Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1927, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR - With Sundsy Moriing Edition. F___-—_—-__- WASHINGTON D. C "SATURDAY. . ... Gctober 8, 1827 et . THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor E Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Oftice: i1th 8t and Pennesivania Ave. Yotk Office: 110 East st i e Tower Buil ing. Otice: 13 Regent St.. London Engtan The Evening Star with the Sunday mor edition”1a delivered by - on! n 1 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advamce. 53 Maryland eid Virgink -~ Alh-Other States and Canada. L1 yr. $12.00: 1 mo.. $1 ¥ .l;.‘ Elluldl"ux“’u V'r. 8.00: ¥ mo. 7 Binda”onlr. 111 ve 400° 1 mo.. Member of the Associnted Press. e Associated Prese 1s exclisively bt 1o the use for republication of all news Tatches credited o 1t OF NUL VLUETR1%e paper and also the local mews shts ol publiea also resnrves ited i this published herein. Al 11z ©f special diepatches aerein a —_———— A Plea for Tolerance. Premier Baldwin's address to Amer- fean Legionnaires in London will gtrike close to the heart of all Amer Yea. It calls vividly to mind days when British, French, Italian, Belgian _pnd American soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder in the greatest war of all time. It makes a plea for a return of that feeling of comradeship and good will which knit the men of these pations closely together a decade ago. The British premier unerringly .placed his finger upon an unfortunate truism. It is more difficult, he savs, “to make peace than it is to make war. A truism that the world has realized ps the years passed. In spite of bit- terness, © the world s muddling through. In spité of debts and ux- /eatistactory trade balances, in spite ‘ot the welght of huge tax’ burdens, end in spite of racial differences, the friendships of the world continue. merica's unofficial ambassadors, in- *fluding the American Legion, are do- ing much to cement those friendships. It is intercourse and persopal con- tact that count in the friendship of _nations as in the mere friendship of “ihan to man. Premier Baldwin's plea for toler- pnce on the part of America for the problems which Europe faces today— Aroblems which have come dowa to ,Xhe mations through the ages—war- sgants the earnest attention and sym- pathy of the people of the United Btates. This country is particularly _blessed n its escape from such prob- dems. And it bebooves tbe United ¥itates to watch carefully that similar *problems do not develop in the West- K Hemisphere to trouble us in the nture. . The failure of the Geneva naval limHation conference brought regret “to both Grest Britain and the United States. .The British premier is par- ticularly happy, however, in his dec- Jaration that the fafiure ef that con- ference” has Bot -and Will not result ZRritain and Japan. The British navy will show no such program, e-he says.. As the premier remarks, a “Zonflict between the United States and #8ritain, between the two great Eng- astish-speaking métions, might well wreck modern civilization, already wocked severely by the World War. I And, as Mr. Baldwin says, such a con- ~fiict is unthinkable. = s Virginia Justice? The dispute between the District of %Columisia and Virginia over enforce- ment of a statute which has lain dor- mant for years through the workings of the so-called reciprocity agree- oment between the two jurisdictions “eventually will end in an amicable a TJustment. It Virginia is right, there will ‘be no further complaint from the District interests adversely affected. But Virginia should first prove her point, not through a serfes of arbi- trary rulings by roadside justices of the peace, but through a dignified _study of the whole question after the District has been afforded ample op- portunity to present its side of the case. Repeated “trials” by justices of «the peace, with side bets between the “presiding justices as to which one of them knows the more law, pjus impli- cations on the part of one of them that the other owes his skill in juris- “prudence to conscientious study of the “Hagerstown Almanack, will do more herm than good. Lack of dignity in the courtroom, however informal the fourtroom may be, automatically {works to detract from the dignity of ‘¢he law, and law without dignity loses Méne respect of thoss who otherwise “would be glad to obey it. Right roinded Virginians, as well as residents *pt the District, will agree on this “point. Together they should find a means of assuring fair and dignified ~weighing of the law by those in whose hands rest the delicate scales of jus- tioe. ——————— “Wealth does not necessarily bring bappiness.” Trite phrase. Yet.boot- “Jeg riches constantly. give. it renewed significance. S Looking Forward. A dispute over the text of a Latin inscription over the main doorway of the library at Louvain, destroyed in .the war and now being rebuflt by merican donations, has halted work " for the time being on the facade. The dispute is between Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, representing the Carnegip Foundation, chief donors in rebullding the library, and Whitney Warren of New York, architect in eharge of the work. Original plans _@dlied for the Latin inscriptio “#Destroyed by Teutonic Fury; Re- stored by American Love.” Dr. Butler _and others object to this text, and Zthe suggestion has been made that it be revised and the words substituted: “Destroyed by War; Restored by American Love.” Mr. Warren does not agree, basing his contention on the fact that the orizinal text fn- _terprets the sentiment of the majority the people of Louvain and of Igiym. «§Mr. ‘Warren undoubtedly is correct. The inscription he favors expresses the feeling that prevails today. But of the conflicting opinions, Dr. Butler's looks further into the futare. The Louvaig library is being rebuilt to last long after the wounds of war, now fresh and painful, have felt the healing touch of time. The library should stand as an example of how the havoc ef war may be righted by love, but its message must not be one to inspire and keep hatred altve. The original inseription proposed for the library is cemtradictory in spirit to the laudable efforts of the Carnegie Foundatien toward