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PAGE FOUR THE CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL Walter E. Clark Sunday Morning THE CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL', SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1932 i R.H.MAXT1N O. DAMRON C. H. AJTOEMON editor Editor BiatneW Manager 1 11 IAMB Circulation Manager A Jr.

Superintendent of ttat and ottMr to found on TXUPHONIS CallCapttol T-MU West Virginia: the Beautiful State SATUBDAT, APRIL 23. 1932 President Hoover Wins a Point President Hoover has won from the Democratic house economy committee the power to reorganize the government departments subject to the approval of congress within 60 days. Congress itself must give its approval before such powers will be conferred, but with the approval of the house economy committee an important step toward the conferring of this power has been taken. At first the house committee would not hear of such a thing. It wanted the President either to sit with it in conference or to submit to it a program for its decision.

Evidently the house economy committee has come to the conclusion that the plans it suggested are not practicable. Such a conclusion would not have been reached had not the house economy committee found itself confronted with serious difficulties in its efforts to reduce the public expenditures of the federal administration. The federal administration has become so vast, its bureaus and agencies have become so interlocking, crossing one another, entangled in one another, and so confused, that the task of unraveling and simplifying is not an easy one or one to be swiftly executed. All this work of simplification must be accomplished while the machinery is in motion. The President is in better position to do this than a committee, especially if unhampered in his efforts.

the same time, under the plan agreed to by the house economy committee, President Hoover can not arbitrarily make a change. He has had conferred on him no dictatorial powers such as have been bestowed, on Mussolini, or assumed by every act must meet with the approval of congress before it becomes valid, unless congress fails' to act within a specified time--a period of 60 days. Thus the President takes the initiative and congress exercises, if it so wills, the veto power. Why the house committee should have objected to this proposal in the first place is a mystery. confers on the President no extraordinary power although its exercise will devolve upon him much hard work.

At the time of the refusal, the house was in the first flush of the exercise of the powers of a majority, jealous of its rights, and very much inclined to take the bit in its mouth and show the country something. As the problems developed and the committee became more and more familiar with the complexities it began to realize its own limitations, and that assumption of full and complete authority was not such a fine thing after alL As the burden became ever heavier, the Democrats began to become more and more inclined to share responsibility. Hence, no doubt, this change in attitude. Will anything be effected in the way of a reorganization with the purpose of effecting economy at this session? Time is running short. A period of 60 days from the present would run up to June 23 and past the time for the assembling of the Democratic convention, while the Republican convention would have been over.

This means that if the President does make any changes Congress will be under the necessity of acting on them promptly. Failure so to act at this session on any recommendations made would not validate them, because congress would not have had the necessary 60- days privilege of acceptance or rejection. Small Places and Music That musical taste is on a higher level in small cities and towns than in the big cities which are supposed to be the centers of culture, is the opinion of Miss Dema F. Harshbarger, founder and president of the Civic Music Associations, an organization of half a million concert-goers in this country. How is this for Main Street? The reason: simple enough, once you hear it.

"The level of musical taste is higher in small cities than in larger ones because there arp fewer things to hear and people become more discriminative." Where does rag-time originate? Where do the tin-panlsts write their stuff? Where do the croakers, those big huskies (judging by their voices) who nightly tell the world about their stomach-aches In slow meanings and groanings that would give a raven the blues, hang out? Where are these cheap programs made up but in the big cities where it takes mighty little to tickle the crowd? A Peep at Spain Reports coming from what are considered trustworthy sources based on authoritative information are to the effect that the Carlists and the Hapsbugs have laid aside their 100-year-old dynastic grudge and are combining for the overthrow of the new Spanish Republic, which is not any too firmly established. The re-established of royalty, of course, would be the aim of the alliance. Should this be accomplished, what would happen then would be only conjecture. The points on which the royalist combination is expected to agree are: 1. Harmonious union berVeen church and state.

2. Recognition of the ancient rights and liberties of the regions-an essential point of difference between the two groups up to now. Any future king would be called upon to recognize, in his quality of Count of Barcelona, the regional rights of Catalonia. 3. Abolition of universal suffrage and the substitution therefor of the vote by corporate bodies representative of the various'-social classes-workers, agriculturalists, -commercial and capitalistic entities.

