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Production VS.. Restriction.

Restriction and curtailment of pro-
duction, agricultural and industrial
must result in a great detriment to
the Nation and retard recovery for
a long period. Senator William E.
Borah of Idaho insists. This places
the Idaho Senator in direct conflict
with the supporters, for example, of
the Bankhead cotton bill recently
passed by the House and awaiting the
attention of the Senate. 1t places
him in conflict with those officials of
the adminiStra ton who are advocating
various plans of crop curtailment,
which in some instances already have
been tried, in the effort to put an
end to SURPRISES and to advance
prices. Whether this places Mr.. Borah
in the list of unpatriotic critics is not
clearly determined. For while the
Senator says that the trouble lies IN
"our distribution system, which has
broken down." ne has not so far come
forward with concrete proposals for
its utilization.
At the base of the whole trouble,
Senator Borah contends, lies the
failure of purchasing power on the
part of the people. Remedies for the
ills of the people, rural and urban,
he says, lie in the revision of the
monetary and banking and credit
systems, and more important still, in
breaking the hold of monopoly upon
the people. Whether Senator Borah
has presented legislative proposals in
definite form or not, there are many
Americans who agree. thoroughly with
his ideas and with his attack upon
the curtailment of production.
Complete restoration of the anti
trust lawS-susPended in some re-
spects by the operation of the ma
tional industrial recovery act and the
codes set up thereunder-is a concrete
demand made by Senator Borah. He
considers this, he says, vital to the
situation, vital in curbing monopoly
which threatens to make 1t easy for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-03-23
Amending the Liquor Control Act.

If, as suggested, the District liquor
control act. is to be amended, the
proposal for amendments at this time
is premature. Granting that expert
ence will reveal flaws CT inequities in
the law, adequate experience with the
law is still lacking. The law is not
yet two months old.
It is significant that the amend
ments proposed tend to weaken re-
Strictions set up under the law, al
though protests by citizens indicate
that if the law and its Interpretation
err, it is on the side of ''liberality."
Certainly there can be no complain:
over any shortage of sales places.
Possibly the most dangerous liberal
izing amendment to the law yet pro-
posed is the bill by Representative
Weideman. ordered favorably reported
by the House District Committee over
the protest of citizens representatives
and the Commissioners. The effect Of
this amendment would be to destroy
the protection to home neighbcrhoods
against liquor sales establishments;
protection now provided under the
control act and the zoning regula-
tons.
The zoning regulations did net ef-
feet establishments already located
in areas newly zoned. Such non
conforming" stablishments-such as
a grocery store in a residential area
were permitted to remain, with the
idea that in time they would disap-
pear. No new establishments were
permitted. The coming regulations
permit no improvements to non-con-
forming use establishments, except
improvements necessary to protect
life, property, etc. Improvements to
lengthen the life or increase the pa
tronage of non-conforming use es-
adjustments are discouraged.
The control act denies any and all
liquor licenses in residentially zoned
areas, except drug stores. which may
sell liquor on prescription. The
Weideman amendment would permit
issuance of off-sale beer and liquor
licenses to establishments in residen-
tial areas.
This amendment thus carries a
double threat 1t threatens to de-
stroy the protection Of home neigh
borhoods against hquor-sales estab-
lishments. 1t threatens an important
principle of zoning regulation, through
perpetuating the life CT non-conform-
ing use Adjustments The amend
ment is designed to help the cont
mercial interests of a small minority
Of establishments. 1t is not pressed
in answer to public demand or in
furtherance of the public interest, is
directly opposed to the expressed
wishes of home owners and is con-
trary to the advice of the Commits
sioners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-03-23
Mr. De Valera's Senate.

