Evening Star Newspaper, April 10, 1935, Page 10

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY....April 10, 1935 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company ‘Business Office 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd St icago Office: Lake Michigan Building. uropean Office; 14 Rezent St., London, England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. Regular Edition. _ The Evenine Stai . . ‘45¢c per month The Evening and Sunday Star (when 4 Sundays) 60c per month The Evening_anc Sunday St (when 5 Sindavs) The Sunday Star Night Fin ing c per month Night Pinal Star. ... 55¢ per month Collection made at the end of each month Orders may be sent by mail or telephone Naticnal 5000. Rate by Mail—Payabl Maryland and Daily and Sunday. . Daily _enly 1 Sunday only. All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday. 1 yr.. $1:2.00; 1 mo.. $1,00 Daily only 1yr. $R00:1mo. 78 Sunday onl! vr' $5.00: 1 mo.. 80c Member of the Associated Press. J Press is exclusively en- republication of all ted 1o it or not other- paper and also the 1ed herein. All rights of pecial dispatches herein . She 50c .. 40¢ publication of are also re: P Novel Preparedness. War preparedness in a novel form. | of leisure will be misused unless it is | a form designed to make war less attractive to some persons, is sought in the MeSwain war profits bill passed by the House yesterday by a vote of 367 to 15. The bill is the first of its kind ever to pass either House of Con- gress. although there has been talk for vears about “taking the profit out of war.” It is the purpose of the bill to prevent a crop of war millionaires from springing up if the United Siates should ever again become invoived in armed conflict with another nation. The McSwain bill now goes to the Senate. There the Munitions Com- mittee, headed by Senator Nve of North Dakota. stands waiting to at- tach many of the provisions of its own bill to take the profits out of war, a bill considered as much more drastic. some legislation along the line of anti- profiteering during war, however, ap- pear far brighter than had been ex- pected. The country has been well educated to the idea by the friends of such a measure during recent menths Senator Nye has gone on the air in Nation-wide hook-ups to tell the country about the investigation which the Senate committee has prosecuted 80 vigorously. The tales of huge profits taken by munitions manufacturers and others during the World War have been spread throughout the land by the newspapers. During the consideration of the McSwain bill in the House, anti-war sentiment manifested itself strongly. And particularly there was opposition . to the proposed draft section of the measure, under which men between the ages of 18 and 45 would be sub- ject to draft. Apparently, this smacked too much of preparedness for actual conflict, and by a vote of the House it was stricken from the bill after a hard ficht. It is quite true that during the World War the United States adopted the draft and under it a huge army was raised. And it is equally true that in the event this Nation goes to war again the draft system probably will be invoked once more. The idea of a war in which muni- tions makers and persons engaged in other industries which produce neces- sities, such as food and clothing and supplies of all kinds, may not make large profits is, to say the least, one to which the world is unac- customed. There are those who re- main convinced that it is impossible o fight a war in national defense if all profit is stripped from the essential in- | dustries during the period of the war. | Pocketbook patriotism, it is insisted, is, after all, inevitable. On the other hand, no one has ever yet tried to run & war in the manner proposed by Rep- resentative McSwain and by Senator Nye. The plan might work. In these days, when rumors of inter- national conflict are flying fast, it is not unnatural that Americans should consider what may come to them in the event of war abroad. Something in some respects ' The prospects of | in Cincinnati alone. The association received during the twelve-month period a total of 5,922 requests from different community authorities for advice and suggestions on recreational methods and activities. But the proportions of the obliga- tion of the Nation to its people in re- spect to the use of leisure are better shown by the report's statement of what still remains to be done. An army of 10,000,000 urban youngsters have no playgrounds, and indoor recre- ation centers should be doubled in number. A special program should be developed for 2,500,000 jobless youths who stand in need of character- building guidance, and a similar, yet different, program is required for an undetermined legion of older neople who want training in new types of employment suited to their declining powers of physical ability. The greater part of the task, the report frankly concludes, lies ahead. FPederal, State and municipal officers, it is indicated, must be mindful of their responsibility,. Wisely dealt with, the enforced leisure of the world- wide economic slump may constitute an opportunity; it may give construc- tive direction to multitudes who other- wise would be left with idle hands for the devil to recruit for mischief. = | Critics of supervised play ought not | to neglect the basic issue. There are | no two ways about it—the superfluity | governed along lines of helpful social policy. e o | On the Eve of Stresa ‘ Tomorrow on the picturesque shor of Lake Maggiore, in the little Italian town of Stresa, new European history will be made. In strict seclusion from prying eyes and ears, Prime Ministers MacDonald of Great Britain, Flandin of France and Mussolini of Italy, flanked by rray of | ministers and an imposing array of i gne of the difficulties about a strike | other adjutants, are to deliberate over the grave problems created by Nazi Germany's plans to reconvert the Reich into a formidable military | power. During the three weeks since Hitler proclaimed his program the powers allied during the World War have been in feverish consultation on ways and | their respective lnmpn‘ but scholars plodding in the dust of old books are likely to encounter it obscurely hidden as it is in a foot- note appended to the chronicle of the great event of which it was merely & minor incident. But the tale deserves retelling in an age when war and revolution, poverty and disease, igno- rance and crime are rampant among the children of earth. It points a moral worthy of consideration by the inhabitants of a planet seemingly de- termined on destruction. The values it asserts are fundamental in charac- ter. A basic truth is the motivating power behind them. Mankind essen- tially is a single unit; and races, na- | tions, classes, tribes, parties, even family groups, are comparatively un- important divisions, arbitrarily or ac- cidentally established to serve tem- porary special interests, greed and avarice, doubt and fear. The uni- versal factor of love is what is needed, | but there have been too few Saladins | to give and too few Richards to re- ceive, People, however, are learning. In theory, they realize, the victories they desire can best be won by co-opera- tion. The purpose of inereasing num- { bers now is to put the principle into | effect. Sorrow is contributing to their determination, and perhaps the ex- perience of recent years will give them the power they have lacked to make their dream come true. . rat—e The late Adolph Ochs was in his own personality a tribute to the taste | of the American public. His motto, | “All the news that's fit to print,” in- | volved no shirking of responsibility for ! correct information, yet it preserves | a strict ethical standard. The well wishers of the New York Times wiil | hope the phrase may accurately rep- | | resent its editorial policy for many | years to come. - |is that somebody has {0 keep working hard in order to finance it. It is in itself an expression of capitalism in { the effort to assemble funds for the | purpose of enhancing pecuniary re- ward. And often the funds are not | scientifically handled. | e It is not unnatural for Andrew Mel- means of mecting the menace Ger- | many now offers. British statesmen visited Paris, Moscow, Warsaw and Praha in the course of their “explor- ations.” Most significant of all was the eye-opening conferences which 8ir John Simon and Capt. Anthony Eden held in Berlin. Yesterday in London and Paris there were separate developments likely to be of paramount influence upon the Stresa deliberations. To the House of Commons Sir John 8imon for the first | time disclosed the results of his trip to | Berlin. He learned that the Nazis demand an army of 550.000 men, authority to possess all types of arma- ment that other powers have, a navy about, a third the size of Britain's, or some 385,000 tons: air parity with the British and French, and, finally, restoration of Germany as a colonial power, in order to end her “inferior” international rank. The British for- eign secretary re-emphasized that these German aspirations accentuate the “wide divergence” between the Reich and the London government. He left little doubt that Great Britain opposes them. Coincident with this eleventh-hour indication that the British are going to Stresa in mood to offer stern re- sistance to Nazi pretensions, Paris an- nounced the imminent cenclusion of a Pranco-Russian alliance providing for mutual military aid in case of aggression. It would come into effect only if the nations in the projected larger European accord were unable to decide upon the aggressor in case of conflict. The new Franco-Russian pact will be signed at Moscow later this month. It is designed to put teeth into the League of Nations in the form of a military agreement for “automatic” punishment of any ag- gressor nation. While apparently lim- ited on its face to France and Russia, such a pact would almost certainly | | have the adhesion of France's other | allies, the Little Entente states, each | with a direct interest of its own in checking German aggression, espe- | cially in Austria and elsewhere in |1on to ebject to studying clerical com- utations concerning his taxes at an | age when he is entitled to the birth- | day parties and congratulations that reward a busy life, r———— Despite the fascinations of quarrels abroad, Uncle Sam is obviously in-| clined to 2o back to the original ideals ! of life liberty and the pursuit of hap- piness. = B Munitions may claim more than a three per cent profit on the theory that it is an ugly business at best and | should therefore be assured of com- pensation. | | | R SK&OTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Increased Demand. Tie Roman feast was somethine oreat Attained by lavish wealth. 1t did not help affairs of state Nor make for better health, | And they, who should have been more | wise, | When living past their means, On peacocks' brains, learned to despise Their plain old pork and beans. | When they took heed of what had fed The proletariat, | The merchants very shrewdly said, “They should pay more for that.” And now, with many a dainty dish Served up in sumptuous scenes. | Men breathe a frugal sich and wish i For plain old pork and beans. Drawing a Line. “So you advise me to study the dead languages.” “Yes," answered Senator Sorghum, “unless you go back too far and try | to rescuscitate some mummified ideas Jud Tunkins says idle curiosity is responsible for much war. Every new generation includes a lot of folks who want to know what it's like. Expensive. | Templeton Jones had tried for many years to reduce high ethical principles to the common