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*Doubt” Fund Advised in Treasury $500,000,000 Error in Estimates Laid to Poor Practices. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ECRETARY Morgenthau's radio address on the condition of the Nation's finances had a novel bit of business philosophy in it, entirely apart from the recital of deficits. It concerned the ability of the Treasury to make estimates in advance of receiving tax revenues. Morgenthau will find Republican Secretaries of the Treasury somewhat sympathetic with his observation | that it is difficult to conjecture| what Government revenues will be | from year to vear, | ! but he will not' find such consid- | eration given him | when it comes to ; estimating what, the expenses| should be except | in emergencies. “You and I can- not always tel said Morgenthau, “when we make our business plans what unforesecen and extraordinary | events may increase our expenses or | reduce our revenues. The manufac- | turer whose plant is situated in a flood | area may have his calculations upset by a disastrous flood. His income may | be reduced. His expenditures may be increased.” But.the government of the United | Ktates, and particularly the Treasury, | is to be compared more accurately with a bank than with a manufactur- ing plant. As a financial institution, the Treasury is obliged to estimate its | probable income and outgo from the | viewpoint of what is a sure and what s a doubtful account. Reckoned Without Court. ‘The New Deal has been more than £500,600,000 off on its calculation of expected receipts because it did not | fizure out that the Supreme Court David Lawrence T Behind the News World Spotlight Shifts to Rome as Mussolini Is Seen Key Man in Europe. BY PAUL Ol R that are going to lead to the sent there as Ambassador. MALLON. ME is the most important spot from which to watch developments next war. That is why such an im- portant diplomat as Assistant State Secretary Phillips is being If there is anything in the wind con- cerning Italo-American relations. beycnd that, the State Department is managing to conceal it very cffectively. The official inside story is that Rome. He is supposed to have quit because the Republicans would not send him there. posts he has never held during a lifetime devoted to diplomatic service. The burdens of the undersecretaryship have not rested lightly on his The unusual appointment therefore is being passed off as shoulders. a personal matter. However, it is really a high diplomatic tribute to the ascendancy of It is a recognition of the fact that he is the Mussolini in world affairs. key man in Europe. JUST WHAT [VE ALWAYS to induce Mussolini to change his economic policies. * % The day before Florida's Senator Fetcher died, his secretary, Wil- Hill, was lunching with pals in the Senate restaurant. liam L. asked Hill what he intended to do anything happens to the Senator I will pack my bag and go back home Maybe, some day I'll run for Congress.” and stay there. A week later he was the junior * X The French,are doing everything they can to minimize the gravity of their internal situation. but inside social upheaval is at hand. The amazing thing about it is that Col. De La Roque's cross-of-fire Fascists have failed to meet the sit no serious eflort to combat nation sovietiem, The explanation is that his organization is torn with inner dissensions. La Roque himself has been afraid to with the radical element because ne thinks thev are too strong. there are those within his party. especially some of his industrial backers, who are frantic over the spread of communism and are demanding that Fascists take over the government the movement afoot to throw La Roque Hitler. If that happens, you will see blood in the streets of Paris. o The Social Security Board is Hughes. house in a residential section near t might possibly hold the agricultural adjuitment act to be invalid. If the ‘Treasury were run like a bank or if | the Treasury had to submit to some of the rigid inspection which its own bank examiners require of banks, there would have been set up in the Treasury a special reserve account for possible loss on the A. A. A. The Treasury knew almost from the instant the law was passed that the Jaw was of doubtful constitutionality because the A. A. A. promptly was issue and made it definitely now a reform question. What worries his political atrategists, however is the fact that no -wide strikes and the trend toward That is, the board men have heen looking over an apartment Phillips has alioays wanted to go to the diplomatic service back in 1929 It is one of the few Note—Few important inner snarls have developed diplomatically over Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia. That is, there is nothing in par- ticular for Phillips to straighten out. Political relationships with Rome are more satisfactory now under the surface than on it. State Secretary Hull is peeved about Mussolini’s import restrictions, but not to the extent of donating his first assistant to the task of trying * ¥ One in the future. “Well, said Hill, “if Senator fronv