"THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY.October 14, llil THEODORE W. NOYES.Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company. Business Office: 11th St and Pannayivanla Are. New York Office: FlO Bast 42nd St. Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Building European Office: 14 Regent St.. London. England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. Regular Edition. The Evening Star --------4Se per month TM?wh^nl4* Sundays K-V- -*0® per month S*unndd!^,d."*'-r-.-«5ciper,month The Sunday Star-6e per copy Night Final Edition. Wight Final and Sunday Star-7f»e per month Niffht Final Star.._-____55c vtr month Collection made at the end of «»ch month. Orders may be sent by mail or telephone Na tional 5000. Rate by Mail--Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday--1 yr.. *i2-00: m°- 5n® Daily only_.1 yr.. Sd.oni l mo.. 60c Sunday only_--1 yr., *4.00: 1 mo.. 40c All Other Statea and Canada. Dally and Sunday„l yr.. *12.00: 1 ran SI no Daily only__1 yr.. ss.on; 1 mo., 7ftc Sunday only----1 Fr., *5.00: 1 mo„ 60c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use lor republicatlon of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In tnia paper and alao the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Landon s Challenge. Gov. Landon's speech at Detroit last night brought the campaign to a focus. It gave specific expression to a question that is unmistakably the issue between the administration seeking a return to power and the party that is seeking to effect a change. That issue is the alleged violation by the President of the basic Ideals of the American system. Reviewing the series of legislative acts which the President sought and obtained from Congress which, in Gov. Landon's words, gave autocratic powers to the Chief Executive and w-hich, though granted as emergency measures, the President has described as "new instru ments of public power," Gov. Landon put specific questions, in the light of the adverse decisions of the Supreme Court. He asked: "Does the administration plan to re enact the N. R. A.? Does It Intend to return to the control of food products by Washington? If it does one It must do the other. If we have an N. R. A. we must have an A. A. A. If we have an A. A. A. we must have an N. R. A. No Nation can continue half regimented and half free. Which course does this ad ministration propose to follow? There is only one man who can answer this question, and that man is the candidate for re-election to the Presidency." These questions were prefaced in Gov. Landon's speech by a recital of certain words spoken by the President before Congress. He said: "The President spoke truly when he boasted before Congress in his report on the state of the Union last January, 'We have built up new instruments of public power.' He spoke truly when he said these instruments could provide 'shackles for the liberties of the people and en slavement for the public.' Urging that the only safe and proper way to enlarge the executive powers to bring about the changes in the sys tem of government which have been attempted by the administration and checked by the decisions of the Supreme Court Is to secure the amendment of the ConstitU'lon, Gov. Landon says: "If the President thinks agricultural and industrial anarchy can be prevented only by the re-enactment of the prin ciples of N. R. A. and A. A. A., let him eay so. Let him tell us--and tell us before election day--just what amend ments to the Constitution he has in mind. By his silence on this he is dodging the fundamental issue of this campaign, the issue of whether he in tends to change the form of our Gov ernment--whether labor, agriculture and business are to be directed and managed by government--directed and managed by politics." This is a direct challenge which can Hot well be avoided. If it is the purpose of the President to pursue the policy of regimentation, if re-elected, he should declare himself clearly and explicitly as to the course he proposes to follow. If that course is to be a further pursuit of the policy of administrative law making, under the cover of broad enactments of statutes without regard for the limita tions of the Constitution in its present form, on the chance of changes in the personnel of the Supreme Court that will turn an adverse majority of the court into a favorable majority, that is one thing. If it is to be effected through the amendment of the Constitu tion in proper order, by the established mode of procedure, that is another thing. The challenge of Gov. Landon for a specific declaration of purpose as to the manner in which the now negatived legislative-executive powers for regimen tation are to be regained requires a specific answer. Thanks to Communism, a new kind of class consciousness has developed between men who shoot straight and those who miss. uiannel trossmg. If the American tourist will inquire for the place, he will be shown the spot Cherbourg where Napoleon stood looking out over the English Channel and hoping for a breeze to move his fleet in the direction of the projected conquest of Britain upon which he had set his heart. Such, in any event, is the