Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1930, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR WASHEINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY........May 17, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor St and Pen, in Ave, 8o M Biud New York f n ice: Ds: 110 East Regent nd. Rate by Carrier Withi veniue Star... ... vening and Bunday Sia {when ¢ Sanday) The Evening and Sund n; the City. 4Bc ver month 0c per month Sunday lection made st thie en: Qiders may be sent in by m Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Marylan@ and Virgis fly and Sunday. anly ay only All Other States and Canada. Sunday. X cation of ail ne Patches credited 1o it o1 not otherwis itea 1 this paper and also the local ' ews published herein. All rights of publication of svecial dispatches herein also 1ererved. ' The Merger Resolution. ‘The Senate District committee has disposed of the merger resclution by reporting favorably on it, but unless there are developments that do not now appear to be probable the committee's action is merely a gesture that has no particular significance. In the first place the prospects for action in the House do not appear so favorable as those in the Senate, and action in the Senate, by previous informal agreement, 18 contingent upon action on the Blaine eourt bill, first a proposed section of the merger resolution, but now considered as 8 separate piece of legislation. Debate on this Iatter bill has hinged upon in- terpretation of “the evidence” that the Public Utilities Commission would have to submit to court to make its orders final. “Evidence” might- include any evidence, while “the evidence” connotes & specific restriction that probably would not change materially the procedure | that now is followed in appeals from or- ders of the commission. There is some talk of a compromise by inserting the adjective “substantial” as modifying the #ort of evidence required from the Public Utilities Commission. But a fa- vorable report from the committee would merely transfer this highly coniroversial measure to the Senate, where it might be smothered in debate, On the House side Mr. Hull of Wis- consin has developed the fact that the merger resolution is an excellent prop- osition for the North American Co., but the benefits to the pzople of Wash- ington are left in such shadowy and intangible form that they appear un- convincing. Further hearings on the resolution have already been postponed sist, at the risk of Jife and limb, ln' hogging” the entire time on the street. The signals at these points do not regulate motor trafic in relation to other motor traffic, but are designed to halt all vehicles, thus giving pedestrians the undisputed right of way. In view of this fact, it would seem that on an equitable basis pedestrians shouid use to the full their unrestricted passage across,the street, but with the red light against them should aliow motorists to do the same. But do they? They do not. In the majority of cases the walkers never even glance at the signals or take 'any notice of the plainly dispiayed signs which caution them to cross only on the green light. If they find themselves in the middle of the street, with traffic swirling all around them, they will either make a wild dash to one curb or the other, endangering their own lives and, strangely enough, the lives of motorists who will risk a collision with another machine to avoid hittiug them, or will stand defi- antly in the middle of the street, mut- tering uncomplimentary things about all motorists, Commissioner Whalen's regulation for New York is not zimed at piaces of haven for the walker such as Washing- ton circles. It encompasses the whole j city and, according to the commission- | er, is to be enforced strictly. Washing- ton likewize has a jay-walking regula- tion which is just as comprehensive as that about to take effect in New York. Spasmodic attempts have been made to enforce it here, but they were half- hearted and brought no benefit, There may be some reason why a | general jay-walking regulation in Wash- ington should not be enferced, although it is difficult to find it, but why the regulation now in the traffic code in Tegard to pedestrians should not be en- forced &t circles is impossible to under- stand. Decidedly, it 'i§ something for the Commissioners to consider. SR el - Dawes to the Rescue. Gen. Dawes is about to leave London for the .United States on a furlough from his diplomatic post at the Court of St. James’ The official reason for the trip & the Ambassador's desire to confer with fellow Chicagoans on mat- ters concerned with the 1933 World's Fair to be held in the