the attainment of world pesce. The leading part taken by the Foundation in reconstructing the famous library certalnly entitles it to a volee in the matter, The New York Stock Exchange is opening its lists to foreign shares. No step more significant of the fact that New York has become a world market tould have been taken. The scenas are shifted. London, Paris, Berlin have been the international money markets in the past. But today the great tide of wealth has risen to the flood in America. American capital 18 seeking investment, and has found it the world over. American dollars have turned mili wheels, laid railroads and reared butldings in foreign lands. By opening its lists to approved shares of internal companies in for- eign countries, the New York Stock Exchange, America’s great domestic financial market. facilitates the flow of American capital to countries where capital is eeded. It is to be presumed that American investors in foreign shares will be as carefully advised and as safely guarded as are investors in the securities of domestic corporations. The rules laid down by the New THE EVENING trusteq to others, and he now chlm}] STAR., WASHINGTON, that he was betrayed. ‘There will be but little public con- cern in.the “eternal friangle” aspect ot Remus' crime, but a decided in- terest will be shown in the disclosures relating to the administration of his ili-gotten estate during and since his conviction and imprisonment. The man himself is a unique character. A few years ago he was a lawyer in small practice in Chicago, specializ- ing in criminal cases. Next he de- veloped a considerable divorce prac- tice. It was then that he conceived his scheme for cornering the bootleg business, and from modest means he rapidly progressed to such great wealth that he was able to live in a style befitting a Croesus. A point ot parttcular interest in this matter is the fact that the Government agent who was chiefly responsible for Remus’ detection and eonviction is now named by him as the cause of his marital unhappiness. Nemesis surely works in extraordinary W e Tioket Scalping. With the public in & world series city eclamoring for tickets and th2 police waging A relentless war on scalpers to make sure that the cov- eted pasteboards will be bought at the regular list price, the action of a Pittsburgh magistrate is dismissing charges against two of the elusive scalpers has caused considerable com- ment. Apparently ignoring the city ordinance which provides that all amusement tickets must be sold at their siamped face value, the judge in freeing the men said that if the owners of world series teams could charge higher prices than usual for the classic he saw no reason for the arrest of persons for doubling or tripling that price. It is apparent that base ball clubs York Stock Exchange for the listing of foreign shares apparently have been drawn with the utmost care. One makes it a sine qua non that the country in which the corporation seek- ing such listing exists must be on a gold basis. For the time being this gives the advantage to concerns of Great Britain, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands over those of France, Italy and Japan. In the future the rules governing the listing of shares may be changed to admit the corpora- tions of the latter group of countries. Or, more profitably to all concerned, these countries may place themselves on a gold basis. For some time foreign bonds have been dealt in on the New York Stock Exchange, and during the war permis- sion was granted for the listing of shares of four great foreign corpora- tions, but with the provision that these shares should be dealt in through the medium of American certificates of de- posit. This is the method which will be followed: under the new rule open- ing the New York Exchange to the lsting of shares of foreign con- cerns. The original shares of these ooncerns will not be bought and sold on the floor of the American exchange. Largs blocks of stock in approved cor- porations will be purchased by Amer- ican institutions, banks in all prob- ability, and against these will be is- sued certificates by the American in- stitutions holding the foreign secuti- ties. ‘The trading will be in these cer- tificates, identical in value with the foreign shares, but with the value specified in dollars rather than in pounds or guilders. When dividends are paid they will be transmitted to the American institutions, which in turn will pay the American investor in dollars. On the Stock Exchange of London practically all the standard American vailroad shares are listed and ers dealt in. Shares of great American indus- trials are bought and sold in the “free market” in London. Prices on the London Eszchange depend in great part on the prices obtaining for these shares in New York. 4 The action taken by the New York Exchange makes more -easy the flow of American gold to nations ‘which require capital, especially in the upbuilding of their economic structure necessary since the Great War. In- ternational bonds will be more ‘closely drawn. Under proper safeguards this will benefit both the United States and the other nations. In the early days of the Republic. foreign capital made possible the opening of new country, the tapping of natural resources, the establishment of new industries. The | pendulum has swun ———————— The acclaim of a Nation probably leaves Charles Lindbergh exactly where he started—with a desire to visit the cities of Europe and enjoy an occasional luncheon unobserved. ————————— “The glorious climate of California” is frequently referred to by politicians of the Pacific slope. The phrase should be made into a song to compete with “The Sidewalks of New York.” A Remus’ “Service to Society.” George Remus, only lately released from the penitentiary where he served a term after conviction as the “bootleg king” of America, is again in jail, a prisoner charged with the murder of his wife. The crime was committed yesterday in Cincinnati Remus surrendered to the police and claimed to have acted in the interest of soclety. ‘The shot which slew the woman, he said, was a duty on hif part. The spectacle of Remus moralizing upon public duty and social responsi- Bility 1s not particularly edifying. It is evident that