Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1935, Page 10

THFE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D, A—-10 THE E\YENING STAR | the State authorities, awaiting the & itime when they could take up the With Sunday Morning Editien. | i\ after the return of the hostage. From the moment that the boy was returned the full force of the Fed- eral authority was brought to bear in the pursuit. The ransom notes were described in lists that were widely distributed. G-men, as the WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY........June 10, 1935 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. Editor — e |on the Ethiopian affair® that got | {under TI Duce's skin. | It is an open secret that nrimm' THIS AND THAT | do not view with favor the threatened - Iialian campaign against Abyssinia. Suggestions have been heard in Par- iilament that the Suez Canal should | be closed to Italian ships carrying | troops to East Africa, but such ex- | Lobelia’s big toe ought to go on the Weather Eureau pay roli. “The Weather Bureau,” said Mrs. | BY CHARLES E. 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Washington extends a hearty greet- ng to the visiting Shriners this week and bids them welcome. The keys tn the theirs. _Even the lamp-pasts along Pennsylvania ave- nue have changed to palm trees, and 8 ferfim at least on top of the Monument is that city are is cocked The hope atively the visitors and of the commur will enjoy themselves thoroughly between their colorful parades and the find that time, for business of the convention to see something of the eity being is their Mecca not only in the sense the time For Washington property of the Shriners that the v ing hosts have captured i the 1t without on for a week, but it belongs to them as American citizens Tt the short opposi ely fow be here as v is not theirs for davs the: I shared by They will i- tors, permanent posses- American citi- it sion, every d learn to know gs and the beauties ren o to see the b: of a city built as the symbolic as well Capt Nation, home with them memo- of /s the real 1 of a great and to carry rie: every citizen, The Shrir eurious anos been rests of the second “home town” rs ma upon & ave happen h they maware and which fact that th they the rale of visi a general in come here 3 out (heir permanent con- that and for & hol trol over the city i€ host to them more more direct than that ix exercised by 15 ch they might telieve the members of the local, Washinaton those who around. Shriners will visit the Capitol in live year the course of heir sight-seeing tours, witness the Con the Nation the proceedings, but as par- and gress which I They will witness not ticipants in the proceedings. the floor of both houses are men and to Coagress there thev es for as out S, real For on women who have come as their direct representatives, guard- ing their interests and legislaung for their welfare. They may be amazed o Jearn that while every Shriner and lives of everv citizen who outside Washington_is directly Congress by the "¢ gisl choose at the polls, no citizen who lnes in the Capital City has that right, that every visitor to Washington has more shall be acne in epresented in ors whom they nc Shriner and who comes to say about what Washington, and in the Nation than those who live in the less than ten- mile square which forms the bcund- ary of the Capual City, denied the right of representation in the Congress which governs tnem and of partici- pation in the government of ali the | ence by England in Africa, in spite of peaple. Welcome, eity! Shriners, to your own The suburban erime wave asserts §tself in comprehensive terms that re- auire a range of discussion from ex- pert financial arcounting to gossip eoncerning domestic infidelities. Legal talent is called upon to meet an ex- traordinary test of versatility, o ae— A resignation is now often regarded az a form of side-siepping. BN s The Kidnapers Caught. Yesterday two persons were arrested in Salt Lake City for the kidnaping of little George Weyerhaeuser in Tacoma, Wash. A third one is now being sought, with excellent prospect that he, too, will be taken in a short time. It is possible that a fourth member of the gang will also be iden- tified and captured soon. Incidentally, £15.000 of the $200.000 paid in ransom for the stolen boy has been recovered, found in a car which the fugjtive In Butte abandoned when confronted. | the Baldwin cabinet, denounded these | | “wild” Italian attacks as “mischiev- | The schedule of this crime demon- strates the efficiency of the methods now employed. under Federal direc- tion, for the pursuit of kidnapers. The boy was taken May 24. That eve- ning the parents received a note de- manding ransom, with directions for its pavment. The money was deliv- ered May 31. The boy was imme- diately released and the next morn- ing he returned to his home. terday. June 9, the first were made, sixteen days after kidnaping. From virtually the outset of the ease it fell within the jurisdiction of arrests the | difficulties. | managing foreign countries | cess which might seem to qualify her | solini finds it necessary to resort to |ideas of conguest in Abyssinia them- | Yes- | | strated that, when they were creating treme proposals receive no official en- couragement. Mussolini, nevertheless, is mot blind to the importance of keeping Britain friendly to his African colonial plans. Fear of British battleships in the Mediter- ranean was a factor which contrib- uted to Italy's early neutrality in the World War and later to her joining the allies. strained at this time to maintain cor- dial relations with Italy not only for the sake of her vital Mediterranean trade route to India and