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The Washington times., 1932-05-06
1900 to Participate
In COlIntu's Bi-Fete

3 More than 1900 school children
Of Prince Georges county will take
part in a George Washington Bi.
centennial program to be offered
at Ritchie Coliseum, College Park,
May IL. The program will include
music, dancing and sketches of
WaShington'S life.
The Washington times., 1932-05-06

Accumulated excess Of temperature
since January /, 1892. $50.
Excess of temperature since May ],
1882. II.
Accumulated excess Of precipitation
since January l. 1882. 2.46.
Excess OF precipitation since May l,
1882. so
TIDE TABLE
TOday-High tides S:26 a. m. and
S;57 p, IN. Low tides. 2:iS a. III. and
3:49 p. IN.
Tomorrow-High tides. 9:OS a. m. and
9:34 p. IN. Low tides. 3;24 a. m and
4:09 y. IN.
THE sun AND. THE MOON
The sun rises today sos a. IN. and
sets 1908 p. m.
rhe sun rises Saturday 5:O4 a. m. and
sets Z :OG y. m.
The moon rises today $40 a. m. and
sets S:26 p. m.
The moon rises Saturday 5:44 a. m.
and sets 9:2S y. m
The Washington times., 1932-05-06
The Weather

For District Of Columbia. fair and
warmer tonight and saturday: gentle
to moderate sOutherly winds.
For Maryland, generally fair and
warmer tonight and Saturday
For Virginia generally fair tonight
and Saturday: warmer tonight in east
and north portions.
The Washington times., 1932-05-06

DEPARTURES FROM NORMAL
The Washington times., 1932-05-06

LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Evening star., 1932-02-18
the fugitive was maintained In the most

the fugitive was maintained In the most
desperately forbidding conditions. with
the thermometer ut times more than
forty degrees below zero, with heavy
drifts Of mow covering the ground.
The trapper had the advantage Of trav-
cling light. though that was in itself q
handicap. for he was almost destitute OF
supplies. Yet he had enough to keep
him going over many miles, doubling
back and forth to confuse the trail, but
always leaving q "spoor" for the guild
ance of the relentless troopers, who
held on doggedly. determined to fulfill
the tradition of the corps. And at the
last stand the fugitive was game. He
refused to surrender and fired and hit
one Of his pursuers. Then came the
last burst Of gunfire and this strange
man fell. Was he mad. or simply .
desperate without regard for human
life? That will perhaps be determined
by later developments. The point OF
greatest importance to the people Of
the region where the 'Mounties" rep
resent the law is that they got their
man"
Evening star., 1932-02-18
The Governor and the Sheriff.

In the course of the final hearing
Yesterday of the charges against Sher-
if Farley of New York City, brought
by the Legislative Investigating Com
mittee, Gov. Roosevelt, whose decision
Is reserved, enunciated . general state
ment of policy respecting the integrity
of public officials that may become a
factor in the presidential campaign in
which he hopes to be the candidate of
his party. He had prepared it in ad-
vance and read it in the presence Of q
large assemblage of legislators and po-
litical personages. He said:
As q matter Of general sound public
policy, I am very certain that there Is
q requirement that where public ON
cial Is under inquiry or investigation,
especially an elected public official, and
it appears that his scale of living, or
the total of his bank deposits far ex-
ceeds the public salary which he Is
known to receive, he owes positive
public duty to the community to give
q reasonable or credible explanation OF
the sources Of the deposits, or the
source which enables him to maintain
a scale Of living beyond the amount Of
his salary. Even If mere suspi-
cion exists, there falls upon the public
ofijcial the duty Of coming into court
Evening star., 1932-02-18
Police Force Under League
Is Declared Unacceptable

