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NATIONAL CAPITAL!
By Carter Field %
*fAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT ^
Washington.—In the prize ring
and in war, experts agree that It is
a splendid quality not to know when
you are licked. Because there is al
ways the possibility thut something
may happen to reverse the apparent.
So perhaps a good deal of credit
should he given the administration
leaders on Capitol hill for the eurn
estness with which they push on to
new legislative achievements, re
gardless of the clearly printed road
signs saying the roa<l Is closed
ahead on account of the constitu
tional bridge being washed out.
Consider the sugar bill, for exam
ple. Administration leaders de
clared they would push through the
bill continuing quotas for domestic
production. They admit that there
may be some little doubt as to the
power of the federal government to
do this, especially in view of the
AAA decision, not to mention the
GufTey decision.
It’s a little bit humorous, how
ever, when one considers wiiat Is
happening out In the country. For
instance, the big cone sugar produc
ing state, I^oulslana. Is assigned n
quota under the system that the
legislators are about to continue,
without the Supreme court’s bless
ing, of 200,000 tons.
Present estimates of the Loui
siana cane sugar crop, with due al
lowances for weather and other
possibilities, run around BOO,000
tons.
So the question arises, how will
the government Induce the cane
planters of the Creole slate to plow
under nearly one half of their acre
age, and not take the matter to
court? For it Is admitted that any
court would grant an Immediate in
junction restraining the Depart
ment of Agriculture from using any
element of force. And It Is equally
clear that anyone Interested could
bring a suit to prevent payments
under the old benefit check system.
Soil Erosion
There remains soli erosion, of
course, but every one admits that
the administration would not be
willing to risk the constitutionality
of Its concededly ticklish soil ero
sion program In such a case. To
accomplish anything like the reduc
tion necessary to get Louisiana
down to her quotn would require
such drastic handling that no seri
ous contention that soil erosion was
the main objective could possibly
hold.
It’s just one of those curious
things, on all fours with the enact
ment of the Guffey coal law In the
first place, when everybody and Ids
brother knew It would be thrown
out the window by the high court.
And on all fours with the present
desire of Senator Joseph F. Guffey
and others to enact a substitute for
the Guffey law.
They persist In this despite the
carefully considered opinions of
such politically astute gentlemen as
Senator J Hamilton Lewis that
there Is neither the opening cor the
time for such n measure before ad
journment. And In the face of a
view from a very different wing of
the party—Its most radical wing—
of Senator Burton K. Wheeler that
it should not be attempted at this
session.
Meanwhile the United Mine
Workers are not hnlf so unhappy us
they make out. They see the pros
pect of making a few fights In the
very territory where they are weak
est.
And Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins expresses a pious hope for
new labor provisions In the revised
Guffey bill to come!
Silver Buying Policy
Despite the clamor of unofficial
"Brain Trusters," economists, etc,,
about the absurdity of the present
silver buying policy, nothing is go
ing to be done about it. The pres
ent silver buying policy will be con
tinued, even the paying of a bonus
of something in excess of 30 cents
an ounce for all newly mined sliver
In the United States.
Mo one really thinks the subsidy
to mine owners producing silver is
really either very beneficial or very
harmful. The point Is that there
are almost no mines In the United
States that produce Just silver only.
In virtually every Instance silver Is
a by-product and ^ comparatively
small by-product. Normally the main
products of such mines are lead,
zinc and copper. It so happens that
ever since the depression began
there has been an overproduction of
all three of these metals, lienee
It Is believed by mining experts that
the bonus paid on newly mined sil
ver has not done any barm or any
good in stimulating silver produc
tion in the United States. Nor Is
It contended that there has been
much cheating. The government
has been extremely rigorous In its
inspections, and officials do not
believe that much foreign produced
sliver has been sneaked under the
wire to take advantage of the high
American price.
One criticism of this bonus on
newly mined silver Is that it is a
waste of money. In the face of ter
rific federal expenditures In almost
every conceivable direction, the
cost to the federal treasury of this
particular policy sinks Into Insig
nificance.
China Protests
In the early days of the silver
buying program Dnited States treas
ury buying had a very unsettled ef
fect on conditions all over the world.
