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Gen. johnson Says

VXIASHINGTON, April This column has
w stated the following propositions: European
war is possible. Our people don't want to get into
it. This is reflected in proposed embargoes against
selling goods to warning nations. Neutrality is
taking no part" in war. Embargoes apply our
economic forces against warning nations to prevent
or end their wars That is not taking no part"
In modern war-which is as much economic as
military-it is taking decisive part. That is not
neutrality 1t is intervention 1t is the exact reverse
of the popular demand.
1t is not selling goods but shipping goods that
has pulled us into war, through belligerents inter-
ference with our rights" on the high seas. When
we sell goods cash on the barrel-head and come
and get it, our interest in them ends F. O. B.
our ports When We loan money or advance credit
to a beigerent, have bought a stake in his war.
When we send American property to sea- the flag
protects it against violations of the rights of
trails"
AJEUTRAIS now have only such sea-rghts as
they are willing and able to fight for. We can't
give up to belligerents all rights the ocean,
but the more sacrifice the less danger that We
will have to fight Here alone is the place for legis
lative action to keep us out of war" Restriction
on sales is pure bunk.
No loans credit to belligerents and sales
cusivey cash and carry" would do most of the
job.
Copyright 1885, by United Feature Syndicate
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phasized by the testimony of Walter S. Clifford head
of A. T. e. t. before the Federal Communications
Commission. 1t is plain to be seen that in spite of
all of the experience which his company has had
all right he thinks to give cigars and luncheons to
legislators. What about liquor and dinners? He
nothing very wicked about handing theatcr
tickets to legslators-pro the lobbyist also
attends the performance Would it be wicked" or
very wicked if the lobbyist didn't so along?
TINE late Jim Mann lost out as Speaker of the
: Il House because it disclosed that one of his
Chicago packer friends gave him a horse. On the
other hand Huey Long used to ride around in
the private railroad of utility magnate Har-
vey Couch and make speeches from the rear
platform denouncng 1.-THE interests" recent AS
sistant Secretary of Commerce Ewing Mitchell for
babe his assistants to accept small gifts from
lobbyists. But about the same time White House
Secretary Mcintyre IS enjoying his afternoon
Cocktail in the hotei apartment OF utility lobbyist
friends OF the Florida Ship Canal sent crates of
celery to Senators and Representatives. Some ate
it. Others spurned it. A beautiful young lady gave
cocktail party for eminent Senators who were
indignant later to find that utility lobbyist pri-
vately paid the bill. Worse yet. one Senator sat
through lobbyists dinner, mistakng the host for a
Congressman who resembled him-the most appal-
ling social error of the season
business man got -ir.to trouble for allowing
Army officers, with who he was doing business to
beat him at poker. Recently an Army officer was
court -maftialed for permitting lobbyist to buy
him railroad ticket. But a crew of Democratic
officials we're taken on airplane junket to Texas
at company expense. Is it proper for lobbyist to
give fur coat TO a Senator'S SecFetarv2 Or should
it go to the Senator's wife?
No one knows the answers to all Of these cues
uoas IL is just like running big trust-vou don't
Know where you stand until the Supreme Court saws
you're wrong and then its too late
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Times Books

