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Evening star., 1937-10-27

been eight years in Office will prove
unfortunate, If not disastrous.
X
"* To recapitulate: am not, nor
have I been. a candidate for a renomina-
ton. I would not accept nomination If
it we're rendered unless it should come
under such circumstances as to make
it an imperative duty-circumstance
not likely to arise" In December 1875
the House of Representatives BY vote
of 234 to 18. which included nearly half
the Republican membership. passed
resolution declaring against a third
term as 'unwise. unpatriotic and fraught
with peril to our free institutions" At
the ensuing Republican National Con-
vention of 1876 at Cincinnati. Ruther-
ford B. Hayes was nominated for Presi-
dent. Four years later, at the Chicago
convention of 1880, Grant on the thirty
fifth ballot, just preceding Gar1eld's
nomination. received 313 votes to Gar
fields so. On the final ballot. resulting
in Garfeld's choice with 399 votes,
Grant still received 306.
Opinion differs among Washington
politicos who commuted to Baltimore for
a look at I'D Rather Be Right'-differs
as to whether or not it is legitimate
satire. Even some who don't burn in
cense before the Roosevelt shrine think
the play takes indefensibly undignified
and disrespectful liberties with the Presi-
dent. his family, his cabinet and the
Supreme Court. Others contend that
the stage, like the press. radio and the
screen. is a proper instrument for mold
ing public opinion. AS ridicule and irony,
even savage cartoonery and caricature.
have long been accepted as permissible
weapons in American political contro-
versy, the defenders of Messrs. Kauf-
man, Hart and Cohan argue that they
have committed no mortal sin in amiably
grilling the administration and its per-
sonnel from the footlightS.
X x y
New Dealers of high and low degree
ardently pray for A. F.. of L.-C. 1. O.
peace. 1t will be the best headache
cure the President and his administra-
ton have experienced in many day.
At the height of John l.. Lewis sit-doWn
orgy last winter and spring, the i'm
preston was deep-rooted that F. D. r.
reserved his most expansive smiles and
sweetest favors for the c. 1. O., but evi-
dence was not lacking that in fact ne
was leaning backward trying to preserve
a punctilious neutrality as between the
Lewis and Green cohorts. AS far as
fraternal strife within workers own
ranks is concerned. it's safe to guess
that the Presidents attitude is the
same as it was toward the Squabbling
elements in industry and labor-"a
plague on both your houses" The
Democrats-and the Republicans, no
less-prefer to go into the 1898 and
1910 campaigns without split In or
ganized labor. Both parties would view
with alarm a third party purporting to
be an all-labor organization.
X
In this column on October % it was
enormously stated that Senator Francis
T. Maloney, Democrat, of Connecticut
is "up for reelection" Mr. Maloney's
term does not expire until 1941.
copyright, 1872
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cation. The third is that there shall be
called a national convention comprising
through delegates the organizations rep
resented in both the A. F. OF l.. and the
C. I. O., for the purpose of approving
the agreement and for working out the
necessary rules to guarantee its fulfill
ment.
In briefer terms, the proposal of the
C. 1. O., as a measure of peace, is that
the A. F. OF L. absorb the C. I. o. on
terms that will make the C. /. o. the
dominant factor, with the C. /. o. prin-
ciples and program the fundamental law
of labor organization.
The American Mirabeau of labor has
sounded the slogan of the Mirabeau of
France. AS a peace" proposal his mes
sage to the A. F. of L. is demand for
unconditional surrender. That it will
be needed and its command obeyed is
hardly likely. Indeed, it is quite well
assured that the reply of the A. F. of l..
will be prompt and emphatic negative.
If that is in fact the answer, then the
war is on, and it will be a costly war,
costly to both sides and perhaps to the
American people, who must always pay
the bill for such affairs.
Evening star., 1937-10-27
L'Afaire iceland.

