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A—10 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D.. G, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1937. —_— e ) Y e peace of Europe directly hang. The | knew his power to survive. “This Booke,” | ™ —— " —— ' 3 BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. April 23, 1937 The Evening Star Newspaper Company. 11th St and Pennsylvania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t Chicago Office” 435 North Michizan Ave. Bate by Carrier—City and Suburban. Regular Edition. The Evening and Sunday Star 5¢ per month or 15¢ per week The Evening Star 5c per month or 1(c per week - —---m-=n---5C Der copy Night Final Edition, Night F.nal and Sunday 8tar-.. 70¢ per month Night Final Star__ ______ Z__55c per month Collection made at the end of each month or oach week, Orders may be sent by mail or tele- phone Natioral 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. 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Mr. Boylan has also met the criticism that the project would destroy the cherry trees or “despoil” the present sur- roundings of the site by his asser- tion that the plans contemplate more cherry trees and a more beautiful dis- | play than at present. He has cited the results of the test borings, which confirmed the architect in his decision that construction was feasible within the limits of authorized cost. He said there is ample engineering authority to show that the slight reduction in the area of the Tidal Basin would not materially affect the flow of water neces- sary for flushing Washington Channel. 8o many people have so many different {deas of the best sort of monument to build, how best to symbolize what ‘Thomas Jefferson represented and where the memorial should stand, that it might be impossible ever to reach anything like complete agreement on these points outside of a commission charged with the responsibility. The differences of opinion among members of the commis- slon—who later agreed to abide by the decision of the majority—merely em- phasizes that fact and are not in them- selves significant. It has not yet been shown by any competent authority that either the site or the design is inappro- priate, or that more fitting alternatives should have been chosen or would be selected. ‘The question now, however, is whether Congress i{s going to appropriate the money to begin the memorial. The President has just made a plea for rigid economy. Construction now of a $3,000,- 000 memorial is not economy. A delay in the appropriation of funds would not be fatal to the memorial, while it would enable the commission to make those full and detailed studies of the planned transformation of the area which have not, apparentiy, been made to the com- plete satisfaction of the official agencies which should be consulted. The time to avold a mistake is now, if a mistake is threatened. And whether & mistake is threatened depends on more exact information than is avallable to the public at this time. o The Fate of Austria. Negotiations destined to have far- reaching effect upon the status of Austria were initiated in Venice this week. Amid the picturesque environ- ment of the Grand Canal, Premier Mus- solini and Chancellor Schuschnigg met in conference over a host of thorny questions which concern not only Italy and Austria, but also involve Germany. The Viennese state has been giving in- creasing evidence of dissatisfaction with the ignominious position of a vassal of Rome. It evinces an ardent desire to re- capture a greater degree of independence. The Schuschnigg government, chron- fcally threatened by a strong Austrian Nazi movement serving as the internal spearhead of the drive for union with the Reich, yearns to ward off that peril, as well as to rid itself of Fascist domina- tion. It is thus between Scylla and Charybdis that the perturbed successor o! Chancellor Dollfuss today finds him- self. How best to preserve amicable rela- tions with Mussolini without risking a break with Hitler is the problem that taxes Schuschnigg’s ingenuity. Restora- tion of the Hapsburg monarchy, for which widespread sentiment exists in Austria, is supposed to be the recourse which he holds to be most practical in the baffling circumstances that con- front him. The Nazis resent restoration, realizing it would be an almost insuper- able barrier to Anschluss. Italy formerly indicated that while she did not actively favor restoration, she would not oppose 1t if it seemed the most effective means of keeping Germany out of Austria. Latterly Mussolini has evinced a change of heart, definitely revealing opposition to re-enthronement of the discredited dynasty. Il Duce’s reluctance to incur Nazi hostility on the restoration issue 1s due to two causes—German rearma- ment and Italy’s military absorption in both Spain and Ethiopia. Il Duce faces & far different array of imponderables than existed when he mobilized