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THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. .. WASHINGTON, D. C. JFRIDAY ........ October 11, 1935 - aii ittt RS ‘THEODORE W. NOYES...........Editor — e n. Evening Star Newspaper Company. Business Office: 11th 8t. lnd hnnlvlnnh An Qm‘;ehfi“o"mc- T n.mn s: hAoh. Engiand, Rate by Carrier Wlthln the City. Regular Editton. Evening Ster___. e Eveniio and Sundsy Sta Sundays). -45¢ per month -60c per month -85 per month s B¢ per 706 per month 5¢ per month month. ‘Fisht Einal and h 8t sach by mail or lelen one Na- t Final Collection - grders muy be sent tional 5000. Rate by Mail—Pa bh in Advance. A Maryland . {ly and Sunday. aily only unday only. Member of the Associated Press. sociated Press is exclusively entitled to !hH;A;ug:r‘enubllgmon of all news uflilfll u-n: i€ ¢ ftor ot otherwise credi et aio e Tocal Bews: panlishad Her o th 11 nlh x ol “publication Of special dispat fi rein are also reserved. —_— e New Deal Trends. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States, which through a special committee has been studying for months the “trends” of New Deal legislation, is asking organized American business what it thinks about it all. Indeed, hav- ing through its committee developed rather definite ideas of what the New Deal is doing to the American people through legislation, the chamber seems now intent upon confirming its sus- pxcmns A ballot asking four questions has been sent out to the 1,500 members _of the chamber, representing approx- {mately 750,000 business men in all parts of the country. What the Chamber of Commerce wants to know from its members is whether it approves trends of the New Deal which its committee has found. For example, it asks whether the Federal Jurisdiction should be extended into mat ters of State and local concern. The enswer to that question by persons who believe in local self government, who be- lieve that a people is stronger and better governed which attends to its own afe fairs at home, is quite simple. However, the New sDealer, who has become con- vinced that only through a powerfully centralized government can economic | and social problems be met, will take a different view. The chamber asks a pertinent ques- tion. Itis: Should the Federal Govern- ment today spend Federal money with- out regard to the Federal income? Here, too, persons of old-fashioned ideas, who believe that the way out of an economic hole is through economy, will #ay “no.” On the other hand, the men and women who believe that it is pos- sible to spend a way out of debt, for - either a nation or individual, will insist _ that the New Deal administration has been quite right to increase the Federal budget by billions of dollars and to create deficits of startling proportions. A third question asked by the chamber -strikes near the heart of every business man, large or small. Should there be Government competition with private business for regulatory or any other pur- pose? Government competition with private business is as destructive to pri- vate business as a swarm of locusts is " to growing crops. It is impossible for American citizens to compete with their -own Government. Nor should they be compelled to attempt to do so. But the New Dealers have demanded “yardsticks” and other governmental participation in business and production. The fourth question included in the questionnaire of the chamber deals with the delegation of power. It asks whether the Congress should grant authority to the executive departments that was not within clearly defined limits. It ‘also asks whether executive officials should have discretionary power—in + effect, legislative power—through blanket delegation of power by the Congress. ‘When an executive makes the law as “well as executes it, tyranny, benevolent or otherwise and usually otherwise, .- follows in its trail. New Dealers may deny the trends attributed by the chamber’s committee to the New Deal administration and the laws the New Deal Congress has passed. When written down in black and white, such trends appear antagonistic to American ideals of government and life. The true New Dealer insists that the New Deal is but an amplification of the ideas and ideals of the Nation's Zathers, made necessary by the more complex life of today. —————— . Italian tanks are reported to have been tumbled into lion pits. King Solo- mon’s mines may be a myth, but there may be some future deposits of mar- ketable scrap iron. —————————— In world turbulence Austria has usu- elly figured as being in hard luck be- cause it could not remain an innocent bystander. Goodwill Industries. ‘The coming of the Goodwill Industries to Washington is an event of more than “ordinary social significance. Designed to aid aged, crippled or otherwise handi- capped men and women, customarily considered unemploy!bu. the idea rep- resented in the organization is not new. Indeed, it now is all of thirty years since the Rev. Dr. E. J. Helms established the first Goodwill center