Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1928, Page 6

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All rizhts of public necial dispatches herein are also Ie Dedication of a IMonument. Dedicating the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Baftlefields Memorial yesterday afternoon, the President emphasized the fact of his participation in an event neither sec- tional mnor local, but national in its cheracter. The spot where he stood ! was bathed with the blood of one hundred thousand Americans. For this reason it is hallowed, and not because of its importance as a battlefield mark- ing the military triumphs or defeats of the various armies engaged. It was merely one of the many crucibles in which the theories of a new experiment were put to the test. And the President found ample justification for his con- clusion that the experiment has come out well, that great things are in store for the future. < He pointed out the material wealth #nd progress of a united nation. He sketched its development, and the part taken by the sons of Virginia in laying the foundation stones. With these as a background he traced the outlines “of the mansion in which dwell the coes one obtain? Circus? Yes, but far more often the base ball game. This reaction {5 more usual for fans than for players, however. The pungent and dis- tinctive aromas of Harris tweed, of corduroy and of rubber are ingredients in many well known outdoor perfumes. Riding has one peculiarly its own, against which the distillations of chem- ists beat as vainly as the sca against a cliff—ten parts leather and saddle-soap and ninety of the, to some, delightful natural aroma of the Genus Equus. Let energetic and optimistic originators and combiners of these artificial aids to pro- priety. and serenity of mind work never 50 cleverly, they can do little along this line but add an occasional ingredient or imitate something which is furnished better and more cheaply by Nature. — e New York's Voting Problem. The extraordinarily heavy registration just recorded in Greater New York, with a thirty-four per cent increase over 1924, has brought about a situation that may have its serious consequences. As was noted the other day, the State Board of Elections has concluded that there are not enough voting machines to permit the recording of the pro- spectively heavy ballot within the hours named in the law. So the board has de- cided to concentrate the machines in the boroughs of Manhattan and Brook- lyn, and to require the boroughs of the Bronx, Queens and Richmond to voie by the paper ballot method. But this runs counter to a law of the State enacted in 1922 to the effect of requir- ing that by 1924 the voters in all elec- tion districts of Greater New York should ballot by machine. This raises the question whether a paper balloting in three of the five boroughs will be valid. One of the candidates for office has distinctly raised this question, and has sent & telegram to Gov. Smith asking that a special session of the State Legis- lature be convened to extend the voting time in Greater New York to midnight, which will permit, the use of the voting machines throughout the five horoughs, giving time in all of them for the re- cording of the record-breaking number of hallots. If this request is denied. and ¥ three of the five boroughs of Greater New York are put upon a paper ballot basis | the validity of the vote of the entire city may be challenged. A judge of the | people of the United States” today. “It is & house not made with hands,” he caid. “Into it have gone the sacrifices and prayers of many genera- tions. While it is by no mieans com- plete, it is already the most comfortable ‘habitation which 2 nation ever enjoyed. Its prevailing atmosphere is marked by progress, peace and tranquillity. Sec- tional animosities have disappeared. Industrial conflicts have almost ceased. Her territorial integrity is secure. Her constitutional liberties are protected by the eternal vigilance of her people. Our country is still worthy of those who ‘have made such sacrifices in its behalf, still determined to improve the oppor- tunities which those sacrifices created, still loyal to the faith of the past, still | inspired by the hope of the future.” That is an inspiring picture. But it is the more so when one has followed through its course the strange workings of that destiny which brought it about; when one recalls the hazardous days when a slender thread seemed stretched beyond the breaking point and was held fast only by the intercession of an unseen hand. It is & comforting pic- ture, one to be held up and examined closely in the light of a new day, the better to appreciate this new light and the bright rays that it sheds on tomorrow. - A considerable share of discretion was shown Gene Tunney when he decided to be a literary man and not a politician. B High cost of radio time is another reminder of the terse adage, “Money talks.” B Olfactory Offerings. “Distinctive perfumes for various sports” is the latest to emanate from Paris, one of the great style centers of the world and undoubtedly the authori- tative source of the last cry for femi- ninity. Announcement has been made that a special series of delicious and appropriate odors has been concocted, | suited to accompany different types of | sports clothes, which is the same as saying sports, for nowadays nearly every one more or less dresses the part in the reaim of outdoor diversions. ‘Those for which the new perfumes have been distilled include golf, tennis, riding and fencing. Nature has more or less anticipated these “grande couturiers” in this regard. Already there are associated with many sports certain distinctive and pleasing odors the very whiff of one of which brings up poignant and instantaneous recollections of past enjoyable outings. One of the ingredients of the natural tennis perfume is often interchangeable. Tt is that agreeable aroma called forth by warm sun beating on fine sand which reminds the frequenter of a beach of hard-fought sets and recalls to the tennis player happy hours sprawled by the sea, Add to this a dash of the aromatic smell of the gut with which racquets are meshed and one has a perfume fit for Olympians. Sniff the pungept odor of thick wool such as is in Hudson Bay blankets and hunting garments made from that fabric, and let there be in the offing a dash of smoke from the burning of the bark of the white birch tree. Therein is the veritable perfume of the Autumn and Winter woods and of the gun aimed at whirring grouse or antlered buck. If at the same time some one nearby happens to light a pipeful of