Evening Star Newspaper, March 3, 1928, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY. March 3, 1028 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Ever 11th St and Pennaxlvama Ave New York Oftien. 11 Office: Tower Building opean Oftice: 14 Rewent St., London, England, ewspaper O\ st, Rate hy The Evening Star Carvier Within the City. .. 43¢ per mu Sunday Star 60¢ per v n ntbh 50 per month B *per copy Collection made at fhe end af each month Oniera may b sent in by mail or (elephone. Main 5000, yable in Dair and Daily o sunday on! Member of the The Aceociated Press i excinsively entiied | republication of all news dis- or not otherwise cred- Al (he Tocal news s<his of publeation are also reserved. Tax Rate Comparisons. | Although a tax rate has no value if used alone as an index to the tax bur- | den of a community, Washington suf- | fers repeatedly from the numerous com- | parisons in which its tax rate of $1.70 is weighed in the balance against the tax rates of other cities and communi- tics, many of which are higher. Thus | we hear such unqualified statements as | this r tax rate here is only $1.70. | In my home the tax rate is $4. What have you to complain about”” { Of course, the tax rate is an Im- portant part of tax burden analysis. But at most it is only a percentage fig- ure which, applied to assessed valuation of taxabl to be raised. Two times ten is twenty. | So is four times five. But if two rep- resents the tax rate and ten the as- sessed valuation for A, and four repre- | sents the tax rate and five the as- sessed valuation for B, can we say that the tax paid by A is less than the tax paid by B. although B's| tax rate is 100 per cent higher? Wash- Advance. | | The grave faults of the present regu-| | the same pared with the tax rates of other cities. But the comparison is unjust unless | deductions are made and conclusions arrived at on a scientific and equitable | basis, When these equitable readjustments have been made, Washington's real tax burden stands very high in the list in comparison with the tax burdens of comparable cities. i e The Child Labor Bill. Passed by the House of Representa- tives after careful consideration by the District committee, the new child labor bill for the National Capital has pro- gressed to the attention of the Senate. | Hearings were held Friday before the District committee of that body iand there is every reason for optimistic anticipation of prompt action. That the day should not be far dis- |tant when thé present entirely inade- quate child labor law will be aban- doned in favor of the modern and practical new measure is & matter of great satisfaction to the community. Iations have been the lack of the ma- chinery for enforcement, the poverty exemption clause, an optional instead of & mandatory requirement of physi- cal examination, too low a minimum age for boys engaged in street trades and inadequate restrictions upon the employment of children in dangerous | ndustrial occupations. | These weaknesses the new bill, in | the slightly amended form in which it passed the House, effectively corrects. | And this end is accomplished without THE EVE NG STAR., WASHINGTON, D. €. SATURDAY. MARCH 3 realized. Last year he won fourteen games while losing only alx, and this year he was counted on to turn in at least twenty victorles, How long the young star will be out of the game Is conjectural. The esti- mates run from six weeks to three months, but it is almost certain that without his ald on the slab Washing- ton will be hard pressed, indeed, to get away to a fiying start in the pennant race. From all reports the operation was a success, and local fans wish Pitcher Irving Hadley a speedy and comfortable recovery, but with this young pitcher out of the game for an in- definite period there is little joy today among the Seventh street and Florida avenue standbys. p— A Boomering. ‘The controversy between the Ameri- can and English stage has been inten- sified by the refusal of British authori- ties to allow a New York actress to play in London because it was claimed that her work could be performed equally well by a British actress. At time, the authorities an- nounced that no American actor would be allowed to appear in any role in Tondon which might be assigned to a native player. The American Actors' Equity Association, as a measure of re- prisal. is now seeking to determine what action can be taken egainst Rritish actors and actresses in the United States. Dating back for several years. the dissension first beeame evident when both France and England made diffi- undue severity or unnecessary red tape. The plausible alm of affording the | children of Washington protection from | working conditions detrimental to their health, education and genecral well- | being is achieved. The new bill has been drafted es a | companion measure to the school at- tendance law of 1925. In view of the | excellent effects already noted under | that law and the obvious fact that| property, produces revenue | those benefits will be largely enhanced | are Furopeans in this country. by effective child labor legisiation, Washington as a whole looks forward | to the jrompt passage of the bill by | the Senate #nd its inclusion in the local statutes. | et H Ten Years