Italian forces at the Brenner Pass after the assassination of Dollfuss conjured up the danger of. a German invasion of Austria. Upon decisions reached at Venice on restoration and assoclated Austrian 1s- | more years. | responded with the corporation Little Entente states are still adamant against return of the Hapsburgs. If Mussolini insists upon some other ad- Justment of the situation less agree- able to Chancellor Schuschnigg than restoration, it is obvious that Austria will seek to follow an independent foreign policy based on support no longer obtainable from Italy, with consequent new realign.nents of power in Central Europe. The conversion of the decrepit remnant of the Dual Monarchy into a “Danubian Switzerland,” whose neutra- lity and integrity would be interna- tionally respected is one solution of the tangled problem. Whatever disposition is made of it,.it will remain open to question to what extent Hitler has re- nounced the lurking ambition to make his native land -.part and parcel of the Nazi Reich. R Bad News for Taxpayers. It is not surprising if the President's references in his relief message to “im- mediate need for a careful survey of the tax structure” and the fact that Con- gress will be asked to “remedy defects in the present tax laws” carry a premo- nition of impending disaster to the taxpayer. Experience has revealed the President’s predilection for euphonious rhetoric in suggesting higher taxes. He has a fondness for such expressions as “administrative improvement” and the need to “simplify and clarify” or “re- form” our tax laws. But the taxpayer is beginning to catch on. The administration has shown an amazing dexterity in leaping at and then leaping away from the subject of new taxes. The taxpayer has had some diffi- culty in keeping up with the game. He was caught off base when the ‘President delivered his entirely unexpected “soak the rich” tax program to a stunned Congress on June 20, 1935, and has been a little unsteady ever since. Congress buckled gamely to that first. tax task. A week after receipt of the mes- sage the nuisance taxes, about to expire automatically, were extended for two And Congress set to work to meet the President’s demands to “simplify and clarify” the revenue laws, principally by soaking the wealthy in the higher income tax brackets. That job was finished August 21, when Con- gress sent to the President his new revenue act hiking surtaxes on incomes, boosting various corporation taxes, estate and gift taxes, and adding a quar- ter of a billion dollars to the tax burden. Just a little over a month later the President discussed the 1937 budget, then in preparation, and gave out the cheering news that “it is clear to me that the Federal Government under pro- visions of the present tax schedules will | not need new taxes or increased rates in existing taxes to meet the expense of its annual operation and to reduce its public debt.” And three’ months later, January 4, 1936, in his message to the new session of Congress, the President again voiced the optimistic thought that “based on existing laws it is my belief that new taxes, over and above the present taxes,”" are neither necessary nor ad- visable. But on March 3 the President sent another message to Congress suggesting certain methods of stopping “leaks in present surtaxes” and proposing ‘“tax reform” by way of a new tax on undis- tributed corporation surpluses. Congress taxes, new taxes on fish and vegetable oils, a variety of other taxes which promised to give the President $800,000,000 in new revenue, partially to offset losses from invalidation of processing taxes and to meet the cost of the bonus. The bill was signed June 23 and less than two months later, in August, the President, Secretary Morgenthau, Senator Harri- son, Representative Doughton and others met in happy conference at the White House. Business was improving, everybody agreed. There was no need for ‘new taxes. In fact, there was prospect of a slight decrease in taxes. Secretary Morgenthau, fairly glorying in the prospect, said that we could now “con- sider revision of the tax laws with the purpose of removing any inequities or unnecessary administrative difficulties” and that a “thorough examination of the tax laws” was contemplated and recommended. At Worcester, Mass., during the cam- paign, the President told a lot of prospective voters that “new or in- creased taxes are not needed to enable us to balance the Federal budget and to begin very soon a rigid reduction in the public debt.” And in December, Senator Harrison, arriving in Washing- ton for the new session of Congress, said, that no new taxes were necessary but that the tax laws were being “studied” with & view to eliminating miscellaneous or nuisance taxes where the cost of collection was disproportionate to the yield. Well, no taxes have been eliminated. But “it has become apparent,” the President said on Tuesday, “that there is an