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Evening star., 1934-11-17
To the Editor of The Star:


The Kingflsh of Louisiana intimates
that when he becomes President he is
going to see to it that every one in the
country is the possessor of at least
$4,000. Judging by the vast amount
Of twaddle the majority of the Amer
ican people have been avidly swallow
ing for the past two years, I'll bet a
pretty red apple there are millions in
the country today who would vote to
give him the chance to make good his
promise. His idea seems to be to
divide the large fortunes among all
the people Presumably he would take
Henry Ford's wealth and divide it
among the tenant cotton farmers of
Louisiana. After that is done it would
be up to Henry to shoot craps with
these farmers and win it all back, so
he could go on making Fords and
employing thousands of men. I just
cannot picture these mule Wallets run
ming an automobile plant Or maybe
he just expects to give everybody-or
at least everybody who votes the King
fish ticket-$5,00 from the United
States Treasury. That is old stuff
Evening star., 1934-11-17
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Mother Nature.

Mother Nature.
Sunshine comes a-smilin'
Like it used to do.
Autumn gold is pilin'
Heaps Of treasure new.
Natures style is cheerin'
Till we stop and say
Haven't you been hearin'
Bout last election day?"
Nature, alma mater
Loved by one and all,
Makes our pleasures greater
And our SORROWS small.
Quarrels came between us
In a troubled scene.
Told a lot of meanness
That We really didn't mean.
Many nerves were shaken.
Rumors full of doubt!
Ballot box mistaken
For a foot ball stoutl
Nature, never fretful.
Causes us to say,
"Let us be forgetful
Of last election day!"
Evening star., 1934-11-17
Japanese Denial to League
Fails to Impress Americans

Few American observers are inclined
to accept unreservedly Japan's denial
to the League of Nations that she is
fortifying the Pacific Islands which
she has held under a mandate from
the League since they were taken
from Germany after the World War.
The Japanese" says the South
Bend Tribune, have indicated will
ingness to make reports to the League
on the administration of inundated
territories after Japanese League men,
bership is terminated. If Japan is ac-
tually violating the non-fortifcation
agreements, however, the League will
have great incentive to withdraw the
mandates. Then what? Will Japan
defy the League and seek to retain
the islands? If that is to be the net
result it will be extremely alarming"
Noting the Japanese explanation
that money spent on harbors of the
Pacific islands has been for CONNER
cial improvements, the Pittsburgh
Post Gazette observes: If Japans
assertion that the Improvements are
needed to make the harbors available
for ships of large tonnage is sincere
Japan should welcome investigation
or even demand it-in her own in
terest."
The Boston Transcript thinks that
If these possessions were to be forti-
fed, protest might prove as unavail-
ing as it did in the case of the puppet
state on the Asiatic mainland" The
Portlad (Me.) Press-Herald, speaking
of Japan being subjected to queS-
tioning by the League at Geneva"
feels that "the answers she has so far
given have not been very satisfactory"
"It is important" in the judgment
of the Danville Qn) Commercial
News, "that the World War allies find
out exactly what jurisdiction, what
power, the League of Nations mandate
gave" The Savannah Morning News
gives this summary of the situation:
"The question of Japan's continued
control comes before the League
Council in January. Japan's MEM
bership in the League expires in Feb
ruary, and the question will be
whether non-members can continue
to hold mandates over territories un-
der the League and can satisfactorily
carry out the obligations laid down
by the League. League experts be-
lieve Japan will be asked to return
the islands to the League for redistri-
button among the members. The is
lands in question, seized from Ger
many in the World War, include sew
eral hundreds Of tiny bits of land in
the Pacific known as the Marshall,
Caroline, Belew and Mariana groups
They have a population of about TO-
900 persons. Great Britain and Au-
Evening star., 1934-11-17
DR.. Tugwell's Return.

