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Evening star., 1937-11-19
Relief Cushion.

Predictions of an increased unem-
ployment relief load during the coming
winter are disturbing both on social and
economic grounds.
The first basis for distress is such an
obvious one, of course, that it needs no
comment. The second is particularly
cogent at time when four years of
free spending by the Government have
brought us deficit-heavy budget and
record public debt. And at this very
time the administration is pledging its
determination to revise these spending
policies to the end that the budget may
be brought within a definite balance"
What, then, of new unemployment
relief needs?
Only this week Harry L. Hopkins, who
knows full well the difficulty of reducing
the burden already being carried by the
Federal relief agencies. defended con-
tinuance Of the policy of Government
made work for the unemployed Re-
sources Of State and local governments
were long since strained beyond the
point Of rendering any sppreciable aid.
Private charity likewise is inadequate
In this disquieting picture is one eIe-
ment not present as previous relief
crises were developing, namely, the exist
ence OF the Federal-State system of
unemployment compensation. During
1898 more than thirty States and the
District of Columbia begin payment Of
unemployment benefits. Most such pay
ments will begin on January /, in time
to be effective during the winter months
of greatest need.
True, the scope of this program is
definitely limited in that recipients must
establish eligibility to benefits through
previous employment in certain occupa-
tions. Further, such benefits are re-
stricted in most States to a maximum
period OF sixteen weeks regardless of
length of unemployment.
Despite these limitations, there will
be practical testing Of an integral part
Of the all-embracing social security pro-
gram. In its operation there should
be found a cushion for the fluctuating
burden Of unemployment relief a shock
absorber which should help level the
dark valleys Of recurring depressions.
Results will be watched with interest
and with hope.
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the owners asked $3.50, 100000 for their
properties, but finally agreed to accept
an arbitrated price. On the basis Of
annual income Of 81, 2,150. 900 from royal
ties, the arbitration board recommended
q capital price Of $332, $50 900, the equiv
alent Of fifteen years purchase. The
government Ii not required to take over
and operate the mines Immediately.
Temporarily. existing royalties will con-
tinue to be paid to private owners.
Meantime the total purchase figure will
be prorated among individual mines.
BY 1850 the naturalization scheme is
expected to reach fruition.
John Bulls resort to heroic measures
in the coal business comedies with chaos
and dissension at the outset OF Uncle
Sans maiden venture in Federal regu-
lation OF the industry, as exemplified
by discord within the new Bituminous
Coal Commission over attempts to fix
railroad fuel coal prices below the cost
of production. Such woes, apparently,
will henceforth be conspicuous by their
absence in Great Britain.
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OF hogs they produced. The Supreme
Court tossed this law into the discard
as unconstitutional.
Now Congress b endeavoring to write
an air-tight farm aid law, one that will
stand the test of weather and Consti-
tuition alike. It is tough Job, although
more recent decisions Of the Supreme
Court incline to the belief that it may
be possible to write a crop-control act
within the Constitution. No one has
been able yet to control the weather.
and that problem remains.
Crop control in itself has both its
bright side and its darker side. If it
is possible to prevent glut of the
markets, 1t may be possible to prevent
a crash in the prices OF farm produce.
On the other hand, If this country
voluntarily cuts its production Of wheat,
cotton, hogs ETC., 1t is quite clear that
other nations will take up the slack,
producing more than they have in the
past. Already the cotton farmers OF
the South have been aroused by the
manner in which foreigners have pro-
duced more cotton. They see, eventually.
the curtailment Of great industry, on
which the South has lived for years.
King Cotton" they fear is about to
abdicate.
Whether crop control, in the new law,
shall be compulsory or by voluntary
action of the farmers is a new problem.
Compulsion does not fall gratefully on
the ears of many farmers. And yet,
it is argued, If there is no compulsion
minority of the farmers who do not
join in voluntary system can upset the
whole apple cart by producing large
crops. So the latest proposal is a mid
die of road plan, partly compulsory and
partly voluntary.
Whether the weather can be out
witted by law or whether the farmers
can grow richer by growing less are
problems that involve Mother Nature
and the laws Of economics. Apparently
Congress is bent on trying to accom-
plish both these desired ends.
Evening star., 1937-11-19
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES 3. TRAcEWELL,

