Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1935, Page 12

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C FRIDAY ...............December 6, 1935 THEODORE W. NOYES. .Editor i Tho Evening Star Newspaper Company. Business Office: 11th St and Ptnnlylvnnn Ave. 10 baa S Michizan BurcSean Omee: 14 Be Hekent St. e don. Enfiana. Rate by Carrier Withl'n the City. Regular Edition, e Evening Star. ne Evenng and Sunday Star 4 Sundays) 45¢ per month 60c per month _..ebe per m'"'? Nisht Final ight Pinal and Sunday Star. \ght Final ‘Sta 55¢ 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. waryland and Virginia. !L Slfl 00; 00} 70c per months All Other States and Ca Blll! tnd Sund!\!..l 1\‘ Sl;t ail - only. Bunday onl: $5.00; 1 mo.. Member of the Assoclated Press. T Ao s o Al mews GlspatanEs {i"0r not_otherwise credited in this e A a0 oo "G ‘SheClal dispatcnes fitreln are also reserved. _——— The Choice. American business has come more openly into opposition to the Roosevelt New Deal. The Congress of American Industry, representing a large section of American trade and industry, meeting in New York, adopted a platform declar- ing against “planned economy,” which its speakers declared to be merely another name for “autocracy.” The country must choose between the Amer- fcan system of private business and pri- vate initiative and Governnient planning, with its corollaries, Government control and actual Government participation in and competition against business. Business, apparently, is not content with the “breathing spell” promised by the President. It continues to be ap- prehensive of what is to come after the “spell” has come to an end. For that reason business, or that part represented by the Congress of American Industry, has declared warfare. It promises to in- vade the field of politics in defense of the principles upon which the industry of America has been builded in the past. Among the “planks” included in the platform adopted by the Congress of American Industry is included a demand that constitutional guarantees be main= tained. Without the continuance of these guarantees it will be impossible to restore confidence or to maintain it. Private employment cannot give to American workers the jobs for which they ask if the Government is to pursue & course which breaks down confidence and which undertakes to substitute Gov- ernment employment for private. Real economic security for the people must rest with the people through economic progress. Without individual effort se- curity cannot remain nor freedom be maintained. These are truths that have been proclaimed in America since the War of Independence, and even before. The attack extended to the spending program of the administration and its financing. The platform said in this con- nection: “Government spending without provision for its financing except by a constantly expanding public debt post- pones the day of reckoning, unfairly passes the burden of taxation on to the future and arouses fear of impending disaster.” With a public debt now in the neighborhood of $30,500,000,000, this declaration by the Congress of American Industry sounds like a prophecy of evil days to come. The congress of industry insisted, too, upon a “sound currency,” maintained upon a dollar of fixed gold value. The Government today has a vast reservoir of gold, which it is intent upon burying in the ground. The con- tention is made that it is there; that it is back of the currency of the United States; that the American dollar is as sound today as ever, The very fact, however, that the dollar is not based upon gold arouses the fear that currency inflation of disastrous proportions may arise to plague the people. Particularly when debts have to be paid by the Government, A note of warning was sounded against efforts of certain members of the New Deal family to arouse “class conscious- ness,” particularly the Undersecretary of Agriculture, Rexford C. Tugwell. The promise of opportunity to all men has been an underlying principle in Ameri- ca since the beginning. The rise of many men from humble circumstances to the highest that American civilization has to offer bears witness to the efficacy of that principle in a land where freedom has prevailed. Any administration which stirs class hatred is tearing at the vitals of the American idea. ————r————————— ‘The China Clipper.can cross the Pacific With ease, but passengers cannot yet be confident as to the social situation await- ing their arrival. ————— If a monument were reared to every gallant aviator who has lost his life there would be a cemetery truly worthy of the Zeverence of posterity, Art Education Art education in New York is under indictment at the hands of Austin Purves, director of the art schools of Cooper Union. Prevailing policies of instruction, he charges, “ignore the vital flelds of artistic training.” Pedagogues responsible for the neglect, it seems, ““fafl to understand the meaning of art” and, for that reason, emphasize “com- mercial art,” which is cursed with “in- herent superficiality.” Students follow as they are led because “they do not ‘know that anything else exists” The net result is “cultural dead-endedness.” But the complaint perhaps might have been even more specific. In New York as elsewhere in America today art appears _to be “bogged down” in a mannerism— the fad of so-called “modernism.” Chil- dren in the schools of the Nation are being taught an imported philosophy of “eveativa jdealism” which is weird and Peive.. The explanation is to be found in tue emormous vogue which [2 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1935. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, anarchistic painting and sculpture en- Jjoyed in Europe during “the age of con- fusion” coincident with the World War and its aftermath of revolution. Art, like other forces, ran wild; the con- tagion affected scores of persons who, already inflamed by the current madness, were ripe to add to chaos; and the fever, so promoted and enhanced, raged un- checked through the period when the present generation of teachers was being educated for the work which they now, still handicapped by their training, are trying to do. The pity of it all is that the young artists tc whom this style of creative effort is being taught are hoping to sell their products in the open market. No one as yet has told them that the de- mand is fading. But that, undoubtedly, is the case. The extravagance of “mod- ernism” was a fire too hot to last very long. In Paris and London, Brussels and Amsterdam it is burnt out. The world public has grown tired of purple cows. And no amount of doctrinaire sophistry will serve to alter the fact. Mr. Purves is doubly well-advised to demand reconsideration of the whole problem. The money of taxpayers should not be wasted on formulas of instruction which will profit nothing. Indeed, it is little short of treason to the authentic cultural standards of the Nation to permit youthful genius to be either neglected or misled. ——t———————— Reminders to Japan. If Tokio labored under the impression that the Western powers are too ab- sorbed in the Italo-Ethiopian conflict to pay attention to what is going on in the Far East, the Japanese militarists have just had a rude awakening. Thursday brought forth plain warnings that events in North China are disquieting and dis- pleasing to both Great Britain and the United States. There is no acknowledged connection between the forthright observations by Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare in the House of Commons and the hardly less pointed public statement of Secre- tary Hull. The almost simultaneous ac- fion that took place in London and Washington is nevertheless designed to convince Japan that the English-speak- ing powers, because of their extensive interests and treaty rights in China, are in no mood to see them ridden over roughshod by what Sir Samuel Hoare bluntly describes as “the so-called au- tonomy movement in North China.” The foreign secretary intimates that Japan’s present activities are causing world suspicioné at a most unpropitious moment. In whatever form disguised, “they lend color to the belief,” Sir Samuel says, “that Japanese influence is being extended to shape Chinese internal polit- ical developments and administrative arrangements.” Japan is admonished that this sort of thing “can only do harm to the prestige of Japan and hamper the development of the friendliest mutual relations with her neighbors and friends.” It would be difficult to con- ceive, despite its punctilious restraint, of more categorical indication that Japan's plans to create a second Man- chukuo arouse grave international re- sentment and are capable of provoking serious complications. The British call for “a frank statement of Japanese policy.” Secretary Hull, too, speaks in tones of moderation, but breathes the United States’ deep concern over “what is hap- pening” in North China. In essence his statement is a reaffirmation of American belief in the sanctity of treaty obliga- tions and an expression of expectation that they will not be impaired. “There is going on in, and with regard to, that region,” Mr. Hull declares, “a political struggle which is unusual and which may have far-reaching effects * * * but what- ever the origin, whoever the agents, be the methods what they may, the fach stands out that an effort is being made —and being resisted—to bring about a substantial change in the political status and condition of several of China’s northern provinces.” In this period of world-wide political unrest and economic instability, Secre- tary Hull declares that it seems impor- tant to the United States that “govern- ments and peoples keep faith in prin- ciples and pledges.” Without such faith, there cannot be that “confidence and stability and sense of security essential