Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1928, Page 8

8 THE EVENING STAR —_With Sunday Morning Edition. __ WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company e’ 11th St. and Pennsy) New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicaro Office: Tower Building. European Offce: 14 Regent St.. Londen. England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Star .......45¢ per month The Evening and Sunday Star J\hen 4 Sundas 60c per month whe r 65c per montn 5¢ per ccpy ble in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday.. i $10.00; 1 mo., 88¢c Da L 1 £6.00; 1 mo., &0c 1 £4.00: 1 mo.. 40c d Canad: States y..1y s an 1. 81 The Aszociated F to the use for o lie .ocal Lews of publication of re also reserved ican claims in thi Federal exp have been eco- administered is unfounded is | calculated to check further nsscl‘lmnn‘ on this score, unless the governor W to engage in an unequal contest in which the odds are decidedly agains’ him. For the head of the Treasurv Department has all the advantage of the situation. He s the figures at his fingers' tips and he has an intimate knowledge of the conditions. And. furthermore, Gov. Smith put h\ms.‘l” into a danger position when in his | speech at Sedalia he, in effect, as Mr. | Mellon says, accused the financial of- ficers of the Government of carrving on “a deliberate campaign of misrepre- sentation intended to conceal the true picture of the Nation's finances.” If the accounts of Government fi- nancing during the past few years, which have been officially rendercd from time to time, have been, as Gov. Smith declares in effect in his Sedalia speech, misleading, confusing and thus inaccurate, there has been presented an astonishing spectacle of persistent mis- representation without detection by that most critical of bodies, the Con- gress of the United States. Every figure relating to the fiscal affairs of the Government has gone before thai body and has been subjected to the closest scrutiny and the sharpest analysis. Several times the Treasury has recommended the revision of the tax scale. On each occasion this rec- ommendation has been subjected to; partisan discuss: No phase of the ‘Treasury's activi has been neglected in this scrutiny and fanalysis. Some ot Secretary Mellon's figures have been challenged, but never effectively or to the point of conclusion that he has misstated the situation. A reading of the Congressional Record covering those periods of tax revision and of the printed hearings before the committees of House and Senate handling these successive tax bills would have saved Gov. Smith from his un- fortunate misadventure with Federal statisties. It would* have saved him from being subjected to this rejoinder by the Secretary of the Treasury: Before a responsible man makes sucn a charge he should have a thorough and intimate knowledge of all the facts and be able to support it with clear and convincing proof. Now, perhaps the most eccurate statement in Gov. Smith's entire speech is the one in which he said that the fiscal reports of the Federal finances were a Chinese puzzle to him. His wile address ex- hibits the most superficial knowledg> ‘of what has actually taken place, and in citing figures he has been guilty of what even the most charitably minded would have to describe .as . “inac- curacies.” Cov. Smith now finds himself in the difficult position of having either to acknowledge that Secretary Mellon knows more about the Government's finances than he does or of challenginy the Secretary's analysis and uhdertak- ing to refute it. This presents a dilem- ma, either horn of which is to be grasped with painful effect. —— et 1t is a fast campaign. Both Mr. Ford and Mr. Raskob evidently favor stepping on the gas. N publ the nomica ¥ ek Queensborough Graft. Yesterday a jury at Long Island City, N. Y., rendered a verdict of guilty in a case that has attracted national atten- tion. The former president of the borough of Queens of Greater New York was, along with one who was at one time chief designer of the sewer bureau of that borough, convicted of conspiracy to plunder the city’s. treas- ury through the manipulation of sewer cons on contracts. This verdict was only reached after twenty-five hours of deliberation. The former borough president was at once sen- tenced to spend a vear in jail and to pay a fine of $500, the maximum pen- nder the law. His associate’s sen- held. of Maurice Connolly eries in which the £ the borough of Quenes have d badly. There Have been five of them. The first, serving ort time, had no power and rtunities for peculative opera- successor, “Curley Joe” Cas- sgan the sequence of borough mances and was re- and subsequently served a term in Sing Sing for selling dgeships for $10.000 apicce. Then came Joseph Bermel, who grew careless in his operations involving the purchas of park lands for the borough. His re- moval was sought in a petition to Gov. Hughes; then a grand jury issued a subpoena for him in an investigation and he suddenly resigned and sailed for Europe. Next came Lawrence Gresser, who was removed by Gov. Dix for incompetence after charges of cor- yuption in connection with the approval of false claims against the city by a contractor had missed fire. Then came Connolly, who was elected in 1911 and has served since then as borough presi- dent and during whose regime it has been asserted many millions of dollars have gone into the pockets of grafters s excess charges for public works. The particular offense charged presiding ..October 18, 1928 | which today confronts the world. | crowd that time is money. