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Evening star., 1932-11-27
British Life Declared Prolonged
By National Health Insurance

LONDON.-To those Britons who
have been carping about the expendi-
ture of vast sums on the health OF the
nation, Sir Geotge Newman, chief
medical officer of the ministry of health,
has given the reply: Never before
have the English. people enjoyed the
measure OF national health which they
have today"
And to back up his contention. Sir
George asserts that the expectation of
life at birth ir, two generations has
increased by not less than is years.
From 1871 to $3.50 the expectation of
lie at birth was zl years for boy and
"A fer girl; today it is 56 for the boy
and 60 for the: girl.
Vast Sums Expended.
In the 20 years since the adoption of
the national health insurance scheme a
sum exceeding $4,000 100000 has been
expended on medical. sickness, disabil-
ity, maternity and other benefits. De-
spite the enormous good accruing from
snis outlay. it is admitted by Sir George
that. taken as a whole, sickness and
disability still lead to the loss of much
time from organized industry. This
loss among the insured population av-
erages IL days per capita annually. or
dPkiSAAAioSCly tiIec Hcek5 per ulSuASe
person annually. These figures, too,
show little sign Of declining.
It has been complained in some re-
sponsible quarters that a heavy price
has been paid for malingering. An in
yestigation in 1880 indicated that the
total increase Of payments of benefits
had been due mainly to certain indi-
yiduel5 who were not incapable Of re-
Burning to work, TO the number claimins
sncanacity for short periods, anc
fhrcJeh prolongation Of periods Of In
capacity due to serious illness.
Evening star., 1932-11-27
FORMER PRESIDENT COOLIDGE.

lowers that they should so conduct
themselves in retirement as to be In
readiness to. take the presidency again
if and when the wheel should turn.
Taft, in his private capacity, became
a teacher of law at Yale University,
and in a very limited way, prac-
titioner of law. For a highminded
reason he refrained from practicing
law as actively as his training and
position would have enabled him to. He
had appointed, while President, about
go per cent of tine occupants of the
Federal bsnch-the Supreme Court, the
District ard Circuit Courts In that
condition, Taft felt. he could not ap-
pear as a practitioner before judges
who owed their appointments to him.
During some of the years OF his retire
nlent Taft was professional lecturer,
trudging up and down the country to
keep engagements before Chautauqua
and other popular audiences. For
hard-working average of five nights
week Taft kept 1t up month after
month. It was out Of this that Taft
accumulated much of the modest for
tune he acquired.
Taft,s attitude toward public affairs
continued to be only mildly that Of
Republican. Almost he became nom
partisan. sage, an elder statesman.
When Democratic President Wilson
Evening star., 1932-11-27
FORMER PRESIDENT TAFT.

took up the League of Nations, Taft
united with him in support of 1t. On
one occasion, in the Metropolitan Opera
House in New York during March, 1919,
Taft actually stood on the same plat
form with Wilson in joint and earnest
advocacy of the cause into which Will
son had put his heart. That joint
appearance was, one surrnises without
verification, without precedent in
American history.
Theodore Roosevelt during this period
continued In his personal capacity the
one private career he had, that of pro-
fessional writing. In his attitude to-
ward public affairs Roosevelt was ex-
tremely active, extremely partisan. He
aimed to be, and became, the outstand-
ing spokesman of the opposition to
Wilson. During the three years that
remained of the Progressive party's
brief life, Roosevelt continued, Of course,
titular head of the Progressive party.
But he brought 1t about that the
Progressive party should reunite with
the Republican one; and after the
union Roosevelt was clearly and aggres-
sively and violently the head and the
voice of the critics of Wilson'S admins
tration. The case of Wilson as the
President belonging to one party, and
Theodore Roosevelt as ex-President
belonging to the other Is the outstand-
Evening star., 1932-11-27
MORE ACTIVITY BY US.
ABROAD is ANTICIPATED
Europe Expects Roosevelt Regime to
Show Increased Interest i'm Inter-
national Affairs.

