Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1935, Page 8

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Associated Press |s exclusively entitled to e e T e heation of ll mews dispatches eredited to it or not otherwise credited in this Daper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatch: herei re also resel A Critical Week. History has a way of repeating itself. Just as the last week of July, 1914, was | of decisive influence upon the question of peace or war in Europe, so these fast fading days of July, 1935, are destined to determine whether once again two nations are to plunge into a conflict of as incalculable consequences as those which flowed from the Austro- Serbian clash of twenty-one years ago. The Italo-Ethiopian controversy is scheduled to reach the critical stage at Geneva on Wednesday, when the Coun- cil of the League will be convoked to consider the imminent danger of the war with which Ethiopia is threatened. There are recriminatory statements by both Rome and Addis Ababa as to the conditions under which their “concilia- tion” commission should continue to negotiate and as to the material with which the League Council should deal. Deadlock on those scores persists. Ethi- opia contends that the entire question of border sovereignty over the territory in dispute should be discussed. Italy evinces readiness to submit to arbitra- tion only frontier “incidents” like the Ualual affair. Haile Selassie expects the Council to define the conciliation commission’s jurisdiction. Nevertheless, | Italy's attendance at Wednesday's cru- | cial session seems assured, and indi- cations should promptly be forthcoming as to whether peace or war is to ensue in Africa. The outlook for a bloodless gettlement is not improved by reports of | another border fight in which Ethi- opians destroyed an Italian detachment which allegedly invaded Abyssinian territory. , The world waits anxiously for Euro- pean statesmanship to give a vigorous and decisive account of itself at this perilous moment. The League cannot afford to be bluffed by bombast in Rome, where Mussolini’s newspaper, Il | Popolo dTtalia, is thundering that *Ttaly's historic hour has come,” bring- {ng with it “life or death, now or never.” The Italian people should not be left in doubt that Il Duce's plans for con- quest in Ethiopia have ceased to be & purely national concern of their own, | but, because of the immeasurable com- plications which war might provoke, are an issue of vital interest to the whole world. What is at stake is the entire system of collective international effort for preservation of peace. Anxious as | the American people are to avoid em- broilment in a quarrel which is of no direct concern to them, the United States Government is pledged to the principles laid down in the Kellogg pact. It will watch with complete sympathy Geneva's attempt to bring Italy to a realization of her own obligations under that agreement for renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy. —————————— Radio makes expression available to | gll. The early days of this Republic are referred to as an effort at govern- | ment by philosophers. A new era may reveal an effort at government by free”| versifiers, ————— Abyssinian manners and customs now become the subject of much adverse criticism. It is strange how much human iniquity remains unrevealed until the politicians step out and decide to displace the missionaries. r—ors The Real Traffic Problem. As a result of the intensive campaign against unsafe driving in the District now in progress, 2,319 persons were arrested during the past week. They were variously treated in court, the majority being fined and some given Jail sentences. It may be that all of them' will henceforth obey the rules and drive carefully and with strict re- gard for the rights of others. They assuredly should do so. But it is not s certainty that they will. Nor is it | sure that the example set by their pun- ishment and admonition will be effec- tive in causing all who have not yet been caught in dereliction scrupulously to observe the regulations. For the habit of speed and of corner cutting and light jumping is hard to break and doubtless many drivers will keep on with their dangerous practices until they, in turn, are caught in the act or are involved in accidents for which they are to blame. Persistent efforts by the police are required to make this campaign for safety definitely effective. Not for & week, or for & month, but steadfastly without time limit. There is no more important work for’the police to do than this of checking Ilawlessness awheel. It is much more necessary than the tagging of motor cars for over- time or improper parking. The parked car is not an active factor of public insecurity, annoying though it may be when the wrong space is used or a time - i limit is