his sense of obliga- tion to the public is warped. He went into the bootlegging business as a means of making big money. He| was attracted to the field by the dis- covery that bootlegging had up to that time been a scattered serles of ndividual operations, and he made a bid for control which succeeded on | a large scale. He demonstrated a genius for orzanization. His trans- actions ran into tens of millions of dollars. When he was caught and | proved guilty he paid a totally inade- quate penalty. If his punishment had been determincd by the magnitude of | his operations he would have been! sent to pricon for a long term of years, As it wag, he had an easy Ume in prison for a few months, liv- | ing luxuriously and perforryng only light routine dauty in the prison, library. While s in this techni- cal confinem aftairs were en- whose teams have proved themselves the cream of their respective leagues are entitled to charge more for the annual world series, and along the same line of thought the public is perfectly willing to pay more for a view of the best teams. It Is the same thing as a low-priced boxing exhibition of fifth-raters and g high- priced -exhibition of two topnotchers. Nefther of these, however, makes scalping defensible. Of course, this year, as well as all other years, there has been dissatis- faction over the method of ticket dis- tribution of the pennant-winning clubs, and any number of “regular customers” are doubtless eondemning the club because of failure to receive tickets. It might be possible even that the judge himselt wrote for tickets and did not get them. —or—. One point brings European powers to general agreement. It is the as- sumption that Uncle Sam has consid- erably more money than he actually needs. ——————————— Every United Btates citizen likes to visit Washington, D. C. Yet no na- tional party thinks of this city as the place for & mominating convention. ———— Statesmanship employs, some com- plicated phrases. It remained for President Coolidge to impress the value of the word of one syllable. Nothing that the esteemed Judge Landis can say will prevent the suc- tessful pitcher from being the real “‘czar” of base ball. ———e— Aviators hop off in light-hearted haste and seldom pause to think of arrangements for a return trip ticket. ————e———————— Good plays are scarce. At present the grand jury is the audience that hears the big drama. —— e Oil is a lubricant that often causes friction in political machinery. SHOOTING ST BY PHILANDER JORNSON. That Once Wicked Publication. Do you remember, when a lad, Your startied gase was set On pictures which seemed very bad, In the Police Gazette? Into the barber shop you'd go, Beneath the shears to fret, And seé men waiting In & row For the Police Gazette. On crogs-eyed “cublsts” now I gaze, Or “Beauty's” special pet. On, how I miss the simple ways Of the Police Gazette! Jud Tunkins says musicians should learn to say “No.” It's kind-hearted- ness” and willingness to oblige that makes 50 many men try to sing tenor. Revenges. “Do you seek revenges?” “Never,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “In politics you can usually let nature take its course in handing out hard luck to those who happen to deserve it.” Consolation. Forget the cruel, sunny ray ‘With Autumn skies aglo Before you live through many a day, You'll have to shovel snow. “The joss remains silent,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “knowing that most of our present prayers are but mistaken wishes for the future.” Favorings. “Do you favor prohibition?” “Yes,” answered Uncle Bill Bottle- top. “But the only enforcement offi- cers T've seen carried guns and Weren't asking any favors whatever. Modern Influence. My Radio! My Radio! You tell me what to eat and drink; And, as the eyenings come and go, You tell me what to £ay and think. “De parent who talks wise and acts foolish,” said Uncle Eben. “ain’t no partic’lar heip to de chillun.” oo The Hidden Threat. From the Charlotte Observer. 1t is said that a plate over the door in Egypt indicatss that a marriage- 2ble girl Hves within the house. Over here a fellow geis caugit Wwithout warning. ..o b Bad Medicine. From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Bootleg whisky may be a success the fuel tank of an auiomob! but it will never do'the steering wheel any “What did you bring me?” This is the standard question of the child to its parents, as the latter arrive from downtown. As to the question of buying perpetual presents for children, this is something which we do not propose to discuss here. Tho happiness of receiving some- thing “from downtown,” however, is known by their elders as well as by the children. The surprise of receiving something new, whether it be a book, or a maga- zine, or 2 piece of wearing appa or candy or whatnot, is something that perhaps ought to be more invoked than normally i&. Older people, as well as children, are not immune to the appeal of the surprise. In the country districts, even in the year 1927, the “surprise” party s &till a large feature of the socfal life, as any one can see by picking up the weekly paper from the old home town. Such gatherings no longer are in vogue in the cities, but something of the same “kick” can be imparted to Jife by the judicious selection of per- sonal presents. * ok % % CGrave and serious “Daddy” will re. act quite as well to an offering of good will as any one else. It you doubt this, try it on the old man tomorrow. Select for him a nice blue tie with bright orange stripes on it, and watch the glad smile of surprise that flits across his features when he sees it for the first time. The minute, dear mother, you re- move it from its paper bag, his eves begin to gleam with the light that never was on sea or land. No matter what he secretly thinks of your selection, he is man enough to conceal it. He will put it on—once without a murmur, even if he con- veniently manages to lose it some- where later. ‘And he does get quite a “kick” out of the remembrance. * Kk K Many a wife who chides her dear husband for buying so many goif clubs and balls would be surprised at the tremendous “hit" she could make if she were to come home some after- noon with her handbag filled with the very latest offering of some promi- nent