Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1929, Page 8

8 THE EVENING ST/ in: ition. jseélves. Every year the value of the i KIVRN INRSSY May B9 work ecrritd on by means of the money WASHINGTON. D. C. provided in th's simple and efféctive | TUESDAY......D:cember 3, 1929 mAnner is demonstrated more distinetly, | (g i | The real value of the fight against’ THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Edito | tuberculosis ‘is so evident that it re- | Dy T T . |quives no argament and no “salesman- | !<hip” on the part of those in (’hm‘am; This year the Christmas seal represents | {a bell-ringer. In olden costume, send- | 1ing forth the clarion as a health | areeting.” | | “statistics can be cited voluminously | {to how what the organized campaign | jof the National Tubeiculosis Assocla- | htlon is Going for the country. 1In the | " (same way it cen be shown that the | Washington Tuberculosls Assoetstion, | | for the support of which the seals are bought by the citizens of the Capital. is lowering the derth rate from this | dise is insuiing ‘the health of chil- | dren exposed to or Affected by this aile | ment, is in fact rendering tuberculosts, through education and th:ough timely | treaiment, a comparatively innocyous | f2ctor. i But, however great has been the ad- | vence in this respect, it must be con- | tinued. The work must be maintained. | For the disease 13 still prevalent. 1t | Is not completely eradicated. Perhaps Newsnaper Company rtn, g Piiness Oce oty Sfice. ‘110 Eust ' New Yoik Ofce. hicaue Office” Lake M. tar. e Evening and Sunda Iwhen 4 Sundavs) The Evenine and Cwhy n 45¢ 1 o1 month Siar 50c oer menth 65¢ per e per the end of each mon n oh® Rent in by mafl 31" telephone Sunday Siar Orders mav NAtional 50 Rate by Mail—Pa: Maryland and Daily and_Sunday onlr ¥ anly " ANl Other States an Dally and Sundav ! ¥ Daily onlr 1 8. Sund: e« only 1vr. $500: 1 mo. Member of the Associnted Prest. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republicaiion of w1l new: patches cred © ited in this oct herein. rizhts of publice:tor special dlspatches nerein are aleo eserved. in Advance. d Canada, H £12.00 it csn never be, :lhv Christmas seals, They sell them- ‘f&mllflu. ‘who prevailed upon his Am- ! heist classmate to renounce his Mor- i gan banking partnership to bscoms | Ambessador to Mexico. Mr. Morrow | acquitted hims-lt at Mexico City promptly and eflectiely, Th= history of our Improved relations with the re- public b:yond th: Rio Grande dates from the moment the conciliatory Mor- row touch was applied to them. Since then he has been periodically mention- ed for higher honors, including both ine Secretaryship df Slale and the Sec- reiaryship of the Treasury, Evidently Mr. Morrow prefers the hurly-burly of politics, elad In the toga of a Senator of the United Siates. As long as he is in the Upper House, it will be adorned by & member of meny | talents. He is a Jawyer and a banker. H=2knows #s much as any man in public life about national aviation needs. hav- ing served with rare distinction as (he head, of President Coolidge’ air In- quiry in 1925, And, of course. Col. Lindbergh is now & member of the Morrow household. In addition to «ll these qualifizations and background of experience, Mr. Morrow will bring to the Senate his recent, first-hand knowledge of the | proval of the purists. Jnternational situation, as it will be left | Little he would care for their scorn. Tor bettar or for worse, by the London | Hi3 books have been collected solely to 118 no less a useful thing than to have a hobby in life. Books themsclves fre. of course, a nh-bby. but when one has certain aims in thir gathering he hes what may be | termed a hobby ‘within a hobby, some- thing lke Poe’s “Gream within a arcam.” We were at the home recently of a gentlrman who hrs made a specialty of Lo classes of books, those of the an- | clent authors,, particularly those of Lome and Greece, and French litera- | ture. There scemed something appropriate about these {wo great loves, As far | apart as time has piaced them, they { unite as one in being truly great end | highly conststent with the best in lit- o ture. | 1t was a genuine pleasure to look lover the well stocked shelves and to sce what one without special vquipment | might do in his chosen book hobbics. Our friend is by no means a scholar | In the general acceptance of that term. | | His collections of ancient suthors are wholly in Enclish transletion, and | therefore might not meet with the ap- | To have a hobby In bock collecting Great Plans for the Capital. ‘The huge inercase in the publie bulld- ings program for Wa-hington proprscd by Cheirman Ellioit of the Hous» com- mittee on public buildings and grounds surpasses the most opt‘mistic hopss of thoss who have interesied themselves in the Federal Government's vigorons efforis not only o bravtify the Amer ean Capitrl. but to provide its own establishment with ftting housing fa- cilities. With $75000,000 sirerdy authorized and part of it sp>nt in esquirng the ! Avenue triangle lond and beginninz eonstruction on some of the great build- ings, President Hoover last Summer in- timated that the fund would have to be Increaséd by another $50.000.000. A few weeks ago it wes revealed from other sources that this addition would ' be in the neighborhood of $75,000.000. Now, the bill, drawn by Cha’'rman Fili- ott, proposes that the addition to the tuflding program be $115,000.000. I reises the total proposed for the District | of Columbia program to $190 000,000 #nd would make th> funds available in annual sllotments of $15.000 000 & rear Mr. Ellictt’s bill opens entirely new vistas in the Government's develoomant of the Capifal. It gives the much dis- cussed Avenue trianzle project a post tion almost of secondary importance, for the Avenue trianele b>comes merely one | of a series of triangular developments | The bill will mean the eventual pur- | chase and development by the Pederal Government cf A great territory lving west cf Seventeenth street, bounded on | the north by New York avenue and on | the south by B street. It means the | purchase by the Government of such well known landmarks as the Cosmoe Club and the Belasco Theater, in order to permit the extension north to H street of the Treasury annex. It means a great development in Southwest Wash- | ington north of the rallroad tracks and | between the Capitol and the Bureau of | Engraving. In his message today President Hoo- ver briefly explains the reasons for this | increase. “An expedition and rnhrp-i ment of the program in the District | would bring about direct economies in construction by enabling the erection of | buildings in regular sequence. By main- tamning & stable labor