Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1929, Page 6

[] THE EVENING STAR - With Sunday Morning Edition. __ v'Alx!NOTON, ». C. SATURDAY. ... November 9, 1929 THEODORE W. NOYES. . Editor The Imlu'.y‘:‘-r Newspaper Company icago Office Dean Offi Rate by Carrier Within the City. Evening Star_ 45¢ per month e Evening and Su (when 4 Sundays) 60c per month unday Star The. Evening and Sund (when 5 Sundays) 85¢ per month The Su €Dy fon made at'ihe snd of each monin. may B sent in by mail or telephone Ritional Rate by Mail—Parable in Advance. » nd 3 ily and Sunday....1 yr. $10.00: 1 mo.. 85¢ aily only yr. 86.00: 1 mo. 50c | junday only mo.. yr. $4.00; 1 All Other States and Canada. 1 $3.00; 1 mo., En Member of the Associated Press. ‘The Associated Press is exclusively cntitled to the of all 1ews dis- . a other ited in th published he special dis wise cred- e local 1ews f publication of wlso reserved. it or not. per and alse . All rights hes herein a Britain in ‘Washington. With the formal opening of the South African legation, the British Empire has Just dedicated its fourth diplomatic es- tablishment in the United States. In addition to the British embassy there are now legations of the Irish Free State, the Dominion of Canada and the Union of South Africa. Under the An- within the carefully ascertained zone, he waits for his opportunity, the while wondering if the swiftly oncoming mo- torist will realize his position of theo- retical inviolability. This offers him quite a thrill after the humdrum affairs of the business day. No one can dis- pute the necessity of these little intern- ment camps, or disparage their advan- tages when clearly defined. But when one, or several, must first discover the metal hump and then take stand within a certain number of estimated feet and in a certain line therewith, they arrive within the class of the nervous movie extra who, when assured that certain liong did not eat meat, in- quired earnestly if the lions themselves were aware of it. Eventually these lines are to be defined in some m permanent fashion; in the meantime the slogan should be “More paint!” ———t—i Switzerland Gets the Bank. Long controversy over the location of the Bank of International Settlements, created under the Young reparations plan, was settled at Baden-Baden yes- terday. It will be established in Swit- zerland, and probably at Zurich, the Alpine republic's industrial and financial = | eapital. Interest in the outcome of the bank site controversy was keen, because the dispute disclosed, the chronic jealousies which pervade Europe, Leagues and Locarnos to the contrary notwithstand- ing. Great Britain, France and Bel- gium, the countries mainly concerned with reparation payments, exhausted every possibility at the protracted glo-Irish agreement of 1922 “Southern Ireland” has the same consiitutional status in the community of nations eomprising the empire as the self-gov- erning dominions farther oversea. Egypt, t0o, has its own Minister and legation in Washington. While the Nile Kingdom is mot a part of the British Empire, Egyptian foreign af- fairs, even under the pact of liberation recently negotiated, remain to a certain extent under the supervision of Lon- don. Thus, with the exception of Aus- tralia, New Zealand and India, John Bull's “daughter nations” one by one are achieving diplomatic sovereignty abroad, and, by that token, solidifying their sense of independent nationhood. The natural impulse is to acciaim Britain's magnanimity in so flattering the national pride of the Irish Free Staters, the Canadians, the South Afri- cans and, as will sooner or later be done, the pride of Australians, New Zealanders and Indians as well. But is it merely magnanimity? Is it not, in fact, imperial and enlightened self-in- terest? Is it not, in short, sagacity rather than generosity? Ever and anon Britain’s detractors, who on occasion have included some of our own senatorial irreconcilables, point out with pertinacity, and view with venom, the fact that Britain has no fewer than six votes and voices in the League of Nations. Well, she now has four spokesmen in Washington and & quasi fifth. Instead of Ambassador Howard playing a lone hand in the game for Britannia, he will hencefor- ward have as partners Messrs. Mac- White, Massey and Louw. And, before 1930 is very old, he will probably have two more coadjutors from “down under,” | Australia and New Zealand. Then Mr. Bull will have his sextet of repre- sentatives in our - diplomatic corps Just as he now marshals such a brigade &t Geneva. All this is not to say that British policy at Washington can eount invari- ably upon “daughter nation” support. ‘The Irish, Canadian and South African Ministers are far removed from being diplomatic automatons. Their respective | personalities, apart from their official prerogatives, are a guarantee that that is not so. Neverthless it is true, and it | is plain, that British imperial influence om the Potomac is waxing fat, ————s Senate Toys. ‘The spectacle of the dignified mem- bers of the United States Senate gather- ing around a table of toys in the chamber is one to excite the delight of their constituents. The toys were from foreign countries, displayed in con- nection with the tariff, One Senator blew on a horn, another strummed a ukulele. For a few mo- ments spectators almost expected to see Santa Claus, garbed in regulation red and white, ascend the dais. ‘This “party” was a human revelation to all who care to read. Senators are shown to be what every one knows them to be, but which sometimes many forget, simply human beings—real human beings. No matter how great a man may be in his own State, or in his own eyes, ‘when he is faced with s pile of glitter- ing, colorful toys, he becomes a boy again, if for no more than a few moments. ‘This is good for a Senator, just as it is good for plain human beings who do not sit in the councils, It means that & man is prevented from taking himself too seriously. That is bad, even | in the Senate. e It is now suspected by Policeman Allen that his chief satisfaction may consist in the knowledge that he started something. He has at least escaped the depression of a dormant existence. s Imaginary Sanctuaries. A _thrilling, albeit risky, game now playable within the District by motor- ist and pedestrian alike is guessing when one is, respectively, running through or standing in s