THE Juggler who keeps frying pan, an Indian
i club and basket of tomatoes spinning from
hand to hand without dropping anything has
soft snap compared with the man who $50 to speak
tries to keep two women in the air at the same
time.
Ramona Herdman puts the juggler of ladies I'M
der glass in intelligent weH-vritten novel, "a
Time for Love- Harpers; 81. and leaves you feel
ing mixture of contempt and pity for him.
Her book tells about middle-aged New York
magazine editor who succeeds in spreading himself
out SO thin that he fairly evaporates.
IE has a wife and daughter in a comfortable
i i suburb. He has widowed mother in a New
York hotel. He has. in his own Office mistress
He tries to keep all three in separate compartments
of his lfe dividing himself three ways among them
the result Is that not Of the three gets square
break.
"A Time for Love" is decidedly one of the springs
better novels. tBy Bruce Catton.)
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bill; that several others whom
Copeland had voted, actually in
tended signing Guffey's minority
report.
TINE new Army. appropriations
i bill provides $72,155 for the
encouragement of breeding of
riding horses suitable for the
Army"
simultaneously the amount al
lotted to the State Department
for promotion of foreign trade"
was $4,000.
Uncle Dan Roper is engaged in
a grim manhunt.
He is out to scalp the official
responsible for the leak to the
press that gave out the report on
how the end of the MIRA had
heightened hours and reduced
wages.
Submitted to the White House
by the MIRA committee, the re-
port was turned over to Roper by
the Presidents secretary, Marvin
Mcintyre. Roper took one look
at the ccnument and, ever-soli-
citious of the sensibilities of bust
ness interests, promptly locked it
up.
There it stayed for six weeks
until, very mysteriously, a copy
found its way into the hands of
the press
No department in the govern
ment is as secretiye and gag
ridden as Roper's. Hardly
month goes by that he does not
suppress, or attempt to suppress,
some report. This time he swore
vengeance on the "leaker."
The files of the Commerce De-
partment official who had charge
of the report actually were broken
into during his absence and the
number of copies counted to see if
any were missing. They were all
there.
An innocent member of the
committee then was accused. To
clear himself, he had to get
written statement from newspa-
per men stating that he had not
given out the report.
Several other officials have been
put on the carpet and quizzed-
without result. Roper is still
on the trail, but it is growing cold.
Publication of the above. how
ever, doubtless will lead to a new
man-nunt.
y =
THE baseball diamond has
Il sent a lot of Senators to
Washington: Russell of Georgia.
Reynolds of North Carolina, Stei-
wer of Oregon. Minton of Indiana,
b own of New Hampshire all
stars of the college diamond.
fCopyright. 1886. by United Feature
Syndicate, Incl
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the top, but will leave that to
younger men whom he will choose.
AS in polar expeditions, camps
are established at various points
on the way where food, fuel and
tents are left. In 1888 Camp 6
was up at 27,400 feet.
II
THIS time it will be somewhat
L. lower and Camp 7 will be
about 27,800 feet. From there it
is estimated it will take IS hours
to achieve the peak-1340 feet
higher.
The plan is to allow nine hours
for the terrible upward climb and
six hours for the return. The start
will be made at a. m. and there
will be daylight until 7 p. m.
But for safety's sake lamp will
be fixed at Camp 7 in case of
darkness before the party returns.
For connection with the outside
world the party will have a wire
less receiving and transmitting
set, capable of sending short wave
messages 10 miles.
1t is hoped to use this as high
as Camp which will be at an
altitude of 25,700 feet, making it
the highest land wireless station
in the world.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s. ALLEN