As was to be expected, the new republic has experienced hard sledding. Many first enthusiasms have been bitterly disappointed. One knows here how.it is when a political party comes into power after having been denied participation in governmental affairs for an extended period. Some of us even can remember the time when we used to burn red lights, stage great parades and build gigantic bonfires to celebrate a party victory, as if it meant a new which probably it did to a few officeholders. Americans have grown wiser.

They do not expect so much from political changes. One can imagine, however, how the Spanish, living under dictatorships and many oppressions of one kind and another, looked upon a change. There was a reaction duo of necessity. The only question material concerning it would be the extent of it. Unfortunately for the popularity of the republic, President Zamora has opened the way to severe perhaps even to just criticism.

He receives an income for himself and his household twice that of the President of the United States and but a third less than that given to the former royal family. His official are the royal palace although his wife refuses to live in it. A cavalry company "with silver breastplates and helmets, and more swank than the royal habaldiers has been placed at his disposal." Then he has to entertain the diplomatic corps and does this in a style that offends the more ardent patriots, who, however, have nothing to win and everything to lose with the return of royalty. In the meantime, Alfonso goes on yachting cruises across the blue Mediterranean and retains his cheerful smile. In case he should be recalled--such things have happened before, you know--would the Hapsburgs merely follow in the footsteps of the restored Bourbons of whom it has been said they never learned anything and never forgot anything? Migration of Workers The migration of entire families in search of work is one of the phenomena of the times, according to a report of the Travelers Aid Society of New York city, which has been called on to care for these aimless wanderers--aimless so far as sighting the object of which they are in search, but not aimless in knowing what they want.

It is a risky thing indeed to leave a community where one has at least some acquaintances, and where the fact of residence imposes something of an obligation on the community, to go seeking the unknown. Mankind, however, is restless and adventurous, and the same spirit that drove early Americans across the Continent, in ox carts or on foot, in spite of Indians and other perils, still has the same urge. The same influence has been operating on the human race since time immemorial. It is what brought our ancestors from Europe, and it is what causes the congress of the United States to erect immigration bars. Facilities for moving about are so much greater now than they ever have been in this country that it is likely such a process will continue.

The French are now kind enough to say that they see the United States headed toward prosperity. A prosperous nation may be more lenient with its creditors. The sands of time arc fleeting toward June and convention days and congress still has a lot to accomplish. There always was something comical about Charlie Scwab. AS THE WORLD WAGS Ogden Reid, 6, landed a seven-foot spearfish, unaided, at Palm Beach.

Placer mined gold, from Sonora, Mex, is pouring into Nogales, at the rate of $10,000 weekly. An electric eye counts loaves of bread as they come from the ovens of a London bakery. Tins of Boston baked beans, new to Russia, are so popular housewives stand in. line hours to buy them. A nationally-owned Canadian radio broadcasting company is planned by Canada's law-makers.

For her charitable work in France, Miss Anne Morgan, New York, was promoted to Commander of the Legion of Honor. Rail service between Argentina and Chile -is suspended because of high Chilean cattle tariffs; travelers must use airplanes. An aviator who flew in Eddie Rickenbacker's squadron during the World war, collapsed of hunger in a New York street. Prince Chalenndol of Slam is a cadet at the English military academy, at Sandhurst, where his father, the King, was a cadet 25 years ago. John McCormack, tenor, arriving in England, expressed fear that he lacked "It," and that the movies didn't want him again.

The South Boston drydock is the only one on the Atlantic seaboard large enough for the Leviathan. She's having her annual spring cleaning there. The archbishop of Athens, trying to keep Greece on the gold standard, appealed to citizens to give their gold to the nation. Several churches will sacrifice their treasures. A bridal couple of San Pedro, went honeymooning in a 50-foot power boat.

