Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1928, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR ornig Bt WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY....September 18, 1028 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newsnaper Company Business Office: 11th St and Pennsyivamia Ate New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Bullding. European Office. 14 Regent St.. London. Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evenine Star .- -45¢ per month The Eiening and Sunday Star (whe! ays) 60c per month e n 4 Sund. 4 Sun 65c per month per copy | telephone inday Star ) ction made 4y be sent in by mail or 5000 C: Orse Main R Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Varyland and Virginia. ! {3 e 1 me: de v onlv ... i 1 mo.. 5 Sinday only $4.00; 1 mo.. 40c All Other States Daily and Sunday..l yr.. Beily only .. unday only . Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is elclllll\'rly entitled to the use for republication of all news cis- atches credited to it or not otherwise cred- FRi™ia fhis paper and aiso the local news publiched herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved H 50¢ Hoover Pleads Prosperity. Making the text of his first real cam- paign speech national prosperity, Mr. Hoover last night at Newark sounded what is unmistakably the keynote of the Republican bid for the support of the country. He made no refercnces to the prohibition issue, though speak- ing in an arca supposedly inclined tol favor Gov. Smith on the score of the latter’s advocacy of a modification of the eighteenth amendment and the en- forcement act. Mr. Hoover went straight to the matter of the economic wel- fare of the people of the whole coun- try. His first sentence was calculated to elicit sympathetic attention. ‘“Real wages and standards of living of our labor,” he said, “have improved more during the past seven and.a half years of Republican rule than during any similar period in the history of this or of any other country.” Again he said, “The first of our policies which have given security and expansion of em- ployment has been the enactment of the protective tariff,” which he calls “the fundamental policy of the Repub- lican party ever since the party was founded.” Mr. Hoover, furthermore, spoke strongly against any lessening of the restrictions imposed upon immi- gration for the protection of the Ameri- ean workingman. ‘This virtually initial speech of his campaign indicates plainly that the Re- publican candidate proposes to drive persistently upon the point of pros- perity without digressing into other fields. On the subject of prohibition he has spoken with sufficient plainness already and the Republican platform itself is adequate expression of the party’s position. If votes are to be won in the East where the wet sentiment is strongest and where Gov. Smith ex- pects heavy support from hitherto Re- publican sources they must be won, not by prohibition arguments, but by a showing of the economic advantages offered by the Republican program. That at least would seem to be the reasoning inspiring the Newark ad- dress, which may be viewed as typical of the Hoover campaign. Last night's speech was not an outburst of political pyrotechnics. It was not rousing, stirring display of oratory. Mr. Hoover is not gifted in that line. He spoke 2s he feels, as he thinks and as he usually speaks in public. He essayed no role that is strange to his disposi- tion or foreign to his line of thought. It is indicated by signs already given that Gov. Smith will conduct a dif- ferent kind of campaign. This is nat- ural. He is the nominee of the party that is out of power and must assume the aggressive. He must make con- verts. He must swing previously Re- publican sections to his support in order to win. His speech at Omaha tonight will give, perhaps, the key to his course of action and with these two speeches coming so close together it will be pos- sible to consider them in comparison as to both matter and manner, though no judgment can be formed immedi- ately regarding the effect they will have, Mr. Hoover's upon the State that has been classed as doubtful though previ- ously Republican, and Gov. Smith’s : special significance to the United States. 0 withheld at Washington—with other on trying to copy him. commodities, which the Soviet system has proved lamentably incapable of producing. The proletarian masters at Moscow have been forced to realize sullenly that, dependent wholly upon Russian resources, industrial rehabilita- tion and expansion could not be ef- fected. It has apparently been determined, therefore, to face facts and summon o the rescue that despised “capitalism” which sovietism tirelessly depicts to its devotees as the root of all evil. Iron realities have clashed with doctrinaive communism and compelled its banish- ment. There is as yet no ground for assum- ing that Red Russia has already come to its full economic senses. But the new pregram is a milepost along a road from which there can hardly be any turning back. It is a development of Recognition of Soviet Russia has been reasons—because of Moscow's refusal to acknowledge the sanctity of private property in accord with international law. Private property is now invited to make itseif at home in Russia. Its ad- vent under proper safeguards should tend materially to arrest that “progres- tary Hughes once declared that com- munism condemns the Russian people. . o— The President's Appeal. President Coolidge’s appeal to the people of this country for funds to mect the needs of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, victims of a hurricane of un- precedented ferocity, should result in an immediate outpouring of contributions. Stating that all possible assistance will be. rendered by the executive depart- ments of the Government, and by the American Red Cross acting as agent of the American people, he, as both Presi- i dent of the United States and president | of the Red Cross, urges the country to contribute “promptly and most gen- erously” so that sufficient funds may be | received to alleviate the suffering among so many thousands. As reports continue to come from the stricken islands the extent of the dis- aster is revealed in shocking propor- tions. While it may be many days be- fore the full tale of death and destruc- tion is told, it is now evident that hun- dreds of thousands are homeless, that food is desperately needed, that sick- ness is prevalent, that the economic losses- have been staggering and that the islands cannot possibly recover | ‘without the most generous help. Piteous tales are told of the condi- tions in the islands, especially in Porto Rico, as investigators penetrated into the wilderness left by the hurricane. Live stock has been killed, houses have been crushed, little plantations on whicn the people depended for their daily food have been destroyed, the small stores of grain, accumulated with pa- thetic patience and labor, have been ruined. The margin of the “jibaro,” or peas- ant, of Porto Rico is a slender one. He can subsist on little, but when that littl> is swept away he is absolutely without resources. With the cane fields flat- tened, the coffee trees felled by the wind, the cocoa palms snapped, the citrus plantations ravaged, the tobacco plants ruined there will be for a long period few opportunities for employ- ment. For months these people must be sustained by public aid. The island itself cannot furnish that aid, for its resources are too slender. It must come from the mainlard, and it must come sive impoverishment” to which Secre- | |1.07 miles and 47.159 yards of paving. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 18, 1928.° THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, repeated charge that the attitude of the United States Lawn Tennis Asso- ciation toward the alleged violation of amateurism is responsible for the down- fall of American tennis is a moot ques- tion, but certainly its squabbles with Tilden had their effect on his game and the friction with Richards definite- 1y turned that fine young player from amateur to professional ranks. It is suredly no satisfaction for the American people to see their sons going down to defeat year after year, and while this feeling takes nothing away from the admiration of the skill and sportsmanship of the victors, it does not promote the pride which has so long followed the achievements of its athletes. America should look to its laurels on the courts before it shall have sunk to an estate from which there iIs no recovery. Cmenl B Not True American Efficiency. In the opinion of the millions of street and road users in this country, mostly motorists, there is nothing slow- er in nature than a paving gang. The process of repairing or newly paving streets and roads seems to be about the most snail-like of all procedures. Anathemas are freely and vehemently cast upon these working crews and upon their bosses and the planners of these works as drivers are forced to make detours or line up to “carry the flag” on one-way stretches. To these critics of the road workers there now comes a comforting gleam of hope for better things and happier times. It comes from New York, where the State commissioner of highways announces that & new record has been established by the forces under his di- rection in the laying of new pavements. Some 242 contracts are in progress in the State in execution of a general: highway - development plan, and last week, the commissioner states, 39.96 miles of new pavement were laid, this exceeding the best previous report by There are now under employment by the contractors 10,448 men and the State has in addition a maintenance force of 3,604. During the week this army of operatives laid 498,410 square yards. In this city it is not so much the rate of progress in street repairs and new paving that is criticized as the general plan of operation. The closing of streets for sepair and repaving work has been ordered in a way to give aj maximum of discomfort and inconyen- lence to the street users. Various opera- tions are so poorly co-ordinated as to make driving through certain parts of the city a puzzle that is complicated by daily additions to the array of “no thoroughfare” and “detour” signs. Fur- thermore, it would seem that some of these operations have not been pressed consistently and continuously, consid- erable lapses of time occurring when seemingly no work at all has been done. It should be the aim of all engaged in street or highway work to do each job as quickly as possible and with the least interference to travel. It is evi- dent that a more scientific formula of operation and administration is needed, a formula that is based upon the prin- ciple that the streets are primarily for use and not for blockading barriers. ————— ‘There is to be no mud-slinging. If any mire is discovered, the political orator will be excused for treading lightly in gum shoes. B in generous volume. The Star will receive and acknowl- edge contributions to this fund for Porto Rican relief, and it hopes that the peo- ple of Washington will do their share toward bringing order out of the chaos and helping the island community back to prosperity and health. S G0 Rt No argument can persuade Lindbergh to refrain from making trick flying look 50 easy that inferior artists will insist A French Victory. American tennis suffered a not un- expected body blow yesterday when France for the third year in succession carried away the cup emblematic of the American singles championship. ‘The lack of surprise on both sides of the water over the victory, however, upon another State that is likewise at present in doubt, in the past some- what shifting in its political allegiance, but more often Republican than Demo- eratic. ——————————— Manhattan speakers who compliment Al Smith evidently feel that they are doing the world a great favor in re- linquishing so fine a governor of New York for service in the requiremen’s of & Nation, e It is only natural to feel disappoint- ment when the grapefruit crop to the southward is se much less in evidence than the ternado output. ——— Russia Revokes. Soviet Russia seems to have come to [®ourageous American to take the final Grover Cleveland’s celebrated conclu- sion that it is “confronted by a condi- tion and not a theory.” From the out- #et of their autocratic regime at Mos- cow the Communist czars have main- tamned an economic policy resting on rigid state ownership and state opera- | ion of industry. Private enterprise has bzen excoriated as unsound and pro- hibited as illegal. ‘Ten years of experience with that revolutionary conception are now sud- denly scrapped, and out of Russia comes the surprise announcement that hence- forward a vast fleld of industry hither- to monopolized by the government will be made available to foreign concession- aires. Fuel, timber, mining, building construction, transport and a host of mechanical and manufacturing branches are to become legitimate preserves of capital from abroad. Importation of raw materials and plants will be facili- tated. Even domestic taxation, it is promised, will be reorganized on invit- ing terms. Stern necessity is the mother of this new Russian economic program. The country has ceased to be an essentially agricultural state. Its old-time grain export trade has almost vanished, due