Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1930, Page 8

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Al riehts of publication of vecial disoatches herein are also reserved The Chief Justice. Chlef Justice William Howard Taft has laid down the burden of public service. It is a burden he has carried with distinction through long years. His retirement from the Supreme bench will be regretted the country over. Particular'y will it be regretted because the retirement has been forced by ill health. He is the only man ever to have held both the office of Chief Executive of the United States and that of Chief Justice. His has been a that he is master of the plane, and it 18 recognized that he takes no risks be- yond the known factors of safety. It is the unknown, the accidental, that con- I yesterday out in California, Where Lindbergh is at work on some tests in gliding. He set out in a motorless plane in perfect form, but in rising from his start the glider lost one of its ailerons, or controls, which fell to the ground Lindbergh continued the flight and made a perfect landing some distance away. He had mastered the plane even In its partial disablement. He said afterward that the crippled machine was at no time out of control. Gliders may become useful in some respects. ‘They are, however, regarded now chiefly as an experimental form of aviation. The Germans have de- veloped them to a remarkable degree, accomplishing extraordinary flights in i duration and even in direction. The California flights in which Lindbergh is now engaged are undertaken in the hope of setting an American endurance scored in Germany. Much may by this meauns be learned of air currents and their utilization in flying. The prevailing hope in this country is that Lindbergh, who has already contributed so richly to the store of knowledge on this subject, will not unduly risk him- self in the experimentation. P The Hazers Hazed. Really, the Senators who have under- taken to haze Mr. Grundy as a new- comer in the Upper House of Congress ought now to realize that he is not an easy mark. One of them on Saturday sought to embarrass him by bringing forth a speech delivered by the Penn- sylvanian some months ago in the career of distinction, as judge, Solicitor General, governor general of the Philip- pines, Secretary of War, President and finally as Chief Justice. He has given without stin: to the Nation. He has combined within himself the executive and judicial qualities in high degree, a rare combination. Industrious, coura- geous, Chief Justice Taft has won for himself a place in the affections of the nation rarely equaled by any man. Although he has been called upon to serve his country in many executive positions, William Howard Taft is pe- culiarly fitied for the bench. The law, his chosen profession, interests him be- yond all else. He is fair-minded, and his decisions on the bench have always been impartial. Justice, at the hands of Mr. Taft, has always been even- handed justice. He was only twenty- nine years old when he was first ap- pointed a judge, to fill a vacancy in the Superior Court of Ohio, his native State, and the following year he was elected to that office. From thet post he came % Washington to serve as Solicitor General of the United States, appointed by President Harrison. After two years as Solicitor General Mr. Taft was appointed a judge of the sixth Federal circuit, and for eight years he continued 0 sit as & judge on that cir- cuit. President McKinley drafted Mr. ‘Taft to head the Philippines Commis- sion, to organize a civil government for the islands which had come to the United States at the close of the War with Spain. From that office he was made the first civil governor of those islands. President Roosevelt, like his predeces- sor in office, turned to Mr. Taft for im- portant work. He made him Secre- tary of War, and wished to appoint him 2 member of the Supreme Court, but Mr. Taft was needed to complete work in which he was then engaged. It was soon a foregone conclusion that Mr, ‘Taft was to succeed President Roosevelt in the White House. And as Chief Ex- ecutive Mr. Taft gave the country a clean and honest government. On leaving the White House Mr. Taft Teturned to Yale University, from which he had been graduated in 1878, to be- come a professor of law. It remained for a fourth President of the United Btates, President Harding, again to call him to high public ofice. In 1921 he ‘was appointed Chief Justice. From that office he retires now with the re- spect and the affection of the American people. It is a proud record of service. Charles Evans Hughes, selected by President Hoover to succeed Mr, Taft as Chief Justice, brings to the bench 2gain, one of the greatest legal minds the country has ever produced. His ap- pointment will meet with universal ap- proval. He stands, indeed, at the very pinnacle of his profession. What could ‘have been more natural and more to be expected than the appointment of Mr. Hughes to the office of Chief Justice? For six years he was a member of the Supreme Court, as an associate Justice. He relinquished that high office to be- come the candidate of the Republican party for President. Since he lost in the presidential race of 1916, Mr. Hughes has added to his reputation by serving his country as Secretary of State, first in the cabinet of President Harding and then in that of President Coolidge. It was to Mr. Hughes to a greater ex- tent than any other man participating in the Washington Conference on Naval Limitation and the problems of the Pa- cific Ocean that the success of that conference was due, the first tangible step toward the limitation of armaments by the world powers. The new Chief Justice has a record of public duty that rivals that of the retiring Chief Justice, a record which includes his service as governor of his State, New York, where he had been instrumental in clearing up the insur- | ance scandals. He declined to permit himself to be considered for the Re- publican nomination in 1928, when! many of his friends desired to have him cast his hat in the ring. Recently he has become the American member of the Permanent Court of Interna- tional Justice, an office which he must now relinquish. His appointment as Chief Justice will strike the American people s particularly fitting. They have admiration for and confidence in Mr. Hughes. P ] “Dictator” in certain parts of the world has taken its place among