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Evening star., 1932-11-09
Congressional Casualties.

Yesterdays landslide will make many
changes in the personnel of Govern
ment in Washington. 1t will not only
bring new faces into the administra-
tive picture, but it will materially alter
the aspect Of things in Congress. IN
the upper branch such landmarks as
Senator Smoot, Senator Watson, Sen
ator Jones and Senator Moses will have
disappeared when the newly elected
Congress assemblies. The casualty list
is long and impressive for the surprises
which have occurred. One change
will be merely a shift Of scene as Mr..
Garner passes from the Speakership to
the Vice Presidency, involving an ex-
change Of gavels 30 far as official duties
are concerned. There may be other
shifts in case the new President draws
upon the Congress personnel In his
cabinet making.
Washington has seen these changes
before. Many a stout tree has been
swept away by q political avalanche.
Figures apparently established for life
in the congressional ranks have been
sacrificed In revolutions. There Is no
insurance against such casualties. New
men come to replace those who are
denied reelection, establish themselves
perhaps In seemingly assured perma-
nent favor, only in time to suffer IN
turn from revulsions in sentiment IN
their States and pass into history with
their predecessors. It is the tragedy
Of political careers dependent upon
public favor.
Evening star., 1932-11-09
Election News.

Last evening the news room of The
Star presented a scene which for dra-
matte values might well have satisfied
the instincts Of movie director. A
visitor, beholding the busy confusion
as, election returns came In, surely
would have responded to the excitement
Of the scene. A great event was taking
place, and its historians were at work.
The pulse of the Nation throbbed In
the building. Perhaps, just because 1t
was reasonably exceptional, the picture
was worth seeing.
The Star endeavored to serve its
readers in numerous different ways. It
gave them bulletins on screens In Penn
sylvania avenue. It used the radio to
provide running story Of the i'm
mediate outcome of the long campaign.
It issued three extras. 1t answered thou
sands Of inquiries Science in all its mani
fold aspects was enlisted in the work, and
trained experts In each separate field
were organized toward its success. The
Star takes pride in the belief that it
functioned effectively in the circum-
stances. With the ideal Of public
service as its motive, it gave Of its
best, and the performance was measur-
ably commensurate with the effort.
The philosopher might find in the
arrangements perfected In advance by
The Star executives a lesson in prac-
tical democracy. In the news room
throughout the night were men and
women Of every political faith, repre-
uentin9 diverse schools Of thought and
Evening star., 1932-11-09
The Mckee Protest Vote.

Although Acting Mayor Mckee OF
Greater New York specifically told his
admirers that he was not . candidate
for the Office to which Surrogate
O'Brien had been named when Jimmy
Walker did not choose to run, many
thousands Of the voters yesterday wrote
his name on the ballot. It may never
be known how many did thus seek to
register their dissent from the Tam
many organization methods. For writ
ing In the name Of candidate is din
cult in any circumstances, and Is particu-
larly hard to do in the case Of voting ma
chimes such as are used now through
out New York City. It is especially
hard when the voters are not thor
oughly acquainted with the exact name
Of the man for whom they wish to
cast a ballot Of protest. To write q
name on a ballot in voting machine
requires the lifting Of particular slide
in a particular way and using q par
ticular kind Of pencil and, Of course,
writing i exactly. But yesterday Mr..
Evening star., 1932-11-09
Herbert Hoover in Defeat.