in Boston. His ex- ample, followed with success in nearly & hundred other cities, is the inspiration * of the present effort in the Capital. As the name suggests, the Industries project is & job-making venture. Be- siéged by needy applicants during a period of depression—the hard times of 1905—the founder of the Boston under- - taking set people to work in his church making over worn and discarded ‘gar- ments collected from the homes of sym= pathetic families. The enterprise grad- yally d_eve!oped into a huge renovating _THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, business, salvaging and reconstructing. great quantities of waste materials for sale at approximate cost to the economi- cally distressed. Numerous philanthropic values, it soon was evident, were in- volved. Producer and consumer alike were advantaged. For example, a man who repaired an umbrella in the Indus- tries shop was paid for his labor, while an unkuown brother in distress who pur- chased the umbrella in the Industries store bought at a price within his slender means. Yet no unhappy connotation of charity appeared in the circumstances; no violation of self-respect occurred. Every community certainly is familiar with the problem which has brought the Goodwill plan into existence. There always are a few individuals who prefer to “make their own way,” who do not wish to “feel dependent,” but who are not competent to sell their intelligence, strength and skill in the open market. The Industries solicits discarded ma- terials for them, furnishes them with a place to work and with a place to dis- pose of the articles they make or re- make. Psychologically the whole con- ception is sound. It is both pragmatic and altruistic. Self-help and mutual aid are the forces which are concerned, and there are no ater nor more notably effective po..rs in the world today. The Washington center, of course, will be independent. An indorsing com- mittee of citizens is sponsoring a cam- paign for the funds required for tools and equipment. The officers of the Community Chest have given their ap- proval. In the Industries the city will have a definite asset against poverty. The “King Business.” Eleven years of a republic have ap- parently sufficed for Greece. She fis ready to revert to monarchy. At Athens, follewing & swift but bloodless coup d'etat, the National Assembly has voted to abolish the regime which has had a fevered and precarious existence since the end of 1923 and supplant it with & re-established throne. George II, who was compelled to abdicate, will be re- called from exile in England and re- stored to power. He has always pro- claimed a readiness to return if Greece “invited” him. Years of royalist agi- tation have at length accomplished their purpose. Venizelos is in banishment, the militarists and monarchists are in command, and the stage is set for the classic land of the Hellenes to resume its place among the relatively few coun- tries still left in the world that owe allegiance and do obeisance to the purple. The “King business,” in at least one place, is about to recommence opera- tions at the old stand. In consequence of the World War crowns and thrones toppled in all di- rections. Republics succeeded them in many cases. Then came the dictator- ships, sometimes supplanting republics, as in Turkey, Poland and Germany, while in Italy’s instance the dictator- ship permitted the King to continue to reign, but no longer to rule. The tragic result of Fascism’s dethronement of & constitutional monarchy at Rome is seen in the war Mussolini is npw waging in Africa and in the world condemnation he has talled down upon the Italian nation because of it. Perhaps surveying post-war history with its kaleidoscopic background of monarchies, republics and dictatorships clashing in chronic chaos, the Greeks make up their minds that monarchy is their best bet. There was no dissenting voice in the National Assembly when the “little corporal,” General Kondylis, engineer in chief of the royalist coup, proposed that the republic be incon- tinently thrown out, with the stigma of failure upon its brow. Though the Assembly’s vote sounds the republic’s death knell, a plebiscite will be held on November 2 to let the people validate the restoration of royal rule. The result is a foregone conclusion. Internationally the “King business” in Greece is not destined to provoke any important consequences that can now be foreseen. The Greeks have joined the Balkan entente for preservation of peace in the Near East, and the re- habilitated monarch may be expected to maintain a policy with neighboring Turkey and Bulgaria looking to avoid- ance of new ruptures over old grievances. George II is a modern, enlightened per- sonage, with influential relationships, especially in Great Britain. He may be ordained to give Greece a new birth of freedom and restore it under twentieth century conditions to some of its ancient glories. —re——————— Plane crashes and wrecked buildings are minor incidents of current