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This Week h Arthur Brisbane Praise Roosevelt Mr. Hitler Copy Cats Uncle Sam in Business Turks and Americans President Roosevelt will be remem bered for mail; things, heaven only knows how many, at the rate he Is traveling In unexplored fields, but praised by no one more gratefully than by 16,000 American postmasters whose jobs and future he seeks to make Secure, planning to put them under civil service rules, no longer to be the plaything of polltjcs. This Is all the more praiseworthy since these postmasters are, generally, Republican appointees. Chancellor Hitler, borrowing from President Rooseve't,- , or perhaps he thought df It himself, puts all Ger man business under government super, vision. Business and labor will be un der police control, with strikes, lock outs, and other labor disputes "sup pressed." Later there Is to come a definite arrangement of all these tilings. Mere, various "codes" poverning In dustry and businesses are expected to end much wastefulness of strikes and lockouts. * Unless certain that you have pro vided for everything, old ape Included, keep going. It Is very hard to be sure, and dangerous to stop. In New York Dr. E. M. Well thought he had enough, retired, found at the age of sixty that he must work again and tried to re build his abandoned practice. The attempt failed and n frier.d found Doc tor Well and his little dot? both dead. The doctor knew the dop could not make a living and gave It strychnine before taking the poison himself. The moral Is: Keep on working. Idleness Is dull ; and It Is dangerous since the bottom can drop out of any thing. Government tells farmers to reduce wheat acreage 20 per cent, tells the cotton men to reduce. Suddenly, It discovers that this year's wheat crop will be the smallest In 40 years; the oat crop smallest on record. That may explain the sudden rise In grain prices. Speculators knew what was going to happen before the govern ment knew. The government will Investigate, regulate, and, if necessary, direct every kind of business. That Is the biggest news since the war started. A minimum wage an^ a maximum "hours of work" schedule will apply to every business and Industry. Under the rule of the sultan and his pashas In Turkey, citizens were careful to hide their wealth arid look poor. What the pashas saw they took. Americans know how these Turks felt. Whatever government ? national, state or local ? sees It takes In part New York needs money and pro poses, through the board of alder men, to tax hairdressers, hat check ladles, soda water salesmen, motion picture machine operators, candymak ers and "cosmetolof^sts" who work In beauty parlors. Thus far nobody has suggested tax ing the baby's rattle, but that may come. The United States govemiment pro poses a kidnaping law to cover the whole country. That would Interfere seriously with kidnaping enterprises, In which local officials sometimes co operate, hs in a recent cnse when a pollcemnn arrested the kidnaped man nnd turned him over to the profes sional kidnapers. If the government's secret Bervlce takes kldnnping ns seri ously as It does counterfeiting, it will be bad for kidnapers. News from Washington plenses big oil companies nnd those that own their oil stocks. The President, under the Industrial recovery net, prohibits ship ment In Interstate commerce, of oil distributed In violation of state con servation laws. Secretary fakes, who knows the Im portance of government regulations to protect the country's oil supply, saya this will stop the Illegal shipment of 500,000 barrels a day. r . Money Is not plentiful In Japan. One state In this Union Is richer than the Japanese empire. But where self defense Is concerned Japnn does not hesitate, and she will spend $160,000, 000 to build up her, navy to equal Britain's or the United States'. The Japanese keep up to date. They will spend $48,000,000 on eight new air fleets, build six new submarines, eight torpedo boats, fast cruisers, air craft carriers of high speed and not one battleship. The arrest In New York of Joseph Tohllnsky and his Son, Henry, shows that racketeering Is not new. Thirty years ago Mr. Tobllnsky was convicted as a horse poisoning racketeer. He put arsenlo In the feed hags of truck horses when the owner of the truck would not pay "for protecting." This time he I* arrested for kidnaping Mr. Bornsteln and taking his truckload of woolens, Now Mr. Bornsteln admits that he made & denl to be kidnaped and lose the truck, and he Is In JaU also. ' ?' * ?, till, by Kin* Feature* Syndicate. In*. WNIJ Sftrvlfl*. Rod-Riding Family - Gets Diet of Worms Toronto. ? Officials of the Cana dian National take care of "guests" who ride the rods. J. F. Prlngta* general superin tendent of transportation, received the following message from the sta tion agent at Peterborough : "Car No. 403,102- has Robins' nest on rods stop