Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1937, Page 10

A—1 7 THE EVENING STA With Sunday Morning Edition, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY _ June 30, 1937 THEODORE W. NOYES The Evening Star Newspaper Company. 11th 8t and Pennsylvania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t Chicago Office: 435 North Michigan Ave. Rate by Carrier—City and Suburban. Regular Ecition. vening and Sunday Star The Ever] ‘; 65c per month or 15¢ per week vening Star The EVening SIA%, or month or 10c per week The Sunday Star ___ 5S¢ per copy Night Final Edition. Night Final and Sunday Night ‘Final Star_. s e ¢ per month Collection made at the end of each month or each week. Orders may be sent by mail or tele- phone National 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunda: yr.. $10.00; 1 mo., Daily “only yri 88001 1 mol Bunday only - yr.. $400; 1 mo. All Other States and Canada, anq Sunday. .. $12.00: 1 mo.. $1.00 only__ i} $8.00: 1 mo, " T3¢ Bunday only”__. $5.00: 1 mo., 50c Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press s exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this Paper and also the local news published herein. All Tights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. To the Boy Scouts: You have come to Washington for Your jamboree because it is the Capital of your country. During your visit here You will see the building in which your Congress passes the legislation necessary for the maintenance of civilized society. The men you will hear speaking in the Senate and the House are your delegates, Yyour servants. You will understand that they are acting for you, spending your money. Within a few years it will be Yyour privilege and your duty to exercise the right of citizenship, to appraise their effort, to choose their successors. Nearby, just across the park, yvou will behold the new home of the Supreme Court, a magnificently beautiful temple of law and order constructed to shelter the highest tribunal in the land—the most notably equitable and merciful bench to be found in the annals of hu- man experience. Some there be who would invade the sanctuary. In the interest of a theoretical and temporary advantage they would violate its in- tegrity, despoil its character as an in- dependent branch of the Government. Perhaps their campaign will succeed. If g0, you should preserve it among the dearest of your memories that you saw the sacred shrine before it was betrayed. At the other end of Pennsylvania avenue stands the White House, the Executive Mansion in which the Presi- dent, raised to leadership by the fran- chise of the people, resides. He is a person not to be envied. Heavy burdens lie upon his mind. His responsibilities are such as to sadden the most ardent and enthusiastic of spirits. Every action, every word, every thought of his life is dedicated to the welfare of the Na- tion; he exists for his office—the onerous position of authority to which the voters have designated him, with little regard for the martydom which his title signi- fies. Of course, he will be guilty of mis- takes; yet even when he is right in his policies he will be criticized intolerantly, abused with cruel bitterness. When he meets you he will smile. But do not be deceived by his cheerfulness. He has tears in his heart. Leaving the White House, you will go to the Lincoln Memorial and look upon the marble effigy of one who perfectly personified America. The Emancipator aied for peace and brotherhood. Before you listen to the voice of current agita- tion, read the words carved on the walls of Freedom's tribute to her beloved son— paragraphs from the Gettysburg address and the second inaugural. Carry the vision with you when you depart. It will help you in the years that lie ahead. Meanwhile, make pilgrimage to Ar- lington and whisper a grateful prayer for the Unknown Soldier who perished that your heritage might be preserved unspoiled. His name is unguessed, his home unrecorded; but he was a boy like yourselves, filled with dreams and hopes like yours, brave with your courage, confident with your faith. A bugle blew for him, a flag was tossed in the breeze for him, and he made the ultimate sacri- fice in a foreign field for the fellowship to which he belonged and to which, as you salute his resting place, you will be admitted. You need no other welcome to Wash- ington. It is your city, the center of the Union of which you are part. Your meeting here you will never forget. It will be with you always wherever you wander so long as you breathe. Try to comprehend it, for your own and your country's sake. ———ete. Weddings are always impressive and America takes the best music where it may be found, even though it may in- volve paying royalties to other countries. —_— e Dunces. Not altogether apposite was the Presi- dent’s remark to a questioner at a White House press conference yesterday regard- ing the matter of a third term. The reporter, following a refusal of the Presi- dent to comment upon Gov. Earle'’s re- cent statement urging him to run again