safety zone. Some of their boundaries glitter like a gridiron just marked out for the big game; others are s0 nearly obliterated that it would need a detective or an point. Baden-Baden bank experts’ meeting to land the institution, respectively, for London, Paris or Brussels. International lines were tightly drawn in favor of this or that com- petitor. London had the powerful sup- port, besides that of the British dele- gates, of those from Germany and ‘The Prench, having found that Paris was out of the running, finally joined the Italians and the Belgians in support of Brussels. The tug-of-war was at last won by an outsider—Switzerland. The Amer- icans who participated in the Baden- Baden joust were neutral. As such, it seems a safe bet that behind the scenes they probably functioned as umpires between the warring European and Asiatic brethren. The imbroglio over the reparations bank was an aftermath of The Hague conference, in which Mr. Snowden won his famous British vic- tory over the French and Italians. Doubtless the discomfited continentals feel they have taken a sweet revenge by cheating London of its eager ambition to make Threadneedle street the seat of the bank which is to see that the recurring transfers of German repara- tion payments do not upset the world's financial equilibrium. e Adhesive. It has long been a standard joke that postage stamps were difficult to affix to letters, owing to the ease with which the “stickum” licked off. ; Until recently the Government smiled Ppleasantly every time this joke was ex- ploited. It afirmed the competence of its stamps to stick to any letter if properly. applied. Patrons of the post office went right along licking the gum off, and resorting to a paste pot to make the stamps stick. Now it seems as if the Government has at Iast realized that something was wrong about those stamps, and that the fault did not lie entirely with heavy lckers. A new process of manufacture is be- ing put into effect which, it is said, leaves more gum on the stamps, thus supplying enough for flavor as well as | adhesiveness. Formerly the stamp was printed and gummed through one machine in the same process. The new method in- volves printing one day, allowing the stamp to become dry, and then applying the gum later. No change has been made in the ingredients going into the:-gum, it is stated; the new process simply puts more gum on the back. ‘Thus stamp consumers—in more ways than one—will find the old reliable flavor, but & new adhesiveness which Uncle Sam believes will put the old- time joke into the discard. ——————— A parrot marched through Wall Street screaming, “More margin!” Evi- dently a stockbroker's pet impressed by the office conversation. —_—— e Reference to “sons of the wild jack- ass” need bring no elation to admirers of the Democratic “donkey.” There are also some wild elephants in the herd. ———t——— Probably Cole Blease is daring Sens- tor Brookhart to pick on him for carry- ing a hip flask to a dinner party. ——oe—s Levinson’s Lingual Lapse. Presence of mind, it is called. The phrase means quick, correct thinking. It means the ability to do the right thing in an emergency, to say the right words. The other day in New York failure of that quality cost a man his life. He did the wrong thing in a crisis and he spoke the wrong words,. Yet the words he uttered were the ‘ones he meant to speak, were the ones that he thought were the right ones. But they had the wrong meaning for those who | heard them. The case has its place In the record of things that should not have been done. ‘Two armed men entered the office of Samuel Levinson, manufacturer, and, presenting pistols, called for “hands up” and demanded that the pay roll of the establishment, amounting to $550, be handed over to them. Levinson jumped to his feet, and, leaving the three girls archeologist to determine whether, at who were seated with him in the réom, some remote period, a refuge had or |started to run out and cried, “Let 'em had not been established at a given | have ft!” He undoubtedly meant that the girls should give the intruders the Of course, there is the metal hummock | cash, which lay at hand on a desk. to give one a faint clue. Too often, how- But the wayfarers with the guns ever; this has assumed & dirty ‘grayish | did not so interpret the remiark. It is tone almost indistinguishable from the | of sinister import in the so-called un- adjacent asphalt and in the dusk or on | derworld. “Let 'em have it” means to & rainy day the driver of & car finds it | “Give ’em the works,” or, in plainer suddenly almost under his front bump- | terms, “Shoot 'em.” Of course, had the ‘With recent penalties imposed on|gunmen taken & moment for thought, those who run through such zones,|as Levinson should have 'done, they instant, he is flanked by a vehicle to | suspicion, his right, or his left, or both. He must [ They bcth shot at the fleeing man, efther stop short or run brashly through | mortally wounding him, and then, the space that once in the long ago was | without taking the cash that lay im- sst apart by broad stripes of anowy | mediately before them, they, too, fled T — ot even though unoccupled, freshly ih|would have known that he meant no mind, his impulse is to swerve right or | harm to them by his four words. But left. It is more than likely that, at this | they were impulsive persons, quick of perhaps highly nervous, and made their escape. wishes . -Here is & sequence of blunders. Levin- T, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON “THIS AN up and ran, instead of obligingly hold- ing up his hands, as the girls did. Then he made the second by calling out words that meant to his hearers some- thing quite different from that which he intended. Theh the trespassing callers made a third when they misun- derstood his meaning and fired their shots, and a fourth when, the shots fired and the fleeing man lying wounded on the floor, they themselves fled with- out taking the cash. Perhaps this was just another ama- teur job. There are so many incompe- tents in the crime game nowadays, juvenile imitators of real professionals, slight-minded and' frail-nerved copyists of true crooks. Really, there should be some regulation of crime, some 'pren- ticeship required, some training in gun- ship and in “situations,” in language and in psychology. Plundering at the point of a pistol would be far less