Rexford G. Tugwen, Undersecretary
of Agriculture, who seemed to be in
temporary eclipse, is back at his desk.
All kinds of rumors about the doctor,
who had been rated Brain Truster
No. / following the retirement OF
Professor Raymond Moley from admin
istration Office, were afloat. Among
them was the suggestion that DR..
Tugwell had been shipped abroad to
the International Institute of Agri-
culture in Rome, to which he went
many weeks ago as chief United
States delegate, so that he would not
be too wildly in the picture on this
side during the congressional cam
paign.
For weeks in the recent past the
politicians have held the center Of
the stage. Not so much has been
heard of the Brain Trust. Now the
victory has been won, and the New
Deal has been given a new lease of
life. Are the professors to take the
leadership again? Is, for example,
DR.. Tugwell to become the chief ad-
wiser in place of Chairman James A.
Farley? As deliverers of votes the
Brain Trusters do not measure up
to the politicians. They seem to be
able, however, to mop up when it
comes time for drafting the legisla-
tive program.
DR.. Tugwell and his ideas for the
A. A. A. aroused the resentment of
some of the most faithful Democrats
in the Senate during the past ses-
sion of Congress. Senator Harry
Flood Byrd of Virginia, not to men,
ton Senator Ellison D. Smith of
South Carolina and Senator Bailey of
North Carolina, took pot shots at the
brain-truster and sought to prevent
Senate confirmation of the Tugwell
appointment as Undersecretary of
Agriculture. How is DR.. Tugwell likely
to get along with these gentlemen
in the new Congress?
The corn-hog checks, the wheat
Evening star., 1934-11-17
No Naval Concessions.

From the Charleston Is. CO Evening Post.
The nations do not sincerely want
disarmament or arms limitation.
Whatever is proposed in that field
by any nation-with the possible ex-
ception of some of the American pro-
posals at Geneva-has been some
thing that nation thought would
benefit it or handicap its potential
enemies. Recently, there has been
less hypocritical talk of land dis
armament among nations that had
no genuine intention to disarm. The
great naval powers must now discuss
naval arms limitation at London.
The United States has made enough
humanitarian and idealistic gestures
and none has been appreciated. The
United States owes no concession to
Japan, but owes itself the duty Of
preparing the best naval defense 1t
can for any emergency that may
arise.
There is no obligation upon the
United States to agree to any pro-
posal the Japanese make at London.
IL Sl dllJ COllCCoSlOilo W Odpdl1 WOuiO
not be in the interest of peace, but,
on the contrary, would merely be
used by Japan to hasten its prepara-
tions for the war which all Japa-
nese believe their nation must fight
against us. Regardless of smooth
official expressions, there have been
enough anti-American outbursts from
the people and officials of Japan to
say that the Japanese are avowed
enemies of this country. The United
States is still the stronger. 1t would
be the height of folly to agree to any
concessions the Japanese ask at Lon
don for the purpose of putting their
navy in a better position with rela-
ton to ours. Any ground that is
given is an aid and encouragement
to potential enemy.
If the representatives of the United
States at London were to show to
the Japanese, from the very begin
ming of the conference, that this
country intended to yield nothing, to
insist on the ratios agreed on in the
past, or to build Immediately a far
superior Navy, the effect on Japa-
nese policy might be highly salutary
and trouble with that nation post
poned for long time to come.
Evening star., 1934-11-17

chosen the Pacific Coast for her set
ting, In a small fishing village on
the shore of Vancouver Island men
and women fight for their existence,
not against resistant soil, unnumbered
pests and visitations of drought and
fire, but against q treacherous sea.
Mona Darnell, a f1sherman's daugh-
ter, accepts no mandates from either
the men or the women of her COM
munity. The women think she was
always "a little coarse looking. Her
mouth was too big and it was always
that red it looked painted" AS the
story opens she has just run away,
"pert as you please" with Quentin
Wingate in his white yacht. 1t is
Nona's story, story Of persistent love,
of imperviousness to the gossip of
Heartbreak Cove, of a measure of JUS
tification in the end. Miss Ostenso
knows how to make her characters
live, whatever their background, but
she is more at home and more con-
vincing on the prairie than on the
coast.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
Miss Pickford Writes a Book.

Mary Pickford's new book, "Why
Not Try God?" may or may not be
an addition to the great list of books
dealing with the religious instinct.
One thing is certain, however, it ought
to do Hollywood good. The Creator
is not manifest enough in that town,
according to many who have viewed
the films from an utterly different
angle than that of the producers and
stars. There is not enough of things
spiritual there, too much Of things
temporal and strictly mundane.
No doubt the fact that popular
Evening star., 1934-11-17

