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*® 4 HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1925. W ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS THE EVENING S’I’AR' With Sunday Morning FEdition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.... 18, 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office St and Pennsylvania Ave k Office: 110 Fn-s 0".“}"’\ st foe. Tower: Buildine England 11th New Y with the Sunday morn. The Evenine Star the Sunday marn: fng edition teliver the at’ 60 cents month: Aaily only 45 cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cents per ‘month In'a may he gent by mail or telaphone Ma. 5000, Collection {s made by carrer at the end of each month Hete by N ayable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. tay 1vr.S840:1 = 1 eri&a001 1yl 24001 All Other Daily and Sunday Daily only Sunday only 700 Aoe 20¢ mo. mo. mo. Datiy wna sur Daily only Sunday onls tates $10 00 £7.00 $3.00 ane aoc 250 1mo. 1mo. 1 mo.. Member of the Associated Press. The Acsociated Press is exclusively o o the e for renublication of all n ito it ar not other aper and alxo the loca in. Al richts of publie: e aleo rese Coal and Public Rights. Dispatehes from relate keeping ! otiations at nihracite ind *hat he Swampseott President Coolid is bs on the wage ne Atlantic miners Al suspension of is determined to use T t onl tion ufte It is the hope of the President and his advisers, of | that and _mine | will agreement, | s powe revent produc- September 1 cou the miners owners come to an thus making unnecessary interven tion by the Gove: There is no ment desire to interfere with the liberty of | action of those immediately concerned, | hut welfare is of \'u]rr(‘nwl importance Tt is recognized that the that | vate the public mines private and n property the of between quest w naatte ploves up t there employers and em-| \ certain point, but when | threat that coal produc spended, the public paramount to either of miners or mine owners. The difficulty the President will con front, if matters come is lack of specific to in terve except conciliation and offers to medlate. There is no legal compulsion upon the mine owners to continue operations or upon the work, and past experience does not warrant con fidence that the compulsion of public opinion will be of much effect About with it fering bring about that will owners of s comes those may in with rights | | | | to a cris Luthority in law through | m s to continue at one great coal strike, dships and suf i needed to of a program miners and mine considerable measure of this liberty of action upon which they now lay so much The public will insist that it be safeguarded from being the victim of their dis agreements. Warrant for such a pro- gram would be found in the fact that being a vital necessity to national th who engage In its produc either or laborers, themselves an obligation not to deprive the public of this nec sary Any one, miner or mine owner, not willing to rest under this obligation would be privileged as | an individual to withdraw from the business of producing coal. but they ; would not be privileged. through any | concerted action, to | prevent coal being produced. Individ- | ual liberty is one of the prime objec tives of the American scheme of things, but when individual liberty runs counter to public welfare, cur- tailment the liberty of the indi vidual becomes neces There has been curtailment in a thousand other wauys, and there is no reason in Justice or logic why mining coal should be an exception o ——— The Sea Serpent Dea Summer sca serpent has been secn. A report from Prov LR says that “a huge sea serpent that had | apparently been killed when struck by | hted off Fenwick | three more attendant all adoption is tha a will deprive stress. made coul life tion s' owners take upon | | commodity. to combination or i | of sar | | the business of d. | The | steamship was by the Island shoal The eight: cumfterence. captains.” | said serpent was at least feet long and fifteen feet in cir truly a mighty denizen of ; is the the deep the years has Su Not passed without one | © our shores, | teel done its duty sea serpent in many | 1 of these monsters comi: and some persons might that | Summer not were it not pent dead the firm in their opinion i8 positive that pent. It has been a hardship on the re: of mankind that seeing sea ser pents has b o men with a special optic gift. Tens of thousands of people splash in the surf and travel the thousand gets a glimpse of a sea ser- pent, and then the neighbors cast re flections on the sobriety of the wit- It would relieve the doubt of a many if a4 sea serpent nd mounted in the Che three to give us a visit by A u sea ser. regrettable this thing about i The thres creature s tha animal is sea captains who saw are sincere men and Their saw testimony h the dead ser always n restricted sea, yet not one in a ‘z ness | good could be persons if a capture M ked an opportu 1 National Museum captaing overlo ity to help the world ! they fo pent tnt enrich themselves the when to tow port. dead sea ser- | - e | With sudden the public mind has been turned from a contem plation of the Senate rules to a study of the rules of evidence in Tennessee. a shock ———— leted on land, going to sea v ——— Having the highways contemplate: com his conquest of Henry Ford The Freight Terminal Project. A cct has just been having for its purpose the great freight terminal the District boundary at the north. west fed by lines from the South along the Virginia shore of the viver and crossing the Potomac by a bridge. It is believed that this establishment will permit a more di- rect and therefore a more economical haui of freight into Washington There is one feature of this plan which should be taken into account by the authorities in considering the grant of such permission as will be pre announced creation of just beyond corner, new Y ‘”h‘ | tions will thus come up fc { poses and | have f will | wishing Clarence Darrow | or necessary to allow its consummation. Concentration of a large freight busi- ness at the northwest corner of the District will involve a haulage by trucks through