Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1929, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.......June 15, 1920 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St. and Ne Ag 3 nnsylvania Mee om ice: 110 East 43nd 8. Lake Michigan Buildi =14 Regent St.. Lon: Eogland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. Fhs Erenlne Slar_.... 453 per month e Evening and Si 60¢ per month (when 4 Sundavs) 86¢ per month L.0L. 5e per copy at'ihe snd of cach month. nt in by mail or telepnone Collec*ion m: Orders may by Main 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. lly and v 310.00: 1 me., 88c afly only . 36.00: unday only 34.00; All Other States and Cal Pailr and Bunds ily only . Sunday only 31.00 8c soc Member of the Associated Press. The Assoctated Press s exclusively entitled 10 the nse for republicaiion of cil Tews dls- ‘atches cradited fo it or not otherwise ered- | fad I this paper and aiso the lcal news | published herein. AJl rights of publicailon ef #pecial dispatches herein are also reserved. —_— The Higher Fare Demand, The application’ of the Capital Trac- Hon Co. for higher fare has been Te- garded as the inevitable consequence of the merger agreement’s fallure to ma- | terialize; 30 much so, in fact, that the | application, pending for a year, has been viewed in the light of a threaten- | ing club, sure to descend unless the street rallways’ offers for merger were | aceepted. Now that the club has de- acended, the damage to be inflicted thereby depends upon the success of & newly constituted Public Utilities Com- | misson in dealing with a problem that i« common to nearly every big city in | the country, but which is peculiarly eomplex here in Washington. More than seven years ago, when the | Iast increase in fare was granted, the ‘Washington Railway & Electric Co. was | the petitioner who came into court with & sad story of inability to survive un- Jess something was done, and the Cap- ital Traction Co., fairly prosperous, was | made an involuntary party to the peti- | tion. Now the Capital Traction Co. i8 the sufferer pleading for relief, and the ‘Washington Railway & Electric Co. may be forced to become an involun- tary partner in misery and join with it. Opposition to & street car fare in- erease at this time, therefore, is not founded so much on doubt as to the possibility of the Capital Traction C ability to prove insufficient return on & valuation that the courts have recog- nized. Even s new valuation, if teken by the Public Utilities Commission, could not be construed as a sure safe- guard against & fare increase. Opposi- tion is founded on the incontestable fact that the higher fare plea is made necessary because the people of Wash- ington are paying for too much over- head on the part of those who use the streets for profit, Instead of sup- porting one street car company, they are supporting two, with the resulting waste to be made up in higher fare. Mr. Hanna, the pres- ident of the Capital Traction Co., ad- mits as much in his statement com- menting on the company's fare appli- eation. He explains that the directors refrained from taking action in the hope “that the necessity for taking it might be postponed, either because of & merger of the transportation systems of the District, with resulting econ- | omies in operation, or because the steady and long-con‘inued inroads of the private automobile into the com- pany’s business would lessen.” Another obvious ground of opposi- tion to the fare increase now urged is that the increase is made applicable to both of the local street railway systems though proof of need of the increase is offered only in respeet to one. The ap- piving company has indicated that 1t cannot and will not accept a fare in- crease for itself unless the fare charged by the other company is equally and simultaneously increased. If one street railway claims to need an increase of fare, but refuses to ask or receive it urless a like increase is granted to an- other street railway which does not need or ciaim to need it, is the oniy aolution of the problem to exact both increases from the car-using com- munity? If the facts suggest the pos- aibility of a just increase in the fare to be charged by one road, but negative » just increase in respect to the other, will the commission make itsell re- aponsible for both increases, the unjust ax well as the just? Or will the re- fusal of the road, which possibly de- nerves an increase, to mccept it unless the fare charged by the other road is increased equally be treated as a with- drawal of the petition for an increase since it has been loaded down by an uninst condition declared to be indis- pensable. When Mr. Hartman took office as & member of the Public Utilities Com- | mission, he suggested that a proper program of rerouting might accom- plish for the public much that would have been accomplished by & congres- sionally suthorized unification of the | transportation lines. This program might solve the problem now presented. But while the Public Utilities Com- mission has the authority to reroute, the immediate difficulty lies with the corporations’ right to protest changes affecting the use of thelr equipment, s long as they are organized as com- peting lines. The Public Utilities Commission wiil doubtless approach the problem with the thought that the public's right to | economical and efficient transportation | over the streels they own may be para- monnt to the necessity of giving a rela- tively few stockholders in the street ear lines what they construe as fair re- turn on money invested. Whether this attitude leads to revaluation or rerout- ing depends upon the commission, All the conditions point in the in- | terest of everybody to the necessity of ® just merger of the two systems, under the terms of which the car usets and the taxpayers, as well as the rallways, shall participate equitably in the bene- fts, —— An Historical Week. Unless all portents are deceplive, Anglo-American history will be made in Great Britain this week end. Gen. sor Castle this afternoon and tomorrow he will meet Premier Ramsay Mac- Donald in Scotland. The expectation of British ocom- mentation that epochal events are des- tined to flow from the Dawes ambassa- dorship is heartily shared in the Uniled States. In his maiden statement to the press at Southampton yesterday, Gen. Dawes confessed that he has “many faults,” and one of them should serve him well both at Forres, Scotiand, to- morrow and in London in the future. That is his habit of blunt speech. Anglo-American Telations lobg. since | smerged from the hands-scross-the-sea stage of mulual mush and have been | transferred to the plane of practical | politics. Gen. Dawes sensed that fact | and gave 1t sublle expression yesterday when he proclaim€d that he has “never been a diplomat.” The stalesmanship lof