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Nogales international., 1932-05-11
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Balancing The Budget

The average Amer can citizen finds himself rath-
er bewldered by the hot fighting that has been going
on in Congress over TIE bill to balance the Treasury
budget. :,
Here he was going on conplacently tending to
his own business, oblivious Of government OF Wall
Street. nter-aed debts and other kindred subjects,
when all Of sudden he found his business cut IN two
if not entirely destroyed. Now his gloom is enhanced
bv the prospect that no matter how the polysided
contest in Congress goes he must face increase In
his taxes an increase in his cost Of living and various
other uncomfortable things Naturally reused out OF
his isolation Of interest in his own business affairs
he is asking why and how this came about?
There is really no mystery to it. Seventeen and
half million dollar palaces for Government depart
ments, multiplication of Government employees a
host Of commissions all spending money and none
bringing in any piled up total Of governmental ex
trayagance that made it inevitable when such huge
items as half billion farm relief appropriations etc.,
were superimposed that the Treasrrys books showed
an adverse balance between income and outgo.
President Hoovers Administration outside of
some conventional bromides about economy, did moth
ing about it. When the stock market crash came the
Administration apparently did not sense that this IN
evitably meant great falling off in income tax
turns Indeed the President cheeruy gave out to the
country that the debacle III speculation could have no
effect the Industrial structure generally. Business
was sound he explained and our real resources re-
manned intact So the Administration let things ride.
It trusted to luck for Improvement i'll business. It
took gamblers chance that the stock market would
have Favorable reaction And 50, with expenses ever
mounting and receipts ever diminishing, the Treasury
finds itself with two billion-doar deficit AS was
pointed out by Senator Dill of Washington, the other
day, the Government is spending daily S5o00,0oO1
more than its income.
That IS the whole story in nut shell. The Ad-
minstration assumed that the sun would shine for
ever and made no provision for rainy day More
than that when the storm did come it took no steps
to readjust its expenses in relation to the decreased
revenue Any individual who follows similar course
is skirting the verge Of bankruptcy if he does
not go over.
The time for the strenuous measures Of relief,
now being so unhappily abored with in Congress- was
at the beginning Of trial and not two or three
years later Whether plight is due to belated af
termath of the Great War Or not-and Mr. Hoover
clearly indicated in his 1923 campaign speeches that
Republican administrations had successfully met and
solved all the postwar questons-the fact remains
that he and his predecessors are responsible for the
most Woeful financial situation in which the United
States Government ever found itself and logically for
he pains that haveecome to citizens because Of it.
Nogales international., 1932-05-11
Politics And Personalities

The Senate Banking and Currency Committee
under Chairman Norbeck Of South Dakota pushes its
INQUIRY into the maze Of Wall Street. Completely
baffled at first by the suavity Of Richard Whitney,
President of the New York Stock Exchange, the
promised revelation Of q foreign plot to drive down
The market has failed to .2ate~iaze It remained fc1
Nogales international., 1932-05-11

IF the farmer starves today we
will Starve tomorrow"
Nogales international., 1932-05-11
AT CONVENTION

Among Santa Cruz county Demo-
Gratis attending the Democratic
state convention at Phoenix were
James Hathaway, James v. Robins,
Victor j. Wager, Frank j. Duffy,
Nogales international., 1932-05-11

Harold Brown, Louis Escalada,
Charles L. Hardy, Craig Pottinger,
Harry V. Farrior, E. D. Miller, B.
Taylor Wilkey, A. E. Saxon, all of
Nogales; Harry Narcotic, Robert
A. Campbell of Patagonia and M.
a.. Hogan of HarShaW.
Nogales international., 1932-05-11

From what we hear about town, the election in
Santa Cruz county in November is going to be Dem
ocratic cyclone instead Of Democratic landslide
Seems that practically everybody is going to vote the
straight Democratic ticket
Nogales international., 1932-05-11
HUMORETTES

