Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1937, Page 8

A—8 THE EVENI o NG BSTAR, WASHINGTON, b} (G MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1931. THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY March 22, 1937 THEODORE W. NOYES ....___.__Editor The i:vve;ingflsur Newspaper Company. .t St and Pennsylvania Ave. York Office: 110 East 42nd St Office: 435 North Michigan Ave. 4+ Rate by Carrier—City and Suburban. Regular Editlon. The Evenine and Sunday Sta '65¢ ber month or 150 per week The Evening Star 15c per month or 10¢ per week The Sunday Star __ -~ --5¢ Der copy Night Final Fdition end Sunday Star- 70¢ per month 55¢ per month d of each month or s may be sent by mail or tele- 00 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, Daily Sunday 1 yr. $10.00; 1 mo.. 88¢c Daily 1 ¥r T35.00% 1 mo. 80c Snnday 198, $4.00: 1 mo.. 40¢ All Cther States and Canada. - 1 yr. 812.00; 1 mo.. $1.00 1 $5.00% 1 mo. 7he £5.00; 1 mi 60c Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press ts exclusively entitled to for republication of all s dispatches or not otherwise ited in this he s P ed hersin. spatches reserved Inconsistencies A news report states that the support- ers of the President’s court plan on the Senate Judiciary Committee have tried in the past days to obtain from the opposition a full list of their witnesses who are to be heard on the subject of the pending bill for the purpose, as one of them s of “looking up previous speeches and writings.” The object of such a re h is obvious. It is to con- ition witnesses with con- ady fe ions by them. 2 some stat ts of a ture to indi- cate a change of view have been ad- duced. The charge of inconsistency is a fa- r form of rebu in cases of po- ical and legislative disputation. It is even of ancie 0! Job in his h answer to Bildad said: “Behold, my d is t written a book. In these times of fr 1 assever. and printed t 1 and embarrass t adversary had equent disputation n many things t later arise to eir authors. in this prese; situation a tance. On the 27th of June last x('vfim' Roosevelt in his speech acce the nomination for the presi- dency delivered at Philadelphia said: “The brave and clear platform adopted to which I hear that government i n has certain in- to its citizens, the establishment of d aid to n this state- “To which I artily sub- scribe.” No ot mea can be de- duced from them than that the Presi- dent, in his pledge of performance, ac- ted and “subscribed to” the entire platform. That platform contained these words, with reference to the solu- tion of certain problems: “We have sought and will continue to seek to meet these p,r,blnms through legislation with- in the Constitution. If those problems can not be effectively solved within tht ion we shall seek such clarify- amendment as will assure to the tures of the several States and Congress of the United States, each within its proper jurisdiction, the power to enact those laws which the State and Federal Legislatures, within r e spheres, shall find neces- order adequately prote public health and i safeguard economic security. we propose tc maintain the letter the Cons ion.” that was before the election. A v short time after the election and the induction into office of the President, ov helmingly chosen for a second m, he proposed, not a “clarifying "mrndlm‘ t” to t‘“(‘ Constitution, but a virtually zmo‘"nnnarv procedure, to as- S| the reorganization of the Supreme Court to attain the ends sought by ju- dicial decision contrary to that which had previously been rendered. It is assuredly as much in order to quote the President on this subject as any witness for the opposition who may be called by the Senate committee to discuss the court reorganization plan, which is so clearly a repudiation of the platform to which the President in his speech of acceptance so completely and unreservedly accepted as the basis of his appeal to the people for re-election. - e The Maryland Legislature takes steps to protect mechanics who work on air- planes. Fears of sabotage have been hinted at. Mechanics of all kinds should be fairly dealt with, with an implied assurance that a true expert uses a monkey wrench for constructive pur- poses and never throws it. s Out of the Dark. When Mrs. Hibbs was a patient in a Pittsburghi hospital, friends sent her flowers that she could not see. But their instinct was sound. She always has loved growing things—particularly such blossoms as a busy wife and mother may cultivate in a door yard garden. It pleased her to lie in bed imagining the loveliness of the masterpieces of the florist’s art whose fragrance filled the dark beyond the bandage over her eyes. She thought, too, of the miracle which the grace and color of an ordinary meadow