plug-cut, tobacco, reminiscent tears smart the eyelids. Angling has a per- fume, or combination of perfumes, all its own—aromatic herbs like mint and thyme with a decided dash of that mix- ture of tar, pennyroyal and citronella which makes the ubiquitous black fly cease from troubling and be, if not at rest, at least busy elsewhere. Some experts recommend a “soupcon” of the odor of freshly dug earthworms which to the Waltonite is far from unpleasing, while 8 whiff of freshly caught fish makes the ensemble perfection. The golf perfume includes sometimes the entrancing odor of fresh, springy and recently mowed turf, sometimes the splee of Autumn leaves, with a faint background of leather and occasicnally State Supreme Court has just rendered | an opinion in support of the order of | the Board of Elections to concentrate the machines in two boroughs and, de- | jawmakers and law administrators with | tionary days until 1832 and after, to do spite the law of 1922, to permit paper | balloting in the other three. This judg- ment, however, is not final, and mlqnt‘ not serve to validate the elections ' should a protest be raised against it by a candidate for office who could make & showing of direct interest. ‘The bearing of this question upon the | presidential electoral vote of New York | arises from a clause in the Federal | ansluution. article 2, section 1, which provides: “Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, & number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress, ete.” Thus the Constitution leaves the manner of the election of the electors for President to the State Legislatures. | 1t in this instance the Legislature of New York having provided that by a, certain date all the votes in Greater New York should be taken by machine and through failure of calculation a special arrangement has been made wiereby only two-thirds of those votes are taken by machine, the validity of those votes not taken by machine may possibly be challenged on the ground that the constitutional provision has not | been fulfilled. e —— i It becomes evident that the farmer| has a wonderful amount of political influence, with & lack of information as | to what to do with it. His situation is not different in this respect. from that | of large percentages of the more urban public. e Afier all, the citizen is perhaps most | comfortable who can pin s campaign button on his coat lapel, and let the argument go at that. AR 1t is now suggested that the Tammany ‘ brave is not necessarily as bad as he| is war-painted. st Rough Track Racing. The dangers of automobile racing and the necessity for a smooth track for| this form of sport were emphasized o | Friday at Rockingham, N. H., when Fred Comer, & noted driver, was killed | and several others were severely injured in three separate accidents during the competition, Only twenty-four laps of the one hundred and sixty to be cover- ed were reeled off by Comer before a skid on a turn caused his tiny machine to upset while traveling at an estimated speed of one hundred and thirty miles an hour. Twelve laps later Jimmie Glea- son, likewise a well known driver, bit | the rail near the starter's stand and was thrown from his car, In attempting to avoid his prostrate body, three other | racers piled their machines into the wreckage. A few laps later, a third acci- dent sent Deve Evans to the hospital. It was then that officials of the meet called, off the race “because of the ac- cidents and the condition of the track.” In this announcement lies the answer to the wholesale slaughter. The “con- dition of the track” was such that the beginning of the race was delayed for| more than an hour while temporary re- : pairs were made and when the gun| went off it was still in such condition | that the drivers’ lives were placed in| jeopardy. Tt is obvious'that in these | circumstances the officials were dere- liet fn their duty in permitting the | race 1w go on. Although the average layman does not realize it, the board and brick tracks throughout the country are exceedingly difficult to drive upon, owing to their roughness. At high speed the race driver is jounced unmercifully in his tiny seat. Those who participate in this kind of sport, however, are used to the rough tiding of their speed cars and it takes an extraordinarily ill-conditioned track to cause them to lose control. Presumably, from the number of accidents and the official announcement, the track at Rockingham was unfit for competition, and it would appear that it was solely the sign of the almighty dollar that prevented the promotors from cancel- | the bottom of my heart. instead of from men to their death under such circum- | stances, and the governing body of rac- ing should take immediate steps to en- force its mandates in regard to safety. b o Punishment. With the deepest sorrow for the need 1and yet with hope that the sacrifice of life may be of value in warning and prevention, the execution yesterday at San Quentin prison in California of Willlam Hickman 18 to be finally re- corded. Theré was undue delay in his punishment. The crime for which this lad paid with his life was committed last December. Of his guilt there was no possible question. Of his final exe- cution there was only the question of a chance of commutation on the ground of mental irresponsibility. His trial was a mere form, for his guilt was con- fessed. Yet through the invocation of technicalities his counsel protracted the proceedings. ‘There was no basis for appeal, no ground for reconsideration, no warrant for any extension of mercy. Through this delay of months much of the effectiveness of punishment has undoubtedly been lost. Had this young man immediately upon confession and conviction been put to death as the law requires, the value of his punishment as a warning and a deterrent would have been much greater, Crime prevails in this country today to an extent to alarm all classes of society in all sections. A shockingly high percentage of those who break the laws are young people just passing into manhood and womanhood and in their early adult years. The span from eighteen to twenty-eight covers a ml-‘ jority of the wrongdoers. The social, moral and legal restraints are weak- ened. And the law, when executed, is so tardy that it has become the least of the deterrents. To be sure, there would have been | no particular gain toward swifter and surer justice if Hickman's case alone had been expedited, and the average processes had been unchanged through- out the country. What is needed is not. some exceptional instance, but a switter | pace in all the States and in all cases, of course with no diminution of justice ' ' 2nd no impairment of the rights of all | men to a fair trial. That, for which the country hoped in | this case was the seizure of an oppor- tunity for a striking instance of the law’s quick effectiveness, both to deter possible lawbreakers from the commy,- sion of other crimes and to stimulate the institution of speedier processes, in recognition of the fact that the law's delay is today one of the chief causes of crime in America. .o There is still a belief that many tragedies of the air might be averted if the level-headed Charles Lindbergh could be called in to supervise every adventurous flight. Apart from partisanship the entire country turns to the hope that the Weather Bureau can offer a conscien- tious prediction of fair weather on next | ineuguration day. o ) A decision to end his vacation ma; have been prompted by the fact that STAR. WASHINGTON, n. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2. 1938 THIS BY CHARL. | So much of the action of “The She-, Wolves of Machecoul” takes place ai ! night that this little known work oi Alexandre Dumas might aptly be called | a nocturnal novel. ‘We are still making our way through the land of romance as set forth in this very long book, a romance of the! sort which Intrigues the reader to inquire: Did Dumas write this himself. or is| this one of the stories he “farmed out” | to his hired fictlon hands in his so-| called “fiction factory”? It is more or less well known to lovers of this grand romancer that Dumas contracted with various publishers to | supply more storfes in his typical vein in a year than any one man could have produced in a lifeiime. If one can put & score or more brains | to work ait the same time, however, presumably he might be able to turn out novels by a sort of mass production. 1 It is interesting to note that the French | author thus antedated Henry Ford and General Motors, although in another distinct line of human endeavor. As & matter of cold historical fact, the Dumas Fiction Factory, Inc.. pro- duced some 1,200 novels, if our statistics are correct, all of them bubbling with the infectuous spirit of the master himself. How did he do it? | It is said that he outlined the plots, allowed his workers to develop them. then rapidly went over them, changing here and there with the deft hand of the artist, until at last almost every story came to bear his imprint. It was indubitably Dumas, even if! Dumas did not write it! * Kok ¥ ‘The nocturnal novel under considera- tion, “The She-Wolves of Machecoul,” undoubtedly bears the marks of the | master. If he didn't write it (and we | think he did) he had enough to do| with touching it up to make it one to the question, How much of the mas- | ter is in a master work? Surely, a great | tale does not have to be all masier or none. If it have a dash of the master, 50 that the flavor of the original is paramount, it has enough master in it to entitle it to be placed with the elect. Dumas' “She-Woives” is a corking good story from its unusual title, slightis melodramatic, to the point in the story where the prraent reader now is—which is, of course, v5 far as we have got, and following wnich we can say nothing until we shall have finished it. We have the satistying belief, however, that it will end as well as it began and as well as it continues. This, of course, | because of the way it continues. This | story has plenty of “pep.” in the best | Its characters are forced, owing to the state of insurrection in La Vendee, trouble spot of France from revolu-* most of their doings at night. in order to avoid the “red breeches” of the gov- ernment. Hence we have something unusual in the story line, a tale in which all the “big doings” are at night. Along coun- try paths, highroads and byroads, the | beautiful “She-Wolves” and their friends pursue their plot against the Philippian government. The young la- | dies with the animal-like names in| reality are two charming creatures (as Dumas insiste on calling them) who have been given the designation out of | the sheer envy of their neighbors, | One Baron Michel falls in love with | Mary, one of the twins, but is so timid ! that her sister Bertha, who has fallen in love with him, proceeds to tie him to her apron strings. Mary, the gentle | one of the two, in order to prevent | hurting Bertha, swears that she will never marty Michel, and thus forces him to be the betrothed of Bertha. talking so loud that they scared the fish. ! Complaints of an October warm wave should be modified by the reflection that | there is no use in being in & hurry for a blizzard. . -on o | r—.ee SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Bills and Billions. Through very many thoughtful years, The world has hoped to win A freedom from financial fears; And still the bills come in. In commerce various ways we find ‘To help us all to thrive, And hold a placid state of mind; And still the bills arrive. Our statesmanship will seek to aid With sentiments profound, To leave the future undismayed; And still the bills come ’round. ' An orator will speak us fair, In language fine and strong; And still, in Congress, as elsewhere, The bills will come along. Modern Oratorical Improvements. “What do you think of our amplify- ing device?” asked the mechanical ex- pert. “It’s great,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “It enables me to speak from the top of my voice.” City Man’s Plaint. The farmer now appears to be A statue in misfortune's niche. ‘The price of spinach seems to me Almost enough to make him rich. Jud Tunkins says he doesn't know much about architecture, but when he has trouble with the old fitvver there's nothing that looks so beautiful as a gas filling station. Literary Information. “You read many books!