Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1928, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR —With Sunday Morning Editicn. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY......October 16, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 11tn st "and Fensivants Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. icag0 : Tower Bullding. European Offce: 14 Regent St., Londen. gland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. fl' Evening Star 45c per month e Evening end Sunday Star (when 4 Sundays) 60c per month The Evening and Sul star (when § Sundays) 65¢ per month The Sunday Star .. per copy Collection made at the end of each month. Orders may be sent in by mail or telenhone Main 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. M\rvflhlld l‘nd v':';"o'o'hi e 1 o .00; 1 mo., Pally Snly Snaer. 3$6.00; 1 mo.. S0c Sunday only . $4.00; 1 mo.. 40c ¥ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Prass is cxclusively entitled o the use for rspublication of all 1ews ais- afches credited to it or not otherwise cred ted in this paper and also the . published herein. All rights of publi special dispatches herein are also reserved. ————————— 2 A Thrilling Day. Two marvelous inventions of this marvelous age combined yesterday io give the people of the United States a thrill that they probably never will for- get. The first invention was the airship and the second was the radio, which, coupled together, awed millions by their wonders. Thousands were at the field at Lakehurst when the giant Zeppelin came to port after a record-breaking flight from Germany—record-breaking in the number of hours in the air and in that it was the first commercial trip of its kind. At the field, on top of the glant hangar were two expert, word- picture radio men, and as the big ship slowly settled on the ground at the end of her epochal voyage the scene was described over a metwork of stations | candidate only on the assumption that - | has been a larger increase in the num- the State will make a record for all time. These exceptional registration figures show that the State of New York is aroused to an unprecedented pitch in this present campaign. Whether they signify Republican or Democratic vie- tory is wholly a matter of speculation. If the breaking c” “~cords in Greater New York were :~° accompanied by similar and thus far cven greater in- creases up-State it might be argued on the basis of the general Democratic pre- ponderance “below the Bronx” that Gov. Smith will benefit from this exceptional registration in an area that has always given him large majorities. But with the same phenomenon presented in the up-State countles this argument is not logical and it would appear that the exceptional registration is to be re- garded as favorable to the Democratic his great personal popularity will break down party lines in areas where here- tofore they have generally been stoutly maintained. A factor of undeniable importance in this registration outpouring is that there ber of woman registrants than men. It is now evident that more women will take part in the election than at jany time since the adoption of the nine- teenth amendment. This may be due to the peculiar nature of the questions now before the electorate—questions on which the woman voters in all sections feel deeply and are likely to express themselves as never before. AR TR Borland Law Inequities. An opinion just given by the cor- poration counsel's office to the District Commissioners is to the effect that the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1928. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. and shrubbery plot that borders the water. Regardless of the fact that there is no warning sign at this point, or no barrier at the river itself, there is no hazard connected with this in- tersection to the properly driven auto- mobile. It Is obvious that unless a complete barrier were erected on the seawall there would be no protection to freak accidents of this sort because the driver heedless enough to reach the river would not be deterred by warn- ing signs. Accordingly, there would seem to be no real necessity for com- pliance with the recommendation. e “Just to Be Crazy.” ‘The more or less prevalent practice of a certain type of motorist to deco- rate his car with all manner of slogans and signs, some of them of doubtful propriety, is up for investigation in De- troit. Haled before tha court for speed- ing, a callow youth was asked by the judge to explain the reason for his gaudily painted automobile, which had been described by the arresting officer. “Just to be crazy, I guess,” answered the motorist. “In that case,” the judge decided, “we will determine just what variety of insanity it is. I refer you to a sanity commission, which will report one week from today.” After the commission takes this queer creature apart to see what makes it tick, there will probably be one less of these effensive-looking automobiles on the streets. This lad, if his “in- sanity” is not of the dangerous kind, will probably be cured by the time the court finishes with him. In the ma- Jjority of cases the cars decorated in this manner are of ancient vintage and because of bad brakes and wobbly steering apparatus are a menace to District government, having once as- sessed property owners for the laying of a concrete street base, under the Borland law, cannot impose an addi- tional assessment for replacing the asphalt surface several years afterward. ‘While no action has been taken on the which extended west, north, south and east. Of course, the main interest in the stirring events of yesterday is in the Zeppelin. Radio, despite its wonders, is more or less commonpiace. There was nothing commonpiace, however, in the pioneer voyage taken by the sixty peo- ple in the gondolas and cabin of the air monster. Germany .to the United States in one hundred and twelve hours! And this despite the fact that adverse weather conditions forced the dirigible out of its course and & broken stabilizing fin slowed down the speed. America welcomes the Zeppelin, its passengers and its crew. They are the pioneers in a new era of transportation. ‘They sought to prove the practicability of lighter-than-air craft for overseas voyages, and they proved it beyond case in point, regarding which protest was made by the property owners, it is to be assumed that the Commissioners will be guided by the opinion rendered and abstain from further assessment. ‘This whole matter of the Borland law should be carried to Congress at the coming session, perhaps with this par- ticular case advanced as an illustration of the inequity of the