Florida. * x diplomatic advices indicate a serious uation. His Croix de Feu has made He is fearful of a showdown However, strike, immediately. There is even a out and replace him with a French * trving to get next to Chief Justice he nome of the Chief Justice with a view to taking it over as working headquarters. The site is also near the Zoo. * % % X One thing which causes great satisfaction among the New Deal- ers, in contemplating the Philadel- phia convention, is that the record made there pledges President Roose- | velt more definitely and officially to | a left-wing type of campaign. They | believe the President has chosen the | President has ever been elected in normal times on that kind of a cam- Radio Changes Campaign Methods Eliminates Debates Lincoln and Douglas Made Famous. BY DOROTHY THOMPSON. ON THE eve of the election cam- paign it might be well to give some consideration to the ef- fect of the radio on one of the pillars of civil liberties among a free people. It is axiomatic that de- mocracy perishes when free speech is | prohibited. The dictatorships are co- lossal examples in our time. But ¥ . % democracy may be threatened s from another side * altogether; it may * be threatened by irresponsible speech. As Mr. Hitler not only observed but pointed out, many years ago, in his book, “My Fight,” the lie is no less powerful a politi- cal instrument than the truth. Indeed, he observed, it may be more powerful, particularly if it is a very great and shameless lie. For, he said, most people tell small lies themselves, and readily detect them in others. But the stupendous lie, shamelessly uttered, is accepted, for the average man can- not. envisage such colossal impudence. These words, from the greatest living master of propaganda—with the pos- sible exception of Dr. Goebbels—are worth serious consideration. For the radio. which can carry truth to the uttermost. corner of the nation, can also carry the lie. The ether waves are utterly impartial. They do not tremble under half truths, distortions, misrepresentations or complete’ pre- varications. Lies do not produce static. In modern times two revolutionary coup detats were launched by seizing, not the arsenal or the treasury. or the cabinet offices. but the central radio sending station. And they began by broadcasting & lie. And the rebels were astute. The radio is the greatest instrument of political power in the world today. Radio Is Universal. Now, the outstanding differences be- tween political propaganda on the radio, and political propaganda from the public platform are two: the radio is universal. And the radio is a one- way form of diseussion. The first dif- ference often operates in favor of honesty. In the old days the special pleader could tell one thing to the Dorothy Thompson. challenged in the lower courts. In- deed, by January, 1936, the Circuit | Court of Appeals in Boston had re- | versed a iower court and had held the | A.A. A unconstitutional in the Hoosac | Mills case, and the question had been fully argued in the later part of 1935 before the Supreme Court in ample | time for the Treasury to take cogni- | rance of the possible loss in revenue. But up to the very day the Supreme Court, handed down its famous opin- | fon in the Hoosac Mills case declaring | the A. A. A. invalid, the New Deal acted as if there never had been the | £lightest doubt in the world that the paign, * % Robimson-Patman price discounts something or not. whether they have a law which makes it an unimportant gesture. conclusion, * % necticut man who claim: world, but the father of was in sending my N. R. A. plan to that he Federal Trade Commission lawyers are forefingering the revised They are having some trouble trying to decide | against cham stores or whether the final mod:ification of the act merely | farmers of the prairies and another | thing to the working men of a big | industrial town: he had one set of i pleas for the pious and another for the reprobates. If his words drifted {out of the area for which they were | designed, and appeared on the printed | page, he could blame the reporter and * X bl to ascertain whether they have will permit them to move sharply The American Anutomobile Association is trving to select a representa- tive safe driver in each of the 48 States, They will probably reach the latter | * x : Entered in the contest ix 4 Con- | is not only the safest driver in the R. A. He says: “The only accident I can report the Democrats.” | (Copyright, 1938.) Jaw would be upheld. The 6-to-3 de- cision was not forecast as to its exact division, but anybody with an objective mind in the Government, reading pre- vious decisions of the present Supreme DETROIT SELECTED issue a dementi. Statesmen have done that since time immemorial. But he cannot Npudg!r words which have been heard by millions. Abolishes Censorship. On the other hand, the radio abol- ishes the only effective form of cen- | sorship in behalf of truth compatible with democratic government. It abol- ishes the heckler. To be sure, there are libel laws. But they are, in this country, very wide and generous laws, indeed. No one on the air may call Court, would have come to the con- ROBERT WEAVER'S clusion that the A. A. A. was at least of doubtful constitutionality and would have so advised the Treasury Depart- | ment. | Bonus Assured in 1935. | Likewise there was every certainty | that the bonus would zo through in the Lifelong Resident Survived 1936 session of Congress. This eventu- ality was foreseen in the congressional| By Son, Daughter and session which adjourned in the Sum- mer of 1935. Indeed, it is being re- Two Sisters. ported on Capitol Hill that Postmaster | General Farley reflected the Presi- Mrs. Mary A. R. Weaver. 