Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1937, Page 11

Germany Seen Playing for Time Opposition Reiterated to Red Regime in Spain. The German government's views on the proposed ban on volunteers in Spain is given here by ePrtinax, famous commentator on European aflairs. Andre Geraud (his real name) is noted for his keen anal- vsis of the European political scene and his ability to foretell the moves o1 the French foreign office. | foreign minister, having asked the British and the French | Ambassadors to visit him yesterday, gave them the first outline of the | German government's views about the proposed ban upon volunteers in the Spanish civil war. | Firstly, Neurath declared. Germany | would never accept the setting up of | A& Communist regime in Spain, and he reiterated the well-known thesis of the Communist threat to civiliza- tion. Secondly. he explained, a ban on volunteers could only be agreed to if made effective through an adequate system of control, and he begged the French and British governments to make suggestions, while refraining himself from expressing any ideas he may have in mind on the subject. Thirdly, he added that, in an ulterior phase, all foreign volunteers now serv- ing in Spain ought to be recalled. Both Ambassadors had the im- pression that the German govern- ment was merely playing for time and that it could hardly be expected | that the policy hitherto followed by | Chancellor Hitler regarding Spain | could be materially altered. Since | the German note has not yet been drafted and will not be delivered according to Neurath, until Januar 11, the German standpoint as defined | vesterday is likely to undergo several Alterations. It may be reasserted that Italo-German solidarity in re- lation to Spanish affairs has become | very close. On the French and British side | the opinion gathers strength that, should it prove impossible to reach | An understanding with Berlin and Rome, the only course left open for the British and French governments would be to undertake a blockade of the whole Spanish seaboard through | their own naval forces | (Copyright. 1937 by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) KENSINGTON' VICTOR IN CAR TRACK FIGHT Removal surts Af!er Judge Dis- | Suit BY PERTINAX. ARIS, January 1.—Baron Con- stantin von Neurath. German misses Railroads’ Against Town. ®recial Dispateh to The Star KENSINGTON, Md., January 1.— | A fight of almost a year to have the | tracks of rthe Sandyv Spring Railroad | Co. removed from the streets of the | community has been won by the Town ‘ Council, it was announced vesterday by Mavor Edward R. Saunders. Mavor Saunders said that the final | decree dismissing a bill of complaint | filed by the railroad company against the town of Kensington had been issued bv Judge W. Calvin Chesnut of the United States District Court tn Baltimore | The tracks. abandoned about a year rated. are now being removed as rap- idlv as possible, Mayor Saunders said. ‘The Council will hold a special | meeting January 6 for the consid- | eration of matters to be brought ke- fore the State ux(sluure | T'THE EVENING News Behind the News Insiders See Significance in Treasury and Reserve Board Hatchet-Burying. BY PAUL MALLON, ONGRESS passed a law divorcing the Treasury from the Federal Reserve Board. but there seems to have been & morganatic re- marriage on the side. It was dictated by necessity, but not a shotgun affair. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau is still not A member of the Reéserve Board, not even ex-officio. There is also a natural rivalry between the two organizations which will never be entirely suppressed. But, recently, Morgenthau and Chairman Eccles of Federal Reserve came together on the new foreign gold purchase policy, and signed & pledge, apparently with- out benefit of clergy or Senator Glass, that they would co-operate thence- forth continuously and energetically. To an outsider, this may not sound like a very important de- velopment, but all insiders will consider it so. The two organizations have had the same telephone number for years, but that was about all. The Treasury has been pursuing its silver, tax and moderately inflationary way, while the F. R. B. has been trying to ghrow cold towels on gold and credit. They did not always conflict, but neither did they get along together. The new friendly arrangement has been worked out so that the tech. nical staffs of the two departments have been getting together frequently. ‘The co-operation extends all down the line, or nearly all. There may be one detour on the line. The result probably will be a much closer and wiser coordination in the development of highly im- portant financial policies of the New Deal. No one will object to that, not even Senator Glass. *ox ok % One thing has not been settled clearly in the new arrangement. This is the parentage of the new gold purchase policy. Some friends of the Treasury say the initiative was not theirs, while boarders say they were out of town, or something, at the time. The ancestry of the idea can be traced