Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1935, Page 8

A8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C WEDNESDAY. ....April 3, 1035 THEODORE W. NOYES. . .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 11tn 8t g Penyivanta Ave San X New York O.flCQ elnlny!l t 42nd St n Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Building. European Office; 14 Regent St., London, Ensland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. lar Edition. b . .45c per month T 0c per month B per month 5c per copy _.6 star. . Night Fin Nicht Final and Sundry Star. 7 Night Final Star. Collection ma month. Orders may be telephone National 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 0; 1 mo.. &8¢ 5c per monti end of each sent by mail or Daily and Sunday .1 yr., Dail 1 L.1yr. 3R Sun 1yr’ $5. Member cf the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively en- fitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the Jocal news published herein. All rights of Dublication of special dispatches herein Are also reserved. only i1mol 7ac ay only.. 00: 1 mo.. 50c Fair Treatment for the District. An indication of the attitude which prompted the Senators in their con- sideration of the vastly improved District appropriation bill which they reported to the Senate today is found in a statement by Senator Thomas during the course of the hearings: We want to give the District the proper amount of money to operate the city, for its different institutions and facilities; so, when I find here that you asked for $42.000,000 and the budget approved $40,000,000 and the House cut that down to $39.000.- 000, it would seem to indicate that the House bill is $3,000.000 short of what the city needs. ‘The effort of Senator Thomas’ sub- committee, in examining the bill and 0c per month | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1935. ish attitude toward Il Duce’s activity | in the region of the Ethiopian realm. Yet another restraining influence | at Rome is a visible lack of Italian popular enthusiasm over the whole Abyssinian venture. There is a grow- ing realization that a colonial cam- paign is a terribly expensive affair, and Fascist finances are in no shape to stand undue strain. With the un- certainties now hanging over Europe, with the probability, in particular, that Nazi designs on Austria would be rekindled if Italy were involved in extensive military operations in| Africa, Mussolini has ample reason at least for postponing any aggressive | plans he may cherish for expanding his colonial empire at Abyssinias ex- | ipense. All in all, the outlook for| | peace in East Africa scems to be im- proved. | r—on— The Nye Committee Bill. The Senate Munitions Committee, | after months of investigation, has | brought forth a bill designed to take the profits out of war. It goes much further than that. It aims to prevent war-time inflation and its grim sue- cessor, post-war deflation. It pro- poses to take the profits out of war through heavy taxation and the draft of business executives into the Govern- ment service during the period of the war. It proposes to prevent inflation and subsequent deflation by paying | the costs of the war as it is waged. ‘The Senate committee bill is more drastic than any similar proposal ever advanced in Congress before. It is more far reaching than the bill re- | ported from the House Military Affairs | Committee, which is to come up for | consideration in the House today. For | months the Senate committee has heard the testimony of munitions makers, ship builders, financiers, in- | dustrialists and representatives of the | military forces. It has revealed to the | public in startling and realistic detail | the huge profits which have been made | from war by those who make and sell | hearing the numerous witnesses, was | the materials needed during the period to provide the money found necessary | of emergency. No one loves a war to support the District's “different | profiteer. Yet every war has had its institutions and facilities.” The Sen- 1 parasites, men who have drawn huge ators listened carefully to the wit- | fortunes from the dire need of their nesses and on such testimony and their | own countries. ow~ knowledge of local affairs based | It may be argued in some quarters their judgment of what is necessary. | that if the profit is prohibited war Without increasing the Federal will not be conducted so efficiently. lump sum, it would be impossible to | Others will fear that if a plan, so| finance the District’s necessary under- | socialistic as it affects the earnings takings. With the lump sum raised of the people, is adopted during a| to the compromise figure suzgrsusdfwar it will continue into the period by the Commissioners—s8.300,000, an | of peace following the war. Other | increase of about $2.600,000 above the | incentives besides profit making are current lump sum—the Senators have | involved in the struggle of a nation' been able to report a bill which more | to maintain itself through arms. The nearly represents that I budget” for the District recommended | impel the great majority to work originally by the Commissioners last and slave and fight during a war. The Fall after they thoroughly overhauled | war profiteers, after all, are and must the estimates submitted by the muni- | be necessarily in very small minority cipal department heads. of a people at war. And once a war The Senate Appropriations Com- | has been concluded, a people, and | mittee has thus lived up to its own | particularly the American people. will| traditions of fair treatment for the | rush to throw off the limitations, the District. The community is indebted | denial of liberty of action, which have | to Senator Thomas and to the mem- | been imposed upon them during the bers of his subcommittee on District | continuance of a war. | appropriations, not only for the results | The Nye committee bill recognizes of their patient study of the District's | the fact