Evening Star Newspaper, April 29, 1935, Page 10

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. ..April 29, 1935 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Ofce: icaeo el a0 Bast zea B, ce: Lake Michigan : Eirépean Office; 14 Regent St.. London. England. Rate by Clrfl;r ;Vnhln the City. Regular Edition. The Beming Sa"su (when_ & Sundays The Evening and Sund (when 5 Sundays)......65¢per month The Sunday Star... .. .5c per copy Night Final Edition. Nieht Final'and Sunday Star.0c per month Night Final Star..........55c per month Collection made af 'iké end of each month. _Orders may be sent by mail or telephone National 5000. A 5c per month nday’ Star ) - 60c per month i Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryl Daily and Sunday Daily only Sunday on! All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday. 1 yr., $12.00: 1 mo.. $1.00 Daily only Llvr., $R.00:1mo., 75 Sunday only... . 1yr. $5.00; 1 mo. Member of the Associated Press. ‘The Associated Press iggexclusively en- titled to the use for rep¥blication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Al rights ef publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. — Faith in Government. President Roosevelt, in his first address to the American people since his annual message last January, dis- cussed in detail his legislative program English-speaking delegates mingling with their emancipated Turkish sisters. Abdul Hamid, last great Ottoman potentate to inhabit those once sacred premises, would probably shrug his shoulders at some of the worldly west- ernisms that have taken root along the glamorous Bosporus could he survey them, but women disporting themselves at the Yildiz as the ac- knowledged peers of men—that would surely strike old Abdul as an anach- ronism conceivable only in a fairy tale. That such a gathering should be held in Istanbul is a natural tribute and sequence to the evolution of Turk- ish women. No longer veiled dolls in harems, the women of Turkey today have equal civic rights with men. At the recent general elections seventeen women won seats in the Grand Na- tional Assembly. Now they sit in conclave with three hundred delegates representing thirty nations in discus- sion of such questions as the claims of their sex for equal moral standards with men, equal conditions of work and more equitable rights for married women in the matter of nationality. There is & touch of the ironical in the circumstance that oné of the first | acts of the Istanbul Congress was to launch a flaming protest against the action of Nazi Germany in imposing upon the women of the Reich that species of male domination from which Oriental women have just been freed. ——s The Nazis’ U-Boats. Germany's rearmament plans have taken on new menace with the revela- for the present session, his program for relief expenditures, and confidently | assured the public that recovery is | here. As to the legislative program.f the President had little new to say. | The measures he advocated are those | which have been on the program Inr: months. They are the economic se- curity bill, that for the extension of the life of the N. R. A. for another | two years, that for the elimination o(l “unnecessary” holding companies, the banking bill, and a bill dealing wnh‘ transportation. Generally speaking, all these meas- ures give the Government greater con- trol over business. The President sev- eral times during his address last night | expressed the utmost confidence that | the Government can deal effectively, efficiently and honestly with the prob- lems of business, including banking. | Long experience, he said, had taught him that the *“exceptional instances of wrongdoing in Government are prob- | ably less numerous than in almost every other line of endeavor.” There is danger, however, that in this praise of governmental honesty the fact that more Government and more Govern- ment regulations and officials make for more and more regimentation of the people, and less liberty of action may have been ignored. ‘The President promised the Ameri- | can people that the enactment of the | banking bill into law would give the | country a better control of the uedit: of the Nation. That control, however, is to come through a governmental agency, rather than through the Fed- | eral Reserve System as it has existed since the days of the Wilson adminis- tration. The President promised the people lower electric and gas rnus[ once the bill for the elimination of | unnecessary holding companies has | been passed. The economic security | bill is to supplement the relief meas- | ures now in effect, to help eventually | to make unnecessary relief expendi- tures similar to those now demanded. Upon the need for extending the life of the N. R. A, the President was in- sistent, laying stress on the outlawing | of child labor, the provision for mini- mum wages and collective bargaining | for labor under the codes of fair com- Ppetition. In simple phrases, easily understood, the President described the set-up which he has created for handling the $4,000,000,000 work relief program. He promised to make the “dirt fly,” 20 that the end sought by this legis- lation, the re-employment of 3,500,000 jobless men and women, may be an accomplished fact before the year ends. ‘The_desire of the New Deal for the genel good was contrasted by the President with the “individual self- interest and group selfishness,” which, he said, were previously paramount in public thinking. He said that con- fidence of the country in democratic processes and republican institutions had been restored. At one point in his address the President asked the people to feel free to criticize, so that evils may be pre- vented from springing up in the oper- ation of the work relief program. He does not want purely fault-finding criticism or partisan criticism. The great difficulty, however, is to deter- mine what criticism