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A—6 f——— THE EVENING STAR —With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY....February 15, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor ‘The Evening MT' Neg;lllper Company 2 b ivants Ave. sylvants New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t hicago 5'3&, Lake Michigan Building. uropean Ofice: 14 Regent st.. London. by (;:rflu Within ar. . and Sunday Star undays) the City. 45¢ per month (when 4 1. ... 60c cer month Tne 'iv-mnh-sa Bunday Siar (wnen s Bundass) . " es; per month The Sunday Star ...'."...".. "¢ ver copy Collection made at the end of cach monin. telephone Otders may be sent in by mail or NAtional 5000. ol Sunday All Other States and Canada. Sunday. .} yr.. $12.00: 1 me fly and d: iy only ~. ay only Member of the Assoclated Press. The Associated Press s exclusively entitled to the use for Tepublication of all news Cis- patches SEedited to it or not otherwise cred- n this paper an ublished herein. All ri #pecial dispatches herein A Bridge at Great Falls. The sentiment in Congress clearly favors a bridge at or near Great Falls, if one may gauge this sentiment by the bills introduced, passed and discussed ‘which relate to some method of getting across the river. As the projected parkways on both sides of the Potomac would be relatively of small value un- less a bridge connected them, there are added hopes that in creating the park- ways Congress will provide a definite program for bridge construction, Senator Glass’ bill, introduced in the Senate yesterday, provides for a million-and-a-half-dollar bridge near Great Falls, its construction to be financed by the Federal Government. ‘This proposed legislation clarifies the bridge situation, which was muddled to some extent by last-minute amendments to the Cramton park bill. When that bill passed the House it picked up one amendment prohibiting the erection of a toll bridge across the river in the projected George Washington Memo- rial Parkway ares, although Congress has already authorized a permit for such a bridge, and at the same time acquired another amendment provid- ing that “a free bridge across the Po- tomac, at or near Great Falls,” should be constructed, leaving the method and source of financing the project in the air. The Glass bill could very properly be made an amendment to the Cramton bill, in place of the Housc amendment merely calling for the erection of a “free bridge.” . In the meantime, however, there is some eonjecture over what the private interests that planned the tol! bridge and are understood to have raised money for its construction will do. Representative Cramton points out that ‘under the last extension of time granted them last year by Congress they still possess the right to go ahead and con- struct the bridge, provided they com- plete it before the George Washington “orty " also the lccal lews of publication of Iso veserved. !w central plant difficulties or track stoppages. One bus may be disabled and the others carry on, with a mini- mum of delay to the multitude. In the case of fires, when streets are blockaded by the apparatus, the busses may be rerouted temporarily. The service can be doubled, quadrupled, octupled in emergencies without placing an undue Iund dangerous strain upon a central power plant. the tracked service, as feeders and for the relief of crowded lines. It has been for some time accepted as probable that | no more lines of street railway track will be laid in the District, the bus sup- | plying all needed additional facilities. The question arises whether the bus will | replace the tracked car lines, perhaps gradually at first and later altogether. | This question is of decided interest to | the community, and particularly to the companies, which are now in process of | merging, it is hoped, through legislative | procedure. ———————————— i Butler's Hat in the Ring. Aanouncement that William M. Butler, former Senator and former chairman of the Republican national committee, isl to seek Republican nomination for lh€| Senate in Massachusetts comes as no surprise to Washington. It has been clear for some time that such an an- nouncement was to be expected and that some of the party leaders in the | Bay State looked with favor on the entrance of Mr. Butler into the sena- torial race. Mr. Butler hims:If has been credited with ambitions to stage a “comeback” in the world of politics and particularly a comeback to the Senate. He was defeated in 1926 by Senator David I. Walsh. If Mr. Butler wins| the nomination this year it remains to be seen if any other Democrat in Massachusetts who may be selected by the Democratic party will be ‘able to defeat him. Mr. Butler has long been prominent in Massachusetts Republican politics. He reached the topmost rung when he became Republican national committee- man for the Bay State and was selected by former President Coolidge to act as Republican national chairman. IHe s | a business man. He gave the Republi- can national organization a business administration and he was entirely successful in building up that organi- zation. The situation in Massachusetts today is giving the Republicans real concern. There are three reasons particularly why this is so. They are liquor, in- dustrial depression in some of the manufacturing enterprises and wran- gling among th= Republicans themselves, Massachusetts was carried by the wet Democratic candidate for President in 1928, Alfred E. Smith. At the same time, the State re-elected a Democratic Senator. This was an almost unheard- of political turnover in the old Bay State in a presidential year. The peo- ple of Massachusetts in a referendum dealing with prohibition, in 1928, went “wet” by a plurality of something like 280,000 votes. The Republicans face a real diffculty THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1930. d the sheep; as its sclentific name of “ovibos” indicates, “-as in comparatively recent times circumpolar in distribu- tion. In the Pleistocene period it in- habited very considerable portions of Europe and America. For centuries it has been constantly hunted by the Eskimos for its skins and for food; although redolent of musk, its flesh is good. However, as in the case of the | Indian versus the buffalo, it is not the Both of the local street railway com- panies utilize the bus as a supplement to | copper-colored peoples who have done the damage, but those Caucasian fur have never known when to stop hunt- ing. Twenty years ago its number