ITH the Democrats in control of
the house and John Nance Gar-
ner of Texas elected and installed as
speaker, the Seventy-second congress
began (its work on
time, Representatives
celebrated thelr new
status In the lower
chamber with wild
cheering and “rebel”
yells. But the senate
was fittingly more se-
date and its first ses
sion was brief and
formal, Next day the
fireworks began In
that chamber with the
anticipated revolt of
the progressives
against the re-election of Senator
Moses of New Hampshire as president
pro tempore. They have never for-
given him for calling them “sons of
the wild jackass,” so they gave their
seven votes to Norris of Nebraska.
The Democrats voted solidly for Pitt-
man of Nevada but fell short of the
required forty-five votes by three, so
there was a deadlock that threat-
ened to last 2 long time,
The most interesting event in the
senate was the swearing in of Mrs.
Hattie Caraway of Arkansas to fill
the seat of her late husband. Intro-
duced by Senator Robinson, she took
the oath of office, signed the register
and quietly returned to her seat, al-
most In tears. Her associates all
gathered about to congratulate her,
but there was no galety in the affair
for the memory of her husband was
ever present, In all, sixteen new sen-
ators presented themselves to take
the oath, nearly all of them being first
term Democrats.
Nearly one hundred new members
of the house were installed, and so
many of them were
Democrats that Mr,
Garner won the §
speakership by the §
following vote: Gar-
ner 218; Snell, Repub.
lican, 207; Schneider
of Wisconsin, pro
gressive Republican,
5. Kvale of Minne
sota, the lone Farmer.
Laborite, voted for
Schneider. Of course
all the other officers
of the house are now
Democrats,
The first actual work In the house
was the adoption of new rules, so lib
eralized that it will no longer be easy
for bilis to be pigeonholed by the com-
mittees to which they have been re
ferred. Now 143 members can pro-
cure the discharge of a committee and
bring a bill to the floor for a vote.
This change was made especially for
the benefit of the proponents of mod-
ification of the dry laws, and the stage
was set for an early vote on some
of their bills, which will put the rep-
resentatives on record though there
is no hope yet for the passage of the
measures,
While congress was assembling and
going through the business of the first
day, the Communist “hunger masch-
ers” who had traveled to the Capital
by automobile and auto truck from va-
rious parts of the country besieged the
Capitol building and the White House
in vain efforts to lay their demands be-
fore the legisiators and the President.
They were rebuffed, fairly, gently, by
the police and other officials, and next
day started home, still discontented
and defiant,
Speaker J. N.
Garner
Mrs. Caraway
CONOMIES in the navy and army
which are urged by the President
were the objects of further attacks.
Early in the week President W. H.
Gardiner of the Navy league eame out
with a new assanlt on the administra-
tion policies In that respect, eriticiz-
ing a statement by Secretary Stimson,
hitting back at the Hammond com.
mittee, assalling the President for
slowing up cruiser construction and
calling on congress for an investiga.
tion of Mr. Hoover's financial policy
toward the navy.
Next, National Commander Stev-
ens of the American Legion conveyed
to the President the legion's demand
that he approve authorization of war-
ship construction necessary to bring
the American. fleet up to the maximum
tonnage limits of the London treaty.
The organization also asked congress
and the administration to rescind the
economies for the military establish-
ment and to renew for the army, Na-
ti gpard, R. O. T. C, and other
/7y/ activities the same sums ap-
ted for the current year,
Finally came the annual report of
Rear Admiral Frank B. Upham, chief
of the bureau of navigation, which
termed the administration polley of
reduction a severe blow to the na-
tional defense. Heo sald that history
shows that decreases in the navy
eventually result in expenditures
many times greater than the tempo-
rary savings.
Mr, Stevens of the American Leglon
also called personally at the White
House and told Mr, Hoover the legion
fense but also is in favor of submit-
ting to the people the matter of re-
peal or modification of the dry laws.
