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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

be the best form. A child prizes u
book" much more highly than q PAM
phlet. An edition of the Constitution
and the Declaration, perhaps with pic
lures and with an artistic cover design,
would be cherished by every recipient.
Such publication would cost a good
deal of money, but it would be worth
much more than many Of the "docu-
ments" that are published by order Of
Congress and sent broadcast by the
millions for political purposes.
It may be noted in this connection
that annually some two million high
school pupils in this country make an
intensive study Of the fundamental law
in preparation for .the National Ora
torical Contest Representative Brun-
ner's project would bring the Constitu-
ton into the hands of the young people
earlier than at the high school stage,
which they must reach to enter this
competition. Possibly such a prelimi-
nary contact with the Constitution would
be Of advantage to prospective contest
ants. The Constitution cannot be too
diligently read or too thoroughly
studied.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
not kept. He suffered from this bach

not kept. He suffered from this. bach
Of confidence.
Perhaps If the case had been differ
emily handled there would have been no
occasion for the ordering of the court
martial. It is pity that Gen. But
ler's explanation was not made more
promptly. Had it been forthcoming i'm
mediately upon the receipt of protest
from the italian government the repri-
mand for indiscretion would probably
have been given simultaneously with
the expression of regret by the United
States and the whole matter would have
ended without further ado.
Remains now only the matter of how
Gen. Butler got the story that he told
supposedly in private in Philadelphia.
1t is attributed to an American of large
means who travels extensively and who
has made unsuccessful ventures in
journalism. Had the court-martial pro-
ceeded this phase of the case would
probably have been developed. Now
that the incident is closed both diplo-
matically and as a matter Of naval
discipline there is little likelihood that
the authorship of the Mussolini story
will be satisfactorily revealed. Inas-
much as the supposed narrator, Gen.
Buffers alleged informant, is himself a
private citizen his indiscretion or exag-
geration cannot be investigated.
Gen. Butler is to be congratulated
upon the passing of this threat upon
his status as Marine officer. In the
light of the full explanation of the in
cident there is nothing now standing
against his record.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
Repudiating Just Agreements.

It begins to appear that the Govern
ment employees in the under-avera
grades, who are due salary increases In
order to bring them UP to the estab-
lished average, will come out at the
little end of the horn after all, and that
q recognized debt, owing to them by the
United States Government, will be
repudiated for this year at least This
becomes apparent in the action of the
Senate confereeS on the Interior appro-
priation bill, who have yielded to the
House on the salary provision. The
: Interior bill carries the drought relief
appropriations, and the whole effort of
leaders will now be directed to the COM
promise that will get this bill out OF
deadlock and enacted. Unfortunately,
Q mere salary provision for Government
employees is not regarded as Of sufficient
Importance to justify further deadlock.
The action Of the Senate on the In
terror bill will doubtless write Senate
policy on the salary provision in other
appropriation bills, which remain in
disagreement.
The President interpreted the policy
Of Congress, in enacting the reclassifica-
ton act of 1923, to be the provision of
equal compensation for equal work. "
And in forwarding this years budget,
with its recommendation for systematic
increases in salary that would, within
three years, wipe out the inequalities
now existing, the President warned that
deviation from such a systematic pol
icy would defeat the purpose of the
classification act. But, all the House Is
willing to do this year is TO permit the
application of Elapsed balances" in ap-
preparations for personal services toward
granting increases in the under-average
grades. The House Is refusing to init
ate the Budget Bureaus systematic in
creaseS this year on the grounds Of
an Hl-conceived economy. It has taken
the view that with so many other
crying needs for money, this is not a
good year to appropriate something
more than 100000 for the relief Of
A&ACAN dAC
considered fortunate in having any
jobs at all.
The inequalities in salary will have
to be made up. II the start is not made
this year in providing the $4,000, 900
necessary to accomplish this, it will
have to be made next year or the year
after. Meanwhile Government en-
ployes, who are admittedly due the in
creases, win have to go without them.
One recognizes and sympathizes with
the desire for economy that guides the
policy Of the House Appropriations
Committee. The error lies In constituting
as economy a policy that Is a repudia-
ton Of just obligations on the part of
the Government, which should at all
times live up to the spirit of its agree
ments. And 1t is extremely unfortunate
that moves for such economy" are
made at the expense of relatively small
group Of politically powerless public
servants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
Evils of Coal and Iron Police
Attested as PinchOt Moves

