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,_______________——‘____‘:___M‘: EVE NING ST.\R ! foundland have already been brnndvdslhc rule of the assoclation which pro- ? {25 & fake. But the hideous part of the hibits writing for compensation about “joke™ is that there is no definite way | tournaments fn which the writer is ivu{ proving it a joke except to search competing, but certainly such a vacillat- for the fiyers in the location described. ! ing stand as that taken by the tefnis This may not be possible and there will ' body is as hurtful to the game as any always be some uncertainty as to writing that Tilden may have done whether the messages bearing the As a matter of fact, Tilden is the Greater Rockford call letters came {from \ association’s greatest drawing card. It an amateur radio operator in the United | was probably for this reason that he States or whether they really came from | was reinstated for the Davis Cup the plane. No less distressing is the matches. The turnstiles click merrily fact that under existing conditions there | when the ranking player of the United is little chance of locating the offenders. | States is booked for an appearance. | Were they to persist in their faked calls. | To the average man it is difficult to | the chances are that sooner or later they | square this attitude toward Tilden with would be found. But unfortunately the | the silly technicalities about his tennis tricksters are able to take advantage of | writings. the anonymity of the ether and MAY| Tiden may be the “bad boy" of | casily conceal their identity behind the | tennis that the association depicts him { tangle of radio waves. { He may look with scorn at some of the | There are more than twelve thousand | peyty actions and rulings of that body licensed radio stations in the country | pygen however, has been a great factor i today. Searching for one or tWo of- o yhe popularity of tennis throughout EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1928 THE LIBRARY TABLE QUESTIONS ANSWERS TO By the Booklover BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. SR St bl TR An interesting old book, published in 1869, makes Washington seem as aris- tocratic as any Old World capital. “Court Circles of the Republic, or The Beauties and Celebrities of the Nation,” his was written by Mrs. Elizabeth Fries one | Lummis Ellet, author of a number of an_history, tra for- nd domestic economy, WASHINGTON, D. C SBATURDAY .August 25, 1928 BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. time was an instructor of French and Greek at that institution. Q. What proportion crop harvested by harvester and thresher H. E A. It is estimated that two-thir the wheat crop in -the largest w area will be combine cut this vesr. A armer with less than 100 acres uses the as the initial cost of the harve her is approxima 200. The machine does the Work ¢ 20" men. Q. 1s the Liberal Catholic Church an Ruth | American institution? If not, where the headquarters of the body?--D. F. s ‘h from | A. Membership in the Liberal Catho- e e H | lie ‘Church it world-wide. The hea i | quarters of the chur in Australia Q. Where was James Branch Cabell | and the presiding bishop the Right ' educated?—L. T. Nt ete i Rev. C. W. Leadbeater. The Right |ete., ete. Hlustrated with original por- | S Tuak . Editor THEODORE W. NOYES. Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing to our informa- tlon bureau in Washington, D. C. This | offer_applies strictly to information The bureau cannot give advice on legal. medical and financial matters. It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles nor undertake exhaustive research on any subject. Write your question plainly and briefly. Give full name and fddress and inclose 2 cents In coin or Stamps for return postage. The reply is sent direct to the inquirer. Address The Evening Star Information Burefu, | Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washing- ton, D. C. Q. In what year was Babe bought by New York?—A. 8. B If you want to read an unusual book | for Italy and later France, when he get “The Devil”” by Alfred Neumann, | was forced to leave the former country. | just published by Alfred Knopf, New | * ok * York. | The author rather overdoes Tt is put up in an assortment of | (heme that Louls and Oliver wer hectic wrappers, running the rainbow | and indivisible. In an effort to bring | books of Amel from purple to decp red. in any shade | out this fact, Neumann descends to jeign literature a fitting dress for the contents ome talk that might be effective if it [ whose husband was a professor in Co- Whatever you may think of “The were not silly. | jumbia College, New York City. The Devil after vou read it, there can be | yet this mitigates in no way against | lengthy subtitle of Mrs. Ellet's book tells 1 little question that you will find it out | the narrative skill with which he han- much about the contents, but cannot of the ordinary dles the mere story of the uniting of Hconvey the pleasantly gossipy flavor of We bought it because we thought it the evil King and the even more evil |the text. It reads: “Illustrating life !ooked to be an unusually good imita- man he makes his chamberlain and and society under 18 Presidents, de- tion of the historical romances of | confidential adviser seribing the social features of the suc- Alexandre Dumas. dealing as it dc The uncanny thing cessive administrations from Washing- with Louis XI of F' and his barber the evident fact that the author |ton to Grant, the drawing room circles, chamberlain, Oliver Necke omehow foll in love with his devil |the prominent statesmen and leading | 'That was where we were fooled. “The | Gould one, off-hand, find anything to |ladies, the brilliant belles and distin-| Devil” is only superficially like Dumas, | admire about a man who commilted |guished visitors, the principal enter- replacing the tremendous spirit of | ]l the crimes in th alogue, gave his | tainments, fashic of dress romance which eiféelops the works of | wife to another man, then connived in | manners, etlquette the wheat combined s of the machines? 