Waiter-Havent they given you a
menu yet, sir?
Diner (wearily)-Yes, but I fin
ished that an hour ago.
Nogales international., 1932-05-11
SONG
Bv Thomas Loye Peacock

Oh! say not woman's heart is bought
With vain and empty treasure.
Oh say not womans heart is caught
By every idle pleasure.
When first her gentle bosom knows
Loves fame, it wanders never;
Deep in her heart the passion glows,
She loves, :and loves for ever.
Oh! say not woman's false as fair,
That like the bee she ranges
Still seeking flowers more sweet and
rare,
AS fickle fancy changes
All! no, the love that first can warm
Will leave her bosom never;
No second passion e'er can charm
She loves, and loves for ever.
Evening star., 1932-12-14
Treasury Note Sales
And Pay Reductions

10 tne Editor OF The Star:
The United States Treasury offered
5o,00o,o00 Of notes for sale, matur.
ing in 1885. These notes are non-tax-
able, paying 234 per cent interest an
nually. Subscriptions for offerings to
buy them were s6,677. 900, 900. The q per
cent certificates maturing Thursday
$3.50, ,000. 900. s4.128, 600, 900 were offered.
These certificates also were non-taxable
and interest-paying. To sum: s6,677.-
600 900 plus S4,228, 100000 equals s10,.
905, ,000, 900. in toto, to buy S600,000,-
600 both Treasury offerings of notes
and certificates. Thus the two offerings
to buy were 1873 times more than the
Treasury called for; this in the face
OF 81a per cent cut salary, plus fur
loughs without pay, with an added
recommendation of 10 or II per cent
further salary cut. or 1873 per cent
salary tax VS.. 1813 times oversubscrip-
tion for 100000, 900 non-taxable, in
terest-paying bonds, certificates, notes,
in the sum Of s10.9o5, 100000
Did the Bard Of Avon prophetically
have in mind us Of these United States
in 1882 when he wrote: What fools
these mortals be-? Did Abraham Lin
coin, when he wrote: Il fear the day Of
Caucasian slavery" in the United
States? Is our dictum now with
100000 unemployed, 25,0oo,000 de-
pendents. of whom thousands are in
Washington He that hath shall be
given but he that hath not the little
he has shall be taken from him?" Or,
in the language Of the street, Sock the
hand-to-mouth Government clerk and
coddle the rich non-taxable interest,"
paying bond buyers. w. E. RYAN.
Evening star., 1932-12-14

him. They went away from there at
once and In q hurry. Just few re-
manned. TWO Of these, q man and q
woman, walked over to the point where
the trespasser was hanging on the gal
lery rail, gun in hand, and the man,
Representative Mas Of Minnesota,
calmly called to him, "ThroW me your
gun and I'll see that you get twenty
minutes" Alongside Of him stood the
woman member, Representative Rogers
Of Massachusetts. The man in the gal
lery hesitated and then dropped the gun
into the waiting hands. That ended
the situation save for the arrest Of the
intruder and the subsequent rather
sheepish return Of the fleeing members
No one can blame those who ned.
Their reaction was natural in the cir
cumstances. It was highly fortunate
that two Of the members Of the panic
stricken body kept cool and by their
intervention prevented a tragedy. It
does not matter that the young man
later declared that he had no intention
Of shooting. He hight well have done
so In the excitement Of his emotional
outburst, which was checked by the as
surance that he would be given the
privilege Of speech If he disarmed.
The very movement Of the members
for the doors was calculated to precipi-
tate the threatened catastrophe. The
trigger finger is nervous one that
might easily in this instance have flick
cred to a tragic pressure. But the quiet
voice from the floor was just the ele-
ment needed to ease the tension. Thus
Quick reasoning and bravery averted
disaster.
Evening star., 1932-12-14
The McFadden Resolution.

