Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1929, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR WASFINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY...November 16, 1920 THEODOR® W. NOYES. ... Bditor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: Pennsylvania Ave. i 110 East 42nd St. e: Lake Michigan Buildine. European Office; 14 Resent St.. London. ®ngland. Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Star_ . ........45 permonth he Evenng and Sunday Star aays) 60c per month 65¢ per month a: Ata Sc per cApy Colleriion ma he ach monih. Orders may be sent n by mail or telephone NAtional 5000, Rate by Hllly":nlhh Advance. Maryland nia. Duily and Sunday....} 35 538:90: 1 mo.. 85c Daily only ... .. 7 : 1 mo.. 80c Sunday only ... . : 1 mo.. 40c All Other States Daily and Sunday.. I Daily only .. sunday only Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Bress is exclusively cntitled ation Of all rews dit- Tiat gtherwice cred- hd ala the local 5 ew f publicati ‘ “1\‘3. 'A% 50 reserved ted in this paper gublisned hersin. &l Soecinl clspatches Presidential Good Cheer. The right man in the right place has {ust spoken the right word at the right time. President Hoover has callxd a conference of “important business lead- ers and public officials” for the purpose of “co-ordinating business and govern- mental agencies in concerted action for continusd business progriss.” The an- nouncement eomes like & breath of in- vigorating fresh aiv into the miasme of depression and hysteria which has re- cently stified the country. ‘That the President's dramatic action will accomplish th: intended purpose cannot he deubied. Its ebjest is to gllay alarm and anxiety, which at no time during the regent crisis in stocks © bad any Intrinsic justification, and re- s'ore popular confidence in the fun- ! damental soungpess of the American | business fabrie. | For, when all is said and done. ae- purities derive their strength and their value from the condition of business. If business is heslthy, the stocks and bonds of legitimate business enter- prises are basieally good. The winds of Wall Street may blow bullishly today and bearishly tamorrow, and prices may soar or sag, but the esrpipg power of well managed industrial organisations 8 as little affected by these Stock Fxchange gyrations, whatever their causzs, as it is by the fluctuations of the barometer. + President Hoover, from his place of eminence, d¢lls the Nation all this in his call for mext week’s conference of industrial, firemcial, agricultural, labor #nd official autherities. It is to be “a small preliminary conference.” The suggestion plainly. 13 that it will be held mainly to stop, look and listen. Re- medial plans of concrete charactc: are to come later. But Mr. Hoover does hint forthwith at the direction they are likely to take. He mentions the ‘lag- ®ing of construction work” which has occurred in the cguntry because of the extensive “diversion of capital into the - security market” for speculative ven- tures. The President, in veiled but un- wistakable terms, calls upon the direc- tors of America's grept corporatons— in the building trades, and smong the rellways, navigstion companies public utilitiey—to *“pack troubles” and “gmile, smile, pal authorities to join hands vate enterprise in seiting wheels to ing, belts to whirring, hammers to clanging, steam shovels to digging and dollars to rolling =il along the line. The engineer-executive thus combines # fine sense of the practical with a ' keen appreciation of the psychological. The timeliness and importance of his | stimulating pronunciamento cannot be overestimated. In a very literal degree it 1s worth its weight in gold. ——— Advice on Banqueting. Probably the two best gditorisls touch- ing on the eurrent banquet situation in Washington are those credited to a Greek who never visited the United Stafes. As both of them are short, they will bear quoting in full: Banqguets of the unlearned and of them that are without, avoid. Bus if you Have oecasion to take part in them, let e not your attentien be relaxed for & mo- ment, lest you slip after all into evil ways. For you may rest ufiml that be & man ever so pure himself, he can- not escape defilement if his associates are impure, And the other: | When you Ve brought yourself to supply the needs of u:' y at small cost, do not pique yourself on that, nor it you drink only water, keep saying on cach oceasion, “I drink water!” And it you ever want to practige endurance #nd toll, do so unto yourself and not 1 unto others—dq riet embrace statues! Both editorials were written, or dic- tated, by Epietetus in the first century. e The prime minister of Iraq committed Suicide. Kven Bagdad must have iis aensational homicides. ———— Noise, There is probably more noise per fauere foot in New York City than in &ny other portion of the civilized globe. The temerity of the municipal author- dtfes there in seeking to abolish some af it is therefore praiseworthy gnd their progress will be watched with interest by other cites similarly aficted, A committee of experts has been sppeinted in New York to conduet some research into the origin’ of noise sud to draft & plen for hushing it up. Members of this committee have made one im- portant discovery already. They ynani- mously point an accusing finger st the T loud speaker and declare that it Wes more havoc with the auditory R than even the roaring forties subway expresses. ! is probably true because of the difficulty in escaping the loud speaker. Tt follows one closely thyough the day and even into the night. If ope seeks Tefuge by leaving the city streets, where apeakers blare forth their raucous mes- sages from Tadio shops, one is merely hopping from the frying pan inte the fire. For modern apartments and rew i houses a'e honeycombed with loud speakers, and the partitioning walls are At the Bureau of S ments are being. conducted terigls and capstruetion that may, some day, give us