Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1935, Page 10

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At the same time the President is placing this huge number of the un- employed, another 1,500.000 now on relief rolls are to become the sole care of the States and municipalities in- stead of looking, as at present, to the Federal Governmeut for their support. ‘The separation of the workers from the drones in the unemployed hive is likely to be a touchy affair. However, that is the plan. Political pull, it must be hoped, will not be the determining factor in the selection of the unem- ployed now on relief rolls for paying Jjobs. ‘The country still waits for the de- tails of the President’s plan to operate this great work relief program. There has been a great deal of guessing. ‘The only official statements forthcom- ing from the White House to date, however, have insisted that the Presi- dent himself is to be the boss spender. He will say how much money is going to this or that project. The country has a way of weighing governmental agencies by the men who head them. It realizes that the President must have advice on all the details of spending this vast sum of money, that he must have first lieutenants who will do the real spending. Many per- sons would like to know whether the job of dispensing all this money, or | a very large part of it, is to go to Harry L. Hopkins, who seems to have an unlimited ability for spending, or | to a man like Secretary Ickes, who spends with much more care. They | would like to know if the relief is to fall into hands that are first political. The announcement of the set-up for administering the work relief pro- gram has been awaited with interest. Apparently it has been withheld until after the Congress had finally passed the work relief bill and sent it to the President for his signature. There has been a feeling that premature an- nouncement of the administrative plans might contribute to the delay of the bill in the Senate, already too long. | The proof of any pudding is in the eating. The administration has made the work relief program a prime issue. It it does not live up to expectations ten-day period while the burseomng‘ of the trees has been in progress. | When the sun is shining and the air is mild this annual display of beauty is well worth long journeys to ‘behold. The fame of the blossoms has spread widely. Millions of Ameri- cans are aware of the glory that is thus spread around the Tidal Basin and if good weather could be assured there would almost literally be no space to accommodate all who would wish to witness it, But there are| other things than the cherry trees ln‘[ draw visitors, and those who came and | found the floral show below par were | perhaps compensated by them. | Spring weather is always more or less of a speculation, here as else- | where. Before the adoption and rati- fication of tne constitutional amend- | ment changing the Federal calendar 50 as to place the inauguration of the President in January instead of the | | fourth of March the risk of cold, wet |and even heavy snows was always to | | be taken into consideration. There | | have been gloriously bright and balmy | inauguration days, and again there | have been wet ones and cold ones and | even bitter and dangerous ones. With | | the shift to January the weather risk will perhaps be even greater. But the [ cherry blossoms, themselves the fruit of the warming air, should have a | better chance of showing themselves in mild airs, and with sunshine to give them their fullest show of beauty. | ’It is to be hoped that another year | will bring the combination that has been so lamentably lacking this sea- | | son, D Nazis Fail in Danzig. It was not quite the expected that | happened in Danzig on Sunday, for | ! the Nazis counted upon capturing a full two-thirds majority in the Free City parliamentary elections. Actually they fell materially short of that | margin, rolling up only 59.1 per cent | of the total vote of 230,000 that was | | cast. They aimed to win forty-eight out of a total of seventy-two seats, which would have given the Hitlerites absolute and unchallengeable control, with power to turn the region into a miniature Nazi realm. | Instead, according to the latest | figures, their strength will not exceed | | forty-four seats. They still predomi- | | nate in Daazig. but are not yet in position to rule it autocratically, despite ‘their vociferous hopes and | boasts. The result does not enhance the prestige of the three outstanding German leaders who were flung into the campaign fray at the eleventh | | hour—Gen. Goering, the Nazi air |lord: Rudolf Hess, Fuehrer Hitler's personal deputy, and Goebbels, the | Nazi spellbinding ace. Adopting a | tone that could not have been more arrogant if Danzig were already a Nazi province. instead of a free city | under League of Nations jurisdiction, | Hitler's spokesmen brazeql\- appealed | to the electorate to emulate the Saar and ndicate in no uncertain terms its desire for incorporation within the Reich. Had Danzig given the Nazis the | two-thirds majority they craved, Par- liament could have remolded the con- stitution and wiped out all remaining vestiges of democracy in the com- munity. The next step would have been a plebiscite in which, on the | Saar pattern, Danzig citizens, who | are overwhelmingly German, would ‘have had opportunity to vote directly on the question of joining the Hitler 1realm. The result of such a poll would hardly be in doubt, although | Sunday’s vote, with its recorded anti- | Nazi minority of forty per cent. re- | veals that the swastika does not yet wave omnipotently over the ancient Baltic port. | Their blighted hopes of a landslide | | victory in Danzig will not deter