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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-28
LAVAL FIXES OCT. z
AS TENTATIVE DATE
FOR TRIP TO u. S.
Arms, Trade and Finance
Experts viii Accompany
French Premier.
BERLIN SCOUTS REPORT
OF VISIT BY BRUENING
Commission to Devise Means of
Cooperation Between France
and Germany Announced.

BERLIN, September % (E).-Crea-
ton of Franco-German Economic
Commission to devise means OF CO.
operation between France ana
Germany was announced in a
communicate issued by Premier
Laval and Foreign Minister Aristide
BRAND Of France after confer
ence with Chancellor Bruening and
Foreign Minister julius Curtius of
Germany.
BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, September 2s.--Premier Pierre
Laval, it was understood here today
wishes to be back in France by the end
of october and therefore may sail on
his trip to the United States October
IL if that fits In with President Hoover's
engagements.
At any rate, he expected to sail on
the lie de France, whose schedule will
be arranged to suit his plans.
The premier will be accompanied on
his visit to washington by four or five
technical experts, including one for
disarmament, one on economics, an
other on finance and a fourth from the
foreign ONCE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-28
LEAGUE ARMS TRUCE
GIVEN SPECIAL GROUP
Committee Argues in Vain Trying
to Reach Satisfactory
Agreement.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, September 2S.-The League
of Nations Disarmament Committee
argued in vain today trying to reach
an agreement on an ornaments truce
and adjourned after referring the
question to a subcommittee.
sentative, urged the adoption of some
simple declaration in which the pow
ers would agree not to increase the
existing levels of their ornaments for
the duration of the proposed truce
The British, Spanish and italian dele
gates approved his suggestion, but
Japan insisted that the decision be
postponed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-28
Judge Drops Dead
From Heart Attack.
Presiding at Trial
BY the Associated Press. /.

MACON, Ca, September a.
Judge Henry Asbury Mathews of
the Georgia Superior Court
dropped dead of heart trouble on
the bench here today soon after
he opened court.
He was presiding at the trial
of two young men charged with
attacking a girl on a highway
near here recently. Suddenly he
slumped In his seat and court at
tendants removed him TO his
Office nearby, but doctors pro-
nounced him dead upon reaching
there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-28
TARIFF is INCREASED

Colombia Seeks Way to PROTECT
Peso and Gold.
BOGOTA, Colombia, September %
R.-Prcsident Olaya Herrera today
announced a general upward tariff re-
vision in line with the governments ef-
forts to prevent the loss Of the coun-
try's gold reserves and to protect the
value of the peso.
Tariffs on imported foodstuns are
boosted 100 per cent and duties on
clothing and sports equipment also are
considerably increased. Importation OF
automobiles costing more than $1,000.
of liquors and of long list Of luxury
articles" Is forbidden. The regulations
are effective tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-28
Over Cleveland.

CLEVELAND, September 20 Dr.
The Nays dirigible Akron paid sur
prise visit TO Cleveland today during
its fourth test flight from Akron. It
appeared over Cleveland shortly after
noon. +.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-28
STEEL CASE HEARING SET
Appeal From Merger Injunction to
Come Up on October 90.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, September 2S
R).-The appeal from an injunction
against the proposed merger of Youngs-
town Sheet &c Tube Co. and the Beth
lehem Corporation will be heard October
26, 1t was decided today after the APP
peals Court had warned attorneys for
both sides that the case must be heard
in this tenn of court, which ends IN
i've weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-28

for the funeral party to pause at the
hotel, where she had lived many years,
en- route from Paris, where she died, to
her former home In Terre Haute, Ind
The party was to leave Washington
at o'clock this afternoon, and fu-
neral services viii be held at the
Christian Church in Terre Haute ct
2:30 tomorrow afternoon.
Floral tributes were sent by both
President and Mrs. Hoover and former
President and Mrs. Coolidge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-28

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
ton is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-28
WEATHER.

co. o. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Fair and continued cool tonight; to-
morrow fair with slowly rising tempera-
ture Temperatures Highest, &c. at 2:30
pm. yesterday; lowest, Sc. at 9 am.
today.
Full report on page 9.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-28
whisky and wheat Found.