method of financ- ing street improvements established by that statute. The Borland law, which has imposed & heavy burden upon prop- erty owners, has been maintained de- spite objections and demonstrations of its unfairness and its departure from the proper principle of public improve- ment ever since its enactment. That fact, however, should not be regarded as justification for its further opera- tion, /¢ ‘The Borland law provides a wrong doubt. They proved that despite handl- | mathod of financing highway develop- caps of weather and injury the ship was staunch enough to push her way through. And in proving these things they re- vealed a world of air-minded peoples, the numbers of which could never be even estimated before this demonstra- tion took place. Europeans did not have the benefit of radio for the land- ing, but dispatches from the ship were received by an eager populace. America those who could not get within the field inclosure either read avidly the news of the flight or hoped fervently that ‘radio programs would be inter ‘rupted to give them the final word of arrival through the air directly from Lakehurst. No greater demonstration of air-mindedness and air interest has ever occurred, and this interest bodes well for the future of commercial trans- portation through the skies. Within ten days or two weeks the Zeppelin will start on her return voy- age, and if Dr. Hugo Eckener, the dar- ing, resourceful and skiliful navigator and designer of the ship, held any ‘doubts that his cabins would not be full to the overflowing, they must surely . be dispelled by the enthusiastic recep- Only twenty cabins are available, but ‘these twenty will be bid forsover and +over again. When the Zeppelin starts back on the second lap of the round trip there is every possibility that new air history will be written, but it will . be on the side of speedy transportation of large numbers of people from the United States to Germany. With her fin repaired and prevailing winds on her tail the giantess of the air should carry her passengers over the sea at a record pace. Congratulations are as- suredly in order on a feat that will go cown in the annals of aviation as one of the greatest single contributions to air progress. e ‘There can be little hope of attaining ‘universal peace until it becomes possible to ascertain precisely what the Chinese tongs are fighting about. Great Registration Increases. ‘When the first day's registration in New York City last week showed a de- cided increase in the number of per- sons qualifying for voting, over the fig- ures for 1924, expectation was raised that the grand total of the year's re- cording would rise high above that of the last preceding election. This ex- pectation has been realized. Compila- tion of the tallies from all the regis- tration districts has developed that 2023654 are now enrolled as possible voters, as against 1,500,113 four years ago, an increase of 523,541, or approxi- mately 34.9 per cent. In 1924 the total vote cast in the country for presidential electors was 29,091417. If the New York percentage of increase in registra- tion is maintained throughout the States and a corresponding increase at the polls is recorded, the total this year will be 39,273,413, From other parts of New York State come reports of similar increases in the registrations. Rochester reports for the first two days sn increase of about 26,000 over the 49,000 of four years ago. Glens Falls shows an advance of 2,500 over the 3,290 of 1926, and only 1,334 less than for all four days of 1924. Jamestown had an increase of 4,300 over thé same period in 1924, when 7,206 registered. Schenectady returns 2,300 more than the 7,015 of the last presidential year, Cohoes an advance of 1,900 over 4,041, and Watervliet 2,000 over 2844. These up-State increascs ment because it is based upon a false theory of the nature of a public street. It imposes upon the immediately ad- jolning property a direct share of the cost on the theory that the street is primarily for the benefit of the occu- pants of that street. As a matter of fact every highway is of community- wide importance and value. A public street is an artery and not a mere I | capiliary. While it is true that it af- fords access to the property of the in- dividual owner, it is also true that it affords equal facility of access to all other residents, to the public at large. Whether a major or & minor street, it is part of the communication system of the community. The only equitable method of estab- lishing and maintaining public streets is on a basis of District-wide assess- ments, by appropriations to be met out of the general public funds on the theory that a street in any part of the District of Columbia is of importance to the whole—is, in short, a part of the general system of highways. Whether the street be wide or narrow, long or short, it is an integral part of that system. In this matter of a resurfacing of the streets that have been established on the Borland law basis there should be no question regarding assessments. To consider the street thus established as permanently a burden upon the ad- Joining property in the proportion set by the Borland law is unfair and, it ‘would now appear from the corporation counsel’s decision, unwarranted even by the statute itself. Nevertheless, this case affords & suitable starting point for an effort to secure the repeal or at least a material modification of the Borland law, 80 that the District property owner will be hereafter free from this unfair, inequitable method of paying the cost of establishing and maintaining public highways. The menu of an overdue Zeppelin ‘when reduced to caviar and champagne demonstrates the economic fallacy of rendering luxuries common, while neces- sities are dear. ——————— So much talk of tariff “log rolling” may yet result in bringing some wise words into the discussion from forestry experts who think they see a way out of the woods. o Freak Accidents. Immediately following automobile ac- cidents at points which have been free of such occurrences in the past, there generally comes a recommendation for remedial measures to prevent repeti- tion. Moet of these recommendations are based on sound study and those that are adopted result in benefit to the community. Occasionally, however, a freak accident occurs, an accident that would probably not happen again in many years, solely, or even partly, be- other users of the highways. Couple with this a mind so distorted that it will prompt the painting of obnoxious slogans on the car, “just to be crazy,” and the dangers to traffic can well be realized. The Detroit judge is to be commended for