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 1928. specifications for sewer contracts in such a way that only a single bidder could possibly secure them. The sewer work was to cost $14,000.000. The favored contractor during three years, the testimony at this trial showed, re- ceived at least $3,000,000 more than the | work was worth. This contractor was also indicted with Connolly and Seely, but died suddenly in Atlantic City on the eve of the trial. There was another death in this case that was regarded with suspicion, that of a material wit- ness, and the charge of murder was made. But the trial continued to th~ end of yesterday's gonviction, which, it is estimated, cost the city $250,000. And the outcome is a sentence of one year in jail and a fine of $500. Such 1s the proportion of penalty to crime ia matters municipal in Greater New York. It would seem &s though in a mu- nicipal organization that has had five | presidents in twenty-five years, of whom four have gone wrong in one way or another, a new dispensation would come about through the arousal of the public conscience. It remains to be seen, how- | ever, whether this will occur in Queens. Nobody knows how many millions have been squandered and squeezed in that | smallest borough of the great organiza- tion. Perhaps some day a full revela- tion will be made, but by then oth.r affairs will have arisen to concern the people to make such a disclosure mere- ly a matter of interesting but unim- | portant history. | et The Divorce Problem. The House of Bishops of the Episcopal ! Church yesterday received the report | of its joint commission, appointed thr | years ago, to study the underlying causes | for divorce today. That report con- | tained much to challenge the attention | of the Nation. | It made no effort to minimize the fact that there is annually a world-wide | increase in the divorce rate. It offered | no final cpinion as to the reasons for | this phenomenon. But it repudiated certain of the more currently voiced explanations therefor, and advanced certain of its own as of more compelling | weight. The drift of population from the country to the cities, the prevalence of apartment-house life, financial ten- sion, and the decrease of the birth rate bear, in the commission’s judgment, no direct relationship to the increase in divorces. Sex tension between husband and wife, on the other hand; the gospel of individualism, today so popular throughout the world; a lack of general religious interest and Individual religious training for marriage are listed as ectablished contributing factors to prev- | alent divorce. One factor which has been noted in other studies of a similar nature was touched upon only by indirection. This is the steadily broadening social and ecomomic emancipation of women. There was reference to, the romantic viewpoint of marriage, applicable to both sexes, under which happiness becomes the test of life’s value rather than duty. But to many sufficient emphasis was not placed upon the fact that today there exists and flourishes in the world a belief, practically non-existent a genera- tion or so back, to the effect that no woman should be required to bear in silence the infidelities or more direct cruelties of her husband. It cannot but seem to many that this belief, coupled with an economic emancipa- tion which is self-apparent, has played 2 most vital part in the problem of divorce. y No action was recommended in the report looking to a slackening of the rigid divorce laws of the Episcopal Church, which recognize adultery as the only ground for divorce and refuse to remarry any but the innocent party. But the establishment of a body of co- operating social agencies which, over a period of ten years, with adequate fnancial support, would study the mar- riage problem in the light of most ad- vanced physiological, psychological and sociological findings, was urged. There can be no doubt but that such an inves- tigation, carrying forward the admirable | work already done by the Episcopal commission, would serve effectively to- ward the solving of a grave problem | i U Each of Al Smith's speeches ends with a reference to November 6. Even the small item of chrenology is not overlooked in an exhaustive survey of political economies. e 2 A dirigible’s record is not complete without two splendid welcomes—one | when 1t arrives over here and one when | it gets back home. P Gratitude is due to radio for limiting the applause with a reminder to the i [——G . Business High School. There will be general and earnest | sympathy in this community with the | endeavor of the alumni of the Business | High School to assure an appropriation at the next session of Congress cf $400,000, which is sought by the school board for the structurel beginning of a new home for that school. This item, it develops, has been dropped from the ' regulay school estimates and included in the “supplementary estimates,” f:\‘ which category it is in a precarious sit- uation. Should it turn out, however, that owing to budgetary considerations the item must go to Congress in this form as “supplementary” it should re- ceive as sympathetic consideration as though it were in the regular estimates for school development. There is no possible question of the urgent need of the replacement of the Business High School by a new and more commodious building. The pres- { ent structure has long been outgrown. It cannot be extended. It now affords a totally inadequate service to this im- portant and growing branch of the high school system. Classes are now forced to meet in the cornidors. The assembly hall serves the double purpose of a study room and music practice hall at the same time. It is impossible to do good work in such conditions. There are no facilities for non-academic student activities. The lunchroom ac- commodations are insufficient. This present building, designed and built in 1906 for a capacity of 900 students, is now “accommodating” 1,275. Every part of the building is congested and before the proposed new structure can be completed, even witi adequate annual appropriations and the worse as the school's population grows. The Business High School is a val- uable branch of the system. Tt had its origin In a €*inct course In the old high school established in 1883 on O street. In the course of a few years that branch of the educational work had so increased as to warrant the estab- lishment of a distinct unit when the high school was divided into regional and subject branches. A mistake was made in the emplacement of the school at its present location on a lot rigidly restricted in size and consequently in- capable of expansion. The replace- ment of this institution should have been effected several years ago. Now that plans are definitely provided and a site has been sccured, every dollar that can be economically and effectively ex- pended in the construction should be made available annually until the build- ing is finished within the least possible time. B Scotching the Fire Snake. From Iowa City, Towa, comes in- formation that individuals included I the Towa Women's Christian Temperance Union have during the last year crushed no fewer than 57.000 cigarette stubs. | Members have apparently kept ac- curate tabulations of their heeling work and reported this grand total with pride | at the annual convention which 1s just | over. It is not known definitely what pro- | | Some readers have