| When President Hoover failed of re-
election yesterday he entered upon q
new phase of his career. From the
moment when he conceded his defeat
he began to grow in the public esteem
and affection. Gov. Roosevelt, 1t was
seen, was victorious not because OF
great personal popularity but rather be-
cause Of the fact that around his
candidacy it was possible to rally all
the major forces of discomfort. The
vote for Mr.. Hoover, on the other hand,
was discerned to be an Endorsement Of
the man himself. Let there be no mis-
take: Thousands who have little regard
for the Republican party in the days
of its decline supported the Presidents
claims because Of conviction Of his
ability, his sincerity and his devotion.
The people as whole rejected his
leadership and gambled on the promises
of his rival, but very large and I'M
portant section of the electorate ex-
pressed appreciation of his labors and
purposes. The vote for Mr.. Roosevelt
was not entirely vote Of confidence,
but the vote for Mr.. Hoover was a
personal tribute.
The Republican party has been de-
feated. But Mr.. Hoover emerges from
the debacle measurably unchanged.
The grace with which he signified to
Mr.. Roosevelt his desire to help was
but a minor manifestation Of his gen.
erous character and noble cooperative
spirit. As time passes the extravagant
criticism heaped upon his name in the
interests of partisanism will be forgot
ten, and Mr.. Hoover will be more ac-
curately judged. Then it will be clear
that, called to the presidency at mo-
ment when no one man humanity could
have given universal satisfaction, he
served the country as well and as ef-
fectively as any man, however gifted,
could. The natural ebbing Of the tide
of resentment will leave him on the
eminence Of authentic achievement
which properly is his.
Meanwhile Mr.. Hoover must know
that as millions Of his countrymen
honored and respected him during his
tenure of the White House, so will
millions hold him in high regard when
he returns to private life. But If his
political experience should prove to be
terminated, as. Of course, 1t may be by
Mr.. Hoover's own deliberate choice, his
usefulness in other vastly important
fields Of endeavor IS too valuable an
asset in this troubled world to be neg
lected or ignored. In one way or an
other, he will find place for the exer-
else Of the genius which, In the present
hour as In the happier past. enlisted
the admiration Of all who came within
the circle Of his acquaintance and in
fluence.
Evening star., 1932-11-09
Chief Browns Chance to
Enforce Regulations

10 the EDITOR OF Inc star.
am glad to see that the new chief
OF police is taking practical interest
| in his business, instead Of going around
making speeches. If he can also per-
suade his men that 1t is to their even
tual profit to make an honest endeavor
to enforce the laws and regulations, he
| will be respected. even If not loved, by
all, and the District greatly profit.
Truly. an auto is nuisance drag
ging along in front of a street car,
but the street car is continually the
much greater nuisance in its stopping
to take on passengers when the traffic
light Is green. 1t Is really the street
cars which delay traffic not autos If
their business operations of taking on
and discharging passengers were con-
fined to periods when the traffic lights
forbid advance, traffic might be speeded
and passengers safety be better as
sured, as surrounding traffic would be
stationary by signal instead of by per-
sonal choice, which does not always
choose to stop as required.
The chief might attend particularly
to that class Of road hog which oc-
cupies two lanes of traffic by straddling
one car rail. He Is the space killer.
In many places. like G near Eleventh,
where merchants are allowed to use
the road as far out rs the track by
parking oversize vehicles or parking
double. the track Is the only passageway
for autos. Again, on E between Thir-
teenth and Fourteenth, double parking
is allowed, making six-lane one-way
street two lane street (of which one
lane Is used by an against traffic"
street car service) especially when the
National Theater Is in use. This street,
1rr1,t ftn 4f t1n DC
Sioners, Is probably the worst managed
square. except from a theoretical traf-
fic engineers point of view. in the city.
Traffic would be greatly helped If the
police assigned to intersections did not
encourage the passage Of traffic in
one direction so long as to block the
crossing at the end of the interval
Also, If they changed traffic direc-
ton with sufficient frequency to pre-
vent it from backing up across the next
intersection In a cross direction. I real
ly think If more of the lights were
installed, so that continuous traffic con-
troll obtained, especially at crossings
like Fourteenth and Constitution ave-
nue., instead Of the intermittent atten-
ton of police, they being frequently not
present when most needed. traffic con-
ditions would be better at such loca-
tions Also if the police and street
car employees were stopped from nanip-
ulating the signals put in at District
expense. Regularity and frequency Of
the changes in signals is a great help
in moving traffic and, moreover, con-
duces to lesson accidents. Under ma
nipulation, signals are sometimes SO
long set for one direction that pedes-
trians start across under the impression
that they are not working, only to
find that 1t is the pleasure Of one man
who desires to accommodate some street
car which is not ready to proceed
! around the corner because 1t is still
taking on passengers, traffic mean
while being held up in all directions.
w. E. ALLEN.
Evening star., 1932-11-09
Cost of Battleship Would
Solve Parking Problem
To the Editor Of The Star:

