Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1935, Page 10

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY ..............September 6, 1935 THEODORE W. NOYES.. ~Editor e The Evening Star Newspaper Company. Business v : Chichgo Offce: Lake Buropean Office: 14 Rex Rate by Carrier Within the City. 110 gast 2hd Bt 0 5t 45 3 jchigan Bullding. m"‘& l:m&n. England. Nigbt Final Edition. { 'Oc per mont] .gld Sunday Wee z&: per month h month. nfllhl Pinal < ith, Na- bt Final orders may be tional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. the en c! ‘by "mail of telephone Daily ard Sunday Daily oply__ Sunday only. All Other States a s d Sunday..1 yr. $12.00; 1 mo. S1.00 i la’;fly?un s i 00 1 mo., = 15¢ Euan onl: 00; 1 mo.. bUc Member of the Associated Press. ssoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the e oe Tepublication of uil news dispaiches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. fu Tights of publication of speclal dispatches erein are also reserved. — ——— .School Needs. At the outset of the depression the Washington public school system Wwas rapidly making up for the severe setbacks of the war vears, during which appro- priations were reduced during a period when the city’s population experienced rapid growth, As the result of the tardily enacted five-year program of school buildings, a large amount of new construction had been or was being com- pleted and the teaching force had been increased in some proportion to the demands. The school system's facili- ties have never been current with needs —in building or teacher personnel. But the paralyzing effect of the war years was being overcome. Then came the depression, and the experience of the war has been in some degree repeated. School appropriations have not kept pace with the demands of a normally increasing population, plus the extraordinary growth resulting from the influx of new Government workers to man the agencies of the New Deal. New building has been kept to the minimum of emergency require- ments and the teaching personnel ex- panded only to the extent made neces- sary by new building. - That is the general background for the estimates of school needs submitted to the Commissioners by Superintendent Ballou and the Board of Education. Conditions in the schools, representing depression years of neglect, reflect in general the conditions in other depart- ments of the District government. But there will be little disagreement with the fact that the schools must come first. No function of local government is more vital than public education, and the needs of none of them outweigh the needs of the schools. These needs, as laid before the Com- missioners, contemplate & new building program, together with & substantial increase in the force of teachers to take care not only of the new schools coming into use in the next fiscal year, but, as outlined by Mr. Gilligan, “to relieve congestion in the schools and in the case of junior and senior high schools to reduce the number of pupils per teacher. This is an urgent need and is one te which the Commissioners are invited to give serious consideration.” A building program looks to future needs, and the school authorities have outlined the need for new buildings that will have become acute by the time— three or four years hence—that the buildtngs might be completed. But the need for teacher-forcé expansion, to cut down the size of some of the disgrace- fully crowded classes and to guarantee maintenance of mormal educational standards, is immediate and pressing. It cannot be delayed. The Board of Education and the school authorities are limited in their ability to do more than present the needs of the schools and to argue for their inclu- sion in the budget. The school needs must run the gantlet of Commissioner and Budget Bureau appraisal before even being presented to Congress. These agencies, at the same time, must view school needs as relative in presenting the total estimates for the District. But they may safely regard school needs as outweighing in importance most of the others. Next year should mark the be- ginning in the work of rebuilding the school system after the depression. —_——— et Thinking It Over. Coincident with the call by Chairman Henry P. Fletcher of the Republican National Committee for a meeting of “the Executive Committee, Senator Nye . of North Dakota announces that if Wil- liam E. Borah is the nominee of the "G. O. P. next year, President Roosevelt “will be defeated. It is not expected that the Executive Committee, openly at least, will discuss presidential possibil- _{ties. The meeting, according to the call issued by Chairman Fletcher, is for the purpose of more intensive organization * for the coming national campaign. The members of the Executive Committee may well bear in mind, however, the fact that eventually the party must have a presidential candidate. In the interests of the party and the country the selection should be carefully made sand not in conformity with selfish or 1 personal interests. The millions of persons in this