Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1927, Page 6

6 € THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D C. SATURDAY. . .December 10, 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Jompany Business Oftice: 11:h St and Penosvivania Ave. New ‘York Office’ 110 East 32n1 8t. Chicago Office: Tower R inz. European Office: 14 Regent St.. London Engiand. The Evening Star with the Sunday morn ing edition is delivered by carrviers within the city at 60 cents per month: daily only. 5 cents per month. Sundave only cents ver month Ordere may he sent by mail o. telephone Main 5000 Collection is made by carrier at end of each month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Datly and Sunday....1sr £000: 1 mo. Daily only 1vr. $6.00° 1 mo. Sundav onlv 118300 1 mo, 780 All Other States and Canada. Dale and_Sunday.} vr 00 1m0 $100 aily ol 1er. €500 T mo. 150 undav onlv. ierl $100°1 mo Member of the Associated Press. Tha Associnted P 3 10 the ‘usa for renublication of A'to 1t or not otherwise cred | pews ihlahad b . of eperial 4 The Health Seals. Every time a Christmas health seal | is fastened to the back of a letter or a package a contribution is made to an educational and preventive work of vital importance to Washington These little tokens, which “retail” at a penny each. are the means of rai ing a fund for prosecuting in this Dis trict, as elsewhere in the United State! a campaign of instruction in health. and also of actual clinical service in lowering the percentage of pulmona afflictions. One of the phases of this work of prevention is of particular in terest. A part of the fund that is pro vided by the sale of seals is devoted to a series of health programs in the schools of the Capital under the aus- pices of the Child Health Educational Department of the Washington Tuber- culosis Association. Cards have been printed by the thousands for distribu- tion among the pupils, giving data re garding weights and heights in rela- tion to health. A program of inten- sive work is carried on to insure proper nutrition. Classes are conducted in some of the schools to the end of building up underweight children. Special health demonstrations are given. Thus the matter of health is brought directly to the little folks in a way that impresses them and that cannot fail to have a wholesome in- fluence. As a result of the annual seal sales, providing the means for this system- atic campaign, many lives have been saved during the last quarter of a cen- tury. The death rates from tuber- culosis have been lowered. It is esti- mated that nearly 850 lives were saved in 1926 by the reduction of the tuber- culosis rate in that year as compared with that of 1900. The rate itself has been cut in half in that span of twenty- six years. The Washington Tuberculosis Asso- ciation is working for the following health objectives: More school health examiners and nurses; additional doc- tors and nurses for the tuberculosis work of the District Health Depart- ment; a year-round sanatorium for tu- berculosis children; Government sup- port of social service and occupational work at the Tuberculosis Hospital; an open-window class for each public school division. The sale of Christmas seals will not effect the accomplish- ment of all these objectives, but it will stimulate public interest in this sub- Ject to the point of bringing about an effective community demand for them. These seals, in fact, are advertise- ments of a need as well as a means of providing some of the funds requisite for meeting it. They bring to public notice the fact that a campaign is being waged for the general benefit. While they pertain specifically to the Christmas season in design, they might well be continued in use as long as the supply lasts to insure a con- stant stimulus to the public mind. —_————————— The character of the testimony to which he may have to listen revives the old contention that the pay al- lotted to a juror is entirely too small. —_—e—. A New Champion. Lieut. Carleton C. Champion, Jr., U. 8. N, has finally received credit for his epic altitude flight above Wash- ington last Summer. The gallant naval fiyer, who battled fires and a crum- bling ship in a desperate attempt to return to earth safely and to preserve his barographs after attaining his rec- ora height last July, has had a difficult time in receiving credit for his achieve- ment. The altitude record was held by Jean Callizo, a French commer- cial fiyer, at more than 40,000 feet. The next mark was 38,704 feet, credited to Lieut. John A. MacReady, U. . A. Champion, when he returned to earth from the trip which nearly cost him bis life, was convinced that he had attained an altitude of 47,000 feet, but calibration of his barographs, which had been damaged in landing, disclosed that 38,559 feet was his official “ceil- ing.” So that according to official records Lieut. Champion was third on the list, despite his heroic efforts to set a new record. But now, through a remarkable chain of circumstances, the naval fiyer will receive long-de- layed credit. Callizo has been shown up to be a faker of the most despicable kind, the National Aeronautic As- sociation has discovered that it was in error in crediting MacReady with 38,704 feet, and that he should have had a mark ot 37,579 feet, and the Federation Aeronautique Internation- ale, the ruling body of aviation, has given to Lieut. Champion the world's record for altitude in heavier-than-air machines. Champlon made his new record In a Wright Apache plane of the newest type, powered by a five-hundred-and- fifty-horsepower air-cooled motor. His flight ranks with the classics of avi- ation accomplishment. It took him more than an hour to reach the ceiling of his plane, which, according to the altimeter on his tnstrument hoard, was 47,000 feet. Just as he was congratu- Jating himself on the setting up of a | teat. | prop drop fought four fires which broke out in the ship. In this operation the oxygen tube slipped out of his mouth and he was nearly rendered uncon- scious by the rarefield atmosphere. He was unable to make the landing | field, but pancaked safely to earth in | a pasture adjoining the fleld. His| plane was almost a total wreck. Lieut. Champion evinced great dis- appointment when the Bureau of Standards’ calibration of the baro- graph showed that 38,559 