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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1935 The Man on the Flying Trapeze By Hungerford PITTSBURGHESQUE The Great Game of Politics By Charles F. Danver- pfstmrglj flosrazeUc Consolidation ot Ui POST AND GAXmE IlMk-8. PUBUSHlMi PUBLISHERS. GKNEKAL OKKlCt-S: 6X2 WOOD STRKfcT. -By Frank R.

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Kent Hanson, Busmen Manager. understand Mr. head of the -C Page from a Scribbler's Journal. July 22. Up early determined to write a crackerjack lead story for the column, and began going over yesterday's notes for material.

But out of the mess of junk collected here and there, at the cost of much shoe leather and a new 25-cent shine why are white shoes, anyway? only two yarns seemed to have possibilities. There was that one WASHINGTON, July 22. DESPITE disbelief in the soundness of its policies and doubt about the wisdom of its 'A be pmn; Mr. Hopkir.e mitted, is the KM BUR OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Entered as Second-Class Matter ai Pittsburfin. Is'ew York.

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One year ty man only in nrst and second cones whera mere la no Posl-Cazctte earner), ib. leader, it would be pleasant to find more to commend in the Roosevelt a ministration than the conduct of the Securities and Exchange i -sion under the a a le Mr. Kennedy and about a soprano at a recent concert. One of the musicians was ready to swear that she showed up for rehearsal with a section of lemon to use to clear her throat! And the poor piccolo tooter and other wind instrument play BKLLr ATLA NTIO 610(1. PRIVATE PHONE EXCHANGE AU Department! Th Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication ot all news dmpatcnes credited to it or not otherwise credited In this papei.

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THE JOB of sP, has become the n- program. The bain- ''u cies have either by the Supreme t', likely to be. The four billion is to i business of the the administration S'. years ago. Mr.

Ho; given notice that end on November ment, by that he says, emplovir, cent of those now twenty per cent will be turned bn. every one of asserts, is capable of its unemployabir THE impression designed to create Tt'F-SDAY MORNING. JULY 23. 133. the inflexible Kent, principles of the unostentatious Mr.

Hull. NEITHER, of these men can fairly be described as a convinced New Dealer. Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Hull have no more in common with Dr.

Tugwell than they have with the goose-necked but graceful fillie-loo bird, famous for its inability to alight. HOWEVER, this idea does not affect the desirability of finding more to commend, or the various reasons this would be good. One is that it would soothe the souls of many sensitive people who early put Mr. Roosevelt on a pedestal and deeply resent failure to praise him. Another reason is that it would be more agreeable to commend than to criticize and a relief particularly in hot weather.

Still another reason for trying to balance blame with praise is that it helps build a reputation for judicial impartiality and fairness, which is a very good thing for a writer to have and vaccinates against the venomous attacks of those who construe everything in terms of personalities and believe that all criticism is due. either to personal hate, congenital malice or the corrupting influence of "Great Wealth." BUT, conceding the soundness of these reasons, how is one to move in that direction without doing violence to convictions, intelligence and self-respect? For example, how is it possible to commend, to follow or even Sure Way lo Impress Drunken Drivers WITH an increase in motor fatalities in Pittsburgh and throughout the state, Judge Charles (J. Hubbard of McKean county has dealt an impressive blow in one particularly needed direction. He has sentenced a man convicted of drunken driving to serve two years in the Allegheny county workhouse and pay a tine of $00. The degree of the punishment should, of course, depend upon the circumstances in each case, but in no instance should intoxicated driving of a high-powered machine in traffic on the public highways be treated as a trivial matter.

Nevertheless it is an old complaint that individuals taken before some minor jurists on charges of driving while under the influence of liquor have been permitted to escape with petty lines instead of being held for grand iuries. Instances also are cited in which Criminal Courts have shown undue leniency to such olTenders. It is time to put the interests of public safety iiist, with all the courts of the state, not meicly those in a county here and there, doing their part to make the tralTic laws effective. Weak judges nullify the work of good traffic officers. to the facts thar.

a patient about i. knows better. Mr. he that, in effect, -is a return on a -terrifically CWA project, indicted as graft and inrffu lcn. mean that the have ceased to 000 people on means that it ha.

