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Evening star., 1934-04-23

no State in the Union that has q
better, more informed, hard-working
or intelligent delegation in Washing
ton than Texas" The mayor also
recalled glowingly his long comrade-
ship in the House with Vice President
Garner.
There ought to be no doubt Just
what the brain trust is up to after the
appearance of a book announced for
early publication entitled "The Re-
covery Program" The authors include
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Rexford G. Tugwell, Assistant Secre-
tary OF Commerce John Dickinson, DR..
Leo Wolman, late chairman of the
N. r. A. Labor Advisory Board; Will
lard L. Thorp, director of the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
and A. A. Berle, jr.
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At its annual meeting during the
first week Of May in Washington the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States will devote itself to a broad
survey of the progress toward busi-
ness recovery. The chamber will dis
cuSs the situation from the viewpoint
that general improvement is now
evident on every side" Speakers will
scrutinize carefully the extent to
which the upswing in business has
been due to Government action and
how much has resulted from the op-
GRAFTON of natural economic forces.
Gen. johnson will address the cham
Der If his duties permit, and Joseph
B. Eastman will speak on the trans
portation coordination problem. Gov.
McNutt of Indiana will discuss pub
lie expenditure" and President w.
Sanford Evans of the Canadian
Chamber of Commerce will deal with
"Canada's Recovery Progress" Sec
retary Wallace Is on the program for
an address on THE Future of Amer
ican Agriculture"
Treasury officials are losing no sleep
over the prospect of a British token
payment on June Is. British budgets
for two years have made no provision
for token stipends, but these have
always come along as the result of
supplementary appropriations. John
Bull Is believed to be anxious to main
tain the non-default reputation which
President Roosevelt has publicly as
signed to nations which make formal
Acknowledgements of their obligations
through token installments.
Samuel insults approaching return
to the country recalls his appearance
in Washington In 1927 as a witness
before a Senate committee investi-
eating the election of Frank L. Smith,
Republican, of Illinois. Smith was
eventually denied his seat because of
the acceptance of campaign contri-
buttons while he was q member Of
the Illinois Commerce Commission,
which had supervision Of public
utilities. insult was subjected to a
whitening cross-examination by Sena-
tor James A. Reed Of Missouri, and
supplied vivid testimony about the
role his money played in Illinois
politics.
Since Gen. Johnson's return from
his recent visit to President Roose-
velt in Florida, gossip about his i'm
pending retirement from N. r. A. has
died down. The tip from his inner
sanctum now Is that the Blue Eagle
boss will remain on the job "indefi-
nitely" He may not range over all
the territory he has covered during
his first year in ONCE, but he has no
present intention OF leaving the
service.
Evening star., 1934-04-23
Fascism in Great Britain.

Sir Oswald Mosley, who aspires to
be the Mussolini of Great Britain, has
not been taken very seriously during
the past four years of his crusading
for a new deal on Black Shirt lines,
and the progress of his movement has
not been noteworthy. Last nights
meeting in London's Albert Hall, larg-
est auditorium in the kingdom and
traditional scene of great political
rallies, seems designed to give British
Fascism at least a new lease of life.
Numerically and otherwise it was an
unmistakably impressive demonStra-
ton. All of the halls 10000 seats
were occupied, and the capacity house
paid entrance fees.
As a new test of power, Sir Oswald
Is entitled to conclude that the meet
ing reflects readiness upon the part
of many Britons to break with the
political past. Fundamentally loyal
to their royal house, it was significant
that Albert Hall rang with the loudest
cheers when Sir Oswald declared the
movements allegiance to the King.
Mussolini, too, acknowledges allegiance
to Victor Emmanuel and the Italian
throne, but Fascism, under II Duce's
sway, has reduced the Savoy crown
to the dimensions of the merest figure
head. The devotion to George v.
which Sir Oswald Mosley proclaims,
may be of the same fiber.
British Fascism, as elucidated at
Albert Hall, will eschew racial or re-
ligious discrimination, although the
movements head, In answer to ques-
tions, indicates semi -Hitlerite atti-
tude toward the Jews in the form Of
a warning to subordinate the Inter
ests of Jewry" to the interests Of
Britain. No element Of the British
Evening star., 1934-04-23
Shakespeare's Day.

