Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1928, Page 8

8 e ——————————— THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition, WASHINGTON, D.C. TUESDAY........March 6, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St. and Pennayivania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8 Chicago Office: Tower Building. European Office: 14 Resent St.. London, England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Star.. . - -45¢ per month The Evenng and Si (when 4 Sundars The Evening and Su (when 5 Sunday The Sunday Star. . . 5 per copy Collection made at the end of each month. ders mas be sent in by mail or telephone. Nain 5000. Rate by Mail—P: Maryland Datir and Sunday. Daily only . inday” Star g 60c per month Sc per month All Other States and Canada. Daile and Sanday..] vr. $12.00: 1 mo., $1.00 Daily only 001 mol” T8¢ Sunday only $400: 1 mos 33e Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exciusively entitled %0 the use for republication of all news Atches credited 0 1L o Dot otherwise cr ted in this paper and also the local new, pablished herem. Al is of publication ©f special dispatches herein are also reserved. ————— e Survey of Unemployment. While discussion of unemployment in & presidential election year lends itself ‘peculiarly to partisan debate and color- ful oratory on both sides. the action of the Senate vesterday in approving Sen- ator Wagner's resolution for an investi- gation of employment by the Depart- ment of Labor may be divorced alto- gether from politics and receive \vclli merited approval. Senator Wagner | made his maiden speech in the Senate in asking for adoption of his resolution and his effort has already been inter- | preted as one of the guns now booming | for Gov. Smith, as well as a criticism | of President Coolidge and the adminis- tration generally—it being a natural | political reaction to accept the theory | that to question claims of prosperity by | citing such things as unemployment is to question the success of the party in power. But Senator Wagner's resolution and the Senate’s action rise in importance above politics. Senator Wagner used | the figure four million to denote the | number of men out of work and the ex- | tent of unemployment. The accuracy | of this figure may be questioned. Why | may it be questioned? Because no one | knows how many_men are out of work. ‘Why does no onl 0w how many men are out of work? Because the Depart- ment of Labor has not been provided | with the funds necessary to keep its ! finger regularly on the pulse of unem- ployment, or to tell, on short notice, | how serious the situation is today. ! When discussion of unemployment came | into the limelight several weeks ago it Was surprising to discover that here in | the Government departments, which | usually are brimming over with figures | and statistics on everything under the | sun. there was no agency which could speak with authority on the extent of unemployment. The Senate resolution calls on the Becretary of Labor not only to institute an inquiry now into the extent of un- employment and part-time employment throughout the country, but to find a method by which periodic reports on both subjects may be made. Secretary Hoover's conferences have done much o find the underlying causes of unem- ployment and to furnish business with ®ome of the danger signals. Senator Wagner's resolution will put the ma- chinery in motion to secure the most important facts of all. ———— Keen Observation. While feeding glucose for nourishe ment to patients suffering from lethargic encephalitis, commonly called sleeping sickness, a 8t. Louis physician noticed that symptoms were relieved in many eases. With 4hat acute observation which has enabled mankind to make the most ©f accidental happenings, this medical man put two and two together and be- 8310 10 give his patients doses of glucose for the avowed purpose of curing them The results of these experiments have Just been placed before the St Louis Medical Bociety. Reports declare that there was “almost complete relief from oll sYmptoms in 21 of 40 acute cases, 8 noteworthy improvement in 10 cases #nd no effect in 9 cases” While 3t 18 1o doubt 160 early o pass o0y judgment, either medical or other- Wise, upon this discovery, the world may bope that from these experiments may come the cure, or at least the allevia- Yon, of & most dread malady, | | | i | “ | ticularly | ‘mportation of the disease. Meanwhile | making of false reports to the police | { “crimes” that were never committed THE FVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY., MARCH 6, 1928.° and thence to Paris, Halled by & hero- worshiping world, he has retained the poise and calm judgment that have been factors in making him the ace of air- men, Particularly gratifying to his millions of friends, and, it is hoped, to Lindy himself, is the fact that the Woodrow Wilson award carries twenty-five thou- sand dollars with it. Lindbergh has consistently refused to capitalize his ex- traordinary feats, and he can, without departing an fota from his praiseworthy attitude, accept in full the award. The Woodrow Wilson Foundation could have | made no more popular selectfon than the ace of fiyers for its 1928 prize, T Influenza in Japan. About ten years ago a strange disease made its appearance in this country, having been brought here, it is be- lieved, from the European war zone. It was a form of influenza, of a par- deadly character. It raged violently for a protracted period, took many thousands of lives, and