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KLYNEACLE, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1939 A-aT Why Hurry II me More to Do Brooklyn Eagle tPouaded by Isaac Vu Anden In 1B41J (Trad Mark lult Registered) atlonal Whirligig Hay Tucker Writes From Washington fa an To vs-l i tf iKi Wr 2 A la f. vcr! ters; had even to cut corners with the social register. Well may she be gathering her forces to fend against the black looks and ruffled feelings of the neglected. For, though It is undoubtedly true that in our democracy everybody is Just as good as anybody else only better, still it is only logic in the minds of fond mamas that they and their daughters have just as much right to bow to royalty as anybody else, even If the garden party is to be on the grounds of the British Embassy. A good guess is that Lady Lindsay is going to welcome Sir Ronald's retirement late this Summer.

Reason Enough The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce has found that the borough's population has Increased 71 percent since 1910. City fathers with an eye to the future have wisely taken cognizance of our growth. That Is why our subway mileage has Increased, rendering such anachronisms as the Fulton obsolete and In crying need for removal. That is why the Circumferential Highway was needed. It is also why the Board of Education is moving across the river, to take up its headquarters on Livingston Street.

And no better reason could be found for another bridge, spanning the Brooklyn-Battery route. The Chamber of Commerce has found a gradually increasing rate of population as one goes from Wllliamsburgh to Coney Island. One suspects that those who can't see this obvious trend have made up their minds that they simply won't see it. One Folly Ending Indications multiply that the folly of foreign silver buying by the United States Treasury soon will come to an end. Even the most ardent sllverites in Congress must have had qualms as untold millions were expended abroad to buy unneeded silver to pile up here in the never-ending race with gold accretions.

In latter years, however, this buying, especially from Mexico, seemed to have become an instrument of the "good neighbor" policy and, in truth, one of the most remarkable instances on record of turning the other cheek. Purchase of foreign silver, as authorized and commanded in the silver purchase act, is due to expire next month. So far, there has been no evidence that the White House wants this power extended, though there is a suspicion that this signifies only a wish to avoid long hearings. Similarly in Congress, its erstwhile sponsors are lying doggo and advocates of economy perceive in allowing these clauses to lapse an easy means of "making good" some of their promises without coming into collision with domestic pressure groups. There should be no repetition of the foolish umbrella holding for foreign silver producers, whereby we have added to the burdens of our taxpayers, disturbed the economy of China and other silver countries and accumulated huge stocks of useless metal that will plague us for many a day.

Tax Consciousness It is not often possible to analyze clearly In the initial stages of a movement the impelling factors responsible for it. This has been the case with the manifest revolt against the crushing tax burden, as revealed in numerous sporadic protests, marches on city halls and State capitals and more or less concerted attacks. There is no doubt, Eagle A Facta Day About Brooklyn Maple trees bearing bronze plagues, in the cemetery adjoin Challenges Status of Spanish Loyalist Leaders To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: As one who spent seven months in Loyalist Spain as official represen must bear the signatures addresses of the but pen names will be at the discretion of Contributions should as short as possible, editor reserves the cut them down to requirements of space. ing the riatlands Dutch Re- tative of the Socialist press, may I point out that former Premier Juan Negrin and Alvarez Del Vayo, former THURSDAY. MAY 18, 1839 THI BROOKLYN DAILY tAGLS FRANK D.

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Ao Occasion for Surprise It was no surprise that District Attorney William F. X. Geoghan was able to show a cancelled check for $2,000 in payment in full of funds advanced by the Controller of New York for expenses in the Wendel investigation. Through his many ups and downs, Mr. Geoghan's personal honesty has never been a subject for dispute In the community.

It was to be expected of him that in such a matter he would come up with a clean slate. However, it is not with Mr. Geoghan's personal honesty that the boroufh has to quarrel. In his office the wheels of county justice are set in motion. That we may be assured of smooth and impartial fulfilment of Its duties, it is imperative that the incumbent should employ assistants in whom the public can have the utmost faith.

A record of one assistant confessed to serious misconduct and two others under indictment is not of the stuff that begets confidence. It is this cold, unlovely fact which has ended Mr. Geoghan's usefulness and which calls for the substitution of a district attorney who by judicious choice of assistants can restore Brooklyn's trust in this vital office of law enforcement. An Italian Lake Since 1704 the great British fort at Gibraltar has protected the entrance to the Mediterranean, through which lies the all-important route to India. Now that the Spanish war has ended and there is preparation for the "withdrawal" of the axis powers, Britain will find that the status of Gibraltar as a means of Mediterranean control has been altered substantially, that it has, in fact, been neutralized and no longer gives complete security to the Empire's lifeline to the East.

