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Evening star., 1934-04-11
Tin Box and Bootlegging.

In the course of the Seabury in
quiry into the affairs of Greater New
York under the Tammany regime
two years ago discovery was made
OF q remarkable source of wealth en-
joyed by one of the higher officials
Of the city administration. He ac-
counted for his affiuence by explain
ing that he had little tin box into
which he put his savings" and from
which he drew from time to time the
sums which he expended, quite
lavishly, for luxuries and political
investments. That explanation did
not altogether satisfy the Legislative
Committee which was making the
examination into metropolitan mat
ters, and the official went out by the
resignation route, which was the
easiest way for him. Now comes an
other revelation Of quick riches, en-
joyed by long time city employe, who
has just been removed from his job
upon discovery that during a period
Of about fourteen years he andmembers
Of his family made deposits Of nearly
Evening star., 1934-04-11
Naval Force Is Recognized
AS Need Unless Rivalry Ends

Richmond Times Dispatch observes
that "the House Naval Affairs Com
mittee acted favorably on a proposal
to commission, in the future. all
graduates of the United States Naval
Academy, even though there might
be no immediate need Of them," and
concludes: If We are to have a larger
Navy-one which will come up to
full treaty strength-it Is just as well,
perhaps, that we start now to or
ganizing the necessary officer per-
sonnet That would seem the sensible
course to pursue"
Various papers give chief place to
the possibility that the statement of
the American position may have an
effect on other nations. The Water
loo uowa) Daily Courier feels that
the Navy measure "is just a gesture"
and the Long Beach (Calif) Press
Telegram contends: Actually the
thing thus far achieved is notification
to the world that the United States
will not delay longer than 1885 its
privilege under the Washington and
London treaties to develop a Navy
equal to Great Britain's and superior
to Japan's at the ratio of 5 to 8.
President Roosevelt voices his per-
sonal hope that the naval confer
ence in 1885 will extend all existing
limitations and agree to further re-
ductions' This is a courageous hope
in view of Japan's announcement of
intention to ask for parity with Eng
land and America at the 1885 con-
tinuation of the 1922 and 1880 efforts
to reduce naval expenditures by all
sea powers"
With a satirical view of the de-
velopment, the Chicago Daily News
publishes comment in the form of
letter from lone COB to another"
saying: Say, listen, Limey, this time
you fellas really gotta quit kidding
and do some disarming, like we done.
See that new bill Of ours, the Vinson
bill? Well, it says we're gonna spend
$3.50 200, 900 and build 102 ships and
LAO planes. We're gonna bring our
old Navy right up to where the
Washington and London treaties says
we can. Now don't get excited. OF
course we amt really gonna build 'em.
It's just on paper. What it means is,
and the President says so himself,
why, it means we sort of like the
idea of building up our Navy where it
ought to be. It's what we call over
here in this country a statement Of
policy, like. 1t means if we ever
do want to build 'em, we can appro-
pirate the money and 60 ahead, see?
Now what We want to talk to YOU
about is this 1888 conference we're
all going to go to. We're ready now.
We've got the Vinson bill. We've got
our paper navy. And If you want to
60 along with us you better get your.
self some paper battleships, too. Then
at the conference we can all scrap a
lot Of paper, and make some big peace
speeches, and 60 home happy, see,
Limey?"
Evening star., 1934-04-11

