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THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY_September 24, 1937 THEODORE W. NOYES.Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company. llth St ana Pennsylvania Are. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicatrc O ice; 435 North Michigan Avt. Rate by Carrier—City and Suburban. Regular Edition. The Evening and Sunday star 65c Der month or 15c per week The Evening Star 45c per month or 10c per week The Sunday Star___6c per copy Nlrht Final Edition. Night Final and Sunday Star_70c per month Night Final Star___56c per month Collection made at the end of each month or each week. Orders may be sent by mall or tele phone National 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday., l yr.. *10.00: 1 mo.. S6c Dally only -1 yr.. *6.00; 1 mo„ 50e Sunday only-1 yr.. *4.00; 1 mo.. 40c All Other States and Canada. Dally ana Sunday. 1 yr. *12.00: 1 mo.. *1 00 Dally only-1 yr. *8.00; 1 mo. 75c Sunday only-- l yr. *5.00: 1 mo. 60c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press le exclusively entitled to the use lor republlcatlon of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In thl* al,s0 the local news published herein. herein are alsoPreser^d0° °* *PeC‘al cll5P,tctlM After the Horse Is Stolen. It was with high hope in the Winter of 1921-22 that the nine powers with Interests in the Pacific—Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, China, the United States, Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal—conferred in Washington on Armaments and Far Eastern questions. Positive results ensued. Naval arma ments were reduced and limited for the first time. A four-power accord among Britain, the United States, Japan and France abolished the Anglo-Japanese alliance and provided for friendly co operation in the event of threats to the security of existing Asiatic possessions. japan ana China agreed upon the re cession of Shantung to Chinese sov ereignty. Finally a nine-power omnibus treaty was negotiated, which, as its paramount feature, guaranteed the maintenance of the territorial integrity and political independence of China. Japan was a party to that solemn agree ment. Within ten years of its ratification the Japanese had severed the province of Manchuria from the loins of the Chinese republic. Creation of puppet Manchukuo was followed by Japan’s absorption of other territory on both aides of the Great Wall, until today, as the result of the Summer's tragic events In the Peiping-Tientsin area, virtually all of North China has come under the islanders’ domination. The undeclared war which has reached the zenith of Intensity around Shanghai and Nanking manifests Tokio's purpose—no longer, indeed, disguised—to subjugate China by ruthless force, no matter how long or costly the process may be. It is into such a situation that the signatories of the nine-power pact have now tardily stepped. For the moment their “action” is confined to its "con sultative” feature, whereby they under take merely to “exchange views.” Their belated zeal savors strongly of locking the stable door after the theft. The avowed purpose is to "explore the possi bilities” of stopping Sino-Japanese hos tilities. The United States is partici pating in these communications, but there is no indication as yet that any thing either has taken place or is pro jected, except talk. Talk unfortunately is about all the pact provides for. Like the Kellogg treaty, “outlawing war”— what a travesty current events make of that ideal—the nine-power accord lacks teeth. Having successfully defied the fifty odd nations that comprise the League, when they sought to prevent the con quest of Manchuria, one may well ques tion the probability of Japan's paying much attention to a protest from merely eight nations today. One of them hap pens to be Italy, now in semi-alliance with Tokio. Portugal, the Netherlands and Belgium can, of course, be elimi nated from consideration. With China Japan is at war. That leaves Britain, Pronna oriel 4-Viie> %• * * _i:_i. _ —-- -— --- vvm.iw* j 'lUUtVAbV the majesty of the Washington pact. If the British were deaf to Secretary Stimson’s proposal of collective action against Japan in 1932, they are doubly unlikely, under 1937 European condi tions, to move now. France is shackled by the same handicaps. That the United States would move single-handedly or lead in organizing international meas ures to curb Japan is inconceivable. It will take sterner stuff than “ex ploratory conversations” between the chancellories of Europe and America to stay the hand of the militant empire now engaged in fulfilling its Asiatic “destiny” by fire and sword. “1 * ■ i Modern weapons show how easy it is to build the very latest model in shipping and also how easy it is to lose the latest example of construction beyond hope of recovery. The study of agriculture, de signed to cheapen food, gives more prom ise than the study of warfare. Youth for Safety. Pupils of Western High School have •tarted a campaign for traffic safety in memory of James Leech and Elmer D. Hays, jr„ killed in a collision on their way to begin a new academic year at Dartmouth College. The