seundgroof walls in ofige buildings and homes. Thai weuld help. But immediate and beneficial results could be obtained here in Wyshington, las in New York, if the gity guthorities | undertook & serious campaign te veduse | unnecessary nolss. ©ne might believe that such a campaign of necessity would bz confined to the action of blue-coated | policemen wearing rubber heels aRd | tiptoeing about the city with thely fingers to their lips and whisgering “S-h-h-h-h!" But there are more prae: tical steps. Ancient ordinances against | noise ate already on the beeks. These shonld be revised gnd breught wp ta !date. An honest effest should be made to eliminate upnecessary nolse. Nolse {1s too readliy excused as the inevitable | sccompaniment of progress. Progress | cught to be given & chance. i might {ba foynd thet it weuld cover mare gveund without not - - Cor-Watching sud Hitoh-Hiking. The Cocmmissioners have at last taken action to end the nuisance of the auto- | mobile “watcher.” 1In the amendment to the police regulations just announced it 1s d:clared to be unlawful for any perfon to solicit employment to guard or watch & ecar on any public street or highway within the District. Becoming effective in thirty days the regulation was drawn up fol- lowing numerous complaints over & perlod of years that this form of exter- tion was beipg largely practiced in the National Capital. Especially at ball games and other sport gatherings the “watcher” would demand a fee for guarding the putomebiles of patrons and if the fee was not forthcoming would jn some cases eripple the ma- chine by punciuping er letting air out of the tires or weuld deface the paint. | It has heen & source of wonder to Washingtopians that this graft has been allowed to continye for such a length of time. No resl service has ever heen performed o 8 car ewner by one of these persons. In mest cases, they dis- appear from the segne 8s soon as the motorist igaves, aRly to show up again and make a gveat pretepse of efficiency when he veturns. Hundreds of persons in the past, within & radius of six or seven blggks ef the stadium, have made life misershle for psivons of the game by jumping on running hesrds gnd by blocking the streets in an endeavor to missioners’ action is belated, it is cer- tainly better late than never. Now that the District is rid of one easily disposed-of nuissnce, the time would appear ripe to end anethey. In Massachusetts gnd in several other States the person whe sidies ento the street with thumb upraised to beg @ 1itt from the passing moteriss is gulity of & misdemeanor gnd the fines for this offense have been rupning os high es twenty dollars. While this type of beg- is not nearly as prevalent in tite District, due to its compavtively small area, which is largely bullt up snd net nearly as dangerous for this same rea- son, i6 would gppear that the dignity of the National Gapital would bensfit by following the Rrecedent of the Riates. Of cousse in the Distriet, ps in the Passenger 1s not of the criminal 1f ever, are thanks offered the ohbliging car owner. There is wise the angle of the hitch-hiker himself to gonsider. What is this country coming to when the youth of the Nation is taught or permitted to think that begging in any form is s t gulf between holding up the thumb and begging for a ride in an automobile and holding up the thumb to beg for alms, the similarity is not pleasant to contemplate in the growing Ame generation. N can be said in favor of the pragtice from either the motorist's er the hitch-hiker's point of view. Prans- portation in all cities is cheap, and if the price of trapsportation is nof to be had, walking i§ sn excellent exereise. The Commissioners would be confer- ¥ing & benefit upon 'Washington in put- ting a stop to this evil. e r—.—— I is believad thet Senators are ex- hausting themselves by everwork on the taviff. Lobbyists would of course e willing to supply deficiencies and de- liver ideas and opinions neatly done up in packages for immediate use. But the legislators apparently are not will- ing to take the easlest way. S S Constructive Leadership. ‘The need of comstiustive leadegship on the Republican side of the Senate chamber has heen in evidence for months. With s potential Repyblican majority stronger than in recent Qen- gresses, there has been a decided break- down in party control during the epe- ! elal sesslon. Pirst this was in evidence on the farm rellef bill. It has hesn | magnified still further in the considera- tion of the tariff. Recently eonditions have been chaotic. Wise leadership and & firm adherence to the pledge of the party leaders to the Western Republi- cans during the 1838 esmpalgn might have avolded much of this treuble, al- though 16 is quite comceivable that s small group of insurgents, strongly op- posed to the Hoover administyation, might have remained “off the reserva- Uon.” Phe formation of a new group among the Republicans, the “young guard” in coptrast to the “old guard,” in re- cant days at least Has had the effect of revitalizing the Senate. It is even con4ervable that under proper leader- ship this new movement may succeed in winning back to party alleglance some of the insurgents who have stray- ed inte the Progressive Republican- Demecrgtie coalition during the con- sideration of farm relief and the tariff. But one thing has been demonstrated. ‘The West must be given a better deal legislativaly then the old guard Re- publicans have been willing to accord it. When the esmpaign ended a year ago, appeared wtrongly in solicié this business. While the Com- laudable attribute? While there in s | EVENING STAR, WASHING hatls from Ghie. Many of imperiant eommitiess pre held Western Senators anll Representatives. In the Senate, during the present ses- sion of Congress, things have been going from bad to worse, §0 far as the Sgpate is gonceyped. Thepe are slrgng Re- publicany from the West ready to sup- port the Republican pdministration and at the same time