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Evening star., 1935-02-25

A new reason why Japan eyes the
Soviets with distrust has been OBJ
tanned by our officials lately from
japanese sources. This information
indicates that Moscow is now working
on a plan to settle permanently
1900, 900 colonists from European Rus
sia in the Far East. The japanese
seem to fear, with reason, that this
colony in Siberia and Mongolia may
prove to be q base for the spread Of
revolutionary activity in the Orient.
Problem Grave.
With Communism already spread
ing through six Chinese provinces and
social unrest increasing In Japan
proper, Toxic has q problem on its
hands. about which it will do little
talking out loud.
Radio officials say Huey Longs
three broadcasts did not cost him
cent. He was given the three half
hour periods free on the ground that
he was IAN important character of
news interest" The radio companies
received, they say, $1,000 letters from
the first broadcast.
The Nation is getting healthier, If
not wealthier. A census for 86 cities
shows . mortality rate Of 1875 this
year compared with 1875 last year.
There ,pds no notice giuen tt, but
the ersttphile politically great John
J. Rdskob resigned recently from
Mr.. RooseDelt's business tdison
body and went on a trip around
the Dorld.
Oficials of the A. A. A., perturbed
about leaks Of oficial information,
tracked down one recently and found
that q bureau chief was privately in
forming a professor what was going
on in the department. The offender
was not one Of those later removed.
A newsman who lost his job re-
Gently when Mr.. Roosevelt ruled
egainst the Newspaper Guild has been
taken into the New Deal fold and
given q regional A. A. A. job on the
Pacific Coast.
(Copyrisht. 1850
Evening star., 1935-02-25
EDUCATORS HEAR
SPENDING PLEA
Jesse Jones Asks That Citi-
zenS Take Risk and
Invest.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., February
25.-The aims of national planning
are clearly set forth in the preamble
to the Constitution, Charles E. Mer-
riam, chairman Of the Department OF
Political Science at the University of
Chicago and a member Of the Ma
tional Resources Board, told the s5th
annual convention of the Department
of Superintendence of the National
Education Association today.
Merriam, Charles A. Beard, noted
historian, and Jesse H. Jones, chair
man Of the Reconstruction Finance
Corp, were principal speakers at the
morning session.
Prof. Merriam cited the preamble:
Justice, domestic tranquility, COM
mon defense, general welfare and Sc
curing the blessings Of liberty to our
selves and to poSterity."
Breach in Thought.
Beard said that former President
Hoover made "a breach in the historic
thought of America and President
Roosevelt widened the breach.
when President Hoover declared
that no one shall starve in America
and took steps to check the course of
the panic. he made a breach in the
historic thought of America" Beard
said. when President Franklin D.
Roosevelt in his message of January 4.
1885, proclaimed his objectives to be
the security Of livelihood, security
against the major hazards of life and
security Of homes, he widened the
breach opened by his predecessor"
The address Jones made to the edu-
Gators was, in part, a plea that banks
be more considerate of prospective
borrowers and that borrowers invest
| and take reasonable risk" in the
interest OF permanent recovery.
Roosevelt's Message,
Jones brought message of greeting
to the convention from President
Roosevelt which said, in part, that
"our ultimate security, to a large ex-
tent, is based upon the individuals
character, information, skill and at
titude and the responsibility rests
squarely upon those who direct edu-
cation in America"
1T is your duty, no less than mine"
the Presidents message concluded, ito
look beyond the narrow confines of
the school rooms to see that education
provides strength and security for
those institutions We have treasured
since We first established ourselves as
a nation. and shall continue ever
lastingly to cherish"
At a special meeting, not officially
connected with the convention. but
attended by about 500 delegates, DR..
Beard last night commended the Sem
ate investigation of the munitions in.
dustry and attacked propaganda de-
signed ito increase the fear Of war
and promote the sale Of munitions"
Evening star., 1935-02-25

