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Evening star., 1932-07-29
Veteran of Five Wars
Defends Bonus Army
To the Editor of The stan.

TO the Editor of The Star:
Dear Sir: In reply to a letter in the
editorial section of your paper signed
by "A Mason" and calling the bonus
marcherS undesirable citizens, I wish to
say that l am a veteran with IA years
service to my credit, having been dis
charged last June, a year ago, with a
medical discharge, unfit for further
service. My liability is due to wound
received in line of duty while a mem
Der of the shore patrol in Manzanillo.
CUBA, on January 27 1928, in attempt
ing 10 quell riot between natives and
enlisted men.
Does the big-hearted Veterans
Bureau do anything for me? They
won't even recognize the wound as
service connected, snd l am drawing
the big sum of $18, and am supposed
to iced, clothe and room myself on that
I have S782 SO stil coming to me on
my bonus and could put it to good use
If had it. After all these years of
military service you can figure out my
chance OF competing with others for
employment; in fact, my chances are
nil.
! am unable to do any hard work,
the doctors orders are no hard labor
at all, and If veteran says what he
believes to be an Injustice he is readily
called red or Communist. All these
people putting up e yell because the
veteran came here to seek his rights
are people who were born with silver
spoons in their mouths and were never
hungry. / am veteran OF five cam
palgnS. JAMES THOMAS.
Evening star., 1932-07-29
Mayor Walkers Defense.

Mayor Walker of New York has ct
last after several weeks, responded to
Gov. Roosevelts request for a rcioinder
to the charges filed with him by the
Legislative Investigating Committee
with a demand for his removal. He
takes about $4,000 words to meet these
charges, and others brought by groups
Of citizens. He denies everything, and
says that the Legislative Committee was
organized and former Judge Seabury
was obtained as counsel to carry out a
deliberate plan of calumny" in the
hope OF discrediting the Democratic ad-
minisration of New York City. He de-
clares that the financial transactions in
which he was engaged and which added
materially to his personal exchequer
were wholly legitimate and were in no.
wise or in any degree connected with
his Official actions. He asserts that the
missing Russell Sherwood was not his
Evening star., 1932-07-29
Tax Increase Needless
And Evasion Excusable
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
I take exception to your editorial in
Sundays Star entitled Evasion Of
Taxes During these times. when
every one is compelled to save every
penny in order to make necessary
profits to continue in business, 1t is
perfectly in order for the taxpayer to
avoid if ne possibly can, payment Of
taxes. The average business concern
is fighting to get enough volume at
present to meet operating expenses
Sales and income have been curtailed
due to general conditions prevailing and
the business man has been forced to
cut his operating expenses to avoid the
latter exceeding his income. He has
cut all expenses to rock bottom, he has
reduced salaries and wages. In my or
ganization a salary cut of % per cent
was necessary In the face of these
conditions. the Government comes
along and increases taxes, and natur-
ally the business concern, fighting to
exist. avoids this type Of expense as
well as others.
During normal times, when profits
are being made taxes are paid will
ingly and no effort is made to avoid
payment of such assessments as are
aecessarv But this is no time for the
SIONHIIUlHIlJ W 1doICll dOd4tAOllhl tclAd-
ton on the taxpayer. The Govern
ment should adopt the same methods
of balancing its budget as the business
concern has been forced to adopt
that is. reduce expenses. Many of the
Government departments employ
much larger force than necessary.
These forces should be cut to mini
mum and all Government employees re-
quired to produce a full days work. A
reasonable annual leave, say two weeks,
should be allowed, but the present
vicious practice of allowing 80 days
sick leave should be discontinued.
again. the Government employe should
be reduced in salary in the same pro-
portion as the outside man has been
reduced.
At present the Government employe
is oVerpaid for the service he render.
He works only 10-12ths of the year,
hut draws a years pay. He has sh0r,
working hours, but the average man
works only part of the DAY.
AS to the check and stamp taxes,
the taxpayer is justified in avoiding
payment. Congress did not listen to
his objection when these taxes were
proposed, and in view of the Govern
mcnt wastefulness the taxpayer has
only one other method of fighting back
and that is avoid payment of the tax.
IRA NJ. WILLIAMSON.
Evening star., 1932-07-29
Tight Check Reins
Torture to Horses

