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Evening star., 1932-05-08

chance to get the Democratic nomina-
ton as any other, and Mr.. Baker, as
director of the Baltimore g. Ohio Rail-
read and of the Cleveland Trust Co., Is
no radical. Liberal-minded, yes; but
radical, no.
The only one of the Democratic pos
sibilities who has incurred any faintest
charge of having gently radical leanings,
Or impulses. is Roosevelt. 1t Is true.
Roosevelt has some disturbingly radical
associations. He has allowed some
pretty extreme radicals to gravitate into
the intimate neighborhood of himself.
But if Roosevelt is really radical,
what is the radical thing he has done
while Governor of New York? Some
national Democratic leaders, including
eX-Gov Smith, have grave misgivings
about certain qualities of Roosevelt's
personality. but those qualities do not
comprise radicalism.
If neither the Democratic party nor
the Republican is going to be radical,
how then can we have this predicted
earth-rocking struggle between radical
and conservative?
For that matter, the Democrats don't
count on being radical, or even terribly
progressive, to win the election. They
count on the assumption that discon-
tent and distress has given the electo-
rate desire for change-any kind of
change.
The Democrats count on saying to
the crowd, Are you happy and con-
tented and prosperous and satisfied"
And they count on the crowd answering
with a deep roar, mol" Then they
count on asking. DO you want a
changer" And on the crowd to reply,
I'VE dol" And they count on the crowd
not inquiring much into the nature OF
the change that is proposed.
May Be Disappointed.
At that, they may be disappointed.
The American crowd has shown itself
for three years to be tolerant and pa
tient and astonishingly stable people
1t has held itself immune against the
rabble rousers. We have come through
this depression without giving any vio-
lent expression to our distress. There
has not been strike of any proper
tions.
The one thing that large groups of
people in this country demand, the one
national policy, is more money in circu-
lation. Throughout the West that Is
one of the two most conspicuous topics
of political conversation.
Now, provided we understand what
We mean by more money" there is
nothing radical in that. On the con-
trary, it is perfectly conservative.
More money" can be radical if the
wrong kind Of money is meant. But
more money" in the right sense is de-
sired by everybody.
1t is desired by President Hoover and
by Secretary of the Treasury Ogden
Mills and by Governor of the Federal
Reserve Board Eugene Meyer and by
Director Of the Reconstruction Finance
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FORCE IDEA ENCOURAGED
BY PRUSSIAN ELECTION
Old Notions of European Cooperation
and Reconstruction Doomed by Rise
of "Supreme Demagogue."

clear beyond challenge that for months
and perhaps for years all the old notions
of European cooperation and recon-
struction must be set aside. France and
her allies cannot and will not work with
Nazi Reich. The dream of Franco
German association now definitely
vanishes for long time.
Put in practical terms this means
that France and her allies will not
agree to any effective disarmament pro-
gram They will not cease to patrol
with their existing armies those
frontiers which the Hitler program
menaces. Nor will France agree on
the one hand to any final liquidation
of the reparations account or on the
other to any modification of the dis
armament conditions imposed upon
Germany by the treaty of Versailles.
Naturally the French perceive repara-
tions payments will not be resumed in
any present time, but they will insist
upon the preservation of the bond while
perforce resigning themselves to non
payment.
In the same fashion the whole pro-
gram of Danubian reconstruction must
be set aside In the face of the rising
tide of Hitlerism both in Germany and
III IlO 10 llhCly
to be embarked in the region which
now threatens to become a new battle
ground of French and German inter-
ests. The decay in Austria and Hungary
is thus certain to continue. And, of
course. in the same fashion, all French
financial aid to Germany will be with
held-and without French participation
no fresh British or American loans are
likely.
The French view of the German sit
uation, the view which was expressed
to me by Frenchmen of every con-
eeivable political opinion, is quite sim
pie. The whole French nation, looking
at the present German phenomenon,
interpret it as a demonstration of col
lective madness. They are aware that
none of the major objectives of the
Hitler program can be attained with
out war. They regard the arrival of
Hitler to power as the preface to a
period during which the danger of a
new conflict will be ever present.
In that situation the French policy
is clear 1t viii be policy of watch
full waiting accompanied by complete
detachment. The French will leave
Continued on Third Page)
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BY FRANK III. SIMONDS.

