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Revising Local Tax Laws.
The House resolution directing the
present fiscal relations inquiry spe
cifically empowered the special com
mittee to “investigate fully the vari
ous sources of revenue of the District
of Columbia and to recommend to the
House such new forms of taxation and
sources of revenue or such changes in
the existing forms of taxation and
sources of revenue as to them may
seem just and fair.” In pursuance of
this line of inquiry the ccmmittee has
received suggestions from Dr. Thomas
Walker Page, member of the Tariff
Commission and an economist of
Standing.
While Dr. Page suggests certain sub
stitute forms of taxation for the Dis
trict of Columbia, such as the income
tax and the inheritance tax, his em
phasis upon the fact that there should
be no “additional” burdens of taxation
thrown upon the already adequately
taxed District of Columbia will, of
course, be carefully noted by the com
mittee.
The Bureau of Efficiency report again
Shows the fact that Washington’s tax
burden is already relatively high. Dr.
Page states that the tax burden here
is high. All the expert testimony 60
far introduced before the committee
shows that taxes in Washington are
high; that the people of the District
■re not undertaxed. And an equitable
weighing of the facts will show that the
local community suffers more from over
taxation than from undertaxation.
If Congress, in its exclusive legisla
tive power over the District, sees fit to
revise the system of taxation here, such
a revision should be attempted for the
sole purpose of guaranteeing fair and
equal apportionment of the tax burden.
It should not be undertaken in order
to pry more taxes out of this already
heavily contributing community.
Experience has amply shown the
dangers to the local community that
result when congressional committees
undertake tax tinkering in the District
of Columbia. Substitute taxes become
additional taxes. The safeguarding “In
lieu of” vanishes with a quick stroke of
the pen and additional dollars are
squeezed from the unrepresented tax
payers.
The primary consideration before the
special House committee is the adequacy
of the Federal contribution, not the
adequacy of the local tax burden. Con
sideration of the one, however natu
rally, and in this case specifically, in
volves consideration of the other. But
H was not the failure of the local com
munity to contribute its share to ex
penses of the Federal City that brought
about the investigation. It was the
demonstrated failure of the Federal
Government to contribute its Just share,
and the resulting legislative tangles re
sulting from inability of the two houses
of Congress to agree as to what that
contribution should be, that brought
about the investigation.
The House committee must not be
snticed away from the main trial. The
same expert testimony that has shown
the adequacy of the local tax burden
has pointed out in dollars and cents the
Inadequacy of the Federal contribution.
That contribution should first be In
creased. The committee should recom
mend or attempt to recommend some
formula that will guarantee a Federal
contribution representative of the Fed
eral obligation. It should bend Its efforts
to establishing, or re-establishing, a rela
tionship between the local community
and the Federal Government that will
by reason of its fairness prevent the
annual repetitions of controversy that
results now from unfairness, short
sightedness and shirking repudiation of
the law by the law-making Congress. i
After these things have been settled,
the committee may with propriety un
dertake the thorough study of the tax j
laws here that must precede any in
telligent revision.
When Ben Franklin by means of a
kite drew an electric spark from a
thundercloud he had no Idea of the
future expense of electric lighting nor
the dangers of the airplane. As a
philosopher he favored scientific devel
opment on practical lines. He was wise,
but like many thinkers he was not wise
•nough to see the greatness of the
things he had started.
Whenever public economy is demand
ed. a statesman usually arises who hon
estly believes he has done his entire
duty in trying to solve a complex na
tional problem when he suggests hold
tag down the pay of Government
Workers
Hedeyo Noguchi.
A peasant’s house in the mountain
village of Inawashiro in Northern
Japan lias been made a national shrine.
The story of the life which led to
this apotheosis, as told by Dr. Bimon
Flexner of the Rockefeller Institution
In the last Smithsonian annual report,
should become one of the classics of
4 human history—although, curiously
enough. It is unfamiliar In the country
Where its greatest heights were reached.
It is the story of a poor, ragged, crip
pled boy bom into an almost primitive
environment who became one of the
sur>rem“ of th» human race.
This boy was Hedeyo Noguchi, w r ho
died of yellow lever in Africa last year
while close on the trail of the elusive
filterable virus which he believed le
gporisible for that malady.
k The story, u told by Dr. Flexner, la
that a Japanese official happened one
day to visit the primitive village school
at Inawashiro where the master called
his attention to the remarkable mind
I of one of the pupils. This child had
suffered a serious accident in infancy.
. The country doctor—one can Imagine
what country doctors were in Japan
50 years ago—had so butchered him
that one of his hands was useless and
he had been kept out of school for sev
eral years because of his physical con
dition. But in a single year he had
overtaken the pupils of his own age.
The interest of this official started
the boy on a career in which he was to
achieve some of the most important ad
vances yet made against snake venoms,
infantile paralysis, paresis. Rocky Moun
tain spotted fever, trachoma, yaws, yel
low fever and rabies. He became one
of the greatest men of his age.
Most of Noguchi’s work was carried
on in the United States, where he found
better laboratory and clinical facilities.
Perhaps his greatest triumph came at
the convention of the American Med
ical Association in Washington four
years ago, when he announced that he
had isolated the micro-organism re
sponsible for trachoma, a disease espe
cially prevalent in the American South.
Japan does well in making a shrine
of the birthplace of Noguchi. It should
be a shrine not only for the nation of
his birth, but for the world. The little
Japanese doctor is one of the shining
lights of history.
Prevent Motor Accidents!
A new record for the past three years,
and one not to be proud of, was set in
the District for the month of November.
There are records and records, and
the District has many, too numerous to
recount here, of which it may justly be
proud. But there are others to be de
plored, and the one just established is
not the least of these.
