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SEEN and HEARD' around the 3 NATIONAL CAPITAL* 'By Carter Field ^ FAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT Washington. — Time was when such maneuvers as have virtually insured the election of Represent ative Sam Rayburn of Texas as Democratic floor leader of the house of representatives, thus putting him in line for the speakership, if and when, would have brought a storm of protest from the Democratic press in most sections of the coun try. In the North and West, espe cially, there would have been talk of "Southern domination,” and there would be bitter inquiries as to what was the motive of the Penn sylvania Democracy in deserting the North and East and voting with the South. But now almost all the excite ment is right under the Capitol dome. The country doesn’t care much, it would seem, whether the gentleman who directs the floor ac tivities of the overwhelming Demo cratic majority comes from Hono lulu or Key West One way to look at it is to as sume that the "era of good feeling” of which President Roosevelt him self talked so much, to friend.i, right after election is here. But that would scarcely explain the lack of sectional feeling—that is, not al together. The real reason is that the av erage man who voted for Roosevelt, Just cannot be made to believe that there is much interest for him in who is Democratic floor leader. It is always difficult to interest the people at large in a particular move because that move later on will mean something. For example, when the newspa pers record that a man has been elected outer doorkeeper of a big national organization, they have to strain a point and explain why this is important — that it means ten years from now, or some such mat ter, that the man just made outer doorkeeper, if he lives, will be the supreme dragon's tail twister or whatever the head of the particular national order in question is. Not Interested But for that matter people never have been very much interested in who was nominated for Vice Presi dent—or indeed who is Vice Presi dent. It's a small minority which manifests any real interest in these first steps, significant though they may be. Which might Just be a tip for the Daughters of the American Revo lution, if the time should ever come when that organization would like to keep its bickerings oft the front pages of the newspapers. By se lecting its presidents-general ten years in advance, and calling them by some very humble title, they will find interest on the part of report ers and photographers subsiding amazingly. But in the main the folks are right in not being much interested in who is selected as Democratic floor leader. Until there is some decided change in the present situ ation nothing will make much dif ference. Until we see how the future line-ups in political divisions in this country are moving there is no way to fight very intelligently at the moment to lay any founda tions. The situation still remains that it is almost idle to think of new line ups until there is some cleavage in the tremendous majority that elect ed Mr. Roosevelt. Until the cleavage comes there is not much signifi cance to anybody in whether a Tam many congressman or a Garner lieutenant from Texas is on the moving stairway leading to the speakership of the house. Stirs Diplomats Ruth Bryan Owen is responsible for the new order that has occa sioned so much turmoil in the dip lomatic service, forbidding Ameri can diplomats to marry foreign ers. The soft pedal was put on at the time, but when it was announced that William Jennings Bryan’s daughter was to marry not only a foreigner, but a really important personage in Denmark, the country to which she was minister, and when no word for a long time came from her as to any intention of resigning, there was plenty of ex citement in the State department. The excitement was due to lack of sureness as to whether the de partment could have its own way in her case. Had she been a career diplomat, it would have been sim ple enough, but she was a political appointee, and political appointees are not subject to the same pressure as persons who have attained their jobs by experience and ability. The career diplomat holds his job, theoretically at least, because he is valuable. The political appointee bolds his job because he has been valuable to a political party. When a political appointee turns out tc be of real use to the State depart ment, as verj many have, it is just velvet. When he turns out to be nol only of no particular value, but a positive cause of trouble, as alsc many have, it’s usually just too bad. Little can be done about it. His lack of success in the diplomatic field has not impaired the strength that won him the ap pointment in the first place. Mri. Owen's Case Now in the case of Mrs. Owen, high officials in the State depart- j ment were in a quandary. They felt very strongly that her usefulness was ended. Wise old heads at dip lomatic intrigue were under no U- j lusions. They did not believe they ; could have trusted their minister to Denmark after that with any bit of; information which they