President Hoover's reported suggestion,
following his talks with President-elect
Roosevelt. that any new war debt dis
cusSions should be entrusted to the same
persons who represent the United States
in the Disarmament and World Eco
nomic Conferences. For the present at
least, this would mean the American
delegates now sitting in Geneva.
Despite the sort Of interim OF au-
thority which threatens to make itself
felt pending the coming out of President
Hoover and the coming in of the Roose-
welt administration, the American dele
Cation in Geneva, far from relaxing its
efforts, appears to be actually increas-
ing them.
They are being unostentatiously con-
suited on every phase Of the Leagues
handling of the Manchurian affair. It
is our delegates who have succeeded in
bringing the French and Italians into
new naval negotiations
1t is the influence of the Americans
more than that Of any other group
which, after long and patient endeavors,
seems at last to have persuaded both
the French and Germans to agree to
five-poWer disarmament talks here next
Thursday.
Incidentally, the report that Norman
II. Davis, American delegate, would be
present at this talk merely as an OBJ
server is completely erroneous. He will
participate fully, it is affirmed, on an
equal basis with the others.
Temporarily the difficulties of the
American delegation have been consid-
erebly increased by the bad feeling
aroused in both Europe and the United
States over the war debt controversy
For the moment both Great Britain and
France appear even more reluctant than
formerly to make concessions to the
American viewpoint in other matters.
However, the situation is not viewed
tragically. The feeling of experienced
diplomats is that after few days or
weeks of excited exchanges of epithets
and diScourtesieS by newspapers and
politicians, the controversy will be toned
Gown, temporary technical solution of
some sort will have been reached and
real negotiations can begin.
There is said to be little doubt that
our trump card in the defense and fur
therance Of the other American inter-
estS at present is the war debt issue.
The United States can afford, it is said,
to be more or less lenient, according to
whether satisfactory solutions are reach
ed in other problems.
That the war debts are ever really
going to be paid in any circumstances
seems highly doubtful. The main ques-
ton. therefore, appears to be to what
extent the eventual readjustment of the
war debts can be made to serve the
cause of peace, disarmament and eco
ncn1ic rehabilitation.
The diplomatic position of the United
States today appears TO be such that,
if successfully exploited, it can be in
strumental in bringing these benefits
not to the United States alone, 1t is said,
but to the entire world.
Copyright, Io32)
Evening star., 1932-11-27

Field Marshal Lord Wolseley, and pre-
sented by her to hospitals and chari-
table institutions. Since her death the
sales have been open to the public, but
not to commercial houses 1t is the
practice in France to auction off the
royal grapes at Fontainbleau to trades
men, who then dispose of the punches
to Paris restaurants.
The keeper Of the crown Jewels is no
more interested in the safety of those
treasures than Is the keeper of the
Hampton Court vine-H. Peckham-in
the welfare of his charge. Not only has
he tended and clipped it and gathered
the punches for fully II years, but he
has its rich history at his finger tips.
He has ascertained that the daddy of
present-day grapevines was originally
slip taken from a now defunct plant
which once fourished at Valentines
winery at Ilford, Essex.
Called Oldest on Record.
In showing this thriving prodigy to
the Sun correspondent, the vine
keeper explained that while it is not
the largest on record it is by far the
Oldest.
THE last crop" he said, was well
above the average, really the best for
three or four years. The cid vine ac-
tually took it into its head to put out
a new shoot three years ago, the first
fer 20 years. A normal vine only bears
fruit for six or seven years, but it looks
as though this fellow intends to go on
working long after we shah be gone"
At ground level the monster vine has
girth Of 81 inches, said to be the
largest of any vine in existence. It's
main branch, which is also its oldest,
is ia feet long. 1t is suggested that
its roots have Travelled into the bed of
the River Thames, which is about 60
feet from the vine house. The vine
which covers the greatest roof space in
Europe, and possibly in the world, is
said to be that at Badavgan Castle in
Scotland.
(Copyright, 1922
Evening star., 1932-11-27
Fight to Preserve Kings English
Is Invoked by Use of U. S. Slang

