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bewilderment.
The translation of new prlncl-
pies into practice is not automatic.
Nine tenthS of all laws are deter
mined by administration and jul
dicial Interpretation and the
growth of custom. The New Deal
is new. What is new usually is
bewildering and to most men
alarming.
1t is new not only to the bust
ness men who have to conform to
it. 1t is new to the lawyers who
advise them. 1t is new to the
officials who administer the new
laws. The men who are running
MIRA. the men who will run the
securities commission, the federal
reserve board and the rest, simply
do not know as yet how in detail,
in the particular cases that will
actually present themselves, the
New Deal is to be put into effect.
With the best will in the world,
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HALF the heads of families
H are counted as unemployed.
Wages on the sugar plantations
run from so to 30 cents day
and the average income of wage
earners is between $3.50 and 5000
a year.
The crux of the situation is
that Puerto Ricans existing on
such incomes must buy the neces-
saries of life-which they should
produce at home-in the form Of
tariff protected goods from con-
tinental United States-rice, flour,
salt and canned fish. meat, beans,
cigarets, cotton cloth, and wear
ing apparel. Yet 80 per cent of
the population is rural!
A BOUT half the population is
l. n of Negro blood and most Of
the rest is Spanish. 1t increases
rapidly-from $50 a square mile
in 1880 to 473 last year. That's
a serious problem in itself, inten-
Sifed by the land-acquisitive
policy of the sugar corporations.
Overcrowding, malnutrition, and
low living standards have in
creased the tuberculosis death
rate to nearly 300 per 100000 of
population. Malaria, hookworm,
and other diseases are prevalent.
TWo-thirds of the abdominal
ing sugar industry is absentee
owned, which means that the big
money from the crop leaves the
island. About S40O,O0O,O0O is said
to have been taken out in the last
thirty years.
TT RICANES and sugar
IL canes" Puerto Ricans say,
are their worst blightS. The 1928
hurricane inflicted S100,000,000
property damage and the one of
1892 a toll of S36,000,000.
Nearly S1O,OOO,OOO of New Deal
money has gone to Puerto Rico,
along with a couple of millions of
self liquidating RFC loans.
But that still leaves Puerto Rico
headed for social catastrophe and
it is in her prospective role as
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DONOVAN strongly disap-
- proved such policy.
A former section hand, mill
worker, and machinist. who put
himself through college by work
ing as a dish washer, waiter, and
night clerk, his labor views are
definitely left.
Instead of merely making rec
concentrations and going no
further, Donovan belligerently de-
manded that Wolman and Peck
fight for them. Also he became
leader of a group of young ex-
perts who seconded his OPPOSE
zionist activities.
1t was to smash this disturbing
faction that Donovan was fired.
1t also is the reason why other
diSsidents may walk the plank in
the near future.
johnson and Peck have been
planning this house cleaning for
some time. What delayed them
was fear of exactly the ruckus
that has developed.
BY raising the cry OF "ineffi-
cheney" and characterization"
they hoped to draw a red herring
across the trail. But the scheme
was too raw. They now have a
situation on their hands which
they may hear about for a long
time to come.
A GARDENER clipping grass
N at the edge of the Capitol
grounds yawned.
Out last last night?"
Yes. most of the night"
"Party?"
working"
"Oh yeah? The gardeners
night shift That's a good one"
Believe it or not. You see we
had to take out one of these dead
sycamores."
But why at night? You can't
hurt the feelings of a dead
sycamore"
No, but you can hurt the feel
ings of the people. Last winter
there was two dead trees We had
to get rid of, so We dug EN- up
day time, naturally. Well, you've
no idea how many protests We got
from the people against digging
up the trees on the Capitol
grounds.
so now We do it at night.
See?"
iCopvright 1894 BY United Featur
Syndicate. Incl
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But there are complications.
The Darrows live in a small hotel
suite here. and the great lawyer
fumes furiously at the way the
spinach is prepared by the hotel