peace with the creation of an armed
force, that will be better than no peace
at all" The Gary Post-Tribune AYERS
that "the French proposal is doubtless
utterly Impractical. but it deserves con-
sideration just the same" The Port
Huron Times Herald says that the
scheme is not without logic" but as
to letting it supplant the armies and
navies Of individual nations, they ARE
not going to agree to any such thing"
1.-THE immediate reaction to such q
proposal" comments the Scranton Times.
'is that 1t would set up superstate.
The same thing, of course, has been
said of the League of Nations and prob
ably will be said of any other plan
which involves united action by nations
Of the world. At the same time 1t
affords opportunity for a very interest
ing study, and emphasizes the difficult
ties of the problem which confronts the
delegates to the Disarmament Con-
ference"
"One can almost see." states the
Jersey City journal, the expressive
shrug of the shoulders and uplifted
hands Of the cartoonist's conventional
Frenchman as he proclaims. Well II
m'sieur will not organize police force,
France must go armed to protect her
self And the argument is a good one.
It was good in our own bad West days,
when each man had to be quick on the
trigger. And every man in the world
would have to go armed now if there
were no police forces, and every nation
in the world will have to go armed until
there Is some kind of world police force
to protect the weak and punish the
outlaws"
Imagine the United States Army and
Navy, or any part of them, subject to
the orders of war council of super
state" exclaims the Rutland Herald,
and the Cincinnati Times-Star suggests:
Here is the fateful question. What
ever agency controlled, the neutral
army would encounter the same diff
Guilty that the League ran into in the
Manchurian struggle-naming the real
aggressor. Had the League been able
or willing to do that, it could easily
have stopped hostilities by declaring an
economic boycott The trouble with the
League Is not lack of military power.
but lack of will power. incidentally,
the suggestion of a world police force
is not without its touch of irony. The
avowed purpose of the Disarmament
Conference is to mitigate the threat Of
war by uniform reduction of arma-
ments. Yet the first concrete proposal
made at Geneva Is to create new and
colossal type of military force"
Evening star., 1932-02-18
TwO-Thirds of Canada
Is Owned by Canadians
rrom In. Toronto Daily News.

From the Toronto Daily News.
Canadians still own Canada. The
story that the Dominion is dominated
by American capital" is without war
rant in fact.
The Financial Post Business Year
Book, which has just been issued for
the current year, shows that at the
commencement of 1882 there was over
$l7,50O, ,000,000 of capital invested in
Canada in addition to that which is
employed In agriculture. OF this huge
sum, 65.4 per cent (nearly two-thirds),
Is the capital Of Canadians; 21.8 per
cent, American: 11.3 per cent, British.
If agriculture were included, the sta
tistics Of ownership would be even more
preponderatingly Canadian.
Canadians not only own Canada, but
have substantial investments abroad.
The Business Year Book places these
at 2,000, 900. There are so or more
Canadian companies that have estab-
lished branch plants abroad, and Cana
dians have also invested heavily In
British and foreign securities.
For q nation of 100000 people.
Canada has substantial financial
achievements to her credit. The BUSH
ness Year Book Is one of the most inter.
esting publications dealing with thsoA
Evening star., 1932-02-18
with full Information as to his per
sonal finances.

with full Information rs to his per-
The effect of this statement is that
the burden Of proof, In such a case.
rests upon the accused oficial. He
must demonstrate his honesty, rather
than that the prosecution must demon
strate his dishonesty. This, Gov.
Roosevelt holds, is the obligation Of
office holding especially In the case Of
an elected official.
Naturally such Q pronouncement
causes stir among the politicians Of
Greater New York, particularly those
of Tammany Hall, who regard Sheriff
Farley as deserving of complete. vindi-
cation by the Governor. The idea that
an off1ceholder must prove his own
purity is altogether new and strange, at
variance with all the doctrines of
municipal control by highly organ
lied political machine. II the Gov
ernor dismisses the sheriff on the
ground that he has not been able salts
factorily to explain the sources of his
income, the manner in which he built
up q bank account Of something over
s35o.0o0, the nature Of the process of
filling the celebrated wonder box"
from which he drew his funds from
time to time-the wonder box" has not
figured directly in the hearing and was
not mentioned by the Governor-then
indeed Is there cause for war.
The counsel for the accused sheriff
thundered in his appeal to the Gov
ernor not to sacrifice his client to
'vaulting ambition" He elaborated the
theme: "Vaulting ambition demands its
VICTIM" he said; "vaulting ambition
without warrant or Justification pref
udiced character and reputation in this
community; there Is no protection
against it." Was he referring to Coun-
sci Seabury. chief Investigator for the
Legislative Committee, who Is accredit-
ed with hopes for political preferment,
or was he referring to the Governor,
whose ambition is just now clearly in
evidence In . campaign for delegates to
the Democratic National CONVENTION? F.?
Evening star., 1932-02-18
Higghligghts on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

sponsibilities, has been invested with the
authority to regulate the prices on all
commodities sold In the Reich. His
activities in this respect are concerned
chiefly with the selling prices Of neces-
sites. and in cases where the purveyors
do not readily respond to his sugges-
tions. he has the power to place new
figures on the marketables concerned.
Refusal to comply with his stipulations
makes the vendor liable to fine or i'm
prisonment or both. The fine to be
imposed may be any amount warranted
by the gravity of the offense. and is
wholly at DR.. Goebeler's discretion. He
also has the power to suspend the oper-
ations of any business not complying
with his instructions.
Evening star., 1932-02-18
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRAcEWELL.