Please arrange for supply of worms at termlnnls stop The mother Is in charge." Yardmasters at the various ter minals had a supply of worms ready ( to feed the robins. Wailing Room It Popular in This Movie Theater Detroit ? The Hollywood theater here reported a record crowd In Its "walling room" during the Bhowlng of a war film recently. Sixteen mothers repaired to the room to quiet 10 walling babies. Hut they were not deprived the pleasure of listening to and watching the pic ture. The walling room, referred to In more dignified terms *as the "sound proof nursery," is located in the rear of the theater. A glass panel allows the mother to watch the film being shown out front. Although the room Is soundproof, a loud speaker brings the screen voices Inside. The management of the theater re ports the room is always occupied during picture presentation hours. China at the Chicago World's Fair "Accomplishment Shines Like the Sun and the Moon" rends an inscrip tion on this ancient gateway, carved of teakwood, which now stands in front of the cafe at the Chinese exhibition at A Century of Progress In Chicago. ACCIDENTAL DEATHS SHOW DROP IN 1932 Motor Vehicles Still Lead as Mortality Cause. Chicago. ? Accidental deaths num bered 88,000 In the Unlt?d States dur ing 1932, thus registering a decline for the second euccessive yoar, according to "Accident Facts," Just Issued by the National Safety council. The total for 1980 was 99,300 and for 1931, 97, 415. Last year's total, therefore, was 10 per cent under 1931 and 11.5 per cent under 1930, the all-time maxi mum. The 1932 total Is also smaller than In any year since 1924, when 85, 684 persons were killed In accidents. I Motor vehicles still lead as a cause of accidental death. Automobile ac cidents took 29,500 lives last year, home accidents claimed 28,000. public fatalities (not involving motor ve hicles) 18,000, and occupational acci dents 15,000. About 2,.r>00 occupational deaths also Involved a motor vehicle and this duplication must be eliminat ed to urrlte at the 88,000 total. There were approximately 8,400,000 accidental injuries last year and the wage loss, medical expense and over head insurance cost Involved In in juries and deaths totaled $2,000,000,000. Fewer Motor Accidents. Last year witnessed the first drop ever recorded in motor vehicle acci dents. The total of 29,.r>00 deaths may be contrasted with 33,075 In 1931,32-929 In 1930, 31,215 in 1929 and 27,990 in 1928. The percentage decrease last year vyas about double the decrease In motor vehicle travel as reflected In gasoline consumption. About 44 per cent of all traffic acci dent fatalities Involved pedestrians. In addition to the 29,500 motor vehicle deaths last year there were approximately 1,035,000 non-fatal In juries of which about 85,000 were per manent in character. The cost of these accidents, not including prop erty damage, Is estimated at $020, 000,000. Speed Not Always Factor. In about 4% per cent of the fatal accidents reported, the driver had been drinking. In less than 1 per cent were poor eyesight or other physical de I fects noted. Thus 95 per cent of tlie victims had no apparent physical or I mental defect which should have pre vented the efficient operation of the WAY ABOVE HIGH C Miss Kathleen I-awler, twenty-one year-old graduate of the tlnlverslty of Washington music depnrhnent, can ulng nn octave and five tones above high C, which Is nn accomplishment rtot oven the greatest of modern so prano* has been able to equal, Accord ing to Prof. August Werner, her tftfloher. vehicle which they were piloting. Although the importance of speed la an accident fact which cannot be ig nored, most of the fatal accidents In cities occurred when the vehicle was traveling at a rate of between 'JO and 29 miles per hour. Occupational accidents took 15.CHX) lives last year. This compares with 17,500 In 1931, 19,000 In 1930 and 20, 000 in 1929. In addition, there were approximately 1,200,000 non-fatal in juries. Tobacco, laundry, cement, and the printing and publishing Industries are the "safest" industries as far as the relative frequency of accidents per man-hours worked Is concerned. The lumbering, mining and construction In dustries have the worst records, both in frequency and severity. Fatalities In Home. Home accidents claimed 28.000 lives last year, only l,.r>00 less than motor vehicles. They nlso caused about 4,195,000 non-fatal injuries. While domestic fatalities dropped slightly from the preceding year, the decline Is smaller than in any of the other principal classes. Approximately 43 per cent of all home fatalities are the Result of falls and another 19 per cent are charge able to hurnH, scalds and explosions. The kitchen seems to be the most dan gerous spot In the house, for 34 per cent of the fatalities occur there. An other 23 per cent occur on stairs and In halls. Deaths caused by public accidents (not motor