Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1930, Page 8

o 5 THE EVENING STAR, WASHI D O, ’I‘UESDAYE MARCH 25, 1930. - ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C _ TUESDAY.......March 25, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor ‘The Evening Star Newspaj 11tn 8t "And Fennsvisania Ave m-“'ufli ice: 110 East 42nd 8t. hicase Omce: Lake Michisgn Bulldine, uropean Office: 14 lleJem. t.. Londom England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. R‘ Evenine Star.. . 45¢ per month ing and S r when a 60c per month ) Bunday’ Sia ndays) 85¢ per month B¢ per eopy Collection m: at the each mont! Orders may be sent in by mail of teleph NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Al:lvlnte. one dyrn only ~. n 1yr., $4.00: 1mo.. 40c Sindayonts All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday..]yr.$12.00; 1mo. § o8 iy, only $8.00° 1 mo.! unday only £5.00; 1 mo. 1.00 isc s0c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for cepublication of all news dis- atches credited {0 it or not otherwise cred- Redi&" fhis paver and aiso the Iocal news publisked herein. All rights of publication Fpecial dispatches herein are also I —_———— The Senate Tariff. ‘The tariff bili'passed the Senate yes- terday by a substantial vote following almost seven months of debate. What- ever may be said of the bill, the Senate at least must escape the criticism of having taken speedy action. Some of the votes cast for the passage of the measure yesterday were predicated upon the earlier action of a majority of the Senate in writing into the bill the so- called debenture clause and the amend- ment removing from existing law the flexible tariff provision. Had it not been for these amendments, probably Senator Borah of Idaho and other Republican Progressives from the West might have voted against the measure. ‘The bill still has to run the gantlet of conference and adjustment between the two houses of Congress. In the end, following #s rewriting in conference, it must command a majority of both houses and then the approval of the | President if it is to become a law. Much will depend upon what happens in the conference committee room. President Hoover has been represented as ada- mant against the debenture clause, The House has turned a deaf ear to the Sen- ate’s coalition plea for the debenture in the past. Eventually the Senate will have to decide whether it wants the debenture or prefers the defeat of the pending bill. Judging from the more Tecent action of the Senate on various schedules, the debenture is likely to die. Nor will the mourners be as numerous as might be supposed from the uproar over the matter in the Senate. It is well understood that there are Democrats who voted for the debenture not so much for love of it but because they knew that President Hoover was opposed to it. Nor has there been any great demand from the farmers themselves for this plan, which is supposed to be in their aid. ‘The Senate has raised a number of the rates of duty on agricultural products. For those increases the House Republicans from the West are likely to stand. Increases have been made by that body also in some of the industrial rates, although the coalition succeeded in preventing a number of proposed advances in rates. The Senate finally raised the sugar duties above ex- isting law despite the coalition, but not to the high level of the House rate. Under the circumstances the con- ferees cannot avold an increase in the sugar tariff rate over the present law, - -although they may keep the increase down to the House figure. ‘ 'The conference committee should be in a position to work out a better bill than that passed by the House or that framed by the Senate. The Senate has amended the measure 1253 times, which gives some indication of the work ahead of the conferees. The demand from many quarters throughout the country for final disposition of the tariff bill and its enactment into law is expected to give impetus to the con- sideration of the measure in conference and also to bring about final action in both houses on the conference report. ‘The country is fed up with delay. A serious charge has been made that politics, not the interests of American labor, agriculture and business, has been the cause of much of the delay. ‘The Senators and Representatives from the farm States of the West have, however, much in their favor in the stand they have taken in regard to the tariff. The farmers of the West have never reaped the benefits from the tariff lasw which have accrued to the industrial worker and the manufacturer. The farmers are entitled to a square deal in this matter and the conferees should See, as far as they may be able to do 80, that agriculture has equitable treat- ment. ‘The coalitionists of the Senate who supported debenture and the abolition of the flexible tariff provisions would be in better case before the conference committee if they had followed the lead of Senator Borah and voted for the bill. A solid vote for the passage of the tariff bill with all its amendments ‘would have made it difficult for the * House to combat these two amendments. But many of the Democratic members of the coalition, who had lauded the debenture to the skies, turned their " back on the measure in the end, de- claring that they believed that deben- ture would be eliminated. Probably they are right. But their position does not indicate such a willingness to “go to the grave” with the debenture as that evidenced by the Idaho Senator. ————— ting in a Chicago night club again calls for the bulletproof shirt as & feature of underworld full dress. of d. A Tip for Mr. Rover. The allegation that school children are sold intoxicating liquor in an estab- dishment near one of the city’s high achools has nothing to do with merged operation of the street railways or re- duced fare for pupils, subjects under discussion at the merger hearings be- fore a subcommittee of the House Dis- trict committee last night. But it has a great deal to do with High School and who saw & nine-year- old girl supplied with a gill of gin for her mother must be given immediate op- portunity to put his statements on rec- ord with the proper authoritles. For here is a Government witness whose personal inclinations to tell what he knows have nothing to do with the case. Having made a statement that reflects generally on all the boys and girls of Eastern, their parents, their teachers and the police