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Evening star., 1935-03-20
Bonus Compromise.

While the friends Of immediate cash
payment of the soldiers bonus are
fighting over the various merits Of
the Vinson and Patman bills, COM
promise proposal has raised its head.
This compromise provides in plain
English for the issuance of Govern
ment three per cent bonds to the
veterans who wish to exchange their
bonus certificates for negotiable paper.
The bonds will mature in 1945, the
date the bonus certificates by law be-
come due and payable. The face
value of the bonds issued to the
veterans plus the three per cent in
terest coupons thereon will equal the
face value due on the bonus certifi-
Gates in 1945 This means that the
face value of the bonds will represent
the adjusted service compensation al
lowed the veterans under the original
bonus law, plus the compound interest
on that amount up to the time Of ex-
change. The veterans bonds will not
bear the face value of the bonus GER
tificates, therefore, a value that will
not be due until 1945.
The compromise plan has been
sponsored in the House by Repre-
sentatives Andrews Of New York and
Cochran of Missouri and in the Senate
by Senator Tydings of Maryland. They
have had the aid of the Veterans
Administration in the drafting of the
bill. and, according to Mr.. Andrews.
President Roosevelt has not said that
he will veto the compromise bill If it
comes to him. On the other hand,
the President has not said yet that
he will approve it. What appears
certain, however, is that the President
will not sign either the Vinson bill
or the Patman bill, which call for the
immediate cash payment of the bonus,
totaling more than $2,300O00 900.
The supporters Of the compromise
bill insist that it is better for the vet
erans to take their bill than no bill
at all. And they predict that in the
end the House and the Senate will
come around to the Tydings- Andrews
Cochran bill. From the point of view
of the Government and of strict justice
and accounting the compromise bill
doubtless would be preferable to the
other measures. A veteran who traded
in his adjusted service certificate for
a Government bond would be at lib
erty either to sell the bond or to hold
it, depending upon whether he wished
immediate cash or preferred to wait
until the date of maturity and realize
the eventual full value of his certifi-
cate, value that is not due until l945.
In the meantime, however. it is ex-
pected that the demand for immediate
cash payment of the bonus will be too
strong in the House to permit of a
compromise, and that either the Vinson
bill, backed by the American Legion,
or the Patman bill, with its controlled
imitation" proposal, will be passed by
the House and sent to the Senate.
What the Senate will do becomes the
important question. The Senate has
twice before rejected the Patman bill.
But the bonus payment advocates
claim today that cash payment bill
will ride through the Upper House
with the greatest of ease. If it does,
then only a presidential veto can
halt it.
Evening star., 1935-03-20
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

either perished with them or was
adopted by Indians.
O. Did Homer Davenport, the car.
toonist, ever attend an art schoolp
M. S.
A. He did not. He was in turn q
Jockey, a clown, a printers devil He
cid his first work as a cartoonist on
the San Francisco Chronicle.
@. How long have people dancerp
H. D.
A. Dancing pre-dates civilization.
Savages had their courting dances,
their war dances and religious dances
@. Where is the eulogy on a vir-
tuouS woman in the Bible?-A. G. N.
A. 1t is an acroStic poem in the
| thirty-flrst chapter of Proverbs. Each
Of the % verses begins with a letter
of the Hebrew alphabet in regular
succession. The poem offers a pic
ture Of the ideal housewife.
@. How many historic houses are
now being preserved In this coun-
! try?-T. S.
A. Over 400 are now owned and
maintained by States, patriotic asso-
Citations, and individuals. The Fed
| eral Government has some, but has
no definite policy toward acquiring
and preserving historic buildings.
@. Why is some of the new safety
glass tinted green and blue?-W. A. 3.
| A. The National Bureau OF Stand
ards says that the green or blue
tint in the new safety glass Is pro-
duced by adding iron oxide TO the
batch from which the glass is made
Glasses containing iron do not trans
nit the ultraviolet or actinic rays
as much as those free from iron. The
actinic rays are said to be response
Bile for the deterioration or discolor-
alton OF the plastic used in making
laminated glass. Since the actinic
rays cannot get through the blue or
green glass in question, the plastic
should not discolor as much as would
be the case if iron were not added
to the glass
@. What is the talked-of project
at Passamaquoddy Bay, Me. e.?-I. L. r.
A. There is an immense tide at
PasSamaquoddy Bay and an effort is
icing made TO make arrangements
to retain the water at high tide and,
by letting it out gradually. produce a
large amount of power.
@. Where is the Frontier Nursing
Service operating?-L. c.
A. Its headquarters Is at Lexington,
KY. The service operates in rural
Kentucky districts, chiefly in Leslie
County, in cooperation with the
State health authorities.
@. Please describe Abraham Lin
coins birthplace.-E. H.
A. The cabin in which Lincoln was
born was built of logs. The floor was
packed-dovn dirt. One door swung
on leather hinges. At the left Of the
| door as one faced the building there
was a little window. A stick-clay
chimney was at the right end of the
cabin. 1t was 2lz miles from Hod-
/ genvlle on the Big South Fork of
Nolin's Creek in Kentucky.
@. In how many countries are lot
t@rieS permitted for the purpose of
raising public revenue?-F. w.
A. They are being employed in
about 80 countries.
@. When is the Be Kind to Animals
Week?-G. T.
A. 1t will be observed by more than
500 anti-cruelty societies, April Z to
l3. inclusive.
Evening star., 1935-03-20
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

