Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1930, Page 8

"THE EVENING STAR . WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY.....January 21, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: (] Tue Orders m National o mont. lephor.e Rate by Mail—_Pavable in Advance. ryland and Virginia. A THE _EVENING / STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, JANUARY: 21, 1930. lin, whose offielal rank was that of gov-| of whom are living. Of the former, | ernor of Manchuris, even while dictator of North China and aspirant for na- tional control, regarded the three east- ern provinces as apart from the main |body of the former empire. His son and successor has taken no definite stand upon this point, but it is known that he regards Manchuria as semi-in- dependent of nationalist China. The action of the Nanking government in repudiating the signature of the repre- | sentative at Khabarovsk now rather puts it up to Chang Hsueh-liang to “fish, cut belt or get ashore.” He must elect to stand by his agent and insist upon the acceptance of the protocol signed by him at Khabarovsk, which means to defy Nanking, or consent to & renewal of the costly and dangerous process of what in the dispatch is styled “bickering’ with Russia. There are .clear signs that Chang- Hsueh-liang is not ready for a present test of strength with Nanking, if in- deed he contemplates a definite break. The fact that he allowed the recent % |crisis in China proper, when the fate 50¢ Member of the Associated Press. o e A S e L e et Credited fo It oF not BtHe) a- Patches not otheiwise cred ted in this paper »ls0 the ‘ocal news i an Bublished ‘hereta. All riehis of sublicats Eoeclil dispatches Berels are alse rescrred. The World Hears London. King George of England and the principal delegates of the five great naval powers of the world threw down the gage today to competitive naval armaments at the formal opening of the London Naval Conference. Neither the King, who in a brief address wel- comed the delegates and in general terms measured the task which is be- fore them, nor the representatives of the nations minimized the magnitude of the work before them. But utmost stress was laid upon the necessity of success at the conference and the dan- gers which would acrue to the world in the event of failure. The keynote of the opening session was optimism, of the Nationalist government was in the balance with a revolution in full swing, to pass without a move toward independence is regarded as a token that hé does not wish to precipitate the issue. Perhaps he wants the Russian affair fully settled first. This “war” has cost his provincial treasury heavily. This is & bad season for new moves. As they say in Manchuria, the kaoliang must grow before the field is good for military operations. St R RRAES Coasting Dangers. With the Washington .streets invit- ing the youngsters to indulge in coast- ing, heed should be paid to the casual- ties of that sport. Fortunately, none of the snow travelers met death, but today as a result of participation in a danger- ous sport on unprotected city streets some half a dozen boys and girls lie either in hospitals or in their homes with painful injuries. Coasting is a great fun. It thrills youngster and grown-up alike; but tinged with the seriousness of the sit- uation which “confronts the maritime nations. Upon the success of the naval conference depends, the speakers point- ‘ed out, the ultimate success of the movement for general limitation and wreduction on land and in the air, a matter in which the countries of Europe are particularly interested. Addressing the delegations to the con- ference in the historic chamber of the House of Lords in Westminster Palace, King George sald: “Since the Great “War, all of us have determined to leave nothing undone to prevent a repetition of that grim and immense tragedy.” ‘The British ruler said clearly that the object of the present conference is to bring about an agreement between the maritime nations on the limitation of naval armaments and to bring the re- “duction in those armaments to a “point ‘consistent with national security.” He placed the blame for competitive arma- | ments upon the “supposed necessity ‘which has led to a feeling of insecurity between nations and even to the risk feverish competition such heralded the outbreak of war in It was a warning that went far beyond the confines of the Westminster . where the delegates met amid mementos and trophies of war and naval power. It was wafted across oceans and continents to the listening peoples of the world. It was heard in Wash- ington, in Paris, in Rome and in far-off Tokio as clearly as in London itself. The instrumentality was that marvel of the twentleth century, the radio. If the great need is understanding among na- tions, surely the means of communica- tion and of the dissemination of infor- mation now developed are a guaranty of success at the London Conference. ‘The spokesmen of the United States, of Prance, Italy and Japan were no less insistent than the spokesmen of their hosts that the conference should and would succeed. Secretary Stimson, heading the American delegation, de- clared that “naval limitation is a con- tinuous process” and that disarmament was “a goal to be reached by succes- sive steps, by frequent revision and im- provement.” This is the common sense, practical way of regarding the situation and the problem which it presents. The London conference is a link in the chain, just as was the Washington con- ference in 1921. The present confer- ence may achieve greatly. achievements will be the stepping stones to further advance toward disarmament and world peace, ——————— Some kind of conference might be arranged to reduce armaments in the bootleg war. Nanking