quite as ready to give expression tg the views of the Western volers »s are some of the Westerp in who are eppased to the administration. Phe Republican “young guard” is composed of Eastern 85 well as Western Republicans. Tts yanks are filled for the mos part with Sepaters who have not long been mem- Bers of the Senate. It expresses the dissatisfaction of the younger Senators with 8 leadership that has brgught forth 8 tari® Bill, now become apathema to soms of the Btates of the West. It expresses, ioa, dissatisfaction with the tendengy of some of the “old guard” to throw up their hsnds and content themselves with hurling epithets at the Western Republicgns who have joined in 8 “coslition” at this session with the Democrsts. They fear @ permanent goplition. ‘What will be the resuit of the up- rising of the “young guard” yemains to be segp. It is too early to predict. But one thing is apparent: it cannot make more of & mess than has the “old gusyd” leadership. Joined with the new greup are seversl vaieran vegulars from West- ern States whe have the Westerp point of view, among them McNsry of Ore- gon, Capper of Kapsas, Depeen of Tli- nois and Fess of ORhie. They are twenty-four in number, enough, joined with the Progressivg Republicans of the conlition greup, to dominate the Re- publicin party in the Senate. But, whether they join hands with the Pro- greseive group or not, thay ere strong enough tq be @ real factor in any situa- tion thet grises in the Benate. So far there has been litle talk of 8 leader of the new gropp. But when 3 leader is selected the group may well turn to Senator MeNary of Oregon, well quali- fied for sugh & Pest and indeed for (he leadeyship ef the party in the Senate itself. .oone Thomas Edison is back to his old habit of remaining awake lgte in order to work. He will probably continue the practice until Henry Fard decidas to gratify innumerable admirers by giving him another party. - B Small investors are going back into Wall Btreet, Thaye is sn advantage in being strictly a small investor. The status is one that limits the possible loss. ] Suggestion by Representative Bloom that wets and drys ballot without puk- ety shows 3 lingering faith in the secrecy of the executive session. inica e bamb threwsr tried (o bl A Chicsge bamb threwer o blow up & eity offelsl, Some of those un- derworld politiclans sre eptirely too impatient to walt for an election. — gy - Plans for & taX yedugtion §o on with- out conseding thet the stoek ticker has envthing to do with the guestion of basie values. FEPEISIDe e Safety for food ships in war time would el go ® step further in vhe hu- mpne ideps exemplified by the Red Cross. o enfiw cannok slways remain the same. Even the stock mavket has the right to chenge its mind. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNBON. Distress. 1 have an ache; T have 3 Pain— Though care I fake, T cpn’t explpin! It 15, I find, Mecause T hoed, ‘With gerious mind, The things I read. Long werds X spy, While terrer lurks, Digestion ‘While various things Bid me complgin, Fhe brain fag brings The grestest pain. P.Ihle; Anevitable. Yo “I think I shall keep out of politics,” sald the young man. “What are you going to de,” rejpined Senator Sorghum, “be a hermit?” Jud Tunkins says & man who always | SU wants to be boss is likely to get cured of the idea it he gets a job as & hard- working trafii eficer. Trimming. At styles financial he will scoff ‘With eyes by sorrow dimmed. ‘The broker ¢ut his margin oft And that's how he got frimmed. ‘Unchalienged Fmportance. “Any question of precedence at your litile dinner party?” “Not at the table,” ansyered Miss Geyenne. “The enly proud and haughty persen we were sll afrald of was the “He who as no regrels,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “Ras lived on without kmowing what has happened to him.” When A banquet tryly was immgnse, But all the real fun Was talk of seating precedence ‘When the affair was done. “When a man brags” said Uncle Eben, “he wants to feel dat some ene will say a good.word for him, even if he has to do it hisself.” et —— Pretty Vote? From the §pringfield (Mase.) Dally Repybii- Paris. No ene in had sensed the beauty of it, ——————at——— May Be a Theory. From the Charlotte (N. C.) Naws. it of Pripceton has that “family life in America :- found m:ln' :l‘ it uq"tflhwm that something was about to happen. Believers in Law and Orde -—r.m allave i Jow snd asdar [ Ghm w“ the law and give the ordeid 'R or “Your beautiful re-electign” ia the the phrase cabled to Mayor Wi by t= president of the muni eouncil bel differ ln‘mlr need h‘?‘ privacy. Some men fairly revel in contacts; they are never happy except when else is fivwged ufi them. le to yub WS ‘men shrink from human cen- tacts, go into crowded places as little as passible, gnd find & certain amount of solitude a mecessity in their gdaily lives. The gregarious man will never under- stand the other, and even if he makes |, ttem) il Jamentably, because ).x: .mmyp't v‘gfl 1 rand the other as “misanthrope.” Nothing could be farther from the truth than this. Such a m is not un- soclal, nejther is he r of man- d.” The psychological forces of his belng make a gertain amount of alone- l{ a necessity, whegeas the psychical mal he other type kpows no such need. If any one thinks for a s:cond that there is anything queer, the com- mon usage hag it, akgut the man who demands some solitude in his life, he y gorrect his thigking by re- calipg the large nuniber of prominent men who ipdulge in such perlods of aloofness. One of the great internationsl figures in finance has in his European office @ “sllence room,” wherein he may re- tire for absolute privacy. When he is i, that room no one has & right to dis- rb him. Fhat is the law. No ome dares enter, fof any cause or reason whatsoever. any an American business man has a_ similar private office, or sanctum, where he goes for that bit of communion with himself which seems a necessity in of the business