Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1929, Page 20

ARMY FRAMES BILL War Time Mobilization of 3Factories Will Be Proposed 1 in Measure. ‘y the Associated Press. literary pion was celebrated By the Associated Press N, May 24-~A triumph of i eem{g in boy psycrmlogy of adventure and with practical articles d here this year in the|and sketches on “How to Do” things, THE EVENING BTAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. FRIDAY. MAY 24 1929. BRITAIN'S “BOYS' OWN PAPER™ OBSERVES 50th ANNIVERSARY %m I]RA_H_INPUSTRY Hundreds of Notables Listed in Ranks of Authors and Readers of Historic Juvenile Journal. | 50 years ago the little magazine, Packed with clean, wholesome stories the B. O. P. wrought a revolution in Boys’ Own is bright with the names of men who have won immortal fame in juvenile literature. The paper’s read- ers include men of eminence in every walk of life—one of whom now sits on an imperial throne, while others rule the destinies of a hty empire. Before he created “Sherlock Holmes," A, Conan Doyle (now 8ir Arthur) was writing Christmas stories for the B. O. P. Jules Verne's classic and prophetic romances of the sea were reproduced in the paper’s early numbers. G. A. Henty's historical stories of adventure, R. M. and frontier tales, n’'s marine thrillers— 8 of this Ballantyne’s pirs W. H. G. Kin| all throbbed through the treasure house of wonders. “I remember the delight with which I bought the weekly numbers,” is the tribute of Sir Willlam Joynson-Hicks, home secretary in the British gover: ment, “and how I set to work to build rabbit hutches and chicken pens—and made myself a great nuisance to my parents by keeping every kind of pet!” Stanley Baldwin, British premier, in praising the publication at its jubilee luncheon, said that the B. O. P. had succeeded in avoiding the Scylla of vulgar sensationalism and Charybdis of duliness. = Bea stories proved to be perhaps the most popular tyge of fiction in the great variety which the B. O. P. offered. Mr. Hutehison, the first editor, died in 1913 after 3¢ years of directing the | paper. o Twenty-four girls between the ages of 15 and 16 were married in England in the last 12 months. |Izaak Walton’s Lure Takes Teacher Away As Class Waits Test NEW YORK, May 24 () —A pro- fessor at Columbia University absent- mindedly went fishing yesterday while 100 students awaited an examination for bachelor degrees. When Prof. Parker Thomas Moon failed to appear to give the assembled students their examination in “inter- national relations” an investigation was started which located him at his Summer home in Woodmont, Conn. The lure of fishing haunts had ban- ished from his mind all thoughts of international relations and college ex- aminatio LITHUANIAN PREMIER'S | ASSAILANT CONDEMNED By the Associated Press. ! KOVNO, Lithuania, May 24.—A stu-' dent named Vosylius yesterday was sen- | tenced by a court-martial to death for the recent attempt on the life of Pre-| mier Waldemaras. He then confessed his share in the crime and implicated | some of his accomplices, including an- | other student named Gudelis, whom he | All%‘ed ‘Wwas the prime mover in the plct. | e premier and his wife escaped in- | jury when a fusillade of shots fired at | them struck four of their party as th¥/ | were entering a theater here. ’ . Java produced $155,000,000 worth of | gar last season. A - NOTICE To Parker Pen Owners: To you, and to only, oflezzomp)ete me D‘:&m‘& a saving of “Btr set and up, due to the Parker Pen's Dual and ex- clusive feature of serving as either a Pocket Pen or Desk Set Pen. A few motions, which you can make easily yourself, changes it, back and forth, from one kind of pen to the other in a jiffy. A beau- tiful $8.75 Desk Set, for instance, becomesyoursforonly $4.75 inthis way if you area Parker Pen owner. THE PARKER PEN DEALERS " The War Department is preparing for early submission to Congress of & Bill to mobilize Industry in war time on the same basis that man power ls gonscripted. Secretary Good says the measure is expected to be among the first legis- Iative matters to come before Congress ¢ its regular session in December. The bill probably will cover all phases of finance and commerce. Conscription Bill Given Congress, ‘The Secretary already has sent to Congress a bill to authorize the Presi- dent to conscript the man power of the Nation for immediate military service upon a declaration of war. The national defense act places upon the War Department the responsibility of preparing plans for the mobilization of industries in war time and the pro- posed legislation would authorize their actual draft by the President The department’s plans for emergency industrial mobilization are laid along the following lines: Pinancing of contractors to whom war contracts are allotted. Prevention of profiteering and stab- flization of prices in war time, Provision of machinery for settlement of war time industrial disputes. bilee anniversary of the Boys' Own g‘npe:? e erie British publication, | journalism for youth and blazed trail “It 1s written for boys, and not for | which has been followed by a score of their grandmothers,” G. A. Hutchison, | imitators. the first editor, announced in launching' The long Mst of contributors to the Are You in a Hurry? You Can Read This Entire Announcement in Less Than 2 Minutes! 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