in 1940, asked him directly whether he would accept another term. Laughingly, he was advised to go into a corner and put on a dunce cap and stand with his back to the crowd. Another questioner asked if the Victory Dinner reference to the matter fully covered the question and was advised to join his colleague in the corner. Both questions were in order and neither was answered. The Victory Din- ner statement was not an adequate meet- ing of the matter. The President said that he wanted to turn over Mis office to his successor in 1941, “whoever he may be,” with the assurance that he was turn- ing over to him as President a Nation in sound condition, The word “succes- sor” left the matter still in question. For & man may be his own successor. While the implication was that Mr. Roosevelt expected and desired to turn over the office to another than himself, he did mot say so, and thus he left the matter THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON open to such questions as that which yesterday prompted the advice about a dunce cap. If persistent endeavor to obtain a clarifying statement on this question, which is of importance and great interest to the public, is an evidence of mental deficiency, then indeed there are many Americans who are headed for the dunce’s corner. For until some definite and explicit disavowal of third-term as- piration is forthcoming, there will remain doubt in the public mind. Gov. Earle's recent remark has not elicited it, though it afforded an opportunity. If the cryptic utterance at the Victory Dinner is deemed by the Executive as a definite rejection of the third-term idea, a statement to that effect is in order. —ee—s. The Money Link. Financial obligations to the C. I. O. and its head, John L. Lewis, are re- ported to be irking members of the Democratic party. These Democrats do not like the suggestion that Mr. Lewis has bought and paid for the Democratic administration in Washington, or that he and the organizations with which he is connected are continuing to finance the operations of the Democratic Na- tional Committee. Nor do they like the suggestion that because of these finan- cial transactions the C. I. O. and its head can call upon the Democratic ad- ministration to back up their activities in the field of labor organization and strikes, Had an industrial institution—say the Ford Motor Company—contributed $500,- 000 to the presidential campaign of 1936, in behalf of either of the major candi- dates, there would have been a tre- mendous howl. As a matter of fact, such a contribution would have been illegal, for corporations are barred from making such contributions. But had Henry Ford made such a contribution, the uproar would have been loud and long. A labor union, or group of unions, it appears, occupies a different status under the law when it comes to making political contributions. Why it should be so is not emtirely clear. A corpora- tion which made great contributions to a campaign, or a great industrialist, would immediately be suspected of try- ing to buy the favor of the candidate and party, should the candidate win. There is just as much reason to suspect that a labor union. or its leader, who makes a half-million-dollar con- tribution to the cause of a party candi- date is also trying to buy favors at the hands of the candidate and his adminis- tration. The head of the C. I. O. and his vari- ous labor unions did contribute $500,- 000 to the Roosevelt campaign last year. It has loaned the Democratic National Committee another $50,000, which is to be paid back. To the rank and file Democrat it will doubtless occur that the sooner the $50.000 loan is repaid the better. He might feel that it his even | would be as well to return the half mil- lion dollars which was contributed to the presidential campaign, particularly in the light of the very evident demand | made by Mr. Lewis that the Roosevelt administration now come through for the C. I. O. and its strike methods, whether sit-down or otherwise. The way in which the funds of labor unions are being used interchangeably with those of the Democratic National Committee was brought forcibly to light vesterday by Representative Deen of Georgia, a Democrat. Mr. Deen issued a statement in which he revealed that last April he was asked by the Speakers’ Buseau of the Democratic National Com- mittee to make a speech in Alabama and that he agreed to do so and was told he would receive a check for his traveling expenses—$42.05. When the check turned up it was not a check from the treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. It was a check from the controller of Labor's Non-Partisan League, of which John L. Lewis is chair- man of the board, Sidney Hillman is treasurer and Major George L. Berry, now Senator from Tennessee by appoint- ment, is president. Believing that the sit-down strike technique of the C. I. O. was a close approach to #harchy and being unwill- ing to have traffic with any labor organi- zation of which John L. Lewis was chair- man of the board, Mr. Deen promptly