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Evening star., 1934-11-16

a preliminary report TO the commits
sion suggesting that the National
Park Service of the Interior Depart
ment take over the supervision Of
such facilities. Yesterdays session Of
the commission received q supple
mentary report from Roy Smith Wal
lace. in charge of the Eastern district
Of the National Recreation Associ-
alton, proposing a unified recreation
system in the District and in nearby
Maryland and Virginia which would
encourage greater participation In
outdoor activities by the population Of
this area and which would afford ad-
ditional facilities.
The full report will be made public
at forthcoming conference Novem-
ber 81, called by the commission, at
which the Commissioners and agencies
concerned with the development Of
recreational facilities will be repre-
sented. Much interest will attach to
this report, not only because Of its
probable recommendations regarding
program Of developing recreational
facilities in and about Washington,
but because Of its possible proposals
regarding unified control of recrea-
tional facilities.
The control now is divided between
separate agencies in the municipal as
we'll as the Federal Government. 1t
would be obviously unwise to place
complete control in the hands of a
national agency, responsible in no way
to the local taxpayers, who furnish
most Of the money for recreational as
well as other development Of the
Capital. But there is much merit in
some unification, through properly
representative co-ordinating agency,
of the various agencies which now
control-with little co-ordination-the
recreational facilities and areas Of
Washington and its environs. Under
such unified control, there would be
greater opportunity of planned de-
velopment, greater progress in the
adoption and realization Of q we'll
thought-out program.
Evening star., 1934-11-16
Old, Old Excuses.

1.-THE movement" said Jere j. Crane,
assistant superintendent of schools in
charge of business affairs, "is an old,
old story He was alluding to the
march Of embattled mothers to the
District Building yesterday, demand
ing immediate repairs of the fifty
year -old furnace in the fifty-year- old
Blair School The mothers COM
planned that instead of furnishing
needed heat, the furnace furnishes
SCOT and gas to the class rooms, Great
ing an intolerable condition.
Last year." said Mr.. Crane, at was
the parents at the Ketcham School,
There are about twenty old hot-air
plants in our schools and we are
replacing them at a rate of about
three a year."
At this rate the parents might ex-
pect action some time in the next six
or seven years to remedy a condition
obviously dangerous to the health of
their children every day. And there
is no excuse for failure to repair the
furnace. The lack explana-
tion is, of course, presented by official
dom. The Health Department pro-
duces reports of inspectors since 1923,
showing recommendation after recon-
mendation for replacing the heating
plant. That, too, Is an old, old story.
But none Of the excuses is con-
vincing. 1t is hard to believe that
energetic, determined action by the
authorities would fail to produce re-
suits. If the conditions depicted by
the mothers are true, the school Off
cials should either close the school
Immediately or find way to repair the
furnace. Not long ago some mothers
from the Alice Deal Junior High
School demanded, and obtained from
the Commissioners, immediate re-
moval of the mud that promised soon
to bury that fine, new building. That,
too, was an old, old story. Commis-
sioner Hazen saw to it that there
was action in twenty four hours, and
long-standing nuisance was ended.
The Commissioners will doubtless cut
through red tape and see that there
is needed action at the Blair School,
instead of old, old excuses.
Evening star., 1934-11-16
Rugged Individualism
Declared Sidetracked

To the Editor OF The Star:
One general and portentous result
In the vote which overwhelmingly in
dorsed our President seems to have
been overlooked by all the many inter-
prefers, both amateur and professional.
The paramount result seems clearly to
be that the New Dealers, with the
fine fire Of partisan enthusiasm, have
triumphantly and gloriously killed, ex-
tirpated and blotted out that most
horrid. seditious, prescribed trait of
the American barbarian-rugged in
dividualism.
The people have magnifcently re-
linquished all hope Of getting out of
the depression by their own ingenuity.
And with pleasant signs Of resigna-
tion and sad, sweet smiles have COM
mitted themselves to the broad, loving
bosom Of our charming and affable
President.
For what other Interpretation can
be taken, when statistics show a
blighting increase in the mortgaging
Of everyone's income to the third and
fourth generation? Industry, employ
ment and foreign trade are so little
advanced from the low of 1892 that
the most captious New Dealer would
feel embarrassed to make any claim
to real progress. That remarkable
piece of cabinet work, which was to be
the entrance to peace and plenty, the
Democratic platform, has been torn
down and broken up, all save the one
plank on which the eighteenth amend
ment was carried out to q hearty
burial.
To paraphrase the late Bert Will
liams: Somebody's got to get us out
of this depression. Yes, sir! Somebody
elSe-not me-
MATTHEW TOWAR.
Evening star., 1934-11-16
Nobel Award for Chemistry.

