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Who Will Paw for IT.

The Bureau of Eficiency's "embar-
RAISING" report of 1880 must have cost
somebody some money. Twenty-Five
pages of intricate tabular matter and
thirty-nine pages of typewriter text, as
well as the postage used on correspond
ence with the officials of fourteen cities,
would indicate that. And some of the
bureaus experts were kept pretty busy
last Summer getting it up; and they do
not donate their services to the Gov
eminent.
The resolution authorizing the House
fiscal inquiry stated that 1.-The United
States Bureau of Efficiency may be re-
imbursed from any allotment made for
carrying out the purposes of this reso-
luton to the extent Of actual expendi-
lures made by such bureau for investi-
cations made at the request of the
committee"
But in the House last Friday members
Of the Fiscal Inquiry Committee stated
that no one asked the bureau to make
its report. II am satisfied the commit
tee was in no way responsible for it,"
said Mr.. Frear. One, perforce, received
the impression on reading the debate
that the Bureau of Efficiency broke
open the doors to the committee room
and crammed its report down the
Threats of the members.
Yet the report was not placed before
the committee until it was asked for.
Is the Bureau of Efficiency to be reim-
bursed for the money expended on COM
piling the report?
The Bureau Of Efficiency, in the light
OF its experience, should pass along a
word Of caution to its successor in the
task Of gathering "the facts" relating
to Washington's tax burden. Ten thou
sand dollars has been authorized for
the hire Of an expert, who will gather
such data. But the expert should ask
the payment of his salary is
contingent upon the nature of his re-
port. In other words, If his report
proves embarrassing" does he or does
he not receive compensation?
One Is forced in this case to define
an embarrassing report" as one which
states the unvarnished facts regarding
the inadequate support of the Federal
Government to the city which it gov
ems and controls. The truth should
crafty and enlighten, never embarrass.
those who set out to find It.
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WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

