Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-19
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

The final swan song of the Wicker
sham Commission is being sung during
these remaining August dog days
Three more volurninous compendiums
are being disgorged from the Govern
mcnt Printing Office this week and next,
and then the commission will be ready
to receive a final benediction at the
/ hands of the President The remaining
volumes are respectively and respect
fully entitled, Crime and the For
eign Born" The Cost Of Crime" and
The Causes of Crime" enough facts
TO satiate the most ravenous appetite
Tor facts. Mr.. Hoover's appetite on this
| score appears to have been long since
FULLY satisfied. Indeed, it is explained
at the White House that he has no
comment to make because he has not
and viii not read the reports-simply
transmit them to Congress later on for
the latters information and guidance.
As TO the causes of crime-the COM
mission throws up its hands in despair.
Administration critics have charged
that the $500, 900 which the commits
sion cost was a waste of public funds,
but this sum is less than one-eighth of
per cent of our annual budget
Campaign pledges are seldom redeemed
30 cheaply. Contrasted with the Ped
eral Farm Board, which cost $500, 600, :
900 q 900 times as mueh), the Wicker
sham Commission has been a very in
expensive foible.
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BY no means the least interesting
phase of the complete collapse of the
Farm Board proposal for voluntary
destruction of one-third of the cotton
now standing on the Southern planta-
tons is the quick disclaimer forth
H. a.
half of Mr. Hoover The President
Is represented as having had no ad-
vance notice that his Farm Board
planned any such bold and question
able move The inference is allowed
to 60 forth that the board acted with
out consultation with the White House.
Furthermore, the President prlIdently
withheld subsequent comment until the
public reception of the proposal could
be gagged In the light of the hostile
reception and the ridicule and sarcasm
which has been heaped upon this scheme
for alleviattng the glut of cotton Mr..
Hoover has ample reason to be glad that
he avoided any commitment. AS mat
tiers stand the Farm Board, and the
Farm Board alone, must stand the gaff
| and be the goat.
The letter postage rate from the
United States to Canada jumps from
cents to 3 cents and to the British
Isles from 2 cents to 5 cents on Sep
TENDER / according TO official an
nouncement from the Post ONCE De-
partment Congress has no control over
international postage rates, hence its
permission did not have to be secured.
The Postmaster Generals proposal TO
| the last Congress, that domestic rates
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met a very ccol reception, and nothing
came of it. The President failed to
take up the cudgels for it, 1t appears
| certain that Postmaster General Brown
will renew his plea to the incoming
| Congress He VIII be able TO show a
! larger pest office deficit than ever be-
! fore. The Federal Treasury will need
all the relief it can get 1t is esti-
( mated that an increase in the domestic
/ letter postage rate would bring an addi-
| tional SIS 900 900 into the post ONCE
( end reduce the postal deficit by Just
! that much,
/ THE average year-old child creeps-
/ the average 2-year-old can run we'll
the child of years Is very actiye-the
| 4-year-old Is always on the gothic
/ child of 5 years skips and dances" In
! cold climates furnace heating adds
/ greatly to the family comfort Every
| house can be fitted with screens OF some
/ sort. Growing children need sunlight
| all the year around, In Spring and
I Summer the child who plays out OF
/ doors every sunny day will get plenty
/ % Sunshine When a child fiTst learns
| 70 walE he is very unsteady, The outer
! ear should be washed daily and dried
A thoroughly MIX Is an essential part
\ q every childls diet. But Daddy doesn't
I eat his spinach is a difficuit argument
TO meet. for the child win not under
stand the reason for the fathers re-
| fusal" The foregoing and countless
| osaer importsnt facts about the care
ana training OF the child from to
| are contained In the i5O-page booklet
l lust ISSUED by the Children's Bureau OF
1.-THE labor Department and 10 be had
ON application. Price. 10 cents II Is
hqprN 70 put Il ID the class Of best