A statement just Issued by Inspector
E. W. Brown, assistant superintendent
of police, commanding the Traffic Bu
reau, shows there were more deaths,
minor injuries and accidents in the
month just past than in the corre
sponding month of either last year or
of 1928.
The ten deaths of November of this
year represents exactly two and a half
times the number of deaths from traffic
accidents in the same month last year
and one more death than recorded In
November, 1928.
Likewise there were 302 minor in
juries in the month just past, against
only 248 last year and 299 in 1928. An
other feature, which well might be con
sidered alarming, is the actual number
of traffic accidents. Last month there
was a total of 789, as compared with
542 last year and 607 in 1928.
That accidents were on the Increase
last month over the number in the
same month during the two preceding
years should call for diligence on the
part of every policeman and every in
dividual in the city. Automobiles ran
be replaced. But where human life is
involved the loss is irreparable. ’
There have been accident-prevention
campaigns of great number and va
riety. All are useless, however, without
Individual effort.
Therefore, as a part of the Christmas
spirit, let every individual exercise care
with a view to preventing accidents,
that some home may not be over
shadowed with sorrow and death on
Christmas, the day which should be
one of happiness for every one.
Time and Hard Times.
In these hard times it is pleasing to
read of the prominent Mid-Western
clock company which reports that for
the eleven months ended with Novem
ber, 1930, sales were more than four
times larger than for the corresponding
period of 1929.
While this ray of economic sunshine
may not appear so bright to the mil
lions out of work, it nevertheless has
aspects encouraging in the general
situation.
Time is something which the poorest
man has as much of as the richest.
The man out of work feels that time
hangs heavy on his hands, while the
man employed sometimes spends the
time, so it is said, watching the clock
It would seem to the general observer
of things American that clocks stand
on the border line between luxuries and
essentials. An alarm clqpk Is an essen
tial to some sleepers, but not to others.
Ornamental clocks may be necessary
to some and utterly beyond the pur
chasing power of others, and hence
luxuries. * Only the individual case can
decide.
If four times as many clocks were
sold this year by one company, it is
likely that the entire clock industry is
Increasing its business. If the clock
manufacturers do well, the chances are
that other house-furnishings manufac
turers will enjoy a greater volume of
sales.
j Maybe this time the “clock trade is
the proverbial straw which shows which
way the trade wind blow’s.
The fact that Bishop Manning and
former Judge Lindsey feel strong mutual
’ disapproval cannot prevent them from
1 making each other more famous day by
* day.
Better Fishing.
When Commissioner Henry O’Malley
i of the United States Bureau of Fisheries
called a conference of the Fish Com
missioners of Maryland, Virginia, West
Virginia and Pennsylvania at the bureau ,
last Tuesday his action marked a b g
step forward in the lives of fish in
our neighboring waters and bright
I prospects for the sportsmen in the Im
mediate future.
The bureau and the visiting con
servation officers went on record favor
ing a closed market for the members
of the bass family in our neighboring
States of Maryland and Pennsylvania,
the abolition of the deadly purse net In
the waters of Chesapeake Bay, the re
striction of shad nets in the Potomac
’ and the bay. and a representative of
, the Biological Survey advocated that
, the Bureau of Fisheries ask Congress
for a migratory fish law the same as
; the migratory bird law.
, The Maiyland Conservation Commts
, sloner said his office had prepared bills
. j to close the markets of his State to
. j the sale and shipment of bass and to
. j stop for sll time purse netting in the
s bay.
. | Just what such action on the part
j of the Maryland Legislature will mean
r In dollars and cents to Maryland na
t tives catering to the wants of anglers
- is hard to estimate, but it is safe to
say it will be up in the hundreds of
i thousands. It will mean that the Citi
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zen* of Maryland, the District of Co
lumbia and Virginia who like to fish
for bass in the fresh water streams and
for the rock, trout and tailors in salt
water will no longer be deprived of
their sport by commercial net fisher
men, whose trap nets have been work
ing day and night to exterminate these
fish.
It will mean that the money spent by
the State for hatching and planting
bass in the streams will no longer be
unwisely spent in trying to maintain a
game fish which was sold as a food fish.
It was the unanimous opinion of the
conference that the shad nets In the
Potomac and Chesapeake Bay be re
stricted and spawning grounds provided.
If this Is accomplished. It will mean
more shad and better fishing for the
anglers because the same nets which
catch the shad also catch other fish.
The visiting fish commissioners were
enthusiastic over the success of the
conference, and the hope was expressed
that another meeting would be held In
the very near future. This leading step
on the part of the Bureau of Fisheries
to codify fish laws and have more effi
cient laws enacted is highly commend
able and is also very pleasing to the
fishing fraternity.
The British shipping magnate, Lord
Inchcape, contends that doles call for
too great a burden on active earning
capacity. The ideal solution of an un
employment condition would, of course,
be one that stimulates a wage-earning
capacity, with an assured market for
tne product. It is a solution which
many minds, both ancient and modern,
have sought to discover as various eco
nomic emergencies arose. No money is
as highly valued or as useful as that
which Is commanded by serious and in
telligent endeavor.
An authoritative writer recently said:
"Notre Dame men rejoice in the prowess
of their gridiron heroes, but are prouder
still of the less transitory traditions that
cling to their alma mater.” If the tra
dition of a winner there is “transitory,"
then that word does not mean what
most of us think it does.
When Huey Long comes to flourish irf
Washington, D. C„ he will no doubt be
permitted to wear pajamas If he wants
to, although in recent times the political
turmoil has become so strong that there
is not much hope of getting a wink of
sleep in the Capitol.
