Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1935, Page 12

MONDAY, Ni VEMBER 25, 1935. . A - THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGION, D. C. : THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY ............November 25, 1935 e o YHEODORE W. NOYES...........Editor bt g e e Yhe Evening Star Newspaper Company. Business Office: 8t. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t. Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Building, Buropean Office: 14 Regent St.. London. England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. Regular Edition, e Evenirg Star_._ e ivemr‘ll s‘llldfls\’ln‘fl fdays) "h‘e'llvsglnlflV and Sund; (when 5 Sundays).. The' Sunday Star Night Final ight Pinal and Sunday Star 70c per month Righ: Bod 56 55c per month Collection made at the end of each month, Orders may be sent by mail or telephone Na< tional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 45c per month 60c per month 65c per month ¢ per copy mo., 85¢ mo.. 50c $4.00; 1 mo., 40c Canada. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use_for republication of all news dispatches eredited to it or not otherwise credited in this Daper and also the local news published herein. AP rights of bublication of special dispatches erein are also reserved. = = Wings of Recovery. Two factors are making for restora- tion of balance to Government finances. One is the demand from many quarters that the administration curtail its spend- ing of public moneys. The other is in- creased business activity. Both are likely to play important parts in the readjust- ment which is essential. That a real fight is coming in Congress to compel a reduction in spending is indicated by the determined attitude of Representa- tive Buchanan of Texas, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Mr, Buchanan, on his arrival at Warm Springs, Ga., for conferences with Presi- dent Roosevelt, announced that he would make a “devil of a fight” to cut the expected deficit for the fiscal year 1937 to $3500,000,000. That is the fiscal year which begins July 1 next. The deficit of the Government may be cut in two ways. The first is by re- ducing Government expenditures. The second is through greater tax receipts. Mr. Buchanan clearly had in mind a reduction in expenditures. It was for the discussion of the budget that the Appropriations Committee chairman vis- fted the President. A cut in the amounts appropriated for the various agencies of the Government all along the line was suggested by Mr. Buchanan. The appropriation bills for the fiscal year 1937 will be passed at the coming gession of Congress, starting in January. At the opening of the session President Roosevelt will send his budget to the legislators. It is one thing to build up a program of expenditures. It is vastly different to cut it down. That is the problem to which the President and his advisers eand Mr. Buchanan, representing the legislative branch of the Government, are turning their attention. The insistence by the chairman of the ‘Appropriations Committee that some- thing must be done to bring the expendi- tures more nearly into line with Gov- ernment receipts is encouraging. Com- ing from Mr. Buchanan, it means that there is to be a tightening of the Treas- ury purse strings. For Mr. Buchanan 4s on the spending end of the line. "In- creased taxes, which could be used to close the gap in the Government budgzet, are handled in the House by the Ways end Means Committee. The President already has decreed that the next session of Congress is not to be vexed with the matter of revised or new taxes. The fight for reduction of the budget, necessary for any material lessening of the 1937 Government deficit, may be the major battle of the session. It might be equaled, however, by a drive to raise new taxes to pay the farmers for cur- tailing their crops, if the Supreme Court should finally rule the processing taxes, imposed under the agricultural adjust- ment act, to be unconstitutional. Better business and a restoration of palance to the Government budget will take the minds of the people off the Utopian plans of Dr. Townsend and Father Coughlin. These gentlemen are threatening the major political parties with dire things if they fail to adopt the old-age pension plan of Dr. Townsend, for example, and the changes proposed by the National Union, promoted by Father Coughlin. They are seeking to drive the Roosevelt administration into conformity with their ideas and to force the nomination of a Republican presi- dential candidate pledged to these same ideas. The wings of recovery may lift the Townsend plan, the Coughlin plan and much of the Roosevelt New Deal from the American people. —r————— A group of Italians attacked an Amer- fean car because in its travels it had acquired a British tag. In addition to Jocal regulations a traffic cop has to be aware of international affairs. Carnegie Centenary. Washington has particular interest in the celebration of .the centenary of Andrew Carnegie. It happens that the city had a special place in the heart of the man born at historic Dunfermline @ hundred years ago today. During the conflict between the States he learned to love the