vehicle) dropped to 18.000 In 1932 and non-fntal injuries are esti mated at 2,160,000. Drownings and firearms played the largest part In this toll. General 10% Reduction Made in '32 State Costs Chicago. ? Costs of the majority of state governments were reduced by ap proximately 10 per cent in 1932, ac cording to a survey by the national organization to reduce public expendi tures. In seventeen scattered states, whose total operating expense was $907,324, 880 In 1932, the organization now says there is reason to believe the com bined expenditures will be $81G,r>89,530, or a drop of almost $100,000 000. Three of the seventeen states con sidered, however, show their expenses had risen in the last six months. They are Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. Both Delaware and Penn sylvania expect tremendous cuts In ex penses for the coming year, members of the reduction body said. Delaware will reduce expenditures by $5,000,000, while Vensylvania's costs are expected to drop more than $27,000,000. States included In the survey are Arizona. Connecticut, Delaware, Flor ida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa. Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota. Ohio and Pennsylvania W omen Are Instructed in Mechanics of Auto Hartford, Conn. ? Believing that women should contribute their share In keeping up the family automobile, the Hartford Automobile club has In stituted a course In tire changing, lubrication, wheel alignment, brake ad justment, valve grinding and gwneraJ repair work, for women only. Dog Adopts Kitten Ogden, Utah. ? Queenie, pet dog at the Volunteers of America headquar ters here, Is fond of children, so when the stork didn't bring her enough ? ? only three ? she went out and returned with a baby kitten in her mouth, which she is nursing along with her puppies. Fight for Estate of Murdered Man Three Wives to Stage Jieated Contest for Wealth. Philadelphia. ? The throe women who at one time or another were wives of John It. Fell, not<*.l sportsman, will stage a heated contest for the $'5,(KK), 000 estate he left when he died of a mysterious knife thrust In Java last February. The latest to Join In the battle Is his second wife, Mrs. Mildred Hantry Fell, who claims to have documents proving her entitled to the hulk of the estate. The third wife, Martha Kderton Fell, formerly of the Follies, f.eeks more than an Income of $1.*>,000 a year from I Tells Odd Fish Story; Shows Fish to Prove It Tillamook, Ore. ? -Here's a Paul Bun yan yarn told by Jack Moors, who swears It In true. Using clam neck for halt, Moors hooked a 12- Inch kel pie. As he hauled It near the surface, a 2-foot ling cod snapped at the kel pie, swallowing It. Refore he could land his double catch, a 4-foot-long cod swallowed about half the length of his smaller brother. A bystander helped him gaff the triple header. The largest flsh weighed r?r> pounds and was put on display In a downtown window nfl proof of his fish story. Woman Clerk May Sign for President Roosevelt Washington. ? The only person who may sign the name of President Roose velt to state documents, besides him self, Is Mrs. I,eafie F/. Dletr,, a clerk In the United States land ofllco, who affixes the (Executive's signature to the patents of homesteaders on United States land. The law prescribes ^iAt this substitute signer must he A wom an. of whom six have Jiold the honor since President Andrew Jackson's ad ministration. ? trust fund, while Mrs. Ogden R. .Mills, who was Fell's first wife, seeks to keep the hulk of the estate for her three children. Fell's will, filed April 2.r) In Norrls town, loft Mrs. Fell only the Income from a trust fund estimated at npprox Inuitel.v $110,000, while the rest of his S3, 000, 0(H) estate went to three chil dren by his first marriage. Apparently bent on fighting for a larger share of the estate, the former Martha Kderton has engaged Attor ney Joseph Kharfsln to represent her. The widow, In striving for a more o<|ual division, will lay claim to the $.10,000 worth of Jewelry and the lav ish household furnishings of her hus band. It Is understood. Fell, a grandson of the late Anthony Drexol, was married secretly to Mar tha Kderton, show-girl and dress-shop ' owner, In January, 1032. She was touring the F>ast Indies with him when he met death, which authorities termed accidental. Mule Deer Become Tame Under Care of Ranchman Lindsay, Cflllf.? J. W. Stlner, Oe darvllle rancher, claims credit for do ing what old-time livestock men said was impossible. He has a herd of domesticated, I ranch-reared mule deer, apparently j contented on his place. He started the herd, which now ' numbers nine, several years ago, when one of his cowboys found ? deserted and starving fawn. Grocer Pay* Taxi Fare With Good? From Store Monroe, La. ? In the splr? of barter and exchange, a local grocer and a taxi driver 4m ve reached an agreement whereby the grocer