and Mukden. News from Asia that the Nanking Government has repudiated portions of the protocol signed between Russia and China at Khabarovsk in settlement of the Russo-Chinese quarrel over the Chinese Eastern Rallway and other is- sues, on the score that the confe: for the Mukden government had ex- ceeded his powers, does not necessarily signify the immediate renewal of hos- tilities in Manchuria or even the even- tual reopening of the conflict—if the ir- Tegular warfare of the Autumn may be 50 termed. Back of this repudiation Jies a much mors difficult question than that of the precise terms of settlement on the score of the rallway manage- ment or that of the spread of bolshe- vik propaganda. It is evident that the ANanking government wishes to define .more specifically the relations between | Manchuria and China proper, and to insist upon the subordination of the Manchurian representative at Khaba- | rovsk to the authority of the National- ist administration. The relations between Nationalist China and the three eastern provinces ‘which constitute Manchuria are not Brecisely defined, ‘The late Chang Tso- born to Bishop Tucker and his wife, all . tryin’ to get it mended.” coasting in 1930 is far different from coasting in 1910. Twenty years ago there were many open spaces in the city which were free from traffic of all kinds. ‘Today, except in the parks, there are few such spots. Even in the 6pen country- coasting has its danger due to the sluggish way in which a sled responds to its steer- ing control and the fact that the sled- der has no means of arresting his mo- mentum. Many a corious accident has occurred through the failure of the coaster to make a turn. In the ecity, however, with heavy automobile traffic at every cross street the dangers appear to be prohibitive. | In some sections of the city in good coasting weather police have been sta- tioned to protect the enthusiasts. That is the only possible way that anything resembling security can be thrown about the coasters; but because of the scarcity four are clergymen, one is a physician, one a lawyer, one a teacher and two are successful business men. Of four clergymen, one is now Bishop of Vir- ginia, while another is rector of a church here in the District of Colum- bia, The physician heads a great hos- pital in China. To pass from this world in the full- Ness of years and after a lifetime of conscientious labor, leaving behind numerous sons so accomplished and 5o’ eminent, is to have lived a life to be envied indeed. ——rte—— Dangerous Double Control. A plane crashed the other day in Florida, and the owner, a New York capitalist, who had adopted aviation as & sport, was killed. His professional pilot, who survived the accident, tells a story of how it happened that illus- trates a grave danger in individual fly- ing by amateurs. The plane was of the dual-control type, with two cockpits, in each of which may sit an operator, with “stick” for the manipulation of the machine. The professional, seated in the rear cockpit, was running the plane when, ‘shortly after the start, he noticed that something had gone wrong with the motor. He turned off the igni- tion and started to glide down from 800 feet. Then he found that he could not handle the ship, for the owner, seated in the forward cockpit, had “frozen” to the controls. Apparently in his agita- tion he instinctively reached for the “stick,” and it was impossible for the pilot to reach him or to make him hear and loosen his grasp. In a few seconds the ship crashed. It is evidently dangerous to maintain & dual set of controls in such conditions as this. An old adage has it that two persons cannot safely or surely drive & horse. Everybody knows how perilous it 1s for a passenger on a motor car to reach and grasp the steering wheel in an emergency. In an airplane a double- pilot system may be all right when both pilots sre skilled, but when one is an amateur, a beginner, the possibility of his taking hold of the “stick” simply THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. One of the saddest things about growing older—we won't say old—is to find one’s self hat the snow, the white, gleaming, beautiful, fairy snow. If there is any natural phenomenon which ought to be welcomed by man- kind, it is the fall of this fragile white stuff out of the clouds. ‘The snow brings a sense of mystery !: earth with it, as it glides MITIQIIY lown upon houses, trees, garages, fences, bushes, lawns, sidewalks, streets. The child who stands expectantly be- hind windows knows as much about it as the meteorologist squinting at his barometer. ‘The latter may have pushed back the mystery m:ml ‘with well chosen words, but he finds himself, in the last analy- sis, in the position of the scientist who really knows less about more. | Sclence, standing awestruck before its test tubes, ought to be, and often is, more religious than it is given credit for being. ‘The modern light specialist, who can analyze the ngl of the sun, knows that the rays which cannot be seen by the human eye constitute that portion of the octave which tans the human skin, is even more truly a worshiper of the sun than those anclent men who blindly credited the solar orb with powers be- | jow God. * k% The growing (let us hope expanding) city man finds himself coming to hate the sight of snow, and even as he does 50_he is oppressed with sadness. | He can recall the days before yester- | day, when he, too, stood at a window, wide eyed, ger for its continuance, yet hopeful, too, that it might end in time for a frolic. In those days tRu'em.u regarded the snow not_altogether as an unmixed blessing. Despite the heavv underwear of the period, ith uffs and the overshoes, boys and girls had a habit of catching colds and sore throats. ‘What