Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Moraning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY....November 1, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . . Editor The Eventng Star Newspaper Company Bosiness Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave, New Yotk Office: 110 East 42nd St Chicago Office: Tower Builéing, Eurepean Office: 16 Regent 8t.,London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, is delivered by ecarriers within the @ity at 60 cents per month: ly only, 45 cents per month: Sunday only, cents per month. Orde may be sent by mi or tele- Pphone Main 5000, Collection is made by car. wiers at the end of each month. Rate by Mall—Payable in Advamce. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday. 1 yr., $8.40:1 mo., 70c Daily only 1yr., $6.00;1 mo., 50c Sunday only 1yr., $2.40;1 mo., 20c All Other State "Daily and Sunday.1'yr., $10.00;1 mo., 85¢ Daily only . 1yr, $7.00:1 mo., 60c Sunday only 1yr, $3.00;1 mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled o the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- * lished ~herei I rights of publication of special dispatches berein are also reserved. One Hundred Per Cent—Minus! “The United States expects every American to do his duty: Vote!” So runs the slogan that is sounding throughout the country, printed in the daily newspapers, spoken from plat- forms and through the radio. An in tensive effort is being made as never before to arouse the American people 0 go to the polls on Tuesday to the last man and woman qualified to cast & ballot and to declare themselves, This present campaign is calculated to appeal strongly to the interest of the people, and to overcome the apathy which often prevails at elec- tion time. A triangular fight without precise parallel in the political history of the United States has been precipi- tated, presenting new angles of issue and affording an unusual range of choice between candidates. Owing to the peculiar conditions there is pre- sented the alternative between a direct election by the people themselves and an elettoral deadlock throwing the choice into Congress. The capacity of the people to choose for themselves has been challenged, and the outlook now is a response on Tuesday that will definitely determine the result In Great Britain the other day. an election was held in virtually the same conditions, with three parties in the field and with the electorate urged by all of them to go to the polls and vote. The response there was réecord-break ing both in point of numbers of bal- lots cast and of result dict was rendered, so unm the voice of the people that it Possibly be challenged or questioned. It is the hope here that the Ameri- can voters will in the same manner on Tuesday next respond to the call to duty and cast their ballots. It is be- " lieved that if they do so a result will be registered that leaves no doubt, no ground to question, no chance to chal- lenge. While these adjurations to exercise the right and to discharge the duty of citizenship have been sounding throughout the Washington stands by helpless and apart, votele disfranchised, un-American in r "spect to the chief right and privi- lege of citizenship. The adult po. tentiul voters of this community of Bearly half a million are denied all participation in the choice of the Fed. eral Executive and the Congress that - makes both the Federal and the local - laws. Yet Washington is sounding the €all for a 100 per cent ballot on Tues- day, knowing that there can be no 100 per cent ballot o long as it is denied that which is lauded as the inalienable , privilege of the American citizen, the | right of representation. May this spectacie of country-wide agitation for the fullest vote bring definitely and conclusively to national attention, and to the point of remedial action, the. un-American plight of the half-miilion Washingtonians who, qualified in every r t save in the eye of the law, are aione of the people of this country—together with certain Indians, criminals and the insane— denied the right to vote. —————————— The Franklin K. Lane Memorial Grove was formally dedicated recently. Could any other memorial be more impressive for any man, and could any other be as appropriate for that particular man? ———————— Good business is reported. The boot- legger is getting are of it. There <ds no way of promoting the fertility of the garden without encouraging a few weeds, country ————— Even his adverse critics must admit that Gov. Charles Bryan is no spot- light grabber. Chrysanthemums. Another of the annual Government flower shows is blooming in the green- houses of the Department of Agricul- ture. It is the vearly chrysanthemum show, and many thousands of people are attending. There are new chrys. “anthemums which set the latest Fall fashion in these flowers, and their guardians and tutors in the Depart- ment of Agriculture have named a “number of them after citizens of Washington. A majority of them have been named for women. That is fit- chrysanthemum settlers in this coun- try were Aslatic immigrants it is be- {lieved by American patriots that the American cthrysanthemum beats to & frazzle any foreign-born chrysanthe- mum. In white, yellow or red the American chrysanthemum is re- splendent and transcendent. In fuzzi- ness, kinkiness or curliness the Gov- ernment-regulated and the Govern- ment-owned chrysanthemum is cham- pion. ‘These public flower shows which the Department of Agriculture sets up in ‘Washington are educational. The de- partment brings up “mums” of sturdy character, correct principles and un- rivaled beauty, and sends them out to brighten gardens in those dark aend unfortunate parts of the United States which do not lie in the Potomac Val- ley. The influence of the Washington chrysanthemum is nation-wide, and in thousands of gardens in California and Oregon, where there is considera- ble pride in climate, fruits and flowers, there are chrysanthemus which shake their shaggy heads and say to less beautiful companions, “My grand- mother came from the greenhouses of the Department of Agriculture at Washington.” Perhaps maeny chrysan- themums growing in remote districts make the boast that they descend from Smith’s Sensation, Daphne or Queen Mary, and