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All rights of publication of special clspatches herein are also reserved. The Harris Amendment. The latest foot ball of politics is the Harrls amendment to the deficlency bill, providing an additional $24,000,000 for prohibition enforcement. It was offered in the Senate by the senior Senator from Georgia, an ardent dry, in all good faith. But it was im- mediately recognized as a vehicle on which dry Democrats in Congress, possible loophole in the law and in the practice to protract proceedings. It is questionable policy thus to drag out a case, but the blame, if any is to be lald, rests upon those charged with the ex- ecution of the law, with the prosecution of the cases, with the administration of justice. Only the tragedy of yesterday called public attention to this long protraction of a case that should have been settled months ago and in short order. The question arises whether there are others through postponements and lapses and failures of appearance. It is well known that in a certain type of cases there are many of these long delays, especially those in which jury trials are involved. The Police Court records are unfortu- nately extensive in this respect. But this case is not of that type. It has none of the elements justifying or excusing slackness of procedure. It should lead to action by the court that will prevent hereafter any such preposterous pro- tractions. .- Helping the Sailor Ashore. ‘Traditions of the sea, plus the more tangible handicaps facing a stranger in a strange land, have served to limit the diversions open to the sailor ashore in a foreign port. He can go rowing. of course, if rowboats and still water are available. But when these are lack- ing the remaining alternative is a sea- going spree, with resulting discomfiture to the sailor and possibly to those whom he meets during the extent of the said spree. Some of the older traditions of the sea regarding nautical ethics nearly all of whom in the late cam- paign supported Gov. Smith, the wet Democratic nominee for President, might ride back into the prohibition camp. The opposition of the administration to the proposed increase in funds for prohibition enforcemen‘ naturally gave added zest to the demand of the Democrats for the adoption of the amendment. The Republicans had won an election, taking the dry side. Here ‘was an opportunity to show the country that the G. O. P. was not so dry after all, and for dry Democrats to prove their devotion to the cause of prohibi- tion. Secretary Mellon has charge of pro- hibition enforcement, which comes under his department. He frowned upon the Harris amendment. He de- clared that the acditional appropria- tion of $24,000,000 was unnecessary and could not be properly expended if it were made. In the meantime, Bishop James Cannon and J. Scott McBride, dry leaders, the latter general super- intendent of the Anti-Saloon League, ranged themselves on the side of the Harris amendment. In a measure, the administration was “dared” to break with the drys. ‘The upshot of the matter was that the amendment was adopted in the Senate. Some of the dry Republicans aligned themselves with the Democrats. Furthermore, there is a group on the Republican side of the Senate chamber which delights in embarrassing edministration. But the Republicans of the House took a different course. By a vote of 240 to 141, the House disagreed to the Senate amendments, including the Haryls amendment, and sent the bill to conference. The wet Democrats from New York and other Northern States, having no desire to leap on the water wagon or o have their party made dry again, voted with the Republicans. This 15 not the first time that Demo- cratic. strategy has sought to out- Mellon Melion. During the considera- tion of the latest tax reduction bill, it was the Democratic leadership which sought to lop' hundreds of millions more from the tax bill of the people, beyond the point in reduction to which the Republican administration was ready to go. In the main the adminis- tration resisted the demand and stuck to its tax plan, despite the popularity of the plan for greater tax reduction. Unless there is a shift in its present attitude there will be no lessening in its opposition to this demand for greater expenditures for the -enforce- ment of the dry laws. The Harris amendment, however, may be regarded as the forerunner of an increasing movement for better enforce- ment of prohibition. This question of enforcement promises to be one of the most important which the Hoover ad-l ministration will have to face. Sooner or later, and probably sooner, the country will demand a change from conditions that have arisen—conditions under which the dry laws have been, and are, *violated with alarming fre- quency. ————— After visiting the coal mining regions, the Prince of Wales expresses earnestly the hope that conditions may be x-e-I lieved. ‘There is no human reason why & prince should not be an economist and even a philanthropist. ————— Fifteen Months of Delay. A woman yesterday shot her husband 1n this city as they were leaving a court- room after the case against her hus-! band, accused of what is euphemistically styled a statutory offense with another ‘woman, had been postponed. This was the latest of a long series of delays in the trial of the case, which had dragged for more than fifteen months from ‘the initial charge. A variety of reasons for these delays are advanced. Feailure of the police to effect service of sum- mons, lack of prosecution, plea of un- readiness, all sorts of excuses appear to have been invoked. It i5 not, of course, the right of a complainant to “take the law into his own hands,” as the phrase runs, when the law itself is slow and ineffective. Especially is it not the right of the complainant to use a deadly weapon in | & case in which there is no death penalty. The action of the wife in shooting, whether she meant to hit her ashore are broken these days by a new generation of sailor lads who want to benefit by their opportunities to see the world and not, necessarily, the world at its worst. And the American Merchant Marine Library Association has done much, through publication of a little book still fresh from the