No wind minds she, kneeling on
the brown earth, amid rustling leaves,
and branches waving gently.
The angel in the garden is planting
wildfloWers. That Is what she is do
ing there, while the rest Of us sit
snugiy behind panes, idly watching
the Autumn landscape.
Envy her, ye lazy ones, for she has
a vast and consuming interest utterly
unknown to the majority of mankind.
The cult of the wildfower is some
thing comparatively new in America.
During the formative years of the
republic the vogue was for foreign
plants of all kinds.
Hence we took the zinnia from Mex
leo, by way Of Germany, and many
another flower which was little more
than wildling in its own dear native
land.
We took them from China, and from
Tibet, and from the wilds of the
Amazon.
Men put themselves into dangerous
situations in order to bring home to
interested gardeners the true fruits OF
the tropical wildernesses.
All of these are lovely in their sea-
son. No one would question them or
want to do without them.
There comes a time, however, in the
life of every real gardener when the
great blooms of the gladiolus, the
peony, the iris, to name but three
grow shghtly-what shall we say?
Just a bit of sameness, there. prob
ably due to size and glorious colora-
ton.
Just as If the Venus de Milo were
duplicated a hundred times in a long
row-well, the statue would not be
quite the same, would It?
There is a sameneSs in the big
flowers you do not find in the wildlngS
of forest and stream, and the ardent
amateur sees that at last.
Hence the slow growth of apprecia-
ton, until at this hour the wild,
flower cult is seriously part of the
ancient game of gardening.
1t always has been, of course, in a
sense. But there is peak Of inter
est. in gardening, as in the book world
or the sports world.
There is a revival on the way oi
the pug dog, for instance, that favor
ite of the gay 90s, fashionable botf
in England and America. The crown
taken away from it by the Pekingese
and the Pomeranian is slowly being
restored. Those who know them best
say they are clean, hardy and com.
paniable, and make ideal pets fol
children. If given enough exercise
they do not become aSthmatic, anc
make very good watchdogs, as difficult
as that is to believe of them now.
adayS
Wildflowers no longer are conSid.
cred as commonplace. They have
come into their own. The truth is
that one must study them carefully
to have success with them, unless one
happens to be one of these fortunate
persons for whom everything grows
There are such people, of course.
The average person going in fol
wildhowers will do well to secure one
or more of the increasing number oi
books devoted to them. The knowl.
edge put in them, by persons who are
devoting their lives to the study, ano
making their living at it, of course, /.
necessary if the amateur is to get any
satisfaction from wildflowers, for they
make peculiar demands, demand.
which have been bred in them ovel
the centuries.
X \
This is not to imply that they are
difficult to grow-if one will do a lit.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
Park Purchase Funds.

The Bureau of the Budgets release
of half a million dollars of park
purchase and development money,
impounded as an economy move more
than year ago, will provide for COM
pletion of several land-buying projects
halted when the money was held up.
That is gratifying, and in the long
run is probably economical. Some of
the land has been partially acquired.
The money is merely to complete pur-
chases, permitting completion of such
undertakings as the Banneker Recrea-
ton Center, near Howard University,
and the approaches to the Alice Deal
Junior High School. There are about
seventeen projects.
Release of this money, however,
places an additional load on the al
ready strained District budget for
next year. In this current fiscal year
the District completes repayment of
1881 200 advanced for park purchase
and development in the District.
There have been three payments Of a
million dollars each, and this year the
appropriation of s531 200 wipes out
the bill. The $507,o0O just released
by the Bureau of the Budget from
park purchase funds appropriated by
Congress, however, becomes an addi-
tional charge against the District.
Three hundred thousand dollars of
this amount will have to be added to
the 1886 District estimates now before
the Bureau of the Budget. The Com
missioners have already demonstrated
that their estimates, based on an
increased lump sum, represent the
practical minimum of maintenance
and development funds necessary.
The increase of 100000 for partial
repayment of the additional funds
just released will mean either the
provision of that amount over and
above the estimates as they stand, or
elimination of that amount from
other items.
While the park legislation author
lied a $16,00o,0o0 advance to the
District, repayable at the rate of a
million a year, only about quarter
of that amount was appropriated.
The District will pay back only
100000 in 1886, as the public works
loan legislation, requiring million
dollar-a-year debt repayment, sets a
maximum limit of s1,3oo,ooo when
both public works and park loans are
being repaid.
The original park legislation was
broadly national. in both spirit and
letter of the law. When enacted, the
Federal Government was contributing
approximately forty per cent of the
Districts expenses. Expenses Of the
Park and Planning Commission under
the act were to be divided between
the Federal Government and the
District "in the same proportion as
other expenses of the District Of
Columbia" From forty per cent the
United States contribution has shrupk,
in the current fiscal year, to about
seventeen per cent. The great burden
of park purchase and development
expense, conceived at the outset as a
great semi-national program, has
been placed on the District.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

