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G. 0. P. in Congress
Opportunity will knock at the door
of the Republicans in the new Con
gress, which meets next January. It
remains to be seen whether, through
stupid partisanship, the G. O. P. will
pass it by. Chairman John Hamilton
of the Republican National Commit
tee, in an address to the Republican
women of Pennsylvania, has pointed
out that despite the scope of party
victories in the recent election, Re
publicans remain a minority in the
Congress.
“Intelligent though we may be, yet
numerically we will be impotent
unless we join forces with those real
and genuine Democrats in Congress
who place devotion to their Consti
tution and to their country above
partisan considerations,” Mr. Hamil
ton said. This is advice which the
Republican leadership in Congress
should take to heart.
Such a combination of Democrats
and Republicans in the present Con
gress turned back the efforts of the
President to dominate the judiciary.
Such a combination declined also to
concentrate still further powers in
the hands of the executive branch of
the Government when the Presi
dent's reorganization bill came be
fore the House.
There are sound policies for which
the G. O. P. can stand. There are
sound positions which the Repub
licans may take in opposition to some
of the legislative demands of the
Roosevelt administration. If they
are to be effective, however, they
must act in unison with the Dem
ocratic opposition.
Strong feeling exists in the coun
try today that the Wagner Labor
Relations Act should be amended.
There is a demand, also, that the
handling of Federal relief shall be
removed from partisan politics. More
careful handling of the finances is
strongly urged to bring about much
needed retrenchment in some quar
ters. Amendment of the Social Se
curity Act to do away with unneces
sary surplus and to adopt a pay-as
you-go plan also is being advocated.
Republicans in Congress have an
opportunity, working in co-operation
with Democratic colleagues, to deal
with these matters of policy and leg
islation effectively. Many Democrats
In Congress feel as strongly as do the
Republicans the necessity of such
changes, and the Republicans can
well afford to follow the lead of Dem
ocrats who point the way.
An assault upon all things demo
cratic—and even upon all things
emanating from the Roosevelt ad
ministration—by the Republicans
would be the height of folly, and
probably would drive the wings of
the Democratic party together. The
Increased Republican representation
In Congress, however, can really be
of service to the country if it is
vigilant in its opposition to unsound
proposals. It can well afford to
6upport those that are sound.
It looks as though even Nazis have
lucid intervals. It has been reliably
reported that Goering considers anti
Jewish destruction as a severe blow to
the Reich’s four-year economic plan.
Economic Alliance
Reactions in the United States,
Canada and Great Britain to the two
trade agreements signed yesterday
by President Roosevelt, Premier
Mackenzie King and Sir Ronald
Lindsay will run the scale from en
thusiastic praise to bitter condemna
tion, according to the interests
affected. But out of the whole will
emerge the inescapable fact that
these three English-speaking coun
tries are now bound in perhaps the
greatest economic alliance the world
has ever known.
It is not an alliance of aggression
and war, but one of defense and
peace, solidly founded upon the
ideals of liberalized commercial
policy and greater equality of treat
ment.
Beyond doubt the most important
victory won in the British agreement
Is the pressure which liberalization
of British commercial policy will
exert upon many other countries,
hitherto suspended between the rival
trade programs—reciprocity on the
Hull plan or barter as espoused by
Germany and a number of Central
European states.
From this standpoint it marked
the greatest advance toward general
acceptance of reciprocal trade pol
icies that has been made since the
passage of the Trade Agreements Act
of 1934.
Other nations may now be ex
pected to follow the lead of the
British government, particularly
Argentina, long tied to British com
mercial policy because of her de
pendence upon the British market.
American agriculture, reluctant in
the past to receive the reciprocal
trade program with much joy, faces
a new day in Britain while American
industry gains vast new improve
ments in trade conditions in Canada.
So that on balance, although indi
vidual interests may feel themselves
sacrificed, the nation's agricultural
and industrial products come out of
the two-sided negotiations with
colors flying.
