Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1935, Page 10

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The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved Sanctions in Force. Today is destined to be a milepost in human history. It marks the launching of the first attempt ever made to employ collective action by the nations of the world for the purpose of stopping a war and rebuking a violator of international law. Roundly, fifty countries have joined in sanctions decreed by the League against Italy as punishment for her ag- gression in Ethiopia. By Mussolini’s orders, flags are being flown from every housetop to symbolize Italy’s “united and implacable resistance.” He has pro- claimed November 18 as “the day of shame and iniquity” for the peoples who have imposed commercial and financial embargoes upon the Fascist land and re- newed his pledge to marshal in its economic defense “all the moral energy and material resources of the nation.” In every community in Italy tablets will be erected eternally to record the “enor- mous injustice” of sanctions. The bulk of civilized mankind is par- ticipating in the bloodless war now de- clared upon Italy. As a non-member of the League, the United States is not formally taking part in it, but in prin- ciple the American Government has left no doubt of its complete sympathy with the great experiment. All question as to this country's desire to see sanctions accomplish their purpose was removed by Secretary Hull's statement at the end of last week. Commenting on the revela- tion that there has been a considerable increase in American sales to Italy of such “essential war materials” as oil, copper, trucks, tractors, scrap iron and scrap steel, the Secretary declared that *this class of trade is directly contrary to the policy of this Government and to the general spirit of the recent neu- trality act.” Words could not make plainer that the United States desires, to the extent of its powers, to support col= lective steps to halt Italy's aggressive campaign, with its threat to the peace of the whole world. Italy’s reserves of war sinews—raw materials and food—are sufficient to enable her to carry on, in spite of sanc- tions, for some time to come. But noth- ing can be surer than that sooner or later these penalties will bring irresistible pressure to bear upon the country. Un- able to export its own wares to foreign markets or to import necessities from them, ironclad isolation will eventually make itself felt. Fascist bravado will not prevail against it. The pinch of the shoe will in due course become unbearable. As long as Italy’s rapidly diminishing sup- ply of gold lasts she will be able here and there, especially in neighboring coun- tries like Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary and Albania, which are either non-League members or approve sanc- tions with reservations, to obtain certain supplies. But these at best will only enable the Italians to prolong for a while an existence which cannot permanently be maintained on shortened rations. Just how long it will be before the boycott brings Mussolini to his knees no man can foretell. If it is maintained with unity and vigor, it can have but one outcome. Italy will be forced into submission and to end hostilities in Ethiopia on terms satisfactory to the League. Any other result would com- pound an international felony and au- tomatically scrap the world’s machinery for preservation of peace. II Duce's threats of eye-for-an-eye reprisals can- not avert the evil day to which his im- perial ambitions have doomed the great Italian people. He will be fortunate if at the bitter end of it all they are not incited to destroy his dictatorship and resume their rightful place among the world's democracies: e — The phrase “shot at sunrise” is said to be obsolete in Russia. Any hour will do on a crowded day. ———ee ‘The times are busy for Italy, which eppears to be fighting with Ethiopia and quarreling with nearly everybody else. Ballet Triumphant. The Russian Ballet, of which Wash- ington had another glimpse last evening, contradicts the confusion of the world. Its organized beauty and purposeful vitality challenge the anarchy and the prodigality of so-called “civilization.” But that it has survived triumphantly and that the magic of its attraction remains undiminished in an earth over- run by war and afflicted by every kind of social maladjustment is something to rejoice about. ‘There must be hope, it would seem, for a race which still has power to create and to appreciate such art. The ballet, moving within the pattern of a tradition ages old, yet reflecting the eagerness of the modern era, correlates every esthetic impulse. It is poetry and music, painting and sculpture—all alive. The eye, the ear, the mind and the heart are engaged by its appeal. When the curtain rises, the audience is transformed. ” A spiritual miracle occurs. Through the theater throbs a rhythm which even the least responsive