returned the check and notified the Democratic National Committee that he would not make the speech in Birming- ham. What is the Roosevelt administration, the President himself, going to do about linking of the finances of the Demo- cratic National Committee and Mr. Lewis and his organizations? It is a watter that is giving some of the Demo- crats in Congress—and out—much con- cern, particularly in the light of the present activities of the C. I. O. and the drift of public opinion against that organization and its head. [ The fact that the Governor of Mary- land has experienced personal suffering has been mentioned with earnest sym- pathy, but without any intimation that it is going to change the results in a carefully rehearsed political procession. ————s Spain may be expected to hold on to what is left of a war which obviously stands in the way of a practical under- standing among people of basically simple and sensible ideals, —on—s Pretty Sane Behavior. Robert Irwin, who murdered three people on Easter Sunday morning in New York, will make a fight to convince a judge and a jury that he is insane and should therefore escape the death penalty. ‘ Well, perhaps he is insane. But he was sane enough to elude pursuit and to keep himself hidden from the police for three months, earning a living, in the meantime, as a normal person. He was sane enough to catch the glint of recognition in a companion’s eye and to make his escape before the informer made up, her own mind that A she had something worth telling the police. He was sane enough to telephone a newspaper from a public booth and ar- range a price for his “confession,” col- lect the money and hire a criminal lawyer with a reputation for keeping other murderers from the electric chair —all of this with the police hot on his trail, closing in on him. He was sane enough, as soon as he reached New York, to give plenty of publicity to his own insanity. And he is sane enough to know that his only hope of escaping the chair s to show that he is not sane. For a confessed murderer he is acting very sanely. —_—————————— Several gentlemen prominent in the public eye play the violin. Einstein is one who does so and while sufficiently accomplished to win respect from the critics does not permit sweetness of sound to plead alone for his side of an argument. In the course of time college boys will be looking over what Einstein did and saying that he had a great deal of common sense as well as faclle argu- ment on his side. ——r——— Properly disposed union people are ex- pected to hear Miss Perkins with close attention. When she suggests that steel makers confer she does not mean to imply an obligation for the Post Office Department to carry in an indefinite number of breakfasts, dinners and suppers. e Her third husband causes Mary Pick- ford no great anxiety. She manages, at least, to succeed in attendipg to her per- sonal happiness without making her pos- sibilities of trouble a matter of public concern, r—————————— By the time Mr. Tom Girdler gets through speaking his mind about steel strikes he will appear to be one of those people who do not have to worry through one in order to tell those who are in- terested all about {t. e Effort has been made to call a general strike at Paterson, N. J., silk mills without a preliminary question as to whether New Jersey has not been getting more than a fair share of the trouble. ————ee Some brilliant occasions will demand the attendance of Amelia Earhart when she gets home. Fortunately, good avia- tors of all nationalities are showing a disinclination to allow politics to inter- fere with their attitudes in public affairs. e Weddings are always helpful in call- ing attention to the rights of a younger generation to claim happiness regardless of what professional politicians may think they are called on to do about the matter. o Shooting Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Happy Medium. I love to hear the highbrow Making great opinions known; I sometimes wish that my brow Were lofty, like his own. Yet my feeling never mellows When he leads the learned hike, As when talking to plain fellows Such as Jim and Bill and Mike. I don't commend the highbrow Of the rude, assertive kind. I am satisfied that no brow Should conceal a vacant mind. But when erudite orations Leave me mystified, I like The lucid observations ‘Of plain Jim and Bill and Mike, Depression. “Why do you gaze at that pretty girl?” “I admire her dimple,” answered Sen- ator Sorghum. “It's the only kind of depression just now that I can approve of.” The Querist. “My small boy asks a lot of remarkable questions.” “Yes,” replied the weary friend. “He will make a fine hand on an investigat- ing committee when he grows up and goes to Congress.” Fireworks. ‘When famous loud speakers have passed on their way We look for a safety and sanity day. Oratorical fireworks we cannot deny Bring more peril than those of the 4th of July. Industrious Demonstration. “Does your husband waste much time at a ball game?” “Waste time! T should say not. I never saw