N7ASHINGTON, April 1.--Dr.
w Hans Luther, rotund, Sc
rious-minded ambassador of Ger
many, was visiting r. Walton
Moore, Assistant Secretary of
State. Mr.. Moore has delicious
sense of humor, which he con-
ceals under very grave mien.
Referring to Hitler's remilitariza-
ton of the Rhineland, he said to
Ambassador Luther, THAT Chan
cellor of yours certainly is raising
hell in Europe"
mfr. Secretary" replied the
German ambassador, not catch
ing the twinkle in Moore's eye, Il
am afraid I can not listen to any,
thing derogatory to my Chan
cellor."
THE hell you can't" shot back
Moore. You sit right there and
listen to me-"
Mr.. Secretary" rer'ied Luther,
in almost plainJire voice,
Chancellor Eitler is very me
man, one of the finest leaders
Germany has ever had. If you
must persist in discussing him in
those terms, / must ask you to
excuse me-"
Note-Dr. Luther, himself once
Chancellor of Germany. also
Minister of Finance, was heartily
out of sympathy with the Nazi
movement when Hitler seized con-
troll, narrowly escaped exile, in
stead was kicked upstairs as am
bassador.
THE new 1897 appropriation
l. bills carry some interesting
contrasts in expenditure.
Amount spent by Navy per day
$1,510,433.82.
Amount spent by State Depart
ment per day, $42,05110.
Amount spent by FEkA for re-
lief. per family, per day, 80 cents.
Senator Royal S. Copeland
wears red carnation and has an
ingratiating smile. But there is
nothing soft about the New York
er'S legislative methods.
Copeland is author of a ship
subsidy bill. It is warmly APP
proved by shipping interests and
violently opposed by Senate lib
erals. both Democratic and Re-
publicans. They claim it is bare
faced Doodle raid on the public
till.
\ For weeks. Copeland has been
trying to get his bill reported ia
vorably by the Commerce Com
mittee. of which he is chairman.
Finally. he staged a marvellous
feat of conjury.
There were IL committee men,
bers present Senator Joe Guffey
of pennsylvania, author of rival
measure opposed by the ship oper-
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succeeded in flying over Everest.
But that is not the same thing
as setting foot on its topmost peak
and making scientific observa-
tons.
In that way, grim old Chomo-
Lungma, as the Tibetans call the
mountain, still stands uncon-
quered. Its Tibetan title means
Goddess Mother of the World"
In the past, four attempts have
been made to scale tin 1921.
1922, 1924 and 1888.
The first was really sort of
reconnaissance party. In 1922
some of the members of the party
reached 26,800 feet without oxygen
and others achieved 27,200 with
oxygen.
TN 1924, $4,000 feet was attained
l. without oxygen. A few DAYS
later two members of the party.
supplied with oxygen, set out to
go even higher. but they never
came back.
In 1888 F. S. Smythe, who is 60
ing also with the 1886 party,
reached 28,100 feet-the highest
ever attained.
The present expedition is
backed by an English committee
headed by Maj. Gen. Sir Percy
Cox.
AS in the 1888 party, the leader
will be Hugh Ruttledge. Nine of
the party of II white men were
with him in the 1888 trip.
AS Ruttledge is now 81, he will
not take part in the final dash for
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SUeH Chance for Fraud

NE worst handicap to the sales promotion in the
united States is the risk of fraud The Sween
stakes is racket in itself when it invades the
oni'eo states under the auspices of the Free State
government contrary to the laws of a friendly
country and the American racketeers with splendid
paeronSm have preyed this foreign racket bv SELL
Ing thousands OF counterfeit tickets on every draw
moreover. in any country so far away the vendors
OF valid lottery tickets have temptation to keen
tne money themselves The tickets are sent free IN
Cne agents, but sales do become valid until the
cash Is received in Dublin and the management has
sent an official receipt to each purchaser
II an agent sells 100 tickets and foreets tn send
the money to Dublin he gains $3.50 and his clients
are not represented in the drawing The American
racKeteer is comparatively safe in selling counter
let's or IN holding out the receipts for genuine
tickets, because the client himself can not come into
court with clean hands Nevertheless American sales
are rising offset to the decline of business in
Great Britain
Ihere have been II sweeps since the lottery began
IN 1890 and the total gross receipts have risen to
1888 457,0O0. From this fund of s4617OOOO has
been allotted to the so hospitals of the Irish Free
State, but a few years ago the government stepped
In to collect tax on the hospitals share of the
money and to assert supervising authority over the
hospitals fund. Up to that time about s2OOO000o
had been distributed to the hospitals but since al
lotments have been held up pending an investigation
of the requirements of the various applicant institu
tiCnS
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BY MILTON BRONNER

ONDON, April Prepared to brave all the dangers
that the straosphere ofer plus all those of the
North or South Polar regions little advance party, led
by Hugh Rutedge left England the other day to make
other attempt to explore of the last unknown spots
this earhMount Everest the Hottest peak globe
soaring 20, 40 feet.
1t is another chapter in the epic story of mans
deavor to know nook and Granny of his terrestrial
home and to leave corner of it unexpored The top of
Mount Everest is of the few places left where the foot
of man has trod
To the explorers there can be no pecunary purpose
At the most there would probably be good book and
ture tour in it, but that wouldn't make them rich The
peak of Mount Everest only attract him who has the
thirst for adventure and scientific discovery
The problem is stupendous Going up to this
immense height OF nearly six miles above level has
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L Labor S D y