Australia, |but in order to give Mussolini no | cause to abandon the League of Na- desert the group rve the independence field operatives of the Department of | Justice are known, were set upon the “n'all. which began quickly to develop | through the appearance of these notes. It led to Salt Lake City, where a woman was caught in an effort to pass one of the bills. She confessed and her husband was soon taken. Thus is demonstrated the great ad- vantage of a single system of pursuit, by a trained force, ably directed and immune from the influences that pre- vail in the States for the protection of criminal some of A Foolis! | Any ) h Demonstration. tions, to western great Visitors inconvenience to the city that may result from the “taxi strike,” called without warn- ing and without visible justification, is of course to be regretted. If the taxi drivers refuse to furnish transporta- , or to turn to an alliance with Nazi Germany, RS, Marching On. This is Golden Jubilee week for Washington's division of the Salvation Army, and tions,. older or younger, that can look back A more fruitful fifty vears, or which may lay more just Claim the respect it enjoys from the community. Of ils accomplishments the half century the material evidence is Tep- tion, however, other agencies will re- double their hospitable | hests should, to prevent any efforts, as S to serious there are few organiza- As for the strike itself, it is diffi- cult find any substance the 1axi drivers’ complaints, so far made that not founded curious «motior.alism. on o [ to universal known, rather are on Wash- in past ingtor.’s pered by regulation other large city of fix thei taxi drivers are less ham- than he country The b lations regarding rates are be posted conspi-uously and that they be filed advance of Public Utilities i any They Washington's has of its Salvation to play in the alleviation misfortune and distress. But unique place in the hearts of men and women of all stations and degrees of the Army own rafes. sic that on the regu- they cabs, ten days in change the Commission. The meek and defenseless general public come for any with life, of all races and all creeds, simple explanation is furnished in the spirit of the Army; courage and stubborn determination in the face of odds and iis unselfish readine; its agressive has usually paid what was demanded and asked no questiol Last week People’s Counsel Roberts issued & timely and legitimate state- the wvisiting Shriners rates and informing guard against the The statement was mani- d the taxi some s always to serve, The Salvation Army, as such, was years old its soldiers—a man came to Washington and established its first outpost here, vears before, Gen. William Booth and the noble woman who was his wife had opened their Christian mission in the East End of London, changing the name and the nature of the Army ment, advising when of the existing to be on “chiselers.” only seven two of and a woman them Twenty festly design ority of o protect vast 4.000 who had given no intention their protect the vi ma drivers of them of ra rates, as well as to slums later ors. A small number of drivers and operators had filed ir tention to raise rates during the con- Mr. Roberts formed the visitors of the prevailing rates and told them it was within their right insist on organization Salvation When the vanguard estab- liched itself in Washington the Army had already of carried to the vention, statement in- tegun that svstematic infiltration which e w0 the ends of the earth. New York and Baltimore had their Army but ment was still new, little known and subject to the jibes and the ridicule of the cynics and the unsympathetic. Today movement has since to the i vertised divisions ove- The statement division, the move. has been and is given as one factor leading to he precipitate and asonabie e. At the same time, the free transportation provided by for th distinguished cials, together warn- ngs against ed by chiseling”™ drivers, have been inter- resented, u the Army is firmly lished. Its name has become a tra- dition. Al the end of the first fifty vears the Washington Army, grown to six corps, is marching on. the hosts Gl visiting offi- w radio being vict [ ] The Soviet is making bids for a tourist trade. The effort indicates a wholesome intention to temper tradi- preted as further cause for a strike demonsrration The Shriners few davs. The taxi drivers expect to be in business permanently. What they may have anticipated as gain from a stike, at a when all facilities are in de- For the to alienate in large de- They do not want to lose their good standing as of the com- taking advaniage of an But they will gain lttle svmpathy and little support if they embark precipitately upon an unrea- sonable course. | In the meantime, the vast majority | of the taxi drivers will assuredly do Will be here only a ditional gloom with modern gayety. = S Th# subject of banking and rency is given a new angle of inierest by the importance of a $20 bill as a kidnap clue. time oS transportation mand, is a deep mystery taxi drivers do not want public sympathy, which, theirs. gree, has been as usual, need a large waste basket for previous political platforms. Plans for a 1936 campaign will co-operative members by emergency. munity ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Old Landmarks, The electric lights are gleaming, all in their power to prevent a few Amplifiers swell hot-heads from engaging in violence or disorder, of which ghere have been & few isolated instances. the sound That awakens us from dreaming 'Mid the glories that abound, And the tide of time is flowing Backward as it bids us roam |To the Swanee River's flowing, And the Old Kentucky Home. s e Mussolini