When Constable C. A. Bryant Of
Triangle reached the ruins Friday eve
ming, following discovery that the fam
lily had persisted, he found about IL
bushels of wheat still smoldering in
the ruins and two large cans which
contained rye whisky. Sheriff Kerlin
pointed to the latter as further evil
(Continued on Page Q. Column a.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-12
Our Slave Colony

II Secretary Of State Stmson never does anything
else to be proud Of he has earned the lasting graft
tude of all civilized people and Of the black slaves OF
Africa by his ultmatum to the American protectorae
In Liberia
At last the state department has co-operated IN
uncovering the system of forced labor and slavery
operated by high Liberan officials and has notified
that government that continuance OF such savagery
Will end the friendly relations between the two re-
publics
Perhaps the most tragic OF. these disclosures is that
Negro descendants Of American slaves have been the
vicious enslavers Of their in Liberia, and that
black is ensaved by black in Abyssinia
The cruelty of white exploiting Negroes in
backward countries is somehow less surprising. AL
that the Liberian representative at the League Of
Nations say is that conditions in his country
no worse than in those where white mperalistic gov
ernments permit the enslavng Of upward Of 100000
Tie report Of the mixed commission on forced
labor In Liberia absoves the Frestone Rubber Com
pany Of responsibility. That American company, how
ever did permit the Lberan government virtually to
control its labor supply, thus becoming indirectly
party to forced labor.
Certainly this scandal should be warning not
only to the Frestone company but to all othsr Aeri-
interests operating in Abyssna and other slave
countries,
AS for the hypocrisy which has allowed the United
States government to wink at Liberian slavery all
these years, no condemnation can be too strong
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-12
Mess on Power Board

TINE underlying cause of this
l. controversy appears to be doubt
on the senate's party that the three
members in question, who constitute
majority of the power board, will
pursue such policy as it desires.
The senate was moved to doubt,
and rightly so, I think, by the fact
that they began proceedings with
the unexpected and apparently I'M
called for discharge Of two veteran
employees.
To satisfy itself on this point,
as well as to clear up some others,
the senate requested President Hoo
YER to resubnit their names, so that
it could reconsider their confirma-
ton, which the President refuses to
do, on the ground that they had
been confirmed regularly, that they
were constitutionally in Office, and
that such request represented en-
croachment on the rights Of the
executive.
The senate, or some Of its men,
bers at least, now is toying with the
idea Of not appropriating money for
their salaries, and there you are.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-12
A Futile Row
ITO a layman, it looks like I

ITO a layman, it looks like a
i rather futile rumpus and one
which might easily have been
avoided.
In the first place. the senate
might have been more careful Of
whom it confirmed. In the second,
1t might have enacted law that
would leave no doubt as to what 1t
wanted by way of a power policy
and no room for a power board to
misconstrue what it wanted.
The fact that it Is disappointed
with three members whom it ap-
proved without much ado, while 1t
is well pleased with the very one
whose eligibility it was most in
clined to question, suggests that the
senate's own Judgment Is not alto
gether reliable.
The fact that we lack a suffi-
GENTLY weH-defired power policy to
know with any precision what the
power board is going to do, and are
forced to fall back on the individual
opinions and attitudes of its mem
bers, suggests that neither the SEN
ate nor congress has covered itself
with glory in endeavoring to solve
the problem.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-12
Policy Is Lacking

IF this is going to become a gov
L eminent of boards and bureaus
which formulate their own pro-
grams, make their own rules, and
write their own tickets, then we
might as we'll settle down to the
idea that picking men is the most
important job.
If we still are sold on the original
plan to operate this government as
one of laws and not of men, the
necessity Of giving more thought to
the kind Of laws we make is OBJ
vious.
1t Is hard to believe that congress
could not have formulated sound,
constructive power policy by this
time, II it had tried-a policy that
would have permitted only one in
depreciation and worked only one
way, no matter who was on the
board.
Whether with regard to power,
interstate commerce, unemployment
or anything else, this idea of dele
eating legislative authority to
boards and bureaus is not only
pernicious from the standpoint Of
the particular task in hand, but be-
cause of its effect on the general
character of our government.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-12
A Financial Goliath

That concentration Of the money power now is
much greater than in 1912 when congress nvesti-
gated the socalled money trust is the declaration of
Lewis Corey in his new book THE House of Morgan"
recently published by @. Howard Watt. This is the
first time the Morgan power has been measured sta
tistically since the Pujo investigation in 1912.
The book, which combines history and economics
in searching study Of the House Of Morgan in the
development Of American business and Of the elder
Morgan as personality ends with an analysis Of the
stock market crash OF 1929 and the present-day power
Of the Morgans.
At the basis Of the Morgans larger financial power
according to Coreys book is the great series Of mer-
gers since 1890 which have concentrated industry be-
yond the prewar levels. In 1927 1O42 corporations
onetwenteth OF per cent of the total received 81
per cent Of all corporate profits.
Industrial concentration, says Corey is reflected in
financial Capitalization and control In 1929 twenty
great banks and trust companies had combined re-
sources equal to almost 80 per cent Of the nations
banking resources.
Three Morgan banks (First National. Guaranty
Trust and Bankers Trust) and two banks allied with
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-12
Nearing the President

