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9 THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 1928, T 2nd his base ball future. Early in mr' son his powerful right wing, the - v THE EVENING STAR!naymceA Harmless enough as they NE‘Y BOOKS With Sunday Morning Edition. , are when the shots are aimed 2t in- 2nimate things. the practice of pump- WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY.......October 2, 1928 ing streams of lead in the strects toward drivers and oceupants of motor | cars 1s most reprehensible and d~arves punishment. It is for | take & hand in this game and do a lit- {tle sniping of their own kind to dis- | courage this pernicious practics, s—o—s A Slur on the District Police Tt is to b> hoved that Gov. Smith will | take early occasion te correct his staie ment. made in th> course of his speech | at Milwaulee in which he discussed the THEODORE W. NOYES... .Edi’tnr The Evening Star Newsnaper Company Business Offize- St. and Penni-ivania Ave New York Office: 110 Eaw 4'nd St Chicazo Office Tower Buildins. 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Sinith says may be questioned whether any well in- formed newspapsr has ever mad such an assertion. Perhaps some commenta- tor on affairs in the Capital, aroused by recent diszlosurss of police derelictions in the District, has guessed at the t I of these charges and given a rough csti- terror of hazs runners of all teams, was rendered useless and failed to respon:! to treatment. if the “Gooss's" playing days were about aver, vet in spite of this he plugged ahead and by his batting alone made hims=lf so valvable to the team that e wes kept in the lns-up. Goslin's arm is 2gain strong and re- ports from the Woast in the last few weeks indicatsd that he was mowing down ambitious runncrs with all the {vigor of oid. And while, of course, it it a bit premature {o discuss the team chanees in next year's pennant struggle It looked for a time as| Every book brings the reader back to his pristine enjoyment of this qreatest of indoor sports. No matter now critical he mey have become, as |the result of much reading, a really igood story arouses his enihusiasm. Thus the test of every good book |1 in _the reading thereof. Ienough to read about books. to know h> names of new titles and authors, to shons and reviews, | To bz a reader, one must read. These It is not | b> conversant with the patter of thec | the newspapers record.” It | |$ruizms need repeating, ad&mplyl because |t " B witn | there is a tendency nowadays for many tasted the frults of victory and with | UASTE 8 B FUSRRES CONRCANE D Sty I nis ailing shoulder well again. will De | jrom the paths of their forefathers. i even more of an asset to the ciib. { They had rather listen at their ease to the radio, or bastir themselves about some diversion which calls for a larger it i a certainty that Goslin, havinz . The Machine Age. |meiotis This is truly the machin> age—mMa- | yet nothing can be truer than that | ehines to take a strip of pictures for a | thess persons. once sat down to a d g to|1eally_good siory. would be the very TR S s S """":":”, | st to admit the worth of the same. {sell stamps, machines to vend chewing pnd o incist. after a little training /gum and other commodities and ma- rlong this line. that nothing takes the chines to shine shoes. And now we have pl?fi!‘“fl;pi‘l“s’dwmkba e t 1 .- . i ! rticular force to at last a machine which for one cent | e novel, and to the printed pla | use of manual dexterity, such as wood | —_——— mate, which the facts as known here | do not at all jus: The New York Contest. That thers heve been numerous Today's developments at Rochester. i wparaes of dareliction against Wash- the Democratic State convention, indi- |z o povicemen is ot to be denied. cate that Gov. Smith. as candidate {0 | gocenyjy there has been an arousal of the presidency. is making his strongest | e concern over what has seemed bid for the support of hims:Il in th® 4o the Jazity of discipline on the local national contest. The sclection of g0 A change in police trial methods Franklin D. Roosevelt s nominee of the | 1, pan prought about in consequence party for governor. effected efter he had | ;¢ ;5 fecling on the part of the com- repeatadly declined to be considered for | ;i “Bup not even with a more the honor. on account of ths conditicn | of his health. unmistakably increases the chances of Democratie success in New York next month. Mr. Roosevelt is de- eervedly popular throughout the State A man of culture, of eminent famil: bearing a name that is beloved by the people of New York, with a high record of achievements in public office and of unblemished personal integrity, he will, despite the frailty of his healih, be a powertul factor for the State ticket. It is recognized as one of the few cer- tainties of this campaign that unless Gov. Smith can carry his own State ne has there been any number of reports {of drinking on the part of the local | policemen even remotely approaching Ithe percentage quoted by Gov. Smith. { At a matter of fact the charges of in- toxication represonted less than three i per cent during the past year. It is most unfortunate that in order [to point the moral of his account of lackness of prohibition enforcement 1 | ihis country Gov. Smith should have | chosen to accuse the Washington poli force of a high degree of intoxication jand a shamefully low degree of disci- cannot be clected President. He may, :0 | pline and probity of conduct. And it is certain conceivable combinations ef ) pzrdly in the line of accuracy or fair- electoral votes, carry it and still lose the | necs that he should have described big race. But to win the presidency e | washington as & city “governed by a must obtain the forty-five votes of New | committee of Congress.” It is true that | vigorous preseeution of such accusations | ‘York. To this end it is vitally important | that the Siate contest be conducted with the stryngest possible ticket, and such a ticket the governor himself has written, using his own personal influ- | ence with Mr. Roosevelt to induce him to reconsider his refusal to engage this | year in a political campaign. _ The Republicans have likewise named | & strong ticket, advancing to the head the attorney general of the State, who has made an excellent record in office and has a large personal following. He is & Jew, and it was expected that the Democratie ticket, in view of that fact, | if Mr. Roosevelt persisted in his re- fusal to take the nomination, would likewise be headed by a member of that race, as a counter bid for support. The nomination