general's big home town. It is all but an open secret that another cause of Gen. Dawes’ presence in America at this time is the fight now raging in the Senate over the London naval treaty. In its negotia- tion, Ambassador Dawes played an ex- ternally inconspicuous, but actually potent, part His interest in the suc- cess of the conference was second to none, for it was he who, at President Hoover's. .direction, instigated with Prime - Minister Macdonald in June, 1929, those steps which led swiftly, stage by stage, to the results recently twice, with the session drawing to & close. ' ©On Monday the street railway prob- Jem shifis to the District Supreme Court, where argument is to begin on the street rallways' petitions for an increased fare. The Pubiic Utilities 'Commission will endeavor to have the petition denied, while the People’s Counsel has centered his guns on the proposition that before a new rate of fare, is granted, the property of the somnanies should be revaiued. His plea is that the case be referrad back to the commission for revaluation. The ruling of the court will be final in so far as the District Supreme Court is concerned, although fare cases do not end with a decision from one court. Extended litigation is inevitable. Meanwhile the streel car companies are losing their revenue passengers ateadily and the advent of cheap taxi- eab service, in the minds of some, has hastened the loss. What the companies can. expect to recoup by & boost in fares, that will drive more street car riders to the pavement or to the cabs, is & deep mystery. Their whole effort should be directed to obtaining a merger, by the grant of proper ccncessions to the people, and by batter and cheaper car service to put new life into ihe business. Inereased fare will not do it. e Virginia Blue Laws. ‘The prosecution of an Alexandria man under the old blue laws of Vir- ginia for painting his house on Sunday should give impetus to the movement for repeal of all such laws in the Old Dominion. The late Theodore Roose~ velt, while commissioner ot poiice of New York City, once said that the best WAy to get rid of undesirable laws v.as to enforce them rigidly. If this is the ease in Virginia, when a housenolder WaS arrested and fined five dollars in court, in addition o cosis, making a total fine of more than fourieen doi- lars, ali weil and good, and an aroused citizenry will probably work for speedy Tepeal. One of the troubles with blue laws 18 that they are enforced spasmodically in different sections of the State and sometimes are invoked merely to vent spite on a particular person. Of course, the laws are still on the books, snd there is no question of the legality ot prosecuting offenders. This is the year 1930, however, and not 12830, and limes in the hundrea-year span have changed. ‘Today the American public is liberal i its views toward Sunday work and sport. It must be, because with the advance of civilization and the speeding up ol #ll forms of labor Sunday froquentiy is the only day. to perform innocuous household tasks or to relax in the way of athletic pursuit. If certain commu- nities wish to' abide strictly by iaws governing their conduct on the Sab- bath, let them do it. It is thelr in alienable right. State-wide blue lavs, however, have no place in the civill tion of today. - Haiti has a President. A surviving spivit of conservatism leads tho country to prefer the title to that of “dictator.’ — e Jay-Walking ‘With Commissicner Whalen's new jay- walking :egulation going into effect in New Ycrk Monday, a regulation on which the police comm:ssioner has in- sisted after the death of five hundred careless walkers last year and the in- jury to more than fourteen thous:nd. atteption again’ turns to the National Oapilal, which possesses probably (he worst class of jay-walkers of any com- munity in the world. This class is ‘eomposed of those thoughtless ped: trians who, despite the fact ‘Washe ington is unique among cities L Vinstall- ' For inslance, there Is & longesianding Zben, “be satl:fled wit ‘dng trafic lights at circles solely for aad, achieved. at London. There is no, gainsaying the fact that the treaty is cxpériencing unexpectedly rough going in the preéliminary phases on Capitol Hill. Opposition was ex- pected, especially at the hands of the big-Navy element in and out of the Sen- ate and House. But few were prepared for the savage and sweeping broadsides which are being poured into the pact by our professional sailors of high standing. ‘The week’s inquisitorial procedure be- fore the foreign relations and naval af- fairs committees docs not presage the defest of the treaty. But undoubtedly the 2tiacks