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keeping the Constitution On the 20 is
rated a. unnecessary
Truth Is that there Is In fact no
necessity for keeping the Constitution
shifting around the coast In order that
the American people may see It. Here
a. the Capital It win be visited by req
resentatives Of the people from every
eect3on. every State, particularly the
younger citizens, who come 10 Washing
ton annually In great and increasing
numbers.
The American Constitution itself is
enshrined a. the Library OF Congress,
where II IL viewed By . ceaseless nov
Of visitors TO the Capital. It is one
CT the most significant features Of the
Sightseeing" program set forth for
the ediication and pleasure Of the
thousands who troop into Washington
at all seasons. The frfgate Constitut-
ton. placed at the Navy Yard. or per-
haps more conveniently elsewhere,
would be similarly an objective through
out the year and for countless years to
come.
It is perhaps fortunate that the
naval economies have been under
taken just at present, In respect to the
decision to lay up the Constitution at
this city. For this ensures that the
old ship will be here. throughout the
George Washington Bicentennial year.
Though the craft came into being and
gained its great renown after the days
Of the First President, there Is Q def
mite connotation between the celebra-
ton Of his birthday anniversary and
the relic Of the naval power that carried
on his work Of Nation making.
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Paraguay Follows Suit.

It has taken some time for her to do
so. but little Paraguay has now joined
the Latin American revolutionary pro-
cession. With the political upheaval
that took place at Asuncion last week,
almost unnoticed amid world events Of
wider magnitude, Paraguay becomes the
seventh country among the Americas to
throw or discredited presidential yoke
and establish an emergency regime in
its stead. The Paraguaysn upset is
the latest--is It destined to be the last2
in the chain of revolutions which be-
gan in Bolivia sixteen months ago.
Today Uruguay, Venezuela and Co
lombia remain the only South Ameri-
can states that have not INDUCED in
the luxury of q revolution since the
Spring OF 1880. Conditions In those
countries are nominally stable. though
rumhles Of unrest periodically are heard
even among them. Venezuela is held
within the iran grip Of the Gomez die
tatcrship. assinst which there is always
ineipient and potential revolt Central
America has enjoyed its normal ercr
Of revolutions.
since the epidemic among the south
ernnost Latins broke out. their three
most powerful republics. Argentina
Brazil and Chile. have had revolutions
After Peru overthrow President Leguia
the malady spread like wildfire ri.
goycn was toppled from power in Ar.
gentina. and then the Vargas govern
nent In Brazil was deposed Chile
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The Frigate Constitution

Considerations Of Federal economy
have caused Tire decision to berth the
old frigate Constitution for the Winter
here in washington at the Navy Yard,
This honored relic Of the early Ameri-
can Navy is now on its way here, being
due on November s. II was originally
planned to send her on long voyage,
to visit IS many ports as possible, 70
display her TO the greatest number Of
people. Here at the Capital she viii
be seen by multitudes. and it may be
that she will remain indefinitely.
AS 3 matter Of fact, II was long acc
proposed that the Constitution. when
restored. should be brought to Wash.
ington and kept here permanently as q
symbol Of the rrst American naval
force, to which the Nation in large
measure owes its preservation. Tht'
suggestion was not approved II wa:
decided that the ancient ship should
move about That program, however, Il
found to entail . heavy expense. and
Just now, with economy the rule In gov
ernmental administration. the cosf d
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Tert: In cu;etrcss and con f6erce
shan Be vo1r strength. - Isaiah
IrIi5
In reading the Old Testament I am
more and more struck with the ex-
traordinary application Of many of its
striking passages 70 the present world
situation. II confirms the old observa-
ton that human nature does not
change Conditions and practices may
change. but We suffer the same mis-
fortunes and miShaps. and enjoy the
same satisfactions and Joys that other
generations experienced. II would
seem on the face of it improbable that,
in q time remote and in places far re-
moved situations should develop ana
Joyous TO those we experience today
TIE prophecy of Isaiah Is filed with
the most picturesque accounts of con-
ditions that in many respects parallel
those in our modern life, In the thir-
tieth chapter, from which the above
text is taken, the prophet-statesEnan Is
dealing With a condition where the
people rad lost their sense of reliance
upon God They had become rebellious
and for the assurance that had stood
them In stead they were seeking be-
yond their own confines for that which
they believed would strengthen and
STABILIZE b4lcUl LIE PAOpbCS AIA0cA bahC1
10 tell them that the help they were
seeking would prove vain and to no
purpose. He reminded them that 1t
were better that they sit STILL" repos-
ing their security in the God upon
whom they had long trusted. To trust
in oppression and perverseness and
stay thereon" was the part Of folly.
His admonition was that lin quiet
ness and confidence shall be your
strength"
Quietness suggests repose and repose
inevitably leads to serenity and peace
of mind. There could be no confidence
without this. To the mind OF the
prophet. confidence was fundamental
and indispensable to both security and
prosperity This. Is as true today as
when 1t was spoken Of old. We are
being told on every hand today that
confidence is basic and essential to the
stabilizing of our industrial and COM
mercial life, even as it Is indispensable
to every other aspect Of our life. Where
confidence is impaired. whether in men
or institutions, fear follows, with the
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America Sets Cleanliness Standard