paramount issue of the Woman's Party.
The equal rights" amendment was
called unnecessary" ineffective, )" Gun
sound" destructive" backward look
ing and a lot of other names. Miss
Rose Schneiderman, president of the
National Women's Trade Union League,
introduced the opponents in Senator
Norris court room. She declared that
1.-THE amendment would not bring equal
rights to working women, but would
defeat that very purpose, meaning
longer hours and lower pay for the very
women who work the longest, are paid
the least and are therefore farthest
from an equal footing with men,"
Word reaches his old-time Senate
cloak room cronieS that Jim" Reed of
Missouri has just cashed in handsomely
on the latest big deal in OIL For years
the fighting Kansas City Democrat
has been counsel for the Universal Oil
Products Co., owners of the patented
cracking process whereby petroleum
products like gasoline, kerosene, ETC.
The Standard Oil and Royal Shell
Cos. last week paid Universal $25 ,OOO.-
600, more or less, for its property. Reed
was potent in the court proceedings
brought to defend the cracking" pat
ents. In Kansas City his friends say
that Jim" Is about to draw down a fee
Of $750,000.
President Hoover's appointment of
George 2. Medalie as United States dis
trict attorney for the New York City
area-the most important in the country
winds up one of the hottest patronage
squabbles the White House has ever had
to settle. Mr.. Hoover, much to It's joy,
went along with the Republican State
organization in naming Mr.. Medalie and
rejected the recommendations of IN
dersecretary Ogden l.. Mills of the
Treasury Department and of Repre-
sentative Ruth Pratt, Republican, of
New York. Mr.. Mills and Mrs. Pratt
were for the appointment of Alan Fox
and boosted him against Reyes Winter,
who was the Manhattan O.. o. P. or
CARNATIONS choice. Winter might have
landed the coveted job except for the
MillS-Pratt opposition. Finally the or
ganization o. KID Medalie, who has
won out.
1t is signal honor that the Presi-
dent, by executive order has just be-
slowed upon Robert Peet Skinner,
that veteran and distinguished officer
of the Foreign Service Is to be retained,
though he will reach retirement age
(65) on February "a, 1881. 1t is or
dered that Mr.. Skinner may be kept on
active duty mot in excess of five years"
Mr.. Skinner was brought into the con-
sular service by President Mckinley in
1897. He was a young newspaper edi-
tor in MaSsillon, Ohio, and still claims
that his proudest journalistic achieve
ment was press-agenting Coxeys
army" Mr.. Skinner has to his credit
consular service at strategic points like
Marseille Hamburg, Berlin, London
and Paris He has been our envoy at
Athens since 1926.
(Copyright, 1917
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ers, Oscar, Isidor and Nathan, are
written large in the records Of finan-
cial accomplishment, Of philanthropy,
Of constructive political activity. Isidor
died in the Titanic disaster in 1912
oscar died few years later, and now
passes Nathan, long since rstired from
active engagement in business and for
the latter part of his life devoted to
works of benevolence.
All three of these brothers won rec
ignition by their merits. They were
sound business men Of the strictest
integrity. They were interested in the
welfare of others, and contributed rich
ly to charities and institutions of succor
and development. Nathan Straus was
especially concerned about the matter
of insuring wholesome food for chill
dren. He established laboratory and
distribution system to provide the
poor with milk of assured purity. To
this enterprise may be attributed the
saving of many thousands of lives.
From his American beginning in this
work Mr.. Straus carried the enterprise
far afield and built similar plants in
distant lands, operating them with his
own means until they were firmly es-
tablished.
The record of the achievements of
Nathan Straus in behalf of humanity is
a long one, and yet the published story
of these endeavors is not complete. For
he did much for the sake of the I'M
fortunateS that did not bec~me known.
It was natural that he should be espe-
cially interested in the welfare of his
Jewish fellows, and he became and con-
tinued throughout the remainder of his
life an active and literally contributing
member of the organization for the
of a homeland in Pales-
tine. Numerous welfare works in that
land have had their origin in his specific
gifts and endowments.
Isidor, Oscar and now Nathan Straus
have passed, leaving the richest heritage
men can bestow upon their survivors,
records of high-minded living, of clean
records, of valuable contributions to
the industrial life of their adopted land,
of important public services, of wise
philanthropic works. Nathan, the last
to go, was permitted to hear the tributes
paid to his brothers. Now he in turn
is deeply mourned.
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An Appropriate Act.

Bobby Jones, whose fame as a golfer
has consoled his fellow-Atlantans al
most to the point Of forgetting about
the census enumerator who did not
give them all they thought they ought
TO have In the way of population. has
again done the appropriate thing. Some
time ago. the twenty-eight- year-oId
Emperor Of the Links decided that the
time was ripe to add to the family
pank account. He had won everything
tnat 1t was possible to win in the way
OF major championships and wisely de-
cided to make hay while the sun
Shines" Accordingly, he notified the
United States Golf Association that he
mad signed a contract to make moving
pictures. an action which automatically
barred him from amateur competition
On last Saturday Bobby definitely
severed the bonds that have bound him
70 amateur golf for so many years but
ne did it in the same straightforward
manner which marked his definite re.
tirement from amateur play. Up -3r
re-eaection to the Executive Comm tire
OF the U. s. @. A. and knowing that
there might well be some question as
70 MS eligibility or as TO the fitness of
the governing body Of golf harborino
within its ranks one who had tossed
aside his amateur status, Bobby In a
telegram, asked that his name be
dropped from consideration.
And SO great golfer, probably the
greatest who ever lived, has passed out
OF the amateur field. OF course. tn the
layman it Is all quite difficult to under
stand. Why, for instance, should Jones
as a moving picture golfer be any more
OF a professional than he was as a
newspaper and magazine golfer writer2
Why should he be barred for acceutine
some hundred thousand dollars or more
for his movie contract when he was not
barred for accepting possibly half that
amount for his newspaper and mag
azine writings? Why, especially should
he be classed as non-amatelr
for making a little money for himself
when for years he has been the one
man attraction for the golf association,
the magnet which drew thousands to
tournaments, with the consequent adj
dition Of thousands of dollars to the
Golfers Of the u. S. G. A?
1t is all quite difficult to understand,
bat II that is the way it is to be there
apparently is nothing for the public,
which pays and pays and pays, to do
about it. 1t can only sit back and Won
der at such inconsistencies while it
foots the bill.
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there Is naturally perturbation over
Federal farm ofiicials' efforts TO clip
the Board Of Trades wings.
The argument In extenuation of per-
hitting the pit" to continue to be the
romping- place of the bulls and the
bears is that the Board of Trade is a
better friend OF the farmers than any
marketing agency created by Uncle
Sam has yet turned out to be. All that
Chairman Legge and Secretary Hyde
and company can do, lament Chi
cagoans, as they metaphorically burn
speculative incense before their lofty
grain goddess, even If they succeed in
destroying the Board of Trade, sis to
drive an international market out of
the United States" There is unmis-
taxable soundness in the theory that
some day the farmers will have to look
somewhere else than the United States
Treasury for the financial power requi-
site for the buying of their produce on
the large scale. Hitherto the private
operators have been the geese that laid
these golden eggs for agriculture.
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The Temple of Ceres.