does not desire interfer- England’s in sue- acknowiedged success ) Mem'ry feels the same old yearning For the days that now seem bright, i When our honored sires were learning Lessons hard by candle-light. | And so we're marching with the band 10 give tactful adv! — - — | Ttaly Barks at Britain. Violent anti-British outbreaks the government-controlled Ttalian press would almost suggest that Mus=- To whence we came. from here; To Hail Columbia, Happy Land, And Home, Sweei Home, so dear, Political Futurism, “How are you going to vote in the next election?"” “Why should I worry?” rejoined Senator Sorghum. “If some of the volitical gangsters out my way con- tinue to assert appointive power, maybe there won't be need of any next election.” in heroic measures to bolster enthusiasm at home for his war adventure in Africa. Newspaper articles which could hardly have seen the light of day without official inspiration or ap- proval have been hurling invective at Great Britain for her role in the Italo-Ethiopian controversy. The British are accused not only of in- triguing with Emperor Haile Selassie to defy the Italians, but of harboring Ba: Value. Vhat's Credit?" says the money sage. It is Good Faith in any age; It is the simple I O U, Which even gamblers hold as True. We calculate in fine finance The gold with which we take a chance. Yet gold will fail, we surely see, If Word of Honor is N. G.” Looking at the Record. ously absurd.” | “Are you studying history Il Duce was not silenced by this| I am,” answered Mr. Dustin Stax. remonstrance. Addressing Sardinian “The custodians of my ledgers have troops about to depart for Africa, |Sometimes misled me. I am con- selves and of seeking to acquire| precisely the advantages there which Mussolini is attempting to gain. In Parliament, at the end of last week, Anthony Eden, newly appointed min- ister for League of Nations affairs in Mussolini next day thundered afresh ' Vinced that the greatest of all Amer- | &t Britain. He declared that Italy | ican bookkeepers is the librarian of would proceed to settle both her “old | Congress.” and new accounts” with Abyssinia | “regardless of what was said beymd! the frontier.” In an even more barbed | reference to the British, the Fascist leader said: “We shall imitate to the letter those who would now preach us a sermon, but who have demon- “My neighbor, Hi Hat, once bor- rowed car fare from me,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “He no longer | speaks to me. Had I refused him he . might still be obsequious in the hope | of borrowing.” No Depression. R | v the Federal Government. For within |8n empire and defending it, they A¢ paceantry delights the soul a few hours from the disappearance | never took world opinion into consid- | of the boy the ransom letter was sent | eration.” through the mails, which under the ro-called Lindbergh law constituted & Federal crime. days named in that law as raising the presumption that he had been transported beyond the boundaries of | Fthiopian war. | Baldwin's observation that “there is Uncle Eben, | the State. However, the Federal " agents left the immediate pursuit to Furthermore, the | 'sh “sermon,” unless it be a speech in | boy was held for more than the seven | which Prime Minister Baldwin refer- ! red to the anxiety prevalent in Europe | over th | We gather undismayed. Adversity cannot control ‘The joy of a parade. Of rain the weather prophets tell, But when we get together We'll simply lift the old umbrell And never mind the weather. It is not exactly clear what Musso- | linj is driving at in resenting a Brit- the possibility of an Italo- Possibly it was Mr.| “De hig test of friendship,” said no current of public opinion in Italy 'and make up agin.” Britain, on her part, is con- | @is no Jones, “says it is going to be cooler | and fajy tonight.” | Lobelia finished hanging the clothes { on the line “My toe feels like rain” she said. Sure enough, right out of a clear | sky, as sizable a thunder shower as | one would want to see smote the city that night It was a complex vindication of | Lobelia’s toe, and all that amateur weather prognostication means. Maybe it means something, maybe | it doesn't. The average person is | very much up a tree about it, * ok k¥ favorite ery has a home method. Or perhaps it is & ceriain almanac in which he reposes faiti During the past few years the old- tashioned almanac has begun to come into its own again While there are severai which have | been circulated for many-score years, { only receatly have ‘hey begun to go after what might be calied national circulation, This has resulted in introducing to many persons these publications which once held & much more impor- | tant place in the life of the Nation Weather predictions Joom large it such booklets | Some ure very ambitious, attempting | to predict for all sections of our wide- spread country, while others confine themselves to restricted areas. The bulk of this type of prognosti- cation is based on the moon's phases, aft Indian methods of greal an- 1y ten the re one ults are surprisingly accurate, often naturally erroneous, but, when you say that, you say what ! holds more or less good of all types of forecasting Certainly the inclination is to keep in mind the “h of the informal predictions, and forget the mistakes, whereas, when one considers the formal forecasts of the officials, one is | very much inclined to forget the ac- | curate guesses and largely remember | the “misses.” «xoxox Reasonably complete editions of “Mother Goose” contain many &t- tempts to tell what the weather is going to be. Some of these rhymes about the pos- sibility of rain show that peoples of all ages have tried to do what the modern Weather Bureau does