Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1935, Page 30

- D2 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.......March 24, 1935 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office i1tn St. and Pennsylvania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd St Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Bullding European Office: 14 Regent St.. London Ensland Rate by Carrier Within the City. Edition. arer B4R e ber month 60c per month a 4 85¢ per month The Sundiy Star e per copy Nizht Final Edition. Nieht Mnal ana Sunday Star 70¢ per month Night Pinal Star 55¢ per month “ollection made af the end “of each month Orders may be sent by mail or telephone National 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virgini Bajly and sunday. 1 7. $10.00: J mo. Hhe yr ;1 m aily only $6.00: 1 mo.. B0c Sundav only 1yr $400i1 mo All Other States and Canada. Daily andSunday | yr.$1% 00 i mo. $1.00 ly .....1yr $8.00:1mo 7Bc nly 1ve $500:1 mo Member of the Associated Press. The Associatea Press is exciusively en: titled to the use for republication ot al news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise .rediled in this Daper and also the Jocal news oublished herein All rights of Dublication of special dispatches herein mre alto reserved = $0c | 50¢ | District appropriations with a request for the “earmarking” of local relief dollars for the free lunches project. Once that is done, and local funds are directly appropriated to pay a part of the cost of the free lunches, precedent will have been established and the furnishing of food, along with the elements of education, will have been written into the law as a function of the local school system. It is by no means certain that such a step is desirable. Once Congress appropriates local tax funds for free school lunches, as it now does for free text books, the tendency will be to increase the scope of the project until it embraces all school children. Handled strictly as a phase of emer- gency Federal relief, the administra- tors of the fund are able to limit the recipients of such relief to those who are demonstrably in need of relief. The provision of free school lunches to all school children might be an admirable undertaking. But it must be viewed in relation to other things. The local school system is so handicapped through lack of appro- priations for teachers end for ade- barely able to fulfill its chief function which is the provision of elementary Amending the Liquor-Control Act. This week the House District Com- mittee is expected to consider three bills for amendment of the District | One of them has| liquor-control act. been introduced by Chairman Norton, at the request of the Alcoholic Bev- erage Control Board, and may be described generally as tightening up and strengthening the liquor act to remedy defects exposed through expe- The two other bills, one by Representative Dirksen of Tilinois and the other by Beiter of New York, seem designed primarily to get rid of the so-called “hidden bar” regulation, which for- bids the mixing of drinks in presence of the customer, although they contain other provisions which may be interpreted as weakening the liquor control act. The repeated attacks *hidden bar” regulation to budge Commissioner his firm stand that such is necessary to comply President’s implicit declaration, con- taned in his proclamation of the repeal of the eighteenth amendment: I ask especially that no State shall by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon either in its old form or in some modern guise. rience. against the have failed Allen from a regulation {dent’s signature of the District liquor-control act was accompanied by published reports of his having assured himself, in conversation with the Commissioners, that the law and regulations under the law would in reality prevent the return of the saloon to the District It may be said that if the only difference between the old saloon and the modern establishment where liquor is sold is that a screen is now erected to shield the process of mix- ing drinks from the eyes of the cus- tomer, then that difference is hardly worth preserving in view of the criti- cism of the “hidden bar.” But Mr. Allen's conception of the issue is broader than that. It is a funda- mental principle of the liquor-con- trol act that the business of selling | intoxicants for consumption on the premises is a side line, of secondary importance to the main business of conducting a hotel, club or bona fide restaurant. In such ments the preparation of food is not done in the presence of the customer, who is willing to leave such business to the cooks in the kitchen. Should regulations be changed to enable the bartender to mix drinks in the | presence of the customer, Mr. Allen feels that the main business of the establishment will become the serving of drinks, and with other atmospheric additions the saloon “either in its old form or in some modern guise” will return. Even if the line that divides the old saloon from the modern liquor sales place is no thicker than the baize screen which shields the bartender, Commissioner Allen is de- termined to hold it. He naturally has the support of those sincerely determined to prevent the return of the saloon—a slogan, by the way, that once predominated the banners of the repeal-advocating wets. Whether due to careless compo- sition, or whether it is the intent of the bill, Mr. Dirksen's proposed amendment of section 7 of the liquor act would eliminate existing pro- visions forbidding licenses to place: established subsequent to passage of the act (January 24, 1934) “near or around schools, colleges, universities, churches, or public institutions.” In either case, the amendment is obvi- ously unsatisfactory as drawn, for it removes a source of protection earn- estly advocated by citizens at the | time the liquor act was under con- sideration. A provision of the Beiter bill would take from the Commissioners and the Board their present power to pre- scribe the hours during which liquor may be sold, and would permit sales on Sunday after 1 o'clock in the afternoon. The Commissioners and the Board should retain their con- trol over selling hours and other mat- ters now subject to regulation. If the liquor act