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I8¢ foc of the Associated Press. s The Bladensburg Jail. at the acci- e lives through lars of which news reports and le of horror, i§ many aps that have oc- red since New York was forced, by tremendous growth of its population, in business into a accident, in the mish: residence over a territory of hundreds of square miles, to provide extraordinary means of carrying the people. The transportation problem there is one of magnitude and extreme difficulty. It is mecessary to move sev- ¢ral million people daily over long dis ances and to move them speedily They wre carried in tubes, on elevated struc tures and on surface lines. The subway trains run at high speeds, under close headway. The most elaborate devices for safety are installed. Constant in- spection is maintained over the mecha- pism. Yet, as yesterday, occasionally something goes wrong. In this instance & switch was reported out of order, was repaired, and when a train was sent over it, proved still defective an the derailment There can be no absolute insurance #geinst disaster in the conditions in which the complicated and congested | transport system of the metropolis is operated. The strain on every part of the mechanism is severe. The rush of the people is not to be stemmed at the hours of heaviest' transport. To pause in the operation of the lines to correct defects entails choking blockades in stations and in the streets. The margin of security and of service above the | lawbreaking, if it is subject to inunda- | | tion, if it lacks sanitary provisions, the d caused | The town commissioners of Bladel hfulness of ‘The | of the conditions at the and declare (hat the state- | > that effect will be the only of- | v will accord this The matter having been taken up by the State Board of Health, nu-;’ Bladensburg commissioners will await | the decision of that body. | The Star is confident that iption of the conditions at the Bladensburg Jail is accurate. These | condition were disclosed as a result of the recent flood which occurred !hrll" after a heavy rain. That place of de-| tention is undeniably located at a level at which it is occasicnally inundated. It is a small structure without comforts or conveniences or proper arrangements the care of those confined in it hether it is ever overcrowded depends upon the number of arrests made in the | | town. It is certainly not large enough | to hold decently more than half a dozen | persons at one time. Indeed. it is barely iarge enough for a single occupant with | regard for that unfortunate’s proper | custody. What constitutes an insanitary con- | dition is not related to the number of ! people who may be forced to occupy a { given space, but to the absolute neces- | sities of life. If this place is too small | for the bousing of those charged with | its de- | State Board of Health will doubtless de- termine the facts and order a clearance. The Star’s interest in the matter is not to bring discredit upon the town of Bladensburg, but to secure the correc- tion of a cendition for the cure of which that town itself should be anxious. Mere | denial will not make for a betterment of | the state of affairs. At best, even if The Star’s account of the conditions should, i as claimed, have been in any way ex- | aggerated, its efforts have been ani- | mated by a desire to assist the commu- nity and not to evoke a controversy | prompted by local pride. i ——— the world. He is one of the greatest players who ever trod the courts, and has been untirimg in his efforts to develop younger players. A feature of the whole matter that is hard to understand is that the tennis officials should wait until Tilden was practically at the end of his carcer as a topnotch player before taking drastic action. They failed to take such definite steps when “Big Bill" was | and this able to see that the Davis Cup other tennis honors remained on side of the water: The line between amateurism professionalism is constantly grow more indistinct so that it would s that regardless of Tilden's faults a Tilden's offenses against the code of | the association it would be a wise move on the part of that body to study im- | partially its rule on amateurism so that in the future broad-minded justice br" done not only to Tilden, but to | others who compete under the S and Stripes, and m | P, Atr mail service is less expensive and aviators will be more in demand long-distance letter carriers, The Post Office Department may be found a valu- | able training school, in case of emer- gency, for the War Department. - - Washington greets Herbert with the enthusiasm that homeceming of a man whose service. long and distinguished, commands pride in a fellow townsman. - ——— An enthusiastic inauguration is ex- pected regardless of possibilities of a March blizzard. The snow plow has often accompanied the band wagon with distinguished success. - There will be “fireworks in the eve- ning” of the fourth of next March. To recall the language of the Mikado, the question to be decided is who will not be there ‘to see them. Since polar exploration was first un- dertaken there has been a wish that the relief expedition might be landed in advance of the exploring party. [ Differences of opinion continue to assert themselves as to whether condi- tions in Nicaragua ought to be regar ed as a fight or a quarrel. o Hoover their methods as to make the technique of the bootlegger appear painstaking and laborious. nts to bring back the “cor- ner saloon.” The moonshine establish- bafits the | Thieves are becoming so direct in| that master with a cold, harsh reality which leaves the reader gasping Nor is this difference the only one For ghe rapid-fire dialogue which Duma uset s no other man ever did the Ge man author of this historical novel a new manner utilize “line” of co versation as strange the characte themselves. It is a frank book No matter what one may have before, this story is just a little more so, if you get what we mean. When the King demands his chamberlain | wife complications are bound to ari | that are not strictly in keeping with the great Anglo-Saxon traditions of novel writing, nor with, indeed. the moral traditions of English-speaking peoples. The situations | mam t pense 1ans | novelist {of the worst in that arise from thi: the reade rom not only in the best of a certain sort of but also with the crude speed German story-teller at his and best “The Devil” gives you a little bit of | | Dumas, a bit of “Wuthering Heigh some dash of “Faust” and more