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THB DETROIT FRES PRESS-WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY Tf, lilt Queen Anne's Bounty HE English farmers who have been waging for Do You Agree? By Joseph Fort Newton Good Morning by Malcolm W. Bingay The Voice of the People Tht column I for Free Pre Rvl.r, to expreee their opinion on Questions of the day Please brief. Writer mail ien their name and address, which will be omitted on request. im ovr a ONTvir ot m-k. Published every monunf by ITit Detroit Free PrM, from It Ham Office.

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DELIVERED BY CARRIER IN DETROIT AND YTnrfoi- nath M.Mavnr Jlmmv nearly three years a tithe war upon the administrators of Queen Anne's Bounty appear to be upon the point of winning. Queen Anne's Bounty is a perpetual fund of first-fruits and tenths, which was set up by a charter granted by Queen Anne and confirmed by statute An adventure, said Chesterton, is a danger rightly considered; a danger is an adventure wrongly considered. Walker swears that he Is living off his wife. Somehow or other I al MICHIGAN CJIltS An vli-l-AUts ways pegged him as just that kind If a man wants to live dramatically, let him go through a chang of a guy. Deily end Sunday .25 1.10 12.30 in 1703 for the augmentation of the livings of poor Anglican clergy.

As far back as 1906 the fund Daily Sunday IER WEEK -10 PER MONTH '0 Percopy .10 PER YEAR (Paid in Advance) J.SO 5 00 City Edition (Night Delivery). 18 Per week Marlon Talley, the Kansan corn fed grand opera trtller, has signed amounted to more than 7,000,000 pounds sterling. The annual proceeds from it have been used both for for the movies. From recent pictures of her one gets the idea she may star as a quartet enlarging the compensation of the poorer clergy and for the repair and rebuilding of residences. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS PAYABLE IN ADVANCE POSTAGE PAID IN UNITED STATES AND CANADA Daily end Daily Sunday Sunday PER MONTH .75 S.

50 11.25 THREE MONTHS 2.25 I SO 1.7 SIX MONTHS 50 i 00 7.50 ONE YEAR 6.00 M.00 The Governors of the fund are the archbishops and Rumors around New York are to the effeci that Babe Ruth is not going to quit baseball after all. We kind o' had the hunch the old boy was only trying to scare us. bishops, some of the principal officers of the Government and the chief legal and judicial authorities. The payment of the tithes necessary to support MEMBER OK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Prese i exclusively entitled to the use lor republication of new dupatchet credited to it or not otherwise credited in ttu paper, and also the local new published herein. All right ot republication of special dispatch nereui ere alio reserved (July 25.

1017.) Queen Anne's Bounty appears to have been keenly felt by English farmers during the recent depression: for stories and pictures have come out of England showing groups of them in open defiance of the And Clyde Moore, the irrepressible of the Ohio State Journal, comments on that suit of Mr. Dionne, the father of the quints, by suggesting that the old boy Is suing for infringement on his poppyright ing, unfixed world with a nead lull of fixed ideas. The outburst of intolerance today, when we are knocking each other on the head, turns the clock back to the caveman. When we think that youth is all wrong and the world going to the dogs, we are "sufficiently decayed," as Katlsha said to Ko-Ko. A soul is dyed the color of its thoughts; we are what we think about, what we are keen about and most of all what we love.

In times of stress the demagog is heard; loud-mouthed, lightheaded, he promises paradise and sells gold bricks to build it "No gentleman would insult me," said Frederick Douglas; "and no one who is not a gentleman could insult me." We are speeding up In order to save time, but what are we going to do with the time saved, fill it or Just kill it? "Always do what you are afraid to do," said Emerson; more harm is done by running away from a thing than by facing it. We suppress what may be harmful to others; we repress what may be harmful to ourselves but it often bobs up again. Time is the cradle of hope, the grave of delusion, the stern corrector of fools, and the friend and helper of the wise. "Armed with a dream worthy to authorities. TELEPHONES: RAndolph 9400 For Want Ad Only rUndolpn 8900 For All Other Department, 1 In calling, ask lor desired depertmente.

