Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1928, Page 8

Mot THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1928 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C SATURDAY....November 3, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Brelllnanl:r Newspaper Comp‘nyl usiness Office < 11 New York Office: Chicago Offic Europcan Office: e: Tower Buildine. 14 Resent St., London, England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evenine Sta 45¢ per month . r ‘ vening and Sunday Star 60c per month Te r | (when 5 Sungays) ~.65¢ per month | The Sunday Star liiiii...5¢C per copy | Collection made at the end of tach month Orders may be sent in by mail or telephone Main 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. y and Sunda '00: 1 mo.. 85¢ | Bally oah Sunea.od SEa 5800 1 mo. sec | Sunday cnly .. yr.. $4.00; 1 mo., 40c All Other States and Canada. 1 yr., $12.00: 1 Mo, § 8.00: 1 mo.\ ¥ oaly Lo e $5.00. 1 mo.. Sunday only Mcmber of the Associated Press. The Associated Press 1s exclusively entitled o the use for republication of all , ews dis- patches credited to it or not atherwise cred- jted in this paper and also the locai news published herein. All rights of public: ( special dispatches herein are also The President’s Indorsement. President Coolidge's indorsement of Mr. Hoover's candidacy comes in appro- priate terms and at the appropriate | time, at the close of the campaign. It} comes also as somewhat of a surprise, for no intimation was given of the occa- sion or the manner of the President's statement of approval and of assurance of Republican victory. When analyzed the statement of the President justifies the selection of the hour of its presentation. It takes the form of a review of the candidate’s specches in the campaign, given upon the conclusion of the final address of the series. It is as though Mr. Coolidge has been a listener-in from the outset— which he probably has been in fact— considering the words of the Republican candidate in his various public utter- ances upon the issues of the campaign, and has now decided that Mr. Hoover meets the requirements of the high office to which he aspires. It is the right of every citizen to express himself, in advance of election; day, regarding the merits of the candi- dates for the presidency. From the outset of the canvass there has been a succession of announcements of this character. The national headquarters of the two parties have praclaimed accessions unceasingly from the begin- ning. Some of these have been con- verts from the opposition party, some have been independents, some have been partisans holding different views from those of the candidates on certain ques- tions but agreeing on others. President Cooldge announces his own indorsement of Mr. Hoover’s candidacy. It has from the outset been assumed that he was in accord with the nomina- tion made at Kansas City by his party, /though he did not give the least indica- _tion of preference in advance of that “meeting. He now, speaking both as a citizen and as President, gives his un- qualified approval of the candidate and of his performance in the campaign. In a sense, this indorsement is an expert appraisal. Jr. Hoover's qualifica- tions for the presiency are considered by one who from his own experience knows what is required in that office. To the extent that the President can be considered not as a party man but as the Chief Executive this approval will have material weight with that ‘portion of the electorate that may now be wavering in indecision on the eve of the election. There is one factor in this indorse- ment which is of particular value to the candidate at this juncture. That is Mr. Coolidge’s statement that “your success in the campaign seems assured.” It is as near to an augury of victory as such a conservative can be expected to go, and it will doubtless be regarded as a token of confidence in the outcome of ‘Tuesday’s balloting. There is always a certain percentage of the voting that is determined by last-minute indications of the chances. A great many persons cast their ballots according as the wind indicates the victor. They do not like to waste their votes on a loser. Mr. Coolidge’s picking of Mr. Hoover as the winner next Tuesday may be worth a great many votes to his favorite in the race. —_———— California, the most bounteously blooming State in the Union, is making ready to adopt the new custom of throwing flowers to a candidate with a view to especially impressive salutation to Hoover. ————— Passengers who pay $3000 for a dirigible trip enjoy a remarkable experi- ence. But they can hope for nothing like the envious admiration commanded by a mere stowaw: B e — The Ideal Home Exposition. One of the really decisive steps in the 1ife of the average citizen is his purchase | of & home. His ability to purchase a home means that he has reached a definite station in life and is casting an anchor to windward. But if it is his first venture, he approaches it in fear and trembling. It means the assump- tion of an extra and relatively heavy burden, and he has no experience to guide him. Most of his steps are taken | under the direction of others who in | no sense could qualify as disinterested observers, The business of arranging first payments, mortgages, titles, taxes and of meeting various and unexpected charges are to him deep questions of high finance. Though the sale of a home is one of the most common of everyday events, the knowledge of how to purchase one is usually gained only through personal experience. ‘This may be one of the reasons ac- counting for the unusually successful conclusion of another one of the Ideal Home Expositions sponsored by the ‘Washington Real Estate Board.” When the exposition closes its doors this eve- ning, many thousands of Washing- touians will have visited the Wash- ington Auditorium, where it was held, to examine the scores of interesting exhibits relating to home ownership. ‘While many of these exhibits contained a glittering array of the modern and beautiful equipment to lighten the burden of maintaining’ a home, there were booths given cver to explaining the prosaic and detalled steps of how to buy & home. There will always be | winds over Newfoundland, and threat-lpoortant as he is; r umhmszmmcckv?)dmm eneq for & time to buckle in two as did cause that nobody was 2 (3 | which add comfort to the home. But the greatest interest lies in how a novice may take the plunge, become a home- owner and enjoy the results without sinking or strangling to death. The provision of this information by men of | integrity and standing in the commu- | nily has been one of the features of the exposition which comes to an end | this evening. This year's exposition, it is learned, has been the most successful ever held. ill has established itself as one of tie | annual events of interest in Washing- ton. If it serves, to add recruits to the ranks of the home-owners in Wash- ington, it will have been worth \\'hilevl mmdeed. The community's interests are best served by those who own their homes. ————— Our Day of Humiliation. Election day, with its momentous opportunity for 43,000,000 registered and qualified voters, finds 550,000 residents of the District of Columbia once again “mute, inglorious.” While the Nation marches to the polls in serried ranks, Washingtonians, alone among their sovereign fellow-Americans, are con- demned to sit ignobly on the political sidelines. They will obscrve the rest of the country in the act of eclecting a President to rule them and a Congress to make their laws, while they remain voteless and voiceless. To mark that distressingly un- American state of affairs, November 6, | 1928, is to be commemorated 2s a “Day of Humilation” for the District of Columbia. Emphasis will be laid upon the Capital community's plight by a series of < demonstrations designed to arouse both local and national attention. Two pbjectives are involved in Wash- ington's struggle for a political square deal. The first—the one in which the District of Columbia must help itself— is to stimulate the interest of its inhab- itants in righting the wrongs under which they suffer. The other is to enlighten the country at large. There is ample evidence that the residents of the States, by and large, are unaware of the disabilities imposed upon Wash- ington. It is an encouraging fact that they usually have only to be informed, in order to be converted into active supporters of the Federal city's claims. The Citizens' Joint Committee on National Representation, the body which represents virtually every important form of organized life in Washington, is sponsoring the “Day of Humiliation” program. The program contains features so diverse in character that all elements of the community will be enabled to take part in making the day an impres- sive manifestation. If it sets Washing- tonians to heart-searching, it will the Shenandoah on its ill-fated trip over the United States a few years ago. It is difficult for the layman to un- derstand how a larger ship, with more power than the Graf Zeppelin, will be less subject to the elements. The more surface there is for the wind to play upon the greater its pressure, and, re- gardless of how many engines are added, their impulses are puny com- pared to that of the wind in a storm. More men will be required to land such a ship and only a few more tons can be carried. Combined with the fire danger on a dirigible filled with hydro- gen the obstacles surrounding the suc- cess dreamed of by lighter-than-air craft advocates appear insurmountable. Unquestionably the greatest single contribution to science of the Graf Zep- pelin on the recent trip was the dem- onstration of the use for fuel of “blau gas,” which weighs approximately the same as air. The weight of fuel, in both airships and airplanes, has been one of the stumbling blocks to prog- ress. One-third of a majority of the gas cells on the Zeppelin contained the “blau gas” and practically no weight was added. The potentialities of this successful demonstration are enormous. An airplane, instead of being loaded down with heavy gasoline, might, it would seem, easily be adapted to a con- centrated mixture of the new light gas (and flights which are at present lmpns-' sible could be accomplished. That the world is still in the infant stage re- garding aviation has been proved again and again, but each proof brings hope of new and better things to come. ——— There is not much use of trying to score critical points with reference to grammar. It was Shakespeare himself who said “This is the most unkindest cut of all” i o Jocose references to the “brown derby” might suggest a relief from “The Sidewalks of New York” by a revival of the ancient ditty, “Where Did Yp\l Get That Hat?" ——— A convention of dietitians offers no valuable suggestions as to whether there is any lingering hope of restoring the reedbird and the quail to a legal status on the menu. o ——— Like elections of the past, this one will eventually fade into the comparative calm that leads some one to ask what the shouting was about. ————————— Gamblers are cool calculators. The cdds in favor of Hoover are free from the emotionalism which so frequently misleads. o In a commendable spirit of economy, achieve: its underlying purpose. The road to national representation for the District will not be traveled in a day. It will never be covered at all unless Washingtonians present a fight- ing front. No community in the Republic was ever asked to crusade for a worthier cause, for it is rooted in the funda- ‘mental traditions of popular government. It is a cause worth battling for. The perpetuation of the political injustice which the de-Americanized ‘Washington resents is a horrible blot on the national escutcheon. It must be removed. The main motive power neces- sary for its removal must be supplied from the source most directly affected. That source is the Capital City itself. Let Washington therefore send out on her Day of Humiliation next Tuesday a clarion demand for American justice for as fair an American community as the Stars and Stripes enfold. ‘The District of Columbia does not ask the Congress and the people of the United States for a favor. It seeks the acknowledgment of a right. et That old Tam Tiger has had a suspicious history that requires him to relapse into silence in the face of nu- merous catty remarks. —r——————— The eloquent and indefatigable Gov. Smith should succeed in claiming much admiring support among the country’s high-power salesmen. s e Sturdiness in Aircraft. Dr. Hugo Eckener, designer and com- mander of the Graf Zeppelin, showed himself to be a man of broad vision and rare good sense when, on his re- turn to Germany after a successful round trip to the United States, he flat- 1y announced that the ship he flew was not adapted for overseas passenger service and that larger and sturdier dirigibles will have to be built if trans- atlantic voyages are to be undertaken on a commercial basis. The average scientist who has reached Dr. Eckener’s eminence in his chosen field is too en- amored of his subject to see its weak- nesses. Not so with the German air- craft