The world price was boosted about
40 cents an ounce. It was practi
cally doubled. Another very heavy
loss was tnken by the treasury here
because the average price paid wag
considerably above 50 cents an ounce
—the price at which all domestic
sliver, already mined, was com
mandeered. Whereas the present
world price of silver Is around 40
to 47 cents, with every prospect that
It will not rise materially above that.
There were other repercussions.
China protested bitterly against the
unsettling physical scheme and the
disorganisation of her International
trade resulting from it. Eventually
she was driven off the silver stand
ard by It. The recent agreement on
the part of the United States to buy
large amounts of Chinese silver Is
one of the after effects. Inciden
tally the treasury Is as secretive
,nbout the amounts of Chinese silver
4that It Intends to purchase under
this agreement ns It has been about
the use of the two-billlon-dollar sta
bilization fund.
The reason there Is not going to
be any change In the sliver policy—
certainly until after election — la
that two small minority groups In
this country are enormously In favor
of it. One of these Is the silver
mining group which now benefits
from the subsidy. The mine owners
of course divide this bonus among
themselves. The mine workers think
thnt It helps to keep them employed.
The other group Is for the silver
policy because It believes In Infla
tion. Falling to get printing-press
money through the Frazler-Lemke
bill or nny other device, those bold
ing this view like the silver policy
on the theory that half a loaf Is bet
ter than no bread.
These two groups feel so violently
on this Issue that a change on this
one thing would probably make them
vote against Roosevelt. The major
ity, who think the policy crazy, will
vote for or against Roosevelt for
other reasons.
Resettlement Coats
Full Information ou how much It
costs Dr. Rexford Tugwell’s Resettle
meat administration to do Its reset
tling became available for the first
time recently, Imbedded In the hear
ings of the senate appropriations
committee on the deficiency bill.
Resettlement's top Is $20,250 a
family, reached la a prairie paradise
for lit families at Sioux Falls, S. D.
The final bill was $270,000.
This project was described by
Doctor Tugwell as financially "un
successful.”
The outside per family cost for a
successful project uppears to be
$11,040, since thut much is to be al
lowed lu a project which the Tug
well organization Is contemplating
ut Osage Farms, Mo.
Among the other projects being
"planned. Just being started, or under
construction,” there were listed three
more whose per family cost was
above $10,(HK), and five for which the
treasury will pay out anywhere from
$7,270 a family to $0,500. Tugwell
said the average cost per family
was onlv $5,000.
Civil Service for Bureaus
The civil service commission anil
Senator George W. Norris, Repub
lican, of Nebraska, recently urged
the President to bring the emer
gency bureaus under civil service
regulations. Norris even warned the
President that Ids failure to hult the
spoils system would cost him a mil
lion votes.
At the same time, a last minute
drive Is under way to secure enact
ment by congress of the bill plac
ing first, second and third class post
masters under civil service.
Since some of these new govern
ment activities have come to be re
garded ns permanent adjuncts of
the federal machinery, advocates
of the civil service reform have re
doubled their demands thut the Jobs
be tilled on the merit system.
While the majority of present oc
cupants of Jobs automatically will
be retained under the new regula
tions, future vacancies will be tilled
only on the basis of competitive ex
aminations.
Besides fitting Into the announced
views on the subject of public em
ployment, the shifting of the new
bureau* to civil service Is counted on
by the administration to offset criti
cism on that score.
WNU Service.
Optician on Ship
The sailor was recounting his ex
periences to a dear old lady:
Old Lady—But what rank did
you hold?
Sailor—Ship’s optician, lady.
Old Lady—Ship’s optician? 1 nev
er knew there was such a rank in
the navy. What did your duties con
sist of?
Sailor—Scraping the eyes out of
the potatoes, lady.
At the End of an English Sylvan Path.
I
Prepared by National Geographic Society,
Washington, D. C.— WNU Service.
IF ANYONE wunts to know the
English countryside, let lilm go
house hunting. On such a quest
he will discover Nnture's cozy-cor
ners thnt casuals never find. They
are everywhere, hut as Ingeniously
concealed as a bird's nest. There
may even be a sign which says, "I lon
gerons narrow road. Enter at your
own risk.” Hut that Is Just the kind
of place to Insist upon penetrating.
