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1 ej r'VIN Trr-'; Fry. THE EVENING SUN PAGE 31-SECOXD SECTION SECOND SECTION PAGE 31 I I I I' the fact that for him to win permanently Inhabitants bad less and less to da They THE EVENING SUN The Prayer Is Answered The Evening Sun Forum hi would be nothing short of public calamity all these are extraneous circumstances that do not lessen the thrill of watching the hazardous play. Mooresville is acting in a silly man ner, to be sure; but that doesn't prove that it isn't an intensely human manner. Dixie Has Learned It seems like old times Indeed when the newspapers report, on the same day, meeting in Birmingham, at which threats of secession were uttered, and a meeting at Lexington, to enormous quantities of oratory about the rights of a free people. However, it is not a repetition of his tory, for this time Alabama and Massachusetts are united against a common foe, to wit, General Johnson's combina tion canary, nightingale and bird of paradise, the Blue Eagle.

The Blue Eagle, it seems, is marching through Alabama like Sherman's army, and at the same time is tearing at the vitals of Massachusetts as the vultures tore at Prometheus, chained. to' the rock. Some bird And it is unlike old times for another reason. No sooner had the threat of secession been uttered in Alabama than another speaker was on the floor, pointing out that while for the South to secede from the Union might be all right, for the South to secede from eighty per cent of its market is not so hot. This is just the po'nt that was overlooked in 1861, with disastrous results for the South was beaten in the military campaign only because it had first been beaten in the economic campaign.

Today it realizes that to secede from your markets is suicidal idiocy. So much, at least, it has learned in seventy years. Who, then, will say that there is no such thing as progress? yuery A short time ago comment was made here on the fact that the Mayor and Town Treasurer of Seat Pleasant, were being reelected for a fourth term without opposition. Today, a brief dis patch in The Bun from Berlin, states: Covington D. Powell was nominated as the only candidate for Mayor, subject to the municipal election of May 7 Mayor Raymond T.

Qulllen, in office since 1928, declined renoml-nation. The question arises Why is municipal politics no longer attractive in small towns in the State? Seeking an answer, one might observe that in the counties the Boards of Commissioners bold the purse strings. Municipal politics is small potatoes, and in Baltimore county the position of Mayor does not even exist Is it possible that other counties may emulate Baltimore county in abolishing an office which many citizens regard as horse feathers? Awakening Railroads Another milestone In the history of railroad transportation is being passed with the development of a type of Diesel motor, burning crude oil, to haul trains. Last February a three-car unit, stream lined and powered by Diesels, passed here on its way to the lines of the Union Pacific; and today at Camden Station there is being exhibited a similar train owned by the Burlington Railroad. Such trains easily attain a speed of a hundred miles an hour, due to the design which lowers wind resistance, and their light ness.

The Burlington unit, for instance, weighs only eighty-five tons, as compared with a weight of three hundred tons for similar units of old-type trains. And, apparently, comfort in these new trains is considerably enhanced. For about twenty years, after the steel passenger car supplanted the flimsy wooden death traps, there was prac tically no advance made in railroad transportation as far as material comforts of the passengers were concerned, Neither was there more than a little ad vance in engine dcsigni all the railroads preferring their old wasteful locomotives and their heavy, antediluvian coaches to anything that hinted at an innovation, After all, a traveler had nothing but the railroad if he was going long distances and he could like It or lump It Evidently the transcontinental and in tercity busses and the airplanes have something to do with a changed attitude, Alr-condltloned trains then were in stalled; day coaches equipped with in dividual, reclining seats and buffet lunch counters; private rooms for passengers traveling at night In other words, com petition the last few years has been re acting to the passengers' comfort He Nearly Went To Heaven In A Glory Boat High Point Dispatch la the Greensboro (If. Newa pROF. ALBERT McPHERSON, Negro, of Liverpool, England, who was being buried alive here last night under the auspices of a charity society, Negro or ganization, with the announced intention of staying burled for several days, was out of the ground before daybreak this morning, wet, and requesting more water tight He called for help about 4 A.