leveled at it have had the effect of arousing a degree of critical interest, which may reflect itself more or less seriously when the time for & ratification vote arrives. The enemles of the three-power agreement will take the Senate ficor supplied with talking points which they will not fail to turn into high explosive ammunition. Gen. Dawes is immensely well liked in the body over which he presiced for four years. He retains strong friend- ships and influence there. His signa- ture to the London treaty means that he believes it to be = worthy and worth-while achievement. He is a sol- dier and an uncompromising advocste of national defense. When his immor- tal “hell-and-Maria” awed a congres- slonal smelling committe= on war costs into a becoming restraint ten years ago, Gen. Dawes won national gratitude. It will be a diverting spectacle if the | Senste committees now engaged in X-raying the naval treaty put Dewes on the rack. That he wiil have something to say, and say it in picturesque phrase- ology, can hardly be doubted. r—e— The issue between wets and drys causes more complicated questions to be overlooked, If it can overwhelm all other debate, it will represent simpli- fied politics in an unprecedented de- gree. s o No Brotherly Love in Bass Ball. From almost the beginning of the present base ball season Weshingion enthusiasts have had visions ot another American League penpant for the Capi- tal. Despite the bad start of the loss of the initial game to the usually lowly Boston team, the local representatives on the diamond have looked good to the fans as worthy successors of the | {world champions of 1924. This feeling has been strengthened in the course of the | mectings with the world champions of ! 1929, Cornelius MeGillicuddy’s Athletics, | Last year the “A's” were the Nemesis lof the Nationals. Indeed, it might al- most be sald that the Philadelphis team won its pennant at the expense of the Washing.on aggregation. In the cou, {of the season series batween the two| {cliies Philzdelphia won sixtcen games | {and Washington four. That first geme ! beiwean them this year was a Philadel- phia victory. Since then the Nationals have trimmed the pennant holders | | steastly, ierday they took two| (8ames from them, and in Philadelphia | }n thet. Yos.erday's double victory over the champions makes the record thus far for 1950 stand at six to one in favor of Washington, two more wins for the I Nationals than all of 1929 ylelded. In- !deed the Washington team at the close of yesterday’s hostilides had won moie !semes from Philadciphia alicady th. | season than any othcr team has won {ivom any oppanent in the American | League. { This s one of the oddities ol the { national sport, the uncertainly of the game, the fueakishaess of resuits, the unsxpectedness of developments. It is’ & tadition of the spoit that certain | cities are “polson” to certaim otheis.| beilet that St, Louls of the American THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. personnel of teams may change com- pletely in the course of & few seasons, and yet these hoodoo thoughts prevail. It is & “syrological propolition.” Well, the Philadélphia jinx on Washington which was so powerful in 1929 seems by some magic of the diamond to have been driven off, dispelied, Touted, exor- cised. At any rate, there are the aix wins to one loss out of a possible twen- ty-two games between the two clubs for the seazon, and instead of the old feel- ing of confidence on the part of the Athietics whenever they tackle the Ns tionals, they are now suffering from an inferiority complex in the presence of the representatives of the Capital. But anybody who tries to dope out the season as a whole on the strength of the first few weeks is teking a very long chance. 1t is always well to remember the case of the Boston National League team that was in Jast piace on the first of July, 1914, and apparently doomed to remain there, but won the pennant and the world championship. Any- thing may happen in base ball. Rebirth and Reburi The New York writer of popular fic- tion who has started a crusade to rescue Egyptian mummies from mu- seums ail over the world and to reinter them must have been trying hard to find something to worry about. His contention is that we in Christian and in other lands respect the dead: that these ancients are dead, but not so long deceased (hat their souls have perished. “I cannot understand,” he says, “why - our churchmen countenance this dese- cration; why they do not lead s crusade to rescue those wrelched mummies and put them in Calvary or Greenwood.” It is to be noticed that these long- dead ones are not to be put back