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A—S8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY ........September 11, 1935 THEODORE W. NOYES........... Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company. Ave. D New o 51 lufl“fil. & 12480 ce. an in| ureShioA g Ot Kake K- Tondon. Ensiand, Rate by Carrier Within the City. Resular Edition. 45¢ per month 60c per month 65¢ per month -5¢ per copy Night Final Editio ight Finsl and Sunday Star. Night Pinal Star_. Collection made at ©Orders may be sent b: tional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily avd Sunday...l yr. $10.00; 1 mo. Daily only T1 yr. $6.00i 1 m Sunday only 1 yr. 4.00; 1 mo.. All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunds 5 s§-:.un; 1 mo.. $1.00 70¢ per month - 8¢ per month e end of 1.1‘,“ month. ‘mail or telephone Na- 50c 40c 1 Daily only 1 yr.. $8.00; 1 mo, 7hc Siinday ontyZ i 851001 5Uc Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Il ‘Tights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Time for a Showdown. The fundamental difference of opin- fon on work relief between Secretary Ickes and Harry Hopkins seems to be this: Secretary Ickes apparently still be- lieves there should be something to show for the expenditure of work-relief money besides the fact that so many men were employed for such-and-such a time. He has insisted that projects financed through P. W. A. be necessary and socially desirable. He has made local communities share in the undertaking by borrowing part of the cost. He has carefully audited expenditures. If a healthy proportion of the cost goes into purchase of materials, even that spreads employment by increasing work for the material-supply industries. Mr, Hopkins, on the other hand, has made putting men to work his all-em- bracing objective. He wants to get all the employables off the relief rolls by November by putting them on W. P. A, jobs. If a fiddler is out of work, get him a fiddle and let him fiddle at a wage not exceeding $700 a year. If a writer lacks a job, get him a type- writer and paper and let him write. If a man cannot fiddle, write, paint murals of farmers gathering in the sheaves, make a survey or dig a ditch, think up some other boondoggling Jjob and let him boondoggle, without spend- ing too much on materials. Only take him off the rolls of the F. E. R. A. and put him on the rolls of the W. P. A. by November 1! ‘When the President by cost-per-man limitations tacitly favored boondoggling as against what used to be known as pump-priming Mr. Hopkins got the upper hand in the spending of the work- relief money. He was backed by other practical-minded and far-seeing gentle- men who realized the political advan- tages of distributing Uncle Sam’s bil- lions on the basis of unemployed popu- lation rather than desirability of perma= nent improvements and the willingness of local communities to shell out part of the cost. He has assumed greater authority, with presumably adequate backing, while Mr. Ickes has been shoved farther and farther into a dark corner. While Mr. Ickes and Mr. Hopkins vigorously deny the existence of any rift between them, such denials sound like nonsense in view of Mr. Ickes’ manifest resentment over the fact that Mr. Hopkins has vetoed some 1908 of P. W. A. projects and in view of Mr. Hopkins’ sly digs at the relatively small number of men employed on P. W. A. projects as against those working on W. P. A. projects. Mr. Ickes is to see the President and he will doubtless ask for a showdown—definite and final—on the question of who is who in work relief. Certainly it is time for a showdown, not so much on the relatively unim- portant matter of authority between Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Ickes, but. on where the Hopkins program is leading. There are now some 26,648 administrative offi- cials on the W. P. A. pay roll alone. Fifty thousand jobholders are reported as working on plans to put men to work. If there is some genius who can show that such a set-up is not leading merely to the pouring out of other billions for the maintenance of another fast-grow- ing bureaucracy for the creation of work relief after the current billions of work- relief funds are spent, he should do it. 1 mo.. The threat of assassination has been, from time immemorial, one of the pen- alties of arbitrary domination. It's exe- cution has always given a memory more powerful influence than a physigal iden- tity could exercise. ) Monarchy for Greece. ‘With the reported resignation of President Alexander Zaimis, the long- simmering Royalist mcvement in Greece has apparently reached a triumphant climax. The republic, after a fevered existence of ten years, is on the verge of collapse. On its ruins the monarchy is about to rise again, with restoration of former King George II to the throne from which he was ignominiously ban- {shed in 1923, on the eve of the nation's decision by plebiscite to set up a repub- lican government in its stead. Present-hour events were precipitated by monarchist-militarist pressure long exerted and which President Zaimis and