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Evening star., 1934-01-27
Fairness to Veterans

From the Kansas City Star.
The fact that President Roosevelt has
authorized an increase Of more than
$21, ,O00, 900 in veterans allowances may
be regarded as recognition on his part
Of the faults in the economy law en-
acted last year. That the law was un-
fair to thousands of most deserving
veterans and widows and orphans was
contended from the start by the Amer
ican Legion and other former-service
organizations. But 1t required some
months of effort to prove 1t to the salts
faction Of the administration.
There remains, also the problem Of
more than $4,000 cases appealed from
the review boards set up under the
economy act. Among these are thou
sands in the so-called presumptive class,
where proof Of war connected disability
Is difncult. These cases should be re-
solved In favor Of the veteran where
ever there Is . fairly conclusive prssen-
tation Of evidence. There has been too
great a tendency to decide such cases
in favor Of the Government, largely
because the bureaucratic influence OF
the veterans administration itself has
been dif1cult to break down.
The additional allowances now granted
by the President will go far toward
eliminating many of the injustices, but
the fundamental problem remains. That
is that there has not been q genuinely
thorough study of all phases of vet
erans' legislation leading to . revision
of the laws so that in the future no con-
fusion would exist. Such q study was
started by the last Congress, but was
interrupted by the passage Of the econo-
my act.
Evening star., 1934-01-27
Effect of Alcohol on
Drivers of Automobiles

To the Editor Of The Star:
A news item from Berlin, Germany,
indicates that the Nad has set up q
system of blood tests for determining
the degree Of intoxication of auto driv-
ers and others who are brought into
court. The Germans have always
shown an inclination to set sentiment
aside and get down to cold facts. Dr..
Walter Miles Of Yale, who has doubt
less made the most exhaustive expert
mental study OF the results Of mild
doses Of alcohol. states that TX to 2
pints of ATS per cent beer u sufficient
to slow down motions, perceptions and
combinations to . measurable degree
This renders . driver dangerous But
our courts, unlike the German courts.
are inclined to consider that q man
is still sober Is long as he Is sober
enough to hang on to the grass to
keep from rolling on the earth.
w. G. CALDERWOOD.
Minneapolis, MINI.
Evening star., 1934-01-27

remember that . new order now pre-
walls TN the Fatherland, that will brook
no nonsense Of monarchial trend.
At last weeks Sixty-third anniver-
sary Of the founding OF the First Reich
by Emperor william "the Great" and
Prince Bismarck, Herr Dare. Maxi min
lister Of agriculture. went the length of
declaring that "the last Hohenzollern
emperor Is responsible for the decay Of
the folk-foundation Of our Fatherland."
On the same occasion Herr Goerlitzer,
vice chairman for Greater Berlin Of the
National Socialist party. openly charged
William II with agitating for q return
OF the monarchy, adding: I'VE will
make short shrift Of anybody caught
engaged in this sort Of business: he will
be dealt with exactly as were those who
believed they could do Moscows bid
ding here" Herr Goerlitzer pillorted
monarchial asitators as more dangerous
than Communist agents because they
appeal to the intellectuals.
Such Is it Is, the German Royalist
crusade Is believed to find its main
support among the die-hard Junkers
and militarists who succumbed to the
irresistible force Of Hitlerism, but Sc
cretly despise it. 1t has been suggested,
too. that German Protestantisms re-
sentiment Of NaM regimentation may
have its handspring In Hohenzollern-
ism.
Precisely what motive inspires Nazi
anti-monarchical fury Is not clear. One
explanation may be . super patriotic
contempt for Williams conduct in de
serting' at the hour of Germany's
crisis in 1918. Or Herr Hitler and his
supporters may not relish even the re-
mote possibility that \ repatriated Will
liam II might mount Z throne set up
on the ruins Of an overthrown National
Socialist regime. Whatever the cause,
evidence Is undeniable that Germany Is
through with the old Kaiser and all
his works. Sic transit gloria mundi!
That will not be q joyful birthday
reflection for the exile OF Doom, but
1t Is fate he can hardly hope to chal-
lenge as long as the empire over which
he once presided remains under the
omnipotent rule Of Adolf Hitler.
Evening star., 1934-01-27
The Ex-Kaiser and the Nazis.


