Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1929, Page 6

B THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON,D. C. SATURDAY. where to establish a central bus termi- nal. There is no debating the need for such a terminal, and every new bus line running into Washington increases that THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1929. [ THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ' twirler. Then the list-leader foozsled an attempt to sacrifice. The next batsman hit into what should have been a double play, but which was not such inasmuch .October 12, 1920 |need. Instead of combining to build one |as the Philadelphia third baseman - |terminal, the companies still depend on | fumbled the ball in his anxiety. That THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor|curb space and separate small ticket|was the parting of the ways between ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company 11t 8t "and Fensevivants Ave. . & n: . New York Oftice: 110 East 4ind St Chicago Office: Lake Michigan Building. European Office: 14 Regent St.. London. England, Rate by The The E: the City. . 45c per movth (when 4 60c per month ‘The Evenini (when 5 Sundays). 65¢ per month The Sunday Sta: per copy Coliection made at'the end of each month. Orders niay bo sent in by mail vr telephone NAtional 5000. Rate by Mafl_Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Bindayomy - ' $400; 1 mo.. 40c All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday. 1. s 8190 Daily only .. Sunday only 15t 50¢ ‘Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press ia exclusively entitled offices to meet their requirements. The result is & number of scattered termi- nals in downtown Washington in place of the one union terminal that long ago should have been established. Private interests are evidently not enticed by the opportunity to bulld and rent such a terminal to the bus companies, even with the commission’s promiss that the busses would be routed to it. The for- mer commission decided that it did not have authority to compel the compa- nies to erect and use their own termi- nal. If that authority is lacking, the present Public Utllities Commission would do well to investigate the possi- bility of obtaining it. It is unthink- able that the existing condition should Philadelphia misfortune and Chicago luck. Came next a batsman who had been striking out with sickening fre- quency, the great Hornsby. He changed his tactics and singled, to tie the score. Another putout followed, to advance the two runners. Came next another single, made by another hitherto gen- erous contributor to the ctrikeout total. Came two more runs, which were all that were necded for victory. And that is base ball. That is why the game is so popular. You never can tell. Skill counts in the long run, of course—skill and cleverness and craft combined. But luck has its part in the make-up of the sport. Without luck, the chance combination, the sudden re- be allowed indefinitely to continue. Dishonest Sale of Water, ‘The Water Department hopes to re- S blication of ol news dis- to the usc for repul L s, dix news ublished herein. on of becial dispatches herein are glso rese Mr. Macdonald's Stirring Plea. pair all defective meters and to citch up with and keep abreast of new meter installation by the end of ten years. Plans now are being drawn at the Dis- trict Building to that end. These plans versal of form, the coincidence of hit and error, the game would be a drab affair. Thus the aspect of the series fs changed, as in the twinkling of an eye. Now the crushed and humbled Cubs are raging for victory. The complacent Athletics are somewhat shaken in their confidence. Today is another game, If the English language—even With|write an illuminating commentary on |and may tell another story. & Scottish accent—still has the power to charm and compel, Mr. Macdonald’s speech before the Foreign Policy Asso- ciation in New York last night is en- titled to imperishable distinction in the snnals of oratory in our common tongue. Radio is made for just such epochal occasions. It would have been a thou- sand pities if the prime minister's bril- liant, earnest and persuasive plea for world peace had been listened to by only the narrow audience which saw him make it. Millions of Americans must have been his invisible auditors, and if Britons' interest in their pre- mier's mission to “the States” induced them to tune in at the romantic hour of 2 o'clock this morning, British time, innumerable of his own people were edified by as scholarly and statesman- like an address as has fallen upon English-hearing ears in a long time. It was when Mr. Macdonald argued, almost vehemently, against the theory that he and President Hoover had sealed an Anglo-American alliance that the Labor statesman was at his best. It is “not to enthrone peace on the Atlantic,” purely between themselves, that Britain and America have come together this month, “but to enthrone peace throughout the world,” the pre- mier affirmed. His thrust was directed, he flatly explained, at all and sundry everywhere who “have no conception of the new spirit that is making up its mind to rule the world.” That spirit, Mr. Macdonald told his cheering Amer- ican audience on Manhattan Island, is the spirit of determination to bring about _ “moral disarmament” as the precursor of - “physical disarmament” the financial policy that supports the water system. Here we have a publicly owned utility that draws its revenue for maintenance and extension of plant from the sale of water. The measurement of water sold is made through meters. For a num- ber of yea:s the revenue has not stretched far enough to repair meters that have become defective, while the installation of new meters has remained about fifteen per cent behind the de- mand, and no real effort has been made to catch up. Those whose meters are defective or who lack meters pay for their water at a flat rate, based on the minimum water rent demanded from all of. those Who use the city’s water. Mr. Garland, the head of the