Some time ago, while the Spanish war was still in progress, Andre Mori-zet, writing in L'Oeuvre, called attention to the presence of numerous German air bases in Spain within striking distance of Southern France. In addition to these air bases, he said the northern provinces of Spain have become a vast source of arms, with German engineers directing the manufacture of war materials guns, armor plate and bombs. The disturbing literature dealing with Spain's subjection to the totalitarian states has more recently been supplemented by G. T. Garratt, an authority on the strategic problems of the Mediterranean, who wrote in the Manchester Guardian that "the Straits of Gibraltar are now fortified by Spaniards under German tutelage" and that Spain's South African dependencies, notably Spanish Morocco (immediately opposite Gibraltar) are already under German control." The Italian and German soldiers, sailors and fliers who aided General Franco's conquest may depart from Spain within a week or two, as planned, but the grip of the Rome-Berlin axis in the Iberian peninsula will remain quite firm.

One of the greatest aspirations of II Duce has been the transformation of the Mediterranean into an Italian lake. Germany has always been intrigued by the idea of menacing France from across her southern border. Behind the Spanish smoke screen, it seems, both dreams have been advanced toward fulfilment. Troubles of a Hostess Any 100 percent republican democrat American hostess who would not, by any chance, receive an invitation to meet King George VI and his Queen on the grounds of the British Embassy in Washington will know just how Lady Lindsay feels. It is seldom that one can invite all the relatives to Uncle Obadiah's surprise party and it is only too often that one must leave some of the neighbors out for an afternoon of bridge.

To be sure, Lady Lindsay is in deeper water than the average hostess. With an invited list of 1,300, it is estimated she had to turn down about bad resolutely to bar debutante daugh Foreign Minister of the public, who are now Adolf Hitler's system of barter Is momentarily restricting the field for Cordell Hull's reciprocal tariff agreements. But the American Secretary of State Is convinced from his experts' private studies that Der Fuehrer's program will eventually collapse of Its own weight. The nations which Hitler has captured and capslxed, for Instance, are required to buy Oerman goods on a barter basis, but they are forced to accept Oerman exports which do not equal in money value the products they have turned over to Hitler. Thus they always have a balance In Berlin, but one which Der Fuehrer does not permit them to cash in on.

For the goods they really need and want they must pay hard cash. Eventually, In Mr. Hull's opinion, Germany will refuse to honor other countries' barter balances, and they will refuse It's a long-range view but Kay Tucker further trading. Mr. Hull is far-sighted.

These confidential reports of the Hitler barter operations explain Mr. Hull's reluctant acceptance of the Roosevelt-Wallace program for swapping cotton and wheat for tin and rubber. The Secretary doesn't like or approve the bartering scheme, but he believes In fighting fire with fire until the other fellow's (Hitler's) fire Is put out. Then, he hopes the world will return to the old-fashioned system of free trading. With small publicity a bill to cripple the growth and power of Federal bureaucracy has been favorably reported by a Joint committee of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.

On its face an extremely technical measure, it really restrains Government officials from setting themselves up as minor dictators. Whenever Congress created a new Federal commission In the past, it empowered the commissioners to frame their own rules and regulations. In order to grab the utmost power, the poohbahs wrote by-laws to suit themselves, often in violation of statute law. The NLRB's trouble, for instance, derives not from the basic law but from the procedural methods which the pro-CIO commissioners adopted. Likewise other commissions have fixed things so that the average citizen or corporation has two strikes on him before he comes to bat.

The proposed law (and It Is sure of passage) requires Federal commissions and agencies to hold public hearings on the rules and regulations before they are promulgated. If an individual protests, he can appeal from the commission to the courts for a decision on whether the proposed regulation conforms with the law. He can, for Instance, carry an appeal from a ruling by Henry Wallace to Charles Evans Hughes. Incidentally, in the stockyards case the Chief Justice was the first to note the need for such an overhauling of government by commission fiat. How war or the threat of war crushes liberalismas it did In 1917 is vividly illustrated by the nations' answers to a League of Nations questionnaire asking their views on establishment of a 40-hour work week throughout the world.

