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The Washington times., 1931-06-24
NJ 'KELV|E LAUDS
FARM BOARD

From two years service on the
Federal Farm Board, Samuel r.
McKelvie is convinced that body
will do all that was claimed for
it by President Hoover when 1t
was conceived, the former
Nebraska governor wrote in trans
mitting his resignation on June
IS, the text of which was made
public today by the White House.
He wrote:
"StabilizatiOn activities in
wheat and cotton stayed the
shock of precipitated decline
that otherwise would have
taken place and gave the
farmer time to market his
crop while adjusting himself to
the economic conditions. Vast
benefits from this were re-
Elected to every line Of business
in the country. The unpre-
judiced and the informed
admit this"
In connection with the develop
ment of cooperative marketing,
McKelvie expressed the opinion
that the farm board already has
accomplished more than could
have been achieved in 10 years
without the assistance of such a
federal agency.
The Washington times., 1931-06-24
COTTON GOODS

NEW YORK, June "a G.NSD.
Liberal selling Of print cloths
and some Of the carded yarn con-
vertibleS continued today and
prices were quoted u cent a year
above the lowest points quoted
on print cloths. The volume of
business already booked in some
large agencies is the best since
March. Much Of the buying con-
sisted Of spot and nearby de-
liverieS, but some mills booked
Sizeable contracts to run to the
end Of the year. The easing in
the speculative cotton market
held back some orders that
seemed close to being placed, and
there seems to be little doubt that
if the stock and raw material
markets hold without much
change, further business in vol
ume for the summer and early
fall may be closed.
The Washington times., 1931-06-24
FAVOR
CHEAP STOCKS
FOR PROFIT
Those Selling Under $12 Gain
Much Faster Than Highest
Rated After Bear Markets
By THE SPECTATOR

NEW YORK, June "a QN.S0.
A study of the records of the
bear markets of 1897, 1902, 1914
and 1921 indicates that stocks
selling below $12 per share ap-
preciated more than 240 per cent
during the three years following
each of these bear markets.
For the identical periods. so
leading dividend paying stocks
gained an average of 71la per
cent.
The record therefore, would
seem to indicate that the posi-.
bilities Of price appreciation re
about 313 times as large in the
case Of low priced speculative
shares as for. stocks having q
high investment rating.
New Slant on Autos
A new slant on, the automobile
situation is taken by a well-known
investment service which declares
that sales of automobiles are run.
ming low because prices have not
come down commensurately with
the decline in raw materials that
go into the manufacture of the
cars.
Automobile prices have been re-
duced only 12.1 per cent from
the peak levels of 1929, while
prices Of finished materials that
go into the manufacture of cars
dropped 2l.2 per cent and prices
OF raw materials declined 3l1
per cent.
The chief item in the cost Of
automobile production is mater
ialS, while labor represents only
10 per cent of the total cost.
Dividend Loss High
Some idea of what adverse divi-
dend announcements have meant
to the public since the beginning
OF the year is brought out by the
following figures.
For the five-month period end
ing with May, there have been a
total of 760 concerns which have
omitted or reduced dividend pay.
mentS.
This represents an income loss
to American investors of $426,210..
1875, with additional dividend ad-
justments in coming months ex.
pected to swell this total.
The Washington times., 1931-06-24

New York funds in Montreal 3s.7B
premium at $1,000 Montreal funds In
New York t575 discount at $1,000.
The Washington times., 1931-06-24
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE

Capital Traction SIS, $50O@83.
Washington Gas IS A, $4,000
1917; $200@1O1%.
Washington Railway and Elec-
trio Is, $l,0O0@9OA, $1,OOO@9O1a,
IS, ,0O0@90H, $6,OOO@9OA.
Washington Railway and Elec-
trio, pfd, 5@e9A, 5@s9A, 100
991a, 5@991a.
American Security and Trust
Company-5@300.
Lanston Monotype -5@881a,
S@82h, 1O@ssA, 1o@ss, 100
S7A.
Real Estate Mortgage and
Guaranty pfd., 10000, 10O@612.
After call
Lanston Monotype-10@87A.
The Washington times., 1931-06-24
GRAINS OPEN FIRM

CHICAGO, June "a G.N.SD.
Grains opened steady to firm
today. Wheat was unchanged
to 2c up, corn 1sc down to 3sc
higher and oats unchanged to
Ac up. Opening prices:
Wheat-July, 573s; Septem.
ber, soc; December, 623c.
Corn-July, 58@581sc; Septem.
Der, 562s @561ac; December, 49h
@49Hc.
Oats-september, 27A; Decem.
ber, 30A@303sc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-03
Extraterritoriality in China.