been so kind as to express their amazement at our partiality to the historical romances of Alexandre Dumas. “The conversations, which you praise so highly, are absolutely stilted and unnatural” writes one. “The action is the crudest sort of swashbuckler stul,” says another. “His storics are much too long” writes a third. “They all begin alike and end alike,” storms a fourth. After such a quartet of charges, one cely knows where to begin in de- fense of that great writer, who, after all, needs no. defense from any one. His stories are too firmly established in the reading habits of the nations. We have no statistics to show the present-day vogue of Dumas, but sure- ly they are not needed, since there is no more popular romance in the world than “The Three Musketeers,” unless it is the same author's “Count of Monte Cristo. In fact, there i scarcely a story of this romancer which is not loved by thousands of readers, not because it | is the greatest tale ever told, by any | means, but_pri ly because it sat-| isfies & certain longing of almost every human being. R To go rip-roaring through the world, engaged in high adventure, meeting conditions as they arise, and answer- ing them with physical or mental force, as the need misht be—is that not a dream of every human being? | | portion of these stubs were burning and [ thus ready to be enjoyed by the first| casual down-looker, and what part had | been already extinguished. A half of a | fag which has suffered pressure between | concrete and a good robust Towa heel s | likely to prove a most unsatisfactory | smoke to him who tenderly attempts to | renew its original cylindrical shape. | Doubtless the cause of prohibition of | tobacco has been furthered by this pedal | pursuit of the evil,-but it is not unlikely that the cause of conservation and of reforestation has been far more greatly benefited. True, Iowa is not a widely | forested State, but Iowans so prosper through the fertility of their prairies that eventually they go almost every- where. Once a cigarette crusher, always a cigarette crusher. Without doubt many devastating fires have already been nipped in the bud by this crush- ing campaign, while this habit, care- fully adhered to, should work a won- drous good to the public domain and to private property alike. In fact, the whole United States would be better off if every one made it a practice to step firmly and lingeringly on butts and | stubs lighted or thought to be unlighted. | The Iowa W. C. T. U. not only may have saved many persons from smokers' graves, but may yet save to its beloved country and to other lands thousands of beautiful and valuable acres. — ‘The public turns with greatest interest to the speeches of the party standard bearers. No campaign manager can hope to be greater than his candidalo. P ‘The habit of centuries cannot be overcome. = Despite new cpntroversies, the tariff still asserts itself as the con- spicuous subject of discussion. o No election forecasters show much confidence in a systernh of calculation which depends on counting up the campaign buttons. . Base ball, foot ball and aviation can- not combine to detract from political speech-making as the truly great Amer- ican sport. R 'émng odds never yet decided an clection, which depends even more on differences of opinion than a horse race. e e ‘The campaign has made it clear that the ideal statesman must also be a practical statistician. —————te SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHN¥ON. ‘Worst Yet to Come. A great philosopher will trace Man’s history from the first, And then exclaim, with cynic grace, “You haven't heard the worst!"” Though Evolution mirth provokes, In doubt we are immersed, Mankind proceeds to further jokes— You haven't heard the worst. So, in political array, Where theories are nursed, The Orators arise to say, “You haven't heard the worst.” Throughout Contention’s mighty thrill | Great hopes are still rehearsed. We never get the Best until We bravely face the Worst. Quarreling With Luck. “You had a wonderful radio hook- up!” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “But the speech wasn't one of my best. Maybe I'd be better off if so many people hadn't heard it.” Obstructionist. Into my garden at the break of day I was inclined to stray In gentle fondness; but to my dismay A wasp was in the way. Jud Tunkins says maybe it's evolu- tion that makes him feel like climbing a tree and looking on when a fight starts. i Toil on the Links. ‘The Idler never will admit ‘That he is shirking. For golf his office he will quit And vow he’s working. Measuring Moral Resistance. “Does the man to whom you are en- gaged drink or swear?” “We are waiting to find out. Mother gave him a fountain pen for a birthday present.” “A man who destroys friendships,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, "is even more reckless than he who squanders his mone; Economic Aspirations. The Oyster comes in honest cheer. ‘This is his cherished time of year. We view him yet, with some regret, As for economy we're set. This Oyster is but little meat, ‘With covering large and complete. Of what Economy I'd tell If I could learn to eat the shell! “I admires salesmanship,” said Uncle | | This longing to be in the thick of | things, to be mixing it up with the world, is no more a_prerogative of men than of women. Wher T blood runs warm, and mind answers to heart, and emotions to intelligence, will be found the taste for adventure. i The cold facts of the case, however, | make it necessary for most people to | buckle down to the tasks of the world. to carefully place themselves in staid | positions, to retain their balance when emotions tempt them. For every man who can journey to| the North Pole there arc untold mil- | lions left behind. Then. too, there is both a mental and physical incapacity on the part of millions to engage in these high adventures. They would | not, if they could. because thousands | of years of so-cailed civilization has bred it out of them. Yet no matter how matter-of-fact may be their lives, in the breasts of millions of people there remains one THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. | plots proceed by steps, exciting, inter- ing steps, every one of them. which modern_camera would present. If a reacer hopes to find them, he will be disappointed, that is all. Take the mat- ter of conversation, handles so excellently, but which one of our correspondents asserts is “stilted and unnatural.” That some of it stilted may be admitted, but that an