For the third time since it's foun-
dation the Nobel award for chemistry
has been granted to an American.
The winner of the prize for 1894 is
DR.. Harold c. Urey, a native Of
Indiana who now makes his home at
Leonia, N. J. Totaling forty thousand
dollars, the money will be applied to
further research, and it is interesting
to note that the man whose efforts
will be so endowed still Is young
enough to profit to the full from the
advantage. Only forty years of age,
he has a presumption of life Of at
least three decades, and every waking
moment of that time, it fairly may
be presumed, will be spent for the
benefit of the science to which DR..
Urey has dedicated himself.
To the layman his outstanding con-
tribution to chemistry, now generously
recognized by the Nobel trustees and
by the Swedish Royal Academy Of
Sciences, has a curious attraction. He
discovered the basis Of what popularity
is known as heavy water" composed
of hydrogen atoms twice as heavy as
any previously known. The work in
part was done at the Bureau Of Stand
ards here and with the help of Dr.
Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde, cele-
brated for his process for liquefying
helium. In brief, its significance is
that of aiding in the investigation of
the nature and structure of matter.
But people who know and care little
about scientific endeavor also will join
in congratulating DR.. Urey on the
honor which he has earned. He Is
one Of those who is carrying forward
the torch of scientific truth in world
which needs such bearers Of the light.
He represents, likewise, numerous
company of colleagues who, though
fame and fortune never may be their
lot, share in his loyalty to research
and in the march of intellectual prog
ress which one day may give to man
dominion over fate.
Evening star., 1934-11-16
War Debts Again.

AS December Is approaches the
American people are reminded again,
as they are semi-annually, that the
United States Treasury continues to
carry some twenty billion dollars of
unredeemed European war debts.
Current dispatches from London and
Paris indicate that our principal
debtors have no intention of aban-
doning their repudiationist attitude.
They are content to rank as defaulters
on their obligations to this country.
In the House of Commons on Thurs
day Chancellor Of the Exchequer
Chamberlain announced that there is
no change in the British attitude,
which consists of refusal to resume
even stipend" payments on account,
which ceased year ago. Britain as
sumes the position, in effect, that the
debts are closed incident unless the
United States reopens it on some re-
visionary basis which could only mean
Evening star., 1934-11-16
Traffic Law Criticism
Approved in Letter
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
With a number Of unsolved murders
before the police and a crime-suppres-
sion wave in full swing, 1t is interest
ing to note the prompt and aggressive
reaction Of the District Of Columbia
authorities to the very reasonable OBJ
servation of the United States attor-
ney regarding speed limitation.
II the Commissioner who, at re-
quest, moved out Of the way Of the
firemen, is equally frank about his
own driving, I venture to say he will
admit exceeding the speed limit every
day he drives his own car. Yet in
this crisis we are confronted with an
outSpoken condemnation of the one
man who has both the sense and
courage to point out the folly Of the
law.
By all means let us commend the
District authorities for handing a
ticket to the owner Of a car parked
double to await the arrival from his
office of the former Vice President of
the United States, suffering from the
infirmity Of lameness, and the hue and
cry raised about 1t.
Let us commend the raiding Of a
Chinese gambling joint, when the Chi
nese are never known to indulge in
murder as concomitant Of gam
bling, but let us not lose sight of the
fact that common sense Is not always
the sole prerogative of governing Com
missioners and their appointees. One
may well be reminded of the cryptic
observation of the jester, when the
duke plays the fool, it is time for the
fool to play the duke" Let us au-
thorize the purchase Of another white
wagon with loud speaker and print
an extra supply of parking tickets.
HERBERT S. WARD.
Evening star., 1934-11-16
u. S. Will Have Two
Revised Parties i'm 1886
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
The Wings, after favoring a strong
central government, passed out in
1856 and were succeeded by the Re-
publican party. Now Senator Borah
foresee "the possibility of the per-
forated G. o. P. in transit like the
old Wing syndicate, but we must have
our choice of two candidates in 1886"
OF course, the two candidates in 1885
will not both be Of the same party, Ia
the solid South primaries, meaning
election Of the successful candidate
in the primary with but little, II any,
other candidate of the one party in
1886" This being two-party country
politically, Senator Borah's "perfo-
rated G. o. P. evaporating transit"
may be Joined by an evaporating, in
part, of the Democratic party, as Of to-
day. So the perforated G.. o. P.
evaporating transit" and the evaporat-
ing Democratic party, in part, as Of
today, will coalesce as new party Of
JefferSonian Lincolnian principles.
The United States will then still have
two political parties in 1896. So the
'little opposition that will not amount
to anything" in 1886 shall need re-
vision by Its author. w. z. RYAN.
Evening star., 1934-11-16

