f~ ■ — 1 ■ ■■■■*-■ ■■ iTHE EVENING STAR whole public seems to know about it. confirming in his high position a map Correction is practically impossible. who is capable of admiring Baiaac. Sidelights With Sunday Morning Edition. PRESERVING HUMAN VALUES Capital Federal Government Commissions Nero did not fiddle While Rome There must be peril in voting for a man 11 | WASHINGTON, D. C. burned: Sherman did not say, "War Is who Is familiar with the writings Of BY WILL P. KENNEDY. hell”; William Tell did not shoot an Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN. D. D, LL. D, BY FREDERIC J. BASKIN. SUNDAY.October 2, 1932 In George Washington's boyhood home of his Marie apple oil the brow son; and Arnold Bennett. Advertise Mr. Bishop of Washington. town, less than to miles from this In- Antoinette did not advise the Paris Hoover’s penchant for worthwhile lit- With a election ap- In comparison President Hoover’s hand- W. Editor comparable city he founded, they axe presidential THEODORE NOYES.... ful does not loom so large. mob to eat cake if it could not get erature, blazon It on the billboards "It not the life more than meat, and America have never risen to greater October to proaching, the country resounds with preparing, on Sunday, 16, The term commission Is somewhat bread: Oen. was not responsi- of the cities the body than raimentt" heights of power and Influence than manner of Pershing big and the main celebrate the 155th of re- heated discussions of the a The Evening Star Newspaper Company when we have responded to some great anniversary loosely used to designate wide variety ble for "Lafayette, we are here.” Rumor of travel the At a notable meeting held In Wash- and the of been furnished Business Office: highways throughout emergency. In the role of the Oood ligious liberty separation government which has of bodies. There are two general classi- 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. In the Interests of a with the clerioal is the publisher of these canards: hinterland, and sure as fate Mr. ington recently Samaritan, where we hare selflessly church and state, by this administration. Since Presi- fications which are obvious, the com- We* Tori Office: 11Q East 42nd Bt. Nation-wide effort to give relief to 25 Office: and and an- heads of more than religious de- mission intended to be permanent, such Chlcato Lake Michigan Building. rumor is their circulation manager, and Hoover will be defeated. The people those who have been most seriously generously recognized dent Hoover took office there has been European Office: 14 Regent St., London, swered the cry of the less fortunate or nominations participating. as the Interstate Commerce Commission Ehulahd. rumor is beyond the reach of criticism. do not want a scholar In the White affected by the widespread unemploy- in 1777 an unusual amount of comment among unfortunate, we have literally redis- It was in Fredericksburg, Va., or the Federal Radio Commission, and f _____ ment Mr. Newton D. Balter, in most Instances, probably, no par- House. situation, that the committee of distinguished citizens and in the bodies, such as the Wicker- of covered our souls. Our altruistic and press concerning temporary Within the chairman of the conference, spoke Thomas Jeffer- Rate by Carrier City. ticular harm is done; in others, Shake- for the the Christian spirit has been made more Virginians, headed by the number of commissions he has sham Law Enforcement Commission, Wie Evening Star.45c per month Unfortunately opposition, the urgent need of preserving, at all evident to us in of shadow and son, drew the act of religious liberty. named. It cornea as of a created for the purpose of performing a The Evening and Sunday Star speare’s judgment applies: he “human values.” days something Republicans would have available an costs, what called more reasons than Both (*hen 4 per month misfortune than in days of sunshine But for many surprise, therefore, to discover, upon definite task and then expiring. Sundays).60c Rumor Is a pipe His contention was that, while It wa* The Evening and Sunday Star excellent counter-irritant. They coukl and prosperity. Among the perils of this, as our good friends Gov. John G. investigation, that his administration types are created by law and at public (when 5 Sundays).65c ner month Blown by surmises, Jealousies, conjec- Indispensable every effort should be cite the Intellectual attainments of our age is the declaration so Pollard and former Representative R. has fallen far below the average of expense. The Sunday Star.5c per cop 1 tures, Mr. made to meet pressing physical needs, present Collection made at the end of each month. frequently heard, that some new Walton Moore point out, Fredericksburg twentieth century administrations in the The Interstate Commerce Commission And of so easy and so plain a stop Hoover's rivals. Gov. Roosevelt Is a we would signally fail of our if Orders may be sent In by mail or telephone purpose formula that has to do with bettering with good reason claims to be "Amer- naming of such bodies. or the Federal Trade Commision also NAtional 5000. That the blunt monster with uncount- of we relaxed our efforts In giving fresh- graduate both Harvard and Colum- some ica’s mo6t historic city.” From early What such a does out is fall into the category of regulatory ed heads. ened Impulse and direction to those physical conditions, far-reaching study bring owns a at readjustment of our social and eco- Colonial days Fredericksburg has been that, viewing the situation since 1901, bodies. They have definite powers in Rate Mall—Payable in Advance. The still-discordant wavering multitude, bia, splendid library, and, important institutions that have to do by nomic system, some moratorium that the center of events that have there is reason for the statement that relation to the regulation of the Nation’s Maryland and Can play upon it. least in recent years, has done more with the moral and spiritual betterment1 bome( . for the while will relieve us of a vital in the of the Na- the In some Such a as the Wicker- our the morale press- part history Republic has. sort, become affairs. body 1 mo 85c than the of people. To sustain Dally and Sunday_1 yr.. $10.00: Harmless or not, rumor Is a danger- reading President. Mr. some sedative that for tion—too often overlooked. a Government commission. sham Commission is a fact-finding Daily only .1 yr., $8 00: 1 mo 50c of any army is to render it efficient. By ing obligations, by Thomas is an alumnus of Princeton and a eases the will of In 1727 the town was laid While President Hoover has commission, with no powers beyond Sunday only .1 yr., $4.00; 1 mo., 40c ous quanlty. It may make wicked mis- the same token, to sustain the morale period pain, prove officially named a permanent value. The large question out and named in honor