™ “No” said Miss Cayenme. “Why read the books when the advertisements and reviews are so much better writ- ten?” “One inclined to believe all he hears,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “should protect himself by hearing as little as possible.” lntentions. Not in our plans, but in our deeds, A judgment must be found. ‘There’s many a garden filled with weeds Where flowers should be found. Tmmune. “Are there any wicked bootleggers in your neighborhood?” “How should I know,” rejoined Uncle Bill Bottletop. “It is a matter of gen- eral information that I'm broke. “If you tends strickly to yoh own business,” said Uncle Eben, “you has mo’ to manage dan 8 heap o’ folks has heen able to take care of.” B Free Service. Prom the Dayton Daily News. The operation which that California surgeon performed on himself would of honeysuckle or flowering locy ‘Bmell & peanul and what reaciion thing to comiemplate, this sending of had anyhody to send the » ing the event. It is not a pleasant Say not that no girl would so give up makes it convincing. Dumas And he New Chinese Chiang Kai-shek, named chief execu- tive of the Chinese Republic by the| central executive council of the Na-| tionalists, is regarded by the American | press as the logical leader in the stu- | pendous task of creating & unified Chinese nation. ‘““He represents the educated Chinese | of modern thought,” says the Oakland Tribune, which looks upon him as “a brilliant military leader, former close assoclate of the Rev. Sun Yat Sen, and, seemingly, intensely patriotic and a practical jdealist.” = The Tribune | describes the task before him: “The government must be consolidated: | troops must be demobilized and re- | turned to occupations, and out of that chaos created by continued warfare must be built a self-sustaining and prosperous state. Chiang Kai-shek, as China’s President, has one of the largest jobs ever turned over to an executive.” “He faces a lifetime of thankless labor,” in the opinion of the New York Times, which, however, thus sum- marizes the prospects: “Even those who have little faith in the ability of the Chinese Nationalists to evolve an effective government will pray for the success of President Chiang’s machine. The world needs a tranquil, orderly China. He is setting about the realiza- tion of this ideal under more favorable circumstances than any of his pred- ecessors. Except for spasmodic out- breaks in the remoter districts of the empire, the war lords have left off fighting.” * Kok “He is in & position,” suggests the Buffalo Evening News, “io teach the | Chinese how to hold elections and to \ confer power by the verdict of ballot boxes. That should be the next step forward in the creation of a new China.” The News explains: ~“‘His en- dowment of good sense should show him that a proper development of re- publicanism cannot permit title to of- fice to rest long upon mere ngpoim- | ment by the governing organization of a party” The Waterbury Republican also feels that “he has before him not only the problems of recohstructing a war-shattered nation, but of instilling into its people a conception of loyalty | that extends beyond the clan and the | province.” | " “His administrative talents are said to | be as marked as his military genius,” | according to the Roanoke Times, which pays the further tribute: “He is the strong man of the Nationalist move- ment, which has culminated success- fully after a period of civil war that lasted for years. Not only as the mili- tary commander-in-chief in the field, | but also in the governing councils pf | | the Nationalists, the new President has been the driving force and decisive | factor.” * ok Kk “He took up the Nationalist cause | when it was merely one of a chaos of factional causes and confined to Can- |ton in the far South, with a limited amount of surrounding territory,” ex- | plains the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “Hampered by lack of money and arms, and by quarreling in his own ranks, with retreats as well as advances, he subdued a huge area to Nationalism as far as the great river. After re- tiring for a time, he organized his movement with a momentum that slow- ly spread over province after province until the ancient capital was in his hands.” The Globe-Democrat con- cludes: “A wise head will be required to stabilize China and guide it in unity and modernism and peace. Something resembling that kind of head seems to be found on the Chiang Kai-shek ‘lnhouldeu 4 | “Like Washington, Chiang Kal-shek, I by his patience, his good generalship and his readiness to efface himself |ish forces and the AND THAT E. TRACEWELL. makes particularly convincing the change in the character of Michel, through which he is able to throw off his timidity, secured through the strict bringing up by his mother, and assert himself in time to prevent himself be- coming the husband of the woman he did not love. The reader sees that this is exactly the reverse of the usual plot. It reminds one of the chaste hero of one of Field- ing’s novels, who is pursued by the ladies. Dumas’ Baron Michel. however, is not a burlesque character, but a real hit of character drawing. His change is natural, and comes about as the re- sult of those nocturnal wanderings, when he is thrown into the midst of plot and counterplot. It is his love, and his love alone, which makes him a vio- lent adherent of the wandering Duchesss de Berry, who is trying to put her son an the throne of France. It is this love which finally turns him into a self- ssertive man, able to tell his mother where to get off,” as the modern slang expression has i, and to put him on the road to winning Mary at last. What a fine scene it is going to be, we fecl sure, when Bertha finds out at | Cathedral, the preparations for the in-, last that her dear Michel really loves e sister Mary! We have been read- ing away steadily for a week, just to reach thal very scene, and we haven't g0t there yet, but are on the way, and | conference of Napoleon and Czar Alex- | by the time ‘this appears in print, no doubt. we shall be in full possession of all the facts. Bertha is a very strong- minded voung woman; withoui a doubt she will get angry at Michel and give him a large and generous “ha-ha” when the showdown comes. Bertha would. P “The She-Wolves of Machecoul” makes admirable use of two of the old- est tricks in the repertoire of the fic- tion writer. suspense to a fare-you-well. The whole story is built on this love of two girls for one man, and the reader reads, as affair turns out. ‘The character of Michel is so drawn as to make it see | probable for a long time that the most_masculine Bertha will force him | | to marry her. All this time the story | is progressing, and with it the inevitable | | changes in the hero's mind and heart, | | 50 that always the reader feels that the | young fellow will do what Seneca (and | Woodrow Wilson after him) called | “come to himself,” and speak up in | | time to save himself from Bertha and win the gentle Mary, she who is so | good that she is willing to sacrifice her wn_happiness for the happiness of her ister. ‘This is laying it on pretty thick, t must be admitted, but no one can do this better than Dumas. His large spirlt makes such a situation easily Ssense of that strictly modern word.