Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1928, Page 8

8 e et et e e THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C SATURDAY....January 28, 1028 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office and Pennssivanta Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St, Chicage Office: Tower Bujlding. European Offie; 14 Resent St.. London, g Rate by Carrier Within the City. At ... -45¢ per month per month per copy. h month telephone. Advance. 0: 1 m 00 1 mo., Member of the Associated Press. Press 18 exciusively entitied Is a Surplus. of Why There its stat fiscal year 1827 the Census Burcau es timates a surplus of $1,883.550 of rev- over expenditures during the adding that “this excess of reve- e receipts s reflected in increased assets of funds and in cash balances, not shown in this summary.” As & matter of fact, the District surplus at the end of the last fiscal year amount- | ed to $3.760858. though that sum ha been reduced by appropriations made since then. Lest there be misunder- standing of the nature of this surplus, it is to be recalled that it has been ac- cumulated by direction of Congress, ich in the appropriation bill for the | al year 1923 directed the Commis- sioners to lay aside a cash balance suf- ficlent to put the District at the end ©of 1927 on a pay-as-you-go basis. In 1922 the Commissioners estimated that a surplus of $3,000,000 would be necessary to do this. It was therefore decided to lay aside $600,000 a year for five years. But at the end of 1926 the surplus had grown to only $1.- 973.179 instead of the $240.000,000 which it had been expected would be sccumulated. During the years be- tween 1822 and 1926 unanticipated ap- propriations had eaten into the sur- plus. For the fiscal year 1927, there- fore, a tax rate was set which would bring the surplus to $3,000.000. During this year revenues so exceeded appro- priations that the resulting balance at the close of the last fiscal year was the amount named above, $3,760.858. The purpose of this unexpended cash time arose from this floating landing field and made off, regaining her han- gar at Lakehurst soon after. Considering the difficulty of bringing a dirigible of large size to earth without |strain or injury, in normal conditions, | this achicvement is & notable advance in acronautics. ‘The practical utility of this method is manifest. With a broad-decked ship. specially constructed for the purpose of receiving planes and dirigibles, afloat in midocean, it is pos- sible for fiyers to refuel or to descend for repairs. The cruising radius of the air carriers may be greatly increased. Transatlantic flying is the goal of avi- ators today. Last Summer several at- tempts were made, three of them suc- cessfully. They did not, however, dem- | onstrate that the navigation of the air |over the ocean is at the present time | dependably possible. ~ The element of anger has by no means been elimi- nated. It will never be wholly removed, | but it may be greatly lessencd. Several projects have been proposed for the establishment of great floating landing | |areas in midocean, enormous platforms anchored to the bottom. They have not been regarded as the true solu- | | tion of the problem. The floating. free landing stage, afforded by a stout ship, | with its own power, is far more likely to furnish the necessary resting place. The Saratoga is the latest contribu- tion to the equipment of the Govern- | | ment in aviation service. It is & huge | craft, with a deck of sufficient area to | accommodate & large number of planes at rest and with sufficient space to | enable any of them to take off in safe- ty, or on return to land readily. Its use now, in test, as a landing stage for the greatest dirigible is proof of its | possibility for the maserial advance- ment of transoceanic fging by both | modes of atrcraft — e The Automobile Show. Washingtonians who have been avidl following the sensational details of what | has been characterized as the automo- bile “price war” will have their first opportunity tonight to see and compare the new creations of the manufacturers | Everything is in readiness and prompt- Iy at seven-thirty tonight the doors of the Auditorium will swing open | | to admit the vanguard of Washington's motor public. Following the opening tonight the show will close until Mon- | day afterncon, when it reopens for the full week. This is the eighth consecutive yea: that the Automotive Trade Associa- { tion has sponsored the big exhibition, | which compares favorably with the | | vearly exhibits in New York and Chi- | cago. More than eighty thousand peo- | | ple attended the show held here a year | ago, and with renewed interest in the | automobile manifested it is expected | | that this mark will be bettered early | next week. | New cars, new tires, new paints and ! new accessories are on display, to be | conveniently viewed by the public. | | | be the sole defense plea. balance is to carry the District over| cyigening models, long, low and rakish, the months before it Teceives s OWN | Ly giract the eye of those Who de- revenues. Congress has also made its $3,000,000 lump sum available at the beginning of each fiscal year, so that the District may count on beginning each year with a cash fund of about $12,000000 on hand. Instead of re- celving advances from the Treasury of money called for in appropriation bills and repaying these advances with Dis- trict revenues as they become available the District now meets the demand of appropriation bills with money already to its credit in the general fund of the Treasury. The surplus now on hand is none| For one thing, the $3,000.000 | too large. balance, which in 1922 was considered a5 sufficient, was based on an annual budget of $30,000,000 or thereabouts. But the budget now exceeds $40,000,000, and it is evident that it will grow from year to year with the needs of the city. The surplus must therefore be increased proportionately. It is to be regarded not as money available for expenditure, but as money put aside at the