is to be amended, it should be strengthened, as recom- mended by the Commissioners and the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board; not weakened to encourage the ad- ditional sale of liquor under conditions approximating the old-time saloon. School Lunches. ‘The relief project of furnishing free lunches for about 7,000 Washington school children is paid for entirely out of Federal relief funds. This is because the project has never re- eeived direct legislative sanction and 15 not included with other relief un- dertakings for which Congress appro- priates District of Columbia revenues. Mrs. John Boyle, jr., chairman of the local Consumers’ Counsel, organ- ized under the A. A. has appeared before the Senate ttee on Representative | the | establish- | | education to the students. The handi- of a class of forty-five or fifty in a crowded school building are mani- fest. If, to a responsibility the the additional responsibility of pro- | viding food, it is obvious that the first-named responsibility will suffer still more. As an emergency relief project, the | provision of food for children who | otherwise would go without it is, of | course, essential. Any steps to make | it a regular municipal function should be approached with extreme caution. e An Indictment. | Former President Herbert Hoover has issued a call for a rejuvenated and vigorous Republican party. his first strictly political statement since he left the White House two | years ago, Mr. Hoover indicts the New Deal, enumerating its mistakes and its failures. The hope of the Nation With the | for retention of American liberties for | | the American people, he insists, rests | with the Republican party. “A res- | toration of economic common sense,” | Mr. Hoover contends, will make the | 2Pundantly and vividly depicted that| of tne kind that will pull up short a | trouble, competition ~works out the | | problems of business, agriculture and | | labor much easier of solution. : s ecttien (It e Pres | It is a formidable indictment which | t wi rec - | the former President levels against | the New Deal Democrats. Among the | misdeeds of the Roosevelt administra- tion listed are that the most solemn | Government obligations have been re- | pudiated; the greatest public debt in the history of the Nation has been | incurred; the currency has been ren- | dered uncertain; government has been | centralized in Washington and bu- i reaucracy has been built up; monopo- | listic practices have been organized [on a gigantic scale; small business | men have been forced to the wall; | class hatreds and conflicts have been | stimulated; foreign food products !pour into the country because of | American crop reduction; the cost of living is rising steadily, and recovery | is still delayed. | Mr. Hoover's demand is that the | shackles of Government control be |lifted from the individual and that | tiative to go forward. His demand |is that the Government permit a | restoration of confidence in business | by ceasing its constant threat of |added Government control and dicta- tion. He proposes that “the present conception of national economy based upon scarcity” must be reversed. Only }Lhmugh production can workman, farmer and business man avoid final defeat. The present policies of government the people have a right to change, as Mr. Hoover says in his letter to | the California Republican Assembly. publican party. That party, in the opinion of Mr.- Hoover, has the greatest responsibility that has come coln: the responsibility of raising the standard in defense of fundamental American liberties. He makes no ap- peal for personal political support. He insists that the rebirth of the Re- publican party transcends any per- group. It will not suffice for the New Deal- ers to reply to the Hoover indictment hat the country crashed into a huge | depression when he was its Chief Executive. The American people will look to conditions as they exist and to the fact that the New Dealers have had absolute control of Government | since March 4, 1933. They will deter- | mine whether the price of the New | Deal is too high, whether they have | sacrificed liberty in the pursuit of a “wm-o'-the-wisp. They will consider whether the huge Government ex- penditures have really aided in the matter ot recovery. They will answer for themselves the question whether the hand of Government lays more heavily upon them. The national campaign is only a year in the future. Issues are in the making, and cer- tainly some of them have been made. “Gag rule” is always feared as much by a congressional orator as being “grounded” is feared by an aviator. Epidemic of Militarism. On a famous occasion before the World War, when the Kaiser and Admiral von Tirpitz were engaged in their feverish effort to expand the German navy to a point which would permit it to challenge British sea power, Prince von Buelow, then im- perial chancellor, reminded the Ger- man people that “pressure breeds counter pressure.” He deprecated Anglo-German naval rivalry on the ground that it could and would never get the Fhtherland anywhere, because of Britain’s determination not to be outstripped. The Nazi government is at this moment realizing soundness of Buelow’s philosophy? ‘s mili- quate building equipment that it is| caps now facing a child who is one| schools can barely meet now, is added | In! he again be permitted to use his ini- | | The instrument at hand is the Re-i to it since the days of Abraham Lln-i sonal interest or the interests of any | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, tary pressure, as exemplified by in- troduction of conscription and plans for an army of 500,000 men, is breed- ing counter pressure all over Europe. France, long aware of Hitler's secret and now officially acknowledged re- armament, is increasing her compul- sory military service period from one to two years. Italy has suspended a projected reduction in the term of conscription. Mussolini will hold the class now in training beyond the usual period, while the succeeding | class is cailed to arms. The retention of the two classes will give Italy a standing army of about 440,000 men. Rome admits that the new political tension in Europe is responsible for Italy’s revised plans. In the East, as well as