of Col. Herbert Lehman, who is finance director of the Demo- cratic national committee, in some | measure eff~cts this appeal to the Jew- ish vote of the State. A close friendship has existed between Gov. Smith and Mr. years. They have been associated ‘n| politics and in public affairs. At the Houston convention it was Mr. Roose- velt who placed Gov. Smith's name in nomination, with a speech that was rated as the most effective deliverance | of that gathering. Thus the State ticket, | as finally shaped in consequence of the governér's urgency and personal plem-f ing, represents the national ticket in a degree that is rarely attained in *State politics, Both candidates for governor are highly popular. Both are men of un- blemished record in public and private life. Both are good campaigners, al- ! Roc-2velt for many | Congress is the Capital's “State Legis- lature” or “board of aldermen.” But it is likewise true that the President of jthe United States is its ex-officio gov- araor, in effect, who names its Commis- ioners and seme of its subordinate of- ficials and signs all legislation pertain. ing to it enacted by Congress. And it | furthermore true that local public opin- ion, operating upon the Commissioners who are dssignated to administer its af- fairs, is effective even though the com- munity has no vote or direct voice in its government. The implication conveyed by Gov. Smith in his reference to Washingion was plainly that Congress, the consti- | | tutionial legistaturs of the District, con- | dones the alleged offenses of the local policemen. A review of certain recent | happenings at the Capitol would en- lighten Gov. Smith decidedly to the con- trary effect time to spare, the governor will find ac- i casion to withdraw his eharge, which {live stock exhibits in county fairs. | this community decidedly repudiates. g St The Brotherhood of St. Andrew. Washington will welcome this week the several thousand representative laymen who come to the Capital as missionaries of the practical creed of praver and service held by the Brother- hood of St. Andrew, an organization for men of the Episcopal Church. Immediately preceding the great Episcopal convention of next week, the meeting of the brotherhood cannot fzil to serve as an inspiration to the gen- eral public of Washington. For here are plain American business men lead- { will deliver ‘a lizhted cigarette to any | customer. The young inventor of this ! latest contraption is on hiz way to Eng- land to demonstrate to Londoners the ladvantages of his penny-in-the-slat | were used in making tests, he says, and five years were spent in perfecting the !the machine in theater lobbies, drug stores and newsstands all over the world. The inventor of the photozraph ma- | chine, which delivers almost instantly a l} | strip of lkenesses of the person whose | | picture s taken, received one million | dollars in ecold cash for it. While the | penny cigarette machine may not have the same widespread appeal. it should | surely net its inventor a tidy sum if suc- | rerssful. Press aceounts do not state | whether more than one brand is served. | Inasmuch as there is a wide variety mn | smokers' tastes, it would appear to be | necessary to offer several kinds of ciga- | | rettes. This, howsver, is a detall to be worked out later by the Inventor, who |took no stock in the old adage that | “there is nothing new in the world.” S, | By a system which works both ways LGrne ‘Tunney impresses Europe by his popularity in America and impresses | vendor. Twenty-five thousand cigarettes | invention. Eventually he hopas to place | {especially if the latter is a good pla: {well done from a technical standpeint. | There are plays and plays, of course. ! Some drool along without stirring the | reader, whereas others force one to ad- mit a decided interest. 1 * ok ok ok The salient characteristic of a good book is that it Hterally forces the read- er to admit afterward that it is a good ook, | " There is no escaping from the ad- { mission, even if one prides himself on {being hard to please. The man is won | despite himself. His honesty will not permit Rim to escape from a favorable | verdict. This is all the more amasing, since |often enough 2 reader—any reader-- - hecomes _slightly bored with himseif over books. He never becomes tired of books, but there is something in the spirit of man which cannot tolerate an undiluted dose of anything. In such a mood, a reader becomes slightly quizzical. It must not be for- | gotten that ths book. the good book, as | we call it is not outside the covers, but inside thsm. The rcal book is not the binding, not th> paper. not the type, not | even the words themselves. | "The real book Is inside the heed of the reader! It was inside the head of the writer | first, that is why he is able to put it {into the mind of the reader. this magic by means of symbols, letters formed into words, and these words into sentences. ‘These words, these sentences, are pic- ture blocks which the writer uses to give is readers like pictures to his own. Be- | fore y reader anywheore can get He works | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. heart, lier final abnormality and the sad scenes that go with it. Using the sensitive Prench language. he begins to put his words together, and when he is done he sends it to a | publisher, who agrees with him that he has done a good job of fairy building. Th2 public agrees with the publisher, to such an extent that the book is done over into English blocks (words) and sent to America. So w~ had “The Closed Garden,” by Julian Green, published several months 2go. up, no doubt exclaimed, “Oh, znother one of those dismal French things! He might have found himself disinclined to rzad it, perhaps swayed by several ther flip reviews which branded it as a book one Is sup to read.” (Damning with faint praise.) Yet there is scarcely any doubt that any reader who went to the trouble .0 read the first chapter read through to the last word of the last chapter in that fine f>ver a reader raises when he is engaged in reeding a good book. Now one hears only favorable comment of “Ths Closed Garden.” It is more French than the French, and that is soying a great deal. e e Take Alfred Neumann's *“ Devil," 2 historical story based on the life of Loujs XI of France and his chamber- irin, Oliver Necker. We have had ths pleasure of loaning this volume to sev- eral very critical persons, to find in it was a sterling plece of work Like any good story, “The Devil" bullds up en atmesphere of its own, one that carries the reader along with it, trans- ports him