country who look with distrust upon the surge " of Government control of their activ- ities under the Roosevelt New Deal, and who see the ever-growing cloud of debt, expect the opposition party to put for- ward a forceful leader and an able ad- * ministrator. There is always the pos- : sibility that disappointment with the New Deal may become so great that any nominee put forward might defeat Presi- dent Roosevelt. That, however, is not & safe hypothesis in light of the rain of Government checks falling, and to fall, on farmer and industrial worker A‘ | submitted a devastating altke from the hands of the Roosevelt administration. Nor is there any indi- cation that the people will be satis- fied to follow the leadership of those who, a few years ago, were closely identi- fied with the Old Guard. The frequent mention of the name of the senior Senator from Idaho as the Republican candidate * for President, under all the circumstances, is not sur- prising. No Republican of today is more widely known. His greac powers of cra- tory and his personality would make him stand out, even above his long career in the Senate as a defender of the Con- stitution and all things American. Un; doubtedly the candidacy of Borah in the West would arouse enthusiasm. Nor would it be confined to that section. A fly in the ointment is Senator Borah's past advocacy of a measure of currency inflation. His views in this respect do not conform to the traditional “sound money” policies of the Republican party. And there are other Westerners and Middle ‘Westerners mentioned for the presidency —among them Vandenberg of Michigan, Knox of Illinois and Landon of Kansas. Within the past six months the Re- publican nomination for President in 1936 has become a far more desirable prize than it seemed a year ago. The scramble is likely to grow more and more intense as the months pass. Where it will end no one can say today with cer- tainty. The Republicans have their op- 1 They may make the most of portunity. it or kick it away. ———e———————— If there are any oil prospects worth while in Ethiopia Mussolini will look them over, and maybe take charge of them himself. e Fireworks at Geneva. It is already painfully evident that League efforts to compose the Italo- Ethiopian controversy are doomed to proceed amid an explosive and acri- monious atmosphere little conducive to | a peaceful conclusion. The Italians last night all but broke up the Council session, confirming widespread fears that sooner or later Mussolini will bolt the League outright, finally defy its authority to intervene in the conflict and proceed to war. The early scenes of the international drama at Geneva strongly indicate that it will end in a tragedy. From London comes a circumstantial report that Il Duce, while directing his League delegates to present an uncom- promising front, is holding confidential | conversations outside of Geneva, which reveal him in “eminently reasonable attitude.” attributed the formula that “Italy wants Ethiopia, but does not want war.” There are hints of an early meeting | somewhere in Northern Italy, at which a bloodless settlement is to be discussed, coupled with the suggestion that if it is impossible to prevent Italian punitive measures, agreement might be reached to localize hostilities within a restricted | area while peace negotiations proceed. Such a notion is in line with the theory that Mussolini's irreducible minimum is one decisive military victory, (o avenge Adowa, and, with Italy's martial honor thus vindicated, he might stack arms. ‘Meantime, Geneva rocks with recrim- ination and defiance. On Wednesday Baron Aloisi, Italy’s chief spokesman, attack on Ethiopia as a land of unspeakable bar barism and savagery, a country wholly unfit for membership in any society of civilized nations. Stress was laid on the prevalence of slavery in Selassie’s realm. Yesterday was Ethiopia’s day in court. French jurist, M. Gaston Jeze, replied to Baron Aloisi’s indictment in extraor- dinarily telling fashion. It was when M. Jeze accused Italy of bullying tactics against weaker peoples that Signor Rocco, the remaining Italian delegate, sought to have the session suspended on the ground that Italy was being “in- sulted.” When the chairman rejected that request Rocco stalked out of the meeting. His chief, Baron Aloisi, had previously deserted it, on the eve of M. Jeze's presentation. The Italians immediately let it be known that these spectacular incidents do not denote Mussolini’s intention at once to quit the League. Of more omi- nous significance than their tempera- mental display was their refusal to ap- prove the presence of Great Britain and | France on a proposed council commis- sion of five to evolve a settlement of the Ethiopian question. Italy objected that she alone, of the three parties to the 1906 Ethiopian treaty, was mnot named as a member of the body. The entire commission project is now in the discard, adding one more failure to Geneva's endless list of futilities. Soviet Commissar Litvinoff sought, after these tempestuous events, to gal- vanize