Water Department, has testified before congressional commit- tees that the city loses nothing in those sections that are unmetered, and this would mean apparently that the city loses nothing in the sale of ‘water to householders whose meters have de- teriorated and ceased to measure water. It may also be taken for granted that if the city loses nothing from the sale of water, the consumer who buys it at & flat rate and whose consumption is not metered loses nothing. He loses nothing, because he would have to pay the same minimum rate with a meter that he does without one. If he ex- ceeds his minimum allowance, the ex- cess is unmeasured and unpaid for and amounts to & gift from the city. But somebody pays for this unmetered water. Every gallon that is brought to Washington and delivered in homes costs money, and the price per gallon is designed to cover the cost of de- - |livery and to make improvements and final public utterance in the United States, has & wholesome word of fare- well to us, as well as a message for his own people. Rome was not built in a day, he reminds us. The tree of under- standing which Mr, Hoover and he have planted must have time to take root, to grow, to branch out. In Britain's case, Mr. Macdonald reminds us, “the British Navy is Great Britain itself.” ple, reared since immemorial the tang of the sea in their nostrils, are not easily to be weaned from their be- lief that without & powerful fleet there can be no Britannia. ‘The British government now proposes to cut down “that sure shield.” adaitions to the delivery system. When meters are defective or lacking alto- gether, a certain number of gallons of water is being brought to Washington and delivered in homes or offices with- out being measured and without pro- ducing revenue in return. ‘The water users in the District pay not only for maintaining their system, for extending and improving this sys- but they pay, in addition, for the exces- sive use of water in unmetered sections and in homes or establishments where the meters have ceased to measure. ‘The failure to repair meters or to A Belated Memory. The Maryland constable who is ac- cused of shooting at, stopping, search- ing and assaulting a young Washington law student the other night near Laurel has not benefited himself to a marked degree in the investigation which is now going forward by suddenly Temembering that the student was speeding on the night in question, and arresting him as he appeared in Marl- boro to press the charges against the officer. In fact, such retaliatory tactics are likely to lend support to the story told by the student of being fired upon from an automobile occupied by two ununiformed men, whom he took to be highwaymen, of fleeing from the scene, of being overtaken and forced to sub- mit to & rough search of his person and car, ostensibly for liquor, and on asking the identity of his capturers, receiving no answer. On his arrival in Washington, with the number of the car that pursued him fresh in his memory, the student im- mediately started an investigation and took the case up directly with Gov. Ritchie. On the advice of the State's attorney, he swors out warrants against the two officers, who were identified by the license number on their car. Yesterday when he went to Marlboro to press the charges, one of the officers put him promptly under arrest for speeding and reckless driving, which, strangely enough, he did not consider necessary on the night of their first encounter, Whether the young student was speeding or driving recklessly is quite beside the point. but the fact that the charge is placed against him at this late date will doubtless assume signifi- cance to the investigators of the con- stable's conduct. No sane motorist will stop at the command of ununiformed men on & country road at night, and if the student made & run from what he thought was to be a hold-up, he is to be commended rather .than ‘censired. The arrest of the youth under these circumstances, therefore, is hardly cal- Her' peo- | tem and for supplying free water to the | culated to place the officer in & favor- times with | Municipal and Federal Governments, |able light. ——— e Stunt flying causes admiration, but not much confidence in the mind of the person who thinks of buying a plane. It means spectacular glory for MT. | keep abreast of meter installation 15| the aviator, but not much practical Macdonald related last night how even{moraily dishoniest. As long as the sale Ppublicity for the manufacturer. British dockyard workmen, confronted with inevitable loss of livelthood, are of water is based on measurement through meters, fallure to repair and in- — aene £0 much serious thought resuited bravely holding up his hands in the ef- | yta1l new metsrs is inexcusable. The|from the Hoover-Macdonald interviews fort to effect world naval limitation as|fact that it will take the District ten | that it is not unreasonable to suspect. the curtain raiser to world peace. The|years to becume honest in its sale of | that the fishing pastime was more or prime minister's plea for patience on|water may be explained by lack of | less neglected. the part of his own people while “re- furnishing the national mind” on the subject of navies as bulwarks of na-|eq the burden of maintaining and bulld- | long forgotten. revenue, but it cannot be excused. The Pederal Government has gradually shif(- ——————— Lindbergh discoverea Maya cities The fiying man can tional security has its message for us, ing the water system to the shoulders of | 8ssist sclence to such an extent that too. The American Navy is no less vital to the safety and tranquillity of the United States than Britain's armada is to the tight little islands in the North Sea. Parity with the British fleet is held by the Government and people of this country to be a sine qua non te that safety and tranquillity. Parity is on the way. There should be a sedulous and concerted effort to see that nothing impedes its progress. ———————— lle enterprising policemen = face complications in investigating homi- cides, the patrolman