Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1930, Page 8

A-—8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. action. This has speedily ensued. The crown of martyrdom has not been clamped on the Mahatma himself. That would too obviously play “The Great t 1 TUESDAY.........April 8, 1930 Soul's” game. But three of his chief THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evenine Star. . .45¢ rer month e 4 BuBEEr e 5 aneper month T Evening and’ Sunda when 5 Aundaye) 68¢ per month when T oifeciion made t thie end of sach mon rders may 'be sent in by mall or telepnone JAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. 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The same Providence that watched over the puplils in a storm in 1927, when the roof was lifted from & Bryan School portable, and again in 1929, when a storm damaged the roofs of portables on Grant road and in ‘Wesley Heights, protected the children in the portable yesterday on the grounds of the Jefferson Junior High School. ‘The children marched out in good order and no one suffered harm. Classes in three other portable buildings on the same site likewise were suspended dur- ing the interruption from the elements. One of the legislators on the appro- priations subcommittee for the District once alluded to the portables as “propa- ganda” buildings, thus implying that they are kept in use in order to provide the complaining citizens of Washing- ton with something to talk about. They do, as a matter of fact, provide topics for conversation. One may only hope that the conversation will -never turn to fixing the blame for some unspeak- able tragedy. Last June the super- intendent of schools asked the Board of Education, in view of such warnings as sounded yesterday in the shriek of the wind, what the policy was to be in regard to continuing the use of the buildings. The policy was and is %o fix them up as well as possible. One of the constructive rules laid down by the House subcommittee on appropriations in its consideration of the District bill this year was to provide that no more auditoriums should be built in elementary school buildings until the portables are eliminated. This step has not met with universal ap- proval from some of the organizations interested in the schools. But, after all, it is reasonable and wise, provided every available red cent is put into new buildings. School children should first be provided with safe and permanently built class rooms, with a seat for every one of them. Other school needs be- come secondary considerations. The shifting of city population may always demand the use of some portables. And when such use is confined to temporary alleviation of overcrowded conditions there will be no just complaint. The trouble now is that the same old portables are continued in use year after “year, reduction in their total @umoer, proceeding at a snall's pace. It is to be taken for granted that the school officials will keep them under constant inspection and that every sign of weakness will result in immediate repair work. oo A candidate is often like a dramatic star who is sure he has a strong show, but suffers from weak financial back- ing. et Gandhi’s Ounce of Salt. . 1t takes more than an ounce of illicit lleutenants in the “civil disobedience” crusade and many local leaders and volunteers in different Indian districts were promptly jalled as the aftermath of Sunday's “overt acts” on the salt beach of the Gulf of Cambay. So far there is no indication of British re- luctance to enforce repressive measures. There can be little doubt of the reality of tbe independence movement in"India or of the likelthood that it wil! grow. Britons profess no anxiety o8 |over it at the moment because they are convinced that Gandhi represents a hopelessly slender minority political intellectuals. Sir Michael O’Dwyer, former governor of the Pun- $3¢ | jab, estimates the Indian revolutionary party at the absurdly low total of & mere two per cent of the population. But in a land of 300,000,000 inhabitants that accounts for 6,000,000 people, a considerable leavening of unrest. Sir Michael, in a recent issue of the English Review, thus epitomized the British school of thought which opposes any compromise with the Gandhi movement: Let us make it clear once for all to the Indian politicians that there is no short cut to self-government; that we are willing to assist them, now as in the past, in “the gradual development of self-governing institutions”; that in the past ten years they have not made the best of the opportunities given them, and that, while sympathizing with their reasonable aspirations, we are not pre- pared to sacrifice to their anti-British ambitions our responsibilfty for the wel- fare of the 98 per cent of the tion who have no voice in but desire the maintenance of just, im- partial British rule. ‘The world will observe with abiding interest the duel between Hindu idealism rampant and British bull-doggedness. A “grain of salt” may be destined to play & stupendous role in the future of the mystic East. Ritchie Seeks Fourth Term. Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland has cast his hat in the ring for a fourth term as Governor of Maryland. His nomination on the Democratic ticket is assured. Whatever opposition there was in his party appears to have collapsed. David G. McIntosh, jr, who several months ago announced his purpose of running for the Democratic nomination for governor, has gracefully taken him- self out of the picture. The Democratic party of Maryland is going to the bat behind Gov. Ritchie, and it expects to re-elect him next November. Gov. Ritchie in his formal statement announcing his candidacy declares that he has withheld his decision in the mat- ter until the Democrats of Maryland should have had full opportunity for considering the advisability of continu- ing him as the chief executive of the State. He expresses his gratitude for the honors done him by the people of Maryland in the past. Full opportunity has been given also for the Democrats to consider the fourth-term question. If Gov. Ritchie shall be renominated and re-elected and complete another term he will have served fifteen years in all, and consecutively, as Governor of Maryland, an unprecedented length of service in that office. The Governor of Maryland, Mr. Ritchie, has become an institution in the Cavalier State. That he has given the State good government is evident from the repeated victories of Gov. Ritchie at the polls. No people of any State have ever continued a man as governor 80 long If they were not satisfied with his administration of their affairs. Once again, too, the Democrats of Maryland have thrown down the gage of battle to the “drys.” No man in public life has been more consistently opposed to national prohibition than has Gov. Ritchie. He has been the champion par excellence of State rights, and State rights in his vo- cabulary means the right of a State to determine for itself whether it shall be wet or dry, without interference from Washington. ‘The people of Maryland have backed him in this position, generally speaking, although there are plenty of the dry faith to be found within its borders. Some of the drys are found in the governor’s own party. The obvious salt scooped from the Arabian Sea to make & revolution in India, yet Ma- hatma Gandhi’s spectacular perform- ance last Sunday may come to have an immense significance, Perhaps it may be immortalized as the Boston Tea Party of Indian independence. As the Amer- ican colonial patriots dramatized their feud with the British oppressor by dumping tea cargoes into the sea in protest against tax tyranny, so the Mahatma has opened his campaign of “civil disobedience” by open defiance of the salt tax laws, Like the tea party, the salt party is a symbol. Whether events in India will follow the course of developments precipitated by the his- toric affair in Boston Harbor time alone can tell. Gandhi’s purposes are clear. He means to light the fires of revolt with- out further ado. Accompanied by a band of volunteers, he marched two hundred miles from Ahmadabad to the sea with the avowed object of staging a spectacular violation of the laws for- bidding the private manufacture of salt. ‘The Mahatma desires that his simple act of filling an earthen jar with salt water should fire 300,000,000 Indians with the grim resolve to offer “non-vio- lent resistance” to British authority throughout the empire. “Now that a technical or ceremonial breach of the salt law has been com- mitted,” proclaimed Gandhi after emerging from the water, “such a course is open to any one who will risk prosecution. He may manufacture salt wherever he wishes and wherever cofi- venient. My advice is that workers should everywhere manufacture salt and. instruct the villagers to do lke- " "%éi%éi%fig it thing for the Republicans in Maryland, therefore, appears to be selection of a dry candidate to represent them in the gubernatorial race this year. If they take that step, another State will be added to the list which this Fall is to stage real fights over the prohibition issue. Among the others are Illinois, where a wet Democrat will strive against a dry Republican for the senatorship; Massachusetts, where the Republicans will back dry gubernatorial and sena- torial candidates against wet Democrats. Should Gov. Ritchie be re-elected for a fourth term he is likely to be much in the limelight when it comes to pick- ing a Democratic presidential candidate in 1932. -Another fourth-term gover- nor, Alfred E. Smith of New York, who also is a wet, was tried out by the Demo- crats in 1928, but without success. The present Governor of New York, Pranklin D. Roosevelt, should he, too, be re- elected this Fall, is likely to be a con- tender for the Democratic nomination for President. But Maryland will pre- sent a strong claim for this office. The Maryland Democrats, who have put for- ward their governor at several national conventions in the past, have gracefully stepped aside and given their support to other candidates, particularly to the pride of New York democracy, Mr. Smith. That being the case, they are inclined now to ask that the Smith sup- porters reciprocate these past favors. . In order to cover all the points that may be raised in an accusation, a grand THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1930. