Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1929, Page 4

3 THE -EVENING STAR h Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.....August 31, 1929 'THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Ofce: 11th St. and Pennsyivania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St Chicagn Office: Lake Michigan Buildine. i European Office; 14 Regent St.. London, Ensland, Rate by Carrier Within the City. ?e Evening Star. 45c per month he Evening and Si r 4 Sundays) .60c per month r r month inday Sta 85¢ pe: 8¢ Ordars mav be sent in by mail or telephone #.tional 5020, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Dailv only . Sunday only All Other Sta Daily rnd Sun 1 Datly enly Sundas only i 1 mo.. 40c tes la! ‘anada. Member of the Associated Press. ‘The Associated Press is exclusi published herein. All rights of publication of srecial dispatches herein are also reserved. e In Blue Ridge Hollows. The depths of ignorance and squalor +found in isolated clusters of mud- Plastered log cabins in the Blue Ridge Mountains within one hundred miles of Washington hardly can be exag- gerated. Tt is by no means a pleasant picture of contemporary America—this glimpse of a peopls dropped by advancing eivil- ization on the wayside somewhere in the eighteenth century. The basic fault lies in the character of the people themsclves. Granted that they have been cut off from cul- tural influences, that they have lacked schools and churches, and that there have been few sources of revenue; still yoverty and illiteracy need not be ac- companied by such living conditions. No degree of poverty could excuse the utter inadequacy of the living quarters for euch large families with ten or twelve in a single room barely large enough to contain a stove and bed. They have axes. The mountain sides 'are covered with logs. The rankest ‘amateurs, cast away on a forested island, could provide themselves better homes in a few days. tain people certainly are not pressed for time. Poverty hardly explains why there are communities without hogs or chickens, which might forage for themselves in the hollows, for there cer- {ainly is no density of population which would make this objectionable. And the ignorance seems often to extend far below the level of iliteracy. There are thousands the world over to whom the printed page is a blank, but who read with uncanny skill the pages of nature with its letters of sight, sound and odor. But the beautiful, varied and exceedingly interesting nature of the mountainside, with its oceans of cloud washing the crags, has not been a echool to these primitives, The senses of the children, according to those who have tried to teach them, are dull be- cause the sense areas of the brain have not been developed due to lack of And these moun- | of mankind in general would give them the volce of authority? The customs service, as admirable an organization as it may be, was never intended to se-' lect books for gentle readers. Its per- sonnel, able as it may be In the art of finding hidden diamonds or smelling rum 1n the steamer trunks of home- coming travelers, was not brought up, s0 to speak, to ‘judg: literature. Why not turn the job of censoring literature over to a regularly constituted board composed of, say, the presidents of our leading universities? There would, of course, be no unanimity of opinion con- cerning the wisdom of their choice in books, or whether they should have de- leted a paragrap on Page 24 and left standing a scntence on Page 26. For that is charactefistic of censorship in general. There is no such thing as| unanimity of opinion concerning taste. | But if there cannot be, it would be much better to have our college presi- dents holding the bag than to have our |customs service ridiculed for being prudishly overzealous. * emee Pointing With Alarm. Some men point with alarm as | naturally, and apparently without ef- | fort, as others point with pride. Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska belongs to the first group. Called upon to de- liver an address at the unveiling of a statue of Abraham Lincoln at Free- port, I, on the seventy-first anni- versary of the great debate between Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, Mr. Norris plctured the people in the grip of economic slavery. “Economic slavery is as great an in- justice and as cruel as any political slav- e the Nebraska Senator asserted. | | He visualized great combinations of | { wealth enslaving the American people. | He urged steps be taken to prevent | fugther development of these combina- I tions £nd to rescue the people from a fate which, in his opinion, hangs over |them. Among the remedics he pro- posed were a progressive inheritance | | tax, breaking up huge fortunes, taking | the profit out of war by having the Government, go into the shipbuilding business and the manufacture of all | kinds of war munitions; the abolish- iment of the use of the injunction in ! 1abor disputes; the abolition of life ten- | ure of Federal judgeships and the ap- { pointment of judges for fixed terms; the | abolition of the electoral college. There | is nothing particularly new in the sug- | gestions made by Mr. Norris. They ! have been advocated by himself and by others on numerous occasions. They |are, it is true, somewhat inconsistent. | For example, he proposes that the | Government. go into the business of shipbuilding and the business of making lall war munitions while at the same [time he would have the Government | step aside and ‘he workers and the plant owners fight it out in iIndustrial | disputes. These suggestions, however, are both apparently aimed at private | manufacturers. | Mr. Norris declares wealth and com- binations of wealth control ‘the Gov- | ernment. The greatest of these com- | binations, he says, is the waterpower | trust. No sane person wishes to see the people enslaved, economically or other- | wise. No one, except the most selfish and most tyrannical, desires to see all | wealth combined in the hands of a stimuli. It hardly is lack of innate in- | Aelligence, because both children and ;XT‘;"!I:;:,‘;" ::u;:'"l-w i Aosroup el adults develop rapidly with instruction. i coldly despotic as a lm‘omm;m oy And there is a striking contrast be- | whose hands has been placed the b tween those familics which have held o' am oot 8 B B o and their heads up and which still fieht the | qeath in this age. One of the mistakes degenerating effects of the environ- | ¢ men who, like Senator Norris, see ment and those which have relapsed | the dangers growing out of the enrich- N