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Evening star., 1934-07-25

American students of world politics
are generally hopeful over the pro-
posed new Eastern Locarno agree
ment. designed either to complete
the isolation Of Germany or force
her back into more satisfactory re-
lations with the European family of
nations.
"A few months ago." according to
the Cincinnati Times Star, German
agreement would have been unthink-
able. Today the German foreign
Office Is reported to be not averse
/ to plan which would lower the
walls of distruSt that now isolate
Germany in Europe. No doubt one
reason for Britain's interest in the
pact is that it offers the only alterna-
tive to a renewal of the prev
Franco Russian alliance. But Down
ing Street also believes that an East
ern Locarno would revive hopes for
real disarmament. reverse the present
trend toward economic def1ation and
arrest the headlong drift of Europe
toward war. The fact that
the British government is willing now
to risk its public support by indorsing
a security pact indicates how pro-
found is the fear of war in the best
informed circles abroad"
Observing that the Berlin govern
ment apparently has been surprised
and discounted by the unexpected
collaboration Of France and Italy on
plans to bind European nations in a
! network of aggression and mu-
al-asSiStance compacts," the San
Antonio Express concludes: Hitler
may be astute enough to soften his
defiant attitude toward the outside
world, under the pressure which is
being exercised by Great Britain and
Italy to bring about Germanys ad-
herence to the Compact of the North
and its readmission to the League of
Nations. The London and Rome
governments have no liking for the
Hitler regime, but they evidently look
to the time when the German people
will be freed from the Nazi blight"
The Portland Oregon Journal re-
marks that "the Hitler regime has
been isolating Germany from the
world when the very forces Of the
modern world forbid isolation" while
the Buffalo Evening News asserts tnaC
IF Germany rejects the plan it will
be placed in the position of having
to explain to other nations why it
refused to support possible means
of achieving peace in Eastern Europe" :"
The Greenville IS. c. News states:
What is of significant interest is
the sincere community of policy and
action between Great Britain and
France to maintain stability in East
ern Europe and the indication that
the attitude is likely to be shared
in by Italy. Poland and Russia. If
these major nations of Europe are
genuinely determined to act in con-
cert to this end, much may be ac-
complished toward preservation of
peace in Europe for a considerable
length of time"
Germany is not blind" thinks the
Newark Evening News, TO the encir-
clement that will result unless she
averts it by entering into these agree
mentS and making herself a part of
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nothing about him to Justify the least
sympathy.
An immense ti7ro1s visited the
norgue In Chicago 70 see the body
Of the dead bandit, Tilted on a slab in =
glass cage Somebody biundered shock
ingiy in thus exhibiting the gruesome
relic Of the tragedy TO public view
The Thousands who warmed through
the place vent only out Of a de-
PRAYED curiosity. The exhibition was
not required to confirm the lesson
that crime does not pay. which was
amply taught by the simple announce
ment that Dillingcr had at last suf-
fered his final penalty. TIE scramble
for souvenirs of the murderer-thief
and his summary execution was an
other sad manifestation Of a spirit
that is altogether too rife in this
country. that Of admiration for the
buccsneer.
Every parent in America should
take advantage OF this happening to
point out to the youth of the land
the lesson taught by the Dfllinger
case, that crime, In any degree or OF
any nature, surely, inevitably brings
suffering to the perpetrator, to those
who have brought him into being, to
society in general. and eventually de-
feat and probably untimely and dis
graceful death to the perpetrator. 1t
is the law Of nature as well as that
Of man that whose preys upon his
fellows meets defeat, and there is no
glory in evil living, even though for
a time such a life may be sensational
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s1lbiectfng them to unnecessary dis
turbances of equanimity.
There is vast difference between
men. Of course. Some are not easily
disturbed. others are very sensitive
The members of the first class might
render themselves more tender. with
out loss 70 themselves: those in the
second classification surely ought to
try to make themselves more callous
for their own good.
These are "oughts." notoriously diff
hcult
A great deal easier way Of helping
mankind is to refrain from saying
those things which one knows will
rub another human being the wrong
way.
In making this request, OF course,
one knows ne is asking the impos-
sible, for rubbing persons the wrong
way is one OF the real joys of life
TO many.
In business, however, where so
much depends Upon the good will Of
the dear customer. there is no COM
mon sense at all in insisting on
calling patron BY a title which he
B
Just a plain. simple greeting of
Good morning or Good after
noon" or How are you?" or What
can 1 do for you?" but how difficult
for many human beings to manage.
evidently
And not only in business circles.
but everywhere that human beings of
slight acquaintance meet.