responsible for patrol of the area, he should be forced to swear under oath that what he says is true, or else face the natural consequences that follow failure to back up his re- marks. \ This case may well be made an issue and the public should.be “in" at the finish. The story is either true or un- true, and the police and Mr. Rover will doubtless take the steps necessary to brand it one or the other. e An International Airship Company. Besides the medal which Dr. Hugo Eckener will receive from the National Geographic Society Thursday night for his outstanding accomplishments in lighter-than-air craft development, he has attained on this trip to America, which, prosaically enough for him has been made by steamship, a goal that he set for himself many years ago. Since the passing of the illustrious Count Zeppelin, Dr. Eckener has, with characteristic German persistence, car- ried along, almost unaided, the work of bringing recognition to the possibilities of dirigibles in long flights. Six times he has crossed the Atlantic, and once he has cruised around the world. It was his dream that at some future time air- ships would be used for regular Atlantic crossings. In order to reach his goal, however, American capital was needed. Yesterday, in New York, Dr. Eckener achieved his object. The Zeppelin In- ternational Transport Co., backed by American industrial corporations and banks representing hundreds of millions of dollars, was formed, and plans which have been in the making for long, fruit- less years began to take shape. And these plans are not only gigantic in scope, but include the first amalgama- tion of the interests of airship and air- plane. For the new Zeppelin company will take passengers by airplane from any part of Europe to the airship oceanic terminal, probably at Seville, Spain, and from any part of the United States to a corresponding terminal—the site not having been decided upon—for the flight over the Atlantic in Zeppelin ships, half of which will be constructed here and half in Germany. ‘The Zeppelins for the new ocean service will be larger than the Graf- Zeppelin and more than twice the size of the Los Angeles of the United States Navy. At Priedrichshafen a new plant is almost completed Which is adequate for building “anything in size that the future can demand.” At Akron today is the largest plant in the world for the building of rigid airships. These two great bases will be manned by the most skillful technicians on both conti- nents, who will construct the air leviathans to carry mail and passengers across the Atlantic. The formation of the new company is of particular interest to Washing- ftonians. The site for the American terminal has not yet been selected, and with Dr. Eckener and his associates convinced that no location north of Baltimere is suitable for the port of the new giants of the air, Washington should enter prominently into consider- ation. The Capital of the Nation, near the centers of population of the East, ‘Washington, besides it natural climatic advantages, should win high favor in consideration for the Zeppelin oceanic airport. It is to be hoped, therefore, that when Dr. Eckener comes to the Capital he will combine “business with pleasure” and look over its possibilities as a dirigible base. e e Conserving Water Use. A tentative proposal to tap the Dis- trict’s water supply for use of more than a million gallons of water a day to meet the needs of the new House Office Building has been revised after the ‘Water Department objected strenuously to such & heavy drain on the system. Publicity econcerning the proposal has evidently had the desirable effect not only of hastening a decision on a mat- ter that has been left in the air for some time, but of avoiding an extrava- gant use of water in a manner that would have been distinctly unfair to local residents. ‘The United States Government now uses and wastes 3,435,000,000 gallons of water & year, amounting to about thir- teen per cent of the total pumped into the District. The District government uses in the municipal buildings and wastes through leakage, etc., 5,690,000,- 000, or twenty-one per cent of the total, while 3,539,000,000 galions, or thirteen per cent, are used for fires, street clean- ing, public hydrants, etc. None of this water, amounting to forty-sevem per cent of the total purified and pumped into the District, produces any revenue, thus placing the burden on the money- producing balance of fifty-three per cent privately used in Washington. ‘Wasteful consumption of this free water is now checked to some extent by meters. Those in charge of the Gov- ernment building program must make every effort further to conserve its use. The Federal Government and its agent, the munieipality, have reached the desideratum of free water. In attain- ing this goal the Federal Government should endeavor to bring it within the reach of those who now support the system and pay generously for its exten- sions through their water rents. e Hope of spending the evening of his life in peace is expressed by Doheny. And yet a man so accustomed to excite- ment as he has become will scarcely resist a temptation to snap on the bright lights and start the radio. The Longest Day. Whatever the almanac or the calendar the longest day of the year. It was, to be explicit, seventeen hundred and fitty- two hours in length. It was, in truth, seventy-three days long. There may be other days in the same category of con- gressional protraction as long or longer, law enforcement, in which the grand jury now sitting is interested. Mr. Rover, the United States attorney, has * been given a tip that he will not over- look. The witness who told the mem- bers of Congress that he saw high school boys and girls served with liquor 4 an establishment near the Eastern that this would but this one will serve as an historic example of the attenuated “legislative ay.” On the 6th of January, 1930, the Sen- ate, then in the secondary stage of tariff legislation, decided not to adjourn until the bill was passed. JP ‘was expected run to the end may say to the contrary, yesterday was | been of the month. But February came and went and March began, and it was not until the 24th of March, as the non- legislative calendar goes, that the gavel finally fell in token of the close of the legislative day of January 6. This fiction of non-adjournment is more than a mere form. It has its pur- poses of time-saving, though how this present