into aimless drifting with forgotten | vesterdays and with no thought of to- morrows. Before there car be much real improvement the people must . be rescued from this drift—this vicious of malnutrition with loss of . generating in turn more mal- nuirition and more loss of energy. So- cial workers are agreed that the pri- mary problem is one of medical treat-| ment and sanitation which must be established as a basis for education, It certainly is not a problem which can be solved by undirected charity. ‘This only would ruin what little in- itiative still remains to these people. Any relief must come from a scientific- ally directed program which uncovers | and remedies fundamental causes. Meantime the mountain hollows are interesting laboratories of sociology. ! psychology and ethnology. The sociologist tan find little com- munities where the social structure has | broken down almost entirely. The ethnologist can find splendid material for the study of the progress effects of | heredity and environment on the hu- ' man mind and character. And- the ethnologist will find a people still pre- gerving remnants of the English of | Shakespeare’s day. et The performance of the Graf Zeppe- Jin is rendered more brilllant by mani- fest readiness to take an encore on short notice. ) Authoritative Censorship. Recent court decisions have over- ruled the customs service in ity judg- ment of books that are fit to read and after an extraordinary amount. of pub- licity the books, once suppressed, are released, with the result that those of questionably proper content are sought after by large numbers of readers who otherwise might never have known of their existence. The decisions of the courts are encouraging, in that they demonstrate the fact that the customs service does not hold the final word of authority on what we should and what we should not be allowed to read. But they are discouraging, in that they in- dicate again the dangerous hazards of censorship. All that a foreign author must do now to assure him the success attending a large sale'is to get his book denied admittance to this country by the customs service—then appeal the case to a higher and perhaps more broadminded authority. The Senate finance committee has retained in the pending tariff bill the House provision giving the customs service censorship authority over books | that might tend to incite violence against out constituted Government and Government officials, 1f the House and Senate agree, the customs service will have an added responsibility, for it must not only protect our morals, but ment of a few individuals is found in | their demand that there be placed in !4ne hands of the Government, ostensibly | the Federal Government, the tremen- | dous powers of control over all kinds of human activities. Abraham Lincoln, who debated with Douglas more than threescore ‘and ten years ago at Freeport, was & man of singular balance. He championed free- dom and opposed slavery. He found an intolerable condition in this country. In the end he overcame it. Senator Norris finds the people in the grip of | an economic slavery. Millions of Amer- icans doubtless would disagree with him. As an antidote, the Senator from Ne- braska would have the Government in large measure control everything. When it does, then indeed the American peo- ple will achieve a condition of slavery— a condition which they will have im- posed upon themselves, provided, of course, they do so. —_— raee———— Snowden is applauded. The Britich people do not care so much for the money as for the principle involved. v Pictures have learned to talk. They still depend on the old author for something worth while saying. — e Speeding in Emergency. If a man is on his way to a hospital or bent on some other mission requir- ing emergent speed and disregard of the traffic regulations, the natural im- pulse of any policeman who sees him is to stop and question him. Sometimes the delay caused by the policeman'’s action is fatal. There are conceivable circumstances where the loss of a few minutes: might mean the loss of a life. And when this is the case the policeman }is blamed and generally denounced as a man lacking the ordinary common sense and judgment requisite in a police of- ficer. ‘This denunciation is not always fair. The officer is justified in stopping a speeding automobile. The test of his Jjudgment comes in what he does after- ward. A second or so should serve to apprise an officer of the situation. If there is an emergency. he should wave the motorist on, preceding him on his mctor cycle and soumding his siren in| warning to clear traffic ahead. On the other hand, there are re- sponsibilities resting on the motorist which cannot be escaped, no matter how grave the emergency. There have been cases when the police, pursuing a speed- ing car, had every reason to believe that the speeder was trying to escape. Their suspicions naturally made them over- sealous. In the majority of cases the motorist should have no great difficulty. in communicating to a pursuing poiice- ! man, by signs and gestures or slowing ! down his machine, the fact that he meet. The resulting procedure is gov- erned by circumstance, and its success depends upon discretion and judgmaent. No emergency absolves a motorist who blindly and foolishly ignores every pre- caution for safety and does his best to race a pursuing policeman. His chief objective may be the hospital, but his second should be to secure the assist- ance of a policeman. The caseeof an officer who fails to use his wits and his authority to help a citizen in trouble, no matter how many broken traffic regulations are involved, should receive ‘he immediate attention of his superiors. He is unfit to be on the force. oo Right. In refusing large sums of money from admirers and a motion picture organiza- tion, Bobbie Jones, national amateur golf champion, has given another {llus- tration of that sterling sportsmanship which is his. To Jones the word “amateur” means something. It means what it means all the way through. He knows that his ability to command $50,000 for two weeks' work in a “talkie” is based prin- cipally on his success. And his success is that of an amateur sportsman, a man who plays for the love of the game. This attitude is essentially that of the American spirit at its best. ‘The professional athlete fills one niche in the hall of athletic fame, the ama- teur another, and there is little ques- tion ‘which one the great mass of the people prefer, in their heart of hearts. ‘The picturesque Bobby also is right in refusing the splendid