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Cheuuers, and After.

It is, of course, too early to gauge
the effects of the visit Of Chancellor
Bruening and Foreign Minister Curtius
10 England. That they laid before Prime
Minister Macdonald and Foreign Sec
rotary Henderson something akin to
dat-footed German demand for revision
of reparations is not to be doubted,
despite the uninformative communique
issued at the conclusion of the Chequers
week end. To what extent Great Britain
is committed to support the Germans
program remains as obscure as before
the Berlin official tourists embarked
Upon their cross-Channel travels.
Olre result Of the German protesta-
lions has promptly manifested itself
Yesterday in the French Chamber M.
BRAND bluntly proclaimed French OPP
position to any revision Of the Young
plan. Specifically referring to the Anglo
German conversations, the Partisan for
eign minister, declared to cheering
Chamber that France would remain Wig
ilantly on guard against any attempt
to lead her into an international con-
ference for reconsideration Of repara-
items. M BRAND reaffirmed his peace
policy" toward Germany, but under
hot fire from his Nationalist critics was
compelled to concede that such warlike
demonstrations as the German "steel
helmets recently held at Breslau, adj
jacent to the Polish frontier, make 1t
extremely dihhcult to carry on q pro-
gram Of Cancellation.
While the Chamber Of Deputies was
ringing with Brands medley of warn
ing and amity, Messrs. Bruening and
Curtius were on their way home from
England. On their ship they encoun-
tered Mr.. Sackett, American Ambassa-
dor to Germany, en- route to his post
following o leave in the United States.
Apparently under the mellifluous in
fluence Of the former Senator from
Kentucky, the German statesmen gave
vent to some exceedingly rosy hopes.
They. permitted an Associated Press
ASrlsApondeIt aboard ship to indicate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Martha Washingtcn's Receipts
recipes were called receipts in those
days-are to be published in book form
as a George Washington Bicentennial
contribution. 1t will be an appetizing
collection of the connections that made
Colonial cookery the peer of anything
these United States have ever known
since Revolutionary days. While many
of the recipes whichll enrich the
volume are authentic Martha Washing
ton receipts" Dolly Madison. Molly
Pitcher, Elizabeth Jefferson and other
women who were part of the spirit
of 1776 appear as culinary authoresses,
too.
The 'low down on Americas eco
nomic situation is going to be- revealed
to a large, but private, company of
dinner guests in London on the eve
ming of June 16. The host will be H
Gordon Selfridge, England's American
merchant prince. The beans on what
depression has done to the U. S. A. are
to be spilled by first-rate authority,
Prof. 0. M. w. Sprague, economic ad-
wiser to the Bank of England and for
mer professor Of economics at Harvard
DR.. Sprague recently revisited this
country, and has promised to talk to
Mr.. Selfridge's guests intimately
about international and economic af-
fairs"
Secretary Stimson did something in
Washington yesterday that may have
far-reaching effects upon college COM
mencements and degree comforting.
Pennsylvania Military College, at Ches-
ter, had invited Col. Stimson to accept
a degree and pay the usual price for it
an address to the faculty and student
body. Our minister of foreign affairs
has ether things on his chest nowadays,
and agreed to speak to the college, but
not at 1t. He availed himself of the
radio for the purpose, and was heard
at Chester through receiving set and
simplifying apparatus. Chalk up still
another and hitherto tnwitnessed tri-
umph for the microphone.
X X X X
Democratic chieftains in Washington,
outside the National Committee organi-
cation, are hearing that Gov. Franklin
D. Roosevelt accomplished one definite
purpose while in the Middle West ear
Tier in the month. He is said to have
satisfied himself that the alleged Ras-
kob plot" to bring about the nomina-
ton Of either AL Smith or Owen D.
Young has few supporters between the
AlleQhenies and the Mississippi. The
national chairman's reputed anti
Roosevelt Vaccinations ascribe to him
the plan of bringing out the largest
possible field of favorite sons as one
means of heading of the Roosevelt
boom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10
The Manhattan Problem.