1886 outlook, especially as to the ne
cessities of the situation from a West
ern standpoint. G. o. P. presidential
candidates. will bulk conspicuously in
the little council of war.
y
Somebody who likes arithmetic has
been doing some fancy figuring in
connection with the S4,S80 900 600
work relief fund about to be voted by
Congress. He reckons that if the use
of the money had begun with the year
l AID. it would have been necessary
to spend $3.50 every minute up until
shortly before the end of 1885 to get
rid of the entire amount The mathe-
matician gets that way by calculating
that there are 525 $50 minutes in an
average year and about 1,O17,732 600
minutes in 1885 years. The same
authority has figured out that if
President Roosevelt were to spend $4,-
$50 000, 900 in a single year the money
would have to be disburSed at the rate
of S9,278.27 minute.
Plans are being discussed for a ma
tional observance of the centenary of
the birth of Grover Cleveland, twenty
second President of the United States,
on March 18, 1887. The promoters of
the idea are inspired by an observation
of Robert Lincoln O'Brien. chairman
of the United States Tariff Commits
sion, who stated last year at exercises
in connection with acceptance Of
Cleveland's birthplace at Caldwell
N. j., by the State of New Jersey as
a public shrine, that it is the lasting
verdict of America that Grover Cleve-
land ranks among the greatest Presi-
dents of the United States" Mr.
O'Brien from 1892 until 1895 was
Mr.. Cleveland's personal secretary.
X X X X
Another of Justice Brandeis' young
men," Robert G. Page, has just been
appointed head of the New York re-
gional office Of the Securities and Ex-
change Commission. Graduated from
Yale in 1922 and from Harvard Law
School in 1925, Mr.. Page became an
instructor in contracts at the latter
institution and then served for a year
as secretary to Justice Brandeis in
Washington. Later he joined the
Elihu Root law firm in New York and
is Severing that connection to assume
his new post. Another young Harvard
man, Thomas H. Gammack, lately of
the New York Stock Exchange, has
Just been appointed executive assist
ant to Chairman Kennedy Of the
S. E. C.
Amid the sings and arrows COM
ing their way from the courts. the
public utilities and other directions,
T. V. A. authorities proudly record
that Chattanooga is the twenty-sev-
enth Tennessee Valley municipality to
vote on municipal ownership looking
to use of Muscle Shoals power. OF
towns and cities which have held
such referenda, only five voted in the
negative. The popular vote stands
76,141 "for" and 28,913 against"
Altogether, more than 300 munich
palities, from Iowa to Florida, have
made formal or informal inquiry as
to the possibility of getting T. v. A.
"yardstick" current.
X X X X
Nobody is watching the outcome of
the vey-Hopkins relief feud in
Ohio with keener interest than Sena-
tor Borah. 1t was the Idahoan who
last Fall first drew national attention
to the shortcomings in administration
of Federal relief and supplied chap
ter and verse evidence of his charges.
toopSsasht. 1e36a
Evening star., 1935-03-20
SHOOTING STARS.
BY pHILANDER JOHNSON.
BoY and Matches.