upon a vastly Wa nf s'-j 'f te 1- o.ofj r-" of them and ln balance over to the stated r-5 -5 to as well as anyone is no be successful. THE terrible ls thv i-n matter of confusion, ordination and lck of c--rt-p thought, this so- Hlif iv'. Progres- director the ccur'n largest city, nf the s-e which he is fully aw are, that "when the money runs p-a- t'he jobs disappear and we right where we started with of the nation on the dn'e." Pleasant as it would he to mend, it is imposs.h!? to 59 in such a situation and look ck's self in the fare. Wiiiflott Dressing for Vclo fact that the Pittsburgh Hoard of Letters From Our Readers ers went crazy, of course, when thus brought face to face with their deadliest enemy! The other yarn was a likely tale about a movie theater man whose auto caught fire while he was transporting a can of film. The film was "Our Little Girl." He got out, all right, but suddenly remembered the film and raced back crying, 'Save 'Our Little Girl'!" A policeman, all set to become a hero, was pretty disgusted when he found out the guy meant a roll of celluloid.

But both ideas were discarded. The musician who told the first admitted the lemon incident had happened some other time and to a couple of other fellows. And the "Our Little Girl" thing seemed too improbable. So I decided to write the column without a lead story. It' Okay Here.

Signie noticed in one of the hamburgeries the other night: "We Change Nothing Larger Than a $5 Bill." Flatterers! Flowers in a Mission Window. Curiosity concerning the many plants and flowers in the window inspired a recent visit to that little Christ Rescue Mission at 110 Wood street. It is operated by Asia L. Negley, an earnest lady who believes in helping her 40-or-so nightly guests to salvation with vegetable soup and potatoes, as well as with Christian teachings. She feeds her flock each evening after the services.

The floral decorations are mostly gifts from uplifted souls who know her fondness for such things. She has 32 plants. A miniature log cabin, a model of Ohio's first mission, serves as a sort of center-piere in the window. Miss Negley, by the way. tells the writer she is related to the noted Pittsburgh family of the same name.

The Collection Basket. Thmiah contributions are pathetically small, passing the collection plate is a formality at the little Wood street mission. Last Sunday night the contributions amounted to 17 cents two nickels and seven pennies. One night the grand total was three cents. Yeah? Fossihly it's the new haircut, giving an air of prosperity, but this pavement-pounder has suddenly become the target of more panhandlers than ever.

"You can't eat clothes," declared one, explaining his well-dressed poverty. He never saw your palsie go to work on a straw hat when one of those crooning sister teams trots out on the stage at the movies, gr-r-r-r! 'fi 5f! All in Favor Say Another thing to be said for George Jaffe's candidacy for council is that he could introduce sonip of the methods and stage props used by the comedians at his burlesque temple. For instance, the solons miuht get something done if they argued it out with rubber bladders! City Snapshots. Glimpses around town: Society arriving in limousines to see the new Grare Moore film. The "carriage trade." Council President Robert Garland entering a Sixth avenue restaurant with a lady.

John M. Phillips. Hat merchants could point out to the bareheaded tribe that the noted wild life authority, boy scout executive, and sometime explorer and big game hunter never goes out without one. The dollies who wait in front of Liberty avenue's bus stations for their favorite drivers to pull up. A passing restaurateur would have you believe his several dining-halls dispensed 1,500,000 waffles last year! Judge Frank P.

Patterson, who likes to top off the day with a good detective story. How-come? note: The city spends $4,000 a year to wash those street signs that tell motorists where they can't park, yet apparently hasn't a penny for benches (except in the parks) where tired pedestrians may rest. A Light Snack, Eh? The printers got so curious about the huge lunches one of the lads was bringing to work that they opened the package last night, in his absence, and found: six meat loaf sandwiches, a jar of potato salad, a jar of blackberries, three bananas, two peaches, an apple, four cookies and a half pint of milk. He explained later he hadn't brought much because he wasn't feeling very well'. pllC 1 Pul '11C I Kilucatiim is the only body quoted William Lyon Phelps (Famous Professor and Critic of Znlish Literature, Yale University.

'America's Most Interesting Com-nentator Thought for the Day Learn to read slow; all other graces will follow in their proper places. Walker. (Contributions to this department should as a rule be limited to 200 words. Beyond that the editor reserves the right to abridge. Name and address of the writer must accompany each tetter, not necessarily lor publication, but as evidence of good faith.) against the Coyne-Weiss bill by Governor Earle in his reasons lor vetoing the measure and signing the McGinnis bill dealing with assessment in Pittsburgh is attracting considerable attention.