scien- tifically. But itself is | not perfect, but A reasoned attempt to reach ion in any of branches surprising that official predictions some times are wrong. This always cheers the famous in the street.” He 15 happy ! which is thoroug man id that something is iy expensive can be He alwayvs knew he could. especially in those expansive moments when he attempled to tell a friend whether it would rain or not the nexs day. Upon occasion he even felt that he had better do his prognostication in reverse, That is. if he felt sure it vould rain, to attempt to fool the spirit of things by saving he knew it would not. Then this spirit, or imp the perverse, would make i rain, Just to spite him. | MOXDAY, JUNE 10, 1935 Psychologists have a terrible name | world goes right ahead, not much minding what the doctors say. It is here as with self-medication. While almost any rational person would admit that self-medication may have its dangers, practically every man alive practices it at some | time or other, and would be a fool | if he didn't. The very doctors them- selves do not want you running to them with every little ache and pain. But those very aches and pains at times can drive any one to a little | | judicious use of home remedies, The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. SPRINGFIELD, Ilis, June 9.— ‘The “grass roots” Republican con- | ference meeting here today gives promise of making political history. | A reader can get the answer to any question of fact by writing The Washington Evening Star Infor- mation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. For the first time since President | Roosevelt took office, the Republican opposition is undertaking at this meeting to direct its attacks against the head of the Democratic party and of the New Deal personally. Also these Republicans plan to force the Director, Washington, D.C. Please nclose stamp for reply. Q. How much difference is there in the ages of the Dean brothers who play base ball>—E. T. A. About & year and a half. J. =——— % ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS troops of the 7Tth Caviary Big Foot | and about 300 Sioux of all ages fled from the reservation after the killing | of Sitting Bull in the Autumn of 1890, | intending to join the hostiles in the | Bad Lands. They were intercepted by the troops on Wounded Knee Creek and surrounded, but in attempting to | disarm the Indians a conflict was | precipitated, resulting in an engage | ment in which almost the entire President to take up the issue first | Hanner (Dizzy) Dean was born at| band, including Big Foot, was ex- suggested by himself recently—the | issue of extending the power of the | Federal Government. They are mak- | ing that issue paramount. Further- more, they are insisting that the usually with benefit. Fk ok ery one is interested in colds, for | instance. ‘The medical profession admits it is nonplused by the common cold. Not so Templeton Jones. This worthy gentleman has & pro- gram, thoroughly suited to himself, and by the use of several simple home | remedies, and & little restraint, he is able to cure his colds before they get a start. No, Jones is not going into the business of curing colds. He admits that his system might not work for others. He believes, however, that almost any one could work out a method of | his own. * oo ok Curing a cold for one’s self, making one’s own weather predictions, are not as far apart as they might seem at first. Each presupposes some dependence on the self. A certain amount of genuine ind: pendence follows As near as most of us can get to pioneer days lies right here. Perhaps many will have more suc- s as doctor than weather man. Predicting the weather, as many a person has found out, is not as easy as it sounds, No sooner has one managed to gather together a set of “sure fire” circumstances than something hap- pens to knock the bottom out of the system Systems of all kinds are notoriously hard to manage, but when it comes to weather systems, by which one hopes to “tell” the next day's weather, the thing 1s almost impossible. Most people scarce can tell what the weather will be a few hours off That is why we have weather bu- reaus, where, by increased knowledge |of what is happening elsewhere, com- bined with instruments and maps some approximation of futurity may be chartered. %ok o It is interesting to note that the Weather Bureau is almost the only organized effort to be scientific about the future, Elsewhere what be stated, but not by probabilities, whereas at the weather establishment the actual state of affairs some hours hence is outiined. So limited is the gaze of man into the future. with all his pretense io science, that predicting the weather is not infallible, as every one knows. Hence the layman always finds op- portunity for making sport of the of- ficials. and Lobelia for putting her toe up against the experts any day in the week. is hoped for may predicied, exeept WASHINGTON OBSERVYATIONS ERIC “W. W.