to foreign lands, and keeps him there safely for the duration of ¢the tale. “The Green Murder Case,” by S. 8. Van Dyne (a pseudonym), is another instance. We began this story in a verv | eritical mood. We were tired of detec- | tive stories, for the time being, and reso- |lutely told ourself that we couldn’t be | entertained in that way at that time. We sat down in the middle of the aftar- noon with the book, telling ourself that we would read only a few chapters- and before we knew it we were busily constructing just such mental plctures |as the clever author had intended that | we should construct. It is as if an au- i thor says, “Stick along with me, and do |as I tell you, and I will show you some excitement.” The latest book to affect us in this pleasing manner is Ben Hecht’s play “The Front Page.” Ordinarily we don' like plays, especially modern ones. They bore us. But we sat reading “The Front Page” in a busy office, with people taik- ing, typewriters clacking, and for threc eye. When we finally laid the boo: down, it was like coming out of a strang: world into a very ordinary one, after 2i!. | MY STUDY WINDOW. Maristta | Minnigsrods Andrcws, E. P. Dutton & Co. The United States In point of age is but A’ mere younsior. Its citles there- fore, even the oldest of these, lack much of the mellow beauty ihat long centurics of existence have besiowed upon ma a famous center of the Old Worl Nevertheloss, there are here and thes 5pois in our own country which, out o general condition and special circum- stance, have gatherad, are siill gathe ANSWERS TO QUE STIONS - |the answer ap; Th 1 quests, BY FREDERIC ). HASKIN. Many raaders send in questions igned only with initials, asking that ar in the newspaper. e space is limited and would not accommodate a fraction of such re- The al |than the one who asks the question lonly. ANl questions should be accom- | panied with the writer's name and ad- | dress and 2 cents in coin or stamps for | repl: Send your question to The Evening Star Information _ Bureau, Frederic_J. Haskin, director, Washing- vers published are ones | !that may Interest many readers. rather Wh:n oysters are artidcially propagated ihey are fed with minute organisms such as they ars accustomed to feeding on in naiure. Oy Ts are not saavengers. Q. Will you tell me just what is | meant by the M E. D. M. Metropoliten _ District _of London comp=ises the cities of Lon- don and Westminster and the boroughs of Southwark. Pinsburv, Marvisbone, Tower-Hamlets, Hackney, Lambeth and Chelsea. The average reader, picking it | ing, (Los» ess.nces and fragrances that | '™ D- € stand for ths spirit of locality. RIVINg | Q. How many foot ball players were to this place or that one tha effect of killed in 19277—F. T. R. i personality ltself. A case in point IS, A In 1927 17 foot ball players were New Orleans, persistenily and pictur- | killed in gridiron action and over 100 | esquely reminiscent of French adven-|were Injured, as against 8 killsd and | turer and settler. Another is Charleston. | 200 hurt in 1926 still so strongly remindful of its Hugus = not strain. Still another is Boston, even yet barricaded behind I's Purfian fon the front and rear wheels of an | austerity. And there is Washington. | automobile so that all tires will receive | youngest of them all, unique among|equal wear?—T. S. P. American citles, the center of Nation- | A. The Linemln Highway Forum says: Wids affection, the immediate concern |“If you blow out a rear tire you have | of the people as & whole. little difficulty in holding your car on The story of Washington has been |the road until you can stop. while if told meny times. From many a poin*|you have a corresponding failure in a Q. Is it wise to exchange the tires Q. Is the French Legion of Homor civii or military>—C. M. B, A. Tne Legion d'Honneur in France is on order of merit, both miliiary and civil. As at present’ organized, it _con- ts of five classes—chevaliers, officers, commanders, grand officers and grand crosses. The President of the Republic is grand_master. In ordinary circum- stances 20 yeers of military. naval, or civil service 1s necessary for eligibility to the rank of ehevalier, and promo- tions can only be made afier definite ice in a lower rank. Estrao serviee admits to anv rank. “chevalier” means “knight.” each case that he or she agreed that acts we forgot everything in the worid | except the drama unfolded in our mind's | of view it has been approached—now by the grave historfan, or by the scien- tist; now by the political writer or the pure story-teller. Among these none + has done better service than two or | three women who have competently and brilliantly reproducsd the social drama of the Capital, a drama of interwoven personalities and problems, where poli- ties, statesmanship, diplomacy, society, are the threads of such weaving. A long time ago. Mrs. Bayard Smith told the story of Washington society as it was around the Jackson period. To- day, Mrs. Minnigerode Andrews produces by way of “My Study Window" the last 40-year span of ths prgeantry that social Washington so cleariy is. Now, here in the Capital, a President passing along the street is no over- whelming sight. A Scnztor in his daily walk cruses no upheavel in the quiet run of things. Diplomats are pretty much in the day's work, as are both generals and admirals. But try to re- member back when you first came to the elty. Try to reeall the thriiling possibility of actually seeing a live Senator of the United States or other dignitary approaching this one in lofty of mind of 100.000,000 people, more or less, who in this day of spinning wheels fully expect to look out upon the big | parade of their Capital city! To such “My Study Window" is both preparation and partaking. Here is a | woman, waywise end sophisticate, a tongue, with keen appraisal in her eye, with great good sense abiding in her heart. And this womas front tire your relatives are apt to won- | position. Well, that is the present state | smiling woman with wit upon her | der wi caussd your death. The i motorist who has an inborn desire to live a goodly while keeps his besi tires on the front wheels.” most furs into garments?