Premier Tsaldaris finally found it im- possible to resist. The measure of the premier’s “conversion” to the Royalist cause was conveyed in a public state- meni in which he declared that he con- siders “democratic royalty as the natural regime for Greece,” and then called upon the people to vote for it in a na- tional referendum. With Tsaldaris bowing to the inevitable, Gen. Kondylis, the spearhead of the monarchist cam- paign, predicts that George will be re- established on his ancestral throne “by & crushing majority.” Unless the-myugthe Royalists, . THE flushed with victory, set up some form of dictatorship, Greece now seems headed for & constitutional monarchy and that form of government which prevails in Western European democracies with Parlisments as checks on the royal authority. From his various points of exile in Great Britain and elsewhere in Eurcpe George has repeatedly seid that he would return to Athens as King only in respense to the popular will expressed through an hcnest vote. Following the complete failure of the short-lived Venezelist rebellion last April, the eventual victory of the Greek Royal- ists became only a matter of time. The government promised that as soon as conditions became sufficiently calm it was prepared to hold a referendum on restoration of the monarchy. The grand old man of the Hellenes, scenting the doom of the republic, for the crea- tion of which he was so pre-eminently responsible, had essayed one last her- culean effort to save it and restore hisonce omnipotent political authority, but the army and navy revolt, which Venizelos instigated, was promptly suppressed,and the patriot whom Woodrow Wilson at Paris described as “the greatest states- man in Europe” was driven from his native Crete into humiliating banish- ment in France. From that vantage point he is now condemned to survey the final wreck of his plans and dreams as his people prepare to revert to royalty. Since the World War thrones have been consistently at a discount, except those which dictators bestride. The rule has been for monachies to give way to republics. By resumption of “the King business” Greece has set a new fashion. e A council table 1n Geneva may create even more serious quarrels as to pre- cedence than a dining table in political society. P Instructed Delegations. Postmaster General James A. Farley, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, expects every State and Ter- ritorial delegation to the Democratic National Convention next year to be “instructed” for President Roosevelt. He does not exclude Louisiana or Georgia. Had Senator Huey P. Long lived, the Louisiana delegates would have voted for Long or for whomever Long des- ignated. for Roosevelt—unless Long had reversed himself. But there remains Georgia, where Governor Talmadge, as bitter against the Roosevelt New Deal in his way as was Huey Long, succeeded in being re-elected last year. Talmadge has been mentioned as a possible leader of Southern anti-Roosevelt and anti- | rugged poetic fancy as a canary that | | has been swallowed. New Deal sentiment next year. Chairman Farley, however, has no fears. He foresees a unanimous renom- ination for President Roosevelt. This may well happen, although there are many within the ranks of the Demo- cratic party who strongly oppose much of the New Deal. Two factors, in all probability, will override and prevent any great opposition to Roosevelt’s renom- ination—unless it be found in Georgia. The first is the tremendous Democratic organization, aided and abetted by a | powerful governmental bureaucracy. The second is a willingness on the part of conservative Democrats to maintain party regularity for the benefits which may accrue to themselves. They must swim with the New Deal or sink with- out it: hang together or hang separately. Mr. Farley has done more than any other man to build up this Nation-wide Democratic organization that seems ready to function one hundred per cent for the President. Farley began this work of organization when Roosevelt was Governor of New York. It is not at all strange, therefore, that Mr. Farley is to be retained as the generalissimo of the Roosevelt forces in the 1936 cam- paign. On the other hand, his resigna- tion from his cabinet post to give full time to running the national campaign is to be expected. This may take place at the time, or shortly before, the Demo- cratic National Committee meets in the early Winter to select the time and place for the party’s national convention. Thus will the proprieties be observed in separating the cabinet job and the purely political job of national chairman. Fur- thermore, the demands of such ardent political purists as Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, one of the original Roosevelt men, will have finally been met when Farley gives up one of these two offices. Report has it that Frank C. ‘Walker of New York, former treasurer of the Democratic National Committee and now director of the National Emergency Council, is being groomed to succeed Mr. Farley as Postmaster General. Mr. Farley may decide he has had enough of