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have objected, particularly the Sc
curities Commissioners who point
out that strict regulation of the
stock market will depend on a
crusading district attorney. White
side is alleged to be too closely
connected with Wall Street. .
Illustrative of the tremendous in
terest in Huey Long is the fact
that Capitol telephone operators
daily receive several hundred
phone calls asking if he is going
to speak. When he takes the
floor the seats of his colleagues
are empty, but long lines form
outside the packed visitors GAL
leries.
Liquor dealers have flooded the
country with so many offensive
liquor ads that strict regulations
regarding advertising will be pro-
mulgated. Federal Alcohol Ad-
ninistrator Choate expects to
make the regulations effective in
March. Tammany's Repre-
sentative Sirovich makes a hobby
Of studying Masonic symbols and
ceremonials, is frequently asked
to lecture on the subject. {.
TN 1882 Walter Waters Was COM
Il mander of the bonus army"
and Gen. Douglas Macarthur,
army chief Of staff, was COM
mander of the troops which
evicted the veterans. A few days
ago Waters visited Macarthur,
sought his aid in getting a job.
Macarthur sent him to Gen.
Frank T. Hines, head of the Vet
Grams Bureau, and now Waters is
a clerk in that agency. .
Postal substitute workers have
revived their fight for a fixed
minimum wage. Last year they
sue ceeded in putting through
Congress a bill giving them SIS
a week, but on the demand Of
Jim Farley, it was vetoed. This
session they hope to have better
luck.
downright. 1885. BY United Featui
Syndicate. mol
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Sense of SO-CaIIed HumOr

DUT there are people who make hideous mis-
ID takes as to the cue for the entrance Of the
clowns. I rather imagine that the young lady with
the ladder on lapel is fond of telling her friends
that she wouldn't take anything for her sense OF
humor. And ohhand I wouldn't know just what
she could take.
Still it is unfair to pick on single person. II
ladders are being peddled at Pennington it must
be that there is lack of customers. mist rises
from Pennington and drifts across the meadows
engulfng the millions of America. And this log
contains a deadly gas which eats away the noerS
OF human decency.
A man is on trial for his life and he is charged
with the commission of a horrible crime. But
am beginning to believe that the nature OF the
proceedings may constitute an even graver oHense
against the public welfare. No will ever know
the extent of the ravages which may occur wnen
an entire nation is under a barrage OF mornlo oe-
tail Many Of the results Of this gas attacK VIII
never be identified. Engrossment in the case Is
so profound and widespread that we are losing sgnG
of all reasonable human values.
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the claims Of it's nationals against
the present Soviet regime. Until
there is such a settlement, the
United States contends. there can
be no credits.
The deadlock is over two main
points. First, the amount Russia
shall pay this country and its
nationals and, second, the size Of
the credits to be extended and the
time Russia is to have within
which to repay them.
On principle, Russia still refuses
to pay anything whatever on the
American claims, as such. She is
willing, however, to gay much
more than the normal interest on
any loans or credits she may get
here, the United States to do what
it pleaSes with the excess. In
practice, of course, the excess
would be utilized to pay of Ameri-
can claims.
The next few weeks should de-
ternine the fate of the negotia-
tons. Ambassador Troyanovsky
says he is hopeful. He is believed
to be the bearer Of what amounts
to a new offer from Moscow. Sec
rotary Cordell Hull may modify
the American terms.
Should the deadlock persist,
American business men have
strongly signif1ed to the Admins
tration, this country will miss the
boat" so far as Soviet trade is
concerned. Some even go so far
as to say it has missed the boat"
already.
No one here in responsible posi-
ton takes seriously the demands
of a few individuals in and out OF
Congress to break of relations
with Russia. Should the new eff
forts at agreement collapse, rela-
tons between the two countries
doubtless would be less profitable,
and perhaps less cordial, than ar
first they promised to be. But
that is all. World peace, in the
Administration opinion, still re-
Quires their cooperation.
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and a new President had the prob
lem of opening them, if possible.
Dry, practical, not given to
either stammering or eloquence,
the Attorney General spoke: ut
is enough to say that an emer-
gency of the highest Importance
confronted the nation. Banks,
sound and unsound, were failing
daily. Gold was being boarded.
Gold was taking fight abroad. In
ternationaI finance was complete
~ disorganized. The situation
was one of extreme peril. Our
people we're slipping toward a
lower level of civilization. 1t was
a crisis of the most terrifying
character"
How that restrained address af-
fected the United States Supreme
Court remains to be seen. Def
nitely it did not satisfy many
economists of the country. The
Attorney General spoke as a law
yer to lawyers; he betrayed no
knowledge nor gave any warning
of the worldwide chaos which
might result if the nine aging jur-
lists should decide American gold
clause contracts were inviola.ole
and must be met.
In this chaotic fter-Versailles
world economics have superseded
law, and even economists have
found it impossible to predict to-
morrow on the basis of yesterday.
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r WING in a lawyer-made and
IL awyer-interpreted civilization,
the economists have not yet
learned eloquence nor achieved
power. Their observations are
muted and for the most part de-
livered in camera. AS well as can
be determined, this is their con-
sensus:
If the venerable lawyers who
constitute our United States Su-
preme Court uphold gold clause
contracts this country and most
of the world will be plunged into
a renewed defation which will
make the last four years of de-
preston seem like only a training
period. More than a hundred
billion dollars of internal debt will
be manifolded. In the first place,
the bulk of the money was lent
from 1919 to 1929.
The index of the purchasing
power of the dollar at wholesale
averaged 1882 for that period.
Today the wholesale index stands
at about 1877. That means, if you
are paid back 500 you loaned
from 1919 to 1929, syou are receiv-
ing $3.50 of purchasing power in
terms of the money you loaned.
Ian Mack. World-Telegram
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WhOpping ReUenge in Making