is free from fault- finding and partisanship. ‘What the President had to say in regard to fundamental principles which should govern the work relief program bears examination. He in- sists that the projects shall be useful, that they shall be of a nature which will give much work for labor, that there shall be some chance for the Government to be repaid by the States or municipalities, that the | funds allotted shall be promptly spent, that the jobs must go to those on re- lief rolls, and that the projects shall be allocated to areas in proportion to the number of workers on relief, The | President sets great store by the work relief program. Upon this huge un- dertaking hangs in large measure the success or the disappointment of the eadministration. Women at Istanbul. Under the new deal vouchsafed it since ultra-modernistic Mustafa Kemal Ataturk came to power, twelvd years ago, Turkey has experienced in- numerable ftartling jonovations. Yet it is doubtful if even the banishment of the fez or the lifting of the veil outrivals in significance the spectacle lately in progress at Istanbul. There, in the Yildiz Kiosk, ancient palace of the sultans a parliament of women has been in session—the twelfth con- gress of the International Suffrage Alliance, with American and other tion that she is laying down twelve 250-ton submarines, in direct viola- tion of the Versailles treaty, The dis- closure is forthcoming on the verge of Anglo-German naval talks in Lon- don, which were arranged for during Sir John Simon’s visit to Berlin. The British government and people, pain- fully mindful of the terrible havoc wrought by German submarines dur- ing the World War, view this latest example of Nazi defiance with corre- sponding indignation and alarm. John | Bull's emotions will not be calmed by reports that the Germans have been secretly fortifying the North Sea islanid of Sylt as & submarine and air- craft base. The Versailles treaty allotted the Germans a naval defensive force aggre- gating approximately 110,000 tons, distributed among six armored ships of 10,000 tons each, six light cruisers, twelve destroyers and twelve torpedo boats. The Reich was pro- hibited from building submarines. If Hitler now proceeds to equip himself with & fleet of U-boats, he will com- mit a breach of the Versailles pact no less brazen than his repudiation of its military clauses. The recent League would be taken to consider reprisals for “future” violations of the peace pact, probably in the form of economic penaities. Germany has lost no time in offering the allied pewers an oppor- tunity to show how far they are really ready to go to curb Nazi arrogance. As the nation chiefly threatened by | & recrudescence of German naval Ppovwer, especially in the form of sub- marines, Great Britain once again is forced into the forefront of the Euro- pean situation by the Nazis’ plans at sea. The British have revealed reluc- tance to associate themselves actively |and definitely with the desire of { France, Italy and Soviet Russia for cast-iron defensive against Germany. have preferred tc flirt with the idea that the Reich might be tamed and coaxed into collective action for peace under League auspices. The theory was that patience and concilia- tion would persuade the Nazis to be “reasonable.” Hitler's submarine program effec- tually torpedoes such hopes. With their insular “isolation” now threat- ened by both German airplanes and submarines, the British are likely to revise their views about Nazi “reason- ableness” and consider more sympa- thetically the contention of their con- tinental associates that the one and only method of holding an aggressive Germany in check is to confront her with an overwhelmingly superior ring of force on land, on sea and in the air. It must be dawning upon the most conciliatory mind in the British government that something more than Geneva resolutions and pious faith in the Nazis’ good intentions is required if Hitlerism is not to keep Europe in perpetual terror by ever-recurring breaches of the World War settlement. — e European politicians study the map as if it were a chess board, but there are several players trying to perform at once. Chess is a game originally designed for two, and it may take some time to designate those who direct the moves. arrangements America's Tragic Week Ends. Reports from various parts of the land reveal that seventy-five persons lost their lives during the week end, while several hundred others were injured. Had these casualties been concentrated in a single disaster—a great fire, an explosion, a convulsion of nature—the country would today be greatly aroused. As it is, with the casualties scattered over a wide area, they are viewed as merely the inevitable consequences of individual haste, carelessness and incompetence, deplorable, but not alarming. Yet they are, nevertheless, in fact, rm- ing, as well as distressing. For they indicate a trend toward recklessness that threatens to cause a general demoralization. ‘The toll of human sacrifice to speed and pleasure is steadily rising in America. The motor car is the chief contributor to this tragic record. Yet not the motor car alone, for it is the heedless, brutal misuse of it that causes the steadily mounting toll of tragedy. Every week end millions of people take to the roads, not because of necessity, but for pleasure and | diversion. They want to “go places,” not for the sake of some profit to be i London statesmen | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, gained upon arrival, but for the sen- sation of speed. With the roads jammed as they are by motor cars driven at high rates, every mile is an adventure, a gamble with death. The urge to get ahead, to make a fast run to some point or other and return, to pass the car ahead, to beat a traffic light change, this is what contributes to the day's total of tragedy. The careful driver is not protected