Dictatorship, or at least the dicta-
torial trend, so rampant on the Con-
tinent, has crossed the English Chan
mel and the Irish Sea and fetched up
at Dublin. So, at any rate, it would
seem. judging by what happened on
Thursday in the Dali Eireann. when,
at the behest of President de Valera,
the lower branch of the Free State
Parliament, by vote of 70 to 40,
passed bill to abolish the Senate.
The action was a reprisal instigated
by Mr.. de Valera for the Senate's re-
lection of Dali bill to prevent the
wearing of blue shirts by the gov
ernment's political foes, the Irish
FaSCists, led by Gen. O'Duffy.
The temperamental head of the
Free State, in proposing legislation to
do away with the recalcitrant body,
denounced the Senate as "a menace
to the country" and said that the
government had long considered put
ting it out of the way. On the blue
shirt issue President de Valera &C
cuses the upper house of holding up
a policy put before the country and
approved in two general elections. The
country, at another general election,
may now be asked to vote the Senate
out of existence. The ban on Gen.
O'Duffy's cohorts cannot, under the
Free State constitution, again become
a matter of legislative consideration
for eighteen months.
Happily, here in Washington, where
our own upper branch of parliament"
does not always see eye to eye with
the House, there is no danger of any
project to abolish the Senate on the
ground of characterization. Evidently
Mr.. de Valera Is not partial to the
system of checks and balances inner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-03-23
Ria Shah's Great
Work for Persia

To the Editor Of The Star:
In the closing paragraph of polit-
ical gossip published in your issue Of
the 18th instant, the writer in making
certain baseless references to His I'M
perial Majesty Ria Shah Pahlavi as
serts that Ria Shah is tired Of this
King business and wants to hand over
the throne to his 12-year-old son and
before taking this action decided to
get rid of the ablest politician. Tay-
mourtash.
An English proverb says that wish
is the father cf thought. Such a
thing as the writer asserts must exist
in his mind alone, as everybody with
the slightest knowledge of Ria Shah
knows that he Is as remarkable in his
physical strength and unfailing energy
as he is in his 6-foot y Inch figure
and commanding and kingly appear
ance. Even those who have not seen
him can assure themselves of his
character at glance at his photo
graph.
Can there be better and more con-
vincing proof than the well-knovn
fact that His Majesty Ria Shah in
the short space Of seven years has
made a complete transformation of
Persia? He has turned weakness into
strength and vacillation into stability.
organized an army respected by all
and laid the foundation of permanent
naval and aerial power, and after a
r
are ruled and controlled by Persian
armed ships. BY the construction Of
roads all over Persia as well as the
Transpersian Railway, which is about
to connect the Caspian Sea with the
Persian Gulf, and put its commerce
and finance on a sound foundation
and he has greatly aided the progress
of both sexes Of the Persian people.
All this may not be pleasant to GER
tain people, and consequently they
wish him to forsake his works and
heavenly mission in restoring Persia
to her ancient glories, but he is des-
tined and bent on fulfilling these
works and mission
Taymourtash's ability is another de-
fusion of the writer. If Taymourtash
made a certain reputation. it was be-
cause he had the good fortune of be-
ing instrumental in certain cases in
carrying out during four years as
minister of court his majesty'S di-
rections, as did other ministers in
various other departments of state.
The very fact that Taymour during
the so years of his life before be-
coming minister of court left moth
ing but disgraceful records of the
various important posts which he
had in the old regime is telling
evidence against his ability. The
very fact that his corrupt practice
and swindling in the national bank
and other affairs which brought him
to open disgrace and condemnation in
the open court in spite OF the stub
born defense of his three well-known
lawyers proves his corrupt character
beyond any doubt and shows that
the writer's assertions from begin
ming to end are nothing but mere
delusion.
l might suggest in conclusion that
low fortune in a soldiers life is not
to his descredit Napoleon at the
beginning of his life not only could
not pay for his laundry. but was
| dependent for his living on the woman
who did his laundry, but that did not
prevent his becoming world power.
G. DALAI.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-03-23
A Political Checkers Game.