v VIEWED In the brief perspective
that two weeks give, it Is al
W ready clear that the PruSsian
election marked a date of future
historical significance. AS France
IS wears after Waterloo overthreW the
dynasty which had been imposed by
her conuuerors, Prussia-and Prussian
decision involves German-haS broken
with the system which was imposed
upon her by her defeat and decisively
separated herself from the men and
political parties who sought to create a
republican Germany and to work out
the problem of national reconstruction
In cooperation with the victors of 1918.
Stripped of all euphemistic DISCUSSES
the decision of the PruSsian election
places Europe and the rest of the world
on notice that a majority of the Ger
man people have rejected the republican
conceptions embodied in the Weimar
constitution and the political policies
expressed in the accords of Locarno. 1t
is true that the Hitlerites even when
supported by their present allies, the
old Nationalists and the fragments OF
Stresemann's party, do not yet con-
stitute majority. But they decisively
outnumber the Republican group, the
oOCldl DClllOCld d1oy bI1C SClbiC WIG
pathetic remnant of the old Democrats
II their accession to power turns on the
course OF the Communists for the mo-
ment, no one can now doubt their
eventual arrival in control of Prussia
and through Prussia of the Reich.
What has happened is clear. Pro-
gressively the German people have
come to believe, as consequence of
their economic and financial cataS-
trophe and their political impotence,
that the single avenue of escape was
discoverable In the prospectus of Hitler
and In a program of national restora-
ton by force rather than by reconcilia-
ton. The rise of Hitler has been con-
comitant with the march of despair.
Believing the existing order intolerable
and any change preferable, great peo-
pie have embarked upon a dangerous
adventure led by supreme demagogue.
The problem presented by this, per-
haps the greatest development since
the close of the war, Is many sided.
Certain details are clear, others must
remain for greater or shorter period
of time wholly obscure. 1t is, however,
Evening star., 1932-05-08
BY MARK SULLIVAN.

~ IREFUL prophecies to the con-
trary notwithstanding, it is
still possible we may all get
- through this Summer, DO
litically and In a business
way. without as much grief as the
Jobs have been predicting. They are
saying that, politically, we are in for
the grandest fight between conserva-
tives and radicals that ever was in
America; that, compared to the COM
ing Summer, the row over Bryan's pro-
poSal to make a fundamental change
in our currency in 1896 was just a
gentle zephyr of radicalism.
Let us look at that. To have
tug-of-war between radical and con-
servative, one of the two great parties
one is going to do 1t? Not the Re-
publicans, surely; nobody expects that
and it cannot be. Will the Demo-
Gratis, then, go radical? We might as
well answer at once that there, also,
the answer is no.
1t took a Bryan to make the Demo-
Gratis radical party in 1896. Il think
1t is fair to use the word radical" to
describe the position of the Democrats
in 1896; proposal, such as Bryan's,
to change the basis of our currency, is
surely radical II anything Isl
Where is the Bryan-to-be, the Bryan
of the coming Summer? If anybody
knows any gallant young man of Sc
with an incomparably magnetic per-
sonality, a magnificent voice, superb
gift of oratory, and with enough ex-
perience in politics to get himself made
a delegate to the Democratic conven-
tion, let us take look at him. If he
exists, produce him-gIve us his name.
If he exists at all, he must be among
the 1,154 delegates to the Democratic
most of whom have been
elected, and are very well known to
Democratic leaders.
Bryan Seasoned Young.
A Bryan can't be produced. nor pro-
duce himself, as an unknown who
leaps upon the stage and takes pos
session of the convention. dictates the
platform and nominates himself for
President. That is too dramatic. too
melodramatic, to happen 1t never has
happened. 1t did not happen in
Bryan's case. Popular tradition says
1t did. but popular tradition Is quite
wrong.
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France to Exhibit u. S.
Documents on NOrmans