the} | Nazis from continuing their reckless | | campaign to Hitlerize all those por- tions of Europe contiguous to the Reich | there will be criticism. Millions of and in which the Germanic element is persons have waited while Congress has fought over this relief measure | and many of these millions have looked forward to sharing in this Gov- | ernment money. i One of the big questions which con- | fronts the President and his advisers is the wage scales that are to be paid ‘ workers on relief. The President has | said frankly that the wages are to be | lower than those paid in private in- ! dustry. The reason advanced for this | is that the Government does not wish | to compete with private industry for | labor, that it is desirous of having labor return to private employment | as soon as possible. Some of the nd-: strong. In Danzig itself. in Memel. in Schleswig-Holstein, in the German- speaking areas of Czechoslovakia, and, above all, in Austria. efforts to “re- claim” these territories will go on and | continue to be primary dangers to peace. Nazi spokesmen disavow any | purpose on Hitler’s part to take them | by force, but in the face of a rearmed, aggressive Germany none of her neigh- bors in question will or can feel secure. Poland has the chief interest in| seeing that Danzig does not fall into | Berlin’s clutches. Once the Nazis | were supreme there the doom of the Polish Corridor would almost certainly be sealed. There is already a sugges- visioned the future, labored for it and by grace of his loyalty to it achieved an immortality which has nothing to do with temporary current fame. Not once in his long and rich career did he stoop to the practice of expediency. He held his standard high, deliberately, purposefully and triumphantly. No editor ever will have to weed his garden, no biogra- pher ever will be obliged to explain him or apologize for him. He was a prince of song and governed himself accordingly, paying the inevitable price of his distinction without com- plaint and without regret. But that does not mean that he left no friends to mourn his departure. On the contrary, there were many who enjoyed the privilege of appreciating him: and they, naturally, were like him in temperament and character— | | the most notably gifted and the most | fish for many homes because one keenly sensitive men and women of his generation. And he could have asked no finer monument than their love, predicated as it was on gratitude for his sincerity, sympathy and under- standing. Such was Robinson's endowment. | He saw truly, and was consistenly generous and wise. In manner, reti- cent and reserved, he nevertheless was closely in touch with the trends of the human mind, and well informed about contemporary events in the human scene. But he kept his crea- tive side isolated from contagions; he declined to be deflected into schools cr movements, mannerisms or modes. He was true to fundamental values in both the business of living and the art of literature. Death interested him, and he was not afraid. Perhaps he realized that, though the singers pass, the songs re- main. o The manufacture of counterfeit tickets for the Irish Sweepstakes, though an example of rank dishonesty, had but little effect beyoud decreasing chances of winning, which, defined in cold mathematics, were not very great in the first place. Astronomers are working hard to get a better view of the heavenly bodies. They are sure to secure more reliable results than the crystal gazers who are seeking new discoveries in politics_ e A chilly, cloudy day was not inap- propriate for a public demonstration | in honor of the Army. It is typical of conditicas under which a faithful and resolute Army has to work. ————— Suburban politics has arrived into relations with the police which might, if earlier established, have made the Maryland campaign even hotter than it was. ————— Suits for heart balm are being pressed perhaps i recognition of the fact that times are changing and no particular style of graft can last forever. o = A threat to move Hollywood to England has been whispered. It may be doubted whether the great picture industry could be so prosperous with- out American audiences. e It was the misfortune of Mr. McCarl to meet with restrait just at a time when billion-dollar transactions might make his work most interesting. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Traveling Along, We're traveling on From day to day. We'll pass the dawn With sunshine ray. We're traveling on 'Mongst planets bright Till years have gone In radiant flight. Up in the sky, With splendid glow, The stars roll by. ‘While here below For methods new The plans are drawn. ‘The most we do Is travelin' on. Oratorial Munitions. “You are sure there will be no mud slinging in your next campaign?” “Quite sure,” answered Senator Sorg- | lican. for the United States Senate. road to salvation for the elephant is hum. “My constituents have reached a state of mind where they won't be ministration spokemen have insisted | tion that anti-Nazi groups in Danzig | content with anything softer than that the average wage on relief proj- | will protest to the League against Ger- ects for labor is to be $50 a month. |man excesses in the campaign just Obviously, if it is more, it will not ended. If the Geneva powers reveal no be possible to give employment to more inclination or capacity to check brickbats.” Jud Tunkins says folks fight so hard | for money that it won't be so easy 3,500,000 with $4,000,000,000, when the cost of materials, transportation, etc., are taken into consideration. The work relief program, on all| counts, presents a big problem. It will require the best brains and the soundest common sense to be worked out effectively and for the best