One interesting feature of the pro-
longed game of checkers between the
House and Senate on the independ-
ent Offices appropriation bill. estab-
fishing policy on pay cut restoration
for Government personnel and for in
creased allowances for veterans, has
been the Presidents continued silence
on the issues involved.
The President has been represent
ed" as believing this or believing that
But the President could doubtless have
resolved the issue between House and
Senate in a few of his we'll chosen
words, had he wished to do so. He
has preferred to let the two houses
scrap it out for reasons of his own
One reason may have been to permit
the recording of votes on questions
that will of course have a distinct
bearing on the Fall elections. But re-
gardless of what the Senate does to-
day, the question still remains what
the President will do.
A review of the history of this bill
may be OF help. 1t passed the House
providing no increases in veterans al
loWances and carrying a five per cent
restoration of pay for Government
employees beginning next July. 1t came
from the Senate committee carrying
an increase Of about S21,000,0O0 in
veterans allowances, to finance
presidential orders, a five per cent
restoration Of pay as of February
and five per cent next July. 1t was
amended on the floor of the Senate
to provide an additional increase of
about s116, 900 900 in veterans allow
ances, five per cent restoration of pay
as of February / and the remaining
ten per cent at the beginning of the
next fiscal year. The bill then went back
to the House, where it was amended
to provide more veterans allowances
than originally, but not as much as
in the Senate bill; five per cent pay
restoration as of February l and five
per cent next July. The bill then
went to conference. The conferees
we're unable to agree and yesterday
the House formally instructed its con-
ferees not to agree. The principal
bone of contention is over presump-
tive disability payments to veterans.
Today the Senate is voting on wheth-
err to agree to the House amendments
or to disagree. Agreement means
that the modified House bill will go
to the White House. Disagreement
means that the row will continue.
1t has been said that the President
would veto the Senate bill. But it
has not been said that he would sign
the modified bill favored by the House.
Nobody knows what the President will
do.
AS long as the fate of the bill de-
ponds upon the President, it would
merely be in conformity with his
record of positive leadership to in
dictate in plain words the limit be-
yound which he will not go in in
creasing the bills expenditures. If
the Senate decides to continue the
deadlock today, direct word from the
White House would bring to an end a
political checkers game that has gone
far enough.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-03-23
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

| habit to indulge in such pernicjous
garden bad manners.
Never say to a Woodworking anna
teur, "Oh, this is pretty, but why
don't you do so-and-so?"
Consider what he has done.
Take a real interest in the place,
as well as you can in the brief time
you may be present.
Try to see it in relation to its prob
lens and especially as they have been
met.
Never ask man who has done
something why he has not done
something else.
This is particularly inappropriate
In the garden.
If the home owner has planted
privet for his hedge, do not ask him
why he did not put in barberry.
Take what he has and praise 1t If
you can. And If you cannot, praise
1t anyway.
If the gardener has roses. do not
ask him to show you varieties he
hasn't got.
Discover the varieties he has and
talk about them.
Good rose bushes are comparatively
expensive and require real care and
work to produce fine blooms.
| If man has 100 varieties, YOU
can easily imagine how he will feel
if you ask him if he has a 10TH
which he does not possess.
| Do not come into a carefully tended
garden and Immediately begin to
! jiggle the sundial or festoon yourself
around the gazing globe.
1t is not at all necessary to touch
dial to appreciate it, or even to tell
the time by it.
! y +
| If woman. refrain from digging
| high heels into soft earth. They
make veritable tracks and are appre-
ciated by few gardeners. If visiting
a garden with walks, stick to the
walks, unless the host or hostess leads
| you otherwise
| Do not insist on walking up the
rocks in the rock garden, or poking
with a stick into the pool.
Above all, do not pick flowers of
choice bushes.
This last is very careless habit,
often brought about by lack of any
personal knowledge of gardening
work
Those not familiar with gardens
should be particularly careful not to
offend in this respect. because they
do not know the flowers. and there
fore are not in a position to appre-
ciate that this apparently simple
plant here is very expensive and the
pride OF the particular gardener.
We have heard of a case of such
a careless visitor who deliberately
reached down and picked all the
flowers off prize specimen of the
rose Daphne.
Another visitor Ito another garden)
asked the hostess for a rose. then in
differently picked it to pieces while
talking.
No true gardener would do that
and no real gardener will appreciate
any one else doing it, especially in his
own home garden.
NcFcl dtltHlpt 10 PICK weeds IT
anotherS garden. 1t not only is bao
manners, in itself, but you may pick
some prize seeding which is unfa-
mlliar to you.
Remember, the home gardener likes
plenty of apple sauce in and about
his garden. Do not hesitate to praise
1t. Lay it on thick; We never YET
saw the gardener, ame teur or pro-
fessional, who minded u little praise
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-03-23