80, widow dent’s point of view to various Sena- of Robert D. Weaver. former presi- tors, namely that he would not be dent of the Georgetown Gas Light disturbed if they failed to sustain his | Co. died yesterday at her home. 2101 vetn, Wisconsin avenue, after an illness of Under the circumstances, the defi- | several months. cits for the 1936 fiscal year could have | Mrs. Weaver was a life-long resident been foreseen and the country notified | of this city, having been born in &0 that pressure to reduce unnecessary Georgetown. She was the daughter of expenses would have been put on by | the late Christopher and Louisa Yea- the administration itself. But with | bower, and was a member of St. Al- an approaching election this was not | ban's Episcopal Church. i deemed politically expedient. Hence, the proper explanation to have been | weaver, a principal examiner at the | Northwest for the Fourth of July holi- made over the radio might well have She is survived by a son, Maurice E. FORNEA. SESSION 'Majority of Delegates Stay Over to Celebrate Fourth in Northwest. B the Ascocialed Press. PORTLAND, Oreg., 4.—The National Education Association wound | up its 1936 convention yesterday with iupmrwnl by the Executive Committee of Detroit as the 1937 meeting place. | Definite dates will be set later. If the {usual course is followed. the conven- | tion will begin on the last Sunday in | June. | A considerable portion of the 10,000 | to 12,000 visitors remained in the July | the President a paranoiac, or Gov. | Landon a horse thief, but either or | both can be implied. The Communist candidates and their pleaders may not | directly incite to violence, and Mr. Lemke may not suggest a popular rising to take over the Treasury. But ianer Coughlin has been illustrating | for years how far a radio speaker can HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., SATURDAY, g0 in even the most personal form of attacks. There is, indeed, no instrument capable of censoring the political talk on the air. The law says that equal time must be given to all parties and the great radio companies cannot shut off Mr. Thomas or Mr. Lemke, Father Coughlin or Ear]l Browder or any par- ticular speaker for either of the two great parties. They can only, with whatever impartiality is possible, ap- portion the free time. They cannot decide whether this statement or that i8 a misrepresentation of fact or a distortion of truth. Nor can any other agency. Certainly the Government, being parti pris, cannot. On the pub- lic platform this would not be so im- portant, because any man can rise in & publi¢ meeting and challenge the speaker. He can insist on discussion. ‘This right of the addressee to chal- lenge the addressor is, indeed, a very basis of free speech. Thus was the town meeting and thus is the open | forum;, which is an institution peculiar | in ite size and power to America. But ‘the radio abolishes debate. And to that extent, it abolishes responsible {ree speech. Passing of Debate Serious. Indeed, the passing of debate as a form of political expression is a se- | rious thing in democratic life. It was already observable at the conventions. Both parties accept the thesis that 1936 is one of the great critical years in our history. The Repubiican plal form begins with the words, “America 1s in peril.” and the Democratic plat- form begins with the assertion, “* * * Twelve years of surrender to the dic- tatorship of the privileged few have been supplanted by a Democratic lead- themselves to authority.” But in neither convertion were the platforms debated even- by the dele- gates. Presumably. they are (o be de- bated in the coming months. But if the usual radio procedure is allowed, | they will not he. | Took Stump Together, | In the period immediately preced- _ing the Civil War, when a momentous | question was pending, two bitter op- | ponents took to the stump together | | and fought out the issue before the forum of the American people, in each | | other’s presence, under conditions | where each could be challenged: under | | conditions, that is to say, of the most | solemn and inescapable responsibility. | The two men were Lincoln and Doug- | 1as, and those debates are great Ameri- | can documents. Douglas was by far | the more brilliant speaker; Lincoln | | was awkward in his platform manners, { often hesitant. But in those discus- | | sions the course of American history was laid, and out of them Lincoln merged as the greatest leader of his | ime and one of the great leaders of | all time. And those debates. laid down, it seems to me, the proper procedure for the serious discussion of real issues in a nation which is 2 democracy. Must Defend Utterances. A voluntary organization in this country, the League for Political Edu- cation, has been demonstrating for many months that the Open Forum that most characteristic and tradi- tional of American institutions, can be transferred most effectively to the air, The Town Meetings on the Air are public debates. Each speaker has one or two or even more opponents Conflicting viewpoints are presented Questions can be asked, and are an- swered. The speakers are therefore put in a position of complete responsi- bility. They dare not say what they | are not prepared to defend against well informed opponents on the spot. | and at the moment. Why cannot the pending campaign . be thus fought out? Why cannot America use a remarkable invention to perpetuate its mest characteristic | democratic institution?> Why cannot ! we, for instance, hear the President and Gov. Landon together? Noth- ing, it seems to me. would so elevate the tone of this campaign. And noth- ing would more handsomely demon- strate to the rest of the world that there is one great nation which still adheres to the fundamentals, and not merely the forms, of responsible free speech, | (Copyright. 1936.) | Zioncheck, “Safe and Sane,” Poses in E By the Assoriated Press. SEATTLE. Wash., July 4—A “safe “If He’s Crazy, IY Wife—Gallinger Stay Investi- gation Promised. | Patent Office; & daughter, Miss Cath- | day. Others turned homeward to been: “In government we never know | or; i o : : ne L. Weaver, and two sisters, Mrs. what political exigency will arise to | Helen E. Weaver and Mr:mPl'I:Iisp make it necessary for our figures to Young. ;“ of this city. s‘hp also be altered to give a better impression | oaves two grandchildren. Her hus. at the moment, even though later on | we find it necessary to blame some other institution, notably the Supreme Court. for our own lack of foresight er Indifference to constitutional prece- | dent.” (Copyright, 1936.) WOODSIDE MINISTER RETURNS FROM CAMP Rev. Ralph D. Smith Was Dean of Boys at Junior High Outing. Ereclel Dispatch to The Star WOODSIDE, Md., July 4—Dr. Ralph D. Smith, pastor of the Wood- side Methodist Episcopal Church, will be in the pulpit tomorrow at the 11 a.m. service, after spending a week at Westminster, where he was dean of boys at the first junior high school eamp to be held in the Baltimore eonference. Dr. 8mith also taught at the camp which was held on the campus of Western Maryland College. Miss Margaret Campbell, director of re- ligious education at the church here, Blso was a member of the teaching Maff. Young people attending the camp band died in September, 1934. Funeral services will be held at 10 Burial | a.m. Monday at the residence. will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. DELEGATES NOMINATED Epecial Dispatch to The Star SLIGO PARK HILLS, Md, July 4.—Nomination of delegates and al- ternates to the* Montgomery County Civic Federation and the appointment of 12 committees featured the final meeting of the season of the Sligo Park Hills Citizens’ Association. Delar Kimble, chairman of the Nominating Committee, presented the following for election as delegates and | alternates at the September meeting: Mrs. William Wight, Mrs. Vernon Brewster, Mr. Brewster, Gilbert Wiley, Stewart Lashley and E. Paul Steigner. | l]aunch the N. E. A’s national cam- paign for academic freedom, Federal | aid for schools and the establishment |of a department for youth in the | United States Office of Education. Returning delegates carried with them the assurance of Frank Miles, personal representative of Ray Murphy. national commander of the American Legion, that the veterans’ organization | would not support any measure requir- ing teachers to swear not to teach | communism. | Supporting such & measure, Miles said in an address, “would be one of the worst things we could do.” “Much of this talk about teachers | being - Reds 15 hooey,” said Miles, editor of the Towa Legionnaire, “Many of the forces hollering about & Red scare are just as dangerous as the Communists. “If the people who are always rais- ing a Red scare would stop talking and start working to eliminate our finan- cial difficulties, we would see an end to the Communist problem.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 4—The Zeppelin Hindenburg, armed with fresh reports on North Atlantic weather in response to a wireless appeal, nosed her way from this community were Ralph Burdick, Vida Hake, Ruth Draper, Patricia Burch and Mary Elizabeth Emith. Evening services at the church have been discontinued during July and August. s iy BUILDING BOOM NOTED Frederick Enjoys First Major In- crease in 7 Years. By the Associated Press. FREDERICK, Md., July 4. Build- ing permits for construction totaling $149,035 were issued during the first #ix months of this year, as compared with- $105,112 for the entire year of 1935, and $142,959 for all of 1934. City officials said it was the first major increase in building here dur.