him so busy anywhere else.” “The stories of war caused by beau- tiful women,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “are not invariably true. A woman sufficiently clever sto direct a war may command reputation as a beauty whether she is one or not.” Literature for All Old Juvenal I shall not read, A pessimist was he; For Homer I find little need— Of war he talked too free. 8o when myself I would amuse, A joy it is to greet On modern lines as I peruse The signs along the street. How oft the signal “Stop and Go” My grateful eye has caught! ¢ And “S L O,” which stands for “slow,” A lesson fine has taught. “No Parking Here,” though brief in phrase, With meaning is replete. Why ask for books when we can read The signs along the street! “Advice wouldn’t be handed around near so free,” said Uncle Eben, “if it was worth ten cents & bunch in cash, same a8 lettuce or beets.” NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM BY MARGARET GERMOND. A MIGHTY FORTRESS. By Le Grand Cannon, jr. New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Zeke Peele, the hero of this latest selection of “The Discoverers,” is born in circumstances far happier than those which surround many youngsters. Abel and Minna Peele are a happy couple, owners of a small New Hampshire farm, respectably prosperous, devout church- goers and after five years of wedded life rewarded with the joy of parenthood. With the birth of little Ezekiel a new interest in the farm is born in Abel. Thus far his pride in his small estate has been purely personal, but with a son growing up to share the responsi- bility and eventually to succeed him, pride in immediate achievement grows into ambition to build for endurance, to leave for Zeke and for the generations to follow him something to .cherish with admiration and gratitude. When he is twelve years old, Zeke, who has grown into a fine, wholesome country lad, is put to work doing light chores on the farm. It is not because Abel is a hard, selfish taskmaster that he gives Zeke something to do at so early an age, but because he believes that' a healthy lad should begin when as old as Zeke to experience responsi- bility. Under the watchful care of Tom, a giant ex-slave farmhand, Zeke begins to take his place on the farm. The work is hard and Zeke hates it—which is a mistake. He loves Tom and with S0 much substantial hackground he should stay on the farm and grow into happy and successful manhood. It seems, however, that Zeke is born to make mistakes. His second error of Judgment and common sense grows out of his admiration for the persuasive .oratorical powers of a vagabond revival- ist named Watling. While conducting services in the neighborhood, Watling is lodged at the Peele house and Sheba, his most treasured possession, is given the best of care by Zeke in the Peele stable. Zeke knows a lot about preach- ers. but never before has he heard any- thing like the golden phrases and en- chanting volce of Mr. Watling. Before the series of meetings comes to an end Zeke has determined that he is going to preach Not because the revivalist has inspired him with the desire to preach the gospel. The seriousness of religion as a profession does not enter into Zeke's calculations. He wants to experience the thrill of feeling and seeing masses of people respond to his preaching as they respond to the ap- peal of Mr. Watling. When the revival- ist leaves the neighborhood Zeke is per- mitted to go with him as a helper in meetings and to take care of Sheba. a black mare who shares honors with Mr. Watling, Abel and Minna as the most likable character in the book. When his apprenticeship with Watling comes to an end. Zeke goes to Andover to fit himself for the ministry and is appointed second assistant pastor of a large Boston church. He works hard but is not given manv opportunities to preach. he grasps his third mistake. He falls under the influence of Deacon Mac- Intosh. who is using the church as a cloak for his crimes and who sees in Zeke an opportunity to guarantee se- curitv against knowledge that he is en- gaged in a nefarious trade. The young girl he introduces as his niece is ordered to induce Zeke to marry her. The mar- riage takes place, the pastor of the church dies and by action of the church membership, called out in full by false information circulated through the in- fluence of MacIntosh, poor Zeke is elected pastor. _The church proves dull and his mar- riage is all wrong, but Zeke never takes stock of himself in the sense of wonder- ing if by chance it might be his own fault. A man less interested in his power to stir audiences and more con- cerned in men and women as human beings would know how to avoid trouble. But not Zeke. He literally gathers it by the wayside. He is not interested in politics and knows practically nothing about abolition. In order further to guarantee his own safety, MacIntosh decides to compel Zeke to preach an abolitionist sermon. Zeke goes home for a visit and while there Tom is murdered by a fake sheriff acting on spurious orders. Zeke is, of