as Col. Chutney cannot always escape
the nightmare that the young SUBJ
altern undergoing reproof Is cogitating
the sentence, II gettcha, you big stiff."
Nor can the belted earls assume that
old retainers, or buffers with mutton
chop whiskers, do all their rejecting
without occasional sly use Of f11m
jargon.
Worries Women More.
It has been the experience Of the
heads Of some business houses that
women occupying positions Of au-
thority are more concerned over what
they regard as indiscipline bred by the
use of such slang than are masculine
chiefs of departments. Even a good
naturedly muttered, "Okay, chief" from
a girl stenographer arouses the ire of
her feminine superior. The man is
more often disposed to ignore such
familiarity. or repress a smile over it,
probably because he gets home train
ing in 1t.
But apart from this perilous influence
Of American talkie slang on Kings
English there are several other aspects
OF the language problem which are
giving great concern. The dumping of
broadcast English into the Irish Free
State is sore trial for Gaelic zealots
there, Just as it Is for Welsh Ma
tionalists in Wales. In England itself
those who are anxious to have the
dialects preserved ar, afraid all viii be
obliterated in the BOD Of standard"
brand English put on the air by sta
tions Of the British Broadcasting Corpo-
ration. 1t is the plant, too, Of many
turf devotees who are used to book
makers English that they can never
understand the names of the winners
when they sre broadcast in the "stand-
ard" language with its super Oxford
tcopyright issa.,
Evening star., 1932-11-27
Old Royal Grapevines of Europe
Prove Steady Dividend Yielders

LCNDON.-Among Europe's stead
lest dividend y,elders today must be
claSsed two famous royal grapevines-
the one at Hampton Court Palace, near
London, and the other at Fountaine-
bleu, France. Each Summer these his
toric vines, despite their advanced age.
produce bountiful crops, which are sold
to the public.
The Great Vine of Hampton Court,
which is nominally the property of
King George, was planted in 1853. or at
q time when the present sovereign'5
ancestor, George III, was rather per-
turbed over the rebellious activities of
some of his subjects in the American
colonies. Recently this Methuselah of
vines celebrated its 164th birthday by
the convincing yield of nearly GOO
buches of large black Hamburger grapes
of quality certainly fit for king or
an epicure. an output which would have
done credit to tree" Of one-tenth its
years.
These were sold to the public for 6
shillings (about s1.50 at par a pound.
Owing to the quality of the fruit and
its sentimental value as a bunch OF
king Georges own grapes" there is
neve- any deartn of purchasers. The
punches are sold in baskets made By
blind coldiers at St. Dunstan's Home,
the home receiving the profits from the
baskets and the crown the proceeds
from the fruit, amounting to between
$500 and $500 year. In its youth the
vines yield was often 2,200 punches.
Adorned Royal Table.
Until IT years ago the grapes adorned
the dinner table at Windsor Castle and
other royal establishments. Since then
however, the wants of royalty and its
guests have been supplied by the vine
at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, a de-
sccndant of the Hampton Court vet
eran, and only few years its junior
For several. years after the Hampton
Court grapes ceased being sent tc
Windsor the whole crop was purchased
by Lady WolseIey, widow of the late
Evening star., 1932-11-27

LONDON.-In the battle to preserve
the purity Of what is known in Great
Britain as Kings English" the most
formidable foe at the moment is the
person described by st. John Ervine,
the dramatist, as the "celluloid nit-wit," /"
the purveyor hereabouts Of American
film slang.
AS these "nit-wits" are now legion, it
is felt IN most quarters that the prom
ised check on slang in certain Holly
wood studios Is a reform that has been
delayed too long. This Objectionable
jargon pervades homes, offices and
schools.
1t Is asserted by some of the purists
that the slangy captions OF the silent
language corruption, as the offending
slang has made a deep impression be-
cause the ear has registered 1t at the
same time as the eye has seen what
are the necessary grimaces or facial
contortions In its expert use.
Aim to Check Slang.
Brave attempts are being made to
put a check on it, especially in Offices,
but a wedding out Of the "nit-wits"
would leave many establishments with
only skeleton staff of heads of de-
partments, and not all of them free
from suspicion of the clandestine use
of such expressions as ''Yes, big boy"
"Oh, yeah!" II gottcher," "Okay baby"
or yeah, get the low down."
There are employers who feel that
every time they give instructions to
a stenographer, clerk or Office boy that
the person addressed is thinking to
himself, "Awright. chief" or Eyes, big
boy" Stern parents also undergo the
same fearful reactions when laying
down the law to their firm-fan sons
and daughters. Even such crusty beings
Evening star., 1932-11-27
BY PAUL SCOTT MoWRER.