left many persons suffering from seriously depleted constitutions. It raged with particular ferocity in the training camps of the American Army. In the large citles it caused grievous suffering. Here in Washington it swept fiercely through the overcrowded quarters of those who had been assembled to do the emer- gency war-time work of Government. After a time it abated, somewhat as a result of quarantining, but mainly, it would seem, because the virulence of the disease had spent itself. ‘Today an epidemic of a similar na- ture 1s prevalent in Japan, where it ap- peared some weeks ago. In February more than 2,000 persons died of the| disease, which appears to be of the same nature as the influenza of 1918. More than half a million people are re- ported to have been attacked, and the imperial family has been afflicted. Just how this disease is borne from ! one region to another is mysterious. Ten vears azo this question puzzled sani- | tarians and was not answered. It ap- | peared to pass from one large group h‘ another, attacking suddenly many at once. Primarily an affliction of the| pulmonary system, it would appear to be borne by the atmosphere. Yet defi- nite centers of contagion appeared ten vears ago, the disease spreading from them. Just how the original infection | occurred has never been determined. It} was thought to be due in some measure | to the high tension of life incident to | the war conditions. It was thought also | to be due to overcrowding. | ‘The possibility of a spread of the| epidemic across the Pacific to these shores naturally occurs in view of the | virulence with which the disease is now | raging in Japan. Whether precaution- ary measures can be taken is not as- sured. Doubtless all steamships land- ing on these shores will be closely watched. Strict quarantine may have to be established against the possible there is the more ardent hope that the plague will quickly abate in Japan. It has already taken a grievous toll, and, in the light of knowledge of its earlier | ravages, it is calculated to cost heavily | before it is lessened in violence. e False Crime Reports. A favorable report has been ordered | by a subcommittee of the House Dis- trict committee on a bill which is de- | signed to ald in the efficient pursuit! of criminals. Paradoxically it provides | for the imposition of & penalty for the regarding the commission of crime. Practically it will, if enacted, lessen | the waste of police time and permit a | more effective concentration upon the work of crime detection. During the past year, according to the assistant| superintendent of the department, in | no less than forty-four cases false re- | ports were made to the police unrding! In each instance it was necessary to detail policemen for investigation. AA‘ the law now stands, the making of a false report of this kind is not punish- able. Under the proposed enactment any person who makes a false report| of an infraction of the law may him- | 5¢lf be taken to court and subjected % penalty. | Just why people make false ‘reports | of this character is not always easily understood. Sometimes it may be that | |they do 50 to cover up personal dere- | lictions. Tn some instances men have lost money gambling or have spent it | through wanton extravagance and have sought to cover up their derelictions by claiming to have been held up by foot- pads. Imagination plays some part in this matter. But whatever the motive or the cause, the effect is to keep the police busy on needless missions and | lessen the efficiency of the forc | It is the duty of every citizen to you appeal to the gutter instincts of humanity.” If the industry, continued Canon Chase, turns its eyes down to the gut- ter and looks at the gutter all the time, they will get only gutter thrills, It is the appeal to the herolc, to the upright, that gives the real thrill in storles, With these statements in view one is im- pelled to cast his mind back over the pictures shown here during the past three or four weeks. Washington may have been pecullarly fortunate in its recent bookings, but certainly where so many outstandingly good pictures have been exhibited within such a short space of time, there must be extant very many of the same quality. Here are some which the local public has had a chance to enjoy at the larger moving picture houses and legitimate theaters alone within the past month. First to mind comes “Old Ironsides,” which is still running. If this be a failure and if its popularity be due to @ “gutter appeal” it is news to most. Next come “The King of Kings,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “The Iron Horse, ‘West Point,” “Old San Fran- cisco,” “The Serenade,” “The last Com- mand,” “Blood and Sand.” ‘The Love Mart,” “The Dove.” Almost the “low- est” brand of show offered, although one hates.in this connection, to utilize that adjective, has included such example. of clean and often delightfully clever humor as “The Private Life of Melen of | Troy,” “Gentlemen Prefer Elondes” and “The Circus.” The list ranges up to| showings which have been educational- ly, patriotically and religiously iaspiring in the extreme. It is not unlikely that a scrutiny of the programs of the smaller Leighbor- hood houses would disclose an average as high, though perhaps not as fresh. Gutter filth here? Defilement of liter- ature? Defilement is a strong word. Not so one could notice it. The Na- tional Capital is a bettor community today for the showing of the aforemen tioned and most of the other films d played