TO the Ed1tor OF The Star:
This to Join the universal condemns
ton Of al-night parking. But con-
demnation solves nothing. The auto
mobile has come to 60; the face Of
America has been hard surfaced that
it may the more readily 60. That 1t
does not 60 but instead parks-not
alone at night. but at all-in urban
lanes of travel is an anachronism. A
vehicle Of universal service, Govern
ment, serving all men, should make its
maintenance so little expensive that all
may benefit by the automobile and the
arteries which 1t travels. The for
gotten man-even laborers and do
mestics-forming as they do the mass
of the people, are those whom Govern
ment should serve most in that they
are least able to serve themselves. To
tax them $50 and upward, however,
indirectly for yearly garage rent Is gov
ernmental negligence. More and more
they are adopting criminal careers be-
cause they do not have sufficient to keep
body and soul together, much less to
pay garage rent for a ramshakle auto
mobile. It is no answer to say they
have no business to own an auto. The
conceit that allocates to ones self a
Rolls while 1t denies to another a used
Ford Is monumental. Their humanity
forts. Automotive progress from whose
creature comforts they are excluded Is
to them no progress at all Indeed
such exclusion butts swells the rolls Of
Communism.
City planning has not kept apace
with the development Of the automo-
bile, or the growth of the average mans
desire to have q little more of life's
comforts and joys and q little less Of
it, personally fruitless work. Long ago
residential city blocks should have been
channeled with right-angled alleys "a
to so feet wide. All parking should
have been compulsory therein. The
arteries Of travel should not have been
subject to obstruction by vehicles ex-
cept for such periods Of time as might
be required to deliver passenger or
parcel All owner-chauffeur cars,
physicians included, should have been
compelled to park in these alleys. Con-
parking largely controls itself. The
high board back fences, mostly dilapi-
dated. and the useless back yards
mostly unsightly, should have made
room for these alleys. Those able and
willing to do 50 could have continued to
patronize private and public garages
That Government has not supplied the
citizen with land upon which he may
park free but indicates that Govern
ment has lost another opportunity to
make the citizen more happy and more
loyal. Moreover. am told the citizen
in the aggregate is the Government.
What his spokesmen should then have
done they should now do. Expensive?
To be sure. but much less SO than
political grafters and military lcoters
The cost Of a single battleship would
settle the parking problem in much of
Washington forever
VIM. II. WILSON.
Evening star., 1932-11-09
How Can the Garage
Owner Pay His Taxes ::
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star
On or about May "a, 1882, It was
printed in your paper that the police
department was to make survey of
the garages and vacant lots in Wash
ington for the purpose OF ascertaining
if there were enough spaces to care for
the cars in the streets, so night parking
might be eliminated. It has been quite
a long time since then and the writer
is wondering why this survey has never
been made.
What a beautiful city we have here.
only to be ruined by not being able
even to see the sidewalks day or night
for the autos parked in the roadways.
What a disgrace to the Capital Of the
United States of America.
If the District Government is going
to continue to take the living away
from garage owners by allowing the
Streets to be used for garages, how can
a garage owner even pay his taxes?
VIM. G. BLUNDON.
Evening star., 1932-11-09
The downtown bird usually k Z