movement was launched with the approval of the edu cational authorities of the city and in eo-operation with the American Auto mobile Association. It should and prob ably will spread to other institutions in Washington and nearby Maryland and Virginia. Fathers and mothers certainly may be expected to indorse any effort to halt the slaughter on the highways. They know only too well how venturesome young people are, and they will rejoice to see evidence of the development of a philosophy of caution to replace the habit of taking chances. Saying even a single life would justify the endeavor. The challenge of the problem is so com pelling as to prompt the hope that the h campaign will result in a thorough reformation of travel habits on the part of the whole community. The children understand that the death toll results from faulty driving and from foolhardy pedestrian practices. It is unnecessary to tell them that it is dangerous to break the speed laws and perilous to "tangle” with moving streams of heavy vehicles in the streets. Their method of correction of existing condi tions, therefore, will be educational in character; they will try to teach sanity and reason in motoring and in walking. And they will begin with themselves in confidence that their example will be imitated by their elders. The Star com mends them for their initiative, their earnestness and their sincerity. Memorial Background. One of the objections raised to the location of the projected Thomas Jeffer son Memorial on the south side of the Tidal Basin in Potomac Park is that the railroad embankment across the park would make an unsightly and in congruous background for the struc ture. This consideration was not given as much attention, however, as the ob jection to the site on the score of the reduction of the area of the Tidal Basin and the destruction of many of the cherry trees which form one of the most attractive features of the Washington scene. It is now made known that the National Capital Parks and Planning Commission at a recent meeting consid ered the matter of the railroad tracks as an undesirable feature of the me morial location and that it has under consideration a proposal for the elimina tion of the tracks at the present grade. For a good many’ years a hope has been entertained that eventually the railway lines connecting Washington with the South would be carried across the Potomac by means of a tunnel, per haps with the elimination of surface tracks altogether in the city. This has been regarded as especially desirable since the construction of the Memorial Bridge, contrasting so strikingly with the two steel trestle bridges below that structure. That these two should be replaced by a masonry viaduct of monu mental design in keeping with the Key and Memorial Bridges has been often urged and is regarded as altogether suit able and in keeping with the general plan of Capital development. The bisecting of Potomac Park by a railway embankment has never been viewed as other than undesirable, indeed the more so as the correction of this condition is within the range of engi neering possibility. There are no ma terial obstacles to such a work. It would be costly, to be sure, even as are all other major operations in correction of long established nuisances arising from pub lic necessities. The elimination of grade crossings in Washington which freed the city from a menacing and disfiguring condition wras an expensive operation. It was not wholly completed, however, for there remains virtually at grade a line of tracks which has continued the nuisance of smoke and noise and street occupation in a part of the city that has suffered for many decades from this condition. Burial of the tracks across Potomac Park and the river would contribute materially to the solution of the Jeffer son Memorial emplacement problem without involving the destruction of the cherry trees which have been a major factor in the opposition to the selection of this site. With the railroad embank ment removed a large space would be added to the level area below the Tidal Basin on which the memorial could be located without despoiling the park of any of these trees. These considerations are entirely apart from the matter of the difficulty regarding a secure foundation for the memorial at or near the point that has been recommended. It is claimed in behalf of this site that such a founda tion can be secured. If that is true and if the available area can be sufficiently enlarged by the removal of the railway embankment objections to the selection of a Potomac Park site for this tribute A_: • _. . *»iuv.iiVQo gicaitoi/ ouiio WUUIU be largely removed. Oriental nations were supposed to de velop kite flying as a wonderful art, but confusion asserts itself when they un dertake the management of a flying ma chine as a weapon. Maryland Politics. Maryland politics assumes an added interest to Washingtonians with the an nouncement of Senator Lansdale G. Sasscer's candidacy for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. As a grad uate of Central High School and an at torney maintaining an office in Wash ington, Senator Sasscer is known to thousands in the District who wish