Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1935, Page 8

A—S8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY ..............October 28, 1935 THEODORE W. NOYES...........Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company. Business Office: 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 4:ind St. Chicagn Office: Lake Michigan Building Turopean Office: 14 Regent Si.. London. England. Rate hy Carrier Within the City. Resular Edition. e Evening Star - he Evening and Sun (when 4 Sundays The. E\-pmgq and Sun, (when undays The Sunday Star— "¢ per copy Night Final Edition. Night Final and Sunday Sta Night Final Star _______ ¢ per month Collection made at the end of each monih. Orders may be sent by mail or telephone Na- tional 5000. 45c per month 60c per month 65c per month ¢ per month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. land and Virginia. $10.00: 1 mo., S6.00: 1 mo. c $4.00; 1 mo., 40c Beliz ang Bunday. aily only Sunday only. Member of the Associated Press. The Assoctated 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 erein are also reserved — — — American Neutrality. With Geneva described as “encour- aged,” Italy depicted as “gratified” and Britain and France more or less “dis- appointed,” it is clear that Secretary Hull's reply to the League on the United States’ attitude toward sanctions las encountered a mixed reception in Fu- rope. As generally anticipated in this country, it does little but reaffirm the position of the administration respect- ing the Italo-Ethiopian conflict and re- count the successive steps the Govern- ment has taken in connection with it. The nearest that Washington's com- munication comes to identifying the United States with collective efforts to check Mussolini’'s campaign of conquest in Africa is the assurance that America, “in keeping with the letter and spirit of the Kellogg pact and other peace obligations, undertakes at all times not only to exercise its moral influence in favor of peace throughout the world, but to contribute in every practicable way within the limitations of our toreign policy to that end.” Geneva doubtless will derive more con- erete comfort from the concluding pes- sage of Secretary Hull’s note, which de- clares that the United States “views with sympathetic interest the individual or concerted efforts of other nations to pre- serve peace or to localize and shorten the duration of war.” Just before say- ing that, Judge Hull recalled President Roosevelt's warning to American busi- ness that it would deal with the bellig- erents at its own risk and emphasizes that this was “certainly not :ntended to encourage such transactions.” Throughout the message, with its cautious failure to engage in formal com- mitments as to sanctions, runs tke un- mistakable determination of the admin- i{stration to proceed strictly within the neutrality resolution of Congress mak- ing mandatory an embargo only upon *“articles considered implements of war.” It has been urged from some quarters, notably by former Secretary of State Stimson, that this country should bring the embargo more fully into line with Yeague measures to deprive Italy of any and all products that enter into the business of war-waging, such as copper, cotton, scrap iron, oil and foodstuffs. Certain authorities have held thai the President possesses discretionary author- ity to construe that these various prod- ucts are “implements of war” and as such could be withheld from Italy and Ethiopia alike under the act of Congress. ‘There is obviously no present inten- tion on the part of the President to give any such interpretation to neu- trality. He adheres firmly to the policy previously laid down, with our purpose of keeping out of war and avoiding en- tanglements the paramount considera- tions. The question as to whether or not we would object to a League or Brit- ish blockade of Italy remains unan- swered. But there is certainly no ground for inference that the United States would take any step deliberately de- signed to defeat the sanctions program. If Italy cherishes such hopes, she is surely indulging in illusions, for, non- committal as its critics may find it, the Hull note leaves no doubt of American desires that League measures against the aggressor shall accomplish their pur- pose. It has been observed that the repiv to Geneva represents an attitude of “alert aloofness,” which rings an alliterative change on a famed American diplo- matic idiom, “watchful waiting.” It is plainly intended as a statement of our position as of today, It does not close the door to future action. There is, at any rate, no room to doubt that in holding fast to the principle of non- entanglement under any and all cir- cumstances commensurate with Ameri- can rights and national honor, the note to the League reflects the overwhelming bulk of the Nation's opinion. If our ex- porters can persuade themselves not to be lured into trade adventures for the sake of profits, the chances are all in favor of our escaping embroilment. That is the chief concern of the American people at this hour. Public Utility Adjustment. A spirit of compromise and adjustment now prevails in the relations between