feet was the | highest aititude reached, and not the | 47,000 that had been shown on his altimeter. But now, with the credit of the new record at the lower figure, his | disappointment has doubtless changed to joy. and the entire avi axtends congratulations to him on his ion world — e The Flood-Control Project. | A flood-control project. costing ap- | proximately $300.000,000, is laid before | Congress by the Army engineers, who have been studying the problem of the Mis with the strong in- dorsement of President Coolidge, who | asks for immediate enactment and the promnt starting of the work. The broad outlines of the scheme were given in the annual message, delivered | to Congress last Tuesday. The de- tails ave technical, but compri a project that includes the construction of a spillway above New Orleans, diversion floodways in the Atchafalya | and Tensas basins in Loulsiana, a riverbank floodway from Cairo to New Madrid, Mo., the strengthening and raising of existing levees and the stabilization of the river channel. The sal for the construction of great storage rcservoirs in the watershed to | control the flow of the excess volume | of water is rejected as too expensive in proportion to their value. The | problem of controlling the tributary | streams is left for future survey and determination. This immediate project will fully occupy the Government for ten years. Meanwhile the surveys can be con- tinued and the hope is that a method ! can be found that will strengthen the safeguards against inundation. In respect to the cost of the great work that is immediately proposed, the President recommends that eighty per cent of the cost of the control, Dproject be borne by the United States and twenty per cent by the States, while the Federal Government will bear all the cost of the work of stabilizing and mapping the channel. Under this division the Government's share of the expense of the project as now advocated would be $259,320,000, and that to be borne by the States would be $37,080,000. This would be a burden of only twelve and one-half | per cent of the cost of the whole project to be carried by the States. It is difficult to see how any objection can be raised to such an equitable and actually generous arrangement. r———— Stiff Sentences. When Chief Justice McCoy the other day imposed sentences of forty and thirty years, respectively, on two men who had been convicted of house. breaking and larceny, ne delivered an effective blow for public security in the District. These men had come to Washington for the purpose of com- mitting a series of crimes. They were professional lawbreakers. They were caught and proved guilty and now they go to prison for what will prob- ably be the greater part of their lives, even allowing for good conduct awards. Had they been caught and convicted in New York, which had previously been the scene of their op- erations, they would, under the Baumes laws operative in that State, have been sentenced specifically to life imprisonment. If such sentences were meted out to all persons found guilty of this kind of crime, regardless of whether they were first offenders or not, Washing- ton would pe safer from the depreda- tions of crooks, cracksmen and gun- men. The penalties provided for by the statutes are now severe enough if they were uniformly applied in maximum terms. There is, however, a demand for the enactment of a new criminal code, similar to that recently put in force in New York. known as the Baumes laws, which narrows the range of judicial judsment in the mat- ter of penalties and increases the safe. guards against the premature libera- tion of confirmed lawbreakers. If the scale adopted by Chief Justice McCoy in this case is applied, there will be less reason to ask for such a change in the statutes, though the adoption for the local jurisdiction of punitive measures making Washington a place of terror for the professional bandit would not be amiss. —_— President Coolidge adheres to the terms of his announcement. It has no doubt come to his attention that a statesman often weakens his words by trying to explain them. Before restoring glories of the past Mussolini may have to devote some time to keep the utilities of the pres- ent on a sound industrial footing. sippi, Lindbergh’s New Assignment. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, our am- bassador at large, without portfolio, Senate confirmation, cane or spats, who can win the approval of such critics of diplomacy as Representa- tive Jimmle Gallivan of Massachu- setts with one hand and receive medals from the Smithsonian Insti- tution and the National Geographic Society with the other, has received another assignment. The President of Mexico, who recently talked over long-distance telephone with the President of the United States, now desires further expression of the bonds which unite the two countries and has asked for Lindbergh. So the Colonel will soon grasp the controls of the Spirit of St. Louis and “We" will fly the 2,000-0dd miles that lie between Washington and Mexico City. ‘We have many skilled diplomatists and we have many courageous avia« tors, but we have only one Lind- bergh. The world may have built up a myth around this young man and set a halo on his head, but the curi- ous thing abhout it all is that both remain and nobody wants to under- gew record he was horrified to discover that his motor was pounding itself to pieces. He Immediately began, a gor~mt. and on the nearly ninesuils take the task of tearing them away. Lindbergh flies the Spirit of Bt. Touis, but he personifies the Spirit THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1927; of Good Will. He is an excellent am- bassador, for wherever he goes he has the faculty of making those who see him forget for a moment all the things that are wrong with the world and remember that there are many g0od things left—such good things as youth, courage, modesty and sin- cerity ————— Quick House Action. The first deficiency bill was passec by after the opening of Congr and sent to the Senate. It carries a total appropriation of $198,000,000, much of which is to make available fund: Iost in the deficiency hill choked to | death in the legislative jam of the closing days of the last Congre: Contained in the deficiency bill is an item of £300,000 for the establishment