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TH13 SUNi BALTIMORE, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5, 1933 repeal resolution to State conventions and These Are Hard Days On Authors the controversy that has been precipitated as to the authority of Congrcia even to fix a date upon which such conventions should be From A Window In Fleet Street held. Legitimate doubt may exist on some of the issues that have been injected into the debate. But the important fact is that the drys are serving notice that they intend to By A. D. EMMART contest every inch of the ground and that the contest will not be won unless the wets are equally determined, know what strategy they are going to pursue and gird their loins for a real struggle.

They should be content with nothing less than the full measure of relief promised in the platform of the Demo-cratic party a reasonable beer bill and complete repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. 6 TIIE SUN PublUh.il E'trr Bundajf fly THE A. S. ABELL COMPANY Paul Patterson, President. Inland at th roatoMi at RilUmor twondUM oil DUtUf.

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B. 1933 IT IS THE SAME STORY Governor Ritchie and the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles offer in defense of the proposal to increase the State motor-cycle police force from seventy.to one hundred arguments with which the taxpayers have become exceedingly familiar. Some of the arguments are very good ones, but the answer to most cf them is that the public cannot afford the cost. The Governor does not believe our State toads are properly patrolled and he fears later on that there may be marches of the unemployed, Communists and others through Maryland to Washington. If such a development occurred, however, and brought a real menace, twenty-five additional policemen tould hardly be expected to cope with it.

Other means would have to be found for protection of the peace of the State in case of emergency. However this may be, the point is that tvery proposal for increase in expenditure of public funds comes backed by more or less plausible pleas. In this city, during the discussion of the current budget, the public was repeatedly warned that the retrenchments in-listed upon would cripple essential municipal lervices. Nobody welcomed such a sequel, but when the alternative was a tax rate that would crush property owners, the reply was these services would have to suffer. We cannot have it both ways," and no increase of State personnel at this time that is not based Upon compelling reasons should be made.

one party or the other to the domestic dispute born of Mrs. Allen's lead of heart against a six-diamond contract when her husband had bid spades. But before anyone throws a stone at either of the disputants, let him consider whether he is himself without sin. Our guess is that out of tha millions of bridge players in this country there are but a handful who have never made a bad lead. And our further guess is that despite the restraints which bridge players impose on, themselves there are few who have not on some occasion displayed impatience with the conduct of a partner." But for the forgiveness and forgetfulness of partners on such occasions the world would resound with disputes, if not between husband and wife at least between friend and friend.

The great difference between the Allen case and hundreds of thousands of other cases of much the same potentiality is that the Aliens did not forgive and forget. Bridge players inclined to be superior about this matter might well restrain themselves and acknowledge that but for the grace of human kindness they might have suffered similar indignities. 1 DIGNITY SAVED In his article in the New Outlook, David S. Barry, sergeant at arms of the United States Senate, was writing in typical Washington vernacular of politics and politicians. Probably, as an employe of the Senate, he ought not to have written at all and obviously his faux fas, included in a clumsy and inept attempt to defend the Senate from ignorant detractors, could not be ignored.

The talk about "a few" members of Congress who are "crooks" was certain to demand action, for the Senate, despite certain outward and visible signs, does have the need to uphold its dignity. Nevertheless, this worthy objective, even the dismissal of Mr. Barry, might have been accomplished without such an undignified and passionate performance as some members of the august body gave on Friday afternoon. With a little common sense and ordinary human feeling, the indignant Senators might have recognized the fact that Mr. Barry is one of those sturdy defenders of the Senate and Senators who are invariably selected for such jobs, that he is more than 70 years of age and that his intent in writing the article, aside from selling it, was to show that Congress isn't as terrible as most people think.