rather definitely to Samuel 8loan Colt, head of the New York State Bankers' AsSociation. He sug- gested it six months or more ago, but appaiently had nothing to do with the final development of the policy. The lack of enthusiastic sponsors for the child is due to the unannounced fact that mo one likes it very much. It was adopted as a necessary erpedient, rather than a long-term policy. What is wrong with it is that the Government must pay costs to take gold out of the credit market by thus issuing interest-bearing short-term bills in payment jor the gold; it swells the monetary gold stock and money could eventually be issued against the pgold; and it does nothing about the increase in bank deposits caused by the incoming gold. Morgenthau hopes it wil not cost him very much, but there is every reason to expect the influr of additional foréign gold in the next siz months will amount to $500,000,000. The policy may not last any longer than that, ‘The best official source furnished the recently published information that State N. R. A.s were impracticable. Behind it was the purpose of scotching some of the promotion material being put out by Maj. Berry's new business collaborative, co-operative and co-personal enterprise. It was the Berry conference which developed, among other things, the suggestion of State N. R. A. laws. The fact seems to be that neither the Berry move nor the Roper Business Advisory Council has complete official sanction from the top. No official statement has yet been made by any competent official authority as to exactly what will be done to encourage maximum wages and minimum hours on a national scale. The situation, however, not changed. The union labor movement is being encouraged while the Government awaits the Supreme Court decision on the Wagner Labor Board and the holding companies act to see what it may do otherwise. Treasury General Counsel Oliphant is not yet packing his bag. Whatever personal differences of policy have arisen lately within the Treasury are not likely to prove fatal immediately. Both Oliphant and his boss, Morgenthau, would like to have every one know they are good and loyal friends. The most amazing news of the year so far is that Vice President Garner is actually going to make & speech. and make it before the Na- tional Press Club. 1t is generally expected he will use a ventriloguist's dummy in order not to spoil his record. Arrangemenis for a might delivery and broadcast cf President Roosevelt's message to Congress were called off because he decided to save his thunder for the imaugural speech two weeks later. There will be no great rush for export licenses after what happened to Mr. Cuse. One other exporter came down here to sound out the State Department on his proposal to send machine guns and rifles to Spain. He was wisely advised to hang back and wait until he saw what unfavorable publicity the administration could stir up against any one who tried it. (Copsright. 1937.) COURT LIMITS KEATON'S STEWARDESS RESIGNS PAYMENTS TO EX-WIFE, AFTER ESCAPING CRASH #z0 when bus service was inaugu- New York Judzo Al]owu Comedian Mise Helen c)uk Wn Saved by | to Pay 10 Per Cent of Salary | Missing Flight to Nurse II1 Father. on $2,100 Judgment. Br the Associatea Press. ‘ BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January ]—Supr!mt‘ STAR, WASHINGTON, V. C, FRIDAY, 7 23 TB! opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The Star’s effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among themselves an BY JAY FRANKLIN. UTURE historians probably will select 1936 as the year.in which I the world established a liberal trend nst the reactionary dictatorships and economic rationing which grew out of the World War. When A& levee bursts or a civilization collapses, you do not argue about lib- erty or trade; you call out the troops and set up the squp kitchens. So it was after 1918. Today it is changing. The new year opens with liberalism advancing for the first time since the turn of the century. Not only is liberalism on the march, but old au- thority has been seriously shaken and in part discredited. ‘The two greatest conservative in- ' fluences in the world—the British crown and the Catholic Church—are no exception. By a peculiar paradox, the crown—a great political institu- directly opposed to The Star’s. We, the People 1937 Finds Political Liberalism on the March With Old Authorities Shaken or Discredited. | been confirmed by Prance and Eng- | discredited as an agency of peace. tion—has been weakened in the realm of morals, while the church—a great moral force—has been weakened in the realm of politics. The Simpson divorce and the abdication of Ed- ward VIII must be coupled with the | destruction of the Spanish church and the collapse of Father Coughlin. These are historical facts and the | world must decide whether to rrcord‘ them in red or black ink in its future book of accounts. Political liberalism is gaining. Rus- \ | 8ia, after 19 years of reactionary dic- | tatorship by Marxian sealots in the | name of the proletariat, has adopted | |a new and