represent. Even the tangle of & rural roadside she considered marvel- ous. In Winter the country roundabout her home seemed dead. Yet it was not 80. Spring’s touch would bring it to life again. The mystery of the seasonal change was locked in the protecting husks of millions of millions of scattered seeds. Mrs. Hibbs had never had leisure to ponder the problem bekfore. The com- mand of an oculist gave her the oppor- tunity, and she made the most of it. Life, she guessed, was a periodic emer=~ gence from night into day. Everything sentient appeared to begin in the dark, to regulate A to be drawn out of gloom and obscurity by the magic of light. With that theory in mind, she conceived a more dynamic significance for the Divine Command which set the sun and the moon and the countless stars on high. The gran- deur of the cosmic scheme appealed to her as she meditated on the principle she had discovered. Edna St. Vincent Mii- lay, while still only a schoolgirl, had created her poem “Renascence” to ex- press the same appreciation. The riddle could be read, then. Not even pulsing pain could hide the truth from the sick woman. She had found the universal law of birth and rebirth. The surgeon sent Mrs. Hibbs back to her family. His knowledge, skill and experience gave her sight again. The fields & Brownsville are covered with snow, but she sits at her window smiling with happy anticipation of the days when they will be verdant once more. She sees much that in the past she did not bother to notice—the deepened lines which anxiety for her has etched in her husband’s face; the furtive and un- edvertised devotion of her daughters and her grandchildren as they move about the room; the gleam of linen and silver and glass on the dining table pre- pared for the evening meal; the sym- metry of household materials and equip- ment—even the panel of the Kkitchen door is possessed of a cutiously beautiful grain! But best of all to look at is the il- lustrated catalogue of a dealer in seeds. Mrs. Hibbs has turned its pages many times. The pictures fascinate her, the text is almost as intriguing. She does not talk about it, yet it is a primer of immortality in the vision of one who fears nothing now that she understands the basic element of the cosmic plan. Her spirit is free from doubt—because it comprehends the ultimate reality. r—o—— Tarnished Fascist Glory. Because of the fluctuating tide of com- bat around Madrid, it is premature to look upon current Loyalist successes north of the capital, impressive as they are, as indication that government vic- tory is now at hand. So much appears certain—that General Miaja’s defenders have given the insurgents a beating bearing all the earmarks of a rout. Franco's army, consisting chiefly of Italians, has been whipped in the Guadalajara sector on a scale that leads observers to describe the engagement as a Spanish Caporetto, grim reminder | of the Italians’ supreme military disaster during the World War, when they met annihilating defeat by the Austro-Ger- man allies. Whatever the dimensions of the rebel reverse—it is considerable in respect both abandoned in the course of ignominious retreat, to say nothing of killed, wounded and prisoners—the political implications of the lost battle are more important. Little doubt exists that the overwhelming bulk of the insurgent force consisted of Italians fighting with full Italian equip- ment. As Malaga's fall was wildly ac- claimed as an Italian victory because the offensive was carried out primarily by Fascist “volunteers,” it is impossible, in any consistent view, to consider Guada- | lajara anything but an Italian defeat. It is from that standpoint that the re- sult assumes significance. It means that the prestige of Fascist aims has suffered a humiliating blow. Their escutcheon is tarnished, ironically enough, at the very moment Mussolini is busy in Africa, proclaiming himself the “protector of Islam” and the new overlord of the Mediterranean, and inviting Moslems everywhere to regard Italy as their omnipotent and invincible bulwark. Il Duce doubtless will in due course explain that the troops repulsed at | Guadalajara are not regular units of the Italian Army, though there is plenty of evidence to the contrary. But the Roman dictator cannot contemplate with nonchalance the triumphant taunt of General Miaja, who asks: “Are these the men on whom the countries which wish to inflame the world must rely? Do not fear these armies of tin soldiers which try to strike terror into the hearts of other peoples!” Dictatorships can stand anything but military defeat and popular contempt. It therefore remains to be seen whether to avenge the one and suppress the other Mussolini will now seek to pour fresh thousands of Italians into