level. “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” is all very well, but every one knows how difficult it is. What one may do, however, is take care to do good in small matters whenever the opportunity is offered. Thus, instead of looking with pity, merely, at the lost dog, and remark- ing placidly, “poor thing,” Jones took the dog in, and fed it, and found a home for it. If everybody in the world would do the same, the world would be & great deal better off. Perhaps the fact that the world is as well off as it is comes about largely Lecause so many persons do act in this way, taking care of such matters as come home to them, instead of manifesting an “incredible tenderness for black folk 3,000 miles away,” as a wise man put it long ago. * K k¥ ‘The fear of God, which he had been enjoined to manifest, was something that always puzzled Jones, as it has many another. Perhaps it would be well, if one could substitute for everyday fears, more in number than most persons are willing to admit, the pure fear of God. This fear of offending Him would keep one from fearing anything else. Not many persons, however, Jones believed, could attain to this high | estate. It was difficult to know what He wanted, to feel quite sure that one krew. S0 Templeton Jones looked around for means of attaining some measure of that high wisdom. He believed he found it in fearing 10 be untrue to himself. Even that sounded rather pedantic, 5o he substituted for it the idea of | not going back on himself. * W % His only fear in life came to be that of going back on what he stood for, once he believed that it was what he ought to stand for. | It took him years to work out this |idea, but at last he came to the place where he discovered, as mno doubt many another has, that as he became more true to his ideal, the other fears |of life crept gradually away from him. Instead of a multitude of little and ! craven, crass and ignoble fears, he more and more was able to substitute ior them his one big fright that he might do something. or say something, | which would constitute going back on himself. No one who knew Jones could get the idea that this course of action was dictated by any sort of ego what- soever. No less egocentric person ever lived. He did not stick up for himself so much because he thought that his ideas were true or right, or that he could not be improved, but solely be- cause the longer he lived the more sure he became that these ideas were | the essential Jones. If they weren't | Jones, where was he? T > * % = Thus he was able to go his own way, without bowing down to herd instincts, doing as he pleased because he was not afraid to so do. He saw 30 many persons whose lives were wrecked daily because they were afraid of not doing things, or of going places, or reading what other | people read, or enjoying the same en- joyments. He realized that they did what they did. not so much because they wanted to, but because they feared of offend- ing some one or ones. BY FREDERIC James Aloysius Farley enjoys his job at the Post Office Department, but, if he were to be perfectly candid, the Postmaster General's friends are convinced he'd admit that politics |is his first and all-time love and the game at which he has proved himself a master. So if and when the time comes for “Sunny Jim” to desert his de luxe habitat on Penn- sylvania avenue and go back to the hurly-burly of party affairs, the con- | sensus is that he will shed no tears. | He doesn’t expect to lose weight or |accumulate gray hairs in the task |of accomplishing President Roose- velt's renomination. The chances are |that Jim already has it figured out, | down to the last delegate. His belief | probably is that the 1936 conclave will be a mere ratification meeting, winding up with the renaming of F. D. R. by acclamation. One thing | Parley is sure of is that Huey Long cannot conceivably be a threat to the President either in the conven- tion or in the campaign as a third WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS that he’s most at home when playing | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. They were afraid, in other words, and so daily went back, in the vernac- ular, on the self, that self which after all is the real human. ‘Templeton Jones was saved all these petty fears, because he had one big fear, which, over the years, had quiet- ly crowded the others out of his per- sonal - It was not easy. He knew all the herd enjoyments, and at times gave in to them, but he was always ashamed of himself when he read a book that made no particu- lar appeal to him just because others were doing it, or did anything that he honestly did not believe in just be- cause others who did believe in it in- sisted that he pretend that he did, too. * k% % In time he came to see better than most how millions are led by the nose and made to pass their whole lives doing things that in reality are not what they want to do. He saw the efforts of men and women to free themselves from these entanglements, how they battled against everything and for every- thing except the right thing, which was and is and evermore will be that inner light for which there is no sub- stitute, If he, or any one else, ever were to attain true wisdom, it would come only as the result of thousands of pre- liminary battles on the simpler fields of everyday living, where high-sound- | ing names play little part, but where | | every one, no matter who he is, or | how much money he has or has not, | has endless opportunities to do in |little matters what at last must lead {on to the ability te achieve in big matters, Or so we hope. * k¥ Nor must it be thought that Tem- | pleton Jones had attained complete mastery even on the plane of the| everyday and the everywhere present. He had not; but as least he had | firmly in his possession the beginning | of the gleam, and enough success to | make him willing to go ahead. The | pot of gold at the end of his rainbow | was not gold at all, but color, which is all any rainbow is. What the tints and shades shall be depends upon | what the beholder shall make of |them. It is because this has been “rralmd S0 many centuries, by so| {many millions of wayfarers, that it |is a platitude, something which we all know so well that the sophisticated | persons assert that we must not men- tion it at all. Why do they say this? | Because they are afraid, afraid of each other, afraid of good ideas. ‘Templeton Jones had banished all such fears by his one big fear of being untrue to himself, or, as he preferred to put it, of going back on himself. There was something humanly com- | forting about that way of saying it; | every one has known some one or| thing to go back on somebody else, | and evervbody knows it is a lousy | trick. as the vernacular forcibly puts | it. Modern research has shown just how lousy a louse can be. Templeton Jones realized the dangers of his course. but he was not afraid of those dangers. Those fears, too, had been ousted by his master fear. It was the latter which gave| him such grip as he had on life, its | problems and their solutions. He be- { lieved in himself, and his thoughts. in his aspirations and above all his dis- | likes. Always something told him | when he should not do something, or not say something, and he refused to | permit anybody from the outside to | | tell him to do or say what his real self did not approve. That was as close as he could get to the fear of | God, but maybe it was near enough. WILLIAM WILE. and the director of the mint. Mr. | Roosevelt was thus honored early in | the administration, but Mr. Morgen- | thau to date has ignored all sugges- | tions that he give the necessary sit- tings for “‘medalization.” The former Governor of Wyoming, being herself a modest person, has no thought of taking advantage of her official pre- | rogative until her immediate chief, Mr. Morgenthau, has led the way. The Roosevelt medal can be obtained from the United States Mint at Philadelphia for $1, plus 13 cents for postage. LI I 2 ] There's a certain United States | | Senator from the wide open spaces | | who ordinarily wends his way through | | the Capitol wreathed in smiles. Now- | | adays. his friends observe, he's scowl- |ing. The explanation is that recently he was described in the newspapers as a sheep raiser, the fact being that | he is a cattieman. Out where the | | West. begins, it's almost a felony | | justifying homicide to call a cattle- | {man a sheepman. | of others, and the thoughts of others, | mill output, which means fewer hours Sees Chaos From Present Economic Leadership To the Editor of The Star: I notice that another textile strike is impending as & result of the an- nounced 25 per cent reduction in and less pay for the operatives. Of course, you can’t do anything about cotton without running up against & multitude of interests, for labor and agriculture are both in- volved, with all the intervening in- terests; and to satisfy these varying interests is well-nigh humanly impos- sible. But there is, it strikes me, an utter disregard of fundamentals by the pres- ent labor and farm leadership. At no point is there taken into considera- tion by these leaders the fact that sales resistance is increased every time the price of a commodity is moved up. The record shows that the gross returr: of the retail trade of the United States increased 14 per cent last year, but that the price level increased 25 ver cent. Now it does not appear to me that it would be very difficult for the leaders of the thought life of the people to get it across convincingly that prices do not constitute wealth or welfare, but_ that goods, commodi- ties or chattels, on the other hand, do have some direct bearing upon the wealth and welfare of the Nation. What good has the hog farmer gained if he gets twice as much for his hogs | in price, but loses two-thirds of his sales by a buyer’'s strike, such as is| being formed by the housewives of the country against the purchase of | meats? What good does a laborer in | the cotton mills of the South gain by getting & 35 per cent increase in pay when he is forced to accept s reduc- tion of 50 per cent in time as a re- suit of curtailed production resulting from reduced consumption? The con- clusion is inescapable—he gets less than no gain; in fact, he loses. Bu‘ that is the theory upon which the present farm and labor leadership is based. Three million men work- ing for three and one-third dollars per ‘lay means more of wealth and wel- fare than one million working for $10 ver day. Upon this basis there is some chance of establishing a market with the 80 per cent of the peoples of the earth who are undernourished, uaderclad and inadequately housed. 3ut upon the basis upon which the | present farm and labor leadership is conducted, there is not a Chinaman's chance of sufficiently enlarging the markets of the world to consume the procucts of the farm and factory. Furthermore, there is nothing to be gained by longer deluding ourselves in the belief that we are getting out of this depression, for we are not. An analysis, as before indicated, shows | tnat there was less in volume of re- tail business during 1934 than in| 1933. But an analysis of the credit business of the country shows up even | worse than did the retail business. For instance, the banks of the Ped- >ral Reserve System, which does three- | fourths of the commercial banking business of the country, did $800,000 000 less business in 1934 than in 1933, though the deposits increased some $6,000,000,000. It is commercial loans | ihat indicate business activity, which fact, considered in connection with the shrinkage of $800,000,000 of such | loans last year as compared with the | year before, shows unmistakably in which direction the business eondition‘; of the country is going, and no con- | ceivable amount of argument or hooey | can make it otherwise. We are losing | ground in this fight on the depres- sion. We must change our methods, or prepare for liquidation and chaos. JOHN W. HESTER. Airport Dangefir— Is | Vividly Described To the Editor of The Star: “Airport! Stop, Look, Listen” (or some kind of sign). No warnings. Is it fair? I am one of your subscribers and am writing The Star, as we do not know to whom else to turn. | A reader can get the amswer 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 lohg has Bill Robinson, the tap dancer, been on the stage?