Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1929, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR — With Sunday Morning Editton. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.....,.April 13, 1929 THEODCRF W. NOYES. ... Editor The Evening Star Ni per Company Business Of . and Pennsylvania Ave. Office: 110 42n ke Michigan Building. Sirorean Ofice 15 ., De: EaRefent, St. London: Rate by Carrier Within The Evening St I hen s Bundase) 60c th The Evening and Sun prr. ( 5 Sundays| 65¢ per month r s .5c per copy Collection made at The’ énd of nch month. Orders may be sent in by mall or telephone Main 5000. the City. .45¢ per month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Vi ally and Sunday onls Bunday only All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday 81 Daily only Sunday onl: Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is cxclusively entitled to the use for republication of ell news dis- Ppatehes credited to it or not otherwise cred- ited in this paper and aiso the local new: outlished herein. All rights of publication o! special dispatches herein are also reserved. Uncle Sam and His Tilms. As the producer of mc#*'than three- quarters of the world's supply of motion pictures, there is hardly any foreign ban that could hit the United States harder nowadays than an embargo against them. Seven European coun- tries—France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Italy, Hungary and Spain— have recently imposed, or plan to im- pose, restrictive provisions designed to limit the distribution of American films. In identical notes to their govern- ments, published today, the State De- partment protests against action de- signed to deal a heavy blow to a great and growing American export trade. Something like 300,000,000 feet of film are sent abroad annually by producers in the United States. Our pictures are shown in seventy countries, with titles translated into thirty-seven tongues.. Matters have been brought to a crisis by impending developments in France, which is a tremendous consumer of American-made pictures.’ As the result of Will H. Hays' negotiations at Paris last year, a so-called “seven-to-one” quota scheme was worked out. Under it, for every seven American fllms im- ported and exhibited in France, at least one French picture had to be dis- tributed. It is now proposed to reduce the quota to a “three-to-one” basis. Legislation is being sought along corre- sponding lines. That wonld more than cut the American film trade in half in one of its widest markets. Proposals modeled on the French pattern are in sight elsewhere on the continent. Secretary Stimson directs American envoys in the seven countries above named to express American disapproval of “arbitrary” measures of the sort pro- jected. Our diplomatic action apparent- ly is based on the belief that nothing but local jealousies are responsible for the legalized boycott of Yankee films. This is discrimination, pure and sim- ple, and to it the United States Gov- ernment raises vigorous and legitimate objection. If foreign countries seek to bar Amer- pald in full without any claim for re- mission or reduction on the score of the poverty of the producing association or the worthiness of the cause for which the play is to be given. If a dramatic performance is planned for a charity enterprise—usually the charity is only incidentally the beneficiary, as the play- glving inspiration is primariiy for grati- fication of dramatic desire—it is not ex- actly equitable or fair to ask the author to contribute to the fund to the extent of his royalty when he has no conceiv- abie interest in the charity, and par- ticularly when the play is in part his cwn means of livelthood. If the laborer is worthy of his hire, truly the dramatic author is worthy of his royalty. And yet, according to this speaker at the Washington conference, hundreds of American play-giving groups are by various devices constantly seeking and in many cases succeeding in defrauding the authors of plays by avoiding the payment of royalties— groups composed of men and women who would mever dream of cheating the grocer cut of the price of butter and cost of the Winter's fuel, or the domes- tic servant out of her wages. If the drama is to flourish in America, if au- thors are to continue to produce worthy works, there must be respect for the rule, which is indeed the law, of royalty, which is in turn simply the law of hon- esty. ) Cherry Blossom Week. A plan is under consideration by a committee of the Washington Chamber of Commerce to establish an annual cherry blossom festival in this city. The committee will report at a later meeting of the chamber, and probably in favor of the project, as sentiment has already been strongly expressed for such an ob- servance of the Capital's vernal in- augural. The details of the festival are, of course, yet to be planned. The im- portant point is to determine in ample season upon the fact. The manner in which the fete is to be conducted will readily follow. Festivals appropriate to the season have been conducted by other cities for some time past. On the Pacific Coast several cities have their flower fetes which attract great numbers of visitors. Close at hand, the city of Winchester, Va., has an apple blcssom week that draws a large attendance from a wide area and is one of the most beautiful of American outdoor spectacles. Washington has an opportunity in the annual blooming of the cherry trees in Potomac Park to offer an attraction second to none in this country. Indeed, already the Capital is a festival center in that tens of thousands of people come at cherry blossom time to enjoy the scene of floral beauty. But they are coming in streams anyway at that time of year, and when, as this year, the cherry blossoming coincides with the Easter holidays the city is especially well filled with guests. It is proposed to devote a week to the observance of the cherry blossom fea- ture of the Capital's attractiveness. A most picturesque and significant program of episodic pageant displays could be de- vised which, even if repeated from yea: to year, would be always diverting an inspiring. All that is needed is an or- ganization