Evening Star Newspaper, November 2, 1926, Page 8

8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY.....November 2, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: . 11th St and Pennevivania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Office’ Tower Butlding Dean Office; 14 Regent St.. London. Fngiand. The Evenine Star. with the Sunday morn g adition. in delivered by carrierg within the eity at' 80 cents per month: dafty only 85, centa per month: Sundas .20 cents month. Orders may be sent by mail or lephone Main 5000, Collection is made by carrier at end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ally and Sund. £0.00: 1 mo.. E-u Tl G s - ha e unday onty " 7 §3.00: 1 mo All Other States and Canada. Pally and Sunday.. $12.00:1mo ailr only .. 8.00: 1 mo’, Sunday only . $4.00: 1 mol! Member of the Assoclated Pre: The Assoctated Press is exclnsirelv en the uge for republication of all news dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise crad- ted in thia paper and also the local news published herein. Al riehta of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved A Good Example. The President of the United States travels eight hundred miles to cast his ballot In today's elections. He fur- nishes a concrete example of fidelity to the duty of every American citl- zem, no matter what his political party, 10 exercise the suffrage upon which the theory of the American Govern- ment is built. The President could have voted by mail, casting an ab- sentee’s ballot. But the personal ex- ample, the actual physical contact with the polling booth, is far more effective. Criticism of politics and politicians, of men in public office, is frequent. Some of it Is Justified. But mere criti- elsm never eliminates the control of governmental affairs exercised by a crooked political organization. - It never retires a crooked official from office. The only remedy for such ills 18 the fullest expression of the will of the voters on election day. If in many American communities vice is winked at by officials whose duty it is to sup- press it, the right-minded citizens— who are always in the vast majority— are to blame. They do not go to the polls, or if they go, they too often vote without a knowledge of the can- didates-and what they stand for. Criticism is frequent. It is cheap when voiced by men and women who will not take the trouble to exercise the franchise which has been put into their hands. It is no small thing for the President to travel day @nd night to exercise the right of franchise that 1s his along with the milljons of American men and women. Yet there will be millions of voters who will fall to go a few city blocks out of their beaten hs today to take part in the elections. Too often can- didates for office are chosen by minor- fties of the total vote, if the total vote were cast. The right of the majority to rule vanishes under such condi- tions. In some quarters there is a dispo- sition to gibe at the President for the expenditure of the money required to make the trip from Washington to Northampton to cast his ballot, when for the cost of a two-cent stamp he could have registered his choice for office in Massachusetts just as legally. But the example set by the Chief Executive is worth so inexpressibly more to the people than the cost of a trip to Northampton that the criti- clsm becomes an idle gesture. I'nactment of a law which disfran- chiced the millions of indolent voters who today failed to cast their ballots would be greeted with a howl. Tyran- nical suppression of the rights of American citizens would be one of the mildest expressions used. A duty 18 frequently forgotten or deliberately disregarded. A right is another thing. Mere in the District of Columbia, where the right of participating in the government of the Nation is de- nied, there is no corelated duty. But there are thousands of citizens of the District who that right and who would perform the duty. e The Scrivener case leaves the im pression that obsequies were subs tuted where wedding festivities were expected. The police are inevitably drawn into the borderiand of the underworld, with its erious ad- venture. The romances of the criml- nal are common knowledge. Those of the police are unrevealed s Tho population of the Dist Columbla increased enormou It should be easier than ever to choose, from an abun terial, a good Commissior —_— v _ A Typical Criminal Record. Thanks to the fingerprint system, the man as Olse o the other night siew “Killar” Cunniffe and a woman companton in Detroit and was himself slain by a policeman after he had shot another police of- ficer to death has been d. Rec- ords show that he is Willam Crow- Jey, best known to the police of New York and to West Side gangsters of that city as “lce Wagon' Crowley. That was, it would his real name. But he had many othe him a “monicker” was merely s thing to use for a brief period, then to drop when identification menaced. In the course of a long criminal career Yie has been known variously as Wil- liam Ryan, Jofin Condon, Thomas Conley, Joseph Ryan, Harold Wil lams and fi William Olsen. But it i not with regard to the mat- ter of names that this protean person who has fired his final shot is of par- tlcular interest at present. His erim- tnal record bears witness both to his cleverness In s the full penal- thes for his offenses and to the fail- ure of the law to dispose effectively of chronic violators. This is the rec ord, so far as it has been compiled: As Joseph Ryan, September 1, 1920, robbery, discharged. 