spectator feels. And the spell endures long after the audience has returned to its routine fixations. Certainly, the phenomenon is dificult to explain, Its effect, however, is more important. Obvious beyond all question is the basic lesson of the community of effort and intent which it represents. It is lovely and spiritually stimulating because it is an enterprise of co-operative genius. Each dancer has an individual share in the composition, yet it would not be the victory it is if each did not submerge self in behalf of group har- mony, Only by processes of democracy —a democracy of equal interest, devotion and skill—can the perfect triumph be attained. Perhaps it was from some per- formance like that of last night that H. G. Wells got the idea for his novel, “Men Like Gods.” Mock as a cynic may at the sugges- tion, it is a matter of history that dancing was an essential factor in the development of the richest culture hu- manity ever has produced. The “glory that was Greece” was founded on no other capacity of the human soul. Nor is that power dead. Rather, it is more vibrantly and compellingly extant today than it was three millenniums ago. What is wanted is nferely direction, a goal to- ward which to march. And therein lies the crux of the problem. The race has not yet decided upon its objective. But “coming events cast their shadows before.” A public which can applaud the ballet is & symptom of triumphs even more comprehensive and complete, greater victories yet to be. Without Bacon. The “national planning” of the Roose- velt New Deal has in its wake all the potentialities of a huge and lasting cost to the American people, Former Presi- dent Herbert Hoover, addressing the Ohio Society in New York, scientifically and with much precision took to pieces the national plamning, which he called the “third economy,” and held it up In all its nakedness before hjs audience. Whether Mr. Hoover be a candidate for the presidential nomination of the Republican party or not, the campaign which he has launched against the New Deal and the re-election of President Roosevelt is calculated to remind the American people that they have been straying a long way from the principles under which their country grew great. The former President also has some- thing to say about common honesty in finance—government and personal. For example, he comments: “Money does not grow on trees, it must be earned”; “the first rule of a successful career is to keep expenditures within the means of paying them”; “the keeping of finan- cial promises is the first obligation of an honorable man”; “the man who borrows without intent to repay is headed for bankruptcy or disgrace or crime.” Mr. Hoover's complaint against the Roosevelt New Deal and its national planning is that it has disregarded these “simple truths"—that it has brought about the spending of about $14,000,- 000,000 more of the people’s money than the Government receipts since the Roosevelt administration took charge. Such “planning” is likely to lead to the financial ruin of the American people unless it is checked. In the opinion of Mr. Hoover it has brought the country to the very verge of disastrous cur- rency inflation. As a substitute for the national plan- ning of the New Deal Mr. Hoover pro- poses a “constructive fiscal program.” This program, while it may commend it- self to many Americans, is likely to meet the sneers of New Dealers and the charge that it is merely “old stuff.” For Mr. Hoover would bring to a halt the “waste of taxpayers' money on unneces- sary public works.” He would, have the relief of the distressed left to the States and the communities of the Nation, with the Federal Government confining itself to cash advances alone to the extent that the local authorities are unable to provide their own funds. He would stop “the spending for visionary and un- American experiments,” he would root out the “horde of political bureaucracy,” he would balance the budget—not by more taxes, but by the “reduction of follies,” and he would re-establish the gold standard, if necessary, on the basis of the new gold content of the dollar. Mr. Hoover's proposals, of course, are antiquated—just as are the simple finan- cial truths which he enunciates. They have no place in the “planned economy” of the New Deal. The more “planned” is economy, apparently the more it costs. And the costs, as Mr. Hoover points out, are many of them indirect and more severe than the taxes that must be paid by the people. The former. President cites the limita- tion of production as one, and perhaps the principal, method of the New Deal- ers in their planned economy. Such planning, he says, is the essence of monopoly. What else could it be? The “planned scarcity” upon which civiliza- tion always degenerates is the substi- tute for “economic plenty.” The whole, according to Mr. Hoover, “is the more abundant life—without bacon.” The American people, face to face with mounting costs of living, may ponder this