press, to make the sailor feel at home in any port, from Aalborg to Yokohama, by telling him something of what he should see and what he should avoid on shore leave. The “Seaman’s Handbook for Shore Leave,” with a' preface from the pen of President-elect Hoover, has been pub- lished by the A. M. M. L. A. to answer the needs of the new type of sailor recruited by our merchant marine. It informs this lad of where he may watch or take part in athletic sports, where he can get a decent lodging ashore, where he can get a hurry-up laundry job, but it takes into consideration the fact that your sajlor ashore is no saint and warns him that if he wants alco- holic stimulant in Tsingtao the safest thing for him to drink is beer. The ~— TH E EVENING RTAR, WA SHINGTON, D.” €. SATURDAY, G STAR accused to take advantage of every|news transmission. Had the radio been then developed, the storm would have made no difference with the telling of the story, provided the aerials withstood the fury of the blast. Such has been the remarkable devel- opment of two decades. The radio has become a commonplace. It has been ad- vanced to the position of an everyday function, a routine method of trans- mission. And it is consequently now assured that whatever the weather may be on inauguration day, that day of cli- lmltlc uncertainties, the story of the his- Sc per month | Which are dragging along interminably | toric happenings at the Capitol will be spread to the world. e Strife in the Soviet. Downfall of Soviet Russia has been predicted so frequently—and so mis- takenly—since the Communist czars seized power in November, 1917, that too much importance should not be at- tached to present rumblings within the Red Kremlin at Moscow. Another calendar year of Soviet power finds the internecine struggle be- tween Stalin, “the man of steel,” which his name indicates, and Trotsky, Lenin's partner in establishing the dictatorshin of the prolstariat, in unabated progress. Stalin, in Moscow, is temporarily su- preme. Trotsky, in exile, is nominally impotent. But the feud is far from ended. Some time ago the Soviet government, promulgated a decree which banished Trotsky from Russia on the ground of treason to the working classes. He was adjudged a fomenter of civil war and an abettor of those forces which are bent upon breaking the grip of the Third Internationale upon the Russian masses. Trotsky is now in Turkestan, autonomous republican neighbor of the Soviet. No sooner had Stalin put -the Trot- skyites to rout last year than, to use a well known Rooseveltian idiom, he proceeded to steal their clothes. The extremists of the Left found themselves bereft of a voice in the state, but dis- covered to their amazement that most of the things they stood for were now espoused by Stalin and the Right. In no camp was astonishment greater than among Stalin’s own supporters. Premier Rykov, President Kalinin and War Minister Voroshilov, the triumvi- rate of puppets who do the bidding of the Communist party under the im- perious command of Stalin, its leader, are helpless observers of a situation that seems to be backsliding into ram- pant and rabid Communism. They see the widely heralded and glorifled “five- year industrial program,” with co- related concessions to the agricultural peasantry, imperiled by another wave of Trotskyan anti-capitalism run wild. book gives the saflor the name of a reliable dentist in Santiago and advises him to try the establishment of Ah Cheese in Apia, but hints that the hon- esty of the laundresses who come aboard at Corunna is highly debatable. In his preface Mr. Hoover declares that the book should accomplish much o “counteract the temptations peculiar to seaports, raise the standard of our seamen and assist them when in dis- tress in foreign ports.” And the book does fill such an obvious need that one wonders why it was never written be- fore. The information it contains is compiled largely from data. fur- nished by the State Department, and every one of Uncle Sam’s consulates has been furnished with a copy. Copies have also been distributed to ships’ libraries of the Navy and the Merchant Marine, and while the book was pub- lished primarily for the benefit of the sailor boys, it will no doubt prove its value to owner-navigators of pleasure craft or anybody who wants to see the world. The book is the fulfillment of an idea 3 Mrs. Henry Howard of Cleveland, who founded and is the national president of the American Merchant Marine Library Assoclation. Its cost was met by the Cleveland chapter of the organization. v It is evidently Senator Jim Reed's preference to keep busy with states- manship, while the opportunity lasts. There will be plenty of time for golf and fishing later on. e John D. Rockefeller, sr., stands by John D. Rockefeller, jr. Col. Stewart attempted a difficult experiment in try- ing to turn a financial competition into a family quarrel. o A policeman writes love letters; mot 50 much, perhaps, because he is in love as because of the general ugge to write, however limited the circulation in prospect. v Radio and Inauguration. Preparations now being made promise that the ceremonies of March 4 next, when President Hoover is inaugurated, will be given a radio broadcasting more extensive than any other event of its nature in history. Not only will there be a Nation-wide hook-up, but the waves that tell the story of this pro- cedure will carry across the sea to other lands. The inaugural address of the new Chief Executive will perhaps be heard even in Russia as he speaks from the east front of the Capitol. ‘This brings back to mind the situa- tion which prevailed in this city in 1909, twenty years ago, when President Taft was inaugurated. On the eve of the in- auguration a blizzard swept over this part of the country. Snow fell to an ex- ceptional depth. The temperature drop- ped sharply. The wind blew fiercely. Tens of thousands of people on their way to Washington were caught by the | starm and many were marooned in their trains and never reached destination. ! Others were held in the newly finished Unlon Station throughout the cere- | monies. Telegraph lines were broken, the poles being sheared off as by an | army of axmen. Nevertheless, of course, the ceremonies tookx place. The Presi- dent-elect took the cath of office, the Government at Washington carried on | The program was sadly disarranged and husband cr, as is suggested, the woman with whom he is charged with miscon- duct, is in no degree justified. Yet the provocation by the delays is not to be denied. It is not a seemly spectacle that is thus presented of long protraction of a case that should have been settled promptly. Fifteen months of postpone- ment! Who is to be held responsibie for such indifferent-procedure? Is it the court itself? Is it the prosecution? Is it the policc? The blame cannot be placed upon defendant or defendant's counsel. It is the right of any person greatly curtailed, but the law was ful- | filled and the change of administration was effected. 