say proudly, My ancestors were brought up in a glass castle on the Mall between Twelfth and Fif- teenth streets in Washington City.” President-Elect Calles. The visit of President Calles of Mexico to this city is an occasion of particular significance in view of the re-establishment of relations of the ut- most cordiality between the two repub- lics which, in consequence of the un- happy conditions then prevailing in the neighboring state, were interrupt- ed for a period. Mexico is now estab- lished upon the foundation of free elections, and Mr, Calles is soon to take his seat as chief executive of the republic with the full mandate of the people. He has been making a tour of Europe, from which he is now on his way home. This was an aedmirable move, calculated to cement the friend- 1y relations between Mexico and other countries. One unfortunate condition exists today, however, in the breach of relations between Mexico and Great Britain. The American hope is that the breach will be healed soon, and that the two governments will resume relations of friendliness and mutual confidence. 2 Complete cordiality between the United States and Mexico is almost a matter of gecgraphical necessity. The conjunction of the two territories per- mits the freest intercourse. It at the same time may lead, as it has in the past, to friction. But that friction may be allayed by the exercise of pa- tience and with understanding. Of the benevolent motives of the United | States in its dealings with Mexico the neighbor republic has no reason to be in doubt. On every occasion this Gov- ernment has manifested its desire for the establishment and maintenance of a strong, independent, autonomous ad- ministration south of the national boundary. It has sought to aid in the promotion of Mexican industries. It has supplied capital through the enter- prise of its citizens to develop the potentially rich resources of that land. It has sought only fair and equitable treatment for its nationals without discrimination or preference. It is fortunate that Mr. Calles is abie to visit Washington before taking his seat as President of the republic. The direct contact thus afforded here at the Capital of the United States can- not fail to acquaint him fully with the desire of this Government to maintain helpfully friendly relations. His ad- ministration at Mexico City should be stronger and more successful for this communion with America. ——wt—————— A New York musical show producer is in jail because his billboard display was regarded as immodest. He de- clares himself a martyr to art. The old question of definition arises, “What The meaning of the ‘word is almost as comprehensive as that of “life” or ‘“thought.” Wonder- ful as they all are, they may not be manifested in pernicious forms. The word art, because it commonly signi- fles beauty, is made to cover a multi- tude of impudences. —————r——————— A veteran automobile racer wants a divorce because he thinks he is being nagged too much. Maybe he has the kind of a family that insists on driving the car from the back seat. — e —————— Governmental machinery in Eng- land frequently commands admiration for the noiselessness with which the gears can be shifted. ——————t——————— Naming the Ku Klux Klan was, aft- er all, accomplished by numerous speakers without any alarming or even extraordinary results. is art?” ‘Who’s Who in China. If China wants to be really under- stood by the Western world, wants its affairs to be comprehended fully and its doings followed intelligently, it should find @ way to transliterate, at least for purposes of publicity, the names of its leaders, generals and statesmen. At present it’ls almost im- possible, save for a few, to understand who's who in China, or to remember long when once identities have been tng. Flowers are more like women, ‘or women are more like flowers than gnen are. While it might be discreet to name a cactus, thistle, ragweed or N beard grass after men it is more gracious and truthful to name violets, “Yoses and chrysanthemums for the ladies. Of course, the chrysanthemum has become rather a stalwart and as- sertive flower, but many women have got away from the clinging vine and bleeding heart attitude. . Whatever may be said of the Gov- “ernment’s ability in other lines, it surely knows how to grow chrysanthe- ..mums, and the Washington-born chrysanthemum is a leader in the chrysanthemum world. New York. Philadelphia and Baltimore chrysan- themums look to Washington chrysan- _themums for the latest kink or curl in petals, and the Washington chrysan- . themum sets the style in Autumn | .hades. The first chrysanthemum to established. Chinese names are much alike to the Western eye and ear, Of course, all Chinamen know the differ- ence and have a perfect knowledge of these identities. But it is hard for others to recall the Fengs and Wangs, the Fus and Pus, the Yens and Haslangs, the Kwangs and Chiangs and the other scores of peculiarly named persons who figure in the dispatches, Probably China has just as much trouble, however, with our nomencla- ture and gets Inextricably confused over our Johnsons and Jonses, our Smiths and Browns, our Davises and Coolidges, our Bryans and Roosevelts, our Peppers and Sweets. But it seems to us, at least, here in this part of the world, that these American names are really more distinct and easier to learn than are those of China. A few Chinese personalities have been firmly established in the Western understanding and recollection. We all remember Wu Tingfang as the genial Minister of the empire here at ym £ome Years ago, yet there. I were those who confused him at times with Ching Ling Foo, a magician who at about the same time mystifled and entertained great audiences In this country. There was also Li Hung Chang, the *“‘grand old man" of China a couple of decades ago, one of the greatest statesmen that the Far East ever produced, but it took some time even for his identity to become estab- lished over here. Recently there have been so many leaders and generals and statesmen, cabinet officials and others conspicu- ous in the Chinese turmoil that it is next to impossible to bear them in mind distinctively. This is partly due to the rapid changes that are occur- ring, to the suddenness with which new