Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1927, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. " WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY......February 1, 1027 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office 2nd Buropean Office: 14 Regent St., England. London, The Evening Star. with the Sunday morn- dition. ja delivered by carriers within city at' 60 cents per month: dafly only, ot BT month: Sundaye only. 20 conts per month. Orders may be sent by mall or felephone Main 5000. Collection is made by carrier at end of each month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 1 yr.. $9.00: 1 mo ATy only .. yr.. $6.00: 1 nulxxju""ofix: 135 8306 1 mo- All Other States and Canada. Paily and Sunday..1 yr.. $12.00: 1 mo., $1.00 Daily only . 1y g800: 1 m 1 Sunday only 00: 1 Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the usa for republication of all news di ed in fhis paper and also the local ne priblished heteih, All rights of publication of special disbatches herein are also resers: T % Census Advances. Midcensus estimates just pleted and announced by the Federal bureau put the population of the United States on the 1st of July next at 118,628,000, an increase of 1,492,000 over the estimate for July 1 last and of 12,917,380 the- actual enumeration of Janu 1, 1920. This computation, which is based upon available data regarding births, deaths, immigration and emi- gration, forecasts a total national population by the beginning of 1930 ©of more than 120,000,000, These intermediate calculations be- tween actual enumerations have in com- over he likes this city, because he regards Clark Griffith as a true friend, and be- cause he 18 assured here of a regular playing position rather than that of a substitute or utility flelder. In other words, he will get back into the game as a ball player in an agreeable en- vironment, with associates whom he esteems, He will be assured of the warm support of the Washington pub- lic, which has always admired him and has rated him as one of the best examples of sportsmanship in the na- tional pastime. With his accession, with the offensive and defensive strength which he adds to the Na- tionals, the chances of another pen- nant for Washington are greatly in- creased. And for his acquisition credit zoes to Clark Griffith, who recognizes .| base ball merit and who is determined, regardless of cost, to give Washing- ton a winning team. - B S —— Local Loot Found in New York. The capture of a man in New York City. with a number of fur coats marked with the name of a Wash- Ington merchant from whom they had been stolen a few days previous may lead to the solution of the prob- lem of the recent robberies here which have totaled many thousands of dollars. This series of thefts, committed with boldness and skill and withouit leaving any trace of the identity of the robbers, was pre- sumably the work of one gang. At least the “operatives” engaged in these ralds were directed by a single authority. It is utterly improbable dents of the community, they given the absolute right of way— right that cannot be challenged. therefore behooves the motorists of ‘Washington to watch thelir.step and co-operate in order that the proper functions of the department can be carried out. PSS, An Honor Overdue. It has been proposed that Washing ton be ornamented with a fitting memorial to Maj. Charles Plerre L’Enfant, hero of the Revolution, companion of the Marquis de Lafa- yette, and designer of that plan for the Nation's Capital which seems to be- come with each succeeding year more | recent | desirable of adherence. At a meeting of the L'E nt Memorial Assoclation, the desire was expressed that the people of Washington grant suitable recognition to this sterling engineer, possibly by the erection of a memorial in the Anacostia Parkway Whoever shall make possible this addition to the city's tangible testi- monials of esteem, the residents or the Congress of the Nation, it will be a highly appropriate structure, At present, beyond the fame of his name 4and the plan itself which he drew up, no memorfal exists to this distin- guished Frenchman except tablet in Arlington Cemetes logically placed therein in 1911 because of his | military rank. Some faults were found with scheme when first drawn up; some faults may yet be found with it, nor were the relations Detween the that so many local stores should have been visited within a short time by independent gangs of burglars, each working on its own initiative. The methods were too similar, the class of goods taken too identical, to per- mit any other hypothesis than that this was a well planned drive for loot that could be easily transported the past proved remarkably accurat There are two methods of figuring on the population between the house- to-house counts. One is to divide the growth of the past census period of ten years by ten, and to add & tenth for each year of the succeeding decade. The other, which is more scientific and dependable, is to take into account all vital statistics of the States and all Federal factors. Even this latter method does not include in the reckoning changes from State to State migrations within the na? tional territory. But such changes do not affect the national total, how- ever they may change the State totals. Local interest centers in the esti- mate