him well in his bid for the highest office in the State. His sole rival so far is Mayor Jackson of Baltimore, who, having filled that office for several terms, now hopes to “grad uate" to Annapolis. It Is probable, how ever, that others will enter the field, for the defeat and death of Governor Ritchie left Maryland's Democrats with many able lieutenants, but no one who stood out as a recognized leader. In Washington the party chief was Senator Tydings, at Annapolis Senator Sasscer, in Baltimore Mayor Jackson and, as national committeeman, the vet eran politician Howard Bruce. With the possible exception of Sena tor Tydings, who generally is expected to seek re-election, all of these and sev eral others are mentioned whenever the gubernatorial nomination is discussed. And all have qualifications that entitle them to serious consideration. Senator Sasscer is well acquainted with problems of state through long service in the upper branch of the As sembly as Prince Georges County repre sentative, as floor leader during Governor Ritchie’s last term, and, during the past four years, as Senate President. Many will agree that Mayor Jackson has r shown executive ability of a high order in giving good administration to Balti more City. Attorney General Herbert R. O’Conor is able, young, affable, and, as demonstrated in the last election, popular with the voters. Committeeman Bruce has poise and experience. Sena tor J. Allan Coad of St. Marys County, chairman of the Finance Committee, is well versed in the State's fiscal affairs and has courage to put through reforms. Dr. Charles C. Conley, who opposed Gov ernor Ritchie in the last primary, car ries a strong backing. In addition to the personalities in volved the Maryland contest has other attractions. It is starting early—about a year in advance of the balloting. It may be fought along city versus county lines. The New Deal may take a hand in the fight as it has done in other State contests. And whoever wins may defeat the Republican nominee, thus acquiring at least part of the mantle of authority which Governor Ritchie wore so long. All of which inspires close watching from this side of the District line. Neither China nor Japan will be con tent with the U. S. A. management of sale and manufacture of explosive ma terial, but their criticism is difficult to hear above the roar of munitions. The American Legion has given New York. City a wonderful illustration ! of the remarkable power that can be assumed for a demonstration, simply by leaving the local politics out of it. Washington, D. C„ is not considered < in immediate need of extensive airship 1 protection, but is nevertheless expected to keep listening in for what may hap- ■ pen to ships in distant seas. Prize fighting was never more inter PSLine. thp flVPracp ritizpn heintr fi rmlu ! ! in favor of a form of conflict which does 1 not insist on death and mystery as 1 essential details. 1 ( - , —» - | Kentucky becomes more and more fa mous for racing, accumulations of money j and a lingering curiosity on the part of Cincinnati as to what the old State will do next. < ! ■ -■ 1 Asia has yet to realize fully the fear- 1 ful expense of a fight for which nobody 1 is qualified to pay. It has introduced killing and bankruptcy as a substitute for war. ; _. -,tr _ i An American citizen in a crisis is j shown by Ambassador Nelson T. John- < son, who obeys instructions regardless 1 of what his opinion of some of them ( may be. ’ -. «» - t Radio will again be busily engaged in x explaining how modern nations fight for business regardless of whether the music and literature show improvement. -- «■» --t Shooting Stars. i _ < BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. c __ 1 Bond of Sympathy. } He said he loved the mocking bird, t With lay so boldly sung. He spoke not of the strife that stirred t Where reckless speech was flung. 1 I He mentioned not opinions grave Upon some sporting chance, t Nor thoughts of those who spend or save s In realms of high finance. He may be brave to do and dare In the ambitious throng, And yet his heart has time to bear t The burden of a song. t i And so in deep content I heard His greeting kind extend. He said he loved the mocking bird. I I knew he was a friend. < No Theorist. “I have heard you called a practical * politician.” I ‘‘I try to be practical,” replied Senator i Sorghum, ‘‘to the extent of avoiding any ‘ effort to sell my constituents theories s fhof nirtrlr ** - , - s Jud Tunkins says a man who hates < peace is usually found running when there is a real fight ahead. Less Attains More. * With dress elaborately cute i Belinda charmed our eyes. 1 Lucinda wore a bathing suit And won a beauty prize! Careless. “My game of golf is all wrong!” c “Too bad!” ' “No, too good. I got enthusiastic and j allowed myself to beat my boss three ] times in succession!” 