in the West, Nazi procedure is proving epidemic. | Moscow proclaims that the Soviets are | prepared, 1if necessary, to raise an army of 10,000,000—ten times the | number of troops that make up the | 101 divisions now comprising the Red army—to defend Russian sofl against the new German military menace. As | current reports credit the Reich with | @ secret deal with Poland to pounce upon the Soviet Union at a propitious moment, for the purpose, among other 1 things, of despoiling it of the Ukraine, | Moscow’s readiness to indulge in an | | army expansion orgy on the Germnn‘ for | pattern provides timely food thought in Berlin. Not in France, in Italy, or in the Soviet Union, and least of all in Ger- | many, is there at this time any sur- | plus of economic substance which can comfortably be squandered on arma- ments. If the truth could be known |1t would probably develop that much | of Germany's desperate commercial ! | and finarcial plight is traceable to the | tremendous amount of money the | Nazis have surreptitiously been spend- | | ing on their army and air force. It is | | altogether likely that the Reich's im- | | poverished exchequer may prove a| | more potent factor in curbing Hitler's | mad military venture than diplomatic | protests or even counter pressure on | his western and eastern fronts. | | D — j Efforts to restain propaganda ton-’ [tinue on the theory that the tankx and air bombers can be put out of | business by stopping the printing presses. In a mechanistic era curious | relativities are assumed. | The horrors of war have been so any intelligent imagination should be; |able to form a convincing picture | without insisting on physical actuali- | | ties. ———— suspicion are truly propaganda, they | indicate a deep and dark cunning in| fooling confiding pulishers with low- grade copy. ———— Pleasant little surprise parties have been frequent at the White House, | sometimes taking the form of cordial | interviews not for publication. ———————— | American residents who feel a war urge should be provided with trans- portation facilities that will enable | them to go where a war is. | ) | Whatever may be done about the | | sale of munitions, there can be no restraint on another bombardment of | | war songs from the Tin Pan Allies. | —————.—— | one plan of European procedure appears to be to leave the Versailles treaty out and start all over again. ——ee—s i SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. He Beat the Game. | There was a man who led a life | With apprehension vexed. He said: “This year “is filled with strife And worse 15 coming next; | And, candidly, I have a fear, Which daily haunts me, that The world will 4nd the following year Is even worse than that!"” | And s0 he missed the sunshine bright | | That gilds the present hour, | Until a trolley car in flight | O’erwhelmed him with its power. | His ante-mortem statement seemed | A sigh of bliss intense— | “I've missed the perils which I dreamed Might g2t me ten years hence.” An ldle Fund. “That man has a vast fund of infor- mation.” “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum; “but he can't put a dollar mark in front of it and use it for a campaign | fund.” A Good Roads Hint. “Of course, you are opposed to ma- chine mathods in elections.” “Well,” replied Farmer Corntossel, “I must admit that I'd like to see the steam roller took out o’ politics an’ put back where it belongs in the road- makin’ business. Self-Approval. De sun he keeps a movin’ Across de sky all day; De moon will come & sailin® ‘When de sun done gone away; De wind it keep a blowin’ An’ Je clouds fly east and west. I's glad dat I's a human 'Cause I gets a little rest. De sun he cast my shadow An’ de moon she gives me light An’ de wind jines in de chorus ‘When I's singin’ day or night. Dey all has special talents. I admires ‘em every one. But it takes a human bein’ When's dar’s loafin’ to be done. Jud Tunkins says if after-dinner speeches were genuinely instructive the waiters where they give big ban- quets would be the wisest men on earth. Publicity. Publicity 1s highly prized When you are kindly advertised. But it produces consternation When brought you by investigation. “I has noticed,” said Uncle Fben, “dat & man very seldom has a swelled head and a oig at one an’ de | MARCH 24, BELIEF AND LIFE BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D, D.C.L, Bishop of Washington, Addressing a man, a soldier, who had come to Him in behalf of a favored servant who was seriously 11, imploring His healing ministry, Jesus responded, in answer to fhe man's expressed partial faith, “As thou hast believed so be it done unto thee.” On another occasion where like aid was sought by a father in behalf of his afflicted son, the Master observed: “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that be- lieveth.” In every case where His ministry was sought, He demanded an expression of confidence in His healing power and belief in the effi- cacy of His ministry. On written concerning Him: “He could there do no mighty work because of their unbelief.” It is evident that His power could not be exercised where doubt and unbelief prevailed. On oc- | casion, He recognized the limitations of faith in Him and His power, as disclosed by the suppliant. This was notably true in the instance of the father who sought the healing of his demented son, where, in response to Christ’s query, “Canst thou be- lieve?” the father cried out: “Lord, I believe, help Thou mine unbelief.” The gentleness of the Master in dealing with those whose faith in Him was partial and incompletd§ was repeatedly manifested, and in no case was it more so than in that of one of His own immediate followers, Thomas, to whom He gave the evi- | dence of His resurrected life, saying, “Be not faithless, but believing.” Throughout His entire ministry, Jesus insisted upon the necessity of belief in Him and His divine power. He could not be the saviour of men without their ready recognition of and obedience to His will. The recognition of this funda- mental need must be stressed today. There is a popular fallacy abroad | that it matters little what a man believes so long as his habit and practice are consistent. As a matter of fact, the denial of faith in Christ is a negative creed. Where