immediate need for a careful survey of the present tax structure.” Our tax structure, which has been clarified, simplified, reformed, plugged, equalized, revised, studied and im- proved, is now in for a “careful survey.” And that means bad news for the tax- payers. Shakespeare. There is little point in remembering Shakespeare the man on the anhiversary of his birth, unless it be for the purpose of rediscovering his humanity, his living character of humanness. Passing years ordinarily should have the effect of ob- scuring his personality; it would seem natural that gradually he should dis- appear in the shadows of accumulating centuries. Such is the fate of most great figures of near or far antiquity. But the Bard of Avon was destined for an active immortality—not merely as a name, not simply as a legend, but realis- tically as a contemporary soul. he said, “when Brasse and Marble fade, small make thee fresh to all Ages.” His friend, the rare Ben Jonson, agreed with him that he was fated “for all time” and Milton, in similar generous spirit, testified: ‘Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hath built thyself a livelong monument. But i, remained for the prophet of a * much later period to summarize the claim that Shakespeare has for unre- strained vitality. Ralph Waldo Emerson added up his account in the questions: “What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled? What mystery has he not sig- nified his knowledge of? What office, or function, or district of man's work, has he not remembered? What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen?” Nor s the explanation difficult. Shakespeare, the interpreter of human existence, is no riddle to any pilgrim who goes through the world with eyes, ears, heart and mind open to its marvels. Doubtless, he possessed a superlative genius for the comprehension of experi- ence. That may be conceded without argument. But it is not important as compared with the correlative circum- stance that multitudes have been en- dowed with the talent to appreciate his gifts. He lives because they live, be- cause life itself is triumphant over death. ————————— A sit-down strike is assigned no rating of reliable value in any intelligent calcu- lation which takes into consideration the relations of wages and taxes. Taxes must g0 on and wage earners of high or low pecuniary status must contribute to them. O Big investments abroad are again to be made available to the American public. They may require more vigilance than the track odds, as compared to dividends paid to those who send investments in the pari-mutuels, by highly compensated agents. o Every trace of sincere sentiment should be fostered at this time and all times. The cherry blossoms brought a message of friendship which no architect should be permitted to throw into the waste basket. ————__ When Trotzky intrudes Russian prob- lems into Western Hemisphere affairs, he runs the risk of being mistaken by a neighboring firing squad more impetuous than studious for just another Mexican bandit. —ee—s. Men in public life are often compelled to assume an impressive demeanor. ‘Without an occasional “stuffed shirt” po- litical life might become only a hollow smockery. ——————— Shooting Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Grand Chorus, A thousand birds all singing Tunes that sound so sweet and free! A thousand frogs all bringing Songs to swell the early glee. A thousand breezes blowing Through the leaves with soft refrain, Where sunbeams softly glowing Call the blossoms forth again. A thousand insects chiming With a steady note and clear. And ten thousand poets rhyming To inform us that Spring is here. Marks. “I have some wonderful ideas,” said the home town friend, “but they re- quire money for their development.” “That’s the trouble these days,” said Senator Sorghum. “Every time you show a statesman an idea that carries a dollar mark he rubs it out and puts in a ques- tion mark.” A Task for Henrietta. “I think women ought to tell the news by radio,” said Mr. Meekton. “Do you think your wife would enjoy it1” “I'm sure she would. She'd have fifteen minutes to tell all the gossip, with nobody getting a chance to interrupt her.” Consolation. It's a life of adventure we're leading today, With danger we constantly flirt. An event's a success that permits us to say “At least, there was nobody hurt.” ‘We have a fine party which starts with good cheer. A quarrel {tself will assert. But we say with content, “Though it seemed somewhat queer, At least, there was nobody hurt.” Each path has its danger, yet onward we go. We can’t be entirely inert. We are satisfied quite if the record can show That at least there was nobody hurt. Jud Tunkins says life is not as polite as formerly. A crook doesn't even take the trouble to get chummy and put up & confidence game. “Silence should not be necessary to thought,” said Hi Ho, the sage of China- town. “It is he who can think