by his own caution and observance of the rules of the road. He is at the mercy of the speeder, the curve racer, the corner turner at high pace. If he is content to proceed at legal speed he is admonished by a peremptory blast of the horn to give way for a smarter driver, who has no reason whatever for overtaking save the de- sire to get somewhere more quickly than others. And in the final reckon- ing of the casualties these innocent victims often figure. The plain fact is that many people are now driving cars on the streets of the cities and the roads of the open country who are not competent, temperamentally or in point of skill, to operate motors. Yet they are licensed to drive and there is no ef- fective system of removing them from the highways. They ultimately pay their own penalties, often with the accompaniment of the death of those who ride with them and those whom they hit in their wild courses on the road. So great is the number of licensed motorists today that it would require & vast organization of supervision to |check up on them to determine whether they are fit to drive. The problem has become one of great dif- ficulty, complicated by the ease with boundaries. Perhaps official attention of road watching to mark the tag numbers of those who break the rules, and to cite them for forfeiture or sus- | pension of license, regardless of | whether their dangerous driving leads "m accidents. As long as they can get |away with their speeding and crowd- ing and weaving through the traffic lanes without penalty they will con- tinue their dangerous practices until in turn they, too, will figure in the re- | ports of these shocking contributions | to the death toll of the road. ———— Vigilance is demanded to prevent becoming war bases. {ably wish to be neutral in case of | general conflict, and to that end may | feel like calling for neighborly assist- | ance. | the Department of Agriculture for in- structions. R e RN the G. O. P. is willing to put the old elephant into the ring with the assur- ance that during a long vacation he has learned some new tricks. ——— The village postmaster knows all the gossip and Postmaster General Farley information on which to base a defi- nite prediction. e employment which is especially hard to manage because it is strictly vol- untary. ——ee—s SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Vocalization. Mockin’ bird is singin’ sweet Yonder in the tree. Likes to fashion songs so neat Just for you and me. Singing fast or singing slow, Often I'm in doubt If he really can know What he’s singin’ 'bout. Had to chop that tree away. Dropped it with a bump. Orator came ‘round one day, Stepped up on the stump, Talking in a style secure. Like to hear him shout, Though I'm wonderin’ if he's sure What he’s taikin’ 'bout. ° Free for AllL “What are your ideas for & camp- paign?” “Sharing the wealth,” said Senator Sorghum. “I'd even go so far as to de- mand free radio time for everybody.” Jud Tunkins says he finds that no matter how many folks try to tell him about finance, the note teller at the bank always has the last word. Silent and Sure. Japanese are wonderful, But we're hearing tell That they get commercial pull ‘Cause they undersell. Gentle neighbors bring surprise As their goods they show; Do not even advertise On the radio. Business. “Do you think business is good?” “Beyond & doubt,” answered Mr. Dustin Stax. “Our natural resources are enormous and so are the require- ments of the people. Business is right there. All we need is the ability to transact it.” Dust. Breezes sweep away the soil Where the farmer turns to toil, But encouragement is fine For the digger in the mine. Gold holds a quiescent state, Fertilizers aviate. Gold dust, by itself, would fail ‘To grow corn or even kale. “Most folks desire to do de right thing,” sald Uncle Eben. “Dar ain't s0 much need of reformin’ men 8&s dar is of trying to keep ’'em from backslidin®.” which road users slip across State | | may profitably be concentrated upon | | the finding of some practical scheme | islands off the American coast from They will prob-i Economists who assert that land 1s| | the source of all wealth have not com- | | Council resolution, condemning Ger- | Pletely decided on a demand that all| | man rearmament, set forth that steps | concerned in government report to In case the people demand novelty feels confident of being able to gnther’ There is always an element of un-| i | | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Standing out on a fine day is about the best thing one can do, if it can be managed. The number of persons who seem to be able to manage it, especially at this time of year, will continue to be & surprise. Any time of day one happens to come along, there are many men standing around apparently doing nothing. g They really aren’t doing anything, unless enjoying the sunshine can be called doing something, as no doubt it 1s. Standing in the sunshine, at this time of the year, is the greatest of out- door sports. * ¥ %k X In this happy activity one needs no excuse at all, if one is both wise and to a certain extent brave. Neither golf club nor fishin’ tackle is necessary. All one needs is & good pair of shoes, for the sidewalks get hot in the sun. Guarded on one end by good leather, one may receive the rays on the other without harm. It still is too early for many of us to go hatless. The joy of just standing is never known to restless, unhappy persons who are always on the move. With them action becomes a semi-vice. * % % ¥ He who is able to stand looking for & time at whatever he can find to look at may felicitate himself on his ability. The happy thing is that he shares it with many others, all of whom find no difficulty in hitting on something to watch, A man painting a grille is enough. Seeing a great crowd gathered at one place recently, we hurried for- ward, intent gn finding the victim. There was