was reported by observers as ‘“much diminished.” The habits of this shaggy creature, wary though it be, appear conducive to slaughter, for instead of gathering in large herds, many of which might escape, it groups itself into smaller units of twenty or thirty, which, once surrounded, can be slaughtered at Will. Its present range is rarely south of the “barren grounds,” although ex- tending laterally from Great Slave Lake to Hudson Bay and over various arctic islands into Greenland. All over the globe exist pitiful remnants of animal species once fairly or very numerous. Skilled breeding and watchful and scientific care may pre- serve a few individuals almost in- definitely. Witness the aurochs, the European bison, once widely distributed and offering a favored form of big game sirce the time of Nero. Today, here-and there one roams the Caucastan Mountains while a single herd of a few hundred is preserved in a former im- perial forest in Lithuania. Perhaps ovis poli, today even glimpsed by but few white men, may one day meet the same fate. It appears an almost neces- sary, though regrettable, concomitant of civilization that these various re- markable and often splendid animals, once a necessity to man, shall become In effect mere museum pieces. ——— Russian agitators are credited with having created a large number of Bolshevists without supplying sugges- tions of any value as to how to manage them, ———— Long and active experience has no doubt enabled Charles Evans Hughes to admit that it is only natural that opinions should differ, even in connec- tion with a Supreme Court selection. ——————— ‘There is no penalty the law can pro- vide for the reckless aviator. If he succeeds in coming safely to earth, he is acclaimed a hero. If he fails, he is beyond the reach of reprimand. e —oope A gangster who has been marked for vengeance by the underworld is likely to be found a model prisoner if he a good jail. e Even in the estimates of proportion in Navy affairs, the expert accountant is in evidence with figures requiring patient analysis. eroms A new question of precedence might be raised if it could be arranged to have Senators Blease and Brookhart Memorial Parkway comes into existence, | O7 the Wet and dry ssuc. If they nom- | Present at the same dinner party. If the bridge were built and standing inate a liberal, which is another way s 5 S RS PEDS when the parkway purchases were com- | °f Saying a “wet,” from the prohibition plete, the Glass bill, or whatever amend- | Point of view, they may arouse the hos- ments are finally embodied in the tility of the rural drys, almost all of Cramton bill when it becomes law,|“hom are Republicans. On the other would no doubt act to buy the bridge | 1and, if they nominate a dry, they may and take it over as Federal property. | 10 heavily in the industrial centers The time limit in which bridge con- | W1eTe up until 1928, they were strongly struction can begin expirss March “supported by the French-Americans and next. It is learned, howevey, that an other groups of foreign blood. When the actual start has been made, consisting Republicans in New York State put up of certain borings, and contracts have | [°F Te-election former Senator James W. been let for construction of the bridge. Wadsworth, who had announced him- There are indications that private in- | S¢if & Wet, the drys placed an inde- terests may still build the bridge before | Pndent Republican candidate in the the State Legislatures of Virginia and field, who drew enough votes to effect Maryland have ratified the portions of | the defeat of Wadsworth. the Cramton bill necessary before the park lands can be bought. The election this week of a wet Democrat in the strongly Republican Interest in the bridgs project at Great | 5°¢0Nd congressional district has caused Palls has not been so much concerned | ¥¢at consternation in Republican 25 to who will build it as to whether it | T30Kks. They attribute this reversal will be built at all. The House amend- | Poth to the strength of the liquor ques- ment to the Cramton bill and the Glass | 11on and to unemployment and the un- bill in the Senate tend to commit the | Te5t Which follows unemployment. If | Government to the project. It is neces. | M- Butler is able to rally the Republi- sary and altogether desirable and adds & noteworthy feature to the other fine developments provided in the Cramton bill. A demand for censorship introduces & tariff complication with reference to Taw material in literature. ——————— Bus Lines and Tracked Service. ‘This morning a mechanical derange- ment at one of the sub-power stations of the Capital Traction Co. caused the stoppage of current on all the lines of that system in the northwestern section of the District. This occurred at 8 o'clock, when the heaviest business of the day is starting. The shutdown Jasted for nearly an hour, and affected not only the Capital Traction lines, but to a large extent those of the Washing- ton Railway and Electric Company, owing to troubles arising at crossing points. The net consequence was that many thousands of people, depending upon the car lines for their service, were much delayed in getting to work—a seri- ous happening for the employes in cer- tain of the Government departments, in which penalties affecting the annual leaves are imposed whenever tardiness occurs. For this misadventure there is no occasion for placing blame or charging Tesponsibility. Mechanical accidents will happen in power stations, blowouts will occur without human carelessness, | cross-circuits will develop seemingly from no specific cause. That they are no more frequent is remarkable, consid- ering the heavy and constant load the mechanism has to bear and the com- plexity of the power-making and trans- forming and distributing system. But the fact that the stoppage of cur- rent at a single point in the power sys- tem may cause the complete suspension ©f service upon scores of miles of tracks and deny service to people in an area of many square miles, deranging the busi- ness of the community, constitutes one of the weaknesses of the system of tracked transportation. At present it is, in this city, one of the most nearly per- fect and most satisfactorily operating modes of public transportation in the world. Yet it is liable to blockades that deny a quarter or a half of the popula- tion transport service. The question arises whether the tracked method of transport is the best. The individual and independent unit, the bus, already earrying a large