manufacturer. Ardent golfers are very fond of in- dulging in clubs and new balls. A man may have a set of some promi- nent maker’s best clubs, all initialed by one of the great players, and that mort of thing. but when he goes by the window and sees some particular club, he has a hankering for it. He falls. He has the salesman wrap it up in brown paper, and hopes that wifie will not spot it, as he comes through the big front door. But a golf club, wrapped or un- wrapped, is unerringly a golf club. No amount of paper will make it look like an umbrella. Even little Johnnie cannot mistake it for a whip. * * k “1 see yvou have a new golf club,” says she, with a peculiar accent. D. C., SATURDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Now it is not what she says, but it is the she says - “I see you have a Just so! How much_better would it be to indulge the old chap in his peculiar weakness. Suppose he should come wagging home with the club wrapped up in brown paper and should find a smil- ing wife waiting at the front door. ilc would be, of course, all set for the inevitae remark. His stance would be & good one, from long experi- ence. He would be all ready to be made to feel as if he were taking the food out of his children’s mouth, or rob- bing grandmother of her bedroom slippers. He would almost be ‘ready to de- clare, “Well, go on and say it!” He —but suppose his dear wife, instead of greeting him with the aforemen- tioned inevitable remark, would calm- Iy ask: “TIl bet you can't guess what I just_bought for you dowatown?” Of course he couldn’t guess. Then she would placidly haul forth a box, and say: “Here are a dozen of those new Hawkroute golf balls you saw advertised the other day. I thought you might like them. They only cost $10, too.” * ok ok ok new golt club,” Another good way for a wife to please her husband is to surprise him with the gift of a new kind of shaving soap. Remember that the stores are filled with all kinds of tricky gadgets for old shavers as well as young shavers. No man wholly outgrows his child- hood—in fact, women get a great deal of fun out of pretending that their husbands are only big boys. Remem- ber this childish trait, then. Bring him a fancy “shaving bowl” from abroad, with a nicely scented cake of soap in its wooden receptacle. The chances are 10 to 1 that he has never seen anything like it, and will appreciate it very much, even if he pretends to think that it is too “smelly.” Men openly affect to de- spise perfumes, but your average male has a decided preference for really good ones in moderation. * ok K ok ‘We have dealt thus at length with the so-called head of the house for the good and simple reason, as Pen- rod was wont to say, that he is too often neglected. The custom of bringing home gifts of candy and flowers to wives is more established, and needs less a reminder in the public prints. But perhaps the habit of purchas- ing little trinkets, now and then, at unstated and unknown intervals, for various members of the family, might go a long way toward making life more pleasant. “Men and women are but boys and girls grown up, it is true, and yearly tend to look more like children, with their goif trousers and their short skirts and bobbed heads. None of us should forget, if we could, nor would we, the glorious an- ticipation and delight of the child as “Yes,” he replies, something like a whipped dog. it asks, “What did you bring me from downtown?" Giddings and Julian Letters Reveal Life Romance and color of a Congress- man'’s daily life in old-time Washing- ton, with some bits of hitherto unex- plored history, are contained in a large collection of yellowing letters re- ceived by:the manuscript division of the Library of Con These letters constitute the most interesting of the correspondence of Joshua R. Giddings and his son-in- lew, George W. Julian, both members of the House from Ohio during the years immediately before and after the Civil War. They are the gift of Mrs. Grace Giddings Julian Clarke of In- dianapolis, daughter of Mr. Julian. ‘With the outbreak of the war, Gid- dings was appointed by President Lincoln as United States Consul to “British North America,” and made his headquarters at Montreal. His collection of letters from this post is expected to throw much new light on the conflicting forces in the Canadian provinces during the great struggle in the United States. Generally, these letters reveal, there was a preponder- ance of sentiment for the Union, but the Dominion wae full of Southern sympathizers, who were doing their best to bring about another war with England by raids across the border. It was with these difficult situations ;2:} Mr. Giddings was called upon to % * % But the interest of Washingtonians in ‘the collection HMes in the intimate pen pictures of the old-time Capital contained in his weekly letters to his two daughters. The hastily penned eplstles to “Molly and Sarah Ann" ave the more interesting In that they are highly confidential, with frequent in- terruptions as they grew toward wom- anhood of “For Heaven's sakes, don't let your mother hear about this,” re- ferring to his activities in the social iife of the Capital. These letters con- stitute a picture of a Congressman's daily thinking in those hectic times. One day tha tone is gay and worldly; the next day the letter is one of deep despair, longing for death and specu- lation on what lies beyond. Spiritualism was making its first appearance in the Capital in the early fifties. Various mediums set up their establishments, and members of the Congress were among their most ar- dent followers. Giddings became a thorough convert. In February, Molly: “I would like to have you improve as a medium. I find many of the older men in Congress confirmed be- llevers in the manifestations, The truth s, the fruits are such as to Jcarry convietion to the minds of all who have had the opportunity to ex- amine them.” A month later he writes to the same daughter: y the way, I forgot to tell you I| had something very good from the epirit world written by & medium here. There is one from Calhoun, in which he expressed delight at finding himself the same John Calhoun in the spirit plane and how he regrected his advocacy of slavery and misapulica- tion of 'his