Agricultural economically al destroying process1ng considered. producers dispatch, it was in 1934, when an entire State ticket and many judicial positions were to be voted on as well as local candidates. Probably the activities of the antiRoosevelt forces in New York have been influential in bringing about the increased registration, but it is also a fact, as The Times says, that the economic situation is now tied in so closely with the political situation that the voters are probably more politically conscious than ever before. Further, it is indicated that registration, as a proof of citizenship, address and so on, "makes it easier to obtain aid from the Home Relief Bureau or a job from the WPA." The heavy registration is at least a reminder that in this country the people still have it in their power to determine the character of their government. The Herald Tribune thinks that they want in New York City, which has gotten a bigger share of the public funds, we think, than any other place, to show their resentment o: the way the government has been spending money. But do the people, in New York or elsewhere, resent the spending of public money? We have yet to see proof that they do. MR. HOOVER AS A SPENDER The New York World-Telegram is a very unkind newspaper. Mr. Hoover, in one of his recent broadcasts, having said that the billions which the Federal government has spent in relieving distress in the United States constituted a sum so vast that he was unable to comprehend it, the World-Telegram has dug up the figures as to Mr. Hoover's, expenditures when he was head of the American Relief Administration in Europe at the end of the World War. It appears that Mr. Hoover then spent something like two and a half billion dollars to help the destitute Belgians, French, Russians, Fins, Latvians, Czechs and others in Europe. The record which he made in this work led to his becoming President. He was probably the most prodigal dispenser of relief funds of all time until Harry Hopkins. Now he thinks the spending of reliei money in the United States has been scandalous. He can't even comprehend sums like $3,500,000,000 although, according to the World-Telegram, he personally supervised the spending of $2,500,000,000 in Europe. NEXT YEAR'S OLYMPIC GAMES While American Interest in sports Is great and widespread we have the impression that the average 'American has not been very much excited over the Olympic Games in the past; perhaps not as much so as their importance warranted. And it may well be that the present agitation for the withdrawal of American athletes from the Olympics when they are held in Germany next year is keener among those who hate and detest the Nazi regime than it is among the followers of sports. There is no question, however, but that feeling is now deep and bitter. The lengthy letter which former Supreme Court Justice Jeremiah T. Mahoney of New York has just written to Dr. Theodor Lewald, presldent of the German Olympic Committee, 1s a scathing indictment of the Nazis, not only for their treatment of Jews in that country but also for their treatment of Catholics and Protestants who have resisted or failed to accept wholeheartedly the Hitler dictatorship. Judge Mahoney is president of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States, an organization which occupies an important place in sports in this country. Dr. Lewald had offered assurances that Jews will not be discriminated against in the Olympic Games, but the Judge answers these assurances by pointing in detail to the record. He insists that it is impossible in Germany at the present time either for Jews or for Catholics and Protestants who do not bow blindly to the Nazi order to maintain clubs or associations of any kind in which they might enjoy athletic opportunities or secure athletic training. The evidence from Germany supports this contention. Judge Mahoney also denies that American Jews visiting the Olympics next year can be sure of accommodations there. He is confident they will be unwelcome. In this connection he cites an official announcement of Dr. Goebbels that "no arrangements for the housing of visitors and Oiympic teams will be made in the homes of Jews." The conflict is clearly one that is incapable of genuine reconciliation. It 1s possible that the German government would see to it that all visitors to the Olympic Games, Including American Jews, were decently and courteously treated. No Jew, however, can feel happy in Germany today, for the Hitler government is deliberately seeking to make life in that country utterly intolerable for all persona o! Semitic blood. It is harrying all such persons out of the economic life of the nation as well as out of its political life. The effort is to crush them, degrade them, destroy them and reduce them to penury, exile and despair. We believe that one of the purposes of the Olympic Games has been the turthering of a better feeling internationally. Held in the atmosphere of hate and bitterness which has been engendered the Olympic Games of 1936 can be but a mockery of that purpose. QUILLEN'S QUIPS By ROBERT QUILLEN Happy idea! We'll give $1,000 for the best essay about the paper dollar. Each contestant must send in a sample or a facsimile. When do people stop learning? Well, when you are picking a bucket of berries, a lot depends on the size of the bucket. Republics really aren't ungrateful. They give a generous reward to veterans in return for enough votes. An important citizen's funeral attracts a crowd, but Alas! a store that offers free prizes attracts twice as many. There are two sides to a family row: The selfish, greedy, unfair, inconsiderate side, and yours. • The way to live to a ripe old age is to be prudent and practice moderation and be a rich uncle. You get what you pay for, says a national advertiser. Brother, did you ever buy a mail-order coon dog? The drawback to the two-pants suit the necessity of transferring the contents of the pockets. New Yorkers can tell a genuine Southern Colonel. The imposter can say "free nigger," but he can't make it sizzle. When a man says, "I can always depend on her and she's always on time.' He is talking about his watch. Overdraft: The result of telling your banker to give somebody some money that belonged to somebody else. The ads in a pulp magazine make you cry. Think how many morons there must be to make such advertising pay. Women, says a feminine writer, are no longer hampered by unfair moral rules. But some are still hampered by a sense 'of decency. Americanism: Inheriting the richest empire on earth; allowing the Mississippi to carry off annually enough soil to cover 140 square miles a foot deep. G. K. Chesterton is an abomination. though, if it's chin says music with meals We like it with ours, music. Another one that ruthlessly covers a lot of territory which doesn't belong to it the word "stomach.' As we figure it, Mussolini will learn that taking hold of a bear's tail requires a lot less strategy than turning loose. A hick town is a place where it means tragedy if the phone rings after 10 o'clock at night. Another good way to lessen the horrors of war would be an agreement to pronounce names as they are spelled. Never risk the whole point of an editorial in one paragraph. It always tempts the make-up man to leave out a line. In a small town you can tell how important a man feels by the degree of his indignation when the bank tells him he overdrawn. . A hick town is a place where nobody can afford to be an official except the man who has no customers to offend. Correct this sentence: "Ah, well," chuckled the old grad, "we can't expect to win 'em all." (C. 1935, Publishers Syndicate) MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY By JAMES J. MONTAGUE ATTENTION: DR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER (Who has been taking a slam at the Congressional Record). My dear Doctor Butler: Don't be too severe On the ways of the average M. C. The solons, who spout Wordy eloquence out. not talking to you or to me. When they savagely tear The ambient air. Beneath the old Capitol's dome, They are seeking to reach Through the method of speech The votes of the people back home. However in earnest a lawmaker be, He will find himself out in the street At the end of his term If his grip isn't firm On the old soft mahogany seat. His ear must be found Very close to the ground, The applause of the crowd he must win, Or else, before longIn the words of the songHe will find himself out, looking in. If every year you had fences to mend, If bosses were hard on your heels; If you never were sure That your job was secure, You would know how a Congressman feels. Believe it or not, You are in a good spot: You don't make the laws of the land. No political boss Can make you come acrossSo give the poor solon a hand. A POSSIBILITY One hears nothing more about Mahatma Gandhi. He has probably disguised himself by wearing trousers. QUERY What's become of the Dionne quints? Are they engaged yet? HE'S TELLING US "Alcohol and dissipation can beat any colored man. -Arthur Brisbane. They don't do white men much good either, Arthur. (C., 1935, By The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
