Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1929, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Merning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. € TUESDAY.......October 15, 1020 THEODORE W. NOYES. - Editor The Evmbe Bie Nevgpapr Compans 1t st and Pennsyivanis Ave, 65¢ per month Sc ver copy each month. or telephone ind day St ction made &t ihg ond of Orders may te sent in by mall NAtional 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Vh?lnh. Batly and Sunda; 31, 410.00: 1 ily only 36.00; Sunday only All Other States and Canada. ily anld Sunday. I‘ I’rr. ll’ll% lI =%. n’g A 3 37 35.00; 1 mo. 808 o 11 hl jsivel: ititled The ted P vely ent o the se 1oz Tepatliontion of S hews dis- atches credited to it xl’ not othel In e aed ner iee il Hehts of publication of s herein are als0 reserved. Prance and Italy in Accord. The governments of France and Italy, it is now indicated, do not regard the conversations between President Hoover and Ramsay Macdonald, the British prime minister, with the alarm which has been pictured in certain quarters. M. Briand, the French prime minister, has sent word of the gratification of the government of his country over the suc- cess of Mr. Macdonald’s visit to the United States. The word was conveyed through the French Ambassador in ‘Washington, Paul Claudel, to Secretary Stimson of the State Department. Fur- thermore, it is now revealed that the Ambassador of Italy, Nobile de Martino, also has called upon Mr. Stimson with congratulatory expressions regarding the Macdonald visit here, although he ‘was not formally instructed by his gov- ernment to do so. The attitude taken by the French prime minister, through M. Claudel, is most gratifying. President Hoover and Prime Minister Macdonald have been at great pains to make it clear that an agreement between their governments could only be regarded as a beginning of an understanding involving all the nations. There has not been the slight- est scintilla of evidence or of reason to believe that an Anglo-Saxon alll- ance was to grow out of the conversa- tions between the President of the United States and the prime minister of Great Britain. It has been. evident ever since the failure of the naval con- ference at Geneva in 1927 that some basis of agreement must be reached between the United States and Great Britain if the cause of limitation of armament and reduction of armament was to prosper. It was in search of such a basis of agreement that the gov- ernments of the two English-speaking countries have sought through their principal representatives to eliminate the old cause of disagreement. Happlly, they have been successful. In this moment of success, it would have been most unfortunate for the cause of world peace and international understanding if France and Italy had determined to remain aloof, or had there been inculcated into those nations & suspicion that an Anglo-Saxon alli- ance was seeking to dominate the world. France and Italy, like the United Btates and Great Britain, have signed and ratified the treaty of Paris, re- nouncing war as an instrument for settling international disputes. Prime Minister Briand was a leader in the movement for such & treaty, at first @s between this country and his own, and then undef the recommendation of this Government, for a treaty taking in all the nations of the world. The ratification of this treaty by fifty-six nations has, in the opinion of President Hoover and Mr. Macdonald, created a vastly different situation in the world. M. Briand must take the same view, earnest advocate as he was of this pact, ‘The hope is lively here that both France and Italy now will accept the British invitations to the naval con- ference to be held in London next Janu- ary. A fallure of these two great continental powers to accept would have cast a gloom over the negotiations at the start, even though America, Britain and Japan had been prepared to go ahead with an agreement under those eircumstances. ———————— Battleships remain under terse dis- cussion in spite of assertions that a few airplanes will be more than a match for any man-of-war. Howéver, in the effort to reach a peaceable understand- ing among nations, battleships are, per- haps, as good as any terms in which to reckon. ———————— A Step in the Right Direction. In these days of increasing traffic congestion it is refreshing to note that policemen are permitting motorists to make use of all of the avallable street space. In past years, regardless of the congestion at a particular intersection, it was a brave driver indeed who, run- ning on the car track, passed to the left of the traffic officer’s semaphore. It is dollars to doughnuts that he would immediately be stopped and lectured on his behavior, or perhaps forced to de- posit collateral at a precinct station, Today, however, common sense has taken the place of theory, and if con- ditions demand and under the proper circumstances the use of the car tracks for an extra lane of traffic is not only permitted but encouraged by tae ma- Jority of policemen. As a consequence of the innovation, the heavier volume of traffic today is handled almost as easily as was the smaller volume of a few ears ago. One axtra lene of