After. | ‘This tenth anniversary year of the | 1ax rate must always be| coupled with Washington's assessed | property valuation. Nor can Washing- | ton's assessed valuation be compared | milar figures of other cities untll |5¢ one another Asquith and Haig, in| COnsress to prove that alcoholic or standard. of assessment is | studied. Washington's assessments are | srmistice has opened with a rather startling succession of conquests by the Grim Reaper among the actors who| plaved star parts in the traglc drama | of the World War. Within a few days | Great Britain: Lichnowsky, many, and Diaz. in Italy, have been | in Ger- | versy. It was not until last we cult the entrance into those countries of American {azz bands. The Ameri- ean Federation of Musicians retaliated promptly on this phase of the contro- how- ever, when the action was taken in regard to the American actress in Lon- don that the controversy involved the entire stage profession. If a check-up were made. it would probably be found that fewer Americans are in Europe for work of this kind than For this reason it would appear that Enzlish actors and actresses the United States may find themsolves in Gifenl- tles due to the insistence of the T lish authorities that only n-tive p'* be employed on that side of the tic. And it s not illozical 0 b that the English edict v omatically cause the loss of employm nt of more Englishmen in this country than Ameri- cans could possibly displace in England ewoes The proposal to put a laboratory in | nks | can be rendered unpalatable, while re- maining harmless, will make any survi made on the basis of true value. Ac-!gathered to that bourne which knows |iNg member of the bartenders' force in tual as demonstrated by comparing . the asscssment valuations and sales| transactions. they maintain an average ' of gbout 95 per cent of actual vaiue. | Here in Washington the assessor is fre¢ from the entanglements of political | debts and favoritism. He is responsible | solelv to a Congress which zealously watches the performance of his duties. | If he errs on the side of lenlency hi: Job is at stake. But in nearly every| other city the assessor is a political of- | fice holder. If he fails to err on the side of leniency his job is at stake. not either the triumphs of statesman- ship or the glamour of the battlefield Time, the unconquerable, takes re- morseless toll among the men on whose | vords or deeds the world, a bare decads | 20, hung breathlessly. | There is no realm of World War ac- | tivity or any theater of its operations. military or political. that has not been s0 bereft in the intervel of peace. Im-! perial figures, like Mohammed of Tur- | key, Nicholas of Russia and Francis| Joseph of Austria, vanished from the scene while the smoke of strife still| What i the result? We find Wash- | hung like a devastating pall over Eu-| ington real estate assessed for LAXAUON |rope. Kitchener of Khartum was 1 | | the Senate restaurant confess that the art of drink-mixing has gotten entirel; beyond him. B ‘The “dime novel" is no longer heard of. Its equivalent in mysterious thrills, well worked out. could not, as the cost of living grows higher, be purchased for less than two dollars per volume. oo A wife charged with ridiculing her husbend In a story book is trying to reverse the adage to make it read, 'Husbands have no sense of humor.” -t Spectacular stage entertainment s at $1.130,000,000 as compared to the as. gessment of $1.403.000,000 on Chicago | real estate. We find the assessment of | Washington real estate exceeding b: seventy million dollars the assessment for taxation of Pittsburgh real estate, | with Pittsburgh's vast industrial plants | thrown in to swell its total. Nor can we rest our tax burden com parisons on assessments or standards of | sssessment. The tax rates of other s include State and county taxes.| Here in Washington we pay no State | taxes. On the other hand, we receve | no benefits from living under the sov ereignty of a State. The citizen of 2 State receives, in return for his State | taxes, the privilege of representation in the State Legislature, in the National Legisiature, in the electoral college and enjoys a recognized status in the United | Btates Supreme Court. In addition, he receives his proportionate financial | benefit from the land grants, bounties and State aid appropriations which pon the act rs of the Union. Here in the ct we receive none of these. The rict pays into the Federal Treasury ' form of Feders] taxes, more than | 315,000,000 a year, or twice as much as | ier receives in the lump-sum | ntribution v its supply bill. The Dis- | 1] maintenance money | 1 any one of 23 Btates nine of the States com- | jon pays in subsidies | ne smaller Etates more, in 7 W their nationa) taxes, than nf Columbia And while the volee not only in the ex- Jump sum 2 money they pay v | his place in the ages along with his | Woodrow Wilson, broken and broken- jGeneva, a monument destined to cir- |exile of Doorn, sull flourishes, though | | world-respected r casualty. Lord Prench, first com- mander-in-chief of the British Army in France, “went west” before Marsha! Halg. M. Delcasse, Germany's pre-war bete noir at Paris, left the embittered scene following the armistice about the time Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg, the atherland's fll-starred chancellor. took | | pre-cminent. A manuscript is feeble ‘wmmpnrfl! to what can be written In a | check bool A Liberty bonds in ofl transactions are | made to revive the admonition to “pay |t it hurts.” — SHOOTING STARS. immortal “scrap of paper,” the war's A most blazing indiscretion. America’s overshadowing BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, luminars A Tear for Yesterday. | T used to laugh at sorrow— | And that was long ago. The sadness of the morrow I had not learned to know. The dewdrop of the morning In radiance draws near. 1 learned with later warning That dewdrop is a tear— hearted, is gone, first of the “big four” ? Versallles to explore the dust. If his admirers guess aright, Wilson's alone will be the merit of having bullded, st i | | cumvent the ravages of the years. By an irony of fate, from which the superstitious may devise theories or de- rive consolation, it is the masterful per- sonages of war-time Germany amon; | whom the necrologist finds the princi- pal desrth of material. William 11, the A tear for hours departed, Beneath a golden sky; With memories light-hearted, So swiftly passing by. The morning dewdrop gleaming We swiftly brush aside, And turn to day-dawn's dreaming, To noon-time’s hope and pride. no longer the monarch of all he sur-| veys. Tirpitz, architect-in-chief of sub- | marine “schrecklichkeit,” lives amid | memories that must fill him with vastly mixed emotions. Ludendorff, the great general staff’s strategic genius, survives, a sour and sullen soldier. And Fileld Marshal Hindenburg s President of the German Republic, hale, hearty and | Our Political Cynle. | "Your friends are rallying to your | support.” “They aren’t my sure-enough friends,” answered Senator Sorghum. “They ant o hold me in a comparatively small job so that they can boost thelr favorite Into a better one.” —— E— Much that is eriticized in government | | is attributed not only to those who vote | wrong, but to those who do not vote at all Parental Eatimation. 1t we had all the wondrous sense Our parents thought we had, Our glory would be so Immense “That no one could be sad. coes The evident intention of Sandino 1 10 mike the dispute as to whether he I Treasury, but in the expend- they receive from ment, the District e 1mpo- 1ts approval or disap- of speech Buread clazses the 89~ sum as & subvention 4 table of subventions re- m eounty, Blate or ment. In 1923, for in ik recelved 318,542, saltimore, 81,065 u long lst, Wesh receiving subven- 005,000 1u s ceiied inchude nte on Why were They represent spent st ey represent the eftort of or Gelays i perims [ needed o han ihiweys 4 B enterprive s wre now paylng 101 Thelr unwise irer or enjoylng Lhe benefite ey poy. of wise expenditures Jii v cete Ve cies were responsible ‘Thelr Intereet B KR 100a payments, U be 1eisen by tarelon snd wiich show o thel 3 b e W the tax burden o Conents e [ Thos Launc e e pen v for bk ation laken Lex suls Con i viwre Uie City enjoys 1 1t oitalied with ne e iele uiny bS and | - | recruit, was 1l for more thsn & month cluded 11 e | {15 & bendit or a revolutiontst as stub- | Jud ‘Tunkins says the early robin is L born s possihie (& good little bird, who exercises the | | privilege of the singer to carol of sun- | shine snd sentiment without much | recognized obligation to know what he [ ie talking about { ——— | Washington's Gloomy Fandom. I 4t s not one thing it 1 another I Last yenr Washington base ball fans decided that the team had suffered all Lingulst. the hard Juck thal could be tolerated “How I your boy Josh dolng In his The peerless Walter Johnson broke his | Greek leg. Bpeaer, Jce, Harris and Judge | “Finet sald Farmer Corntosael, | were hurt, Rice was siling most of the | jeurned enough of the langusge and Lisenbee, the sterling young | make a fulr bargain for a job as a shoe- | paliaher.” “He [ veur There was one consalation, however [ for il these tokens of Mi-luck during | “He who talka much” aald HI Ho, | 7 semson 10 was the showing | the sage of Chinatown, “may have to of n vecral pitcher who, sithough he | seek an audience that thinks but Wt swung o his He.” lnte i Vhe senson o the of he lesgu stride compnratively Blossomed torth into | Pleture Books, Jeading fast ball piehers | gy album s mine own wnd Wowered head and | | 1in glad o greet those olden scenes shouders over Ve entire. WashiBgton | wiece not a single face i shown sttt ke pitcher's pame 35 ISWE Sy s i current magazines M News trom ‘Temps today, | where the Hationais wre Usiniog for |1 Dke the Tuge, majentle hale tells of wn | And Bighlights marking silken she sppendicitis | 1 only gel a vachnt stare From pletures i these nugnz) e forthooming season cImergeney for tetormed o the young pileher emly | [l monn i I | Bie mormng. and merks e bl ion aaid Uncle | hieavy blow delivered o the team for |, T ighty highly prived by in- | telligent. tolk, same ax aome other kinds While unly i ) t ool | - While only the most srdent of docad | ST SR Tane hive gone we far aa 1o predict s | g pennmil for Washington this yewr, 1t ¢ i i {wer & certutnty, prior 10 Hadley's 11 Inquivies Open 1o House [ s, that the veam would e w strong | * 1 e o Bae ball wen | o W0 Ao | treely