A reader can get the ansper to
any question OF fact by tCriting The
Washington Epening Star Information
Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director,
Washington, D. c. Please inclose
stamp for reply.
@. How can it be said that Great
Britain has "one-house govern
ment?"-H. L. c.
A. 1t refers to the fact that the
House Of Lords, the upper house of the
British Parliament, has actually little
power, since an act passing the lower
house three times becomes q law in
spite of the objections of the upper
house. Actually there are two houses
in the British Parliament.
@. Was the Buckingham Fountain
in Chicago gift to the city2-G. l.. D..
A. It was a memorial to her brother,
presented to the city by Kate Buck
ingham. It was built at cost OF
about $75o,o00.
@. Why is the Latin language pre-
ferred in medicine?-G. L.
A. Many reasons contribute. 1t is
an old, Interchangeable language and
is the most universal.
@. How many varieties Of flies are
there?-F. r.
A. There are more than 10000.
Some varieties destroy injurious plants
and some destroy harmful insects.
@. Was the original Gov. Winthrop
desk of the secretary type, tall. with
bookshelves above?-M. S. P.
A. The original Gov. Winthrop
desk was not of the secretary type.
There were no bookshelves above tfe
desk portion.
@. How many states are there in
Mexico?-N. M.
A. Mexico has % states, two terri
tories and one federal district.
@. Please give a recipe for bar
becue sauce.-D. G.
A. Seven-eighths of cup of mild
vinegar, one tablespoon of sugar, one
teaspoon of dry mustard and one ia
blespoon of chilli powder. The ingre-
dents should be mixed and then boiled
together for three minutes.
@. To what part of the continent
was the name Africa first applied?
ID. E. B.
A. 1t was applied to the country in
the vicinity of Carthage, that part Of
the continent first known to the Ro-
mans.
@. How many portraits did Romney
paint of Lady Hamilton?-S. r.
A. He painted 80 portraits Of her.
@. What became of Carrie Nations
hatchet?-T. S.
A. A hatchet which the police had
taken away from her was placed, TO-
gether with her picture, in the ar
chives of the Kansas State Historical
Society at Topeka.
@. What is an ultramicroscope?-
R. B. w.
A. 1t is an apparatus for rendering
visible, by reflected light, particles
too small to be perceived by the ordi-
nary microscope. It consists of an
arc light and lenses for throwing a
concentrated pencil of light upon the
solid or liquid to be examined, and a
compound microscope for viewing it.
@. Who was Walking Stewart?-
H. M.
A. This was the nickname of John
Stewart, an English traveller who
Travelled on foot through Hindustan,
Persia, Nubia, Abyssinia, the Arabian
Desert, Europe and the United States.
He died in 1922.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
When He Quits.

"Will you be a poor man when you
quit politics?"
"I may" answered Senator Sorghum,
but I'll have no chance to worry
about it. I won't quit politics while
I'm alive. After that I won't be able
to figure on what the doctor bills
have left of my savings"
Evening star., 1934-11-17
A Plan Worth Trying.

From the Shreveport Ua) Journal.
In all this discussion about balanc-
ing the budget, has any one at Wash
ington thought of the very simple
plan of borrowing few billions from
our European neighbors without any
thought Of paying it back?
Evening star., 1934-11-17

Water power is expected to assist
in solving economic needs, if the
water can be kept flowing naturally
instead of getting into stock deals
that attract the attention of bucket
shoppers.
Evening star., 1934-11-17

Jud Tunkins says a man accused of
misappropriating millions has a GER
tain advantage in the hope of numer-
GUS people to be let in on his next
deal.
Evening star., 1934-11-17

One of the jobs that hold out for
long time is that of a ballot box
watcher in Maryland who is not sure
whether he is participating in wake
or q surprise party.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
Starting All Over.

