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Evening star., 1934-01-02
Order for Silver Purchases
Considered as Trade Factor

ures in Congress- Benefits in the di-
rection OF prosperity in silver-producing
States and a check on radical lnf1a-
tionists" are foreseen by the Scranton
Times.
What is considered of particular
promise in the action" according TO
the Oakland Tribune, lis its support OF
the London Monetary Conference in the
plan to stabilize silver and end the prac-
tice of melting up and debasing the
metal. It was this practice which did
much to ruin the silver market OF the
world and work great hardship on the
mining areas"
The Governments action" says the
San Antonio Express, will enable oper-
ators of silver mines within the United
States or any region under its Jurisdlc-
ton to sell the output to the Treasury
on better terms than those afforded by
open markets for the metal. Bar silver
has been bringing 43 cents in New York,
and prices for the stocks on hand prob
ably will not be greatly affected by the
current arrangement, which applies only
to neWly-mined metal"
Doubt is voiced by the Cincinnati
TimeS-Star as to the prospects for new
export markets for American goods in
the silver-uSing countries" While the
Des Moines Tribune advises that I've
shall be wise not to count these Oriental
trade chickens. out of higher silver price
eggs. until they are hatched." The
Chicago Daily News concludes: There
is even less prospect that the artifcially
high price for silver will raise the gen.
eral price level than there is that the
boosting of the price of gold will do so.
It is significant that two great silver
markets, London and BOMBAY, took the
American price boost calmly, if not
skeptically. Most of the 66 govern
ments participating in the London con-
ference were, and remain, apathetic to
silver, which they regard as a COM
modify subject to general economic in
fuenceS rather than as precious metal,
which the Pittmanites would have it
considered"
The proclamation" declares the Los
Angeles Times. does not establish free
silver bimetallism, the silver standard,
or anything of the sort, though it is
step in that direction. Instead it
amounts to bonus of about 20 cents an
ounce, granted to silver producers. Its
effect on foreign markets, particularly
| Oriental, will depend on how the world
market for silver reacts. Such action
cannot readily be predicted in advance >
Evening star., 1934-01-02
New Orange Plan.
rom the Oakland Tribune.

From the Oakland Tribune.
Attempt to stabilize the citrus in
dustry with a national control program
is under way. Under agreements drawn
up for the cooperation of California,
Florida, Arizona and Texas, only the
amount of fruit that the market can
absorb at a proper price will be shipped.
No individual grower will be permitted
to ship more than his share, and vio-
lators will be dealt with by law. In
case the price gets too high. it is an
nounced, the Government will step in
and order a great volume of the fruit
released.
The great citrus industry OF this State
naturally watches with interest to see
Just what is going to take place. 1t has
had experience with trying to control
shipments, and learned that no one
State could hope for results if the others
were not forced into line. According to
the San Bernardino Sun, down in the
orange area: THE prosperity of Cali
fornia is involved in this great ex-
pertinent In theory the rlan should
work. Doubtless there will be many in
cidents of irritation. Individual interest
and individual theory must be subordi-
mated to the collective activities
The experiment is under way. Before
its continuance may be assured there
must be test case to establish the con-
stituticnality of the pacts as drawn. In
a somewhat similar case, that having to
do with the peach control act the p l.
eral District Court upheld the &C i
| tuticnaiity of the law.
Evening star., 1934-01-02
Italy Tries Reducing,
From the Charleston Evening Post

While we are making tremendous
efforts to recover from the depression
by every possible device for increasing
prices and raising wages, Fascist Italy
is employing exactly the reverse system.
Premier MuSSolini and experts of his
cooperative state, to which he is bring
ing the Italian political structure, are
working out plans for simultaneous re-
salaries and wages. The government
has declared that wholesale reduction
in wages and in the cost of living must
be effected if Italy is to continue to
export its products and thereby estab-
lish a balance of trade favorable to the
country. The undersecretary of corpo-
rations reports that in the third quar-
ter of 1888 Italy exported barely Is
per cent of the amount sent abroad
during the corresponding period Of
1882, while imports had increased by
5la per cent. Competition with coun-
tries off the gold standard requires
that Italy either reduce the cost of
production appreciably or initiate the
currency and II Duce has said that the
latter course will not be adopted-and
there is no congress nor parliaplent to
decree otherwise.
An increase in the cost of living by
reason of higher prices. together with
a corresponding increase in wages. and
a reduction in both simultaneously, OBJ
viorlsly should produce like results. II
is an interesting contrast in national
temperaments that Americans should
be employing the one and Italians the
other method.
Evening star., 1934-01-02
Peace Prospects in 1884.