>—C. K. A. The American fur-manufacturing industry is by far the largsst in the world. Although great numbers skins are imported. the United States and A'aska produce many more raw pelts than any other ecountry. Q. Do oysters open their shells eat’—R. F. F. > A. Oysiers whon feeding open their shells. In shallow creeks where the water is ver” clear it is often possible to sce oysters with their shells open. to | “Imitation is the sincerest flattery” and Occidental civilization is receiving one of the fines compliments ever of- | fered by Orientals, for the East is adopt- 1ing the Roman alphabet in place of the jand Japan, and the equally confusine Arabic writing of the Turks and othe: | Eastern races, all of whom are uishing they could use our plain letters, evea | for_recording their peculiar messages. | We Occidentals assume, of course, Mrs. Min- | that that adoption of our alphabet bv | Q. What country manufactures the | of | | @ Is it eorrect fo say “I bid him | farewell.” using “bid" m the pa or shouid it he “bade”:—S. S. D. A. “Bic" mav be used as the past tense of the verb ‘o bid." Q. How do migratory birds behave if moved to other countrics?>—N. G. A. The Biological Survey says that some section not native to them, they usvally disappear after tha first sea- son. They do not become acclimated and whsther they di» from lack of food or got lost, or are lost during migra- | tion, is not knewn. Exp-riments that have been conducied show that remov- ing birds of the stristly migratory type from their native haunts has not been Oriental ideographic symbols of China | nigerode Andrews, from the sightliest | the peoples of Asia is no more than | Assuredly, when he has ! a Amerlea by his social prestige in Europe. | “kic] of narrati iter | Many a hero is largely the work of |tomewhere must have got a “ick ! . v s own. s prol ly true st no e imegination with which 1t 15| reqger ever gots quite as much thril | both dangerous and unkind to attempt | out of a fine novel. for instance, as the interfer-nce. | writer of the same got in the first place i | Dickens wept at the desth of little Nell x | Thackersy was stirred to his depth by Mayor Jimmy Walker saw a musical 'some of his own scenes, show in this city. Few poople knew | A good sloflry is modml:ecnufi lttl i:, a | two-person affair, something strictly be- that he was in the audience. He might | 0ci™Hhe” duthor and his reader. - The have been taking all kinds of bows. 'author builds up his pattern in his own The art of self-cflacement is one which 'mind, using invisible bullding blocks | sometimes brings the bes {later ‘using materials, to wit, words, t3 e Peviewardaitin [schieve a ike:pattern in_the mind of - the render. e * ok ok W A great deal of long familiar material | Suppose. for instance, a young man over in France, born of American pat Is still in evidence. Among the stand- | pic ‘dacides to tell the story of & sensi- bys Is tie eonfident expectation that the | tive young girl deprived of love, kept | next election will see the melting of the | behind closed doors by an irascible H i father. o | others the revolt in this girl’s mind and e ) fended at tl unnecessarily crude lan- gucge used in “The Front Page.” it wouid be just as good a play without such words, but the author and his 20! laborator (we have forgotten the nai but rather image he handled the siag end of it—and did a fine job)—Hecht and his co-author chose to put them In, and maybe they did right, we don't know. All we know is that it is a cork- ing play. Such is the effect upon a reader of a good book. Such a story or play has a way all of its own. It wins approval because the honest and discriminating cannot but approve when approval is necessary. An interesting test might be made with an apparatus which takes | the blood pressure while a man is reac- |ing “The Pront Page.” We have no |doubt that our own went up to un- imaginzable heights, and that our return He wants to bring home to/to eerth was simply a cooling-down boox. | process. It is the effect of a good A disinclination becomes evident on | the part of eminent speakers to permit | themselves to be included among the | i r——— Conflicting arguments have left some | citizens apparently in doubt whethe» | they are going to vote for Herb Smith or Al Hoover. ' | Republicans. pendents of the press vie with one an. other in roundly denouncing the eam- | paign activities of Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant United States Attorney General, whose addresses to religious organizations and attacks on the Democratic nominee have made her a storm center in the presidential campaign. Mrs, Willebrangt is not wholly without champions. For instance, th: Rochester German science is superior to super- | Istition. The word Zeppelin has en- tirely lost its suggestion as a “jinx.” ) SHOOTING STARS. ing lives on the whole common to the lives of any respected man in this com- | munity—who add color and purpose to their existence through their faith. There cannot but be a vivifying influ- ence in the witness they bear in this day when religion is too often but a though in this contest the Republican | nominee for the governorship will have somewhat the advantage of the Demo- cratic, on the score of the latter's physi- cal handicap. In view of the great im- portance of the contest it may be ex- pected that not even the disabilities in- cident to his deplorable affiction will | drab incident in human life. Faith deter the Democratic candidate from |2nd prayer and service, and the proud contributing his utmost to the effort “’1 profession that these play a vital and secure Democratic success for the State | beautiful part in a manly existence, are ticket, which may mean success for the | h® Watchwords of the brotherhood. national. Washington is proud to have been the city selected for this gathering. Speeches are seldom preserved on phonograph records. If large talk were [ The brotherhood is one of the oldest men’s organizations of an essentially | religious nature in this country. confided to the discs, many a party was the first religious organization to might have to learn to dance to words instead of music. follow the flag when America entered gt L | the World War. It enjoys a splendid Campaign speakers of all affiliations | record of service rendered through its are eager for time on the air. The Prison chapters. It is regarded by the prevalent word at the intellectual feast Clerical element of the church as a Is “‘Please pass the microphone.” | vigorous and effective auxiliary in the B ~ | 23e-old task of promulgating the “faith Letter writing has played an impor- | once delivered to the saints.” Its meet- tant part in literature. It has also a | ings will constitute a fitting prelude to growing significance in polities. — st B ) Trotzky is said to be a rich man. the opinion of many, while saving h's money he has not altogether “saved The Blowgun Nuisance. Certain juvenile pastimes are seasonal | and endemic. They run their courses | pis face from year to year and