while many talk that must eventually be relied on.” Cycles of Civilization. They say that people up in Mars Perhaps are old and wise And far beyond our motor cars And ships that sail the skies. I wonder if they've passed the day Of wealth all rashly spent And go their philosophic way Of primitive content. “If you does yoh best,” said Uncle Eben, “all you needs for success is to avold pickin’ out sumpin’ you didn't know how ‘sues developments of moment for the Strangely, perhaps, the poet himself | to do in de fust place.” A THE POLITICAL MILL BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The fight over the President’s economy demands has temporarily taken the minds of some of the Senators and Representatives off the Supreme Court— but only temporarily. There has been a growing restlessness on Capitol Hill, as well as among some of the President’s principal financial advisers, over the fiscal situation of the Government. They did not see that the situation was getting any better. When it became apparent that it was, in reality, getting worse be- cause the revenues from taxation were not meeting expectations, the demands that there be curtailment of Govern- ment expenditures began to mount. Thosg who have been worried over the situation have received the President’s message with a great deal of satisfaction. At the same time, they would have been delighted if the President had seen fit to reduce the estimates of appropria- tions for work relief below the $1,500,- 000,000 which he has now recommended. *ox Xk X Democratic Senators who believe that the relief appropriation should be cut are expressing confidence that when the issue comes before the Senate enough votes will be found to reduce the appropriation to $1,000,000,000. If anything like that happens, it will be due to Democratic Senators, of course. There are not enough Republicans to do more than swell the opposition to the higher figure. And of the Re- publicans, a few may be expected to vote for the larger relief appropriations, coming from States that have been hard hit by drought or flood. Senator Byrnes of South Carolina already has an- nounced that he will offer an amendment to tut the relief appropriation to a billion dollars. It was a foregone conclusion that some members of Congress in both Houses would seek to boost the relief appropriation above the figures advo- cated by the President. The effort, there- fore, to reduce the appropriation by $500,000,000 may well have the effect of choking off any larger sum than that recommended by the Chief Execu- tive. * ok ox ¥ ‘The economy road is a hard and bitter road for politicians. There was a real demand for economy on the part of the public in 1933 when President Roosevelt first took office. This public sentiment made it possible for the President to get through his economy act at that time. Later the spenders got to work, and the appropriations for all kind of relief and recovery measures went to unheard of heights. The pendulum is swinging back toward economy, due first to fear that if there is not a serious attempt to balance the budget the country may face dis- astrous inflation, and, second, to the fear of more and new taxes. If this kind of public sentiment continues to manifest itself, the members of Con- gress as well as the President will find their task of cutting expenditures more and more easy. The President’s demand for economy has been well received— except in the case of those Governors and Mayors of cities who have been clamoring for a continuance of the very large relief appropriations by the Federal Government. * o ok ok If the President and Congress go to work cutting down in all Government offices, it will mean the virtual fold- ing up of some of the so-called emergency agencies of the Government, And it will have very considerable effect, too, on the bill for the reorganization of the executive departments of the Government. That bill has been under consideration by a joint committee of the Senate and House for weeks and months. As originally presented to Con- gress oy the President, the program of | reorganization called for setting up two new major departments of the Govern- ment, whose heads would have place in the cabinet. Some of the emergency agencies would be absorbed into these two new departments, public welfare and public works. Those who have de- manded real economy in the reorganiza- tion of the executive departments have argued that the establishment of two new big departments would result in increased rather than diminished ex- penditures. The reorganization bill has been considered in executive sessions of the joint committee, with no public hearings. Senator King of Utah is one of the Democrats now insisting upon economy in Government expenditures. If he has his way, the appropriation for work relief will be cut materially and even below the billion dollars proposed by Senator Byrnes. Furthermore, Senator King has.in