a section of the city which is now free from such a condi- tion. The direct way into the city from the proposed freight yard is Massachusetts avenue. The prospect of heavy truck lines passing through that thoroughtfare, traversing a strict- Iy residential section of Washington, is not alluring. Congressional action is likely to be requisite for such a work, inasmuch | as it involves the dbridging of the Poto- mac, and thus it is probable that the | whole question of the desirability of a development that so distinctly alter the character of the area proposed for enterprise will be considered by legislative committees. This matter of the truckage through residential sec ¢ discussion Furthermore the question arises whether the location of a great freight ard on the bank of the river at the proposed point will in any way affect o1 be affected by the project for the damming of the river for power pur- the creation of a lake is not for the purpose of dis- couraging the commendable prise that seeks to add to Washing- conveniences facilities for and the reception and distribution of goods | that out the may the Rather development considerati is {1t sought to prevent of a condition that harmful than the present inadequacy, if there be su of the freight-handling facilities of the Capital 15 are pointed prove more e ————— Experts Barred at Dayton. Those who looked to Dayton, Tenn.. for on the evolution versus the Bible will be dis enlightenment appointed by the decision of the court ! to exclude the testimony of experts by the Scopes defense. Their purpose was to show the exact character of the teaching which is shibited by State law, with the )ntention that Scopes did not trans- the literal proseription of a eaching contrary to the Bible b been permitted to place experts on the witness stand the whole ques tion of evolution would have opened to discussion. The court rules that the issue simply whether Scopes taught that man is descended from lower order of creation. That fact has been established by testimon: given on behalf of the State. will take the stand and deny, and by other witnesses establish that his teaching was to that effect he may offset the State's showing and have ground to claim acquittal Expert testimony at Dayton would made the show complete. It would have given Mr. Bryan his great chance to deliver his forensic contribu tion to the cause of fundamentalism It would have provided the corps—al- most an army corps—of correspond- ents present at the trial with limitl copy. The reading public would have been given volumes of matter bearing on the Darwinian theory of the descent summoned the s e is of man, perhaps less accurate than the | Darwinian text itself, but more pic turesque. It is doubtful whether the public understanding of the question would have been advanced the legal issue involved at Dayton would not have been made more clear. Judge Raulston has ruled correctly in barring the experts from the wit- ness stand. They have no place in this proceeding. which bears simply in a preliminary manner upon the right of the State of Tennessee to bar | certain teachings from the publicly | supported educational institutions in | that State. It is difficult to see how they can be admitted to any one of | the courts before which this case must | pass before a final decis question of dered. This whole Dayton trial has been unseemly spectacle. Fortunatel the good sense of the presiding judge has prevented it from degenerating further into a contest between seel ers for notoriety. on of the vital constitutionality is ren an v S Diplomats be license tags in Washington, D. obliged to pay for auto or drivers’ permits. Un cle Sam is always willing to do what to relieve European financial assment, without a direct tentation of philanthropy which might ppear discourteous. Q. not he can o os Loeb are would get through with his present engagement and return to his sympathetic interest They have already been in longer than a number of peo No doubt Leopold and in then durance pie expected. 5 e o) Keeping religion out of politics is one of the most difficult tasks Ameri- manship has had to face. e L The Scopes trial has had no value as an advertisement for ~ Dayton enn. s a Summer resort. can state e Health in Country and City. The relative health of city and coun try people is discussed in a report by George Vincent, president the Rockefeller Foundation (hat health conditions are better in citles than in the country, but he in- cludes villages and hamlets under the term “country.” There is some gen eralization in the report to which many persons make take exception There are sanitary factors In citles not to be found in settled country re- gions, and there are health possibili- ties in the country Y_\Ol to be found in cities. Many persons living in the country know little of sanitation and dietetics, but there are also persons in the country who know these sub- jects and follow rules laid down by the best authorities and who have common sense in things pertaining to health. There are people in cities are ignorant and regardless of the laws of health, but they are more nearly under guard by Health Depart- ment officers than if they lived in the country. The question is not whether the country or the city Is the healthier, but whether city people or country people know more about rules promotive of health. The president of the Rockefeller Foundation says: “The idea that rural life is inherently wholesome and healthful has all the vitality of a s who enter- | subject of | Had * 1f Scopes | his denial, | Certainly | of popular legend. The crystal waters of the old family well, the gymnasinm apparatus of the plow and hoe and saw, the fresh food from field, garden or dairy, the constant outdoor life, | the mental serenity which comes from contact with nature, huve been so | lyrically extolled by orators, chiefly {urban, that it is hard to convince the man in the street that the farmer and his family are not healthier than city folk.” 1n enlightened country districts peo ple know the danger of polluted water, and as a general proposition State and county officers, and espe clally physicians, have