Editorial, Advertising, Subscription. Etc. A royal commission has now recommended a plan The Fighting Spirit By Edgar A. Guest Don't let little fears upset you. Don't give way to every doubt.

Make old failure fight to get you. Stand until he knocks you out. If a better man you're meeting Do not falter in the test; To yourself keep on repeating: "He must beat me at my best." If you meet a burly bruiser Give the fellou) blow for blow. Then if you must be the loser Vou have beena worthy foe. Though your breath grows short and wheezy Fight it out through thick and thin, But don't ever make it easy For the other chap to win.

When the battle once is started Don't too quickly take to flight. Don't be fearful and half-hearted; Hit your blows, with all your might. Hold on just a little longer When you think of giving in. Though the other chap is stronger, Make him fight it out to win. Son, beware the quitting habit, For increasingly it grows; In this world which we inhabit Man encounters many foes, And though some at times will beat you Give them all the best you can; But when stronger rivals meet you, Let them know they've met a man.

(Copyright. 1835. br Edgar Silent) for wiping out this obnoxious exaction in a single stroke. Queen Anne's Bounty, if the plan is adopted, will be bought out for a lump sum of about OUT-OF-TOWN OFFICES New York Conklin, 25 Madison Ave. Verree Conklin, 333 North Michigan Ave.

San Francisco Verree 4 Conklin, Third St V.ri. L.nr. I Rue Scribe 000,000. The farmers will then pay interest on that sum instead of paying tithes. The Government will also chip in, with the result that the levy on the farmers will be substantially less than the amount of the tithe.

The complete abolition of tithes inside of 50 years is contemplated in, the royal commission's report. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1935 be believed" here, surely, is the The Suddenly Rich That Bowery derelict who found $42,000 and returned it, thereby winning fame and a comfortable existence as an honest man went suddenly mad. The doctors explain hig temporary insanity as due to having eaten too much rich food to which he was not accustomed. Some philosophic economist could write a book with that little Incident as a text. The poor sandwich man is the personification ot the whole human race In some respects.

After thousands of years of sheer, dogged fighting to exist we suddenly, through mankind's inventive genius, created machines that produced untold wealth. The human race, not Inured to such existence, couldn't stand prosperity and went absolutely ga ga. As a result the whole thing cracked up with the World War as only one manifestation. Now we have, as a result, the most amazing picture in the world's history starvation amidst plenty. It will take some generations for the human race to orient itself to the new order of things.

That's really all that is the matter with us today. most wonderful weapon ever wielded by the soul of man. Fine clothes, big houses, movies, motors, servants, theaters, gold mesh bags, modern plumbing are not necessary to happiness. Vanity is a consolation prize mercifully given to those who win nothing else in the uncertain, inscrutable game jt life. A word of Jesus found in India: "The world is merely a bridge; you are to pass over it and not build your dwellings upon it." (Copyright.

1035) Western High School Fire rETROIT can badly afford the monetary loss caused by the burning of the Western High School. Yet the City has something to be thankful for. The rapidity with which the flames spread once they were fairly started provokes thoughts about what might possibly have occurred if the fire had broken out during school hours. Just here it comes to mind that the City once before was lucky when a high school building burned. The old Central High School which stood in Capitol Square Park (originally it was the State Capitol Building) also went up in smoke in the middle of a cold winter night The place was a dreadful fire trap, and there were a lot of sighs of relief when it disappeared without claiming victims.