travel at congested inter- sections makes a world of difference in clearing up what otherwise might de- velop into a bad traffic snari. “Keep to the right” is always good advice, but “Keep as far to the right as you can” is replacing it where several lines of traf- fice are waiting for the “Go” signal. run through the painted safety sones and to proceed at & pace leisurely enough to avoid frightening pedestrians who may be crossing the tracks to reach the zones. For many years the car tracks have been utilized in other large cities to speed up automobile traffic. In fact, in some citles with parking allowed on both sides of a narrow street the tracks have been the only place on which to drive and the speed of the cars governs that of the automobiles. Philadelphia and New York permit two-way passing ——that is, passing on either side of an overtaken vehicle—thus making use of every traffic lane on a given street. Washington, however, despite the fre- quency of slow-moving, middle-of-the- street motorists, has never seen fit to take up seriously a practice that has relieved congestion and brought about soc | beneficial results in cities far larger than the National Capital. The use of the street car tracks, however, when the occasion arises, is a step in the right direction. Perhaps at some future time the traffic lane next to the curb may be utilized just as effectively. L Beeing the Americas First. President Hoover has given a new fil- lip to the “See America First” move- ment. Setting promptly at rest re- ports that he might return Prime Min- ister Macdonald's visit to Washington by heading the American delegation at the London naval conference in Jan- uary, the President seized the same occasion to indicate just what his long- distance traveling plans are. They will not take him outside of the Western Hemisphere. During the next three and a half years, Mr, Hoover hopes to go to Mexico, Cuba and Porto Rico. There are other Latin American countries which he had ‘wanted to see during his pre-presidential meanderings on both sides of the Equa- tor. But time forbade. Between now and March, 1933, all being well, an- other Southern expedition is projected. It may be undertaken next year. The country’s attention is diverted at the moment, and may be for a few months to come, from Pan-American issues. Yet these, when all is said and done, remain vital issues for the United States. They at least are the peer in importance even of & naval understand- ing with Great Britain. The bulk of our foreign trade is with the nations immediately to the north and south of us, rather than with those to our east and west. No alliance ties us to the sister Americas, because something stronger than a treaty unites us—com- mon interest. ‘When Mr. Hoover was In Central and South America last Winter, he took constant occasion to volce the faith that is in him with regard to Pan- Americanism. By announcing formally that before he ventures upon any jour- neyings overseas he first purposes see- ing the rest of the Americas, the President plays, as he so frequently plays nowadays, astute politics, the poli- tics of friendship with the peoples who crave our good-will, appreciate signs that they possess it, and may be de- pended upon, in the hour of emergency, to demonstrate that it is worth the Colossus of the North's having. ———t The Best Team Won. If President Hoover went over to Philadelphia to witness the fifth game in the world series in the hope of seeing another sensational contest, marked by & surprise, such as that of Saturday when the Athletics came from behind with & ten-run rally to win, he was gratified by the event. For once again the apparently beaten Philadelphia team rallied to overcome a seemingly sufficient Chicago lead, smashing out a Victory in the final inning with a con- centration of hits. Of course the Presi- dent could not manifest any partisan- ship. He could not “root” for either side. That is one of the penalties of the high office which he holds. His delight in & winning rally would offi- clally have been as great if it had been the other way about, with Chicago smashing through from the rear to win the game. Nobody can ever really know how a base ball pitcher feels when, after eight innings of unhittable twirling, his offer- ings are suddenly smashed, flattened and propelled for long distances safely beyond the reach of fielders. His curves have become unavailing. His speed is merely a contribution to the ferocity of the rebound. His change of pace avails nothing. Everything he sends up is sent back as hits. It is a terriblc situation. And he hates to fly the signal of distress, to call for rellef. He must stay in there and take his medicine. Such was the unhappy situation of the Chicago pitcher yesterday in the pinth. Malone had been master of the Athletics previously. Then he became their slave. A few more minutes of his skill and he would have been ac- claimed as a hero, who had saved his team from defeat in the series. But it was not to be. Base ball always causes two reactions, deep sorrow on the part of the losers, high elation on the part of the winners. But the presidential spectator yesterday was limited to an expression of gratification that he had