Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1928, Page 8

STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 17. THIS AND THAT 8 THE EVENING THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. hhutly tragedy of the sinking of melemeruncy cuts and cuts that are due i Vestris. Alded by two garierous and in- | to lack of foresight on the part of utilit: trepid Caucasian women, also eligible | companies or property ownars. In man: WASHINGTON., D. C. |tobe described as Samurai or any bet- | cities the dificrent departments of th- SATURDAY...November 17, 1928 | ter possible term that may occur to city government 2o their separate way: THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. RY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. mind, his wife arranged life-praservers with no effort to keep in step. Wash A literary event in the United States | which calls for public celebration and This is a special department devoted who carry mail lnMn-n country carry THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor | in 2 sort of raft-like triangle. 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E 1 Sunday only 1 100 8.00; s K mo. £5.00 yr i 1 mo.. 50c Member of the Associate The Associated Prsss is e to the use for republication of atches credited to it or ot therwise ted in this paper and also the .ocal published herein. All rights of publs special dispatches herein are also r dis- ed- | tews on of rved The President’s Farm Talk. President Coolidze’s address to National Grange summarizes with markable clar the steps taken by | the United States Government to aid agriculture. It dispels any idea that the Government has stood by with| folded hands while the farmer has struggled for a living from the soil. TIt| tells of legislation and the establishment 1 of agencies in aid of agriculture during | the last eight years which have helped | the farmers greatly in that period. “ The President freely admits that there is still room for legislative aid to | the farmer. But he stands as firmly | today against attempts by the Gm'em-z ment to fix prices of farm products and | egainst Government subsidies to the | farmers as he has ever stood. Had it not been for this attitude of the Presi- dent the McNary-Haugen farm bill| would have been on the statute books | today, with its equalization fee principle | end its cumbersome machinery. Tvnce! the President vetoed this measure. If | the Congress, the same Congress which | passed the McNary-Haugen bill last| Bpring and sent it to him for his ap- proval, should at its coming session undertake to pass the same measure Bgain, the President would be as ready | &s ever with his veto. If the recent presidential campaign | end election mean anything, they mean | that the equalization fee principle is to be discarded in further legislation for the farmer. The Republican na- tional convention in Kensas City turned its back flatly against the farm plank calling for such a plan. It nominated # man for President who was known to be hostile to that plan of farm aid. And finally the country elected the Re- publican nominee to be President, and not a farm State of the West or Middle West went against him. Indeed, he won by a surprisingly large vote in some of these States, where the attempt was made particularly to arouse hostility egainst Mr. Hoover on the theory that he was opposed to the farmer’s in- terests. The President-elect p-omised in the tlosing weeks of the campaign to call 2 special session of Congress next Spring if legislation for the farmer was not put through at the coming short session of the present Congress. This practi- cally assures the passage of a farm he re- | by | 15 rer month | gandizing for goods “made in America” | i5 gratitude for such men as the radio | physical labors before the sinking, com. | D2 Cuts and 1epaurs. | bined with long exposure. | But Capt. Whitchurst has at leas Here is a little woman worthy of the | Produced a plan which should remsdy traditions of the mest ancient, the most | Many of the difficulties experienced to- | honorable, the mest aristocratic of | 42T The whole system of granting; clans. The faith of her. grief-stricken, . Peimits for uneerground eonstructior | may differ from ours. yet will any one ! and street repair work needs over- {dare say that such a couple, well | hauling and modernization. The Dis- worthy of one another, shall not event- trict government must catch up witk wlly be reuntted in a land even more ' 'he times. beeutiful than lovely Japan? There is 2 et 2 | much of the maternal in every wites| A Blast of British Rhetoric. Itove for her husband, and some day,| There is no occasion for American when her most acute sorrow shall have ' 2nnoyancs at the peevishness of the passed, she will rejoice that her :,m‘arm:-h weeklies regarding President | | were enfolding him when death called. | Coolidge’s Armistice day s % s 2 | expressions employed by t IMr. Hoover's Purpose. | periodicals are not unusually severe, The Star's staff corrsspondent at It 15 the habit of that portion of the | Paln Alto sends word that President. | British nress to engage in superlmves.i clect Hoover is going to South America | UCh At “Pecksniffan guff.” “na- natther a drummer nor a sight. ! tonalistic imbecilities,” “one hundred | <cer. but purcly and simply as an am- | P°T cent New England backwoodsman,” bascador of good will, wiring that Mr. | “Soncrous silence.” “the spotless toga of Heover's purpose’ is “to make an ex- American virtue" and “discreet inanity.” traordinary bid for the whole-hearted | BUt it Was not to be expected that any | friendship of the Latin American sister | °f these critics of the address would go republice so far as to make the explicit state- T is an open secret that the rela- MeNt that the President's speech was tons betwoen the “Colossus of the |Tead in draft form by Mr. Hoover, when | North” and Latin America leave much ID point of fact Mr. Hoover knew | 10 be desired. On the surface of things | NOthing of the speech and read it for those relations are cordial. Beneath | the frst time in the news prints of the crust of official amity there is | November 12 eadinsig il 1 this speech of the Prasident was a Events of the past two | o three years in Mexico and Nicaragua | POCK to Englishmen it 15 clear that have aggraveted in many Latin minds | such a shock was due and the hope is | the suspicion that the United States | that it was experienced with good effect. has imperialistic aims in the Western 10 fair. reading of the address can Hemisphere, especially in the Caribbean lead to the belief that the United States region. {15 bent upon a course of competitive | i t or that it is inelined toward Since 1998 Uncle Sam has intervened | 27 omer ten times in Central American coun- militarism or that it is insincere in its tries. The Marines have pitehed thetr | OCSiFe for universal peace. Indeed the tents in Haiti, the Dominiean Republic | YOI SPirit of the speech was pacific. and Nisaragus, end -twice ‘inoe we |, 0P Iact of the matier is that there | Brought about her independence we | 1% 3 CETtain section of the British press have intervened in Cuba. Altruistic as | [CPrCCHting s certain section of the we believe our purposes on all these oc- | - British people that cannot whole- | heartedly accept American intentions | casions to have been, 5| | - and unselfish a3 and expressions as sincere. This is a we affirm our whole attitude toward | | strabismic viewpoint that is a leftover Latin America s, t that |} he cold truth is ihat | gom tne olq animosities and jealousies our motives are frequently mistrusted. | Bven e Menroeq Doczrin- ":'m;“lnd harsh feclings growing out of the sful American Revolution. Modern most North Americans «conceive s an | ‘meyer, - exclusively defensive measure main- B'rmsh B tained as much fn the interest of Cen- | “ror tnctured by it. but not fo the el mn Aoath Asneiica sus in the m.‘pflm( of really endangering relations terest of the United States, does not | xoveen the fwo countries, For iingo command universal esteem south oflpurvoses RN o S the Rioc Grande. ' Every now and then political ends the performance of pluck- oocasion| 45/ found & denourics 1t i | ¥, SLeIE OU of ‘this eagle's wings, e s S e s de_< just like that of twisting the British e | lion’s tail, once a favorite trick of ::;shf:f the omnipotent republic of the ; ;:merlcln Politicians of a certain tyne.l | is occasionally enacted. Over here this | These—and not only these—are some ' .0 thing is called “tub thumping.” | of the things President-elect Hoover is It is about the most fdle occupation | bound to encounter as he wends hls[m“ con'he devised upy o“: friendly way through the sister Amer- | o e S | icas. His determination to travel ex-| pyowever terrifying a catastrophe may | clusively as an emissary of friendship pe, it always reveals some fine element,; and not as an exaltec bagman propa- |of neroism. In all the resentment, there is an essentially sound decision. The operator who sank on the Vestris and | genuine trust and regard of Latinthe Jittle seaman “Licorice.” who brave- | America are worth more to the United ||y saved many lives, just as a part of | States than hundrads of millions of the day's work. | doliars in trade. | e iy There are statesmen who, peering| By going to South America, Presi- into the illimitable future, envisage a : dent-elect Hoover manages to avoid a world in which all the Americas some vacation—something which has come ¢, day may find it vital to stand together. to be regarded as a vain endeavor to Borrowing as well as lending is mostly | a complex, based on two inabilities, the cne to do without something and the other to refuse a request for something. Sometimes it is as difficult to refuse a loan as it is to ask for one. We are speaking. of course, for the generality of m2akind. Perhaps 90 per cent of the populace dislikes both borrowing and lending. thus living up to the bard's wise saying (perhaps as well known as any quota- tion), but is often forced into one or the other by demands of the moment. One would speak, too, of everyday life. not of the exigencies of business or of high finance, which seem often to demand both borrowing and lending on a big scale. Shakespeare's maxim was intended to apply to the individual in th~ ordinary walks of life, not to the man or woman’, who has a lezitimate need for a loan of money in a business way. P The average man or woman, let it be { said again, dislikes both to borrow or to | lend. Thev have seen too many of the bor- rowing sort, who, like loud-mouthed persons in a crowd, make themselves stand out. although in point of num- bers they are only a handful compared to the total. Every one knows somebody. usually a man, who would rather borrow than eat. At least that is the way it seems to his victims. Perhaps it is simply a bad habit that has grown upon him until he is unable to resist. He needs treatment of some sort or other, There are several varieties of this standard borrower. Perhaps the most irritating is the beggar of small sums. be able to refuse; but how can any one withhold the loan of 50 cents? So it goes. He gets 50 cents here, a dollar there, until in the aggregate he must pick up a considerable sum. He owes everybody and therefore owes nobody—such iz the borrower’s logic. If one dares to ask him for the money, he has either forgotten the inci- dent. or becomes quite angry because the other dared to remember it. PR “Out of sight, out of mind." This old saw has no greater demon- stration than in the case of borrowed money. If the sum is a large one, of course it iz not quite so easy to forget; but it | is remarkable how easy a borrower for- | gets ‘a dollar or two. ‘There is probably no man business world who hasn't a list of outstanding sums which he would be quite glad to see again, since they properly belong to him. Yet there is nothing truer than that they are as lost as if he had thrown them down the sewer. ¥ He gave away good money, yet was denied the right to regard himself as a donor. Perhaps this is the meanest part of the whole thing. Most men hold on to most of what they earn, ?lrfin with it only for something else in exchange. Therefore most men willingly accept the credit for being slightly generous when they do give away money. They do not shrink particularly from seeing their names in the list of con- tributors! ‘When they eontribute to one of these | “I'll give this back to you tomorro old man,” says he, with glistening eyes, |in such a gratitude-laden voice that | of National Biography.” Sir Leslie Stephen, who was succeeded | The Britich dic- | If a man asks for 810, one may | in the | the other has visions of the poor fellow | being kept awake at night on his ac- count. | ~From past experience he knows per- | fectly well that the other hasn't the |slightest