Out in Chicago a seventy-year-old
“confidence man” faces a fresh prison
term, having already spent twenty years
of his life behind prison bars. It would
seem to be about time he lost confidence
In this hazardous mode of gaining a
livelihood.
Favor of the eighteenth amendment
by Thomas Edison could not be ex
pressed more emphatically if he had in
vented It himself. His glory will be even
greater if he can design some way of
making it work as reliably as the elec
tric light.
London society dames are taking up
fine needlework again, it is announced.
It Is those insidious long skirts, without
a doubt. There is no telling where their
Influence may end—possibly even blush
ing will stage a come-back.
A general Investigation of the -real
estate business is not especially favored
by Senator Tydings, who apparently
believes that life is too short to be
devoted entirely to the study of statisti
cal details.
The large sums alleged to have been
circulated In certain elections ought to
go a little way toward temporary relief
of the stress of circumstances caused by
unemployment.
There is at least enough cordial un
derstanding left to permit statesmen to
send one another the customary Christ
mas cards and New Year greetings.
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Reform Reincarnate.
“Os outlaws once I led a band
The very boldest in their land.
As reincarnated we appear
We now behold the racketeer.
And as the bullets grow more dense
Where general crime becomes immense,
I do not like the neighborhood.
I’m going to be good!”
Says Robin Hood.
"Where once as archers we’d compete
Now gunmen hurry through the street;
Light-heartedly we went along
To take a purse or sing a song.
Vie were bad men, but we did not
Put one another ‘on the spot.’
This trip, I want it understood,
I’m going to be good!”
Says Robin Hood.
Difficult Harmony.
“What you statesmen ought to do,”
said the man who gives advice, “is to
get together and harmonize.”
“No doubt of It?” answered Senator
Sorghum, “but we get confused by the
unexpected rapidity with which what
starts as a love duet may change to a
battle song.”
Jud Tunkins says a lot of folks would
be happier if they didn’t put in so
much time worrying about whether they
* are as happy as they might be.
Fashion Note from Chicago.
Os a new average we’re aware,
As barbers’ records we explore;
The girls no longer bob their hair.
But men wear whiskers more and
more.
Not Much Difference.
“Einstein has discovered a new uni
verse."
“I have been reading the newspapers
closely,” rejoined Miss Cayenne, "and
I can’t see where it is any great im
provement on the old one.”
! “Our close friends,” said Hi Ho, the
i sage of Chinatown, “have so much op
portunity to observe our faults that they
generously cease to be interested in
them.”
Wedding Announcements.
No matter what the gossips say
Os matrimonial manners new,
Folks marry in the good old way
And live for an affection true.
i j “Some big speakers,” said Uncle Eben,
i' “sound like dey couldn’t get sho’ nuff
' Interested in de subject in hand wlfout
• login’ deir tempers over tt."
I I THIS AND THAT I
}-
, BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.
! "Dear Sir: I was interested in read
ing the account in your column in
, Monday’s Star of the attempted
wanderings of the 25-year-old collar
' button belonging to your friend.
"However, I strongly suspect it was
, your own button you were talking
about. If It was your button and you
were ashamed to admit it because you
i thought you were the only man In the
i United States who possessed a collar
, button he has been wearing 25 years
and was obsessed with a horror of
losing it, Just you rest easy,
i “There is one other and it Is your
, humble servant. Just after my mar
riage, a little over 24 years ago, my
wife, in going through some of her
effects, resurrected th'.s old friend of
1 mine, and It has tried to give me the
slip in all the ways you describe, and
then some.
“At times it has seemed to display a
positively malevolent cunning in gain
ing its freedom and at other times its
attempts at escape have been tinged
i with a sort of sly jocularity. However,
I have, up to the present, been able to
outwit it and it is still my captive.
“My button has a history, even
though It be only ‘poor thing of bone,’
as you characterize your ‘second but
ton.’ Pardon me, your friend’s button.
“My wife had five uncles who were
officers In the Union Army during the
Civil War. One of them while re
cuperating In hospital from a severe
wound found time hanging rather
heavily on his hands and, being an
adept in the use of a pocketknife,
carved this old friend of mine out of a
bone In order to while away the time
“Nothing particularly original about
that, you say? But this old fire-eater,
in telling the story of the button to his
little nieces and nephews, always in
sisted that he had carved it from the
shin bone of a leg amputated from a
Confederate soldier.
“Now, sir, I had an uncle In the
Confederate Army who lost a leg in
battle, and I am wondering if I am
indulging in the quaint practice of
wearing part of my uncle's shin bong
at the back of my neck.
“At any.rate, the button is bone and
it Is hand carved, but further than
that, sir, I absolutely refuse to make
affidavit. Yours very truly, S. H. M."
** * *
Many a man has a shaving brush which
he has used 20 or 25 years, or watch
which he has carried all his life. Or a
“charm,” as they used to be called.
We recall seeing an advertisement of
a certain make of shaving brush sev
eral years ago which carried a photo
graph of one of these old veterans.
At the time we thought with satis
faction that our own brush was then
older than the one in the ad, and today
it Is several years more so.
We looked at it the other morning,
and thought that it looked as if it
needed retirement. The bristles are
worn down, but mostly there. It still
does a good job of lathering.
Yet there Is a certain sentimental
attachment to such old things which
keeps many a man from discarding
them long after he should purchase
new ones.
Such old Implements, no matter what
their usage, show good care and proper
treatment. Articles so handled will far
outlive the expectations of their pur
chasers, and especially of those persons
who are careless with their personal
belongings.
We have seen razors, for instance,
which have done duty for more years
than even the manufacturers would give
them credit, but this was not the re
markable part of it.