conceded Uit Wankibugion hmd | Witk foar Gies Die membershilp of Uie Vone of the strongest pitohing statls dy | Senate, 10 coold bundle four Omes as 1 AhdER ey SRl iy diguiries, i b ning (e day operation Tounnorin L the Jower house of cuntender L some nvestigations/ pennsnt the was 1RRUA when ewaything shinll Bave heen in Dwiled aa w war of Ui ganie Cortigated i The grocess sy be be VUARIBILS S Wb sk LSRR LUDY U0 R N D, e pytinitiag Sleep of Tex THIS AND THAT BY CHARL, One must sympathize with the music critc who is trying to describe the effect of one art in the medium of another, Music can be described only in music. Words cannot tell one anything about Beethoven's “Pathetique” sonata, but a reasonably good performer with a good plano can play it The only real written tribute to such A masterplece would be a musical composition by another composer who had been stirred to the depth of his musical belng by the work A sensitive man, who possessed some ability at the keyboard. might sit down, under the influenec of the Beethoven opus, and play his fdea of what the “Pathetique” meant. To write a lot of words about it, to attempt_to “tell the story,” is to put forth only a group of paragraphs which well might come under Shakespeare's | classical description of life, “mere sound and fury, signifying nothing.” ‘The absurdities of the “storfes” of so- called program music, fn which some person solemly writes down mental pic- tures which he declares are evolved throught the hearing of compositions, have only to be recounted to be recog- nized. One s supposed to sce almost every- thing from a prize fight to a pastoral scene, according to the tempo of the passages and the energy expended by the performers, | plain: perhaps one mu: 1t let alone. however, every auditor | would “see” something different, what would be a “rocky fsland and ' to one would turn out to be a plum pudding to | another, and what would seem to third to be a glorious “description” of a peaceful meadow might strike a fourth A as nothing but the picturing of a cat | asleep on a cushion. ok One who has grown older without real, live music in his home during re- cent years will receive quite a pleasant shock some evening when he visits a friend who owns and plays a piano. Some of us have grown so wedded to | the palaces of potent we | Ple six-room our radios forget. that music, not the self. If any on~ doubts this, let him put the finest 1a:dio and speaker to be ob- tained in a room with a fine grand piano, then turn on the set to allow a piano solo to come in—then allow the real human performer there in the room to & 1 at the real plano, Then he will hear something! ‘There Is possibly no more ardent dev- oter of the radio in Washington than the writer here, but he admits that he began to feel that he was missing comething when he visited friends the and phonographs that these are reproductions of brating, alive thing it- other night and listened to the plaving | may be fc of the afore-mentioned sonata on a real plano. Here were the very vibrating strings themselves, singing their tones into the ears. There was tome In its essence and purity, enguifing every ner. There was the almost miraculous “fecl of a grand piano, to be duplicated by no other instrument n the world surely. As” we sat there, watching the . former's hands move In the o “Butterfly” etude of Chopin, somie of the magic wonder of music, belocu Art of the centurles, came over us: fo thes> glimpses of wonder come cuii times, at no stated periofs. for ticular reasons. perhaps’ but non: Beethoven {less surely for lack of a reason Music i, In a sense, the unreasoni art, that is why cfTorts to apply human reason to it strike one as futile. While based solidly upon intelzence. as ex- emplified in fts very «itacture (those high mathematic: of con- in st algebrajeal | hearts the sweet message . < | the solace of real music. E. TRACEWE solutions), music s unreasoning in that all the play of question and answer is lacking In it. ‘There Is no argument, In a true sense, in music. The very use of the word “argument” for the telling of the story of an opera, or the summary of the contents of a book, strikes one as a sort of misuse, although given in the dic- tionaries, * ok Ak “Chamber music” 1s a good term for a certain kind of composition, but, in a larger sense, all home music is cham- ber_musie. The chief instrument in such music I the planoforte. The delightful fam- ily groups, where instrumental and vo- cal music’ held sway, perhaps are seen no longer in such profusion as in for- mer years, but still many such gather- ings ‘are to be found. Wherever they are, the plano rematns the essentlal. ‘The wonderful violin de- mands the accompaniment of the king of instruments. Even the rich tones of the violoncello are enriched by the bass of the pianoforte, Just as the ros: is the fin flowers, so the plano 15 the bes instruments, since it alone allows the breadth-—musically ~ speaking-of the ymphony orchestra to enter the home The noble organ does not, it would em, give exactly the same sense of something vastly great that the pian does. This fs a difficult thing to ve recourse of all again to the word While the vast sters of the organ may stir the soul, there fs some- thing to the harmony of the well played pianoforte that more com!ortably wir the soul. After all, the home living rooi at used to be the drawing rnfm.)