wished to . withhold from the Danish govern ment. But there was nothing they could ' do about it Had they attempted any drastic action they would have run head-on into a very strong lobby on Capitol hill—that of the Wom en’s party. This belligerent group of battlers for woman's rights has been disconsolate for a long time now because there is nothing of a sufficiently spectacular nature for it to fight for. It would have seized upon this issue, and the State de partment folks knew it. Especially as the Women’s party had been so active in fighting for the law now on the books which preserves the American nationality of an Ameri can woman who marries a foreign er. So an attempt to fire Mrs. Owen on rules would have been right down their alley. It was necessary therefore that the utmost tact be used in per suading Mrs. Owen to resign, ap parently voluntarily. The present point is that the State department does not want to go through any such experience again. It does not want to take the risks. Next time the pressure might not workl Next time the President may not agree with the State depart ment’s logic! Hence the rule, which of course is not apparently aimed at women at all. Nor is it, in fact, for the old heads at the State department are just as much concerned about their gay young bachelors in foreign posts who might marry women close in the counsels of some for eign power! A Postal Worry One of the things bothering postal officials Is that congress imposed a mandate that air-mail expendi tures must be brought down to air mail receipts. The trouble now is that while air • mail revenues in creased by about $3,000,000 over the previous year, the deficit also mounted to a slightly greater ex tent, so that it is now a little more than $3,000,000. Several policies are under con sideration, but there is considerable reluctance to put any of them into effect. To begin with, no one is sure just how any or them would work out in actual practice. It is com parable with a railroad freight or passenger increase, the problem al ways being whether enough busi ness would be deterred by the high er rate to prevent the change re sulting in a net increase. Then there are advocates of re ducing the charges, thus hoping to increase the volume of business suf- j flciently to more than make up the difference and turn a deficit into a surplus. Much that sort of thing hap pened, it will be recalled, when the eastern railroads cut their passen ger fares, though there is plenty of controversy over whether such roads as the Pennsylvania and New York Central would not be better off to day, financially, if the cut had not been made. Most of the postal authorities be lieve that a reduction in charges would be better business than an increuse. They are advocating a five-cent charge on an air-mail let ter instead of the present six-cent charge. They believe that more air mail letters would be sent if the additional charge over an ordinary mail letter were only two cents. Airmail Postage Many individual letter writers, they point out, would not bother to save the one cent, but, to save trouble, would affix two three-cent stamps. Against this, opponents of the change say that the vast major ity of air-mail letters are sent by business concerns and that these concerns would not permit such carelessness, but would have a sup ply of five-cent stamps always on hand. Also, even individuals, those on this side contend, usually are sup plied with two-cent stamps for lo cal use as well as three-cent stamps, so that the five-cent charge for an air - mail letter would not catch many extra pennies. The real question is whether busi ness concerns would use the air mail more if the rate were reduced one penny. On this it is obvious that the present inclination of the department is to make no change, on the theory that air mail is used by business concerns only where there is a real advantage in speed, and that very rarely in such cases would the additional one-cent cost of the six-cent charge be important enough to determine the use of the slower service. (£} Bell Syndicate.— »VNU Service. Archibald Memorial Fountain, Syd-.iey Prm>ar«1 by National Ooitraphle Society. WeahlnKton, U. C.—MSB Service. A MAGNIFICENT panorama is Sydney, capital city of New South Wales, Australia. Trade cubes and tall apart ments crown the ridges overlooking the bay. There are no Manhattan like cloud piercers, however, for Sydney has limited her skyward growth to 150 feet, yet position gives impressiveness. Homes sprawl over promontories and spill down the hillsides to the water's edge—a harbor-girdling band of red tiled roofs and flowering gardens. And the harbor! ‘‘Our harbor” Syndeysiders proudly call it, al though on maps it appears under the prosaic name that Captain Cook gave it—Port Jackson. Its multiple arms and innumerable bays and coves loop and snuggle among the hills—intimate, lovely, utilitarian. From an airplane cockpit this water maze is even more striking than from steamer deck. Its com pass is 22 square miles, but so ir regular is its pattern that one would have to walk or sail nearly 200 miles to go around its shores. No