Enter on foot If you are afraid,
but the ear can squeeze In. You find
yourself In one of those Incompara
ble roads like tunnels of living
green. Earthen hanks of Ivy and
wild flowers rise ten feet high to he
topped by tall trees sprung from
the orlglnnl hedge planted a hun
dred years ago. The rond keeps you
guessing by innklng such curves
that there Is no penetrating the se
cret of what lies ahead.
All at once a gate. Within, a hit
of woodland, flower-brightened; be
yond that, a sunny garden, moldy
mossy walls, lattice windows, creep
ers all abloom and reaching to the
roof tiles, which are toned from
dull reil to gentle green by two cen
turies of soft rains and sun.
Who would not penetrate the wood
to gaze closer—especially when
armed with a handful of permits
from a real estate firm? You pass
through the hit of flowered wood
land gay with yellow primrose
patches and massed bluebells. Hut
on emerging from the screening
trees and seeing the open garden
lying In the sun and the house form
ing a part of It, you gasp and halt.
This Is the house of your dreams.
A servant appears and explains
that the house Is to-be-let and Is at
your service; the lease Is for slxty
flve years! Exclamation marks rat
tle about In your head
Peculiar Rental Customs.
You select another house which
you consider a perfect gem, only to
he told that it Is not available for
“Instant possession." The present
tenant has the place for four years
longer.
These, and other interesting rent
al customs you may lenrn In Eng
lish real-estate offices. Mayfair Is
full of fascinating real-estate offi
ces, most of them seeming like pri
vate homes, with their open fires.
Chippendale chairs, and bookcase
desks.
"Mr. Upperton and Partners Is
the diverting and reticent sign over
the door of one of these. Lovely way
of expressing it; Upperton, Stoggs.
Chair and .Tones Is outdone by the
dignity of "and Partners.”
Any of these gentlemen can teach
the eager American client new uses
of English words and phrases In
real-estate Jargon, whether or not
he offers the Ideal ancient house and
romantic garden. And It Is here that
you learn that the rent of unfur
nished houses Is denoted In pounds
sterling, while the furnished house
smartly demands guineas—an extra
shilling on each pound.
You also learu that company’s
wnter "laid on” merely means that
domestic water flows from taps In
stead of being pumped up from well
or cistern. Indeed, one must not
visibly shudder to learn that for
200 years houses have been occu
pied by gentry, modern smart peo
ple among them, who have had no
running water, no lights except
kerosene lamps, no telephones. In
credible! Without the tireless Eng
lish servant, the English gentry
must have died out for lack of com
forts.
One of the Partners may ask you
strange-sounding questions.
"Are you prepared to pay dila
pidations?"
That is disconcerting.
"But 1 don’t want a house that is
actually In a stute of decay."
The Partner patiently explains
that any sort of damage or break
age must be restored by the tenant.
Your bill for dilapidations may be
only four shilling, about one dollar,
I for a flower holder. Rut It often
happens that one must nssume the
dilapidations of the previous ten
ant, which may Include repairs and
decorations of Importance. So It Is
a word to excite suspicion.
What the American adventurous
spirit asks of England for the sum
mer Is a smallish house, even a cot
tage. Rut It must he under a style
name like Tudor, or more romantic
ally Elizabethan, or perhaps. Queen
Anne and the Georglnn, either late
or early.
Hunting a Country House.
The hunt for the Ideal takes on
the nspect of a tour. It Is possible
to get about by commodious omni
buses. They set you down on the
main roads, where local motor cars
with drivers can be hired.
Gradually you come to know the
districts not too far from London
where certain types of the Ideal
house have sprung from the soil.
It Is a requisite of the Ideal Eng
lish small house that it should look
ns If It had pushed Itself up from
Nature’s laboratory of the earth,
Just as the shrubs, flowers, and trees
have done. They ar<* close kin.
Districts not too far from Lon
don contain nn entrancing vnriety
of old styles. The house of carved
Interiors and scrolled gahles Is a
specialty of Kent; the thatched
roof hides beside the roads of Hamp
shire’s New Forest; the cottage
of light-gray stone makes glad the
villages of the Cotswolds; and the
Georglnn, or rather Eighteenth cen
tury houses, scatter tlielr elegant
lines In all parts of the land. Tim
ber and plaster houses tempt one
nlmost everywhere with their Tudor
charm.
Ton come to one of the richest
of all districts for those who hunt
the Ideal house when you arrive
at the hills of the Cotswolds. Grad
ually Its little stone houses catch
you In the spell of their beauty.
