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Evening star., 1932-11-23

we don't have 1t, it'll be "the first
March" we didn't.
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Representative George Holden Tink-
ham, Republican, of Massachusetts,, is
in the vanguard of returning members
of Congress, beaming from ear to ear
across his bearded physiognonly, as he
recounts what happened In his dis
trict on November 8. Roosevelt car
ried it by 1600o-odd; Ely, Democrat.
for Governor, by about the same mar
gin, and Tinkham, Republican, for
Congress, by some 81 900. How Gomez"
this" replies the big-game hunter from
the Back Bay sector. "I left the United
States in August and stayed away until
the day before election" Then Tfnk-
ham recalls the case of the man who
ran for some State Office in Missouri
two weeks ago, spoke in 100 out of
191 counties, lost every county in which
he appeared, and carried the one in
which he didn't make a speech. Yer
bum sap" says Bishop Cannon's BoS-
tonian archfoe.
** ~
Mabel Walker Willebrandt motored
into Washington on Monday of this
week at the end Of a quick, straight
dash at her own wheel all the way
from California to the Potomac. Portia
went home to vote and to work quietly
for Republican victory. Whether the
most unusual political weather which
overlook the land of grape concentrate
on November took the redoubtable
Mabel by surprise is not of record.
The smile she brings back with her at
least betokens that Al Smiths Newark
speech left the first lady of the law
serene and unruff1ed. Mrs. Willebrandt
says she always likes AIS onslaughtS,
because he treats her like he would a
man politician.
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There's an essence of drama in the
efforts to restore the memory of Col.
Raymond Robins, dry leader and peace
advocate, who has just been found in
the Appalachian Mountains near Ashe-
vile, N. c., where he went in quest of
gold. just when the Chicago conventions
made 1t evident there was no longer
gold to be found in the cause Of pro-
hibition. The friend of Presidents, now
fighting to regain his mental health, Is
being treated by DR.. Mark Griffin, one
of two brothers who have gained fame
in the handling Of alcoholic cases. Their
nOSplCal mas naQ on lLS rOu humber
of prominent personages who INDUCED
too freely in the flowing bowl. 1t is a
novelty for the hospital roster to have
dry leader as patient.
Word wings to Washington that Col.
Edward M. House is also about to HE
himself to the more inaccessible and
salubriouS South to escape the impor-
tunities of Democratic hunger marchers
in quest of Roosevelt administration
jobs. Behind the scenes, Woodrow VIII
sons Warwick for more than a year
and half has been an adviser in chief
in the President-elects camp. Jim
Farley is said hardly to have allowed a
day to pass during the late campaign
without at least one long distance talk
with the Texas colonel on some matter
of major moment. House predicted
Roosevelt's nomination and election as
far back as the early Summer of 1881,
when the Governor spent day with
him on the north shore Of Massa-
chusetts.
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Evening star., 1932-11-23

leniency on war debts. The ways Of
European diplomacy and statecraft are
often wondrous ways. Stranger things
have happened than that some Of our
Old World debtors should seek to make
international hay while the sun shines
and to play off against the Hoover
Stimson doctrine of non-recognition of
Manchukuo a policy supporting Japan
in the present crisis at Geneva as
slap back at Americas debt attitude.
1t is we'll known that the japanese
have always counted on powerful Euro
pean friends at court when the Man
churian business reached the showdown
stage. 1t may just be that European
Asiatic statecraft synchronized things
for this week and hour, when Man
churia and debts occupy the world
limelight simultaneously.
Evening star., 1932-11-23
Never in Their Lives.