performance can be regarded as in the interest of horal economy passes understanding. Theoretically when the legislative day is made continuous the Senate upon the opening of the session in the morning goes straight ahead with the unfinished business, cutting out the prayer, the reading of the journal and various miscellaneous routine items. In practice, though the prayer and the journal are discarded, the “morning hour” of miscellaneous matters is ob- served. But this is by unanimous con- sent in effect, and the floor manager of the majority party may insist upon resuming the discussion of the un- finished measure immediately on the fall of the gavel. Executive messages and essential communications may, of course, at any time be brought to the Senate’s attention. Perhaps in the course of this pro- tracted January 6, covering seventy- three days of the calendar, the Senate was able to devote as many hours more to the actual consideration of the tariff bill than it did in fact. It is a question whether this has made for a better bill, or, through such reading of the debates as was had, for a better public under- standing of the measure. And it may also be questioned whether the main- tenance of the fiction of January 6 shortened the time of travail. No one will ever know. But there will always be some question in the public mind as to whether or not the abstention from prayer for seventy-three days affected the outcome. — . “Retarding factors, partly psychologi- cal,” are mentioned by Mr. Julius Barnes, It may be found possible far a good alienist to show how to prevent the stock market from ever going crazy again. —————— French statesmanship discusses Euro- pean finance, evidently feeling that the funds to be saved by curtailing battleship building will not take care of the local money situation e e e In discussing big ships tnought should not be denied the fact that the world needs more and better freighters to carry foodstuffs. —— e —————— ‘While the Prince of Wales was crank- ing his camera an African elephant charged him. The cameraman has his troubles even in the jungle. —— e — Parley procedure in London has been so appropriately peaceful that some of the delegates can scarcely restrain an inclination to doze. e In spite of the Senate’s industrious discussion, the House of Representatives is convinced that there is still some- thing to be said about the tariff. ——— . Florida insists on making Al Capone about the most famous of its visitors. He could not retire to private life even if he so0 desired. Coal mine legislation ‘keeps Premier Macdonald’s attention engaged with the land as well as the sea. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Gas and OiL ‘We've heard a lot of gas and oil, And s0, it came to pass, ‘The Jawyers lubricate the toil And then step on the gas. The public says with mind serene— “No matter what they frame, ‘This good old government machine Keeps running just the same.” Unforgettable. “It will be a relief to go away and forget about the tariff.” “Imay go away for a while,” answered Senator Sorghum. “But the tariff is something that nobody who expects to | ¢o0 remain in politics is ever permitted to forget about.” . Jud Tunkins says a truly good wife tries to gather up enough gossip to make her .husband hurry home to din- ner for fear of missin’ something. The Human Element. Affairs keep running as they should. ‘There is no reason to be sad, For business, we know, is good, ‘Though some few business men are bad. Substance and Shadow. “What really counts,” said the ready- made philosopher, “is something genu- ine.” “You say s0,” answered Cactus Joe, “but I never yet saw a real cowboy that drew as much salary as an actor would get merely for lookin’ like one.” Tears. “I am a Communist,” he said. “'Midst eloquence, great tears I shed, And will shed more in days to come If some one throws a tear gas bomb.” “It is noble to exercise the influence of a teacher,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “but more profitable to hold the power of a tax gatherer.” An Effort to Prohibit. Uncle Bill Bottletop pulled up the mint Because of a julep it happened to hint. But it grew just the same and made Uncle Bill say, “Oh, ain't Nature wicked to tempt me that way!” “Everybody makes mistakes,” said Uncle Eben, “but some men turns deir lives into a trouble factory.” He Has One More Drive Coming. From the Detroit News. A golf course in Southern France has seriously by a landslide. Engineering parties are digging for the man with a niblick, thought to be re- sponsible. e And Effect on Somebody’s Purse. From the Cincinnati Times-Star. Among other prospective Red oute breaks, watch the blmnl of the new Cincinnati team. Bt This Sounds Sound. From the San Bernardino Sun. Business may be mostly sound, but the building business is a deal quister since they electric * BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘There is in this town a woman who no doubt went home the other day describing the monster who was swear- ing so terribly on Seventh street. But we know that “monster,” and can assure that lady that he is any- thing else. It is true that he swore, but swearing means nothing to him. It is simply & form of expression. We happened to be with the gentle- man at the time, and know that his imprecations were hurled at the uncon- scious head of a very small bug which was trying to crawl into the pages of a favorite book. The swearing gentleman told the bug In a rather abrupt manner, and no doubt with unnecessary violence, that its presence was not wanted, and that it would be best for it if it would fly away at once. el e ‘The beauty of swearing, or just plain cussin’, is that it is so unnecessary. In a world devoted to the cult of the necessary it is pleasing to find from time to time such a plain devotion to expletives. Many of the greatest men who ever lived swore violently whenever they felt like it. Many great men could swear liké a trooper, and often did, if history can be believed. Strong men are rather given to it. And sweet women, one may suspicion, know a few good swear words to use in private. R One would make an exception, of course, of words which involve the use of names for Deity and of downright vulgarity, although it must be admitted that one of the favorite curses of man- kind, and surely one of the most vigor- ous and forthright, includes the sacred name of God. As a general proposition, however, especially in a calm consideration