t | a suspicion of Emil Ludwig's | poleon If the Ilatter would write a novel would be just such a book as Neu- | mann’s latest effort. the first of his works to be translated for the Ameri- | can public One scarcely knows whether to wish for more or not Like all different things, “The Devil” takes time to di- | gest. Surely it will take™the smallest | possible time for any reader to | through it Except for a portion of typical old- [ time French political intrigue (of the sort which Dumas made more interest- ing because he made his characters | talk ity “The Devil” is a story that { moves right along | ‘Ghent was not a virtuous town’™ |1t begins, and that succinct, journalistic successful we believe that it |to end. The opens with Necker, | the barber, stully engineering a | plot against one of the reigning dukes, {and then reverts to his childhood The second chapter, headed “The | Neckers” (the first chapter is the only {one without a title, and thus sets a precedent—all the chapters but one | having titles) makes the reader think | | of nothing so much as the picture of | the Jew of Malta in the Elizabethan play, who crept around at night poison- | ing_wells and doing similar tricks Oliver Necker, as a lad, must been a dandy. His favorite sports were | putting worms in the meal, and spring- ling out from behind doors at people | With the craft of his namesake, he | “got something” on all his homefolks, caused his father to commit suicide | (the whole family might have done so { with benefit to the world), then left BY PAUL ¥ Buigaria is celebrating her semi-cen- | tennial birthday as an independent na- tion. The celebration extends from | August 24 to 28, and is centered in French | biographer | wo| entence sets the pace from beginning | polsoning? nn not only loves him, inly senses, but bullds up s0 that this evil fellow actu- ermed in_ the arton act” in he works out o well t cader 15 half- to agree with hing, until he throws off the sinister spell which the story woven over him One ay hesit to believe that a real human devil-—and Necker was all of one—would sacrifice himself on the altar of hi duty to the dynasty We may swallow the devil doing evil, but the devil doing good fs a bit too much, Yet it cannot be gainsaid that the last scene which ends this fitful tragedy n keeping. It may strike some readers as convincing. Bul we had to laugh at one sentence, “The hangman was a kindly man.” story his story minded suddenly the ostentatious the main char- tory has ever de While the devil is hero, Death fs really acter, Perhaps no picted the fear of death with more tensity. The King, in his evil lat days, fears the coming of death hat he retires to a fortress, urrounded by walls, guards and attempts to forestall the dread s0 al. The King, his devil, and all France seem forgotten in this mighty struggle which is a picture of a universal strug- gle, softened to most of other factors. It is not n { the King. Death strikes him hard with lysis, blow by blow knocking him nd down last vhat one must belleve to be a gorgeous | picture, a wonderful literary presenta- | tion, of just what the last days of such | a man, in such an age, must have been. This is the achievement of reality, a quality which foreign authors somehow secure ecasier and with less fuss than English _ writers. Contrast Dicke death of Little Nell. We recommend this book to the ro- | bust reader. It is full of the unex- pected. It is not like any book the average reader has read. The phrase- ology is different. the psychology is | different, scenes different. It is | ot a “nice” book at all, and we would reiterate that it is for the robust reader. Such a one will find it absorbing as a narrative, and unusual as history | made into 'a_novel. _Personally we ! much prefer Dumas. His stories will | live when this is forgotten. But “The must have been like away back there, and it is good to read it—even if shocked—in order to be able to con- trast the sanity, cleanliness and safety of modern life with their lack in those | days, and to come away more apprecin- | tive of electric lights, radios and bath- | rooms, and of the spiritual decencies ! which these clean things symbolize. BACKGROUND OF EVE ’. COLLIN Turkey was defeated, and Greater Bulgarla was recreated by the famous treaty of St. Stefano, giving it almost complete territory of the old-time Bul- V|liam Cobbeti and Alexander Baring, | days of the King present | | Devit” does give a picture of what life | have I traits, splendidly engraved on steel.” | The size of the goodly volume and the | minuteness of defail in the descriptions | indicate a great amount of study on the | | part of Mrs. Ellet, but all that we know | |of her life shows that her chief delight was in study * W The relative importance of the social | circles of New York and Philadelphia, | Mrs. Washinglon's disinclination to balls, the furnishings of the President’s house. _etiquette at presidential levee: the official houses at which the bes dinners were given, distinguished |itors from abroad af the new Capital of | the new Nation, and descriptions of the | leading beauties of the time are some of | > topics in the first chapter of “Court | cles of the Republic.” that on Wash- | on's administration. That the Al life of the new country was not a| and-tumble affair is shown & tement: “Mrs. Washinglon wa 10 exact proper courtesies in her drawing room. None was admitted to the levees but those entitled by official | stablished merit or suitable introductions, and full dress was re-| {quired of all” Some of the foreign| | natables coming to Philadelphia during | {the administration were the Duke de | Lauzun, the Marquis de Chastellux, | Chateanbriand, Count Andriani = of | | Milan, the Viscount de Noailles, brother- {in-law of Lafayette; _ Taileyrand Thomas Cooper, Joseph Priestly, Wil- | afterward Lord Ashburton. During the | Adams administration the Capital was | removed to Washington, and _Gouver- neur Morris wrote of it: “We want| | nothing here but houses, cellars, Kitch- |ens, well informed men, amiable women and other little trifles of the kind to make our city perfect: for we can walk | | here as if in the fields and woods, and. | considering the hard frost, the air of | |the city is very pure.” Something of | | formality was allowed to lapse in the | | Jefferson