RESIDENT HOOVER on Tuesday
transmitted to congress his mes-
sage on the state of the Union, In
which he sketched the economic crisis
confronting the coun-
try, related in consid-
erable detail the
measures he has {nitl
ated to alleviate the
business depression
and unemployment
and recommended In
general terms legisla-
tion creating addl-
tional Iinstrumentall-
ties for the same pur-
pose and Increasing
taxes to meet a three
and a half billion dol-
lar deficit this year
and next.
Regular Republicans declared the
message represented constructive
statesmanship of a high order, while
Democrats and progressive Republl-
cans took It as a challenge, Generally,
it was accepted as the opening gun of
the 1932 campaign, There was much
comment on the fact that no mention
was made of prohibition,
On Wednesday Mr. Hoover sent In
Is budget message, containing the ad-
ministration’s program of taxation and
other measures of government financ-
ing. At the same time the annual re
port of Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon was made public. This called
for Increased rates on personal and
corporation Incomes, inheritances, to
bacco and capital stock sales.
New levies would be Imposed on
automobiles, radios, telephone, tele
graph and enble messages, amusement
ickets, checks and drafts and realty
sales. Postal charges would be boost-
ed. Exemptions from income taxes
would be lowered to include 1,700,000
new Individuals within the scope of
the federal levy.
The Democrats in congress immed)
ately began an attack on this
gram, saying they would soon
ready one of their own.
President
Hoover
pro-
have
HIRD In the list of Presidential
messages came the one on foreign
relations, which contained the request
that congress ralify the Hoover mor
atorium, More important than that
was the suggestion that the war debt
commission should be reconstituted
with power to reopen the debt settle
ments, Though Mr. Hoover reiterated
his disapproval of cancellation of the
war debts, such dction, or at least a
further reduction of the debts seemed,
to many congressmen, to be implicit
in his proposal. So many of them ob-
ject to either course that a long de
bate was In prospect.
APAN and China accepted the pro-
posal of the League of Nations
council for cessation of hostilities in
Manchuria, while a neutral commission
inquires into the facts, but both na-
tions made reservations that rendered
the agreement little more than a form
by means of which the council saves its
face,
Premier Wakatsuki's Japanese eabl-
net decided to resign because of dis
sensions, and it was thought & coalition
ministry would be formed with Inuwal,
leader of the Selyukal party, as
premier,
1S national soclalists or “Nazis”
now being In control of three
German states and constituting the
most powerful political party In the
country, Adolf Hitler
has been talking free
ly to correspondents
on his intentions.
3riefly, he proposes,
when his party 18 In-
vested with the gov-
erning power by way
of the ballot box, to
set up a dictatorship
on the Italian model;
to recognize and pay
to the fullest of Ger
many’'s ability all her
foreign debts con. Adolf Hitler
tracted in business and normal trans.
actions but to reject “political black-
mail”; to insist upon a new war debt
arrangement; and to destroy commu.
nism in Germany. He declares there
will be no Nazi march on Berlin, and
denies that he seeks the presidency.
Hitler's challenge to the government
brought awift response from Chancel.
lor Bruening in the form of a warn.
ing that President Von Hindenburg
would Invoke martial law If neces
sary to save the constitution. At the
same time the President signed and
made public a drastic emergency de
cree designed to close up what Bruen.
ing called “the deflation period im.
posed upon Germany.” The decree
reduces wage scales to the level of
1027 and cuts rents, food prices and
about all other living costs, It also re-
duces Interest rates, imposes com-
pensatory taxes on imports and
strengthens measures gatos the
flight of capital,
ERMANY'S capacity to pay rep-
arations and especially her abil.
ity to resume payments next summer
are being studied by the consultative
committee of the Bank for Interna-
tional Settlements at Basel, Switzer.
land. Walter W. Stewart, American
member, refusing to accept the chalr-
manship.. that place was given to Dr.