Perhaps If the early settlers who
established themselves on the tip of
Manhattan Island and thus founded
the community that was to grow into
the American metropolis could have
looked into the future and seen the
congestion that was to result they would
not have chosen that particular spot,
but would have gone elsewhere, to q
site Of broader shore expanse. But it
was q good place for them, and for
successive generations for q couple of
centuries. It was . good place indeed
until about seventy-flve years ago, when
the population actually outgrew the
island and spread over the waters to
the lands beyond. That made trans
portation problems that have become
more and more dificult with the
decades. Not even the upward growth
by means Of skyscrapers has lessened
the difficulty through avoiding long
distance transport. Indeed the vertical
extension of the city has added to
rather than abated this trouble because
of the concentration of an immense
business population in relatively small
area that must be borne to and fro
twice daily over long spaces.
New York IS constantly in~Ceed Of
more bridges, more subways, i,0le Of
everything in the way Of transit facil-
tiles. It Is now fairly well honey
combed beneath the surface with travel
ducts. Several bridges and tubes span
the East River to Link Manhattan with
Long Island One vehicu'ar rrd two
rapid transit tubes join Mani -. ;. "a
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

This great service Is maintained by
The Evening Star for the benefit Of its
readers who may use 1t every day with
out cost to themselves. All they have
to do Is ask for any information desired
and they will receive prompt answers
by mail. Questions must be clearly
written and stated as briefly as posi-
BILE. Inclose 2-cent stamp for re-
turn postage and address The Evening
Star Information Bureau, Frederic j.
Haskin, director, Washington, d. G.
@. What was the name Of the horse
which beat Man o. War in the only
race he ever lost?-S. B.
A. Man o. War was beaten at Sara
toga on August 10, 1919, by Upset,
which was owned by H. p. Whitney
and ridden by W. Knapp. Man o War
was ridden by j. LOTUS.
@. Who holds the world record for
outside loops in an airplane?-G. o. H.
A. Tex Rankin. Portland, Greg, holds
10 consecutive outside loops in SO min
utes.
@. How large are billiard balls?-
A. They vary in size from 25-16 to
7-16 inches in diameter.
@. What attracts the birds to the
lighted dome of the United States Cap
itol?--A. A. B.
A. The Geological Survey says that
the birds that fly in fiocks around the
lighted dome of the Capitol are chimney
swifts. They are attracted there by the
insects which are attracted there by the
lights.
@. What is cap rock"?-D. A. r.
A. The Bureau Of Mines says that
cap rock Is an impervious stratum which
overlies an oil or gas deposit. The cap
rock prevents the gas and light frac-
tions Of oil from seeping through to the
surface and escaping.
@. What is q "seminar"?-N. T.
A. 1t is a group of students engaged
under an instructor in original research
in a particular line and in exposition of
the results by theses and lectures.
Q. From what city was the word
tariff" taken?-G. r.
A. 1t was taken from Tarifa, Spain
This port, near Gibraltar, was named
for q Moorish raider. Duties were here
levied on all merchandise in ships pass
ing through the Strait of Gibraltar
Hence the use Of the word tariff" for
duty assessed.
@. How many Northern veterans of
the Civil War are still living?-N E. B.
A. The only check is the number on
the pension rolls. On April 80, 1881,
there were 40,927.
O. How are very high temperatures
and low ones measured?-J. T.
A. the Bureau of Standards SAYS
that high temperatures are measured
by means of thermocouples, optical py-
rometers, pyrometric cones, ETC., and
that temperatures below the freezing
point of liquids are measured by the gas
thermometer.
Q. How many pieces of motor appa-
ratus are in use in the fire departments
in the United States?-G. F. C.
A. 1t Is estimated that there were
$500 pieces of motor apparatus in
service in the United States in 1880.
@. Do all members Of the cat family
purr?-H B.
A. They do not. The cheetah and
tiger purr and the puma, or cougar,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10