'As Thomas Conley, January 1, 1921, robbery, acquitted in General Ses- sions. As John Condon, May 15, 1922, at- tempted robbery, sentenced to fro bne year and three months to twe{ vears and six months in Sing Sing. As Willlam Crowley, March 28, 19%, yobbery, discharged; May 29, 1923, rob- desire in m; know i seem, bery, discharged; September, 1923, dis- orderly conduct, $5 fine; December 7, 1923, grand larceny, acquitted in Gen- eral Sexsions; November 11, 1923, grand larceny, no disposition; June 6, 1924, robbery, discharged; February 19, 1926, at Elizabeth, N. J., “disor- deriy person,” no disposition; March 16, robbery and having a re- volver, acquitted in General Sessions; June 2§, 1825, robbery (in Queens), dis- charged. The charge dated March 16, 1925, of “robbery and having a revolver,” cov- ers a tragic case. A taxicab driver was robbed and picked out Crowley’s picture as that of the man who had robbed him. A policeman was sent to arrest Crowley and was shot dead. Crowley was later arrested, but in the absence of any specific proof that it was he who shot the officer he was held only on the robbery and revolver charge. This record shows that in a little less than five years Crowley was ar- rested twelve times. Five times he was “discharged.” Three times he was acquitted. Twice there was “no disposition.” Twice he was convicted, once getting a sentence of imprison- ment of from year and three months to two years and six months, and once being fined $5. It is evident that he did not serve out even the minimum of his solitary prison term, for within ten months from the date of his conviction he was again in court cn another charge of robbery. A slippery customer, indeed. What of the law proc s that cannot reach such a constant violator? The weight of probability indicated his guilt in every case, and yet he was allowed te go on and on until finally he par- ticipated in a series of homicides, the only gratifying fact being that his own death was the climax of his career. What, indeed, is the value of a judicial procedure that allows such a menace to society to run at large while it sends to prison for long terms first offenders who, if freed, would probably never commit another breach of the law one Meeting the Real Americans. Perhaps of all her experiences in America that which Queen Marie of Rumania has just had in North D: kota will remain most vividly in her memory. She has seen the big citles, has met the President and many other distinguished Americans, has gazed at Niagara, has observed big business at work and has seen already some thou- sands of the miles of area in this vast country. But yesterday she met the Simon-pure American, the native stock, the true western continental, in a group of Sioux, who initiated her into their nation with their ancient ceremonial rites. It does not fall to the fortune of many European visitors to get into close contact with the aborigines, though to this day many of them ex- pect to see “redskins” prowling around the “frontiers” of New York and Philadelphia, while as for Buffalo it is often rated in the minds of the tourist from abroad as the veritable home of the bison and the Indian. To those who thus chance, as has the Queen of Rumania, to make the direct acquaintance of the descendants of the people who greeted the first set- tlers on these shores, more or less warmly, there comes a strange re- action. The Indsn of romance is somewhat different from the Indian of reality. The pure-blooded Indian is not as a rule what is usually regarded as a handsome person. His features do not conform to the classic type and his bearing has become somewhat slouchy. In fact, most of the pure- blooded Indians who are available for exhibition to visitors of distinction are ancients, whose deeply lined faces bear testimony to the trials and suf- ferings of the race at the hands of the white men. But to meet these native Amer- icans on their own land, perhaps un- spoiled by their contact with the sup- posedly superior race, is an experience that is never to be forgotten. A thoughtful person will see in them the record of a great tragedy of hu- man experience. Probably the repre- sentatives of the race who are soclally available today are not grieving over their lost lands, the vanished herds of buffalo, the coming of the pale- faces and their strong waters, the substitution of the “fire sticks” for the bow and arrow and the javelin. They are doubtless much happier in- dividually than they ever were before— certainly happier than were their im- mediate forebears. Many of them are richer than were ever any of the true aborlgines of the pre-Columbian days. Rumania has no such relics of the past as those who yesterday greeted Queen Marie at Fargo, drew her royal blood In token of kinship and injtia- tion and carried her respectfully and gently in a blanket in ceremonial rite. And so the Queen will have a story to tell her people on her return which will perhaps reach incredulous ears. e again survives. Bad beginning to be re- avation of Italy. e Modern Improvements and Voting. Election day in these times brings reflections on the changes that have occurred during a comparatively few years affecting the response of the people to the summons to cast their ballots for candidates for office. To go back only a quarter of a century is to find a vast difference in the con- ditions under which the citizens faced that responsibility. At the beginning of the present century the question of the weather was of the greatest importance on election day. Rain meant a decided falling off in the rural vote. That was because rain meant heavy roads, over which the farmers would not try to drive their vehicles to reach the polls. Today, save in some of the more remote sections, rain makes little or no difference. The farmer steps into his motor car and drives it as speedily as in dry weather, for the roads are hard and dependable, rain or shine. Whereas twenty-five years ago the trip to the polls meant in many cases the loss of half a day, now the aver- age farmer can reach the ballot box in half an hour, cast his vote quickly, and get back to his chores in about an hour from the time he left home. Good roads and the motor car thus lint inship i garded as the x combine to put the farmer more defi- nitely into the electoral equation than A THE EVENING ever before. And at the polls, in some of the States, the voting machine cuts down the time required for register- ing the will of the voter. There remain some