where they crme from, but to lie in Christian consecrated ground. One wonders just how happy they would be there now, although they once were convinced they needed their earthly bodies in the here- after. To carry out logically this gen- tleman's thought, no more mummies ought 10 be dug up, for that would be an additional deplorable desecration. Possibly he had his tongue in his cheek when he delivered himseif of this prop- osition. To carry out the idea still further and still more logically, the fragments of the Piltdown man, the Neanderthal man and the Java “walking ape man” ought to be transported with care either to the beds whence they were digged or to some cemetery. ‘They probably did not know they had souls, but, according to Holy Writ, they had them, and their remains should be respected according- ly. The proponent of this novel and reactionary theory would deal a tremendous blow to archaeology and anthropology. If the spirits which once inhabited these mummified remains were good spirits then they today know a lot more about everything than our wisest scientists, our most erudite writers, and, could they be consulted, would doubtless agree to the dictum “ashes to ashes ard Gust to dust.” As stated before, it is not unlikely that this resident of the metropolis is doing a little camouflaged kidding. Howeve! propositions just as foolish have been and will continue to be advanced in all seriousnees. e ‘The fact that so capable and discern- ing & player as Maude Adams considers the time propitious for a return to the stage is one of the strongest possible in- dications of a renewal of artistic pros- perity in the American theater. e iy Long-sustained interest in a murder mystery is encouraging, as it calls at- tention ta a long lapse of time without the development of & new atrocity to drive the old one out of popular atten- tion. o BRI Germany is hard-working and thrifty. As new emergencies arise in Europe that kind of A nation may find new friends among old foes. gl SN E Clues to a homicide mystery when too abundant serve only to make the matter more mysterious. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Old World Keeps Fit. “The world, alas, is going wrong. Mistaken lives we've led!™ And this, in story or in song, Is what folks always said. Humanity is ever bold And, as time takes its flight, New plans we patiently unfold To set this old world right. And though we may noi quite succeed, We argue on and smile. 3t is such effort that we need To make this world worth while. Perils of Fame. “Some day a stetue will be made in vonr henor.” “Maybe mv family will feel beiter * answered Senator Sorghum. “They have been sufficiently agitated by political fault-finding without being worried by the art crities.” . Jud Tunkins says a hard-working statesman must consider public senti- ment as well as public need. He can- not permit office occupation to interfere with his enjoyment of base ball and fishing and grand opsra and golf and all the varied pastimes that appeal to Question of Time. The market drops, taen up will go Again. 1 would be rich, could I but know Just when. Caution. “Your lawn is overrun with dande- lions."” My wife #on't let me take them out,” anavered Parmer Corntossel, “There is such a thing as dandelion wine and she don’t want our kitchen to come under the suspicion of the authorities.” “Weglth,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinztewn, “is th> golden weapon which can conquer eversthing except envy.” Forbearing Mechanism, Mv dial phone brhaves with grace. ‘Though numbers arz in doubt, 1t looks one sadly in the face. But never bawls me out. “When you fuh_luv. i said Uncle o ppy frame o' mind an’ Jook foh a good job instid » S ot s For the midway person, who is rad- ical, but not too radical, who likes his philosophy spiced with & bit of pro- test, who prefers above all things in| his reading a certain fine flow of words, we recommend the essays of Maurice Maeterlinck, once the “rage” of the hour, still good for the quiet moments of life. ‘When the queer little play, “The Blue Bird,” first came on the boards thou- sands of persons who had never heard of the Belgian writer took up his es- says. 5o that they were printed and re- printed many times. There is still a good business done in the various volumes which contain his somewhat cynical, somewhat mys- tical writings on unrelated subjects. They will always appeal to readers of | a certain temperament. We have tried to state briefly the first paragraph above, just this temperament is. It is possible that & downright Hours,” or “Wisdom and Destiny." These are dreamers’ hooks. They were wiitten by a dreamer