Now come days meant for serious
reading.
There is a very prevalent impression
among some readers that light reading,
whatever that is, is the proper thing for
Summer.
Just the opposite is true, we believe.
The hotter the day the heavier the
book.
Such is the unwritten law of the
astute reader who has found out what
is what about books and who knows his
own mind and does not mind letting
others know it.
What, after all, do the terms eight
reading" and "heavy" or serious read
ing" mean?
The truth Is they mean little or
nothing from a general standpoint.
All that they can mean Is personal.
X y X
What may be heavy to you Is light
What you regard as light reading
to me Is an intensely uninteresting and
therefore dull book.
In this matter, as In many others.
every person must be his own Judge and
jury.
And this despite the easily accepted
belief Of thousands that just the oppo-
clIC ID Tic tTuCD.
If you were to listen overmuch to
these praters of half-baked truths, you
would imagine that books were graded
as music is, from No. J., very easy, to
No. 6, very difficult, and that somehow
the temperature of the air made the
reading public unable to stand anything
except the kindergarten grade.
No idea could be sillier.
Some find out Of their own expert
ence that the hotter the day the better
book they can read.
We use the term "better" simply as
the best that can be secured to dis
tinguish some of the more profound
productions of the human mind, which
by no stretch of the Imagination could
be called light"
One that comes to mind Immediately
Is the monumental history of THE De-
cline and Fall of the Roman Empire, +"
written by Edward Gibbon.
Its most usual form today Is in six
lat volumes. Its very bulk alone en-
titles 1t to be called heavy" The
stately flow of its English is another
point in favor of the adjective used.
Gibbons masterpiece is not the sort
OF thing that one would pick for a
frivolous afternoon in hammock.
BY the way, do people read in ham
mockS any more?
Are there any more hammocks?
Those who have not read in ham
mockS have missed some of the greatest
reading in the world.
The writer here would not willingly
part with the memory of hours spent
as child in hammock on a porch at
Ocean City, Md.
Perhaps his physical being would have
benefited more from the same number
OF hours spent on the beach, but this
seemed to be better division Of the
time
Even child becomes tired of inces-
SAINT hours on the sand, or bathing in
the surf, or boating in the bay.
Those long. cool afternoons in ham
mock with Rider HaggardS Swallow. y
, and Olive Schreiners STORY Of an
African Farm" and Rostand's "Cyrano
de Bergerac," and Alexandra Dumas
War of the Women"-those are hours
not to be duplicated in this mortal life
and are accordingly treasured in the
memory.
The great point about hammock read
ing as distinguished from any other
reading, while supine, Is that it must
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10

that "they are looking forward to con-
versations with Secretary Stimson and
Secretary Mellon" In Europe this Sum-
mer. The German statesmen are filled
with renewed conviction Of the i'm
portant part American public opinion
viii play in any attempt to reshufiie
the PREPARATIONS and war debts prob
lens" The German chancellor and
his foreign minister subtly suggest that
In due course the United States may be
found marching shoulder to shoulder
with Great Britain and Germany for
international collaboration in the eco
nomic crisis"
Pending categorical information on
this score in London, and. most Of all,
in Washington, it would be well to look
upon these hopeful German observa-
tions for the most part as great expec-
tations. They are manifestly designed
for home consumption at critical hour.
Messrs. Bruening and Curtius return to
a Germany seething with bitter de-
mands for an extra session of the
Reichstag by those who are aching for
q chance to attack the governments
new emergency tax DEGREES. AS yet,
only the Hitlerites, the Communists and
the Nationalist are agitating for a spe-
cial session. If the Social Democrats,
the governments indispensable bulwark,
join in the clamor for it, Herr Bruening
would hardly be able to resist the pres
sure. Whether he would survive an
extraordinary Reichstag siege, con-
vened under such circumstances, Is
even more problematical.
Meantime all the good news the
chancellor can develop. presaging the
eventual realization Of reparations re-
vision hopes. serves the purpose Of pre-
venting the spread Of the fires Of Ger
man discomfort. To extinguish them
will sooner or later call for something
more than vague international gestures
like those now being made in various
capitals, including our own.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10
President at Valley Forge
Wins Applause, Stirs Debate