—Watchful waiting—sym- bolizes the latest addition to the New Deal alphabet. Dispassionate review of developments in an admittedly con- fused and chaotic situation convinces most observers that President Roose- velt'’s policy for the indefinite future | is to sit back, let economic nature take its course, and see what happens The consensus is thai F. D. R. may not be expected to make any new major recovery move, following the | Supreme Court's knockout of N. R. A { until there has been tume. first. for | expertence to demonstrate how Uncle Sam gets along without the Blue | Eagle, and, secondly. how public opin- fon reacts to the situation which has been brought about. If the American Pederation of Labor plan for a new recovery act is pushed in Congress that drive should provide &n early test of what the country wants. There indication whatever that the ! A. F. of L. program for revival of | some kind of an N. R. A. has White House backing. All of which boils | down to the proposition that the | President is just going to “wait and | see. * ok ok ok Washington finds it an interesting coincidence that both Great Britain and Prance should simultaneously be installing new prime ministers— respectively, Stanley Baldwin and | Pierre Laval—who were both con- spicuously identified with the war debts. It was Mr. Baldwin who, as | chancellor of the exchequer, con- | cluded the existing British funding | arrangement here in 1923. M. Laval left. Washington four years ago with ! what he claimed was an undertaking | by President Hoover and Secretary | Stimson that if the allies scaled down German reparations, the United States | would correspondingly wipe out war debts owing to this country. Britain { owes us $4.793,186,319. and France is | down on the Treasury's books for | | | $4.000.902,726. Baldwin and Laval see | gjong reminds Senator Pittman that | lican national | eve to eye on the theory that there yncle Sam is losing the interest on ‘Ohlo. says t | should be no further payments on the | debts until there is a revision of | | present arrangements. by which, of | | course, they mean liberal cancella- tion. | * ok ok % New governmeat set-ups in Lon- | don and Paris will not affect the | even tenor of Uncle Sam’s interna- | | tional way. A tcrse statement of | | American foreign jolicy was wade by Undersecretary of State Wilham Philipps at the lecent opening of the San Diego Exposition. He said: “'In our intercourse with European | countries the avowed policy of the | Government, is not to be involved in ! any purely European political prob- lems. Our efforts at Geneva w help | negotiate a treaty of general disarma- | ment have been solely in the interest of world peace. That they have not | been fully successful is because the | European powers have not vet been able to settle their own political dif- ferences. Our Government has made | it clear that it cau be counted upon |to do its full spare in continuing disarmament discussions whenever the rest of the world is ready to resume them. In general. our policy is to co-operate whole-heartedly with all| l(‘ounmrs in social, economic and hu- | | i | | manitarian endeavors—a policy which | we believe meets with the genuine approval of the American people.” | L “ President Roosevelt's cordial “dear | Donald” letter accepting Mr. Rich- berg's resignaiion as N. R. A. chief stimulates curiosity as to whether the Chicago lawyer remains in the run- ning for a Supreme Court vacancy, with which his name has often been linked. His admirers are convinced that he has forfeited no whit of the President’s esteem and confidence, but | are frankly skeptial as to whether | is de ability to quarrel he Ghicagoan's elevation to the Su- | Roosevelt knows how it feels to be ! preme bench is feasible now, in view | \ WILLIAM WILE. of his unpopularity with certain or- ganized labor leaders. Under the cir- cumstances it will be interesting to observe whether Mr. Richberg in pri- vate law practice will again special- ize as an advocate of labor causes or next turn up on the side of the judicial fence where corporation law- yers most do congregate. * x % x Among Washington's host of dis- tinguished strangers is an American- born British_ knight—Sir Percival Philipps. K. B. E. famous jou:nalist and war correspondent. A native of Brownsville, Pa, Sir Percival, after reporting the Spanish-American War, + joined the staff of Lord Northcliffe's London Daily Mail, and as a repre- sentative of that paper during the past 30 vears has “covered” about every war, revoiition or other politi- cal upheaval all over the world. He has toured the giobe with the Prince | of Wales. The Fleet street xnight | has pitched his lent in the United States for a while, 10 observe the political-economic war and revolu- tion in progress on these more or less placid shores. ’ * x ok Maj. George Osakley Totien, Wash- | ington architect, has hit on an idea for spending some of the $4.000,000.000 work-relief fund for American pur- poses abroad. He has suggested to Senator Pittman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, | that we ought no longer to let our | valuable embassy property in Berlin— | the famous Bleucher palace on Unter den Linden—stand in a state of use- ' lessness and disrepair. Soon after the | United States acquired the property five years ago it was badly damaged by fire and has been allowed to re- | main in that condition, apparently | for lack of State Department funds. Maj. Totten. who has inspected the establishment on two different occa- his investment by not making the building fit for occupancy. He thinks that 90 per cent of the necessary ma- terials could be fabricated in the | United States. with corresponding em- | Ployment of American workmen. * ok ok % ‘Tabulation of New Dealers of emi- nence who one by one and for various | reasons are no longer in seats of the | mighty now includes, in addition to Mr. Richberg, Messrs. Moley, Berle, | Douglas, Sprague, Warren, Ogburn, | Warburg and Acheson and Gen. John- son. There are others, but those jua” named are the shining lights that glit- | ter no more in the alphabetical firma- | ment. Several luminaries who remain | do nct twinkle with i | il their original * ok * % From a hard-boiled Republican ob- server on the Washington sidelines | comes the diverting suggestion that the proposed Republican-Democratic | coalition to smash the New Deal in | 1936 would run into terribly hot patronage water if it should contrive l:;"::nd ir;llhe White House. He thinks coalition, because o | Pproposition, is not "pr-r!kt‘,llt"hepo‘;mga. (Copyright. 