vary only with in- | vention and application. Most of them | are entirely harmless. Soms of them, however, are mischievous. Of the latter | kind is the now prevalent disposition | Ditterly disappointed in the showinz of of small boys—and some larger ones— | their entry this year in the Americau to use blowguns in the streeis. These | L€2gu® race, consolation has come te consist of tin tubes fitted with mouth- | them, In a measure, from the fact tha - Washington's Batting Champion. pieces through which small shot are |for the first time in modern base ball | propelled with considerable foree by |® local player has won the batting lung power. magazine of ammunition. The favorite 'Official aversges have not yet been re- trick of these young blowgunners is to | Icased from headquarters, “Goose" Gos station themselves on the curbstones | lin appears to have nosed out Heinie and project their tiny missiles at pass- | Manush of the St. Louis Browns by ing street cars and automobiles. The |One point, .379 to .378. Leading the shot is too small to break a window or | hitters of the junior circuit for almost irflict & wound. but it is nevertheless | the entire year, the sturdy loft ficlder capable of causing a serious accident. | 0f the Nation2ls fought off the chal- 1t one of these pellets should hit the | lenges of Al Simmons of Philadelphia driver of a motor car in the face it |and Lou Gehrig of New York until th~ might easily cause him to flinch and | closing six weeks of ths sseson. Then lose control of his machins and thercby | it was that Manush made his dater- to precipitate a disaster. Road-wise |mined bid and Goslin raced nack and motorists who see these vouthful sharp- | necx down the stretch with him. It shooters standing on the curb prepare | was not until the last bell was p'tched themselves for possible barrage by clos- | in the closing game of the seazon that ing the near-side eye or putting up an | the result was known. arm to protect the face. But even this The “Goose™ has always been a strong 15 a distraction which may be highly | batter and a tower of strenath for the | dangerous In traffie. The parents of | Nationals, but he has never before ap- It the great convention which will follow. | In | While Washington fans have been | The mouth becomes a ‘ifhampionshxp of his circuit. Although | these youngsters, who themselves may be the victims of such an accident as proximated his batting avsrage of this year of nearly 450, Most remarkahe BY PHILANDER JORNSON. Evolution and Mechanies. In a primordial past When I was less than snail, I stood in terror vast Of a wheelbarrow’s trail. And later, when I grew Into a whale so big. { I shuddered when I'd view A schooner or a brig. As humanly I turned To animals I'd feer. Of monsters new I learned With mechanisms queer. No mastodonic foe To fright me can avail. And yet the road may show i A fiivver on my trail! No pterodactyl now Can bring a threat of pain; | But only Heaven knows how 1 dread an aeroplane! So, as we evolute, Creations new draw nigh, Whose might we can't compute ©On land, or in the sky. | Staying Aleng With the Folks. “Have you studied eiocution?” “No,” answered Scnator Sorghum. I'm afraid that If I began to show |off any arts of grammar and rhetoric | the neighbors out my way might think | T was trying to put on airs.” Predatory Progression. ‘The “Hijack Gentleman” draws near, | only to meet the “Racketeer.” | "The “Bootleg Person's” plea intense | 15 one of injured innocence. Jud Tunkins says a scientist explains a lot of things in the sky, but he never | gets close enough to earth to tell you how to vote, Leadership. “Did you dance with the Prince of Wales?" “Yes," answeyed Miss Cayenne, “I was willing to follow his lead in the | dance. But I refused to go horssback riding with him.” “A man is respected,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “for what he does openly, and sometimes because of what he contrives to conceal.” Christmas Recollection. T've lost my faith in Santa Claus. His modern presents have proved | shocking. ITm led to fsel this way bacause He left a hip flazk in my stocking. “De danger of politics,” sald Uncle Democrat and Chronicle (Republican) takes the position: “Gov. Smith de- libsrately chcse to flout that portion of the electorate that regards pro- hibition as its special trust. He did this on the obvious gamble of winning another portion of the electorate that wants to see prohibition destroyed. His action, now, in denouncing friends of prohibition for speaking their minds, suggests that he realizes he has made a wrong gamble and is unwilling to accept the responsibility for the con- sequences.” Similarly the Morgantown New Dominion (independent) says, “We resent the unfairness and injus- tice of the attack on this noble, con- seientious, law-enforcing officer of our Government, not only by Gov. Smith, cratic and Republican, just as much as we do those directed against Gov. Smith.” * % ok X Most of those who comment are by no means so sympathetic, however. Such a stanch Republican spokesman #s the Cincinnati Times-Star speaks of the Assistant Attorney General as “the apparently irrepressible Mabel Walker Willebrandt.” while the Columbus Ohio State Journal (Republican) declares “she is most certainly Injuring the political cause she is trying to pro- mote,” and suggssts that “a word from President Coolidge or Mr. Hoover would settle her.” be called out of the campaign against the Democratic nominee by the Repub- lican national committee,” remarks the Memphis Commercial Appeal (Demo- cratic), “friends of those nominees will be sorely disappointed. For Mrs. Wille- brandt is doing anything els> than harm to thes Democratic candidates.” The Syracuse Herald (independent) ol serves that “the pecullar and un- precedented character of her present campaign is an enterprise which the Republican national committee runs desperate risks in approving and shoul- dering.” “The campaign committee will have difficulty in escapinz the harmful ef- | feets of Mrs. Willebrandi's unwise ut- | terances.” in the judgment of the Herald of Washington Courthouse (in- dependent), while the Cleveland Plain | Dealer (independent Democratic) says as to a speech in Ohio: “To climax her misrepresentations, she said that ‘Mr. Smith as Governor of New York has four times taken an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and he has four times disregarded that oath. Do Candidate Hoover and Chair- man Work sanction this reckless ha- ranguing on the part of a member of he Coolidge administration?” “The Republican national committee has assumed