Americans who made the acquaintance
in Washington last June OF Princeton
educated Paul van iceland, premier of
Belgium, are loathe to believe that bril-
liant young statesmen guilty Of the
financial dismeanorS with which he is
charged and which have just LED to the
resignation of himself and his entire
cabinet. Six months ago M. van iceland
political contest in modern Belgian his
tory. The decisive defeat of his arch
foe, the ReXist party leader, Leon De-
grelle, left bitter scars and ranking en-
mites. The indictment that forced the
premier into retirement is understood
to be mainly of ReXist origin. The fact
that it was fully aired in parliament
tory debate on September 7, ending in
a vote of confidence for M. van iceland
after he had spoken in his own defense,
strengthens the faith of his friends that
he will emerge fully vindicated from
what he himself brands IAN odious cam
paign, unworthy of self-respecting
country"
Broadly, the accusations are that since
he resigned the vice governorship of the
National Bank of Belgium in 1882,
S25,000-a-year post, to become premier
at a fifth of that salary, M. van Zee
land has received regular and substantial
bonuses from the bank contrary to law.
The funds were said to be derived from
a so-called pool" Of undistrlbuted
profits, and there are allegations that
other bank monies, disguised in the
books under misleading entries, found
their way to cabinet ministers, inf1uen-
tial politicians and newspapers. In
volved in the mesh of charges is the
Barmat scandal, concerning the shady
affairs of a German emigre flnancer OF
that name. The plot thickened on Mon
day, when it became known that General
Etienne, a retired army officer and bank
director, had committed suicide. He
was about to give court testimony con-
cerning his activities as an intermediary
between Belgian high finance and GER
tain political figures.
M. van zeelands departure from Office
has already had one important inter-
national consequence. 1t has caused
the postponement at least until Novem-
her 3, and perhaps later, of the Nine
Power Conference scheduled to open in
Brussels on October 80. The former
premier's complete disappearance from
public life would be loss not only to
Belgium, but to Europe, for he had
already been cast by Great Britain and
France for a stellar role as peace
maker, especially in the economic field,
in which he is a recognized authority.
He visited the United States in that
capacity. His American friends await
hopefully and sympathetically M. van
Zeeland's efforts to clear his name and
resume his career of usefulness in a
Europe that can i'll spare men of his
democratic ideals and practical accom-
plishments.
Evening star., 1937-10-27

Those who start bird feeding opera
tions this fall by trapping English SPAR
rows are making very poor beginning.
They are entering a road which neces-
sarily leads too far
IF they are logical, ard really want
to remove all the enemies" OF the better
songsters. they will have to extend their
operations, as follows:
They must trap the hawks.
Then they must trap the squirrels.
Next they must trap pigeons.
Cats must be trapped next.
Then small boys with air rifles must
be caughtl
If these latter steps are illogical, so are
the first ones.
There is absolutely no need for trap
ping anything.
1t is an idea which almost invariably
comes to the beginner, who usually in
time comes to two more wholesome real
izations:
/. That hurt to other creatures cannot
be a real part of conservation.
2. That it is unnecessary.
1t is a curious thing that so many
things in modern life are unescapably
ullllCNCoooAJ'
The excess speed of automobiles, for
one thing.
Drivers rush headlong down the street,
at IS miles or 40 miles an hour, only
to be stopped by red light, anyway.
The idea that English sparrowS always
drive away rarer and better birds IS
mainly untrue, yet it almost always
comes to the inexperienced.
Months of bird observations will show
that these members of the great SPAR
row family cannot be said to drive away
the better birds.
What happens is that the efficient
sparroWs. do manage to get the larger
share of the grain and seed put out.
They do this because there are so
many of them.
God must love the poor" wise
person said, because He made so many
of them
ANY feeding station in time will show
large proportion of sparrows, and this
whether it is located in suburbs or city.
The other birds, the chickadees and
the titmice, the cardinals and the nut
matches, and many others, are there, too,
but they will require closer looking to
find, owing to the number of sparrowS.
4
The first lesson the bird feeder must
learn, if his recreation is to be really
happy, is that Nature intended all her
creatures to live together. Harm to
them is incidental.
The first inclination Of the bird feeder
is to do away, in ruthless manner, with
all forms OF life which interfere with
the perfect functioning of the feeding
station.
Alas, that God himself has not made
life so.
The bird conscious person who finds
himself getting "all het up because
pigeons manage to eat the largest part
of the food he puts out will deprive
himself of much Of the happiness which
the spectacle ought to bring him.
Evening star., 1937-10-27
A Question of Principle.