that it requires a vast sum needs but for the sympathetic con- | of money to conduct a war. The taxes sideration and understanding of the | which it proposes to levy on the peo- local taxpayers' cause which were so | ple are enormous, shocking to those | evident during the hearings on the | who have been accustomed to large | bill. The record of the Senate hear- | incomes and to the gratification of ings, by the way, constitutes an ex- | their desires through the lavish ex- ceptionally valuable document, con- | penditure of money. All wars, the | taining as it does one of the most | committee says, have been financed eomplete statements of the District's | through huge borrowings. The next | ease printed in many years. war is to be financed through imme- R diate taxation of the Nation’s wealth. ! “balanced | love of home, of life and freedom * them to take an oath against profane language, intoxicating liquors, quar- reling or fighting with fellow employes and other temptations and sins. Eighty men were hired on these terms at one hundred doliars a month, and relay stations were established at intervals of fifty or sixty miles along the route. There were five hundred “ponies” assigned to different points, ready for use. Alexander Majors and ‘W. M. Russell were in charge of opera- tions, and it was their hope that the Federal Government soon could be persuaded to award contracts for the transportation of letters by the riders of their route. The enterprise, however, Wwas doomed to failure. By the emd of October, 1861, the partners had Jost a half million dollars, and the Civil War had convinced them that there was no efficiency in further endeavor. But they had the satisfaction inherent in an honest effort, and when the tardy Government eventually inau- gurated its own transcontinental system their dream came true. They had pioneered the way, and had paid the penalty of their vision and their courage. ‘The anniversary of the Express finds the Nation bound together by railroads, airways, telegraph, tele- phone and radio as well as by inde- | finable but equally powerful ties of | | mutual interest. And it will do no| | harm if the beneficiaries of each and lall of these ties will remember that they came into being, have been maintained and are being operated by human souls like themselves not | utterly devoid of character and genius commensurate with the requirements | of life in a world where nothing | worth doing is easy to do. s —roe—a— Forestry experts have long since made evident the necessity of vege- tation to prevent a rapid run off of water, with resulting soil erosion. The crops have their right to be consid- ered as a means of preventing wind erosion. r——— If Abyssinia really contains Solomon’s mines, it may by diplomacy become a money | to European politicians who King adroit | lender insist Fortunate is the man who possesses the lecture tone of voice. He sounds as if he knows what he is talking about, whether he does or not. And that is very helpful. The lecture tone, as we call it, is a cross between the “holy tone” of some ministers and the ordinary voice of school teachers. Neither of these excellent persons realizes the plain fact audible to others. The accent of authority grows on one, by vocation, so that after a num- ber of years it becomes a part of the personality. Your average Army officer has the “tone of command” down neatly by training, but vsually his children have it better, just by listening to him, * K kX The “lecture tone,” something different. It seems to be the unconscious pos- session of -ertain persons, but whether they inherit t, or work it up for themselves, is a matter for study. Age does 1ot seem to make much | difference. | A boy of 19 with the lecture tone | already well developed is not rare. | He may be found to “specialize” in | literature, for instance; then he de- | livers himseif of veritable lectures every time ke talks about a given author, Not only is his voice pitched as| though to reach an audience, but| his arms and hands wave in harmony | with his :nner light, which is very considerable, evidently. | HE He does not talk as the rest of us. Now the question is, is he right, or the rest of us? | Perhaps the generality of mankind would be better off if the same pur- | | poseful tone of conviction were adopt- | | ed in every-day affairs. | | Surely conviction is a real thing, and does its work neatly, with dis- | patch. Probably the majority of ordinary human beings are missing a bet, as they say, if they fail to incorporat | into their daily talking that very def. | inite and certain tone which helps make others think they know what they are talking about Still it is not easy to do, if one is not born that way. | It will remain a question whether | by taking thought one can do this, 1y more than one can achieve dis- | however, is THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. as others who seem to do more, but he insists on taking his time about it. Perhaps from time to time he has told himself, in the secret places of his own heart, that he ought to walk faster, move faster, appear more in keeping with the “pep” of the times. Even as he lectured himself, how- ever, he realized better than most that it was no use. He was as he was, and really could see no reason for aping others. So to do would be a going back on himself, and no one ought to do that. Good reform is one thing, but this matter of going back on one’s own self is something else. Every one knows some misguided human who has adopted poses, clothes, manners, interests, not his own, but mostly those of other people to whom, for various reasons, he “looks up.” Such a person is not reforming, ex- cept in a superficial way, but, rather, defrauding himself, preventing his own nature from being itself. It is a serious matter, more so than a great many persons realize. Some persons seem to think that to be one's self means to permit all the plain cussedness in their nature to come out, but that is on a par with the idea of the same sort of people that to “do as one pleases” means to do something they should not do. It is unfortunate that such ideas| prevail, for it is just as certain that| & great many people, in “being them- selves,” will bring out the very best| in themselves; that in “doing as they | please,” they will manage to do a great many very fine things. We all know how it is when the idea for a good deed springs into our minds and hearts. Too often we fail to do it because something in us| is ashamed, we do not know how an- other will “take it,” or whether we will not be embarrassed more than he. Such a good deed, however, if car- ried into effect, would be the best part of us, a part which too seldom we exhibit to a curious world. kg ‘The lecture tone of voice, then, is not anything which one can work up deliberately, perhaps. 