Nation’s Capital and, as an executive assistant to Secretary of War Thomas A. Scott, helped to defend it. Later, when he was distributing his vast wealth in the inierest of “the improve- ment of mankind,” he allotted to the Disttict of Columbia the funds for the main building and three branches of the Public Library. He also chose the Federal center of the United States for his Endowment for International Peace and the Carnegie Institution of Wash- ington, established in aid of scientific re- search; and he contributed $850,000 to construct the Pan-American Union head- quarters. Just before his death, August 11, 1919, he is reported to have expressed the wish that all his philanthropies snight be correlated here. But Carnegle did not belong to any ~ 1 single neighborhood. His mind from first to last was universal in range. He was concerned with every department of human enterprise. Perhaps the back- ground of his career and the environ- ment of his childhood and youth explain the multiplicity of his enthusiasms. By inheritance he was romantic in tem- perament, and by the compulsion of cir- cumstance he was an amateur. The genius in him and the long series of accidents whereby that power was given opportunity to function remain to be analyzed by a biographer compeient to the task. Meanwhile, a world-wide public holds his name in ggateful remembrance. The fruits of Carnegie’s life, it should be noted, have been far more generally effective than might be supposed at a casual glance. He himself spent $350,- 000,000 to advance the causes in which he enlisted. But that was an insignificant sum compared with those offered by other individuals inspired by his example. In sober fact, he set a fashion which, fortunately, still prevails. The forty millionaires he “made” have followed in the path he blazed and literally thou- sands of richer or less rich individuals have been guided in their charities by the pattern he laid down. In the genealogy of modern altruism he was the founder of a new idealism, a new technique and a new method. Thus, as he frankly intended, he has been a civilizing force; he has lifted up the race. Honoring his memory, the peoples he strove to aid recall him as one of them- selves. He was of them as well as for them, and his attraction is enhanced by his authentic humanity, Washing- tonians see him as he was on January 17, 1903, when the Library was dedicated— a gentle and kindly soul, plain and unassuming, happy in his privilege of living and giving. —— e The Thin Edge. Fears that the Japanese-promoted “autonomous” movement in North China was not abandoned, but only postponed, have been speedily con- firmed. On Sunday an independent government was set up in the demili- tarized zone of Hopei Province, compre- hending the eastern portion lying athwart the Great Wall. The selection of that particular region for the opening act of the five-province separatist tragi-comedy is highly significant. The area involved, embracing twenty-five counties with a population of about 4,000,000, projects southward into the important territory that separates Peiping from Tientsin. Bordering on the Jehol-Manchukuo frontier, where strong Japanese military forces are assembled, Eastern Hopei is ideally suited to the Tokio war lords’ purposes, if and whenever they decide the moment is ripe for invasion of North China on the grand scale. The “Hopei Autonomous Federation for Joint De- fense Against Communism” bears ali the earmarks of being the thin edge of Gen. Doihara’s wedge. Yin Ju-Keng, chief sponsor of the new state, makes unblushing avowal of his motives. From his capital of Tungchow, only twelve miles east of Peiping’s outer wall, Yin pledges his government to rec- ognize the “sovereignty” of Nanking, but in the same breath warns that he will allow no interference with local matters. Control over taxes, revenue, the posts, telegraphs, railroads, courts and mili- tary and foreign affairs will be exercised without regard to the central govern- ment, headed by the incalculable Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek. To all intents and purposes Eastern Hopei is now the seat of an “independent” regime—how inde- pendent is amply evidenced by Yin's declaration that he stands “for the rescue of China” and “will work closely with Japan.” Japanese-educated and married to a Japanese wife, all external indications justify the belief that Yin's coup is the first thrust of the Tokio militarists toward coveted domination of North China under the guise of a spon- taneous “independence” uprising by its 95,000,000 inhabitants. Violence is deemed likely as a result of the Hopei development. In view thereof, Japanese military authorities an- nounce that disorder will be the instant signal for action by their troops crouch- ing for the attack at Shanhaikwan, at the eastern extremity of the Great Wall. That would, of course, mean invasion of “China proper.” If Chiang Kai-Shek's assertions of determination to defend the territorial integrity of the country at all costs are anything but grandiloquent boasts, Sino-Japanese war would be the inevitable consequence. The Tokio army hotspurs unquestion- ably crave such a prospect. Before their hopes