per-! centage of dally patrons, is not subject to blockades and protracted delays due cans strongly behind him in the com- ing race, 1t is possible that the G. O. P. { may yet be successful in Massachusetts next November. They need some one to rally them. There has been no such figure since Calvin Coolidge retired from politics. Efforts have been made to get the former President to take the lead in his own State, and even to run for Senator. But Mr. Coolidge, up to the present, has preferred to re- main extremely quiet. In his announcement of his candi- dacy, Mr. Butler said he would within a month make a statement on the pro- hibition question. This announcement will be followed with the keenest in-| terest outside of Massachusetts as well as within that State. The wet and dry issue continues to force itself into poli- tics. Already one wet Republican candidate has announced for the sena- torial nomination, Cben S. Draper, for- mer State Senator. Mr. Butler has de- clared that he will, if elected, go to the Senate to work to build up New Eng- land industries, which have suffered from competition in th: West and South. | e For the brief purpose of a vacation President Hoover finds it easier to land | a sallfish than to participate publicly in the discussion of the modern bat- tleship. —————— - The Move for More Musk Oxen. ‘That the recent official action of the Oominion of Canada to conserve her last existing herd of musk oxen will not be too late is the ardent hope of woologists, naturalists and conserva- tionists generally. It is yet debatable as to whether the American bison, usually styled “buffalo,” can be really “brought back,” notwithstanding the fact that of recent years the number of animals, both tame and wild, has notably increased. With the buffalo it is largely a question of available range, but with the musk ox this factor does not seem so important, as the animal inhabits regions generally in- hospitable to man. It is, as is so often the case, the hunters who are to blame. East of the Creat Slave Lake, Canada has established the Thelon game sanc- tuary, within whose confinez this | remnant of a once rather comn.on | animal now can exist and persist. No person, either Indian or white, will be permitted even tc enter this 15,000~ square-mile preserve unless by special arrangement. The musk ox, & ruminant ntermediate n structure between the ox | ———— No immediate comment is expected from Calvin Coolidge on Massachusetts citizens who did not choose to vote the Republican ticket. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Hiring Help. It’s hard to find the help you need, No matter what you pay; The help to plow and milk and feed In life's old-fashioned way. But when you mentally aspire And find your nerve is shrinkin’ It's even harder yet to hire Some one to do your thinkin’, And s0 a campaign fund we start With competent direction. We choose a man considered smart— And change him next election. ‘Though helping hands you may acquire, ‘Your heart is surely sinkin® ‘When you must undertake to hire Some one to do your thinkin’. ‘Wary. “You heard what I said,” remarked the political boss. “You mean about getting on your band wagon?” “Exactly that.” - “I'll have to think it over. Gangsters have been growing influential and I'm not sure you're not making preparations to take me for a ride.” Jud Tunkins says the automobile can't take the place of the horse. A garage is always busy. The only real enjoyment he ever got out of playin® checkers was while loafin’ around a livery stable, Mystery. ‘When man's intelligence is going strong And life with strange discoveries is fraught, A fragile Springtime blossom brings along A mystery that baffles human thought. Reputation Secure. “George Washington went through life with the reputation of being in- capable of telling an untruth.” “Which is not strange, considering his record as a fighter quite able to de- fend himself against any insinuations.” “Before Fame’s report can be heard,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “the tongue of gossip must grow silent through weariness.” Fiction, Romance once held a tender vow Whose charm we find must cease. On Cupid stories called; but now They call for the police. “When you forgives an enemy,” said Uncle Eben, “mebbe it's best to keep away f'um him so's you won't be tempted to forget your forgiveness.” r—een So Quiet It Hurts. From the New Castle News. A quiet neighborhood in which 1o live 15 just inside your income. ——ee— Spring Fever, Too. Prom the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. Let Spring hasten on! We'll take our chances with bass and humming bird disease! ] We “C.» From the Oakland Tribune. “Fire_destroys Harvard " After the 8 O 8 the Ph. D's came out of the gym in their B, V. D.'s (P.D. Q. traders, whalemen and explorers who | Perhaj dered where originated the saying that | him, if only he could . ‘The other day, i.ng” A { Sand’s “The Devil's Pool," { the sentence which may not be the origin of this popular saying. man and that pretty child,” says the author. “I knew their story: everybody has his own, and everybody could make interest in the novel of his own life |if he had understood it." Everybody could make an interesting story out of the novel of his own life. If—and it is a large “if,” indeed—he | could understand himself! * ok ok “The Devil's Pool” (La Mare au Diable) is one of three stories of the | French peasants which the greatest of the woman novelists of that country wrote to amuse her idle hours. “The Devil's Pool” is no more than a long short storv, or what a modern American magazine would call a novel- ette, at the most. Yet within the limited scope of that forth . better side of the peasant, The French husbandman has long been a favorite theme for native writers, side, notably his avariciousness. The peasant 1s a rich field. Evidently there is no other man in the world quite like him. His nearest arp- United Btates rest a-proach in the peasant there comparison, * ok ok % Those familiar to some extent with French literature, especially its fiction, Tecognize the peasant as fair game for :R;;;Wl.::]". m\’v’}l’Lh ha few notable excep- dons, in which the “goo P o- picted for his st ples no heroic It |fls genuine French novel in which the hus- bandman (as George Sand calls hl:’!) is pictured simply as a man. This al- ‘\‘\'a[};fnrlsrl Sllttg‘lcwry method. The u orgets the t; "‘3 mng. B ype and considers ust how much the type occupies the human mind one may know by t?linklng