inter- ests of the unemployed and of the country. e Hitler is pointed out as a small- town product who went to Berlin and made & riot in the city. e Bad Cherry Blossom Weather. ‘Without assuming any responsibility, | ‘Washington offers to its thousands of visitors who have week-ended here since the cherry blossoms in Potomac Park began their annual spectacle of loveliness its sincere apologies for the bad weather that has prevailed. They have come in great numbers from distant points to witness the display and they have been disappointed by the rain and the chill. The blossoms have done their best and the city has been disposed to offer its hos- pitality to the full, but the clouds have dripped from day to day and the festival of beauty has been sadly marred. The Capital has not been alone ins thus misbehaving. The weather map has shown successive large areas of “lows” during the entire the Nazis than hitherto, Hitler need | lose no sleep. At any rate, on the face | of the returns, Danzig registers some- | thing of a significant rebuff for him. | ‘The Nazi break through to the Baltic has been checked—for how long fs ' another question. ————- ‘There is a silent partnership that has never been dissolved. Old Mars continues to work hand in hand with | the tax assessor. - to take the war out of profits. Renovation. A dollar is a wondrous thing, A token of our toil. If it is idly lingering It’s liable to spoil. A dollar seeks to serve our need With energy serene, And conscience therefore should take heed To keep it neat and clean. Tactful Restraint. “Do you rely on the wisdom of the plain people?” Edwin Arlington Robinson. Edwin Arlington Robinson was the | only poet of his time and place whose b 5 e es name can be associated with the very | €€ “No lady in politics, however greatest names in the history of wise and capable, will ever care to be letters. He will rank with James Rus- | éferred to as ‘plain. sell Lowell and Oliver Wendell Holmes, | AR and he was by some held superior | Thoughts and Appearances. to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and | Irreverent thought my mind assails, William Cullen Bryant. His work was | A photograph to charm me fails. “Not exactly,” answered Miss Cay-| noble in both conception and execu- | What orators may say I read, tion, and it is safe to prophesy that he will be more .generally popular when his countrymen have developed a spiritual maturity approximating his own. Nothing that he wrote attracted the untutored masses of his day; he will have to wait a century for his audience, but it will come just as surely as Homer’s, Dante’s and Shake- Their precepts I may strive to heed. | T do not look with interest great | On dress suits at affairs of state, It is but seldom that I care | About their whiskers or their hair. “I has my suspicions,” said Uncle Eben, “dat a fool is mo’ dangerous dan a rascal foh de reason dat dar | spear’s came. | is a chance dat a rascal may have In that regard, as in all others. |sense enough to reform sometime | Robinson was an authentic bard. He : foh his own pertection.” Another perennial question received | by this column is the following: “What is the difference between goldfishes and tropical fishes?” Correspondents mean the differ- ence between handling, usage and character, of course. . The goldfish is a picture fish, He is not very interesting and has little personality. He is used mostly where one wants |an aquarium just to look at from a | distance. If one desires a tank for close in- | spection, the tropical fishes are kept, because of their true characters, inter- esting habits and real personalities. * %k % X The goldfish is primarily a fine seldom has to bother about the tem- | perature of the water in which it is | kept. | His best temperature is between 60 |and 70 degrees, a range which will | be found in most homes, even at | | night. He can stand both higher and | | lower. A goldfish never looks at you, ex- cept in a sort of sneaking fashion. He never seems to give you che | direct look of many of the tropical | | fishes kept in homes. | The goldfish’s look is oblique, as if he had no real comprehension of you. Not so most of the creatures from the tropical waters of the world. | An angel fish, or a three-spot Gou- | rami, to name but two, will give the | observer as direct a glance as could | be wished by the most stanch advo- cate of the look direct. * % % * This is but a sample of the differ- ence in character. The same seems to apply to most of the cold water fishes, as distin- | | guished from those coming from warmer waters. ‘ A semi-tropical, the Heterandria | formosa, or mosquito fish. of our own Southern States, is a dignified but rather uninteresting little creature. It seems that the closer an aquarium fish comes to being a ‘‘cold-water | fish,” so-called, the surer he is to be somewhat uninteresting to the | observer. For what may be termed a picture | | aquarium there is no substitute for the common goldfish and the fancy | | forms which have been made from it. It has a brightness of scale which no tropical fish possesses. There are glistening fellows enough among the ranks of the latter, but somehow they lack the real metallic shine of the | goldfish. i This fact alone entitles the red fel- ' | lows to the prestige they always have enjoyed, and still enjoy, despite the vogue for the keeping of the smaller warm-water fishes. The goldfish still makes the “‘prettiest” aquarium, and for all per- sons who simply want a tank to be a picture, with color, life and move- | ment, we unwesitatingly recommond this popular species of the carp family. On a sun porch which is not too hot, and for positions in dining rooms and other places where one desires to get the single effect of decoration, the