armies come into being and fade away. It is recommended to those en- lightened younger Chinamen who come West to study, that they try to find a system of identifications that will enable American readers of the news to keep themselves fully posted on affairs behind the great wall. —————— Carnival ‘Washington made carnival last night in celebration of Halloween, which has become an appointed time for merrymaking, a Fall festival of fun and frolic. The play spirit pre- vailed with a degree of liberty seldom manifested. Costuming which on other occasions would be viewed as undigni- fied and ridiculous was engaged in by adults as well as youths. Pranks were played of a kind to challenge rebuke at other times, but in the atmosphere of good nature prevailing on Hal- loween they were accepted as permis- sible. Of course, in such conditions some rough mischief is done. The ordi- nary barriers of restraint being lifted, it is impossible to prevent altogther the rowdyism that always seeks oppor- tunity for expression on the part of a few persons. On the whole, however, mve for accidents incident to the crowding of the streets, the occasion passed without harm. It is probably well for people to re- lax thus from time to time and engage in harmless fun-making. Such ex- cesses as are committed are, of course, to be deplored. Only recently this city had occasion to “let go" when it cele- brated the victory of the home team on the base ball field. There was no organized demonstration then, as there was none last night. The spontaneity of the celebration of the winning of the world championship was, in fact, its chief merit. Halloween is different. It is anticipated. Preparations are made for it. Long ago it was the fes- tival of youth, chiefly of the little chil- dren. But the elders have caught the spirit of the occasion and now prank along with their juniors. There is not now much of the old- style marauding in which property was damaged and destroyed and mis- placed. Halloween has become a car- nival rather than a riot. Last night's affair was in the true spirit of merri- ment without wanton mischief. [ Protests against capital punishment are still voiced by Clarence Darrow, but it may be doubted whether he will ever again make as influential an argument as he made in the Leopold- Loeb case. —_————————— As conscientious people, Robert La Follette's managers ask citizens to vote for him, but do not advise them to bet on him. ——————— Every citizen of the U. 8. A. is urged. to do his duty and vote. The District of Columbia citizen can only applaud the sentiment. —_———— The Republican party fully expects the silent vote to be in sympathy with a man who is not very talkative him- self. —————— SHOOTING STARS. 0y BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Quietude. Nothin’ to do For a day or two But rest while the hours drift by; Till our cares we'll stop, As the blessings drop, Like the rainfall from the skies. Nothin® to do As we pursue The old and accustomed way We'll sing a song As we drift along And wait for election day. Nothin’ to do Till we get our due For the moments of wild acclaim, We'll pay our bets And we’ll shun regrets And smile as we play the game. Nothin’ to do— Since the talk is through— But think of the big display. Life is dull, indeed; But a rest we need, As we wait for election day. First Duty. “What do you regard as the first duty of e statesman?* “To get elected,” answered Senator Sorghum, “so that he can put some of his noble ideas into action.” Jud Tunkins says a silent voter is the one who is liable to cheer the loud- est and say “I told you" after he finds out who's elected. Election Problem. We hold an office in such high respect It makes a problem tough— It's hard to pick out some one to elect ‘Who seems quite good enough. Hope Ended. “You used to be & great spelling reform.” “I've given up hope. What chance for it is there when half the country agrees that KDKA spells ‘Pitts- burgh.’” advocate of Back to the Jazz. When the campaign is through we'll return To the tune which so bravely at- tacks & phone, By then all the speakers will learn To stop interrupting the saxophone. “De noise a man kin make,” said Uncle Eben, “ain’t any mo’ sign of his patriotism dan a flivver horn is of de carburetor adjustment.” THIS AND THAT BY C. E. TRACEWELL Most readers of books at some time or other have come across an author of whom they thought they would never tire. “I have become sort of fed ul all the rest,” one would say, “but here is the real stuff at last. This is great! 1 do not see how I can ever become tired of this.” Alas, for human hopes, the great- ness of books, the frailty of man's likes and dislikes! At the end of a certain period— it may be a week, it may be a month, it may be a year—the new love wanes. The enthusiasm that seemed as if 1t might last forever begins to cool, and the great author is put away on the shelves to give way for another. Thus it was when Dickens came into one's life. One did not see but that these books would last one for- ever, always to be as enthralling as at that first reading, when, with bat- ed breath, the adventurers of Little Nell were followed through to the bitter end. While we still have the greatest fondness for Dickens, we have to con- fess, in our secret heart of hearts, that never again can we get as much out of him as we did at that first reading. Something has gone out of his books for us. It is still there for others, perhaps, especially the young people who are coming along, but for us it is as the touch of a vanished hand. We simply have completed another of our cycles of readng, that is all. Every one reads in cycles, whether he realizes it or not. Every stage has its charms, and its memories. What has been great to us once can never be other than great to us in the end. In the meantime, however, it can hold second place 1o a new enthusiasm. * ok ok % These cycles in reading vary, of course, with the various tempera- ments of children and men. Most of us begin with an enthusi- asm for fairy tales. The adventures of the famous four little pigs and the wolf that did huff and puff and blow their house in, give way to the more mature stories of the brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. These treasure