Surrounded by children and grand
children and the fading pomp Of his
glory, William Of Hohenzollern,
former German Emperor and King Of
Prussia, is celebrating today in exile
at Doom the seventy-fifth anniversary
of his birth. The event synchronizes
with an almost fierce outburSt Of anti
sentiment in NaI Germany.
It Is unmistabably indicated that the
Third Reich wishes to hear nothing OF
any bring back the : Hohenzollerns
movement in general or Of any cult
that looks to the restoration Of william
II in particular. The Ex-Kaiser cuts
the pathetic figure Of . discredited IN
dividual in the realm over which he was
won't to claim that he held sway by
divine right.
In Williams fourth son, Prince Au-
gust wilhelm, Chancellor Hitler and
the Nazis have found q devoted fol-
lower and they seem inclined to feel
that his presence in their ranks sup
plies enough Hohenzollern glamour for
their purposes. Old-lins Kaiser true"
were warned to soft-pedal
their Wilhelmesque eulogies today, to
Evening star., 1934-01-27
Escape.

There are occasions, it cannot be de-
MED, when the world seems q brutal
kind of place, when mankind appears
70 slip backward in its arduous progress
out Of the abyss. when circumstances
combine to dampen and depress the
sensitive individual spirit. At such
q moment, OF course, the sturdy and
vobust soul courageously stands up to
1Ate, refusing to be overwhelmed. But
there are others. perhaps . degree less
brave, who instinctively wish to flee to
sanctuary. abandoning the exhausting
struggle with cruelty and ugliness. in
tolerance and greed. For these, prov
dentially. numerous retreats exist.
For example. there are books whose
influence conduces to placidity. The
Bible is one, and the plays Of Shakes
peare another Burton's Anatomy Of
Melancholy" was purposefully designed
1or the need, and like claim might be
made for Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress" I"
Izaak Walton's "Compleat Angler"
Pascal's Thoughts" and Montaigne's
Essays" belong to the same general
group. Emerson and Oliver Wendell
Holmes wrote numbers Of literary band
ages for hearts much bruised, and the
philosopher who hides himself under
the pseudonym Of David Grayson" has
been q good physician" in the most
authentic meaning of that term.
The fine arts, too, provide surcease.
In practically every community there is
at least one institution where beautiful
pictures and noble statuary may be
viewed by all who come in quest Of love-
Aness and where finely printed books Of
Evening star., 1934-01-27
Two Railroad Suggestions
Inspire Comments of Public

issue among serious s-minded citizens"
government ownership and operation
Of railroads may be the only way out, "
and the Times feels that as to cost,
perhaps 1t may be much lower before
many years have passed" That paper
adds that 1.-The plight of the roads cries
for action"
On the suggestion that the roads set
up sinking funds to redeem bonds, the
Fort Worth Star Telegram argues:
Many students of railroad manage
ment believe that the present financial
difficulties Of the railroads are due not
only to decrease in traff1c since 1890,
but also to the high proportion of rail-
road Indebtedness represented by bonds
and similar forms Of funded indebted
ness. OF about $23,000,O00 900 out
standing In railroad capital, $4,000
600 900. or 81 per cent, is represented
by funded debt, and $4,000, 900 900, or
43 per cent, by stock. Naturally, a
railroad can omit dividend payments
on common and preferred stock with
out being threatened with receivership
on that account, but omission of in
terest payments due on bonds is ipso
facto grounds for receivership proceed
ings. Many of the roads threatened
with receiverships in 1888 because of
inability to pay the full interest due
on their bonds would have been able to
make such payments had their capital
obligations been composed more of
stock and less of bonds"
Hope for the future under existing
ownership is voiced by the Portland,
Greg, Journal, with the conclusion
that the wild watered capitalization
of former years is being squeezed out
of the overhead" The Rochester
Times Union points out, as to the need
Of sinking funds, that bonds have been
left outstanding against equipment
which has long since worn out" The
Santa Monica outlook believes that IF
President Roosevelt's principle is
adopted, 1t will mark a new era in
American RAILWAYS"
Evening star., 1934-01-27
Counterfeits Now
In Circulation
To the Editor of The Star:
I note the head of