content to take his plece of chalk and mark motor cars to prevent parking overtime leads an industrious and comparatively placid existence. Control Over Busses. The Public Utilities Commission evi- dently is planning to test its authority to make interstate bus companies abide by the routes in Washington prescribed by the commission. One of these com- panies has deviated slightly from the Toute outlined by the commission. The commission may have authority under the law to fine the company, but the matter of its control over busses en- gaging In interstate commerce is one that never has been definitely settled. While the offense may be relatively triv- ial in the case of the bus company that makes an extra trip around the New Willard to pick up passengers, the Pub- lic Utilitles Commission should go to the bottom of the matter, levy a fine, and if necessary go into court to collect it. The bus situation in Washington local water users, and at the same time has arranged matters conveniently to obtain its needed water and the water used by its agent, the Municipal Gov- ernment, free of charge. It is not sur- prising that water rates have become high and that even these high rates are insufficient to carry new burdens and make necessary repairs and installa- tions. Surprise arises from the naive and optimistic assurances that within a period of ten years the District will be able to become honest in its meter serv- ice and repair those that are not work- ing, but that in the meantime there is nothing to be done. o Suggestions that Sinclair has been favored as a prisoner are met by the positive information that jail has not been made 0 pleasant that he does not wish to leave it at the earliest op- portunity, e The Lucky Break. That old adage about the base ball game which is never won or lost until: the last man is out in the last inning has been proved true many, many times, with kensational rallies in the ninth, with games that were apparently hope- lessly lost won by desperate and totally unexpected concentrations of batting and error-making. And in a measure the same is true of world serles con- tests. No series is over until the last man is out in the last inning of the last game, which gives one of the con- testants four victories. Take the current case of the Chicago Cubs, now battling the Philadelphia needs close attention. Without a cen- tral terminal, and apparently no nearer in their quest of one than ever, 'the many bus lines in Washington engag: ing in interstate commerce are running pretty much as they please. The parked vehicles occupy valusble curbstone space, and the city receives no return for the rental of such space. Several lines run their. vehicles through the densely packed streets where traffic is thickest, adding to congestion that al- Athletics for the supreme gonfalon of the sport. They had lost two strajght games, in their own home town, and had moved on to the enemy’s country he may not be needed in war. ——e— International questions are begin- ning to take precedence in national consclousness even over a world series base ball contest. - aom—s SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. “If You Were 1.” If T were you,” a friend declared, “T'd shun the ways that you have dared And, wisely, should have been afraid Of the mistakes that you have made.” “If you were 1,” said I to him, “You'd have my recollections grim; And for my old mistakes you'd sigh, Or else, you'd really not be 1" Measuring Influence, “Didn’t I tell you not to allow me to be disturbed except by some one of importance?” “Yes,” answered the secretary. “The man you just let in had his pants tucked in his boots and was in his shirtsleeves.” “I had sized him up. He looked to me like & man of the people who might control a large number of votes.” Jud Tunkins says he is always willing to laugh at an old story rather than offend a friend. Unattainable. Dear Friend—you wish that you could say Each thought that in your heart is ‘hid And dream that you might to today ‘What all the poets never did. Cupld Deposed. for the next sequence. By all the hy- potheses of the pastime they were “through.” Every bit of base “dope” wrote them down as sure losers. The betting odds were greatly length- ened against them, against their win- ning even one game of the possible seven to be played. But the other thing happened. The Isn't Cupid the little god of love?” “That is merely mythology,” answered / air Miss Cayenne. “The genuine influence | P21 “ithout any aids other than those of mind and character and the splen- | tim, in that line is & Reno judge.” “Friends who quarrel,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “are still friends, seeking an explanation to permit con- tinuance of the friendship.” Struggling after perfection may make sorry. To want to get the most or the best possible for one’s money is only natural, but often it leads to regret. Recently a local couple called up a radlo firm and asked for a demonstra- tion of a certain receiving set. The in- strument was brought, set up, turned on, tuned in. ‘They liked the tone, but the appear- ance of the outfit was not entirely sat- isfactory. They thought they might do better. Yet they liked the set very much, indeed—but couldn’t they find a_better one? Reluctantly they told the agent to take the set away. And as he was going down the steps he stumbled, and the radio set and speaker went bounding down before him. It was & very much battered outfit he picked up at the bottom. The tubes inside had been shattered to bits of glass, the set itself marred beyond rec- ognition, the speaker fairly split through the middle. The outfit was a wreck. The point is that no matter what set the couple buy now, they will always think of that set they liked so well and let get away from them, to be smashed to pieces at their own front door. * ok Kk ‘The ability to let well enough alone, as the old saying has it, is one of the rarest in the world. Sometimes it seems as if a fatalistic attitude were necessary in order to live up to the old maxim. ‘What is the use of possessing