The usual species Of spinacia eaten
as pot herb has been tried In every
conceivable way.
None does anything but leave 1t a
fiabby mass.
This is probably the most determined
Of all plants.
You can boil 1t, parboil 1t, beat 1t,
thump 1t, even step on It
You can soak 1t, flavor 1t, add other
things to it
You can bring in the art Of cookery
from the year after the big apes came
down from the trees, and you can use all
the herbs as seasoning in all the books
And after all your trouble and prepa-
rations. you will have
Spinach.
Sure thing
That is why any one who determined
that spinach is good for him might as
well buckle down and eat 1t as quickly
as possible.
1t is something to get through with,
not enjoy. The person who really likes
spinach, why, he would like onions, too!
One may wonder if all the powwow
about this pot herb is warranted.
No doubt there are other leafy things
which would give the eater as much iron.
To get enough iron for the daily require
ments out of spinach alone would re-
quire that one eat ten bushels of it.
Think Of that, in round numbers, if
you can bear to.
The Chenopodium family. OF which
spinach is member has given the world
several more or less successful edible
leaves.
None, however, has made its way in
the world as has this most determined
plant.
1t has swept the civilized and uncivil-
lied world, until today even persons who
despise its appearance and taste eat it
as often as they dare.
Heroes eat it once a day, but there
are not many heroes, after all.
Ordinary persons it will be found, can
eat it three times week, or maybe four,
If they approach heroic proportions.
The plain person with grudge against
spinach may be able to take 1t twice
week, or only once. If his determination is
at the vanishing point.
Women. of course, will eat anything,
II it is called salad.
The curious thing is that spinach sell
dom gets into this category
The only explanation is that women
really like the stuff.
Maybe they have read somewhere that
spinach is good for you"
Maybe-but who can solve such
problem?
Those who do not like this dish long
ago gave over worrying about it.
Theirs not to reason why, theirs but
to eat and
Try to get up enough nerve to face the
same platter few days hence. This is
a fate which seems to be reserved for
man alone. Other animals seldom eat
spinach. (They have too much sense)
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Spinach 10 more like medicine than
any other thing We eat.
1t Is a greenstun which must be faced,
whether one likes it or not, evidently.
Attempts to disguise 1t always end in
failure.
It is bitter medicine to Thousands Of
determined persons who eat 1t through
adherence to duty.
They approach it as medicine, and
nothing else; not for them is the heroic
attitude Of the Japanese physician who
boasted recently that he had consumed
twenty tons of 1t in ten years.
Determined people who eat spinach,
but do not like 1t. shudder at the mere
thought Of 50 much.
A man has to be hero. indeed, to do 1t.
Would spinach, by any other name, or
in any other form, seem quite so bad?
1t is an honest question, and 1t de-
serves an answer.
It would!
No amount OF cooking, navoring, dis
guising, seasoning, will make 1t anything
but spinach.
That horrible combination, poached
eggs on spinach, Is fit only for savages,
and they don't eat it.
The last time this column carried
dissertation on this subject, we received
many recipes from many noble ladies,
all Of whom thought we had never tasted
the particular combination they had in
mind.
Each dear lady had mental pictures Of
barrels of spinach being consumed there
after with the vastest relish.
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Nothing of the sort happened.
There is no way of spinach cooking
that has not been tried, and no way that
makes it anything but spinach.
The fellow who said that nobody can
eat it more than three times week was
about right.
Maybe it would have been closer to the
mark if he had said few can stomach 1t
more than twice q week.
Certainly three times is the limit for
all except spinach lovers.
AS queer as the phrase sounds. it is
true for some persons They love spin
plates for more.
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Spinach has an unpleasant tang. it
leaves bad taste in the mouth, fuzzy,
unpleasant feeling.
The tang of it cuts right through cot
tage cheese, or any other substance.
The more the consumer tries to drown
out the taste Of it, the closer it creeps
onto the famous taste buds
At last the diner sees it is no use
He pitches into the dish with one idea
to get it down as quickly as possible.
1t is not bad idea, at that, spinach
being what it is, and other foods being
what they are, and life being short, and
art long, as some one said.
Art is not long enough to make spinach
taste good
The art OF cooking is not big enough to
make spinach anything but what it is
spinach.
Even the name is ugly.
Evening star., 1937-11-19
Crops. More or Less.