A Stanley Ketchel remarked of Jim Jeffries.
1 N whom he dsliked when Jeffries lost to Jack
Johnson the big bum wasn't even game. This was
a terrible come-uppance for a who had called
himself the war lord and the worlds enjoyment of
it, even in Germany was proportionate to his shame.
The fate of the Russian dynasty will have to rank
second. They were cruel enough and the revenge
was perfect, but the mushy and futile
individual, personally, and his family blanks
STILL the ruling class had been responsible for many
tortures and when they got theirs they got it all.
Ihere were no loose ends. If you would recapture
the delight which the humiliation of the Russian
ruling class conveyed you may do so by reading the
Grand Duchess Maries naive admissions in her auto
biography, THE Education of Princess"
Here, too in Russia, new grudge has grown up
to take the place of the old The Soviet rJvern-
ment kills and persecutes just as savaeely as its
predecessors and will day provide the victims in
another overthrow and another whopping big re-
venge.
The satisfactions in the domestic American scene
have been more enjoyable than is generally realized
They occur at intervals there is little whoopng
and confetti-throwing and they are forgotten. But
IN the aggregate, they represent very handsome
roon1ful of trophies for the walls of the incumbent
generation.
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Today S Science
by DAVID DRNZ

1.-TWO stars are battling for The attention of the
Il worlds astronomers. They are Zeta Aurigae
and Nova Herculis During the late summer and
fall, Zeta Aurigae gained the title OF 'the most in
teresting star in tie heavens" More astronomers,
according to DR.. Harlow Shapley of the Harvard
College Observatory, were watching the star than
had ever watched any one star at the same time.
Then in the weeks before Christmas. Nova Her
c,Ii Jared forth in the heavens and telescopes
everywhere were turned upon it. Both stars con-
tnue to hold the interest of the professional and
amateur astronomers alike.
Both are special types of stars. Zeta Aurigae is
an eclpsing binary, that is system of two stars.
From our vantage point Of the earth, we see one
pass in front Of the other, thus aordlng an eclipse
Nova Herculis, its name indicates, is a nova or
"new star" star originally so faint as to be IN
visible to the unaided eye, which suddenly has Haired
out with great briliance
The two stars ere interesting to astronomers
not only for themselves but for the light which they
shed upon the many problems of stars in general
The reader should have no difficulty in finding
both these stars for himself on any clear night.
~o find zeta Aurigae. look straight overhead.
i You will a very bright star This is
Capela brightest star in the constellation of Aurgae
and hence sometimes called Alpha Aurigae.
Just southeast OF Capella. you will notice tn
angle of faint stars The one fartheSt from Capela
Now to md Nova Herculis Look to the west
about an hour after sunset. You Will see the very
bright and beautiful star, Vega.
A line from Vega to the northeast bring you
cluster of small stars which form the head Of the
constellation of Draco or the Dragon About two
thirds Of the way 10 Draco, you VIII encounter the
new star Nova HerculiS.
CALCULATIONS show that the red component Of
~ of Zeta Aurigae is a red giant. star 200 times
larger in diameter than the sun It has a diameter
of 1750OOo 900 miles. This puts it in class OF such
giants as Betelgeuse and AntareS.
The smaller star is four or five times the diam
eter Of our SUM- having diameter Of about 100000
or 10000 miles. Astronomers not yet certain
Nova Herculis reached its greatest brilance on
Dec % This fact made many astronomers wonder
whether the star Of Bethlehem might not have been
a
Since Dec. 70. Nova Herculis has been declining
In briiance. Astronomers have been aStonished at
the rapidty with which the brilIance OF Nova Her
culis has begun TO decrease The decrease has been
almost three times as rapid was the increase.
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waits.
Here are some Of the
things that have already
happened - In the White
House uncertainty; in Wall Street
uneasiness. All markets unsettled
and foreign exchange in disorder.
Shrewd traders beWildered; great
corporations in fear; acquisitive
bankers suddenly too timid to
buy gold and reap Ponzi profits.
In Buenos Aires, Canberra and
Oslo, in London, Paris, Berlin and
Toxic, in the capitals of the
world doubt bordering on dismay.
What has happened thus far
while the nine iuridicial patri-
archs search their minds is only
a hint of what can come If they
decide that the $3.50 brought to
their judgment is really worth
$3.50. There are other gold
clause cases before the high court
in Washington, but this is the
first, the cause celebre, which will
determine the value of more than