to decreased productivity, a demoralized marketing system and the Soviet's tangled relations with potential con- sumers beyond its frontiers. A contribu- tory factor of serious degree was the does not detract from the heart-stir- ring drama that was witnessed at For- est Hills when Henri Cochet of France and Francis T. Hunter of America en- gaged in the final. Cochet has long been known as one of the finest of all-round players, and destined to reach, sooner or later, the heights that he scaled yes- terday, while Hunter, an aging veteran of the American courts, has been noted chiefly for the tremendous power of his forehand drive. Yet, at the end of the third set Hunter was in the lead and the great Cochet, with grim lines around his mouth, was on the defensive. If there was not drama enough in Hunter taking the first two out of three sets there was no lack of it when Cochet, summoning all his skill, drove back the two sets and victory. France has garnered her tennis hon- ors slowly, but in the last few years she has reaped a full harvest. Almost since the time that Suzanne Lenglen asserted her undisputed right to be called the greatest woman tennis play- er of history the men of France began to make themselves pre-eminent on the ‘That old Tammany tiger is trying to pose as a’ docile house cat that was highly magnified in public imagination. . aon—s SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. High and Low. The Air Ace looked down on the Wheel- barrow Man, ‘With expression of haughty unrest. ‘The latter remarked, “As the record we scan, ‘We're both simply doing our best.” But the Air Ship came down in a heap, while the Ace In a parachute flouted Dismay. The Wheelbarrow Man came around to the place And trundled the wreckage away. The Ace to the Wheelbarrow Man gave his thanks For patient, industrious zest. Said the Wheelbarrow Man, “Though I'm low in the ranks, ‘We're both simply doing our best.” Rehearsed Enthusiasm, “Your audience applauded every sen- | tence.” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Its members have no reason for re- straint. I took pains to have them in- formed in advance that I was going to be in agreement with them.” Seriousness on the Air. My Radio! My Radio! I'm weary of the jazzy tricks, And find tellef when programs show Another talk on politics. “Prohibition,” said Uncle Bill Bottle- top, “ought not to be a hard matter. Anybody can have it, if he personally wants it.” Jud Tunkins says the kid who used to believe in Santa Claus grows up to expect all kinds of precious gifts from a candidate. courts. With the fading of the incom- parable Tilden, conceded to be in his prime the greatest of them all, Amer- ica, with few exceptions, had no play- ers capable of withstanding the French assault, and when in 1927 Rene Lacoste, in a titanic struggle, vanquished Tilden, after having won the championship the | previous’ year, the sun had definitely set on America’s supremacy on the courts. France is now the holder of the sin- gles championship of the, United States, the Davis Cup and the English and Australian titles, and from the caliber of tennis displayed by its young representatives the past few years gigantic task confronts any nation which seeks to dispute possession with it. Despite Tilden's best efforts, Amer- ica’s young players, at the present at least, cannot match in ability those of the French. For many years Tilden has sought untiringly to develop the younger element on this side of the water, knowing full well that he and his colleagues, who have, in the past, peasants’ 1efusal to surrender thewr placed America at the top of the ten- On the Train. Happy is the Engineer When the Candidate draws near. Though arguments may bristle, He merely blows the whistle, And is not compelled to hear, Fair-Minded. “You favor longer gowns?"” “Oh, yes,” answefed Miss Cayenne. “The girls who happen to be a little bow-legged ought to have their chance in the fashions for awhile.” “When war is abolished,” said Hi Ho, the sagee of Chinatown, “it will be necessary to put enough wise men mn authority to prevent some strife pro- moter from seeking to revive it.” Fable. Jdyous the Idler seems to be, The value of early training has been stressed so many times that perhaps i is irrelevant to give another instance of the old, old story. Yet precept proceeds by reiteration. Constant hammering away at the truth is what makes the truth accepted. Truth per se is one thing; truth ac- cepted, anoth-r. “What is the truth?” ‘That famous question goes ringing down the ages, finding new life and point in every generation. Boys and girls grow into men and women, and each one finds it incumbent to sift the mass of evidence, in an ;l'bempt to strain the true from the alse. No matter how light-heartedly this task may be undertaken, it is carried on in some fashion, and to some degree, by every one. The same old truths are discovered by every generation, the same old mis- takes are made, the same hammering away from pulpit and printed page is necessary. It seems an endless process, and, in- deed, so it is, since life and living are endless. Where the medium is fluid, actions and reactions must flow likewise. * K ¥ K Our new instance of the value of early training is a very simple one, dealing with politeness and impoliteness. Perhaps no one would dispute the proposition that elementary politeness, as evolved by civilized peoples, is a very workable thing. It smooths the path of everyday life, pours oll on troubled waters, does for peorle in all waiks of life what the Kellogg treaty to outlaw war attempts to do for nations. Courtesy, the mental aspect of poiite- ness, is based solidly on the physical forms of etiquette. ~For the sake of brevity we may call all simply polite- a term which may include every- What brought this subject to mind was the statement made by a woman who had been brought up to be polite to others. Speaking of another woman, she said: “I do not see how she can say the things she does to others. I was brought up to feel that such frankness was rude, and today I find it impossible to say such things, even if I think them.” No doubt this woman is right. Between the two of them she un- doubtedly has the better of the argument. Especially would this secem to hold true in the case of women. The institution of women s too old to tolerate unlovely words and actions, even in 1928, the essence of modernity to date. Masculine persons may ‘“get away” with harsh criticisms, uncalled for re- proaches and unnecessary comments, because the ‘world has come to regard the male portion of mankind as essen- tially crude, at its worst, and only part- ly refined, at its best. Perhaps nothing