the Council with determination to grapple.boldly with the conflict. He strongly supported Ethiopia's plea for action and insisted that the League find the courage and the will to do its duty under the covenant in the face of Italy's palpable threat to peace. It decidedly remains to be seen whether Geneva can gird itself into such a frame of mind. ‘ Up to Solomon. Frank Walker, National Emergency Council administrator, is to enact the role of Solomon in settling a dispute between Harry Hopkins, Works Progress administrator, and Secretary Ickes, Public Works administrator, over the ownership of an $816,800 sewer project for the District. He can either kill the project, by awarding it to Secretary Ickes, or he can give it to Mr. Hopkins. On July 24 the sewer project was approved by District Works Progress Administrator Allen as one way of em- ploying & thousand men. It was not approved by the Commissioners as an | improvement project for which the Com- missioners were willing to spend local revenues. And as Congress has never authorized the work, the Commissioners could not spend local funds on it if they wanted to. 8o the dispute between Mr. Hopkins - To the Fascist dictator is | Its representative, the eminent 7 A—10 & THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1935. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. and Mr. Ickes is a curious development any way you look at it. If treated-as a Public Works project, the District would have to borrow from P. W. A, fifty-five per cent of the cost. The Dis- trict is forbidden by law from ‘doing that, and the Commissioners would rather have the money for something else. 1If treated &s a Warks Progress project, the funds for the work will be granted to get men off the relief rolls in pursuance of the national relief policy. 3 It has required more than a month for this project to reach the stage of dispute between Mr. Ickes and Mr. Hopkins, Are such delays typical? Apparently they are. On August 1 Commisioner Allen announced, with a loud beating of drums and a blowing of trumpets, that 1,420 men had been put to work—taken off the relief rolls—on ‘Works Progress Administration jobs. Yesterday, September 5, Mr. Hopkins announced that there were now em- ployed in the District 1,528 men on Works Progress Administration jobs. That shows a net gain, in a month and five days, of 108 men. The District, in the meantime, has submitted plans for the employment of 11,000 men. They are still awaiting approval. Italy declines to meet Ethiopia on terms of equality in the League of Na- tions. It is a pity that the questions involved are too grave to be settled by the tactful yet positive discriminations of society experts. / ) After looking the situation over, Post- master General Farley evidently feels an advantage over the Republicans in being able to concentrate on one particular candidate. B S — Young Japanese with cameras were taking entirely innocent pictures such as any traveler might desire as souvenirs. In times of general suspicion, even the camera may require an alibi. - Ben Franklin had a sense of humor. But there is not a chance that he could laugh at an economic situation like the present one. —r————— Government men hold racketeers in | terror. Crime does not pay in spite of the heavy expense it imposes on the taxpayer. ———— - Russian recognition was all fine for acquaintance. But in the progress | toward friendship arguments developed. ———r———————— Disasters at sea, on land and in the air may call for some scientific method of dealing on economic terms with what amounts almost to an epidemic. s to human sympathy, talking about the weather ceases to be an idle tea table | pastime. —— e Farm study contemplates a new deal | meat to sell over iae grocery counter. —— e ————— Paris still assumes to be setting the fashions in clothes, if not always in manners. Shooting Stars, BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. In Homage. | Oh, flaming youth, I see once more For you a world of care. I smile and I do not deplore My Father William hair. It makes a cushion, you'll agree, To shun a painful frown When I'm stood on my head to see A world gone upside down. Il reverence the youth that learns For age to make amends. The flame is useless when it burns The candle at both ends. Where age has failed youlll strive anew To lead the world to truth. And so my hat is off to you, Once more, friend flaming youth. New Customers. “What's your idea of dividing the wealth around?” “More revenue,” said Senator Sor- ghum. “The rich have learned a lot about tax evasion. The previously poor won't be nearly so hard to collect from.” Jud Tunkins says anybody who com- plains about ordinary changes of cli mate ought to be ashamed of himself when he reads the hurricane news. Shuffling the Pack. The king of kings in anxious gloom Was seated in his counting room. The queen of queens was looking for A costume suitable to war. In measuring how each behaves Do not forget some knave of knaves. Confidential. “Much money in the new Crimson Guich bank?” asked the G man. “Not