Highlights on the Wide World I
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands
Honolulu star-bulletin.—
Bill Blank Is an average citi
zen of Hawaii Nei.
About four months ago he
began to “draw in his horns’’
on legitimate little luxuries, such as
shows, candy, cigars and the like.
He had no real reason for doing so
• * * his pay was the same • * • but he
had heard some one talking about “hard
times.”
A few weeks after Bill had begun to
“hoard” perhaps a total of $2 to $4 a
week that way, his boss called him into
the office.
“Times are bad, Bill!” said the boss.
“We've got to start cutting down * • •
won’t need you after Saturday!”
Bill 1s mad * * * but Bill asked for
Just that, when he started to hold his
weekly $2 or $3 or $4 out of circulation,
because what he did, a hundred thou
sand others also did, and for the same
reason * • • which, you will remember,
was really no reason at all!
A wora to the wise is sufficient!
** * *
Newspaper Illustrates
Pulling Power of Advertising.
Diario del Comercio, Barrgnquilla.—
We take this opportunity of reporting
a little incident which we believe will
be of value and interest to advertisers.
It will be remembered that in a recent
edition we gave an account of the find
ing in the street of a number of articles
of clothing by the police. The owner
of the apparel was invited to call the
Eastern Station where, upon identifica
tion, he would be able to reclaim his
property. The voices of the vendors had
not been heard many minutes, soliciting
the sales of our periodical, when not
less than 20 people presented them
selves at tne Eastern Station, one of
whom. Senor Luis Jorge Silva, was suc
cessful in proving proprietorship* of the
garments in question.
This episode shows clearly the avidity
with which everything appearing in the
Diario del Comercio is read.
** * *
Venezuelan Motorist
Displays Willingness to Aid.
El Nuevo Diario, Caracas.—There is
one phase of motoring in Venezuela
which we believe has no counterpart,
certainly not in the same degree in any
other country And that is the willing
ness of practically every automobilist,
when he sees another one in difficulty,
to help the latter out of his trouble. In
most other countries when one driver
goes into the ditch with his car, gets
two punctures simultaneously, or breaks
an axle, other cars roll complacently by
without even so much as a wave of the
hand in sympathy.
In Venezuela, both the plebeian Ford
and the aristocratic Packard will stop
to render every assistance in their
power to other distressed vehicles of
high or low estate, lending tools, sup
plying gasoline, and offering tows with
mast unselfish interest and generosity.
Such phenomena are everywhere ob
servable upon Venezuelan highways,
and prove conclusively that all impulses
of fellowship and courtesy are far from
being extinct in human breasts.
** * *
Wars and Rumors
Cause Jump in Vegetable Prices.
A Noite, Rio de Janeiro.—Because of
wars and rumors of wars, prices have
recently mounted exorbitantly in the
public markets of the capital regardless
of federal enactions which have been
supposed to regulate these sales. Prices
of some vegetables have quadrupled.
There are fish and poultry in abun
dance, but they are not cheap. Most of
the marketmen have announced their
Intention of not returning with other
offerings until the political affairs of
the republic are more settled, and ap
parently wish to derive all the profit
from present sales which might other
wise be derived in a month. We would
direct the attention of the authorities
to such irregularities.
|** * *
! I Jurist’s Strange Will
Intrigues French Press.
Le Matin, Paris. —An American jurist,
dying, left to the municipality of his
The amazing thing was that they
might have been put back in the store
and sold for new, so scrupulously haa
they been handled.
This sort of care Is not natural to
every one. We have seen phonographs
which were kept in such an immaculate
state, despite constant use, that even
the bright work, as they say on the
ships, showed no sign of blur. We have
seen other Instruments which looked
ready for the scrap heap in a few
months. Pawing over tone arms and
such things with sticky hands and
failure to dust will dull any metal or
wood. This applies with even more
force to radio sets.
** * *
The Junking of furniture presents the
hardest problem in the average home.
What shall be done with old pieces
which are serviceable, but which should
be replaced?
Fashions in home furnishings change,
and. above all, the tastes of Individuals
change.
While it may be true that none of us
realizes he Is growing old, he Is, Just
the same, and this curious process,
which most of us do not like to admit,
probably largely because we do not feel
It, brings with it many changes of i
judgment.
Perhaps in no single matter Is a
change for the better more pronounced
than in that of furniture and household
furnishings in general.
Few human beings, as children, pay
much attention to tables, chairs, beds,
wallpapers, draperies, lamps, clocks and
the hundred and one other articles with
which most of us are brought up.
When the time comes for them to set
up homes of their own, unless they are
blessed with a sure taste which is a
gift, born with them, they fail to buy
for the future when time surely changes
personal likes and dislikes.
Then they will find thems Ives look
ing askance at their own living and
dining rooms, and wondering why they
ever purchased such and such things.
** * *
But what shall be done with them,
when they are yet so serviceable, and
so filled with the romance of everyday
living?
In yonder chair some one has sat for
many years. Books that carry in their
pages the light of romance, love and
adventure have been read from its
comfortable although unfashionable
depth.
Yonder sofa, with its overstuffed
cushions and arms, may seem too long
for the present era of house furnishings,
but it has held many and many a
guest, who always seemed grateful for
its soft curves.
This splendid old rug. which once was
a thing of beauty, now has lost some of
its sheen, its nap has been worn com
pletely away, and its colors faded.
But what shall be done with th m, all
these things which now must meet the
critical inspection of knowledge built up
by the simple process of living?
Piece by piece, let us say, they are
discarded, to make room for newer and
brighter furnishings, more in keeping
with modernism. Perhaps the Colonial
has gained another adherent.