What the cost of these large con
cessions granted by both Canada and
Great Britain will be will not be
known until the American import
figures for 1939 are compiled, but
the happy experience of the first
Canadian agreement, now expiring,
can hardly inspire fear that the
United States will lose in the final
analysis.
Anglo-1 talian 'Peace'
If horrifying events in Germany
had not dimmed the luster of Mr.
Chamberlain’s policy of European
appeasement by conciliation of the
dictators, the Anglo-Italian pact,
which has just come into force after*
seven months in dry dock, would be
a considerably brighter feather in
the Prime Minister’s cap. As it is,
there will be grave doubt inside, as
well as outside, Great Britain
whether the agreement formally is
worth much more than the parch
ment to which Count Ciano and Lord
Perth affixed their signatures at
Rome on Wednesday. Skepticism on
that score is not lessened by Italian
insistence that the Berlin-Rome axis,
so to speak, is the star to which the
Fascist wagon remains hitched.
Nevertheless, the Chamberlain
Mussolini deal on its face is a
trade that* should make for peace.
It is prolific in mutual give-and
take. II Duce achieves his para
mount objective—British recogni
tion of the Ethiopian conquest, and
all that goes with it, including, in
ferentially, access to the London cap
ital market for colonial exploitation
funds. Italy also obtains a guarantee
of the status quo in the Mediterra
nean and an acknowledgement of
“'absolute equality with the British
Empire’’ there, as well as in the Red
Sf a. There is, furthermore, a British
declaration that the freedom of the
Suez Canal will not be restricted
either in peace or in war—a pledge
which in time of international crisis
may be observed or ignored, as the
necessities of the situation require.
Italy on her part undertakes in
effect to abandon designs on British
territory in the Near East, especially
in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, and to
refrain from anti-British propaganda
in the Moslem world. The Fascists
agree, too, to respect British rights
at Lake Tsana, in Ethiopia, and not
to recruit a large native army in
Italian East Africa, which could
menace Egypt or the Sudan.
More significant than stereotyped
rejoicings in London or Rome over
effectuation of the pact is the re
minder of oracular Virginio Gayda
in Giornale d’ltalia that the agree
ments with Britain in no wise “im
pair the effectiveness or spirit of the
Rome-Berlin entente, which con
tinues to be the basis of Italian
foreign policy—or of the Rome
Berlin-Tokio triangle.” In other
words, a truce with Britain, but
business as usual among Italy, Ger
many and Japan.
It would be interesting to know
what odds Lloyds are offering on the
durability—and reliability—of this
first fruit of Downing Street
“realism.”
The Group Health Case
The action of the District Court in
restricting the Department of Justice
investigation of organized medicine
to the specific question of whether
there has been a violation of the
anti-trust laws is commendable. It
should result in the elimination of
extraneous issues, thus clearing the
way for a full and uncolored adjudi
cation of the fundamental contro
versy.
The department, in connection
with the present grand jury investi
gation of alleged monopolistic prac
tices by the association, had asked
for the right to examine all papers
of the American Medical Association
touching on ten different and unre
lated group medicine organizations.
An incursion into all its records
probably would show various degrees
of opposition to various kinds of
organizations—some of them estab
lished with no other purpose than to
milk a gullible public. But they
would have no bearing on the asso
ciation’s attitude or its activities
against Group Health Association,
Inc., for which it now is being in
vestigated. That is the only issue
before the grand jury, and on that
issue alone should the Department
of Justice be permitted to submit
whatever evidence it may have.
Home on the Range
Ernest Thompson-Seton, who has
always maintained that the Amer
ican Indian is superior to the white
man, has proposed that the Govern
ment restock and give back to the
Sioux their former buffalo grounds,
which comprise all of South Dakota,
Nebraska and the eastern parts of
Montana and Wyoming, conceding,
of course, that it would *be necessary
to put fences around Omaha, Chey
enne and other large cities to avoid
complicating their traffic with buf
faloes in the streets.
