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Evening star., 1934-11-04

bench because he is too lazy to be any
where else.
I come in contact with these two
types almost every day. Fortunately the
first type greatly outnumbers the sec
ond, but any dealings with the second
type are so depressing and so infuriat
ing that they remain in my mind and
perhaps seem more numerous than
they really are. Even so, they are
a hundred times too abundant. and
to add to their blissful company is
the last thing any sensible country
should do.
The offices I work for offer private
as well as public employment! they
are established to provide stenogra-
pliers for Smith & Co, or gardener
for Mrs. Jones as much as to furnish
help for the P. w. A. or any other
agency financed by the Government.
There is no better way to show why I
am concerned about this problem of
idleness and everything for nothing
than to cite few happenings in such
an Office within a few weeks time.
One morning not long ago an able
bodied man about SO years of age came
in and sat down by my desk to tell me
a tale that would have brought tears
to your eyes If you had not learned to
investigate peoples tales before you
believe them. Nobody wants an old
Evening star., 1934-11-04
BY PERTINAX.

= TEP by step the reform OF
- Frances parliamentary govern
ment approaches. One year
- ago it would have seemed in
credible that such a thing could
be seriously considered. At that time
the book written by M. Andre Tardieu
to explain its urgency fell on deaf
ears. But ii is possible today because
a fundamental change of public feel
ing is taking place.
Things cannot go on as they are
that remark can be heard everywhere
Too striking contrast can be seen
between the executive authority in
France and in other countries. In
Germany. Italy, Soviet Russia, etc. the
central government is provided with
every possible means of asserting its
will over the community of citizens
means that in the past have been used
only in such emergencies as the World
War or social upheaval. Therefore
a readjustment of the French regime
is overdue. The equilibrium, once
disturbed, must perforce be re-
established. The same kind of law
which compels water to fill two COM
munlcating vessels to the same level
Is at work IN the political universe
A leisurely parliamentary republic
cannot co-exist for long beside die
tatorships of the hard, closely organ
lied type.
Since last January and February
the Stavisky and the Prince cases
have confused all the public's notions
about what private individual can
and cannot do under the republic
The former was a gangster and a
swindler abetted by a number of in
fiuential politicians, including some
former Radical-Socialist ministers. He
managed for many years to escape the
Evening star., 1934-11-04

thetically, to say good word for Lor-
ton. 1t is well-managed prison, with
an atmosphere of efficiency, cleanliness
and almost military discipline. The
men are treated neither too poorly nor
too well. This prison, housing 1900
criminals. has no walls-it is like a
great farm. The small number of es-
capes is tribute to the efficiency Of
the management.
In closing, let me say that the board
welcomes criticism. 1t is not thin
skinned. 1t is touchy on only one point
attempts to influence its Judgment
or to destroy its independence. So
great has been the pressure for the
release of certain prisoners that the
board has had to adopt rigid rule
against approaches of any kind or de-
scription to individual members. Not
even a letter-even if it be from a
United States Senator-will be given
consideration except in regular meet
ing Of the board.
1t is because of the boards jealousy
Of its independence that it resents the
recent suggestion of the Lorton Off
cials that its offices be removed to
Lorton, where its staff and its records
will be under the domination and in
fluence of the institutional officials.
This board will not continue to serve
under any kind, of domination, or
recognize any allegiance except to the
community which it Is trying faithfully
to serve and to protect.
Evening star., 1934-11-04

too easily as merely one more COM
plant from pessimistic conservatives
that we are encouraging an appalling
number of people in believing that they
are owed something for nothing and
that they are bestowing an honor upon
Washington by cashing a check from
the Federal Treasury. There are a
sad lot of men and women, many of
whom pay negligible taxes, who expect
to do little or no work and at the same
time to be well provided for by ma
tional funds, which they seem to think
are ineXhauStible.
Some welfare workers and employ
ment officials will say that I am show
ing a poor spirit by calling attention
to a relatively small class of people
without pride when I might dwell just
as readily upon the other side of the
picture.
Wasted Sympathy.
But I cannot help feeling very
strongly that lazy people who want to
sit down on their Government for a
living already have been INDUCED too
much for their own good. 1t is noble,
indeed, to sympathize (and pray God
I may continue to do so) with a poor
man who is relegated to a park bench
through no fault Of his own. but it is
not so noble to sympathize too much
with poor man who Is on a park
Evening star., 1934-11-04
BY MARK SULLIVAN.
BOUT one aspect of next Tues
do1,,c aIartiny, II caey,,S y10SSihla

