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THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY .. .September 23, 1935 THEODORE W. NOYES. ««.Editor et el it e s e The Evening Star Newspaper Company. Business Office: 11th St. la" FE)IIllll:IéVll"fl; VA:l.. : e ) - Lake Michigan Building, Burooean Omce 14 Hekent St London. Ensiand. Rate by Carrier Within the City. Regular Edil e Evening Star__ The R ane Simew 45¢ per month 60¢ per month 65¢ per month B¢ per copy ight Final and Sunday c per month lEht Fina) "Star c per month Collection made—at "(hie end of cach month. Orders may be sent by mail or telephone Na- tional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, ly ard S 1 .. $10.00; 1 Baly oy 5601 8inday oniy mo., 85¢ mo.. Boe mo., 40¢ All Other States and Can: Datly and Sunday__1 yr. $12.0 0. ily only._. 1 mo, Binday onis $5.00; 1 mo.. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches eredited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein, Il rights of publication of special dispatches ein are also reserved. = = Constitutional Government. Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, gtudent and always champion of the Constitution, warns the country against partisan political attacks on the funda- mental law of the Nation and the Supreme Court. The success of such attacks, as the Idaho Senator points out, would inevitably result in the breakdown of constitutional government and the loss of liberty to American citizens. The Supreme Court is the final bul- wark of constitutional government. It has been so regarded for years. It be- comes today more apparent than at any time since the days of the Civil War and the reconstruction period thereafter that the people must look to this great judicial body for protec- tion in their rights. Senator Borah’s address, therefore, delivered over the radio, is the more pertinent. Although Senator Borah has been prominently put forward as a Repub- lican presidential possibility for 1936, he does not hesitate to charge the Republican party, as well as the Demo- cratic party, with attempts in the past to run roughshod over the Constitu- tion, for political advantage and for the personal aggrandizement of party leaders. He says: “The greatest danger to constitutional government, the most insidious enemy of our dual system of State and Federal sovereignty, is that intense partisanship which sometimes places party interests above country, which surrenders conscience, abdicates reason and compromises patriotism that the party's hold may be strengthened and the party reign extended.” The partisanship of the so-called New Dealers has grown more intense as the years have passed. But, added to this group of partisans is another, those members of the Democratic party who have no faith in New Deal principles or acts, but who, merely in order to keep their party in power and themselves in office, surrender their own convictions with regard to government and the lib- erties of the individual Americans. This latter group is unworthy. It exemplifies the truth of Mr. Borah's charge that for partisan political advantage, for added power, men are willing to attack the principles of free government. The battle lines are forming in this country. The people will have an op- portunity to express themselves at the polls. There seems no reasonable doubt that the issue of constitutional govern- ment as understood by the American people for generations will be clearly developed by the time the campaicn is in full swing next year. The Supreme Court of the United States already has unanimously declared one of the prin- cipal acts of the New Deal to be uncon- stitutional. It has rejected the idea that the President of the United States may throw out of office men against whose records no charges have been brought and who have been appointed for stated terms under the law. It may be ex- pected to hold other acts of the New Deal unconstitutional. Surely the Nation a5 a whole will have been fully in- formed of the issue. B e ] An old song is seriously recalled by Geneva delegates who “walked right in and turned around and walked right out again.” - The Memel Threat. Memel, that tiny patch of Baltic Sea coast detached from East Prussia by the treaty of Versailles and subsequently given to Lithuania, has suddenly become & bone of contention threatening com- plications in Northeastern Europe. The territory, which was granted autonomy under Lit.uuanian sovereignty, will elect its Diet on September 29. Although the population is overwhelmingly German, the Berlin government has long charged that Lithuania systematically subjects the German element to persecution. Chancellor Hitler in his recent Reichstag speech thundered that these tactics are intolerable and hinted strongly at reprisals. Berlin’s remonstrance has now taken more categorical form. The Reich‘for- eign office bluntly warns all concerned that Gérmany “cannot be held respon- sible for the acts of East Prussians” if a free election is not assured in Memel next Sunday. As Great Britain, France and Italy joined in guaranteeing