The farm problem, like the poor, is
always with us. Today it is as acute as
ever. Committees of Congress are hard
at work on new farm bill-a crop con-
trol-ever- normal granary measure. Two
factors make the solution of this prob
lem extremely difficult. The first is the
weather, which either produces bounti-
full crops or short crops. The second is
the contraction of foreign markets.
The farmers have had other troubles.
They have been compelled to buy in
q protected market and to sell in a
market for which the wide world makes
the prices-so far as staple crops like
wheat are concerned. They have been
compelled to take the prices which have
been offered them, rather than the
prices which they would like, no matter
what the cost of production.
In former days efforts were made to
aid the farmers by protective tariffs on
their products. In some cases these
tariffs did the job, in others, as in the
case of wheat, they did not. In the
Coolidge administration - when the
United States had not long before been
taught to raise greater and greater
crops to supply food for the allied ma
tions as well as this country-the old
McNary- -Haugen equalization fee was
advanced as the ideal plan to save the
farmers. 1t was vetoed. During the
Hoover administration q serious at
tempt was made to aid the wheat and
cotton farmers particularly through the
Federal Farm Board and its purchases
Of these commodities. Sw7luses were
bought up in order to maintain prices
These Government-owned surpluses be-
came threat to future crops. Then
came the triple-A plan of the Roose.
welt administration, with its processing
taxes to pay the farmers who voluntarily
reduced their planting, or the number
Evening star., 1937-11-19
State Coal for Britain.

For years before King Edward VIII
epigrammed his path to abdication by
declaring that something must be done"
about conditions in the depressed areas
OF South Wales, the British coal in
dustry's plight was one of the govern
ment's chronic and major headaches.
Not only because of the vast working
population dependent upon it, but also
because coal is one of the United King
dom's principal articles of export, sue
cessive cabinets were at grips with the
difficulties which the ailing trade pre-
sented.
The Chamberlain government has
finally determined upon naturalization
as the panacea, following measures in
itiated during Mr.. Baldwin's prime min
istership. The decision is epochal in
that it is far-reaching step in state
socialism by Conservative regime. A
primary advantage claimed for the
project is that the government can close
down uneconomical collieries. It may
require q merger to promote efficiency
Of operation. Relieved of dependence
upon trade union or competitive con-
ditions, the state, actuated solely by
business considerations, will also be at
liberty to introduce modern production
methods and machinery. Finally there
will be united British front in the
worlds coal markets, and standardized
relations with labor. ,s
AS naturalization spasmodically is
advocated as the sanest solution Of
American coal problems, the British ex-
pertinent will be keenly watched over
here. Conditions are not quite alike in
the two countries. In Great Britain
many coal fields are entailed, have been
in possession of hereditary nobility for
centuries, and could not be freely bought
or sold. In many regions q state Of
semi-feudalism was thus perpetuated.
When naturalization was nrst
broached by the Baldwin government,
Evening star., 1937-11-19