1t is a gift, which, if used with dis- cretion, will pay big dividends For surely its owner has open to him, if a young man, many lines of fine endeavor. College professor, minister—the lec- ture tone helps immensely. One may wonder if a man can be a success n on fighting across their fence lines. | tinction in the fawning way if one's | either without it. In all professions, AR e = EE Greece contemplates a dictatorship. In ancient days Gregce experimented Wwith almost every possible kind of | government and may be ready to start a new historic cycle on the same lines. ) War has been described as a rr)I»‘ lossal and terrific form of gambling. There is not much hope of taking the profit motive out of gambling. ) The Maryland Legislature is a fine example of American patriotism in working hard for a principle with! compensation scarcely adequate for individual current expenses, e One of the best suggestions by Mr. Baruch is his personal example of ability to talk things over without be- | coming unduly excited. SHOO ——o—a TING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOBNSON. ‘Wonderland. Alice—Sweet Alice—some things you | have missed. If you should return you might add to your list. Of marvels displayed in a Wonderland | new And labeled today with the words “strange but true.” especially where authority is needed. inner disposition does not dictate it. | * ok ok | there is nothing quite s0 helpful as By taking thought, in this world, | this particular timbre. this “broad- one may achieve many things, but it }Cu' of inner certainty y will ever remain a question whether | There are & great many other ec- | intelligence can successfully change | deavors in which the same tone 1s| | the real inner nature. helpful, not alone to the owner or | Consider the matter first in the | user, but particularly to those who ! physical world. seek his aid. Some people are The man who sells goldfish in the | others quick. 10-cent store sometimes can explain Here is a slight girl who walks as | the way the customer ought to care a demon were after her. | for his pets more convincinj than She fairly shakes the building, | many another man who really knows merely in going along a corridor. | more about them. One of Washington's most famous | Still, the lecture tone of voice is a old-time teachers once spoke to anlmysu’r_\' Is conceit at the bottom of entire assembly upon this matter, de- ! it, or real knowledge? It may be that claring in no uncertain terms that | the person who possesses it has very | such heavy walking on the part of | little sense of humor. such slight little ladies had to stop. |~ Perhaps he is not quite sure of | "It did, for the time being—but, no | himself, and “puts it on” to impress doubt, clsewhere the offenders walked | others, in order to bolster his own be- as of old, simply because it was in ‘{ lief in himself. their nature to walk heavy-footed. | We are not quite sure, but always Yonder goes a slow-motioned per-|admire the tone when we hear a He gets as much done in a day ! good specimen of it in full swing. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. slow motioned, | it | | | son. Eighteen years ago this week the |well, but even its stanchest adher- United States entered the World War. | €nts concede that it needs a rest cure | * X X * Except that armies were In the field | poyeve ¢ or not, prohibitionists and gunfire was roaring all over Eu- are still on the warpath. Their rope, present-hour conditions “over spearhead is the National United there” are almost as explosive as they | Committee for Law Enforcement, of were then. Tense and dangerous as which Clinton N. Howard is chair- man, with headquarters at Roches- the situation is, our people in Wash- ter, N. Y. Mr. Howard, in a recent NEW BOOKS AT RANDO Margaret Germond. ROMANY. By Lady Eleanor Smith. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. The love of a gypsy maid for one man and her devotion to another is the theme of this latest novel by the author of “Red Wagon,” “Flamenco” and other stories of unforgettable beauty and power. In “Romany” & new note of mellowness, firm and full in tone, is sounded in a romance sur- rounded by modern social life in Eng- land and Europe yet unaffected and unspoiled by tha crazy-quilt pattern of which it is a part. Hassina is a sorry iittle waif in the eyes of others than those of her own race when in Tangier she first sees the man to whom she instinctively knows that she belongs. She is long- legged, ragged, thin, tired and hungry. For as many of the fourteen years of her life that she can remember she has been ragged and hungry as she has thieved, lied and danced across Europe, Africa and parts of Asia, along Wwith her brothers and sisters, under the indifferent and often cruel direction of Stamboul, a father of notorious ill-repute. Brazil, brawny tamer of circus bears, does not notice the ragged little Gypsy huddled in the shade of a building on a street in Tangier, and two years elapse before Hassina sees him again. During the annual fiesta of the gypsy people at Stes. Marie one of the tribes