a brain, one thinks, if he is not to use it? The desire to pick and choose lies deep in the human heart and brain. Men rush into marriage without any bargaining, but in the remainder of the affairs of life they want to put up a bluff, at least, of acting as if they had some choice in the matter. Few are willing to admit that they are slaves to affairs, or happenings, or what-comes-first. They want to hem and haw, to stand off, to wait awhile. In the meantime the precious mo- ment has come and gone, and they have only regret for their pains. We have given a very homely example, taken from the everyday, but every reader can match it out of his own experience. * K ok K Especially in matters of taste does the hold-off spirit seem to do poorly by humanity. In matters of one's own carrying for- ward there is much to commend the search for perfection. but when it comes to the perfection of things made by others, we have a horse of another color. Few art objects, of whatever nature, are so well made that there is not some flaw to be found in them. Whether it is a chair, or a painting, or a lamp, or a musical instrument, or a book, or & bouquet of flowers, often it seems as if the first one to k> seen is the best. Why paw over the Sest, if the remain- der are no better? Fate offers you the best at the first choice, and you only muddle life by waiting Take the first and go your way. happy in the conviction that you might have remained there all day, sorting them over, without finding a better, or as * K K % ‘The preliminary work is where the mind comes into its own. Conslder care- fully, make investigations, shop around, if this appeals to you, but when it comes down to the final choice, shut your eyes and trust to fate. ‘The first of anything is more one’s own. Life's philosophy often boils down to this, that it shall be accepted as it comes, and with it the first. Awalt not the perfect thing, but take such as one finds, and perhaps it shall turn out to bes the best possible, after all Do the deed of kindness which pre- sents itself, as it presents itself, and wait not for the chance to be a hero. Be heroic in the little things of every day, and if perchance the opportunity arrives of being a hero of real stature, you will be big enough and brave enough to go through with it. " * kK He has a happy outlook upon life who believes that everything which he se- lects is the best. A certain amount of conceit there may be in him, but it is a very human failing. The greatest and best men have been victims of it. Doubt is a two-edged sword. With one blade it cuts through hypocrisies, frauds and shams, bringing forth truth and justice to the light of day. With the other it sunders the moral sinews of humanity, causing a womanish hesitancy. To hesitate is to lose. Faint heart never won fair lady. If the preliminary investigation has been made carefully, there is no reason for hesitating at the showdown. Close the eyes, count three, and cry, “This one!” * ok ok X Writers and painters, both of whom strive for perfection, know that often too much polishing takes the life out of their product. A thing can be too fin- ished, as it were. A painter who rubs out to make better often makes worse. Authors shrink from too much revamp- ing of their stories, knowing that a cer- tain virility went with the first draft. It i3 a question whether the superpol- ished “Mme. Bovary" is as great a novel as “L'Assommoir.” The first draft was not good enough for Flaubert; Zola reeled ‘his story off sheet after sheet, without ever lookirig at them again. In matters of everyday choice, such as most people are called upon to make constantly, too great a seeking for per- fection leads to disappointment, because there is always a remembrance of the rejected. Time paints it in glowing col- ors. Furthermore, ordinary selections, or choices, depend so much upon the other fellow. . And one can never be sure when much depends upon others. No sooner has one rejected one article, and selected another, than the former takes on hues it perhaps never possessed, such is the flair of the human spirit for torturing itself. Those who indulge most in this self-torture are the very ones who most twist and turn in their select- ing. In their eagerness to get the most for their money, the best tone, the clear- est colors, they throw away the near perfection in their hands for a possible radiance. Usually the latter fails expectation. It soon becomes apparent that the new one is not any better than the old. Much haggling has taken the bloom off the peach. The radio one sent back lingers in memory as the best toned. Now that it has fallen down the steps, one is faced with the realization that what might have been sitting in one'’s living room is now a piece of junk. As time passes the memory of that tone be- comes more vivid. One sees a proces- sfon of radio sets, but none possesses the beauty of the thing one might have had. The first choice is always the best. World Debt to Stresemann Outstanding Fact in Death American public opinion has laid a wreath of tribute upon the grave of Gustav Stresemann, courageous martyr to the cause of reconstruction. His courageous leadership at a time when irreconcilables were influential in Euro- pean affairs is lauded, while his policles are appraised as permanent guides for the future. "Some called him a palitical tacticlan who veered with the side of public opinion, but if such he was he did not drift; he led, boldly, ably, forcefully.” says the Albany Evening News, adding that the world “will believe that he was one who cast the fog of old kaiserism away from him and followed the light that has lifted Germany again into the respect of nations. He did more than follow that light; he bore it,” in the opinion of that paper. p“"‘l'm-cm[h his courageous stands with his home people in opposing policies that would have kept up the war feeling, he made his country a factor for inter- national peace,” is the tribute of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, while the thought that he has won the confidence of the