legend of the Little Corsican's monument on the hill above the Divette. The townfolk gladly explain that it was the first Bonaparte who built the harbor-works and the fortress. He had visioned the city as a base of operations against "perfidious Albion." But he failed to take advantage of the opportunity which destiny offered him when she sent Robert Fulton to tell him about the steamboat. The American might have solved his problem. Instead of appreciation, the Emperor gave the inventor a polite dismissal. It was at that moment that the curtain began to fall on his dream of world dominion. Meanwhile, the channel remained K what Nature had made It--a bulwark for England. True enough, William of Normandy crossed in 1066, proving de fiantly that the teat could be accom plished. But the explanation of his achievement lay in the weakness of his foe. Harold the Saxon had no navy to oppose his three thousand ships and sixty thousand men. The memory of the conqueror's triumph served to protect his descendants in 1588, when Philip II of Spain despatched his grand armada to burn the towers of Westminster. Storms and courageous human resistance spoiled the plot, and England remained free. So it happened that numerous pro posals for a tunnel under the channel in recent years came to nothing. The tradition of history has been hostile to any such link between London and Paris. No responsible leader of public opinion has been willing to argue the matter in Parliament or press. Engi neers might plan to correlate the two capitals; financiers might express their approval in terms of stock subscribed. Yet the stolid British masses, mindful of the past, remained unmoved. The problem, however, has been solved. On Columbus day a new channel ferry system was put in operation. A train left London in the morning, went aboard a specially constructed ship at Dover an hour later, was transported over the water to the French side in approxi mately one hundred minutes, and made the remainder of the trip to Paris in time for late tea at five-thirty o'clock. Passengers were not obliged to change cars. The novelty of the excursion Is expected to contribute to the success of the arrangement. Napoleon's ghost may be supposed to be terribly chagrined. "Colonies--Or Use. Rudolf Hess, deputy Nazi party leader, seizes upon current German controversy over mark devaluation to indicate afresh that the Reich is determined to gain its objective of colonies capable of supplying raw materials and foodstuffs. Germany will not stoop, Herr Hess thundered, to "frauds of devaluation or inflation." If necessary, she will continue to tighten her belt and eat less, in conformity with the slogan "Cannon instead of butter." The pronouncement turns graphic light on the opposing Nazi schools of thought regarding currency depreciation. One group, headed by Reichsbank President Schacht, would break the devaluation ring forming around Germany by joining it. A rival faction favors retirement into more or less splendid isolation, whatever the consequences. That is an internal decision for the Germans to make. Of international moment is Herr Hess' disclosure that the Hitler four-year plan of economic self-sufficiency, promulgated at Nuremberg, is to be carried through, come what may. The deputy leader virtually threatened that if other nations refuse to turn over "raw material col onies" to Germany, she might be com pelled to demoralize world markets by selling abroad at "dumping" prices, thus seriously damaging competing exporting countries. The avowed purpose would be to acquire foreign credits necessary to purchase raw materials for German industry and living necessities for the people. Such credits are not obtainable at present without certain political and military concessions, which the Hitler regime is not prepared to make. Hess emphasizes that there will be no "capitu lation" to the threat of "economic starva tion." He warns all concerned that just as such "war" against the Ger mans has failed, they will prove equally invulnerable against attempts to over power them by force of arms--"such as a marcn of Soviet Russian militarism. for example. It becomes increasingly plainer that the German government is ready to sacrifice all and sundry to the develop ment of its war machine. Herr Hess bluntly confesses that money saved on foreign exchange for purchase of food stuffs "goes to benefit our armaments." Hence, the battle cry that "cannon" is preferable to "butter." Such frankly proclaimed doctrine can only cause Ger many's neighbors to shudder with fear that if the Nazis cannot get what they need in the peaceful course of economic events, they will sally forth in their mighty armor some day to take what they want--such things as the grain of the Ukraine, the minerals of the Urals or the timber riches of Siberia, as Der Fuehrer recently suggested, when he caused German mouths to water in con templation of a Reich which, possessed of such wealth beyond its eastern bor ders, would "swim in plenty." By acci dent or design, the "give us colonies-- or else" program is sprung upon Europe at the very moment Germany is object ing to an Anglo-Soviet pact granting naval concessions to