The easiest way is often overlooked,
and some complicated method Sc
lected which runs the risk of not
doing what the user wants it to do.
Thus the world introduces wheels
within wheels, when just outer wheels
would be quite enough.
1t may be realized that the more
astute of mankind seldom reply as
our good friend Jones. Templeton
Jones is one of these incurably simple
persons who never yet had admitted
to himself that subterfuge and con-
cealment are necessary in human
affairs. He believes that he can get
along in the world without pretense.
Hence when somebody addresses him
as General" when he is not even
a captain, he is very apt to let them
know that he neither appreciates nor
likes the salutation.
Persons more astute in the handling
of everyday situations smile and forget
the incident. Philosophically, how
ever, one may believe that Jones has
the better of the argument, for he
cfo nd 1A ~ -
decency. in the little affairs as we'll
as the big ones.
Templeton Jones is not an oppor-
tunist in any way, even in inconse-
quential matters. Some of these
smaller matters, he insists, are no way
near as small as many would like to
make them out
Consider this matter of greeting the
layman with the title of Doc" so
universally used. 1t tends to bring
a great profession into disrepute, just
as the bandying of military titles has
tendency, though some may say a
slight one, to give these titles less
dignity than they deserve.
One may feel that such misusage is
on par with children wearing sailor
uniforms and military uniformS-es-
sentially childish.
There is no particular point in
grabbing up title which does not fit,
and applying it to an innocent citizen
who asks for nothing better than
Mister
Man is curious animal. Plain
Mister" was adopted as an honorary
title for Everyman, and now many
men refuse to accord its essential
democracy to others, but insist on
clubbing their acquaintance Cover
nors, captains, Sdmirals, generals,
and the like. refusing to honor the
one, and mildly dishonorina the
others,
Evening star., 1934-07-25
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACETELL.

TempIeton Jones often wondered
why people could not be content with
a simple good morning. Mr.. Jones.
insisted on addressing him as ~Ad-
miral"
Those who did not use Admiral,
said Judge
Those who preferred neither "Ad-
mirsl" nor Judge" called him
Colonel
A few used Governor
Jones had been called many things
in his life by many men, but Of all the
titles he enjoyed. or rather distinctly
did not enjoy. that of Admiral rub
bed him most completely the wrong
way.
Not that he had any spleen against
seafaring men, in fact he admired
them. but for that very reason in
sisted he had no right to the title.
Walking into store the other day
the quiet Jones was greeted by the
clerk as follows:
"Howdy, Admiral"
Templeton Jones replied quietly. y
am not an admiral.
The clerk felt only a little rebufTed
by this statement of fact.
You wouldn't mind, would you
being an admiral"
Jones paid no attention to the query
What he said was: "A simple Good
morning or Good morning. Mr.
JONES' would be quite sufficient"
The next time he visited the store
he was greeted with GOOD morning
young man"
Jones knew the fellow was trying to
be friendly, but he wondered again
why he could not simply say, good
morning." as courteously as he knew
how. That would be good business, he
thought, and SO very simple.
No, he had no particular objection
to being hailed as young man." ex-
cept that it, in it's turn, was as silly
as Admiral" and equally untrue
1t was not the lack of physical
prowess which Jones missed, al
though that has been associated with
youth through the centuries.
No, there was something else the
matter with middle age much more
serious, and one seldom if ever heard
anything about it.
The truth is that in middle age one
grows into the age of success, out OF
the age of aspiration, and finds that
so many other persons are so much
more successful.
The young man has the vast help
of being able to feel that, although
he has not yet made his mark in a
big way, he will do it at last.
The millions of mildly successful
men in the world all know better
when they reach what has been called
middle age.
They must now accept themselves
for what they are, and as they will
remain, in the very great majority of
cases.
Not failures, by any means, but
not the successes they had hoped
to be.
It's a rather bitter pill, and some
men pretend they haven't swallowed
it at all. or they say it is sweet
tasting. after all. or they puff out
their chests and make large claims.
X
Templeton Jones wondered why
men went through life making things
more difficult for each other than
necessary, often through bits of word
fooliShneSs.
The man who insists on calling an
acquaintance by title which he does
not deserve nor wants does not stop
to realize that often he causes no little
annoyance to the other.
He does not care?
1t serves the fellow right?
Perhaps.