Shakespeare's day, the anniversary
of his birth and of his death. is today
being observed with appropriate cere-
monies in communities scattered from
coast to coast. Especially fitting it is
that there should be adequate observ-
ance of the occasion in Washington,
for the Nations Capital is the Shake
speare center of the United States.
As the years pass an increasingly
large public appreciates the genius Of
Henry Clay Folger in selecting a site
in the shadow of the Federal legis-
lative halls for the planting Of his
unparalleled gift. His Judgment is
confirmed by multitude Of people
who are learning to understand that
the poet to whom he raised his living
monument is one Of the major sources
from which America came. The fact,
it now is clear, Is capable of demon
stration. The founders of the Re-
public were bred upon the book which
the Bard of Avon penned; they spoke
the language he designed; they re-
fected his ideals of institutional free
dom, of civic righteousness, of per-
sonal responsibility; they lived and
had their being within the boundaries
of the pattern he established. They
were New Testament men, and the
King James version of the Scriptures
was the labor of scholars who had sat
at Shakespeare's feet. Both directly
and indirectly his mind and spirit
contributed to the Constitution; he
was one of the builders of the founda-
ton of the Union.
And his influence has not faded.
Examination of the Congressional
Record shows that he is the most
frequently quoted of all authors, cited
in every important debate, in prac-
tically every formal grafton. The
circumstance, Of course, is wholly
natural, since the church, the uni
versities, letters, journalism, the plastic
arts and music, all the integral factors
of American civilization, are in the
same debt, endowed with the same in
heritance. Even the colloquial speech
of the masses, though they know it
not, has an obligation to the creator
of Hamlet and Macbeth, the historian
and the philosopher mot of an age.
but for all time"
The mystery of his life remains un-
resolved. He shares with his peers
among the masters of destiny quality
of the soul which the millions cannot
analyze, but which they must respect.
A partial explanation, perhaps, may be
discovered in a phrase of his own
composition:
A rarer spirit never
Did steer humanity.
Shakespeare was unique. In him
burned a divine fire of excelling bril-
lance and power. And that is why he
Is commemorated, honored and loved
A father of the race, he warns the
blood of all his children.
Evening star., 1934-04-23

men, surely would make room for at
least one or two more.
One thing he liked about elevators
was the courtesy, in the main, which
prevailed in them. Which made II
all the stranger, perhaps. that he did
not care for the hats-on custom.
Yet he valued the politness which
made others stand aside to permit
fellow passengers to get on and of
It seemed far different. here, than in
public vehicles, where one seldom met
courtesy any more.
Smith recalled the old days, when
every man arose to give every woman
seat in street cars.
No one does that any more. Well
very fewl Perhaps it was in too great
contrast with the general struggle to
board the car. It Is curious how
ordinarily well-bred persons elbow at
each other at the car stepsl And how
seldom they wait for passengers to
get of! Perhaps it Is not so bad,
pushing to get aboard, but surely nc
one can get into a public vehicle with
out permitting others to get OF.
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Optimus Smith finally got his
chance to run an elevator.
It came about In this wise. Being
at his Office. he worked until the
usual quitting time, but found much
work piled up.
He would come back in the evening
And SO he did. There he found the
hours went by rapidly.
Outside he could hear the click OF
the elevator, sounding strangely loud
During the day time such noises are
not noticed. but the night magnifies
all things.
Once smith wondered If it would be
running by the time he finished, but
his Job absorbed him: gradually. the
pile of work wore down as the hours
wore on: midnight came, then
O'Clock, then 2 o'clock.
X II X
Smith decided he would call it q
day-a new day, In truth and fact.
He listened.
The click-click Of the elevator, the
jarring of its door, had ceased
Not a sound came from the cor
ridor.
He would have to walk down, he
supposed.
There was a night light burning in
the hall, to guide the watchman on
his rounds.
That worthy came along at that
moment.
Car not running?" questioned
Smith.
mo, sir. But you can run it If you
want to. You know how, don't you?"
4 X 4 X
It was Smiths big opportunity, and
he did not fail.
"Of course" he said, casually.
There the elevator was, waiting for
him, the door open. the starting han
die inviting his hand.
Boldly he stepped in.
He had been waiting a lifetime for
this chance, and he must not miss it.
Clank!
He slammed the door, then pulled
the lever, as he had seen them do for
years.
Much to his surprise, the car began
to move-downward.
On the way down he practiced stop
ping at the fifth and third floors, and
at both he acquired new respect for
elevator men, by and large.
When he got to the first floor, he
opened the door and looked out. No
one was in sight.
Optimus Smith closed the door, and
pulled the handle. Up he went, floor
after floor.
Down he went, floor after floor.
And so. in the early morning hours,
and all alone, one of life's ambitions
became fulfilled for him.
Evening star., 1934-04-23
No Regimentation.