direction of Congress merely to allow the Dis- trict to keep one jump ahead of the bul eollectors and always refunded as »00n 85 expended. ———— The Snow Squad. The street cleaning department of the Distri-t deserves credit for the vig- omus manner in which it attacked Washingon's first heavy snow of the yemr. When Washingtonians awoke this morning they were apprehensive lest their motor cars would be of no the hardy ones who Wok a rs use, but chance found that the snow shovel bad done yeoman work and little di culty was experier e 15 particularly suffered in prev enowsturm spelt simost & complete swppage of Uansportation and a huge Joss v business. But Washington and #s street cleaning depuriment have Dublic demands raless of the cle- ent has wt a hig is & good Bugury . or for the ) Wash- v cape Jiabile manner w that from pow of Ys vreels ot pgeinst 1 1 W b new wnd bomt ups wnd ranting ) erasked snd vernme oy local go are Vo \ake care of U 1o “ra bas lizzaras b ¢ e National Cap) Diwes ! detn Blreled Ui P girigle on e werrier, and e ps ne 1 o itiatsoes gation 1 pewly o adt pliatie e st imulets o Haralogs ¥ |tagonism he had been | sire sporty lines. Comfortable and re- [splendent closed cars are there to ap- | peal to the man who wishes for a “fam- fly” car. There is an automobile for every taste, every need and every pocketbook. Visitors will be able to choose from one hundred and sixty body styles representing thirty-eight different makes, and if confused by the | dazzling array they will find ready salesmen to point out the salient fea- tures. ! Washington welcomes the eighth an- | nual automobile show. It has become | an institution and is eagerly awaited | by the legion of automobile fanciers. It | 1s & credit to Washington and a credit to the men who sponsor it. May .“5 records for attendance and for sales be broken this year! R Vicente Blasco Ibanez. vVicente Blasco Ibanez is dead in | France, an exile from his native Spain. | To the Western world he was chiefly a | man of letters, a novelist of exceptional power. To the world in which he lived {he was mainly a political protagonist, | a vehement protestant against the rule of King Alfonso. Ibanez had a stormy eareer when, aroused by his antagonism toward the established regime in Spain, he turned his pen 10 the end of arous- | ing & revolutionary spirit in that coun- | try. He fled from his nauve land to escape arrest and never returned. Ibanez failed to accomplish anything by his Fevolt. The reign of King Al- fonso was not shaken by his assaults The people of Spain did not rally to bim. He wasted himself on a futile endeavor. Perhaps he enriched his lit- erary product by the intensity of his | feelings on political subjects. Up to the |time of his outbreak of political an- rated only In | minor terms as a novelist, His nirst great success came with “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” & power- ful novel of the great war. Later he produced other works of importance, ’Am,udlhu “Blood and Band,” a story of [t arena, und “Mare Nostrum h- story. ‘Those three constitute v est remembered | Much of Ibanezs popularity n this Leountry arose trom the successful ren- dition of “The Four Horsemen” i motion picture play. 1L was one of the | successes of the screen and It | gave & young unknown actor an oppor- which he grasped W the end of an Internationally ‘There was u quality | greatest tuni him: becoming KIOWIL Persbnuge 7% work that lent Wself excep- | cinema, and doubtiess of readers were made through this means of W the yreat tor his sl exploitation Ar will give Lind- | ergh anyihing in the world he wants excepl m rest admiring public v-v—- Clean Teeth, Every one hates W go 0 the dentist {ana 1 ures which will prevent more thin Ui “ consequently receptive 10 mess s -annual nspection v te' convention I wdvice 13 lwing wielders dissemi w Uironghout e wnd It is the opinion of ! nent ush 4 Hrates peelston | e dentists that 38 recommendations | ties of practical @i gre carrled out Uiere will be Ditle work | e for e Wwoth pullers. Mere 15 one of | them whe | while on & practice run was used by el g ot wel your brush and spply Lom Angeles ks & SWPPINE POt sesming from Btuen b 1 BIOKE W y Wnow sn hour when the dingibie | . ‘W op Use Geck, and agWr & Then leave W Uere whle yuu s of paying for i The | your paste Buch a course de your purpose When you erise Lin the morning to shive spread the pete on your teeth with w finger Be bure W gel 3 down Iito the crevices with i fout the product of Tbanez that will be long ; THE TEVENING STAR. WASHIN THIS AND THAT about shaving. That should take about five minutes, more or less. By that time the paste has had time to exer- cise its germicidal effect. It has not been diluted with water and applied for merely a second or two. When you have finished shaving, wet your brush and remove the paste. It is not a bad practice to leave some of the paste in the crevices. Although this advice evidently spe- cifically applies to men, it can likewise be used by women, as they can substi- tute hair dressing or primping for! shaving. Clean mouths and clean teeth should result if this advice is| followed. - e The “Insanity” Test for Jurors. According to news reports from Los Angeles the defense counsel in the Hick- man case put to successive talesmen re- sponding to the call of their names for examination for jury service the follow= ing question: “Do you believe that the defendant is insane?” This may not have been the precise form of the query, but it had that effect. Some of the talesmen in their responses indicAted that they had formed & conclusion on | this subject and were excused. This is an extraordinary proceeding, considering the fact that insanity is to | As to the facts themselves there is no question. | The defendant slew a little girl after| kidnaping her and has acknowledged | the insanity plea the outcome of the trial would be assured—a verdict of | guilty with the death penaity. To ask the talesmen their opinion of the mental condition of the defendant is to prejudge the