event. Uncle Sam needs no actual participa- tion in war in order to experience his share of the shudders. A successful motion picture star should be content with fan mail and not en- courage personal love letters, - They Get Their Man. ‘True to their tradition, the Canadian “Mounties” continue to get their men. ‘They have, in collaboration with local constables in Alberta, just completed a round-up of malefactors that lesves no further pursuit necessary. The cost has been & heavy one, two “mounties” and two constables dead. But the cost is re- garded up in that part of the world as not too heavy to pay fdr the fulfillment | of the tradition that the law must be maintained and vindicated at any price. The value of this tradition is demon- strated by the comparatively low per- centage of lawlessness in the dominion. ‘Whether on the frontiers or in the more thickly settled sections, the fear of the “long arm” of authority has long dis- couraged the enterprise of the crooks and criminals. On this side of the boundary the same tradition is being established, has indeed become definitely a guarantee of per- sistent and eventually successful pursuit of the lawless. This has heen accom- plished partly through legislation, broad- ening the field of operations of the Fed- eral authority in crime detection and pursuit, and partly through the develop- A L} ment of & highly efficient organization. Pursuit of the lawbreaker whose offense lies within the Federal jurisdiction is implacable and persistent, skilled and re- lentless. Its percentage of success is so high that the .slogan “they get their man” has been brought across the bor- der and applied to the “G-Men” of the Department of Justice. In this latest case of costly but suc- cessful pursuit of criminals in Canada there was close and effective co-opera- tion between the mounted police of the Dominion and thé local constabulary. That makes an effective combination, which has not heretofore been usual in this country. Lately, however, the Fed- eral and local law-enforcement agencies have been brought into closer and more effective relations and the result is a greater percentage of efficiency in the fight against crime. Honesty. When a twenty-two-year-old delivery man earning three dollars and fifteen cents a week—with tips and extras bringing his income sometimes as high as seven dollars—found a package of se- curities worth one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in the streets of New York and promptly returned the treasure to the owners there was a very general expectation that he would be rewarded. And that expectation has been justified. The owners of the securities, brokers, have hired him at a figure which neither side will disciose but which is known to be much more than seven dollars a week. The firm believes that he has ability as well as honesty. Certainly he has good sense, which is a valuable as- set in any‘line of endeavor. Without it he might have thought to profit some- how illicitly from his find. Elementary reason told him that a bundle of se- curities belonging to somebody else be= comes a liability to a dishonest finder. Well, the traditional tale is thus re- peated. An honest lad finds something precious and despite his own pressing needs he hands it over at once and is rewarded. This has happened many times. More often than the other way about. Thievery by chance is not usual. It is the exceptional case when the finder of something that has been “lost” appropriates it for himself. Pessimists to the contrary notwithstanding, there is far more honesty than dishonesty among the members of any civilized community. ——————————_ Responsibility for being Woodrow ‘Wilson’s chief adviser is frankly accepted by E. M. House. Eventually even the ghost writer comes into his own. e e The old Blue Eagle is swept aside in the torrent of the hour. The only re- maining suggestion of ornithological triumph is Mr. Goose Goslin. A nation intent on minding its own business may find an A. F. of L. session commanding more attention than even a Geneva debate. Everybody photographed with the President is shown with a radiant smile. If this fact signifies nothing else, it shows discipline. v Communists are not wanted by labor, but Communists need labor, although unwilling to perform it themselves. e Shooting Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Ology. Oh, doctor! Dear doctor, I'm feeling a spasm Which fills all my system with woe. Is it due to defect in primordial plasm— That's what I am yearning to know? Oh, doctor! Dear doctor, my thoughts in a vortex Go whirling around in my brain. I've maybe been slipping a cog in my cortex. I have feared it again and again. Oh, doctor. Dear doctor, the life we are living Brings mysteries hard to discern. Cost of meat and potatoes has caused us misgiving. Buy-ology's what we should learn. Anti-Noise. “Are you in sympathy with an anti- noise campaign?” “Not entirely,” said Senator Sorghum. “Like other statesmen I enjoy my radio and don't enjoy