Enactment Of the Trammell-V -Vinson
bill authorizing expansion of the
| American Navy produces widely diff
fering reactions. Some editors feel
that the United States should 60
ahead at once with the creation of a
Navy up to treaty strength. Others
would view the action Of Congress
merely as notice to the world Of
American intention to be prepared for
emergencies.
Since, in point Of effectiveness, we
have agreed with other powers not to
go above a prescribed limit" thinks
| the Lansing (Mich.) State journal.
| then there Is no other strength, in
sound reason, than treaty strength"
That paper continues: In our ma
tional experience We have civil courts
and criminal courts. The civil courts
are those In which citizens compose
their differences by the judicial proc
ess. That is as it should be. 1t is
vastly better than fighting over the
issue. Whatever the outcome, the
judicial process is to the advantages
of both defendant and plaintiff as
contrasted with attempt at decision
by force. There can be no doubt about
that. But besides our civil courts we
have our criminal courts. Criminal
courts have to do with armed police
men and with sheriffs and, if need
be, with the State troops. Federal
courts may even rely on Federal
troops and have. We have devised
no way of dealing with the criminal
except through force. If there is any
other way it Is yet to be discovered.
1t is so in the relationship between
nations. We have, as 1t might be
said, our civil differences which can
be and are adjusted by judicial proc
esses. We have many arbitration
treaties. We have arbitrated and will
continue to arbitrate that which can
be arbitrated. But one need have
only q rudimentary knowledge Of his
tory to realize that the equivalent of
criminal situations arises in interna-
tional relations"
1T has become plain that no meas
ure Of substantial disarmament can
be hopefully looked for" says the
Chester Pa.) Times, with a call to
Tie public W kdCc IcdlLlco, Willie
the McKeesport Pa) Daily News,
conceding a possibility that at the
naval conference next year the ma
tions may decide that 1t Is the height
Of foolishness to strive for large
navies," adds that when they're all
doing it 10 nation can afford to be
left out in the cold.'"
There can be little doubt that, in
the present temper of Congress, ap-
preparations will be authorized, unless
there is q fundamental change in the
naval situation" declares the Buffalo
Evening News, with this comment on
| international relations: ut must be
admitted that the outlook Is none too
bright for further limitations. The
very fact that Congress has seen fit
to authorize q huge construction pro-
gram has in itself made agreement
not less but more difficult. A naval
race is already under way, Great
Britain and Japan are stratning every
nerve to build their fleets up to treaty
limits before the expiration Of existing
treaties; and Japan has given notice
that 1t will press for full naval equal
ity with the United States and Great
| Britain ut the 1885 conference. This
demand Is not likely to meet with
favorable reception either at Washing
ton or London"
Taking up . related subject. the
Evening star., 1934-04-11
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

tunately too often hard, bold lines,
unrelieved, are essential to the design.
All our foundation paintings, and
the like, our shrubs, our flowers, are
after efforts, made to cover up, and,
in sense, hide what we have already
done.
Gardening is a continuous effort to
soften, to tone down, what has been
built up.
Take fence, or wall.
Even the best of them is the better
for vines. Here is an institution with
plenty Of money, which has erected
fine wall of good looking stone.
Does 1t permit the stone to remain
bare?
1t does not, but quickly plants ivy
at strategic points. Clumps of shrubs
are put in here and there along the
length.
Straightness must be toned down,
hardness of material softened.
The same applies to picket fences.
wire fences. any type of fence, and
it is exactly here that the various
NAIleS cHIer Tie picture.
1t Is here that the scarlet runner
bean comes in. There is room for
annual vines, to fill up spaces neces-
sarily left by climbing roses and the
like.
Something to look forward to-that
is the real charm of the garden at
this tinoe Of year.
Even tulips are yet to come, except
for that happy Washingtonian whose
wife played upon him the only
April fool joke ever heard of based
on goodwill.
All their married life they longed
for home and garden, and last Fall
they achieved both. He put out many
tulip bulbs, daffodils, etc.
On Easter morning his wife called
him to the window.
"Look!" she exclaimed.
There below them, in the garden.
stretched rows Of lovely tulips in full
bloom.
Interspersed were clumps of Jon
quils. with many another bright
flower.
The Washingtonian, not "up" on
the time Of blooming Of such things
took them as the real thing. Neigh
bors wondered, admired, asked him
now he did It," He told them, how
he had used peat moss, and so on.
The care he had taken to plant just
so deep, etc.
1t was not until late in the day
that he learned at last that his wife
had fixed up neat joke on him. by
securing many stalks and planting"
them, with the assistance of the
neighbors. who were in on the Joke.
A good joke, a clean joke, still It
leaves this man with the true bloom
ing OF his tulips coming as a sort of
floral anti-climax.
X X 4
Another fine thing to look forward
to In the garden is the thrush, hap
piest singer of them all
IL was on the morning of April
26, last year, that his four-part song
waited down for the first time.
This year-What day will it bep
That is day set aside. in any year.
the day one first hears the thrush
singing its triads.
And then the outpouring Of the
praying mantis cases. All Winter
they remained tight and secure
against the world of cold. Now, with
warmer days, with sunshine and
showers, bringing out the leaf buds
on hlacs and climbing roses, and the
yellow on the forsythias, each little
mantis will feel the stir of life. and
come crawling at last with brothers
ana sisters from the cases. Each case
Is as light as feather, house out
worn, In new Spring. sunshine and
green, gold and white, sky blue,
white cloud.
Evening star., 1934-04-11