A BOUT one aspect of next Tues
n days election it seems possible
II to speak safely in advance.
4 \ 1t is almost universally as
Sumed. at this writing. that
Mr.. Sinclair will lose in California.
If that assumption is correct, it has
really epochal Importance. Because
of this, it is worth while to consider
in detail just what happened about
Mr.. Sinclair. The case illustrates the
tides that are running throughout the
country, and illustrates also how those
tides are influencing Washington.
From the time when a lifelong So
cialist, Mr.. Upton Sinclair, won the
Democratic nomination for Governor
of the seventh largest State-from
that date, August %, it was apparent
to all who looked beneath the surface
that the outcome of this California
race would be more vital than all the
rest of next Tuesdays elections
throughout the country. AS a sign
of the times, the question how many
Congressman would be elected by the
Democrats and Republicans respec-
lively, was inferior in importance to
whether Mr. Sinclair should be elected
Governor of California.
Landmark in History.
1t was the first time Socialist doc
trine had reached such elevation in
the United States, the first time that
a Socialist had captured the nomina-
tion of one of the major parties.
Radical persons, philosophically rad
ical or eccentrically radical. had at
one time or another made much
progress in various States; but the
important point about Mr.. Sinclair's
achievement was that he had raided
and captured one of the two great
parties in a large State. That fact
alone made the incident landmark
in American history. 1t was realized
that if Mr.. Sinclair should go on and
win the election, actually capture
the California governorship, the sig
nificance of the landmark would be
greatly deepened.
From the point Of view of the fu-
ture historian, 1t did not matter
whether it was the Republican or
the Democratic party that Socialist
had successfully raided; the signifl-
cant thing, as historical matter, was
that one of the two great parties
through which America had func-
toned politically for more than 70
years, had taken step in the direc-
tion of Socialism. AS it happens.
it was the Democratic party to which
this fate had fallen; and what the
Democrats would do about it became
matter of high public importance.
1t was up to" the official Demo-
cratic leadership, especially its ma
tional leadership, to do something.
The party's leaders could embrace
Mr.. Sinclair or, they Gould disavow
him. On such a question they could
hardly, successfully, walk a tight
rope between yea" and may"
Mr.. Sinclair took the initiative,
forced the issue. He announced pub
hcly, the day after he won the Cali
fornia nomination. that he was going
to Hyde Park to call on President
Roosevelt. The invitation was wholly
Evening star., 1934-11-04
Painless Death Law
Sought for Incurables

LONDON R).-Legal euthanasia
(painless, peaceful death) may be pro-
posed in Parliament next session as a
means of eliminating suffering Of
people who have incurable, painful
diseases.
Suggestions for q bill embodying
these provisions have been advanced
by DR.. @. Killick Millard, medical
officer of Leicester.
DR.. Millard proposes that doctors
should be given the legal right to put
patients to death in instances where
the patients request it.
Under such a law, application for
death would be made by the patient.
Supporting his application, the patient
would give the names of at least two
physicians who could prove he was
suffering from a fatal. incurable
disease.
An official to whom the applications
would be made would become, in fact,
a sort of legal death referee" and
would be required to make exhaustive
inquiries before granting applications.
DR.. Millard Is not so much interested
in the methods Of causing legal death
as the provisions for it. He says the
methods can be left until the principls
Is approved.
Evening star., 1934-11-04

man." was his theme song. He had
walked over five counties in search Of
work and had been rejected every
where. He would do anything to earn
a living, but all his efforts to find work
had been futile He had been forced
to come back to his married daugh-
ter's impoverished household where
he was, to put it mildly, an unwanted
guest.
I looked over our files. Here was
the very thing! Mrs. Brown on
Franklin street wished us to secure
dependable man to stay with her in
valid father while she went to work.
She was able to pay only So week
and room and board. But that would
be a godsend, I thought. for this man
who had trudged over five counties to
find a way of self-support. Enthusi-
astically I outlined the job.
IT couldn't do nothing like that"
Mr.. x said. II never done no work
like that"
All you have to do is stay with Mrs.
Browns father and wait on him while
she is away" I explained. There Is
nothing hard about the job. Mrs.
Brown is a very kind woman. I realize
the job may not be wonderful, but 1t
will give you chance to be independ-
ent until you can do better"
Il want q Cover 'ment job. ] want
Evening star., 1934-11-04
Continued Gold Drain
ArOuses Italian Fears

ROME, November CP-Italy's
gold supply is hovering near the legal
requirement for currency coverage to-
day and bankers and business men
are wondering what Premier Musso-
lini will do if the adverse commercial
balance continues to demand an out
ward flow of the metal.
The percentage of gold to all sight
obligations now is 42.43 per cent. The
legal requirement is 40 per cent.
Gold has been flowing steadily from
the Bank of Italy since the first Of
the year. In January the gold, plus
foreign bank notes, hovered around
7,400. 900 900 lire (about s629, 900 ,000).
At the beginning Of october the fig-
ure had fallen to 6,240,319,000 lire, a
loss of more than Is per cent.
When the gold flow began eight
months ego banking circles close to
the government said the ministry of
finance was not greatly concerned,
because II it continued the circulation
could be reduced to maintain a mar
gin over the legal requirement.
The circulation. however, has
gone up.
Evening star., 1934-11-04
Major Arrests in District of Columbia.