of Frederick, between 30 and 40 the those of gathering data and making chief. Tacitus knew that “it some- has written long list of books. Former of a nation is indispensable to Its commissions, AH Other States and Canada. that confronts us is, can we effect Prince of Wales. It was to Fredericks- average number for each administra- recommendations. Gov. Smith, for whom security, happiness and permanence. advisory times even elects a man.” In the pres- many independ- either In our individual or life that came as tion since the turn of Dally and Sunday.. .1 yr., $12 00: 1 mo., $1.00 We are bound to think in these days corporate burg George Washington the century has ent are said to a Leans to Semi-Private Commission. Dally only .1 yr $8 00; 1 mo.. 16c ent campaign there are countless ru- spirits express prefer- of the bread-and-butter problem. The anything that approximates wholesome a youth, grew to manhood, and became been 60. About 500 commissions have Sunday only.1 yr.. $5.00: 1 mo.. 60c and conditions without member the Masonic order. Ken- been created Still another classification may be mors about both the candi- ence, is by no means the ignoramus he claims of those who have sus- satisfying giv- a of and appointed since the principal pressing of bodies re- ing moral and spiritual concerns the more, built in 1752, the home of Betty beginning of President Roosevelt’s ad- listed, a classification does not to has been misrepresented to be—he edits tained the greatest suffering In this Member of the Associated Press. dates. Washington appear of In our as to as opposed to unparalleled crisis must be met and It place primacy system? Lewis, the only sister of George Wash- ministration in 1901. It is President stricted subjects, The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled be their source, but in the nature of a magatine and reads De Tocquevtile! The Master’s affirmation that "The the home of his mother, Mary Wilson who holds the all-time those having wider fields. Of the lat- of all ne*s dis- cannot be that this Nation will fall In ington; presi- to the use for republicatton As a matter of all life Is more than meat and the the Tavern; dential ter classification the Research Com- patches credited to It or not otherwise cred- things the Capital eventually hears them. fact, the candidates the emergency. The measure of our body Washington; Rising Sun record for naming special com- Is axiomatic. Nations on Social Trends is, perhaps, ited in this paper and also the locel ne#s are intellectuals. Resent it u sacrifice has not as yet satisfied the than raiment," the law office, and the missions. He has no less than 160 to mittee herein. All rights of publication of It goes without saying that no sensi- they to reach out in published demands that face us on every can survive misfortunes and disasters Hugh Mercer Apothecary Shop are pre- his credit. Of these, 64 were named typical. It is expected gpectal dispatches herein art also reserved. ble citizen should be either the may, the commonalty have no choice urgent not limit itself pro- hand. We believe that we are learn- that affect their physical comfort, but served as national shrines. in his first administration and 96 in many directions and to favor a of of law enforcement, as moter or the dupe of baseless misrepre- but book man of one kind or lessons today that must prove of they cannot survive the depletion Other places of historic Interest are his second. to the question ing assets. Ttoat Commission did. or to sentation. another. The next President will be a incalculable value to us and prepare their moral and spiritual the only home In America of John Paul President Roosevelt may be regarded the Wtckersham the President's Pressure of Idle Money. us to meet the that “man shall not live bread alone” Jones, the home of Matthew Fontaine as having set the fashion of any special field, like Ten thousand exist for highbrow. Of eourae, that is a great complex problems by referring newspapers has been made evident repeatedly In the the seas: the to Committee on Recent Economic changes While fools rush in—with pre- clamorously call for solution. To Maury, pathfinder of important matters commissions. In only the of the authentic from the Mam Street of course of Commit- purpose reporting pity, point answer In the affirmative the age-old the history. old slave block, Presbyterian Church, the nineteenth century Congress as a or the President's Emergency dictions of economic revival—where of news of people and events. Perforce, view, but it might be worse. Trained question, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Mr. Baker's statement Is the word with two cannon balls in one of its whole or committees of Congress, either tee on Unemployment. their fear to tread, and calls for a statesman and wide observer. The St. Church and or were There are bodies created for the pur- angels, wings singed, are held for what brains in a Statesman's head may be is Imperatively demanded columns; George’s standing special, depended upon they responsible they of human values is our of with busi- there are manifestations on every hand an answer adequate to the needs pre- preservation burying ground, the , the to do all that was necessary In the way pose co-operating private It is rather a that mere deplored and regretted, but the thing we are print. pity sented. chief concern. When through monument to Mary Washington. of fact-finding and regulation. To be ness to such an extent that they are of theories that in the past have been of gossip cannot be similarly controlled. that could not be tolerated would be an That the great Master of men was with this tragic business easing Fredericksburg was the scene of the sure, such bodies as the interstate almost semi-private in character. Such “work” toward and human burdens we trust we shall have National Timber Con- found to recovery, unsympathetic heart In a statesman's acutely sensitive to the physical needs greatest battles of the Civil War. The Commerce Commission had been erect- a body is the Is Illus- done our work so well that we shall National historic M a ed to remain servation Board or the Federal Oil there is no good reason to believe that It a man of men and women amply Cemetery, ryes earlier, as permanent ad- bosom, just happens that' to America those the com- The Pope and Mexico. trated in the gospel narrative. Every- have preserved great Heights and the Stone Wall are in juncts of the Government, and boundary Conservation Board. Most of the same theories will not “work" again. on be as that shall brought up Shakespeare may where and under all conditions He elements of strength guar- walking distance. Nearby are the bat- and claims commissions were named to missions well known to the public have Three years ago in June, 1929. Mex- of mis- One of these