— W.D. A. He says that he has been ap- pearing professionally for fifty years, Q Was the Chicago Court House g-tmyed in the great Chicago fire?— H A. It was included in the burned area. Q. How long did it take Noah Web- ster to complete his dictionary?— R. G. . Noah Webster is said to have begun work on his dictionary in 1806. It appeared in 1828. Q. What is fake music?—A. G. A. It is extemporaneous music which pleases the ear, although it doesn’t conform with all the rules and dictates of harmony. and began when he was just past 7.’ ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. the use of the fasces, which was & bundle of rods, containing an ax, car- ried by the lictors before the magis- trates of ancient Rome as a symbol of authority. The word Nazi is used to describe the German National So- cialist Workers' party and is a combi- nation of the letters from the German form of the name—Nationalsozialis- tische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei. Q Is Mrs. Andrew Carnegie living? A Mrs. Carnegie is living and was | honored recently by receiving an hon- | orary LL. D. from St. Andrews Uni- versity in Scotland. Q. Where is the Island of Monte | Cristo?>—J. C | _A. Monte Cristo is an island of | Italy belonging to the province of | Leghorn, 25 miles south of Elba. The highest point is 2,126 feet above sea level, and it has an area of about 6 square miles. It contains the ruins of a Camaldulensian monastery, aban- doned in 1553, and is the private prop- erty of the King of Italy, who has a | shooting lodge there. The fame of | the island is due to “Le Comte de Monte Cristo,” by the elder Dumas. Q. How many yards of material are there in the dress skirt of a Navajo ‘woman?—J. C. R. A. Bhe uses 13 yards of goods for one skirt. Q. How mny_p;u-ndl of fish are taken off the coasts of Canada and | the United States”—W. 8. A. The combined yield is about 3,300,000,000 pounds annually, worth more than $100,000,000. Q. What is the meaning of Ten- niel's cartoon, “Dropping the Pilot”?— R. L W. A. Bir John Tenniel, 1820-1914, was probably the most famous of all Eng- contributed to London Punch. His caricature, “Dropping the Pilot,” was published in Punch, March 20, 1890. It referred to the action of the Ger- man Emperor, William II, now in re- tirement at Doorn, Holland, in practi- cally dismissing from office the Prince as the brains of the new German em pire and Willlam was quite young the time. It was considered as a fool- hardy thing for the young Emperor to drop from his ship of state the | pilot who had guided it. Q. What Is the sclentific name for the Adam's apple?—M. T. S. A. Prominentia laryngea. Q. How did Napoleon spell his fam- A. “Bonaparte” From this time on, he used this form instead of “Buonaparte,” which was the spelling used by his father. Q. What 'u_t;z_oriqtml name of “Harp of the Winds">—H. A. R. A. This beautiful painting by Ho- the Seine. Q. How did the words Pascisti and | Nazi originate?—E. J. R. A. The term Fascisti originated in lish caricaturists. For many years he | von Bismarck. Bismarck was regarded | ily name in signing the record of his | | marriage to Josephine?—C. B. mer D. Martin was called “A View of | | Q. How many members are there in the King of England’s Privy Council? | B. V. D. | A. There are between 200 and 300 | members of his majesty’s Privy Coun- | cil. The Lord President of the council | u‘ the Right Honorable Stanley Bald- win, | win. | @ Who first told the story of George Washington and his hatchet? —E. C. A. Parson Weems, the first biogra- pher of George Washington, was the writer who first told the story. Q. How long is a copyright ? A. The duration of the copyright is | 28 years. It can be renewed for an- | other 28 years. Thus, after 58 years, the work is in the public domain. Q. Who was Cassandra?—T. D. K. A. Cassandra was a prophetess. In | Greek legend she was the daughter of Priam and Hecuba gifted with the power of prophecy, but Apollo, whose advances she had refused, brought it to pass that no one believed her pre- dictions, although they were invari- ably correct. Q. What proportion of the boys in the C. C. C. camps are attending some kind of an educational class>—G. N. A. The number of attendants is steadily increasing. and in January. 