suggestion. Liberty. Men speak of liberty with a pre- sumptuous confidence which is not justi- fled by their knowledge of its character, application or effect. The word, it should be realized, is indefinite. Much of its meaning depends upon the tem- perament and the condition of the indi- vidual employing it. To a certain type of person it is synonymous with license; to another it is something closely akin to voluntary slavery. The former sig- nificance was that which Edmund Burke had in mind when he said: “What 1s liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice and madness without tuition or restraint.” On the opposite extreme there is the gradual surrender of natural rights, WASHINGTON, which inevitably leads to serfdom or peonage for the citizen. In Italy and in Germany, in Russia and in Japan the people are slaves of the state. Yet theoretically they are free. To gain temporary expedient ends they have yielded up everything but the name of liberty—they have emulated Esau and traded their inheritance for a bitter mess of pottage. But they idolize their masters and deem it an insult if any critic calls attention to their sub- serviency. Nor is their indignation baseless, Their chance of survival would be deleteriously affected if they were to face the cruel truth about their plight. Instead, they must be blind to their chains. The alternative is unavailing protest, isolation, punishment, even death. But the spectacle is vastly disturbing to the occasional philosophic bystander. As long ago as 1919, E. S. P, Haynes put the problem into language in the state- ment: “The vitally important aspect of liberty today is its function in combat- ing the sort of anarchy which threatens civilization all over the world; for this anarchy is the inevitable result of war lords and their imitators despising the normal aspirations of the individual human being to a brief period of normal happiness—a little time of work and play and love on this side of the grave and a reasonable chance of passing on the same benefit to the next genera- tion.” Certainly the dictators have promised relief from the forces threatening the “normal aspirations.” The difficulty has been that the half loaf which they have conceded to the masses has been the kind of bread that keeps them alive without making life worth living. More than half the race has consented to the compromise, bought mere existence with the only coin it had to pay—con- sent to tyranny. A natural law, however, is involved in the matter. It happens that the soul instinctively resents coercion, and for that reason every autocracy eventually must fall. The verdict of history on the czars, crowned and uncrowned, of the past, therefore, gives cause for hope for de- velopments which, however long delayed, may result in a practical liberty at last. N At the microphone Mr, Hoover can find suggestions for brilliant sarcasm by taking down the old scrapbook and remodeling some of the things that used to be said about him. e Lady Astor did not fail to speak roughly to an audience on occasion, but she may have made the comment seem less rigorous by smiling and using an American accent. e The Prince of Wales might possibly be called into action. There never was a time when the world appeared to offer more opportunity for a genial and accom- plished ambassador of good will. o Occasionally Controller McCarl seems able to pass by astronomical figures and consider those that relate to the occu- pation of school teaching. e A steel purchase from Germany is a reminder that gold and silver can mo- nopolize attention in economic calcu- lations. — The homicide mystery calls attention to the large amount of courageous and progressive work a C-man can do while using a single initial. r—o—s Shooting Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Bargaining. Ggave solutions must be made In the course of modern trade. Bargains good and bargains bad Make us gay or leave us sad. Tradin’ hosses, tradin’ mules, Tradin’ pedagogic stools, Reciprocity’s the game. We must bargain just the same. We must offer this for that, Not forgetting tit for tat. The cash register will sound Where the finest words abound. Generous hearts and willing hands Make concessions and demands Reveling in friendship true, There must be some bargaining, too. Smiles and Smiles. “What's in a name?” “A lot,” said Senator Sorghum. “Some names are so rough you've got to smile when you use them. And some men get so they can't even smile without implying repressed objurgation.” Jud Tunkins says so many gals are photographed in bathing suits that evo- lution may be working around to a big improvement on the ancient amphibious life. Endless Chain. A fight that started long ago Offered the assurance That weapons that war used to know ‘Would be beyond endurance. Yet men continue to be bold, The records have departed By which it truly might be told Just how the first war started. Lovely Spot. “What's the most beautiful spot in this