force in the city, contracts can be made on more advan- tageous terms. The eariier completion ! e this program, which Is an acknowi- | edged need, would add dignity to the | celebration in 1932 of the two hun- dredth anniversary of the birth of | President Washington.” ‘The President also calls to the atten- tion of Congress the fact that even after | the completion of the projects author- | ized in the initial $75,000,000 allotment ' for the Distfict, “we shall have fully | 20,000 clerks housed in temporary and | rented war buildings, which can last but a little longer.” All of the details of expending the pro- | posed additional $115,000,000 have not been made known. It is understood, | however, that this fund would provide | for constructing certain bufldings al- ready planned and authorized—such as the extensible Department of Agricul- ture Bullding, the Department of Jus- i tice Building, the Archives Building, the | Labor Department Building, the Inde- | pendent Offices Building and a separate | forth the . hostilities in Manchuria. The fight must be | ! conference. carried on year After year and to this | Reed and Morrow on the floor the Sen- | €hd there must be funds for nurses, for | ate should be splendidly equipped to thors to whom the world is In debt. clinles, for oa fnd red seal is a token of this en. deavor. ‘Buy the seals g@neroucly and use them frecly. It is not enough marely fo pay for the ltile stemps. They should bs affixed—in a-cord with the postal regulations—to mail matter, to parcels as well as letters, so as to send word broadcast that the fight agtinst tubereulosts is continuing. Every seal I a reminder. Every seal i printed for this year's service should be mede to do its bit. - . B The Hoover Doctrine. In his first message to a regular ses- slon of Congress President Hoover to day gave pride of place to the sfhcacy | of the war-renunciation pact #s an agency for preserving peace. By & co- incidence of unusual significance, the President’s acclaim of the anti-war treaty synchronizes to the hour with the action of the United States in Icaguing the ffty-four signatory naticrs in an effort to halt the Russo-Chincre ‘The embers of that conflict, dangerous as they are r the countries directly at issue, have even more combustible possibilities for the world at large, because a blaze in Eastern Asia could hatdly fail to be- come an iniernational confiagration. Mr. Hoover tells Congress that ‘through the Kellogg-Briand pact a great moral slandard has been ralsed in the world. Since its inauguriation we have initiated new edorts not only n the organization of the machinery of peace, but also to eliminate dangerous forces which produce controversies amongst nations.” Later on, In the same passage, the President reports how, “in the hope of reducing friction in the world, we have joined in con- ference with Great Britain, Prance, Italy and Japan, to be held in Lon- don in January, to consider the further | imitadion and reduction of mnl‘ arms. President Hoover affirms that “to pro- mote peace is our Jong-established policy.” He does not on this occasion wake Congress speeifically into his con- fidence as to how he purposes achieving peace. But the steps to end the Man- churian imbroglio sre an action which speaks louder than the words in the President’s message. The Associated Press describes “the mbbilization of world public opinion” to avert war in the Far East as “the most comprehen- sive move for peace that has ever been made in the history of American, and probably world, diplomacy.” It deserves that description because Becretary Stimson has appealed to all of the United States' co-signatories of | the General Pact for Renunciation of { War to urge upon China and Soviet Russia a cessation of hostilities. They are not urged to join any coercion ex- | ©ept the power of persuasion. They are not asked to threaten physical pressure | If You only could know with what bit- or embargoes of any sort. They are invited to exercise, purely and simply, the “sanctions of public opinion” in striking eontradiction to the sanctions of force envisioned by the articles of the League of Nations. ‘Thus is seen in full, dramatic and 8lobe-girdling action the working of the building for the United States Coast| Guard. In addition, the fund Includes | F100Ver doctrine in world affairs—a doc- | trine founded on the belief that, how- rov! a :“u:‘:’: o a mewWar DR rnL | 4. BN adequate defen- This latter project is of exceptional ‘llve establishment mly.bc. the prodi- Interest. 1t presénts the possibiity. of | $10US POWer of the world's will for.peace, the reiatively imminent demolition cu‘.":"'r‘:";"‘v’:’“;‘:fi':‘_’r et the “temporary” War and Navy Bulld- 2 i 6 sy trects ana| It Will be an interesting, and, indeed, the construction of a large new edifice | *" ©Pochal, development in interna- o & site yeb to be selected, . Thece | onal Telations 1f, -0n thé occasion of seems to be some misunderstanding ' this first acd test, the Hoover doctrine now as to whether the new building| **7¥®S Its great and pacific purpose. would house both the Army and the e . Navy offices. But it appears certain | INcreased traffic for the Panama that the new bullding will stand some- Canal constitutes more evidence worth where south of the Mall, possibly ; considering of genuine prosperity. adjacent to the new site selected for ' e the Botanic Garden. Acquisition of | Mr. Morrow in the Senate. that site would clean up an ugly, The intention of Gov. Larson of New portion of Southwest Washington and | Jersey to appoint Ambassador Dwight | would constitute a major part of the| W. Morrow to serve out the latter half Government’s plans for developing that | of Ambassador Walter E. Edge's unex- section of the city. pired term in the United States Senate In addition tp selting a great ex-is as stimulating a piece of news as ample to industry in speeding up con- | has made the front page in many struction work, ‘the bill by Mr. Elliott a day. It is nothing short of an ideal comes as further indication of the|decision. This can be said °without Pederal Government's real determina- | prejudice to Republican Jerseymen like tion 10 make of Washington the Capi- | former Senator Prelinghuysen, who tal that it should be. The daya of | prompily announces his determination penny-pinching are being relegated in | (o fight Mr. Morrow “to the end” for favor of the greater economy that “"i"m regular senatorial nomination next in building adequately for the future. year, - e o Mr. Morrow is to enter the Senate Activity on the part of the authorities | 3¢ the end of his present duty, which siready establishes a poor outlook for! ynorily will comprehend the period of the bootleg branch of the holiday trade.