1 “Superstition,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “makes the sound of a j gong more potent than the voice of t wisdom.” t Shoes. t The cost of shoes is pretty high, And yet it does not bring a sigh. , My shoes will let me walk my way, \ With conscience clear and spirits gay. 1 1 My shoes won’t leave me stopped afar, * Like tires upon a motor car. i My shoes may punctured be. or worn; t They will not leave me all forlorn. ' They stick to earth among the crowds. They join no airplanes in the clouds. \ When modes of travel I must choose, I’m partial to my plain old shoes. ~ » “Some o’ de men dat does de loudest , argument ’bout science an’ religion,” said < Uncle Eben, “don't ’pear to me like dey had made a very serious study of one j nor t’uther.” , _. llr . i ( Puerility. i Prom the Lowell Leeder. Now come scientists with the assertion i that the world is really about a billion i years younger than has been popularly i supposed. If that is true, It helps to i explain a good deal of the puerility < which £as been noticed at late. P • r; '■ ■ ■ ' T THE POLITICAL MILL BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. President Roosevelt is off on an “in spection” tour. He is finding out, amoni other things, that many of the farmer want continued Government funds am that many of the politicians want a con tinuance of the W. P. A. and other relie spending. If they can get the money their attitude is that other issues—if an; —can rest. They do not see the cour Issue. And while some of them do no believe that the issue will hurt Roose velt, neither do they think that th President can whip that issue to a poin where the people will become excite* md line up for him. So far, the report from the President's trip deal mostl; with what “100 per cent” Roosevelt mei nave been saying. Whether the Presi lent will hear any others is a question. * * * * Generally speaking, there is a movi imong many of the President’s mori irdent supporters to disassociate th* President from the appointment of i fCu Klux Klanner to the Supreme Cour is far as possible. Their attitude is tha ihe President cannot be held to blame 'or he did not know that Justice Blacl tad any connection with the hoodec prganization. It is very much in lin* with the attitude of Roosevelt supporter* n the past when the administration ha* put its foot in it or has advanced legis ation which Democrats do not like. Th* effort is to hold the President personally iloof from policies and methods he may rave espoused, if they prove unpopular The comment of Attorney Genera Summings on the Black case, when he laid that he would have considered il in "impertinence” for the Departmen! if Justice to look into the “private life' if Justice Black before Black was ap pointed to the Supreme Court, is nove it any rate. Black's connection with the Gan has been kept as private as pos lible, to be sure. At the time he wa; irst elected to the Senate, however here was nothing very private aboul -i_ mi_Tr< vuMui.vbiuii, xvac»ii v»no in puli' ics in a big way in Alabama. In the ight of the fact that the Attorney Gen eral has been in Democratic politics foi i good many years and was chairman if the Democratic National Committee at l time when the Klan was very active t is strange that he should have had 10 information regarding Mr. Black and he Klan. ♦ * * * The more this Black matter is in [uired into, the more it looks as though l conspiracy of silence made it possible or the President to obtain early con irmation of his newly appointed mem >er of the Supreme Court. The silence till continues, so far as the two prin ipals—the President and Justice Black -are concerned. There is a great hope mong the Presidents supporters that he whole thing will "blow over”; that ime will soften the blow to the Presi lent s prestige and his popularity. The igns indicate, however, that the issue is ikelv to grow in magnitude rather than liminish. Certainly the Black appoint nent will lessen the President's appeal ihen he attacks the Supreme Court nd demands that he be given the power o appoint additional justices. * * * * The President, speaking from his train s he was on his way across Iowa and he great corn belt, told the farmers of he Nation that he was anxious to stabil se farm prices and gave the impression le w'ould do everything he could to ac omplish this end. He said it could be lone without bankrupting the country, le believed. The President said he was nore interested in "objectives” than in methods,” and that he believed most of he people were agreed that his ob ectives were good, even though some of hem quarrelled with his methods. This las a familiar sound, too. There is a rowing number of Democrats, however, /ho are beginning to fear that some of lis methods, if persisted in, will bring he country to ruin, particularly the con tant spending of far more money by he Federal Government than the Gov rnment receives in revenue. * * * * There is another group of Democrats .’ho look askance on the plans of Secre ary Wallace and the President with re ;ard to crop control. Many of them live n the Southern States which have de oted much of their acreage to the grow ng of cotton. They have seen the ex lorts of American cotton fall lower and jwer; they have seen the production of otton in foreign countries rise higher nd higher, as the cotton crop here has «en curtailed. What they fear is that ventually there will- be no export of imerican cotton; that all the cotton iroduced in the Southern States will be ill that can be