80 nearly complete was the devasta- }liun of the lines of communication that there remained on inguguration day lonly a singie telegraph wire and that | was a connection with the South. The | whole story of the inauguration pro- | ceedings was sent out that day over this |single line. It reached New York by a circultous route through the Southern 'and Central States. There was no Perhaps these cross-currents and undercurrents are pure “politics.” Pos- sibly they are no more serious in their implications than “crises” with which other European and non-Soviet states are familiar. Russian Communism has ridden many & storm. It survived the passing of Lenin, defying predictions it could not. The world will await further simmerings of the latest tempest with- in the Red teapot before concluding that out of it will boil up a new Rus- sia unincumbered with the revolution- ary dogma of the Third Internationale. ——————————— Aimee McPherson has her public and Her private fortune, She does not pro- pose to be held responsible to anybody for what she does with either. ————— . In some metropolitan communities it is not easy to decide whether the gun- men are defying the police or the police are defying the gunmen. —_— e Regardless of disappointments suffered by some of the realtors, Florida con- tinues to get all the best of the climate- chasing publicity. . » A peace pact should perhaps suffice in the first place, without waiting for warlike demonstrations to call for a new set of treaties. —— Having passed his seventieth birthday, the former Kaiser may regard life as a personal success, regardless of political record. o Literature still holds a dominant influence. Even a New York night club has its press agents. — SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. “Relativities” of Thought. There are some thoughts so great and grand, ‘We're dazzled and abject. ‘We say, “We do not understand, So they must be correct.” These thinking games let us amend, And make them frank and fair; For what we cannot comprehend, In fact, is scarcely there, Conscientious Wish, “Why do you try to make so many speeches?” “Because of a conscientious wish,” said Senator Sorghum, “to show men who subscribed to my campalgn fund that I am trying to give them some- thing for their money.” Jud Tunkins says the hard-luck story is nothing new. It started when Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden. The Big Noise. The sleigh bells are no longer heard ‘When Winter unto cheer is stirred. If they should jingle, there's no doubt The auto horn would drown them out. Carrying the Key. “Does your wife permit you to carry a latchkey?” “Oh, yes,” said Mr. Meekton. “I am always expected to be at home early, 50 as {o let Henrietta in.” “Children who do not obey their parents,” said Hi Ho, the sage of China- town, “remind us that we do not always chey the teachings of our ancestors.” Apparel. The stockings all so neat and smart In garb, we must admire. The bootleg never plays a part « In feminine attire “A gamblin’ man,” said Uncle Eben, “is always neglectin' g reg’lar job in order to fool wif a guessin’ contest.” —r—t— People In Glass Houses radio then, of course, though men were talking of the possibilities of etheric From the Utica Observer-Dispatch, People who live in glass houses should not even wear & stony THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, Universal consternation was caused in a certain office the other day by the announcement of a young business man that he had slept from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. the night before. The young man had thought it nec- essary to preface his revolutionary pro- gram by & statement to the effect that for some reason or other he had felt tremendously sleepy that evening. No, he had continued, positively, he had not eaten too much for dinner: on the contrary, he had eaten very little; he was not hungry in the least. No sooner had he eaten his frugal repast, however, than a veritable wave of sleepiness swept over him, to such an extent that he had found It neces- sary to retire. 4 >k kg It i3 needless to state that the sleepy young gentleman found himself the subject of mingled criticism, pity and doubt. The fine art of sleeping has become almost lost in a civilization which seems to take a childish pride in being able to stay awake. ‘The lure of various sorts of amuse- ments combines with the false ambition to be men and women to whom sleep is not necessary; the grand product is a face resorting to stimulants in order to keep awake. Among these stimulants noise takes a prominent place, One may prolong his waking hours far past a normal bedtime by an abnormal amount of noise. Few recognize that noise evokes the fear instinct in mankind, powerful de- spite thousands of years of life on this planet, and that many a person who keeps himself awake by unceasing noise s simply reacting to the age-old in- stinct of fright. * ok K K Instead of 11 hours of sleep being something to cause wonder or derision, every one would be the better for such long periods of rest and relaxation, if enly now and then. Sleepiness is a symptom, a call of the system for rest, for freedom from staying awake. As yet mankind has found no substitute for it. He may give up meat and live very nicely off vegetables; he may trade his horse and buggy for an automobile; he may change his dances every decade without appreciable loss. He may evolve new forms and seek new recreations, but