A political party in the United States
must offer real service to the people
if it is to survive. It must stand for
principles and policies. 1t must be
affirmative, not negative. This is what
former President Herbert Hoover told
the Republicans of the country in a
speech in Boston last night. 1t was
his argument in favor of the proposed
Republican national conference before
the congressional elections next year,
at which the party may draft set OF
principles.
Unless a political party does stand
for principle, unless it is willing to fight
for principle, it merely represents an
other group trying to elbow its way to
the public trough, as Mr.. Hoover aptly
pointed out. In the opinion OF the
former President, there are plenty of
principles which the Republican party
may advance. 1t may declare itself
against creeping collectivism" which he
insists is gift of the Roosevelt New Deal.
1t may declare for better morals IN
government and governmental methods.
1t may declare for true liberalism" and
for the protection of private enterprise.
Mr.. Hoover pointed the way. His in
terest in the erection of a strong party
in opposition to the present trend OF
government is his interest in better gov
ernment and in the preservation OF the
American form of government and
American freedom. In an effort to I'M
press upon the people that he is not
serving a personal interest in fostering
the plan for Republican national con-
ference, Mr. Hoover said: Il do not
want any public office There is only
one public office to which Mr.. Hoover
might be considered to aspire-the pres
idency. His statement, therefore, will
remove the uspicion-perhaps-o those
in the Republican party who do not wish
to give Mr.. Hoover another presidential
nomination. There will still undoubtedly
be doubling Thomases who believe that
Mr.. Hoover would accept preslden-
: tial nomination if it came to him.
It is one thing, however, to accept NOM
nation, and another to go out in search
of such nomination.
Mr.. Hoover's arraignment Of the New
dealers, expressed in a series OF ques-
tions. was both cutting and complete.
His design, however, was not merely to
attack the Roosevelt administration, but
to point the way to affirmative position
which might be taken by the Republicans.
And surely if the Republican party is
s to regain the confidence of the people it
must not only become vocal; 1t must
show by its actions that it stands for
@Sprinciple-and where it stands on the
burning issues of the day.
: Tt may be that "they also serve who
only stand and wait" on some occasions.
But this is no day in which to stand
and wait-until the steam roller has run
over the people and their liberties. The
Republican party has an opportunity,
+, which it may or may not grasp. Those
SRepublicans who are inclined merely to
sssit back and give the New Dealers rope,
in the hope they will hang themselves,
may awaken eventually to the fact they
have waited too long.
Evening star., 1937-10-27
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Delusions of Grandeur.

Delusions of Grandeur.
Most of us have manner of assuming
that we are
Superior to our station, by distance
very far.
Be gentle with your fellow man, as far
as you can go.
It's always wise to humor him who tries
to give the show.
So, it's Hello, Alexander"
AS we cross him on the street,
And "Napoleon-lets meander
To some sociable retreat!"
We let our wandering fancies roam at
egotistic ease.
Each man who quarrels with friend wife
thinks he's Socrates
And every one who is engaged on super
fetal strife
Thinks he's Julius Caesar, with a
mission great in life.
So, it's "Howdy, King" when greeting
The gay figure that you cut
Though we suspect we're meeting
Only just another nut"
Evening star., 1937-10-27
Anomaly of DIR. Schacht.