administration. “A foreign | | functionary who had a high idea of his | | own importance and was a great stick- |ler for etiquette, which Mr. Jefferson idetcstcd, went one morning to pay him |a visit of ceremony He found the | philosopher deliberately drawing on his boot and prepared with a shoebrush to give it a polishing touch with his own {hands. * * * The Ambassador re. | tired, entirely satisfied in his own mind | that no government could long exist | the head of which was his own shoe- | black and unaer which so little atten- | tion was paid to etiquette * Kk x Each succeeding administration is | characterized socially, and anecdotes of | the important personages, some of them {2 trifie time-worn, it is true, are freely told by Mrs. Ellet. Mrs. Madison's gay | costume, her unusual ‘memory for peo- | ple and names, her kindness to bashful persons and her conversational powers are described and illustrated. In the ministration of John Quincy Adams, “the Library of Congress, though far from being completed, was a delicious morning lounge, and frequented by all the fashionables of both sexes.” Though Jackson came to the presidency as a warrior, not a man of drawing rooms, “the social brilliancy of Gen. Jacksen's administration was generally acknowl- edged and will long be remembered. In no city in the Union could there be found a more polished and refined so- clety than in Washington this period. 1 | | A. James William and Mary College and for a lbishop for the Americas 8 mith’s Dry-Law Proposals Meet With Critical Analysis a comprehensive es: e pride of in- it is a sincere of a mind and fallacy as| of attempting to set sails to catch all dry-law | ment. emphasis _on Bt ut- | pride of citizenship and changes, which was confirmed. was o ride of n ) Ctanding in the acceptance speech of | dividuality. Best of all Sanding % £ Smith, Democratic can- | document, the product Gote for President, meets with the | heart which reject the | stead act, in | “is sound, and offers some hope of re- critical analysis of the country. as| shown by the comment which follows | the ceremony at Albany. All shades of opinion appear, while discussion of the personality of the candidate is linked | with this issue and the other policies | presented. | “On the liquor question he stated his attitude and his program clearly and ‘courageously,” says the Detroit News| (independenty, “and his plan is in clear | accord with our principles of govern-| ment.” The News also feels that “his| speech confirms the impression that| Democratic leadership is in skillful hands.” The Roanoke Times (indepen- dent Democratic) declares: “We accept without reservation Gov. Smith’s pledze for an honest effort to enforce the law P as it is. His suggestions for changes in the law may well be referred to Con-| gress and the people for their careful consideration. Unless a better way can be found, it may yet prove to be the path this nation will find it necessary to tread.” “He makes a signal contribution to the crusade against Federal prohibition in submitting a definite program of ac- tion,” according to the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin_(independent Republi- can), and while disagreeing with him cn that issue, the Little Rock Arkansas Ga- | zette (Democratic), nevertheless an-| nounces that it “will continue to sup- port Gov. Smith for President,” as “its disagreement with him is over 3 purely | academic point,” and it “trusts the | governor to keep his pledge to enforce the dry laws, because his record proves| him an honest and dutiful man.” PR | His proposal for liberalizing the Vol-| orin the opinion of the Balti- more Sun (independent Democratic), from chaotic conditions, even h it offers no sure cure for exist- ing evils.” As to a change in the eight- | eenth amendment, the Sun adds: “It| is to be said that constitutional lawyers | may reserve judgment until the general | idea has been reduced to definite form, but few will say that it lacks the mm’k‘ of sincerity as an attempt to compose | fairly the differences between urban | centers and rural communities.” “We cannot follow Gov. Smith in h: crusade for the enlargement of a legal- | ized liquor traffic,” asserts the Okla-| homa City Oklahoman (independent). “but we can commend the vigor, the clarity and the manifest courage with which he accepts the issues and pre- sents his views to the American people.” “He proposes the deadliest blow to the private sale of liquor ever proposed by an American statesman,” contends the Montgomery Advertiser (Demo- cratic), with the further statement that lief thougl cratic) ¢ the chance winds that blow Hartford Times (indepe Tts author kno , and, quite import News (Democ reveals luminously the personality of strong man, it reflects vividly his politi- cal temperament plainly _exhibit the comprehensive grasp he holds ug governmental issues. Chicago Daily News (independent) “With the exception of certain impor- tant paragraphs. notal se on for- eign affairs, the address forceful, candid. lucid and adroit. When con- trasted with Mz, Hoover's views on pro- hibition—which need amplification —his rogram raises an important issue be- tween rival candidate: ‘Tulsa World (Republican) — “Most candid and frank speech ever made by any candidate for the presidency of the United States, and to that end is glad- some relief from the flubdubbery, eva- sion and claptrap indulged in by men in high places. * * * As counter- distinguished from Mr. Hoover, he pro- poses putting more business in govern- ment instead of more government in business.” Toledo Blade (independent Republi- can)—"He lives up to his reputation for clear, forceful and straightforward utterance. His statements on the mat- ters of prohibition, the tariff, water power control, agriculture and foreign policy call for careful consideration on the part of the voters. * K K K Richmond Times-Dispatch (Demo- cratic)—“His speech gives the captains of Democracy as fine and constructive a program as they have ever received from a nominee.” Atlanta Constitution (Democratic)— “For his day and demand, he is as clear and courageous as were his archtypes, Jefferson, Jackson, Cleveland and Wil- son.” Birmingham Age-Herald (Demo- eratic)—“Smith has a right to ask for modification, but Congress makes the laws. How much more satisfactory is this simple, forthright position than the shillyshallying of his opponent Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Union (Demoeratic)—“He shows a mastery of national questions and affairs.” Indianapolis Star (independent Re- publican) —*Ma! who may not agree with him will give him credit for cour- age and honest convictions.