can be realized, the civilian gove ernment and the all-influential imperial authority must be reckoned with, to say nothing of the foreign interests now definitely menaced by the approach of the Japanese threat to the very gates of Peiping and Tientsin, with their gar- risons of Western troops, including those of the United States. e One of the valuable considerations of a job on the Presidential staff is that it almost invariably implies that a re- signing member can be assured of a fine letter of recommendation when he applies for a new job. Bus Breakdowns. As a result of a survey of the equip- ment of the Capital Transit Company the chief engineer of the Public Utilities Commission has recommended that from twenty-five to fifty new busses be pur- chased, not to extend the service, but to insure the maintenance of schedules already established. During October, the survey reveals, eighty-five breakdowns occurred, sixty of which concerned new equipment. The question is put up to the company by the commission whether these breakdowns, causing “detentions” in the service, were due to inherent de- fects in the equipment, to the unfa- miliarity with the new vehicles -of the drivers formerly street car operatives, or to insufficient garage personnel. The riding public is not concerned with the causes of these breakdowns, but with the consequent detentions, It ex- pects and it demands dependable, regular and faithfully maintained service, which involves sound equipment and competent operation, It appreciates that the sched- ules may not be maintained to the minute throughout the day, owing to traffic blocks and the hazards of the streets, which may involve the public service vehicles. But it protests the fail- ure of schedules due to undependable machines, incompetent garage service and inadequate operation. For a long period the fact has been urged, in the discussion of the advan- tages of the bus over the street car run- ning on a track, that the former was superior in point of reliability, in that the failure of a single unit would not block the entire system and that the operation of the bus does not depend upon the condition of a line of rails with an underground or, on suburban lines, an overhead electric conductor. This advantage is lessened in the degree that the independent unit of transport lacks in dependability. While the passengers on a bus that breaks down or fails from any cause in the course of & run may be transferred to the next comer, the service, though not altogether checked, 1s not as good as it should be. Of course, the operating company is fully aware of this fact. And naturally the company wants to maintain the service at its highest point of efficiency. But it may not wish to expend a large sum in new equipment as reserve or re- placement stock, in order to guarantee a higher standard of dependable service. The Public Utilities Commission may, however, regard the matter strictly from the viewpoint of the patron, the public, and insist upon such a stocking of the garages and such service in them that the schedules may be scrupulously main- tained, as far as the condition of the streets permits, and improved from time to time as the public accommodation requires. R An advance in stock quotations brings good news to investors, and the confi- dence in prosperous production it implies is also good news for wage earners. Machinery has been represented as a menace. It needs expert management, but its most serious menace arises when it is allowed to become idle. ——r e Holding companies are calling atten- tion to the minority stockholder as a member of the chorus in a “request for something to remember you by.” The forgotten man is calling on the doctors and professors for a course in mnemonics. It is suggested that Undersecretary Rexford Guy Tugwell has been made a “fall guy” in the New Deal. The letters “F. G.” may have to be added to the cryptic list of initials. ———rmee— Aviation may yet ignore fears that the next war will be fought in the air and record an assurance that commerce will work out an air plan that will establish the next enduring peace. ———ree— An airplane line operating across the Pacific makes the world a little smaller in time measurement and encourages the hope that all the nations of the earth may eventually become good neighbors. —ae Communism is a word that needs more definition as to whether a teacher in- tends it to imply a threat or a promise. Antiquity shows many experiments in government, each of which was celebrat- ed in turn as a new deal. — et Shooting Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Impetuosities. Now let us pause a little while Amid this mighty speeding. We're missing many a song or smile We may be truly needing. Of joy we're surely wanting more Aud surely less of worry. So friend, as we have said before, What is your hurry? We hear the horn with growing dread As dismal grows its hooting. We have more wagons painted red And ask, “Where is the shooting?” The friendly greetings are too few ~ In all the ruthless flurry, None answers as we ask anew, What is your hurry? Word From the West. “T see you have tossed your hat into the ring.” “That isn't a mere hat,” said Senator