Missing at sea for several days, they were fou.id on an island where their boat had been wrecked. A Harlem policy-game operator is telling a New York federal judge why he failed to pay income taxes on his income, estimated at in three years. The historic machine shop at Lowell where worked Major Gene a Washington Whistler, famed father of James McNeill Whistler, was recently razed to escape taxes. Mysteriously, two men themselves into a Brooklyn garage, with knives and hammers destroyed five cars parked there during the night. Arrested for playing jokes on New York police (a scries of false alarms of hold-ups and robberies an advertising agent blamed gin for his escapade, got a suspended sentence.

Two years ago David Moonan, tired of spelling his name on the telephone, got court permission in York to change his name to Moore. Now he wants to change back to Moonan. Paying a $75 dry law fine a Brooklyn man handed out two counterfeit $10 bills. He seemed to have been an innocent victim, so he paid and departed $95 poorer. A game of chess, started in 1922, is just done.

It was between H. Kaye, of Australia, and John Garsidc, Slaithwaite, Eng. The 40 moves were made by mail. Paul Crawlcy, called "the man who introduced ice cream to China," pleaded guilty in Shanghai to smuggling opium into the United States on a navy transport. The freighter, Beavcrburn, carrying Welsh coal, was the fiist ocean vessel to make port in Montreal this spring.

The master received a gold-headed cane. Pennsylvania had two Arbor days-the first when climatic conditions were right in. southern counties, the second two weeks later for northern counties. Boston stores, hoping to minimize the practice of customers' returning goods purchased, issued pamphlets with rules to govern exchange. The credit bureau will suspend charge accounts of habitual offenders.

Six Princeton students will cross the Atlantic this summer in a 54-foot fishing skiff bought from Captain Slimbach, German, who set an cast- west crossing record in her last summer. In nine and a half minutes the Nassau county, N. board of supervisors met, agreed to borrow $25,000 for job relief, appropriated funds for police equipment, ordered a traffiu light for a place where seven people were killed, adjourned. The Montczuma marsh of central New York is being made, by industry and science, to turn its thousands of acres to account. Crops that prosper in wet places arc raised along the edges; muskrats are raised for fur purposes in the swamp proper.

TRANSPORT Still, we shall toil for long and toil in vain, I think to perfect any flying thing So resolute, so sturdy under strain As this great ship of earth, thnt now has gone, Bearing its fragile cargo blindly on, Through gulfs of silence, interstellar cold, In darkness, cold and meteoric rain. Heavy and wingless, it would never servo To poise and hover with, or dip and swerve. Its type would fail in an aerial race. But it provides the very shape that's needed For slipping smooth and swift and unimpeded Through the impalpable clement of space. And who shall say against what odds it saifc-- Against what force, magnetic or malign, Too furtive for our instruments to divine It heaves its ponderous tonnage and prevails? --Maurice Lesemann in Poetry.

Today and Tomorrow -By Walter Lippmann- The Lindbergh Case and the Newspapers The kidnaping of the Lindbergh i baby has presented a difficult case to conscientious American newspaper editors. They have had on the one hand to consider the enormous in- tciest of their readers in every conceivable fact and rumor and, on the other hand, the repeated requests of Colonel Lindbergh that the publication of clews and of news of his movements be avoided so as not to Interfere with the recovery of the child. Last week the United Press invited a large number of newspaper editors to express their opinions as to the policy which ought to be pursued in reporting the case. These opinions are, as might be expected, so varied that no clear judgment emerges which might be considered the verdict of tlm newspaper profession. It is often said that hard cases do not make good law.

The Lindbergh case is certainly a hard case. What makes it a hard case is the fact that the need for secrecy surrounding the negotiations to ransom the child arise out of a fear that publicity will ftighten away the kidnapers. The request for secrecy rests upon the assumption that the ransom of the child involves not only money but immunity. It is a national humiliation that the life of a child should depend upon so abject a surrender to the forces of organized crime. Therefore, while there is no doubt that American sentiment would be virtually unanimous on a willingness to surrender to the kidnapers in order to recover the child, responsible editors must hesitate at the thought of agreeing to any general rule which would establish a precedent compelling them to become accomplices after the fact iu crimes of this sort.