we be- lieve in our potentialities and powers ne occasion where He was| ministering in a community, it was | we give expression to a creed. As a usages of our domestic, social and economic life are nothing more or us in our relationships. It is fre- quently assumed that a so-called breadth of mind is expressed where one claims freedom from the inno- | vations of any credal system. Such assumed breadth of mind is frequent- ly nothing less than an expression of immature and superficial judgment, the betrayal of an incapacity to right- ly appraise the import and signifi- cance of Christ’s life and ministery. In | periods where great and far-reaching | changes are in process, all creeds of every sort and kind are under suspi- cion. We are largely creatures gov- | erned by the capricious whims and | fancies of the age in which we live. The temperature of our faith rises or falls, affected largely by the en- vironing conditions of our life, our prosperity or our adversity. It cer- tainly becomes increasingly clear that we must live by some well-defined standards or norms that govern us in our individual conduct and in all our contacts with our fellows. Robert | Louis Stevenson was right when he said that no man may say that he has made any success in life until he can write at the head of the his life's journal, “Enter, It was his fixed conviction that efficient living begins with the affirmation which is the first words of the Bible, “In the beginning, God.” Donald Henkey, in his fascinating war books, in which he described the prevailing characteristics of the Brit- ish tommy, declared that, in all his contacts with the rudest of these men he inevitably found that behind their | rough exterfors resided a definite, if inarticulate, faith in God. Poor as it was, it was a creed. To use Han- key's phrase, the tommy was ready to *’bet his life there was a God.” The recovery of our impaired be- liefs is indispensable to the recovery of our happiness, our prosperity and { our peace. We need to be reminded of the old aphorism: “God sleeps in the stone, dreams in the animal and wakes in the man.” ge of God.” Opinion Growing That the New Deal Is Now Working at Cross Purposes BY OWEN L. SCOTT. All is confusion, just now, along the Potomac. In the midst of it New Dealers longingly await a grand gesture from the White House—one drifting country and start it moving forward again. The prospect is that they will be disappointed. Not that opportunities are lacking. Europe’s present troubles suggested to If some of the articles under|some persons that a ringing call for | have been put in its way. nationalism, and a sharp turn from the whole foreign mess, would unite the country. Others think Europe is rapidly heading into a major crisis that will open the way for an Ameri- can President to emerge as a world hero. But more appear convinced that the thing to do is to let the | Congress stew and the country drift until there arises a new insistent de- mand for strong leadership. As things stand today, the whole atmosphere of the Capital has shift- ed sharply. President Roosevelt has been com- pelled by Congress to revise his plans and to move cautiously. There is no mistaking a change in the attitude of the public toward New Deal experi- ments. Members of Congress com- ment openly on the changed tone of the mail they receive. | discover whether the tenor of White House mail has changed prove un- availing. e D Most noticeable is the altered atti- tude of New Deal officials. Harry Hopkins, relief administrator. | who used to be good for about one sensation a week, now says little. His latest venture was to strike out at the Governor of Ohio, and in so doing he seems to have tackled a wildcat. Mr. Hopkins obviously is working un- der wraps. Henry Wallace, running the farm show, always philosophical, today appears a bit disillusioned and resigned to trouble ahead. Harold Ickes, who was to build the country out of the depression with $3,000.- 000,000 worth of public works, has changed his ideas. Donald Richberg, chief aide to Mr. Roosevelt, continues to hope for co-operation as well as a long and happy future for N. R. A. Daniel Roper, Secretary of Commerce, and Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Com- mission, tell business men that they should be confident that everything will turn out all right in the end. But why the lack of the old aggres- sive assurance and driving power on the part of the chief New Deal offi- | cers? For one thing, the A. A. A. is sit- ting on a smoldering volcano. Why? Because food costs are rising at a time when there is pressure on wages in industry. That makes it harder for the man with a job to make both ends of his budget meet. Also, it adds to the difficulties of those out of jobs who are managing to keep off the relief rolls. * Xk * X Another matter that disturbs offi- cials grows out of relief. A Nation- wide scandal may be brewing in that fleld. Straws here and there point to abuse of relief privileges. The New Deal counts on its five-billion- dollar works program to step into this breach and clean up the problem before it breaks into the open. N. R. A. has become little more than a political burden. Its spon- sors now say that “recovery” never should have been fitted into its title. The whole scheme, they assert, should have worked as a long-range, non-spectacular agency for industrial reform. Then, of course, political storm signals are up. The major strategy of any administration must be to make moves that lay the groundwork for a continuance in power. With Huey Long, Father Coughlin, Dr. F. E. Townsend and a variety of panacea peddlers out with appeals to the peo- ple the natural tendency for those holding power is to go slow, size up the situation and study changes in direction. ‘What to do? * k X X On one side, business men are con- tending that if the President will but end the uncertainty of his reforms and strive to restore “confidence,” the country can have recovery and jobs and real good times. They take the attitude that recovery will come au- tomatically, if the Government will but let it come. On the other side, advocates of panaceas are appealing to the Presi- dent to try their wares. Some think that all troubles can be ended by printing more