(&" nr’l' Ideally suited to the organ. This great Instrument is a bit heavy, certainly so for the average home. i * oK ok ok s reg which is too large or t 1 o small for the pano 1o work its magic. In ates or the hum- cottages of the modern burban area the pianoforte brings And by real music, true music, wo mean the authentic tones “hot off the griddle.” Music is a tonal structs as sure and definite as any architee: tural structure. It should not be strained, even delicately through elec | tricity. Beethoven's sonatas, Chopin's noc- turnes, are but strange figures on white paper while on the rack, but the mo. ment & musician begins to play them they blossom forth in living tones. During the space that they are alive they res themselves into shapes of majesty and beauty. hearer anything ctatos when the music dies, and the note fades into nothingness, and rn’mnu\mun has vanished, music is that it will spring to e n at the touch - moning hand e ‘Thus music brings player and hearer I to immortality. Did any one mli that the popular adoration of ' planists i3 but the unreasoning wshness of hysterical women? ich frantic applause as greets some 1ter of the keys fs simply mankind's inconscions tribute to the belief in the Iife everlasting, which lies {1 the depths of the human heart, never to be to- vy crushed. living tones of the vibrating Str these memories in our . quicken them to renewed life, assure us that music is not only that great art which can be described in terms of itself alone, but is alsc the means of keeping alive in our of hope. his” heart L And last the Rlor ne Horned Toad Stirs Wide Press Comment Not since Mark Twain's famous jump- Ing frog of Calaveras has the country had such an dssue as it finds i the sleeping horned toad of Can a horned toad live 31 s without food or drink? That 1s the question Public opinfon seems cvasive, bui in- clined to divide as between scientists who say “Impossible!” and evewit- nesses who were present at the opening of the Eastland courthouse corner stone, { in which a horned toad had been placed more than 30 years before. Admitting that “the learned know whereof they speak.” the San An- tonlo Evening News insists, “But there's the toad!” and reminding its readers that “there are witnesses to the imprisoning.” draws the conclusion, “That fact, apparently well verified puts the distinguished naturalists much in the pozition of th in John Godfrey doctors Saxe's poem, who sharply criticizes’ a fellow craftsman’s | ‘stuffed’ _owl--until the bird nks at him.” The Water- bury Republican recalls the story of “the man who took a good look at a giraffe and stouily declared, “There ain't no sich anfmal!’ " Expressing willingness “to stake our reputation as a scientist upon the fnac- curacy of the story, the Columbus Ohio , “We imagine there A practical joker in performance on Sclence would deny.” affirms the Omahn World-Herald, “If 1t were in- terested In such things, that & man can take a rabbit from an empty hat. But we know he can, We've seen the magiclan do it time and again, and more astounding things than that, too ** * The Texans have thelr horned reptile and, what's more important still, their corner atone, Long after the 200l0gist has been gathered 1o his fathers, It will be there to give ity teatl- mony. As for us, we are more con- vinced than ever that the hand is quicker than the eye” e oan “We think 1t iy the mame horned toud," 15 the verdict of the Clnclnath Times-Star, which explains . “There ure matters concerning the hibernation of warm-blooded antmals that are stil w mystery to sclentists, and reptiles fol low other than mammulian rhythms in the luw of thelr lves. We thitll with the hope that some glgantic creature of the curbontferous nge, hermetically sealed Intact i dee or clay, mny yet come o Wfe, and mack by Hs contours and conduct the facsimiles of the musenme” The Rochester Democrat and Chronfele expresses sympathy for creatures “shut up in hideous prisons there to languish for ages i a mental mgony that cannot be fathomed,” and fsmties the call, “Who will start & move ment 1o challenge every heart with s wraln of pity w movement that may well take for 1ta slogan, “Ihe relense of every horned tond 1 this generation' " “He alept without constdering that he really needed food wnd ditnk ab fnter vals, and that, out of ¢ L to vonlo wista, he should have d remarka the Atlanta Journnl - CHe st have been a dittle dismnyed 1o awake from s wde quate a nlumiber U otind everybdy excited over Bl And the Haltimore Hun augeents “AIL of s 1s w tather fAne Mustiation of unintentional bt extiemely effective publicity. Do the unusuall’ s the cry. The toad took the wdvice along Wil a hale from Rip Van Winkle's heard 1 shnply went (o aleep for 81 years sand awoke to find dtselt famoun " CAfer mll why worry?' anks the Duluth Herald “What does It matter how long a fond can live sealed up W corner stone? Texana ahould be calm and keep thelr well known self -contiol hin, Lo be aure, Inow Texun queation, bt a vank outalder may be pardoned, or al fewst coldly fgnored, for duting o suyg peal Uit the wholo question might he eferied to e