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Evening star., 1934-10-22

American electorate and for other rea-
sons, the six women members Of the
House Of Representatives-four Demo-
Gratis and two Republicans-are all
slated for reelection on November g.
The G. o. P. ladies-Mrs. Rogers of
Massachusetts, and Mrs. Kahn of Cal
fornia-come from pretty safe Re-
publican districts, and apart from their
personal merits and records. appear
to be in no danger of being sub
merged by the prospective New Deal
landslide.
Despite recovery and political pre-
occupations of the moment, WASH
ington is keeping watchful eye
peeled on the British-American-
Japanese naval conversations" in
London. The expectation is that
matters over there will soon reach
the horse-trading stage. Our Navy
people are confident that if and when
compromises and concessions are
necessary, our sea-minded President
may be relied upon to see to it that
no American interests are sacrificed
at any vital point. There is no very
enthusiastic confidence hereabouts
that the London talkfest is going to
get very far-if anywhere. Overseas
Observation-Disclosures select circle of
newsmen with international back
ground-are looking forward to an
authoritative exposition Of Americas
viewpoint on the naval situation
when Rear Admiral Joseph K. Taus-
sig, acting chief of operations, ad-
dresses their luncheon group next
Thursday.
One of the new unoficial feminine
figures on Capitol Hill this Winter
will be Miss Florence Kerlin of In
dianapolis, who has just been ap-
pointed congressional secretary of
the National League of Women
Voters. Her job will be to interview
members of Congress in behalf of
the leagues national buttonhole pro-
gram and keep State league organi-
cations posted on the status of Fed
Indiana University, Miss Kerlin has
just relinquished the dictatorship of
women's work in the Emergency Re-
lief Administration of Indiana. She
has long been associated with Hoosier
civic affairs.
X X r X
Brookings Institution at Washing
ton, cradle of many New Deal ideas,
has just issued an authoritative vol
ume entitled New Federal Organi-
zations," which outlines for the first
time in book form the structure and
functions of the A new or enlarged
major and minor organizations Gre
ated by the Roosevelt administration
to cope with depression and recovery
problems. It Is the most analytical
diagnosis Of the alphabet soup yet
attempted. The author is Laurence
F. Schmeckebier, Washington econo-
mist.
Copyright. 1934.l
Evening star., 1934-10-22
Chinese Silver Export Tax
Upheld by U. S. Observers

says the Louisville Courier Journal,
was specious, and they deceived
themselves with 1t. They did not
realize, apparently. that raising the
price Of silver in China would cause
a depression by causing a correspond
ing decline in the price Of all COM
modities and of labor. The man with
silver, true enough, could command
more goods, more service, for his
money. but the great population of
the country, of which the United
States has been the traditional friend,
would suffer. Workers would suffer
wage cuts or be obliged to labor longer
or turn out more goods for the same
amount of silver, and the farmers
necessarily would grow more tea, cab
bages or beans"
Defending the American policy, the
Danbury News-Times argues: China
does not adapt herself to modern
methods. If China called her silver
into government treasures, as gold
was called in the United States, and
issued currency against silver at its
higher value, she would get the same
benefits which the United States gets
from higher gold If, on the other
hand, the United States, after raising
the price of gold. had circulated gold
coin instead of currency, at;the higher
flgure, and as many grains in a dol
lar, the phenomenon of deflation would
have been nightly aggravated,
enough, perhaps. to have laid our
economic structure completely in the
dust"
I'VE endeavored," states the Port
land Oregonian, Ito raise China,s
prosperity so it would overflow upon
us, and to do it by the exact opposite
OF the process whereby we proposed
to raise our own prosperity. The
Oregonian months ago reprinted, with
comment, the prediction of China s
foremost financial authority that
adoption of the proposed American
silver legislation would force China to
place an embargo on silver exports"
The Holyoke (MaSS.) Transcript
holds that ut would be more con-
structive to operate American silver
mines, with their vast deposits, than
to take China's money"
Evening star., 1934-10-22