a hundred billion dollars of debts.
The issue is simple. Norman G.
Norman, New York jeweler, 40
w. 48th-st, holds a $1,000 bond
issued by the Baltimore e. Ohio
Railroad. The semi-annual inter-
est coupon specifies the railroad
must pay him $221o in gold of
the weight and f1neness current
the day the bond was sold.
n
A T that time the American dol
L n lar was worth 25.8 grains Of
gold $40 pure. Since then, by
presidential proclamation, the
dollar has been devalued to 59.O6
cents of its former value and is
now worth only Is SOL grains of
gold. That makes $3.50 in old
dollars worth $3.50 in new dollars.
Mr.. Norman contends the railroad
should pay him the $3.50.
His attorney, Emanuel Redfeld,
81, 420 LeXington-av, fought the
issue through the lower state
courts and lost. The case reached
the State Court of Appeals in
Albany and had six weeks delay
because three of the seven JUS
tees owned Baltimore g. Ohio Sc
curities and were, therefore, dis
qualified to sit. No case can be
heard without five members on
the bench.
That problem was solved when
Justice Henry T. Kellogg retired
and Gov. Lehman appointed John
T. Loughran to his place. Then
the State Court of Appeals heard
the case and ruled against the
gold clause four to one. Mr.. Red
field, with the confidence of youth,
carried the issue to the United
States Supreme Court and stam-
mered so much he could not pro-
nounce "constitutionality."
imagine a young lawyer facing
the august Supreme Court in
Washington for the first time. OF
course, he stumbled and stam-
mered and hesitated. opposed to
him were the most expensive at
torneys the B. &c o. could hire,
and they were backed up by the
Attorney General of the United
States, Homer S. Cummings.
+ ATE in the day, after the B.
IL e. o. attorneys had had their
say. Mr.. Cummings arose and re-
minded the court of the crisis Of
March, 1894, when every bank
door in the land was banged shut
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Troyanovsky has just arrived here
from Moscow, and Ambassador
William G. Bullitt, American
envoy to Russia, has purpoSely
delayed his departure from WASH
ington.
These diplomatists are expected
to confer with State Department
officials this week to determine
whether the stalemate can be
broken.
The outcome can hardly fail to
have profound effect upon the
economic and commercial rela-
lions between the Soviet Union
and the United States.
ID USSIA requires literally bill
N lions of dollars worth of in
dustrial, automotive and aviation
equipment, raw materials such as
cotton, agricultural machinery
and semi-finiShed products. Amer
lea has an abundance Of these
things to sell.
These purchases would be dis
tributed over the next decade. The
.ulk of the orders seem likely to
go to that country which first
completes a satisfactory deal with
the Soviet Union. Americans are
eager for the business. 1t would
give work to many jobless, and,
once this flow of trade begins,
nations less alert would find it
difficult to break in. New orders
generally follow old.
Russians have expressed, and
in practice shown. marked pref
erence for American products and
methods. Groups of their experts
are now in this country looking
over the field. Whether they place
many large orders, however. de-
ponds upon the settlement just
ahead-if there is a settlement.
The Soviet Union wishes to OBJ
tain credits. In fact, if there is
to be any extensive trade between
Russia and the United States
there will have to be credits.
THE United States, in turn, in
J. sisted upon payment of the
Kerensky debt to this con1 ~ and
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financial writer, an authority In
the field, calculates what would
happen to the internal debt II the
gold clause is upheld as follows:
Total loaned under gold
clause ............ 94Uu,VOO,UUO,OVV
Value in present buying
power ................ oU,UuU, UUU,OuU
Total gold clause victory
would add ...........- 69,OOO, UUU,uUU
Additional buying power of
last addition .......... 4l,4UU,u ,UUU
Total buying power Of
original total loan $50. 27O 400 ,0OO, 600
In other words, Mr.. Mack points
out, the Federal government, state
and municipal governments and
corporations borrowed $100000,000,.
900. Today, to the 1oaners, the
money is worth $160,000,0O0,00 in
purchasing power.
TINE lenders already have $780,
l. O0O,OOO,OOO more value than
they gave. If, in addition, the Su-
preme Court rules they must be
paid in the equivalent of undeval-
uated gold dollars, they will re-
ceive a purchasing power of
$27O.4O for every 500 they origi-
nally loaned.
The $3.50 interest which Mr..
Norman is dissatisfied with in the
cause celebre is thus worth $36 in
purchasing power as compared
with a similar amount of interest
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PUTNAM TOUR SLATED
Cleveland and Chicago Alumni to
Hear Butler President.