the statute under which the Memel state was created, Germany called upon those governments to force Lithuania to cease alleged oppressive activities, Lon- don announces that satisfactory pledges from Lithuania have been received. Following Germany's recovery of the Saar last Spring there was a vigorous recrudescence of the demand that other territory taken from Germany after the ‘World War must also be restored. Alsace- Lorraine was not included in this pro- gram, but former German lands now under Czechoslovakian, Polish, Belgian, Danish and Lithuanian control were spe- cifically in mind. In both Danzig and Memel Nazi agitation with a view to re- incorporation of those regions under German rule has been unceasing. Hitler sent Goering, Goebbels and other Nazi big shots into Danzig for the late Diet elections there, but the campaign went against the Germans and hopes of plant- ing the swastika in the Polish Corridor had to be indefinitely postponed. Nazi political leaders have intruded into the current Memel campaign, through pub- lished appeals te the German element to stand unflinchingly against the Lith- uanian “tyrant.” It is in Berlin's undisguised threat that neighboring “East Prussians” may take the law into their own hands if German “rights” are flouted in Memel that real peril lies. The German foreign office declares, significantly, that while the Reich is preserving strict neusrality in the Italo-Ethiopian controversy, it does not intend to let Lithuania take advan- tage of Anglo-French-Italian absorption in that affair “to walk off with Memel.” President Smetona of Lithuania, em- phasizing the importance of Memel as Lithuania’s only seaport, indicates her determination to curb Nazi propaganda for return of the territory to Germany. There is plenty of gunpowder in the situation and the possibility of its critical development, while Europe has its eyes turned toward the Mediterranean, can- not be excluded. Hitler may see a chance to fish in troubled waters. — o Another Failure of Reason. Despite all the mechanism of adjust- ment to adjudicate wage disputes, set up by law and by arrangement between the interested factors, another general strike has occurred, the 400,000 members of the United Mine Workers quitting their tasks this morning. It is estimated that fully two and & half million persons, including the members of families, are directly affected by the walkout. In addition the strike reacts seriously upon industries which rely upon bituminous fuel for their power and also upon the railroads that use that fuel for their locomotives. There are considerable supplies at hand, the extent of which is not definitely known. If the strike should continue for several weeks these supplies would be dangerously reduced, perhaps depleted. To a comparatively slight extent does the curtailment of bituminous production incident to a strike affect domestic users, for that fuel is little used in individual homes and only in apartments is it required in large quantities. In the Spring of 1902 a general strike occurred in the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania, that peculiarly restricted area from which practically all of the “hard coal” supply of the country comes. It was a stubborn fight, lasting for very nearly six months. With the opening of October the situation was dangerous. ‘The cold weather was beginning, the supply of this vitally essential fuel for the heating of homes of millions of people was exhausted and no replenish- ment was in prospect. President Theo- dore Roosevelt called a meeting of repre= sentatives of the mine owners and the workers and after protracted sessions he managed to induce both sides to accept the proposal of an impartial commission to effect a settlement of the dispute. That commission was fhmed, went to work promptly and in short order, though after many delicate complica- tions had to be adjusted, a compromise was reached on the basis of which the strike ended and the mines resumed production, with & three-year contract, “just in the nick of time,” as the saying goes, to prevent great suffering and per- haps fatal results from lack of fuel. It is now suggested that another President Roosevelt may undertake to settle the coal strike. He is on his way back to his office from a brief vacation. He will find this situation sufficiently difficult and even dangerous to the public welfare to warrant his under- taking of the role of umpire, personally or by immediate proxy, to effect a prompt settlement and the resumption of mining. While there is no such prospect of keen personal suffering and possibly danger to life as that which was presented thirty-two years ago, the case is highly perilous to the national pros- perity. A protraction of the strike for a period of a month would so deplete fuel supplies as to cause numerous clos- ings of plahts and the loss of employ- ment to many thousands. Moreover, the calling of a coal strike on a large scale is always the signal for disorders which are difficult of suppression and almost invariably costly in terms of human life. The real tragedy