One phrase in the text Of King
Georges speech from the throne yes
terday in London is especially worthy
of general attention. In particular,
he said, II am distressed that many
young men and women have never in
their lives had an opportunity Of regu-
lar employment.
OF course, the thought Is as accurate
as it is pitiful. British industry has
declined to such a point as to exclude
from the labor market thousands Of
people who normally would be able to
sell their time and strength, If not their
intelligence, at g. price commensurate
with their natural needs. Unskilled,
unframed, unadjusted, these thousands
exist on public or private charity. They
make no contribution to national pros
perity and progress. They constitute
a useless leisure class. They are mere
bytanders.
But they cannot be ignored. They
are consumers. They must be fed and
sheltered. In effect, they must be en-
dowed. They are social liability, a
burden, an expense. 1t follows that they
represent danger, threat to the sta
bility Of the State 1t is from their
ranks that mobs are recruited.
Men and women without productive
value, they themselves are poignantiy
conscious OF their predicament. In the
circumstances they develop either a
psychology of apology or a psychology
of resentment They want work. They
wander from town to town in search OF
Jobs. But the search is in vain. Some
are competent in limited degree to
labor in the fields, the mines, the mills
But agriculture, mining and manufac-
turing are overcrowded with people still
more competent In an era OF depres-
sion, when industry of every kind is ir
distress, there simply is no place fol
inefficient hands.
What can be done to solve the prcb'
lem? The King spoke of provision
for unemployed persons . : designed
to maintain their morale and fitness t.
resume work when opportunities can b.
isz4kp Re did not specify vnat sh
Evening star., 1932-11-23
provision. will be. But. certainly, he

provision" viii be. But. certainly, he
understands and Parliament under
stands that opportunities" never can
be found in this generation for the
employment of men and women without
skill or training. There will be difficulty
in finding "opportunities" for those who
are educated In some ordinarily useful
art, craft or trade. And even when
the trained surplus has been accommo-
dated, the unframed will remain to be
dealt with and helped. The outlook fer
the latter class is bleak, indeed.
Emigration has been suggested as a
partial solution. But experience has
shown that it is. in fact, no such thing.
The problem is not to be solved by
the trick of mass migration to some
other quarter of the globe. Cheap labor
Is overabundant everywhere.
State employment, an authorized
condition of peonage. has been men
toned, the theory being that the unad-
justed multitudes might be organized
into labor armies for national service.
But Englishmen are temperamentally
untitled for slavery.
Other remedies have been postulated.
Some of them have been tried. With
out exception they have failed. The
dole and other philanthropic devices
have been used to conceal the bitter
truth.
But possibly the King has in mind
two policies of relief. The first Of these
is that Of developing new industries in
Great Britain and in the empire al
large. Within the memory of King
George at least four great advances
in industry have been made; the auto
mobile, aviation, motion pictures and
radio have been synonyms for bread
and butter to thousands of workers
The question is: What next can Eng
land do?
The second policy is that Of educat-
ing the unemployed. The unframed can
be taught. Government schools of in
dustrial training are indicated. Through
institutions of that kind the men ano
women to whom the King referred may
be related with the potential "oppor-
tunities" he mentioned.
The United States has much the same
problem, and Americans will watch
with sober interest every effort OF
Parliament and of the British people
themselves to find a practical solution
Evening star., 1932-11-23
The Debt Conference.

g-ta conference petWeen HieSA0eA'
Hoover and President-elect RooseVeiI Oh
the foreign debt question mas cieareo
the air in some respects. No joint pro-
gram or plan is to be advanced 1or oeai-
ing with the requests OF the oe0oor
nations for further postponement ana
rev,ew of the debts. What is done from
TODAY until March 4 will be done by the
president The President-elect will have
IN carry on thereafter in any way ne
sees fit So the dream OF a united
front presented by the Chief Executive
and his successor passes: The Presi-
dent-elect made it clear to the freSi-
dent. according to reports, that ne does
not intend to become involved In the
debit matter until he assumes ONCE ana
has the actual authority ana re-
sponsibility.
The conference at the White House
Yesterday afternoon, however, was noe
without, its value. 1t provided the Presl-
dent-elect much first-hand informatlon
regarding the debt situation as II al
fects this country and the nations OF
Europe. He sat with the man VINO mas
dealt with the debt situation for the past
four wears and who earlier than that
was a member of the World war Deo1
Commission which arranged with the
debtor nations for the payments to this
country. No theories were presented
bv the President in this conference, but
the cold. hard facts were laid bare.
Both the President and his successor
have in mind serving the best interests
of the United States in connection with
the debt problem. This may or may not
be accomplished by insisting upon the
rigid enforcement Of the debt agree
ments. other avenues will doubtless be
examined. But it must be admitted that
the sentiment in this country, as ex-
pressed by the great majority OF con-
gressional leaders of both political par
ties. has taken firm stand against
any further concessions to the debtor
nations. And without the consent OF the
Congress the Chief Executive is practi-
cally powerless to review or revise these
debt settlements.
President Hoover's hope in arranging
the conference was that through the
leadership of the President-elect on
Capitol Hill the program for dealing
with the debts might have been facil-
itated. The President-elect. however,
has made it clear that he does not intend
to seek to influence the Congress at the
coming short session. The Presidents
effort, therefore, so far as Gov. Roose-
welt is concerned, was water haul"
He has still to deal with the congress
sional leaders, and single handed.
President Hoover is not a man to seek
to avoid responsibility. He has borne
the burden of government in one Of the
most difficult periods of Americas his
tory and has borne 1t courageously. His
course in this debt problem has been
as much in the interest Of the coming
administration as that of his own. And,
more than that, it has been in the in
terest of the whole country. He will
now go forward with his own recon-
mendations to Congress, and the Amer
ican people, as well as the Congress,
will have to Judge them.
Evening star., 1932-11-23
Debts and Manchuria.