the Capital Transit Company and the Chevy Chase area respecting the service ren- dered the routes of busses and the matter of congestion at the circle. This is com- mendable and highly satisfactory from the point of view of obtaining results for public service at a minimum of nuisance. Conferences have been held and there s now prospect of an arrangement that will reduce the congestion at the circle and increase the service beyond that point without requiring the operation of all the vehicles on the through route. This, however, leaves undetermined the matter of the Maryland State license requirement, though it is assumed that every bus sent through must be equipped, f THE EVENING STAR, under the State requirements, with tag and license. There still remains the question, however, whether there will be any fractional entry into Maryland at the terminal point without Maryland licensing. The State can well waive any minute trespass upon its territory in the case of busses that merely turn at the circle and cross the line in so doing. There would, of course, be no justice at all in requiring that every vehicle so operated should be equipped as though it were engaged in actual transportation service on Maryland soil. ‘The maintenance of good relations be- tween a public transportation company and its patrons is essential to the advan- tage of both. Resistance to requirements of the patrons breeds hostility that makes for continuous annoyance and advocacy of competition in the service. It is always to be borne in mind that the object of establishing and maintaining a public transportation system is to serve the people, at such profit as may be through a careful administration and the attrac- tion of a paying patronage. At present on the line in question, as on other lines in the District, the competition is between the public utility service and the private motor car. If the service is poor, if the vehicles are unduly crowded, if the head- way is not adequate to insure prompt transport, the company loses. If the service is good in all these respects the company gains patronage and profits accordingly. This co-operative relation- ship is evidently working now to the end of a satisfactory settlement of the Con- necticut avenue troubles. s A Famous Victory. The corn-hog farmers have voted al- most 6 to 1 in favor of the A. A. A. pro- gram, which gives them Government checks for not producing corn and hogs. Why not take a referendum now on whether the veterans of the World War would prefer immediate cash payment of the soldiers’ bonus? Administration officials professed doubt as to the out- come prior to Saturday's referendum vote, cast by the farmers who produce corn and hogs in forty-eight States of the Union. It seems incredible that they could have had a doubt. The corn-hog programs of the past two years—plus the slaughter of mil- lions of pigs—have shot the price of pork products to undreamed-of heights. Or was the increase in the price due to the drought? There has been an inclination on the part of the propo- nents of the corn-hog program to place the blame for these high prices on the drought when talking to the disgrun- tled consumers. When, however, the high prices are explained to the men and women who receive the benefits, the Government checks, which go along with the higher prices, the A. A. A. is made the hero of the piece. The referendum taken Saturday ap- parently has settled one thing. The Roosevelt administration is going right ahead with the proposed corn-hog pro- gram for the year 1936 and the con- tracts signed may call for a four-year program. It is explained by officials of the A. A. A. that the 1936 program prob- ably will permit an increase of 25 to 30 per cent in hog production. They be- lieve that such an expansion will have the effect of providing sufficient sup- plies of pork to take care of the mar- ket, to prevent further price increases and even to bring some reduction in the prices. The whole country has an interest in the A. A. A. programs—corn-hog, wheat, cotton, tobacco and the like. The ref- erendum just taken was a reflection of the opinion only of those who benefit directly from the program, those who either receive or are in a position to receive Government checks for not producing corn and hogs. But what of the millions of citizens who buy pork and pay double the price for that kind of food because of the corn-hog pro- gram—or was it because of the drought? How would they have voted in a refer- endum on Saturday? They were given no chance to vote. They merely foot the bill. Not until November, 1936, will these consumers have an opportunity to register their views on the corn-hog program, in the general election. Many other issues will then complicate the election, perhaps preventing a straight- out vote on the corn-hog checks. Un- til the consumers are allowed to vote along with the producers in these A. A. A. referendums these elections will have a lopsided look. Granted that the farmers may act collectively to restrict crops in order to avoid a surplus—the law gives to the farmers many privileges that are not extended to others—it is nevertheless a very different matter to have the Gov- ernment pay benefits to the farmers for such collective restriction of production, out of money taken from the consumers generally. No one has yet suggested that a shoe manufacturer be paid by the Government for failure to extend his plant or for failing to produce a certain number of shoes. In principle, such payments to the manufacturers would be comparable to the payments to the farmers. And shoes, after all, have become a necessity in this day and age. The corn-hog program battle has been fought and won, at least temporarily, by the A. A. A. It may yet bring to mind old Kaspar's final estimate of the Battle of Blenheim, whose answer to little Peterkin is poetic if not historic: *“‘But what good came of it at last?’ Quoth little Peterkin. ‘Why, that I cannot tell’ said he, ‘But ’twas a famous victory.'” Mark Twain’s Boys. There was something stirring in the spectacle of the boys of New York peti- tioning for the preservation of the home of Mark Twain. The parade to Mayor La Guardia yesterday must have been a sight worth seeing. Dressed in the manner of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, the youngsters dramatized their appeal with considerable success. But make-up really was not necessary. On the eve of the centenary of America’s most widely celebrated humorist-philoso- pher, the mere mention of the name ; which he adopted for his work is enough. The phrase has a certain curious and memorable resonance. It is & kind of symbol singularly apt. Even to those who never have fallen under the author's magic spell the connotation is one which is generic, natural, authentic, funda- mentally sincere. It smacks of & basic value of Western civilization. In it there is the elemental charm of the famous board fence that Tom persuaded his con- temporaries to whitewash for the fun of the labor. Just what that factor is, however, may be a matter of argument. European visitors long have tried to analyze its character. But it remains undefinable now, as it did four or five generations ago. The world is familiar with its efTect, yet cannot discover its constituent causes. It is manifest in the joy with which George Washington entertained his friends at Mount Vernon, attended balloon ascensions and wagered on the outcome of athletic contests. It appears again in the zest with which Abraham Lincoln listened to and retold “funny stories” and in the personal delight with which Calvin Coolidge dryly summarized the notabilities and the events of his respective time. Will Rogers had it and put it to excellent use. Perhaps it is a symbol of the Nation's juvenility. Older societies, in any case, seem to lack it. No other country is to any comparable extent so naive, so fresh or so peculiarly keen and eager—so vibrantly alive. In the United States exclusively was Mark Twain at home. He traveled all over the earth to prove that single fact, and, though he has readers everywhere, it is in his native land that he is best appreciated. Men, let it be granted, cannot tell why, but they reach out to him, take him to their hearts, love him with an intensity which they feel for no other writer. In that sense, surely, they all are his boys. The army of modern Toms and Hucks that pleaded with Mr. La Guardia, then, were merely the delegates of a much larger company of admirers—the older but not less devoted phalanx which never will be too mature to be grateful for the major prophet of American youth. ) Collegiate influence is convincingly in evidence. There are moments when it is impossible to turn to any point on the radio without running into a foot ball game. ——. The glorious climate of California produces abundantly, although doubt is expressed whether the supply of tax- payers will equal the demand. Shooting Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Bigger and Better Battles. Oh great-great-grandsire, looking down From yonder gilded frame. T seek to follow the renown That decorates your name, Your glorious thought and valorous deed Are proudly analyzed. This much I'm asking you to heed: I'm getting civilized. You sought to keep us out of strife When peace was once secure— We couldn’t lead the simple life ‘Which seemed serenely sure. I've learned that medals, shining bright, Are something to be prized, ‘Though ill-rewarded was the fight— I'm getting civilized. T read with a complacent nod How men and nations, too, Become a homicidal squad To deal with carnage new. The sea is full of submarines, ‘The airplanes over-sized, Such mighty demonstrations mean ‘We're getting civilized. Our music brings discordant sounds, Our jest is but a sneer. The cruel caveman makes his rounds And rules a hemisphere. But science hastens to his aid And leaves us all surprised To see the progress we have made By being civilized. Cordial Interest. “What did you tell that man who wants you to get him a Government Job?” “I told him to come back,” said Sena- tor Sorghum. “For what?” “Sympathy. Maybe in-.a little while I won't have any job either.” Dum-dumbness. No dum-dum bullets circulate At present in a fray ‘Where warriors all impatient walt For glory, day by day. Plain citizens are hoping that As methods grow more rude, No dummy-dummy