This year 1t shall be scarlet runner
beans.
Templeton Jones always selects
something new to try in his garden
every year.
Stand by the old and tried, but put
III something new every season, just
for the experiments sake.
This Is the Jones garden doctrine
one which works out quite well In
practice.
Consider the scarlet runner. a bean
which goes by the scientific name OF
Phaselous coccineus.
A week ago Jones had never given
it any consideration at all. He had
heard of it, as most amateur garden
erS had, but he had never consid-
cred it.
What had happened to make him
want to plant it in big way?
\ \ 4 X
What happened is what so often
garden magazine. and therein had
come across a very short article or
the scarlet runner.
Very fine thing, this scarlet run
rer, according to the writer. Had
planted 1t thickly-the proper way
all along the fence, and had been re-
warded with dark green foliage, fine
red flowers and many edible beans.
Beans were secondary-or tertiary
to leaves and flowers.
Templeton Jones read the article
with approval.
BY George, he always had wanted
to try 'em. Believed he would this
year. The fence was nicely covered
with rose vines, mostly DR.. Van Fleet
the standard of standards, but there
was always room on a fence. That
was one of the fine things about a
fence.
The cardinal climber was another
good vine. the flowers of which were
very much liked by humming birds
Both 1t and the scarlet runner needed
to be planted rather closely together
Sd that good coverage could be Sc
cured from the leaves.
Anything which tended to attract
that ruby -throated humming bird was
always worth while. The gladiolus
In It's season, would do 1t.
The humming bird was something
to look forward to.
Come to think of It, one of the real
charms of the garden was that II
gave something definite to look for
ward to. something which one might
reasonably expect and finally see.
Often things hoped for, in this life
failed to materialize.
There was the man, for instance
who wanted a microscope, but never
got one. so pressing were the other
needs of his mature years.
There was the chap who looked for.
ward to owning holly tree. but had
to be content with bread and butter
etc.
Templeton Jones had no visions OF
raising a galaxy of scarlet runners
for beans of doubtful value.
If those should come along in pooc
time. all right, but what he was afte,
was the flowers and leaves.
His purpose, then, was essentially
decorative.
That. ~ the way, ought to be the
cnlef purpose Of home gardening.
Even vegetables may be-often are
things of the truest beauty.
vegetable patches. appropriately
bordered by flowers or shrubs, come ir
due season to fruition. but not before
they have contributed their share o,
beauty to a world which. in its better
moments, loves beauty above many an.
other thing often thought more i'm
portant.
Ugliness creeps into the worlc
where man intrudes his constructions
These mostly are erected in an effor,
TO achieve beauty, of a sort; unfor-
Evening star., 1934-04-11