titles which have become separated from a Teliable function. Lindy’s Glider Risks. course of which he inferentially criti- cized the President. Others took up the ball and kept it batting back and forth for a time. The Senate paused in its consideration of the resolution for the provision' of an inquiry into Haitian conditions for this digression, paused for the better part of an hour. Mean- while the junior Senator from Pennsyl- vania, object of the persifiage, sat im- perturbably in his place and listened. ‘When it was all over he arose and in one minute made the proceeding al- together ridiculous. What he said may be considered as his “maiden speech” in the Senate. If its brevity may be regarded as an index to future vocal performances Mr. Grundy qualifies for & very worth-while Senator, from the point of view of the public. This speech disqualifies him, however, in the light of the tradition that the Upper House is prolix and tireless in disputation. What Mr. Grundy said on Saturday ‘was so directly to the point of a matter that is just now quite prominent in the public thought that there is every likelihood that he will henceforth for the remainder of his service in the Senate be an object of keen interest to visitors. He will be pointed out to them as the new man who dared to chastise his critics and confined himself to less than one hundred and fifty words in so doing. There was something almost draconian in its directness. Judged from the standpoint of the orator it was not a brilliant performance. But somehow, by dint of definite application, it gained more notice than a longer, more brilliant flow of speech. ‘The Senate is now considering the tariff bill, which has been before it for more than three months. It pauses every now and then—mostly now—to talk of other things, very much after the generous prescription of the ¥7alrus. Nobody can foretell what a day will record ahead of that of eight hours,| the times when personal combat, to the 1 point of death, was the mode of settling personal quarrels, As a matter of fact a duel never settleq anything. It never avenged an insult or denied a lie or cleansed a character. Dr. Tindall's Service. spent in the service of the District have given him a unique position that he alone can fill, not only as a worker in the ranks of municipal employes, but in the esteem of his fellow Washing- | tonians. In years he has passed the |usual ‘limit for retention in service junder the retirement law, and ordi- narily there would be no sound reason to urge an exception in his case that would bring about a third extension. Buv the case of Dr. Tindall is extraor- dinary in more ways than one. An amendment to the District appropria- tion bill, again postponing his com- pulsory retirement, would not estab- lish a precedent calculated to embarrass future administrators of the retirement act. In a small way it would consti- tute an inadequate recognition of Dr. Tindall's value as well as a reward for faithful service. A student of Washington, Dr. Tindali is one of the few real eéxperts whose intimate knowledge of the Capital City has been stored away in volumes that will continue to bear fruit long after his labors cease. Much of' this knowl- edge was set down from the point of view of one who watched the develop- ment of the city from the inside. And many of the details of historical fact that were never put in type are -ar- ried in his mind, readily accessible be- cause of an alert memory that is con- stantly called upon to serve those who work with him. Many men who have enjoyed the blessings of long life and active work that have come to Dr. Tindall would welcome the opportunity of retirement and rest. But Dr. Tindall himself pre- fers to carry on. His wishes should settle a. matter that is, after ail, not very complicated. —-—— When Gen. Smedley Butler is referred to from time to time as the man who cleaned up Philadelphia, some of the citizens of the old Brotherly Love town shake hands and express surprise that this is the first they have heard of the good news. ——oe—a No imagination has gone so far as to hint that the mysterious animal defying capture or identification may be an elephant or a donkey that has escaped the restraint of some nearby political ‘menagerie. — e A number of New York night clubs Dr. Willilam Tindall's sixty-one years | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. no evil, hear no evil, speak no il -rhym'a Chinese philosophy at its wors| Those monkeys, one with hands clasped over eyes, the next with hands over ears, the third with hands clasped ¢ over mouth, have done more harm than good in the world, ‘We always have admired the Chinese. It seems as if nothing can be invented unless it had been first thought of thousands of years before in China. They not only invented gunpowder and the seismograph, and even print- ing, but also have a body of philo- sophic thought ranking near the top. They even have a negative or inverted form of the Golden Rule. When they put that trio of monkeys on the international market, however, they gave our :dmlrntlon a severe jolt. * ok % Let monkey. (And we hope no reader writes in to tell us that we have them in the wrong order.) Surely one monk at a time is enough The first fellow pretends that there is a virtue in seeing no evil. Yet failure to see plain evil is noth- ing less than criminal negligence. If that idea got wide currency, there would be no social service, no social eform, no helping of others, ‘There would be no pi no gentle- ness, no love, even, if every one clasped his hands over his eyes and refused to see disagreeable things. See 1o evil, indeed! The very recognition of good pre- supposes the knowledge of ® evil, ' can be no selection, * ok ok % Perhaps you know some one who op- erates on this primary monkey basis. He refuses to see anything wrong in anything, and thereby is acclaimed “such a nice man!” But is he a nice man? We do not think so, any more than we applaud those monkeys. He is stumbling along with his hands over his eyes, while pitiful sights clamor to be seen. It would hurt him to see them—so he refuses to look. Now, that is one way of solving the unpleasantness of a sometimes unpleas- ant world. When a big brute hits a child, one reaction is to punch him in as quickly and as swiftly as po: ~Another way is to declare, “Oh, he didn't meen to do it, I am sure!” Then walk away, * koK % “Hear no evil,” sayeth our second monkey, clasping