1935, had reached 53 per cent of the men enrolled in the camps. Q. Were there more people on Fed- eral relief this Winter than there | were last Winter>—N. M. A. There were fewer in January { and February than for those months last year. The number of families | declined 1.3 per cent, and the expendi- tures for all phases of the general relief program dropped 8 per cent. Q. What is a cross-fox>—E. T. R. A. It is & red fox with red sides. | neck and ears dark below and silvery over the back, shoulders and rump. Taking Profits Newspaper discussions of current proposals to take the profit out of war indicate Nation-wide sentiment in fa- vor of effective legislation to draft wealth as well as manpower in the event of conflict. Some observers cau- tion against such restrictions as might prove crippling in time of war, but many contend that elimination of profit will aid in keeping the country at peace. “The Flynn plan,” the Columbus Surely something should be done! | Surely something could be done! | A group of four of us started for | Mount Vernon the other day after a | visit to Arlington. In coming out of | Arlington we did mot turn correctly and got off the highway onto Mili- tary road, but, hoping it would inter- sect the new highway, we did not im- mediately turn back, finally realizing we were getting nowhere specially and | it was uninteresting. We asked direc- tions and changed our course accord- ingly. The traffic lights changed on the next road and were set against us with three cars ahead. (Ohio) Citizen explains, “would fix prices, close commodity exchanges, abolish speculation, take over indus- tries essential to the conduct of the war, draft officers of these corpora- i tions into service at Army officers’ | pay, take by taxes half of all corpora- | tion profits up to 6 per cent and all | profits above that level, tax individual incomes from $1000 or less up to scfficient to pay for the war, confis- ting incomes above $10,000.” ¢ | cal | “The whole business is drastic enough | to take your breath away. But that | 1t would do what it sets out to do— The Port Arthur (Tex.) News says: | Out of War Draws Country-Wide Support cipline and to risk their lives on the field of battle it can require them, or any of them, to cultivate fields, tc operate machines, to build roads. to keep books or handle groceries. For purposes of war the Government may take possession of all the property in | the country or any part of it and | make such use of that property as the needs of the occasion demand.” Similar views are held by the Oshkosh (Wis.) Daily Northwestern and the Lincoin (Nebr.) State Journal. but the Stamford (Conn.) Advocate thinks that “the only complete solu- tion of the problem is not to get into war,” and the Kansas City Star also thinks that is about the size of it. ' Pedestrians Prone to Ignore Traffic Lights { To the Baitor of The Star As one who has driven daily in | Washington for the past 5 years. may 1 say to you that your recent editorial {(March 30) on the traffic situation | covered less than half of the situa- The road was narrow. we sat wait- | Femove the profits from war—there is | tjon> The wonder to me is there ing for the traffic lights. Suddenly | out of somewhere a siren screeching. Where was it coming from? Then out of what seemed no- where loomed up an airplane, headed latterly straight for us—whether it was taking off or landing we could not tell. It was lifted very slightly from the ground. There was not time to move. We dared not lest it confuse matters, and the traffic lights on our not a shadow of a doubt. | such a bill might prove an excellent means of keeping the Nation at peace.” ‘The Louisville Courier Journal dis- | cusses Mr. Baruch’s plan for “the | peace-time manufacture of war im- plements by the United States Gov- ernment, as a logical prerequisite to his proposal that the shipment of arms to belligerents, with this Na- Passing have not been 300 fatalities in 1935 | instead of nearly 30. | It is high time that the motorists | were getting a break instead of the | devil from all sources. It is also high time that the Police Department, in- stead of arresting motorists for going 25 miles an hour in the outlying dis- tricts, insist that the pedestrians in Central Europe. The cost of war quite well we know, | o0 %o ndidate. S L | tion a neutral, be prohibited.” and de- | the downtown district pay some at- more than seventeen years ago this country was involved in the greatest war the world has ever seen. Even though there among Americans, as there now is, not to permit, this country to be drawn into another war in which the foreign nations are engaged and which does not threaten an invasion of American s0il, the thoughts of many turn to- ward preparedness for eventualities. And taking the profits out of war is such a measure. It can be dealt with, perhaps, more dispassionately while the Nation is not involved in a war than after war is declared. April weather is no respecter of th# astronomers, who set a precise day and hour for the arrival of 8pring. The Use of Leisure. One of the problems of the depres- slon period has been and still is that of the useful employment of leisure. Thousands of men and women are unemployed and without the cus- tomary resources for the purchase of amusement, and thousands of boys and girls are so circumstanced as to | be unable to find recreational occu- pation in their own homes. Teachers and sociologists, fully aware of the dangers inherent in the circum- stances, have been wrestling with the | difficulty for many months, and there is reason to believe that they have achieved at least a partial solution. The 1934 report of the National Recreation Association offers an in- teresting factual sidelight on the gains accomplished. No less than 1,600,000 young people, the annual survey shows, have been attending municipal recreation centers; about 5,000,000 children have taken advan- tage of the facilities of public play- grounds; approximately 400,000 per- sons have joined in arts and crafts work “under public auspices”; 1,200 hase ball teams have been organized A be a determination | On the eve of Stresa, therefore, the | Germans have ample evidence of Eu- rope’s determination to checkmate Nazi policies which threaten her peace | and territorial security. The Reich | sooner or later will be asked to join | in preserving the Old World from an- | | other devastating war conflagration. Hitler and his government cannot | longer be in doubt that abstention from such co-operation will be costly | for Germany and only lead to complete | | frustration of her program. ———————— Many a taxpayer would not object to “the pink slip” in his tax