To the Editor OF The Star:
This morning the writer saw span
of horses hitched to a drag used for
cultivating the ground in the area to
be used for a park on the Pennsylvania
avenue side of the new Commerce
Building The heat was intense and
the work hard at the best, but to add
to the discomfort Of the patient ami
mails the check reins we're cruelty tight
and hindered them very much in pull
ing the drag They were dripping with
sweat and tossing their heads, appeal
ing in their mute language for relief
from the torturing check reins, but only
the writer understood their voiceless
pleading. The writer asked the driver
to release the check reinS so the horses
could do their work easier. but he did
not dare to take them of. He only
seemed bewildered at the request. II
the owner of this fine team reads this
letter will he not kindly see that his
animals are worked in a maner that
will not cause them SO much hindrance
and torture? The agony caused by
the check reins was wearing them out
faster than the work they were doing.
Times are too hard to waste feed and
EoTSefeSh
MRS. CARRIE K. HUNTINGTON.
Evening star., 1932-07-29
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

general counsel, each at a $4,000 sal
ary, are to be named. A certain State
Is said to have six candidates for each
of the seven places.
One Federal vacancy-the director
ship of the Bureau of Standards
likely to be filled soon. Political Wash
ington is wondering whether the late
DR.. George K Burgess place will be
given to somebody already in the Bu-
reau OF handed over to an outsider
from the professional world Secretary
of Commerce Lamont has the say, the
Bureau being in his department Dr.
L. j. Briggs, acting director, and DR.
Addams Stratton McAllister, assistant
director for the commercial standards
group, rank as the most promising cam
didates for the dictatorship of the Bu-
reau, if it's decided to bestow the plum
within the organization. The work
under the supervision of the senior as
siStant director. Dr. Briggs. has to do
with the research side Of Uncle Sans
house Of wonders" DR.. McAllister's
speciality is aiding business to eliminate
waste through Standardization and sim
pl1ncation-a field to which President
Hoover devoted himself energetically
while Secretary of Commerce.
X
A former naval officer, well known in
service and social circles in Washington,
Capt. Robert Henderson, is after the
Republican nomination for the House
from the newly created Long Beach dis
trlct OF California. One of his boosters
is John Hays Hammond The captains
long association with the Navy, his sup
porterS on the Coast affirm, qualities
him in special degree to represent the
Long Beach area, to which the Navy is
OF great Importance. The district
thinks Henderson is the right man to
send 10 Congress at this time, to thWalt
the move to transfer the activities OF
the Battle Fleet to the San Francisco
area.
~ **
Wartime rivalries and animosities be-
tween Gen. John j. Pershing and Gen
Peyton c. March-"the man who ran
the war and gave orders to Pershing,"
as hts publishers describe him-are re-
Vealed in March'S memoirs, about to be
published serially, beginning next week,
ana later In book form. The chief of
the general staff of the United States
Army in 1918 counters bitterly the
criticisms contained in Gen. PerShing S
book, My Experiences in the World
War" Among other thrustS at the COM
mander in chief cf the A. E. F., Gen.
March charges Pershing with fearing
men of great ability and wanting a
rubber-stamp man as chief of staff"
Pershing is taken to task for "errors of
Judgment, vacillation and failure to in
form himself correctly on French mill
tary policy" Gen. March commends the
perfect support" he had, as chief of
stan, from President Wilson and Secre-
tary Of War Baker.
(Copyright, 1922
Evening star., 1932-07-29
Death From Third Degree
Brings Demand for Remedy