M. through his radio, saying that water was seeping in on him. His attendants hastily dug through the seven feet of ground to unearth the professor before he was drowned. The unusual heavy rains of the last few days had not been accounted for, it was explained. Definition From the DerUt Dictionary Politician, n.

An eel In the fundamental mud upon which the superstruc ture of organized society Is reared. were very poor, it is true, but since) it was the tropics the; did not starve and their requirements for clothes and shelter and fuel were small. Those who do not like to work adjusted themselves ad mirably to the situation. Those who like to work emigrated to the t'nited States. Thus a neat division has been effected between the natives who don't like to work and those who do and the population consists now almost exclusively of the former.

It Is a question, then, whether they will welcome this new scheme for giving them employment with anything like the enthusiasm which its sponsors are expecting. i Still With Us Economic theories, principles and prac tices may change for better or for worse. National income may go up and it may go down. The Government may be controlled by standpatters or by bright young college professors with advanced ideas. But whatever our economic theory, no matter what our national income or who governs ns, there is one factor in the scheme of things which, like the poor, we have always with ns.

Jobhold ers' Day is Jobholders' Day no matter how you figure it. Time was when the six-day week was the standard unit of man's labor. One-sixth of the national income went for taxes. That is to say, one day's pay out of every weekly salary went to the support of the Jobholders. Times have changed.

The six-day week has given way to the five-day week. On that basis it would be necessary for the wage earner to work only part of a day each week for the jobholders. But let us see. Rodney Crowther's financial Items of yesterday tell the story. He reports that the national income for the year 1932 was $39,400,000,000 and of that sum 000,000, or twenty and three-tenths per cent, went to the tax collectors.

Which is to say, one-fifth of our income goes to the jobholders. We spend one day of our five-day week laboring for their support Indeed, the jobholders were way ahead of the college professors. They anticipated the five-day week by a whole year. Those who would predict economic trends would do well to watch the ratio of taxes to national income. Already the jobholders are collecting' more than a day's income by three-tenths of a cent That may mean we are on our way to a four-day week, An Eye For Figures Bryant Baker, sculptor, yesterday made a tour of the New York Independent Art Exhibition and turned up his nose, All the uudes being sliown, he seemed to think, were far too shapely.

He then let himself go with reference to the "'cal Iipygian ideal," saying The back and thighs must be In the same plane with the shoulder blades. The shoulders should be slightly wider than the hips. These are the ideals of the very early Greek times. before Asiatic influences led the Greeks to use fuller figures. This Is not only captious criticism, but downright misuse of the term "cal- iipygian," for if Mr.

Baker has ever seen even a picture of the Callipygian Venus in the Museo Nazlonale at Naples he must know that this beautiful statue is not angustate, tabid, coarctate; rather it is a figure with hips like Webster's Unabridged. There is no denying that the Mae West figure has brought feminine ro- bustlousness to the American scene. Bal- tlmoreans may discern this much closer at home than the show Mr. Baker criti cizeson the streets, or in the Balti more Museum's current exhibition, for instance, where the figures are distinctly maewestian, or what a Valley horseman would describe as "well sprung." Mr. Baker is doing the world a dis service when he attempts to make the word callipygian (literally, "having beautiful apply to the flat-hipped Ideal of the jazz age.

It means more, much more. On Sheltering Outlaws Mooresville, home town of John Dillinger, not only permitted the bandit to remain there unmolested for two days this month, but is circulating a petition for his pardon. Dillinger Is accused of many crimes, ranging np to cold-blooded murder, mur der not for revenge, or in the heat of pas sion, but for profit Why, then, should pepple, presumably law-abiding, protect him and actually seek a pardon for him? Perhaps one reason may be the intense civic pride aud avid thirst for publicity characteristic of small towns. Dillinger got the name of Mooresville into every newspaper in the country. An American town of 1,781 people will forgive a great deal to a man who has done that But over and above this factor, there seems to be something In human nature that makes people take a perverse delight in the exploits of spectacular outlaws.