of 540,000 people living in the District on July 1 next, an increase of 12,000 during the current fiscal year. At this rate Washington will have a population of 570,000 on the 1st of January, 1930. The census of January 1, 1920, gave the District 437,571, There is no reason to doubt the midcensus estimates since that enumeration. There is every evidence of such a growth here. There has been an unchecked bullding develop- ment to accommodate the increase. There is no marked surplus of hous- ing facilities. Had building been checked by 50 per cent during the past five years there would today have been a grave ‘condition of con- gestion such as that which existed at the peak of the war-time problem. ‘Washington, having passed the half-million poiny and certain to draw near to the 600,000 mark in the next enumeration, finds itself confronted with new problems. Mere mumerical growth i8 not in itself desirable. Quality growth is to be preferred. Quality growth does not mecessarily mean a selected popula- tion, which is impossible, but a high grade of municipal equipment. A city can spread out broadly and thickly and lose its character. Or it can grow consistently and efficiently and retain its Individuality. It is ‘the hope that Washington in its ad- vance toward a million population, which is in the minds of many as & practicable attajnment within a few decades, will maintain its stand- ard of attractiveness, of comfort, of utility and above all its distinctive features as primarily a residential rather than a commercial community. ———————————— China demands that she be permiit- ted to regard her fight as a local demonstration in which innocent by- standers must take their chances and mot complain. —————————— A number of homicide mysteries in varlous parts of the country have oenmplicated the question of protecting the public by doubts as to whether the police can protect themselves. “Tris” Becomes a National. ‘Washington’s base ball club, for so many years the victim of unhappy clrcumstances and the ill-fortune that besets teams with uncanny persist- ence, and then for two seasons favored by fortune with the highest league honors, is again in luck. As a result of recent upturnings in the national erganization it now profits richly in the acquisition of one of the most eminent players in the game, one of the most popular and highly respect- ed. It is in fact the only club in the oireuit thus far to gain an advantage from the recent turmoil which marked the Winter season of 1926-27 as one of the most exciting of many vears. ‘With the signing of “Tris” Speaker as a regular player the Washington team is greatly strengthened. He brings a batting prowess that is need- ed. He brings a consummate knowl- edge of the game in all its details. He brings a spirit of earnestness and “will to win” coupled with the highest sense of sportsmauship. He is indeed & most valuable acquisition. ‘When Speaker was accused of par- ticipation in a shady deal for the sake of a chance mak betting stake there was no credence on the part of the base ball public. There was noth- ing in his record to justify the sus- piclon that he had engaged in so shameful a proceedin; A full exam- ination of the testimon adduced at hearings fully: exonerated him. He was declared a free agent, to sign wherever he pleased within the Amer- ican League, and immediately five clubs bid for his services He has and disposed of through fences in another city. Criticism of the local police for fallure to stop these thefts is suc- ceeded by congratulations upon the successful haul of yesterday which may result in the disclosure of the whole criminal scheme. It is evident that the goods were about to be put on the market. Through an over- sight the labels had not been removed and they were of course identified at once. The man arrested with the £0ods may not have been himself a participant in the robbery. He may e been merely a messenger, a transporter, an agent of the fence, per- haps a go-between. His possession of a quantity of garments bearing the name of a Washington merchant may be regarded as evidence of some degree of gullt, and having thus been taken in circumstances to leave little if any defense, he may be dis- posed to give a clue to the other operators, perhaps to the means of marketing the stolen goods. The real solution of this problem lies in the discovery of the fence. Once that is located the game of the clothing thieves becomes risky. Wash- ington’s laws are not quite as drastic s those of New York, where the Baumes -statutes are in force to menace every third-time offender with ife imprisonment. It is pos- sible that the transfer of activities of the metropolitan thieves from that Jjurisdiction to other cities such as Washington may be due to the severity of those laws. However that may be, Washington can in case of proved guilt give a sufficlently stiff penalty, if the courts are so @ls- posed, to make operations here de- cidedly dangerous. ——————— Russia professes to desire opportu- nity to set a good example, but de- votes a great deal of valuable time and energy merely to scattering the bad news. ———— International relationships call not merely for diplomatists but for expert accountants to give them material to discuss. The open door of China is now equipped with a red light on the in- side and marked “Exit.” The