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. buying started with December op- tions then quoted in July at $1.07 a bushel, and it was continued into the May option. The object was to sell out at about $1.50. The stock market was the price was run up to $1.15. things began to happen. Wheat started to fall in price, the stock market began to crumble, cotton declined, commodity prices softened. Immediately after the Teal crash in the stock market wheat dropped like a plummet and rye fol- lowed suit. Some of the board traders started selling rye short, and the syndi- cate had to take from eight to ten mil+ lion bushels of actual grain at Sum- Of | mer prices, though the market had fallen to eighty-five cents. Another tumble came and May rye went down to fifty-nine cents. Settlements have now been effected in the rye deal and it is estimated that the cornering syndi- cate has lost between fifteen and seven- teen million dollars. This is about the heaviest loss on record in food dealings. The Lelter attempt to corner wheat in 1898-99 cost seven million dollars. Short- 1y afterward the Harper wheat corner cost ten million. In 1894 the Cudahy syndicate lost eight millions in a pork deal and about the same time “Deacon” White of Brooklyn lost five million dol- lars in & corn operation. — e The Shipstead Bill. The Shipstead bill which passed the Senate yesterdsy has been generally recognized as a protective measure and & necessary safeguard in connection with the Government's great plans for the new building program. No opposi- tion to the bill, as rewritten and passed by the Senate yesterday, has come from any quarter. This is unique recognition in itself of the merits of the legislation, for it comes about as close to being an invasion of the private rights of prop- erty owners as one could imagine. It provides that whenever a permit is ap- plied for for “the erection or alteration of any building, any portion of which is to front or abut upon” the Capitol grounds, White House grounds, Pennsyl- vania avenue from the White House to the Capitol, Rock Creek Park, Zoological Park, Rock Creek and Potomac parkway, Potomac Park, the Mall park system, or abutting upon any street bordering any of these grounds or parks, the plans as they relate to height and appearance, color and texture of materials of ex- terior construction, must be submitted to the Commission of Fine Arts. The commission may then recommend changes, and the District Commission- ers are empowered to take any action that in their opinion will “effect rea- sonable compliance” with the recom- mendations of the Fine Arts Commis- sion. It is to be trusted that the language of the bill will not prove ambiguous as to what action the Commissioners will be empowered to take, provided the plans are not approved by the Commis- sion of Fine Arts, But there is small cause for worry on that score. The bill is based on common sense and uni- versal agreement that every bullding|jn erected in Washington that faces or abuts upon one of the Government res- ervations should add,*and not detract from, the pleasing appearance of the city as & whole. Builders will welcome the advice of the Fine Arts Commission, and the Shipstead bill protects the for- tunate owners of private structures concerned as much as it does the Gov- ernment. —_————————— A young Chicago bandit used a toy pistol several times with success and was eventually shot with a real bullet. ‘The gangsters of the Illinois metropolis often demonstrate how slight a line may separate farce from tragedy. ———————— ‘What seems a reasonable price for a commodious house and a reasonably large lot convinces the public that Calvin Coolidge knows his way about even in a real estate transaction. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Garden of Hats. Though an icy breeze is prowling, Here's another sign of Spring, And, beneath a sky so scowling, Hats are tossed into the ring. High silk hats that seem official; Headgear somberly judicial; Derby hats and broad-brimmed roofing; Outdoor caps with waterproofing; Hats, each dainty as a sonnet, And perhaps an old gray bonnet. ‘Mongst the buds that struggle daily Hats are blossoming most gayly. See the primary elections Which now bid us gladly sing! Echoing shouts from all directions Say, “Our hats are in the ring!” No Idler. “I hear you refuse to retire from politics?” £ “I do. absolutely,” answered Senator Sorghum, “I have depended on politics for subsistence all my life. Why should I worry my dependent family by going out of business?” Jud Tunkins says he used to play poker for fun, but he never knew what joke the game could be until his wife learned it. Political Revenges. That politician, without doubt, From public life should stand aside Who brings the old band wagon out “To take somebody for a ride.” Pursuing the Wicked. “Crimson Gulch has improved a great deal,” said the traveling salesman. “Opinions differ,” answered Cactus Joe. “There is as much shootin’ in the The oid days had the| their street as ever. advantage of gettin' an outlaw without ' hich shead of him, m‘lbuplm" of unread books in the home i ry. Great presses, roaring madly in the cities, ceasclecaly poured books by the h ds counters of the sort the book. Surely this can be nothing more nor less than an inferiority complex. It is probably true, as some one has sald, that most men of today, no matter how well off they are in worldly goods, regard as luxuries the articles which their ancestors so regarded. It must never be forgotten that at one time in this country books were the sure mark of education and some attainment of prosperity, just as at a later period the man in comfortable circumstances was marked by the horse and buggy. It is not generally known that at the inception of the country fairs in Amer- ica the prizes were books and subscrip- tions to newspapers. In some ways those times must be held to have been the high-water mark of honor to books. ‘What if ld.uwunml times not | character dras n except quantity. Most people today would be insulted, almost, if they were to receive a “good book” as a prize. It isn't even done at bridge parties. Yet there are any number of the world's best to be secured at less money than the most trivial of “prizes.” * ok k% Our friend Jones, cutting down on his ¢xpendflglm for books, made the astounding overy that there were fish in l:‘l!. n'ndllule vflvl!