Sorghum. “That’s & war bonnet.” Jud Tunkins says you sometimes think you have lost a friend when you have only misplaced him and will be able to find him again. Family Car. Around the corner we expect Prosperity to show, But as we turn it don't neglect The speed at which you go. For if you take too great a chance Where hazards thick are shown, Why not just buy an ambulance And run it on your own. Practical Test. “Do you have any trouble with Com= munists in Crimson Gulch?” “None at all” said Mesa Bill. “We test the idea out 'most every night. We put our wealth into a series of jackpots and then say, ‘May the best card player win?” Trimming. Nations who a-trimming go Much consideration show, Like the barber who with care Works behind the old armchair, When one job is neatly done He expecis another one, And we stand a bit perplexed As we hear him holler, “Next”! “Everybody wants a job,” said Uncle Eben, “and everybody dat has one wants s better one. So de competition goes right along.” P THE POLITICAL MILL By G. Gould Lincoln. ‘The contest in the Republican party over the Roosevelt New Deal and how far the G. O. P. should go in attacking it is becoming more vigorous as the days pass. The group that would soft-pedal on the attack has in mind particularly the A. A. A, with its benefit checks to the farmers for not growing crops. The group that believes the whole theory of the New Deal, with its “planned econ- omy” and “national planning” should be scrapped would have no mercy in the coming campaign on any part of the New Deal. * ok ok ok The attitude of the most drastic anti- New Dealers in the Republican party is put forward clearly in a letter written by former Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio. The former Ohio Senator, who went down before the New Deal forces in the 1934 election with his flag nailed to the mast, still believes he was right— that if the G. O. P. is to compromise with the New Deal the Republicans might as well indorse Roosevelt for re-election and let it go at that. He is violently opposed to any such course, however, Furthermore, he considers that the nom- ination of any man by the Republicans who voted for the N. R. A, the A, A. A, inflation, silver and big spending by the Government would be silly. Mr. Fess seems to eliminate, in his strictures, the possible candidacy of several United States Senators on the Republican side of the Senate chamber. * x x %k ‘The advice of the former Senator from Ohio may not be followed by the Re- publicans, but it is interesting, as it gives the attitude of many members of the party. And as such it is quoted here in part. Said Senator Fess: “The 1936 fight must be viewed from a long range as a struggle between two philosophies of government, an Ameri= can versus foreign. Candidates are mere incidents of importance, only measured by the philosophy advocated. What is known as the New Deal is un-American. It is foreign to all America has stood for during its 150 years of existence. It stands for State socialism vs. competi- tive action of all individuals free as possible from paternal interference—the essense of Jefferson’s philosophy. “The New Deal makes the Govern= ment everything, the individual nothing, by centering in Washington, to be ad- ministered by a bureau, all the activities of the citizen, on the farm, in the fac- tory, in the mine or at the counter. Effective enforcement of such socialism means dictatorship, as we see it in Eu- rope, the first steps of which are already taken here in the United States. This New Deal philosophy looks to the Gov- ernment as responsible for success or failure, instead of the individual, the basic and most elemental principle of America. * x ox = “To talk about the Republicans con- sidering as candidates men who voted for the A. A. A.or N. R. A, or the other socialistic nostrums, including the finan- cial masquerading, inflation, the silver debauch and the wild spending, raises the question, Why don't the Republicans indorse Roosevelt and be done with prin- ciples of government? “This is a contest unfairly balanced. The New Dealers have the United States Treasury, and, thanks to a “yes’ Con- gress, its spending has the semblance of legality. It has an open field of opera- tion by which the entire Government machinery, with rare exceptions, becomes a propaganda agency for the new philos- ophy. Its publicity organization rivals the great news agencies, paid out of the Government Treasury. Even the great news agencies must depend for informa- tion upon these sources for data to print to be read by the public. The contest against the un-American policy of the New Deal thus fortified is not wholly promising in a democratic Government thus dominated. %% % “The one certainty is a failure to halt this New Deal philosophy cannot con- tinue long. Its collapse by its own weight in time is inevitable. It carries within it its condemnation. When the American people awake to the actual fatalities, like the English people, there will be a reck- oning. Who will forget the brilliant leadership of Lloyd George at the head of the powerful Liberal party, when he for a period lifted all anchorage of sound principle? Where is there in history