Perhaps it is a vicarious sense of escape, We all feel, at times, that respectability is a stifling burden. Most of us do not care or dare to throw It off but when some one else does, openly and defiantly, we get a great kick out of it. Furthermore, everyone is aware that Dillinger is playing against great odds, and there is enough of the gambler in most of us to make such a play fascinating. Moreover, the longer it continues the more we are fascinated. This has nothing to do with the morals of the case, or with any extraneous cfreum stances.

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Viktor Has The Floor Irouls J. Viktor, quitting the Retail Jteer and Liquor Dealers Association In Bisgust, because of its effort to make beer Bales a saloonkeepers' monopoly, made a tatement which The Evening Sun is Mppy to adopt as its editorial on the (subject Said he: Some of these people seem to think that prohlbiton was repealed for their especial benefit. This, we are persuaded. Is comment Enough. Ignorance Or Design? That uproar you hear to the north Is jlhe Canadian gold miners clamoring gainst the new Dominion law levying a tax of ten per cent, on all gold mined in Canada.

The miners say It's confiscation. To which the Government replies that having just given the miners a grand present by increasing the price of gold, it Is but right that a little of that present fe taken back in tnxes. However, that's not what Interests us In the matter. What interests us is the fact that our Congress, so avid to soak everybody who has a dollar to call his wn, completely ignored this possible source of income. Devaluing the dollar Bimply meant raising the price of gold.

It meant that every little gold mine that couldn't be worked at a profit during the era of high prices suddenly found itself possessed of a real chance. By fiat, the Talue of every bit of gold in the country was raised about sixty-six per cent, There was a regular boom, naturally, in gold mining stocks. The gold miners found themselves rich by the largess of I'ncle Sam. What we'd like to know is whether Congress overlooked this source of revenue through ignorance or by design. Viewed Willi Suspicion It seems that the President's advisers are now on the verge of organizing a great national "drive," with posters, speeches, ladles' committees, and all the rest, to encourage home owners to bor row, and lending agencies to lend, sums ranging from $200 to $2,000.

If the drive produces any really good parades, perhaps it may be justified the parades during the past year have becu, by and large, pretty piddling. But except for the parade possibilities, the plan has to be viewed with a clammy eye. Too many points remain unexplained. What, for instance, is to be accepted as security? Or won't any be necessary? And In any case, why will not such a plan lead to exactly such excesses as were brought on in the whoopee era by in stallment selling? Again, in what way does the encouragement tc borrow hastily for such purposes differ from encourage' ment to buy stocks and bonds on a part- payment basis? Both are essentially i lilgh-pressure enterprises and It is char acteristic of high-pressure salesmanship and campaigns that they leave the victim with a sick headache and plentiful re grets the next day. This plan to high-pressure home own ers into taking on an additional burden cf debt needs more explaining.

Do They Want It? The scheme to set uo a Governmental Industrial monopoly for the Virgin Is lands, in order to provide the Virgin Islanders with employment, has doubtless been cooked UD with the best of motives If the natives want it, then there is no good reason why they shouldn't have It. The only question is Do the Virgin Islanders want it? And there is a question. indeed, which cannot be answered on hand. This picturesque and poverty stricken group of islands consists of three Mr ones and a lot of little ones. The little ones don't count.

The three big ones are St. Croix (pop. St. Thomas (pop. 0,834) and St John (pop.

it5). St. Thomas has a grand harbor, and in the good old days it did quite a bit of business In coaling passing steamers and stoking their passengers. St. Croix, which is flutter than the others, grew a fair amount of sugar cane, and this was turned into that Justly famous nectar, St.