Thus is a little comic relief injected
into the news of the day. It is no
easy task for the Government to
provide a home on the range where
the buffaloes roam and the Sioux and
the antelope play, and before It is
undertaken, it might be wise to send
out a questionnaire to various Indian
reservations to find out If it is worth
while. The following queries would
be in order:
Would you prefer a range in Mon
tana to the one you have in your
kitchen now? Are you satisfied with
your present private telephone serv
ice, or would you rather have the
smoke signal party line of your an
cestors? Do you know how to steer
a cayuse, or would you need riding
instruction? Do you want to bang
away aimlessly on a tom-tom, or
would you rather twist a dial and
listen to the inspiring strains of “Flat
Foot Floogie with the Floy Floy”?
After years of living on canned
salmon, are your teeth strong enough
for buffalo meat or roast dog? Do
you want to take a chance on hunt
er’s luck, or would you rather get
your food at the paleface grocery
with checks sent from the lodge of
the Great White Father in Wash
ington every month?
It is just barely possible that the
replies obtained would convince Mr.
Seton that the frontier has really
passed, and that it will not be neces
sary to slap a few more billions on
the national debt to buy happy hunt
ing grounds for Lo, the poor Indian.
Police "Protection"
Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen,
taking official cognizance of testi
mony in the current income tax trial
of the Warring brothers, alleged
numbers racketeers, has ordered a
thorough investigation of charges
that the defendants received "pro
tection” from the police in return
for monthly payments of from $400
to $1,000.
The charges are not new to Major
Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of
police. They were brought to his
attention not long after they were
made during the investigation of the
case, and he is said to have made
strenuous efforts to get at the truth.
But the Warrings were not willing
to name their protectors, and other
proof of official corruption was lack
ing; so nothing came of the inquiry
at that time.
Obviously, Commissioner Hazen and
Major Brown should take extraordi
nary measures to get to the bottom
of the Warring accusations, if public
confidence in the police department
is to continue. At the same time it
is only fair to withhold judgment in
the case until evidence more tangible
than the vague and unsupported
statements of alleged racketeers is
produced. It is to be hoped the trial
will result in a court showdown that
will clear the air of loose charges
reflecting on the police department
as a whole.
The National Capital has the
honor of having been the birthplace
of one of the Nation’s truly great
musicians, John Philip Sousa. The
suggestion to name the new Penn
sylvania Avenue Bridge, the eastern
end of which will not be far from
the site of his nativity, seems an
appropriate and excellent one.
These United States are develop
ing a crop of split-second calculators
in the persons of radio listeners who
have learned just when to come in
on their favorite broadcasts in order
to have skipped the introductory
commercial “blurb.”
Blow the horn of your car once at
the right time and place, and you may
save a life. Blow it ten times unnec
essarily and wrongfully, and you
probably indirectly help to lose one.
Shooting Stars
Br PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Put Joys.
Used to heave a happy sigh
When they mentioned pumpkin pie,
Used to kind of warm with pride
As I watched the turkey’s stride;
’Tain’t so long a period since
I liked pastry—mostly mince.
Things is changin’ ’pears to me,
Nothin’s like it used to be.
Threats of war depress me some,
An’ the airplanes make me glum;
Kind o' think I’d feel all right
With my old-time appetite.
This here tyranny of wealth
Wouldn't fret me, if my health
Caused my dinners to agree
An’ seem like they used to be.
Scientifically Speaking.
“The state legislature,” said Senator
Sorghum, “is the nursery of political
greatness,”
“Yes,” answered the expert in horti
culture; “but don't you think that in
some nurseries they pay too much atten
tion to grafting?”
“People and money are something
alike,” said Hi Ho, the sage of China
town. “The shiniest kinds are liable to
be the poorest counterfeits.”
Coining Back.
Deserted soon will be the track
Where bets are now so gaily booked.
But in the spring they will be back
For any coin they’ve overlooked.
Emergency Explanation.
“The climate is very cold in Russia, Is
it not?”
“Yes,” answered the traveler, “and
fortunately so. The circumstance en
ables an official to agree that he is shiv
ering because he is chilly instead of be
cause he is scared to death.”
Motoring.
Excitement we are sure to win,
With hold-ups left and right.