The House yesterday declined to al
low its intelligence to be insulted BY
vote Of 361 to 8 1t tabled, without
discussion. the resolution proposing i'm
parchment Of President Hoover offered
by Representative McFadden OF Penn
sylvania. The vote In the House was
indicative Of the feeling and temper of
the body toward the charges brought
In the resolution against the President
by the Pennsylvania member. The mo-
ton to lay the resolution on the table,
which effectually killed it and at the
same time prevented debate on the
proposal, was made by Democrat,
Representative Pou Of North Carolina,
q veteran Of the House and chairman
Of the Rules Committee. With the ex-
ception Of seven Of their number the
Democrats followed the lead Of Mr..
Pou and supported the motion to table.
Mr.. McFadden is q Republican. A
year ago he made in the House an
attack on the President of the United
States on the ground that he had sold
out America to the foreign nations
owing this country debts growing out
OF the World War. At that time he
was heartily condemned by members Of
the House. Furthermore, the Federal
patronage usually accorded member OF
the House was denied Mr.. McFadden
thereafter. Since then Mr.. McFadden's
spleen against the Hoover administra-
tion, and particularly against the Presi-
dent, has grown and increased, appar-
emily, until yesterday it flowed over.
Last month he was reelected a mem
Der OF the House.
The resolution in which Mr.. McFad-
den yesterday proposed the impeach-
ment Of the President Of the United
States undertook to mske 1t appear
that Mr.. Hoover had betrayed the in
terests Of the United States when he
proposed the moratorium on the foreign
debts owed this country. That mora
torium could have been prevented had
Congress voted it down. Instead of
that, by large vote the Congress sup
ported the President In this move to
prevent financial crisis in European
nations that might have had a disas-
trous effect on the whole world, includ-
ing America, had it not been met
So long and, in the opinion Of
members Of the House, so ridiculous
was the attack upon the President that
efforts were made to halt the reading
and take action upon 1t before the
clerk had concluded, but that was not
possible under the rules OF the House
In the end, however. the treatment
accorded the resolution was what it
deserved. Its end was speedy.
Evening star., 1932-12-14
Useful Latin.

Nowadays Latinists are generally sup
posed to be at discount. NO one
boasts Of his Latin any more. On the
contrary, people are trifle ashamed
OF any knowledge Of that great old
tongue that they may have, or they
pretend to be ashamed OF it-Which
amounts to the same thing.
Latin began to go out OF fashion
when business became respectable. That
was several generations ago, and IN
our own time it has been positive
vogue to ridicule the language OF
Caesar and Cicero. OF course, schoolboys
always have complained about 1t, but
there was little anticipation that the
day would dawn when their antipathy
would be shared by men no longer
young enough to hate anything as
strenuously as they did the Gallo Wars
and the Orations. However, the fatefu
hour struck at last. The notion got
abroad that Latin was no aid whatever
in the game Of dollar catching. In
deed, 1t was supposed that Latin was q
handicap in that all-engaging occupa-
ton.
But when DR.. Julian D. Taylor OF
Colby College, Maine. went to his
eternal reward the other day 1t was re-
membered that he had believed that
Latin is helpful "in playing the stock
market"
At the close Of sixty-five years OF
teaching, he could say:
The whole business Of life IS guess
ing knowledge is not power. Judg-
ment is power. A man can stuh his
brain with knowledge and not have
power. In translation, man must
have facts, but his success depends
upon his Judgment in applying and In
terpreting them. I don't believe any
other study develops this power Of
judgment in the same degree as Latin.
Since many Of his graduates were
successful business men, Dr. Colby could
offer proof Of the pudding" But even
II his theory was not exactly sound, as
many have held. there can be little
Evening star., 1932-12-14
Hunger March Called Failure
AS Country Studies Results

march hackers are unfriendly to the
American form Of government and
American institutions. Their aim Is to
overthrow our Government and they
are using every means at their com.
mand to foment distrust and discon-
tent to achieve the ends they seek. No
one should be misled by their propa-
ganda"
Observing a difference between the
handling of the bonus marchers and
the latest group of visitors to the seat
OF government, the Charleston Is. c.
Evening" Post asserts: THE Washing
ton police, under Gen. Glassford, cod.
died and petted the bonus men, pro-
y1ded quarters for them and raised
funds to feed them. From a handful
OF men, no more than the number COM
posing the hunger marchers the bonus
army swelled to thousands, attracted by
the hospitality which was extended to
them by the Washington police and the
encouragement given them by members
OF Congress. In the end it was neces-
sary to call out the Army to disperse
them, with some tragic consequences.
The manner in which the hunger
marchers were handled gave them no
opportunity or justification for demon-
stration against the Government nor
for putting the authorities to scorn. as
the bonus marchers had In such full
measure"
Evening star., 1932-12-14
Treaty and Compact
Are Not SYNONYMOUS