They spread themselves beside the
road, taking on almost human qual
ities. They lift their gables with
dignity; they spread their mullloned
windows with frankness. Their sym
metry seems of the highest art, yet
It Is said these lovely houses were
built by simple artisans. They took
the warm, light stone of the Innd,
and even the roof tiles are made
of It. All seems n pearly gray, and
on this Ideal color climb the bright
flowers of the garden.
Many Enticing Places.
You linger long and drift from
road to lane, 'from village to farm,
drinking In every detail of these
houses—the Tudor ornament over
the leaded windows, the lovely flat
arch of the front door, the beau
ties of the back of the house, the
flowers and a cunning use of shrubs
and creepers piling one thrilling
beauty upon another against the
light-gray stone.
In Sussex and Kent, hunt out the
old farms and the ancient houses
of villages. They have a beauty all
their own, with their bricks turned
to pink and softened brown. Many
have an end gable of stone fash
ioned In the grand curves which
fascinatingly recall the Walloons
who brought with them their own
traditions of art when driven to
England by religious persecutions.
Those curvilinear gables have, too,
a Spanish flavor, n late Renaissance
cnper of free-drawn curves. Fasci
nating interiors those Walloon cloth
weavers constructed to make the
homes of their exiles resemble those
they had left.
In Kent Is found that enticing
structure, the house of timber and
plaster, or timber and brick Ingeni
ously laid. It is eternally lovely, be
wllderingly fantastic. How did mod
est man fancy such a house easy to
build, and practical? The beams,
black and exposed, seem to repre
sent superhuman effort In the inter
est of beauty. The curved ones, the
purely ornamental ones, fascinate
the eye. The overhanging second
story is a fantastic denial of archi
tecture's law of the large base.
Gay Cotton Print Dress Easy to Make
and Sure to Please Sprightly Maiden
Pattern No. 1882-B
The time for gay little cotton
prints both for older sister and the
younger set is at hand, and nothing
could be simpler than this darling
dress—so easy to make—so comfort
able for nimble dears—nnd so smart
to wear.
The French bodice effect and but
toned panel are cunning details
which all little maidens love, espe
cially the flared skirt, because it pro
vides ample freedom for playtime.
Decorative features are hidden in the
contrasting collar trimmed with ruf
fled edging, and brief puff sleeves.
The material may be a printed per
cale, lawn linen or gingham. If It is
made in a plaid or checked gingham,
you can omit the ruffled edging from
the collar and make the collar of
plain white pique.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1S82-B is
available in sizes 2, 4, ti, 8, and 10.
Size 4 requires ITs yards of 35 inch
material plus % yard for contrast.
Send 15 cents for the pattern.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept., 307 \V, Adams
St., Chicago, ill.
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Man in the Sun Held Public
Interest Bark in Year 1815
History’s human side is curiously
disinterested in the Man in the Moon,
but a Man in the Sun earned a heap
of publicity in 1815, says the Mon
treal Herald. The phenomenon was
first seen in Europe, over Austria,
just before sunset. A man who ap
peared to be waving a small Hag was
emblazoned against the sinking sun,
and a whole country shuddered at
the omen.
The next day England saw the
manifestation, and America reported
having soph it in due course. But
America, naturally, had to he dif
ferent. They stnted that the man
way lying down, appeared to be
tired, and did not possess a flag.
But no one ever explained the Man
in the Sun. He was last seen over
West America. Quite a number of
people, of course, linked him up with
Napoleon.
BOYS! GIRLS!
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win valuable free prizes.—Adv.
True Poverty
The poorest man in the world Is
he who has nothing except money.
GRIEF OUR CREDITOR
When the world’s account Is
summed up, we shall find that we
owe more to Grief than we do to Joy,
and that Sorrow has been the veiled
angel of God to come to teach us
some of thp deepest lessons which
can be learnt by human students.
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Economically-minded housewives
will share the enthusiasm of W. C.
Coleman, Inventive genius, for his
new gas-maKing
stove which cooks
a meal for 2c or
less.
The new Cole
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the family cooking
at a cost below
that of coal, wood
or kerosenestoves,
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Mr. Coleman uses Everdur Metal
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In addition to providing every
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Readers of this paper wishing
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