cabinet life when he steps out of office. But if President Roosevelt is re- elected, there is nothing to prevent his restoring Mr. Farley to his cabinet as a reward for his services. In the mean- time, it will be Mr. Farley’s particular job to see that the Democratic organi- zation functions smoothly and that all delegates to the national convention are instructed for Roosevelt. ——oe—s Facts About Communism. The facts about Communism may be taught in the public schools of the Dis- trict of Columbia, although Communism may not be “advocated” by the teacher. Such is the interpretation of a “rider” appended to the last District appropria- tion bill forbidding the use of public funds for the teaching of Communism in the schools. The ruling has been made for guidance of the Board of Education by Corporation Counsel Pret- tyman and approved by the Commis~ sioners. Any other policy would be mistaken and ineffective. It is the verdict of history that danger to society, as to the individual citizen, breeds in ig- norance and not in knowledge. To be possessed of the truth about anything is to have power over it, but lack of knowledge, by the same logic, is & source of weakness and disability. Certainly the _schools of the Nation's LAY They would not have voted | | | | count of weather. | bystanders will appreciate the rain check. | inferentially Capital should be protected against misuse by professional advocates of alien concepts of government. And they are so safeguarded by act of Con- gress. For that reason, if for no other, the “rider” was unnecessary, and Mr. Prettyman in his report reminded the board of the efficiency of the existing stetute. The objective most to be de- sired is the sane and sensible philosophy of untrammeled instruction. An arbi- trary prohibition against all mention of Communism and its doctrines would but serve to defeat the ends which the sponsors of the “rider” appear to have had in mind. It undoubtedly would prompt curiosity, stimulate inquiry, among the pupils of the schools. Thus it would provide an opportunity for prop- aganda clandestinely cifculated from outside. A word might be added for the youth of the city. Those who know the boys and girls of Washington best have faith in them. They are not so gullible as some faint-hearted skeptics might sup- pose. On the contrary, they are just about as level-headed as their elders. Communism has no appeal to them. They believe in private property, de- mocracy and orderly progress and have no patience with common ownership, class dictatorship and revolutionary methods. Mr. Prettyman does not say that he has consulted any of the young- sters, but it may be that he did. If so, he can be confident that they will be able to take care of themselves in the event of any attempt to deliver them over to Lenin and Trotsky, to Mussolini and Hitler. Nor are the teachers them- selves the fanatic radicals that some would have, us believe. S —— The fortune that the late E. L. Doheny made in oil has brought him into much current discussion in connection with financial suspicion. This fact cannot efface the memories of him as a loyal friend personally and a man of unswerv- ing philanthropic purposes. There has been much adventurous finance in recent affairs—enough to sug- gest that the fool dollar and the com- mon-sense dollar have attempted com- | petition. e — T. Roosevelt talked about “a square deal.” It must be assumed that F. D. R. includes the same idea when mentioning a “New Deal.” o ‘When political and military purposes | are analyzed, the Mediterranean Sea be- | comes the goldfish bowl of the Eastern | Hemisphere. st Cats still figure in reference to N.R. A. | Most of the old Blue Eagles appear in v There is a disposition to get Al Smith back to the microphone and allow him to bring up “raddio” as a new deal in pronunciation. e el ey One of the town annoyances is the man who wants to start a European war in America without waiting for word from home. ———— The human element may be controlled to some extent in “efficient” plans, but where man contrives an electric fan Nature produces a hurricane. e Civilization is to some extent a struggle with temperatures ranging from equa- | torial heat to polar cold. Mussolini postpones his war on ac- Abyssinian innocent Shooting Stars, BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Casual Comment. King Solomon’s proverbs I read long ago. His wit is as sharp as a tooth, And often, in accents respectful and slow, I'd whisper, “Well, ain't it the truth!” ‘The Greeks and the Romans with many a phrase Have dazzled my studious youth; ‘With reverence oft on some page I would gaze And murmur, “Well, ain't it the truth!” At expressions of wisdom we oft get & glance; We quickly forget them, in sooth. It's off to the night clubs and on with the dance After saying, “Well, ain't it the truth!” Avoiding Interruption. “Do you ever quarrel with your wife?” “A little,” admitted Mr. Meekton; “but never sufficiently to take her mind off any line of thought that Henrietta con- siders really serious.” Precious Breath. A breathing spell I shall enjoy. To