To the Editor Of The Star:
The answerer in The Star Of Decem-
Der of my letter on treaties" and
"compacts" misses entirely the irrecon-
cilable conflict of assertion that creates
confusion.
The schoolman writer Of your maga-
zine article used the word treaty" drst,
and then he used the word compact"
as companionable synonym. But It
isn't; and that Is what causes the
confusion.
Let all men be silent while Chief
Justice Taney thus declares that there
is difference GA Peters, 571):
THE words agreement or compact
could not have been idly or superflu-
ously used by the trainers Of the Con-
stitution; they can not be said to mean
the same thing with the word treaty
They evidently mean something more,
and were designed to make the prohibi-
ton more comprehensive"
Herein is the constitutional differ
ence: The power to make treaties Is
given to the President of the United
States, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate. No State or
States can make them.
II MI. Grodsman had hunted up
treaties" with tho same energy that
he pursued "compacts," his reply need
not have been written.
G0GE1H N 0UEaUk
Evening star., 1932-12-14
Cancel the Debts as
A Step Toward Peace

To the Editor Of The Star:
Let us recall that war Is loss and that
the greater portion of the debt repre-
senting the great war is loss of mate
rails and things gone up in smoke
sunk In the ocean and otherwise wasted
In equally futile endeavor and expense
which can never be recovered. There
fore, would 1t not be better, wiser, to
regard this debt as loss, write it off the
books as loss and make an information
al agreement to forget 1t and set about
establishing a new and better day on
a new principle Of peace, based upon
exact justice In industry and COM
merce, abolishing all fictitious earnings
and values. establishing the hours of
labor as an International standard of
costs and values; with fair and helpful
cooperative trade agreements, lay aside
interest usury in all industry and
finance, and make solemn pledge to
lay aside war and disarm simultaneously
and universally elect an international
commission for peace. justice and good
Will and invite the great common peo-
pie everywhere to take an organized,
united stand in carrying out this pro-
gram and living up to the pledges and
agreements universally?
Establish q new basis Of industrial
commercial justice, upon which civil
l1zed nations may reasonably hope for
and expect permanent peace and good
will
In weighing this suggestion In the
balance Of our judgment let us not for
get that through depression and market
breakdown, caused In part by war debt
uncertainty, the common folks, working
people and farmers, are annually losing
in low wages, no wages and reduced
farm income a large portion Of the
value Of the war debt.
Then II cancellation will, In q meas
ure, promote even temporary revival Of
industry and trade, will we not gain by
SO doing? And especially will we not.
in view Of the growing belief that the
great war debts can never be paid,
much as it might be desired to do So
then may we not as well cancel them
and be on the road to recovery and a
better day?
Presumably the chief reason and pur-
pose in attempting to collect the debts
Is return Of the money loaned to Euro
pean debtors; then If cancellation will
bring q return Of prosperity, with re-
turn OF an equivalent sum In produc-
tive income, and bring 1t more promptly
than can be hoped for through attempt
to enforce payment, then it would ap-
pear more logical to cancel or extend
the debt indefinitely.
But in view of the fact that America
at heart believes in peace and good will
as exemplifled by her international life
and activities, 1t will regard it as only
right and fair that indefinite extension
or eventual cancellation shall be made
conditional upon the definite agreement
of Europe with all other nations to dis
arm simultaneously, completely and in
the near future.
Cancellation upon such terms and
upon completion Of such a program
would be q money-saving proposition
and Ife-saving probability as well, no
doubt,
It is reasonable to believe that in this
way may be driven home to the hearts
and minds Of the worlds people and
to civilization the great lesson that war
Is folly, and determine us to lay 1t
aside forever. LYNN M. HOLLIS.
Rushton, Mich.
Evening star., 1932-12-14
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASRIN.