consumed in the Unitec States. They fear that cotton goods will le imported more and more from Japan nd other foreign nations, and that even he American market for American rown cotton will become greatly re lured. It is not a nice picture for the cotton rowers and cotton workers in this coun ry to contemplate. When the crop ontrol plans of the administration were irst put into effect, with the old A. A. A n full swing and the farmers being paid or reducing their crops, it was pre licted that the effect would be to stimu ate the growing of cotton and other rops so curtailed in other nations. The irediction has unfortunately—for Amer can producers—turned out to be entirety orrect. The more American farmers lecrease their production, the more oreign farmers will increase it. How uch “methods” will finally leave the American farmers and the American people time alone will show definitely. * * * * The Republican National Committee’! Ixecutive Committee yesterday failed to ake action on the proposal laid before hem for a national Republican conven ion to be held next Spring. The Execu ive Committee passed the matter along 0 the full National Committee, which s expected to meet in Chicago in No ember. Much sentiment has developed or such a convention. There are hard leaded leaders among the Republicans lowever, who do not see what can be ained by holding a convention next ear. They fear that such a conven ion might result in disastrous rows be ween Republican factions — with the onservative and progressive wings oi he party at odds. * * * * The supporters of the proposed na ional convention, on the other hand nsist that the G. O. P. must draft t ;tatement to the people that will ralty hem again to the Republican standard rhe trouble lies; however, in possible iisagreement on the principles and poli :ies to be set forth in such a statement fhose who oppose the convention idet >elieve that it is too early for a nations ironouncement by the Republicans— vith a presidential election not arriving rntil 1940. They think that they car lo very well in the congressional elec ions of 1938 without a national conven ion. Furthermore, they are looking nore and more to the Roosevelt admin stration for the issues. They forese« 1 falling away from the New Deal be muse of a number of things the Presi lent and his supporters have done—anc rhat they may do in the lut I THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Most amateur photographers have their “finishing” done by professionals, [ and in the main get very good work. j There is great fun, however, in doing l it for one’s self. The revived interest in photography, as t the result of the present vogue for the , miniature camera, sometimes called the r candid camera, has led to renewed in l terest in all phases of the art. ; Developing the negatives one takes, and making from them one’s own prints, s is something which the amateur must ; experience in order to become enthusi I astic about. i In the old days, even the small boys ' developed and printed their own. i It was part of the game. Knowledge of developers, hypo, wash ing—these were as much a part of pic ture taking as the camera itself, the lens, the shutter, the little gadget you • pressed. * * * * Then came the publicity which inti mated, and quite truthfully, that all one had to do to get a good picture was press the button—some one else would do the rest. It was true, and it worked, so that in time developing and printing became re served for the professional finishers. Only a few hardy amateurs kept on with red lanterns—kerosene and candle, in those days—and the smell of de velopers, the never-to-be-forgotten sour odor of hypo, the washing for an hour in the sink, often with the water run ning over on the floor at last. . • * * * * Today all that excitement is returning. Thousands are going back to develop ing and printing their own, as they come to see that only in this way does one stand a chance of getting the full ex citement out of photography. Yes, excitement is the word. There are few gentle thrills akin to that of watching a roll of film “come to life” under the chemical persuasion of the developer. Today this is done by the light of an electric bulb colored with the proper amount and type coloring to keep out the actinic rays which would turn the exposed film black before the work could be completed. It is true that there are tanks, in which one may do the developing, in the daylight, and in which good results are to be secured, owing to the latitude of the modern films. There is no thrill, however, about that process. That only comes when one seizes one end of the film in the left hand, and the other in the right, and see-saws it back and forth in the developer liquid, stopping every now and then to hold the strip up to the light, to see how the work is coming on. * * * * There lies the fun, a great deal of it, aided by the mystic red light, and the knowledge that unless the work is done properly, which, above all, means care fully, it will be a failure. Trepidation is there, pleasantly, but none the less effectively. From the moment one unwraps the squirming alliance of film and black paper, pulls it apart at the