money; others that a rebuilt banking system will turn the trick. More want to pay pensions big enough to float the country into something or other. Others want to remake the entire capitalistic system into some kind of system. But most w\lrouhamul‘nlnu Efforts to | |at present is that which contends | that recovery will come if only the | Government will end reforms. | Economists say that the governing | wheel of capitalism is the free market place. When the system gets into kinks and sets it to functioning normally again. This competifion is world-wide, or supposedly so. It has | served effectively in all past de- | pressions. But this time all kinds of obstacles Nations | in trouble sought to avoid the pain inf adjustments under capitalism by leaving the gold standard and manip- ulating their money. They set up | tariffs and quotas. When that hap- | pened, the normal functioning of cap- | italism was upset. The United States | joined in that game. * ¥ x ¥ Then the same thing happened in- Jslua the country. When capitalistic | adjustments became painful for banks, ;rmlxoadn and insurance companies, | the Reconstruction Finance Corp. was set up under President Hoover. When agriculture no longer could stand those adjustments without | anguish, the A. A. A. came into being | to bolster prices by cutting surpluses. When industry found the going too rough, N. R. A. was wheeled into lhnr to bolster up the price structure | and ease the pains of competition. | _All those moves merely served to machine back into balance so that { it would function normally. The; were made necessary because that normal functioning had been upset by monopolistic controls in industry and in labor. Thus, many industrial prices held high during the depres- sion while other prices were being adjusted. They were held high by throwing millions of men into the street, cutting production and pro- moting scarcity. Similarly some wages, as in the building industry, were held high. Interest rates were held high. What the New Deal did was to try to give a cose of the same medicine for the whole system. If scarcity was good for some monopolistic | groups, so the reasoning went, it must be good for all. The result is the elaborate machinery that the coun- try now sess. constructed for the pur- prices can be held up. * x x % Confidence won't correct the mal- adjustments that caused the 1929 breakdown and have gone uncorrect- ed since. There was plenty of con- fidence in 1929 and in some periods of the years following, but it did not clear away the obstructions to com- merce that kad been built up. What will serve to clear them away? That is an unanswered question. A multitude of plans are hatching here. They range all the way from schemes to force competition, by breaking up monopolies. to State soclalism where there would be little competition. But none of them assumes that the system will work suddenly and automatically if the Government simply steps aside. Many persons think the New Deal is working at cross purposes and is not getting any place. All are won- dering what the President’s next move will be in attempting to cut through the present confusion. Without a move, trouble may be hard to avoid, as panacea artists offer the their products. PRy (Copyright, 1935.) European Situation Is BY A. G. GARDINER. LONDON, March 23.—Chancellor Hitler's dramatic denunciation of the military clauses of the Versailles treaty has profoundly disturbed the European situation. Hitler, whose sense of the theatrical is remarkable, has two motives—first, to anticipate negotiations with a “fait accompli”; second, to create trouble between Great Britain and France. He has been undeniably successful in the latter purpose. London, while protesting vigorously against unilateral action by Germany, takes the whole matter philoso- phically, proceeds with Sir John Simon’s mission to Berlin and is dis- posed to regard Germany's frank ex- vof her cards as preferable to the fog of suspicion hitherto sur- rounding German rearmament. Paris’ reaction to the event was naturally more extreme, and it ex- pressed bitter resentment to British phlegm and London’s failure to con- sult France before taking action. The decision of the French govern- ment to appeal to the League of Na- tions Council is disapproved here as mmm‘rm the supreme Jaciive of Buropean policy, which matter of fact, the accepted laws and | less than creeds or codes that govern i pose of making things scarce so that | Profoundly Disturbed ?lmum 1935—PART _TWO. Capital Sidelights BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Washington Most Beautiful, and each year growing more so, is not a city that merely shines by its own fires, but rather through catching the rays of genius from all parts of this broad land ana reflecting the best in art and culture so that it reaches home to all the people. Washington is the accumulation of the best all parts of the country have to offer, its beautification and embellishment is the co-operative effort of selected talent and artisanship from each and every State, backed by the best the whole world has to offer—it is the quintescence of art. The very work- shop of the Government—the group of new public buildings—is an art ex- hibit, to be a model for centuries for the whole wide world. To give one little example: Completion of the Department of Justice Building, which sprang Phoe- | nix-like from a recent slum area, affords an observant passer-by glimpses of art in stone ornamenta-! tion—the skill and artistry of John Donnelly. a New York sculptor, mod- eler and stone carver. Probably no man in America has attained the prominence Mr. Donnelly has in this particular line. | The bronze, wood, plaster and stone | ornaments in the chastely beautiful and stately Supreme Court Building | will stand for future years attesting visually the genius of this typical American whose best effort has gone into the finishing touches on this Temple of Justice for the third co-| ordinate branch of our Government— its balance wheel and anchor, cus-| todian of the Constitution. | This 69-year-old Irish-born urtlst“ personally modeled each and every ornament of this type in the building. The late Cass Gilbert had an abiding admiration for Donnelly’s work, and they strove together