witnessed a remarkable game, a game full of thrills, a game worthy to be the conclusion of & world series that in itself will stand as one of the most in- teresting ever played. And undoubtedly the best team won, as the scores of the five games clearly show. ——ce—e. of warfare. A base ball series provides sufficlent thrills of contest with no real harm done when all is over. —_————— Strange Cults. An investigation is in progress in Los Angeles into the practices of a peculiar cult, inspired by the recent unearth- ment of the body of & young woman who apparently died several years ago and whose remains were kept under treatment by the followers of the “faith” for a long period. Other deaths have come to light, with the discovery of peculiar circumstances signifying the practice of abhorrent rites by this sect or soclety. At present several persons held in custody. The investigation are may develop the grounds for their prosecution for criminal acts. t there are in existence today or- tions styling themselves religious cults that engage in sadistic practices is Nobody now demands the excitement | ‘mutilation is in vogue in many parts of the world, even in this country, as among the flagellantes of New Mexico. In the search for satisfactory spiritual expression bizarre and repulsive oddities are from time to time developed. That some of these are sincere is not to be doubted. That some of them are de- liberately concocted for personal ag- grandizement and even for pecuniary advantage is evident from some of the cases that have reached the courts. They seem always to find followers, people who have not been satisfied with their normal, moderate religious ex- periences, who have developed latent abnormalities of character and disposi- tion and taste, whose disappointments have uncovered cravings for the strange, the cruel, the ghastly. These are what are called psycho- pathic cases. Were it not for some subtle derangements there would be no such numbers of mystic cults and such hosts of followers—and victims. It does not follow that all departures from the conventional religious forms and faiths are the result of mental un- balance. Some of the keenest, brightest and sanest of people are studying wholesome philosophies, finding in them inspiration and comfort, quite apart from the organized religions, ‘These others are excrescences on the social body, intrinsically evil, dangerous and yet impossible to eradicate com- pletely, because of the irreducible mini- mum of eccentricity in human nature. Toadstools. No one who reads of the death of one man and the serious fliness of a wife and son from eating toadstools, picked by mistake for mushrooms in Rock Creek Park, should fail to heed the tragic lesson that it teaches. Every 50 often deaths occur from eating this poisonous weed, but, like monoxide gas in closed garages, these tragedies are soon forgotten and the way for con- tinued human carelessness remains open. While certain types of mush- rooms growing wild are non-poisonous and edible, it takes a person well versed in the difference between them and the poisonous kind to gather them with any safety. The better plan, by far, is to buy the mushrooms from the family grocer. e —r—————— A short visit enabled Ramsay Mac- donald to make a favorable impression and pave the way for understanding. He would never have arrived at his present position in affairs if he had | been & slow worker. ———ee—s. An election in New Mexico is so ex- citing an affair that while there are al- ways persons willing to play the politi- cal game, no one is willing to take the risk of acting as umpire, R A suicide, plainly the result of dis- appointment and depression, is soon forgotten. It is the more depressing because there is no so-called mystery attached to it. ———rmee To make the purchaser of alcohol equally guilty with the vendor would seem only just, though leaving the hi- Jjacker still in & position of comparative immunity. ———————— Formerly most of the citizens’ anx- ieties related to taxation. The zoning system gives Vox Populi something new to worry about. A January peace conference in Lon- don i3 expected to bring new gest|is high to the salutation “Happy New Year!” SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Maytime and October. In Maytime came the modest flow's With coloring of dainty grace, And Junetime wrought a lovely bower ‘With blossoms fair in every place. But Wl October comes once more And shows the touch of Autumn frost, ‘We marvel and do not deplore The earlier beauties we have lost. Here come the crimson and the gold! ‘With Wintry silence drawing near, Adversity seems to unfold The greatest glory of the year. Sclence of Speech. “You have made some wonderful " “I have,” said Senator Sorghum. “I sometimes feel a glow of self-approval. I don't see how & less discreet man could have talked as much as I have, without getting into more trouble.” Jud Tunkins says we get a great deal of happiness out of credulity and he| wishes he were still young enough to| believe everything he saw on a circus billboard. Greetings. When statesmen met they may have led To thoughts both big and new; And maybe most of what they sald ‘Was simply “Howdy-dol” ‘Troubles. “Were you