It follows that the request for secrecy to permit dealings with the kidnapers must rest solely upon an sppcal to the sympathy of the editors rnd their public. They can be asked to cooperate on no other ground than that the recovery of the child is poignantly desired by the American people. It is not their duty to con- Uibutc toward the immunity of the kidnapers. It simply happens to be a rather revolting necessity. What the press is asked to do, looked at from the vantage point of high public policy and of morals, is nkin to lying like a gentleman to save a friend.

It is bad in the abstract to lie. It is bad in the abstract to suppress' news in crder to countenance crime. But there ere times when only a cad will be so preat a prig that he won't lie for his friend, and there are times when newspapers have to act on simple human institutions rather than upon abstract principles. The moral problem is simplified by the fact that no newspaper that I know of has taken the Sparton position that the child should not be ransomed at the price of immunity to the kidnapers, it is tacitly agreed that the immunity should be granted if the child can thereby be recovered. Consequently, the question whether to print all the news obtainable is reduced to a question of self-interest.

The Lindbergh case is a great news story and under the competitive conditions prevailing among newspapers there is a tangible sacrifice when any newspaper suppresses precisely those parts of the story which are most in- tei csting. Nevertheless, once a newspaper ac- crpts the conclusion that the child should be recovered at any price, including the compounding of the felony, it ceases to have any moral justification whatever for printing any clew-which might interfere with the negotiations. To agree that the kidnapers may go scot free, but to insist, in the name of the freedom of the press upon the right to publish everything, is to swallow a came! and strain at a gnat. It is to abandon the principle that the law must not be nullified and to invoke a principle of liberty which happens to be profitable. I have said that the Lindbergh kid- naping is a hard case and, therefore, it does not make a good precedent.

Were the facts in the case a little different, a much.more important and general problem in newspaper policy would be raised. Let us suppose thnt instead of trying to ransom the child with gold and immunity, we were dealing merely with the efforts of the police to catch a gang of criminals. That is. after all, the normal situation when a crime has been committed. Kidnaping, because a child becomes the hostage for the safety of 'the criminals, is a crime of a very special sort.

In other crimes there is no doubt as to the necessity of relentless pursuit. Hoxv far, under normal conditions, in it the function of the press to engage in the pursuit and to give publicity to all the clews it can lay its hands on? The American newspaper tradition is quite different from that of other countries. Our newspapers feel free to publish what they cnn find out and it is the habit of the police, chiefly because they like to stnnd xvell with the newspapers, to maHe the pursuit of criminals difficult by giving criminals all kinds of advance information. When a sensational crime has been committed the American detective works in a blaze of publicity. It is difilcult to avoid the feeling thnt this is one of the important reasons vhy we have such a large number of unsolved crimes.

It can not be good for the detectives to be thinking of the headlines and of the good will of the city editor, and it must be very helpful to the criminal to be kept so well informed about the plans of his pursuers. My own notion is that when the American people finally arouse themselves to take action against lawlessness, one of the many things they will have to attend to is the practice of printing news which might interfere with the detection of a crime. I think I appreciate the importance of a free press. But I am quite unable to believe that the press would be less free if some reasonable restraint were put upon its right to make instantaneous copy out of clews which arc vital to detection of a crime. Copyright, 1932 LESS CROWDED CITIES From Indianapolis News One of the striking nnd salutary features of large cities in the United States is that, while the population is tending to mount, congestion is becoming The explanation is a drift of inhabitants from crowded areas to those less occupied, including relatively undeveloped parts that have been annexed.

What has encouraged the movement is better and more convenient transportation, public nnd private. Motor vehicles have doubtless contributed more thnn any other single agency to this, although a better adaptation of all kinds of carriers a fleets the trend. New York stands out as an example of what is happening in urban That part of it on Manhattan island contained in 1920, according to federal census figures, 111,000 persons to the square mile. A study of the enumeration of 1930. made by the Regional Plan association, a decrease to 93,000.