I the mother of one OF the detectives en-
gagged in interrogating' the prisoner
makes the case look even more 6lspi-
Cious. But the significance is not that
man was beaten to death in a police
station. 1t lies in the fact that the tor
ture OF prisoners, where the position
in the community Of the prisoner makes
it safe is a commonplace of Amer
lean police methods. There Is no diff
ference whatever between such third
degreeing' and the rack. boot and
thumbscrews of medieval days. Neither
can be tolerated or should be tolerated
IN community which calls itself civil
izsd"
Linking this case with an incident in
prison camp in Florida, the Salt Lake
Deseret News says: IF adequate punish
ment follows the revelation of the out
RACES, a wholesome lesson will be given
to authorities who treat helpless men
in their care with brutality. Crime is
not lesSened by third degree efforts to
force confessions or by terrifying pris-
oners. After all humanity and reason
turn criminals from their course of vio-
lence, passion and stealth more effec-
lively than do violent and passionate
punishmentS administered in secret"
x x
'The police inquisition persists"
thinks the Dayton Daily News, because
the extreme protection placed about the
prisoner in his legal trial prevents con-
vlction. The police are blamed because
they don't convict criminals and be-
cause of the way in which they do con-
Wet criminals" The Providence Bulle-
tin advises that ''the way to put an end
to these practices and at the same time
10 help insure punishment of offenders
is not merely to condemn the police out
OF hand for illegal methods. but to give
them legal weapons equal in effective
ness to those already available to the
criminal" The Bulletin believes that
this, in effect was the conclusion to
which the Wickersham Commission in
vestigators came"
In the current case the Escanaba
Daily Press holds that often the vic
TINS confess to accusations merely to be
relieved from the suffering that is being
caused by their brutal tormentors" The
Jersey City Journal comments: ITO
make matters worse, and to convict
the policemen involved of having guilty
conSciences, when a doctor was sum
nloned, instead of telling him that the
prisoner had been choked and was suf-
locating, the police informed him that
Stark seemed to be having a fit. The
truth, even then, might have saved
Starks life. BY the time it was estab-
hshed that he was suffocating from a
broken larynx adams apple) he had
expireG-it was too late to insert in his
throat a silver tube through which he
might have breathed"
Evening star., 1932-07-29
America as Jaran's Teacher"

In his cCnvocation address at the
Williamstown Institute of Politics yes
terdav, Dr.. Inazo Nitobe. a member CT
the japanese House CT Peers ana for
mer Unde-sccretary general Ct the
League Of Nations. had something to
say about current history in the Far
East We learned from America, he
ted the institute, how to deal with
no.ghboring unstable governments, and
when We put the lessons into practice
We are severely criticized by our
teacher
The japanese statesman scholar is, Of
course, drawing an analogy between his
Country's actions in Menchuria and at
Shanghai and recurrent Intervention in
Central America ana West Indies by
the United States. 1t IS not a fair or
accurate analogy. One reason Why it
falls short Of the truth Is that American
armed forces at no stage OF our inter
ventionlst policy went the length Of pro-
tr9ctod warfare with the country into
which they were sent for protection Of
inperiled American interests and res
tcrat.on Of domestic order. Another
reason is that, with few exceptions, such
Intervention was undertaken on behalf
o. all foreign interests endangered by
local conditions and disappearance OF
local stable government and never had
as its purpose the promotion Of selfish
American advantage or territorial sg-
grandizement. Another reason is that
in many cases-like the presence OF
United States Marines in Nicaragua at
this time-intervention was at the ur-
gent request of the country invaded"
But the principal reason why Or.
Nitobe fails of convincing verify in
comparing American policy in the
region of the Monroe Doctrine with
Japanese aggression against China is
that the United States has violated
no four power, nine-power or Kellogg
pacts in anything it has ever done be-
<ond the Rio G-arde and in the Carib-
teca. Our record In Central America
and the West Indies is perhaps not
Evening star., 1932-07-29
Finale.