for other dreamers, snd it is to this type of human being that their appeal is perennial. seldom reads Maeterlinck. just as he seldom reads Wali Whitman. It is a curious diversion to trace the | resemblance between these two poets. one Belgian, the other American; one| writing in impeccable French, the other in rough Americanese; one confining himseli to sophisiicated plays snd well tuned essays, the other inventing a crude meter for poems. Whitman wrete for the masses, and | the masses refuse him. He gave his| “love,” as he called it, to the rough ones of earth, the csh drivers, the sailors. even know his name. His virility made and makes its im- press upon men everywhere, of what- ever nation, who are almost the direct antithesis of the types named. The refined man of culture invariably ad- mires the rugged honesty in phrase and thought of old Walt. *OR K X Also as inevitably he reads and likes Maeterlinck’s essays, because the latter dovetail perfectly with. the mystical and poetical quality which he finds in Whitman. Both of these writers seek to_explain life. Did you ever stop to think how many authors, of all ages and nations, content’ with picturing _life without making any effort to explain it? The books which make up our Bible get part of their magic appeal—and it is that—irom the very fact that they g0 out of their way to explain the mystery of life, to interpret why we are here and wiat we are here for and what is likely to happen to us when we leave here. The “here” weighs heavily upon the writings known as the Bible. No one writer in that great collection is satis- fled with the world or with its meni- fest, shortcomings. All look forward, in one form or other, to a promised land, where the tears shock the sen be wiped away, and wherein the crime of combat wiil' give place to the spec- tacle of the lion and the lamb lying down together. Maurice Maeterlinck, in his sophisti- cated manner, attempts to give expla- nations- of life. as far as he can see the way. His light may not be enough to suit the orthodox, nor yet scorching enough to satisfy the unorthodox. But for the midway person, as we have stated. he perfectly fills the bill, not for everyday reading, it is true. but for those rare moments, even in dreamer’s life, when one demands some- thing exquisite. x ¥ ok X A piece of writing, to be exquisite, lcnrcelyl conceited | type will like “The Measure of the | ‘The so-called business man | the soldiers, and these do norl re | SATURDAY must possess qualities which will for- ever endanger it in the eyes of some readers, and even cause it to pall upon its devotees. | It is so of Maeterlinck. Here is perfection of its kind, remi- |nlmnl. of Emerson, of whom the Bel- ginn is a_great admirer, vet totally' de- vold of the jerkiness of thought which characterized the typical essays of the American sage. | Yet _this preciousness of style .can be {tolerated only for a given time. We | have never known a reader who en- | joyed reading Maeterlinck’s essays all the time. They are not for dafly read- ing, but for the exquisite hour. Such an hour' may come :n youth, and is mest likely to. Young men, in various stages of puppy love, find tre- | mendous solace in “The Treasure of the Humble.” This happens not because they are in love, but precisely because they find in these polished sentences a perfection which they fain would seek in love itself. | Bk | _ For one thing, the transkitions into | English have been made with such con- | summate sizill that Masterlinck hes taken | his_proper place in our bookcases. The English translations retain the utter simplicity of diction which is at its best in the French in which the essays were written, He who reads “The Life of the Bee,” “The Buried Temple,” “The Measure of the Hours.” “The Double Garden” “The Great Secret” and “Death,” will | get as much from the translations a8 ! anv_Frenchman could get from the | originals. The singing quality is there, as any one may find by reading such a typical | bit of Maeterlinckiana as “Our Friend | the Dog” in one of the books of essays, we_have forgotten which one. This particular essay, as most of his | others, divides itself naturally into | phrases or lines, irrespective of the | sentence formation. This is a peculiar quality which, once noted, the reader cannot escape from, and which will { remain in his mind as the one strik- ing thing about these essays. Par— It seems to us that such essays as these were never more needed in the world In a machine age there comes more ané more the urge to sensitive spirits to escape from the domina- tion of tho mechanical. One does not need to be hitched to a turning wheel