diplomat Will recklessly intrude. Hard Audience. “How would you like to be a Govern- ment-paid artist?” “Fine,” said Mr. Stormington Barnes. “The only thing I'm afraid of is the fact that a public made up of taxpayers is always liable to be mercilessly critical.” “I try to speak gently,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “although my an- cestors warned me that the throng would never pay a8 much heed to generous counsel as to the promoters of a brawl.” Complicated Suspicion, “Who comes here; Friend or foe?” Questions queer Come and go. People say Curious things; Every day Question brings. Even fear Radio— “Who comes here; Friend or foe?” “I tries to be a good neighbor,” said Uncle Eben, “but I can’t help bein’ sur- prised at how many politicians manages to make a good livin’ jes’ by findin’ fault with one another.” WASHINGTON, D. ¢, THE POLITICAL MILL By G. Gould Lincoln. ‘Well, what are the Republicans going to do now? President Roosevelt and his A. A. A corn-hog program won an elec- tion on Saturday by a margin of some- thing like 6 to 1. The favorable votes were cast by farmers in 48 States, farmers who have been receiving Government checks for cutting down production of hogs and corn, and by some farmers who have not received the checks, but who may like to receive them in the future. It seems almost strange, under all the cir- cumstances, that one-seventh of the vote was cast against the continued payment of these Government benefits, by farmers who apparently prefer to run their own business rather than to be dictated to by the Washington Government. * % ¥ % If Republicans in the farm States of the West have hesitated in the past to attack the A. A, A, are they any more likely to attack that part of the Roosevelt New Deal in the light of the results of the corn-hog referendum? It does not seem likely. And will the Roosevelt New Deal- ers fail to advance the A. A. A. as a prime issue in their favor during the coming national campaign? It seems en- tirely likely. The farmer vote in these States of the West is of vast importance. The farmer will either be in the act of receiving checks for his compliance with the A. A. A. programs when election time rolls round next year, or he will be look- ing forward to getting his hands on the checks. LI This A. A. A. business. however, has another side in the political picture. How far is the administration going in praise of the farm program and the higher prices which the consumers are paying for pork and all other edibles in the great cities of the country, in the industrial centers, where they do not raise pigs or corn or wheat, but merely consume them? On the other hand, will not the Republicans attack the A. A. A and all its works in these urban sections of the country, and with some success? If the Republicans, in their national platform next year, attack the A. A. A., where will they get the votes in the States of the West, regarded as a sine qua non for & G. O. P, victory? Its a tough problem. The G. O. P. is worried about the whole matter. Republicans are striving to work out some substi- tute farm program of their own. They may keep it under cover until the time of the national convention, next June, if they can find a substitute that they think will appeal to the farmers and at the same time not make the consumers antagonistic. ok ‘The corn-hog referendum of Satur- day is accepted as an indorsement in the West of the Roosevelt New Deal in ad- ministration circles. Another referen- dum on the New Deal is coming a week from tomorrow. It will take in the Empire State. where an election of the State Assembly is to be held. At pres- ent the New York Assembly is controlled by the Democrats by a narrow margin. The Democrats have 76 seats in the Assembly, the Republicans have 73 and there is one vacancy in a normally Dem- ocratic Assembly district, caused by the death of the late Louis A. Cuvillier, long prominent in Democratic politics in New York. The Democrats are striving des- perately to hold their present seats and to gain others. The Republicans are bent on recapturing control of the Assembly. * xx The New Deal has been made the issue in the New York Assembly campaign. The election there will not be confined to any one class of persons—as was the corn-hog referendum confined to the corn-hog farmers. If the Republicans win, the victory will be interpreted as a definite swing against the New Deal and as presaging a defeat for Presi- dent Roosevelt next year in his own home State. If, on the other hand, the Democrats keep control of the Assem- bly, the administration will heave & sigh of relief and proclaim broadly that the President is just as strong as he ever was in New York and elsewhere. If the Republicans can win in New York next week, in spite of all the Government spending that is going on, and in spite of the fact that farmers in New York have been receiving bene- fit checks under the A. A. A. program, the victory will have some significance. Indeed, it is likely to be held to be even more significant than the election of a Republican to Congress in Rhode Island last August, which startled the country at the time, *x x % While the Democratic