Croix rum. There was also a considerable bay rum Industry, and St. John was the Inexhaustible source of the bay leaves. And that was about all the Virgin Islanders had In the way of industry, ex cept to take In each other's washing when there was any extra water. Alne.

that little became even less with prohibition. The rum industry fell to pieces, and so dm its accessory industries. The ships ceased to stop there. The By PHILIP ARLIER this month The Evening Sun offered, in partial proof that business is better, some optimistic notes about the business of the British armament makers. Sir Robert Hadfleld, addressing the stock holders of Hadflelds, described, with pardonable satisfaction, the emergence of his armament business from depression.

"Happily," smiled Sir Robert, "a favor able turn of events has followed, with much more hopeful results. We are, indeed, devoutly thankful for present mercies, but may I add that for what I hope we are about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful. And I say this in no irreverent spirit." One can only conclude that Heaven must have overheard Sir Robert, for the prospects of the armament business are more hopeful than ever, now that France and Great Britain have decided definitely to disagree upon the question of limitation of armament. The powers have now quit kidding, and are definitely engaged In an armament race. What that means to the directors and stockholders of armament concerns may he guessed'frora the fact that the United States buys from ninety-five to ninety-seven per cent, of its armaments from private concerns.

The cost of maintaining the world's fighting forces was in 1031 estimated at and of that at least was spent directly with private concerns for war materials. Quite a good deal has been printed late ly about the armaments business, For-tune, the high-toned paper of the high-toned business man, recently turned its attention toward the industry. And, on the other hand, the liberal Ration has printed a number of indignant articles about it. Now, along1 comes a book on the subject, "Merchants of Death," by H. C.

Eneelbrecht and F. C. Hanlghen, which is filled with an assortment of fascinating information. It helps us to appreciate what a glorious break the armament makers are getting Just at present. Much of the dope in this article is luted from the book.

WHAT many people tend to forget Is that the armament business is a business. The attitude of the armament magnates is well put by Sir William White, one of the grand old men of armament salesmanship. He said that "great armament firms have no national or political prejudices; they are concerned tint lh the ii terlor otiiects or war, our. with the immediate means by which victory may be secured; and the value of nh oiiutrm-t Ideas as lustlec and liberty they leave to the discussion of Idle and metaphysical minds, or employ the terms as convenient euphemisms. Th World War went far toward dem nnatrntlncr iust how efficient it was, as a hnainf.se.

in the two decades prior to that war these- great industrial concerns grew to maturity. Their salesmen, iea ny tlm leuendnrv Greek. Sir Basil Zaharoff, whose skill at pitting one nation against another amounted to genius, curneu Mthor mnrl thither. Tied (11 1 nC battleships. cannon, machine guns, small arms, sub marines, bullets, chaplain outnts ann an the, nthr ripvl'-cfl used in war.

Their business efficiency brought many curious results. The Germans were mec in uci-crinm he German-made euns German sol diers on the eastern front faced Krupp cannon. All of the navies of tile worm, without exception, were clothed In Krupp armor plate. The British used observation balloons made on a model developed by the German firm of Bltterfcldt All of the combatants had-machine guns made by Hiram Maxim, or made on tne aiaxim principle. The Austrian navy had British-made torpedoes.

The British Dardanelles campaign was brought to grief by British mi no an rl British cannon in the bands of the Turks. Bulgaria and Rumania used French 75's against each other. The Rus sian army had many Austrian guns, made by the great Skoda works, to use against the Austrlans. Tne Allies usea Zeiss sights on their guns all through the vnar: In nne eneazement a group of Ger man soldiers were hung up on some Ger man-made barbed wire which naa Deen nt frnia a German factory, the Magde- burger Draht-und-Kabelwerke, to France, via Switzerland, only a few wecKS Deiore. Nickel for steel and saltpeter for explosives made their way from France and French colonies to Germany, even aunng hostilities.

The British adopted a cer tain type of German fuse ater the war Krupp sued the Brltlsn Tor patent infringement and received back royalties. The war proved beyond all doubt that with the armament makers business is primarily business. THE profits of the war were, of course, enormous for the armament firms. Du Pont supplied forty per cent, of the powder used by the Allies before the United States entered, and after the United States entered its production Jumped fantastically. The Du Pont stock- rose 6,000 per cent, during the war perioa.