regions where the roads are bad and where the motor car 48 not, in consequence, the usual trangport of the farmer. But the “bad roads” of today, even in those parts, are far better than were the “bad roads” of a quarter of a century ago. There are very few sink-holes and miring bogs on the highways. State, county and township work has cleared Lup these spots. In the cities the motor car is used for the transport of voters, squads of hustling party workers making rounds to haul the lax ones to the polls. Gone are the old-time horse-drawn vehicles that went about from house to house, gathering up the possible slackers and driving them to the ballot boxes. In far less time than was required a few decades ago to round up a hundred voters a thousand can now be céllect- ed and set down at the polling places, Yet even with these facilities, good roads, motor cars and telephones to admonish the slothful, the percentage of the voters Is not what it should be. Indifference prevails among many of the people. Possibly radio will help to arouse the electorate to its duty. vt Halloween Lawlessness. Police records show a striking in- crease in the number of arrests for disorderly conduct and misdemeanor of various degrees incident to Hallow- een. Merrymaking, it would seem, consisted in large degree of law-break- ing. Some of those arrested were in- toxicated, some were engaging in rough pranking, some in fighting, and some in reckless driving in violation of the traffic rules. It seems impossible for some people to observe an occasion of this char- acter without indulging in rowdyism. The time itself does not justify any letting down of the bars against ma- rauding. It is a season of jollity and fun, but not of license and lawlessness. At least one tragedy occurred in this region as a result of Halloween “fun- making,” in consequence of which one youth is dead and another is un- der a charge of homicide. The play spirit is innate in all mem- bers of the human family, and Hallow- een evokes that spirit to a marked degree. 1In other times there was some rough pranking on that occasion, some “practical joking” that did no- body any particular harm, but caused some annoyance and inconvenience Far better the old practices of the eve of All Saints’ day than the modern mode of “celebration,” which consists chiefly, for a certain class of people, of gross transgressions and dangerous indulgence and tragical outbursts of temperament. e — The idea is almost too undignified to be mentioned. And yet it would add a wondertul touch of picturesque- ness to the pageantry if Loie Fuller could be persuaded to contribute some of her dear old serpentine dances. R Halloween pranks used to be lim- ited to minor demonstrations, such as ringing doorbells and removing gates. A Halloween celebration now regards an automobile crash as a minor incident. N e S — The Hall-Mills case has called at- tention to the fact that in spite of the beauty contests of Atlantic City and the scholarship of Princeton, New Jersey stiil has its seamy side of llfe. o bt =Dl A radlo announcer has the ear of the public and, like the weather forecaster, conveys the impression that he is deing his best to be cheer- ful.. —— e No mentlon was made by Calvin Coolidge of how he would vote, although surmise was confldent. The silent vote remains an enormous in- fluence. R A hurricane used to represent un- compromising disaster. At present a good ad man knows how to use it in his realty business. ——.—————— Election returns are always most interesting in picking out those who never will return. —_— et SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Perpetual Motion. “Perpetual motion!”” We cherish the notion It's all a fantastical dream. Yet flow’rs we'll be winning as earth keeps on spinning And Springtime falls due in the scheme. New duties discerning, life keeps on returning; Our universe sweeps into space. In every nation each new generation Finds joy, as of old, or disgrace. “Perpetual motion!” The tides of the ocean Forever go on without fall. So, why be insistent that it's non-ex- istent— ) Just because we can’t put it on sale! Politician or Statesman. ““Are you a politiclan or a states- man' “Both,” answered Senator Sorghum. “The difference depends on whether I'm out making lofty speeches or in my private office holding a confer- enge.” Habiliments. As Winter comes she must restore This, That or These. If she takes off one garment more She'll surely freeze. Jud Tunkins says a brass band plays *‘Hail to the Chief” C. O. D., and was, maybe, the original instigator of the use of money in politics. Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, says the “boot leg bears the same relation to a cup of good wine that an old shoe bears to a crystal goblet.” Song and Dance. O katydid, hind legs you twist For music in the valle: I thought you were a vocalist, But you are just a ballet! “Many a man,” said Unclg, Eben, “gits de reputation foh bein’ kind hearted, when he's simply too lazy to git mad.” STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Once we wrote a letter to a broad- casting station, telling them “what a fine program that was la&t night!” and so on, and we never even got so much as a “thank you” in return. So we know how several corre- spondents of this column must feel, whom, for some reason or another, we have never answered. Our aim is to answer all letters, and gen- erally we succeed, but sometimes we miss out, as the expression has it. In each such case, however, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak, Unlike the giraffe, we do not offer $20 gold pleces for letters, but the general “run of the mill"” is more than we can keep up with. Letters remain among the most in- teresting forms of writing. Each one is an adventure, showing forth a new personality, a fresh state of mind. Take this one, just received: ‘Dear Sir: Your dissertation upon waflles and music_was absurd. I would not eat waffles for anything before I went to a concert. Ridicu- lous! “Pretty soon you will be advocat- ing corned beef and cabbage before attending the theater. or beefstcak with onions prior to a foot ball game. “I have never seen you, but I imagine you must weigh about 200 pounds, and like the good things of the table immensely. Enjoy yours self, but for Heaven's sake don't des- ecrate music with pancakes. “Yours truly, Miss A. R. The president of a pipe manufac- turing company in New York likes an article: “Dear Sir: I do not know when I have enjoyed an article as well as your humorous editorial published last week. We think it is a master- plece, and I have gotten a lot of en- joyment out of the same. “You are right—a man cannot have too many pipes, so T am going to send you a few yourself to smoke, so even if you do resist the lure of the clerks you can still boast a pipe collection. ~ (We have it.