has become of the typical “sore throat” of the early nineties? In those days no Winter was complete without every child getting at least one severe touch. The standard remedy—at least in the small towns of the country—was an iron gargle, vile of taste and smell, and | ugly to the sight. | The action of this concoction WAS | inimical to the teeth, so thai a moutl wash of bicarbonate of soda was in or. longing solely to invites disaster. It should be possible s0 to arrange the system of a dual- control plane that only one set of guid- levers can be operated at once. lerwise there will be many deaths from this cause. ———— “High-brow drinkers” are made the subject of an attack by Senator Shzp- | pard. Many will dispute the right of any one who swallows the liquor now in circulation to be classed with the superintellectuals. B — ‘The White House is to have special facilities for distributing cold air in Summer. They will prove a comfort, although it is hard in the present state of temperature to give the idea all the credit that is due. ————— Americans willing to get up long before daybreak could enjoy the privi- The motorist is practically helpless when a sledder rushes unexpectedly in front of him. No noise is made by the steel runners, and while the motor- ist has more control over his vehicle the coaster the chances of avoid- A disastrous collision are slim in- than to run the risk of having young lives snuffed out beneath the wheels of their cars. If these precautions are taken ‘Washington's next spell of coast- ing weather should be unique in that|- no fresh crop of victims will be the result. Panthers and Pigs. The mysterious ‘“panther” of the Northeast is developing a decided appe- tite for pig. Doubtless the beast has never read Lamb's dissertation on roast pork, but evidently its appetite is not finicky. Every night the panther finds him- self a nice pig and proceeds to tear its head off at one blow. This feat, accord- ing to the wise, proves it to be a panther rather than a large tomcat, as was mis- takenly supposed. At any rate, it proves the panther to be unerring. Consider for a moment the plight of the animal, with every | In tossing pennies long ago | My penny first went up “kerfiip,” lege of hearing King George V open the naval conference. The experience was worth Tesetting the alarm clock, even though it was pretty well understood in advance that he would not permit him- self at this time to open up with any really startling remarks. R i Great cordiality is reported among the delegates to London. The spirit of | optimism early established is expected to set the pace for the entire meeting. —_— e Rumania is afraid Russia and Turkey are cultivating friendly relations. Priendships. do not last very long in nevertheless, be sufficiently enduring to formulate plaps for “taking some other nation for a ride.” ———es. Time is precious and, with so much to discuss, it is not likely that delays at dinner will be threatened because of arguments about social precedence, SHOOTING STARS, BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Kerflip-flop. My luck was always bad. My hopes would generously glow And later leave me sad. Misfortune I could not outstrip, For it would never stop. And then came down “Kkerflop.” “Tis thus with peasants and with kings. Ambitions rise or fall, Buccess its splendid banner flings, And then backs to the wall, When in finance I took a dip. I feared no market drop. The bull-tossed prices rose “kerfiip,” man’s hand raised against him, It is a hard Winter, and pigs are not to be had on every corner, 1t one would find dinner, one must 80 where dinner is. Accordingly, the astute Northeast panther goes to the nearest pigpen and thereupon makes his selection, What can dog lovers say for the But its !twelve dogs which are said to have “barked furiously” upon the panther's last pig expedition? It would seem that a round dozen dogs could handle almost |any panther, especially when it was full of pig. Yet the panther secures his meal and beats & graceful retreat, accompanied by the loud barks of the worthy dogs. No doubt he is grinning a true panther grin as Qe contemplates the barkings of the dogs and the shootings of the citizens. Panthers and pigs have long been known to be hostile to each other. The roaming panther of the Northeast is but another chapter in an old story. One great difficulty about afrplanes is that there are not enough Lindberghs to fly all of them. ———————— Enviable Paternity. ‘The ambition of the average man, if he be blessed at all with male children, is to raise up a son who shall be a credit to him, to his family, to his community and possibly te his country. It s a laudable aim and one weil worthy of attainment. To raise suc- cessfully several such sons is corre- spondingly desirable. In this regard is to be acclaimed Right Rev. Bever- ley D. Tucker, Bishop of the Diocese ! of Southern Virginia, one of the best | known clergymen of the South, whose reputation was firmly established in the National Capital, who died at an advanced age a few days ago. Nine sons and four daughters were And then came down “kerflop.” Unemployment, | “Your constituents say they expect |you to do something about employ- | ment.” | “No doubt of that,” answered Senator {Sorghum. “Sometimes I feel as if I were expected to secure Government positions for half the population of my State.” { that part of the world, but may,|h Jud Tunkins says what he hears about the stock market makes him think that, after all, seven-up is a pretty good old game. » ' Making Room for Talent. A five-day week is needed To ease this world of care, For talents must be heeded When blossoming everywhere. The world is full of glory, And each inall the throng Gets up to tell a story Or else