return if it helped to keep the red ink out of his ledger. A Little Charity. In the days immediately following the battle of Jaffa, in 1191, Richard the Lion-Hearted, King of England and leader of the Third Crusade, lay desperately ill with fever, and news of his plight, naturally enough, was carried in due course to his enemy, the chivalrous Moslem prince Saladin. The Ilatter instantly expressed his sympathy in terms of practical action. | At his command snow was brought from the mountains and cooling fruits were requisitioned from distant orch- ards for the relief of the suffering invader. The Franks stood silent while the ministering servants of mercy came and went; an armistice for the moment prevailed between Christian and pagan armies. Neither captain surrendered, neither host con- ceded defeat. Only an interlude dedi- cated to fellowship was permitted to interfere with the business of mutual slaughter. On the morrow the two forces again would murder, wound or relation of conflict and strife. Mean- while, peace in the name of a little charity. rob each other in their traditional | And Mars in cynic glee Says, “If I am to give the show, Do not expect it free.” Even for pugilistic fray The public with white collars Digs down and is prepared to pay At least a million dollars. Similarity. “Do you ever try the stock market?” asked the traveling salesman. “No,” answered Cactus Joe. “But it's my guess that the stock market is a little like a deal in faro. You want to fight shy unless you know the dealer.” To a Dictionary. We read what other peopie say With earnest admiration, And still the world goes on its way In general agitation. 1t seems a tather futile mash Of print that we're displaying. There ‘are so many words, alas, And so few things worth saying. “1f any small boy was to- chop a cherry tree nowadays,” said Uncle Eben, “he wouldn't have a chance to git forgiveness from his pa. He'd have to talk it over on de spot wif a park policeman.” A Competitive Paradox. From the Owensboro (Ky.) Messenger. Just suppose the druggists should awake some bright morning to find the display windows of the liquor stores filled with cosmetics and health-giving tonics. What a howl there would be! Fish Tales. Prom the Grand Island (Nebr.) Independent. An fehthyologist says fish never stop growing. Well, they have to keep up with .the stories. —_— rave— Nature Winning the Race. From the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch. Man ultimately returns to dust, but out in the West the dust is beating ‘The story has been forgotten; none _: him to it. * ok X ok Revived reports that Mr. Farley is to leave the cabinet recall the fact that the postmaster generalship since time immemorial is the portfolio in which changes have been most fre- quent, just as modern tradition assigns the berth to the President’s chief political lieutenant and campaign manager. President Arthur had four Postmaster General. President Cleve- land had two in each of his adminis- trations. President McKinley had three and President Theodore Roose- velt four. Both Presidents Taft and Wilson each got along with one Post- master General apiece, as did Presi- dents Coolidge and Hoover. President Harding was served by three different Post Office Department chiefs— Messrs. Hays, Work and New. * X X % Representative Edward T. Taylor of Colorado, acting Democratic floor leader of the House, has a complex about living in a home of his own at ‘Washington. There’s a reason why he and Mrs. Taylor have ‘clung to hotel apartments ever since he arrived in Congress 26 years ago. It appears that once upon s time two Colorado members of Congress, tative John C. Bell and Senator John F. Shafroth, owed their defeats for re- election mainly to the issue raised by opponents that they had acquired residences in the District of Columbia and thus broken “home” ties with Colorado. Representative Taylor de- cided never to take such a risk and partially attributes to that determina- tion the fact that he is now in his fourteenth consecutive term. He and r Byrns entered Comgress on the same day, March 4, 1909. The an has been complimented from the highest Democratic quarter on his success in pinch-hitting for Majority Leader Bankhead during the latter’s absence from the House throughout the session on account of illness, * X ¥ X Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, director of the mint, has come to the conclusion that Secretary of the Treasury Mor- genthau is about the most modest man in public life. Under the law and in accordance with tradition, the mint is suthorized to strike bronze medals of the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury Something may soon be heard in Washington of a claim by Germany | for alleged wrongful seizure in 1926 of one of her ships laden with liquor. ‘The vessel in , the Carmen, ‘was bound from Bremen to Halifax on | what the owners of her cargo declare |to have been a perfectly legitimate mission. A sum of roundly $150,000 | is involved in their claim, which has just been revived, after having en- listed the attention of the State De- partment intermittently during the past nine years. The boat was nabbed off Nantucket Island by an American Coast Guard cutter on suspicion of being & rum runner. L America’s grand old man of labor, Andrew Furuseth, head of the Inter- national Seamen’s Union, has just left » Washington hoepital after recover- ing from a serious abdominal opera- tion, which he underwent on the eve of his 81st birthday anniversary. He remains a vigorous leader in the work- ers’ cause and will shortly return to his desk at A. F. of L. headquarters. The old viking, a born Norseman, ac- tively directed the seamen’s end of the Pacific Coast waterfront strike last Summer, though confined to bed in San Francisco by the same ailment which necessitated his