spread and are spreading among the poorer classes of country people modern ideas of conserving health. There are | backward regions in the United States, and there are progres- sive country regions where the intelli gent inhabitants are well advised in matters of sanitation. r—e—s Bootlegging by Express. An ingenious, and for a time a suc- cessful, scheme for the transport of liquor has just been discovered and thwarted by the arrest of the par- ticipants in New York. Their plan was to ship the contraband in traveling trunks 1 country empties back by t taken in the raid containing the land addresses ¢ xpress ks were names ly Persons, presuma CUSLOILErs oF “prospects, proxmately livered. This to whom ap 000 orders had been de of br n law is clever methdd aking the hibit and apparently {it has been safe cnough to enable its | promoters to carry it on und a long tin But the que: arises whether the express companies pro | tor ion ments. The trunks out in quantitie evidently went A natural suspicion should have been aroused the nature of the goods contained in trunks expressed in such large num- bers. It is express ope as to possible that in this case the companies did, in fact ate with the enforcement authori ties by tipping them off to the great number of trunks going out from a place not used for a legitimate ness. Whether they did so or not, it is now plain that the enforcement or- | ganization, with the knowledge of this | method of transport, can in the future keep watch over shipments and check up on the Ines of goods that are being dispatched in this mann The use of the express for the dispatch of rum-carrying trunks ought to be sus- ceptible of control co- busi If Mr. in intelligent ap preciation of his opportunities, he will forget the lawyers and diately to New York press agent Scopes has send a seasoned imme for Huddling into a small town in July to conduct an argument on and religion not meet erage American citizen's proper Summer vacation. science the tdea of does av- a = AOCE S | Darwinism has indirectly called at- { tention to the amount impulsively obliging may eventually make faw. - of trouble an legislative body for a court of Ll The Riffs have an advantage in be ing accustomed to the climate thermometer has a significance beyond that hitherto recognized both in | fare and devate. | — e Whether France is taken serfously {or not depends to some extent just war | now on whether the news is coming | from Paris or Deauville i ———— Unless prohibition enforcement proves more effectual the “gold cur | and the “Keely cure” will inevitably | be revived | | oo Funmakers are present at the evo lution squabble. They help to. point the delicate difficulty in determining where humor ends and pathos begins. In the Democratic convention the combination “Bryan In Dayton, Tenn., it is Bry e SHOOTING STARS. I PHILANDER JOHNSON was n and Son. The Trouble Factory. In an overcrowded room That is filled with wore Where the heat is more t in the shade, Men assemble And we tremble Mid mysterious threats of doom, As we learn how further trouble may be made. 1 ninety In a sweat shop where they strive Just to live—nor hope to thrive— Weaving words to make their fellow men afraid, In a mumble And a jumble Such as warlocks might contrive, be made. Subtle Strategy. 1 understand vour wife has bobbed her h: At my request,” answered Senator Sorghum. “The bobbed-hair vote this country is something to reckoned with.” | | | in be 1 ! New Kind of Contest. 1 heard the oratoric din Where fierce invective filled the air And said, "1 wonder.who will win The perspiration contest ther, More Reliable. “Do vou believe In the possibility of transmuting baser metals Into gold?” “No,” answered Mr. Dustin Stax “I'm a realtor. T don't depend on trans. mutation. 1 depend on commutation.” Ordeals. There is a phrase quite unrefined Which every Summer brings to mind; And yet it's apropos and neat, That sentence, “Crazy with the heat. When folks hold meetings meant to change The ways of destiny so strange, ‘We wonder, as the years go by, ‘Why must they hold 'em in July! “Fishin’ wasn’t no sport foh small | boys,” said Uncle Eben, whale swallowed Jonah.” “‘when de express, dispatch the kéys | to the purchasers by mail and get the | (¢ those shumeless men who must of turbed are not culpable in takng such ship- | of gloom. | Jotre. People show what further trouble may | jured ! has done | ; @ | tutely The | | | | ist | ¥ and Bro.” | T told vou s0.” | ish THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Philosophy is commonly regarded by the “man on the street as something utterly beyond him, vet in essence it is a very simple thing. Divine philosophy, as it is called, consists of the gentle art of “kidding" one’s self into the belief that whatever happens is for the best. When you can do that you are a philosopher. The Philosophical Society might say this definition is extremely simple, vet I would put out that this article is not being written for presentation before the society My definition is for the reader, who wants to get at the nub of the question in a hurry. By letting him in on the secret of what philoso- |lhylrmll)' is, 1 hope to do both of us Eo0d Marcus Aurelius, in the ninth book of his “Meditations,” gives a sterling presentation of this practical phase of philosophy. 