theories is that the pres- kindly, generous, helpful and Wise as a heard the call of those who suffered antee her against such periods tlefields of Salem Church, Chancellors- handle specific tasks. as members appointees named for £ ico and the Vatican at the end of a The broken bodies, fortune as the one through which we ville (where 8tonewaH Jackson was term at a fixed while others sure of idle money in banks, the pres- man brought up on dime novels. and responded to It. given salary, and acrimonious conflict and the broken minds of men are now passing. Every consistent ef- the Necessity Existed. have as members men who remain pri- sure from the effort to make long concluded yes, wounded), Wilderness, Bloody Angle, springing -■ »*. --- fort must be made to burdens vate receive no a modus which were His quest and to them He min- lighten 8potsylvania Court House and Hamil- There was reason for introduction of citizens and salary. idle to work, always vivendi essayed to reg- endeavor must be such money go istered out of the fullness of His un- and every consistent tons Crossing. Within this space more such a method. The end of the nine- The United States Tariff Commission ularize their relations on something Clerk Trimble's Dilemma. to us our morals as precedes recovery. It was found that derstanding love. To emulate His ex- made to preserve men were engaged and there were more teenth century and the beginning of the is a good example of the wholly official approximating a durable basis. If Clerk of the House we are called today. We of a people. casualties than there had twentieth witnessed on the American1 class and the Board of Indian Com- in the recoveries after the business de- South Trimble ample ___ previously American includ- been on any similar area in the whole scene a multiplication of not missioners of the latter. of other notably in Friendly Influences, was confronted by a theory • month problems pressions years, wide world. The Government is build- theretofore bothersome. The rise of The Wickersham Law Enforcement ing those of that indefatigable pacifi- when he considered all the and 1885, 1894, 1908 and 1915, a large ac- ago pros ing a battlefield park, marking and pre- the corporations, the perplexity of labor Commission attracted probably as much the late Ambassador Returns From Western Tour cumulation of excess reserves—which cator, Dwight cons of releasing for publication the Roosevelt serving the battle lines, which is to difficulties, new aspects of foreign re- attention as any other of President a role in the serve as a great open-air school for lations from our first Hoover's creations because of the wide reserves above those by Morrow, played peace list of loans by the Reconstruction resulting Imperial are required of West Point Acad- the Interest in its chief settlement. Little has been in East graduates Military war, Spanish-American War, to- subject—prohibi- the banks was followed re- heard In Finance Corporation, he is now con- To Face Two Problems law—In by emy and National Guard and State gether with many new departures in tion. But he also instigated the crea- the United States in the interval to Large newed extensions of credit and the fronted by a condition. Aside from the Militia officers. the economic and social life of the tion of the Federal Farm Board, a body that it was miles from Fredericks- which has had a ultimate revival of business. suggest not working out. debatable element of whether the law Thirty-seven country, presented so many govern- i continuing existence. friends is the of The Conference cn Child Health and Pope Pius XI has ex- him to make the lists BY WILLIAM HARD. Western friends to his Eastern burg Wakefield, birthplace mental problems that special ways of i It is relatively easy to understand dramatically required public, 1 and supporters and contributors, such Washington, and a couple of miles be- handling them had to be found. Special Protection was another commission ap- In of de- ploded the theory that Mexlcan-Vat- there wss the untried theory of whether of why this should be so. times NEW YORK. October 1—The big as Owen D. Young, the alleged “brains" yond is Stratford, the birthplace Gen. commissions seemed to answer the need. pointed by Mr. Hoover, and the Advis- ican affairs can be as is one the mili- pression and panic, with banks antici- regarded amicably the publication of the lists would do political event here at this moment of the alleged “power trust"; Bernard Robert E Lee, of greatest In his first administration President ory Commission on Illiteracy, these or the return of Qov. Roosevelt from his Wall Street Wil- tary leaders of all times. Roosevelt created 37 commissions and into the class of demands for withdrawals and permanently adjusted. On Friday any harm. Some said it would, and M. Baruch. operator; falling semi-private pating Western tour He undertook it entirely eminent industrialist, * * * * in his second no less his bodies, the members no last his holiness issued a 4.000-word liam H. Woodin. than 70. In j receiving pay. to maintain a high degree of some said it would not. seeking contrary to the advice of mo6t of his who has contributed $10,000 to the Just now. when the special House single administration President Taft ; In fact. President Hoover has leaned encyclical letter to Catholic bishops, But now. to Chairman liquidity, credit becomes frozen, and according closest political intimates. They now Roosevelt campaign chest, and Vincent investigating committee, headed by was responsible for 63 new bodies. to the semi-private rather than the full in which he accused the Mexican themselves that he had who official of commission. He named when credit freezes business enterprise gov- Pomerene of the Reconstruction Finance profess glad Astor, aristocratic historic realtor, Representative Shannon of Missouri, in- Then came President Wilson's 160 In his ! type the National ernment of "perfidy” in failing to ful- of the list has the vigor to disregard their admonitions has contributed $25,000. cited by representatives of the United two terms. In the fraction of a term Drought Committee, the and expansion are. in turn, paralysed, Corporation, publication National fill and to follow his own instincts. They It is hoped by the Republican man- States Chamber of Commerce, is making which President Harding served he Timber Conservation Board, its to the conditions of the 1929 pact. done some damage and will do so again. this paralysis contributing part believe the trip has insured him the agers here that Roosevelt’s Eastern much-to-do about Government compe- raised up 44 commissions. Had he the War Policies Commission, the The Pope declared that no the general stagnation. But when funds religious per- There is reason, theoretically, why election. He returns, nevertheless, to plutocratic