The Western High School of COUrie waft notriinsT National Whirligig News Behind the News like that. It was, relatively, a modern building and easy to get out of. Still a fireoroof structure in it stead will be a gain. Panama Demands Gold THE Government of Panama is again demanding that the Government of the United States respect the letter of its engagement to pay in gold the annuity of $250,000, which the treaty of 1903 stipulated ahould be part of the "price or compensation" for the fights and privileges which Panama transferred to the United States in the Canal Zone. Article XIV of the treaty provided that the United States should pay Panama "the sum of ten million dollars in gold coin of the United States on the exchange of the ratification of this convention and also an annual payment during the life of this convention of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in like gold coin." A year ago Panama refused a check for 250,000 devalued dollars of the United States and now it has instructed its fiscal agents to let another such check.

If proffered, snap right back on Uncle Sam. As long as the treaty of 1903 with Panama endures and as long as the monetary stock of the United States includes sufficient gold coins, we cannot see kow the Government of the United States can continue to refuse to pay Panama in gold, without exposing itself to the charge of deliberately breaking a solemn agreement with another nation, all the more dishonorable because that nation is so much smaller than the United States. The Government in Washington is faced with this dilemma: if it pays Panama in gold it will set precedent which, if generally followed, would upset hs whole monetary structure, while if it does not do so Panama may default on its external debt, which Is largely held by Americans. And there is still another thing to remember. Although a very small country Panama is strategically situated with respect to the Canal and could, if war came, extend courtesies to an enemy sufficiently mbarrassing to the United States to make it worth Washington's while not to offend it too deeply.

With the repudiation of the gold clause in American bonds, Finland stands alone as a Nation that pays its honest debts in an honest way. The United States has sunk to the lower general level. Mr. Cochran Speaks Right Out EVERYBODY has heard the familiar remark that such and such a thing is being made the football of politics. But it has remained for a statesman from Missouri to propose that football be made a natter of political patronage.

The Russian Army Observations By Robert Quillen Bad people are those whose badness isn't like ours. Maybe not; but a statesman in Europe who had $4,800,000,000 to spend would feel like a dictator. You see, If the earth didn't revolve, one side would be day all the time. And nobody on that side would ever repent. Firing men above 45 Is a good plan If the business needs good legs more than good sense.

But the final proof of friendship is to keep on liking a man in spite of his good fortune. A friend is ashamed to keep the $2.50 he borrowed, but not the $2.50 book. Funny land! A man isn't old enough for the Supreme Court or th Preatrlenrrv until he's so old WHEN he issued a defiant challenge in the form of a statement that- tVi Cncon Moo.a. vvj ni my mil "crush any enemy," K. E.

Voroshiloff. Commissar for Defense, was more or less performing an Ajax stunt, for the Soviet forces are totally untried in the field, and consequently are more or less an WASHINGTON Washington Republicans are reliably informed that despite all denials ot any political significance in Herbert Hoover's recent visit to New York, the men of '32 had a real huddle. The former President's statement from Tuscon, demanding immediate re-establishment of the gold standard was a direct result. Its issuance was said to have been deferred until Mr. Hoover got that far west In an effort to dissociate any connection in the public mind between the thrust at the New Deal and the New York meeting.

Although the Hoover credo was passed over here with polite surprise, it was meant to be a blast setting the Republican state of mind into Just so many words which all could read and unknown quantity. NEW YORK Quite a few of the smart lads both here and abroad were set for a quick and easy clean-up if the gold decision had gone the other way. They figured the 69 per cent profit on their gold-clause securities could be put to work at once scooping up other investments at the temporary panic prices which were expected. That would have pyramided their gains to startling proportions when things snapped back to normal. This doesn't mean that a majority of Wall Street big timers or anything like it were in on the play.

The actual number ot those preparing to shoot the works on this system was small. But liquidation of gold-clause bonds since the decision was rendered gives striking evidence that plenty of money was involved. Speculative enrichment would have been spectacular. Even so the Commissar's boast was somethine more than an idle vaunt. The best information is that Stalin todav ha his command a standing military force of approximately a million men and that this force i well that no business concern would hire supported in the air.