region?” “A one spot,” said Bronco Bob, “if I'm drawing for an ace to head a royal flush.” Rough Play. The clown seems so merry, His heart seems so light, We're envious very Of laughter so light. And kings have been known to climb down from the throne To borrow the slapstick and make it their own. “Dey's havin’ a heap o' talk,” said Uncle Eben, “’bout what dey teaches in de school where I'janitors. De only com- fort I sees is dat & lot o’ chillun ain’t studyin’ enough to learn anything to hurt 'em.” THE POLITICAL MILL By G. Gould Lincoln, The publication of the new reciprocal trade agreement between the United States and Canada shows that America has won many concessions. While it has, of course, made concessions to Can- ada, they are not such as to wreck American agriculture or industry. If there are inequalities, they may be ironed out later. The agreement might have been far more drastic. It might, indeed, have gone as far as the recipro- cal trade agreement between the two countries in the days of the late Presi- dent Taft, an agreement which was written into law by the American Con- gress, but which the Canadian govern- ment never ratified. So it never became effective. That agreement covered a long list of important products which were to be admitted free of duty from Canada into the United States, and vice versa. In the list were wheat, rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, hay, straw, fresh vege- tables, cattle less than a year old, cat- tle valued at not more than $14 a head, horses and mules valued at over $150 a head, or less than that sum, swine, poultry, fish of many kinds, including cod and haddock. What a row such an agreement would have brought today. ok ok X It is to be expected that there will be criticism from agricultural leaders and from some of the industrialists, now that the agreement has made its bow. The administration has endeavored, in its general statement about the agree- ment, to set up substantial reasons why the American farmer should not be irate over the agreement. One of these is that the concessions made by Canada to American manufacturerd products are great and will undoubtedly result in very substantial increases in sales of American goods in the Dominion. This will make more work in America and increase the purchasing power of the workers, who in turn will purchase more of the products of the American farmers. Another is that the amounts of farm products admitted to this country under lower duties from Canada have been specifically limited, as in the cases of cattle, calves and cream, to a point which cannot interfere materially with the American producer in the American market, * K X X The Canadian agreement, it is the hope of the President, will double or triple American commerce with Canada. This commerce dropped off enormously since 1929. Canadian imports into the United States fell from $503,000,000 in 1929 to $232,000.000 in 1934, and the exports from the United States to Canada fell from $899.000,000 to $302,000,000. It is undoubt- edly true that this commerce would have dwindled if there had been no other reason than the depression. But the reduction of the commerce has been enhanced by the trade barriers erected on each side of the border. It has been the dream of Secretary Cordell Hull to bring about a lowering of international trade barriers, ever since he became head of the State Department. It is his belief that one way out of the depression is to revitalize international trade. Increased foreign trade means more production, rather than restriction. The Canadian reciprocity agreement is the biggest step which Mr. Hull has been able to take along this line. For Canada is and has been the second largest customer of the United States, and the United States has been the second largest customer of Canada. e The late President Taft roused the ire of the farmers of the country, particu- larly the Western farmers, when he sought to put through his reciprocity agreement with Canada. Yet he was able in 1911 to bring about the enactment of a law by Congress to make the agree- ment effective. He sent a message to Congress on January 26, 1911, urging the adoption of the reciprocal trade arrange- ments which had been worked out by the representatives of the two govern- ments. Six months later to a day, he signed the reciprocity bill and made it a law. No one can say what benefits might have accrued had Canada gone through with the matter. But that country failed to do so. BRI President Taft, in his message to the House and Senate, advocating reciprocity with Canada said a number of things that are as pertinent, or even more perti- nent, today than they were 24 years ago. Mr. Taft said: “This trade agreement, if entered into, will cement the friendly relations with the Dominion which have resulted from the satisfactory settlement of the comtroversies that have lasted for a century, and further promote good feeling between kindred peoples. It will extend the market for numerous products of the United States among the inhabitants of a prosperous neighboring country with an increasing population and an increasing purchasing power.