none. All we could see was a man in! white uniform swinging a brush. All any one else could see was the same. There was absolutely nothing about | the spectacle to attract any particular | attention, but there we all were, gawking into the air at a man who was simply going about his duty. * ok * X His particular job called for no especial climbing ability. Every day one sees painters engaged in far more hazardous work. Few of them ever receive the public attention this man was getting. Perhaps the fact that he was at work on a very public thoroughfare was responsible. Any way, there we all stood, watch- ing him, and, no doubt, each other, for there is Something in the so- called “crowd mind” which makes for suspicion. We watch the man, but we keep an eye on each other, too. There is little conversation in such & crowd. Occasionally some one will venture | a remark to a neighbor, but for the most part we stand as if we were alone, * ¥ % % The best sunshine standing, in a | city. is done by one’s self. ‘Then the ever-present busybody, | | who always comes bustling out of a building as if he had the weight of | the universe on his shoulders, will content himself with some such re- mark as, “Taking & sun bath, eh?” “Yes,” we are glad to teil him. He is satisfled with the explanation, and goes on his way rejoicing. But really we are just loafing. The only fun in loafing comes to him who is not ashamed of ft. “I lean andeloaf at my ease, watch- ing a blade of Summer grass.” So sang the poet, and we who are less than poets are glad he said it, once and for all. I “At my ease!” He who loafs unhappily, or for fear the boss will catch him, had better be on his way, for he will never know the fine points of the art. Look up Robert Louls Stevenson and Walt Whitman. ‘They knew how, although they could be as active as flies upon oc- casion, For those of us who are not poets, there are plenty of things to watch. A painter, for instance, * % ¥ x The best way is to watch nothing, but just stand, soaking up the sun- shine as a sponge does water. That is the peak of the art. In a busy city it is exemplified every day by those who are not afraid of themselves. Many men are afraid of themselves. Maybe women, t0o, are afraid of them- selves; we do not know. Often we have wondered about the typical feminine state of mind in such mat- ters. But certainly women mind their own business better than men, and do not seem to be given at all to the nonsense of snappy talk which passes so widely among men as humor. It is customary in male circles for friends to call each other all sorts of names “in fun,” to cast reflections upon each other's work, still “in fun,” to say all manner of things lathered | with supposed humor which on no ac- count any one would say with a straight face. But some typical males have even attained the peak of rank masculinity {in this matter, by being able to say the grossest things without a quiver | of a smile, on the supposition that you | must know they e only kidding. | Fortunately the world of women | utterly free from this sort of al- leged humor, as far as we can dis- cover. It is for this reason that often | we refer, in this column, to “he” or | | “him” when we cannot possibly mean | “she” or “her.” * % % Spring fever, indeed. It isn't fever at all, it is Spring. Let us give the season its due. The warmth. after Winter, is plain {and_unmistakable. | Why complicate it with talk about “fever”? Spring’s warmth is enough for the | flowers, the grass, the shrubs, the trees. It is enough for us. Anywhere in the city, as well as in the country, we may stop for an hon- est compliment to the season. Let us stop, if only for a few min- utes, and permit the genial rays to saturate us. Science has put her O. K. on sun- shine. Spring did it. a long time ago, long before science was ever heard of. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Every executive branch of the Gov- ernment with the single exception of the Department of State will have a finger in the $4,000.000.000 work-re- lief pie. It's even posible that Secre- tary Hull's establishment will have to help out with some diplomacy when the Roosevelt-Walker-Ickes-Hopkins “big four” is under siege by project boosters from every nook snd cranny of the land If the President means to be taken literally at his word that every community, large or small, and every fellow, big or iittle, is entitled to a hearing before the Allotment Board, there are already ample indi- cations that the line will be a long one, as soon as it begins to form. Members of Congress are likely to be conspicuous in it. Some Senators and Representatives, who were hope- ful of leaving Washington after ad- journment, now expect to have to| spend a goodly portion of their time here during the Summer as advo- cates of home-town and home-State projects. * ok ox K Throbbing and busy as Washington has been ever since the dawn of the New Deal, authorities are convinced | that the Capital is about to become even a greater magnat, due to Nation- wide interest in work relief. With all Federal agencies more or less concen- trating upon the program, 1935-36 in many respects will resemble war days of 1917-18, the only difference being that energies and activities this time are directed against & domestic foe, unemployment. President Roosevelt, as commander in chief of the supreme offensive against depression, embarks upon the campaign in fighting spirit. * ok Kk K Coincident with completion of ar- rangements for setting four billion of work-relief dollars to rolling, the National Economy League will launch its big drive against Government ex- penditure. The occasion will be a dinner in New York on May 7, at which Senator Millard E. Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland. described as “one of the leaders of the new econ- omy bloc in the Senate,” and former Director of the Budget Lewis W. Douglas will be the principal speak- ers. The keynote of the Economy League campaign is a demand for. a balanced Federal budget in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1936. Tydings and Douglas are expected to fulmi- nate vigorously against New Deal spending. * ok K * While detailing the work-relief set- up at his most recent press conference, President Roosevelt drew a series of circles to illustrate his meaning, and at one time spoke of “moving from the | left to the right” F. D. R. did not have New Deal left-wingers and right- wingers in mind, but saw the point when the scribes chuckled over the allusion and wisecracked with them about it. * kX X With appointment of Charles Edi- son to the National Recovery Indus- trial Board, another son of a famous father enters the New Deal. Others answering that description are W. Averell Harriman, administrative offi- cer of N. R. A, and Joseph H. Choate, jr., chairman of the Federal Alcohol Control Administration. Official Wash- ingtonians who are sons of distin- guished dads include Senator Bennett Champ Clark, Democrat, of Missouri; Senator Robert M. La Follette, Pro- gressive, of Wisconsin; Senator Fred- erick Hale, Republican, of Maine, and Chief Clerk Samuel J. Gompers of the Department of Labor. * x k¥ “Honest Harold” L. Ickes, chairman of the Work-Relief Allotment Board, probably thinks it's a lucky thing that he doesn’t have to face the guns of < | senatorial confirmation. It's by no ! means certain that the Secretary of the Interior would survive such an | ordeal, for his hard-boiled attitude in | connection with expenditure of public | works funds has not enhanced his popularity on Capitol Hill. Some of (' his senatorial critics undoubtedly | would rejoice at an opportunity to blackball him. Despite criticism and detractors, Ickes has never lost caste | |at the White House and his latest “lnpointmenl is prima facie evidence that the President holds him in un- shaken esteem. Harry L. Hopkins and Dr. Rex Tugwell would doubtless ex- | perience some rough going, too, if their | work-relief jobs depended on sena- torial approval. * X X x Eleventh-hour protests both in the | United States and Japan against the impending maneuvers of the Ameri- can Navy in the Pacific leave the Roosevelt administration unmoved. | The operations will be carried out in all respects according to program. | Secretary Swanson's explanation that | no vessel will come within 2,000 miles of Japan, it is felt in Washington, should suffice to assure all concerned that there is nothing provocative | whatever in the maneuvers, which are of routine and traditional na- | ture, though more extensive than usual. They will, moreover, find their counterpart in operations of the Japanese fleet later in the Sum- mer. Authorities are convinced that responsible public opinion in both countries is reconciled to the ma- neuvers of the two fleets and that they will pass into history, like sim- ilar operations in the past, without leaving any trace of ill feeling either in Japan or America. * % %X % | Minister of Finland, appears at pub- lic functions in Washington or else- where in the United States nowadays he is the invariable recipient of a | conspicuous ovation, a tribute to the fact that he represents the one coun- try that has fulfilled its debt obli- gations over here. If envoys of debt- dodging nations happen to be pres- ent on the same occasion red faces are the rule, while Minister Jarnefelt is blushing for other reasons. * Lk ok Politicians are®interested in a suit just filed in the New York Supreme Court by C. Bascom Slemp, secretary to President Coolidge and one-time Republican national committeeman | from Virginia, against Claudius H. | Huston, tormer Republican national chairman. Slemp seeks to collect $10.- 000 spent in the Virginia gubernatorial campaign in 1929. He contends that Huston offered to pay him that amount for “advance political work,” if he would borrow the money for such a purpose. Slemp made the loan and claims he has ever since been unsuccessfully endeavoring to obtain reimbursement from Huston. The campaign in question ranged around the effort of Virginia Repub- licans and anti-Smith Democrats to {elect Dr. William Moseley Brown as a fusion candidate for Governor. (Copyright. 1935.) as. From the Shreveport (La.) Journal. A British Army man says that “gas attacks are more stupefying when launched from the air.” We had no idea that the three-cornered radio debate had carried all the way across the Atlantic Ocean. Piker. From the Lowell (Mass.) Evening Leader, A candidate for alderman in Con- necticut filed an expense account in which the major item was 10 cents for cigars for his friends. It is per- haps needless to add that he was not elected. Whenever Eero Jarnefelt, the new | APRIL 29, 1935. The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. If members of Congress or of the public generally had hopes that Pres- ident Roosevelt would curtail mate- rially the legislative program which he has demanded of Cangress, 50 a8 to permit an early adjournment of the present session, they must have been disappointed last night. Instead of abandoning the measures over which major battles are expected, the President reiterated his insistence that they be passed. Included in the list is the extension of the N. R. A, the blll for economic security, the banking bill and the bill to eliminate some of the helding companies in public utilities. In every one of these measures there is matter of contro- versy. The House has the economic security bill and sent it to the Senate. It is abeut to take up the banking bill. Indeed, if the House alone were needed to make these measures laws, the program might be completed in short order. The rub comes in the Senate. * % % % ‘The Upper House is prepared to | debate at length all of these bills. Con- sidering that it is now about four menths since Congress