now before President Roosevelt decides
to hold another one of his fireside
chats with the country by radio. Con-
structive criticism of the new deal.
for which F. D. r. has so frequently
asked, is in full tide Many of his
supporters feel he should not allow
much more time to elapse before COM
ing to grips with critics and detrac-
tors on certain specific questions that
have been raised. Possibly the eve
of adjournment of Congress, or some
date Immediately thereafter. will strike
the President as the appropriate mo-
ment for him once again to commune
with my friends" in the heart-to-
heart fashion of which he Is such a
master at the microphone.
x X X X
Politicians think it's Just possible
that impending liberalization" of the
Stock Exchange regulation bill and
the 1888 securities act, with admins
tration assent. will save the day for
the Democratic party in New York
State in November and in other finan-
cial centers. Particularly in New
York, hostility to the President has
been rampant and outspoken for the
past few months, having its origin
mainly in the conviction that the ad-
ministration was out to hamstring big
business and high finance through
the Stock Exchange and securities
laws. One Of the reasons for Senator
Copelands reported indifference to
Roosevelt-Farleyo opposition to his can
didacy for reelection may be his con-
fldence that New York voters, espe-
cially below the Bronx, love him for
the enemies he has made, as was once
said of another Democrat, named
Grover Cleveland.
X X, X X
As to New York City, much of the
country labors under an anti i-Gotham
complex. Representative Sol Bloom,
Democrat, who has just chaperoned
large delegation of House colleagues
to his home town, feels the trip may
serve to remove some of the ancient
prejudice against the metropolis.
Many Of the House tourists had their
flrst closeup of the big city and con-
fess that they came away with a new
slant on the sad. glad, bad, Isle of
Manhattan and with a lot of miscon-
ceptions obliterated. An incident at
West Point aroused attention among
the congressional wayfarers. Some of
them cast disapproving glances at an
American flag used as a decoration
over the altar in the academy chapel.
They thought such use of the Stars
and Stripes illegal.
= $3.50
Frank T. Bell, commissioner of fish,
cries, will escort a notable official
party to Alaska this Summer for an
inspection of Uncle Sans fisheries
farthest North and visit to the ia
nous Midsummer kill of seals at Prib-
iloff Islands, where last year more
than $4,000 animals were slaughtered
for the fur trade. Among Commis-
sioner Bells guests will be Secretary
OF Commerce Roper and Senators Joe
Robinson and Clarence Dill. The
party will journey from Seattle in the
Official fisheries boat, U. S. S. Brant.
Next Saturday at the bureaus hatch
cry at Fort Humphreys, near Wash
ington, Mr.. Bell will be host to a
party of IS or 80 members of Con-
gress at q barbecue, Two prize speci-
mems of Iowa pigs have been supplied
for the occasion by Representative
Albert A. Willford. Hawkeye Demo-
crat.
(Oopyr;ght, 1p3z.l
Evening star., 1934-04-11

DR.. Herbert Putnam has passed
thirty-five years as librarian Of Con-
gress, a scholar and student, person.
ally unostentatious, though enjoying
the constant companionship of one Of
the worlds greatest brain trusts.
Evening star., 1934-04-11
Kind and Reliable.

I call my old mule IN. r. A." in our
familiar talks.
He travels straight upon his way; and
even If he balks
It's because he does not find the path
before him always plain;
And when we make it clear he will 60
travelling on again.
I like him better than the steed who
prances swift and gay,
And takes the bit into his teeth and
maybe runs away.
If one stout arm grows weary and the
reins it has to drop,
We get another driver; for the jour-
ney mustn't stop.
Evening star., 1934-04-11

So many suspicious Of garbling arise
that the next time Mr.. Elliott Roose-
welt has a fish story he may decide
to write it himself instead of telling
it to the reporters.
Evening star., 1934-04-11
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHrLANDER JOHNSON.

Good Fishing.
A reporter came back from a trip to
the sea,
His smile was as happy as happy
could be.
He said to the editor, "It's understood
BY the experts down there that the
fishing is good.
Fishing for minnows or fishing for
whales,
Fishing for wages or fishing for sales;
Fishing for truth that will weigh as
it should
I'm glad to report that the fishing is
good.
Fishing for thoughts in the waters
profound,
They'll be ready to serve when the
time comes around.
A few got away, as we feared that
they would
But I'd say, on the whole. that the
fishing is good"
Evening star., 1934-04-11
Familiar Stuff.

From the Savannah Morning News.
With few minor changes last
years news from the base ball camps
could be warmed over and served as
fresh.
Evening star., 1934-04-11
Sumciency.