Comment on the Governments
charge of income tax evasion against
Andrew w. Mellon is generally re-
strained pending an airing of the
matter in the courts. Among many
observers, however, there is a diSpo-
Sition to doubt that the former Sec
rotary of the Treasury would have
failed to comfy strictly with the law.
Mr.. Mellon" says the Roanoke
World News, declares he is glad that
the matter is to be taken into court.
and in this the American public will
probably agree with him. The public
has no relish for vague charges held
indefinitely over any mans head.
There is a general feeling that such
charges should be brought into court
as early as possible, where truth may
be sifted from error by unbiased
jurists."
The Sioux Falls Daily Argus-Leader
thinks Mr.. Mellon has taken the
proper attitude and adds that eff he
allows the action to proceed without
attempting to set it aside through
technical methods, his sincerity on
this point will be demonstrated" 1t
is likewise the opinion of the Allen
town Morning Call that 1.-The Amer
lean people, who have heard so much
of this thing. will be glad it is to be
threshed out and disposed Of.
Comment not based upon knowl-
edge is of little value" suggests the
Rock Island Argus. and the Green Bay
Press Gazette feels that aside from
bitter partisanS, the people will re-
serve Judgment until something like
definite facts appear"
The Charlotte News considers An
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-03-23
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

place Of the various rac%ets on which
the crime wave nos fourishes.
Something" he says, must be de-
viSed to meet the unqusnchable de-
sire and urge Of the people to specu-
late N a self-respecting and whole
some manner. An app owed lottery
would attract thousand upon thou
sands of our citizens wh4 continually.
secretly, illegally patroQize lotteries
conducted by other governments"
Representative Kenney claims there's
widespread support for his project all
over the country. The lottery pro-
ponent is a native of Massachusetts,.
a lawyer ard Williams College man
and is serving his first term in
Congress.
Evils of politically managed money
system are discussed by Trof. James
Harvey Rogers of Yale, WHO is going
to China to study silver fos Secretary
Morgenthau, in a preface to a new
book entitled "A Critique Of the Gold
Standard" by H. L. Puxley. Prof.
Rogers says: mo longer is gold king!
Little by little. instead of monarch,
money, in the minds of the people, is
becoming merely the economic tool
that it is. potent alike for good and
for evil. Its historical attachment to
gold or to silver, growing obviously
out of the strangely general and ap-
parently lasting human cravings for
ornamentation, may at times be just
as damaging as at other times it has
proved beneficial. Let alone, as has
been usual in the past half century,
money system may function we'll or
ill. Haltingly and partially controlled,
as has been that of the United States
in the last decade. it may store up
much hidden trouble. Managed for
political or partisan purposes, it is
almost sure to bring disaster"
Charles Nicholson, Democratic pub
licity ace, is back from a months
vacation in Florida, and is expected
shortly to plunge into the. business
of keeping the country safe for Roose-
welt and the Democrats in the 1884
congressional campaign. Nicholson
still has weather eye on press rela-
lions at N. R. A, but is anxious to
return to his first love, politics. as a
full-time job as soon as Gen. johnson
can spare him.
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His Hoosier friends in and out of
Congress are hoping that Representa-
tive Louis Ludlow of Indiana will
eventually bag the Democratic sena-
torial nomination and make the race
in November against Republican Sem
ator Robinson. AS Democrats are
confident of carrying the State the
contest for the senatorial plum is
lively one, with half dozen aspir-
ants reaching for it. State Chair
man Peters is now out in front.
Ludlow will, of course, be renomi-
mated for the House in the Indian
apoliS district, which he has repre-
sented since 1929. Then, if things
look promising, he may jump into
the senatorial fray. Ludlow has
stumped the State and acquired a
strong following. New fame has come
to the author of From Cornfleld to
Press Gallery since his successful
fight in the House against the prof.
ect to establish a Government office
equipment factory at Reedsville, W..
Va, the scheme in which Mrs. RooSe-
welt was so keenly interested.
(Copyright 1934)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-03-23

