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Evening star., 1932-04-17
BY JOHN GUNTHER.

VIENNA, Austria.-Vienna has more
oddities and "quiddities' to its daily
routine of life than any city 1 know
I am not exactly sure what the word
"quiddity" means, but I understand it
is the term used by mild light-essayists
to describe things that they cannot
otherwise classify.
For instance, there is the matter of
whistling. Recently an American pro-
feSSor said that all whistlers were
morons, or something of the kind;
and this is an opinion in which Vienna
heartily cOncurS. For a reason that no
one seems to know, whistling in Vienna
is a crime Vienna is an indulgent
city, much given to compassion, but
there is one thing absolutely beyond
the pale. and that is whistling.
The other night in a cafe. forgetting
myself. I whistled for the waiter, who
as usual, was far too busy to be both
cred with receiving the amount Of my
bill I whistled again. I was almost
thrown out.
friend of mine, resident here, went for
a walk with his sister newly arrived.
They went out into the Wienerwald,
that charming wood which bounds two
thirds of Vienna with forest-clad hills.
Feeling good. she started to whistle.
Fellow mixers went up to her, stopped
her.
The reason for this is apparently un-
known.
Another thing is an odd business
about taxis 1t is quite against the
laws and customs of Vienna to take
the first taxi in a rank, unless you are
going for considerable distance. In
stead you sneak into the rank broad
side for any normal trip. If. as in
other cities. you go to the first car in
the rank and ask him to drive you,
say. from the Schottentor to the opera,
busines of five minutes, he will, de-
spite his Viennese good nature. resent
it. The reason is that taxi passengers
are scarce and business is bad. Also,
cruising is forbidden, and taxi may
have to wait several hours for a fare.
Once he reaches the head of his rank.
he wants to stick there until he gets
good long ride.
Another item is, of course, coffee.
There are delicate nuances and dlstinc-
tions among the 40-odd different kinds
of coffee served by good coffee house,
which requires some knowledge.
I would add. also, the ferocious sleep
ing habits of the Viennese. This other
wise very civilized race has three major
principles when 1t comes to outfitttng
and making bed. I'd The mattress
Evening star., 1932-04-17
Which Road for France?
Frencbmen See Glorious Future But Differ Path

Sweden. The King of Denmark openly
paid court to Napoleon, while the Car
Of all the RuSsias called the French
Emperor friend and brother. restored
Poland served as recruiting station fof
the conqueror's army. Austria had been
reduced to a second-rate power Prus-
sia, to a third-rate power. Throughout
the continent French influence pre-
dominated.
Thus might the historian write of
the Napoleonic regime of 1903
following so shortly after that other
golden period for France, the reign Of
Louis XIV. le Roi Soleil Napoleon
fell tragically. but his memory lives on
Many a Frenchman today believes that
United States Of Europe can be made
enduring
The late M. Brands plan for union
Of the European states has been
regarded abroad as chimerical and
impossible. His concept looked to a
Europe in which the present political
entities retained individuality. but agreed
among themselves that existing GUS
tens barriers be reduced. Their
induStrialistS would meet and upon the
friendliest of terms discuss mutual
, problemS-to the end that natural
resources and plant facilities. regard
less of national ownership, might be
employed to reduce the unit cost of
goods.
L. s. Taken as Example.
Country and continent would thus
be in a position to meet favorably
the extracontinental competition in
neutral markets inevitably to be
encountered during the coming decades.
BRANDS disciples constantly hold be-
fore their congregations the example
Ycf the United States of America. They
draw pleasant picture of union based
upon cooperation and good will.
Such prospect fascinates some
Frenchmen because in such a United
States of Europe they see France in the
dominant role-See France controlling
and directing in much the same
manner that Prussia dominated the
coalition of the Germanies.
This concept is the work of a staid
mind-too staid, in truth, for the
emotionalist sons of France. Feeling
an eXaltation at the mere thought of
the mighty French war machine, the
more unstaid element inclines to the
belief that if Germany ceases payment
OF reparationS through any cause what
soever, France must resort to arms in
fer future payment. Such thinkers.
then, would advocate not the type of
United States envisioned by M.
BRAND, but union secured by strength
OF arms, held together by both the
financial and military domination of
France
Already two schools are ready for
labelling. Call the one Bonaparte
Unionist; call the other BRAND
Unionist.
Tangent to unionism go the thoughts
OF many other Frenchmen who, while
they would work for domination of
Europe by France, discard all terms of
political unity. French dominance
would be simply a matter of economic
control.
The depression throughout Europe
seemingly permits the rapid further
ance OF this economic control, while
the financial dominance of France
furnishes the weapon. France. accord
ing TO rumor, has already taken over
controlling interest in the German
Stahlwerke. Skoda, the great Czecho-
tCcntinned On Fourth Page.)
Evening star., 1932-04-17