What hurt Mr.. Roosevelt so much
was the fact that his letter Of per-
sonal appeal was read to the Senate
Just before the vote. 1t may now be
denied, but that letter would not have
been read had he known he was 60
ing to be defeated 1t was submitted
because he had erroneous private in
formation about the expected result.
Machinery Slips.
Somewhat the same slip-up occur
red in the World Court fight. The
President had no information then
that he was going to be licked. until
it was too late to do anything
about it.
This matter was taken up inside
the White House the day after the
wage defeat Some new arrange
ments are going to be made whereby
Mr.. Roosevelt may know more ac-
curately how the Senate Is lined up.
There is some talk about an arrange
ment whereby the leaders report to
him twice q day on such important
matters.
From q practical standpoint, the
defeat did not amount to much.
Mr.. Roosevelt ,oiH get the kind OF
relief bill he Udnts after the Sem
ate gets through i1ith it. The House
Uil stand by him and force the
Senate to retreat from the posi-.
tions it is no,o taking
You may have noticed that the very
day of the Senate defeat. Speaker
Byrns announced to the House that
10000 Jobs in the C. c. C. were going
to be allotted to Representatives for
distribution.
That gravy bowl came in the nick
of time. Some Democrats in the House
have been very much displeased at the
way the Senators have been rebelling
and getting in good with the labor
vote. House Democratic members had
to stand by the President and take
their chances on mourning the wrath
of labor voters. They do not think
that was fair.
Dear BiIP' Received.
A. F. L.-er Green appeared at a
White House reception the night Of
his Senate victory over the President.
He stood in line like the others. There
was some speculation as to how he
might be received. Finally he reached
the President, who grasped his hand
and smiled cordially:
well, Dear Bill"
Military intelligence has some in
teresting private figures on the Soviet
forces in the Far East. These may
explain why Japan has recently
manifested reluctance to goad the
Soviets. They indicate that the Rus
sian Far Eastern Army numbers be-
tween 100000 and 250,000 men, in
cluding 10000 cavalry, so heavy guns,
500 field guns, 400 tanks, between
1000 and 5000 machine guns and 500
airplanes, including few long-range
bombers.
Evening star., 1935-02-25
HEARING OF COBLENTZ.
IN BANK CASE TODAY
Attorney for Frederick Institu-
tion's Former President, Con-
tends Indictment Faulty.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, February 25.-A hear
ing on an indictment charging Emory
L. Coblentz, former president Of the
defunct Central Trust Co. of Frederick,
with fraudulent corporate representa-
tions was scheduled today.
Leo Weinberg. defense attorney, con-
tends the indictment, returned in
Howard County, is faulty in that
Coblentz has been tried on q similar
charge In Frederick County and that
he was acquitted Of fraud In two civil
cases.
A plea attacking the indictment was
sustained last May, but the Court Of
Appeals ruled the case should be tried.
Evening star., 1935-02-25
FIRE AUXILIARY HOST
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BLADENSBURG, Md, February
25.-The auxiliary Of the Bladens-
burg Volunteer Fire Department Will
entertain the Auxiliary of the Prince
Georges County Volunteer Firemen's
Association the evening Of March q
in the Fire House here. A st. Pat
rick's card party viii be held BY the
Bladensburg auxiliary the evening OF
March II In the Fire House.
Evening star., 1935-02-25
HICCOUGH VICTIM DIES

MANCHESTER, Ohio, February IS
R-Victim for six days of an attack
Of hiccoughs, David McMullen, So. was
found dead yesterday, shotgun blast
through his heart. He lived alone.
and had been under treatment of two
physicians for the ailment.
Evening star., 1935-02-25
Young People Conduct Service.

Is (SpeciaD "A service was conducted
by young people last night in St.
Johns Episcopal Church here. Wes-
ton Scott preached the sermon and
the other leaders included Earl Miller,
Dick Gessford and william De Graf
fenreid. Girls served q ushers.
Evening star., 1935-02-25
ON OUR WAY!" CRY
|NM|DDLE WEST
Despair and Depression Dis.
appearing-Future Viewed
With Confidence.