than it was four weeks ago. People, through them, have become fa- miliar with the piots of 1amous stories they otherwise would never have known; l vith the achievements of our ancestors, | With the historical backgrounds «f odd corners of our vast and interesting land. THere still are released poor and use- less and even harmful pictures, but movies are getting better and better, nor is it sweeping and usually unjusti- fied criticisms that are making them so. Once such denunciations may have been | necessary. That time is happily past. D SV | Homicidal mania has asserted itself in | a manner ‘o distract attention from the weather reports, the financlal sum- marles and the minutes of meetings in the town hall. — March is the month of the income tax, when only the expert accountant | may feel sure that his reputation for “truth and veracity"” is safe. D Many musiclans assert that “jazz" the music of the future. Others declare it an ‘echo of the aboriginal past. It may be both. .—on In the very carly stages of a cam- paign the conflict takes on the not nec- | essarly acrimonious aspect of a battle of the press agents, S THIS AN “Dear Sir: I notice from time to time in your column that you speak admiringly of the stories of Guy de Maupassant. I find this hard to rec- oncile with the trend of your writing, for, to my mind, the stories of De Maupassant are positively immoral. I would not have them in my house, vet you, who have furnished me and ‘many others with daily inspiration, seem to admire them. How is fl! 5 Sincerely yours, R. M. 8. Here we have an honest and direct question, which demands an honest and direct reply. The question which vothers our correspondent offers no trouble at ail if one is willing to ap- proach problems with an open mind. If one shuts himself up in the castle of prejudice. however, and refuses to_see the good in somethipg because there is some bad in it, he Will find life a very difficult matter. Life is. indeed. troublesome enough, without going out of one’s way to make mountains out of molehills. The stories of the great French master offer a case in point. Here is literary work of the | highest order, which, nevertheless, many | persons brought up in strict accord | with Anglo-Saxon principles find them- | selves incapable of swallowing. And by this we mean enjoying. | 1t is true enough that perhaps no one should read De Maupassant until he has come to the vears of discretion. Just| what age this is cannot be answered in the abstract, but must be settled by | the individual must be read by those only who appre- | ciate good workmanship in writing, and | are willing to permit this quality to overshadow what they do not other- wise like or admire. And then these stories | instance, 1s not an admirable one, vet | many persons have a sort of sneaking | admiration for the horned fellow, es- | pecially in America, where one s | praised who accomplishes what he sets out to do! | honestly and | Maupassan®® He has e ‘The role of the devil in the world, for | D THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. |great misfortune of De Maupassant, that his life and writings were warped by a strange malady which only since his time have physicians and psycholo- gists begun to understand. This offers no excuse, of course, either for his life or his writings, and certainly not for the latter, were there nothing more to them than this. That there is infinitely more in them, however, scarcely any fair person can deny who will read them after he has reached the age of 30 years, say. * ok ok ok De Maupassant was above the jargon of the various “schools” of writing, that is why one hesitates to call him a realist. He wrote as he saw life, and his_utterly astounding honesty is what commends his writings to the world. It is not easy to be honest, either in print or in life. The man of kindly nature often lets a thought go unwrit- ten because he does not wish to offend such and such a one. He modifies this and changes that for fear of hurting some one. The economic necessitics, too, play‘a part in writing. How many great novelists the world has lost be- cause there was a wife and child at home to be fed It is to the eternal credit of Guy de Maupassdnt that he was the one writer in the world’s history of literature who fearlessly put on pape exactly what he thought about eve thing he wrote about. How does one | kiow this? ‘The very words, their | thought ~relationship, the very id “Ther of “blah” in De scaped that pit- fall which has engulfed so many mod Amer masters of the shor v, the self-consciousness which al- em to calmly classify themselves “intelligentsia.” The French carry unescapable conviction. not the slightest tra the master simply wrote his stuff and let it as g0 at that. He observed, and tried to put it on paper. So his wild- est tale is plausibie, but plausible in then W e The life story of Guy de Maupassant | of any of the characters of the several novels or scores of short stories which he wrote in his short lifetime. Is it not a tragedy to be capable of writing perhaps what might have been the greatest stories in world's literature, yet to have been held back from that mighty goal by traits and maladies which physically and mentally pre- vented it? | ‘This was the sad case of De Maupas- | sant. Such scanty history as is avail- | able (his family is believed to have deliberately prevented the collection of material on his life) shows one of the most lamentable careers in literary his. tory, judged by the work done in com- parison with the almost infinite pos- sibilities which were plainly present. 