life. Amerigan man. business or | wishes he had such a silent | chemier at home, where he might escape for the nonce from the bolsterous slay of the children. { * ok K x | We know a man with several lively little o) who rvecently moved into p larger home. The one thing which he likes about the plece is the large third- | floor room, in effect an old-time attic, | where the children can be turned loose. | “I can send them up there” he said, with a broad smile of appreciation, “and cap't even hepr llhcml" go' here was an active man of af- fairs, well inured te nolse, hurly-burly. | toss and tussle, who nevertheless ad- mitied & Teal need In his life for some silence. | One need not go as far as Carlyle's worship of the “great sjlent men.” Men m‘d be silent for no particuler reason. ften & shrewd reader of human nature realizes that silence may or may not be goldep. Often it is the dullest 1 man may be silent not- enly lu“f he is deep, but slso because he | low. | The discerning man comes to feel, the | more he has experience with life, that | silence not only is a portion of thz | wiss man, but 8lso the mask through | whAMl.‘lh’g;‘c.whe to:‘l' mcnhmslmgg. | re not pyre - ere are upu\lc'loalc‘ 28 well as clownish | ones, 50 that ne man can be sure, when he meets pne who talks little, whether he has run across the one or other, or whether he has, indeed, found » truly wise man at last. ‘The desire for sllence, then, can be construed as no sure sign of anything except that the man wants to be alone with himself for a while. ‘This desire needs no justification. It is es old as humanity. Since David retired inte himself to write his psalms (ar guch of them as he did write) men | have known the need of solitude. | * ok % ‘The trouble today lies in llcnrlng it. ere ‘T'ON, D. C., | however, it is pet possible for & SATURDAY, XNO all bave some portion of this desire to f:e each nnlewr, hear each other, touch each other. Modern inventions have conspired to cram peopje together in public vehicles, scl theaters. The -lu'.:;ng:fle ""i eve the nps:nunl 24 presen n‘{iylyn:v‘ent, 80 that there is no chance nowadays of being comfortable in public. ‘Wherever one.goes there is a jamming of people, untii those who do not like such he; come to & point of staying thltythll mfl- 2 t doe ry'to pno nt s not neces- sarily w-‘:' the ification of crowd fear. it may be termed crowd dislike. Psychiatric classifica- tions often are too loose. People no longer are pitched into bottomless hells by their enemies, but rather into certain psychological classifications, there to re- | main square pegs in round holes, largely because the classification was false in the beginning. ‘The difficulty of bei alone with one's self is not altogether physice). ‘The person with this need also suffers from the suspicion of his mates, who find no such necessity exists in’ thejr own dally lives. Thereisre their incii- nation s to plaee wrong constructions on motives, based largely on the belief that any difierence from one’s precious self is wrong. It is amazing how great a hold this | ancient fallacy has on many people. They not only are the standard of per- fection for themselves, buf, if you mre willing to take their word for it, the measure for you, too. They noi only feel that they are the center of their own world, as does every one eise, but they go farther and lay claim to hein, the center of the world for all s sundry. It is not difficult to see how such & man or woman comes to feel that a comrade or acquaintance who demends a certaip amount of solitude daily is just & “ ¢ bit off.” The diffculty of meeting such a temperamept, however, is nope the less, 8s many s home-loving person can testify who lives with a | group of “movie” maniacs. = x %% | Social workers say that the lack of | solitude the poor is sible for many of the conditions h they ase forced to correct. When the ipdi- | vidual of a family have no place to 'h they ean retire for com- | munion with thelr own souls, certam | evils tend {o rise inte being. ‘There seems i0 be enough bad in hu- man naturs fo make 8 too constant dose of it dangerous cv;n to the most opti- mistic person. desire for lary estates and mansions is not simply the outeropping of a display tendeney, but & realization by persons wiin means that certain amount of privacy Is necessary for the best living. 1t Js easy enough to get into & crowd. With medern transportation one can get into the jam at @ theater or the crush of & downtown stieet in 3 com- paratively short space of time. Often, person to flee into solitude. Too many factors whieh cannot be gvercome stand in ihe WaY. ‘The important thing which must be done to give more people opportunity for sile with themselves is for more people of the other type to realize that this is & necessity with some. The truth seems to bz that it is those who have no such need who make it diffi- cult for the others to get or keep a “sllent ropm” in their lives. 1v is aply by the realization on the ! part of the gay and festive that these others need solitude that the latter will ever get it. Now and then a man may move into a house with a big attic, or in some other way secure the solitude he needs, but it might be the portion of Man is & lous animal, so we taught m’&?’d ope who prefers to be around feflpm. e TACES ATe mare solitary in hebit then others, ARG eapie s vecent detast th.the | g recen| P:eneh Chamber, fo'r gnunuad’:?l;;;‘r:al towsrd neace of rope. _Pol oblij r“flg‘:d ‘Tardieu -up‘bflhvld to b in the di onaliam, ut hops 18 Expessed Pist na 3 s e; the c‘l’l‘mn 1l not' :erlou ly effect in- | ternational negotiations. De”n:.i. victory in 'pl; onu'mtr,ool uties was »_triumph more for For- :;?\ Minister Briand pomn“-ny than mipis [ ] whnl'.;‘:hmm r %?. Paul ee! e the ian 3 "nu u?n‘ hthn:t . 