Absolute Right of Way. The Commissioners have adopted a regulation freeing the Fire Department from responsibllity to all traffic rules and signals when answering an alarm. Under the trafic code fire apparatus is required to obey regulations in re- gard to one-way streets, left-hand turns, etc. While these requirements have proved no barrier to wholesale infractions of the regulations in order to make fast time to the scene of a blaze, they might, in case of an acci- dent in which a fire engine and auto- mobile or pedestrian were involved, re- sult in a heavy suit for damages against the city. It is obviously to avoid such complications that the regulation freeing the department ap- paratus from restraint has been adopt- ed by the Commissioners. Adoption of this rule makes it all the more important that motorists should scrupulously obey the order to puli over to the curb and stop imme- diately on hearing the fire engine siren. This regulation is in effect in all cities, and Washingtonians need not feel that they are being discrimi- nated against when strict enforcement of the “clear the street” edict is un- dertaken by the police. Residents of the National Capital have not scored a very impressive rec- ord in keeping out of the way of fire apparatus. There have been innumer- able occasions when the engines have been hampered by stupid and defiant motorists, who refused to comply with a fundamental regulation giying the Fire Department right of way. The “pull over to the curb and stop” order does not mean to keep driving slowly in the middle of the street. Neither does it mean that the motor- ist, on hearing the siren, should look dazedly around until he finally coasts to a stop directly in the middle of an intersection. It does mean exactly what it says, and if the motorist is able to understand the English lan- guage he will immediately .get.out. of the way until the apparatus has passed him. Fire engines are cumbersome ve- hicles. They cannot be maneuvered signed with Washington, not merely beoause of the attractlveness of the offer in financial terms, but because r. For these reasons and to save 'Wwith the ease of a small, passenger ho lives and property of the real- Frenchman and Washington, Jefferson and other public men always free from bickerings. He was a genius and possessed the Gallic temperament. He performed, it s true, the pleco of work on which his fame chiefly rests in connection with his regular job as army chief of engineers, having been specially detailed to that service. L'Enfant was, of course, paid for| his work, as were Lafayette, Stowben | and others, but his reimbursememt seems to this day and generation ridiculously inadequate. During the year of his labors here Le recelved $600 in addition to his expenses. Later he was voted 500 guineas and a lot near the Executive Mansion. At the time, with feelings ruffled by difficul- ties and differenc he rather curtly declined both. Later, however, he put in a claim for payment and Con- gress awarded him $1,391.40, making & little over $2,000 reward in all. The question of payment, however, adequate or inadequate, does not enter into the question. He came to this country with the highest of motives, served to the best of his ability, and completed a plece of work which cer- tainly very few men In the new Nation could have even attempted at the time. That he builded better than he or any one else knew has been proven by the intervening years. Te mot only should have a monument here, but it should be designed by the best possible artist, situated to the best possible advantage, and financed in the most liberal way. It would honor not only a patriotic man, but a friend- ly nation’ and an entire learned profession. et A statesman must expect more or less antagonism when he undertakes to extend Ben Franklin's advice be- yond Thrift week and make it ap- plicable the year round. One of the saddest features of many a sensational trial is the manner in which participants, instead of being ashamed of the notoriety, appear to enjoy it. ——— et Uncie Sam is justified in a mild curlosity as to why large navies are contemplated by nations who, ap- parently, can least afford them. ———r————————— A number of men who face the courts without fear shudder when the tax collector serves notice that back payments are due. Philosophers agree that war is fool- ish. And yet philosophers quarrel among themselves. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. February. February, on your way Through the shadows, dull and gray! Dreary are the hours you bring— Thought I heard a robin sing! February, on your way Toward the loveliness of May! Snowflakes flutter through the gloom— Thought I saw a rose in bloom! Patiently along we stray Through a weary, wintry day, In our hearts, somehow we cling To a bright, unchanging Spring. Victorious Drydom. “The drys are usually victorious.” “That's true,” saild Senator Sor- ghum. “We still read of the way Noah left the wets to disaster while he showed he knew enough to come in out of the wet.” The Great Contender. Discord her ground has boldly stood, Defying all conditions. The static thinks it's just as good As classlc compositions. Jud Tunkins says he is learning to | play the ukulele. He believes in small beginnings, and hopes some day to work up to a bass fiddle. Truthless. The ground hog, looking for the sun, Had a mendacious spasm. I named the brute George Washington To show my great sarcasm! “Kvery man,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “believes he knows how a government should be conducted; no man has ever conducted one with com- plete satisfaction to himself or his public.” G “A crapshooter, “is mo’ lable to know where his last dollar is goln’ to dan where his next dollar is comin’ from.” ——— v But Wait! New Orleans Times-Pioayun ar, no patron of the New York- to-London telephone service com- plained of being given number. 