. warning II q human being finds q
snake loathsome, he must look into his
own ancestry to find out why, because
the creature, as q natural thing. Is in
teresting and often beautiful. It's skin
adorns the shoes Of fair women.
y
which neither whines nor offers ex-
cuses.
The bush rose which grew to be 10
feet tall, containing hundreds of great
blossoms, by no stretch of the irnagina-
ton could be said to have been proud
Of itself.
1t grew because it thrived.
When 1t was moved, and from then
on failed to do well, no human being
could have said that 1t had any sense
OF failure In its fibers.
When finally 1t passed out Of exist
ence. the sorrow which attended its
going was solely in the minds Of those
who admired 1t.
The bush, as a thing, was slpremely
honest. 1t did well when conditions
suited it, and died when they did not.
~ was basic honesty. Men can never
excel it, only equal it.
This was what the poet meant when
ne spoke OF sermons In brooks. and
SO on.
The things Of nature, devoid Of the
tnlnklng mind, find no occasion to be
anything except what they are. They
are. because they are. What is, is;
what will be, will be.
Mans great deviation comes with his
thinking mind, otherwise he would be
a vegetable, and grow on q stalk.
So dishonesty has its excuse. At least
1t Is human. And everything which Is
human is Of interest to human beings.
Inc wide expanse Of ethics, the books
OF morals, the rules of human conduct,
as We say. all these exist because we
are human beings, and we are human
beings because We have our choice of
good and evil. The ancient sun wor-
shlpers knew as much. Just what good
and evil are nobody yet knows exactly,
although a great many people think
they do.
The honesty of the garden may be
turned to some human good II the
SoJournerS therein are willing to apply
its lessons to themselves.
The plant pays no attention to what
other plants think Of 1t, why should an
otner human being SO long as he is
minding his own business ard trying to
act decently according to u light and
hurting no one else?
Half the worlds woes are caused by
rolling around in the mind the opinions
Of other people about ones precious
ego. Now there are two ways Of stop
ping this mischief. One is to adopt the
life habits Of the plants and live ones
own life to suit ones self, as they do.
The other Is to use the mind to point
out to the mind the easily ascertained
fact that there are, in the main, two
ways Of looking at others One, to look
for the best In them, and two, to look
for the worst, or (at best) such things
as are matter for criticism.
Unfortunately. most human beings
look for the worst in others and. be-
cause they so steadfastly refuse to see
the best, they mostly find what they are
looking for. Once q human being
realizes that these judgments are NO
judgments at all. but one Of the basest
aspects. Of the human mind, he comes
to himself. in the phrase which both
Seneca and Woodrow Wilson made their
own. and sees that the honest plants
which never worry. are his best teach
ers, after all. He, like the flowers, will
bask in the sun. and forget the insects
Evening star., 1932-02-18

II one likes honesty, there Is no more
honest place In the world than the
garden.
Honesty Of life and honesty of pur-
pose are there In abundance.
One might even say that honesty Of
statement is there, for what else Is the
growth Of plants2
When q rose bush does well for you
it plainly publishes these facts to the
world:
/. That 1t is . pretty good bush.
2. That you treated 1t well.
3. That 1t finds conditions to its
liking.
4. That 1t successfully combated In
sects.
S. That it likes its situation.
6. That it gets plenty Of food.
\ 4
All the inhabitants of the garden are
similarly outspoken.
There is no politeness In an ever
green.
It cannot be other than It Is, and its
condition publishes all about 1t to the
world.
Those dead portions at the base say
Ffdo g plain as words.
Those brown streaks throughout show
inimical forces are at work on 1t.
Maybe they reveal improper soil, or
lack Of water, or, going back farther,
poor stock to begin with.
II r X
This is the honesty Of the garden.
It is the honesty Of all things without
brains.
The mind is responsible for both good
and bad, as man views good and bad.
The plants, happily, have no brains
to urge them on to evil.
If they grow poorly. the fault may
be in their fibers, or outside them, but
no one can accuse them Of lack OF Will
power.
Natural forces take the plants In
charge. In fact. plants are natural
forces themselves. That is why there
is nothing deceptive about them.
Deception comes with brains. 1t Is
one of the crimes Of mind. We hope
no one will instance the camouflages Of
nature as counter arguments. 1t Is
true that this sort of trickery Is q
part of the nature Of things. It Is part,
however, of natures determination, In
certain living creatures, both animal
and plant. to live.
The will to live, as philosophers have
assured us, Is paramount. It Is not
strange, therefore, If . certain amount
Of deception Is found in nature. 1t Is
very small, however when compared
with such traits in human beings.
\
This Is tantamount to saying that
humanity Is not part Of nature. This
can be true only in Q sense, of course.
Mankind is very much q part Of the
nature of things, but 1t has sought out
many inventions" as st. Paul said.
These inventions" Of mankind In
clude an amount Of trickery and de-
ception which is not natural. as the
camouflage Of plants and birds and
some animals, but is product, one
might almost say an end product, Of
the mind working in strictly human
materials.
Thus the hidden motives Of men
often never come to the surface. The
highest professed aims may be used TO
cover up the basest desires. It Is i'm
possible ever to be sure Of the real rea-
sons behind events.
This is the trail Of the serpent over
mankind. Even this statement Is rough
on the serpents, because mostly they
are natural and therefore honest.
When the rattlesnake strikes. he issues
Evening star., 1932-02-18
Arms Farley Need
Held Greater Now
the Fort Wayne News-sentinel.