But surely there is enough annoy
ance in life for most persons without
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that Hawaii was Disseminated against.
as compared with other domestic pro-
ducers, and, further, as compared with
Cuba. a foreign country. Plenty of
sugar talk, among other things, will
Sweeten President RooSevelt'S visit to
Hawaii during the next few days.
y X X X
A famous old American name is
on the roster of the Department of
Commerce-that of George Wythe,
economist. He is a Texan, and is a
descendant as we'll as a namesake
of Chancellor George Wythe of Vir-
ginia, who was one of the trainers of
the Constitution, and, as the first
professor of law in the United States,
taught Thomas Jefferson, John Mar
shall and Henry Clay at William and
Mary College
Ousted Gov. Bill" LANCER of North
Dakota can claim a certain kinship
with the Roosevelt brain trust. He
took his A. B. in 1910 at Columbia
the thinkers and planners now dot
ting the Washington landscape.
x X X
Dr. William NJ. LeiSerSon, whom
President Roosevelt has just named
as chairman of the new National
Railroad Mediation Board is a native
of Reval. Estonia. He came to this
country at the age of seven and has
spent all the rest of his "A years here.
He joined the faculty of Antioch Col
lege, at Yellow Springs. Ohio. IS pro-
fessor of economics in 1925, not long
after Senator Simeon D. Fess re-
linquished the presidency of the
institution. DR.. Jeiserson had made
all arrangements to resume his
academic duties at Antioch when the
railroad labor job was Unexpectedly
offered him.
Herr Otto Kiep. counselor of the
German Embassy at Washington dur
ing the Prittwitz ambaSSadorship has
arrived in Buenos Aires at the head
of an imposing Berlin mission seek
ing a German-Argentine trade al
lance. The plan is part of the Nazi
drive for commercial relations with
Latin American countries. to compen-
safe for loss Of markets in which
boycotts of German goods are playing
havoc with the Reichs export trade
Former Representative Ruth B.
Pratt of New York is the central fig
ure in a Manhattan political feud.
Certain G. o. P. machine leaders. it
appears, oppose her being a delegate
to the gubernatorial convention in
October. on the ground that she
should be disciplined for having sup
ported the Mckee mayoralty ticket
last year.
Representative Edward A Kenney.
Democrat, of New Jersey, casts a
jealous eye in the direction of Puerto
Rico these days. He has been unsuc-
cessfully trying to persuade Congress
to establish United States lottery.
Meantime, Puerto Rico has set up
government lottery and Gov. Blanton
Winship has just appointed Col.
Adolfo de HoStoS, a former army off,
Ger, as director.
(Copyright. 19341
Evening star., 1934-07-25
Boosting Prices.

The N. r. A. one of the aior
measures Of the Roosevelt new deal,
was attacked from two quarters
yesterday. Senator Gerald P. Nye OF
North Dakota. Republican progressive,
declared that it had been a failure
and was leading to monopoly and
the injury Of the consumer. He said
that it was his purpose when Con-
gress conyenes TO introduce a bill
putting an end to the N. r. A, with
out waiting for 1t to expire by legal
limitation on June Is next. From
Senator Daniel o. Hastings of Della
ware. chairman Of the Republican
Senatorial Campaign Committee.
came more detailed charges that the
code authorities under the N. r. A..
were boosting prices to the consumer
Senator Hastings said that two men
engaged in the coal business in Will
mington had told him they had been
forced 10 increase their price of coal
from $40 a ton to S11s5. He said
further he had been assured that they
we're paying more than the wages
required by the code and that they
we're making a profit on the coal
they sold at $40 a ton. The Divi-
sional Code Authority, after hearings
on the subject. had declared that
IAN emergency existed within the
division.
The comment of the Senator from
Delaware was: Think of a condition
in this country where a mere decla-
ration that an emergency exists gives
authority to force the people of
community to pay sl85 more per ton
for coal than some merchant is will
ing to sell it forl A real emergency
to many is when they are cold and
cannot buy because of the high price"
Senator Nye's plan for dealing with
the N. r. A. is to repeal the law and
enact a new law permitting industry
to obtain fair practice agreements
after hearings before the Federal
Trade Commission and to reinstate
the antitrust laws in full operation
to guard against monopoly.