associates will be horrified tition with private business. Repre- served a full four years he might well Emergency Committee for Unemploy- secution of has been intensi- find two him Western They note, Arthur Lamneck of Ohio ex- have exceeded the Wilson record. ment and several commissions for investment begin to pile up In priests any damage should result to anybody. large problems awaiting by his pick-ups. sentative haring fied and that in the East. nevertheless, that Roosevelt has exhibit- presses his views on the subject: President Coolidge, regarded as ultra- to do with observances of historical oc- exert the referred hostility toward the Banks which borrow from the R. F. C. banks they pressure The first is the problem of ‘‘Al’’ ed what to them is a sort of diabolical "Uncle Sam is now competing with conservative in the theory and practice casions. Then there was the extremely church Is now systematically fomented to above for release Into the channels by that act demonstrate beyond ques- Smith and the discontent of Smith's adroitness. private industries in several hundred of government, created 43 commissions important delegation to the London by the Mexican authorities. out- an arm second. Naval of trade, and those who control such tion the fundamental soundness of their followers in this region with the He has figuratively thrown lines of business activity,” says Mr. in his first term and 75 in his Conference. Apparently it is the come of the Chicago Democratic Con- about the shoulders of numerous West- Lamneck. "He is doing a cutthroat funds begin to look around for ways to "ridiculously condition. Otherwise they could not low” vention of this year. The second is the ern so-called "radicals,” but his actual business. He produces and buys in to limit Mexico imposes upon the obtain loans. put them to work. It would be idle of reconciling the Governor's utterances—both before and after those so that he can easily number of problem large quantities British Cabinet priests who may perform re- But as a matter some dam- new "rad- so little alarm He Changes contend that ways of putting money to practical support of Western so-called embraces—have created undersell the individual merchant. Years ligious rites to which the Vatican does result. The fact that a bank icals” with his Eastern backing of so- in the East that many financial writ- no taxes, has no overhead ex- work these days are lacking, even If, for age pays Fifty Ago Leave MacDonald Weaker New York have re- of his business mainly Under the 1929 no called conservatives. ers in the press penses, and yet most the time they are regarded with objects. agree- has borrowed starts talk. There Js being, * * * * marked upon their “conservatism” and ventures have been failures. His losses, ment the Mexican government allowed need to exnand on the complex an extraordinary amount of that skep- poten- upon their consoling effect in the however, are included in the estimates In The Star the Rosevelt’s immediate managers be- BY A. G. GARDINER. the best known Catholic hierarchy to designate tialities of talk. of Wall Street. of the various bureaus, boards and com- ticism which is one of lieve that a certain part of the “Al” neighborhood those priests who were to in * * * * missions, so that the merchants who LONDON, October 1.—Prime Minister of depression. register The question now Is whether Mr. Smith problem has been solved. They aspects suffer this unfair competition are com- The news item in The Ramsay MacDonald has weathered the compliance with the national laws, in- Trimble, It may be granted see this solution in Smith's This writer immediately after Roose- following The Federal Reserve Bulletin for although partial to make British crisis with a on electric pelled as taxpayers help up Star of October 1882. tells of a cabinet minimum cluding the The Mexican bish- that the Intent of some of the framers article in the current number of the velt's Western speech light 3, public which was released for pub- quota. these shortages through increased taxes. of upheaval, but the of the September, Outlook, in which he exhorts the coun- and power, sought personal com- for which departure ops protested against these constitu- of the act was to make the lists of In other words, it is made his ‘patriotic' Improvement Washington Liberal free traders and Viscount Snow- lication a little more than a week ago, try to victory for the Democratic party ment upon it from one of the tional their transactions should not face the duty to come to the aid of the Govern- had waited impatiently : den leaves him isolated and the na- on rise and fall and regulations by suspending public, this Fall. They expect some similar greatest of Eastern "power magnates,” Bheds light the ment in this matter. That is adding tional character of the is religious practice. Religious exercises fact that harm does result from such exhortation from him at the Democratic who by personal politics is a Republican. New Avenue for R lon? time, and I government rise of excess reserves in the insult to This is Infamous, a again New York State Convention at This had read the speech injury. back gone. were eventually resumed on the publicity; and. facing that fact, withhold Monday gentleman that and little incidentally brings hands of member Federal Reserve banks promise He said that he sharp practice destroys Sidewalk. The resignation of Snowden els lord Albany. They are confident that a great carefully. disagreed to mind the names of the government to the the lists until the act is clarified becomes the dignity of a great Nation, of seal was a heavy the last year and a half. In mitigate by gain has thus been produced for their with certain items in it. He said, for privy particularly during which boasts of its wealth and natural local merchants who 50 years were blow. Snowden's character commands quota arrangement, but according to the Congress in such a way that no doubts nevertheless fear that a more instance, that the item regarding the ago terms of millions of dollars, the aver- j party. They Uncle Sam seems the Columbia River was resources. However. in unrivaled respect from friend and foe. fope, me promise was not As an will remain whether, during the recess specific mention of Roosevelt and a development of prominent figures the Capital field of since March, 1931, Kept. to enjoy it, although he does not profit He was the considerable Labor ages daily figures more personal indorsement may be at this moment, he thought, moonshine. of business: only example of numerical Injustice of of Congress, he should make them pub- by his ventures into business. that followed MacDonald are presented for all member banks as necessary in order to eliminate the cur- He said, again for instance, that the “The District Commissioners are personality which It claims to be the the lic. The act does not say what the “Uncle: Sam is a banker, manufac- into the National and it victim, rent resentment of the zealous among item regarding publicly owned and op- doing all they can to urge forward the government louows: turer. merchant, lumberman, farmer— that the of Vatican out that in the Clerk of the House should do with the the Smith followers. erated as a "birch rod” for cor- work of the new sidewalk on is notorious broadcasting f points priests power a busi- making April. 