former war foes of his nation is emphasized by the Charleston Daily Mall, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the Rock Island Argus, the Hamilton, On- tario, Spectator and the Syracuse Herald. The Hamilton paper declares that, “a devoted servant of his country, he yet has been able to take the larger view—the world view—and civilization as a whole owes him a deep debt of gratitude.” The Rock Island estimate is that “in the United States his death is regarded as a calamit; “If the worst comes to the worst, the passing of Stresemann will be a vast tragedy for the world; but we have rea- son to hope that his work has been done 80 well that others now will be able to carry it on,” suggests the Houston Chronicle, while the Miami Herald re- marks, “History is so often influenced by such unexpected events, for the entire world may be affected adversely by the demise of one individual.” “Perhaps his greatest achievement was to win the confidence of Aristide Briand and thus change the whole nature of Franco-German relations,” - thinks the Detroit News, and the Kalamazoo Gazette avers th: ‘as the spokesmen of two nations traditionally set against each other by rivalry and suspicion, Briand and Stresemann have indeed earned their popular designation as Europe's ‘apostles of peace.” The world may only hope that the French prime minister will succeed in finding & new partner in_this movement for inter- national harmony,” concludes the Gazette. “His service to mankind as a great collaborator for a tranquil world,” in the judgment of the Portland Oregon Journal, “has written his name imper- ishably on the scroll of human history. ‘The lovers of peace and the admirers of Christian statesmanship under every | G, sun will mourn with Germany the &H- ing of her great son.” The Flint ily Journal, linking him with a former statesman, says: “History alore will es- tablish the relative values of Bismarck and Stresemann. But for Stresemann, who turned from his ‘might-makes- right’ idea to join the peacemakers of the world, it would seem that we have the fruition of a greater mind than Bismarck's. “Without the heritage of a great fam- ily name, without riches or high social ition,” comments the Atlanta Jour- did university education which his Tribune, the Scranton Times, the Char- lotte Observer, the Kansas City Times, the Memphis Commercial-Appeal and the Great Falls Tribune. The Des Moines Tribune-Capital lauds him as “one of the few men who knew whal to do and had the courage to do it’ the San Antonio Express as “a most courageous, sincere statesman, who de- sired friendly relations with all lands,” and the Indianapolis News as one who “has been climbing steadily toward the foremost place among European states- men. “It was given to hi according te the Birmingham News, “to envision his beloved Germany once more recon- structed, once more kindled by an in- tellectual renaissance, once more en- eamored of its mission to liberate the human body, to emancipate the human spirit.” The Toronto Star is convinced that “the world outlook today would be gloomier if he had not lived” and that “it has been made less rosy by his death.” The New York Evening Post emphasizes the belief that “a lesser man could not have carried Germany with him through the concessions he was forced to make in meeting allied terms.’ That he sacrificed his life to the cause of German and European recon- struction fs the opinion of the Colum- bia State, the Louisville Courier-Jour- nal, the Akron Beacon-Journal, the An- niston Star, the Cincinnatt Times-Star and the Omaha World-Herald. The Hartford Times feels that he “carried u‘)on shoulders that were so soon to bow almost the weight of the destiny of his nation, in so far as one individual coul ‘The Duluth Herald holds that “in a difficult place he served his coun- try and the world nobly.” Confidence in the carrying out of his licies is expressed by the Cleveland ews, the Topeka Daily Capital, the Chicago Daily News and the Providence Journal. The Milwaukee Journal sug- gests that “the world has to hope, first, that there is another man of his under- standing, and, secondly, that such a man will command the support at home necessary to dealing effectively with other nations.” “Germany has been unfortunate in the loss of modern leaders,” remarks the Newark Evening News. “In 1921 the fiery Mathias Erzberger was assassi- nated, and in the following year Walter Rathenau, one of the greatest figures post-war years produced, also fell be- fore assassins’ bullets. Now Stresemann passes when he is still greatly needed.” —— Aviation Wins Place In Archeology Field From the Pittsbursh Post-Gazette. The exploits of Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh in carrying trained archeologists by airplane over isolated sections of ntral America and even landing at a point probably never before seen b a white man brings aviation into fi vorable mention in another field of great possibilities. The worth of the air lanes has been proved for explora- tion in unknown regions by the Polar discoveries of Byrd and others; Lind- ‘bergh now shows that scientific service can be rel ered;; the highly special- ized realm of rediscovering lost people and their works. The trip just complet- ed follows a visit made by the airman “on his own” when he first flew v.h; an reports at tably the trip by men experienced in delving among the ruins hichen Itza. father had given him at much sacri-|of C flu.lumumsgbym to his coun- try's service to its most useful figure in its most arduous era.” The Buffalo Evening News predicts that “his muhknmu will stand out the more meunwmnre suit to their magni- tude,” and the Richmond News-Leader feels that “world politics has lost its greatest realist”; that “the most spec- tacular, the most useful career in Ger- has come to an end at & time Wi the mind and the courage of Stresemann were needed to complete what only he had the courage to in- e of his_contribution to o These are the -first times that the THE LIBRARY TABLE l By the Booklover tempted—where there was success, where