drastic reduction, another name FOR
cancellation. Mr.. Chamberlain ex-
planned that nothing has SO far been
heard from Washington regarding the
installment payable next month, but
inferred that unless the United States
offers concessions the British will ad-
here to their decision to make no
further payments.
The new cabinet at Paris also STANDS
pat. Premier Flandin opposed French
debt payments when he was minister
of finance in 1882. The French alibi
Is that they are awaiting an Anglo
American debt settlement as basis
for French negotiations with the
United States. In the past the only
proposition that evoked any support
in French parliamentary quarters is
one whereby America would be Of
fered a ten per cent settlement on
the same basis on which the Ger
mans succeeded in whiting down
reparations practically to the vanish
ing point. The French thesis has
always been that the allies should not
be called upon to repay war debts on
any greater scale than that on which
Germany honored reparation pledges
That theory has been consistently
rejected by the United States, which
holds that debts and reparations are
separate and distinct issues. How
ever much the European and Ameri-
can points of view may differ on this
score, the fact has to be faced that
our debtors plainly do not intend to
pay except in their own way and in
their own time, if anything and If
ever, and the conclusion is equally
inescapable that there does not seem
to be anything we can do about it.
Congress enacted the johnson law,
placing an embargo on new financing
in the American money market by
countries in debt default here, but
that punitive measure has signally
failed to prod the debtor nations into
paying mood.
Evening star., 1934-11-16
Hoover Achievements
In Office Defended
To the Editor of The Star:

Az ZIG EdltOE VI ne oIdT
In last nights edition Of The Star
your correspondent, William Meyer,
Soldiers Home, states that after his
election President Roosevelt made
good the promises made but never full
filled by his predecessor" How easy
to knowingly blind ourselves to actual
facts. Will Mr.. Myer, in all fairness,
try to imagine himself in the position
of Mr.. Hoover in 1929, as head of this
Government, trying to carry out 'the
promises made" with a Congress
largely Democratic arrayed against
every effort he made to keep faith
with the people?
To what extent would Mr.. Meyer in
like position have been able to make
good his word? Mr.. Hoover has re-
Gently stated publicly that such was
the case and that many of the plans
now being carried out. by a Democratic
President working with a Democratic
Congress he had tried to put into ac-
ton but was consistently blocked.
Although the depression was world
wide, in almost every country Of i'm
portance, yet repeatedly do we hear
those who seek to lay the blame for
the downward trend of business in
this country in 1929 at the doorstep
OF the former occupant of the White
House. If that were true, then these
same critics should also place under
the ban King George of Great Britain,
Mussolini of Italy, ETC., for the same
condition in their respective countries;
yet nowhere 40 we hear in other coun-
tries the blame for the depression laid
at the door Of the governing heads of
those countries. Then why here?
Most of us are willing to concede
that outrageous spending and much
whoopee, with most of us joy-riding,
was largely the reason. When the
fault is our own let us assume it and
not seek to lay the blame on the other
chaps shoulders.
CHARLOTTE THOMAS.
Evening star., 1934-11-16
London Naval Farley
Held Like Burlesuue
tn The Editor Of rha Star.