of the case is that the mechanism of adjustment, sup- posedly strike-proof, has failed; that once again the futility of discussion and arbitration to effect a satisfactory compromise, which is the almost in- variable basis of adjustment, has been demonstrated. —_—r———— Musselini complains that he has more deserts than he knows what to do with. Modern science might suggest to him that it is cheaper to irrigate than to fight. Screens at Bus Windows. Yesterday two busses on one of the suburban lines met in a sideswipe that in itself was not important. But to a passenger on one of the busses it was disastrous, perhaps fatal. He was sit- ting on the side of the collision, with his left arm hanging out of the window— and in the crash it was torn from his body. This mishap, for-which the sufferer must bear the chief blame for his im- prudent exposure of his s&rm, suggests that the busses should be protected against similar mishaps to passengers by the placement of wire screens at the windows on the left side. Such screens were required upon the street cars long ago, after accidents had proved their need. Im some cases the screens were fixed to the body of the car, in others they were part of the window frames, folding down into the sides of the car when the windows were closed and rising into position when they werg opened. In the light of this accident, however the burden of responsibility may rest upon the victim, there should be im- mediate precaution against repetition. Warnings to passengers, no matter how conspicuously posted in the vehicles—and they are absent from many of those now in service—will not serve to keep them from leaning or thrusting their arms out of windows. This is particularly true of children. Only the positive barrier of a screen will prevent sccidents of this nature. —_————— Many a kind word is spoken of Huey Long. It is & word wasted now, as it would have been when he was alive. An epitaph often signifies only a sense of relief because a fighter is no longer to be feared, ‘The constitutional guarantee of free speech is what enables a side street cafe to enthuse over international af- fairs. Communism still does a share toward supporting the government when it pays cover charges, There may be cannibals in darkest Africa. They will find little epicurean encouragement in a prospect of in- vasion by foes who have been especially selected for their toughness, _— Attention concentrates on A. A. A. to an extent that threatens to deprive the rest of the alphabet of its fair share of consideration. ——— The United States Constitution was written by exceedingly able men who still manage to hold their own against best seller publicity, ————— Every big prize fight calls attention to the encouraging fact that distributed among the public there is much good money that is not being hoarded. ———— Relief money is hustled for with an activity which obviates fear of its being accepted supinely as a “dole.” e It is not admitted that street busses will be a hit because they have to put up “standing room only” signs. o Geneva might add to its inducements for hotel patronage a greeter who is an authority on parliamentary procedure. e Shooting Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Oracles. An oracle was something which, when Greece in classic thought was rich, expounded prophecies “and sich.” Upon occasions rare. The rising vapors made them choke. The people did not growl nor joke. They only murmured, “Holy smoke!” And listened with great care. Those oracles were rather few. In caves remote they mostly grew. They never told quite all they knew. Those oracles were wise. From far and near the people came, with fuel for the sacred flame and paid the fee the boss might claim, No matter what the size. ‘What great improvement now we see! I'm very glad, 'twixt you and me, things are not like they used to be, ‘When wisdom is our quest. You do not have to leave your home and through the distant mountains roam to get yourself a little “pome,” Ambiguous at best. Now oracles come out in droves. They fill the highways and the groves and each dispenses as he roves, His cogitations grand. Although the prices touch the sky, for meat and eggs and corn and rye, we've an abundance to supply The oracle demand. ‘Watching His Step. “No doubt you will leave footprints on the sands of time.” “I don't know,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Politics out my way has been requiring too much gum-shoe work to make the footprint prospect very favor- able.” Attainment. ‘The tale somé¢ wan and wistful vagrant told, To interest or cheer the idle throng That loitered near the caravan of old, Survives in cherished precept or in _song. The distant star, upheaved with forces vast, p Fhrough myriad miles sends forth a subtle ray, And all unnoted does some share at last To ease the hardship of a traveler’s way. So of the smallest or the greatest task ‘We may not claim too speedy benefit. It is not always ours to know or ask How Use will find a time and place for it. . Jud Tunkins says he knows & man whose idea of personal success is singin’ off the key so loud that the rest of the choir has to give up. Divided Opinion. It has been so since ancient days, 80 let no cruel comment shock. For every man whom some men praise, Some other men will surely knock. “Don’t pride yohse’f on bein’ thin- skinned,” said Uncle Eben. “So is an onion.” Pompadours. Prom the Worcester (Mass.) Evening Gasette. Somebody predicts that the pompadour hair cut for men will become popular again next Winter. But unless the wig- makers get busy it obviously won't be popular on the heads where it once was popular, o) b " A8 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO D. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1935. P e e R THE POLITICAL MILL By G. Gould Lincoln. Transportation may be an economic question and not political, as asserted by Thomas B. Huff of Sioux City, Iowa, president of the newly organized Trans- portation Association of America, but there have been evidences that Govern- ment ownership of transportation facili- ties may be thrust into the political arena —along with the demand for Govern- ment ownership of other utilities. The Transportation Association 1is being formed for a purpose—to combat efforts of politicians to have the Government g0 into the field of transportation. Its program, as explained by Donald D. Conn of Chicago, executive vice presi- dent, will take three main directions. First, research, planning, and public education in all forms of transportation problems and their effect on the efficient and orderly -distribution of commodities. Second, the determination of a sound public transportation policy. ‘Third, the development of a balanced system of transportation under the prin- ciple of private ownership, competitively operated in the public interest. * Kk X X “A million or more of interested indi- viduals and industries will be asked to participate in carrying out the largest economic program ever attempted in this country,” Mr. Conn said. « The Transportation Association of America is the outgrowth of a meeting held a year ago by a small group of leaders of agriculture and industry who were concerned with the destiny of transportation. Subsequent meetings were held with similar groups in various parts of the country during the past year and resulted recently in the recent incorporation of the association. Members of the board of directors come from many States and represent a cross-section of agriculture, manufac- turing, finance and transportation such as has never before been united in an ecnomic project. The association has been incorporated as a non-political, non-profit corporation, without liability to its members. * x % x In discussing the plan of the associa- tion Donald D. Conn, Chicago, executive vice president, pointed out that the apparent point of attack of the forces opposed to individual initiative and pri- vate enterprise in business is a trans- portation system for Government owner- ship, toward which several groups are already working. Mr. Conn said “that success in this endeavor will embolden these and other groups to carry the doctrine of Government ownership and conduct of business over into other in- dustrial and productive lines.” He said the situation at the moment was par- ticularly dangerous because many of the agencies in each fleld were operating at a loss and have been doing so for a long time. “The problem of preserving individual ownership and competition in transpor- tation, in order to avoid Governmeng ownership and its disastrous results,” said Mr. Conn, “presents an immediate challenge to every interested individual and industry.” Since transportation in this country represents more than one-third of the Nation’s buying power, the represent- atives of the new association insist that the subject is too vital to the welfare of every citizen to permit of continued political treatment. One of the prin- cipal objects of the association is to assure to the various branches of trans- portation business that will make them self-sustaining and able to meet the Tequirements of the public. It will be interesting to see what part the asso- ciation bill will be able to play, not only in determining the economic questions related to transportation, but also in combating the efforts of certain groups to take these transportation services into Government ownership. * ok ok % Chairman Henry P. Fletcher of the Republican National Committee is pre- pared to lay before the Executive Come mittee of that body a series of recom- mendations for the better conduct of the coming campaign. Among his proposals will be a Nation-wide radio presentation of the story of the founding of the Con- stitution and of the recent attempts to weaken that fundamental law by amend- ments and by laws enacted by Congress. There have been plans under way for a dramatic presentation of these stories. A second proposal to be advanced by Mr. Fletcher will call for a finance commit- tee to have charge of appointing State financial solicitors whese du'y will be to gather funds for both State and national campaigns. Under such a set- up, the number