Russia within the 1936 Anglo-Franco-American qualitative limitation treaty. What is regarded as political unrest is often due to an inevitable human incli nation to rush into any kind of a crowd and increase the altercation by taking sides. However fair-minded a politician is, he may be expected to feel an inclination to extend relief to those who have been sympathetic toward him during an ardu ous eamnaiam. Ethelbert Stewart. Ethelbert Stewart, who died yesterday, was representative of the highest type of public servant It Is not too much to hope that some day, under a rigidly enforced merit system and a complete separation of public service from politics, there will be many more like him in our army of Government employes. To him the material reward for his service was secondary. First came the love--perhaps respect is a more fitting word--for the work in which he was involved. His goal was the pursuit of facts and their scientific, not their political, interpreta tion. When the demands of politics dashed with what he considered the demands of facts, others might worry but he did not. He left the Department A of Labor under what might have been called a cloud. But to him the cloud was in the form of a halo and if he walked out, as he characteristically and picturesquely described it, "with a tin can tied to the end of my coat tail," he walked out with his head up and his shoulders squared. He did a lot of pioneering in the field of labor statistics and in other statistical work for which he will be remembered. He left a great many friends who mourn the passing of a vigorous, upright and outspoken gentleman. Political references to "the enemy's territory" are weakened as a general effort is made in America to preserve a good-neighbor policy. Good neighbors may have differences of opinion, but they do not hoist red flags and load machine guns. Wisconsin is having snowstorms, and in the political excitement regards them as merely a gift of nature in the line of free confetti celebrating numerous phases of opinion. Columbus is honored sincerely in spite of the fact that when he discovered America he did not know what it was. It is an incident similar to many in the course of human progress. In historic cases, wars have become almost compulsory in order to show dis appointed taxpayers that after all they miy be getting something for their money. The old alchemists undertook some hard tasks, but the transmutation of pork and corn into a bank account is more difficult than anything revealed in old laboratory lore. Next inauguration day will arrive In January, and, regardless of political senti ment, the band can play "Happy New Year Is Here Again.'' Spanish reds hope for sympathy from the Soviet which, in conspicuous in stances, has shown ability in making a bad matter worse. It is useless to remind racketeers that crime does not pay. There must be some appeal to something more con vincing than the mere mercenary motive. A profound reader, Secretary Wallace is an admirer of Jeremiah, who was a great prophet, but as a farmer scarcely worth mentioning. Progress might be made if expert calcu lators could be persuaded to study tax figures with the same intelligence they bestow on market quotations. Shooting Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON The Ship. We are looking for the rainbow that is hid behind the storm. When this hurricane is ended we will help the world reform. Youth smiles with shining eyes and wisdom has a furrowed brow; The ship sails on--but everybody wants to show it how. One calls for heroism in a hard remorse less fray, Another seeks philosophy with intellec tual sway While prayers ascend in reverence to consecrate a vow. Earth must improve, since everybody wants to show it how. When fervent motives clash with purpose confident and high We know that calm must yet reveal the rainbow in the sky. We know the ship of state will ride with Jewel-glistening prow And all w'e sailors need is some one who can show it howl Politeness. "Do you enjoy the excitement of politics?" asked the interviewer. "Very much," said Senator Sorghum, "though it's not as polite as I thought it would be when women obtained the vote." "Some still call it a gentleman's game." "Perhaps it is. But I defy anybody to call it ladylike." Reminiscence. My radio! My radio! You fill my heart with flee. The songs you bring from long ago Are very dear to me. So are the arguments which Fame Endeavors to employ; Today they're pretty much the same As when I was a boyi Final Experiment. "What happened to Piute Pete?" "The boys decided to sone him perma nently residential In our new cemetery," said Mesa Bill. "What was the trouble?" "Pete got to experimenting in finance. He was a heavy loser and without con sulting anybody he announced that he had personally decided on a hundred per cent devaluation or all poker chips." "Fallacy may earn more profit than the truth," said Hi Ho, the sage of China town. "An astronomer makes vast dis coveries and may not win even grati tude, but an astrologer is lavishly remunerated." Susanna! Oh, Susanna! Your song Is bright and clear And Kansas has a manner that is bring ing you good cheer. Oh, Susanna! Your