the war zone. That the mere matter of an international em- bargo may not restrain him is suggested by the circumstantially reported arrival of five thousand Fascists at Cadiz on March 5, although Italy joined in a neutrality pact specifically prohibiting such intervention after February 20. In any event, the new Roman Empire’s martial glory, won so recently in Ethi- opia, has been suddenly and decisively deflated at the gates of Madrid. What is II Duce going to do about it? —_— e Exaggerated impressions inevitably arise from the presidential idea of a new set-up for the Supreme Court. There is no ground for fear that judges will become so numerous that they can be assembled to receive information as to purposes and policies, like a press conference. Bazooka Age. Every period of history appears to have at least one musical instrument spe- cifically its own. In dim antiquity, ac- cording to Rudyard Kipling, “’Omer smote ’'is bloomin’ lyre.” Pythagoras, it is reported by Longfellow, was the in- ventor. “The secret of the sounding wires,” he read, “standing beside the blacksmith’s door and hearing the ham- mers” at work on the anvils within, Likewise older than written chronicle is the harp which John Keble identifies with Memnon and Thomas Moore with the bards of Tara, but which the author of the Book of Genesis attributes to Jubal. Other devices for the production of melody in Bible times included cym- bals, the timbrel and the tabret, the cornet and the flute, the sackbut and even the dulcimer. Then in the era of Rome’s decay came , | present | litigant of territory surrendered and war sinews | the fiddle upon which Nero commonly is believed to have played the while the city was a bonfire. But the legend is a libel on the violin, not properly created until Antonio Stradivari of Cremona saw light of day in the seventeenth century. In the interim, Leonardo da Vinci at- tained celebrity for his performance on the lute as well as for painting the two most widely famous pictures in the world. And the troubadours with their joglars wandered over Europe reciting romantic verse to string accompaniment. The organ was developed in medieval cathe- drals, and the piano was perfected in the palaces and mansions of that aristocracy which the French Revolution was de- signed to exterminate. A later boom season—contemporary with the presi- dency of Calvin Coolidge—produced the modern saxophone in its cataphonic glory. And now under the New Deal America is endowed with the bazooka, put to- gether by Bob Burns of Arkansas for the edification of the masses over the radio. No relation to the author of “The Cotter’s Saturday Night,” the promoter of the present fad assembled a piece of gas pipe, a tin funnel and a fragmant of waxed paper to hum through. The result was inevitable. Every drug store currently offers “the darn things” for sale to those armies of small boys who seem to be born to inflict torture on already overburdened adult nervous systems. The number of bazookas—of different varieties—smashed to smithereens in the next few months should run into millions. ———— - It might not be impertinent to in- quire of the Department of Agriculture whether there areas in which loco weed is allowed to grow in unrestricted loco in weed is al- effects as profusion The most as bewildering marihuana. its Roman IMU‘I\ are flt*t‘l\ used in desig- nating bureau activities under the administration. Some of the law professors connected with college “frats” are evidently disposed to feel that the Greek alphabet should have some share of recognition. S e Base ball hires players from all sec- tions of the map in order to build up a home team for a management that can afford to outbid on salaries. As various legal twists arise, it may yet be considered from the viewpoint of interstate commerce — e In the absence of analysis there may be a tendency to follow the method of many a rustic jury and decide a case, by simple arithmetic, in favor of the who produces the most wit- nesses. e Strikers are eager to go to work. Some remarkable demonstrations have taken place, but nobody has been so fearless as to organize a sit-down strike in a tack factory. It may have been taciless to permit a discussion of wages and taxation to come up just at a time when so many people were worrying over income tax returns. e When factions arise in industrial circles, Secretary of Labor may introduce the contestants, but cannot make them | shake hands. SR Shooting Stars. BY ER JOHNSON. Submerged. The little things that fretted us— How trifling they appear— The overcrowded omnibus! The rainy day so drear! The sneer that thoughtless envy flings! The luckless games we play! We have a lot of other things To think about today. How we disdain the