no man has yet been able to get along without a certain amount of sleep. Sleep is one of the oldest habits of humanity, and, with hunger, one of the few which have undergone no change since earliest recorded times. Those who profess to be able to get along without it merely take it at an- other time of the day, or so stimulate their nerves that the latter are literally beaten into submission—for a time. * K ok ok Every man's necessary portion of sleep somehow seems to him the criterion of the remainder of humanity. If he happens to be the rare indi- vidual who can “get by” on 4 hours of sleep a_day, he almost invariably be- lieves that eyery other person should be able to do the same; that if they take more, they are lazy. They will grudgingly admit that perhaps infants and children need 8 hours, or even 12 hours, but believe that every adult should model his sleeping time off the supreme model. ‘The F]uln truth of the matter is that not only is evety person a law unto himself, but that every one differs as to sleep requirements from time to time. 5 In the main, however, it will be found that most people need approximately 8 hours in bed during the 24—whether they spend that much there or not. ‘What one does in this world is never the criterion of what is right, or just, or true, although unhappily many take the stand that personal likes and dis- likes constitute the basis of their obe- dience to natural and human law. After thousands of years of known history there are not so many matters in dispute as some would attempt to make us believe. S XE e Sleep, which knits up the raveled sleeve of day, as Shakespeare said— which is beloved from pole to pole, as Coleridge declared—is something about which there is really no question. Great athletes have prais than our poets. When w nations have in their . books attempted to be enti truthful, they have come to a unanimous verdict in favor of the efficacy of sleep. Physicians, men who have long studied the subject, are united in their praise, pointing out that sleep is espe- cially necessary in times of epidemic, in order to allow the body to marshal all its forces for the great task of re- sistance. Eminently wise and shrewd men, such as Benjamin Franklin, who somehow came to rightful conclusions thruu%h sheer intuition, had but one thought on the subject of sleep. It was necessary and pleasing, as all natural things are to men of inherently good dispositions, Franklin, for in- stance, reared his commanding bulk and great brain for all time against the rowdy ones of earth who would tear others down with themselves, simply because they are not men and women of ill and have allowed the thoughtless, indifferent, animal vigor with which nature blessed them. to carry them away. * R “Early to bed, early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” Franklin was too shrewd a man to have meant that literally, although thousands have professed to believe that he did. Benjamin Franklin knew, as well as any one, that many wealthy men go to bed late, and many wise ones arise late. His “early” was only comparative. He meant regularity of sleeping habits would give a man a better chance, everything else being equal (which it seldom is), of securing health, and so wealth, and so the necessary leisure to acquire wisdom. 3 Sleep must be adapted to the indi- vidual. Our young business man, who had enough sense to take 11 hours of sleep when he nceded it, was a wise man. ‘Those who deprive themselves of nee- essary sleep in order to indulge in “wild parties” need not blame fate when a “nervous breakdown,” whatever that is, overtakes them. Their employ in the final analysis, must foot the bills, which many of them seem willing to do, so deep has the modern doctrine of the foolishness of sleep crept into the minds of humanity. To get it out one has but to look at a sleeping baby or a healthy small boy asleep after a day of play. Permanent Fame of Underwood Attested by Cotemporaries A lasting place in America’s memory is accorded universally to Oscar W. Underwood, former Senator from Ala- bama, who died recently at his coun- try home, near Washington. His bril- liant and useful career is attributed to a rare combination of the qualities of the gentleman and the practical wielder of political power. In the State which he served for many years, the Birmingham News says: “In death he is acclaimed by all Americans worthy to be his coun- trymen. In the annals of his adopted State he ranks with Alabama's purest and noblest. In the select company of his country’s great his inspiring fig- ure will be surely niched. * * * It was Oscar Underwood’s intellectual in- tegrity and moral height that evoked respect and admiration for him at Washington quite 2s much as it was his gentle birth, or his urbane man- ner, or his gracious spirit, or his win- ning address, or his happy temper. Every one who knew him there, or here in Alabama, recognized that his grace of character flowered out of his strength of character. If the perfume of violets blossoming in the oak’s cleft was scented by his associates, it may be said that none who knew him was unmindful of the oak itself.” “Sanity, poise, reasonableness—these are not among the more brilliant traits of human character,” observes the At- lanta Journal, “but they are among the most useful, and they earn for him who possesses them the respect of his opponents as well as the confidence of his allies. They may lose battles, but they win wars. They not infrequently fall into popular disfavor, but how well they stand the tests of time and his- tory! Because he embodied these calm virtues in so rich a measure and com- bined with them a trenchant mind and a fearless soul, Oscar Underwood will long live in the memory of America.” * ok H ok “All allke could trust him, the public most of all,” avers the Montgomery Advertiser, with the added tribute: “He was then the gentleman in poli- tics, than which no higher praise could be bestowed upon a public man. Yet he was more than a gentleman; he was a creative statesman, a man pe- culiarly endowed with breadth of vision, judgment, humane sympathies and ripe scholarship.” The Indianapolis News also views him as a representative of “a ver; high type of public