James w. Putnam, president of
Butler University, will address the
Butler Alumni Club of Cleveland
Feb. 2. DR.. Putnam's son, Rus
sell c. Putnam, is president Of the
Cleveland organization. A week Ia
ter, DR.. Putnam will address the
Chicago club.
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Questions and Answers

Q-Do birds have eyelashes'
A-They have small feathers on the rim Of the
eyelid.
Q-Give the name and address CT the Commits
sioner of Education of Puerto Rico
A-Jose Padin, San Juan, P. r.
Q-Name the principal parts of speech In the
English language.
A-Noun, pronoun, adjective verb. adyerp, prep
osition conjunction and intersection.
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in position where he is compelled
TO say, I'm shocked" He doesn't
mind admitting that he's sore" or
good and mad" but shocked" is
different.
Nevertheless, I'm shocked right
now. I've just seen a newspaper
picture captioned: "A spectator at
the Hauptmann trial wearing one Of
the souvenir ladders now peddled in
Pennington" The picture shows a
smug-faced young woman with toy
ladder pinned outside her fur coat.
Upon her face there is a silly grin.
It is quite evident that the lady
thinks she is most comical.
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EUEnouh
by
WESIBROOk PEG[Eb

NEW YORK, Jan. 28-There is still much unllh-
~ ished business but a backward squint at ene
achievements of the last twenty years reveals taS
the world has done very we'll in the matter OF payns
off grudges. Revenge is not sufficiently exploi1eo.
On the contrary an effort is made to give revense
a bad name or change its name to something eiSe'
such as reform or progress.
For example if the man who killed the Lind
bergh baby should at last be executed, the law
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would say That luStlce had been
done and the editorials would sound
of to the effect that a challenge to
society had been met. This might
be true, Of course, but it would all
be only incidental to the human
delight in the news that a hated
person had got what was coming
to him.
The most enjoyable revenge in
the experience of this generation
was the terrified flight of the Ger
man kaiser and his son and the
humbling of the PrusSian officer
caste. 1t is hard to see Just now
what reform or progress was marked
by this event. Hitler and his Nazis
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| COVER THE WORLD