55.6 1932) owned everything he should not be in the his terrific contributed more r. C. he A doubt still exists as to how far recting the iniquities of privately north side of Pennsylvania avenue. speeches 66.8 .... 35.4 populous Province of Vera Cruz were R. reports. Knowing what ness He is a business May January and was to him way. really poor When the of powerfully than any other factor to the 43.8 Smith's declaration will change the operated power wholly delegation merchants June.128.9 February ... limited to one for each 100.000 now knows, Mr. Trimble could with man. Perhaps that is because he has of MacDonald's at persons. feelings of his Eastern fol- unnecessary. He went on to say, how- waited upon them last week to ask a magnitude victory 124.9 March. 59.0 personal too many irons in the fire. It took July The asperity of the new crisis that propriety decide that the proper thing lowers. Some of them ever, that he was profoundly gratifed suspension of that work, the polls. 152.1 have remarked the to reveal all of this, but they replied August.100.6 April is to in this Roosevelt's statement that depression that could not consent to that Snowden's fierce accusation that the 277.1 has arisen between the Holy See and to do with them keep them his to writer that it will not influence by private to they .. 120.3 May unabashed he appealed to Congress September them at all. contend that Smith ownership and operation of power without congressional authority, but Conservatives had used him and Mac- October. 129.1 June. 234.4 Mexico is sufficiently indicated by Pope desk drawer for the next two or three They meet the deficits and give him a new will have in order should have a general precedence of would see to it that the work was Donald as instruments for their pro- 57.0 204.4 spoken only to do his start. Worse than that, he wanted to November ... July. Plus’ charge that the church is being months. and as fast tectionist aims and had violated the party duty as a Democratic leader and preference over public ownership and prosecuted as possible. The December ... 59.5 expand into the ‘hot dog’ business, on which the election subjected by the Mexican government that the "crime" committed by the operation of it. and that he saw no rea- rainy weather for the past few weeks understanding asked for appropriations, for sizable that the of since to Democratic son why he should excite himself to has been very much against the was held emphasizes the fact The averages dally figures treatment "not much different from As a representative of German mo- Chicago Convention against for restaurants in new work, "Al” still Roosevelt's career. appropriations, but now. as it is better for government is now essentially Conserva- are not available, but the that will have to be avenged by a stop drying, they July aggregate meted out by Russia.” Mexico is dernity. Pugilist Sehmellng Is undeniably post office buildings. with MacDonald as a switch on their part to Hoover. Such a * * * * state that there shall be no delay on tive, non-party reserves for the third week of Sep- so "Where Uncle Sam is not in direct excess overwhelmingly Roman Catholic that an Impressive and stimulating figure. switch account of sufficient force or figurehead. would probably guarantee to ■p^nuhlican TnnnftB-prs who used to with business he appli- which competition private ances to * * * * tember were about $360,000,000, recrudescence of friction with the Vat- Nevertheless, a number of conservative Hoover the electoral votes of all the are now complete it at the earliest denounce Roosevelt as a "red” insists upon his right to Interfere under the North Atlantic -seaboard moment. They have given the neces- Is larger than at any time during ican conjures up the possibility of fresh and analytical citizens would probably States. denouncing him as a whole rainbow of regulatory laws with various branches The expectation in some quarters * * * * This denunciation is sary orders to the contractors. that MacDonald will find his last twenty-five years. As a dollar in and widespread conflict. to back to their Einstein. all the colors. of business, including transportation position prefer get "The Commissioners have notified is For this reason met by Roo6evelt's managers with the railroads, etc. The impossible and be driven to resign excess reserves be said roughly to much effort is being companies, shipping, the may that Roosevelt is in fact contractors to give as little annoy- shared those most intimate with put forth here by those of Smith’s co- statement railroads cannot build a spur of track not by ten of credit, the un- The stock market would be a most ance to the merchants on the Avenue represent dolors Much more among rivalrous who voted for Gov. Roose- steering a “middle course” which ought to a coal mine or anywhere else with- the prime minister, who apparently is protest religionists as possible, and not to used and available credit represented unreliable method of trying to exert velt for the nomination for President to commend itself to both rich and poor out his to do so. If the unnecessarily reconciled to a Conservative entourage campaigners that defective reasoning permission tear the street in advance of as "common sensible.” It continues to up laying and has now no career in the excess reserves in the hands of political influence. It is axiomatic that at Chicago to explain their conduct. shipping companies want’a new flag to political apart powers are manifest may yet call for that Roosevelt's the foot walk. Mr. Cranford stated to There were some 200 of them. who. as be true, nevertheless, fan the ocean breezes, those in au- from the present combination. More- member Federal reserve banks ap- wherever there is a winner there must a Star that it is services If Western has weakened are told to see to that it reporter impossible over, the Conservatives are anxious to psychoanalytic campaign delegates in the Chicago Convention, trip probably thority it to is be a loser. a unani- both do that kind of work without tear- proaches $3,600,000,000. Significance Among speculators funds are to were of the Governor from him among Eastern stand-patters, has 48 stars and 13 stripes.” retain him as the last guarantee of the sufficiently large afford supporters ing up from three to four hundred feet