At first glance, it seems a far cry
from war debts to the plains OF Man.
churia. yet current developments in
Geneva and Paris carry certain sig
nificance that is interesting and which
may become important. The French
press indicates suddenly warm SYM
pathy for the case which the Japanese
have just presented before the League
Council in defense of their occupation
Of Manchuria. Except for the Socialist
and Communist papers, which regularly
assail Japanese imperialism" Partisan
editors express the view that Nippon
has set up stronger position at &C.
neva than the Chinese and should be
commended rather than censured for
their action in Manchuria.
Foreign observers in Paris, especially
American, are quotsd as believing that
there is more than meets the eye in
this Japanophilism. For many months
there have been unofficial statements
that a secret understanding between
France and Japan existed, covering
certain territorial arrangements in or
adjacent to China, and now the Paris
boulevards are buzzing with the story
that there Is looming, perhaps in the
not distant future, a rapprochement
close enough to constitute a definite
military and political alliance.
In the news columns of The Star
this week well-informed writer on
diplomatic events categorically suggested
that these French hobnobbings with
the Japanese, If they are actually ir
progress, may be the price the United
States will have to pay for this coun-
txy's refusal 70 grant France immediate
Evening star., 1932-11-23
A Good Start Made.

Decision between what has come to
be known as IAN old fashioned inaugu-
ration" and a simple Inauguration"
rests primarily with the President-elect,
and during his brief stay in Washington
Gov. Roosevelt will be importuned to
make known his wishes in the matter
so that the machinery can be set up
and put in motion. The occasion which
marks return to power of a political
party brings fresh vigor and enthusiasm
to the inaugural ceremony. There is
new host Of celebrants who seek more
than ordinary manifestations of victory,
and this fact alone will tend to launch
bigger and better plans. There will be
many who will argue that what the
country needs today" is a return to the
pomp and ceremony Of the past in
ushering into Office a new President.
In the end, the amount of hard cash
that can be raised in these lean times
will go far to settle the matter, regard
less Of what sort Of ceremony the Presi-
dent-elect's advisers may deem ap-
propriate.
One matter, immensely important to
Washington, has apparently been de-
cided already in the nomination by
local Democrats Of Rear Admiral Cary
T. Grayson for the post of chairman
of the Inaugural Committee. AS this
is written, the appointment seems to
have been decided upon rather than
rendered But 1t Is practically certain
that If Admiral Grayson is formally
requested to accept he will take the
job and Washingtonians may congrat-
ulate themselves, as well as Admiral
Grayson, upon the selection. The post
calls for a man with an extraordinary
amount of common sense as well as
one who possesses the confidence and
esteem of his fellow local citizens, and
Admiral Grayson meets these qualifica-
tions exceedingly well. His good taste
and discretion may be counted upon
to arrange an inauguration that is in
keeping with the dignity of the occa-
sion and to prevent the sometimes i'm
petuous enthusiasts from seeking to
turn 1t into q cross between a circus
and county fair.
No matter what sort of an inaugura-
tion is generally planned now, the de-
tails require a vast amount OF time
and labor for perfection in the next
three months, and it will be well If the
groundwork can be laid while the
President t-elect is In Washington and
those who must do the work assigned
to their tasks.
Evening star., 1932-11-23
Jimmy's Autobiography.