Perhaps we’ll have a merry spin,
Perhaps we’ll have a fight.
“’Mos likely,” said Uncle Eben, “de
man dat goes aroun’ lookin’ foh sympa
thy is simply spollin’ his credit against
de time when he gits de courage to
come out an’ ask for a loan.”
Persecution of Jews
May Doom the Nazis
Atrocities Held Likely to
Result in Saving
Civilization
To Iho editor of Tht Star: ■
The recent press announcement that
Adolf Hitler will shortly unveil a statue
of Hellogabalus following the discovery
by Nazi antiquarians that the Roman
Emperor was of German birth and that
his murder was the result of a Jewish
plot arouses curious interest in present
day German psychology. The alleged
"discovery” probably rests upon no base
more substantial than that it is true
that in certain aspects the "kultur” pre
vailing in the court of Heliogabalus in
the third century closely resembles that
of Berlin under the Nazis. The revolting
Roman soldiers, who decapitated their
Emperor and threw his body in the camp
latrine, had reason enough for their
action without any outside prompting.
His short reign had been marked by
rapacity and cruelty as well as unbridled
indulgence in vice.
The Nazi school of thought snows me
same inexplicable lack of capacity in
defending the massacre of inoffensive
German Jews by pointing to the killing
of Herr von Rath by a 17-year-old
Polish Jew. Ordinary intelligence would
prompt them to keep absolutely silent
about the Paris tragedy. The men
tion of that episode is certain to
bring to mind for comparison the hor
rible murder of Engelbert Dollfuss, for
which crime Hitler and his merry men
have now accepted full responsibility by
honoring the assassins and actually im
prisoning those who in their official
capacity punished the murderers of the
Austrian chancellor. The von Rath kill
ing also makes men realize the extreme
nature of the barbarities which could
develop in the mind of a mere boy an
urge sufficiently strong to make him a
murderer—one with no possible chance
of escaping from the scene of his crime.
Again it is being implied that parallels
to Germany's crime of today may be
found in medieval history. That, too, is
unsound. To match its ferocity we must
hark back to the mass murders of Joshua,
probably apocryphal. “What about the
French Revolution?’’ it may be asked.
That was an uprising of a semi-starving
multitude wrho had seen wasteful luxury,
flaunting extravagance, indifference to
the sufferings of the poor, paraded
before a people dying of hunger and cold.
The massacre of St. Bartholomews
day? That was an act of fanatical faith,
a manifestation Of a religious belief.
The ancient College of Sorbonne under
took to justify the massacre upon the
ground that the Huguenots were an
influential and actively proselyting sect,
whose every convert was doomed to
everlasting torment. Those converts
were increasing every day with appalling
rapidity. The massacre brought forth
congratulations from every Catholic
country of the world. The Pope blessed
its authors and struck a medal in com
memoration of the purge of heretics.
What country will congratulate Hitler,
Streicher and the rest?
Only one modem ruler could have been
absolutely depended upon wholehearted
ly to praise the Nazi massacres. That
was King Kofi of Ashanti. He was driven
from his throne by the British and died
in 1884. His “kultur” was that of pres
ent-day Germany under Hitler. Kofi
painted the mud walls of his palace
with the blood of 1,500 slaughtered vir
gins. Perhaps he is waiting for Hitler
and his “pure Aryan” associates to wel
come them to Avernus.
If the massacre of the innocents in
Germany leads America to tread the
path of duty, a momentous chapter of
human history will be written. A large
proportion of living men believe that
1.900 years ago the Jews played a vital
part in the redemption of mankind. It
may well be that today, in an entirely
different role, they will save the civiliza
tion of Europe.
HOWARD PITCHER OKIE.
November 16.
“Nature Lover” Held Ignorant
Of Both Cats and Birds.
To the Editor of The Star:
An an all-around lover of animals and
birds, I would suggest to the lady who
signs herself in your paper “Nature
Lover” that she study books on birds and
animals (domesticated) before her
imagination makes a further martyr of
her.
Her description of the jungle-like
"shrieks and screams of birds and squir
rels night and day,” her relief now with
closed windows, But her dread of Spring,
all go to show a bad case of jitters.