stages a sudden stampede and in the jostle Hassina is thrown off her feet and into the arms of Brazil. He loves her at sight, and they pledge themselves to each other. In six months he is to return and marry her. | But within a couple of weeks Stam- boul is jailed and Hassina and her sister are clapped into a convent orphanage. It is eight months before Hassina manages to escape and em- bark upon a career of self-support| until she and Brazil shall find each her again. | Eventually, Hassina's dancing in the cabarets on the Continent leads to| a contract for her appearance in Lon= don, where she wins immediate suc- | cess, and where she meets Alan Brook. | | Many men are attracted by her exotic | beauty, but she consistently remains aloof until inamood of loneliness she accepts an invitation to dine with the stranger whose card is brought to | her dressing room. By his kindliness | and patience Alan wins the confidence | of Hassina and a warm response to his own deep love for her. She loves him, but she is not in love with him and cannot be so long as the memory of Brazil stands between them. In the belief that Brazil is dead she marries Alan, though in the Romany code it | is an unforgivable offense for a gypsy to marry a gajo, and for the first | time in her life she knows the mean- ing of happiness that is born of com- | fort, security and companionship. Life is sweet with this gajo hus- band who, with unselfish devotion and untiring patience, guides her over the danger spots in her contacts with the | cultured savages who torture the souls {of humans instead of picking their | pockets. A decpening sense of home | grows in the heart of the untamed, | passionate gypsy girl, and an ever- | { increasing affection for this splendid, | | sympathetic Alan of hers. And then Brazil appears on the scene in a | London circus. | Time rushes backward for Hassina | to the moment of her bethrothal kiss in the tent of the bear trainer. The | !urge to go to the man she had called | her lord is stronger than her love | {for her hushband and her home, and ishe goes to London, where in Brazil's | gorgeously | wagon she faces the contest between | the nomadic, exotic demands of gypsy | blood and the peace and security of Alan’s love. Here is really a romance of two | | worlds—the colorful, restless, ageless world of the gypsy, and the quiet, | serene world that is rural England. | The contrast between these widely differing civilizations and the knowl- edge which Lady Smith has written into her story with a fine sensitive- ness of understanding dominate the theme and give to the story a charm that is distinctive and enchanting. , S R | | inasmuch as particular decorated and furnished | ki when they are hurt or sick. Where A reader can get the answer to 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 can a person detect coun- terfeit paper money?—H. W. A. The Secret Service says that simple rules by which the public may detect bad bills are “is the portrait on the bill clear? Does the detail of the etching stand out plainly? Does the paper have the ‘feel’ of normal- money texture?” Q. How much damage do tornadoes 1do in a year in the United States? M. B. A. The Weather Bureau says that over a hundred tornadoes per year on the average reported to the bureau result in about $12,000,000 damage. Some years are more serious than others. Q. What caused the death of John J. McGraw?—F. M. | "A. John J. McGraw, famous base | ball authority, died February 25, 1934, of uremia and a complication of diseases. Q. Which States are now bone dry? —C. M. A Kansas and Alabama. Q. How fast can the road runner | or chaparral bird run?>—F. J. F. says that the road runner’s reputation for speed is somewhat exaggerated. | It is capable of no more than 20 miles per hour and its cruising speed, so to speak, is only 10 to 12 miles per hour. The record attained by any road runner was a speed of 22 miles, while pursued across a bridge from which it could not escape. After mak- ing the record the unfortunate bird bridge, Q. Are more tires sold as equipment old ones>—G. T. | A. The Bureau of Biological Survey | which was made by a bird clocked | fell dead at the other end of the! A. 1t is estimated that about 11/ 000,000 tires will be sold with new |ed ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. even the tea kettle sings from happi- ness. That is home—God bless it! Q. What is the mountain called which is topped by the “Christ of the Rockies?”"—D. L. A. This mountain near Denver is called the Mount of the Holy Cross. Q. What spices are contained in curry?—W. V. S. A. Curry is defined as a kind of condiment introduced from India, con- taining tumeric (which gives it a yel- low color), curry leaves, garlic, pepper, ginger and other strong spices. | Q. How many people can be seated in Madison Square Garden?—R. 8. A. Madison Square Garden in New York City has a seating capacity of | 21,000 for prize fights, etc. For games | such as hockey, some floor space is | taken up. and the seating capacity is only 17,000, | Q If two people walk the same dis- | tance, but one takes longer steps, | which person uses the more energy?— | A. A person using a shorter stride | than another one burns up more | energy in traveling the same distance. | @ what is the height of the large | waterfall at Nikko?—E. . A. The Splendor of the Sun Water- fall at Nikko makes an unbroken plunge of 350 feet. Q. How long has stained glass been | used?>—L. M. D. A. It is said that stained glass dates back not later than the Holy Roman Empire, possibly to the reign of Charlemagne in France. In France the Cathedrals of Chartres, Le Mans, Reims and Chalon-sur-Marne are of special importance because of the beauty, not alone of the architecture, but of the glass. Q. Why did King Charles disapprove of Van Dyck's portraits of his three children, ~which Queen Henrietta on new cars or as replacements on | Maria sent as a gift to her sister?