1935.) nian Ancestry. From the Helena (Mont.) Independent. Post office officials who are tracing down the originators of the “send- a-dime” chains need not be sur- prised if they run into a bunch of missing links. e The President Vetoed. From the Roanoke (Va.) Times. Bonus advocates are pointing out, | with spiteful glee, that now Mr. vl'oed.",‘ | constitutional | The consequence is that each Illinois President and his New Dealers are |intent upon a constitutional amend- | ment to grant the Federal Govern- ment this greater power. They are trying to force the President into an open declaration for a constitutional amendment. Barring that, they hope to make him declare himself against such an amendment. All the talk among the delegates to the conierence is to the effect that | the President made a serious mistake when he declared himself in favor of greater powers for the Federal Gov- ernment and implied, although he made no definite statement, that a | amendment would be If they are correct, the st is antagonistic to such a plan. They are willing to go to the bat on this issue. * ok x w This “grass roots” conference of ' Republicans is made up of men and | women from a vast stretch of Amer- ican territory. They have come from as far north as Minnesota and Wis- consin, from as far south as Okla- homa, from as far west as the plains | of Kansas and Nebraska and from as far east as Indiana. They have come to play their part in the revival of the G. O. P. enthusiastically. They have come seeking a declaration of principles. Many of them declare that they must have new leaders, al- thougn everything possible has been done to prevent the meeting from be- ing turned into a boom for any of the various presidential “possibilities.” one of the expected candidates for the Republican presidential nomina- tion 1s present The conference, however, has aroused great interest in Republican circles throughout the country. That interest is evidenced by the fact that | members of the National Commitiee | from many of the States not included in the conference are present. They have come from Idaho, Ohio, Penn- sylvania, Texas and many of the other States. Invitations were sent out (0 the members of the National Commit- tee 1o be present. There was one ex- ception, Chairman Henry P. Fletcher. Harrison E. Spangler, in charge of the arrangements, while admitting this to be the case, declined 10 explain. The general opinion was expressed that this was intended not in any way as a slight to the national chairmam, but 10 keep the conference as clearly a regional matter as possible, a Midwest- ern affair and exclusive of any sug- | gestion of Eastern influence. Mr. | Fletcher's presence, it is said, would be calculated to make it appear that it | was a national conference. Also he hatls from Pennsylvania, an Eastern State. A The determination of the confer- ence to place on President Roosevelt himself responsibility for the New Deal | and ils measures was voiced by Spang- ler at & press conference, when he This conference will get away from any artificial note in its speeches or resolutions. We intend to pin down to the responsible head the blame where it belongs instead of some un- derseeretary. One of the most prominent Repub- licans from Kansas atiending the con- ference insists that the next Repub- lican nominee for President must come from the Midwest. According to him, - the three most likely looking presiden- tial possibilities are Alf M. Landon of the Sunflower State, Senator Arthur | Vandenberg of Michigan and Col. Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News. Landon. he insists. would make a strong candidate. He has been & good Governor. He has no | “entanglements” with the Old Guard. Nor has he been in & position where he | felt compelled to vote for any of the New Deal measures. as did some of the other Republicans of the Senate and House. Landon was secretary io| Henry Allen when the latter was Gov- | ernor of Kansas. He has made money | in the oil business. His principal drawback, it is admitted, is that he is | no orator and not even a good public speaker. * x x X There are reports that the Knox candidacy is making headway. The | Chicago puolisher has considerable support in the East, it is said. and his friends are quietly lining up key men | and prospective delegates to the next | national convention in a number of States. However, he may have a fight on his hands to control the entire Illi- nois delegation at the convention. Esera R. Whitla, Republican na-| tional committeeman for Idaho, h{re as a guest of the conference, sees in Senator William E. Borah the ideal Republican nominee against President | Roosevelt next year. The Senator can | have the Idaho delegation without turning his hand, according to Mr. Whitla, and he will have it unless he ssly says “No.” | "i’{r's. Katherine K. Brown, Repub- committeewoman for hat the G. O. P. is bescom- re more active in her State. | '.