Alberto Beneduce of Italy, Carl Jo-
seph Melchior was the first person
heard, the burden of his argument be-
ing that Germany could no longer pay
reparations. This Is, Indeed, the view
of millions of Germans of all parties.
HREE great farm groups, the Amer-
fean Farm bureau, the National
Farmers’ unlon and the Grange, in ses-
sion In Chicago, united on plans to fight
in congress for surplus crop control.
Their leaders sald their demands
would be for the export debenture
and the equalization fee, and that thelr
disagreements of the past on these
matters had been adjusted.
ments to the agricultural marketing
act to permit the farm board to use
hollday recess,
offer no objections to the program of
the farm board other than the stabi-
lization operations.
The “harmony” program has result-
ed from frequent conferences in recent
weeks between Edward A. O'Neal,
head of the farm bureau; L. J. Taber,
master of the grange, and John Simp-
son, who recently was re-elected presi.
dent of the farmers’ union, It is thelr
contention that the nature of the sur-
plus will solve the problem of which to
use-—the fee or the debenture,
"J OPacco raisers of Kentucky don't
intend to let their product go for
what they think are ruinous prices.
When the Lexington tobacco market,
the largest loose leaf burley mart In
the world, opened the other day the
low price of $12 a hundredweight was
offered, and the growers at once start-
ed a riotous demonstration that caused
abrupt suspension of sales with ten
million pounds of leaf unsold. After
fighting with warehot and the
planters, numbering bun-
dreds, held a protest meeting In the
city {um where speakers urged
them to stand together and not “give
thelr tobacco away to the trust”
usemen
nlliee he
POLICE, the
auditor
NE of the Interesting department
reports of the week was that of
Postmaster General Brown,
that the department came out $140.
066,189 behind In the last fiscal year,
deficit of the previous year. Mr.
Brown repeated his recommendation
that the letter rate be raised from 2
cents to 2% cents, stating that on the
volume this would bring In
$50.000000 a year additional,
“A 2%-cent rate would,
obviously fall far short of producing
adequate revenues at the present
time” the report sald. “The deficit
for 1031 attributable to strictly postal
operations was more than $08.000.000
and if present trends are maintained
the net deficit for the current year
will be in the neighborhood of $100.
000,000,
“This raises the question whether,
present
dition of the general treasury, fit
would not be advisable, pending the
return of noral conditions, to fix a
3-cent rate for letter mall,
* ment intimated to Archduke Otto
pretender to the Hungarian throne,
ing embarrassing, so
the young man went
: over to England In
cognito to visit a Brit-
it is rumored In Lon.
don that plana are
afoot to put him on
the throne through a
coup that will
reminder of the way
nania. The story Is
that a group of Hun-
Archduke Otto _...an noblemen, in
England ostensibly for hunting, really
went to accept delivery of a powerful
seaplane which is ready to carry the
archduke to Lake Balaton in the cen-
ter of Hungary where he would take
oath as king in a miniatare chapel
that has been built In the plane and
dedicated to St. Stephen,
turns to Hungary the peasant support
of his cause will be strengthened and
on the throne. Premier Mussolini is
known to approve of the Hapsburg
Otto lots of encouragement,
ISS JANE ADDAMS, founder of
Hull House In Chicago, and Nich.
olas Murray Butler, president of
Columbia university, were jointly
awarded the Nobel peace prize for
1031 by the Nobel institute of Oslo,
Norwny. The prize amounts to £40,
000. Both of them have been inde
fatigable workers for International
peace.
RINCE NICHOLAS of Rumania
puiting love ahove titles and hon-
ors, has renounced his membership In
the royal family and declared he will
stand hy his bride, the former Mme.