® Mng the last seven years. safely out of Cape Cod fog banks early today and pressed onward in her fourth eastward crossing. The tropical radio station at Hing- ham, Mass., reported it established communication with the German dirigible, which gave her position as 450 miles east of Cape Cod. The ship said she was not then ex- periencing any difficulty. The radio marine station at Chat- ham, Mags., on the end of the cape at 2:30 am., Eastern standard time, relayed to the Hindenburg weather reports gleaned from ships on the high sea in the path of the, airship. An hour earlier, the Chatham sta- tion said, the airliner, carrying & full complement of 50 passengers, includ- ing three United States naval officers as official observers, had flown low over the station. Attendants heard the drone of her motors loudly, but a thick blanket of fog prevented them from seeing her running lights. ¥ Zeppelin, Given Weather Data, Clears Cape for Open Ocean Although on other eastward cross- ings the ship had been sighted at Provh_:cetown and Highland Light at North 'Truro, neither point reported seeing her or hearing her motors. "rhue points also-lay under a heavy 0% The silvery airliner, skippered by Capt. Ernst Lehmann, left her moor- ing mast at Lakehurst at 9:44 p.m. (E. 8. T.) last night. < Lehmann ordered the Hindenburg into the air after receiving weather reports. He expected to follow a course along the regular trans-Atlan- tltc“ahlp channel or slightly morth of it. Lehmann hoped to find favorable tallwinds to drive the dirigible home- ward to Frankfort-on-Main. Before the weigh-off, Lehmann in- d:fntcd new dirigibles soon would join the Hindenburg ss psrt of the under construction at Priedrichshafen, The LZ-130, now ““There is no question,” he asserted, “that the North American service will be contined after this program and sane” fourth was on Marion A. | Zioncheck's program today after the | rollicking Washington Representative of heads hammered down” before he was through. ‘The capering Congressman resolved to spend a quiet holiday with his bride and mother, after his hectic experiences, which reached a climax last Sunday when he jumped over a fence and escaped from a Maryland institution for mental patients. Such episodes, he declared, were “water-under-the-bridge, or, rather, Zioney-over-the-fence.” . Whereupon he doffed his shirt, donned & false black beard, arranged his hat crosswise on his head, -put his right hand in a Napoleon-like ges- ture across his chest, and posed for photographers, explainiog it was a disguise he would assume while on the trail of his “political enemies.” When hjs wife was asked if she thought her husband “was crazy,” she replied indignantly: “That phrase should never be used in connection with him—never.” “Now, honey,” Zioncheck remon- had predicted there would be “a ot | lection Disguise s About Me,” Says | strated. “That’s not the right answer. You should say, ‘If he's crazy, that's the way I like him.'” “Well,” she amended, “if he's crazy on any subject, it's about me.” Zioncheck declared, “I am going to | | the bottom of my commitment to Gal- linger and my kidnaping to Sheppard- Pratt Hospital, and I think I can prove who was responsible and why.” He added, “Before I get through a lot of heads will be hammered down.” Zioncheck assailed United States Senator Bone, Democrat, of Washing- ton: Mayor John F. Dore of Seattle, Postmaster .General James A. Farley, Vice President John N. Garner and others and observed he might run for Governor this Fall, because he would have charge of all the insane asylums in the State if elected. Touching on the 18 candidates for his post as Representative of the first congressional district, he declared, “They’ll split the vote. I've got a lot of friends, too, who'll help send me | back to Congress.” Saying, “I keep fit, and I'm fit now, mentally and physically, for any kind _of campaign that's ahead,” Zioncheck predicted: “Whatever I campaign for, there will be some fun.” | SISTER IDENTHFIES TRAIN VICTIM’S BODY | Frank W. Roberts, 16, Had Left Frederick Home to Look for Work. By the Associstea Press. WESTMINSTER, Md.. July 4.—The’ body of Frank W. Roberts, 16, was taken to the home of his mother in Prederick County today. The boy, who left home about a month ago seeking work, was killed by a train near here last Tuesday. His body was not identified until last night when a sister, prompted by newspaper reports, came here and viewed it. Mrs. Bessie B. Bair, the sister, was accompanied by Sheriff Roy Hiltner of Frederick County. The family lives near Frederick City. Mrs. Bair said her brother worked in Baltimore for & few days after he left home. ‘' She said the C. C. C. clothing he wore had been given him and that he never had been & mem- ber of the ©. C. C. ¥ BUS FRANCHISE HEARING IS SLATED FOR JULY 16 By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va, July 4—The State Corporation Commission has set July 16 for a hearing on the application of the Washington, Vir- ginia & Maryland Coach Co, Inc., to transfer its certificate for intra- state passenger service to the Capitol Greyhound Lines. The certificate is for motor vehicle passenger service from Winchester to Bluemont via Berryville and Bluemont to the Vir- ginia-District of Columbia line, desti- nation Washington. Hearing on a petition cf the South- ern Railway Co. for authority to discontinue its agency station at 8weet Hall in King William County was set for hearing July 31. . Lightning Kills Girl. - CHERRYVILLE, N. C., July 4 (P).