Hard times came temporarily with the end of the war, however. The great Vlck-ers firm had to seek out the bankers; the French Schneider-Creusot group had very lean pickings for a while; Krupp was put temporarily out of the running. But soon they were on their feet again. The Schneider-Creusot combination, in particular, began to forge ahead. This concern manufactures everything' for the progressive warrior heavy ordnance, machine guns, tanks, shells, ammunition, gas and other chemical supplies.

Its factories, mines, smelting works, and so on are spread all through France, and it has several hundred sutrsldiaries. Of these the most important is the Skoda works in Czechoslovakia. Schneider-Creusot has pretty nearly a dominant position in French finance also, through its control of several great banks, its control of the French steel trust, its political connections, and its Influence in Is ilatin, Le Le Journal dee Debate, and several less important French papers. The British VIckers merger which rose out of the post-war ashes is even greater. First there are the four parent firms, VirVers-Armstrone.

Knsllsh Steel Corpo ration, Metropolltan-Cammel and Vlrk- ers (Aviation), Ltd. Then practically every dominion has Its VIckers subsidiary. It has two subsidiaries in Spain, Well, As We Have Pointed Out Edi torially, It Is Human, All Too Human To thi Editoi or Thi Evebino Sub Sir: One-third of Baltimore's Negro popula tion Is on the relief rolls, which burden the taxpayers of this city have to shoulder. That explains why the taxes on the home we occupy have risers from $34 to $100. And this situation exists because, not as the article states, the Negroes cannot find work but because of the fact they are Indifferent to accept work when offered them.

Why should they work, when the State will take care of them? The writer is in a position to know, being the proprietor of an employment agency. Just the other day I offered a girl a posi tion in a private family as a domestic at $7 a week with room and board. She re fused to accept same, stating she gets $3 a week from the relief, and if she took the job they would cut off her allowance. She preferred to stay on the relief rolls. A fine state ot affairs! Baltimore, April 17.

Observes. Spaolous Argument To Prove Our Ar gument Specibus To the Editoi or Thi Evenino Sun Sir: Mr. Mencken Is wasting his breath in fulminating against the New Deal eco nomics, by and large; in which he would certainly include the quantitative theory of money crack pfits. It Is a pure waste of breath at least to argue with such people. People capable of sincerel holding their views are, like tne simon-pure religion, capable of believing anything, so long as It is wild, visionary, fantastic and the common run of stuff and nonsense.

Common sense being much too uncom mon, It doesn't take much turning over in the mind of the average individual of some merely speoious idea to end In a vicious monomania: witness what the veteran problem has done to the editor of Tht Evenino; Sun, by Heaven! W. Baltimore, April K. Complaint Of Chiseling A Taxi Driver To mi Editor er The Evenino Sun I wonder how it is that the Police Department cannot stop litis so-called "dime riding" by people who neither have hacking tags nor meters, and do not pay the required Insurance? They stopped the taxi-cabs, now why don't they stop these pirate hackers? The practice Is mostly on Roland avenue, SJ. Paul street. Dolphin street, Fremont avenue, Pennsylvania avenue snd too many other streets to mention.

Now, if these people cannot operate whichever way the law requires, why not let the taxicabs throw sway their meters and give up their Insurance? Because it is almost impossible to make a decent living under the present rates. A Taxi Drvn. (Because I do not want to live on charity.) Baltimore, April 18. Warning That War Is Impending Because America And Britain Do Not Approve Of The Nazis' Treatment Of The Jews To the Editor or Tin Evebino Sub Sir: The boycott of Germany is, as you say in your editorial, working very well, but what will happen to the rest of the Jews In Germany when the German people find out what Is happening to their trade? There will be a first-class war In the offing and we and the British and the others that countenance the boycott will be responsible. It took four and a half years to subdue a confident Germany; It may take longer to subdue a resentful Germany.