The time nears again when the President will
have the power to say whether the Muscle Shoals is
sue shall be settled
Hoover predecessor faced the same opportunity.
He pocket-vetoed the Norris bill for government op-
Grafton Of the governments power plant on the Ten
neSsee river in Alabama. Now Hoover himself faces
the probem-not in remote manner but directly.
He meet the question in two ways
He order his Republican machine in the house to
marshal the lame ducks into line and smother the
Norris compromse-now tentatively agreed on in con-
ference; or he can allow the house to exercise its
own balanced Judgment and let the bill come to his
desk-as 1t undoubtedly will do, unless there is pres
Dental pressure through the Longworth- Tson-Snell
combination.
This latter way is the Hoover should choose.
If the President meets the Norris compromise face
to face he will find that the Nebraskan has departed
from his original proposal He viii not find the Norris
bill which he has said he never would approve.
He will fnd instead, proposal that allows the
government to lease the part of the Muscle Shoals
plant and to operate another part. He will have to
look long and hard to find convincing reason for
veto.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-12
E----
Infected Teeth Lead to Rheumatism

Apparently the blood supply in
the rheumatic person Is not up to
normal standard. The fact that
there Is decreased blood flow In
the parts of the body affected may
explain the added discomfort ex-
pressed by people with rheumatism
when there are changes IN the
weather.
DR.. PemherSon has emphasized
for many years the relationship
which the food intake Of the body
bears to rheumatic disorders.
II the CASTRO intestinal function Is
improved, and the burden lowered
by cutting down the intake Of food
particularly substances which are
difficult to digest, there comes not
infrequently improvement In the
rheumatic condition.
If thus Is obvious that there is
no single cure for arthritis to be
found in a bottle Of any kind of
medicine, but that every patient
with the disease must be studied as
q unit and treated according to the
condition which exists in him as
an individual, rather than In all
| human beings with rheumatism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-12

the Morgans in the community of interest system
(National City and Chase NaaonaD had combined
resources Of $725oOOOoo 10 per cent Of the total
In addition, the Morgan combination held inter-
locking directorships in banks with aggregate re-
sources of $4,000 100000 IS per cent of all bank
ing resources. The Morgan combination also held
drectorships in insurance companies with assets Of
sl25000000Oo, IS per cent Of all insurance assets
In 1912 the money trust investigation revealed that
j. P. Morgan & Co. and their affiliated banks by
of interlocking directorships. had control
or influence over corporations with assets OF
s22yoO0J000,OOo.
In 1929 Capitalization had increased more than
three-fold-J. p Morgan & Co, and the five banks
under their control influence by means Of 167 per-
sons held than 24Oo directorships in financial
industrial and utility corporations with assets oil
s74OoOooOOOO Is per cent Of all corporate assets
Among these 1877 directors are included most OF
Girards Rulers Of America"
j. p. Morgan & Co. hold directorshps in corpora
tons with assets OF s2OO0oo including the most
important financial industrial and utility corpora
tons; while the three Morgan banks, Guaranty
Trust Bankers Trust and First National bank hold
directorships in corporations with assets of
100000, and the Morgan allies, National City and
Chase National banks, hold directorshps in corpora
tions with assets Of 45,o00,O00,000.
The Morgan combination, after eliminating dupli-
cations thus holds drectorships In corporations with
net assets of $4,000 oOO according to data in Te
House of Morgan"
~ P. Morgan & Co.," says Corey do not exer-
else direct control all the corporations in the
system but act as the balance wheel Of the system;
does J. Morgan possess the dictatorial power
of his father.
"The system of financial Capitalization and control
Is completely institutionalized than in the
elder Morgans day, the dictatorship cigarchical
1t is financial government beyond effective social
control"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-12
| REASONB BY Ff TI1NnTs

TRANCE has lost her three great war figures
Il within the last few months, Clemenceau, Foch
and Jore, and the passing Of the great trio recalls
the jealousy that besets those high in the military
world.
All three Of these men were indispensable to
France and in her preservation there was room
enough for all, but you wouldn't think So accord
ing to the strife which has ragged about them ever
since the armistice.
Joffre was hailed as the savior of France when
he stopped the Germans within thirty miles of Paris
and hurled an attack against them which sent them
back, to return, but before long another was
being hailed as the hero of that curcial fight
TXTHEN Joffre was given hgh-sounding but enc
ty assignment and, according to his friends he
was shelved by those who did not want him to climb
too high
Sure it is that he carried through his later years
sense of outrage and that's not very congenial
mate for declining years.
AS for Foch and Clemenceau, they hated each
other ard their resentment broke forth in their
writings In fact, 1t likely the chief inducement
for them to sit down and write their impressions Of
the great conflict.
Such envy seems inseparable from war, ancient
as we'll as modern for all great conquerors have
known and said that those who battered them in
their glory would turn and rend them at the very
first opportunity.
During our American the generals have sal
up late to hate each other.
You still hear the rumblings of the ealousies which
existed among the World leaders, and it was
the same during the Spanish war.
DURINC1 the Civil war Lincoln was pestered con-
- stantly and the cause of the Union was imperiec
by the plots and hates among Union generals and
finally when he promoted Hooker to command, Lin
coin openly accused him Of disloyalty to his former
commando
And during the American Revolution, it was q
fright.
That's so long ago, it seems as If all was harmony
but Washington was provoked as no other leader Of
such cause ever was
There was foul conspiracy against him and q
of less sef-control would have told the coonit
to take their old war and run 1t themselves.
But while the generals have been fighting among
themselves, the common soldiers have been fighting
and dying with undivided loyalty.
And whole the generals are quarreling IS to who
won this or that battle let us tell them that NJ
blooming general ever won any battle-the private
soldiers won them all
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-12
SAYS

