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Evening star., 1933-05-04
Taking 1t Out on the Army.
From the Cincinnati Times-star.

From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
Directed by the President to reduce
the War Department budget by $l44.-
o00,0 coo, Secretary Dern proposes TO
drop between $4,000 and $4,000 en-
listed men and to retire between 1000
and 5000 officers. The fact that this
proposed saving almost exactly equals
the amount to be spent on reforesta-
ton suggests an interesting comparison.
In effect, the money Is to be taken
from the Regular Army and paid to
civilian conservation corps. No one
questions the importance Of q national
reforestation program, nor the great
timely value Of such program in CIV
ing idle young men healthful occu-
patton. But the proposal to add $4,000
Army men to the lists of the unem-
ployed suggests that the national de-
tense is less important than reforesta-
ton. How many Americans, realizing
the present unstable conditions In
that?
An Army retrenchment program sim
ilar to the present one was urged in the
last session Of Congress. It had the
support OF members who knew nothing
about the conduct Of war or the organi-
zation OF an army. It was also enthusi-
astically backed by visionary peace So
cieties. Secretary Of War Hurley and
Gen. Macarthur, chief Of staff. reso-
lutely and successfully opposed it as an
effort to cripple the national defense
The United States has today the
smallest standing Army of any first
class power. While all the others Law
ish money upon their armies, Congress
treats Americas land defense as a kind
OF governmental stepchild. Whenever
economies are proposed Congress turns
f1rst to the War Department to make
them. Apparently, the members sup
pose that We are in for O prolonged
era OF universal peace. Every sane man
hopes we are. But 1t Is only common
sense to observe that the rest of the
world evidently thinks otherwise.
The demand for economy In govern
ment is, Of course, urgent. No doubt
the War Department viii have to
share IN the general retrenchments.
But economy should be practiced with
an eye to the fundamental needs of the
Nation: Dropping an eighth of the
enlisted personnel and o fourth of the
omcers might well prove to be the most
expensive gesture Of economy this or
any other country ever made.
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Jones, as no doubt II II TO many an
other traveller through time and space.
A growing appreciation Of this fact
among the mass Of the people during
the past decade has made for . happier
Nation, despite the most critical times.
It Is increasingly realized, down IN
the ranks Of the people, that most OF Us
need, and that In pinch we can ges
along nicely on what would have
seemed an alarmingly. small amount
OF provender.
There is less tendency than formerly
to brand every one crank" who does
not eat and live as we, precious nell
tors Of humanity, eat and live.
The discovery of food science" as
1t is called, Is new thing 10 many,
tut 1t was comparatively old to Tem-
pleton Jones. who had been forced TO
adopt 1t for his own salvation.
He could never bring himself TO the
free use of spinach, however, and had
never even tasted kale.
One day. CHANGING to read the new
est book urging people TO sensible
diet, he decided that he would make
valient effort TO include more Of the
green's in his menu.
Several rounds OF spinach convinced
him that he liked Il no better than
ever. Perhaps II was good" for one,
but at what q costl
He had eaten 1t prepared In every
way under the sun, but liked It no whit
better one way than another, or as
prepared by one cook over another.
His heart leaped up with rejoicing.
therefore, when he happened to see the
word "kale" on hotel lunch menu.
Kalel
Here he had been going along all
these years, perfectly innocent of kale.
He knew that many persons, espe-
cially those OF Scotch ancestry, swore
by kale.
It was sort of national dish, ana
had been brought by them TO America
Today thousands Of persons speak
OF what they imagine to be spelled
"cold slaw," when really 10 Il "cole
slaw," which means simply cabbage
salad.
The derivation is interesting.
Our word "kale'' u really Northern
Scot for "cole," or "colewort," COLO
quially. any plant Of the cabbage tribe.
Cole" Is from the Latin caulis,
meaning stem, CABBAGE.
"Slaw" derives from the Danish
"sla." through "salade," which origi-
nally meant sliced cabbage served as a
salad.
Jones thought he would try some Of
this kale.
Maybe it wasn't as bad as 1t sounded.
Well, 1t was.
It was worse, to the Jonesian taste
As he chewed away at the peculiar
tasting stuff, he thought, irrelevantly
enough, of words which happened to
begin with the four letters "kale," in
that order.
There was kaleidoscope" the we'll
known scientific invention Of Sir David
Brewster, now used universally as q
child's toy.
There was "Kalevala," the great epic
poem OF Finland. Could that have any
relation to cabbage, too, he wondered?
He hoped not, but he knew that he
was not as others, In regard to sucn
things.
He looked at his great platter. He
had found something worse than spin
ach at last. He wondered If there would
ever be anything worse than kale
Could there be2
Evening star., 1933-05-04
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES 3. TRACEWELL.