common sense, rather than the meaningless niceties of professional | diplomacy. is the requisite in the busi- | ness which John Bull and Uncle Sam | have to transact. Our picturesque en- | voy to Britain may be short on protocol | pleasantries, but he i not lacking in | those qualities which are assoclated with brass tacks. His countrymen are confident thal Gen. Dawes will get down to brass tacks in London with a mini- mum of delay. Naval Jimitation is the paramount Anglo-American issue. complex question. It involves much the graphic phrase coined by President Hoover at Arlington on Memorlal day. It comprehends in particular the con- | troversial problem of the “freedom of ihe seas.” Until the statesmen ‘of the two countries evolve & mutuslly satis- the rights of neutrals and belligerents at sea Anglo-American naval peace will remain & mere truce. Senator Borah, an earnest apostie of an understanding with the British, rightly regards & clea ing up of sea law as (he condition precedent. Happlly, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is fully alive to the imponderable in the situation. He, 100, like Gen. Dawes, is a practical idealist as such. The Labor premier is likely to approach matiers in the spirit in which, after all, they must be tackled by both sides, namely, in the conviction that the United States and the British Empirs are not going to war. Taking our mutuel stand on that bedrock, the rest should be easy. oo A Sporting Flight. For the eleventh time in the history of man an airplane has negotiated the North Atlantic. Yesterday the three gallant Fréenchman who took their lives in their hands for sportsmanship alone landed safely n Spain after a thirty- hour flight from Old Orchard, Me. ‘Their goal was Paris, but Jack of gas- oline, a strong head wind and the presence of & stowaway aboard forced them down on the rocky Spanish coast, Their achievement, however, loses none of its glory because they fell four hun- dred miles short of their destination. On the contrary, their non-stop flight of thirty-four hundred miles across the Atlantic Ocean 4n less than thirty hours will go down into history as a mag- nificent sporting feat. Since the tragic death of Nungesser and Coll every flying man of France has probably nursed a secret ambition to emulate the feat of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. Although fiyers realized that nothing further could be proved by over-water trips in land planes, except bat Nature when she is in an unsmiling mood, the pure sport of the venture was & decided lure. The French govern- ment, however, cognizant of the diffi- culties and harsards of such flights, has frowned consistently on airmen at- tempting the westward voyage. Armeno Lotti, jr.; Rene Lefevre and Jean As- solant were not discouraged by gov- ernmental disapproval. Lott, the back- er of the adventure and wealthy in his friends should be the first to fly the Atiantic in a French plane. ‘The next step was to order the ship for the undertaking and some months Bernard six-hundred-horsepower plane arrived in New York ready for the supreme thrill, Ground conditions, how- ever, forced them to change their base 10 Old Orchard, where the two miles of hard-packed sand offered an ideal natural runway for the six-ton ship. Thursday, after a long wait for good weather conditions, they disappeared over the horizon after a beautiful take- Off, and until yesterday afternoon, when they rolled slowly to & stop at the edge of the ocean which they had just crossed, headed steadily for their goal. As for the stowaway aboard, whose father jubilantly characterizes as a “hero,” and who himself admits that he cared nothing for the safety of the tune, he 18 simply another of the inconsiderate and dangerous smari- alecks which America dislikes to claim as her own. His additional weight in the finely balanced structure of plane was a menace Lo the szafety of | the take-off and his presence aboard | was, according to the aviators, the sole | reason for fajlure to reach their destina- tion. Naturally having gotten safely across in spite of the dire potentialities of his act the Frenchmen are jnchned | not to prosecute. That, however, is the | unfortunate part of the whole proceed- | ing. An example should be made of this young man which would effectively dis- courage others of his ik from at- tempting the same thing. Who knows | but that some of the transatiantic planes which tragically met their fate in midocean were not forced down to a watery grave by the additional weight of unexpected and undesired passengers? s It might be too much to request that the Japanese continue to send cherry ‘ll'een and keep their beetles at home, et e The Tariff Fight. Prospects for & “limited revision” of the tariff, urged upon Congress by the President, are looking up today. The House passed & 1ariff bill which in some Qquarters has been criticized n: going far bevond the recommendaiions of Mr. Hoover. The pessimists, particularly those who would Jike Lo see the Moover administration go on the rocks, imme- diately began to predict that the Senate would make the bill “much worse.” They It is a highly | more than any “yardstick of relativity” | in strength and number of shipe, to use | factory solution of their differences ou | possibly the impotency of man to com- | own right, decided that he and his | ago the three aviators with a gigantic | others, but was seeking fame and for- | the | self. That body, under the leadership of Senator Borah of Idaho, may put through & resolution directing that the Senate finance committee, in considering ihe tariff measure, confine itself entirely to the agricultural schedules. ‘This would be a drastic position, should the Senate take it golug beyond the recommendations of Lhe President, which calls for limited revision of the tariff, with care glven to Industries which have suffered in recent Yeara. ‘The President bad in mind, for example, the textlle judustries of New England Bul if the Senate confines the consider- ation of the tarlff measure to the agri- cultural schedules, and substitutes for the House bill an smendment to that effect, there is still the House to be con- sidered. ‘The result in all probability will be & compromise, with the bill final- Iy shaping ftself along the lines orig- inally recommended by the President. 