an improvement, but there should be
no compromise with the principle that
the State should not barter its police
power"
Generally speaking" according to
the New Castle News, "the State police
should have no rival. But in Pennsyl-
vania it is a small although very EN-
Gent body. Men cannot be detailed
from 1t for permanent protection of
the vast mining industry. But since
these industries must be policed, the
next best thing is to provide them with
forces adequate for all requirements,
to be paid out Of company funds but
responsible to government authority
The principle is sensible. Details Of
the plan viii reveal whether it Is prac-
teal"
Perhaps the future" thinks the
Altoona Mirror, may witness the COM
ing of a day when conditions between
the mine owners and their employees
have become perfectly friendly and so
continuously harmonious as to justify
the disarmament of coal and iron
police in every section Of the country.
The cultivation of friendly relations,
based upon mutual confidence and
good will, is a greatly to be desired
and far from impossible incident of
the not distant future. Present con-
ditions increase the hopeful spirit"
1.-The better policy in the judgment
of the Des Moines Tribune-Capital,
would be to leave police functions to
the regular police, paid from taxation,
as in other States. The coal and iron
police of Pennsylvania have made a
record of brutality and anti-social &C
tivity which should not be continued
by an organization by another name
and with its pay from a private source
The police functions rightly belong to
the State and to the State alone.
Separating the functioning from the
financing never really works"
The Columbus Ohio State Journal
remarks that doubtless Gov. Pinchot
expects a fight" and continues:
Incidentally it would give him a new
national prominence, and he is sup
posed to have his eye on the pres
idential campaign of 1892. With his
dry fight, his effort to overthrow the
old state organization, his pledge Of
loyalty demanded Of appointees and
his effort to eliminate private police,
he bids fair to have busy term in
his high Office"
OF the old system the Raleigh News
and Observer says: ut was. turning
over a government function to pri-
ate interests and often they had a
record of brutalities inflicted on work.
men. Gov. Pinchot has disbanded this
force. Hereafter the State will name
the men who enforce the law. Thirty
years ago North Carolina had a law
permitting private corporations to name
policeman upon the. approval of the
Governor. During a strike on the Sea-
board Air Line the officials of the
road asked Gov. Aycock to authorize
the road to name policeman who would
be under their direction. GovAycock
declined, saying: 1.-THE sovereign State
of North Carolina will preserve order
through its own appointed officials"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
The Close of the Butler Incident.

Mai. Gen. Smedley Butler of the
Marine Corps has solved his own prob
lem by communication to the Secre-
tary Of the Navy in which he acknowl-
edges making the statement regarding
Premier MusSolini. pleads that it was
made in the supposed privacy of a Sc
cluded meeting and expresses his regret
for the incident and for the embarrass-
inent caused the Government by his
"indiscreet remarks" Upon receipt of
this avowal the Secretary of the Navy
Cancelled the order for a court-martial
and reprimanded Gen. Butler, express
ing the expectation that this incident
viii have a salutary effect upon your
future conduct in matters of this char
acter."
This is a most satisfactory issue out
of case in which public sympathy was
undoubtedly favorable to Gen. Butler,
while all the prophecies were on the
side of the Government. Gen. Buffers
ofense was such only because of his
position. A private citizen could with
out any breach Of official decorum have
said what he said. His repetition of the
Mussolini story. however private the
occasion, became a matter of official
concern when it was published. The
Navy Department could not differentiate
between Gen. Buffers status as an off,
Ger Of the Marine Corps and that as
an individual. He was within his rights
In speaking to the Philadelphia organi-
zation so long as he was not reported
in public print. 1t was his misfortune
that the pledge Of secrecy given to him
By the head Of the organization was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Great PUBLIC Question.

Great Public Question.
There is one question which, as yet,
Remains unSolved to bid us fret.
Though scientific queries range
To realms of thought exceeding strange
Or while we anxiously await
Decisions on affairs of state,
What really sets our hearts a-throb
Is this: who's going to get the job2'
Our bright idealistic way
A specter shows whom men call PAY"
Into the most unselhsh mood
That shadow grim will oft intrude
And point with an unwavering touch
To boldly written words, How Much?"
And that's why patriots often sob
And ask: who's going to get the job?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

A number of statesmen demand the
privilege Of being now and then slightly
temperamental. Temperament is often
picturesque and does no great harm
provided it Is not permitted to interfere
with the actual business in hand. Mo-
ton picture personalities are notoriously
temperamental, yet they ha.7 not al
lowed their emotions to prevent the
screen from arriving at the rank OF
nth among the countryfs great in
6ustries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

Vital statistics show that people enjoy
longer lives than did those of previous
generations. The old assertion that
worry shortens existence loses force
when it is considered that at present
the human race has more to worry
about than 1t has had in many years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

witnesses summoned in the frame
Up" investigation IN New York have dis
appeared. Crime in spite of the elabo-
rate methods Of securing all kinds of
records, has modernly developed a re-
markable system of covering up clues.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

Economic experts who say they fear
Russia give the Soviet credit for an
amount of business shrewdness which
would be most extraordinary, consider
ing the slight amount of time and ex-
perience that have been available for
its requirement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

Senator Nye, before the close of the
present week, and Senator Nye proposes
to move to unseat Senator Davis be-
cause of the large amounts expended in
the primary and election. though Sem
ator Davis insists that these funds were
not expended to elect him 4 AS the
question is one of high privilege, 1t
might be used to delay action on appro-
priation bills If some of the PEoges-
sives were mean enough to try 1t on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

Russia desires to hire American en-
petent to hold big jobs and are not
more advantageously In demand in their
own country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
to the use for republication of all news dis
patches credited to it or not otherwise cred
tied in this paper and also the local news
published herein. All rights of publication OF
special dispatches herein are also reserved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
A Pungent Mixture.