The Senator from Delaware calls
for the election of more Republican
members of the House and Senate in
November as IAN immediate stop-sign
on the shaky road the new dealers
are travelling" An increase in the
Republican membership in Congress,
he asserts, would be a challenge to
the new dealers and would halt their
plunge toward "a complete change in
the form of a Government that made
our land the greatest on earth" And
he added: You 0he voters) must
steel yourselves against the hypnotic
influence of the great spender.' 4"
Senator Hastings commented upon the
speech made by the President in
Pittsburgh in october, 1882 when he
said; Il regard reduction in Federal
spending as one of the most important
issues in this campaign" Did the
President know at that time, Mr.
Hastings asked, that he was going to
launch a spending orgy" on the part
of the Government?
In the name of recovery and relief
the Roosevelt administration has en-
gagged in tremendous expenditures.
Obviously such a spending orgy is
popular with the persons who have
received the money. 1t is not likely
to be SO popular with those who have
to pay. The great spender" is a title
that may one day rise to trouble the
Chief Executive.
Evening star., 1934-07-25
Arms Confusion.
From the Los Angeles Times.


Disarmament continues to founder
on the same old rock. France will
not even consider a reduction of her
offensive and defensive strength un-
less assured in advance that in case
OF an unprovoked attack upon her
somebody with power enough TO turn
the scale viii come to her assistance.
In this the French republic cannot. at
any rate, be accused of inconsistency,
nor. from the French point of view.
Is the insistence unreasonable.
That the United States will not give
any such guarantees is the equally
consistent doctrine just reiterated at
Washington. The Roosevelt admins
tration follows the Harding. Coolidge
and Hoover administrations in the re-
fusal. And 1t appears that the British
will not give them either. France
has pleaded for a restoration of the
entente cordiale," but though the
British Conservatives, traditional
friends dn this generation) of France.
are IN power in Parliament, they are
chary OF pledges. Sometimes pledges
cost lot OF money and many lives
And so the Disarmament Confer
ence Is about to break up, while Ger
many Is undoubtedly rearming in one
guise or another, though by no means
ready for war.
frances canvass for dependable
allies is meanwhile not being assisted
by her attitude toward her debts.
Some of the chickens loosed by the
republic through her default are now
coming home to roost-Secretary Nor
genthau has refused to permit Amer
can banking participation in a French
loan, by declining to issue exchange
permits. The loan has been made by
Netherlands bankers who hoped 10
find some Of the money here. Since
it was only of $67, 900 900, no doubt
the sum can be found elsewhere. but
a warning to France to make some
sort of arrangement on the war debts
has nevertheless been issued--and
may be needed
Evening star., 1934-07-25
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

eally a purified explosive. 1t Is really
not snokeleSs, but instead of the
dense. black smoke given OF by ordi-
nary powder, q light, yellowish gaS Is
formed upon explosion.
O. What are the seven foilies of
science?-G. NJ.
A. The so-called seven follies Of
science are the quadrature of the cir
Gle, the duplication OF the cube; trt-
section Of the angle, perpetual mo-
ton: transmutation of metals: Ak
alton Of mercury; the elixir of life.
@. Where was the first orphan asy-
lum established in this country?-
w
A. 1t was founded at Bethesda, 10
miles from Savannah, Ga. by George
Whitefield in 174l.
O. Is II Lowell. Mass. or AmoSkeag,
N. H.. which is called the Manchester
of American N.
A. While some reference books give
this title to Lowell, when Samuel
Blodgett built his canal at the Falls
Of the Amoskeag, soon after the year
1900, he announced publicly that he
would make the textile industry at
Amoskeag the Manchester Of America,
and by this name it has been known
since 1910.
@. How are Oriental rugs made7--
q. B.
A. Oriental rugs are woven on a
single frame consisting of two poles
supporting two rollers. To the rollers
Is fastened a warp Of strong threads.
the number of which determines the
width and fineness Of the rug. To
each thread of the warp short frills
of colored wool. silk or hair of camels
and goats are knotted in such a way
that the two ends project toward the
worker.
Q. What did II. E. Huntington pay
for Gainsborough's "Bule Boy."-T. B.
| A. 1t is said that he paid approx
mately 100000 for the canvas, which
is now in the Huntington Gallery at
San Marino. Calf
Q. What is the name OF the parents
of the quadruplets born in Iowa?-
| T. c. NJ.
A. Mr.. and Mrs. Larry wycof of
Sac City. Iowa, are the parents of
the quadruplets who we're five weeks
old on July IA.
@. How long have parochial schools
been established in the United States?
r. S.
| A. Parochial schools in the United
States date from the early seventeenth
century, the first schools having been
founded at that time in Florida and
New Mexico. Prior to 1776, 10 Roman
Catholic schools existed within the
present confines OF the United States.