to sing & song. The Big Demand, “Let me know the books that are in greatest demand,” said Miss Cayenne. “Here's one that just came in, Do you want it?” “No. Those are the volumes I wish !W avoid. I am tired of reading all | kinds of literary improprieties.” “A politician,” said Hi Ho, the sage of | Chinatown, “too often loves his country as & woman loves jewels, wit) tonly to personal proprietorship.” Electric Light, for Instance. . We'll try to banish war, they say, And make another guess. The fallures of a bygone day At last lead to success. ““It takes about three weeks to hreak a New Year's resojution, “said Uncle Ebén, “an’ den you puts in nearly a year e der immediately after the gargling. o Y Children hated this remedy almost as much as they did castor oil, with much reason on their side. Today a child may be given any one of many pleasant antiseptics, which are more eflicient than the old-time iron remedy ever thought of being. His training against sore throat was begun early, with the inclusion in his diet of 'plenty of vitamins, including A, B, C and even D, via the orange, to- mato and spinach routes. - Sore throat, while not gone, is much less in evidence than two decades ago. Do children have croup any more, or at least as much as they once did? A bottle of sirup of squills was stand- | ard in the medicine cabinet of 1894, etc. | CEER ‘The child of today, however, has made a poor trade if he has exchanged sore throat for spinach! Let those who will praise this ubiqui- tous greenery, to us it is much less than nothing at all, since there is so! Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands Germany Leads in Literary Prizes. OLOGNE GAZETTE: Of the awarded from the funds ft by the Swedish philan- thropist, Herr A. B. Nobel, for the otion of science, social e latters, five have warded to German literateurs. The first German writer to receive a Nobel prize for literature in 1902; next was Rudolf Eucken in 1908; then Paul Hevse in 1010, and Gerhardt Haupt- mann, in 1912. France has also five Nobel prizes for literature, while d has won but two. Rudyard Kipling and George Bernard Shaw. * % * % And Still Opinions Differ. Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna: Blond or brown—that has ever been one of the great disputes whenever the beauty of women is the issue. In Teu- 2 S e S s ink- al been mpmufm-umlflmnm beside them seem to be exotics, but in other Pocturemme. " Harcel revost, However. ference. Marcel , however, aremuch in favor of the blond, and so was Venus. Andre Maurois and Lord Byron, as well as Bernard Zimmer, pre- fer the dark, Oriental type of beauty, with black eyes and languid tempera- ment. Brunets with blue eyes and blonds with black eyes aren’t included in the classifications. * % % Bulgaria Fights at Reparations Yoke. Bulgarian British Review, Sbfia: Th question of the Bulgarian reparations is once more being examined in Paris, where it is hoped a definite solution will be reached for the unsatisfactory financial and economic condition of the country. The question naturally arises: Did Bulgaria participate in the provo- cation of the war, and as a conse- quence should she pay reparations or not? Even the treaty of Neuilly, which Bulgaria was forced to sign without discussing, ascribed to her only an in- dire¢t responsibility, namely, that she had allied herself to the offensive war already begun by Germany and Austria- Hungary. Attacked by her neighbors and abandoned by European diplomacy, Bulgaria had been forced in 1913 to sign the treaty of Bucharest, in con- formity with which she had to cede all of Macedonia to Serbia and Greece; south Dobrudja to Rumania; and to return to Turkey the whole of Eastern ‘Thrace. Bulgarians in all these ceded territories were subjected to hardships and indignities with the idea of de- nationalizing them, with the result that many became refugees from there ceded native land back to remnant domin- ions of the mother country. Such was the unrest and despair in Bulgaria when the murder of the| Austro-Hungarian crown prince at Sarajevo sounded the signal for the World War, for which the great powers | of Europe had been preparing for 40 | years. Bulgarian ruhll-; opinion was | entirely in favor of the entente pow- ers (the allies). However, the latter did all they could to rid themselves of Bulgaria and were not unanimous in their negotiations with the Bulgarian government. This resulted in the re- fusal of the allies to take Bulgaria into their union, though they took Greece despite the animosity and reluctance of that country. Bulgaria declared war on no country but Serbia, and there- fore should not be burdened with rep- arations, for she was herself an invol- untary victim of the war. * KK Heldelberg's Grotesque Uniforms. Daily Chronicle, London.—It would be a good t! if the quarrel between the students of the German university and their academic authorities at Thlymddfl-e bu:k“lo b) ygone and they are without exception to m:ln human sentimentally like the Bton | tends to thwart our little* plans of the Won | desire. o his, coul much to get away with. Confronted with a saucer of spinach, om-d heart l-ll]: u:n. l:e lP.(“ elmx:“le under com| n—in all forms, a various di Wlu s, Lemon juice cannot make it anything ‘The fi of fine transform spinach. mh, and spingch it will remain, a , tasteless, messy dish, fit for hogs, maybe, but not for human_ beings. We deplore the cramming of bushels of this vapid substance adown the in- nacent throats of the younger gener- ation. 5 It may be good for them—we h it is—but it is a terrible price to D:ypefor ruddy cheeks, straight bones, “pep,” vigor, peace and plenty. * ok ok If we were a child again, just for to- night, we would rise up in rebellion against the tinlest saucer of spinach Which might be placed before our trust- ing face. ;’lotherl.