on all Gilbert's | structures for the past 30 years. Too {old now to give his personal attention | to the widely scattered buildings | where his men are carving, Mr. Don- nelly models his figures and orna- | ments in a New York studio. It was, | there that the graceful and exquisite | | candelabras which stand at the e i trance to the Supreme Court Building | | took form. These pieces of ornament | | have been recognized and acclaimed | as definitely two of the.finest pieces of carving in the country and they | blend with the Roman atmosphere of | | the entire building. | In spite of the Government's policy | | & direct landing be made. Repairing the Tillamook Light BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. One of the most notable achieve- ments of the United States Light House Service in recent years has been the successful completion of repairs at the Tillamook Rock Light, the rogue light house of the United States. A great gale which blew from October 21 to 24 last caused damage which called for emergency repairs. It was an undertaking of the first magnitude. Tillamook Rock is one of the most exposed places on the entire American coast. It is difficult enough to serve the light house in the mild Summer months when the sea is at its kindest. To attempt the car- rying out of extensive repairs in the dead of Winter was a giant’s task. Columbia Bar lies just off the mouth of the Columbia River. It has been a graveyard of ships ever since ships first ploughed those angry waters. The current of the Columbia carries silt downstream and deposits it in the form of a great sandbar across the reefs. Among seamen, the successful crossing of Columbia Bar has long been regarded as a test of skill in navigation. Because of the dangerous nature of the place, great difficulty was experienced in planting a light house there, but that very dangercus nature made the presence of a light house all the more important. It was not, however, until 1881 that the great Tillamook Rock Light was built. Ever since the light has been at once the despair and the pride of the Light House Service. The despair in that it is no small adventure to keep the light going and the pride because the task has been carried out un- remittingly. Tillamook Rock Light is known in the technical parlance of coastal lighting as a waveswept light That means that it is so situated that it never is free from the grip of the seas. Many light houses are placed on high hills, some are even a short distance inland. Most have direct contact with the shore. The wave- swept type is one against which the waves are forever fretting, one which is offshore. Tillamook Rock is a vast boulder flung down in the sea only 1 mile off the Oregon coast but, despite that short distance. at times it is as in- accessible as Mars. At times, months have passed without its being possible to make contact between a light house tender and the rock. At no time can Men and supplies for the rock must be hoisted from boats approaching as near as of considering the type of work in | which Mr. Donnelly specializes as | | purely contractual and a subject of | low-bidding, the quality of his work |is so excellent, and his reputation so well known, the low prices of com- | | peting stone carvers have in some | instances been disregarded by the | | Government, with the result that, with they dare. This was the setting for the Tillamook repair adventure just concluded. Sick Men Taken Off. The required repairs included re- | placement of a large hoisting der- rick, installation of a new heating plant including a boiler, erection of | the exception of the Archives Build- | ing, John Donnelly has received the | | contract for every building in the | Triangle to date. In the case of the | Archives Building, Mr. Donnelly was | engaged as supervisor of all stone ' | carving and ornamentation. | _The actual carving work of John Donnelly, Inc., is now being managed by two sons of the famous father. | John Donnelly, jr. 32 years of age, | has had extensive training at the Beaux Arts in New York and at the | Art Students’ League there. To him | the father is intrusting more and more of the modeling, and it was he | who designed the impressive bronze | doors of the Supreme Court Building, which are surpassed in this country {only by the Rogers' doors of the | | Capitol. | | Desmond Donnelly, the other son, | | studied at the University of Virginia | land at the Corcoran Art School in | Washington. It is he who is learning | from first hand and practical experi- jence just how the artistic figures {are chiseled and carved. He has| | worked high up on the scaffolds of | the Supreme Court Building, the De- | partment of Justice Building and all | | the others which John Donnelly, Inc., | were carving. He has seen ornaments ! and has chiseled and carved with the laborers in forming these objects. | ; to secure the return of Germany to | | the League. Indictment of Germany | | before the League would be fatal to | that objective. | The -tactical blunder of indicting Germany, in the “white paper” which | criticized German rearmament, at the | [momcm of sending the foreign min- | ister to Hitler on a mission of per- | l suasion, has got the government into | | & sea of hot water at home. If the object of the rebuke to Ger- many was t6 make the “white paper” pill palatable to the British public, it | | certainly failed in that purpose. It/ | has added very formidably to the tide | of popular feeling which is running against the government.. | * o ox Nor is the opposition to the govern- ment based on the ground that the Increased estimates for armaments are | in themselves a menace to peace. It is | undeniable that other countries have | enormously increased their expendi- | ture on armaments while Britain has been marking time. Meanwhile Britain has fallen be- hind in the comparison, most notably in the air, in which her forces now rank only fifth in order of striking | power. The ground of attack on the govern- ment policy is that it tends to show that this country is shifting its posi- | tion from reliance on the League and | the principle of collective defense to| reliance on national armaments. It| is on this view that the Labor party | has launched its attack on the