Somebody has offered former Mayor
Jimmy Walker Of New York the sum
of $4,000 for an autobiography. At
least that is what Jimmy says, at Nice,
where he is sojourning. He is strangely
discreet regarding the name Of the pub
lication in which this human document
is to appear if, as and when it is writ
ten. He does, however, go a trifle into
detail regarding his mode of operation
If he decides to accept this offer-per-
haps he may be really maneuvering for
competitive bid-he will remain on
the Riviera and collaborate with an
American author who is living there.
So it would seem there will be ghost
writer If Jimmy takes the plunge into
literature. OF course, his identity is
undisclosed. There will be some dis
appointment on the part of the eXpec-
tant reading public, presumably avid
for Jimmy's own story, if there is any
suggestion of collaboration. Jimmy has
a style of his own, lively, witty and en-
tertaining, and 1t would be a pity to
blend it with that Of any other writer,
however skilled and discreet. Perhaps
this unnamed ghost writer will be
merely an adviser on points of policy
rather than an actual contributor, for
the writing Of this biography will have
its perils. Public interest in 1t will be
chiefly on the score of its candor rather
than its syntax, its franness rather
than its figures of speech. But then,
after all, Jimmy may not write his
autobiography, with or without help.
He has not always in the past carried
out his plans, and the fifty thousand
dollar bid may have some strings on it.
Anyway, the dispatch from Nice offers
an interesting possibility of future en-
tertainment.
Evening star., 1932-11-23

| today, is too mystical for my thinking
blood
Sometimes think that If everybody
concerned with prices and values and
dollars and buying and selling would get
together and agree to forget three
fourths Of the words they know and
daily use in connection with these very
human things and actions, the o,ealleo
depression would solve 1tSen, II not
overnight, then shortly.
"If everybody with something to sell
wants everybody else to buy it, then
the only way possible is to give every
body else enough money to do just that
"The only sure metrpd, as worked
out during our so-called prosperity Gil
that is the sort of thing he want, and
all the talk seems to pol that way)
is to see to it that peopla Jhave enough
money to buy.
"They will buy If they have the
money.
"You should have seen them the other
day in that busy store.
"It was an adventure with all OF
them.
Their eyes glistened
Here was a modern frontier, the last
stand of human interest amid a dull
and sometimes depressing life.
1.-The real depression, often think
is that of the human spirit, not that OF
buying power.
"But dollars play their part, without
doubt, in bringing about an elatior
Of the human spirit.
''I am one Of those who does not be-
lieve that money Is as filthy as 1t has
been pictured.
"I never see anybody refuse any.
"They will buy, if they have the
money.
Therefore, the thing to do is to SET
to it that they have the money.
'I can hear the economists leap into
the breach with great outlaws o.
learned laughter.
"'Thats the same 7 can hear then
roar, as saying that If there were nc
depression there would be no depres-
sion.'
perhaps; no doubt they are the peo.
pie, and wisdom will die with them.
But out of the mouth of igno.
thought which in time would wrecl
many q classical textbook.
, Fifteen years ago, If you had tolt
any manufacturer of safety razors tina
the real money in their production
would come from selling the blades
he would have laughed at you, too.
What Practically give away wei
made razors just so you could sci
bladesl
Several enterprising manufacturers
, however, did just that. with the result
| that millions of blades were sold wher'
one was sold before.
n * *k
Something of the same thing nigh
, be tried in life at large.
: "If a forced system Of hiring mel
was put into effect, If for no othel
reason than to give them money to bu.
, things with, it might result in an as
founding return of our old-tine pros
!, perity.
IF they all had enough, they woult
not be afraid, and they would bu.
, everything, from houses to goldfish.
Because, do you know what the.
, were buying heavily that noontide, a
) I rambled through that big store?
"Goldfishes and tropical fishes!
Little bits of life, flashing jewels o
oceans and ponds and streams, to b
, carried home as surprises for some one
Man loves to spend and he vii
spend, If somehow he has the none.
I to spend. It might be worth the Will
r of the master minds, in their wisdom
5 to see to it that the rank and file hav
7 enough, not only for their needs bu
for their simple pleasures and delight
as we'll"
Evening star., 1932-11-23
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Unrest.
There is no such thing as idleness
In sky. on land, or sea.
Even the distant stars must press
Or through eternity.
And human hope will still compel
This mortal strength and skill
To toll, II not for what is well,
Perhaps for what Is Ill.
Evening star., 1932-11-23