servant—intelligent, well informed, conscientious, knowing no guide but his own conscience and acknowledging no master except duty.” “He was a man of wide reading, a Southern gentleman of the best type,” in the judgment of the Newark Eve- ning News, while the Oakland Tribune calls him “an old-line Democrat, ex- pounding with oratorical grace the principles of the founders of that party,” and one who “was broad enough, when occasion called, to assert his independence.” ~ The Asheville Times predicts that “he will be remem- bered as a leader cast in the mold of statesmanship who played a conspicu- ous role in the political life of the Nation.”” The Salt Lake Deseret News commends “his brilliant palitical ca- reer as a pattern of which every Amer- ican can be proud, for in all essential things he was a patriot rather than a partisan.” An analysis by the San Francisco Chronicle emphasizes the thought that he “‘was one of the first of the representatives of the new South to sense the relation between national economic policy and national and regional prosperity.” R Mr. Underwood's influence tith both parties is a subject of comment by many papers, including the Manches- ter Union, the Wheeling Intelligencer and the Baltimore Sun, while the Raleigh News and Observer says, “Support in Alabama by those who were not in harmony with what his friends called his conservatism, and his political critics called his reactionary views, was a high tribute to faith in his ability and character.” “His political principles were grounded on the foundations laid by Jefferson and built up on th2 blue prints drawn by such successors of Jefferson as Ken- tucky's own Beck and Carlisle,” testi- fies the Louisville Courier-Journal, Others that speak of his statesmanship, Y | Prof. Oskar Burgi of the University of linked with integrity, courage and pa- triotism, are the Springfield Daily News, the Utica Observer-Dispatch and the Rock Island Argus. From the Roanoke Times comes the tribute: “His voluntary retirement from the Senate two years ago brought to a close a career in public life as brilliant as it was useful. Courage, integrity and ability marked his service from begin- ning to end.”, The New York Evening Post accords him “a permanent abiding place in the country’s congressional annals.” The Dafoit News holds that “had he lived in the North, no matter what his party, he might have become President, so great were his abilities, so admirable his character, and so remark- able his command of men.” * ok Kk An estimate of him as “a national fig- ure,” one who was “assuredly of pres- idential caliber” and who “has left a lasting impression upon his age” is made by the San Antonio Express, while other tributes to his leadership and power are offered by the Flint Daily Journal, Charlotte Observer and Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, and the Phila- delphia Evening Bulletin asserts that “if a conjuncture of national affairs had ever arrived enabling him to reach the presidency, the country would have been ably served.” “He hated hypocrisy and never hesi- tated to arraign it,” records the Rich- mond News Leader. “But there was about him a certain serenity of spirit that kept him from being an active, aggressive partisan. As he grew older he saw the other man’s point of view as clearly as his own, and though he never weakened to any degree of vacillation, he became judicial in outlook.” The Savannah Morning News commends his ‘'quality of safe adviser in national af~ fairs.” The Lansing State Journal con- cluded, “His part in the Underwood tariff law and his part in the Washing- ton arms conference will perhaps be best remembered in his record, but his ability went beyond both.” —— et Painless Dentistry Is Tried on Lioness A bit of dentistry in which the den- tist rather than the patient might have been expected to flee the office as the fatal hour approached is reported by Zurich, Switzerland. The patient was a 20-year-old lioness, resident of the 200 at Seebach, and suffering from an ulcerated tooth. First Dr. Burgi administered a dose of narcotic sufficient to keep the animal without pain and virtually asleep. Chains and ropes were then used to tie the patient so tightly that escape was impossible. The jaws were propped open and tied. Not until then did Dr. Burgi begin his dental operations, but his troubles were not over. The ulcera- tion affected one of the great canines or “eye teeth” of the giant cat. So firmly attached to the jaw was this great tusk that ordinary methods of pulling it were unsuccessful. The dentist was compelled to crush the tooth and extract it in more than a score of fragments, the lion meanwhile enjoying a fitful sleep induced by the narcotic. With the tooth once out of the way the socket was soon cleaned and disinfected and the animal released, minus the toothache which had been distressing her for days. ot That's Real Progress. From the Charleston, . C., Evening Post. You may not know it, but you have all had your debts reduced by more than 86 each within the past year. Uncle Sam owes $725,000,000 less than he did in January, 1928. o How About Radio Sopranos? From the Providence Journal. Many Americans will rejoice, for one reason or enother, to hear that England has lifted the ban on our jazz bands. r—or—s The Free Are Always Proud. From the Florence Herald. Sometimes it's hard to tell whether| they take more pride in the mairiage or in the divorce, FEBRUARY 5 1929.' THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover ‘The Babyon family of Babyon Court, Devon, has a queer streak, a mad streak, which appears in some Babyon.in every generation. It is the reason why Babyon marriages are never happy, why the Babyon men are so often wasters, why the Babyon women have secret troubles, why the Babyon Picture Gallery shows rows of framed masks, why Babyon ghosts walk. The story of five genera- tions of Babyons is told by Clemence Darf2 in her four slim volumes, each a separate story, but together making a complete romance, “The Babyons.” The four parts are called “Third Person Singular,” “Midsummer Men,” “Creep- ing Jenny” and “Lady Babyon.” In period they are respectively Georgian, late Georgian, early Victorian and Ed- wardian. Sir James Babyon, when mere