of it is unnatural we do not for a mo- ment_feel. It must be remembered, in the first place, that Dumas wrote of peoples 1iving in ages when ordinary daily conversation had not descended to the colloquial as it has today. Then, too, no reader must ever forget that Dumas gave his effervescent spirit to| all_he wrote, equally to the dialogue of his characters as to his plots, their essential action and swing. No doubt he is in error, strictly speaking, to make a peasant hold forth in the same lan- guage as a marquis. = Yet the careful| reader may have more than a suspicion that Dumas liked his peasant better than he did his marquis, and is merely trying to carry forward, in a devious manner, but none the less apparent to | one able to read between the lines, the revolution of '89! As for the action of Dumas’ novels being “the crudest sort of swashbuckler stuff.” that phrase is absurd in essence, and totally without truth in fact. No finer fictional plots were ever planned or put into execution than those con- tained in various scries of novels writ- ten by the elder Dumas. The D'Artag- nan series, containing the incompar- able “Three Musketeers” and the en- thralling “Loufse de la Valllere,” pre- sents some of the greatest plot handli in the whole range of fiction. The change of kings in the “Man in.the Iron Mask"” is thing. If it i washbuckler stuff,” as no doubt it is, then let fiction take to more and better swashbuckling, if it can! * % Even the most ardent Dumas “fan” must plead guilty, for him, to the charge that his romances are very, very long. It is a poor theme, indeed, that cannot work up two or three hundred thousand words before Alexandre Dumas gets done with it. That his stories are “too long.” however, no friend of Dumas will ever admit. They take many words because they depict much action, many conversations. On such theaters of action as he presents it is impossible for days, months and years to be Jumped off with a mere Sentence. His single spark of romance. Its sole sat- isfaction comes in reading stories by | the world’s greatest story-tellers. In this | great diversion nationality plays little part. A great story by a Russian Is a great story for ‘an American as much | as for a Russian. A grand romance | by Dumas is quite as_engaging to an | Englishman as to a Frenchman. In this land of high romance nationality | plays its part only in so far as it gives | a certain quality to the tale. 1t is precisely because the French temperament lends its2lf naturally to a highly colored narrative that Alexan- dre Dumas is loved by his millions of readers the world over. He is adver- tised by one reader to another. 1t would seem that certain temperaments especially prefer him. Perhaps these are those who least resemble the swash- buckling heroes of whom he so engag- ingly writes. Yet we have known many | robust persons who were as fond of Dumas as any other. One never can tell, * K Kk K | In such broad canvases as Dumas paints a certain amount of liberty is permissible. One must not_expect to find in his pictures such lines as a | BACKGROUND What a contrast between the spirit of the schools of the United States and those of Hungary! According to American school his- tories, there is no lesson to be remem- bered derived from the World War. Some of the text books fail to mention that there ever was such a war, not- withstanding that more than 4,000,000 Americans were drafted into the defense Army of the United States, and more than haif of the soldiers crossed the ocean and fought. Such text books as do mention the World War bpelittle its importance, garble its facts and sud- vert all its heroisms and patriotic in- spiration. i This universal bias of American schoolbooks is attributed by patriots to subversive influences, which have s duced the book publishing houses, to-| gether with academic teachers, into al great national conspiracy of ultra- pacifism and “internationalism.” It was | not a surprise to experienced observers | to hear a certain bishop boast this week | that if he had lived in the days of the Revolution he did not know on which | side he might have aligned himself. There are other bishops who do know America. It was by a majority of but one vote that the bishops agreed to recognize the Fourth of July. Maybe it was a blunder, of which we should be ashamed on behalf of our forefathers, that they failed to drink the Boston tea, and stubbornly insisted, | with George Washington, Patrick Henry and Nathan Hale—and Louis Kossuth— | that jealousy of liberty is a precious | heritage! Kossuth! He overturned the Hap: burgs and liberated the peasantry of his | ry! Later came the re- stored Hapsburgs leading their country | into reactionary downtrodding of the people, following Wilhelm II in his mad | design to overwhelm civilization. ok ok The schools of Hungary know that | there was a World War. Hungary has | paid a hard penalty, in the loss of | more than half her territory, by the Trianon treaty setiling the boundaries of the defeated nations—then a harder penalty by the anarchy and the bol- shevism which took possession and de- creed death to all who opposed the bloody Soviet tyranny. There was the | reign of terror equal to the days of Danton and Mirabeau in France. That was a _“red terror” soon to be opposed by Admiral Horthy's “white terror,” secking to drive out the Bolsheviki. Out of that carnage of the Soviet gov- ernment came_reaction, led by Arch- | duke Joseph of the old royal dynasty. | and the dictatorship of Admiral Horthy | under the title of “administrator.” King Charles, forced to abdicate his throne, in 1921 tried twice to overthrow the republic and to regain the crown. To- day a new effort to restore the dynasty | is_announced. Since the “white terror” there has | been a_semblance of a republic, now | under the ruie of Premier Beghl i announces that thers is to be a “refer- | endum” or popular vote, taken for the | clection of a king. He leads a con-| spiracy to overturn the constitutional | republic. Who will be elected king? Premier Bethlen supports, not the son of the late King Charles, Archduke Otto, a boy of 16 years, but Archduke Albert, a di- rect descendant of the Hapsburg dy- nasty. Bethlen declared in a recent speech in Parliament: “The bond be- tween the nation and the dynasty, which was severed, must be reforged. We must get all he living forces of the nation to achieve the great task of re-establishing the kingdom.” Re-establish the kingdom whose rulers helped to bring on the World War! | | * K ok K The Hungary of twaay € not the powerful Hungary of old. It is separate from Austria. Its area is less than half of the former limits. Its population in 1910 was 18,264,000, and the same ter- ritory (not ail remaining Hungarians) Eben, “but I can't see why de man against Connolly and his former sub-" most diligent prosecution of the work, Who is gineter make me rich has most AQordinate Seely was the preparation of the situation will have become even always got to be § total st:,an&" in 1920 numbered 20.885,000, but the population of the reorganized Hungary, reduced in boundaries by the settjement |if it were not laughable. | expect to find it in a writer who knew BY PAUL V. COLL |is the kingdom of Heaven!