cost- ly in terms of lives, far less dangerous to the contributors of cash and to the collectors as well. This department of soclal behavior needs attention, e The Busy Burglar. ‘The busy burglar is a citizen which a large community elways has with it, whether law-abiding residents like him or not. Recently this omnipresent person has been particularly ready with his jimmy in all parts of Washington, On one day police received reports of thefts ranging from a vanity case valued at one hundred dollars to twen- ty-five bushels of potatoes. A rug and & set of radio tubes disappeared from an apartment. Bankbooks, clothes and wrist watches went by the same route. Perhaps the oncoming of the Christ- mas season may. have something to do with it, but probably human nature, in the last analysls, is to blame. Envy still plays a powerful part in the opera- tions of human beings. Carelessness, on the part of house- holders, often tempts men who have developed certain traits of slyness, superimposed on constitutional laziness. ‘The ease with which many doors and windows may be “forced” is amaz- Ing to all except the police. They know that the thing is easy. Unfortunately, so do burglars. Many residents offer constant temptation to the latter by leaving doors and windows unlocked. One way to lessen the number of burglaries is to make entrance more difficult. There are to be had locks which are supposed to be “jimmy- proof.” Police yearly advise residents |to refrain from pulling blinds down when they are away from home, yet perhaps nine out of ten houseowners scrupulously close them, thus signaling to the sneak that “no one is at home.” vl asitniin Students of ticker tape sre not ex- pected to be profound in the lore of chemistry as applied to manufacturing. Many who have been devoting atten- tion to steel prices will have to read up in order to find what manganese has to do with the case. A few may look into zoology under the impres- sion that it is some kind of an animal. It is well known that a number of the most ardent speculators know very. little about the article in which they attempt to deal. e The tariff is a subject that has been discussed by wise minds through many years, yet popular attention always finds the topic as good as new. - A certain optimism is now war- ranted by the indisputable fact that no stock market can go one way all the time. ——oe— There are still men in Wall Street sufficlently independent in wealth to organize a “Don’t Worry Club.” Oil can be made profitable, but it does not invariably bring personal good for- tune along with the dividends. —_— e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Ticker. My grandfather’s clock, 'most a hundred years old, ‘Was bringing good news day by day. Of hours that serenely were passing it told And it kept the bad news all away. I loved the “tick tock” that brought never a shock; And now, as I hark to the tone, I wish I had stuck to my grandfather’s clock. And had left the stock ticker alone. Making a Distinction. “Are you a ‘wet’ or a ‘dry'?” “Which are you talking about,” asked Senator Sorghum, “a dinner party or an election?” Jud - Tunkins says there is no use of feeling sure you can beat the stock market unless you have 50 much money that you can take your time for it to g0 your way. Superabundant Ascertainment. Investigation goes quite as before. ‘We meet the same old fate. ‘We learn one thing; with it a dozen « more ‘We must investigate. Stimulating Modern Interést. “We must do something to keep the young people interested in their school books.” “Perhaps,” said the weary teacher, “we might try illustrating them like story magazines or fashion periodicals.” “Centuries ago,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “men frighteped them- selves with imaginary dragons. Airplanes are much more formidable, yet of a real danger no one is afraid.” Playing the Game, Again the statesman bravely spoke: “This tariff work is not a joke— Upon the game let's keep a check, And never try to mark the deck.” “A man dat's allus selfish,” said Uncle Eben, “is liable not to get much out o life excep’ a chance to be lonesome.” Never Traveled Detour. Prom the Jacksonville A New York objects in thé universe can be sepa: by more than 54,000,000,000,000,000,000 ‘miles. That fellow never has traveled a detour. " *|ing wh claims no two | e rated BY CHARLES E. A stroll through Center Market is guaranteed to make the most appetite- lacking person water at the mouth. At the same time, realizing that he could not eat one one-thousandth of what he sces, he will be filled with regret. ‘This curlous combination of & desire to eat as much as one could hold, and the realization at the same time that the thing is utterly impossible, comes to most geaple who go for a walk | through the market. ‘Tons and tons of food, all of it look- ing and smelling =0 good! The poor, finite capacity of any one human being }5 flrbhergnaud—lnere is no other word or it. Confronted by stands fairly crammed with good things sending up their clean, sharp odors, the spectator regrets mightily that he is not a cormorant or some 'other creature with Gargantuan appetite. pl“)l: feels a fellow sympathy with the | glant attempts of the anclent Romans to eat until they burst, almost. In the market a stroller begins to understand something of the spirit which induced men of old to sit down before high-laden tables determined to eat all that was put b>fore them. He recalls all those fine country din- ners of his younger days, dinners served up by women who cooked for farm- hands and other laborers with the soil, men who had been out in the fresh air singe sunrise. Abh, that is the way to work up an appetite! The market saunterer can see those big tables filled to the edge with dishes. There were great mounds of smoking mashed potatoes, seasoned with melted butter, salted just to taste. ‘There were sweet potatoes, and siring beans, and ham, and fried chicken, and cole siaw and tomatoes, and bread and butter, chow-chow, jelly, hot bis- cuits— Yum! yum! those hot biscuits! And avy—why, the gravy all by itself was :raqunre meal—and when one coul sop it up with hot biscuits, there was & feast better than a king could get, because are not supposed to dip their bread in gravy. And every one knows that there is no other way to eat it properly. We feel sorry for these too-nice folks who are perpetually afrald to