theoretically, We Haze Three
Branches of Government,
But in Practice They Con-
stantly Are Couiding With
One Another.
a LBUQUERQUE, N. M, Jan. Il.
IA The controversy now going
on between President Hoover and
the senate over three members Of
the recently appointed power board
involves questions which go to the
very bottom Of our governmental
structure, and which have been
raised at one time or another ever
since its establishment.
theoretically, we have three sep
arate and distinct branches Of gov
ernment-executive, legislative and
judicial-but in practice they con-
stantly are colliding or interfering
with one another.
Generally speaking, the net result
has been increased power for the
President and the courts, while con-
gress has been driven to waste
more and more time criticising,
probing and meddling TO preserve
its prestige.
Most European countries have at
tempted TO solve the problem by
making other branches responsible
to legislative authority.
If this controversy had arisen in
France or England, the legislature
would have had its way, even though
it might have been forced to GUST
the entire cabinet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-12
Who Are 'Theyy2

DUT just who are "they?" Isn't
- he referring to the men and
women who elect aldermen and
mayors, representatives and SEN
atorS and the President himself?
If they are so shrewd about oper-
ating their own business, why should
they be so Singularly dumb in select
ting executives for local and ma
tional affairs?
I will be told that one function Is
personal and the other a delegated
matter. Still, even in business on a
moderate scale, no single individual
handles all the affairs himself.
The owner Of a corner grocery
store must have a clerk to take
charge Of the shop while he's out to
lunch. And in picking the clerk he
takes some pains to get hold of a
man who can add figures and handle
customers and operatesthe cash reg
lister.
It seems to me that when all the
corner grocers go out to vote they
might apply somewhat the same
process Of selectivity in choosing
men to frame tariff.
Even Calvin Coolidge Is aware Of
the fact that the government of the
United States has engaged in bust
ness and must continue to do so.
Our largest government business
is the postof1ce," he writes, 'in
which the receipts rise and fall ex-
tensively." I don't know whether
he is disposed to blame this varia-
bility upon government rnismanage-
ment.
If the poStofice were run by 6
private corporation have no doubt
that it, too, would have good years
and bad years. I even suspect thai
under private enterprise there
might come a period of imitation IL
which the concern would turn out
so many 2-cent stamps that w
should all become stamp poor anc
have a postofnce panic.
There is some logic In the an.
a<chists' point Of view II one &C.
cepts the premise upon which h
and Mr.. Coolidge found their phil.
osopIiy. If government is largel,
incompetent to handle vital factor
in national life, then, obviously, w
should have as little government a
possible. Or, better yet. none at ali
But the position Of Columns
Coolidge Is compromised by the fac
that, III spite Of bis Tuesday gloom
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-12
The Field Theory

TIVE year 1929 saw the publica-
= ton Of Einstein's field theory"
Great crowds in Berlin bought
copies Of the theory as 1t was issued
In the form Of an eight-page PAM
phlet bound in brownish-yellow
paper cover
Several New York newspapers had
sample pages from 1t sent over the
Atlantic by radio It was somewhat
difficult to read these radioed pages,
but that mattered little, since the
mathematical symbols in them were
as strange to almost every one as
Egyptian hieroglyphics
Complete title Of the pamphlet, q
copy OF which reposes in this
writer's library, Is eur Einheith-
lichen Feldtheorie.
The theory represented an at
tempt to show the connection be-
tween gravitational and electro
magnetic phenomena. Einstein
showed how the laws governing both
sets Of phenomena could be derived.
from one common mathematical
equation.
The year 1880 brought forward no
new scientific theories from Elm
stein, but instead increased public
interest in him as a result of the
homage paid him by great thinkers
of the world and as a result of a
number of utterances from the
great scientist upon the subjects Of
religion, philosophy and world af-
fairs.
There also was much important.
scientific work during 1880 which
tended to confirm and strengthen
the EinStein theory of RELATIVELY.
Interest also attached to the fact
that an effigy Of Einstein was carved
over the door Of the new Rookie
Teller" church in New York, along
with images of angels, saints, and
great figures Of the past.