designer, who, in spite of an ac- complishment that will forever retain its place on the pages of history, admits frankly that for a time on the return trip he was not sure that the ship could weather the tearing winds. ‘The achievement of the Graf Zeppelin | cannot be belittled. It was a mag- nificent feat. But Dr. Eckener's words when he reached his home port, after having covered more than nine thou- sand miles in the largest and presum- ably the strongest dirigible in the world, give impetus o the contentions of the | school of thought which holds that a | huge unwicldy gas bag. despite its abil- ity to remain aloft for long periods, can never be the solution of air transporta- tion, and that the bigger the ship the more surface for the wind to attack, with a consequent loss of maneuver- ability and exposure to the ripping and twisting force of the elements. At the Lakehurst station four hun- dred and fifty trained men were re- quired to land the Zeppelin after it had completed its roundabout trip from Europe. And after it was safely housed, exactly the right moment had to-be selected to get it out, owing to the dan- ger of a cross wind driving the delicate bag into the side of the hangar. The Zeppelin, which Dr. Eckener says is too small and too weak to combat with safety the elements met on an overseas voyage, is more than seven hundred and fifty feet long. It requires a bag of this size to support the comparatively smail main cabin and the motor gon- dolas. Twenty-five hundred horsepow- er in five engines was nscessary to pro- pel the ship on the trip. Yet even with after the day's financial work is done, the ticker tape can be used for confetti. ——————————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. ' Vast Wakefulness. The great inventor learned to keep At work and feel no need of sleep. He soon produced electric lights That cheer us on through lengthy nights. More great inventors came along. Machines for story and for song And tireless motors now they make, To keep the whole world wide awake. What can you ask? You're told with pride, No mechanism is denied. Our gratitude is surely deep, We can have anything—save sleep. Automatically. “Do you always think before you speak?” “No,” answered Senator Sorghum. “By the time I have delivered an opin- ion two or three times I can turn it into the microphone automatically.” Jud Tunkins says he is still afraid of a dirigible, but, at that, he believes it is safer than a canoe. Conciliations. Some accusations they let slip, And each said, “You're another.” They next set up a partnership, And called each other “brother.” Wasted Philanthropy. “What ticket do you intend to vote?” “My ideas might disagree with yours,” said Miss Cayenne. “Why in- terrupt a pleasant bridge game by a philanthropic effort to convert each other?” “The struggle for power,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is marked at first by a wish to serve humanity and later by a desire for revenges.” Stars in the Big Drama. A poet in a bygone age Assured us, “All the World's a Stage.” The Platform is the Stage that waits. The Actors are the Candidates. The crowd has gathered 'round anew, Some lift up cheers and some say “Boo!"” But each must smile upon the town, And speak the lines for him set down. “I's gineter keep away fum flyin' machines,” said Uncle Eben. “I has often sung ‘I want to be an angel’ but dar ain’ no good of actin’ like you was in a hurry.” Who San Tell? From the Bay City Daily Times. A driverless car injured 11 people the other day. Just think how many it might have hurt if it had a driver! ) Practical Farm Relief. From the New Orleans States. A crowd at Florence, Ala., pelted a political speaker with eggs. Well, when you come to think of it, that is one way to get rid of the farm surplus. —r—o—— And What of the Ladies? From the Sprinefleld (Ohlo) Sun, In Denmark women complain there are not enough husbands to go around. Over here women complain because too many husbands do. RGBT A Bad “Break.” From the Memphis Commercial Appeal. The coal men are already insisting that Summer is being given a “long count.” vt The Genus Americano. this pewer the dirigible, according to Dr. Eckener, was at the mercy of the Prom the Roanoke World-News. Americanism: Being rude to the rich man to show him ireu are just as im- eeling outraged be- to you. ! The laziest boy who took part in the | Halloween festivities went down the alley at exactly 10 o'clock. He was on a bicycle. Riding along leisurely, after the hue and cry of the smaller merrymakers had been silenced for an hour by paternal mandates, this young fellow was going it alone. He was trying his best to be devilish. Evidently he was having such a hard time of it that he felt bored, for he did not take the trouble to dismount from his1 bike, but looked to right and left only. Coming to a gate, he leaned over, lifted it from its supports, and gently | put it down a few inches away. | Then, as if satisfied with his merry prank, he rode leisurely away. | ok K K | That sophisticated young man typified | the spirit of modern Halloween. If some of us oldsters may judge from what happened--or, rather from { what didn't happen—the other night, even the children are fecling the urge toward sophistication. Probably it is impossible for parents to go in so heavily for a thing without the children imbibing something of the same spirit. Like parent, like child. How can a youth of 1928 get any real kick out of chasing around in costume, if father and mother require cocktails and cigarettes to put them into the i’p{flnd for the ordinary enjoyment of ife? Hence, the old-fashioned moralist may argue, we had the sad spectacle of boys on the night of October 31 acting as if they were terribly bored with ac- tivities which the kids of yesteryear reveled in. o For parents to grow bored, or staid— { which amounts to the same thing in practical results—is one thing, but for boys to feel the same way about life will continue to strike some as irre- mediably sad. Even the householder who might curse the band of boys who upset his zarbage can could have nothing in his heart but admiration for the young rascals. Boys will be boys. But what did these boys do? Well, practically nothing. Evidently it cost too much time and trouble to overturn things, or to up- root anything, or to bother with tick- tacks. One young man about 14 years old, dressed in costume, rang a front door He was in no haste about it. He had a solemn duty to perform, evidently. Some ‘one had told him that pranks were the order of the evening, so he must play a