case. Undoubtedly the defense counsel will offer expert testimony relative to the mental state of their client for the purpose of dem- | onstrating to the jurors that he is not | to be regarded as accountable for his acts. It is perfectly proper and customary to ask talesmen whether they have formed a positive opinion about the guilt or innocence of a person about to be tried. But it is going far to ask them whether they have formed & judg- ment as to his sanity or insanity when the psychological condition of the ac- cused is an issue to be determined by complex evidence. This spectacle brings the insanity de- fense again sharply into evidence, and the questions asked at Los Angeles will undoubtedly intensify the prejudice which is spreading throughout the country against this form of plea. The difficulties of obtaining jurors who are competent to sit in judgment are al- ready great enough without interjecting this test as to their ability fairly to pass upon the issues submitted to them. vt ‘The U. 8. A. is admittedly the richest country in the world. Those who fear for air defense may find hope in para- phrasing the adage “Money makes the mare go” and substituting “airship” for “mare.” About two or three more crime waves will fully vindicate the old cynicism, “Cheer up; the worst is yet to come!” e The commandment, “Thou shalt not kill,” was written before the psycho- analysts had their chance at the dis- cussion. X e —— ‘The oil cases have fallen in line with current tendencies and become more psychological than geological. e Card playing is ‘accounted the most popular of indoor sports—with the win- ners, R SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, * Unreal Existence. I like the man who takes his ease And seeks himself alone to please; Who promenades from here to there, Apparently without a care. A sturdy worker he’ll pass by And follow with an envious ey One brave in health, who earns his way | ‘To eat with zest three times per day. Our friend of ease will stand awhile And then sit down and gently smile Through joyous dreams of toiling bold In tropic warmth or Arctic cold. Adventure is what makes the man. So, 1 suspect his pleasant plan! He misses life’s experience grim— I rather sympathize with him. Support. “What political idcas do you intend 10 support?” | “I am on the lookout,” answered Senator Sorghum, “to ascertain what ideas will support me. Holding Up the Mirror. The stage must hold, we hear, The mirror up to life. It showed a husband dear 8hot down by his rough wife, 1t that’s the way things go This mirror, deftly made, Time presently must show Smashed by the fusillade. Jud Tunkins says a man who cheats | has to work hard finding new friends. More of the Same. | “You were going 60 miles an hour!” |rald the traffic policeman | I can’t believe 111" suid Mr. Chuggins, | “Youll have w report and puy u fine.” “All right, but after that I'm going | back and get some more of the same | gas | “He who talks loudly of himselt” | satd H1 Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “Is {only w0 often & good salesman for a | poor article.” | | In Turn A hero worked himself to death “The public wis quite vexed Fame for & moment held her breath; “Then stmply hollered “Nextt” man who belleves anything he likes,” suld Uncle Eben, “is liable er after while dat he bas lost | hits tuste " [ .-t | Waould Have 1o Listen to Him, I We that Gien Daw would | renlly Jike to be President, for then the | | tenate would have Lo hsten o him Lindbergh Exposes Himsell, Fiom Whe Baltime » A Nike a prince | “Landbergh enterts Bl 1 rhis is enough o induce Mayor * Ahompson 10 excommunicate him P ‘The Charge Account, nany peaple are hasing i der ged 1o them w.“gl any lentivn B ohy this deed. But for the interposition of | ! e Ak b1 ¢ BY CHARLES “He's like a great many other people, he's all right if you will let him have his own way all the time,” sald one gen- tleman to the other, as they passed along the street. It was just a snatch of conversation, such as one hears every day, but this time a complete sentence. Mostly what one hears, in passing, is some such phrase as “And I said to him,” or “She said to me." ete. “This, however, was an honest thought, one that has been stated at some time or another by perhaps every one in the world about some one or other: “He's all right 1f you will let him have his own way."” The “he” of this criticism began as the little boy who wouldn't play unless every detall of the game was exactly to his liking. “1_won't play!” he wailed—and be- gan his career. ok K Sometimes he was a “spoiled child"; sometimes he was not. There was no telling about it. Such a child was as likely to occur in the large family of a dozen children es in the home where an only son was led to believe that the sun rose and set for | his_particular benefit. This disposition, evidently, was not so much a matter of blood or of en- vironment as of an innate suscepti- bility to that pleasing belief that the “I" is bigger and better than the mass. This strange disease of egotism di- vided mankind into two classes of very | unequal proportions, the first compris- ing the individual doing the dividing and the second every other living soul in the world. AU first blush one might be inclined to think that no human being could be s0 fatuous as to believe that such a gi- vision were possible or even necessary, but upon reflection it s realized that nothing 1s more possible. It is being done every day by many thousands of persons, the only pecultar- | ity of the grouping being that no one | division ever includes the magic person comprising the lesser “group” in any other division! R Thus, when one has firmly divided | the world into these two major groups— first, himself, and second, the rest of ‘em—he has gone a long way to nrd“ becoming that prize specimen of which | we speak, the man who is all right if you will ict him have his own way. One is inclined to suspect that such 8 man is lacking in a saving sense of humor, which would tell him at once that his division of