Hardly at any time since the World
War has the international outlook in
a new year been SO clouded as it ayr
pears to be with the advent of 1934
In the western hemisphere alone
thanks mainly to the spirit which pre-
vailed at the Late American Con-
ference in Uruguay, is the immediate
prospect for peace tinged with en-
couragement. In the Far East and IN
Europe the atmosphere reeks ominous-
ly of glmpowder. with porils of con-
fict growing from day to day, as ma
tional leaders lack either the will, or
the ability to find the way, to solve
problems which contain the seeds of
war.
On the other side of the globe the
clashing interests of Russia and Japan
are threatening to embroil those
nations just thirty years after their
previous encounter. Across the At
lantic the ancient feud between France
and Germany menaces Europe with an
other conf1agration that would in
evitably inf1ame the entire continent.
In the East the ambitions Of japan, CT
at least of her aggressive military party
now in control at Toxic, to bring Asia
more completely under japanese doni-
nation darken the sky. In the West
the determination of Nazi Germany to
enforce armament equality and to re-
wise the treaty of Versailles, with even
tual territorial readjustments, keeps all
Europe on the anxious seat. Russia
opposes Japan's expansion program.
France and her allies, including the
little entente. Belgium and Poland, are
linked to thwart Germany's plans to
alter the present balance of power.
OF the seven great powers. only the
United States, Great Britain and Italy
stand apart from these respective con-
troversies. The British, European COM
mentators think, tend to sympathize
with Japan, and the Italians with Ger
many, while the United States, as one
observer puts it, lis being edged grad
ually and reluctantly" toward Russia
and France.
Any such views, as far as this coun-
try is concerned. are lopsided. Much
in American politics and Statecraft is
obscure and mercuriaI IN these times
r
than another, it is that the United
States is not being edged" toward any
foreign power. Illusions to the con-
trary should be fully diSpelled by Prcsi-
dent Roosevelt's Wilson day speech last
week. As plainly as the English Ian
guage enables it to be said, the Presi-
dent detached the United States from
the political turmoil raging beyond our
shores. We have troubles nearer home.
The international problem clamoring
for solution in 1884 is twofold, compre-
hending, on the one hand, political
peace and, on the other, economic
equilibrium. In the field of peace, some
substitute, that can be made promptly
effective in a crisis. must be devised to
take the place of the discredited peace
machinery Of the Kellogg pact and the
League of Nations. In the economic
realm, stabilization of the dollar, the
pound and the franc in some suitable
relation to one another is of the utmost
urgency.
Craftsmanship during the twelve
month just begun has its work cut out
for it. Failure to accomplish it may
be fraught with disaster for the world
Evening star., 1934-01-02
A Timely Reminder.