prank, all right, but ho, hum! what a bore the whole thing was, ch, Bill? ‘When the door was opened, a shaft of light flashing down the walk, the young man carefully pulled open the screen door, and extended his right hand. The hand was full of rice. Did he throw it into the face of the one who opened the door? He did not. He simply handed her the rice, nearly all of which dropped neatly into her hand, The young fellow made a courteous | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. bow, after which he slowly walked off the porch. It was the modern Halloween. BN The father of this young man, and the fathers of his companions, acted otherwise when he and they were boys. Ask dad, he knows! ‘There wasn't a gate in the community left on its hinges, even if it took much carpentry work to remove the hinges. Little houses of similar design were overturned, and wagons were hauled up on front porches. The joy of getting caught was known to the full. After all, what was Halloween without dodging the irate home-owner? Surely that was half, if not three- fourths of the fun. Somehow the parents of those days got terribly riled over the affairs of the evening. To be chased by a man armed with a poker was mighty good sport. If he caught you, you would get a real thump, so the only thing to do was not to get caught. Halloween was as simple as that, in the old days. % K ok Yet much can be said for the new style, after all. As civilization becomes really civilized, men, women and children take on aspects of true civilization. It is not enough for civilization to be written about in books—to be effective, it must be in the hearts and minds of every one, everywhere. The old mob spirit of Halloween may still be seen in the downtown streets of cities vhich in this matter are aping the small towns, where they have this sort of parade down to perfection. Washington's celebration in the down- town streets was merely an echo of Hol- loweens known for many years on every Main Street throughout the land. Even today one must go to some courthouse square to feel the spirit of Halloween. Around and around the crowd goes, making a noise, having a good time. Our F street and Pennsyl- vania avenue crowds are much alike. but not entirely. Something is lacking in the city which the small town has. x K K X The city boy may plead his case for a safe and sane Halloween celebration upon the grounds of better and more things to do, so that a resort to mis- chief one night in the year has lost its old charm. 1If civilization means anything at all, it means that people become more gen- tle, in the best sense of that word. It means that it is no longer fashion- able to play pranks without purpose. And the whole spirit of this time-hon- ored evening is without purpose, except as a sort of safety valve. The need for such rough-and-tumble evenings tends to vanish with increas- ing prosperity and the inclusion of larg- er slices of the body politic in the good things of life. Even boys respond to these influences. After a modern boy roams around for an hour or two on Halloween, in- dulging in the time-honored pranks, he is willing to doff his costume and spend the rest of the evening trying to get California on his radio. No wonder the kids of yesteryear threw flour in people’s faces! They had nothing else to do. ‘We may conclude that the boys of today are remarkably like the boys of yesterday, but that the modern youth has some remarkable advantages over his father, which he is not wiiling to pass up even for one evening. Friends of romance everywhere mourn the passing of George Barr McCutcheon, creator of Graustark and for more than a quarter of a century supreme in his own realm of sheer fiction. “The kingdom of Graustark sits in sorrow, for its author is gone. And Graustark does not grieve alone,” says the Atlanta Journal, which adds that “imperturbably he remained the oracle of true romance and his ecreations were woven of a sheer fabric obtain- able nowhere save in the whimsical enchantments of his mind.” The journal predicts that “after the world’s monarchies hgve fallen in dust, Grau- stark will remain, imperishable in its bright romantic air.” “The glamour of royalty clunf to those volumes, and America still loves its royalty,” declares the Wichita Bea- con, while the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat believes that ‘“every reader was a vicarious fine American marry- ing a lovely princess or a ‘beautiful girl eloping with a prince.” Pointing to the pleasure and joy that many have found in reading his books, the Rock Island Argus concludes that “he has succeeded in life who takes others out of themselves and fixes their in- terest upon some stirring creation of fiction.” “People do like to picture life as a glorious contest between beautiful gods, in which there can be much tensity at the right moments, but in which nothing can go wrong and nobody get really hurt,” states the Des Moines Tribune-Capital, and because of this interest the New Orleans Morning Tribune suggests that “even today, when the books have lost their vogue. many readers seem to believe, even if vaguely, that Graustark, with all its spies and intrigues and beautiful prin- cesses,, still exists.” '!‘Verf'thhl he wrote had something of the iilt of blithe courage in it, and that is good enough for millions of us,” in the opinion of the Omaha World- Herald, which feels, while “he's gone now, and maybe he will be forgotten in 10 or 25 vears,” that he “served his time well.” The action and romance in his stories also are attested by the Houston Chronicle, which remarks that “he cor- rectly interpreted the social life of America during the period when Roose- velt was President and set the fashion for the country”; that McCutcheon “wrote romantically for a public to ‘whom life was a great adventure.” The Pasadena Star-News holds that “literature loses a shining light in his death.” “With the ?ruent school of realism in mnovel writing,” says the Roanoke ‘World-News, “McCutcheon had no part. His gift was rather to interest and amuse by romantic fancies than to shake one's beliefs by the stating of complex problems.” e Boston Tran- script offers the tribute: “Mr. Mc- Cutcheon was a clever literary artificer, fully to be credited with an easy fancy and an attractive style developed from active newspaper writing. He deserved the popular success which his writings hrou{]hh % “The author of these popular stories,” observes the New York Evening World, “was one of the kindliest, most healthy minded and genial of men. Without pose, patient of other's