The climax Of an epOchal drama IN
The history Of America came WIN
breath taking suddsnness, leaving It's
audience stunned by the significance OF
its tragedy as well as by the swlttness
Of lis movement.
The question now is whether there
could have been any other ending,
whether those stirring scenes enacted
on the streets of washington yesterday
were. as many have from the beginning
feared, the inevitable ending.
On that point opinion will always
differ. 1t is one of the pleasant diver
sions to theorize over what might have
been.
But the choice of the ending lay
with those who for more than two
months now have played the leading
part in the unfolding of an amazing
snd deeply significant story of the
times. That role they chose yesterday
not with any deliberation. perhaps. for
deliberation and thought have had
little to do with their coming to Wash
tncton or with what they have done
while here. But when they chose the
roe they were to play yesterday there
could have been 70 other ending.
What WIS the chosen role? Was it
of protesting citizenship petitioning
citizenship, abused citizenship, helpless,
hopeless suffering, penniless citizen
ahip?
It was none of these things. The
chosen role was defiance Of Govern
ment and of authority, revolt against
government and authority. Govern
ment and authority were left without
choice of alternative. The only course
was quick, decisive action, taken in ac-
cordance with methods duly prescribed
by the law of the land.
That action followed. If there is any
occasion for gratitude or for thanksgiv-
ing today, it is for the fact that inter-
cession by the military forces was car
ried through without bloodshed and
with only minor casualties, and that
the grim horror of actual street fight
ing, with countryman aligned against
couatryman, was avoided. This fact,
in turn, becomes a tribute to the dis
cipIine of the troops and to the wisdom
o. their officers in performing what is
always one Of the most delicate of mil
itary functions.
There is no occasion for satisfaction,
However, in the fact that troops were
used. And there is nothing to be proud
OF in the fact that after troops had met
the emergency and quelled the riot
their assigned task was not brought to
en- end before women and children, to-
gether with able-bo5ied men, were sent,
confused and beWildered, into the night
from the Anacostia camp, that until a
few sccrt hours before they had been
given to understand was for the time
being theirs.
. The action Of the troops solved the
problem of ridding Government prop
erty of trespassers. The problem that
led to that trespags has not been
solved
Evening star., 1932-07-29

The Joneses were eating supper on
the lawn.
In the back yard, to be exact.
1T would be such a nice thing" Mrs.
Jones had said, ito invite a few friends
and eat out in the yard"
The friends were there, at the ap-
pointed time. but some unlimited guests
we're on hand, too.
There was an inch worm, which in
sisted on doing its stuff just as the ice
cream was served.
There was a horde of big black ants,
capable fellows who smelled grub for a
mile.
No doubt they had been on the move
for an hour or 50. faithfully following
the scent OF those neat meat sand
wicheS on which Mrs. Jones lsbored SO
long.
There were several assorted spiders.
including one pale greeniSh one which
frightened one guest into knocking over
her iced tea
There was a large moth with green
wings like metal
1t hung around the phlox just as the
salad came on the table, ana the ladies
all thought it was hummingbird.
"Oh. see the pretty hummIngbird! !"
they chortled, in soft voices, which could
be heard at least six blocks.
The "hummingbird" paid not the
slightest bit of attention to their bland
iShments, but went straight ahead dip
ping its snout into the fiowerets, of
which its is immensely fond.
Several flies attended the banquet, to
say nothing of some fine specimens Of
the mosquito family The latter re-
ported that fine time was had by all
A stray dog ran up the driveway and
into the outdoor living room, as one of
the Jones guests insisted on calling the
yard.
Spying the family cat, the dog made
what is dubioCsly known as a bee linz.
whercuDon the cat fled up a tree, to the
huge diversion of the company.
Templeton Jones said afterward that
if the party had not been quite so ZOO
logical in nature he would have called it
a success.
Eating in the open air is after all
is said and done, an occupation more
diverting in prospect that retrospect.
If it were Just sitting down to a good
meal in fresh air, it would be IN
promptu, al freSco and all that sort of
thing.
1t would be a novelty, and heaven
knows that the city world loves novelty.
The trouble with outdoor eating lies
at the door of Nature She makes the
outdoors and puts the creeping, crawl
ing creatures into it.
If these are hungry all the time, that,
too, is Mother Natures doings.
She evolved in the beginning. q
curious system of needs, their salts
faction based upon others. The food
Of one creature is another creature, in
many instances. For this strange state
of affairs Nature has never. during all
the long time during which man has
known her. shown the slightest shame;
she has not changed her system one
jot, despite the pleas and prayers Of
mankind
One does not have to go INTO the
big woods to get some glimpses of
Natures way of feeding her own.
Venture into the home back yard, and
before you have been there very long
a winged something or other will seize
you as fair prey.
Make no mistake about it.
You are prey.
1t is not easy for mankind to realize
that it is game, to the insects, In the
sense that rabbits and squirrels land
such small deer" as King Lear called
them. are deemed the prey of hunters.
Make no mistake, however.
This gangly insect, with long legs
and black body, which unhappily flies
Evening star., 1932-07-29