telling your troubles to a policeman?” “No. It's the other way around at present. He was telling me his." “A man, however powerful,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “must be prepared to meet some woman whose will he will have to obey.” Roughhousing the Rubaiyat. “A book of verses and & jug of wine,” Sald Omar—in philosophy so fine. Yet censorship his literature might stop And hootlég wine would surely call a cop. “What we needs,” sald Uncle Eben, “is religion dat’s durable enough to last from one camp meetin’ to de next.” . Identifying the Crash. Prom the Saginaw Dally News. | No, that crash you heard was not the crockery falling from the top shelf. Just the breaking of diplomatic rela- tions from King Zog of Albania &nd Turkey. Mark One for Gangsters. Prom the Santa Barbara Dally News. You can say one thing for Chicago gangsters. When they loot a place, they don't call it a holy var. — e Modern Dancers Too Heavy. Prom the Adrian Daily Telesram. A dancing master says many modern dancers are too heavy on their feet. And ot only theirggelther. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, Blography and detective fiction have forged to the front in bookdom so quickly and completely that the move- ment has left many readers gasping. ‘There have always been biographies, always plenty of detective stories, Wh: this sudden plethora, this jamming of the bookways with these two types? It has been estimated that 6,000 new books are to be issued by American pub- lishers this Autumn season. The total well may cause consternation among booklovers. How is one to keep up with them? Publishers themselves seemingly have slapped their own program of fewer and better books squarely in the face as they prepare to pour onto the reading ublic the largest number of volumes in he history of publishing. The demend for the two types given above, together with novels of all de- scriptions and short stories, accounts for the abandonment of the formal pro- gram of fewer books. The people want them, the people show themselves able to buy them, therefore authors and publishers every- where are willing and eager to comply. No one can blame them, but the mass of books will cause many rp.exed reader to hesitate, if not ider. * K K % Above all, the reading public de- mands biography and detective fiction. Where once blographies were merely biographies, today they are a sort of cross between the old standard “life” and the perennial novel. In reading many of the new biog- raphies it is difficult to decide whether one is reading a novel or an authorized life of some one, 8o journalistic in tone have most of them become. Even the great Encyclopaedia Britan- nica is taking & tip from the news- [Years paper reporters and has issued its new fourteenth edition crammed with pic- tures illustrating articles written by active men of affairs in the various branches of knowledge and endeavor. Successful sportsmen, both professional and amateur, handle their several specialties. The craze today is for actuality. That is why the blography and the detective novel are riding high in popular favor. The World War put an end, in thou- sands of minds, to_the old-fashioned blinking of facts. Mankind took war raw and now it is willing to take the worst and best of everything else without the batting of an eyelid. ‘The biography succeeds in doing this better than straight fiction, otherwise known as the novel. The detective story, though completely fiction, gives an impression of raw life outdoing that of the average plece of fiction, either in the longer or shorter form. * K ok ok ‘The delight of the present reading world in biography also has a bit of hysteria in it. One may wonder whether | is thousands of readers do not find them- selves in the position of the newly rich man in Moliere’s play, who went around telling his acquaintances that he spoke prose. Many present-day blography readers harbor intellectual snobbery, evidently, 50 intense is their devotion to this type of writing. They are pleased with themselves. They feel that when one is able to read such large books with pleasure one has arrived at a new peak of intellectuality. As a matter of cold fact, many of the new biographies are such “easy read- ing” that children in the sixth grade-of the public schools might indulge in them with real pleasure. Many of the “latest” biographies may y | see large and im volumes, he should have seen & boy with Romain Rolland’s “Beethoven.” He was reading away contentedly on the street car. o Are reading' e boos T have bes you are . ve intending to get. Do you like it?” The boy looked up calmly. “I like it very much,” he replied. “There one chapter in particular which appeals to me.” d he went ahead and told about it in words which no one many | d years his elder could have chosen better. ‘The point is that this is a booky age, when every one reads and most write, It will not impress your neighbors to be seen reading an expensive, large, beau- tiful “life” of any man or woman. No- body cares, One must read for him- self and without thought of others. So far this slight tinge of snobbery has clung to the read of large biog- raphies. Many feel that such reading is a mark of distinction. When