1In the section to be quoted he tells how we may feel com- fortable after meeting all sorts of men who make us feel uncomfortable. He by ‘When vou are offended with any man’s shameless conduct immediately ask yourself, 1s it possible, then, that shameless men should not be in the average | worla? ‘It is not possible. “Do not, then, require what is im possible. For this man also is one necessity ‘Let present the be the in knave in the world. same constderation be vour mind in the case of and the faithless man, and of every man who does wrong in any | | way For at the same time that you remind vourself that it is impdssible | that such kind of men should not ex posed toward every one individually. * % ok ¥ “It is useful to per immediately when the oc [ given to man wrongful act “For she'has given to man, as an antidote against the stupid man, mild ness, and against another kind of man some other power. “And in all cases it is possible for you to correct by teaching the man who is gone astray: for every man who errs misses his object and is gone 1stray “Be eive this, sion arises, 1o oppose to every sides, wherein have you been in You hos will find that no one among galnst whom you are irrit d anything by which your nind could be made worse: that which is evil to you and harmful has its foundation only in the mind “What harm s done or what there strange if the man who has nc been instructed does the acts of an uninstructed man? nsider whether rather blame yourself. not expect such a m a way “For you had your reason) to suppose likely that he would cor and vet vou have for amazed that he has er: But most of all. when vou blame a man as faithless or ungratefil, turn to vourself. 'or the fault manifestly own. whether you trusted that a who had such a disposition would keep his promise, or, when conferring your kindness, you did not tonfer it abso- et in such way as to have m vour very act all the you should not because you did n to err in such means given you (by that it was mit this error, and are your man nor received fr fit. For what more do you want when vou will become move kindly dis- | too, ! continues, “what virtue nature has | you have done a man a service? ““Are you not content that you have done something conformable to your nature, and do you seek to be paid for it? g “Just as If the eye demanded a walking! “For as these members are formed for u particular purpose, and by work- ing according to their several constitu- tions obtain what is their own; so also as man formed by nature to acts of benevolence, when he has done anything benevolent or in any other way conducive to the common inter- est, he has acted conformably to his | own constitution, and he gets what is his own.” * kK k * ife gets what is his own! Once a person gets this idea irto his head he is in a falr way toward becoming happy in this world. None of us gets more than his own, although some imagine they ure wrestling more than thelr share out of the world. But with their wrestling they wrest greed, an evil possession; and o It is that men find themselves with none to care for them simply be- cause they have never done anything to make themselves loved. Every one, therefore, gets what is | his own. This was the prize comforting | thought of Marcus Aurelius, as it was of our own John Burroughs, wrote one of the greatest poeins of our day and age, beginning Serene 1 fold my hands and wait X 1or "de "ot _gea et time or Tate, owh shall come to me. There we have tied up the first cen tury with the twentieth. Those who have followed these easy lessons in Marcus Aurelius will notice t in this particular article 1 have nged “thee” and “thou’ and “thy to their modern equivalents, with im provement in one way and loss in another Substitution of modern pronouns makes the reading easier, at the same time takes away some of the strange- ness which clings to the older words. The change, on the other hand, de- | prives an anclent writing of the an tique flavor which ought to be in saparable.from it. This is about the only way we have of giving them this flavor, As previously pointed out in this | series, ancient authors are essentially 10dern, for they treated of that most up-to-date subject, human nature, which. like the poor, we have with us {alwa- s In reality, thee” and then, once we take out “thou’” we bring an old author duwn to the present with a rush faster than auto racers get around their track Balancing one loss against another. I am not sure that the uniform mod ern phrasing would not conduce to wider reading of the great ancient authors. So for the present we will continue in this style “He who does wrong, against himself. The reader will find thought expressed in one son's poems beginning: red slaver thinks he slay Arnold’s “Light of Asia”; f course, in the Vedas of India, in Confucius, and, indead, much of the literature of the world The modern teacher expresses the same idea when she catches litt Johnnie “cheating™ at his lessons. “You are only hurting yourself, Johnnie,” she teils him. | Marcus Aurelius tells the world. does wrong that same of Emer. When the also in previously, Country Not Surprised by Smedley Butler’s Waterloo The interest with which the country has been watching the efforts of Brig Gen. Smedley D. Butler of the Markes to “clean up! in widespread comment on the an nouncement of his coming resignation om the office of director of public Since the director is a soldier, naturaily military phrases are used in discussing the case. He is said “to be ready to hoist the white flag™: to have “met his Waterloo in Philadelphia”’ to have “lost his battle”; to be pre paring “to s 1o have failed in his and to be on the ev his command.” but back to the wail.” “One hundred and forty-nine vears after the liberty bell proclaimed the glad tidings of independence to the land.” s 1 Antonio Evening News, “Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, director of public safety, announces that his efforts to clean up Philadel phia have ended in failure. He asserts that driving vice from the City of otherly Love has been harder than er fought can independence have forgotten safety series of sorties,’ any battle he has i the that ‘liberty ex wholesome restraint * Many observers are inclined to with the Fort W Journal-Gazette. “We do not fli ourselves,” observes the Journal-G: “that Gen. Smedley D. Butler gave serious attention to a warning We uttered for his benefit early in his career as special commissioner of afety to ‘clean up’ Philadelphia Nevertheless. we did solemnly admon. him to look out. We told that his great problem in Philadelph would not be found in attempting to deal with bootleggers, crooks and gun- men. but in trying to get along with the politicians.” “Gen. Butler has encountered the age-old obstacle to law enforcement,” erts the Kansas City Post, advances repulsed by the politics.” This comment is borne out by the retiring director of safety's own statement, which, as guoted in the Huntington Advertiser, was as follows: “I have not been fight- ing crime and vice so much as L have been fighting political u opposed me at every turn.” The Ad- Vertiser believes “politics-criminal en- tanglements,” as they are called by (ien. Butler, are making all laws dif- fieult of enforcement, particularly the prohibition statutes. * K K K Agreeing that the evil to which Di rector Butler refers is found in all Jarge American cities, the Portland, Oreg.. Daily Journal declares, “it is a situation that can be remedied. The Yemedy lies in the people of the Cities.” The remedy cannot be applied however. by an indifferent citizenry, and the Utica Observer-Dispatch describes the lethargy of Philadelphia so great that even a man of the {remendous energy of Gen. Butler can hardly dent it.” 4 “It looks as if the revelations about o be made in Philadelphia may con <titute one of the major police scan- dals of American annals,” predicts the Charleston, S. C.. Evening Post. The revelations referred to concern “the corrupt police ring,” which, according to Assistant United States District At- torney Henry B. Friedman, says the Springfield, Mass., Union, “not oniy accepted bribes to protect the liquor \w violators from arrest, but even as- sisted in the loading of trucks with contraband liguor and acted as con- voys for the liquor-laden vehicles. LR Half-hearted co-operation of the po- lice of Philadelphia was recently char- acterized by Gen. Butler as “‘shadow- boxing,” and this phrase has been widely quoted. Gen. Butler “admits failure because the police have been *shadow-boxing,” " says the Louisville Philadelphia is reflected | art a new war on crime’; ! ‘surrendering | anding with his | In the | him | “and | influence that | Post. “With a der | ing linked up with { will find it difficult out punches.” The St. Louis Post-Dispatch appre- the attitude of Philadelphia. The people, declar “want erime put down, but they do not want their rights. their protection under the law, trampled under foot. | through “an orgy of lawless police uc- | tivity. The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, after enumerating some of the general's vir- tues, states that “his administration has been stepping on the loud pedal too hard.” “Would it not be better," it asks. “in future to imitate the lowly hen and do the cackling after the egg has been laid Pusn Sees “2V/5 Bill”” Useful In Nation’s Currency rtment that is be n alcohol ring. he to deliver knock- ciates Editor of fhe Star If a bill between the $1 and the § must be put in_circulation, why issue no more §2 bills and try $21., marked plainly—as all bills should be —on every corner, 2137 To the %? JOHN LEE. ————— “Breakdowns.” “Nervous breakdowns,” Sir William Bennett announces, are increasing | greatly in England. Thirty years ago, he says, there was no such thing recognized by the medical profession the public. Now the number of cases is astonishing. | There is the same situation in this | country. If anything, it is worse here. One hears talk nowadays of friends and acquaintances suffering from {“nervbus breakdowns” just as com- monly as one heard of appendicitis cases when that disease was in its | hevday. The term used is sometimes a euphemism to cover a downright at |tack of insanity. Usually it signifies |@ case of combined ph and disordered nerves, making the victim unable to work effectively and a burden to himself and others. What is the cause? Apparently the high speed of living. Too much activity of body and mind. Covering too much ground. Not necessarily too | much work or too much play, but_too | much exertion—too much exhausting of energy. And no doubt physical causes play a big part, particularly diet. Possibly half the breakdown cases could be traced to digestive dis- orders If there is one remedy ipler living. This does nof mean nec- essarily retiring from the world or ceasing to do what the world does. It is not so much a question of less |action as a question of more poise. | The top is most steady when whirling | most rapidly. That is a good exam. ple of poise. _ People live too emotionally, living in their feelings, letting themselves be hauled this way and that, when | they might keep calm minds in the midst of action, like the steady driver {at the wheel of a speeding car. The man in calm control of his own mind and spirit doesn't break down. And simple, plain, nourishing food, |adapted to the eater's real needs, helps immensely by freeing him from the |internal toxins which destroy mental | poise and power.—Waterbury Demo- | erat. | or | it is sim- ————. From the Springfield Republican. pushing a hoe as we cauld from play- ing golf. But who ever saw four men hoeing in a garden all stopping to laugh and slap each other on the back? recompense for seeing, or the feet for.| who | s the Post-Dispatch, | ot | sical weakness | Where the Difference Lies. Somebody asked the other day if | we couldn’t get the same results from | T || THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover. Writing long before the invention of printing, the unknown author of Ecclesiastes said that “of the making | of many books there is no end.” If the trickle that must have represented the literary output of that day re- quired such strong language, how much stronger language 18 required adequately to express one's amaze ment at the flood of hooks fssued to- day, numbering thousands of titles| annually of books written in English, disregarding all publications in for- eign languages. How much greater also “the weariness of the flesh” re- ferred to by the preacher resulting from “much study,” if one al'&mplll to read more than a_very small frac | tion of the books published. In spite of dwindling forests and consequent | rise in cost of paper and printing, hooks get themselves published on | every conceivable subject, and by an | increasing throng of authors, some competent and some decidedly not. Books are approaching journalism are easily and quickly written and published, are read by some, perhaps by many, are forgotten and replaced by other books, better perhaps, possibly by poorer books, but at any rate by later books. A few only survive for shorter or longer perfods