Ah! Good!
But still the thought whispers, “When
these fine new things are as old as these
old things, how will they seem, then,
after the luster has worn off, aad the
cushions have begun to sag?”
No doubt they will seem Just as poor
then as these present things do now!
So honesty responds; and common sense
ends by putting up with the old, and
being satisfied with what one has.
For a chair Is not so easily discarded
as a shaving brush, nor as easily lost
as a collar button.
natal town a legacy for founding a
library. Bflt he forbade that this library
should contain a single book written by
a woman and, moreover, that periodicals
and reviews containing articles written
by women should be also proscribed
absolutely.
It would be interesting to know the
reason for this misogyny. Was the
judge during his lifetime mortally
wearied by feminine trifling and frivol
ity? Did he resent the effort of some
women to take the offensive against the
natural establishment of masculine au
thority, or was he simply one of those
unhappy husbands, married to a literary
woman, who made her art a more im
perative duty than the maintenance of
a comfortable home? Alas, we do not
know! The gentleman has taken away
his secret with him.
** * *
Tokio Schoolgirl
Travels 100 Miles Dally.
Asahl, Tokio.—Miss Shinako Yaguchi
is 16 and a student at the Girls’ Higher
School at Tenjin-cho, Ushigome. She
lives in Ibaragi Prefecture and so travels
nearly 50 miles every morning to attend
school and the same distance back to
her home in the evening. The girl has
a regular schedule, which she follows
diligently. She gets up at 4 a.m. and
has breakfast, after which she sets out
before 5, upon a bicycle, for the Ryuga
saki Railway station, 5 miles distant
where she catches the first train. After
making one change of cars she reaches
Ueno station at 7:19, and from there
goes via electric line and on foot to the
school, arriving in time for class at 8
Miss Yaguchi leaves Ueno by the 3:50
train in the afternoon, arriving home
for the family dinner hour. She has
not m'ssed a day from school in the
last year.
** * *
Municipal Leader Pays
Tribute to Gen. Weyler.
El Sol, Madrid.—The president of the
municipal council expressed in behalf
of that body an eloquent tribute to the
memory of Capt. Gen. Don Valerlapo
Weyler, whose lamented death occurred
recently. The president spoke of the
general’s glorious and important services
to his country all through his life, which
from early youth until the maturest age
was dedicated to military pursuits ,
Gen. Weyler rose from the humblest
to the highest rank in the profession
of war, and it will be long before Spain
is fortified with such another hero.
The interment ceremonies in San Lo
renzo Cemetery were of the utmost sim
plicity, and took place more than an
hour before the published time, so that
its decorum would not be marred by the
attendance of vast multitudes.
Later Gen. Weyler will be eulogized
for his brilliant and courageous patriot
ism in a public recognition to be ac
corded In the Church of San Francisco
el Grande.
Good Prices Expected
For Carolina Tobacco
Prom the Ashevil|e Times.
Unless officials of the Carolina To
bacco Corporation are mistaken in their
estimates of market conditions, the
growers of the leaf in this section will
receive good prices when bidding be
gins at the Asheville warehouse.
Tobacco is now pouring from the
farms of Buncombe and adjoining
counties. The quality produced here
has heretofore commanded high prices,
the returns last year being especially
profitable to those who marketed their
product in Tennessee.
As the marketing season begins,
present evidence indicates a confirma
tion of all the forecasts that were made
concerning the possibility of establish
ing here a tobacco market which will
be the foundation of a thriving in
dustry. The prospects are all the
brighter because the Western North
Carolina tobacco farmers are growing
the weed as a cash crop and are not
tempted by the dangerous lure at the
one-crop system.
The Political Mill
By G. Gould Lincoln.
President Hoover and his critics in
the Senate have come to open (Trips at
last. Attacking the President of the
United States and making facetious re
marks about him has been a pastime in
the Senate for months. What the
Democrats and some of the insurgent
Republicans have said about Mr.
Hoover fill many pages of the Congres
sional Record. Until a couple of days
ago Mr. Hoover failed to make any
public reply to these senatorial sug
gestions that he was a nit wit, inefficient
and merely seeking political advantage.
But on Tuesday the President saw fit
to issue a statement to the press charg
ing that members of Congress were
proposing measures, allegedly for re
lief of unemployment, which would
swamp the Treasury of the United
States by adding a total of $4,500,000,-
000 to the appropriations for the re
mainder of the present fiscal year and
the next. He added that some of these
members of Congress were playing
politics with human misery.
** * *
That got under the skin of Mr.
Hoover’s most active critics in the
Senate. He had mentioned no names.
I had not even mentioned the Senate
as distinguished from the House. But
whether some of them thought that
the glove fitted or merely because they
saw another occasion to open fire on
the Chief Executive.' they opened with
all their broadsides at once. It is
one thing to bait the President of the
United States on the floor of the Sen
ate. but quite another, apparently, to
have the President of the United .States
hit back. And now there is no telling
just where the rumpus will end. The
only jury in this case is the people
of the United States. •
Pres'dent Hoover became a
little weary of the personil attacks
leveled against himself and his pro
gram of legislation and believed that,
since the Republican leaders in the
Senate were willing to sit silent while
the administration was under attack,
he had better take a hand in it him
self. At any rate he struck back. And
now he is accused of losing his temper.
It almost seems that the President had
as good an excuse for losing his temper
as any man has had in a long time.
But Senators are aroused now that the
Chief Executive should come back at
them. It’s a new experience.
Whether the President was politically
wise in issuing his press statement time
alone will show. Certainly all of his
critics are insisting that it was the most
stupid thing he could have done; that
it ‘‘busted up” all chance of the co
operation which had been promised by
certain leaders of the Democratic party.