idea of ever paying him back a cent of it, if he can get.cut of it. He longs to spring the old joke on the man who asks fo* the loan of a ten-spot: “Here's five—you lose five and T lose five,” He knows that such jesting would be met with righteous in- | dignation, : * ‘The man who never borrows may he lacking a bit in the milk of human kindness. Perhaps It he doesn't ask others for things. the chances are that he will not welcome requests from others, No doubt there are certain human beings, perhaps fortunately minded. if one can put it that way. who take de- light in responding to the requests for loans of all kinds. The experience of mankind has shown, however, that most such per- sons are regerded as ‘“easy marks. * | kindness is wholesale imposition. | makes them happy, then they have | their reward. Those who borrow things other than | money commonly take little, if any, | care of what they have borrowed. This | was exemplified in a recent happening | at a street corner. A closed car came | erashing into the side of a bus. There | was a mighty splintering and the sound | of smashing glass. When the bus driver got out to con- front the culprit, he found himself face | to face with a smiling individual who | promptly owned the accident to be all | his _fault, “It's all right.” he said. “The car | belongs to a_friend of mine." This was rather a flagrant case, no doubt, but it points to the general a | titude of those who borrow property. “Fasy come, easy go." They pay for it, and they have ne pri A e ‘Women are more scrupulous in re- | paying their small borrowings of food- stuTs. There is scarcely a home cook | who at some time or other does not | “run out” of some commodity, which she knows may be obtained at no more cost nor trouble than running to | some neighbor’s. How many spoonfuls of vanila ex- neighborhood travels not even the greatest, statistician could begin to e: timate. The good part about such bor- out of a new bottle is scarcely missed, therefore heart, hand and pocketbook. Of book borrowing we say nothing, since this is a topic all by itself, which we have treated in the past, and may consider here again. The main point to remember on the general subject is that most every day borrowing is unnecessary. A little forethought would save one from the embarrassment, which it is, in most cases, even to the hardened sinner along these lines. The advice of perfection is what Shake- speare gave. Country Extends Sympathy Washingtonians To Voteless American sympathy is extended to those citizens of Washington, the Na- tional Capital, who have neither the right to vote in States nor the privilege of casting their ballots at home. The observance of “Humiliation day” in that city while the rest of the country was electing a President turned attention to their situation as citizens. Indorsing the demands of the Capi- al, the Milwaukee Journal argues: “Politically, they are serfs of the Na- bill within the next six or eight months. It merely remains to be determined whether the present Congress will per- mit a farm bill such as that promised by Mr. Hoover to go through in th: limited time before March 4. Some of the members of Congress are anxious to bring about farm legislation at the earliest possible date for the sake of the farmer. Others, more selfish, per- haps, are anxious to avoid a special | session of Congress if they can. Both these factors will operate to speed the proposed farm bill. There is in some gquarters an idea ' ¢that a more liberal farm bill could be | passed with the approval of Mr. Hoover | than could be passed with the approval of President Coolidge. This may be | entirely erroneous. Yet it may have | its effect on the action of Congress on proposed farm legislation in the spe- cial session. It is quite clear, however. that no bill which does not have the approval of both President Coolidge and | the President-elect can be put through | now. Friends of the farmer are hopeful .that at last the Congress will tackle| the agricultural problem and deal with it. Farm aid has been the vehicle of politics for years. The country has named the administration for the next four years. Perhaps the farmer may receive some beneficial legislation be- fore the politicians cah get their second wind and create another mystery about | the whole affair. | B | Colleges compelled to forego investi- gations as to evolution are likely to lose many of the young students who insist on an opportunity to find out every- thing that is liable to be talked about.| ——rt———— | The Vestrie' sinking constitutes one of the most terrifying sea dis: be- cauze of its influence toward desirol If Herbert Hoover this Winter can lay, on both sides of the Equator, the foundations friendship, it will be an epochal piece | of political engineering work. the permanent existence of at least two political parties. of government so satisfactory as to silence all opposition. ‘Wall Street should put in a few bids | | the discard. of true Pan-American | ———————— No doubt can be entertained 2s to ‘There can be no form ————————— ’ When the stock tickers are several hours behind the market quotations | for efficiency experts. e The presidential election of 1928 starts a “new deal” and throws many names, once prominent in affairs. into { i Co-ordinating Street Work. Any plan that may be evolved at the District Building for greater co-ordina- | tion between the various agencies hav- ing to do with highway and under- ground construction work, which would in some degree lessen the evils of the| hit-or-miss policy followed today, will receive the hearty approval and sup- port of the taxpayers. And any such plan should receive the immediate in- | dorsement of the District Commission- | ers and at least be given a thorough trial. Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, Assistant Engineer Commissioner, has presentedl the outline of such a plan, and it is| hoped that affirmative action by the Cemmissioners will follow immediately. The difficulty now is that there is great lack of co-ordination between some of the agencies which have to do with the laying of streets or lrarln;‘ them up, and a lack of authority neces- ary to bring about the co-ordination. | Capt. Whitehu believes in the crea- tion of some office which would have spoken in jest. A policeman’s lot is not tion. In numbers they total twice the voting strength of Delaware or Wyoming and six times the voting power of Ne- vada. A constitutional amendment will be necessary to admit the residents of the District ‘to the status of citizens for the purpese of representation in Con- gress and the electoral college.’ Such an amendment has been proposed, but it has received scant attention. It should be revived in the next Congress and submitted for ratification. We do not belleve the people of the States would refuse the privilege of voting to the people of the National Capital if the question came to the States as the twentieth amendment to the Constitu- keep the camera men interested. ——————————— Culture is still within the reach of all. A Shakespearean drama would not dare ask as much for a ticket as a spectacular musical presentation. ——r—t————— A large city's police force is always under fire. There is many a true word a happy one. B A river flood can be taken care of to some extent. An ocean disaster all too casily proves beyond human control. ———— SHOOTING STARS. 1 Congress would only submit the proposal, the chances are that every one of the 48 States would approve it without question,” contends the Kala- mazoo Gazette, with the comment that “every one knows that the situation is wrong.” The St. Paul Daily News points out that the people of Washing- ton “are the only persons in the United States who in truth experience ‘tax- ation without representatio for they are “merely the ‘wards of the Govern- ment. " BY PHILANDER JOHNSOX. Impractical Opulence. If all the stars in yonder sky Were coins that brightly gleam, And they were mine, what could they buy In wealth’s ecstatic dream? i ¥ ¥ * “This just fight should not be left to ‘Washington alonz,” protests the Long Beach Press-Telearam, which adds: “The whole country should join in the fight to give the franchise to citizens of the District of Columbfa. It thoroughly un-American to deny them this right and privilege.” The Trenton Evening Times argues: “Citizens of the Capital pay taxes. They should be al- lowed to vote if for no other reason than that ‘taxation without representa- tion is tyranny.' " “The opinion of the fathers of the I'd pay the same old cost in rent And on the bill of fare. The surplus would mean discontent Amid luxurious care. Spellbinding. “You held your audiences bound!” “Maybe,” answered Senator Sorghum, spell- | 15| a1l along the front. | Opposition to the project is voiced by | the m sing State Journal, with ex- pressed belief that “there is the desira- bility of having the Clrplul free of a political atmosphere so far as the mass of the people is concerned.” That pa| also offers the view: “Most of our polit- ical experience is to the effect that po- litical divergence does not mean down- right enmity. However, there have been times when party feeling has run very high, and here is the possibility that the Federal Government might have to function in the midst of popular polit- ical antagonism. the meantime, Washington is not suffering greatly. The whole country has a pride in the city. The situation as it is has worked well in a general way. While the feel- ings of the citizens of Washington de- serve consideration, yet no gricvous harm is being done to any one. it must appear, under the present arrange- ment." Stating that “in most respects the people of Washington are better off than the people of any other city," the Oklzahoma City Oklahoman asks never- theless: “Who can fail to sympathize just a little bit with their resentment and their aspirations?” “‘Actually the people of Washington,” as observed by the Columbus State Journal, “are not stopped from putting political pressure on Congress because they are not voters. They use other in- fluences when they want special legis- lation and in many instances they plan wisely and secure the thing wanted.” UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. The allied armies of occupation move 5 The 3d American Army reached the historic little City of Montmedy this morning, the last of the Germans having left during the night. # * * Without bands or flags, the Americans moved forward on a war basis, preceded by cavalry detachments and followed by cannon able to throw by Sir Sidney | tionary was published from 1885 to 1201 | supplemental volumes were added in 1901, three in 1912, and one volume in 1927. The American dictionary is be- | ing published under the auspices of the | American Council of Learned Societies. | whose constituent members are the | American Historical Association, the | American Economic Associati | American _Philosophical Sociy the | American Academy of Arts and ®.ences, | the American Antiquarian Socicty, the | American Oriental Society, [h-‘Amrr. | the Ar- ?ch!ologlcal institute of A '‘a, the American Philosophical Association, the American Political Science Association, | the American Sociological Society, the | Linguistic Society of America, the His- | tory of Science Society, the Medieval | Academy of America, and the Modern | Language Association of America. With | this scholarly backing. it is easy to ac- cept the claim of the council that the | dictionary “represents the most ambi- tious work of scholarship ever attempted in America." The publishers further state, for the council, that “it is, and {will remain, the definite source for in- formation about those men and women who have made America and who are | now making America what it is: it is a | veritable treasure house of personal and ) local history. Its perpetuation is assured | both by the funds available for editorial | research and by the incorporation of the project by the learned societies.” Dr. J. Franklin Jameson, chief of the divisio! of manuscripts and of the chair of | American history of the Library of Con- grss, is chairman of the. committee of management of the dictionary and Dr. Allen Johnson, formerly professor of | American history at Yale University and | editor of “Chronicles of America,” is editor-in-chief. ¥ The names of no living persons are to be included in the “Dictionary of Amer- ican Biography.” ‘To become cligible did not | the subject must have completed his| {de in ft. | life and, before he died, have made | of which he was a member. ibution to the | some outstanding contr This provision | tradition of America. | automatically bars the Eomblmy of either favoritism or wealth influencing the selection.” Not all persons who have | held office and been much before the | public will be assured of places in the { dictionary. “The dictionary will not automatically include officenolders as | such. The man and not the office will be the prime consideration. Achieve- | test. Virtue alone will not find its re- werd here; even men of evil influence will not be ignored. For example, Jesse rowings is how easy they may be re-| james has been judged worthy of space, | paid. Two teaspoonsful of extract taken | hecause of his activity in frontier out- | for biscuit makin lawry;, but the ordinary criminal or the ayment becomes easy to!madman, whose only claim to fame is| | that he shot a President, will naturally | have no record here. * * * rts | will not be neglected. The celebrated | athletes will be included, as well as | heroes of professional base ball, tennis, and the prize ring. In a word, no such names in and social, has ever before been under- taken.” These extracts from the pros- pectus of the dictionary show the scope of the work. When complete it will plements will be neces- | immediately suj be issued at 10-yearly | sary, which wil | intervals. i i . In this first volume of th> “Diction- ary of American Biography.” just is- suzd, are many well known names, be- | sides many unfamiliar to most pevpie There ure 638 pages of Adamsos, begin- | ning with Abigail Adams, wife of the i second President of the United States (but not included for that reason), and ending with Willlam Wirt Adams, a | Confederate officer, Edwin A. Abbey, |Lyman Abbott, Jean Louis Agassiz, r | Louisa M, Alcott, Thomas Bailey Ald- rich, John W. Alexander, Ethan Allen, 8ir Edmund Andres, Francis Asbury John Kendrick Bangs and P. T. num are among the first notables. Among the contributors to the volume are James Truslow Adams, Edwin H. Blashfield, Worthington Chauncey Ford, David Starr Jordan, Shailer Mathews, Henry Fairfield Os- born, L. O. Howard, Charles Moore, George P. Merrill and Harvey W. Wiley. The initials of contributors are & pended to all articles. Each arcicle is concluded with a short, bibliography. * o % As one of the exponents of the “stream of consciousness” novel, Mrs. Virginia Woolf has satisfied many lovers of style, interested many devotees of psychological fiction, and puzzled many other people by her novels “In Jacob's Room,” “Mrs. Dalloway” and “To the Lighthouse.” Her latest novel, “Or- lando,” illustrates her usual method and introduces what might almost be called a thesis, the relativity of time. She says: “An hour,.once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to 50 or 100 times its clock length: on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timeplece of the mind by one second.” In accord with this theory, some people “live precisely the 68 or 72 years al- lotted them on the tombstone. Of the | rest., some we know to be dead, though they walk among us; others are hun- dreds of years old, though they call themselves 36." Is this only another way of saying that some people put more into their lives than others, live more extensively and intensely, or has Mrs. Woolf some deeper philosophico- scientific meaning? Her hero, Orlando, is & boy of 16 living in the Elizabethan period, a scion of nobility, a court favorite—that is, he is all this at the beginning of the book. At the end he lis a youngish woman in her thirties, a writer of poetry, in 1928. Orlando Bar- | { | | and reached 63 volumes, to which three the | complete assembling of the significant American history, political comprise 20 volumes, and then almost | John J. Audubon, Nathaniel Bacon,! volume | selective | | more influence over the farm vote. “but there were a lot of hearers that I could not hypnotize enough to make the spell last till they got into the voting booth.” Jud Tunkins says mebbe there ought | to have been a campaign manager named Johnny Corncob to exercls-‘ Great American Pastime. We have not quit the cheering Nor speaking at the feast. Republic,” according to the Columbia Record, “originally was that the Na- tional Capital should always remain free from partisanship divisions, so far as elections are concerned. They prob- ably took this view of it for the reason that there would always be plentv of polities in the Capitol and White House, not, to say the executive depart- ments there, to answer all purposes. But Washington has become quite as much of a commercial center as any of the other metropolitan cities of the country, and. naturally, the people who | are engaged in all the arts and profes- | sions extant have been desiring all the down a barrage in an emergency. * * * French forces have occupied | Mulhausen. Sedan, the Gravelotte forts | south of Metz, Munster and Alfkirch, and it is announced that not a single German remains in French national territory. The liberated population everywhere greeted their saviors enthu- siastically, with every town magnifi- cently beflagged. * * * Two British armies advance in Belgium, with their fronts running southward from a point 15 miles west of Brussels. * * * Antwerp is again in’ Belgian hands. The evacuation of Belgian territory is roceeding quietly and the royal entry into Brussels will come soomer than ex- changes sex in the eighteenth century. after becoming thoroughly disillusioned with women and love, ambition and literature, life individual and life rela- tive. As a woman, Orlando roams over Europe with a band of gypsies. then searches for the significance of life in the complexities of London. As time passes, or seems to pass, Orlando be- comes a Victorian lady, and. when something has happened to more time. I'a twentieth century lady. All the ex- perience of four centuries. as mere his- | Orlando what she ultimately becomes. * k% torians reckon time. has helped to make | ice is free. Failure to make use of it deprives you of benefits to which you | are entitled. Your obligation is enly 2| cents in coin or stamps enclosed with | | your inquiry for direct reply. Address | | The Evening Star Information Bureau.! | Frederic _J. Haskin. director, Wash-, | ington, D. C. | i Q Who is the most phof person in the world today?—B. G. A. Edward, Prince of Wales, is prob- ably photographed most often. Q. What per cent of the eligible |\'nters vote in England. Australia, Ger- ! many. Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, | France and Italy?—E. N. A. In England. Scotland and Wa three-fourths of the total possible vote | was cast in the last election. In Aus- | tralia from 83 to 92 per cent voted; 1| | Germany. 