commities o renolutlons al the Demociatle natlonal convention which meets wt Houston * The Han il Dulletia sukucply thet “igis expert taxidermist | astland, Tex | | hus been constantly vibri | the haps a congressional committee should be appointed to investigate the matter,’ . xoxow “Anv one wishing to prove the case and confound the scient advises the Oakland Tribune, “need do no more than put a toad In a corner stone and walt 30 vears. Untll that time he is entitled to his opinion.” ‘The Columby Dispatch finds significance in the lact that it was the corner stone of a court- house and comments have occurred right down fa the ver foundation of a courthouse, every par- ticle of which, during those 31 ye g with i absence of material corpus cution and only the know: how many other expedients for holding the exect toner at bav. Normally, the sentene ssed on that lizard -altas herned toud- - should have brought its death in about six hours, but possibly the ‘delays of the law,’ so close at bLand, would hold out for 31 years Complaint Is “made by the Kansas City Journal that, while ull this exclie ment was displayed, “the bona fide find- Ing of, & common or garden variety hoptead fn Kansas City authent buried In & wall for 30 years was ie gurded us of so little moment that it was not reported until Texas began to get 80 haughty over its precarfous dis- tinction. “The superiortty of the Kansas City specles of toad,”” contitnaes the Journal, “clearly 15 demonstrated fuct thut, though this pariicular specimen appeared to be a bit sty when its 30-year sleep was ende it soon revived and hopped off. The Texas varlety seems to be made of softer stull for all mccounts agree that it was as flat as & pancake and only with 1) most strenuous efforts, this sde of using « pulmotor, was it enabled to kravely impaired physique ¥ isas Clty toads are not of the cnomed varlety of which Shakes, speaks, though no prectons jewel 1o have been found In clther (he prin- cipul polnt of nterest 15 that Texas 1y all “het up’ over 1ty toad, while Kansas CHty tukes w similar find 5 a matier of course nnd goes ahead with s plans for the Republican national convention Junctions, estoppy expert defer estore s Possibly the UNITED STATI IN WORLD W Years AR Ago Today Germans, apparently angered by (heir fallire to plerce the Ameriean’s lus I yesterday's vald, are yving to punish the Amertean troops with o deluge of ahells, 2,000 shells of ull calthers count ed nlong the front I 24 hours' the, WIh many left uncounted * * * Come plete details of the Amerlean defenses found on body of caplain who led the German attack Mups ey machine gan o emplacement, ey Gench and every depression the pround within the American e L Wt Depaitment aniones the Ordianee Department has de veloped spectal types of bullets for use I aliplane work i Faanee tully equal o, o surpasaing, those I e now e Hown tmpressive mony Ambassador Sharp tecelves. from the dencendants of French soldiers who fought o the Amerlean Revolution battle fhags for the American veglments along the front Hnes, * ** German advance fnto Russla ceased With algn tig of peace tieaty with the Holsheviki Hussln 15 forced by (he new termy to all dandy taken from Turkey . [ v ennich, 't Neok et Fine A ke fo heat of win tnstalient w 3 m l v\.n.u «y]\‘v} ymj tx duny o of all | There is no home in 1 levar the world, how- | towering | and | the | THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover ‘The ashes of Thomas Hardy were buried January 16 in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. Premier Baldwii represented the government at the cere- mony and Sir James M. Barrie, Rud- yard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Sir Edmund Gosse, Sir Arthur Pinero, John Masefield, St. John Ervine and H. M. Tomlinson represented English letters On the same afternoon Hardy's heart was burled in the grave of his first wife in the churchyard of the little Dorset | villnge of Stinsford, the “Mellstock” of | his novels, It the spirit of the great | novelist of the south country. gered g0 long on earth, still with the limit of its mortal stay, returns to visit loved scenes, it will surely hover not near the glory of West- | minster, but about gloomy “Egdon | Heath” ‘and the happler countryside of | Dorsctshire. On the edge of a Dorset highway, along which flocks of sheep | are driven by thelr shepherds, and fac- | ing rolling meadows, Hardy built the | home for his old age, Max Gate, on the | Warcham road, about a mile outside of | | Dorchester, the “Casterbridge” of his | novels. It is & simple house of brick and stone, almost concealed from th road by the thick trees inside its pro- tecting wall. A graveled road leads to it through a tall gateway, and in the | rear is a garden where the brightes the English flowers bloom in their sons. Here Hardy in his later v wrote the poetry which he cared more than for his novels, in this respec not agreeing with the mafority of his | eritics and readers. Here, often in the | | garden, he sometimes received favored { visitors, among them American authors. [ In his novels and tales Hardy calls Dor- setshire “Wessex,” reviving the old | Saxon name for the kingdom of the | | West Saxons. A pilgrimage through {the Hardy country today, with a map | such a at the beginning of Ber- | {tram C. A. Windle's “The Wessex of | Thomas Hardy.” and. of course, a com- | plete set of the Hardy novels, would | I provide a vacation of pure delight for ine Hardy loy | PR | Thongh “Tess of the D'Urbervilles” !and “Jude the Obscure” are the novels of Thomas Hardy which contain the | mostsensational situations and are, | | therefore, read by many who never go | farther, they are not Hardy's best. The | group of four, “The Mayor of Caster-| bridge. Far From the Madding | Crow The Return of the Native and “The Woodlanders” probably best | represents Hardy's characteristic ideas | and style—his fatalism, his love of the | soll and its cultivators, his sympathy | with primitive human em his | nse of the dramatic in everyday life. | | The scene of “The Mayor of Caster-| | bridge” s “Casterbridge” (Dorchester), | | the capital and market town of Wessex, | {and the country immediately surround- | |ing it, including the edge of “Egdon| | Heath The story begin at | “Weydon Priors” (V tonehenge) . “rowd” opens rom_the Madding Norcombe Hills” (one ot the hills between Dorche: and Bridport on the Channel), but the action soon shifts to “‘Weatherbury” | (Puddletown), which remains the of most of the e market d; district of 1s confined s be on| ‘The een Dorcheste |ham) and “Angleb For “The Woodlande around the marke Abbas” (Sherborne). | of Somerset, is chosen Hintock™ (Minterne Giles Winterborne is buried | Hintock™ (Melbury Osm Grace Melbury and h: | One other of Hardys nove | these great four. was a | himself, and this he located around I'Mn‘llmv(k" (Stinsford), where rected that he should be bu | village choir. su | mortalized in | Tree.” sang old hymns to the accom on Here are Magnay nd “Little where la race horse | when | not exceed the ratio 5-5. ANSWERS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘The answers here each day are specimens picked from the mass of Inquiries handled by our great Information Bureau main- tained “in Washington, D. C. This valuable service i5 for the free use of the public. Ask any question of fact you may want to know and you w et an immediate reply. Write plain inclose 2 cents in ‘stamps for T turn postage, and address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederi Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C.| Q. Where may one take a thorough | feet of the Virgin Q. tra A Which gedy? 0, di re course in training for the motion pic- “';! age at d ture industrs P. A. A four-year course in techr training for the motion pictures i< g by the University of Sonthern California in_co-operation with the committee on college affairs of the Academy of Mo- ton ~ Picture Arts and Sciences, Courses in the preparation, production direction and pres pictures are featured cal Q. What is the hig! paid for a race horse?- T, A. The highest price ever paid for $300,000, paid by Mallaby-Duley for Call Boy, the ar-old winner of the 1927 Engl! Derby. Q. What Js the real name of nie Mack,” manager of the Athle! F. J. W. A. Connie Mack McGillicuddy. Q. What kind of wood was used in early American Windsor chairsi— S. A M They were or maple. ¢ price ever H. real name is Cor- ne hie Q. What is the per capita consump- {tion of sugar in the United States W. G E. A. A survey recently of the sugar indus'r completed by the Uni States Beet Sugar Ascoclation disclosed that the average per capita sugar sumption in 1927 was 107 pounds. Q. Why is Andrea del Sarto's “Ma- donna of the Harpies” so cailed?— L. E 18 L. IO QUESTIONS to questions printed |earved on the pedestal beneath the by an The t depr examina- n! erup- on the Q. What term describes th e | the e ntation of moving | | eul | ha th -0 B The earth iz flatt h an d So m for the ate spherol getables, & e an cit wa on- | A. Two small grotesque figures are | BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL 1. A group of distinguished clergymen has appealed to President Coolidge to refrain from supporting the program for the replacement of naval vessels which from year to year become ob- solete and must be scrapped. These ministers of the Gospel make no claims of actual knowledge of the technic of naval needs; they oppose naval force, as they oppose all “militarism,” and seel. to substitute “the other cheek™ the Nation is attacked by an enemy. President Co listened respect- fully to the pleas of the clergymen and replied that the full program, as recommended the Navy Department and indorsed by the President. agreed upo: t the Disarmament Conferance of 192: or the navies of Great Britain, the United States and Japan. The naval committee of the House le recommended re- ers to 14. But delegation is has been cut against any re- ge down, placemen would abol the pre ‘The life of a cru average and of a subm Of our present cruls with an age of 24 years or greater, sti etained in service. Not a single e between 1908 and 1922 b: the United States, but L er was b “This is satd to! procecdings, | by | | paniment of a harmontum at his fu- | neral, and the circle of reverent cou try people who stood about his included his neighbors am | ditches, hedges, fu ! herds, plowmen, d: shopkeepers from the village ok % % One of the essays in E | “Genius and_Character | in Eighteen Tableaux.” Here 18 eve