to orderly life and progress.” It is in these terms, without specifically men- tioning the nine-power treaty, that Mr. Hull in unmistakable effect sets forth that the “autonomy movement” in China is proceeding in violation of that pact. It is a timely and thoroughly justifiable reminder to Tokio that the American Government expects the Japanese to keep their covenanted word and halt the depredations of their army hotspurs. Mussolini’s experiences of the moment should suffice to persuade Japan that aggression on the grand scale no longer finds the world minded to stand by disinterestedly. School days will never contemplate a spirit of communism that gives every player the same foot ball score whether he has earned it or not. The discussion of physical relief has created an agitation that is causing psychopathists concern about mental relief. Juvenile Delinquency. The problem of juvenile delinquency in the District has been studied care- fully by various groups and agencies with the result of a proposal to the Board of Education for the adoption of & plan to establish a system of public voca- tional and occupational schools to train unskilled workers and to combat at the same time both unemployment and gocial deficiencies. A program with twelve objectives has been laid before the board for consideration prior to the next ses- sion of Congress with the hope that funds may be provided to put it into operation. It is represented that some eighteen hundred children, most of them past thirteen years of age, are either delinquent or neglected by their parents, or under the supervision of the Board of Public Welfare without adequate op- portunity to prepare themselves for earning a livellhood. Furthermore, some seven hundred charges of the Juvenile Court past sixteen years of age are kept at home while on probation with little opportunity to learn useful trades unless placed in industrial homes or reform schools. ‘The specific proposal is that the Board of Education set up a committee on vocational education to study this prob- lem and to secure the interest and help of employers and labor and the public. If such a program is framed and adopted by the Board of Education funds will be required for the establishment of the special schools. It is suggested that possibly Federal funds already appropriated specifically for vocational education may be available. The need of special educational facili- ties for the proper training of those children who age now in the zone of actual or potential delinquency is unmis- takable. If they are not given aid and guidance they will in a few years be- come public charges for their main- tenance or for their correction. This is 2 waste of potential human values and a menace to the community. The prob- lem of delinquency is not solved by re- straint or by unsupervised guardianship or by mere maintenance during the adolescent period without preparation for self-maintenance later. The Board of Education is in perhaps the best position of all of the public agencies to consider this problem in the present initiative stage, for it directly affects the public school system, of which it is in charge. Not much time remains before the opening of Congress for such a study and the formulation of a plan, but at least the general outlines of a prospective system of special in- struction may be framed so that the question can be submitted to Congress for its study at the coming session. Co- operation between the Board of Educa- tion, the Board of Public Welfare and the Juvenile Court should result in a presentation to the District’s legislature that will cause this important matter to be given the attention that it requires. e r—e——————— Haile Selassie has followed a building program which will at least make de- mands on reconstruction finance less exigent if a reconstruction program fis deemed necessary. e — “Stunts™ are recognized as essential features in a banquet. The time may come when no dining hall is considered properly equipped without & trapeze and a parachute. —_—e—————— Ttaly is confident of swift success in Ethiopia, but does not quite measure the speed of conquest by the ease with which the cook tent got Gugsa on the run. ————— No one should complain of lack of rugged individualism when every social agitator writes with voluble assurance in the first person singular. P — Shooting Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. X-Ray. ‘The old X-ray's a hoodoo That I cannot approve. I'm asking, what would you do, 1If covering they'd remove From all the people present ‘Who seem so gay and strong, And show a hint unpleasant When inside facts go wrong. The X-ray’s an appliance That bothers brains obtuse. It should be kept for science And not for general use. A superficial beauty May shine with gentle charm. ‘When X-rays do their duty They fill us with alarm! Historic information ‘We're striving to possess. The secrets of a nation ‘Will