and a fund for carrying its ican films on the ground that they | plans into effect, and Washington will offend public morals or violate national traditions, the United States points out that there can be no just cause for pro- test. Indeed, our producers have shown a willingness to collaborate with their European clientele to such ends. But no contention is made that Yankee films have invited either censorship or | banishment on such counts. It seems} ‘to be a plain case of freezing out the | all-conquering American “movie.” The State Department reminds the govern- ments which it addresses that we have adopted no restrictive regulations simi- lar in any way to those already en- forced in Europe. The United States holds that the interests of ihe motion picture industry throughout the world will be best promoted by interchange of films based solely on the quality of the product. The film controversy is not directly involved in the differences just over the international horizon as a consequence of threatened increases in the American tariff. But the menace to “the pic- tures” should be a reminder to Congress of retaliatory ideas which may occur to foreign governments if the Hawley- Smoot bill drives them to desperation. —_— et A rum-running boat looks like a “small-time performer” when ocean liners assert the privilege of establishing an equipment which will soothe the | moaning of the bar. o Dramatic Royalties. In the course of the community drama conference that has been in progress during the past week in this city, one of the speakers, an authority on the subject of play publication and protection, in telling an interested audi- ence of the royalty system and the ne- cessity for its strict observance, men- tioned a number of British playwrights who are particularly insistent upon the collection of their meeds of compensa- tior: for acting rights. He spoke of them 2s “hard boiled” in the matter of royal- ties. One of them, Sir James Barrie, whose plays are much in demand by amateur groups, and who has proved to be, in keeping with his Scottish origin, rigidly insistent upon his rights as an author—in fact, a most competent business man in the sale of his wares in the world market. This observation did not reflect unfavorably upon the author of some of the most delightful and appealing dramas of this genera- tlon. It simply cited him as an example of the playwright as a tradésman as well as a craftsman. It is by somewhat of a coincidence that it is just announced that Sir James Barrie has presented all his rights in “Peter Pan” to the London Hospital for | Bick Childoun. It is estimated that this 1s worth about $10,000 a year. The au- thor has for some time -intended to make this gift in his will, but has now will be worth long traveling to witness. ) Delaying the Spoken Word. Standing before a gathering of engi- neers in Philadelphia an official of the Bell Telephone laboratories said “Hello!" into an ordinary telephone transmitter. There were two seconds of silence be- fore the “Hello!” came out at the other end of the short coil of wire. There was nothing significant about the fact that the test was held in Philadelphia, although the general atmosphere may have added a picturesque touch to the demonstration of how sound may be de- layed and slowed down in transmission. The purpose of the test was to demon- strate a device which, attached to tele- phone wires, bottles up a word, holds it for a fraction of a second and in long- distance transmission avoids the echoes required for spoken words to travel. This, the scientists say, will clarify words spoken over cross-continent or transoceanic telephone wires. ‘This scientific feat is more interesting for its possibilities than for the actual accomplishment. If a word spoken over the telephone wire ean be bottled up and delayed, will not science now pro- vide a way to recall certain words or élse shunt them off the main line into the ocean or the air before they reach the other end of the line? What a boon and a blessing to mankind that would be! How often are words, and whole strings of words, sent flying over the wires that were better consigned to oblivion than to the burning ears on the other end! And how wonderful it would be to speak one's mind, press a button, recall the whole oration and start again, calmly, sensibly and with the advantages of having rid one’s sys- tem of superfluous, if eloquent, words! Keep on trying, you scientists! In- vent a method of freezing up words un- til they are melted by warm after- thought, to be released, or recalled, at will. Do that and you will end more private and public wars than all the treaties ever written. ———— ‘Washington, D. C. desires not only one airport, but several. The Capital of the world's greatest nation asserts requirements that must inevitably be met. ————r—e——————— Virginia Gentlemen. A traditional atmosphere of liberal- ism Liberalism seems to involve, in these days, a gentlemanly tolerance toward the making and drinking of intoxicating liquors. Few would deny that there is some consumption of aleohol, outside of its experimental use in the chemical laboratories, at the picturesque old col~ decided to make it in his lifetime. So of British Institutions rather the canny Scottish author. should make no difference to play- 5 among them: to drink. eggs or the coal merchant out of the | give the country an annual “show” that | which arise during the lapse of time: which forbids making or drinking liquor on university property. As the alumni secretary is careful to explain, there is no penalty attached to the vio- lation of this rule. Alma mater has re- fused to tie her hands. herself free to deal with each case on its merits. Still, a law is a iaw, and there is a good deal of fuss about it just now. Alma mater knows that the neighbors are gossiping about the goings-on at her house. So she makes a gesture. She draws up an agreement and sub- mits i w0 each of the thirty fraterni- ties, by which the students would pledge themselves to obey the rule to the letter. Now the traditional atmosphere of liberalism at the University of Virginia involves something more than a toler- ance for disrespect of the eighteenth