trifling ills That hurt us in the past When once the call of Duty thrills Across the country vast. The small success—the vain 'Tis like an idle dream. The things which used to make us fret— How frivolous now they seem! Studying Both Sides. “Do you always try to see both sides of a question?” “Always,” declared Senator Sorghum. “I think it best invariably to ascertain which side can command the most votes.” regret— Jud Tunkins says when nobody has any money the honest man gets his reward in being able to write an I. O. U. thatll command respect. Theme With Variations. Our customs are changing, philosophers show. Human nature persists, as philosophers know. And people are doing from day unto day The old-fashioned stuff in a different way., “Machines,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “were at first intended to make life enjoyable. They have been overdeveloped for the purpose of de- stroying it.” Power of Flattery. “Wouldn't you like to be a motion picture star?” “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne. “Only I'd probably marry my press agent. I couldn’t possibly resist any one who con- tinually described me as so beautiful and so clever.” . Awaiting the Signal. When all the world’s afraid to move Life’'s strangely dull and slow. How wondrously we all improve ‘When some one says: “Let’s go!” “De best way to tame an animal” said Uncle Eben, “is to keep lookin’ it straight in de eyes, ’specially if it's & mule,” < Whole Plan of Jefferson Memorial Disappointing To the Editor of The Star: Much disappointment is already in evidence regarding the approved design for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. The verdict among architects and other critics is that it is cold and common- place in appearance. While purporting to follow the Roman Pantheon it bears not the least resemblance to that famous building except in respect to having a semi-spherical dome. It does look ex- tremely like that old Girard Trust Co. Building, Philadelphia, which is also supposed to resemble the Pantheon. Even the interior view of the memorial is not at all like the supposed original, and not nearly so beautiful or interest- ing. When it comes to the elaborate and costly setting, disappointment increases. The Tidal Basin is divided into four basins, one might almost say ponds, The net cost of this extreme rearrangement, including new roads and bridges, will be at least $3,000,000, probably more, ex- clusive of the cost of the memorial. This would not be a valid objection if the results achieved were worth it. But are they? An examination of the pro- posed changes indicates otherwise. The most conspicuous object, the most be- loved memorial is the Washington Monument. This, ording to the ap- proved scheme, is shunted off to one side, hill and all. The memorial is arbitrarily placed on an “axis,” that is, a straight center line running due south from the White House. On the plan, the Monument shows as an inconspicuous small black square. As a matter of fact it will form an enormous lopsided fea- ture of what is intended to be a sym- metrical plan, with the White House on the north and the proposed Jefferson Actually, Mon- Memorial on the south. ument Hill completely de metry and obstructs the view the “axis” imaginary. by the L’Enfant, the original planner of Wash- ton, intended to develop a center of interest exactly south of the President’s mansion. T but L’Enfant did not know that a monument 555 feet high would be erected where it is now, one that would be so commanding as to dominate the entire city of Washington, Doubtless L'’Enfant could he be con- sulted would be the first to demand that the Jefferson Memorial should “axis” with the Monument, not merely pretend to do so with the White House, which it never can. Or maybe it is intended to move the Monument and its hill, too? The division of the Tidal Basin into four parts is unfortunate. Instead of the sweeping curves so much admired by artists the principal basin is a harsh square; the two west “po are of egular shape and would be far better combined into one. It is to be hoped mal with the White House pt The excuse given for this Fine Arts Commission is that that this defective and mediocre scheme be will reconsidered Memo: does not ape any building, yet is the finest Greek st We already have one of the grandest semi-circular domes in the worl n the interior of the Library of Congress. We also have a Pantheonic dome in the new National The Lincoln Museum, and the architect for the Jefferson Memorial proposes to put a similar dome on the Mellon Art Gal- lery Has 1i departed from American arc cture? After his strik- ing ess with the Archives Building— by far the best thing in the “triangle’— it was expected that John