better is to be ex- pected of men! But women have the age-old duty, im- posed unon them, partly through neces- sity and partly by reason of better dispositions, of being tactful, courteous. polite, * Ex ‘To be polite is both the duty and privilege of womankind. ‘Through her extension of courtesy to all she meets she is a walking preacher of fair play, of true sportsmanship, since she shows a willingness to think before she speaks. In securing this valuable personal asset early training is paramount. How can a woman be expected to be polite who es a girl was never told that it was both rude and unnccessary to voice everything one thinks? ‘The conventions of polite society are not natural to the untrained human be- ing, any more than are the cares which the tourist expended upon himself. and | which caused the mountain boy to de- clare, “Mister, you are a lot of trouble to yourself, ain't you?” One of the fine points of the human family is that in this social group the young of the species may be trained to know and avpreciate the best that hu- man beings have evolved in all branches of activity. ‘Through proper precepts—perhaps aided by a good sound spanking, when necessary—the human young may be trained to know the good from the bad, the truly cultured from the purely rough, the beautiful from the ugly, the necessary from the unnecessary, the best from the mediocre, the clean from the dirty, the kind from the cruel, the artistic from the crude— Education, in a word. ‘This week the public schools of the District of Columbia begin again their task of nttempzinF to inculcate some of these discriminatfons into the heads of some thousands of boys and girls. Education is merely a standardiza- tion of truths which may be transferred from one human being, the teacher, to another human being, the pupil. One may differ with standardized education upon points, but not upon general plan, or purpose. Its outline is wholesome and its purpose sound. What- ever error there may be in its methods is simply the percentage of fault to be found in everything human. “Only God can make a tree—" or an upright life, * ok Kk % Politeness acquired in childhood will come to the aid of the adult in all the ramifications of everyday living. Such a man will instinctively silence the needless quip which comes to his lips. No matter how true it may be, it is unnecessary if it hurts. If the truth gives offense, it is not necessary, except in such cases as it ! may be necessary. This paradox needs | no elucidation. The great trugh behind | all truth is bigger than the little truths. Unless there is some real need for offense, this world is better off without it. If social reform or personal re- form calls for the bitter truth, let it be said candidly. Even then one runs the serlgua risk of doing more harm than good. In the great majority of cases, how- ever, there is never any necessity for any one to say everything that he thinks. The mind is free at all times to think what it pleases, but the tongue is an unruly member and should not blab instantly what it hears the mind say. ‘The mind which puts the brakes on its official publicity agent, the tongue, is a better mind than the brain which has no such control over its paid | servant. If a child is taught to be polite, in adult life it will not depart from such standards of conduct. = The hore of nations is that they, too, may learn to be polite in an in- ternational sense, and that the crude mouthings of the boorish and the cruel will not exert any considerable pres- sure in times of stress. In home, school and Nation the aim is the same. Arguments Over Maine Result Stimulate Campaign Interest Maine's big Republican majorities in the early Fall election stimulated interest in an already hot presidential campaign and stirred up. the usual arguments among spokesmen of the major parties as well as independents over the signifi- cance traditionglly given to the result in Maine by the Republicans, Studying the general reaction, the New York Evening Post (independent) states: “As we understand it, after reading both Republican and Demo- cratic interpretations, the Maine elec- tion was highly important and not of the slightest significance.” The Phila- delphia Evening Bulletin (independent Republican) also considers that the figures “indicate that the breaks in party ranks due to the occasional issues of the present campal are not mate- rially affecting the political balance.” “Maineites not do the voting for the Indianapolis Star (independent Republican) suggests, on the other hand, “but they are typical Americans and a marked drift of senti- ment among them is an indication of what Americans in general are think- ing.” And the Chattanooga News (in- dependent Democratic and anti-Smith) offers the opinion: “Gov. Smith’s friends are entitled to what comfort, if any, they can get out of the election in Maine. But it cannot be explained away.” National importance is seen by the Butte Daily Post (Republican) in the thought that “the Democrats had been trying to cut the State’s Republican congressional and _State-roster vote down for the sake of the prestige there might be in it for Smith's uses in No- vember.” ‘The Hartford Times (independent Democratic) feels that “it is fair to as- sume that one reason for having the State election in September is to sepa- rate it from the national contest in presidential years,” but concludes that “apparenfly the election is influenced gm as much by national questions in ptember as it would be in November.” * k¥ X As to the standing of the State as a “barometer,” the Worcester Gazette (in- dependent) remarks: “It seems almost criminal neglect on the part of the Democrats that they do not persuade one of the solidest States of the solid South to compete as a barometer against Maine. Then they could offset Repub- lican claims based on the early Maine election by claims of their own based on an early Georgia election, say. They could even undertake to show, using the Georgia returns as a basls, that the Democrats would carry the Nation, two to one.” “As a test of sentiment generally, the size of the Republican majority is likely to prove unreliable,” according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Re- publican), which recognizes the exist- ence of “varying cross-currents at work in every ‘State and every section, which make any attempt at prophecy haszard- ous.” This view is held by the Grand Rapids Press (independent), which also remarks, “Let Michigan elect its gov- ernors and Senators separately from the presidential poll and in advance of it, and there would be just as much sense in saying ‘So goes the country’ as is the case with