chieftains con- tinue to talk, for publication, about the sure victory of the President next year, they are uneasy over the situation in the FEast, and they are not any too sure about what is going to happen in that big tier of Middle West States, which includes Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. They have had reports, as well as the Republicans, that conditions have been changing politically. While the President may believe that the people who ride in the day coaches are for him, even if those who ride in the Pullman cars are against him, his aides are not so certain. * x kX Political sentiment throughout the country is being tapped through polls of one kind or another, some conducted by newspapers. Whether these polls have any result on. public sentiment, because of their psychological effect and the desire of many persons to be on a winning side, is a constantly recurring question. However, such polls get under the skins of the leaders of political parties if they happen to be adverse to those parties. The Democratic Na- tional Committee, through Charles Michelson, its publicity director, has launched an attack on polls, particularly where newspapers supposed to be anti- administration are publishing the polls, Some of these polls show that President Roosevelt has lost a considerable degree of popular support. * x * x Election day this year is limited. It is an off year in every sense of the word. Outside of the election of the Assembly in New York, a State-wide contest, and the election of a Governor in Kentucky, which is usually Democratic, there are few contests which can be said to bear particularly on the state of national political feeling. Most of the elections are for municipal officials or county offices. Of course, if the Republicans throw out a lot of Democrats from these offices, particularly in the big cities, some significance may be attached to the results. Many of these elections, however, have a non-partisan flavor. * x k% Much may happen to change political sentiment in the next eight or ten months. If conditions of business and employment improve greatly they may have considerable bearing on the elec- tions of 1936. If the Supreme Court holds several more of the New Deal acts, including the A. A. A, unconsti- tutional, that, too, may have a real effect on the campaign. If taxes are forced to go up because of heavy New Deal expenditures, and if the Congress is called upon to appropriate some billions more dollars for relief of one kind or another, at its coming session, the effect ' MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1935. - THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Indian Summer is a definite name for an indefinite thing. Such a period of mild Autumn weather as this vicinit? enjoyed recently was Indian Summer, all right, but there may be more Indian Summers. Any period of warm weather in the Fall is properly Indian Summer, both here and in England, where the term has been adopted. Two conditions, it seems, must be ful- filled for the period to enjoy the name. The first, of course, is a clear sky, and the second a sort of haze on the horizon. The warmth, which gives the second pait of the name, seems to be almost accidental. As to how the Indians got into the title, that is a mystery, except so far as the aborigines of this land for centuries have been asosciated with natural phe- nomena in a peculiarly close way. The dictionary may say, as it does, that the reason for the name is un- known, but it is probably due to this natural association in the minds of the setilers. Surely such warm spells are Summer, or a return to it, and certainly if any one is to get the credit it ought to be the Indians. The Englisk for centuries have had a St. Martin’s Summer, when clear, warm weather came in November. St. Martin’s day is November 11, the same as Armistice day. When the clear, mild weather comes in October, coinciding with October 18, it is called there St. Luke’s Summer. * ok ok ok Our Indian Summers are associated with October more simply because there is more chance for them to occur during this month. Yet it may be hazarded that the true, the real Indian Summer, if it comes, arrives in November. ‘The haze that is supposed to accom- pany it may be nothing more than the burning of leaves by many persons in many places. A great many house- holders get an unholy “kick” out of the bonfires. Perhaps this is the elemental in them coming out. At any rate, enough of these fires are~started on clear Fall days to make a real haze if there is any real horizon for it to show against. City and suburban dwellers do not often stop to realize that one of the drawbacks to city life is the lack of genuine horizon. Some group of build- ings or other cuts it off. Yet there is noihing more thrilling, really, than the horizon. The child loves it. and so does tite adult, because to each it is the real place of dreams. If one could be there, one thinks, one could do all! * x ox % Whether there is one or two Indian Summers, one should take advantage of the little season of unusual warmth. This means two things, in the main, gardening and walking. These are forms of