ROUEN, France.-Ancient American
and Canadian documents, showing the
role played by Norman pioneers, ex-
plorers and navigators in the develop
ment Of the new world, will be brought
to Rouen for the retrospective exposi-
tion to be held here from July l to
July IS.
The purpose of the exposition is to
reveal the exploring and colonizing
genius of Normandy, by means Of aged
maps, navigation instruments, letters,
reports, portraits. etc. Both Que
bee and New Orleans, both settled hv
the French, will have place OF honor
at the exposition.
The Alliance Francaise'' in the
United States and Canada has been
asked to aid in the search for Nor
man documents existing there.
1t Is known that Norman soldiers
were present at the surrender Of York
town and Warrington Dawson, special
attache Of the American embassy in
Paris, who is specialist on the sub
ject is helping the Rouen museum
authorities to find documents and
mementos Of Rochambeau's comrades
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economic position of the rural popula-
ton, are entitled to an accounting 1t
is reasonable and natural to ask, Has
the expenditure been worth while? Has
it helped the farmers? Is the Farm
Board of any value? Should its work
be continued"
I think there is probably more real
interest in the solicitude for the farmer
than ever before. There is understand
ing now, in the cities, of what ECO
nomic depression" entails, whereas for
years in the past only the rural sections
knew the real meaning Of those words.
And, too, with the growing restriction
of foreign markets for our manufac-
Evening star., 1932-05-08

tured goods, it becomes more and more
apparent to every one that a way must
be found to increase the purchasing
power of the tens of millions of people
on our farms and in our small towns
1t seems to me, to other members of
the Federal Farm Board and to many
others that that is the biggest problem
of America today-to restore an eco
nomic balance between country and city,
so that the farmer steadily will receive
enough from his products to enable
him to buy the products of the cities in
sufficient volume TO Danish industrial
unemployment.
Our industries are highly organized
Evening star., 1932-05-08
GERMANS ASK TOO MUCH
is CHAMBERLAIN'S STAND
British Leader Unable to See Limit in
Demands, but Agrees ON Treaty
Change Needs.

Note-Sir Austen Chamberlain
continues here his. friendly contro-
versy with DR.. Julius Curtius, former
foreign minister of Germany, re-
garding revision of reparations and
other German obligations.
Evening star., 1932-05-08

and centralized, and will remain SO.
The heart OF the problem is to bring
similar organization to agriculture, so
that farm and city may bargain on
equal terms and bring about balanc-
ing of supply and demand
Perhaps that principle can be made
easily apparent by citing a condition
that actually exists.
-Four or five men, representing the
few great tobacco manufacturing COM
panies of the Nation, concentrate the
buying power of hundreds of millions
of dollars invested in factories and
equipment. In those few buyers thou
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Evening star., 1932-05-08
RADICAL-CONSERVATIVE
ELECTIONFICHT UNLIKELY
Second Bryan Declared Needed to Raise
Issue and He Doesn't Appeal
i'm Democratic Ranks.

Bryan, even though only 36. was a
seasoned politician. He had served
in Congress. He and his purpose we're
perfectly well known to most of the
Democratic leaders That "CroSs-of-
Gold" speech he made, supposed to be
the greatest example of spontaneous
oratory ever delivered in America, had
actually been delivered by Bryan hun
dreds of times before, in little school
house meetings up and down the Mis-
souri, Valley.
There isn't going to be any Bryan in
the Democratic convention that meets
in Chicago next month; or, if there is
one, he can't emerge. Senator Huey
Long of Louisiana shows some signs Of
contemplating a 1882 performance OF
Bryan, but he has advertised himself
too much in advance, and too unfavor-
ably.
Gov. Alfalfa" Bill Murray expected
to do the Bryan thing; one suspects
that the Oklahoma Governors whole
program, beginning some months ago,
was rather carefully patterned after
Bryan; but Gov. Bill has been reduced
to a minor character through the de-
cisive rejection of him by practically
all the West excepting his own State
The Western Democracy, rejecting
Murray, has said emphatically that Gov.
Roosevelt of New York suits them, is
radical enough for them. Does that
mean either that the Western Democ-
raey is radical or that Roosevelt Is rad
ical? Hardy. True, ex-Gov. Smith has
said that Roosevelt has committed acts
of "demagogy."
But being "demagogic"-and espe-
cially being demagogic on sporadic and
expedient occasions-is not being radi-
cal If we are going to make "dema-
gogic" equivalent to radical" then we
should be obliged to say that some of
the most hard-shelled old conserva-
tives in both parties are radical. A good
many of them, from time TO time, dem
agogue"-in Congress the word has
ccme to be used as verb
One of Half Dozen.
The sum of which is that the Demo-
cratic nominee for the presidency is
going to be one out of not more than
half a dozen men-and to say half
dozen Is to make the list pretty elastic.
No one of them, no one of the men who
have the faintest chance to get the
Democratic nomination, can be accu-
rately described as q radical.
Newton ID Baker has today as good q
Evening star., 1932-05-08

lShment OF Cle FtutIdI FaTm BOard.
To defend membership on the board
is no part of my task, or that of other
members, but we do defend its acts
and believe they have been construc-
lively helpful to agriculture. The citi-
zens of the Nation, who, through their
Federal tax contributions, have given
the board $500,0oo.0O0 to improve the
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FILIPINOS HELD DOOMED
If FREEDOM is GRANTED
Bloody Chaos, Foreseen by r. L. Bacon.
Blames Sugar Interests for Plan to
Destroy U. S. Control.
BY ROBERT L. BACON,