‘l vlflll‘ got eat it” ‘e would say irmly, determinedly, with full knowl of the various vln’- mins it is supposed to contain. We would rse further as fol- “Mother, sclence postulates the ex- istence of led and assorted life substances, called vitamins, in this mass of mingled greens and sand. “The truth is that no man has yet seen a vitamin. If Dr. McCollum of the Johns Hopkins University met Vitamin B face to face he would mot tip his hat to it. Poor Vitamin B woul be terriby snubbed by the learned ex pert, simply because & vitamin is some. thing which science says is there be- cause it must be there. “Something or other, mother, must be there to account for the effect of cer- tain substances on white rats. I accept Vitamin A and B and C and D, theo- retically, but actually I take my vita- mins with a grain of salt. ““Wherefore, and_therefore, mother, I am now going to heave this saucer of spinach through yonder window, and 1 shall do the same with the next, and the next, until there are no windows !Pl’t' in my father's house. Spinach, my eyer” * K ok ok ‘The snow is a nuisance because it day or night. Mostly, we suspect, older people resent its coming because it shows them how far they have traveled from their own childhood. Those shadows of the prison house! of which Wordsworth sang so sweetly in what some of us think his best poem, have, indeed, closed around us. We know that there are certain hearty, ruddy individuals who put up a great bluff about thinking and acting like children, but they mostly are fooling themselves—compared with the real, genuine 5 to 12 year old kids, they are | just oldsters taking a last fling at innocence. This, one may suspect, is the real find themselves reason why older e disliking the wmmmml, beautiful, fairy snow. Pull the kids around the block as long as you please, shout even louder than they do, time has taught you that tomorrow the virgin whiteness will ‘be solled and gray, and even now the flakes do not look as large and white as they used to. Snow, snow, beautiful snow, indeed! hat in England and no doubt will be hard to get rid of. Can it be that the wearing of these curious medieval absurdities at the German university was forbidden on esthetic inds? :en of this - uden ven 1o wWaar their corps costumes over the week ends. * k%o Matrimony Simple, After AllL Sydney Bulletin—There are two en. gaged members of a Brisbane - land) Wlnm.fl'l (Quocil:n \per. From Fiost, promising and appotted s meces an & meet- ing . The girl turned up, and, to his amazement, found that she was a quiet, reserved ty'pm in the next office , whose aloofness had always dis- the first and faintest ap- proach to intimacy. Jill was quite so surprised as Jack, but it did not take them long to discover that they were made for one another. Spanish Dictatorship Seems to Be Near End| From the Columbus Evening Dispatch. News from Spain, in spite of the am- biguous or contradictory character of much of it, seems, on the whole, to point toward the return of a more nor- mal form of government. Primo de Rivera, the dictator, is not likely to ab- licate his power and position offhand, but has in mind, apparently, a gradual change that will put the government back upon a constitutional basis. One cannot blame him for wanting to get out without the appearance, or reality, of having been 'ked out. If the ch can ‘ge efieetggfl:llnum‘t the lnol:: of a revolul ] g, it will far better {nrmntl"eoneemed. The people of Spain adjusted them- selves to his ‘usurpation of power with ly few open in- dications of resentment; but there hi been ample evidence, d year or two, of an incre because of his delay in carrying out his repeated assurances that the dicta- torship was never intended to be per- manent, and that preparations were in progress for the restoration of consti- tutional rule. Under the circumstances, any, very long indulgence in the policy of \delay might easily lead tq an explosion. The roblem of effecting the smooth- ly is sure to be made harder by undue rocrastination. Gen. Primo de Rivera no such hold on power as Mussolini has secured, and & movement which would bring his immediate downfall is not at all impossible. e Familiar Characters Pass as Briggs Dies From the St. Louls Post-Dispateh. A truthful recorder of the American scene has passed on in the death 'of Clare Briggs. With him will be mourned the host of characters which he created and made familiar to newspaper read- ers all over the country since he began cartooning in St. Louis more than 30 years ago. “Mr. and Mrs.” whom every one recognizes as the people next door, have come to the end of their familiar domestic scenes. No more will we enjoy the disclosures of what a goldfish thinks about, or a saxophone player, or a night club doorman. The last pleasant rem- iniscence of the “Days of Real Sport” has been recorded. That will | soutane of a monk's garb. Istory” of Julien Sorel. NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM L G M. THE RED AND THE BLACK. Marie- Henri Beyle (de Stendhal). Trans- lated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff. The Modern Library, It is an interesti teresting to hrnkn{ rounding cursion into the immediate print. Pleasant to hunt back ture, to browse al and that, maybe for scraj that there is a certain between then and now. Upon such errand bent, there is a definite place to go. “The Little Li- brary,” under ore family name or another, meets everybody at the door, full-handed for this particular need. Just a word: These thing to do. of evidence ne of descent 50 exactly handy for pocket and pocket- book, both small. Otherwise, they are of a real hugeness. The common action of these is that of a great sieve, letting