anybody's noise except my own.” Jud Tunkins says he has forgot a great deal about farming, owing to his need to study compound interest. Proportions. A censorship brings small dmres It drives away the blues, ‘While leaving people free to guess And improvise the news. Imagination may turn loose ' Proportions inexact, ‘While yards of headlines introduce A scant square inch of fact. Grim Pleasure. “Why do you enjoy loitering in ceme- teries?” “I like the epitaphs,” said the visitor. “A cemetery is the only place you are sure to find nothing but kind words.” Demonstrations. Developments surprising Do not bring a gleam of mirth. ‘To what they're advertising -As the “greatest show on earth.” ‘There are lions in the jungle, ‘There are snakes and scorpions, too. Uniform attendants bungle And a fight begins to brew. As they try to analyze All observers are dismayed. ‘Wish they might reorganize And just call it a parade. “A lot of new leaves was turned over last January,” said Uncle Eben, .de months dat passed looked like one waste basket after another.” delivered! * Lincolnia, Effect of Neutnlity on . The Italians and Negroes To the Editor of The Star: Mr. David Lawrence, the famous po- litical analyst of The Star, has suggested that the policy of neutrality in the Italo-Ethiopian war might cause Presi- dent Roosevelt the loss of Italian and Negro support in the election of 1936. When the President admonishes all Americans that they travel on belligerent ships at their own risks he thereby un- doubtedly alienates the support of thou- sands of Italian-Americans who yearn to aid their mother country. The situa- tion which confronts President Roose- velt today is quite similar to that which confronted President Woodrow Wilson during the World War.' Président Wilson proclaimed neutrality and won his re- election on the slogan “he kept us out of war.” Both the allies and central powers were ruthlessly violating our immemorial doctrine of the freedom of the seas. The sinking of the Lusitania with American passengers on board caused the administration to reverse its policy of neutrality and to enter the war on the side of the allies. It is of deep- seated and far-reaching significance, not ‘without bearing on the present situation, that Willlam Jennings Bryan, then Sec- retary of State, resigned his position because he could not agree with his chief on the issues involved in the sinking of the Lusitania. By joining the war on the side of the allies, President Wilson's administra- tion alienated the political support of practically every German-American in the United States. It is perfectly natural that expatriated citizens feel the call of blood when their native land is imperiled. The loss of such political support will be the lot of any administration placed in such a predicament, but should not affect its patriotic duty. American Negroes are not Ethiopians and have no national ties or connections with that far distant people across the sea. They are bound to them only by ties of common color. There exists some- thing of a friendly feeling among all of the darker and weaker people of the earth against the hauteur and aggres- sion of the lighter and stronger ones. But this indefinite bond of color breaks down at the behest of national patriot- ism. The Negro fought side by side with the Nordic American against the Nordic German under the common inspiration of a patriotic ideal. Already there have been incidental clashes between Italians and Negroes over the Italo-Ethiopian contest in cer- tain parts of the country. But such clashes are merely incidental without any deep-seated or far-reaching signifi- cance. They are but the momentary ebullition of feeling of these two excitdble race varieties. While the TItalo-American might feel that neutrality works a hardship against his cause, the Negro can allege no such racial complaint. The proclamation of neutrality incidentally works to the benefit of Ethiopia because she has no ships with which to trade or on which to travel. The Negro has absolutely no grievance or complaint against President Roose- velt on this score nor is there any reason why he should forfeit his political sup- port in 1936 on this account. A rather wide acquaintance with the Negro press and other organs and agencies of public opinion convinces me that there is nowhere any indication that the Negro is disposed to Tall out with President Roosevelt on account of his neutrality stand. KELLY MILLER. Grateful Memories of Francis Wilson To the Editor of The Star: ‘Your appreciative and discriminating editorial on Francis Wilson is a deserved tribute to an actor who gave untold pleasure to a former generation of play- goers. His Cadeaux in “Erminie” was unique in that no other player could essay the part with anything like equal conviction. It is the opinion of many, in ‘which I earnestly share, that the acme of humorous portrayal, especially in intellectual characterization, was reached by Francis Wilson in the part he made so famous and which is so