course, immediately converted and thereby unwittingly be- comes more heartily than ever the tool of the deacon. Abolition meetings are numerous and Zeke is a favorite speaker. The church casts him out and he seeks another. Lire_ grows more complex and reaches a climax when Mr. Watling appears at the home of Zeke and Viola when Mac- Intosh is present and casually gives out the information that in his traveling about he has learned that the deacon is responsible for Tom's death. Viola, meanwhile, has grown to love her hus- band and to hate the deacon and all his crimes more than ever. The time has come to confess the whole sorry his- tory of her life. Mr. Watling can help her in this crisis to decide whether to run the risk of losing Zeke by telling him of her partnership with the deacon. Mr. Watling, however, has discreetly left the two of them alone. Overwhelmed by disappointment. dis- illusionment and poverty, Zeke eventu- ally begins to realize that he has de- voted his life almost entirely to himself and that selfishness has been the cause of many of his mistakes. It might be supposed that experience effects a cure of his one-sided nature and prompts him to pursue another course toward a brighter hope. But not Zeke. He keeps right on preaching. R Up to the Dominions. From the Baltimore Sun. The outlook for a reciprocal trade agreement with Great Britain seems to have improved in the last few weeks. The improvement has not been as great as one might have hoped. for, but it at least shows that the trend is still toward eventual success. Evidence of this may be seen in the belief now held in Wash- ington that the differences between the two countries have more or less nar- rowed themselves down to the question of the concessions the British might be willing to make with regard to Amer- ican farm products. It may also be considered a good sign that Walter Runciman has retired as president of the Board of Trade. He favored a reciprocal agreement with the United States, but wanted it arranged on such terms as would, in effect, “canal- ize” trade between England and America, a proposal that ran counter to Secretary Hull's idea of using reciprocity as a means of leveling international trade barriers. Thus his withdrawal removes at least one obstacle to the projected agreement. The imperial conference in London likewise is yielding certain favorable, if passive, results. The Dominion premiers have shown themselves better disposed toward the reciprocity plan than had been expected. They realize, however, that their principal opposition at home will come from the agricultural and re- lated interests that have been profiting from the system of imperial preference establizhed by the ‘Ottaws agresments.. - He is not long in Boston when | D. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30 THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘What is the most disagreeable garden task? 8Spraying insecticides and fungicides, without doubt. Buch work is both physically and mentally boresome; it wearies those who never stop to realize it, besides tiring their arms. There are few tasks in the everyday life, in or out of a garden, more tire- some than handling one of the smaller sprayers. The can of spraying material is held in the left hand and the plunger, or pump, operated with the right. This presupposes an amount of mus- cular energy which few persons possess. We have known doughty athletes give over the task after half an hour of it. Lugging arouhd a big heavy com- pressed sprayer is not altogether the pleasure the beginner amateur gardener imagines it, either. Using a duster is not an unmixed blessing. Some of the dust is likely to be inhaled; even the most careless work- er will find that to get dust on the undersides of leaves is no easy task. * ok k¥ ‘The nuisance value of spraying must be mentioned. At best, putting on insecticides and fungicides, many of them of the most poisonous materials, is not altogether a bed of roses, although that is precisely where some of them must be used, of course. These sprays and powders are some- times of an extremely poisonous nature. Some are fish poisons, so-called, the toxic powers of which were discovered by South American aborigines. Scientists since have found out that many poisons are combined in some of these “purely vegetable products.” Naturally they are tremendously re- duced in power by dilution, either with ‘water, to form a spray, or with light dust of some sort to make powders for use as dusting materials. Some of these toxic materials find a large use in flea powders. Some idea of their power may be had when it is realized that only 1 per cent of the material is active—the rest is talcum powder. Lead, copper and other elements are used in some spravs; all of these should be handled with the greatest of caution, with attention paid to warnings on labels. * % % % The necessity for spraying at all is what gets one. It seems such a waste of time, for there are so many “bugs” of all kinds that even the most determined gardener has difficulty keeping up with them He finds himself in the unasked role of “natural enemy” of all of them. The true natural enemies of many of them are nowhere to be found; they were left, perhaps, in the native habitat. The gardener discovers that upon him. and him alone, rests all the chance his plants have of passing through the sea- son without insect or fungus attacks. 