a dollar,” said Mesa Bill. “We feel perfectly able to capture any out- laws who can be induced to visit our fair city. We need machine guns for our own use, That shack labeled ‘bank’ is a decoy.” Mars, the Excursionist. The Mediterranean shows as of yore Contentions ‘twixt northern and south- erly shore. The African mountains brought numer- ous thrills Because of reports, “there is gold in those hills.” Some gallant adventure was often dis- played By ships as they traveled in courtship or trade. ‘The reason for so many fights seems to be Polks wouldn’t stay on their own side of the sea. “We arg sil lookin’ foh de land of promise,” said Uncle' Eben. “Before we arrives we must find our way through s land of promises.” { the purpose of hand shaking on early | With storms bringing intense appeal | for the hogs that will provide enough | Voters Will Demand New Deal Accounting To the Editor of The Star: “Facts are reléntless,” said President Roosevelt in his recent address to the Young Democrats at Milwaukee. Not necessarily so. Some facts are pleasant, helpful and welcome. Others are un- pleasant, unfavorable and damaging, and cause concern to those who must face them. 2 The latter are of the character Presi- dent Roosevelt realizes he must face in his campaign for re-election next year, when the “facts” regarding his promises to the American people in 1932 will be set against his miserable record of vio- lating those promises. To him these facts will appear ‘“relentless”—unmerci- fully so. Despite the “engaging smile and per- sonal charm” of one whom the news- paper correspondents are pleased to call “the smoothest politician that ever sat in the White House,” despite the glit- tering generalities of “the more abun- dant life” we are to enjoy at some un- certain future day, the American people will insist that the President render an accounting as to how he observed the promises he made them in 1932 and what is in store for them now, rather than in his indefinite and rainbow promises of the future. They will demand the “facts” as to why the president, instead of keeping his promise to reduce governmental ex- penses not less than 25 per cent, actually increased such expenses more than 70 per cent—to the highest peace-time fig- ure in our history; why, instead of keep- ing his promise to balance the Federal budget, he actually unbalanced that bud- get to the highest peace-time figure in our history, with a two-year deficit total- ing $7,500,000,000; why, instead of keep- ing his promise to stop debt increases, he actually increased that debt over $8,000,- 000,000, bringing it to the highest figure ever known in our history; why he did not keep his 1932 promise to reduce the number of Government employes, reduce Government bureaus, maintain a sound currency, take the Government out of private business, preserve the anti-trust laws, etc., etc. = ‘The American people will demand the facts regarding the foregoing, and much | more. To Mr. Roosevelt and his future political -ambitions these facts will ap- pear relentless—crushingly so. No longer will the President be able to capitalizz on cunning and deceptive criticism of a bygone administration. He must, from now on, stand on his own record and show the American people what they have benefited from the most costly and extravagant administration in our peace-time history. | In the future, as in the past, they will | | be willing to listen to and join in the pleasing strains of “Happy Days Are | Here Again.” But faced as they are with continually increasing taxes and the heaviest debt burden ever placed on the backs of the American people, this melody will be sung with a wholly dif- ferent viewpoint than during the *“prom- ising” campaign of 1932. R. C. SCHROEDER. President’s Obedience to Supreme Court is Cited To the Editor of The Star: Your issue of September 4, 1935, car- ried two editorials which seemed to me to be out of line with your usual care in commenting on public affairs, and on which, therefore, I desire to make a few observations. I refer to the editorials headed “Parable” and “Credit and Con- fidence,” respectively. In the one headed “Parable” raise the familiar and all too trite “con- stitutionality” issue. An uninformed person, reading it the way it is written, might very well gain the impression that to have a law declared unconstitutional | is something unheard of in this broad | land of ours and can be thought of only | in connection with the monstrosity now | occupying the White House. who even wants to change the Censtitution! * * = The President entered upon his duties at a critical time and with the functions of a large part of the institutions of the country severely upset and handi- capped and every one clammoring that “something be done.” This he promised to do and stated frankly that he was going to experiment with remedies. He went before Congress and asked for authority to do this and so and Congress gave it to him. Nothing savoring of “dictatorship” it. | e Al | war in Africa, but it came at a psycho- | logical moment and undoubtedly