From the Springfield CMass) Union.
One of the most complicated cases
introduced to the courts recently in
volved IL bottles that apparently had
contained combination of radiator al
cohol, sulphuric acid and tin rust.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

Whenever a problem in financing on
a big scale arises, it has become Gus
tomary to follow the course now adopted
by the veterans and request owen D.
Young to formulate another plan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

Contributions to the Red Cross will
go promptly where they are needed.
They should be the more generous be-
cause they admit Of no argumentative
delay
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
Inst like ChicaOo

From the Springfield (Mass) Union.
A horse at West BaFnStable, Cape
Cod, kicked over lantern and caused
q $4,000 fire in which two automobiles
and q tractor were destroyed. Poetic
Justice, as 1t were.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
Nature Taxing. Perhaps.

from the Hamilton Spectator.
From Sault ste. Marie comes story
of deer that drinks beer. And then,
filled with Dutch courage, it goes out,
we suppose, to polish on . few wolves
and bears.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

It is asserted that immoral plays are
improbable. When the box ONCE as
serts censorship, the producers may be
relied on to give respectful attention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
An Undesirable Guest

From the Columbus Ohio State Journal
They had to free Mahatma Gandhi,
as he was getting so thin in Jail they
couldn't make it tight enough to hold
him without smothering.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
A RisLu enid.

From the New London Day.
A chef in Boston has been discovered
making use of the traffic lights to time
the boiling Of eggs. Let it be hoped
that fuse doesn't blow out and bring
him up against a hard-boiled customer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

Prosperity is persistent. So-called
''hard times" must, in the light Of his
tory, be viewed as transient incidents.
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Profit Makers.

From the Jackson Citizen-Patriot.
The railway presidents are longing
for the good old days when somebody
slept In the upper Pullman berths.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

"It's easier" said Uncle Eben, Ito
forget a friend dan an enemy. De
friend will be forbearin' when you
turns yoh back on him, but de enemy
will welcome de chance to give you a
kick"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

Rate by MaiI-PayabIe in Advance.
MARYLAND and Virginia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
Cherries Literary Tendency.

"Posterity will raise a monument to
you'll" said the admiring friend.
Maybe So" answered Senator Sor-
ghum. But would rather do without
the monument If I can persuade pos
terity not to write unpleasant books
about me-"
Jud Tunkins says maybe it is just as
well that science can't predict weather
far in advance. If it could we would
have been worrying about drought ever
since some time last May.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
unhelpfuI Superabundance.

How quickly might relief be sent
Unto its destination,
II there were only nourishment
In general conversation!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
Higher Criticism.

7. Higher Criticism.
do you think women have improved
politics?"
Beyond doubt" answered Miss
Cayenne. "A man is sure to be more
careful how he casts a ballot if he
knows that his vote is going to be
criticized by all his feminine relations"
1--WE travel faster than did our
ancestors" said Hi Ho, the sage of
Chinatown, yet we find no better les
sons at the end Of each journey than
those they taught at home"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

Music Of the Spheres.
Einstein charms the universe
AS he with skill appears
And takes occasion to rehearse
The music Of the spheres.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
The Evening Scar Newspaper Company

THEODORE w. MOVES. ;. Editor
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X X + X
However, Senator Nye as chairman
of the Senate Committee on Public
Lands had charge of an investigation
which put about 100000 in the cot
fers of Uncle Sam, which may well DE
considered an Offset of an expenditure
of SGT 900 even if there anything repre-
hensible in the expenditure, which has
not been shown to be the case. Sena-
tor Nye pressed the investigation of the
activities of the Continental Trading
Co., which failed to pay income tax
on a huge transaction in oil. Even
tually that tax was collected, amount
ing with interest to more tnan
100000.
The Nye Committee was authorized
to spend 100000 by the Senate, and
has more recently been authorized to
spend another $4,000. This would APP
pear to place the Senate seal OF APP
prevail on the committee. 1t Is rather
safe bet, also, to suggest that the
expenditures by the Nye Committee
were no more extravagant than those
made by dozens of other Senate in
vestigating committees, including the
Campaign Investigating Committee.
which in 1926 under the leadership OF
IoIner oeIldtor Jun rteeu VI miSSoOt
caused lot of grief to the Republican
senatorial candidates in Illinois and
Pennsylvania. Those two States, by the
way, are the happy hunting grounds OF
Senate investigating committees. 1t was
in Illinois for example that the Nye
Committee turned up the fact that Mrs.
Ruth Hanna Mccormick had expended
quarter of a million dollars of her
own money in the primary fight, and
in Pennsylvania the fact that Joseph
P. Grundy had spent even more of his
money. The Nye Committee is about
to write report on the Pennsylvania
election which was won by Senator
James j. Davis. Is should be fled, says
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