and a very | few from age to age. How is the serious, the discriminating reader, de- sirous of conserving time and eye | sight, to select what is best worth while to read out of the bewildering mass of books, new and old. offered to him? | | | * ox o ok partial answer to this question | lis offered by Asa Don Dickinson,| Hbrarian of the University of Penn-! sylvania, with his “One Thousand | | Best Books.” This “vade mecum of | the reading man” is further de- seribed s “the household guide to a lifetime’s reading, a varforum list compiled om many authoritative selections This particular list is a reading gulde based on a consensus of expert opinion. The compiler has made use of about 60 lists compiled by other authorities during the last 40 vears or more, including such famous lists as those by Sir John Lubbock, Lord Bryce, Arnold Ben- nett, Andrew Lang, Brander Mat- thews, Theodore Roosevelt and others, less famous but quite as competent. He has collated the titles, including those which appear again and again lin varfous lists and excluding ques- tionable and freak titles and those representing only personal idiosyn- crasies, prejudices and prepossessions. The resulting thousand titles are ar- ranged Iphabetically by 1thors the choice in each case is backed up by the sponsors listing it and fol- lowed by a descriptive note. The list intended for scholars, but for the average cultivated reader. It is chiefly confined to belleslettres, fic tion, poetry, essays, the drama, humor | and’ criticism, but also includes <ome history, travel and biography. with a few books on religion, phi losophy. art, political science, econom |ics and science. In cases liter {ary charm and excellence have been |large factors in choosing books for |inclusion in the list. In addition to | | the main arrangement of the list un- der authors, there are arrangements by dates, by nationality, by order of pped nce on the indorsing lists— by authors and by titles. There is| |a classified list by subjects and, | {finally, a grouping of 100 books to| | be read in 1923, another 100 in 1926 | jand so on through 1934. As an |wppendix Mr. Dickinson publishes a | A | {home library list of 200 volumes |chosen by the division of lterature |of the General Federation of Women's { Clubs. *x o x | One of the possible net | the maternal relation is Willa Cather in_her novel, of the Lark.” It is not the orthodox view of poetry and sentiment. Mrs. | Kronborg, Swedish-American, widow of Pastor Kronborz of Moonstone. | Colo., lies dving. She is “a handsome | woman of 60 years, with a body still firm and white; her halr, faded now | to a very pale primrose. in two thick braids down her back: her ey clear | and calm.” Dr. Archie, the physician | who has attended her when all her seven children were born, attends her now. The child she loves best, Thea, | who is just beginning to attain suc- | cess as an opera singer, is in Ger- | many. Mrs. Kronborg longs: to see her. and Dr. Archie summons her. | But Thea has just received an un-| looked-for_opportunity to go in a big | part in Dresden, and she does not come. She urges her mother to live for six months, promising that then she will come and take her back to Germany with her. Perhaps Mrs Kronborg is skeptical about the hap. piness of being a companion to an opera singer, for she is a keen wom an. At any rate, she does not think it | { worth while to g0 on living, and dies. | Her other six children are ail good | and commonplace. Thea alone has | the romanticism and the cleverness of her mother—and far more than her mother. Mrs. Kronborg, after read ing Thea's letter. turns to Dr. Archie ‘Bringing up a family is not all it's | cked up to be,” said Mrs. Kron-| borz, with a flicker of irony. as she | tucked the letter back under her pvl-i low ““The children you don't espe-| cfally need you have always with vou. | like the poor: but the bright ones get | away from vou. They have their own way to make in the world. Seems like the brighter they are the farther they | go. 1 used to feel sorry you had no | family, doctor, but maybe vou're as| well off | | results of shown by he Song | A The news columns have recorded the award last week at Seattle of the Newberry medal by the American Library ~Association to Charles J.| | Finger of Fayetteville, Ark,, for his| “Tales from Silver Lands” as the! most distinguished contribution in | 11924 to literature for children by an American author. The book is a col- lection of folk tales of South Amer- |ica. These tales of strange animals, of earth and sea folk, as retold by | Mr. Finger. make enjovable litera- | ture for adults as well as for chil dren, for whom they were primarily written. The author knows his South America. He has explored in the Andes, in Tierra del Fuego and in o0dd, out-of-the-way places He Tived with those he met—with Indians, zauchos, miners and sailors—an ad- venturer always. And his experi- ences there led to a close and inti- mate correspondence with W. H Hudson and R. B. Cunningham Graham. In accepting the Newberr medal from the chairman of the chii- | dren’s librarian’'s section of the Amer- jcan Library Association, Mr. Finger gave this as his idea of the story teller’s art: “Experience with all kinds of peo- ple, savage and civilized, leads me to believe that the chief thing to be achieved by the story teller is a sense | of reality; without that it is not pos- sible to interest boys and girls. A story teller who tries to talk either up or down to children will fail. The juvenile mind Is active, alert, critical and everything set before it is sub- ject to swift, critical analysis. Lack- ing sincerity the story will be re- jected.” * ok k% A folk-lore tale of Denmark in the sixteenth century under King Fred- erick 11 is the material of Selma Lagerloef’s story, “The Treasure.” A voung girl, Elsalill, the only survivor ¢ a murdered family, dedicates her- Lelf to vengeance. Love interferes. Then a ghost as persistent as the ghost of the King of Denmark in “Mamlet” comes back to track the chief murderer and to enlighten Elsalill. Vengeance is finally ac- complished, but at & great sacrifice. Like all of Selma Lagerloef'’s work. *The Treasure” is full of symbolism. | displayed | in the term “hors d'ceuvre BY FREDERI Q. Y» it possible for rabies to be transmitted to human beings through | | the nilk or mal?