hold my breath was hateful. My loudest lung power I11 employ To show that I am grateful. Breakage. “Why did you break off your engage- ment with that charming gentleman?” “I didn't break it off,” said Miss Cay- enne. “Did he?” “He is broke. So am I. So it just naturally fell apart.” “My ancestors were very wise,” said Hi Ho the sage of Chinatown. “I am proud of them even though, like so many ancestors, they left behind many unpaid taxes” \ Assassin, The weapon tells in accents plain _The mood of an assassin's brain. It indicates a sudden course Apart from honor or remorse. And as the future is unrolled, Till all the story has been told, ‘With pity, still, of one we’ll read wmnwmadm “Politicians,” said Uncle Eben, “oughb to be de salt of de earth. Dey are beginin’ to act like dey was de 'sault an’ batters.", A EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM Margaret Germond. THE WORSHIPFUL LUCIA. By E. F. ?nc:on New York: Doubleday, Doran 1f Dame Catherine Winter-Glass had only lived to a ripe old age instead of embarking for the pearly gates at the untimely age of fifty-five, the highly respectable and ancient village of Tilling might have sunk into the easy comfort of its fireside lounging chairs and sur- rendered to the luxurious sense of secur- ity generdted by complacent self-satis- faction, Elizabeth Mapp and her “Benjy- boy” might have honeymooned to the end of their day, and Mrs. Emmeline Lucas might never have realized that her own life had been a particularly useless affair in a world that needed so many things to be done for it. Of course, not one of Lucia’s old admirers will ad- mit this self-estimate of her value to be true, for they are well acquainted with her numerous activities and have a profound belief in her ability for con- tinued interest in the affairs of Tilling. But to Lucia, in a mood of restrospect induced by the newspaper obituary, the contributions she has made to the wel- fare of mankind seem paltry, and the death of Dame Catherine Winter-Glass becomes a matter of personal signifi- cance. For Lucia is rapidly approaching her fiftieth birthday, and if the sands of time should run their course for her at such an unseasonable age there are only a few years left in which to make up for the wasted half century. Dame Winter-Glass had been an especially generous philanthropist, though her original fortune was known to have been small. Lucia determines to become a philanthropist and to spend the rest of her life endowing this and that and the other and making & name for herself that will insure an equally glowing obituary for herself when the final cur- tain drops. The first essential in a career of philanthropy, however, is money. Lucia has never engaged seriously in the busi- ness of making a few dollars produce more dollars, but other people, even women, have been known to make for- tunes on the stock market, so she decides to try it. Gold mine stock seems a good start and, upon the advice of a broker, she buys. She subscribes to a financial paper and watches the market. news spreads and Elizabeth Mapp and her Benjy-boy follow Lucia's lead. Diva, Georgie and nearly all of Tilling's popu- lation fall into line and invest. gossip goes on unceasingly and the merry tale of the complicated social life in the small English town sparkles along like | s refreshing brook through days and nights of excitement such as Tilling has | never experienced in its long and honor- | able history. Though the novel takes up again the familiar characters and scenes of the earlier Lucia series, the present story is complete in itself and is just as brimful | of humor, common sense and entertain- | ment as if its characteristic collection of pretentious small-town individuals unexplored. * * * % “HONOUR, COME BACK——" By Na- omi Jacob. New York: The Macmil- lan Co. There is enough material in the elastic subject upon which the story of Michael novel. sags at the points where it should show the greatest strength is a matter that | does not altogether spoil the interest that | is naturally aroused in the affairs of Michael in the beginning of the story, erable extent before it reaches the turn- ing point and begins the climb toward its logical climax. The story is not a happy one. any tale of the Great War can be. And the wrecking of the real manhood of young Michael Benham in the four years of purposeless slaughter is all too true an indictment of the ambitious men whose lust for conquest drenched the world with blood. Michael is a symbol of the souls that were murdered, rather than an individual character incapable of adjusting to a war-mad civilization. Michael's soul was murdered by his father, a stalwart son of England to whom soldiery was the highest and the only profession which a man should adopt as a career, and to whom war was the most glorious experience of life. Bill, his oldest son. inherited his father’s zest for the service. But Michael's tempera- of a different order. He wanted to be a fruit grower. From early childhood his father belittled his character, con- demned him as a mollycoddle and hated him