of the subject, most addicts would be willing to omit all such usages, including those spurious forms which simply give a dif- ferent fo) such as “Gimminy Christmas!” “By gosh!" “By gum!" “Gee whillikens!” etc. There are scores of these, offering a most interesting study. Many of them are used by the sweetest women without the slightest idea that they are taking the name of the Lord in vain. ‘The vulgar “as no place whatever in the fine art o¢ swearing. Perhaps this :er of word has done more to make e world frown—at least publicly— upon swearing than anything else. ‘The obscene is an affront to all de- cent-minded men and women. whether Rubllc or private. Who is there who a8 not heard some foul-mouthed loafer vent his nasty mind upon an assem- blage? ok ‘These are the abuses of swearing. e cussin’ involves a big, fine heartiness which is at once masculine, red-blooded and manly. If this praise seems a bit too much for some of our woman readers, let us remind them that a bit of temper is a part of all such men. ‘The angels among men are few and far between, and whenever you find one you may be a bit suspicious of him. All women know this. ‘That is why, although not one in a thousand approves of swear words, they are willing to excuse them in their own menfolk. * ok ok X Surely there is nothing more satis- factory upon occasion—the right occa- sion—than & mouth-filling oath launched with ":°d’um effect. Swear words, so used, are effective words—words which right to the hm“l"i é;r a situation and say a great deal e. Even the bystander who may shrink mentally from the words themselves ?;vert.heleu recognizes the rightness of em. As for the parties at issue—suppos- ing it to be a du'guu—uch feels such telling effect as the rightly used oath Possesses. All men instinctively know when such a word hits its mark. It goes crashin through space with all the earmarks o a world-beater. Both giver and receiver know instantly when it hits. No referee is needed. Innate honesty, the pride of man- kind, can ask no more. * ok * Xk ‘The artistic cussin’ of inanimate things, however, offers the true fleld for the man who prides himself on his delivery. ‘This is exactly the sort, of course, that women cannot understand. man wants to curse an inoffensive col lar button because it rolls beneath the bed is a mystery to them. We will try to explain it. A man holds no personal spleen against the button, per se; but he does resent, and to the depth of words, the perversity of inanimate things which makes them act | contrary to necessity. ‘There is no necessity, for instance, for 10 street cars labeled ‘‘Mount Pleasant” to come along when he is waiting for one marked “Georgetown.” But they do. If, on the other hand, he wants to go to Eighteenth street and Columbia road, 10 cars come along with signs reading “Cabin John,” ‘“Georgetown,” “Alta Vista," ete. And the last half dozen the man cusses, each and every one, as if each car had a personal spite against him. Such a man, the psychologists tell us, is an “introvert,” a word which sounds worse than it is. Perhaps all who like to swear are such. = Collar buttons, misplaced ties, cakes of soap that slip out of the hand, towels that are wet when they should be dry, gasoline tanks that run out at inop- portune moments, cups of coffee in which innocent flies drown themselves, pedestrians who bump into one, all other motorists, jazz music when one wants to listen to grand opera—these and a thou- sand others are capable of making an otherwise inoffensive specimen of man- kind launch fort® a veritable stream of carefully chosen w¥ear words. It is the careless and ceaseless use of swearing, we are convinced, which has got the practice such an ugly name. As practiced by connoisseurs, there is some- thing right pleasing about it. All we can say to any one who does not be- lieve this is that they have never heard | an_expert. | _ Profanity which is ceaseless, which Tuns on an on, which takes no account of time, place or subject, is like any other thing which overdoes and which | thereby brings upon itself the condem- nation of intelligent men. ‘There is a time and a place for every- thing. and humanity has decided that | the public_streets and places are not the places for promiscuous swearing. To that extent our friend of the book was in error. He should have trapped the insect between the covers, taken it to & private room, and there damned it to his heart's content. One should never cuss unless he is angry, and even then he should use discretion. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands NOITE, Rio de Janeiro.—Many complaints have been received by the government, both from individuals and business houses, regarding the poor quality of the gum used on the backs of the post- age stamps. In many cases letters have been returned to the senders because stamps were not affixed, when these had been on the letters when mailed. The same inconvenience has been experienced with public documents and receipts, which are invalidated be- cause revenue stamps have become de- tached from them in handling because of similar deficiency in veness. * x x % Unemployment In Teaching Profession. Daily Herald, London.—Unemploy- ment in the teaching profession coul be abolished immediately by an applica- tion of the remedy proposed for other callings. There are many teachers who have given long and satisfactory serv- ice who would be glad to retire before the :o“r)l.lul nsion age, which is much Very few persons of 60 and 65 are fit to give tuition to the modern youngster. Twenty years of routine class-room work is the very limit, from the point of view of efficiency. At pres- ent, 40 years' service is demanded. * ok kX Assail Primeval Architecture. Diario del Comercio, Barranquilla.— In Cartagena, department of livar, Colombia, the old primeval architecture of the city is being assailed by the same inroads of modernism that are deform- ing cities everywhere. The latest prof- anation is the contemplated tearing down of the ancient Church of Santo Teribio de Mogrovejo, built in the early part of the eighteenth century. This beautiful structure was begun in 1728 by the brothers of the Congregation of Mary, who delegated the plans and su- pervision of the building to an Italian named Nordino. The church stands in the way of “improvements” in the shape of steel and concrete, but the ecclesi- astical authorities hope to save it by appeals to the authorities to spare this beautiful relic of the city’s grandeur in the early days. Contemporary barbarity is devouring too much of our patri- archal tradition in classic stone. .k Wailing Wall Is Property of Moslems. Falistin, Jaffa.