troves disappear from the child’s horizon, too, in the same way that they succeeded “Jack and the Beanstalk” Perhaps the next stage is the Horatio Alger books, followed by the even more famous Henty books. Probably most boys prefer the latter. So ingrained is war and strife in human nature that even boys qf peaceful disposition seem to like tHe Henty books the best. Of the scores of these semi-historical adventure stories, perhaps “The Cat of Bu- bastes” is the best, although each person may hold some other par- ticular volume in precious memory These gave way to the “nickel nov- els,” about which the mothers of America made the greatest literary misjudgment in all history, since they frowned upon stories entirely inno- cent in nature, usually well written and embodying generally the highest ideals of manly conduct. What memories are those which throng of Frank Merriwell, Nick Car- ter, Old King Brady, “The Boys of '76," Buffalo Bill, Fred Fearnot and others! Why, their very names seem poetical, even judged at this dis- tance. 1 have read a stack of these paper books, which, if they could have been piled on top of each other, would have topped the Washington Monu- ment. Today there is no need to apologize for this taste of one's boyhood days. it has become generally recognized, of recent years, that the old “dime novels” were not as bad as painted. It was perfectly possible to read how Old King Brady raided a Chinese opium den single-handed, and then turn right around and enjoy Shakes- peare’s “Julius Caesar.” of boys did it. on X% £ To many the novels of Walter Scott Thousands | came as one of the most interesting stages in thelr life cycle of reading. Once you got a taste for Scott, the uthentic tinge of romance was in ur keeping. Your heart was in ‘The Heart of Midlothian.” You sat, a very spectator, at the tournament in “Ivanhoe” Rob Roy and others were your bedfellows. “I ask you, how can. women who wear French heels, use lipsticks and listen to jazz, find the charm in Scott’s novels?" Mrs. F. S. A. writes me. Now, there is a question for you! You see what the writer means, of course—and yet, some way or other, it would seem perfectly possible for a small flapper, attired in French heels, lipsticked, bobbed-haired, may- be even smoking a cigarette, to get a “kick” out of Scott! Yes, there is a dash and go to Scott, once you get the flavor, that will bore right through rouge, jazz and French heel And there was Dickens. Now, Dickens is not so much an author as he is an epoch. Dickens is a world, a veritable cosmos, Reading Dickens is an experience. It was Walt Whit. man who later sald, “When you read this book, you do not hold & volume— you touch a man.” Dickens is like that. ‘When one first enters this world of Dickens, it seems as it never could the first glow and charm of it wear off. There is Florence of “Dombey and Son.,” and there is old Capt. Cut- tle, too, with his hook, and there are | scores and hundreds of other persons and places, in such fresh variety that life itself seems to offer no more va- riegated or wonderful scene. Yot today Dickens' novels rest upon your shelves peacefully. This is one of the tragedies of reading. And how often have you gone to the shelf to take down a Dickens novel, to ex- perience again the cozy glow of that first discovery, only to stay the hand, because you knew that although you might hugely enjoy it, in no wise would it be as it was then. * ko x % There are three distinct ways of approaching the Bible. One may read it as a religious book. or merely as literature, or both as religion and literature. Prof. Moulton of Chicago Univer- sity, with his “Modern Reader's Bible,” has satisfied the need of all classes of Bible readers, but especial- 1y of those who for the time being may read the texts simply as great writing. It need hardly be said that there is no irreverence in this. The Bible, considered merely as literature, is great with a greatness that touches the heart, In fact so much so that he who reads it in this way feels that here, at last, is the one plece of reading of which he will never tire. Chess books, for a time. may hold the uninterrupted attention of the man who goes in for reading en- thusiasms. Such a person reads in "streaks,” as it were. He studles the games of Paul Mor- phy until he begins to feel that he knows something about why that great player lost his mind. Then he takes up Walt Whitman, who wrote for the common man, but whom no one but most uncommon men read. The “barbaric yawp" goes mightily for a time, then it smoothes out to the proper tone in the light of every day. Comes then a period of reading ad- venture and detective stories once more. We are proud of the fact that we recognized the merit of Rafael Sabatini when he was first appearing in_an adventure magasine. These are but a few of the cycles a reader may go through. Stevenson is left out, as is Kmerson and Conan Doyle, Plutarch and O. Henry, Plato and Richard Harding Davis. The great merit lies in the fact that for every cycle completed there is a cycle yet to experience. Think of the untouched treasures awaiting the reader who has never read a book of Conrad! WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Col. Rhinelander Waldo of New York, who chaperoned and financed the recent delegation of actors and actresses to the White House, is ex- pected to be the next Governor Gen- eral of the Philippines. That is to say, if and when Gen. Leonard Wood relinquishes the post. The University of Pennsylvania’s offer of its pro- vostship to Wood is understood to be open for acceptance at his pleasure. | Waldo was a candidate for the gover- nor generalship at Manila during the Harding administration and was strongly backed for it. The former police commissioner of New York was a “Harding Democrat” fn the 1920 campaign, and this year he has headed the “Coolidge-for-President Non-Partisan Association.” While Hiram Johnson was a pre-convention candidate for the Republican nomina- tion Col. Waldo was one of his sup- PRar * ok % ¥ The new “Foreign Service of the United States”—the official title of the combined diplomatic and consular branches of the Government—is cele- brating the return of a prodigal son. He is Julius G. Lay, who is now en route to Calcutta as