assembled in ‘Washington and that only one of the major proposals of the administra- tion has passed the Senate as well as the House—the $4,000,000,000 werk relief law—the outlook for speedy ad- journment is not bright. Neither the President nor the country is anxious to have Congress remain long in ses- sion. But how to get rid of it is another question. Having provided vast relief funds, the country prob- ably could get along without further legislation. But that is net in the mind of the New Dealers. They are intent upon supplementing their pro- gram_of reform legislation, already put through in part by the last Con- gress. Next year is the year of the national campaign. The New Dealers probably will be more content to get | their legislative program as far as possible out of the way before the campaign begins. A short session next year will give the Democratic members of Cengress more time to get into| the campaign for re-election, and for | the national ticket. ! *x 8% ‘The much-discussed May regional confegence of Midwest Republicans is now to be held in Springfield, I, early in June, according to press re- ports from Excelsior Springs, Mo., where Harrison E. Spangler, national committeeman for Iowa, and other leaders have been in conference. Some | of the Republicans have been puzzled | over a program fer this and other | regional conferences. It begins to look | as though they would be & lot better | off if they kept away at this time | from the adoption of resolutions that would have the semblance of party | platforms. General discussions of party organization, coupled with speeches by Republicans capable of stirring the delegates and the rank and file of the party, looks like the safer course. In this connection the G. O. P. might | establish a school of public speaking. | The party just now seems to need real | spellbinders and oraters. Outside of | Senator Borah of Idaho, there are very about 16 feet long and of about 16 jnches from ear to ear. The nose is few party leaders who have such gifts | or who are able to stir the imagina- | tion of the people. The Democrats, | the party's head, President Roosevelt, | Who seems able to charm the birds off the trees, but a score of other brilliant talkers, not the least of whom is Alfred | E. Smith. When Mr. Smith gets into | action on the platform things happen. | * x % % i The first of the regional conferences | to be held by the Republicans is to take place in Boston on Tuesday. If | these conferences undertake the writ- | ing of resolutions setting forth the aims of the G. O. P. it may easily be found that the resolutions adopted in Boston may differ considerably from those adepted by a conference 1n! Springfield, TIl. That would not do at | all. After all. what the Mpublicaml will have to do in the next campaign | 1s to combat the Roosevelt administra- tion. To undertake copying the Roose- ' velt New Deal is not likely to get them | anywhere in particular. This does not mean that the party must be reac- | tionary. But it does look as though | they might find issues enough, one of them is Federal secialism. * ko ox Postmaster General James A. Farley. chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has begun his political Pprognostications again. The fact he was eminently successful in Ppredictions in 1932 and 1934 give some standing as a prognosticator. He | insisted in his speech at a Jefferson day dinner Saturday in New York that | the people have great confidence in ' the President and that the Republican | critics of the administration are bad | boys who are trying to shake the con- | fidence of the people. Without con- fidence, he argued, there can be no Trecovery. Mr. Farley turned his fire on several Republican critics of the administration, notably former -Presi- dent Hoover, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Ogden L. Mills, former Secretary of the Treasury, and Senator Dickinson of Towa. He complained because Mr. Hoover had not started the “New Deal” in 1929. He attacked all Re- publican critics because they have no specific plan to take the place of the New Deal. that | his | him * ¥ Xk ¥ Mr. Farley insisted that President Roosevelt is more exercised over the big unemployment rolls than is the reactionary element or big busin-ss. The Democratic leaders rarely fai' to speak slightingly of big business. -ust | what constitutes big business and what little business is not easily said. Business, big and little, is actuated pretty much by the same motives. ‘The lack of confidence on the part of business, big and little, has been one of the great drawbacks to recovery. Business has never been quite sure what the administration has in mind to do from one day to another. It has seen various maneuvers with the dollar, the abrogation of the gold contracts and the Government step- ping out in various directions in com- petition with private business. So business has been worried. ‘The banking business is worried particu- larly over the administration’s bank- ing bill and the electrical business over the evident desire of the admin- istration to have the Government go into the business of producing and distributing electrical power. * X X % Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana | invaded the heart of the corn belt and took a crack at the Roosevelt agricultural policy, destroying food surpluses. Des Moines, where he spoke, is the home of Secretary Henry A. Wallace, the arbiter of the A. A. A. policies. Long received & big hand at his meeting, attended by a crowd estimated at 10,000 persons. Some of these Democratic exhorters are more drastic in their criticlsm of the New Deal farm program than are the Republicans themselves. One of the most persistent and effective is Sen- ator Harry Plood Byrd of Virginia. Senator Byrd and Senator Long have not a great deal in common, but they both dislike the farm program. ‘While Long did not advocate in his speech to the farmers the formation of a new political party, the farmers themselves members of the Farmers' Holiday Association, headed by Milo | cording to the New York Sun, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, A reader can get the answer to ony question of fact by writing The Washington Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Please inclose stamp for reply. Q. How many bats docs & major league player use in & ysar?