} torian is large. Jones was glad now of his omnivorous reading appetite. He had read this fellow Harold b years ago when he wrote only for Adventure e. Then he specialized in stories of the . Some of Jones' friends sneered at his tastes, but he knew that Lamb wrote well. Now at last he has attained the dignity of being selected as the “book- of-the-month.” Well, time brings all things, they say. Here, in Gibbon, he found all that any sane man ought to want to know about the Crusades, and about a hun- dred other matters of vast interest, ranging over more than a thousand years of-importance. A bit dull in spots, of course, but how can so long & work help that now and then? He recalled his Prescott, whose works on the con- quests of Mexico and Peru he had read his youth and still had in his cases. He would read them again, instead of buying new works which might or might not be worth real money. Prescott, too, was but 80 were the inimitable sea and forest stories of Cooper, but after you got into them they were great. Yes, they were great, they are great, despite their dull pages. 1 days are a part of lfe, so why not of books? Sometimes one may be glad for the tiresome pages of books, because 80 perfectly mirror life as |sunm§ymmnflwe¢nm beings. The exciting moments are few and far between, and perhaps owe great deal of their charm to the eventful hours which went before and will surely come after. Only in the zeeeh of Shakespeare's jester is life lvided so evenly into seven stages. Most human know an infinite number of stages, each merging into the next, not quite letting go of ‘the last, not altogether sure of the one into which it is dissolving. Longfellow was nearer the truth when he spoke of the “place where brook and river meet.” * ok ok % ,".m nwum 'upedl when he thought of 's plays. ‘Why, he hadn't read & one of them since he got out of school. That was a I time ago, he told himself, in reminiscent mood. Shakespeare is & good old egg, after all, he went on. Everybody ought to read his plays, but few do, except when they plan going to the theater to see one of them “done” by ome of the surviving old-school actors. There are “purple spots” in Shake- are, however, and plenty of them, but 8 book of selections will not do. If selections would do the trick, our greatest novels, plays and whatnot o1 the Rurrlea'” One might g6s Do of e hu L e 't Dumas’ “Three Musketeers” in mouthfuls. Such selections have a place, but they by no means take that of the genuine works. One might as well be reading Shake- speare, Jones told himself, as discover- ing for one’s self that the new novel by & much heralded Prench writer is dull and in structure and . It had cost him & neat $3 to find that much out. “Colos- sal,” the critics had declared. Surely they used words with a free hand. If there was anything large about the novel it was not apparent. Compared with the masterpieces of Zola it was “not there,” as the slang phrase has it. Jones bethought h 1t of his ickens, too. Those old war-horses had been standing unread on his shelves for full 20 years. Twenty years after , and go through those in- imitable adventures again. He felt sorry for those who, overtaken by the full tide of modern sophistication, not permit themselves the luxury could the | of ml:g Dickens. Surely there was 0l large and brave about the som zesty, hearty and crammed with good humor, that made him well worth reading by any one. He recalled Gilbert Chesterton's magnificent book of Dickens criticisms, composed of the individual introduc- tions which he wrote for the Everyman edition of the novels. He believed he would read those introductions over & whole, before he launched he uproarious sea of Dickens. 1f of a book which he had d;mn:hlaed some months ago, but ha never read, “This Side Idolatry.” It dealt with Dickens' life in a manner unattempted by the “official” life of Forster. Jones always had thought that there must have been another side to Dickens. The last raits of the man showed a worried, ughty countenance, much at variance with the jolly tone of “Pickwick Dickens of the last po! have written Pickwick, and if he had, would never have published it. Jones looked at his home bookcases with new interest, now that he had decided to go on a budget and cut down on his day-by-day expenses. He felt that he had discovered something. Here was plenty of good reading, at hand, and begging to be read. He must not disappoint the great authors. These books, appreciated by him theoretically, would paid the grand compliment of being read. Every book likes to be read. He would let the book stores take care of themselves for a while. They would have to get along without him. Occasionally he would drop i§ for a new one, but mostly he would stay at home and get acquainted with his own books. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands EUES WIENER TAGBLATT, Vienna—Elizabeth Wolf was employed as a waitress in a restaurant by Hans Kugler from '.he”l".h gl June llo'dfihe 26th of July, 1929. e received a weekly wage of 121 schillings for this service, and the normal day was sup- to consist of 10 m“k!’q‘l:tmgln:—' services as linen of the cstaplian care of the table linen of the es = ment, a duty which frequently detained her until 1 o'clock in the morning. For this extra work, which sometimes amounted to as much as seven or eight hours avertime in a single day, she re: no extra remuneration, nhwndl er tion and bringing suit against Herr :nner asking remuneration for this ad- ditional work. Herr Kugler's contention has been that she received extra meals and ing while engaged in these other duties, which were understood to be part of her work, and should have been attended to in a fraction of the time she took to perform them. The laintift for ove ?M in view of the conflicting claims. * % % * Rickshas » . = e dard, P;lpln North China Stan , g— The number of rickshas in Peiping has been greatly reduced since a report was made a year ago, to the mu- nicipal bureau of public utilities. For a time there were more than 130,000 rick- shas in operation here, but now only 65,130 are paying a license fee. The lack of business here is drh the rick- sha pullers out, and the municipality is acing the loss of revenue l’m th ice. mwo: &nuw““’ ts were between 17 and 25 years old. Almost all of them | 4o, @ desire for & and by stories motion _picture and only & nough ured to Kyoto by 1 | T : g P i 8 : 2% fs o i H 3l §ask S g L3 ¥ § [ g : i g | | | 288 fsic Senor Rubio has also refused to accept the present of a luxurious automobile which a group of prominent business men desired to give to him. This car was to be purchased at a cost of 1,500 pesos ($7,500), but Senor Rubio has sald that he much prefers that this amount of money be instead contributed to the fund for the erection of the poor asylum. “You see, gentlemen,” said the new President, “I don’t want to be in office with all these gestures of juxury when there is g0 much poverty surrounding e * ok k% France in Earnest Over Calais-Cairo Line. Cologne Gagette. — France really seems to be in earnest about the con- struction of a ansintercontinental trunk line from Calais to Cairo. Large portions of this route, of course, are al- ready constructed and in use, but the continuous ge from the lilles of PFrance to the cedars of Lebanon still awaits the building of many connecting links. The main international line will have many ramifications, and, of course, will be subject to the supervision of the various countries through which it passes, the terminals being Calais and Cairo, the middle point Constantinople, and through Aleppo and Homs. Branches will connect Tripoli, Bey- reuth, Qaiffe, Alexandria and Damascus. Part of the route will be electrified, such systems being used mainly to connect the now-existing steam roads. A total of 650 million francs already has been appropriated for the En'lu?fllfi by va- rious sectors to be benefited. the pressive theme. to express . Surgeons operate clad in white, and masked, with their hands protected by rubber gloves, which suggests the NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM LG M Did you on Saturday night hear Dr. Coville tell by way of The Star Radio Parks &“‘;“‘s?;,n mm u'}umh 'ar] 0 \ps, h you did read a report of it in The Sun- day Star, following that broadcast. Fine! And during this week of Spring that is now so gloriously stel out many will without doubt be making a way over there to see with a fresh edge of iaterest that which they have hun- dreds of times passed with no more than a vague sense of the gredt beau of this spread of greenery across fre the ident’s house. Hardly believ- able this story. But Dr. le, plant expert, is le as sauthority. Therefore, we are under honest bond to accept the “97 different kinds of tree and shrub™ to be found within the park —=& greater vutfial than any other equal area of the Ci can show. As for me, I folng to hunt out first the “deodar.” I like the sound of the word and its reminiscent nude of Kip- ling’s India. There will be no trouble about finding it, nor any other of the tree residents of the Erh For, besides the good scientist, . Coville is the perfect Baedeker as well, And, by the way, have you secured your tree—your own? No? Then do it at once, for the sake of a novel adven- | ture in happiness. You neither have to buy it nor to invest in a plot of estate for its anchorage and sustenance! Nothing like that. Simply choose & nearby tree—one that you like. Then assume that it is yours and proceed to cultivate its acquaintance, exactly in the spirit and with the arts employed to engage a new human friend. I own a tree in Franklin Park; own it by way of the clear pre-emptive right of simple declaration, a right that interferes with no other claim whatever. I could tell you a story about that tree—my tree. You wouldn't believe it, but I'm going to take a chance on that. One night, late, I was over there by myself. No, the city parks during nighttime are not dedicated solely to lurking bootleggers, nor to houseless lovers, nor lodgingless vagrants. Quite circumspect persons g0 into them now and then merely to! see what the night is doing to them. It was midnight or thereabout—this time of which I am telling you. The moon, full to its brim, had no other job, seemingly, than to soak that particular square in its own white and eerie witchery. Facing my tree, I was think- ing of its poise and splendor, of its indifference to adulation and dayl homage, of its lack of that vanity w] is to the human the breath of life it- self. Then I felt—yes, felt—a tremor within the great