a sorrier sight? The one militant popular leader, now none so poor, a forlorn shadow at the head of so small a rem- nant, that liberalism is not even con- sidered in a count of heads. Not only the fate of such party should be a sug- gestion of the New Dealers, but if Re- publicans will exercise a small degree of courage, showing a willingness to go to defeat in a contest of principle, not of votes, it will pave the way for success, if not as great as in the British contest, it will be as important, if not more so. To win in a contest of compromising character, either on platform of prin- ciples or candidates, would be a fatal defeat for both country and party.” * %k X Mr. Fess comes from one of the polit- ically pivotal States. The former Post- master General and political lieutenant of former President Hoover, Walter Brown, is the Republican national com- mitteeman from Ohio. The G. O. P. leaders there have in mind putting for- ward a favorite-son candidate in their presidential preferential primary next Spring. They would do so to make it impossible for an outsider unacceptable to them to come in and grab off an in- structed Ohio delegation for the Repub= lican National Convention. Insome quar- ters this is looked upon as a move to head off Senator William E Borah of Idaho, who apparently has been con- sidering seriously entering the prefer- ential primaries in a number of the States. In Ohio a candidate for the presidential nomination seeking the sup- port of the State delegation must de- clare himself a candidate and give written permission to enter his name in the primary. Whether Senator Borah will do this remains to be seen. * e ‘The uncompromising stand taken by Herbert Hoover in his attacks upon the Roosevelt administration and its policies already has heralded a definite plan to place the G. O. P. unqualifiedly against the New Deal. Mr. Hoover’s close friends say that the response to the New York speech delivered a week ago by Mr. Hoover before the Ohio Society in that city has brought a wide response. Mr, Hoover has gone home, to Palo Alto. The next address delivered in his antj- New Deal campaign may be given in a Middle West city. He has received a number of invitations to speak in that section of the country. * K K K Senator Borah's letter declaring that if he were President and an anti-lynching bill, on the line of the Costigan-Wagner bill, were presented to him he would veto it, may have wide political effect. His flat declaration that he would not approve such a law, on the ground that it was unconstitutional and invaded State’s rights, was made to the National Association for the Advancement of Col- ored People. It was unequivocal. Con- sidered from a practical Rolitical view- The young man who liked chess was complaining that he could find no one to play with. And it was true. Chess players, good, bad or indifferent, do not grow on trees. One has to have a certain type of men- tality to play this royal game. Just what the type is, however, is diffi- cult to put the finger on. . The beginning enthusiast, in any spe- cialty, will find it well to join a club devoted to the same. It is an amazing fact, how few really ardent devotees of many really gorgeous occupations are to be found in the public at large. Take stamps, or tropical fishes, for instance. How many people will you run into, in the everyday walks of life, who are en- thusiasts? And you may miss the few you happen to bump into, in average walks, because they have got past the talkative stage. * k¥ % Every one knows the talking state of a hobby. One is so full of the new enthusiasm that one simply must talk about it. The truth seems to be that one often talks to exactly the wrong people, unless a club member. All one succeeds in doing, aside from letting off a little personal steam, is to bore the other fellow. Unless he is an enthusiast, too, this famous “other fellow” will soon find it convenient to change the subject. This is a shock to the happiness of the man who has something on his mind. He wants to get it off, but he chooses the wrong way. After a time his hobby gets into its proper place in his life. Then he is not so0 inclined to bore all and sundry with it, but reservas it for a few choice spirits. ik ‘The danger of the club, of course, is that every one in it talks too much. And too positively. If it weren't for the ultra positive speaker, in any club, in every club— and he is many, not one, of course—the enthusiast would have easy sailing. As it is, he must meet and overcome the big man with the big voice, who always knows more than he does, who invariably has stamps twice as rare, or tropical fishes three times as big, as his own. The man with the big bazoo always is in the lead. He is at once the curse and the pride of every organization. And what a stickler for convention and orthodoxy he is! No gain is ever made in any organiza- tion through him, because he is always on the lookout for the first tinges of innovation. He who dares see things for himself, and discover errors in generally accepted practice, has this gentleman to face. No doubt the know-it-all has his place in clubs, as well as in the world at large. He makes sure that a thing is thoroughly tested before it is accepted. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. If any proof were needed that the Republicans are girding for a fight to the finish against the New Deal it is supplied by the impressively plutocratic Finance Committee just named by Na- tional Chairman Fletcher. It reads al- most like a “Who's Who"” of big money, bristling with names revealing close af- filiation with such opulent interests as American Cyanamid, Standard Oil, Sun 0il, Westinghouse Electric, Montgomery Ward, National Steel, et al. Presence on the committee of business spokesmen like Silas H. Strawn indicates that the powerful sources of supply represented by the United States Chamber of Com- merce are likelv to be successfully tapped for G. O. P. campaign cash purposes. It is already suggested that the Repub- licans aspire to assemble a war chest comparable to the record-breaking fund which Mark Hanna piled up to beat Bryan and elect McKinley in 1896. As the business world is saturated with anti-Rooseveltism, the elephant expects to find it an uncommonly cheerful giver when the gold-digging drive sets in. Everything indicates that both parties next year will be well upholstered with what are sometimes vulgarly called slush funds. * % % % Political observers are already com- paring the Hoover-Borah fisticuffs to the Blaine-Conkling fracas of 1880 and the Smith-McAdoo feud of 1924 in the Democratic camp. If neither the Cali- fornian nor the Idahoan can capture the nomination, each is credited with a burning desire at least to prevent the other fellow from getting it and then to wield decisive influence in the con- vention both as to the choice of candi- date and platform. So far, the former President and the Senate veteran have not publicly discussed each other, but, with hostilities privately waxing hotter from day to day, theyre likely before long to begin mentioning names. * - Senator L. J. Dickinson of Iowa was enthusiastically received when he spoke in Manhattan at last week’s annual din- ner of the Chamber of Commerce of the | State of New York. Eastern G. O. P. leaders having pretty generally come to the conclusion that their presidential nomination is going to the Midwest, Dickinson is beginning to attract their analytical attention. His sledge-ham- mer attack on “Tugwellism” as the mainspring of policy at Washington made a highly favorable impression, along with the Iowan'’s general onslaught against the New Deal. Gov. Landon also commands favor among the big business element that takes its cue from Gotham. During the Winter it's ex- pected that the budget-balancing “To- peka Coolidge” will also be given & chance to show himself and air his views before a critical metropolitan audience. ‘The competition among favorite sons from the open spaces for the big New York delegation will be particularly keen. Ogden Mills is in charge of the effort to pledge it for Hoover. * x % % Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr, may now and then break the automobile speed laws, but he has a soft &pot for taxi drivers, as a Washington cabman de- poses and says. Arriving the other day on an early-morning train from the North, the lanky F. D, jr., piled into & taxi at Union Station and said, simply, point, it may cost the Senator delegates in the Republican National Convention next year. It is not likely to get him the support of delegates from the Southern States, and it might Yose him delegates in States where the colored vote is con- siderable and holds a balance of power. In Ohio, for example, the colored vote is r':p?; thelynn‘!':’!?;bl‘lfquuum.. e on coura=~ geous as it was, did not have the sound of & man seeking to woo delegates to the | Paul Morphy. And he, poor fellow, went The beginner at chess will find a noble literature attending it. Perhaps there is no game, either in- tellectual or physical, which has so extensive a library accompanying it. The game of bridge has built up an enormous number of books, in a short time, but works on chess have been pub- lished for hundreds of years and in all languages. Arabs, Hindus, Chinese—these and scores of others have loved the royal game over centuries, and made it into the game it is today. In a changing world chess does not change. Like the musical instrument we call the violin, it is perfect. While it might be an interesting ex- periment to tamper with its men and moves and rules, very few are willing to try, being satisfied with the game as it is. ‘Although its forms are those of war, actually it is the most peaceful occupa- tion in the world, being among the most intellectual. It requires a certain sort of intelli- gence, however; let the beginner be assured of that; a certain type, that is, if the ultimate reaches of the game are to be mastered. Only a few, in every generation, will attain these peaks. The rest must be content with doing their best. Very few persons who study mathe- matics, for instance, make great mathe- maticians, but no one who makes an attempt can but say he has been the gainer for his pains. It is so with chess, and in a peculiar way, because chess appeals most strongly to what may be called the literary tem- perament, whereas every