'Tardfeu, v:% s militarist tinge to the £, harshness toward rmany would come into French policy. None of this is apparent in M. Briand's speech.” “No_one is mlore appreciative of the mmu of national well-being upon relations abroad than ler Tardieu,” says the New York Evening “Hence 18 no reason to fear his interference with Briand's program of r:eonellk(hl.l ::hl'th Oummy.“m e uation not nov‘r‘%e repudiated, tter development is some- what delayed or ci out with less bt l(‘ h b Pl‘i‘a‘:i. been o © ernmen one nmo Ll(z, ml it is not reasonable to that there will be any actual * ox % “ 9 joe Ll sorined sy the Manghesier nion clever .f"m:“ 'al flbluu.vwlvm he pumu““lture‘.,‘:\:lamxm n:odr hl" S o mmlmfic;:u’ " s clared, would take only when the provisions of nt were carried out. lat! cerning the Saar W be handled cmum’.i . The !oufi\lunm\n on the “be_eom as ml y a8 pud,wth for ‘E’."?..m conferen d disarmament, Pr zeal iY -:rm;m" “The new ministry shows w\!r’r by tackling its " in ‘e S S W, Lo vt 5 e be at all favorable for impressio) not be said to 3 ls t, suceess. Th preva '“til:” change of W“'j" is de- ol Fiat paper Conoedts caive gu coed! I:IG I':l? than & few months.” PR “M. 'Tardieu and his immediate sup- states the Ohaxl Evening d | the uses of adversity” he feel is “not a fatal ane of reconcilial and dlunum!" almllh it concludes Fa ITL d." 5 uf:r ‘Tardieu has been warnad by | the extreme French Nationallsts thai t ple at all times and in all places. Effect of 7Tardieui Victory On World Peace Discussed | defense and public works.” The Cleve- the | he hes Jost 2l " he ever can hnr for as a genuine do- m- ;:ollne students are self-supporting. all if a gongerted effort were made to understand the necessity for some peo- \ they want forts and warships in ex- ch-nr for votes, and he proposes to hem what they want,” says the Bro.k‘;{n Dally Eagle, adding that “it is obvious that the new premier has made & shrewd appeal to wide sections of French opinion by his combined pro- gram of large expenditures for both land Plain Dealer comments: “As long as there remains even a remote chance of the Ywuuphn being rejected by German r vote, France declines to uish the enly hold she has uj the dn&wl' gl Ml e many it is always the nationalists and Fascists and bitter-enders that have been the loudes in their clamer against occupation. Now it is the same clamor- ous element which has rendered evacue- tion impossible for the time being. The German people should be distinctly un- grateful to the myopic leaders who have delayed the depayture of the French just when it was about to become an accomplished fact.” * ok k¥ ‘“The French method of tumbling & Briand cabinet and then continuing Briand in the fareign portfolio which he held as prime minister is & little in- tricate for the American mind,” accord- ing to the Prancisco Chroniele. “However, th strong Ppench senti L tor Briand liberal s re 1 e South Bend Tribune calls Briand the “outstanding statesman of Pranee” and assumes that ‘his ted indirectly now that power, seems to be the onlyeli\nrnnue of Freneh decisions leadership, compatil with the new international ley.” The Rochester Times-Union be- lieves that Briand “will continue to edge forward as fast as French public opinfon will follow him, toward new lc;uwunlnts and s solider European order.” “It is recognized,” declares the Kan- ses City Times, “that, no matter who his collaborators, M. Briand may be counted on to continue his liberal and concillatory policies, and that his pres- tige 1s 5o great that ne premier can af- ford to interfere with them.” The Salt Lake Deseret News says: “If France is going to have any influence or success at the London conference in abtaining recognition of her pelicles, she must present @ strong, united front. This consideration may induce the people 10 glve Tardieu and his official family a warmer support for outside effeet than mestic emotion.' .- And Old Flivvers. From the Pittsburgh Post-Gasstte. It is estimated that one-third of the It s & good $hing there are emough fur- naces to go around. -— R E Nor Any Profits. From the Terre Haute Star. ‘When Shakespeare wrote “Sweet are probably had no money to lose in the stock market. i S el A Referee’'s Haven. From (he Duluth Hersld. In Hawail foot ball is played in bare feet and the don't kick any- thing but the ball. A Bad Job Ended. From the Florence (Ala.) Merald. ‘Voters have about finished their Fall canning. s oo Or a Ticket 1o See It. From the Tolede Biade. It's s good foot spretators oan * vells out of ik = £9 Dot Conderiad Sha VEMBER 16, 1929. THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover ‘The modern woman who is so worn out by the household cares of an aparf- ment and the parental cares connected with one or two children that she re- quires some weeks of vacation away from her family every vear, with per- haps a sojourn in a sanitarium every second year, should read the life story g' ‘;grfindmothel’dBl’o;?.” t:ls ‘1t L!Htfl‘d r ycungest daughter-in-law, - r{et Conn::‘.‘flrown“,l)dl'!. Herbert Brown), in the Atlantic Monthly prize biography, ‘“‘Grandmother Brown's Hun- dred Years: 1827-1927.” With her up- usual intelligence and capability, it she had been a man, Grandmother Brown would have made her mark in public life. As she was a woman of the pioneer period, and a woman who accepted both vigorously and philosophically all the duties ““;;ned to women of her time, she would have remained unknown ouf- side her own devoted family, had net her daughter-in-law had the insight tc realize that “dearly as they loved her. reatly as they honored her, it had hard- fy occurred to her twoscore descendants that she represented, in her person, something biggey than her own family, & congplete tradition of many families, which had significance for the whole Naticn. I was filled with a desire to take from her own lips her impressions of the stirring age of which she had been & part.” * * ¥ Into Grandmoiher Brown's 101 years and 9 months were packed more ex- perienges and more hard work than il & helf dogen average lives. On L ninety-ninth birthday she sdmitted o her questioner that