mind a plan whereby such funds would not be handed out to the States unless they agreed to match them dollar for dollar. It is his con- vention that the Federal Government must get out of the job of relief and turn it back to the Stafes—and that it can only be done by making the States raise the funds required. * X ok X The President’s bill to increase the membership of the Supreme Court is about to pass from one phase into another—the hearings on the bill be- fore the Senate Judiciary Committee are virtually concluded. The next step will be the consideration of the bill in executive session of the committee. ‘There seems no particularly good reason why this second phase should be long continued. The members of the com- mittee—eighteen in all—have, generally speaking, made up their minds one way or another on the plan to increase the Supreme Court. There will be amend- ments offered by those who do not wish to turn the President down flat—amend- ments such as those advanced by Sena- tors McCarran of Nevada, Hatch of New Mexico and McGill of Kansas— ranging from a flat increase of two justices in the court to plans whereby the President would be able to increase the court only by one justice in a calendar year to two justices in four years, provided members who have reached the retirement age fail to get off the bench. It is very doubtful that any of these amendments can prevail, for they will be opposed by those com- mitteemen who have agreed to stand by the President’s bill and by those who insist that any increase at this time would be “packing” the court. * ok K X Senators are tired of the discussion and of the radio speeches about the court bill. They say, however, that once the bill reaches the floor of the Senate— the final stage of its consideratfon in the upper house—there will be a re- birth of interest. The debate promises to be prolonged. Both sides are claim- ing victory, but it is pretty well assured that the opposition will not permit any votes on the measure unless they are assured they have the strength to down the President’s original proposal. More and more dissension is developing among those Democrats who have been counted on to support the bill, all of which gives encouragement to the opponents. The latter insist that the President’s plan fo increase the court by six is already lost, and they say that unless the Chief Exécutive is willing soon to compromise and take & proposal for two il Templeton Jones’ love of Nature suf- fered a severe jolt the other evening, when a wasp stung him once on the right hand and once on the left. If he hadn't slapped at the creature with his left hand while it was stinging his right, he would have escaped with one puncture. As it was, he got a pair, each one of which gave him the impression that a very sharp needle was being probed to the bone. Jones had gone a lifetime without getting “bit,” as some say, by any mem- ber of the wasp, yellowjacket or hornet tribe. In his youth honey bees had stung him plentifully, always with “swell” re- sults. * X ¥ ¥ ‘That was a long time ago. Jones thereafter had managed to give members of the Stingers’ Organization a wide berth, tactics approved heartily by the membership. After all, members of the “bee kind” ask nothing better than to be left alone. If they sting, they do so in response to impulses which have come down to them through thousands of years. Never blame a bee, Templeton Jones says, for anything it does to you in the line of duty. This was, and still is, Jones’ attitude toward these interesting insects. The fact that he got “stung” made no difference in his long view. Just in his short view! * x X X Philosophical Jones lost his philosophy for a minute. He killed the wasp. Afterward he regretted this immensely, but at the time he acted instinctively. It was Sunday night, a hot night after a terribly “all of a sudden” hot day. A wind sprang up. Doors began to bang shut. Blinds flapped and curtains swept to the screens and remained pressed there- to in a way curtains have. Jones ran into the hall. He reached forward to pull the cur- tains away so that he might lower the window. “Ouch!™ he roared. Emotions and intellectual perceptions began to fight a busy battle in his brain. “Somebody left a needle sticking in this curtain,” he yelled. He reached his left hand to pick off the “needle.” “Help!” he screamed. Whatever it was, it had got him again, this time in the left finger. * ok % All this happened so suddenly, in the dark, that it was over almost before it began, except that Templeton Jones was quite sure something or other had hap- pened. He switched on the light. “Who in thunder left a needle in the curtain—" He saw a dark insect hovering near the ceiling. How wasps get into a well-screened house is something you will have to ask a wasp about. Templeton Jones couldn’t tell you. * k% % There was the thing, however, flying around, serene in the feeling that it had seen