exceeded. The parking problem is dificult of solution, but not so diff- cult as that of making the streets safe for pedestrians and riders. Gratification is officially expressed that presumably as a result of the safety activity of the police not one person has been killed in the District during nine days. Memory easily reaches the time when a fatality rate of one in nine days was cause of puplic dismay and indignation, There were fewer cars then in the streets, and prob- ably fewer pedestrians, and there was likewise greater regard for rules, better driving, and therefore less cause for mishaps. The volume of the traffic, afoot and awheel, is not in itself the cause of disaster, That cause is the careless- ness and incompetence of drivers, and the cure is the correction of their bad habits of driving by the application of penal- ties or by their removal from the streeis as drivers if they will not learn by costly experience. o “Where’s It Getting Us?”’ An Associated Press dispatch from Kansas yesterday told of five young Democratic leaders deserting the Young Democratic Clubs of that State. Under Republican government Kansas has balanced its budget and is man- fully operating on a buy-as-you-go basis. These young men gave as their reason of disaffection the fact that the national administration has needlessly piled up a debt which they say the young men and women of the country must eventually pay. They realize that the plan to “soak the rich” will do little toward relieving them of their ultimate responsibility to pay taxes to support the Government and the interest on the ever-increasing public debt. Some of them think that eventually, if and when the rich and the mear-rich have been sufficiently “soaked,” this source of revenue will be dried up and the goose that laid some golden eggs will be killed. They further know that the millions that are left with small or modest in- comes must pay or their savings and | insurance policies will be lost by re- pudiation or inflation. They say that Kansas Democrats are asking “where’s this spending program getting us?” “when is it going to stop?” and “how is it going to be paid?” These are the questions that millions of voters will ask themselves at the next election. They may be interested ab- | stractly in social theories, but their real concern is how they and their families will in the long run be affected. How much and when and for how long will they have to pay for social experiments and huge Government expenditures? It ! may be that they realize that billions of dollars must be expended by the great industries to rehabilitate themselves, to replace obsolescence, to make neces- | sary repairs, to improve mechanical effi- ciency and to develop innumerable new | things to meet the desires of these same young people and the new generation. ‘This is the great hope for the near | future and it cannot be downed. Only through the heavy industries can recov- ery take place and they are all ready to g0 when socialistic schemes are aban- doned and the value of money is assured. But the young men and women of today and their children and children’s chil- dren will have to pay in taxes far more than they ever thought possible. ———— Perpetual Motion. One of the white-collar projects for writers on the relief rolls proposed for study by Mr. Henry G. Alsberg, Mr. Hopkins’ recently designated guardian angel for writers in need of relief, is described in a Star article as “putting several thousand writers to work re- porting progress of the expenditure of the whole $4,800,000,000 = work-relief fund.” That is a novel idea with great possi- bilities, The indigent writers will be paid out of the relief funds to write about how the relief funds are being spent. There is something about this that makes one think of a cat chasing its tail. It also contains some of the elements of perpetual motion. The writers can write about how they wrote about spending relief funds and then write about that, and so on, ad infi- nitum. Money is provided for writing, and writing is provided for money, and there you have the perfect circle for ending the depression among writers. And anybody who suggests that this is not a pncm-.,x way of spending the work-relief money is just “too damn dumb”—as Mr. Hopkins puts it—to understand. — e The rhythm of the medicine man’s drum may yet echo from Ethiopia and lead civilization a step backward from dear old Unclé Tom to Uncle Tom Tom. A New Prettyman Bill. It is interesting to learn that Corpo- ration Counsel Prettyman is putting into shape a revised bill for enlargement of the Commissioners’ powers, eliminat- ing the objectionable features—such as extension of control over citizens’ boards—which brought such immediate and emphatic protest from the com- munity last Winter. - There were many good features in the original draft of the bill