—D. H. A. The number varies widely, Babe Herman used 72 last year, while Buddy Myer used only one. A big league club uses about 1,000 bats & year. Q. Why was Man o' War entered and scratched for the 1920 Kentucky Derby?—B. J. A. Man o' War did not run in the 1920 Kentucky Derby because there was influenza in his stables at that time. ¢ Q. Please list some of the problems facing our country today.—A. H. A. Some of them are: Unemploy- ment, crime, distribution of wealth, legislation in regard to holding com- panies, education, legislation in re- gard to unemployment insurance, old- age pensions and work relief. Q. Can aviators fly over foreign countries without permits?—A. B. A. Airmen are required to observe the rules and regulations that have | been established by those countries for air navigation. Q. How thick is the earth's crust? —W. H. 8. A. The thickness of the earth's crust has been variously computed to be 10, 20 or more miles. Observations on earthquake motion by Milne and others indicate that the rocky ma- terial may extend for some 30 miles. Recent researches in regard to the radioactive substances present in rocks suggest that the crust is not more than 50 miles thick. Q. What is the significance of five stars used for the final edition of a newspaper?—M. V. S. A. There is no special significance. Most newspapers use certain distin- guishing marks whereby the time of | the various editions can be easily de- termined. In many instances the earlier editions have 1, 2, 3 and 4 stars and the last 5 stars. Some newspapers use even more than five stars for their last editions. Q. Did President Coolidge and President Hoover deliver their mes- sages to Congress in person?’—R. A. G. A. Calvin Coolidge delivered some of his messages to Congress in per- son. Herbert Hoover did not. Q. Were there gypsies in this coun- try in Colonial times? If so, where did they come from?—J. W. W. A. Gypsies came to America in Co- lonial times from Great Britain, Hol- land, Germany and France. Q. How is a kayak made?>—R. T. M. A. A kayak iz made by covering & light weoden framework with seal skins. A hole is pierced in the center of the top of the boat and the kayaker laces himself securely when seated to prevent the entrance of wale The kayak is propelied like a canoe by a double-bladed paddle. Kayaks are inches beam amidships. Q. What occupied the site of old | on the other hand, boast not only of | Madison Square Garden in New York | City before it was built?—M. G. A. It was erected in 1890 on the site of the Harlem Railroad Station. Q. Does dry cleaning destroy fire- proofing in textiles>—F. C. A.In general, dry cleaning or washing removes the solution and the process has to be repeated. Q. Can an ex-service man still get Government insurance?—E. L. A. The United States will grant in- surance against death or total per- manent disability in any multiple of $500, and not less than $1,000 or more than $10,000, to any veteran of the World War who has heretofore ap- plied for or been eligible to apply for yearly renewable term (war time) in- surance or United States Government life (converted) insurance. Q. Does dry ice give off poisonous. fumes while evaporating?—E. R. D. A. The National Bureau of Stand- ards says that it does not. Q. Was the proprietor for whom Fraunce's Tavern was named a Ne- gro?—A. L. G. A. Samuel Fraunce, the proprietor of Fraunce's Tavern of New York City, which was sold to him in 1767 by the owners of the estate, the Delancey family, was a West Indian Negro. This tavern was the scene of George Washington's farewell to his officers. Q. How many counties have a repre- sentative at the Holy See?—F. R. i A. There are 37 nations represented at the Holy See by either an ambas- sador or minister. Q. What crimes carry death sen- tences?>—M. C. | A. Warden Lawes of Sing Sinz | Prison says that contrary to the gen- | eral belief that premeditated murder | alone is punishable by death, the fol- | lowing crimes carry death sentences: Rape in 17 States, treason in 15 States, | arson in 9 States, burglary in 5 States, | armed robbery in 4 States, kidnaping in several States, and train wrecking in 2 States. Q. What kind of a wind is & pam- pero>—L. R. C. A. This is a South American name for a dry northwest wind. Q. How is the fruit picked from the | cherry trees in public parks and on roadways in the District of Columbia, | also what disposition is made of the fruit?>—H. B. A. A. None of the species of the Jap- anese flowering cherries in Washing- ton, D. C., bears fruit. Q. How can gr spots caused by hair oil be removed from uphelstery? —R. O'B. A. Carbon tetrachloride will remove them. Q. Is the Irish Free State an im- | portant potato-producing country? —W. 8. A. In 1932-3, it produced 112.576.- 000 bushels of potatoes. exported 943.000 bushels and imported 139,000 bushels. The potato ranked third in importance of crops grown in that country, while its rank in comparison to other potato-producing countries was tenth. Q. How wide is the face of the Sphinx?—S. S A. The countenance is carved out | of limestone and measures 13 feet 7 5 feet 10 inches long. Q. What does avergild mean?