™ take the reader right along with the characters, and which literally show him every step of the way. A Dumas story too long! .Why, that is the greatest joke in the world! The only trou must e with them is that they end. The charge that. “they all begin alike and end alike” would be absurd One who enters into the jovial spirit of the Du- mas story can well afford to_laugh at such a terrible charge. The sad truth is that every Dumas story does, indeed, begin like Dumas, and end like Dumas. Nothing more can be expected from this characteristic teller of tales. “On the evening of July 4, 1672, a horseman might be seen proceeding along the Nantes road.” Yes, most of them begin that way, and most readers rather like it. A sensible beginning, indeed. As for his endings, they are like life's, without any particular fanfare, maybe a wave of the hand, or a smile—a sen- tence about no particular thing. “The End” comes in exactly such a fashion to most. It is precisely as one would his human beings as they are, yet col- ored them with the secret longings of the hearts and minds of all humanity. OF EVENTS of the World War, amounted to only about 8,000,000 as estimated in 1923. The severed territory is peopled mostly by mixed races—not Hungarians. There is no country -which has suffered economically as has Hungary since the war, but all that suffering, all the bloodshed and anarchy of the Soviet government under Belu Kan, are over- shadowed in the minds of the Hun- garian school children under the in- fluence of the nationalism of the schools with the ideal of preparing for a new war of recovery. ok ok ok In the text books of all schools, courses in history, civics and geography cmphasize the teaching that the lost territory—given to Serbia, Rumania, Austria’ and Czechoslovakia by the| Trianon treaty after the World War— still belongs to Hungary and must be recovered. Quoting from a text book on civies: “Just as truly as it is our duty to | preserve unimpaired the territory left to us by our forefathers since our na- tional honor demands it, so it is also certain that while there is on this carth one Hungarian arm to be raised, no nation can steal from us a single grain of dust. Even if our national minorities are generously allowed to keep their national characteristics, everything within the inherited boundaries of Hungary—air, meadow, hill, for valley, lake, river, stream, light and fragrance, feeling and thought—must be until the end of time cnly Magyar." The following Hungarial logan is printed in the geographies: “Mutilated Hungary is no kingdom! Whole Hungary All maps taught to school children show the “whole Hungary,” with only a faint out- line defining the territory assigned by the treaty to the neghboring nations, and therefore no longer Hungarian. The children recite this from their readers: “In the sad Hungarian lands now lost to us, Who knows how many children are even now Praying, too—but in secret— While tears steal from their eyes? “Their prayers rise to Heaven While tears stream from their eyes: ‘Dear God, our lost countr When shall it again be free?” By an order from the ministry of religon and public_instruction the na- tional creed must be recited“twice daily in all schools, the pupils standing, with | bowed heads and clasped hands, while they say in unison: “I believe in one God. I believe in one fatherland. “I believe in one eternal justice. I believe in the resurrection of Hun- gary from the dead. “Amen!"” ‘The author of that creed declares: “Faith is strength! He who belie conquers.” * K K K Toward what is Hungary heading? Will the royalists drive the tortured peasantry into desperation? Is the ris- ing generation even now being bred for revenge? In the magazine, the Nation, last March, appeared an article under the heading, “Dishonoring Kossuth,” written by Oscar Jaszi, who indicates the situation: he real followers of Kossuth are now more persecuted than the Com- munists, * * * The majority of the Hungarian deputation is guilty of the maintenance of a system which, inste2d of following the advice of Kossuth ‘te go ahead along the Danube in estab- | lishment of freedom and a peaceful operation among nations,” prepare: secretly for a new aar and operates systematic smuggling of war materials with Ifaly. “But all these are only symptoms of a system rotten to the core. Its original sin lies in the fact that the most fundamental thought of Kossuth is not yet realized in Hungary. I mean the liberation of the bondsmen. For i which Dumas | ing | cation, politics and so literally a stupendous | {he ‘may be a statesman, a captain of {to be, not the driving and drematic at- E(hc secular activities of society, | spirituality of human affairs. | oy a PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRAN “Do you think,” asks a correspondent, | “that within the lifetime of our genera- | | tion we are likely to sce another great | revival of religion?” I have told this correspondent that I do. 1 want, however, to qualify this brief | affirmative answer lest it prove mis- leading. The next great revival of religion will not, 1 suspect, be a religious revival in the accepted sense of that term. | It will not be likely to express itself | in hectic mass meetings with vast| Ghoirs and vigorous evangelists. ‘The professional preacher may not be the sole carrier of its challenge. It may not be recognized as one coherent” movement either by the men who live through it or by the men who lead it. It may come upon us silently like a thief in the night, and come from a hundred different quarters in a hundred different forms. Many of its most striking episodes are likely to take place, neither in the | sawdust aisles of evangelistic sheds nor {in the stone aisles of cathedrals. but in | laboratories, in schoolrooms, in fac- tories, in