they fought might be realized. The
President has been doing his full part.
But he has been receiving very lame
support from some who would be most
benefited by turn of the tide toward
greater confidence in government and
stability Of prosperity" The Chatta-
nooga Times suggests, Would it not
be fine thing If he were to undertake
to answer his prayer that we may prove
worthy by making q determined effort
10 reheve the baleful influence Of the
deadening hand Of Government by re-
moving at least its two fingers for
which his administration Is responsible
the tariff and the farm relief act?"
Every. historian" asserts the DAYTON
Daily News, tells us that the misery at
Valley Forge was due to the failure of
the Continental Congress to act. Valley
Forge, with its suffering, was not an act
OF nature. 1t was failure of govern
ment. Now, again, from the mouth of
the Government itself, this other Valley
Forge. this other refusal of Government
to act" The Chattanooga News COM
ments: 1T was unfortunate to link
Valley Forge in the public mind with
the present depression. They are so
much alike" The Ogden Standard
Examiner protests: If the Govern
ment is done with farm relief and
public Improvements and aid of
other kinds, then the President
should tell us why the change. If
that is not the meaning he intended
to convey, to what extent will the Gov
eminent continue to labor to save the
situation? If not at all, and IL the
solution rests on the working of the
economic law, then the President should
have fair idea of the time that will
be required and the severity of the or.
deal to be met, and he should state his
views in clean-cut language, that hope
may not be dimmed by his present
utterance"
I'VE cannot concede," argues the st.
Louis Times, that the dark days of the
infant republic in that terrible Winter
IN the Pennsylvana. hills is comparable.
even for purposes of imagery, to this
bright Summer Of 1881, when a million
fields are smiling on people that have
surpassed any other in achievement of
any time"
There Is no analogy" maintains thu
AKRON Beacon Journal, between this Ma
ton today and the plight of the colonies
In the days OF Valley Forge, and whether
we are dragging on the bottom or not
there is no doubt that prosperity Is
going to be re-established In this coun-
try. 1t may be slow and very gradual
IN coming, and it may not be that of
the last 10 years, but its return is as
certain as the rising Of the sun to-
morrow"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10
Why the Secrecy

The Mapes Subcommittee on Fiscal
Relations has met to receive from its ex-
pert, George Lord, q report on his find-
lngs with reference to taxation In the Dis
trict Of Columbia and in comparable
cities Of the Nation. AS an expert, Mr..
Lord may also interpret his findings
and make suggestions. In due time, OF
course, his report, and possibly his sug-
Hestions, will be spread on the records
and made public.
But in the meantime the committees
decision to question Mr.. Lord in secret
and to receive his report in secret, with
the taxpayers most affected figuratively
cooling their heels outside the commit
tee room, becomes depressing COM
mentary on the whole business
Mr.. Lord is being paid out Of public
funds to which the taxpayers of the
District have contributed. There is
nothing in his findings, or in the way
he reports them, that should be consid-
cred confidential There is no reason
why the committee itself should not
hold all its meetings in public, except,
perhaps, those few meetings required
for the committee actually to work on
the preparation Of whatever report it
intends to make.
Other experts called upon by the
committee for information, including
the Bureau of Efficiency, were placed
on the stand and permitted to state the
facts, after which they were subjected
to open examination by the committee.
In the case Of the Bureau of Efficiency,
it will be recalled that several hours of
examination by members of the COM
mittee followed presentation Of the re-
port, and the bureau officials found
themselves defending their statements
under o cross-flre from the examiners
that might have wilted any one
less adequately prepared. The repre-
sentatives of the District taxpayers who
appeared before the committee were
also subjected to cross-examination, con-
Quoted in public. And everybody knows
that the cross examination is an essen
tial part of any testimony.
Why the resort to star chamber pro-
ceedings in the case Of Mr.. Lord? Why,
when the committee reassembles, have
not the doors been opened and Mr..
Lord, armed with the data accumulated
during several months of hard work,
invited to take the stand? Why has
Mr. Lord not been permitted to state the
results of his own inquiry in his own
way, and then been subjected to the
same examination, conducted in the
open, that his predecessors have met?
Is there something sacrosanct about Mr..
Lords figures and findings, requiring
that they be enshrouded in mystery
until such time as the committee goes
over them, one by one, and chooses
to make them known in part or in
whole?
While the taxpayers Of the District
have no control over how or how much
they are taxed, or in what manner
their taxes are spent, courtesy, If
nothing else, should invite them to a
seat In the arena to witness all the
steps in the operation now being per-
formed, the results of which mean more
TO them than anybody else.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10