home offered to him by his admirers. His common sense enabled him to realize that he would be happler in & home of his own bought with his own earnings as a member of the legal profession, Sometimes there is a tendency for some (o believe that the great amateur sportsmen spend too much time and thought on their games, but such ey amples as that of Jones show beyond any doubt at all that “amateur” means |not. only something admirable in the world of sport, but a spirited, inde- pendent attitude toward all the affairs of life, R “The Wailing Wall” of Jerusalem be- comes a point of bitter contention. The pride of the moment can be disposed of by fashion experts. The pride of an- cestral tradition can never be affronted without danger. R, Horses still have the affection of Wales, although no stalwart American has the temerity to pick a rkittish mount and say “ride 'im Prince!" ———e— Eckener has become the hero of the dirigible, as Lindbergh was the hero of the airplane, As was remarked be- fore, there is glory enough to go 'round. —————— After manufacturing abroad for awhile, Henry Ford may discover the American drivers are by no means the most reckless in the world. e e— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Brain and Machine. The birds still sing In tones polite That everything Will come out right. The air boats fling Songs in their flight— And everything Will come out right. The brain can bring A share of might— And everything Will come out right. Giving the Public What Tt Wants. “Didn’t you say you were a wet?" “Possibly,” answered Senator Sor- ghum, “My sentiments on that subject naturally depend on the audience I happened to be addressing.” Jud Tunkins says a man goes fishing and is envied not because of what he catches, maybe, but because he was able to knock off work. Master's Voice. ‘The simpler nation comes in sight, Confused, regarding gain or loss. And when it says it wants a fight. It shows obedience to a boss. \ Voice of Wisdom. “Your father said he would like me for a son-in-law.” “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne. “But father is full of old-fashioned sentiment and often shows exceedingly poot busi- ness judgment.” “We learn much wisdom from the past,” said Hi Ho, the sage of China- town, “but never know how to apply it to"the future.” ¥ Relief. The farmer says he wants relief PFrom an acute position. We also hear in tones of grief, “So does the politician!™ “I reads my Bible,” said Uncle Eben, “but I tries not to spoil de comfort by » lettin’ it get me into an argumen! —r—t—————— There May Be Retractions. *rom the San Bernardino Daily Sun. If the proposed bill to censor false advertising goes through the Con- gressional Record will be the first pub- lication to suffer. - A Doubtful Bargain. FProm the Detroit News. The town crab’s notion of a doubt- ful bargain is to pay the price of one admission to see the home team dre hoth ends of & double-header. Oklahoma’s Counter Offer. From the Detroit News. “Texas claims 45 square miles of land now included in Oklahoma.” We un- derstand Oklahoma has made a coun- ter offer of a surplus governor. ] Geography and Peace. From the San Prancisco Chronicle. One objection to peace and freedom from disaster is that we get behind with our gevgraphy. e Picnic Farm Relief. From the Albany Evenirg News. Another form of farm relief would be for picnic parties to pick up the litter our political philosophies as well from [ knows he is followed and nceds the | they leave on the farmer’s land. onslaughts by the pens of foreigners, But having .decided upon policy of censorship over books and printed mat- ter from abroad, why does not Congress £o the whole cloth and appoint a Board Censorship, consisting of policeman’s help. That done, the wise policeman will act first in helping him reach his destination and do the neces- sary questioning afterward. No rile or law can cover the emer- ywhose gency, requiring speed and disregard of ' gnatches in his theater S An 0ld Use for Movies. ®rom the Springfleld, Oho, News-Sun. ‘That London theatrical who says the only sleep he what : of his p .| Elia Capitolinea, alias “Jerusalem’ THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E, TRACEWELL, One keeps on reading some novels Just because they are stories, and others you read because you forget all about their being novels. ‘The life inherent in the work of the master novelist is its greatest quality. Litsrary merit, style, plot—these are as nothing compared with the supreme quality of genuine intercst. This is the sure key to the difference between truly great works of fiction and those of lesser rank. In a day and age such as the present, when almost every one writes, some discrimination becomes necessary if one would not spend too much of his time in reading. And no one, not even the booklover, should give too many of his preclous hours of life to the vicarious living w be found in works of fiction. Always the plain, matter-of-fact men and women have found fault with the novel reader, sometimes with more than a little truth in their carping. In the period now generally known as the “gay '90s,” the reading of novels, an especially of French novels, was widely frowned on. In many a village a good housewife, mother of many children, was regarded askance because she spent too much of her time—too much to suit some people —curled up on the sofa in the parlor “a-readin’ them scand'lous French novels.” ‘The terrible French works of fiction might have been nothing worse—or better—than Alexandre Dumas’ mag- netic tales of plausible-improbable ad- venture, but it made little difference in the eyes of the good people of the town Honest, God-fearing folk never paused to discriminate. A novel was a novel, and a Prench novel was the very work of the devil. “Mme. Bovary” was not the work of a human being, but an ex- periment in words by the master of all evil. * ok ok X The novel which carries the reader on despite himself. which compels him to read whether he would or not, is the only novel worth reading, after all The difficulty is in recognizing these | genuine masterpieces from the rank and file. The latter may be most worthy, s0 well written that it is almost impos- sible, even for the critic, to tell wherein | they' fail. | Mavbe from the viewpoint of the publisher they do not fail at all, but | bring in a triumphant return of gold to | all_concerned. Some of these second | and third class storfes rank high in| popular favor. No one can determine exactly how | the masterpiece differs from the near- | masterpiece, or even from the