one knows that mathematics does no such thing. The underlying reason that the lit- erary person, so-called, finds chess much to his liking is precisely because of its ancestry. He is unable to forget the vast background, the centuries given over to the formation of all of it. The vast parade of figures in the chess world is one to warm the cockles of the heart of any one who cherishes legend. And each game is a story, no matter how poorly played. * * *® x . ‘The one thing to keep in mind is this: Do not take this game too seriously. Only the chess genius has a right to do that. ‘The rest of us, if we concentrate too | much on the game, will find only dis- appointment in it, because it will make us dislike to get beaten. When any game—and this includes the greater game of life—is taken so seri- ously that we had rather not play it than get licked, the time has come to give it up. Let the beginning chess enthusiast, then, play the game as best he can, study it, enjoy its intricacies to the best of his ability, but let him at the same time highly resolve not to take the game too seriously, unless he is sure he is another mad. “White House.” In the course of the ride, in response to a question from the driver, he modestly identified himself as the President’s son and namesake, chatted volubly about foot ball and other news of the day, and, when the cab pulled up at the Executive Mansion, slipped the driver a dollar bill—the most liberal “fare” the proud and happy pilot has ferried in many a day. He describes young Franklin as a “swell guy.” * ¥ % x Gov. Talmadge of Georgia is no longer the only Democrat who thinks his party ought to repudiate Mr. Roosevelt and nominate somebody else for President in 1936. In a recent broadcast from Philadelphia, Judge Eugene C. Bonni- well of the Municipal Court pleaded for the renomination of Al Smith. Assailing the New Deal and all its works, Judge Bonniwell acclaimed Smith as “the fore- most citizen in our land, a man who towers like a Colossus among his fellow men.” Bonniwell has been an unsuc- cessful Democratic candidate for the governorship of Pennsylvania and for the Appellate Court. He bolted the party ticket in Philadelphia this month to support Republican Mayor-elect S. Davis Wilson. * ¥ ok % At both the State and Treasury De- partments joy reigns unconfined over Finland's announcement that she will again meet her war debt installment of $230,000-odd due on December 15. As none of our other war debtors gives any indication of coming across with a pay- ment on account next month, Finland is likely to retain her proud but lonely eminence as the only non-repudiating debtor on Uncle Sam'’s books. The Finns owe us $8,635.625 out of a total unpaid European debt of roundly $14,000,000,000. | Nobody in Washington except an occa- | sional super-optimist ever expects to see the color of that money. Finland's keep- ing of the faith is all the more notable for that reason. Uncle Sam will soon erect fine official premises at Helsingfors as a token of appreciation. o California’s booster project to establish a Pacific Coast “White House” for Presi- dents of the United States probably appeals less to Mr. Roosevelt than it might to some of his successors in days to come. He already has four homes, in addition to his present abode at No. 1600 Pennsylvania avenue. They include his New York town house on East Sixty- fifth street, his place on Campobello Island, off the coast of Maine; “the little White House” in the pine woods at Warm Springs, and the ancestral estate at Hyde Park, overlooking the Hudson. If F. D. R. ever establishes another habitat for hide-out purposes, it's dollars to doughnuts it will be somewhere at sea—far and away his favorite environ- ment. R Charles Michelson, Democratic Na- tional Committee publicity ace, seems to have been infected by Herbert Hoover's recent outburst of epigrammatic invec- tive. Not that the former New York ‘World man is a novice as a phrasemaker, for he long since won his spurs as ‘s devastating political penman. He has Jjust described Republican spokesmen as ranging “from the gloomy seer of Palo Alto to the mosquito fleet, typified by Dickinson, Ham Fish, Snell and Arthur Robinson.” Michelson also thrusts at the “highly non-partisan and vehemently neutral American Liberty League,” headed by his old National Committee comrade in arms, Jouett Shouse. * ok X X On his return from a recent visit to his home in San Francisco, a New Dealer is telling Washington friends that he spent most of his spare time out there contemplating and deploring the dese- cration of the Golden Gate vista by the gigantic $35,000,000 bridge which will soon span the bay. Despite its utilitarian advantages, many Californians evidently consider it an eyesore. (Copright, i ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS By Frederic J. Haskin, A reader can get the answer to q Qquestion of fact by writing The Washing« ton Evening Star Information Burequ, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washinge ton, D.C. Please inclose stamp Jor reply, Qfi Where is the University in Exiler— A. The University in Exile, composed of German scholars who were ousted or resigned from academic ts in Ger. many after the advent of Hitlerism, ig housed in the New School for Social Research in New York City, Q. Who is called the father of Amer- ican foot ball?