It was known, of course, that the Mediums bill originated with the city assessors to save their jobs and that a number of politicians were for it, but at a public hearing in this city only a few spoke for the measure while many taxpayer and civic organizations were represented against it. Afterward there was a report of a mysterious organization as a whole so e-! as "The Answering Glory." This year appears his book, "One Light It is, in some respects, not to read carelessly, on account cf the peculiar structure cf the time-plot, and because of its fantastic geography. But I hae not read any novel in the last year that is so profound in its thinking, so arresting in its tonversatmas. so exalted in its Frimua! beauty. Never were such novels needed than row; I hope that I can induce some of rr.y readers to become acquainted young and original r.veV.s'.; he is both interesting and irsp-ricg.

And this summer appears a new edition of his first bock, "Thou Has: a Dmi." This novel was written 1925 and ir-t in It is net so good a'- the CM: three, hut it interests me. while it is a story and not a sermon, the author's attitude toward the modem world is unmistakable. No Cure Quicker. R. C.

Hutchinson. Here is a young English novelist who deserves to be universally known; and I am sure many readers of this column, if they 'will read one or more of his books, will share my enthusiasm. It is always difficult to say what position any novelist even the most famous will have 15 or 20 years from now; but I am as certain as I am of anything in the future that before many years the novels of Mr. Hutchinson will take a high place in modern literature. He is a young Oxford graduate who published his first novel in 1930; I shall comment upon that in a moment.

In 1932 he produced a novel called "The Answering Glory," which was the first thing by him I saw or heard of; it struck me as so original in plot, characterization, style, and so inspiring in its spiritual import, that I was enormously impressed. I awaited the next book eagerly and last year I read with great interest his story, "The Unforgotten Prisoner." Now this novel attracted considerable attention, and was chosen by what corresponds in England to the Book of the Month Club. It has fine passages, but I do not like it and to his credit I know that he has the backing of Charles J. Margiotti, therefore must be a little bit of all right in all ways." Is that a sufficient recommendation for supreme, court, merely to say that he is a little bit of all right? We want something more than that. We want a man of ability, judicial experience, courage and of a proven record in behalf of the rights of the people.

Judge Musmanno has all these attributes. BOB MILLER. Pittsburgh, July 21, 1935. Urges Return to Prohibition. Editor the Post-Gazette: Travel on our highways can never be made safe merely by arresting and prosecuting drunken drivers.

We must reroove the cause, before we can hope to solve this safety problem. The only solution is a return to prohibition. A prohibition law resolutely enforced will go far in solving this whole problem. R. J.

WERNER, Pastor, Slate Lick Presbyterian Church. Freeport, July 21, 1935. that claimed to be speaking lor the taxpayers in urging Governor Earle to sign the McGinnis measure, but the Executive makes no mention of it, nor does lie name any individuals who were supposed to have written to him or counselled with him on the subject. Although the school board is a taxing body instead of a representative of the taxpayers' views, it had a right to express its opinion on the question, but its statement in detail should be examined carefully to test the validity of its reasoning. However, when the Governor was naming supporters of the McGinnis bill, he might as well have listed others if the measure was as popular as it was sought to make it appear.

It looks as if the school board were being used as window dressing for the veto of the Covne-Wciss bill. from Washington was turning to leave when he heard a strange and peculiar noise behind him. Blaa, blaa, bla-a-a. He looked around and saw a very queer looking animal. He asked the farmer what it was.

The farmer replied that it was a bi.Uy goat. "A billy goat? I've never heard of such a creature. I don't know how one is supposed to readjust such an animal, there's nothing about them in any of our books." The man from Washington was puzzled, and he said to the farmer, "I'll have to get Washington, long distance, and find out what to do. May I use your telephone?" The following telephone conversation took place between the agent at the farmer's home and his chief at the department of agriculture in Washington: "This is Jones, Chief. There's a queer looking animal down here in the sticks called a billy goat.

A b-i-l-l-y g-o-at," he spelled. "A billy goat," came back the chief's voice over' the wire. "What's that? I never heard of such a thing. Tell me what it looks like, maybe some one down here in Washington will know what it is." "It's very thin, has a long face and long white whiskers," replied the agent. "For heaven's sake don't kill that," came the excited voice of the chief over the wire, "that's the farmer." REPUBLICAN.

Franklin, July 20, 1935. "-Indue Musmanno Has All These Attributes." Editor the Post-Gazette: I was interested in the letter by H. J. Wild. He says: "I hold no brief for the learned judge's opponent, H.

Edgar Barnes, nor know nothing to his discredit, "Your wife usd to Whi she seems quite nervoi Green: "She is. The dnrr tn.d her nervousness was a sign Of 0. age." London Answers. Let's Explore Your Mind -BY ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM, D. Sc- FLASHBACKS (KRUM POST-GAZKTTK HLFS) League of Nations Needs Military Power.