out loads of pen-stuff trash, while it holds fast to the lasting sub- stance of good writing. It was to the Modern Library that I went in search of Marie-Henri Beyle in s best novel, “The Red and the Black.” In its own French the title sounds like a card game, “Le Rouge et le Noir.” Contrariwise, this title is of the distilled essence of the story itself—the red blood of war, the black War_an religion, they used often to go together. Not any more. However, let's get along. Here is the You no doubt ead it long ago. The story of a French peasant lad with an itch for the class above him. A most natural impulse. Nowadays this ambition to rise would be called a very proper one. But a hundred years ago it was dif- ferent. Moreover, this was France. Moreover, despite the noise of “equal- ity and fraterpity,” there is no place where blue blood—what there is left of it—is held in higher esteem than in France. So, here is the story of in- dividual - struggle on the part of & precocious and gifted peasant boy of France. A tremendous adventure, or so this is commonly counted. Yet, reading here, there is no adventure. Nothing that the novels of today would count as such. Rather, a serles of views, & moving line of reflections like clouds doubling themselves in the shining waters of a still lake. On the outside nothing much happens. A step forward on the part of the boy, now tutor to a rich man’s children. A commonplace incident yesterday. A trivial episode today—and tomorrow another little hitch forward by Julien on the basis of these two nothings of the days before. And so the mat- ter runs—a trifle dull, when not truly revolting, or so the average says—with the rise of Sorel onward, upward and finally outward, in ig- nominy and oblivion. A rather dreary procession of small events. But it is not the substance of this chronicle that counts. It is the way of it in- stead. Reading here, reading under- neath and keeping true 'tally, one wakes to the thrill of going along with a genuine realist—a realist in souls, Marie-Henri Beyle. Not a shade like any of the modern tribe disporting itself in the name of realism. These merely do addition, where Stendhal delves and mines and saps. These are busy counting millions of externals, these spawn immaterial commonplaces in a shocking fecundity. These are past masters of multitudinous psitta- ceous repetitions. ‘There is no corner of Julien Sorel's soul that Stendhal does not bring to disclosure, to exposure, in this story. The mean calculations of the boy for his own slight advance today, or to- morrow. Hs was of the French peasan- people of smali, astute caleula- they had to be by virtue of graded past. A vital le, unconquerable in the will-to-live. One of the points in‘Stendhal’s genius comes out here. The end of this story lies folded in its beginning. Having, set out with this peasant lad, whose mind and soul and reach he knew so well, le is. We ourselves dream of the future and sit still for the dream to come true. Sorel, whether teaching the rich man's sons, as he|gestions for came to do, you recall, or learning to be in love from the rich man’s wife, as he finally did in_half-hearted fashion, or whatever he was doing—Sorel was the siall caleulator, e religious poseur, the—the an; to get along. An inside story of an divination. An outside story of retarded tempo, unaccented, uncolorful. The of a naked soul, when its true value is appraised by the common knowledge that we all , first of ourselves and then of the rest of man- kind distilled through ourselves, What about this Marie-Henri Beyle who liked to call -himself—freakishly—after the name of the place, Stendhal, where the archneologist Winckelmann was bora? What about him? ’ * ok * ESSAYS BY JAMES HUNEKER. Se- lected and Introduced H. L. Mencken. Charles Scribner's Sons. ‘Turn to page 121 of this volume. There, under the heading “A Senti- mental Education,” you will find the answer to the question about Marie- Henri Beyle. And such an answer! But this book as a whole and, indeed, in every line of it is “such a book!” Keep- ing to the point for a mihute, this chap- ter delivers Stend] to lelivers him in his birth, every stage of his career; hands him over in his tempera- ment and his work and in his rful influence on a host of writers who ca: a answered in a manner to build into the man as he was ife t artist, great model upon which more than one celebrated author has modeled himself; A& passionate man, soldier, lover, and, above all, concerned with the inner man, his soul, spirit—whatever it is that so elusively torments us about our- selves and about everybody else. Read that chapter. Don't miss it. Having done this, your course is set beyond re- call or change. You will take a straight way to the first page of this book, Where H. L. Mencken introduces James Huneker in a eulogy which the ot ume merely stresses and expands. I re- member a few yeafs ago coming upon “The Pathos of Distance,” by James Huneker—and then, as books have a way of doing, this one disappeared. Too busy to hunt for it or to replace it, I've thought again and again of the incom- parable savor of that man Huneker. And with each reminiscent taste there came the resolve to go out after him some more. Too busy. And here is Mr. Mencken with the book I want most in his hand. I'm not going to let this one get away. Talking along about Huneker, I'm gathering almost al dom from the introduction—"So passed one of the most charming fellows ever heard of, and the best critic of the American first line.” “It is not enough to say that he was the chief man in the movement of the 90's on this side of the ocean; he was, indeed, the only man who mattered at all, for he was the only one who never wavered.” *“To spill his own soul, that should be