eat the way they want to. Etiquette sometimes is & hard taskmaster. Everybody knows that the best way| to eat & slab of pumpkin pie is to pick | it up by the crinkled side and approach | the pointed end to the mouth with as| much speed as possible. The same procedure goes for gravy. ‘There is but one way to eat gravy satisfactorily, and that is to grab a piece of bread, sop it in the gravy lhdi eat it at once. In achieving this satis- | faction there is no partjcular need to make a hog of one's self, but we sub- mit that gravy consumed more daintily is not the gravy we used to know, and that the farm hands still know and that the college boys in boarding houses throughout the country enjoy even unto this day. Such thoughts as these come as one | strolls_through Center Market. We al- ways have thought that the south side of the building, with the country people | on the sidewalk, has managed to- get more than its fair share of publicity. Almost everybody who writes about the market raves about the color, atmos- phere, etc., of the outside stands. The inside stands, it secms to us, are every whit as interesting, as bright, as color- ful and much more appetizing. We submit that what a market is for is food and that the more food one finds to the square inch the bigger and better market he has. You can go in at any door and that very minute you are confronted with food. The plenitude of food is what is amazing. Surely people eat a great deal. This truth is brought home to| d | of chickens, the green of pickles, the D TL T TRACEWELL, one as he sees and smells the foodstuffs on display. It would not seem that all the people in Washington together :ulg eat all the food that is in Center arket. What boxes of s, what masses of rolls, cakes; ‘What slabs of cheeses, what briskets of beef, what maunds of ‘nuts, what vases of chrysanthemums! No one person could hove to buy it all in a year, and yet probably few purchasers but wish they could not only buy, but eat, it all, too, in a day! Such is the effect of the market, even on a person with a poor appetite. One | may wonder what it would do to a man with first-class eating abilities. There was a big dog there that day. It had always been our impression that dogs were ot permitted there, but this cne was there bigger than life. He was acting in & most gentlemanly manner, but no one could have blamed him if he had broken his leash and made a grab for one of the large steaks which swung so red and tempung but a few feet from his nose. The food odors must be overpowering almost to a four-footed creature. Even | the blunted scnse of a human beng| finds the mingled odors delectable. Half the joy of walking through the market is to smell the good things. ‘The air has a curious favor—half sharp, half sweet, as if a good cook had mixed her sugar and salt deftly, not by rule, but with that sublime in- difference to precept which sometimes results in masterpieces. Aiding the sense of smell is that of sight. Color has a great deal to do with one’s joy of the market. No doubt it was this combination which led Emile | Zola to write his book based on the; market people of France, called “I'he Eeliy of Paris,” but given a softer name when put into Enghsh, The colors of the ious foods are the accents, as it were, of a gustatory :Knphony with the white of celery d eggs, the reds of meat, the yellows purple of eggplant, the brown of nuts and leaves and many other colors play- ing important 3 Here may find foods of parts. the curious which they scarcely dreamed, yet which are well known and liked by many others. The cheeses seem infinite in variety. Honey may be secured in glass or the comb. One thinks of the days when he chewed honeycomb as a child or of that day still distinct in memory when Grandfather was treed by a swarm and stung badly. Here Buenos Alres meets Wisconsin, beef answering back to cream cheese. Huge bricks of pimento cheese make an especial appeal to woman pur- chasers; somehow the pimento tang strikes a feminine note. All hearts respond to the lure of pound cake, light and golden. This is the favorite cake of men the world around. They say that the Pennsylvania house- wives make it better than those of any other State, but we question that in all sincerity. To be right, pound cake must not be too dry. This is where many fall down. light, but not too dry. Nor is it too yellow. Be suspicious of the slice which is too golden. Like perfect butter it should have a delicate, artistic coloring. Here is chow-chow. But this chow- chow is not our chow-chow. This is in huge lumps, but the kind we were brought up on was cut up fine and small as the result of much chopping in bowls. We will purchase none of this chow-chow. We will go to yonder stand where sausages are for sale and stand like the big dog, snuffing the fra- grant air. Like the dog, the saussge 15 not for us. Time and experience has enforced this wisdom so many times that we-no longer rebel. We stand and snuff and then move on with re- gret, for this is one of the finest, zesti- est smells of all, peculiarly so when one dare not eat. 4 Is Generously Who's to blame for the tariff tangle?, This question, brought to the fore by President Hoover's appeal for action, is answered in many ways. While few | agree on the spot to lay the guilt, there | is general recognition of the power, for good or evil, as the case may be, of | the Democratic and insurgent Repub- lican coalition. “The President is more concerned over the tariff row than is Congress,” according to the Topeka Daily Capital (Republican). “It is his extra session, called for a single purpose. Failure of | the tariff session t6 carry out the party pledge will give the Hoover adminis- | tration an unfortunate start. It is pos- sible that the President waited too long to exert executive influence on legisla- tion in this case, where presidential prestige is so plainly at stake. If the special session ends in abject failure there will be inevitable criticism of the President for not taking a strong posi- tion when it might bave been effectual. The moderation, calmness and good temper of President Hoover do not im- ply that he is not greatly disturbed by a situation full of political trouble.” Differing from this interpretation is the theory of the Detroit Free Press (independent) that “the trouble over the tariff bill which has arisen since April is due largely