— A bolt of lightning killed Ruth Sneed, 14, while she was hoeing cotton near her home late yesterday. | JULY 4, 1936. This Changing World Selassie Dramatizes Fate of Small Nations Who Trust | League’s Machinery for Peace. BY CONSTAN HE world has been preparing i acare mongers. the imagination of a few writers majnly by the ammunition manufacturers.” —of the politicians gathered at Geneva. Now they have changed their and the other lovers of peace admit that there has never been in the history of the world a more tense situation than exists today. The great nations which have failed to get ready are scared and want to gain time. Little nations, which always suffer more from interna- tional conflicts, are panicky and are thinking of methods to keep out of trouble. And all—little and big na- tions —are looking towards the United States to keep the world out of trouble. Great Britain, instead of looking with a microscope at ou vears. Those who were drawing attention to this increasing danger to what is left of our civilization were called war and Geneva has been principally busy in throwing sand in the eyes of the people regarding this danger TINE BROWN. intensively for war for the last four “War exists in and the war scare is propagated ‘This was the theme song tune Blum, de Valera, Madariaga = ir naval program and protest if we want to build one gunboat more than they have, is hopeful that we will increase substantially our battl e-fleet. Every time the Washington administration appropriates more funds for fighting planes or warships | it's “splendid” news across the Atlantic.' The mere suggestion that we | may evacuate the Philippines ahea d of time causes frowns in London and Moscow. The League of Nations is ready to break up in small units, each hoping to obtain America’s moral support in case of trouble. * * * % Selassie, more than anyvbody else, has opened the eves of the small nations to the dangers they are likely to encounter if they continue < | to trust their safety to the League of Nations. ership which has returned the people | 1”0 ihat organization the victim has shown himself in person and For the first time in the told them how much he had to suffer because he trusted the League. And the small nations shuddered. else to present the real situation to there is no defense against the big Selassie has done more than anybody the small nations and to show that and powerful nations. A cartoon in onme of the Little Ententc papers is causing sensation in Europe these day: 5 Srlasse gitting on a bench at Doorn. It represents the Kaiser and Selassie tells the former German ruler: “And how did you manage to lose your throne and get defcated in the Great Nations then.” Chinese in Northern China are the latter's wholesale smuggling. War? Therc was no League of getting even with the Japanese for The Japanese authorities have just dis- covered that thousands of alley cat's skins are being introduced in Japan without paying duty. The alley cat skin is important in Japan’s national life; they are used in the manufacture of the samisen-—the Japanese ukulele which is played by the geishas at all entertainments. The pro- curator’s office in Tokio has discovered that the agent of the Chinese wholesale dealer in Peiping has been engaged in an intense smugzling of these skins which were introducd in Japan duty-free by mess boys and waiters on ships coming from Chinese ports. * *x The war department in London * % has informed the cabinet that the present armv—regular and territorial—is not sufficiently strong to defend Great Britain against an eventual invasion Word hag-been passed along to employers that unless there is more enthusiasm on the part of the young men in Great Britain to join the army, the war department might be compelled to ask the government to :ntroduce immediate conscription. The general staff figures that in or- der to defend the country against an invasion, it will need at least 2.750.600. The threat of a compulsory military service might induce voung men between the ages of 18 and 25 to accept the “King's shilling” and flock to the recruiting station. It is being disclosed at Geneva now that the sanctions were much more of a farce than it was at first believed. The representatives of the sanctionist nations in Rome used to call on Mussolini to inform him that their governments - tended to put an embargo on such and such a product. Mussolin: considered the matter and if the embargo did not seriously incon- rentence Italy. he accepted it. Of course for the sake of public Irvin S. Cobb Says: Today’s the Day to Preach Sanity to Grown-ups. SANTA MONICA, Calif.. July 4.