5 This may seem thrilling enough, for a ime. For a space the gardener feels himself hero. . < If he is to have thriving plants it all depends upon him. Isn't that the role of the ages for the aspiring man? Here are many beautiful flowers, vegetables, shrubs, trees, lawns, none of which can do well without his help. All the famous natural enemies of the famous—and infamous—insects, beetles, “bugs,” blights, rusts, mildews and a thousand more which assail his precious plants have been left behind in their native lands. The importers—mostly unknowing—of insect and fungus pests failed to bring along the natural enemies, with the re- sult that these pests are getting ahead of us. Only sprays and powders and the like can help us. * x k¥ Wherefore it seems and is foolish not to use them. But that is not all! Not by a garden full of insects! There remains the side of man which is bored. It is his soul, or maybe just his mind. Whatever it is in him, it protests the necessity for these repeated sprayings, both with sprayer and powder gun. 1t finally ends up by his refusing to do most of the spraying necessary. Notice all those evergreens browned tips. See the roses, which are not half as pretty as they ought to be, or would be, perhaps, if sprayed. The gardener must admit it. with If he sprayed as he should, if he put sulphur dust on his roses faithfully every week for three or four months, he might have better roses. The question is, are roses worth it? *ox X % The question is, are any plants worth it? The answer is, from a million protest- ing throats, “No!” Insects, fungi and other blights have taken an unfair advantage of us. They have sneaked up on us, now they threaten our gardens before we can turn around. Spray we must—with one exception. Here is the secret! Grow flowers which, as yet, have escaped the “bugs.” There are a few of these left which somehow the insect invaders have over- looked. Let us stick to these and be happy, florally speaking. without the everyday necessity for recourse to the sprayer or dust gun. If your phlox is disease-ridden this Summer, as it is in so many gardens, give over phlox for a time, just as many amateurs stopped growing the gladiolus when the iniquitous thrip seemed ready to drive it from our shores. A little garden spraying, now and then, goes a long way. It is tiresome, boring. stultifying. When it must be done, of course. it shall be done; but when we can get out of it, of course not! —_—mm— WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's famous dic- tum from Spottsylvania—"I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all Summer”—has been formally adopted by Gen. Burton K. Wheeler, commander in chief of the Senate army opposed to the Roosevelt Supreme Court bill. Senator Wheeler's campaign to smash compromise proposals has been organ- ized on lines that contemplate battling, if need be, until snow flies. The fili- buster program will be carried out by seven five-man “teams” under designated captains, whose sworn duty it is to talk to death Roosevelt-inspired efforts to salvage any sort of victory, two justices or otherwise, from the court-packing wreckage. Teams and captains are ap- pointed, instructed and ready for action. Different quintets will be assigned to hold the floor for certain days of each week, talking as far into the night as required, or all night. The marathon will be carried on indefinitely, with plenty of lung power in reserve.* Eight Senators are told off to serve as emer- gency spellbinders. Gen. Wheeler's next in command is Senator Burke of Nebraska. Senator Clark of Missourf is chief of the parliamentary staff in charge of tactics. * %k X ¥ While the brunt of battle will be borne by the Democrats, they will not lack powerful Republican support. Senator McNary of Oregon, resourceful and astute minority leader, will from the outset be an important ally in floor strategy, while the G. O. P.’s biggest oratorical guns, Senators Borah, John- son and Vandenberg, will be at the Democratic opposition's disposal for duty on the firing line whenever and as often as necessary. Graphic evi- dence of the prospective duration of the war of words is Vandenberg's an- nouncement that he alone is loaded with & 16-hour speech, which is “a mere outline” of what he’ll have to say later. All in all, the stage is set for one of the most continuous performances Capi- tol Hill has ever put on. The Senate chamber will ring with more belligerent eloquence than has shivered its timbers in many a day. * X ¥ X Administration forces are by no means idle in preparing for the fray. Senator Robinson, Democratic majority leader, is busily engaged in perfecting his own campaign plans and