In the first place birds and squirrels
would leave a place so infested with cats
bent on murder as she describes.
I live in Chevy Chase and have large
grounds and trees and multitudes of
birds flock around to eat seeds and nuts
we furnish them with during the winter.
We also have four squirrels that live in
our blind attic. Among the birds that
stay with us year around are a pair of
large jay birds, two pairs of cat birds and
a pair of cardinals. These three species
are noisy birds and quarrelsome. They
and the squirrels start "shrieking and
screaming” at 5 o’clock every morning
over the food and nuts, waking every
one up. A jay bird bit a plug from the
shoulder of our black squirrel. These
three species scream if they see a. cat
or dog* walking around or even asleep,
or at me if I go near their nest tree.
During a storm when the trees blow
around their screams are terrific. Many
young ones are destroyed by storms. So
most of the shrieks and screams are not
because cats are after them, but because
it is their life and their way and, if we
really love them, we should take it for
granted as we do the noise of boisterous
children. I have never known our cats
to kill birds. We have three champion
ratters who eat and sleep in the day and
hunt at night.
A friend had a cat that loved to
catch birds, so she put a leather collar
on him with a bell sewed on it. This
makes it impossible to catch a bird or
anything else, so he must be fed. An
other friend has a cat and a canary
which play together and are devoted
friends. MRS. C. E.
November 16.
l
—
A Bit Shopworn
From the Battle Creek Enquirer-News.
Giving the country bach to the Indians
might not be ao easy. They probably
i would expect something for damages.
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Tracewell.
Sweet alyssum, small but capable
flower, continues to thrive in local
gardens.
Recurring cool spells, sandwiched in
between days of unusually warm
weather, seem to be just to its liking.
After the chrysanthemums are faded,
the sweet alyssum goes right along,
proudly presenting its bushy little plants
and small blossoms.
Many a border now knows no other
blooming thing.
This Is as it should be, showing to
even the least observing that here, is
one of the finest of all garden subjects.
* * * *
The variety, Little Gem, is the best,
but there are others.
It is almost impossible to get more real
worth in a ten-cent packet of flower
seeds than in this annual. *
Perhaps this is as good a time of the
year as any for the amateur gardener
to realize this, and to determine to have
some of it in his yard next year.
Sweet alyssum is one of the ‘‘sure-fire”
favorites which sometimes suffer from
being so common, as the saying puts its.
Others in the class are the petunia,
the zinnia and the marigold. All of
these, in recent years, Tiave been the sub
ject of much work on the part of plant
hybridizers, with the result that the in
terest of thousands of persons in them
has been heightened.
* 4 k k
Sweet alyssum has gone right along
being its sweet, simple self. A little work
has been put on it, but in the main it
remains much as it was years ago.
This is good.
Hybridizers are doing so many fancy
things with some of the old plants that
ambitious gardeners sometimes do not
recognize them when they see them in
bloom.
The alyssum is always the same, ful
filling a prime need in low border plants.
There are few gardens, small ones in
particular, which could not use a great
deal more of this edging plant, as it is
called.
The demand for severely lined flower
beds has declined, but the need for neat
ness is just as great as evfr, and noth
ing gives this in an average small yard
better than the alvssums.
* * * *
The long perennial border, so much in
vogue in recent years, has plenty of
room in it for ao edging of alyssum.
The little bushy plants, with their
spreading habit, and the dainty blos
soms—still very much in evidence at this
writing, owing to the unusual season—
give to the most elaborate border a cer
tain aspect which is most pleasing.
They “go." in other words, with almost
anything in the flower line.
The alyssum belongs to the great class
of neutral flowers which can be planted
anywhere there is room, and almost any
where where there seems to be no room.
This is one of its great points. It permits
the Inclusion of more bloom where at
first glance there would not seem to lie
any possibility of anything more.
* * * *
Marigold foliage was nipped by that
genuine touch of frost several weeks ago.
The sweet alyssum leaves were as fresh
as ever.