to the circumstance that Congress, and specifically the House of Representatives, did not follow the | President’s recommendation, but forth- with undertook a general revision, which has produced what those best versed in its contents csnsider one of the most thoroughgoing of all high-tariff measures. The bill gives oprortunny for wide, honest differences of opinion regarding specific schedules, and, what is much more productive of delay and difficulty, it has given those who place politics first and the good of the coun- try second wide scope for the exercise the of their peculiar talents.” is viewed by the Manchester Blame fo;' the Tariff Tangle Passed Around the conference committee. A legislative body must function, if at all, through its majority, whatever that majorily may be.” The Columbus Evening Dis- patch (independent) contends that “the one chance that now seems fairly promising for-the passage of any kind of tariff bill at all within the next few months would seem to lie in dropping the Hawley-Smoot bill, and dealing chiefly with those agricultural products on which there is a pretty general feel- ing that the tariff experiment should be tried, plus only such items in the non-agricultural schedules as could prove themselves to be in a languishing Elondmun because of foreign competi- on.” . “Generally speaking,” states the Bir- mingham News (Democratic), “the couniry holds the President responsible for the efficiency of his administration. It did so with Mr. Cleveland—wise and courageous though Mr. Cleveland was. It did so with Mr. Taft—sincere and kindly though Mr. Taft was. It will do so with Mr. Hoover, no matter what Real pound cake is|be D. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1929. THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover The theme of Ellen Glasgow's latest novel, “They Stooped to be the ch;n(l.n: (i throw) of all stan the opening of the twentieth century— standards of taste, manners and morals. Illogical as it may seem, and yet en- tirely true to reality, the character in the story who adheres most closely to traditional standards is & young woman. Mary Victoria Littlepage has done war work in Europe and has gone back &ft- erward to help in the reconsiruciion of the suffering Balkans; she has all the modern ability to take care of her own affairs, all the independence, all the efficiency; yet, whenever there is a test of fundamental ideas, hers are the old ones. Her mother, weary with a forty- year struggle to do her duty, be a good wife and mother and keep cheerful meanwhile, inwardly wonders whether it has all been worthwhile; Mary Vie- toria could never wonder about the worthwhileness of anything she had done. Even Aunt Agatha, for years rel- egated to the seclusion of a back bed- room in her nephew’s house because of a sin, or “folly,” of her youth, is really, with her appetite for movies and ba- nana sundaes, more radical in her inner thoughts tHan Mary Victoria. The older people in the story, like the younger ones, are divided into two groups, per- haps according to temperament—those who, like Mr. Virginius Littlepage rnd Miss Louisa Goddard, however much they may play with radical ideas, are essentially conservative; and those who, like Mr. Marmaduke Littlepage, Milly Burden and Martin Welding, are essen- tially adventurous and lawless. ERE ‘The thread of story in “They Stooped to Folly” is slight, the characters are interestingly real, but the ~pigrummatic style is what most distinguishes the book. Epigrams are spicy, but one can easily have too much spice in - food. Also, if spice is a trifle stale, it fails to please the palate, At their best, Ellen Glasgow’s epigrams are saniusing. Here are some of them. “Virginius admired frugality in woman almoat as fervencly as respected chastity.” “No lady of the nineteenth century . . . would have asserted an inalienable right to her life.” “Louisa had attained ‘he per- fect sophistication which finds social misdemeanors less exciting than the imponderable sins of psychology.” only she could realize that life isn't spent either in Heaven or Hel}, but in the sultry isthmus of Purgatory!” “He had suffered the painful process of be- ing mouided into an ideal.” *“How can there be any civilization without regu- lar hours?” “You'can't take art very seriously when it doesn’t bring you & living.” “Mrs. Dalrymple . . . had been blessed with sex attraction, but would have preferred, as she grew clder, a moderate amount of card sense or eyen a strong religious belief.” “Vic- toria fails to accept the greatest mod- ern discovery that nothing we do or say matters to the universe.” “No ideal is so obstinate as & habit.” *“Though she had little exact knowledge, that ht- tle was an elastic measure, and could | tretched, with thinning substance, er a variety of unfamiliar topics.” “For of all things moving on earth, nothing seemed to her now to matter so little as words.” “After sixty-five years of complaining submission to the will| of God, it seemed to her more than time for God to do something about it i EE “An Echo from Parnassus,” by Hen- rietta Dana Skinner, is & book of remi- niscence of the time when the author, daughter of R. H. Dana, author of “Two Years Before the Mast,” was & young 1 in a social group, which included ngfellow, Lowell, Holmes, James T. Fields, Agassiz and Sumner. ' Mrs. Skin- ner says: “Poetry and poets formed so large a part of our school tradition that we took them very much for granted. If any one had said to me, ‘Is not your grandfather a poet?’ I should probably have replied, ‘Why, yes. Isn't yours?' ‘The Longfellow children even made Jjokes about poetry, in which their father aided and apetted them. * Kk Ok David Alec Wilson, in his many-vol- umned biography of Carlyle, quotes the following comment made by the dour philosopher of Ecclefechan, when he first saw Macaulay: “Macaulay,” wrote to Folly,” seems almost the over- Carlyle, “is a short, squat, thick-set man | of vulgar, but resolute, energetic appear- ance. Fair-complexioned, keen gray eyes, a large cylindrical head close down between two strong round shoulders; the brow broad and fast receding, the crown flat. Inclines already to cor- pulence tho' not five-and-thirty. The globular will one day be his shape, if he continue. I likened him to a manag- ing fronmaster with vigorous talent for business and little Jook of talent for anything else. He is the young man of most force at present before the world. Successful he may be to great lengths or not at all, according as the times turn; meanwhile the limits of his worth are discernible enough. Great things lie not in him, intrinsically common. | He is the only young man of any gift, at this period, who is a Whig; another characteristic. He may be heard of, and loudly.” Talleyrand met Macaulay soon afterward and his verdict was, “They said he was a great man and he's only a big book.” may have been his pre-presidential reputation for efficiency. The President has not yet served who, in a matter of this kind, has contrived to make Con- gress—either House or Senate—the ad- ministration’s scapegoat.” “The inescapable conclusion,” to the Louisville Courier-Journal (independ- ent), “is that President Hoover is now willing to accept any tariff bill, however bad, rather than have his extra session adjourn without passing some sort, any sort, of tariff bill. He misinterprets the sentiment of the country if he assumes that it agrees with him in that view.” ‘The Kansas City Journal-Post (inde- pendent Republican) argues: “The wish for the Senators to get together is nat- ural. But how can they get together, except by one side surrendering in toto to the other and then joining issue with the House, clothed by the Constitution l\:‘lfil'; the sole pawer to originate a tarifl ‘Dominance of the coalition in Unlon (independent Republican) as “th Believing that the bill is now “heav- Senate” big, outstanding fact of the situation,’ and that paper quotes some of the reg: ular Republi Senators as believing that “failure secure tariff legislation is inevitable,” while its own conclusion is that “clearly enough, it is the power of the Democratic-insurgent bund to delay action or to hammer the bill into a shape in which its acceptance by the House or the Executive would be out of the question.” “When the Republicans ignored the Preslderhtl and the uh%c uclr l:;molx;{ t.h: tariff bill,” s the Hartfo! rant (mdependen:.‘.epubm::n). “they over- reached themselves and gave op- ponents the opportunity which they were seeking. Yet the coalition would be mistaken 1f it believed that it com- manded the support which was with- held from the Republicans. The public will judge the coalition by the use that it makes of the opportunity which the Republicans in the Senate have now almost openly surrendered to it. Thus it has given small indication that getne"] ad- tends to turn it to the vantage. It seems rather on it regards as political capital.’ at Considering the plea that “Co o fegisiate honestly and ust- B mn8 st irust to the President to ts perfidy,” Omaha ;’V‘:fii-gflc‘l (independent) ‘concludes: “That, we think, would be too much Congress fa it in for to admit, or the country accept complacently, or a betra; < o K ctlmyl. There uy:g to settle this stand squarely where he stood lmni-'hu, -.h:nuaerfio-mwmn , the Senate would soon pass yith Boe that fulfilled the campaign ily burdened with the debenture plan and with the provision abolishing the flexible feature of the law,” the Seattle Times (independent Republican) ad- vises that “no further harm could be done if the coalition were given free hand to perpetrate anything else it may have inmind.” The Great Falls Tribune (Democratic) contends: “It is not probable that this struggle will be ended in the present session of Congress, nor in those which will follow. The best that agriculture can expect to achieve is to keep the disparity which now ex- ists in industry’s favor from becoming greater.” —_——r e ——— Food for War Thought. From the Toledo Blade. When a war between two nations is unthinkable there is nothing to do ex- cept think about it. ————.— A Tip for Hoover. From the Lowell Evening Leader. President Hoover might urge quite plausibly that one of the best argu- ments for the flexible tariff is Eresent deadlock over the bill in Add Useless Noises. : from the Toledo Blade. /. useless noises the “lady of the house” selected the canvasser as her choice repugnance. o - Peace as Means of War. From the Terre Haute Sta: It seems that the Army and Navy are ) have so much color, urged a_tariff- bill PR enate might well take heed of the advice of.Benitar Jones, acting Reé- nt), “who urges to make ce in order to renew (mnumu. their * Nothing to Talk About. Prom the Florence ‘Herald. * ok kX ‘There are in India, perhaps rarely, women who stand out from the ranks of general Indian womankind and by their character and work help greatly in the advancement of their race. The life of such a woman is told by her husbgnd in a recent book, “A Woman of India. Being the Life of Saroj. Na- 1 (Founder of the Woman's Institute Movement in India),” by her husband, G. S. Dutt, with a foreword by Rabin- dranath Tagore. Mr. Dutt, an official in the Indian civil service, spent sev- eral years in English colleges. His wife was a girl of 19 when she was married and had had no education outside her home, yet she realized the need of ed- ucation for the women of India and soon after her marriage the women’s institutes in Bengal, organiza- tions for the education of girls, the im- provement of hospitals, the training of midwives, the teaching of domestic sci- ence, the promotion of domestic indus- tries which would enable widows to sup- port themselves, the encoura ent of social communication among the purdah women. Saroj Nalin! dfed in 1925, but she lived to see the institutes federated much after the manner of our State ‘women’s clubs. * ok kX In his biography “Dr. Johnson." Christopher Hollis does not accepi s the whole of law and the gospel what Boswell said about Dr. Johnson. “If | R. ANSWERS TO BY FREDERIC ‘The answers to questions prinfed here each day are specimens picked from the mass of inquiries handled by our great Information Bureau maintained in Washington, D. C. This valuable serv- ice is for the free use of the public. Ask any question of fact you may want to know and you will get an imme-| diate reply. Write plainly, inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage, and adéress The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q How much ‘money s invested in | golf courses in the United States?