picture we shall see Upon a postage stamp along with that of Susan B.l "A quarrel," said Uncle Eben, "usually arises from de determination of two people to tell each other all about some thin' that neither of 'em is fully aware of." 0 ...I NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM BY MARARET GERMOND. SAINT JOAN OP ARC. By V. Sackville We*t. New York: Doubleday, Doran Co. A distinguishing and impressive feature of this new biography of Jeanne d'Arc is the directness with which the extraor dinary experiences that crowded the short, tumultuous life of the Maid of Orleans are held in line throughout a narrative that while adhering strictly to historic fact to the extent that such detail is necessary, keeps prominently in the foreground the peasant girl whose inexplicable power of leadership led a nation to victory after a century of war fare and who is today honored as the most famous heroine in history. No life story of Saint Joan would be possible without some repetition of the political conditions and ramifications of her day, but in the handling of history and biography, Miss Sackville-West has combined the two in a manner that sufficiently emphasizes the former with out permitting it in any degree to over shadow the latter. There are many notable things which one would expect to find in a book of this nature that the author has not included. These omis sions are admitted to have been delib erate for the reason that from the au thor's viewpoint Jeanne d'Arc was of far greater importance than any of the figures or the political problems which beset the era. It has therefore been her purpose to concentrate upon the strange career of the martyred heroine as repre senting a fundamental problem of major Importance rather than upon the sec ondary subject of changing political scenes.
Mystery still surrounds the peculiar gift with which Joan was endowed. Perhaps it always will. More than five centuries after the flames de stroyed her life controversy and skepti cism continue to fill men s souls. Miss Sackville-West does not attempt to give the answer or to explain the voices, yet one feels that perhaps the nearest ap proach to an understanding of the mysterious visitations has been reached in this biographer's simple statement that: "The sagacity of the peasant was hers, as well as the inspiration of the mystic. Therein, I think, lay her real strength." She does not believe the theory of Milton Waldman that the voices can be explained subjectively, nor does ahe press any positive theory of her own. But she does cite the Incident of Joan's leap from Beaurevoir Tower against the command of her angel visitor as possibly one of the "strongest arguments that can be advanced in favor of an objective rather than a subjective influence." In the soul of every human being there exists, even in those who deny any belief, an uncontrollable sense which in voluntarily responds to some spiritual emotion. Whether it is designated as religion or as something else is of no consequence. It functions as automat ically as do the physical members of the mortal body. Its direction may be less certain and its ideal obscure, but through it the race acquires the cour age to survive and to move forward. In her deep study of the life of Saint Joan the author of this latest biography, who disclaims being religious in the accepted sense of meaning, admits that she finds in France's national saint a "figure who challenges some of the pro foundest tenets of what we do or do not believe." "She makes us think," says Victoria Sackville-West, "and she makes us ques tion; she uncovers the dark places into which we may fear to look. We read, and having read, are left with the es sential queries: Does God on occasion manifest Himself by direct methods? Is the visible world the only world we have to consider? Is It possible for mortal man to get into touch with beings of another world? Is it possible that unearthly guidance may be vouchsafed to assist our human fallibility? Is it pos sible that certain beings are born with a sixth sense, a receptivity so far beyond that of their duller fellows that in order to explain it we take refuge in such words as 'miraculous' and 'supernat ural'?" Further along in the final chapter, after reluctantly stating her own con victions and expressing the belief that it is Imperative for any biographer of Baint Joan to make his own position clear "if only to avoid any suspicion of personal prejudice," the author makes this confession: ror me mere is only one comprenen sive. stupendous unity of which we ap prehend but the smallest segment. My readings into Joan of Arc have done nothing but increase my belief in the existence of that unity, and also the belief that certain persons are in touch with, or, shall we say, receptive to the influences of, a unity for which we have no adequate name, the greater whole of which our own imagination embraces but a tiny part." And again: "In the meantime it seems to me that the only spirit in which to approach the prob lem of Jeanne's voices and visions in the present state of our* understanding is a spirit of complete open-mindedness and acknowledgment of our ignorance."