The downtown bird usually b .
sparrow.
No more pathetic sight is presented
to the nature lover than one Of these
lone birds, as 1t attempts to wrest a
living from concrete.
Its feathers are Of poor color, its legs
emaciated and its body painfully thin.
It Is the neck, however, which shows
bird Ill health. Here one sees what
happens to city birds nowadays. The
neck Is scrawny, In a way that no
artist would paint. No photographer
would take picture of a bird in such
state. It would not be artistic"
The other day a downtown sparrow
Of this description fluttered from the
caves Of q building on busy E street,
right in the height Of traffic.
Our modern birds have learned how
to take care of themselves. This ema-
ciated sparrow did not risk the center
Of the street, where there was no food,
but spied something that appealed to
him under an automobile.
49, ~
It was q discarded banana skin,
grimy with dirt.
The little fellow hoped along the
street beneath the rear wheels OF the
parked car, and fell upon the inside Of
the skin with an aWdity born Of true
hunger
Evidently the provender was not ex-
actly to his liking. for after few pecks
he flew away again. perching once more
on the overhang Of four-story
building.
Surely the discarded skin was not an
appetizing looking sight from q human
standpoint. Perhaps 1t was cleaner in
side than 1t looked
At any rate, the small sparrow few
down again, hoped again beneath the
wheels, and once more pecked away at
the inside OF the banana covering.
The last we saw Of him, he was still
at it.
1t is case with these little beggars
OF eating such stuff or starving.
Or OF starving anyway
Few persons who love the birds ever
stop to think Of how little there is for
them to eat any more on our downtown
streets.
When their food supply is compared
with the plentiful larders of the subur-
ban areas, where many birds live high
all Winter, one stops to wonder how
they ever exist at all
And especially why they stay.
~
Perhaps sparrows being essentially
town birds, prefer the meager living Of
the city streets to the more plentiful
fare of the outlying sections.
Maybe 1t Is warmer in the city.
These birds have an uncanny knack
OF finding whatever there is to eat In a
difficult situation.
As one waits for bus at a downtown
corner one is able to see them, at times,
picking up scraps of food where appar-
emily none exists.
Closer scrutiny will reveal that stray
bits Of chaff are what the birds are
after. The average street is trodden by
tens Of thousands of human beings
every day, and it Is safe bet that at
least one out of every 10 of them is
eating something or other.
Bits of bread, candy and other food
stuffs find their way to the sidewalks,
and ultimately into the bills Of our
downtown birds.
This haphaZard food supply however,
seems to be entirely inadequate to the
needs of the sparrow population in the
business sections.
Some may say, Of course, that the
sooner the sparrows are eliminated from
the American scene the better for
America.
They are not naturally American
birds; undoubtedly their habits are not
all that could be wished.
Evening star., 1932-11-09
SHOOTING STARS.
DY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.

General Desire.
II think I'd like to 60 to work"
Said Hezekiah Bings.
I'm tired Of epithets that lurk
Where oratory rings.
I'm tired Of theories 50 old,
And others new and strange:
I'm tired Of hearing people scold.
I really need q change.
How often have I homeward turned
In weary discomfort,
With nothing Of importance learned
Through hours Of argument.
Since we have gotten through the murk
That long campaigning brings,
I think I'd like to 60 to work."
Said Hezekiah Bings.
Evening star., 1932-11-09
BOYS Should Be Sure to
See the Constitution
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
II any boys In washington who love
ships-and what boy does not-are 60
ing, to let the frigate Constitution get
away without their having seen 1t they
are making the mistake Of their lives.
It costs nothing but the carfare to the
Navy Yard, though if one especially
wants to remember the sailing terml-
nology the dimensions, dates, ETC.. .
pamphlet may be bought for IS cents. +.
spent thrilling hour and half
On the ship Saturday. It wasWMth o
dozen movies. ELIZABETH A HYDE.
Evening star., 1932-11-09

Nine o'clock was an early hour fol
John NJ. Garner to retire, regardless OF
whether the news was all in or not
There is such a thing as sleeping with
one eye open and when there was listen
ing to be done nobody could keep both
ears pil!owed without risk of smotherinR
Evening star., 1932-11-09

One subject for congratulations was
the ease with which Communists who
United States Capitol, were persuaded to
keep respectfully quiet at the polls
Evening star., 1932-11-09

Women In public affairs are demon
strated success. Many Of them have
taken an active part in the campaign
without making it appear in the least
like tea party.
Evening star., 1932-11-09

There was at least enough considera-
tion shown in the radio talk to send
word that the election was q fine party
and that many kind friends wished the
D. G. could be q participant.
Evening star., 1932-11-09
Safe Speechmaking.

Safe Speechmaking.
Did you lose your voice while you
were making speeches?"
NO." replied Senator Sorghum. Il
applied my new system Of speechmak-
ing. First let the chairman Of the
Reception Committee take all the time
he wanted to introduce me. Then
after every two or three sentences I'd
mention the name Of our candidate
and let the audience consume most OF
the time in cheering"
Evening star., 1932-11-09

Even the famous comedy teams felt
the propriety Of retiring from the pro-
grams while the famous duo "Al and
Frank" were demonstrating.
Evening star., 1932-11-09

There may be comfort to Henry Ford
in the fact that his neglect to register
as a voter did not make any particular
difference In the result.
Evening star., 1932-11-09

It rests with the radio audience
whether it will go back to the crooners
or demand a continuance Of the lee
lures on economics.
Evening star., 1932-11-09
proposed. Glass A business opportuni-
ties will not be lacking.