chef.
After experimental visits to a
score of restaurants. Mrs. OAR
row finally made arrangements
with Childs to have the chef pre-
pare spinach according to spe-
cial recipe, disguised with cream,
a little onion. other camouf1age.
No sooner do the Darrows enter
the establishment now, than the
word is flashed from one waitress
to another. finally to waiting chef.
It's on the table in a jiffy.
But still Mr.. Darrow hates it.
To one smiling waitress who
served it he growled:
There's no use trying to f1irt
with me. 1t won't make me like
it the slightest bit more. It's ter
rible stuff, it always has been
terrible stuff, and it always will
be terrible stuff"
The waitress giggled. When Mr..
Darrow left there was 50-cent
tip under the plate.
q
THE fact that ne is head OF
Il the NRA Employees Union is
not the real reason John Dono-
van. research expert of the labor
advisory board, was fired by Gen.
eral Hugh Johnson.
The ex-horse soldier is far from
a friend of militant labor, but he
is not opposed to unionism among
his workers. Nor had the silly,
and wholly unfounded, charge OF
.'ineficiency" anything to do with
Donovan's dismissal.
The pugnacious young Irish
mans offense goes far deeper
than the alleged reasons for his
custer.
His crime was that he took his
Job too seriously.
The purpose of the labor advls-
DRY board is to analyze codes from
the labor standpoint, and TO rec
ommend changes in the interest
of labor.
Under DR.. Leo Wolman, former
chairman. and DR.. Gustave Peck,
his acting successor. this is as far
as the board has gone. If its
suggestions are diregarded by
Johnson, as is the case with most
Of them, Wolman and Peck have
nothing more to say.
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The capital port OF San Juan is
largest, with 100000 souls. Rest
in on small island f1anked by
the ocean and a bay, it has some
suggestion of a Moroccan land
scape. An old Spanish town, its
ancient fortreSses of Ell Moro and
La Forteleza - the governors
house - cathedrals and other
monuments of an old regime are
now joined by small skyscrapers,
bus lines, and Hollywoodesque
suburbs.
TINE beautiful Hotel Condado
IL stands on a tongue of land
between the sea and a lagoon and
an equal favOrite in social life is a
huge beach club called EScam-
bron. Upper and middle classes
go in for bridge, dancing, golf,
tennis, movies, and swimming.
Poor people delight in getting up
dances, featuring rum and gui-
tars.
Puerto Rico was discovered by
Columbus on his second voyage
in 1893. Ponce de Leon was her
first governor and his bones moul-
der in San Juan's cathedral.
The United States took her over
from Spain in 1893 and in 1917
she was made part of this ma
ton and her people American
citizens.
Government is operated by an
elected legislature and a presl-
dentially appointed governor
now General Blanton Winship.
Strongest in politics is the Lib
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chief recipient of AAA benefit
payments under the adtninistra-
ton sugar control program that
she sees her brightest immediate
hope.
A committee of Puerto Rican
techniclans, chairmaned by Chan
cellor Carlos Chardon of Univer-
sity of Puerto Rico-an agricul-
tural authority-was called here
by Undersecretary ReXford G.
Tugwell to devise a plan by which
funds available might be used for
general reconstruction.
At least $24,000,000 in benefit
payments should be available in
the next three years, plus what
ever Puerto Rico may get from
subsistence homestead and other
funds.
Il
THE Chardon plan, which the
Il administration is expected to
support in principle, calls for pur-
chase of sugar mills and cane
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posh and Saluting as the civil
ian soldier and Organ has
undertaken to create corps
of Eagle Scouts where police
men were before. They must
shine their buttons. They may
not wear any socks except
black ones and the major
general, with a long, rolling
har-r-rumph also has COM
manded them not to shed their
Jackets in hot weather but to
be men and take it.
But in a few years and per-
haps even within a few weeks
(Such are vicisSitudeS of Office
Major General Organ will
not be the Mr.. Big" of the
Nov, VOvly y1o1ica dor1a ~ m ont
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
Times-NEA Service Writer
Copyright. 1884. EEA Service. Inc