1t 1s clear that the supporters of the Borah resolution desire a revision of the {ariff in the interests of the farmers of the country. Indeed, Senator Borah has repeatediy declared that more could | be done for the farmer through a re- vision of the tariff than could be done in any other form of legisiation. He hes said he regards the tariff revision a5 of supreme importance to the farmer. Under sugh circumstances it is not | Mkely that the Idaho Senator will wish | to see all tariff legisiation go by the board. ‘The House takes ils revenue- | raising duties seriousiy. It is not likely that the House, having prepared a tariff | measure after months of labor, will| vield gracefully to a proposal by the Senate to discard this bill entirely. On | the other hand, the House has reached | & compromise with the Semate on ali| \ariff bills which have arisen in the past. It is reasonable to expect that it | will agree to a compromise now after | the bill has been put through by the Senale and sent finally to conference, | The Borah proposal to Jimit the con- | sideration of tariff revision to the farm schedules voices & protest which has come from many of the farm States. This protest 15 to the effect that the Hawley bill passed by the House has ! gone beyond the original purpose of tarifl revision, announced by the Presi- dent, and has granted more protec- tion to the industries of the country than to agriculture. Some of the clos- est advisers of the President have, it is reported, advised him to velo the bill should it come to him in the shape )\ passed the House. The attitude of Senator Borah, expressed in the Sen- ate within & day or two, is that it | would be far better to have no tarif bill put through than to go ahead with | & general revision of the tariff along the lines lald down by the House | measure. The vote on the Borah resolution to limit consideration of the tariff meas- | ure lo the farm schedules is likely to | be close. Its supporters claim & ma- | jority for it. It was a foregone con- | clusion that tariff revision would bring | abomt the major fight in the present Congress, overshadowing even the farm Telief bill contest. But that is nothing | new in connection with tariff legisla- | tion, Some of the most memorable bat- tles ever staged in the Congress have been over tariff measures. The point that stands out today is that gradually the situation is shaping itself for a vic- | 1ory by the President in his desirs for a limited tariff revision. s Sl The graciousness with which William Howard Taft welcomes the attentions of the camera men is an assurance that | greatness does mot necessarlly put | | | man out of touch with human interest. .———— ‘The pernicious housefly would stand | |no chance whatever if a girl with a{ |y swatter could make as attractive a | picture as Miss Wills with a tennis | racket. The question of whether debentures | will bring luck to the farmer may yet | be taken from the statesmen and turned | | over to the fortune tellers. ot ‘Talking pictures are consolidating, In | addition to the talk from the screen, | there is evidently some pretty good | salesmanship. ) | SHOOTING STARS, l BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Speed. O Master of the Steering Gear, Yolir name commands & welcoming ear In honoring the present need Of Greater and More Glorious Specd! iWho cares, if your ambitious dash | May bring & Triumph or a Crash, | Ax you proceed, without & fear, | O Master of the Steering Gear! | The “Safety” motto is reversed. |'The watchword now is “Danger First” | On earth or in the atmosphere, O Master of the Steering Gear! | Fish, “Where are you going for the Sum- | | mer?” “Fishing," | ghum. “You are fond of fish?" “Very. Whichever way their luck | happens to go, they don't try to put up an argument. answered Semator Sor- Jud Tunkins says he never tries to be the life of a party. What's the use of trying to compete with & phonograph or a radio box? Needed Precept. ‘The Ten Commandments which were made To help life's moral struggle Neglected ofie which might bring aid Just now—Thou Shalt Not Smuggle. Mindfuiness. “A man should try to mind his own bustaess.” “Can’'t be done” said Mr. Dustin Stax. “After you have minded it for a little while, you will ind a chain stove promoter minding it better than you do, with & view fo taking it over.” “A man is careful to pick up the cop- per coin he drops,” said Hi Ho, the Sage of Chinatown, “and yel remain indifiei- ent 1o the loss of an houest friend.” Purchusing Power. A Dollar Bill theyll make Some smaller than of yore, Likewise the bread and steak Grow smaller than before. may have based their predictions on the Dawes, the new American Ambassador | fact that the Senate finance committee 1 folks of deir dut: mes, will present ' is filled With high-tarifft Republicans. =gineter be fas’ about s Die credential to King George at Wind- But they sounted without the Senate #t- alarm clock. to the Conrt of St. J “De man who & always remindin’ sald Uncle Eben, “is [popular as an - , | | | possible by the wisdom BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, Alexandre Dumas had a. friend who| had 40,000 books in his house. And | 40,000 is 40,000. | -He' kept them in every room, ou shelves reaching to the celling, but | several thousand were piled in heaps ! in the attic. | These latter comprised works not read, simply collected against the | rainy day which every booklover fears. | The collection grew and grew, until | flually the walls began to crack, as the | welght of unread books at the top in-| crensed dally. Fearing a total collapse, the owner | of the house occupled by the friend of M. Dumas ordered the upper story to be cleared. | Great mental anguish came then to the worthy book collector. | To part with his unread friends was unthinkable; yet the owner stood there | insisting. “My house will fall down,” he pointed out, | The logic of the siluation was 3o ir- resistible that there was nothing for the booklover to do but agree to get rid | of the unread books in the attic. L I B Dumas does not dwell on the anguish of his friend, when he thus was forced to part with his beloved books, but those of every race and clime who love | them need no elaboration. They know that the sight of those dear books being carired away was a sorrowful one for the old booklover, The situation was all the worse because they were books he had not yet read. Some might think he would have dreaded most a parting with his read books, but no, they were friends he could ‘easily part with, because he knew them and knew he would know them | when they mel again. With his unread books it was dif- ferent. He had been holding them on ice, us 1t were, against the time when he might enter fnto their hearts. Now he had lost them forever. He remembered that morning when he had found a certain tome In a little bookshop down a certain boulevard. ‘The foolish proprietor, not knowing Its real worth, had marked it “1 fr." but it was worth much more than that. It was not his business, however, to tell the worthy man. He must waich | out for himself. Such is the law of book buying. If one who sells books does not know, | for instance, that & genuine copy of | the first edition of Poe's “Tamerlane” is worth thousands of doliars, he sure- | ly will be the loser when a true book collector discovers it in & wind-blown