This Is the first of series OF
fUe articles contrasting conditions
In the Northern States OF the Mid
dle,Dest, as Mr.. Roosevelt. a mem
Der OF the editorial staff OF the NeU
York Herald Tribune, found them
on a recent tour and in the Autumn
OF 1888.
Evening star., 1935-02-25
Clarendon Corporation to Meet.

CLARENDON, Va, February IS
(SpeciaD.-A meeting Of Clarendon
Citizens Corp, holding company for
the Citizens Association, Is announced
for Thursday night in rooms Of the
Chamber Of Commerce here.
Evening star., 1935-02-25

THE Mount Van Hoeuenbero bob
sled run. mile and halt OF glis-
tenino ice icith high bank, zig-zdg
and right-angle turns, provides
one of the iDorld's most thrilling
rides. Yesterday Mrs. James Stevens.
70-year old mother OF the famous
bobsledding brothers. agreed to ride
lDith her sons Just ito stop all this
bob talk I hare been hearing around
the house for fre years" In the
tollowing article she describes her
ride for the Associated PressJ
BY MRS. JAMES STEVENS.
LAKE PLACID. N. Y. February 25
Just as I thought was going about
as fast as any one ever came down
the Mount Van Hoevenberg run.
Hubert. my eldest son who was pilot
ing the sled. would call, Let 'er CO.
to Curtis at the brake.
Paul, who sat behind me, kept call
ing for more braking and the three
seem to agree as to the speed
that would suit my taste. but liked
1t and I wish I had ridden sooner SO
that I could get used to it and see
more as the sled went down.
Sees Wall Of lee.
With the idea Of breaking the wind
In my face lowered my head several
times in the curves and Paul kept
telling me to turn around. When ]
did all I could see was a great wall
Of ice.
They forgot the brake on the finish
stretch and then I had a real ride
Evening star., 1935-02-25

In the next article, tomorrow, Mr..
Roosevelt will describe the effects OF
easing the farmers debt burdens.
Evening star., 1935-02-25

Mr.. Roosevelt shows evidences Of
fatigue. This Is the time he usually
goes on a vacation. Maybe he Will
turn to Florida waters again for rest
and recreation. Sometimes 1t helps
Presidents to get away from the thou
sand and one cross-currents OF WASH
ington pressure and to look at the
whole thing from . detached post OF
observation.
For Washington Is at present fun OF
irritations and bad tempers. Labor.
meaning the A. r. Of L., Is restsve
and welding its power In an insistent
lobby which has Just mutilated the
works relief bill.
Business Is chafing ut the bit and
exerting behind the scenes what little
strength 1t has left to preserve Tor
itself control over its own manage
ments and to gain some assurance OF
safety for invested capital.
Selfish groups anxious for contracts
out of public works mayors and Gov.
ernors eager to make political capital
for themselves out Of getting Federal
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-26
ENGLISH AS SHE is SPOKE

The week of February 1S-this week.-Mrs. been
designated good English week. Almost every
week may be observed for some cause but good
English is common need and, alas, common
lack. Too often we speak American rather than
English.
The American Federation of Women's clubs is
sponsoring this week of better English and there is
room for all of us to look to our aurels. Many
editors commenting, take the position that batter
ing received by our language has strengthened it.
Perhaps so, but this does not apply to pronouncia
ton and the fact that many Americanized versions
OF slang have been grated into our language may
help.
IL Is not so important that speakers, announcers
and the like speak good English and have clear,
correct pronunciation, as it is that teachers pos
sess these qualities. child who was taught in the
early grades to say "vehck-ul' lapse into the pro-
nunclatlon many years afterward. We cannot be
zoo careful what and how our young people are
taught today. They are mimics. If you don't be-
lleve 1t, go to the movies and then look at the
actresses reproduced upon the streets of towns
and cities. Children are copycats and the copy
should be set clearly and correctly.
-Newspapers? Nobody expects nothin of
them no more.-Asheboro Courier.
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known stabilizer of social and economic
conditions, Secretary Wallace asserted.
What the country needs and must have is
a back to the principles and ideals of re-
lioion movement, rising tide of spiritual
experiences which will sweep the country,
is the view of the Secretary of Agriculture.
When a nationally prominent public
man. more or less familiar with conditions
throughout the country, very intelligent
and trained man, who has studied social
and economic problems as well as church
nroblems with the serious intent to be of
service to his country and fellow men,
takes the position occupied by Secretary
Wallace, his attitude should have power
fuI and convincing effect upon his fellow
citizens, As secular newspaper, The
Times-News accepts and believes the larger
mart of the opinions voiced by Secretary
Wallace as to the church and its mission
and the place religion ought to be given in
the life of our country; and it is hearten-
inq and stimulating experience to contact
q nolitical leader of this character. The
country will not go far afield under the
leadership of sincere, honest Christian
men: especially those who, like Secretary
Wallace, were reared and trained in Chris
tian homes.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINION
OLD SOUTH CAROLINA ROADS