It would be too much to demand a sense of humor in the Senate, but at least one might have expected a certain elementary kindness to prevent such a pathologically cruel inquisition of an elderly man as that conducted by a group of sensitive plants in the Senate. Mr. Barry has offended and must be dealt with, but surely a formal and considered action would have taken care of the Senate's dignity better than a series of temper tantrums, in which dignity was preserved, if at all, only through a sacrificial immolation on he altar of pique. DISARMAMENT PROSPECT Hitler's statement to the Italian journalists in Berlin about the desirability of closer cooperation between Germany and Italy needs to be considered in connection with the developments now unfolding themselves at Geneva, where the Disarmament Conference has once more begun to drag itself over the weary course of futile negotiation. What the Nazi chieftain envisages is in essence a restoration of the old European diplomacy in which one group of nations will be set off against another.

The understanding he suggests between Berlin and Rome conjures up the threat of a new bloc of Fascist powers dedicated to the task of revising the existing treaties, as France and the "Little Entente" have been dedicated these" past ten years to the maintenance of the status quo. While this threat may not be realized by Hitler himself, it is nevertheless a real one, now that the reactionary forces have regained the upper hand In Germany. And its projection across the diplomatic icena in Europe tends very decidedly to darken the already obscure prospect of the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. The failure of that conference in the past has been due in considerable measure to the intransigeance of France. The French insistence on the organization of "security," which was but another name for the maintenance of the status quo, as a condition precedent to any effectual disarmament, has kept the Geneva Conference immobilized throughout the year in which it -has been in session.

If the French have resisted all efforts at compromise on this point in the past, it is hardly to be expected that they will modify their position now that Germany is beginning to reassert herself and to employ the pre-war methods of diplomacy to advance her ends. Moreover, it is difficult to believe that French concessions now would yield positive results. An abatement of the French intransigeance would have served a useful purpose in the years in which Germany was still under the control of the moderates. But now that the Hitlerites and the Junkers seem to have secured some sort of permanent ascendancy in the Reich, French concessions would count for little. (A pieteft The Third Act LETTERS to the EDITOR By Frederld Nelson London Bureau of Tht Sun, 40 Fleet Street, London, January 24.

FOUR GREAT interests of Londonof all England, indeed during late weeks have been: The Furnace murder case; the Test Matches, that i to say, cricket, if to say cricket is to say anything to an American; the most tedloua question of the future of the "tote clubs," and Influenza. The order given above la haphazard. Doubtless it does not represent the exact standing of these topics in respect of public curiosity and public concern. One can be sure, however, that first place in the list is correctly assigned to the Furnace murder. It ha often been said that they do this kind of thing better in- England than in America.

Only a day or two ago I heard a newspaper man and a novelist talking of the Furnace case and agreeing that it well represented the "superior" type of British murder, always more engaging and more mysterious than American homicide, because nine out of ten times the criminal is an amateur slaughterer. Hence his motives are frequently difficult to fathom, his past in no way suggests bloody deeds, and his psychology and behavior as a criminal (once he has become a criminal) presents a much harder problem to the police. ANYWAY, there is not much doubt that the Furnace case was an especially sensational and "dramatic" business. A man was found seemingly burned to death in an office. At the same moment two men were missing.

One was Furnace, in "whose office the body was found; the other was a rent collector. First identifications named Furnace as the victim. But later after it had been established that the dead man had been shot three times and that the fire had been set only in an endeavor to disguise the nature of his death and to render recognition more difficult, it was decided that it was the rent collector who had been killed. So Furnace naturally became the suspected man. He had, however, disappeared and it was soon apparent that apprehending him was going to be troublesome.

Within a short time what Englishmen assure me was one of the most intensive hunts of recent criminal history in London had got under way. For a long time it led nowhere, although the police were convinced that the man they wanted was still in the city. They were right; he was. On a Sunday he was found in a rooming house in the South End. He went quietly, he made no statements.

Then after a day in jail it was just as suddenly announced that he had been poisoned, presumably by his own hand. Twenty-four hours were spent in desperate efforts to save him temporarily, anyway. The endeavors failed; Furnace died without confessing. His only statementgiven, it has since been learned, when he was arrested was to the effect that the shooting had been accidental. THe gun just "went off." THE HISTORY of the case was as surprising and as sensational as the most cleverly contrived story.