Boy and Matches.
Oh, boy. with the box of matches
And powder keg nearby
If one of those matches he scratche!
1t will send us en- route for the sky
So we give you our best salutation;
We Soothe you with many a toy.
Oh, please do not blow up creation
Which mortals SO truly enjoy.
Oh, boy!
Oh, boy, with the big sky rocket
Aimed straight for the dynamite
Safe in your bosom lock it
That yearning to start a fight
Well cuddle you up and cheer you
If your efforts you'll employ
To make it safe to come near you,
With no fear that we might annoy
Oh, boy!
Evening star., 1935-03-20

Templeton Jones recently suffered
from an upset stomach.
This is q very commonplace thing
of course, but it is not the illness we
propose to chronicle, but the cure. the
'bread-and-milk" cure.
Everybody loves a cure.
Every one has a remedy for every
thing. and If you listen to your dear
friends you will be i'll, indeed, from
plethora of remedies.
Jones always had possessed what
was called delicate stomach IN
the old days when "biliousneSs" also
was a fashionable term.
Both these are rather out OF date.
They have gone the way OF "neuras-
thenia," once the pet of layman ano
doctor alike.
Such words have their eras OF popu-
larity. then they go into the discard
along with the 100000 words that
clutter up the big dictionaries.
All such words are in the tones, not
much used, but ready for duty at any
| time.
There will be great many persons
to think, however, that the term dell
cate stomach" really stands for some
thing.
The man with a cast-iron digestive
| apparatus seldom has any sympathy
with such a sufferer. He prefers to
sneak of nerves" If the patient is
woman, or "finickiness," if a man.
In families where such an ostrich
rules, the poor patient with delicate
stomach" finds himself forced to con-
sume corned beef, stews, heavy breads
and beefsteak rare" mostly on basis
that these are all very nourishinG.
Templeton Jones' welI-defined COM
mon sense long ago directed him to
give up such foods, of which the fore
going are but samples. There are
many such. all no doubt good and
pourishing," but which nevertheless
must be passed up by the person VINO
possesses a delicately adjusted inner
works"
The great danger any such person
runs undoubtedly lies in too much at
| tention to such matters.
It need not run to the extent OF
hypochondria. most often does not do
so, despite what others may say, but
does reach to the point where one
becomes afraid to eat otherwise flne
foods.
Thus every one nowadays knows
some one or other who refuses to
drink coffee, or eat bread, or eat
meat or some substance generally
liked by mankind.
In most such cases It will be found
that the person has decided, whether
rightly or wrongly, that the one
article is responsible for the ills to
which he is heir.
Right here the outsider must be
very careful. for as often as not the
victim is right.
Templeton Jones' great fear was
/ starch.
Carbohydrates in any form gave
him indigestion.
This grew upon him over the years,
so that during the past year or two
he had practically given them up.
The practical result was that the
indigestion which had cursed his days
| left him completely.
No medicine. no cure" no moth
| ing" as the old darkey said; just a
complete ending of former dscom-
| fort
Tell your average citizen that he
can live without bread and he will
put you down as a candidate for the
! asylum.
why, bread is the staff of life!" he
will assert with SNUG righteousness.
However that may be. bread is good
food for most people Where the trou-
/ BILE comes in seems to lie mainly in
overeating it. or regarding it simply
Evening star., 1935-03-20

Gen. Werner Won Blomberg, Hitler's
war minister and spearhead Of the
plan to create a great German con-
script army in defiance of the treaty
Of Versailles, knows the United States
military establishment from top to
bottom as the result of visit to this
country in 1880. Then merely a
general commanding the 1st Division
Of the Reich's army, Won Blomberg
inspected our land defense system
from coast to coast, including the
Army War College in Washington, va
rious service and staff schools and i'm
portant military posts throughout the
country. Later Maj. Gen. William D.
Connor, now superintendent of West
Point, went to Germany, where his
visit was looked upon as call of
courtesy in return for Gen. Won
Blomberg's tour of the United States.
American military officers who have
seen the present German Army hold
the highest opinion of its quality and
efficiency, and for its size regard it as
probably the finest in the world.
X X X
American interest in Gernlany'S re-
armament on anything approaching
the pre-war scale would be concerned
mainly with naval expansion. In ad-
dition to a powerful army and air
force, Hitler is generally expected
sooner or later to turn his attention
to the creation of a great modern
navy. At present the Nazi feet con-
sists of three armored ships. the ia
nous and powerful 10000-ton pocket
battleShipS'' Deutschland, Admiral
Scheer and Ersatz Braunschweig,
which were commissioned during the
past four years; five pre-war battle
ships, six modern cruisers commits
stoned within the last 10 years, the
old cruisers Berlin and Hamburg; l3
pre-war torpedo boats of 600 to 700
tons each and IL torpedo boats OF
300 tons each, completed in 1926-7-8.
Keels have been laid during the past
year to replace two decommissioned
pre-war battleships In addition to
these various combat ships, the Ger
man navy includes mine -Sweepers,
guard boats and miscellaneous aux
iliary craft. In view of Germany's
growing importance as an air power,
the United States has just sent an air
attache there, Capt. Koenig, u. S. A.,
who will serve at the Berlin Embassy
along with our military and naval
attaches.
Because Of the bull market for 1886
Republican presidential prospects,
thanks mainly to Huey Long, G. o. P.
white hopes are taking heart. The
latest to be mentioned as formidable
contender is Col. Frank Knox, Chi
cago newspaper publisher, who is de-
picted as enjoying the support of both
Western progressives and Eastern con-
servatives. His nomination chances
are favorably discussed, among other
places, in quarters once closely iden-
titled with Herbert Hoover. Col. Knox
was a Roosevelt Rough Rider in Cuba
and was active in the Bull Moose
movement in 1912. Originally New
Hampshire man and political lieuten-
ant of Gen. Leonard Wood, Col. Knox
has been conducting hammer-and-
tongS editorial campaign against many
phases of the New Deal in his Chi
cago Daily News and in public ad-
dresses.
X X X x
Some time before April there is to
be a meeting of midwestern Repub-
lican leaders. including national COM
mitteemen, in Des Moines, Kansas
City or some other farm belt metrop-
oils, 10 discuss party policies and tha.
Evening star., 1935-03-20