its duty and done it, evidently. By this time Jones realized that his needle-and-pin theory would not hold water. It had been as sharp as a needle, without doubt. Unthinkingly, he took a swipe at the offending insect and killed it out of hand. No sooner had he done so than he felt sorry. He admitted, at one and the same time, that man must protect himself from attacks and also that man may forgive. Protection had outrun forgiveness; the wasp was crushed; and his slayer had two bites, or stings. * X ¥ ¥ Jones looked at them, not with idle curiosity, but with a genuine and quick interest as to what he might put on them. They were swelling. Sharp, shooting pains through them. Rapidly through the Jonesian mind swept recollections of all the tales he had heard in years past of the havoc wrought by bee stings. There was that poor woman who had died within the hour after having been stung by a yellowjacket. There was that man who swelled to an impossible size after having been stung by a hornet. * kK ¥ Dangerous insects these. Swiftly Jones began to look over his assortment of antiseptics, lotions, salves. Which one should he use? Here was one which stained brown, here was another which stained red, here was one which left a pink trace behind, here one which left nothing. All the time the bites were swelling and the shooting pains growing more numerous. The sudden wind was howling outside, swaying the trees, flapping the curtains. Every now and then a door would go shut with a “bang.” * ok ¥ & Jones selected one preparation which was supposed to have anodyne prop- erties. Here were two good opportunities to test its claims! The stings were now white and puffed. Down dropped two drops of the prep- aration. They spread out. Impatiently Templeton Jones waited for the stings to stop stinging him. Sure enough, and somewhat to his surprise, they stopped. Visions of dire disaster faded into the background. The swellings went down, the pains left. Maybe the old saying was true that it was a bit early for wasp stings to be at their maximum power. _ Jones pridefully regarded his decreas- ing bites. No, by George! These were the real things. £ were going WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Revolt over relief accentuates afresh that Roosevelt control of Congress is no longer what it used to be. Coming on the heels of the wide-open Demo- cratic split on the Supreme Court issue, the White House is made painfully aware that smooth legislative sailing for the New Deal is now pretty much a thing of the past. Administration leadership is confronted with one of the thoughest nuts it has ever had to crack in the effort to save the President's “economy” program. The plan is under attack from two sides—from those who, like Repre- sentative Maverick, Democrat, of Texas would add $1.000.000,000 or more to the Roosevelt $1.500,000,000 relief recom- mendation, and those who. like Demo- cratic Senators Byrnes of South Caro- lina and Harrison of Mississippi, would slash the grant to $1,000.000,000. Not only is F. D. R.’s “money-saving” scheme thus under heavy crossfire, but in both House and Senate vast new appropriation projects have simultaneously been sprung. The overwhelming House vote to set up an annual $1,000,000 water pol- lution control bureau in the Public Health Service and the Harrison plan to grant up to $300,000,000 a year for public education in the States typify the dis- dainful mood in which Capitol Hill greets the most constructive pruning effort essayed by the New Deal since its spending spree first set in four years ago. Republican Representative Taber of New York says Democrats during the present session have introduced ap- propriation bills footing up $150,000,- 000.000. *x Xk Kk X Before discussion of the $1,500,000,000 relief fund proceeds very far, much will be heard about the glaring inconsistency of having to cope with unemployment on such a scale at this stage of the game. The proposal is hard to reconcile with Democratic claims that the de- pression was long since beaten and that “happy days are here again.” Plain speaking is also going to be leveled at the administration’s chronic blundering in miscalculating both Federal income and outgo. Critics say the President and his advisers are obviously addicted to “guesstimates” rather than estimates. Particular umbrage is taken in con- gressional quarters at the persistent fallure of the New Deal to compile a proper census of the Nation's jobless. Pericdically there have been hints that such a tabulation was on the way, but it never materialized. Some authorities contend that the mess and muddle surrounding the whole relief jumbie are basically due to the Government's lack of unemployment facts and figures which are 100 per cent reliable. * ok ok ok When Mrs. Ruth B. Shipley, chief of the passport division of the State De- partment, recently asked the House Appropriations Committee for increased facilities for her