1 How else can one put the life of | such a writer? Here was a master of the narrative art, who managed to put life. unmistakable and vast, into his slightest effort with the pen. Compared with the verisimilitude which glows from his pages. the fine short storles of our own O. Henry are but clever bits of sprightliness. One is always aware, in | reading “The Four Million,” that he i< | doing just that—reading a story. As great as Sidney Porter's collected tales | are, they possess a certain artificiality | which prevents them from falling into | the ranks of the authentic masterpieces of short fictional form. Thelr very climaxes (called in the art the denoue- ment) are achieved with such machine- | like regularity that they become un- | convincing. O. Henry was the victim of his own cleverness. De Maupassant's short stories are the direct auntithesis. These masterpieces strike the reader with the force of life: Nine out of 10 of them deal with what | can be called none other than sexual themes, and this is what arouses the ire of our correspondent. This as the ! | realism, me! offers a more tragic history than that ' th, that larger way which makes, not for v, but for life-ism. and this life-likeness— se are the qualities which are con- stantly striking the modern reader of Guy de Maupassant. The narratives themselves take second place to this sterling honesty, this compelling veri- <imilitude. There is scarcely one of his 200 or so short storics in which the honest reader will not find himself if he be actually honest with himself gasping at the audacity of the men. Here are thoughts which no man alive but has thought, at some time or other in his life—and here they are in print at last! With what a sanctimonious face one may put the book down, and speak of “that terrible De Maupassant!" * ok oK A So, it would seem to at least one reader, the stories of Guy de Maupassant have their compensations. If any one Is interested in the narrative art—and who s not?——he will find no greater model in the world than “The Olive | Orchard” (sometimes called “The Mount of Olives”). Here is a vivid short story as compelling in interest as that automobile smash-up you witnessed down on Pennsylvania avenue the other day. You saw the big truck and the passenger car about to smash into cach other, and your heart stood still for a second, then—zowie! as Mutt and Jefl insist on saying. Something had happened at last; here was movement. suspense, antagonism, reality. How you enjoyed the crowd, and the cop running and the two angry drivers, although you would not admit as much for the world! Your blood raced happily (although yeu will say we are a liar | But we know better—we | right now). have been there. And Guy de Maupas- sant knew, too. He had been there, too, But where you and I only went back to the office to bore our friends with our recital, he put it on paper, where it lives again for any one who will open his magic pages. Mussolin! has demonstrated that in | arder o be a figure of transcendent Ital- | lan fame, it is not positively necessary to be a wonderful baritone or tenor. — e Paris has intimated that divorce busi- ness is not desired. As a source of reve- nue the courts cannot rival the cafes, saon A statue carved on a mountain side | clevates the art of sculpture to a status | of superheroic landscape gardening. — Bootleggers claim political influence. Some of them go to jail, Just the same. ———————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, The Call to Yonder. Old North Wind has started Playin’ his bazoo, The birds all happy-hearted Attempt some music, too. The blossoming arbutus, The crocus, undismayed, Are gathering to salute us As they go on parade. North Wind, now beguiling, Lifts a gentle song. Days of hopeful smiling Follow him along, | Till they're lost forever In the distant vale, He's the piper clever In the fairy tale, Popularity. “I expect you to become the most | It 8 encouraging W realize, oo, thay POt ® crime as soon as it comes m‘,w‘[);;lur"x‘mn‘ tn the country.” ®verywhere o science truined men are | A1€BUOn. There should be no restraint| -“No chance,” answered Senator Sor- waiching and walling. and making the most of thelr observations To the sclentht everyihing that hap- Pent is of interest, as It affects Liy specisity. He would rather make a dis- eovery by sheer application of brain power, but he is not missing any lueky happenings, either, and is sble 1 make the most of them when they e The spotiight ehifis. No candidate hefore a convention can hope 1 be as prominent for the moment as the radin snnouncer oceur, R ) A Deserved Award The snunouncement of the Wondrow Wilson Foundstion that its 1928 will g0 W Col Charles A. Lindbergh is received with scclaim b \ils country In taking his place with Viscounl Cec of England and b o, Col bergt completes ton Br0up Of WoRld benetacions SCOUTing Y e sunouncement of Vhe foundation it made becsuse his fighls have “brought m new and beiter spiviy o the relations of the Upied with fia Letin Americun neighbors the “The wward Iy wieking punlie s selection g this time | MIENC BbOUL the progress of moving ®he foundstion has departed from | VICVUTeE Appeariig the end of nst wrecedent, inustmuch s in the ordinary | $¢€% betore the Bennte futerstate (om- aovurse of events the decision would not he given out untl next December, Col Blatey lupon such initiative, In the case of | an wctual violation of the law no risk | will attach