of the National Arboretum, an impor tant project which was agitated ef- fectively in the last two sessions of Congre: The money will enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the ar- boretum bill which passed the last and was signed by the President on March 4. The bill was ohe of the few which managed to squeeze through the filibuster, con- ducted by the Reeds in the Senate, due to the skillful generalship of Senator MeNary, who had it in charge. If the Senate repeats the ex- peditious handling by the House of the deficiency items, money will be available within a short time for pur- chase of land in the Mount Hamilton and Hickey Hill tracts, an ideal lo- cation for the National Arboretum, and a start will be made on what is expecied to be a valuable adjunct to the scientific work of the Depart- ment of Agriculture as well as a source of Interest and enjoyment for thousands of Americans of this and succeeding generations. ——————— Norway in the National Capital. The new Minister recently appointed to represent the Kingdom of Norway at Washington, who, it is expected, will arrive in this country shortly. has recommended to his government the construction of a new legation here. according to advices from Oslo. So far as is known, the first Eu- ropean to visit our shores was a Norwegian. The relations between all the. Scandinavian countries and our- selves have always been cordial, while the former have furnished us with a wealth of the most desirable sort of citizenship material. In view of the average housing of the embassies and legations main- tained by the United States abroad. it ill becomes this country, or any newspaper published therein, to rec- ommend what a foreign nation ought to maintain in the legation line in our Natfonal Capital. Certainly, how- ever, we can say with propriety that we are proud of most of those already existing and eager for handsome new ones. Sweden already owns a legation of a size and impressiveness commen- surate with the ancient prestige of that kingdom. Not long ago it sheltered a prince of the ruling house. Wash- ington looks forward with pleasure to the day when the red and white of Denmark, the blue and yellow of Sweden and the effective tri-color of Norway, historic countries friendly to one another and bound to America by close ties, may all three be displayed from staffs on beautiful and adequate buildings here. ——— A prohibition agent must be con- scientious in the discharge of his duties and impervious to any gang in- fluence that may be brought to bear. His job is not always an easy one. —_————— A rousing political campaign will be a welcome influence if it can divert attention from the murder cases, which are engaging some of the coun- try's best writing ability. ————— In the interests of publicity it would not be desirable to stage a new prize fight until the conversation about the most recent one has been disposed of. ———eee Germany is credited with an ambi- tion to conquer the business world by chemical analysis; just as it claims to dominate thought by psycho-analysis. e SHOOTING STARS. Congress BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Choice. I do not choose to frown and grieve While every rumor I believe, Nor let the shadow in the sky Make me forget the sun on high. I do not choose to meet the fate That's ruled by either fear or hate. Good friend, your soundest judgment use. Know when to.say, “T do not choose Overinformed. “In al short time,” asserted the energetic statesman, “we'll have some further investigations.” “Good Heaven!" sighed Senator Sor- ghum. “Don’t we know enough?” As Complexions Fade. The latest styles in overshoes, They say, are rather neat. The facial beauty she may lose Is going to her feet. Jud Tunkins says evolution teaches that men are related to monkeys al- though in many cases not so well be- haved. Generous Sentiment. “Did he give you an engagement ring?” “He was more considerate than that,” unswered Miss Cayenne. “He called it a Christmas gift, so that it we quarrel 1 won't have to re- turn it.” “We love the creations of our own imagination,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “Therefore, we respect our myths.” Detective Story. The “dick™ was on the juror's trail, And dogged his footsteps without fail The juror said, “I.soon shall ride In my new car.” The “dick” replied “And when you do, beyond a doubt, My motor cycle I'll bring out.” “A man dat hopes to be a sho'-nuff boss,” said Uncle Eben, “has got to be mighty certain he knows phat he’s talkin' ‘bout.” §7 the House vesterday, four days | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. The first indication of a sophisti- | cated age and people is the pretense { that this is not a moral world n which we live. | If we are to believe those who en- gage in this make-believe, the moral w does not involve the reqnuire: ments to which right action must conform, but is a bunch of hokum put over by the ruling cla Ralph Waldo one of his Mhere is no moral unive without beginnir is without end, | =A principle nd truth in it self which it is impossible to conceive of as liable to death or ension, or as less than infinite in the extent of its bhinding God and man in its ir reible de L istent with Deity.” And he wrote od to the journals te, no pe An antiguity that history 1in, a year later. down: “Material heauty perishes palls. Intellectual beauty limits miration to seasons and ages: hath its ebbs and flows of delight. But moral beauty is lovely, imperishable, per fe or “It is dear to the child and to the patriarch, to Heaven. angel. man one that can understand Milton’s omus,’ can read it without warming to the holy emo it panegyrizes. “I would freely give all T ever hoped to he. even when my air-blown hope were brilliant and glorious—not as now—to have given down that sweet strain to posterity to do good in a golden way. When it comes to believing either the wise Emerson or one of the flip | young sentlemen who find the moral of persons who will choose fo tie with the former. Their selection, too, will be remark ably qui sure. without hesita tion, or a feeling that they reed apolo- gize at the shrine of cleverness. how- ever ingenious. “A principle of life and truth"—this is as good a description of morals, per se, as one can find in the ordin: course of reading. Those who do