Extraordinarily in China, an issue
for the United States ever since Caleb
Cushing, high commissioner for Presi-
dent John Tyler, in 1914 incorporated
clause providing for it in a Sino-
American treaty is once again conspicu-
ouSly to the fore. At Marking negotia-
tons looking to its abrogation are in
eminent and the diplomatic representa-
tives of Great Britain and Japan.
Probably more or less formal exchanges
on the same subject are proceeding be-
tween the United States and China, but
they do not appear to have reached the
active-and acrimonious-state of the
dealings which Marking is conducting
with London and Toxic. These. ac-
cording to Marking dispatches, are ap-
preaching q deadlock.
c. T. Wang, Chinese foreign minister,
categorically refuses to discuss abolition
of extraterritoriality with Japan on the
basis Of gradual REIMBURSEMENT. He
insists upon immediate and total abo-
lition of the unequal treaties" At
the end of 1929 Nationalist China pro-
claimed to its people that extraterri-
torial rights were unilaterally-by China
Aerself-done away with and no longer
existed. The powers insisted that these
rights were not abolished. China re-
torted that the unilateral denunciation
Of the unequal treaties" was merely a
gesture.
During 1880 both the United States
and Great Britain gave assurances Of
readiness to modify the treaties piece
meal throughout China as regional con-
dittons permitted. Toward the end of
last year China urged the powers once
more to hasten the rehabilitation of
their extra;srritorial judicial ma
chinery within the Nationalist domain.
Pending neg )tiations with the British
and Japanese were initiated with a view
to carrying cut Markings desires.
Washingtons attitude toward the
comprehensive desire Of the new
China" TO become mistress In her own
vast house remains unchanged. The
United States is ready to give up extra
territoriality when China is able to
maintain in its stead a local system of
Justice capable Of fully safeguarding
American rights and property under
the law.
The Nank ng central government APP
psars to be making satisfactory progress
in suppression of civil war and subver-
sive Moscow-eng Communist &C
tivisles. These developments are all to
re good. They foreshadow the hour
when 1t will be feasible to hand over
the admins sration of justice in China
to the Chintse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-03
The Fastest Boat.

The success of Kaye Don with the
speedboat Miss England II yesterday at
Buenos Aires, establishing new record
speed Of 103.49 miles an hour, gives the
title for aquatic supremacy to England.
Recently Gar Wood scored pace Of
1926 miles and it seemed likely that
he would hold the lead for some time,
for there was no assurance that the
British boat, which had not been put
to a high test since the tragedy in
which Sir Henry Segrave lost his life,
would make the grade. However, Don
sent the boat over the measured course
in the phenomenal time that now stands
as the highest speed ever attained by
man on the water. 1t is quite certain
that Gar Wood will now go after the
record again. He has never been daunted.
Indeed, it is understood that he is about
TO build a new craft. These indirect
competitions are not in themselves
spectacular. though they are decisive
assuming that the timing is accurate
and dependable. The real test of speed
will come In a direct rivalry between the
competitors. A race between Miss Eng
land II and Gar Woods latest Miss
America will indeed be q spectacle
worth watching
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-03
Hitlerism Checked