mankind is rather absurd. to say nothing of being ridicu- lous, both from the standpoints of humor and the truth. There have been a few individuals during the past 5,000 years who truth- fully might have exclaimed, “The world is divided into myself and the rest of them,” just as the Prench King said. “After me, the deluge.” ‘Their number has been so few, hu\l‘-! ever, that there has been pienty of time and opportunity for historians and others to survey their lives calmly and to write thelr biographics dispassion- ately. . It may be pointed out, in passing, that these great individualists never came to the point of actually assert- ing that they were unique. They were E. TRACEWELL. too busy with their uniqueness to think much about themselves. * K K Their exact opposite is the man of whom 1t is said, that “he’s like a great many other people, he's all right i you let him have his own way all the time.” This statement Includes three facts: 1. That there are a lot of them. 2. That each one must have his own way. 3. And that he must have it all the time. Our “spofled gentleman” is nothing i not consistent. He leads and the rest follow. Especially fs this true in the matter of opinions. He knows what is what, and is at no pains to conceal the fact. In an argument he speaks in a loud, over- bearing voice, with a large use of the word “undoubtedly.” Undoubtedly a thiug is true, or un~ true. Somehow the “undoubtedly.” uttered with intense egaviction, sec to convince him, ewen if it conveys certitude to no one else in the group. Now, no one must make the mistake of thinking for an instant that in many cases this man is not eminently worth while. Although his attitude becomes very hard to put up with, in some cascs more often than not he-is a man of convictions, many of which are more or less good convictions. Often enough he is a good citizen, & kind father, a helpful friend. But| every one else. including the public, the family and the friends. must “walk friendship. * % The problem, therefore, for the rest of us, who belong in the other exagger- ated half of humanity, is how to get along with the most important person in the world. First, we are, under a duty of kind- ness, not to show that we regard him humorously. Once we have punctured his balloon of self-esteem we have run the danger of seeing his usefulness to society collapse. Since he weighs more in the scale than the remainder of humanity put together, we must do nothing to cause such a calamity. | It is incumbent upon us to let him have his way as often as possible, if that is the only way in which we can induce him to “play. He is both the playboy of the Eastern and Western worlds, and play he shall, | even if the rest of us must get out of his way to let him cavort. | Not always is he “he,” of course— | sometimes he is “she”!’ It is to be understood that the opening sentence might just as well have read. “She’s like a great many other people—she’s | all right if you will let her have her own way all the time.” To the credit of women, it must be | confessed that there are far fewer of this type in their ranks than among | | men, solely for the reason that women, | as a class, lack the conceit of men. ‘Women probably do not have as good a sense of humor as men, but generally | they lack the egotism which makes them want to have their own way. Of course, there are exceptions. ‘The gentleman who insists on having | his own way shall have it, most of the | time, but now and then it becomes | necessary for some one to refuse him the right. May it be done gracefully. the chalk” if they want to retain his| Country Applauds Michigan For Swift Dealing With Crime In expressing satisfaction at the swift | need for a trial and witnesses and punishment of Adolph Hotelling, the | speeches by lawyers and the other Michigan child murderer, the press di- | ceremonials that cost money, cause de- ays and clutter up courts?” vides on the question of capital punish- | ment and the effect o; I;Ilch lcnuhoux public sentiment toward laws like that| .« of Michigan, which impose only life im- 'um‘.’ii::.?m? r«:‘g;e ::3‘8 Rgfxfiol?e( vribonmcm for the most atrocious Of | Times, “is the growing feeling that crimes, ustic ves VSpeedy trials, judicial curtailment | Sptle 1t ta slow 16 s not Siware o of much of the freedom now permitted | That feeling ought ot to exi the defense counsel, and inevitable bun- | deny that it does is to shut o ishment by death’ for the deliberate. |ty what is happening premeditative killer, who would Kill [ “The Ithaca Journal-News, however, again if at liberty, and proper and makes the point that “justice moved prompt. restraint for other forms of in the Michigan kidnaping and murder crime,” in the opinion of the Detroit!case with a swiftness that would be News, “would do much toward aclng|impossible in this State, where capital as a deterrent—toward strengthening | punishment would have made a jury <ome of those ‘restraining impulses’ of | (rial a necessity. Objections to capital which the psychologist speaks. Do this. | punishment,” ‘continues that paper. and, tests or no tests, a decided step | “are not founded solely or even main will hlve'bt-rn taken toward preventing on sentiment. Swiftness and certainty future crime.” of punishment can - The Flint Daily Journal Argyes that i.