But were there any evidences of co
operation? Democratic leaders had at
tacked the proposal of the President
that the emergency appropriation for
construction work, to give added em
ployment, should be left to the discre
tion of a board composed of the Cab
inet, with the President as the final
arbiter. It was explained that this
money was to be used only on such
projects as already have been author
ized by Congress itself. The senatorial
critics of the President were busy
broadcasting statements to the effect
that the administration had gone to
sleep for months and had done noth
ing to meet the unemployment and
drought situations. They were declar
ing that the President’s program for
relief was utterly inadequate. This may
have sounded like a hymn of co-opera
tion to members of Congress, but it is
now apparent that it did not have euch
a sound to the Chief Executive.
** * *
The campaign for the election -of a
President in 1932 is on. In fact, it
probably began soon after the election
in 1928. It is a campaign in which
both sides are engaged. And both are
playing politics. There is no time in
this broad land, It seems, when politics
are not played. The Senate accuses Mr.
Hoover of playing politics and Mr.
Hoover comes back at the Senate with
an assertion that it, too, is engaged in
that, gentle pastime.
The situation existing between the
White House and the Senate was none
too good at the very opening of the
oresent administration. It rapidly grew
worse during the special session of the
present Congress, called in the Spring
of 1929. It looks now as though it
would be open warfare from now until
March 4, 1933, or certainly until after
the next presidential election is held.
The President is accused of being no
politician by members of his own party,
inept at the great American game. At
the same time he is constantly accused
by his Democratic opponents of play
ing politics. Perhaps what the Repub
licans mean is merely that he does not
play the game expertly enough. If it
is. good politics to get along well with
the Senate, Mr. Hoover has up to date
failed absolutely. It may be that he is
more concerned with getting results for
the country than in being friends, with
the Senate, although his critics f will
laugh at such a suggestion.
** * *
It is beginning to look as though the
G. O. P. will never be able to get to
gether again until after it has been
well drubbed by the Democrats in a
national election. After the Republi
cans, including the insurgents, have
been “out in the cold” for a few years
they may attain a different point of
view. They may even reach the con
clusion that co-operation in their own
ranks Is somewhat to be desired.
** * *
There is trouble for the Republicans
in the Northwest. Nothing new perhaps,
but it is even more threatening than
has been the case. Take Minnesota
for example. In the last election the i
Republicans split widely over both the
senatorial and gubernatorial candidates.
Many of the regular Republicans fought
Senator Schall bitterly. He nosed out
a winner over his Democratic opponent.
The Farmer-Labor candidate for Gov
ernor was elected over the Republican
nominee, giving the Farmer-Labor party
new life. It is noticeable that none of
the Democratic candidates was elected 1
in Minnesota. The State is not Demo
cratic. That’s the reason. The Farmer-
Labor party is the party of opposition
to the G. O. P. in that State. It may |
become the party of opposition in other i
Northwestern States. Now what is to ;
prevent the Farmer-Labor party in
Minnesota and these other States of the i
Northwest from placing a presidential |
candidate in the field in 1932? If it
does, the Republican goose may be I
cooked quite thoroughly, for those are i
States usually counted upon to help roll !
up a majority in the electoral college ■
for the Republican candidate for Presi
dent.
** * *
The prohibitionists, meeting in Wash
ington, are talking not of putting a
third party ticket in the field in the
next presidential election, but of im
pressing their will on the old parties
and thereby bringing about the nomina
tion of candidates for President by the
Republicans and Democrats who are
wedded to the eighteenth amendment.
This is political sense. There was a
prohibition party for years before the i
eighteenth amendment was adopted,
but it never got anywhere with its can
didates for President. It was only when |
the drys were able to work through the ;
old political parties that they won a!
victory. The fact of the matter is that
the people, generally speaking, are in
terested in a great many things besides
prohibition. A party which offers a
single plank as its platform cannot get
very far. Whether the prohibitionists
of the country could ever agree on
measures of farm relief or tariff revision
is very doubtful. So far they have been
able to get together only on the wet
and dry issue.
Dr. A. G. Barton of Wilmington, N.
C„ chairman of the Board of Social
Service of the Southern Baptist Con
vention, is quoted as saying that the
Democratic States of the South would
be just as much opposed to th? election
of Gov. Roosevelt of New York, a sup
porter of repeal of the eighteenth
amendment, as they were opposed to
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Q How tall are most of the motion
l * picture actresses?—E. B.
I ! A. Mast of them are of heights be
• | tween 5 feet and 5 feet 5 Inches. A
■ > few are shorter, and a few are taller.
! I Q. In playing poker with deuces wild.
, which hand wins—A has three aces
and B has an ace and two deuces?—
O. L. H.
A. In a tie the hand containing fewer
. wild cards wins. Three natural aces
beat one ace and two deuces.
, Q. Do old electric light bulbr. use
the same amount of current when giv
, ing less light?—C. L. C.
I I A. Old electric light bulbs give much
t less light in proportion to the current
t consumed. It is therefore inefficient to
t use them.
1 I Q. Why does a locomotive engineer
J sit left-handed to his engine?—H. P.
'I A. It is because in America a train
' , runs on the right-hand track, and the
• j engineer should be on the outside of
| the cab.
’ ! Q. How long does it take the Big
', Dipper to revolve around the North
Star?—B. D. S.
A. It revolves around the Pole Star
3 once in 23 hours 56 minutes, moving in
' a counter-clockwise direction.
? | Q. Why are so many of the natural
: springs in the West hot?—W. L.
> A. It is due to geological conditions.
■ much of the Western country being of
I volcanic origin and affected by volcanic
I conditions.