Europe sees It, and representatives of
four grees powers met IN London to
consider the plight of the countries of
the Danube, threatened with the immi
nent collapse Of their whole economic
life and with all the political dangers
that would bring in It's train. After
the Danubian states come the case of
Germany and the Lausanne conference.
The policy of each for himself and
the devil takes the hinGmost has failed,
as it always does fail. No man can
serve his country we'll in such times
who does not feel himself something
more than an American, EngliShman,
Frenchman, Itailan Oh German; he
must remember that he is also citizen
of the world
You are a German" said BRAND to
Stresemann at the signature of the
Treaty of Locarno in December. 1925.
Il have certainly not forgotten that I
am Frenchman. but To-Day we talk a
new languag
Evening star., 1932-04-17

1t is high time after SIX years that We
learned to speak it correctly.
Under this impulsion, spurred on by
the fear of new and greater calamities
the policies of European nations are
being recast. Old conceptions are being
reviewed in the light of disastrous
practical experience and passion is
slowly giving way to reason under the
stimulus Of a more enlightened self
interest. For the time. at any rate,
economics conquers politics and, with
a moderate measure of wisdom on the
part of governments, a fruitful COL
laboration for the common good may
now be established
Will that necessary modicum of po-
litical wisdom be found in all the
governments concerned? It is rash to
prophesy at any time; above all, in
these times. Neither governments nor
peoples are always wise. Much, per-
haps, depends upon pending elections
in several countries and the still, small
Evening star., 1932-04-17

Former Chancellor of the British Exchsauer
and Secretary of State for Foreign Afairs
Copyright, 1892. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. lnc)
7 ONDON. April 1--we have put
our house in order. we have bal
anced our budget and ceased to
IL borrow So far, good.
We have returned to the ways
by which British credit was built up
and, instead of suffering from loss oil
confidence and withdrawal of foreign
balances. we have been embarrassed
lately by the plethora Of foreign money
offered on the London market.
The British financial year enoeo
March 81 and the accounts show sur
plus Of revenue over expenditure OF
365 900 pounds instead OF the dehclt
of 10000, 900 pounds threatened last
September
+ The result is really more favorable
than this shows. for instead OF taxing
f23, ,000, 900 from the dollar exchange
account of $4,000, 900, as proposed oy
Lord Snowden, less than fl3,OOO,OO
have been so withdrawn, the American
and French credits have been repaid
except the portion of the French creo-
its which are in private hands ana can
not be redeemed till they fall due in
August. and $500 900 sterling have
been devoted to the redemption OF DEBT.
Three Factors Effective.
These results have been achieved by
three factorS-saving on estimated eX-
penditure, some increase in customs
revenue from the new import duties
and. most important OF all, by the ex-
traordinary response OF income TAX
payers to the chancellor's appeal that
they help their country by punctual
payment of the greatly increased tax
demanded the first quarter Of this cal
endar year
A man like myself, who has twice
been chancellor of the exchequer. can
only express his amazement at the un-
paralleled sight OF queues ironing in
the streets before the collectors ofnces,
not, as elsewhere, to seek relief or OBJ
tain bread. but to pay the heaviest tax
installment ever asked Of them.
We can. then, face the future with
sober confidence, but we cannot face 1t
alone Other nations must contribute
no less than ours if the world Is TO re-
cover its lost prosperity. In these days
of lessened distances and increasing in
terdependence of each on all the whole
body polite will suffer if one member Is
sick. If these last years have enforced
one lesson more than another, 1t Is that
unless we stand together we shall fall
enc after the other into a common pit
of misery and decay. The days of iso-
lation, splendid or othedwise, are past
for us all
Do Americans realize this? Great
Britain sees 1t. the British empire sees
it. and together we are preparing for
the imperial conference at Ottawa
Evening star., 1932-04-17
BY WILLIAM c. DICKERMAN,