goldfish tank is unsur- passed. Rk When one has said that. however, one has said about all that can be | said for the goldfish, except that it is Our Latin American authorities are much interested in the immigration squabble which has broken out be- | tween Brazil and Japan. According fo Rio de Janeiro advices, Japanese | have been piling into the country this vear at the rate of nearly 2,500 a month. although government spokes- men say that those figures merely represent the balance of the unfilled quota of 20.000 allowed for 1934. A New York Times dispatch from Rio quotes the recently resigned immigra- tion commissioner De Paulo as alleg- | | ing that Japan looks upon Brazil as | “nothing more than the China of South America.” Brazilian newspapers ! accuse the Japanese of carrying on a | systematic propaganda designed to weaken those provisions of the new constitution which limit all immigra- tion. Because of arrivals before quota restrictions were enforced, there are | today about 200000 Japanese in | Brazil. They formerly came at the rate of 20.000 a year and plans were uncer way to incrcase the number. | The country in consequence has be- | come a prefitable market for Jap- | ancse goods. Another trade delega- | tion from Tokio is expected at Rio | next month. | a0 | Mrs. Anna Dickie Olesen. Minnesota ! N. R. A. compliance director, who faced the Senate Finance Committee | last week to defend her official activi- | ties, is one of the pioneer Democratic woman leaders of the country. She was a member of the Democratic Na- | tional Committee from Minnesota | from 1917 to 1924. In 1922, she ran| against Henrik Shipstead, Farmer- | | Labor, and Frank B. Kellogg, Repub- | In 1932 Mrs. Olesen made another | unsuccessful effort to obtain a seat in Congress by aspiring to the pr‘l-" mary nomination for the House of | | Representatives from her home com- munity. Her busband, Peter Olesen, is registrar of Carleton College, at | Northfield, Minn. 1 * X %k ¥ 1 Some considerable time having elapsed since his last fireside chat with the country, it wouldn't be sur- prising if President Roosevelt ere long | takes the air for another broadcast on the state of the Union. Much probably depends on whether or not | he fincés Congress in obstructive mood | on sundry controversial measures about to stir up new strife on Capitol | Hill, such as N. R. A. renewal, social | security and the holding companies bill. Some administrationists think F. D. R. may not wait for a legislative | log jam to send him to the micro- phone, but will resort to the radio for a popular, brass-tacks exposition of the work relief act and just how | | he proposes to spend the round five billions now placed in his hands virtually without strings of any kind. * % % % Utility leaders are said to believe that their “educational campaign” to convince Congress and the country of the alleged iniquities of the Ray- burn-Wheeler holding companies bill is having effect. They are reported to be confident that when it emerges into law it will be far less drastic than the measure now proposed. The crusade which the utilities are waging to that end is likened to the fight put up by the stock exchanges and high finance against the securities act a year ago. As matters have turned out, the capitalist and speculative in- terests have not been hit nearly as badly as they thought they were go- ling to be while the law was taking It is reported that the Govern- ment’s impending effort before the | | Supreme Court, in the New York poultry code case, to sustain the con- stitutionality of N. R. A, will be in STAR, WASHINGTON, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES F. | nation of the G. O. P. D. C. MONDAY. TRACEWELL. hardy. This latter is true, despite the fact that millions of these un- happy animals die every year through too many of them being kept in too small a tank and through being over- fed. The goldfish seems unable to handle the dried foods as the tropical fishes can. It needs much more water per fish. But it is beginning to be real- ized that the atrocious overcrowding of the average “community tank” of exotic fishes is not good, either, * ¥ X X | ‘The great difference between gold- | fishes and tropicals lies in the greater | diversity of form, habits and disposi- | tion. 2 The big difference in management comes in the necessity for keeping | almost all of the tropicals at 70 de- grees or better, day and night. ‘The preferred range is between 74 and 78 degrees. Such a variation, it 1s becoming to be believed, is good for the fishes, but this does not mean that lower than 70, or 68 at a minimum, is good. They can stand 10 degrees higher easily, but may pass out of the picture as the result of two more de- grees lower. Feeding is another major difference. The warmer water fishes, properly kept, can handle their foods much better than goldfishes. They are far easier to feed, and if overfed do not suffer as much from it. These are physical differences in management, but the real difference | | comes in the vast range of habits, characters and personalities of the several hundred tropical fishes now offered the aquarist. It is to be questioned whether the fishes from salt water, just now com- ing to the fore, will ever show the genuine piscatorial personality of such an animal as the angel fish, let us say Those who have worked out the diet problem of this lovely fish, so that it can be kept in good health for years, know that in time it comes to have the personality of a good dog. | in a sense. Of course, it is a fish, | a creature of another world than ours, but at bottom it is intelligent, and shares with man the distinction of the use of mind, in a way that no | goldfish that ever lived ever had. * K K x As for the