That telegram from Will Rogers at Selgman,
Ariz.. printed in The State the other day, carried
us back to cold times in South Carolina.
Will was sending out an sos. He put it up to
Mr. Ford to build car with high center so the
bottom would not come too quickly in contact with
the mud. To the many thousands of persons who
never get off a paved highway Mr.. Rogers said:
"You would be surprised at the amount of the
United States that has not got boulevard by their
door" He found towns which could not be left by
an automobiles without the aid of span of mules
Such roads were the rule in South Carolina
quarter of a century ago. Then our hope was
pinned to sand clay roads. The cost of better high
ways than furnished by the sand-clay surface
seemed utterly prohibtive. But more automobiles
came into use and their owners got tremendously
interested in the best class of roads. Good roads,
it was argued would make the operation of
more economical; would prolong the life of cars;
would greatly increase the use of cars, and the tax
on cars and gas would pay for the roads. Such
arguments were voiced thousands of times. They
were sound too.
Twenty-Five years ago automobiles would have
gladly contracted to pay tax of 500 year in
addition to gas tax, for such highways as we
have. And they would have reasoned they
would save money by such transaction.
We are glad Will Rogers has found some old
style South Carolina road in Arizona 1t is just as
we'll be made to remember what we used to
have.-The State.
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SMACKING OF PERSECUTION

The governments income tax law needs revision
IN more ways than Congressman Doughton is aim
ing for, which is protection for the smaller fry
from making details of their business open to
the shoppers. Up to last year, the affidavit
OF the taxpayer to exemptions was accepted, but
now, If he is to be allowed exemption of any kind
ne must give in detail itemized account of every
cent he gave to church, to charity or to any cause
for which exemption is allowed
Taxpayers to whom exemption has been denied
are now advised of what has happened The gov
eminent has filed with the clerk of the county court
lien against his property which is to stand there
until the amount of exemption he denied is paid.
In all cases. this is but matter of few dollars. 1t
begins to look like the government, in its eagerness
to prevent being cheated out of penny is enter
ing into ways and means that smack of persecution.
The small taxpayers of the country will be inclined
to encourage Doughton to go the lengths in his in
vestgation of the recently established income tax
collection system-Charlotte Observer.
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thinking and in expressing what
she thinks, which is not SO bad
at that. ,,,
Speaking of modern children,
some of them call their parents
by their first names. Papa is jim
or Jack; mama is Jane or Gene
We've or whatever the first names
of their parents happen to be. :
The youngsters o. one man |
know, a Mr.. Cushnans call him
by his last name, not Father
Cushman, nor Papa Cushman, nor
Dady Cushman, but bald, plain
Cushman, just like that. Perhaps
YOU don't care for that sort of
thing. | confess I don't. Possibly
if we live long enough, we shall
become used to it and find our
selves looking backward some day
and saying to ourselves, Wasn't
it funny, how children used to call
their parents "Father" and "Moth-
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BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