A scholarly work is this comprehensive narrative which portrays the life and the history of Saint Joan from child hood to death, without prejudice or sentimentality, but with sincere devotion to facts and with something nearer to understanding than has been approached by any contemporary biographer. It has a genuine richness and beauty that not only lingers, but that also leads the reader to think deeply upon many fundamental questions that are of im portance to mankind. Half tone and line cut illustrations embellish the handsomely bound and attractively decorated volume.
Relief and Industry. From th# Wall Street Journal. Prom time to time in recent weeks a shortage of farm labor has been reported in widely separated localities throughout the country. Now it appears, according to survey of the problem, that this con dition has become general. Not less than 12 States are cited as reporting definite difficulties experienced by fanners in securing adequate aid to harvest the crop. In certain instances, it is claimed, the shortage of labor is attributable to W. P. A. Jobs, which the harvest hands prefer to the work in the fields. Al though some 8tates, notably Mississippi, have offered definite proof of this con dition, it is merely presumed to exist in other localities. The policy of the W. P. A. as announced at Washington is to dismiss men from relief roles when they are offered private employment, and there is little tangible evidence that this policy is not being carried out as a gen eral rule. What is demonstrable, however, is the growing number of Jobs all over the country, and therefore what should be a declining need for continued Federal subsidy of unemployment relief. THIS AND THAT ____________ BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Rain In the night la one of the moat completely satisfying sounds in the world, provided, of course, that the roof does not leak, and the listener is interested in plants. Given these two essentials, the auditor finds Nature provides him with beautiful music, to hear which he does not have to stir out of bed even. This is luxurious music. It has the languor of the tropics, mixed with dreams of far-away islands. Right here in Washington, too. which is magic of a sort. When the Autumn is warm and the rain falls steadily in the night, not much imagination is required, even to dream. Yet one's plants are one's very own. not dreams; except what berries the birds take from the shrubs from this time of year on. This makes the rain a very real thing, after all, not something thousands of miles away.
This is music for any one, not Just for a select few in a hall As with all real music, however, some prior knowledge is necessary. Rain, to many, is Just--rain. It is music to the knowing. And how do these latter "get that way"? What distinguishes them from the masses, to whom rain is Just water, and a veritable nuisance, any way you take It? The distinguishing feature is the in terest in plant life. This plant life ranges all the way from trees, mightiest of horticultural subjects, to tiny rock garden denizens, scarcely more than an Inch high.
This Interest has so many sides to it that there is no room today to mention but one--that of water In relation to the growing things of the garden. This perennial subject is known to all gardeners, amateur or professional, the man with his acres or the woman with a few plants on the window sill. Water Is the great essential. And when It falls on the garden it brings rejoicing not only to the things growing there, but also to all garden minded persons. It is not Just a rain, something to be looked upon solely in relation to traffic, but the veritable life blood of living things. It is this realization which makes the night rain so pleasant, for the listener knows that it Is really doing good. Especially if the rain is of the gentle, drizzling variety, which throws much water over a long period upon the earth, making up for whatever force it may lack by the length of time it comes down.
This is the beloved rainy nieht of the good garden and the good gardener. It is something you have to be in love with to really understand and actually love. This is the rainy night of poets, who through the ages have found something precious in the sound of rain on the roof. This is where the roof comes in. It must be tight and whole. It must make a music of its own. a sort of drum for the atlcks of rain. There is a quietness to such a night seldom found otherwise. The sounds of humanity are largely lacking, drowned out by the music of the rain.
Tap, tap, tap on the roof. On the downspout, somewhere, there is another tap, at longer intervals, a drop going astray. Gutters and downspouts som'times have queer ways of making themaelves heard in rains. Just an insistent, metal lic "twang" now and then. One hears the rush of waters through the leaves of trees, entirely distinct from the sound on the roof, or in the gutters and downspouts. Every type of roof has Its own music. There are some who prefer the music of rain on a tin roof. They think of Robert Louis Stevenson's far home in Samoa, which he had roofed with corrugated metal. What a din and clatter atoms must have made on ltl The best music of rain is made in this climate on a mild night, when the rain comes down slowly, but persistently. It comes in answer to the dryness of the garden, many will think. The plants need It.