editorial offices, and at politi- [cal headquarters. | Its prophets will probably not thrill |the world with any new doctrine. |, They may do no more than quietly | inspire a fresh sense of spiritual values {in the leaderships of the varied fields | of modern life—business, industry, edu- | | n. The John Wesley of this revival, the | Martin_Luther of this reformation, may not appear in surplice or gown— | industry, an educator, a publicist, or other secular leader. The next revival of religion is likely | tempt to impose an allen idealism upon but a | subtle recovery of the lost sensa of the It will mean a bringing to the service of life of the new idcas. new idealisms, and new spiritual values that thought, modern science and modern experience. It will be none the less a revival of religion because it lacks the earmarks of a religious revival. (Copyright, McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Says Voters Neeti to Study Issues To the Editor of The Star: Although not a politician in any sense of the word, I would like to make comment on what the Democratic can- didate calls the “evasive stand of Hoo- ver” on various issues, Muscle Shoals, farm relief and so on. Smith claims that Hoover fails to meet issues in “language that could be understood by the voters.” By this he must refer to the masses of the voters. But the point is, how many of the average voters could understand the highly technical questions of water power and farm relief, even if ex- plained? The writer happens to have the advantage, in case of both these sub- jects, of knowing just enough to realize hat she does not know. and to be aware that understanding is possible only after an amount of study which the average person is not willing to give. And there’s the rub. The masses expect to sit back comfortably and let come expert explain in an hour what it has taken him years to learn. But there is no royal road to any kind of learning. So it would be impossible for cach voter to acquaint himself with the highty technical and complicated de- | tails of such problems—even if clined for the mental exertion. how many are so fnclined? If in doubt on the Iast query, just listen to the average line of talk of the average zroup of persons anywhere, and note the | subiects that occupy their minds. | . The best answer to such argument | is the advice given by some public man | to farmers at the time when the Pop- ulists were trying to “bolshevise” this | country: 1 “Raise more hogs and less hell.” HINDA BURKE. r—.—— 1 And Sinister Start. From the Kalamazoo Gazette. All the recent warlike activities of the Chinese merely show that China is awakening, says a professor. If that be true, we can only imagine what may happen when China has bad her break. fast and gets started for the day! Demobilizing the Legion. From the Fort Worth Record-Telearam. American Legion conventions are im- proving a little each year. Top ser- geants, shavetails and generals are now being ireated as though they were reg- ular “buddies.” S Hazards of Housework. Prom the Springfleld, Ohio, Sun. The National Safety Council reports that housework is one of the most haz- ardous of feminine occupations. Quite a few of the ladies seem very timid these days. UNITED STATES N WORLD WAR Ten Years g0 Today. The. Americans sprung another sur- prise upon the Germans today, our infantry pushing north of Romagne | without preparatory artillery fire and | capturing Bantheville, The fighting lasted all day at close quarters. * * * The Germans are offering strong resist- ance from Bruges southward to Cam- brai. Aerial activity is renewed with sunshiny weather back again. One hundred and forty American bombing | planes cross into enemy territory and do much damage by violent bombard- | ment. * * * Berlin admits the loss of | Ostend, Turcoing, Roubaix, Lille and | Douai. * * * The population of Liile. in a delirium of joy, greet the first of | the French to enter the city and crowds of people cheer frantically when told of allied victories and President Wil- son's note. * * * Press dispatches an- nounce the allied occupation of Zee- brugge, the last remaining submarine base on the Belgian coast remaining to the Germans. * * * Record of sub- marine activity for the Summer months shows a steady fall in allied tonnage sunk and a steady,rise in number of U-boats _destroyed. * * * Not a single soldier lost on incoming troop ships, a great tribute to the American Navy, commanded by Admiral Sims. * * * The German war cabinet is drafting its reply to the President’s note. German army chiefs are deflant and Ludendorff is enraged at the armistice plea, planned while he was ill. * * * Seven hundred and thirty-seven casualty list given out today, 146 killed in action, 434 wounded and 91 missing. in servitude, because, in the absence of ndependent peasant propgrty. they are compelled to toil for starvation wages on the latifundia of the peity kings. * ¢ * people of Hungary, muzzled bloody class rule, without a serious | parliament, without a free press, with- out a jury, under the yoke of a cor- administration and judiciary, its silently the return of Kossuth's spirit. “Not only the people of Hungary, but the whole basin of the Danube awaits the fulfillment of his political testament. Because the only possibility for peace, for the protection of the persecuted nationalities, lies in the way indicated by Kossuth: in the formation g | i have come as by-products of modern| This newspaper puts at your disposal | a corps of trained researchers in Wash- | ington_who_will answer questions for you. They have access to the Govern- ment departments. the libraries, mu- seums, galleries’ and public buildings | and to the numerous associations which | maintain headquarters in the Nation's | Capital. If they can be of assistance! to you, write your question plainly | and send with 2 cents in coin or stamps | to The Evening Star Information Bu- reau, Frederic J. Haskin director, Wash- ington, D. C. ©. What makes a thermos bottle Leat and cold proof?—T. E. N. A. A thermos bottle is a double- walled receptable. The air in the space between the walls is completely ex- hausted and the walls are silvered like a mirror so as to reflect radiation. This | guards against the access of heat or cold from without. Q. How many Caesars were rulers of | {the Roman Empire, and which was | ruling at the birth of Christ?