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Evening star., 1934-03-31

ual "using up Of staple commodities
over the past four years. and it might
be supposed that replacement OF them
would be the initial concern Of people
with money to spend. But those who
recall the phenomena Of wartime
booms are not so sure-many q mil
lionaire" munitions or shipyard
worker preferred diamond ring to a
new wardrobe, an automobile to an
account in the savings bank.
II would be wise prophet, indeed,
who could tell in advance the exact
course which spending will take in
the next several months. But If the
experience of the past is of any merit
as a guide, it would seem that the
public choice will be various-there
will be accelerated consumption OF all
kinds of goods and services, and even
tually out Of the chaos will come a
normal condition of trade the syn
onym of which will be good times
or happy days"
Evening star., 1934-03-31
Traffic Accidents and Repeal.

Chairman Offutt of the Alcohol
Beverage Control Board recently
quoted statistics indicating decrease
in automobile traffic accidents since
the new liquor regulations went into
effect. In the first fifteen days of
March, 1884, there were 286 traffic
accidents, as compared with 338 in
the same period last year.
Such a showing is encouraging, but
it is a bit too early to attach any
special significance to these totals
They have a way Of varying without
apparent rhyme or reason. In the
first fifteen days Of March, for in
stance, there were more traffic ac-
cidents than in the first fifteen days
of last July or last September. In
January, 1884, there were practically
the same number Of accidents as In
January, 1881. But in February, 1894
there were nearly 200 less accidents
than in the same month of 1881. In
January, 1884, there were twenty-five
arrests for drunken driving, as COM
pared with fourteen in 1888. In Feb
ruary, 1884, there were nineteen
drunken driving arrests, as compared
with sixteen in February, 1888. In
January, 1893, there we're eighteen &C
cidents involving pedestrians and
drivers under the influence of liquor;
in January, 1884, there were thirty
one such accidents. In February,
1888, there were fifteen accidents in
volving drunken drivers or pedestrians,
and in February, 1884, there were six
teen such accidents.
1t would be difficult to attempt to
indicate even a trend by such sta
tistics. But it is to be hoped that
Chairman Offutt will continue the
study ei the effect, If any, Of new
liquor regulations on traffic accidents
It would be worth while If the
A. B. G. Board could devote part
Evening star., 1934-03-31

Many observers look upon the terms
Of the labor settlement in the motor
industry as establishing new era in
belligerency, the closed shop passes
into the discard. and after numerous
controversies over company unions
the employees of industrial concerns
are permitted to choose any union for
membership without discrimination by
the employers.
Observing the Importance of "the
right of the worker to freedom OF
choice Of action without coercion
from any source" the Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin declares lit is the
ideal of industrial freedom. if it shall
be enforced under the dispute boards
or arbitration boards, which shall be
set up, if the procedure in the auto
mobile industry shall be followed
The prospect for peaceful future un-
der the new plan is hailed by the At
lanta Constitution, the Hartford Times
the Manchester IN. HI Union and
the ConnellSville Courier.
This settlement which, it was de-
NIdLCO, n IL dlilC " vi n 4OA @
new structure of industrial relations, -
is commended by the Scranton Times
while the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
feels that collective bargaining, il
may now fairly be said, has become
a national policy" The Philadelphia
Record holds that the President made
industrial history, by inventing new
technique of collective bargaining,
and the Buffalo Evening News believes
that "the setting up of the N. R. A
Board is a long step toward solution
of labor troubles
The New London Day finds that
both employer and employe got about
all they can expect" an opinion with
which the Allentown Morning Call is
in agreement, and similar judgments
are voiced by the Cleveland News, ano
the Newport News Times-Herald. The
Richmond Times-Dispatch hopes II
will prove to be settlement" and
thinks it may be pressed by the Gov
The Philadelphia Evening Public
Ledger finds evidence of "a COM
promise" in the fact that the Amer
ican Federation of Labor AYERS that
neither side won"
A possible turning point in the
history of industrial relations in the
United States" is observed by the
Youngstown Vindicator, which makes
the comment on the negotiations
The Government has helped each
side by offering a formula which saves
it's face while bringing about the
peaceful settlement for which both
hoped. Whether, as President Roose-
welt says, we have charted a new
course in social engineering remains
to be seen. This much, however, car
be said, that the President himself
comes out of the negotiations with
prestige greatly enhanced. He has
quieted the fear of industry that he
meant to put it in a straitjacket, anc
he has again proved to labor and the
public his own purpose Of giving
weight, as he says, to the human fac.
tors as we'll as the economic, socia
and organizational factors Indus.
try's obligations are clearly set forth
and its responsibilities are established
It is not too much to expect organ
izations of employees to observe thu
same ethical and moral responsible
ties even though they are not specifi
cally prescribed by the statute"
That the settlement has averted suf'
fering, calamity to recovery plans ant
material losses Is the opinion of tn,
San Francisco Chronicle. the Toled,
Blade md The Boston TIapscY1pt. 40
Evening star., 1934-03-31
From Nations Business.