rides to work ev ery morning and pays his fare with ft can of tomatofs4, a can of corn, two griipefrult. National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart Washington. ? One of the most de pressing factors In the three-year-old economic crisis has LeiMon for . been and still is the Shylocka discouragement ex perienced by vast numbers of solid, substantial citizens as a result of Inability to continue payments on their farms or homes in towns and cities. They have strug gled, worked and saved to apply the sums so accumulated on a home or farm that they can call their own. in the last* three years, thousands upon thousands of them have seen these savings swept away, the homes or forma taken by the holders of mort gages. It has taken an extraordinarily long time, observers here are agreed, for mortgage holders to learn the lesson that they gain very little by the shy lock practice of exacting the pound of flesh In the shape of foreclosure of the mortgage. A good many mort gage holders, such as life insurance companies, began more than two years ago to "go easy" In foreclos ing on property, but unfortunately the number who pursued that policy were entirely too few for the good p f the country or the good of the mortgage holders as a class, according to the concensus L gather around the Na tional Capital. The result of the failure, or refusal, of mortgage holders to realize the conditions confronting them ? I speak of them as a class ? Is such legislation as the home loan act. One of these laws was passed at the request of President Hoover, but that was re vamped and a new set-up made at the request of President Roosevelt. If the present law works, as it appears it may, without too much of an ex pense upon the federal government, lenders ?f money on farm mortgages and on homes In towns and cities will find themselves paying something of a penalty in the end. In any analysis of the mortgage sit uation one cannot overlook the dan gers Inherent In any governmentally managed Institution that functions in a half-way private fashion. The home loan act and its purposes are subject to entirely the same influences and face the same possibilities as the farm loan act that was Initiated by the late President Wilson. That enact ment has cost the government (which means the taxpayers) many millions of dollars, yet It has done some good. Of that there Is no doubt. But It never does any good to deny weak nesses. The results will be revealed eventually, and they will be disclosed In the home loan act .lust as they have been shown in the farm loan law. But the point of this consideration Is that extraordinary measures have been and are necessary. One of the things that must be accomplished Is a revival of confidence. It Is agreed among students of the situation that If the home loan act and the re vamped farm loan structure develop any appreciable amount of new con fidence or restore old confidence, It will have been worth the price. If the combined help extended by those two laws can enable individual owners of property to have a feeling of self reliance, a feeling of security and In dependence, they will have done much to lead the country out onto solid ground of economic prosperity again. ? ? ? The home loan administration Is ex ceedingly slow In getting into motion. Aidrnlttlng that time Frown on always Is required in Forocloaurea the i^i-lopnient of any organi z a t I o n that is predicated on a new law. It does appear that the home loan board has been guilty of too much delay. It may be said to the board's credit, however, that It Ih trying to encour age holders of mortgages to postpone mortgage foreclosures and to await the time when the new structure has been completely formed. The argu ment being used Is to the effect that If mortgage holders forego their rights, as denominated In their mort gages, for a short while, they have a chance to emerge from the situa tion with new bonds on which the fjov eminent guarantees the interest payments. Let us examine that privilege and see how mortgage owners as well as home owners may benefit. This must necesshrlly be considered In conjunc tion with what the law offers to the home owner, and which will lend him to utilize Its privileges. The mortgage holder may surren der his existing mortgage to the home owners loan corporation, the official name of the agepcy which will han dle the funds under the supervision of the home loan board. He will get In exchange new bonds, hearing 4 per cent Interest. The payment of the Interest hn guaranteed by the govern ment, but the principal of those bonds remains In the same category no does the principal of the existing mort gage. The bonds nre exempt from all taxation and I think It Is generally agreed they will constitute a high class Investment. It Is to be remembered that the law limits the amount of the mortgage that may be Issued against any prop