which found geéneral approval. Mr. Prettyman is saving these and tentatively experimenting with some new proposals. One of these, new as far as inclusion in this bill is concerned but old in point of discussion, is designed to limit the excessive degree of control over local estimates now exercised by the Budget Bureau. Mr. Prettyman is apparently pursuing the idea that if the Budget Bureau sets the amount of the Federal lump sum, notifying the Commissioners of its decision, the Commissioners might in some manner be left free to submit their estimates, including ' this lump sum, independent of the Budget Bureau. More than eighty per cent of the local expenditures comes from local revenues, and there is no sound reason why the A THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, JULY 29, 1935. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, Budget Bureau should have any control over the limitations placed on proposed expenditures of local revenue. ' ‘There is logic, of course, in the argu- ment that the Commissioners, and not the Budget Bureau, should have the say-50 as to the size of local estimates— which have' nothing to do with the asise of the Federal budget. But the lump sum should be fixed by Congress, not by the Budget Bureau, and it will be so fixed. As long as the existing, wunre- pealed 60-40 law s evaded annually, Congress should adopt some reasonable and equitable method of fixing the size of the lump sum in relation to the size and nature of the local estimates. But it is unlikely that Congress will delegate that job to the Budget Bureau. The Commissioners would do well, however, to press for their right to sub- mit their annual estimates direct to Congress. The Budget Bureau's gradual assumption of authority to approve or disapprove proposed expenditures for the local community, which it does not represent and to which it is in no man- ner responsible, is not-a logical develop- ment and has worked in more ways than one to handicap the Commissioners and to distort the real picture of local needs. S e If nudism is to be discussed in connec- tion with political affairs no time should be lost in offering Mr. Earl Carroll a collegiate chair to consider the ethical relations between costume’and custom, - When Herbert Hoover was President | he appointed many commissions, without vealizing how the idea might be ex- panded to include corporations, admin- istrations, authorfties, ete. ———t——— The prediction that we may have a lady President may be fulfilled, but the conditions arising are making the posi- tion look more and more like & man's Jjob. | —— So many initials have to be compre- | hended in current reading that a dice tionary making clear the meaning of | each might be a valuible volume of | ready reference. —_———r———— The few millions estimated as ex- | pected from another tax drive leave an impression that the public, having been “soaked,” is now being put through the wringer, ———————— Antagonists of the United States Con- stitution do not concede any advantage to be derived from a possible return to conditions existing before it was written. ——————————— Intimations are frequent that some change is due Uncle 8am from a num- ber of gentlemen who were rated as | dollar-a-year men. . In making the world safe for automo- biles, an insurance policy with every car might not be an unreasonably expensive trade inducement. ——————— The agricultural balance is clearly ill adjusted when those with pork can- | not afford potatoes and those with po- tatoes cannot afford pork. Shooting Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Brain Trust. A brain trust I should like to form, Reliable and neat, To shield my head against the storm And not permit cold feet. I'd like some rapid way to find, No matter what the pains, To know, when I make up my mind, It is made up with brains. And when I seriously move, As now and then I must, I would be sure the brains will prove The kind that I ean trust. The brain trust I would truly prize My welfare will not shirk. It might be hard to organize— And maybe will not work. Transiation. “Are you studying foreign languages?” “Not any more,”, said Senator Sore ghum. “You can understand almost any be summarized and translated into the simple American word ‘dollars.’” Water Power. That Mediterranean, classical pool 8till sings the brave ballad, “Brittania Rule.” The Straits of Gibraltar at one end endure. At the other the Suez Canal stands secure. The airplane in wars may be active & Jot— But waterways cannot be wholly forgot. Art Discouragement. “Do cowboys ever comé¢ to Crimson Guilch?” “No,” sald Cactus Joe. “They've got kind o' bashful. They don't feel able to compete in eloquence and grice with the kind of cowboys we're showin’ at our motion picture theater.” “What you call rugged individualism,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “cannot be suppressed, A private tooth- ache is always more important than any public policy.” Ne A lobbyist T would not be,. For lobbying is wrong. 