people of other countries. Ame
| communities tax and bond thelnserv~..
in order constantly TO improve their
| facilities.
The result OF this type Of engineering
has produced Q situation In which prac-
tically every important American city
furnishes water ct exceptionally low
It's flows from the tap. In some other
countries drinking water must come
from special sources and is sold in small
quantities not infreQuently at prices
higher than those charged for wine.
An interesting index to the extent OF
American cleaning operations Is found
in the fact that the American soap bill
Is in the neighborhood Of $500, 900
year.
The amount of cleaning done In con-
nection with containers and with places
Of public entertainment is almost be-
yond calculation. Campaigns carried en-
in connection with the maintenance of
diaries and milk service have produced
whole separate science of cleaning.
Systems Of great elaboration have been
worked out for cleaning the machinery
and the premises employed IN this large
industry. The same is true OF canning
factories. of ice cream factories. and Of
bottling works. Restaurants are sub
jected to periodic inspections by health
authorities and may lose their licenses
to do business II they fall below pre-
scribed standards Of sanitation
Even Water Il Cleaned.
Even the outsides of buildings. no
matter how huge. now are subjected TO
fairly regular cleaning, an idea the very
suggestion Of which would have been
regarded Is fantastic only few years
ago.
So complicated is the plumbing system
Of great city that TO be o plumber
man must 60 through q course OF In
Struction almost comparable TO that re-
quired Of physician or lawyer nor may
he practice his trade without the special
consent of his community.
While there was q time when the In
PRODUCTION Of water in large quantities
was regarded as the big part OF the job
OF sanitation, now few cities are con-
tent with water which has not been
chemically cleaned itself. An entire in
up. This practice has been regarded
important In obtaining the most health
giving water. but also, in many cases, Is
regarded as necessary to the proper
functioning of plumbing. Certain
waters contain mineral substances
which have an impairing effect on pipes.
Incrustations are formed on the inside
Of pipes which retard the now Of water.
In the course of manufacturing the
chemicals employed In these processes,
quantities of certain raw chemicals have
been imported It Is fascinating fact
that the curiosity aroused by the
foreign sellers of these goods concerning
what. we wanted with such quantities
has resulted In an excellent start having
been made in cleaning up the lest Of the
world
The fact Is that every year sees an
increasing amount Of export Of Ameri-
can cleanliness. There has been, over
number of years, q gain in American
exports of plumbing fixtures, of water
works machinery, Of laundry machinery.
Of soap, and now even Of the water
publication compounds which have been
perfected here.
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500 900. 900 board feet. The further
reduction recommended by the boarC
should comprise about $3.50 900 ,00(
board feet Of soft wood and 1850, 000,'
900 of hardwoods.
Pointing out that farm communitie.
normally consume more than one-thirC
of the total lumber cut, the report state:
that the ratio in August was the Lowest
recorded since 1910. Further substantial
reductions in most building material,
have not .yet been generally followed
by various reductions In other building
costs During the past three years the
decline in residential building has beer
very marked. The report states that
stocks should be maintained at q
relatively high level in order to provide
the assortment of items necessary tc
meet the more exacting demands Of
the trade"
AS to ANY substantial general In
crease" in ordinary building the COM
mittee sees no indication of such until
readjustments Of the cost of building
and home ownership have come into
more normal relation to the continuing
decline in building material prices
The experts believe the small DWELLING
ket for lumber in construction.
X
Any increased demand for lumber fol-
building purposes cannot reasonably be
expected during the first half Of next
year, according to the investigators
ror are there any indications Of SUBJ
stantial increase in farm buildings be-
fore next Summer, il then.
A planned and persistent restriction
Of production should be continued, the
experts believe, until the stocks have
been reduced TO a level reasonably COM
mensurate with economy and stability
in the marketing and distribution OF
lumber. From 1929 to 1881 the trend
of production shows that for approx
mately 500 identical mills there has
been a decline of some so per cent and
a decline nearly equal In sales volume.
It is the opinion of the experts that
the lumber industry. as whole, has
been substantially depleted of working
tinuing." It appears also from compe-
tent testimony that the capital struc-
ture of the lumber industry as a whole
will not. without general final disin-
teeration. long Withstand the continu-
ing depletion of its capital assets, and
that the correction of that condition is
dependent upon the establishment Of q
reasonable balance between lumber sup
DIV and demand, without any abrupt
dumping Of stocks"
The Timber Conservation Board Is
planning to make further periodical sur
yevs and reports on current and pro-
spective lumber supply and demand.
The board, which is q temporary body,
acting under presidential appointment,
but supported by private funds, was
este hlished on January l and win con-
tinue to operate until June 80, 1892.
The secretary OF Commerce Is chairman
OF the board, and associated with him
are the Secretaries of Agriculture and
the Interior. as well as representatives
of the manufacturers of hardwoods and
softyoods, of the owners OF timberlands,
the pulp and paper industry, various
Agricultural interests, associations in
terested in forestry. and the president
~ one of the transcontinental railroads.
(CopyFtsht. 1881
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Johnsons Threat.