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (indepen- dent)—"We hive here a brilliant and compact analysis of public questions. fortified with an amazing volume of exact information.” New York Times (independent)— “This presidential campaign is to be & contest between personalities. Thus Sofia, the capital, and at Preslav and | garia, covering the Balkan Peninsula. Shipka. Doubtless minor local celebra- | But the powers of Europe refused to tions are scattered over the rest of the | permit so great a Bulgaria to be recog- country. nized, and so there was formed a con- | “his scheme is & deadlier thrust at the | eI Yitude rAfM thary the Anti=| 0 1t TURY De admitkied, (Wil (1S high i | merits of Mr. Hoover fully conceded, Saloon League or the W. C. T. U. has | Goy “smith has the better of it in Foreigners of high rank, citizens of | wealth, men of the most distinguished intellect and learning, with ladies the ment that hides in the middle of the block is now the object of inquiry. - S e gequirements of the populace is slender. | The Passing of “Bossy.” Whst can be done to remedy this| .pocy” Gillis, the hardest boiled eondition, to increase the mATEIN Of | macor in political captivity, finds him- security? More subways, perhaps. But | self in difficulties. “Bossy” used to run more subways cost immense sums Of|, gaoline station in Newburyport, money and require long periods for COR- | \pace pefore he became mayor of thet struction. By the time they are finished | ;oo " Noy he is mayor and runs sev- and put into use the population has .. giqifons, having issued the permits grovn to the point of overtaking the ., "ypeei o conduct the business additional facilities. The task of the . iy s the difficulty. The district Solution of this problem is one of the | (R K Y ded down a decision e vhich is likely to cause the cocksure : young mayor a bit of thought. He was A Remarkable Invention. ‘senunced to pay fines totaling nearly ith the submarine disasters of the | ¢yeive hundred dollars and to servc §-51 and the S-4 of the American Navy | yyre0 hundred and thirty days in jail and the F-14 of the Italian sea force| o jjjega)ly selling gasoline, illegally fresh in the public mind, the tests €on- | yeening gasoline and finally 6r chang- SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Cheating. Sald Cactus Joe, “I've pondered with some conscientious care As to morals that we mortals ought to show; And T've just about concluded that my neighbors everywhere Should freely choose the ways they ought to go. The hymn book each man chooses and the things he likes to read ducted yesterday off Dahigren, Vi of & lf ving lung for victims of acci- Cannot arise his Future Hopes to| ling the grade of a street for his new wreck. service station Yet it cannot be truly said that 50 years is the span of Bulgarian exist- ence, for the history of the nation runs back to the Slavonic immigration, de- stroying the Thracian inhabitants, in the fourth century. The fact i3 only that it s 50 years since Bulgaria, escap- ing from 500 vears of Turkish domina- | tion, awoke from a half-millennium of national aphasia and began to acquirve seif-consciousness of her own forgotten racial unity and identity, but it is only 20 years since she became actually in- dependent. AR | We of the Western world may hold prejudice against our former enemi in the World War, but a broader knowl- edge of what influences, and especially what hereditary atmosphere, determined and almost forced her alliance with the | central powers, as her only apparent dents 1o underwater craft, assume Sur- | «peogey” first reached public print passing importance. Although stll i | yproueh the medium of a gasoline sta- the early stages of its development, the | ;o Jocaion dispute, and it may b spparatus, an invention of Navy TeD inae he will disappear by the samc | that looks like & gas mask, brought MeN | youre Massachusetts’ political freak, it | safely 10 the surface from & depth of | geems, punched the then mayor in the violate 'most | means of national defense, puts a dif- ferent light upon her course | The Slavs drove out the Thractans in the fourth and fifth centuries, and two | centuries later were themselves over- { turned by an invasion of Finns, coming from the Russlan Volga Valley, where |stll exist the ruins of their ancient The practice that will every human creed Is Dealin’ From the Bottom of the Deck. “Each Book of Inspiration and ecach one hundred and ten feet. A total of one hundred and four men were lost in the three most recent submarine tragedies. The 5-51 went down in one nd iwenty-five feet of water one hundred feet and F-14 ndred and thirty feet. Yet invention still in crude form brought men up from one and ten feet nout the iscomfort. 1g.” in its perfected shape, is about two pounds able of saving the entire e even should the ttle on the bottom at ndred feet Its in- C. B. Mounsen, L. Tibbals and Navy Hobson, are hopeful part of the equipment of slies the waters tn here is an tha hundred one i ha wi expected 0 + that with its adoption | will be e o s0n e From 1. there 0 icksters. g that amo 1 the malicious com the s shows itself from tim a depraved humorist turns surprising O & calls have not b more feverish r pler ctical Joker san complex 7 ¢ the rators | Tennis As tew | tor play near the end of the challenge on a a | ineligible to compete in matches under " jaw or some such thing when the mayor efused to grant him a permit, and Gillis proceeded to take the office away | from him. That is evidently the high | | point in “Bossy’s” career. Now, how- | ever, the worm seems to be slowly | turning and the slgns on the wall in- dicate that “Bossy” has had his fling and is about due to return to the cb- scurity whence he came. | Of course there is no assurance that | he will serve the penitentiary sentenc but if he has prostituted his public of- | fice to the extent that the court de- cistons would seem to indicate, some punishment should certainly be meted {out to him. The spectacle of one man being able to make a laughing stock out of an American community s not | | to be tolerated. “Bossy’s” passing will | | The Principle's Proverb that I scan, On_second thought, comes simply down to this ‘The greatest your fellow man Of Lite or Property or Honest Bliss And whether with a pack of cards or in some heavier play Another’s chance you wreck, undertake to the The Big Iniquity, I'll say Is Dealin’ From the Deck.” same. Bottom of the Reminiscence of a Wet. “Are you fond of soclety?” “Very,” answered Senator Sorghum “An afternoon tea with chicken salad 18 the nearest thing 1 know of to the good old free lunch of days gone by. 26 | likely occasion Newburyport no regret or any other part of the country G| t matter .