near- | near-masterpiece, but that it does differ, | and mightily, there is not the slightest question. Words are words, and their mar- shaling in paragraphs and chapters to | make up what the world has come to look upon as a novel is very much alike | in every case. Unusual groupings, such | as two or three chapters only to a | | 600-page story, cannot change the aspects of the case. . These skeletons of fiction are me- | ¢hanieal and make little difference. | They constitute that part of the story | which may be “analyzed” by the pro fessors in" the schools, but they have | little, it anything, to do with the real | The master writer could have turned the trick just as easily had he adopted who sit in the chairs before the ex-| | gl be so weigh | Wescott, ¥ pounder of wisdom, making notes for their enlightenment on the ways of au- thorship, will realize after-a while that all this has little to do. with writing. It is the spirit which counts here, as elsewhere. . * ok Kow ‘We have just- been reading *“The World's Delight,” by Fulton Oursler, recently pyblished by Harper & Bros. It is a story of Adah Isaacs Menken. who was born- Dolores MoCord, a real woman who specialized in captivating the men, among. her conquests being Swinburne, the English poet, and Alex- andre Dumas, the French romanticist. It is a good story, it moves right along, but one is scarcely ever ugaware of the fact that he is reading & nar- rative. Not once is he—at least not this reader—ever lifted from this hum- drum world into the wild, free spaces of the genuine great work of fiction. Perhaps Mr. Oursler, in choosing to write a novel about a real woman, has been unable to escape something, the effects of reality, which calls a reader back to earth time and time again. Whatever may be the difficulty, he has not created a tale moving enough to make the reader forget he is read- ing. The peerless Adah, he tells us, was never happy except when studying, but somehow he fails to show us such a girl. He tries to make her live again by telling about her, but he does not succeed in making her really live be- fore us. Yet, this is what Julian Green did with his heroine in “The Closed Gar- den.” published last Summer, and which we haven't the slightest doubt he does in his new book, “The Dark Journey,” just issued by Harper & Bros, ¥ i It might seem presumptuous, as well extremely risky, to review a novel before one has read it, yet any one who has gone through “The Closed Garden" with bated breath, as they say, will know that it would not be particularly hazardous to class “The Dark Journey” a superior novel The fact that it has been chosen a: the Harper prize novel for 1929-30 will with those who read the other story as the fact that he wrote that terrific, moving novel of what goes on behind the walls of those old French houses. His predecessors in winning the Har- per prize, Margaret Wilson, with “The Able McLaughlins”: Anne Parish, with “The Perennial Bachelor,” and Glenway with “The Grandmothers,” achieved more popularity but no more real distinction ,than Green with his “The Closed Garden.” The power of genuine narration is still, after all these centurles, a strange, compelling qualit into the millio po: of copies and not reception. The quality of interest, coming in a | way not to be analyzed, outshines more sophisticated. more complicated quali- ties possessed by many writers in this all-writing age. This quality lifts the reader out of the novel into a new world, and keeps him there until the |last word, and then keeps a memorial fresh in his mind and heart forever. This is the supreme power of a good novel. and sometimes we think it out- ighs all other qualities whatsoever. without it, even the most marvelous | an entirely different sort of chaptering | material does not move, but with it a | NOrth—through Troy, | and general make-up. The bright boys, | mere nothing may become a divine | something. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS “BY PAUL V. “And when He was come near, He beheld the city and wept over it. | “For the days shall come upon thee, | that thine enemies shall cast a trench | the “virtuous Christian,” but while the | Kecne Valley to the North Elba home. | about thee: and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side. | And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee: | Tyre, which remained under Christian story. and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another.” Those words of lament and prophecy | was in Moslem hands, except for a | abolitionist friend to attend the funcral ars | brief but bloody invasion of Tartars,,of John Brown. were spoken by Jesus about 40 before Jerusalem was conquered and lald waste by the Roman, Titus (70 | with his British army, conquered it (DY an old scow ferry, at the end of there was | from Turkey and then Lord Balfour | @ northeast storm. and by relays of AD). After Titus’ victory, then no longer any city there, where | Solomon's,Temple had been one of the | Seven Wonders of the World, and the “Chosen People” had thought to exceed | the glory of any other race. | Already, the Jews had been subject | to Rome, under Herod the Great, who lost Jerusalem through revolt, then re- captured it, and in his pride had sought to ingratiate himself in the favor of the | inhabitants by erecting a temple to re- | place that of Zerubabel, five centuries old. The Jerusalem of Herod was the most magnificent that the city had ever been in all its history. Yet, 40 years later, it wholly disappeared, and | for two generations thereafter, its ruin- | ed site bore not a vestige of its glory, | but was only a Roman camp—not even | “one stone upon another.” Then, in 135 A.D., the Romans built a new city, where Jerusalem had been, | and named it Ella Capitolinea, and all Jews were forbidden to enter it. The Jews were scattered over the face of the earth; nor have they ever since possessed a country they could call their | SWh. o | * k% For 479 years after the building of | Elia Capitolinea there was Roman peace in Palestine, and Christians from | all parts of the world made pilgrimages | to the land that, to them, as well as to the Jews, was “Holy Land.” That is longer period than from today back to pre-Columbian days. Within that period of peace in Palestine the Roman Empire split, and Palestine passed in 395 A.D. to the Eastern Empire, other- wise known as the Greek Empire, with its_seat of power in Constantinople. Then in 614 A.D. the Persians, under Chosros II, captured Elia Capitolinea, and murdered -all its inhabitants, in- cluding the