Scripps-H 0tcard Newspaper AHianc,
WASHINGTON. April r.
The La Toilette subccmmit-
tees investigation of infrac-
tons of civil and labor rights
will be started next week with
submission of evidence by the
National Labor Relations Board
on denials of collective organ
ization and bargaining, it was
learned today.
Senator La Toilette prog,
Wis.,. sponsor of the investi.'
cation resolution and chairman
of the subcommittee, has asked
Chairman j. Warren Madden
of the NLRB to submit what
evidence he has available on
the labor side.
The subcommittee, which in
cludes Senators Louis Murphy
Cd, Ia and Ebert D. Thomas
Cd, Utah, authorized the re-
quest for the labor boards ma
terial as the first step. Viola
lions of constitutional freedom
of speech and assemblage will
be taken up later
Labor unions also are prepar-
ing data for the committee on
noteworthy violations of work.
ers' rights, particularly in con-
nection with lawless actions by
public officials and by corpora
tions.
Announcement by the Labor
Board of its decision in the
Friedman Harry Marks Cloth
ing Co. case from Richmond
disclosed the latest charge of
labor espionage which may be
directed to the Senate's atten-
ton.
The board, in it's order to
the company to reinState 10
discharged union members and
to cease from further discrim-
nations, asserted that Morton
Marks, president of the COM
pany, paid an employee $3.50
a week to attend union meet
ings and report to him the
names of those who attended.
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as he must realize that, If the
spade suit doesn't break, he is not
going to make his contract unless
he can deceive West into making
the wrong play.
Declarer must first try the
spade suit and, on the third
round, when West shows out, dis
carding a small diamond, he
should cash his three diamond
tricks and the three club tricks,
winning the last club trick in his
own hand with the ace.
This leaves declarer with the
king jack-eight of hearts, and
West with the ace-nine-six. At
this point declarer should lead the
king of hearts, still concealing his
jack.
If West now makes the mistake
OF winning this trick with the ace,
the contract is made, as he will be
forced to lead a heart into de-
clarer's jack-eight. But if West
makes the simple safety play of
putting on low heart, declarer's
jack-eigft will lose to Vests ace
nine.
tcc2yright, 1885. by NEA Service. Inc,
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Not to Be Sneezed At

TN the meanwhile about $25 100000 has accumu-
l. lated, notwithstanding the deduction of the gov
eminent tax, which is said to have yielded S755 900
on last Fridays sweep alone The tax said to have
yielded the government approximately $5,OOO000 in
1892 and 1888, when the gross receipts were just
little short of $1000o0000 This period included the
greatest kitty of them ALL the Derby Sweep of 1892
which drew $20600000
-Four individuals who promoted and financed the
lottery IN the beginning are reported to have re-
ceived an average of two and seventenths per cent
OF the total which would be &c. 900, although the
charter permits them as much as 7 per cent which
would have been $16342 900.
Your correspondent declines responsibility for
these last figures, however. they are taken from
old clippings in the morgue and unaccompanied
by any explanation of the promoters forbearance.
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will crush Mussoiini and. the
whole Fascist regime in Italy.
They will accept most any
thing short of that, however,
rather than precipitate a stu
alton which would almost GER
tainly turn the world upside
down.
Unquestionably powerful fac
tons in Britain, not to mention
Soviet Russia, would like to wipe
out Fascism. But neither Lon
don nor Moscow has neglected
to count the costs and esti-
mate the risks involved in such
an undertaking.
Mussolini will fight to a fin
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EhZnouph
WESTBRO0K PEGLER