| tne Iondon naval conference. He will z v be one of the seven American delegates Ring the Bell for Health! there. Presumably his active senatorial At ten o'clock last Friday morning career will be of a round years dura- bells were rung throughout the country | tion, from March, 1930, to Masch, 1931, to give notice that once again the'If he aspires to perpetuate himself in Christmas seals had been issued. Vor |the Senate, Mr. Morrow will have to I — e the twenty-second time these little stickers were then offered to the Ameri- can people to give them an opportunity to subseribe to a Nation-wide fund. a verjtable war fund for the campaign against tuberculosis. This morning | many Washingtonians received in the | mail offerings of these stamps or seals, to facilitate their purchase and thus to keep up the local subscription o its re- quired point. It is no longer necessary to “sell” obtain nomination in the New Jersey primaries next year and then be elected in the succeeding November. The tem- porary incumbent of the Edge seat, Mr. Baird, appears to have had a string tied to his recent appointment by Gov. Lar- son, with the Ambassador to Mexico holding the long end. Mozt of his compatriots are familiar with Dwight Morrow’s rapid rise in N national service. He was brought into ' peck, fon. The little Blue |deal with the conferences results. affirmsiiveiy or otherwise, as American | interests require. | One other aspect of Dwight Mor-, row’s dedication of his life to a new sphere of public service is worthy of notice. He is one of those “new patri- ots” whom Herbert Hoover is drafting day by day, into the Federal organism The “new patriols” are men of affajrs and of mark, who, having made theit plies” In private enterprise, are ready | 1o serve their country at vast personal | pecuniary sacrifice. The President, himself a shining example of the “new patriot,” is certain to view with grati- fication the desires of Ambassador Morrow further to consecrate himself to the Republic's cause.’ 48 . Study of crime At close range should | enable District Attorney Rover, should | he éver feel an urge to take up litera- ture, to write & few detective thrillers | that would entertain the public and | gladden the publishers. | A Chicago professor says that giris | have s0 much knowledge that young men become too bashful o propose. | Such girls may have erudition, but they | are not clever, ————— It Is reported that Trotsky is learning Turkish. There was an impression that he already knew more languages than ' he knew what to do with, - It 1s to be hoped that persons homi- pulses. There is Already an oversupply of mysterfes. e AP, Fortunately the generous sums to| stimulate prosperity will be administered | by practicAl executive ability, combined with the highest authority. — emem— Congress 1s back on duty compelled (o recall, during arduous effort, the adage that worry is harder than work. Even the home can share some of Comdr. Byrd's polar impressions if he will wait for weather at its worst. .o Old friend Santa Claus interests him- i self in only one side of the market. He ! is never a bear. oo SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNBON. The Mistake, When you punish a feller that made a mistake, He may turn in a cynical way And seem to be careless of efforts you make To move him by all that you say. Down deep in his heart you, as yet, have not seen, Resentment might not be so grim, terness keen . ‘That mistake has been punishing him. On Miz Guard. “The man outside says he is a boot- legger.” “Tell him to go away,” said Senator Sorghum. “He's working & new dodge lobbylsts are using in trying to get private interviews.” Jud Tunkins says a tricky friend spolls the best part of the trick when he loses the friend. Exacting Taskmaster, “Shop early,” we are told once more, In line for Christmas fun, Friend Santa, as in years of yore, Has got us on the run! Patient Loser. “How did you come out of the recent flurry in the stock market?” “I lost quite & sum,” answered Mr, Dustin Stax, “With all your inside information?"” “Yes. Numerous friends and relations insisted on operating on margins. Now T've got to go on indefinitely lending them money.” “Truth,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is too often forbidding in speech. Deceit is too oftén able to be- gulle with elogquence.” ly Rising. Said I, “What pleasure you have won ‘When you observe the rising sun!" The milkman said, “I've heard Junk— ‘That kind of poetry is bunk that “I don't feel jes’ human when I goes huntin’;” sald Uncle Eben. “Dey makes me wear a tag, same like I was an auto- mobile.” ————— No Indigestion Here. Prom the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, ‘The Long Island woman who on her 100th birthday baked a mince ple and read a detective story cares nothing for any kind of indigestion. ———— Them Wuz the Days, Prom the Loulsville Times. The good old days were those when there were more close shaves in barber shops than in traffic. IR e Silk 10 Be Heard. Prom the Albeny Evening New low that longer skirts are coming silk, we take it, WY be heard and it barely three years ago by President not seel With Senators R’!anm.! Suit one person, himself; on that basis and none other he has got together a very creditable array of the fine old au- * X ok x He began as & boy with an old set of Plutarch, which he pleked off the tables of a second-hand book store. | Qoo old Plutarch! Readers who are trying valiantly to “keep up with the new bnoks” sheuld @0 back and catch up with the old oncs. { And how could they bogin better than by _reading Plutarch? What a wonderful old fellow he ws with his insatiable curlosity, alwa cager to hear some good story about hero and not chary about setting it down for posterity to read. | 1t is good history, too, as far as it | 1f it is not “documinted” as well | 2s some might wish, it more than makes | up for it by ‘the interest of the indi- | vidual lives. | Dip in dnywhere and come out with 2 memory. Here is the life of Camillus. | brave Ftirius Camillus, one of the he- | roes of the Roman republic, who lived about 400 years B.C. The Gauls eame down on Rome, lay- ing waste the land as they came. Out. | side the walls they were met by & Ro- | man army, which was defeated. | Inside ‘the city terror reigned. All| who could fled, but the high pri | And the elderly Senators thought such flight b-neath them, Calmly they seated themselves fin their fvory chairs in the forum, and, on their long staffs, they walted for the entrance of the barbarians. | When these gentlemen entered they | Immediately went to the forum. This | was a sight new and amazing to the Gauls. | The grave Romans sat