1t modest | his | said Uncle Eben, | to us, as if we could solve | her THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Why do some men seem to get more lout_of life than others? This question has been proposed it, and we thank the questioner for his con- fidence, but must state here that we have no idea of tryving it There can be no harm, however, in considering one phase of the ques- tion, as offering some insight into the | problem. The enjoyment of life seems to come mostly to those who have a real in- terest in detail By details meant the various ets, as it were, of any problem, any article, any thought, any hobby, any anything. Superficial consideration is not the way to the true enjoyment of life. Yet it is commonly seen that most men are too busy to really look at anything that does not have some relation to their daily living. Now the daily living is the big thing, of course, and a proper interest in what one does to earn his daily bread is all that the educators have proclaimed it to be. This, however, i& not the inte which we speak. These “interests” are so small, In comparison, that most persons seem to totally overlook them, Hence, we believe, they simplify life beyond the interest stage. And with interest out of the game the best and truest enjoyment of life is hardly possible. * % The person who has the ability to really see what he looks at, for in- stance, quadruples his interest. How often have you shown some article to a friend, only to have him or declare, “Yes, ver ' and then pass on to something that in- terests them more? This is a common experience, Then, some weeks or it may months later, the disinterested person suddenly discovers the thing and be- comes enthusias “Why, don't I at of 2 you remember, | showed you that a long time ago!” But he does not remember. Honestly, as far as he is concerned, he never saw the thing before. He was and is interested only in mas- | sive effect that fairly knocks him be- tween the eyes. All the small affairs of life he holds to be petty, as, in truth, they are, re- garded solely from his viewpoint, Considered in themselves and for themselves, they have aspects of {nterest which he is unwise in pass- ing over, for out of just such little in- terests is bullt one of the best means to happiness. The accumulation of these little in- terests, one by one, has the same effect as rolling a small snowball through the snow—the first thing one knows, he has a very large one, Such is life. * %k Xk X Select some acquaintance who seems to “get a great deal out of living,” as the saying 1s. He may be rich, he may be poor, he may be educated, he may say “hain’t,” he may have heard every grand opera or he may have heard nothing more pretentious than “Yan- kee Doodle,” All this makes no difference, Study him quietly, and the chances are 10 to 1 that you will find him to hed be a man easily interested in any- thing, just for its own sake, not for his. Show him a radio mediately he will begin about it. He will not he satisfied to simply listen to its output. He must open the lid, inquire about the tubes, the batteries, the system of audio ampli- icatlon. ~Imagine, even, that he is a radio man— Then you may find that he is mot lumb when you talk to him of flow- ors. He likes flowers. He raises chem himself, and is eager to discuss the comparative merits of seedmen. He is not content to grow the same old things, year after vear, but wants to_look into new plants. When he orders some bulbs the mat- ter of the packing intrigues his fancy. The gentleman who is forever com- plaining that life i3 a bore would simply tear off the bags from each bulb and throw them away, but our interested friend is interested in this, too. “So this is the way they do it,” he says to himself, as he notes the curious way the open end of the bag is tucked back over itself. He opens the next bag carefully, in order to catch on to just how it is done, and the next he must fold back in the same way. . Some day he will surprise his friends, if the question should arise, by showing them how the packers set, and im- to wonder we never noticed that!” they and that is just the trouble— never notice things. * Ok kX What is this, then, but a ceaseless curlosity, such as all children display, carried over into adult life? This {s one of the few ways in which the legend of Peter Pan, the “boy who never grew up,” can be made to come true for every one. By assuming too whole-heartedly the complete manners of maturity, millions lose that curlosity by means of which children commonly learn more, before their seventh year, in a sense, than they will eyer pick up later. Once men and women alike wanted to put on the airs of “grown-ups,” but a more sensible desire in this re- spect of recent years has led countless | thousands