not believe. or who profess not to believe, in morals, may declare that principles of truth only have their derivation from a certain people in a certain clime; that moral- ity one place is its reverse in another. ‘While there is some meed of ‘justice in this way of looking at the question, what the believer in morals will not admit is that it is entirely true. There seems to be, to such a man, an irreducible amount of right ard wrongz that no edict can change, or no statement from any one else change in _his own mind. It is “a principle of life and truth.” Life seems unchangeable. in essence, just as its counterpart in the mental realm, truth, is always one and in- divisible. The fact that men differ is ro argu ment against the truth. The truth ex- ists in glorious certainty, if only man- kind can find it. This is the search of the ages. * K % x He who believes in the moral laws has a sure sense of their existence. Just as no one has ever seen the law of gravity, except through its up Perhaps the most unknown region in all civilization is Ukrainia, 1t is hidden behind a frontier as impene- trable as a naval smoke screen or a granite wall. Comparatively few Americans, however generally cul- tured, could give an outline of its boundaries, much less give its several names, or guess how many millions of inhabitants the Ukrainian region pos- in_other countries. Press dispatches allege that for three months Ukrainia has been in revolt against Soviet Russia, and the revolt has caused 5,000 casualties. There is no official confirmation of this report, and it may be greatly exaggerated, but the fact that it came with circumstantial detail sug- gests that where there is so much smoke screen. there must be some- thing going on behind the curtain. To increase the mystery, now comes a “manifesto” cut of nowhere in particular, but with much averment of truth and desperation, complaining of Soviet Russian oppression, and proclaiming the passion of Ukrainians for liberty and independence from Communistic Soviet Russia. Probably this manifesto emanates from Ukrain- jan emigres in Paris or Berlin or London; at all events, it voices unrest among 35,000,000 people and a Patrick Henry passion for “liberty or death. Says the manifesto: At the present time, we can visualize so many imposing manifesta- tions of the Ukrainian conscience, so many proofs of the spirit for national independence, so much blood until now shed in vain, veritable forests of crosses which mark the graves of the dead, that today no one can deny that the Ukrainian problem exists, and that it is daily becoming more expressive, more striking in the political arena of Burope.” * ok * k There are obvious European tranquillity Lithuania and Ukrainia are crying against their alleged wrongs = and pointing to Poland as the chief in- stigator thereof, even though in the case of Ukrainia the power holding the reins appears to be Soviet Russia. Little Lithuania, with a population of about 2,000,000, dares to threaten Poland with a population seven times as great. But behind that smoke screen lies Ukrainia, with a population of 35,000,000 to 40,000,000, which also hates Poland with a hate concentrated through many centuries. Great Rus- sia is expected 1o side with Lithuania, but while Great Russia—or, as it calls itself, the United States of Soviet Russia—is barred from fellowship with any civilized government, how much dependence can b put upon her alliance professed for Lith ia, against Poland—unless merely as a means of stirring up strife among or- ganized governments? No such justified discounting of sincerity can bhe ascribed to Little Russ alias Ukraini lias Ruthepia, as to her hatred of her ancient’op- pressors, the Poles. If, in coming to the help of Lithuania against Poland, Ukrainia antagonizes her own con- querors, the government at Moscow, so much the better for the great powers opposed to sovietism. To divide Russia and create a strong and in- dependent nation of Little Russia, alias Ukrainia, would be to plunge the knife into the vitals of the greatest menace against. not Iurope alone, but all organized governments of the world. It would end sovietism. * K ok K here appears to be no race with bitteres enomies than the Poles—not even the Jews who have no country of their own and who are oppressed and despised and hated in all coun ies of Europe. N ericans have looked with thrills at the fate of Poland partitioned. Her heroes and martyrs have become the ideal heroes and martyrs of freedom everywhere. And Freedom shrieked when Kos- ciusko fell:” But _history dangers to while both tells of other times shrieking. even when Poles were standing erect while their thousands of oppressed were falling. No bronze statuary records such tragedies in any of the parks of Washington, but history tells the story. The World War erected a revived Poland with its 15,000,000 population; mainly .rescued from Prussia and Austris, merson knew hetter. | is | W a futurity that | he set this | ad- | laws inconvenient, there are thousands | sesses, or how many Ukrainians exist when Freedom did some ear-splitting : operation, so the moral laws are visi- ble to mankind only through the agency of cause and effect. ivilization such as the United States enjoys, for instance, consti | tutes a state of human existence in | accordance with certain well defined “ru'es of the game. There are many who seem to think hat these “rules” are arbitrary, sud- nly handed down in some strange, cure fashion by those who had no izht to promulgate them. | Nothing could be further from the truth 1 of polite society common sense of mankind | coviain conditions. “Laws lecoration, boiled down to their es- | sence, are seen to he merely another application of the “horse sense” of man. So the “rules of the game,” which phrase may include the moval laws, as d out in Anglo Z s the world over, is simply the pplied to " of interior areat bulk of the people. P At every stage in the history | mankind there were those who tought | what was established. | at edicts, at laws of rule These valuable persons civilization from dying of reirigera- tion, from being frozen in its tracks Remarkable thanks is due them. Yet their ranks included a group never to be praised, all those men and women, upstarts, who did not know how to live. They did not Kknow. how to act