intellectual powers ~ulle on earth.” "1852, he writes to * ok %k ¥ He tells her that a Mr. Roberts, “a New England minister and an anti- slaver, has taken a room next to mine, and he believes in spirit manifesta- tlons and in the improvement of man until he shall be elevated to a bigher sphere here on earth.” The conversations with Roberts haunted his mind. ~I long to be with you,” he writes Molly on May 16, 1851, “and tell you all the spirits have imparted to me and how I have pleasant hopes of meeting the sisters and little brother of yours who long ago went into the spirit land.” “Dear Molly,” writes Mr. Giddings again, “I am settled for the Spring on the north side of the public grounds on the hill in the block neavrest the Capitol. I have a fine, large, com- fortable room, good table and good atfention at $8 a week, the cheapest I ever had.” To Sarah Ann he writes: “Was at party last eveaing. Mme. Tagido, the Hungarian patriot, was there, and a Mrs. Clarke from New T ork, AR srdent ¢ of Old Capital erable father. We drank coffee, sipped oyster soup, ate scalloped oysters and played blind man’s bluff: that is, the younger one's did. We old men talked politics, fought the oM battles over, and broke yp just in time not to in- trude on the Sabbath.” On January 14, 1859, he' writes: “Went to see Kossuth. Gen. Tay- lor of Chilicothe had opposed inviting him before our body, and I had.scored him for it, threw the Houge into laughter at his expense, and he was very angry. The next day a Mrs. Browning of Cincinnati was at the re- ception for K., and who did she see come in but Taylor. She wanted to know why he was there if he didn't want to see the patriot, and he left, very mad. K. was dressed in a rich green velvet suit. Hec is a fine fellow. Grace zays he is too holy and fine a man to get married.” EIE N Tn 1842 he writes to his dapghter: “I am_ here in this forum of the concerted wisdom of the Nation. Mr. Goode of Virginia 18 holding forth in terms of moving eloquence on the hos- pitality, patriotism and moral excel lence of the Old Dominfon. Some of the members are going to their din- ners, some are taking a nap. The re- porters are lounging about the hall, and some are drawing caricatures on the paper before them.” In 1855, in the midst of bitter anti- slavery debate, he writes: “I am here in my room alone on the Sabbath. I try to turn my thoughts to the future, to that elevated exist- ence which awaits us. The voices of departed frlends reach me. On me, more than any one else, do they de- pend for carrying through the work which we have begun. The country aleo is looking toward me. Indeed, looking down the vista of time, I be- hold coming generations looking back upon me. No other man could have girded our little corps to our present position.” The Julian letters in particular con- tain an invaluable collection of auto- graphs. Julian was elected ta Con- gress as a Free-Soiler in 1849, and was one of the most prominent anti-slav- ery advocates. There are letters to and from Charles SBumner, George F. Hoar, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin F. Wade, Caesius H. Clay, Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice Fuller, Secretary Stanton, Samuel Tilden, Julla Ward Howe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lu- cretia Mott, Willlam Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, John Stuart Mill, Horace Greeley, Gen. Fremont, Win- field Scott, George Bancroft, James Russell Lowell, Whitelaw Reid. Henry Villard, Murat Halstead, William Dean Howells and other leaders of American and European thought. Baumes Law Praised As Help to Society To the Editor of The Star: In my opinion the so-called “Baumes law” is the first intelligent measure to withdraw from public circulation the poor quality human being who is be- coming an ever-increasing menace. It is primarily a law for the protection of society against fools. Rather than appealing for sympathy for a man be- cause he has not committed a_serious crime, we ought to rejoice that the state has acquired legal control of his actions before he has been guilty of murder, rape or arson. It is so easy to indulge a fancy for crime without detection that at present only the fools come within the grasp of the law four times. A man who does so clear- ly shows that he is unfit to be at Jarge. What the state does with and for those who qualify for permanent free house and lodzing is another mat- ter. All punishment is absurd which does not help the object to become a more useful citizen. Our whole sys. tem of dealing with crime needs revi- sion, but the first duty of the state Is to see that the worthless and danger- ous have less opportunity for the harm they do. Blessings on the pint of liquor or the innocent joy ride in somebody else’'s automobile which ac- complishes the desired resu:t. “It is a consummation devoutly to be wished for.” Let us not rfere. admiver of your ves: OCTOBER 8. 1927, The Bookman, which has been pub- lished monthly for more than 30 years, with the September number is issued by a netv editor, Burton Rascoe. Heretofore it has been sponsored suc- cessively by two book-publishing firms, but now has no comnection with any house whose books may be reviewed in its pages. It now calls itself “a revue of life and letters.” During its long and creditable career, although it has pub- lished some short stories, serialized fiction and general articles, predom- inantly it has been devoted to book reviews and literary news and gossip. Judging by editorial annenncements and by the September and October numbers, produced by the new direc- tion, the Bookman will continue to publish literary criticism and com- ment, as heretofore, but will hereafter include more material of a general and non-literary nature. Long-time readers of the Bookman find much to interest them in “Old Bookman Days,” by Arthur Rartlett Maurice, at one time editor of the Bookman, in the September number. This gives a picture of its brilliant first editor, Harry Thurston Peck, as well as some account of its early contributors and other comments on the history of the magazine. Such old readers may per- haps be startled to find featured up in the first number of the new series articles by Theodore Dreiser; Upton Sinclair and