—Editor's note.) “Let me thank you once more for having handed me a good laugh and with the kindest regards I remain, “Yours very truly, J.B.D.” * kK K Here is one from “The Rank Out- sider.” We love outsiders, rank and otherwise. She says: “Dear Sir: Long have I enjoyed your articles in The Star and many a chuckle and much good reading have 1 gotten out of them, but last night's ‘In Tune with the Infinite in Gay- villa’ was the offering supreme. “No, I am not a Gayvillian, but just exist on the ragged edge of this de- lectable region. You know, Jjust where the bus swings into a side street, you push the button and the eyves of all the Gayvilla folk follow a dotted line to you and you are the observed of all observe You are watched until you disembark, say, for the sake of argument, east of street, and then, as far as the Gayvillians are concerned, you are anathema. “But that is what I wanted to ask you about. Have you, in your ob- servations of the denizens—wouldn’t they love that?—of Gayvilla, noticed the ‘superlority complex'? If you have, then I am looking forward to another real treat from you. (We heg to be excused!—Editor's note.) I have been hanging onto the ragged edge of this paradise for many years, and had really gotten to think that 1 was some member of society, when 1o, and behold, Gayvilla arises from the ashes! * * * and I find myself just a plain ragged-edger. As for instance, in the highest of high hat manners, Mrs. Gayvilla will say, ‘Oh, yes, my dear, I am going to all the sessions! Why, of course I am a member of the ——.' Little does she dream that some of us rank outsiders may be more deeply interested in the ——, regarding the other as tdo ultra modern. So, you see, a hundred vears in Georgetown is as nothing to a year in Gayvilla.” * ko x % “Dear Sir: Thank you for this eve- ning's article. I suffer acutely many times a day because I must listen to the champion called ‘Toonie." “Your expression, ‘a feel for words,’ describes a mental twist of mine. Teachers rejoiced in my reading aloud ‘when I was yet a small child. “All my life I have wriggled miser- ably while people called a tune a ‘toon,” a mewspaper a ‘‘noozepaper,’ dew ‘doo,’ the Kkitchen sink the ‘zinc’ and the radiator a ‘rad-jator.” “Something should be done about Bluege and about Ruel. “Why not use one-half hour per week acquainting the public by radio with the pronunciation of proper names seen in the daily papers? “Very sincerely, C. A From a well known physician: “Dear Sir: We have long enjoyed your pleasant talks and admired your amiable nature. As your friend and well wisher, we beg of you to please, in future, abstain from discussing medical subjects. You embarrass us and make us feel like walking back- ward with a cloak. “Sincerely, D. S. H" “Dear Sir: Ha’e been reading some old papers—you were writing of Jack Spratt the cat; you said if several didn’t want to read about him, why, you should write of something else. We all like Jack Spratt and should miss what you write about him every week. I am sure I would, as I like all animals and birds. So please keep right on writing about Jack, as we all like him. “ONE OF JACK'S READERS."” * ok X X ‘We are boosted for dictator of the world: “Dear Sir: I was just about to order peach shortcake and cream for luncheon when I saw on the edl- torial page of The Star Charles E. Tracewell’'s article telling how fool- ish we are to eat so much sugar and_starch. “So I immediately changed ‘my order and took spinach and poached eggs. When Mr. Tracewell tells us politely but firmly about our faults and mistakes we sit up and take notice. If the whole world should have a _dictator, why not Trace- well? _Sincerely, 3" T. W. G M. P. F. writes a long letter, of which we can give but a portion here: “Dear Sir: If you get as much in- terest and pleasure out of this.and that in life as you give in This and That in The Star, I'm_thinking you must_feel ‘the joy of living.’ “While each day I read your fea- ture of the paper, naturally some subjects appeal more than others. For instance, that one about the coming of the hummingbird to Esstee alley and the gladiolus blossom. “ell, while Belchap alley is some distance away, the hummingbird comes there—not to explore a gladl- olus blossom, but the depths of a trumpet-vine flower. * * ¢ May you continue to get inspiration from sources as common as the alley en- vironment. Sincerely, ete.” It any of our correspondents have failed to receive answers, please be- lieve that the lack is simply due to the frailties of human nature, of which the writer of this column has his full ehare. Cathode Ray Topic of Press As Science Probes Mystery ‘While sclence seeks to delve further into the mystery of the cathode ray, the lay world gives free play to its imagination in attempting to grasp the possibilities of the marvelous force disclosed by experiments of Dr. W. W. Coolidge, assistant director of the General Electric Co.’s research labora- tory. “Alexander, sighing for new worlds to conquer,” suggests the Detroit News, “might better have taken up another sclence than war. Explorers in the fleld of physical research are never embarrassed. by lack of oppor- tunity, but only by the fact that the