\en‘wl\vr plan." il e * ook ow the time.” “the celerity with which trial was held and sentence passed, with no accom- panying disorder whatsoever, has proved conclusively that Gov. Green's alarm at the firm stand of Judge Fred W. Bren- A similar argument is made by the Beloit Daily News, which holds that the proof of the failure of capital punishment would seem to lie in the fact that certain leading States that nan, presiding over the Genesee County Circult Court, was quite needless. Judg Brennan, upon ¢onsultation with two other judges of the circuit, refused a change of venue, as sought by the gov- ernor, * ¢ * ‘Taking the trial out of Genesee County would have been a confession of weakness—#& Weakness that did not exist - xrw “The morbld and crazy-minded were given little to read and little to inspire them to similar_exploits, as Hotelling claims he was inspired by details of the Hickman case in Californin,” says the Baltimore Evening Sun, with the added comment: “Justice has been sat- isfied, the Flint mobs have been quieted and the public i1 preparing to forget the matter. It may not be the best way, but it will have to be taken into account when the Michigan Legislature acts, if it does, on the recommendation of Judge Brennan that capital punishment should be made & law Courts don’t weep on the bosom of wurderer in Michigan uny more than ep on the bosom of w grizely remarks the Portland Oregon Journal mecutors prosecute there, and courts convict. When the de- fendant says he fs guilty, and every- body In the courthouse knows he Is guilty, the courts don’t set about to prove that he So, when Hotelling cont gan courts accepted his plea of guilty wnd, Just ws fast ax it could be done, sent him up for life. What need for more official procecdings? What need for a grand Jury indictment? What have it. such as Illinois, suffer more | Trom crimes of violence than neighbor- ing Commonwelaths that put their faith in swifter and surer justice which ends in a lifetime of retribution.” * & “Until the lfe mean a life of confinement and servi- { tude,” us the matter 1s viewed by the | Chattanooga Tim the people of this | country are not, on the whole, likely ! to become blind to the fact that to tmpose 1t in lieu of capital punishment 15 to make a mockery of protecting ty against the bloodthirst Re- Ting to the mob spirit, the Pasadena | Star-News ~ declares: “This _feeling | should not be countenanced. But the | best way to prevent it is to make the law itself sufficiently severe in its pen- altles to meet the requirements of ju: | tiee In erimes of exceptional horror. “It is unfortunate.” says the Kansas City Times, of the Michigan crime, “as the judge in this case was inclined to belleve, that the death penalty could not be inflicted In the State for such a terrible erime,” and the Toledo Blade concludes: “No punishment can be adequate in such cases In all its fury, the screaming, bafled mob at Flint could not have planned or executed a punishment to At the crime ™ - - Premeditation | From the Cloveland News St Louls doctrine that njuries caused by a batted ball need not be patd for unless they were intentional should have & much wider fleld of usefulness as to motor ears soc xophone Not Made ‘The tomb of an anclent King i Ur was strewn with the bodies of mu- sietans. This proves conclusively that the saxophone is not a modern inven- NITED IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today Before a throng thal packs the large hearing room of the Senate Ofice Butlding, Secretury Baker aggressively defends himself against the chaige of tenntor Chinmberlon that the military extablishment of the country has “fall en down” and declares that” America s doing her part. . We will have, says Baker, 500,000 men i France very soon now and & milllon more ready (o go, W ototal of 1600000 American soldiers I France before the end of 1018 LA American aviators, d in Taly, wre given wn tmposing jan funcral in decp uppreciation for w ricwns Lo glve thelr Hives for Maly's cause, ¢ * Kuainer getn the Relchstag's good wishes on his Dirthday wnd 1y proudly thankiul S e commemorates “God's ureat doeds” tor Germany. * * ¢ Director Gen- kil i | erul of Railroals McAdos orders solid tanlonds of food and supplies vushed from Chicago and other polnta to East ern senbourd for our allies, & e e Maxioilian Hurden, Berin editor, n spoken language blames Gerinany for the World War, admits the justice of the allies” viewpoint - regarding Alsnee - Loviali prints the veal text of speeches of President Wilson snd Ligy Ofiu:\ - lor_pogge. S S A, L P g ton. Looking Forward., In 1050 1t 15 likely that the careful mother will insist on parachutes when her daughter goes riding with a young | man. ! Old Staft, Fiam the Detroit Newa As soon as people discovered that Seompanionate mariiage' usimily meant polng o 1ive with hev folka they veal- feed 10 wan old st wnd (he diseus slon ceased, " . Nothing on the Candidate, W Bostun Hewad The man who blew hot to warm his hands and cold 1o cool hix soup had nothing on the candidate who 15 per sonally dry and politically wet 5 v Just Retribution, From the Partiand Express Hoclety pays far its sins anee wade Willle speak pleces on Friday afternoon and now it must bsten 0 i A T b sentence comes to |y | rived tn & very forlorn condition. IBLLLY | fechan, hid away GTON, D. €. SATURDAY, JANUARY 28 1928 THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover David Alec Wilson, Scotchman and Carlyle’s most recent biographer, has completed the fourth volume of his “Carlyle”—"Carlyle at His Zenith, 1848~ 53.” The previous volumes are “Car- lyle Till Marriage, 1795-1820 ‘Car- lyle to “The French Revolution,’ 1826- 37" and “Carlyle on Cromwell and Others, 1837-48." Two more volumes are to round out the work—"“Carlyle to ‘Threescore and Ten" and “Carlyle in Old Age.” The volume just published contains an unusual number of the pithy sayings, often cynical, usually gruff, but always expressing his sin- cere views, for which Carlyle was fa- mous. “My idea of Heaven,” he once sald, “would be to be turned Into an inexhaustible library of new and g books, where I could browse to all eternity.” Carlyle never had much ap- preciation for poetry, except that of “Bobby” Burns. Once when a discus- sion of Petrarch’s poetry was going on, he contributed: “All I have to say is that there is one son of Adam who has no sympathy with his weak, washy twaddle ahout another man's wife. I cast it from me as so much trash, un- redeemed by any quality that speaks to my heart and soul.” He liked Shel- ley no better. “Shelley is always mis- taking spasmodic violence for strength. I know no more urned books than his.” To write a novel was, he sald. “to screw one’s self up on one’s big toe.” Trol- lope's novels he called “alum” and Jane Austen’s “dish-washings.” Mak- ing happiness the aim ‘of life he termed “'the philosophy of the frying gan." Suggestions of friends about a iography of him moved him to con- fide to his journal: “I would say to my biographer. if any fool undertook such a task, ‘Forbear, poor fool! Let no life of me be written; let me and my bewildered wrestlings lie buried here and be forgotten swiftly of all the world.”” In spite of this view, more blographies have been written of Car- Iyle than of most philosophers. On a visit to Dublin he was badly bored at a breakfast by a voluble, conceited man who attempted to enlighten him re- garding the truth about Ireland. Car- Iyle impatiently interrupted him: “Sir, I have lived long enough to appreciate the value of time; and have lairned to drad the fluent man far more than the stutterer.” * Kk * Many characteristic pictures of the nervous, gloomy philosopher are given by Mr. Wilson in “Carlyle at His Ze- nith.” Carlyle visiting at Scotsbrig, the farm of his parents near Eccle- n his bedroom from visitors and made no reply to his sis- ter's calls, but when discovered reluc- tantly descended in his old dressing gown and was soon talking and laugh- ing heartily with the guests. On his way to Scotland by boat, he spent the night on deck, cursing his discomfort, because “sixteen of the gent species’ were packed into the “gents’ cabin,” with no ventilation, much snoring, “and a smell! Ach Gott!" Once at Malvern Carlyle took a water cure for a month, with daily baths, packs and compresses, but he left still possessed of his dyspepsia, and years later called “water as a medicine the most de- structive drug I ever tried.” In Paris, visiting Lord and Lady Ashburton, he left the hotel late at night and paced the street below because he could not endure the “patter” of Prosper Meri- mee about German literature. The few meetings of Carlyle and Herbert Spencer were not productive of enjoy- ment or profit to either philosopher. Spencer wrote in a letter after a first visit to Cheyne Row: “It is so useless ANSWERS TO Have we had the pleasure of serving you through our Washington Informa- | tion Bureau? Can't we be of some help to you in your daily prowlems? Our business is to furnish you wil authoritative information, and we In- vite you to ask us any question of fact in which you are interested. Send your inquiry to The Evening Star In- | formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin Director, Washington, D. C. Inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Q. Is there any truth in the state-| | ment that a bull is angered by the sight of a red object?—E. J. D. A. Experiments made at the Uni- ! versity of California have proved that a bull's reaction to the color of red is no more than any other color. In, fact, judging by the conduct of the steers tested, it seems doubtful wheth- er it can tell red from green, white or blue. It is even posstble that the ani- mals have no realization of color all | Q. What is the total car and truck | registration for 1927—M. T. F. | A. There were 20,282,203 cars and 2,943,898 trucks. Q. How many times has an airship successfully landed on the roof of a bullding?—M. M. i A. Two successful airship landings| on the roofs of buildings have been made —the A-4 on the roof of the Statler Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio, on| May 23, 1919, and an airship pflot?d} by Capt. Clark recently landed on thE; roof of the Newport News High School. | Q. Please give an inclusive definition | of engineering—P. C. R. | A. Last vear the Mining and Metal-| lurgical Society of America appointed | a committee to draft a definition of engineering which would embrace the various branches. Many suggestions | were received, and after a careful| study of the replies Col. P. E. Bar-| | bour. the secretary of the soclety,| evolved the following: “Engineering is| the judicious application of the tech- | nical sciences to the human solution | of inanimate mechanical problems.” Q. How many ships use the Panama | Canal’—A. R. | A. The number of ships that passed through the Panama Canal for the | year 1927 was 5475. | Q How long has the practice of | caponizing been in existence>—S. F. A. It is impossible to say just how long the operation of caponizing has| been performed. It seems quite cer- | tain, however, that the practice was | familiar to the Chinese more than 2,000 years ago. Later it was prac- ticed by the Greeks and Romans. and through medieval times by the people of Middle and Southern Europe. until in recent times it has been introduced into America. QUESTIONS BY FREDERSC J. HASKIN. ing in portland cement and other such substances be protected?—N. 8. A. Lime, portland cement, lye and sther alkaline substances quickly ruin leather. Bhoes worn by people working with such substances will last much longer if kept well greased. Q. Do pipes burst when the ice fs forming or when it is thawing?—D. M. A. When witer passes from liquid to solid form, there are a few degrees in | the freezing process when it expands. It is at this time that the pipe may burst. Q. What is a native ruby? A syn- thetic ruby? A reconstructed ruby?— L. A. G. A. A native ruby i3 one that is mined. The ruby is a red transparent variety of corundum. A synthetic ruby is made A reconstructed ruby is v fusing small pieces of rubies. Synthetic and reconstructed rubles are the same in quality and hardness. Q Who wrote the song “Garry Owen"?—8. G. C. A. “Garry Owen” is the name of an old song by Hamilton Clark. It is found in Hitchcock’s Collection of Old Songs, published in 1853. Q. What is the largest. passenger ship on the Great Lakes?—H. A. G. A. The Bee and See and the See and | Bee. sister ships, plying between C land and Bufialo, are said to be the largest. Q. What tience?—F. A. Patience is a synonym for soll- taire. There are many games that are forms of solitaire or patience. Q Should “all right” be written as one word or as two?—N. A A. It is correctly written as two words. The other form is not sanc- tioned. 