body of the tree. Slowly it seemed to open, like a door under cautious hands. It did open a; little way. And out from 't inoved, noi more than a single step, Luc :.ving soul of that tree—a dryad. Poised, with hands flattened back against it, ready for swift retreat into the refuge of the huge bedy, it stood there, beautiful and shining in the moon glow. Then, like a wraith, it slipped back into its native home. ' Didn’t see any such thing? To | be sure I saw it! The laugh of derision | and unbelief is too ready by far. Cer- tainly there is nothing easier than to suggest that I saw a flapper out waiting for her belated cavalier or a wife hover- ing around on the tch for a recreant lord. “Moonstruck ‘Well, all right! But I saw neither of these, nor any| other thing save a lovely dryad. ancient | spirit, bound forever within the great tree kingdom. Reject this as fanciful | and untrue,.if you will. Yet that is what I saw; what you may see. Keep company with the trees. In going by your own tree lay your hand upon it, and from it will pass into you some modicum of its own stanch courage, its composure and poise, the avicere beauty of its own life, its stoic understanding. Now and then we like to see, not the dear, everyday trees, but instead a lord of tree life, a grandee, a sahib of the order. And right here comes the op- portunity to do just that: ARISTOCRATS OF THE TREES. Ernest H. Wilson, author of “China, | Mother of Gardens,” etc. Illustrated. Boston: The Stratford Co. ‘The background of this pageant is a panorama of homage to all trees as the | common monarch of plant life. Whether the measure be that of beauty, or use- fulness, or inspiration to man, it is the tree that stands highest in relation to human life, and to animal life as well. Such general recognition and accept- ance runs across the setting of this story like a lovely and significant ara- besque. Against it are then set one and another of these lordly and beautiful manifestations of & fecund natural life upon which so much of all cther life depends. These trees march in pagean- try here, native trees and alien alike. Yet even the strangers become finally domesticated, ly of the home soil, equal in the affections of man with the older friends. Here they march on the one hand in tender Spring verdancy, or on the other in the royal robes of Autumn splendor—the oak, the elm, the maple, the beech and birch and linden; then, a little more remote, the gingko and the holly. The thrifty nut trees come into the parade. And around them all is woven the tree lore that these have communicated to the inde- fatigable student, Ernest Wilson, M. A., V. M. keeper of the Arnold Arbore- tum of Harvard, familiar of trees the world over. As if these were humans— as, indeed, they are in effect—they are presented in their origin, in their growth, as this is affected by external circumstances of climate and soil, no less than by the internal circumstance of special seed germ controlling modes of growth and habits of life. The study sums to a body of knowledge that is both complete in content, practical in projection and effect. But to such defl- nite and ponderable fact is added the spiritual, the poetic, the artistic si nificance of the treg world in its rel tion to the life of man. You recall that not so long ago another of the 1m'¥resuve and rich studies by Dr. Wil- sor came this way, “China, Mother of Gardens,” a work which under this title covered a comprehensive study of China itself. It, too, was of a physical book- beauty that matches the study in hand. Both handsome and impressive in ap- nce, rich and exclusive in the .| Mount Rushmore National M ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ..¥ FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Few Ame~'--ns realize how much their Govern . ¢ does for them. Read- ers of The kel Star can draw on all Government activities through our free information service. The world's greatest libraries, laboratories and ex- perimental stati ns are at their com- mand. Ask any question of fact und i will be answered free by mail direct to Inclose 2-cent stump for reply, and address The Evening Star or- mation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, di- rector, Washiagton, D. C. Q ;‘ there alcohol in ice cream soda? oA. The Department. of Agriculture says that the percentage of alcohol in ordinary ice cream soda is very low. It is quite low, to with, in flavor- ing material, by the time this is| diluted with water and served the per- | centage of alcohol in the bevergge is| infinitesimal. Q. How many rooms is the New Yorker Hotel to have?—W. K. A. New York's newest hotel is to have 2,500 rooms. Some idea of its size may be gained from a recent statement | that 46,500 pieces of furniture will be required in equipping the bullding. Eighty-seven miles of carpet, 32,000 electric bulbs and 11,000 pieces of ‘glass to be used as table and dresser tops are | g::elr items in connection with this| el. Q. How far has the Mount Rush- more Memorial Ero’rmed?