his hands over his little ears. This monkey is even more absurd than the first. ‘The wails of distress, the cry of the helpless, come not to him, nor worry him in the least, for deftly he refuses to listen. Of course, it all depends upon what one calls evil, but that is a word which has been used for so many centuries that it needs no particular definition. are inclined to be resentful of the man- ner in which Senator Brookhart slight- ed them and passed the publicity to conservative organizations that seek no advantages of profit. I has been the privilege of Chief Justice Taft to show that a man may be held in high respect as an in- terpreter of the law and at the same time in deep affection by the entire public. e There is not much popular sympathy with the idea of retiring Dr. Tindall. The public feels the need of a man who knows as much about his job as he has learned in all these years. e Dancing teachers are claiming that the Prince of Wales has a strong liking for certain steps. Even a prince cannot fully protect himself from the insidious presumptions of the publicity expert. bring forth in the way of digression. To tell an inquirer that the tariff is under discussion in the Senate is not necessarily to discourage him from at- tending in the hope of diversion. Every- thing under the sun is meat for the oratorical ogre. Now comes Mr. Grundy, baited for an hour, and tells the Senate, “This exhibition certainly ought to be notice to every right-thinking person in the United States as to the character of discussion which is occupying the time and attention of some members of the Senate to the exclusion of important problems which are now confronting the country.” Appropriately, this closed the discus- sion. There was nothing more to be sald. A vote was taken on the pending amendment and the Senate went on to debate the Haltian question on its merits, as it were. And that was that, and .today Mr. Grundy wears a halo that is distinctly visible to the citizens at large, though perhaps not to ,his coileagues. —.———— Close study is to be made of the mental processes of children. It may be found that the psychoanalyst can do his best work by working away from fixed impressions and obtaining his specimens as young as possible. e ‘When war's destruction has been dis- countenanced throughout the world something effectual may be done toward making the gangsters stop taking one another for rides. ————— Better Than Dueling. Primo de Rivera, Spain’'s ex-dictator, is a wise man. He declines to fight a duel with a political foe. That is sound common sense. It is & pity that more statesmen have not done the same in the past. Some valuable lives would have been saved and prolonged if De Rivera’s views had prevailed. Five years ago the former Spanish premier offended the Duke of Almo- dovar, one-time minister of the interior, by styling him in a public statement a weak and inept man. The duke in a letter demanded an explanation or rep- aration on the “field of honor.” The premier replied that while he was in power he would not undertake a duel, but would leave the matter until he had left his official post. Within twenty- four hours after the premier's retire- ment he was waited on by the seconds of the duke, to whom De Rivera stated that he was sending to their principal a satisfactory explanation of his ob- Jjectionable remarks. How much better such a course than the once-prevalent resort to arms! It is painfully evident from the reading of history that some costly mistakes have been made in respect to “honor.” The | Now that Lindbergh has taken to the any written code of law. It was seldom defied, and he who ignored its man- code duello was at one time superior to | 4) ] SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Another Genial Saint. ‘The day of Santa Claus is through, But happy hours will shine, And in another week or two ‘We'll greet Saint Valentine. Like children, taught to smile anew ‘With songs and toys so fine, ‘We'll wait the gentle work to view Of good Saint Valentine. A Saint for poets who pursue A somewhat halting line, As well as for all lovers true, Is this Saint Valentine. He is a prompter and his cue Bids each his cares resign. Let’s not forget the homage due Unto Saint Valentine. The Willing Lawmaker. “Can’t we do something to keep this mysterious animal from prowling around at night?” “I'll go as far as I can,” answered Senator Sorghum. “It may not make any more difference than others of my efforts. But I'll introduce a bill making it strictly illegal for any animal to prowl excepting in the daytime.” Jud Tunkins says an honest sales- man has to work twice as hard to make you buy what you need as a slick stran- ger does to sell you a gold brick. Reportorial Wisdom. A good reporter talent brings ‘To task he does so well, And incidentally learns things He never dares to tell. Hope and Cheer. “It is always best to utter words of hope and cheer.” “Yes,” answered Mr. Dustin Stax. “I know of several market tipsters who have managed to knock out & pretty good living just that way.” “A painted face,” sald Hi Ho; the sage of Chinatown, “often indicates one who None is so blind as he who will not see, except he who will not hear. Hear- ing and seeing are a part of life; with- out these functions in full operation one is liable to miss too much. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands AILY CHRONICLE, London.—A new evening dress for men is the latest creation by the Men's Dress Reform Party. In the “Little Lord Fauntle- roy” style, the suit may be in black silk or in some cloth in mauve, salmon-pink, spinach-green or blush-red. ‘There is a white, or silver-gray silk shirt in Byron fashion and a sleeveless knickerbocker suit buttoned down the side, from neck to knee. Black silk nmcklan and buckle shoes complete the ensemble. A Cheltenham member has devised a form of dress which can be adapted to Winter or Summer. It consists of a tunic and knickers which are worn above the knee like Elizabethan trunk hose. The stockings can be (urned down to expose the knees, or worn long. The material may be adapted to the weather. The effect instead of being fantastic, as regards the above garments, is very attractive and medieval, and it is antici- pated that these models will be quite the rage in London and other social centers this season. * x X Man Arranges to Hear Own Funeral. Japanese Advertiser, Tokio.