1t is Of war that poets have so elo-
quently told.
A lifetime won't suffice to read about
the wars of old.
The poets tell the story Of so many
glorious acts,
But 1t cannot be denied that they dis
guise the cruel facts.
The destinations that inspire such
splendid ancient lays
Afford enough material to last us all
our days.
So let US be content with al this
ancient lore,
While candidly admitting that We
don't want any more.
Evening star., 1934-04-11
In Training.

From the wichita Eagle.
As to the airmail, the administra
ton Is getting more practice In attach
and defense than the Army.
Evening star., 1934-04-11
ney mustn't stoI

II can't stop 'em from plowin'
under cotton" said Uncle Eben, but
If dey ever starts in on de watermelon
crop rs gineter rise up and say sum-
pin'."
Evening star., 1934-04-11

DR.. Wirt's Communist suspicious
may be laughed off without resorting
to the direct style of humor presented
by some of the college magazines.
Evening star., 1934-04-11

Ulterior Motives.
do you know precisely what you
are talking about?"
Always" answered Senator Sor-
ghum, although ! sometimes deem 1t
expedient to avoid letting my public
be fully aware of it."
Jud Tunkins says we're going to
have the biggest telescope ever made.
Maybe he'll take look, although all
he expects is to be reminded of q
whole lot more things he'll never
know much about,
Evening star., 1934-04-11
Less Idle Discussion.

Less Idle Discussion.
do you find that business Is i'm
proving?" asked the interviewer.
Rapidly" answered Mr.. Dustin
Stax. You're the first man to bring
up the subject in a week. Formerly
it was used for a continual conversa-
tional pastime."
Gas the crowd passes my door," said
Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, II
wonder that the city should contain
so many people so few Of whom are
friends"
Evening star., 1934-04-11
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insiders predict it won't be long
Evening star., 1934-04-11

THE PIONEERING THORN. BY Mar
gerry Sharp. New York; G. P. Put
nan1's Sons
Evening star., 1934-04-11

@. What is the difference between
book beer and lager beer?-L. r, c.
A. Book beer Is a strong beer, the
first drawn from the watts In the
Spring. when the Winters brew Of
lager beer Is broached.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-05
HITLER MAKES
NEW THREAT
Opponents Of Nazi Program To
Be Dealt With Ruthlessly He
Tells Convention.
BY FREDERICK OESCHNER
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
NUREMBERG, Germany, Sept.
5.-ThoSe who dare to challenge the
leadership of the Nazi party will be
dealt with ruthlessly, Reichsfuehrer
Adolf Hitler declared today in a
proclamation read to the Nazi party
convention.
Coming so soon after his Sanguin-
ary cleansing" of party leaders on
June 80, the chancellor's warning
bore special significance.
In the next thousand years,
there will be no more revolutions in
Germany" Hitler'S proclamation
said. 1t was read to the opening
session of the convention by Adolf
Wagner. district leader of the Nazis.
Hitler ridiculed the 100000 op-
position votes cast against him in
the recent referendum which con-
firmed his leadership by an over
whelming majority.
The fist of the NaZi state will
crush any who attempt to under
mine the party" he declared.
Strong nerves and iron hardness
are the best guarantees of success
in the world"
Hitler listed seven outstanding
Nazi achievements, as follows:
l. The party not only stopped but
abolished the destruction of Ger
man peaSaftry.
2. "Unheard of success" has been
met by the governments re-emrloy-
ment measures.
8. Unemployment has been dimin-
ished by 100000 workers.
4. The reichsmark has been held
stable despite export difficulties.
Zone of the cardinal principles e
DR.. Hjalmar Schacht, president of
the reichsbank, has been to avoid
initiation of the currencyO
5. There has been an increase in
savings accounts.
6. There has been an increase in
railway, automobile and air traffic,
7. Tax receipts and dues from Of
ficial and unofficial organizations
have exceeded expectations.
Hitler declared the opposition was
not united, either in a faith or
program"