However, this merely goes to prove how strong a hold the Jewish population has on the United States. Margaret Carpenter. Rchoboth Beach, April 14. Casting Aspersions Upon Those By Whom Aspersions Have Been Cast To thi Editor or Thi Evebino Sub Sir: I am curious to know how well the "Virginians" who recently wrote to the Forum speak English. Judging by the way English Is murdered by so many people "down yonder," I don't wonder that Maryland still his a Declaration of Intentions act.

If English, as English, should be made a test of residence In Maryland the depression In Maryland would be greatly alleviated by the exodus of Virginians. Joseph G. Horak. Baltimore, April 15. Suggesting That Dr.

Wirt Made His Hearers Yawn? They Seem To Have Been Highly Entertained To the Editor or Thi Evening Sun Sir: Miss Alice Barrow's characterization of Dr. Wirt as a monologist leads me to suspect that the nods which Dr. Wirt fondly believed to signify approval of opinions being expressed were. In fact, only preliminary Indications that the nodder was about to fall asleep in a perpendicular position. And while we're on the subject why is it that no one seems to have had any critical remarks to make about Dr.

Wirt's apparent violation of the implied confidence of his hosts? Is there no such thing as an inviolate confidence In Washington? Baltimore, April 11. H. C. Battob. Praise For The Salon Dea'Refuses To thi Editoi or The Evebino Sun Sir: After having seen many art exhibits in European countries, it is quite a pleasure to discover that the Baltimore Charcoal Club has an exhibit of paintings by very capable artists.

In fact, 1 am inclined to compare it with the best. I saw abroad the one in Edinburgh by Scottish artists. And, mind you, the Charcoal -Club's exhibit comprises the paintings that were refused at the official exhibit. Baltimore, April 18. Reimanb.

Intercepted Letters Drar IScrt And If yon run for Governor, who'll be Senator? Yours, Hob. Albert Cabell IliTcnir, Executive Mansion, Annapolis. Pleas be brief. A a rule 200 words should bt snough. Your name and address must accompany each communication as an evidence of good faith.

Your name trill not be published unless vou wish it, but sinned letters will be given the preference. Plan For A State Lottery To ths Eumw or Tot Etching Sum Sir: I wish to submit for Mr. Lester Muller's approval a plan for the "Free State quarterly lottery," to be drawn quarterly at Annapolis for unemployment relief. There would be little trouble In disposing of 5,000,000 coupons throughout the East for each drawing, prizes to be swared as follows: Prlsr-a. of t.ono $iwnoo 50 Prlioe of 10.000 HO I'rlaea of 6.000 iM.tim loo Prlai-e of li.ooo.

IHK) Prlai-a of l.ooo Ikh) I'rlare of MKI tUHl.ooO iki I'rln of ihi 200.000 SHOO Prtll-S Ot UT5 Ptlcn total The operating expenses, complete details and method of handling which I will fur nish if needed, amount to $500,000 quarterly. This includes 8 per cent commission to sellers, steady employment for one hun dred superiors without commission at J25 to $35 weekly salary, printing, postage, etc. The net yearly profit on this plan amounts to $10,600,000, enough to take care of 25,000 unemployed Maryland families fos the entire year. J. E.

Baltimore, April 13. Peace Fiasco To TRi Enrros or Thi Evenino Sim Sir: A careful perusal of the newspapers and a report from a bystander of the late la mented Hopkins war fiasco has left me with a dark-brown taste In the mouth. I have always felt Just a wee contempt for the general run of university students as a class, but after the egg, tomato and cold- water episode on the campus my opinion is more definitely crystallized. As a prac ticmg pacifist, my sole wish is that a speedy war will soon wipe out the pedic-culfe responsible for the blight May the fiery Dicty of the Old Testament sprinkle them liberally with a good, strong tinc ture of larkspur with a dish of stavesacre added for more efficacious results. Baltimore, April 17, Rruska Jhto.