his effort to stamp out the practice. ——— e Massachusetts may agree in politics with the audlences who so enthusiastic- ally welcomed Herbert Hoover in Tennessee. But the scholars of the two States will not soon get together on the subject of evolution. Fortunately Dar- winian speculation has nothing to do with the present case, —————— Much time has been saved by radio. ‘The custom of cheering a favorite speaker by the hour has been abandoned owing to the fact that the stony stare of the microphone is a reminder that it is hooked up with a cash register. ———a “Efficiency” is represented as the art of handling great groups for a single purpose. Both campaign organizations put the idea to the most exacting test possible. ————— ‘The big Zeppelin was sold before it crossed the ocean. This fact makes it an example of modern progress not only in air travel, but in high-power salesmanship. — An enormous registration pussles the political forecasters. At all events, it is a thorough compliment to the orators endeavoring to elucidate campaign issues. X Hours of darkness are those of evil, New burglars scorn this ancient idea and prefer broad daylight. —— o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Night off. Dring forth the crossword pussle To occupy & mind, ‘Weary of those who guszsle The liquids unrefined! Bring forth the golfing record; Bring forth the base ball score, Or the adventures checkered, When mighty airships soar! ©Oh, let's forget the present ‘With its perplexing tricks! Bring forth some topic pleasant And cut out polities! 0Old Home Town. “I understand your old home town gave you a wonderful welcome.” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “But the votes aren’t coming so strong. I am slightly afraid the old town is preparing to let me come home and stay there.” Obstructive Pedestrian. Across the street I tried to run, A rough hi-jacker pulled a gun. ‘The racketeer got promptly gay And said, “Move on; you're in the way!” Jud Tunkins says Wall Street is more respectable than a crap game just the same as a hundred thousand dollars is more respectable than two-bits. Less Grateful Than Critical. “If I give you some candy, what will you say?” “I can't tell you,” answered the charming child, “until T have tasted the candy.” ¢ “We cherish unrealities,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “and believe in myths instead of fellow mortals.” From Every Angle. The bravé pedestrian sallies forth so Jauntily, His journey soon must lose its fond illusiveness. He'll sidestep numerous motors hori- zontally, Then dodge an airplane’s vertical in- trusiveness. cause of the physical condition of the roadway, yet recommendations are scon made which may involve the ex- penditure of thousands of dollars. It was such an aceident as this that oc. curred the other night on the Speedway and, regrettable as is the motorist’s death when he plunged over the sea- wall in his car, it is not reasonable to expect the Government to erect the signs which have been urged by the coroner’s jury or a seawall barrier, which would be the only real protection. Every city and every State is seeking to eliminate danger on the streets and highways. Curves are straightened out ‘may not be maintained on the succeed- ing registration days, but they at least show a decidedly greater interest on the part of the electorate, and justify the expectation that the 10ugou.h in t and barricades erected at particularly dangerous spots. In this case the driver was on a well lighted road and in order to get to the river he had to cross the wide speedway which goes under the Highway Bridge and the grass “Looks like it was sech hard work to land & p'litical job,” said Uncle Eben, “dat & man ought to be entitled to a good long loaf after he gits it.” ot Tests for Hunters. Prom the Butte Montans Standard. A 8 journal says that all hunters should be sulgecc to an_ examination. Prohibition of work highly effective. e See Surcease of Talking. From the Toledo Blade Mr. Curtls is hoarse from talking, something that won't happen to him if he is eélected Vice President. R e Barrister and Thug. From the Topeka Dally Capital ‘The Philadelphia police captain who was Indicted on 358 counts must have run up against a Philadelphia lawyer, § o cials might find that |, ., THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. We are very busy at this time read- ing a little known romance of the great Alexandre Qumas, “The She-Wolves of Machecoul,” dealing with the attempt of the Duchesse de Berry to incite a rebellion against the government of Louis Philippe in La Veridee in 1832. The historical background is distinct= 1y secondary to the story itself, which is a swiftly moving tale of plot and counterplot of the sort delighted in by the hearty French novelist and, by one remove, by all his readers of all nations. The tale is the thing! Reading & Dumas romance is like plunging into a strange country, where one may run up against he knows not what adventures, and meet people of all types, some of them friendly, some unfriendly. The Dumas country is a glorious country, since its aspects of reality are placed in a setting illuminated by the great spirit of the story teller, i. e., Dumas_himself. As far as our reading experience goes, there has never been a teller of tales before or since who had exactly this same great gusto in the telling of a story. They say that he simply out- lined his plots dnd left others to exe- cute them, being the head of a great “fiction factory,” but if that is so, it makes no difference—he got better re- sults by such a method than most writers secure through intense indi- vidual effort. “The She-Wolves of Machecoul” is a | striking example of Dumas at his best. | It belongs to the small group of steries vaguely called the “Napoleon ro- manees,” although the Corsican ap- pears in most of them simply as a sort of erand aside. This group includes “The Companions the best known, “The Whites and the Blues.” and “The She-Wolves of Machecoul,” the latter an incompa- rable title, since it intrigues th> inter- est of any reader. Who or what are these She-Wolves”? One must read four chapters to find out, an unusually long introductfon for Dumas, who mostly plunges straight into his story. In this one, however, he seemed to feel the necessity for an adequate historical background. The first three, therefore, are devoted to this task, a rather dry one, evidently, to the author, for the average reader will say to himself, as he reads, “This isx}'tt much of a story, I believe I will quit.” One can well belleve that Dumas commissioned one of his factory “hands” to write those first three chapters. The sentences are cut and dried, as befits the matter, with that inescapable air of author boredom which almost puts the reader to sleep. No sooner has the reader completed the fourth chapter, however, than he finds himself launched at once upon a typical Dumas romance, with interest picking up word by word, sentence by sentence. Shortly he begins to make the ac- quaintance of such a list of characters as only Charles Dickens or Alexandre Dumas could have handled. What a number of men and women cross these pages, yet there is never a bit of con- fusion! ~Here we have Louis XVIII, King of France; Louis Philippe, Prin- cess Marie-Caroline, the Duchesse de Berry, traveling under the name of Petite-Pierre; Domzte Henri de Bonne- ville, Baron de Lussas, Marquls de Souday, Jean Oullier, a Vendean peasant, one of the chief characters; A t Francols Michel, Mile. Bertha de Souday -nd'ul’l(e, .