furiously because he lacked military enthusiasm. Thus cowed into inferiority, the lad began to feel himself a coward and later to believe himself to be one. At fifteen he was forced by his father's scorn to leave school and enter the service. ‘The murdering of a soul is, unfortunate- ly, not as a rule completed in one opera- tion. Michael's soul was murdered many times. during the four years of horror through which he forced his body in an effort to prove himself the sort of man his father wanted him to be, while in his mind he knew that no heroic achievement could give him a belief in its glory. And this novel is the story of a truly brave and valiant English led, struggling through a mental hell worse than that which prevailed in the trenches, and endeavoring each inch of the way to save others from suffering the pain which he can himself endure but cannot witness. Michael eventually escapes from the tortures of his childhood and the scars of war, but the fruit trees that bloom for him are not those of his own estates or even of his own country. Honor is something to hold dear and to guard with life itself—but who shall judge of what material honor is made? Naomi Jacob has a natural gift for crisp, concise story telling. She has gone astray and written a slow-moving narrative, heavy in spots, but interest- ing, nevertheless, and convincing in its interpretation of the immature mind of the world’s youth when disaster over- whelmed and destroyed it. Boosting the Paper Industry. Prom the Danville (Ill.) Commercial-News. Belgian paper-making industry fis prospering. Which is understandable in view of the rate at which treaties are being turned into confetti. That Smoke Nuisance Again! From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Mellon Institute says industrial smoke seriously hampers airport operation. It may become necessary to put the flying fields underground. An Answer to Prayer? From the Watertown (N. Y.) Times. The New Dealers are probably just calling the setback in Rhode Island an act of Providence. — it A Correet Definition. Prom the Kalamazoo Gazette. A lobbyist is a man who goes to Washe ington to get something or other he is & mmnmmm?n The | were entirely new and the territory | Benham is based to make a powerful | That it misses the mark and | but it lessens that interest to a consid- | Not ment, finer sensibilities and tastes were | 'D. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1935. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Fall planting, so widely advocated, has one thing against it—one simply is not in the gardening mood. Perhaps the average amateur horil- culturist is not enough of an enthusiast, after all, to stand the strain too many months at a stretch. There is no doubt that the heat of Summer wilts more than collars. By the time Autumn is here a great deal of the zest of the gardening year has evaporated. The gardening year, the outdoor gar- dening year, is over. Hence it is but natural for many to feel that they are done with the sport, occupation, avocation, what you will, until Spring. * K K x This is a natural thought, and, all in all, a good one. The great American fault is over- doing. As a nation, we run everything into the ground, with the exception of the automobile, which we generally run into the telephone pole. Gardening, as practised by the city or suburban gardener, is protected by great Nature herself from the national vice. Annual enthusiasm seems to run out with the annual flowers. The basic love remains, but an honest desire has come for rest, for freedom from garden thought, even. Let it be so. o e Yet for him or her who simply will not give over, in a gardening sense, a great deal remains that may be done from now on. Those who are in the business of sell- ing plant materials urge Fall planting, partly for a selfish reason of their own— that it keeps them busy at a time which would otherwise be dull. Also, in urging Autumn garden work, they no doubt are right, which is more to the point of the average gardener. Granting that one overcomes the nat- ural urge for inertia, which comes to many after the garden Summer, there is much work that can and some that must be done before Christmas. Narcissus and iris, for instance, are best planted during September. Tulips and many other Spring-flower- | ing bulbs go into the ground best in October, or even November, so long as it is before severe frost. September is an ideal time for setting out peonies. In putting the roots into | the ground, remember that too-deep peonies failing to bloom. Shallow planting, not more than 2 inches deep, is best for peonies. Iris rhizomes should be planted shal- low, likewise. * ok k x planting of roses goes ahead unchecked. They should not be put into the ground until dormant, however, which means not until October or November. Many persons especially dislike moving roses at this time of year. They seem to feel that a great deal of the pleasure goes out of rose growing so. Surely there is something in their attitude. Who that has planted his first rose bushes in some lovelv