other harbor is more mingled with the city to provide play space and a haven for the world’s rich ar gosies. Sleek ocean steamers, rusty freighters, crowded double-decked ferries, speedboats, fussy tugs, and trim, billowly-sailed yachts carve frothy white paths on its ultrama rine surface. Commerce also throbs beside several of the bays at engi neering works, dockyards, wheat si los, ship-coaling yards, and some 14 miles of wharfage space. Harbor Bridge Is Colossal Like a rainbow over the port is the mighty arch of Sydney Harbor bridge. At the time it was opened to traffic, in 1932, forty million fares annually were being collected on cross-harbor ferries. A constant stream of motor, train, tram, and pedestrian traffic now crosses the 160-foot-wide roadway hanging high in the air from the 1,650-foot span, which at its highest point loops 440 feet above water level. jui momentary note in tnis swutiy changing age of the world’s “great est” engineering triumphs is the fact that Sydney Harbor bridge is the longest and widest arch-suspen sion-type structure that man has yet attempted. Oceanic steamers tie up at Cir cular quay in the shadow of this colossus of steel and stone. The genesis of trim Circular quay was Sydney Cove, where the city was born in January, 1788. The American Revolution, only a few years before, had denied to England a place for her “undesir able” subjects. So to this nook, in “the finest harbour in the world in which a thousand sail in line might ride in most perfect security,” came Capt. Arthur Phillip of the English navy when Captain Cook’s much publicized Botany bay had been found unsuitable for habita tion. His little fleet of 11 ships bore 778 prisoners, together with officers and marine guards. It should be recalled that “con victs” of that period included many minor offenders and those who fell into political disfavor. Beginning of the City Here Captain Phillip became governor and superintended the carving out of a small settlement beside a “stream which stole silent ly through a very thick wood.” Would that he might stand at the water front today and look up the commercial canyons and at the ships moving in and out of port! Much more would be the awe of some of the less visionary officers who wrote reports back to the homeland, stating that the colony couldn’t even be self-supporting in a hundred years! Here is a city where the goodly governor and the officers now may issue dinner invi tations without the request, “Bring your own bread!” Phillip himself visualized his set tlement developing with streets 200 feet wide but his ideas were ignored and the city expanded without any definite plan. Other governors came and went, contributing little or much to Syd ney. Notable among them was Gov ernor Macquarie, the "building gov ernor,” vvho held the reins from 1809 to 1822. Assisting him in his comprehen sive building scheme was Francis Howard Greenway, a convict, who became the official architect with Lhe munificent salary of three shill ings a day. Greenwa^'s labors en lured, as attested by St. James' church, the Conservatorium of Mu sic (designed as Government House stables), and other structures still doing service. One commissioner from England, however, complained that the 75 cents-a-day architect was making “too great a sacrifice of time and labour to the purpose of ornament and effect!” In 1851 came a gold strike in New South Wales. A rush was on. From all over the world arrived seekers after fortunes, as in the California rush of ’49. As in our West, many of the diggers later became settlers. More men, more wealth, and more trade boomed Australia. So, too, did Sydney grow. A City in Transition Today old buildings are being de molished to make way for new; riv eters beat a tattoo on gaunt steel skeletons of tomorrow’s new shops and offices; a pathway is being mowed through two blocks to ex tend another thoroughfare. It is a city in transition. Sleek modern buildings of concrete and polished stone surround but do not engulf a Renaissance town hall, a Byzantine market, fine Gothic churches, a Tudor castle govern ment house, and an Ionic art gal lery. The florid Victorian appear ance, however, is rapidly disappear ing. Neon lights proclaim night clubs, theaters, and motion-picture “pal aces.” Last year Sydney played to crowded houses its first all-Aus tralian musical comedy. Libretto, lyrics, and lines were from Austra lian pens; beaches and the Blue mountains were its locale. American institutions have touched the city. Milk bars, or soda fountains, fruit-juice stalls, and light-lunch restaurants have be come popular. But a drug store is still a “chemist shop,” where only drugs are dispensed, and one buys cigarettes from a tobacconist. One large department store has devoted extensive floor space to a restaurant, where more than 6,000 luncheons are served every busi ness day, besides providing special cafeterias and dining rooms for its 4,000 employes. Throughout the sub urban districts, gasoline stations (petrol pumps) have sprung up. One even rejoices in the name of “Ye Auto Drive Inn.” Sydney’s streets in the down-town business section are