hiram Johnson, WHO has UStn De-
seeched by some Of the Progressive Re-
publicans 10 get into the presidential
race next year against President Hoover,
is giving signs at last that the ferment
is working. In a speech made for the
"talkieS" the California Senator attack
ed the Hoover administration because
1t sent an American representative to
sit with the League of Nations Council
In its deliberations on the Sino-Japanese
row. He asserted with JohnSonian vigor
that such action takes US into Europe's
political controversies, in violation of
the Constitution and in defiance of the
peoples will
Senator johnson added significantly:
The only remedy left the people against
their betrayers is the ballot box" And
he thereby started speculation al over
again about the presidential race next
year. Should Mr.. johnson decide ANAL
ly to cast his hat into the ring for the
Republican nomination for President
against President Hoover there would
be a showdown early next year in this
contest. For California holds q presi-
Dental preferential primary to decide
whom its delegations to the national
conventions shall support for the presi-
dental nominations Of the Republican
and Democratic parties.
There is grave doubt. however, that
Senator johnson could stir the people
Of California to great heights Of passion
over the League Of Nations issue, espe-
ciaIly as the President has made 1t clear
that the presence Of an American at the
meeting Of the League Council is not
move to take the United States into
the League OF Nations Furthermore,
President Hoover has q great following
in his own state Of California. SEN
ator johnson has had his fingers, burned
several times in the past over the presi-
dency. In 1920 he made his great effort
at the Chicago convention. but got no.
where in the three-cornered race be-
tween h'-rself. Frank o. Lowden and
the late Gen. Leonard Wood. In the
end, Warren @. Hardt was the COM
promise candidate Of the Republican
party. Four years later Senator john
son again advanced his banner, but lost
sadly in some of the western State
presidential primaries to then President
Calvin Coolidge. Thereafter Senator
johnson settled down to senatorial poll
tics and philosophy. Now, it seems, he
is aroused again, almost as he was
aroused in the old Bull Moose days OF
1912, when he ran as vice presidential
candidate ON the Progressive ticket with
the late Theodore Roosevelt.
Ever since the Hoover administration
came in Senator johnson has been
inimical. Mr.. Hoover is the first Pres
ident Of the United States from Cali
fornia, q distinction which Senator
johnson coveted on at least two occa-
sions. In the 1928 campaign the Sen
ator did not cross swords with Mr.
Hoover. He was himself candidate
for reelection to the Senate Had he
turned against Mr. Hoover in California
he might have Jared Ill in the senatorial
race But If he needs now the buzzing
of the presidential bee and enters the
race, California will furnish an interest
ing test in the fight for the presidential
nomination OF the @. o. p.
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SHOOTING STARS.
~ rH1LANDER JOHNSON.