Q. Please give the quotation from Dr.
, van Dyke which begins, "I want the
• books which help me out of the va
t cancy and despair of a frivolous life."—
F. F. K.
r A. It is from "Ideals and Applica
. tions” and reads: "I want the books
t that help me out of the vacancy and
, despair of a frivolous mind, out of the
, tangle and confusion of a society that
is buried In bric-a-brac, out of the
• meanness of unfeeling mockery ahd the
heaviness of Incessant mirth, into a
! loftier and serener region. There,
. through the clear air of serious thought,
; I can learn to look soberly and bravely
• upon the mingled misery and splendor
. of human existence, and then go down
. with a more cheerful courage to play a
. man’s part in the life which Christ has
l forever ennobled by His divine pres
i j ence.”
'I Q. Is there any substance which
! when dissolved in water cannot be sep
| arated by distillation?—K. J. S.
A. Hydrochloric acid and water will
;l
! Farm Board’s Latest Move
Wakes Favorable Comment
i •
After a long period of severe criticism,
the Federal Farm Board is viewed with
more friendly eyes, as a result of recent
; moves. Support of wheat prices through
purchases in the market have Impressed
the public, while the scheme for use of
this grain for feeding purposes is con*
sidered with open minds, particularly
because of the possible effect on acreage
planted. There are still opponents of
Government action in business, and
those who contend that grain in tUe
possession of the Government may be a
handicap.
! “Within a period of 10 days,” de
! dares the Asheville Times, “the fortunes
? and prestige of the Farm Board have
' changed from depression to apparent
1 success. • • • For the present, the board
! has saved the farmers of the grain belt
- from a crisis far graver than any they
have yet encountered in falling prices.
' And it is probable that the board stands
ready to intervene as often as may be
• necessary to end panicky selling. • • •
. If. in the weeks immediately ahead, the
> wheat market demonstrates the sound*
i ness of the Farm Board’s program, an
other foundation stone will have been
laid for a new structure of stabilized
; general business."
“The silence at the present time of
i large operators in the grain market who
! were so open in their criticism of the
board, when, earlier in the year, it first
made grain purchases, speaks volumes,”
in the opinion of the Madison Wiscon
son State Journal, “and is strong con
firmation of the declaration, emanating
even from the wheat pit, that the
American market was close to a panic,
and that, had it not been for the con
sistent purchases by the Farm* Board,
the wheat price would have tumbled
to such a figure as to have rendered
American agricultural conditions pre
carious.” The State Journal concludes
its discussion with the quotation from
Chairman Leege of the board that “the
consumption offered in the feeding of
wheat to cattle creates a market that
should place wheat at 76 cents.”
** * *
The South B;nd Tribune holds that
“so long as the grain corporation main
tains its position in the wheat market.
: criticism will be minimized.” That paper
also says as to prevention of a market
break, “This is a service which can be
appreciated by virtually everybody, for
of American grain prices to the
Liverpool and Winnipeg levels would
add to business uncertainty.” The
Janesville Gazette finds assuranc; that
the Grange supports the board, and
adds, “With other farm organizations
I refusing to take the bait of the private
marketing organizations, there appears
to b’ harmony in support of the board
by the farmers.”
“Tendency to criticize the board,”
| avers the Lexington Leader, “is by no
means so strong as it was. The farmers
' are beginning to wak? up to what has
. been accomplished and what is possible
i under the act which the board is ad
ministering.” The St. Paul Pioneer
Press feels that, “in the absence of any
i other explanation, the purchases of the
i Farm Board must be given credit for
t stabilizing the market at Chicago, so
i that, while normally several cents be
low Winnipeg, it is now well above that
market.” The condition is believed by
the Pioneer Press to “invite new con
sideration of the possibilities of the Fed
eral farm marketing act.” That paper
also concludes that “the contrasted sit
uation at Chicago and Winnipeg demon
strates that, through marketing act
operations, the board has found it pos
sible to make the tariff effective on
wheat to a degree.”
The re-entry into the market im
l presses the Des Moines Register as
"erasing the supposed ‘failure’ of mar
ket intervention last Spring” and "in
furiating the bitter opponents of all
Government aid to the farm." The
I Register concludes as to future pros
psetw “More legislation will likely
come before the farm parity fight is
over. The present may be a time to
consolidate the gains already seized.
The farm act and the Farm Board may
be more wisely defended as the founda
tion than attacked because in so short
Alfred E. Smith. This may be merely
whistling on the part of dry leaders
to keep up' the courage of the drys.
Unless there is a very different atti
tude on the part of the Democratic
leaders in a great many of the States
—not of the South—the nwet Demo
cratic nominee for President is going
to be a supporter of repeal of the
eighteenth amendment, whether it be
Roosevelt or another, i
give a mixture which cannot be sep
arated by distillation.
Q. Who discovered Alaska?—l. S.
A. Vitus Jonaasen Bering discovered
Alaska. Bering Sea and Bering Strait
were named in honor of him.
Q. How did the 10 Upson scholar
ships at Rutgers originate?—J. N. U.
A. The Irving S. Upson scholarships
at Rutgers University were established
in 1922. They originated through the <
desire on the part of a number of
alumni to provide aid for worthy young
men on the basis of Rhodes’ scholar
ships. For four years funds were pro
vided by interested alumni. After that
the scholarships were given directly by
the university. They are awarded by
a committee of the faculty.
Q. How many members has the New
York Stock Exchange?—E. P. T.
A. The number of members on the
New York Stock Exchange is limited to
1,375 by the constitution of the ex
change. It is a voluntary association
and its constitution is a contract be- i
tween the members.