amendment—something far more fun- damental. It involves the code of a gen- tleman—a code in which one’s word is one's' bond, subterfuge and hypocrisy are deadly sins, and the individual makes no compromise with his honor for the sake of public approval, Eighteen fraternities examined the proposed agreement and refused to sign it. These fraternities assured alma mater that they understood her predicament and were loyal sons, anxious to do any- thing honorably possible to make her comfortable in her old age. They would 80 to any reasonable lengths to stop their members from drinking. But they would not pledge their word that none of their members would drink. Such a pledge, they pointed out, would be a practical absurdity. Moreover, it would be hypocritical in the extreme. Some of the fraternity hrothers were bound to bring in a bottle of corn now and then despite anything the officers of these societies would do, and it would itself to take vengeance on these fellows. We might sign this, they pointed out to the college authorities, but common sense tells you that we would not have the slightest idea of keeping the pledge under all circumstances. So they drew up a substitute agree- ment which does not contain'such ex- acting promises and which the faculty are reported to be considering with favor, Regardless of one’s personal opinion on the dry law, one hardly can refrain from admiration of this insistence on a code of honor and of loyalty to fellow students. - Archeological research goes on with- out showing anything that offers a new idea about radio or airplanes. Old cities are being reclaimed. The scientists may, after all, be only providing good publicity for the realtors. — e Uncertainty as to his movements has become characteristic of Lindbergh. A man who fiies at will cannot be expected to subordinate himself to & map and a timetable, ] Land in Antarctic regions may be- come valuable when inventive genius succeeds in perfecting the supersnow- shovel. oo Portraits of Einstein do not show a lacid facial expression. The Theory is | enough to worry anybody. e - As an old gentleman, Hindenburg is expected to lend traditional influcnce to some new ideas, B — SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Good-by and Helio. The cherry blooms begin to fade And leafy grows the tree, ‘With promise of a welcome shade In pleasures yet to be. And so we hail the April sky With gentle hopes aglow, As weary Winter says “Good-by,” And Summer says “Hello!” Mind Reading. “Do you always say what you think?” “Not exactly,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “I strive to find out what my constituents think, and then say that.” Jud Tunkins says his one ambition is to be a good enough man to justify the regular remarks that will be made about him at his funeral. Surprising Bomb. A bomb for Franklin Roosevelt! The tidings still amaze! At him, the world, we always felt, ‘Threw nothing but bouquets. Mercenary. “You never talk scandal.” “Never,” answered Miss Cayenne. “If you have any scandal on your mind, it is foolish to publish it free, instead of writing a book.” 7 “We humbly ask,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “whether we are worthy our antestors. As we progress, it may become fair to ask whether our ancestors were worthy of us.” Saving the Worth While. If ever you a friend have met Along the road of toil and stress, Life's injuries strive to forget And just recall the kindliness, “A man dat goes to sleep durin’ a sermon,” sald Uncle Eben, “at least gives de preacher de comfortin’ knowl- edge dat his remarks hasn’ given no - | special offense.” - o Foresighted Perhaps. From the Trenton Evening Times. Civic pride conquers all. Towns are building airports ¢ven in those sections of the country where airplanes are as scarce as hen’s teeth. . ———————— Sounds Suspicious. From the Wichita Beacon. John Drinkwater, British playwright, érrived in America the other day. Do you suppose that's a part of the new dry campaign? —o— Something in This. From the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat. Americanism: Posing as & highbrow, envying the lowbrow who's able to drive & more expensive car. . A U o R I e They All Hop Away. Prom the Pittsburgh Post-Gaszette, e B, i B ued at $1 next investment in another greenbacks, * ————— Not Much Kick in It. form of She has left | be a poor brotherhood that pledged | ‘When Spring suddenly kicks you back into Winter again, what are to do about it? T oy Well, just about what the plants do— make the best of it. Changeable weather gave the District of Columbia tastes of true Spring, real Summer and then switched back to Winter, and there is no telling which will prevail when this gets into print. After all, what difference does it make? Mankind's discontent with the vari- able weather can be nothing to the stupor of plant life at the rapid-fire changes coufronting it. Imagine the confusion of an honest tullp which ought to be blooming a | month hence at finding itself forced to herculean growth by an April tempera- ture of 95 degrees. Consider its further humiliation when its growth is suddenly checked by an influx of cold air, bringing the ther- mometers down to 44 degrees. * Kk % Sensible human "beings simply start the furnace again, but the growing things in the yard have no furnace other than the sun. ‘When that luminary refuses to send his kisses to the earth, plant growth re~ mains more or less stationary, no mat- ter what prodigious efforts it may have put forth previously. The plant lover would not go so far as to say that his flowers do not under- stand and sorrow over their check. Perhaps they do. Who knows? Each flower and bush is a living thing, with a certain sort of intelligence of its own, gathered into a queer form {from the inexhaustible treasure house | of Nature, Call the plant cell elemental, if you will; it gets there just the same, each after its kind and law. The emotions of man, flowering in kindness and love, move in séme fash- ion, one may feel sure, in every lilac bush which waves its beautiful blossoms in _the breeze. has moved men to turn to flowers when they wish to express sentiments which words leave cold. e It is curious to speculate