—The Jewish Wailing Wall in Jerusalem is situated just out- side the Temple Area, or Haram-esh- Sharif, which is one of the holiest places of Islam. Indeed, one side of the wall forms the inner wall of the Temple Area, while the other, or outer side, has been chosen by the Jews as a place of prayer and lamentation for the loss and destruction of the Temple. The wall itself is Moslem property, and thus, unfortunately, forms the dividing line between one of the most sacred places of the Moslems and one of the holiest places of the Jews. Hence, it has been a common occurrence for Arabs and Jews to come to blows on the occa- lk)!;l 4')‘( their respective religious feasts or fasts, Politicians Presumptuous. Filipino Nacion, Manila—As citizens, we believe the Phili N:MI’:? lands are as able to mselves economically as politically. We consider it presumptuous on the part of American politicians to say that because the Philippines have not es- tablished themselves economically inde- pendence should still be denied them. In 1776, when America obtained her in- dependence from England, was she eco- nomically ready? Is it not here neces- sary to relate the real economic condi- tions of the 13 Colonles at the time they obtained their freedom, for it is & well known fact that they were still economically dependent, and comparing their status then with the Phnlnn:;l better prepared nn%nuy than was America in 1776. which been sapping otherwise have been & ro- it uncertain status of the' way has bust, economically constituted nation, must give way to a definite and perma- nent solution. And the only hope for this solution is the granting of immedi- ate and complete independence. We Filipinos wish to develop our own resources, and we realize that the Phil- ippine economic structure needs re- establishment on a permanent basis. ‘We do not object to a more slow eco- nomic growth, for we think it wiser to Tmit our resources to be developed )y our own people. They should meet their economic problems face to face and learn to cope with each new situa- tion as it arises. ‘We have clung to the skirts of our mother, the United States, long enough and now feel it is time for us to face the battle of life independently. * ok ok % Tile and Brick Consumption Great in China. China Weekly Review, Shanghal— There are 1,900 walled cities in China, 33 of them with a population of over a million. As all bullding and repairs, whether of the walls or of the houses, are largely of brick or tile, the con- aumg:lon of these products is enormous. ‘We have not been able to check up the figures in all the 33 “over a million” cities, but we may remark that even old-fashioned Peiping, with many wooden buildings, consumes nearly 125,- 000 tons of brick and tile in a year. Canton, Tientsin and Hankow consume even more than that; and with other cities using brick and tile in similar proportions it is easy to see how impor- tant the clay industries are in China. ERE Mark Twain's Prophecy Comes True. Sydney Bulletin—During one of Mark Twain’s visits to Australia he wrote that he had met—in a railway train—a charming young priest who would one day be & dean, then bishop, then an archbishop and later an afch- angel. The priest was the late Bishop Cleary of Auckland. * kK K Pattern Copyright Law After English. Cologne Gazette—In a recent meet- ing of the Reichstag it was decided in a conference of a ministerial commit- tee and the representatives of the Acad- emy of Arts and Letters that the 30- year copyright embargo. hitherto ex- tended to authors, should be extended to embrace exclusive rights for 50 years, with the restriction that 25 years after the death of the writer his productions can be published by others than the holder of the copyright, provided 10 per cent of the selling price of each copy of said work is paid over to the heirs or assigns of the originator. This prop- osition will not be voted on until next year and is fashioned on the English copyright law of 1911. -t Pennsylvania Nears End of Toll Gate Fight From the Columbus Ohio State Journal. Agreement is in sight for the pur- chase by the State of Pennsylvania of the last toll road in the State. During the Spring the State officials hope to close the last toll gate and clear the medern highways of that ancient insti- tution. There, as in other States, the task of ousting them by the State was difficult. ‘There were many toll roads in 1914 when the State began its campaign of highway improvement, and nearly four- score turnpike companies had fran- chises from the State and were operat- ing. It has taken all the years to win back for the people of the State the free highways. There is nothing more ut- terly contrary to public policy now than rivate contracts covering thorough- fares, With a tax levied each time the highway is used. The turnpike com- pany may have had a place in the high- tates, but it roads with NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM L G M. TOLSTOY: The Inconstant Genius. Alexander I. Nazaroff. Frederick A. Stokes Co. ‘The long quarrel ended in separation. She, a little over 60, He, a shade this side of 80. Outward mestic rift were many and 3 The taproot of the trouble, however, ‘was money, main source of every pri- vate grievance and of all public con- cern. He said that after a certain date sales and royalties from his writings were to “be given in public domain,” since these had been created in behalf of tllla people to promote the commoa weal. And she said—no doubt in the famil- jar daily and nightly iteration of wom- en for the wearing down of their men— that he was bent upon “impoverish! his family.” That he was sentimental, impractical, visio: , faithless and so on in rich, vituperative, wifely privilege. A sizable family, it must be conceded— 13 children and close upon 30 grand: children. Even a whittle to garden patches under the strain of an equitable partitioning. There was no compromise. He went his way alone and in order to work unmolested wrote in secret, hiding away that which he had done. So that after his death several novels were discovered and brought into the n. Among these “The Living Corpse,” “The Devil,” | g, “Hadji Murad.” By this time the world had been geltly stirred h{ Count Leo Tolstoy. ven the