}:l-*ry de Souday. These are but a few of the leading portraits in a canvas which is as large as the countryside, and which is re- markably free from that device, so often misused, of working the reader up to a climax with one group of characters, only to drop them to go back for pages and pages to bring another group up to the same point. While Dumas perforce must use this fictional trick, he does it with discrimination, so that the reader escapes the appli- cation of four-wheel prakes which so suddenly jerk him to a standstill in Dickens ‘The “She-Wolves” are two beautiful young women, Bertha and Mary de Souday, brought up by their father to ride behind the dogs at wolf hunts, and to become strange mixtures of mascu- line and feminine. The neighbors of the countryside called them, in sheer envy, the “She-Wolves of Machecoul,” the latter being the great forest in which they went woif hunting. Dumas ends that fourth chapter with the forceful statement of fact: “They called them the ‘She-Wolves | of Machecoul.’ " Yes, they called them the “She- | Wolves of Machecoul,” In reality they were very nice girls, Bertha with a forceful disposition, Mary with sweeter traits; as no wonder that each one fell,squarely in love with the first young man they met, the young Baron Michel, who came across their path in a wolf hunt, and got stuck in a bram- ble hedge, from which the athlatic young women rescued him, among much laughter on their part. It is interesting to note that Dumas portrayed here, a half a century ago, the perfect type of athletic young lady who has now become widespread around the world through ths medium of swimming and tennis. Bertha and Mary were athletic wls ahead of their time. These “She-Wolves” were sim- ply normai girls who “went in” for hersemanship and hunting rather than Irl‘}r the sophisticated doings of court Into their lives comes the young baron, a fine bit of character drawing. He is a timid young fellow, wholly un- der the sway of his mother. The way his character changes, through his efforts to please his two young friends, and especially Mary, whom he loves, constitutes & fine piece of handling. 'The reader is shown not only the changes, but is made to feel that these were normal changes, resulting from the character himself and not from mere caprice on the part of the author. From the fourth chapter on, the jerky sentences change to Dumas’ carefully constructed lines, mixed with large slices of conversation, of which he was the complete master. We are shown the plots of the Duchesse de Berry and how our hero and the two heroines take part therein. We are led along country roads by night and follow the march of the general through the Vendee country, surrounded by enemies who never show themselves. -One is reminded of Gen. Braddock's march through the American forest. The troops are on their way to the Castle de Souday to apprehend the sprightly duchesse and her adherents, but when they get there they find her gone. It is a situation to the entire liking of Dumas and he makes the most of it. The spirit with which the old marquis invited in the soldiers and en- tertains them with cynical good will is something which few authors could touch. There is much running to and fro, but it is all understandable to the reader, who knows that Dumas will never break faith with them. To give the plot of such a tale is futile; one must read it. There are too many characters, too many angles, to make a brief synoposis anything but a bore. It can be done, but in the 50 the entire spirit of Dumas is lost, an this great gusto, as we have said, is the essence of the tale. Without it “The She-Wolves” would not be Dumas, but somebody else. As we read this story, we propose to give, from time to time, bulletins of our progress. One feels the desire to send out tches as he |, advances into this land of romance. . Allenby as Guest of Nation Recalls Days of Crusaders An atmosphere of the days of ro- mantic Crusaders to the Holy Land ap- pears to Americans to surround Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, liberator of Jerusalem, as he makes his first visit to the United States at the invitation of the American Legion. The press of the country looks upon him as a modest hero of war, who also possesses the in- stincts of a statesman. “The members of the American Legion know,” says the New York Sun, “that he was a good enough soldier to com- bine armored cars, cavalry, infantry, camel , airplanes, warships and Bedouin tribes in a single mmuua' opera- tion.” Speaking of his co-operation with T. E. Lawrence, whose influence with the tribes aided the fleld marshal in his work in Palestine, the Sun continues: “He worked as well with Lawrence as if the guerrilla leader had been the very ttern of an orthodox British officer. t was Lawrence, remembering the meeting between Allenby and Felsal at | Damascus, after the end of the war in the East, who wrote the most vivid and succinct description of our visitor. He then described him as ‘n,nnuc and red and merry, fit representative of a power which has thrown a girdle of humor and strong dealing around the earth.’” “None of the commanders in the World War won a more enduring fame than he, and none, since the end of the o] , has borne a more important t in the task of world reconstruc- ion,” testifies the Chicago Daily News, with the further tribute, “His military reputation, enhanced by his political services since the close of the war, Al- lenby of Megiddo comes to this country as an mple of the highest type of soldier-statesman produced by that pro- lific mother of a great man, the British Empire.” * ok ok ok “He is one of the most romantic and | appealing figures of the World War,’ s':,be& the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. “One