From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel.
To many observers the mere fact that
the Geneva Conference on Limitation
of Armaments has been convened under
the prevailing adverse conditions-thAt
not q single nation dared refuse to send
delegates to Geneva-is an encoursS-
ing indication.
But to many others, it will seem that
the world Is no nearer agreement upon
the issues involving disarmament than
it was when the disarmament pledge
was written into the treaty Of Ver-
sailles.
There has been gloom enough in the
European situation, with its growing ma
tendencies toward upsetting the polit-
ical apple cart. But the daily and
hourly events in the Far East-with
which it Is impossible for the most
alert commentator to keep up from
one edition to the next-have cast an
even darker cloud; a stultifying shadow
which is, indeed, depressing.
After all the years Of preparation,
which have led up to the Geneva as
emily. it seems strangely irorical that
it should be held at such time.
Yet there has probably never been a
time when the need for solution of
this problem Of ornaments has seemed
more vital; and never before In so
widely representative q gathering has
so practical approach to the issues in
volved been available.
AL the nations have at least tacitly
accepted the skeleton treaty" be-
queathed to the present conference by
the Preparatory Commission on Dis
armament-a treaty with blank spaces
left for the figures-as q basis for the
work OF the Geneva confereeS.
Almost all nations have likewise
added reservations and conditions.
Many Of these seem, at first glance, to
be irreconcilable and insurmountable.
But at any rate, the skeleton treaty"
constitutes starting point-and that,
indeed, Il farther than the nations have
ever before progressed where the Old
World has been involved.
Germany, Austria, Hungary and Bull
garia can set forth that they have al
ready been compelled to disarm out Of
all proportion to their neighbors; and
1t Is impossible TO see how the United
States, with its Navy limited by treaty
and its Army reduced to the size Of a
tiny national police force, will be able
to contribute materially to . reduction
until other nations have made more
substantial reductions than have yet
been in prospect.
These, however, are special cases.
There cannot be an easy escape from
the admission that there are today q
number Of nations which are decidedly
and dangerously overarmed. Even with
the virtually total Disarmament Of the
central powers, more men are under
arms in Europe today than in 1918.
The French and their satellite na-
tions Of Continental Europe have more
than 100000 men In their standing
armies and trained reserves; and 20 It
Is from France and those nations tied
to France by military treaties that the
world has the right to expect actual
and effective reductions. France. how
without similar action on the part Of
Russia, Italy and Japan.
Evening star., 1932-02-18
They Got Their Man.

The Canadian "Mounties' finally got
their man. Yesterday the mad trap
Der. who eight weeks ago wounded q
constable who sought to arrest him as
q trap thief and five weeks later killed
another constable when a squad closed
IN upon his cabin to take him for the
first shooting, was run down in the
frozen wastes Of the Northwest Terri
tory and, after desperately and perhaps
mortally wounding q trooper. was slain
by q fusillade Of bullets from the rifles
ef III pursuing party. The pursuit d
Evening star., 1932-02-18