Yes, It Is The Natural Come-Back, But Wilt It Hold Good In Dos Wirt's Case? To tbk Enrros or Tbs Evromq Sun Sir: Dr. Wirt's associates at the famous Vir ginia tes party belittle his charges and offer to prove their case by stating that Dr. Wirt did alt the talking. And the doctor, in rebuttal, will simply point out that ladies were present. Lio A.

Hughes. Baltimore, April. 18. Is It A Fact? To tbs Enrros or Tai Evebino Sub -Sir: Why is it that the majority of employers of Baltimore seem to prefer foreign labor In preference to Americans? I have noticed that In walking along the streets, visiting industrial plants and even In the ranks ol the CWA. James B.

Wake. Baltimore, April 15. Alas And Atsckl To the Editos or Thi EvrmNO Sub Sir: Alas! all this time I thought the Johns Hopkins University was a place of higher learning, but it now seems the higher learning is restricted to the proper technique of propelling overripe hen fruit Baltimore, April 16. Prince or Posib. Suggestion To The Art Museum To the Konoe or Thi Evenino Sun Sir: The Art Museum houses many things foreign to painting and sculpture.

There are collections of old coins, silverware, pottery, antique furniture and interiors of old houses. If these things can be gathered in the name of art, then the implements of torture found in the basement of Walters Art Gallery should be exhibited at the Art Museum. These torturing devices are of as much historical value and about as artistic as the things now on display at the museum. I am sure that there are many persons who would appreciate an exhibition of this character, and I suggest to those in charge they arrange an early showing. H.

A. Psince. Baltimore, April 18. On Political And Economic Trends To the Editos or Thi Eveninb Sun Sir: Allow me to congratulate the writers of the editorials of The Evening Sun ot the last few months. Some of the articles are very well written and some of the most interesting that I have ever read In any newspaper.

The writers more or less drift a bit to the Left, which shows that they are progressive. The criticisms are very fitting, in the face of the present trend of economic conditions and of the political state of affairs. I am not an authority on economics, but I feel I must accept the ideology of some of our present-day intellectuals who are inclined to the Left and who are none other than our President and his brain trust. Some of our radicals may say that certain policies of our President are wrong, yet it is logical that some should be, and remember that our President is ruling under a capitalistic regime and is governed under a system of capitalistic economics, Baltimore, April 17. Harbt Seidman.

One More Plea For Preston Gardens To the Ebiioi or Thi Evebino Sub Sir: May I add my approval as one more woman in sympathy with the loyal and patriotic work of the public-spirited women, members of the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland, of which Mrs. Robert H. Walker is chairman of the legislative committee; the Wemen's Civic League snd the League of Women Voters favoring the Frederic Law Olmsted plan for the new one hundred-foot boulevard to take care of the east and west traffic from Philadelphia to Washington. To turn this volume of traffic into the center of the city at Franklin and Mulberry streets would be a fatal mistake. This would necessitate the building of the Bath street viaduct, the crossing of The Hump or hill from Calvert to Charles street and the practical destruction of the Preston Gardens.

Why not take the route that has no hill in it the Olmsted plan? A Loves or Baltimosi. Waggish To Tin Eniros or The Evenino Sub Sir: Headline: "Lithuanian Dog in Fallsway Hunted by Police in Rowboat." Evidently the dog was looking for lithis water and the police wexs all at sea, Oisarvni. WAGNER It has subsidiaries in Rumania and Poland, control oret which is shared with the French Schneider-Creusot VIckers also has Interesting affiliations not only with the French, but with the German armament people. Some of the Krupp armament Industry was trans ferred to Holland after the Versailles Treaty, and another German armament firm, Rheinmetall, has a Dutch -factory. Vickers is part owner of both.

VIckers is also part owner of two Dutch concerns, and also of the Dutch airplane firm of Fokker, which in turn is affiliated with Pintsch, of Berlin. Pintsch is commonly mentioned as one of the principal supporters of Hitler. Vickers is also inter ested in the Swiss Brown-Boverl, the Italian Vlckers-Ternl, and in the Japanese Steel Works, which is the principal armaments concern of Japan and is work ing overtime just now. Testimony has at various times par ticularly in the Shearer case disclosed some of the American armaments activity. The principal American firms are Du Pont, Colt, Remington Arms and Bethlehem Steel.