to attempt to look and act {as young as possible, Might we suggest that one of the best ways to achieve this result is to be genuinely interested in everything, and, as this is somewhat of a counsel of perfection, that a faking of inter- est, where one has it not, is the first step toward the real thing. Begin on the simple things that céme into your hand every day— packages, wrapping, tin cans, tooth- paste tubes. See if they present any “new wrinkles,” try to imagine the problems of the producers, admire the printing in enamel. Listen to the bus drivers discussing their problems, and do not instantly forget it, but try to imagine what you would do when thb superintendent hauled you up on the green carpet for_speeding. This is a wonderful world, indeed, for those who make it so for them: selves, as some one has said. they BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. A hearing was glven yesterday by 2 subcommittee of the judiciary com- mittee of the House upon the bill in- troduced by Representative J. M. ‘Wainwright of New York to penalize desecration of the United States flag. Spokesmen of several patriotic or ganizations were heard in arguments for Federal action on this subject, notwithstanding that all States except Virginia and Kentucky have adopted State laws making an offense against the national flag a misdemeanor. It was pointed out that while 46 States have flag laws, there is lack of uni- formity in their provisions and penal- ties, and a general lack in the scope which they cover—especially as to lim- iting the bete noir of collegiate and pacifistic “free speech,” of a sub- versive or treasonable nature. * ok Kk ‘The crime of mutilating the flag, if committed in Louisiana, would bring a penalty of $25, or 30 days in prison, botl ; in Maryland it would cost $1,000, or imprisonment for a year, or both, and in Arizona $2,000, or imprison- ment for 365 days, or both. In Connecticut to display a flag which has lost one or more of its stripes or stars costs $7. In all the States having flag legislation it is un- lawful to attach any advertising or other extraneous reading upon a flag, and at yesterday's hearing one speaker called attentlon to the yellow fringe sometimes added to flags, and regis- tered a protest against it—'or any- thing else that is yellow.” In only one State—Arkansas—is desecration by word of mouth penal- ized. There it would cost $100, or 30 days’ imprisonment, or both, to * any manner mutilate, deface or, by word or act, publicly exhibit contempt for the flag, colors, coat-of-arms or other insignia of the United States, or the State of Arkansas, or any rep- resentation thereof.” * ok ok ok There is nc such penalty in New York, where (whether by laxness of enforcement of what law exists, or a glorificatfon of “free speech”) the in- cident could occur ,which occasioned the following resolution of the George Washington Post, No. 1, American Legion, of Washington, adopted at the last meeting. The resolutions were presented at the Wainwright hearing yesterday, and have been indorsed by the District executive committea of the American Legion for considera- tion by all the District posts: s “Whereas it is reported in the press that a so-called committee on military education, at a public meet- ing in New York City, January 15, attacked all patriotic reverence of the flag of the United States, de- nouncing national patriotism and military training in schools and | colleges; “Whereds, at the aforesaid meet- ing, Prof. Carlton J. H. Hayes of Columbia University is reported as having declared that ‘nationalism is a religion with a special, brand of worship’ and ‘provoked laughter’ by ironical reference to the ‘cult’ of paying homage to the flag and re- vering the national anthem, ving, ‘We come to the flag, the Stars and Stripes. We have a cult for the wor- ship of the flag, with very curious liturgical forms, such as baring the head whenever it passes and drap- ing the bodies of dead soldiers when they are about to be-buried:” “Therefore, Resolved by the George Washington Post, No. 1, American Legion of Washington, D. C.: “That while we recognize freedom of speech and, in time of peace we tolerate verbal treason, we resent all such disloyalty to the United States as a Nation, and to the flag as an emblem of love of country—the country which gives us opportunity, liberty and safety of home and of loved ones of our families, such as the world has not known except In America—and we protest against the disrespect expressed by this Colum- bia University professor for our flag and our national anthem; “That we denounce subversive Wrong | sneers of traitors, especially when they hold stretegic of in- fluence In our institutions of educa- tion, and we call upon both parents and students to demand the freeing of our schools and universities from all connection with pacifism, so- called internationalism and what- ever other influences tend to under- mine the Government, bought with untold sacrifice of blood and treas- ure of our forefathers and of the present generation of patriots, ‘That we petition Congress to adopt such laws as may defend the Government from disloyalty in re- fusing to honor the flag. * ok Kk % It was in New York shere a stu- dent of a famous theological seminary, while we were in the World War, burned an American flag upon the street, and