Russell Pope also do something outstanding in this instance. But even the best archi- tects do not always hit it. If this is the best offered, the committee would do well to reject it and hold a competition, as was so successfully done with the Lincoln Memorial. M. A. BUONAROTTI. SIS s R Court Should Examine Laws Before Enforcement To the Editor of The Star I have been reading after some of the writers on the Supreme Court ques- tion and I cannot understand where they get all their ideas from. They are cer- tainly mot from the American Constitu- tion, or 0 not nd like it did when T read it The Constitution says our Govern- ment shall be divided into three branches—the legislative, the executive and the judicial. And it goes on to say that the legislative, being directly re- sponsible to the people, is to make the laws for them without interference. Only the Executive may recommend a change in law, but there is no “must” to it. When the laws are drafted we have the judiciary, whose duty it is to in- terpret those laws, or, in other words, to examine them very carefully and decide if they are in accord with the Constitution. If they are then they become laws that are not questioned. I believe that a law passed by Congress ought to go to the Supreme Court to be passed upon before it is given to the President to sign. As the head of our Government we have the executive department, whose duty it is, not to draft our laws for us, not to interpret our laws for us, but to see that our laws are put into effect and take note on the workings of those laws in effect. Now, I think the more we study this Constitution of ours, the less fault we will find with it. Instead of taking a slow pace as in the horse and buggy days and studying the article, they take a flying machine hop and skip all the important part, and when they alight they do not know where they are and want to make Congress do so and so and want to do away with the Supreme Court, so to speak, or make it so un- wieldy that it will never get anywhere. As for the November 3 mandate, if it was to come off now I presume it would say, “You must stop!” I. S. POPE. v Offers a Solution of the Supreme Court Problem To the Editor of The Star Let’s look at the Supreme Court prob- lem” this way: A man’s mental or physical capacity cannot accurately be measured by years. The court is now undoubtedly packed against some desirable legislation. The Roosevelt program would probably pack it for him and perhaps against some other administration. By no stretch of the imagination is_a constitutional change necessary to change the court. New blood from time to time is desirable to reflect a more up-to-date conception of the laws and Constitution. Let Congress enact legislation to per- mit a maximum of fifteen members on the supreme bench and a minimam of nine members, and say that one new member must be appointed every three years, providing, however, the maximum cannot be over fifteen and the minimum nine. The legislation should provide for appointing one member now by Presi- dent Roosevelt, as it is over three years since an appointment has been made, and another to be appointed on the anniversary of the last previous appoint- ment, providing there are no resigna- tions or deaths in the meantime. ‘Why spend $120,000 (and expenses) for six new judges? Why spend an enor- mous sum for constitutional amend- ments when the Constitution already provides for Congress to say how many shall be members of the court? It looks like the plan outlined should be satisfactory to all. JOHN WILLIAMS. The notorious good fortune of be- ginners seldom applies to keeping fishes in the home aquarium. More often than not the first attempt is an abject failure, rosulting in the deaths of the animals, whether these are goldfishes or exotics. ‘What the beginner fails to keep in mind is that he is handling, or at- tempting to handle, life. Almost always, t0o, he underestimates the amount of skill required in setting up a tank properly and managing the section of aquatic life so that the health of the inmates, both animals and plants, is conserved. These two stumbling blocks over, as the result of disaster, and the good passage of time, he or she who used head as well as eyes, and has the capacity for profiting from personal failures, stands a good chance of be- coming an expert aquarist. * ok ok x If one realizes that life is what is being handled, and that the fishes in their new home must find approximately the same living conditions of their na- tive habitats, within reason, several facts come to mind: The first is that fishes seldom are subjected, in Nature, to drastic changes of temperature. This means, of course, change of water temperature, of that clement in which the animals