National Socialism, the official name
Of the Hitler movement in G-rmany.
received a significant, and perhaps a
decisive, setback on Wednesday CT this
week. The Parliament Of the Federal
State Of Thuringia. one Of the two
scattering portions Of the Reich in
which the Hitlerites had succeeded in
obtaining executive office, on a vote Of
confidence oustcd the cabinet Official in
question, Herr Wilhelm Frick, minister
Of the interior and Of education. The
news Of his fall is hailed throughout
Germany by the republican parties as
an event Of the first political magni-
tude. They look upon It as signifying
the end Of the subversive Brown Shirt
menace.
Mai" control Of the Thuringian
portfolio lasted a little more than a
year. 1t was an era Of radicalism run
riot, supplying the rest of Germany
with graphic indication of what Hitler
tie domination of the Reich, were such
a calamity ever to overtake the nation,
would mean. A characteristic exhibit
ton Of Herr tricks power was the APP
pointment OF a professor of ethnology
TO the celebrated University of Jena.
No sooner had this fiery flower Of Ger
man Fascism taken the rostrum than
he began TO preach a doctrine Of Nordic
supremacy that led to violence in the
institution before the course was dis
continued. A quaint touch Of Hitherto
culture In Thuringia was the official
Suppression Of Jazz music as "decadent
Africanism unworthy Of a place in Ger
manic culture"
1t takes more than one Thuringian
swallow TO make a German Summer
But there seems to be little question
but that Hitler has met with an i'm
portant rebuff and one that will re-
vertebrate throughout the Reich Since
last Spring the Thuringian National
Socialists have been in a more or less
amiable political partnership with the
German Peoples party. The Hit
lerites' strength in the Diet entitled
them to the most important cabinet
post they have so far possessed in tbs
country. Success went TO their heads
They utilized their rank in the govern
rnent to heap abuse in particular upor
their cabinet colleagues Of the Peo'
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Joe Engel's Girl Pitcher.

Yesterday at Chattanooga a new
chapter was written In the history Of
American base ball. A girl pitcher went
into the box for the minor league team
that has its habitat in the Tennessee
city and in the course of her compare
lively brief appearance she famed two
of the greatest hitters In the game, the
eminent George Herman Ruth and the
equally eminent Lou Gehrig. Then she
walked Tony Lazzeri and, her arm
firing, she called it day and quit
Now Miss Jackie" Mitchell, seventeen
year -old phenomenon, holds the spot
light in the national sport. Old-time
fans are beginning to wonder whether
q new era is not dawning in the game,
the era of femlninity. True, there have
been woman base ball players, some OF
them practically professional. but no.
body has ever taken them very seri-
ously. This Mitchell girl seems to be
in a class by herself. She is regularly
enrolled as one Of Manager Joe Engers
pennant-seeking team and it is under
stood that she Is to be given her regular
turn in the box during the season. If
she is not a crocus player, as the late
John Linney used to call the Spring
wonders who faded with the first
breath of warm weather, Jackie" will
be the sensation Of the year. And this
is not the less likely because of the
possibility that Messrs. Ruth and Gehrig
yesterday at Chattanooga were, after
all, only gallant gentlemen who wanted
to give nice girl boost.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-03
Apportionment Law
Now Being Enforced

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
After all the threats to upset the
permanent reapportionment law. Con-
greSS adjourned without doing any
damage in that direction. The law
stands as passed at the extra session
and seats in the next House to be
elected will be distributed according to
the report on the census table sub
mitted to Congress by President Hoo
yer last November.
To week Of the closing of the re-
cent session, States which will lose
seats under the permanent reappor-
tionment law were airing their grief
in Washington and appealing for q
new bill to save some of their Con-
gressmen from joining the army of the
unemployed. At times it looked as If
a strong enough combination might be
formed among disgruntled elements to
get reapportionment into another jam.
But it is all over now. When Con-
gress adjourned on March without
altering, repeating or superseding the
permanent reapportionment act, that
law became effective. It now works au-
tomatically. The notices will go out
from the clerk of the House this
month and in 1892 the States will elect
under the new apportionment. Cali
fornia will have the nine additional
Representatives the State is entitled to
by the census and under the Consti-
tuition. If some States lose, that is
just too bad, but their loss, like Cali
fornias increase, is due to the cold
fact of population.
A great deal has been gained by the
permanent reapportionment law, which
vitalizes the section of the Constitu-
ton providing for representative gov
eminent AS long as the law stands
there will be no more reapportioEment
scandals. Ions may it stand!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-03