without mov- ing, making no sound, creating such | an_impression that at first the bar-| barians felt that they were in the prw] ence of a group of superior beings. | For a while they stood in awe, but | at last one Gaul, braver than the rest, Marcus Paperius. This was too much for Marcus. Ralsing his staff, he smote the bar- barian & wickgd crack on the head. This was t60 much for fhe barbarian, He drew his sword and lopped the head of Marcus Paperius, U. S. Engineers | of “Letters” an i : " - | reached forward and touched the nose | “Nature of the Gods, cldally inclined will restrain their im |and stroked the long beard of one | “Offices, or Moral Duties off | Ro Gl‘—(;l—l) 5 1 e 3 ESDAY. DECEMBER 3 THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E, TRACEWELL. ‘Then the general slaughter bogan Later the Gauls declded {a leave, but asked for a thousand weight of gold. When the weighing was commenced, the barbarians piayed h'gh jinks, some of them putting thelr hands on the scales. so that the more money the Romans put in, the more the Gauls pressed down on the other side. When the Romans fimlfs!rd against such a violation of the treaty, Bren rus. leader of the Gaul ¥ sword and belt on the scales “What docs this mean?” asked the Romans. “What should haughty Brennus, queredi” threw mean,” replied the “but woe to the con- *xox ok In this lbrary fhere was works, and Lucretfus “of the Nature of Things" together with the “Discourses” of Epictetus, and the “Morals” of Seneca. Great names of antiquity there were in abundance—Lucan and Perslus, Pliny the Elder and Younger, Quintilian, Statius, Martial, Tacitus, _Juvenal, Suetonius, Matcus Aurelius Antoniniuz ‘The great ancient plays of Aeschylus Plato's | Euripides, Aristophanes were here in varfous translatlons, including some of the greatest. Nor must Plutarch's ““Morals” be forgotten. Those who care for the abstract consideration of tnc problems of and evil by no means must overlook these essays. Here were three volumes of Xenophon, transiated by the Rev. J. S. Watson. Virsh apoeared in both prose and verse translations, and there was a gorgeous recent edition of the “Love Stories” of Ovid which would never get by fthe Boston customs house. Thucydides shone forth in two vol- umes on the Peloponnesian wars. Ter~ ence was here, together with two laige | volumes lab~led “Tacitus, the Works of.” One who was interested in the history of Rome durlng the relgns of Con- stantius, Jullan, Jovianus, Valentmiau ond Valens could find all about it in the history written by Ammianus Mar- cellinus, translated by the famous Prof. C. D. Yonge. Appian had two volumes on Roman hisiory. The next book on the shel? 'As A one-volume _translation of Apuleius’ works, including the famed “Golden Ass.” Catullus was here in a “literal prose ' translation.” Junjus still showed the orld models of letter writing. Homer's liad"—heavens, we had almost for- gotten {t! Yet here it was in all the translations available, both in prose and verse, including the neat couplets of Puxe of Epicieius, which he took as spoken by the great Stoic, stood next to an even more famous work of his, but little read any more, the n's most famous work, the “Dis- iclad in their best robes, and leaning | “ANAbasis of Alexandria, Aristotle's “Ethics™” and “Metaphysics” Jjostled the widest known Latin book. “Caesar's Commentarics on the Gallic Wa What & shame it is that this truly Interesting book should be forced on children, thus spoiling their appreci- ation of it for life! And 12 volumes of Cicero! We took down their names, because we had f goiten that so mich of him had sur- vived. Four volumcs of his orations. including that ope against Ca one each on “Orators, ademics” and Diogenés Laertius stood ready to give the reader the lives and opinions of the ancient philosophers. Best of all, there were seven volumes of Gibbon's “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” in so man in tone that it ‘“belonged,” rounding out the others. Well Fed In Hunger-Ridden Soviet Land BY CARROLL BINDER. LENINGRAD, U. S. S. R—Com-| munal 1iving is the order of the day in | Leningrad as it is in every Russian city. | From 3 to 30 families share each of the | | mansions which once housed a single | try noble or rich merchant family. Some- times two or more families share a single room in one of those expropriated | establishments. Occasionally one dis- | covers & shabby outcast living in the | basement or outhouse of a mansion he | once owned. Like most urban Russians, | Leningraders take their principal meals | in_common dining halls or restaurants. | It is not surprising therefore that a | group of American engineers, several of | them from Chicago, should be living “communistically” in communistic Len- ingrad. It is a very superior and pleas- ant sort of communism—that of a bourgeols American club rather than the rough and tumble Russian variety— which these non-communist American techniclans practice in Leningrad. Their | clubhouse in what used to be an aristo- cratic center of pre-révolutionary St.| Petersburg is one of the most delightful ani hoxgluble spots for Americans in the Soviet Union. There the traveler fortumate enough to have an Introduc- | tion will be regaled with a meal such | 4s money cannot buy him today In Rus- | sia’s uniformly inferior eating places. There he will hear familiar American college songs, see familiar American Erlnmcll&—«lnd be asked or told the! test gossip about People's Gas com- | mon and Al Capone. * oK K % ‘The 13 members of the staff of the Freyn Engineering Co., 310 South Michigan avenue, Chicago, who are | helping the boisheviks convert Russia from a farm into a workshop by draw- ing up plans for $600,000,000 worth of iron and steel plants, enjoy probably the highest standard of living in Lenin- grad. Engineers are the most valued members of Communist society. They live better than anybody else in non- official Russian Iife, and their children have a brighter future than any other class in proletarian society. The American engineers who counsel Rus- sian engineers and have the task of training Russians for practical admin- istration of the gigantic iron and| steel mills now being built are willingly | offered the best to be had in the| U.8 8 R. That means julcy steaks when the Russian brain worker is allowed only 100 grams of meat daily; butter ad Iib when the Russian gets only & pound a month; sheeting for the beds when Russian housewives must stand in line for hours to get their ration of calico. Trus, these good things of life are sometimes obtained at the price of a slightly damaged cook or maid. * k% | When Leningrad housewives behold A Freyn Club servant carrying away & huge parcel of