one of her worst faults had always been overworking. “T'd like to have a cord stretched hold all the clothes I've made; I think ‘twould stretch from the prison to the mill, * * * I did fairly good housekeep- ing, too. I'm sure I've baked enough biscujts to make the Great Pyramid.” The cooking of food for family, farm helpers lndx numerous guests; the washing and froping of clothes and cleaning of & house; the cutting and making of gar- ments; the bearing and bringing up of eight, ' children—these were ordinary tasks. Grandmother Brown also magde candles, ran a dairy, helped prepare the lard. hams and sausages when hogs were killed, took care of the chickens, and “when everything else was d d of, we women always had knitting to @o.” In nursing her children through many illnesses, Grandmother Brown discovered that the country dector avallable usually lessened the chances of recovery. So she added the practice of medicine and even surgery in her own family to her other duties. Lying in bed in the sitting room with & new- born child, she directed an old woman of the neighl d in the care of three of her children who had scarlet tevi ve her patients no medicine, but fed them on fruit juices and beaten nfi and kept them ‘‘cool and clean.” ey all regovered. She was a practitioner of the warm for all ailmenis. Relating her ex- periences, she said, “I've done a litile surgery myself in a modest way,” and then told of putting the badly burned hand of her youngest son on a thin board splint, to prevent the fingers from being drawn up, and again of putting in place and binding the severed ends of three fingers which the same son had cut off when cutting sheaf oats for a y. Dentistry was another of Grandmother Brown's ac- complishments, and forfunately so, for horses were not slways to be spared for trips to town n when toothaches were excruciating. * ok k¥ In her last years, after s fractured hip had made her & cripple and she could no longer move freely about household tasks, Grandmother Brown nt much of her time in plecing beau- tiful quilts, in making fine dresses for grandchildren and great-grandchildren and in embroidering countless lunch- cloths, tablecovers and garments for the various members of her family. In 1923 ghe sent an embroidered dresser scarf to President and Mrs. dge. Asked why she had thought of sending it, she nm‘bd: “Why, 2 friend told me that she had read of & woman who had knitted o wash rag for President Wil- son. She was 80 years old and her friends thought it remarkable that she could knit & wash rag! I thought that it a woman of 80 could knit a wash for & Democratic President it behoov ane of 96 to make something more than # wash rag for & Republican President. Besides, most of my Grandfather Fos- ter's children were born in Vermont.” *x ¥ x %k > ‘The history and significance of voodao, especially as believed in and practiced in_Haiti, are given much attention in “The Magic Island,” by W. B, Seabrook. Mr. Seabrook sueceeded in being ad- mitted into the confidence of some of the natives and so learned much about the secret of voodooism. Maman Celle, the “ priestess of the mys- terfes,” took him into the inner shrine. “Between Maman Celie and me there was & bond which I cannot analyze or hope to make others understand, be- cause in my innermost self its roats went deep beyond analysis or conscious reasoning. ‘e had both felt it almost from our first centact. It was as if we had known each other always, had been at some past time united by the mystical equivalent of an umbilical «cord, as if I had suckled in infancy at her dark br , had wandered far and was now returning home.” Voo- dooism is a religlon, or superstition, of great antiquity, and is composed of a mixture of rites, some coming from Afriea and some distorted conceptions of Christianity. The cross and the serpent are both worshiped on voodoo altars. Mr, Seabrook found himse sharing the native psychology to a ct tain extent as he witnessed voods ceremonies. “I did not experience the revulsion which literary tradition pre- scribes. ¥t was savege and abandoned, but it scemed to me raagnificent and not devoid of & certain beayty.” * % ¥ X The Prolestant revolution, or the Lutheran Reformation, is treated from the Cathome t of view, with both m nd_delicacy of style, in Hilaire Bel “How the Reformation Hap- pened.” ‘The Reformation appears as an accident, the result of Anne Boleyn's insistence on being the Queen and not the mistress of Henry VIIL This view is supported by Hackett’s recent bi- ography of Henry VII. In order to make Anne Queen of England, Catherine of Aragon had to be divorced, and, as the Pope refused annulment, Henry formed his own divorce court of sub- servient officials, broke with Rome, and declared himself the head of the Eng- lish Church. To those not accepting his right to act in this way, Queen | 4 for return postage. BY FREDERI Did you ever write s letter to Fred- eric J. Haskin? You can ask him any question of fact end get the answer in 1 letter. Here i1s a great al idea introduced into the lives of the wost intelligent people in the world—American newspaper read- ers, 3t is & pact of that best purpose of & m" R parTise, t?“" <2 B charge except, 2 cents in coin or stamps Address Frederic J. Haskin, agecto The Evening Star. Information Bureau, Washington, D, C. Q. Was Rex, King of Wild Horses, “eAr my en with a saddle on his back? A. 'Phe R. K. O. Studios say that. so far as they know, Rex, King of Wild Horses, never has been len, either with a saddle or without. . When did Walter Camp pick his first all-American foot ball team?—R. U, A. He picked his first all-American b ball team in 1889. That eleven included only Harvard, Yale and Princeton players. Players of ‘these uni- versities monopolized places on the all- American team until 1805, -when Wy- choff of Cornell was picked as quarter- ;r:k. In 1896 the first Middle West yer found a place on Mr. Camp’s eleven. He was Hirschberger, cago fullback. Of reeent years the all- star teams represent colleges from | coast to coast and from the Canadian border to the Mexican horder. | Q. How many shades are used in making mosaies?