Editor the Post-Gazette: Tne United States, England and France should notify the Dictator of Italy to stop his war of aggression against helpless Ethiopia, and tell him that if he dosen't they will use their military power to stop him. When he receives a notice like that he will realize that he is up against the real thing. The League of Nations has used its best efforts to avoid this war of aggression, but the League is an organization without power to enforce its opinions and orders, which renders it useless. The League of Nations as now constituted is some-what like an int-ernational court without authority to enforce its opinions and decrees. Whenever one member of the League of Nations attempts a war of aggression, and the League has the authority to use the military power of the other members of the League to stop such a war, you will see the League of Nations working wonders in maintaining the peace of the world.

C. W. BARRICK. Pittsburgh, July 21, 1935. Lines Written On A Mt.

Lebanon Trolley. Editor the Post-Gazette: Coming from Mt. Lebanon, every morning to Pittsburgh I have bee impressed with the profusion of flowers along the way, and especially the hollyhocks, which seem to have taken on new beauty of form and color this season. On the street car the other morning I wrote the following lines: There are other flowers that I love more, That thrill me through and through; But I could never do without A hollyhock or two. No flower grows so straight and tall.

No bloom more generous is. They seem to hold some potent charm; In them some spirit lives. From far and near I see their blooms In yellow, pink and white All shades of red with frilly leaves Oh, what a glorious sight! And so today I do give thanks To Him whose loving care Has made this beauteous hollyhock To bloom 'most everywhere. MRS. LILLIAN NEWMAN.

Pittsburgh, July 17, 1935. Billy Goat Nothing That's The Farmer! Editor the rest-Gazette: At the annual meeting of the Central Pennsylvania Oil Producers Association at Franklin, the following story was told about the man who was sent from Washington to explain the workings of the AAA to the farmers of Venango county: The Government man walked into a certain farmer's barnyard, pulled out his notebook and pencil and asked the farmer how many cows he had. The farmer replied, "I have twenty very fine Holsteins." "Well, just kill off ten and send the bill to Mr. Roosevelt," advised the G-man. "And do you have any pigs or anything else?" "Yes.

I have several litters of pigs. I am not exactly sure how many, but I'll count them and find out." "Don't bother, now," said Dr. Tugwell's employe. "Kill off a third of them and send in the bill to the White House." After putting the above information in his little book the man National Tots ami Ki ttles SOME time ago Mussolini sharply resented criticism of his Ethiopian policy by England. I kid not the British picked up considerable land in the process of "civilizing" weaker peoples? Now the Italian newspapers cut loose on Japan.

At one time Nippon was supposed to have a hands-ofT policy in reference to Ethiopia. Then word came from Tokio tb Japan could not be indifferent to Italy's Ethiopian program. Whereat one of the Italian newspapers, ''11 Piccolo," asks: Will tho Japan which for eais defiiod the entire opinion of tho world, with, its occupations in tnc Fur Kast, the Japan which in th-sf months is invadinc tho most ancient province, of China, the Japan which conducts her policy of cynical and brutal rohhery count-in; on the tolerance of America and the sense of bility of tho Soviet policy is this tho Japan who ha something to say in recant to the Italian peltry in KaM Africa? Admittedly Japan is in none to good a position to read lectures to other nations on land grabbing, but if England's record in the past this respect is questionable and Japan's recent acts in China outrageous, then, indeed, it would appear that Italy's assumed objectie in Ethiopia is upon a delicate basis. Several wrongs could no more make a rilht than two wrongs. EDGAR GUEST DAILY POEM.

An ordinance, 20 years ago, providing for the purchase of For Sale signs for 1,900 pieces of city property. The real estate exchange objected. "To plaster the city with For Sale signs would be a detriment to the real estate market," said C. C. Hamilton.

"People would get the impression the entire city was for sale." Ordinance laid over. A campaign against noise by the civic club of Allegheny county. (And the radio loud speaker had not yet been introduced.) A man in Bacon, N. was shot for calling his friend's car a "flivver." German guns were bombarding the outer fortifications of Warsaw. 843,000 men with British army, 20 years ago.