freer constitution, freer | economic conditions. In France- M. | Blum's Soclalist government has ruled | for several months and is accumulat- ing power and prestige. In Spain, the Fascist revolt of the army has been halted at the outskirts of Madrid. | Gen. Pranco will be lucky if he is not | shot by his own men before the end of 1937: his Moors and mercenaries will be more than lucky if a man of tivem sees Africa again. In America, Rooseveit's electoral vic- | tory over the combined conservative | forces of & continent has re-estab- | lished the tradition of orderly change | by political action, which is the es- sence of liberalism. The “good neigh- {bor" policy has merged with pan- | Americanism and it laying foun | tions for peace. good will and mutual ‘help in the Western Hominphore | I.IBRARY ACTIVITY WIDENING URGEDI iAuociltwn Recommends City In- stitution Take Larger Part in Affairs. | Special Ditpateh to The Sia | CHICAGO, I, January 1.—Wider ]lcll\lly of the city library in com- | | munity affairs was recommended | here yesterday by the American Li- | | brary Association after a meeting at | which Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith of iwm;hinmn presided. | “The public library is recognized by American leaders as the foremost po- tential instrument of popular contin- | uing education in ‘America,” William | B. Marcus, president of the Montclair, | N. J., Public Library Board, said. “More widespread understanding of its services must be effected. however, it it is to fulfill its function.” Librarians and the trustees of li- | braries should contact directly persons | ‘ and groups who would particularly benefit by the library's services, it was agreed. | It was also recommended that li- TUCSON, Ariz, January 1.—Helen prary trustees work for State aid for | court Justice John F. Carew ruled | Clark, United Aliriines stewardess who libraries. BANQUET SET SUNDAY 800 rxp-cud at Tisereth Israel Congregation Dinner. The twentieth anniversary ban- quet of Tisereth Israel Congregation will be held at 7 o'clock Sunday night at the Stansbury Auditorium, Georgia | and Colorado avenues. Approximately 300 guests are ex- pected to attend. Speakers will include Rabbi Harry the crash near Sunday pight in which vesterday that Mrs. Natalle Talmadge | escaped Keaton, former wife of Buster Keaton, ; Calif., Burbank, 12 could collect only 10 per cent of the persons were killed, because she was | Most County lolds. FREDERICK, Md., January 1 (#). . film comedian's salary to satisfy & caring for her sick father here, said —State Roads Commission accounts ’x".mo judgment she obtained in & yesterday she had resigned. California court. | Mrs. Keaton sought to collect the judgment in & lump sum. Miss Clark was awarded her job any county in Maryland. several months ago after being selected | indicate today Prederick County has the largest county road mileage of It is third in State road mileage. trailing Mont- | ple are using slogans as a substitute | cial radicalism will persist and there | | By the Associated Press. Through his attorney, David Garri- the “ideal nurse” from 2,000 attending gomery and Baltimore Counties. | In Asia, Japan has at last recoiled from the forward policy of her mill- tarists. Army rule has aroused deep misgivings at the imperial court and better relations—rather than conquest —is the prize now being sought from | Russia and China. The ledger i8 not all credit entries. Mussolini’s conquest of Abyssinia has land. Once again European peace has been purchased with other people's territory. Yet any one who thinks that rule by Haile Selassie was better than rule by Mussolini is crazy. The | League of Nations has been further It has also been discredited as an in- strument for freezing the status quo and enforcing the treaty of Versailles, | Now it is Germany’s turn. Hitler must decide whether to forego mili- tAry conquest, colonies and the cru- sade against the reds now being preached at Rome and Berlin, or to | abandon his Spanish adventure and | accept the credits and the raw ma- terials which England will make avail- Able to Germany as soon as London | |is sure that the result of this gen- | | erosity will be to reinforce peace. Much remains to be done. The age of organized security by boys in | | brown, black and red shirts, which | followed the destruction of the World | War, cannot be ended overnight. Everywhere, and especially here, peo- | for abundance. Nineteen hundred and | | thirty-seven will see a beginning made lin the direction of freer world trade. Disappointments are inevitable. So- | will remain the old argument between | those who wish to kill radicalism by | killing its leaders and persecuting its | followers and those who wish to kil | radicalism by removing the causes for | radical discontent. But the world still moves and we | move with it. Nineteen hundred and | thirty-six opened with cries of “God | save the king!”, “Heil Hitler!”, “Ev- viva il Duce!” “Stalin is always nnm" | and “Hurrah for Roosevelt!" Nineteen | hundred and thirty-seven opens with | another cry—not new, but never more needed than today: “God save the | people!” i (Qopyright, 183 FLOGGING |NOU|RY MAY BE LAUNCHED Public Hearings on Alabama Case| Tentatively Scheduled by Senate Body. An inquiry into the flogging of Joe Gelders at Birmingham, Ala., Septem- | ber 23 may be undertaken in a few weeks by A Senate committee investi- | gating civil liberties violations. The committee had public hearings tenta- | | tively scheduled to begin January 11.