* * * The geographical proximity, the closer relation of blood, common sympathies and identical social ideas furnish very real and striking reasons why this agree- ment ought to be viewed from a high plane. * * * I feel I have correctly interpreted the wish of the American people by expressing in the agreement now submitted to Congress for its ap- proval, their desire for a more intimate and cordial relationship with Canada.” L When Taft was making his plea for reciprocity with Canada the entire for- eign trade of Canada was $655,000,000. The imports were $376,000,000. Of this amount the United States contributed more than $223,000,000. It was the hope of Mr. Taft that the adoption of the reciprocity agreement would bring to this country an even larger share of the Canadian market. In those days & President of the United States did not have the power to negotiate and put into effect reciprocal trade agreements with foreign nations. He had to go to Congress for ratifica- tion. Congress has given President Roosevelt authority to deal finally with such trade agreements. So far as the United States is concerned the Canadian agreement is an accomplished fact, merély awaiting the final exchanges of ratifications. Whether Canada will kick over the apple cart, as she did back in Taft's day, remains to be seen. In view of the recent elections putting Macken- zie King, Canadian prime minister, into power and office, it looks as though the agreement would stick this time. E 598 It is not to be expected that American distillers will view the Canadian agree- ment with any degree of favor. It cuts the import duties on Canadian whisky from $5 a gallon to $2.50, and the same cut will come on Scotch and other whiskys, aged four years or more in the wood. The hope of the administration is that not only will this reduction in duty increase the supply of properly aged whisky in this country, but also that it will cut the profits of the bootleggers to such an extent that they may be largely forced out of business. The high prices of liquor in this country, largely main- tained by the tariff duties, have given those gentlemen a chance to continue at their trade in a big way. rae THE EVENING STAR D._C, M AY, NOVEMBER 18, 1935 THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, The old egg man, as we called him, was quite proud of the fact that he had picked tomatoes off his own vines on November 13, and you couldn’t blame him in the least. It was unusual. He didn’t expect to have many more, he said, because he rather thought there would be & drastic change in the weather. ‘Time was to prove whether or not he was right. In the meantime, gardens were flour-, ishing. 1f it were the last blooming time for 1935 in this climate, perhaps it would be well to take a good look around. * x * x There still were green leaves, although not many of them, on the althea bushes. Marigolds and many other annuals were in full flower. Over in the corner hollyhocks were in bloom. It is not generally known that if the hollyhock is cut back after the Spring blooming it stands every chance of flow- ering again, especially if kept well watered and given a dose of bonemeal. This season it has been necessary to tear up many annuals still in bloom in order to find room for tulip bulbs. Week after week went by, with mild weather keeping such things as ageratum in the best sort of flower. It became essential to remove them, even though it hurt, in order to find a place for the bulbs, which held beauty for the future. * £ %% Lawns everywhere have profited from the extended warmth of October and the first half of November. Even persons who put in grass seed late have been rewarded. There is no grass of the year, not even that which comes up in the Spring, of a finer green than the late Autumn grass, if the weather has been warm. Whether this new growth will stay green all Winter remains to be seen, but many hope it will, for there is nothing prettier than green grass in Winter. ‘Then even the best sward tends to take on a yellowish color, especially if snow has overlaid it for several weeks at a time. Yet there is a mystery in this. Often lawns which receive little or no care for long periods, especially in the Au- tumn, tend to hold their green better in the cold than grass plots which have been cared for scrupulously, perhaps too much so. There, perhaps, lies the ex- planation. It is possible that too much care, here as elsewhere, is bad. It is much the same with human beings, or tropical fishes, or what have vou, as the sophisticates once liked to say. Proper care extends to a certain point, but no further. Fussing and fuming sometimes does more harm than good. Every one knows this, and it furnishes a very prac- tical basis for the injunction to stop worrying. Often if we “let things slide” we do