startle, more or less. Luxurious scenes of pleasure Include some foolish acts. ‘We may regret to measure Too closely inside facts. Viewpoint. “Do you think business ought to be kept out of politics?” “I don't see how it can be,” said Sen- ator Sorghum. “My mental training has been such as to convince me that politics itself is about the biggest business there 18" Jud Tunkins says princes who used to toss,pieces of gold to the populace would now be doing well if they could throw ‘em a sack of potatoes. Upping Humanity. ‘When for the morals of a tribe ‘We are compelled to fear the worst, And virtues new we would ascribe, ‘Why must we plan to kill 'em first? We seek to make 'em more refined And pass the civilizing cup. ‘Why can't we elevate mankind And not go out and shoot ‘em up? A Believer. “Do you believe in Santa Claus?” “Yes,” answered Mr. Dustin Stax. “Playing up Santa Claus is one of the best ways of boosting business I know of.” Voice and Nothing More. A man orates In accents clear. He agitates ‘The atmosphere. His vibrant phrase ‘Will cease too soon; "Twould not amaze *I isn’t superstitious,” said Uncle Eben, “but if you is & car speeder I wants to tell you it's unlucky to look back and see a policeman over your left shoulder—or Growing Sentiment for Membership in League ‘To the Editor of The Star, At the town hall meeting Sunday night in the Shoreham ball room Mr. Ludwig is quoted as saying that “the fate of Europe lies in the hands of Amer- ica,” and also, “I am going to propose an unpopular solution to this chaos— that the United States enter the League of Nations.” The proposition is not so unpopular as Mr. Ludwig seems to think. There is a large and increasing mobilization of American thought in that direction, and to this large circle the frank and unre- served words of this distinguished author and scholar will be welcomed with the highest approval. The League of Nations, despite the scorn and sneers of its enemies, has been of great service. It will contribute far more in the future than it has in the past. It has never been the perfect and successful peace organization as intended and visioned by Woodrow Wilson, and Mr. Ludwig is emphatically correct in averring that the absence from it of the United States explains its weakness and inefficiency. Wilson had in mind not only American but world interests, and if his guiding hand and splendid intel- lect had not been ruthlessly cast aside world conditions today would be in far better and more prosperous shape. Had he but been followed, had his vision but impinged upon the minds of other lead- ers how much brighter today would be the political and economic skies of the civilized world! But no! Away with him and his vision- ary idealism! Away with his ethereal humanitarianism! Away with his Scotch Presbyterianism and his devotion to the magnificent idea of justice, peace, toler- ance and magnaminity to the van- quished! Betrayed by his associates in Europe, slaughtered here in the United States Senate, his supreme conception was swept away in a hurricane of selfish greed, revenge and political pusillanimity, his real and consecrated pi vio- lated and cast a sacrifice into the debris and holocaustic ruins of a tortured hu- manity, the awful effects and inherent consequences still continuing over the whole world. Yes, Mr. Ludwig, the United States should be in the League of Nations, and for one let me thank you for your brave and wise admonition. JOHN A. PHILLIPS, How the Townsend Plan Would Affect the People To the Editor of The Star. Although it has been shown impossible to finance the Townsend plan, many well-intentioned but visionary people are eagerly working for it and through well- laid plans are bringing pressure for it on their Congressmen; so it may be worthwhile, through a “close-up,” to see what its effect on our people would be. The Townsend plan would take money (by force of law through a sales tax) from all those under 60 years of age, however small the income or wage and however inadequate to feed, clothe and shelter the family, and would hand it over to all over 60 years of age who were not “confirmed criminals” and applied for it, whether in need or not, and who had no claims whatever to it—$200 each month making $2,400 every year as long as they lived! Such a procedure would destroy self- respect, a desire to become efficient, self- supporting, thrifty, industrious, prosper- ous and ambitious to provide for old age and not become a burden on some one else. It would destroy all these splendid characteristics, and make us become a Nation of parasites planning and expect- ing to live off of the money taken from others on whom we had no moral or legal claim whatever. Those naturally lazy, thriftless, waste- ful and irresponsible would become a worse burden on society than they are now. Under the Townsend plan all over 60 receiving their funds would have to take an oath “to refrain from all