There are reasons fot believing it to be as competently officered as the old Romanoff army and better drilled, equipped and directed. And it is under the command of an iron despot instead of an effete, incapable one. Beside that M. Stalin must be quite aware that if he gets his Country into a first-class fight either with some European power or combination of Dowers, he Demands Support for Penal Reforms To the Editor: The writer voted the Democrat ticket in 1896 and has voted no other ticket since But it the Democrat members of the present Michigan Legislature do not sincerely get behind and support the present Republican Governor in honestly trying to take politics and racketeering out of our penal institutions I will never vote for another Democrat tor the Legislature. Let's do something constructive.

H. H. M. Wants Bumpers Made Mandatory on Trucks To the Editor: Passenger ears are equipped with bumpers, but trucks, trailers and commercial car seldom have a bumper in the rear. Cars of that type cause a lot of damage when leaving the curb by backing over the other fellow's bumper, ruining everything In reach.

I recently experienced this for the third time. Another victim was cut by the windshield when hs skidded on the ice, going under the high rear of a truck which stopped suddenly for a traffic light. Daily accidents could be avoided if bumpers on trucks were mads mandatory. Besides, it would mean new business for Michigan and more jobs. J.

A. ALEXANDER. The First Lady's View on the New Jersey Trial To the Editor: The usually dependable Associated Press reports Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as say.

Ing that the only thing that troubles her In the conviction of Bruno Hauptmann is "the fear that an innocent person might be convicted on circumstantial and credits her with adding, "Nobody can make any comment on the case unless he has been at the trial." Well, the able presiding Judge and the 12 honest Jersey freeholders who sat In the Jury box heard the proceedings in the case from the first syllable that was uttered by a witness to the last oratorical splurge of counsel, and they appear to have joined in pronouncing ths Bronx carpenter guilty. That fact seems to me to fully establish the right of those who were mercifully deprived of the privilege of attending the trial not only to comment on the case but to form a pretty definite opinion as to the righteousness of the verdict. I fear the gifted and benignant First Lady has underrated the force and validity of the circumstantial evidence which was presented against Hauptmann. OLD RESIDENT Story of an Encounter with a Public Servant To the Editor: I sincerely agree with L. M.

Jensin's letter in Saturday's Free Press regarding traffic lights on Gratiot Ave. That is not the only thing that the Police Department Is doing to make the situation miserable for drivers on that street. On Saturday morning I had oo-casion to blow my horn behind a car that was hogging the center of the street. In order for me to pass on the proper side. But lo and behold! It was a traffic officer driving to work.

Before I could pass him, he had his window rolled down and shouted some Insulting remark. If I knew what it was I don't think you would print it anyhow. Was Mr. Public Servant satis-fled with that? Oh. no he followed me all the way from McDougall Ave.

to Brush St where he finally pushed me to the curb. "Just where in hell do you think you're going? Can't you see I am a police officer? What do you mean by blowing your horn at me. I will take you down to the, ninth floor of Headquarters and bla, bla, bla." What I wan't to know is does a citizen have to be subjected to insults and threats of arrest by police officers who are too big for their uniforms? Incidents like this spoil public respect for the entire Department. It would be interesting to know how many people are humiliated in this same way, WILLIAM McFEELT What Public Wants in the Way of Art To the Editor: "An Aesthete" remarks on the historical predominance of Franz Hals' art Happily the general public have not ths cock-sure and passing-fad discrimination of an art critic. A sign painter can enthuse a nation with his "Spirit of Seventy-Six" or another with his overloaded boat containing "Washington Crossing tht Delaware." While Hals was holding out at the Institute the Hudson Galleries had another one-man show of 50 small canvase framed in nude wood and tagged at $200 and more.

Yet I noticed Mr. and Mrs. Citizen were really enjoying and buying paintings from other rooms which perhaps our "aesthete" would have condemned. Those finger-movements aping Cezanne's genius are already historical or qualified tor the "Old Curiosity Shop." To my mind, however modern we wish to appear, art must conform to the dynamic symmetry exhibited in the Creator's plan from the humblest sunflower to the remotest solar system. It must acknowledge perpective and other mechanical truths which differentiate order from chaos.