identified with his career. I remember very well attending my first musical play at an old theater in Boston with “Erminie” as the attraction, with the stately Pauline Hall in the title role. I shall never forget the entrance of Cadeaux and the prolonged and thun- derous applause with which he was greeted by a loyal and extraordinarily enthusiastic audience. If there was any restraint in the Puritan strain, it was not perceptible in that irrepressible re- ception. In that cast appeared Marie Jansen. She had a minor part, but she almost “stopped the show.” In vivacity, artistry and chic she has never had a double on the English speaking stage, and we have to go to the classic examples of the French theater to find her like. “Erminie” ran for about 3,000 con- secutive performances. It was presented to a generation steeped in the best tra- ditions of light operas and therefore its success had an undoubted quality of authenticity. Why is it that operettas of that kind, and those related to it, such as “La Fille de Mme. Angot,” “The Brigands,” “La Belle Helene,” “Fra Diavola,” “Bohemian Girl” and “Chimes of Normandy” are ignored? They are just as replete with melodious numbers as the offerings which are now the vogue are deficient in them. Never does any of these “old-timers” depend upon a single tune to carry the show. Then why this neglect? . WILLIAM I. WYMAN, Urges Airways and Not Subways for the Capital To the Editor of The Star: Why not an airways system of trans- portation for the Capital of the Nation? ‘This is the air age and in building in the air you have the cosmic forces working with you. Have your landing places on top of your tall buildings. Why is it that humans will not think and work with supreme energy? How much easier everything would move along if we humans worked with the movements of the planets in our solar system. Discard the idea of a subway under the Capital of the Nation. No one wants to be underground, especially in this air age. And what folly to suggest subway just as we are entering Aquarius, an air sign, wbether:‘u:;\:xt-evym! E STOTTLEMEYER. Why Not the State of George Washington? To the Editor of The Star: It is surely time that the Capital of our Nation had a distinctive title! You do not say “Londan, X. Y. Z,,” or “Paris, D. Q.,” or even “Addis Ababa, A. D.”; it only remains for Washington to have a D. C. trailing along in order to dis- tinguish it. The great State in our noble Northwest should adopt the entire name of the Father of our Country as well as the founder of the Capital, which has borne his name so long. The State of “George ‘Washington” with the abbreviation “G. ‘W.” would eliminate a condition which causes a note to your next door neighbor to take an 8,000-mile trip before it is 'm. LEWIS KEYES. Va. A BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. 1 their heels while watching y of sunshine on the wall. He has no waiting room, like the den- tist, where persons desiring to see him can read last year's magazines until they get in a subdued mood. Folks walk right in on him and he must make the best or worst of them. LY Callers divide themselves into regulars and irregulars. The question of motive comes in here. ‘The man at his desk must play fair in this regard and welcome the honest caller who values his friendship and advice. Yet it must be understood that often this sort of regular caller, when he comes when the man at his desk is busily en- gaged, is on the order of a mild nuisance. ‘Why did he not select some other time? It is a curious fact that very few per- sons give any thought at all to other people’s time, and what they have to do. ‘They simply come in and expect one to be courteous and delighted. Often one may be both and still wish that he had chosen some other time of day. * x x x How is the unwelcome guest of the nonce to be ushered out with ceremony? o Perhaps the best way is the shoulder ug. After the guest has been permitted to talk for a few minutes the man at the desk leaps up as if overcome by some- thing the other has said. Heartily agreeing with him, he claps him on the shoulder in delight. That is just the thing, old man! Then the right hand, instead of de- scending, keeps on until firmly but pleas- antly placed on the far shoulder of the intruder. All this time a rapid conversation is being kept up. If the talk is permitted to lag, the caller may realize that somethirg is :elng put over on him, as the expression as it. Under the cover of talk, however, he never suspects the steering hand that deftly pilots him to the door. * * * % Once in the hall, the thing is done. He is out before he realizes it, and, confronted by a closed door, even as the sounds of & hearty farewell are ringing in his ears. Some persons are positive geniuses in the use of this shoulder hug or steer. It is at once the most polite and the most sure of all devices for getting the unwelcome guest—of the moment—on his way. There are other ways, of course. A nervous look at a watch or the taking up of selected