—!. P. A. The unveiling of the head of Washington and two paragraphs of President Coolidge’s 500-word history of the United States on July 4 will mark the progress thus far on the memorial lg the Blukl Kll!lmol oo|ulh D?h(”h‘ utzon Borglum, the sculptor of the [emorial Association, recently announced that President Hoover had been asked to unveil the 60-foot Washington head | and the historical data. This will mark | the completion of the first of the four | figures to be blasted out of the moun- tain. Mr. Borglum expects to work in| order on the figures of Thomas Jeffer- son, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. The first two paragraphs of | Mr. Coolidge’s history deal in 20 to 40 words. each with the Declaration of In- dependence and the adoption of the Constitution. Other points to be cov- ered will be the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War, annexation of Texas, en- trance of Oregon Territory to the Union and the Panama Canal. Q. Where did the Houdan fow! origi- nate?—L. T. A. The Poultry Item says that it Is‘ a breed originating in the Seine and| Oise districts of Prance. White skin | and white meat are what the French demand in dressed poultry, and the Houdan fowl meets these requirements. It also has a fine-grained meat. | Q. What is oakum?—J. D. A. twisting and picking out loosely _the yarns of old tarred hemp rope. It is used for calking ships’ seams and some- times on shore for filling cracks. Q. What happened to Gracchus, the friend of the common people?—N. F. A. Gracchus become tribune in Rome in 134 B.C. He hoped to restore the holdings of the small farmers and dis- the rich of their wide posses- sions, which had been stolen. He intro- duced a bill for this purpose, but it was too bold a challenge to vested interests, and he and 300 of his followers were massacred. 1t is hemp fiber, obtained by un- | standing in America constructed by Englishmen?—H. T. 8. A. Old St. Luke's Church, near Smithfield, in Isle of Wight County, Va., is the building suid to be the oldest. Q. In the Bible is there any poetry which has rhyme or meter?—L. B. T. A. Murra; Tiustrated . Bible Dic- ticnary says: “If rhyme and muter be considered essential, poetry would have to be denied to the Bible altogether. For of rhyme there is absolutely none, and as meter depends upon pronuncia- tion and accent, it has generally been regarded as hopeless to restore these essential elements, so long have they been lost in the transmission of the language through consonants alone.” Q. What is meant by saying that the present period in world history may be known as the dictionary epoch?—L. E. A. It refers to the great interest that is now being taken in living foreign tongues as well as in our own. Cross- word puzzles, too, have stimuldted the study of words. Q Was ambrosia & focd or a drink? A. Ambrosia is the term used in mythology to describe the substance which, with nectar, formed the food and drink of the gods, and which made immortal those who partook of it. Usu- ally, both in Homer and later writers, ambrosia is the food and nectar the drink, but some, as Sappho, used am- brosia as the name of the drink and nectar as the food. Q. Did Lincoln have an appropria- tion for traveling expenses when he was President?—R. K. A. In the days when Lincoln was President no traveling expenses were provided for by Congress. About $2,000 a year was appropriated and known as a contingent fund. From this bills for stationery, printing, etc., were paid. So it is easily seen that little was left for traveling. Usually there were no trav- eling expenses for the President, as he traveled complimentarily. The act of March 4, 1907, provided for an annual appropriation of $25,000 for traveling expenses for the President. This was the first actual appropriation for the purpose. This was in the administra- tion of Theodore Roosevelt. Q. Please give an example of a given name that can be borne by a girl or boy without change of spelling.—T. C. A. Carol, Vivian and Cecil are ex- and wait."—A. A. A. It is from a sonnet of Milton's, written on his blindness. Q. About what proportion ' of the material in glass is sand?—C. D. A. Glass is about three-fourths sand. lQALX: China a well-watered country? A. China proper is one of the best | watered countries of the world. From | the mountains on the west four great | rivers run in a general course eastward to the sea They in the alluvial plains for hundreds of miles along the ocu" n and inland to a depth of 300 miles. Q. How many people were there in | the colonies the time of the Revolu- | tionary War?—T. §. | A. In 1775 the estimated population | of the 13 colonies was 2,600,000. The population of the principal colonies was: Massachusetts, 335,000; Pennsylvania, 300,000; New York, 190,000; North Caro- Q. Where is the oldest building now lina, more than 265,000, and Virginia, 450,000. Decade of Woman Suffrage Its Anniversary Reviewed on Celebration of the tenth anniversary of the extension of suffrage to women under the Federal Constitution has been accompanied by much comment. In some instances political improvement is discovered, which is considered traceable to the participation of women. Some see no change, while others re- cord advances in public affairs, with prospects of greater improvement when increased skill has been achieved by these voters. Among the critics is the Newark Eve- ning News, which maintains that “the women have not come up to the ex- tions they created,” and advises “viewing the 10 years in retrospect will be helpful if they face their record fairly and without prejudice, and start a new decade with a deeper realization of the responsibility they in Iirr!d More specifically, the News says: “Some of the women who have plunged into the thick of affairs have shown them- selves of the same type as politicians. They have been protected by the chivalric instinct of men. This is an unfair burden from which there is