There was suspense enough to whip public interest to highest pitch, yet not enough of it to fatigue public attention. The first mys- tery was followed by the blustering crescendo search; the search lasted just long enough to prime nerves for the capture. Finally the capture came. Then the suicide capped the arrest at just the moment when many of the papers were printing the usual photographs of "Bedroom Where Furnace Hid" (picture of an easy chair, brass bedstead, a portrait of the landlady), and when part of the avid public was besieging Marylebone Police Court in hopes of seeing the man and another part was preparing to rest itself for the trial. The connoisseurs in murder have another excellent true story to add to their records.

But the courts were, cheated. THE CRICKET test matches are to the British heart what the World Series is i to the American. But just as each separate cricket game outlasts even the longest extra-inning struggle between American teams, so do the Test Matches outlast any real or imaginable World Series. At the time of writing, the third test is under way, and two more sre scheduled to be played. An extra edge has been given the competition this year by a terrific but, to Americans, almost inexplicable controversy over "shock tactics" and "leg theory" and "body line" Roughly, the English team's mathods seem to compare to fast-ball pitching with a tendency to "dust" the batsman.

WHAT IS THE ANSWER? The explanation given by the City Service Commission for its refusal to approve a new classification proposed in the city's transportation service gives rise to the suspicion that tate to call attention to the inequality of the arrangement The Idea seemed to be current throughout the examination of the sergeant at arms that this cankerous crime "contempt of the Senate" arises from articles in the New Outlook and plays like "Of Thee I Sing." Senator Ashurst gave the tip-off when he spoke of "vile things in cheap shows." But does he, or any other Senator, imagine for a moment that people 'laugh off the Senate merely because of the Kaufman-Rys-kind conception of a debate on a pension for Paul Revere's horse? The other day I attended a session, and, although I saw no bribes protruding from pockets, I saw a dreary spectacle of exhibitionism and pettyfogging. One Senator was against a hand-out to some corporation because Mr. Morgan had a director on the board, though what that had to do with the policy being decided I was given no idea. Another wandered about from debater to debater, perching himself on the edge of a desk Immediately in front of the speaker on whom tie fixed a fishy eye. Once he asked somebody to "yield" in order to say over again what the speaker had just said thus putting his IS cents' worth into the Record.

Others reading newspapers; and here I ask "What is a sergeant at arms for if not to stop such contempt of the Senate as that?" the Mayor is not waging as determined war fare as was promised to effect economies. -As the case stands, the job of chief dis patcher in the bureau of transportation was abolished last Wednesday in pursuance, as was supposed, of the administration's retrenchment policy. Incidentally, it may be noted that the position was held by a Repub It is therefore difficult to read any immediate promise into the deliberations so recently resumed at Geneva. Events seem to underscore more than ever the need of disarmament. Without some affirmative move toward reduction in the near future, Germany may be expected to start on the road to rearmament.

If and when that occurs, the dangers of the European situation will be immeasurably enlarged. But for the moment the effort to translate the aspirations for peace and economy in military expenditure into tangible treaties seems more hopeless than ever. Those who are still concerned about this project and despite the apparent callousness of governments the number so concerned is legion must for the present solace themselves with the hope that the advent of a new administration in the United States and the solution of some of the pressing economic problems now occupying the attention of statesmen will open a way for a more comprehensive and determined drive against the engines of war. lican. Now the City Service Commission is requested to agree to the creation of a new office in the department, which would be titled "assistant superintendent of transportation," and the temporary appointment to the place of a Democrat whose position in the bureau was also abolished last week.

The commission is unable to see that there is any distinction between the duties of the office that was abolished and of the one that it is now asked to approve. In other words, its' action indicates that it suspects jugglery to get a Republican out and a Democrat in. If the commission's view of the matter is correct, the development is a disappointing Tht cognoscenti tell me that George Kaufman is very sensitive about having ines interpolated In "Of Thee I Sing," but if he could have seen the Senate's Friday performance I suspect he would want to grab the whole scene for his spectacle. It wouldn't make the play any funnier, but it would point the satire. David S.