Did you ever write o letter to Frederic
]. Haskin? You can ask him any ques-
ton Of fact and get the answer IN q
personal letter. Here u . great educa-
tional idea introduced into the lives Of
the most intelligent people in the world
American newspaper readers. It Is
part Of that best purpose OF . newspa-
per-Service. There Is no charge ex-
cept 2 cents In coin or stamps for re-
turn postage. Address Frederic ]. Has
kin, Director, The Evening Star Infor-
nation Bureau. Washington. D. c.
Q. What were considered the 10 best
motion pictures Of 193l?-M. M.
A. The Film Daily gives the following
as the result Of Its tenth annual ooll:
bad Girl" Min and BILL" Front
Page" "Five Star Final" city Lights"
"A Free Soul" and sin Of Madelon
Claudet."
@. How long Will It take to disburse
the funds which julius Rosenwald left
for philanthropy?-F. c. 8.
A. The American Hebrew says: "The
actual expenditure of the millions given
as phiianthropies by the late julius
Rosenwald win be ended In IS years
10 less than the maximum specified by
the merchant prince. Thus will the
cardinal principle of the great philan-
thropist, who was militantly opposed to
the dead hand In philanthropy, be car
med out. Mr.. Rosenwald's gifts since
1910 total in excess Of $4,000. .o0o."
@. How much has the total Of Fed
erai prisoners increased since the World
War?-T. LF.
A. The number of Federal prisoners
In 1918 was 5000. The latest available
fRures for the number Of Federal prts-
oners Is for 1929, when there were H.
335.
@. Which weighs more, q cubic foot
Of water or q cubic foot Of ice?--H. s. N.
A. A cubic foot Of water weighs So 70
pounds, while o cubic foot Of ice weighs
only 57.2s pounds.
@. Which State ranks first In area
and In population?-A. M. E.
A. Texss ranks nrst in area, with
265, 1896 square miles. California Is sec
ond. with 158.207 square miles. New
York State, which ranks twenty-ninth
in area, Is first in population. Penn
syyvania, which Is thirty-second IN size,
ranks second in population. Texas
ranks nth In population and California
ranks sixth.
@. What Is the longest stretch Of
straight track on the SeabCard Line in
Florida?-W. P. B.
A. Between Okeechobee and West
Palm Beach there Is q stretch Of track
So miles in length which does not have
q curve or an elevation.
@. When was the operetta San Toy
produced?-B. D.
A. It was produced in London In 1899.
@. What Is . morganatic marriage?-
M. P. D.
A. A morganatic marriage is one prac-
tced In some countries by royalty or
other persons which while existing
precludes any other marriage and
makes children Of the marriage legtti-
mate, does not give to either the wife
or the children any right Of possession
or succession to the lands, properties,
titles Of dignity Of the husband and
father. It Is Of German origin and Is
not recognized by law In England.
Q. Has Wakefield been furnished?-
A. The old colonial homestead has
been reconstructed and the grounds re-
stored It has been furnished with
copies Of furniture Of the colonial Pc
Rod.
@. How much does Franklin D.
Roosevelt weighf-N. C.
A. He is over 8 feet tall and weighs
180 pounds.
Evening star., 1932-02-18

sagacious scrutiny that seeks to dis
esver some element Of political signin-
canoe in the appointment of Justice
Cardozo proves only . waste of time.
There are occasions where q judgeship
may be regarded as representing po-
litical influence, but Cardozo Is not that
kind Of man and the U. 8. Supreme
Court Is not that kind of body.
Evening star., 1932-02-18

Allen has been considering making the
race. Representative Harold McGugin
Of the third congressional district is
said to be '.rarin' to CO." and it has
been reported that If he makes the
race he will prove q hard man for
the Democrats to beat should he win
the nominattlo
Evening star., 1932-02-18

New figures In the French govern
ment, on contemplating an important
accumulation Of gold, may be persuaded
to offer earnest advice against boarding
Of any kind.
Evening star., 1932-02-18

30 much business now consists in bor-
rowing to meet immediate emergency
that the Dickens character, Micawber,
may one day be regarded Is personify-
ing finance In its most intelligent as
pect,
Evening star., 1932-02-18

Laval Is no doubt sufnciently philo-
sophie to have realized that, according
to the custom Of his country, his office,
at the moment he assumed it, carried
a resignation rymor.
Evening star., 1932-02-18

The Soviet has practical affairs to
engage its attention. It may be some
time before another Russian ballet Is
sent on tour to dazzle the world with
the magnif1cence Of its native land.
Evening star., 1932-02-18

Financial experts are strongly inclined
to believe that the hour Is at hand
when those who pinned their faith to
the idea that hard times cannot endure
forever will find their regulations for
reliable prophecy popularity established.