—P. A. A. The modern mosaleists of Venice have 40,000 varying shades to use in the creation of mosaies. 2% How many ‘buildings has Yaler— A. It has 142 bulldings, besides 20 dormitories and a library which con- tains 1,700,000 volumes. United States Infantry Regiments sta- tioned at present?—R. J, M. ak the present time. Q. Why 1is the reign of Willlam III of England called that of Willlam and Mary?—P. C. | . A Mary was the daughter of James 11, and the crown was conferred jointly ]umfl her apd her husband, Willlam, | who was the grandson of Charles I of England. The death of Mary, at the end of five years, lessened the popu- larity of the King. Q. How much ground is occupled by Croydon snd Le Bourget Aerodromes?— . D. A. Each contains about 400 acres, Q. What is & parsee?—L. 8. A. It is & unit of lei used in ex- pressing the distance stars. One parsec is almost exactly 206,965 times th | the mean distance of the earth from the sun. A star is at a distance of one parsec from fhe earth if its annual parallax amounts 1o one second of arc. Q. What s & Savonnerie carpet?— W. H. L. A. 1t is & kind of fine, handmade, one-piece carpet with a velvei pile, manufactured at the Gobelin establish- ment in Paris, Th: name was taken the former establishment at Chail- t, which had once been & soap fac- tory—=Savonnerie. Q. What is the title of the Emperor of Japan as the head of the Shinto religion?—H. W. A. His title is Tenno, which means, literally, King of Heaven. Q. Why “sub rosa” mean “in se- cret"?—B. D. N. A. “Sub rosa” is translated “under the rose.” In anclent times the rose was the symbol of secreey hung up at en- tertainments as & token that nothing there said was to be divulged. Q. What foods d be given chil- Srens ;mn they "A. At such periods there is apt to be some softness of the bones, and chil- dren should get an abundance of the foods containing the elements neces- sary for bope growih. such as milk. butter, cheése, Ted meat, oatmeal, peas and beans. \ Q. How does a bee find its way home?—A. P. A. The bee finds its way home by its sense of direction. When it leaves the hive it circles around and then flies off. Each hive has its own odor which helps the bee to identify its hive. Q. Is sea level the same the world over?—F. 8. A. It is not correet fo hat sea ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Q. Where are the 39th and 58th| A. The 39th Infantry is inactive, and | there is no 58th Infantry in the service | P. C. O. e growing rapidly?— | ¥ ¢ C I, HASKIN. level is the same all the ‘World' over. ‘The land masses rising above the ocean basins tend to attract the waters and alter the sea level. For example, the Andes Mountains pull up the water adjacent to them, as do also the Himalayas in India. It has been found that the sea water at the mouth of the Indus is 300 feet higher than around the Island of Ceylon. In addition to this attraction by land masses there are also temporary and slight inequalities. Q. Has there been a change in the ;?um‘mm{h;d‘ 401 “1‘:' been chn«xd.‘: g of Edueation has | l‘o gmv.ec Stales Office of Education?. A. There has heen an intérnal re- organization. “The new plan calls for 6 administrative divisions to take il place of 10 which were functioning. ‘They are: Administration, "Ee Research and Investigations, tions, Library Service, Educationgl Service, Major Edueational Surveys. Q. Please give some records of long freight trains, How many cars a th:;eén the average freight train? A. The average number of cars cars ried by freight trains in 1928 was 4| per train, The Erie Railroad ran s -« of 251 cars, 8,547 feet long, on July 23, 1914. The train weighed 17,912, tons, In November, 1914, the New Haven ran a train from Victoria, Va., to Roanoke of 201 cars, 8,482 feet long, weighing 4.573 tons and making the 123 miles in 7 hours and 35 minutes. Both the New Haven and Virginian trains had only four loaded cars. Last October the Canadian Pacific ran & wheat train of 185 cars, weighing 8275 tons. This § about the heaviest train run for thal number of cars. Q. What is the Prix Femina?—L. H. A. The Prix Pemina is an annual award by two Prench magazines for the best novel selected by a jury of women. Q. When was the Seminary of St Sulpice established in Montreal?—~ A. The site of the first Manor House in Montreal bears a tablet with t inscription, “Upon this foundation f the first Manor House of Montreal, built 1661, burnt 1882, rebuilt 1883 It was the Seminary of St. Sulpice from 1661 to 1712. The present seminary building was erected in 1710. | Q. How leng did the Cubans fight | for independence?—D. P. | ~A. The struggle of the Cubans for | independence began in 1868 and con< tinued until 1899. Q. Who gave Maymont to the city of Richmond?—N. T, 2 A. Maymont was the home of Maj; and Mrs. James H. Dooley. By the pro« visions of the will of Maj, Dooley it be< came a city park ab the death of hiy wife and the house became the Doolei Museum. The gardens are considere some of the finest in the South and the house is filled with beautiful rugs, fur- niture and art gems. Q. How long is & moment?—F. W. 8 A. In modern times no exact inters pretation has been made of the len; of time employed in a moment. i medieval ruflnnlng it was a fortieth fiftieth part of an hour. In the sevens teenth and eighteenth centuries it wa§ often regar as equivalent to a secs ond. : Q‘& What. kind of roses are in thé park located at_ Georgia avenue a Upshur street?—C. 8. A. They are Ophelia roses. Q. What causes a dimple?—K. M. A. A dimple is a slight depressien of dent in the surface of the human bos caused by the adherence of the skin the deeper tissues, most ‘frequently om the cheek or chin. ¥ Q. _When was Niagara River neat the Falls first used for power? Hot tlrwlv:y is this power mow used?