From Nation Business.
r 2 G has capital and borrowing
power aggregating almost $500, ,ooo,-
900 In addition it may invest IN
preferred stock or capital notes OF
banks without limit. Its gross outlay
to early 1885 is estimated at S75O0,-
100000. 1t has lent money to: Banks
and trust companies, including closed
banks: building and loan associations,
insurance companies. Federal Land
Banks, joint stock land banks, i've
stock credit corporations, mortgage
loan companies. regional agricultural
credit corporations, other agricultural
credit corporations, railroads, including
receivers. professors or distributors to
paw processing taxes, State funds TO
insure deposits of public moneys, to
aid in financing Self-liquidating con-
struction projects, to aid in financing
the sale of agricultural surpluses In
foreign markets, to finance the carry
ing and marketing of agricultural
commodities and live stock produced
in the United States. to drainage,
levee and irrigation districts; pur-
CIldSSS VI PlCiSAA SeOANt
notes and debentures.
F. C. A. has a far-flung group OF
institutions under its supervision. II
has 50 300. 900, 900 of new funds plus
a few hundred millions from R. F. C..
Adding loans still outstanding from
past years and borrowing power, its
credit possibilities run between four
and five billions. It's four divisions
are: Land Bank Division for reflnan-
cling farm mortgages and unsecured
debts. intermediate Credit Bank Dl-
vision, Production Credit Division,
Cooperative Bank Division.
P. w. A. has fund of $4,000, ,000,-
900, of which about s750,000,00O is In
loans: To railroads for equipment,
to States, cities, and other public
bodies; for low-cost housing and slum
clearance.
F.D.I.C. has $50, 900, 900 Govern
ment money and may issue upward
of s1,500, 900 900 of bonds guaranteed
by the Government.
T.V. A. lends through its subsidiary,
Federal Electric Home and Farm Au-
thority, which, with capital OF ST.
900 900 proposes to provide up to s1o,-
100000 credit for purchase of elec-
trical equipment in the Tennessee
Valley.
Home Loan Bank System with
s125 600, 900 of its capital subscribed
by r. F. c. offers facilities for re-
discounting home mortgages.
HOI,C (under Home Loan Bank
Board) may refund home mortgages
through it's 4 per cent bonds. 1t has
capital of 5000, 100000 from r. F. c.,
and authority to issue bonds Of ST.
OoO, ,OOO, 900 H. o. L. c. will subscribe
half the capital stock of Federal saw
ings and loan institutions.
C. C. C. Financed by R. F. c. at
instance of A. A. Al has been allotted
$500, 1000, 900 for current year to peg
price of cotton and corn through
loans to farmers.
Export Import Bank (initial capital
$ll l,O0O,000) has general banking
powers but is confining its activities
to stimulating trade with the Soviet
Union. A separate bank will finance
trade with Cuba and still another
bank with other countries.
Federal Subsistence Homestead Cor
poration has a revolving fund of $685.
100000 to encourage homesteading.
In addition to the above loans made
during the depression by govern
, mental agencies, the Government has
wartime loans outstanding TO rail-
Evening star., 1934-03-31
Motor Industry Settlement
Wins Place as Labor Chart