Barry la 73 years old, he used to be a newspaper man himself, and now he is sergeant at arms of the Senate. The enterprising editors of the New Outlook engaged him to do some pieces on politics and in his first one he ventured the opinion that "contrary to the popular belief, there are not many crooks in Congress. There are not many Senators who sell their vote for money, and it is pretty well known who those are." This effort to refute a popular belief was the occasion for a most extraordinary outburst, particularly on the part of the great Progressives from the Plains. Senator Norris and Senator Blaine and Senator Walsh Mont.) vied. with each other in badgering an elderly gentleman who had got a piece printed in the paper.

The conservative Senators, commonly associated with the "interests," were inclined to be more charitable, perhaps because there is just a shade more humor in the Union league Club of New York than among the hills of Nebraska. The ghosts of various Senators and almost-Sen-ators must have chuckled over Senator Norris1 anger at the suggestion that Senators are not always pure and spotless. There was a time when the Senator announced his intention to retire because of the dubious quality of his colleagues. Senator Ashurst had the suspicion that the impression might get abroad that Senators were "thin-skinned and tender of criticism." Nobody else seemed more concerned about that than usual. I don't suppose there are any Congressmen who take "bribes of money," although the things that "everybody knows" about some of them are a caution.

The sergeant at arms admitted that his statement was "careless and thoughtless" in short, in the conversational manner of a Washington group of defenders of the existing order and dignities gathered for cocktails. But Senator Norris took a terrible risk. He asked Mr. Barry whether he knew "any Senator or Representative who has sold his vote for anything the besides Obviously the sergeant at arms wasn't up to it, or he would have made quite a little speech, beginning "Naturally, I have no proof, but when I see Senators voting for such propositions as tariffs, bonuses and Philippine freedom' .1 must have my mental reservations." But, of course, Sergeant at Arms Barry made no such speech, though, in my opinion, he made a very respectable defense, admitting that if he had seen proofsheet of his article he would have chiseled out a few things. In spite of this, the outraged solons spent their afternoon badgering this raconteur.

They seem likely to fire him and then cite him for libeL This is something of a reflection upon the sportsmanship of the Senate for, as is well known, Senators consume pages of the Congressional Record and hours of company time libeling all sorts of people, and nobody, not even J. P. Morgan, can call them to account It is a pretty soft thing, GAME CONSERVATION There is good reason why at this time every agency created by the Legislature in recent years should be investigated and called upon to give its excuse for being. This is true of the agency supported by fees received from hunting licenses which devotes itself to game conservation. The agency costs the State nothing, being entirely supported by fees.

And there is general belief that it is in good hands, is doing a good work and that there is room for further exercise of its activities. In the circumstances, It should be able to make out a case for itself that would rally the public as well as sportsmen to its defense, since the proposal to divert Its income to the State treasury would seem, 'at. first blush, intended to weaken its efficiency. Of course the fact that a State department functions, not at public expense but at the expense of those who are supposed to benefit from its operations, is not a sufficient apology for its existence. But the public generally is concerned in the work of this agency, conservation of game being carried on not merely for sportsmen but because it contributes also to State welfare.

And no change in the present scheme of game propagation and protection should be made accompanied by assurance that it will promote this purpose. THE FIGHT IS NOT WON The attitude of the present Congress upon the beer bill and repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment has undoubtedly helped to bolster the morale of the drys and, to a certain extent, dampened the hopes of the wets as to the speed with which and the form in which the liquor question would be submitted to the States. But it should be borne in mind that, prior to the convening of Congress, there was no expectation that a body that had shown itself to be irreconcilably dry would consider passing the repeal resolution. This work was to be undertaken by the Congress elected in November. Nevertheless, what has been going on should serve as a warning to those who wish to get the issue out of the Federal Constitution that they have their work cut out for them.