How ean any one know how to live who first does not know how to act? Acting constitutes living. The very essence of living lies in action. To be a static human being is to half live person himself did not climn . but he acted in a very distinct sense when he broke certain ties that hound him. He broke them hecause he wanted to be true to the moral laws. le knew how to act in accordance with the dictates of his own soul. Today there exists a definite group of persons the members of which take pride in flouting what is, just for the pleasure of fighting it. Not matter what it is, if it is, that is enough for them! “Whatever is, is wrong.” This seems to be their motto. Living in a land built up over a per years on certain well fixed pri including the moral laws, these per sons, who delight to call themselves sophisticates, perpetually poke fun at the institutions which protect them. Perhaps nothing is more distressful in_home life than to have a_child turn against its father. So. in the Nation, those who engage in fault finding all the time are at war with their Uncle Sam, although they may not so call it all “sorts, at know, they do not an “antiquity that is without begin ning and a futurity that is without end.” There are many thousands of persons who believe that they are likely to be the hope of America. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. enemies of the allies and associates, but it refused to release Ukraini: with her 40,000,000 peoples, from tussia, the tormer ally of the allies, for, when the peace settlement was made, Russia was undertaking a Kerensky republican form of govern- ment, and professed friendship to her former allies. * X ok ¥ Time was when Poland covered that entire region of southern Russia from the Baltic (White) Sea to the Black that included all of Ukrainia in Rus- sia. But when Russia, Prussia and Austria “partitioned Poland,” a little over a century ago, the Ukrainian territory, originally part of Poland, was split up among the three di. viders. So not all Ukrainians are today in Little Russia, and while Russian-Ukrainians seek independence from the Soviet government of Mos. cow, their longings will be supported, by other Ukrainians, from altogether different motives. It is estimated that in Little Russia there are today 28,000,000 Ukrainians, in other parts of Russia, 2,000,000; in Galicia, 3,500,000; in Hungary, 500,000; in Bukovina, 400.000; in the United South Ainerica, 50,000. * K ok ok According to a jointly written hook. “Ukrainia’s Claim to Freedom four eminent students of Ukrainia, this is the more recent story of her cry for independence from Ru. “Ukraine sent 40 representatives to the first Duma, who stood for home rule of a kind that could not possibly menace the coherence of the empire (of the Czar). Their demands won the approval of many Radical and Liberal members of that Duma, without re- gard to race or creed or nationality. But in official circles these demands were branded as ‘Mazeppism,’ which is the established Russian term for Ukrainian separatism. “Their bitterest opponents were found in the Polish group of repre- sentatives ~ composed ~exclusively of big, aristocratic landholders. One of theso announced publicly that ‘it the government would only grant auton- omy to a greater Poland, including Lithuania, White Russia and Ukraine, the Poles would undertake to butcher every revolutionist within that terri- tory inside of two months.’ “Two facts should be clearly fo- cused in this connection: First, that the non-Polish territory holds less than a million Poles to nearly 40,000,000 of Ukrainians, White Russians and Lithuanians, and, sec- ond, that since the outbreak of the present war (the World War) began to raise new hopes for an autonomous Poland, the Poles all too often have in- sisted that their ambitions will remain unachieved unless they are given con- trol of all provinces that, at one time or another, used to be Polish—pro inces, that means, where the majority of the population hate a Polish noble- man as much as the devil, and much more than a Russian. The same book certifies that in Galicia * “the Ruthenian (Ukrainian) peasant is one of the poorest creatures in the whole world. He is not at all a peasant in the true sense, but merely a farm hand who gets about 20 cents {a day and remains pract tied to the soil, where he has to till without any profit to himself. Forty-five per cent of the land is owned by the | Polish gentry, of whom Bjornsterne | Bjornson once wrote that ‘in their j understanding. liberty means nothing {but license for themselves to do what ithev please.’ With such a background of history, ithe line-up of races in the threatened crisis in~ Eastern Europe becomes comprehensible—and more serious. (Convright 1927 by Paul ¥ Collins. ———— e The Real Test. From the Fort Wayne News Sentinel. Cultivation of the boyish silhouette will not conceal a woman's age if she no longer gets a big kick out of Christmas shopping. -r-oro. A Neglect. From the Louisville Times. Why have the sports writers slight- ed us by failing to publish the meas- urements of Alexandgé Alekhine, the aew world che lon? ... o the recognition of certain facts by the | of | They snecred | prevented | The moral laws of America are of | States, 500,000 Canada, 300,000, and | indicated | THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover more love Love of place appears atistying and more pern than love of persons in Young's novel “Love Is BEnousg Four loves of varying intensity come into the life of Cinerwen Lydiatt be- fore she is 40. One comes in her girl- hood, carries her away into a dream of bliss and suddenly leaves her, at first desolate, but later to it as only a short dream rapidly re- ceding into the misty past. The sec ond, at first her joy, becomes later through inevitable lack of sympathy and through jealousy, her torment The third, never deep, arouses in her mingled respect and irritation. The fourth, which seems to her as she approaches her fortieth year the hest \f all, perhaps because it is the last, red in its perfection by the realization that to accept it she must thrust aside the claims of older loves. It is hard to close her heart for her broken hushand, Dud- ley: even harder to be callous to the selfish and bigoted demands of her son Steven, ari nt in his own vouth