butter or a roll of sheeting they wonder whether the sup- DIy will holg out until thelr turn, and they suspect the successful purchaser of some unlawful conspiracy with the salesman. Thelr frayed nerves spur them to a little direct action, until the official order authorizing supplies for “the Americanski” is flashed upon them by the assaulted servant. But, even for the privileged, house- keeping in Russia is a task requiring clever wits and endless patience. Only one who has himself stood in cues to obtain the wherewithal of a meal can Appreciate the two repasts of “Ameri- can” proportions daily served diners at the Freyn Club. Food inevitably becomes the chief theme of any discussion of Russiaz life, but the Freyn Club has other fea- tures which distinguish it from the rest of Russia. There is a fine hand ball court and a phonograph, with an up- to-date collection of American jazs records, which quite captivate Russian visitors. Radio has proved A& disap- pointment thus far. Russian programs are rather dull, as even the Communist press complains, while foreign stations | the Soviet form of production and dis- b dfl.;:u broadeast at the hours Lenin- o TS are free, For ncr:n:l-on there is a cabaret two mornings & week (at 12 to 3 am. at Leningrad’s attempt at a modern hotel) and the opera and ballet, which are as fine as can be seen in Europe. The };:Imltlle Galleries contain some of the the environs of Leningrad lend them- es to excursions by bus and steamer, Study of Russian might also be classed s a recreation, and lkewise shopping y the ladies. ‘While all Leningrad 1= overcrowded, the Freyn group rejoices in 11 modernly equipped apartments. There are bed rooms, living rooms, baths and hall- ways, just as one would find in an American apartment. tire establishment reminds one of a bit of Chicago transplated to this alien city and alien society. The Freyn engineers have been en- gaged for two years' service to “Gi- promes,” the Soviet institution for the projection of new metal works. Russia_produces 4,000,000 tons of iron and steel annually. That is about what ‘The Iraders of s pose, to increase that pro- duction ‘to 10,000,000 tons annually as part of their stupendous program for equipping the nation with heavy indus- tries. Yukostal, chief steel “trust” of the Soviet Union, which now produces 2,600,000 tons annually, s scheduled to turn out 6,500,000 tons annually in 1933 and yearly thereafter. * ok x ok Inasmuch as the Soviet Union eonsti- | tutes a tremendous home market and | tribution permits large-scale operation of a highly specialized type, the Rus- i think the steel industry has a [l future in their country. They greatly admire American steel mills, and hired the Freyn staff to help obtain such mills in place of the old-fashioned plants they are now operltlnfl. L. E. L. Thomds, former chief engi- neer of the Inland Steel Co., is super- visor of the Freyn staff in Leningrad. It includes specialists in coke oven con- struction, blast furnaces, rolling mills and in provision of power for industry. Members of the staff are: E. H. Gol- lester, Steubenville, Ohio; E. P. Ever- hard, Hinsdale, 1ll; O. R. Rice. Oak Park: Kar] Weinel. Rogers Park: W. B. Clemmitt, Baltimore; L. R. Dwyer, Canton: W. S. Orr, Massillon, Ohio; Walter W. Lec, St. Louls; Frank Her- 708, Buffalo; Gordon Fox and Lee H. Mandeville, Chicago, and Vance Cronk, Cleveland. Mrs. Collester and Mrs. Ever- hard and Tchorni Ivanovitch, a black cocker spaniel mascot, complete the club roll. Eight servants, captained by & very efficlent Scotch-Russian house- keeper, operate the club. It is the mecca of Americans visiting Leningrad. (Copyrisht, 1929.) e Michigan City Is Scored Over Life-for-Pint Acts From the Chicage Daily Tribune. Lansing, Mich., editors and citize) profess indignation that a dlnchl#‘ member of the police force there should say that evidence was framed against Mrs. Etta Mae Miller and Fred Palm, two of Michigan's pint lifers, put away for the rest of their natural years, in the one case for the sale and in the other for the possession of a small amount of liquor. The charge that these victims had evidence atacked against them rests on the assertion of the former policeman, but Lansing should take that easily. ‘The two were sent to prison for life. Thelr offense was one which any civil- ized community would treat as a de- linquency adequately punishable within the province of reason and humanily. No soclety which could stubbornly in- dulge itself In the savagery of sending such obscure and trivial violators of sumptuary law to the penitentiary for life can be allowed any indignation at any charge which could be brought against the intelligence, the sanity or the honesty of its processes. It has been indicled, tried and con- victed -of an al soclal crime and 1s & fugitive from Ml decent opinion. finest paintings in the world. and | Indeed, the en- Soviet | NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM 1 L G M. | | THE STORY OF SAN MICHELE. Axel | Munthe. E. P. Dutton & Co. If the doctor, any doctor, could be unlocked and opened up lke a trunk, {what a wealth of useiul truth about { the human would be disclosed! But his profession is of all others deepest in the bond of secrecy—naturally and, in {the main wisely, so. In the first place, lalling mankind refuses to heéar the !facts about iiself. Besides, there is much in evelfv specific case of which the physictan in attendance is so largely AN ‘What do you néed to know? 1s there some point abcut your business or Kér- sonal life that puzzles you? 1s there something you want to know without delay? Submit your quesifon to Fred- eric J. Haskin, director of our Wash- ington Information Bureau. He is em- | ployed to_help you. Address your in- | quiry to The Evening Star Information ureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C., and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Q. When was opera ilrst broadcast?