—S. M. A. By early Teutonic custom or law, it was the money equivalent of a man's life. It was a price which, when paid to the relatives of a man | murdered or killed accidentally, ab- I'solved the culprit. Clipper Flight Over Pacific Called Trade-Route Triumph The successful flight from Califor- nis to the Hawaiian Islands by the Pan-American clipper plane Pioneer is viewed by the press as the initial step in development of commercial air routes to other continents. It is also observed that the conquest of the air has passed beyond the period of ceurageous stunts to the development of carefully planned air navigation. recognized as an achievement. “The excellence of the record,” ac. “is demonstrated by the fact that cemmercial airplane beat the Na time to Hawaii by seven hours. successful trip does not make a com- mercial airline, but the American clipper's maiden voyage demonstrates the possibilities of the route and argues that there will be regular air transportation over the Pacific before airplanes fly across the Atlantic on regular schedule. Wherever the reg- ular schedule first appears as an in- atitution, the American clipper and | its crew may be said to have done netable pioneer work.” Assurance of commercial use of this route as the first step of an airline China is voiced by the Boston ’gnnscflpt, the Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press, the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner, the Lincoln (Nebr.) State Journal and the Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald. “The voyage,” in the opinion of the Rockford (Ill.) Morning Star, “is event in the Pacific since Commodore | Perry sailed into the Bay of Yedo | with President Fillmore's letter to the Emperor of Japan and laid the | groundwork for the first treaty linking | the island empire with the west. | Continually we Teach westward, across mountains, plains, higher mountains, the sea. And there is nothing that can stay our march, because it is in- clusive of all we call civilization, m chanics, trade and essential good will. “The thrill in the clipper's initial commercial flight to Hawaii lies in the lack of thrill,” says the San Fran- cisco Chronicle, and that newspaper adds: “In place of great daring and good luck, success depended upon ex- perience, organization, research, plan- ning, financing and training. It was done by pilots who have no desire to lose their lives and by business men who have no desire to lose their money. We all knew that men could fiy the Pacific, for it has been done. ‘What the clipper sought to do was to show that it can be flown with the same certainty and in about the same time as & train goes from New York to Chicago.” “Probably nothing in the recent history of ocean air travel” thinks the Cleveland News, “has done so much to speed the day when flying citadels will span the seas, as this uneventful trip over 2400 miles of water.” The Kansas City Times calls it “a triumph of aeronautical engi- neering.” “The gross weight of the clipper as it went aloft with a tremendous load,” states the Pasadena (Calif) Star- News, “was 42,000 ppunds, or 21 tons. Some conception of the weight of this gigantic plane, which hurtles itself through the air at considerably more than 100 miles an hour, may be had by recalling that the entire three-car streamline Union Pacific train which was on exhibition last year weighs only about four times as much as this loaded plane.” “The Hawaiian Islands have been moved out of their isolation and avia- tion has come of age,” says the Canton (Ohio) Repository, while the South Reno, took the position that s new political party should be organised. Bend (Ind) News-Times remarks that “we are getting a return to the A the most spectacular international | A | day of great ventures and high | romance.” “The age of aviation wonders has | just begun,” observes the Savannah (Ga.) Morning News, recalling that | “the Pan-American Co. long ago linked | Florida with islands of the Caribbean | and So:th American ports. and it is now extending its operations to the | Pacific, after four years of experiment- and | performance on & definite schedule is ing.” 'Men Should Not Fear | Women’s Emancipation To the Editor of The Star. I wish to gratefully commend two editorials in your issue of April 25, “Mrs. Strong’s Gift” and “The Mar- ital Status Law.” Naturally, a woman is interested in matters that concern her sex. It is therefore gratifying to | note an increasing recognition by the press of the achievements of women and their contribution to the sum total of human progress. In urging the repeal of section 13 of the economy act, The Star has done both men and women & service. | When it is clearly understood that neither sex can progress in the truest sense of the word without being just | to the other, a better order will pre- {vail. Human relationships are inter- | related and interdependent. If men hold women down, they are them- | selves held by that injustice to a level which prevents them from rising | higher. The possibilities of the human | race are but dimly perceived. We see as through a glass, darkly. If | men will conquer their fear of fully | emancipated women the light of a | better day will dawn. | ROSE ARNOLD POWELL. - All Set. Prom the Loulsville Courier-Journal. France and Soviet Russia have signed their mutual assistance pact. Everything is in readiness for the | next war. | e Old Styles in Vogue. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. Scientists hold that no new sin has been discovered in the last 5,000 years. This -makes it necessary for ultra moderns to go on patronizing an old-fashioned devil. - | A Rhyme at Twilight By Gertrude Brooke Hamilton Dusk Hour At the end of the way I come td¥you After my daily fight, PFinding all that I need in you, Solace and fresh delight. ‘Throughout my grim, commercial day I play for gain and power. 1 come to you with the sun’s last ray— Dusk is your hour. V'hat if I came in the soft twilight After my hard-spent day And found just shadows and falling night, Found you had slipped away? I would go on with my dally fight For money and place and power, But I'd call you back in the early night— " Dusk is your hour. \