~ OVERNMENT and business, al
most all the world over, have
U sore need of insight into the
~ French economic and political
policy. The scholarly, there
fore have leafed through their French
histories, the international press tags
along at the heels of French citizenry
and officialdom, and foreign plenlpo-
tentiaries sail the seven seas to reach
the French capital In every land of
Importance speakers and writer's are
wont to discourse upon the so-called
French thought-as though the 4O,-
000,0 900 inhabitants Of La Belle France
constituted an individual person with a
single notion in mind
national thought occasionally can
be identified as such, but only when
called forth by spectacular leadership.
Usually, and especially when mcst
needed by outsiders. anything like
unanimity of opinion has a way of Sc
creting itself in the obscurity of mass
SubconsciouSneSs.
Do the porpoises. seen by the pleni-
potentiarieS in Midatlantic, travel sin
gly? Not at all. They go in schools;
and thoughts commonly go like por-
poiSes-in small schools. large schools,
schools within schools, schools without
schools, and schools leagues apart.
Since France is SO lacking in unanimity
OF opinion regarding the means to an
end, not all the worlds delving can
settle upon this or that idea. label it
the idea and purvey it as the one bit
OF insight by which France can be an
ticipated, and perhaps bested, at her
own game of world economics or poll
tics. The best to be had at the mo-
ment is description OF a few schools,
already formed or seemingly in process
of formation. After that, suitable la
bells may be applied.
Mere temporary lack of a national
thought should not bar consideration
of few facts.
Holds Power to Dictate.
France is mistress in Europe. Her
own house stands in good order. She
holds almost 20 per cent of the Sl2.-
600 ,000,0 900 in gold available for world
currency-a turn about in world finance
that she has worked by remarkable in
duStry and unprecedented saving. Both
as to equipment and personnel. her
army. navy and air force have been
developed to point where they con-
stltute the most effective armament
that any nation has ever possessed She
! AAN'N' NiA1A ACSCitlJ, DCtIl employed anu
contented. Thus she is in a position
to dictate-at time when the stand
still agreement, temporarily immo-
blfzing the governmental short-term
credits held by Germany, has about
run It's span, and when the end of the
Hoover moratorium is already in sight
and much in debate She will mot
sacrlhce reparations to the private
debts"
France knows what she wants. She
/ knows her present strength. Every
Frenchman-and Frenchmen take their
politics personally and continuously
is acutely conscious of her changed
status. BY June, 1881, he could feel
that La Grande sat atop the world,
that today gives her the opportunity to
assure Franco European peace for the
next so years-a form of safety to
which the Frenchman will sacrifice
everything rather than Yield to q pro-
gram not insuring such peace. Fur
ther, the present offeys opportunity to
Evening star., 1932-04-17
But He Paws.

From the Hamilton (Ont) Spectator
A Frenchman committed suicide by
swallowing his money, which was re-
covered during the autopsy. It was just
. new variation Of an old custom Of
making the doctor dig for his f@.
Evening star., 1932-04-17

Sir Austen Chamberlain contrib
uteS here to a triangular discussion
OF Uorld affairs and international
problems, a discussion uhich tGiH
present at regular intervals, eTclu-
SiUely in The Star. the uie,Upotnts OF
British, French and German states
men. Joseph Paul-Boncour WiH
speak for France, Julius Curtius TOR
Germany.
Evening star., 1932-04-17
LA TOILETTE LOSSES LAID
TOREVOLT ACAINSTT TAXES
Home Owners and Farmers Tired of
Maintaining Costly Machines Made
Up of Officeholders.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.

|HIS depression might have taken
any one of several directions.
Until recently it was in flux Now
l. however, it has cryStallized. 1t
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Continued on Fourth Page.)
Evening star., 1932-04-17