Such hardiness is desirable in any
garden, but particular in the small yard
which at best can never hold more than
a minimum of flowers.
The smaller the garden, the smaller
the shrubs, bushes and plants which
should be in it. This is merely applying
a principle of decoration to the outdoors.
Modem furniture often is scaled down
to fit smaller rooms of today. This is
done at the expense of the unessential,
not of the essential features. Most peo
ple have seen some old upright piano,
with a mass of carving. The carving was
not essential. The tone of the instru
ment, that alone was essential. When
the same tone is put in a modern piano,
of strictly new design, the same quality
may be obtained in half the amount of
space.
The small garden needs small plants.
Even tall plants, such as dahlias, at the
extreme back of the plot do not look well,
especially when the supporting stakes,
of huge stand, are put in to hold them
up. For this reason, in part, few dahlias
are encountered in small yards.
* * * *
J It is a question whether such rampant
growers as the Dr. Van Fleet rose, for
instance, have any place in a small yard.
If climbing roses of such habits are
included, they should be cut back se
verely after each blooming.
The idea is to scale the plants down
to fit into the garden without giving the
overgrown look which so many do not
like.
At this point, let us say that if the
individual gardener likes his plants large
and bushy, his roses rampant, and his
blossoms huge, let him plant what he
pleases, and not mind in the least any
ideas to the contrary.
* * * *
But there can be little doubt that the
strictly up-to-date idea of having more
plants by using small ones in the small
garden is /a good idea, and one which
works out very well in practice.
Not all gardening theories do work
out nicely. They sound good on paper,
but when put into the garden are found
to be misfits.
Scaling the plants to fit the garden is
not only a real idea, but it most often
works out beautifully, as may be seen
in the blooming season.
Then if the gardener grows faint
hearted. at the idea of necessary prun
ing. he still finds his plants low enough
to look well all autumn and winter.
Sweet alyssum, sometimes overlooked
in planning, fits in well with this scheme,
Just as it does into the gardening scene.
Letters to The Star
I'rges Literal Interpretation
Of the Constitution.
To the Editor of The Star:
I note your hope that the President
will appoint as successor to the late Jus
tice Cardozo a person of legal attain
ments and social outlook of the highest
order, following the example of Presi
dent Wilson in appointing Mr. Justice
Brandeis. All must join in that wish,
but let it be done without any implica
tion that other members of the court
are not similarly qualified.
The man who is perhaps most fre
quently mentioned as the probable ap
pointee is quoted as saying that “the
Constitution is flexible enough to meet
all our social needs." Of course, if the
amending provisions of the Constitution
are included, he is right. There is no
limit to the flexibility of our funda
mental law. The clear intent of those
provisions was to meet every possible
social need. But this is so obvious that
apparently the use of the amending
power was not in mind in the quoted
expression, which is somewhat typical.
It is much used to justify the expansion
of Federal activities into new fields.
Why resort to porch-climbing when
by amendment the front door may be
opened wide? The Constitution has re
ceived 21 amendments to meet the
needs of the country, and no matter
how “liberal” our future courts may
be it is certain that further amend
ments will be necessary. If the Con
stitution must be flexed, let it be done
by the people, who alone have the
power. Certainly our judges should be
“learned in the law,” and being intelli
gent they will have vision; but let that
vision be directed to the law as it is,
rather than what they think it should
be. There is already too much fog in
the atmosphere. If I have defined a
“conservative,” make the most of it.
November 15. C. V. B.
Says Voters Can't Be
Fooled Forever.
To the Editor of The St»r:
Reference is made to your editorial of
last Thursday—“Magicians.” To those
who did not read it, I commend it to
their review.
I also wonder if many of those who
read it got the full significance of the
thought behind it.
It prompts me, in indorsing it, to
quote:
“You can fool some of the people all
of the time and all of the people some
of the time (1936), but you cannot fool
all of the people all of the time (1938).”
There are some who just won t believe
that the pioneer spirit still lives in the
hearts of Americans—both the old and
the young (who inherited it), that spirit
of self determination and self assertive
ness—a spirit that just as long as “In
God We Trust” will continue to live.