a heavy responsibility,” states the Springfield Union (Republi- | can), with, however, the contention that “she will b> rejected as a spokes- man of the party by thousands thiougi- out the country.” The South Bend Tribune (independent Republican) ad- vises that, “In the long run, Hoover will suffer more than Smith if Mrs. | Willebranat continucs to act without diseretion.” Portsmouth Daily es_(Damocratic) saiiricall remarss, “Mr, Hoover, of course, knows nothing abcut her at all, PR Her plea on moral grounds stirs other cridics. “Prehibiilon 1s, of course, not th> whole of morality.” suggests the but by many newspapers, both Demo- | “Should Mrs. Willebrandt | Eben, “is shown by de discord resuliin’' Dayion Daily News tindenendent Damo- No Party Lines in Dencuncing Of Mrs. Willebrandt’s Activities' Democrats and inde- | The Newark Evening News (independ- | ent) asks, “What explains the state of mind that strains at a Democratic gnat and swallows a Republican And that paper points out that “in her efforts to make this a virtuous cam- | paign Mrs. Willebrandt forgsts a num- 5%?!’ of things of which Gov. Smith | reminded the country in his speech at | Helena.” “Corruption in government must be something very like a moral issue,” says the Milwaukee Journal (independent), | with the further suggestion that “Mrs. | Willebrandt has not talked about that” The Lynchburg News (Demo- | cratic) condemns “the very thought of | this associate of and defender of Harry | Daugherty, this politician using high Federal office for partisan political pur- riously failed in the performance of her duties in connection with prohibition, talking of ‘morality.’ " The obligation of office is the sub- ject of some extended discussion. The Roanoke =~ World-News (independent Democratic) comments: “Mrs. Wilie- brandt speaks, not as an individual, nor as a temperance crusader, nor as a traveling evangelist, but as an Assistant Attorney General of the United States. If the Coolidge adminisiration permits her to proceed, the country can only | conclude that Mr. of her methods. Coolidge approves The rhiladelphia that “she comes under the ban of the Federal law that prohibits the partici- pation of Government employes in active political work.” * * % Mrs. Willebrandt's doings are classed lican) as “an instance of perniclous political activity which it would be hard 10 equal The only adequate squaring of this episode,” continues the Tribune, from office. Government silence con- dones and supports it.” The Omaha World-Herald (independent) takes the same view and edds: “So, too, does the silence of Mr. Hoover. Will the Ameri- can port “Mr. Hoover is in a position to control the actions of Mrs. Willebrandt,” in- sists the New York World (independ- ent). “Without the slightest question he has the power to dissociate her absolutely from his campaign,” the World asserts. “The Republican party has the power to dismiss her from office.” “Theé News cannot condone Mrs. Willebrandi’s campaign methods,” concludes the Clevcland News pendent Republican). “It does not propaganda. This newspaper simply the stump. It suggests that the Re- publican national committee recall her and before irreparable damage to the Hoover ceuse may result.” . v It Would Be Hard for Some. From the Nashville Banner. “No_work, no food,” is the order in the Florida region recently storm stricken. Quite a few communities could use a storm if that rule results. e Saves the Ears a Lot. From the Albany Evening News. On? redeeming feature about Autumn is that it brings the waistcoat back and solves the pencil parking problem. [ i And They Never Freeze. From the Flint Daily Journal. It is to b> assumed that a bootlegger calls his capital his liquid assets. r—os Never Thought of That. We caution any reader not to be of-| amel®” | poses, this attorney who has so noto- | Record (independent Democratic) holds | by the Chicago Daily Tribune (Repub- | “would be the removal of this offender , people likewlse condone and sup- | It (nde- | . propose to debate with her over her | does not believe she has any place on | before any more bitterness is aroused | window in Washington points out the people that you so much want to see, {want to hear, want to have take you by the hand. And pest this window the great procession moves. Yet, its effect is not at all that of a procession, | nothing so formal, so wooden as that. Rather is it, by way of a nearer ap- proach, of a friendlier and warmer meeting _that you see these notables of the Capital—President, cabinet of- ficer, soldier, diplomat, scholar, man about town and his wife. wife is here, and we women like that. Social gathering, formal function, ex- clusive meeting, public ceremony—these {are the ways by which approach is | made to the celebrities of Washington. Nor is humorous incident lacking. Cer- tainly not lacking with this writer, who appears to have more fun out of ! her own mild errancies than she seems iable to gather from the more serious misadventures of those who take their society in a ponderous gravity. In this social survey, as companionable as it is inclusive, personalities abound. No, not that sort of “personality.” Mrs. Andrews appears not to have that kind in her make-up. These are of the illuminative brand, giving just a little more about the worth of this woman, or that man, than comes to surface of casual meetings. I quote a person- | ality, which in marked degree repre- sents the spirit of all of them: “Mrs. Coolidge has won the love of the peo- ple of Washington. Her girlish—one might almost say, her boyish—figure, | the buoyancy of her step and the alert- iness of her mind create happy im- | pressions. She Is beyond eriticism.” A frank, warm, wise lady, this one look- !ing from her studio window. Listen |again: “If in the make-up of the | President there is something of the | austerity suggesting the solemnity of | his Puritan ancestors and the stability of the New England granite, there is| | in her a sunshine that breaks out even | through the heavy clouds of personal sorrow which have overshadowed them both; she never fails to give the warm handshake, the cheering word. that stimulate all who meet her.” This rep- | resents the spirit of Mrs. Minnigerode Andrews’ work throughout. Here are | views and opinions so broadly humai | so deeply intelligent, so kindly disposed | that they deserve stressing, particularly just now when partisan madness is pre- vailing. | And the writer goes back to the | earlier years in Washington, to the days | of other Presidents and of other na- tional celebriiles, always, too, in the | same poised spirit