WASHINGTON June 29-President
w Rico any the states he
behind
probably the 100000 American
citizens he something it.
fruits of thirty
government culture exploitation
They hard good public health
employment, and extreme poverty.
Unequal mild evil
development
Strong would the island its feet
Behind lovely Spanish Juan-olde
the American ag-Roosevet will find
capital
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that experienced IN England,
France or Germany. I can not
think of a single individual in
any radical group who has
captured the popular magma
ton.
II generally is true that
when the scene Is set some
person adequate for the part
will step forward. AS yet 1t
mas not happened here. OF
course. I am not classifying
Franklin D. Roosevelt as a
radical. In spite Of the lam
entations and wild cries Of
crippled Republicans he re-
mains a liberal. Moreover, in
all candor, his foes upon the
right and OF the left ought to
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Fair Enough
By
WEyTBROQK pEdLER

NEW YORK June 29.-What with burglars poll
ticans and police commissioners who last
about as long as the insect pests of June and wreak
their individual crotchets on the rank and file,
policemans life is not happy one. The members Of
the New York force at present are submitting pa
tiently to the discipline of another of the set execu-
tive ephemerae. Major General John F. CHar-r-
umph) ORyan. a civilian with military tendencies.
There is no soldier quite military and fond OK
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TO-DAY AND TOMORROW
By Walter Lippmann

the financial outlook which dis
n chief of from
be of the
Deal.
of them half baked what with the
the capital markets. what with the uncertainties
with the
of
their LAWYERS
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HJeemC Me
b.
Haywood BROUN

A MERICA is fun Of organizations and individ-
n uals VINO are intent roofing out what they
call the red menace" II is my own impression that
radicalism in this country lags far behind what
might be expected. For more than four years our
economic conditions almost have been ideal for the
growth OF revolutionary movements Yet even the
most optimistic agtator must admit when talking of
the record. that progress has been disappointing
don't know why. take very little stock in the
theory that Americans differ much in national psy-
chology from the men and women Of other countries.
Nevertheless the tide TO the left has been lover than
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Don't Take 1t Seriously

A POLICEMAN would be very foolish to accept
N too literally the inaugural assurance of Major
General John F. (Har-r-rumph) Organ that politics
is out and that no reprisal befal the patrolman
who kicks in some Tammany statesmans crap game
or poolroom Twenty years is long time and If
Tammany comes back the major-general will not
be around to quash writ of exile sending the gall
liant but dumb officer to patrol the truck gardens
in the suburbs. Up to now Tammany always mas
come back.
The policemen must be patient with the major
general and put up with him. They must shine their
buttons avoid white socks wear their tuncs IN the
sun and even equip themselves with Highlanders
kits or Napoleon hats if he says So because he says
so.
When he goes out his reforms will be abolished
for the good of the service and some other WONDER
man. possibly a florist a millner Will make
them recite the Scout oath or use them as cloth
ing dummies to try out constructive ideas Of his
for the good of the service.
Copyright 1884, by Unite Feature Syndicate Incl
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any more. new commissioner will take over the
Office, with salute of twenty flash bombs, and
within few days many of Major General Organs
Innovations instituted for the good of the service,
will be rescnded also for the good of the service
The commissioner or his wife or daughter or
his Aunt Hattie may not think black sock becoming
to patromen and order to issue requiring
a corps of adult, domestcated career men to wear
some other kind-possibly blue for happiness.
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He BeIieues in Challenges