exercise which even the most sedentary may take, because in the former there is no chance at all of working too fast, and in the latter very little opportunity to overdo, provided one is careful in selecting walking com- panions. It will not do, of course, to go out with these inveterate “hikers,” if one is not used to their little joke: “Oh, just a few miles,” he declares. Then proceeds to walk twenty. Shame, of course, keeps the newcomer at it, but he resolves never to get caught again. Su select your walking companion or companions wisely, and thus be able to Indian Summer walks. Or walks at any other time in the Fall, perhaps the best of all possible seasons for walking. It is, indeed, more pleasurable to walk on an ordinary crisp Autumn day than dur- ing the comparatively brief periods we desigrate, rather hazily, Indian Summer. Every one complains of the heat. Man- kind is forever complaining. Nothing seems to irk the average citizen more than a return to an afternoon tempera- ture of 80 degrees at this time in the Fall. One who did not know humanity wouid think that 78 or 80 degrees were temperatures utterly unknown, that they simply were not to be borne, that heat prostrations would occur, unless the fa- mous “weather man” would give some reiief. * x % % Gardening, that other joy of the sea- son, has two concentrations at this time, raking the lawn, and setting out bulbs. Each of these calls for a different tem- perament, but fortunately the same man or woman can have both, at different times, so that settles the matter. Every one knows how it is. There will come a fine day, Indian Summer or not, when one feels in exactly the right mood for raking leaves. No poet, defending his need for “mood,” can be any more moody (any moodier, we like better), than the gardener on the chosen day to rake. In a fine frenzy, indeed, is he as he seizes the pink bamboo. Just why they have to be pink. we do not know, but will credit the Oriental mind for that. Surely it makes no difference. A bamboo rake is the thing nowadays, and surely it does a good job of it, too, gathering up the leaves in no time. The art of leaf raking is in knowing when to quit. ‘Too meticulous care to get every leaf is worse than useless, for in a few days as many will be on the grass as before. Above all, it is boring. Nothing op- presses the spirit quite like trying to get every last leaf! * X % % ‘What nicer occupation for an Indian Summer day than putting into the ground a basket of tulip bulbs? The only drawback to the utilization of such clear warm days lies in the very grave possibility that the good weather has meant very dry weather, t0o, and the earth is not to be dug with a trowel except with the greatest effort. Many do not like setting anv of the Dutch bulbs in absolutely dry soil. Most feel that some amount of moisture should be in the earth at the time in order to give the bulbs a real taste of their new home. It makes a bulb feel better, we are sure, when it rustles out of the paper bag, where it has been dry so long, into a neat hole of its own where the ground is shightly mofst. It would never do, of course, to water them, sc the best thing is to wait until a fev days after a rain, when the earth will be nice and crumbly, just right for the gardener and the bulbs. Let no one rush the planting of tulips, therefore. They can be put in the ground in November, even after a freeze, in a pinch, but no doubt advantage should be taken of clear days now, espe- cially for the planter's sake. The thing to do is to keep the new bulbs on the mird until they are planted. Like the painting jobs which ought to be done, if kept in mind they will get done at last. get real benefit and pleasure out of the | And so our tulip bulbs will be planted. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Those who have had close-range con- tact with President Roosevelt since his recent return to the White House gather the impression that he benefited enor- mously from his vacation. He is bronzed as an Indian, vigorous as a foot ball player in the pink of condition and generally cuts the figure of a man sit- ting on top of the world. At his first press conference for more than a month his jovial spirits seemed more in evidence than ever, as he bantered laughingly with news-hungry callers under condi- tions that recently struck a foreign scribe as “guerrilla warfare.”” The prin- cipal causes of the President’s good cheer are said to be twofold. For one thing, Postmaster General Farley has assured him that New Deal political fences, with approach of 1936, are in excellent condi- tion, “slump” reports to the contrary notwithstanding. The other inspiration for jov is Mr. Roosevelt's confidence that the work-relief log jam has at last been broken and that bureaucracy, red tape, cepartmental jealousies and other snags which prevented creation of jobs are now out of the window. The President’s serenity also betokens that he looks for no troublesome international develop- ments, * x X % Further exposition of the United States’ attitude toward world affairs in .general and the Italo-Ethiopian crisis in particular is expected to be forth- coming from Secretary of State