In the light of the foregoing figures
the suggestion that the parole system
as now operating is a major contrtbut-
ing factor in the crime wave is mani
fest absurdity. 1t might be well for the
United States District Attorney (for
whom I have very high regard) TO
clarity his statement that the in
determinate sentence law and the
early and easy parole of prisoners are
directly responsible for the prevalence
of crime in Washington.
The total arrests for all causes from
all causes from March Is to October
80, 1884, were 87,043, of which total
the number of paroled prisoners ar
rested was 80, or .00034 per cent. This
includes prisoners paroled both by this
board and by the previous board. OF
these 80 arrests the greater number
were for such petty offenses as in
toxication, JOY riding and petty
larceny. There was not single in
stance where in the District of Co.
lumbia a parolee was arrested for muir
der, manslaughter or robbery.
20 Probations Completed.
OF the ITS prisoners released by the
present Parole Board, 20 have COM
pleted their parole terms and have
been discharged; six have been re-
turned for parole violations and their
paroles revoked; in five cases the board
has issued warrants for alleged parole
violations, and in one of the cases in
which warrants were issued the prison.
er's parole was modified and he was
continued on parole.
OF the total released during this
period there remains las on parole in
good standing at this time. This
makes a perfect parole record for 165
out of ITS PAROLES. The percentage
of revocations of parole during this
period as compared with the total
number released amounts to 3.4 per
cent.
Of the six prisoners whose paroles
were revoked one was a case of in
toxication with no charge against
the prisoner by the police, one had
violated the conditions of his parole
and was returned for what the
board felt was improper conduct,
one was case of petty larceny, an
other was case of failure to submit
monthly parole reports, still another
was case of disorderly conduct and
traffic charges, and the last was case
of drunk and disorderly coupled with
assault.
It will be noted that even in the
Evening star., 1934-11-04

whom we really can help and hoping
there will be a breathing spell before
we have to deal with others like Mr.. x.
1t is not long before a prominent
citizen calls for a colored gardener, who
will receive SITS a day and meals. I
go down to the relief Office, where so
or more colored men are waiting to
apply for direct relief, if they can get
it, or Cover 'ment work" If they can't
get their provisions without any strings
tied to them.
who wants to do some gardening
for a lady uptown"
Not reply.
Haven't any of you ever worked in
garden?"
Not reply.
Why are you here this morning if
you didn't come for work."
I'VE wants relief, We want Cover
ment work." several answer indiffer-
emily.
Then I find the relief director and
ask him if he is going to feed men
from F. E. r. A. funds when they
are refusing private employment. Ger
tainly not, he says, and assures me
that those who refuse work are going
TO be struck off the relief lists. But
he does not tell me that these same
men may come back later and appeal
..L n
Evening star., 1934-11-04
SINCLAIR RACE SHOWS
SWEEP POFPOLITICAL TIDE
Change of Sentiment in California Also
Reveals How Situation 1nflu-
ences Washington.

self started. though Mr.. Sinclair had
some justification in the fact that
any man who wins a party nomina-
ton for Governor is rather entitled
to the privilege of calling on the
President when the President belongs
to the same party.
Mr.. Roosevelt was apparently en-
barrassed. He might well be. Any
one who has ever spent much time
in the encourage of a President could
visualize what was going to happen:
Mr.. Sinclair would call on the Pres
ident Ending. his visit he would en-
counter 10 or 20 newspaper men on
the doorstep of the Presidents office
The newspaper men would clamor at
the visitor for statement. And the
visitor. if he followed the usual way
of politicians who call on Presidents,
would give out a statement which
would put the President under the
appearance of having indorsed, or
shown sympathy for, the visitors can
didacy.
Doubtless Mr.. Roosevelt appre-
hended this. He let 1t be known that
Mr.. Sinclair could come to see him
but that Mr.. Sinclair must not talk
politics. That gave rise to good
many quips. For few days a con-
siderable portion of the current humor
of the United States consisted of pic
turing Mr.. Roosevelt as raising an ad-
monitory finger and saying. mo, Up
ton, We must conf1ne the conversation
to Greek poetry"
Talks, Then Calls on Farley.
Mr.. Sinclair arrived at Hyde Park.
He talked with Mr. Roosevelt for a
period variouSly estimated in current
accounts at from an hour and a
quarter to two hours. At the end of
the visit Mr. Sinclair restrained him.
self from saying anything that might
seem to suggest that the President
had sympathized with him or wished
him success. Two days later, however,
Mr.. Sinclair. who has his own subtle
arts of politics and publicity, said in
a public address at Washington that
before he had visited Mr.. Roosevelt
he had been nervous, but that after
ward "last night, for the first time in
weeks, slept like baby"
The same day Mr.. Sinclair, in his
role of Democratic nominee for Gov
ernor of California. called on Mr..
James Farley in the latter's role of
national chairman of the Democratic
party. Newspapers recorded that Mr..
Farley had said to Mr.. Sinclair: Call
me Jim"
So much for what the national
leaders of the Democratic party did
about the capture of their party in a
great State by Socialist. Locally in
California, two important Democratic
leaders, Senator William G. McAdoo
and Mr.. George Creel, who had op-
posed Mr.. Sinclair for the nomina-
tion, seemed for time to swallow
the situation. They had the manner
of gulping pretty hard, but they swal-
lowed. (Though the swallowing was
destined to be followed by process
which the terminology Of medicine
speaks Of as "regurgitation.") They
united with him II organizing the
State Democratic convention and in
writing its platform. and at the end
CONTINUED on Third Page.)
Evening star., 1934-11-04
BY JULIAN r. MEADE.