American con- sul general. After a long and dis- tinguished career in the consular service and at the State Department Lay resigned in 1920 to become a member of the international banking firm of Speyer & Co., in New York. Now, like the cat, Lay has come back and goes to India as the United States’ chief representative in that vast and populous empire. It was nearly thirty-five years ago that Lay entered the consular service in Can- ada. After that he served succesaive- ly, ahd always with higher rank, in Spain, China, South Africa, Brasil and Germany. He i a native of Washing- ton, D. C., and the son of a United States Army officer. * k x ¥ : Edward W. Bok, whom Queen Wilhelmina has just decorated with the highest order within her gift, aspires to raise the diplomatlc status of his native Netherlands in the United States to that of an embassy. Correspondingly, our legation at The Hague would mount in rank. Bok doesn’t see the reasonableness of Latin American states not nearly so important as the Netherlands enjoy- ing a diplomatic relation with Amer- jca which outranks that of the land of dikes. With the Dutch East In- dies, the Netherlands has a popula- tion of nearly 60,000,000 and an area a fifth the size of the United States. In wealth Queen Wilhelmina’s realm is one of the most powerful states of the world. * % ¥ Former Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois will go down in history as the champion refuser of jobs under the Harding-Coolidge administration. Rumor names him as one of Presi- dent Coolidge's preferences for the vacated Secretaryship of Agriculture. In 1921 Harding offered Lowden the Navy portfolio, but the Chicagoan wanted the Treasury, and, having been denied that post, declined to consider any other. Later President Harding tendered Lowden the ambas- sadorship to Japan, also ‘in vain. President Coolidge placed the London embassy at Lowden's disposal .in 1923, but the dirt farmer-lawyer put that alluring temptation away from him, too. Lowden’s stern declination of the 1924 vice presidential nomina- tion, after it had actually been be- stowed upon him, is sfill fresh in public memory. * k% X Chicago is nearer than ever in her history to becoming the political capi- tal of the country, as a consequence of the 1924 presidential campaign. The Republicans looked upon it as far and away the most important center. La Follette's campalgn was mainly di- rected from the Chicago shores of Lake Michigan, and the Democrats de- voted as much time, money and at- tention to Western headquarters there as to national committes of- fices in Washington and New York. Not only is Chicago geographically central to a degree approached by no other big American city, but all par- ties nowadays depend so vitally on the votes of Western States that it is the natural base of major operations. It was John Quincy Adams, in. an oration at Plymouth, in 1802, who de- clared that “Westward the star of empire takes its way.” That other Massachusetts son of destiny, Calvin Coolidge, ordained from the outset of the 1924 campaign that G. O. P. at- tention should mainly be turned to- ward the dominion of which Chicago is the pivot, * % % % The President, on the night of elec- tion day, will experience the thrills Iwhich, in modern times, Grover Cleve- land, Benjamin Harrison, Willlam McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Wil- liam Howard Taft and Woodrow Wil- son, in turn, all went through, i. e. hearing at the White House the Na. tion's verdict on them. Coolidge will be the first President of the United States to learn of his fate by radio. He will have extensive facilities for geotting news. The two leading news agencies will install leased wires in the White House; the Republican na- tional committee wire from Chicago will bring returns from the incalcu- lable West, and the all-embracing radio will be in action. The Presi- dent and Mrs. Coolidge plan to spend one of their usual quiet evenings. Probably Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns will be the only friends with them. (Copyright, 1924.) Veterans’ Bureau Posts Urged for Service Men To the Bditor of The Star: Several months ago an appeal was made to the public through the papers, supposedly by the Veterans' Bureau, for positions for the wound- ed ex-soldiers who had finished their courses in vooational schools. At that time there were 301 who had finished their courses and were ready for positions. We see in the papers every few days where men and women have been appointed to positions in the Veterans' Bureau, and the public ‘wonders why these men or a great number of them are hot placed in these positions. If the - Veterans' Bureau needs dentists, accountants, stenographers, mechanics, etc, to 61l _the positions created or made possible on account of the World War, why is it that the men who fought this war and were made un- fit to fill the positions they formerly filled are not given the positions in question? p The Library Table BY THE BOOKLOVER. One reason why the novels and poems of the three Bronte sisters are read today is the interest felt in the sad, colorless and short lives of the Brontes, passed on the gloomy Yorkshire moors. Mrs Gaskell has told most sympathetically the story of the Bronte family in her “Life of Charlotte Bronte.” A recent book by a present-day dweller in the Bronte country, which gives inti- mately its atmosphere, ‘Bronte Moors and Villages from Thornton to Haworth,” by Elizabeth Southwart, with illustrations in color, by T. Mackenzio, All three sisters were born at Thornton, but soon removed with their father, the Rev. Patrick Bronte, to Haworth, where they spent the rest of their lives. Elizabeth Southwart says of this part of York- shire: “The Bronte country from Thornton to Haworth is a stretch of wild hills and rocks and yawning quarries, of harshly outlined fields, with the relentless moors creeping up to their black walls, waiting for the first moment of forgetfulness to take back what has been wrung from them. A country of whistling heather and slapping, howling winds, a country that Winter loves to clasp to its savage bosom until it would seem that every drop of life blood would be drained, changing the snow to water that it may take a firmer grip with ice. A