over his friends for a few moments, Many of them, perhaps most of them, are types of human beings to one, rather than individual humans, One is a salesman, another a preach- er, another a newspaper man, a fourth a mechanic, another an explorer. When thinking of them we think of them in those roles, and tend to forget that basically they are just men. Nor is this entirely our fault. Each one has so made his work a part of himself that it takes genuine effort {cr;r any one to disassociate them. Often it. He is forever talking about his spectalty. role. * ok ok ok George Sand’s peasants, as set forth | in “The Devil's Pool,” are above all men and women. The author has agreed with herself them from others, and to put them on paper more or less as they appear to 'mselves. She looked upon them with an artist's eye, but was alded b{} the fact that she had lived among these people long enough to learn their good traits—in fact, long enough to stop regarding them as_types. Selecting a simple love episode as the theme of her story, she told, in almost |every man had at least one novel in | | charming reading George | We ran across | or which may | “1 was acquainted with that young | Every 1iving being has his own story. | medium George Sand managed to set | a_crystal-clear picture of the | but most of them “play up” his poorer | is the farmer, but between | an average farmer and ' an average | 15 no real ground for | loyalty, the peasant occu- | leasing, thercfore, to read a | ticular scenes, but a steady progression e man himself is the last one to do | to overlook and | can succeed in enjoying the safety of | forget the traits which differentiate | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. the reader always has won- | fairy-tale sequence, the various ste) ’ | which led up to the marriage. by It is difficult to think of a mq story than “The Devil's Pool,” replete at once with real life and yet retaining the evanescent qual- ity of true folk lore. ‘These peasants are real peasants, the reader feels, except that for the time being he is not looking so steadily at their covetousness, their slyness, their inability to see the artistic in life. Here he meets the vigorous, hand- some peasant Germain, who lost his wife eight years before, and has re- mained true to her memory. He meets old Maurice, the father-in-law, who is beginning to worry about the three children, and who agrees with his good | wife, Mother Maurice, that Germain should select another wife, The instinct of selfishness—and it seems just that with the French peas- ant, if we may believe French literature —1is shown, but not dwelt upon; rather the kindly common sense of the old man is set forth, in which the younger fully agrees. o The plan is for Germain to visit an- other village, and there court a rich young widow. He agrees because it seems just the thing to do. When Mother Guilette, a neighbor, asks that he take “the little Marie,” her 16-year-old daughter, to the same village, where she is going to become sheepherder, no one thinks a thing of it. Germain has known Marie for all of her 16 years, and has never even looked at her, regarding her as just a child. On the fated journey, however, in which they become lost in the forest at the devil's pool, with one of Germain's children, little Peterkin, the older man suddenly wakes up to the fact that the little Marie is a woman in her own right, beautiful and good. ks The subsequent flow of the story is as lifelike, in that there are no par- toward the inevitable, Germain does his best to fulfill the wishes of the older folks, but finds his selected mate not to his liking. All the time he finds himself think- ing of Marie, who, regarding herself as a child, had refused him at the devil's 1 pool. Instead of asking the widow’s father for her hand, Germain asks to see a couple of oxdn! “I understand, Germain,” answered old Lecnard, very calmly. *You changed your mind when you saw my daughter with her lovers. It's just as you please. It wou'd seem that what attracts some repels others, If you seriously want to buy my oxen, come and have a look at them in the pasture.” &8s en So Germain and the little Marie are married and live happily ever after- ward. Not much of a story, as stories 80, but perhaps all the better for th: Our edition is that of the Scholartis Press of London, which specializes on issuing particularly “booky"” books. The translation is by Hamish Miles, who translated Maurois' “Disraeli.” A big book, wide margins, large type, help make this edition attractive to those who are susceptible to such things. “The Devil's Pool” is peculiar in structure in that it begins with two chapters of introduction and ends with several chapters detailing the rural wed- ding. It is to be recommended particu- larly to those who are slightly weary of modern fiction. Humanized Submarine Policy Believed Hard to Establis Deadlock on the proposal to abolish | has passed its heyday. Its abolition will the submarine has brought to the front the idea of “humanized subma- warfare” at the Naval Conference, but in this country the idea is accepted E:etty generally as a flat contradiction forms. Some, however, believe that new methods of fighting undersea boats will be evolved and that world opinion may act as restraint upon the violation of the rights of non-combatants. “To propose to ‘humanize’ the sub- marine is a travesty,” declares the Omaha World-Herald. “It is prinei- pally effective when it violates all of humanity's laws. It is most valuable when it sinks merchantmen, destroys commerce, strikes terror among non- combatants.” That paper advises that “one of the tests of American and British statesmanship at the parley will be the result they gain, or fail to gain, against this most barbarous tool of warfare.” ol il Considering a French suggestion in favor of “political guaranties in place of undersea boats,” the New York Sun asserts: “That the United States should engage in such a compact is ba- yond belief. The proposal to link the fortunes of the Nation to those of an- other pover, to jeopardize its peace in quarrels with the origin of which it had no concern, is ugposed to the pol- icy and practice of the United States.” The French people are reminded by the Buffalo Evening News that “if submarines had been eliminated previ- ous to 1914, their country would have derived an incalculable advantage from the act”; that “they had many sub- marines in the war, but those boats contributed nothing to the defense of