>—R. T. A. The name “Caesar” was the family {name of the first five Roman emperors, originating in Sextus Julius Caesar, who was a praetor, 208 B.C. The family| became extinct with Nero in 68 AD., | and the title “Caesar” became simpiy a | title of dignify. Both Augustus Caesar, born September, 63 B.C., who died in | August, of the year 14 A.D., and Tibe- jrius ruled during the life of Christ Augustus was reigning at the time of the birth of Christ. | Q. How old was Rudyard Kipling | when he began to write?—L. L. A. He composed his first juvenile work at the age of 13. acclaimed a genius by the public and | the writer of more best sellers than any other author of the time. Q. Did the United States have much foreign trade with Europe during 19277 A. Shipments to Europe during the fiscal year 1927 were $2,397,000,000. or 48 per cent of all our exports. s were $1.268.000,000. The United Kingdom and Ireland paid nearly $1,000,000.000 for our products: Ger- $443,000.000: France, $234.000, $142,000,000, and the Neth- 43,000,000. Q. What is the name applied to the appearance of 2 god to a human being? —E. A. The term is “theophany.” Q. How does the new Zeppelin air- | ship compare with others?—P. H. N. A The new German Zeppelin air- ship, LZ-127, is 772 feet long, and is l‘:hxen largest Zeppelin that has been uilt. Q. Is the author of “The Birds' Christmas Carel” still living?—N. L. U. A. Kate Douglas Wiggin died Au- gust 24, 1923, Q. How old is King George of Eng- | land?—K. 8. | A. King George was born in 1365, Q. Why is a censer swung?—M. E. D. A. A censer containing burning in- cense is swung to hasten combustion. Q. ‘What is the best way to clean a grass rug?—P. A. A. Wash the rug with water in which bran has been boiled, or in weak salt and water. Dry it well with a cloth. To remove grease from the rug wet a nailbrush in slightly salted water, rub on scap and serub the place hard. Hava the water boiling. Continue to scrub with soap until the spot disappears. Wash with clean cloth and rub dry. Always rub lengthwise of the grain. Q. Where will the Army and Navy foot ball game be played this year?— E. C. M. A. There will be no Army and Navy foot ball game this year. A Is the cucumber a modern vege- table?—C. O. P. A. The cucumber is one of the oldest | of the garden vegetables. It is said to have been in culiivation between three and four thousand years. It originated ' in the Far East. Q. Who furnished the efficiency sys- tem used in the Bureau of Efficiency in Washington?—W. J. W. A. The efficiency system as it stands today is the composite result of re- search of a large number of organiza- | tions and individuals. It is an adapta- | tion of the rating scale principle em- | ployed by Walter Diil Scott and others. At 26 he was | BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. It is based on principles that have been tested and found successful in com- r:creial and educational institutions. Q. _How many men are employed on the Federal prohibition force?—O. B. L. A. The number of men employed on the Federal prohibition force varies considerably from year to year. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1927, there was a total number of 4,269 per- manent and 16 temporary members of the Federal prohibition force. This in- cluded both fleld officers and those lo- cated in Washington, D. C. Q. Are all brushes?>—P. h}:afix}&n}s executed with A. Some painters use palette knives. Q. How many newspapers are ther in the Wnrld‘.’—%, J. CF.' o 3 A. The total number of newspapers and periodicals is about 50,000. Con- tinental United States and Alaska- pub- lish 40 per cent: Canada, 3 per cent; { Germany, 13 per cent: Great Britain, 13 per cent; France, 7 per cent; more than one-half are printed i - {han one-half are printed in the Eng Q. At what fime sho caught for their pelis it . The fur of the mole is best wi the animal is killed in the Winier sa son. It is also called as “prime™ in Mid- summer. although the animal's fur is somewhat shorter then. During the molting periods in the Spring and Fall {here s a deterioration In the value of Q. What is the longest freig] fever hauled2—W. E. J. S . What is thought to be t - | est freight train ever operated f::a:lfifixiw |over the Virginia Railroad from Vic- toria, Va., to Roanoke, Va., 2 distance of 123 miles. The train consisted of 189 empty coal cars, 8 empty box cars, 2 cars of gasoline, one of steel and on of asphalt. The locomotive was 2-10- {10-2 mallet type and is used in han- dling trains of 125 to 180 loaded cars. Q. When was the Farmi B ‘mington Canal A. The Farmington Canal, connects New Haven with Southwick, was built about 1325-1831 and was | abandoned in 1846. The canal has a | length of 56 miles. The cost of con- struction was $600,000. Q. Are boilers rated by hor: or heating surface?—A. H, W. 1o A. Formerly boilers were always rated by horsepower. The present tendency is to rate boilers by heafing surface. However, the horseppwer Xatlnx._!.! still used to a certain extent. which How many Greek ecivilians . were during the World War?—E. S. . The figures compiled are for the period 1912-1922. As to civilians, women and children, killed in Greece—that is to say, in Macedonia,- Epirus, Thrace, Asia Minor, Anatolia and elsewhere— during the years 1912-1922, a con- servative estimate brings them up to 500,000. This takes in the massacres of Thrace in 1913, those in the Pontus and the rest of Turkey during the war, and finally in 1922. Q. Should milk be kept in the dark? —S. 8. A. When kept in the light, it des velops an off flavor which is not de- tected in milk kept out of the light. Q. Has any other large city been Efib_ou}i;{ht Hus cheaply as was New York?