human span Is too short to permit any one inquirer to discover more than a few of nature’s unrevealed truths” The News explains that Dr. Coolidge's experiments with the freed ray “have had astounding results” and that “especially significant is the fact tha® bacteria exposed for a fraction of ¢ second are killed and that small i» sects perish before it instantly. In these experiments alone,” adds the De- troit paper, “‘are seen possibilities of a germicide of unprecedented potency and efficacy. Thus Dr. Coolidge has provided science with a new point of departure for research which may alter many phases of our existence, as the therapeutical and commercial pos- sibilities of the new ray are unfolded.” * kK K It is apparent, observes the Worces- ter Gazette, that “what Industrial, mechanical or chemical achievements this ‘cathode-tube’ apparatus may lead to are impossible to forecast, perhaps impossible to imagine, but it seems reasonable to expect, from its demonstrated possibilities and the known activities of radium, a tremen- dous, if not revolutionary, influence on applied as well as pure science. The Wichita Beacon is impelled to re- mark that “the discovery of a cathode ray so powerful that it causes instant disintegration of animal tissue is an- other reminder of the fact that many of our scientific wonders are getting to resemble the black magic that ex- isted in the fancy of anclents. The Indianapolis News concedes “‘a certain priority to Bulwer Lytton, who, as old-timers remember, in his novel ‘The Coming Race,’ described a force, which he called ‘vril,’ which killed, disintegrated and destroyed, was under perfect control at a dis- tance of some 600 feet and would have made short work of a mouse and have affected it very much as the cathode ray does. The progress,of science— and perhaps even of civilization"— concludes the News, ‘“‘seems to con- sist largely of turning the imagined into the realized.” The Birmingham News states that ‘thus_far_practical uses have not been found, be e experimentation has not proceeded greatly, but the fact that the beta rays can thus be produced apart from radium is an an- nouncement of high importance.” In this connection, it has been pointed out that the cathode tube furnishes as many beta rays a ton of radium (of which only a single pound is in existence), worth at present prices a hundred billion dollars. * x % % “Until more is known of the new force, or rather of an old force newly revealed and harnesse says the San Francisco Bulletin, “it should be stimulating enough to remember that the history of science teems with in- stances of the seemingly useless re- sult of one day becoming the basis of a new industry or & new scope to the sclence of the day following. Science wastes nothing, unless it the time spent in controversy with its opponent: The New York Evening Post de- clares “It is such discoveries as this that gave science its standing in the Yorld of affairs. From the first crude Crookes tube, which opened the way to the use of the X-ray, to Dr. Cool- idge’s invention,” continues the Post, “is a long path beset with difficultles, but it is & fine example of the way the true scientist works, of his cease- less battering away at the walls be- tween himself and the mysterious laws of nature; actuated not by the love of personal glory but by the de- sire. to _add to the sum of human knowledge and human power."” “Dr.-Coolidge has not as yet turned his newest invention to human appli- cation,” remarks the Atlanta Journal, in connection with the growth of hair caused by experiments on rabbits, “but it {s not unreasonable to surmise that the genus homo will in time be subjected to experiment. And what a rush there will be f it is found that bare pates may be re-covered with long and flowing manes!"” * KOk X “Such agencies as can in a thou- sandth of a second disintegrate a mouse, crumble it to dust without burning or rending, may in a thou- sand years build an edifice for super- clvilization the magnitude and content of which is beyond present mental picture,” declares the Hartford Times, while the Champaign News-Gazette asks, “Will it be turned into a means of saving and prolonging human life or will it be used as an agent of death?” and the latter paper recog- nizes that “scientists can see in it tremendous powers for good and evil; that blue glow is the secret of its power, for within its scope minerals have been made to burn with a cold light, gases have been turned to pow- ders, liquids to solids, while life itself is in danger under its power.” “The average human mind will be simply balked,” says the Boston Transcript, “in the attempt to under- stand the foundations of the discov- ery. We can only call to our aid the searching question of Tom Watson of Georgia and exclalm, ‘Where are we at? Or we may go a little further when we think of the awful possibili- ties of such agencles, and say to the sclentists, ‘Softly with your cathode !" ” The Bangor Commercial cal It “mighty and almost unintelligible, and the New York Times, replying to the charge once made of American de- pendence upon foreign scientists, as. serts that “what with the Millikan rays and the Coolidge tube, we are, as Americans, making Promethean gifts to mankind.” Excuse Our Dust. Nashville Banner. If Queen Marle does tour the United States in an automobile, she will know how our country tastes as well as how {t looks. Sooner Perhaps. From the Detroit News. “To think,” exclaimed the enthusi- astic young husband, ‘“‘that by the “8MN 110219(T Y} WoIg time we get all this furniture paid for we shall have genuine antiques!" For Those in Peril. ‘The Abilene Daily Reporter. ‘The churches of Rur’;\nh united in prayers for the safetyg; their Queen, now on the way to this country. The; had heard the Queen planned to vfl‘t’ is Chicago. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1926. NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG M. ROAD ROUND IRELAND. THE The Macmillan Padraic Colum. Company. A truly roundabout road is the one followed here by Padraic Colum. North and south, east and west, and| criss-cross roads are these, which serve to spread all Ireland out in a huge spider-web design whose cros ing lines inclose mosalcs of indiv ual pattern, whose circumference gathers them all into- unity of essen- tial kinship. Treading his own soil in this way- faring, Padrajc Colum deals know- ingly and feelingly with these mosaics of Irish life. Under them all, binding them together, he lays the deep, com- mon soil of racial idiosyncrasy, that ancient Gaelic foundation, that oddly distinct human strain wherein reality and unreality hobnob together to pro- duce the Irishman, practical bargainer on the one hand, and on the other true bellever in fairy and fable. To this Gaelic turn of blood Mr. Colum fits the face of Ireland itself, a dream place of beauty and charm, home of innumerable unseen beings that take a hand in all the common affairs of life. It is these three—the deep soil of tradition, the native Gael and the lure of the countryside—that keep steady company with Padraic Colum as he moves along the roads of his native land. It is such knowing and friendly hold upon the heart of Ire- land that invites one to go with this man as, all along the way, he picks up a thousand precious bits of Irish life. And what are these bits, after all? “A brown road between unkempt hedges; hilly fields, with little lakes seen across them; a house with a stock of peat by it; geese marching along; a woman coming toward me with a shawl across her head'—no more than these, maybe, yet signifi- cant things, blending not merely in an Irish landscape but in ‘“a cycle of Irish history” as well. And here is a group of Irish gypsies, men of the tinker trade. And over there is an enchanted tree, whose branch or leaf or fruit no one, even to this day, must touch lest a spell fall upon him. So along the country roads do legends and customs and beliefs come out to meet this friend and companion of theirs, and we, going along beside him, catch the real savor of Irish by- paths and taste something of the flavor of Ireland itself. Then, along in the same flne com- do we go into the cities—into , where we hear songs and poems and plays and much excited talk on every hand about the re- vival of the great old day: aelic splendor and promise. Specially de- lighttul it is to meet, under the guid- ance of Colum, sone of the Irishmen whom, hitherto, we have seen at longer range and under less reveal- ing companionship. Here are Yeats and George Moore and James Joyce and this one and that one, each pre- sented under the shrewdly apprais- ing eye of our guide. Talk about the Irish drama and the Abbey Theater, for and against, goes briskly on. And other Irishmen appear—revolution- ists, statesmen, politicians, exiles, patriots, martyrs. And easy talk flows around the shifting scenes, easy as a mere wanderer's k would be— a comment here, an appr: a brief summary over yonde ing talk, too, under whose mote things draw near, and fading things become vivid, and little things take on the truly interpretive values that many trifling matters so clearly possess. And the whole is so engag- ing—engaging with the versatile turn of the Irishman, with his romantic spirit, with his ready words of na- tive flavor, with his wit and swift flight from point to point, from scene to scene. A joyous and profitable experience, this one with Padraic Colum on the roads round about Ireland. * kXK CORSICA. Hildegarde Duffleld & Co. Few Americans will be likely to see Corsica with their own eyes. For it is an up-and-down island—mountains and cliffs and tangled paths and nar- row dizzying roads. Since Americans are fast losing the use of their legs through too much motor travel, it iy clear that Corsica is not for them, save at second-hand——certainly, at any rate, not till Corsica builds roadsand makes a bid for tourists’ patronage. However, never mind! For here is an admirable chance to visit Corsica by ‘way of one who has climbed its moun- tains and clung to its peaks and trailed its narrow hidden path: Be- sides, in between walking trips, when work or weather intervened, this ex- plorer of the place has stripped off, for our enlightenment, layer after lay- er of Corsican history. And its history did come in layers formed by inva- sion after invasion—Greek, Saracen, Genoese, and other trespassers from far and near—each leaving a chapter of its occupation in more or less clear- ly defined integrity. What do we know about Corsica? Not much—ex- cept that it is the birthplace of - poleon Bonaparte. Assuming rightly that this is our only point of con- tact with the island, this writer at once leads us to “Napoleon’s Home Town. Here is a picture of the house where the little Nabulio was born; here is a clear description of the narrow streets along whl&h the delicate child marched in an early passion for playing war It is out from this “home town" of the great soldier, out from Ajaccio, that the walking trips—the climhing and creeping and crawling and slid ing trips—start and continue till they have achieved a hand-to-hand grip on the amazing beauties of this little sought part of the world that lies so near to the crowded Riviera and other popular parts of the Mediter ranean coast. It is not scenery alone that possesses Corsica. Romanca lives there as well, and history that is half legend and half fact. You may be sure, too, that the people of this aloof and unvisited place are interest ing by virtue of their isolation, witk its sequence of undiluted flavor. They are interesting, as you will find upon reading here. It is, however, the nat. ural splendor of this island—moun tains, canyons, spired and carved cliffs, waterfalls, glorfous colors and amazing sea views—that captivates this writer and that will in turn put the reader in thrall to the little-known Island of Corsica. * ok ok % TOURING NEW ENGLAND. Clara ‘Walker Whiteside. Penn Publish- ing Co. A second-hand car, ten lessons in driving it, lots of nerve and a good pal—these are all