upon what the plants would do if by some hook or crook they suddenly were to be en- dowed with dominion over the other kincdoms. Can it be supposed for an instant that the venerable trees would issue a mandate demanding the world for themselves? Or that those “growing fools,” the weeds, would take real pride in crowd- ing out all the cultivated plants? Or that the roses, in their turn, would sneer at the pansies because they were not so large? One would prefer to envision the vegetable kingdom acting in a calm, sensible manner, free from prejudices and fancies, rather than the sport of propaganda, slogans and catch-phrases. * kK % Until the millennfum, however, plants will be the faithful servants of mankind, ready to serve us and to put up with all our crotchets and foolishness and to be our best messengers when words grow dumb. ‘There is an ancient Latin proverb which might well be placarded above the barrel or box which is found now in conspicuous places—put there to catch the books which are being gath- ered for the sailors upon the Seven Seas —sailors of the United States Merchant Marine particularly. It says: “To collect rare books is a splendid distinction; but it is a more useful thing, often, to turn over one book.” Within the last few days, reports have come across the ocean giving prices paid at auctions in London, as high as $50,000 for the original manu- script of some famous book. The chances are that the surfeited million- aire will lock his paper treasure in & burglar-proof vault and never think of reading it. The nouveau riche fur- nishes great libraries with unopened books having bindings to match his other bric-a-brac. He is like a child in a roomful of cake or candy—so over- supplied that he eats nothing. How many generous souls who, having read a pook and enjoyed it, then passed it along to the “neighbor” who has no supply of books, has ever realized that his act is above that of the man who indulges a hobby for $50.000 manu- seripts? At that rate, to give away 20 good books makes the giver a million- aire, * X K ¥ The reading habit is an acquired taste, and there are families in Wash- ington whose homes do not possess a single book or magazine. Yet, such families—especially the producer of the food and raiment—would be intensely interested if given a book which would discuss the common interests and con- cerns of his own life—how to increase the daily income or excite the imagi- nation within the limits of comprehen- sion. So the sailor who, upon long voyages, in fair weather, has many weary hours of idleness, has discovered that hours fiy more pleasantly when there is interesting reading matter ac- cessible. As a captain of a ship wrote to the promoters of marine libraries, the books are needed to keep the men from'dis- puting and quarreling in their idle hours—if for no other reason. * kX ¥ The enterrrlse of gathering books for the bookless sailors dates back to the beginning of our entry into the World War, when sympathetic patriots gathered reading matter for the soldiers in camps and hospitals. At the head of that work was Mrs. Henry Howard, a_ very wealthy lady of New York, whose fortune did not lessen her patri- otism. She interested scores of others and they carried on a vigorous and use- ful work of book gathering and dis- tributing, until the American Library Association, through which most of the work was being carried on, announced that since the war was over, of book distribution should cease, But Mrs. Howard was soon recalled and asked to take charge of the work of gathering' books for the sailors of the Shipping Board’s Merchant Marine. Now work is developed so that almost 1,900 American ships are so supplied with “traveling libraries”—traveling in literal sense. 8 Each ship is given a box of about 75 books when it leaves our port, and these are returned and exchanged for an equal number for the next voyage. In addition, they are given many maga- zines which they are not required to re- turn, but which are turned over to con- suls or sailors in foreign ports. Vessels on the Great Lakes, lighthouses and the Coast Guard are similarly supplied. Last year 258,488 books were loaned to 1,776 vessels. The overhead expenses of the work are largely borne by individual subserip- tions of members of the Merchant Ma- rine Library Association, including 4,000 saflors and 2,000 landlubbers, Wwho gladly accept membership and feel greater _ self. when they help pay for their benefits, * X ® % 3 oy Here in Washington there is a e coterie of public-spirited eitizens who are attention to make nis| Wi | Wi G i Perhaps some such thought as this| THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, our best for the trees and the and the bushes and the plants and the flowers. This best includes understand- ing, care and appreciation, * ok ok % Perhaps the last should come first, for there will be neither understanding nor care if appreciation is lacking, and without understanding and care neither ::heil plant nor the grower will do very Let no one despise the plant because it cannot talk, not think that the whole reaction between it and man taies place from the man to it. There is no telling what influence a plant may have on a man, or on a Wwhole nation. Coffee has made Brazil; the pineapple, Hawail. When Dole saw 8 pineapple it did something to him, and he in turn boosted the trade of that territory by many millions of dollars as a result. Plants do not give most of us such an urge, or punch, as all that, but they may have no less pleasing influences in a smaller way. * Kk koK ‘This is strikingly manifested in many families when they move from apart- ment into house. Here, for the first time in their lives, ;hex have a pl?t c{'t ground’..l parcel of and, scme real earth to plant growin, things in. 2 ‘F o A whole new world bursts upon them. Hitherto flowers had been something to buy, and send, and watch fade, but now they become real, alive, growing. Names of varieties of various flowers become as familiar as the names of close friends. The name of Mrs, Frank Pendleton, glorious gladiolus, becomes as well known as the name of one's triend down on the corner. Clara Butt, the great pink Darwin