Maine.” Numerous comments indicate a recog- nition of two sides. The Ann Arbor Daily News (independent) sees no “promise that Herbert Hoover will be elected President,” but adds, “Had Smith’s theories in regard to the dry law made an appeal there, it would have seemed logical for Democrats to be sent to Congress.” The Kansas City Times (independent) summarizes its views in the suggestion: “The election shows what the voters think of the candidates for governor and Senator. How much else it shows is problemati- cal.” That paper, however, feels that “the just inference from Maine is that the Democratic dry country vote is off the reservation.” The Haverhill Ga- ‘Though soon of hope bereft. The caterpillar eats the tree Till there is nothing left. “If you makes de same mistake mo’ dan twice,” said Uncle Eben, “it stops grain crops te the state except for com- ' nis firmament, could not go on forever. ' bein' a mistake an’ is jes' a mean maensurate return in mmulutuu\d ’ ‘Whether there is justice in the often babit,” e bl R . N zette (independent) holds that “vari- ous circumstances prevented in Maine a political test of great national sig- nificance.” “It's a long time till the presidential election, and time is just as liable to be on the side of the Democrats as the Republicans,” says the Little Rack Arkansas Democrat (Democratic). The Oklahoma City Times (independent) contends, “The Democrats would have gloated if they had cut the Republican majority below normal figures, and cer- tainly the Republicans are justified in finding encouragement in the increased majority.” Yok ok ok % That the vote was a setback for Gov. Smith's candidacy is the conviction of the Lincoln State Journal (independent Republican), Cleveland News (Re- publican), Harrisburg Telegraph (Re- publican), Columbus Ohio State Jour- nal (Republican) and Jersey City Jour- nal (Republican), while the New York Sun (independent) offers the interpreta- tion: “The successful Republican candi- dates for governor and Senator polled more votes than President Coolidge in 1924, * * ¢ It is obvious that a great many Maine Republicans cast their votes to show the Nation that Maine Republicanism is unaffected in a year of oddly mixed values.” The Bangor Commercial (Republican) re- cords that the “sweeping Republican victory was as generally anticipated, but more s0.” “While the Maine result will be ecn- sidered chiefly in its interpretation o a national trend of sentiment,” de- clares the Manchester Union (independ- ent Republican), “it has particular application in New England. Perhaps as Maine’s next-door neighbor New Hampshire is entitled to especial satis- faction.” And the Providence Journal (independent) says: “When Mr. Ras- kob says he does not think the na- tional issues- were at all involved in Maine, it is to laugh. They always have been in presidential years and they always will be.” Maine's position as a traditional dry State is emphasized in explanation of the result by the Baltimore Sun (inde- pendent Democratic) and the Syracuse Herald (independent), while the fail- ure of the Democrats to make a real fight is pointed out by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (independent), Hartford Courant (Republican), Charlotte Ob- server (independent Democratic) and New York Evening World (independ- ent). With satirical review of the result, the Charleston Evening Post (independ- ent Democratic) says, “To prove their actual faith in the Maine impli- cation, the Republicans will probably redouble their efforts to carry the coun- try for Hoover.” The Schenectady Gazette (independent Democratic) ob- serves that “our easternmost State has lived up to expectations,” and the Roanoke Times (independent Demo- cratic) states that “a rock-ribbed Re- publican State has gone overwhelm- ingly Republican.” ‘The New Ycrk Times (independent) concludes: “To look to Maine's polit- ical course as an indication of that of more complex and radically different commonwealths is to believe in magic and ‘medicine.’ , But nobody" will grudge our Republican friends their hour of tomtomming, and there is not much danger of their being the victims of ‘overconfidence.’ o — “Spirits” Expla From the Terre Haute Star. Of course, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lives in a country where you can get plenty of the stuff that enables one to see things. —.— All the Same. From the Toledo Blade. Pedestrians have no particular choice when it comes to automobile music. All horns say “jump”! [ True Meal From the St. Paul Pioneer Press. A regular air route between Dublin and Paris is being planned. Now they'll be after finding out the true meaning of “taking French leave,” over there. - Name You Can’t Forget, From the Kalamazoo Gazette. Recently a victim of amnesia in New York suddenly recovered her faculties and remembered that her name was Gheranghelli. She must have been a &c‘k‘.pemn indeed to forget a name like NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG M. i THE INVADER., Harper & Bros. This, the third novel by Hilda Vaughan, is, like the other two, drawn off trom the common daily life of the | Welsh border. Very early in the course of “The Invader” is the reader im- pressed by the author’s intimacy, not only with the face of this wild and beautiful country, but with the people also who have spent their lives there. “The Battle to the Weak” and “Here Are Lovers,” Miss Vaughan's other novels, deal with the same people and locality in exactly the degree of familiar friendship that this one mani- fests. The old home corner, with every part of which the author counts the most intimate association. Here is a fact that means much. Here is a depth of experience, a certainty of under- standing and interpretation, that can- not be achieved from a hasty touring about in search for “material.” “The Invader” is a story of the soil of Wales, of the farmer into whose blood has one a lifelong love for his land. The gheme centers in Daniel Evans, a ten- ant farmer, whose deepest ambition is to possess finally the farm upon which he lives. Within a year of this goal there appears a woman who has in- herited the farm and who proposes to move in and work the place. It is this woman who gives title to the story. It is the bitter warfare between her and Daniel Evans that gives to it its effect of human greed and i cruelty and gloom. Human nature is |an unlovely thing when it is embodied in love of money, desire for gain. Yet, | here, where both sides are anything but admirable in their hard struggle against each other, one's sympathies, somehow, range along beside Daniel Evans and against the “invader,” legal- ly right though she may be. Beside the struggle of