é‘:eml:‘efi::\din the conviction that it | will be possible to carry the Buckeye State for the next Republican nominee for President. | * ox % ox ! Former Senator Charles Deneen is here as the chairman of the Illinois | delegation. Illinois, which a few | years ago was one of the banner Republican States, has fallen into | the hands of the Democrats almost | completely. The Republicans have a | real job in this State. One of their chief difficulties is the plethora of | party factions and a guerilla warfare in which these factions are constantly | engaged. All of these factions had to be taken care of at the conference. delegate has one-sixth of a delegate vote. The apportionment of delegates to the States taking part was 15 for each congressional district. Under the split delegate vote Illinois has 90 Republicans from each district and more than a third of the personnel of the convention. * ok ok The delegates to the conference were welcomed at their opening ses- | sion by George W. Bunn, chairman | of the local committee. It was pe- | culiarly fitting. His uncles financed | the campaign to nominate Abraham | Lincoln at the wigwam convention in 1860. He told the delegates: “For 25 years this was Abraham Lincoln’s home. He walked the same streets you have walked in coming to this place of meeting—many of the homes and stores he visited are still standing—our fathers and moth- ers knew him—we in Springfield like to think that something of his spirit is still here. May the inspiration that all good Americans derive from him animate your thoughts and delibera. | brake, telephone, men of his own choosing.” | ance in office. | one else. Holdenville, Okla., January 16, 1911, Paul Dean was born In the same town on August 14, 1912, Q. Why aren't oysters edible in the Summertime?—J. G. J. A. If oysters are perfectly fresh and taken from unpolluted waters, they may be eaten at all itmes of the vear. The reason for the popular idea regarding the months without R in them, May to August, is that this is the spawning period of -oysters and | they spoil easily. Q. At what daily number does the population of the United States in- crease?’—A. A. K. A. It is estimated that the daily increase in the population of the United States amounts to one person every 36 seconds, based on the 1930 census. The average is 1 birth every | 14 seconds, 1 death every 22 seconds, 1 immigrant every 12 minutes, 1 emi- grant every 7 minutes. Q. How much does the diving bell on the Constellation weigh?—M_E. S A. It weighs 1400 pounds and has been built to withstand depths below 3.000 feet. matic toggle-jointed arms which can jift & half ton or a dime and are so sensitively controlled that a man in- side has successfully plaved a game of bridge under water and driven a tiny nail. The upper chamber of the ball accommodates 11 men. Q. Are the radio stations in Ger- many maintained by advertising fees? —H. B. A. Advertising is barred on the ra- dio in Germany. The financial up- keep of the stations comes from lis- teners' fees. Q. Is Harrv Stilwell Edwards, au- thor of ‘Aeneas Africanus,” living? C. R. A. Mr. Edwards celebrated his 80th birthday anniversary in Mav. At that time he was honored by an assembly of more than 300 Georgians at a birthday dinner. Q. How far out of the water can a fish jump?>—E. M. C. A. There are several types of fish which are famous jumpers, but the height of their jumps is verv difficult to measure accuratelv. However, 6 0 10 feet is a safe maximum. Q. Please give a list of all Ameri- can inventions—R. W. F. A. Very recently the Patent Office announced that the two-millionth pat- ent had been granted. Obviously, it would be impossible o present a com- prehensive lits of all of them. Some of the most famous are: Steamboat, nail machine, cast-iron plough. cot- ton gin, screw propelier. electro- magnet, reaper, telegraph, vuleanized rubber, hydraulic turbine. machine gun, motion picture machine, air incandescent lamp. submarine, airplane and teie- vision. radio, Q. What was the batile of Wounded Knee?’—G. S A. The battle of Wounded Knee was fought at Brennan, S. Dak, on December 29. 1890, between the war- riors of Big Foot. a chief of Cheyenee Ri &nd & detachment of United States It has 9-foot hydropneu- | terminated. | Q What is a lysimeter>—G. R. A. It i1s & device 1o measure the percolation of rain through the seil | or the amount of matter in a liquid solution, | Q. Are there more blue-eyed or brown-eyed white persons?—L. O. G. A. In countries of the world gener- ally which are inhabited by white races brown eyes are in the majority. In the United States blue eyes are believed to predominate slightly among white persons. The ratio, however, of brown-eyed to blue-eved persons in the United States is steadily growing smaller, due to the fact that when a blue-eyed person marries a brown- eved one the majority of the children will have brown eyes. Q. How long does it take for a tele- phone message to travel around the world —C. M. A. A recent message was timed. Tt took one-fourth of a second to travel around the world. Q. Where was the. wedding of Prin- cess Ingrid and Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, solemnized?—A. C. G. A. The royal couple was married in Stockholm’s historic cathedral, Stor- kyra, where for a century the Kings of Sweden have been erowned. Q. How manv autographed eopies of the Gettysburg address did Lincoln make?—J. H A. Lincoln, according to W. E. Bar- ton. made five autograph copies of the address; one at Washington, before leaving; one for David Wills, at Get- tysburg: a third, several davs later, for Wills; a fourth for Edward Everet1, and the fifth for George Bancroft, the historian. Q. When did radio first come under jurisdiction of the Government’—M L. C. A. The first Pederal stature dealing with radio became effective in 1911 and simply required apparatus and operators on ocean steamers. Bv the passage of the radio act of 1927 the radio service was set uUp As & separate division of the Department of Com- merce. Q. How many universities in the country have conferred degrees on American Presidents?—H. 1 A. According to figures compiied 1934, 49 American universities and colieges have conferred degress on Presidents. Collegiate honoring of Presidents began with George Wash- ington and has continued almost un- interruptedly. Q. How many bridges are there across the Delaware River, betwern Pennsylvania and New Jersey? A. There are 20. Of these, free bridges. 