Rexford G. Tugwell, Assistant Sec
retary of Agriculture and since the
retirement of Prof. Raymond Moley
from the Office of Assistant Secretary
of State dubbed leader of the brain
trust" has announced that he does
not believe the American people ever
will accept RECOMMENDATION" AS he
has been regarded as prime mover
in Government planning which looks
TO RECOMMENDATION of industry and agri-
culture, Mr.. Tugwell's remarks may
be reassuring. At one point in his
address Saturday night to the Amer
ican Society of Newspaper Editors Mr..
Tugwell said:
I do not believe that people can
be compelled to do for long anything
that is alien to their national char
acter and I do not believe that there
are any safe compulsions which may
be used on human nature. Social
change in America cannot go on any
faster than the people who are af-
fected want 1t to go on.
Here seems to be a confession of
faith in the plan of letting the Amer
ican people attend to their own al
fairs. 1t seems to smack somewhat
of the "laissez faire" of which Mr.
Tugwell has written so much in his
v,,oef raoaot f,ooL 0O,,r Eoopov,,io c.
ciety." At any rate, it seems clear
that Mr.. Tugwell believes that the
American people are going to do what
they want to DO rather than what
few persons may decide they should do.
The New Deal, according to Mr..
Tugwell, is merely a return to democ-
racy. The real reorganization of
workers in this country, he insisted,
must be attributed to industry itself.
It was because of that regimentatlon,
he said, that the New Deal came about.
This is a somewhat different explana-
ton of the economic crash that oc-
CURED in this country than that
which has been advanced in other
quarters. However, it is encouraging
to have Mr.. Tugwel1 declare himself
so fervently in favor of democracy
using the word in the usual sense in
which it has been accepted in this
country.
The defense of the New Deal by Mr..
Tugwell is something new in itself.
The very fact that it is a defense
marks a change of attitude. Hereto
fore new dealers" have been inclined
to say to the American people: Here
is the plan, take it." There has been
no suggestion that the American peo-
pie might take it or leave it. Mr..
Tugwell told the editors that seven
years ago he visited Soviet Russia
for two months and that fact has
been held to warrant including him
among the Communists "as though
Communism could be caught by con-
tagion, like mumps or measles" And,
he continued, II suppose there does
not exist in the whole country today
a more convinced believer in the
democratic process than I am. But
I happen to be really interested in
its survival and eager to adapt it to
the modern world so that it can
survive"
Evening star., 1934-04-23

Every now and then Mr.. Frank
Hitchcock visits Washington, D. C., to
find out what Is making the Post
ONCE Department look like so much
harder a job than it was in the old
days when the card index was in its
infancy.
Evening star., 1934-04-23
THIS. AND THAT
BY CHARLES z. TRACEWELL,

Optimus Smith had three secret
ambitions.
One was to sail a, phonograph rec.
ord over the top Of b house; another
was to smash a bowl-shaped mandolin
on the big knob Of an old-fashionec
brass bed, and the third was to rur
an elevator.
The passage of the days, the weeks
the months and the years had de.
prived him of all opportunity Of graft
flying the first two.
Mere destructive urges at best, the
first two desires had attained a purely
theoretical status.
If at any time whatsoever, after his
thirtieth year, Optimus Smith hao
come into possession Of a disk recorc
and the opportunity to sail it through
the air at one and the same time he
would not have done it.
He would have looked at the series
of rings, one within the other, and
marveled anew, as he never had
ceased doing, that out Of such ar
inanimate thing could come sounds
Although he never played a one OF
they still held for him something OF
the mystery they used to hCid In the
forgotten days before radio.
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As for his desire to smash a man.
dolin to smithereens, Smith smiled in
diligently upon it, even when he knew
that under no circumstances he could
imagine would he succumb to it. o.
would ever have succumbed to it.
1t was, rather, just precious relic
Of younger days, when his mandolin
represented for him the wonders OF
the musical world.
Out Of its sound box he drew the
best of the grand and light operas
the master melodies Of all time. What
his fingers lacked his imagination
supplied.
But because his fingers were &C
tive his mind did something that no
amount of wires and gadgets supplied
by somebody else could ever do. Music
Is that way.
But Optimus Smith never gave
over his ambition to run an elevator
There seemed to be something sc
elevating about 1t.
A cheerful, happy man, life had
taken him far higher than any lift
could. but still he cherished in the
back Of his mind desire to stand al
the lever and stop cars at different
levels.
He always believed, for instance
that he could stop 'em without caus-
ing that sinking sensation in the pit
of the stomach which affiicts many
human beings when the car bobs tc
a stop.
That extra little jiggle is what does
1t. and Optimus Smith felt that, II he
were at the wheel, he could avoid it
Many Improvements had been made
he knew, some of which were sup
posed to make this very thing i'm
possible, but still Smith found him.
self getting that well-known sinking
sensation at times as he rode up and
down in his big building.
He had found himself fuming at
the unwritten regulation which makes
it mandatory on men in Washington
to remove the hat when a woman
enters an elevator.
His friend. Templeton Jones, rather
liked the custom, but Optimus Smith
did not. To him it seemed silly, es-
pecially when the car was crowded
and there was not enough room.
1t struck him as the ultimate OF
unreason, to be forced to hold a large
hat in front of the chest, thereby
taking up. room in the car which
might be devoted to passengers. -Four
or five hats, held thus by as many
Evening star., 1934-04-23
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