a professor of Christian ethics, of the same seminary, became so involved in strikes and dynamiting of munition factories that he fled to Germany, where he was decorated by His successor is now a ”xgnmgh lefidar;':f the Ii W;.thV. another seminary—in Chicago— since last. Christmas, out of 800 fledg- ling preachers 327 signed the slack- ers’ oath of disloyalty, and 800 of them voted for soclalistic theories. Within 10 minutes’ walk from the White House, on the evening of January 22, a meeting of Communists cele- brated the birth of Lenin, and opened their meeting with the “Internation- ale” in place of “The Star Spangled Banner.” Yesterday's Evening Star published an Assoclated Press dispatch from Moscow openly declaring antagonism to the United States and appealing to the “proletarfat” of all Central Amer- ica to rise and “protect the proletariat of Nicaragua against enslavement by the United States.” One ‘of the speakers at the flag hearing yesterday made the argument that since, in case of war, the Federal Government would not wait for the 48- States to draft soldiers, neither should it surrender exclusively to the States the protection of the national flag, “for we are at war *'—in- sidious war wrought by enemies with- in and without our boundaries. Wars never walt for declaration by Con- gress; they reach the people before they reach Congress, and open con- tempt for the flag is war against our Nation, of which the flag is the em- blom. A questionnaire of the United States Flag Association discloses that prac- tically all nations protect their flags with heavy penalties for desecration. * ok % ok The Guestion has been raised as to the constitutional right of the Federal Government to legislate on the na- tional flag, instead of leaving the mat- ter wholly to the States, and the opin- ion of Attorney General Sargent was cited: “The matter has been left to the States to decide. Should Congress wish to assume control, it has power." Tn case of a Federal law, it would take precedence over State laws,. if their provisions interfered, but other- wise both State laws and Federal law would operate. The question has also been fully decided by the Supreme Court. Mr. Justice Harlan of -the United States Supreme Court, in writing the decision of the court in a flag case (205 U. ., 41), used this language: “Indeed, it would have been ex- traordinary if the Government had started this country upon its mar- velous career without giving it a flag to be recognized as the emblem of the American Republic. For that flag every true American has not simply an appreciation, but a deep affection. No American nor any foreign-born person who enjoys the privileges of American citizenship ever looks upon it without ing pride in the fact that he lives Under this free Govern- ment. Hence it has often occurred that insults to a flag have been the cause of war, and indignities put upon it in the presence of those who revere it have often béen resented and some- | times punished on the spot.” And the Supreme Court justice speaks no reproval of such righteous indignation, which “p on the 9] (Copyright. 1927. by Pau) V. Collins.) NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM 1.G.M. EAST WIND. Amy Lowell. Houghton Mifflin Company. Not for nothing was John Keats a prime preoccupation in the literary life of Amy Lowell. TFor, in face of wide disparities between the two, a clear line of poetic kinshlp binds the one to the other. Over there, a young Englishman, finished almost as soon as begun, pagan in spirit, romantic in feeling, classic in thematic sympathy and in the practice of his art. On this side, a New England woman, reaching middle life before the first of her work appeared, in spirit at one with Puritan forbears thinned and sharpened by a bleak religion and a bleaker soil, in feeling not different from the prosaic literalists of her tribe and place, in art an innovator against the Brah- manic canons of poetic righteousness. And more than all this, between the two interposes a century that for its overturnings in every of life stands, so far, as the perfect kaleldo- scope of all time. Yet, notwithstanding such substan- tial separations, these two do meet in perfect communion in the sanctuary of all true poetry. Here they come together at the high altar of pure poetic Imagery. And without such flight of wings poetry would not exist apart prose, matter what its other sustaining powers might be. ¥or such image the poetsy of Keats is a purple’ weave over which plays the shimmer of dulled gold and dimmed silver, and upon which pale ivories spread in a wizardry of delicate carvings. Here are fairy fluted flowers and slender vines that crawl and writhe in the shifting light. Here are quaint figures of beauty and there whimsical gro- tesques blended of myth and super- stition and religion. Orfental in its sumptuous effect, the poetry of Keats, yet the source of such richness is only nature itself—sunlight drop- ping on uneasy leaves and slipping to the ground in patterns that dance on fleld and roadway and climbing hill: woods and whispering streams; the songs of friendly birds. Just the sum of common things in the world of nature, these turned into carolg and rondels and paeans of beauty and passion. Just so, and in no way different, does Amy Lowell in “East Wind” touch with the gift of poetic imagery