|SWallowed, even by the most captious reader, whereas the same thing would be branded as silly from a modern writer. “The She-Wolves” makes fine use of that other elderly device, the villain. In Master Courtin, village and peasant tenant of Baron Michel, the reader has a true villain, yet individualized, who speaks fair to ‘every one, yet does his best to betray them in his peasant greed for land and gold. The way he worms his way into secrets and yet. manages to cover himself up is well worth read- ing. Here is an elemental villain, by every test, and yet a real human be- ing,” who 'sticks ‘right along with the others as far as we have got in this story to date. Villains usually do mnot last so well, especially in Dumas. Some one sticks them through with a sword, | or they fall over a cliff, or something, | Courtin, he of the shrewd eyes and Pan-like mouth, is coming up the home stretch with the best of them, with those evil eyes fixed on the 50,000 francs which he has been promised if he delivers the Duchesse de Berry into the hands of the government. Will he President Coolidge found many people | her beloved! Mary would. Mary does.| get it? We don’t know yet. Tell you iater. Chlef i*jkeclltive Regarded as Logical Choice laid the foundations of the Chinese Republic, but Chiang Kai-shek brought the structure to its completion. * * * The task still remains of harmoniz- ing the various military factions and | organizing a government that will be capable of solving the problems that China faces in her effort to become a free, united and efficient nation. = * » The whole world will agree that the Central Executive Council has done well to intrust the direction of these delicate interests to Chiang Kai-shek.” K e “Trained in the army of Japan, he fs a modern military commander,” say: ithe Reno Evening Gazette, “and dealings with the Cantonese govern- ment originally and with the National- istic factions since have shown him to have more than the usual share of the Oriental’s intuitive diplomacy. 1If his ability enables him to establish a stable government, it will be the best thing that could happen for China and the Chinese.” The Gazette believes that the Nationalists “had to come to him, because he happens to be the one man in all China who meets the require- ments of the new government.” Chiang's selection appears to the New York Evening Post to be “a token of moderation and conciliation in the councils of the Kuomintang which would indicate that the Nationalists are really prepared to face the immense task of reconstructing a country which for 17 years has been intermittently ravaged by civil war.” The Post adds: “With every day the Nationalist regime shows greater promise of stability. Re- gardless of such untoward develop- ments as the outbreak of Mohammedan Chinese in the province of Kansu, its power and prestige are increasing steadily, if slowly. News which reaches this country from various Chinese and foreign sources continues to point toward cstablishment of effective government.” P Besides the young general’s service in reconciling the various factions, the Long Beach Press-Telegram suggests: “He also has the confidence of European powers as well as America. Possibly evidences of this confidence may be somewhat restrained, awaiting a further test of the ability of the Nationalist leader; and the opinion of Japan even may be reserved pending the shaping of events along the Manchurian border. But, on the whole, the outlook encoyr- ages.” UNITED STATES WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. President Wilson is unbending in his demand for total submission by Ger- many. Berlin will waste time by send- ing any conditional or qualified accept- ance and the President is on his guard against tricks of Teuton diplomacy * * * By shoving ahead here and there Amer- ican line tonight rests across the Freya defenses * * * Under pressure of the allied armies the enemy’s retreat con- tinues, with severe rearguard fighting on the British front east of Roubaix, Douai and Le Cateau. but every hour is giving back to Belgium and France precious soil and cities and is liberating thousands of their people from German bondage * * * The allied advance passes Courtral and the British and Belgians press the Germans back on the Scheldt. The 3d British Army is turning the Valenciennes line, which endangers all the German forces north- ward to Flanders and southward to the Oise Canal, behind which the Germans have begun to retreat from other Brit- Americans * * * if the success of the cause demanded it, was largely responcible for the successes | have been a complete success if he had N& to, thm:t the Nationalists gained,” declares | ter Unjon, “Sun Yat Sen |and 165 missing, 1,048 names on casualty lists given out today. 102 killed In action, 471 woungd- ed, 207 dead from disease and wounds, e In the first place, it uses | the mayor of his! the | his | THE LIBRARY TABLE Bv the Booklover f For some years hefore writing “The | Dynasts.” cailed by one critic “one of the most momentous achievements of modern literature,” Thomas Hardy had | been recurringly interested in the great international upheaval represented by the Napoleonic wars, There are evi- dences of this interest in “The Trumpet Major” and a number of the short stories and poems. Then in 1903, after writing all his novels, he published Part 1 of “The Dynasts.” Parts IT and | 11T appeared in 1906 and 1908. Alio- ether there are 19 acts and 130 scenes. chronicle form, one of the oldest forms of English drama, that used by Shake- speare in his “Henry V” and all ths | other plays of the English kings. The | unity of such a play is not difficult, to preserve, for it depends simply on the sequence of hisiorical events. The story is told of Napoleon's career from | his “projected Invasion of England in 11804 to his downfall at Waterloo in 1815. | The chief protagonists are England and France. In the first part, which opens jon a ridge in' Wessex, the leading scenes are the attempted repeal of the | defense act in the British Parliament, the coronation of Napoleon in Milan | vasion of England, the battles of Ulm | and Austerlitz and the death of Nelson |at Trafalgar. The second part shows | the Prussian defeat at Jena, the famous {ander of Russia_at Tilsit, the battle |n1 ‘Wagram, the Walcheren expedition, Napoleon’s divorce from Josephine, his marriage with Marie-Louise of Austria, {and the birth of his son, the King of | Rome; the placing of Joseph Bonaparte upon the throne of Spain, the Penin- | sular campaign under Wellesley. The | third part moves swiftly to the end, | through the disastrous Russian inva- |sion of 1812, the battle of Leipzig, Napoleon's banishment to Elba, his escape. the Hundred Days and the bat- tle of Waterloo. i * ok ok ok | Many critical appreciations of “The of his own. The thing boils itself down | indicated, simply to find out how the |‘Dynasts” have been written. An excel- {lent one is to be found in the last chapter of “Thomas Hardy: a Critical Study.” by Lascelles Abercrombie. “Th= Dynasts,” according to Mr. Abererombie. “attends to something that the age of ‘Tennyson and Browning quite failed to effect * * * This epic-drama of Thomas Hardy's is, in what may be called its conceptual poetry, akin to the words of Milton and Wordsworth in our literature, and beyond it to ‘Faust’ and ‘Prometheus Bound.'” The structure of the play is complicated. ‘The chronicle of the Napoleonic era is sel, within & framework of the super- natural, called the “Overworld.” In the “forescene” of the “Overworld” move and chant a group of symbolical char- acters, the Ancient Spirit, the Chorus of the Years, the Spirit and Chorus of the Pities, the Shade of the Earth, the Spirits Sinister and Ironic, with their Choruses, Rumours, Spirit Messengers and Recording Angels. These symbo!