must follow the desert route from Cairo to Jerusalem, which he traced with his army, to realise the desperately diffi- cult conditions which he overcame to jachieve the conquest of the Holy City. * & & He is one of those rare soldiers who, after achieving greatness in the field, win_new laurels in the ways of ace, Time has not dimmed the rightness of his achievements. The military historian who is considering the World War from the perspective of a decade finds that Allenby’s Pales- tine campaign stands out as one of the most_brilliant.” “The tale of his fighting in Asia was a tale of romance in a war of mud and cooties and wholesale slaughter. He was an herolc figure,” is the tribute of the Lynchburg News, with the added comment: “Allenby recalls the days of sacrifice, of high idealism, of hot en- thusiasm. His name and his exploits are not forgotten. He was the plumed knight of the war, his helmet was fol- lowed in the. thick of the fight.” “He Is the embodiment,” declares the Flint Journal, “of Richard the Lion- hearted, a_ descendant of that inter- mingling of Norman and Saxon which today we know as the English people. The whole Christian and Jewish world looks to him as the liberator of the cradle of the two great religious faiths.” That paper also recalls the fact that he “humbly entered the Holy City on foot through the old Jaffa gate” and t “it was a solemn moment as this bronzed Crusader of modern times walked through the gate.” The Utica Observer-Dispatch also emphasizes the solemnity of that approach to Jeru- salem, and speaks of how “he drove from that city the Turks, who had ruled Palestine for centuries,” as “the leader of the last Crusade.” “One of the strict orders to the army under his control,” says the St. Joseph News-Press, “was that they should do no irreverence to the sacred places of the three religions which ~flourish there—the Christian, the Jewish and the Moslem. Surely was the right man in the right place at the right time. The men under Lord Allenby were of all faiths and they must have appreciated the fitness of his policy on that historic occasion.” * ok % % world,” avers the Morgantown New Dominion. *“He broke the power of the Turk in the Holy Land and brought it under a different influence, one which today is assisting the people in their struggle toward a greater degree of self- government as well as for more economic freedom.” The Davenport Democrat calls him *one of the most picturesque figures of the World War and illustrates that with the descrips tion: “A campaign which resulted in the capture of Jerusalem from the Turks; that broke a Turkish line reach- ing from Gaza to Beersheba; in the course of which Turkish guns were fired from the Mount of Olives, and in which the British ocmed Bethlehem and other cities prominent in the story of the Holy Land since the timeé of Moses—such a campaign, crowned with complete success, makes Allenby stand out as one of the great generals of the great war.” “His achievements touched a chord of sentiment that appealed to all races and classes,” testifies the Manchester Union, adding that “this campaign assumed, in the mind of Christendom, the nature of a Crusade,” and that “for years he had urged that Palestine should be made into a permanent homes land for the Jews. The Philadelphia Record says: “Merely to mention the land where this campaign was waged is to open vistas of remote antiquity, where vanished civilizations lie buried beneath the dust of time and speculation itself stands baffled in the silence of the unknown, In successive ages it knew the sway of | Israel and Assyria and Persia, of Greece and Rome, of Saracen and Crusader. To recall the movements of Allenby's forces is to recreate scenes that have enriched the annals of mankind and changed the currents of history.” Referring to the British leader's advo- cacy of peace, the New York Times con- cludes, “May this hero of Armageddon, the ‘last of the Orusaders,’ become the modest prophet of the fulfillment of Isaiah’s far hope, the realization of the peace proclaimed 2,000 years ago!" o Autoist Admits Killing, Accepts Prison Term From the Kansas City Journal-Post. A local moiorist, who killed a man by his reckless driving, has entered a plea of guilty to a charge of man- slaughter and accepted a sentence to two years in the State penitentiary. Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a person, without malice, express or implied. Hence the unlawfulness con- sists in recklessness. If a man wildly waved a pistol and it went off and killed the person in front of it, the crime would be a ty‘;:lo( manslaughter. ‘When a motorist ral the speed of his vehicle to a lawless stage, traffic rules and sign: and kills a person within the peace, who had a right to expect the motorist to follow the regulations of law, the offense is manslaughter. The accidents arising from reckless driving of motor vehicles have become 50 numerous that prison sentences for the most flagrant offenders are neces- sary as a deterrent. It is to be hoped that the impressiveness of prison sen- tences may not be reduced by chicken- hearted parole boards or governors. She Can Read About Him. From the Detroit News. The trouble with being the wife of a New York Yankee ball player is that the old man never gets home till the middle of Octobers7 t NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG M. ABRAHAM LINCOLN:- 1808-1858. Al- bert J. Beveridge. Houghton Mifflin Co. The death of the author cut in half the four volumes ptojected by Albert J. Beveridge as a biography of Abraham Lincoln, The general loss to reader and student through such deep misfortune of circumstance is measurable, in part, by the exceeding value of the work that was completed. Not altogether measurable by this fact, however, since the parts in hand are clearly basic ones. Therefore, the two are indis- pensable, though all of them would have been highly desirable. These first two volumes set the foundation upon which rests the ultimate high destiny of Abraham Lincoln, Here are the years of preparation, of apprenticeship; here are the years of poverty to be met, of This is a special department devoted to the handling of inquiries. You have| at your disposal an extensive organiza- | tion in Washington to serve you in any capacity that relates to information. Write your question, your name and your address clearly, and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for reply. Send to. The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washing- ton, D. C. Q. Where were the dinosaurs cap- tured that were in the New York Zoo?