~ ENEVA.-More rather than less
cooperation in international
r affairs by the United States
~ under the administration OF
Franklin D. Roosevelt is now
positively expected abroad.
It IS admitted that President-elect
Roosevelt has not yet committed HIM
self en- the subject. Yet a sounding
made ard an analysis undertaken are
all said to indicate that the United
States. in its cwn Interest, will almost
certainly become even more active in
foreign policy.
This does not mean, it is said, that
any sensational action like Joining the
League of Nations or making a lot Of
new peace pacts is contemplated. 1t
means simply that the policies already
stated by President Hoover and Secre-
tary Of State Henry L. Stimson will be
taken over by the Democrats and Wig
orously developed along the logical lines
OF American interests.
Successor to Britain.
Some European diplomats even fore
see that the United States must, from
now on, increasingly exercise in the
world that tole of peaceful regulator
and stabilizer which Great Britain in
the past has so often and so success
fully held.
Give and take" is the motto of
diplomacy and President-elect Roose-
velt, it is said, thoroughly understands
this. There will be no gratuitous
meddling with other nations concerns,
but to defend American interests is not
meddling and these interests are now
both vast and widespread
The main issue, it is agreed, is the
economic depression and how to get
out Of it. This involves, it is said, the
salv2ging, if possible, of the huge
the restoration, If possible of the for
eign trade of the United States Stabili-
zatioa Of deprecated foreign currencies
and consideration of tariffs and other
artificial trade barriers also are said
TO be elements.
But, in addition, the United States
has two other important interests One
is the protection of its policies in the
Far East, particularly to prevent, if pos
sible, new partition of China, which
japan seems to have begun by its mill
tary occupation cf Manchuria.
The other is naval disarmament, with
It's possible effect, one way or anothsr,
on the American budget and the Ameri-
can general desire for peace.
Buster Now Than Ever.
AL these factors, together with the
war debt problem, while theoretically
perhaps unrelated, must actually, as
human affairs go, form the material of
what viii be in reality. it Is said, one
big international negotiation, sort of
super conference, under the general rule
Of 'give and take
This, 1t is said. is the meaning of
Evening star., 1932-11-27

TN the outpouring of speculation
about the future following the
election, one question engaging
/ wide curiosity was. What will
President Hoover do?"
The question is not wholly personal
1t has a personal aspect. to be sure,
but what Mr.. Hoover or any other pub
lie man will do in his private capacity
is, of course, a matter to be decided
by his own inclination and circum-
stances. But about the public aspect
of 1t there can be legitimate specula-
ton. There can even be. on the part
Of the, roughly, 100000 people who
voted for Mr.. Hoover, legitimate eX-
preston of desire. Some part of them,
considerable part, voted for Mr..
Hoover as a man. These surely have
legitimate concern about what Mr..
Hoover does.
Evening star., 1932-11-27
Coolidge Case No Precedent.

To find an analogy to the position
in which Mr.. Hoover will be after
March 4, we must 60 back pretty far.
The case of Mr. Coolidge is not like
that of Mr.. Hoover. Mr.. Coolidge is
an ex-President who was succeeded by
a President belonging to his own party;
Mr.. Hoover is one who Is to be sue
seeded by a President belonging to
another party. The difference is wide.
What is expected of President whose
successor belongs to the same party Is
silence about subjects likely to be con-
troversial as between him and his sue
cessor. This Mr. Coolidge has prac-
ticed scrupulously. Nobody who ex-
pected a difference of opinion between
Mr. Coolidge and MIR: Hoover extracted
one from the tight lips of Mr.. Coolidge.
Mr.. Coolidge has even been silent
about subjects likely to be controver-
sial as between Democrats and Repub-
licans Most of the periodical writing
Mr.. Coolidge has done has been of the
nature Of recollections of his youth.
For just a year Mr.. Coolidge wrote
pieces for the daily newspapers. These
were about public affairs, but they
we're written in spirit that carefully
At the end of the year Mr.. Coolidge
was strongly urged 20 continue his
writing for the newspaper syndicate
but declined His reason he gave to
one who called on him He said that
he felt the recentness Of his own con-
tact with public affairs equipped him
to attempt for as much as year in
struction of the public about current
questions. With the passage of time,
however, and the emergence of changed
conditions and new conditions, he felt
he could not continue, while in the
retirement in small city distant from
the heart Of things, to write usefully
for the public
Mr.. Coolidge may be considered to
have genuinely sought and achieved
retirement That course is rather die
tated for an ex-President whose sue
cessor belongs to the same party.
Evening star., 1932-11-27
No Basis for Precedents.