As as automobile can be streamlined and otherwise modernized yet it must conform to basic natural laws of physics, so pictorial art is not sane that does not as truly clothe the skeleton of Truth. So much for the mechanical. In my estimation poetry and art are synonyms. An artist can invest his canvas with ail Uie rhythm and elegance of style of a Sapphic stanza and the poet can Incorporate in his verse all the technique and color of a painter. Selection of subject is the weakest point of our modern brush-men.

Instead of choosing themes pleasing to hearing, smell, taste and touch they would rather idealize a mud puddle or a swamp for a Lake Como! They hold up before the poems of Hals their kindergarten challenge which "aesthete" laments is "sadly lacking" in our Institute. The public, no doubt if it had its say would line up with Carlson and demand, "Give us beauty In lieu of the bizarre! Paint not robots for the real, paint not humans as sticks of wood! Paint not lies that have the seal of the beautiful and good." Let the colors of the artist be a seals ot color-music. BiVTVWKH V1AKO will have to win or run the risk of crumbling. His A Question Not Answered As the story comes back to the Capital the question was put direct to the Old Faithfuls in New York whether the time had not come for Mr. Hoover to step forward and speak for the G.

O. P. One man present is said to have been brash enough to Inquire whether, if Mr. Hoover assumed this active leadership of the Party, it portended his receptiveness as a candidate next year. If there was an answer to this one it got lost in the shuffle.

The returning Washington scout heard none. him. Darn the things that aren't any of our business. They cause most of the world's worrying. Cowboy songa are popular again, and almost everybody sings them except cowboys.

Americanism: Forever getting In trouble by allowing some group too much power; trying to mend matters by giving the- power to another group. Everybody hates the privileged class except those who still have hopes of joining it Nobody is a good loser. He Just acts that way to get part of the praise that belongs to the winner. If he feels that way, why didn't Huey have his legislature pass a law making it a crime to photograph him? People must inherit a memory of famine days. Why else would they feel apologetic when they drop In at meal time? M.

nnlnia' "This Is power lacks the base provided by dynastic prestige; it depends entirely on fear and force. This is to be remembered, too. Though the Soviet force is untried, it is made up of men with a great natural talent for fighting, which is particularly true of those with a Tartar strain. Justices' Big Problem Keen New York observers believe the public reaction to the picture of a few shrewd traders making fabulous profits at the expense of the many might have engendered grave political consequences. They also figure the Supreme Court majority must have been aware of this angle.

It's noted that the five Justices who upheld the New Deal are all from New York, Boston or Philadelphia. The four dissenters come trom the interior. The Easterners were presumably better able to appraise accurately the gamble involved and what it would mean if the decision went the other way. Insiders remark that their toughest Job was to find logical reasons for a step that was socially urgent. After long cogitating on this point, Rep.

John J. Cochran has decided that the Army and Navy teams aren't being dated up on a broad enough geographical basis, and that the citirens and taxpayers of the great West, where men are men, are getting a raw deal. "Why should the East be given almost all their games?" asks the Congressman indignantly. "The taxpayers in other states who help maintain the academies are entitled to see these teams play. And having paused for applause Mr.

Cochran re sumes. He says he has complained about this before, your own hat," said the check girl, but that all he ever got from anybody was sympathy "and you shouiani pay over a nicnei to get it back." (Copyrlirht, 1988) Nature's Weapons There Is something about the Anglo-Saxon breed, the tradition of which prevails in America, that always makes itself evident in the hockey squabbles. The game is so fast and furious that frequently there are fights. But enraged as the boys get on the ice, it is significant that as soon as they start scrapping they drop their hockey sticks, pull oft their steel back mitts and begin slugging with their bare fists. Men of other races would grab the murderous hockey sticks to swing with instead of throwing them away.