1 would not offer banquets free Replete with jest and song. T'd say, “Unless you vote my way, ” Despite some righteous sobs, Your friends and your rélations may Somehow all lose their jobs.” “When & man brags dat he kin take a drink or let it alone,” said Uncie is seidom as reliable as de first.” t Peace in Europe. Prom the Tolédo Blade. | discussion perfectly by waiting for it to | Eben, “de second half of de statement “THE POLITICAL MILL By G. Gould Lincoln. PALMOUTH, Mass, July 29.—Presi- dent Roosevelt's demand for the “death sentence” clause in the public utility holding company bill becomes a definite jssue in the 1 election to fill a vacancy in the House from the first con- gressional district of Rhode Island on August 6. The Democrats there nominated last Friday State Treasurer Antonio Prince, but only after adopting a resolution the nominee to support the President on the ‘“death sentence” clause. The Republicans have nominated for the place Charles P. Risk, who is attack- ing the Roosevelt administration all along the line. - The first congressional district has been ted in the House by a Democrat, Francis B. Condon, who re- signed to become a member of the State Supreme Court. . If Prince wins, his victory will be acclaimed as a Roosevelt triumph. He made an acceptance speech in which he said: “One beacon light glows in the white heat of truth in the midst of the battle. Under the leadership of Frank- lin Roosevelt we have gone a long way forward from that dark day in 1933. We have yet a long journey to make to the hilltop of complete economic recovery. ‘We must press the fight under the lead- ership of Franklin Roosevelt.” L ‘The nomination of Prince was not accomplished without a bitter factional row among the Democrats. In addition there are threats of two Democrats run- ning independently. One of these is former State Senator Isaac Moses, who was four times a member of State Democratic Central Committee and a nominee for Congress from the second congressional district in 1924 He has already filed the papers neecssary for him to run as independent, containing the names of nearly 700 electors. He is to run as a “good government” party candidate. ‘The other possible Democratic inde- pendent candidate is Mayor Felix Toupin of Woonsocket, who in the convention which mominated Prince received 30 votes to 67 for Prince and 5 for Samuel Smith, jr. Prince was backed by the “organiza- tion.” Toupin had the support of the Thomas P. McCoy faction. Although defeated in its effort to nominate Tou- pin, the McCoy faction forced the adop- tion of the resolution pledging the nominee to support President Roose- velt’s “death sentence” clause in the holding company bill. How far the fac- tional bitterness will affect the result of the election remains to be seen. * x % x ‘The convention fight was bitter in the extreme and lasted for hours. One of the McCoy leaders in the convention, Public Works Commissioner Albert J. Lamarre, offered the resolution to bind the nominee of the convention to sup- | port the “death sentence” clause. “The reason this resolution is necessary,” said Lamarre, “is that one of the nominees to be put before us is a puppet of Gov. Green and his oligarchy on Smith Hill. I say it is germane to instruct this man, | this weakling, who is going to be elected, | as to our position on this important | Issue.” He was referring to Prince. ‘This is merely a sample of the vitu- peration that went up during the con- vention. sentence” clause which Lamarre offered and which was adopted read as follows: gressional district of Rhode Island, assembled in Providence, R. I, July 26, 1935, hereby pledges the nominee of this convention to support President Roosevelt and the so-called ‘death sen- tence’ of the public utilities holding company bill.” * x * % All hands in the convention praised President Roosevelt, it is true. But how solidly the Democrats would support Prince is another matter. however, will be regarded as a test. There is no slightest doubt that the result will be hailed as a triumph for the Roosevelt New Deal or as a defeat for it, once the balloting is over. Risk, the Republican nominee for the Rhode Island district, opened his cam- paign with a speech in which he charged that an E. R. A. worker, John Walls, with & wife and five children, had been discharged because Walls had voiced his preference for Risk for Congress over ,the Democratic nominee. ‘The Republican nominee is making a great deal of the processing tax issue also. The processing tax on cotton has not been at all popular in mill centers, and Risk is charging that because of this tax manufacturers have had to curtail production, shut down mills and