Ferns are lowly plants, often as.
sociated in the public mind with old
fashioned ladies In their parlors.
Parlors have given place to living
rooms, however, and ferns have come
into their own as garden denizens.
Several places around the country
make . speciality Of various types oi
ferns, whose graceful habits of growth
and good green are more widely
esteemed than ever.
Many q bare place in the average
yard, such as the back or neglected
side Of a garage, can be made beauty
spot with ferns.
They stand the usual drip Of rain
water better than most plants. Foi
such paintings the types of ferns
which grow along small streams are
desirable.
These will more or less die down ir
Winter, but come back in early Spring
and are luxuriant in growth all Sum
mer, If given plenty Of water ano
shade.
The violet is another plant some
times looked down upon, but 1t, too
has its uses and Is favorite OF
many persons.
Even the wild violets which may be
collected in the woods transplant to
the home grounds easily. Their sub
sequent growth usually is good.
1t may be that such wildings are
not suited to the formal garden, al
though we have seen them. so used
in such situations with good effect.
There are many spots where guam
titles of violet plants may be placed
bringing with them sense OF hap
piness associated by great many
persons with their childhood.
1t is a curious thing, the uncon-
scious effect flowers exert upon chill
dren. Even though the little ones
pay no particular attention to the
blossoms at the time, they will re-
member them years later, although
they may not be able to recall when
or where they first saw them.
No doubt the widespread love for
flowers so dates with most persons,
and leads straight back to some play
hours of long ago.
The excitement of game of "I-spy''
left the youngster hiding in a small
grove of althea bushes, for instance.
1t is true that he was intent on
mot getting caught" but his face
was pressed close to white blossom
with ruby throat.
If he was sensitive to odors, the
faint crisp smell of the flower was
something he never was to forget.
Years later, when he saw an althea
bush in bloom again, he did not know
exactly what it was, but it made no
difference.
He had found an old friend.
These are old friends that never
60 Back on one.
Passing years make no changes in
them They are the same today they
we're yesterday, and they will be the
same tomorrow as they are today.
One is never at loss what to say
to them, after finding them again.
One says nothing at all, and Is happy
in the meeting.
1t is so with ferns.
Maybe a potted fern reposed on q
tabourette, fashionable years ago.
The child idly turned the long fronds
over, and saw there the small rows
of spores.
Evening star., 1934-10-22
"Justice" Gets a Home at Last.

This is moving day for the Depart
ment of Justice. The final shifts Of
personnel are being made from the
rented quarters occupied for several
years into the new home that the
Government has constructed in the
Mall-Avenue triangle to house this
branch of the administrative Federal
functions. On Thursday the structure
will be formally dedicated, with ap-
propriate ceremonies.
The Office of Attorney General was
created by act of Congress in 1889, but
the Department of Justice was not
created until 1870. Thus for eighty
nine years there was an Attorney
General without department, and
for sixty-four years the department
has been a wandering tenant, quar-
tered here and there in leased build
ings, at first shabbily, never adequately
and, especially during the past twenty
years, which have been marked by the
growth of this department in activity
and usefulness, with cramping linita-
tions upon its functions.
Now, at long last, the Department
Of Justice is properly housed. Had it
not been for the adoption of a general
plan for Government construction in
the triangle south of Pennsylvania
avenue, with ALLEGATION of one Of the
spaces to this purpose, the department
would probably even now have been
still q tenant without prospect Of
having its own home. In the first
move for the acquisition of this gen
eral site the so-called five squares at
the western end were purchased and
It was proposed to erect there three
buildings, for the State, Justice and
Evening star., 1934-10-22
Business Ruined.

An Associated Press dispatch from
Los Angeles quotes Maj. Castor de
Prida to the effect that times are hard
for professional soldiers of fortune.
The business, he believes, is ruined.
There may be a place for the SOL
dier," he says, "but there's no for
tune"
Perhaps, however, the case is not
so sad as it may seem. The depres-
sion has brought changes in the re-
wards of all professions, all busi-
Aesses Soldiers Of fortune, like many
less colorful people, perforce have
taken cut" Adventure for pay,
in common with other occupations
and enterprises. Is governed by eco
nomic laws. and expansion in one
period is apt to be followed by con-
traction in another-the former
causes the latter, more or less in
evitably.
And, again, II may be that soldering
Evening star., 1934-10-22