Christians; there were no Jews therein. War continued between the Greeks and Persians, until King Chosros was captured and executed by the victorious Greeks. * ok kK Five years before that Greek victory, a new power had come upon earth; Mo- hammed had fled to Medina, and that hegira marks the beginning of the Mos- lem era. Soon the Greeks faced the Moslems and in 634 A.D. lost Palestine to them, after a four-month si e‘ of '—for, after the fall of Rome, the Holy City had regained its old name, though none of its architectural glory nor political prestige. In that surrender to the Moslems, the Christians were permitted security in person and property, and for the next 378 years—a lapse of years almost long enough to carry us back to the landing of our Pilgrims upon Plymouth Rock— at least back to 1650—Jerusalem was peace, even under Moslem rule, and Christians were safe, with freedom to worship, until the Mad Caliph Hakim, like a veritable Bol¢hevik, ordered the destruction of all churches in his do- minjon, which, of course, included the Christian churches of Jerusalem. There were still no Jews there. ljik Turks, with e Sel much bloodshed, g‘flk the city from the Fatimite Moslems of Egypt, who, how- ‘ever, recaptured it in 1093. * k k ¥ ‘Even while Jerusalem was in the pos- session of the Turks, Peter the Hermit, a priest from Amiens, France, visit- ed it, and, returning to Europe, fired with 'zeal as a Christian, roused the Christians of the world, and organized the PFirst Crusade, which resulted in the Christian n of Jerusalem in 1099, with a bloody massacre of all Mos- lems and the few Jews who had gotten residence in' the city. * ok ok ok COLLINS. Moslem, Saladin, recaptured the city in the battle of Hattin. We think of the “bloody Turk” and Christian Crusaders massacred _their defeated foes, Saladin spared the Chri: tians and gave them safe escort out to rule, From that date the city for 670 years until, in December, 1917, Gen. Allenby, piedged that it should be “restored to the Jews.” who had not held it for nearly 2000 years. They had crossed the Jordan and invested Jericho about 1,500 years before they lost the capital, in 70 AD. Yet the usual thought of the world is that because the Jews had held Palestine for 1500 years, though not for the last 2,000 years. it is peculiarly the “Jewish homeland.” It now contains about 150,000 Jews, including 2.000 from America. but Jerusalem has a population of 80,000, of whom 75 per cent are Jews. * ok %ok At the time of the World War, there were only 80,000 Jews in Palestine. the accession of Czar Alexander III. Prior to that migration of the Russian efugees, the Jews who lived in Palestine had gone there through sentiment, to die there in the Holy Land. but now the Russian exiles fled there to live and work. An English author living in Palestine, | Lawrence Oliphant, hearing of the ne; comers, became interested in their wel- fare, and he enlisted the financial aid and sympathy of Baron Edmond de Rothschild, who has given vast sums to support what is now known as Zionism. The movement has met favor and_enlisted organized help all over the Western World, until it has alarmed the Moslem Arabs, who look upon Palestine as their own Fatherland. They outnumber the Jews more than 10 to 1, and the present Arab revolt is sure to grow in serlousness as the days go by. in spite of the optimistic words of diplomats. * % kX ‘The demands of the Arabs, as voiced by their leader, indicate that the out- break is not sporadic nor lightly to be considered. ‘The Palestine Arab executive has an- nounced that it would present certain demands to Sir John Chancellor, the British high commissioner, as follows: (1) Establishment of a parliament in Palestine. (2) The revocation of the Balfour declaration pledging the British “gov- ernment to_ facilitate establishment of the Jewish National Home, in Palestine. (3) Non-admission, of Zionists into Perso Palestine. * % k x Any parliament in Palestine, with the Moslems outnumbering the Jews, 10 to 1, would put all control into Moslem hands. The revocation of the Balfour pledge now is beyond the exclusive power of Great Britain, since that coun- try holds a mandate from the League of Nations, which is conditioned upon carrying out that Balfour pledge to the Jews. Only the League of Nations can revoke the pledge and it dares not do it. The demand that Zionists be barred from Palestine demonstrates the tem- E:l‘ and purpose of the present out- eak; it means war to the end, between Arab supremacy and that of the Occi- dent and the Jews. Will the Manda- tory. Power be firm? (Copyrizht, 1929, by Paul V. Collins.) ¢ As Well as Relieving Them. Prom the Dayton Daily News. Chicago, where certain wise folks for years have been concocting plans to rhq! ve the farmer of anything he might ave. . Night Clubs, Please Note. From the Sioux City Tribune. < ~ There is oni book may sell | it, but be the beneficlary of some | appealing quality which meets a wider | THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover How many visitors to Harpers Ferry and the scene of John Brown's raid know that John Brown is buried far from the scene of his death, on a lonely farm in the heart of the Adirondacks in New York State? Alfred L. Donald- son in his “History of the Adirondacks' devotes a_chapter to the story of John Brown, In 1849 John Brown settled in the town of North Elba, a small inhabited clearing in the wildest part of the North Woods, only a few miles from what is now the popular resort of Lake Placid. “The surrounding country was a sparsely settled wilder- ness.” To North Elba he brought his| wife and younger children, reasonin, that there they could live cheaply an safely, while he pursued his dangerous occupation of fighting slavery. The family and household goods ,were moved to the mountains, from Ohio, in an ox-cart, one of whose wheels is preserved at the Lake Placid Club. The first home was a house of three rooms and an attic and here lived a. family of nine and one or two colored helpers. There were also frequent guests, The Browns remained here for two years, of the time with his family. After that “The scenic beauty surrounding his Adirondack home made a deep appeal to Brown. Lying in the center of a wide plateau, it commanded a pano- ramic view of distant mountains, trench- ing the horizon. The mountains have always been a symbol of frecdom, and their lofty message probably never went | straighter home than to the lofty soul {of this lone man: Who shall gage the part they played in the meditative pauses that alternated with per f aggressive