A reader cdn get the dnsiDer to
any question OF fact BY tDrtttng The
Washington Epenirg Star Information
Bureau, Frederic J. HaSkir, Director,
Washington, D. c. Please irclose
stamp for reply.
@. How many street cars and buses
are owned and operated by the Capt.
tai Transit Co. Of Washington, D. c.?
H. w. p.
A. Street cars owned, 687; average
maximum number of cars operated in
morning -ush period, 609; average
number operated in evening rush
period, SOL. Total miles of single
track, 208.08, of which 172.48 miles
are in the District of Columbia and
$3.50 miles are in Maryland. In ad-
dition 10 street car equipment this
company owns and operates 227 busseS
over 385 miles of bus route, of which
185 miles are IN the District of Co
lumbia and 100 miles are in the State
Of Maryland.
@. When did the United States Su-
preme Court hand down its decision
on the gold clause caSes?-A. r.
A. 1t rendered its decision on Mon
day, February 10, 1885.
@. Who was considered the fore
most actor Of ancient Rome?-L. H.
A. Quintus Roscius, who died about
81 B. c., is said to have been un-
rivaled for his grace Of action, melody
Of voice, conception of character and
delivery.
@. Does the captain or a pilot steer
a vessel out of harbor?-W. L.
A. A pilot does this.
@. How old is Lawrence Tibbett?
Where was he born?-A. o.
A. He is 38. He was born in Bakers
field, Calf, November Is, 1896
@. Does red infuriate a bull more
than any other color?-S. H.
A. Experiments made at the Uni
verSity Of California have proved that
bulls reaction TO the color Of red
is no more than that TO any other
color. In fact, judging by the con-
duct Of the steers tested, it seems
doubtful whether they can tell red
from green, white or blue. 1t is even
possible that the animals have no
realization Of color at all.
@. In Hugo'S "Notre Dame de Paris -
what is the hunchback's name?-T. H.
A. His name is Quasimodo.
@. Which of Stephen Fosters songs
Is considered his best?-G. D.
A. Any one is entitled to choose
his own, but "the Old Folks at Home
("Way Down Upon the Swanee River')
is usually considered his masterpiece.
Fosters songs are notable for the
quality of tenderness.
@. What does the word Deuteron-
| omy mean?-C. C.
A. 1t means the law repeated.
Q. How long has the name, Sambo,
been given to a Negro as one of
pleasant familiarity?-D. S.
A. 1t dates at least to 1895 when a
Negro character gained popularity in
Murdock's play, Triumph of Love"
". was virginia Dare, the nrSt
white child born in America, born TO
family of importance in the colony?
M. B.
A. Her mother was the daughter of
John White, the Governor of Vir-
ginia sent over by Sir Walter Raleigh
in 1887. Her father was one of the
court of assistants. When White re-
turned TO England. the Dares re-
mained in this country. Virginia
Evening star., 1935-03-20
Department of Arts and Sciences