—F. A, A. It is a generally accepted fact that rables cannot be transmitted to meat of an infected ani- { normal animals through food contain- | ing the virus of the disease unless lesions are present in the alimentary anal. However, the conclusion that Ithere is no danger to the consumer | |from the meat or milk of animals that | Brooklyn are rabid is not tenable, since abra- sfons of the lips, mouth, pharynx are all too frequent to permit of such risks. These products must therefore be considered as dangerous to health Q. Is there anything I can put in he water when washing stockings to make them retain their sheen?—M. P L. A. In rinsing hose a teaspoontul of vinegar added to a bowl of water will help restore the luster of the silk. Q. Is there any decision of the United States Supreme Court declar ing the U'nited States to be a Chris- tian Nation T D: A. Mr. Jus rendered in 1892 in connection with the alien contract labor act, stated that in his opinion the fact that “the form of oath, the custom of opening the Natfonal and State assemblies with prayer, the laws of Sabbath ob- servance, with the closing of courts, | legislatures und similar public assem- blies on that d; the number of churches, missionaries, philanthropists —these and many other matters which mighi b= noticed add a volume of un cfficial declaratiwas to the mass of or- ganic utterances that this is a Chris tian Nation." Q. Which is the oldest fraternity?—M. R. L. The frst Greekletter college aternity was Phi Beta Kappa, which was organized at Willlam and Mary College, in Williamsburg, Va., Decem ber 5, 1776. Q. Is there a bank City which has social B. M. W, A. The Bowery Savings Bank has established within the main bank building on the Bowery offices for social workers among both Jews and ITtalians. It advertised in the for eign language papers saying that ad- vice on financial affairs would be free- Iy given. Signs were prominentls in “the bank informing visitors that Hebrew, Yiddish, Italian, French, German and English are spoken there. As a matter of fact, 12 languages may be understood. Q. What kind of food i college in New York workers?— included —J. A. H A. Under this term are classed all foods that are regarded simply as accessories to a meal, and designed to excite the appetite rather than to satisfy. It is probably because they are placed on the table apart from other dishes that they have been so- called. Caviar is one of the most usual foods used in this wi Q. Are there any cotton mills China’—B. S. A. There are in today Chinese- Brewer, in a decision | C J. HASKIN. |owned cotton mills, with 2639862 spindles in op jon and 32500 spin dles under installation. There are 13,403 looms working and 5,625 looms being constructed | Q. I should like to know the story {of Steve Brodie. Did he die imme | diately after jumping from Brooklyn Bridge—B. D. A. Steve Brodie jumped from the n Bridge July 23, 1886. He | undertook this feat, as a result of a et. Apparently it did not injure him n any way. Q. How did P children *—M nd had dren—three girls and two bo; names were Ruth, Esther, | Francis G. and Richara Folsc | Q. what the billion? P. | A. They are trilijon, drillion, {quintillion, sextillion, septiliion, octi |Hon, nonillion, decillion and vingtil {Hon. Q. What |ity?—J. D. | A, Harry extraction {burgh, Pa., Q many Presi D five chi Their Marior are numerals above « Harry Greb's national Greb is of Irish-German and w born at F June When was the play “C Aunt” first produced?’—C. Y A. Tt was first presented stage October 2, 1893 Q. Is burnt umber From what is it made? A. Burnt umber is russet brown color. It is semi-tr parent, mixes well with most pigments and dries quick obtained b burning ochreous earth containing manganese and derives its name from the pl where it was first discove bria, Italy transparent P Q. What is the object of the o called the Knights of ¥ 0D, A. Knights of Youth, a new order whose purpose {s the eth! of school childre duced in 12_publ York City. Nearly 1,000 childrer enlisted in the ranks of knighth in one school. This order accla character as the knight's noble quest, and it was formed to combat the fncrease in juvenile crime. It is sponsored by the Natfonal Child We tare Assoclation (Ask Uncle Sam about it through the Washington information bureau of The Ktar. All knowledge the Gor | ernment is gaining through research and investigation is available to you | Don't hesttate to make your wants | known. A 2-cent stamp will bring you the information you need. This seri- ice is for all readers of The Star and |is designed to be helpful to all who | avail themselves of it. An effective | clearing house between the Govern- ment and the people will aid you, and it is yours for the asking. Address your wants to The Star Informat Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director Twenty-first and C streets northwest BACKGROUND OF EVENT BY PAUL V. COLLINS. What opium is to the addict, the dole threatens to become million Englishmen and Irishmen. It soothes the present sense of suffering, only to bring more severe distress in the future. Thus reason leading econo- mists of Great Britain, as they con- sider the practice which has become a fixed feature of British policy since the war, andeespecially since the com- ing of the great industrial depression of the last four years A million and a quarter persons. most of whom are able-bodied and capable of work, are living in unem- ployr nd being supported thus in idleness, at the expense of the tax- payers. The expense of such a policy, as measured in pounds and shillings, is as nothing compared with its cost in productive capacity and degeneration of the million people, losing their self-reliance day by day, and forever handicapping Britain in its competitive struggle in the markets of the world * ko % A dole is a portion given in charity In practice, the British law under- took to camouflage the dole and hide its charity by providing that certain classes of