Member of the House of Representatives,
Former Member of the Insular Affairs
Committee.
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BY JAMES C. STONE.

AS Told to o. H. Brinkman.
4 T a time when millions of farm
Y ers in various parts of the coun-
"A try are entering the fields to
a make a new crop, demands are
voiced at Washington for abol-
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v VIEWED in the brief perspective
that two weeks give, it is al
" ready clear that the Prussian
election marked a date of future
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Continued on Third Page.)
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- IREFUL prophecies to the con-
trary Notwithstanding, it is
still possible we may all get
. through this Summer, po-
L..
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CONTINUED on Third Page.)
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Figurines as PRAYERS,

Visitors to Mexico frequently return
with number Of figurines of a more
or less interesting character. 1t is
claimed that these are of Column
bian origin and they probably are, al
though they are shown in a number
and variety that seem limitless. They
are all about the same size and, while
they are crude, they reveal some artistic
ability. 1t is claimed that the figurines
have been secured from tombs and
other ancient structures which abound
in Mexico, the work of lost generations.
A French doctor who had acquired a
number Of these interesting f1gurines
has noted that they all seem to repre-
sent efigies of persons who were suffer-
ing from some mental or bodily distress
and he advances the theory that these
are Of the nature Of prayers for relief,
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
BUTLER OFFERS
NEW PLAN FOR
RUM SALES

NEW YORK, Sept. 10 U.N.SD.
Sale of liquor for consumption on
the premises 1ould be forbidden
in a plan advanced today by DR..
Nicholas Murray Butler, president
of Columbia University, for con-
troll of liquor traffic, if prohibi-
tion is repealed.
The plan is based upon the
general provisions of the Province
of Quebec regulations. DR.. Butler
would have it incorporated and
its members appointed by the
governor of each State.
Unconditional repeal is neces-
sary for the success of any plan
for State control of liquor, DR..
Butler believes. His planning calls
for the division of States into dis
trictS, each with a central store
house and a local administrative
officer.
The most practical way to curb
consumption of distilled bever-
ages, he declared. is to follow
the course of Quebec and charge
heavily for them, while, at the
same time, making wines and
beers cheap.
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
MRS IOHN r. ALPINE

Funeral services for Mrs. John
R. Alpine, wife of the supervising
director of the United States EN-
ployment Service. Department OF
Labor, who died Thursday after a
short illness, were held today at
$50 a. m. from st. Thomas
Apostle Church, Woodley Road
Northwest. Requiem mass was
conducted by the Rev. w. Joyce
Russell, assistant pastor of the
church.
Active pallbearers were William
Green, president Of the American
Federation of Labor: John Coe-
field. Thomas E. Burke, Frank j.
Kennedy. Joseph Scanlan, Martin
Durkin and Michael F. Garrett, all
officials of the United Association
of Journeymen Plumbers and
Steam Filters of the United States
and Canada, and Hugh Kersin,
director of conciliation, Depart
ment of Labor.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Al
pine is survived by two sons, John
S., of st. Louis; Leo j., OF New
York city: and two daughters,
Mrs. Ann Beauchamp. of Spring
field, Mass, and Miss Alice Alpine,
Of this city.
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
LOST MAN WORE
$4,000 RING

NEW YORK, Sept. 10 G.N.SJ.
Samuel Medel. also known as
Samuel Medalia, walked out of
his restaurant here on Septem-
Der to keep an engagement with
two men.
He has not been seen or heard
from since and police today
started search for him on the
plea of Mrs. Catherine Gerviano,
his sister.
At the time he disappeared, his
sister told police, Medel had
$4,000 in cash with him, and was
wearing a $4,000 diamond ring.
The "Burlap Bag Mob" &C.
cused of Staying seven men for a
price, among whom was John
Bassano, Pittsburgh cafe owner,
may be implicated in the disap-
pearance of Medel. police think.
They believe he incurred the
wrath of a rival gang in the
liquor running game, and has
been put on the spot"
Police questioned Lottie Coll,
widow of Vincent Coll, slain gang
leader, in women's prison. She
was a friend of Medel before she
married Coll. they said.
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
Births, Deaths, Marriages
THOMAS w. HOLT