Some Of those who are ANXIOUS 10
make the ky the limit in liberal hquor
control legislation have advanced eno
will continue to advance the argument
that the American people are done WIN
prohibitions and all its works; that uley
repudiated restrictive measures wnen
tl,ev repudiated the eighteenth amend
ment: that they want their liquor and
will have II. and the less severe the
restrictions on the liquor traffic the
better it will be.
There sFe more far-seelng men Nho
believe that the eighteenth amendment
represente1 a righteous revolt against
the evils identified with the liquor
traffic, AID that the repeal OF the
eighteenth amendment represented an
other revolt against new evils OF Ihe
unuor traffic, but which were identified
in the public mind with the eighteenth
amendment and constitutional proh1ol-
tion.
On the question Of repeating the
eiohteentb amendment the voters had
to answer, categorically, yes or no.
There was no middle-ground,n no chance
to express national sentiment regarding
substitutes. The twenty-first amend
nent left the substitute forms OF liquor
control to the States But as sort OF
guarantee as to what the States would
do, the Democratic platform pledged
the party to work for the control meas
ures in the States that would actually
promote temperance, effectively prevent
the return of the saloon and bring the
liuuor traffic into the open and unoer
complete supervision and control by
the States It was freely promised
that such measures would end liquor
traffic evils Of the prohibition ana
the prohibition eras.
The President has performed public
service in reminding the members OF
his party, through an indirect appeal
to the Missouri Legislature, now dead
locked on the question Of allowing the
return of the saloon, of the Democratic
platform pledges at Chicago. II have
great confidence that our party leaders
not only in your State, but wherever
this question of liquor control is com
ing up, will respect pledges made to
the electorate and will provide legisla-
ton that will make impossible the re-
turn of the saloon and all its attend
ant evils" he said. He recalled the
statement In his proclamation OF re-
peal-"I ask especially that no State
shall by law or otherwise authorize the
return of the saloon either in its OLD
form or in some modern guise."
Responsible leaders of the Democratic
party realize, with the President, that
party platform pledges are to be put to
the test in liquor control legislation.
They are to be subjected to far more
critical and searching examination
than that which usually attends the
execution Of platform promises, often
forgotten as soon as they are made.
They know that errors on the side OF
liberality will not be as quickly nor as
easily corrected as those resulting from
overzealouS precaution, and that the
return of the saloon and attendant
evils symbolized by the saloon will be
interpreted as failure of the party to
live up to its promises. Constitutional
prohibition is dead, but the liquor issue
is still alive
Evening star., 1934-01-02

And as long as the people continue to
have such confidence the administra-
ton and the country appears to be safe
enough. Should the people lose con-
fidence in the dollar, then indeed "in-
flation" will have arrived and storm
and chaos will rule.
Mr.. Morgenthau doubtless will be
asked by members of Congress to ex-
plain the monetary policy of the ad-
ministration. The opening OF the Ses-
sion of Congress is at hand. Demands
for information from the Executive
made from the floor of the Senate and
House are usually more effective than
the requests for such information when
the legislative body is not sitting. And
Treasury will be ready to give informa-
ton regarding the monetary policy
which the administration is pursuing.
The opening of the new year
brought other changes il the govern
mental set up. The Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration has been given
Chester c. Davis. II seemed inevitable
that when differences developed be-
tween the Secretary of Agriculture and
George Peek, then administrator of the
A. a. A, resulting in the transfer of
Mr.. Peek to other duties, the personnel
OF the A. A. A. would undergo consider
able change. The change has now
come and with it about one hundred
division heads are out" Smith w.
Brookhart, former Senator from Iowa
and for years a political storm center
in the State where the tall corn
grows" is one of those who leave the
A. A. A. The shake-up is explained
as a desire for a more compact and
economical organization to care for the
problems confronting the American
farmer.
What other changes will take place
in connection with the new Government
agencies set up in recent months to
handle the recovery program are not
Immediately apparent. However. it has
been indicated that the N. r. A. is to
undergo some shifts in operation and
perhaps there is to be some amend
ment to the national recovery act.
After all, these agencies of the Gov
ernment were set up originally as tenn
porary units. They are part of the
experiment now taking place in this
country. They cannot be regarded as
permanent establishments.
Evening star., 1934-01-02
Administration Changes.

New Year day saw the first change
in the Roosevelt cabinet, with William
H. Woodin retiring definitely as Secre-
tary Of the Treasury and Henry Nor
genthau, jr., succeeding to the post.
Mr.. Morgenthau has been Acting Sec
retary" of the Treasury while Mr..
Woodin has been at a sanitarium in
Arizona, and the change in the cab
met has been many times forecast.
The formal appointment of the new
Secretary of the Treasury, however, is
interpreted as meaning that the Presi-
dent proposes to continue with the
monetary policy already inaugurated, a
policy which has led to many criticisms
and to the resignation Of DR.. o. M. W.
Sprague, Treasury adviser
The new Secretary of the Treasury
faces difficult problems of financing and
refinancing for the Government. The
drive for recovery is calling for more
billions of dollars, while the Treasury
eduy 1dCGo 1luBC OClASlO oiiO tliS
public debt has grown by leaps anc
bounds. On December Is, as Acting
Secretary of the Treasury, Mr.. Nor
genthau offered a billion dollars ir
Government securities which were over
subscribed Immediately.
The American dollar has withstooe
| criticism at home and abroad. Tht
desire of the administration has frank.
been to devalue the dollar, in an effor
to raise prices of commodities. In {
measure this has been accomplished
until now 1t is claimed that the dollar |!
worth not more than 621a cents. Tht
people, however, continue to have con
fidence in the dollar, despite the de
fationary moves of the administration
Evening star., 1934-01-02
High Lights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