—Yoshi- jiro Kobayashi, principal of the Hinode Girls' Higher School in Megure, a suburb of Tokio, is going to have his pre- death funeral service observed on the occasion of the formal funeral service for his wife, who died while Mr. Kobay- ashi was on a tour of the world with a Japanese educators’ party. On re- ceiving word of his wife’s demise he hurried home, reaching Tokio recently. “I am 62 years old,” said Mr. Koba- yashi, “and therefore old eonugh to an- ticipate that the end may come at any time. 1t is for this reason that I may as well have my funeral service per- formed with that of my wife. From this time on I shall spare nothing for the promotion of education, in the thought that I am already dead.” After the great earthquake of 1923 Mr. Kobayash pitied the children on the street because they had nothing to play with, and tried to furnish amusement for them. He went among the children in the poor districts with a phonograph on a small cart and play- ed records for them daily, after his own school duties were over, to comfort them. He said that he was planning to do the same thing now that his wife is dead, and he has nothing to worry about at home. He has received a post- humous name, to be used in place of his living appellation, from the chief riest of the temple to which his fam- ly graveyard belongs, as & preparation for the coming event. * ok K K Anti-Tobacco Crusaders Are Flayed. A. B. C, Madrid—Men are continu- ally torturing themselves with their opinions, says an old Greek adage, but never the same opinions about the same things! We recommend this saw to the abstinence crusade which is at the pres- ent time directing itself inst the use of tobacco. But why this campaign? ‘Tobacco is something very agreeable. Diffused through mouth, nose and lungs, it calms and soothes our nerv- ousness, composes our thoughts and 1S too modest and unassuming to be content with her natural beauty.” Parliamentary Jazz. ‘The lawmaker jazzes ‘With phrases exact; ‘With lots of “whereas-es,” And not so much fact. “One way to overwork yohse't,” sald Uncle Eben, “is stayin' awake nights makin’ up excuses foh not doin’ yoh share.” L SRR Senate Amusement Tax. From the Ann Asbor Daily News. A lobby inquiry witness has suj bolishment of the Senate. A ter plan would be to make it profitable by assessing an amusement tax. dates was branded as a coward. In point of fact he was usually the braver man, certainly brave enough to face criticism and condemnation. ‘The world is wiser and more tolerant and more understanding now than in oo Call for Knute Rockne. From the Roanoke Times. Some rich man died the o, according lumni, o e Rackns, i other day | anythin makes us happy and tranquil. Indeed, smoking is an invigorating diversion that strengthens all the organs of the body and accumulates within one the ambition of a giant. It is today the only pleasure of a convivial sort left to man. It is a pleasure that is at once refreshing, asepticizing and tonic. What are vices, anyhow? We all have different ideas of what it is wrong to do. At one time some of us object to one form of relaxation and others to another. Indeed, some of us so insist upon certain conventions and virtues that they actually become superstitions and vices. A stipulation of the anti-tobacco cru- sade provides that bellevers in the movement are not to importune those to stop smoking who are either unwill- ing or unable to do so. These victims are to be left to their fate, while those who have not acquired a taste for nico- tine are to be spared its dread effects by education and appeal. From this it ap) that the ‘“‘crusaders” are not entirely unacquainted with human na- ture, and, indeed, for our part we fail to see where tobacco smoking has been but a relaxation and benefit walks of life and that T health with mode depri o people in all they are in bette: lerate use than when lved of the article us consider them monkey by | for | without & standard of comparison there | Men are no more greedy for life today than ever; they are just a bit | | franker about it. that is all.” In other words, they don't agree with the { monkeys. % | They want to see_everything that is | going on, to hear about everything, to talk about everything, to think about | everything. ‘The Limit, of course, is the bounds set by a decent man upon himself, Outside those bounds he is willing to admit_that the trio may be right. Yet even then, if evil obtrudes, he is will- ing to face it for what it 1. He would be ashamed to run away from it. 'R One may run away, of course, with- | out moving an inch. “Speaking no evil,” for instance. This monkey has caused more pain and tribulation in the world than the other two put together, because he has soft-pecaled the outcry against evil, Shall we sit by idly, speaking no evil, when the situation plainly calls for con- demnation? If we do, we permit the evil man to be_on the same basis as the good man, It we fail to speak out our real thoughts, in regard to good and evil, we place a bad woman on a par with a good one. This policy is particularly obnoxious, we believe, when it comes to the mis- taken idea of saying no evil of women. Some men pose as heroes, and mostly in the eyes of women, because they will never say anything against a woman. “He never said a word against a woman,” his admirers declare, in sin- re approbation. ceYn Yo,gv truth is that he is an easy- going, care-free, helpless sort of per- son, whose one aim in life is to escape recrimination. He speaks “evil” of no one, largely because he is afraid of kicking up & TOW. R The world's best wishes and sympathy should be with him who tries to see life whole, and not be afraid. This man regards the three Chinese monkeys as an amusing toy, and little else. It is easy for them to speak, hear, see nothing evil, because they are made of bone, or wood, and cannot see, hear or speak anything good, either. A real man, who is trying his best to be honest with himself and with the world, who knows that only by recog- nizing evil can he find good, has no use for the policy of little apes. He had rather make mistakes like a man than play safe like a monkey. He waxes indignant when he sees a hit-and-run driver cripple a child or elderly person, and thanks God that he is not like that man. If it becomes necessary for him to testify against the fellow, he speaks his evil with a good heart, for the deed was evil, and soft speaking cannot make it good. If he sees a man beat a dog al- most to death, and then brag about it, he will not fail to condemn him, and thereafter, if he has the courage of his convictions. If he has not, he will be “wise monkey.” Such is the “wisdom” which tolerates too much, and which has helped to bring America to a state of law violation intolerable. | entirely. Better to enjoy life with it |than to torment one's self with the | deprivation. | * xR Judge Rebukes Curious-minded Women. Daily Mall, London.