post- he had exercised this authority for some time some citizens saw fit to ask the Supreme Court’s opinion of the consti- | tutionality of certain acts of Congress, and in due time the Supreme Court ren- dered its opinion. ‘This opinion declared that Congress | (not the President) had exceeded its power in giving the President authority to do this and so. Still all in strict accordance with the provisions of the Constitution. If the President had now continued to exercise the disputed au- thority, then and then only should we have had unconstitutional Government. But he did not do this. * * * * The horse and buggy days are what the President does not wish to go back to, so, to remain consistently illogical, you end up with the remark that “in those days it was supposed that a little worry never hurt anybody.” The Presi- dent at least is consistent in not worrying. The tone and attitude of the whole article is political and partisan instead of your usual statesmanlike way of Jook- | ing at things, and, to cap it all, right | in-the next column there is an editorial on “Credit and Confidence,” in which you conclude that Government credit remains unshaken, but business confi- dence still impaired. I think the shoe is on the other foot. There are plenty of business men with confidence, but try to get any of the money that you say the banks are so full of. I had occasion recently to go to my bank for a loan. and the bank knows it. I went there with first-class collateral. The bank de- manded 175 per cent coverage in market | announcement of “Sunny Jim's” retire- value of the collateral and collected interest at 6 per cent three months in advance of its being due. I think it is the bankers who lack confidence in the business men. Altogether, the “Credit” editorial inspires a confidence in the Government which the “Parhble” edi- torial seeks to break down. Such in< consistency is unexpected in your edi- torial columns. S. J. WARBERG. Hotel Rates Included - . Meals in Olden Days To the Editor of The Star: Referring back to 1881, Mr. John Clagett Proctor says: A room at the Riggs House cost $4 a day, at the Arlington and Ebbitt, $3.50; Willard (old), 84. These prices of half a century ago com- pare favorably with those of today, which shows that hotel room rent has not ad- vuni:ld much, if any, during that long period. Yes, but those places were conducted on the American plan, unless I am very much mistaken. In addition to the room, you got three square meals. Now- adays hotels are run on the European system. Your room rent covers the room, and that's all. As for the eats, you | I have no outstanding debts | Balky locks, now. Every home has them and every home has its amateur locksmith, too. One of the oldest of trades, it is, nevertheless, one the average houseliold handy man never hesitates to tackle. He moey never have seen the inside of a lock in his life, but he is fully con- vinced in his own mind that he can set any balky one right in a few minutes. Before he is finished hours will have elapsed, still it will not do to remind him of it. He has put so much labor and per- haps a little swearing upon the recalci- trant device, especially that bad one on the back door. Back door locks seldom work. 1f they do work it is only after much Jjigegling of the key. * kK ¥ Time develops some mighty queer locks of which number the specimens on back doors invariably are the worst. One of the most common troubles may be described as a combination of the shakes and the pulls. It is not possible now to open the door merely by turning the key. All that is past. A combined shake and pull is neces- sary in ‘order that something or other inside the lock may fall just so. Not until this is done, evidently, will the thing open for any one. As in most such everyday troubles, the more, force that is used the more stubbornly the lock refuses to work. rH:nce the impatient man has a time of it. * kX ¥ X The impatient man always has a time of it, of course, whether it is locks or new screening to put in the screen doors, garden hose to mend or the hundred and one things to be done around & house. ‘Handy man, some call him, but often his hands run all to thumbs and then he jiggles balky locks in vain, threat- ening at last to pull the door down if | the thing does not open. Sometimes he makes his announce- | ment aloud, no doubt to the vast con- sternation of the lock which, never- theless, refuses to be coerced. Locks, perhaps, dislike being sworn | at as much as any one. At any rate, they stick their fastest | { in all such cases. Then along comes a patient hand, which, after giving the key the requisite number of turns to the right, a like number of jiggles to the left, then sud- denly gives a vank— And the bolt turns or shoots or comes loose or whatever it is that sticky, balky locks finally do. X X K % Lack of oil, dirt, swelling of wood- work, these are a few of the causes of household locks which will not work. Door jams and casings, pulling away just a little, throw a strain on other- wise dependable mechanisms. Practically no