"The need we have," as the novel says, which means water, in the garden. A good way for the garden-minded to test out their acquaintances Is to wait until some drizzly afternoon, and then casually make the following remark to them: "I hope it rains all night." If those who hear the remark look as If the world were coming to an end, be quite sure they have no proper interest in the home garden. Theirs is a world of automobiles, bright lights, supper clubs and the like. Every one, more or less, makes his own world. We live in one world and make another. For ourselves we make other worlds, each after its own pattern. What your world is in a sense is none of my business; what is mine is none of yours. It is fortunate that, in the main, men are willing to let others enjoy their own world. If only they do not talk too much about it.
On a rainy night there is no necessity for talking, only for listening to this good music which comes down out of the sky to us. Why dream of celestial music, when this one is very close to us, right at hand, on days and nights deemed by many to be nuisance days and nights? Hug this music to the soul, quietly, listening carefully, so as not to miss a note. Each rain drop is a note and a song. In rainy night symphonies there are many players, many instruments. Trees and leaves and roofs and water and air and tile and metal and wood and con crete and innumerable other substances and near-substances and forces and media tangible and intangible. These are players and played alike. This is the music of a rainy night, than which, provided one has a good roof and a love for the garden, there are few more beautiful sounds in the world. If rain is natural in the yard, its echo ought to be in one's heart and mind. This is free entertainment for every one; you don't even have to turn a knob. Think of that the next time, and stop your grouching. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS r BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Democrats and Republicans alike de rive cheer and comfort from the big registrations piling up all over the coun try. Bearing out indications previously reflected by the primaries, the expecta tion now is that a popular vote of at least 43,500.000 will be cast on November 3. Some political Einsteins think 45,000,000 may be rolled up, dependent on the degree to which Roosevelt. Landon and minor spellbinders during the next three weeks manage to make the electorate vote-minded. Both sides draw their own conclusions from registration returns. New Dealers are certain the figures de note a fierce popular determination to preserve the gains of Roosevelt recov ery." Republicans believe just as im plicitly that a prospective vote some 3.000.000 larger than was cast in 1932 means that the country, especially the traditional stay-at-home element and the independents, are mobilizing in myriads to smash the New Deal and all its wasteful works. Even the Socialists, Coughlin-Townsend-Lemkeites and the Communists are encouraged by the pros pect of a bumper crop of ballots. In all cases, the wish is father to the thought.
No one takes livelier interest in a na tional election at the zero hour than Lawyer Simon Michelet of Washington, founder of the "National-Get-Out-the Vote-Club," which he has been conduct ing as a one-man show and purely as a matter of public interest for the past 12 years. Mr. Michelet, acknowledged authority In his field, reckons that the total number of American citizens quali fied to vote is today close to 65.000,000. The number of actual voters has been quadrennially increasing, although the stay-at-home contingent has steadily been a considerable one. Even with women voting the popular poll per centage in our time has never measured up to the figures attained during the '80s and DOs, when the vote usually ran between 70 and 85 per cent of the eligible total. Popular votes at the last four elections were as follows: 1920. 36 713.832; 1924, 29.099.131; 1928, 36,806. 783. and 1932. 39,763.589. One of Mr. Michelet's cherished souvenirs is a letter from the late Vice President Thomas R. Marshall. Describing himself as a dis ciple of Emerson's theory that votes should be weighed, not counted, the Hoosier sage added that while he thor oughly believed a citizen should do his voting duty, he found himself in violent disagreement with Jim Watson on that subject. "Jim doesn't want Democratic votes to come out," Marshall explained, and I don't want Republican votes to come oui.