T ONDON, April 1.-The British law for
bidding all publicity regarding the
Irish Free State Hospitals Sweepstake has
compelled the supervision of tickets which
otherwise might be sold in England, Wales
and Scotland. These tickets sell for ap-
proximatey $3.50. An opportune ruling by James
A. Farley resembling the American Postal rule
against the mailing of publications carrying mention
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Lobby Problem Is
All Very Confusing
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON, April Both the House and
w Senate have passed legislation seeking to
troll lobbying but neither measure strikes at the
chaotic conditions which exist in this, of Wash
ingtons lusty industries.
Cut-throat competition, sir, is rampant Among
the lobbyists, the old law of tooth and claw is still
supreme. There are no standards of fair COMPETE
ton. Let one lobbyist give luncheon. His rival
throws dinner Tight lobbyists give out only in
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some of the same elements
of difficulty as those faced
by balloon expeditions seek
ing the stratosphere.
The air becomes very thin. It's
oxygen content is low. The effect
on the heart is severe. And there
is, of course, the intense cold.
In its other aspect, to ascend
Everest is like a polar expedition.
There is not only the cold, but
vast fields of snow, enormous gla-
ciers, constant dangers of ava
lanches, winds which rage so that
it is almost impossible to keep
shelter tent standing.
THE Everest explorer has to
Il climb and climb for the
heights in conditions that are
terribly exhausting.
The stratosphere f1ier has it
over him, because the balloon does
the climbing for him. The polar
explorer has it over him, because,
while it is often necessary to walk
across snow fields and glaciers
through billiards and snowstorms,
the air is not so rare.
Furthermore in recent years it
has been demonstrated that
considerable portion of the phys
ical labor of polar expeditions can
be obviated by the use of airplanes.
TN 1888 the Houston Mount
Il Everest Flight Expedition, led
by Air Commodore Fellowes and
the Marquis of Clydesdale, also
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ators, moved that this bill be sub
stituted for Copelands.
The count was Z to 4 in favor of
Guffey's motion. Whereupon Cope
land announced he held the prox-
les of five absent members and
voted them for himself, making
the ballot to 7 in his favor.
But after the committee ad-
journed, members learned that at
least one absentee, Senator Ernest
w. Gibson of Vermont, had told
Copeland he was opposed to his
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NaIu, NO; THIS Is new administration and new
zeal" and in this informal spur of the moment
manner expunged the restriction from the book.
:, ms ruling was made prior to the adoption of
the British law against the publication of lottery
news and although Mr. Farley's action has been a
great comfort to the United States he could not
nave nave known at the time that he was opening sub
stltute market for the tickets The United states is
aue 1keiy TO take up all the shrinkage in receipts
due to the British prohibition but the new freedpn
d. a. nome mas stimulated American sales and the
British law has been such disaster as If otheris
might have been 10 ~ o'iiei "ise
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divlduaI cigars. Others hand
them out by the box. No stand
ard of quality prevails, some
issuing ten-centers and others
corona -coronas. When feeding
Congressman, some Lobbyists in
sist upon paying the dinner
checks. Others make it dutch.
One veteran lobbyist entertains
Congressman at his Maryland
fishing shack, all expenses paid,
while another takes in six con-
gressional guests and makes them
share the cost,
Confusion and lack of stand
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UI Tie SWttpSCaKe has been
great help to the operators, for it
has tended to offset the British
verboten.
Your correspondent happens
to know that Mr.. Farley had no
such thought in mind, however.
Shortly after the coronation of
Mr.. Roosevelt in 1888 your CORE
spondent phoned Mr.. Farley to
explain that Walter B. (High
Hat Brown, who was Herbert
Hoover's Postmaster General, had
forbidden mention of the sweep
stake in the American press and
to ask if he intended to enforce
the same regulation. Mr.. Farley
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Here's HOIU Things Stand
THIS is the situation:

NILS Is the situation:
Il l. Everybody is looking for an out
q Mussollni is convinced he must fight England
II he wants to make colony of Ethiopia Not be-
ing IN a position to do that, at the moment he is
looking for face-saving ext-some solution which
VIII not cost him his head" or Fascsn its exis-
tence.
Britain is not now prepared for war with Italy
onsidering her own comparative disarmament and
the state of things in Central Europe and the Far
East. Hence she would like to postpone a show
down for two or three years while she rearms Ac-
cordingly she would accept some compromise
between Italy and Ethiopia
a France doesn't what happens in East
Africa. She has eyes only for Germany She wishes
TO remain friends with Italy. She must continue to
collaborate with Britain. All she wants. therefore
is the earliest possible settlement of the whole Anglo
Italian, Italo Ethiopian mbrogio before 1t precipi-
tai a general European war in which she stands
to gan nothing, but lose everything.
5. The League of Nations-that is to say Britain
France and the larger powers-merely wishes to save
its face. The smaller members look to the League
to save them If and when attacked by more power
full neghbors. They naturally demand maximum
action against aggressors But their vote is not
decisive. =
The real struggle therefore is between Italy and
whether she will crush Duce Or very subtly come
to his aid.