To the Editor OF The Star:
England, Japan and the United
States are engaged in a naval parley
burlesque, which should be entitled
why the Munition Manufacturers
Rejoice" The wit and rhythm Of
Gilbert and Sullivan are really needed
to show up the ludicrous situation of
admirals meeting to reduce their
navieS.
Any one who has heard Admiral
Standley speak knows that he wants
big navy. Yet he is sent as United
States delegate to the naval parley.
Thanks to his efforts, the taxpayers
will have to pay for more battleships
and the shipbuilding and steel cor
porations will reap more profits-un-
less these taxpayers awaken.
The formal Naval Conference Is set
for 1895. That is our last chance to
keep the nations from preparing to
destroy each other in the final insane
burlesque Of civilization.
Public opinion should demand that
delegates to the 1885 conference be
civilians who will work whole-heart-
edly for international naval reduc-
ton. EUGENIA FROST.
Evening star., 1934-11-16

@. How much water content must
corn lose before 1t Is considered dry?-
w. McC.
A. Thirty per cent or more Of the
weight of corn at harvest time may be
water. The moisture content decreases
after the crop natures at varying rates
dn accordance with the weather and
storage conditions) until 1t approx
mates the average moisture content Of
the surrounding atmosphere. When
its moisture content has reached this
level the corn Is commonly considered
dry.
@. In politics, what do the initials
P. r. mean?-J. II. D.
A. They stand for proportional rep
resentation. This system Of voting is
used in Ireland, Finland. Czechoslo-
vakia, Holland. Belgium, all Scan
dinavfa, the Baltic States, Poland,
Bulgaria, Greece, Switzerland and
Cuba.
@. Who was the president Of the
American Federation Of Labor during
the World War?-H. r: NJ.
A. Samuel Gompers.
@. What substance Is used In ther-
mometers in cold countries?-A. r.
A Thermometers that are used in
exceedingly low-temperature regions
contain alcohol, colored with a red dye
@. Is the founder Of the Atlantic L
Pacific Tea Co. living?-H B.
A. George H. Hartford founded 1t in
1859. He died in 1917.
@. Where was the poet Homer born?
IN. F.
A. The name Is given TO the entirely
unknown poet-or group Of poets, per
hapS-to whom is assigned the author
ship of the "Iliad" and the Odyssey
the greatest monuments Of ancient or
modern epic poetry. 1t is much
doubted whether any such person ever
existed, but the name rests on very
ancient tradition, and the date at
which the poems are thought to have
received their final shape is conjec-
turally put at anywhere between the
twelfth and the ninth century BIC.
Homer's birthplace is quite unknown.
@. How early did Yehudi Menuhin
play the violin in public?-M. r.
A. At the age of he made his
debut at the Civic Auditorium, San
Francisco.
@. How long has it been since Penn
sylvania had a Democratic Governor?
". r.
A. Gov.-elect George H. Earle is the
first Democrat to be elected Governor
of the Commonwealth in A years.
@. What Is the name Of the poem
read by the Prince Of Wales during
the Armistice day broadcast?-C. c.
A. The poem is ITO the Fallen" by
Laurence Binyon.
@. What are the symptoms Of car
bon monoxide poisoning?-C. B.
A. The symptoms vary, depending
upon the concentration Of the carbon
monoxide breathed. but the usual re-
suit Is a red coloration, particularly OF
the ears. lips and nails, and cessa-
ton Of breathing.
@. Was bread ever kneaded with the
feet?-J. G.
A. Herodotus said Of the ancient
Egyptians: Dough they knead with
their feet, but clay with their hands"
The practice Of using the feet for
dough kneading also persisted for
many years in Scotland.
Evening star., 1934-11-16
Claims Second Tests
Were Unfairly Given
To the Editor OF The Star;

To the Editor OF The Star:
Your editorial In the November IA
issue Of The Washington Evening Star
has just been read by our local unit
Of the Alcohol Tax Unit Of the Bu-
reau Of Internal Revenue, and we wish
to express to you our appreciation for
the stand you have taken.
It Is true that over 900 out of 200
Of those who took the examination
and who are now employed by the
Government failed to qualify. This
failure, we believe, should not be &C
cepted as a criterion of the ability or
the intellect of those Government in
vestigators, as they have proven over
a number Of years that they rate
among the best investigators in the
Government service.
The very nature Of their training as
Government Investigators acted as a
severe handicap in the type of exami-
nation that they were compelled to
take. AS you undoubtedly know, Gov
ernment investigators are trained to
be thorough, systematic and pains
taking They have to weigh and
analyze every problem that confronts
them, so as to be certain that, among
other things, the constitutional rights
of our people are not violated. De-
spite this training they were COM
PEELED to sit down and answer in rs
minutes 80 questions, none of which
had the slightest bearing on the duties
Of the position for which they were
being examined. They were compelled
to compete against men only a few
years out of college, who naturally
were better equipped to pass the type
Of mental test that was required by
the Civil Service Commission. None
| Of the incumbentS was given any
credit for experience. This, as you
know, is very unusual.
Over 80 per cent Of the men who
| will be thrown out of work on No
! vember 80, 1884, as a result of the
| Mcclellan amendment are World War
veterans. The majority of them are
married men and have number of
| dependents, They are the same vet
erans who were guaranteed by Con-
gress that their civil service status, If
properly acquired. would never be
taken away from them.
We know that it is within the
power Of the President to transfer
funds from other appropriations to
meet the salaries of the personnel
| affected from December /, 1884, until
such times as Congress can meet and
enact corrective legislation, which has
been promised. w. T. BRADY.
Evening star., 1934-11-16