All that can be said for this is that
it is an interesting historical summary.
1t provides no basis for presumption
about Mr.. Hoover's future. There can
be no basis in precedents. Situations
may be similar, or in two cases, those
of Cleveland and Harrison, identical
But this is the kind of situation in
which the differing personalities of men
weigh heavily. There will be speculation
about Mr.. Hoover's future, much of it.
But what Mr.. Hoover will do in his
personal capacity will not emerge until
after March 4. What will happen about
him as a public man will depend upon
developments which will not appear
until the Democrats have been In office
for perhaps year.
Copyright, 1922
Evening star., 1932-11-27

one of actual and vital interest and
discussion in Scotland cannot be denied.
The newborn movement to oppose
home rule, as it Is still called by many,
has been initiated by committee COM
posed of West of Scotland business men,
the invitation committee Of which in
cludes such well known figures as Lord
Maclay, Sir Steven Bilsland, Sir John
Stirling Maxwell, Six Thomas Kelly
lord provost of Glasgow, and Sir Adam
Ninrno.
Z United Opposition Asked.
In its letter Of invitation the COM
mittee points out that the time has
come when representative business and
responsible public opinion in Scotland
should strongly and clearly express it
self in opposition to any proposal for
setting up a Scottish national parlia-
ment. It is added that an agitation
for home rule, formerly carried on by
the National party of Scotland, recently
has been stimulated by other bodies
calling themselves Moderate Home
Rulers" who demand national
parliament In Scotland, with extensive
powers of taxation and legislation.
The invitation continues: Believing,
as we do, that Scottish opinion Is over
whelmingly opposed to any OF these
proposals, and that any form OF home
rule which involved Parliament in
Scotland would be a disaster to our
country and calamity for our people,
our purpose is to give truly representa-
tive opinion an opportunity to express
itself on the subject in a non-party
way, bat so forcefully and definitely
that the political parties will realize
that there is no substantial backing FOR
any home rule project. Such adjust
ments as may be desirable in the local
circumstances of Scotland can be
achieved within the scope Of the present
constitution"
So far the National party Of Scotland
has not succeeded in obtaining the
suffrages of its fellow -countrymen at
parliamentary elections In any single
instance. But when the very conserva-
tive political character of the Scottish
people Is taken into account this is
scarcely remarkable. Nearly a genera
ton elapsed before the Labor party
made any real headway In Scotland,
but the advance Of the National party
at elections has been much more rapid
than that Of the Labor party In its
early career.
The voting strength Of the National
party has, indeed, slowly but surely
been extended at every succeeding
election. At first such averages as
1,500 votes out Of $4,000 were common,
Continued on Third Page,)
Evening star., 1932-11-27
Remember "Arcos''?
the indianapolis News.

From the Indianapolis News.
Moscow accuses the British Of spread
ing propaganda among the people OF
Russia, but maybe 1t is some old Rus
sian literature that the British shipped
in
Evening star., 1932-11-27
Woodrow Wilson's Course.


Woodrow wilson's case is analogous,
Superficially, to Mr.. Hoover's From
March 4, 1921, until he died, February
3, 1924, Wilson was Democratic ex-
President whose successor in the White
House a few blocks away was a Re-
publican. But Wilson was sick man,
and had been sick for more than
year before he retired. What he would
have done had he been well can only
be surmised One might guess that
had Wilson been in full strength he
would have dedicated himself to ag
gressive support of the cause that was
most in his heart when illness struck
him down, advocacy of American. par
ticipation in the League Of. Nations.
While Wilson, had he been well, prob
ably would have spoken forcefully for
his cause, he would have refrained
from direct attack upon his successor in
Office. With characteristically high
sense of taste, he felt it to be improper
for an ex-President even to criticize the
President in Office. In a private con-
versation Wilson said that he proposed
to show Mr.. Harding how an ex-Presi-
dent should behave"
One thing that Wilson did in his
private capacity has now been largely
forgotten. He asked the Secretary OF
State who retired with him, cambridge
Colby, to form with him law firm.
The firm was formed. There was an
Office and letterheads. But Wilson
never visited the Office, and 1t Is doubt
full if there was ever in any court
docket a case in which the attorneys
on one side were stated as Wilson and
Colby" In a little while the firm was
dissolved. 1t was felt that Wilson's
initiation of the firm was rather sick
mans whim. Had he been well, prac-
tice of the law would have been natu-
raj course Grover Cleveland and
Benjamin Harrison during their retire
ments practiced law actively and, of
course, successfully. So did William H.
Taft in limited way.