France.” The Evening News, however, adds that the French people “will agree | to the humanizing of submarine opera- tions, and they must recognize that sub- marines thus limited in activity are not worth maintaining.” | B “If submarines cannot be abolished, it will be little use to try to regulate | their employment in war,” avers the Jersey City Journal, while the Duluth Hernld argues: “War isn't a thing that lends itself to humanization. Its purpose being to kill and destroy, those most likely to succeed in it are those who are most efficient in dealing death and destruction. ‘The temptation, therefore, to throw off rules and limita- tions, which presents itself to a nation facing defeat, likely to prove too strong to resist.” The Chicago Daily News calls the proposal “a sort of ap- plied idealism that is more praiseworthy than practical.” “The submarine' fights from ambush,” states the Fort Worth Record-Telegram, “and its greatest value lies in its ability to clear the surface of vessels ordinarily treated as exempt. It might be inter- esting reading to construct a code for ‘humanizing’ its operations—but the recollection of the ‘scrap of paper’ dec- laration is too acute for it to register much enthusiasm.” The Spokane Spokesman-Review warns that “France, in a potential future war, if it found itself hard pressed, would be under severe temptation to repeat the Germ: performance and to plead that it was justified in following the German prec- edent.” * ok ok “The French stand is not by any means unreasonable,” concedes the Ann Arbor Daily News, with the explana- tion: “The practicability of such ‘hu- manization’ may be questioned, since opinions might differ as to what con- stituted ‘heavy armament.’ and also a nation fighting for’ her life is likely to mislay some of her scruples with re- spect to the use of any weapon that happens to be available. Still, the French counter-suggestion should be de- liberated seriously, and with a full reali- zation that an attempt is being made to meet England and America at least part way on the question.” “Qur own preference,” states the Cleveland Plain Dealer, “would be to abolish these undersea hit-skippers: sharply to curb them is the next best ‘step to take now. Here we have the first definite results of the London Conference. The submarine, one hopes, follow. Britain and the United States might easily agree to scrap the subs at once. But France, which has practi- cally ceased to care for rapital ships, looks upon the underse~ boat as vital to her defense. It was too much to ex- pect that France could be persuaded at :;fls conference to abandon this posi- on.” “In the past” suggests the New Or- leans Times-Picayune, “the laws of war have proven as fragile as most other human laws are. nations which have solemnly pledged | observance will provoke condemnation by that enlightened world opinion which, all lovers of peace hope and believe, is steadily growing in volume.” The Saginaw News directs attention to improved sound devices for use in de- tecting the presence and location of enemy submarines, and continues: “It is hoped that by use of sound devices at each end of the surface ship mot | only the presence but the exact location of en°my submarines can be worked out. And if that hope is realized, sub- marines will be an exceedingly hazard- ous_undertaking.” “In the heat of same future conflict,” states the Terre Haute Star, “a nation might again rescrt to submarine war- fare as a means of starving a foe into surrender, although the reaction to vio- lation of formal pledges might prove disastrous if the new series of world agreements is worth anything at all.” The Providence Journal thinks that “optimists will say that some gain will be registered if the familiar hit-and-run methods of German undersea boats in the World War are outlawed by inter- national accord while the world is still at peace.” Sees Attorney General’s Dry Law Policy Sound From the St. Paul Ploneer Press. Prohibition is to be enforced in one branch of the Government service, the Department of Justice, for whose offi- cers Attorney General Mitchell quite properly establishes a rule of loyal sup- port in both spirit and practice. There is something quite sound and consistent in Mr. Mitchell's policy that United States district attorneys and marshals must be in sympathy with the law they are charged with enforcing, but it takes & courageous man to proclaim it President Hoover already has that rule for the White House staff, but ap- parently has not carried the experiment to outside’ appointments. ‘Whatever the individual citizen may think of prohibition, his position is free from the degree of moral and legal ob- ligations resting upon Gavernment offi- clals sworn to yphold the Constitution, including the eighteenth amendment, and the laws of Congress, including also the Volstead act. The innovation launched from the Department of Jus- tice may well cause apprehension all the way down the line of officialdom. If dryness at heart as well as in, con- duct is made a prerequisite to appoint- ment in one department, that require- ment evenmlllg mey spread to other branches of public service. Even local city officials are sworn to support the Constitution. Moral obligation toward the prohibi- tion law is recognized by Mr. Mitchell for his department at least. Enforce- ment rightly should start with the en- forcer, as an example if for no.other reason. Citizens may well be pardoned infractions of law when they see open violations by agents of authority. Par- ticularly would it be eminently fitting to have the Attorney General's rule im- posed upon Congress. R ] Haven't Men Any Choice? From the Toledo Blade. Comes the report that Englishwomen are “picking husbands younger than themselves.” The w brings thoughts of of 'Ed flowers.y But their violation by l THE LIBRARY TABLE " By the Booklover. Virginia Woolf, daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and granddaughter of Thack- eray, probably cwes at least some of her literary subtlety to ancestry. As a fem- inist she is no militant. She uses a method which is perhaps more deadly and is certainly more attractive than militancy, the method of satire. Her book, “A Room of One’s Own,” osten- sibly a discussion of women as writers of fiction, is really a satirical arraign- jen by masculine soclety in the past and almost until the present time. This rather long essay is based upon two | papers about women and fiction read before the Arts Soclety of Newnham College