swim and breathe and have their being. Hours are required for the water in even small outdoor pools to go down as much as 10 degrees. Every one has had the experience of some sudden weather char at the seashore, when the ocean water next day is still warm, despite the icy wind which sweeps in from the Nor'east The great sea does temperature quickly. The same fact applies to the smallest stream or pool. No aquatic animal, or plant, is subjected to a drastic chan either higher or lower temperature, all of a sudden If the change comes, it comes only as the result of several hours, or days, even, so that the temperature of the cold-blooded animals keeps pace. slowly going up or down, in keeping with the water temperature. A drastic change is a shock such as not even a cold-blooded creature ap- preciates, nor knows how to handle. Subtle changes are set up in tissues which work to the disadvantage of the animal. The question of osmosis. or the passage of liquids slowly through a membrane, comes to the fore. Fishes, always in the swim, are subject to con- stant osmotic action. Chemicals in the water pas o the animal's body, and some already in tend to be drawn out. Temperature has a great deal to do with these changes. It may be believed that the foo sudden introduction of certain salts into the body of the fish through osmosis may be the forerunner of disease. Use of a thermometer, then, in iling all aquatic animals, is the first not change its wisdom in amateur fish keeping | Usua it is a wisdom which comes | only as the resuit ot sad loss and much | misgiving One might as well start off correctly Buy a small ten-cent thermometer with your first fishes. Whether they are humble goldfishes | or more costly “tropicals” makes no difference. . The first are more hardy, of it, no doubt but are fishes just the same, and apply equally to the other, although the amateur may be inclined to dis- | of | from a comparatively sma | 1s made when one does not the good rules which apply to one sort | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. believe. Is not the goldfish a child’s toy, he asks himself, and have not thousands of them been kept without a thermometer? Thousands upon thousands of them have died, too, after spending a few miserable days and nights in a bowl or tank of water which happened to be 20 to 30 degrees warmer than the water in which they were brought from the store. * ok ok Give the fishes a break Buy and use a thermometer, from the beginning. Take the temperature of the bucket of water, after it is home, and then equalize the water into which they are placed. One or two degrees difference will do no harm, but over that, the fishes must add just another difficulty to their change, which is drastic at the best. Suppose the water in the paper bucket shows 50 degrees. If a tank already hds been set up, and is planted v will show 68 degrees, or maybe 70, and even 78, if the aquarium is placed in a sunny window, or close to a hot water radiat There is nothing to do, then, if want to do right by your new ch except to place the bucket near ou ges, the tank, and let it remain for several hours, until the water is the same temperature, or practically so, in both tank and bucket. * ok ok ok Very few persons, ve enough forethought to set up a tank and cet the water “seasoned.” Usually it is a whoop-hooray of putting in sand (unwashed) ing, and dumping in the I the same time If this 1s done, be sure to test r, and see that it is the temperature as the water in the buck If the water into whieh the fishes are to go is too cold, it may be warmed up Do not the same re n advance, with the addition of hot water afraid to do this, very is be time be mixtur mir but at s that the tested carefully ater, so that the full degree of several pos 15 shown up If the water is 100 war may be cooled down very ple, but requires care, and e, to do it correc! - es so moved show no strain from 'hn change. It must be kept in mind that they not t the time, even when :ua“ tem they w nge is too * ires are * x The other fundamen beginner is simply ways tends to unds m intelligence necessary of his fishes. It is true used that nev begi or both fishes of water is a science gence to get good must overcome specimens was with hin Handling to or small amo It requires in ults, becau: handicaps, a re amount of water, inherent in the situation That these can be overcome is sk by many beautiful tanks, both of y or tropical, specimens, and of gold fishes. But in every case some intelli- gence is required, and a good beginning under- estimate the study needed, and when one buys and uses a thermometer from the very first. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS That recent explosion in Congress over labor unrest blew the lid off the deep- seated misgivings aroused all over Wash- ington by the sit-down strike movement and its lawless implications. Although speeches in both House and Senate were marked by studied restraint, they did not hide the feelings of members that the new labor tactics contain the seeds of grave and far-reaching consequences. Unless troubled waters at Detroit and elsewhere are speedily calmed, voices may be raised on Capitol Hill in favor of Federal action to curb an increasingly dangerous trend. Anti-administration- s hold the New Deal’s partiality to John L. Lewis mainly responsible for the state of affairs that has developed. Bitter criticism and resentment are aimed specifically at Secretary of Labor Perkins for asserting that the illegality of sit-down strikes has yet to be estab- lished. Congressional authorities by no means consider labor exclusively to blame for existing conditions. Sena- tor Borah’s charge that concentration of wealth and monopolistic controls are the underlying causes of both sit-down strikes and rising prices finds wide echo. The Idahoan thinks there’s plenty of Federal power to impose “industrial statesmanship” on both management and workers, if it isn't forthcoming voluntarily. - * ok ok % Unless the industrial skies have cleared by the time he gets back from Warm Springs, President Roosevelt is sure to find the sit-down baby waiting for him on the White House doorstep alongside the judiciary foundling left there when he went away. Despite the profound importance of the Supreme Court con- troversy, the bread-and-butter issues in- volved in the economic conflict come home to the average man and woman far more acutely and immediately. It's difficult to convince the general run of people that America’'s fate is actually at stake because President Roosevelt wants six additional justices sympathetic with the New Deal. On the other hand, it’s easy to make wage earners see that jobs, pay envelopes and household budgets are affected by turmoil in in- dustry. Proponents of the judiciary re- form plan, of course, base their whole case on the theory that a hostile Su- preme Court majority prevents the more abundant life. But purely legalistic pleas, such as law school deans and others have been making before the Senate Judiciary Committee, don’t get much of a rise out of the ordinary citizen. * k% ok Just how long ago former Supreme Court Justice John Hessin Clarke ar- ranged to go on the air tonight, to dis- cuss the judiciary bill, has not been disclosed. But it's thought possible that supporters of the President’s plan conceived the idea of bringing the 80- year-old jurist to the microphone, fol- lowing Justice McReynolds’ fraternity dinner dissertation on the ethics of judicial sportsmanship. Clarke and McReynolds were both appointed to the high bench by President Wilson—Mc- Reynolds in 1914 and Clarke in 1916. They were colleagues until Clarke’s resignation in 1922, aged 65. Both are bachelors. For 15 years Judge Clarke has been devoting himself to the cul- tivation of public opinion favorable to world peace. as president of the League of Natiens Non-Partisan Association of the United States. Little birds whisper that Chief Justice Hughes and his as- é ¥ BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. soclates would have preferred to have | the silence of the bench broken, if it had to be broken, by one of the brethren less identified in the pu mind than Justice McReynolds with the reactionary charge. * % % x Jim Farley just can't help winning elections. When he arrived in New York last week to celebrate St. Patrick's day, he found waiting for him the returns from upstate Rockland County, his home community, showing that the Democrats had made extensive gains and carried West Haverstraw, the national chair- man’s own bailiwick, for the first time in several years. Sunny Jim's cup of happiness overflowed when it developed that even the unholy alliance of inde- pendent Democrats of lukewarm enthu- siasm for the New Deal with local Re- publicans had failed to defeat the regu- lar Democratic organization. Farley- brand Democrats will prevail henceforth in the West Haverstraw Board of Trustees in the ratio of 3 to 1, besides which the village will have a mayor of the same persuasion. * ok K X Al Smith put on his usual “raddio” show the other night, while discussing the La Guardia-Hitler feud at a St. Patrick’s banquet in Manhattan. The Governor opined that the trouble with “Adolf” of humor. What Der Fuehrer should have done, Al said. was to write “Firellio,” as he insisted on calling Mayor Fiorello, something like this: “Dear Firellio: I'm not so much worried about what happens to me at the New York World's Fair as I am about what's | going to