3 Q. How long is tne vara’—M. L. C. A. The vara, which is 8 Spanish measure of length, cquals 33.38 inches, or 84.79 centimeters. Q. When did France espouse the American cause during the Revolu- tion?—R. E. L. A. France, which before 1778 had aided the United States both with loans of money and of men, in February of that year openly espoused the cause of America and entered into a treaty of alliance. Why is belladonna (beautiful kind of a card game is pa- B.R. | 1ady) given as one of the names of the poisonous plant, the deadly night- shade’—M. A. L. A. According to the historian Ma! thiolas, Italian ladies in the Middle | Ages used the dark red juice of the fruit as a paint. the distilled water of the plant as a cosmetic and the julce to dilate the pupil and enhance the Q. How may shoes of persons work- BY PAUL ¥ vana is now ready to instruct the United tive tariffs, especially upon agricultural products shipped to this country. For | example, there is flaxseed. We buy an- ‘The Pan-American Conference in Ha- ' to reason with him that I do not want | worth of flaxseed and charge a tariff 10 see much of him. I shall probably | duty of 40 cents a bushel. Flax in call to look at him two or three times | Buenos Aires, Argentina. yesterday was a year. His wife is intelligent but quite | selling for $1.67 a bushel, in Winnipeg | wal by him.” Visiting«in Weimar, | for $191 and in Minneapolis (the pri-| Carlyle was nvited to dine with the | mary market for the flax growers of Grand Duchess and received from an | Montana, the Dakotas and Minnesota) | anonymous German friend a present | for $2.16. Yet, in addition to all that of a high hat, such as was “de rigeur” | we produce in our Middle West, we pay | at court. Putting it on, Carlyle gravely | o flax growers of Argentina more than nually from Argentina some $37,000.000 | | “eml luster of the eye, in spite of its detri- mental effects. BACKGROUND OF EVEN ". COLLINS. human food, and unless the same also States that we should lower our protec- | made !tinian protest against that provision | that mm:nmmw of our meat icers are of s meat that is diseased or m‘g Our own meats. sold in interstate commerce. and practically all of our meat products in the intrastate mar- . inspected before put on sale. Shall we be looser with im- ported meats than with domestic pork, beef and mutton? A few days ago, News Was |and be surveyed himself in a mirror, then “flung the hat upon the floor and kicked it into a corner. Society had to suffer the sight of Carlyle going to court in & wideawake.” Always a suf- ferer from insomnia, Carlyle was ex-| aggeratedly sensitive to unfavorable ex- | ternal circumstances when he attempted to sleep. The absence of bed curtains, any discomfort in bedroom or bed. and of course the slightest noise would drive sleep away for the night. ngm( bells, crowing cocks and barking dogs were his especial enemies. Many were the appeals made by him and Mrs, Carlyle to their neighbors in Cheyne Row apropos of cocks and dogs. One letter of Carlyle to a next- door neighbor pathetically pleaded weak health and ended: “If you would have the goodness to remowe that small ani- mal (a cock), or in any way render him fnaudible from midnight to break- fast time, such charity would work & notable relief to certain persons here, thankfully acknowledged by them as an act of good neighborship.™ $3.000,000 & month to grow flax for us! As the tariff must be paid by the buyer | when he receives the flax, if we deduct that 40 cents from the American price, it leaves $1.76—just 9 cents higher than Argentina can get from any other mar- ket. How “imperialistic” that appears! Of course our importers pay in Bi only the Buenos Aires * P Wherein is that a hardship to | Argentina? | LR | Should tariff protection. like love. gin at home or in the antipodes? Amer- | icans have been listening for years to | the complaint of our own farmers that the protective tariff did not help our agriculture as much as it does indus- try. So long as we are paying com- | petitors of our own flax rafsers $37.000.- 000 a year to sup us with flaxseed, it would be interesting to query ex-Sena- tor McCumber of North Dakota, who, with Representative Fordney, inserted | that 40-cent protection on flax into the | | law, as to why they falled to make it | | equal to the difference between the The cock promptly disappeared. LR { markets in Minneapolis and Buena\‘ | Aires. serThe first expedition of Roald Amund- | “The present administration is abso- | preparation for the devotion of his life | Jutely committed to the policy of pro- ction to home industries, including ' to polar exploration, was over a bleak, | 5S¢ - o | ot o O 2 native | AETlculture, and, even in the agitation now raging in the Pan-American Con- ference. not one reason has been s e - S | gested as to why the United States if he starled with a companion from | (hoyld not consider the terests of the farm Mogen, on the east af he |y producers, except that Latin Ame plateau, 0 cross’on skis to the farm | 0" \0nts the money. Our farm pro (‘mn(:-r «:‘-‘11 u‘n(:- “Sl-n L“ !"fis Mid- | fectionists declare that there are m nter and snow bega all and o | j5n5 of acres of “flax land” in our Mid- blow before they had been long on|ywoaqt which might raise that $37.000- their way, So continuously and thick- | 300 worth of flax, at $2.16 a bushel Iy did it fall n!