failure, and what in the writer’s view was the meaning of a life which was at least one of constant and stren- uous endeavor.” With these Elizabeth Haldane begins her short preface to her brother’s autobiography— “Richard Burdon Haldane (Viscount Haldane): An Autoblography.” The book grew, she explains, out of her re- quest to her brother to write a consec- utive account of his life to aid her in taking charge of papers and letters which he was intrusting to her, in an- ticipation of his death. The last cbap- ter was written shortly before his death. Miss Haldane says, “Had my brother lived, he would, I think, have made certain additions, especially touching the influences of his home life and of the friends who meant so much to him. Of this, indeed, he spoke.” * K kK The public life of Lord Haldane was full of distinction and hard work. For 25 years he practiced at the bar, with steadily rising fees, and with great success, handling cases from all over the British Empire, including India. After only flve years as a junior bar- rister he was elected to Parliament as a Liberal, when Gladstone was prime minister. In 1905 he became secretary for war in the Campbell-Bannerman cabinet. He;e he mrn.nl{led t?; l‘m to provide for an exj lona of lpix divisions, with Kglpolllm.lity of quick mobilization. In 1912 he was made lord chancellor in the Asquith cabinet and remained in that office until 1915, when Asquith formed his coalition ministry. Before then, at the beginning of the World War in 1914, Lord Haldane had offered to resign. He says: “In August, 1914, a formidable section of the public here had turned against me. I did not think that this was good for the government.” The reason for this attitude on the part of the war-hysterical public was that Lord Haldane had been partly educated in Germany, that he had many German friends, and that he had been in- trusted with several diplomatic missions to Germany before the war, the rec- ords of which would have shown con- clusively how much he had done both to avold war and to prepare his own country; but Asquith and Sir Edward Grey did not consider it advisable to make the records public at the time. Lord Haldane's return to office, five years before his death, was as lord chancellor in the Labor government of | Ramsay Macdonald. “I‘ have said enough to show why during the period down to 1923 I was gradually heading toward the party of Labor, being moved by the ideal of more complete and gen- eral equality of opportunity wi h which that party was associated. I had not embraced and never did adopt the de- tails of the changing programs which were put forward in its name.” After the fall of the Macdonald government Lord Haldane became leader of the La- bor opposition in the House of Lords. He died in 1928. d * ok kX On the personal side, Lord Haldane's life was the pleasant, but by no means leisurely, one of an En gentle- man of wealth and family. In London he lived during most of public life at Queen Annes Gate, where his sister often ried. lived with him, as he never mar- . But his real home was at Cloan, the family estate in Perthshire, near the Eastern Highlands of Scotland. There his mother, who lived to be well over 90, was “the dominating influence.” Many visitors came to Cloan, politicians, men of letters, scientists, university pro- f&mnmlnlg phflmfi:flm‘h ‘The llmllg spent their spare raulll‘xf an cg:ed little for purely social activities. In London, however, ‘Haldane went much into soclety and was a frequent diner-out and a welcome guest at week He was often a guest at meeting of “the Souls,” the group formed by Balfour and Margot Tennant (the second Mrs. Asquith) and others. In his youth he had been al in the study of philasophy, which he had pursued at the University of Gottingen, and the philosophical outlook remain his through life. He differed from most Englishmen of his class in not being interested in any sport and in not taking exercise. In spite of this, contrary to the theorigs of hyglenists, he had ‘About 1910 he veloped diabetes, which was held in check by diet, and later, after its dis. covery, by insulin. Only once in his life did Lord Haldane visit Canada and { the United States, in August, 1913, when he addressed the American and Capa- dian Bar Association at Montreal in celebration of the centenary of the Treaty of Ghent, and he remained on land only a week end. The auto- bilography of Lord Haldane includes reminiscences of some of his many friends—Sir Edward Grey, Asquith (Lord Oxford), Lord Morley, Lord Bal- four, Sir Edmund Gosse, George Mere- dith, Lord French, Earl Halg, Baron Rothschild, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Webb and King Ed‘;‘urg w;n,‘ Eleanor Mercein (Mrs. Kelly), whose romance, “Basquerie,” delighted most schoolgirls and others for whom senti- e rdone, but ment in fiction cannot be ove: Afifle o terization of the one | ! would probably have astonished the Basques themselves as a picture of their life, has written another Basque book, “The Book of Bette,” a collection of five stories. The Urruty family again ap- pears with its matriarch, the grand- mother of the tribe. The question is now of the marriage of Bette, a child in “Basquerie.” The whole family must participate in the selection of the mate, so they all journey to Spain to inspect the grandsons of an old friend and suitor of the grandmother. They do not meet approval and Bette takes matters into her own hands. The theory of evolution, and especially of ape ancestors, makes no appeal to old nge. Urruty, but neither does it alarm her. She simply knows that it cannot apply to the Basques. “That may well be true of other peoples (descent from apes) . . . but for ourselves, we de- scend in the direct line from Adam, as you well know. . . . And that is why we still speak amo: ourselves the Euskara, true speech of Eden, which I have reason to belleve was located in this vicinity—probably in our Valley of the Cherry Trees, a most favorable climate for it.” * ok ok ok Some women, perhaps the majority, to Paris not to spend long mornings the