enthusiasms, possessed of an unfailing humor and §:°d naturé—his generation knew no tter_host and companion.” The Al- bany Evening News adds that “Ameri- cans to whom his writings have meant real enjoyment will remember him long and regret his death.” Viewing him as one of a group of ro- mantic writers, the Fort Worth Record- ‘Telegram comments: “They also serve who tell clean stories entertainingly and wholesomely. Tae man who has just passed was given the right to know that no book of his ever pointed the wrong direction to warped minds.” The Flint Daily Journal aiso notes that “he pro- duced realism but he did not do it with the aid of debased and degenerate char- acters.” The Cleveland Plain Dealer suggests: “If they are not the books that a wise father would recommend to his son, they are books, nevertheless, which few fathers would cross off a son's reading list. For most fathers have read some of them and many * fathers most of them, and with real i All Friends of Romance Mourn Passing of Graustark’s Creator “One of the country’s foremost nov- elists and one of Indiana’s contributions to American letters,” is the appraisal of the Bellingham Herald, which records further as to his career: “He was a member of a distinguished family, for his brother, John T. McCutcheon, is equally well known, particularly through his work as cartoonist, though he is a writer of ability also. Most readers remember George Barr Mc- Cutcheon’s earlier novels as perhaps his most popular works. * * * Throughout his career he maintained a romantic manner of wrmns and his audience, which never failed him, will note his passing with a sense of real loss.” . Citing the small price that the author received for his first story, the Pitts- burgh Post-Gazette recalls that “he was able to make better bargains by far for all the 39 other titles in his long list; magazine stories from his pen sold for better prices than the novel which brought him international fame. Sam- uel Johnson claimed that he sold “The Vicar of Wakefield' for Oliver Gold- smith for 60 pounds. Ever since then the inadequacy of early literary rewards has been cited. The McCutcheon ex- perience shows that the modern who can ring the bell with consistency will not lack success which would flatter a captain of industry.” UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. Pershing’s big drive goes on, and for the third day the American Ist Army continues its sensational advance north of Verdun, The German retreat is ap- proaching a rout and the main Ger- man supply line is within easy reach of American guns. * * * The ns have captured Trent, one of Austria’s chief fortified towns in the Tyrol. Italian land and sea forces have also oc- cuplel Trieste, the principal seaport of Austria-Hungary on the Adriatic. * * * In their drive in Northern Italy the Italian and allied forces have taken more than 100,000 Austrian prisoners and more than 2200 oI bl After fierce fighting by English and Ca- nadian troops the old city of Valenclen- nes, across the Scheldt Canal, gives a pathetic welcome to its rescuers. Hag- gard and hungry, they exclaim, “The devils are gone at last, after stealing everything, breaking everything and grinding us down for four years!” * + « An armistice was signed this afternoon with Austria by Gen. Diaz, the Italian commander-in-chief, and Vienna an- nounces that hostilities against the al- lies have ceased. The conditions imposed in the Autrian surrender furnish a fore- cast of what Germany may expect, * * * Germany now stands alone, with the Kaiser loath to go. He decrees his full support of Reichstag reforms, but is be- lieved to be trying to avoid abdication, * * * The 314 casualties on today" releases include 193 killed in action and dead from wounds and disease and 121 wounded. ‘Temple of Human Love’ Has Place for Edison To the Editor of The Star: I was looking at Edison’s pleture t, other day. Away back in thz neventll;: I began thinking of Edison. Since then that interesting man among the great has surprised the world with his hard work and echievement. Perhaps the world can do nothing for Edison, but he will always occupy & memorable niche in the temple of human love, D. A. N. GROVER. e Near Shooting Time. From fthe Salem News. Soon the time will be here when we have the right to go out in the woods and get mistaken for a deer. N e Not Provided For, Prom the Belait Daily Nevs. “ez‘;identy the‘ Kellogg war outlawry aty wasn't far-reaching enough to cover tong wars. ' S o < S St R T U = | Heavel | myth.” 8 | Boswell assumes that hypochondria is THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover Some poets enter the hall of fame by means of a single poem, as Gray with his “Elegy Written in a Country | Churchyard,” Goldsmith with his “De- | serted Village” and Edward Young with | his “Night Thoughts” So Francis' Thompson would be known to few were it not for his poem “The Hound of | which appeared in 1893 in his | first published volume. Francis Thomp- | son is sometimes classed among the | moderns, but the spirit of his work is universal. He was born in 1859 and | made several attempts at a life work before he began writing. Having read | De Quincey’s “Confessions,” he began | experimenting with opium and Became | addicted to the drug. In London he | was reduced to extreme poverty, but was rescued from both that and the opium habit by the kindness of Mr. | and Mrs. Meynell. He published only three volumes of poems, “Poems™ (1893), which - went through ‘five editions in | two years; “Sister Songs” (1895) and “New Poems" (1897). Essays, reviews and biographies were his other liter- | ary work. He died in London, of tuber- culosis, in 1907. Perhaps if his mind had not been clouded and his life short- ened by opium, Francis Thompson might have taken a place among the great Victorians. As it is, “The Hound of Heaven" has been estimated by Burne-Jones, Coven try Patmore, Wilfrid Blunt, the Mey- nells and many later eritics as one of the great poems of the late nineteenth century. It is a mystical poem, in- spired by religious faith and a realiza- tion of universal human struggle. The personal, autobiographical significance is also evident. symbolism of a pursuit the dual nature of the human soul, in which the divine continually labors for the possession of the errent and elusive individuality. “I fled Him, down the night and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; 1 fleld Him down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind.” Simply as verse, apart from its pro- found mystical meaning, “The Hound of Heaven” has a wide