This latter makes both non- plerceable armor plate and the armor-piercing projectiles with which to pierce it The great arms concerns have, since the war, redoubled their sales efforts, be cause, like other businesses, they must continue to keep their factories busy or face bankruptcy. Their big talking point is, of course, preparedness. To quote Sir Herbert Lawrence, the chairman of VIckers: It Is difficult to understand the prejudice which appears to exist in a small section of the public against the so-called armament firms, which are just as much a part of the defense system of the country as the forts defending the entrance to Portsmouth harbor. There is the keenest com petition to secure orders from any country which is strengthening its defense. Indeed there is, and tne competition has stimulated sales.

Sales have also been stimulated in a great degree lately by the behavior of the Japanese In the East and by the behavior of Hitler in the West JT is hardly necessary to say that, because in war lies their prosperity, the armament firms constitute an influence in the direction of war. And because of that self-evident truth, many persons have begun lately to advocate the "out lawry" of the busifiess. They have jumped to the conclusion that this business Is at the root of war and that if we could elim inate the armament business we could eliminate war. Unfortunately, the reasoning Is Just wrong-way around. If we could eliminate the causes of war, It might be possible to eliminate the armament business or, rather, it would waste away like the sea nettle stranded on the pier.

But no evi dence has been adduced as yet that war Is on the way toward being eliminated. Armament firms can stand a lot of criti cism without much concern, because they receive the tacit support of all governments. They receive the tacit support of all believers in preparedness. They receive the tacit support of all nationalists, because nat ionalism implies International anarchy and the constant threat of war. They are as necessary to civilization, as it is now constituted, as the slaughter house and the sewage-disposal plant.

They even receive the support of the radicals; the Communists of Germany would like nothing so much as to see Germany rearmed, for that would give tbem weapons. So, in offering up a prayer for favors to come, Sir Robert Hadfleld, of Hadflelds, took no chances. That prayer was an armor-piercing cinch. Munitions Makers Play Cricket With Cannon Balls From the New Stateamen and KaUoa (London) "TliERE was some liveliness at the annual meeting of VIckers and Sir Herbert Lawrence, the chairman, had a troublesome quarter of an hour with his shareholders. Miss Eleanor Rathbone, M.

again raised the point first brought out In the House of Commons that VIckers were advertising tanks in the German press. She produced evidence, Including a letter from the advertising manager of a paper, to refute Sir John Simon's statement in Parliament that the paper in question bad a large public outside Germany. It appeared, In fact, that less than 800 copies went abroad. The advertisements, said Sir Herbert Lawrence, were designed for "their old and valued clients" In South America. The effect of tills confession was somewhat spoiled by another shareholder observing that, if this were the sole object of the advertisements, for the same expenditure each of the old and valued clients outside Germany could be sent two circulars In his own language Instead of one advertisement in German.

Of course, nobody accused VIckers of not playing fair according to the rules of the game. But what is the game this game of private traffic in arms? Asked point-blank by Miss Rathbone to deny that VIckers were secretly rearming Germany and Austria, Sir Herbert replied "I cannot give an assurance in definite terms of that nature, but I can assure you that nothing Is done without the complete sanction and approval of your own The shareholders were thus left with the comforting knowledge that if their company were aggravating the danger on the Continent It was with the full support of the British Cabinet Gob Humor ran the U. a. Xe York Knlckerboeaer A pretty city girl was visiting in the country. She became rather friendly with a handsome yonng farmer.

One afternoon as they were strolling In the fields they happened across a cow and a calf robbing noses In the accepted fashion. "That sight makes me want to do the same," said the farmer gazing upon the girl with soulful mushy eyes. "Well, go ahead," said the young lady encouragUislye "it jour cow," il an ill am aeaas sffaessetaaiai laaaisaai in nai rb.