In Advance
Apology I'm offering.
For what, do not say,
But a provision now I bring
Against a future day
For as events are going now
Some utterance unwise
! shall be guilty Of, somehow
So I apologize.
Some hasty word is sure to sound
In sorrowful mischance.
And there my regret profound
I offer in advance.
Things must occur to spoil our Bills;
And bring sad surprise.
Something is sure to go amiss-
So I apologize.
II words on injudicious larks
I'm tempted to let ny,
Perhaps shall use ditto marks
To strengthen the supply
OF deferential forms of speech
Which must advertise.
Into the future must reach
So / apologize
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America Is doing more than any
other nation in cleaning up the world.
This Is meant In q wholly literal sense
and the statement refers to the prog
ress made in the United States in de-
veloptng not only plumbing, laundry
machinery and the like, but in chemical
cleansing agents.
The characteristic American preoc-
cupation with sanitation has long been
almost Joke to some Of the elder ma
tons of the world The Englishman's
bathtub has shared to some extent and
the Dutch housewives enthusiasm In
scruboing her front doorstep, but no
other people have quite gone the
lengths that Americans have In keep
ing clean and especially in devising new
systems of keeping clean.
Piumbing seems to have moved in
cycles In the history Of the world. It
has proved source of amazement to
archeologists to find. in excavating such
remains as Roman villas, 1000 years
old. brass pipe plumbing still In good
condition and indicating no little skill
in design and construction. In the
long night Of the Dark Ages there was
much destruction of such works. but:
more Importantly, forgetfulness of the
artsof sanitation. Although the period
was the worst sanitized in history, there
was no enlightened work done along
this line. Superstition was rife and
strange systems were adopted. The
touch OF blessed waters and OF kings was
considered more ef1cacious in the heal
ing OF disease than the simplest forms
of cleanliness
It was not until the nineteenth CEN
fury that sanitation began to take or,
scientinc status. The Law OF Levitt
Gus, 1t Is true, furnished one school of
sanitation. but was peculiar to q single
people, the jews. Again Hippocrates
laid down certain tenets of health;~Dut
these efforts were confined either to
mere groups Of the people or to cycles
of time.
While the nineteenth century saw the
beginnings OF enlightened sanitation.
the twentieth century has seen its great
est development and it is only now that
the American systems are being intro
duced in many countries of the world.
Finest System In World.
1t was not an idle joke that certain
peoples, on emigrating to this country,
sewed their children in garments for
the entire Winter months, and 1t Is a
matter of record that the Cincinnati
physician who first prescribed regular
bathing was regarded as desiring to in
crease his practice by producing larger
amount of poor health.
Now we find so marked a change
that the chemical division of the De-
partment Of Commerce is able to report
that, in addition to the large investment
in bathing facilities, more than $780,
000,0 year is paid by Americans to
commercial laundries and cleaning and
dyeing establishment in an effort to In
sure their cleanliness.
American water systems are admit
teddy the finest in the world. Pure
waters are ipiped, II necessary, hundreds
OF miles to insure proper service, and
the per gallon per person daily con-
sumption, looked upon as q minimum
necessity for an American city, Is
source OF anlazement even to the most
advanced Europeans. The money in
vested In these waterworks astounds
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alone Of the A 3 c nations. seemed 70
be revolution proof. but she. too. . few
months ago. succumbed. Ecuador went
through the spasm ahOus the same time
Nov Paraguay follows suit.
The Nation known collectively as the
Colossus Of the North can only hope
that the housekeeping through which
It's sister peoples beyond the Equator
have gone VIII accomplish the cure
they craved from the strong medicine
they prescribed themselves.
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The names of Ed. Stokes, Jim Fisk
and Josie Mansfield are revived by the
death Of the last named. A lonely and
aged woman in Paris, she probably read
OF gang life in New York and thought
with touch Of pride Of the old days
when even crime might hold a tinge Of
sentiment and q trace Of picturesque
romance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01