and the Odtaa of Girton Col- lege. If the essay were a sermon, we | should say that it has a text—that “a woman must have money and a room !of her own if she is to write fiction,” Why are women Always so much poorer than men? Why was Jane Austen obliged to write her novels in the fam- ily living room? Why has it never been considered as necessary for & woman to have a good education as for a man? Why do men write so voluminously about women as a sex, when women write so little about men in general? ‘Why have women written such a com- paratively small part of the literature of the world? Why do 80 many women rarely have a half hour that they can call their own? Why arc women even i today to such a great extent considered merely in their relation to men? Why has there never been a woman Shake- speare? Why is it so difficuit to raise money for women's educational institu- tions when millions are often raised easily for those of men? All these questions Mrs. Woolf asks, but, because she is a delightful essayist and not a propagandist| she dces not fully an- swer them. e B ‘The first chapter of “A Room of One's Own" tells of the author's visit to the | mythical college for men called “Ox- | bridge,” where she was entertained at i luncheon; then to the equally mythical but equally easy to identify college for women called “Fernham,” where she was entertained at dinner. At Ox- bridge she strolled along the river banks, thinking of the paper she had been asked to give on “Women and Fic- tlon.” Absent-mindedly walking across a grass plot, she was intercepted by a gesticulating figure in cutaway coat, who turned out to be a beadle. “His face expressed horror and indignation. Instinct rather than reason came to my help; he was a beadle; I was a woman. This was the turf; there was the path. Only the Fellows and Schol- ars are allowed here; the gravel is the place for me.” Musing on Charles Lamb and Milton, she remembered that the manuscript of “Lycidas” was in the famous library only a few hundred yards away, and crossed the quadrang] to the door of the library. ‘I mu have opened it, for instantly there is- sued, like a guardian angel barring the way with a flutter of black gown instead of white wings, a deprecating, silvery, kindly gentleman, who regretted in a low voice as he waved me back that la- dies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a Fellow of the Col- lege or furnished with a letter of intro- duction. That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous li- brary.” She heard organ music issuing from one of the college chapels, but “I had no wish to enter had I the right, and this time the verger might have stopped me, demanding perhaps my baptismal certificate, or 2 letter of in- troduction from the dean.” i A comparison of the epicurean lunch- con served her at Oxbridge with the unappetizing dinner which she ate later with the girls of Fernham stirs in her a dream of all that has gone into the creation of the two colleges. Defying the novelist’s convention not to mention the food of soclal occasions, but to dwell upon the witty conversation, she % us that “the lunch on this oc- ision began with soles, sunk in a deep dish, over which the college cook had spread a counterpane of the whitest cream, save that it was branded here and there with brown spots like the spots on the flanks of a doe. After that came the partridges, but if this suggests a couple of bald, brown birds on a plate you are mistaken. The partridges, many and various, came with all their retinue of sauces and s, Ithe sharp and the sweet, each in its not so hard; their sprouts, follated as rosebuds but more succulent. And no sooner had the roast and its retinue been done with than the silent serving man, the beadle himself perhaps in a milder manifestation, set before us, wreathed in napkins, a confection which rose all sugar from the waves. To call it pud- would be an insult. Meanwhile the wineglasses had flushed yellow and flushed ci n, had been emptied, had been filled. And thus by degrees was 1it, half way down the spine, which is the seat of the soul, not that hard little electric light which we call brilliance, as it pops in and out upon our lips, but the more profound, subtle and subterranean glow, which is the rich, yellow flame of rational intercourse. That evening she dined with a famous woman scholar, bent and shabbily clad, in the great dining hall of Fernham. “Here was the soup. It was plain gravy soup. There was nothing to stir the fancy in that. One could have seen through the transparent liquid any pat- tern that there might have been on the plate itself. But there was no pattern. The plate was plain. Next came beef with its_attendant greens and pota- toes—a homely trinity, suggesting the rumps of cattle in a muddy market, and sprouts curled and yellowed at the edge, and bargaining and cheapening, and women with string bags on Monday morning. There was no reason to com- lain of human nature's daily food, see- ng that the supply was sufficient and coal miners doubtless were sitting down to less. Prunes and custard followed. And if any one complains that prunes, even when mitigated by custard, are an uncharitable vegetable (fruit they are not), stringy as a miser's heart and exuding a fluid such as might run in misers’ veins who have denied them- selves wine and warmth for 80 years and yet not given to the poor, he should reflect that there are people whose charity embraces even the prune. Biscuits and cheese came next, and here the water jug was libe: round, for it is the nature of biscuits to be dry, and these were biscuits to the core. That was all.” The luxurious meal at Oxbridge symbolized to Mrs. Woolf “the unending stream of gold and silver” which must have flowed in order to “set these stones on a deep founda- tion,” to found and endow tguowthl and lectureships, to build and furnish m braries and laboratories, to provide all the beauty and luxury of cultural educa~ tionl. The plain meal at Fernham sym- bolized to her the great difficulty with which, about 1860, by means of small subscriptions and hard work on the part of a few women, 30,000 pounds were raised to found Fernham—a wom- an’s college. “So obviously,” her Fern- ham hostess told her, “we cannot have wine and partridges and servants carry- ing tin dishes on their heads. * * * We cannot have sofas and separate rooms.” * ook X In her collection of tales, “The Slow- er Judas,” G. B. Stern has by no means preserved the level of her two bi and “A Deputy Was