Department OF Arts and Sciences
Every now and again some we'll
intentioned idealist appears in the
national scene advocating the estab-
lishment of one or more new Govern
ment departments. The latest of
such proposals is that of Representa-
tive William Sirovich for Depart
ment of the Arts and the Sciences.
In tune with the desires of his con-
stituents in Greenwich Village, he has
sponsored a bill calling upon the
President to introduce into his cabinet
an officer to be known as the Secre-
tary of the Arts and the Sciences and
to have control over such bureaus,
sections officers or other elements Of
the Government which deal with the
arts and the sciences"
In theory, the suggestion may have
merit. Mr.. Sirovich, doubtless, has
in mind the desirability of Govern
ment aid for those citizens who devote
their lives to ideal endS-a class Of
men and women who, undeniably,
stand in need Of recognition and as
sistance. But it may be that the
plight of the artists and the scientists
would be rendered additionally un-
happy by a scheme which might
bring into existence an official stand
ard for esthetic and research enter
prises at present reasonably free from
that sort Of interference.
The idea has been tried. Both
Frederick the Great and Catherine the
Great experimental with it, and Soviet
Russia has regimented creative workers
as well as less gifted laborers. Genius,
however, has a tendency to appreciate
liberty, even at the expense of poverty,
and the worthiest artists and scientists
resent chains arbitrarily inflicted in
exchange for subsidies. Indeed, Mr..
Sirovich would have difficulty in meet
ing the challenge were he asked to
cite a single instance of Government
control in the creative field where the
gain was greater than the loss.
No one will quarrel with the prin-
ciple of national support for artistic
and scientific efforts directly related
Evening star., 1935-03-20
Europe's Divided Counsels.


While Sir John Simon in Berlin
next week will nominally appear as
the spokesman of allied Europe in
expressing resentment at Germany's
defiant rearmament plans, it is evil
dent that British policy in the crisis
which Hitler has created does not
meet with wholehearted approval in
the other countries at interest.
In France, Italy and Soviet Russia
Britain's attitude is assailed as weak"
and Intellectual Here and there its
rnildness is pilloried as an outright
capitulation TO the Nazi government,
and the British foreign secretary's
visit to Berlin is assailed as fore
doomed to inglorious failure. The
French are so upset by Britains
refusal to take stronger ground that
they are moving to bring about a
fore Sir John Simon goes to Germany,
with view to putting more iron into
his mission.
Recriminations rejecting divided
allied counsels are so palpably water
on Hitlerism's mill that it is earnestly
to be hoped that means will prove
discoverable for composing them be-
fore conversations with Germany
ensue. 1t has notoriously been
Berlins hope to drive a breach be-
tween London and Paris ever since
the Anglo French accord for European
paciiication was launched. Divide
and conquer" is the Nazis' strategy,
as far as the Versailles powers are
concerned.
Meantime, with that genius for
doing the wrong thing at the right
time which Germany has so often dis
played, Berlin is comporting itself in
the best possible way to produce a
united front against provocative Nazi
plans. Goebbels busters that Ger
many's munition plants are already
practically on war footing. Another
qualified spokesman asserts that even
under present conditions the Reich
can mobilize one million trained men
equipped with motor transport so
speedy that an expeditionary force
could reach Moscow, for example, in
two days" Last night Berlin was the
scene Of large-scale air maneuvers, to
test the capitals readiness for warfare
in the sky. AS the heavens roared
with the rumble of Goering's scouting
and bombing planes came indications
that Germany's next assault on the
treaty Of Versailles may be the abro-
cation Of the clause providing for
demilitarization Of the left bank of
the Rhine and the construction of ex-
tensive new Notifications in the Rhine
land unless France agrees to demili-
tarize corresponding areas within her
borders.
There is at the moment no war
spirit in allied Europe. Suggestions
that the western powers resort to
armed force to rebuke Germany arouse
little enthusiasm. Hitler's tactics are
unmistakaoly based on that realiza-
ton. But every move he is now max
ing must impress the Versailles pow
ers with the fact that sooner or later
his preteasions will require to be
sternly resisted and that mere diplo-
macy will not perpetually suffice as
. weapon with which to thwart them.
Sir John Simon may be trusted to
point that out in Berlin. It is
prospect designed to give the Nazis
"furiously to think" to cause them
to ponder carefully the wisdom of
driving allied Europe to a point where
preventive war" to curb an aggressive
Germany would no longer be avoid
able.
Evening star., 1935-03-20

Desirable Minimum.
Do you speak English or German OF
French
Or Russian, that brings to your larynx
a wrench;
Or maybe the language Of ancient
Japan,
The language of China or else Hin
dustan?
When orators call with acclaim gynt
or small
Perhaps he does best who says nothing
at all
Evening star., 1935-03-20

In order to maintain a brilliant
record in war on crime the police
may find it desirable to call on the
voice of safety to offer warnings
against crashing into politics.