The efforts to hamstring the beer bill are significant of the character of the fight that may be made by drys and weak-kneed wets in the next Congress. And since success of such efforts would largely deprive advocates of repeal of their victory, they should be prepared to combat them and demand honest fulfillment of the pledges in the Democratic platform. It is discouraging, for example, to see the ease with which the Borah amendment, that would compel a person who tried to buy a glass of non-intoxicating beer to bring along his birth certificate, was adopted. Such control should be in the States. The hasty adoption of the foolish amendment prohibiting a newspaper that carried a beer advertisement from circulating in a dry State was additional evidence of hostility to the character of reform in liquor control which the public had confident right to anticipate.

Further obstacles to repeal are apparent in the objection raised to submission of the Serious Pica For The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra To thb Editor or The Sun Sir: A city the size of Baltimore is able to maintain and support a permanent and yet it is obvious to the frequent concert patrons that our orchestra is not supported as it should be. The admission price is modest enough too modest, in fact and the program well balanced, and all one should desire in refined and inspiring music. Granted it is most delightful to listen to two great orchestras such as the Philadelphia and Philharmonic or the Boston. They are perfect examples of coordination and superb leadership, but they, too, had their infancy. With the vast wealth of large cities behind them, they grew rapidly to perfection.

The Baltimore Symphony can be made to be just as important a musical event as the coming of the Philadelphia or Philharmonic. It is a difficult task for any orchestra to coordinate perfectly in order to produce the great masters' works without the sufficient number of rehearsals required and too long a period between them. There are not more than six of these rehearsals. Another problem is the desire for greater volume, which is due to lack of proper amount of instruments, especially in the wood winds and brasses. Give our orchestra 'constructive criticism, proper patronage, money for the necessary rehearsals, money for more and better instruments, more members.

With the support of Baltimore's large music-loving population it would not be long before our eyes gazed upon the words, "Standing room only." Mildred Martin Shackeltors. Baltimore, Feb. 1, 1933. But Isn't Mr. Roosevelt More Than A Private Citizen Now? To the Editor or The Sun Sir: Franklin D.

Roosevelt, at present a private citizen, apparently treats with the contempt it deserves the stupid Federal law known as the Logan act He did this when he personally took up with the British Ambassador the international debt question. He has set a splendid example of how to treat silly laws which Congress fails to repeal in spite of a century and a third of opportunities to do so. The fact that such laws. as the Logan act, enacted by men long dead, still remain on the statute books with all the validity of an act passed yesterday shows the wisdom of Jefferson's suggestion that every law should die automatically at the end of twenty years unless specifically reenacted. Samuel Danziger.

Detroit, Feb. 1, 1933. Call To Save The Night Schools To the Editor or The Sun Sir: Well, is it possible the night schools are to go? Baltimore will surely have to hang its head in shame. Some of our best citizens have attended the night schools to better their education, would not have been able to get the knowledge had it not been for them. Then a great many things could be abolished and not be missed for instance, fancy cooking, etc, taught in the day classes.

Times are too hard to think of luxuries. Cannot this administration get together and talk this important matter over and try to do something before it is too late and save the night classes? Havre de Grace. Baltimore, Feb. 2, 1333. one.

The public knows that, when jobs are shifted about for partisan purposes, the matter of saving money is apt to be ignored. And in this city, unlike the situation in a good many others, there are few opportunities to make material reduction in governmental costs by wholesale reorganizations of the machinery of operation, combination of taxing agencies and various other reforms in the setup of government which are wasteful because of duplication of functions. What economies are effected here must come chiefly through efficient management in the City Hall," elimination of politics and determination to retrench. In consequence, it is bad news for taxpayers when they see a job eliminated one week only to bob up the next under a new name. HARBINGER OF SANITY? For more than a decade, when given a choice between what an overwhelming preponderance of enlightened opinion would have decreed a sensible course of action on the tariff and a course likely to damage the economic well being of the nation, Congress has consistently chosen the foolish course.