>—F. T. A. The late Walter Camp is 5o called for his leading part in the development of the game and in evolving the rules which govern it, Q. Whose death occastened the writing of Fitz-Greene Halleck's elegy beginning, “Green be the turf above thee”?—A. R. A. This was written on the death of his friend, Joseph Rodman Drake, poes and satirist, Q. Was Louisa M. Alcott at one time a nurse?—L. B. A. During the Civil War she was & nurse in the Union Hospital in George- town, D. C. Q. How oiten is the Aurora Borealis seen?—A. P. B. A. Its frequency varies with the latie* tude of the place. The Aurora is com= paratively rare within 45 degrees of the Equator, but more frequent toward the north, up to the latitude of about 60 degrees, where it sometimes becomes almost a nightly occurrence. The Aurora is less frequent near the poles. Q. How long has David Sarnoff been president of the Radio Corp. of Amere ica?—J. J. A. He became president of R. C. A, in 1930, at the age of 39. Q. Does the steel business show ime provement?—L. T. A. The net income of the steel indus- try for the first half of 1935 was 22 per cent above a year ago. Q. When was the Valley Forge cene tennial celebrated?—H. Z. A. The one-hundredth anniversary of the evacuation of Valley Forge was celee brated June 19, 1878. Q. When did Harry, the Blind Poet, live?—A. H. A. He lived in the fifteenth century, dying in 1492 or 1493. He was probably blind from birth, and in all likelihood dedicated to the office of minstrel from boyhood. Q. Who was known as the apostle of Greenland?—K. J. A. Hans Egede (1686-1758), a Nore wegian Lutheran missionary. He went to Greenland in 1721 and, with the sup« port of the Danish government, founded a mission at Godthaab, devoting himself | to Christianizing the Eskimos until {1l health forced his resignation. His son, Paul, also a missionary, translated the New Testament for the use of Eskimos. Q. Are any insects (or animals) known te commit suicide?—R. I. A. The question of animal suicide has been much debated. It seems more or leses clear, however, that the actual in- tention of seli-destruction is absent and that it is merely circumstances beyond the animal’s control which cause the apparent deliberate death. One example is the lemming, the small Norwegian roe dent, which appears in countless nume bers every few years and marches stead ily westward, eating everything in its way and finally plunges into the Atlantic to perish. The cause of this is evidently some primeval instinct which is cone nected with the well-known natural law of overproduction in order to perpetuate the species. Q. What is the usual day and hour for executions at Sing Sing?—L. H. A. Thursday night at about 11 o'clock. 3 How do Nordics differ from Celts? —L. H. A. The Nordic has a long head, a long face, a narrow aquiline nose, blue eyes, very light hair and great stature. The Celt has a round head, a broad face, a nose often rather broad and heavy hazel-gray eyes, light chestnut hair, thick-set stature and medium height. Q. Which radio studio is a pioneer in the field of cultural programs?—D.A.C. A. The Washington studio of the Na= tional Broadcasting Co. has a unique record in the field of cultural programs. Since October, 1924, WRC has regularly | broadcast a radio talk on some subject pertaining to the fine arts. In July, 1928, program on “Famous Paintings of Many Lands” were first offered. They have been broadcast each week since that date. WRC is said to have in this program alone the greatest wordage on cultural themes of any of the broadcast= ing studios. One radio lecturer has write ten and has broadcast each of the dise cussions. They are primarily for the art-loving layman. Q. What is the tinamou?—J. T. A. It is a Mexican, Central Ameri- can and Northern South American game bird, somewhat resembling the partridge, but having a longer bill, smaller head and more slender neck. The wings are short and the tail rudimentary. The flesh is of delfcious flavor. Q. Is Elizabeth Arden the beauty specialist’s real name? Is she an Amer= ican?—F. B. W. A. The real name of Elizabeth Arden is Florence Nightingale Graham. She came to this country in 1908 from Can- ada and became naturalized through her marriage to an American citizen. Q. Is the Moabite stone in existence? —E. L. A. A large part of it was discovered at Dibon in 1868 by a German minister, F. A. Klein. It was later broken, but most of the fragments were recovered and are in the Louvre at Paris. A Rhyme at Twilight By Gertrude Brooke Hamilton The Tides Come In. On the wave crest of prosperity We, the people, sweep on to new highs; The money in circulation free, Our profits and exultations rise. Despite the jubilant deal and shout— As tides come in, so the tides go out. In the slow ebb to depression grim We, the people, descend to new lows; Panics drain coffers and public vim, Then our prosperity upward flows And fortunate throws again begin— As tides go out, so the tides come in. ‘We, the people, in low and high, Follow the tides—we know, not why, P £ v L