remuner- ative or productive labor or occupation,” but man cannot defy God's laws and succeed. ‘What the world needs today is not the Townsend plan, but to return to the sincere worship of the one only true and all powerful God of our fathers, and to put into practice His command- ments, and that of His Divine Son, Jesus Christ, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,” then would prosperity return. GEORGIA ROBERTSON. Day-coach and Hitch-hike Voters vs. Pullman Riders To the Bditor of The Star. A Star editorial of December 2 accuses the President of “class appeal” He openly addgesses himself to the day-coach riders and bears down on the Pullman snobs. Well, here, of course, he speaks as a politician. The day coaches represent more votes than the Pullmans! And the day-coach vote combined with the bus vote and the hitch-hike vote ought to give him a very comfortable majority. But, if you please, didn't the Pullmans start it all? Didn’t “big business” (what- ever that may mean) threaten to “gang up” on Candidate Roosevelt? At least such was re in the newspapers. :rned so the President is fighting fire with Justly or unjustly, ever since October 29, 1929, the “business man” has lost caste with the masses. His usefulness as a job provider is not what it has been. And so they are shopping around for other gods—and other gods are shopping l.round for them. F. VETTER. Emerson on Reliance” On the Government To the Editor of The Star: In a discussion of communism or socialism the following statement made by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1842 is in order: ° “The harvest will be better preserved and go farther if laid up in private bins in each farmer’s corn barn and each woman’s basket than if it were kept in national granaries. In like manner, an amount of money will go farther if ex- pended by each man and woman for their own wants snd in the feeling that this is their all than if by a great steward or national commission- ers of the Treasury. Take away mm This statement may be Iound on page 193 of “The Heart of Emesson’s Journals,” edited by Bliss Perry. CALEB 8. MILLER, ——————————————— Road Shows. Prom the Boston Transcript. With New York bdn: treated to puyl entitled “Blind Alley,” “Don’t you ever wear & hat?” the young man was asked. “About twice a year,” he replied. “A hat feels like a ton on my head.” “goru mever have worn one?” “No.» “That's the way to be able to go with- out & hat, evidently,” his older questioner remarked. “Never wore & hat in my life,” said the other. “You get used to going without it gradually,” said the older man. “When I was a young fellow your age it was the fashion to laugh at the hatless man, even in Summer.” The young man smiled, as if it were beyond belief. But the other recalled very well the days when to appear hatless on the streets of Washington was to be regarded as “queer.” * ok x Common sense has a way of asserting itself, and now the pendulum seems to be swinging the other way. A medical man recently pointed out that there is but one of the senses in the feet and five in the head, yet many carefully clothe their pedal extremities and leave the head entirely bare in Winter. This goes, of course, for sleeping habits. Come to think of it, it is rather queer, to say the least, for countless men and women of all ages to be so careful about keeping the head covered outdoors in cold weather, yet to sleep at night cov- ered clear to the chin—and their heads exposed to the air blowing in a wide- opened window. * k% x Common sense is a wholesome thing. Several years ago, if our recollection is correct, signs were placed in front of schools to warn automobilists to go slow. These signs read, “Slo—School.” It was only when a well-known resi- dent pointed publicly to the unnecessary misspelling, that the warnings were re- painted to read “Slow—School” # they are today. Maybe it is much the same with this business of fresh air, After all, the cult of fresh air is very young. It was not more than 50 years ago, at the earliest, that it got any particular publicity and surely not more than 25 or 30 years ago that it began to get general public acceptance. Almost any one can recall the days when “night air” was feared. Some of this was due to the ancient belief in atmospheric conditions being a direct cause of disease, in the sense that the stars had something to do with sickness, too. Part of it was caused by the coldness of bed chambers in the old days before central heating. Those who may have been brought up on “drum stoves” and the like can recall very clearly the unheated condition of bed rooms. Occasionally there was a small register in the ceiling above the stove. ‘This was supposed to let some heat go up and no doubt it did, but in the main the upper rooms were as cold as barns. The term “barn,” then, was taken as the ultimate of this sort of comparison. ‘To declare that a room was “as cold as a barn” was