Spring, unwrap- ping the plants, putting them into the still-cold soil. watching the first leaves unfold, tending them as if they were ing can give a like thrill? Fall and the first blooms in June is WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC | planting is the greatest single reason for | Then the fun begins. Old rivalries | break out. the joyous interchange of | A Nation-wide movement toward Fall | fragile, will ever admit that Fall plant- | The great wait between planting in | almost too much for the rose enthusi- ast, at least of the amateur variety. He will admit that the Fall-planted bushes get a great start in the Spring, but he believes that Spring-planted ones soon overcome the handicap. At any rate, he prefers Spring for rose planting, and who can blame him? ® x ok % Newcomers to the home garden game, of whom there are several thousands every year in every great city, some of them in Autumn, must particularly keep mn mind the fact that if they would have tulips in their yard next Spring they must plant the bulbs now. As late as October, or even November, will do Yor the planitng of the tulip, narcissus, grape hyacinth, crocus, hya- cinth, and all the other bright flowers called “Dutch bulbs” but beloved the world around. Planting depths for all of these are easily learned and should be adhered to in all cases. Bulbs of the tiny grape hyacinth will throw up leaves if planted now, and those already in the ground from last season will do tke same. They are making new bulbs for next year. Tulip breeding, long an art, has been rejuvenated in recent years. Many new sorts are coming on the market and many older types temporarily are in eclipse. One should be careful, in ordering tulips, to know exactly what one is getting. Careful check should be kept | on colors, so that if bulbs ordered and planted this Fall do not bloom true next Spring one may buy from a different tulip house next time. There is nothing in gardening more disappointing than getiing tulips which do not bloom as one anticipated. In case we do not have a severe Fall, and hard freezes do not come until later in December, that month may be util- ized in putting tulip bulbs into the ground. It is not the best month, by any means, but it will do, in a pinch, if the ground is workable. * k x x Experts advise the planting of wild- flowers, evergreens, many lilies and grass in the Autumn, as well as the horticul- tural materials already named. Lawn making at this season. for real | success, depends upon these things: An early start, good seed and a fair amount of warmth. with adequate rains. Hence the last week in August, and the first two in September, are perhaps | the best for beginning a new lawn, or re- | making an old one, although the excep- | tionally long rains of last week were a | little more than new grass would have | desired. Care must be taken. in planting wild- flowers, to get them deep enough. Dog- toothed violets. for instance, ought to go about 6 inches deep, not just 1 or 2 inches. as one might think from their size. Failure of much material of this sort to bloom in the Spring often is due to too shallow planting, rather than the reverse. A few of the lily bulbs are not avail- able until cold weather sets in. These should be planted as soon as received from shippers. As for evergreens, if planted in the Fall they should be given a copious watering at the time of setting out, and the earth kept moist around their roots and as far down as possible for at least three weeks. It also is highly impor- | | tant, in such cases, to make sure that | they go into the Winter well wetted i down. WILLIAM WILE. With the record of three Presidents of the United States killed by assassina- | tion. the American people are filled with | traditional abhorrence of political mur- der, no matter what the incentive or who the victim may be. Even though his enemies were innumerable, no one in Washington condones the crime which ‘cost Huey Long his life. In branding as “un-American” the “spirit of vio- lence” in which it was committed, Presi- | dent Roosevelt expressed the view echoed through the Capital. The Louis- | anan will be tremendously missed in the | Senate. The galleries particularly will | deplore his disappearance. He had come | to be far and away the most magnetic drawing card in Congress. Advance an- nouncement that he was to perform meant standing room only. Senator Long was unquestionably the most- feared antagonist on either side of the aisle. Ruthless, resolute and resource- parliamentary trade as well as he, and he was seldom at a loss how to turn & rapid-fire situation to his own advan- tage. Because of his rough and tumble skili, few members ventured to tangle themselves with him. Robinson of Arkansas, Tydings of Maryland and Glass of Virginia were always ready to take Huey on, and he generally found them more than a match. ® k x X Long never gave an abler account of himself than at the Democratic Na- tional Convention in Chicago, when he overwhelmed the opposition to the seat- ing of his delegation. Armed with & wealth of facts and arguments, he