one, not even the household handy man, ever thinks to | give locks an occasional dose of oil. This procedure might prevent many of the balky locks encountered in most households. Then again it might not, for back doors and side doors, in particular, to goes back to those who chose cheap locks, in the first place. Some s¢em to believe that any old sort of lock mechanism will do for a side or back door. Pront door locks normally function years after the others g0 bad or opea only to a formula or certain setting. Almost every back door we ever have encountered has a different combination. One must be turned violently six times then given a yank. Another demands just the opposite treatment. You must fool it in order to get it to open of its own accord. Harsh tactics with this lock is not unlocking it, but locking it all the tighter. If you sneak up on it, applying a little oil and honey, as it were, it apparently forgets it is & stubborn lock and comes open easily. Just a few deft touches, figgles that are feather light—and open it comes, whereas any amount of raving and pulling and beating upon it will never open it. We know! * ¥ K % The serious side of bad locks, espe- cially on outside doors, would come if one were in a terrible hurry to get out and could not get the door open quickly enough. 1t is for this reason that all such locks should be put in good ordinary con- dition. Locks are not complicated, at least the ordinary kind are not, so that any person with a little mechanical in- genuity is able to fix them. But what of the householder who hap- pens to have no mechanical ability? Then he must turn this work over to some one who has. A good carpenter will do. A good carpenter is a handy man in many ways, but especially is he good at solving recalcitrant locks and window cords. A householder will wonder, after all these hundreds of years of building, why some bright soul has not invented a window cord that simply could not get off the roller. They still jump the track, and when they do many an average householder has been nonplussed by the apparently simple problem of getting 'em back again. Of course, all one has to do is remove the window, remove the sash, and so on: still this procedure is very vexatious to certain temperaments. Then it is that the carpenter, handy man of handy men, seems a weather tanned angel from a woodworking para- dise. With the assurance of long familiarity, he does to that window what ought to be done to it, in the simplest and most approved ways. Before the admiring audience has had frame, he has the whole back together again and begins sliding the window up and down like mad. “See?” he says, giving it an extra savage push, to show just how well he | has “fixed it.” One fears that one more such push and he will undo all he has done. say nothing of closet doors, have an | old persistent habit of going bad gafter a few years. Careless handling may account- for | some of this tendency on the part of locks in even the best households, but no doubt the blame in the last analysis WASHINGTO! i He has no such fear. “That's all right, eh?” he states, rather than inquires. putty, & sure way to make a cable jump its roller, in inexperienced hands, but not in those of the man who thoroughly understands windows and locks. The householder looks admiringly at him. Surely, this is the man to tackle that back door lock. OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. cap of Secretary Hull since he took com- mand of the State Department than the cancellation of the American oil con- | cession in Ethiopia. It occurred in the nick of time to clear the atmosphere | at Geneva, and probably made possible the continuance of League efforts to preserve peace between Mussolini and Haile Selassie. Surrender of the con- cession does not mean there will be no poned an explosion. Politically, the affair is regarded as being of material advantage to President Roosevelt. It not only enabled the United States to make a contribution to the cause of peace, but gave F. D. R. an opportunity for a prac- | tical demonstration that the New Deal frowns upon “dollar diplomacy.” The oil concession bristled with ugly inter- isguised | national possibilities, and und relief is visible all over Washington that the incident was so effectually closed. * %k ¥ X Three States are holding elections on | September 17 of more or less political | significance. At primaries New Jersey voters will express themselves-indirectly on the State’s 2 per cent retail sales tax when they nominate State Senators and Assemblymen. Gov. Hoffman, Jer- sey's favorite son for the G. O. P. presi- dential nomination, is sponsoring the | sales tax enacted. by his Republican Legislature. If the Governor loses con- trol of that body he and his program will be seriously hampered. Pennsyl- vania in State-wide primaries will nom- inate two State Supreme Court justices. The Democratic administration of Gov. Earle faces its first test in espousing & candidate for one of the places. New Mexico will pass on five proposed changes in its State constitution, among them one which would exempt from tax- | ation homesteads up to $2,500 valuation. * Xk * % Now that Postmaster General Farley has surveyed the political lay of the land in person and made his rosy report to President Ropsevelt, relatively early ment from the cabinet, to devote him- self exclusively to the 1936 campaign, is expected. Frank C. Walker, executive director of the National Emergency Council, continues to be reg: d as his likeliest successor. Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman of the Securities and Ex- change Commission, is considered another possibility for the place. There have also been reports that Commerce Secretary Roper might be transferred to the postal portfolio, and either Walker or Kennedy named to succeed him. While Democratic mahagers radiate se- rene confidence in the President’s for- tunes, Mr. Farley believes in taking no chances. He is preparing to “organize victory” on the same intensive lines pur- sued in -1932. Plans of conservative Democrats give Rooseveltians their gravest concern. Maneuvers of Huey Long and Father Coughlin command watchful consideration, too. > * % ¥ % Fresh evidence that Repul preparing to stress the constitutional issue in their effort to demolish the New Deal is supplied by arrangements of the ‘Women’s National Republican Club at New York for a two-day celebration of the 148th anniversary of the adoption olme(knmr.ufinnansepu?h:er 16 and blicans are | No brighter feather has adorned the | of the late President. Republican | tional Chairman Fletcher will parti | pate in the affair, which is to sound a Iclarion call to rally around the Con- | stitution against New Deal attacks. Former Gov. Ritchie of Maryland, for- mer Representative James M. Beck, for- | mer Gov. Kohler of Wisconsin and | former Chief Justice Pattangall of Maine will speak at National Constitu- tion day festivities in Faneuil Hall, Bos- ton. Col. Knox of Chicago. Gov. Tal- madge of Georgia, former Senator Reed of Missouri and Senator Steiwer, Re- publican, of Oregon, are also scheduled for Constitution day addresses. The anniversary promises to take on an anti- New Deal hue. % x Kansas City is hopeful that with the ald of P. W. A, project 954, providing $6,500,000 for a civic auditorium, the Southwestern metropolis will be able to make a successful bid for both national political conventions next Summer. The building is big enough to accommodate 5,000 delegates and 15,000 spectators, will be generously equipped with conference rooms, be air-conditioned and otherwise t the last word in convention hall convenience. Most cities aspiring to secure the party conclaves would pre- fer, if they can only get one of them, to have the Republicans. They figure that the Democrats will only long enough for a Roosevelt renomination love feast, while the G. O. P, is likely to fight things out for a week or more, with corresponding cash advantages to the convention city. * k ¥ * Sol. A. Rosenblatt, former N. R. A. director of compliance, has entered upon his new job at New York as “czar” of the cloak and suit trade. He is “im- partial chairman” of a body comprising manufacturers, jobbers, contractors and 41,000 workers. It operates under an agreement binding upon 1900 firms which produce 86 per cent of women’s ready-made garments. Mr. Rosenblatt was one of the myriad of Harvard Law School young men brought into the New Deal. After a brilliant college career, he practiced in New York, specializing in copyright and anti-trust legislation. In 1933 Gen. Johnson placed Mr. Rosenblatt in charge of codes for motion pictures, legitimate theaters, radio broadcasting, transportation, advertising and the ap- parel industries. - * k k x Politicians are still encountered who think that in appointing former Gov. John G. Winant of New Hampshire as chairman of the Social Security Board President ‘Roosevelt removed from the G. O. P. nomination race the man who might have been his most formidable opponent in 1936. While Gov. Winant is ng to enter upon the Federal duty just assigned him, some authorities believe that if he were sufficiently urged he might be induced to become the ele- phant's standard bearer after all. Winant rates as a Yconservative liberal” His political lsal(s include a resemblance to the young Abraham Lincoln. * % X ok Another straw indicating returning prosperity is increased imports of Jap- anese raw silk, which in August set a monthly high for 1935. The demand in- creased so much that dealers on the Atlantic seaboard their ship- ping orders so as to provide for trans- port over the fastest overland route from the Pacific Coast instead of through the Panams Canal. two strips of wood, one on each side of | | sary to have it removed. time to grasp the ipnards of a window | | United States. 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 Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- ton, D.C. Please inclose stamp for reply. Q. Over what international boundary is there the most travel?—W. H. A. Travel across the United States- Canadian border is the heaviest in the world. Q. How many lions has Hafle Se- lassie?