— As we get older. a lot of us begin te think there out to be & holiday called, say, the Glorious Fourth. Or should we rechristen it the fatal Fourtn* Some mignt even go so 1ar as to Inumare. in view ot tne increasing- ly large numoer of formerly self= sustamnz ana self - respectiing Americans wne sem content ta stay on the cote indefinitely, that maybe we ouznt to eall it De- pendance day. On this date, by fireworks and high explosives, we've killed more persons since 1900 than died on the Ameri- can side in the Revolutionary War, and more have been maimed or blinded or crippled than were wounded in our armies during the entire conflict - This yvear. what with mad drivers adding to the casualty lists, we ought to push these figures ever so ‘much higher. Life is the most precious thing we have—and otill the cheapest. . But how are you going to have a safe and sane Fourth when the grown people won't be sane and the children can’t be safe? (Copyright, 1936, by the North Amerizan Newspaper Alliance. Inc. PATRIOTISM URGED BY D. A. R. HEAD Mrs. Becker Says Constitution Should Be Chart of American Progress. The Constitution should ever be t1 chart by which America will endu and go forward. Mrs. Willlam A. Becker. president general of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion. declared today in a July 4 state- ment “This Independence day—July 4 1936—should inspire every American who sees the Stars and Stripes un- furled to the breeze. with a deeper re- spect for this country and its insti- tutions.” she said “It is a time to rekindle the fires of patriotism. America needs American It needs the support of true Ameri- can citizens to combat the termites boring from within. . We should be proud to salute the American flag this Fourth of July The ‘spirit of 76" still lives in 1936 despite new theories. false doctrines and fantastic schemes “Respect for the flag. however, ran opinion the Italian press gave a big how! and sometime Il Duce himself made a dramatic speech . But it was all stage play for the benefit of the naive man-in-the-street. * % * % Yvon Delbos, the new French foreign minister. is a militant pacifist He has been through all the horrors of the war. Instad of seeking a comforta received three bullets in his arm. In September. 1914, he job in the inteligence service benind the lines he became an aviator. Two vears later Delbos was the first airman to sink a German submarine off Pauillac on the Atlantic Coast. His principal weakness in life is an American hostess in Paris when claims it makes it taste much better. good food. Sometime ago he shocked he poured red wine in his soup. He Green Skull Caps For All Lobbyi Loom in Louisiana E3 the Associated Press. BATON ROUGE, La. July 4 Louisiana lobbyists considered the possibility todav of having to work in green skull caps and gaudy plaid trousers, and hoped the Legislature was only fooling. Provisions for such a uniform and for a system of sharing wages with Senators were included in a bill passed | by both chambers and now waiting House concurrence in Senate amend- ments. The bill- provided originally « that lobbyists wear uniforms showing their | length of “service.” Lobbyists with less than three years' experience would wear green skull caps and gaudy plaid trousers, rainbow-hued. Veterans of many years' service would wear white suits with only the tell-tale skull cap to distinguish them. | Senators added a proviso that lob- | byists attach certified checks in the | sum of $1,000 with applications, pay- | able to the “fund for the social enter- is hereby created.” Senators would have the right to withdraw the funds daily. Lastly, lobbyists would carry out the “share the wealth” principle by divid- ing with the Senate membership all funds “in excess of $10 a day re- ceived as compensation for their serv- ices as lobbyists.” Senate advocates of the bill solemnly declared they stood ready to put it on the books even if they had to over- ride a veto. Gov. Richard B. the matter. House action was delayed by the | July 4th holiday. Leche was silent on tainment of the Senators—which fund | on their own warrants, up to $100 | SERVICE ORDERS. l ‘ | ARMY ORDERS. ‘ Lupo, First Lieut. Deonis M., Medi- | cal Corps Reserve, Army Medical Cen- | ter, to Stamford, Conn., July 10. The following second lieutenants of i | to the Philippine Department, Janu- ary 8: Baynes, William H.; Harrison, Harry J.; Skinrood, Norman A.; Waterman, Bernard S. NAVY ORDERS. | Bureau of Navigation. | Doyle, Lieut. Comdr. Austin K., or- ders of April 7 modified. Uncompleted portion of orders of April 7 revoked. Continue duty Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department. Hall, Licut. Harrell W., detached U. S. S. Neches about July 24; to Naval | Academy. Logan, Lieut. Daniel N.. detached | Naval Air Station, Anacostia, D. C, about August 30; to instruction, Army | Industrial College, Washington, D. C. Sall, Lieut. Herman, detached Navy Yard, Washington, D. C.; to command U. 8. 