boy, marries Menella Traill, com- panion to his cousin Hariot Babyon, to whom he has been betrothed. Their twin children, born after the tragic death of their father, are Ludovic and Isabella. Ludovic's son, born after Ludo- vic’s sudden death on Midsummer eve, Henry; Isabella’s daughter is the gipsy Teresa. Henry's son, Charles, marries Teresa's daughter, Mary Ann, so that in their son Nicholas a double Babyon straln and gipsy strain meet. Nicholas marries Antonina Drury, brings tragedy into her life, and dies chgdless, so that with him the Babyons end. * ok ok ok “Third Person Singular” s the trag- ery of Jamie and Menella- tragedy of the vengeance of the deserted Hariot, who cannot forgive even when dead. Jamie pay$ the penalty of his break to freedom and Menella lives to be “old Lady Babyon,” at 45, to grieve over the quarrels of her twins, and to see an- other Babyon tragedy. “Midsummer Men” is the (ragedy of Ludovic and Isabella. Ludovie is like his mother, not a trué Babvon; Isabella is a dark Babyon, very like the mad Harlot. She bitterly resents her mother's plot to keep her unmarried and almost equal- ly her brother's to marry her to an old man. Driven by her own craving for life and love, she rushes out on Mid- summer eve from Babyon Court to the shooting hut in the woods and there, unwittingly, involves all her family in catastrophe. She herself lives to be very old and, after a life of wandering, comes back to “lie beneath Babyon heather.” “Creeping Jenny” is the ‘:?ry of Mary Ann, granddaughter of Isabella and her gipsy consort, and natural daughter_and heiress of the wealthy farmer, Robert Thistledallow. No vio- lence comes into her life, but there is childhood bitterness, disillusionment early in her marr , and compensating companionship with her son only a year before death. Her son Nicholas should never have married, because he is en- slaved by a “mother complex.” “Lady Babyon™ is his tragedy and that of his loving young wife, whom he married when he was nearly 50 and incapable of throwing off the baleful influence of all the dead Babyons. Their portraits in the gallery haunt his dreams and cause the wild panic in Antonina which results in the loss of her child. Another violent death occurs at Babyon Court and an- other ghost joins the ghosts of Hariot and Jamie. * ok Kk ‘What has been going on in the homes, the shops, the markets, the streets, has been given little attention by historians. The legislative assemblies and the bat- tleflelds have furnished most historical material, with able aid from private council chambers. It is only in modern times that social history has assumed importance. Such a book as “The Rise of American Civilization,” by Charles and Mary Beard, is a product of the modern historical point of view. A popular book devoted entirely to the history of the home in Great Britain has recently been published—*“Home Life in History: Social Life and Man- ners in Britain, 200 B.C.-A.D. 1926, by John Gloag ‘and C. Thompson ‘Walker. " The first home which appears in this history is the home of the Briton before the Roman conquest, about 200 B.C., when there was a Cel- tic settlement near the present site of Winchester. These early Celts, who practiced Druid rites, lived in mound- like huts of stone and timber, with a refuge chamber excavated below. The next home described is one of the Roman period, near_what is now Lon- don, built in the Roman style by a Romanized Briton. Gradually, through the ages, the homes of Britain become more and more “civilized"—that is, more like what we know as homes today. * ok ok % The difficulty of adjustment between two generations, even when parent and child are concerned and both are strug- gling for the adjustment, is realized and artistically suggested by Warwick Deep- ing in a restrained scene in his recent novel, “Old Pybus.” Probyn Pybus and his son Lance have wandered far apart because of difference in temperaments and complete lack of sympathy. Probyn has not been able to understand why Lance cannot see the obvious advantage to himself and his parents of his be- coming a partner in the well established business of his father, That business of any kind does not interest Lance seems negligible: it will interest him in course of time if he takes his place at a desk in the office and attends to corre- spondence, markets and orders. Lance has not been able to understand why his father, who insisted on going his own way when he was young, will not accord to him the same privilege. Probyn has grudgingly yielded Lance a period in which to try out his desire to be a writer. Gradually the two have been drawing nearer to each other mentally. Probyn has become tired of the heavy father role and a little tired of business as well. Lance, through his observation of life, has begun faintly to comprehend the parent’s point of view. He spends a week end at his father's country home and the two meet after a long interval. “Probyn closed the win- dow and Lance stood cn the hearth rug, staring at the fire. He had become suddenly aware of his father and of his father's room and of his father as a man who felt and could be hurt—a very human creature. * * * ‘Pater—' ‘Yes, old chap.' ‘I want to say some- thing. I think I have learned a good deal-—lately” Probyn stood stiffly by his desk. ‘Never too old. Same with me, Lance’ ‘I've been a bit of a prig to you—sometimes.- I'm sorry.’ Probyn was having trouble with his eyeglasses. He cleared his throat and then ap- peared to remember that he was still wearing his overcoat. ‘That’s all right. Suppose I may have been something of a city father. “Think I'll take this thing oft’ ‘Il put it in the hall for you.' ‘No, don't you trouble. That's all right, old chap. " Hallo, here's your mother. They were both holding the coat and looking at each other with a kind ql affectionate shyness when Lance’s mother came info the room.” * ok ok In “Kentucky Mountain Fantasics.” Percy MacKaye has written three poetic dramas of the mountaineers in whom he has recently become so much inter- ested; they are called “The Funeraliz- ing of Crickneck,” “Napoleon Crossing the Rockies” and “Timber.’ Modern industrial “progress” coming into the lives of the bewildered mountain dwellers is the theme of “Napoleon Crossing the Rockies,” perhaps the most vigorous of the three. A railway has been surveyed in such a way that it will run over the site of the cabin of Lark and Tildy Fiddler. They hate the thought of the smoking trains and even more that their spring will be de- stroyed. An unscrupulous agent finally secures their consent and signatures to the deed by promising to turn the rail- road slightly away from the cabin and spring and by giving Lark some fiddle strings and Tildy a string of beads. And the Street Car Views! From the Haverhill Evening Gazette. An_unprecedented number of pla; failed in New York this year. People are getting tired of the theater. You can't even pick up any new profanity there any more, Did you ever write a letter to Fred- eric J. Haskin?. You can ask him any question of fact and get the answer in a personal letter. Here is a great edu- cational idea introduced into the lives of the most intelligent people in the ! world—American newspaper readers. It is & part of that best purpose of a newspaper—service. There is no charge except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Address Frederic J. Haskin, director, The Evening Star Information Bureau, Washington, D. C. Q. Ts the Navy interesting itself in methods for liberating men from sub- merged submarines?>—J. M. D. A. At the present time there is a Submarine Board, appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, which is study- ing various methods of safety and sal- vaging in regard to submarines. At present it has about 5,000 inventions which it Is considering. Q. Why is a weasel brown in Sum- mer and white in Winter?>—E.’J. 8. A. It is nature’s scheme to afford protection by giving the animal a coat that blends with the landscape. It is known as “protective coloration.” Q. Please name stars that are blue, red, white and yellow—R. W. L. A. The Pole star and Procyon appear white in color, Betelgeux and Antares red, Capella and Alpha Ceti yellowish, Vega and Sirius blue. Q. Where was the original home of the sweet pea?—G. C. A. Francisus Cupani, an Italian monk, found the flower growing wild ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. on an island of Sicily, and in 1699 sent BY PAUL ¥ Some folks carry their hearts on their sleeves. The City of Washington, not having any sleeves. is painting its car- diac pictures red all over town. Chain stores, mass production fac- tories, branch banks and bloc legisla- tion we had gotten used to, but bud- geted charity—that is something else. Efficiency! What an age of efliciency this has become! Henry Ford, after creating synthetic _horsepower, now talks of making milk without cows— synthetic milk, like synthetic drugs and dyes, 'neverything. Now come experts with their symbols of hearts of “Char- ity, Inc.” If this were England, it would be labeled “Heart Company, Limited. If it were France, it might be dubbed “La Coeur, Anonyme.” Being America, we must be satisfled with “Charity, Effi- clency & System Co., Inc.” manufac- turers of chests and budgets. * K K K Somehow, this modernizing of broth- erly love staggers one who will miss the tambourine and the bonnet and the doughnuts and all that touch of human nature which made the tinkling of sil- ver so charming to the modest giver. How we learned to love those dough- nuts and all that went with them, at the front! The gentle, friendly smile, the unassuming service and self-sacri- fice, the human touch amid dreari- ness and desolation! Maybe the camp cooks and K. Ps. might have boiled flour and sugar in fat and called it doughnuts—all at the expense of the commissary—but it is certain that they would not have tasted the same as when Sallie passed them around and shook her tambourine at the eaters. It isn't just flour and lard that makes a real doughnut, in peace or war. And for a decade the memory of what went with the doughnuts has lin- gered in association of ideas connected with the continuing activities among the poor and needy, here in this land of great prosperity and charity. But the Modernists seem to have beaten us Old Fogy Fundamentalists clear off the platform when they plump facts at us. For example, where is the sentiment that pays 25 per cent expenses to raise a fund of $100,000— or whatever the total amounted to—in suport of so great and so good a man as “Old Salvation Army,” when it can be done for less than 6 per cent? ‘We cite the Salvation Army only be- cause it is such an outstanding demon- stration of how Washington, with all its admiration, fails to support worthy causes with adequate funds. Was there ever a more self-sacrificing organiza- tion in America than that of the “Sallies”? And yet Washington flunks in failing to support even that un- selfish victim of our policy of “Let George (Washington) ®o it.” George shows his military training by always “passing the buck.” And so—am I telling secrets?>—the Salvation Army of the National Capital has run about $30,000 the hole.” The Community Chest will not provide for that debt, but may keep off the sheriff by paying the interest on it until some benevolent folks die and remember the debt in their wills. * %k k% ‘That is only one organization out of 57, which ¥ind themselves in a pickle and turn in desperation to the Modern- ists who offer to budget the whole of ‘Washington's giving. and to go out to the highways amd hedges and compel more givers to come in to the feast of love for fellow man. Will the tambourine become dead. like “the music when the lute is broken”? At headquarters they rejoice that the half of their force which has been used, heretofore, in gathering dimes and quarters for the work of relief so poignantly needed will now be released to carry that relief to the distressed and unfortunate. ‘The tambourines are so happy that they are jingling automatically—they can't keep still. Their efficiency is doubled. “The poor ye have with you always," jand there is no competition between their relief and the “human touch” of the box of alabaster. * ok koK A charity budget seems quite in harmony with the coming of an engi- neer even in our Government. If a waterpower were utilizing only a small part of the stream, and letting all the rest, like the plunging: Niagara, serve no useful purpose but scenery, what would an engineering administration do about it? The experts of the Com- munity Chest discover that there are ‘Would quench the The noisy menace BACKGROUND OF EVENT ’. COLLINS. a packet of the seeds to Dr. Uvedale Enfield, England. Q. Which side of Mount Vernosy home of George Washington, is th front?