under the proposed new | statute to an immediate contact with the poliee in full co-operation. It ix, | of course, porsible that & person mak- | ing such & report is honestly mistaken In a case of that kind there will be | no occasion for penalty, B | When there are so many men well trusted by the public from whom 0| {select @ candidate, 1t may be comfort- ably sssumed, despite agitations, that | the country 1s still safe, s usunl | Every U. 5 Marine belleves he conld have settled this Nicaraguan situation ward | overnight 11 he, with the support of a | few of his buddies, could have a free bt - v - - | Unjustified Excoriation. Conon William Sheate Cha aper- | ntendent of the National Retorm Fed- L eration, secretary of the Federal Mo- Picvire Councll . Americn, wnd 1Kl {recior of Christ Church, Beaford wye- - Brooklyn, N e A Y, eontinues e merce committes holding Lesrings on a il decluring the movie ndustry to ghum. “I can hold my own in polities, But I'm no aviator.” Substitution, 1 would not speak & naughty word, Politeness 15 my way. T sit and cheer those which I've heard From actors in a play, Jud Tunkins says a friend who tells you not to worry merely means that 80 far as he's concerned thera's nothing 10 bother ahout. As It Sometimes Happens, “What did you find in that anclent tomh?" “A mummy and all kinds of jewels,” answered the professor. ‘It must have been & splendid | stght.” “Very, But, as occastonally happens, | the Jewels viere more tmpressive than | thelr wearer 14 HE Mo, the soge of Chinatown, 15 feared by e fgno- frant, snd because of its wide Influence 1= teured st more by the tntelligent,” | Going th for Funds, [ “Bome dny.” swid Josh Corntossel Vil come back home with & hundle of money and pay the mortgage off the dear old farm”’ [ “What's the 1dea?” asked his father | “Are you goin' nto the wide world to Lindverghs will recelve & medal and | & Dublic Uty the distinguished | Deeome & bootlegger?” check for twenty-five thousand dollars Although te fylng ol bedecked with o every counby i e wiorld, iU bse b Coused e milghiest clsnge Ju bis de Mghtfully modest oullouk. He 18 il the same 1Andy who, minus the usisl blast of publici edisle whis Viane i ban Diego o By 1o New York Climbed intn bis new | PIELUTe ks been W the g | elergyman, in the five minutes sllotted " | B, stated bl convietion st the prg. Ciood candidu el b bren | b | Aucers biave “laken wll lielorical wnd Clusstcul Hterature snd defilea 1 | om Chisse went on u pay thiat be “he || deved the Suihire of Ol Bosides’ 1 )| die o the fuct tist the wppeal of the utter, on the ore profit it 1 Can theory that you will get rk Horse, B proclidin thelr deeds, Disdaining #lush Cdark horse’ 1s Lo g A whitewarh brush A wh needs YA saxophone pluyer,” snid Uncle Kben, “keeps out o' trouble an’ draws { double tax on motortsts, the Utica Ob- | that it discrimina Widely divergent views are held con- cerning the decision of the Supreme | Court of Illinois that the State's tax or gasoline used by motorists is unconstitu- tional. Many observers hail the action as a blow against discriminating legisla- tion, but others fear that the result will be serious interference with road | building and maintenance programs | generally unless the decision is reversed | on appeal to the Supreme Court of the | United States i That the motorists of Illinois “owe a | debt of gratitude to the determined op- | ponents of the law" is declared by the | Chicago Daily News, which also states: “The decision is not n the least tech- | nical. The gasoline statute was found discriminatory, oppressive, arbitrary and tricky. It was passed for a political purpose, and it was jathmed through | without any eflective discusston. It has | cost the owners of automobiles millions of dollars which they will never see again.” “Discrimination against the automobile _owner, and particulari against the Chicago automobile owner,"” | | urban | resulted, savs the Chicago Daily Tribune. | “None of his contribution,” the ‘Tribune | ontinues, “went to pave the streets in | Chicago, which are paid for entirely by local taxation, and only & fraction of | the money collected from him was re- | turned to Cook County to bufld high- | ways in the outlying districts. The tax waas levied on every taxi rider fn Chi- cago for the bullding of roads he never would see, much less use.” Observing that the law wonld put a server-Dispateh adds. “Other objections are that it discriminates between kero- sene and gasoline, both motor fuels; 5 briween gasoline hicles; that it diser ween the and electric inates be motoring T pur- Do - like rather in pregnable objections, and as though they might be expected to stand in decisions by the Federal courts, as they | are now declured a violation of fourteenth amendment to the Constitu- | tion, guaranteelng equal protection to | all” LR “The dectslon foreshudows the pos- ability ¢ of the overthrow of simil the Provid “unlenys the statutes are to meet the objections cited by Hinols tribunal” The Seranton fmes makes the further comment on the situation that “political strateglsts o Himols are chitged with having played a part in tangling up the law with exceptions wnd excimptions. so that I wies Tairly cortadn to be declared un- constitutional Mot of the money collected under the daw since bet July,” 1L s polnted out by the Rock Idand Argas, Cwill cnaln I the Blates posession, aid [ only those who pild Uie tax under pro tent Wil receive Tefunds — “Fhe bdanwe cannot funded without a spocial appropriation wet This rling ends