16 a Q. Where is the longest overland telegraph line>—H. R A. The telegraph line connecting Port Augusta, South Australia, with Darwin, Northwest Territory, Austra- lia, is said to be the longest individual telegraph line in the world. It crosses overland 1950 miles and 36,000 pole mostly wood, but some of iron, were used in its construction. The copper wire used measured 60,000 miles and weighed 1.000 tons. Press Almost Unanimously Applauds Humphrev Decision The press is almost as undivided 48 the Supreme Court itself in ap- proving the decision that the late William E. Humphrey was illegally re- moved from the Federal Trade Com- mission. Mr. Humphrey was ousted by President Roosevelt because he felt that the conservative Republican member would be out of step with New Deal policies. and the case was carried to the high court notwith- standing the death of the principal figure a few months after the fight began. In the opinion of the New York Times the decision “‘merits & prom- inent place in American constitutional history,” establishing “a limit to Ex- ecutive domination.” The Providence Bulletin holds that the court has “pre- served a basic principle, the independ- ence of commissions upon which dif- fering viewpoints should be repre- sented.” The South Bend (Ind.) Tribune observes that “many regard the decision as vitally important.” and the Flint (Mich.) Journal views the case as “a new milestone in limiting the authority of the Chief Executive to change commissions and install “Fortunately,” says the Chicago Journal of Commerce, “it should put new spirit into the members of com- | missions which were created to act as a check on Eecutive judgment.” The Eureka (Calif.) Humboldt Times thinks “it means the United States Government is still a government of divided powers and not a dictator- ship.” However, the Scranton (Pa) Times points out that “the President can, as heretofore, remove at will, postmasters and others who might be termed ‘units in the executive de- partment.” " “The court decided,” the Oshkosh (Wis.) Daily Northwestern explains, “that the Federal Trade Commission is & quasi-judicial body and that Congress intended it to be free from political coercion or restraint, in which case tenure could not be affected by | policy. The stand of the court is sound. for no matter how commend- able the desire of the President to have sympathetic co-operation in this instance, there was and is danger in any such power of removal outside the particularly designated causes, in- efficiency, neglect of duty or malfeas- Such a precedent as the Humphrey dismissal set might result in future in situations haz- ardous to representative government. “This posthumous victory,” declares the Canton (Ohio) Repository, “de fines partially the Chief Executive's power of removal. Federal Trade Commission as an ‘agency of the legislative and judicial departments,’ rather than as an agency of the executive department, which apparently has been the wiew of Pres- idents Coolidge, Hoover and Roose- velt. At a time when the commission is being given prominent mention as an agency to exercise the power over | business and industry involuntarily re linquished by the executive depart- ment, the Supreme Court’s ruling is timely.” “If independent, quasi-judicial regu- latory agencies are to function as they shouid,” the Kalamazoo Gazette in- sists, “their members must be free to exercise their own judgment with- out fear of political pressure or hin drance. Their tenure of office must not be subject to the mere pleasure or displeasure of the President or any Broadly considered, the decision in this Humphrey case It classifies the | may be regarded as a boost for the general principles of the merjt &vs- tem—a system which certainly needs to be strenzthened and extended throughout all branches of Govern- ment today. “The ruling did not come as a sur- prise.” according to the Newport News (Va.) Daily Press, which recalls that Mr. Humphrev “was removed because he was a Republican and a high-tanfr man.” The New London (Conn.) Dav comments: “All in all, the decision may be taken as another barrier placed in the way of the centralization of power dream of the New Dealers. it establishes certain sensible limits within which executive authority of the President naturally falls—and within which the Constitution intend- jed it to fall. Beyond that, the court makes it plain, the President cannot assume or seize authority. It is a wise decision.” “A plain, common-sense interprefa- tion of the Constitution” is seen by the Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Record, while the Jersey City Journal argues: “The rule of the court ought to warn Con- gress that there are other boards and offices where the nature of the duties is principally or wholly administra- tive, that in respect to those other boards and offices, already created or to be created, Congress should be par- | ticular to provide the President witn power to remove without cause.” “The intent to create a body of ex- perts who should profit by experience | of & definite term of office” is recog- nized by the Bloomington (Ill.) Panta- graph. One That Huey Missed. Prom the Fort Worth (Tex) Star Telegram We should be properly appreciative _of the conservative program of Huey Long. Instead of making every man | & king he might have run on a nine- | teenth amendment ticket and made it | read “Every woman a queen.” e ‘volution. Prom the Winston-S (N. €) Journal Evolutionists may now point 10 the | fact that the Blue Eagle has evolved into & Jame duck. 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