When an American or a Canadian youth loses his temper he never thinks of a gun or a club or the taking of a mean advantage. Something that is instinctive prompts him to depend on his "dukes." There's a great lesson ot life to me learned in the "manly art of self defense." Continued-One of the editors singled out for vituperation by Professor Maurer, the parlor pink of the University of Michigan School ot Journalism, in his Sunday night tirade, was Col. Robert R. McCormlck, of the Chicago Tribune. I think the Colonel was an unfortunate choice on the part ot the glarlug young man with the flying trap ease.

For the Colonel's record refutes entirely his charge that the established newspapers of America care only for their own freedom, and, once they have gained it fight to see that nobody else has the same privilege. The professor has probably never heard of the case of the Minneapolis Saturday Press. This little irresponsible weekly wag printed by a J. M. Near and was or is a typical little crusading sheet.

He was attacking the state machine, charging political corruption. The Minnesota legislature passed a law providing that the district attorney could apply for injunction against a scandalous newspaper, known to be such. Floyd B. Olsen, now Governor, promptly got an injunction against Near in the Supreme Court of the State, Near, penniless and helpless, appealed to CoL McCormlck, chairman of the committee on the Freedom of the Press of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. At his own expense and backed by the A.

N. P. the Colonel retained lawyers and fought the case to the United States Supreme Court and won a verdict for the Minneapolis editor. It meant nothing to Col. McCormlck, personally.

He neither knew nor had any use for the obscure weekly editor or his methods. Hearted only on the basic principle ot freedom of the press and was sustained by the United States Supreme Court. What Mr. Maurer cannot see is that the great American newspapers maintain their circulations by adhering strictly to fundamental American principles of government. They may be conservative or they may be liberal but they keep within the framework ot the basic law.

When they become radical they lose the confidence of the public and cease to have circulations. But their right to be radical remains unchallenged by any other newspaper. There is not a Communistic or radical newspaper or magazine of any kind In America with sufficient circulation to make it a self-supporting propositon. Why? Because the great rank and file of the American people are not interested in such ami -American movements and do not want any part in them. America is basically sound and sensible, and if Mr.

Maurer doesn't think so he is merely mistaking his own emotional color blindness for intellectual emancipation. I still insist the taxpayers of Michigan are entitled to know the newspaper background of the gentlemen who are teaching Journalism at the University of Michigan. Now he wants action, and, by gum, he is going to get it or else. He demands four intersectional games a season by each team, and he makes it pretty clear, too, that if one isn't played in St. Louis for the diver-aion of the public of that town, he is going to know Nicknames "pWO New York physicians reporting to the Amer-ican Orthopsychiatric Society declared that nicknames are "valueless individually or socially." Referring to their observations in a children's school, they said that "nicknames produce resentment, ill feeling, quarreling and fighting." The doctors' recital of fact as they have seen it in their sphere of observation must be accepted without question.

But there are children and children. A lot depends upon background, intelligence, temperament and environment Owen Johnson's Lawrenceville School stories are sufficiently authentic, and they suggest a totally different conclusion about the value and effect of nicknames. To many a youngster an apt nickname is a joy and an honor. And sometimes if a boy has the right stuff in him, a disagreeable one may teach him to "take it." As we said, it all depends. But the question after all, is largely academic.

Because whether they are good or bad, nicknames are going to keep on flourishing. It would be about as easy to exterminate them as it would be to exterminate cats. Turning Back the Pages the reason why. To the objection that students cannot afford to give up time from their studies gallivanting about the Country to bolster up the political prestige of officeholders with their constituents, the Congressman responds airily, "There is nothing to keep them from studying on the train." And having disposed of this very minor point, he twoceeds to launch his clincher. When the Army and Navy needs votes (for appropriations) they do not confine their efforts to representatives of the States where they let their football teams play." Seek Expatriate for Test New York bitter-enders are scouting around for an American living abroad on the income from gold-clause Liberties who is willing to test the loophole offered by the Court for provable losses due to "repudiation by Act of Congress." If they find one he will be enriched with carloads of bonds loaned from here in caae the long shot comes through.