to say that it was cold indeed. . Then along came the physical culture craze and as part of it a truly wholesome regard for fresh air. The trouble came when the term “fresh air” was universally accepted to mean “cold air,” Alr can be as fresh, warm, as cold, and hahel‘.lllthmldelo.hutllmk modern air conditioning to prove it. Many years were to pass, however, between the general public acceptznce of the fresh air theory and the use of air conditioning. Years have yet to pass before the wide public acceptance of the latter, although it is definitely on its way. In the meantime there is yet too gen- erally held a belief that to have fresh air we must have cold air, usually the colder the better. Hence we see old grandladies who care- fully muffie themselves in cloaks and bonnets when they go outdoors, yet as carefully cover themselves with blankets at night—and then leave the head un- covered all night in a chilled, icy room. ‘That they do not die testifies to their inherent sturdiness, rather than to the correctness of the belief in such crude fresh air. Tempered fresh air would be just as well, and much easier on the senses of smell, taste, hearing, seeing and feeling, which reside in the human head. In all the clamor as to the cause and cure of the common cold very little has been said about the “fresh air craze,” 1t has been s0 generally accepted. 1t is wholesome, now and then, for some one to cast doubt on it, at least as so widely put into practice. Perhaps the increase in sinus and other troubles may be due, in part, to this gen- eral lack of care of the precious senses which have their headquarters in the head. * * % % Consider the dear old lady just in- stanced. After keeping herself warm all day— and old ladies usually like it pretty warm, too—she carefully opens the window at night and protrudes her head into all the cold there is. What would the neighbors think if she muffied herself in blankets and took her seat all night. head uncovered, out on the open porch? No doubt they would call the police, but that is almost exactly what the dear old thing is doing when she goes to bed with her venerable head sticking out. The same applies, with almost equal force, to those of lesser age, because the senses of hearing, sight, taste and smell are even more sensitive with them, perhaps. The idea of “toughening” the senges through exposure is mostly hokum. Even the skin, one of the repositories of the sense of touch, is not “hardened” as much by cold water as many used to believe. Surely there is no real gain in cold air to the eyesight, the hearing, tasting, smelling. ‘The best thing very cold air does is to inhibit, at least for the time being, the growth of active germ life. Then it may have some tonic effect— if the extremities—and surely the head is an extremity, if anything is—are kept well warmed. Let us enjoy fresh air, but enjoy it sanely. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Politicians and foreign diplomats wonder to what extent current hesita- tions and ambiguities in connection with exports of American oil and other “essen- tial war materials” may be due to plans of the old anti-League irreconcilable group to tear into the administration’s policy in the present international crisis. There are advance warnings that Sen- ators Borah and Johnson, among others, are ready to don war paint as soon as Congress reassembles, to demand aban- donment of any and all measures that link the United States with the Geneva sanctions. Opportunity for attack will arise as soon as the existing neutrality resolution, expiring at the end of Febru- ary, is up for renewal or modification. While New Dealers are certain the coun- try is for the Roosevelt-Hull neutrality, peace and non-involvement program, they know that anti-League sentiment is still deep-seated. Dictates of strategy, with 1936 imminent, are therefore be- lieved likely to dissuade the adminis- tration from committing itself to any action which could be exploited to the Democrats’ disadvantage. Rooseveltians yearn for the end of the African war before the presidential campaign gets under way, thus closing an incident full of political dynamite. * X X % Iranian Minister Ghaffar Djalal’s re- cent encounter with the police of Elkton, Md,, recalls a far graver incident be- tween his country, then known as Persia, and the United States in 1924. It was the consequence of an assault which re- sulted in the death of Robert Whitney Imbrie, American consular representative in Teheran. After vigorous remon= strances by the United States, Persia was required to pay Mr. Imbrie’s widow, now a popular figure in Washington so- ciety, an indemnity of $50,000, in addi- tion to accounting to the for $110,000 for the cost of dispatching U. 8. 