papers and the putting them down again sometimes are effective. . Occasionally nothing seems to work. The guest lingers and lingers and lingers. He will not leave, He loves the place What to do? visitors ever have heard of it. Unless, that is, they have worked it themselves upon occasion. We are talking, of course, of the man in office without secretarial service. In order to get rid of his unwelcome guest of the moment he sometimes has recourse to the following procedure: Leaving his room for a moment, on pretext to get a drink of water, which, of course, he does, he also speaks to an associate a few well-chosen words. He then returns to his desk. “Now what was it you were saying, Mr. Hokum?” he asks. Mr, Hokum is willing to oblige. He has been obliging for half an hour and from the appearance of things he still will be at it a half hour hence. Just then the telephone rings. “You will excuse me?” asks the kindly man at desk. “Certainly,” beams the other. He has his victim firmly fixed and does not pro- pose to let him go. “You want to see me right away?” asks the man on the phone, “Why, of course.” Placing the receiver back on the hook, he turns to the guest. “I am sorry, but I will have to go into another part of the building. You are at liberty to wait for me, of course, but I may be a long time.” He leaves at once. And that's the way it is worked. * k x X The dog-in-the-manger attitude of some men at desk is not to be praised. It is not good business nor plain everyday courtesy. Still it does get things done and it has that in its favor, if nothing more. There is a mean, however, between sullenly refusing to look up, unless forced to, and the too pleasant greeting of the always polite man. No doubt it is fortunate for the world that there are a great many of the latter, men everywhere who permit themselves to be interfered with, in their proper business, simply because they are too polite to protest against such inter- ference. Many of these know that certain per- sons simply make a “good thing” out of them by stopping to chat when a blind man could see that they are busy. It is much to the credit of men at desks that most of them are willing to be courteous, even at their own expense. Often the busiest people take “time out” for others when they ought not to ! do so. They do it, however, because it | is the courteous thing to do. They believe in everyday courtesy and | refuse to permit circumstances to make them any other way. Time praises them, because in the end politeness and courtesy to others is not wasted. It pays real dividends. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Abroad, especially in democratic coun- tries like Great Britain and France, government foreign policies are com- monly accepted without criticism. Par- tisan politics ends at the water's edge. That is notoriously not always so in the United States, as the Senate fate of the Versailles treaty and other international pacts proves. For this reason the ad- ministration in general and Secretary Hull in particular are delighted over the Nation's practically unqualified accep- ance of the Roosevelt neutrality pro- gram. Even Senator Borah purrs with satisfaction. Barring a single protest from an Italo-American quarter in New York and the squawk of a certain ex- porting group on Manhattan Island, America seems to approve 100 per cent of Washington's determination to keep Uncle Sam “free and unentangled” in the Afro-European conflict, imcluding any complications that may flow from League sanctions against Mussolini. Apparently the White House and the State Department can rely up to the hilt on public support of non-intervention, unless vital American interests are di- rectly and unmistakably involved. The country is not so incorrigtbly anti-war as to demand peace at any price, but in the people’s present mood, the provo- cation for embroilment will have to be very real—far more so than in 1917 Protection for get-rich-quick business will not answer that description. % x Hugh S. Cumming, jr., chief admin- istrative assistant to Secretary Hull, who has just received a watching brief at the League of Nations in Geneva, gets the assignment in the midst of a honey- moon trip. Son and heir of the veteran surgeon general of the Public Health Service, Mr, Cumming was married in Washington on September 21 and left for Europe a few days later with his bride. He will co-operate with Consul Gilbert in keeping tab on League efforts to induce Mussolini and Haile Selassie to kiss and make up. Mr. Cumming, V. M. I. alumnus and University of Vir- ginia law graduate, has had a wide range of experience at home and abroad, though still young in the foreign service. After serving in the Army in 1918, he was purser on a trans-Atlantic liner, a national park ranger, and then for three years worked for international banking firms in London, Bombay, Singapore and Peking. He was Secretary Hull's per- sonal lieutenant at the London Monetary Conference and at the Pan-American Conference in