the critic’s aim"—and “the soul that Hune- ker spilled in his heyday was perhaj the most colorful, as it was ly the most charming, ever turned’ loose in these sorry States.” Of an insatiable curlosity about the artist as man—and such a gossip as he was, this amiable, friendly, human James Huneker. eritic of “immense eness” ran- his buddy to behold new wonders of their little world. satiric d was Enmuflpdon of hllmlnm and the previous generation. Each epi- sode in “Ain't It a Grand and Glorious Feeling!" was a genre novel with & }n’ind and ch L, jacket and the fantastic Harrow straw happy ending. tly humorous | e behavior in this way of this personal news bou libraries are | veloped and promo mi “little” only in the sense that they are | And entered many other related fields of re] d bnpn:‘ debate. % field Illinois State Journal sees the ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS - /| BY FREDERIC ). HASKIN. This is a department devoted solely to 't‘.h:ml%’\g:n This paper at your services of an T;Mnnn organization in Wash- ington to serve you in any capacity that relates to information. This service is free. Failure to make use of it deprives you of benefits to which Q. How can “etc.” be the sbbreviae tion for “and so forth”?—H. H. A. It stands for the Latin words “et cetera,” meaning “and all the other things.” Q. How many physicians are there in ng 1 Medical Directory there are 152,503 phy- The | sicians in the United States. Evening Star Bureau, wh!del;lecl. Haskin, director, Washing- m, D. C. Q. How did Conrad Hubert make his money?—A. C. A. Conrad Hubert, who left $6,000,000 of his $8,000,000 estate to the inventor of the flashlight. its manufacture manufacturing. - . What is the size of the largest snake in this hemisphere?—B. 8. A. What is said to be the skin of the largest snake in the New World is now being exhibited Raymond L. Ditmars of the Bronx zo:zzllul Park. This skin | peca is 22 feet long and 3 feet wide, It is dark olive in color, marked with round dark spots, and belonged to an ana- conda. Mr. that this specimen exceeds by 7 the Ien{fll of .bnd’ snake he has seen in the New Worl Q. Has anything ever been discovered to 'go Puuy with carbon monoxide gas? A. It was stated recently that Dr. J. C. W. Frazer of Johns Hopkins Uni- versity has announced the discovery of a catalyst that will convert earbon monoxide gas passing over it to harm- less carbon dioxide. The efficiency of this catalyst is sald to have been dem- onstrated under a variety of driving conditions and in confined spaces, the equivalent of closed garages. Q. Who was Napper Tandy?—P. M. B. A. James Nugper Tandy was an Irish agitator, who lived from 1740 to 1803. In 1798 he went to Paris and was put in command of a_vessel for an in- vasion of Ireland. He remained on Irish soll, however, for only eight hours and then went to Norway and to Ham< burg. At the latter place he was seized and delivered to the English and upon his ‘return to Ireland condemned to death. Bonaparte, however, brought pressure to bear in his favor and he was released. He then went to Prance, Wwhere he lived until his death. He was ihe hero' of the famous baliad .“The ‘Wearing of the Green.” Q. Why is a person sometimes called a stool-pigeon?—M. McC. A. A stool-pigeon is a pigeon used as a decoy to draw other pigeons in a net. Hence it is used for a person used as & decoy for others. Especially one who unofficially acts as a spy for the police is called a stool-pigeon. Q. Please give a short biography of ‘William De Morgan.—S. 8. T. * A, Willlam De M artist and don on No- vember 16, 1839. Educated at Univer- sity College and the Academy schools, he became a member of the circle which gathered around Rossetti, Willlam Mor- ris. and Burne-Jones, and experimented in various forms of decorative art. He set up a kiln, discovered some of the secrets of the old potters, and formed a firm to develop the manufacture of tiles and pottery on a commercial 3 Many fine examples of his work are in the ceramic galleries of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 1905, when he was over 65, he retired from business and began his successful ca- reer as a novelist. “Joseph Vance.” frag- ments of which had been rescued from destruction by his wife, appeared in 1906. He died in London of trench fever on January 15, 1917. Q. Do light blue and dark biue sap- ann-.u come from the same plufl’— 'A. The cornflower blue or dark velvet come from Burma., g v Q. Why isn't the earth's orbit per- IecAuy m?—flu. C. F. i 3 aval Observatory says it been proved, first by Sir Isaac Newton, that a spherical body attracted gravita- tlonally only by another spherical body will move in a circle, ellipse, parabola or hyperbola, but this proof 1s a mat- ter of higher mathematics. The orbits of the planets are not perfect ellipses, use the elliptical motion of each of them that would result from the at- traction of the sun alone is disturbed by the attraction of the other planets. Q. Why are various selections of mu- HCAI:I:I:M ug&gke'w—l" T. . Grove's nary of Music and Musicians says of )fluA o “Humor- moresque) : * le_adopted by Schumann for his Op.'20 and Op.pll, No. 2, the former for piano_solo, the latter for piano, violin and violon- cello. Heller and Grieg have also used the term for pianoforte pleces—Op. 84 Lnflngm 9 lng“ l!.h respectively, There particularly ‘humorous’ tgeu‘ and tgn oh oriost term ‘caprice’ l‘ mulfly well be Rul also el u' Quixote’ n eamm'f '-Pl;"h " ‘Humoreske,” or is_there of -y ohbuc the :mmor' terous kind.” A Q. What is the horsepower nec in the engine of an lmne toq:‘!:i;; a total load of 3,000 pounds 200 feet in Atme Am""'fi_p'f E. 'i! % 3 T ane is in level fligh it would take an 18-| :wr mio'm: to raise & load of 3,000 pounds 200 feet in the air in one minute. Q. Did Secretary of State Stimso serve in the World War?