Akron Beacon Journal makes the
comment. President RooSevelt's proc
lamation of the terms on which the
Detroit dispute was settled will be-
come the pattern for agreement in
every other industrial district. 1t re-
moves the obstacles that have stood in
the way of industrial harmony. due to
narrow and conflicting interpretations
of the labor clauses of the recovery
act With these obstacles out of the
way, and the approach to understand
ing made easier. industry should now
proceed to make up for lost time. 1t
has wasted so much energy in un-
pointed quarrels that mutual as we'll
as national welfare went to the dis
card. Already Detroit is getting back
to productive effort, and its example
should not be lost upon other COM
munities whose recovery has been
halted by labor disagreements."
"One principle of the settlement"
states the Chattanooga Times. lis set
makes it clear that it favors no par
ticular form of union or particular
form of employe organization or rep
resentation. The Government only
duty is to secure absolute and unin-
f1uenced freedom of choice, without
coercion, restraint or intimidation
from any source This must be a
particularly gratifying statement to
labor, employers and the public. 1t
makes the Governments position.
which many employers have under
stood to be one of siding with the
A. F. of L., rather clear as a neutral.
1t should assure organized labor that
the Government is not siding with the
employers"
With feeling Of skepticism, the
jamestown IN. " Post offers the
Judgment on the results: TT is to be
hoped that President Roosevelt will
not be disappointed in the operation of
what de denominates "a new course in
social engineering Yet in the most
cheerful light in which the terms of
settlement may be viewed the grounds
OF future conflict may be discerned.
While the employers pledge themselves
to collective bargaining, the fact that
the employees may present dual re-
lationship as to their union affiliations
seems to provide a basis for trouble.
They may be members of a company
union. or be allied with the American
Federation of Labor"
The Jersey City Journal welcomes
evidence that the agreement permits
both company unions and the general
labor organizations. The Baltimore
Sun feels that under the rule, 'the
average worker may be inclined to
join the company union, If only to
court favor with the employer"
Evening star., 1934-03-31

The philosophers stone, for which
mankind has hunted for centuries,
has been found at last by no more
learned a parsonage than Templeton
Jones, Esq.
1t consists, he reports, Of becoming
so interested in one thing that moth
ing else matters.
Give Jones, for instance, a few
small tropical fishes, and you may
have the Treasury.
Give Jones a new book about fishes,
you may have Shakespeare and all
that has been written about him.
Give Jones a new fish food, you
may corner the market on wheat to
your hearts content.
r
Life love and the hereafter loom
as necessities in the Jonesian sphere
merely as fostering the prevailing in
terest.
The fine thing about all this is that
it is not at all necessary that any one
else become interested in tiny fishes
for home aquarium.
Anything will do that one can be-
come as interested in.
1t is the becoming that counts.
Whatever one becomes, fish fan,
book collector, stamp addict. or what
not. makes no difference.
The becoming, something like the
Biblical overcoming, Is the desired
thing, the true philosophers stone
which gives happiness to man. and
rules out. at least in theory, all un-
happiness.
This fine frenzy Of the prevailing
| interest is not known to all men,
even to those who ride hobbies.
Some go in" for books, stamps,
| fishes, in a stodgy manner. as if de-
termined to see the thing through, all
the time wondering why they are do
ing it.
There is no philosophers stone
there
That way boredom lies. The true
fan Is he who finds the greatest
! delight in every scrap of informa-
ton which comes to him, who turns
/ down nothing with an easy and su-
perlor wisdom, but who seizes on with
- AS ga oil llldI 0OltlcS Ills way.
What is this but the joy of collect
ing?
All, a great deal more. It is the
JOY OF collecting bits Of information,
dovetailing them together, to make at
last a perfect structure.
A collection. which is a hobby, in
tne last analysis, too often breeds
| brittle contempt.
A little knowledge-you recall what
Pope said about it.
He must have had hobbies in mind
He knew because words were his
i hobby that a little knowledge in a
| favorite recreation often leads to the
swell head, AS We say today THAT
is one old bit Of slang that sticks
and sticksD
II one is going to make a philoSo-
piers stone out OF hobby-and
what else is it?-he must beware of
| thinking he knows it all.
| Only that way will he become so
| immersed it in that he will be willing
to overlook everything else in the
world that irks him.
Suppose one concentrates on what
! irks-What lot of irking there then
| will bel
How best to flee this perpetual irk-
ing?
! Get a hobbyi
1t is the easiest, and. at the same
time, the most efficient method.
! Let those born to fight become irked
at all things and so strive to remedy
the worlds wrongs All honor to them
Out Of their band have come the
martyrs and the workers of all sorts
who have determined to right conO-
! tions which seem to them wrong
Evening star., 1934-03-31
Banking Subsidiaries of
Uncle Sam in His New Deal