happen to you at the next mayoralty election in New York, if Tam- many does its stuff. Yours sincerely, Adolf.” Smith thinks this would have closed the incident and left with fewer of his Nazi tail feathers missing. * Kk * If the Supreme Court has an increase in the family, the view is expressed that the President will draw extensively on the existing Federal judiciary. He's thought to have his eye on several men now serving as United States district or circuit judges. Assistant Attorney Gen- eral Bob Jackson and Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jim Landis are persistently named as sure- thing bets in the impending high bench free-for-all. EE “A Panorama of Essential Facts,” just issued by the National Lumber Manu- facturers’ Association, is crammed with impressive statistics about the American lumber industry. Forest products, lum- ber and its manufactures are now fourth in the list of 15 general industrial groups. It led all others in number of wage earners in 1933, and probably in 1935, in eight States. Production was highest in 1906-09, at 40 to 44 billion feet. It has now recovered to more than half that peak. Lumber tonnage carried by rail in 1935 was exceeded only by coal, iron, ore and oil. Ninety per cent of all household furniture is of wood. More than a billion feet of lumber in 1928 went into railroad car construction, falling to about a third of that figure in 1933. About 80 per cent of the individual homes built an- nually are at least lumber framed. Tim- ber supplies 90 per cent of all farm structures. First industry born in the is that he lacks a sense | “Adolf” | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. A reader can get the answer to any question of fact by writing The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C Please inclose stamp for reply Q. Please give a list of President Roosevelt's fireside radio talks—H. M A. A list of the President’s radio talks and their subjects is as follows: The banking situation, March 12, 1933; a report of progress since March 4, May 7, 1933; general conditions, October 22,1933 a new deal—has it aided you? June 23, 1934; general conditions, September 30, 1934; the administration work relief bill, April 28, 19 a drought survey, tember 6, 1936; the state of the March 9, 1937. % Q. What American newspaper carries. the most grocery advertising?—T. D. A. According to the Media Records, a statistical firm which makes an a curate compilation of advertising line- age, the Chicago Daily News, has ¢ for seven ied m paper in t i tates, morning, evening or Sunday. Q. When did dog racing b popular as a sport in this countr —E. W. A. It began in 1919 when the Ia Owen P. Smith d an itati rabbit run by elec and discovered that dogs enjoye! asing it. t is the name of the woma who mad coerd flight from Eng- land to New 7m«tr.d“—7(} I A. Jean Batten made a record flight of 11 days 57 minutes from England Q W to New Zealand Q. Who wrote the music to John AT s “Home, Sweet Home'? composed by Sir Henry Twain some people G. M. H t International held?—E. H. ess was held at 1881 some information about L i E. G The poet and dramatist was bor Oxford, in 1864 later appl his poetic drama a trac Q W ho financed | ~A. Manhattan, Bronx and Queens. Q. How do anizations approach the | problem of cr racter development and ction, the roblems fi‘\m environ- r Woollcott go A. He ‘ College and Columbia Ur Hamilton te work at o Q. Is it tr ue that more peo hm n Killed by fireworks th have were | ESJ, | st 2 1936 by | the United States Conference of Mayors indicated that killed in celebr ence than there were colonists k winning that independence. Only 4044 "ans were Killed in the Revolution- ¢ more 2 American in ar, while 4,200 persons have been killed by firewo! from 1900 to 1930 Q. Who first divised a simple system | of home medicines?>—J. N A. Dr. Frederick Humphreys was the first physician to devise such a system of home remedies N A Rhyme at Twilight By Gertrude Brooke Hamilton Memory’s Grip. I sit at my long casement window In an old familiar chair, While the soft, dusky gray of twilight Comes creeping there Beyond are the lights of the city, Streets gay with evening’s throng, And the headlights of speeding motors Streaming along. The dinner and theater hour We both of us loved so well . . . I turn and switch on the electrics To break the spell. — United States, lumber’s annual product is now valued at $3,000.000,000. * Apropos the impending shake-up in the foreign service, it's ungallantly fore- cast that at least for the immediate future, Uncle Sam contemplates appoint- ing no more women diplomats. Ruth Bryan Owen’s marriage in the midst of her ministerial career is said to have inspired that reported decision, (Copyright, 1037.) »