a IFRFD NJ BINGHAM has every right 10 answer
N that with clear and ringing reply OF l nave
of course it will be asked why the labor conditions
in the nlant of the Miller ParOr Furniture company
in Jersey CITY we're any concern OF young Blnsnanl
Who edits a magazine called Common Sense
thinl that the defendant might answer that easily
He hsppens to be a man with what the 0uakerS can
concern" about social relationships. When Things
exist close 10 his own door which seem to MN eVll
and unfair he feels personal responsibility 10 chal
lenge them. ,:.i,
Perhaps he will be ridiculed by many eoltorlal
writers and photographers. have no doubt that the
term "parlor pink" will be employed yet upon
sober analysis isn't this sort Of joke baseo upon
biehlv cynical attitude toward democratic govern
rnent? / recently have not attended many IestNl-
ties nut on by the various thou
societies but Judging from reports the orator OF te
evening invariably tells his audience that hoerty Is
a precious heritage which must be detenoeo py all
good Americans And it is a customary and may
add praiseworthy part of the performance 10 eAUol
the American Constitution ana urge lIaI CnlS ClaI
Ter of freedom be maintained unimpalred
Accordingly I contend that if there Is any logic
whatsoever in the red batting organizations tnat they
should take Bingham'S place upon that picket me
and insist upon the integrity of the Dill OF rights
II is not Bingham who has encouraged the CROWN
Of violent radcaliSm but the HagueS ana the NC
Governs of Jersey City who seek to tear down the
ORDERLY processes of democratic government.
Convricht 1884 nv
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ar there has been an immense
amount of good will shown,
period of transition must be ex-
pected in which men adjust their
minds, their habits. and the rules
themselves, to tn actualltieS.
During this period enterprise will
be impeded by uncertainty and re-
cOvery retarded
THE difficulties in this period,
II however, can be reduced. In
Washington it is time to recognize
that the new laws are on the
books and that what is needed
most now is not to break the spirit
of the recalcitrant minority, but
to revive the spirit of majority
that is willing to conform but is
bewildered. This is a matter,
most of all perhaps, of reversing
an attitude of suspicion and of as
Stunning good faith unless there is
evidence to the contrary. The
President has spoken about part
nership."
Among partners, if an enter
prise is to work, there must be a
considerable amount of trust.
Without it, these new laws are
likely to proliferate mass of
rules and regulations which no
one will understand, no one can
administer, and no one obey. The
laws are comprehensive and
searching. They will work best
d be most likely to endure If
they are applied through simple
rules, administered with light
touch and in an atmosphere free
from suspicion.
TN Wall Street and in the circles
l. where its influence is great it is
perhaps time to recognize that
if the plain people of this country
have endured these years with
such patience and quiet fortitude,
the well-to-do ought not to give
way to nervous apprehension now
that the worst of the crisis is over.
These have been trying years FOR
everybody. But the man without a
job, the man who has lost or all
but lost his farm and his home,
his savings and his prospects for
the future, has endured the most.
When the historian looks back
over this period and notes how
the American standard of life was
devastated between 1881 and 1893,
he will say, I believe, that the
American people withstood the
ordeal with a patience which was
heroic. They demanded relief.
They demanded recovery. Toy
demanded reform. But they
hered to their traditions and Il cir
institutions and responded to
leadership which in all It's
essential ideals and principles is
moderate, rational and kindly.
Copyright. 1890
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admit that at the moment there is one able serl-
ously to challenge his leadership He has been called
the American Kerensky." but those who use TINS
phrase as an unfriendly diminutive must face the
fact that he lives in land which offers no Lenn OF
Trotsky as adveTsares.
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WHAT THE PRESIDENT WILL SEE
Roosevelt Will GLIMPSE SQual0r Behind Puerto Rc0S Beauty

hto
he islands and
Evening star., 1934-04-21

where he knows every hiding place,
and it must be ever so much worse
where the country is strange to him.
But at least he wasn't drowned and
that is some comfort" She was still
worried but her heart was lighter
than it had been for days.
That night, after she had eaten
with better appetite than she had
since before Peter left home, she sat
for long just outside the dear Old
Briar-patch. Now and then she
thumped, but though she listened
with all her might for faint answer
ing thump in the distance, she heard
none. She visited every side of the
Briar-patch, humping on each side,
but she thumped in vain. Once more
she thought of all the things that
could have happened to Peter, even
If he wasn't drowned. She wondered
how he happened to get so far awav.
and she shivered at the thought of
the long journey back, for little Mrs
Peter rarely goes far from the Old
Brlar-patch. At last she went to her
favor1te form and settled herself COM
tortably to sleep, for she had had
little sleep for the last few days,
1t was Just before daybreak that she
was awakened What it was that had
awakened her she didn't know. Her
eyes had flown wide open and she
found herself sitting up and listening
Evening star., 1934-04-21