@. How many sheets will bale of
cotton makef-M. M.
A. A 50o-pound bale of cotton,
allowing is per cent for waste and
tare, will make CTS 82x99-inch sheets.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-02
HENRY A. COOPER,
80-YEAR-OLD DEAN
OF HOUSE, IS DEAD
Wisconsin Republican Progress
sive Was Oldest Member
Of Lower Branch
WAR RECORD WAS ATTACKED
House Pays Tribute to Support
or Of Elder la Toilette
With Adjournment
WAR RECORD WAS ATTACKED

Washington, March 2.-RNThe
dean Of the house Of representatives,
picturesque s0-year-oh Henry Allen
Cooper, Of Wisconsin, died here Sun
day.
The Republican progressive who sat
In congress longer than any man now
there, succumbed to acute indigestion
several hours after taking part In q
bitter house session Saturday night.
Monday the house paid him tribute
with an adjournment OF respect to his
memory. A committee viii represent
congress In escorting the body back ia
Racine Wednesday. There the body
will lie in state for . time before
the burial services.
He leaves only his widow, Susan.
For well over q quarter of q cen
fury Henry Allen Cooper represent
ed the first Wisconsin district In the
House Of Representatives and with
his reelection to the seth Congress
became its oldest member in point
of service and one Of the oldest In
| point Of years.
Only One Interruption
His long period Of succeeding term.
had but one interruption, when, II
1918, his defeat was brought about BY
an attack on hts war record. He wa.
one Of the half hundred House mem.
berS who voted against American en-.
trance into the World war.
srh1e AaRaAt waa hu lace %hoV RI
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-02
AGREEMENT TO Be
REFERRED TO j, s.,
JAPAN, D0MN0NS
Henderson and Alexander Leave
for London After Denying
Rumors About Plan
TREATIES MODIFIED
Great Interest Taken in Report
That 7attieship Tonnage
Will Be Reduced

Paris, March 2.-tR-The French
cabinet Monday decided that the tri.
partite naval agreement reached last
week by Great Britain, Italy and
France. was satisfactory" 1t was IN.
nounced after q meeting Of the min.
listers.
Thus frances adherence to the ar.
rangement, which now must be sub.
mitted to the United States, japan
and the British ~donninions. was vr-
tually assured.
The British foreign minister, Arthur
Henderson, and A. v. Alexander, first
lord Of the admiralty, left at mid.
day for London after spending most
Of q busy forenoon denying reports
printed In newspapers here which
pretended to give at least parts Of
the text Of the new arrangement.
The point which seemingly created
the greatest interest was that onewhicla
some newspapers alleged would ask the
United States and Japan to agree not
to build capital ships larger than
$4,000 o. $4,000 tons, whereas the
maximum fixed by the Warrington
treaty was $1,000 tons for ~battleships.
| The foreign office refused Monday
to confirm or deny this report on the
ground that 1t had agreed to furnish
no details before the text was pub
lished.
Several points Of the accord need
the approval of the United States
and Japan, and In fact constitute
modification Of the five-power WASH
ington naval treaty a. well a. the
treaty Of London.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-02
BILL TO CHANGE
EGG Law KILLED
Senate Swings Axe on Measure
Offered by Dickey coun-
ty Legislator

A bill to regulate and to establish .
uniform egg law was killed by the
senate Saturday.
The measure, sponsored by Repre-
sentative Hottie Of Dickey, passed the
house. and was recommended for
passage by the senate state affairs
committee.
When the question Of adopting the
committee report came to the floor
Of the senate, Senator p. H. Hamil-
ton, McHenry, moved for indefinitely
postponing consideration Of tho bill.
A standing vote showed q In favor
Of killing the proposal, and = against
It.
A cuncher motion was then at
tached by q IS to - vote. 30 that the
bill cannot be reconsidered with less
than q two-thirds majority.
Senator +. =. PloyhAr,, Barnes
county, urged the senate to take steps
to place the measure on the calendar
so that additional information could
BE- obtained during the time that
would intervene before the bill came
up for final action. He claimed the
proposal was materially changed
xance II was introduced md that
many Of the Objectionable features
had been taken cut