After being closely associated for
some time with Federal Unemployment
and relief work have two very definite
feelings about what our Government
is doing for its unemployed citizens. I
believe that thousands of really de-
serving people are being immeasurably
aided, not only by the provision of food
and shelter and actual necessities of
life, but also by the restoring of con-
fidence in their usefulness as human
beings.
But I believe, too-and 1t is this
point which, think, is not yet suf-
ficiently realized, or else is showed aside
Evening star., 1934-11-04
FRENCH GOVERNMENTAL
REFORMS DRAW NEARER
Proximity of Dictatorship Contributes
to Demand for Changes That
Insure Efficiency.

hand Of the law. Prince was a judge
associated with the public prosecutor S
department, whose death on the rail-
way line near Dijon has never been
explained. By now almost any
Frenchman you ask, whatever political
opinion he may happen to profess, will
declare his belief that the ministry of
the interior and its national security"
police are rotton, root and branch.
Assassination Spurs Move.
On October 9 the assassination In
Marseille of King Alexander of Yugo-
slavia and of M. Louis Barthou,
Frances minister of foreign affairs,
has at last convinced the few remain
ing doubters that the administrative
machinery is not equal to the task of
protecting the French citizens and
their guests not only from the under
world but-a much more serious con-
cern-from criminal undertakings of
every description that may originate
beyond the frontiers. After all, isn't
it remarkable fact that the most
sanguinary dictators of Europe have,
so far, been immune from criminal
attempts, while in the countries where
human life is at least paid much
greater reverence the ruling men are
mercilessly butchered?
Shall We accept the explanation
that in the countries which are
trained to destroy the peace treaties,
every form Of violence (political
crime among others is being en-
couraged and, at the same time, con-
trolled and directed by the men in
Office, while in the camp of the con-
servative nations easy-going govern
ments do not tighten their guard
and appear to leave everything to
chance? Is it merely chance that,
among the defenders of the terri
torial and political status quo, Duca,
Rumania's president of the council;
DollfuSs, the Austrian chancellor;
King Alexander and Louis Barthou
have been murdered in succession,
while on the other side Hitler and
Mussolini seem to lead charmed lives
away from shots and bombs? Every
one is asking that question, and no
satisfactory answer can be found
unless governmental ineficiency is
taken into account. And what would
happen If war broke out? Would
the same lack of preparation and
vigilance become manifest in every
respect? Such are the reflections
Of Frances man in the street."
Executive Is Target.
AS regards France, the original
cause of the whole trouble is to be
found in the continuous encroach-
ment of both Houses of Parliament
(the Chamber of Deputies being the
principal culprit) upon the province
of the executive authority, the cabi-
net and the administrative organi-
zation at its back. That state OF
affairs means, in practice, that from
top to bottom petty electoral con-
siderations hold sway-for the voter
is as much the master of his elected
representative as this representative
is the ruler of the ministry.
For eight full months Premier
Doumergue, who sternly refused to
re-enter Parliament when he left
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Evening star., 1934-11-04
Is Relief Breeding Idlers?


to be timekeeper on relief work
That's good money. There amt moth
in in the job you're talkin' about"
well, I'm afraid I've nothing else
to offer you today. I'll have no trouble
in getting some one else to fill this
place"
Then you mean you amt gonna give
me no Gover'men work? I'm gonna
get help If have to write to President
Roosevelt. That's the best thing for
me to do anyhow"
We are accustomed to being abused
by such applicants, so we turn a deaf
ear and go on with other work. thank
ing heaven that there are other people