Templeton Jones thought he had
never eaten anything % horrible as
spinach until he tried kale.
That any human being could live as
long - Jones. and stu never have tasted
many popular foods, Is IN unthinkable
thing to many persons.
The human animal consumes almost
every edible thing in the world. some
Of them plainly never intended a. food,
oyster and Q small variety Of crab.
The majority OF the public seem to
have no reluctance whatever about
sampling anything and everything which
has at any time or by any peoples been
accounted edible.
Templeton Jones did not belong to
their number.
Early in life he had settled definitely
on the things he liked to eat, and sell
dom turned to those which he did not.
Especially he had no desire to expert
ment along these lines.
The onion, to Jones, was world un-
known.
He never had got beyond the smell.
Five cents q smell, and one smell
enough" such was the sign which
Pecks bad boy" placed on the grocer's
basket, and Jones, even as q Lad, agreed
heartily.
Jones was brought up before the
spinach fad.
It happened, therefore, that he never
tasted 1t until he reached mans estate.
Instantly he pronounced it bad.
Bad, at least, to his taste.
Not that he made taste the criterion
OF taking food; he was as willing as an
other to punish himself by eating
articles Of food which were supposed to
be good" for him, when all the time
to him they tasted pretty bad.
Spinach, at the first taste, reinforced
by subsequent samplings, struck him as
about the flabbiest thing in the world
masquerading as beneficial to the inner
economy Of man.
He had read all the articles in its
favor, had sat at the feet Of the great
dietitians, metamorphically speaking,
and had achieved that last act Of
grace, he had actually eaten the stun.
He had nothing but sympathy with
the babies Of the world, who were daily
crammed with spinach, despite their
best pleas to the contrary.
No child naturally preferred spinach,
ne pelleVeQ. G1Ven 1tS choice, any Child
would pass up spinach without hesita-
ton.
There came q decline in the bound
less enthusiasm for examining spinach
down other people. Perhaps It was
realized that the elements, especially the
so-called vitamins which spinach is said
to contain, might be as easily acquired
ebwhere. and more pleasantly, to q
great many tastes.
Jones never could get quite oyer the
idea that what one liked to eat was
better for him, at least In some respects,
than what he did not like to eat.
He held to this belief because he gave
Nature a great deal more credit for
knowing its business than many per-
sons do.
Nature. as exemplifed in the human
body, had every intention Of keeping one
in health, If one managed to live ac-
cording to her laws.
II one managed this reasonably well,
II only half well, Nature did all she
could for him, because self-preservation
Is the first law Of Nature, and in pre-
serving him, Nature was preserving
herself.
This was comforting thought to
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artisan supporters In the towns than
WELLINGTON did Of his soldiers.
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Speedy Justice
Urged In Peru.
Fl Comercio, Lma.-The president Of
the Superior Court Of Lima. DR.. Victor
Gonzales Olaeachea, has addressed a
circular to all the judges In the crimi-
nal courts Of this district. making some
wise recommendation relative to the
conduct Of cases within their jurisdic-
ton.
The chief reform desired by DR.. Con-
zales Olaeachea, assuming that the evi-
dence and indictments are all in order,
Is that OF celerity. Processes motivated
under the penal code should never be
prolonged or dilatory, and the findings
Of the court and jury should be imme-
diately executed. In cases where the
accused is found innocent he should be
Immediately discharged, and when his
guilt Is definitely established the appro-
pirate sentence should at once be pro-
nounced. Neither innocent nor g,lilty
should be harassed by delays and cir
cumlocutions, nor be permitted to en-
barrass the court and retard the Judi.
c1al machinery by wearisome and irrele-
want deviations and subterfuges. De-
iayS IN bringing case to trial are par
tlcularly perniciouS, for then witnesses
have time to forget, or to disappear
sometimes even to die! Many an arch
offender has escaped entirely the richly
deserved penalties of his crimes because
when finally arnimed, after many
postponements and interruptions of the
trial, there were none to bear JUDGMENT
against him.
Conversely, there are frequently occa-
sions' when the witnesses with esrrulitv
and enthusiasm remember too much
many details and circumstances. that ia
TO say, which are not facts. We re-
Gently saw how eight mutineers. whose
whole career Of treason endured Scarcely
a week, were apprehended, tried, con.
Xtcted, "chapelled" and executed within
three days. While perhaps the same
expedition Of Justice may not be obtain
able in Q criminal tribunal as before a
court martial, nevertheless, in the opin-
ion OF DR.. Gonzales Olaeachea. this dis
patch IN criminal proceedings can be
approximated with most desirable re-
suits for society, for It Is not SO much
the certainty as the celerity Of punish-
ment that deters crime.
Evening star., 1933-05-04
An Economic Armistice.