exceedingly Objectionable. For some
time past both pedestrian and motor
traffic have been delayed in reaching
their destinations and subjected to
many other veXationS as we'll Such
conditions can no longer be tolerated
with patience.
To avoid these annoyances in fu-
ture, every person importuned or mo-
Tested by any Of these various disturb
ing elements is to report the incident
Immediately to the nearest police officer,
who will proceed to arrest the offender
and have him removed to the station
house. The police are also to take the
same action without waiting for COM
plant, when they perceive such un-
desirable activities, summoning all the
auxiliary force necessary to terminate
effectively this sort of provocation."
This drastic action should be equally
effective in minimizing the Superfiuous
noise and clamor in the streets.
Evening star., 1934-01-02
Supplies the Truly
Classic Irish Bull

To the Editor of The Star.
In your editorial on bulls" Irish
and otherwise, in a. recent issue of The
Star you omitted to cite the classic of
them all, as it combines example with
definition. 1t runs:
IF you see a field full of COWS, all
lying down and one standing up, that's
an Irish bull"
GORDON GORDON-SMITH.
Evening star., 1934-01-02
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Another New Leaf.

Another New Leaf.
The sun comes up as usual
On January two.
Says he, Il can't refuse you all
The greeting that is due.
There may come clouds of sorrowing
For those I'm not to blame.
I've got to go "tomorrowing"
And you must do the same.
I'm spite of mans sagacity
That you may think so vast,
His measure of capacity
Proceeds by rule at last.
A plodding periodical
You will discern in me.
And now we'll turn methodical
To January three"
Evening star., 1934-01-02

DR.. Wyncoop of Chicago is said to
have shot her daughter-in-law in order
to create the appearance of murder to
conceal a professional mistake. There
is a cynical proverb to the effect that
physicians bury their mistakes but ever
a proverb can be overworked.
Evening star., 1934-01-02

1t is not likely that Congress will be
in session more than a few days before
people express the hope that the year
1885 will do better than 1884
Evening star., 1934-01-02
,,o.,her q, N. Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
to the use for republication OF all news olS-
matches credited TO it or not otherwise CRED
tied in this paper and also me lTCsi o
speciaI dispatches herein are also reserved
Evening star., 1934-01-02

One disadvantage the white collar
man labors under is the fact that it is
easier to budget along with compare
lively small wage than it is to make the
surtax calculations on slightly larger
income
Evening star., 1934-01-02
Australian Children
Lead RefOrestation.

Egyptian Gazette, Cairo.-F0r years
Australia has been talking about re-
forestation and perhaps doing a little
here and there, but it has been left to
the school children of Tumut. town
ship in New South Wales, to show their
elders the way to do it properly, says
Austral News.
Their school owns 2312 acres, and
this the children have planted With
5000 pine trees during their seven years
of ownership. Their objective is the
planting of $4,000 trees in 10 years. In
20 years, with scientific thinning out,
the trees should be worth f100 an acre,
which will profit the school and the
district considerably.
Evening star., 1934-01-02
ORTIZ CHINA HERALD, Shang-
hai.-Correspondents write ap-
provingly of a community effort
for handling the problem OF un-

hal. This journal is invited by a writer,
who suggests the formation of Busl-
ness Mems Committee. to take some
lead in the matter. 1t willingly does It's
mart in drawing attention to the need,
in indicating the sources from which
relief may well be developed and in
pointing out the value of the excellent
suggestions now made. And of course
it will continue to discharge its traol-
tional function of publishing acknoWl-
elements of donations received. The
National Societies and Unemployment
Center will no doubt welcome further
support, for one thing is clear-the
problem will become acute during the
coming black Winter" And, taking
the cue from England and America; 1t
NAV be urged that wise spending rather
than rigid economy should be the key
note. The curtaiIment of activities
may tend to increase Unemployment
rather than diminish it.
Evening star., 1934-01-02