stall (if he ever does). The friend of Dumas sorrowed over each one of his unread books, as they | were carted away from his home. Some- how he felt that life had cheated him, It would have done no good for any one to have reminded him that he had 30,000 books left. He wanted most the ones he had to give up. ko oA Those who have never engaged in the actual work of cataloguing or even counting a thousand books will not realize just how many‘books 40,000 is, It is a Jot of books. i Many homes today boast only {wo or | three hundred volumes, and the l:ome which has as many as 1,000 books is well stocked, indeed. The possessor of two, three or four thousand books has a large home library. When a book- lover gets in the 5000 class and up, he needs a speclal rocm, and a laige one, | in which to harbor his trensures Such home libraries, of whatever | the storms that blow. | happy hayen, where they will be treas- size, must, of necessity, contain many unread bodks. One becomes enamored, let us say, with the storles of Joseph | Conrad. Nothing but & complete set ! will do. Half way through ihe sheif, however, the reader comes on dull days. | ‘The pristine joy seems o drop out of | Conrad. It is not the authors fault por the readet’s. It is book fate. And it _makes no difference. There are as good books in that sea | as ever have been caught. The re- mainder of Conrad shall lie imprisoned, | caught forever between boards, walting for the reading hand. And it makes | little difference. after all, whether the | original purchaser reads them ¥l or not. As long as the books hang to- gether some one will read them. Happy is the booklover who can look forward to passing his books down | through the ages to other booklovers. Yet no man can be sure that his son will be a reader, too. He may love only | golf. Hear him saying, “Yes, my! father loved these books, but 1 haven’t | tme (o read them, and they take up | a lot of room. What do you say if 1| turn them over to the muctioneer?” | So _another home library comes on the market. Those who have (tended | such book sales know that at no sort | of suction is sorrow and happin more intertwined. There is alway: something sad in seeing home things | thus handled by strangers, but the sad- dest of all sights is that of a much be- loved book, perhaps interlined by some one who ‘prized it, falling into the hands of some one who lacks the ca- pacity for appreciation, L B B ‘The other side of the picture, upon Which one prefers to dwell, is that of the beloved book coming into the hands of another booklover, perhaps a young man with heart and mind afire with gTeatness. He longs to be great, but he does not exactly know how 1o sc- complish his greatness. Perhaps this old book will heip him! He carries it home tenderly, loving its faded leather cover, marveling at the fine texture of its pages after all these years. He notes the name written on ihe flyleaf, wonders who he might have been, knows that he must have been a man’a great deal like himself. He finds & bondgdown the centurles, | tying together man and man who never knew each other, but who recognize each ofher now between the covers of | the same book. This is the happlest fate that can be- fall any book, It is & passing of the torch from hand to hand. It is inspir- ing to think of those happy volumes which have been passing down from careful hand o careful hand through the years. What if the weather around the | counters exposed to the air darkens their covers, and spots them with the | rains of many lands? If they were good stout volumes to begin with, and were loved properly, they can face most of | Some one will surely comhe along the | pavement shortly who will recognize them and bear them away to another ured anew as long as life shail last. Such is the immortality of a good ! book. defying man and Nature alike, | and linking one generatioh of men and books with another. Styles and tastes | may change. Puritanism may give place to sophistication, “wisecracking” to seri- ous thought, but & good book goes on forever, finding its attics, its shelves, its place in the world, its knowing minds, its appreciative hearts, its tender hands. 'Reparations Agreement Hailed As Aiding World Co-oppration Promise of world co-operation for complete settlement of the chaotic con- | ditions growing out of the World War is seen by the American press in the set- tlement of the problem of German reparations. Universal pralse is given Owen D. Young for his leadership in bringing about the solution of what had seemed an imposisble problem. “We have at last escaped out of war- psychosis,” declares the New York Times. “The settlement is generally | halled as combining falrness to both | sides with practical common _sense. | Another way of putting it would be to say, in the familiar phrase, that here is ‘one more ‘madness’ of Versailles that has ylelded to the combined effects of sober second thought and experlence.” "It is safe to say that this plan, made and patience which Mr. Young maintained in the midst of desperate bargaining and bluffing,” in the opinion of the Balti- | more Sun, “offers every prospect of & | far hing blessing to the world * * * Germany al last knows the extent of the morigage placed on her by the war, | and it is not the killing figure talked | of a few years ago * * * The whole | world stands to gain from the stability cnvisaged in this settlement. Trade will expand everywhere, because of the new assurance of an ordered and ac- “For 10 years” according to the Columbus Ohlo State Journal, “good sense has been crowding passion and hatred out of the situation. More and more the world realizes that it is a sort of co-operative institution. * * * Owen D. Young has scored a great triumph in the face of almost in- superable difficulties,” The Utica Ob- server-Dispatch refers to reports of 4 of fatigue painted beneath the of Chairman Young during hi gallant fight of three months and 25 days.” and sadds, “Bul upon two con- tinents he has written his name among the great men of the time.” “At the happy ending of the con- | ference, which, in the opinion of able | observers, will' do more to consolidate the peace of Europe than anything which has happened since the close of the World War,” says the Atianta Jour- | nal, “one figure stands pre-eminent Owen D. Young. His was the gulding genius, it is commonly agreed, that led 1o ultimate concord through a long tangle of dispute which often seemed insurmountable. * % ¢ Time and again the conference trembled on the brink of fallure, but always the: tact, the justness, the sav- | | cepted status in Europe. ing good sense and good will of the | American chairman intervened for con- tinued effort and for eventual success.” “A spirit of satisfaction to which Mr. Young and his redoubtable opponent. Dr. Schacht, have each contributed in- dispensably,” is