diversity of -breeding habits, the tropical fishes are in a class by themselves. While too much emphasis, perhaps. has been placed upon this side of these animals, there Is no gainsaying | that it is unique, interesting, and at times profitable. Any one mav have in a small tank & “bubble nest” builder, or may keep a fish which carries its young in its mouth for two weeks, without eating either them or anything else. In picturesque qualities the humble goldfish cannot equal these, or dozens of the other denizens of the warmer deeps. Each one of them has a personality of its own, not only distinct from other species, but also from others of its own specie. Few persons ever sat for hours | watching a goldfish aquarium at close range, but it is very common among tropical fish fanciers ‘There is more to watch! That is the secret of their lure, the key to their present popularity. It is the one big difference between them and their still popular predeces- sor. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. the hands of Walter L. Rice, a young special assistant to the Attorney Gen- eral, who entered the Department of Justice during the Coolidge admin- istration. A graduate of the Uni- versity of Minnesota and of Harvard Law School, Mr. Rice has served in the anti-trust division since 1931. He acted for the Government recently in the Hawaiian sugar quota case involv- ing the constitutionality of A. A. A, and only a few days ago was engaged in the trial of the Republic Steel merger suit in Cleveland. * x % % During recent debate on the pure food and drugs act Senator Barkley . Democrat, of Kentucky asked Senator Copeland, author of the bill, “what (kind of chewing gum we can afford to chew and what we cannot.” Dr. Copeland replied that the bill doesn't g0 quite that far. He assured his Kentucky colleague that he was “per- fectly safe” and wouldn't have to abandon any of the brands of gum to which he may now be addicted. ¥ * Former Vice President Charles Cur- tis is among the Republicans who re- joice at the movement now taking form in his native Midwest for rejuve- My only criti- cism,” he says, “is that something of the sort wasn't started long ago.” Senator Hastings of Delaware, chair- man of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, also thinks the | Midwesterners have had a fine brain wave, but he's withholding judgment until he sees what they can bring forth once they come to grips with the task they've essayed. He conveys the im- pression that he doesn't believe the as rosy a path as some enthusiasts seem to think. * Ok x %, Before he left Washington the other day the Right Hon. Alfred Byrne, lord mayor of Dublin, was comparing notes | with Representative Sol Bloom, Demo- | | crat, of New York, on the respective | merits of campaigning methods in Ire- i land and on Manhattan Island. Bloom is in his seventh consecutive | term in the House. The New Yorker | was willing tc bet Mayor Byrne that | Bloom had kissed more babies in the | course of his political career than any | man in Irish politics had ever done. | e | Among the various projects on which work-relief billions are to be | spent, the Civilian Conservation Corps came off with the minimum of hostile | comment during the long congres- | sional controversy over the bill. In | fact, the C. C. C. practically escaped | criticism altogether. On all hands it | is accounted one of the unqualified | successes of the New Deal. Nearly | every one feels that the $600,000,000 now earmarked for it will be money most worthily expended. Only some pacifist-minded persons have taken a shot at the C. C. C., on the ground | that it is “militaristic” in purpose and | is training successive large groups of | young men to be soldiers. (Covyright. 1033 s Applause. From the Boston Transcript. European munitions makers have nothing but praise for Herr Hitler's bold determination to make Ger- many’s army as good as her neigh- bors’—if not better. e A Tip to the Umpire. Prom the Wichita (Kans.) Eagle. In undertaking to umpire the war game of Europe Britain should under- stand that fans over there throw much worse things than pop bottles. PRIL The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln, 8, 1935. ‘The recent growth of interest in is sufficient evidence to many that the G, O. P. Is far from being “dead.” ‘What has given impetus to the Re- publicans, however, is the onslaught on the New Deal, which they inter- pret as an indication that the Roose- velt administration end the Presi- dent himself is slipping in the esti- mation of the people. It was to be expected that there would be a re- crudescence, a renewal of activity among the Republicans as the na- tional campalgn more nearly @ap- proached. A year from now the primary elections for presidential preference and the selection of dele- gates to the Republican National Con- vention will be under way. The activity among the Republicans now stirring Is taking new form. The Republicans of the Middle West are to hold a “convention” in Kansas City, presumably sometime next month. The Republicans of the six New England States are to meet in conference perhaps even earlfer. Whether there will be sectional meet- ings of the Republicans of the Middle Atlantic States or the Par Western States 15 still a matter of conjecture, How the two sectional meetings already planned work out may have a bearing on what other sections do. * * There s always the danger that such meetings, well advertised, may | not live up to expectations. But there | is no such thought among the Re- publican promoters of the Middle West. and New England meetings to- day. They are convinced that such meetings are bound to stir up in- terest and enthusiasm for the party all over the land. The great difficulty in recent