realized mous can rich and not because of his ut- national status of the added to this figure when it is enthusiasm never be expected. them. the start. They maintain that the poor, of government. but because of his pavement ahead; but that it is cer- ! that MacDonald of spectacular conflict between Smith and terances. personal It had been hoped that the period panic, represented of dreaded "Where does the taxpayers' money tainly his Intention to incommode the 1 Roosevelt grew out of purely personal appearances In the society would seize the opportunity offered by withdrawals of and bank It may be the rough-and-ready man- go?" Representative William H Sutphin merchants as little as possible. by deposits relationships and that Its outcome at Western uprisers and upsetters. reshuffling the ministry to change the ner in which SHOOTING STABS. of New Jersey attempts to give us an “The gas company is advan- failures at home and the outflow Iowa fanners have Chicago had nothing whatsoever to do The contributions to the Hoover taking control of the foreign office, for while answer that is interesting, after tage of this to lav new undertaken to substitute for with fund have thereupon some- point- opportunity the crisis arose over the fiscal abroad of gold, has subsided, and with themselves any ‘’bigotry.’’ They thus oppose campaign out that dollar the services question what Increased: and this ing “every spent by in front of each lot, and the the most that makes so BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. themselves directly to the distinguished development, and the Ottawa agreements, bank failures practically halted by policemen many states- Government represents the coined sweat contractor is having a brick box and and influential New York Protestant along with the stubborn embers of the widespread dissatisfaction with the gov- of the Govern- men ready to tell their troubles to them. of labor taken from the American pub- artificial stone cover put at the curb- emergency measures The clergyman, John Haynes Holmes, who Smith versus Roosevelt conflagration, ernment prevails on account of Its at- Saving Phrase. lic in the form of taxes.” During the stone end of each service and a terra ment. the flow of gold has turned back in a widely circulated pamphlet has gives the Republicans a higher hope titude in external affairs. Those affairs Of the various lines past 72 years—since 1860—the cost of cotta pipe underneath the sidewalk for In order to vary the musical programs to a multitude of here than they have In any other more disquieting. to America returning the gold conveyed great East- our Federal Government all to run grow steadily again, Which we read day of the country. maintaining pipes through, so that any some of the bands on behalf by dAy, erners the contention that Smith was region * * * * to the level of the second half of might play, has increased from $63,000,000 to over adjustment of pipes can be made at stock The one which inclines discarded at because of (Copyright. 1933.1 is in of the Chicago religion. $4,000,000,000 annum.” he calls at- season The onlv ray of lignt visible first of 1929—the political audience, "Oh Promise per any of the year without tearing 1928 and the quarter The * * * * where Gandhi’s fast Me.” sad soul to be gay tkm, "and the cost of government per up the sidewalks. He today com- India, spectacular the finan- the effect, unlooked for, period immediately preceding Is this refrain The claims of Smith’s fellow-CatholIcs person increased from $2 in 1860 to $38 menced taking up the sidewalks in has had quite simple to crash and the business became for him In the Fifth Semi-Annual in 1932, or 1,900 per cent. front of the stores of Willet & of inducing the high-caste Hindus cial depression. Which dawns on our view who delegates Ruoff, "In 1911 our Government the right of the untouchables are that the The President's Books. Chicago Convention are substantially expenses the hatters; Mr. Robinson, the cloth- recognire There high hopes and to and even to Again again; as follows: Retail Credit Survey were $726,424,850,” he explains, and ier; Mr. Willian, ladies' dress goods, separate representation of unused credit in banks Christopher Morley probably has done more seats than the com- amassing “Important if true.” 1. The Roosevelt campaign for dele- "had grown to $4,219,950,339 in 1931, an and Mr. Chapman, the bookseller, be- concede them the President Hoover a disservice increase of 467“ munal award That award will, as it has done before, signal great by gates began more than a year before per cent In 20 short tween Ninth and Tenth streets, pre- proposed. When the weather man writes But the most was only given by the British govern- resumption of normal business. The advertising the fact that his friend is a any such campaign for Smith was initi- BY HARDEN COLFAX. years. remarkable feature paring for laying the granolithic pave- of these 20 as he sees “is ment after the failure of the Indians the well-read man. To be Of a blizzard to come; ated. There was, therefore, at that time past years,” it, ment.’’ is that it will, although satisfactorily of the fifth semi-annual credit own and the theory no Smith Results the fact that while costs * to arrive at their solution, a “choice" presented between governmental as Infallible. representative of the masses of the When prophet recites this week the De- now made as a result theory cannot be accepted and Roosevelt. The pledges then given survey, completed by were increasing 467 per cent our na- counter proposal a A so glum; of Commerce and the National of the Hindu surrender to Gandhi has In this depression demand for, rather United States man must be or at least story to Roosevelt had accordingly no anti- partment tional wealth Increased only 94 per cent The adjournment of Congress 50 Retail Credit Association, show that our been cheerfully accepted by MacDonald. been must pretend to be a militant When panic and strife Smith animus. and population only 34 per cent.” than supply of, credit has lacking. moron; conditions In retail trade have been rel- years ago without decision upon the One of the greatest obstacles to Indian Are declared 2. Smith had stated to several of his Recent years, he emphasises, “capped he must make It plain as daylight that overdue. stable the first half of seems to be removed and special 1928 eminent supporters that atively during the climax of the wildest orgy of spend- site for the new home of the Library settlements he holds How the brightens life— the current the of the untouchables is All speakers jnention apprehensions culture and refinement in con- phrase he had come to the conclusion that year. ing this Nation or the world has ever of Congrees caused recognition There Is a to increased buy- not as an important a cheerless Winter, so far in