by handcuffs, as same factory workers actually are (fo prevent them from paying the penalty of their own carelessness), nor is it necessary that he be # cog in some monstrous mechanical process, Every one ieels the whir of the m chines today, in greater or less pre portion as one is endowed or not ei dowed with mental and physical sen- sibilities. There is a naive belief on the part of many that because a noise, for instance, does not annoy them, it cannot annoy any cne. Nothing could be further from the truth. There are persons so sensitive 10 nolses that slight sound; never no- ticed by their more hardened neighbors faiily bore their way into their ears. There are others so sensitive to odors that they rescmble cats and dogs, able to detect.fragrances and their reverses which ordinary people do not know exist. “Why, I can't smell anything!” say these latter But who said they could? They are not the criterions of earth, as they fondly imagine. they are. The essays of Maeterlinck, even more than his curiously detached plays, are meant for the true-blue sensitive ones f the world. whose joys are keener, just as their sorrows are more in- tense, than those of the great run of mortals. These essays lift, if only for a few moments, the hard surface of life, and permit the intelligently curious to peer in wonder and admiration at what is beneath, American comments on the selection of John Masefield as poet laureate of England are colored in part by recoilec- | tions of his world wanderings, in the course of which he was a humble | worker in New York City. He fs called a poet of dally toll, yet credited with the distinction of being one of the fore- most of modern writers. “John Masefield, ex-sailor, ex-ship's cook, ex-saloon porter and ex-rover over the ' world” says the Chattanooga | Times, “has been made poet laureste of England. All of which is in perfect keep- ing with the trend of things in Merrie England. Al of which, again, mesns that | England’s poet laureate will be read in { #merica_by more than & baker's doze | Tor the.first time in many, many yew { _To Americans, in the opinion of the Springfield Republican, “there had been special piquancy in _wondering whether | the government’s official recognition of the muse would fall on & man who once tramped about America looking for jobs and worked In a New York bar room. This has come to pess,” continues that paper, “and if the building that shel- saloon is still in existence, or the saloon itself in a properly transformed state, there is now the chance to distinguish it with a tablet proclaiming, ‘Here the poet laureate of England once toiled for a modest wage: " S " Emphasis upon his extraordinary life story Is placed by the Newark Evening News. with the ded comment: “Not that Masefisld’'s temporary sojourn in & place of refreshment in Greenwich ave- nue was anvthing more than an inci- dent in a life of adveniure that had covered the Saven Sees and moved to the land to add variety to the cravings of vagabondia. From such a back- ground came George Borrow and our own Jack London, to the enrichment of their powers. Manv a spirited youth has followsd the same path with credit. * « © Masefield is still in the middle fifties, still preoccupled with ships and seas and hunting the fox on land, as Priiish as any son of Albion ever has en. There mu:t be great work still left for him.” “His selection.” as viewed by the New York Times, kes of his life a story of the kind supoossd to be peculiar to American soil. While other Englishmen of letters called to this eminent place have known povarty and obsturily, there is none who endured them in so many pheses and in sn many parts of the eerth. The Labor government has chosen the most gifted and sympathetic poet of daily toll.” The Kansas City Siar fes)s that “it iz refreshing to the rest of the world, prhaps even a part hitting merely upon the safe cou and selecting a poet who wauld be sure to sav the righ' thing in the aceept>d manner the British government and strike out into the open.” > e “He is the poet of the downtrodden,” declares the Chatianooga News, with the added statement: “Kipling, the voice of the empire, said his prayer in | *Recessional” John Massfield sald his | praver in ‘A Consecration.’ How fine it is o see a great nation crown with its laurels 2 man whose soul is stirred by such th-ughts as ‘In that fine poem!" The News quotes this porm, the con- cluding lines of which are: “Others may sing of the wine and the | wealth and the mirth, {% The porl'lvtg‘lrcs!llcl‘ cf potentates goodly in givth! Mine be the dirt and the dross, the dust . and scum of the earih! Theirs b~ the music, the color, the glory, the gold: Mine be a handful of ashes, mouthful of mould. f the maimed, of the halt and the blind, in the rain and the cold— Of these shall my songs be fashioned, my tales be told.” : of the literary world, fhat instead of | the crown have boen daring enough fc | areat Interest in Masefield Is Expressed by Americans Hood, to its ‘Song of the Shirt,’” avers {the Dayton Daily News, referring to Masefleld as “the spokesman of the man beneath,” and that paper concludes, “One may confldently expect that he will sing with bare hands now, as he did in the anguish of the war, his old contempt for that ‘blind fool in power’ | who leads to destruction his ‘dust and jscum of the earth."” | * ok ok | “If he celebrates the royalties in duti- | ful verse,” suggests the Boston Tran- | script, “he will dress them in flesh and |blood, and not in Kohinoors and ermine.” That paper also remarks that Masefield “is a real poet of the age and time,” whose “manifold experiences have been woven into the texture of his poetry;” that he “will never disgrace the laurel, but rather the chances are that he will pass it on ‘greener to the brows’ of his successor. It is likely that he has itten more verse that will live than any other living poet.” Hs occupies the place which Chaucer | held,” in the judgment of the Birming- | ham News, which feels that “the same | general trend in affairs which has lifted Ramsay Macdonald to the premiership has shaped John Masefield to be the voice of the human hunger for treedom | under the encroachments of the ma- | chine. Thers is a profound appropriate- | ness,” continues the News, “in the | crowning during a Macdonald ministry of the discoverer of glory and power [undar the dirt and grime, the toil and the misfortunc.” The News concludes: ‘He needed no laureetesaip to make him | famous, or to rise to his country's needs. Looking upon her ships, he could say of himself, *I touch my country’s mind, I come {0 grips with half her purpose ' Looking upon her pecple, their joy and their tragedy, he could behold ‘the | image of life’s need, beauty in hardest action, beauty indead.’ " | His selection “ought to satisfy near] | 811 schools of literary taste and though! thinks the Kalemazoo Gazette, paying t!: tribute: ~“Masefleld is unquestion- | #bly one of the foremost contemnorary |fi0€ls in the English language. Unlike 15 Endeceuar. the late and scholarly Dr. Robert Bridges, he may be classified to some extent yet his verss ha: | of the accompl | . “He has a as a ‘poet of the people,’ s all the form and polish ‘ihfi? stylist.” runk life 1o the dre; | the Hamilton (Ontario) Specl-tao + Al ing the verdict: “The appointment will be & very popular one: for the v 1 laureate is known by his ve classes of people.” D Confederate V'clc;r;lls Will Remember Davis From the New York Times. It & 65 years since Appomattcx, but there 15 to bc & Confederate reunion this year as usu: As on previous oc- caslons, Southern newspapers speculate whether this reunion will be the last, Scme one described the Civil War as a > | brother MAY 17 [ THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover “Rogue Herrles,” the most recent of s0 many othsr novels, all famous, that it has a flavor of familiarity from the start. ries House in Borrowdale, in its neg- lect, dampness, dirt and general gloom, to Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights”; and its master, Prancis Herries, though not such a completely cruel misan- |rellflonshln to him. Father Roche, with his Jacobite plots and his influ- ingly like Thackeray’s Father Holt, with his vyoung pupil, the supposedly il- legitimate descendant of the Castle- woods, in_ “Henry Esmond.” Herries, when he is grown and has become the strong man of Borrowdale, more casily, lifts his enemy, Denburn, into the Tarn, vividly recalls Black- Doone.” The genealogy of the Herries ! family at the back of the book and the | reiteration throughout the story of the family theme of course suggest Gals- worthy's “Forsyte Saga” and mnakes one the Herries family, which aids in placing the various mem- tracing their journeyings in this book is the map of Cumberland which is spread over the inside cover. * kK X nality. He is violent, brutal, lasciv- { Sous, { man who all his life abilities, and dies having accomplished nothing good except the begetting of his two chiidren, David and Deborah, both totally unlike himself. He ill- treats his fcolish, timid, doting wife; with his family; sells one of these mis- tresses at the Keswick falr: keeps whom he himself believes to be one, ridiculously spares his opponent in & ! duel at the last moment: is hated by all his relatives and