Montevideo. * x x x Robert Lincoln O'Brien, chairman of the United States Tariff Commission, is back from a cross-country trip through the national parks, which he made at the wheel of his own touring car. His traveling companion was Albert W. At- wood, Washington representative of the Saturday Evening Post. They reeled off the better part of 10,000 miles. The tariff chairman is convinced that the only way to appreciate the grandeur and magnitude of Uncle Sam’'s wide open spaces is to survey them from the deck of the modern rubber-tired prairie schooner. * x k% Congress mext Winter seems certain to ring with renewed suggestions that the United States enter the League. If the editorial columns of his newspapers are any criterion, Senator Carter Glass may be found seconding such proposals. ‘The Lynchburg Advance, one of the Vir- ginian’s papers, recently said: “As time goes on it becomes increasingly clear that the League of Nations lacks that power which is necessary to make it the effective instrument for peace its advo- cates hoped it would be. It also be- comes increasingly clear that the failure , of the United States to adhere to the League is the principal reason why Geneva lacks effectiveness. Great lip service is done by citizens of the United States to the cause of peace, but as & Government we have not shown much willingness to make peace.” sacrifices to enforce - Assistant Attorney General John Dick- inson’s new book, “Hold Fast the Middle Way—An Outline of Economic Challenges and Alternatives,” identifies him with Goethe's definition of a liberal, which the author quotes as a preface: “The true liberal endeavors to effect as much good as he can with the means which he has at command; but he would not extirpate evils, which are often inevitable, with fire and sword. He endeavors, by a judicious progress, gradually to remove glaring defects without at the same time destroying an equal amount of good by violent measures. He contents him- self in this ever-imperfect world with what is good until time and circum- stances favor his attaining something better.” * % * ¥ Authorities expect but a comparatively few New Deal Supreme Court decisions | during the present term. It is fore- shadowed that only the Hoosac Mills processing tax case, the T. V. A. suit involving the Government's right to generate electric power and resell it at retail; the Bankhead cotton control act, affecting indirectly tobacco and potato control, and P. W. A’’s right to condemn proverty for slum clearances, face rela- tively early Supreme Court dicta. New laws concerning holding companies, socia! security, labor relations, railway retirement and bituminous coal stabili- zation are not headed for final review at the current session. Decisions due during the next few months neverthe- ate influence upon legislation and the presidential campaign. Formulation of the Republican agricultural program awaits A. A. A’s constitutional fate. x x *x x Former Representative Bascom Slemp of Virginia, one-time chief assistant to President Coolidge, returns to the political arena with a personally con- ducted presidential boom of former Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois. Slemp claims that Lowden best personi- fies the G. O. P. policies necessary to win the farm belt, on which the party has special designs in 1936. The fact that the Westerner, who was a strong bidder for the nomination in 1920, is 74 years old evidently doesn't disqualify him in the Virginian's opinion. * x X % Republicans are elated over their sweeping victories in Connecticut local elections this week. In their eagerness to grasp at favorable straws they chortle that there can no longer be any doubt that the anti-New Deal wind in the East is in full blast and that as Rhode Is- land and Connecticut have gone will go the rest of the Atlantic seaboard. Hoover carried Connecticut in 1932, but many towns that voted for Roosevelt went Republican the other day. The elephant now is trumpeting: “On to Kentucky in November!” One of Connecticut’s nick- names, by the way, is the “Constitution” State. (Copyright. 1035 ———— — Home on the Road. Prom the South Bend News-Times. Living in the car is the next step, pre- dicts an auto magnate. Well, the chil- dren are doing that now. Miami's Method. From the Miaml Herald. Miami motorists are adopting the Haiti system. When they fail to knock down the other fellow with their car they start fight and use their fists or knives. " Speaking Splendor. nom the Winston-Salem (N. C.) Journal. Speaking of antl-noise campaigns, isn't it about time we did something about “loud” clothes? s Long Lesson. Prom the Boston Transcript. ANSWERS TO. QUESTIONS By Frederic ). 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. What were some of the largest ex- penditures of motor tourists this Sum- mer?