— C.AC A. Because the children were paint- without their pinafores. In cars this year, and about 34,000,000 | subsequent portraits this mistake was will be sold to replace worn tires on | corrected. old cars. Q. How much difference in tem- | perature is there on the northern and southern routes in Winter from New York to Europe?—A. M. A. The average difference amounts to about 10 degrees F, at point of greatest divergence of routes. The northern route shows in the average considerably more hazard of gales than the southern, although on any given voyage this might not be true, storms at times affect the southern route to a greater extent than the higher lati- tudes. Q. How many guns are loaded in a firing squad?—D. T. G. A. A firing squad consists of eight members and each gun is loaded and fired. Q. Please give Mme. Schumann- Heink’s definition of home.—R. M. A. The famous singer defines home as follows: A roof to keep out rain. Four walls to keep out wind. Floors to keep out cold. Yes. but home is more than that. It is the laugh of a baby, the song of a mother, the strength of a father. Warmth of lov- ing hearts, light from happy eyes, kindness, loyalty, comradeship. Home is first school and first church for young ones. Where they learn what is right, what is good and what is ‘Where they go for comfort joy is shared and sorrow eased. Where fathers and mothers are re- | spected and loved. Where children are wanted. Where the simplest food is good enough for kings because it is | earned. Where money is not so im- Q. Has Italy many very old uni- | versities?>—J. C. A. Italy has 10 universities dating from the thirteenth century or the first years of the fourteenth. Among them are Bologna, founded in 1200; Genoa, 1243: Naples, 1224; Padua, | 1222; Pisa, 1338, and Rome, 1303. Q. What was the Randolph plan?— t A | " A. In American political history the | Randolph plan was the name given | the scheme of a Federal Constitution, proposed in the convention of 1787, by Edmund Randolph of Virginia. It | contained 15 resolutions and proposed a correction of the Articles of Con= federation, representation by popular tion in two branches of Congress, the first chosen by the people. the second by State legislatures; congressional control of taxation and commerce; congressional veto of State enact- ments: that Congress should choose the executive: that the executive with part of the judiciary should have & limited veto on acts of Congress and other less important provisions. Q. How many State capitol build- ings has Illinois had?—C. R. A. The present State Capitol is the fifth erected by the State. Q. What fruits were crossed to pro- duce the loganberry?—M. T. A. The loganberry is a hybrid be- tween the raspberry and the black- berry. | Q How many Roman Catholic nuns are there in the United States? —L. 8. A. There are 123304 Roman Cath- portant as loving kindness. Where ' olic nuns in the United States. Huge Conservation Job Seen Ahead in Dust Scourge Area ‘The war on narcotics is & "‘“""‘Thaz means taxation not of the rich 5 | Alice—Sweet Alice—words lie on the of first importance _and one in which | gione, but of every single person whose | shelf. the medical profession can help and | jncome is over $500 and every married 5 7 | The alphabet talks all al by 4| 4 doubtless doing so. The CAZEless| person whose income 1s above SLODO. | e fitie white pizalfik: o bt v handling of drugs is admittedly ""wnhout going into detail, the tax | Sa sponsible for many cases of addiction | schedules will be so arranged that no | lamentation, captioned “Confusion Worse Confounded,” regrets that Sen- ator Sheppard, Democrat, of Texas has introduced simultaneously two bills. One provides for constitutional restoration of national prohibition by “recovering” the eighteenth amend- ington do not believe it will flame into open conflict in the immediate future. No European country really wants war or is ready for it. What's going i on is & strenuous struggle to preserve | LINES TO A LADY.—By Reita Lam- bert. New York: Doubleday, Doran | & Co. A young man who has been plunged | from wealth into poverty and is striv- | A vast job of conservation work is forecast as the only possible remedy‘ farming, on land suitable only for # B grazing doubtless is largely to blame for the blighting dust storms which | e = have swept Middle Western sections | for America’s new ordeal of dust,” in “A vast and foolish project of dry as deplorable as those which arise from mercenary motives. e Enormous expenditures are inevi- table in any enterprise which con- templates public service on a modern scale. Much of the surprise at enormous waste is due to the fact that people have suddenly become eonscious of it. —————— Italy and Abyssinia. Whether because of the sudden emergence of the European crisis caused by Germany's re-armament program or for other reasons, Musso- Hni has embarked upon no warlike operations against Abyssinia. His maneuvers to date have been confined | to troop movements to Eritrea and dtalan Somaliland, but nothing savor- ing of a military attack on the Ethio- pians has been launched. During the past few days there have been two developments which may explain Italy’s reluctance really %0 go to war with Emperor Haile Belassie’s tribesmen. urgent appeal of Abyssinia to the League of Nations for immediate ar- bitration of the dispute with Italy. ‘The appeal virtually charges Italy with a desire to effect the conquest of the Ethiopian empire. Haile Selas- sie proposes a time limit of thirty days, to be agreed to by Rome, dur- dng which both countries should ap- point arbitrators to negotiate a peace- ful settlement at League headquarters n Geneva or in neutral London or Paris. Abyssinia tells the League that Italy’s military concentrations in East ‘Africa leave no doubt of its aggressive intentions. The other development that may be giving Mussolini pause in his Ethiopian program is the revelation that Great Britain, despite popular assumptions to the contrary, has