In contrast, the less thickly- settled sections, Brooklyn nnd the Bronx for example, increased their population density, but not enough so to create the kind of living problems that had been faced in Manhattan, and that caused migration therefrom. Probably the movement will continue, since parts of the city arc still congested. Decentralization not only in New York, but in many urban centers, is a natural result of the human desire fot more light, air and elbow room. Unless the topographical features of cities bar their expansion, there will be less and less of excessive residential concentration, in all likelihood. The facilities for getting from place to place have made close proximity between home and shop less imperative.

T. R. SPOKE ON MANCHURIA From Philadelphia Bulletin In view of current events in the Far East, it is of interest to recall a letter which Theodore Roosevelt wrote to President William Howard Taft on December 22, 1910. It read as follows: "I do not believe In our taking anj position anywhere unless we can make good, nnd as regards Manchuria, if the Japanese choose to follow course of conduct to which we are adverse, we cannot stop it unless we are prepared to go to war, and a successful war about Manchuria would require a fleet as good as that of England, plus an army good as that of Germany. The Open Door policy in China an excellent thing, nnd I hope it will be a good thing for the future, so far ns it can be maintained by general diplomatic agreement; but, as has been proved by the whole history of Manchuria, alike under Russia and Japan, the 'Open policy, as a matter of fact, completely disappears ns 50011 as a powerful nation determines to disregard it, and willing to run the risk of war rather than forego its intention." NO.

INGENUITY IN SLANG From Indianapolis News Denn Marjorie Nicholson of Smith college, says that college slang is behind the times. In a chapel talk she told the girls that they had contrtb- buted nothing new in the way of brief and pungent Words or phrases--slang that might be widely adopted and eventually become a'pnrt of the language. In this respect Miss Nicholson frurcd thai the undergraduates arc at least a generation behind where they should be with their slang work, end the trouble, as she sees it, is the common practice of accepting a slang expression originated by somebody else, nnd repeating it with deadly monotony. As an example, the dean cited the prevailing habit of expressing nsree- nu-nt by using or To this she might have added "okc." Dean Nicholson's complaint sounds like an echo of something that was often said some years ago. When and "twenty-three for you" were in their prime, objectors declared that these expressions were overworked.

Btit when something new is discovered the whole country pounces on it, and it also is overworked as badly as was "Valencia" when radio broadcasting was getting a good grip on the country. Undergraduates are prone to shorten words so that gymnasium, laboratory and mathematics become gym, lab and ninth, but these are abbreviations rather than slang. Meanwhile we arc inclined to agree with the Smith college dean that if the boy or girl can think of nothing better to sny than "it's o. k. by me," better English would be just as expressive.

i WORLD'S MOST NOTED CLOUD From Tycos-Hochcster The "tablecloth" that occasionally cnps the flat top of Table mountain. South Africa, has been described in numerous books of travel ever since the latter part of the seventeenth century. It consists of sheet of dense cloud, formed when warm, moisture- bearing winds are forced up the steep slope of the mountain, especially in summer. The air expands in rising, cools, nnd condenses its moisture. The cloud often pours over the steep slept: of the mountain, like a mighty eataract, and is rcdissolved as the wind is wnnncd by compression in descending.

The effect produced by tliis rolling tnnss of vapor is sometimes indescribably grand. The phenomenon is rendered more striking by the fact that a perfectly clear sky generally prevails over the surrounding country while the tablecloth is over the mountain. The clout! forms very rapidly, so that climbing the mountain often find themselves enveloped in it without and must cither remain stationary for hours or take the risk ol serious accidents in attempting to find their way through the mist. SHALL WE CONTINUE TO GAMBLE? From Baltimore Sun This country must cither gamble on its eredit or get down to bedrock. We turned our back on gambling when we decided to lay new taxes and inlnm-u the budget.

It would bo idiotic to stop, half-way through the job, and gamble wildly after all. SHE WENT AND DID IT From Boston Transcript Great Britain shows off her surplus of a million and quattcr like a boy with a new-shiny bicycle surrounded by crowd of the neighborhood urchins in rogs and patches, drooling with envy. ONE REASON I'Oll THANKS Walter Sargent Compete only with yinnselt and thank God for such an opportunity for growth. BE-KIND-TO-ANIMALS WEEE MUST BE OVER 'i THE CONNING TOWER Men, Women and Things Sight. Unseemly are the open eyes That watch the midnight sheep, That look upon the secret skies Nor close, abashed, in sleep.