Funeral services for Thomas w.
Holt, 60. Capitol employe in
charge of the Republican lobby
room, who died last night at his
former home in Bellaire, Ohio,
while visiting his 90-year-old
father. will be held Wednesday
from his Washington home, 100
block North Carolina Ave. S. E.
Burial will probably be in Fort
Lincoln Cemetery.
Mr.. Holt had been employed
in the Capitol for Is years. He
came to Washington Is years ago
when he received an appointment
to a Government post during the
administration of Theodore Roose-
velt.
He managed the campaign of
former Senator Theodore Burton
of Ohio, in 1915.
Surviving are his father, James
Holt; three sons, Clarence j.,
Norman W., and Thomas, jr., all
of Washington; three daughters,
Mrs. Hugh Miller, of New York /;
Mrs. j. Harold Gooding and Mrs.
Joseph Koontz, of Washington; |;
two sisters, Mrs. H. C. Shaffer,
of Akron, Ohio, and Mrs. Eliza
beth Louden, of Bellaire, and two
brothers, Joseph. of Bellaire, and
George, of Cameron, w. Va.
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
A Bas, Jazz!

And another life-saver comes
In the communication from Mr.
w. w. Stevens, cash customer
from Brookland:
."Can you not do something
to free the air from SO much
Jazz music? My neighbOr and
/ do not listen as often as of
yore, since so much dance
music is put on the air. There
are some programs, however,
we listen tO-Kate Smith, Ed
Wynn; also the reporters who
give us the daily news.
what has become of the
Old Stager, who was so clever
in his musical program? JeS-
sica DragOnette and the Black
stone hour are also regularly
good ones.
But there are some tin
panny singers from the thea
ters that too often get on the
air. Give them the hOOk!"
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
POLICE TITLE
JOBS RIOTERS

BIRKENHEAD, England, Sept.
10 G.N.S.)--Quiet was restored to-
day after night of violent riot
ing in which the entire police
force, reinforced by riot squads,
battled angry mobs of unem'
ployed.
The clash ended with Al un-
employed under arrest and nine
policemen and seven civilians re-
ceiving hospital treatment for
injuries.
The rioters used spikes torn
from fences to ward off the police
and looted shops after smashing
windows.
Streets in the shopping district
were Strewn with wreckage.
The clash climaxed a series Of
similar battles which ended
temporarily at dawn yesterday
after the rioters had begun
guerilla-like operations against
the police in darkened streets.
They wrecked a saloon, carry
ing off a quantity of liquors
after which women fired bottles
and rocks at police from the
windows Of their homes.
The Washington times., 1932-09-19
VET PATIENTS
INCREASE

Laws under which Veterans
Bureau hospitals treat thousands
of veterans for nonservice all
ments were condemned today by
William C. Woodward, of Chi
cago, legislative spokesman for
the American Medical ASSocia-
ton. He testified before the
Shannon House committee inves-
tigating Government competition
with private business.
Woodward said the number OF
patients in veterans hospitals for
nonservice disability rose from
13,243 in 1925 to 82,850 in 1881.
He said the medical association
favors medical treatment for vet
erans whose ills were incurred in
line of duty, but sees no reason
why the Government should pro-
vide hospitals for veterans who
may suffer in automobile acci-
dents in peace time.
The Washington times., 1932-09-19

SAYS FATHER

Charged by his father with kid
naping his mother and 6-year-
old brother, Oliver jenkins, of
Beltsville, Md, is being held in
the Hyattsville Jail for a hearing
Wednesday.
According to statements given
to Justice of the Peace John j.
Downing, the alleged kidnapping
occurred last week after family
quarrel as to whether sister Of
young jenkins. who had been an
inmate of a reform school, would
be allowed to return home.
The father, James A, jenkins,
told the magistrate that when he
said he was going to take his
daughter back oliver took his
mother, Mrs Maize jenkins, and
Jesse, 6. his brother. to Virginia.
He was arrested yesterday when
he returned to Beltsville to con-
tinue the argument with his
father.