— A. The site of the City of Ottawa was originally settled by Philemon Wright of New England. He later transferred his right to this land to Nicholas Sparks in payment of labor as a woodcutter. It is said that Sparks accepted the payment most reluctantly. Q. Please name the 11 motions of the earth—M. H. A. The Naval Observatory says that it cannot say that the earth has any certain Hefinite number of motions. “Popular Astronomy,” by Flammarion arid Gore, gives the following as the 11 principal motions of the earth— other authorities might regard their numbers as greater or less than 11: Rotation on its axis, revolution about the sun, precession of the equinoxes, motion around the center of gravity of earth and moon, nutation, variation in the obliquity of the ecliptic, vari- ation in the eccentricity, motion of the perihelion, planetary perturbations, mo- tion of the sun around the center of gravity of the solar system and the sun's motion through space. Q. killed A Public reaction to the year's world series base ball games between the New York American and St. Louis National League teams center largely around the permanent records of the sport. Al- though history has accepted the su- premacy of the old Baltimore Orioles, an oaggregation of brilliant stars, and all merit has been measured Telative to the performances of that team, a new era and new leadership are now recog- nized. Babe Ruth, Gehrig, Manager Huggins and their .associates step into the all-time leadership class. and in the estimates of the press becomes the measures of future excellence. “Beyond any question of cavil or declares the New York Sun, “New York's Yankees are the base ball champions of the world. A strong brief could be submitted to support the con- tention that they are the base ball champions of all time. Like Crom- well's soldiery. they have not only de- feated every opponent but have com- pletely smashed and demolished every opponent.” The Grand Rapids Press suggests that “the shades of the grand old Balti- more Orioles, including such gods o base ball's Valhalla as Hanlon, Comis- key, Hughey Jennings and Muggsy McGraw, may as well turn over in their beds or their graves, whichever they now inhabit, and resign themselves to fate.” | * ok ke “The apparent weakness of the New York team.” in the opinion of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, “was appear- ance only, as the four-game series has so well shown. ‘Was the decebtion in- tentional? Were the Yanks stalling? We can scarcely believe it. Rather it is that the unconquerable spirit of the greatest ball outfit of all time came ‘o the rescue and sent the players upon the fleld with an absolute determina- tion to face no failure. * * * Ruth has been endowed by nature, first of all, with an eye of perfect perceptio: and a nerve and eye co-ordination o unrivaled completeness. Add to these| the muscles of a Hercules and of af Mercury combined—both strength and | speed—and you can begin to under-| stand what ‘it was that enabled the great player to triumph.” “Base ball supremacy comes to that group of players that can hit the ball most. surely, hardest and oftenest,” n | sheet.” f | nal, while the St. Louis Post suggests | to live for. Eclipse of Famous Old Orioles Credited to New York Yankees with the tribute to that player: “He can pitch. catch or play any position in the flield. And with it all he has & kindly soirit and a jol'y way that keep his teammates keyed up to coing their own by no means poor best” The Asbury Park Press is imprassed by the fact that “Ruth r more money for playing base ball than the President of the United States is for con- ducting the affairs of this great land. But the Yankee management believes he is worth it, and his salary is likely to increase.” Perhaps, suggests the Hartford Times, Congress should strike a medal in honor of Babe Ruth as “the king of American batsmen for his day The Times feels that “the design of the medal should show a beautiful bambino tree with the mighty Babe resting beneath its shade.” That paper also’predicts that “Ruth, Gehrig and Meusel will remembered when grandchildren are learning from their grandparents about the wonderful base ball ‘in those days.’" * ok ok ¥ “An Institution.” is the Worcester Telegram's expression of admiration for Ruth, with the comment: “He is al- most bigger than the game itself, but not_quite. Nobody would get much of a thrill watching him hit his homers if they never had an effect on the score, on a league pennant race or on a world championship. One person can play golf alone or bowl alone. But ball s a team game, even when one player overshadows all the others. ‘There probably never will be angther Ruth. His Yankee contract runs for another year. But it would be a happy thing for base ball if he could be placed on some other team for a change.” “If a Western team meets the Yanks rext year, granted that the latter gain another victory, it will prepare to strive for the pennant by hard playing in the ball field rather than trusting too much to the logic and suggestion of the dope advises the Akron Beacon-Jour- ispatch “Meanwhile, we have revenge We were beaten, humbled, trampled upon, shamed by Babe Ruth and company, who lived for two years to revenge themselves upon us for the good beating we gave them in 1926." * ok ok ok Miller Huggins, manager of the New York Americans, as a Cincinnatian, is affirms the St. Louis Times. they can hit the ball. to have invincible pitchers. About al of their batters on second base. crosses the home plate. The bat of Goliath of our national game is wortl more than an army of supernumeraries.” * ok ok K The Topeka Daily Capital points ou that “no other team ever had both Ruth and a Gehrig in Either one is capable of breaking us any world series ever played, and bot together, when going well, are {00 muc for the nerves of any opposing team as a matter of fact “the Yankees prove of a Confederation of Free Republics bondage has been eliminated only on paper. while the far greater part of the agricultural pppulation is still kept i on the ruins of the dynasties and feu- dalism.” (Consright. 1938. by Paul V. Collins.) e Ruth s the life of the team.™ say the Columbus (Ohio) State Journal, A} “The rea- con the New York Yankees are the best base ball team in the world is because They don't have they need to win a game is to get one The other sluggers will see to it that he its line-up. The Pasadena Star-News concludes that to b the better team in practically phase and feature of the game." viewed by the Cincinnati Times-Star as one whose career “is a triumph of the big mind over small matter,” and that paper reviews his record of Ameri- can League and world championships with the further statement: “True, he has had Babe Ruth to help him, but Bambino has at times been a liability in teamwork and morale. Prima donnas are harder to manage than mediocri- ties. Only a diplomat and a discipli- narian cculd bring order out of the chaos of temperaments among the Yan- kees. Huggins has succeeded where others doubtless would have failed.” ‘The Scranton Times also holds that “he has demonstrated his ability as a manager,” and that “there is mnone greater in base ball.” Belief that the decisive character of the series demonstrated the integrity of base ball and clinched public confl- dence 13 emphasized by such papers as the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Waterloo Tribune and Charleston Daily Mail. | 1| a h it a 0 h h d s