stuck end, and dips that writhing monster into water, to give it a preliminary bath, there is a feeling of necessary haste mingled with an absolute need for careful work. The time for developing an average roll will be but a few' minutes, during which time almost anything may happen. Not quite so much, of course, as might | and did happen when the so-called j dark lantern was powered by a small kerosene lamp, or by candle. I If the lamp smoked during developing the worker had to continue in the dark by guess work. Occasionally the candle tilted, and fell against the cardboard side of the lan tern in which is was the motive power. Then there was a conflagration, and much excitement until it was put out, which was not difficult, since there was a tray of pure water present. * * * * First, the film, after the paper is de tached, is rolled back and forth in the tray of water. This is essential, in order that there may be no air bubbles attached to it in the developer. If this preliminary wetting is done thoroughly, the film becomes slightly more tractable, and is now ready for immersing in the developer. All of the solutions should be at about 72 degrees, more or less. A few degrees one way or another will do no harm. It is essential to hold the strip so that the back is down, that is, it strikes the bottom of the tray. Scratches will result if the emulsion side is incautiously held downward dur ing this process. The film is sea-sawed back and forth in, the developer. After a few strokes one gets the “hang” of it. As the left hand goes away up, the right hand goes down to the tray edge. Care is taken at all times to keep the film moving rapidly, but evenly, so that all parts get the action of the chemicals. The selection of this developer is a pleasant preliminary. There are many formulae—today the tendency is to use an all-purpose developer for average work. * * * * While the film is being rocked in the developer tray is the time for giving it the great “once over,” in order to see whether it has been overexposed or un derexposed. If the former, the developing may be discontinued; if the latter, it may be lengthened; perhaps some shots have been too much exposed, some too little. In such cases the development of one part of the strip may be retarded, while the underexposed shots are given a bit more. In case there are very widely different exposures on one roll, it is pos sible to cut them apart, but this is diffi cult, and not to be recommended unless absolutely necessary'. After the photographer becomes ac customed to handling w'et film, he is abfe to hold back one portion, and speed up another, simply by keeping one portion of the strip out of the solution while the other is kept in. It must be kept in mind that the part not immersed, in such a case, still has ! some developer on it, and undergoes a slower development even when out in j the air. * * * * It is essential to run the strip of film through the tray of water again, before it goes into the hypo solution, which usually contains a hardener, too. Too long in the hypo is not good; the secret of all photographic work of this type, after proper development, and abso lute cleanliness in every step, lies in the thorough washing of the finished film. This is best continued for an hour. Less time is not safe. The film is coiled in the bottom of a basin, and a slight j trickle of water left on. Care must be ; taken to so adjust this stream that the basin will not run over. Inspection should be given every ten minutes or so, to pre vent this untoward event, also to raise the roll and replace it in the bowl. This thorough washing, to remove traces of all chemicals previously used, is too often slighted. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS | BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. T3/vMr.n..Mu i „ nr..._j_i. ■»__it- « .... day at the outset of his "non-political” junket to the Pacific Coast, bumped into a paradoxical political situation. Gunning for Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, arch foe of the court bill, F. D. R. will find that Wyoming as a whole preponder antly approves of the Senator's attitude. His fellow Democrats, being ardent New Dealers, were and are for the most part with the President in the court contro versy. But Wyoming is normally Re publican territory, so counting the Dem ocrats who support O'Mahoney with the Republicans who are anti-Roosevelt on general principles, it may be ranked on a State-wide basis as opposed to the President on the issue he is now carry ing to the Western country. O'Mahoney isn't up for re-election until 1940. If the G. O. P. goes down the line for him, as the party is expected to do in many States where anti-court Democratic Senators aspire to succeed themselves, the young Cheyenne journalist-states man should be fairly safe three years hence, provided the vendetta is still on. Harding carried Wyoming in ’20, Cool idge in ’24 and Hoover in ’28. but the State went Roosevelt in both ’32 and In the pre-New Deal era it was reliably Republican by 2 or 3 to 1. Wyoming’s congressional delegation has been sol idly Democratic for three years. * * * * In sailing for home on an incon