seen by the Hartford Times, while the S nton Times pre- dlets that “Mr., Young's nsme and fam will go down in history for the accom- plishments of the commission which he headed,” and that “his achlevements doubtless will result in new and greater honors.” The Salt Lake Deseret News pays a tribute to * capacity for internationsl financial thinking which should have won the admiration of the world.” “The neutral American representa- lives, masters of International finance | and exchange,” states the Chicago Daily News, “displayed firmness, tact and skill in surmounting obstacles, in in- ducing reciprocal concessions, and in separating issues purely financial and administrative from _questions wholly or partly political.” ‘The Portland Ore gonian comments, “Seltlement of her war accounts should give Germany her full influence in exercise of that free- dum that bas only graduslly been re- stored since the armistice.” “Europesn peace through co-opera- tion” is visloned by the Asheville Times The Little Rock Arkansas Democrat Dails the “real daylight of peace.” San_Francisco Chronicle declares: “To have the reparations problem settied at all is so vastly important that it tran- scends any. details of the settlement. The question was loaded with intern: tonal dynamite, political and eco- nomie.” ““The remarkable aconomie avstem of ! marks the Kansi |o | the Kaiser’s folly,” concludes, however, | their claims the allied governments re- and against obstacles | n industry and a | he | ficlency, since there is no longer fear of being penalized for efficlency,” re- City Journal-Post, and the Chattanooga Times avers that “the agreement will give Germany a chance to work out her own salvation | without interference.” “It puts the defeated nation on its wn responsibility as a sovereign state,” according to the Louisville Courfer- Journal, ‘which also points out that | “virtually all the war debts of Europe | and the cost of the devastation wrought, by the conflict are piled upon the de- feated country and full economic de- velopment is required.” Merit is found | by the Saginaw Daily News in the fact that “Germany is at least in that con- | dition of relief which is best described s knowing the worst.” ‘The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, con- ceding that “Germany must continue | to pay and pay ‘through the nose' for | that “the young republic has been | glven more time, a greater opportunity | to develop her foreign trade, and her burden is lessened.” | “The creditors,” in the judgment of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, “gain the advantage of a definite ar- | rangement running as long as allied | war debt payments are due, possibility | of immediate realization, through com- merclalization, of a considerable part | of future annuities, and release from the obligation to protect Germany's credit.” The Manchester Union finds the les- | son that “the nations had reached a | point common in transactions between | individuals in- which there was neither wisdom nor profit in sticking out for | the last dollar.” The New Orleans Times-Picayune concludes that “in re- | turn for the rigorous scaling down of ceive & reasonable assurance of actual— and punctual-—payments.” . ——— Remarkable Comeback | seems the fairly | the difference in | equall; | :eum i | off a | childhood. THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover That the fulility and sadness of Ruskin's life were ly the fault of his parents is the conclusion of Amabel Williams-Ellis in her intimate life of | Ruskin, “The Exquisite Tragedy.” The author seems at times to fear that she may be a trifle unfair to the parents, though she does not alter her general conviction. She says: “With Rose La “Touche driven mai by her parents and Ruskin by his, & truthful chronicle | seems to rock perilously near absurdity, | and biography to be in danger of be- | coming s treatise on the realations of | parents and children. However, the | story is true, and human beings in | general are mothing if not grotesque.” Rose La Touche was the young girl| whom Ruskin loved from her child- | hood and wished to marry when she | had reached the age of 18 and he was | 47. Her mother objected on what | rational ground of | their ages and on the sadditional ground of Ruskin's lack of religious faith. Amabel Williams- Ellis has little sympathy for the point of view of the mother: “Mr. and Mrs. | La Touche seem to have played either a foolish or a cruel part. For at this | juncture they stepped in, and with| the girl irresolute, tipped. the scale | against Ruszln—l man whom a hint | ould have discouraged a year or two, arlier. Was Mrs. La Touche really aimiessly blind and cruel, or had mert{ been for years a private and intimate | emotion behind her previous encourage- ment of Ruskin? And was there now. a private sentiment of surprise | and anger at his definite and formal | declaration of his love for her daugh- ter? * * *+ But there is evidence to the | effect_that it was jealousy that made Mrs, La Touche suddenly hostile, and that the weapon the parents used | against Ruskin with Rose was the ac- | cusation of his being an immoral | character.” Rase faded and finally | died, but whether the cause was | thwarted love for Ruskin or malnu- | | tritlon, or hereditary delicacy, or some other “obscure cause’ such as | all doctors are prone to fall back upox. | remains unproved. Ruskin from th time was subject to recurrent attacks of insanity, the cause for which also remains unproved. ! * x k% Whether Ruskin's mental instability | throughout life and especially in his Inter_years was i Jeast partly due to| Lis parents' dominaticn Is a aquestion | about which Amabel Williams-Ellis has no doubts. She holds them decidedly Tesponsible. An only child, born when his mother was 37, Ruskin was the sole object of their attention as long as they lived, and his mother lived to be 90. From the beginning his religious tralning was both intensive and in- tense, and duty to parents was its first tenet. “Indoors John Ruskin, aged 6, sits on a low stool with an open Bible on his knee and sees nothing but that and his mother’s wide maroon skirt. He is trying to concentrate on what she is reading. This is, in the first place, be- cause he is a dutiful little boy, and in | the second because he will have read the next verse and must come in the right time. The idea of not read- | ing the next verse has never yet entered | his head.” The child John was allowed no toys. except wooden blocks, and | even a delightful Punch and Judy, “all | dressed in scarlet and gold,” given him | by a sympathetic aunt, was taken away from him by his mother for some rea- | son of her own. Cake and other sweets | were also taboo, and it was a red letter | day when his ‘mother once gave him | three raisins from ‘he cuohcard. On | Summer