82 per cent; Belgium, 90 der | cent: Switzerland and Denmark, 76 pe: cent: Prance, 0 per cent: Ttaly. 84 ver | cent. Q. How old are the expressions “har- | vest moon” and “hunters’ moon”?—B. | 8. M. ! | A. The expression “harvest moon" oc- | |eurs in English literature as early as| 11706 In 1710 there is reference to the | “hunters’ moon.” | @ why is the Vatican so called?— phed | | A. Tt lakes its name from the Vati- | | can Hill in Rome on the west bank of | the Tiber, Q. When was cotton sheeting of bed width first woven?—F. McQ. A. The first wide looms installed for | weaving wide cotton sheeting were set |up at the Biddeford (Maine) plant of | the Pepperell Manufacturing Co. m | 1850. ! | Q. To what religious denomination | did the author of “The Star Spangled | | Banner” belong?—0. K. i A. Francis Scott Key was a devout | | member of the Episcopal Church. He | was a prominent lay reader of the Episcopal Church in Georgetown. D. C., ' is the word I C. | @. Upon which syllable “dirigible” accented?>—W. I A, It is accented upon the | syllable. } Q. Who gets the larger salary. th» governor of New York or the mayor of | | New York City?>—W. E. S. | A. The salaries are the same—=825,000 | yearly. The Executive Mansion in Al- | bany is provided, however, to house the | first | | tract, for instance, have thus gone on | ment of one sort or another will be the | governor and his family. | Q. Can chicken fat be used for short- | ening?—C. H. A. It may be. It is particularly good 8. i i Q. Can United States mail carriers | | It would be rank presumption if not {cantempz for a citizen to question the judgment of the Supreme Court of a (State, unless that questioning were Edcne through appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. Perhaps for the first time in history the par- | tizular question now appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States by the Chicago Tribune (a mighty cham- pion of a weaker publication) from a decision of the highest tribunal of | Minnesota will cover the right of a| State court to ignore the fourteenth amendment of the Federal Constitu- tion: “No State shall make or enforce | any law which shall abridge the priv- | i ileges or immunities of citizens of the | United States; nor shall any State de- prive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of %law, nor deny to any person the equal pro- | tection of the laws.” * ok ok % The Minneapolis Saturday Press has been confiscated under a summary in- Jjunction obtained by the county prose~ cuting attorney, whom the paper was criticizing for alleged wrong conduct of his office, while it was also making edi- torial war upon other municipal offi- i cals and their alleged corruption. The | County Court issued an injunction on | the ground that the Saturday Press had become “a general nuisance”—or words to that effect—in this editorial cam- paign of “pitiless publicity.” Yet there was no action for libel. | Confiscated? | cist Italy? No, by a regular court, in | Minnesota. ~ Padlocked! The press stopped, the property of the publisher | taken from him without trial, by a de- cree of one man—a judge on the bench. | The good will of the publication— ways the most valuable asset of any | publication—ruined peremptorily! The | liberty of the press flaunted! | * ¥ o % | The Minneapolis Saturday Press was |not a powerful paper, but the principle | under which it rested, and which is defied by court injunction, is the might- iest factor in the construction and per- { manence of the United States of Amer- |ica. If a court can censor and kill a { publication summarily—or deliberately —-without trial by jury, say constitu- tional lawyvers, then the liberty of { America is a farce. E L B The injunction is based uj a law | adopted by the Minnesota u'mm" in ll’."S, permitting the courts to enjoin as a ‘‘nuisance” any paper which “regu- larly publishes malicious, scandalous and defamatory matter.” But who is to decide the facts—a Jjudge or a jury? The Saturday Press has been con- ducting a general editorial campaign | exposing alleged maladministration in included the county attorney. he en- forced the State law to stop it. How much of the Minnesota constitu- tion did he enforce? That says: |inviolate and all persons may freely | speak, write and publish their senti- ments on all subjects, being responsible By Mussolini—in Fas- g. ;’h!n was the Erie Canal opened? A. 1t was opened in 1825, Q. Why does the wood in treez ap- pear in rings?>—B. T. A. Trees form annual rings by reason of the alternating seasons of rest and growth, g. gm the Italians invent macaroni? A. Macaroni and other pastes are considered typical and peculiarly Italian food, and Italy is probably entitled to the credit for her early appreciation of these foods. However, history credits their first use among the Chinese and their European introduction to the Germans. The Italians are said to have learned the art of making them from the latter. History shows that by the time of the fourteenth century Italy was the only European nation enjoving | macaroni. Q. This year haz 53 Sundays. When did this oceur la d when will it happen again?—J. C. C. A. The last year in which there were 53 Sundays was 1916. The next year in which there will be 53 Sundays will be 1944. Q. Does Ceylon produce any export commodities besides spices?—L. M. A. Spices, plumbago, pearls and rare woods, the export commodities which brought fame to Ceylon, have been superseded by tea, rubber and coconut products as the island’s leading exports. More than one-fourth of the world's commercial crop of tea is produced there. In the two chief coconut products, copra and eoconut oil, Cey- lon's contribution forms a tenth of the aggregate world exports. One-tenth of :lfie total rubber supply is produced ere. Q. How far has the teacher retire- ment movement advanced?—N. F. A. A total of 23 States has teacher retirement systems established by State legislation. Of these laws, 23 are State- wide, that is, they include all public sthool teachers In addition, more than 40 cities and local communities have established retirement systems, % in are bayberry candles made?— A. The berries are collected from the bayberry bush and boiled in pails of water. The wax rises to the top. is skimmed off, and boiled again. Regu- lar candle wicks are cut the desired length, attached to a rod dipped in warm water and then dipped into the pail of wax several times. Allow the wax to harden between times. The wax should be kept just warm enough to be in a liquid state. J. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS - BY PAUL V. COLLINS. spirators, but the incident is still re- membered in Minnesota journalism. Al e Yet how clumsy was that conspiracy when compared with the “legal” act against the Saturday Press! No con- spiracy at all—just a prosecuting at- torney and his friend, the court, and the sanctity of the State Supreme Court upholding the State legislative act, while ignorinz the State constitution and the Federal Constitution. The Federal Constitution prohibits all States from depriving any pcrson of “Life, liberty or property without due process of law.” Due process of law requires a trial on specific charges. a for evidence in defense, an im- partial jury and a court that holds the even hand of justice. If any judge can decree confiscation of the offending press, then there is no publication in America that may not be suppressed in a day, just as is done in Italy and has been done under every tyrant of his- tory. To enjoin a publication, to padlock a newspaper, cannot be of temporary damage—it is ruin. It utterly destroys “good will." Besides, the act of ar- bitrary tyranny once demonstrated pos- sible would warn all the press of Ameri- ca that it is no longer free. Without a free press there is no assurance of a free people. * ok k% Some one has said that if there were a choice between a country without a government but with a free press or & country with ‘a government but with | no freedom of the press. the one with ;he f!ree press would be safest and the reest. The New York Herald Tribune, coms menting on the Minneapolis case, res marks, “To deprive a newspaper of life by such a procedure challenges the | suaranty of the fourteenth amendment | of the Constitution of the United States, | it would seem.” The Chicago Tribune has employed counsel to appeal the case to the United States Supreme Court, upon the uncone stitutionality of the Minnesota statute, passed under the almost bolshevistic influences which have developed in that North Star State in recent years. * % ¥ % In the same year that Minnesota adopted the press-phobia law, there was an editor in Georgla with the same in- dependent spirit as that manifested by the editor of the Minneapolis Sat- urday Press. His name was Julian Harris—perhaps he belonged to the “Brer Rabbit” tribe. He published the- Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun, and he wrote his own editorials. The award of the Pulitzer Prize for “meritorious |and disinterested public service” was | given Mr. Harris in 1926, because he had had the courage to hold his pen unshackled throughout “his brave and energetic fight against the Ku Klux Klan, against the enactment of a law barring the teaching of evolution, against dishonest and incompetent pub- lic officials. against lynching and for the local government, and since that | iustice to the negro.” Behold Georgia' Behold Minnesota! . A magazine writer. Francis Paul. commenting on the Harris record, re- marked: “If there were more editors "“The liberty of the press shall remain | like Julian Harris in Georgia and in the Nation at large, the journalistic profession would be a more worthy one. And if for each such there were ex- We'll keep electioneering | vights prevailing in the remainder of e ¥ -0 th nE ths power to co-ordinate the programs: Five Russian grand In her secluded cabin in the heart | citable opponents like the editor of the for its abuse of such right.” ing faith in human nature. -t A Lady of Japan. 1t is not possible to state authorita- ! | w of the different departments, and while | this office would in no way interfere | with the engineering problems of anv. would issue orders making their pro-| the United States.” “We weep with Washington.” de- ; clares the Kunsneh(l:ny Txm!sb:‘gllh lt,):? | statement: “Washington prol ly S | a_inst_grievance. or, at least, thal par: For four more years, at least. Seeking Variety. “Are vou afraid to ride in an air- re found in a well, slain by the Bolsheviki. The Reds threw them in. then dropped hand grenades on them. * * * Two hundred thousand civilians parade in Paris, celebrating the return lof the Canadian woods. where she is {now at work on her new novel. Mazo | de 1a Roche, author of “Jalna " recent- {1y read aloud to a group of Ifriends Jehan Bojer's latest novel. “The New How clear is that language of the | constitution! It cannot be read to mean anything but the independence | and liberty of the press—not subject to | confiscation of the propert; | sailant, Enquirer-Sun’s local rival and chief 2=- there would be some relief to the dead level of editorial space- filling."” AW . y of the pub- {lisher, without trial for libel. The | “Liberty of the press” or free speech county attorney knew his legal recourse | never covers license to indecency, nor if false statements were made concern- | libel nor treason. It does not justif~ | of it that doesn’t work for the Govern- ‘No,” answersd Mr. Chuggins. "I/ ment. If there are any ‘Washing- | tonians who don't, we think thev should plane?” of the “lost provinces” of Alsace- Lorraine. * * “ American soldiers are marching so rapidly and so closely on Temple.” ~ “We read it alone in the depths of a wood,” writes Miss de la Roche, “a fit setting for a story so har- tively whether Mme. Inouye, wife of| ;. oonform in the interest of con- Maj. Inouye of the Japanese army. mil- | venience, efficiency and economy. As it | itary representative of his Emperor at ihe capital of Argentina, was or was | not of the famed Samurai class. It| is now, the scwer department, concernec with a problem at a street intersection may concefvably tie up four streets with- have had so many thrills in automobile ¥ 3 | be allowed to vote. provided they have traffic that 1 think mebbe Td enjoy 2 | toe qualifications the rest of us have— new kind of danger.” | intelligence, judgment, reason and com- Northern Italy that thei: supplies can. not keep pace with.them. the heels of the "Austrian army in | monious and elemental. ‘The personal - | struggles of the brother and sister are made memorable by the noble simolic- ing him: the libel laws are strict, and | juries are still held in proper respect | college professors in teaching disloya“ ty against our present constitutions Government, nor does it give teaches makes but little