that you need, pro- vided that, like these two, you hanker to trail the original Yankee in New England through the superimposed layers of Irish, French, German, Por- tuguese, Greek, Itallan and other what not of citizenry that time has added to the Yankee settlers of this region. The bright plan of this en- terprising pair was not to meet these later comers, but to dodge them in- stead. That explains the car and the pluck to coax it along narrow and rutty roads in quest of the pure and unadulterate Yankee. It was a great experience. And here is a big book, a really beautiful book both to see and to read, that will doubtless serve a double purpose. In the first place, it will entertain the mere reader, for it is built to do that very thing. And in the next place it will give rise to a determination on the part of many a reader to try that thing himself an- other year. And here is a fine guide for that worthy plan. The book tells you where to go off the beaten path to find interesting bits of American Hawthorne. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. H- Q. Whatis the black mas A. The black mass is a travest the Christian mass used in connection with the ritual of the Satuni ligions sect defying Chris glorifving the_devil. Der France as late’as the ninetcenth cen- tury. Q. How many in the United Si ance exclusivel A. There are white life insur colored companies writing ance exclusively. There are white fraternal organizations about 10 colored. Q. What relat the late Czar? A. Queen M cousin of the late C: Russia. oth are Czar Alexander IL Queen arie of Rumania w Grand ‘hess Marie of Russi compani. es sellin: L R approxin out 190 and n is Queen Marle to grandchildren of The mother of the ter of Alexander 1II and daughter of | Alexander II. Q. How many copies were made of the “Greek Slave"?—R. k A. Hiram Powers made Q. Why are “U-boats™ so called?— C.C. B A. The “U” in the name “U-hoat” stands for the German word see,” which means ‘“under sea.” “U-boat,” therefore, is me other term for “submarine.’ Q. Is it true that most of the pulp- | wood used in the United States for making paper ed from Car A. The National L turers’ Association says th per cent of the pulp and used in the United Siate: from Canada. Thisis by the fact that man paper mills of this country are loca in New England. Since the forc Manufa that section have been lareely cut, it | e mills to | has been necessary for tk call upon Canada for their pulpwood. pply of Q. What sort of gloves. are to be | worn this year?>—M. E. R Many of the gloves being shown ornate cufY. Hoped and shed most in evidence are sh: of tan from mode to beaver, platinum and squirrel grays and black with white. All are trimmed in vivid cont 8. Q. Please expl works.—O. W. O. A. The desert cooler, or olla, is a na- tive product of the Southwest. Tt consists of a porous earthenware jar n how an olla BACKGROUND OF BY PAUL V. COLLINS.® “Important if true” might be the characterization of recent news fl’x)!\l Poland to the effect that Gen. Vil ndski is conspiring to sei ship of that republic, under the title of “Pilsudski Augustus 1" The whole story is viewed with more than skep- ticlsm by informed offi of the United States. Theyv dec a canard, based on the fact that Gen. Pilsudski (former dictator of Poland) recently lunched with some Lof leading royalists, and, as alleged, dis- cussed governmental inst the sienif lunch is banked the entire social and patriotic record of Pilsuc i whose life has been fn opposition to kingly power, and filled with devo: and the defense of that the people served five years in exile in & because the Russian Czar theught h “pernicious activity” W the privileged classes held her part of partitioned Poland. * ok k% When the World War came Gen. Pilsudski was in command of the Patriotic Legion, which he had r ed, 10,000 strong, and, Poland b then partly under the pow many and partly under Austr ordered that the legion should the oath of fealty to its conquerors, the central powers. tion of Polish independence, dition precedent to that when that was refused his commission and was arrested imprisoned by the Germans. W the German revolution dethroned the Kaiser, Pilsudski was released; he re- turned to Poland and became its dictator. Last Spring he was elected Presl- dent, but refused ti office, on the ground that, under the constitution, it gave no power to its incumbent to control the destinies of the countrs the position of President is that of a figurehead, while only the cabinet, ¢ particularly the premier, holds ini tive power. Pilsudski is a man of ac- tion—a soldier, primarily, rather than a statesman. The story of his aiming at the over- throw of the republic for whose cre tion he has suffered so much fought so bravely is likened to the idea that our own John Brown, the forerunner of our Civil War, was plot- ting to enlist all the slaves to over- turn the Government and make him emperor of Ameri xi% More plausible appe istic, or even jingo, ide: Pilsudski, as minister of war and, therefore, head of all armed force hopes to lead the army in a war of expansion of Poland, which would ab- sorb Lithuania on the north and part of Ukrainia on the south. That has been openly predicted as his prog Before his acceptance of the off of minister of war under Premier tel last June, he demanded a clear and unequivocal interpretation of the con- stitution, as to whether the min of war alone would command forces, or must divide that command with political meddlers. Ha ted that only with the unrestrained “indi vidual command” would he accept, his authority to be subordinate onlv the power of the premier to remove him. He volun teered to put his resignation into the hands of the premler, before taking over the command, so that Premier Bartel could accept it at any time, but so long as he remained in office his authority must not be questioned. * ok ok K Summing up Pilsudskf's status to- day, after having been dictator two years (before the constitution had been adopted) and having been elected