o tongg bitile, the Drst stuge of which was renched when the Ascembly - enneted the bHL under drsmatic cheumstanees resirecting I after s defeat I the Benate, and puehing 10 throagh” “Phe Mok Supreme Court has pat pdteind function fo drastic e, declures the U 1aul Dispateh, with the further comment: “The verdict may be heyond critlelsm from a legal point of view. Bub from the viewpoint of public need s expedieney, 10k of decldedly questioniable wisdom " Phie Wichita teacon ulso Teels that “tie ntesests of it publie Wil be belter sub by woreversal Uhan wi wfina Dhinods comt” contends it "It et unfalr o make the wsers of gasoline for Wit that vy would be wood money by keepin' his month uecu pled stictly vif bls own bathess,” | Chicago papers, the | {declaring they are not aware Illinois Gas Tax Decision Arouses Unusual Interest The object of the gasoline tax, as understood by the Syracuse Herald, “is to obtain revenues for the construction, care and repair of our roads atd pave- ments from those who derive the most benefit from our modern highway svs- special benefit s not realized by ‘the users of gasoline for other purposes’ " The Waterloo Tribune argues "he automobile owner is. not out of his money wholly in any case. He gets part back. A paved road over a dirt road—and how he would hate to travel dirt roads in Iilinols!—driving only a few hundred miles per year over the State, would save the con- sumer money and save him time.” Wil be likely to overrule the Iilinots slon, the Raleigh News and Ob- ¢S coneern for its own cral Court does not <o North Carolina would “have a time to provide revenues to t the interest and principal upon its bonds." concludes that paper. Notwithstanding the attitu of the the Indianapolis News | MSserts: “As a result of the court's dect- sion, the road-building linois 15 demoralized. The attack on the law was by the Chicago Motor Club. Its members may save a few dollars an nually on their mator bills, but they will have fewer miles of improved country roads in back countles as a result of their action.” program in UNITED Tk WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Toduy, American troops mie now holding {over 8 miles of trenches n the sector they orlginally took over. Irregulavity fof trench lines 15 responsible for their 8 mitles of length, stnce they are laid ont 50 that flanking fire may be obtatned along every part of the front. 1t g I this sector. * * * Germans por st in bres ern When taken prisoner they in- eply: “Yes, we know there 1 I France, and theto never Ny more. That s not enough 157 * ¢ Ameriean troops i her part of the French front cen talded by Germans who were sed WIth Tosses, confirming Frenel Umade yesterday, © + + Qulet nlong the American se tor north- ence of Amerfean troops on Weste front variably tHon, hasty actlon 15 oxpected " .. Exchanges ave Informal and ne Presages ot Summier, | From the Attata |t Conndy ontiacte o plant 1000 A of peppers Pl Presages i bt Hutiner . Needs w Little Feeshening. The Goddess of Liberty 1 New Yok surposes other than sutomaobile ditving pay the tax for the upkeep of the highs ways, " Harhor £ to b given her st bath 41 years. Yes fherty does need o e treshientng up i the UL B, A, t | himself, it takes high courage to face | Quoting the opinions of lawyers that | the Supreme Court of the Untied States | of | estimated that at least 84000 men are | " account 18 taken of the risk NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG M. THE COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE. Judge Ben Lindsey and Wainwright Evans. Boni & Liveright. Judge Ben Lindsey was in town last week, so the papers say, to make ar- rangements for a debate between him- self and a Washington clergyman on the subject of “the companionate mar- riage.” ‘The outcome of that debate Is a foregone conclusion. ‘The audience will be a small one. Its mind will be a unit against the aflirmative, regardless of the relative value of the arguments set out. It is so much easier to stand by pre- concelved notions than it is to enter- tain new ideas, so much easier to hand in ready-made opinfons than it is to follow the logic of argument. We are experts, all of us, in snap judgments. ‘Therefore, this debate is settled before it is begun. As for any definite idea that the term, “companionate marriage,” brings to the mind of the average, it might as well be fe-fi-fo-fum, or any other mysterious abracadabra of nomencla- | ture. Many have not even heard of it ‘Those who have stand, as a rule, against the harmful maunderings of that Juvenile judge out in Denver. “Indeed, remember now that my mother's uncle said that his sister-in- law's that this 5 just free And there you T nd that's all it is. are! A brave man. Tt takes such to face | pretty much the whole world drawn lup against him. For the sake of a mission that he has wished upon ignorance, to face laziness too deep seated to find out the truth of a mat to face false report and hostility, That fact alone, the fact of courage, in a | morally timid world, is something to command attention, at least toward a matter that deeply concerns everybody and his children's children. Why wouldn't just now be the very best time of all to give Judge Lindsey's | book, *“The Companionate Marriage,” {make their service effective for the na- {the fair reading that so important a | question clearly deserves? { Having done this, you find it to be, | In sum, that which'the student in law or medicine calls “a case book.” To | the rest of us it turns out to be a