—Before dealing with a case at Leeds Assizes, Mr. Justics Hawke remarked that it was a case which women in the court would not | desire to hear. Whereupon most of the | occupants of the women's gallery left but a number remained. Then, Mr. Justice Hawke, glancing up to the gallery, said to counsel: “You may proceed. All the ladies have gone.” * ok kK Front-Wheel Drive Once Rejected in United States, Sydney Bulletin.—Auto manufacturers America have entered into the front-wheel drive field, already ex- ploited by England and Frauce. The United States really had the first op- portunity for this advance, as it was devised and offered to them by an Aus- tralian many years ago. The late George Hoskins of Lithgow, New South Wales, had dreams about the front wheel drive, and went ahead with the idea until he exhibited a car in all the States. A break-down in health was all that stood between him and great suc- cess for his invention. The Americans were slow to realize the possibilities of the construction, and so were preceded by foreign manufacturers, * Kk ok X then | fisticpffs of NEW BGOKS AT RANDOY ALL OUR YESTERDAYS. H. M. Tom- linson. Harper & Bros. | «“1t could hardly have happened had | I not—yesterday, last week, five years ago, or ten, or more—done this or that, | gone here or there.” A statement of cause and effect, so simple and commonplace as to include p';:?:nuuy everybody Within its recog- nd use. Do s fashioned out of the yes- terdays—shaped, colored, projected these. The present is but the past, moving forward united and invincible, to set up its claim, to demand its due from that WhilCh is, in essence, its own ite creation. degsch—expnnded to the measure of national limits and international over- lappings—is the theme of the new Tom- linson novel. The past, so rounded here, is of English pattern, naturally. Yet, the matter concluded, would serve to cover every land and nationality now existent, cover it as neatly as lid fits to its own bucket. Sixteen years ago a seemingly inescapable urgency of de- mand and drive created a world crisis which produced a war immeasurably greater in destruction than savagery or barbarism was ever able to achieve—in an era boastful of its humanitarian pur- pose, besides. “All Qur Yesterdays” is a story of the Great War. Patterning upon the event itself, Mr. Tomlinson devotes the bulk of his attention to planting the seeds of war. The final third of the story pictures the slaughter itself. The record goes back, away back to the Boer War. For it was then that a new phase of English megalomania set in— a new sensitiveness, a ready grievance over fancied slights to national pride and slurs upon national prestige. Then rose, refurbished, the English fiction of the “little island.” dependent upon wider imperial domain for continued existence. War and _conquest consti- tuted the heart of this fiction. Then began anew the training of English youth to the tradition of England's glory. Then was fabricated the hokum of the new patriotism, under whose per- suasion the lads of Britain were ex- pected to rush forward in gladness to quiet for the moment the noisy hunger of insatiable cannon. Mr. Tomlinson traverses this long ap- proach to the Great War in great deliberation. For in this 30-year span between the Boer War and the World ‘War lies, scattered all over Europe, the seed of the great conflict, its tending and its harvesting—to the desolation of millions—to the advantage of nothing, of nobody, either as individual men or in the collective sense of nations. The story begins with a portent. Down on the London docks a monster ship is being launched—on a day 30 years ago—with circumstance of pride and pageantry. One dull-wit opines that it is “too big, 'l swallow us all 'f we don't look out”—a sentiment that meets pmmft repudiation in the rough the dockman. English patriotism working. From this point a leisurely movement gathers up con= vincing drama one significant moment after another wherein the content of futyre war lies, as innocent-seeming as a thoth in its cocoon. Only a few people are called upon to set this drama to action, to deliver its ultimate of effect and significance. A few working- men, a group of newsmen, journalists and correspondents for “spying out the land” and gathering up the facts and implications of fact. hadowy law- makers and remote military leaders are useful chiefly as suggestive of the plain security of their respective positions. It is the rank and file of feeling and opinjon, the rank and file of actual service, that occupy the front here—all pawns, to be sure, moving by command, by order emanating from the safe hinterland of G. H. Q. Yet, the only reliable sources, after all, of the state of mind and feeling of the people. Once in a while one of these speaks out in blasphemous spirit, saying that they'd all better refuse to stir a step. Several times does this clearly renegade notion find voice. Yet—and yet—that is what finally will come. This is not Mr. Tomlinson talking. He leaves the thought with Bill, or Jim. That “finally” ?i“ my own clearly improper interpola- lon. In the scope of its conception, in the soundness of its thesis, in the con- vincing picture of its demonstration, in its tragedy—personal and national, in its effect of world tragedy—in the harrowing scenes of war itself and in the quality of its story projection, here is a great story. The one that was expected from Mr. Tomlinson. A true statesman—in spirit and power—con- ceived this novel. And a dramatist of special and peculiar gift delivered it to readers. There may be greater and more useful war books than this one. I don't believe it, nor do I recall one with anything like the reach and depth of spirit that animates “All Qur Yesterdays.” A _tribute to readers generally that H. M. Tomlinson and Manuel Kom- Toff are persistent with books that continue to be in undiminished demand —“All Our Yesterdays” and “Coronet.” * Ok kK Chinese Study Sixth-Century Religion. North China Standard.