def- Inite misgivings regarding it. London, it appears, has reminded Rome of the Anglo-Franco-Italian treaty of 1906, guaranteeing the independence of Ethiopia as the only remaining African kingdom. The British fear that an attack on the Abyssinians might produce an anti-white reac- tion throughout Africa, which would have repercussions in Britain’s African possessions. Also, in the event of an Jtalo-Ethiopian war, British troops would probably have to be sent to the Sudanese-Abyssinian frontier. On| these various accounts, Italy has pensed a distinct cooling of the Brit- A One is the| | individual would be permitted to earn | | more than $8,000 a year during war, | and no business would be permitted | to retain more than three per cent of its | | net gains. Under this plan wars are | no longer to creat millionaires, nor | | to impose huge financial burdens upon | the future. | ‘The Senate committee quite freely admits that war profits are not the | only cause for wars. But at the same ‘ | time it takes the position that wars | would not be so popular with some | persons if it were impossible to roll | up huge fortunes out of selling mate- | rials to the belligerent governments, | or to wring millions out of the people for food in time of war by charging | excessive prices. Every man and woman in the country in time of war has something at stake, whether it be life, liberty | or fortune or all three. The bigger the fortune the bigger the stake. ' On that theory the insurance premiums, the taxes paid, should quite naturally be high for those with the big stakes at issue. —o— Profit motive is discussed in con- nection with war menace. Mars has never been a capitalist except by way of substituting debts for dividends. e The Pony Express. Seventy-five years ago today the Pony Express, designed to link East | and West by mail, was established. It was on April 3, 1860, that one rider left St. Joseph, Mo., and another Sac- ramento, Calif., on the first schedule | of the new concept of postal service. The difficulties in the path of success were numerous, but the sponsors ac- cepted them as the inevitable handi- | caps of any such human enterprise and philosophically dealt with them | as they developed. Their faith was predicated on a comprehension of the | need for the thing they were essaying : to do. The time had come, as thcyi believed, when American civilization on the Atlantic seaboard should be and could be correlated with Ameri- can civilization on the Pacific Coast. If their theory was sound, their serv- ice would be popular. But it was imperative that the personnel of the service should be equal to the demands which distance, weather, hostile Indians and roving white bandits put upon it. To provide a code for the guidance of the riders and for the governance of their con- duct the backers of the venture asked | A And mad hatters are going high-hat just for fun. Alice—Sweet Alice—the ficlds that we prize Are carried aloft on a wind through the skies. The toves that are slithy—whatever | that means— verses scenes. Write Alice—Sweet Alice—when you have gone through This fanciful world that was fashioned for you, Oh, please, when at Dreamland you've | taken a look, Climb back betweén covers and shut | up the book. Dictatorial Impulse. “What do you intend to do about the international crisis?” “I'm going to take some of the profit motive out of it,” answered Senator Sorghum. “How?” “Forbid the magazines to pay ex- travagant prices for articles that don't tell anything.” Calculations. We know that two and two make four. Then we began to wonder If the result now be more By plowing figures under. Some one said two and two make five, We thought we were in clover. Now patiently we must contrive 'To do the problem over. Progress. “Have you done anything to dis- courage gambling?” “No,” answered Mr. Dustin Stax. “But we've at least gotten rid of some |of the paraphernalia that kept all the luck on the side of the dealer.” Ode to An Orator. Debate was furious and fast And listeners turned with terror From words which seemed but to fore- cast A state of endless error. “The last word you shall have,” say we. It's yours! We always knew it, And this our sole request shall be— For heaven’s sake—get to it. “Some men,” said Uncle Eben, “runs foh office like dey goes fishin'. Dey like de sport whether dey catches any- thing or not.” t |armed truce, befitting mysterious | peace. The result at best will be an from which sooner or later war is expected to ensue, unless statesmansmp devises preventive measures not now in sight. Disarma- | ment meantime has about as much | | chance as the proverbial snowball in | the lower regions. * o+ %% Any possibility of our embroilment in the mess is as remote as ever. The Roosevelt administration is in vigi- lant touch with developments in the various storm centers, but there will have to be some serious provocation to induce your Uncle Sam to burn his fingers in a crisis regarded at Wash- ington as strictly none of our busi- ness. The President’s absence, among other things, is prima facie evidence that nothing is anticipated likely to involve us. F. D. R/’s campaign against the barracuda and the sword- fish is the only sort of warfare in which he’s interested at the moment, regardless of the troubled waters in which Europe is fishing. The Old World situation is designed to gener- ate support for the keep-us-out-of- war laws which Senator Nye's com- mittee is about to hatch. Isolationist sentiment is almost at high-water mark. * % kX Historians of the present troublous phase of the New Deal will discuss in terms of bewilderment Roosevelt trials and tribulations with the Sev- enty-fourth Congress. They are bound to regard as a phenomenon the fact that the President, with a two-thirds Democratic majority in both houses, has to fight for practically every inch of legislative headway. Congress has been in session three months, yet its only major achievement is the work