this balloon of egotism is punctured one may see a different appraisal. * kK K ‘The gathering impetus of the detec- tive story seems to have some connec- tion with the “playing up” of crime in American newspapers. Just how much no one can say. Criminal news is hot off the griddle of life, The tremendous interest in some of the lamentable local murder cases outdoes anything in the experi- ence of newspaper men of many years' standing. Realistic fiction of the past has noth- ing more to offer than much of the real ui‘te ‘which goes on in every American city. ‘The detective novel, long a favorite with the few, has become the preferred reading of the millions. For many there have been weekly and monthly magazines specializing in the detective story. Scores of the “serials” published in such magazines found their way into board covers, but other thousands re- mained in the magazines. Today all that is changed. Thousands of such stories are written for book publication, to be serialized if they “go over” with the general public. d possesses in its Edgar Wal- lace a writer who almost outdoes ‘Alex- andre Dumas in productivity. His de- ed three The | tective novels are being pul to one volume, and & new one appears almost every month. Based upon the appeal of the detec- tive story, various t; of books deal- with the - criminal ac. tivities and criminal catching are being published. A most successful one is the recent “You Can Escape” of Edward H. Smith, telling of escapes from American prisons. One may safely predict that the next thing to appear in this line will be the story of prison revolt en masse, as dis- played in New York and Cdlorado. Here hole new opportunity. It is in- to recall that Gaston Leroux prison ship, in volted and impersonated the officers crew. While the public laps up detective stories and biogra) as its preferred mental fare, & given for won will last. There always tive stories, there always will be blog- raphies, but if histos and be known by their size, being issued to | remember that give the reader his money's worth in paper and binding as well as in story and writing. If any one takes any par- ticular pride in his reading of these BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V. COLLINS. A Davis, Secretary of Labor, is “a good provider’—and’ that B ise :oxl' lulln;fl‘;dmn. As head of the great family of indus of this Nation, he is an optimist. He its at the dinner table and watches 'Su food consumed, and it mekes him gl.d and proud to be an American, even y_adoption. ‘Take 500 families having incomes ranging from $960 up to $2,500 a year. What a lot it takes to feed one such family in America! He told about’ it over the radio last Sunday night, and surely the ox was in the ditch or in the barbecue, before he had finished. Just one average family of 4.7 persons eats half a huge ox a year—498 pounds of meat, not eounting bones and gristle. If that fraction of a child—7-10ths of a man—had been full grown, it would have taken more than 500 pounds of meat, from Christmas until Christmas, to feed one family of hungry Americans. Besides, it requires a lot of side dishes to feed this average American family. There are the butter, 96 pounds; milk and cream, 560 quarts; flour, 667 pounds; potatoes, 600 pounds, and a lot of other things too numerous to men- tion—including spinach. What a ra- tion! 8 O 8! ‘That story about the mendicant who was about to be buried to save from starvation, and who was offered some corn by charity to save his life, and when he learned that the corn was not shelled, bade the burial to go on, !'has its counterpart in modern Ameri- can life, for we demand our fruits and vegetables canned—half a billion dollars’ worth a year. | * kK x All the above information, and & lot more, could have been acquired Sunday evening by just listening in, but now that Secretary Davis has started some- thing in that direction, it is permissible to follow it up, for there is a great les- son in the study of the standard of liv- ing in the prosperous United States, today, as compared with a quarter cen-~ tury ago,'or with foreign nations today, where meat is a rare luxury allowable, maybe, once a week. How impressed we are to learn that in the United States there are 19,000,000 telephones and in all the rest of the nations combined less than 10,000,000! | tion And we run 22,000,000 automobiles, while all the rest of the world possesses less than 7,000,000. No wonder there is not parking room enough between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and when we do nose in at a curb we find a ice ticket nosed in at the wheel pointing to | goes 30 possible violations of law for which we should hang. “Oh, for a parking place in some vast wilderness, some boundless contiguity of shade!” How we envy Byrd in Little America; he can park all Winter! This country is just getting too dog- goned prosperous to live in! * kK ¥ Secretary Davis tells our skilled me- chanics that their wages have increased more than the pay of any similar me- chanics in other countries. And this comes right when Congress is discuss- ing how to protect American wage earners against ruinous competition of peans. Still, his radio is non- partisan. But the