In the midst of National Socialist
regime so totalitarian and all-inclusive
that it brooks no whisper of criticism
from the masses it regiments, DR.. HAL
mar Schacht is in the exasperating posi-
ton of being forced to remain within
circle in opposition to which he has been
vociferous.
Hitlerian authorities of Germany have
used arrest, persecution and sometimes
physical violence to suppress the outcry
of the church-Protestant and Catholic
against encroachments of the state
upon ecclesiastical authority, in spite OF
the enthusiasm of many clergymen for
the Nazi movement. But at the same
time these authorities insist on keeping
in a key post in Nazi ofacialdom man
who not only is not Nazi but is strong
ly, even violently, opposed to the extent
of German rearmament, which consti-
tutes the chief pillar of Naziism.
DR.. Schacht, master mind of German
finance, has been able through more
than three years as relcnmlnSter lor
economics to preserve German economy
not only from determined attacks from
abroad, but from the self-weakening
processes of National Socialism. But he
has never ceased warning Hitler that
German resources are too meager for
a long g-continued diversion of economic
strength into unproductive paths OF re-
armament. Cannon, rifles, machine guns
and ammunition are excellent articles
of export in payment for raw materials,
but when retained for reinforcement OF
German armed strength they are dead
weight on industries which need more
capital for productive goods and for pur-
chase of raw stuffs to feed to this equip
ment and to keep labor employed.
But DR.. schacht has been IN the
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anomalous position Of the unheeded
prophet. seeing his counsel blithely
spurned while his repeated efforts to
shake the responsibilities of preserving
German economy have met just as fire.
quent rebuffs. He yesterday announced
that he was finally and definitely
through with the economic ministry
which he has guided since 1884, and that
he was moving to the Reichsbank, the
presidency of which he intends to retain,
for the present, but Nazi officials prompt
ly denied that DR.. Schacht's departure
had been decided upon. His resignation
has been reported frequently in the past.
Vino is right now?
Such a situation is contrary to all ira
ditional concepts of public office. Per-
haps it is just another touch to the de-
struction of democratic, parliamentary
practices which the Nazis have carried
out in the past five years. Ministerial
responsibility has generally been re-
garded as founded upon implicit con-
fidence. When that confidence dimin-
ishes to the point that the advice OF
minister is consistently ignored it has
usually been deemed time for the min
lister TO resign in favor of one who holds
the confidence of the sovereign power.
DR.. Schacht has provided the keel for
a German ship of state buffeted by a
hurricane of nationaliSm. Without his
skill in promoting Germanys foreign
trade in the face of towering tariff and
quota barriers, and hostility Of foreign
governments to German debt defaults
and trade subsidies, Germany would
lack the "Devisen" it needs to purchase
raw goods for the rearmament' program.
A stanch advocate of bilateral trade bal
ancing as the only way out for Germany,
although he hates it on principle, DR..
Schacht has missed no opportunity to
further the NaZi demand for return OF
the war-lost colonies. Foreign economists
take violent issue with both these points
but concede the correctness of his dag
nosis that Germany must use larger
share of her growing volume of foreign
exchange for raw materials and capital
goods rather than for arms if she hopes
to keep her industry operating and her
workers employed.
Evening star., 1937-10-27
Audacity.