Chicago Is taking time of from
gangs, gunner and its impending
mayoralty conflict to consider the fate
of the Windy City's famed Board Of
Trade. Prom trio of quarters, Chair
man Legge of the Federal Farm Board,
Secretary Of Agriculture Hyde and the
American Farm Bureau Federation,
come demands for further regulation of
the pit" The Capper- Dickinson bill
incorporates many Of the proposed plans
for supervision of marketing agencies.
For one thing, it is suggested that the
Secretary of Agriculture shall have the
right to veto the Board of Trades rules.
1t is also projected that the right to
buy and sell grain for speculative pur-
poses shall be curbed. Still another
proposal is that the Government shall
retain firm control Of all trading by
licensed operators. The general pur-
pose of these measures would be to lib
crate the farmer from so-called ex-
ploitation by the commission men and
stabilize grain prices on a basis more
truly governed by non-speculative con-
siderations
Chicago has just erected bigger and
better Board of Trade Building, rearing
its skyscraper head for more than forty
stories at the foot of cavernous La Sale
street and surmounted by a massive
statue of Ceres. the goddess of the
grain fields. Chicagoans, as the Tribune
has just remarked, decline to admit that
''the Board Of Trade Is the villain of the
piece" All that it does "is to register
the counterplay Of supply and demand
Chicago insists that such 9 measuring
device as the Board OF Trade must b,
maintained somewhere. II it is no
located in Chicago or in some othei
American city, it would have to be Sc
up in Liverpool, Winnipeg. Hamburg o
somewhere else. Out there on the wind
swept shores Of Lake Michigan, witt
their legendary love of the dayE whel
odd Hutch" used 70 corner gFheat
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Futility.