BY SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN,
Former Chancellor of the British Excheouer
and Secretary of State for Foreign Analrs
(Copyright. 1892. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, InC.)
Evening star., 1932-04-17

econsinued on Fourth Pase)
Evening star., 1932-09-28
CURTIS ENDS STAY !
IN WEST VIRGINIA
Starts for Oklahoma After
Predicting Early y. S.
Recovery.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, September
28.-Vice President Charles Curtis is en-
route to Oklahoma today. leaving be-
hind in West Virginia a prediction that
America will be the first to recover
from the depression under the leader
ship of President Hoover"
Closing a two-day stump of the
MountaiIfeee~Stats Curtis last night
said there had been~99 periods of de-
preston in the United States in the
last 125 years but that the Nation
came out of each depression more
powerful than ever"
He declared "a competitive tariff for
revenue" advocated by the Democratic
platform and Gov. Roosevelt, Demo-
cratic presidential nominee, will not
help a single working man, farmer,
mine or factory in the United States"
In another speech as he formally
open a new Government lock in the
Kanawha River at Market, near here,
Curtis approved shorter working week
for laboring men-a 40-hour, 5-day
week.
Curtis said curtailment of hours
might herald "the beginning Of move
ment for a shorter day and shorter week
for labor, which I hope will come, be-
cause I believe that will solve the great
problem of labor"
In Oklahoma Curtis will make a series
Of speeches Thursday and Friday. He
will speak at Enid on Thursday night
and at Ponca City, Muskogee and
PaWhuska, on Friday.
Evening star., 1932-09-28
PARAGUAY WILLING.

ASUNCION, Paraguay. September %
R).-Paraguay informed the American
neutrals in Washington yesterday that
she was willing to enter negotiations
for Cancellation and unrestricted arbl-
tration" of the Chaco dispute with
Bolivia.
She said she believed, however. that
prior termination of hostilities, instead
of a mere truce, was indispensable.
The note insisted on previously
established reciprocal security. consist
ing of totally demilitarizing the Chaco
and reducing the armies Of the two
countries.
After agreement on these points, the
note added, "a commission of neutral
military officers should be created to
supervise the faithful execution Of the
agreement"
Paraguay will suspend hostilities as
soon as Bolivia accepts both conditions
under the guarantee of neutral ma
tions," the document went on. 1T
seems unnecessary to insist that Para
guay's proposals constitute an organic
whole, because it is necessary to fix con-
ditions of security before beginning
negotiations for arbitration or suspend
ing hostilities.
Answering the League Of Nations
latest note, Paraguay today replied that
she was making efforts to solve the
Chaco conflict, and detailed her pro-
posals to the neutrals to reach such
an end.
Evening star., 1932-09-28
PROPER CAMPAIGN
PUBLICITY DESCRIBED
Col. E. A. Halsey Would Advance
Altruisms of Party's
Projects.

The publicity of a campaign commit
tee should not be purely political
Pollyanna propaganda, but should ad-
vance the altruisms of the party's prof.
ects and acclaim its achievements" ac-
cording to the doctrine of Col Edwin
A. Halsey of Virginia, secretary and
treasurer of the Democratic Senatorial
Campaign Committee.
Upon Col. Halsey devolves much of
the labor in connection with the COM
mittees objective of bringing about the
election of a Democratic-cont SEN
ate in November
"A campaign committee is the man
agement in politics that the board of
directors is in business" he says. Upon
the shoulders of the chairman and his
working force, headed by the secretary
and treasurer. fall most of the duties
Of the committee.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign
Committee does not undertake in any
way to direct the State campaign. It's
main purpose is to act in an advisory
capacity provide campaign literature,
speakers of national prominence, fur
nish information requested by the can
didates and State committees. and to
raise and furnish to the candidates
and State campaign committees the
financial assistance permitted under the
State laws"
Col Halsey said the committee was
particularly fortunate" this year in
having as its head Senator Swanson Of
Virginia
Evening star., 1932-09-28
LABOR URGES VOTE
FOR ITS FRIENDS
Circular Compares Records
of Hoover, Roosevelt, Cur
tbs and Garner.