years with which the Re- publicans have had to contend is the division of the party into liberal and conservative camps. If the G. O. P. Is to regain its strength and have hopes of returning to power in the Government, some middle ground on which both the liberals and the con- servatives may stand must be found. No one really expects the conservative Republicans or the liberal Republ ans to give up their pet ideas, even for the sake of a consolidated Re- publican party and victory at the polls. But both may be able to cam- paign on a platform which denounces the New Deal as a movement toward fascism, for example, or as a de- | parture from democratic government, toward state socialism, with the abandonment of State's rights and the concentration of power in the hands of the Federal Government in Wash- ington. * % & % The attacks on the New Deal. many of which have come from Democratic sources as well as from Republican, have been many and varied in recent weeks. The country has caught its breath and begun to ask whether all the New Deal plans are sound or workable, even in the midst of the great spending program of the admin- istration. There has been an increase in business along some lines in this country, largely due to the Govern- ment money which has been poured | out. At the same time, the cotton textile industry has met more and more difficulty, with more and more men and women thrown out of em- ployvment in both the North and the South. The cotton farmers in the South. ceeing the difficulties of the | mi'ls of this country. are beginning to wonder more and more what they will do with their cctton, since their mar- kets cbroad are more and more re- stricted. * kK x Two schools of thought on the re- covery question have been at t for a long time. One contends that the country must follow a policy entirely nationalistic; that it must produce and consume its own products and let the rest of the world go hang The other insists that the only way to bring real recovery is to open the world. including the United States to international commerce. Obviously, it is impossible to move along both these roads at the same time. You cannot have an America living en- tirely on its own efforts and within | its own borders if you are to expand American foreign trade. The tendency of the A. A. A. with its_curtail- ment of crops and its processing t to make up to the farmer for what he does not produce, clearly tends toward a nationalistic state. If that plan is followed to ultimate con- clusion, there will have to be an entirely new economic and social ad- justment n this country. The farm- ers who have planted cotton, for ex- ample, will have to quit it in large part and find some other means of livelihood, unless the Government pensions them for the rest of their natural days. The same will be true of wheat farmers. The droughts, which have ravaged the land for the last two years. have had their fingers in the wheat growers’ pie, too. Secretary Hull of the State De- partment is a confirmed believer in the lowering of international trade | barriegs and the development again of a great commerce overseas. The reciprocal trade agreements which this country is now entering into with foreign nations are the means through which Mr. Hull is laboring to bring about a resumption of internationai trade. Sooner or later the admin- istration will have to drive ahead along one of these lines of endeavor or the other. ! X %k # President Roosevelt is due back in Washington tomorrow or next day. When Congress assembled more than three month ago, the predictions were freely made that it would go to work | quickly and put through the legislative | ® | program of the President and leave | | standard and emphasizes the desire by May 15 at the latest. dictions of speed and of harmony be- These pre- i tween the President and the Congress | have proved empty. One bill. a big | one to be surc, has been put through | of all the President’s program—the | work relief bill. When the President | returns, he and leaders will have to | sit down and go over the situation | rather carefully. The Congress has | been in no mood for New Deal doses | in recent weeks. The President and | his party have begun to suffer from | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. A reader can get the answer to|under the present law, regardless of the Republican party end its future | any question of fact by writing The |the fact that he may have Washington Evening Star Information | Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director. Washington, D. C. stamp for reply. Q. How many- fights has Max | Baer had since he entered the prize | ring?—M. H. | A. Baer started his career in the prize ring in 1929, and since then has engaged in 45 contests, winning 30 | by knockouts, winning 8, and losing 7. | Q. What has become of the United States Geographic Board?—A. M. | Please inclose | A. It has been dissolved by execu- | tive order. Its work is now under the Secretary of the Interior, in charge of an acting secretary, division of | geographic names. There is also an Advisory Committee on geographic names. Q. When do icebergs cease to be a menace to navigation in the North Atlantic?—K. F. A. A, About July 1. Q. What is the difference in pro- nunciation between the words cash and cache?—W. K. A. The a in broader, Q. How can a meteorite be sidenti- | fled?—P. M. A. In various ways. It is heavy, | especially so if it is all metal. Its out- sides will be blackened, but if it has | lain exposed for some years the outer surface will be brown, rather than black. and is likely to be covered with a peculiar crust. It will be irregular in shape. An infallible test of a me- teorite is to hold one face against an | emery wheel or carborundum stone and grind it a little. If the smooth surface shows minute, bright points of metal looking like polished steel, it is a meteorite. "y Q. What is “flat sour” in connec- tion with food spoilage?