pies party, which, patience having
ceased to be virtue, found oficial
bed-fellowship with the Brown Shirts
no longer bearable. This week, max
ing common cause with the middle
parties, the Socialists and the Com
munists, the Peoples party group in
the Diet contrived to bring the de-
spised minister of the interior and
of education to book.
Coming close on the heels OF the
edict by President Hindenburg suspend
ing Germany's bill of rights, Hitler's
campaign Of villifcation of the repub-
lie has now been brought up with a
Jerk. The Fascist chieftain has ordered
his party to observe the edict, with its
embargo on anti-republicanism agita-
ton, while the National Socialists test
the constitutionality of the Presidents
decree in the courts There is yet an
other symptom suggesting that the Hit
leriteS are singing in more minor key
than that in which they customarily
pitch their reactionary yawps. The So
called Hitlerite shock troops" in East
ern Germany. numbering $4,000 men,
are in revolt because Hitler deposed
their late and popular leader. The lat
ter is in rebellicus mood and threatens
to take his cohorts with him into the
political field against Hitler unless the
dethroned lieutenant is replaced. Yes
terday the insurgent forces seized pos
session of party headquarters in Berlin
and took over Hitler's metropolitan
newspaper organ Der Angriff."
Only one National Socialist remains
in cabinet Office in Germany, the min
lister Of culture for Brunswick, in which
state the Hitlerites at recent communal
elections signally failed to make eX-
pected gains. The weeks events in
Thuringia certainly encourage the hope
that this lone outpost of Fascist power
also may be doomed to disappear. A
violent eruption like Hitlerism must
keep on erupting if 1t is to be anything
but flash in the political pan. Checks
like 1t has just suffered are fatal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-03
The Morning Buying Habit.

Under he new dispensation, which
and one o'clock every Saturday in the
year, instead Of only during the Sum-
mer season, an additional stress is laid
upon the shops and stores of Washing
ton in the afternoon on that day. The
employees of the Government, released
from duty early in the day. take adyan-
tage OF the opportunity thus afforded
to do their shopping" and during the
past few weeks, covering this new
schedule Of departmental activity, they
have made Saturday afternoon their
particular time of attending to their
purchasing Of materials and wares.
This change Of rhythm makes it de-
sirable for those who are not employed
in the departmental service and who
usually do their buying on Saturday to
go to the shops in the morning rather
than the afternoon. If they will do this
they will avoid congestion in the stores
and will receive better attention and
obtain more satisfactory results. 1t is
to the advantage OF both the non-Gov-
eminent buying public and those who
are engaged for the morning in the
Government offices thus to separate
their visitations TO the merchandise
marts.
Indeed any morning of the week is
preferable for the non departmental
purchasers to the afternoon, especially
the later hours OF the shopping day.
Morning shopping is an excellent habit
to form. It is better for those who buy,
better for the shops and better for the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-03
Maryland CIings to Its
Antiquated Blue Laws

To the Editor Of The star:
I note with appreciation your editorial
Of Tuesday on Maryland's blue laws"
But If Tidicule Is deServedly the lot of
these laws, from which our delegates at
Annapolis are declining to exempt US
here in Montgomery County, what shall
be said of the suppression, by the pres
ent administration, Of the win Of the
voters as expressed in the last election
for q revision of the State constitution?
Is the public fully aware, for instance,
Of the significance of the recent decision
of the Circuit Court at Rockville in the
notorious Duff1n case, in which an all
legged criminal, facing trial, was liberated
because of the religious beliefs of the
complaining witness? Do the people of
Maryland realize that under this archaic
provision in the bill of rights, so called.
of the Maryland constitution no one
who does not subscribe to belief in q
personal Deity who metes out punish
ment to the immortal soul in a future
life may testify as a witness in a Mary
land court? Had the defendant Duffin
been charged with rape and murder in
stead of chicken stealing, would the
court nevertheless have ruled out the
sole complaining witness and set the de-
PENDANT free?
How many American citizens could,
in the free" State Of Maryland, defend
themselves against unfounded charges
or suits in a Maryland court without
prejudice under such a ruling? And II
a witness may exempt himself from tes-
tifying simply by asserting a disbelief
in this particular brand of theology, Is
the administration of justice in such a
state of freedom" from the salutary
provisions Of the Constitution of the
United States of America, which guar
antees to all the equal protection of the
law. deserving of anything short of
scorn and contumely?
ALDEN A. POTTER.
Bethesda, Md, April /, 1881
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-03
Counsel for DR.. Smith.