and happiness. e as a anent life Uftdown, *h she there But throughout her the Midland country home, wh first sees when she walks ugh hedged lanes with her young never disappoints her, is her most unchanging love. After the first visit she and Ralph go again. with note book and measuring tape, and while he jots down dimensions, she selects the place for her piano, by a window of the low-ceiled drawing- room of Annabel Ombersley, its eighteenth century owner, where she dreams of watching the sun; over the hills, while she pl thoven and Bach. In the dark shadows of its beeches she takes refuge until she can regain self control when the first grief of her young life comes upon her. There, after time has re- stored her joy in living, she spends 10 happy years with her growing boy, almost in isolation, satisfied with her child, her music, her garden and woods, the mellow old house. To Uffdown she returns, “through “H!e pale gold of a frosty afternoon” in early December, after a sordid in- terlude of five years spent in a standardized suburb of the smoky manufacturing town of North Brom- wich. She approaches through the heech avenue, where her feet sink deep in dead leav: nd walks over the close-cut turf of the lawn whose farther side is bordered by the rose- mary hedge which has always sym- bolized to her “remembrance” of much joy and sorrow. Beyond the hedge, she knows, are her rose gar- den and rockery, but it is zrowing dark and she follows the path past late-blooming clump of lavender ‘waxen petals of black hellebore nd wintry stars of cushion saxi- ge” to the house, whose “serious windows surveyed her kindly, com- placent awaited her approach. The conviction comes to her that, after all, Uftdown is the great love of ner life. But even Uffdown is subject to change, even Uffdown is finally lost to her. When Steven marries, it be- comes his, and his wife sees no beauty in the dark, eled hall and Anna- hel Ombersley’s dim drawing room. She has the hall panels enameled white and replaces Clare's Bechstein in the drawing room by a pianola, always littered with sheets of rag- time music. The rosemary hedge is uprooted because it is so “horribly straggly” and red geraniums are planted in its place, to give a “splash of colour.” Clare takes refuge in a new country home, Ashfurlong, “a smal!l Elizabethan manor house full of good timber, with mullioned win- dows, string-courses of red brick dog's-tooth and slender clusters of chimneys set diagonally. For all Ilg age it had none of Uffdown’s graces. But Clare sets herself to build a new life, for she knows that at the same time she has lost both Steven and Uffdown. * K KK On his return from a walking trip in the Hartz Mountains in 1824 the young poet Heine wrote to Goethe, ask- ing the older poet's permission to call upon him as he passed through Weimar. “I shall not trouble you much,” the letter ran. “I shall only kiss your hand and depart. * * * I, | too, am a poet. My name is H. Heine. 1 am a Rhinelander.” But the visit proved disappointing. Heine wrote afterward: “I had thought out on | so many Winter nights what sublime and profound things I should say to Goethe if ever I were able to see him, but when at length I did see him I | could only say that the plums on the | road between Jena and Weimar | tasted very good!” IHeine's sense of the comic must have been a great boon to him through all the dis- appointments and ill health that he suffered in the course of a tempestu- lous and passionate career. After months of paralysis and blindness he announced cheerfully one day that his consfitution was even worse than that of Prussial And when he was put on a diet consisting chiefly of greens he dubbed himself Nebuchadnezzar the Second. He said to a visitor, “Ah, find me now utterly stupid! , you mean,” the other suggested. stupid,” the invalid insisted. You see, Alexandre Weill was just here and we exchanged ideas!” The new biography of the poet-—“That Man Heine,” by Lewis Browne—gives in vivid fashion the story of Heine's boyhood and his career as poet, politi- cal writer, pleasure lover and wit. Here he is in his brilliance and pathos, his whining poverty, his spurts of bravery, his stormy life with the selfish and ignorant Mathilde, whom he never ceased to adore; and through it all runs the weakness of character and ysique, in spite of which he wrote the lyrics that have brought him un- dying fame. * ok ok ok Mrs. Colmar, chief character in the novel “Sack and Sugar,” by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick, tells her experiences in Europe in a style that might have been imitated from Mme. de Sevigne. Though born in London, Mrs, Colmar had preferred other parts of Europe for residence.” Her four children, Henri, Gerda, Eva and Victor, were born, respectively, in Madrid, Baden- Baden, Naples and Rome. A cosmo- | politan family! The father of the family is deceased at the time of the novel. - Henri has become a French- man from choice; Gerda is a roman- whose romances all go wrong: sensible and marries a steady Victor is thoroughly English, in spite of his foreign birth and resi- dence. The adventures of this varied family are amusing, if sometimes com- monplace. * Kk ok ok In the Calvert series four books on phases of the Catholic Church by Catholic authors, two of whom are well known as English essayists of broad scope and finished style.” Hilaire Belloe, in he Catholic Church and History,” answers arguments against the divine and infallible authority of the Roman Catholic Church. G. K. Chesterton, in “The Catholic Church and Conversion,” writes of Catholic doctrine and illustrates his points from his personal experience, as he Is a convert. “The Catholic Church and Its Reactions with Science” is by Sir Bertram C. A. Windle, and “The Cath- olic Church and Philosophy.” by Fr Vincent McNabb, O. P. * Ok ok ok The three volumes covering the his tory of New England, by James Trus low Adams, “The Founding of New England,” “Revolutionary New Eng- land, 1691-1776" and “New England in the Republic,” are republished in a special library edition, boxed as a set, and limited to 1,000 sets, The bindinz< are reinforced, but there is no change -4p text or iustrations. think of | Q. Where does the Delmarva Penin- sula get its name?