appeal. Rush- ing speed, soaring ascent, plunging de- scent, airy heights. black dept] “‘run- ning laughter,” “chasmed feal flying lightning.” “lucent weeping,” are all present to the imagination, illustrating the artistic motive, apart from the spiritual. » * % Kk %k The volume “Sister Songs” was dedi- cated to the young daughters of Thomp- son’s friens, the Meynells, to whom the was always pathetically grateful for what they had done for him. In this volume and the later “New Poems” he developed that tendency to what seems conscious obscurity, which makes much of his poetry difficult to understand. He made use of coined and distorted words and unusual meanings for old words. One of his phrases, often ridiculed, is “the illaminous and volute redundance.” But the later poems cannot be dis- missed with the charge of obscurity. They are, like “The Hound of Heaven,” deeply religious in feeling. “To the Dead Cardinal of Westminster” is a pathetic plea for intercession from a lost soul. The mingling of the earthly and the godlike in man is again the theme ‘n “Any Saint.” The linking of the simplest things with the most lofty, the flower with the star, is given beau- tiful expression in “The Mistress of Vi- sion” In his “Orient Ode” there is “Ode to the Setting Sun,” there is ecstatic worship of the sun, but only as the symbol of the Creator. “Ultima,” the last poem of the third volume, is in praise of the higher wisdom of man, the wisdom which throws light upon his relation to God and immortality. * ok kK ‘Through the pen of one of his charac- ters, Aldous Huxley, the English novelist and grandson of the scientist Thomas Huxley, explains his choice of “Point Counter Point” as the title of his latest novel. Philip Quarles, one of the lead- ing characters in the novel, has been identified by many as the professional side of Mr. Huxley himself. “The musi- calization of fiction,” the novelist within the novel writes. “Not in the symbolist way, by subordinating sense to sound. But on a large scale, in the construction. Meditate on Beethoven. The changes of moods, the abrupt transitions. More interesting still, the modulations, not merely from one key to nnother, but from mood to mood. A theme is stated, then developed, pushed out of shape, imperceptibly deformed, until, though still recognizably the same, it has be- come quite different. In sets of varia- tions the process is carried a step further. Those incredible Diabell varia- tions, for example. The whole range of thought and feeling, yet all in organic relation to a ridiculous little waltz tune. Get this into a novel. How? The abrupt transitions are easy enough. All you need is a suficiency of characters and parallel, contrapuntal plots. While Jones is murdering a wife, Smith is wheeling the perambulator in the park. You alternate the themes. More in- teresting, the modulations and variations are also more difficul’, A novelist modu- lates by reduplicating situations and characters. He shows several people falling in love, or dying, or praying in different ways—dissimilars solving thc same problem. Or, vice versa, similar people confronted with dissimilar problems. * K koK “The writer of history or biography has no more business with a prejudice or fixed idea than the chemist, the biolo- gist, or the astronomer,” maintained Albert Beveridge, author of “Abraham Lincoln: 1809-1858.” “The scientist may have a theory and will labor to prove it; but he drops it without regret, even with thankfulness, if his researches show that he is wrong. Those who write history or blography with the de- termined purpose of proving something about an outstanding character, event, or period, are propagandists of a cause, promoters of a legend, nurses of a It was Beveridge's policy to let facts speak for themselves. * .. It has been the fate of poor James Boswell to be known to the world only as the satellite of Dr. Johnson and re- corder of that great man’s brilliant con- versation. Yet Boswell wrote things not without merit on his own account. Some of his essays, originally contrib- uted anonymously to the London Maga- zine, as “Hypochondriack Papers,” have been reprinted in two volumes, by Mar- gery Bailey, Ph. D, of Stanford Univer- sity, under the title “The Hypochon- driack: being the 70 essays by the celebrated biographer, James Boswell, appearing in the London Magazine from Wovember, 1777, to August, 1783, and here firsts reprinted.” 1In these essays an almost universal ailment and seems rather proud of his own particular form, as a sign of a sensitive and highly organized mind. Dr. Bailey thinks Bos- well's addiction to alcohol may have had something to do with his melan- chely. The essays are introspective and self-critical and offer advice to others for dealing with hypochondria. In them much is revealed about the man Bos- well which does not appear in the “Life of Johnson,” where Boswell subordi- nated himself almost abjectly. He was, it seems, a man who thought sufficiently well of himself, who was tempera- mental, with periods elation and de- pression, vain, talkatfve, self-indulgent, morbid (he says that he never missed a hanging at Tyburn), sentimental, but devoted to literary pursuits and always striving after a moral ideal. * kK X “Marching Along” is the story of the journey through life of John Philip Sousa, composing marches as he has gone. The subtitle is “Recollections of Men, Women and Music,” and many and interesting are these recollections. Tha 74-year-old composer began study- It represents under the ' ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Many readers send in questions signed only with initials, asking that the answers appear in the newspaper. The space is limited and would not accommodate a fraction of such re- quests. The answers published are ones that may interest many readers, rather than the one who ask the ques- tion only. All questions should be ac- companied with the writer’'s name and address and 2 cents, in coin or stamps, for reply. Send your question to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Wash- ington, D. C. Q. What per cent of the possible vote was cast in 1920 and 1924?—| L. C. J. A In the national election of 1920 less than 48 per cent of the potential vote of the country was cast. In 1924 approximately 50 per cent of the po- tential voters exercised the franchise. Q. Which country has the largest army, largest navy and which the larg- est air force?