- ical figures intersperse choragic verses throughout the whole drama. The | many changes of scene and the large | number of characters show immedi- | ately that this is a play for the library, | not. for the stage. It is more epic than | dramatic. Hardy says in his preface: | “Readers will readily discern, too, that. ‘The Dynasts’ is a play intended simply for mental performance, and mnot for the stage * * * A practicable com- promise may conceivably result, taking the shape of a monotonic delivery of speeches, with dreamy conventional ges- tures, something in the manner tra- ditionally maintained by the old Christ- mas mummers.” The scene changes from Wessex to Paris, London, Bou- logne, Milan, Gibraltar, Austria, Bavaria. Trafalgar, various places in France. Bath, Berlin, Tilsit and the River Niemen, the Pyrenees, Madrid and varfous other places in Spain, the open sea off the Spanish coast, Vienna, Brighton. St. Petersburg, Windsor, Mos- cow, Lithuania, Leipzig, the Rhine, Fontainebleau, Avignon, Malmaison. Elba, Brussels and Waterloo. These are by no means al lof the places, and the action shifts back and forth to some of them many times. The characters number several hundred and include not only George IIT, all the important English statesmen and generals of the period, all the Bonaparte family, all | Napoleon's_generals and all the sov- ereigns of Europe, but such minor per- sonages as “A Gentleman of Fashion,” “A Country Gentleman” “Coach and Other Highway Passengers.” “A Militi man’s Wife,” “Madame Grassini and the Ladies of the Opera” ‘“French Market Women” and numerous others. ‘The dialogue is in both verse and prose; the stage directions are in prose. Fatalism is the keynote, as it is in all Hardy’s novels. Life is represented a colossal tragedy. The choruses of the Pities, the Ironies and the Years pre- sent the philosophic conclusions from the horrors of what Hardy calls the “Great Historical Calamity, or Clash of Peoples, artificially brought about some hundred years ago.” * K kK It it is genuine, “The Diary of & Communist Schoolboy,” by N. Ognyov, translated from the Russian by Alexan- der Worth, is a contribution to knowl- edge of the Bolshevist methods of edu- cation. The boy who writes the diary is called Kostya Riabtzov and is the 15-year-old son of a tailor. Because i Kostya, diminutive for “Constantine,” was the name of & “Turkish Czar.” the boy changes his name to Viadlen. Whether the diary is that of a veal boy or is the literary production of N. Ognyov, does not appear. We may take it as fiction or as biography, as we choose. Through the diary we see Russian schoolboys attempting to ansorb social doctrines which are some- what beyond their years. Though the doctrines may' not be assimilated, the catch phrases are picked up with facil- ity. Meetings and discussions are end- less and reasons are demanded for everything. Student self-government prevails, but does not always work well. Kostya gives episodes of teacher-pupil conflict. Here is one: The teacher, a young woman, addressed her cless as “children” and Kostya resented the epithet; but she persisted, whereupon he invited her “io be more polite or else we may send you to the devil.” She retorted by sending him from the room, but instead of going he gave her a lecture on her place in the edu- | cational system. “In the first place * » * this is not a classroom, but a lab- oratory, and in any case you can't chase any one out-—you're more like a teach- er of the old school, and only they were allowed to behave as you do” * ok Kk K A recent Mark Twain story Is said ‘When Mark Twain got married, he was poor. His bride's father decided to present the young couple with a hand- some house and kept his gift a secret until the honeymooners returned. A few friends who had been taken into his confidence met them at the station, drove with them in hacks and car- riages all around town and finally de- vosited them at & magnificent man- sion, beautifully furnished and all lighted up. When they entered, Mark ‘Twain’s father-in-law handed him the deed to the house. Mark Twain, not to be outdone, took the deed and said: “Now, Mr. Langdon, whenever you are in Elmira, just come right on up to the house and stay just as long as you like. It won't cost you a cent.” * oK K K In “Carnack, the Life-Bringer. the Story of a Dawn Man Told by Him- self,” by Oliver Marble Gale, an early paleolithic young man, & trifle superior to his fellows, is supposed to tell the story of his life and adventures through stone drawings found in a canyon in Utah. Carnack tamed a wolf and taught it to hunt for him. domesticated wild horses and subjected them to burdens, produced fire and turned it to domestic and industrial uses. He is the symbol of pioneer man in that early period. * X o stories in the volume, ‘Who Rode Away,” by D. are as Freudian and | The _eleven “The Woman . H, Lawrence, as | In planning the play he chose the | to have been told by a lawyer of Dallas. | ANSWERS TO | i | | Did you ever write a leiter to Fred-l eric J. Haskin? You can sk him any question ‘of fact and get the answer in | a personal letter. Here is a great edu- | cational idea infroduced into the lives {of the mosi intelligent people in the | world—American newspaper readers. It | s a part of that best purpose of a| newspaper—service. There ’s no charge | except 2 cents in coln or stamps for re- | turn postage. Address Frederic J. Has- |kin, director. The Evening Star Infor mation Bureau, Washington, D. C. . | | @ Do foods have any effect on hay | fever?—F. K. K. A. Recent experiments indicate that certain foods cause hay fever. Amoni these are herring, chocolate, beans, | | peanuts, pork, Indian corn, potatoes. cantaloupes, tomatoes and eggs. What_causes the blue haze over | the Blue Ridge Mountains?