- s A. The first applieation of Niagars wer was to a_sawmill built by ichman in 1726 on the New Yor bank near the rapids. At present N agara power is used in Syracuse, 16! miles from its source, end also ‘Windsor, Ontario, 240 miles away. B treaty the amount of water that ma; be diverted from Niagara for rowq pul has. been - limi to 36,008 cubic feet per second en Oanadian side and 20,000 cubic feet m seco) in electros on the United -States power is used nearby chemical industries, in the manufacture of aluminum, ferro-: n, carboruns dum, artifieial graphite, liquid chlorin calcium carbide, eyanamide and ot products. Projected Railroad JERUSALEM.—The vast English railway project designed to connect ur and _protect the various parts of the British Emipire, as, for in stance, the Maan-Akaba line, now re- rted by Reutter, are nearing realisa- fon. This line is not merely impotant from the it of view of local strategy, nor meant only to connect up the small isolated garrison of Akaba with other Yt ot "o ine, so that troops can Tnved 1 within the eountry itself. It is the third section of the “dry Suez Canal” an alternative line runping through British-controlled ter- ritory and linking up the Mediterranean end the Red Sea. With t independent, the British arrison about to be withdrawn to the sue: Canal and ths possibility of fu- ture English-’ tian complications en- dangering or interrupting temporarily the passage through the eanal, the im- portance of this long-standing project is more obvieus than ever, Jardan-Ceast Line Projecied. The first section of the alernative ling is quite naturally formed by the branch line of the Hedjax railway from Halfa to Beisan, the second by the Jor- dan rallway from Beisan to the Dead Sea, which, as already reported in Au- .u:i. will be construeted in connection Wwith the potash concern. The only missing part, the third and smallest section, is the short distance conneot- ing the Jordan and the Hedjaz rallway. This prabably will he provided by a Junction line to Amman, for the pre- jected Haifa-Bagdad line, which will ikewise utilize the Haifa-Belsan and the Jordan rallway, will pass this city. Elizabeth was always an_illegitimate daughter and Queen, and Mary, Queen T' idwu' was the lawful Queen of Eng- and. * ok ok % Anthony ‘Trollope, iypical Victorian, wrote nearly 50 novels, which, it com- pared with the novels of Dickens and Thackeray, might be copsidered me- diocre. They have, nevertheless, their devoted readers, who are as familiar with_the Duke of Omnium, the Rev. Mr. Quiverful, Archdeacon Grantly, Mr. Slope, Bishop and Mrs. Proudle, My. Hmflnr Eleanor Bold, Griselda Grant- ly and the Stanhope family as they are with Becky Sharp, Amelia and Joe Sed- ley. Maj. Dobbin, Sir Pitt Crawley, Pen- dennis, Laura and the Newcomes. To such Trollope lovers, the biography ‘Anthony Trollope,” by Hugh Walpaole, is of interest. Mr. Walpole says of Trollope: “Within the confines of own kingdom he is absolutely real. ‘There is no novelist save Balzac who gives us so certain a conviction of ep- tering his doors, sitting on his chairs, eating from his tables. We touch the lathes of his human l:ehlg,ll a Open a Trollope novel where you will and you will find dialogue of an as- tounding realism—realism of word and accent and nlxll‘n.mt‘mun) The old.story of Alcibiades, oo L g tone . Sertrude Alh:rion’s “The Jealous Gods,” a com- 8. sefurbined, addad ol Agwins Since the construction of the pipe postpaned for the time being, on ac- count, of oversupply, incidentally it is not anly a» question of the Mesul oil, but glso of the petroleum deposits of Khanigin, owned by the Anglo-Persian Co., which are to be connected up with the Mosul pipeline—the building of the Haifa-Bagdad rallway may also suffer & few years' delay. Eeonomic Aspecis Good. ‘This certainly does not preciude the construetion of the few kilometers be- tween Amman and the Jordan lines at an earlier date, because it woyld con- siderably shorten the distance between Thr(;ugil i’al,t:stinq Will Link Red Sea With Mediterraneaq across the Hedjaz and the new In eliminating the longer sea journey fro Syria via Port Said and Suez. And'Eih grims do not like to tugi by sea. Thy southern section of the Hedjaz Rallway, in Ibn Saud’s territory, is destroyed and cannot be used. Unless, therefore, pil- grims care to make the detour via Port ::Idhthey are bound to pass througt aba. Recalls Days of King Solomon. Possibly, {00, Akaba, the ancient Ezion Geber of the Bible, may once more des veiop into an important center for southward-bound Palestinian trade in the days of King Splomon, who mad it the starting point for his mercantil fleet to African . Even now th small Arab village is the center of lively fishing trade, for which a Jewish; Arabic _group holds th= concessio Akaba fish are known for their size an e the Jordan line h: he Haifadan line ma get & certain amount of transient tra all the more so since, according to well informed source, tha relative “theap power of the Ruthenberg Jorda Power Station may conceivably drawn upon for the running of ti Jordan line. Near Cyprus Naval Base. While Great Britain is thus loosenin her hold on she is getting for heil self, through the yetion of and the restoration :f 1] Haifa Harbor ancient biblical port on the line for the Mosul pstroleum has been | is the of being considerably closer to Cyp: the nearest British naval point, than Pert Said, the entrance gate to the ol “‘wet, Suez,” from overland tran: 0! of the eastern and western Jordan area |t now only to be cavered by a long detour through French territary. e con- struction of the line to Maan, even be- fore the completion of the Jordan line his | and its junction with Amman, will con- foct up. ARaba with i P! since it can easily eapture the Moslem panion romance to her s of Pericles and iy Marriage.” of Jealaus Gods” is 1 Novel of the cu; one ). classical background, Alei- out as & brilifant, reck- “r pligrim_traffle_from Syria._the route twi