—J. H. A. Great Britain has the largest navy in the, world; the United States |the second largest. China has the !largest active army in the world; Rus- sia the second largest. The four na- ions which have the largest air forces re Great Britain, the United States, Italy and France. No accurate statis- |tics” are available on the strength of |the foreign air forces, so that it is Inot possible to tell which of these countries rank first. Q. Are any of the popular movie actresses tall?’—M. G. A. Greta Garbo is 5 feet 6 inches tall. Esther Ralston is 5 feet 5 inches tall. Alma Rubens, Betty Blythe and |Jane Novak are 5 feet 7 inches tall. land Katherine MacDonald is 5 feet 8 inches. Q. Please give derivation and pro- nunciation of “robot.”—H. A. 8. A. “Robot” is a coined word invented by Karel Capek for his play, “R. U. R.” The term describes mechanical auto- mata, which are manufactured by the {millions to attend to the world's labor land welfare. The word is pronounced with the “o’s” long and “t” silent. | Q. What is meant by “slubbing of yarn"?—A. C. R. A. Slubbing is done by the slubbing machine, which draws out slubs or coarse hanks into twisted portions. Q. It the King or Queen of England has a daughter older than the Prince of Wales, which would succeed to the throne?—G. E. A. The throne of Great Britain is hereditary in the British house of Windsor with mixed succession, the sons of the King and their descendants having precedence of daughters, but daughters and their descendants having preference over lateral lines. Thus, when the eldest child of a king is a daughter and there are sons, the eldest son will succeed, to the exclusion of the daughter. This occurred in the case of Queen Victoria—her eldest child was Princess Victoria, but she was succeeded Q. Were the islands on the west coas of Sc(;;lu{\d ever part of the mainland? . McL. A. The islands on the western coast of Scotland were originally part of the mainland. The whole western coast of Scotland has sunk. The fjords are sub- merged Jand valleys which subsided to a considerable depth below their former level. The Hebrides were formerly one with the mainland. but the land be- tween sank and was covered by the ocean. Q. Who is the champion heavy- weight liftex?—D. C. C. A. The champion lifter is George Taambrias, who weighs 160 pounds. He lifted a dumb-bell weighing 104 pounds from the floor above his head 23 times, Q. During what years was Myles Cooper president of King's College, now Columbia University?—E. S. A. He served from 1763 to 1776. It was during his term of office that a medical school was added and in 1769 the first medical degrees bestowed in America were given there. Q. Please explain the Austrian method of subtracting—M. G. A. The Austrian method of subtract- ing is the method of adding. For in- stance, the question is asked “What added to 8 gives 13"—the answer fs “5"—which is the same as saying “13 minus 8.” Q. What is the difference between nu- trition and nutriment?—E. S. A. Nutrition is the process by which growth is promoted and waste repaired in living organisms. Nutriment is that which furnishes the substance for the process. Q. Where is the heaviest protection given to an Atlantic cable?—M. H. P. A. The heaviest protection is given to the shore-ends, and these weigh when complete, between 20 and 30 tons per nautical mile. Q. Who wrote “The Wearing of the Green"?—R. E. C. A. “The Wearing of the Green” is an Irish ballad by an unknown writer. It first appeared during the activities of the United Irishmen in 1797. Later, at the time of the Fenian troubles, a revised version was introduced by Dion Boucicault in his play *. na Pogue.” Q. How is paper watermarked? - A.F. M. o A. Watermarking is a mark produced in paper by :ressure of a projecting de- sign on the dandy roll, in the mold, etc. ‘This makes the paper thinner where it comes in contact with the design and causes the watermark to be visible when the paper is held up to the light. Q. Why are the Florida Keys su called?>—M. T. A. A key is a low island, especially one of coral, along the coast. The small islands along the coast of Florida are called Florida Keys because of their on the throne by her eldest son, Edward VIIL The severest condemnation of any doctrine is to call it “propaganda.” To many persons there is no possible mean- ing ever to be attributed to the tefl!’l that is praiseworthy. “Propaganda has come to signify underhanded, sly, cunning perversion of truth for a selfish and often corrupt end. It exists among men and women Who control or work in the public schools— the professors of colleges and teachers in common and high schools, for the National _Education Association so charges. It is alleged to exist in wom- en's organizations, such as the General Federation—but that would be too spe- cific if the whole title were to be printed. It is always under cover, and the actual propagandists are said to be receiving princely. salaries to pervert the intelligence of impressionable youths and unsuspecting brides starting in housekeeping. Of course, to expose these profiteers of propaganda is a righteous act, hence the National Education Association, be- ing “unco’ guid,” has set about to achieve that _exposure, though the heavens fall. It has appointed a com- mittee of 10 superintendents of city schools to assist in doing what a reso- lution of the United States Senate last, February ordered the United States Trade Commission to do. That Gov- ernment bureau has been laboring at it all Summer; it has created massive vol- umes of evidence, but—wait until the committee of 10 teachers get at the villainous propagandists! They will keep them in after school, and maybe set them in a corner with a foolscap on each devoted head. Their instruc- tions are “to investigate the use in schools of materials provided by out- side agencies or organizations,” which evidently covers brains of lecturers on public utilities and text books of history of the World War—Iloaned from out- side. “Outside agencies” indeed! Bl i ‘Take an illustration of the evil, pick- ed at random as it were. The National Education Association did not suggest this; in fact, it failed to recognize it when it was suggested, for this is not an issue in the political campaign, and the public utilities “outside agencies” issue is directly concerned in saving the Nation. What is meant is the as- tounding, bewildering manipulation of facts of history applicable the doc- trines of national pre) ess Ol pacifism. There is not a text book in any public school which Col. Thomas J. Dickson (chaplain of the 1st Division), who has made a hobby of reading the history text books, does not expose as ridiculously inaccurate, if not pernicious. The reason for this