Jana Lucila Delet). He has given up
his constitutional rights, his titles and
prerogntives and his commissions In
the army, navy and alr force, and
prepared to go into exile, The prince's
announcement followed upon a decree
of the Rumanian supreme court an.
nulling his marriage because “proper
legal formalities had not been ob.
served.” King Carol, his brother,
relentless,
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A Story of Great
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By Fannie Hurst
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HEN people used laughingly
and entirely without oppro-
brium to refer to Kester's
maternal Instinct, his chil-
formed a sort of unspoken compact
to retort with unanimity: “What's
matter with paternal instinct?
Aside from being the best mother
alive, he's the best father”
It was their subconsclous way of
protecting Kester from innuendo, As
if Innuendo could have attached itself
to the enormous-shouldered, six-foot
parent of the brood of five youngs
who clustered about his tall k
whenever those tall knees hove in
ters
nees
Kester would not have minded had
been Innuendo, Life was too
too busy, too harassed, too de
lightful an affair, for fancied hurts or
pricks to flourish, Well, if he had ma-
he hoped It was a jolly
Man with five growing,
hungry, boisterous young ones needed
pretty nearly every instinct there was,
Lordy, what a gang! Five hungry
mouths up at him when he
( nings, for all the world
in thelr nest. Fellow
that
it was his
ith a bag of
her, in what
uiled his “surprise pock-
berries, plums, fruit
¥ il
one,
yawning
» home eve
v }
foils
y INTOR
» dropped Into the lit
INS was “wh at
rood
A Vieng a gang
31 daddy no better
rest, them around
from the minut
That scarcely
Mrs. McMurtry
of be isteron sneass that
her es
of ay wit}
Her id y of
most on the
held,
accused
because when
thelr daddy
matched
ves were ridiculously
} er speech,
his
ont
Kester
ahsurd She us
over him
rather on the basis of an
over-grown boy and his younger play-
mates that Kester reared his children,
at twenty-eight with five
small youngsters on his hands doesn’t
have time to work out a “system.”
At lenst Kester didn't. With the prob-
lem of earning their living, keeping the
educating them along
was
above all, keeping them happy, Kester
plunged In without a theory.
So, In rearing his family, Kester
was just himself. Easy, Indulgent,
ridiculously sentimental, unexactly,
playful, parent, and yet
ist where his
children were that thelr
shortcomings, when they became seri
ous, could actually unnerve him to the
extent of making him physically IL
For instance, Myron, the second boy
The scene
the adoring
concerned,
to the tall of a
wretched street dog was one that Mrs,
to the day of her all-too-
premature death, was to relate with
her face smeared with pallor.
For a moment It looked as If Kester
were going to beat his son; batter him
fists. Miraculously that did not hap-
pen, but a talk took place up In the
All
night Myron sobbed In his bed and
Kester did not appear at breakfast.
evening following, Myron fell
listening to
a jungle story which he had asked
his father to repeat. He was a
His brood grew and thrived. At sev.
the eldest boy was a high
school graduate and already a
newspaper photographer's salary, be
gan to make that possible. Two of his
three girls moved along into quite con-
siderable beauty and the youngest
gave promise of something more than
even that.
Of course there were set-backs, In-
cubus of debt, worry of iliness and oc
ecaslonally the need of discipline of one
gort or another. When she was four
teen, Lella, the second girl, developed
typhoid fever and Kester nursed her
as a mother would have nursed her,
The year following, the mainstay of
the household, blessed Mrs. McMurtry,
died suddenly of heart stroke and that
wns a blow to Kester and his brood.
Fortunately, Lily, the eldest, eighteen
then, took over fn total the duties
which she had hitherto shared jointly
with Mrs, McMurtry, and Leila, Ed-
mee, and the boys, all lent shoulder
to the wheel of household. Kester as
always shared the burden. Absolute-
ly without sense of pride or artificial
barrier, he would think nothing of
coming home of an evening, washing
into a half-made
dress, or assisting with the dinner,
False pride? Poppycock. Nonsense,
No reason why a man shouldn't do
whatever chores present themselves.