not do half the harm we might think, in our worrying moments. Strange- ly enough, sometimes what may seem to be no care at all permits things to adjust themselves, or Nature to step in and, without human interference, set things right. L We like a certain care-free air in a garden, to be secured ordinarily in no other way than by letting things alone as much-as possible. ‘While there is no gainsaying that a certain amount of pruning and cutting and removing and tending is necessary, if even the smallest yard is to look well, there s something to be said on the other side of the picture, especially in Autumn. Old vines running riot on the fence— Rose canes long and straggly— Grass that needs some cutting— Annuals dead and dying, yet even at their ending beautiful, as only natural things can be— These are a few of the ways the Au- tumn garden can be picturesque, and we make a plea for them, in the face of all the necessary garden polishing and grooming. o One very practical gain of such gar- dening is that much natural mulch is permitted to remain where it will do the most good. After all, is not this the way Nature does things? She will not go around in the Fall with broom and rake and dustbin, but will permit things to lie as they fall. Her only sweeping is done with com= pressed air. Winds remove a great deal of debris | of one sort or another, but permit many leaves and other sorts of materials to lie where they are. This is a natural selection. Perhaps it is the best type of mulch, after all. Nature doesn't worry at all about whether the mulch material she uses is acid or neutral or alkaline, and probably the rest of us would be better off if we didn't, either. * ok X X Every lawn ought to be given a final mowing for the Winter. The long-continued warmth of October and early November induced a very fine stand of fresh green everywhere. Those who specialize in such things know this very well. Every one must specialize, nowadays, of course. And al- most every one does, in some way or other, although others may not realize it. Take the person who likes gardening, actually, and not just academically. Then the things of the growing outdoors world will take on added relevancy to him. He will- want to know as much as he can about them. His opinions, when given, will have a great deal more behind them, because he has observed, because interested. They will not be snap judgments. in any sense. The person not particularly interested in the things of the garden will do well | to be wary of arguing with such a per- son, for the latter will know, whereas the other will merely have an opinion. The person who knows, for instance, will actually know that the first, or genus, name of the peppermint, Mentha pipe- rita, does not come from “mint,” whereas he who does not know might certainly think it did. It comes directly from the name of a | famous nymph of mythology, Mentha, | herself, and hence our word “menthol.” Mow your lawn before Winter comes; if there is a peppermint plant there, think of sweet Mentha, and be glad for her eternal fragrance. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Few New Deal achievements have filled President Roosevelt with greater personal elation and satisfaction than the reciprocal trade treaty with Canada. He derives happiness from it on two scores—Afirst, its intrinsic value for busi- ness pump-priming purposes, and, sec- ondly, because of the example it sets for economic peace throughout the world. As the United States and the Dominion have failed for roundly 70 years to place their economic relations on a basis of mutual agreement, F. D. R. thinks the give-and-take deal just effected 1is destined to become a landmark in North American history. In case disgruntled agricultural or industrial interests seek to make the treaty a campaign issue next year, with possible revival of the ancient protection vs. free trade issue, the Presi- dent is prepared to take up the challenge. He will defend the pact as a project which transcends sectional or group ad- vantages and promotes national interests as a whole. To what extent lumbermen and dairymen, in particular, are inclined to oppose the treaty will speedily become apparent, now that its mutual tariff con- cessions are public property. * X ok % In a real sense the Canadian agree- ment is a personal triumph for Secretary Hull. His friends have always thought that it was mainly because of the Ten- nesseean’s long devotion to the principle of reciprocity and his expert knowledge of the tariff question that he was chosen by President Roosevelt to head the State Department. Agreements of the sort just concluded with Canada were from the outset a New Deal key program. It was in order to achieve such arrange- ments with a maximum of speed that the President sought and obtained from Congress authority to conclude them without the senatorial ratification neces- sary in the case of ordinary interna- tional treaties. No one takes very seri- ously the