throw | men and women out of work. * % % % 2 The first congressional district of | Rhode Island in 1932 went for Presi- Hoover by more than 30,000 votes. How- ever, Condon, the Democratic candi- date for the House, won by a little more than 15000. The claim is made now in some quarters that the early date of the election, coming when many persons are-away on their vacation, will be an aid to them. This seems to be just an- other way of saying that more Repub- licans take vacations than Democrats. Both the Republican and Democratic candidates now nominated in party con- ventions are considered strong. Risk is & former district court judge, a leader in the American Legion and an advocate of the cash payment of the bonus. Prince is a Franco-American. He, too, has & war record, and was a member of the Royal Canadian Flying Corps during the World War. ‘The district covers the eastern half of the State. It takes in part of Provi- dence, Central Falls, Newport, Paw- tucket, East Providence, Woonsocket and other towns. In the district are a num- ber ‘of industrial communities which have been strongly Democratic. * x % x Business is taking a spurt in New England, according to canvasses of the situation made by the Boston Globe. In fact, the last week has brought some of the most encouraging reports on in- dustrial conditions received in many months in this part of the country. More shoes are being made. Other lines of industry are picking up. THe big.business in many places in New England, however, is the Summer resort business. What & business pick-up will mean inclined to care so much for the New Deal planning, with governmental con- trol of all kinds of activities. On the other hand, it is an old axiom that if business is doing well, there is a dis- inclination to change the political con- trol-of the country. Brakes. Prom the Philadelphia Inquirer. The resolution relating to the “death | ‘Resolved, that the Democratic Con- ! vention of the first Rhode Island con- | dent Roosevelt over former President | Advocates of dawn, all those who love the early hours of light, find that Nature makes many converts in hot weather. Then even the most obdurate in the cool hours of the morning admit the pleasant character of this best time of the day. . Prom 4 to 6 a.m. are ranked by many as the very best of the 24 hours. Hot, sticky weather puts a premium on cool, dry air. The nearest to it we ordinarily find in Summer comes just in the time mentioned. Those most sensible citizens, the birds, have known this for generations. ‘They begin to chirp at the first peep of daylight, keeping it up in full volume for at least half an hour. This is the chorus of the dawn, loved by all those who have sense enough to listen to it. The world throws many & gift unseen at unopened eyes. * kX Insomnia, in & mild degree, has given many a person an entirely new list of interests. One of these is the morning chorus of the birds. The hearty sleeper misses it. He is in the half-daze which comes after the first good sleep. The first hours are precious, the latter not s0 much so. Still he is very much asleep during those latter hours just when the birds are tuning up. The light sleeper surely has the best of it here, for he is fairly well wide awake, no note of the bird He misses symphony. We have heard the bird chorus de- scribed as akin to the tuning up of an orchestra, but surely it is not exactly that. It is, rather, the symphony itself, * * % % ‘There are wise users of Nature's bene- fits who manage to get the most from her gifts. A neglected gift, we may think, is that of the,cool morning hours at this time of year. During long hot spells, especially the hours mentioned hold the most comfort, but that is not all. They are supremely quiet. . The outbreak of the feathered song- sters does not last long. After that suc- ceeds the most blessed quiet of the live- long d Those who love to read, for instance, well may find the very early morning the very best time of all. The same is true for writing. Gardening is good, too, between ¢ and 6 o'clock. Garden inspection is even better. If one desires to see the flowers at their best they must be seen with the dew on them. * x % ¥ The early morning hike is not known to as many persons as it should be. Yet because of the comparative coolness of | these hours, even in the very hottest | weather, they are ideal for this form of amusement. | Then, too, streets are free from traffic. | One will not meet on such walks one- | tenth the cars ordinarily encountered just & few hours later. The light effects of morning are en- tirely different from those of seemingly similar hours in the evening. It is the difference between an in- creasing and a waning light. ” ‘While each period has its merits, there is probably more to be said for dawn both from an artistic and & human standpoint. The two