Garden madness and garden man.
ners lie close together.
If you are mad about gardening,
In the ordinary slang sense Of a very
much abused word, you likely will feel
that garden has a code of manners
peculiarly its own.
This code will be based upon ETH
quette, as whole, but with spe-
cial slant to 1t.
Especially must one watch out in
visiting another's garden.
1t Is necessary that one keep In
mind the plain limitations of the
every day.
This means that few home gar
deners have enough money to spend
on their hobby, and. this being true,
few will achieve really fine effects, ex-
cept by the happy accidents of nature.
1t is amazing how much money can
be put into a small garden without
much showing for the money and
work involved.
1t is essential. therefore, that the
visitor to gardens do not expect too
much, for he will not find it, in all
likelihood.
Even in very fine gardens he will
discover many mistakes of judgment,
viewed from the strictly artistic
standpoint
These come about because the eyes
become blunted to the familiar scene,
just as the nose is said to fail to de-
tect the ever-present odor.
In every garden one finds effects
which are not good. The gardener
knows it, too, but has become used
to it.
There is no good in telling him,
therefore, that his color combinations
are not as fine as may be seen at the
great flower shows He knows it. He
would do better if he could, but there
are limitations, here as elsewhere.
X ** X
Be considerable of these limitations
Remember that the average anna
teur gardener works on very limited
financial basis.
Good effects may be secured
cheaply. but better ones with money
The old mazuma counts here, as
elsewhere.
Do not enter an average garden
therefore. expecting to find the prin-
cipality of a prince. because you will
have entered at the wrong gate.
To express resulting surprise. there
fore. when one is thus disappointed is
to revel in the lowest depths of gar
den impoliteness.
Let no one say that such a gross
breach of ordinary etiquette seldom
occurs.
1t is common enough
Maybe it is not by word of mouth
Lack OF interest will do.
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A proper enthusiasm for what one
sees is the beginning and end of ordi-
nary garden manners.
Indifference is the crime.
Never enter a friends garden unles:
you can "enthuse" about it.
If there is nothing there honestly
to praise, pretend there is something
This is much better than taking
about some one elses garden, as sc
many do.
Never recount the triumphs of an
other mans garden while visiting
your friend.
Your friend will think you ill-man-
| nered. although naturally enough he
will not say so. You will have tC
find that out for yourself-when some
one treats you in the same way, as
you will so richly deserve, if it is your
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tives to speak for it in such matters
as are of interest to labor.
But the matter in controversy seems
to be reduced to this simple issue,
which is one of fact only. Does the
employe in the automobile industry
want to have his representatives
selected through a factory union or
through a branch of the American
Federation of Labor? Now. there
should not be any insuperable diff
Guilty in determining this question.
If I were in the White House I
think I could determine it in five
minutes. I would call in the manu-
facturers and the labor leaders and
tell them substantially this: We are
going to have an election on this
question, conducted by secret ballot
of the Australian variety, in which
there will be no pressure from the
outside, and that such an election
will be under the supervision of a
detail from the regular Army. manned
by sufficient soldiers to enforce every
phase of the election. In this way
we can get an honest expression Of
the wishes of labor and thereby get
the question behind us.
There is too much involved in this
matter to let the manufacturers and
laborers make war upon each other.
The public has a tremendous stake
in this matter. If labor strikes and
the plants are closed it just means
some more millions of souls in distress
and upon public charge. There is
no valid reason for it and the ma
tional resources can't stand it. The
President has the power to prevent
it, and it is greatly to be hoped that
he will not hesitate to exercise 1t.
The public veal demands 1t.
JNO. w. HESTER.