tulip, which is even now beginning to grace the public parks, is spoken of with genuine affection in a million homes, Mme. Lemoine, an old variety of white lilac, is & name no longer, but a living, breathing creation of the Almighty. * ok ok A first acquaintance with this new world, as it proves to so many families, is at once interesting and inspiring. There can be only one “first time,” of course—that is why the family which takes the garden serfously gets the most out of it. Yet there is, perhaps, no other ac- tivity which grows upon' its devotees more than gardening, so that, although | L the “first time” flavor may never be’ exactly duplicated, succeeding years of | gardening grow in interest ~because | they grow in knowledge. One is perpetually learning something in the cultivation of plants. Each de- partment of horticulture has its prob- lems, its rewards and perplexities, into | which any interested person may enter who has some claim on a tract of land, | no_matter how small or how large. Planning and discussing gardens is a never-ending delight to those who somehow find in the work a sort of satisfaction no other occupation gives. In the home garden, almost alone in the world, one pays no penalty for failure. It is one of the few places where lack of success is never penal- ized, but where every failure is merely It is incumbent upon us, then, to do!a pleasant stepping stone to perfection. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. All books sent to the boxes placed at the Union Station and other public places about the city are culled, so as to weed out unsuitable ones, then made up into ‘“balanced rations” for the library boxes. No communtstic books, none that at- tack sectarian religion, or teach athe- ism, or immorality, or class hatred, are used. Not mere trashy novels are accept- able; scientific books and travel books are especiall desired. It is not wholly desirable to fill the boxes with women’s books on how to make dresses out of three yards of cloth, which will expose the dimpled knees of the wearer—especially if such a collection is to be sent to the Ant- arctic or even the Arctic. One ship captain complained that the books sent his ship had shown his | Bismarc saflors how to hatch chickens, and so they had hatched out a brood which was running about the deck: he wanted no more books that would make farm- ers out of perfectly good sailors. But he would like to read books telling how to build ships, and his men wanted to read about thé® ports to which they were sailing. There is a lot of human nature disclosed by this library work. Aliens who cannot read a word of English seize upon picture books so that by reading the captions of the pictures they can comprehend from the pictures what the English words mean; it's a good kindergarten method of learning English. School text books are desired, but are very rarely among the gifts. * ok ok X Not only have women's fashion maga- zines been contributed to these marine libraries, but also three social regis- ters came in one shipment from Bos- ton, Very thrilling to the fo'c’sle upon the high seas! Now that the Depart- ment of State has abolished its bureau of social precedence, doubtless the Bos- ton giver of the social registers will be glad to recapture the books. They may be useful in settling the latest social tangle which transpired at a fashion- able luncheon in Washington this week. It concerned & fruit cocktail (anti- Jones? No!) The several fruits had blended their colors into a peculiar shade, and some blue,” another of more youthful expe- rience, thought of Hnrdlnf red, an- other argued that it was. really Coolidge gray, but the last fair lesser an- nounced most emphatically that all were wrong, for the color was clearly a Gann-grene. Which so shocked the hostess that it made her seasick. But it would only stimulate a sailorboy, equipped with an up-to-date social reg- ister. 8. O. 8.! (Copyright, 1929, by Paul V. Collins.) Searchlights Seen As Aid to Farmers| A BY E. E. FREE, PH. D. Plowing all night by searchlights, as contractors sometimes build much- needed buildings in cities, and regulay night shifts for farms like those in busy factories, are possibilities in Germany this Spring as a result of the hard, long Winter which is just ending. The se- verity of the weather has delayed all Spring work on the farms. Unless some- thing can be done to catch up, German agricultural experts expect such de- lays in plowing and planting that many c will not have time to grow and ripen before harvest time. With typical German practicability and ingenuity, the engineers o'l.h the Reich have THE LIBRARY TABLE iy the Booklover An unusual book, much talked about in Washington av present, is “Vietim and Victor,” by John Rathbone Oliver. Rumor and a of the book with the b “Who's Who in America” seem to indi- cate that the story is partly autobio- graphical. John Rathbone Oliver is a psychiatrist, criminologist and professor of medicine. He was born in Albany, N. Y, in 1872, and was graduated from Harvard in 1894. An extract from his blography reads: “Grad. Gen. Theol. Sem., 1900; M. D. U. of Innsbruck, Austria, 1910; Ph. D., Johns Hopkins, 1927; unmarried; master at St. Paul's Sch, Concord, N. H., 1894-97; priest, P. E. Ch,, 1900; curate 8t. Mark's Ch., Phila,, Pa., 1900-03 (resigned; restored to orders, 1927); surgeon Austrian Army, 1914-15; psychiatrist, Johns Hop- kins Hospital, 1915-17; chief med. offi- cer to Supreme Bench of Baltimore, since 1917; f. history of medicine, U. of Md, e 1927; pvt. practice as psychiatrist and criminologist; Episco- palian_(mem., clerical staff Mount Cal- vary Ch).” . ER “Victim and Victor” is the story of two men. Are they merely the dual personality of the author? One, an eldm{ curator of an anatomical and pathological museum, tells the story of the life of his friend, a deposed Angli- can priest, and mingled with it much of his own story. The curator, Dr. Claude Monroe, who is also a psychiatrist, and the priest, Michael Mann, work together for-the restoration or salvation of cer- tain mentally unbalanced persons who ¢ome under their care. Michael Mann himself is at one time, after his bitter- est experiences, a patient