never has been anything like so prof
liable as some may have supposed
Maj. de Prida might have difiiculty In
answering If he were challenged to
name even q single soldier of fortune
who really achieved riches in the field
The fate of the mercenary never has
been especially lucky. Alexander the
Great shared his fruits Of victory with
his paid troops, but the wealth soon
escaped from their hands. The Roman
emperors paid wages and permitted
plunder, but the ultimate winnings Of
their followers were scant. In the
Revolutionary War the Hessian legions
of George III were little better of,
than slaves, and the hireling Swiss
defenders of Louis XVI received moth
ing but a monument for their labors
and their pains.
As for the latter-day adventures,
the instance Of William Walker Is
symptomatic of the lot-he died before
q firing squad of Honduran rockies.
Glamour, it may be granted, sur
rounds the occupation, but most Of 1t
traces back to the imagination OF
Richard Harding Davis, a novelist
whose genius was romantic. The aver
age soldier of fortune has not been
either the most admirable or the most
successful of characters.
And now the worlds attitude toward
war is changing. Earth's children
have tired Of mass murder and mass
suffering. The slump in commercial
soldering may be attributable to a
universal desire for peace.
Evening star., 1934-10-22

Americans are sympathetic toward
the attitude of the Chinese govern
ment on the silver purchase policy Of
this country. The press finds logic
in the export tax placed on the metal
by the Chinese government. Some
fear is expressed that international
trade may be affected and that in
ternal monetary troubles in the Asi-
attic country may be detrimental to
other nations.
In placing an export tax on silver
amounting, in effect, to an export
embargo" says the New York Herald
Tribune, China is doing the only
thing she could reasonably be ex-
pected to do to prevent her monetary
reserves from being seriously depleted
by our Governments operations under
the silver purchase act" The Her
aid Tribune adds: China is now de
fscto, though not de jure, on the sill
yer standard. What is to be her next
move? There has been some hint
that If we will provide her with the
gold-by exchanging our gold for her
silver-she will have a try at the
gold standard, as recommended some
years ago by the Kemmerer Commits
sion. 1t is difficult to believe that
she actually will pursue this course.
What seems more likely Is that she
will take what has come to be the
popular way out and go on devalued
silver basis. The question which
could then present itself would be
whether Japan would accept such a
move without retaliation"
THE Chinese government AYERS,
observes the New York Times, that
the direct and unfortunate conse-
quence of the silver policy on which
the United States hght-heartedly
embarked has been to create harsh
defiationary forces and to impair
China's purchasing power for i'm
ports These statements could be
supported with wealth of statistical
evidence. As the value of silver has
increased, q given amount of it has
bought q larger quantity Of Chinese
goods. The internal price level has
therefore fallen. The average Of
commodity prices stood at 1861 in
1881, when silver was low. 1t has
now fallen to 99.S, as silver has risen.
This decline of prices has crippled
China's purchasing power in inter-
national trade, for 1t is the value OF
her goods for export-and not the
price Of silver, metal which she
additionally imports-that deter
mines China's ability to buy abroad.
At q time when many other countries
have been able to increase their pur-
chases of foreign goods China's have
declined"
The Chinese development indi-
Gates how far reaching every financial
experiment becomes, and how certain
1t is that changes in monetary policy
create conditions that are little antici-
pated," according to the Santa Monica
(Calif) outlook, while the Flint
CMich.) Journal notes that thus there
comes to hand demonstration of how
the silver policy has reacted In the
country where many expected 1t would
help"
The reasoning of the pro-silverites," T"
Evening star., 1934-10-22
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHIANDER JOHNSON.