— ignorant that silence becomes the only | S. B, {mode of safety. Again, this particular | professional walks by day and by night with an Unseen Companion, whom he jstrives, hopelessly, to overcome and | whose approach to this sufferer or that one he is desperate to conceal. So, all ‘In all, silence and concealment have |become, as a matter of course, the | watchword of the art of medicine, the | arbiter of the doctor’s attitude toward { the sick and the terrified. | _ Here ’Axtl Munthe s famous throughout E rope for his skill and success among | the ailing and the sick. From his stu- {dent days he was ardent in pursuit of | medical_knowledge. He became assist- {ant to Pasteur. He was 4 zealot in the | cause of science as this bears upon the | subject of sickness and its treatment | generally. Then, as matutity and ex- perience and increasing recognition |came to this man he rose to the height {of authority upon the sources of dis- | ease, of certain diseases, and upon the methods of meeting or circumventing So much for the emi- i nent phys| |"“Here he tells his own story. Now if i this story were merely the recounting | of experience as a physiclan of growing iame, it would be worth a good deal to the profession itself, but not much good to the rest of us. The point of general interest here is that, under the doctor, | there is a man, a live main, who by way | of this story appears to be having the | time of his’life in telling the world all | about it. Beside the doctor, here is an | adventurer in life, here is one to whom another human being is an object of |the deepest concern. A keen man probing his fellows, usually with laugh- ter and a most communicable numor, but, upon occasion, with a brusque snap of wholesome truth. A man whose love for the poor and squalid seems to be as | genuine as is that for the gilded ones n his following. One who, in an in- stant, knows attack of organic | trouble from a scizure of pure imagi- ! nation. To him the human is an ab- i sorbing matter, but never any more— | let us say, companionable. than a dog | or a bear, or & bird Is. Where with the | human contingent there is always more tor less of indirection in approach and asfociation, with these others the meet- | Ing is at once full and spontaneous on | both sides. In the day's round he meets | the sick and fanciful and the supersti- |tious and the hysterical, as he must | meet them in order to help, on their own ground. He meets a dog right | where that sincerest of all creation is and they talk it out togethér to the | complete satisiaction of both. Quite | serlously he discusses “the good dog doctor.” as seriously as he would dis- cuss the “good man doctor.” I mention this since it is an indication—there are hundreds of them within the book—of the universal quality of the man him- {g2lf. It would be impossible to imagine Axel Munthe drawing lines of distinc- tion between what we call “orders of creation.” They. are all one—each a Some single creative force, not to be set In ranks and orders and precedences, Man and dog, or other animal, tree a; | flower, rising sun and fading day—all expressions of one and the same thing, all to be understood s such and loved as such. Along with this great equali- tarianism there goes the power of gay adventure, of smiling hazard, of even | reckless daring. .And how he knows the world! Onee this good became a “fashionable doctor.” ‘That €hould not be charged up against h'm “What they all Jlkre.h to '?nlk':bolll wi appendicitis, Appendicitis was fust then much jn demand among better-class people on the lookout for a complaint. i All the nervous ladies had got it on the brain, if not in the abdomen. So 1 drifted dgrndullly into appendicitis arid treated a great number of such cases with varied success. But when the rumor began to circulate that the American surgeons had started on a campaign to cut out every appendix in the United States—consternation!” Then came colitis to take the place ot the other pet disease—and so the doc- tor goes on, laughingly, but altogether seriously after all, through disease fads, and out of these into serious and m mentous matters pertaining to the pre- vention of many of the ills under which man suffers, Serious at heart, smiling of face, Dr. Axel Munthe goes gailantly along his way, with always a personal idream of his own shining before him. The dream s “San Michele” itself, the vision 18 that of life and leisure on the Jewel height of Capri, with the Med- Iterranean, er than blue, laug‘hmu below. A sclentist, a seer, in 0 fa poet, an adventurer—a beguiling man | from any of these facets of personality. Fighting a cholera scourge, dissecting an idle lady's ‘mind, discussing hydro- phobia, experimenting with telepathy from the standpoint of the Psychical Research conclusions, or just living to the limit on the sun-soaked islet or Capri here, is a truly significant human being, and an altogether fascinating man and writer. LRI VISIT INDIA WITH ME. Dhark Gopal Mukerji. E. P, Dutton & Co. A rare opportunity stands behind this gravely courteous Invitation, “Visit India with me.” For, here in the role of host and guide is one who has known India—not for a year, not even for his own lifetime alone, but for hun- dreds of years, instead, through the roots of & long family line. While cur- rent opinfons of the traveler hastily passing through the country isess the interest of a particular, and alien, point of view, yet until these are set off against the ingrained knowledge of the wise native, there can no equitable evaluation of this much-dis- cussed part of the Orient. So, let us go along with Dhan Gopal Mukerjl. Suppose, for vividness of impression, we step inside the personality of “Mr. Eagles,” American, who is the guest of Mr. Mukerji in this adventure of seeing India. The eyes of the Western: traveler are much like our own: his point of view is ours. He will ask our questions. He will react to the experi- ence much as we would. Therefore, Wwe are, for the purpose of this tour, “Mr. Eagles,” American. Bombay is the point of arrival. The character of this city sets the key of the full enterprise. Here the old and the new stand side by side. The mod- ern factory and the ancient temple keep one another company. The rus of industry jostles some wayside re- liglous ceremonial. Throughout the Journey it is this contrast of the pres- ent with the past that absorbs these two travelers. City after city passes un- der such review. An ancient kingdom at one point is set off against an area of modern Western administra- tlon at another point. Art, embodying in temple and shrine the nature of | = the Hindu s in_their exactions of homage and sacrifice from helpless humans—these, in the hands of Mr. Mukerjl, become objects of an illumi- nating study that embraces the life of India itself. Politicrd and soclal re- forms, under this ardent native or that one, are set out concretely in a cer- taln quarter. Western methods of progress are objectified in their actual workings in another locality. The in- surgent and the restless are pointed out in their alms and activities and achievements, or lack of achievement. Dhan Gopal is no pagandist, no agitator. He loves India and knows ii. 1L is through this medium of affection and loyalty that he himself sees il: through this that he desires the West to see it. Now and then the journey ceases, for the moment; the travelers is"a doctor of another sort. | w peculiar and distinct emanation from | man went astray. He | was in the beginning of his career ana | ever | r 8s the human is concerned: x| ‘A It was first broadcast November 111, 1921, from Chicago. Q. Does the black walnut make a good shade tree?