of solicitors for party funds and the number of requests to the same individuals for funds would be curtailed. The amounts raised in each State, under this plan, would be divided between the State and National Com- mittee, for use in the campaign, on a quota basis. * o x % Mr. Fletcher has also to propose the formation of a speakers’ bureau to pre- pare brief addresses on New Deal poli- cies and to provide speakers to go into all sections of the country. It is the chairman’s opinion that if an intensive campaign can be carried out, showing the effect of the Roosevelt administra- tion’s policies on taxation and currency, it will greatly aid the Republican cause. The National Committee has also the duty of passing upon & number of resignations from the National Commit- tee and the appointment of new mem- bers. Frederick S. Peck, for example, has recently resigned from the commit- tee as one of its Rhode Island members. * ok ok X Representative Chester A. Bolton of ©Ohio, chairman of the Republican Con- gressional Campaign Committee, let out a blast today at the expenditures of the Roosevelt administration. He produced figures showing that a total of $30,720,~ 000,000 had been appropriated by Con- gress and made available for expendi- ture during the less than three years of the Roosevelt term. Mr. Bolton also said that the Government had assumed contingent obligations totaling $9,400,- 000,000, making the grand total govern- mental liability under the Roosevelt rule $40,120,000000. The Republicans are prepared to demand, from the Demo- crats what has become of the Presi- dent’s promise of governmental economy. Mr. Bolton pointed out that from 1780 up to and including 1913 the total ex- penditures of the Federal Government were $24,521,000,000. H * Xk % = Republicans ‘and Democrats alike in Massachusetts would like Gov. James M. Curley to make it clear whether he in- tends to run for re-election next year or to seek the Senate seat now held by Senator Marcus A. Coolidge, Democrat. ‘The Governor has a lot of them guessing, including several Democrats with ambi- tions to be the party nominee for Gov- ernor or for Senator. The Gove has flirted with the idea of becos a senatorial candidate, but so far has made no definite announcement. There are those who believe that he would prefer to hold on as Governor. He will meet & lot of resistance, in part, from members of his cwn party, if he seeks to oonum; as Governor. But Curley has been past a great vote getter. It is possible, however, that his a~ '3 Y THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, Gary Cooper wears wool socks all year ‘round, we see. < s Well, you don't say! ‘We have been doing that for 20 years, but never thought it worth mentioning. Now that Gary gets a little publicity off it, however, there is no reason why other all-year wearers of wool socks shouldn't come out into the open. If he can get away with it, others should, without facing the fine scorn of their friends. What! Wear wool socks all through the Summer? You can just hear people sneer, can't you? * ok k% For just ordinary folks, it seems that ‘the most terrible thing they can do is something contrary to the popular usage. If the custom for men is to change to silk socks during the Spring and Sum- mer, then the man who dares wear wool the year around is held to be a sort of “nut,” or “crank.” Nobody regards the great Mr. Cooper, however, as either, so perhaps the time is" at hand for the rest of us to vow our adherence to wool. The truth is that if one type of cloth- ing is grateful to the skin at any sea- son, it is kind to it at another. ‘There are those who say they can't wear wool, in any form, but most wool socks have a little silk or cotton in them, for the very purpose of making them wearable. ‘When the modern city man speaks of wool socks, or sox, as the manufacturers like to call 'em, he means something far different from the old-fashioned thick articles worn in wartime. They are wool, all right, but softened up and softened down for the city dwel- ler, the man who thinks a room tempera- ture of 66 is “pretty cold.” * % % One must have temperate feet, how- ever, to indulge in all-the-year-around wool. Persons with hoofs inclined to become too warm, or even too cold, for that matter, must use some other material when the air is warm. People with fortunate feet—for such they are—can wear anything the year ‘round and get by with health and comfort. Usually these persons will be found to be utterly free from corn, bunion, or callus, which is a very fine freedom, indeed. * ok x % ‘The use of wool socks in warm weather is confined almost exclusively to these fortunate persons. Many a human who does not regard himself as particularly blessed, never- theless is very fortunate to have more or less perfect feet. He must not take the opinion of shoe clerks or of those in shoe repairing parlors. Often they want to air a knowledge they do not possess, so commonly profess to find various things the matter with the most perfect feet. It i= amusing but somewhat discon- certing, for one who has never had