Hull in a Columbia coast-to-coast broadcast on November 6. Presumably by that time League sanctions against Mussclini will be more or less in operation, and the resultant situation may impel Judge Full to amplify some of the statements he has just addressed to the Geneva Sanc- tions Committee. Despite preponder- ance of Wilsonians in the Roosevelt ad- ministration, including the President and his Secretary of State, nothing but moral support of League efforts for peace seems in prospect at Washington. Iso- iationist sentiment is probably too wide- spread in the country to justify any- thing savoring of a sanctions alliance. When President Roosevelt stresses the United States’ determination to keep “free and unentangled,” he is thinking of entanglements with Geneva, as well as any other kind. * &k * X As the new naval conference will as- semble in London on December 2, Presi- dent Roosevelt may utilize his Armistice day address at Arlington to disclose the American attitude toward the interna- tional naval situation. Although in- vincibly Navy-minded in the sense of favoring a treaty fleet and generally adequate defense at sea, the President has consistently indicated his readiness to consider proportionate limitation or reduction, contingent on retention of present margins of strength and the maintenance of a United States Navy second to none, He is especially alive to the necessities of undiminished Amer- ican power in the Pacificc where he recently watched the fleet in battle practice. Nobody at Washington is very hopeful that Britain’s efforts to bring about a new treaty are destined to get very far. With the great European powers rearming on & vast scale and Japan determined to equal the British and ourselves in naval strength, the will be felt politically. The Roosevelt administration was pretty canny when it asked for $4,880,000,00 at the last session, for relief. The sum is large enough to carry through the next elec- tion, it 15 believed, prospect is strong for heavv American expenditure for more warships in the vears just ahead, especially to match British expansion. * o ow It has just been stated by William H. Houghton, chief of the New York of- fice of the secret service, that counter- feiting of Uncle Sam’s money has been increasing to an alarming degree. While in 1925 there were only 536 arrests for counterfeiting, the number during the past vear has risen to more than 3.000. Thirty-eight per cent of Federal pris- oners at Lewisburg, Pa. are undergo- ing punmishment for violation of the cur- rency laws. Mr. Houghton points out that because of the strict interpretation of the laws in the United States district courts, some 23 per cent of those ar- rested for counterfeiting in 193¢ man- aged to evade prosecution. On the other hand, 95 per cent of those brought to trial were convicted. * x x x Politicians in both Democratic and Republican camps followed with ana- Ivtical interest last week's first national convention of the Townsend planners at Chicago. Leaders of the two big parties are duly impressed by the project to mobilize 21,000,000 voters,” to force adoption by Congress of the $200-a- month pension for the 8,000,000 persons in the United States past 60 years of age. Apparently the Townsendites in- tend to wage their 1936 campaign in congressional districts and in senatorial contests, instead of attempting any third party national movement. From nu- merous Western and Northwestern re- gions, especially on the Coast, Wash- ington hears of heavy Townsend plan strength. Many a candidate for Con- gress is expected to line up in favor of the scheme as a measure of self-preser- vation, LR Edgar Rickard of New York, long- time close comrade of Herbert Hoover and brother mining engineer, has issued as & pamphlet the former President's recent attack on New Deal financial policies and is giving it Nation-wide cir- culation. Mr. Rickard ranks as the original Hoover-for-President man in 1920. at the time when there was doubt whether the Californian could be classed as a Republican or a Democrat. He finally cast his lot with the G. O. P., but, thanks mainly to the enmity of Hiram Johnson, made no headway in the national convention of that year. x Xk * X ‘Yale’s famed Political Union has just voted a plague on both the Democratic and Republican houses—voicing lack of confidence in the Roosevelt administra- tion while declaring against return of the G. O. P. to power in 1936. The uni- versity itself recently decided to accept New Deal aid for its needy graduate and professional students, reversing the stand it took a year ago. Some 100 stu- dents will now receive up to $40 a month each for part-time work of a “socially desirable nature” while pur- suing research activities. The funds will come from the Connecticut branch of the National Youth Administration. * x kX % There was & bit of & split in the Roosevelt cabinet at Baltimore Stadium on Saturday. Secretary of the Navy Swanson headed the rooters for the midshipmen in their annual foot ball clash with Notre Dame, while the sym- pathies of Postmaster General Farley, of fighting Irish ancestry himself, were strongly suspected of being with the invaders from South Bend. (Copyright. 