8. Potomac. Medical Corps. Carr, Comdr. (M. C) Claude W, duty as medical officer in command of Naval Hospital, Parris Island, S. C. New, Lieut. (J. G.) (M. C) William | N, detached Naval Hospital, San Di- ego, Calif,, in August: fo instruction, | Naval Medical School, Washington, D.C. Simons, Lieut. (J. G.) (M. C.) Rob- ert B, detached Naval Hospital, San Diego, Calif., in August: to instruction, Naval Medical School, D.C. | Grossenbaker, Lieut. Lee, U. 8. N., retired, died June 17, 1936. N, retired, died March 12, 1936, at Erie, Pa. Miss Cochran Lands Burning Plane, Nosing Down 8,000 Feet By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, July 4 —Smoke and flame at an 8,000-foot altitude forced down Miss Jacqueline Cochran, one of America’s leading flyers, as she headed late yesterday for Columbus, | | Howard Hughes, movie director, set several records recently. Ty At a 100-miles-an-hour clip, she nosed down at the municipal airport here, getting into a ground loop that damaged the left landing gear and broke a wheel. She was coasting along in her Northrup racer over Eastern Indian- apolis at 8,000 feet and 214 miles an hour when a wisp of smoke came up through the floorboards. She had passed over the municipal airport on the western edge of the city just a few seconds hefore so she uhlkfll her ship sharply and started ek, Before the airport came in sight the whole engine was afire and smoke obscured her vh}nn. Nish Dineha manager of the Ohio, In & $30,000 airplane, in which | Municipal Airport, was sitting in his office looking out the window when | he saw the flaming Blane coming in. He dashed out, jumped on the fire truck he just got three weeks ago and | went racing down the field to meet her. Miss Cochrain jumped out of the | plane as it came to a stop, and it was only & matter of seconds until the blaze was out with little damage done. A “Sure I was scared,” said the attrac- tive blond fiyer. “It was my first experience with a fire, and I hope it will be my last. I didn’t even put my flaps (wind brakes on the wings) down,” she continued. “I was in too big a hurry.” Miss Cochran, who runs a beauty parlor in Los Angeles, boarded an alr- liner for Chicago, from where she planned to go to New York by air. She said she would be back in a few days to pick up her ship. Dinehart said it was the first “divi- dend” on the fire truck, which he begged from the city three weeks ago i and reconditioned for $24. Washington, | Hayes, Lieut. Thomas James. U. 8. | ,only be won through the teaching of the things for which it stands. “The national defense can be secure only through education. The fate of the Nation depends upon an enlight- ened public opinion. not alone upon | material wealth, nor fertile fields, nor teeming furnaces. nor rich mines, but upon the quality of its manhood and | its womanhood.” 'FARMER ACQUITTED IN TENANT SHOOTING ‘Women Corrnhornt;_ Claim He Acted in Self- Defense. By the Assoclated Press STUART, Va. | Montgomery, 66, charged with fatallv | wounding & tenant on his farm, won Virginian's July 4 —Pevton - | the Coast Artillery. Fort Monroe. Va, | yis freedom on a plea of self-defense jm a hearing yesterday before Trial | Justice John D. Hooker of Patrick County. He said that Harvey McMillan, who died in a Mount Airy, N. C.. hoepital jast Sunday from a gunshot wound in the leg, came to his house and threatened him with a pistol. The ! tarmer took # from him. Montgomery said McMillan then ran |into the kitchen of the farm house | erving that he would kill Montgomery with “his own gun" In the struggle for possession of this shotgun McMil- lan was wounded Both Mrs. Montgomery and Mrs Fannie McMillan, the dead man's mother, corroborated his story. They both joined in the struggle. Hooker said the prosecution failed to sbow any motive for the killing or that there was any previous i will be- | tween the two men. RUNWAYS PLANNED Construction of new concrete run- ways at Langley Field is expected | by the War Department officials to | start in September | Plans for the new runways. designed to remove hazards for smaller planes ! and to provide necessary take-off and landing facilities for the large new bombers, are now being drawn in the Quartermaster General's Office. | As roon as they are completed the | ground will be inspected for final | changes and bids will be invited. . TOPIC CHOSEN | Rev. Richard A. Cartmell Selects Text. Rev. Righard A. Cartmell will preach | tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock at the Church of the Epiphany, using as his text Matthew xvi.26: ‘‘For what is & man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” Holy communion will be celebrated. Rev. D. Wade Safford will be the | special preacher at 8 p.m., and will use as his text II Esdras xiii.41, 41: “But they took this counsel among them- selves, that they would leave the mul- titude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country where never mankind dwelt. That they might there keep their statutes. which they | never kept in their own land.” RESORTS CONNECTICUT. POPLAR, MIDDLETOWN. for children 3-15. Excelient care. Reasonaole term! to t. 1. 0. BUNDY. CITY—3407 FACIFIC AVE. ental plan. Ocean ‘view h: free varking. Season 250, 6 _____OCEAN CITY, MD. HASTINGS HOTEL 22,5~ b Parking lm. c'-'fi"':.""‘ --,n July ATLANTIC