— G. L. S. A. The only animals that might fit the description were two lizards that were captured by Willlam Douglas Bur- den on Komodo Island, a small island in the Malay Archipelago, about two years | X ago, and which lived in the Zoological Park for a few weeks. Q. How does the number of automo- biles to population in Canada compare hard pioncer work to be done, of 8s%03| with that in the United States?—R. J ciations to be formed with men In Canada there is one motor A. affairs, with the big and beckoning! vehicle to 10 people; ip the United World 'of forest and open field and all| Scatcs one to 512, the natural things roundabout, with a boy's dream besides. Al this and mote are in these two Q. Were women employed as conduc- books. About them|tors in New York subways during the there i8 no effect of incompleteness, of | World War?—E. L. unfinish. Instead they round fully to meet as it arrives the manhood of Lin-| Co. of New Y coln. Specifically, these first volumes end with the famous political debates known in American history as the Lin- ccln-Douglas debates on "the political situation of the country, torn at that time on the question of slavery. Two veats beyond the limits of this short- ened study Abraham Lincoln will be elected President of ti® United States, an office making for him a definite de- parture into a wider field—a field that finally opens out to martyrdom and jmmortality. But all this is yet in the future, EEE Exactly 70 years ago that the epic struggle between Lincoln and Douglas took place. Yet so vivid does it appear here, so vital in its every detail, so immediate in its setting of human na- ture and political circumstance, that the 70 years might be but a nafrow footbridge across which one steps in- voluntarily into the present, where an- other political struggle is now at its peak of party emotionalism, of party warfare. It is at such juncture that Mr. Bev- eridge might have been counted upox to be at his best. Politics was his own field, one in which he was entirely at home, one in which he earned distinc- tion and won high honors. It is Ly virtue of such intimacy, by such vivid- ness of portrayal, that the reader shifts so naturalty heré from 1858 to 1828 for an illumination of the present through the agency of the past. Read- ing at this point, one wakes up to the astonishing fact that there is no dif- ference between the two—no essential difference. tes vary, names are dif- ferent, certain surface currents, called “jssues,” are somgewhat changed; that is all. Under both situations human nature is behaving in its traditional ferocity of partisanship, unreason, bit- terness. Around two more or less de- fenseless men the hostile camps are gathered in battle. Each man wakes of a morning to find himself just about everything that he abhors and against which he stands—liar, drunkard, thief. And all this out of the partisanship of ) Attention ¢ | % ety “Allenby changed the map of the|plify ] Official biographers of the artist, these our great govrmins agency of what is known as a free and enlighténed people. is given to this point in Mr. Beveridge because it is illustrative point of his lit- erary method. The whole is pecul- jarly cotemporaneous in effect, as it 'proves to be in this one instance. Such effect issues in a measure from the material of which this author makes use. Here is & bulk of inclusive mate- | States. rial, gathered from every possible source and tested for its truth b!mevery possi-~ ble medern agency of weighing evidence. It was adventure into a remote past and on ug into the present that collected the facts of Lincoln's ancestry and birth, of his youth and upbringing. Its ‘were acceptance or rejection as tests decided. Even then, with the substantiated facts all around him, the author’s work was only begun. For beyond this achievement lay the work of ereaticn, the artist’s work of creating character, personality, direction of min and interest. In a word, with the mate- rial at hand, there began the process of making, of remaking, Abraham Lin- coln in a pattern so identical with both the inner and the buter man as to exem- ant him for all time in the minds of those who read this story of Lincoln. Not the industrious delver for facts is needed here; not only the writer who is artful in arranging situa- tion and scene and sequence for the making of a story, true, sustained, dra- matic—there must be, besides, the author who is on quite knowing terms with the sources of human behavior, familiar with the springs of feeling, desire, ac- tion; at home with the ways of men's minds in their reactions to this or that of external stimulation. Psychology, we call knowledge of this sort. And here Mr. Beveridge proves himself the psy- chologist, recreating, Abraham mind and spirit as to forecast for this achievement an enduring work of in- terpretation applied to a great world work, besides, that stan discriminating ‘and scholarly record of a | not merely against vitally important period in the history of American government. “The Life of Marshall” won for Albert J. Beveridge high rank &s biographer, and, by the way of it, as political his- torlan of power and persuasive genius. That study constituted a new history of America un_to the Jackson era. The “Abraham Lincoln” was designed to carry this history forward to the close of the Civil War. But destiny inter- vened. We have, nevertheless, two priceless volumes of that projected work. EE THE ART OF WHISTLER. Elizabeth Robins Pennell. The Modern Li- braty. The Pennells are recognized as the highest authority in respect to both the art and the life of James Whistler. two accepted the man himself in an enthusfasm of friendship that is both rare and beautiful. Cut short from writing this beok in collaboration with her husband, Mrs. Pennell has written it alone, and in a manner that sup- ports gallantly the Pennell standard of art and the Pennell enthusiasm for the art of Whistler, “Gusto” is the word that pins this enthusiasm down to definite effect. They all possessed it, this tang of life, this zest of existence— all three, the two Pennells and Whist- ler, Here Mrs. Pennell carries on alone in a masterly survey of the art of Whistler and the place that this art attained in the estimation of those who know. “It is little less than a quarter of a century since Whistler died”—Mrs. Fennell speaking. “Fashions among artists have come and gone with in- credible rapidity in that short period.” To these Whistler may seem “a back number.” “They endeavored to destroy his reputation by faint praise.” But coon the writer moves out into the clearer atmosphere of her own artistic evaluation of a fellow artist, an air that suits her, and Whistler and read- ers, much better than that of defying ambitious critics. “Whistler belleved in himself, yes. But still stronger was his belief in art, its history already complete in the accomplishment of the past. He was thought a rebel, but his rebellion was against the commonplace, the conventions, the hypocrisies of the studios; against the abuse of art as a re-embodying | Chinese gamblers. A gambling company Lincoln in such likeness of | sets up its illegal business ds as a | invades that region, moral or a social or an educational g:p.t” Art to him was the “science of u A. The Interborough Rapid Transit ork says that the only capacity in which women were employed by that company during the World War was as ticket agents and gatemen. They were emgloyed as conductors on the street rallways, or trolley cars, operated by the New York Railways Co. Q. Is it good manners to type per- sonal letters?