8. Trenton to Persia for bringing the consul’s body home. The Teheran gov- ernment was also compelled to render suitable honors in connection with re- turn of the remains. The United States further demanded adequate punishment of the parties responsible for the attack on the American official. B ‘Washingtonians who attended the re- cent New York banquet of the Associated Business Papers, at which Republican Presidential Candidate Frank Knox of Illinois raked the New Deal fore and aft, report that the show was dramatically stolen by Henry F, Grady, chief of the trade agreements section of the State Department. Mr. Grady’s function was to give a factual account of the Canadian reciprocity treaty, but after Col. Knox and another speaker had lambasted the administration the State Department man varied his theme to rush valiantly to the defense of Rooseveltism. He did 50 in a two-fisted manner that the big dinner company thought was devastat- ing, even though his hearers were mostly Republicans. Grady came into the State Department from the University of Cali- fornia, where he was dean of the col- lege of commerce. He had previously carried out Government economic mis- New Dealers as an important alibi when- ever the administration comes under fire for having boosted the national debt by billions since President Roosevelt took of- fice, two and a hllf years ago. * A When the Repubumm National Com- mittee is in session here this month there’s promimse of a lively contest for the vice chairmanship, just vacated by resignation of Mrs. Alvin T. Hert of Ken- tucky. Among those prominently men- tioned for the job is Mrs. Paul Fitz- Simons, Newport socialite and national committeewoman for Rhode Island. Mrs. FitzSimons’ first husband was the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. Her son, William H. Vanderbilt, a Rhode Island Republican State senator, is credited with United States senatorial ambitions. Young Bill inherited the ancestral flair for the transportation industry and has built up an extensive interstate bus line business of his own throughout Southern New England. Other possibilities for the coveted co-ed G. O. P. post are National Committeewomen Mrs. Katherine Ken- nedy Brown of Ohio and Mrs. Worthing- ton Scranton of Pennsylvania. % First harbingers of former Mayor Jimmie Walker's political comeback are seen in his re-election to the Board of Governors of the National Democratic Club in New York. He will sit in that body with Postmaster General Farley, who was re-elected second vice president on the same occasion. The club has Jjust achieved a record which the New Deal hasn't faintly approached. It not only balanced its budget, but operated at a profit, X X kX In international law quarters the tip is that Dr. Manley O. Hudson of Harvard Law School is to succeed Frank B. Kellogg as a judge of the World Court. Others in the running for the place assigned to the United States are former Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, Dr. James Brown Scott, secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Fred K, Nielsen, former so- licitor of the State Department. Nomi- nations for the vacancy are made by the four American members of the Per- manent Court of Arbitration (which is wholly distinet from the World Court)— Messrs. Elihu Root; John Bassett Moore, Newton D. Baker and Manley O. Hudson. Election is by the Assembly of the League of Nations. Dr. Hudson, ardent pro- Leaguer, was a legal adviser to the Amer- ican peace delegation at Paris. . R One little journey to which President Roosevelt looks forward at some future time now wholly undetermined is a visit to Ottawa. In response to inquiries, Mr. Roosevelt simply says it’s one of the things he “hopes” to do. Reports that the trip is in prospect were current when Prime Minister Mackenzie King was in Washington last month to con- clude the recipfocal trade agreement. Now and then Mr. Roosevelt is & resi- dent of Canada. His Summer home on They are among the mxur-?re&ld&nu favorite fishing grounds. (t:onmnn, 1935 . Mislaying. From the Independence (Kans.) Reporter. No wonder a hen gets discouraged at times. She never can find things just where she laid them. Storm Over, Gales Still Rage. Prom the Burlington (Iows) Hawkeye Gazette. “The economic storm is over,” we are told, but the political winds seem to be increasing i violencs. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS By Frederic J. Haskin. A reader can get the answer to any question of fact by writing The Washing- ton Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- ton, D. C. Please inclose stamp for reply. Q. How much money is spent annually for drugs in the United States?—F.E.F. A. About $715,000,000. This is divided &s follows: Physicians’ prescriptions, $190,000,000; home remedies, $165,000,000; patent medicines, $360,000,600. Q. How is hydrogen gas made which is Il;.sesd for dirigibles in the United States? A. Hydrogen gas is not used very ex tensively for dirigibles in the United States at the present time. Hydrogen is produced for dirigible balloons by sev« eral different processes. The one mos} used in this country is the decomposition of a dilute alkali by means of ferro silis con. The steam-iron process, which de« pends upon the reduction of steam by means of iron, is also used. In both of these cases, as well as in several other methods, the hydrogen really comes from water. Q. Who was Lysistrata?