By William Philip Sim1mS

WASHINGTON 28Soviet- relations
w ing a showdown of vital Importance to both countries
debt negotiations between them have
dadockd Behind the the last meeting of their
spokesman the atmosphere has been of irritation and
gloom.
leading resumption of Soviet American the
take place Ambassador Alexander
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He SUPREME COlgGIlR
WEIGHS COLG
BY EARL SPARKLING
Times Special Writer

a 9lA'oU u0O0
boyish attorney nervously pleading his first case
before the United States Supreme Court.
Nine grandfathery justices in black robes under
cessity of rendering decision which will vitality affect the
future not only of America but of the entire world
It is unprecedented drama now being enacted in
Washington with unparalleled ramfcations and potential
ties and counting civilization four continents
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ReUenge in u. S. Sweet

1T is reliving old pleasure to recall the mag
L nitcent beating suffered by the Anti-Saloon
League. There were dark times during prohibition
when people were being shot and imprisoned for
owning liquor, when the most optimistic and reso-
Lutte of the rebels despaired of ever seeing SO little
claret and decimal beer on public sale again in
the United States.
Then suddenly, prohibition cracked and, today,
it is a strange joy to walk into old-fashioned
saloon of the kind which never to back.
and buy highball openly over a legal bar.
The Ku-Klux Klan stormed over the country
bullyiry and prosecuting for time and went down
in a ridiculous heap Men who concealed their
membership 10 years ago because they were bound
by oath to do so, deny it today, but for different
reason. They would be ashamed to confess that
they had ever belonged to the ludicrous band with
it's COLLINS and kladS and klokards..
Arrogance has grovelled in the dust on all Sides
Jimmy Walker rusticates in England and Al Ca
pone sulks on Alcatraz Tammany is out Dutch
Schultz is in and the trial of Bruno Hauptmann
is going full blast.
That all this represents reform or progress am
compelled to doubt.
But it is revenge and the taste is sweet.
Copyright 1895 by United Feature Syndicate 1nc)
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

TXTAsHNGTON 28Repors persist that Homer Cummings
w Attorney General will quit the Cabinet to accept partnership
with the Chadbourne Stanchfed Levy
attorneys big business Incidentally Homer has
President Whesde OF the same
southern York Various New Dealers
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have taken the place of the kaiser and the military
group on the hate list of the world and things are
no better for this.
But. recalling the enormous arrogance of the
kaiser, his bombast and his attempt to muscle in
on Divinity. the complete humiliation of the old man
was beautiful satisfaction. You could actually drink
it.
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can one make in such circumstances? This seems
to me a new all time low in brazen vugarity. And
wish had a better word than "vulgarity." Plenty
of vulgar things are funny and healthy and neces-
sary for the preservation Of the human race.
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II Seems hM
BY
Haywood BROUN

HOPE I've never pretended to be hardboiled. I'm
i not and I don't want to be. AS a matter of fact
the hardboed reporter who struts his stuff in plays
and pictures is a fake OF course, some newspaper
men affect the pose. They are romantic enough to
want to emulate the gamorous heroes of the screen
and in addition they feel the need Of insulation
against the impact Of things which may come up
suddenly in the of days work
Accordingly, nobody paper wants to be put
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AIUnus in Good HuniOr

WAS talking to a newspaper man the other DAY
i and asking about various friends OF mine JUST
,,ou, ossionad IN BENNINGTON Whats Bill doing
down there for the Morning Blank?" I asked. "Oh,
Bills doing the daily humorous column was IN
formed "What?" inquired, little startled. sure
YOU know the comic sideghts of the trial. He does
a blresoue of Mrs. Hauptmann's Dutch dialect and
things like that"
rest my case and would never have brought
Il if the remedy for this Remington condition were
not easy and apparent 1t consists in the abolition OF
capital punishment. Any newspaper man can tell
YOU that the essential curiosity in this rests
rpon the fact that headlines play up the fact:
"Iauptmann Fight Cor Life" or Prisoner in the
Shadow of the Chair" I read again that more
than 5000 have already applied for permission TO
witness the execution if a conviction is found.
The death penalty is the added flip which whets
the buried sadism of us all. 1t is the force which
breaks the dykes of decency and floods the land.