general public had come to applaud the genius of the man. “War and Peace,” “The Resurrection,” “Anna Karenina” were great novels, accepted as such, read as such pretty much the world over. A strange man, Ri nobleman of curious prepossessions and absorptions, a dangerous man so many sald. Philosopher, pacifist, humanita~ rian, mystic, truth prober, faith seeker, embodying these passions in novels an polemic attacks upon the social, eco- nomic and political structure of his own country and, by implication, of the world at large. And the man himself was of a quality to stir a deeper curios- ity, to waken a more active interest than even the genius could command. A great innovator, a zealous reformer, an apostle of brotherhood—one of such tremendous vitality, of such daring originality, of such bewildering gusto of procedure as to astound even the most audacious and to bring dismay to the more cautious. For the first time we come by way of “The Inconstant Genius” upon the totality of Count Leo Tolstoy. Prior to this he has appeared in flashes, a sort of pyrotechnic display of high and strange activity. In what is this genius rooted? Where and when did it first make its startling appearance? What is the source of its blood, the quality of its upbringing, the impress of its plastic years? What the revealing stages of thig progression? What the harvest of each of these for the seeding of the next growth of so rich a fecundity in purpose and plan? Answer to these questions, and others, lies in Alexander Nazaroff’s re-embodi- ment of Tolstoy—the boy, the man, the genius of deep and varied substance. As biography, this book is neither of the old pattern nor of the new. It is not, on the one hand, a time-sequence of events whose limits are birth and death, with a slight spatter of “conclu- | yis; sion” to round the record. Nor is it, on the other, a novel founded upon the life-material of the person under con- sideration. Instead, this book 3 throughout, Leo Tolstoy himself. Some hour, some day, some year, some phase of Tolstoy is delivered by the man him- self in body and spirit. aristocrat, boy and man, then rebel against this birthright of privilege, it is this particular person who steps out in each stage at some critical moment of decision and action. The part of Alexander Nazaroff has been that of selecting from a bewilder- ing bulk of performance, that of sens- ing and producing proper emphasis at one point and another for the sake of true proportions, for a re-em! totality of this prodigious Russian genius. Familiar as Tolstoy himself with the Russian background, M. Nazaroff becomes a masterly interpreter of much in the life of Tolstoy, that to [‘ an alien writer, no matter how gifted, would be unappreciated and, therefore, neglected or misconstrued. Akin in na- tional mentality, also, the two come | together in a deep kinship that makes this author legitimately an interpreter of certain puzzling contradictions—so they are called—in the behaviors of ad- vance and recession that have made the Tolstoy student unhappy. So, from gal- lant soldier to convinced and influential pacifist, from family man to solitary recluse, M. Nazaroff offers Tolstoy in his own person to readers for a sur- ly rich and significant passage 1ife by one of the great geniuses of later years. Comprehensive, dramatie, at points of critical and appraising ause illuminating in high degree, here fs a study that is both needed and that is, besides, a deeply rich response to such need. * ok ok ANNA KARENINA. Count Leo Tolstoy. ‘The Modern Library. Having read Alexander Nazaroff's “Tolstoy: the Inconstant Genius,” your next move is bound to be in the direc- tion of & rereading of some of the great Russian’s novels. And here in most available form is the one of all others most likely to come to mind for such an adventure. Oh, yes, we all say that the Russian novels are too long, quite too long for time. Rather facing upon eternity in- stead. Compared with “War and Peace” this one is short—only about a thousand pages and concerned with no more than a couple of hundred men and women moving about within it. Let us hear M. Nazaroff talk a little about this novel. He calls this the “second summit” of Tolstoy's genius, the first, of course, gained by * r and Peace.” Moreover it seems to have a plot, rather two plots Tunning along to- gether, with innumerable minor ones tagging along here and there. Such is life, you know—a sprawling thing, un- tidy, inconsequential and of hit-or- miss arrangement. Life is never the picked-up, d-boxed affair that the modern novelist produces. 1stoy like life—often confusing therefore. But here are the two plots to be followed in their panoramic effect of projecting the Russia of 1870 and thereabout. you recall, this novel is a story of sin and its punishment—woman's sin and its punishment. The man sinner came out in immemorial fashion—a family hap- riuess. the certainty of God, the bless- ings of religion, and so on. As a whole, the novel is spiritual in its implication. “The atmosphere of philosophic anxiety, lo; splntuu{l f.:mfl&f‘ m:!u o:erh l‘t“‘ !n:e e God of the sinning Ann ‘of end- less moral severity, but also of endless ‘The story of forgiveness and pity.” 8! pity. iy ical Anna’s passion is—Navaroff “artist and lly, = marvel of marvels surpassed by nothing in modern literature, ere this ot DT ) say t y's ima visually more convincing than the world we live in.” The_reading of Tolstoy, as of every other Russian writer, is an un first by the inordinate I of ce on. no- where else does one get th tu:lmu e depth of insight, the instinctive plunge ull.n? upbringing of common con- into the true sources of human the frank does | political machines than Pennsylvania.” in the genius of these subtle and pene- trating Slavs, these Asiatic-] of whgm have :: et but l"i%ln sur- face knowledge. their difference from us that holds us back from full acceptance of their literature and from them. I'm sure, however, that after reading Nazaroff’s life of Tolstoy there Mol Then, T we ate st alve e novels. , we are sure to on toward other meet- with Chekhov and evidence o e S R e great estate ‘would | 8¢ is | ring.” som you know delay? Submit your question to Fred- eric J, Haskin, director of our Washing- ton Information Bureau. He is employed to help you. Address your inquiry to ‘The Evening Star Information Bureau, Prederic J. Haskin, director, Washing- ton, D. C., and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Q. What is the name for the con- trivance that guides planes without human ald?