con- ducted his defense with the shrewdness of a brilliant trial lawyer. When his presentation was ended, the anti-Long case was demolished. Remembering his triumph on that occasion, more than one Rooseveltian trembled at the pros- pect of the forked lightning Long might throw through the 1936 convention. Hated and feared as he was, political friend and foe are agreed that in Huey's passing American public life loses one of its most colorful and potent figures. That he was growing in stature and mass popularity was no longer denied. Pew believed that Long would have proved a real peril to F. D. R. next year, but that he would have been a thorn in the Democratic side was generally con- ceded. On nearly all hands the view is voiced that one of the principal menaces to Roosevelt’s re-election has now been removed. ' LERE Trustees of the Edison Electric Insti- tute, which represents the bulk of the power industry, planned to meet this week and ‘decide upon a course of action with respect to the recently enacted pub- lic utility law. There are apparently two schools of thought. Some author- ities favor seeking such changes in the law as will make it, from the utilities’ standpoint, 8 more workable regulatory measure. Others think relief will come only through the courts’ holding that the law is uneonstitutional in its entirety. To that end it is understood that utility lawyers are now making a survey with a view to discovering a situation within the industry which would provide a clear-cut court case. 4 0% Against Senator Borah's eligibility for a presidential nomination, his record as a prohibitionist is frequently urged. Some of the Idahoan’s supporters ad- vance the theory that his dryness would in fact be an asset in that section of the country, the Midwest, which prom- ises to be the next year. Despite repeal, they claify that Borah's ful, not many knew the tricks of the | undeviating stand on liquor would be a vote-getter in exactly those regions which the Republicans will have to carry | if they are to beat Roosevelt. The latest suggested ticket is an ideal geographical combination of Borah for President and | Gov. Hoffman of New Jersey for Vice President. * o ok Last night's concert at the Pan-Amer- ican Union was the seventy-sixth of a | series which began in 1924. The pro- | gram included a medley of Colombian | airs dedicated by the Colombian com- poser, Emilio Murillo, to Franklin P. | Adams, former counselor of the Union. | Mr. Adams originated the concerts, | which have become a feature of Wash- ington artistic life and an effective | molder of Pan-American fraternity. Given alternately in the famous Aztec Garden and in the Hall of the Americas, the concerts are broadcast by short wave to Central and South America. They | feature Latin American artists and com- | positions. The Army, Navy and Marine Bands regularly participate in the pro- | grams. *x Wk This September’s Friday, the 13th, | marks the 75th birthday anniversary of Gen. John J. Pershing. The veteran commander of the A. E. F. is spending the late Summer, as usual, in Paris, in | connection with his duties as chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission. Under his supervision eight memorial chapels have been erected in American military cemeteries in France, Belgium and England, in addition to 11 monuments on the principal American | battlefields and at certain headquarters | bases “over there.” Monuments at Brest and Gibraltar are tributes to the achieve- | ments of the Navy in World War waters. | Gen. Pershing, thanks to his determina- | tion to live quietly and dodge hero wor- shiping, remains in excellent health. In French towns liberated by victorious American troops “Pershing oaks” will be planted on his birth date. x X X * > American peace advocates are liberally represented among the 500 or 600 ardent internationalists now gathered at Geneva for the purpose of goading the League of Nations into something resembling action in the Italo-Ethiopian crisis. Along with Senator Pope, Democrat, of Idaho the Yankee contingent includes a well-known member of the Wilson ad- ministration, former Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Carl Schurz Vrooman of | tection of life and property. llinois. *x K% Col. Hanford MacNider's recent on- slaught against the New Deal revives honorable mentior’ of the former Amer- ican Legion national commander, As- sistant Secretary of War and Minister to Canada as a G. O. P. presidential possibility. The young Iowan has long been considered White House timber by his World War cronies and is especially popular with his A. E. F. buddies of the 2d Division, who are dedicating a na- tional memorial in Washington this week. Geographically and politically, Mac- Nider’s admirers believe he cer- tain qualities that clothe him with a distinct dark-horse chance in the 1936 convention. What his brother Hawkeye, Senator Dickinson, thinks about that is something else again. (Copyright. 