tempt. "Important if true.” nobody of his religion could during this tendency seen.” regarded merely of going disappointment in but a still more im- was, ing for cash. At the same time, open calls attention Heed Of political concession, that the There are two era be President. It therefore, Representative Sutphin Growing some cases as to imply pur- reasons why scholars The men whom we trust credit and installment make Washington, where to the reform of the widely assumed that Smith was not a purchases that the new Department of Commerce ■a_T _ portant prelude Is to select the best never have been sales volume. Hew Library. social condition of the de- pose of the election popular with the Amer- Are alleged to be knaves; candidate. up the bulk of the total Building “costs more than the entire the need of such infamous ican Collections on these charge accounts or pressed classes. company available In the circumstances. people. The first of these is the You hear them discussed 3. The precise reason why so many , about one-third a building was most keenly felt. The for Roose- and Installment sales were somewhat of the total area of the United States.” * * * * primitive psychology of the pioneers, early pledges were secured Star of October 6. 1882, says: As monopoly's slaves. less In proportion to agreements than to the of velt was that Roosevelt was thought He points achievement the more nooks into Elsewhere the outlook, darkens. It is Humor. the second the still more elementary 1931, while "returns” and "al- "Every day pours But amid each tirade to be a favorite intimate of Smith’s. during Federal Farm Board with $500,000,000 the of feared that the Ottawa agreements will mental character of the lowances” were the same already overflowing Library a office was European We take anew Roosevelt had nominated Smith for the approximately to “stabilise” prices, which ''stabilised” the government at the Recently newspaper courage In number. Congress, and adds additional argu- compromise received at Ellis Island be- Smith had becked Roose- the price of wheat from $1.60 to 25 cents World Economic Conference, and the on the a stranger peasantry As a Is presidency. * ments for the favorable consideration called telephone by sign displayed— the of New York. * * * bushel. tween 1870 and 1920. The conditions velt for governorship per of the bill for it a new issuance of the Lytton report compels who said: “I have just heard now that "Important if true.” Cash sales during the first half of providing The pledges to Roosevelt were presumed which is the order for the powers to cease their ostrichlike at- of life west of the in the this are shown to have building, special the Prince of Wales is married. Who is Alleghenies to be actually pleasing to Smith. present year titude towards the Japanese challenge of the December 12 In the House of Repre- period between the and 4. The break between Smith and amounted to some 47 % per cent so small as to be the most for- the girl?” A friend had told him, he Revolutionary Embraasing Afterthoughts. years being prac- sentatives. The Toner collection, valu- in Manchuria and face Roosevelt, out of dissatisfac- total sales, whereas In 1931 they bulked In world states- had been told the Civil Wars were so rigorous and "Does our friend give much thought growing tically negligible. able in its medical and historical va- midable of problems explained, and the friend of Roose- just over 45 per cent. Customers said * * * a tion by Smith with some rieties and its the manship. The firm and discreet han- a cramping that learning perforce was to his it” on some 43 cent of the gift of a friend who had been told by speeches?” velt's aetlons as Governor, was wholly Charge per Hie is based on reports from biographies, is by study which was special act of dling of this great question gravely and In time “The was total sales this year, whereas they did 405 establishments located in 25 accepted by friend who had been told by a friend ad neglected, neglect brought "Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum. outside the sphere of religion and retail last hindered by the eternal Franco-German It on 45 cent In 1931. Installment Congress Summer, is now nearly cultivation into disrepute. Gradually trouble is that he doesn’t do the wholly unknown to the Westerners who per widely separated cities and includes 99 which becomes steadily worse. Infinitum. only covered 9 cent of the all removed to the Capitol and occu- question, were committing themselves to Roose- agreements per department stores and 65 stores dis- It is still doubtful whether Germany will was not true, the situation might have improved had thinking before he makes them.” In of as pies certain alcoves of the main Li- Of course, the rumor velt. sales the first half this year, furniture, 40 jewelry, 62 men’s to be at the resumed pensing as well as a room consent present in character it not been confirmed by the tidal waves * * * * compared with Just under 10 per cent 41 shoes, 82 women’s brary, large tempo- tt was wholly imaginary clothing, spe- under the rotunda. The Disarmament Conference. Germany’s Risks. In 1931. 16 rarily provided it had had wide cur- of Immigration which brought the sur- Physical Such are the by Roose- cialties and electrical demand for an equality status has been and content. But arguments A small in col- appliances. masses of bound newspapers. Amer- The are ex- surprisingly decrease The total net sales volume of sales in the of an ultimatum knows plus population of the Old World to the hammock now has loet its charm. velt’s Catholic supporters, who which filled the pushed to point rency. and for all the newspaper lection percentages Is noted. For all the these seven different ican and foreign, It numerous, in their effort to stores in and Premier Herriot’s reply has farther some far New. Today, it is conceded, the Nation The bump gives does little harm. tremely stores some 37 cent on upper floors of the State Department, It may still be in circulation in their co-religionists in this reporting, per groups during the period was for nearly exasperated and stiffened the Germans. is not but If real thrills you seek to persuade accounts and 14 cent on de- and were removed to make room for a of the world. exactly Illiterate, the nature gain, of the that the open per half a billion dollars. Gen. von Schleicher denies the hinterland gossiping part country original foree of clerks upon Inten- You tumble from an ferred payments mark the period from These trends were generally char- engaged pension of illustrates one of the of its literary fare, the kind of books aeroplane. momentum which led finally to Roose- tion of Germany to rearm regardless The Incident January to June this year, while 40 and acteristic of the stories in all the business, are now, with the exception