the slightest foot ailment, to hear one of these experts run off at the mouth. “Your feet hurt you, don't they?” is the usual opening. “No,” is the reply. “I wouldn't know I had feet.” “Don’t they hurt right here?” he asks, hopefully, touching the right toe. “No,” is the rejoinder. “What makes you think they hurt there?” “Well—" and this is accompanied with the most critical air—“this toe is very badly worn here.” You look down at the offending toe, Yes, it is a bit scuffed there, but—- “Yes,” he continues, triumphantly, “you need a size larger.” You tell him that you have brick side- walks out your way, that they are sup- posed to be artistic, much better than those “glaring” concrete walks so hor- ribly common (because they are good), and that daily tripping over the bricks has resulted in scuffed toes. The man refuses the information. To him scuffed toes mean too-short shoes and nothing else. “Yes, you need a size longer,” he asserts, flatly. “How does it happen that, after I have been wearing the same size shoe for 20 years, you suddenly tell me I need a larger one?” One's feet do grow, he declares. “Suddenly, at the end of 20 years, or all during the period?” He regards the toe painfully and dis- dains to reply. “And how does it happen,” you con- tinue, relentlessly, “that you have fitted my shoes for all those 20 years and did not make this great discovery before?” Whereupon deponent sayeth nothing. * % % % Somebody ought to do something about the fiendish dosire of shoe clerks to give you shoes a size, or at least a half size, too big for you. It may be true that too-small shoes are the bane of humanity, especially the feminine side of it, but the truth is that too-large shoes are even worse. Not only do they wrinkle across the uppers, or whatever that part of a shoe is called, but they make one uncon- sciously push the feet forward in order to keep the shoes from falling off. That is the effect, at any rate, and probably the fact. Thus the toes are pushed against the front of the shoe, with the result that more harm comes to the foot than if the shoes were too short, almost. ‘Wool socks take up a great deal of the slack, in such an event, and make a too-large shoe almost fit. At the same time they do not take up s0 much room in a small shoe that they make them much shorter than usual. In the properly fitted shoe, which is neither too large or small, the wool sock is exactly right in all weathers. In the Winter they tend to keep feet warm, especially if one indulges in that standard city pastime of spending many minutes & day waiting for public transport. In the Summer they tend to exert a cooling effect on the feet through the time-honored absorbent and ventilating qualities of wool. Above all, however, they permit the man who wears 'em to do as he pleases, which is no small thing in such a world as this, where, if one is a motion picture actor, wearing wool socks the year ‘round is merely a pleasant and interesting foible, but if one happens to be an ordi- nary mortal, the same habit is likely to assume, in the eyes of one’s friends, the aspects of a silly idiosyncrasy. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. President Roosevelt'’s plans to leave ‘Washington for several weeks are re- garded in all official quarters, especially foreign diplomatic circles, as proof posi- tive that the United States is not going to be embroiled in any European or African war fracas. Were there any real prospect of such complications, it's altogether improbable that the com- mander in chief of Uncle Sam’s Army, Navy and foreign relations would absent himself from the White House for any protracted period. By every available sign, American interest in the Italo- Ethiopian conflict or associated war events will be confined exclusively to moral influence on behalf of peace. If and when further demonstrations of America’s anxiety for a bloodless settle- ment are desirable, they will be made, but they are not likely to take any other form than the platonic generalities in which President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull have hitherto indulged. Rugged and uncompromising neutrality is Wash- ington's watchword. There will be no departure from it except under grave circumstances directly affecting Amer- ican interests. Few hereabouts look for any developments answering that de- scription. x kX % These are times which must remind Mr. Roosevelt forcibly of his service in the Navy Department in 1914-15-16. Those were the days, preceding our entry into the World War, when the United States faced the ever-present possibility of involvement because of our insistence upon neutral shipping rights. The recent action of Congress in imposing a mandatory embargo on sale of “im- plements of war” to belligerents makes the situation considerably different than it was 20 years ago, but until “imple=~ ments of war” are definitely defined— whether they include such things as wheat, cotton, copper, oil and foodstuffs —there’s bound to be a question of just what and what not Americans are at liberty to export to warring nations