gov-| ernment, and in the present intensely, anti-militarist feeling of the country | the mere suspicion that the accusation is justified is seriously discrediting the government. " I think the suspicion is unwar- ranted. There are, of course, mili- tarist influerces in the government and other influences which, while not militarist, are profoundly and sin- cerely disquieted by the swollen and swelling armaments of the other con- tinental powers and by the fear, that, if war comes, the defense of this country would be seriously imperiled. But the suggestion that a govern- ment of which Mr. MacDonald, Mr. Baldwin and Sir John Simon are the principal members is lacking in loy- alty to the League and complacently contemplatas joining in a new arma- ments competition is entirely without foundation. The most legitimate criticism that can be leveled against the govern- ment is not that it does not fervently believe in the League and the “collec- tive system,” but that it lacks, in the words of the Manchester Guardian, “a positive policy, which means doing even disagreeable things to achieve a common end ” | If Britain is to fulfill her true role as the mediator in European quar- rels and as the chief pillar of the League and the “collective system,” she must take risks and make sacri- fices. Now the greatest task of all 18 before her If the round of visits which Sir John Simon and Anthony Eden are to pay to Paris, Berlin, War- saw and Moscow result in a series of agreements within the framework of the League that will bring Ger- many back to Geneva on a footing of practical equality, the race in ar- maments_thet threatens Europe may | users is vital. heavy woven wire screening to in- crease protection of the lantern glass panels, renewal of the water supply | lines, storm shutters for doors and | windows, with minor repairs to vari- ous structures such as the railing and the tank foundations. All of these properties had been damaged in the October gale. Although the Tilla- mook light rises 145 feet above the calm sea level. when the sea is up waves break with stunning force over the top of the light. Perched high on the solid rock as it is, the light house is completely doused by the heavy seas, striking with such force as to carry away any part which has the least weakness. The heating plant and boilers were destroyed be- cause the force of the waves drove the water through seemingly tight openings, flooding the quarters. The light house tender Rose was In.ssignrd the tasis of taking workmen | and materials to Tillamook Rock. IAner standing on and off and mak- |ing contact with hoisting apparatus when a lull served, landings were made on November 10 and 11 and again on November 16. During the last 10 days of November another heavy gale swept the rock, and so great was the exposure of the men that three were taken ili—the fore- man of the repair gang and two !krepers. Although the United States | Public Health Service directed treat- | ment of the men by radio, it became | apparent that the men should be in |a hospital. On Thanksgiving day a | desperate effort was made by the | Rose to effect a contact with the rock | but to no avail. It was not until De- | cember 1 that the rescue of the sick men was effected. Then it was ac- | complished only by rigging a breeches | buoy between the rock and the ten- ;dcr dancing in the mountainous seas. This was regarded as one of the important feats of the year's mari- time experience and the Secretary of Commerce especially cited all hands | concerned. Six men volunteered from the Point Adams Coast Guard sta- tion to assist in rigging and handling | the breeches buoy. Capt. J. H. Jen- | sen, master of the Rose, and PFirst | Officer E. C. Davis, who handled the | tender’s boat, were especially com- | mended. By this time the sick men were in bad case, with terrific temperatures, | but they were safely transferred, one by one, from the looming, wave- swept rock, over the threshing seas and into the tender, which brough them safely to shore and hospital. Radio Telegraph Installed. The October gale had broken the submarine telephone cable by which | communication previously had been maintained with the shore. Realizing that the same interruption might again occur, it was decided to install radio telegraph. and this is to be used from now on One of the most difficult tasks was the placing of the new derrick. a ponderous piece of machinery | which had to be hoisted to the top | of the rock in parts, then assembled {and put in place. It must be borne | in mind that while all this work was being done Winter weather placed “ every obstacle in the way. Huge seas constantly washed over the rock. The | workmen had to do their job, oft- times while hanging desperately to some solid handhold. Everything had to be hoisted from the tender tossing in the sea far below. Foreman Harry Ratty has been especially men- tioned for his skill and resourceful- | ness in directing this work. While the workmen were finally taken off, the repairs completed, it has been de- | cided, when the weather improves, to | increase the protection of the light and the quarters from the weight of the waves and the rocks flung against them. For it must be realized that these vast seas pick up huge boulders and fling them like pebbles against the light house Pounded as Tillamook Rock fs, it is not likely that the light house ever will be swept away with all hands as the first Eddystone Light was, but one never can be sure of the wicked | strength of the sea. It has been noted, in the course of construction, that 2-ton stones have been picked up and carried away, after they had | been set in cement. Yet the patience of manpower seems, in the end, to excel the might of seapower, and the light houses continue to throw their beams out over the dark seas. The Co-Ordination of Fift‘ Yearg Asco S Transport Systems BY HARDEN COLFAX. In The Star Land, air and water transportation | | check the adjustments that cumpgu_’nnd figures develop from shapeless mMust be tied up together in some tive capitalism was making to get the Masses into beautiful objects of art, systematic way—'‘co-ordinated” is the word generally used—if modern com- merce and world intercourse are to be properly served. This, says the compiler of