action? That it was not negliginle ther is ample proof, and his growing love for the spot culminated in the desire to be buried there.” In 1851 John Brown took his family back to Ohlo, parlty because of the failure of his plan for a Negro colony at North Elba and partly because of lawsuits in Ohio. In 1855 there was another hegira, back to North Elba, and the family moved into an unfinished house provided by | { the husband of one of the daughters who | had married an early settler of North | Elba. ~This hous: is the present me- morial buildiyg, over which floats the | United States flag. From this time the | life of John Brown became “that of a | roving and restless agitator in a right- cous cause.” He took a prominent part in the border skirmishes in Kansas | which culminated in the fight at Osa- { watomie. . Returning for a brief visit to North Elba in the Spring of 1857, he brought with him from a family | burying ground at Canton, Conn., an old” tombstone belonging to his grand- father. This he placed beside a huge granite boulder near the house and on the boulder he cut the letters “J. B." It was on this spot that he was later buried. * ok ok ok The story of the removal of the body of John Brown from Charles Town, Va. where he was executed, to North | | Elba, as told_by Donaldson, is a dra- | matic one. The execution took place | December ‘2, "1859. and the body was | shortly afterward delivered to the widow and some friends at Harpers Ferry. | the journey north a riot feared at | Philadelphia, so permission was refused | the escort to remain over Sunday and the body was hurried on to New Yori chere it was embalmed. Sympath I increased as the party went farther | ¢ N. Y.; Rutland. | Vt., and Vergennes, Vt, on Lake Champlain. “Here a boat was waiting | which by special arrangement landed | the party at Westport, across the lake. | “Prom there they procecded at once | ‘w Elizabethtown, 10 miles away. Here | the night was spent.’ The courthouse | | was offered as a resting place for the | |body. and six volunteers spent the | | night with it as'a guard of honor. | | The next day. Wednesday, Dectmber 7. | | the last and hardest stage of the jour- nev was completed—the long. rough | | ride over the mountains and through On The next day. Thursday, December 8. | 1859, the funeral took place. and this | leads to the strangest part of the Rev. Joshua Young, Uni- | tarian minister at Burlington, Vt.. him- | | self an abolitionist. was urged by an | 1 ‘The two hastened | ater the funeral party, across the lake | horses “through the night and the cold and the horrible roads to their| { destination.” They were just in time for the funeral, and Wendell Phillips take charge of the service. Dr. Young did so. but on his return to his home in Burlington found that six of his \wealthiest parishioners had left his church and that he himself was being stigmatized as a “traitor,” “anarchist.” | “infidel,” “blasphemer” and “vile as | sociate ‘of Garrison and Phillips.” Dr. Young never told the fact that hi participation in the funeral was acci- dental until shortly before his death. when the John Brown farm was for sale, Miss Kate Field or- ganized the John Brown Association, which purchased the farm in order to keep it as a historical monument. In 1896 the farm was taken over b: New In 1899 the bone: iof 10 of John Brown's followers were brought to North Elba and buried be- side the leader. Rev. Joshua Young conducted the ceremonies on this occa- sion also and Bishop Potter and White- law Reid made addresses. | E. Barrington, who makes a specialty of fictionizing the lives of naught charming women and egotistic, conquer- ing men of history, has a new novel, “The Laughing Queen,” which gives a revised version of Cleopatra. Ambition is the dynamo of Cleopatra’s character, not love. For ambition she yields in turn to Caesar and Antony. She is rep- resented as barely tolerating the conceit and sensuality of Antony, because he seems likeiy to be the tyrant at Rome. She takes her own life when there is nothing further to hope for on the road to glory. * ok k% Andre Maurois tells of his biographi- cal theories in his book, a collection of six lectures delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge, “Aspects of Biography.” M. Maurois sees no excuse for the panegyric hlngraghy' and finds the purely scientific biography dull. The personal life of a man seems to him more important than his contribution to general affairs. (Why not both?) He believes that the biographer is justi- fled in using his material for’self-ex- pression as well as for portrayal of his subject. In both Shelley and Disraeli he found traits which appealed to him lly which he could interpret with ' unusual sympathy, as well as others, like Shelley’s romanticism, which 1 aroused his irony. * kK w As$ a result of his appointment as a member of the information section of the secretariat of the League of Nations, and of attendance with the American delegation at the International Econo- mic Conference at Geneva in 1927 and later ‘attendance as adviser at the con- gress of the International Chamber of Commerce at Stockholm, Arthur Bullard, sometimes a resident of Washington, has written “American Diplomacy in the Modern World.” He argues for United States participation ‘in the League of Nations and says that the United States and Russia both ‘make use of the League increasingly and during which John Brown spent much | his visits were short and snrrcqumt.;m"" | twin ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘What do you need to know? Is there some pgint ‘about your business or per- sonal life that puzzles you? Is there something you want to know without delay? Submit your question to Pred- eric J. Haskin, director of our Wash- ington Information Bureau. He is em- ployed to help vou. Adc:ess your in- quiry to The Evenine Siar Information Bureav, Frederic J. Haskin, director, ‘Washington, D. C., and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Q. From what distance is the fl- luminated dome of the Capitol visible to a night aviator?>—S. E. G. A. It depends entirely upon the height of the aviator and the clear- ness of the night. From an altitude of 10,000 feet the dome might be see: nearly 100 miles away. Q. Why don't architects include the panéry in the building of new houses?