—Peiping: “Do nothing and trust yourulrt' to fate.” This sums up the Taoist philoso- phy of life, according to Prof. Hsu Ti- shan of Yen-ching University, in a lec- ture before a large audience of Chinese and foreign teachers and students. Taoism shares ~with Confucianism the distinction of being a national re- ligion in China. Prof. Hsu also included Buddhism as a philoscphy which in- fluences every Chinese life, consciously or unconsciously, from the cradle to the grave. The Taoist conception of life was specially considered by the lecturer. It is based on four principles: First, uni- versal mechanism; second, revolution; third, spirit, and fourth, fate, man is governed by these four princi- ples; and if one wants longevity, he must _follow them. Few Chinese today disbelieve in fortune-telling or fate, and in this sense every Chinaman is a Tao- ist. In this connection the lecturer mentioned the fact that many people today believe that there can be no escape from the continued political chaos of the country, because all these troubles are the result of fate—that is to say, “Min.” All these people believe that China will become strong and prosperous again when her luck gets better. Condgrted action to bring about better condMions means little in comparison with the de crees of destiny. Revolution, or “Yun,” the unceasing march of events, also has much to do with a country’s good or ill. ‘Taoism was founded by Lao-Tse, in the sixth century B.C. and is a contem- plative and passive philosophy. Strangely enough, Confucius (Kung-fu-Tse) and Gautama (Buddha), the founders of the other great Chinese religions, were his contemporaries. . Light on the Underworld. From the St. Louls Daily Globe-Democrat. ‘The underworld, as a term, is more understandable, now that a hold-up has been committed in & New York sub- basement three floors below the street level. R One for Back-Seat Drivers. From the South Bend Tribune. Exhibition of an automobile that can be started and ntopg:d by the human volce foreshadows brighter times for back-seat drivers. — o Chicago Walking Back. ¥rom the Cincinnati Times-Star. 0 has been taken for a ride, it’s walking back. ———— . * Good News for Students, From the Toronto Daily Star. i, is et news for sehosl boy e ry of & coun written in 800 words. Loy Chicag and now _boys— | the: BOURRU: SOLDIER OF FRANCE. Jean des Vignes Rouges. Trans- Iated by Ernest Hunter Wright. E. P. Dutton & Co. A single French soldier, “Bourru’ a single hill of France, Vauquols, fought over and over again—these two stand for millions of soldiers on the one hand and for hundreds of war- shattered hills of France on the other. Simplification carried to excess, do you s:xy? Read the story first and only then offer an opinion. "Vauquois becomes a shrine to the French soldiery around it, or a calvary of their deep desire, as it week by week and month by month is raked by German shells that fail to destroy it utterly, and rather impart to it a magic of impregnability ry | which to the boys advancing toward it and retreating” from it becomes to them a sort of religlous possession. Yet this story of war is not keyed to any degree of spiritual uplift. Such of this as it contains is implicit within the substance of the matter, something deeper than the daily war business with which the writer is so absorbingly concerned. It is with attack and re- pulse, with attack and transient vic: tory—these two playing fast and loose with Vauquois through weeks of e: istence that is of indescril able bitterness as it is, in part, set. down here. Bourru and his com- panions, a mere shifting handful of these, are the war, in so far as Vauquois, “unconquerable France,” is concerned. The lines of trench, the front line and that supporting one, out of which men crawl, slipping in deep mud, grasping an arm or a leg for leverage, hardly minding at last that these are severed parts of men dead for too long a time to support the theor;flat “clean-ups’ and “sanitation” that have become only words. Rain, snow, cold, no food for too long a time, weariness that begs only for a minute of sleep even though the whole war go wrong—and yet with it all such realities of friendship as probably could be found nowhere else to lift Bourru and his dead-worn companions into a faint light of happiness. A very beautiful story of the war, one that is of living quality. ILike Re- marque’s book, like “Three Soldiers” by Don Passos, this “Soldier of France” 1s of the new crop of war records. It is of the kind that is bound to last long, by virtue of its truth concerning the actuality of war which is, after all, the fighting soldier. Not the commanders, not the admiralties—these do not count, save for purposes of parade—but the soldler, instead, it is with whom every- ‘This story 10 years ago, but nobody wanted i} then. Tired of war, so the readers 3 but a few who were still in the glamour of uniformed commanders and the now outmoded panoply of militarism. But, this phase having died a natural death, readers are generally turning toward se records of the under his lack of—well, of a good many falry-tale accouterments—turns out to Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing to our Information Bureau in Washington, D. C. This offer applies strictly to information. The bu- reau cannot give advice on legal, medi- cal and financial matters. It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles, nor undertake exhaustive research on any | subject. Write your question plainly | and briefly. Give full name and address and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. The reply is sent direct to the inquirer. Address The Eve- ning Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. Will Charles Chaplin's next pic- ture be a talking one?—L. C. M. A. At present it is said that Mr.| Chaplin does not contemplate making a talking picture. He is now engrossed in work on “City Lights,” and has already spent more than $1,000,000 reflecting what he believes to be his greatest con- tribution to the screen. Q. How many people are killed and injured by automobiles in proportion to the number of miles traveled>—W. J. P. A. The American Automobile Asso- ciation estimates that the loss of life by automobile traffic is approximately 23,000 deaths. This estimate is for the last calendar year. There were 700,000 injuries during this same time. How- | ever, due to the fact that 143,115,477,750 miles were traveled by motor these fatalities and injuries would amount to only one for every 6,222,412 miles. Q. What was Mme. Galli-Curci’s farewell role?