relief bill, with even that huge and hapless project not yet out of the woods. Each day’s delay in N. R. A. renewal, social security, holding com- pany, labor, banking, railroad and shipping legislation makes it increas- ingly possible that Mr. Roosevelt may swing the big stick if he expects Con- gress to transact before July 1 the business he's batted up to it. A common _explanation of slow motion at the Capitol is that Senators and Representatives sense that the New Deal is slipping and feel they can now buck it with an impunity they never dared before. One subtle sug- gestion is that congressional obstruc- tion is of administration origin, in order to soft-pedal dictatorship talk! * ¥ % ¥ N. R. A’s grand army of employes, higher-ups as well as lower-downs, craves early solution of the renewal legislation snarl, in order that Blue Eagle morale may be restored to some- thing like its former self. The rank and file have been in a state of jitters for months,-hardly knowing from day to day who really was who in the organization, or whether there would be any N. R. A. at all after June 16. Considering all the slings and arrows —political, administrative and judi- cial—that have come its way, the con- sensus is that N. R. A. has done pretty ment and substituting in it the words “alcoholic liquors™ for “intoxicating liquors” as a means of promoting en- forcement. The other Sheppard pro- posal would establish statutory pro- hibition by conferring upon Congress the power to adopt dry laws for all the States, with or without their con- | sent, by a majority vote. Hr. Howard deplores introduction of the two pro- posals “as tending to divide the dry forces at a time when unity is essen- tial to victory.” *x * Senator Harry F. Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia has been showing the Senate ropes to his son and heir, Harry F., jr, a senior at the Uni- versity of Virginia. Youthful father and son look almost enough alike to be twins. Harry, jr, upon gradua- tion in June, is not going to follow paternal political footsteps or tread the polar paths of his uncle, Admiral Dick Byrd. He's to take charge of the Senator’s apple-growing business in the Shenandcah Valley, compre- hending an orchard of 3,600 acres and 175,000 trees. * %k %k % Apropos this week's anniversary of ‘Thomas Jefferson’s birth, Claude G. Bowers, our historian-Ambassador to Spain, sends word that his new book on the author of the Declaration of Independence is nearing completion. Finishing touches will not be applied until the Ambassador does some addi- tional research in the United States this Summer. Mr. Bowers is also at work on another book, “The Spanish Adventures of Washington Irving,” while a third volume in the hopper deals with Spain. Evidently the Hoosier diplomat hasn’t let trifles like Spanish revolutions hamper his lit- erary energies. * kK X Representative William B. Bank- head, Democrat, of Alabama, House majority leader, who has been kept | from congressional activities by ill- ness ever since his election to that post, is steadily on the mend. He drives out in pleasant weather, sees congressional colleagues at his apart- ment and hopes to return to the House in time to conduct the last round-up for Roosevelt legislation. * k% % President Roosevelt is to serve as honorary chairman of a national committee of 80 prominent Ameri- cans, headed by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, who will organize Nation - wide celebra- tions of the centennial anniversary of the birth of Mark Twain on Novem- ber 30 next. The celebrations will mainly take the form of exercises in the public schools and simultaneous dinners in the principal cities of each State. Ceremonies will start early in the Fall and culminate with “Mdrk Twain day” at the end of November. The national committee is co-operat- ing with a similar body at Oxford University, in England, which be- stowed its honorary LL. D. on the humorist. (Copyright, 1935.) [] | ing to keep the wolf from the door by the writing of a play has had the | good fortune of occasionally selling | poetry to a magazine. Things have | been going rather badly for him and the receipt of a letter from an en- thusisast over one poem has the effect of making a very dark mement just a little brighter. He answers the letter and then is inspired to pen a poem {o its writer. Thus, through a poem. Deane Hovey becomes acquainted with Virginia and falls in love with her. The life and the love of the would-be playwright, however, is not so simple an affair, and if Deane is to succeed he must meet the right people. Through a friend he meets Carolyn, an unhappy married woman of wealth and influence, and through her he meets the actress for whom he is confident he is writing his play. Virginia, the operator of a small book shop in New York, is charming, pretty, sensible and lovable. Carolyn is dangerously alluring and Renee, the actress, is temperamental. Deane promptly becomes engaged to Vvirginia, but his difficulties with the other two women and their confessed ambition to possess him lead him into situations which threaten to wreck his aspirations as a writer and to separate him forever from the one girl who really loves him and who understands his irrational temperament and the easygoing disposition that even the most tragic experiences can never cure. With Broadway and Park avenue as the kaleidoscopic background for the events which involve this very small group of interesting characters in plots and counter-plots against each is told by & ycung woman who has been writing since she was thirteen years old and who confesses that at that early age she decided to write like Dickens, but that.since then she has changed her mind, her style and her economic and social interests a number of times. In private life Reita Lambert is the wife of Arthur Nevin, younger brother of Ethelbert Nevin, the eminent American composer. r—oe s More Stops Than Goes. From the Boston Transcript. Bureau