James Branch Cabell. Old friends will watch whether the magazine, which frankly had slumped from its earlier standards, will again be made as interesting as it was under Harry Thurston Peck, the author of the bon mot that certain writers of his day were ‘“neurotic, erotic and tommyrotic.” * K K K The changing fortunes and charac- ter of the Bookman bring to mind the ups and downs of many another mag- az‘ne. There is the old North Ameri- can Review. Begun as a quarterly, following the model of the great Eng- lish quarterlies, throughout most of its distinguished history it had been a monthly, predominantly devoted to politics and public affairs. A year or so ago it changed back to quarterly publication, but has now again become a monthly. One of the greatest trans- formations was in the Dial. After being published for many years bi- monthly in Chicago as a purely liter- ary journal, devoted almost exclu- sively to book reviews, a few years ago it was moved to New York, where it became a monthly, devoted to new forms in literature and art, with book reviews distinctly subordinated. The sareer of the Cosmopolitan has been distinctively revolutionary. It was first published in Rochester, N. Y., by a firm manufacturing office equip- ment. Its rather tame text was de- signed to carry the manufacturer’s ad- vertising. Next John Brisben Walker got it and made of it the first 10-cent magazine, cheap in price but excel- lent in quality—a general magazine, widely read by thinking people. Last, it was gathered into the great Hearst net, with its staple fiction somewhat daring in tone. In its last phase the name Cosmopolitan is subordinated to Hearst's International, with which its publisher combined it. * %k ok K The autoblography of Sir H. Rider Haggard, “The Days of My Life,” had been in his publishers’ safe since 1912, awaiting the author's death to be pub- lished. Rider Haggard is known to most people only as the writer of wild, impossible romances, which, whatever their effect on the young people of today, at least caused many of the older generation to read long past their usual bed hour. Nearly §0 of these romarces appeared, with only short intervals between them. Prob- ably the most famous was “‘She,” a tale of an immortally youthful en- chantress. “King Solomon’s Mines,” “Allan Quatermain” and ‘“Jess” rank next in popularit. These four were all written between January, 1885, and March, 1886. The chief scenes of his romances are South Africa, Egypt, Palestine, Mexico, Peru and Iceland. About 1898 he became interested in the question of Erglish agriculture, and from that date his time was divided between romance writing and investigations of agricultural prob- lems. He assisted in the writing of varjous government reports and pub- lished five volumes on agricultural subjects. * ko X Popular, or sensational, which? Or both? Albert Edward Wiggam in “The Fruit of the Family Tree” wrote a book on heredity which won com- mendation from some scientists and denunciation from others. His recent book, “The Next Age of Man,” goes in for prophetic anthropology. As in his earlier book, Mr. Wigzam stresses the fact, or theory, that high human qualitics are the outcome of heredity and that lacking a distinguished heredity not much is to be expected of any one. He is a believer in aristoc- racies, not in democracies. He is al=o firmly convinced that intellect, artistic gifts and moral qualities, and usually physical soundness, go together. * ok kX Catherine the Great of Russia, one of the extraordimary queens of his- tory, tells her own story, and with great frankness, in the pages of Katherine Anthony’s translation of the “Memoirs of Catherfne the Great.” The Empress. who later came to be known as “the Messalina of the North,” was the daughter of a minor prince of the family of Anhalt-Zerbst and was brought up in her father’'s house at Stettin. When she was 14 she was invited to Moseow by the| Empress Elizabeth of Russia and there her career as an. adventuress began. She was soon married to the imbecile Grand Duke Peter, nephew and heir of Empress Elizabeth. He be- came Emperor Peter III and shortly afterward Catherine seized the crown and imprisoned Peter. With or with- out her connivance, her imbecile d¢ throned husband was murdered by her lover Orlov. Catherine was, then, a usurper and spent the rest of her life in fear of losing her throne. The memofrs disclose the father, not her husband, of her son, who was many years later Emperor Paul, as well as much about her many scandalous love affairs which continued into her old age. * ok ok ok In “The Mob” Vicente Blasco Ibanex concerns himself not with Spanish aristocrats, nor the clergy, nor torea- dors, nor peasants, as ain former novels, but with the masses of the poor in the city, specifically in Madrid. Isidro Maltrata is the scion of a_beg- gar family, whose socfal rank is raised by his adoption by a rich old woman. The wealthy patroness does not go quite far enough in her bene- faction, for she dies without a will. leaving Isidro again a pauper. The small amount of education he has ac- quired enables him to become a writer of a poor sort, but his life again sinks to the level of the slums. It is this environment, with its inhab- itants, the mob, which furnishes the wealth of detafl of the novel—detail so characteristic of all the work of Ibanez. *x ok Kk % . The same thesis as that of Charles G. Norris' novel “Brass” is used by Ladislas Reymont in “The Promised Land"—that wealth and power may bring only discontent and disillusion- ment if intellectual and spiritual values have been allowed to atrophy in the process of material acquisition. Charles Borovieski is an industrialist, manager of a factery in Lodz, then partner in a business of his own. Marriage is made merely a part of ! his industrial carcer, as he marries - the uncultured daughter of & Lods ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. Q. What was the first movie taken in Los A ?