citizens should register nd receive “unemplovment books, | which, in case they were out of wor would entitle them, upon presenting the books at employment agencies of the government, to receive u certain amount of “insurance” so long as they were not provided with employment suited to their capacity. It sounds better when it is called “insurance than when called charity The theory of the advocates is that every man is entitled to a living and it is the duty of his government tc so regulate conditions that Zet wages: if no wages are available the government is responsible—not the unemployed—and it devolves upon the government to see that t'e citizen shall neither starve nor be humiliated with “charity.” “The gov- ernment owes him a living,” accord- ing to the doctrine of the dole. * * 4 The origin of the “doje” is hidden in antiquity. St. Chrysostrom. of the fifth century A. D.. speaks of doles as portions of food or money given to the poor, in connection with fu nerals: they procured rest and peace to the soul of the deceased when liberal doles were thus distributed his “History of Leices tershire,’” say: “In 1790. there were 432 inhabitants, the number taken by the last person who carried about bread. which was given for dole at a funeral, a custom formerly common throughout this part of England, though now fallen much into disuse. The practice was sometimes to be queath it by will, but whether so specified, the ceremony was seldom omitted. On_such loaf was sent to every person, with out any distinction of age or circum- Stances, and not to receive it was a mark of particular disrespect.” These doles, whether in money or in articles of food and ale, were at one time common, not only in_ Eng. and, but also in Wales, Ireland and cotiand. % Xk However, the present system doles in England and North Ireland is very different from the ancient funeral dole, for it is given to main- tain the idle. While it purports to be given only to the unemployed but em- ployable, as a, sort of employment in- surance, the premium of which s paid by the general taxpayer, it covers, also, the infirm and unem ployable. According to the London Times, “The unemployment insurance was founded on an insurance basis. It has become extended by reason of | cupporting unemployed persons, who have exhausted their right on insur- | ance grounds to receive benefit. Those \hose benefits are being paid on the Strength of thelr insurance position are described in official language as being ‘on standard benefit'; others are ‘on extended benefit.” Half of the men and a third of the women are ‘on ex- tended benefit.” In case of infirm and unemployable, 80 per cent are ‘on extended benefit.’ - 5 “The 1,300,000 unemployed are not a standing army. The personnel is changing all the time.” The London Times further com- ments: “One serious matter is the he will | occasion & small | of | subtle deterioration of quali whic | Inevitably results fn numbers of cases | from prolonged and enforced i Trade union leaders deplore moralization whic means universal, | ducing the employabi of workers, undern ductive capacity in the fu An investigation labor discloses that t dition of unemplc that of th e fo employment xty-eigh .n—g.ndul in good pl las h g good | having no obvious physic per o poor | poor physiques both. In the ligt and physiqu |of draft age at |@raft, which d the men under 30 years as unfit for military = du | statistics of Eneli |are significant—if |to the American di | * * The London table g trac ment percentage. lowing is an abh ind of— January sho w of which viatio 1922 1824 ) May pternber | Deember : The 1921 figures for omit the coal miners |that the peak of ame in 1921 and ditions today are little worse than at | the beginning April and June 1t is apparent * What is the cause of Britai | trial depression Is it true that due to the loss of markets throu; after-effects of the war upon Europ If so. why was the peak delayed unt 1921-—1wo years after the peace treat | In the Fortnightly Review, Crozier Long calls attention fact that the German budget 250,000,000 pounds sterling, while British’ budget is 785,000,000 Germar killed wages cent and uri wages, and ndus it 18 h the to the is or are killed S8 per cent German hour. have been wreased from 8 hours a day He argues that | Fora, in spite of paving high can wages & payving a tariff per_cent, undersells all British in Britain. and he demands swer: “Would these facts supp universal but blind expecta: restoration of world peace will aut | matically n n a restoration of Bri ish prosperity? | _He argues that Great Britain 143,000,000 people, produces ¥ |third ‘of food required and le half the raw material used in manu |factures. To pay such expenses, ef is peculiarly necessary Britain—efficiency in labor invention, in direction and orgar tion. “What is the matter with Great | Britain,” he asks, “‘that six vears aft er armistice she should see no earl |solution to her unemployment prol lem, still less any prospect of impro {ing the standard of living of the peo |ple or expanding her expendit o ducation and national development reat Britain is today not producing the things which the world wants of |a quality and at a price which it wil {take in a competitive market, and she is not increasing the markets in he own imperial estate by spending the capital necessary to develop it. * * * |If Great Britain had enough Henry | Fords, and the gumption to use then | properly, her problems would be solved.” i * 1 A wit one a * ok x A report of the Federation of B; | Industries, just issued after 13 months | research, recognizes that British e ports amount to only 75 per cent of pre-war trade, and it suggests the question, “Whether we must’ accept the post-war conditions and attempt to readapt industry to new conditions To make such a readaptation. it is conceded, would mean that more food | must be produced at home, also more | raw materials, and the home market I be protected against outside competi tion, to the end that the dole may be qunplanle(l with wages, and the un employed set to prodpetivity in a man ner that will meet world competition. (Cepyright, 1925, by Paul V. Collise.)