Evening star., 1932-11-21

advantage and (2) because of the de-
STABILITY of a friendly Russia In case
of an American-Japanese conflict over
Manchuria.
Nobody who wants to be intelligently
posted about the topic of the hour
war debts-can afford not to dig into
the up-to-the- minute book on the sub
ject, War Debts and Prosperity" just
off the press of the Institute of Eco
nomics of the Brookings Institution at
Washington. The authors are Harold
G.. Moulton, president of Brookings,
and one of his brilliant young research
coadjutors, Leo Pasvolsky. The volume
is an objective, analytical history and
study Of the debts problem from its in
ception to the Autumn of 1892. Every
conceivable phase of it, from both the
American and European standpoints, is
treated in a wealth of detailed facts
and figures. There ought to be an act
OF Congress requiring each member of
the House and Senate to read and in
wardly digest every page of the Moul-
ton-Pasvolsky opus. Perhaps Capitol
Hill has already moved in that direc-
ton. In any event, the first edition Of
the book is exhausted
X 4
Norman Thomas, late Socialist can
dldate for President, supplies this OBJ
server with the following explanation of
his failure to roll up more than a bare
600, 900 votes, despite confident Socialist
claims that he'd have anything from
100000 up:
THE entire protest vote went to
Roosevelt, carrying with it the votes of
many who are convinced that Socialism
is the only ultimate cure for the in
creasing chaos of capitalism. Out OF
blind hate of Hoover and fear for l. i,
immediate future, America voted for
Roosevelt in SuperstitiouS hope nat
he might change the luck. incidentally,
l never estimated the Socialist vote; the
large estimates were made by nom
Socialist experts. More important than
the total Is the fact that our campaign
goes on with gratifying enthusiasm for
better organization against the sales tax
and the Nationwide campaign of wage
cutting and for more adequate unem-
ployment relief, as well as the initiation
of Federal program for decent housing
of the one-third of our population who
now live in substandard quarters"
X X
Many Democratic senatorial leaders
believe that as long as the party so
soon Is to inherit Senate control any
how, it might as well be brought about
at the impending lame-duck session, if
possible. 1t would require, of course,
Republican progressive cooperation to
do that, as the count will be 48 Re-
publcans, Al Democrats-and Senator
Shipstead. The trick could be accom-
plished, a certain shrewd Democratic
tactician suggests, by just having Sen
ator Norris and few other sympa-
thetic Westerners remain at home with
bad colds for couple of days.
4 X 4
In the Roosevelt cabinet guessing
contest the name of not widely known
Democrat appears as a possible Secre-
tary of Agriculture. He is Judge Robert
S. Marx of Cincinnati. Severely
wounded in France and awarded the
DISTINGUISHED Service Cross for gal
lantry in action, Marx became one OF
the founders and was the first national
commander OF the Disabled American
Veterans of the World War. When
Gov. Roosevelt was candidate for the
vice presidency in 1920 Judge Marx
toured the country with him, and was
with him again this year. After the
war Marx was elected to occupy the
seat on the Ohio Superior Court bench
once filled by William Howard Taft.
He is an authority ON cooperative farm
marketing.
(Copyrisht 1897