—F. D. C. A. This is a condition of canned vegetables in which the outside ap- pearance is usually sound and firm. che is slightly | Although the product is often soft | and mushy and has a sour taste and odor, it is not accompanied by gas. Q. What birds are now extinct?— E. B. A. Among the most important spe- cies of birds which have become ex- tinct in historical times may be men- tioned the dodo, the solitaire, the | great auk, passenger pigeon, heath hen, Carolina parrakeet, Labrador duck and Eskimo curlew. Q. Where was Jefferson Davis buried?>—L. D. G A. Jefferson Davis died December | 6, 1889, and was buried at New Or- | leans. On May 27, 1893, his body was removed from the tomb, taken to Richmond and interred with impres- sive ceremonies in Hollywood Ceme- tery. Q. How long before a cow is fresh is her milk unfit for domestic pur- poses’—W. B. P. A. The Bureau of Dairy Industry says that the health regulations of most States and cities prescribe that milk is unfit for human consumption for 15 days before and at least 5 days after the birth of a calf. Q. Please explain what aliens who entered the United States illegally can become naturalized—J. McG. A. If an alien entered illegally be- fore June 3. 1921, he may become eligible to apply for naturalization by registration with the Bureau of Im- mugration. The law provides that an alien who entered this country il-| legally prior to July 1, 1924, is not subject to deportation merely because of illegal entry. If such alien entered after June 3, 1921, he is not eligible to apply for naturalization papers | Indians than to fight them.” Belgium’s Break From Gold a citizen of the United States. There is, however, a bill now pending pro- vgllng for the naturalization of such aliens. Q. How large is Epstein's statue of Christ, which has aroused so much controversy?—F. C. F. A. The statue, entitled “Ecce Homo” (Behold the Man), is 11 feet tall and weighs 7 tons, Q. When was Tennessee included for the first time in the Federal cen- | sus?—S, J. A. In 1800. Q. What physician was called to attend Charles Dickens when he was ill in Pittsburgh?—L. N. A. Dr. Andrew N. McDowell. It was the daughter of this physiclan who | married Stephen Foster. Q. What was Brigham Young's att- tude toward the Indians?—V. G. A. He said, "It is better to feed the His wise policy prevailed, the warlike redmen finally becoming friendly and peace- able. + Q. Is the Guif of St. Lawrence as large as Lake Superior?—A. D. A. It is much larger. Its area is about 64,000 square miles, while that of Lake Superior is about 31,820 square miles. Q. Please give the sentence in which Franklin D. Roosevelt used the expres- sion, the forgotten man—W. E. L. A. Gov. Roosevelt used the expres- sion in a radio address in April, 1932. “These uphappy times call for the holding of plans that rest upon the forgotten, the unorganized, but the indispensable units of economic power, for plans like those of 1917 that build from the bottom up and not from the wp down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.” Q. Was Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's Secrctary of War, ever a member of the Supreme Court?>—G. M. A. He was appointed by President Grant to the high court, but died three days later and never took his seat on the bench, Q. Who received the award of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the best cartoon subject?>—M. B. A. For the last three years the award has gone to Walt Disney. The pictures were “Flowers and Trees.” “The Three Little Pigs” and “The Tortoise and the Hare.” Q. What is bock beer?>—H. W. 8. A. Bock beer is the strongest beer, the first drawn from the vats in the Spring, wken the Winter's brew of lager beer is broached. Q. What are the arms of the Soviet Union?—A. B. A. They comprise a circle charged with the crossed sickle and hammer of gold, and circled by a harvest wreath and the device, “Workmen of all na- tions unite!” in seven languages on a red ribbon, surmounted by a red star, upside down. Under the circle is a rising sun. Q. What is the origin of the custom of having a best man at a wedding? —N. H. 8. A. It is traced to the fact that the bridgegroom in ancient times stole his bride, and at the moment of his flight from the bride’s home needed protection from the attack certain to be made by the young woman'’s father. Q. Where is the new infantile par- alysis clinic in Pennsylvania?—M. F. A. One has been established at Tem- ple University Hospital, Philadelphia. The vaccine developed by Dr. John A. Kolmer will be used. May Expedite Stabilization American comment on Belgium's break-away from the European gold bloc and its devaluation of the belga discloses hope that the development will tend to hasten international stabili- zation of currencies w better fu- ture conditions for the world. The United States, as the holder of large stores of gold, is felt to be a dominant ! factor in future conferences on the ! subject. It is esplained by the Cincinnati | Times-Star that “while Belgium’s currency has been hitched to gold, no pretense has been made of allowing the standard to function freely.” That paper believes thal “probably the other members of the gold bloc ! cennot hoid out long.” The Times- Star concludes: “Every time an in- Gustrial nation devalues its currency it increases the strain on the remain- ing gold countries by cutting into their foreign markets. The French | public still fears anything that| smacks of inflation. Buu that dread | is lessening with each week that de- flation continues. Barring early