To the Editor of The Star:
I note the head of the Treasury
Secret Service, in his testimony before
a subcommittee of the House on coun-
terfeits, is reported as testifying there
were now extant counterfeit United
States silver coins containing better sill
yer than the Government silver coins
and that there were more of these
counterfeit coins in circulation than
genuine Government silver coins. But
the head Of the Treasury Secret Service
makes, or made, no mention of the
$4,000 Of counterfeit notes of United
States new paper-note currency offered
for deposit two or three years ago to q
Berlin. Germany, bank. Or Of the
$50, ,000-maybe the same counterfeits-
captured in Brooklyn. N. Y, In 1928,
think. Or of the $2,400 In counter
feitS. found on the person Of Q man
arrested . week or 80 ago, who stated
he had made $4,000 counterfeits Of the
new paper-note currency. He also said
that he had exchanged $3.50 Of the
counterfeits and got coin of the realm"
as he put it, and bought a $4,000
annuity for his daughter" New United
States paper-note currency, easily coun-
terfeited by photography or lithography,
Is in circulation all over the United
States-often here in Washington, Vir-
ginia and Maryland How came it the
head Of the Treasury Secret Service
made no mention Of these factS-foR
facts they are? w. Z. RYAN.
Evening star., 1934-01-27
High Lights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

Argentina. and will also affect in some
degree our own cattle industries. If
it were desired to convert the nations
Of the world into exponents Of the
vegetarian principle and theory, Ger
tainly no better method Of accomplish
ing this result could be devised than
these repeated increases in the costs Of
beef and mutton. These extra duties,
instead Of providing more revenue.
really account for less. since each new
tmpost means further depreciation In
consumption.
Evening star., 1934-01-27

prominent golfer We vim wonder, and
properly. what he knows about meat
literature. Maybe he does, but We viii
have to be shown first.
The Acknowledge Of our hero how
ever. Is not his most striking character
istic.
It is, perhaps, that there is simply
no room for argument In what he says.
His listener, picked up by chance. by
no chance whatever could know any,
thing at all about the subject.
The listener Is willing to give him
credit for some Of his knowledRe, al
though not all Of 1t. but he. In his turn,
pays no attention whatever to any dif-
ference of opinion.
One wonders what he would say II
one were to pop up and assert:
well. now that you have settled the
problems Of India. and mostly wrong.
talking to. I am the acknowledged
authority in the world on India
and then give . great name
Probably. no doubt. he would simply
say "Baloney." even If one really hap
pened to be the great authority. really.
It would be comforting to feel %
sure, but unfortunately one has TO be
built that way mentally.
The strange thing ID that often this
type Of human being has . good sense
Of humor.
Or has hs7
It may Be that while he seems to
have such . sense, superncially, way
down deep in the hidden recesses Of his
mind he suffers from an appalling lack
Of 1t.
Possibly he soothes his own sense Of
ego by calmly adopting pose Of omnis-
cience.
Probably he believes all he reads.
Even with the best intent In the world,
one should never believe everything one
reads, no matter how good . reader.
It will be found that certain types
Of men commonly are given to this
positive knowledge which permits no
other view.
The strange thing Is that mostly
these types are by their very occupa-
tions far outside the special orbits they
claim to enter.
Even the most inexperienced person
could know that this good rough fellow
really knows nothing In the world
about India
Why should he?
He has never been to India, and he
never will go. He probably would use
some uncomplimentary term II he saw
real Hindu
He has read something about it some
place. and by some hook or crook is
able to fool himself into believing that
he really knows.
But that Is not enou
You. too, must accept v he says.
That is part of it, and II you 90 back
on the unwritten compact, he dismisses
what you say just as you dismiss what
I say" he would say.
Or would he? We do not think he
would. Difference Of opinion bothers
him little.
Mostly he doesn't hear it. He Is too
well pleased with the sound of his own
voice
And yet one finds him pleasant,
childlike and bland-a good fellow
enough II he would stick to his Job of
driving his taxi and not set himself I'D
as an expert on land far away and
what to do with its population prob
lens. One has q suspicion that he
knows positively nothing at all about
that. but that he Is q very good taxi
driver, indeed. Some drivers Just must
talk.
Evening star., 1934-01-27
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEHELL,