holidays at the seashore he was not permitted to row, sail, swim, ! to go to the edge of the pond, nor in | the same fleld with the pony, mor {o| the harbor, where the shipping and old sailors’ fascinated nim. All his| precocity in_reading, writing and draw- ing were, however, encouraged. and his | parents were very proud of his verses | written at the age of 8. “They paid him a halfpenny a page for copying out | Pope's ‘Homer’ and a penny for every 20 lines of composition.” This strictly | supervised childhood was not aliogether and Ruskin in later ‘years ts blessings and miseries. ““Be- nning with the blessings, he puts | first, that he was tuaght the advan- | tages of peace in act, thought and| word: That he never heard an angry | voice, mever saw the least household discrder, anxiety, or even hurry. He counts as an advantage, too, that he never was aware of any financial trou- ble, because his father never spent more than half of his income. Again he counts it as a blessing that he learned obedience and faith, and obeyed | word or lifted finger of father or moth- | er as simply as a ship obeys her helm.” | The list of calamities which he sets inst the blessings includes the | fact that he had nothing to love and | the lack of any necessity for endur- ance. It was a too carefully sheltered, as well as a too carefully supervised | In 1833 the first of the many foreign tours of the Ruskin fam- ily took place. Ruskin was a boy of 14, and any boy of that age would, at Khlt‘ time, have considered himself rortunule‘ 0 cross the channel in a paddle steam- er and then to travel in s luxuriously equipped carriage, with a postilion, | from Calais to Parls, to Geneva and down into Italy. Doubtless Ruskin was | thrilled by the experience—that first time; but when the experlence was re- | pealed year after year, always in the company of his solicitous and exact- | ing parents, until he was over 40, it is rot surprising that he became melan- | choly as holiday time approached and held firm” only “by the invisible that bound the three together.” Once or twice he was permitted to leave the family party for a side trip of & few weeks, but the time of his teturn was fixed for him. The re- sponsibility for his unhappy marriage is also placed by this biographer upon his parents, rather unfairly it seems, | for the woman he first wished ‘o marry, Adele-Clotilde Domecq, preferred an- other man, and the wom: he actually married, Euphemia Gray, afterward Staged by Vaudeville | From the Louisville Courler-Journal, | Vaudeville, which years ago took the ! old-time variety show and popularized | it, is to divorce itself from the mot%n plctures, it is announced, in the big Boston theater bullt as s memorial to the man who made this form of enter- talnment what it is—B. F. Kelth. This is & bold step and interesting because | it was in Boston that Keith performed | his successful operation on vaudeville. | The present experiment, if it proves profitable, may be extended to other | theaters of the same ownership, it is | intimated. This change is only & phase | of the remarkable “comeback” staged the last lew by vaudeyille during paying months. Vaudeville was the best 'show business” until ‘The cinema branch of the the “movie” came along. piaces which have sprung up all over the country are convincing testimony of the film's success. Many vaudeville | houses were given over to pictures en- | tirely when the photodrama’s popularity attained its height. All the vaudeville theaters which continued to offer the “two-u-day” or “three-a-day” personal performances incorporated films in their offerings. Vaudeville drew public figures of all sorts into its theaters in order to keep up with film competition. But, notwithstending all_efforts, vaudeville seemed to be steadily slipping. The “talkies” administered another blow to the “vodvil” box office. And then some- thing happened. The minds that concelved and pul into execulion the union between radiv d vuudeville heiped one business and revived another. An sltogether new set of entertainers had come to the public’s attention by way of the microphone and | vecelving set. Millions of hightly listen- |ers heard these unseen musicians, | singers, monologists, comedians. When the radio stars came to the vaudeville stage and let “their public” see and hear them in person. the theaters could hardly hold the crowds and the box office tills were filled to_overflowing. Mrs. John ‘Everett Millais, was favored by his mother, because her son’s fre- quent affaive of the heart were so detri- mental to hi§ health and temper that she thought the sooner he married the better. Parents and unhappy love af- together with the inability to the world take his economic s serlously, turned kin's lifs into an “exquisite traged * K ok K In a mental autobjography of two volumes, “Upstream” ‘and “Mid-Chan- nel,” Dudwlg‘ Lewisohn relates himself 83 & Jew to his nation and to the social world. Zionism and the blending of Hellenism and Hebraism in modern life are two of Mr, Lewisohn's favorite theorles. To find & satisfactory culture, & reason for existence other than & purely material one, is the aim of his thought, which is sincere and wneon- vention: L B B A great find is reported In the dis- | coverv of a hitherto unknown work, | 50,000 words long, by Alexandre Dumas. | It appears that Dumas wrote an ac- count of his adveénturous Italian journey In 1860 and stowed the script away. Now it is announced for publication this Fall, It is certain to be vital and | amusing. The title will bo “On Board | the Emma,” and Dumas’ readers will {find him in a most hilarious and pic- | turesque mood. He tells of his ad- | ventures and misadventures with his yacht Emma at the time he bought her ! and just before he found himself par- | ticipating in Garibaldi’s struggle. The manuscript s reported to be entirely | in Dumas’ handwriting, most of it | beautifully legible, but some of it bear ing witness (o the fact that the author was on board a yachi pitching and tossing 1o & stormy sea. *oxox % Elinor Wylle, who died last Decem- ber, left & final volume of poems, “Angels and Earthly Creatures,” which was published posthumously. The enigmatic title was suggested by a passage from John Donne: “But, be- cause angels could not propagate, nor make more angeis, he enlarged his earthly love, in making man, so that Germany may now demonstrate its ef- | Vaudeville arems to be doing nicely. he might enjoy all natures at once, ‘pntem. in England?—E. E. M. | and fail! ANS WERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J, HASKIN. The answers to questions printed here | | each day are specimens picked from the | be mass of inquirles handled by our great information _bureau maintained in Washington, 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 coln or stamps for return_ postage, and address The Evening Star Informa- tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, di- rector, Washington, D. C. Q. How many stations broadcast the Universal Safety Series?