sta- bilization of currencies. France, too. will soon b forced to take the popular way out. If and when she does, the present mad scramble of nations to undersell each other by ‘exchange dumping’ will become universal.” | “If it should serve to expedite the | convening of an international con- | ference to stabilize currencies,” thinks | the Providence Journal, “it could be regarded as not entirely a regrettable | occurrence.” As to the significance of the action, the Journal offers the | opinion: “The premier’s announce- | ment reaffirms the Government's strong belief in the virtue of the gold of the Nation to return to gold as| soon as an international agreement can be effected. Little permanent encouragement, therefore, can be found in the Belgian decision by pro- fessional agitators for a managed currency. Indeed, part of the tempo- rary satisfaction they can derive— and it must be a queer satisfaction— | is that dire economic necessity has | compelled another European country | to abandon for an indefinite period a | currency system in which it has the | utmost confidence and for which it | divisions in the Congress. There have | has a profound respect and attach- | been threats of revolt and the leader- | ment.” ship has been ignored. The honcy-! “Until the United States manl(uu; moon period for the President and 'a disposition to participate,” advises Congress lasted somewhat longer than | the Chester (Pa.) Times, “Great it has lasted in other administrations, |Britain will probably discourage a perhaps. The Democrats were able in | renewal of stabilization attempts, on the mid-term congressional elections to | the ground that they would be futile. increase their majorities in both the | It therefore becomes a question that Senate and the House, until they have | should be considered by our Govern- more than two-thirds of the member- | ment, if the time has not arrived for ship of each house. The slipping of | international effort in this direction. the administration in popular Invorig! Asgug t:::kl‘h): p{u)- m!x:l}::“:& i i ‘ess s did not begin to any very great extent | oy atabllimtion until after the first of this year. | international * ¥ kX ¥ The President returns to Washing- ton armed with a great power—the administration of $4,880,000,000 for re- lief and work relief. Members of Con- gress will wish to share in all this; to obtain a fair share or a bigger share for their constituents and districts and States. Of course, there is danger to the administration if it declines to co- operate with a considerable number | of recalcitrants in Congress when the ! relief funds are dispensed. Such & | course would bring open criticism and | defiance. The administration has al- may still be remote, but economists | anticipate it as holding the brightest | hope for world-wide economic im- provement.” | “As the world’s greatest holder of| gold,” says the San Frantisco Chron- icle. “this country is even more con- ready found @ gadfly in Louisiana Hughey Long, whom it attempted to discipline by wil e and other favors. Take it by and large, the President will be given full opportunity to test his political acu- cerned for the preservation of the gold standard by other countries than they are themselves.” The Chronicle advises that “if the world slips from that standard. it will take interna- tional action to bring it back.” On the immediate results that peper re- marks: “The ‘gold block’ was un- stable already. To undermine any one of its supports may bring down the whole structure. If the Belgian crisis spreads to France, with its much greater hoard of gold, it will extend everywhere else. Then the gold stand- ard will be gone from the world, un- less and until America and Britain, by joint action—they cannot do it separately—bring it back.” “The ranks of the gold bloc have been cut to France, Italy, Switzer- land and The Netherlands,” the Lin- coln (Nebr.) State Journal points out, with the observation that “there is some question as to how long they can remain in view of the trade ad- vantages accruing to countries of de- valuated currencies.” The necessity of an international agreement is em- phasized by the Wichita (Kans.) Eagle, the New Haven Journal- Courier, the Akron Beacon Journal and the Portland (Me.) Press Herald. “Belgium made a game fight, but she lost,” avers the Richmond (Va.) News Leader. “Here in America we are surrendering without a contest. ‘The House of Representatives has passed a bill providing for the issue of nearly $2,000,000,000 of paper fund in order to pay the soldiers’ bonus. Possessing the largest gold supply of the world, America affords the in- credible example of a deliberate con- fusion and depreciation of its own currency!” “The peril is,” contends the Wor- cester (Mass.) Evening Gazette, “that nations, when driven off gold and forced to go in for inflation, may not be able to stop in the downward proc- ess of meeting their financial dif- culties by printing money. Neither Europe nor the rest of the world can view without apprehension the pros- pect that any important commercial country will drift intg the course of inflation which brought such disaster to Germany.” State Leadership. Prom the San Antonio (Tex.) Express. Texas still leads the States in wool production, but readily yields to Louisiana in wool gathering. A Rhyme at Twilight By Gertrude Brooke Hamilton Only a Pup Race traffic signals. Let the gas burn. | Who care’ for gravity? Take a spin- turn. Step on it, step on it, bend to the wheel. Make the pedestrians scramble and missed a boy going by with a dog: got & jolt, swerved aside, hit a Step on it! o 8l ep o lowing up spotls all the No laws broken in this hit-and-runl Only a lifeless little pup, 1 And a boy’s real tears as he picks it up. j