overburdened staff to cope with coronation traffic and, the rest of the 1937 globe-trotting rush, Representative Bacon, Republican, of New York remarked that there were complaints of discourtesy on the part of temporary help in the two Manhattan passport agencies. He had heard that they had been “very rude to some people.” Mrs. Shipley replied, spiritedly: “For every complaint you have that one of my temporary clerks is rude, I additioral justices it will be too late even for such a compromise. The administration has been handi- capped in its fight for the court bill because it has been unable to make the struggle take on the guise of a party fight, with the Democrats aligned against the Republicans. It has had to fight not Republicans, but Democrats. Repre- sentative McCormack of Massachusetts, Democrat, in a speech this week in the House, warned the administration that it was playing with fire; that unless some compromise was worked out the result might be a devastating division 1in the ranks of the Democrats. A b can give you 150 complaints that the people coming in there are unbearably rude. Occasionally, in the rush season, one of the temporary people may be c\u_'t. It is exacting work. Many persons object to being questioned concerning personal matters, which must be set forth in passport applications. When clerks ask for that information and Insist upon having it, they are said to t); :t{de. Most complaints are based on at.” * ok % x Herbert Claiborne Pell of Newport, _R I, who has just been appointed Min- ister to Portugal. is a long-time political crony of President Roosevelt, as well as a former fellow student at Harvard, Following a term in the Sixty-sixth Con- Bress as a member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Pell was chairman of the New York State Democratic Com- mittee while Mr. Roosevelt was being groomed for the governorship and later for the presidency. Previously Pell was active in the Bull Moose movement and chairman of its Orange County, N. Y., committee. Though he is without ex- perience in the foreign service, Mr. Pell has numerous ties with learned societies in Europe concerning them- ae!ves with diplomacy, history, political science, literature and international af- fairs. He has been an occasional lec- turer on those subjects at Columbia and Harvard. * X ok % Following recent action of the Ameri- can cotton textile trade in patching up an export quota agreement with Japan, to avoid flooding of the United States With low-cost Nipponses piece goods, the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers, acting for the entire hosiery industry of the country, has Just made a three-year quota arrange- ment with the Japan Knitted Goods Ex- porters’ Assoclation. The pact, retro- active to January, 1937, covers cotton, Tayon and cotton-rayon hose of all classifications. It will limit annual Japanese sales in this country to 1.500.- 000 dozen pairs. In recent years these imports have grown steadily, until in 1936 they totaled 2,144,000 dozen. The new agreement thus effects a 30 per cent reduction, * X x ¥ Further to cement cordial relations between Canada and the United States, a second cenference on Dominion- American affairs will be held at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, during the week of June 14-18, under auspices of the Carnegie Endowment for Inter- national Peace. The endowment has in preparation a library of 44 volumes comprehending the history of Canadian- American relations. Dr. James T. Shot- well, supervisor of the collection, says: “It is doubtful if there is any other frontier in the world so untouched by the menace of war as that which divides Canada from the United States. This fact might seem to make the study of our relations superfluous except as purely academic interest, but there is as much to learn from success in an international neighborhood as from failure. When a government-owned railway runs freely in the territory of another sovereign state, it provides an object lesson sadly needed in Europe and Asia.” * ok ok ok Apropos Belgian Premier Van Zee- land's forthcoming arrival in this country, they're telling a story in Prince- ton about an episode at Brussels in November, 1935, a few days after Yale had unexpectedly defeated Princeton in foot ball. A Yale friend of M. Van Zeeland, Princeton '21, handed him a slip of paper on which was scrawled: “Yale, 7; Princeton, 0.” The premier scribbled a message on the paper and handed it back. His rejoinder read: “Belgian cabine*—Princeton, 2; Yale, 0.” The other Princeton-trained cabinet member to whom Van Zeeland thus re- ferred is Viscount Charles de Bus de ‘Warnaffe, minister of interior. Like the ! ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. A reader can get the answer to any question of fact by writing The Evening Star Informatior. Bureau, Frederic J Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C Please inclose stamp for reply. Q. What disposition did the late John Ringling make of his art museum and home in Florida?