Ties VIII not Dc lacking.
what mainly brought about the COL
lapse of the Hoover candidacy?" this
observer was asked by q broadcasting
studio spectator as the Roosevelt land
slide gained momentum. WELL" was
the reply, "for one thing the President
had no Charles Evans Hughes and VIII
liam E. Borah pleading his cause this
time" Mr.. Hoover had the backing
of Calvin Coolidge, but the Vermonter's 5
prestige was hardly Q match for the
missionary eloquence of Hughes and
Borah. From speaking standpoint,
the late Democratic campaign was miles
ahead Of the Republican effort. And
that can also be said, double-dyed, as
to the management Of the campaign by
the respective National Committees"
Evening star., 1932-11-09

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is already
being saluted as the first lady Of the
landslide.
Evening star., 1932-11-09

Communists, though processing be-
nevolent ideas for toiling humanity, have
no mercy at all on the overworked police.
Evening star., 1932-11-09

In a few days it will be possible to
turn from the big figures Of campaign
calculations to those Of finance.
Evening star., 1932-11-09

It now appears that betting odds
should have been very much more lib
eral than six to one
Evening star., 1932-11-09
Embarrassment of Riches.

Embarrassment Of Riche0
Didn't you even bet a hat on the
election?"
with the odds ten to one? Sup
posing I were to win, what would
do with ten hats?"
Evening star., 1932-11-09

When Really Needed.
When frigid grows November's cline,
She'll shiver and she'll pout.
She donned her furs in Summer time
And now they're all worn out.
Evening star., 1932-11-09
NOrmalcy.

Normalcy.
No sidewalk orator we see
Proclaiming fear or hope.
The soap box after this may be
Employed in shipping soap.
Evening star., 1932-11-09
Sweet CredHlity.

did that gypsy tell your fortune?"
"Yes," said the girl. "She said I
would marry a handsome, wealthy man,
and that I have a lovely disposition,
and that could have an artistic career
If I chose, and that my only enemies
are those who are envious of me. Isn't
It wonderful how these gypsies get all
these absolute facts about q person they
never met before!"
Evening star., 1932-11-09

The Old Question.
did the liquor question figure In
the campaign out your way?"
Not as much as it used TO-" an
swered Uncle Bill Bottletop. when
candidate was allowed to treat"
Evening star., 1932-11-09

opportunity" said Jud Tunkins.
knocks at every mans door. but some
men wait for him to take club to
them"
Evening star., 1932-11-09

Q. How many geese must b saucked
to get enough feathers for . pillow Of
average size?-J. l.
A. A pillow 22x3o inches weighs
pounds Of feathers.
Evening star., 1932-11-09
THEODORE ". MOVES. Editor
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-19
ROTARIANS WILL
HEAR TALKS BY
MURRAY, MILLS
Alfalfa Bill and Treasury
Head Are on District
Farley Program.

A program featured by several
nationally famous speakers has been
arranged for the eighteenth annual
district conference of Rotary In
ternational here Monday ana Tues
day at the Claypool.
Among the prominent speakers
scheduled are William H. (Alfalfa
BilD Murray, Oklahoma Governor
and presidential candidate: ogden
L. Mills, United States treasury Sec
-retary, and cambridge Colby, secre-
tary Of state under Woodrow Wilson.
Approximately 1900 of the 3.4OO
Indiana Rotarians are expected to
visit Indianapolis for the conven-
ton. Many of the visitors will be
accompanied by their wives. for
whom an interesting program has
been arranged.
Bridge Expert to Talk
Speakers of interest to the women
VIII include Mrs. Leila Hatterslev
bridge expert, Miss Elizabeth Pen
rose, Vague magazine fashion con-
nolsseur. and Mrs. Kathryn Turney
Garten, indianapolis book reviewer
A spirited battle for the district
governorship is assured with three
candidates already in the field to
succeed the present governor. DR..
john H. Beeson, Charlottesville.
The avowed candidates are Oscar
Cravens, Bloomington; Carl Bimel
Portland, and the Rev. j. S. E. NC
Michael, Connersville.
Formal nominations for the pow
ernorship will be made Monday aft
efnoon, the balloting set for 8 to 10
a. m. Tuesday, results of the cleo
tlon being announced later in the
morning.
Bowling on Program
The district bowling tournament
Monday will be the featured SNORT
event of the conference. II will
START at 9 a. m. All Rotarians will
nave free and exclusive access to the
quoltS, bowling, billiard and other