The American Federation Of Labor
was circulating today an appeal to its
100000 members to go to the polls
November 8 and stand faithfully by
our friends and elect them and op-
pose our enemies and defeat them"
In pamphlet form, labor's Non-par-
tisan Political Campaign Committee,
headed by President William Green,
cited the records of the candidates for
President and Vice President of the two
major parties. At the same time, Green
cautioned that lit must be remembered
that the American labor movement Is
not partisan to a political party"
1T is partisan to principles-the
principles of righteousness, freedom and
justice" the pamphlet stated. THE
conditions Of the past three years make
it imperative that all members of or
ganized labor and those who sympa-
thize with them shall go to the polls
election day and vote for friends of
labor and the people.
All Urged to Vote.
Those who do not vote are neglecting
to discharge their duties as American
citizens"
The pamphlet listed 80 bills favorable
to labor for which Gov Roosevelt voted
while in the New York Legislature. It
enumerated % bills favorable to labor
which he signed as Governor and
unfavorable to labor which be vetoed.
Thirty-two bills favorable to labor,
the pamphlet sets out. were signed by
President Hoover. Two bills which la
Dor advocated were vetoed by Mr. Hoo
yer, according to the survey which also
cites three judicial appointments of
President Hoover which labor disap-
proved-Judge John j. Parker, rejected
by the Senate for the Supreme Court;
Judge James H. Wilkerson, whose ap-
pointment to the Court of Appeals is
still pending, and Judge Kenneth Mac
Kintosh for the District Court bench
of Washington, also pending for con-
f1r1nation.
Curtis and Garner Compared.
The record of Vice President Curtis
on bills was given as follows: Favorable
to labor, 16; nfavorable, IL; not
voting, 2.
The record of Speaker Garner fol-
lows: Favorable to labor, II; unfavor-
able, 16; paired unfavorable to labor
2; not voting, S; answered present. l.
The committee urged members to
vote against congressional candidates iI
favor of the sales tax, those who favor
reduction of wages of "underpaid Gov
ernment employees" those not in favor
of protecting the Nations children from
industrial exploitation and those op-
posed to remedial legislation urged py
labor.
Evening star., 1932-09-28
M'ADO0 HELD WET
BY CLOSE FRIEND
Senate Nominee to Support
Party Plank, Eastern
Critics Told.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated freSS.
SANTA BARBARA, Calf, Septem-
ber 28.-William G. McAdoo, Demo-
cratic nominee for United States Sen
ator from California, was away from
his home today on a brief vacation,
but Thomas M Storke, publisher Of
the Santa Barbara Daily News and a
personal friend, replying to state
ment yesterday by Jouett Shouse and
others, said:
"Mr. McAdoo has repeatedly stated
in his speeches throughout this State
that he stands on the Democratic ma
tional platform, which contains q
plank providing for submission to the
States Of repeal resolution.
He has further stated in not one.
but many, speeches that II elected to
the United States Senate from Cali
fornia. he will fulfill every obligation
Of the Democratic platform which its
planks impose upon him.
"Mr. McAdoo has been obliged to
adopt the policy Of not answering
questionnaires direct, but through his
speeches, for the reason that hundreds
of these questionnaires have been re-
ceived by him and 1t Is impossible to
deal with these in any other way, and
he has. through his speeches, all Of
which have been given wide publicity,
answered the more important questions
of the day put to him through ques-
tionnaires
California does not need any ad-
vice or suggestions from Mr. Shouse,
Mr.. Dupont, Mr.. Raskob or Mrs. Sabin,
all Of whom are from the East, as to
whom she shall send to the United
States Senate and resents their attempt
to interfere in the affairs of California. "
Evening star., 1932-09-28
SILVER STAR HOME
CROWDS CONTINUE
Closing Hour for Final Week and
Half of Exhibit Will
Be 6 PM.

The Silver Star Home at 1881 Hoban
road, one of the series included in the
better homes demonstration sponsored
by The Star, continues to draw the at
tention of visitors each day. 1t is now
in its third week of exhibition.
The house will be open daily from
am to pm. during the next week
and a half under auspices of The Star.
During the early part of its showing it
was open until pm.
The house, awarded place in the
program by the Silver Star Homes
Committee, the group of home building
specialists who conduct the demonstra-
ton for The Star, contains II main
rooms.
The house illustrates many points i'm
portant in the designing planning fin
ishing and equipment of house in the
cost Classification ranging from $4,000
to s35,000.
It was built by Boss & Phelps from
plans by Horace W. Peaslee. Washing
ton architect.