Second only to the eagerness of Con-
gress to enact business relief legislation
is its determination to keep the coun-
try out Of war. Senators and Repre-
sentatives have returned to the Capitol
with an almost more urgent mandate
from the folks back home on that score
than in the matter Of remedial laws to
arrest the slump in trade and securities.
People in all sections of the country, it
appears, are disturbed, not to say
alarmed, by President Roosevelts Chi
cago speech suggesting quarantine Of
aggressive nations like Japan, Germany
and Italy and by his implication that
he would not be averse to having the
United States take a hand in curbing
the buzzings in congressional cloakrooms,
Uncle Sam, man, woman and child OF
him, is anti-war, virtually to the point
of peace at any price. Should the La
Toilette, Capper, or Ludlow resolutions
favoring constitutional amendment to
ban war until after national referen-
dunn of approval-except in case of in
vasion-be pressed to vote, there seems
little doubt that such proposal would
command overwhelming majorities in
both houses The refusal of our dele
CATION at Brussels to pledge strong"
American action in the Far Eastern mess
is clearly dictated by the administra-
tions knowledge that Congress would
come down like ton of bricks on any
thing remotely savoring of embodiment
in Europes or Asia s flsticuffs.
Even though the dove Of peace has
become the national bird, the United
States Army, pursuing the even tenor
of its professional way, has its eye Vigi-
lantly peeled on the two wars now rock
ing Mother Earth. In the State, War
and Navy Building and in the Munitions
Building, between which War Depart
ment headquarters are distributed, mid
night incandescents have blazed for
weeks now, as &c d. intelligence division
of the general staff, keeps in hourly
touch with events in Spain and China.
Head of the division is Col. E. R. War
ner McCabe, assistant chief of staff, for-
mer military attache in Prague and
Rome, who presides over subbranches
concerned with various geographical re-
gions. A distinguished member of Col.
McCabe's outfit is the general staff's
SOA NCOASC "
Strong, who for years represented the
Army at Geneva, during the Leagues
hopeless grapples with disarmament, in
cluding the 1892 World Conference.
&c Is" Far Eastern specialist is 1t. Col.
Rufus S. Bratton, former military at
tache at Toxic, whose associates is Maj.
William Mayer, one Of the Armys ex-
perts on China and a former language
officer in that country Intelligence"
for the Spanish war is directed by 1t.
Col. T. D. Finley, chief of the Western
European branch. Finley is graduate
of the celebrated French Tank School.
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Here's q yarn kicking around Capitol
Hill. Four famous women were recently
playing bridge. Signora Benito Musso-
lini led with duce, the Duchess OF
Windsor played king, Mrs. Charles A..
Lindbergh topped with an ace and Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt called for new
deal.
Representative Bruce Barton, Repub-
hcan, of New York promptly and hand
somely won his spurs as public speaker
and raconteur, when he addressed
Washington's most critical and cynical
Evening star., 1937-11-19
Anglo-U. S. Trade Pact.

Announcement that the United States
"contemplates" negotiation of trade
agreement with Great Britain marks a
milestone on the path toward that ECO
nomic appeasement'' which is a pre-
requisite of alienation of the world
political crisis. 1t is particularly welcome
to all those who see Secretary Hull's
trade for peace" principle contributing
to the worlds salvation.
Although contemplation of negotiation
II step forward, its announcement at
this particular moment, with the Brussels
conference in adjournment, bears a
stronger political than economic flavor.
It is no secret that the United States
has contemplated trade agreement with
Great Britain for year and a half.
Secretary Hull, in private and public
utterances, has revealed the desire to top
of his reciprocal trade structure with
British trade agreement, which would
hit at the heart of bilateralism, the
demise OF which as a world force is
essential to success for the Hull program.
Secretary Hull has been highly critical
of the British for their reluctance to
upport-actively-th trade agreements
program.
Coming as it does when Anglo-Ameri-
canFrench cooperation at Brussels has
proved blunt sword, the declaration
serves to reafirm the solidarity of the
London -Washington-Pari front before
the Berlin Rome Toxic axis. There is
serious question, however, whether it will
deter the dictators, or even give them
serious pause. 1t is paper against the
sword.
The chief stumbling block hitherto in
seeking basis for an Anglo-American
agreement has been imperial preference
and prior to Mr.. Hull's announcement
yesterday all evidence pointed away
from rather than toward a modification
Of that policy. Renewal of the Anglo
Canadian trade agreement last spring
intrenched imperial preference deeper
by retention of the British pledge to
maintain certain minimum margins be-
tween general and preferential tariff
rates. Where the preferential rates are
nil this prevents the lowering of the
general rate, thus limiting the possibility
Of concessions to the United States.
Mr.. Hull's statement that the problem
of the Ottawa system is one of the past,
and the announcement that supple
mental agreement will be negotiated
with Canada indicates that some cir
convention of preference has been ar
rived at, perhaps on the basis of Ca
madam REIMBURSEMENT of her rights under
Britain's preferential pledge in exchange
for more satisfactory treatment by the
United States on certain of her COM
modities.
The breach in the preferential system,
necessary for the benefit of American
agriculture, appears to have been made,
but Mr.. HulIs negotiators face the most
difficult task of the past four years in
arriving at specific rates and COM
modities to be included in the British
agreement
Evening star., 1937-11-19