of observation, opin- | fon, judgment. The story begins hack with the Clevelands and the McKinleys, moving forward from this point up into | the immediate present. Like so meny I books of historic and biographic es- | sence, this is clearly another one that should be read from back to front. | Such an order permits a_face-to-face meeting with the distinguished and in- teresting people of today and from these a gradual moving back towsrd those of Iless direct appeal. The book Is dedi- ceted to “Edith Bolling Wilso }_ Just a word about the writer who is, | besides a poet, an artist, and——best of | all—a gallant woman. Listen to her !for a second: “Happy? I should rather say! To have drawn from life, in grati- tude, all one is capable of using. at every stage of the game: to pour back into life sincerely all that one has had to offer; to have and to hold forever. all that was ever dear; to forget all that hes been unprofitable—is it not enough?' ok ox o SELECTED POEMS OF AMY LOW- ELL. Edited by John Livingston Lowes. Houghton Mifflin Co. None but the special student of Amy Lowell's poetry could make use of its great bulk, 11 big volumes. There are many, however, not special students, who find intellectual and emotional en- joyment in this writer's work as it objectifies in verse the principles of poetic construction that underlie what is called free verse. It is for such gen- eral readers of poetry that the book in hand is provided. This is, out- standingly, a comprehensive selection, representing the full bodv of Miss | Lowell's work as well as the various verse forms made use of by her in poetic construction. The ms are grouped by virtue of their kinship in theme rather than by any more ar- bitrary bond. Reference to volumes is | given for those desiring to pursue the siudy of Amy Lowell poetry further. Nature, the nature of New England, for many a theme here— s,” “Hoar-Frost,” “Behind Time" —much of it rugged in choice, always that in treatment. As wide as the world from that which many have been taught to accept as poetry, it gives rise | therefore out of such old training and rejudice, to a storm of protest against t as poetry either in spirit or in form. Yet, reading and then reading more, one is undeniably stirred—plercad, rath- er, is the better word far the effects of this New England woman's reception | of the spirit of poetry. of its entertain- ment, besides. In its representative capacity this is an admirable volume In its power to seize upon the reader's imagination it is strong'v of verse. Everybody's | itardy recognition of our superiority in | education. To us, no language will com- | pare in simplicity and music with the |language of Shakespsare—although | literally, most of us would need a dic~ | tionary, closs by, when hearing it spokon | as it was in Shakespeare's day. But, of | course, the English of today mus* be so fine that it is no wonder that gibberine “furriners” envy us who really speak it | correctly—if we do. | Let foreign nations of their language | boast, What fine variety each tongue affords: | I like our language, as our men and | coast; Who cannot dress it well, want wit, not words. L I | Just as men differ in what they <ee lin a block of marble, so they diverge in reading a dictionary: a mason sees a ‘vren corner stone for a building; a ! Michelangelo sses an angel or a | Moses. A philosopher finds logic in the | dictionary, an orator eloquence. 2 poet |an anthem or a sonnet. A Japaness {lcves his ideographic symbol (even his 13,000 such ideographs) because they so sulbt‘l‘y express the exact idea in his mind. ‘When all thg world records its ideas | with the same tools the time will not be long when the world will be record- ing” similar thoughts. and will think mg:o hnmo;flou‘sy than in the ages when every foreigner was spoken of as & “barbarian.” o Improvements in transportation have | made the globe small: improvements in | communication will tend to bring =il peoples into one brotherhood, and tho conditions will be in contrast with the | famous incident in which Charles Lamb | taught a lesson* “See that man over there? I hate him. “Why. that's a stranger; you don’: suecessiul. BACKGROUND OF EVENT1 BY PAUL V. COLLINS. | has aroused great ambition among the | Intelligentsia to introduce the Roman alphabet, in prniing, not ' the old | elassic Chinese, but the vernacular of | the masses of people. ok It is not to be assum~d. because the Japanese derived tacir idograph writ- ing from the Chinsse, that the two languages are alike. According to W. M. McGovern, Ph. D, in his book, “Mod- ern Japan”: “The Chinese and Japanese tongues are, in their essence, almost as far apart as Chinese and English, certain- ly far more different than Anglo-Saxon and Latin, for the latter are both Aryan languages, while there is not even racial affinity botween the Chinese and Japanese, * * * Japanese. like English, is polysyllabic. while Chinese is monosyllabic. In Chinese, there is no tense, no number, no case, and even no distinction between a verb and a noun. Japanese, like many European languages, haz a higaly complicated | syntex, a single sentence being of in- terminable length. Chinese is extreme- ly terse, pithy and to the point.” It can be readily seen that the dif- ferences between the two languages now form a barrier against mutual under- standing of the masses in China and Japan, for the ideographs of the one are meaningless to the other. But when both use the same alphabet they will begin to comprehend each other’s thoughts. And that means that a quar- ter of the population of the globe will be drawn closer togsther in understand- Ing and mutual sympathy. * ok x x In China the movement for a system- atic language for the masses, whic could be written intelligently, began zbout 10 years zgo through the awaken- ing of revolutionary “Young China." The “literary” language requires some 40,000 ideographs, but the Chinese Re- naissance movement has reduced the language to 1.000 ideographs, which a lower Chinaman learns in four months, at a teaching cost of $1. He is delighted to discover at the end of his four months that he can really read and understand the vernacular papers, which do not use th~ “literary Chinese.” Many students ere ambitious, then, to continue their edueation, and they he- come intelligent as to the s of world affairs. Their horizons widen. * ok w ¥ | know him. | “Of course I don't know him: I never | saw him before. That's why I hate him if I knew him I could not hate him.” * koo When the Japanese or Chinese news- paper ceases to set up its news and | editerials in ideograph, and clothes its | thoughts in plain English letters, how long will it be before inquisitive lin- guists will spell out the words, learn to speak according to the sounds ex- {pressed by those letters, and acquire | ability to read the thoughts of the Orient? { _ Americans are not good linguists, but how asham | ought we to be to dis- cover that in Japan, where the “alpha- bet” means 5,000 units, while ours means only 26, “what every schoolboy knows,” after learning his 5,000 “A. B and Cs,” would make learned a judge In Turkey, Kemal Pacha. the Pres!