The idea is to get something started in a hurry before Congress shuts off this avenue of escape. Interested parties don't want the test to be made by British or French holders of American bonds. They can Imagine nothing that would give Congress greater pleasure than to enact legislation squelching foreign claims for damages. Wall Street Surprised Secretary Mongenthau's new method of raising fresh funds with six and nine month discount bills instead of bonds or notes took Wall Street by surprise. Financial sharps figure this departure means three things.

1 Government spending will not be as prolific in the next few months as is generally expected. A good deal of money can be raised in this way with a minimum of excitement but it would take quite a while to run it into billions. 2 By confining March and April financing to refunding operations the Treasury is sure of getting the cheapest possible rates tor long-term Issues. 3 The Administration evidently figures it's wiser not to plan any large-scale new financing until after Congress has called it a year. 50 YEARS AGO FEB.

27, 1885 Great Britain's House of Lords enthusiastically greeted a motion of censure fathered by Lord Salisbury, for the Government's deep lethargy in the Egyptian crisis. The fact that relief was not dispatched to Gen. Gordon's aid until too late, he declared, itself incurred the penalty of indelible disgrace. 40 YEARS AGO FEB. ST, 1895 Congress is toying with a bill authorizing the Treasury to pay the sum of $100,000 to an inventor who shall, prior to 1900, construct and demonstrate the practicability of an air machine capable of safely carrying passengers and freight at a speed of 30 miles an hour.

The bill is expected to stimulate study of the problem of aerial navigation. 30 YEARS AGO FEB. 27. 1905 Evidence is increasing that the labor strikes throughout Russia are not purely economic in their origin. Is that a threat? We don't know.

We do know the idea that Federal appropriations for West Point and Annapolis are made in order to maintain institu tions that will produce football teams as the Roman gladiatorial schools produced fighters for the arena is an entirely new one to us. Subject Little Understood It is true that the shades of Bryan and McKinley have been flitting furtively about Washington these days as the war over gold, stable currency and inflation rages unabated. Some of the more statesmanlike, academic and less practical politicians and they must have been represented at the New York reunion 'profess to see the money question as the big issue in 1936. But the more hard-bitten gentry of the G. O.

P. don't think so. They say not many more people understand the intricacies of currency manipulation than do the Einstein theory. Nevadan a Troublemaker Aside from Huey Long, florid-faced, white-plumed Senator Pat McCarran, Nevada Democrat, has developed into the most talented trouble-maker for the New Deal in the upper House. McCarran 's prevailing wage amendment to the $4,880,000,000 works-relief bill was a real sock in the solar plexus for the White House even though arrangements are being made to reverse the decision.

This is far from the first time the Nevada Irishman has tangled himself up in New Deal hair. He had scarcely taken the oath of office two years ago before he was in the thick of the economy bill fight ignoring the unwritten rule that new remain silent their first year. He was instrumental in securing a partial restoration of veterans' benefits over White House objections and Government employees can thank him they are get. ting their pay cut back sooner than planned by the Budget Bureau. Knives Being Sharpened Dr.

Rex Tugwell was so disgusted when he found four of his left-wing proteges dumped out of AAA that he thought of resigning and letting the United States go to the devil. Then he came under the influence of a Winning Smile and decided to continue his work of planning the Nation's destiny. He told the boys he would remain as Undersecretary of Agriculture. The new AAA bill is credited to Tugwell. It makes a Hitler out of the Secretary of Agriculture, the ductile Mr.

Wallace. He becomes fuehrer over farmers, processors, handlers and distributors of all products of the soil, with power to fold up factories and shut down mills that can't learn the goosestep. Two years ago that bill would have passed. Last year it was stifled by a House bloc whose whiskers bristle at the word "Rex." This year it Is in for a fricassee. Knives are grinding at both ends In our dullness we always had supposed that the two academies were designed primarily for the edu 'Never have I met men in public life who were so indifferent to their own interests that they wouldnt accept willingly and gladly advice and assistance from academic men when academic men had the means of making them understand what they were talking about," says Dr.