no way of escape Without losing something civilization has always hig! 1y T . The women ought to aj preciate this and try not to put too heavy a load on male shoulders. L The Anniston Star remarks that “the women have been voting for a decade and it seems that there is more need for a clean-up in politics today than at almost any previous time in recent years.” That paper also observes that “most of the women vote with the party of their fathers, just as the men have been doing throughout the years.” It notes a growing number of women in publi¢ office, with the conclusion that “we cannot say how long it will be until their gaze shifts to the White House.” “It is difficult for us to find any bene- fits that woman suffrage has brought, declares the Haverhill Gazette, recalling the “utterance of a New Hampshire leg- that, pearal quality of the illustrations. Indeed, these tree pictures and tree lan stand by virtue of sheer beauty within the domain of art itself. Personal affection and plain pride itself must go along with the ownership of this book of high degree. A beautiful and a riate work upon a most important im- ERE DANDELION DAYS. Henry Willlam- son. E. P. Dutton % Co. A little book, just a story, too, that by virtue of its uty takes its place as an attendant upon the splendid tree book by Ernest Wilson. Not a story about trees, either. boy in- stead, a very human and believable boy. By this time, however, you know that Henry Williamson is, perhaps above all other story writers now at work, so much at one with nature—with the trees, ,nda,memmm-ou;wllnt.:m Radio Amuses Cows. Prom the Ann Arbor Daily News. Effect Upon Prosperity. Prom the Boston Transcript. e 5 their into his own, his moods into Henry William- EE%EE jasate i i i i :ggfia:g P 51 i 3% i Al R 5 L islator in the days when equal suffrage was a hotly debated issue. His ideas were a bit vague” continues the Ga- zette, “but more to the point than he realized. Sald he, ‘I believe in woman suffrage. If women want to suffer, I say, let them suffer’ Beyond question, it is their ;llhl. We defend it. But no Telegram that well as women equal suffrage has = onstrated its usefulness to the Nation. Equality between men and women is emphasized by that paper in the statement: “There is no reason to draw the line between the sexes today in the matter of general intelligence or fitness for the ballot. Sister woman has dem- onstrated that she is the equal of broth- er man in grasping the significance of public issues, and most surely sister woman is fully up to the standards of brother man in all questions affecting morality and conscience.” Admitting that while “the things the women in ity 2 | b t, W) f F 2 £« H their brother | ‘workers, yet they have been | exceedingly modest in their efforts to gain political ‘plums.’ ™ * k% % S “The participation of women in pol- itics as voters,” in the judgment of the Charleston Evening Post, “has had & profound effect already on social and educational legislation. For the women it may be safely said that they are usually to be found on the right side of all such questions and that they are more inclined than men to take the initiative in urging upon lawmakers re- forms in soclal and educational matters. This was always true, but in the past when women appeared as sponsors for | new laws they appeared without the power to reward or punish at the polls, Today their advocacy is far more ef- | fective because of their power to vote, and it is in thi; way more than in any other that the effect of woman suffrage has made ftself felt.” ‘With the argument that “dire proph- ecies,” spoken against suffrage in the past, “seem to have been childishly con- ceived,” the Hartford Times points out: “Husbands and wives retain in large degree sturdy independence of opinion. Were no real difference to have been made in the outcome of political can- didacies and measur~ or policies for public decision, the . .vent of women in the caucuses, conventions and at the polls has had definite effect, in most constituencies, of Increasing interest in public affairs, raising the level of politi- cal morality and adding to the efficiency nf administrations, local, State and Fedfi:;l." Elimination of “voting by sex” is com- mended by the Terre Haute Star, with the belief that “the women .have in- creased their influence in proportion to the co-operation they have given to the party leaders as co-workers in a com- mon cause.” The Duluth Herald states that they “have helped toward bring- ing greater recognition of the need of social legislation,” and the Brooklyn Eagle concludes: “Women are undoubt- edly taking a greater interest in publie affairs than before. More capable women leaders are emerging and the quality of the political action that may be traced to the woman vote is cer- tlzlcl!‘?mu high “ls that for which the ne contingent 1is responsible. Il;':::" qu‘:stlan as to wfizthar ‘woman suf- | & success is not today more pertinent than the query as to "hlther male suffrage is a success.” St. Lawrence Channel Link in U. S. Favored HUCI ‘:;:lll Prancisco Ohreniele. an wants to go ahead an- also | Place to put this link is on the side of the river, where the channel is T, Canada can nfi'?b'um Tor But. 1t WH oout oF Iy | $1,000,000 more, | For't quick-starting American act as t-.rAy invasion 'uw:a 5 narrow proposal be unfortunate. To force Can waste & la g Inspired. From the Rochester Times-Union. f !nnh? Grundy, of g expected, will attempt the insi