- An intrepid fiyer, Lindbergh still ms gratetul admiration for the fact always know where to find that you him .- The Vacillating Tennis Body. BUI Tilden, who was barred s the Davis Cup team during the ches for a violation of ical and highly complicated of the American Law selation only to be reinstated the round, yesterday was found guilty by the go! indetinite 18 now of ore, w penalty ‘Tiiden, the {and n stspension jurisdiction of the association It the tennis body had searched far 4 wide for means to make itself th Cheerlessness. We're waitin' for September while August makes us fret But that month, we remember, Sometimes proves hotter yet! | | Jud Tunkins says the sense of women !\n politics 15 shown by the fact that | none of them want a beauty contest to decide on the handsomest candidute. Night and Morning you involved In a club “Were night rald?” “Not strietly speaking, The distur ance ok place In the early morning.” “He who thinks only of mon | Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “must be ning body of the court BAME | vonared for times when money may | Bulgarian newspaper was founded forget its best friends Not Recognizable by Sound. The candidates will oft agree In rhetoric so rich A photograph 1 have to see of offenses is to cheat | - | awakening from w ventury earlier capital, Bolgary, destroyed by Tamer- | lane in the fourteenth century. These Finnish invaders called them- | selves “Bulgarfans,” from the name of their capial. ‘They succeeded |in conquering their predecessors, the | Slavs: but, gradually adopting the cus- | toms of the Slavs, were absorbed by and became in fact a part of the great Slav powers. In 864 their prince, Boris, became Moslem and subject to the Moslem patriarchate of Constantinople. Two { centuries later the Bulgarians domi- | nated the entire Balkan Peninsula from Macedonia to Albania. In the ninth century their prince, Simeon, called himself the Tsar of all the Bulgarians and the Greeks, and the Bulgarian | bishopric was created, but subordinate {to the patriarch of Constantinople while the Serbs and antines paid | tribute to the Bulg At the end of the tenth century cast ern Bulgaria became @ province of the | Byzantine Empire, but western Bul- ! garia _remalned independent, and a third Bulgarian kingdom was set up in 1186, This kingdom flourished until {the Turks defealed both Servia and her allles, the Bulgarians, in the battle of Kosov In 1389, and four years later | selzed the Bulgarlan capitai, Tirmova {1t was not until 1872 that the Bul- | gartans threw off the supremacy of the { Greck patriarch, though they stll were { subjects of Turkey w ¥ More than five with Bulgaria a Empire in Europe. While the country today |ing her fiftieth anniversary | with justification count hex | » ok centuries part of the lowed, ‘Turkish | is eelebrat it might racial re n 1762 u monk, Paysios, wrote . history of the Bulgarins and reminded them * sadd [of their racial unity, apart from the | Hulgarian 16844 o The wis becoming aroused {but 1t did not manifest itself n revolt | against. Turkey untl 1875 and 18 when two or three revolts were severely suppressed by Turkish arms, alded by [ Moslem Bulgarians under Mohammedan | influen 1835 the first Turks. 1o estublished, und in school wa natlonal spirit led to terrible at gress of powers at Berlin, and a n w treaty was agreed to, greatly reducing Bulgaria. ‘That was before the days of Wilsonian doctrine of letting the peoples decide their own jurisdictions according to rac lin treaty, July 13, 1878, Bulgaria be- came an autonomous state, though still tributary to Turkey. | It is that treaty which the nation is |today * celebrating. By that | treaty Rumelit was carved out of Bul- g Bulgaria became self-governing {under its own prince, elected by | people, subjec’ to_confirmation by the Turkish Porte and the combined pow- ers of Europe « sham “independence™ garia, under the terms of the Berlin treaty, was demonstrated by the Rus- sian Czar in 1887, when he forced the first uler,” Alexander of to abdicate. Alexander I od by Ferdinand of Coburg, ‘This Bulgarian who Prime Minister ‘While historic Ferdinand cho: that his outlines declare | ambulofl as story, rat more romantic, to the effect that Stambuloff, then president of the Bulgarian Congress, seeing that Alexander 1 was about to lose the throne through interference of Russia, visited Vienna in his search for a prince to succeed Alexander. There, while at- tending an opera, he saw a handsome dark-haired young cavalry officer, and, | upon inquiring his identity, learned | that he was Prince Ferdinand of Saxe- Coburg. ~Stambuloff sought an ence with the prince, and a few later offered him the throne garia, with himself as Prime and dictator Stambulof’s rule aroused opposition, death in 1895 by * In 1908, on October 5, King F nand proclaimed Bulgaria independent nd Ferdinand assumed the The wonder s that 1908 15 not taken now as the national birth- day of independence in place of 1878, when only partial independence was crented under the Berlin treaty; for Turkey acknowledged the 1908 decln- ration of independence and recognized Bulgaria as a frec and independent na- ton thereafter Then Bulgaria will be only 20 years old next October b. TConvetht, 1928 by Paul V. Calling.) S | days | | Minister was harsh, and resulting in hi; Muacedonian assassins * * | 5, | Tmproved H ghways Seen as U Prom the Philadéiphin Evening Buletin When he clast 5 the improved high- | ways of the United States us a great public utility, with a revenue of more than §1,000,000,000 