A great deal has been said about secret
deals for the distribution of wealth and
power. Such considerations were bound
to arise. The question now is how far
they could be carried out.
Evening star., 1937-11-19

Taxation may hold a valuable in
f1uence in deciding how law-abiding
money may be spent for common pur-
pose by orderly people. Unlawfully &C
quired money may have to be studied
in order to define its power as it as
sumes some functions and neglects
others.
Evening star., 1937-11-19

pendent measure revising them and offer
it to the House for action.
Senator William Gibbs McAdoo of
California has been named a member
of the important Democratic Steering
Committee of the Senate. This commit
tee may have . real 1oA On It's hands
at the present and coming sessions.
Evening star., 1937-11-19
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
A Congressional Occurrence.

A Congressional Occurrence.
His mind sped forth to other things
When first he made a speech;
His fancy, with erratic wings,
Flew far beyond his reach.
He paused and stammered dismally,
And when he'd gotten through.
His mind was naught but vacancy
The hall was emptying, too.
But when his fond constituents came
The Records page to scan,
Where, well revised and not the same,
His rhetoric smoothly ran,
They cheered his name, both high and
low,
And the assurance passed
That that back number, Cicero,
Had found his match, at last
Evening star., 1937-11-19

Some of those old-timers at the Capt.
tai insist on looking into the arguments
instead of spending joyous hours looking
into mural decorations.
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New version OF old refrain: Trailing,
trailing, over the level plain, and many
tax must be repealed e'er we buy home
again"
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Discreet Restraint.

What position do you intend to take
In reference to this most important ques-
tion?"
MY thoughts at present." conflded
Senator Sorghum, "are not concerned
in taking position so much as in hold
ing on to fairly good Job"
Jud Tunkins says a friend in need is
terrible disappointment when he turns
out to be simply feller that was lookin'
for a bargain.
Evening star., 1937-11-19
More Regulations.

More Regulations.
The motorist murmurs forlorn
As he plods through the perilous
night,
"Oh, give the jaywalker a horn!
Compel him to carry a light"
Evening star., 1937-11-19
The Lure Of Luxuw.

The Lure Of Luxury.
Crimson Gulch has one of the finest
jails In the State"
YEP" replied Cactus Joe. 1T has
been a demoralizin' influence. Where
once the boys was afraid Of bein' took
up, the Jail now has waitin' list"
ITO be right in every argument" said
Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, would
make q man unpopular, with no
friends willing to converse with him."
Unself in Biz.
The man who always wants the best
OF every small affair
Will doom himself to sad unrest
Amid life of care.
It's wrong to play selfish trick
In any form Of biz.
If you get yours, you must not kick
When some one else gets his.
DE longer q word is" said Uncle
Eben, "de more feels kind O lattered
foh bein' given credit vii mebbe KNOWN
what It means"
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