Don’t give up our heritage of democ
racy. Being liberal does not, of course,
contemplate regimentation. Those fooled
have spoken! JAMES S. McKEE.
November 12.
—
Denies Wilson Return
Is a “Recall."
To the Editor of The St»r:
Permit me to call your attention to the
false Impression you'/ editorial in today’s
paper may create. I am referring to your
editorial commenting on Ambassador
Wilson’s forthcoming visit to the State
Department. This editorial clearly im
plies, I am sure unintentionally, that
this. In fact, means the breaking off of
diplomatic relations with the present
I
Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and address of the
writer, although the use of a
pseudonym for publication is per
missible. Please be brief!
German government. While popular
sentiment in our own country as well as
throughout the civilized world would
find such an action only proper and de
sirable as an effective form of protest,
this is so far manifestly not the case.
Mr. Wilson's trip to Washington has no
such significance until an official state
ment has been issued to that effect and
in absence of such a statement Mr. Wil
son may return to his post after two
days in Washington. Obviously then the
use of such words as ‘'recall'’ or “with
drawal" is not in order and is misleading.
The danger therein is that the popular
sentiment may be misled into thinking
that the action it desires and expects the
Government to take has already been
accomplished and consequently the
necessary popular pressure for it may
considerably slacken, with the possible
result that the desired action would fail
to materialize. I am convinced that your
writer was led by no such intentions
when composing that editorial. It would
’seem that corresponding rectification
would be in order. O. J. V.
November 15.
Replies to Fry On
Tree Destruction.
To the Editor of The Star:
Apropos the Thomas Jefferson Me
morial: Mr. Felix A. Ury, in his letter
published in The Star, stated in part:
“Cut down all the trees where space is
needed to build an outstanding memorial
regardless of this so-called beauty (cher
ry trees) that prevails a few days a year.”
Washington is fast becoming a ceme
tery in appearance—monuments every
where! We can’t see the parks for the
memorials. And now Mr. Ury wants
more trees destroyed for another “tomb
stone.” Isn’t it odd that so many thou
sands of people come from great di
stances to see, what? Not our monu
ments, but our cherry trees and our
parks. They have their own memorials
back home to the same people that we
have in Washington. But they don't
have those lovely blossoms in such a
beautiful setting back home. That's why
they come to see the trees, bless ’em!
MRS. PEARSON C. CONLYN.
November 15.
One-Man Government
Prospect Waning. v
To the Editor of The Star:
Straws are said to indicate the way
the wind is blowing and when several
bales of political hay from several of
our largest States are released and go
flying frantically in a single direction
one would suppose that even the most
ardent New Dealer would sense a change.
Not so, however, with Harold Ickes who,
despite the election squall which revealed
a tremendous protest against one-man
government (and all that goes with it)
informs us that Roosevelt "is the only
man for 1940."
The "one-man idea” may be accept
able to Germany, Russia and Italy, but
it most assuredly will never be to the
vast majority of Americans. Since when
has any individual become indispensable
to our democracy?
E. K. GOLDS BOROUGH.
November 11.
Haskin's Answers
To Readers' Questions
By Frederic J. Haskin.
A reader can get the answer to any
question of fact by writing The Eve
ning Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. Haskin, Director, Washington,
D. C. Please inclose stamp for reply.
Q. How many vessels have passed
through the Panama Canal since it was
opened and what amount has been col
lected in tolls?—S. J. H.
A. In October the 100,000th ship ,
passed through the canal, while at the
end of September $434,714,852 had been
collected in tolls.
i
Q. Where is the Lyons of America?—
L. M.
A. Paterson, N. J., is called the Lyons
of America because it is the chief silk
manufacturing city in the United States.
More than $100,000,000 worth of silk is
produced in one year.
Q. What actress introduced the popu
lar old song called "Waiting at the
Church?”—N. A. C.
A. The song was introduced by Vesta
Victoria, an English comedienne.
Q. Where is Polctesme?—G. K. M.
A. It is an imaginary medieval country ''
made famous through the writings ol
James Branch Cabell.