overseas. With hostilities confined to Italy and Ethiopia, the contraband prob- lem would present few difficuities. It would be a horse of a different color if Great Britain and her navy should have a stake in the game. Kk % Although there is lingering curiosity about what happens in Louisiana, in succession to the Kingfish dictatorship, it is an amazing thing that popular in- terest in Huey Long and his fate has already practically subsided, despite the tremendous hullabaloo stirred up by his assassination. Sic transit gloria mundi! Despite efforts of some of Long’s hench- men to keep the share-the-wealth move- ment & going concern, political opinion in Washington is that, deprived of Long’s dynanic leadership, the crusade is not destined for perpetuation on any noteworthy acale, at least as a Nation- wide proposition. As a menace to the Roosevelt cause, Longism is now gen- erally regarded as dead as its fallen chieftain, * x ok % Republicans undoubtedly feel that theyre getting & lucky break with Gen. Hugh Johnson's plans to deliver a series of speeches, in the West, assailing the New Deal. Despite its “friendly criti- cism” character and the general's deep personal devotion to the President, pol- iticians cannot figure out how the John- son expedition can result in anything but damage to the Roosevelt cause, The former N. R. A. boss is a Democrat and frequently has been credited with political ambitions. Some authorities think there’s just the barest possibility populmty!;‘vmmhfl:zymh. with the Roose- Yol ow Deal, PR that the hard-hitting brigadier may be intending to make his debut in the na- tional arena. Aspirations to a United States Senate seat from Oklahoma are now and then attributed to Gen. John- son. * x % x Joseph P. Kennedy's resignation as chairman of the Securities and Ex- change Commission, long foreshadowed, evokes the liveliest regret throughout the financial and investment world. Wall Street awaited the enforcement of the new securities law in fear and trembling, but its sane administration under Kennedy's direction obliterated all anxieties. Eloquent evidences of the money world's confidence in the com- mission is the fact that more than $2,000.000,000 in new financing has been brought out thus far in 1935. Mr. Ken- nedy was one of the original and most generous “angels” of the Roosevelt- for-President movement before and in 1932. Because of his fondness for F. D. R. his continued interest in the New Deal is assured. Friends predict that he will not always remain outside the administration family. * % ¥ % Joseph C. Grew, American Ambas- sador to Japan, has just left Wash- ington on the first leg of his journey back to his post in Tokio. He will sail this week for Europe to visit one of his daughters, who is married to a secre- tary of the United States Embassy in Paris, and about the middle of October will embark for the Far East via the Suez Canal. Mr. Grew has supplied the administration with up-to-date re- ports on political, economic, military and naval conditions in Japan and been given a complete picture of our attitude toward developments on the other side of the globe. The Ambassador is at the outset of his thirty-second consecutive year in the foreign service, which he entered as a clerk in the American consulate general at Cairo in 1904. He ranks high in seniority among our career diplomats. ok ok % At Annapolis on October 10 the United States Naval Academy will cele- brate its 90th anniversary. A guest of honor at the festivities will be Dr. ‘Wilder D. Bancroft, professor of chem- istry at Cornell University, whose grandfather, George Bancroft, Secre- tary of the Navy under President Polk, became known as “father of the acad- emy” incidental to its foundation in 1845. Bancroft Hall is named after him. * x % x Manuel Quezon, just elected President of the Philippines, boasts of a wide acquaintance among American politi- cians, Democrats and Republicans alike. It extends over the past 35 years and is based on his periodical appearances with other leading Filipino politicos be- fore the Platform Committees of the national conventions of boti parties. The debonair little Manila statesman pleaded eloquently and unceasingly for independence planks and returned hope- fully to the attack every four years. Vice President-elect Osmena is also well and favorably known to our political fraternity. (Copyright, 1935.) Rug Treatment. From the Terre Haute Star. New York cleaner can treat rugs so they look like antiques. A far simpler method, though, is to hang them on the line and wait for hubby to beat them. A Lawless Sow. Prom the Indianapolis News. . Another friend of the people—but not of the A. A. A—is the Michigan sow that gave birth to 19 pigs. | of Buffalo. 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 many locks for mail sacks and Ppouches does the Post Office Department, use?—V. L, A. The number is timated at 13,000,000, N S Q. How much of the population of New York City lives in houses which might be called substandard?