Silly convention that certain duties
belong to one sex or the other, He
who hesitates is lazy.
As gradually his brood began to mar-
ry off, those household chores auto-
matically grew lighter, At forty-three,
Kester was a grandfather, At forty-
five, his last child had left the nest.
Life of course was simpler now.
Financial responsibility lifted, sons
and daughters well on their own, his
own vigorous health unimpaired, there
seemed future and good future ahead
for Kester,
Father will marry again, now, the
girls decided among themselves and
affectionately set about scouting for
timber worthy of him.
As a matter of fact, Kester's
thoughts did turn that way. Even
with thelr devotion, his children had
thelr own Interests now, Life was no
longer the hurly-burly affair a grow:
ing family had made it. He had done
a good job, The wife who had dled
bearing his last child, would have
blessed him for it. His tribute to her
lay In his C58,
Slowly, but rather definitely, Kes-
to the
wom
ter's 1 to turn
some
me that
|
ta qualities In his little
makeup that pecretly
been disturbing his 1
extent,
On
that
been sen nme
for n
arents to no small
2
various occasions, for t : and
rrant offense, the child
from school, finally
on his eighth birthday actually
with final gsal from
authorities who could no lon
with him,
For mnot!
and eager t
Ing
were was something
g about the way
rrandfather of Myron Ju
court, hand
a sweelr
hold at bay
in hand, quiet
#8 of manner that seem
the threat of violent hys-
teria whi ered over the
nrocedare
" ’ 3 ii i
No doubt ahonut It, father
is simply
a genious v
imself {dently belley
Myron Junior lives
small hot
alone with his
grandfather, In a use
have taken on the outskirts of town.
He Is a serious, difficult
viclous prob fem. The ere
some days when Kester eannot even
report for his work. Myron Jun
of those spec
little
ial cases
parents,
one
baffle pl
alike
Kester is sometimes bam
cure in the
cope with
Father
daughters
iysiclans,
we a, but se
confidence that he can
his problem,
will never now,
agree, a little sadly.
genius with children won't
marry his
let him, ...
Happiness of Americans
The first characteristic of the Amer
lean people is their happiness. The
visitor feels himself In the presen
of a race with a keen zest for life, a
sure confidence In the future,
uch enjoyment of things as they are.
The American Is more highly strung
than the northern European, and In
most cases this does not seem to lead
to pessim or a morbid condition.
The Impression of happiness is com-
pon to all The people in the
streets, In the shops, in the hotels, the
lift man, the bellhop, the telephone
operator--all are gay.
No doubt there is a material basis
for this, A double incowe for a wage
earner means more than twice the
amount of amenities and enjoyment.
The old orthodox tenent of European
civilization, that “money does not
bring happiness.” is probably only a
modern adaptation of Aesop's fable
of the fox and the grapes.
Jom wealth does not bring happl-
: but that small margin of spare
money after necessities have been pro.
vided for constitutes in America the
structure of what is definitely a Inrger
life. In the United States this larger
life—or rather, larger share of life In
{ts natural and rightful balance—is en.
joyed by an incomparably greater num-
ber than In any other country In the
world. —Winston Churchill in Liberty.
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classes,
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One of the most spectacular motor
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tional park, British Columbia. This
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one mile deep, walled In by almost
perpendicular mountains covered with
primeval forest. Six waterfallls leap
down the mountain side within a dis
tance of 10 miles, some of them ending
in a cataract of spray. The most spec.
tacular of all is Takakkaw, which In
three different drops falls to the floor
of the valley 1,600 feet from Its crest
above,
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Blinks—How was the speaker last
night?
Jinks—Not so hot, I think he was
trying to prove he could use every
word in the dictionary three times
without saying a thing,
——
Exchange of Compliments
Bhe-—If looks could kill, I'd as-
sassinate you with a glance!
He—1f looks could kill, it would be
suicide for you to look in that mir.
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