Louvre and the Luxembou and shorter afternoons rambling about the historic buildings of the Latin to visit continuously the mnpel de Rivoli and the boulevards. For such panion is “Paris Is a Woman’s Town, by Helen ‘Josephy and Mary Margaret McBride. The two authors, newspaper and magazine writers, know the famous dressmakers of Paris and the special- ties for which each is noted, where to look for bargains, how to shop to the best advantage, how to sen purchases home to America with the least trouble and how best to deal with French advice about restaurants, the races, theaters, studying French, furnished and unfurnished apartments and get- ting a job if one is needed. R A library on the subject of farm relief is in process of formation as the ains have been viewed from | Ch: Mayan rem: the alr, but an valuable work of somewhat similar na- ture. O, Roman origin in"i?l l'lllll‘dwwm ot glan means. The sites have been overgrown for centuries, but pho phs from the air showed, through the outlines of greener and more luxuriant crops, where the lost walls and towns had been. In British Honduras there is no such prob- losed to ground wfio to de- he vast ruins - of English aviator has done | paj G. 8. Crawford has mapped | the as time gives them a per-|old fortifications similar | slip) perience make the book readable, but economists would probably find fault with some of his conclusions. . — ——— Cotton Field Is Best. From the San Antonlo Evening News. ““New Chinese grass to be tried in the South.”. To make. hat it will do 1ts best, i salespeople, They give other practical | F ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. There s no other agency in the world that can answer as many legiti- mate questions as our Free Information Bureau in Washington, D. ‘This bullt up by and is under the direction of Frederic J. Haskin. By keeping in constant touch with Federal bureaus and other educational enter- prises it is in a position to pass on to you authoritative information of the highest order. Submit your queries to the staff of experts, whose services are put at your free disposal. There is no charge except 2 cents, in coin or stamps, for return . Address ‘The Evening Star Information Bureau, m?redeslccl. Haskin, director, Washing- Q. Who fs Hollywood?—B. . A. Tom Tyler is considered the strongest man in Hollywood, as one would be who can pounds in one hand. He is an expert horseman, having spent much of his time at his father’s ranch in Wyoming. He has also played a lot of foot ball and is a field star of note. Q. What causes singing sands to make the sounds they do?—E. W. A. A. No satisfactory explanation is given. Singing sands are found in vari- ous localities under such different con- ditions that no general conclusion has been reached. Q. Are the varlous denominations of French and English paper money the same size?—J. J. M. A. The size of the notes varies with the denominations. Q. What did the original form of chow-chow contain?—M. 8. A. This mixture of pickles was orig- inally a Chinese sweetmeat, consisting the strongest man in T. 8. \of pleces of orange peel, ginger and numerous other articles put up in sirup. Q. Is college attendance increasing yearly?—C. Y. A. Since the World War college at- tendance has increased greatly. Last year, however, =attendance increased only 2 per cent. Q. How large was the Trinity traet? How did Trinity Church it?>—R. V. B. A. The Trinity Church tract con- tained about 62 acres and was variously known as the King’s Farm, the Duke’s Farm and the Queen’s Farm. Van Twiller, the Dutch governor of New Amsterdam, sold this tract in 1636 to Roelof Jans and by his will it became the property of his wife, Anneke. She died in 1663, leaving eight children, all of whom but one, Cornelius lus, Kown a5 & ~(raBeport” seoveylng. the nown as a *“ " com property to Col. Francis Lovelace, then Governor of New York. Trinity Church was incorporated by royal charter on May 6, 1697. In 1703 Queen Anne for- mally presented the tract to the Trin- ity Church. Q. Do the days vary at all in length at the Equator?—R. B, A. At the Equator Church acquire nights are of equal length throyghout the year. to “muscle up” 240 | Q. Why did Bryan resign from Wil- son’s cabinet?—W. A. H. A. As one biographer puts it: “In- creasing irreconcilable lerences over the policy of the United States toward Germany before the entry of America into the World War, culminating in a disagreement over the second Lusitania note, brought about a breach between Bryan and President Wilson =which never again was closed. Bryan resigned il;.slsp‘?st as Secretary of State June 8, Q. Is it dangerous to go in swimming while it is lightening?—E. V. M. A. The Bureau of Standards says that it does not consider it This killed by lightning while in . The chances, however, of one being killed by lightning while swimming are comparable to the chances one while walking in a fleld and in an every- day working life may be considered un- important. Q. Who laid the first stone of Notre Dame de Paris?>—H. C. 8. A. The first stone of the .cathedral was laid by Pope Alexander IIT when, in 1163, he was passing through Paris. Q. When and why were reindeer im- ported into Alaska?—E. T. A. The qualities of the reindeer led the United States Government to en- deavor to naturalize it among the ho yer olmm:.:‘“ o{mhrfln:! Ihrml:. who were sf h the loss of food and uneconomical hab- md The rexnd'e;;ol; & dban Mh‘:‘ buMeU n and a source of and ¢! n- der_the direction of the Oom:x‘hhnzr of Education and the personal care of the Rev. Shejdon Jackson, agents pro- cured a small herd of Siberian reindeer which, with Lapp attendants, were landed in Northern Alaska in 1889, Q. When should boxwood and English ivy be trimmed?—YV. P. A. Boxwood may be trimmed either in the Fall or in the early Spring. The same applies to English ivy. o 1 When was glass first made ln‘ Q. Egypt?