Psychoanalysis is called in to explain
another morbid murder, thus associat-
ing crime with intensified mental i'm
pulse rather than with impudent selfish
brutality, which can be handled by any
average jury without the aid of a newly
inflated issue of polysyllables.
Evening star., 1932-11-23

When a campaign is over, everybody
is supposed to sing "Oh, He's Jolly
Good Fellow" although on some occa-
sions the recipient Of the compliment
can scarcely fail to feel that one or two
of the vocalists are thinking of the
music and not of the words.
Evening star., 1932-11-23

A November touch of Winter is re-
minder of what is to come and of the
need of providing against distress before
it happens instead of delaying until it
may be too late.
Evening star., 1932-11-23

A Communist has never yet been a
real menace in this country. So far
he has been one Of those irritating
social specimens who insist on going
where they are net wanted and on try
ing to monopolize the occasion.
Evening star., 1932-11-23
And Goes After Business.

From the Springfield (Mass.) Union.
A girl may wear golf outfit when
she can't play golf, and a bathing suit
when she can't swim, but when she
puts on a wedding gown she means
business,
Evening star., 1932-11-23

Unlimited power is offered by Hin
denburg to Hitler, provided he will agree
to certain restrictions. Subtlety of dis
tinction has always been basis of most
European political philosophy.
Evening star., 1932-11-23

From the Oklahoma City Daily oklahoman.
Almost any American audience now
sleeps through a discussion Of the fl
nancial situation, but cheers wildly
when beer is mentioned. They actually
know what the speaker is talking about
when he mentions beer.
Evening star., 1932-11-23

Fame Is peculiar and the spotlight has
a method of its own. Smith is the
name most frequently found In every
census. Yet when it is mentioned now
"Al" is always understood.
Evening star., 1932-11-23
Judges Nav Be Married.

From the Cleveland News.
Faith in judicial power was well ex-
emplified In that Seattle order that two
mothers-in-law shouldn't even tele-
phone their ehtldxe1
Evening star., 1932-11-23

If a debtor declines to pay, the debt
stiu stands. The debtor should at least
apologize and not assume an authori-
tative manner.
Evening star., 1932-11-23
But They Did Stop.

From the Cleveland News.
Firemen of Monroe, Mich, who drove
their engine into the side of a speeding
freight train can logically claim that
they stop for nothing.
Evening star., 1932-11-23
Bad as Old "l3."

From the San Antonio Express.
"Firewood fight on farm fatal to
father of nine"-"Father of nine chill
6ren arrested in Boston for sending
threatening letter =. :" There's some
thing in numbers
Evening star., 1932-11-23
If Not. Suppose He Was.

From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Man who has just returned to q
Cambridge, Mass, library book he had
out for 38 years is evidently what you
might call a careful reader.
Evening star., 1932-11-23
The Disturbing Spotlight.

When statesmen shout in accents loud
Before large expectant crowd
They make the talk red hot, because
They yearn for gallery applause.
But when in private they compare
Their notes, they often get somewhere
And find these problems so immense
Best solved without an audience.
Evening star., 1932-11-23

Experienced dnanciers agree that a
short upward step in the stock market is
more desirable than a sudden bound
which overstimulates the imagination.
Evening star., 1932-11-23
Wilderness of Voices.

From the Lowell Evening Leader.
In these days of radio broadcasting
even a voice crying in the wilderness
does not lack an audience.
Evening star., 1932-11-23

Japan desires more time to discuss
Manchurian policies. Diplomacy is cog
nizant of the conversational as well as
the financial moratorium.
Evening star., 1932-11-23
Lowell's Out of 1t, Though.

From the Hamilton (ohio) Evening Journal.
One relative Of Henry Cabot Lodge
is running for Office and another for a
Job in the movies. We rather gathered
from the news reels, that some were
cumming for both. ,-t.--.-.-.
Evening star., 1932-11-23

Trotsky keeps writing, although his
industry should have made his theories
understood many years ago.
Evening star., 1932-11-23

Nobody knows what to expect If
marchers come to the National Capital.
The marchers themselves do not know.
Evening star., 1932-11-23

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Evening star., 1932-11-23
Concerning Beer.

We've studied till our heads feel queel
Concerning bee
And when its here
Will it bring simple, hearty cheer,
Or headaches even more severe?