—E. N |""A. Thic blue haze is owing, mainly, [to the scattering of light by fine dust It was dark upon the gfounds of the Washington Army Barracks, except for the glare of searchlights and incandes- cent decorations. The annual Army carnival was in progress, and thousands of interesied spectetors were milling around. They were mostly in the illumination, but occasionally a prom- enader would pass into a darkened ave nue, and right there is where a young man slipped a circular into the hands of a stranger. That stranger happened to be a detective of the Metropolitan Police, and as soon as he reached light he read the following: Fight against imperialist wars! Fight for your own interests! | Soldiers! Young workers and students' The Army’s “biggest show on earth,’ the military exposition and carnival, is to be staged October 4th, 5th and 6th. A foretasie of the vast military prepara- tions for a new World War is to be given the people of Washington, the workers and farmers of America. | Why the feverish speed In armameni | building? Why the huge appropriations | for military and naval purposes? Why | the holding of such military expositions | as this one? ‘The capitalist governmenis are mak- ing feverish preparations for a new and more destructive war: (a) between the big imperialist countries over the spoils of world profits (United States-Great Britain); (b) against the growing movement of the oppressed colonial and semi-colonial countries (China, Nica- ragua): (c) against the Soviet Union, the first workers’ republic. Billions of dollars are being spent. Thousands of young workers and students are being militarized for the bosses’ use in the | coming war. At the same time such militarist organizations as the National Guard, State Troopers, etc., are used against the workers when they fight for & better livelthood (New Bedford, Wesiern Pennsylvania). John Porter, a militant young worker, formerly in the Army and active in the New Bed- ford strike, who exposed the nature of capitalist militarism, and who fought against it, was persecuted and jailed. He was sentenced to 2!, years at hard labor for daring to take a stand for workers and against the bosses. Fight against imperialist war! Fight for the release of John Porter! Fight against the R. O. T. C, C. M. T. C and other military organizations. Use your military knowledge in the interests of the workers—for a work- ers’ militia. Defend the Soviet Union—fatherland of all workers and oppressed peoples! For a workers and farmers’ govern- ment! Join the YOUNG WORKERS' (COMMUNIST) LEAGUE, District 3-1924, Spring Garden, Philadelphia, Pa. The officer immediately turned back to the passer of the subversive appeal and placed him under arres charge of “disorderly conduct.” How many hundreds or thousands of other coples of that appeal had already been distributed to the soldiers and the pub- lic it was impossible to learn, but the fact that one had fallen directly into the hands of an officer appeared incon- trovertible rrcnl of a more serious charge to follow. A judge in a Wash- ington court has defined “disorderly conduct” as “any conduct that is not orderly.’ i * ok kK were convicted and sentenced to im- prisonment for distributing circulars ad- vocating atheism, for the court held that such circulars were likely to cause a dis- turbance of the peace, hence were un- lawful, despite the so-called “free speech” guaranty of the Constitution. So they went to jail for atheism. In California, iwo men were arrested this week for advocating communism and | revolution, and tons of subversive liter- ature were captured. They, too, serve a jail sentence. We have “freedom of speech,” but not freedom of treason in these United Stales of America. The National Capital is not in either Cali- fornia or Kansas. e At police headquarters, it has been explained that one object in placing Israel Peltz under arrest, when he is alleged to have appealed to the soldlers of the Army to ‘“use your military knowledge in the interests of the work- | ers” and to “defend the Soviet Union—- | fatherland of all workers and oppressed people,” was to protect him from being beaten up as soon as the soldiers had read his insolent appeal. It would not | be fair to let loose several hundred patriotic soldiers on one Russian Jew —perhaps not even a naturalized American and therefore ignorant of the | American spirit. The soldiers might not have been reasonably self-restrained in throwing him over the wall. So he Wwas put behind the bars and held for police court justice. Then the district attorney adjusted | his technical glasses and found that to hand a su“wersive appeal in the dark to a detective, under the illusion that that officer might be a soldier and open to treason, was different from distrib- ' uting copies of them by the hundreds, | broadeast, to be blown about by the | winds of heaven. The latter act would | be “disorderly,” while the sly act was . technically quite “orderly.” So the case { was “nolle prossed.” and the Russian presumably returned to the “Young Workers' (Communist) League,” in the | city whose chief indoor sport today is arresting its police force instead of its Communists. ok An inquiry in the office of the dis- trict attorney, where the “nolle” had been so quickly evolved, drew atten- tion to certain laws under which it might have been interesting to have tested the case. For example, see the | Federal penal code of 1910, annotated by | George E. Tucker and Charles W.| Blood. There are sections 1 to 3, | which cover treason, rebellion and in- surrection, fixing penalties of $10,000 flne and 10 years’ imprisonment. “or both,” and the editors explain “treason against the United States may be com- mitted by any one resident or sojourn- ing within its territory and under the protection of its laws, whether a citi- zen or an alien.” That means a Rus- sian alien too. Section 6 seems to be more specifical- ly interesting: “If two or more persons o symbolical as most of his other recent work, The plots are all preoccupations with abnormal psychological ~condi- tions, or at least with overstrained nerves. The title story is ultra-morbid. A woman, dissatisfied with a life which he considers Incomplete, tries to find | both.” Out in Kansas, last week, two men | QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. in the lower atmosphere. The scatier- ing of blue light is much greater than that of red or yellow, and besides, e« the sky is blue (for the same reason) there is more biue light than any other to be scattered. . How tall is Emil Jannings anc how much does he welgh?