sp&<In the course of the French Revolu-
ton Gabriel Honore Riquetti Mirabeau,
@who became known as the Demos
themes" of that convulsive overturn, de-
clared as the keynote of the uprising,
"Audacity, again audacity, always au-
dacity." He had told the grand master
of ceremonies representing the King, who
had communicated the royal will to the
Assembly Go and tell your master that
we are here by the will of the people and
that no one shall drive us out except by
the force of bayonets.'
= John l.. Lewis adopts the Mirabeau
attitude in his proposals for peace be-
tween the Committee for Industrial Or
rarlization, which he heads, and the
American Federation of Labor, now in
conference through representatives in
an effort to find way to peace. He Of
fers as his peace terms three PROPOSE
( tfnns. The first is that the A. F. of l..
shall declare as one of its fundamental
~poicies that the organization OF the
workers shall be effectuated only on an
industrial basis-which is the essential
principle of the c. I. o. The second is
that there shall be created within the
A..F. of L. department to be known as
the c. I. O., to be completely autonomous,
operating under its own departmental
constitution and directed by its own
properly designated officers, having COM
plete and sole jurisdiction over the work
ers In the industries of mass production,
marine, public utilities and basic fabri-
Evening star., 1937-10-27
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Squirrels scatter much of the seed and
will be able to get at it unless the most
careful ingenuity is exercised in pre-
venting them, and even then it will be
a waste Of time and material, for there
are few more interesting creatures in
the winter scene than these.
y 4
The experienced bird caterer soon
finds out that trapping sparrows, for
instance, is perfectly thankless job
Now that have trapped them, what
shall I do with them?" asked the lady.
Turn them loose" came the instant
answer 81 thought you would say that"
she replied, but the answer was not one
of sentiment, but of experience.
There is nothing more disheartenlng
than to feed birds, out OF kindness OF
heart, and then devote time and patience
trapping and killing one form of bird,
which many persons learn to admire
immensely in time for its efficiency, its
persistency and its genuine beauty.
When one who tries to be kind turns
portion of that energy toward brutality,
through thoughts of eudo-necesslty,
he is really hurting himself.
The more sparrows trapped, the more
there are to be trapped. 1t is never
ending hurt.
Life cannot be perfect. That is what
Heaven is for
Here no man ever found perfection,
and no bird friend will find it in his
garden.
A hawk appears. Well, what can be
done about it? Shoot it?
Almost always the small birds see it
first and are on the wing before it
alights in nearby tree. 1t is amazing
how well they protect themselves.
The first crack of a rifle in any neigh
borhood sends every bird flying, to re-
main away all the rest of the day.
A wandering cat may catch a bird
but so do dogs.
All bird enemies come and go.
Such situations have way OF COR
recting themselves.
Building in a neighborhood may scare
away scores of birds and keep them
away until the hammering is over.
One can't trap carpenters!
There is no need for trapping any
| thing. 1t is against the best dictates
| of the garden. 1t is unnecessary. 1t
| i'll suits the nature which finds relaXa-
| ton and satisfaction IN extending a
helping hand to the birds and other
small creatures of the city winter scene.
What a satisfaction most of the crea-
lures are, provided the observer gets
himself into the right frame of mind,
so that he can see their interest and
| beauty as they really are.
Then he will appreciate English spar
rows as we'll as chickadees.
We love the chickadees, but can hon
estly say that we love the English spar
rows just as well; in fact, no memory
of three years of bird feeding is more
| satisfactory than that of the sparrows
singing in the shrubbery around the
| porch. lifting their voices in harmony
with that of radio soprano. That was
thrilling and ennobling scene and
musical experience, and we have to
! thank English sparrows for it.
Evening star., 1937-10-27
Ideal Prison Is No Prison.
From the Worcester Gazette.


Instead of the present system of prisons
for handling convicted criminals San
ford Bates would like to substitute
system of penal colonies. Mr.. Bates.
who is now head of the Boys Clubs of
America and who was once commissioner
of correction in Massachusetts, and,
later, director of Federal prisons, told
the American Prison Association the
other day that prisoners cannot be re-
stored if they are continually reminded
by guns, guards and rigid regulations
what bad men they are"
The first impulse of many who observe
this idea of Mr.. Bates will be. of course,
to condemn it as mollycoddlish, senti-
mental and impractical. 1t is important
to recognize, however, that he puts forth
his suggestion more as an ideal than
something to be accomplished overnight
Some progress has already been made
toward that ideal method of treating
criminals, else we should still have
torture chambers dungeons and a
schedule of extreme punishments for
minor offenses.
The progress is painfully slow, and
often discouraging. Abuses of parole
and incompetence in employing it have
held that potentially valuable corrective
device up to popular ridicule. Mistakes
are made. But the ideal of treating
criminals constructively, rather than
with pain and worse, still stands.
The problem at present is one of segre-
cation, distinguishing the redeemable
from the irredeemable. That is where
even the most expert penologists too
often slip Yet the purpose generally
stated by Mr.. Bates is, with proper care
to protect society from those who could
injure it, being slowly carried out.
Evening star., 1937-10-27
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Evening star., 1937-10-27

A clear day is one OF the benefits for
which world is grateful. AS time goes
on even the weather turns for guidance
to new authorities who are compelled
ito admit that they know little about it.
Bombardments are carried on without
scientific study OF their effects on neigh
boring territory. 1t may be necessary
to talk about the weather and to take
the subject seriously.
Evening star., 1937-10-27

The popularity of Mr.. Jim Farley is
great and expansive, but he is not al
ways successful in making every situa-
ton one in which personal friendships
count while even politics may be for
gotten.
Evening star., 1937-10-27

The great responsibilities frequently
transferred to youthful personages cause
a suspicion that casual remarks may
have been taken too seriously, while an
effort to conciliate all interests involved
in a great question has been only
partially studied.