— A. It usually requires too many steps, as the homemaker has to pass to and from the sink or work table to get utensils and supplies. It also was gen- erally a catch-all for dust and for many things which did not belong in the Generally it is a poor invest- ment, since the cost of the average pantry would pay for all the needed built-in cquipment of the average Xkitchen, Q. In auction bridge what is the dif- ference between the terms “refuse” and “renounce” K. - A. To fail to follow suit is to re- fuse. To refuse when able to follow suit is to renounce. . What is the size of the Chicago Leop district?—E. S. A. The Loop arca of Chicago com. ses approximately one squane mile. Q. ‘What is sujuk?—H. L. A. Sujuk is a Turkish preparation sometimes called rajik, and is made by stringing walnuts on’ picces of stout out 1 yard long and immers- ing them in a mixture of grape molasses and flour. After receiving a coating of fourth inch, are with- hung up It is said pr palatable. Q. What is the difference between an ordinary survey and a geodetic sur- vey?—N. C. P. A. A geodetic survey is one which covers large areas and takes into ac- count the fact that the earth has a curved surface. It is usually called a control survey, because it' furnishes geographic positions and other data for more detailed local surveys. In ordinary surveying, the earth’s’ curvature ignored. and points of equal elevation above sea level are treated as being plane. This is satisfactory for a local but when several independent local ‘surveys are brought together their lines are-quite apt not to fit unless each survey has been made under a geodetic control survey. P i Q. What bird stays in the air the longest?—S. O. able to stay in the air longer than any other bird. This is because of its grea* length of upper arm and_ forearm and ecause the number of flight feathers carried on the wing exceeds that of any other bird. Albatrosses will follow ves- sels for days at a time. and they are al- most the only visible inhabitants of the wastes of the Southern ocean: Q. Please list some important duels to be an excellent article of food, and | is | A. The albatross is thought to be | fought in America between 1795 and 1835.—B. H. A. Among them are: The duel be- tween Philip Hamilton, the son of Alexander, and G. J. Eaker; Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr; Capts. Bar- ron and Decatur; Henry Clay and John Randolph: Gen. Jackson and M. Dick~ inson; Col. Benton and Mr. Lucas. Q. What city ha: | hot water?—M. O A. Boise, Idaho, is believed to be th~ only city in the world having a natural hot-water system. Q. How tall is the Jefferson Davis Monument?—P., K. M. A. This monument to the only Presi- ent of the Confederacy is 351 feet igh. It stancs near the spot where Davis_was ;born, in Christian County, Ky. In design it is quite similar to the ‘Washington Monument, Q. Were the old samplers made in school or at home?—L. G. W. A. While many of them were made at home by children who were being taught embroidering by their elders, such sewing was a part of the school work of young girls who were sent tn boarding schools and seminaries in th- seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, especially in Eng- |land. The earliest’ sampler that has been preserved was made in 1643. Q. What numbers are mos Iy confused with others?—A. A. A study of illegibilit t_frequent- P, sity and the results of a survey of 135 371 numerals written by 8.127 person- have been embodied in a report for the American_Association for the Advance- ment of Science. The numeral was found to be the black sheep of the family. It furnished 46 per cent of | the total illegibilities. In almost half of the cases the confusion was due to the incorrect placing of the dash at the top. . “Zero” came next with 13 per cent of the inace acies. Next on the st wer even” and “two.” The ornamental tick at the beginning of cach causes the trouble, Q. What woman holds the mos highly paid position in the Governmen: service?—W. N. T. A. Commissioner Jessie Dell of th- Civil Service Commission i& now th- highest paid woman employe of the Federal Government Q. Is it correct to say, “Aren't (" E A. The expression is not in goo?! usage in this country. Q. What does Kipling mean when h-~ says “the dawn comes up like thunder outer China ’erost the bay"?—B. E. R. A. The phrase is a geographical lib- erty which Kipling took in writing his famous porm. If you have watched for the sunrise across a broad stretch of water you know how suddenly the sun bursts above the horizon line. It comes with the suddenness of thunder. This is an example of how impossible it is always to take. literally a figure of speech found in a poem. Q. Who is the new president of the National Vaudeville Artists, Inc.>—W. H. A. Eddie Cantor is the new president of the N. V. A. and Walter C. Kel better known as “the Virginia Judge.” 1s the vice president. Thess and the other new officers will be installed with the most elaborate ceremony in the history of the organization. All shades of opinion on the question ment on Henry Ford's recent statement would not think it advisable to continne manufacturing automobiles. Those who dissent from Mr. Ford's conclusions question® particularly his assumption that the eighteenth amendment is ef- fective. t is hardly necessary.” in the o ion of the Roanoke World-News argue Mr. Ford's major premise that the saloon must never come back in_this country, No real body of public opinion favors its coming back. But there is 'cam! to, Dr. Young and asked him to pneed for a great deal of careful thought and study of problems presented by present-day conditions. For, in many respects, they are far from satisfactory. A growing body of thoughtful men and women now hold that as to this subject the last word has not been spoken.” The Harrisburg Telegraph, however, expresses the view, “As one walks through the center of the city and notes the bakerics, jewelry stores, shoe shops, department stores, restaurants, etc., that are doing business in places formerly given over to the sale of drink, he can- not but be impressed with the thoug! that much money that formerly went for booze is now going to the purchase of articles for -the improvement of ihe home and the happiness and corhfort of women-and chuldren. * %k % “The economic phase of prohibitio: says the Aberdeen, Wash., World, “is seen by one of our great industrial leaders, perhaps our greatest. It is true that Mr. Ford feefs strongly on this question and that he is a better in- austrialist than he is a sociologist, but he represents a business opinion that, more than any other one thing, brought prohibition into existence, and which will keep it, despite all assaults. Gaso- Jine and liquor do not mix and this is the gasoline age.” The Charlotte News adds that “we must have