>—A. L, A. There are two fronts on the man| sion at Mount Vernon as there alw were in Colonial times when a hom was built on the banks of a river. Th phrases, “land front" and “water front,' run through books on the subject of Co lonial homes. Q. Who is the conductor of the D troit Symphony Orchestra?—R. Mel A. The conductor is Ossip Gal witsch. Q When did_that writer of bo books, Horatio Alger. live?—M. E. A. He was born in 1832 and died # 1899, . Q. Is the rag carpet industry of importance now?—N. F. A. Statistics show that in 1927 tablishments engaged p arily in ti manufacture of rag rugs and carpel reported products to the value of $5, Q. Can a person travel the leni of the Cape-to-Cairo Railroad?—E. C. R A. This railroad is not completed but it is possible to travel this rouf by rail, highway and water. Q. Do the Chinese use tea leaves fo a salad?—G. E. D. A. There is a virgin tea calle “Lung-800,” meaning “dragon’s whiski ers,” which the Chinese use in makin tea and the leaves of which they eat a salad. thousends of Washingtonians who gi little or nothing to charity, for they not in touch with its possibilities, and what is given tf‘rmes spasmodic: often in disproportion. There are also many overworked busk ness men and capitalists who are pester- ed to dlstrlctlhn bfi :'.he pern:;u:tmlm rtunities of “solicitors’ Wi ore lpfi signs in hallways, “No solicitors| permitted.” How can business man agers lay aside their crowding duties to) their businesses to investigate the) claims and arguments of unknown callers? If they did try to investigate,| what a duplication and waste of effort| that would involve for 10 or 100 or 1,000} “Big Business” men! * K K K B In spite of all sincerity, how can managers of the several charitable or- ganizations. get the true perspective of| the importance of their own particular appeal, compared with the other 56 varieties? The result is that competi- tion, which is the life of trade, is the death of love. “What is meat for one is poison for another. It is a much abused practice to ex= ploit a “cause” by selling tickets to balls and entertainments, and allocating a_part of the proceeds to the treasury of the cause—usually about 25 to 40 per cent to the charity, the rest to ex- penses and profits of the exploiters. No beneficiary of the Community Chest will be permitted to continue that prac- tice. All beneficlaries will be first in= vestigated, and the allocation of funds will be in accord with what has been found wisely used in the past, or what is approved upon presentation of ob- jects to be supported. The peddiing of fly-by-night “magazines” to help some cause, or the pose of some “disabled veteran,” will be checked. Common sense will be utilized as the great reg- ulator of charity. “Causes” will be sanely appraised. * kX % In 1920 a church of no great fame undertook to raise funds in a group of Midwest States for a local purpose, and when inquiry was made as to the total that was to be gathered, the answer was, “Seventy-five millions.” Prior to the World War, there were scarcely any enterprises of charity with visions of $1,000.000, yet, according to the Satur- day Evening Post, in 1920 there was 50 per cent more money actually cone tributed to charity than the entire bile lion-dollar capitalization of the Steel l(‘:grponunn. We think mainly in mil- ns. ok In a book. “Sympathy and System in Giving.” written by Mr. Elwood Street, the experienced manager of the Come munity Chest now functioning here, the author says: “This increase in the magnitude of charity has been matched by an in- crease in the importance of humani- tarian considerations in the minds of great numbers of people. ' “Religion—Catholic, Protestant and Jewish—has been imbued with a new social spirit. * * * Nor is this grow= ing feeling of responsibility of the indi- vidual to render human service re- stricted to religious authority only.” * o h While it has been stressed that under this systematic Community Chest. plam the overhead cost is reduced to from 2% to 6 per cent. in place of 25 to 40 per cent, the author, Mr. Street, comments as follows: “The food, fuel, clothing and shelter provided by the charities are much like the pills a doctor gives. Both are to provide relief for abnormal conditions. Just as one pays his doctor. notefor his pills, but for his skill in diagnosing the causes of the disease and in re- moving them, so one should expect a charitable society to find its highest usefulness, not in providing ‘material rélief,” but in finding and removi the causes which hold down a family.’ * ok ok X Certaln facts regarding the Come munity Chest must be emphasized: 1. The plan is not an untried experi ment, nor a “red-tape theory.” It has been in operation since 1912, and is today used in 30 cities throughout America. It works! 2. It does not displace any existing charity organizations in their essential functions, but simply does the collect- ° ing of funds for them all and turns over the allocated amounts, quarterly or as needed, to the societies: it does not disburse a dollar of charity itself. It enables charity organizations to be fully charitable. (Copyright, 1929, by Paul V. Colling.) A MIDWINTER RIME OF ROCK CREEK. Winter, dark-lowering through a rack Of cheerless cloud, begins to bluster, And with a whistling snarl his pack Of wolfish winds in white wrath muster. Yet though he comes like one who fain fire of earth’s last ember, Departed Summer lives again Even in his stronghold of December. For, lo, the laughter of a stream Down serpentine bright reaches gliding Breaks softly through the deathless dream Of Summer in the heart abiding. With glacial tongue let Winter shriek of his coming, Yet still beneath the ice Rock Creek The violet’s song of Spring is humming. Let whistling winds in fury blow, With teeth of frost in wolfish guises, Still down the ripples breaking through The ros2’s Summer song arises. —WM. TIPTON TALBOTT.