Senator Walsh of Montana, leader in
the fight to bring about reconsideration
Of the power commissioners nominal
tions, admits that for the Senate now
to proceed to reject" the nominations
of the commissioners would be entirely
futile" the President having failed to
comply with the request of the Senate
to send back to the Senate its notifica-
ton that it had advised and consented
to the appointment of these oficials.
Nevertheless. the Montana Senator has
insisted, and the Senate coalition has so
voted, that the names of the commits
sioners be restored to the executive cal
endar of the Senate, which contains
the names of all those nominated by
the President for appointment to Fed
eral office. whose nominations the Sem
ate must confirm before appointment is
actually made. SO is futility piled upon
futility.
Senator Walsh must have known in
the beginning that no President of the
United States would have complied
with the demand of the Senate for a re-
turn of notification papers, transmitted
to him in regular order by the Senate,
upon which the President had already
acted to appoint and commission Fed
eral officers. The vote of reconsidera-
ton OF the nominations by the Senate
under such conditions was merely a de-
vice, as the President has pointed out,
to encroach upon the authority of the
Executive branch of the Government,
relating to dismissals from the public
service. And knowing this, Senator
Walsh's original motion to reconsider
the nominations and request the return
Of the notification papers to the Senate
must be considered a futile thing, yet
that futility has occupied the attention
Of the Senate to the exclusion of bust
ness Of great Importance for week.
1t has become clear that the effort of
the Senate coalition has had another
purpose. That purpose is to make the
issue Of the power interests versus the
public interests, with Mr.. Hoover pic
tured as taking the side of the power
interests, II it can be done. This pur-
pose Of the Senate coalition and its
leaders not only has manifested itself,
but has been called to the attention of
the public by the President, who re-
PEELED the issue vigorously and pro-
claimed 1t false issue" That Is q
matter the people will perhaps be able
TO Judge for themselves.
The coalitionists, intent upon keeping
this false issue" alive, are now consid-
ering the advisability of attempting to
keep out Of the appropriation bill for
independent Offices of the Government
any money for salaries due to the three
power commissioners. Another futility.
The Senator from Montana announces
10 the Senate that there Is no way so far
as he has been able to ascertain, of bring
ing the issue between the President and
the Senate arising over the nominations
into the courts for determination. This
is fortunate for the Senate. The Su-
preme Court would not undertake to
break down the constitutional limita-
tons set upon authority granted under
the basic law to the separate branches
Of the Government at the behest Of the
Senate. And so the Senate would be
left before the country in worse case
than ever if the matter could be judi
cially adjudicated.
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDEs JOHNSON.

The Essential Farmer.
Good Farmer Friend, in days gone by
I echoed oft the idle jest
Which to attain a laugh would try
BY picturing you with rural xest
Performing duties which supply
Our various wants the long year
through
And doing work we dare not try
Which we could never learn to do.
Good Farmer Friend, our mood has
changed.
We now salute your courage bold
Which through the seasons oft has
ranged,
To meet our needs as they unfold.
In spite Of all our varied arts
The humblest task grows greatest yet.
We take this lesson to our hearts
Since you adversely have met.
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC j. HASKIN.

Q. What was oscar wilde's FUN
naIne?-D. j.
A. 1t was Oscar Fingall oFiahertie
Wills Wilde. For the last few years be-
fore his death he lived on the Continent
under the name Sebastian Melmoth.
@. When was the word "mugwump"
coined?-A. T.
A. 1t cannot be said to have been
leader or big chief Eliot used it in
translating the Bible into an Indian
tongue. 1t became a political term in
the 1884 elections.
Q. When did Kin Hubbard create
ABE Martin"2-B. M. c.
A. This daily cartoon appeared first
in the indianapolis News in 1904,
Frank Mckinney Hubbard died Deem
Der 26, 1880, at the age of 60.
@. When and where did the seedless
pink grapefruit originate?-L. L. K
A. The Foster is the best known va
riety of the seedleSs pink grapefruit. It
was a sport Of the Walter variety. II
was introduced in the Winter of 1905
and 1907 by Mr.. Foster at Monte Vista,
Fla, but it was not introduced into
trade until In 1914.
@. Why were prisoners put in stripes
and their heads shaved?-O. A.
A. Stripes were formerly character
istic of prison dress, partly because they
were believed to contribute TO the de-
terrent effect of prison and also to
make it more difficult for prisoner to
escape. In most prisons, however,
stripes have been done away with en-
tirely or reserved for third-grade pris-
Shaving tho Ntrtcnnar'E hair tG
partly for sanitary reasons and also
partly for identifying purposes.
@. Who was Napoleon II?-J. s. L.
A. Napoleon II is the name Of the
young son of the Emperor Napoleon.
The child was named Francois Charles
Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte. The title
was Due de Reichstadt. The child was
born in Paris March 20, 1911. His
mother was the Empress Marie Lousia.
His death occurred at Schonbrunn July
%, 1882.
@. Why are snowhakes sometimes
large and sometimes small?-R. w. r.
A. If the temperature Is low. the
snowflakes are small, fiat and regular.
If the temperature is near the freezing
point, particularly in the lower layers
of the atmosphere, the flakes often mat
together and form large clotS. II the
temperature is still higher, the fakes
are often incomplete, as parts are
melted of.
@. Is platinum much more expensive
than gold?-H. l..
A. Platinum sells for more than FIVE
times the price of gold.
@. Should raw meat be covered when
put in the refrigerator?-A.D D.
A. Meat should be unwrapped at once
and put in the coolest place in the re-
frigerator. A loose sheet Of waxed paper
may be laid over it.
@. What form of execution is used in
France?-M. c.
A. The guillotine Is still in use.
@. Which branch of engineering do
the most students in colleges Of the
United States take?-R. p.
A. More of them study electrical en-
cheering than any other one kind.
@. Does the new Emperor of Abyss
sinia speak any language except his
owns. D. w.
A. Ras Tafari was educated by
French tutors and speaks French hu-
emily.
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The Last of Three Brothers.