—A. C. A. It is so named because within its confines are the State of Dela- ware, part of Maryland and two counties of Virginia. Q. Do movie stars carry heavy life nce policies?—N. V. ria Swanson and John Barry pay on policies of $2,000,000. rlie Chaplin. Mary Pickford. Doug- s Fairbanks and Will Rogers are lown for §$1.000.000 apiece. fSurope than in the United States?— J. R A. In the United States during 1926 there were 33,343 cases of smallpox, while deaths attributed to :his disease numbered 362. In contrast to our rope smallpox is reported as practically non-existent; in England alone among the countries of Europe there is a mounting prevalence, as ated by a progressive increase in from 315 in 1921 to 10,222 in ANSWERS TO Q. Is smallpox more prevalent in| own record, in many sections in Eu-| being | S —— QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Ripper was ever caught. Notwith. standing special work by Scotland Yard and private detectives, this mur derer succeeded in escaping the police. There have been reports from time to time from various parts of the world that Jack the Ripper had been appre hended, but the persons referred to have never been identified with the | Whitechapel murderer. Q. When were grapefruit shipped from Florida?—B. F. R. A. In 1880 the first crop of grape fruit, or pomelos, was shipped out ate and netted about 50 cent. a barrel. Why rkens’ first are the ristmas chapters C Carol called e is another word for stanza erse of a poem or song. Since a carol literally a song celebracing the tivity of Christ, it is quite ap. propriate that the subdivisions termed staves. Q. What and where is the MacDowe | Colony ?—M alluded to as the —S. W the tre limited the total capital ship and aircraft car- rier tonnage of the United States, Great Britain ond Japan to 525.000, 525,000 and 315.000 tons, respectively, it has been popularly termed the 5—5—3 treaty. Q. What does mean’—M. Mc A. The word asylum comes from the Latin word asylon, meaning right of sanctuary, refuge or a place from violence. In ancient times sacred places, especially the temples and the altars of the gods, were ap- pointed as asylums to which criminals well as persccuted _individuals might flee for refuge, and to molest them in such places was regarded as an impiety. Q. Which as shipped the most eattle thi year?—R. B A. During the first nine months Texas and Iowa exceeded all other States. These two States apparently rank about the same and the evidence is not sufficient to_indicate which shipped out more. Nebraska appar- ently ranked third and Kansas fourth Q. What is bentonite?>—R. P. A. Bentonite is a bedded plastic clay which swells greatly upon wet- ting. It is used as sizing for paper. absorbent In dynamite manufacture. retarder for hard (gypsum) plaster. aduiterant in candles and drugs, hoof packing and as a constituent of a remedial dressing. Q. How was Lenin embalmed?— L. J. A. The exact process employed in embalming the body of Lenin is a secret. It is claimed that the body is preserved indefinitely and eye-wit- nesses who have viewed the body on several occasions say’ that apparently no change has as yet taken place. The hody lies beneath a glass pyramid, so that the air cannot reach it. Q. Which State is known as the Mountain State?—J. O. G. A. Colorado is known as the Moun- tain State of the Union. Of the 55 named peaks of the United States (exclusive of Alaska) which exceed 14,000 feet in height Colorado has 42, California 12 and Washington 1. There are. probably, at least five more peaks of this altitude in_Colorado which remain unnamed. It is esti- mated that one-seventh of the State stands above 10,000 feet in alititude, that it contains at least 350 peaks above 11,000 feet, 220, above 12,000 feet, 150 above 13,000 feet and 47 above 14,000 feet. Q. Was Jack caught?—F. A. P. A. There is no record that Jack the naval armament treaty A. Becau y the word asylum the Ripper ever Q. Why is the treaty for limiting | A. The MacDowell Colony at horo, N. H., is a memorial to on the greatest American composers, | late Edward MacDowell. note gather at the colony each mer for refreshment and inspira | The director is the widow of Edward MacDowell. | Q. What is flaxseed grown for?— | P. N. | 'A. Flaxseed is srown primarily for the production of linseed oil, eacr short ton of seed producing from 70 to 80 gallons of oil, which is used in the manufacture of paints and var. nish, linoleum, oilcloth, printers’ ink, patent leather, imitation leather anq sundry other products. The cake that is left after the oil is pressed out is valued as a feed for dairy and bee tle and finds a ready market. A | large part of the cake produced in this_country is exported, principally to the Netherlands, Belgium and the United Kingdora. The United States is the secdnd largest producer of flaxseed in the world, but, in spite | of this fact. this country is also the world’'s largest importer of this prod uct. Our production ordinarily takes care of about 55 per cent of our do. mestic requirements. This year the United States preduced approximatel; 24,270,000 bushels. Q. Who are the Auks. they live?—S. O. | A. They are a tribe of North Am | ican Indians living in Stephens P age and on Admiraity and Dova Islands, Alaska. They number abow.: ‘Where ¢ Where is Why the it Q. Prophet”? M. D. A. The name is applied to Medina Arabia, to which Mohammed fled from Mecca in 62: Q. Is is true that the level of the Great Salt Lake changes?’—J. W. F. A. There is an actual difference in the level of Great Salt Lake, ranginz from 15 to 18 inches, the highest being in June and the lowest in No vember. In 1850 the water was low and rose until 1873. Between 1886 and 1902 there was a fall in level. “City of the it so called’- Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing The Evening Stag Information Bureau, Frederic J Haskin. director, Washington, D. C. This offer applics strictly to informa- ion. The burcaw cannot give advice on legal, medical and financial mat. ters. It does not attempt to settle do- mestic troubles, nor undertake exhaus- tive research on any subject. Write your question plainly and briefly. Give full mame and address and inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage. The reply is sent direct to_the inquirer. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Another reminder of America's debt to brave and skilled foreign soldiers who cast their lots with the Colonies during the Revolution was given the other day by the observance of tre sesquicentennial of Baron von Steu- ben’s coming. “His object in coming to the Col- onies was to make an army out of the disorganized troops of Washing- ton. He did 1t,” declares the Newark Evening News. “His first job was to give heart and confidence to the for- lorn soldiers living in incredible mis ery at Valley Forge. He performed miracles. Washington leaned heavily on him. He was a fine fellow himself, and he made fine fellows of those about him.” The Duluth Herald be- lieves that “it is pretty sure that if Steuben had come earlier, the dis- tressing conditions of that Winter at | Valley Forge would have been pre- vented. “He built up and maintained,” es the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “what modern soldiers call morale among our men of the Revolution. The effect was felt in the following campaign and as long as the war con- tinued. Americans of today do weil to honor such a man. People of German descent especially should he eager t) foster general knowledge of Baron von Steuben and his effort for our lib- erties. The tri-State territory has an especial interest. Our near neighbor, Steubenville, Ohio, was named for the general on the erection of Jefferson County in 1797.” EE Tributes to Von Steuben’s military genius and to the confidence he in- fused into the Colonial forces are paid by such papers as the Allen- town Call. the Davenport Democrat, Bangor Daily Commercial and Colum- bia Record. The Fort Worth Star- Telegram lauds him as “the principal aide of George Washington” and as “one of two noblemen who zave muck to America in those days.” The Youngstown Vindicator expresses ap- preciation of the help of those men of the Old World “who could see the future of the United States” and feels that but for the sacrifices and courage of the patriots and those who aided UNITED STATES i N WORLD WAR | | | Ten Years Ago Today 1 | Military situation along the wtslerni front is causing_deepest concern to American and Entente military offi- clals and in consequence America will speed up its war program to the max- imum. Germans are evidently mass- ing troops for a stroke on the western front and both British and French | front-line_positions are being heavily shelled. * * * All army recruiting records are broken when 4,596 enlist in Regular Army in single day. Spurt is attributed to the fact that men sub- ject to the draft cannot enlist after next Saturday, the 15th. * & Jerusalem, for 673 years in undisputed possession of the Turks, is surren- dered to British forces under Gen. Allenby. after being surrounded on all sides. * * ¢ Secretary Mc- Adoo charges that forced sales by Ger- man interests are responsible for the selling of Liberty bonds below par. * * s President favors Government control of rallroads during the war and will soon address Congress on the i Daily Von Steuben Lauded as Force In Success of the Revolution ‘history might not today record the triumph of tke cause of independ ence.” ust why Steuben should have failed to catch the popular arprec tion of the intervening years." re marks the New York Evening \World, “‘is not quite clear. He was not finan- cially independent, like Lafayette, and after the creation of the Republic there w: me ill-natured and unjust discussion in Congress of his claims. This, and the fact that he was not beau, nor a dandy, nor a romantic figure, may explain. But history, to be just, must concede him a place of primacy among the useful foreign- ers who came to our assistance, ani there ought to be a more generous appreciation of his services now. * ok ok % “His service was the more d ing of the patriot's gratitude, cording to the Indianapolis Star, “be cause liberty was not a popular sub Jject in court life of the German king doms and duchies of that time.” The Abilene Reporter adds that “Ameri- can school children who learn about the Hessian troops which England sent to America should also know the story of Baron von Steuben, who ac {proved an invaluable ally. The baron | Bave up honorable and lucrative rank tin Germany to help the Revolution. and the general's work should be hon © With the thought that “liberty in this country might at least have heen de- ferred but for his coming,” the Pot- land Oregon Journal pays tribute to him as “an inspiration on the bat- tlefield”; states that “in moments of apparent defeat he would lead troops to victory™: tells of his dividing his last $2 with a negro soldier, and con- cludes: “Contemplate Steuben! And then think of Vare and Smith and Fall and Sinclair and—the others.” ' The Lincoln Star offers the judgment: *A debt of the kind the United States owes to Von Steuben cannot be paid by grants of money or land. It is a debt of gratitude America owes the German war hero and can only be paid by such acknowledgment as cele- brating the 150th anniversary of his landing in this country. * X ok % “The German ally,” say: e sey City Journal, n unn!dsyl:l:(:r‘nre as the drillmaster and inspector gen- ¢ral of the American Army. As such Washington paid him the highest compliments and gave him credit for many of the subsequent American triumphs.’ The Butte Daily Post also points out that he “won distine tiom in the army of Frederick the Great” and that “he proved to be a very valuable officer in the organiza ton and discipline of the Revolu uflnnr}'\'msflnlllers."‘ and the Norfolk News records that *hi or the cause of liberty wa s.u:IezJ‘l!{fl' lel::xi}:“mld h;hzu the American Gov r could not pz dxdfl?m Resitnta D) rivessss e e Oakland Tribune remir its rg:_ders that “today thosemc‘udl;nios which were fighting for independence and that mother count whence Steuben came are republics,” The St. Paul Pioneer Press concludes: “This Nation owes to many nations its exist ence. Men from Scandinavia, from the British Isles, from France, from Holland and from Germany were the nucleus of the force that made it. If such was its beginning. its eon tinuation has been possible by the amalgamation of 'all these nationali- ties into one, each. stream honored subject. At the same time he de- sires that thgy continue to be oper ated by the War Board. | ::;n". ulglre and all enjoying a com- pride in the Nation they ha: mon pride in_the Natian. they have Sgea T