—H. L. A. 1t provides good shade, grass grows well under the tree, the nuts are palatable and salable, and the lumber when the tree is felled is valuable. Q. Where was Emma Calve born?— 8. A. The opera singer was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1864. Her real name is Emma de Roquer. Her mother was French and her father Spanish. She was educated in a convent school in Southern France. Q. At what age christened?—M. H. D. A. Etiquette says that in other days of stricter observances a baby was bap- tized in the Catholic and High Episco- pal Church on the first or at least second Sunday after its birth. But to- day the christening i usually delayed At least until the young mother is uj |and about again. Often it is put of for months, and in some denominations children need not be chrisitened until they are several years old. The usual age is,from 2 to 6 months. Q. What is the United States of Eu- rope?—E. H. A. The United States of Europe Is as yet the dream of statesmen. Certain ' political leaders see In the future an institution terned somewhat after the United States of America, in which the different peoples of Europe emg as the units which comprise a great whole. -;hmlld A baby be D. Q. What causes the ghost of marshes to walk—that is, what makes the queer light that floats at times over such places?—T. H. T. A. In damp woods and dark marshes & phosphorescent substance forms, com- monly known as foxfire. When a dry spell occurs, accompanied by wind, oftentimes a mass of this formation rises and is carried gently along in the form of a cloud. It is luminous, and presents a weird and strange appear- ance. Q. What country left the earliest pic- tures of sailing vessels?>—C. C. A. The earliest depicted sailing ves- sels are those of the middle pre-dynastic era of Egypt, found on vases dating from 7000 to 5000 B.C. Q. From what Iangu: word “coffee” come?—G. C. A. It comes from the Arabic through the Turkish form—kahveh. Q. How do Asiatic wolves Alaska?—S. L. A. If there are any Asiatic wolves in Alaska, they have crossed the ice at Bering Strait. Most of the wolves in Alaska are coyotes, which come in from Canada. Q. How fast can a body fall>— D.W W | age does the C reach A. Actual naenments conducted by | the Army Air Corps have demonstrated the fact that an object falling from an altitude neyer attains a velocity greater {than 118 miles per hour. This velocity | 1s reached within a period of 11 seconds, ‘The acceleration of a falling body is progressive. It is 16 feet the first sec- SWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ond, 48 feet the second second, 80 feet the third second, and so on. Q. Is the United Btates using up its petroleum rssources faster than other | countries?—L. P. According to a report of the Fed- | eral Oil Conservation Board, the United | States, producing 72 per cent of the world's crude oil production and con- | suming 65 per cent of the world's total, is exhausting its petroleum reserves so | much faster than the rest of the world | as to endanger America’s futurg supply | of oil. Q. What are some of the advantages of the new mechanical cotton picker?— | | TR | A, Some of the advantages of the 1“hand type” mechanicAl picker are: | The fields are picked cleaner than oy ! hand; the machines are operated on jabout one gallon of gasoline daily; ma- | chine operators can be ordinary hand | pickers selected from fleld crews. Of |2 bales of machine-picked cotton and /10 bales of hand-picked cotton from the |same field and ginned at the same gins, | there was an average of 372 pounds of |loss on account of trash in each of the | five 2-bale loads of hand-picked cot- |ton and only 55 pounds of trash in a '?.-bllle 16ad of machine-picked cotton, In the test actual saving in the cost of | picking and ginning and the increase in | selling price of the machine-picked cot- | ton produced $10.20 a bale over the | regular receipts. The test was per- | formed in the second picking, afid there was only about 300 pounds of seed cot- | ton per acre, the leaves had bsen strip- ped off by worms, and the field was | overgrown with weeds. | @ How is the gsvenue produced which supports the Church of England? E. W. . | _A. The principal revenue of the ’Churrh of England is obtained through | its large estates and endowments and | from tithes. Collections are taken up in the Church of England as elsewhere. Q. Did Bishop Asbury marry? Where did he die?>—N. T. A. Francis Asbury was born at Ham- stead Bridge, near Birmingham, Eng- land, in 1745. He died at Spotsylvania, Va. in 1816. He came to America s & missionary in 1771. Thers weére then only 316 Methodists in America. When he died he had traveled mrre than 270,000 miles, preached more than 16.- 000 sermons, and ordained more than 4.000 Methodist ministers. He never married. Constant travel, limited re- sources and his zeal in church service were some of the reasons advanced for his single life. Q. How many cigarettes per capita | are smoked yearly?—H. L. A. It is stated that Americans smoke | cigarettes now at the rate of 1,000 per | person per year, compared with 856 per | person in 1928. | ! Q. Please give some information about the Soclety of Women Geogra- | phers.—A. L. M. | _A. The Society of Women Geogra- | phers says that for active membership |in this organization only those women are eligible who have done distinctive work whereby they have added some- thing to the world's store of knowledge concerning the countries in which they | have traveled. Among the members are Delia Akeley, who during her last expe- dition to Africa assembled a natural his- tory collection for the Brooklyn Mu- seum and a collection of African curios which has been Purchlud by the New- ark Museum. Elizabeth Dickey in 1927~ 28 made extended explorations in Brazil and Veneszuela. In 1928-29 she accom- anied the expedition te the Maipures pid, Rio Orinoco, which was led by ber husband for the Museum of the American Indian, George Heye Founda- tioh, New Yorki Ruth Crosby Noble is been named in her honor “Elentherodactylus Ruthae." | and after falling 1,200 feet in quiet air. | th U. Delegates 7 , Praised as Balanced Group | it is pointed out by the Pasadena'Star- tion— | The selection of a “common-sense” represent the United States at the naval conference in Londoh séems to assure definite and well directed action, in the opinion of the press. The diversity of viewpoints represented—military and civilian, technical and diplomatic— comes in for favorable comment from many sources. |~ “High hopes which President Hoover | holds for the forthcoming conference,” in the judgment of the Utica Observer- | Dispateh, “are reflected in the size and | make-up of the commission he has {named to represent thé Nation. The commission is far from possessing a ‘big navy’ complexion. yet it does not lean on the other hand to pacifism. In addi- tion to_Its seven members it has two high officers of the Navy who will serve | a8 "technical advisers. "It has an ad- ence, sound technical knowledge and common sense, of which the most im« portant is the last.” RS “What Mr. Hoover wants and what he has sought to assure,” as interpreted by the Richmond News-Leader, “is the spirt of conciliation, the ‘will to peace,’ jand that paper feels that “perhaps he | does ‘not want too much technical knowledge, lest he get too much of the doctrinaire spirit along with it.” A | point which is made by the News-Leader is that the commission “c ts almost entirely of the ‘new men that “all the Republicans are either Mr. Hoover's own ‘finds’ or men who have come to the front since the World War, except for Secretary Stimson. And éven Stim- son in some sense has been ‘rediscov- ered’ by the administration.” “President Hoover reveals a choice of favorably to his countrymen,” according to the Kalamazoo Gazette, which con- tinues: “In addition to the prominence of the members themselves, the average observer is quickly impressed by the thus selected. Three of the delegates— four of them if Secretary Stimson is {o be so classed—are diplomats. Two of them are Senators, and the only repre- sentation granted the Navy Department is to be supplied by its civilian head.” ] “Common sense has a bright oppor- tunity to be the dominating factor at London. We send a common-sense del- egation,” declares the Worcester Tele- gram, which also states as to the per- sonnel: “Mr. Hoover selects a delega- tion to command national confidence and international respect. While it in- cludes but one practicing Democrat, its character is such as to raise it beyond any issue of partisanship. It is neither Jingoistic nor pacifistic. It is indi- vidually and collectively well qualified to deal with a problem of delicacy and complexity in helpful and sympathetic understanding of purpose, with full sense of responsibility, with breadth of mind.” “Two outstanding members of the Senate foreign relations committee,” pause to listen in upon “A South In- dian Night” or upon “The Himalayas at Dawn.” It is at such moments that Dhan Gopal is the lover of his land, is the of his native soil. ‘This is the Dhan Gopal that we came to love by wi bet of Indla, “Gay Hunter” and “Hari the Jus “The Chief of the Herd.” Stories children, to be sure, but there is, really. no age limit to childhood. here a8 guide to the heart of India, Mr. Mukerjl s as simple, as sincerely the son and brother of that native life as he was when telling the tale of a war pigeon or of an incredibly wise old elephant. Here the heart of India—its , d—stands forth in & marvel » in & true essence of its being. i o ey ! delegation, as one newspaper calls it, to | mirable balance of diplomatic experi- | personnel which should appeal most | civilian character of the commission | to London News, “are named on the d Senator David A. Reed (Repul Pennsylvania and Senator Je Robinson of Arkansas. This even political balance, and inclusion of these two Senate leaders should help to bring assent of the Senate to any agree- ments may be reached at the London conference. The transcendent | importance of this confererice is real- ized by President Hoover, hence he drew upon the mwmm{ and diplomatic talent of the country in making up this delegation.’ The Haverhill Gazette holds that “delegations to the confer- ence must be made up of men with a thorough understanding of and equal vigilance to safeguard national needs in terms of international needs and aspi- rations,” and that “such a delegation, we belleve, has been selected.” The Asbury Park Evening Press thinks that “in selecting them the President has strengthened the hope that the meetin {at London will be productive of favor- able results.” VR “The addition of the Secretary of the Navy to the personnel” concludes the Flint Daily Journal, “heals the sore in the Nl{y Due‘:n{tmst. dwhlct:flr,nm it was not_gol 0 be adequately repre- sented. for the -;;‘nuunuon s established on this matter at least. The country undoubtedly will place a great deal of confidence in this great assem- blage of strong personalities. ‘Their voices will be important at the London parley, and it is extremely unlikely that any other country will be able to offer a more imposing 1ist in its delegation.” * ok ok ok “The appointment of Dwight W. Mor« Tow, Ambassador to Mexico, was a very pleasant aulxnu," says the Springfield (IlL) Btate Register. “Mr. Morrow un- questionably will add much strength to the delegation. Aside from his distin- guished “record at his present post, which has revealed him as a diplomat of very unusual attainments, he has the | background of vast knowledge and ex- perience in finance and economics, as well as a thorough acquaintance with European affairs. Senators Reed and | Robinson, leaders of their respective partles in the Senate, are able legisia- tors in accord with Navy Department policies, who may be expected render | constructive service at the conference. |* * * The high caliber of the Amer- jcan representatives will meet with the aproval of the Nation at large, and it will likewise emphasize to the other world powers the importance which this QGovernment attaches to the mission at London and the sincere ambition it en- tertains for constructive achievement at the conference.” Emphasizing the importance of the two Senators, representing different parties, the Seattle Dally Times states: ““The question of the country's defense is not a political issue. There is no | reason why Democrats should separaie | from Republicans in considering it. We | do not know what the London confer- ence will bring forth, but whatever it m-}' be the Senate should not deal with it in a partisan spirit.” The Kansas City Journal-Post concludes: “In the delegation are men who know all angles of the situation from first-hand infor- mation. They are familiar not only with the results of the Washin con| ence but the efforts for agreement at Geneva. Fo facts from the naval experts, the dele- gation should be able to cope with any situation that arises, They are men of vast experience In business, and they have an intimate knowledge of interna- tional affairs.” o5 s Non-Snore Pillows. Prom the Kalwmazoo Gazette. A plllow vents sne has Just been fnven ol says a rt. This «vumzmumgg lar At grand opera festivals, i v