are not the same. ‘We might recognize the superior ar- tistic qualities of increasing light with- out in the least agreeing that the time of day held more for humanity. In Summer, however, there is not much question about it. Bix o'clock in the evening usually is breathless. Every one knows the peculiar lack of wind at that hour. It is famous in song and story, S{x o'clock in the morning is fresh, cool. Usually there is some breeze stirring, even on the hottest day. This is a comfort those who growl about the heat should keep in mind. It is there for them if they are willing to accept it consciously. True, it is there, 0o, if one is asleep. ‘The little birds in the trees open their bills the farthest, as they sing the loudest., and all together, to greet the dawning, but the person asleep hears them not; they are wasting their efforts as far as he is concerned. * o x % ‘The universal balance of things keeps true, though. Hundreds of persons are awake, listen- ing, enjoying. The cool of the morning, the bird music—these are worth going to bed a little earlier for, so that one may be really awake to greet them and know them at their full value. How sensible are sounds of Nature! Consider the difference between the rasping hum of some inseet on a hot night and the curious, unvarying sound of applause after every radio number. The latter resembles coal being put down a chute, but because it is the same each time, just a noise, it means nothing. The noise of the insect means a great deal. 1t is his life, love, bread and butter. 1t is he, life on a tree. * x x % And the endless plunk, plunk of the bullfrog in his pool. It is not a meaningless noise, monotonous as it is. There is something pleasing in its as well-intended noise, without hypocrisy. The French theater had its claque, and had to pay for it. Modern radio makes the members of its studio claque pay for the privilege—and how they do applaud, in order to get their money's worth evidently. Give us the sensible, hearty noises of Nature. Especially in the early hours, when the air is cool and sweet, even on the hot- test days. Then the world is able to forget the | heat, lulled by the good air, clean and fresh. This is air-conditioning with music, but one must get up early to receive its full value, especially to appreciate its music. light, which, having received. they give | thanks for in the only way they know. | In the midst of busy days let us not forget to show gratitude for such gifts A8 are ours. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Having elected a Democratic United States Senator and Governor in sup- posedly rock-ribbed Republican Pennsyl- | vania, Rooseveltians are now evidently bent upon annexing the Keystone elec- toral college vote. To that end, accord- ing to tales current in Washington, New Dealers are talking about holding the The election, | 1936 Democratic national convention in Philadelphia. Hitherto the Quaker City | has not figured in speculation as to the scene of the next party conclave. The choice is popularly supposed to lie be- | tween Chicago, San Francisco and At- | lantic .City. | chosen, it will be a signal to the G. O. P. If Philadelphia is finally that the Democrats, under the militant | leadership of Senator Joe Guffey’s or- | ganization, are out to capture Pennsyl- vania in the presidential election and repeat their senatorial and gubernatorial triumphs of 1934. As to 1938, it is already in the cards that Gov. George H. Earle is to be pitted in the sena- torial race of that year against the in- cumbent Republican, James J. Davis, as top-liner in a whirlwind campaign to give Penn's Woods an all-Democratic delegation in Congress. * kX X Despite the bombardment to which they are being subjected by the Senate and House Lobby Investigating Commit- tees, the public utilities are not pulling their punches in the effort to propa- gandize public opinjon on the holding company bill. They contend they are engaged in & legitimate campaign of enlightenment and self-preservation. Opinion nevertheless is widespread that the utilities have been badly damaged in popular estimation by revelation of some of their educational methods. * X X X No one in Washington has a better grasp of Ethiopian affairs than Col. George C. Thorpe, U. S. M. C,, retired, now a member of the District of Co- lumbis bar. He has no sympathy with efforts to embroil the United States in the Italo-Abyssinian controversy. In 1904 Col. Thorpe commanded the ex- pedition of Marines sent to Addis Ababa in connection with negotiation of a treaty with the late Emperor Menelik. The head of the diplomatic mission was Robert P. Skinner, veteran foreign serv- -ice officer and present Ambassador to Turkey. Not long ago Congress took the necessary aotion to permit Col. Thorpe and Ambassador Skinner, after a hiatus of more than 30 years, to accept