The dictator countries scornfully refused to submit a reply. The others which had hitherto favored the movement for reduction of working hours without any cut in pay replied that they could make no promises at this particular time. In view of the dictators' war threats, they felt that they must keep themselves free to lengthen working hours, to reduce wages and even to conscript labor, if necessary. It so happens that Germany, Italy and Japan the three dictator nations withdrew from the international labor compact several years ago, and show no regard for the standards discussed at Geneva. As a result the question of an international movement for worktlme cuts has been shelved.

It will probably be ten years at least-more if we have a world conflict before this problem will again receive serious consideration. Dogs and Men By EDGAR A. GUEST Blsmark, said you dogs are wise. Self-torture tricks you don't devise. You live your lives from day to day And take what pleasures come your way, But you don't fashion, in or out, Ambitions strange to fret about.

Your wants, said to catalogue, Are those peculiar to a dog, And those fulfilled content you seem To lie upon the rug and dream. You're never put in deep disgrace Because you trump your partner's ace. You're not concerned with honor tricks, Or should your bid be five or six, You're Just a dog. You're never spurned Because bridge whist you've never learned, And, be you pedigreed or mutt, You never miss a two-foot putt. Tis only man who lives afraid Of agony himself has made; Tis only man who plays a game And suffers rage In pleasure's name.

Blsmark, you slumber in the sun While man is suffering at his fun. iiL country as Socialists, are nothing of the sort Actually, the Madrid Socialist Party expelled both of these gentlemen last March. Luis Araquistain, either should predominate, beauty should take precedence. VAN DYKE ELD EN. May 14.

Shopkeeper Enabled Looted Stock of the Brooklyn Eagle: Is to thank you most the aid given by the Harry Culver, the blind former Spanish Ambassador to France and a leading member of the Spanish Cortes, in a recent statement, which, unfortunately, has not jormca inurcn, Amgs nig away -and E. 40th were dedicated in 1938 to the Wyckoff and Van Voorhees families. Both of these families are organised into family associations, all descendants of these pioneers, who were among Brooklyn's first settlers and most progressive community leaders. Members of these families were founders and members of this church, organized in 1(54. The church bell has rung out for great events in American history, including the deaths of George Washington and Abra-, ham Lincoln.

It weighs 458. pounds and cost nearly $500 and was in its day the most impressive church bell on all Long Island. Spanish Re touring this 25 Years Ago In Brooklyn Communis docile and Monday, May 18, 1914 "Clean Up" Week begins today. The Police Department has sent out more than a million circulars giving householders Instructions for cleaning out rubbish. were Juan of State, they par.

abroad these Vayo) would Communist Mrs. Herbert N. Warbasse, wife been published in the United States, declared that the Spanish debacle was the result of the "brutal and whose little store at Letters to the Residence Record Declared Held by Octogenarian To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: In an editorial in last Sunday's issue relating to Mrs. Mary A. Mc-Grath, who has lived at 23 Thames Manhattan, for 70 years, you say you will consider this the record until you hear to the contrary.

I want to point out to you a lady who takes palms for longevity in a one-tenant dwelling. Miss Anna A. Olcott wa born at 111 W. 13th Manhattan, 80 years ago and still resides there. The Olcott family is well known In Greenwich Village, for her three brothers were distinguished men in Manhattan.

William M. Olcott was district attorney of New York. Eben E. Olcott was president of the Albany Day Line, while Jacob Van Vechten Olcott was formerly a Congressman and president of the Republican Club. GEORGE FENTRICK.

Brooklyn, May 15. Brooklyn-Battery Bridge Opposed At Blemish on Scene To theEditor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Robert Moses has been unquestionably the outstanding Park Commissioner of our metropolis and probably of our whole country. Why? Because he is not only a park commissioner but a landscape artist beyond compare. That being a fact he amazed me, as one of your correspondents well stated, by sponsoring a "monstrosity," from the artistic viewpoint, of a bridge "impairing the beauty of the Battery and harbor." Battery Park is an historic park and the only large open park space in lower Manhattan. Why was Moses, for once, oblivious of that fact and wholly in favor of the commercial need? However, there are other aspects, considered by our War Department, than either the artistic mercially.

If I feel WM. Brooklyn, Blind To Replace To the Editor This letter warmly for Eagle to shopkeeper, 1103 Bedford in April by The money your readers appeals and to Mr. Culve. of them stock his resume his new customer? him through his behalf. This Mr.

Culver's in our employ in a small fulfill his go out on Mr. Cdlver feel deeply EDWARD The Brooklyn the Condition Brooklyn, GRIN Letters and writers, permitted the editor. be kept but the right to meet Ave. was looted early some low form of thief. stupid Communist dictatorship." He further denounced both Negrin and received by you from Del Vayo as Communists in the following terms: in response to your the sums sent directly largely as the result have enabled him to re The tragic defeat of the cause may be attributed directly shop and successfully to business.