The word infantry" it seems, Is
traced back to the term given the page
Of knight in medieval times. This
news will possibly add to the superiority
complex Of the cavalry, whose title is
closely associated with the horse borne
knights themselves. The revenge of the
former. however, lies in the fact that
it looks as though cavalry would shortly
disappear, while the infantry, with
dirt behind their ears" will undoubt-
edly stick around a long while yet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10

A young Philadelphia minister, blind
since birth, has had his sight restored.
If he lives to be hundred and travels
all over this globe he will never see
any sight more beautiful than the first
glimpse Of the wife who, up to the
present, has served as his eyes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10

There ought to be some sort Of a
hook-up arranged between Eugene
O'Neill, who writes those plays that
take three straight evenings to per-
form, and the local colored minister
who recently preached twelve hours
without a pause.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10

II the Abilene. Tex, man who has
set out to walk around the world
backward gets to Europe and is re-
ceived by royalty, he certainly will be
in perfect practice to make swell exit.
1t Is too bad st. Simeon Stylites, Of
fifteen hundred years ago, was never
able to strut his bowling technique be-
fore some ancient Emperor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10

The Treasury reports that the per
capita circulation Of money increased
thirty-five cents in May over April.
Most folks can remember spending that
extra thirty-five. but how many can
recall getting it2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10

An Oregon THUNDER" was politely
picked up and later forcibly disembarked
without his satchel. This was pretty
hard on him, but fear of such perform
ances would tend seriously to hamper
the widespread hitch-hiking pest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10

Economic Indigestion" Is blamed by
Senator Davis of Pennsylvania as one
of the main contributing causes Of the
present state Of business. A few quack
remedies possibly had something to do
with 1t, too.
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SHOOTING STARS.
by PHuAANDER JOHNSON.
The Mistakeless Man.

The Mistakeless Man.
Here's to the man who never makes
The things we mortals call mistakesl
The man whose soul and brains and
heart
Are Of this common clay no part!
No Duty chides him for neglect.
His reasoning is all correct
And no emotions intervene
To make his beauty less serene.
He builds no structures such as rise
Through vigils long with weary eyes.
He never ventures, truth to tell,
Save on q path he knows full well.
He needs no monument of stone
To share the praise that Is his own.
No other statue serves his pride.
He Is perfection petrifed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10

Col. Lindbergh, 1t Is said, Is not beset
by doubts as to his reception, no matter
where he may land in the Far East
Where Charlie Chaplin can go, I guess
I can," seems to be the coionels motto.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10
Wisecracks in Gotham.

From the Toledo Blade.
BY the time a wisecrack that orig
mated in the sticks reaches Broad
way it seems brighter, possibly from
having been polished by wea&
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Member of the Associated Press.

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to the use for republication of all news dis
patches credited to 1t or not otherwise cred
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published herein. All rights Of publication OF
special dispatches herein are also reserved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10

Another Chinese waE looms and the
cry from the capital to foreigners
again is, "All ashore that's going
ashorel"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10
Stale Stuff.

From the Toledo Blade.
An uninteresting thing to read Is a
play-by-play account of the game lost
by the home teamf/
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Policies.

Have you outlined your policy to
your co>stituents?"
mo-" replied Senator Sorghum; II
am still looking over the policies my
constituents have outlined to me, trying
to decide on which had better select"
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They Won't Do It,

Again the city gardener grieves
And makes his sorrow known;
Why don't the bugs eat onion leaves
And let the spuds alone?