MANY readers send in questions
signed only with initials. asking that
the answers appear IN the newspaper
The space is limited and would not ac-
commodate a fraction OF such requests.
The answers published are ones that
may interest many readers. rather than
the one who asks the question only.
All questions should be accompanied
by the writer's name and address and
3 cents in coin or stamps for reply.
Send your question to The Evening
Star Information Bureau. Frederic j.
HaSkin, director, Washington. D. G.
@. Which States gain and which
lose in the House of Representatives
under the new apportionment?-M.
r. H.
A. The following gain; California, 9;
New Jersey. 2: Oklahoma, l; Michigan,
4 Ohio. 2: North Carolina, /; Texas,
3 Connecticut. /; Washington, /; New
York. 2: Florida. /; total 27), The fol-
lowing States will lose Representatives
Missouri, 3: Alabama, /; Minnesota, !;
South Carolina, l; Georgia, 2; Indiana,
/; Mississippi. /; South Dakota, /;
Wisconsin. l. Iowa, 2; Kansas /; Ne
braska, l; Tennessee, /; Kentucky, =;
Maine. /: North Dakota, /, Vermont,
1; Pennsylvania. g. Massachusetts,. /:
Rhode Island, /; Virginia, /; (total
30.
@. How many Keeley Institutes were
there before prohibition?-O. OBJ.
A. There were about At.
@. What Is the real name for the
June bug?-G M.
A. The June bug or June beetle is
any of several species of large brown
me!olonthine beetles of the genus
Lachnosterna and related genera. The
larvae of these beetles live underground
and feed upon roots of grasses and
ether plants.
@. Why was St. Elizabeths Hospital,
Washington, D. c., given this name
A. OFT.
4. 1t was named for st. Elizabeth
Of Hungary, who spent her life min
istering to the sick and needy in hos
pitals and elsewhere.
O. How many pharmacists are there
in the United States?-M. G.
A The Committee on the Cost of
Medical Care says that in 1881 there
were lis, 900 licensed pharmacists.
@. Are there several kinds of sar-
dines?-G. P.
A. Commercially speaking. any small
fish of the herring family is a sardine.
The herring family includes not only
the true Sardine or pilchard, but also
the sea herring or slid and the sprat
or bristling.
@. Where is the quotation found
which is on the Liberty Bell?-C. L. P.
A. 1t is from the Bible, Leviticus,
25th chapter. 10th verse: Proclaim
liberty throughout all the land, unto all
the inhabitants thereof"
c. What are the salaries of the
Governors Of New York, Illinois and
California?-N B. w.
A. New York, S25. 900; Illinois, s12,-
COO; California, $4,000.
@. How long has the suez Canal
been in operation?-S. F.
A. 1t was opened for traffic Novem-
Der 8, 1862
Q. Please give a brief history of
VaudeVille.-A. H. F.
A. The American theatrical insti-
tuition CT vaudeville originated in 1888,
in Boston, Mass, where a former circus
employe, Benjamin Franklin Keith,
opened a small museum and show in a
vacant candy store next to the old
Adams House, on Washington street.
He called his first theater the Gaiety
Museum. and its principal attractions
were Baby Alice, a midget weighing
ore and one-han pounds, and an an
Evening star., 1932-07-29
DOOlittle Did Not Cover
WashingtOn's Routes
To the Editor of The Star:

10 the Editor OF The Star:
Reading the editorial In The Star,
and looking at the map on page s. one
gets the impression that Maj. Doo.ittle's
remarkable flight, in II hours, covered
the routes travelled by Washington dur
ing his lifetime, If you make a tracing
Of the majors route and place over the
map Of George Washington's travels
published for the Bicentennial Commls-
sion by the National Geographic So
ciety. you will find some remarkable alb
breviations in the majors schedule. To
mention a few places not included, let
me name Newbern, N c.; Wilmington,
N. c.; Charleston, S. c.; Savannah, Ga;
Waynesboro. Ga; Augusta. Ga; Colum-
bia, S. C.; Salisbury, N. C.; winston
Salem, N. C., and so on. George Wash
ington was great traveller. and why
not give him due credit? Why did the
ma jor omit the South? The Father OF
His Country visited North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia, and can
this territory travelled by Washington
be covered. or rather "circumnavigateo
in a day at our present air speed? That
remains to be demonstrated.
NILS RADKE.