i ndirect taxation, Chiet MacDonald of the United ates fureau of Publiec Roads, puts the high way situation in the new lght which it l;l sumes by virtue of the motorization ;of the Nation | This year gasoline taxe | $260,000,000 and may go $2175,000,000, while vehicle | lieenses will roll up more than $300,- 000,000 This amount Is virtually all avallable for motor vehicle regulation highway rol, and highway construe- ton and malntenance Most of It may high nd drivers’ Under the new Ber-| Berlin | the | of Bul-| the famous Stambulofl as | Prime Minister, there is quite another | audi- | of Bul-| erdi- | tilities | | most lovely and refined, were assem- bled there during the congressional terms. A full description is given of the wedding during Van Buren's ad- | ministration of the Russian Minister, M. de Bodisco, and Miss Willlams of { Washington. During Tyler's adminis- tration Charles Dicltens was enter- | tained at the White House, and Mrs. Tyler wrote: “He is not at all romantic looking, rather thick set; his face, of course, most intelligent and bright— but his dress does not suit me; he wears too much jewelry, and is thoroughly English in his appearance, and not the best English.” In Taylor's administra- tion, “when the President’s house was again thrown open to the public, late in November, it was found that the east room was newly carpeted and re- “decorated and illumined by gas jets from splendid chandeliers. Before 10 the delegation @f six Osage Indians, who had been several weeks in Wash- ington, came in to bid farewell to their Great Father” With the administra- tions of Buchanan and Lincoln, Mrs. | Ellet came within her own recollection. The deseriptions of some of the cos- tumes worn at Lincoln’s inaugural ball read in some ways like the social col- | umns of today. “Mrs. Yates wore white | silk with cherry-colored double skirt. - * Mrs. Hoover, one of the most ¥ adorning Washington soclety, wa; ed with perfect taste | {in violet-colored brocade silk with heavy flounces, a wreath on her head. < %7+ Miss Alice Green was greatly admired in her dress of blue tarletan flounced to the waist, with a bertha of | Honitonn lace. * * * Miss Fanny Parker, white tarletan with gold trim- mings. * * * Mrs. Samuel A. Way of Boston, an attractive and interesting | lady, was attired in a rich black velvet, with diamonds to the value of at least $8,000. * * Mrs, Fenton had on | rich brown silk with velvet arabesque: her majestic mien showed her a woman jof intellect and cultivation.™ A K K K Brook Evans, the girl in Susan Glaspell’s novel of the same name, is named from & brook which ripples through an Illinois farm, the home of | her mother’s parents. Her mother, be- fore her birth, comes into conflict with the hardness of conventional morality of the eighties and the equal hardness | of human selfishness, When Brook is Iborn she is from the beginning her | mother's ally against the “duty” ideal of their environment. At first the alli- ance exists only in the mind of her mother, Haomi; then for a time Brook forsakes the alllance in a mistaken sense of -duty toward her supposed father; finally, long after her mother's | death, when she is herself past 30, {she deserts duty for the sake of life as her nature demands it, The workman- ship of (his novel {s as fine as that of | Miss Glaspell’s other novels and of her | blography of her husband, Georg Cram Cook, “The Road to the Temple.” Ok K ok supplement to the older American literature 15 a Canvass of American | | Literature Since 1900, by Gorham B Munson. The writers fncluded in the survey are divided into three classes the elder generation, the middle genera- tion, and the younger generatios The first’ is represented by Paul Elmer More and Irving Babbitt; the second by Theodore Drelser, Sherwood Anderson, Pugene O'Neill, Carl Sandburg, Edgar agreeable A valuable tovies of “Destinations ever made.” The Omaha World-Herald (independent) makes the general com- ment: “One may agree with Alfred E. Smith in whole, or in little, or in noth- ing, but there stands a man—a man unflinchingly bold and candid. No pussyfooter he, no timid time-server. He does not hesitate to say what he believes or fear to fight for it. He is not out to win an election by offending none and currying favor with all. He is out to champlon his convictions and to stand or fall with them.” “Where Mr. Hoover contented himself with generalizations,” it is pointed out | by the New Orleans Times-Picayune | (independent Democratic), “Gov. Smith | has dared discuss the questions labeled “delicate’ or ‘dangerous’ frankly and in definite detail The Syracuse Herald (independent) holds that the speech | government ‘putting over' to the people an impres- sion of his own nature, at once vigor- ous and sympathetic.” New York World (independent)— “Though he is the nominee of a party in which there are a thousand eross- currents of opinion, he has the gift of leadership and that confidence which comes from experience with popular and which enabled him amid the chaos of opinion w party to declare concrete opinions ci his own.” * ok x ¥ Severely critical is the Worces Telegram (independent) in its sta ment: “A speech with a touch of the theatrical at each end and liquor in the middle; a picture of Thomas Jeffer- son as_the advance scout of modern is ‘urban liberalism' floating in the po scarcely of the quality to win reco tion as a great state paper, but bec “was as free from equivocation and evasion as any pronouncement of a presidential candidate of a great party in the history of our times.” R Doubts as to feasibility, however, come | from the Kansas City Journal-Post (in- dependent Republican) : ‘Since 13 States can spoil Mr. Smith's proposed prohibition change, practical-minded wets are offered little consolation, while he does nothing to mollify the dr That paper adds that “the Republicans will gladly meet Mr. Smith’s challenge as to the Underwood tariff, Latin Ame! fean relations and economy in goverr ment. The Denver Post (indepen- dent) affirms that “36 States are not xulnfl to reverse themselves in the eigh! eenth amendment,” that “the country is dry and it's going to remain so.” Inconsistency in the effort to make prohibition a party issue is charged by the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel (Repub- lican), which