obscuration of facts has never yet been explained; it is now up to the committee of 10 superin- tendents of public schools. Public util- ities can walt. Shall our youth be taught absurdities, or facts? * ok ok ok A sidelight is cast upon the problem of this investigation through a para- graph in the Education Research Bul- letin, issued by the National Education Association (Vol. VI, No. 1, page 34), which states a principle: “Which is more important, factual knowledge or a right attitude of mind? ‘Which is more important, to teach pu- pils all the facts of the Revolutionary ‘War, without regard to the spirit which animated our forefathers, or have them know less of the facts and have them enthused with the spirit of sacrifice and patriotism?” Of course, the answer is found in John, vi.63, but how many teachers have cited it? ' “It is the spirit which quick- eneth, the flesh profiteth nothing.” But much today depends upon that spirit, According to Col. Dickson, school his- tories are so egregiously inaccurate—not 1s to their accounts of the Rise and De- cline of the Roman Empire, the Amer- ican Revolution or Indian Wars, but of the World War—that there seems to be a conspiracy to belittle the events of the greatest war in all history, and es- pecially to dwarf the “spirit of sacri- fice” attendant upon its great military achievements. What are the “outside influences” affecting our colleges and schools, and preaching pacifism, if not open communism, even to college stu- dents? Or, on the other hand, in the effort to belittle the need of national prepar- edness ageinst attack, they teach the superiority of American prowess over -_— number of his march compositions as ing music in Washington at the age of 7 and when still a small boy composed airs which he played on the violin. He taught violin when he was 13 was disector of the Marine Band at 26, The given in the volume is 105, 50 he seq entitled to the name of “March Kl::fl location and because they are low and of coral formation. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. that of any possible enemy, by telling how (a to Historian Guitteau) the American soldier with six months’ training was more than a match for the best German veteran with years of mil- itary experience and intensive drill— statement which tends to produce ¢ feeling of unwarranted arrogance anc contempt of preparedness—a feeling o overassurance that imperils safety. For the delight of children, the tex! books tell fairy stories about trained dogs which scouted over battleflelds to seek out disabled American soldiers anc then trot back to lead nurses to rescu: them. There was not a sin » of that kind in the war, declares . ick son. But that is the stuff fed to ou: school children, which the committe of 10 will investigate as to the “out side agencies” supplyma it, rather tha true facts which would inspire respe for the men who sacrificed their liv to save the country in its hour of per LR Yesterday Dr. Lotus D. Coffmar vresident. of the University of Minn sota, speaking in Buffalo, N. Y, 1 ferred to the increase of immoral: and criminality in America and ¢ clared it due to “the current philosop: of life, which portrays satisfaction a: pleasure, rather than sacrifice and r nunciation. On every hand, he sal “one finds this philosophy of life beir displayed; one sees it in the mode: drama, modern fiction, current novel the screen and displayed on every han on the magazine shelf. It is 2 philos ophy which disintegrates, but the fau! does not lie with the youth of our gen eration—the fault is with the times. . * * ¢ Even the schools, working alone, cannot build a new philosophy, but they can be of great service in the present slt;x{ltlm;]." = ‘et there is scarcely a college, few high schools, wh:ih are en't:t: g? pregnated with the theories of So- cialism. One professor in a Washing- ton, D. C., high school is the winner ot a prize for a socialistic fi- nition and is conspicuous in local so- clalistic or communistic activities, and when the American Legion protested against his retention as a guide for }:xe rl.sk‘;nz :::ermon a Nation-wide cr om educators rose against “‘curtailir: the liberty of the clzroom."t g * K ok ¥ Patriotic spirit in schools is not the prime objective of the present investi- gation by the committee of 10. It is for the purpose of ascertaining whence comes the “outside influence”—the propaganda—which causes teachers to argue to their pupils in favor of private investors in companies creating public utilities, rather than adopting Gov. Al Smith’s doctrine that proposes that all public utilities, from the Electric Pow- er Trust down to street cars, shall be owned by the State. It is officially de- nied that the National Education As- sociation is socialistic in its doctrines, and there is proof, according to its gniet sngkesm-n, tthlb the power trust as used money to put its propaganda in behalf of “Hooverism"—the compe- tition of individual initiative in busi- ness enterprise, though the power trust rropaznndn began long before the po- itical campaign opened. The propos- ed investigation opens now at the very close of the campaign, in which that question has been a lively issue. Will the National Education Association suc- ceed in encouraging public ownership? Of course, it is not committed to So- cialism otherwise. * Kk ok Not only has the power trust used the schools and colleges for its educational campaign in behalf of private ownershi of public utilities, but it is charged wltg having subsidized college lecturers so to teach in their classrooms and to pre- pare articles for publication in news- papers, at least one professor receiving as high as $10,000 a year on his “out- side brains,” which is quite a relief for the ull:lling profession. ‘The head of the General Federation or some other women's organization is al- leged to have received from the power trust $600 a month to distribute a ques- tionnaire to clubs asking about the use of electric appliances in the homes, She denies this; that's not the reason for the $600. She is said to have con- ducted a “survey,” costing some $100,000, and then used the data for educative articles in a women's magazine—all legitimate, but “propaganda,” and illegit- imate when it was distributed to newspapers as “releases” for their Sun- day supplements instead of for the ad- vertising columns. But now the Com- mittee of Ten will adjust eve ing all right, from war dogs to electric one of those epithets casually given, but ing permanent because of obvious sweepers and toasters. % (Covrviaht. 1938, by Paul V. Colline.y