becoming pain fully cramped for the heavy traf fic that surges through them. Great Wool Sales The Royal Exchange is the larg est wool selling center in the world, having displaced London, which held that position for many years. More than a million bales of the golden fleece are auctioned oil ev ery year. In addition, there are salesrooms for tallow, hides, sheep skins, and other pastoral products. A wool sale is a fascinating thing to watch. Foreign buyers, Austra lian milling groups, and local wool scourers fill the amphitheater on each sale day. Catalogues are pro vided. in which are numbered and classified the different lots to be sold. The wool is previously put on display for inspection at local brok ers’ show stores, so that the selling is done only by number. At the auctioneer’s call for bids two dozen men may jump to their feet, barking figures and signaling with their hands. On Saturday afternoons the har bor and Sydney’s flying squadron attract doctor, lawyer, business ex- i ecutive, bus driver, dock hand, and shop clerk. Some devotees are in sweaters and shorts, hauling at sails; others are in flannels, watching from the decks of trim motor craft; hundreds line the rails of special ferries that follow the race; the mid-harbor is lands and foreshores along the course are vantage points for still t> thers. Like a flock of white winging gulls, the competing craft tack and skim over the water. With all can vas piled on in a fresh nor’easter, it is a beautiful sight. During the long summer season thousands of the city’s sun worship ers resort to the beaches and swim ming pools. Nature has provided Australia with 11.000 miles of coast line, along which are innumerable golden-sanded beaches. Around the harbor and along Pacific-laved coast in the immediate vicinity of Sydney there are twenty beaches to choose from. At two of these beaches, Bondi and Bronte, 19,000,000 annually — counting repeaters—go to “shoot the breakers’’ and frolic on the dazzling sands. A hardy, bronzed lot they are, these brilliantly suited children of the sun. Cool Days Best for Hog-Killing Choose Temperature of 28 to 40 Degrees, Advises an Expert. By R. E. Nance. Professor of Animal Husbandry. North Carolina State College.-—WNU Service. The best time for killing hogs on a farm is a cool, dry afternoon, not the coldest day in mid-winter. On a bitter cold day the job is too disagreeable and there is danger of the meat freezing on the outside before the animal heat escapes from around the bone. Ideal butch ering weather is in a temperature of 28 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Keep hogs off feed for 24 hours before slaughtering, but give them plenty of fresh water. After they have been killed, scald them in water heated to a temperature of 150 degrees. If you don’t have a thermometer, dip your finger into the water. If it burns badly the first time, it is too hot. If you can dip your finger in and out more than three times in rapid succession, the water is too cold. A barrel may be used to scald one or two hogs, but where more than two are to be dressed, a vat is much more satisfactory. A small table should be provided, in either case, for picking and scraping the hogs. It should be 12 to 18 inches high and three or four feet wide. After hogs are scalded and scraped, the carcasses should be split down the center of the back bone and the leaf fat loosened from the lower end of the ribs. Hang them in the smoke house to chill over night, but be sure the meat does not freeze. The next morning, after all ani mal heat has dissipated, make the various cuts as neat and smooth as possible. Trim each piece closely, as ragged edges and too much fat lower the value of the cured prod uct and also provide a hiding place for meat insects. Grease Heel Found With Poorly Cared-For Horses Grease heel is most often found with horses which have thick, coarse legs and are kept in dirty, damp, dark stables, or made to wade frequently in muddy, stagnant ponds. In a few cases the trouble appears with horses not kept under such conditions. For treatment it is necessary to clip all the hair from the infected areas and wash the leg with soap and water containing washing soda or bicarbonate of soda. After the leg has been dried, it should be soaked in a strong solution of an astringent antiseptic, such as 3 ounces each of copper sulphate, alum and zinc sulphate to each gal lon of water. The infected patches should be thoroughly soaked with the solution. Thereafter the leg should be dressed daily with the so lution made up at one-half the strength as given. In most instances it is best to remove all wart-like structures found on the diseased spots.