—H. M. A. She was a Greek matron who, to end the long war between Athens and Sparta, persuaded the women of Athens to desert their husbands until peace should be declared. Aristophanes’ Lysis« trata is based on this story and has been produced in modernized form. Q. Is Thomas Bailey Aldrich’s “Story of a Bad Boy” autobiographical?—L. M, A. It is a somewhat idealized recount- ing of the author’s boyhood in Ports- mouth, N. H, Q. What significance had the battle of the Boyne?—M. E. A. It was fought July 11, 1690 (new calendar), July 1 (old style), 3 miles west of Drogheda, on the banks of the Boyne River, in Ireland. It was fatal to the cause of James II and assured the ascendency of Protestantism in England, James was defeated by his son-in-law, William III, with a loss of 1500. Each had about 30,000 troops, but William's loss was only about 500. The scene o! the battle is marked by an obelisk abous 150 feet high. Q. Did the Indian Two-Gun White Calf pose for the Indian head on the buffalo nickel?>—R. C. A. A. J. E. Fraser, the designer of the nickel, says: “The Indian head on the buffalo nickel is not a direct portrait of any particular Indian, but was made from several portrait busts which I did of In« dians. As a matter of fact, I used threq different heads. I remember two of the men. One was Irontail, the best Indian head I can remember; the other one wag Two Moons, and the third I cannot recall I have never seen Two-Gun White Call nor used him in any way, although he has a magnificent head. I can easily understand how he was mistaken in thinking he posed for me. A great many artists have modeled and drawn from him and it was only natural for him to be« lieve that one of them was the designer of the nickel. I think he is undoubtedly honestly of the opinion that his portrait is on the nickel.” Q. Can visitors to the prison whera Bruno Richard Hauptmann is confined see him?—G. F. A. Nobody may visit Hauptmann s&va members of his immediate family and his attorneys. Mrs. Hauptmann has been permitted to spend one hour with him twice a month, Q. Why is it so hard to find and keep competent domestic servants?—R. T. A. The New York State College of Home Economics gives some of the rea- sons that good workers are hard to hire: Low wages, unstandardized, and often too long hours of work, daily and weekly, and poor living quarters provided fot servants. Q. Who is the big circus man of Eng+ land?—J. H. G. A. Bertram Mills, who is frequently in this country exhibiting and judging at horse shows, owns the largest circus in England. Q. What chemicals are the by-producty of the dairy industry?—E. J. A. The Bureau of Dairy Industry says that the principal chemicals which are considered by-products of the dairy ine dustry are casein, lactose, milk albumen and lactic acid. Q. Please explain a free port—J. J. A. A free port is a port, or more usually a zone within a port, in which vessely can load or unload and commercial and even manufacturing businesses can b carried on without any active control by the fiscal authorities. In a free port no import or export duties are levied, the only charges being for services ren- dered, such as wharf dues and lighterage charges. It is only when goods pass from the free port area into the hinterland for co?umptlon that import duty i payabl Q. Is Antonia Brico, the woman orchestra leader, an Italian?—V, F. E. A. Antonia Brico is of Dutch-Italian parentage, but is a native of Oakland, Calif. Her legal name is Wolthius, which she derives from the couple whe adopted her when she was & child. Q. What salary is received by thq American who is adviser to Emperot Haile Selassie?—W. S. M. A. Everett Andrews Colson was given the office of financial adviser to the Emperor in February, 1930, for a 10-yea1 period at $9,000 a year. A Rhyme at Twilight Gertrude Brookc Hanmilton Dusk Star I have revealed my heart to you in twie light; It lies within your fragile hands une I've told how often I have slipped and floundered, And respite found at last where Heaven hovered ‘Within your u'ms—-found some fresh rill of rapture, Alevmlnzmlchtmemlwndusksm capture And hnldlng all its loveliness, unbidden,” Reveal each secret by the shadows hidden, All of my heart you know. Your shadowed eyes, beloved, have known deep sorrow, ‘Your lips seem always curved by wordg unspoken. Some inward song has kept your face illumined, Pchlps you smile because your heary is broken. ‘Yet what have you revealed?—what have you told me? Ever elusive though your arms enfold me, Your face upon my breast in starry rapture, ‘What is it in you that I cannot capture?— r‘lmm‘