On the eve of the London Naval Liini-
tation Conference three years ago Signor
Dino Grandi, then foreign minister OF
Italy, proposed that the i've parttci-
pating powers agree upon a naval holi-
day for one year. to cover the full dura-
ton Of the conference. During that
period no new warship construction was
to be launched. signor Grandi's purpose
was to create an appropriate "atmos-
phere" for the five-power attempt to
curtail expenditure on sea armaments
The project was approved, and tools
were downed accordingly in the ship
yards Of America, Britain, Japan,
France and Italy.
Last Saturday Norman H. Davis,
American representative on the Organ
i8ing Committee Of the World Economic
Conference, served notice on that body,
meeting in London, that when the con.
ference opens there on June IL the
United States intends to propose tariff
truce. 1t is understood that the Amert-
can suggestion is really for rather more
than q tariff truce, and that it might
more accurately be described as q pro-
posal for an economic armistice. What
America here puts forward for the con-
sideration of sixty nations aims to ac-
fcomplish the same atmospheric object
sought by the Grandi naval holiday
plan of 1929-1930. 1t seeks to make
the world safe for tariff peace at least
while the peoples are engaged In what
Senator Borah calls another supreme
effort" to put the international house in
order.
BY the terms Of the Davis proposal
the world governments will be asked to
egrse to abstain, while the conference
Evening star., 1933-05-04
Blame for Chicago Turmoil
Not Confined to One Group

better another time" The Hartford
Times believes that the trouble makers
were the politicians, who ran the city's
credit into the ground, and the bankers
who permitted them 10 do So" view
which Is voiced also by the Ashland
Daily Independent, while the Des Moines
Tribune blames "apathetic citizens"
The Akron Beacon Journal holds that
rough and rugged speaking in its latest
application brings no added laurels TO
the former Vice President" The Char
lotte Observer thinks the new mayor
may find q way TO make the tax de-
linquents pay up"
Duty of the banks to their depositors
is emphasized by the Omaha World
Herald, the Columbia Is. CO. State. and
the Spokane Spokesman-Review. Ac-
tions Of the belligerent teachers are crit
icized by the Boise Idaho Statesman.
The Lincoln State Journal sees in the
whole matter the inevitable penalty for
vicious government
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NOTE, Rio de Janeiro.-De-
spite abnormal industrial and
financial conditions prevalent
throughout the world, We have