explains: “He acknowl- edges that prohibition cuts squarely across both parties, since there are ‘wet' | and ‘dry’ Democrats and ‘wet’ and| “dry’ Republicans.” That paper adds that “as for farm relief, he offers noth- ing definite. The Winston-Salem Journal (independent) believes that “North Carolina Democrgcy, through its leaders, should promptly repudiate Smith's anti-prohibition pregram.” The | Raleigh News and Observer (Demo- cratic) suggests that the governor'’s pro- posed amendment “is as impossible of achievement as would be an amend- ment to restore slavery”: that “it is/ astonishing that so practical an execu- | tive would suggest an tmpossible solu-| tlon.” The Kansas City Star (indepen- dent) holds that the change would “make enforcement virtually impossible in dry territory and would not touch the problem of the bootlegger.” ‘The conclusion drawn by the Buffalo Ewning News -(Republican) is that! while he “proclaimed in 1920 that he could not be a wet in wet territory and a dry In dry territory.” he s now “oftering & program which is a palpable attempt to make him exactly that.” * K A The governor's speech is “interesting most of alll” to the Atanta Journal (Demoacratic), “as a revelation of him- self, of his free and open nature, his candor and courage, his instinetive friendliness to the people, his profound faith in Democracy. Like ‘Old Hickory* and Abraham Lincoln,” continues the Journal, “he forged his way upward from the common ranks, but. uniike many self-made men, he exhibits no vain glory when fame smiles and bec ons. Rather his thoughts are of the i ¢ ¢ question that Gov dependent Republican sug which he dedicates hin Republicany declaration will do to party South compromise cumstances and co confronted » of its intentional emphasis upon prohibition issue it does afford a vivid portrait of the Democratic can for the presidency of the United S “For years," says the Albany Eve News (independent Republican), while conceding full presentation of the views on prohibition, “the annual me: of Gov. Smith have been clear understanding _ expositions of St business. In this a however, is on new ground ot He is int prove Gov but it doe: man with well fixed national ideas lack of “punch” is seen by the Observer-Dispatch (independent), which misses “those qualities of ringing lead- ership which Mr. Smith has exhibited 0 many occasions as governor.” t is & good speech.” states the New- ark Evening News (independent). “It keeps the campaiga on e high level If it had come ahead of Mr. Hoov it would have had a big effect. Both skippers are sailing on tr me tar They treat the same subjects, offerd similar remedte They stress the same points. As a lful navigator, it was up to Mr. Smith to blanket Mr. Hoover by salling between him and the wind He has falled to do it. He leaves M Hoover with the advantage of position.” “In that part of his speech rela to prohibition,” sfates the Cincinnati Tymes-Star (Republican), “Gov. Smith seemed most direct But was he® His utterances on prohibition are. in effect a mere appeal for votes. They repre- sent his views, but they do not cor tute a program ° The Erie Dispatch- Herald ~(Republican) remarks: “The Smith failed utter! to answer was ‘Why should the count be turned over to the Democrats to for four years> " ‘The Des Motues Tribune-Capital tic abs h neral terms in If to law en- Smith farm, i more emph but in the same forcement. The Cleveland News concludes independent What this Democratie vole in the November Times Re- nat_alto- et and of efr- ns as ever has for the high the its November elsewhere only can tell.” The Los Angeles blican) sees “an able, ther successful, effort as and and candi office he seeks. ' “Seldom is theve offered a document To tell just which is which | T ithreaks Lee Masters, Amy Lowell e Masters, Amy Lowell and H. L.|guty to be done, the cause to be served.” [ of such high political cleverngss as the not been started on calls emanating | mo , er at con 1 and know anded Rock S0 where 08 lbe norlein cosst plan [} n Jic.culous, it could have hit upon w no effective way. ‘Tilden, captain of the Duvis team, was suspended from team in France Then, due to public part of the 5 refnstat “A man dat allus has his own way,” | sald Uncle Eben, “Is purty sure to git & few things dat he didn’t want.” P Vacationists Also Now From the Lansing &late or the same alleged offense Mast vacationighs are strapped belore Tiden msy have techulcally violated ~4helr runks are, she | pressure, espeetally on the LiA seriean Ambsssador, he w Journal he been sucpended again tacks on Chrlstians, which destroyed many villages and resulted n the mas sacre of 12,000 Christian Bulgarians These atrocities aroused Wurope and gave a pretense to Russle for declaring war against Turkey, for Rusin had long professed gunrdinnship over all ChilsUans of the Bulk hile keep Vg her eyes upon the posdbility of noquiring the coveted ‘Turkish ity of Conatantinople. | falrly be taken for actual building and | upkeep of ronds. Other taxes indirectly due to motors are on corporations, i comes of motor and ol compunies, and property, wheelage and other local levies | varying ‘throughout the country, Ce | tainty, In the sense that Chiel MacDon |l indicates, they are all directly due [t the existence of highways, without | which the motorization of the Nation could not go on. , Mencken; the third by Glenway Wes- | cott, Ernest Hemingway, Kenneth Burke, Allen Tate and Foster Damon — o Tunney in Select Class, From the Syracuse Herald. “Tutiney 15 the only man of our ac- quaintance who can really prove that he is too proud to fight - Similar praise for the character re- vealed In his utterances is given by NUMErous newspapers New Orleans Item (Democratic) “His outstanding skill as one of the greatest administrators of public affairs in our time appears all through it Fort Worth Star-Telegram (indepen- dent Democratic)—“An intensely human document, & goroughly American docu- New Yorker has produced, so shrewd in appeal, so adroit in defense,” avers the San Francisco Chronicle (ndependent) “But in its two chief bids for votes (prohibition and farm relied) it falls In the one fustance it has nothing rentirable to offer to the tollowers whase hopes have made him a candidate; in the other the governor has 1sft too litde on which to build.” -