The death in New York yesterday
Of Nathan Straus marks the final pass
ing Of a remarkable generation. He
was the last survivor of three brothers,
sons of a German immigrant driven
from his native country by political
conditions and seeking in America a
home and an opportunity for his fam
lily. First came struggling success
in q small Southern city, then the dis
aster Of the Civil War, which ruined
the family fortunes again, and then
migration to New York, where, with
the slightest of beginnings in business,
the foundations were laid for a great
success. The names OF the three BROTH
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however, because he opposes the eight
zenith amendment.
Here is another suggestion for reor-
ganization of the Republican National
Committee. From sources so far I'M
revealed comes the proposal that Frank
H. Hitchcock be made Republican ma
tional chairman. Mr.. Hitchcock has
been in Republican politics Tor years,
ever since he had his first training
under the late Theodore Roosevelt and
later became chairman Of the National
Committee. He was Postmaster Cen
eral, toe, an office which has Always
been considEked particularly politlhRl.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12

After having had to serve on a
few of the modern coroners' juries a
citizen is very likely to get the i'm
preston that what is known in some
circles as "a gay life" may prove to
be as serious form of existence as
could be imagined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12

Announcements are not made Of
what became Of the Russian conspira-
tors who told their stories of guilt by
radio. They showed talents for air
defamation and are probably required
to supplement their technical sentences
with additional work at the micro
phone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12

Demands for theater censorship are
still heard. The playgoing public can
exercise power of censorship sure to
command respect by remaining away
from bad plays. Bad plays have be-
come unusually bad in the theatric
sense of the word. Popular objection
to them is remorseless when it is
found that they are not only de-
moralizing, but dull.
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Learning by Experience.

They told me that experience
Would as teacher prove immense.
The ways of wealth T tried to learn
And in the market took a turn.
Experience brought sad surprise.
must admit it made me wise,
But often my regrets are such
I wish did not know so much.
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Election Requirements.

ut will take a strong man to lead
our local forces on election day"
If hostilities break out again." an
Swered Senator Sorghum, ut will take
a man who is not only strong, but who
Is handy with his fists"
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The public cannot reasonably Hope
for more than that the power COM
missioners will realize predictions that
they will prove as capable as they are
famous.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12

Awarding the Nobel prize takes on
some of the aspect Of sporting event,
with more or less disposition to quarrel
with the umpire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12

In his relations with the United
States Senate a President occasionally
feels called upon to remember certain
admonitions of his youth and learn to
say no."
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Secret Yearnings.

From the Hamilton Spectator.
There may be those who yearn for
an old-fashioned Winter, with snow
drifted all over the place, but inquiry
will likely reveal they are in the coal
business.
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Ahsentmindedness.

From the Ann Arbor Daily News.
That Chicago man who put his UNI
brella to bed and slept in the bathtub
was not a professor, because in the
first place O professor would not have
brought his umbrella home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12

Unfortunately the police of all the
larger cities are kept so busy with af-
fairs of their own that they have very
little time to help one another out.
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Too Strong for a Beginning.

From the Toronto Daily Star.
In row after soccer game at Lima,
Peru, flve persons were killed. Per-
haps Peru ought to begin its athletic
career with something less exciting
and miniature golf,