"Separation allowances paid to wives and children of these men has been $125,000,000" DO PUBLIC DEBATED ACTUALLY CHANGE Bt, THE ATTITUDES OF THE i J' i i t'S YE6 OR MO Those disposed to be gloomy, 60 years ago, because there was more crime than there used to be, were comforted by the editor: "There is more charity and benevolence than there used to be." A letter received by an alderman, 30 years ago. complained about a new curfew law. "If mothers would stay at home, children would also stay at home." Sighed Alderman Henslcr, "Amen!" Rev. Carl August Voss, of Cincinnati, was called to the pastorate of the Smith-field Street German Evangelical Trotestant Church The caption for a column of paragraphs about weddings, "Under Hymen's Torch." 00 SOME PEOPLE HAVE A NATURAL ANTl PATHV TO OTHER PEOPLE VE OR NO ALL IN A LIFETIME Hunting. I've never ridden to the hounds nor thrilled to hear their cry.

I've never hunted quail nor grouse npr blackbirds for a pie. I've never gone to Africa in search of mighty game. The springbok may be something, but to me it's just a name; Y'et in great wide open spaces I have squandered time enough With those dismal searching parties hunting golf balls in the rough. I've never packed a rifle, and the hills I've never tramped. With the men who hunt for antelope at night I've never camped.

I own no coat of scarlet since I never hunt for deer, But I've battled with mosquitoes and the wild life winging here, And I've stood knee deep in thistles and that tangled jungle stuff With some wild-eyed slicing comrade hunting golf balls in the rough. I've no trophies stuffed and mounted. I've no moose head in the hall. I have never hunted rabbits in the country in the fall, But I've trod the open spaces underneath a blazing sun, And I've done my share of hunting though I've never fired a gun, For I've slogged my way through marshes and through bramble bushes tough With those dismal searching parties hunting golf balls in the rough. 1935.

-By Jack Warwick- COPtXT t9o5 JOHH DILI CO AUTHOR'S NOTE: The.e answers are given from the scientific point of view. Not all moral Share the wealth, soak the rich. Politics, and alas for the people. They are taken on a snipe hunt. Most pathetic part of it, they think they are going to have a fine time holding the bag.

Many will he surprised, when prosperity returns, to find it never was around the corner. be answered with absolute scientific icmnrv hut rlx-UInn lo what is moraiiy -'i. without science. Science puts the rights of organized society above the rights of individua r- Only Two Floors for Candidates? MAVOK McN'Alll announces that he will engage two large halls for political meetings of the payroll, possibly this week. One will be a meeting for the Democrats, the other for the Republicans.

When His Honor staged his payroll meeting last fall, inviting candidates of both parties to address it, the affair was in one place. It was described by a speaker as the most remarkable political meeting in the history of the country. The Executive of a great city was giving the payroll absolute freedom of choice of candidates. The Mayor indicates that he will attend at different times, of course both party meetings, in the interest of preventing riots. The most serious question thjs time arises from the fact that only two floors, one at each place, are to be reserved for candidates.

Inasmuch as nearly every member of each party seems to be running for Council-manic nominations alone, to say nothing of the other aspirants, there indeed may be pave, doubts that large enough halls can be found. 3. Abridges the i'if ble feminine intellect, ner of South Afric veloped man will -r oil that ff ciearefj P5 Joyce Kilmer's tree, the one he wrote the verses about, has had to be destroyed. The song, however, still holds its own under radio blight. in V- highest ideal of 'V' of ideal that haunts ye New Woman." Lima Beane thinks the man who can't learn by experience wouldn't profit by taking any other kind of bitter pill.

1. My good friend Clarence Dar-row and I debated the question of heredity and environment in a number of cities, but if cither ever converted any one I never heard of him. Maybe Clarence did. We listen eagerly to the debater on our side for arguments to support our preconceived opinions and to the fellow on the opposite side for holes in his arguments and go away more "sot" in our convictions than ever. They are a lot of fun but I do not think advance knowledge very greatly.

I think the radio debates probably develop real knowledge and opinion. 2. While the old notions" of "ani mal magnetism" as a actual "force" emanating from a person to attract or repel another has been pretty well exploded, yet we do have very positive attractions and repulsions for all sorts of people. A certain type of person may have frightened or humiliated us in childhood and our repulsion may be a carry-over from this. Also some people's habits, both of body and mind, are so different from ours these differences being due partly to differences in inborn nature that they instantly rouse our aver-sion.

In this sense the antipathy is "natural? Kvery morning, after the Dionne babies have had their bath and breakfast, they are ready for the photographer. time daring, but gallant, nor the cf Charming, is now cler-' New Woman. She sees her co-partner in a c.f panionship to achiee values the value CJ parenthood, of home bdu social power. There are still rugged individualists in the country, doing their best under handicaps, and with no desire to join the government never-sweats..