—M. B. S. A. About 2.000,000 people, or one-third of the population, is not healthfully housed or safely housed, according to the Welfare Council of New York. Q. What is the origin of the quotation, “Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it"?—C. W. A. It is from the first act of “Macbeth.” ‘The speech is made by Macbeth in re- porting the execution of the thane of Cawdor, whose title is bestowed upon Macbeth, Q. What is the present tense of the verb wrought?—M. B. A. The present tense is work. Q. Why is the north light considered best?—L. E. O. A. The National Bureau of Standards says that north light is considered the best for microscopic work because it is diffused more completely than light coming from a portion of the sky where direct sunlight exists. Q. What is the name of the educator who originated the personnel system used in the Army during the World War? -W. W. A. Dr. Walter Dill Scott, president of Northwestern University, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for de- vising, installing and supervising the personnel system in the United States Army in the World War, Q. Who gave the first minstrel shows in this country?—H. M. A. The introduction of minstrel shows in the United States is credited to Thomas D. Rice (1808-1860), a white comedian who was inspired by the *Jim Crow” song of a Negro stage driver to reproduce song and character in costume on the stage in Pittsburgh in the early nineteenth century. Q. How old is the Louisville & Nash- ville Railroad?—E. M. B. A. It was incorporated in the State of Kentucky on March 5, 1850, Q. Why is oil sometimes poured on the water around a vessel during a storm?—A. E. E. A. Viscous liquids are stronger than water, though their surface tension is less, and for thi< reason oil is some- times thrown upon the water around a ship during a storm. The effect of this is to smooth out the surface as though & strong elastic blanket were stretched over the water and the waves are then kept from breaking over, Q. Please give a biography of Fargo. who founded the express company.— W. B. A. William George Fargo was born in Pompey, N. Y., on May 20, 1818. He became a freight agent for the Auburn & Syracuse Railway Co. in 1841 and express manager between Albany and Buffalo a vear later and in 1843 a resident agent in Buffalo. In 1845 he organized, with Henry Wells and Dan- iel Dunning, the first express company to engage in the carrying business west The lines of the company were rapidly extended. In March, 1850, when the American Express Ce. was organized, Fargo became secretary, and in 1851 he organized the firm of Wells, Fargo & Co. to conduct an express business between New York and San Francisco by way of the Isthmus of Panama. From 1862 to 1866 he was mayor of Buffalo and from 1868 to his death in 1881 he was president of the American Express Co. Q. Why was the custom of caps and gowns introduced into colleges?—S, V. B. A. The medieval universities were maintained by clerics, and the forms of caps, gowns and hoods were really the medieval forms of clothing retained and made regulation for the clergy when .the lay community changed to more modern dress. Caps were a necessity in the cold churches; copes and capes with hoods attached were needed for warmth, and the hood was selected by the university men as the article to be made distinctive for the various degrees by color, trimming and lining. Q. Can plants be grown without soil? —G. P. A. The raising of plants, such as corn, in trays without soil is a new idea which has .been developed in England. Ger- many and Denmark for the providing of feed for cattle. It has recently been introduced into the United States and there is a cabinet of this type on a farm near Summit, N. J.. where secret tests are being made to determine the feasibility of this idea for American agriculture, Q. Which Louis was called the stam- merer?—K. L. M. A. Louis IT (846-879), King of France, was called le Begue, or the Stammerer. Q. Please give a biography of Luise Rainer—G. V. A. She was born in Vienna of non- professional parents. Her father, Heinz Rainer, is a merchant. For many years he lived in the United States, becoming & naturalized citizen, then returned to Europe to set up a business. Her mother, Emy Rainer, was never in any way affiliated with the theater. Max Reinhardt first presented her and Eu- rope accorded her an overnight triumph. Miss Rainer is a slim brunette with flashing black eyes that were proclaimed the most beautiful eyes in Europe. She is 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighs 115 pounds, plays a piano, sings, dances, paints, makes small statues and follows ama- teur photography as a hobby. She plays tennis, hocky, swims and is a flying enthusiast, A Rhyme at Twilight A By Gertrude Brooke Hamilton The Love Leash I've the spirit of a rover, Sunlit roads are calling me, And my feet would fain be free, And my restless heart would flee ,To the forest and the sea. But a frail hand tethers me. A tether that is lighter Than the foam upon the sea, Or a wind across the lea, Or the leaf blown from a tree. Strange that it should harness I, who roved so far and free! A N me—