of Standards’ report that the number of green stop-light lenses made in this country is 25,000 less than the number of red ones will serve to confirm suspicions a lot of us have had for quite a while. e Super Gas. From the Philadelphia Record. American scientists announce that they have developed a new mustard gas. This new gas is 20 per cent more deadly than the mustard gas used in the World War. It is, the announce- ment states, “highly efficient.” e —e————— Pure Food for Canines. From the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner. The Kentucky dog is to have his day. An assistant attorney general there has ruled that labels on all canned canine food in the future must be accurate. i other, a lively and entertaining story | !of the country this year. “As much as a billion dollars,” the New York Times estimates, “may go from the new public works appropria- tion into land rescue work—reforesta- tion, erosion, flood regulation, tree barriers against dust storms. Huge areas of the United States are being blown away or drying up or slipping off into the Gulf of Mexico. The sil- ver lining consists in the very fact that we have now got to get busy to keep the United States from blow- | ing away or swimming away. In other words, we have an unanticipated huge job on which to turn the energies of the American people. We cannot be crushed by an ever-mounting bur- |den of unemployment, as the social | prophets have been predicting, be- cause we shall have plenty of em- ployment for many years to come in | conservation work. When large sec- | tions of Kansas start moving into Missouri on the wings of the wind it is obvious that we have a big job ahead of us to make this country stay put, in a literal sense.” | “With recurrence of these intense storms,” says the New Orleans Times- Picayune, “the fear of permanent damage naturally grows. Govern- ment experiment stations—notably the station near Dalhart, in the Texas Panhandle—have been trying out methods for checking or preventing wind erosion, and only a few days ago it was announced that the experi- ments had proven successful under actual test by dust storms of mod- erate intensity which swept over the experimental area during February. This timely experimental work en- courages the hope that the menace of wind erosion can be averted within a reasonable time over a great part of the affected region. Gov. Landon’s | appeal for an immediate start on the | protective work in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska and the Dakotas gives outsiders an idea of the im- mensity of the task. But the methods as described are simple, and with the co-operation of the farm folk who are to benefit by it there appears no reason to doubt their ultimate suc- “These visitations,” in the judg- “are more significant than the Black Friday which filled Puritan New England with superstitious terror back in 1780, or than the dark days which volcanoes and forest-and- prairie fires have writ upon the rec- ords of men. Robbing wide areas of their priceless heritage of top soil, they put a question mark after the policy of turning pasture into arable lands over considerable parts of the West, and seem to declare that the program of dry farming, inaugurated by the enlarged homestead act of 1909, was based on assumptions which nature declines to fulfill. The folly of half-baked attempts to accomplish things beyond the wit of men has had a demonstration that should not soon be forgotten.” i ment of the Cincinnati Times-Star, | | the judgment of the Oklahoma News, which concludes that “folly aelways is costly.,” and warns that “projects in soil conservation and restoration will be tedious, discouraging and cost- ly.” The Jackson (Miss.) Daily News quotes a statement by H. H. Bennett, director of Interior Department soil- | erosion service, that “America has wasted its soil resources more rapidly than any other country in the world.” “The storms,” according to the Flint (Mich.) Journal, “have brought forth new warnings that unless farm- ers give up intensive cultivation of the soil there, it may become the | ‘great American desert.’” 1 Doubting the popular explanation | of the storms. the Wichita (Kans.) | Bagle says: “The plowed grasslands origin of the storms is now on every tongue. ‘If the prairies had not been . plowed up,’ it is said, ‘there would |be no dust storms.’ This is plain | balderdash. Dust storms, while in- frequent in occurrence, appeared in | this section in the 70s. when virtually | none of this prairie was broken out. {In the Fall of 1878 a black storm | swept across Kansas in a day out | of the West which has not been | paralleled since. Western Kansas and | Oklahoma were all turf then, and the foothills of the Rockies, not plowed then and not plowed now, were held responsible.” In the Pacific Northwest the news- papers express pride in fertile lands protected by trees and streams against | such visitations. Describing the con- ditions farther east, the Yakima (Wash.) Daily Republic states that “back there the weather has hardly an idle moment; if it doesn’t rain, | it snows; if there isn't a drought, there is a tornado; cyclones harry the country, but if they are quiescent for a moment, along comes a hot wave or a grasshopper plague.” The Port- | land Oregon Journal remarks that “no deed can hold land where drought works in Winter as in Summer, to loosen the particles of soil and make them the play of the wind, just as, in places where trees happily grow, | the lesves dance in Autumn.” A Rhyme at Twilight By | | Gertrude Brooke Hamilton In a Lounge | Gay assembly, polished and rare, Always on the go. Plenty of human drama there, Under the amber glow. Smoke and wine and perfume blended, Song and dance in rhythmic tune, Long, dim vistas somewhere ended By a sham, prismatic moon. Scintillant, wise, mirth in their eyes; Dancing to doomsday, merry and mad; Groomed for the pace, on with the race. And..“'{nlder the laughter, Lord, how 4