erty to $14,000. The total loan may not ho more than 80 per cent of the appraised value of the home, so that It may he said the security behind the bonds Is somewhat better than average when It Is remembered the Interest will be paid by the govern ment If not otherwise. The mortgage holder obtains a long term bond, be Is freed from the necessity of making advances to keep the property In shape or pay taxes, etc.. and be takes only the usual chance on the princi pal. Now, from the stand|K>lnt of the home owner, there Is the probability that the home owners' loan corpora tion will be more lenient In the matter of enforcing the terms of Its mort gage by foreclosure, which It would have the right to do. That ought to make home owners feel more secure. The mortgage holder has another alternative. Me may borrow up to 40 per cent of the value of the property and give the home owners' loan cor poration his mortgage as security. ? ? ? When the home owner seeks to use the home loan act prlvlllges. he gets a benefit In the May Run shape of a postpone *c y ment of the matur 10 i ears J(y (,Qte t)f hlg debL That 1 8, there Is a new mortgage writ ten and It may run as long as fifteen years. In addition, If the home own ers' loan corporation agrees, the home owner may be allowed what amountH to a moratorium 1n the payment either the Interest or any installment on the principal. That gives the home owner a breathing spell so that If. for example, he Is out of a Job but his reputation for paying his debts la good, It Is not necessary for him to lose his home. Then, the home owner can obtain funds from the corporation without the necessity of paying a commission to anybody, and say what you will, these commissions for obtaining a loan are a burden. The law trmkea sure there will he no commissions charged by making such an act a crime. Another available benefit is pro vided for the home owner In the pro vision allowing him to pay off a part or all of his mortgage with bonds of the home owners' loan corporation. It may be readily seen that if by any chance the bonds of the corpora tion should sell below par, a borrower might be able to buy the bonds, say, at 85 per cent of their value and turn them in at 100 per cent. Of course, everybody here connected with ad ministration of the act Insists that the bond price will never fall below pnr, yet there are some who think that condition may eventuate. ? ? ? I hope In a few weeks to be able to discuss the set-up arranged by the home owners' loan corj>oration by which home owners can take advan tage of the legislation's terms. The machinery Is helng created slowly and It Is obvious why that is so l>e cause there will he two agents of the home loan board In virtually every county of the nation. They will be the point of contact for the Individual home owner and It will be from those agents that all necessary details ran be ascertained and with them that Individual problems may be solved. ? ? ? The farm loan structure Is soine what further advanced. There was some machinery already In existence for use under the terms of that law and Henry Morgenthau, Jr., the farm credit administrator, Is getting things In shape so that his organization soon will be ' making loans on farm 'ands. ? ? ? We have Just witnessed the United States treasury adopt a new system of reporting Its con NewTreasury <iltlon. It Is required o. . . by the Constitution Statements ^ hy (aw tn (n|lko public a statement of Its receipts and expenditures, and a daily statement of these Items has been Issued con sistently for many years. Now. how ever, the statement has appeared In n new suit of clothes, and an explana tion of why fids has been done ap pears to be Important. For the first time In the history of this government the treasury actually Is running a double budget system. That Is, it Is segregating In one set of accounts all of the regular ex penditures such as salaries and ordl I nary running expenses. In another set of accounts. It Is listing the so called extraordinary expenditures. In these items are the long list of relief payments, the emergency construction expenditures, the payments to farm ers for crops destroyed, nnd olher outgo of a similar character. I have heard both criticism and commendation of the new policy. Pres ident Roosevelt has maintained that the emergency expenditures should not be Included In the regular budget because they are extraordinary In character and will not recur, or at least none of us hopes they will re cur. 'Die emergency expenditures are being financed through borrowings by the government and will be repaid later so that the President snys they should not be considered when plans are being worked out for balancing the regular budget. On the other hand. It Is contended that this Is a dishonest budget, that It does not properly represent tho financial standing of our government <0, 1?JS. Wft?t?f n tinlon.