— S, A. In 1926 it was estimated that more than 570,000 acres were given over to| th me of golf. It was also esti- mated that $1,000 was an average price for an acre of this land. In other words, the investment of golf clubs was esti mated at $570,000,000; assuming $4 000 as an average cost of a clubhouse | and equipment, the investment is brought up to nearly $730,000,000. It| might well be said at the present time such clubs. Q. How much air is tzken in at a| breath?—G. K. | A. The quantity taken in at each| respiration is called the tidal air and | ulnnrm-uy from 20 to 30 tubic inches | of air. | Q. What is used as ground for radio in an airplane?—J. L. Z. * A. All of the metal parts of an air- plane are banded together in such a way as to form a ground for a radio. | The larger the plane the better the| radlo reception, Q. What was the song made famous by Tony Pastor, the verses of which | were changed constantly to suit the news of the day?—B. C. A. The topical song, “The Cat Came " was 5o employed. Q. In what church was George Wash- ington a vestryman?—L. L. R. A. George Washington and his family were members of the Protestant Epis- copal Church. He was a vestryman both in Alexandria, Va, and in Pohick Church, Va. qé Has Chile compulsory education?— A. Education is gratuitous, and since August, 1920, was made compulsory. Professional and secondary education is %ravlded by the National University, the niversity of Concepcion and the Cath- olic universities of Santiago and Valpa- raiso. Last year's educational expenses amounted to $30,000,000. Q. Which Presidents are buried in | Nashville, Tenn.?—W. B. O. A. Presidents Jackson and Polk are buried there. Q. Where is amber obtained?’—E. A. A. Amber is ol ned from the coasts of the Baltic Sea, especially bctween dance than in any other place in the world. It is partly cast up by the sea and partly obtained by means of nets | and partly dug out of a bed of carbon- | ized wood. Q. Who spoke Latin as a language | and how long was it used?—E. S. { A. Originally Latin was spoken by the inhabitants of the ancient city of Rome and by the tribe called the Latini, who lived on the plain of Latium, south of | the Tiber. Various other languages were at the same time used in Italy. Gradu- as the Romans conquered the neighboring Italian towns, and thei power increased, the Latin languag: spread through Europe. Latin was| there is a billion-dollar investment in | H Konigsberg and Memel in greater abun- | o, “QUESTIONS J. HASKIN. spoken in Central Italy probably as early as 10 or 15 centuries before our era. It ceased to be a living tongue about the eighth century of our era. (=) 3 Q. What dispesition was ever made' of the old famous “999" racing Ford driven in Detroit races in 1902 by Barney Oldfield?—H. A. D. ’ A. The Ford racing car No. 999 is in the possession of Mr. Henry Ford and forms a part of his collection in the Dearborn Museum. Q. Who was the first well knowd maker of comic cartoons?—W. A. A.. ¢ A. Richard F. Outcault, who recerifly died, is called the father of the comics Q. Which insurance comgmy in this country is the oldest>—W. F. A. The Preshyterian Ministers' Fund, Philadelphia, is probably the oldest. It was established 170 years ago. Whose remains are in the stone coffin which is cn top of St. Nicholas Collegiate Church in New York City?— 2D: A. The so-called coffin to which you Tefer was only a stone dacoration shaped like a sarcophagus. Many rumors were circulated to the effect that a woman benefactor of the church had willed that her body be placed on top of the building. Recently while the building ‘was being renovated it was decided to remove the coffinlike decoration as it added nothing to the architectural beauty of St. Nicholas. Q. Is it true that Victor Herbert com- posed most of his compositions while standing?—A. F. L. A. It has been stated by those fa- miliar with the working methods of the famous composer that he rarely sat down when working cn his compositions. How did Philip Snowden injure his spine?—N. A. J. A. The Hon. Philip Snowden fell from a bicycle while employed as & tax col- lector in the civil service. He was & young man of 29 at the time of the ac- cident. Q. Where does the Storm King High- way begin and end?—J. C. D. A. Storm King Highway begins just south of the village of Cornwall, N. Y, and runs southerly to a point about 2 miles inland, back of the West Point Academy grounds, where it con- nects with -the Highland Falls-Central Valley Highway. Q. What is the amount of loss in pasteurizing milk in a dairy?—H. P. D. A. The Department of Agriculture says that the total plant loss in han- dling milk should not be over 2 per cent. Many plants have it less than 1 per cent. The loss of handling milk through pasteurization depends en- tirely upon the type of apparatus used. 1f the vats are not exposed, there should be no loss. If the exposed system 1s useg. the loss should not exceed 1 per ent. Q. Do the wild geese of China live to be 100 years old?—E. 8. D. A. The Biological Survey says that it is no doubt true that the wild geese | of China often reach the age of 100 years. There are definite records of 70 or 80 years in England and America, Q. Is there a winding stairway in the State, War and Navy Building that is unsupported?—A. J. M. A. There are eight of the winding staircasss. These staircases are peculiar in that they have no columns sup- porting them, but are held up by the principle of the arch. If one stair were removed, the whole would collapse. Each Other BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. PARIS. — Franco - German _ relations | are once more passing through a period of trouble. ‘Two great protagonists, the recon- ciliation of one—Gustav Stresemann— ended with his death, and that of Aristide Briand is hobbled by the na. tionalist views of the new French con- servative government. German nationalists have just gathered enough signatures to obtain | the right to hold a national plebiscite on | a bill which amounts practically to a | denunciation of the whole Versailles | treaty, and the agitation on it in Ger- | many promises to continue for several months. Using this coming plebiscite as a pretext, the French nationalists are once more clamoring against German armaments and German danger gener- | ally. The time has temporarily passed when the French press systematically | belittled or suppressed all the news | likely in any respect to fan French fears of or resentment toward Germany. Sees Plan for Invasion. Franklin-Bouillon, one of the most eloquent and ablest