whitewashed some terrible scan
dals.
THE White House statement pro.
L mitigating the long.delayed Gig.
aret code aroused some cynical
whispers. But complaints of chic.
a19ry in the publicity aren't JUS
titled
Roosevelt didn't say members of
the National Industrial Recovery
Board had voted" A to 2 in favor
of the code (Which was strongly op.
posed by labor. He said four mem.
Ders had recommended" it and
that two "dissented."
The president decided some time
ago that the two eX-officio members
of NIRB, Blackwell Smith and
Leon Henderson, SHOULD have no
vote OH the board.
But he asked that their separate
opinions or recommendations be
sent to him in every instance
where the other five board mem.
bers, empowered to vote, declared
themselves on anything.
r. L. BARDO, former shipbuilder
VI and now president of the Ma
tional Association Of Manufacturers
who refused to waive immunity
at the Senate munitions hearing
is father of the claim that IS per
cent of battleship and cruiser ap.
preparations is paid to labor.
He said that at the Shearer-
Geneva hearings in 1929 and high
navy officials, including Secretary
Swanson, have since reiterated it
in an effort to show that battleship
building is one of the best ways to
spend money for unemployment.
The munitions committee has
produced evidence to show the cost
of cruiser labor is less than that
for materials, that estimates for
bids have apportioned about a
third to labor, and that OF a S5'Voo,-
600 increase in cruiser bids be-
tween 1927 and 1884, only S9VO,oOo
was for labor and materials com.
bined. \
] Copyright, 1885. NEA Service. Incl
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LOOKING AT LANGUAGE

"Mr. Jones to the contrary not
withstanding." Now isn't that a
handsome, graceful phrase?
We laugh at foreigners for the
way they scramble together words
of our language. "With me all
right it is, if he moves his house
the street across"
But what about a native-born
American with a postgraduate de-
gree who declares that he believes
so-and-so and such-and-such. "Mr.
Jones to the contrary notwith-
standing?" What he means is of
course, that he believes so-and-so
and such-and-such regardless of
the fact that Mr.. Jones does not.
But why doesn't he say just that?
Could any foreigner deliver
himself of any funnier, more
awkward combination of English
words than: "Mr. Jones to the
contrary Notwithstanding Yet
the phrase is in common use
among many of our people who
have gone, in for higher culture.
And that reminds us Of the
little boy who was instructed by
his teacher to write a sentence
containing the word, "notwith-
standing" The little boy labori-
'ously worked out this one: "My
papa wore a hole in his pants, but
notwithstanding"
2 Use THE WANT ADS
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service staff Correspondent

-
tyJASHINGTON.-Yop can get a
" bet here, either way, as to
whether Huey Long will win his
campaign to get" Jim Farley.
The lowdown on tilis is that
the administration takes Hucy
darned seriously-but hopes none
of the rest of us will.
Longs fight for investigation
Of the postmaster-general and po-
Iitical boss of the Democratic
marty is more than a one-man
gesture. 1t is Huey's major Of
fensiye to date against an admin
istration he hates.
He is being secretly aided by Ger.
tain persons who dislike Farley
and certain Republicans who hope
they can defeat Roosevelt in 1886.
Roosevelt is keenly alive 70 the
possibilities. He can't we'll afford
to have Farley Smesred and he re.
allies there IS at least some sub.
stance in the threat that a Huey
Long third party might lure away
many Democratic votes year
from November.
If the administration has any
method of clamping down on the
Kingfish which it hasn't yet tried,
you can expect to see that method
attempted in The near future.
THE party powers faced two
- problems from which there
seemed to be no chance to duck OF
sidestep when the Senate called on
Secretary Ickes to furnish it with
all information concerning any in,
yestigation of Farley and the build
ing or contracting firms with which
he may be connected in New York
If it had rot taken action for c.n
inquiry, Lung could have issued
daily blasts for the rest of the ses
sion. Hurting rumors and ammu,
milton provided by Farley's foes, he
could have devoted himself to the
idea that the administration hat