sirup, one pint Of water. Boil 10 24o-
242 degrees; then stir until cloudy and
pour in plaster of Paris moulds that
have been soaked in cold water for
two or three hours and drained.
@. What is the object Of the world
wide fasting movement?-V. S.
A. It avows triple purpose: To re-
generate the world with advertising Of
fasting knowledge as an act of phi
lanthropy; to provide free facilities for
fasting in Chicago, as an act of phi
lanthropy; to regenerate its followers to
act as free instruments Of God In the
new civilization at hand.
@. Where is there memorial to
Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer?-P. B.
A. Frederick Hibbard's bronze statue
OF the two boys was presented by Mr..
George Mahan to Hannibal, Mo-
9. What is the Society of Forty and
Eight?-I. e. D.
A. 1t is secret society, the oficial
title OF which Is La Societe des Quar-
ante Hommes ct HUT Chevaux, The
organization is an association of those
who saw active service in France, and
VINO were transported to the front in
box cars containing 40 men and eight
horses.
@. How many flower bulbs were re-
Gently destroyed in Holland because of
oVerproduction?-W. H.
A. Fifteen million.
Q. What Frenchman Of the past is
sometimes compared with the Russian
statesman Stain in ruthlessness and
cruelty?-V. r.
A. Jean Paul Marat, born 1744. one
Of the leaders Of the Jacobin party In
the French Revolution, was Unsuitable
in his desire to destroy utterly all the
aristocracy or capitalistic class, demand
ing 100000 heads" He was abso-
lutely honest, asking neither honors nor
friends. AT the height of his power he
was assaSsinated in 1893, while seated
in his bath. by Charlotte Corday
Q. Was Emmanuel Kant an atheist2
B. ]. A.
A. Strictly speaking Kant was not
an atheist. He was German philoSo-
pher, born 1724, died 1904, and among
the cardinal tenets of his philosophy
were the beliefs that human wisdom
Is not sufficient to discover what is di-
Vlne, together with his ideal, every
man his own doctor, every man his
own lawyer, every man his own priest"
@. In auction and contract bridge is
1t permissible for the declarer to pass
his hand across for dummy to see be.
fore the play begins?-W. C.
A. There is no rule against 1t. but It
is an offensive practice It disqualifes
dummy from participating In the play
Of the hand
Q. Does beaver use its tail in build
ing a dam?-A. A.
A. The beavers tail is constructed
primarily for use as a propeller In
swimming and is never used, as Is
sometimes supposed, as q trowel in
building dams.
O. How much money is spent for
Ipsticks and lip rouge in a year in the
United States?-J. T. G.
A. In 1881 about S4,792,000 was
spent for these cosmetics.
@. What is the Amtorg Trading
Corporation?-T F.
A. The Amtorg Trading Corporation
IS composed of representatives in the
United States Of the principal trusts,
syndicates, trading agencies and other
economic organizations Of the Union Of
Soviet Socialist Republics, with the ex-
ception Of the an-Russian Textile Syn
dicate and cooperative organizations.
Evening star., 1932-12-14
Panic and Courage.

Yesterdays episode in the House OF
Representatives, when an armed man
interrupted the proceedings from the
gallery, demonstrated two psychological
phenomena, the mass movement Of fear
and the individual action of courage.
When the intruder arose, with gun in
hand, and, starting to Chamber over the
railing, cried out his demand for the
privilege of the floor for twenty-min-
ute speech, there was an instantaneous
break for the doors on the part of all
but q handful Of the members. They
die not stop to question the sincerity Of
the invader. did not pause to consider
whether he would carry out his threat
h shqqt or wait .or some one = arrest