abstinence in order to keep our machine age running on an efficient pitch.” “He is perfectly safe” advises the Worcester Evening Gazette, “in say- ing that ‘if booze ever comes back,’ he is through with manufacturing. For with the eighteenth amendment safely imbedded in the Constitution, he will not have to make good on that pledge. * * * When he says that prohibition is 99 per cent effective, he is neces- sarily guessing. But when he talks about drinking among the workers in his factories, he is in a position to back up his statements. If he says his fac- tories are dry, he is probably right. And there is no question that he is right in his* declaration that heavy drinking cannot be combined with the swift and accurate work demanded by modern large-scale factory production.” “Mr. Ford is not the only manu- facturer, not the only employer of labor who holds that opinion,” declares the ‘Washington Courthouse, Ohio, Herald. “Almost every man who employs labor thinks just as he does. The trouble is that too many employers of labor don’t obey the law themselves. We are confident that Mr. Ford does, but many do not, and that’s just where the trouble arises.” The Savannah Morning News holds that “the trouble is that the drys, like the wets, do not seem to be able to get together on their facts. The country is so large, the bootleggers are 50 numerous, the drinkers still so many, the liquor so varied in its goodness or badness, that nobody knows just what the situation is. It will be casy enough to disagree with Mr. Ford, but it will be just as easy to disagree with the should be willing to share expense. * K K K Mrs. Ethelreda Lewis, collaborator with “Trader Horn,” has a new novel of South Africa, “Mantis.” It is the story of the life of Jane Taighlir, Eng- lish girl, married to Prof. Gilfillan, en- tomol ‘The romance of Jane's life is not concerned with her husband, but with the mg:hn youth, Nicho, de- scendant of the Pharaohs, who saves her life. ‘The background of the Trans- vaal is the chief charm of the story. Lost in the Rush. From the Buffalo Evening News. ‘Wonderful man! Year after year he except him- 2 b extreme wets in their opinion that pro- hibition is a rank failure in its efforts merely to cut down liquor consump- den.”” . * kK % ch'nr(lx‘x: thntn gr. m‘mrd is “intem- perate a statement about wages which would be taken away by a ulm.' n and about “putting automobiles in the hands of a generation soggy with drin] he Cincinnati Times-Star re- plies: ‘This is a very intemperate statement and, we are sorry to ifl characteristic of Mr. Ford. He evi- dmtlywuulht"mwlnumdbeerlnt W] and gin, re settlement of the liquor ret: of . MAhe trouble vni't‘n v Ford | traveler cads the cloistral Lite of- | disagrecal of prohibition are represented in com- | that if legalized liquor came back he | Ford’s Views on Prohibition Draw Indorsement and Dissent | multi-millionaire and has no contacts with people in gereral. He is not a fit observer of American life and cus- toms of today. Farther along he says, ‘Just now the blind pig lives by the reflected light of A few prominent drawing rooms and clubs’ This is non- sense. There are tens of thousands of blind pigs in New York, Chicago, Phila- | delphia and Mr. Ford's own Detroit, and comparatively few prominent draw- ing rooms and clubs. If Mr. Ford could know of the vast amount of liquor that is carricd every day and night in auto- mobiles his attitude would be modified.” * x * x Quoting the statement about soggy motorists, the Kansas City Times pu's beside it the news item, “A party last night, at which there was considerable drinking. resulted in fatal injuries early | today to one of the members,” and adds: { “The second item is merely a footnote to the first. Similar footnotes are ! printed every day.” The Buffalo Times | comments. “As for putting automo- | biles in the hands of drunkards, he | must know that there is more intox | cation in ‘dry’ America than in ‘wet Europe.” ‘Every police department will tell him,” according to the Akron Beacon Journal, “that most of the cases of hit, and reckless driving are the | result,_of motorists having their hides | full of forbidden bobze. * * * Since the bootlegging trade. which flourishes un- der the name of prohibition, is as widely dispersed as the old rum power, and the unregulated blind tigers far out- number tne old-time open saloons, why | doesn’t he make application of his eco. nomic_power to destroy bootlegging? | “It is permitted to wonder,” suggests the Newark Evening News, “w | the prohibition poli repeal or radical revision of the law: Mr. Ford would really close down and retire. He is a dyed-in-the-wool | propagandist. But living just over the | Canadian borcer and doing a bit of | traveling now and then, docs he really | expect people to believe he believes | prohibition is 99 per cent effective in | the Nation as a whole?” v oo New i’apcr Fabric Good For Coldproof Vests BY E. E. FREE, PH. D. Paper vests, in addition to paper | napkins, cheap enough to throw away |after an accident with the soup, vet | indistinguishable at first glance from -« cloth vests and as much warmer than ordinary apparel as was the old-fash- foned expedicnt of Wearing a newspaper wrapped around the chest, are forecast by & new paper cloth fabric perfected by the Burgess Laboratories of Madison, Wis The new material rescmbles cloth in having two series of threads running through it at right angles, like the warp and the woof. These threads are made of a cellulose material, not unlike the modern rayon. Matted over and through these crossed threads is a layer of felted paper fibers, much as similar partially loose fibers are often left in cloth to make the fabric less permeable to water or air. The new paper cloth is not only strong enough to make vests or other garments of great warmth and reason- able wearing quality, but it is highly absorptive for water, making it a mate- rial for paper towels which feel and act like linen towels, but which are cheap enough to throw away after use. Even when the new paper cloth is wet, i is much harder to tear than the kinds of paper previously used for towels, nap- kins and similar articl Small squares of the new fabric may ® used, for ex- ample, as wash cloths or bath sponges, which may be dried and used over and er again. Surgeons are expected to ind the new material useful for strong and absorptive bandages or for dress- ings to cover wounds. Sign of Experience. 4 Prom the Paterson Press-Guardian. ‘As we understand it, an experienced is one who knows how to ve ble_cnough to get servede