decorations of honor which had -been bestowed upon them by Menelik in recognition of their treaty-negotiating services. Col. Thorpe is the author of several books on governmental func- tions, mainly juridical. * K R % Senator Arthur Capper, Republican, of Kansas, has just read the riot act over a Nation-wide radio network to certain members of Congress who are reported to be ready to play truant from Capitol Hill and go home without waiting for Congress to adjourn. “A member of Congress is elected to do his job and to be on the job,” the statesman-editor broadcast, “and he is paid for it. Also he owes it to his con- stituency, and to the oath he took when seated, to stay on the job, even though he does not approve of the weather, or of the administration program.” Nev- ertheless, Mr. Capper urges early ad- journment, agreeing with Senator Dr. Copeland that members are fagged out. “Their minds are not clear; they are irritable, more likely than usual to take snap judgment,” says the Kansan, “and that does not produce good legislation.” * % XX Additional up-to-date, first-hand formstion o disturbed -sonditions : n- | Europe is available to President Roose- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS By Frederic J. Haskin. A reader can get the answer to any question of fact by writing The Washing- ton Evening Star Information Bureanu, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- ton, D. C." Please inclose stamp for reply. Q. Of what nationzlity was the I Alfred Dreyfus?—E. L. > s A. He was an Alsatian Jew. 3. l’;Who originated the Benda masks? A ‘l"ney are the creation of Wladysl Theodore Benda, & Pollah-Amenc.n: llustrator. Q. What is another name for backs gammon?—A. B. A. It is called trictrac and was men- tioned by Chaucer under the name tables. : Q. Along the eastern coast of the United States, do more people have sunstrokeg in the North or South?—A. R. D. A. In general, it may be said that fatal sunstroke is considerably more common in the northern part of the East than in the southern. The thirty- ninth parallel of north latitude near which Washington is situated may roughly be said to divide the Eastern States into North and South. The people of the South are more accuse tomed to extreme heat in the Summer and exert themselves less during the heat of the day than Northerners. In addition, the North is more subject to extreme heat waves which always cause prostrations, Q. When was Lexington's (Kentucky) famous race course established?>—J. B. A. It is said to be the oldest race course still in use in America. It was established in 1826. Q. Please give some information about Tony Sarg, marionette artist.—H. B. A. Anthony Frederick Sarg was born in Guatemala, Central America, in 1882, Educated in Germany, he served as an officer in the German Army until 1905, | when he went to London as an {llus- very harshness, because it is a serious, | i [ i 1 | trator. He moved to the United States in 1915, becoming naturalized in 1921, Here he has exhibited and created marionette shows and used his ability in various other decorative lines, such as {llustrating children's books. Q. How long has hitting below the belt been barred in the prize ring?—W. R. D, A. Hitting below the belt was barred in Broughton's original London prize ring rules drafted and followed in match August 10, 1743. Q. To whom is the term half-caste applied?>—H, L. D. A. A half-caste is a person born of a | European father and a Hindu or Moham« The birds wait on no man, only on | | ‘age and otherwise, | velt and Secretary Hull with the return | to the United States of Ambassador | Jesse I. Straus from Paris and Min- ister John F. Montgomery from Buda- pest, on annual leaves of absence. There are recurring reports that Mr. Straus, after two vears in France, desires to quit diplomacy and resume his busi- ness activities in New York City. Min- ister Townsend was quoted on his arrival last week as stating that Hungary is not disturbed by the prospect of restora- tion of the Hapsburgs to the throne of Austria. * X X X President Roosevelt's reaffirmation of America’s hands-off policy in interna- tional conflicts of no direct concern to but to current demands for American garding racial and religious persecution. F. D. R. recently stated that he is “in entire sympathy with all those who and Government believe in freedom of States, but also in all other nations.” far as the administration is disposed to go respecting the issues raised by present events in Germany. * X ¥ % Washington naval authorities are watching with a legitimately profes- sional and wholly unperturbed eye the annual maneuvers of the Japanese fleet Ocean. No resentment whatever is felt in any American official quarters over place northward of the Kurile Islands, the Aleutian Islands. Last year the Japanese maneuvered in the neighbor- hood of their