In the light of that record, the report from those in a position to speak with considerable authority that there will be ho legislation during the present session of Congress to boost the tariff on account of depreciated foreign currencies is a significant reversal of a disastrous trend. To adopt legislation providing for drastic upward revision of our tariff to "compensate" for depreciated foreign currencies would, by common consent of those expertly familiar with the subject matter, be a very foolish performance. It is even condemned by Chairman O'Brien of the Tariff Commission, who, by his own admission, is an enthusiast for higher tariffs. And it is more surely condemned by the scientific analyses of our foreign trade since the plague of currency depreciation set in, which show conclusively that our ports have not been flooded with wares from depreciated-currency countries. None the less, it is remarkable to have the present Congress pass up depreciated currencies as a peg on which to hang a sweeping upward revision of the tariff.

It may be the harbinger of a return to sanity in dealing with the tariff. The Australians have protested bitterly and after the first innings at the Adelaide Oval the Australian captain, who -was hit over the heart by an English bowler's "express delivery," gave voice' to some rather bitter, though extremely gentlemanly, remarks to the effect that "there were two teams out there and What disturbs most people, about the Senate is not so much rumors of quiet bribery as the buffoonery of Senator Ind.) attempt to arrest Mr. Bullitt for dining out with Continental statesmen; Hiram Johnson's attempts to secure European default instead of a final lump payment, the obvious efforts of Senators to make- the taxpayer foot his campaign bills through such devices as "farm relief" and "adjusted compensation." These are the kind of things that make "contempt of the Senate" a serious temptation these and such exhibitions of temper as the trial of Sergeant at Arms Barry with all the solemnity of the trial of Warren Hastings without the wigs. To revert to the "Of Thee I Sing" motif, I wish to call attention to a real comedy line injected by Mr. Barry in reply to a cross-examination by Senator Blaine, who was bristling with his customary mens conscia recti.

The Senator, who is fortunately a lame duck, asked Mr. Barry whether he had the opinion that anybody had been bribed, and Mr. Barry made the priceless reply: "I think not today." Senator Blaine, not willing to give Mr. Barry the curtain line, roared: "Would you have tomorrow?" and finally "Did you have an opinion yesterday?" which was getting down to the county attorney level. But for me the spectacle of the harassed sergeant at arms without even a mace to play with, pecked at by infuriated Senators, saying: "1 think not today," ends the scene.

It was Moran and Mack to the life. Because Mr. Barry Is so good an actor and because Senators are so inapprecia-tive not only of good comedy but of the sergeant's charitable intent in writing his piece, I propose a nation-wide subscription for his retirement A Barry like this one does not belong in the Senate anyway. He is a Barry in the tradition of Philip and J. M.

(despite Scottish spelling). I appeal to all who have ever been guilty of even "constructive" contempt of the Senate to come across. one of them was playing cricket," etc Now there is a suggestion that order to retaliate the Australians will employ a bowler (pitcher) who bounces In Reverse From th. New Orleans Tunea-Picarune The late Calvin Coolidge is credited with the ball up to the wicket with such terrifying speed that he exhausts him- self after two overs an over being, roughly, an "out." Anyway, both sides are really aroused. Strange to say, the "sides" are not sharply English vs.

-Australian. For there are a number of Englishmen who condemn "shock tac- and there are some Australians who defend it Anyway, the dispute the aphorism "I have never been hurt by what I have not said." However, that is different from the experience of most others who have often been wrecked by not saying "No Fifty-Fifty From th NiahfiU Banner) The population seems fairly well divided between people who are afraid Congress will do something and those who fear It won't. Vocabulary From th Warn! Daily Neva One way of learning new words Is to ask the taxi driver to change a ten. has vastly enlivened this middle neriod of the matches. They began before Christmas.

I am not sure just how far this side of Easter lies their conclusion. THE "TOTE" subject is even more complicated and will have to be left for another time. Of influenza it can WITHOUT SIN Millions of people will talk about the sad case of Mr. and Mrs. C.

Nelson Allen, of Lqs Angeles, who have arrived in the divorce courts by way of the bridge table. And millions of people will have impulses to criticize only be said that it appears to be at least as much discussed in the air, so but, if I were the Senate, I should hesi to say as the questiqp of war debts..