which the novel is made there runs a romance of re- lieving quality. A young girl, also an “invader,” supports her share in this more pleasing situation. By her- quali- ties the invasion becomes a peaceful conguest. The two lines of action, so unlike in mood and purpose, offset each other and give, besides, the opportunity for a wider view of the countryside and its people. Readers who take pleasure in good workmanship will be delighted with the structural excellence of a novel that is also founded upon knowledge of the intimate sort and that is coupled with a clear skill in projecting character and personality. The Welshman stands out here as definitely and as completely as he does under the inspired hand of George Borrow himself, and that is saying a great deal. Hilda © Vaughan. EE THE BATTLE OF THE HORIZONS. ‘S:ylvls Thompson. Little, Brown & 0. Personal illusions and general misun- derstandings provide the medium by way of which this novel makes its way. Eng- lish life as it is lived at the moment fur- nishes setting and background. Aa English family to which has come a beautiful new in-law from . merica gives focus to the situation and defines. roughly, the course of the development. Every individual in this action is pri- marily at odds with himself—rather with herself—since it is the women who find difficulty in effecting any working compromise between what they really are and what they aim to be. For in- stance, the rich American bride and beauty is all filled up with the role sh: is going to play in English politics and culture and social benevolence. Being a young Englishman’s wife is hardly in her program—not visibly in her pro- gram. A daughter of the familv is an artist, sculptor—yet there is a man she loves far more dearly than the marble men growing under her hand. He's al-| ready married. Another daughter is an out-and-out feminist—with no matri- mony whatever in her program. But there is Jeremy Ford—a dear! The ad- venture moves by way of these women— by way of their gradual backslidings and the wreckage they are able to pie up along the way of these changes of heart and purpose. The men, on the other hand, are more stable. They stay put, appearing to know pretty well what t?ej want and having only such un- easinesses as these women collect for them on their own road toward emanci- pation. The theme itself is, you see, general one, gathering in just about everybody, since we are all engaged in fighting our own hosizons. This fact makes the matter one of personal con- cern, as it were. The high point of in- terest is reached with the American girl in her effort to be, first, an influence, and, after that, the wife of Geoffrey. The family as a whole and with each of its members is a delightful one—sane English folks of much more charm than commonly gets into print. They arc wholesome, busy, intelligent, good-na- tured and often witty. Fine and rather exciting to meet. The girl, the rich American girl, is, however, less like her- self than any of the others. Which is to say that there may be hosts of rich ¢ | and beautiful girls on this side who are ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Stop a minute and think about this fact: You can ask our Information Bu- reau any question of fact and get the answer back in a personal letter. It isa great educational idea introduced into the lives of the most intelligent people in the world—American newspaper readers, pose of a newspaper—service. There is no charge except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Get the habit of asking questions. letter to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, ‘Washington, D. C. is —T. E. A. The 13 most promising actresses are selected each year by the Western As:ociation of Motion Picture Adver tisers (W. A. M. P. A). The custom was started in 1922. The “baby stars.” as they are called, are named by the vote of the entire organization. Q. Has any Chief Justice of the United States other than Chief Justice ‘White been a Catholic?—T. R. A. Roger Brooke Taney was a Roman Catholic. Each of these two men had an unusually long term, their combined years of service amounting to 39 years. meant by “Wampas Q. In how many countries is the Young Men's Christian Association ac- tive?—C. M. A. This organization works in more than 50 countries. World membership totals more than 1560,000. Q. Which college held first place in lacrosse during the 1927 season?— N.W. T A. The Johns Hopkins team retained first place in the United States Inter- collegiate Lacrosse Association. Q. How far north does telephone communication extend in the Western Hemisphere?—L. S. C. A. The northernmost telephone pole in the Western Hemisphere is at Nodr- vik, Alaska. the Government. Q. What percentage of the voting population voted at the last presidential election?—L. D A. About 51 per cent of the eligible Yoters cast votes in 1924. Of these votes about 65 per cent were cast by men and 35 per cent by women. Assuredly one persistent question has again been answered within the last 48 heurs, “Why is the Red Cross, since the World War is ended?” A million ref- ugees of the Porto Rico-Florida hurri- cane, homeless and_starving, are dis- covering that in the United States there exists an organization with more than 4,500,000 members for the sole purposs of meeting disasters with organized re- lef, and that already a cargo of 375 tons of food is shipped to their relief, at a cost of $80,000, and the local organi- zation of Porto Rico has been given cabled authority to expend $20,000 more Iocally for special food supplies. The National Red Cross is like a fire depart- ment, instantly responding to an alarm. It has no warning. I That total of $100,000 will not last very long; it is like a lunch between meals for the million homeless refuge.s. An Army ration in the United States to- day costs a trifle over 5) cents (50.12 cents); that means cne day's supply of food. So a million men, women an children will require half a million dol- lars’ worth of food daily, provided it be purchased with as exact systema‘ic economy as are our Army supplies, with no greater loss in distribution. In that half a million dollars nothing Is - counted for medical supplies and clothing for the refugees. Nor is the:e a fair comparison with the Army ration, since the present distribution is under stress. 