—J. K. A. The total expenditure is estimated at almost $4,000,000,000 which was spent largely as follows: One billion dollars to retail stores, $830,000,000 for food, $800,~ 000,000 for transportation costs, such as gasoline, repairs and garage fees; $325,- 000,000 for amusements, and $245,000,000 for buying refreshments along the road. Q. How much is spent for sickness by people of moderate incomes?—W. 8. K, A. It is estimated t the annual cost of sickness in families with $2,500- a-year incomes or less is approximately $2,400,000,000, of which $900,000,000 rep- resents wage loss and $1,500,000,000 goes for medical care. Q. Is New York City to have a world's fair?—H. M. A. Plans are being made now to have one in 1939. The fair will comnmemorate the 150th anniversary of Washington's inaugural in New York as first Presi- dent of the United States. Q. Why did the Romans build so many roads?—M. N. A. They built roads over all of the world known to them to enable their soldiers to march in direct line to their objectives and to give employment to the people. Q. What is the oldest town in Illinois? —H.E H. A. The oldest town is Cahokia, which was established in 1699. This is now a mere hamlet. -Another very early town was Kaskaskia, which was probably established in 1707. Q. What are uncial letters?—B. J. A. In Greek and Latin paleography, they are a modification of capital letters which are made rounded, as used on papyrus or vellum. Q. Please cite the circumstances under which a man in England recently walked over burning coals—J. H. G. A. A Kashmiri Indian, Kuda Bux, walked twice with bare feet across a trench 12 feet long filled with charcoal | and heated to a temperature of 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Members of the London University Council for Psychical Research were witnesses. Kuda Bux's feet were examined afterward by a surgeon and showed no signs of having been burned. Q. What is the salary and term of a judge in the World Court?—C. M. A. A judge's term is for nine years and he may be removed only by unani- mous vote of the court itself. He re- ceives a salary of about $6,000 a year. Q. Is the Institute for Advanced Study a part of Princeton University?—E. W. A. There is no direct connection be- tween Princeton University and the In- stitute for Advanced Study. Princeton has made its facilities available to the institute until such time as that insti- tute can construct its own buildings. Q. What was the trumpet as spokm of in the Old Testament?—V. A. The ancient Hebrews used as the first wind instruments the horns of animals, a straight horn being preferred to & curved horn. This was known &s the shophar keren and was used tq summon the people to war, to the hear« ing of the law, to announce the year | of jubilee, the tppronch of the ark, to | hail a new king, and for other publio uses. In Numbers x:2, Moses was coms= manded by God to cause to be mads two silver trumpets to call the people to worship. These are also spoken of | in the Book of Revelation. Q. Please describe the private car which President Roosevelt used on his trip—M. R. A. The Robert Peary, President Roose= velt's private car, has five bed rooms, a dining room and observation platform. It is finished in mahogany, equipped with radio and air-conditioned. Q. Has the idea of a United States‘of Europe ever been considered?—W. H. A. Such a federation was discussed at intervals during the nineteenth cen- tury. It never won official recognition and was considered a Utopian dream long before the World War. Q. Who was the first printer in the less will be far-reaching and of immedi- | United States?—A. F. A. Stephen Daye (c. 1594-1668) came | to Massachusetts in 1638 under con- tract to Rev. Samuel Glover, who brought | along a printing press, but himself died on the voyage. Daye set up the press in Cambridge and there in 1639 issued as a broadside the Freeman's Oath, the first piece of printing in the Colonies, Q. Was the late Will Rogers especially interested in the Red Cross?—G. C. A. He did a great deal of Red Cross work, believed thoroughly in it, and was presented with a life membership in the American Red Cross in 1927 by vote of the Central Committee. ' Q. why is Justice pictured as blind? —C. A. To denote impartiality. Q. Is an I. O. U. a promissory note? —S. C. A. It is not a promissory note, as it contains no promise to pay. It is re- garded as an account stated and if not addressed to a particular person, the holder is the creditor. A Rhyme at Twilight B Gertrude Brocyrke Hamilton Fountain of Youth Noon at a fountain where youth cone sumes lunch. Long lines of chairs quickly filled by the bunch. Shuffle on, youngsters! Quick with your cash! Soda and ham-on — hot deviled hash. Milk with no crackers. Pay as you eat! Gaunt lad who asked for milk slides to 3 his feet, Mumbling m pallid shame, “Haven't the sum.” Laddie who ordered hash thrusts out a thumb— “8it down, drink your fill—I'll stake you, Shanks.” Pays for the foaming milk, whistling off thanks. Shuffe on, Tom Thumbs! Cash while you eat!" Crowds at the counter, Incoming feet. Noon at a fountain where youth at high speed " Gives with & whistle when touched by . real need. A 4