Raymond Moley. And perhaps the occasions when the academic men couldn't make themselves understood arose from the fact that they didn't know themselves what they were talking about? There is a tendency to say that the James boys were pikers in crime. They weren't They were just as ornery and conscienceless and brutal as modern thugs, but a larger part of the Country had an organized society which could protect itself from bandit depredations. Perhaps it is true that in Tennessee there are few evidences of the workings of the law of evolution. but are inspired on a definite po cation of young men to be officers capable of leading forces in defense of the Nation if need ever arises.

And we fancy there are a lot of other people who have been laboring under the same impression and are apt to keep on feeling the same way. We don't think that Mr. Cochran's point of view is going to appeal to them much. It doesn't appeal much to us. litical plan by revolutionary agi tators.

It is feared the crafty fo-mentors of labor strife are holding their followers in leash until they deem the time ripe to unite forces The usually high-minded H. I. Phillips descends to this: "Hitler announces that Germany will market a low-priced car. Especially designed for the hitler Current Comment and run driver. The Guinea-Pig State ARKANSAS is combating radical agitation among I Rail Reorganization Likely The informed know the RFC has quit playing indiscriminate Santa Claus to starving railroads.

Jesse Jones' warning that applicants for loans must hereafter prove sound management and Justify their economic existence was not news to insiders. Long deferred reorganizations look very close now. These will be painful to security holders of the re.rl affected, but experts agree the whole rail picture should be much healthier after the house-cleaning. with the dissatisfied peasantry in a nationwide outbreak. 80 YEARS AGO FEB.

S7. 1915 Richard Peter Stegler, young German reservist under arrest in New York for obtaining a passport by fraud, has confessed details to authorities of an alleged conspiracy in which Capt Boy-Ed, naval attache of the German Embassy in Washington, is Implicated, for fraudulently securing American passports for German reservists and spies. 10 YEARS AGO FEB. 27, 1925 Sir Samuel Hoare, British Air Secretary, declares that his Government plans to construct such a system of air defense as to make the risk so great that an enemy will think long before attacking Great Britain. Albert H.

Lloyd, dean of the graduate school, has been appointed acting president of the University of Michigan to fill the vacancy created by the death of tne renei-woi iters in us western counties Dy barratry proceedings, a common law expedient to top the stirring up and maintaining of controversies and litigation. Although it was willing to become a political laboratory for testing the merits of Secretary Wallace's super-Constitutional idea. Arkansas "Off the Record" pHE Chicago Tribune suggests a distinctive name for the Administration now current in Washington: Every National Administration down at Washington brings forth something which gives it its own peculiar name in history. We don't seem to have made up our minds just what to call this Administration. Maybe it will be known as the "Off the record' Administration.

At least Franklin Delano answers freely and frankly every question asked him (well, most questions), but usually prefaces his explanations with "But this is off the record." That seems to be a grand idea. The next time the grocery-man asks me if I'm going to pay last month's bill or not, I'm eoine to tell him "That'. ff th. apparently believes that there are experiments and experiments ana that some are more agreeable in their results than others. An emergency can't last flvs years.

Senator L. J. Dickinson. The wisest censorship, most careful legislation, will not make one saint out of a tcIMlon sinners. At any rate Commonwealth Labor College has been warned that it can't paint the State red and Liberalized discount provisions in the new Federal Reserve Law should help the bond market Taxes on gasoline and motor lubricants amounted to $754,000,000 in 1M4, fOoTrUht.

19S.M I Something tells me I'm not going to get away with Mt. but at least it's worth trying. Est. Thomas L. Harris.

IDr. Marion Laroy Burton, l-cl the Capitol.