Q. What Is the average value Of
rubbers st contract bridge?-T. w.
A. Ely Culbertson averaged 5000
games and found that the result was
$50 points.
@. What Is the tallest wooden
structure In the world?-C. c.
A. The Muehlacher radio broad
casing tower in Germany is the
tallest. 1t is SIS feet high, or 10 feet
higher than the Washington Monu-
ment.
@. How many secret service mer
accompany the President on trips?-
L. G.
A. The number Of secret service
men and guards who accompany the
President depends entirely upon cir.
cumstances. There are always two
or more. Sometimes, when he goe.
away on a trip, as many as 10 or 9
dozen are taken along, as there are
three shifts a day.
@. What was the origin of the Pu.
litzer Prizes?-B. A. D.
A. These prizes were established by
the late Joseph Pulitzer in a bequest
to Columbia University. They arr
awarded annually by the trustees Of
the university on recommendation o.
the Advisory Board of the School Of
Journalism at Columbia, which wa.
also founded and endowed by MIR. Pu.
liter.
Q. Are there any countries besides
Great Britain on whose possessions
the sun never sets?-P. F.
A. The possessions of France and
OF Holland are so far flung that it Is
always daytime in some of them.
Q. What kinds of questions cannot
be handled by your Information Bu-
reau?-I. T. D.
A. 1t is not equipped to give opin-
ions about anything. That is the
province of specialists. Lawyers give
legal opinions, physicians give medi.
cal advice, but this bureau confines
itself to statements of fact. Ask any
question Of fact, write plainly, anc
send coin or stamp for reply. Address
Frederic j. Haskin, Director, Wash.
mgton, d. c.
@. When was the first dental col
lege opened in this country2-J. H. D
A. The first was established in Bal.
timore, Md, in 1910. 1t was the Bal.
timore College of Dental Surgery
which offered its first courses on No
vember 3 Of that year. The first State
to enact a law for the licensing OF
dentists was Alabama in 184I. The
law went into effect in December
l842.
Q. Where is the earliest publication
Of the opening prices on the stock
market?-R. E. S.
A. The 1890 am. editions of the
New York papers carry the opening
quotations Of the market. The ticker
reports the quotations Immediately
upon the opening of the market at
10 O'Clock.
@. How many men have been cared
for at st. Dunstan's, the home for
Great Britain's war-blinded men?-
A. P.
A. st. Dunstan's Is a training school
and home, and Has cared for about
1000 men.
@. Was there ever a criminal gang
in New York City known as the Hud-
son Dusters?-G. M.
A About the year 1918 there was a
gang known as the Hudson Busters
This gang was not organized to COM
NIT crime. as those of today. They
merely organized to show strength and
power over others, and would conduct
fights against other gangs without any
material gain In view.
@. In what year did q horse owned
Evening star., 1934-04-23

italian journalists were rebuffed
when they went on board to inter-
view insult. It was different in the
old days when the press agent used
to round up the reporters for a chat
about grand opera.
Evening star., 1934-04-23

