of 8ir Wil- liam’s murder creates a critical situa- tion, and as other musders of dele- | gates and self-styled information seek- { ers and news gatherers meet death | | before the very eyes of their asso- | | ciates a near-panic seizes the popu- | PFior to abandonment of the former lation, while those most concerned in the peace conference suffer an acute | attack of jitters. Attempts are made | on the lives of Kilgour and North, | both of them escaping by only the | narrowest of margins from would-be | assassins, And all because the pro- | fessional warmakers are determined, | each for his own particular profit or | salvation from disgrace, to gain pos- session of the papers which Sir Wil- | };flgm was known to have been carry- | | Against the dazzling attractiveness | of life in Budapest a story of interna- | tional intrigue is woven by Mr. Mason into a pattern of mystery and death | | battle by the administration against court of assistants. When White re- turned to England, the Dares re- mained in this country. Virginia A. It will be observed by more than 500 anti-cruelty societies, April 7 to 13. inclusive, “No Inflation” Guarantee Inspires Demand for Action holding inflationists in check results| plated. The huge bond issues and currency inflation as long as Mr. | Congress is stampeding toward many surance given is dependent upon un- | down the Niagara River, and do not cheap-money advocates would produce | over them. Let it be hoped that is described by the Rochester Times- | realize that the tide of inflation can Similar conclusions are drawn by in part, though not vet completely, by | Times-Union, the Rockford (IIl.) jurious that the holders of mortgages | Union, the St. Joseph (Mo.) News- of buying power. And it would also be | argues: “It is well for people to bear What is needed, after a really fair and | tion lies in ‘forced’ Government loans, buying power. A dollar of constant | can be achieved under modern bank- other single commodity. It will be armament on anything approaching | 5econd President of the United States, the pre-war scale would be concerned mainly with naval expansion. In ad- | dition to a powerful army and air force, Hitler is generally expected sooner or later to turn his attention to the creation of a great modern navy. At present the Nazi fleet con- sists of three armored ships, the fa- on March 18, 1937. The promoters of | the idea are inspired by an observation | of Robert Lincoln O'Brien. ¢hairman | of the United States Tariff Commis- sion, who stated last year at exercises | in connection with acceptance of Cleveland's birthplace at Caldwell, N. J., by the State of New Jersey as | that is fascinating, logical and star- | tlingly near the truth of the funda- mental causes of the failures that have Discussion of the President's task of | taken place. while others are contem- from the statement of Donald Rich- | vast expenditures and public lendings berg, in Boston, that there will be no | constitute a credit expansion. And Roosevelt is President. Many news- | measures which can only be done by papers take the position that the as- | printing-press inflation. If we start foreseen conditions, but that an active! stop long enough before the falls, it is | not within our choice whether we go good results. | Richberg is correct. But let it also be Inflation, as commonly understood, | hoped that he and his principal Union as “just as unfair as the defla- | not be stemmed by mere good resolu- tion that reached its lowest depths | tions.” gold standard.” The Times-Union | the Rock Island (Ill.) Argus, the Buf- continues: “That has been corrected | falo Evening News, the Brooklyn the monetary policy of the present | Register-Republic, the Canton (Ohio) administration. It was unfair and in- | Repository. the Manchester (N. H.) or bonds should have a legal claim to | Press and the Saginaw (Mich.) News. a greatly enhanced return, in terms | The New York Herald Tribune unfair and injurious to have just|in mind these two important points: claims wiped out by reckless inflation. | First, that the great danger of infla- honest price level has been attained, | as distinguished from voluntary loans, is a dollar which will have constant and, second, that ‘forced’ borrowing buying power will not represent any | ing methods quite as effectively fixed amount of gold, silver or any | through bank credit expansion as constant ir terms of the average of the whole list of important goods or ! through the printing of fiat money.” made peace conferences the breeding commodities. Economic science is now Moderation in Liquor Use. grounds for new wars. *x % Edited by Robert F. Kelley. York: Dodd, Mead & Co., Inc. New a public shrine, that it is the “lasting verdict of America that Grover Cleve- land ranks among the greatest Presi- dents of the United States.” Mr. | O'Brien from 1892 until 1895 was Mr. Cleveland's personal secretary. ok o mous and powerful 10,000-ton *‘pocket battleships” Deutschland, Admiral | Scheer and Ersatz Braunschweig, which were commissioned during the past four years; five pre-war battle- ships, six modern cruisers commis- sioned within the last 10 years, the | old cruisers Berlin and Hamburg; 13 pre-war torpedo boats of 600 to 700 tons each and 12 torpedo boats of 1800 tons each, completed in 1926-7-8. Keels have been laid during the past year to replace two decommissioned pre-war battleships. In addition to these various combat ships, the Ger- man navy includes mine-sweepers, guard boats and miscellaneous aux- iliary craft. In view of Germany's growing importance as an air power, the United States has just sent an air attache there, Capt. Koenig, U. S. A,, who will serve at the Berlin Embassy along with our military and naval attaches. * Kk ok * Because of the bull market for 1936 | | Republican presidential prospects, | thanks mainly to Huey Long, G. O. P. | white hopes are taking heart. The | latest to be mentioned as a formidable contender is Col. Frank Knox, Chi- cago newspaper publisher, who is de- picted as enjoying the support of both Western progressives and Eastern con- servatives. His nomination chances are favorably discussed, among other places, in quarters once closely iden- tified with Herbert Hoover. Col. Knox was a Roosevelt Rough Rider in Cuba and was active in the Bull Moose | movement in 1912. Originally a New Hampshire man and political lieuten- ant of Gen. Leonard Wood, Col. Knox has been conducting a hammer-and- tongs editorial campaign against many phases of the New Deal in his Chi- cago Daily News and in public ad- dresses. o Some time before April 1 there is to be a meeting of midwestern Repub- lican leaders, including national com- mitteemen, in Des Moines, Kansas Another of “Justice Brandeis’' young | men,” Robert G. Page, has just been appointed head of the New York re- | gional office of the Securities and Ex- | change Commission. Graduated from Yale in 1922 and from Harvard Law School in 1925, Mr. Page became an instructor in contracts at the latter institution and then served for a year as secretary to Justice Brandeis in Washington. Later he joined the Elihu Root law firm in New York and is severing that connection to assume his new post. Another young Harvard man, Thomas H. Gammack, lately of | the New York Stock Exchange, has just been appointed executive assist- ant to Chairman Kennedy of the S.E.C. | x X ¥ * Amid the slings and ‘arrows com- ing their way from the courts, the public utilities and other directidns, ‘T. V. A. authorities proudly record that Chattanooga is the twenty-sev- enth Tennessee Valley municipality to vote on municipal ownership looking to use of Muscle Shoals power. Of towns and cities which have held such referenda, only five voted in the negative. The popular vote stands 76,141 “for” and 28913 “against.” Altogether, more than 300 munici- palities, from Iowa to Florida, have made formal or informal inquiry as to the possibility of getting T. V. A “yardstick” current. * x X % Nobody is watching the outcome of the Davey-Hopkins relief feud in Ohio with keener interest than Sena- tor Borah. It was the Idahoan who last Fall first drew national attention to the shortcomings in administration of Federal relief and supplied chap- City or some other farm belt metrop- o discuss party policies and 1 ter and verse evidence of his charges. { ial eff }{ d the L;—':.m e "‘:lm“gmmmm rmu | This volume is the first of an an- | | nual publication planned by the Dodd- | Mead house for the enjoyment and | the information of the thousands of | devotees who follow the season's ac- | tivities in all branches of horse sport. | It contains stories and accounts of all the outstanding events of the past vear in the non-professional horse world, including polo, hunting, racing, horse shows and steeplechasing. Sta- tistics and details of the big matches are recorded, with the ratings of the players and ponies, and the chapter on hunting covers all of the important meets of the past year with the latest news about the various dogs and packs. Steeplechasing in this coun- try, the Kentucky Derby and the Grand National Handicap, together with all of the big track events, are reported with authority and accuracy by a man who knows the horse world from all