spicuous boat which arrives at a port less prominent than New York. Mr. Jus tice Black's evident plan was to land in a hood of obscurity and a sheet of un obtrusiveness. He has as much chance to gumshoe his way into the country as if he were being convoyed into Nor folk by the United States Battle Fleet, headed by the Marine Band playing a march composed for the occasion en titled “Roosevelt, Here I Come.” When his ship docks next week with the prize news story of the decade. Black's welcoming committee will consist of as big a brigade of reporters, photograph ers. news reel sharpshooters and broad casters as ever waited for a conquering hero home from the wars. This ob server herewith patents a suggestion for the elusive baby of the Supreme Court. Should Justice Black volunteer or be persuaded to renounce the ermine, why doesn't his recent conduct make him a "natural” for one of those new White House executive assistant jobs, the prerequisite for which is a passion for anonymity? * * * * In certain Washington diplomatic quarters the Machiavellian thought is whispered that Japan at Nanking may have been trying to find out just how much the United States would stand for. Those who put forth this cynical sugges tion wouldn’t be surprised if the still somewhat mysterious evacuation of our Nanking Embassy convinced Tokio it can go pretty far in pin-pricking patient, peace-craving America. Japan’s war lords, it is explained, have now “felt out” in succession the only three pow ers—Russia, Great Britain and our selves—that could throw monkey wrenches into her China-crushing ma chinery. The Soviet took things lying down a couple of months ago in Siberia, the British lion has just allowed its tail to be violently twisted in connection with the airplane attack on Ambassador Knatchbull-Huga—en. and Uncle Bam t m3 nag at ixauK.ing—iur a aay or two at least—at Japanese behest. At j any rate, this is the picture now being ; painted in local international circles. * * * * Twenty years ago. while rummaging through the musty nooks and crajinies of the Navy Department during his assistant secretaryship days. Franklin D. Roosevelt conceived the idea of a monumental history’ of the war activi ties of the United States Navy from the time of its birth. Soon after he became President he decided to have the idea carried out. The Government Printing Office has just made available the first four volumes of the resultant work, en titled “Naval Operations: 1798-1801.” Three more tomes dealing with the same era. the Adams and Jefferson adminis trations. will be ready a little later. The Roosevelt-inspired opus represents the first attempt to compile and publish American naval history. It is based for the most part upon hitherto unpub lished material from the department’s archives. * * * * New Jersey’s coming gubernatorial election may be the first test of the ad ministration’s power to punish the Presi dent's court fo^. Despite the contest’s purely local character, it happens that United States Senator A. Harry Moore, who aspires to a record-smashing third term as a Democratic Governor, op posed the Roosevelt judiciary plan. Moore is a famed vote getter, but if the Farley machine doesn't line up behind Boss Hague’s candidate, his Republican opponent. Rev. Lester H. Clee, may give him a stiff run. especially as the Hoff man faction, though defeated in the primaries, is ready for a united G. O. P. effort in the battle for Trenton. * * * * With apologies to Francis Scott Key: Oh, say can you see By Nanking's early light What so proudly we hailed Before Jap shells were screaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars Through the perilous fight, As all China watched. Were so gallantly streaming; The diplomats’ scare. The bombs bursting in air. Gave proof through the night That our flag was not there. Oh. say, does the Star Spangled Banner now wave O’ei Embassy compound. And our “face” thus save? * * * * As if the impending foot ball season wasn't enough to revive the Yale-Har vard feud in its ancient and annual in tensity, former Senator Hiram Bing ham of Connecticut (Yale ’98) has started something that promises to make the Blue see even redder than Cam bridge Crimson. He has just returned from England, where he went to gather material for his biography of Elihu Yale, founder of the university and traditional hero of Yale song and story. The most exciting thing the ex-Senator dug up was proof that Yale owes its existence to Harvard! According to Bingham’s researches, Cotton Mather, whom the Massachusetts Legislature designated as president of Harvard in 1703, was re jected by the college corporation. He was so embittered by what he consid ered Harvard snobbishness that he en ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS IY FREDERIC J. HASAI.V. 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. What are the required weight and height of a style model?—E. D. A. They vary somewhat. The most popular model is 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighs 120 pounds, and wears size 14 clothes. Q. Why does a person who has a cold lose the sense of smell?