>—F. R. A. The manufacture of glass was known to the Egyptians at a very early date. Tombs of the fourth and fifth dynasties (4000 B.C.) show glass blowers at work. Glass bowls and other objects of glass are found in Etruscan tombs. Q. Why is Bradstreet so called”— J. A. 1t takes the name of the founder of the firm. b Q. Is the Monitor which is used as a Summer resort in New York Harbor the one which fought the Merrimac?— R. M K. ‘A. The famous Monffor of Civil War days foundered off Cape Hatteras in ‘The floating country club is = former United States monitor which " the days and| sell sell it for $8,000,600. BACKGROUND OF EVENT BY PAUL V. COLLINS. Senator Cutting vigorous speech in the s‘zm‘: r‘t’; nounces censorship o po! literature by “clerks” of the Customs Bureau. Clerks cannot be safe critics of obscene literature, or they would not be clerks, was the trend of the argu- ment. By the same token, critics of literature seldom become stal And_Senators may not have covered tiation the oration to express preciation of the “best seller” on the market tdoay, “All Quiet on the West- ern Front,” by a German private with a French name, Erich Maria Remarque. Senator Cutting said that he under- stood that 30 or more pages of the ‘?fi" translation had been eliminated, W] , of course, aroused Senator Dill at once asked what had been omifked, for he considered even what he had found, “the most striking book that had come out of the war.” ‘Whether anything has been omitted or not, the copy easily purchased by one reader contained more flithiness than any book he had ever discovered— obscenity and coarse beastliness such as could not be read aloud in any group of ul!-mxectlnx men—roughnecks or sissies—and certainly cannot be accept- ed as a fair cross-section of the sol- diers who fo ‘There is not. all the storv one indi- cation of patriotic self-sacrifice or nobility of character. There is no more heroism displayed by the character tell- ing the experiences than that of a mongrel cur at bay. Grant that “War is hell” this story no more depicts the real drama of the front than th: n stables typified Olympus. who tells the story, doubtless, is strong in realism, it is a slander not only upon soldiers in un‘er‘l:lé but upon the | ¢} average standards of rman soldiers, the compatriots of the author. How it can be accepted in the mails under existing domestic law is beyond com- prehension. Many of its scenes are unquotable in any newspaper, and cer- tTrlnlly could not be in any family circle. That this mass of rottenness can be taken as has been suggested, as an inst national defense in discuss. “argument” war, is too al But the point which Senator Cutting set out to present to the Senate was that our ‘tariff law, giving the re- nsibility of censorship of forelgn literature imported into this country, puts that duty upon incompetent cen- but thlt’:t! not fl- Western Front, realistic filth, in tion, bears a United Stal and is of most of the agitation for censor- ship. The Customs Bureau “clerks” had nothing to do with it. Let Amer- icans be as frank with themselves as its author was in writing"his own char- acter. Censorship, like charity, should begin at home;‘ e ‘The Federal law forbids the issuance of a copyright to any ‘“obscene” publication. Yet Communistic litera- ture of the most obscene nature bears United States copyright, and enthusi- astic appeals to read it find their way into every locker in high schools. Notable described in a subtitle, tion for Young People,” ring sex detalls and {llustrated with pic- Copyrighted! Mailed? n God,” and it urges, Bible make a loor}oot you.” hypoc- | national ht the war in any army. | allow Deity. Satan enters at talks with God, who contradicts St. Peter in declaring Satan a lunatic. Copyrighted blasphemy! g i * kxR i The authors of a book discussing cen< sorship, entitled “To the Pure,” by L. and William tesmen. | ris Mor Ernst Seag] this charge against the Federal situa: tion: most disgraceful unit in the game. dereliction of duty is all the more re, rehensible, since it stands at curiosity, and | suj libertarians would come into existence. The very sinister nature of the copy- right against ohfl.‘!nl!yhe‘g‘)hhu the state of desuetude into w it has been permitted to fall. Of course an author might still publish if a copyright were refused. but then he ‘would be depriv of all literary property. A kind fate ha: red the BDDYI‘I#hL law to thd most moribund of all dead letter laws in this respect.” * X ok % The same authors add: “When a shipment comes into this commy express the customs and post do not come into direct con- '\ | flict. But when books enter from abroad both the customs and the jurisdiction. Lately, the Office partment at Washington (1928) awoke to the horrible fact that e customs of New York were admit- Ung Rabelais, Boccaccio and the ‘Arablan Nights' into the country in unbowdlerized versions when they came through the foreign mails. The order went forth from Washington at once to hold the books until further notice. The cystoms became so frightened that, as the story goes, they even barred a thoroughly expurgated ‘Decameron.’* i The penalty of law u a “clerk’ who lets in an obscene is $5, fine and imprisonment, hence clerks cautious. * ok ok ok It is recorded that since the World War there has been a universal awaken: ing upon the subject of censorshig against _obscene literature. Even Soviet Russia, in Roman Catholic f | Protestant countries, in the Occiden and Orient, every nation is the question of safeguardin ture. While the Comm: vocal the abolition of family life and of religion, it transpires that they to suppress literature which opposes influence against their own ideals. the Western countries, and in 2nd Japan, a determined fight is b made sex-perversion. At Gen in 1922, an international conference obscene literature was held under auspices of the of Nations. The greatest dificulty comes in def fining what is obscene. It seems verg simple until an sttempt is made check it up with the cl d4 ‘Washington City | ards, ture of nudity in Jectionable, and used 1t readers. Japan is eagerly joining in the inter- for modest; i f 5, H 1] of New Mexico, in & | villains in Heaven, 'on an “with | | | “The Copyright Office is perhaps the '~