a tnrougn0ut the WOrlo, we nave
not lost faith in the possibilities
and future prosperity of our great coun-
try. Brazil, because of her predominant
area and population, infinitely larger in
both respects than any other country in
South America, faces the coming years
with confidence and courage. Our land
is rich in all raw materials pertaining
to modern industry, and we have not
been remiss in the conversion of these
natural resources into manufactured ar
ticles Of all descriptions.
Potteries, textiles, clothing. electrical
equipment, metallic wares, both large
and small, for home and mill; glass
ware, paper and paper products. furni-
ture, musical instruments, including
pianos and monographs; perfumery,
soap, cement, celluloid and bone mer-
chandise, as well as the yield Of agri-
culture and the mines, are all the re-
suits OF our development and progress
In industry. trade and manufacture.
Our laboring classes are intelligent and
sedulous. Our natural resources are in
exhaustible and replete with every ele-
ment known to husbandry and manu-
facture. Our coast line extends nearly
1000 miles (6,400 kilometers), affording
easy shipment to most ports Of the
world, and our climate, for the most
part, temperate and genial.
How can We be respondent in con-
templating the opportunities and &C.
eomplishments Of such a country?
Evening star., 1933-05-04

Argument about the right to hold
onto privately owned gold shows an
academic inclination to bring up more
or less obstruse ethical considerations
when immediate action IS required.
The fact that q man owns q bucket Of
water does not usually prevent him
from passing it along in case Of fire.
Evening star., 1933-05-04

It may be questioned whether some
Of the work required by the Gov
eminent just now Is going on With the
punctual rapidity that warrants the
dismissal for any reason. Of expert
enced and reliable men who may be
available.
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The renewed activity Of breweries is
perhaps offering unreliable encourage
ment to the citizen who thinks he
might help out with the rent and taxes
by turning the front yard into . beer
garden.
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illustrates Dislike
OF Informal Clothes.

Egyptian Gazette, Alexandria.
policemen Of q South African town who
wanted to arrest girl "hikers" who en-
tered the town wearing khaki shorts
have made themselves laughing stock,
but they were only giving expression to
that dislike of sartorial unconvention-
ality which has characterized mankind
through the ages. Any departure from
the accepted clothes standard Of the
due, perhaps, to some intuitive fear of
anarchy or q feeling that there is an
Intentional lack Of respect for society as
it has organized itself.
There Is, Of course, scriptural sane
ton for demanding test by clothes.
In the parable Of the king who sent
into the highways to summon guests to
his sons wedding we read that there
was one man which had not a wedding
garment" Despite the informal nature
Of the summons to the feast, the king
said to him, Friend, how comest thou
in hither not having wedding gar
ment9" And the offender, having moth
ing to say, was bound hand and foot
and cast into outer darkness.
This problem of correct attire has
troubled powerful governments and al
most provoked international complica-
lea was not on the traditional court
clothes standard, and its Ministers over
seas often found themselves in awkward
positions, because even at the most
elaborate ceremonies they were oncially
instructed to appear I'm the simple
dress Of an American citizen"
In England 1t was said that for this
reason the American Minister could not
be invited to the Victorian court
dinners and dances. Eventually. -
compromise, the United States Minister
went to a levee in "a black coat. white
waistcoat and cravat, and black panta-
looms and dress boots, with the addt-
ton Of q very plain black-handled and
black -hilted dress sword" It was about
this time that the father Of the future
Admiral Mahan went to q levee, but
had to retire without being presented,
because he wore black stock and had
no hat and no sword-an unfortunate
incident that led to some sharp news
paper controversy in both countries.
But, Of course, Il Alexander Hamilton
had had his way after the American
War Of Independence the United States
Government would have been almost as
ceremonious as the English Of that Pc
Rod. The judges Of the American Su-
preme Court wore gowns then, though
they honored Jefferson's appeal to dis
card the monstrous wig, which makes
the English judges look ike rats peep
ing through punches Of oakum." JEFF
ferson cultivated o reputation for demo-
cratic simplicity IN everything, but ne
said hauher things Of his Democratic
Evening star., 1933-05-04

The idea Of currency expansion by
means Of patriotic bond issue for
public works may have its especial ap-
peal to a public famous for its fondness
both for making speeches and listening
to them.
Evening star., 1933-05-04