Fred G. Clark, national commander of the Crusaders, in a recent broadcast emphasized the importance of every single ballot cast. Recalling that Cleve land beat Blaine in 1884 through carry ing New York by a majority of only 1148 Clark points out that 575 votes more for Blaine and less for Cleveland "would have changed the entire political policy of the Nation.'* In 1888 Cleveland carried Connecticut by 336 votes. A difference of 169 would have given the State to Harrison. In 1908, out of more than 700,000 votes, Taft beat Bryan in Missouri by only 689. Ashift of 3i» would have given Bryan the State. All of us moderns remember how Wilson just squeezed through for re-election in 1916 by a razor-edge margin in Cali fornia.
Democrats have apparently taken the hurdle that once loomed as the most menacing threat to Mr. Roosevelt s re election--the possibility of a serious slump in business before the end of the campaign. This does not mean that New Deal victory is now assured, but the danger of a pre-election recession in r. recovery seems definitely past, au cur rent economic Indices--except the 11, 000,000 unemployed "left on base," as Landon puts it--are as If made to order for F. D. R.'s purposes. Such things as the bull movement in the stock market, peak freight carloadings, the steel industry's 75 per cent of ca pacity operations, mounting orders for automobiles, widespread resumption of corporation dividends and the retail trade boom are factors working strongly in the New Deal's favor at this witching hour. Democrats are serenely confident that in the undeniable presence of the best times the country has experienced since 1930, spendthrift charges against Mr. Roosevelt are not registering with the average voter.
Another Woodrow Wilson has broken into the headlines--not of the political news, but of the sporting pages. He is the newest star in the West Point foot ball firmament, having distinguished himself in Army's game with Columbia last Saturday. A sturdy young Texan. Cadet Wilson was sprung as a surprise by Coach Lieut. Gar Davidson. The grid iron Woodrow Wilson's forte is complet ing forward passes.
It has escaped general notice with what scrupulous care both President Roosevelt and Gov. Landon chose travel ing companions for their current respec tive swings around the circle. Four years ago Roosevelt was attended every where by the original members of the brain trust--Messrs. Moley, Berle. Tug well et al. This time the masterminding is being done by a trio of Democratic Senators--Pittman of Nevada, O'Ma honey of Wyoming and Wheeler of Mon tana. Landon, on his part, has re ligiously refrained from contaminating his electioneering entourage with Old Guardsmen and surrounded himself ex clusively with home-grown Kansas jour nalistic advisers. Both the Democratic and Republican nominees are hopeful that a watchful country has taken due notice that they're avoiding the kind of company that once aroused criticism and suspicion. w w A1 Smith may shortly have another reason for boycotting the New Deal. He may become a high-powered public utility magnate. Reports are current that soon after election the former Gov ernor will be named president of the Consolidated Edison Co., which supplies New York City with gas and electricity. Discussing the Smith bolt. Senator Joe Robinson has just declared that inde pendent voters are flocking to Roosevelt on a scale that outnumbers disaffected Democrats 100 to 1.
Rival Democratic and Republican gold diggers are in an amusing contro versy over why the G. O. P. cupboard is bar* Chairman Hamilton says rich people are afraid to contribute to the Landon war chest out of fear of reprisals in the form of senatorial inquisition. Democratic Treasurer W. Forbes Mor gan opines that the elephant is under nourished because potent contributors are sure Roosevelt la going to be re elected and see no use in squandering money on a lost cause. (Ceprrishb 1984.) Memories. From th» blimuM Oiwltt. The oldest inhabitant now is the fellow who remembers when the town's filling stations had but one pump apiece. Aspirants. From the Fittoburih Feit-Gasett*. Every candidate for minor office hopes he can pull the head of the ticket through to a triumphant finish. r ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. A reader cart get the answer to any question of fact by writing The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Please Inclose stamp for reply. m. Q. What are the "don'ts" about matches listed by the National Board of Fire Underwriters?