—O. L. A. Galli-Curci’s last role as an opera singer was Rosina in “The Barber of Seville” at the Metropolitan. She will continue singing, but upon the concert stage. Q. How many women in the United States work? Do many contribute their earnings to the family support?—G. S. A. It has been estimated that 8,500,- 000 women in the United States work in 537 occupations. A recent statement based on a study of the share of wage- earning women in family support is to the effect that of 60,000 woman workers who furnished information, more than l;fllf gave all their earnings to the fam- ily. Q. Is Sherlock Holmes a character or ‘e of speech?—V. McN. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created the character Sherlock Holmes. He is now a kind of figure of speech since the character has grown to be so popular. He was a detective whose methods were somewhat unusual. a figus A, Q. Why do flat feet keep a man out of the Army?—B. H. R. A. The War Department says that when a person has flat feet he is dis- qualified, since this condition interferes with marching. A soldier is discharged it he develops flat feet whilé"in the service. Q. Who was Corp. Violet?>—L. N. A. This nickname was given to Napoleon I by his friends while he was in exile. It signified the hope that he would return with the violets of Spring. Q. Please give some facts about the ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. One hundred men were employed con- stantly in the construction. White pine from the hills around Parowan was used. The logs were hauled by oxen, Glue for the pipes was made from cattle hides and buffalo skins. The organ was first rebuilt in 1885 by Johnson, again in 1900 by Kimball and in 1915 by Austin. It now is a combi. nation of seven organs, the whole ope ated electrically from a movable con- sole with four manuals or keyboards and 270 stops and couplers. There are 8,000 pipes. Edward P. Kimball and Tracey Y. Cannon are the organists. Mr. Cannon is a grandson of Brigham Young. Q. Did Anatole France marry his housekeeper?—C. K. C. A. The famous author married the housekeeper of one of his close friends. Mme. France, or “Tiko” as he called her, died only recently, surviving her husband barely five years. She was 45 years old. They were married in 1920 when France was 76. Mme. France was Emma La Prevotte before her mar- riage. She was born in Alsace, but lived in St. Louis, Mo., from the time she was 10 until she was 22. At the time of her death she was living in the mansion in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, which her husband left her. Q. Please give directions for repaint- ing window shades.—W. B. A. In order to repaint window shades, stretch them on a frame of the proper size, dust and wash with soapsuds and water. Drg carefully. To paint white, use pure white lead; for tints, use litho- pone; for solid effects in green or yel- low, use pure oil color so that a very thin paint or stain will cover in one coat. Turpentine is better than ben- zene for good flatting. Q. Please describe the new bridge in Colombia.—S. M. S. A. After four years of difficulties, the largest and most important bridge in Colombia has been completed at Girar~ dot. This Girardot Bridge is at the head of navigation on the upper Mag- dalena River and is owned by the Co- lombia National Railway. It has a main | 5pan of 426 feet, cantilever with via- | duct approaches.” The total length is 1,530 feet, while the height is an aver- age ‘of 100 feet above water level, Four- teen hundred tons of steel were used | In_the construction of this important |link in the outlet from Bogota to Buenaventura. Q. What is a kilocycle?—H_E. B. A. Kilo means one thousand. Cycle means a period of time in which a cer- tain phenomenon occurs repeatedly in the same order. In eleetricity it is the period of time which is taken for an alternating current to rise from zero to its maximum potential and return to zero again in one direction, and then g0 from zero to maximum and return to zero in the opposite direction. Com- bining the two meanings, kilocycle means the above proceedings performed a thousand times a second. Q. Do both the males and females of the reindeer family have antlers?—T. P, A. Both have antlers and shed them annually. organ in the Mormon Tabernacle at Salt Lake City—B. B. R. A. Before the completion of the Mor- mon Tabernacle, in the early 60s, Joseph Ridges began to superintend the building of an organ for the temple. Q. Are there m};&lru of Towa that lie far from railroads?—P. I. O. A. Tt is sald that there is no place in Towa which is more than a few miles from a railroad. Wet Sentiment Test of the real sentiment toward present prohibition laws by means of an amendment to be voted on in Congress and a referendum placed before the ‘whole peo})le are looked upon by the majority of the press as a worthy effort. Many doubts are expressed, however, that the results in etiher case would point to any change. As to a simple referendum, proposed by Senator Watson, the New York Herald Tribune suggests that it “would fill a long-felt want” and that it should be a ‘“referendum by States,” holding that “if we knew where the States stood, it. would clear the air of a great deal of bitter controversy based on guesswork.” Merit is seen by the Charlotte News in this plan, for, it holds, “‘we have better than a mere notion that the returns would everlastingly put a quietus on the wets,” while the Houston Chronicle expresses opposition, with the argument, “The proposition is like ask- ing the owner of a piece of property to pitch pennies with you to see who shall own the property.” It advises the op- ponents of the liquor laws to “offer some plan which will settle the matter once for all.” * Kk k% “If the vote were close, the situation would be about the same as it was before the referendum,” declares the Sioux Falls Daily Argus, and the Rock Island Argus says of the prospect: “Such a referendum, if taken in every State and representing at least as heavy a vote as that recorded in presidential elections, might be of value in estimat- ing the sentiments of the people. It is open to question if the referendum would settle anything.” “Is there any reason,” asks the Salt Lake Deseret News, “why the con- stitutional procedure by which the other 18 amendments to the Constitution were made a part of that instrument