mandated islands lying near Guam between the Philippines and Hawaii. Our sailormen hold that the Japanese are carrying out, as our own Navy recently did in the Pacific, nothing but a normal function of fleet train- ing in the field of general defensive strategy. In other words, as Ambassador Saito amusingly put it the other day in a movietone newsreel, “Navies will be navies.” * ok k% Herbert Hoover's late hobnobbings at Palo Alto with potential Republican presidential candidates—Frank Knox of Illinois, Pat Hurley of Oklahoma and Gov. Nice of Maryland—revive Wash- ington political belief that the Cali- fornian is by no means yet to be defi- nitely eliminated as an aspirant for re- nomination. That widely heralded I- do-not-choose - to - run pronouncement from the former President is still con- spicuous by its absence. (Copyright, 1935.) The Mileage Allowance. From the Flint (Mich.) Journal, * Congress has just increased its mile- age rates for members to 20 cents. Why for ‘returning home. ¢ — et ————— Political Omen? Prom the South Bend Tribune. materialize because the balloon bag burst might have been a preview of some 1936 presidential - booms. ————————— Shedding. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. Judging from Italian-Abyssinian news, the dove of peace has come into the 2 \ representations to Nazi Germany re- | make it clear that the American people | religious worship not only in the United | That is believed likely to be about as | which have just begun in the Pacific | these operations, although they will take | which stretch out toward Alaska and | not 10 cents to Washington and 30 cents | w6, "Com en brominent in halls of state, The stratospheric fiight that didn't | medan mother, or, more rarely, of an English mother and a Hindu or Moham« medan father, Q. What is sanitary science?—H. R. A. 1t is the science of sanitary condi~ tions and of* preserving heaith, and is accordingly synonymous with hygiene. ‘The term is usually restricted, however, to the methods and apparatus for mak- ing and maintaining houses healthy, for removing waste and nuisance by drain- for securing abun- dance of fresh air and for the exclusion of poisonous gases, such as sewer gas, * Q. Do Chinese aviation students show less aptitude than Americans?—E. R. A. It has been demonstrated at the Central Aviation School at Shienchiao that results are almost the same as in American aviation schools. In dead reckoning navigation the Chinese are are often superior to our students. Q. Is the trans-Canada highway com- pleted?—D. M. A. There are still two short gaps. but motorists ean make the trip from Hali- fax to Vancouver by using car ferries at one gap in the road and putting thefr cars on trains provided for the purpose at the other gap. The road, when com- pleted, will be 4,200 miles long. Q. What percentage of the men whd | have held cabinet posts attended college? the United States is thought to apply | not only to the Italo-Ethiopian mess, | —S. C. s A. Over 73 per cent of the men selectefi for cabinet offices have attended college, about 62 per cent having received de- grees. -4 Q. On what day was the false armistice celebrated?—E. J. A. The premature celebration was oh November 7, 1918. . Q. Is Ethiopia as large as Italy?— W.G. B. - A. Ttaly proper has an area of 110.744 square miles. Ethiopia has about 350,- 000. Italy's population is about 41,800 000. while Ethiopia’s is approximately 10,000,000. d Q. Where was Samuel Gompers, the labor leader, born?—E. F. A. He was born in London in 1850 and came to America with his parents in 1863. Q. How much longer will first-class domestic mail cost 3 cents an ounce?— B.C. M. A. The postage rate of 3 cents for each ounce or fraction thereof on non- local first-class matter has been con- tinued by Congress for at least another two years, or until June 30, 1937 4 Q. How many babies have been adopt~ ed from The Cradle?>—G. L. . A.In the 12 years of its existence about 2700 babies have found foster parents through this institution. b v Q. What is meant by the cry of four- teen hundred?—F. P. A A. This was the cry raised on the Lom= don Stock Exchange to give notice that a stranger had entered the house. The term is said to have been in use i& Defoe’s time, and to have originated st a time when for a considerable period the number of members had remainsd stationary at 1,399. A Rhyme at Twilight * By . Gertrude Brooke Hamilton My Flower Girl She has a lucid mind that makes hef rate Yet in the civic clubs to which they throng $ Her voice is lifted only in a song, | And the bright hair that sweeps her oval face Is natural as her unstudied gsace. | Often at eventide she gives me aid In problems that life’s politics have Her delicate sagacity is sure k4 To solve them in a way that will snfl:x: And she imparts a sense of zest Although she tragile g B M T L | ~