merciless country, that takes its toll of life on snow. bound moor, the pit and the quarry; where man wrings bread from the soll by the sweat of his brow, where he must work if he would live, for of food and covering he needs more than the native of the South.” Many stories are told in this in- teresting book of the customs of the “natives” of these moors, of their traditions and ghost stories. Frugal- ity has always been one of the primal virtues. Formerly “to save fuel, enough porridge was boiled in the morning to serve for two -meals; that left over was poured, hot, into a bottle, then corked, and placed in the bed to keep warm until noon” —apparently an early thermos ar- rangement. In 1839 a band of Thornton robbers existed—"lawless inhabitants, who were difficult to catch because constable himself was among One Thornton woman, left alone by her husband at night, hid her “brass” under the kitchen grate, and when the robbers pounded on her door and demanded admittance, took down the gun from the rafters, went behind the door and shouted: “T' first 'at comes I s'all shoit—an’ I s'all shoit to kill.” The robbers did not care to put her to the test and went away. Ponden Hall, near Haworth, now a ruin which might house a dozen ghosts, probably fur- nished Charlotte Bronte with the original of Thornfield in “Jane Eyre, and Emily Bronte with that of Thrushcross Grange in “Wuthering Heights.” * * x * The publishers and critics are com- paring Henry Ceard's “A Lovely Day” with Flaubert's masterpiece of bour- geois feminine adventure, “Madame Bovary.” Mme. Duhamain is, if pos- sible, portrayed as more commonplace and more stupid than Emma Bovary, her life is a shade more dull than Emma’s, and M. Duhamain is at least as monotonous and uninteresting as M. Bovary. Like Emmy Bovary, nestine Duhamain craves romance be- fore the extinction of her youth takes place. She finds it for a time in her imagination and then attempts to materialize it in a concrete amour. For the man in the case Flaubert selected, with consummate skill, a finished man of the world, wise in all the ways of courtesans of Ligh or low degree, so that, contrasted with him, poor unsophisticated Emma Bovary seems a novice attempting to be a cocotte. Henry Ceard, on the contrary, has created in Trudon, Ernestine’s lover, a vulgar fellow lacking in all the refinements—in fact, 2 man much of her own type and no more romantic than her own husband. So Ernestine’s adventure falls flat, as did Emma's, but for different reasons, and she settles down to await middle age In the henceforth unbroken dullness of her accustomed life. * % % ¥ Although this column is Jor the most part devoted to books, yet the Book- lover reads many magazines, and from time to time calls attention to articles that have been found specially inter- esting. A thrilling story of the re- sults of the investment by a State of large sums in education is entitled “North Carolina’s Dreams Come True,"” by French Strother, in the November World’s World. It is an account of Gov. Aycock’s vision of what education would do for an ignorant and poverty- stricken people, which in 20 years has been realized by the transformation of that Commonwealth into one of the richest and most progressive States of the Unjon and “has produced, for ex- ample, a splendid system of public achools, & State university that any State might well boast of, a system of highways that makes motor travel a joy to even the remotest mountain hamlet, a revived and modernized ag- riculture, a new and flourishing crop of industries.” Another striking arti- cle appears in the Outlook for Octo- ber 29, in the form of “A Letter of Confession and Challenge,” by John Spargo, formerly one of the foremost American expositors of socialism, who tells why he has ceased to be a Socl ist and why he considers that the pro- gram of “socialism now appears to me to be quite obsolete * * * rendered obsolete by life.” He contends that in America “we are progressing toward the goal of a genuine social democracy ® * ¢ we are much nearer the ideal of social democracy than any nation of the old world. Along lines peculiarly American, answering American needs, conforming to American conditions and experience, we are evolving a new type of socialization.” Mr. Spargo believes that popular ownership, not public ownersip and nationalization are solv- ing our problems of housing and trans- portation, and that the co-operative movement and not price-fixing will help to relieve the farmers’ troubles. He likewise comes out emphatically against the proposal to amend the Con- itution so that Congress may over- ride vetoes of the Supreme Court, per- tinently pointing out that German Socialists, in framing the federal con- stitution for the reich after the war, deliberately wrote into that constitu- tion a provision investing their high- est court with the power to pass upon the constitutionality of laws enacted by their parliament. Mr. Spargo nat- urally applies his change of views to the present political situation and te:‘ll for whom he expects to vote and why. — 1 know absolutely that these men are fitted to do the work that is being done by men who didn't go to war and by married women who have no right to these positions that can be filled by the wounded soldiers. Give these men the positions that ‘were created by their belng wounded and then appeal to the public. It is the duty of every Repre- sentative and Senator, as well as of the President, to see to it that these men are placed in the positions in the Veterans’ Bureau, in so far as it is possible. Just a few months ago a lot of professional men in the dif- ferent Veterans’ Bureaus, or doing work incidental to these bureaus, were Investigated on account of the exorbitant fees and prices they were charging for work done for the vet- erans. If the ex-soldlers had held these positions such investigations wouldn't have been necessary. BERTHA CUSTER. ——————— ‘We have hundreds of big men in Both but most of them are rmingham News. y | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. What is the difference between Plymouth Notch, Vt, and Plymouth Cnion?—P. T. F. A. The section of the town where President Coolidge's father lives is known locally as Plymouth Notch. Plymouth Union is the other village in the town. Q. What is regarded as the finest Christian mosaic?