--W. A S A. Emil Jannings is 6 feet 1 inch tan and weighs 230 pounds. Q. Please give me & recipe for cand apples.—J. 8. A. One cup brown sugar, one-hal cup granulated sugar, one-half cup Karo. one teaspoon vanilla, one-half cup water. one tablespoon butter or ofl one-quarier teaspoon salt. Cook sugar Karo, water. salt and butter until sirup » ckles in cold water. Remove from fire and add flavoring. Stick skewer in stem end of apple, dip one at & time into hot sirup and place on oiled pan fo cool. BACKGROUND OF EVENT: in any State or Territory, or in anv place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force, the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by foyce to prevent, hinder or delay the exécu- tion of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take or possess any property of the Uniled States, contrary to the authority thereof, they shall eac be fined not more than $5,000 or im- prisoned not more than six years, o Yet the prisoner was not tried--aft charges were ‘“‘nolle prossed.” * kK * Section 7 appears even more direcily o cover cases of treasonable or sub- | versive attempts to influence soldiers The civil law is quite mild as compared with military law, but unless the ac- cused is actually a soldier We cannot be court-martialed. even though his offense be committed upon military ter- ritory. like the attempt to influence the soldiers of the Washington Barracks under command of Maj. Gen. W. D Connor. There was the case. for example of Paul Crouch in Hawail. It is outlined in the Daily Worker, & Communist organ. which said in 1927: “Paul Crouch, a newspaper man. s a former sergeant in the intelligence service of the United States Army in Hawall. He was court-martialed and sentenced to 40 years at hard labor. in 1925. for organizing a League of Com- munistic Youth (within the Army). After serving three years in the mili- tary ‘Rock o' Hell’ of Frisco Bay, his sentence was commuted, and he was released. Crouch is mow on tour for the All-American Anti-Imperialist League.” It is conceded that 40 years is a long sentence “at hard labor,” but there were extenuating circumstances modifving | eriticism of the court-martial, viz. th | prisoner was an alleged journalist! * x ok % Here Is section 7 of the Federal p=nel | code: “Whoever recruits soldiers or satlors within the United States, ar in any place subject to the jurisdiction there- of. to engage in armed hostility against the same, or opens within the United States, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, a recruiting station for the enlistment of such soldiers or sailors to serve in any manner in armed hostility against the United States shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than five years.” < “Section 8—Every person_enlisted or engaged within the Uhited States, or in any place subject to the jurisdietion thereof, with intent to serve in armed hostility against the United States shall be fined one hundred dollars and jm- prisoned not more than three years.” (That is what the soldiers of Washing- ton Barracks missed.) * K * K The Daily Worker of Sepiember 30, 1927, reports a speech made in Wash- ington by Crouch, the ex-prisoner, originally under sentence of 40 years: “Crouch’ described vividly the brutality lin Army prisons and related the story 'of his own imprisonment with Walte: ) Trumbull for having attempted to form |a labor organization in the Army. He i read letters from soldiers telling him how thoroughly they agreed with him and stating that he had understated, rather than exaggerated, his descrip- tion of Army conditions. The next night Crouch addressed the New Work- ers' School at 817 Thirteenth street northwest and then left for New York. The Anti-Militarist Conference is plan- ning an aggressive campaign against militarism and the R. O. T. C., C. M. T. ci and similar schemes of the capitalist class.” Crouch boasted through the Daily Worker that during his three years in the prison he made over a score of prisoners converts io Communism, so ihat a vote of prisoners showed 37 for Communism and 23 against it. How many converis has the “boring from within” made in the soldiery of the Washington Barracks by the Russian Communist whose case was ‘“nolle prossed”? The story that the police have no euthority of arrest within the barracks is contradicted by the District attorney’s office. * % %ok At a meeting of the executive com- mittee of the American Legion of the District of Columbta, held last Tuesday, it was proposed that the Legion should appoint_a committee, made up of i erans who are lawyers, who would make a special study of the law applical to Communistic offenses and who would vise Congress in case new laws were found necessary to cover modern con- ditions. Some of the anti-subversion laws applied only to times of war; some revision may be desirable. Action was postponed until more could be learned as to how Israel Peltz es- caped prosecution. Or why his whole “Young Workers' (Communist) Leagus, district 3, Spring Garden, Philadelphia.” should not now be held accomplices of Peltz, and indicted under the law ahove quoted. How many of the members are aliens? * ko X ‘There is no pretense that the revolu- ion proposed by the Communists is merely figurative. In the Daily Worker September 1. 1927, Louls Engdahl, a Communist writer and leader, is quoted: “The experience of the Russian revo- lution must convince every honest revo- lutionary that a transfer to Communism from a capitalist state is possible only by means of force. Only the dictator- ship of the proletariat can overcome the duplicity, cunning and organized resist- :‘nec: of the bourgeoisie and their hench- In a speech last Sunday in Washing- ton by Bishop Willlam Montgomery Brown, D. D, an ouf unist, who is no longer re by the Episcopal Church with which he was ;‘;:l;lerly & bishop, this language wes “Communism by a revolution will again remake all social institutions— lt':m" us, political, domestic and educa- To illustrate the brutality of soldiers, the bishop described the Philippine War: “You remember the water cure. | T shrink from speaki of it, but it is terril just one of the devices em- ploved by our capitalist and Christian Nation fo torture and kill human life.” ‘These are samples of the efforts of Commur'=m, which appear to the Ameri~"n "<cglon and of patriots fo cell fo: - gorous-study in connection vith i 2w to maintain the morale of ~ €-po> forces of the. Nation and tisfaction by becoming a human sac- rifice for the Sierra Madre Indiaps, T8 £ 3 " . oi ihe public. (Covrrisht, 1028. by Pawt "H assist the prosecuting attorneys and ad- | » ‘ »