in a psy- chiatric clinic. There Dr. Monroe re- discovers him and brings him back to adjustment with his unhappy life. Then begins the co-operation between the two men which lasts for some years and brings help to so many unfortunates. Extracts from the doctor's case book give the stories of some of these people. ‘There is the distraught boy of 18 who escapes from the psychiatric clinic and goes to his mother’s country place to find his !rr-ndhmer‘l revolver in the drawer of the old shaving table, but fires every shot into the when he hears Michael Mann, who has followed him, singing “He Has Sounded Forth the Trumpet That Shall Never Call Re- it “Did hear him?” the boy sol “He sang it, too. That—that song I told you about—the song my grandfather used to sing for me when It meant a lot to me " There is the case of John James mith, who, with the nature of a Bo- hemian poet, has been compelled to be & minor bank clerk. “The wife was like the bank; both lived by exact, un- | deviating routine, without imagination, | without emotion, without change. . . . Twenty years of the bank with two weeks' holiday each year, 20 years of his wife and 18 of his daughter with- out any holiday at all, were, finally, too much for Smith.” Each case treated by |the physician-priest partnership at the “refuge” is different from every other case and is cared for individually. * Kk ok During all his mission to others, Michael Mann is mourning over the loss of his priesthood and longing to be restored. “What I want,” he pl:ads with the bishop, “is the authority tc ex- ercise my priesthood. I want to—to say mass again. Oh, not often—only oc- casionally. I want to feel that the ecclesiastical restrictions that are in force against me are removed. I want to be free as a priest to—to offer the holy sacrifice for the quick and the dead. To go once more unto the altar of God, the God of my joy and glad- ness. ., . . Don't you understand + . o What {t must mean to be a man who has somehow thrown away the one thing that he loved most in the world and who can't—can't get it back? It isn't as though he'd lost it. He still has it, in a sense; but the power to use 1t is denied him. And to make use of just that one thing in just one way is the only one thing that his heaft longs for. Once a priest, always a priest.” The offense for which Michael Mann was unfrocked is never told. Several times the author seems on the point of | telling it, but draws back from the reve- |lation, and satirically plays with the | curiosity of the reader. * k% % The enmity between the Empress Frederick, mother of the ex-Kaiser, and 'k was one of the important po- litical factors in German history during the later years of the reign of Emperor William I and the earlier years of the reign of Emperor William iI. This en- mity and many other interesting cross- currents of feeling appear in the “Let- ters of the Empress Frederick,” edited by Sir Frederick Ponsonby. The mar- riage of Victoria, eldest child of Queen Victoria, to Frederick, heir to the throne of Prussia, was a love match and con- tinued happy to the end, according to the evidence of these letters. Bismarck opposed the marriage from the first. He hated English influence. As the years passed another cause of hostility de- veloped. The Crown Prince Frederick and his wife were Liberals and as such were {eared by the Junkers. The iliness and death of Frederick, Emperor for | such a brief period, increased the bit- terness of the Empress toward Bis- marck and his Junkers, for they wished from the start to have the disease pro- rounced incurable, so that the Crown Prince might never ascend the throne. ‘The Crown Princess, later Empress, did her best to conceal the gravity of the 1llness.” It Frederick had lived to reign, Germany might have been saved from the domination of the military class, which brought about the downfall of the Empire. * % ok % ‘The Art of Thinking,” by Ernest Dimnet, gives some instructions about the employment of lelsure time in cul- tural thought. Utilitarian thinking for | * the purpose of earning a living has no place in the Abbe Dimnet's book. He believes that the trained mind may function on several levels at the same time and that there are many obstacles to thought, such as fantastic images, negative suggestions and inferiority complexes. The book is suggestive, if not altogether original. * ok ok % In his latest satirical allegory, “Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island,” H. G. Wells takes a hero disillusioned with the world to an island in the South Atlantic, off the Patagonian coast, where he him live happily among annibals, who look upon him as a holy dman. lm old-fashioned lirlum, in which he has had a view of turvy world as it might ap- philosopher. * Kk % It was over the Erie Canal that a large m&wgm of s':'m s(:.ndu;»;lun migran veled, e ys ore settle the Middle West heroes and heroines for in our generation. upstate New York who the far-famed canal in e 1850s have rarely been in fiction, but they live and in realistic fashion - in " an absorbing first novel Edmon tops, pear to & P of the Woods,” by Isabel a rambling tale of the life of and visit from llers tors the Laurentian foothills of French Canada. The charm of the story les in the author’s devotion to the green valleys of the country wl she learned to love in her youth returned to in her ma- i o iy Economy Causes Waste. the Danbury Imu'n- mnd 5 & great th and many . 80 g" ‘economi: phy of the autbor in)Wi ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, The answers to questions printed here each day are specimens picked from the mass of inquiries handled by our great information bureau naintained in n, D. C. This valuable serv- ice is for the free use of the public. Ask any question of fact you may want to know and you will get an immediate |reply. Write plainly, inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage and address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D, C. Q. Who is the youngest registered athlete in the United States?—H. B. A. Seven-year-old Marian Shaffer of Honolulu is the youngest. She will com- pete this Summer for the women's na- tional outdoor diving championship, Q. How high must a fiyer go so that there is no noticeable difference in Sum- mer and Winter?