That see the dawn drag in, unbidden, To birth another day-Oh, better far their gaze were hidden Below the decent clay. --Dorothy Parker. "As a political speech," said the Cleveland Plain Dealer of Governor Roosevelt's St. Paul address, "it was a washout." How this will be reported in the Italian papers we don't know. But once, when we were in Capri, we telegraphed to Mr.

Percy Hammond, at that time buying tortoise shell things in Naples, not to stop at the Blue Grotto on his way to join us. "Blue Grotto a washout." "I can't thank you enough," said Mr. Hammond, "for your tip, without which I should have omitted my excursion." "Tip?" we asked. "Here is your telegram," he said. And it read: "Blue Grotto a knockout." "On the Beerie Canal" You forgot Selma Lagerlof.

Also Wesley Stout and Verne Hardin Porter. Possibly Pearl Bock. And they'll play "Ale, Ale, the Gang's All Here" won't they? I'm going to carry a banner placarded: "Beer Self." --Frank Sullivan. Command: Company, Malt! --Orson Wagon. They won't march; they'll hop.

J. M. And, of course, the history of the parade will be published by Brewer and Warren. CITY BUSINESS Our Mayor, having opened Allen Street, Making a pint street a two-gallon street, Announces that he means to lead a beer march. And that's enough to make an iron deer march.

--Arthur Guitcrman. We agree with Miss Susan Ertz when she says "Politics is for politicians." It reminds us of "Work's for workmen," in what in retrospect seems a good play, "Passcrs-By." It was about twenty years ago when it was played here, and those days there was work for workmen. Erratum: Yesterday's "Canadian Boat Song" should have borne the signature of O. the sweet singer of Portland, Ore. The No-Dividend Boys Bonnie had General Ambrosia; George had American Spout; Charlie and Fred had American Lead-Great grief! how the money rolls out! What started all this investigation, we are unreliably informed, is the rumor that somebody was selling some short.

You Know Me Algae Sir: My favorite sandwich shop waitress is a cute little rascal. Jack Kccfc would hnvc loved her. She answers my noonly request for chocolate layer cake with one question: "Seven layer?" 1 thought possibly the stock market drop might have had its effect nnd jot her own to but no; she said they didn't have no only 7. So who should come in just then but the image of Kid Glcason, so said what else have you? So she said how about some victory layer? So I said who won, the Red Sox, and she didn't have no comeback. --Algae.

As we understand it, those who are long of the market have taken, and arc taking, so much punishment that it would be cruelty to make them testify before the senate committee. --F. P. A. DAYS AND NIGHTS IN GOTHAM NEW YORK, April 22--Millions of fans follow the seasonal events at the Polo Grounds, where baseball history has been made and remade many times.

But in this year of the bicentennial, not one in ten thousand knows or recalls that this flat was once George Washington's camp site and Harlem River approach. General Washington was headquartered on a hill, just beyond, in the famous Jumel mansion, one of Manhattan's picturesque museums and tourist attractions. From the gardens of the mansion, the stadium'becomes one of the more interesting crowd spectacles at those hours when crowds are gathering and leaving. Romantic shadows haunt the old place even as the cheering of bleacher throngs drift up in the late afternoon. Leaning against a tree, gazing down through binoculars, the voice of a guide comes out of nowhere: "And here, ladies and gentlemen, Aaron Burr arrived from his South Carolina exile after his duel with Alexander Hamilton.

He married the widow Jumel, who survived his death and who entertained lavishly in this mansion for LaFayctte, Louis Napoleon and Jerome Bonepartc. From down on the flats come echoes of the shoutings: "Slam her home!" "Attaboy--bring him in!" The old of America mingles with the newl The voice of the guide drones on: "General Washington was preparing for the battle of Harlem and here he made his quarters during the Harlem Heights struggle. Down below where the baseball game goes on, many of his men were encamped and some of the early fighting was along those very flats. "Wonder who's pitching?" observes a plump and bored visitor. Hero's an amusing little sign of the times: Few of the many thousand street clocks in New York are running.