1988.) 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. Please give the names of the yachts of some of the prominent American yacht owners—G. R. A.J. P. Morgan, Corsair; Vincent Astor, Nourmahal; Harold S. Vanderbilt, Var: minia; Edward S. Harkness, Stevanna; Eldridge R. Johnson, Caroline; A, Atwater Kent, Whileaway; John Wana- maker, jr., Nirvana; Gen. Cornelius Van- derbilt, Winchester, and W. K. Van- derbilt, Alva Ara. Q. Please give some facts about the new city of Jamshedpur, India —R. W. 8. A. The city of Jamshedpur is located in the Singhbhum district of the prov- ince of Behar and Orissa, which is lo- cated immediately east of Bengal, the province in which Calcutta is located. It is situated in an angle of the Subar- narekha and Kharkhai Rivers, with a station on the Bengal-Nagpur Railway. It has a population of 57.000, and is the third largest town in the province, though less than 20 years old. The town owes its creation and development en- tirely to the Tata Iron & Steel Co. Q. Hew many patent medicines are there?—J. W. A. According to a statement of Dr. Frederick J. Cullen, former chief of drug control of the United States Food and Drug Administration, there are fewer than a dozen so-called patent medicines and most of these are based on ethical formulae. Q. In proportion to population. do more people borrow books from public libraries in large cities or in small ones?—F. J. A. In small ones. In cities of more than 1000000 inhabitants, only 25 per cent of the population are borrowers, The percentsge increases as the populas tion decreases. until in cities of less than 10,000 inhabitants 50 per cent are bore rowers, Q. Is it true that a foreigner who dies in Ethiopia must be buried there?—F. W, A. The laws of Ethiopia require that foreigners who die there must be buried a year before the transportation of their remains back home is permitted. Q. How many sons has William Rane dolph Hearst?—W. C. A. The publisher has five sons: George, William Randolph, jr.;: John and Randalph Apperson and David Whitmore who are twins. Q. Is much progress being made with gliders>—T. E. A. At the recent meet in Switzerland Max Kramer, a Swedish contestant, glided 15 miles through clouds and among mountain peaks, landing safely. Q. Who wrote the Sut Lovingood Yarns?—H. H. A. They were written by George Washe ington Harris, a humorist, who spent most of his life on the southwestern frontier as steamboat captain, Indian agent, metal worker and engineer. Q. How many Indians are there now in the United States?—L. 8. A. According to the last report there are 317,324, Q. What States are using sales tax tokens?—H. J. A. A recent issue of the American Banker states that the following States are using tokens for sales tax payment: Missouri, Colorado, Washington, Illinois and New Mexico. Q. What is the name of the island upon which are the Dominican Ree public and Haijti>—W. F. L. A. The present official Hispaniola. name fis Q. Where was the Prince of Wales edu= cated’—E. B. A. He was educated by a private tutor and at the Royal Naval College at Dart« mouth. He entered Oxford, but left (1914) because of the World War in which he served in France, Egypt, Italy and Belgium. Q. What was the first magazine pub- lished in the interest of woman suffrage? —D. S. A. Una, established in 1853 by Paulina ‘Wright Davis and Caroline Dall, was the first woman suffrage periodical. Q. Who conceived the idea of a Federal Children’s Bureau?—F. C. A. Lilllan D. Wald, social worker, originated the idea of such a bureau. Q. What is the weight of the heaviest hog on record?>—E. T. A. Lehmaster Monster, slaughtered about five years ago by W. I. Knepper of Hagerstown, Md., is one of the largest on record. Lehmaster Monster was a purebred Poland China. When slaugh- tered, he was 6 vears old, and weighed on foot 1,350 pounds. Q. What languages besides his own does Pope Pius XI speak?—G. N. A. He is an excellent Latin and Greek scholar, speaks German and Polish flu- ently, French comparatively well and English to some extent. Q. How long is the hunting season in Quebec for feathered game?—C. N. A. For such game as partridge, grouse, woodcock, duck and jacksnipe the sea- son opens on September 1 and closes December 15. Q. When, and where was the first forest ranger station built?>—H. M. A. American Forests says that the first was built in 1899 on the Bitterroot Na=- tional Forest, Mont. Before that, rangers furnished their own tents. - A Rhyme at Twilight By Gertrude Brooke Hamilton Clouds and the Concretes ‘You may say, beloved, that in the crowds 1 depict their dreams and tread on clouds. T had five kinsmen, like young gods all, ‘Who wetfit their way at the great worlde call. One lies in a grave by a Southern sea, The others at times come back to me— One, grown mundane with politic guile, Has lost all trace of his boyhood smile; One, who has wandered the whole world through, Is not the chivalric lad I knew; One is possessed by the greed for gold, His eyes are merciless and cold; One tells me a tale of life so grim I can only kneel and pray with him. ‘What wonder, beloved, if in the crowds I deal with dreams and tread on the clouds? r