>—M. D. A. Above 20,000 feet there is no va- riations of temperature due to the sea- sons. Q. Whose administration was first classed as Democratic?>—T. P. A. President Jackson’s administra- tions were first to be so called. Those of Washington and John Adams were known as Federal and those of Jeffer- son, Madison, Monroe and John Quincy Adams as Democratic-Republican. Q. When did the first steamboat run | on the Arkansas River above Fort Smith?—H. R. A. The Facllity was the first s'llm-‘ boat to navigate the waters above the | fort. The first trip was made in 1828. Q. Where was Aesop born?—J. M. D. A. Aesop was a slave. A number of cities claim his birthplace, among them Samos. Q. Is alfalfa flour a successful substi- | tute for cereal flour?—J. O. N. A. It does pot compare at all favor- | ably with the’cereal flours or meals and | at best must have large proportions of | other flours mixed with it before it can | be used for baking. Q. What war is called the War of | American Independence?—P. C. | A. Just as the Revolutionary War is called the War for American Inde- pendence, the War of 1812 is sometimes called the War of American Independ- | ence. Q. How many scholarships are riveni nually 1,000 schoiarships, Yale 406, Har- 700. i Q. What percentage of the weight of ::he’cow, pig and sheep is edible?—G. | ‘A The approximate average of edibl meat is: of the live weight of the s 56 per cent; cow, 48 per cent; pig, 75 per cent; sheep, 45 per cent. | Q. When were high schools first es- tablished?—M. McL.* { A. The term high school came into | juse between 1820 and 1850, when in i place of or by the side of schools called | academies, which were maintained by | endowment or at private expense'| schools of a corresponding grade were | established at public expense. Such in- | stitutions were variously designated at | first. In Philadelphia the Central High | School yet retains its original name. | The term high school came into use in | Boston when in 1821 the English High | vard 600 and Universiy of Pennsyivania | | School was established as comples mentary to the Latin School. During the perfod of Horace Mann's secretary- ship of the Massachusetts Board of Education (1837-48) a system of high schools was instituted. This example was followed by other educational lead- ers. From the middle of the nineteenth century the movement in the establish- ment of high schools became genera'. a. ‘Whan sitting down at a_ dining table, shou!d one seat one's self from ‘t’henflgh!. or left side of the chair?— "A." It 1s customary to seat one's self {rom the left side of the chair, Q. In writing the Declaration of In- dependence did Thomas Jefferson use the expression “all men are born free and equal?”"—W. C. A. The exact expression embodied in the second sentence of the Declaratio) of Independence is “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalien- able rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” Q. Is scientific training useful to one who intends to enter industry?—S. G. A. Figures compiled by the chemistry department of the University of Wis- consin show that industry is daily showing a greater appreciation of men who have been educated in the higher branches of science. Since the World ‘War 56 out of 109 persons who received the degree of doctor of philosophy in that department at Wisconsin have gone into industrial work. Previously, since 1899 when the first degree of the kind was given by the department, only eight persons had entered the ranks of industry. Q. Who were the original “Flora- dora” sextette girls?>—S. N. M. “Tell Me “Floradora” and A. The girls who sang Pretty Maiden” in took the town by storm at the Casino Theater in New York in 1900 were Vaughn Tex-Smith, Margaret Walker Marie L. Wilson, Majorie Relyea, Agnes Wayburn and Daisy Green, Q. Are women's voices more nea alike over the radio than men's volces® —S. B. C. A. Women's voices are harder to dis- tinguish from each other. WENR sug- gests that it will be necessary for wom- en to develop more voice personality. There is & wider difference in the in- flection and tone quality of men's voices. . How do you read the small marks on & fever thermometer from 100 up? A The small divisions of the clinical thermometer represent tenths of & de- aree, thus if the scale registers two smal! divisions above 100, the temperature i 100 and 2-10, or 100.2. Q. Who was the first woman on the regular pay roll of the United States Government?—M. D. R. A. In the Spring of 1362 Mr. P. Spinner, Treasurer of the United Sta prevailed upon Secretary Chase to pe: mit Rim to appoint a woman to cut an trim United States currency. This work was then being done with shears in the hands of men. He appointed Miss Jennie Douglas, and, as he afterwards expressed it, “her first day's work settied the matter in her and in woman's favor.” On October 9, 1862, the foliow- ing woman emplojes were appointed Miss Fannie L. Halstead, Miss Annie York, Miss Belle S. Tracy, Miss Eliza- beth Stoner. Miss Mary Burke. They were the first women for whom Con- gress regularly made an appropriation Public Demand Made After Special requirement that all courts should be beyond the reach of any ac- cusation impels the American public to protest that Federal Judge Francis A. ‘Winslow’s case should not be dropped. He resigned his post in New York State in | the face of threatened impeachment proceedings, maintaining that the filing | of charges in connection with bank- ruptcy matters had impaived his usef ness and injured the prestige of bench. Printed comment fails to sup- port his contention. “If he had faced the music and had been shriven of blame, so that he could have stood forth not as a judge whose judicial acts were subject to criticism, ibut as manifestly the victim of malicious persecution, then no manner of charges ive worked injury to his repu- affirms the Charlotte Observer, referring to the grand jury announce- ment that it found “no evidence which it was willing to accept in a criminal sense, but at the same time finding that the judge had been guilty of ‘serious in- discretions.” " “Where any