roads and to others through the
Emergency Fleet Corporation and the
War Finance Corporation SINCE the
var loans have been made through
the Shipping Board, under the agrl-
cultural marketing act and on vet
erans bonus certificates. The Land
Banks date back to the period just
before the war and the intermediate
credit banks to the period shortly
after the war. On the other side OF
the banking picture is the Postal Saw
ings system acting as deposit banks.
Evening star., 1934-03-31

Mussolinis 6o-year plan will carry
Italy up to the year 1894. Few Of
the present generation will be pres
ent, but If the plan is even partially
successful the year 1000 will assuredlv
be something to talk about, though
possibly in some universal language
such as Volapuk or Esperanto, rather
than italian.
Evening star., 1934-03-31

An eminent orchestra director has
sponsored the Internationale as a
tune suitable for American audiences
1t might be an act of patriotic eff
cheney for Tin Pan Alley to provide
it with words that will hold its pop
ular significance to something nom
committal like I'VE Have No Bananas. 1"
Evening star., 1934-03-31
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Theirs Is a flaming indignation-but
they have no hobbies. They know not
our brave philosophers stone. One
cannot have everything. in this curl
GUS world.
Templeton Jones Is good ex-
ample, because he asks little more
than a couple Of tiny fishes, a good
tank, some nice plants and Wash
ington's well known water.
How happy he Is that the National
Capital has such good water.
He Is not afraid to make additions
to his tanks as needed
One school Of fish fanciers frowns
nightly upon the adding Of fresh
water to old.
There is magic in old water, they
believe. Although all the life pro-
ceSseS go on ceaselessly in their tanks,
they carefully refrain from adding a
drop of fresh water.
No doubt they live in communities
where much chemicals are added to
the drinking supply.
If they lived in Washington, D. c.,
or nearby communities, they would
not fear, and their fishes would be
better off for part fresh water, Of the
same temperature, Of course, now and
then.
+ 4 4 4
Jones' philosophers stone is self
sufficient.
That is, he does not feel at all i'm
PEELED to display 1t to others.
This means, in terms Of hobbies
that he does not need to join any
thing.
He has only the highest regard for
clubs and organizations of all sorts.
for those who need 'em, but he, for
tunate man, does not need 'em, he
says.
He has a little aquarium society of
his own, and whether any one else
knows about it makes no difference;
his fishes know about it. and that is
enough
Whether the country remains Re-
publican or Democrat makes no diff
| ference to Jones, or his fishes, SC
long as there can be fishes and
| food.
The world, instead of being a place
| for Jones to survey his own deficien-
cies, and lament the shortcomings OF
others, is to him, in a sense, a place
where wonderful small fellows may be
netted, to be placed in shining glass
boxes.
There Jones endeavors to give them
a happy life, such as they have been
accustomed TO. II he succeeds, great
is his Joy: If he fails. he is consoled
by the belief that he has done the
4 best he could.
4 \ \ \
! Can it be. let US ask, that Jones
has deliberately showed away from
as far as he can and is able, the
serious things of life, and thus
achieved a lesser joy, at success, anc
/ lesser pain, upon sorrow?
In a sense, yes, and in another, no
The philosophers stone he has founc
is famous for its transmutations; il
/ takes the great and makes 1t little
and the little and makes it great
And so Templeton Jones has not
achieved happiness with his little
fishes merely by shrinking from the
greater to be satisfied with the less
but rather he has built up the les:
/ into something greater. by giving a.
/ he has and is.
Greater men, more heroic men. may
give. as they have given, sublime
values to great things. These are the
heroes of the race. And how pitt
/ fully few they are! Templeton Jones
would be one of them, but cannot be
because it is not in him. He doe:
the best he can, and, becoming OBJ
cessed with fishes, as most men dC
who expose themselves to their In
fuence. he achieves happiness. Envy
him, happy man.
Evening star., 1934-03-31
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