of French Na- | tionalist deputies, had a big success | in the chamber Thursday with a speech in which he declared categorically that Germany is preparing the means for a new invasion of France, to wit: That there is equipment at Trier Railway station for 120 mobilization trains a day and at Kaiserslauten station for 110 trains; there are 10 new bridges over the Rhine, concentration of all necessary rolling stock can be effected on many new strategic roads, govern- ment subsidized motor transport and finally the construction of new roads between Coblenz and Luxemburg, ca- pable of hurling two divisions almost instantly at this point on the frontier. ‘The Germans are almost equally| pessimistic about France. The new premier, Andre Tardieu, they keep re- peating, was a collaborator and a fa- vorite second of Clemenceau and Poin- care, while Maginot, the new minister of war, held the same post during the Ruhr occupation, and is known strongly to favor the immediate strengthening of the enfeebled French Army. Suspicions Are Mutual. ‘The suspicions are mutual and pro- found. The French think Germany is going to temporize on the Young Ylnn adoption. The Germans are equal- ly sure that France is going to tem- porize on the Rhipeland evacuatian. The Left parties of both countries are still confident and friendly toward one another, but the German Right con- tinues to poison the German mind with self-pity and false desperation, while He has collected the opinions of many :‘ther who knew him TS, miring, some are oppos! Hollis pays considerable attention to Dr. Johnson’s of life, which seems to hlvephmg“ reason is the e in the tragedy saving forci Dr. Johnson had no appreciation of the natursglistic _instinctive philosophy of Rousseau. He had in common therefore how very escape even ai mak mfi ‘who professed to do so. The worl - them.” N ‘was too much with * ok kK Maud Diver, whose stories of India true or mmwhemer rt of as part of “A Wild é’fi» It is not, has chosen e in the French Right is now once more feeding the French mind with fear of the new German aggression. This disturbance of the psychological atmos comes just at a time when several important negotiations of pre- dominantly Franco-German character are about to occur. First, there must be a conference of governments for the final adoption of the Young plan. No- body now believes that this can be held before December, and it is liable to take place in an atmosphere embittered by tation on one side to strengthen the ch Army and on the other to de- nounce the whole Versailles treaty. The German Reichstag undoubtedly will immediately reject the Nationalist bill, but then preparations for a coun- try-wide plebiscite will be begun and disturbances will continue. Already the iout il froop movements been ‘movemen! WM or delayed? More Acrimony Seen. Then after the governments adopt the Young plan the French and Ger- will occasion more acrimoni le] X ‘Then_there is the question of restituting the Saar coal mines and territory to French and Germans Eye With Suspicion Germany, for compensation. , Briand and Stresemann had begun to nego- tiate this delicate point, but ‘for the moment negotiations are deadlocked. The Germans say that unless the Saar question is settled they cannot ratify the Young plan. The French Right insists that Briand should never have begun the Saar negotiations, and in any case they must proceed slowly and exact the highest possible prices for the mines. All these hostile tend- encles and potential disagreements be- tween the two countries, which until quite recently were leaders of the “United States of Europe” niovement, have aroused some pessiinism. People Not Ready for War. Many observers and diplomats, how- ever, believe that despite everyth: the Franco-German rapprochement wi not only be maintained, but developed. To begin with, the extreme nationalist policies of either France or Germany imply expensive armament, leading, perhaps, eventually to war. Nelther the French nor the German people are ready for any such expenditures or ad- ventures. Furthermore, it is not as it France and Germany were all alone in the world, with only themselves to consider. The Locarno pact is guaranteed by Great Britain and Italy. The League of Nations has over 50 members. The Kellogg pact is practically uni- versal. The country that starts a war hereafter risks being hopelessly crushed by such a coalition of indignant na- tions as the world has never before seen. In the second place, both France and Germany have every financial and economic interest to continué to work together. The reparations payments unite as well as separate them. The I':fim-llllolm Blnkzwfll more than ever e all the great powers fally Interdependent.” e e France and Germany have had for several years, and still have today, the most remarkable industrial alliance ever formed between two great states in the series of steel, potash, rail and chemi- cal cartels, all carefully supported by a complete commercial treaty. If Europe ever achieves anything like an economic union, it is France and Germany which will be the chief bene- ficiaries, Can Benefit by Agreement. Finally, no matter what the nation- alists of both countries may desire, it is extremely difficult to imagine alterna- tive policies for either country, France needs the Young plan, and Germany needs evacuation of the Rhineland. There is a common interest to settle in the Saar. By persistent disagreement cach can hurt the other, but only by agreement seemingly can either really be"l’;‘lflt' e « us the French nationalists ma; strengthen the army and begin a mi system of frontier defenses; the Ger- mans may build strategic communica- tions and agitate inst the Versailles treaty and squander money on the Reichswehr, but the chances are that the Young plan will be adopted, just the same, that the Internatiosal Bank will be set up, that the Rhineland will be fully evacuated by next Summer and that some arrangement will be made about the Saar. Hopeful signs are not lacking. oo A Chance But Not a-Hope. From the Wichita Beacon. Wait! The foot ball season hasn’ ended, and there's still a chanee for nn‘: of the experts to forecast'a game cor- D — 5 A Capital Tdea: Prom the Port Worth Record-Telegra: In all the various. for ordi- nances against sound, we wonder why somebody hasn't ‘eapital pun- ishment for knockers. i W Way to Get At hs. tlu‘ ‘