—G. )l 3 A. "llo“n‘:o Cristo,” a Selig produc- tion, starring Hobart Bosworth, was the first motion picture taken in Los Angeles. Q. Whatisan exodontist>—M.J. O. A. The term is applied to one who specializes in the traction of teeth. Q. Did the anclent Israelites have poultry for food, such as is common today. apart from pigeons and quails? —8. E. A. Partridges are noted in the Old Testament. The fatted fowl (I Kings, iv.23) is interpreted as either goose or duck. Cocks and hens were brought from Persia two or three centuries before Christ. A tomb at Marissa of about 200 B. a crowi “twittering birds” parro! were also used for food. Q. Will ragweed grow above an al- titude of 4,000 feet? How far will the pollen_carry?—B. 8. A. The ragweed has beeh known to grow at an altitude of 7,000 feet above sea level. There is no way to tell how far the pollen of this plant will carry, since a great deal depends upon the rate of speed at which the wind is blowing. Q. What is a lardoon?—M. N. A. Lardoon, or lardon, is a thin slice of bacon or pork for larding meat. How are mental defectives Q. classed?—F. S. A. The American Association for the Study of the Feeble Minded de- fines the classes as follows: Idiots, mental age below 2 years; tmbeciles, mental age from 2 to 7 years; morons, mental age between 7 and 12 years; subnormal variety, mental capacity slightly above the average custodial case. Q. In auction br(dg;: does a misdeal lose the deal”—A. B. E. os;t]: does not. No matter what happens, the same dealer must vm;‘ again, unless four players pa: out a bid.. Q. 1s the music to the "ulf‘lne'l Hymn" taken from some opera?—R. N . L ‘A.” The melody of the song, “From the Halls of Montezuma,” is that of the “Couplets des Hommes d’Armee, from Offenbach’s opera bouffe, “Gene- vieve de Braban! Q. When the pilot goes out to meet an ocean liner does he board the liner or stay on his own boat’—R. P. A. The pilot is brought out on & smaller boat to the ocean liner, which he boards and pilots the steamer into the dock. Q. What kind of lights are used at the Panama Canal? On St. Marys River?—H. H. A. The Bureau of Lighthouses says that the navigation lights at the Pana- ma Canal operate on compressed acety- lene; those at St. Marys River are of different {lluminants, viz., compressed acetylene, compressed ofl gas, electric incandescent and oil wick. . Of the number of monkeys born in captivity, how many live?—D. A. H. A. The National Zoological Park at Washington, D. C., informs us that based on their records approximately $5 per cent of the monkeys live. Should the word “if” be used when “whether” is meant?—C. R. A. The use of “it" for ‘“whether” is condemned, except in colloquial and poetical language. Q. Is it against the law to throw dead flowers and fruit skins in an al- ley?—R. L. M. A. There is a city ordinance against the throwing, of garbage or debris in a public alley in the District of Co- lumbfa. This is also a violation of public health rules. Q. Is marshmallow a candy?—W. S. A. The Confectioners’ Journal savs that in the United States it is consid- ered a candy. Strictly speaking. candy is a confection that is made with sugar that has crystallized, as in stick candy, and is confined to this meaning in England, but not in America. Confection is the broader term and includes candy ‘and jams, Pardoning The pardon of Bennett J. Doty, Anterican soldier of fortune, after he had been sentenced for desertion from the French Foreign Legion, is ac- cepted in this country as evidence of good will on the part of France—a graceful response to an appeal from the American Legion. For Doty him- self there is not overmuch sympathy. He escapes prison and death, but must serve out his enlistment of several years In the Foreign Legion, ‘American opinion favoring leniency in this case is believed by the Jersey City Journal to have been ‘“based more on sentiment than fact, which was natural in the case of a man who had served well not only in the French Fereign Legion but also in the Ameri- can Army in the World War.” The Journal adds that “to satisfy that sen: timent France has made a sacrifice. The success of its Foreign Legion is directly proportional to the success with which it can maintain absolute loyalty and military discipline. Sym- pathy has little place in solution of the Foreign Legion's problems. With that to consider, the letting off of & soldier who committed a capital of- fense * * * must be looked upon as a valiant act of international friend- ship.” “So the Paris reunion already has paid at least one dividend.” says the Beliingham Herald, which describes Doty's “eleven months in the Syrian desert during the Druse uprising,” when he “received two citations for extraordinary bravery Following the sentence to be shot and the com- mutation to eight years in a French penal colony, of which he had served 17 months, the Herald concludes: “‘I crave no more adventure,’ is Doty's reaction. And one would think so-— or not.” with France against the rebellious Moroccans and Syrians for money merely,” suggests the Miami Daily News. “The love of adventure was doubtless his ruling motive. But kill- ing men merely for the lova of adven- ture is not now a highly regarded trade. Doty would have done better to leave the French to reduce their own subject tribes. If he wants ad- venture and a chance to shoot and be ——————— millionaire. He would doubtless have been perfectly satisfied with his achievements had he not had an up- per class ancestry and a youth in which traditions of culture and ideal ism prevalled. As things are, ind trial success leaves him with a life stripped of all that might have made -|in a perfectly tight container. jellies, cakes, sugar plums and many other sweets. Ice cream and many desserts are really confections. Candy as it is known today is of compara- tively recent origin, having developed since sugar became plentiful and cheap. Q. Of what material should the floor of an icehouse be made?— C. P. H. 'A.” It makes little difference as to what material is used for the floor of an icehouse so long as it is well drained. The wood floor With venti. lation under it perhaps draias a little easier than the other floors. ‘What percentage of automobiles lr? bought on the installment plan? —H. D. A. In 1926 64 per cent of the new cars were bought on the plan of & payment down and the remainder in instaliments. . Name some of the taverns or inns at which George Washington is known to have stopped.