King.” The stories range from Budapest to the Mediter- ranean, to Italy, to England, and in- clude characters of many types, from the English lover of his land who can- not stay away from his abandoned farm to the sentimental young man whose motive in acquiring great wealth is to deck his old mother in black vel- vet and rare laces. e Modern anthologies are difficult to it reads, the story make because of copyright hurdies to ' the iatter, Aj thering & lapful jump, but “"The Chief Poets of England cent Millay, i'-'Im Arlington Robinson, “ and America,” gited by Ofit;-i' De- Robert 7 ment of the position forced upon wom- | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 2 BY FREDERIC . HASKIN, Stop a minute and think about this lut.p You can ask our Information Bureau any question of fact and get the answer back in & al letter. It 1s a great educational idea intro- duced into the lives of the most intelli- gent people in ‘the world—American newspaper readers. It is a part of that best purpose of & newspaper—service. There is no charge except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Get the habit of askii questions. Ad your letter to The Evening Star Infor- mation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, di- rector, Washington, D. C. — | Q. Is Robert P. Lamont, the present | Secretary of the Department of Com- merce, a kinsman of Daniel §. Lamont, who was Secretary of War in President Cleveland's cabinet?—J. F. A, He is not a relative of the former Secretary. . How old is John Boles, the screen lnqtl stage actor? Is he married?—M. M. A. John Boles was October 28, 1898, in Greenville, Tex. He is 6 feet 1 inch tall, and weighs 180 pounds. He has dark brown hair and gray-blue eyes. He is married and has two chil- dren, Q. What is a lance corporal?>—R. E.R. A. A lance corporal is one with a provisional appointment without the pay of his permanent rank. When vacancies occur as corporals, the man who is considered for the appointment to such a vacancy is made a lance cor- poral with duties of a corporal, but not the pay of a corporal. If he qualifies and makes good at this provisional ap- pointment, he is made a regular cor- poral and his rank is confirmed with the pay of a corporal. Q. Does light travel in curved or straight lines?—O. A. 8. A. It travels in straight lines. Q. Why do forest fires occur so fre- quently in areas that have already been burned over?—M, F. A. In Forests and Mankind this ex- planation is given: “Fires in a sense brew fires. The effect of each fire, no matter how llfil'-. is to prepare the land for another, since each successive burn- lnf“lne‘veu dead trees and charred limbs behind it, that under the hot Summer sun out like tinder and furnish more and more fuel for the flames that follow, until at last the land becomes a barren waste, unfit for tree unfit for anything but to serve as a re- minder and a warning.” order; their potatoes, thin as coins, but'| ding and so relate it to rice and tapioca | genealogical novels, “The Mntrilrch"" Q. Please give a short biography of Abraham Lincoln.—S. A. P. A. William E. Barton, author of “The Soul of Abraham Lincoln,” recently epitomized the President’s life in 125 words: Abraham Lincoln, in Ken- tucky cabin, 1809; reared in the back- of Indiana and on the prairies of Illinols; acquired by industrious use of meager opportunities a limited but ef- fective education. As surveyor, post- master and clerk in a country store, he was known as “Honest Abe.” “Soldier in brief Indian War, studied law, served four terms in Legislature and one in Congress. In memorable campaign against Douglas, he came into national prominence. Elected President, 1860. He fought a cruel war without hatred, freed the slaves and preserved his coun- his love of mercy. grateful and unif perpetual honor, Q. Are there schools in Switzerland which teach cheese making?—T. B. A. There are three special schools for the training of cheese makers. A aix-month course is given to those who aiready know something about the busi- ness, while a novice spends a year in He died 1865. A country pays him dress | studying the industry. Q. What is the derivation of the word “astronomer”?—A. N. A. The word “astronomer” is derived from a Greek word which in turn is a derivative of the ancient Greek word meaning “star arranging.” Q. Please name one or two artists who have painted the portrait of for- mer Chief Justice Taft.—A. R. A. The portrait in the White House is by the Swedish painter, Anders Zorn. Sorolla, the Spanish painter, also exe- cuted William H. Taft's portrait. Q. How lon, has the Searchlight, the magazine for blind children, been published?—M. B. L. A. This juvenile quarterly is pub- lished in Braille by the New York As- soclation for the Blind. It was started 21 years ago, and is now a full-fledged publication, containing essays, poems, scientific articles and reprinted stories from popular children’s magazines. Q. Do electric light bulbs have a tendency to give less light with use? ~F. 8. A. The Bureau of Standards uxu that common electric light bulbs do have a tendency to give less light with use because minute particles of the filament are deposited on the interior of the bulb. Q. What s the actual meaning of the word “lingerie">—J. B A. Lingerie is & French word which literally means linen goods. Q. Has Thomas A. Edison really found rubber in weeds?—L. E. M. A. Mr. Edison has found traces of rubber in 1,200 United States plants of 16,000 he has examined. Q. Who was Nell Gwyn?—E. L. . A. Nell Gwyn lived ‘from 1650 to 1687. She was an actress and mistress of Charles II, by: whom she had two cg“flrg" Thro;l ‘:flo‘:‘vxl’.'nn! she receives e sums many other gifts. She.was noted for her beauty. Q. Huua A;Oldlnl bicycle been in- ted?—H. M. E. V“IIL Folding _bicycles have been in- troduced in France. The vehicle be folded us and put into a suit case, It weighs 20 pounds. Q. Whl“. \ éonl!'x :(1 government has Australia?—R. F. K. A, Australia was declared a common- wealth in 1901, and is governed by a Parliament consisting of & Benate and a r}ouul?! R.epre‘:inhum It : :— tirel self-govern 3 - Derhyl request voluntarily on ecanomi- cal and military measures. Q. Where is the largest exposed in the world?—F. P. o D en Lake ' Trinided 18 the try. His only abuses of power were in largest. Highlights on the Wide World L UNIVERSAL, Mexico City.