--E. C. W. A. Don't throw away a match Until every spark is out. Do not cany matches loose. Do not allow them to remain within reach of children. Do not leave them in uncovered boxes. Do not strike them toward you. Q. Is Yom Kippur a Jewish anniver sary?--J. B. A. This day of atonement concludes the 10 days of penitence begun with the Jewish New Year. This holy day is not founded upon an historical incident. Q. Does the play, ''The White Horse Inn," take its name from a real place? -G. 8 A. The White Horse Inn is an au thentic hotel in the Austrian Alps, situ ated on Wolfgang Lake, about 12 miles from Salzburg. 0 Q. What are the elements in saliva? --N. E. H. A. Saliva is made of mucin, which makes it thick; ptyalin, which changes starch to sugar; maltase, which is a digested sugar; small quantities of pro tein, carbon dioxide and several inor ganic salts. Sixty-five one-hundredths of a pound of saliva would consist of carbon dioxide. Nearly half of the carbon dioxide is combined to make va rious forms of carbonates. inn e\f fVta f Ai»Acf area r* "r-- j of this country is under the Forest Service?--W. c. j A. Only 60 per cent of the total forest area of the Nation is under the Forest Service. Q. Who first used the word •'belles lettres"?--W. 8. A. The term appears to have been first used in English by Swift in 1710. Q. How old is Haskell Institute?--G. R. A. This vocational school for Indians at Lawrence, Kans., was founded in 1883. It is maintained by the Government. Q. Where does the widow of Joyce Kilmer, the poet, live?--E. J. A. Aline Kilmer's home is at Stillwater, N. J. Q. Where was the first carpet fac tory located in the United States?--H. J. A. The first carpet factory in America began operation in 1791 at Philadelphia. Q Are there any glass office buildings in this country?--H. F. S. A. One is to be erected soon in New York City at the southwest corner of Fifth avenue and Fifty-sixth street. It will be five stories high, of fireproof construction, with exterior walls con sisting of great screens of glass con struction units framed in Indiana lime stone. The glass units are made of the same heat-resisting glass used in the 200-inch telescope and in the manu facture of ovenware. Q. Where is Pichola?--M. W. W. A. It is a small lake near Udaipur in Central West India. Each of two small islands In the lake is inclosed by marble walls, within which is erected a marble palace. These were built by rulers of Rajputana. Q Who was called the Moliere of painting?--E. J. A. William Hogarth (1697-1764), Eng lish painter and engraver, was so called. Q. Where in Tennessee is the "tree j with a handle"?--J. D. S. A. It is near Madisonville, Tenn. A small limb of this tree, by some freak, has practically completed a circle and grown back through the trunk. Q. What is the meaning of the word "Turk"?--C. L. A. In the Turkish language, Turk means a rustic or clown. Q. Has the South Magnetic Pole been reached?--E. H. A. It has not yet been reached. The nearest approach was made by Ross, r February 16, 1841. The British expedi tion under Capt. Scott on the Discovery, 1902-1904, reported the probable position of the Magnetic South Pole to be 72 degrees 50 minutes S.t 156 degrees 20 minutes E. Q. How many Negroes attend college? --E. w. A. Approximately 25.000 Negro stu dents are in college and more than 2,000 receive degrees each year. Q What was the first picture directed by Dorothy Arzner?--H. M. K. A. Her first picture was "Fashions for Women," starring Esther Ralston. Q. Is the Atlantic Ocean rich In min erals?-- E. L. R. A. The Ethyl-Dow Chemical Co. at Kure Beach, near Wilmington, N. C., took from one square mile of the Atlantic Ocean, 76 feet deep, a potential treasure i of $73,094,600 during the past year. Analysis of the sea water showed that it contained gold, silver, copper and other minerals. Only a part of its potential wealth was recovered by the company in the form of bromine, which is used in gasoline. Q. Was Lord Byron buried in West- minster Abbey?--F. M. R. A. The poet was buried in the family vault at Hucknall. Nottinghamshire, hot far from Newstead Abbey, his home. The Tramp's Limit. Prom the St. Joseph News-Press. Even a tramp may admire pictures, but he invariably draws a line at wood cuts. A Rhyme at Twilight By Gertrude Brooke Hamilton Changeful Eyes. How wonderful they are--enchanting eyes Where bright daylight and dusky shadow vies. Within their depths the charm of the twilight, The joy of day and sorrow of the night. Deep wells of love offset by cool disdain, j Tragic as storm and sweet as Summer rain. They hold a quality hard to forget. Anticipation mingled with regret. Great power for good or ill within them lies. God help the owner of such witching eyes! i