1If there were no crganization already existing in the United States how would it be possible to get food to a million, suddenly deprived of all s tenance? Thousands would starve w amateurs were arguing what is a b anced ration and where can the food » | bought and what food is needed and how can it be carried to the island and how distributed? * % % President Coolidge calls for public contributions. When news came of the Japan earthquake the President of the United States called for $5,000,000 to be contributed by the public through the National Red Cross and within 8 days the public had given the full amount and within 30 days had donat- ed more than $11,000,000, of which every penny went by cable to the Japa- nese Red Cross, without 1 cent of over- head charges by the American organi- zation. No American agent accompa- nied the remittance or had anything to do with the distribution. as self-deluded and really futile as this one appears to be. There may be. At any rate, this one doesn't work out so well in a story as really she ought to And beside that English Graham fam- ily she surely does cut a slim figure. Still, that is, perhaps, not so great a matter where everything else is so na:- ural, so spirited, so competently rounded into the similitude of lity, and a very likable reality at t! Good novel? Many hundred times better than the average of these. A most enjoyable ex- perience lies in the reading of it. * ok ok K TIDE OF EMPIRE. Peter B. Kyne. Cosmopolitan Book Corporation. They stand in the door or wait at the front gate for the next Peter Kyne adventure to come tieir way—that is, the great majority of readers, average readers, do. For here, without fail, is adventure that is man-size, robust, ex- citing. Here is aclion, so swift and changing, as to carry the reader far away out of himselt—about the best service that a novel can render. Once started, Peter Kyne keeps moving, keéps the reader moving also, “Tide of Empire” occupies the home ground of this writer. Here is California at the opening of the gold rush, '49 and on. An invading army, with none of the order of an army, fills the field as far as eye can reach. Not an army:- a crazy mob instead. Adventure, crim. inals, ~desperate men, thieves, throats are here, filling the for ground. Around them are the Span- iss land-holders, living the leisured life so dear to them. That which brings this motley of effect into something like coherent and intelligible action is In the case of Porto Rico and its hur- ricane, the situation is different, for Porto Rico is a Territory of the United States and the National Red Cross So- clety is part of the Government of the United States. The President of the United States is president of the so- clety. If little Greece had not stag- gered when two or three millions of refugees from Turkey poured in upon the mother country, with no food and little clothing, surely the great United States will take care of its 1,000,000 storm-tossed refugees of tha island as well as the fewer of Florida's storm. But it is not to be assumed that that cere is to be measured in $100,000 units when it will require five times that much daily for rations only. xR The world is growing more and more humane as the years go by. Sympathy with the suffering of humanity is be- coming standard in civilization, It is less than' a century since Florence Nightingale spoke the first words of mercy upon a battlefield, even for the stranger, even for the enemy. It is only 64 years since the first convention was held in Geneva, Switzerland (in 1864), to organize the Red Cross Sq ciety and make mercy immune to 2 tack upon the battlefield. Up to that time it was the accepted practice in war for the victorious army to “mop up” the battlefield by killing |7 all the enemy wounded rather than per- mit them to prolong their sufferings. At that first Geneva meeting the UNITED STATES Darmod D'Arcy, Irish adventurer, who, with his band of followers, not only] organizes their own business of gold- hunting and mining, but who, besides, | brings a sense of order to a situation which, otherwise, would be nothing less than a wild stampede. Between pur~ suing the hunt for gold and paying court to a lovely Spanish maiden, young D'Arcy is the busiest of men. Vil- lains lie in wait for him and his men, thieves and murderers trail them, kill- ings by bullet or halter fill the passing moments. Through this bewilderment young D'Arcy makes his way in the manner of high adventure. Characters emerge here, living and believable men and women. The whole is a moving picture of the beginnings of California as an American commonwealth. Here is a wild movement from east to west that from its impetuous and inclusive nature shortened by a hundred years, no doubt, the opening up of this great country. Here is an amazing picture of the historic birth of the Golden State. Here is, besides, a top-notcher in the way of a Peter Kyne adventure of the West. e Good for Them. From the Canton Daily News. ‘With auto production about to be doubled, the insurance companies will have agents at every corner selling ac- cident policies to people who are about to cross the streets. . IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. French and British forces under Petain and Halg picrce the Hinden- burg line and take 10 towns and 6,000 prisoners in a 22.mile drive. Allied forces are closing in on St. Quentin with the British only 4 miles from the city and the French but 3. * * * Ger- mans admit that the Americans de- feated them at St. Mihiel, but assert | that “one thousand tanks” did it. * * * | The Bulgarian front crumbles and the | allies continue to advanee on that line. Four thousand prisoners amd 50 guns | captured and Germans semt by Berlin to aid their hard-pressed allies are routed. Enormous quantities of war supplies are found abandoned by the | fleeing enemy. * * * Chief of Staff | March tells Congress that an army of | 4,800.000 in 1919 is the aim of the War Department. * * * American First Army now has a strong front line built in the St. Mihlel sector, running parallel with the Hindenburg line at an aver-! age distance of two and a half- kilo- | meters from the German positions, * * * | President Wilson's reply to Austria’s peace proposal cheers every man in the A E. F, for they are all enthusiastic continuing the war to a finish. * ¢ * ltles to date in the Army and Marine Corps total 34,791, with 290 names on the list given out today. for et 1t is a part of that best pur-, Address your | p] The line is maintained by | -{reached the BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. What is a _squawman?—W. E. A. The word has two meanings. One is an Indian who does a woman's work; the other, the one which is more often meant, a white man married to an Indian woman and living with her people, Q. What is,a Bickford match?—N. I, DIt is a fuse used for blasting, ting of a long cylinder of ex- sive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose. It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute. . is Quebec governed?