Q. How do Arabs bury their dead in
Algiers the poorer class is referred to?
—I. F. N.
A. In Algiers the body of a native is '
usually put in a cheap pine box and
carried through the streets on the
shoulders of friends, who transport it
to the burying ground. Arab ceme
teries are near every village. Friends
form a procession and take turns in
carrying the coffin. Little solemnity is
observed. The friends chatter and
laugh and greet the passers-by. At the
burying ground the coffin is simply put
into the ground with practically no
ceremony.
Q. How many educational institutions
have their own broadcasting stations?
—F. C.
A. There are 22 institutions which
own stations. Several others broadcast
from time to time from a station not
owned by the institution.
Q. Please tell something of the work {
of the American Association for Better
Photoplays.—W. B. T.
A. With headquarters in New York
City, this organizatibn plans a pro
gram to improve the cultural, educa
tional andjutistlc standards of motion
pictures. For student members it will
provide classes in the technique of va
rious phases of cinema production. For
general members it will conduct a series
' of lectures, concerts, bulletins and other
activities to stimulate appreciation in
audiences. Its organ is a monthly
magazine, the Movie Builder. The ad
visory board consists of Ruth St. Denis
for dancing, Katharine Cornell and Mrs.
Fiske for the drama, and Fannie Hurst
and Blair Niles for scenario writing.
The executive chairman is Marietta B.
Koop.
Q. How deeply will a mallard duck
dive to get food off the bottom of
streams? —A. H. G.
A. The wild mallard duck is the poor
est of all divers. Three or four feet
is the maximum depth this duck will t
go to feed from the bottom. However,
other ducks have been known to dive as
deep as 100 to 150 feet for food.
, a time they have not become more than
i that. There are plenty of persons who
t are out to ‘get’ the Farm Board, and
1 especially to ‘get’ Chairman Legge.”
i “Mr. Legge contends that if the plan
[ of feeding wheat to cattle is carried
• out further,” states the Flint Daily
r Journal, “the problem will be solved ‘
: easily and without serious consequences,
r That farmers are actually ‘seeing the
1 light’ is somewhat heartening.” The
s Champaign News-Gazette, with the con
i tentlon that "the solution of the wheat
problem lies in finding a use for all of
■ the wheat that the world produces,"
i recognizes the call for human consump
! tion and the carry-over for future pro
t tection, and concludes, “Then, with
1 an assured system of converting sur
i plus wheat into animal food that would
r bring a fair retyra, the nations oould
. end the warfare which now threatens
t to become the cause of serious differ
> ences.”
'•* * * *
Discussing the annual report of fu
Farm Board, which has Just been sub
mitted, but does not cover recent op
[ eratlons, the Philadelphia Evening Bul
letin argues that “the Farm Board is
, still holding its load of wheat to the
point where further purchases may
, present a problem of storage and It
does not know how to get rid of its i
, burden.” The Worcester Evening Ga
zette forecasts, “Uncle Sam will be
left to hold the bag, and, if anybody
! can tell the old gentleman what to do
with it. suggestions will be gratefully
received.” The Omaha World-Herald
contends that “the Farm Board has
been a failure and will continue to be
a failure,” for "the board doesn't know
what to do.” That paper says of Chair
man Legge: “He wants wheat to stay
about where it is for the present so
that the surplus crop will be kept off
the market and farmers will be forced
to feed It. If they are forced to feed,
they won’t plant so much next year, he
thinks, and curtailed production is
about the only ‘remedy Mr. Legge can
find. He points to 200,000,000 bushels S
being fed this year four times the
usual amount—as a result of low price
and Farm Board policy, forgetting the
drought.”
Quoting the board’s statement in its
report that “it was clear in the early
stages of the work that no important
stabilization efforts could succeed, ex
cept temporarily, unless the farmers
themselves adjifsted production to pro
spective demand,” the New York Sun
adds, “This truth remains equally
clear in the later stages of the board’s
work, and to forget or to ignore it
would give positive indorsement to ac
ceptance of a fallacy that has already
proved expensive to the Nation and
which, if adhered to, may bring disas
ter to the community.” The Charlotte
News quotes Mr. Legge’s advice to mill
ers to “cover your requirements now,”
and emphasizes the uncertainty with
the condemnation of “curious practices /
adopted by a government brazenly en
croaching on the territory of private
business." The Memphis Commercial
Appeal considers the advice for all
the farmers to organize with the com
ment that it “implies an appeal from «
the Farm Relief Board to the farmers,
a plea to the farmers to get together
and relieve the Relief Board.”
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram be
lieves that “the educational work done
by the Farm Board's plan will be val
uable, even though the plan faiig of
its major endeavor.” The Walla Walla
Dally Bulletin, referring to Mr. Legge’s
advice to buy and feed, says, “Let’s
hope Legge is right and that his words
will be followed by deeds.” The Spring
field Massachusetts Republican holds
that “the board’s recent success” means
that "attacks on it at this session seem
to have been called off.” i '
The Topeka Daily Capital is con
vinced that Chairman Legge Has fought
off his critics, and offers the comment:
“The marketing act and the Farm
Board are going through an experience
common to every novel or experimental
project, whether concerning agricul
ture or any other object. They en
counter resistance, opposition, skepti
cton and pass through a phase char
acteristic of experimentation in any
™ x . What the farm marketing act
.h*l* patient consideration, a
full trial and discussion on merits.
Hasty conclusions one way or another
can only be prejudicial to getting re
sults. The act may require amend
ment or revamping in some of its pro- > '
visions. But Mr. Legge’s assurance that
it is basically Bound is an important
outgiving from, the exceptionally able
man who beads the board.”