is ex- pected shortly to indicate the}r general nature. According to unperturbed Sen- ator Ashurst, Judiciary Committee chairman, there's no inclination on the part of the proponent forces to interfere with “legitimate debate,” even though this should assume the unmistakable guise of a filibuster. Says the Arizonan: “My own position remains the same as when the bill first came before our committee—no heat, no haste, no hurry, no worry. Personally, I believe that anywhere from three to four weeks of discussion is inevitable. On with the show!” * ok ok % No one got a gayer, gladder greeting from Mr. Roosevelt at Jefferson Island than Senator Wheeler, archfoe of the court bill. It was a cheery “Hello, Burt,” from the smiling President when the Montanan hove into view, and an equally hearty “Hello, Mr. President,” from him. Good-bys were exchanged between them in the same cordial terms. But that seems to have been the be- ginning and the end of their fraterniz- ing. Other anti-court-packers at the picnic had about the same experience. How much there is to the theory that the Chesapeake Bay love feast caused certain opponents at least to deplore the ferocity of the Judiciary Committee's adverse report, in its personal refer- ences to F. D. R, remains to be dem- onstrated. Impending Senate debate will show to what extent, if any, they have recanted. : B Our Army and Navy aviation people [ L= exploits of Russian flyers, especially the trio which executed the non-stop flight from Moscow to the United States, have made the deepest kind of impression in Germany and Japan. In the event of hostilities with either of its powerful neighbors, the U. 8. 8. R. is known to place paramount faith in its huge air force. When Messrs. Beliakoff, Chkaloft and Baidukoff were in Washington this week, they proudly told a luncheon company of newspaper men that there are “tens of thousands” of Soviet airmen capable of duplicating the great feat which they themselves achieved. Am- bassador Troyanovsky drew a significant analogy between confusion in time at the North Pole and what is now going on in Russia. Just as the flyers were hazy about meridian time, the envoy said, many people seem to be in con- fusion about the ‘“present historical time in the Soviet Union.” Some of his hearers thought the Ambassador was pleading for withholding of interna- tional judgment until conditions in his country are clarified. * ¥ *x % Along with the disclosure that the United States Navy is lending Brazil technical aid in the construction of its destroyer fleet, reports reach Washing- ton that both Germany and Japan have been making determpined efforts to se- cure control of some of Brazil's exten- sive iron ore and manganese deposits. The Rio de Janeiro finance minister, Arthur de Souza Coasta, who recently arrived in Washington, has been dis- cussing possible modifications of the Brazilian-American reciprocal trade agreement. Benefits to this country are said to have been seriously impaired by & Brazillan-German trade pact, which has just been extended for three months. Nazi firms hanker in particular for Brazilian armament contracts. The new destroyers are being built down there out of American materials. * X % x . One of the G. O. P.s 1940 white hopes, Dr. Glenn Frank, former presi- dent of the University of Wisconsin, will display his wares at the National Press Club’s weekly luncheon forum tomorrow. Politicians of all hues are beginning to wonder how long the ele- phant is going to roam aimlessly in the wilderness without developing a leader of presidential stature. It was noted as an item not devoid of significance that Senator McNary’s recent blast at the Jefferson Island “charm school” singled out Senators Bridges of New Hampshire and Lodge of Massachusetts as Repub- licans who have recently “spurred the New Deal into action.” Both young New Englanders rate as 1940 eligibles, along with a third Republican from their neck of the woods, former Gov. Winant of New Hampshire. * Xk ok X At the glittering Soviet Embassy re- ception for the Russian flyers, the show was almost stolen by John L. Lemwis, who, in faultless dinner togs, revealed himself a master of all the social graces as he remained the center of attention throughout the evening. Overheard in & buzz of animated chatter about the bushy browed labor chieftain: “What does C. I. O. stand for?” Quoth a wisecracker: “Perhaps it means ‘Com- ing Into Office.’” (Copyright, 1937.) Wise Fish Prom the Saginaw News. Osakland, Calif., physiclans say trout are the least color blind of fish, bearing out the theory that they always know a green angler. Disappointing Prospect From the Toledo Blade. A Paris clairvoyant says the world will end this coming September. Just when hay fever sufferers begin to have visions of & rsjuvenated world, \ 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. Why are duckpins so called?