@. Please give some information
about Clifton Webb now playing In
"As Thousands Cheer. IL. r. w.
A.. Born in Indianapolis, Clifton
Webb went to New York in his teens
and studied art and singing. He had
been on the stage as a child, but his
flrst appearance as an adult was in
'Mignon," followed by the THE Pur-
| pie Road" Later he became a dane
/ ing partner Of Bonnie Glass and was
one Of the leading ball room dancers
In New York. For many seasons no
danced in musical comedies on Broad
way and in London. Some of his
later appearances have been In Meet
the Wife" Sonny" Treasure Girl"
First Little Show" "Three's
Crowd" and Flying Colors."
@. What is the origin Of tho word
plagiarism?-T. w.
A. The Latin plagiarius meant a
kidnaper, stealer or abductor of a
slave or child, though II is also used In
the modern sense by Martial.
Evening star., 1934-07-25

A reader cdH oct the dnsper 10
cap question OF tact By tGrittno The
Washington Eueutng Star Informa-
ton Bureau, Frederic J, HGsktn,
director, Washington. D. c. Please
inclose stamp for reply.
G. In a professional base ball game
can the umpire call a balk on the
pitcher and send the runner on third
home because the catcher jumped in
front Of the batSman TO receive the
pitch9-S. d.
A. According to section of rule 81.
balk shall be called by the umpire
If the pitcher delivers the ball to the
bat when the catcher is standing out
side the lines OF the catcher's position
Besides the runner on third going
home. the batsman is entitled to first
base)
@ How many days did the Seventy
, third Congress lasts. N.
A. This Congress. comprising two
sessions. ran 267 days. There has
been only one shorter session in this
century-the Fifty-eight Congress
which ran 262 days.
@. Is the Exide thermometer on
the Boardwalk at Atlantic City or the
one on the Eifel Tower in Paris, the
largest in the world2-C. S.
A. These Thermometers cannot be
compared. The Exide thermometer
is dial thermometer and the Fife
| Tower one is vertical thermometer
| The dial thermometers at Atlantic
City and Greensboro Bridge. New
York City. are said TO be the largest
of their kind in the world.
@. When an American ship Is al
sea. what flag is flown from hel
| bow?-N. G.
A. When ships are at sea no fial
is flown from the bow. AS a matter
of courtesy 1t is customary for ship.
to fly the flag of the country al
whose port she will visit, when enter
ing that port.
@. Was Tolstoy a Socialist
P. F. S.
A. TolStoy was revolutionary ir
educational schemes for peasants. but
he stood outside the general socialistiC
movement. Later in life he gave him.
self up to studying and supplying the
needs of the poor.
O. When the White House was first
occupied. how was 1t heated?-A. B.
A. So far as the records show, Il
! f1replaces furnished all the heat there
was. The first IL Executives to oc-
cupy the mansion, beginning with
President John Adams, depended or
| the open CRATES. In 1880, Franklin
stoves were added. The first central
heating plant was installed between
1887 and 1861. 1t was a crude hot
part Of the building. Changes have
been made from time to time, until
heat is now brought in from Gov
ernment heating plant.
@. Please give a short definition oi
! labor "A. M. G.
| A. Labor may be defined as the
| physical or mental effort of human
| beings for the attainment of some OBJ
ject other than the pleasure Of the
effort itself.
| @. Was Sam Jones, the famou:
minister, ever a drunkard?-H K. j.
| A. Samuel Porter Jones was ad-
mitted to the Georgia bar in 1869 and
practiced successfully for a time un-
til his drinking habits put an end tc
his career as lawyer. Becoming con-
verted in 1872, he was admitted tC
the ministry of the Methodist Church
South. and afterward devoted himself
to evangelistic work.
@. What is the difference between
smokeless gunpowder and black gun
powder?-F. M. s.
A. Smokeless gunpowder Is practi-
Evening star., 1934-07-25
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHuANDER JOHNSON.
Money Mystery.

Money Mystery.
For money patiently we toll
And peddle goods or till the SOIL
We speculate and lose our cash,
A horse race causes wagers rash.
A little money we deplore.
If we have much, we want still more.
BY millions" We were once perplexed.
We now say billions; what comes
next?"
Money was once bit of shell.
Tobacco leaves would do as well.
For money strange things We endure
Yet don't know what it is for sure!