recent opera- tion, Senator Shipstead of Minne- sota says “Uncle Andy” is “the smart- est man in the United States.” * ok ok % From beyond the Rio Grande, Am- bassador Daniels has just broadcast a radio address sponsored by the Mex- jcan foreign office, assuring Rotarians of the world a hospitable welcome at heir international convention'in Mex- ico City in June. There’s been some thought that on account of the Mex- ican religious controversy there might road had not changed. Then, within a few feet of us the plane lifted and went straight over our car with a sickening grinding of motors and roar and we dropped low on the seats in- side the car. No one spoke. We were at the mercy of what seemed a mon- ster. There was nothing any ome could do. We are temporary residents of Washington and the other two were visiting us, but we understand in relating the incident, or rather ex- perience, to several people that others have complained and had almost & l“lglll experience. ‘e ask: Is it fair to leave a like that open for the uyfam‘g‘“.: person with a weak heart or of a highly emotional type would have col- lapsed under such sn experience. Seeing the other day that marvel picture, “West Point of Hohson’s Choice, From the Pasadena (Calif) Post, treaty, at the request of Hitler, or stand pat and let the thing go to pieces. ——————— Proposes to Swap. From the Mansfield (Ohio) News-Journal Another way to avold overproduc- tion would be to make the farmers and city people change places. The Two-Thumb Model. not be as large an American delega- forthcoming con! as generally attends those joyous get- togethers. * %k * Discussing food prices, the A. A. A. Consumers’ Guide points out that in February, 193: of 10 of the more importa: a typical American family $15.42. February, 1935, they cost $21.41, the zh‘ u’f m them the prod! n farmers in February, 1933, received $5, and in February, 1035, $9.77, or PFrom the New Orleans Times-Picayune. East St. Louis pridefully & candidate for the title of hitch-hiker.” Its nominee is equipped with “¢wo thumbs on his right hand.” presents “perfect an increase of 95 per cent. to benefit payments for co-operating in the wheat and hog program. (Copyright. 1935.) | cides that such action “would be one | great step toward peace, especially if other nations should follow suit.” “It is both sound and just.” declares the Milwaukee Journal, “that when war suspends the natural peace-time conditions no group should be left in a position to profit more than any other group. In the last war, both in- dustry and labor profited at the ex- pense of the men in the trenches. We want no more of that. It not only was unfair fo the men in camps and overseas, but it created an economic problem which has not been solved to this day.” The St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press suggests that “all wars, perhaps. are profitless in the long run, but often they seem highly profitable at the time,” and the Bay City (Mich.) Daily times says that “one of the chief dangers nowadays is that war does, at least, provide a great, if temporary, spurt of prosperity.” In thal connec- tion the Charlotte (N. C.) News advo- cates the “‘pay-as-you-fight” plan, con- tending that “if our inventors should contrive a meter attachment into which the money must be dropped as the cannon boom, or a counter across which the cash must be passed in plain sight of the populace, there are enough in this eountry to stop any such foolish war as that. The possi- bility might exist, even, that we could do without the war in the first place, if the men who made the money out of it had to pay for it.” “That war profits will be controlled in some way is certain,” believes the Tulsa (Okla.) World, and the Boise (Idaho) Capital News agrees that “any scheme for ending the munitions racket should get our favorable atten- tion, but no scheme that might cripple our defense forces should be consid- hand, the Herald argues that “if the Government can require its men to undergo the rigors of military dis- 3 tention to the traffic lights and give | the much-abused motorist a chance | to go on the green light. The average | pedestrian pays no attention what- ever to traffic lights, but crosses the street when, where and however he | takes & fancy to—and dares the | motorist to hit him. This carelessness | and utter disregard for the rights of | the motorist is the worst here that I have scen in any city—and in my | opinion is responsible for more con- gestion and accidents than the motor- ists are. May I quote from a recent weekly | (Colliers): “Nearly half of those | killed last vear in_motor accidents | were pedestrians. The right of a pe- | destrian to the use of the streets is legally quite as well established as that of the motorist. It is, however, | not a right to be stupidly exercised.” The editorial, quoting data for deaths in 1934, shows that over 10.000 pedes- trians were killed, principally because of their own stupidity. That a pedestrian has the right te | cross on a green light needs no sub- stantiation, but here in Washington the pedestrians cross on any light. If the motorist cannot go on. a green light, just when can he? Accidents in Washington will con- tinue until such time as the pedestrian is made to realize that he is as much | subject to traffic rules as is the motor- { ist, and until such time as the authori- | ties regulate pedestrian traffic as they | do motor traffic. HENRY B. STEER. — el A Rhyme at Twilight By Gertrude Brooke Hamilton While Thousands Dance It's Spring in the town. It's dusk, it's sweet. People are loitering down in the street, A hand organ plays, a plane sails by, ‘The sun dips low in a sea-blue sky. Countless windows are closed for the day. High in a building the single ray Of a student lamp—in the dusk of Spring &: tolls while thousands.dance and ng.