by the Aga Khan win the English
Derby?-S. T. D.
A. In 1880, when Blenheim won.
with H. wragg up.
@. How much VII Boulder Dam
raise the surface Of the Colorado
River?-R. A.
A. It will raise the present surface
of the river 5s2 feet. The dam, itself,
will be 730 feet in height.
@. How many prime numbers are
there below 1.0O0?-F. T.
A. Excluding unity, there are 167.
@. What military order was organ
lied after the Civil War, just before
the @. A. R.?-R. s. K.
A. The Military Order Of the Loyal
Legion of the United States was es-
zation consists of officers Of the Civil
War. The G. A. r. was not estab-
] nshed until 1866.
/ .. Did the Hunter brothers beat
the refueling endurance record Of
jackson and O'Brine?-L. @.
A. The refueling endurance record
established by Jackson and O'Brine,
647 hours and % minutes, has never
been broken. The Hunter Brothers
set a refueling endurance record Of
| $50 hours Al minutes. jackson and
O'Brine established a previous refuel-
ing endurance record which was brok-
en- by the Hunter brothers, but they
recaptured it.
@. How did st. Louis become an
Independent city?-C. r. c.
A. The constitution of the State Of
Missouri, adopted in 1875, conferred
to frame its own charter and to be
an independent city entirely separate
from the county. The new city char
ter was adopted in 1876.
@. Did the postage on mail carried
by airplane pay for the airmail service
last year?-W. S.
A. The Postmaster Generals report
for the fiscal year 1888, showed that
the excess cost of airplane service over
the postage derived from airmal to-
tailed $20.O36, ,482.16.
@. When did base ball players start
to use mitts?-K. T.
A. Unpadded gloves were introduced
by Charles C. Waite in 1875. Padded
gloves were introduced in 1891.
@. What causes twilight on the
earth? Why is there no twilight on
the moon?-B. S. K.
A. The Naval Observatory says be-
fore sunrise and after sunset on the
earth, sunlight is reflected from that
part of the upper atmosphere on
which the sun is already shining or
still shining, thus causing twilight;
but the moon has no atmosphere and
therefore no twilight.
@. How many soldiers did the Brit
ish Isles furnish in the World War;
H H. K.
A. About 100000. The entire pop
ulation was about 100000. The
total casualties amounted to almost
100000
@. What is the oldest school in this
country with a continuous existence?
F. E. N.
A. The Public Latin School Of Bos-
ton. 1t was founded April %. 1885,
more than year before Harvard Col
lege was founded and more than three
years before it was opened.
O. When was the Golden Rule first
so-called?-C. G.
A. 1t is not known just how the
verse of Scripture was first named the
Golden Rule 1t Is found in the Eng
lish language as early as 1874, when
it is cited in 'Murray's Oxford Die
tionary."
Evening star., 1934-04-23

The early indications are that base
ball will be well played this Summer,
and the sporting page is giving imme-
diate promise that the literary stand
ards of the game will be even higher
than ever.
Evening star., 1934-04-23

Under the present circumstances
charges of publicity seeking are US
ually unjust, excepting when the
publicity is sought with reasonable
show of scholarship among the book
reviews.
Evening star., 1934-04-23

England desires to know precisely
what Japan means by trying to con-
duct q BE Kind to China week" T"
with no other generous minded ma
tions being allowed to participate.
Evening star., 1934-04-23
Shock Troops Shocked?

Prom the Lowell Evening Leader.
According to reports from Vienna.
shock troops have removed nude
statues from the streets. But, as we
understand 1t, that's not why they
are called shock troops.
Evening star., 1934-04-23

With such regularity do his re-
marks appear in the Congressional
Record that Senator Long might as
we'll be allotted regular space, with
the caption "Huey Sez."
Evening star., 1934-04-23

Just which way various details Of
debate on stock market control will
be decided will be something else for
the stock gamblers to bet on If they
feel so disposed.
Evening star., 1934-04-23

It has been necessary to explain
that while some assets remain frozen,
others some time ago thawed and
leaked away.
Evening star., 1934-04-23

In order to make future inquiries
easier it might be desirable to equip
all private dining parties with dicta-
graphs.
Evening star., 1934-04-23
Book Learning,

We're told Of books just from the press.
Some tell the facts while others guess,
Explaining how distress we stop
BY blowing in the farmers crop.
We read on algebraic lines,
Mixed up with plus and minus signs,
That tell us how plain BIC
Fades vaguely into xyz.
And then we say-"Oh take away
Your erudition day by day
And show us how we may secure
More cook books and less literature.
Evening star., 1934-04-23
Mysteries.

Mysteries.
The old-time authors that I read
"Ah, yes! they're very flne indeed!"
But unto some one I would bow
Who tells what's going on Right Now!
Mysterious rites of ancient days
May interest us and amaze
But more attention I'd allow
To Queer Stuf1 going on Right Now.