>—H. S. A. The custom has not been fully cstablished. Years ago it was regarded as being in questionable taste to send a typewritten social letter. Now, how- ever, the use of the typewriter is so general that the attitude of the public has largely changed, many people typing all letters except formal ones. Q. What is the greatest width and depth of Lake Michigan?—S. A. A. The greatest width of Lake Michi- gan is 118 miles; the maximum depth, 875 feet. Q. What causes mirages in the desert regions?>—R. A. N. A. A mirage is due to conditions existing in the atmosphere. As a result of deviation of the rays of light caused by refraction and reflection, objects seen with the eye appear in unusual positions and often multiple or inverfed. One cause of a mirage in the desert is the diminution of the density of the air near the surface of the earth, often pro- duced by the radlation of heat, the denser stratum being thus placed above the rarer. Q. How mnn} silk stockings are sold annually in the United States>—D. G. A. Approximately a hundred million dozen pairs of stockings are sold in this country annually, of which number about 35,000,000 dozen are silk. Q. How did clipper ships compare ‘with other ships of their day?>—W. D. J. A. The clipper ships were ships spe- clally built and rigged for fast sailing. The clipper, as compared with the or- dinary_sailing vessel, was longer and generally of less beam in proportion to Chinese tongs have again become vicious in several cities of the United Ten murders occurred last Sun- day night, in spite of the “perpetual truce” ed between fhe On 3 Tong and the Hip Sing in Mmh.xm Two of the m were in Was ton and the others in_Philadelphia,’ York and Chicago. More fatalities are expected by the police. The tong assassins shoot down their enemies belong to the opposition tong, ‘without having themselves given any cause for offense. The murders are almost beyond the barbarities of the Corsican Mafia or the Kentucky feuds. Hence there will be another public demand that laws be passed by the United States Congress expelling all Chinese who belong to any tong. The United States civilization must be protected. Chinese tongs might be confined in Russia or kept at home but for-the fact that neither Russia nor China has such organizations. PR In March, 1927, there was a similar some 15 or 16 deaths in the chief cities of the country, including one. murder in hington. w’:‘shennlre contradictory statements as to whether tongs exist in China, but ap- parently the most reliab'e is to the ef- fect that the organizations are of Amer- jean birth, due to the compotitien of in a certain and announces to opposition hat it takes possession of cer- If tne opposition then there s feudal war. the m«n.uer‘sl of the rival organization, but against all mem- Lers n;' thmt tong. Thec only way they know how to express the objection to the competition is to beg'a shocting. * kKX | According to high Chiuess authoriiy, tongs are distinctively American insti- tutions—not Chiness. They exist no- where outside of the United States. In our failing to annihilate the tongs we are tolerating not Chinese aliens of an undesirable character, but criminals and rebels against Amarican law, regardless of their nationality. They have no Jocality gamblers t! tain_territory. more rights than other gamblers in f- America. To exterminate them does not need more laws, but sterner enforce- ment of anti-gambling laws by com- tent and incovruptible police. In ‘hina, the members of tongs who dared defy law as they do in America would not be deported but beheaded. CEE Two years ago Representative Miller of Washington Sta'2 introduced a bill in-the House grovlrnng for the deporta- tion of any Chinaman convicted of be- longing to any tong. Ths measure was defeated because opposed by the De- partment of Labor, which opposition was not due to any sympatby with tong feuds, but was a protest against an in- crease of laws attacking the peculiar faults of the Chinese. The law provided for the deportation by the Department of Labor of all tong members, yet that was held imprac- ticable, because many members of tongs, although of Chinese descent, are born in America, therefore ‘are native American citizens, not subject to de- porta y not exile criminals, and a native American would be to exile an American citizen. All crimes bring prison penalties, regardless of the race of the offender, The Miller bill was framed to deport alien, ineligible to citizenship, who is found to be a member of Hip Sing_ Tong, the Hop Sing Tong, the Bow Leung Tong or the luunowl Leung Tong. %nh: ubor. nt held that instead of, as is usually the case, below | without mercy, simply because they |opposed outbreak of tong murders, resulting in |84 ws do | bring gardiess | Ehey one. length. They were very sharp at the bows which were hollowed more or less below the water line, and gracefully fined away toward the stern, which was almost always ellipitical. The name “clipper” was first borne b the Balti- more clippers famous as privateers in the early wars of the United States. Q. What is a railroad conscience fund?—J. A. D. A. “Conscience fund” is a nickname given to the money sent into the rail- roads by persons who have failed to pay or who have underpaid their fare. Q. Is Aldous Huxley, the writer, re- lateJd to the famous Thomas Huxley?— A. Aldous Huxley is the grandson of Thomas Huxley. Q In auction bridge, when is a revoke established?—F, . A. A revoke is not established until the player making the revoke, or his partner, plays the next trick. FQ.G.WI‘;“ are the words to “Taps?"— "A. They are: “Love, good night, West thou go, When the day And %he night Need thee so. All is well, Speedeth all To their rest. Fades ' the light, And 91!1";1?0‘;"‘ dxt;; And the Stars Shineth ght. Fare ee well, Da; Night is on.” e oo Q. How much is spent on industrial research in America?