— . T. L. A. The government of the Province | of Quebec is vested in a lieutenant gov- (ernor and ‘a responsible ministry, as- | sisted by a legislative council of 24 members, who are appointed for life, and a legislative assembly of 85 mem- bers, elected for five years. |P. Q. What is the record milk and but ter fat production for an Ayrshire cow? N. A. Nellie Osborne of Elm Shade 16th | holds the world's record for Ayrshires | with a production of 27,198 pounds of milk and 1,257 pounds of fat. This cow |is ewned W. C. Wylie of Elm Shade Farm, Howick, Quebec. | @_Are any members of the crew of | the Pvénngi‘tor of Civil War fame living? A. Tsaac H. Scott, who was reputed to be the last surviving member of the crew of the Monitor, died May 18, 1927. Q. Which of the planets are now in our skies at night?—W. O. H. A. The Naval Observatory says that early in September Jupiter rises about 9 pm., and Mars, which is near Alde- baran, rises about 11 pm. Saturn, near Antares, sets about 11 pm., while | Venus is too near the sun to be seen easily. Q. Do the male or female beavers build the dams?—G. O. P. A. The Bureau of Biological Survey says that both male and female work | on dams and houses, as far as is known. Q. When did the Benning race track | close?—R. R. A. The Jockey Club says that the {;;‘;;nmg race track closed October 17, BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. United States had only unofficial “ob- servers”—the American Minister to Switzerland and Charles S. P. Bowles, European agent of the United States Sanflary Commission; these were au- thorized by our. Secretary of State to observe and report whatever might aid | humanity, but they had no part in the organizing of the work. We were then hotly engaged in our Civil War, and neither side was very ‘“humane” toward its enemies. The Federal Army had a sanitary commission, for its own service, in maintaining sanitation in camps. However, the reports and the photo- | graphs brought from that Geneva con- | ference by Observer Bowles' aroused interest, and. while at Geneva the treaty establishing the international recognision of the Red Cross Scciety was signed only by 11 countries— Baden, Belgium, Denmark,” Holland, Spain, Portugal, France, Prussia, Sax- | ony. Wurttemberg and Switzerland—out of it has now developed (in 1920) a vorld League of Red Cross Societies, comprising 58 nations—all the civilized nations of the world. None of these national organizations has ever equaled that of the United States in aid to foreign nations in disaster, nor has any so efficiently met the ecrises in their own country, yet there are na- tions with a larger membership, in proportion to population, than that c* our own organization. . * k k¥ During the World War the American Red Cross representatives were in every | camp at the front, and in home train- ing camps. The public contributed e | liberally for soldier relief, to be ad- ministered by the Red Cross, and, in | the years immediately following the war, aid for disabled soldiers and their dependents continued through the Red Cross at a rate of from $8,000,000 tc $12,000,000 a year. It is not generally known that the Red Cross is still so active in soldier and sailor aid that it expends more than $3,400,000 a year now for the benefit of disabled ‘vet- erans of the war, together with the men of the present Army and Navy. Beyond the monetary aid, it does wha' officlaldom cannot do—it brings to th bedside of the disabled soldiers the corx forting visits of thousands of Gold Sf Mothers and others, who are still sym. pathetic toward those who fought besid their own soldiers and sailors. Sucl kindly work cannot be performed by th Veterans’ Bureau, but it is done in per- sistent love by the membess of Rec Cross chapters all over the country. It is noteworthy that while the tota! membership fees from the 4.500000 members are only $1 each (aside frorsy the special memberships) the annuai sum devoted to the aid of soldiers and sailors in the Regular Army and Navy and to World War veterans and thci: dependents amounts to three-quarters of that total. During the World War th: public gave the Red Cross $400,000,008 for the benefit of soldiers and sailois and marines; at the close of the war. there was a considerable balance ogh hand, and out of this balance a sum | enough to make up a permanent emer- gency fund of $5,000,000 was set aside: invested in Government securities, s&- that the interest thereof is always avai able for use in immediate relief whon disaster comes. No delay is required: therefore, while the public is being ap~ pealed to for funds for relief in emei. gencies. Relief comes promptly when # great disaster requires extraordiner {funds. By act of Congress all Arm' supplies—tents, food and medical—as | availeble for disaster relief, upon call ¢ | the Red Cross. ‘The greatest disaster in the history ¢ the American Red Cross was the recen | Mississippi River flood, when an area of | miles ' was submergad That required an expenditure of $17, 600,000, and it illustrated the vast im- provement in methods of relief over those possible in former days. For e: ample, aviation, supplied by the Gov- ernment forces, made possible the rescue of men and women clinging to roofs or treetops, beyond the hope of saving by any cld-time means. In all that flood enly 326 people were drowned. and of these only 6 after the Red Cross had tuation with its airplane secouts and its 1,000 rescue boats. The danger of disease in the Missis- sippi flood was almost equal to what to- day confronts the Red Cross in Porta Rico and Florida. Typhoid vaccine w then administered to 435000 peo ow, if reports are not exaggerated, if will be needed for twice that many. Tw tons of quinine were required for 000,000 gram treatments. The tropic hurricane leaves a call for four or five tons. Nurses will be needed by the hun- dreds; the Red Cross has a fnembers‘!lgp of 32,000 trained nurses pledged to re- spond instantly to its call. It can mobi- lize them at the rate of 10,000 withia the first day of call and 1,000 more per d:lg as :?!‘dl‘d. ut that is an inadequate mea: possibilities to this org“nnlmnnn.!ugu‘l‘:! ing the war there were 22,000,000 Americans who joined the Red Cross because they believed in its efficiency and faithfulness. Now the peace times have let the membership drop to 4,500,- 000. but between Armistice day and No- vember 24 a grand drive is to be mads to go over the top with a 5,000,000 mem- bership and make it very popular to be seen wearing the little red-cross but- ton or shameful to be without that token of co-operatipn with humanity in distress. (Conyright. 1028, by Paul V. Collins.)