story | book. Stories and stories gathered | straight out of life are banked in here | At the center of each of these is a boy |or a girl, a man or a woman, married | folks and single, all with tragic tales to tell. And each one is looking for some one human enough. and big enough. to | listen to the bitter truth without con- | | demnation, without self-righteousns Here are sad and often %ordid confes | sions of mistake and misfortune, of im- pending disgrace and the awful fear | of one’s own kind. Boys in ignorance land danger, girls in panic before open | disgrace, ' husbands and wives facing equal mutual disaster. Listening in upon these personal | Stories, the wonder grows over such | freedom of confession, such confidence | |in the silent man receiving these cnn-| fessions. No reproaches. No “You've | sinned, so of course you must suffer. | | You've danced. <o you must pay the fid- | dler.” Nothing like that. “Well, Mary, | or John. you are in trouble. Let's see ' what we ‘can do to help you." Some such strain of understanding is. in- variably, the sequence in the confidence bestowed. Oh. T know! That doesn't | suit us Puritans at all. But just a little over 2,000 years ago a Man walked the earth who felt Just that way about human mistakes and weaknesses, who did just about what this Denver man was trying to do. He helped. Out of such experiences. many | and many of them, must have grown ' up in the mind of Judge Lindsey very serious ideas respecting marriage as it is now looked upon and maintained. And | he said. quite naturaly and truth-| fully, that other human institutions have changed. or are changing, under new social conditions, new social de-( mands. By the amazing power of adaptation these others have not only survived, but they are functioning as| well in a way caiculated to keep pace with the new conditions—in a way cxl- culated to contribute vigorously to our expanding existence. And he said | further. no doubt, that he could see no reason why the institution of mar- | Flage should not become a more active | | agent of human happiness and social }\H'Il-b(-ml: than it now is. For clearly | | today it seems to be the direct source | of futility and misery, not only to the responsible principals, but to families | of helpless children as well. | And so, after much experience and many long thinkings, Judge Lindse | adopted the “companionate marriage Not as a panacea-—not that, to be sure. | Rather as a measure carefully designed to give more of stability and happiness to marriage than it reveals in the pres- ent to even the most casual observer. Now we as a people live, and appear | to thrive, on misunde because we are too bus, a think. In this case we set out by mis- | interpreting Judge Lindsey at what, to the general public, is a vital point. So, let us hear Judge Lindsey himself talk for & minute | “Companionate | marriage is legal | marrfage.” Please draw a mark under that first and tmportant statement. “Companionate marriage is already an | established soctal fact in this country It is conventionally respectable.” Then {the judge has something to say about “galized birth control and about the ht of divorce by mutual consent for hildless couples. “All men and women Who are sensible and honest”—the judge Kirg again--"know when they marry | that there §s at least & possibility of | [ fatlure ahead. But they assume that | the chanc remote. They have confi- fdence m their ability to weather all | storms and make port. It is | tention to do that. and to ma | adjustments as may be ne | that end. That Is martiage [ the spirtt of marrtage. It nvolves the | same recognition of risk that goes tnto [l marriage (o which Judge Lindsay !stunds i open and stout oppositions but 1t strongly and nullifty that does not propose | moment the flame begins to cool “Now, the trouble with this attitude 0 ordinary marriage s that not enough 1t the marriage psyehology puts too much emphasts on the risk, the | psyehalogy of traditional marriage bull- | I! dedly lgnores 1t nltogether. The res | sult fs (hat couples who make a mis- take In thefr cholee of each other fnd that i getting nto marriage they have walked into a trap. Theve s room for | sane compromise between the two ex- | tremes. Men and women who enter | marriage should be encouraged o do i proposes o overcome visk. 1t emphatically to seek divoree the of romantic passion trial o conditions that would bes { Wt of Toul” Alrplanes take advantuge | B0 < bkl ik ;:.l::m\ll:l‘-‘nl kit A utker el et W e bt which ROk o Wit Anti-abieratt keep the Germa W retieat I vase the mar Nigh I air, * % ¢ War Depattment wn % oy aNGIIL Ot Hive: cruNtien \ ‘ VI W g enongh (o be easonably sure o ol N g « -l pethel !I“’ “::::ml"l\n-::m it 1 I (e ity G eany on Gogether; and ot Beevten Mot S0 DI LG Siold ot v them Gl ey fehevrom ad wound- chicvions, 5 s s | A wifond then Tibs i oo evrons : ot free tove o (rlal ma Expected that - War Department will T m . 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This service is | miles away. free. Failure to make use of it deprives you of benefits to which you are en-| Q. Are the titled. Your obligation is only 2 cents | vided in any special way?—K. D, in stamps inclosed with your inquiry| A. The first four eomman for direct reply. Address The Evening | late to sacred dutles, while Star Information Burean, Frederic J.!refer to secular, or our ¢ Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. nelghbors, Q. What 15 the name appiied to the system of king, a legislature of two r A. The tw Ten Commandments die fes to our | Q. Please name some of the trees| now growing in the Holy Land.