—R. A. M. A. The reason is that the mucous membranes swell to such an extent that the volatile material is unable to reach the olfactory nerve endings. Q. Why are nets put over growing tobacco plants?—G. L. H. A. The purpose of netting over to bacco fields is to produce larger and thinner leaves. This process is used only for cigar types of tobacco. Q. What is a Cantango day?—N. E. A. This is a stock market expression meaning a projected 100 per cent settle ment of all margin accounts every two weeks. Q. Why do mail carriers have black stripes on the outside of trouser legs and wear black ties?—N. R. A. The letter carriers themselves vote upon the type of uniform they wish to wear. The idea is to get a uniform which looks neat and can easily be iden tified as that of a postman. Q. How many miles of toll roads are there in the United States?—G. M. S. a. mere are iewer tnan 150 miles or toll roads. Public sentiment is against the construction of such highways. Q. In how many languages has the Bible been printed?—L. T. A. The Bible or some part of it has now been printed in 991 languages. The complete Bible has been printed in 176 languages. Q. Did New York City have trailer camps for the American Legion visitors who traveled that way?—S. F. M. A, A trailer camp was built across the Harlem River at 138th street and another was built in Secaucus, N. J., to accommo date Legion visitors. Q. Who was Oliver Optic?—J. O. B. A. Oliver Optic was the pen name of William Taylor Adams. He taught for many years in the Boston public schools. He was the popular writer of over one hundred volumes of travel and adventure stories for young people. “Young Amer ica Abroad” and the “Starry Flag Series" are among some of his better known stories. Q Who is able to sing the highest notes?—E. H. A. Miss Erna Sack, coloratura soprano of the Dresden Opera Company sings consistently within the register above high C and is able to take the C above high C. It is said that no other singer in modern times has been able to achieve this extraordinary height of voice. Q. Who are the three sisters who are so powerful in Chinese politics?—K. G * A. They are Madame Chiang Kai-shek Madame Sun Yat-sen. and Madam Kung. all daughters of the famous Soor,;. family. Q Please give some information about the New Harmony Colony — S. F. G. A. The New Harmony, Ind.. project was established in 1815 by the Harmony Society under George Rapp. In 1825 the Harmonists sold out to Robert Owen, who established there a communistic colony which gained prominence as a cultural and scientific center. The com munistic principles of the community failed to be practicable, its members split into factions, and about 1830 it ceased to exist as a distinct enterprise. Q How many years has Dr. Hrdlicka spent in the Far North?—M. J. A. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physical anthropology of the Smithsonian insti tution, has just returned to Washington after his ninth Summer in the Far North, in an effort to retrace the steps by which , the North American continent was origi nally populated from Asia. Q. How- much time is covered in the play, "The Merchant of Venire"?—E. C. A. The passage of time Is about one year. Q. What position is held at present by James W. Gerard?—H. W. A. Former Ambassador Gerard has been appointed collaborator of the National Park Service in connection with the work of the United States Tourist Bu reau in New York City. Q. Is there anv resort in the East ’ where sand skiing is taught?—W. H. M A. There is a course in sand skiing under a Norwegian ski professional on the Sandy Neck Dunes, near Centerville. Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Some of the dunes are unusually long, permitting runs of between 100 and 150 feet. Q. What is meant by barratry in law? —W. F. A. It is the practice of exciting and encouraging or maintaining law suits or quarrels; persistent incitement of liti gation. Q. Who discovered that diamonds should be polished with diamond dust? —W. D. A. It is attributed to Ludwig Van Berquem, a Belgian lapidist, in about 1475. Q. How many entrances are there to the White House grounds in Washing ton?—E. G. A. There are eight gateways to the grounds, all opposite to the various White House entrances. listed the aid of plutocratic “Eli" Yale in setting up a rival institution which was destined to become Yale College. Full details of the Bulldog's pedigree will appear in the forthcoming volume. * * * * Latest from the screen world Is the suggestion of Federal regulation for the motion picture industry along the lines of the Guffey-Vinson bituminous coal law. The proposal originates with Abram Myers, president and general counsel of the Allied States’ Associa tion of Motion Picture Exhibitors. Myers is a former chairman of the Fed eral Trade Commission. His scheme was scheduled for discussion at the asso ciation’s meeting in Atlantic City this week. Its enactment would put Uncle Sam in the movies under more or less the same conditions as already find him with a finger in such pies as coal, rail roads. oil, agriculture, banking, securi ties and labor relations. Mr. Myers thinks that of all existing supervisory laws, the Guffey act model is most suit able for film control. f (Copyright. 1M7J * a