optimistic champion of the American wage earner lets his fancy and will run_away from some very dry statistics gathered by Willlam F. - burn and under the heading of “Stand- ards of Living as a Basis for Wage Ad- Jjustments,” published in the “Proceed- ings of the Academy of Political Sci- ence,” New York City, Vol. VIII, 1919. ‘That was when wages were at the peak, at the close of the war, yet he shows that in purchasing power they had actually fallen 20.7 fir cent, as measured in what an hour's labor would buy in the usual commodities. Even covering the period 1890-1912, when no artificial stimulant of & World ‘War affected wages, Dr. L. M. Rubinow found that there was a decline in the purchasing pow‘er‘o(.hmu‘ ly wages. nnm;;wu:smnmmmu "% American workingmin declared him | ties needed to n | impressive progressive oh | S AT RANDOM L G M. LA PFAYETTE. Brand Whitlock. D. Appleton & Co. Had you been in Washington that September day—well placed to see and hear—you would have had part in an ceremony. President of ny. The the United States, in the name of all the people, was bidding formal fare- 1 well to a French soldier, who, some- thing like 30 years before, had given our country high service in its time of eepest stress. This ular occa- sion marked the end of a tour, a tri- umphal tour, of the great Frenchman over familiar war tralls. Now he was IO% back home again to Fran “We shall look upon you always as belonging to us, d“mfi, the whole of our life, and as belonging to our chil- dren after us. You are ours by that mor%mnn patriotic self-devotion with which you flew to the aid of our fa- thers at the crisis of our fate; ours by that unshaken gratitude for your serv- ices which is a precious portion of our inheritance; ours by that tie of love, stronger than death, which has linked your name for the endless ages of time with the name of Washington.”— John Quincy Adams, President, to Gen. La Fayette. Upon that return to the United States in 1825, it was the quick growth of the country that most amazed La Fayette. The Colonial seaboard over which he had fought under Washing- ton was already facing Westward. An adolescent _youth — lusty, ambitious, eager, confident—stretching vigorous legs to cross mountains and vast plains and mountains again till the Pacific itself was gained. * Kk Kk Let us make believe some more— assume that last Sunday night, October 13, La Fayette was permitted to listen in upon a new radio program whose pur- pose is to give pause Lo this stamped- ing present, while the people sit still and look backward upon some of those who have made such present possible. And La Fayette, listening, would have found his name leading all the rest in the program of appreciation, a very Ben Adhem of a man who “loved his fel- lowmen.” More than this, he wor have discovered that all across ouf town, highway and street and park and building. institu- tions of learning, themes for art—a memorial to the French patriot and friend of America. Books and books and books have been written about La Fayette. Here is another one. And this was the way of it: Brand Whitlock, representing the United States right in the heart of the war zone, became tremendously ef- fective, as we recall, in many lines of practical usefulness. As a mere inci- dent he was invited to speak at the tomb of La Fayette on July 4, 1917. A thoroughgoing man in every direction, he made preparation for this ceremony. After it was over, La Fayette still held him. 8o, in the scarce odd minutes of several years thereafter, he read all that he could find about the man. ore I read the more I came to 1fke hinl.” Out of such liking grew this two-volume book, “La Fayette.” * ok ok Xk Hardly & blography. The simon- ure biographer is a recorder of fact. th, with a touch of ancestry. Then a r&n ot‘n;g:;u through, childhood, youth, m , age. Death. With possibly & ture toward “influence upon €s.” X, however, - |such point that he inf ignificant and - }I&ny continuous trend towar nalle requirements, physiological sense, not the (Should not our Secretary of Labor warn us all udxm“ihmony? We should baconize—a stre of fat and a streak of lean is about right.) “This has been especially the case in the United States,” say the -mm in the report, “and the tendency been more pronounced in recent years. This ternal manifest matters the chief concern of the a he recreates the human, setting him out, alive, by virtue of the intimacy of his contacts with the heart and soul :‘gamcntl lineage, jover e , here is a I of e world. ‘worl cut ou th at home and across the ses in Colonial America. Young, ardent, romantic, ambitious—not to be denied, not to be circumvented. yet still the advocate of freedom with almost 3 n exile, , contumely—an old you see, fles the tyranny of kings and over- It is & great is a story and plex sential, story, decline has occurred largely in energy- | dominating producing foods and chiefly in quanti- maintain bodily heat and energy for active work. are no indications of appreciable change in the individual requirements for mineral salts, vitamins and proteines for tissue displacement, or in the ene: requirements for on the sim- ple bodily functions. The physiological requirements for gro dren have x{aor. ch-g:edh,) except as - may be af- fected by Increased ac in and by s in " S age and sex distribu- glon of the W&Ifillflnn. Declining rates f infant and ld mortality tend prox- imately to increase the proportion of gro children, and increasing aver- ages longevity of adults tends to af clearer squnmonl men. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. the first verse of “Mary had lamb.” Q. Is clover seed used in the making of dye?—P. H. G. A. The Bureau of Chemistry and Solls says that, despite rumors to this effect, it has not found a single manu- facturer who utilizes this material in making dyes. In eral, vegetable colors are very fugitive to light and ‘washing. Q. When did Alla Nazimova come to Russian company and was Yalta, Crimea, Russia, in 1879. . Does & le: from a _heght, lose mmfineumre reach- VX Soon taling trom »_great B TSOn a elen.tlonpsoes not necessarily lnu‘g:nu Presbyterian Church of St e resent ofganaation &nd e equipped nnvdr::mm Rockefeller trust in the most modern manner with all conveniences and comforts. — N . Q. Is the eye quicker than the ear?— A. The velocity of light is much greater than the velocity of sound in afr. 1t is therefore true that the eye is uicker than the ear. This g solutely perfect vacuum. This is intellectual concept. chemical method has No sclousness before reaching the ground.| me: This popular belief was exploded in 1928 by a series of experiments con- ducted by Army fiyers. Q. Has Hudson Bay many harbors? —R. C. T. A. Port Churchill, at the mouth of the Churchill River, is the only harbor available in Hudson Bay. It is a terminal of one branch of inadian Railroad. Ca: Q. Who was the donor of the art school of the John Herron Art Insti- tute in Indianapolis?—G. E. A. The donor's name remains un- known and is not to be announced. Q. Why was rye more it in Colonial America than it is now?—R. 8. A. Rye was more important to America than it is to the present-day Americans, because the Colonjals cultivated it. While they were still living in Europe their main als were rye and oats. Naturally the new country these two articularly suitable for the raising of wheat. Q. What is the approximate cost per mile to operate & bile?—J. F. T. A. The Automobile Chamber of Com- merce says that for a light four the cost 15 6.02 cents per mile; for a medium :&r, 6.42 cents per mile; for a light medium six, 8.40 cents per mile. Q. What - did George Washington usually eat for breakfast?>—W. D. C. A. In “The Wi House in i " the statement is . ‘ashington’s unvi menu for the morning meal was In cakes, honey and tea. Q. Are all white dogs deaf?—L. G. M. | the A. All white dogs are not deaf. For instance, the Spitz dog, which is all white, i8 not deaf. tweight automo- . . The 1865, is able to produce a vacuum 8o nearly perfect that the residual pres- sure probably does not exceed the 400,000,000th part of an atmosphere. frame house as warm as of 8-inch hollow tile and ?—C. G. K. Q. Is a one made gles or clapboards ylelds a warmer house than 8-inch hollow tile and brick ‘veneering. Q. When will the Christmas seals be on sale which are put out by the Tu- Association?—A. N. gun in 1635. gone for many years. It is now housed in a fine, commodious building. 7.38 cents per mile, and for a|ed made | from F FR382 Practical aspects of Senator Shep- pard’s measure in Congress to extend the scope of the Volstead law so as to alize the of liquor have % forth much unfavorable dis- ‘The bill is viewed in the light & decision by a Federal court in that the buyer can- not be ‘under the existing law. ‘The ties of enforcement are old— | Then the annals of him who de- | would Many an anecdote, many an inddentlmy in their movement by & reasonable serves this purpose along with the larger phases of the life of La Fayette. At the very of the book is a little story t, in effect, delivers the whole of La Fayette to his readers. It had been a cold Winter and one of great suffering in Auvergne. The peasant people had been terrified over the report of a monster that came out from the woods in the dark nights, drawing nearer night by night to their homes. The ple could talk of noth- else. in his safe home, little Gilbert (La Fayette) talked in whispers to his young cousin about the great beast running wild at night. Gilbert walked back to the chateau beside the Abbe, he fell silent. He walked erectly, in his stout buckled shoes and thick woolen s the increase the proportion of more elderly | skirts persons. “The net effect of these and other factors may be to decrease the propor- of persons in the age-groups (over 11 and under 45) whicl juire more than the average amount of food for fi,"”‘“ other than for purposes of at and activity.” Modern food is better balanced and more attractively prepared, so a little farther. Raymond Pearl, the famous statistician of the Food Adminis- tration, computed the annual average consumption of the United States for six years—1911-12 to 1916-17—as ap- pro: tely 130 trillion calories—4,200 calories per day adult, or, after al- lowance for edible waste, it was 3,424 calories per day. Yet the reduction faddists would put us on a 1,200-calory basis, on the ground that “nobody loves a fat man.” What does the Secretary of