Having figured the cost of winding and upkeep, this item of expense has been slashed. So it's any time you want it to be on most side streets these days. And the gagsters would have you believe that things are so tough the proprietor of the flea circus now lets his performers bite him to save feeding expense. However, there is a bit of concern among those swanky cafes and hotels where $5-a-platc banquets arc served. Several efforts to organize subscription dinners have been given up after cancellations came rolling in.

Odds--and a few ends: When Sally Filers returned to her native New York the other day for the first time since fame and fortune came her way, one window of her elaborate hotel suite looked down upon the tenement belt from which she started Ol all the stage stars to play Broadway, Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt alone have never seen their names in the bright lights Nor do they care to Whereas most of the producers run at the hint oC tragic plays, "Mourning Becomes Electra" has broken all Theater Guild records Collectors of Americana are standing in line trying to get old copies of the Police'Ga- zette, which recently went out of business. There's something of a shock in finding turtles living 61 floors above their native terra firma in a skyscraper They're pets of Margaret Bourke-Whitc, famous photographer And don't seem to mind the elevation. --Gilbert Swan. IX A CENTURY G. K.

Chesterton A hundred years ago our affairs for good or evil were wielded trium- pnnntly by rhetoricians. Now our affairs are hopelessly muddled by strong, silent men. TODAT'SJBDITOEIAL The British Budget Opinion of Philadelphia Inquirer Budgets have made and unmade more than one British statesman. The one Mr. Chamberlain has presented to Ihe house of commons It not revolutionary in any sense, nor has be had occasion to juggle figures, like some of his predecessors as chancellor of the exchequer.

Gladstone WM more adept in mcking financial statements interesting than almost anyone else. Mr. Chamberlain relieved his speech bj flashes of humor, but In the main it was a straightforward account of the needs of the treasury and the means taken to meet them. It follows in a general way the lines laid down by Lord Snowden. There is a 'small surplus, but Chamberlain does not relieve the income tax payer or reduce the excise taxes.

Instead he restores the duty on tea abandoned by Mr. Churchill, with a preference of two-pence in the pound for the product of India, Ceylon, and other paits of the empire. It is difficult to see why there, shculd be such a flurry in the United States senate over his failure to make immediate provision for the payments on the war debt account. Mr. Chamberlain explained that he was leaving all such items out of consideration until after the Lausanne conference, adding that there will be a supplementary budget to meet the conditions then existing.

He said nothing that hinted at repudiation. i Wise or Otherwise I have in my cellar 2.75 per cent beer made under war time prohibition act, and I can vouch personally that it is not intoxicating. --Congressman William II. Stafford of Milwaukee. A mistake in the choice of means is less reprehensible than doing nothing.

--President Paul von Hindenburg of Germany. I hear more and more talk of revolution every day. Men do not talk on revolution idly. --Congressman Martin L. Sweeney of Ohio.

I am deeply convinced that there is altogether too much talk. It is too serious a time to talk unless something serious and constructive is said. --Cardinal William O'Connett of Boston. War builds war and not peace. The war to end war can never be.

--Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York. LA JEERS WHERE IT WENT WHO NO He hadn't a penny in the world. One day he met the stockbroker with whom he had had dealings. "I say.

old chap," he said, "it I hadn't taken your advice with regard to my investments I wouldn't have lost every penny I had." The broker shrugged his shoulders. "You can't say that," he replied. "I only told you to use your own judgment." "Yes, that's what I did," said the London. MATERNAL OWNERSHIP Policeman (to schoolboy): Who cwns this cow and calf? Schoolboy: I don't know who owns the cow, but I have an idea who owns the calf. Policeman: Well, who owns the Schoolboy: The Times.

BABY IS REMEMBERED "What did you give baby for his first birthday?" "We opened his money box and bought the little dear a lovely electric it London. MAYBE IT'LL W.ORK Husband: Every time I look at that hat I want to laugh. Wife: Really--then I will leave it mound when the bill Show. 'SPAPFRI 'SPAPERJ.