to the prestdency last Spring, which he declined, although he had captured the capital with his army prior to the election, and now being head of all oath, he resi x * the natlonal that Marshal . o history that have been left and for- gotten by the way. It will put you in touch, too, with the old colonal house and furniture and with much bea ful New England scenery that high ways and railways do cover. Then it will, best of all, ou tt nse of adventure, of dotng a_r thing that entalls energy of hardship and much of w But there s good pay for all this, as you will see when vou read this hook, S0 beautifully written charm! ingly pictureg rote the story, W% Miss Williamson, her good pal, made the lilustrations and drove the car—quite any pal's share, as you will agree. nd the like is import- | ts of | o the -king- | the | -lall of take | and - | from resident or of the and a fittle as | to 10 gallons of the sun, and the which is the re- Should w o a man ba called a * an “author” or ©* and “poet | are used for hoth men and women. One frequer rs the word “toastmis- ed by an authorftative e is. however, a tend- nate this form of word sh vocabula to eall prietor” or Q What is the People’s Palace?— R.N. A. Ttisq ! London, estabi | eilit for educ to the people of n institution at Mile End, hed to furnish fa and _recreation London. 1ould acrial wires for radio be q7-—W. H. Radio College sa: effect | ur the wires, not upon the Jare copp wire. No. 14, 1 used ex- v for i Thix retly when new, corroded from s un it | exposure to t ? cal in the long run. Phosphor nes used, but this has ce. Many ama- ntly installing lar weather 1 ited wires used for long distance power Q. | more =®. The in Does the Philadelphia mint eotn ney than the other mints? Phi this co; £ the bus sco comes mext last. At the s only three mints in United States. Q. What wi A cause an _electric bulb to crack and brenk when mot beipe touched and no current on” C. E. K. A. The Bureau of Standards sa that sudden ¢ ling migrht cause f the glass was under an mint s the It does 90 San Fi Denver is the time there are operation in the | per ce: o resources of our free Informa- tion Bureau are at your service. You are invited to call upon it as often as you please. 1t is being maintained by The Evening Star solehy to serve you. What question can we answer for wou? There is no charage at all exeept 2 cents in stamps for return postage Address wour letter to The eninet Star Information Burcau. Frederic Haskin, director, Washington, D. € EVENTS armed forces, it is agreed that he re mains practically dictator today, with out_offictal ition as such. It is almost a recall of the famous self- finition_of the Grand Monarch of | France, “The state; it s myself.” cithér the president nor premier would dare take any step opposed by the head of the army. Hence, there is less interest n what | is on the program of the Polish Prest dent or premier or Diet than there i3 in the question as to what Pllsudsk! wants to do—he and his loyal and | enthusiastic army. A mere kingship | which would eall for a prime minister | and a cabinet to do the actual govern nd roval pomp with courtiers diplomats to strut about the court, < no appeal for the rough-and-ready whose life dream has been | Poland’s greatness. - The Danzig Corridor, seized from Prussia and Fast Prussia_as a prize | of war, when partitioned Poland was liberated and on anew, is not a mere Poland—a. mere_conquer erland. Tt and Pomerania formerly was part. artition, 110 iny seized lon. It fs t of Poland, has and also an ally of past; hence it will mot 1 if the two coun in } llied. In fact, as much in mmon between eastern Poles and the Lithuanians as there is mutually between the Poles of the east, west and sonth. Po {land's greatest weakness les fn the | bitterness of her partisan divisions. | In 1241 the Tartars invaded Poland from the Russian east and held it 200 years, their blood bhecoming mixed ith that of the stock. The 2 race of “big-mustached™ who admire and love thefr ¢ leader, Pilsudski n Poles have been under the German made up large immed beards™ }NVHL' leader | have nort reat innov spped further ind protected thirteenth and their country fourteenth cen an Knights,” and Poles then allied the Lithuanlans wns, and conquered fch today runs In that allt h King, Cast adopted by th equals; with t That slogan ual respect for the rights the themselve: lagainst the | Pomerania, t | the corr Vs s | mir | the {the free | tnsured m jof the Today | which . ¢ such broad toler ance of e two nations did, the one for the other. In Poland, Ithough the natlon is just emerging fo oppression, the Con rvatives 4shting the Liberals, between the Capitalists, while t5 despise the Op who are ready to S to thelr neighbors, or Russian or Ukrainian or ! and there s perpetually \agitated strife against native classes— against the s and Jesuits, | "Whether Pilsudski will emulate |Primo de Rivera of Spain, Mussolin |of Italy or the several dictators of Greece, or alm at that obsolete office of royalty, he still may use the an- clent . slogan of uniting | Lithuania and Poland, “Faquals with lequals; the free with the free,” and |he m recall the anclent warning: In our hands only, in our breasts ‘and throats only, 1s our armory-— {these are our mountains and our |waters: these are the castles and | ramparts of Poland. | A western Pole savs of Pilsudski, | “He is a militarist, who figures with |a'bayonet when he needs a pencil.” R portunist Torfes maka concess | | 1 Financtally and economfeally, Poland I1s In & soun: any other p most lition than almost 't of urope. She i al ithout a nat il debt, beyond $ 160,000 owes our Govern rent wad the $£55.000,000 owed to our anks. She inherited, free, her rafl public butldings, bullt by pryvious conqu and while ral industries need develop- is mainly dependent on agri- and has a ne-tried system ing, | cuiture, of letting one-third of her farm acres | lie fallow each year, thereby main- talning fair fertility. ¥ (Copyright. 1926, by Paul V. Colltna)