\d so deep became the | e Argentina flaxseed at $167 plus 40 drifts that the vouths were glad to take | conts tartff were further handicapped refuge in a herdsman's deserted hut. rrom our market. Our own farmers Where they were overjoyed to find &/ g1i “need the maney.” Flax is cited as sack of rye flour. Here they remained | o typical example of agricultural come for two days, with the temperature | pegition. many degrees below zero. When | i R fresh start was made, the going was| . fock difficult and slow because of the snow, | The New York World which perhans | and at night, while they slept in the | TAses no cattle, compiains that the open I reindeer sleeping bags, mm..grr\-m tariff taxes imports of cattle, | seanty | provisions —of crackers and | hides meat, corn, wheat and woul. all | Shocolate were stolen from & cache af [0f which were imported free of duty their feet by some prowling animals, Under the previous tarit law of 1913 The next night Amundsen dug a snow | N2 protect sheep cave for himself, €hich frome around | him in & block, so that his companion | YU 3 nad to dig_and chop him out in the |10 or cents & pound on heavier| morning. Pl foodless. cold O aLiany. a3 Wl a exhaustes ey gave up the hope of '\ o v L e . veaching the farm Qaren and Thrned | €0 diametsically opposite reasons ) " o 4 4 Besides, all the South and e back toward Mogen, where they #r=| gperican nutions also protect t e | farmers: Cuba, Culombla “Joseph Conrad, Life and Letters” | WOre on their tmports, while our age by (i Jean-Aubry, is as much a tale of | CWHUral protection amounts o an avers | udventure ax any of Conrad’s romunces. | A€ Of OBIY 37 per cent. Our commerve Th fact muny of his own expetiences | WA Latin America has doubled sinee as A captain i the British merchant | 1913 ‘The difference tn the tarifts i Mervice Are Introduced dnto his books |ON€ of pritciple: in Latin Awerica the “The Shadow Line" ftells the story of |4 I8 for revenue only. and they his voyage i command of a ship, In |90 Mot undertake thereby to tinduce | N he Arrow of Gold his own particr. | "INONE Mdustries” nor even increase the products of agricwiture. They have | startling published concerning the beautiful Jap- anese cherry trees ment. upon inspection, was found af- flicted with a dangerous pest, and was irefused admission. ~Another lot was grown and kept as free as | possible’ from parasites. It was se- cepted. after rigid inspection. but now is discovered upon it and spread- spec ficiently close. Yet the trees are for beauty onlv. Our inspection of foods imported defends us from disease and th. that “sani- position.” Government apologize £ protection of its own producers? The proposition of Senor Pueyrredan. the spokesman of the protest in the Havana Conference. is that. instead of our doing the nspection of our im- ports, all Latin American exporters should take that authority into their own hands and keep their live stock tn long_enough to assure its om disease or “germs.” and “protect against arbitrary of orcement” —dy Amert- thereby methods cans for od States into South investigate wh od by the ons &t our own o Seno: [§ covered ~a yenting what we o selves duce 1t 1% conceivadle that both countries might go on & free trade basty, but that w v 11 “tarm relief” .. w o pation in A Carlist ntrigue i Spat forms the basis of (he plot. and the fascinating Dona Rita s & recollection of ® woman who briefly charmed him “Youth” embodies the happenings of the last voyage of the Palestine, on which Conrad safled as second mate in Numerous other examples might be clted, for probably he hever wrote A book that did not to & leser or greater degree make use of events in s own adventurous life Y Of the elements responsible for the suecess of the Amertean colonists th the Revalution, historians usually consider moat important the persanality of George Washington, the ald of France and Great Britain's bad management of her military procedure. A recen book, “Sweden and the Amerioan Revolution,” by Adolph Attributes (o Sweden a shave 1 atding he colontal cause. Wi ot direct ke that of France, but Indirect, thiough thiee factors, & mari- time poliey hostile to Kngland, the as. alstance of Hwedlah coloniats who had settlod along the Delaware River, aud the acrvices of Swodish valunteer of- cers in the Freneh army in Ameriea iy + B Benson, | The ald of Sweden | few “tndustiies, and Argentina’s fanm products duplicate our own. Their | Statesmen seem to have little or no con- tderation for their unemploved, whether | of human labor ar of acres, s long as they can tmport enough (0 muke their duties for revenue only Al the treass urles The object of the NcCumber~ Fordney schedules, as stated in the pre- | amble of the law. is “raise Tevenue and W0 reduce unemployiment | EEEE Argentina alw complains against us Decatze of an Alleged “embango on | | meat” There i & LAt duty on weat | of 4 cents a pound, while under the evious law 1L was only Tl eentst i hat has overentiched our own cattle, | shoep and hog rabsers. thiough protect - | the hame market (0 that exteat, can Cunmarcial Qunter Washington Mst | Mav. this proposl was angued B De { Luls Duhaw, president of the Argentie } Sockely. Ne said “1f this country (the Untted States) allowsd the yearly entrance af 339 mbs B pounds of Anentme deef, that AMOUnt woukl anly fepresent the relas Uvely amall propoartion of 3 per oend of the tofal consumption. Hut the e QUARGILY Would constitute 28 per cent of Argeniiiay average expwrts of beef in he st decade. This propartien of Argentine exs Poris. turned towand the Untied States, woild easily sullive o relieve A e Of s overproductin, - sthag Prices and Bupove the general e Pan held M the = Nonator MoNary explain the com- | plaints of our farmers® Or will Repre- | sentative Haugen? | Of course, the (arilt 13 not an “em- | bargo' . what s meant by the eme bargo” Hes i the action of ihe Depant- ment of Agrioultute, under the clause af the law, Ws fallows \ [ Provided. however that nane of the foregoing meats shall be admitted i (the United States unless healthiul Whalesome and A for Buman food, von B cwiitkan af the couniry I the Untied States, the only ones harmed would be the unall group of warglial pvdueers, while woat of the catile prodieets WoRkt continue supay W 93 et ot Ol ASTRAR SN on” 1 takes TOOAN hoad of caite W WAKe J30000000 pounds af weat Whatever may B sald adout catile, @ cAnnet be questioned that, when # Among these ofMoers, probably the Moast | taliing 10 dve. chentical, PIeservativg | vamas fo naieie, we have nothing op famous was Ool Axel van Fersen, the W A A or redient which renders the same | the Latine e N - - . 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