>—B. T. B. A. It,lsb:tlmated that $200,000,000 a year is being spent in this T on industrial research. i Q. How much morphine is used by the drug addicts in the United States in a year>—I. V. F. A. Based on the belief that there are about 100,000 drug addicts in the coun- try, it is estimated that 420.000 ounces of morphine would be required a year {0 meet their demands. A great part of this is probably smuggled. Q. What are the three most danger- ou; oacupatlnns in the United States? A. The three most hazardous jobs in this country are those of the steel worker, the railroad yard worker and the miner. Q. How long_has mone; used?—M. C. W. F by A. Paper money is believed to have originated in China. Marco Polo, the famous traveler, was the first to report in Europe the existence of paper money in China. under the Moguls. It was subsequently introduced into Persia. Tt is recorded that as early as 119 B.C. there was introduced in China Phi-pi, or “value in skins.” These were small pieces of skin of deer, a Chinese square foot in size, whose price was fixed at a sum approximately equal to $5. Q. Is there such a thing as a black raccoon?—E. D. A. ! A. Yes, and it is considered by som> to be the most beautiful of all fur bearers. They are quite scarce and good breeding stock is difficult to ob- tain. Raccoon is well known for its wearing qualities, and this fact added to the beauty of the black raccoon makes it particularly popular. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. desirable citizen” would have the sup- port of our Immigration Commission, regardless of the origin of that immi- grant, but it opposes laws based on penalizing or favoring any people on b »:ulme.lr"rmormmum- For example, at the last session of Congress Senator Copeland of New York introduced a bill granting to rab- bis certain special exemptions from im- migration restrictions. That was also by the Department of Labor. Because it discriminated in favor of one race, while it might have applied without objection to all “ministers ¢ religion,” no matter what religion. * K %X x A fundamental basis for a deporta tion law is suggested in penalizing and deporting all members of any organiza- tion which undertakes to substitute its own regulations in place of American law. That would cover the Mafia and “Black Hands” as well as tongs. The penalty would then attach to the act. and not to-the nationality of the of- fender. The method of these alien or- in taking “law” into l(heir own_hands, in place of American laws, is what is so intolérable. American law holds all accused in- nocent until proved guilty, according evidence tried in a court, not in ¢ secret soclety. Chinese have no more faith In the justice of our courts than foreigners in China have in Chinese processes of law. All nations have treaty ekemptions in Chima from the prosecution of their own citizens in any Chinese court, except Russia, Germany and Austria. The Chinese exercise similar excmptions from American courts, but they do so, not by treaty rights, but by secret societies and crim- inal defiance of-our justice. Perhaps they have more cover for their defiance and murders of offenders than we- Americans recognize, when | they see how boldly “Kentucky feuds™ sre carrled on without the curbing of our courts. In Italy, Mussolini is stooping the feuds of the Mafia and “Black Hand.” America lives in a “glass house” in the matter of crimi- nais and law, and “the heathen Chines> is not pecullar.” * ok ok % A very prominent Chinese official is authority for declaring that there are 106 tongs in China, that the tongs orig- inated in the United States, and never existed in any other country but the United States, and that here they are attributable entirely to the corrupt American police, bribed by gambling Chinese. “A Chinese gambling house is set “f in some city,” says the Chinese official, “and it is preposterous to assume that its presence is not known to the police- man on that beat. Probably the higher- ups soon discover it, but they are bought up to tolerate it, and so it buys ‘rights’ for that field of gambling. Then when a vival enters that field, the first parties who have bought ‘protection’ take it as an invasion of thejr rights, and avenge themselves, not against the leaders of its rivals but against all members.” The police declare that it is difficult, it not impossible, to identify a Chinaman who is not an American citizen by birth, for the Ohinese suborn testimony of identification, and if a man be arrested for dey tiony as a criminal, he will to court pris oner from his , and know that he was born in a certain American city Then when the case of his arrest is dismissed for want of evidence, the ar- rested man sues for false arrest. * K ok % But, according to the Chinese author- ity, while it is hard to convict a China- man of having been born in China, it is not ao“dmnull to convict him, re- his , of running a R house onm police beat u;:r . provided grafters e beat be eliminated. ¥ Chinese in China are so honest that it is quite customary for stores to re- ‘Whose tradition in himself was are susceptible to the influences of art{ in bond to carry forward from a greatin painting, or music, or letters, sor past of art. In addition to the discus-| whatnot, you will step into the 2 sion of Whistler's art, a spirited and |amplitude of Mrs. Pennell's experien buoyant and thoroughly enjoyable dis-|into the’ circle of her definite knowl- cusslon, the author uses reproductions|edge, into the zest of her treatment of Whistler plctures in supbport of her|here of a subject that never does grow text on the subject of Whistler's art.|stale. Then, having read the book, you Now, you may not be an artist at all, | will, if you live here in Washington, go but without doubt you are open to im- |straight to tl he Preer Art Gallery to see pressions of beauty, whether these b2’ for yourself some of the things that presented from canvas or from some have here been told. hand's-breadth of out-of-doors. If you tion, “The Modern Library. e, main open, without a clerk or owner, S0 that any one may come in and se- lect his desired purchase, lay down the exact payment therefor and carry it away without question. a dishonest one may fail to make pay- ment, but he is such an exception that the practice is maintained of assuming honesty to be the rule. This practice applies mainly to interior localities, apart from “civilized” foreigners, It is inferred that they become contaminated contact with Occidental civi- A fine institu- lization. (Covyrizht, 1026, by Paul V. Collins.)