and It and the kind velt’s nomination at Chicago was what the powers do, but Germany does commonest of the age. In- periodicals prefers, over 15 were the for stores showed of certain flies retained for reference phenomena The Non-Reader. neither antt-Catholic nor anti-Smith. just percentages groups. The department demand the fulfillment of the disarma- of dramatic and motion picture enter- the same In 1931. net in the Department of State, added to creased facilities of communication have This writer’s sincere guess is that period the least decrease in total sales, ment promise on the part of the othgr "Does that salesman read all the * * in such sales for the Library of Congress, and will be increased con- tainment It desires prove its cultural these will be success- * * whereas the decrease Is France ready to go far meant in this regard arguments partly to the soon powers. books he gets people to subscribe for?” losses furniture stores was more than the av- aecasslble public as as un- A cam- ful and putter unavailing. Many of Bad debt inevitably Increased enough in that direction to satisfy Ger- fusion. Alexander Pope in his day immaturity. college professor In all the is provided. The library has "Certainly not. A book agent la too Smith's friends in these parts are filled slightly. Last year In this period they enge for establishments ■halving many? The answer at the moment ap- as it then oper- paigning for public office against a pugi- stares also acquired by recant Importations derstood the process with a bitteraeaa which la almoat un- ware just less than 1 per cent on open groups, with jewelry following. pears to be emphatically ‘‘no,’* and if •mart ever to allow himaetf to btoom* total net sales and at auction about 5,000 ated: list would not have a chance In the curablt. credit accounts and just under 3 On the other hand, the purchases Herrlott persists in his present attitude a book worn." Jper In stores and In shoe volumes of law and miscellaneous heard than world of being elected. Gene Tunnay, Roosevelt’s second problem upon his cent on Installment accounts. This men’s clothing it will be difficult to prevent Oermany Scarce any tale was sooner and women's stores, as well, books, among which may be named a that the return here—the problem of combining the figure* have risen to just over specialties from rearming, with the inevitable con- told: it will be remembered, said Positive Proof. were than collection of treatises on the Western with East- per Cent and slightly over 3 per cent. slightly more the’average, complete of another devastating war. And aU who told it added something hated him because had been progressive support rear law of several hun- sequence fans they “What did you do with that man conservative the In the case of both however, while those In the electric appliance copyright, embracing It is in this field that the British new, ern support—has given periods, in all the to he his certain these stores were the greatest of alL dred monographs languages a who heard it made enlarge- told that he liked read; begged you caught dealing off the bottom of Republican Eastern managers a losses aggregate only one-tenth of government should play decisive part all * * of Transfers from the depart- friends to conceal the fact that he could possible opportunity, of which they are 1 per cent of total sales. * * Europe. as a mediator, but Sir John Simon has ments, too. the deck?" ments, donations and ac- to take full advantage. They Returns and allowances—which are The total sales volume in all these purchases, been assailed on all sides for his timid write. striving cessions under the law of all An individual of overexuberant imag- "Committed him to the asylum,” re- note that Roosevelt during his West- particularly annoying to merchants— stores Is reported to have dropped some copyright and nerveless action in regard to both to Those American citizens who really for the current an 38 the as combine enrich the floor of the Li- ination fastens on some obscure or plied Cactus Joe. "Anybody who ern tour contrived to become publicly year showed average >2 per cent during period, Manchuria and disarmament. "The brary. There is every reason to be- wish to Mr. Hoover's re-elec- Crimson intimate with such characters as Homer of just over 10 per cent of total gross compared with the same period In the conclusion that Simon has been a na- curious observation, some inconsequen- prevent would try a trick like that in lieve that soon after conven- T. Bone of Washington, Hiram John- sales, which Is ipproximately the rec- prosperous year 1929, and retail prices Congress, tional and International disaster Is In- and tion should circulate not Oov. Roose- Oluch don't leave doubt about will relieve the tial incident of dramatic value, enough son and William Gibbs McAdoo and ord of 1931. The average length of fell from 32 to *4 per cent during the ing, pressure by provid- escapable.’’ says the New Statesman, and Mr. Thomas’ ora- more commodious for the speaks of it to those with whom he velt's speeches his sanity to be worth arguin’ over.” William Randolph Hearst of California, time open aocounts were outstanding same time This would seem to mean ing quarters and asks: “Is It wise to side with Japan list of the books the of New Mexico and increased over last year from 75 to 80 that the decline In dollar sales since great mass of the collection. Disputes when the cost is the of the is Those persons repeat tions. but the Bronson Cutting breaking up acquainted. Norris of all of whom and the average for Installment 1929 was due if not almost over the site of the new building may of the President has read. There muet be "If every kicker,’1 said Uncle Eben. George Nebraska, days, principally, League Nations, ending hope of the story, supplementing it, consciously are regarded in Eastern conservative accounts ns* from 8 months and 19 entirely, to tne price decline. Unit postpone decision for a while, but in ilsarmament, quarreling with the United a man who "would atop to study up all about what or unconsciously, with their own reac- something wrong with eon-1 circles as portentous “menaces.” days to 7 months and 3 days. There sales, It la believed, wars almost ai view at the urgent need tor Immediate States and setting afoot preparations interested in ha’s Mekto’ about, ho mightn't (Ml m ]okeemlths Roose- w»s lew "fraudulent buying,” the re- large to 1912 as In 1929. action, long dalay will be .for the next war?’’ tions. The idea speeds from tongue to fesses to being Shakespeare Republican picture 1 velt from these lation to total net sales miring both (Ooprrilfct, unj .1 aWe.” _ Uhe kickin'." _,_^ _ conveying greetings tftoP7rlsht»-]mc tongue, from mind to mind. Soon the and Milton. There must be danger In much

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