is insufficient for this particular one? To talk referendum in this case is simply evasion and subterfuge.” The Apple- ton Post-Crescent feels that the vote “would be valuable as disclosing as nearly as might be ascertained the present state of mind toward prohibi- tion throughout the country.” The Ann Arbor Daily News concludes that, “as a matter of principle, the referendum idea appears reasonably sound, but a blind election, to be decided upon a ‘yes’ and ‘no’ basis, would not produce a satis- factory solution for the present prob- lems. Before the people cast their bal- lots they must have safeguards against return of the corner saloon, whatever else may happen.” * kK K “Senator Watson, it should be noted,” omments the South Bend Tribune, ‘has been dry in politics When com- mitments were unavoldable. His idea, however, is that the two major parties should not be forced to mix prohibition and politics, In brief, he holds that prohibition is not a legitimate issue, at least while the major parties are forced to emphasize other issues. The Senator’s proposal may be an attempt to force prohibition into position as —_—_— be, upon occasion, the hero or the pal or the buffoon or whatever else the awful strain of the long months of dirt and hunger and exposure and fighting may suggest as the only thing for that particular exigency. Now, that the mood of the people has changed, as'it was due to change, this book, a prize of the French Academy, comes to us in a translation that appears to have held to the fine enthusiasms, to the really spiritual moments, of Bourru and his {riends as they sought to turn away the German soldiers from a complete de- struction of the sacred hill of Vaugouis. ‘The whole of the war is here in a few poilus and the beloved height from which all their lives they have looked out upon the homeland. Remember, this is no idealization—it is Bourru himself, sacred to death at one minute, fighting mad at the next, cross when he is sf 3 bearish when he is freezing—but, never- theless and notwithstanding, here is all | Bourru, the common soldier who did the work of warfare, who did most of the dying as well, There are just about three books, no more so far, to go with a ain soldier whotAnd t! this one in its illuminating power over that must not be forgotten. is one of the three that make for remembrance—remembrance of the active and determined sort, o proved Test Ap But Dry Law Changes Doubted an independent issue, neither Repub- lican nor Democratic. Examined in that light, it has great potential value.” The suggested amendment for re- peal of prohibition, which is advocated by Senator Blaine as a test of public sentiment, and which Senator Borah declares will be decisively defeated in Congress, draws positive comment. The Albany Evening News says: “In view of the repeated contention of the wets that prohtbition has been ‘foisted upon the country’ by a minority of fanatics in political power, it might be worth while to have a direct national ex- pression of sentiment at the ballot box on the question ‘Shall the amendment be repealed?” But for most of us the voting of Congress is sufficient evi- dence. Representatives and Senators are not, save for trifling exceptions, voting against their fairly accurate knowledge of the will of their con- stituents.” “It is a slow process at best,” ad- vises the Charleston Evening Post, “the movement of so large a body of people as are in the United States toward any general policy, but, in the course of time, doubtless there will develop a general trend, which will finally find an outlet in some determined course. Such a controversial policy as prohibi- tion should never have been imbedded in the Constitution, but should have been left to the determination of the several States. But it is in the Con- stitution and it will take much more than a resolution of Congress to get it out.” * koK % “No one can mind Senator Blaine's resolution,” thinks the Milwaukee “Let the Senate vote on sub- repeal of the eighteenth amendment. No one ought to feel very bad about Senator Watson's proposal, if the Senator will show how the thing can be done. But what people do begin to notice and complain of is that these men and the others do an awful lot of talking about proposals that don't amount to a hoot. The Congressional Record is chock-full of y:gplnt about, prohibition that neither "affected votes in House or Senate, nor was it ex- pected to affect votes. Calling the roll doesn't take very long. Let them take their little votes—and then get down to some real business.” “It seems reasonable,” in the opinion of the Worcester Telegram, “to assume that the eighteenth amendment is in the Constitution to stay for some time, even in the event of Congress passing a resolution submitting to the States the proposal for repeal. But it is not likely that the repealing proposal can even pass Congress.” The San Jose Mercury Herald predicts that if a roll call vote takes place, “it is safe to assume that it will debunk the wet bunk and show that the ‘great revo- lution’ only exists in the imagination of wets in a few wet centers,” Quoting Senator Borah to the effect t the present controversy should re- solve itself into “finding facts” for bases of future activities, the Fort Worth Record-Telegram comments: +Therein lies the greatest obstacle to the enforcement of the amendment. There are two distinct—and one col- laborative—set of ‘facts’ contained in the attempt. Two sets of those ‘facts’ are incontrovertible. One ‘fact’ is that, regardless of statistics or testimony to the contrary, the eighteenth amend- ment must remain as it is. The other set of ‘facts’ asserts the utter failure of the measure. The third set attempts to make a groundwork for the practi- cal advancement of temperance. Of the last, neither of the two others will take any stock. * * * The great mid- dle class which invokes a daily ‘plague on both your houses’ could become a tremendous power for temperance,” “Senator Borah was prompt to ac- cept the challenge of Senator Blaine," declares the Lincoln State Journal. “While the motives of the Wisconsin Senator are open to question, and while it may be that this is but a part of the policy of the wets to make as much noise as possible, this is the straight- forward way to present the issue. Mr. Blaine says that he wants to smoke out and put on record some of his col . Not an altogether worthy then it may be worth on the record all