difference, for if she| ¢ concultation with the highway de- werg not, the followed to the letter the ; partment. A gas company, trying to traditions of bravery, homor and self-| 5nq a Jeak in a gas main, may tear sacrifice for which such persons have|yp a ctrest from one end to the othe stood for centuries. | in its work of exploration and the au- | well is forgotte: “He who speaks well,” s2id Hi Hn,: the sage of Chinatown, “may gain much applause, while he who thinks plets absence of partisanship and prejudice. They ought to be able to meet those requirements—the rest of us do. But, as for those residents of the District of Columbia who work for the Government, we are not so sure.” | * ok ok K ST ity of Bojer's style.” “The New Tem- in ordinary courts. e | rights to use public school buildings 1 ‘The Samurai, the ancient nobility and | gentry of the Land of the Rising Sun. | probably brought supreme disregard and, at the same time, regard of life to ® point of nicety unequaled by chival- rous and self-sacrificing persons in the whole history of the world. At the slightest slur the Samurai for- merly let the blood of his detractor; on receipt of humiliation he as instan- taneously took his own life. But when it came to the saving of life no effort, no ordeal, was too long or too torment- 1y Mai. Inouye died after fifteen hours Scimersion in the Atlantic following the has the problem” of deciding betwsen duties as ple administrator. thorities at the District Building me- never hear about it until they stumi into a crevasse. A plumber may to work and mar the smooth surfac: of a newly paved sireet to put in | 1arger duct for some abutting property owner, whereas the plumber should b | denied the permit for such work: unti several years after the pavement ha- been lajd, provided. of coures, the abut ting property cwner has been duly noti- fied in advance of the new paving work Gleeful Speculator. The market hath entrancing tricks For one who wears white collara. I, every time the ticker clicks, He sceres a million dollars. t course,” remarks the Asbury Park there's nothing to prevent these | semi-citizens from conducting all the | straw votes they want. Still, that would. no doubt. pall in time. Why not let them in on the great national | event2” “Washington it an attractive city and a great many persons would like to live there,” suggests the Flint Daily Journal. “But it is a rather curious state of af- fairs that the people who live in the | Nation's Capital have nothing to_say | about who their chief is to be. Con-~ grezs has been asked many times to Pre “An old friend.” said Uncle Eben, | “dst can't hang on az a new friend never was no friend at all.” o Dessert Difficulties From the Asheville Times. Every citv in the United States i ficted with the identical trouble from rich Washingtof® suffers. Every city Mr. Hoover can take just pride in his dy this condition, but it never gets o sround to it. Perhaps the members record a3 food administrator gnd yet & Y&l fgure that inacmuch as the rezidents of contemplate witn naturai disgay his uflu District do not have the vote, they have nothing to worry about.” Backsliding. From the South Bend Tribune. No murders occurred in Chicago on election day. That town is slipping. ] Hard-Hearted Hannah. From the Ottawa Journal. The ultra-modern type of girl is the one who won't let her parents have a latchkey. ot Henrlening Contrast. Prom the Rochester Times-Union. an appreciation of old books is to read ! the new ones. T ST Secure Quartera, From the Indianspolis Star. Mr. Hoover probably selected a hat. tlaship for his trip ih order to be pro- tected from polit Perhaps the easiest way to de\’elopl ple” is Bojer’s first novel to be published here since 1925. Its simultaneous pub- lication in four countries—Germany. Norw Great Britain and the United States—makes it an international work. The book carries on the powerful story which Bojer began in his most famous | work, “The Great Hunger,” published here a few years ago. L John A. Steuart, whose “Robert Louis Stevenson: A Critical Biography.” has recently been published, in a new and less expensive edition, takes the follow: ing quotation from Stevenson himself for the keynote of his biography: “There are two distinct duties incumbent on any man who enters on the business of writing; truth to the fact and a good spirit in the treatment. It must always be foul to tell what is fals=: and it can never be safe to suppress what is true. 1 am not afraid of the truth * * but T am afraid of parts of it imperti- a;fluuy uttered. Partiality 13 immoral- Hitherto. it has been thought that | Minneapolis had achieved full distinc- tion in suppressing editorial liberty when, a few years ago, a farm weekly conducted a campaign of editorial ex- posure of the illegal and unfair practices of the grain market. Through letting in the daylight of publicity on those practices, the State officials were in- duced to enforce the laws, and that cost the local grain dealers somewhat more | than a million dollars a year in reforms —which was genuine “farm relief.” So, they conspired to get even with the editor, bought the bank which held | notes covering certain Summer costs, necessary because of sudden in- crease of circulation, and within a few hours after he had left the eity on his vacation, they, without a moment's warning. seized the publication under » their position as leaders and developers of immature pupils, in any course less than patriotic love of country and the fundamentals of our institutions. does not protect traitors, though ce: overtolerant school boards seem think it does. The Saturday Evening Post some months ago, in an editorial on L3y of the press, said: “People who favor unbounded fres dom of speech and those who are think- ing chiefly of the danger of destructive propaganda both overiook the fact that these matters are pretty well governed by definite law. Usually it is better to let the pink say his speech without protest and then hold him responsible for what he says under the law as it exists. We know it is criminal to ad. vocate the destruction of existing Gov- ernment by force, and if & person so in to receivership. The quick action of a famous lawwyer champloning the pub- lizher and threafening prosecution for conspiracy brouwtt panic to the con- advocate he should not plar cryv baby by asking the same Government to proteet him." (Covyright. 1928, by Paul V. Collias.)