Of the train Is only siA inches from
the rails.
@. How many carrier pigeons were
In the service Of the United States
during the World War2-J F. w.
A. About 10000. About 5000 pigeons
were In France and approximately
l per cent of those actually used for
carrying messages were lost in action.
@. How is Gen. Robert z. Lees
grave marked?-J. L. D.
A. Gen. Robert E. Lee Is buried at
Washington and Lee University,
Lexington, Va. A recumbent statue
was placed over his remains, which
are in vault.
@. In what country Is Grand Duke
Dmitri, brother of Grand Duchess
Marie. living?-G. M.
A. He is living in this country-in
Florida.
Q. When were syndicated articles
first used?-R. M
A. The forerunner OF the newspa-
per syndicate was the paper in small
OO"Llo pa AllICN az a CCllLI al III
1885 Louis Klopsch began syndicating
the sermons Of Talmage. The syn
dicated article in its present form
was originated by Samuel S. Nc
Clure.
@. Where is the new speech labora-
tory located?-F. r.
A. The International Committee on
the American Speech has opened an
experimental laboratory, called the
Speech Center, at l26 East Thirtieth
street, New York, N. Y.
@. What happened to Clarence
Hairy, the broker who failed in Lon
don in 1929?-R. L. R
A. The indictment in the HAIRY
case alleged forgery of s4,50O,O00 Ger
tificates Of British municipal loans.
HAIRY was sentenced to IA years pc
nal servitude for forgery. His prac-
tice had been to borrow from flnan-
cial institutions on the forged munich
pal certificates of English cities.
@ When did John Dayey institute
tree surgery in the United States?-
H. T. H.
A In 1890 he began the practice
of tree surgery and in 1908 organized
the Davey Institute Of Tree Surgery.
O. What word gives the meaning
Of a gradual wearing out or falling
into disuse?-M NJ.
A The usual words are decay and
"obsolescence."
G. Who presented the Looming Tro-
ply for intercollegiate flying and
what college holds it as present?
r. r.
A. The Looming Trophy competi-
ton was esta abIished in 1923 by Grover
c. Looming, one of the worlds first
pilots and distinguished aircraft de-
signer. The present holder of the
trophy is the William and Mary
Flight Club, whose members during
the last school year few total Of
882 hours.
@. Who wrote the poem contain
ing the expression, "Lo! The poor
Indian"?-R. L.
A. Alexander Pope used it in his
Essay on Man''-"Lo! The poor In
dian, whose untutored mind sees
God in clouds, or hears Him in the
wind"
@. Were men who deserted from
the Army after the armistice par
doned?-F. W. r.
A. Men who deserted after the
armistice and before July 2, 1921,
we're given amnesty and pardon BY
the President Of the United States.
Q. How far does the average per-
son walk in day?-E. H. S.
A. 1t is estimated that the average
distance walked a day by q man Is
1908 steps, or ia miles.