council on social security, recalls tnaL
only recently the President chose Dr.
Robert D. w. Connor, professor Of
history at North Carolina, to be ar
chivist of the United States. Last
Summer Claudius T. Murchison, dean
Of economics at Chapel Hill. was ap-
pointed director Of the Bureau Of For
eign and Domestic Commerce. One of
North Carolina's eminent alumni is
Solicitor General James Crawford
Biggs, valedictorian and summa cum
laude graduate in 1888. Senator Bob
Reynolds and several other members
of the Tar Heel delegation are also
University Of North Carolina men.
N. R. AS North Carolinian boss, H.
Clay williams, sports a Phi Beta
Kappa key. but he is an alumnus Of
Davidson College and the University
Of Virginia
His friends say that Andrew w.
Mellon, who has just denied his in
tention Of establishing an art gallery
in Washington, can look upon the
vast array Of palatial Government
buildings which now adorn the Capt.
tai as his memorial in these parts
The Federal building project was
launched and took form during Mr..
Melons II years as Secretary of the
Treasury. He always evinced great
pride and active personal interest in
its execution.
Republican politicians are now
talking about Gov.-elect Harold G..
Hoffman of New Jersey as 1886 presi-
Dental timber. One of the few sur
vivors of the late New Deal landslide,
he was elected by $500 majority,
while Gov. Moore, Democrat, swept
into the United States senatorship by
231, 900. Hoffman is young (38), a
former member of the House, World
War service man, banker by profess
sion, student of government and an
aggressive campaigner. In his maiden
statement after election Mr.. Hoffman
says his policy Is LESS and better leg
| iSlation."
His old State Department buddies
are much interested in the fortnight
action of DR.. Tyler bennett, new
president of Williams College, in
scorning Federal emergency relief
funds for undergraduates. DR.. Den
nett characteriZes such Government
assistance as "deplorable," and says
''it would be much better to request
colleges at once to readjust them
selves to the new economic situation,
| pare their budgets accordingly and
go on a reduced enrolment basis"
President bennett adds: What ap-
pears to be needed is not more college
graduates, but fewer and better ones"
William Jennings Bryan, jr, chair
man of California's League of Loyal
Democrats, announces that "the battle
against Communism in the State and
the Nation has just begun" Through
control of the Democratic State Gen.
trail Committee, Mr.. Sinclair is def
nitely in control of the name of the
Democratic party In California and
will remain so, Mr.. Bryan says, until
''the real Democrats" can recapture
the organization two years hence.
Meantime they warn the Nation that
Sinclair will seek to make Epic an
issue in the new Congress; that his
cohorts will attempt to be present in
| force at the next Democratic National
Convention, and that they definitely
scheme to make the Democratic party
Communistic."
tcopyrisht. 1es4J
Evening star., 1934-11-16
SHOOTING STARS.
by pHuANDER JOHNSON.
The Big, Bad Boss.

The Big, Bad Boss.
I saw a wicked Boss one day
At last the neighbors used to say
That Satan might improve his style
BY studying this Boss awhile.
He did not wear shiny hat.
No tail disturbed him while he sat.
No cloven hoof this Boss revealed.
His weight of care was ill-concealed.
He showed that he was growing tired.
His breath came short as he perspired.
His voice was smothered by a sob,
Said he, "This Is an awful jobl
This situation where I dwell
How hot 1t Is no tongue can tell.
I would in candor, I will say,
Trade jobs with Satan any day."