Why do some insist on ssknowing II
all about . given subject, when really
they do not know at all?
There are certain types Of men. for
instance, to be met with in all public
places, and especially in vehicles, who
have very positive views about every
thing
Talking with strangers, they might
now and then get the idea, it would
seem, that the person they were talk
ing with for the nonce might know
more about the subject than they did.
They never do, however.
They know it all, whether the sub
1ect Is politics, national or interna-
tional; literature. art or what not.
Suppose one has Just come from an
Informative chat with O real expert
on India, for instance.
Some one who has spent much time
In that great strange country, some
one who Is well versed in Oriental lore,
great reader, keen observer, q
shrewd commentator on life.
This man has given one many novel
ideas for which one will be eternally
grateful. Next to going to place,
the best thing Is to hear it discussed
Then one meets one OF these know
1t all" fellows In public vehicle.
CHANGING to say something about
! India, one is rather nonplussed to dis
cover that this individual knows more
than anybody In the world about It,
Plainly never having set foot out Of
America. he yet has very positive ideas
about that race, and its manifold prob
lens.
Fortified as one Is with some bits Of
reality, one modestly tries to suggest
that perhaps the situation Is otherwise
He says he is . tailor. but he knows
all about India. No doubt he is .
very good tailor, but why does he think
he knows about India? He is too young,
in the first place, and he hasn't trav-
eled and probably hasn't read enough.
His work has not lain along the lines
OF 1ndia-but he knows all about India,
just the same.
Well, he is not unique, Of course.
There are millions Of persons like
are 50 sure they know. How can one?
How does q person get that way2
1t must be pleasant to be 50 very
sure. especially about something which
one would know one knew exactly moth
ing at all about If one stopped to think
. second about it.
Perhaps that Is 1t; they do not think,
but just know.
How supremely comforting!
Such persons evidently know 1t all
because they refuse to stop to realize
that they do not know. after all.
Maybe they do not have a good sense
Of humor or their bump Of proportion
Is just little aSkew.
Surely they ought to wonder, now
and then. II this man they pick up in
impromptu conversation might not be
Q real expert" in the matter.
4
But why should they fear authority?
They are authority. They know let
others wonder how they came by their
knowledge.
1t would seem. therefore, that ones
knowledge ought not to be at too great
variance with ones apparent station
In life if one is to make the best i'm
preston on the casual listener.
Every one knows how it is.
Here comes man to speak about
books, and II he writes himself we will
accept what he says, but If he Is
Evening star., 1934-01-27

insult, unwelcome the world over,
may be obliged to spend the remainder
Of his life on ship board. which will be
especially cruel If one Of the infirmities
to which he Is subject happens to be
sea-sickness. There Is q disposition at
present to extend clemency where re-
pentance may be assumed, and it might
be that surrender on his part would
enable him at least to attain the en-
joyment Of physical comforts.
Evening star., 1934-01-27

Earned incomes will be subject OF
consideration possibly in connection
with the fact that some Of the largest
incomes are most easily earned. There
will be few incomes whose possessors
will believe that their incomes have
not been earned by industry or by
prudence.
Evening star., 1934-01-27
Gamblers

From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
New York police inspector says If fire.
quenters of gambling joints are arrested
often enough they will be convinced
gambling doesn't pay. Wouldn't 1t be
cheaper to let them patronize slot ma
chimes?
Evening star., 1934-01-27

but Uncle Sam is so frequently assured
by bond buyers that his credit is good
that the perfunctory details of book
attention.
Evening star., 1934-01-27

Republican legislator in Illinois and
wife Of Democratic cabinet official,
Mrs. Ickes logically decides that her
situation u too complicated to be con-
tinued. and the fact that Illinois can
easily secure other legislators renders
but one decision possible.
Evening star., 1934-01-27

When Herbert Hoover is quoted as
eying he Is permanently out of pol
4ics his old friends are undecided
whether to regard the announcement as
. statement Of scientific fact or only
II personal impression.
Evening star., 1934-01-27

There need be but little objection to
playing THE Internationale. Its me-
lodious appeal Is not strong enough by
itself to make it popular, and the words
would be difacult to memorize.
Evening star., 1934-01-27
That Old School Book

From the San Antonio Evening News.
No doubt the small boy who had to
learn his lessons out of them would say
that the museum is the place for Nc
Guffey'S Readers.
Evening star., 1934-01-27

The finished product Is enjoying Ger
tain advantages. Owing to White House
kindliness, Washington police are able
to report q sense Of grateful satisfaction
in the popcorn belt.
Evening star., 1934-01-27
SHOOTING STARS.
by PHILANDER JOHNSON.