Labor propose—continual overfeeding, or the “boyish figure” for American labor? Oh the shame of his statistics! All that meat and everything! No wonder our European enemies loat over us: “Would he were fatter! ‘et I fear him not.” The fatter get, the more readily will Europe duce armaments. (Copyright, 1929, by Paul V. Collins.) we Te- Passes Up Free Tickets, Prom the Indianapolis Star. Premier Macdonald is s disappoint- mer::hnt: many to his Railroads, Take Notice! From the Ashland (Ky.) Daly Independent. A transcontinental railroad official says the box-car hoboes are disappear- . But perhaps by bcttering fa- flflu- the line could ess, of be prohibited. It did not. Congress What it did not do do by statute. That certainly be understandable to all. at this time make purchase illegal with- out first amen g the eighteenth amendment.” Ref to the recent decision, the In News remarks that “the court evidently stuck close to the word- cannot should ‘We cannot his | Ing of the statute, which provides that reddish hair giving him a sedate air for oné who was only 8 years old. An expression of determination had settled on his freckled face, he had made a resolution; he would go forth and slay this monstrous wild beast in single combat; it was his duty as a nobleman, lord of the manor of Chavaniac—and a LaFayette. He was the marquis now, the last of his line; it all depended on him.” There he is. Ardent for the obligations imposed upon him for the well-being of-wwell, of the world. A lovely little story, hol ‘man within the little boy. There are innumerable points at which you love the impetuous young fellow, forever bent to the redressing of human wrongs, for the establishment of human rights. The life of La Fayette is fairly well known to the most of us. It is largely for these illuminating side lights upon the man and for the story quality of the hero’s life that this | em particular study stands high. Here is an incident in which La Fa- yette and Beethoven meet in spirit. Both were enthusiastic supporters of Napoleon —that is, as long as the little Corsican confined his genius to the triumphant cause of democracy. But on that day when the world-conqueror proclaimed himself Emperor of France and set about the further business of unmaking kings all over the continent of E: for the sake of making new ones, chie &}u “x::l ow:‘x’ nmny—f.lme.nI La s onaf openly_repu the fat little war and Emperor of the French. And Beethoven—what did he do? Why, he tore to shreds the en- thusiastic dedication of his ‘rut sym- phony, “Eroica,” to this pseudo-deliverer of the people when he discovered him to be a renegade to the theory of human "‘-Ffi' e clear charm lie in the power of its . Exhaust recapture this 3 no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, fur- nish or passess any intoxicating liquor, except as authorized; but the section ends with the statement that the pro- visions ‘shall be liberally construed to the end that the use of intoxicating prohibi there will be more pul officials, more killing of of the prohibition law, more big, and medium sporadic cerned. “Benator Sheppard is filn. directly contrary to the express intent amendment,” declares eighteenth prohibitionists’ aim is clearly to pose total abstinence upon the body of the people—to make it a hdflnkl'g:’. wine. It majority of the of this program, let with it without tions. * * Perhaps but let us at least put & real test.” m- entire crime of beer or a glass of believe that a liquor as a beverage may be pre- | tional vented.’ The Federal law does not pre- vent the possession of liquor in a pri- vate home, for the use of members of the family and bona fide guests, yet it regards any possession of liquor as arhlmt{?ele nelvidmce that aucl; uor ept for illegal purposes, and when & question arises as to thcse who - sess it the burden of proof be upon the possessor in any action con- cerning the same to prove that such liquor was lawfully acquired, possessed “The results to be expected from the in the mind of Brand Whitlock, the slow ergence of the heart of the matter, center of the life circulation of the man himself—all preliminary to the book in hand. All a getting ready for the projection of this character out of the out of our own past, all material for this creative work of the novelist. Enriched with a thousand vitalizing and {lluminating bits of the life around him, here is the essential man, La Fa- yette, clear and high in his work as a champion of freedom in a time w o meant to its ldvocAau- umo:: man, often & mistaken one in his ardor and impatience, \ high value of this “Life” and its | research to hen e courage to liv to e e U of its enforcement > e purchaser should be any more immune * the seller. Should the measure be adopted, it will remain to be seen Jjust how far it will extend. * * * The &mu!ruthumttherehmnfl oxunt to interfers with the m:; those who have money enoug! get what they want.” Setting Pace for Women. From the Topeks Daily Capltal. of peace, says lhwlmm uun donald. '{:eyvm have , nevertheless, to keep ahead Herbert and Ramsay. Case of Double Jeopardy. Prom the Memphis Commercial Appesl. Senator wants to mwmmdm-unu ‘This is & plain case of double ——ae—————. Behold United States!