1935.) Needless Worries, From the Worcester (Mass.) Evening Gazette. According to a psychologist, 92 per cent of our worries are needless. Which 92 per cent, nlep’ 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. How much cement will be used in building the Grand Coulee Dam? —8.B. A. About 10,000,000 barrels. Q. Is it hard to learn to play kettle- drums?—N. A. Bt A. The Etude says that the art of playing the tympani is not easily mas- tered. They are as difficult to play as the violin. A person should first be a fair pianist, then learn to play snare drum, bass drum, traps, cymbals, bells and the xylophone. Then he begins on kettledrums. He must learn to tune by hand or pedal, to roll, learn pedal effects, glissandos and double rolling. He must also have absolute pitch. Q. How can books be printed on Indla paper when writing seems to soak through the paper?—R. D. B. A. Printing ink is made differently and remains to a great extent on the surface, while writing ink 1is usually fluid and sinks into so thin a paper. Q. What is the origin of the expres- sion, “going the whole hog"?—J. W. V. A. Tt is believed to have originated in the slang use of the word hog, mean- ing a ducat in Jewish, or one shilling in medieval English. Q. What is the troposphere?—F. C. A. It is that portion of the atmosphere lying below the stratosphere or iso- thermal layer and within which the convictive disturbances are confined. It is also known as the convictive region, a term first applied to it by Teisserenc | de Bort. Q. Who invented the vacuum cleaner? —G. 8. F. A. David T. Kenney of New York is credited with installing the first pure vacuum system in 1902 and about 1905 | Dr. William Noe of San Francisco con- structed cleaner, the first portable vacuum Q. What is the difference between a “patent pending” and “patent applied for"?>—M. B. A. They have practically the same meaning. Each indicates that the in- ventor has started negotiations toward procuring a patent. g &/hat is the meaning of alcazar? A. This is the name applied to various Moorish palaces in Spain. Originally constructed as forts, they are never- theless chiefly noted for their decorative work and arcaded courts. The alcazar of Seville, built in the fourteenth cen- tury on the site of a Moorish citadel of 1181 and restored in 1624 and 1857, is one of the most famous. Q. In which of the national parks are the most geysers found?—S. A. A. There are more geysers in the Yellowstone than in all the rest of the ! world together. Q. Is the apricot a native fruit of England?—A. B. A. It is a native fruit of the countries east of China and Japan. Brought from Asia Minor, it was first introduced into England by Richard Harris, a fruiterer to King Henry VIII in 1540. Q. When were vigilantes first organ- ized in this country?—H. F. A. The term has been applied in this country to any self-constituted judicial body occasionally organized in the Western frontier districts for the pro- The first group of prominence bearing the name was organized in San Francisco in June, 1851, when the crimes of desperadoes who had immigrated to the gold flelds were rapidly increasing in number. Q. What are the Twelve Tables?—C. H. A. They are the earliest code of Roman law, civil and criminal and religious, made by the decemvirs in 451-449 B.C. The original bronze tablets on which the laws were written are believed to have perished in the sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 B.C. Copies of them stood in the forum in the second cen- tury AD. Q. What postmaster in ihe United States has had the longest record of service?—C. L. B. A. Mr. Roswell Beardsley served the | longest of any postmaster in the history of the postal service. He was appointed postmaster at North Lansing, N. Y., June 28, 1828, and served continuously until the day of his death, January 6, 1903. Q. Who built the Trianon in the Park of Versailles?—H. G. A. The Grand Trianon was built in | 1685 by Louis XIV. for Mme. de Main- | tenon. The Petit Trianon was built by Louis XV in 1766 for Mme. du Barry. Q. What was accomplished by Ad- miral Byrd's second expedition to the Antaretic?—M. M. A. Among the accomplishments of the expedition may be mentioned the fact that the explorers proved by ship and airplane that the unmapped space north of the 75th parallel, between the 120th and 160th meridians west, is & part of the Pacific Ocean. They spent 800 hours studying cosmic rays 2,000 miles farther south than ever before. In astronomy, thanks to the clearness of the atmos- phere, they did remarkable work on meteors, seeing on an AVerage one a second. They traced the Edsel Ford Mountain Range for hundreds of miles, settling in the affirmative the question whether Antarctica is a single mass. Q. What will remove grease spots made by hair oil on upholstered furniture? —C. 0. L. A. They may usually be removed by applying carbon tetrachloride. Q. What is flame made of?—S. G. A. A simple flame, as that of a candle, consists of a luminous envelope sur- rounding & body of unburned vapor and itself surrounded by an invisible layer of gases produced by the burning. A Rhyme at Twilight By Gertrude Brooke Hamilton Autumnal Weather The tang of frost and scent of hail— Then rain.