—F. D, M. ¥ A. Henry Lewis Stimson has the title of colonel, which he received during the World War. He saw active service in France. o Q. How long has Washington and I: l;nlvul’!"y e its present nll:l:f A. Tt was given this title in 1871, The s ol s ot e Al L in 1782, W rendered financial assistance and the name was 1798 to Washington Academy. In the name was changed to Q. Has a line any dim l";fl“"—’-'lh"r y ension éxcept . In mathematies a line is defined as having length, but, neither breadth nor thickness, Q. Is this the Seventy-second or Sev- enty-first Congress?>—H. McE. A. The second first. Cor % of the is two : 19: the period of 1 ;’;Emnamz'n £ began the Beventy [oover - first Congress. o Q. Does Compson acl g vl i Bes S AT 8 " vaudevills violinist before “I:w.: the movie: Law Enf;)rcemeht Rt;port Meeti Praise and Criticism Predictions of bitter debate over the report of President Hoover's Law En- forcement Commission are made, al- papers hold that it lacks though m-nc{ specific conclusicns, and adds nothing to Fa comment on sug- in strative the adequate en- by the Charlotte Ob- the St. Louls Times that the the way to agitation and ‘The Asheville Times pre- dicts “months of debate in Congress over ways lm:nn;-m of clearing up court con- gestion some of the hun- dreds of smuggling roads into and ‘Mexico,” e betterments lugasu that defies the law will be deflant still.” * ok k% 2 “When the people are divided as evenly as they are, and one faction bitterly assalls the law and encourages its violation, and another as bitterly champions it and demands its enforce- ment, a situation is created that cannot be cured by changes in court procedure or administrative methods,” states the New Bedford Standard. The Allentown' Call advises that ‘“majority opinion either vitalizes a law or makes it a dead letter.” ““The im] t feature of the report is that it Muz no hope to the wets of modification of the fundamental policy of prohibition. Its recommenda- tions are not for re}ulnl !h: laws, ?II:“ ening up enforcement,” says the w City 'x‘?mls, while the Spring- report as “approval of the President's pnl:;ull tnat the law be Eiven a fair trial,” and the Chicago Daily News in- terprets the report as “glving prohibi- tion a much better chance than it has had so far.” The Flint Daily Journal lauds the ment of fairness, ogem mindedness and clear thinking which permeates the report.” * ok x “It probably will draw the fire of nm..fl'u on both sides,” in the opinion of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. ‘The Provi e Bulletin, however, wel- comes it a clarifying contribution to the whole problem.” The Evening News sees it *cha implications which cannot fail to im- press thoughtful citizens.” The Mil- waukee Journal declares: “All md all, these proposals are so sane and so eonnru%uve that both wets amd drys can accept them without major res- ervation. Congress should adopt them one and all, without delay, and we shall take a step forward in the ex- periment. ‘That the report adds nothing or| | le—this is the the of the reader. — of the charges, mate truths of this celebrity or that one—clothes, lovers, marriages, divorces, professional career—all these are a joy, partly, I take it, because these things in a way enlighten us about ourselves, and that, after all, is the supreme in- terest with every one, whether he rec. g gl e Bl cl ly ane properly about ce) celebrities—here it is. Rodin, Flau- wil | Bho o, little to subject Times, i what is already known hmmummm Atlanta tion, the candid a . stan problem.” “A report enforcement ‘prohibition * ek % that the ncies - e" hg“:lew of law of criminal laws of leral Government was worth making,” asserts the nfi-‘g Evening Ne the Cincinnati ‘Times-Star “it seems rather the Charieston ~ 3. “Tt hdpllén made that, 'mmmal Mulmdy at this moment to stand and deilver Judgment, it would be bound to say that prohibition was a pretty sorry Tglg‘m'l;he. ‘eomnrllmltt‘m does not bite e ”“.5:“ prol lon—but it bites “Political opponents who now to throw - doubt on the Prendem’l'n mo- tives and to make it appear that his commission was something that it Was never intended to be,” according to the Utica Observer-Dispatch, “are merely proclaiming their own disap- mmm! at thelr faflure to tga The Sania Batsars Pai Nagroen” rbara - sizes that there will beu,fline“ G L at the report “because it eral in its positive recommendat out t}n‘t "l:g&m carry appeal for better machinery to e effective the laws of the Nl?lm!‘ o “It is not il the last 5 kland Tribune. The Muncie Star that “the division of the mflll.lzlkl::": work into 11 phases of law enforcement should remind a few hasty critics that the prohibition law is not the only one on the statute books.” The San Francisco Chronicle recognizes that “it found the subject large and very com- plicated and the recommendations made in this preliminary report are without prejudice to later conclusions." The Scranton Times states: “It seems quite plain to us that the commission is very much in doubt whether the :I.l'B!?S of people can be changed by The Fort Wayne News-Sentine! says t ll?; ead? Be not too im or & Thnolldl dee:d- yo& have seen al ere is a dawn beyon: This cannot go on forever!” rondd Votes for the District of Columbia From the Janesville, Wis., Gazette, om the Gazette, January There isn't a single good resson why the residents of the city of Wi h D. C., and the environment of the Na- tonal Capital which makes the District of Columbia, should not be allowed vote. When one takes up his residen there in private life he loses his cit! ship. He {sn't represented even the delegate which is permitted a ter: . He might as well live in far as ci