the toll-taking soil of New England and its chill sunlight, converting these into the spirit of hardy courage, into the heady draught of unconquerabil- ity. The power to see a glimpse of beauty or a glint of light all along the ways of her going—even though these are likely to be dark ways, or dull ones—stands as a high point in this poet’s art. It is here in such in- timacy with the essential beauty of the world itself, in the power to cap- ture and to embody this feeling, that Amy Lowell pays her due to John Keats and proudly claims her kinship to_him. But when it comes to the pattern of her verse, how far she runs away from Keats! It is the times. The in- dividual is now supreme. Every little man is trying to put his own stamp upon something, not much matter what. He is going to be himself at any cost. So, under the rampage of the protesting individual strange things are happening to every pursuit in life. Music, poetry, painting, the drama, the dance—these all are in re- bellion. Poets, like the others, are offering a medley of wares that range from epileptic miseries in verse, from erratic and bewildering contortions, to the big and majestic free verse of ‘Walt Whitman. It is to Whitman that Amy Lowell can claim legiti- mate relationship in the art of poetry. from no Ti * ok ok % “East 'Wind” projects a series of pictures of New England life. The life of early New England was one of general concealment — bundling against the bitterness of inclement weathers, hiding natural emotions away from stern Jehovah and away from the narrower Puritans round- about each of these self-concealing in- dividuals. Natural feelings driven in- ward until this process becomes a habit, until it seems the life of the in- dividual, effects many kinds of frustra- tion, deepen human loneliness incred- ibly, darken human life unbelievably. Reserves, inhibitions, hiding away from others, hiding away from self— these were the instinctive recoils of the early New Englander from the austerities of his secular and religious life. These set the general human pattern of this quarter, these fixed the type which, even today, 15 sufficlently familiar to point and verify the way- marks of this localized spiritual progression. Speaking broadly, the dozen poems of “East Wind"" come under the single idea of frustration—now along this line, now along that one, here in a seemingly trifling turn, there in a crucial one, but all of them objectify in poetic narrative or picture some thwarted person, living far short of that which is secretly cherished as the desired end .of existence. Were it not for flashing gleams of beauty that break out at every turn here this book would be dour past endur- ing. But they do break out—from the sea, from the Spring sunlight, from the Summer banners of royal color, from a mountain cut clean across the sky line, from the drone of bees, the click of the harvesting, from the fam- ily concerns of thousands of bire No matter what the real errand of the moment may be, no matter how gloomy, how disheartening, Amy Lowell along the way uncovers a bit of the eternal loveliness of the world, and then hies herself away to some dark and dreary little corner of hu- man existence, The first of these poems, “The Doll,” will stand, in es- sence for all of them. Just two spin- sters living together alone in the big house. One of them sick always, lying in bed always. Lonely past the telling would this sick and aging woman have been but for the big doll sitting in a chalr beside the bed—a doll with wise inscrutable eyes and friendly hands, a very live human of a doll for comfort and com- pany. And then the old woman died, leaving the sister quite alone. One day she asked a friend coming in to go up with her to “Jane’s room"—a gay room, bright with flowered paper and chintz covers and a full stream of sun- light. The doll still there in her chair. But sitting beside the window now, looking out upon the street, wise-eyed and companionable as when she kept company for the suffering Jane. “It was so dull for her after Jane died. I moved her here where she could see the street. It's very comfortable to watch the passing, T think. T always find it so.” It seems to be that the very deepest pit of lone- liness has been plumbed by this lit- tle episode that is so far from the trivial or the ridiculous as to have touched the tiptop of pure tragedy itself. Different in theme, to be sure, and therefore different in composi- tion and color, the rest of the pictures walk along beside this one in gray portrayals of a deeply inhibited com- mon life. Lovely cadenced work, in its form. It looks like prose. It set: off like prose. 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Send in your question and get the right ans . Inclose 2 cents in stamps to cover the return postage. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C, of Congress’ Power Wins Public. Approval Strong public approval is given to the decision of the United States Su- preme Court upholding the right of Congress, through its committees, to call witnesses and to cite recalcitrant witnesses for contempt. Some news- papers, however, express the hope that Congress will not use its newly confirmed power to such an extent as to antagonize the public. The de- cision was made in the case of Mal Daugherty, who declined to appear at a hearing involving the affairs of his brother, former Attorney General “The power to legislate implies the duty to legislate intelligently,” the St. Paul Dispatch declares, with the further comment: “In order to leg- islate intelligently, Congress must in- form itself fully. It should have the right to procure information it needs, by campulsion if necessary The Christian Science Monitor recognizes the decision as “a concrete expression of the court's recognition of the con- current authority of the three chief governmental units, the legislative, the executive and the judicial. Its imme- diate effects,” continues the Monitor, “are far-reaching, as it bears directly upon a number of matters which are of interest and which have been brought before special congresslonal committees. In some of these, wit- nesses who have been cited to appear have refused to testify. “Senate investigations have been so numerous during the last few years as viewed by the Seattle Dally Times, “that the public has grown tired of them. Much of the testimony was introduced largeiy for the purpose of causing a sensation. The people showed commendable judgment in dis- tinguishing between the true and the false.” 'The Times adds that ‘“now that the Supreme Court has settled the question of compelling testimony, perhaps there will be another out- break of investigations.” The Pitts- burgh Gazette-Times suggests that the definition of inquisitorial power given particular, won't its new toy ew force has been added to pres- ent and future investigations, and the teeth of such inquirfes will bite even more deeply hereafter than they have in the past,” according to the Philadelphia Public Ledger. The Co- lumbia Record also remarks that while “the decision comes too late to matter very much so. far as the Daugherty case is concerned, it is of vital import in future affairs, because it puts teeth in the power of Congress to Investigate practically any subject.” The Detroit News points out that “had the Supreme Court decided against the power of Congress, investigations by committees appointed by that body would have depended on the willing- ness of witnesses to testify, and that would have meant a severe limitation on the power of Congress to investi- gate any subject whatsoever.” “The decision dignifies the congres- sional investigation and will serve a purpose of value to the public,” the Ohio State Journal remarks, and a similar position is taken by the Mor- gantown New Dominion, while the New York World feels that “the clear- cut and unanimous decisipn of the Su- preme Court affirms a necessary prin- ciple.” The Danville Bee, however, states that “‘as a rule, even unwilling witnesses have been afraid to run afoul of a congressional committee, and so the power of a committee has only recently been called into ques- tion.” The Bee points out that now “a witness will either testify or go to jail—provided always that the com- mittee does not exceed the power granted to it by Congress and conflnes itself to matters bearing on legisla~ tion.” too much tickled * ok % “Doubtless the court wili have an opportunity to pass on some of the questions asked before the_ hearings are over,” suggests the Louisville Courier-Journal, referring to sena- torfal primary probes. “It would not ‘be surprising,” continues that paper, in the court’s dictum should have the effect of making such inquiries less spectacular without in the least ham- pering their ability to bring into the light all essential facts.” * koK K “The clear principle of the decision welcome,” says the New York Times, but that paper believes “its successful application by congressional Investigation committees in the future depends upon their moderation and discretion. It is a power to be exer- cised at the will, but also at the peril, of Congress.” The Times con- cludes that “it is to be hoped rather than expected that the Senate, in e scoffer—an ignorant scoffer. I think,. which Is the worst kind of skeptic. This is a purely personal confession, but let me say that I'm a convert. “East Wind" alone—and this is not by ny means the most important work of Amy Lowell—has brought to me, p sense of the importance of Amy owell in the field of modern poetry, the fleld of letters as well, in the a of - on the part of a, “to see a witness fall back on his con- itutional right to refrain from in- criminating himself. Not being a court bound by the presumption of innocence, the Senate would be at lib- erty to draw its own conclusions from such_an acknowledgment of guilt.” The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette also suggests the possibility of such a claim by a witness, and refers to the prac- tice as “a frequent recourse in con- gressional hearings,” while it sees un- certainty as to “Just how far the usual precedents which safeguard a witness upon his plea of self-incrimination may g The Lexington Leader recalls that “the Government has been fought at every turn in its efforts to get at the bottom of the oil cases, and to inves- tigate the primaries and elections in- volving the seats of certain Senators- elect,” but adds that to be clearing up somewhat. Hartford Times, answering those who have questioned the right of the Sen- te to reject memberselect, asserts, “The fact that its power in one direc- tion is so clearly upheld should make about maintaining that q-m"«nhm-n-