threat that the constitutionality of reciprocal pacts will be challenged, although it's expected that some par- tisan shots will be fired at them during the coming session of Congress, with the presidential campaign in the offing. * kX X Old political inhabitants can hardly recall an episode like the remarkable tribute President Roosevelt has just paid Senator Norris in publicly calling upon the people of Nebraska to insist upon the veteran Republican progressive's re- tention of his Senate seat “for life.” It is just about four years ago that Norris, at the progressive conference in Wash- ington, made his famous statement that the country might have need of “another Roosevelt in the White Houses’ or words to that effect. The declaration almost clothed the Nebraskan with the distinc- tion of being the original Roosevelt man. He and the President have long seen eye to eye on the power and utility issues. In general, the New Deal has had no more ardent supporter than the father of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the lame duck amendment to the Con- stitution. * ok x Participants in White House press con- ferences have seldom encountered Mr. Roosevelt in more determined mood than he was the other day when explaining that there has been no change whatever in the Government's policy regarding purchases of foreign materials for P. W, A. projects. The President was emphasis itself when he branded as “deliberate misrepresentation” reports that there had been a shift in attitude on that subject. There is little probability that the $19,000 German order which stirred up the con- troversy will be canceled. After all, in a job like the New York Triborough Bridge project, involving $44.000,000, the transaction is a mere flea bite. x ® X X State Department remonstrances that exporters are sending war A sinews abroad on a large scale, in viola= tion of American policy and in defiance of presidential warnings, are taken as a pretty definite indication that Congress will promptly be asked to pass restrictive | laws unless there is drastic curtailment of such traffic. Administration feeling on the subject is obviously running high. If trade in oil, copper, trucks, scrap iron and scrap steel, now officially branded as “essential war materials,” does not diminish or disappear, the way seems to be greased for mandatory legislation to prevent it. * X ¥ % Notre Dame men in Washington are immensely gratified by President Roose- velt’s plans to visit the university at South Bend on December 9 and deliver | an address on the occasion of receiving an LL. D. degree. Three Washingtonians already so honored by Notre Dame are | Secretary Hull, Senator David I. Walsh, Democrat, Charles P. Neill, former United States commissioner of labor, who is now presi- dent of the Cosmos Club. Frank C. Walker, director of the National Emer- gency Council, who may succeed Mr. Farley in the cabinet; Ambrose O'Con- nell, the Postmaster General's executive assistant, and Representative Granfield, Democrat, of Massachusetts, are among Notre Dame alumni in official life at ‘Washington. Although Notre Dame, ever since it attained foot ball fame, has been associated in the public mind with the Irish, it is in fact French by origin, as its name indicates, having been founded by Father Edward Sorin and a band of French mission priests in the Northern Indiana Indian country in 1842. e Senator Borah's receptivity for the Re- publican presidential nomination is largely based upon the enormous fan mail with which the Idahoan's admirers have showered him since the adjourn- ment of Congress last Summer. Both at Boise and Washington his desk has been piled high with communications from all over the country urging Borah's availability as the man best designed to dramatize the anti-New Deal issue, particularly if it revolves around consti- tutionalism. Friend and foe alike con- cede that there’s no Republican in sight who could conduct so appealing a cam- paign as the eloquent Senate veteran. * x X X How substantially the C. C. C. is con- tributing to industrial recovery is graphically indicated by orders it is about to place for $10,000,000 worth of clothing and equipment and 1.077.000 pairs of shoes, to average $2.65 a pair. These purchases will supply Conserva- tion Corps needs for the rest of the current fiscal year. (Copyright, 1935.) e e —— Preparedness. From the Sacramento Bee. This is the time of year when it Is always a puzzle whether to go on a diet in preparation for Thanksgiving or to eat a little more than usual on the theory the stomach needs the practice. —rae Rough Riding. From the Muskegon Chronice. Out in Colorado a foot ball special train jumped the track, but if it was like the usual foot ball special we have been on, the fans never noticed it. Aftermath. Prom the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Though we thought'the elections were over, here’s 8. E. C. Chairman Landis urging the utilities to register. Depths. Prom the Glendale (Calif.) News-Press. You never know how low a man will stoop till he faces bankruptcy or becomes & candidate. 