— Charlie Chaplin has a double in Mexico. He is Carlos Amador, who has already gained large sums ll’} cl}:‘e Un"fpd Smum?y his imitation of the comic ‘maestro.” He not only resembles Senor Chaplin to an iota, but impersonates him to a de- gree that the two cannot be guished from each other. ‘Amador, who is a full-blooded Mexican, and a native of Jalisco, says that the Charlie Chaplin is in his de. lence. "Yenfll do no‘tl p}:‘u with 1lc punity, and no longer s name ac- claimed in every quarter of the globe. His old artistry and spell are fading. It is my desire and ambition to assume, if only- little by little, that high and m‘lvumd post among comic actors sO ng and ably held by the popular British star. My youth and my am- bfl.lu]l ‘Iu mmmy favor in attaining to this lofty eminence.” The success of Amador in imitating Chaplin, both in appearance and action, was not long in stirring up the animosity and fury of the la tleman, after Amac eral comedies in Los Angeles. Mr. lin appealed to the California courts to protect him with injunctions, damages, etc., against the Mexican, claiming that his rights were being infringed, and his name and fame, universally recog- nized, and acquired through long and painful effort, were being usurpsd by a pretender who wanted to take advantage of all this free advertising. Amador's reply to this complaint, which was not sustained by the courts, was that Chap- lin did not create the character of the vagabond appearing in all his produc- tions, that it was really the creation of “Billy West,” and that therefore, being a “plagiarist” himself, Chaplin had no right to interfere with Amador’s use of the type and costume. R Venezuelan Sees Beauty a Matter of Soul. El Neuvo Diario, Caracas—What is Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands secret of Teal beauty in' women? Is R“n matter of emhn’md cosmetics? 1s it a beauty of physique and grace, or is it, in the last ana a beauty of e ke thinge fow days ek ean a fragile lnnlh'ilnte it—and no human the Seauty ot Jouds evanescert auty of youthds beauty nneflfl‘ the aspect of those whose thoughts are noble and whose souls are pure is begond compare. Such need no fountain of Castalia, no coun- sels of no secrets of eternal ycla’uull—'.}l‘e’k beauty is secure through all eternity. ‘What a paradox—painting or adorn- eglect the inner spiritual forces without which the most splendid animal charms and s are still bus. ani- mal, without the power to win or hold a true regard! The allure of Marguerite did not lle in any rouge upon her cheek, but in the loveliness of soul that in | shone forth from her countenance. The benediction of God can alone impart a true and unfading beauty. Without it |.n“ apply all our art and mode in * ok kX accumulation papets which they have no suitable or scien- tific receptacles will be inf ted in DeQuincey's filing system. He had a unique way of dealing with used (or to be used) books and papérs. Living in lodgings, he would work in one room until he found himself physically ham- pered by accumulated literary material. Retaining his old tenancy as a base and burrowing ground, he would then remove into new lodgings and start again in a fresh and clean room. At suitable inter- vals, presumably, he would send word to the last landlady but five that she might now burn her house down and collect the insurance, but on this point his his- torians are silent. Recent Dual Hanging Sentence Sets Precedent From the Manchester Leader. A California judge appears to feel that he achieved the experience of do- ing something nobody else had done be- fore him, at least in England or Ameri- ca. His pioneering consisted of sentenc- ing a murderer, who killed a man and woman s they sat in an automobile, to hang twice the same day, once for each of the murders. Probably the murderer, 1f he happens to be of the worrying type, is more concerned over the first hanging than he is over the Second; but if he is of a charitable tion he will not begrudge the judge the satisfaction the latter derives from his innovation in dealing with double murderers. ‘We should not be impatient with that perennial quest for something to do or say that nobody has ever done or said before. The truth is, originators of this generation have a hard time of it, for the old world has been a going con- cern such a long time that pretty much_eve conceivable has been done in some form or other. It will not be surprising if somebody comes along to take the joy out of life for the Cal- ifornia Juflfi by proving that some jurist back in the hoary past decreed a twofold hanging on some miserable fellow mortal, and that instead of being an originator in jurisprudence he's just another imitator, the common lot of manking. e Sleep When He Sleeps. From the Miam! Daily News. Berlin's public health experts say a big meal sg a catches you taking a nap, where do get the money for the pm‘ meals? g is an unusually successful one. Fifteen English and eleven American poets are included. Among the former are Thomas Hardy, George Russell (A. E.), Slegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, A. E. Housman, Walter de la Mare: among Lowell, Edna St. Vin- Shipbuilding Halt Held Confidence Move From the Philadelphia Inauirer. The British government’s announce- ment that it has canceled constrietion of the large cruisers Surrey and North- umberland should have an nse effect upon the London Conferense for the Reduction of Naval Armamerifs. It is a gesture of complete confidenee in the success of the parley and ef re- nunciation of the 10-year race pre- eminence in cruiser strength amogl the world naval powers. d On July 25, last, Prime Minister Mac- donald announced the suspensifin of construction plans for these two ers. At the same time he annou: the cancellation of the plans to o submarines and the submarine Jtepod ship Maidstone, as well as the sMwing down of dockyard work. His anndfince- ment was matched by the r of President Hoover suspendi; eo;.r\l'-'- tion plans for three of nungg' 10,000+ ton cruisers auf by Congress. From "::fh (l?m there was. the suggest of T or cancellations as the W f & successful Naval Reduction Confefence developed. Mr. Macdonald clearly has served notice upon the other naval powers that the British goverriment bgllllevel that time has now arri: he Surrey and Northumberland. were: ould be eaten at noon and | be followed up by a nap. But if the boss | 8.3 ment of 8-inch guns. In N ber, ;.1?7' it was announced that construc- ‘Witt Sanders and John Herbert Nelson, P to standard set so high the Britisd Navy and thus bring n’:’l cuts in Ha United States grams in this and Japanese naval pro-