—E. W. A. Mr. Ringling bequeathed the mu=- seum and its contents and his home to the State of Florida, with a clause that they become the property of Sarasota should the State refuse them. Q. What States have the most insti- tutions of higher education?—R. D. H. A. Those having the greatest number of colleges and universities, professional schools, teachers’ colleges, normal schools, etc., are New York, with 105, and California, with 102. Q. Who invented the close-up and fadeout in motion pictures?>—R. J. N. A. In 1907 David Wark Griffith evolved a screen technique of far-reaching sig- nificance in first bringing into practical use certain methods of pictorial emphasis such as the close-up, cut-back, fade- out and dissolve. Q. Where was the first child health bureau established?—F. R. A. The first bureau of child hygiene was organized in New York City in 1908, with Dr. 8. Josephine Baker as its di- rector. Q. How fast must an object travel to escape from the gravitational attraction of the earth?—M. W. N. A. It must have a speed of 6.95 miles per second. Q. Is there an autobiography of the late John Drinkwater?—E. J. A. The author’'s autobiography was published in two volumes, the first en= titled “Inheritance,” in 1931, and the second “Discovery,” in 1932, Q. What became of the silver bullet used by British spies for carrying mes= sages during the Revolutionary War?— M. B A. It has recently been presented to the Fort Ticonderoga Museum. It was taken from a British spy, who had swal- lowed it when'caught. A dose of tartar emetic caused him to regurgitate it. Q. What is the Cabildo in New Or- leans?>—J. P. A. It is one of the museum buildings. It was built in 1795 and dedicated to museum purposes in 1908. It contains history and art collections. Q. Is Mark Benney the real name of the author of “Angels in Undress”?— H W. A. The author's real name is H. E. Degras. Q. Why is John Lucian Savage called the billion dollar engineer?—B. H. A. He is chief designing engineer of the United States Reclamation Service and has designed irrigation and power structures whose cost reach approx- imately that amount. Q. What is the origin of the word chauvinism?—K. L. A. The word, which means unrea- sonable and exaggerated patriotism, for= merly signified idolatry of Napoleon, being taken from the name of a muche wounded veteran, Nicholas Chauvin, who by his blind adoration of the Emperor became the type of worship of military glory. Q. Who won this vear's Laetare Medal which is presented by Notre Dame Uni- versity?>—E. J. A. It was awarded to Dr. Jeremiah D. M. Ford of the department of ro- mance languages of Harvard University. Q. How many active volcanoes are there in the world>—R. G A. There are betwen 60 and 70 in active eruption. Q. Who owns the largest collection of paintings by Paul Cezanne?—&. H. A. Dr. Albert C. Barnes of Philadel- phia has a collection of approximately 100 Cezannes, which is said to be the largest in the world. Q. Was Paul Revere's father a silver- smith?—A. P. A. There were three Paul Reveres who were silversmiths—the famous Paul Re- vere, his father and his son. Q. What is soil-blowing?—N. O. A. It is another name for wind erosion and refers to the loss of topsoil through windstorms, which have become such a problem in the Middle West. Q. Please give a biography of Lee Bennett, baritone soloist with Jan Gar- ber’s Orchestra.—E. M. A. Mr. Bennett was born on July 4, 1911, at Lincoln, Nebr. and as a boy traveled with his father, an actor and director. He was graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1931 and gained his first dramatic experience while in high schoo! and college. After graduation he joined Station KFAB in Lincoln as a singer, announcer and pro- ducer of programs. In 1932 he at- tracted the attention of Jan Garber and since then has been soloist with his band. He is married and lives in Chicago. Q. Where is present?—A. H. A. She has just left this country for a three months' lecture tour in the Orient. —_— v A Rhyme at Twilight By Gertrude Brooke Hamilton. Harbor. Over tempestuous seas, dear heart, you've wandered, Seeing no light nor any succor there; Knowing long, desolate hours, in which you pondered The way out of a labyrinth of despair. Miss Helen Keller at But we have found the way; found it together. Take it, beloved. Banish every fear. Though you have lost your compass in dark weather The light is stronger now, the way is clear, And all the peril, dear; leave it unspoken! Forget the days you drifted with no chart. Love, let me take you, bruised, storm= tossed and broken, Into a very sheltered place—my heart. premier, the viscount held one of the Belgian Relief Commission Educational Foundation scholarships created with funds remaihing after completion of active relief work under a program drafted by Herbert Hoover, (Copyright, 1937.)