angles. Mr, Kelley is a newspaper man who is known to horsemen everywhere and whose knowledge of the horse sports is recognized and respected. The information contained in these pages is largely of a nature that has never before been gathered into a single tolume. As a beginner, the publication is assuredly a solidly built foundation for an annual that will be- come invaluable to the followers of the horse in sport. It is handsomely bound and illustrated with sixteen | full-page plates. Slap Them on the Wrists. From the Pasadena (Calif.) Post. Thugs recently robbed four men whom they had caught in the act of singing “Sweet Adeline.” Neverthe- less something ought to be done to the thugs. r——— Juvenile Fingerprints. Prom the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Bill for the fingerprinting of Penn- sylvania school children suggests offi- A i prepared tc establish and maintain such a dollar. It will be a managed | THE YEAR BOOK OF THE HORSE. | Currency in the sense of being con- | stantly adjusted to maintain a definite | buying power. But it will be a stabi- lized currency in a far truer sense than any currency fluctuating as widely as the former gold standard dollar did." A different point of view is present- ed by the Kansas City Star, which quotes a statement from President Roosevelt, that there is “no contem- plation of devaluing the dollar,” and | argues: “The President’s denial is in | line with the blunt statement made | recently by Donald Richberg that | ‘there will be no inflation in this coun- | try while Franklin Roosevelt is Presi- | dent.’ Potential inflation already ex- ists through the combined effect of the devaluation of the gold value of the dollar and the huge increase in surplus bank reserves, growing out of the sale of several billion dollars of United States securities to the banks, and additional credit inflation is pro- posed in the new banking act now un- der consideration in Congress. But neither currency inflation nor credit inflation can automatically put prices up and stimulate business until it arouses irdividual initistive among buyers and producers. Money must be used in the markets and in indus- try to affect prices. It is without in- fluence lying idle in the banks and has ‘no important effect as a stimu- lant to business when distributed by the Government in the form of re- lief.” “Hand-over-fist spending is a threat of inflation in itself,” declares the Worcester (Mass.) Evening Gazette, with the further comment: “The distinct worth of Mr. Richberg's pledge is that it purports to stamp the administration as anti-inflationary in objective. Therein it is a welcome and timely word. But while spending and borrowing continue as at present, a flat guarantee against further in- flation of any kind seems an extrava- gant statement.” It is maintained by the San Fran- cisco Chronicle that “‘inflation’ is rarely a separate, voluntary act. Rather,” continues that paper, “it Is the automatic result of other acts. | From the Philadeiphia Inquirer. | A timely move is the organization of the Council for Moderation, which purposes to conduct a 10-year drive in the hope of solving the liquor problem along reasonable lines. The avowed purpose is to demonstrate the value of moderation and temperance. It is not the intention to rush into an extrava- | gant national campaign, but rather to attempt to quicken and mould pub- lic opinion, in order to avoid a return to the conditions that prevailed before and during the prohibition period. The character of those backing the movement—men like Everett Colby, Bishop Manning, Gov. Cross of Con- necticut and Gov. Hoffman of New Jersey—suggests that it will be sane and practical. They realize the liquor | question can never be solved by re- strictive legislation. There is to be | no advoeacy of compulsion by the | Council for Moderation. Nor is there | to be criticism of those who believe in | total abstinence. While respecting the opinions of those who differ from them, the originators of the new or- ganization “believe that the time has come to blaze an entirely new trail toward the solution of the liquor problem.” oo | A Rhyme at Twilight By Gertrude Brooke Hamilton. Underfoot | A blade of grass 'neath tramping feet, Sprung to life in the cracked concrete: The weighty tread of a financier, A lighter one devoid of fear, ‘The rapid pace of money gain, The lagging one of hopes in vain, The elastic step of a goal in sight, And one made weak by grim affright, The lonely tread of a giant mind, ‘The faltering one of a man gone blind. By dusk, in the endless crowds that pass, left of & blade of grass) 3