3 of Massachusetts, and Dr. | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS By Frederic ], Haskin, A reader can get the answer to any question of fact by uriting The Washing= ton Evening Star Iiformation Bureau, Frederic J Haskin, Director, Washing=- ton, D.C. Please inclose stamp for reply. Q. Will the Gumps be continued as & comic feature now that Sidney Smith is dead?—E. H. A. Stanley Link, who has been Mr, Smith’s assistant for the past 10 years, will continue to draw the adventures of the Gumps. He will be assisted by Mr. Smith’s collaborator, Blair Walliser, Q. When is Army day?—M. F. A. 1t is on April 6, the date of the entrance of the United States into the World War. Q. Please give some information about Gottschalk, the pianist.—S. D. A. Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-69) was an American pianist of English« French parentage. He studied in Paris and his popularity as a performer was enormous. His compositions consist of salon pieces, two operas and a symphony. Q. What is the origin of the word petunia?—P. H. A. The name is from petun, said to | be appled by the Indians of South | America to tobacco, a related plant. Q. What college has a course in news- paper photography?—W. B. A. The University of Pitt the Municipal Universi of Kans., both have col tography. Q. What are the names of occupied the boat in which ington crossed the Delaware? MacC A. Lossing’s Field Book of the Ameri- can Revolution states: Among the most prominent and active men engaged in ferrying, the Army tradition I : | served the names of Uriah Sla liam Green and David Laning. men may and may the boat with Washir genealogy claims George Warne ca Washington over in his own boat and that Daniel Bray was one of the men. These Q. What is the average number of per- sons per family in the United States? —F. P. A. The Bureau of the Censu that. according to the 1930 census, are 4.01 persons per family Q. How long is the Red Sea?—J. W. G. A. The Red Sea is about 1200 miles long. Q. Please give directions for storing a rubber bathing A C W A. The National Bureau of Standards suggests the sto: { rubber bathing suit in the following manner: Pack loosely so that there are no sharp crease. and keep it in a cool. best there will be some de the rubber. Q. Do women real newspapers on affairs of quette, etc, or are the I columns made up?—H. J. X. A. It has been estimated that than 40,000,000 letters from wom re received each year by editors and de- partments of American newspapers. T letters cover a wide range of inqu including etiquette, beauty, dressmaking, interior decoration care of children, and affairs of the heart. more Q. Who graduated first honors in the class at West Point with Robert E. Lee?>—B. M. D A. Charles Mason stood first in the graduating class in which Robert E. Lee stood second. Q. How far north is the Southern Cross visible to the naked eye?—E. G. A. The whole Southern Cross can be seen as far north as latitude 27° north, when on the meridian and un able conditions f Crucis, observin, the northernmost r Cross, appears just above the h its upper culmination in la north. Q. Did Prof. Raymond Moley ever serve as an adviser to Al Smith?—I. O. A. He served as economic adviser to Mr. Smith in the presidential campaign of 1928. Q. Please give Mark Twain's praver for war—W. S. M. A. Mark Twain's satirical pr: wartime is as follow “O Lord help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of guns with the shrieks of the wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their children to wander unfriended through wastes of their desolated land—for our sakes, wk_\o adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, making heavy their steps, water their way with tears. stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask of one who is (h_e spirit of love and who is the ever- faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset, and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Grant our prayer, O Lord, and thine shall be the praise and honor and glory now and ever, Amen." Q. Is it true that the King of Eng- land has several hundred clocks?>—E. B. A. King George has over 700 timee pieces in his several palaces. el A Rhyme at Twilight By Gertiude Brooke Hamilton Penitential Psalm. Lord, when in life my pride flares hot and high Upon my head, Let shock descend to silence rash outcry And slow my tread. Humble me till I knell at wiser feet, Tempered by pain, to voice a penance sweet. Each errant impulse of my wayward heart Convert from wrong; Subject its fervors to a living part Of sacred song. Claim any spark I dare to call divine— Make all my flame, my every ardor, thine! In the calm hour my unshod feet shall go The way of dust May ttk‘\,v compassion on my spent heart ow; Clothe me in trust. And when my soul shall sing in starry skies Account me but a lark in Paradise. n