in the life of the French cynic and philosopher are linked together in such a way as to give a character portrait | Some of the events chosen are more dramatic, some more significant |others. ' The 10-year-old Volt | Kisses the wrinkled hand of the vear-old Ninon de Lenclos and left a legacy tn her w Great Britain built 44 c have been added. in 1 3 clust 5 m R a total of 49 cruisers, with a tonnage of 246.776 tons, while in the years 1923 to 1925 we butlt 10 cruisers, with a total of 66.000 to: nage—our present total cr not_obsolete nd Ludwi 18 “Voltaire S, 8 were tates in 1 rced e to four ¥ | later 1 25 cruisers with nt nd a few bt 1 and has soner tn te tonnage laid of 80 000 and the dissolu | days later finds h the Bastille, where he rema: months. “In a barren room ves a frafl man of 28, wrapped in cloak. is lying in & neh ph for | him. the Great for the first time once. spied upon and ¥ ot e agrec Conte The at last and Vi | At 50. Voltatre | imprisoned by t} | an annuity by the King, on ac the “superlority of his tale 60. Voltafre lives near Geneva, | “lttle castle always flled with g who come from all cow see him {and to hear him” He has one estate | on the French side of the boundary and one on the Swiss side, to provide for police emergencies At B0, he u o Parts and caustically tells the cus- | toms offtetals at the west pate, “I don't | believe, gentlemen, that there s any contraband here except myself | afterward he dies and “the i dr g gown and nt g like some one asle packed up and shipped away* “burted beside a relative in provinees | - | The stern principle of buving only [ what vou can afford has been thrown nto the diseard by the modern meth- od of tnstallment buving. which i d fended as sound by Prof Edwin R giman of Columbla in his book momies of Installment Selling ™ He savs that the dnstaliment method s very old and s stmphy atorm of credit 1018 no more urons to v and | | purchuser than the fnancing by hanks ol manufacturers and tradesmen or the (g of real estate on the basis of pertodical payments The seller ap parently assun noextreme visk by | the mstallent plan, for i e auto mobile bustness, where the plan flour fxhes, the loss 15 less than one-sinth of 1 per cent but the spirit of | was to keep utsers do spec the whi i away Japan cruisers strong behind both All of our 24 are obsols and e thre tsh War obsolete cruse ve a peed of betore 1909, ¢ 22 Knots, * Ak T eruis The cuss Preach alrs commit ate at an ng only 14 eatly da Follow fug Bk sev one nearly fnist 1$22000 000 went down Posted upon the walls of ¢ offtces o the Navv Departmy « official placard. headed Al POley 10 I signed by the then ectetny of the Navy, Edwin Denby jand 15 dated December 1192 tmeds ately tollowing the Disarmament Con ference That pla ned on | | the walls ot the 1y prineiples b tradions ot The fhist e 1 ships mow “Why Go to Colleg Why Hovs Fail i College,” “Fitting College for Hoy,” “Why Parents Fail - p | Handicaps King the Athleties * “Fraterities “College Pranks.” “College [ Hate Baked Edueation” and “What's [ e Use ™ e the (tes of chapters i [oCollege What's the U by Hetbert I B tawkes, Dean of Colimbia College [This 15 0 book to be read by (he huns | rents of bovs and gids for | whom cotlege 15 either adecided or an | undecided question When 60 out ot ery 10000 of e population are golug o collego und the colleges are (ot . A WAy often my many as tuee out ol Al i Pevery fonr candidates, there are folos wre INRURY 1 counitya Werous (iings o be constdeted by batty etes wud dts conm nd o g parents and voung people, fnaddien |8 cmtientaland - ovenseas fo the nevitable college entrance ex b Preface Laminations ton ot e Prestdent and the treaty o naval ament { mulgated will be the s the Powers (WHICh ared patty to the treaty, governing thett naval arma menty Wy o capital ships and atrevatt | CALERES The spiit of the treaty ot cates (o elements mternationat | ot W general destre fo avond | COPTEON T aval et @ tal e ot w n Geng il as i means of avalding v U Were any owet to undertake a the tim When me law . * e I Out of the Ruins af Buropenan post-war [ Gibbs My countiles form the set tngs and many tvpes of people (he charactens The CGerman ot move- ment, feconstiuetion e Fiance, e Matted I Vi, bdgaes e the Haly of Musoling are (he subiects of e plots Phe GEe ston e of e beot tells e tagedy of Yaonne W OE Anas who has Lt e oltieer Bover Vit £ War it 1 B e | DTSRI GE expanai Peled by Ber Bty f ey e wal foivees ot nanal ves Proiteer Whom she Dintes, A0L G leRE WKL the Geaty datie o . s oA coltection tales by Pl reg vatie « ca Ju i i Creastug the pet fot the fihe W unrestvicted | abioad o personnel | be stiengihen lued at ize COLLINS. pital al stren, iated. “Until suc; departure from the idea of a * 5t OUr nav: details of her set forth as to In th “To compl Omaha class now by placy o ships, gth h ¥ of Ame: crops of i may d 000,01 ates Tests, al strengths by t. pital ship ratio: will be necessary ap e ete e all he ¢ following ght cruisers of the lding. d cruisers bv sers of 10,000 tons dx ment carrying 8-inch guns. and down and buil FADIY aga frective shably peace d 18 S0 anvtous ¢ N an our Wilsan o be entden Woseveral o e RUIY At g W vears RN N e Navy Hatt [y ¥y v oA g S wr than W we of the Army and EETRI BN