| Committee agenis said yesterday they had been studying the case lhuut' four months and “probably will have | some data to present to the Senate McCloskey & Co., Low Bidders, within a few weeks.” | They said Gelders, a representative of the National Committee for the | Defense of Political Prisoners, had been seized on a Birmingham street, thrown into an automobile and hauled to the outskirts of town, where he was beaten. He had been investigating several | cases of imprisonment under the Ala- bama criminal syndicalism law. The committee, headed by Senator 1a Follette, Progressive, of Wisconsin, has been investigating strike break- ing. labor espionage and other in- fringements of civil rights since last June. Te]evmon to Be Featured. Television will be featured at next | year's Paris Exposition. NUARY 1. ! son Berger, Keaton argued that the |a nurses’ convention in Los Angeles. money due him from a film company | She said most of her flights were made wss for his salary and that therefore with Pilots Edwin W. Blom and Roben only 10 per cent could be collected. McLean, who were killed. Silverstone of the congregation, whose | Mrs. Keaton claims the comedian owes 8he gave her desire to nurse her 1937. \ This Changmg World Neutrality Fate Depends on Precise Definitions or Gregter Presidential Discretion. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. MERICAN neutrality is on the front page of almost every newspaper throughout the world. And there is more than one “inspired” European chlef editorial writer who does not hesitate to say that upon this country’s decision to remain strictly neutral or partial to group of powers that the peace of the world is dependent. This viewpoint, while somewhat exaggerated, is shared by most governments. There is no doubt that if this country decides on a strict {neutrality—which means an almost fcomplete cessation of trade with belligerents—the danger of a long war will be greatly reduced. ' The Spanish incident is typical. “fhe decision of a company to make alfew hundred thousand dollars out off'the poor Spaniards has creat- ed{ a tremendous reverberation thwoughout Europe. And the con- fliefing point of view among the members of Congress about ade- quate means to prevent the recurréence of such lncidmu shows that the Presidlent ought to have more discretionary powers than he has been mven‘her:tolorc. Every member of the Senate and the House wants drastie legislation to make it impossible for war profiteers to emrich them- selpes at the expense of suffering peoples; every congressman wants gemutinely to prevent this country from being dragged into an armed cortict. Yet, it is difiicult to find three men on the Hill who can suggest some constructive step to put an end to the present situation. * % % % Unsier the existing iaws, everything can be exported to countries devastawed by civil wars; furthermore, every would-be belligerent is in & position yto stock up with arms, ammunition and raw materials necessary to carry 4 war until he becomes a de facto belligerent, For Mhe time being, the most urgent measure to be taken by the Congress is the passing of an amendment to prevent the shipping of war material to Spain, And because there are a number of Congressmen who are opposed to giving the President discretionary powers, this amendment, which ought to go\through as speedily as possible, might be snowed under by the many views\as to what is a civil war and what is an insurrection. Or, when does ad insurrection become a civil war. This point 1s important. The United States Government cannot adopt a toe sweeping legisiation banning the export of war materials to wuntvie‘whevz there is a rebellion. It might prevent the de facto government Aulabluhmg law end order in a strife-ridden country. * ox % % ‘There are two possibilities facing the Congress: Either it gives com- plete discretionagy powers to the President to place an embargo on War materials to courMries where civil war is raging and leaves it to him and the State Department to decide when such an embargo should be applied; or, some concrete definition of the civil war is to be found. Many Senators and Representatives are leery about giving such powers to the Chief Executive becsuse it would create a precedent to be used by the President’s supportess when the new neutrality act comes under discussion. An exact definition 43 to when an insurrection becomes a civil war is equally difficult to fnd. There are many suggestions such as: An insurrection becomes ciwll war when outside powers intervene in the affairs of that nation; when both govern- ments sare recognized by other