congestion is marked and should be
treated by a physician.
In the average mild case Of en-
larged capillaries on the nose, how
ever, it is often possible to arrest or
remedy the condition by regulating
ones diet and using correct local
treatments. Stimulating beverages,
including strong tea and coffee,
should be taboo Ones food should
be plainly cooked without spices and
high seasoning. There must be a
goodly proportion Of raw fruits and
salads. Rich, greasy foods should be
avoided. Hygienic personal habits
should be maintained.
In cleansing the face do not use
very hot water, do not steam the
skin or use ice. Wash with luke
warm water and mild soap. rinsing
well afterward. Dry and bathe the
nose with camphor water. Pat on
the following lotion: y ounce simple
tincture of benzoin, 20 grains tannic
acid, ounces elderfower water, IL
ounces rosewater, / dram pure zinc
oxide. Massage gently with the finger
for few moments. II the veins are
greatly enlarged they will not, Of
course. respond to such simple home
treatments In some cases they may
be removed by electrolysis or other
methods by a doctor.
Blotchiness Of the complexion often
occurs when there are red veins
showing on nose and cheeks. Cold
weather has something to do with the
former condition, but only indirectly.
Those with compilations Of this
Evening star., 1934-04-21

about the baby bud, waiting until the
sun gently turns the leaf blanket
back.
From Nova Scotia to Florida and
westward to Nebraska the woods, in
April and May, have these fragile
flowers, swaying with the breeze on
their erect stems. Fairies in the
woodlands. A bright, warm day and
they hold their faces to the sun. A
cold wind and the petals scatter over
the woods floor. Wound the plant
and its blood trickles over your hand
You must know where to go and
when to see these beautiful Spring
flowers. They have no fragrance to
call the flying insects to them. The
white patches must attract attention,
and in some way the pollen seekers
know that bloodroots are lavish with
Evening star., 1934-04-21
Copyright. 1934.)
First Flower
BY D. C. PEATTIE.

T WAS delighted to learn the other
day of an American artist of dis
tinction who said that he thought
that skunk cabbage, if it were not for
the odor. ought to be the national
flower One laughs, and yet it would
be possible to hold a brief for this
idea 1t is, like all things truly
American, plain, simple, unpreten-
tious. 1t is the first flower to arise
from the earth in Spring While l
would vote for asters. myself, as the
countrys floral emblem, I can say for
skunk cabbage that it is even more
exclusively American.
According to the artist, it is beau
tiful! We generally regard artists as
experts in beauty. Why do We so sell
dom listen to them when they speak?
If you want to form an opinion of
your own on this matter. go anywhere
outside the city where the ground is
low and mucky. under swamp maple,
elm, box elder and alder, and look for
the skunk cabbage, where 1t pushes
its way up through the heavy earth.
A ruddy purple, gnomellke hood is
thrusting slyly through the mud; it Is
curiously veined and mottled with
brown and white and purple botches.
If you think you can wait until it rises
all the way out Of the ground, you are
mistaken. This weird. ancient child
of earth bears its flowers under the
ground, inside the hoods that never
rise all the way from the mother
stratum.
So you must bend down and look
inside. Within you find curious
spike, rather like that inside Jack
in-the- Pulpit. Can this. then, be the
flower? And is the curious hood a
petal? If a rose is a flower, then
surely skunk cabbage must be one OF
the flowers Of Pluto's black kingdom,
beneath the ground.
OF course, the hood is no petal, put
q sort OF floral leaf or spathe. And
the curious spike within, that goes
by the technical but rather handy
name of spadiX, is not single flower
but a stalk whereon the flowers are
arranged, the female in a dense mass
Ou IllS pau VI Viz SNeiio' IAAN
male. with the pollen, at the airier
top Cattails are flowers in just such
a way The aroid family, to which
skunk cabbage and Gala lily and
Jack-in- the Pulpit all belong, are per-
haps relatives of the cattail wrapped
in a spathe that is sometimes pure
and glorious, like that of Gala lily,
sometimes weird and wonderful like
that of skunk cabbage.
Like many early Towering, earth
loving plants, skunk cabbage flowers
first, and sends forth its leaves later.
Hepatica sometimes does this and so
does bloodroot to a large extent.
Pussy willows and alders flower first
and leaf out later There are other
plants, like some of our wild onions
and wild garlics, that, to greet the
Spring, send out their leaves first,
Towering when the leaves have died!