—S. J. A. Authentic Washingtonian tav- erns include: City Tavern, Philadel- phia; Bunch of Grapes Tavern, Bos- ton; True American Inn, Trehton, : Arnold’s Inn, Morristown; Suf- ferin’s Tavern and Smith's Tavern, Smiths Cove, N. Y.: the Buck Tavern, near Philadelphia: the tavern at East Chester, N. Fountain Inn, Balti- more; Da Tavern, Harlem: Fraunces’ Tavern, New York; Mann’s Hotel, Annapolis; City Hotel, Alexan- dria. Q. How did the custom of having a best man originate?—A. T. C. A. Tradition relates that a best man was employed in the stone age. The bridegroom swooped down upon the home of the bride and stole her away, while the best man diverted the attention of the bride’s father. Q. How may mushrooms be dried” —8. C. W. A. Mushrooms may he preserved entire by drying them in the sun or in an oven. All moisture must be re- moved before the material is packed ‘Mush- rooms so preserved., after a prelimi- nary soaking in tepid water or milk, may be cooked as if fresh. mushrooms, and “even tough d stems, may be ground and used as.a powder for seasoning gravies an other dishes. > Q. Whére do most of the cranber- ries come from?—J. E. C. A. The principal sections producing cranberries are the Cape Cod region of Massachusetts, the pine barren re- glon_of New Jersey and central and northern Wisconsin. The industry is carried on in a smaller way near the mouth of the Columbia River and on the eastern end of Long Island. apd there are scattered flelds in Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Con- necticut, Virginia, Minnesota and Michigan. Q. What is New Zealand spinach?— J. H. A. New Zealand spinach is not'a true spinach. It is an annual vine with thick, fleshy leaves, and grows luxuriantly during the hot weather. The tips are cut, cooked and eaten like spinach. Q. What is the second highest mountain in the world?—W. F. H. A. Mount Aconcagua, Chile-Arge tina, 15 the second highest mountain in the world. Its elevation is 23,080 feet. Q. Who invented condensed milk? —A. P. T. A. The first application of a prdc- tical process for condensing milk was made by Gail Borden of Norwich, N. Y., who bezan his experiments in 181 and applied for a patent in 1853, which was first rejected, but finally granted August 19, 185 1 Talke advantage of this free servl If you ure not one of the thousands who have patronized the dbureau since its estgblishment, we want you to start now. This is a sérvice maintained for the benefit of the readers of The Evening Star and we want you to get wour. share of benefits from it. Send your questions to “ws. Inclose 2 cents in stampy for ‘return_postage. Address The Evening Star Informa- “Our Doty was probably not fighting.! tion Bureaw, Frederic J. Haskin, di- rector, Washington, D. C. of Doty Accepted As Good-Will Act by France shot, why In the world doesn’t he join an American polics force, where such a career can be truly glorious.” * kX “Graduates from the school of ex- perience have but one motto,” declares the Toledo Blade. “It is ‘never agaih.’ That is what Bennett J. Doty is say- ing. * * Doty has had the kind of thrills that sometimes get into fic- tion. In the climax he has-come to life-as from the grave. He says: ‘I hope my mother_in" Biloxi. Miss,, will feel as_good as I do.'. Doubtléss she will. Real mothers.never fuil their sons. ‘This.mother will find a son whose appetite for adventure is satl- ated, but there is no moral to his story worth mentioning. Food ane man eats cannot satisfy another.” “Sentiment might have prompted complete forgiveness and an honor- able discharge long aso,” in the opin- jon of the Flint Daily Journal, “but sentiment is lacking in the European military system, and especially in the Foreign Legion. . While the French authorities knew that they must make an example of this young Americn, regardless of his distinguished record. they did concede a point, or mapy points, in waiving the usual penalty for desertion in time of war. * * ¢ The spectacle of a seasoned advén- turer, globe-trotter and soldier of for- tune deserting because of a twinge of loneliness for the far-away homeland is not a common one. “He was no coward,” asserts the Wichita Beacon, conceding that “it is not hard to conceive of his s‘ckness at heart and resultant homesickness and desperation,” an the statement that has that happy ending by the American people in fi real life.”” The Worcester Telegram feels that the case “seems so spedial that the French Government comld not refuse to release him without causing an unfavorable impression in this country.” : EE F The Charleston’ Evening Post refers to the case as “a rather flagrant vk lation of the traditions of the Legion,” and holds that Doty's “resubmergence in its ranks is doubtless made in an effort to restore that so far as possi- ble. There is no good reason why his Government should exert itself to res- cue him from a career.of his own choosing,” concludes that paper. The Seattle Daily Times finds in his career “a wholesome lesson for other adven- turous youths,” and states of his fu- ture: “Young Doty will now serve in Algeria near the scenes pictured jin his later years satisfying. Reymont's earlier four-volume novel, “The Peasants,” deals with Polish peasant life in the four seasons, as “The Prom- ised Land” deals with Polish city in- dustrial life. * k k k A leading French literary journal, in making a forecast of probable mem- bers of the French Academy in 1950. calls attention to the fact that many notable French writers in the past have not been elected to membership in that celebrated company of Im- mortals. “Neither Flaubert, nor the Gonccurts, nor Maupassant, nor Dau- det, nor Zola,jior Mirabeau, nor many others, have, a the greea habit.” ‘Beau Geste.” One hopes that he ddes not encounter another Sergt. Le Jauhe or that he does not get too close to the cantankerous tribesmen of ti troubled region. Also there is reason to believe that when he has rounded out the five years of his enlistment perfod he will head straight for &n Amer:can recruiting office the nexf time he feels the urge to go to war."” “The soldier of fortune is not called by his country,” concludes the Kala- mazoo Gazette. “He goes forth solely for the sake of fighting, to risk life and kill other men in a war in which his country has not the slight- est interest. He is entitled to none of the honors due the patriot.” L