—W. W. A. A. Mecaviator is the name of the mechanical aviator developed by the Sperry Gyroscope Co. to steer an aero- plane by means of a pair of rapidly .e- volving fyrmpu connected with an electrically operated _apparatus for handling the controls. Elmer A. Sperry, Jr, the engineer who designed the m chine, has superintended its installa- tion in a Condor bomber. He will ac- company it when the machine is tested e Army Air Corps maneuvers on the Pacific next month. Q. Are the Swedish people Teutons? A, ‘They are possibly of the purest Teutonic blood in existence. ‘When are the historic gardens in to be open to the public?— A. As a result of the work of the Garden Club of Virginia, more than 100 historic homes and rdens will be thrown open to the public, many for the first time, during the week of April 28 to May 3. Among these are Gunston Hall, Montpelier, Castle Hill, Monti- cello and York Hall. Q. Vi give Baron Rothschild's maxims.—E. K. L. 1ot maxims were hung in Baron Rothschild’s bank, where he could show them to ambitious young men: “Attend carefully to details of your business”; *“I prompt in things”; “Consider well, then decide positively”; “Dare to do righ do wrong”; “Endure trials patiently”; “Pight life's battles bravely, manfully”; “Go not into the society of the vicious”; “Hold integrity sacred”; another’s reputation nor business”; “Join hands onl; with the virtuous’ “Keep your mind from evil thoughts”; “Lie not for any consideration”; ‘Mt few acquaintances”; “Never try to ap- pear what you are not”; “Observe good manners”; “Pay your debts promptly”; “Question not the veracity of a friend’ the counsel of ~2ur parents “Sacrifice _money resiner than prin- ciple”; “Touch not, taste not, handle not intoxicating drinks"; * Q. Please alphabetical A. The fol uj “Watch carefully over your passions’ “Extend to every one a kindly saluta: tion”; “Yield not to discouragement” “Zealously labor for the right.” Q. Do mo-cupeople g0 abroad for pleasure?—M. G. A. The f lts were based ollowing resul on a study of the applications of loll:; them. 200,000 persons seeking passports year: Nearly half of this number stated that they were leaving home to travel. The group next in 68,315, use of family affairs. it include not only seeking divorces, More than 15,000 were tra on commercial business, and more than 3,000 on pro- fessional business. ' The motive for travel given b{ 12,838 was education, while most of who h‘!‘w no_occu- pation were going abroad Test or recreation. Q How is a storm glass made?— A. The type of barometer known as & storm glass is not seriously ered by meteorologists. It consists of & glass vial about 10 inches long and of an inch in diameter, which is near} filled and hermetically sealed, with a mixture consisting of camphor, nitrate native country m gle-shot of petassium and chlorate of ammo- nium, dissolved in alcohol and distilled Tpests the o & ctxhz:rmfi:"fu': Yy e follo ul bright weather; crystals at bottom, thick air or frost; dim liquid, rain: dim ll‘q;xm with small stars, thunderstorms, e ?'. How big is the Imperial Valley?— . Imperial Valley is & depressed area in Imperial County, Calif., and ex- tends into the territory of Lower Cali- fornia. It is approximately 110 miles long by 40 miles wide. Q. Please describe a presentation at the English court.—W. J. 8. A. In order to be presented to the Court of St. James it is necessary to be sponsored by the American Ambas- sador or by an important English lady. The summons to appear is issued about three weeks before the day. Regula- tion court dress, including the Prince of Wales feathers, is required. The ceremony takes place in the throne room at 9:30 o'clock. There is a red- carpeted aisle, extending across the room, in front of the throne from door to door. At the appointed time the royal family, preceded by the lord chamberlain and his officers, enter and take their places. The line of members to be presented forms outside the door and slowly files past the throne and out of the other door. As the lady is about to enter, her card is passed down the line to the lord chamberlain, who calls out her name as she stands before the King to make her curtsy. She then curtsies to the Queen, and with her head turned toward the royal family makes her way slowly from the room. After the presentations are made, the King and Queen rise and bow and the entire assemblage responds. Music is then played while the royal members leave the room. Q. How many islands are there in the Bahamas?—G. C., A. The Bahama Islands are an archi- pelago of the British West Indles, esti- mated to consist of 29 islands. During the American Civil War the Bahama Islands enjoyed a period of extraordinary prosperity, due to the closing of the Southern ports and consequent block= ade. The as have become a pop- ular tourist resort in the United States. Q. What are the boundaries of the Washington forecast district?—W. T. C. A. The Weather Bureau says that this district includes the New England States, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Ohio, Maryland, Dis- trict of Columbia, Virginia, the Caroe linas, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kene tucky, Georgia and Florida, except the extreme northwest portion. Q. Why are Maxim for guns no longer made?—C. B. A. Maxim silencers are no longer made in this country, as the laws of almost every State now prohibit the sale or use of a silencer on any fire- arm. They were never made for either pistols or revolvers, as it was against the policy of the oomga.ny to so make . They would silence the report of a single-shot pistol, but they would not silence the report of a revoiver, be- cause the report would escape at the Junction between the cylinder and bar- rel of the revolver. The report was not strictly silenced either on rifles or sin- Is. It was reduced, how=- ever, from an explosion to a sort of loud puff or hiss. Q. A New York columnist says Presi- dent Andrew Johnson was not im- peached. He's wrong, isn't he?