Announcement of the selection of
former Senator George Wharton Pep
per of Pennsylvania as counsel for DR..
George Otis Smith and the statement
Of the Attorney General relating to the
role to be assumed by the Department
Of Justice in forthcoming legal proceed
ings to test the validity Of DR.. Smiths
appointment serve to clarity in some
degree a muddled situation Mr.. Pep
per, having declined the Senate's offer
to represent the Senate, is undertaking
the defense of DR.. Smith "as a public
service" assuring him of skilled coun-
sci without placing upon him the finan-
cial burden that such defense might
otherwise entail. The Department Of
Justice. appearing as friend of the
court. intends to support the validity
Of the appointment as vigorously as
they know how. and give TO the case the
thorough attention which its impor-
lance deserves"
The unprecedented nature of this case
leads to the rather ambiguous lineup
of the htigants. Dr. Smith. as an in
dividual, is not involved. The fight is
between the Senate, on the one hand,
and the President, supported by his
Attorney General, on the other Yet
the only method by which the proceed
ings to test the issue could be instituted
was for an Official Of the Department
of Justice-in this case United States
Attorney Leo Rover-to allow the use
Of his name" as the Department of
Justice words it, as relator, thus raising
the propriety Of another official of the
Department Of Justice-possibly the
Solicitor General-serving as attorney
of record" for the defendant. There
was, in addition, the technical question,
the substantially of which is admittedly
open to doubt. as to the statutory au-
thority" for the Attorney General to
appear for q Federal Official in such
litigation.
The Department Of Justice has chosen
the safest way out by taking no
chances concerning the propriety or the
legality of its course. DR.. Smiths
counsel Of record viii be Mr.. Pepper,
who does not represent either the Presi-
dent or the Department of Justice,
though his efforts, of course, will neces-
sarily be directed to upholding the
validity Of the Presidents course in re-
fusing to remove DR.. Smith, backed by
the opinion of the Attorney General.
AS friend Of the court the Department
Of Justice win present points on the law
and will by indirection substantiate the
right Of DR.. Smith to hold ONCE at the
request Of the President, acting on the
legal opinion Of the Attorney General
The procedure satisfactorily avoids
the appearance Of internecine strife
within the ranks of the Governments
legal officers. one Of whom must in
effect challenge, others Of whom must
defend, the Attorney Generals opinion
upon which Dr. Smith occupies his
Office and draws his pay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-03
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

from group and sectional interests?
In recent times the groups" and m
terests" that have must successfully
and lavishly tapped the public TIL are
the veterans organizations and the
farm relief brigade. There are already
plenty of signs that from the same
quarters the next Congress will be in
receipt of requests for fresh cuts OF
Treasury pie. With another national
election in the offlng 1t decidedly re-
mains to be seen how deaf an ear House
and Senate can be persuaded TO turn
when the group" and sectional
Oliver Twists turn UP at Washington
clamoring for more.
Mayor Ed" Roberts Of Reno, New.
who has been inviting the world, would
be divorces and others. to come to the
sagebrush IN mass formation and avail
itself of the new wide-open laws now
in vogue there, Is we'll known in Wash
ington. He was Republican member
of the House of Representatives from
1911 to 1919 and popular figure on
Capitol Hill during war days. 1t was
while Roberts was in Congress that
Walter johnson, WaShington's base ball
idol, met, wooed and won the Nevadan' S
beautiful daughter, Hazel, who passed
away last Summer Mr.. Roberts is
mayor of Reno Once upon a time he
aspired to seat in the United States
Senate.
X Il
Daniel G. Roper, former commissioner
of internal revenue, who was recently
named president of the Board OF Edu-
cation of the District of Columbia, is
che Democrat who grabbed a job dur
ing the Hoover administration, anyhow.
Roper's friends hasten to explain that
Hoover didn't have anything to do with
it. The post is within the gift OF the
justices OF the District Supreme Court.
T. North Carolina Democrat and one
time pillar in the McAdoo church has
long taken a lively interest in educa-
tional matters. He's trustee. as well
as an alumnus, of the munificently
endowed Duke University at Durham,
which plans to be the greatest school
in Dixie some day, If not one of the
greatest in America and the world.
Since he left public Office in the Will
son administration Roper has practiced
law in Washington.
(Copyrisht 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-03
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.

Inevitable Conflict.
To prophesy
I don't pretend,
AS there draws nigh
A patient friend.
I only say
I know I'm right
That we some day
Shall have a fight.
We cannot hope
For long repose.
Improvements grope
Through words and blows.
Before we see
All things done right,
There's bound to be
Some sort Of fight.
Disputes will change
The human race.
Worlds clashing range
Way out In space.
Don't be annoyed
BY needless fright.
You can't avoid
Some sort of fight.