—T. B. B. A. “Christ Enthroned,” in the Church of Santa Pudenziana, Rome, is so re- garded by most critics. Q. Is it true that feeding canary birds certain foodgywill deepen their color?—C. K. A. The color of canaries may be deepened or intensified by certain foods given during the molting season. Tu- meric, marigold flowers, saffron, cochi- neal, annatto, mustard seed and other agents rich in natural color are often used for the purpose. Weak and old birds should not be experimented upon. Q. What is the greatest number of innings played in one game of base ball, without either team scoring?— T.S A. The performance of the Wash- ington and Detroit teams July 16, 1909, when they played 18 innings without either side scoring, is the record of the major leagues. Q. Where are coral islands found?— C. E. D. A. Coral {slands, formed from pet- rified skeletons of coral polyps, are numerous in the warmer portions of the Pacific and Indfan Oceans, where the growth of coral goes on with great rapidity. These islands also occur to a lesser extent in the Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantc shore of the West Indies. Q. What is a Consumers’ League?— W. D. 8. A. A Consumers’ League is an as- sociation of persons who desire, so far as possible, to do their buying in such a way as to further the welfare of those who make or distribute the things bought. The movement start- ed in England in 1890, and about the same time was taken up by the Work- Ing Men's Society in New York. Q. Please give information in re- gard to the Creek Indians?’—T. I A. A. The Creeks were an Indian con- federacy formerly holding the greater portions of Alabama and Gecrgia, and secend in importance among the Gulf tribes to the Cherokee. They were agricultural, but warlike, living in villages of log houses plastered with clay and arranged in a rectangle about a central public space for cere- monials. In the colonial wars and the Revolution thev generally sided with the English. They were grad- ually forced to surrender their terri- tory until only a few small tribes now reside in Alabama and other States Q. How many woman presidential postmastors have been appointed dur- ing the last four vears?—W. W. W. A. The Post Office Department says that 2,573 women have been appointed to this position. Q. How soon a person apply der the World T. O. A. A. The law provides application for compensation can be made five years after discharge, and in excep- tional circumstances the director of the Veterans' Bureau can extend the time two years more. after discharge must for compensation un- War veterans' act?— Q. What was Ralph W. Emerson’s definition of a “great" story?—C. S. A. The philosopher defined such a story as one which would evoke both tears and laughter. Q. What kind of beans are used in chop suey?—A. D. H. A. Beans used in making chop suey are mung beans. In order tol sprout these beans place them in a, covered jar with a hole broken through the bottom. This jar should be placed on some sort of a support and water poured in it every morning and evening. 1In ordinary Summer weather with this treatment the sprouts are large enough to use in about one-half week's time. Q. Do the outer planets move eastward among the fixed stars?— M LW A. The outer planets move east- ward in the long run; but when they are on the opposite side of the earth to the sun, on account of the more rapid orbital velocity of the earth, they appear for a time to have & westward or retrograde motion. Q. Who commands the Salvation Army in England and in the Unit:d States?—J. B. A. A. The Salvation Army of the United States is under the command of Evangeline Booth, daughter of the founder and in London it is under the control of Gen. William Booth, only son of the founder, Gen. William Booth. Q. How is the Government treate ing animals for foot-and-mouth dis- ease?—C. A. The Bureau of Animal Industry says that the Government has made no attempt to eradicate the disease by treatment because it has found that the immediate slaughtering of all the infected animals is the only way to wipe out this disease. Q. Upon was the word “dominion” in Canada?—M. N. A. The change was made at the instance of Lord Derby. Q. What Is the average pitch for: the female voice?—A. A. C. A. B below middle C is an average pitch which is pleasing for a female voice. whose recommendation “kingdom" changed to the Constitution of Q. Which in the Hawailan group is called the Garden Isle?—H. S. A. Kaual Island is so called. Q. What are the principal processes of engraving?—L. B. C. A If an engraved surface be cov- ered with ink or wet color, paper or the like pressed upon it will take the impression of the parts remaining untouched, while the hollowed-out (engraved) parts will not print off. This is called relief engraving, and its most important variety is wood engraving; if the ink or color be foroed into the hollowed parts, while the smooth part is wiped clean the paper, usually wet, will draw from the engraved line and spaces the ink which they have contained, while the rest of the paper is left white. This process is properly called line en- graving; if the lines are eaten imto the plate by means of an acld the process is called etching; if the sur- face is merely roughened without in- cision of lines it is called mezzotint. Q. Who was the first American sculptor employed to work for the Capitol at Washington?—V. W. K. A Horatio Greenough. In 1832 Congress commissioned him to exe- cute a statue of Washington. Q. What was the first written con- stitution drawn up on the American continent>—M. P. T. A. The articles of the Watauga As- soclation (1772). Q. Is there extant a copy of the 1793 edition of Paine’s “Age of Rea- son”?—O0. T. F. A. The first part of this book ap- peared in the year which you men- tion, but no copy bearing this date can be found. Q. Do Eskimos prefer raw or cook= ed food?—D. E. T. A. Eskimo signifies “eater of raw meat.” but these people eat uncooked meat only when the absence of fuel prohibits cooking, or as a side dish. Q. Is the celebration of Christmas general?