According to some statesmen the Re-
construction Finance Corporation IS not
demonstrating even enough usefulness
to be put on furlough for possible future
reference.
Evening star., 1933-05-04

cially on Sunday "a Hyde PAsk. near
the Marble Arch. the scene of active
augmentation. Police stroll about 10
maintain order, more to protect the
speakers rom hecklers than TO check
upon the oratory. It is one Of the
favorite diversions Of the London popu-
lace to assemble in Hyde Park On
day Of rest to hark to the fulminationf
Of the "spouters." This privilege Of
free utterance affords . vent for sur
charged feelings. without risk to the
public peace. ta
Washington has q number Of places
where Hyde Park" forum could suit
ably be established, and with , mini
mum Of trouble in the matter Of police
supervision such IN Institution could
be maintained. relieving the Capitol
authorities Of the necessity Of rejecting
requests for special dispensation In the
use Of the steps Of the national state
house and the plaza. Let this matter
be taken under consideration. A few
simple rules Of governance could be
adopted. by Congress or by the District
Commissioners, and nobody would be
disturbed. Perhaps q special squad
could be created to assure the safety
Of the takers.
A section Of Potomac Park might be
considered for this purpose. giving the
"spouters" privileges equal to those
granted to the base ball, golf and ten
mis- players, and the result would be q
highly diverting political mardi gras
With such a system arranged It would
be no longer necessary for the commit.
tees Of Congress to wrestle with the
problem Of the orators who wish to
make the welkin ring with their
eloquence.
Evening star., 1933-05-04

Efforts to make speeches on the steps
of the Capitol may be construed as an
unjust 1nSinuation that the inside Of
the building has not oratory enough Of
its own.
Evening star., 1933-05-04
Young Rome.

From thst New York Sun.
Rome has Just celebrated its 2,6S7th
birthday anniversary, and, II cities could
speak, would no doubt announce that It
doesn't feel a.day over 2,500.
Evening star., 1933-05-04

Opinion grows that there Is useful
work to be done by Muscle Shoals and
that it should not be maintained - q
colossal example of joblessness.
Evening star., 1933-05-04

There Is still more that might be said
on currency expansion, but the economic
advantage Of further imitation Of Ian
guage has become obscure.
Evening star., 1933-05-04
Longing .Louisianans.

Nobody has vet praised the sterling
self-sacrifice Of those Louisiana petit
TONERS who want Senator Long to come
homo,
Evening star., 1933-05-04
The Vision of Infants,
From the Cleveland News

Psychologist at Johns Hopkins pro-
fesses 70 believe that babies can see and
comprehend objects couple Of hours
after birth. II 50. we must look q lot
tuuniey to them than they do to u.
Evening star., 1933-05-04
Prices Get the Jump on u.

From the Boston Evening Transcript.
The prices Of some commodities
butter for one-seem to initiate even be-
fore the money. to pay for them does
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Wise Youth.

MY small boy 10 too smart and
worldly for me-" remarked Senator
Sorghum. "His Sunday school teacher
asked him where Moses came from"
Didn't he know2"
eyes. But in a very modern way. He
answered, New Hampshire
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M.mber NJ the Associated Press

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
No The use for republication of all news dis
patches credited to it or not otherwise cred
tied in this paper and also the local news
Duhlished herein All rights OF publication OF
special dispatches herein are also reserved.
Evening star., 1933-05-04
Specialized Weeks.

"I read that the French are tired Of
the idea Of setting aside some week for
special forms of kindness
"I don't believe It," answered Miss
Cayenne. II still expect to see Q con-
ference sooner or later when they'll
agree on q BE Kind 70 Americana
week."
ITO be popular" said Hi-Ho, the sage
of Chinatown. "it often proves neces-
sary to understand the people without
allowing them to understand you"
Evening star., 1933-05-04

Jud Tunkins says even if you haven't
anything laid by for q rainy day, don't
forget that o good old mud horse can
win many a race.
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Laughability.

;.dy radio! My radio!
When last within my home you spoke,
Although your wit was rather slow,
Your advertising was joke.
Evening star., 1933-05-04

zone way of wastin' Kindness" said
Uncle Eben. "is to teach . dog tricks
an have folks say It's . pity you can't
be as smart as him"
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Currency Solution.

New theories seem to help q lot.
We say as we rejoice,
What kinds Of money have you got'"
And simply take our choice.
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