—H. H. N. A. Thirty-four radio stations partici- pate in this safety education program. Q. How often does President Hoover 0ld public audiences?—L. G. A. He holds them on Wednesdays only, at 12:30 o'clock. Q. Can & person who is not an Amer- ican citizen join the Army?—W. G. A. One must be an American citizen before joining any division of the United States Army. Q. How many people are born each day and how many die?—A. P. A. It is estimated that in the world the births average 150,000 a day and the deaths 100,000 Q How does an American get & A. The British patent office will nof conduct business directly with an ap- plicant living in the United States, but conducts its business through a duly authorized agent in England. Applica- tions for_foreign patents are prepared here by United States practitioners and their agents abroad attend to the busi- ness there. All communications rela- tive to an application are between the British office and the agent abroad. Q. When is the Rose Tournament held in Pasadena?—R. S. A It is held on January 1. Thi mammoth display is months in prepa- ration. Last year there were more than 300 entries. Q. What qualifications are required of t | horses entering the Kentucky Derby? | | Can horses be entered before birth?— | O. R. H. A. Entries for the Kentucky Derby us! An three-year-old thoroughbred is eligible. ‘There are some stakes where a mare is entered before birth of the foal, but| that is not true of the Kentucky Derby. Q. Is Babe Ruth more of an asset to his team 8s & batter than he was as a pitcher?—G. 8. A. He was a very good pitcher and is an excellent batter. As a batter he can play every day, which is an advantage to his team. Q. Since ‘an” is used before words with vowels, why lsn't it used union” and “one”?—T. M. A. These are exceptions. Long ‘u” is preceded by and so is & word that has the unusual sound of “o,” as in the word “one.” . Q. Is there a colored man in Con- gress?—H. R A. There is a colored Representative in Congress, Oscar De Priest of Illino He represents the district formerly rep- | resented by Martin B. Madden of Chi- | cago. beginn! fore | @ What are preference D.D.S. A. The term is used in England 2= the equivalent of the American | terred stock. These rank ahead of the ordinary shares, besides very often be- ing entitled to a cumulative dividend. Q. What can be done to prevent poi- soning from contact with poison ivy sharez™-— A. The condition is now treated in the same way that hay fever iz com bated—that is, by injecting into the sufferer minute quantities of extract of the very poison which causes the dis- tress. This has been found effective both as a preventive measure and os a method of treatment. An injection of the poison ivy antigen, which is an | extract made up of poison ivy leaves, acts in the same manner as a vaccine. It usually requires about three injec- tions into muscular tissue for the cure of a case. Within 24 hours after the injection the itching ceases and the ir- ritation begins to . disappear. This treatment immunizes the patient against an attack of poison ivy for about two months. However, the patient is again | susceptible the following season. It also is possible before the season be- gins to give one injection of polson ivy antigen and thus afford immunity | from the affection for three or four months, Q. What is the highest score of thres straight games in bowling?—R. P. A. The highest individual average in | three games in the International Bowl- | ing Tournament was 266 by W. Vols in Chicago in 1924, Q. Why are all the tents on the lawn of the Department of ~Agriculture?— P AT A. The tents are to be used by the 1 boys and girls of the 4-H Club, who will arrive shortly for their third encamp- ment, which will be held June 19 to 25. About 250 members are expected, and the registration includes 42 States and Hawail. Two boys and two girls | are chosen from each State and Hawalii, and are selected because of their ex- cellence in some certain phase of agri- culture activity, their marked leader- ship among younger boys and girls in | the organization, their organizing abil- |ity and their general high mental and | physical standards. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. The government of France announces as its policy that when the surviving marshals of the army die, the rank will be suppressed—no new marshals will be appointed. This raises the question as to what qualities have marked the present marshals of that country—or of any country—which have given them such superior place that no successor may aspire to it. Are those pre-eminent qualities of use only in time of war, or may they also function to advantage in the conflicts of peace? For peace has its struggles no less renowned than war. If the young man without fortune or influence to back him in achieving suc- cess, could know the secret of winning batties, would that secret ald his own campaign against difficulties? * ¥ ¥ ¥ It would be impossible, ;within the | kept his eyes sol limits of #pade and' time.whish ;':;"'nmv,""“"»"- A year this column, to undertake i however superficially, the caréers of the famous marshals of France, and, even if that were possible, it might fail to illumine the very point which is sought. But, perchance, if each marshal is found to manifest one trait of character llke all the others, we might decide that that common trait is of special significance. o lived, For example, there a few centurles ago, Marshal Turenne, who fail to prepare for war. was very successful in nearly all of his battles, yet he never forgot that defeat lay just ahead.of him—if he blundered or hesitated. Consequently, he never faced a battle with indifference or over- | confidence. A day came when, with his army, he was confronted by a superior force. He knew the danger, and, being human, he realized the necessity of bravery and calmness. Yet his knees were shaking. He rebuked himself: “Thou tremblest, Carcass? If thou knewest whither I shall lead thee, presently, thou mightest well tremble! So he gave the command to his army and led the charge—to victory. The old-time writer of stories with | a “moral” would a: How many business men find them~ lves trembiing on the eve of a new venture, so that they hesitate—bungle How many youths look at the tasks and handicaps—instead of at their own hearts—and give up before. the battle is even begun! If ‘Dad’, does not bring up_his reserves before the charge, how can such feeble folks win anything in life> Yet no battle was | ever fought by reserves in advance of the ‘shock troops.” Self-reliance and courage to take chances and fight for victory are the ‘shock troops.” " Marshals