Also many to the brutal and stupid tic dictatorship, whose unconditional agents Negrin and his Minister Alvarez Del Vayo. Today have been drawn to your fine appeals in association is Interested in ade abroad as the representatives of those they betrayed It was to career as he had been be expected that once people (Negrin and Del continue to serve their masters." These gentlemen are America for the sole tor several years and, way, was helped by us to long and urgent desire to his own. and this association Indebted to the Eagle. S. MOLINEAUX, Executive Secretary.

Ass'n for Improving of the Poor. May 13. of the Assistant District Attorney, la being congratulated from many sides for her bravery in stopping a runaway horse at Clinton and Lafayette Aves. white-washing Stalin's role in Spain. SAM BARON.

Brooklyn, May 15. however, that a state of tax consciousness has come upon large masses of people. Only rarely in the history of the United States has such a state of mind developed. Cities like Chicago have experienced their "taxpayers' strikes," with paralyzing results. Albany still has cause to remember the descent of embattled real estate owners a few weeks ago.

Any holder of securities or reader of the financial columns must have been impressed by the unanimity of the factual presentations of the tax problem in annual corporate reports. Clearly, this means that a deep stratum of the population, much deeper than the upper bracket payers, is being gored, and it is well to keep in mind that this is where protests and votes meet in a usually effective combination. Congress has departed from its professed economy-mlndedness, but when the members get back to their constituencies they will hear plenty. From this point of view, it is just as well that it will be August when they go home, for tax-consciousness will be much more firmly jellied by that time. Taxes are shaping up as a major issue for 1940.

With so many nations at the crossroads, what the world needs most now is a good international traffic cop. Washington Post. In Europe time is measured in years, months, weeks, days and crises. Cincinnati Enquirer. now in purpose of Eight posts of the Grand Army of the Republic laid a wreath yesterday on the tomb of Gen.

Henry W. Slocum at Eastern Parkway and Bedford Ave. Lichty Politically, Who's Zoo? ITona the Chrlitlan Selene Monitor It's from New York City, and it's not about tho World's Fair I That alone makes it news. But what makes the news worthy of comment is the question It raises as to the political future of America. It concerns the elephant At the Prospect Park Zoo the WPA Is putting water in the moats around the exercise yards so that when, as, and If the pachydermatous Humpty-Dumptles.

have any more largish falls, none of the King's horses or men will be required to put them together again. The improvements now being un-' dertaken, however, exceed the mere upholstering of the moats. In addition to all the comforts of foam, the moats are to have ramps. Thus an elephant, should he find he has en-Joyed his tumble "Just tons," will not have to wait for the zoo force with block and tackle to haul him out again before he can take another. Of course, this new WPA recreational project could not be thought of as without political impUcaUonsa Now is the time for all good Republicans to deny any insinuations that further falls on the part of the Elephant need be expected, and to come to the aid of their Party by interpreting the improvements undertaken in Prospect Park as a sure sign of an Increasing regard for the symbol of the G.

O. P. and of a future of happier landings and easier ascents, refuse to AND BEAR IT By C.wr. 1I1S fer tlalue FMlart IrilMk ln. polite and speak to her but I absolutely notice what she's wearing." or commercial.

A bridge Is so vulnerable to attack in case of war a tunnel so little so and the piers would to some extent block water traffic at all times. Our borough has waited so very long for some needed commercial connection at this point between the two boroughs, couldn't it wait a few years longer and have not only a safe and sound connection but one which would never mar the beauty of an historic park the only large one left at the lower tip of Manhattan? What a beauty spot Moses made of the small Bowling Green Park opposite the Custom House, why should he now spoil it and the Battery with a "monstrosity" such as he now proposes? Commercial connection with our sister borough at this point is vital, I admit, but when a great project is proposed why not do it right, even though it costs more and requires more time? A tunnel, too, will be a better paying proposition than a bridge. Seldom in haste is anything done right and I never saw any one in such great haste as our Park Commissioner. I don't know why. And you, naturally, are considering the immediate commercial needs of our borough.

In this rather sordid, commercial world of ours, so necessary to us individually and collectively, why not sometimes subordi- nate it to an ideal? In city planning I think the entire metropolitan area should be considered as a i whole, both artistically and corn- "I'll be.