Q. Who controlled the early slave
trade into the Americas?—L. H,
A. The Portuguese had a monopoly
on the trade because of their explora
tions on the West Coast of Africa begin
ning in 1442. The English went into the
slave trade in 1562.
Q. Who invented boxing gloves?—
r. t. w.
A. Their invention is ascribed to John
(Jack) Broughton, Englands famous
prize fighter, who also developed the
scientific art of boxing.
Q. What is the name of the private
school for boys in Maryland or Virginia
that has a course in automobile driving?
—T. H. M. #
A. The McDonogh School at Mc
Donogh, Md., gives a safety course in
driving. Students are given practical
instruction in the automobile shop on
the grounds and on the model driving
course of 3 miles which w’as built by
the boys.
Q. Are government workers in Italy
obliged to marry?—R. H. J.
A. State employes who hold executive
positions must marry before the age of,
30 and subordinate employes before the
age of 26. If they do not marry', there
is no chance of further advancement in
their work.
■ ■ . . m
Q. W’hat is the meaning of Zonta in
Zonta International, the women's organ
: ization?—T. J. H.
j A. The name was derived from the
j Sioux Indian word for trustworthy.
Q. What is meant by Brown Bess with
relation to arms?—T. K. J.
A. This is a name given in the British
Army to the flintlock musket with which
the infantry were formerly armed. The
term is applied generally to the weapon
of the 18th and early 19th centuries, and
became obsolete on the introduction of
the rifle.
Q. What was President Coolidge's
tribute to his mother in which he re
ferred to her resemblance to his son who
died?—M. G. H.
A. Writing of her death, Mr. Coolidge
said: "In an hour, she was gone. It
was her 39th birthday. I was 12 years
old. We laid her away in the blustering
snows of March. The greatest grief
that can come to a boy came to me.
Life was never to be the same again . ..
Five years and 41 years later almost to_
a day. my sister and my father followed
her. It always seemed to me that the
boy I lost was her image.”
Q. Where in England is the Dropping
Well?—H. C. M.
A. The Dropping Well is at Knares
borough in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
The waters are impregnated with lime
and have a petrifying power, this action
causing a curious and beautiful incrus
tation where the water falls over a slight
cliff.
Q. How much will it cost to take the
next census?—T. K. J.
A. The 16th census in 1940 will cost
approximately $50,000,000.
Q. Does the Bible say that people
should sing hymns?—O. L. B.
A. Singing to express joy, thanks, and
adoration is expressly commanded in
Ephesians 5:19: -Speaking to yourselves
in psalms and hymns and spiritual
songs, singing and making melody in
your heart to the Lord.”
Q. How long have ice cream cones
been sold?—H. B. G.
A. They were introduced at the
World's Fair in St. Louis in 1904.
Q. Who was the first Spanish bull
fighter?—K. L. M.
A. Although tradition names the
famous Cid as the original Spanish bull
fighter, it is probable that the first
Spaniard to kill a bull in the arena was
Don Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar. who about
1040, was proficient with the lance in
the sport. The first great professional
bullfighter was Francisco Romero of
Ronda in Andalusia, who introduced the
estoque, the sword, and the muleta, the
red flag.
Q. How fast will the scooters go that
are used by the Inglewood, Calif., police
force?—L. H. M.
A. The motor scooters have a speed
of 46 miles per hour.
Q. Do labor unions pay income taxes?
—A. V. D.
A. The Bureau of Internal Revenue
says that labor unions are not subject
to the payment of income tax.
Q. Does the constitution of the State
of New York prohibit the use of public
funds to aid sectarian schools?—L. R. M.
A. The New York State constitution
says: “Neither the State nor any sub
division thereof shall use its property
or credit or any public money, or au
thorize or permit either to be used, di
rectly or indirectly, in aid or mainte
nance, other than for examination or
Inspection, of any school or institution
of learning wholly or in part under the**
control or direction of any religious de*
nomination, or in which any denomina
tional tenet «jr doctrine Is taught.