Apparently Hindenburg does not as
pire to be known as q dictator, but will
be content If he can retain the I'M
official title, grand old man." 1t is one
of the most dificult titles to secure, re-
curing faithful service, high character
and in addition certain share of per-
sonal good fortune.
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Lumber Survey Shows
Heavy Stock Surplus
BY HARDEN CoLFAx.

The outstanding problem of the Amer
lean lumber industry today-next Ia
maintaining and extending the use al
its products-is 10 get rid of $500 .0OC. :
900 feet of lumber which 1t now has on
hand above its needs.
This is the judgment of the Federal
Timber Conservation Board. The opin-
ion Is based on report just submitted
TO 1t by the special Lumber Survey
Committee, appointed in July by the
Secretary Of Commerce, to make an
analysis of current lumber production
and consumption as well as of stocks
on hand and prospective consumption
The report, covering the year through
December, so as to include the forward
look, was compiled from figures gath
cred by the Department of Commerce
the United States Forest Service. asso-
Citations Of wood-using industries ana
various other interested organizations.
During the past quarter, this renort
shows, excess lumber stocks have h~sn
materially reduced" from the steeEs
which at the beginning Of the present
year were the greatest In the indus
trys recent history" At the same tirss
the volume of lumber has declined ~
nearly one-half during the past three
years
The great problem Of the ind,,strv
today is 70 further reduce its surnl,,s
The committee estimates that on O.
tober the national excess bevond
reasonable present and early prospective
trade requirements" was approximateI,,
4,S00. 000, 600 feet, and this in spite ~
the fact that since January / iunhex
stocks have been reduced by about 4.
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Soviet Russia commands so much
territory that it will need more than q
five-year plan to have it completely
policed with q reasonable degree OF
honesty.
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Chance for the Vets.
AYE the vets making much progress
out your way?"
Folks are regarding other topics as
more important than prohibition"
answered Senator Sorghum.
Then the vets haven't chance?"
Yes. One slight chance If these
other problems become any tougher
they're liable to drive q lot Of people
to drink"
Jud Tunkins says bein' q good loser
keeps q man cheerful, but as q habit
it gets tiresome.
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It Is evidently the intention TO hold
the Navy League to the status OF an I'M
Official observer, 70 be encouraged in
collecting information, but not in Of
fering comment publicly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01

Debts and plans for naval construc-
ton have changed the meaning Of the
word holiday" so as to give it serious
economic significance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01

Wise craftsmanship has made the
slogan see America First" apply to al
most every transaction that comes up
for attention.
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A boss racketeer resents going to jail
in spite of the fact that he is provided
with more reliable guards and becomes
a much better life insurance risk.
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QuaintnesS.

IT'S all q vondrous masquerade
In which we mortalS mingle.
Discoveries are often made
Which cause tina pulse to tingle.
DISCUSSES lead to much complaint.
Illusions must diminish.
And people whom we once called
quaint"
Are Business, to the finish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01

Having had . variety Of experiences
in leadership, Ramsay Macdonald be-
comes an exceptional individual exam
pie Of coalescence.
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Japan allows it to be understood
that in arranging to leave Manchuria
she will take care to do nothing hasty.