Starting All Over.
A wise professor brought to view
Ideas not entirely new,
Said he, Twill be merry joke
To spend till every one goes broke
"All citizens will equal be
On reaching common poverty
Which, for our economic health,
May prove the same as Common
wealth."
Evening star., 1934-11-17

Huey Long says he wouldn't be
surprised if he became President some
day. The true go-getter never limits
his imagination.
Evening star., 1934-11-17

@. Where does Japan buy her tex
tile machinery?-F. r.
A. Japan now makes nearly all of
her textile machinery.
@. What was the Wjlmot Proviso?
j. K.
A. This was famous clause intro
duced by David Wilmot as an amend
ment to a bill before the United
States Congress of 1846. 1t provided
for the prohibition of slavery in all
territory to be acquired from Mexico.
@. How many foreigners came to
this country to live last year?-R. M.
A. The number of aliens who came
to the United States in 1888 for per-
manent residence was 23,S99. The
number who left permanently was
5l,6sO. The number who left tenn
porarily was 1881.
Q. Is President Roosevelt eligible
10 belong to the American Legion?
L. j. McC.
A. The national headquarters of
the American Legion has never passed
upon the eligibility of the President
1t says, National policy provides that
eligibility decisions can only be ini-
tiated in the post and department
from which the member comes and
must then be submitted to the depart
ment commander who passes upon
the question, or, who, in turn, may
submit it to this Office. It is our in
formation, however, that the Presi-
dent Is member of post in Pouph
keepsie, N. Y, and that his service
on tne North Sea, which is borne
out by his statement in his Chicaro
speech, was such as would make hi1,
eligible"
@. Were braided or hooked rur.
made flrSt?-R. S. D.
A. There seems to be question r.
to whether the braided or the hooke,
mat has the older family tree. Pc
maps IN certain hills and valleys ono
form came first, while in eoIaIIv
ancient spots the other form W.
CHOSEN for the first decorative hand
work. -'oii"-
Q. Why is it dangerous TO c,rrr y
fountain pen in an airplane?-C T
A. II a pen is tightly sealed SO thu
tnere IS no air leakage from the ir,,
cnamner, on being taken to a hje5
altitude, the air pressure inside the
pen which is that of the ground, DOS
sloly near sea level will become 81
much greater than the high altitude
air that the pen will explode like a
bomb.
@. How old is Nova Pilbeam who
is playing in Our Little Friend?"-
F. D.
A. Nova Pilbeam was born at
wimbledon. England, November IS
1919. 49,
@. When were mirrors first made9
M. P.
A. Mirrors in their primitive form
were known to the ancients. Tha
Hebrews used them, as did also the
ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Ro-
mans. Praxiteles taught the use of
polished silver for mirrors as early
as 328 BIC. Mirrors of glass were
first made at Venice in 1900. but were
not introduced into England until
1873. The mirror in its present form
with the silver back was first intro
duced by Leibig in 1886.
A. About how many grains of
wheat are there in a bushel?-
w. L. w.
A. The number of grains of wheat
per bushel has been given as varying
from 446, $50 to 971, $40.
Evening star., 1934-11-17

Mrs. Sabin is attacking the Repub-
lican party for allowing parodists to
chant who's Afraid of the Big White
Elephant?"
Evening star., 1934-11-17

A psychologist says Huey Long
is one of these boys who never grow
up. As a Peter Pan, Maude Adams
was much more pleasant.
Evening star., 1934-11-17

The italian poet who won the Nobel
prize has achieved fame which will
be only transient if Mussolini does
not happen to agree with his poetry.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
What's in a Name?

From the Winston-Salem Journal.
Sinclair Wins Big Battle" But this
is Mr.. Harding's Sinclair and not the
author who is lost somewhere between
the Democratic and Republican parties.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
Oratorical Gas.

From the Indianapolis News.
Some voters may be surprised to
learn that the imitation issue does not
refer to what some candidates thought
of themselves.
Evening star., 1934-11-17

There have been wizards of finance,
but the old tricks have been exposed
and new ones will not be easy to
invent.
Evening star., 1934-11-17

1t is the machine age. Even
opinions on economics are ground
out in superabundance.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
A Lean Meal at Best.

From the indianapolis News.
The cat rescued from under the
floor of Michigan City house of wor-
chip may have gone there to capture
the proyerbial church mouse.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
A Good Senator on the WAY.

From the San Antonio Express.
Bilbo says he got elected to the
Senate so that he could park his car
in a million-dollar garage. No doubt
those who elected him are content to
leave their own battered old cars in
the red mud.
Evening star., 1934-11-17

Professor Tugwell is called as Under
secretary, but that does not prevent
him from being a news topliner.
Evening star., 1934-11-17

A few statesmen have an idea of
abolishing poverty by simply refusing
to pay debts.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
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