—W. B. A. Dr. Henry Van Dyke in his book called “Out of Doors in the Holy Land” | speaks of the olive, orange, eypress and | cucalyptus trees. Dr. Van Dyke in his chapter called “Going Up to Jerusalem" says, “There were few trees, except now and then an olive orchard or a | opped carob with its withered e87—A. T, SPEN ayateits tiaed pieture is a c medallions of found made b Della ko Q. How horse H G. A. There 1 in history back, but it is p is not more than 3 Q. When was the Women's Bureau organized?—H. M. A. It was organized in July, 1918, as | a war service and made a permanent bureau in June, 1920. Its staff is com- posed entirely of women. Its task is to formulate standards and policies for wage-earning women. Its aim is to safeguard the interests of working women who are home makers and mothers as well as wage earners, and to tional good. Q. What {s the Prince of Wales’ ad- dress?--D. F. S. A address of the Prince of Marlborough House, London, Wales is England. Q. We read of Culebra Cut. What does “Culebra” mean?—A. N. A. The word means “snake.” The cut is now named in honor of Col. Gaillard. Q. What is French pastry?—D. E. M. A.“French pastry” is a term used for a platter of mixed individual fancy | cakes, such as eclairs, fruit tartlettes. mocha cake, Napoleons, Pont Neuf cakes and cream puffs. I Q. What system is used anese to dwarf pines?—N. A. The system used by the Japanese to dwarf pine trees is kept secret by them. also the cl ton rags by the Jap- B. Q. At what distance are storm clouds visible to the naked eye?—L. F. A. The Weather Bureau says that the distance at which storm clouds are visible to the naked eye varies greatly with one's position and the kind of If a person is in an open flat country and the clouds are of the broad stratus or layer type, he may not see th>m more than 30 or 40 miles aw and even not half so far if the BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. Premier Mussolini warns that he will do no more talking in regard to the alleged obstreperousness of the Austrian “minority” in the Tyrol; the next time he will ‘act—not talk. He denounces the League of Nations, with full warn- ing that its meddling with the internal affairs of Italy will not be tolerated, and he defies Austria, which has in- dicated a desire to “protect” its na- tionals, even within Italy. There ap- pears to be some “dynamite” in the explode. it would sound much like war. What is ¢ the situation? Japanese comm States, Wk t Eiktuty ‘There has just reached W eton a new k, “The Case of German South Tyrol Against Italy This book is a translation of a Ger- man book written by a committee of German Tyrolese citizens. “Die Wahrheit | uber Sudtirol Nach Verburglem Tat, sachenstoft.” It purport fense of the German-Au this pa the controversy. his T On page 17 we read: u“]-hd’::?s z:{‘e- i “Austrian Tyrol included the Italian- And this is the te speaking Trentino. By ‘South T: SO will_here be meant, unles implied. German South Tyrol. alone is in controve! o of South Tyrol have land for more than 1300 years had formed an organized com there long before an Italian nation. the later sense of the word. had come into existence. The fact that the Ro- man Empire, 1500 years ago, included South Tyrol cannot give the kingdom of Ttaly, established in the nin n century, and historical title to possess § which e Germans ttled in the They e ox solini has never s posses the based on s granted in hich ended the World War: ged in the bargain betwe of the price of Italy's from her treaty with 2 war on the side sproved by Pro who recognized Italy's militar necessity, although ignoring Fourteen Points.” one of w lated that ethnical should decide boundary it 42.000.000 1 000.000 A con towas demanded by Italy on the s that Italy must extend to “natural boundar: of Austria’s penins Trentino and Istr imto Italtan territ and Lombardy sho 1 It ts practically on the basis of o quered territory, and not at all becaw Italy had ever before owned it, but cquired Ot As revenge or conguest tan military he future, Whatever may transfer L ly at the close equal bearing on the of Austrtan territory countries carved northern Aus today is & fait accow matter for further debat I ltaltan domamn as m York is part of the Un Ameriea, although it form o the Indians, the Duteh 10 the English How long would America dictation from the League of s to school regulations i New or Mhe Distriet of Columbia, or the fictal language™ of our courts? Today i an Ameriean boy whistle “The Star Spaugled I the streets of Berlin and V 15 subject to arrest, althoush the tune | Was originally & German drinking sons The tight of self-defense or national defense 1 indispatable NN and ¥ dares to' N . What s the burden ot (he compl against Ly ws Lo L treatment Austiians i (RN 1 Mussotin man language. e German churehes supiress the ta o ditiiet and substitute Lalan ¢ rhat works s hardship on e Germans who have ted there (o Al WANY generations. but atier t s the eustom throughout K that whenevet ternitony passes fy s tion of anether power habitants sufter oppression tn foreed 1 wdopt the Tansuage and esp OF el new governent Was 1t not the paliey of Cermany i conquered Alsiee and Lanatie” Wi can read without emotion the story by Alphorse Dandet, “The Last Class Mae theottes strafght fam the ut APy anderstand b No ane Antve o Bt it s ook s i anor oand 0 fnd ot WhAt 1t i that he s adva- | S eating befoge hucing aathemas wsn Wi,