New Yorks New Year is reported to
have been the wettest in a decade.
Perhaps it only seemed wetter because
more places were wide OPEN
Evening star., 1934-01-02

Women patronize dispensaries. That
the feminine influence on politics has
been advantageous is nowhere denied.
But whether women can refine a dis
pensary remains problematical.
Evening star., 1934-01-02

So sinister is Germany's present mood
that it may be doubted whether Hitler
had the nerve to say Happy New Year
to anybody.
Evening star., 1934-01-02

So many nations have an eye on
China that the people of that troubled
country are doubtless wondering what
kind of carpet bag government to ex-
pect.
Evening star., 1934-01-02
Where is He?

From the Columbus Ohio State Journal.
Another profession that seems to have
totally disappeared during the past four
years is that Of efficiency expert.
Evening star., 1934-01-02
Numbers.

Luck in odd numbers!" people say
But I am diSbelievin'.
Old 'Thirty-three is on its way
And am far from grievin'.
Upon the odd I've lost much more
Than I have been receivin'
And now I'm hopin' 'Thirty-four
Will help me to get even."
Evening star., 1934-01-02
Spoils.

do you believe in the spoils system
in politics."
Not any more" answered Senator
Sorghum. 1--WE are making progress,
and the object now should be to avoid
doing anything that could possibly
spoil it."
Jud Tunkins says he voted for repeal,
but the way the dispensary works
makes him feel like man who had
prayed for rain and been answered by
a cloudburst.
Evening star., 1934-01-02

Instead of beating swords into plow-
shares the German autocracy has
sharpened them up for surgical instru-
ments.
Evening star., 1934-01-02
Canning.

From the Fort Worth Star-Telegrarl.
Now that the farmers are going into
the canning business in big way, what
will they do about canning candidates
Offering political farInSreIef?
Evening star., 1934-01-02
Palestine Sizzling
As England Shivers.

As England Shivers.
Palestine Post, Jerusalem.-With
Palestine sizzling in Summer heat,
the news of England shivering over
open coal fires must appear in strange
contrast. Residents in this country
have already been receiving letters from
friends in England lamenting the grasp
of the icy hand, and they must wonder
what has become of the drought and the
heat wave about which so much fuss
was made a month or two ago.
The truth is, though, that England is
far more at home in cold weather than
in hot. It's houses are built for Winter
rather than for Summer, and the. re-.
suit is that a hot Summer in England
is rather an uncomfortable eventuallty
in the same way that WINTER IN Jeru-
salem is also uncomfortable. because
architects build houses here for SUM-
mer and not for Winter.
* X X
Undesirables Barred
From Madrid Streets.
La Vanguardia, Barcelona. - Profes'
sional agitators, as we'll as mendlcants
itinerant statesmen of all sorts of unnec.
essary articles and dubious refresh
ments, are to be combed off the streets
| of Madrid as distributors and nu1Sances
| if the director of public safety has hi:
| will in the matter. He has issued tt
the personnel Of his department the
| following order:
"There has been a tendency to pro
duce in the principal streets of thi'
capital, and especially in those bearins
the greatest traffic, Interruptions t.
public peace and order through th'
| hawking of goods and the preaching o.
new and variant political doctrines
which because of their frequency, ane
] the immunity hitherto granted to al
those responsible for same, have become
Evening star., 1934-01-02
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Evening star., 1934-01-02

Tammany welcomed the New Year
with three proper cheers but no war
whoop.
Evening star., 1934-01-02
Escape.

From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
With little skill the man whose wife
gives him a Christmas tie can always
manage to spill gravy on it.
Evening star., 1934-01-02
Buy Now!

From the Newark Evening News.
Now is the time to do some thrifty
early Christmas shopping for next
Christmas.
Evening star., 1934-01-02
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