—A. E. E. A. Although the oelebration of Christmas was at one time forbidden by the Puritans, it may be said that it has been generally observed throughout Christendom for many years. It is regarded as the feast of the Protestant, Roman Catholic and Greek Churches. Such ocustoms as those of having a Christmas tree, decorating with holly and mistletoe, are almost universal. In many Euro- pean ocountries carol singing is a feature. (The Star Information Bureau wil answer your question. This offer op- plies strictly to information. The bureaw cannot give advice o legal, medical and financial matters. It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles, nor to under- take erMaustive research om any sub- ject. Write your question plainly ond briefly. Give full name and address and inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage. AR replies are sent direct to the inquirer. Address Frederic J. Haskin, director, The Star Information Bureau, Twenty-first and C streets northwest.) Press Shocked as Brandegee, Noted as Fighter, Slays Self Frank appraisal. in keeping with the character of the man himself in life, marks editorial comment on the suicide of Frank Bosworth Brandegee of Connecticut, United States Senator and for a generation a powerful fig- ure in the old guard of the Republi- can party. Friends and foes recog- nize his honesty and courage and alike note the human inconsistency which permitted this uncompromising fighter to surrender at last to the ills of private fortune. “While his shortcomings as a statesman were apparent, men re- spected him even when differing with him,” says the Hartford Times (in- dependent Democratic), often a se- vere critic of the Senator. “He was courageous. He was honest. He was no trimmer. He was no time server. He had convictions. He was not afraid to stand up and be counted. No one ever accused him of quibbling or saying other than what he meant. No onme ever even hinted that he sought in the slightest particular to profit by his public service. * ® ¢ There were many occasions when his bluntness and his stubborn holding to position irritated and even an- gered Connecticut, but it never lost its respect for hie absolute and thor- honesty and his clean To the Worcester Telegram (Re- publican) the suicide was startling in its shock, because “he was so vigorous, so contentious, apparently so well assured of himself. One thought of him as likely to carry himeelf under the bludgeonings of fate with his head bloody but un- bowed. One could not see him over- whelmed to the point of surrender.” To have surrendered to the adversi- ties of private life by committing sul- cide “was an act totally at variance with his persistent political policy of non-capitulation,” adds the St. Louis Post - Dispatch (Independent), for “throughout his career the Connecti- cut Senator had fought everything through to a finish.” *x %% “The loss to the Senate of his com- mon samse and courage and modesty and gift of understanding,” the Bos- ton Transcript (independent Republi- can) feels, “makes all Americans who value these characteristics in thelr leaders one with his fellow citizens of Connectciut in sympathy and sense of loss.” Emphasizing his qualities of lead- erships, the St. Paul Dispatch (inde- pendent) remarks, “as speaker of the Connecticut House of Congress and as United States Senator for nearly 20 years, one of the leaders on the foreign relations = committee and chairman of the Senate - judiciary committee, his orderly mind and fearlessness made him a powerful factor in any legislative controversy in which he chose to participate.” In the opinion of the Leuisvlile Courler-Journal (Rumecratic) the Sen- ator was concededly a lawmaker of force. if not of wisdom, and a potent influence in the councils of the Republican party: he had a virile, rather than a various, mind and defended his positions on publ questions with vigor and vehemence. A certain failure of sympathy, ap- proaching cynicism, Is perhaps rec- ognizable in Mr. Brandegee's political career as a whole, thinks the Spring- field Republican (independent), but “those who strongly differed with him in respect to public policies agree in recognising his intellect, his ability, his_courage and his honesty.” “With no intention of disrespect,” observes the New York Times (in- dependent Democratic), he may be said to have been what old Con- necticut, with a twinkle of approba- tion, would have called an ‘off ox. He loved to vote No, though he missed a notable opportunity on the bonus bill. He wouldn't have Lori- mer or Newberry investigated. He opposed the income tax, direct elec- tion of Senators, prohibition at every stage and form, woman suffrage, the Federal reserve bill, extension of the parcel post, Federal regulation of child labor. In the Senate war against the League of Nations he was perhaps the most Intransigent of the irreconcilables, more influen- tial quietly than the spouters. He even had to rebuke Mr. Lodge for his spirit of compromise.” * * % % Although the New York World (in- dependent Democratio), considered Brandegee a product of old-school machine politics and generally an ob- structionist, it pays tribute to his character, saying: “He was a fair, it hard, fighter; he was sincere and strong, and If he had nqt been honest he need probably not have turned to unsuccessful real estate speculation to make his fortune—his absence on the Republican side will be felt.” As one of the members of the upper house, whose regularity was never questioned, the Baltimore Sun (inde= pendent), is certain “his death will be a serious loss to that faction in th. Republican party, for, though his suc- cessor will be a Republican, Senator Brandegee's resourcefulness and long experience in public life made him a force in party councils that no new man can hope soon to replace.” In fact, the New York Evening Post (in dependent), expects serious political complications as a result of his death, because “his successor cannot be in the Senate when Congress opens for the short session in December. Con- necticut’s party rules and election law requirements will delay the special election necessary for at least seven weeks. Meanwhile the Republican strength, not. a majority in the Senate, has been reduced by one de- pendable vote, with the possibility of the final choice for the next Presidenty going: into the Senate.’