Microphone Fodder.
The rnicrophone looks like a face on
pole,
With seeming of hunger beyond
all control.
1t ate up the old songs that used
to seem best.
It gobbled up Wagner with infinite
Zest.
With old English ballads and Rus
sian refrains
And tunes that appeal to moronical
brains.
Like the Song of the Sexton." it says
with grin,
II gather them in! I gather them int!
It ate up the jokes with gladstone
"Hooray!"
That produced so much mirth in old
Joe Miller's day.
1t soon made away. with an appetite
bold,
With the whimsical wheezes Lew
DockStader told.
When stateSmanlike speeches were
served to it hot.
1t gobbled them up, and they soon
were forgot.
And to hum now and then, it will
softly begin,
II gather them in! gather them inl''
Evening star., 1934-10-22
The Commissioners 1886 Budget

The Commissioners have taken the
right course in asking that the deficit
between 1886 revenue availability and
1886 needs be met by larger lump
sum. The shortage of local revenue
available to finance even a modest
program of maintenance and develop
ment in the next fiscal year is due
to failure, by the United States. to
contribute its Just share of Capital
City expenses. If the Commissioners
program of budget financing is fol-
lowed, the Federal share would be
increased, although the increase
would not fulfill the Nations real obli-
cation measured by any of the methods
proposed or followed in the past.
The Commissioners letter trans
mitting the 1886 budget to the Bureau
of the Budget does not itemiZe pro-
posed expenditures beyond a general
functional classification and it is diff
cult to Judge the budgets adequacy,
especially in the provision of capital
outlays for permanent improvement.
The letter deals. for the most part,
with totals. 1t shows the reduction
by some $8,600,000 made by the Com
missioners from the estimates sub
mitted by the department heads. The
remainder is described by the Com
miSsioners as "a most careful and
painstaking study of the amounts
required by the District of Columbia
for the ensuing fiscal year for main
tenance and operating expenses and
necessary public Improvements"
After computing the revenue avail
ability on the basis of $3.50 tax
rate and lump sum of $500, 900,
there is a prospective shortage OF
revenue in 1886 amounting to about
S2,5e0,00O. This shortage, the Com
missioners propose, should be met by
increasing the Federal lump sum to
an amount represented by the aver
age of lump sum payments Of the past
ten years The average is s8,317, 500,
which means a proposed increase IN
the lump sum of S2,617,500 over the
present lump sum. This proposed in
crease in the lump sum may be COM
pared with the arbitrary decrease IN
the lump sum between the years 1882
and 1884 of s3,800,O00. That reduction
was possible only through use OF
District surplus revenues to finance
drastically curtailed local budgets.
Now the District surplus revenues
have been practically depleted, the
budget is still pared to the minimum
essentials, and the practical as well
as equitable source of necessary rev.
enue is the increased lump sum-
The Commissioners point out that
"the existing tax rate of S1.50, con-
sidered with the present assessed val
uation of real estate in the District
of Columbia, represents a fair and
lust tax on the owners Of such prop
erty." That, as comparisons OF city
taxes in Washington and other cities
will show, is correct and might have
been supplemented by references to
the demonstrable adequacy of the total
tax burden in the District. The nee
essary increases to finance the 1885
District Budget should come from the
lump sum.
Evening star., 1934-10-22
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

roads during the night, In order TO
asstmilate their funeral to that of the
pagans. An example Of o crosSroad
execution ground was the famous Ty-
burn in London, which stood on the
spot where the oxford, Edgeware and
London roads met.
Q. Has paper ever been made from
the eucalyptus tree?-M. K. L.
A. Experiments are being made in
Australia to develop a method of max
ing paper from the Tasmanian euca-
lyptus trees.
@. What is the coldest temperature
that Admiral Byrd has recorded In the
Antarctic?-M. w.
A. Admiral Byrd has stated that
temperatures as low as go below zero
were recorded in the Antarctic.
Q. What scientist said, II desire
the simple faith Of Breton peasant"
-E. M.
A. The remark is attributed to
PaSteur.
w. w.
A. Tartar is a substance existing IN
the juice of grapes and deposited in
wine casks together with suspended
matter as q reddish crust or sediment.
Cream OF tartar Is this substance
purifled-so called because of the crust
Of crystals which forms on the surface
Of the liquor in publication by re-
capitalization.
@. How high above the water is the
floor of the Hudson River Bridge?
p. B.
A. The bridge has 200 feet clearance
above water. The height Of the towers
is 625 feet above water.
Q. Are x-ray films infiammable?
&c.
A. The new films, which are used
by practically all roentgenologists, are
acetate cellulose and burn with great
difficulty and will not explode. The
old films were nitrocellulose and were
very infammable, explosive and dan
gerous. They would explode from ex-
cessive heat without actual fame.
@. How many boys belong to the
Future Farmers of America?-B. r. Z.
A. There are $4,000 boys now en-
rolled In chapters In At States, Hawaii
and Puerto Rico. Bobby Jones of
Radnor, Ohio, aged 10, is president
OF the organization.
@. Who is the outstanding person
who brought about the changes in the
treatment of prisoners?-H. j.
A. The late Thomas Mott Osborne
revolutionized the treatment of crimi-
mails in our penal institutions.
@. At what age are the most arrests
Of law breakers nader. L. L.
A. The age Of ls seems to be the
high mark.
@. Was Alexander Woollcott born In
the United States or in England? Is
he married?-J. S.
A. He was born in Phalanx, N. j.,
January l9. 1887. He is not married.
@. Are panama hats made in
Panama.. s.
A. Some are, but most of them are
made in Ecuador.
@. Where is the highest point in
the world at which people lve?-
H. E. p.
A. The highest point where there
are people living is a mining district
in Chile, which is 1s,4s0 feet. The
next highest is a mining district IN
Peru, 1920 feet. In Tibet there is
a monastery at height Of $4,000
feet
Evening star., 1934-10-22
Schism in Germany.