—A. F. A. The Emperor now has 55. Q. When should the American flag be displayed on post offices?—T. M. A. It should be displayed during the business hours of all working days. As soon after sunrise as it is practicable, the flag should be hoisted and so dis- played that the union is at the peak of the stafl. At sunset it should be lowered and carefully stored. In addition, it should also be displayed on the follow- ing holidays: New Year day, George Washington's birthday, Pan-American day (April 14), Mothers’ day (second Sunday in May), Memorial day, Flag day, Independence day (July 4), Labor day, Columbus day (October 12), Armis- tice day (November 11), Thanksgiving day and Christmas day. Q. How many people in Great Britain ride bicycles?—C. M. A. The number of cyclists has re- cently been estimated at approximately 10,000,000. Q. Do dahlias contain sugar?—L. D. _ A. The tuber of the dahlia contains inulin which can be broken down into fruit sugar or fructose and converted into sugar syrup. Q. Can steam be used for refrigera- tion?—H. F. A. It is used to cool water in some hotels, department stores and other large buildings and to cool milk in pas- teurizing plants. Q. How did Wiley Post lose the sight of one eye?—P. T. L. A. Wiley Post lost his eve when work- ing in an Oklahoma oil field. A chip of metal struck the eye and it was neces- Under his patch he wore a glass eye. With the compensation he received as a result of his lost eye he purchased his first | airplane. _ Q. At what time of year is pineapple | imported?—S. T. S. A. The season in which canned pine- apple is imported is June, July and August; August being the heaviest month. Of the fresh pineapples, Feb- ruary, March, April and June constitute the season in which they arrive in the March is the heaviest month. Q. Do convulsions constitute & dis- ease?—H. 8. A. A convulsion is a symptom, not a | disease. 1t should be regarded as a i danger signal. And he slams the window down so | that every atom of glass shivers in its 1 Q. Is there such a thing as a biteless mosquito?—I. G. A. Scientists of the New York State Conservation Department have discovered a non-biting mosquito in Canaderagn Lake. The young mosquitoes are trans- parent and live on the lake-bottom. | On reaching maturity they fly in swarms on tree trunks and in clumps of weeds. { Q. Who was the first woman to arrive in America?—E. P. A. A. The first women colonists were | Mrs. Forrest and her maid, Anne | Burras, who settled in the Jamestown, | Va., Colony in 1608. Q. Please name some of the most m- | portant towns in Ethiopia. | A Addis Ababa, the capital; Dire- dawa, Harar, Gondar, Debra Markos, | Aduwa, Aksum (the ancient capital, | Ankober, Gore and Sakota are the places of most importance. Q. Are train orders transmitted by telegraph or- telephone?—F. O. | A. The use of the telephone increases | steadily. On January 1, 1935, the tele- phone was used for the transmission of orders for the operation of trains over 151,103 miles or 63.72 per cent, while the telegraph was used on 93,907 miles of road. - Q. In what parts of France are the Pershing oaks to be planted?—M. E. B. A. The Interallied Federation of For- mer Combatants will plant a Pershing oak on every battlefield where French soil was freed by American troops dur- ing the World War. On September 13 the first of these oaks will be planted at Chateau-Thierry. Q. How does cotton acreage compare with corn acreage in Louisiana?—L. H. A.In 1934, the cotton acreage was 1,191,000 and the corn acreage was 1. 354,000. Cotton, however, is the much more valuable crop. Q. How do you pronounce the name of Lord Linlithgow, who will be India’s new viceroy?—J. McC. A. The “lin” has a short “i,” the ac- cent is on the “lith,” and the final syllable is pronounced “go.” - Q. What name has been given to each of the three parts into which the choruses of most popular tunes fall>—F. P. A. Sigmund Spaeth says that the form technically known as “song form” is followed by most popular choruses, and also by folk-music in general. It is often called the “ternary form,” or the A-B-A form, consisting of three parts, of which the third is merely a repetition of the first. Generally, the | first is repeated before the second be- gins, and then again at the close, so that it is really A-A-B-A. This is the commonest form of popular choruses, each part taking eight measures. Q. What is meant by vis major?—H. M. A. This is a civil law term used to denote an inevitable accident, that is, one which could not have been avoided by the exercise of care because it is the result of the operation of the forces of Nature. A Rhyme at Twilight By Gertrude Brooke Hamilton One Man_’sl’rayer Lord, make me humble in my daily task, Nor let me be purse-proud in what I ask; By every human contact let me thrive, And while I live keep me alert! alive! Keep ghw my brain active, untaxed and ree, My spirit from decline or apathy. Give me the strength to hold within my . hands What's mine—my chosen work, my love and lands. } t