countries; when the civil war threatens to involve the United States in an international conflict, and so on. The logical step to be taken would be, however, according to & number of members of Congress, to lay down certain broad principles and give as much latitude as pos- sible to the President to declare the embargo. After all, the State Dipartment has adequate means of knowing when an ordinary rebellion blrcomes dangerous enough to draw this country into an unpleasant situatidn. * % % “Acceptance in principle” is the yew word invented by modern diplomacy to indicate that propositions rom rival nations are thrown into the wastepaper basket. “Acceptane in principle” means today that a nation does mot care a hoop abput proposals which do not suit her, but it is too polite to say blwntly. These proposals are “discussed,” “considered,” “given every altention” and ... accepted when their eflect *has lost all its virulen It reports from London are correct, ‘.\, Duke of Windsor might become & columnist on international affairs. §The reports indicate he has been offered $650.000 a yvear for & weekly coffimn dealing with interna- tional de"loommu The duke ought to haveg more than any writer on the subject, the “inside dope” on almost everwphing that is going on in the world. And he could make his column prdty spicy, too. (Copyright. 1937.) ¥ | Federal Trade Commission at the | eastern tip of{the Federal triangle, be- tween Sixth}] and Seventh streets, Pennsylvania §and Constitution ave- nues, 1 McCloskey had been low bidder and the contraet n‘-‘nfird was -xpecled.( 'r:- have erected severa! big bui contract calls fior completion of the for the Gove G Butldings hece building in 520 calendar days from the vernment. have been award- gute of notice fy proceed issued by ed & $3105,000 contract for con- the Procurementy Division, Treasury struction of the apex building for the ' Department. t APEX CONTRACT LET Get Trade Commission Job. McCloskey & Co., contractors, who Distant Lands Lure Kin of President Andre Roosevelt Finds *"Magic” Helpful p¢ Explorews.’ p ! NDRE ROOSEVELT, distant, of it, but, like all Roosevelts, BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. cousin of the President, used to say he was lazy and glad he gets about & lot, and here he is hur- dling the Chimborazo volcano in an | airplane and getting pictures of this, the highest peak of the Ecuadorean Andes He has spent many years peeking around where no white man ever went, before. He does it partiy for the ‘fun of it and partly as a revolt from machine civilization. A glimpse into a factory window makes him take a quick dive into the jungle. He spent five years in Bali, loved it, went na- tive, and almost forgot to put on clothes when he approached Boston. By-products of his wandering have been the Ball moving pictures “Kriss” | and “Goona Goona.” “Magic” Helps Explorers. According to Mr. Roosevelt's recent discoveries, John Mulholland ought tn make a grand explorer. Magic does the trick these days—even such stand- ard practice as taking the rabbit out | of the hat still goes big in the jungle. although one may vary it by taking out an iguana or boa constrictor. Mr. Roosevelt's exploring partner of many iyenn. Cyril von Baumann, looks after | where it most of the magic for the firm. They picked up & lot of it in the East Indies, is known as “Gilli-Gilli " Using chemicals to set a lake on fire | 1s & routine number. | Morocco that way. the French conquered A few days before the late Col. Fawcett left for the Matto Grasso region, never to return, Incidentally, | 1 went with him to buy his magic out- fit. We rigged, among other devices, & pair of big bulbous eyes which flashed fire when he touched a battery switch in his pocket. If I remember correct- ly, his most important chemicals were carbide and sodium for making fire on water. He said his magic had saved his life many times. “Pig Latin” in Repertoire. It does sound a lot more exeiting than punching time clocks or type- writers. Mr. Roosevelt, born in Paris, fiving & bit in the early days of avia- tion, was never caught in lock-step business or finance. Since his service in the World War he has been a great deal in the tropics. He has added to his repertoire not only magic. but & line of pig Latin, setting himself up as a god with much more success than many politicians who have used both. The pig Latin isn't really necessary. In the country of the Pinto people, not s far from Chimborazo, this writer won a big following reciting the | Declaration of Independence to break of the “Tulia Vieja,” the who bedeviled the nativeg the spell “Old Tulia,” at night. (Copyright, 1937.) MEXICAN CONGRESS ENDS President Has Legislative Power Until September Session. MEXICO CITY, January 1 () — The Thirty-sixth Mexican Congress adjourned last night. It will he re- placed September 1 by the thirty- seventh. President Lazaro Cardenas has been granted extraordinary powers to “leg- islate by decree” during the sight months until the new Congress i3 convened. 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