Adolf Hitler's long feud
with the Lutheran Evangelical Church
has finally famed into an open breach
with that powerful Protestant organ
ization. Germany is now confronted
by a schism without parallel since
the Reformation. 1t constitutes a
defiant revolt against the attempt to
establish a Nazi religious dictatorship
and to subordinate spiritual affairs to
political control.
Matters reached climax during the
week end, when the Lutheran Synod,
estimated to represent eighty per cent
of the Protestant clergy and church.
goers, formally voted to secede from
the German Christian Church" set
up under the domination Of Reichs-
bishop Mueller and his co-dictator,
DR.. Jaeger, Prussian commissioner OF
Protestant Churches. The regime
headed by these two minions OF
Hitlerism was denounced as an i'm
possible papacy" and its right to
supervise Protestant thought and &C
tivities was repudiated in vehement
terms. Previously the German
Christian" movement had been ex-
coriated as anti Christ" in concept
and as aiming to substitute pagan
ism" for the Christian cult OF
tradition.
The rebellious Protestants, who for
many months have been irked oy
Nazi suppressions OF their clerical
activities, were goaded into final
action by the recent house arrest
of Lutheran state bishops in Bavaria
and elsewhere and by other evidences
that the Hitler government would not
shrink from police measures to bring
recalcitrant churchmen under the
Mueller-Jaeger yoke. "A state OF
emergency" the synod's declaration
of independence now afhms, has
arisen. The church constitution has
been destroyed. Its executive organs
no longer exist. Those who forcibly
seized church power have placed
themselves outside the pale. We call
upon all congregations and all pastors
to disregard further orders from the
Reichs Church and to recognize only
those from the synod and its
appointed organs"
The issue Is thus clearly drawn
between the old Protestant COM
munity, numbering normally at least
one-half of Germany's population,
and the Nazi government with its
demand for "one state, one people,
one church" No more damaing in
dictment of Hitlerism has yet ema-
mated from within Germany than this
rebellion of one of its mighty religious
forces against subjugation by worldly
powers" 1t is easy to credit reports
that the Fuehrer and his associates
are deeply stirred by the magnitude
and intensity of the oppositional
movement. Herr Hitler, in seeking to
wipe out the rights of the creed Of
which Martin Luther is the patron
saint, Is dealing with formidable
foe and one that, as current events
indicate, is not ready to submit
supinely to oppression. In inviting
its hostility. the Nazis have created
an enmity that may well prove fatal
for the ''totaitarian' social and
political system.
Evening star., 1934-10-22

An arrangement is mentioned as
possible by which little Gloria Wander
bilt will remain under the care of her
aunt, Mrs. Whitney, while the guard
ian's annual fee of $48, 900 continues
to be paid to her mother, Gloria VAN
derbilt. The idea appears to be to put
the custody of the child on q rental
basis.