—P. H. W. A. President Johnson was impeached by the House of Representatives, but Wwas acquitted by the Senate in the im- it trial. The Constitution gives House the sole power of impeach- ment and the Senate the sole power of trying impeachment cases. An 2 t is similar to an indictment, in that an official who has been im- peached is not necessarily guilty, any more than is a person who has been indicted by a grand jury. Hot Pennsylvania Campaign Prospect of a warm cam b vnma-mm senatorahi e P by Secre- tary of Labor James J. Davis that he is a candidate. His opposition to the present holder of the office, Senator Joseph R. Grundy, is believed to create an unusual situation within the State, and to bring the contest very close to the White House. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is declared to have a keen interest in the result, and thus the cabinet are in- “One lesson most American Presidents have learned,” according to the New York Times, “is that fatality usually attends placing a White House visa on & c ate for State office. * * * From the viewpoint of Mr. Davis' in- terest, should a condition arise which would compel Mr. Hoover to disclaim any interest in the result of the Penn- sylvania senatorial primary, the effect on the Sec be almost as harmful as open repudiation. Disin- terested observers would probably con- clude that a severance of the cabinet tie will be helpful all around.” Referring to the probable support of Senator Grundy “in the State at large, as well as by the smooth-running State political machine, at the head of which are Gov. Fisher and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon,™ the Salt Lake Dese- ret News adds that Secretary Davis “has the backing of the party organiza- tion in the City of Philadelphia and of the potent and adroit Mr. Vare, and he will have as running mate the popular Francis Shunk Brown as candidate for governor. All the men whose names are here mentioned,” continues that paper, “are great factors in the politics of the Keystone State, and, to add to_the gayety and uncertainty of the affair, former Gov. Gifford Pinchot has again thrown his hat into the gubernatorial * % % % “In view of the fact that his candi- dacy puts the President in a ticklish position and is likely to cause embar- rassment all around,” suggests the Providence Bulletin, “the right thing| for Mr. Davis to do is to resign, so that he can give all his time to showing the Pennsylvania voters how much they need him in the Senate.” The Worces- ter Evening Gazette feels that as the President “presumably has no part in this row,” Secretary Davis “would have been better advised if he had resigned from the cabinet when he announced himself as a candidate for the Senate.” ‘That paper also comments: “Personally, Vare may be out and also down, but politically he is still in the ring. He not only goes to Hoover cabinet but goes to Pittsburgh, the stronghold of the Mellon clan, for a candidate. After an in! of peace, the State once more is to witness war without primary battle will be & spectacular’ struggle is the opinion of the Bangor Commercial and the At- lanta Constitution, while the Bay City ‘Times calls it “a sporting event” which has “no issues whatever,” and the Hav- erhill Gazette doesn’t “know of a State in the land that can give more impres- sive demonstrations of contests between The Cleveland Plain ler X (the two e-.ndld.nu.; acnay have . s ot 2%"1: asks, '-‘vm the & igh dollar For U. S. Senatorship Is Seen mmog and allow the{mnu of the party a e SIS, & preference among ok X % Discussing the candidacy of Gifford Pinchot for the governorship, the Spo- kane Spokesman-Review says: “If he keeps his health and vigor, the Republi- in Pennsylvania and the special interests intrenched with it will know that a real fight has been cut out for them.” The Pinchot candidacy, combined with the Grundy-Davis con- test, also inspires the Tulsa World's statement that "31 seems that 1- big Pinchot’s strength is recognized by the Hartford Courant, the Columbus Ohio State Journal and the Roanoke Times. “We do not know what the outcome will be,” remarks the Terre Haute Star, “but we have a thought that Mr. Grundy's grin may do for him what it has done for him in the Senate—the job of producing instantly reciprocal grins from his opponents. Seemingly, Mr. Gundy has a way with him.” The Brooklyn Dally Eagle credits him with establishing in the Senate “as a new member such a prestige as no new member ever established before.” The Hartford Times recalls that “the Old | Guard cheered as Mr. Grundy’s per- | sonally conducted organization scored | victory after victory in resumption of the tariff fight.” The Harrisburg Tele- graph believes that “his opponents will have a rather hot potato to handle once he takes the stump.” The Lancaster Intelligencer-Journal protests against the Davis candidacy as providing for two Senators from Pittsburgh. Asserting that the prohibition prob- lem “is becoming more acute each day,” the New York Herald Tribune holds that “the time has come for every can- didate for the Senate or the House of Representatives to take a well consid- ered position.” and concludes as to these candidates, “When both shall have an- nounced their platform in full, it will be time for the voters to make their choice | of candidates.” That both men have wet support is emphasized by the Charleston Evening Post. Indorsement of the, qualities of Mr, Davis comes from the Duluth Herald, the Columbia Record, the Youngstown Vindicator, the South Bend Tribune and the Akron Beacon Journal. The Janes- ville Gazette says, “Our admiration for Mr, Davis becomes somewhat minimized by h!s Being a political child of Mr. Vare.” The Lynchburg News com- ments, “One may well pardon a patri- otic Pennsylvanian for hoping whoever wins will be proved to have spent so much money that the Senate will not perniit him to take his seat.” -——— Why Blue Grass Is Blue In State of Kentucky From the St. Louls Post-Dispateh. Kentucky—still, we hope, the home of fair women and fast horses, and until lately a last lingering outpost of chivalry and feud—is weakening. She has felt the deadening touch. Romance is no more. The State that gave the name “Kentucky journalism” to the prowess of straight-shooting editors has succumbed ue)dp . The sovereignty that shelter “‘the Kentucky break- fast"—a quart of whisky, five g:mndl of heefsteak and a bulldog, the bulldog to eat the steak—has canceled its sense of tions in the Republi- unparalleled,” “We gre delighted at it thought of the party. Ap- eonaluded to take & S this humor. The Legislature has corrected the law that made the ity for shooting at a man and mi g more severe than the one for actual wound- " Kentiery, ‘the ‘Bloody Pattieground of Hargises and Our old Kent home has gon No biue grass i