>—M. E. A. They were the invention of Wilbert Robinson, the base ball player. He cut off tenpins and used a lighter ball to make a less strenuous Summer game. When the ball struck the pins and they bounced into the air, Robinson, who was a great duck hunter, said that they looked like ducks. And duckpins they became. Q. Are many marriages performed at the Little Brown Church in the Vale, in Nashua, Towa?—W. F. A. Over 6,000 couples from all over the United States have been married there in the last fifteen years. Q. Did Luther Burbank have any of his plants patented?—E. J. A. The scientist received nine plant patents posthumously. Q. How many aliens are there in the United States?—R. M. A. Our alien population is now esti mated at 4,250,000. Q. If all industrial workers were to unite politically how would their strength compare with the so-called white-collar group?—B. B. A. According to the last census the industrial classification numbered 18.- 937,000, but as executives are included, the number of actual workers would be less. White-collar workers are numbered at 19,140,000, and by transferring the in- dustrial executives this figure would be over 20,000,000. If the farmers. who more often vote with the white-collar group, were added about 10,500,000 votes would be so aligned. In the last election 45,« 638,000 votes were cast. Q. What cities are considered the windiest in the United States?—H. T. A. Some of the windiest are New York City, Chicago, Buffalo and Cleveland. Q. What was the name of the first newspaper in Michigan?—R. E. A. A. The first newspaper in Michigan was a spoken newspaper established under the auspices of the Rev. Father Gabriel Richard. a priest of the Order of Sulpice, who went to Detroit in 1798. He obtained a town crier to stand on the church steps every Sunday to tell the public such news as was fit to be an- nounced. The first printed newsphper grew out of this spoken newspaper. It was entitled the Michigan Essay. or Im= partial Observer, established in Detroit, August 31, 1809. James M. Miller, a parishioner of Father Richard, was editor. xt'as published every Thursday. Q. Who was the first woman in the United States to have a permanent wave? —W. R. A. Mrs. Martin Johnson, widow of the explorer, said in a recent interview that she and Irene Castle McLaughlin had the first permanent waves in the United States. Q. How does Louisiana rank in the production of furs?>—M. H. B. A. Louisiana ranks first as a fur-pro- ducing State, the muskrat being the most important of the fur-bearing ani- mals. The total annual value of furs is in excess of eight million dollars. Other furs produced include opossum, raccoon, mink, skunk, civet cat, otter, and fox. Q. What is meant by the Brethren of Death?—C. J. A. This was the name given to the hermits of the Order of St. Paul, formed in the thirteenth century, but suppressed by Pope Urban VIII. They dressed in a black habit, marked with a skull, and saluted each other with the words, “Re- member that you must die.” Q. What songs were composed by Charles K. Harris?—E. G A. He wrote both words and music to several hundred popular songs, among the most famous of which were “After the Ball Is Over,” “Break the News to Mother,” *“’Mid the Green Fields of Vir- ginia,’ e a Longing in My Heart," “Louise,” and “The Old Homestead.” Q. What is jaggery?—L. H A. It is the sugar obtained from sev- eral varieties of the palm and has been used in India since ancient times. Q. Who were the first sculptors in the United States?—F. M. A. The first native sculptors in the United States were Horatio Greenough, Hiram Powers and Thomas Crawford, all of whom studied in Rome. Q. What events should be included in a water carnival at a Summer camp for young people?—S. H. A. As a generalization, the events should be the forms of sport in which the campers have been indulging. The following would usually be suitable: Fifty-yard dash, hundred-yard dash, relay race, diving, rowboat race, canoe race, tub race and canoe tilt. Q. When was a police car first equipped with a radio receiving set?>—N. R. A. One in Detroit had a receiving set in 1921. It took about seven years for the Detroit Police Department to reach a satisfactory stage. Now there are 557 municipal and county police radio sta= tions in operation. Q. Where does Jesse Stuart, author of “Man With the Bull-Tongue Plow,” teach?—E. F. A. The poet is principal of Greenup County High School at Taylor, Ky. Q. Why is Tryone Park in New York City so named?—A. R. A. It was named for Fort Tryone, on the site of which this development was made. Fort Tryone was one of the three principal defenses of the city during the - Revolutionary War. A Rhyme at Twilight ; By Gertrude Brooke Hamilton. The Graduate. What lies ahead, son, out here in the world Now the college days are over? The path we must take when we're on our own Is seldom thru flelds of clover; Stormy, rutty, in truth: Yet with vigor and youth You never need run to cover. 8o tackle the strenuous job of life With the courage to do and dare; If you face hard storms and walk over ruts In the end you will get somewhers, You have youth and pluck; Here's a toast to your luckie Top the crest of your mother's prayer! [} ’ W