—Indiana Farmer's Guide. When Buying a Horse When buying a horse, it is com mon for farmers to give more at tention to the teeth than any other part of the animal for signs of age, condition, etc., and while this cer tainly is important, equally as much can be learned by examining the eye. To a close observer, the eye not only will disclose the approxi mate age of a horse, but also its disposition, and a good disposition is important if one wants a reliable farm work horse. — Missouri Farmer. Phosphorus in Soil A medium amount of available phosphorus in the soil is sufficient for good yields of alfalfa, clovers, and all grain crops. If the amount of available phosphorus is high, 75 pounds per acre, near the surface, it will be sufficient for high yields of alfalfa, clover, and all grain crops. Surface soil with a high or medium amount of phosphorus does not need an application of phosphate for ordinary farm crops. Agricultural Notes All available vegetables should be stored for winter use. * • • Barley needs to be ground, crushed or rolled for all stock ex cept sheep. • • • More than 15.000 miles of terraces have been built by farmers in soil conservation demonstration areas in 41 states. • • • Best time to wean pigs is at ten weeks of age, says the bureau of animal industry of the federal De partment of Agriculture. • » • No definite trend upward or down ward has been noted in cabbage acreage in New York state during the past fifteen years. • • * Honey bees survive the winter better if dark combs are placed in the center of the brood chamber and white combs are placed on the out side. • • • Ventilation of corn cribs by natur al means is the most practical meth od for farmers to adopt to insure a better quality com, says the col lege of agriculture, University of Illinois. --—- —-—I \ Making a Choice— ( ♦ Independence and Loneliness or Dependence With Ties of Affection 'T'O MOST persons there comes sometime in their lives the opportunity for a choice between independence and loneliness or ties and affection. The wise mature person thinks long before choosing the former above the latter. There are many young people, however, who feel so sure of themselves and their ability to “get along all right” that they are irked by the least restraint. They throw it off, only to discover later in life that affection is worth the curtail ing restraint and dependence en tailed. Companionship has been their portion up to the time of their decision that dependence is what they must have, at any cost. They have no idea of what lone liness means. Separation. The adult who is separated from his family because of distance, domestic estrangement, or who has outlived the other members, realizes to the full what it means to be alone. It is when estrange ment causes the separation that there are times when the alone ness is bearable or agreeable, but these times are interrupted by hours when the feeling of loneli ness creeps over him (or her), and companionship, though with :qCIJ/2Q By i Mrs. Herbert Hoover Spoon Bread 1 cupful of cornmeal, either white or yellow 1 cupful of sweet milk 2 cupfuls boiling water 1 or 2 eggs Butter size of a walnut 1 teaspoonful of salt Put the meal in a saucepan and pour the boiling water on it. Add the salt and butter while cooking. Cook this for five minutes and stir constantly. Remove from stove and add, stirring the mix ture, the milk and the eggs (which should have been well beaten). Bake in moderate oven for 30 min utes. Use shallow pans. The addi tion of rice—about two tablespoon fuls—will greatly improve this bread. Copyright.—WNU Service. Hate and Pity There is this difference between hatred and pity: pity is a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing felt, seldom avowed. —Colton. SOOTHING TO TIRED EYES Modern living puts such a strain on the eyes that more and more people are finding Murine as necessary as a dentifrice in their morning and evening toilet routine. Murine gently and {ileasantly relieves irritation, washes away the nvisible dust, gives amazing comfort when eyes are watery and inflamed by a cold. Murine is a physician's formula containing 7 ingredients of proven value in proper care of the eyes. In use tor 4U years. Today—get Muriue at your drug store. but a small degree of affection, is craved. Individuality. Human nature is so constituted that people cannot live in the same atmosphere and always see eye to eye. There is wisdom in this plan. Individuality would be quelled if what any person thought (how ever beloved) could always be accepted without dissent by those around him (or her). Nor can ac tions of even those dear to us, in variably meet with our approval, whether expressed or unex pressed. It is when we learn to permit personal differences without cen sure that companionship, in the home or out of it, develops best. Even when children are young, they must be allowed a modicum of such freedom or when older they will long to break away, and if they do then there is loneliness in store for the youth, and sadness left in the home. Divorce. Married couples, when they con template divorce, have the choice between independence plus lone liness, or dependence, each on the other with affection restored, or remaining less than could be desired. It may be there is incom patability, but it should be re membered that no two persons, married or single, can live to gether under the same roof and always be congenial. However, this does not signify that at heart affection is gone. Separation means loneliness for one or both of them. 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