a survey on international | transportation. problems just issued by the Department of Commerce, has become the firm conviction of the governments of most of the countries of the world. Begun on a broad scale less than three years ago, a general movement | to effect the linking up of these three methods of transportation has prog- ressed so rapidly that today “such co- ordination either is being tested or approached in substantially every country in the world which possesses rail lines.” President Roosevelt is committed to some such plan for the United States and the co-ordinator | of transportation, Joseph B. Eastman, | recently-submitted a definite plan for such linking up of services in this country. In most countries, says the survey on “railway and highway transpor- | tation abroad,” there has been too much service. ping of some useless service, co- ordination of others and strengthen- | ing of still others. At least, says this study. all forms of transit should be | placed under common regulation. * x % o« Of course, there is considerable op- position to any linking up of trans- portation services into one system.| The air carriers contend that they are meeting new public requirements. They insist, moreover, that they should | not be subjected to regulation until they are more firmly established. Pointing out that, countries outside the United States, the greater part of the rail systems are state-owned and often state- operated, this report directs atten- tion to the greater ease with which Government officials are able to en- force co-ordinating measures in coun- tries other than the United States, where transportation is privately owned and operated. In Canada, which has both publicly and privately owned rail lines, the Board of Rail- way Comissioners has recently been authorized to meet competition from highway carriers through tariff changes. The linking up of rail lines with other forms of transportation has had its most extended test and proved most successful in Germany, accord- ing to the Commerce Department sur- vey. In that country, as a result of | legislation in effect for several years, “the problem of transit co-ordination has now practically ceased to exist.” Representatives of all forms of trans- portation, under a Federal trade council, have brought about these results, and this supervision extends also to the building of highways. It 1is reported that railway revenues from and freight traffic In Great Britain the movement to link up transportation lines has been given much study and encourage- ment. It seems there is now a smaller loss in traffic, due to competition and the decrease in patronage, but the report indicates that, excluding the coal movement, things will probably be better in Britain when the figures for 1934 are known. In France rail- way and highway carriers are making arrgngements which are submitted to the~government for approval, while An adjustment of such | | service to the actual needs of the There must be scrap- | in almost all| ‘Washington was full of office seekers 50 years ago, with the adveut of a | Democratic administra- Office tion. The Star of Seekers. March 19, 1885, says: “It is amusing to observe the efforts of Democratic Senators to avoid office seekers at the Capitol. Every morning at an early hour the applicants for senatorfal in- fluence to aid them in getting ap- | pointments begin to collect in the Senate chamber. By 11 o'clock gen- erally all the seats in the rear of the chamber are occupied and the aisles are thronged with anxious watchers for Democratic Senators. Every en- trance to the Chamber is covered by watchful eyes, and as the hour of noon draws nearer the impatience of the crowd begins to manifest itself. Numerous questions are put tc the pages in regard to Senator So- as to when he usually comes, which door he enters, etc. It noticeable of late that the Democratic Senators, with few exceptions, do not show up until after the Senate has been called to order. At five minutes to 12 Jim Christie makes the circuit of the chamber warning all. |4n his deep bass voice, who are not entitled to the floor to get out. As the crowds file out the mea cast anxious glances back over their shoulders, apparently still hoping to catch sight of the Senator upon whom their hopes of office rest. But the Senators, thanks to the rules, are protected from their hungry constitu- ents after the fall of the gavel calling the body to order.” In an editorial in the same issue The Star says: “If actions speak louder than words, President Cleveland is telling the office seekers in quite audible tones to go home and wait for their country to call them to public station, rather than to insist on seeking honors for themselves or their cronies. Thus far the pressure of influence has failed to dictate a single important office. The President is evidently callous to entreaty from interested parties and such urgency is apt to do more harm than good. He very plainly disbelieves in the feudal sys- jtem in politics and resents slate | making by delegation as an infringe- | ment on the functions of the Execu- | tive. It is probable that we shall | hear ©o more of meetings by con- | gressional State delegations to unite on names for recommendation. That scheme has been tried pretty thor- oughly and must be put down as a failure = | water carriers are considering similar agreements. In Austria agreements have been reached between the railway services and the government; in Czecho- slovakia the central government is embarking on a project of co-ordina- tion; in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, government investi- gating bodies are studying the ques- tion. In Poland and Rumania, the ministries of communications are put- ting reforms into effect and, in both cases, it is noted that passenger and freight traffic have improved slightly. Legislation is pending in Switzerland and Northern Ireland, as well as the Irish Free State, to inaugurate such systematization. 1In Australia, each of the six states has passed laws providing for the smoothing out of different between railway lines, while in British India, Spain and other parts of the world the national legislatures are at present consider- I¥ methods of solving the problem. (Copyright, 1836.)