BY PHLANDER JOHNSON
Duel.
Another duel has been fought
In French and formal fashion.
For honor's sake men felt they ought
To fall into . passion.
They drew their pistols and took aim,
The bullets passed unharming.
Their frowns Of hatred, just the same,
Were terribly alarming.
Henceforth let seconds stand in pride
When they have measured PAGES
And conscientiously decide
Who makes the ugliest faces.
Evening star., 1934-01-27
Post.Christmas Ties
| the Rochester Times-Union.

From the Rochester Times Union.
Stylist declares little men should
never wear loud neckties. We feel safe
in spreading this now that Christmas
has receded into the past.
Evening star., 1934-01-27
L HERALDO, Bogota.-The inter-
. national conventions for repress-
ing the publication and circula-
. ton of obscene literature, if the

Il II oOkOld.-1 llc lulSl.
IL national conventions for repreSs-
ing the publication and circula-
IL ton Of obscene literature, if the
latter noun can be applied with
any propriety to such compositions,
will shortly be studied again by the Co
lombian Congress at Bogota. Projects
of law enforcing such dicta have al
ready been ratified by the Senate, and
have now passed to the Deputies for ac-
ceptance and confirmation.
This is the fourth time such mat
ters have been given consideration by
these bodies. The legislative bodies in
1890, 1881 and 1882 entered upon SINH
lar debates, but concurrence Of sufficient
members in both houses as to just what
stipulations should be adopted has not
yet been constitutionally effected. Dis
tinctions have been drawn, almost too
cases, between the social, moral and
legal phases of the proposed restrictions
which have held in allegiance all the
wholesome results Of the intended re-
forms.
1t seems that what some people con-
slider indecency, others estimate only art
or nature. However, 1t Is clear that
there is vast difference between what
may properly be consigned to print for
general distribution, and such Rabelai-
sian offerings, though they may not
seriously injure the adult, are most
baleful in their influence upon the ado
lescent. Medical books and disserta-
tions thus are manifestly not suitable
for the very young, nor are many screen
plays and operatic performances which
an older person might contemplate
with indifference or equanimity.
Evening star., 1934-01-27
Restrictions on Jobs
For Wives Protested.

Manchester Guardian.-The public
meeting in London last night, which
was called to protest against the restrlc-
tions that are being increasingly placed
on the employment Of married women
should do some good.
The meetings calls attention to what
is at once an economic scandal and an
insidious social danger. 1t Is social
danger because, as Mrs. Pethick-Law-
renee accurately said. the economic"
argument is being used in some quarters
merely as a pretext for a wider attack
on the general rights which women
have so recently, and arduously, won.
The Nazis do not limit their back
to-the- home" campaign only to the
married women OF the country; their
whole conception of the German wom-
ans position in the state is the mega.
ton of every right to personality and
equal treatment which Western thought
has so slowly learned to respect. BY "
self. the economic pretext Is poor
enough.
In the present depression, 1t Is
pleaded, women cannot be allowed to
take bread out of the mouths of un-
employed men-as though, under our
present system, some husbands. dis
abled or infirm, have not inevitably to
be supported by their wives; as though
there was only a fixed, absolute num-
ber OF "jobs" to 60 round, and that
the woman who chooses to work out
side the home has not to get somebody
else to do her home work for her.
But the iniquity is not properly
based on the economic argument at
although that argument is a good
enough pretext for some municipalities,
education authorities, and so on, to get
rid of the married women in their en-
ployment It is based on the theory that
in the marriage contract the woman Is
the subordinate and inferior partner,
and that in case of need her right to
a separate existence must give way to
mans. In this country at least such .
theory Of social life has surely only
to be brought into the open and made
known for it to be unhesitatingly con-
demned.
Evening star., 1934-01-27
British Meat Duties
Scored in Uruguay.

impartial, Montevideo.-They are
talking in London of new duties on i'm
portations of meat from foreign coun-
tries other than those included In the
British Empire The new restrictions
if made effective, will reduce shipments
of chilled beef and other meats from
Evening star., 1934-01-27

Tn . little WHILE" said Uncle Eben,
maybe everybody kin git 9 Job as some
kind of . policeman. It's gittin' SO dat
everybody suspects dat most everybody
else can stand little watchin'."
Evening star., 1934-01-27

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Matches credited to 1t or not otherwise cred
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published herein. All rights Of publication OF
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BOarders Dissatisfied.

I deamt that to prison went
For some unworthy action,
And presently in discomfort
I organized q faction.
We simply left that homelike place
For other quarters looking.
Too crowded was the sleeping space
And We disliked the cooking.