case warrants the formal presentation of charges,” in the opinion of the Schenectady Gazette, “a judicial determination of guilt or innocence should be had. Only in that way can the dishonest be punished and deterred from continuing their criminal activities, {and only in this manner can the inno- cent be assured of justice.” The Salina Journal advises that “Congress should go ahead with its inquiry” and should “find out, for the benefit of the public, if the judge has been abusing the power that was given him and the trust placed in him by even a fraction of the mis. deeds charged against him in banl ruptey cases. And if it is proved true,” continues that paper, “there are many people who believe punishment shouid not consist merely of resignation.” * ok ok % “The effect of the resignation of the defendant on impeachment proceed- ings,” remarks the Detroit Free Press, “‘was argued at length in the Senate in | the case of William W. Belknap, Secre- (tary of War, who was impeached in 1876 for accepting money to appoint and retain in office a fur trader in the In- dian Territory. A few hours before the House voted to impeach him Secretary Belknap resigned and the President cepted his resignation. Then he gued that, as a private citizen, he could not be impeached. The Senate, how- ever, after nearly a month’s debate, voted, 37 to 29, that the impeachment might proceed. A majority of the Sen- ate found the defendant guilty, but as the two-thirds vote necessary to convict was not obtained, Secretary Belknap was acquitted.” *While the resignation cannot be construed as a confessi:n,” says the Roanoke World-News, “tne prompt re- tirement of a Federal judge under fire creates a distinctly bad impression. # * * 1In view of the charges that have been brought as to the way in which some Federal courts handle bankruptcy cases, it would seem that the matter has now gone too far to be dropped on the resignation of Judge Winslow.” The Cincinnati Times-Star jpon the resignation “as in effect a plea of guilty,” and that paper argues: “Judge Winslow has removed himself rather than face his accusers. He prefers the penalty without the ordeal of trial, which is the preference of any man who pleads guilty. * * * ‘The honor of the courts demands that the matter be pursued.” & * K X X “1t is & pitiful proceeding” exclaims the New York lvenlnfi Post, with the further assertion: “Failure of impeach- brings a definite pub- ment proceedings gs the | 1ic Joss. Charges of the existence of & ‘bankruptey ring’ have led to the flight of a receiver, the removal from court lists of an attorney’s name and now the resignation of a Federal ji 3 Back of so much smeke there must smoulde for Inquiry Judge Resigns and judiclal integrity has mot reals been * successfully impeached,” con- tinues the Times, “he percefves that the nature and extent of the complaints made about his course in certain mat- ters coming before him as a judge have destroyed his_usefulness. He is un- willing to embarrass the other judges of the Federal courts in the district by continuing to sit while under investi- e | gation, and is also acutely conscious that even if he were to fight the case and win a vindication, his reputation could never be the same again. ® ¢ * The event should serve to quicken pub- lic sensitiveness about judges at the same time that it deepens in them the conviction that they must so conduct themselves on the bench as to be not only beyond attack but above sus- picion.” %% ‘The Hartford Courant thinks that “it is not enough that a judge should be lonest: he must have a reputation for honesty,” and must “keep himself free from entangling alliances of every sort and description.” The Harrisburg Telegraph feels that “the responsibil- ity of the judge for rectitude in office is even greater than that of the legis- lative or the executive branch, for the judge holds the court of final appeal and if that fountain of justice be polluted the whole scheme of govern- ment fails.” The judge'’s refusal to perform judi- cial duties, after exposures involving an alleged bankruptey ring “began to take definite form” is commended by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, which also voices the view as to the position of Judge Winslow: “That his confi- dence in some of those to whom he gave preferment was abused is un- doubted. Had he known of the gossip going on among persons who had his court under observation, doubties: some of the most serious of the later irregularities would have been pre- vented. The entire case has grave warnings on the care with which com- plicated business matters coming un- der the supervision of courts should b~ looked after, the restraints with which favors should be bestowed repeatedly on the same person or interest, and on the moral responsibility of judges for the conduct of their appointees, which bfl no means ends when they have exer- cised care in their selection. ] Schulz, Noted Cellist, Is Lauded for Modesty From the Dayton Daily News. New York's Symphony Orchestra loses Leo Schulz, its premier cellist, the first of April. On that occasion, Arturo Tos- canini, the world-famed conductor, will relinquish his pedestal to the man who for 30 years has been first cellist with the organization. Schulz will take the baton of the maestro and strike up the overture he wrote for the Chicago World Fair in 1893. After this last concert he retires. Leo Schulz was a cellist with, the Bos- ton Symphony for nine years prior to the time when, in 1899, he joined the New York orchestra. A contemporary recalls his appearance then—“a Byronic Kou man with a waving mop of long air.” He is 63 now. Age has taken its toll of his features, but he still plays like, the youth with the fire of great music in his soul. The remarkable thing about the man is not that he has been vith his job for 30 years, ‘That is no rarity in any pro- fession. Leo Schulz is recognized as w master of his instrument. He e have played his way to fame and for- tune as a virtuoso on the concert . Instead, he was content to remain one of the musicians in a great orchestra. The most exacting critic in vain sought nditions. He a refrechi ‘artists.” hief thought is to strive for i T S