- dent-Dictater, has desroed that all pee- ple must learn the us: cf the Roman alphabet, which must supersede t Arabic—almost as comvlicated as t| ‘hinese. So, in all villages and citi the public squares have been converted into language schools for adults, as well as for children, and the people are eagerly studying their A, B.and Cs. * ok * % . It is well known that the Turkish re- public has undertaken to Europeanizs its people, in dress end customs. It is now doing the same in language. Thera is no section of the world where the confusion of tongues, as at the Tower of Babel, persists as it does in Turkey. In a book, “Turkey: A World Problem of Today,” Talcott Willlams says: “Races, tongues and faiths, bitterly | held and bitterly persecuted, divide Tur- uon our bench or a preacher in the |key as they did westorn Europe for stx highest pulpit! |or eight centuries, 500 to 1300, and as - i | they still divide eastern Europe, which, The Army. test of literdcy in the United States at our entry into the World War showed that 24.9 per cent of our young men could not read a newspaper, nor write an answer to the letter they received from home. That was In spite of our public schools and “compulsory” school laws. And the worst {lliterates were not descendants of immigrants, but were native Ameri- cans, born of a long line of unmixed natives. Twenty-five per cent illiterate! Some companies from regions of “pure Americans” showed 60 per cent who could neither read nor write. Our census reports show a different percentage of illite because the consus recognizes as “literate” all who have had any schooling at all—even i a single day. So the census average for all illiterates in the United States was found, in 1920, to be 7.7 per cent. But in Japan the average of {lliterates is only 5 per cent, and in certain provinces only a little over 4 per cent. Skepiics ask how the Japanese census was taken, by what definition of illiteracy. {lliteracy, which enabies one test show 24.9 illiterates and another only 7.7 per cent. In Japan they have compulsory edu- cation laws, and the laws are obeyed. In 1874 31 per cent of the children attended public schools: in 1900, 80 per cent: in 1910, 99 per cent, and since 1921, 100 per cent. imbeciles and incapables of all kinds. * ook ok Here is a sample of “English as she is Japped” (it might be found useful in some American cities, if printed with graphs) : “Japanese police force consists of nice young men. “But I regret that their attires are not_perfectly neat. “When a constable come in conduct with a people, he shall be polite and tender in his manner of speaking and movement. “If he will terrify or scold the people with enormous voice, he will become himself an object of fear for the people. “Civilized people is meek. but bar- barous people is vain and haugty.” As Washington Is endeavoring to re- form its police, here is a useful tip | from the Land of the Rising Sun. L | tongues | countries of Europe of the west have The same query may be| asked about the American definition of | to ‘This excludes | i English-Roman letters instead of ideo- | |like Asiatic Turkey, has none of the training, melioration and amalgamation which Europe has gained in the last 700 years. In those years the uniform and_ organized. consolidated emerged. Turkey today. as to local tongues and races, is as the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Italy were in 1000 to 1300." What will it mean to those mixed races when 21l their languages are writ= ten or printed with the same alphabet? Mr. Talcott Willlams adds: “The differ- ence which separates the Turkish em- pire in Asia from every other adjoining land is that in all cities and in most of | the rural districts these languages are intermixed.” (Conyright. 1938, by Paul V. Colline.) UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. German artillery is concentrating a heavy fire on the American forces be- tween the Aisne and the Meus counterattacking, which ma; they are doing it to cover a withdrawal of troops. Boche resistance said to be weakening in the Argonne Forest and Aire Valley. * * * The Prench ad- vance on every front and have now car- ried all of St. Quentin and positions south of the city. Large gains report- ed north of the Vesle. Gen. Gouraud's forces, in conjunction with the Ameri- cans, are making good progress in_the Argonne and to the west. * * * Bat. tle of Cambrai continues with intense and desperate fighting on both sides. Canadian troops call it the hardest fighting of the whole war. * * Threatened on the north by the swift advance of the allies in Belgium. and on ths sovth by the British thrust past Cambrai, the Germans have begun to retreat on a wids front on both sidns of the La sce Canal. * ¢ ¢ The allies are adding to their gains in Bel. gium so rapidly that the Germans are reported to be moving their heavy artillery back from the coast to protect it from capture. * * Damaseus, eapital of Syris. has been captured by captured. Gen. Ailenby's troops and 7.000 Turks Eight hundred and e Frowa the Zaa‘a Barhira Daily vital. With this bodk alane ene is in China is quite cager to overcome Another thing ths wima‘s ec ~umer pesicssicn of & body of noetry that | fillieracy 23 was Janan. The recent pa:s for witheut realizing it is the ear ecommands consideration 2nd induces victory of the Nationalist army, which worn out in the effort to sell him ome. deep feelings and recognitions. Jepresents the Progressives of China, ! ven nemes en easualty list given out iar—192 killed in action, 80 :nissing, 475 wounded severely and 54 dead from wounds, eratis), “Meone of ths Tn Comm~nr ments, as we remember, rof-rs to pro- Ieader of de hibition. But there is a commandment which says, 'Thou shalt not steal’" 2 blowgun pellet might easlly eauss, |of all is the fact that Goslin was able {whon a bad musisian has Influence to should take a hand in the matter end | ta kesp up the fast pace under thes git hisself appointed forbid the use of these weepans of an- handicap of worry about his lame arm chol } [ o