Foch, Joffre, Petain, Lyau- tey, Fayolle and Franchet d'Esperey. had different ideas of tactics than to | use the reserves before the battle called for them. All of those marshals recog- nized that battles were won by the nearts of courage. B3 g One of the most famous crises of the World War was described in an official dispatch from Gen. Foch (later supreme marshal of ail the armies of the allied and associated nations), and it is a key- note of his character. "It was while he | held one of the most cruclal sectors in the PFirst Battle of the Marne that he | reported: “Pressed strongly on my ‘right: my center in retreat: impossible for me to | move; situation excellent; I attack.” Try that sort of situation on a young man starting in business. Note whether, when his plans are going wholly awry, he rises in joy, crying: “Situation excel- lent; now I'll win, for I'll fight all the harder!” * oo X Here is the comment on that Foch report made by one of his blographers, Commandant A. Grasset: “Bombast? No, certainly not! For with the telephone at his ears, while chewing a cigar, the Teports of the alarmists coming to him’ from all sides, he followed in his thoughts the prog- ress of the offensive of MauRoury on the Ourcq and that of Franchet d'Esperey on the Litdle Morin. He must hold, hold at any price, for victory goes to those who merit it’ by the greatest power of will. And the more feeble one is, the more one must attack. To those troops which bore the ‘fllusion of fatigue,’ he gave-the order to attack in advance. Bupported by the army of d’Esperey, the 42d Division gained ground. Elsewhere, they did not ad- vance, but the astonished enemy halted, and the essential positions were held till night.” This incident, which turned the bal tle, was not accidental nor was it bluf and have the nature of angels and the nature of earthly creatures, in one per- son.” * Kk ok K A woman once had the impertinence | to ask Lytton Strachey, the author of | “Elizabeth and Essex,” if, when in bed, | he slept with his beard under or above the sheet. The reply was, according to Sewell Sgokes in his book “Pilloried,” “Come “ggd. seel” . |it was typical of Marshal Foch's whole concept of the difference between suc- cess and failure, and it holds the | secret. of success or failure in peace as | well as in war, as demonstrated daily | by youth who dares overcome all handi- | caps and charge into victory—in school, | college or business. | ok ok | Another key was turned which shov- ed why some men succeed. It was when Gen. Joffre recelved a military medal and was \being congratulated on the honor by Yome friends. “Thisis nothing,” he “Everything Is nothing save The oniy thing that counts is the | success. So many folks are easily diverted by | the inconsequential; the man who wrn | battles and beca marshal of Frencs his objective— he outbreak of | the World War he, Who was noted for | his silence, like Gen. Grant. did moke |a speech before the former pupils of {the "Armiy School, the ‘Polytechnic, in which he said: | " *we ‘must be prepared. With the | means of fighting the world possesses | at present, with whole nations en- | gaged in a mortal combat, disaster is | certain for those who in time of peace ‘To be ready | means, today, to have mustered. in ad~ | vance,“all the resources of the country, |all the intelligence of its children, ali their moral energy for the purpose of attaining but this one aim—victory. | “Getting ready is & duty that devolves | not only upon the Army, but upon all | public_ofcials, upon all organizations, upon all societies, upon all families, upon all citizens. ' Each and all must | take part in preparing for national de- | fense. No individual or collective act* |18 without importance. This defense | grows stronger through the invention |of a genius as much as through the | efforts of a simple laborer, and every | failure to co-operate makes it weaker in_the same ratio.” Those words, spoken a vear before the | war came, sound mightily like words of warning we hear even today: “Be pre- pared for defense.” | Five years later—in the Winter of |1917-18—he led in the appeal that .| Foch should take supreme command, and save the war from defeat of. the allies, and on July 14, 1919, the grati- | fude of France was united in the same | apotheosis for the two chiefs of the | great war, apd .Marshals Foch and | Joffre passed side by side under the | Triumphal Arch of Paris. Too great | for jealousy! Both absorbed in patriot- |ism! They kept their eves on victory, * X *x % Marshal Foch held that success in war depended upon discipline in its broadest. sense—not merely discipline toward superiors but as concerned one's own passions and ignorance, to the end that self-possession was never lost in the presence of crisis. and judgment was based upon calm intelligence. But | more important than either discipline | or intelligence is-the will to face and overcome_the: “impossible.” When Marshal Foch sent his famous dispatch to his then commanding qffi- cer, Gen. Joffre, at the First Battle of | the Marne, he 'was defending Joffre's | center against the invincible Prussian % | guards. Tt was the crucial and most | dangerous point on the front, and the Prussians charged victoriously and eut through Foch's center: then, sure of vie- ory, they began celebrating their suc- cess. Foch was driven back to the | Aube beyond which Joffre had ordered | that no retreat should be permitted | but that every man should die rather | than retreat. " To quote a French h torian: _“Foch gave the order to ai- | tacke ‘Everything that he cared for in this world was at stake. This desperate maneuver would save it all or it wonld not. He gave the order to attack—ancd then he ‘went for a walk on the skirts of the little village of Plancy His ‘companion Wwas one of his staf officers, Licut. Ferasson of the artillery; and as they walked they discussed met- allurgy and economic * * * Toward 6 oclock on that evening the Germans, celebrating thelr certain victory, sas themselves confronted with a ‘ne rench army pouring into th had. thought their foad to P, Y “The Forty-second Division (more than half desri of fatigue, but their eves blazing with such immensity and intensity of purpose it has been said that the Germans fled, as before spirits, when they saw these men) had not only blocked the roundabout road to Paris; they had broken the morale of Von Buelow's crack {roops. Without this brilliant maneuver and superb execution the successes of all the other armies | must have gone for naught.” Are there no crises in ordin that can be met only by the ul:rflyf )t.'l:: “impossible forces,” exactly as PFoch won that First Battle of the Marne? That was “genfus,” but so always is unusual victory over the “imposaible,” in peace as well as In war. The d termination to win! 5 +(Covyrisht, 1925, by Paul V. Coltns