neighbors, with the exception of two or three who are able to see his other side. With all his viclousness, Francis Herries is an ideal- ist. He has always expected from life rome perfection which life has never given him. He is contemptuous of people and brutal toward them because they seem to him contemptible. Above 8l he despises people who fear him. Because his son David never fears him, even when he is in his most furious rages and David is a very little boy, he loves David with a lasting, respect- ing love. He loves the wild Cumber- land country with a ion which em- braces its most unlovely aspects, its drizzling, continual raine, its bogs and pads lurk. He thrills at every sight mara, sprawled in the early mornin light of the dark woods aroun Hon! Crag: of “the grand and.noble hill” of the Gavel: of the silvery surface of the mists boiling up the boulder-strewn passes of Was- of his alw: something reality. “vast, peaked, icy mountains. Their flerce and lonely purity, as silver- pointed they broke the dark sky: caused him to cry out with wonder. The sky was dark, the mountains glittering white, they ringed round a small mere or tarn, biack as steel in shadow. There was absolute siience in this world. Then ss he looked he saw a great white horse, glorious beyond amy ever beheld by man, come, tossing his great white mane, to the edge of the mere.. He hesitated, lifting his noble head as though listening,. then plunged in. He swam superbly, tossing his mane. and Prancis could see silver drops glistening in the fcy air. He swam to the farther edge: and then Francis was seized with an jonizing tervor lest he should not be able to climb out of the mere, up the icy sides of the ciiff that ran sheer into water. That moment ol suspense fearful and compounded of a great love for the splendid horie, a great tenderness, a great reverence and an anguish of apprehensicn. Then, toss- ing his mane once more, the beautiful horse mounted out of the mere, strode ross the ice and vanished. great loneli- beyond _sordid, “The Gentleman in the Parlour,” by W. Somerset Maugham, is a_collection of strange tales of strange lands told to the author, who is the gentleman in the parlour of inns, where he hears things that are told by those who drift in and out. One of the siorles is that of the old_lady who was once maid of honor to Queen Supalayat of Mandalay and assisted in the dethronement of King Thebaw. This sams story is told at much greater length in the recent romance of F. Tennyson Jesse, “The Lacquer Lady.” Another of Mr. Maug- ham's tales is that of the English Masterson, who cannot harmonize his love for a Burmese girl and his devo- tion and duty toward England. The locale of these stories is, as always in the work of Mr. Maugham, full of color and illusion of reality. We move through the “gilded, jeweled, deserted chambers” of the palace of Mandalay, along the banks of the Salwsen, the maje river of Tibet, andgeamong the ruins of the tower-templed city of Angkor Wat. * % ¥ Anne Green has a tasie for more norms!, human peonle fhan has her Julian Green. H:r novel, “The Selbys.” Introduces a family of South- erners established in Paris for many vears, vet fetaining their Americanism. Mrs. Seiby is an original person, who has retained her looks even in middle age, and kncws it; who thinks well of herself, but s full of Kindpess for others; who does not know how to dress, but has a gertain elegance; who loves her husband even though she is a modern Parisian-American. The S2lbya adopi & niece and bring her to Paris and the social conquests of this niece and her love affair divide the interest of the nove! with the doings of Mr. and Mrz. Selby. Mary Borden ser ! hospital nurse in the World War and | found. thal the war affected women | profoundly. alt-red their charec ! pay v, in m; cares m 'f;;.fr':?xlvn'm fersnt human boings. —Sh hias written of her experfences and he conclusions, with her usual clear and vigorons in Forbidd=n Zone.” he Mrs. Mari- . _author of teristic | e them | ing further invest: “béy&" war" because of the youth of the | majority of the combatants. But lads | who were 15 in 1861 are 84 this vear, | end that is rather old to march in | parades and make long, hot journeys, | Nevertheless, accommoda.jons havs been | prepared fcr 5,000 and a full atiendan-e | is_expected, partly beczusc there iy much talk that this reunion will be the | partly becausc it is being held at | Guifport. Miss, Here was the home of Jefferson Davis. From his place near by, Beau- | volr, he went to the Senate and to his | tragic presidency Richmond. At voir, ‘too, he wrote the story of the Confederas Lee and Jackson, much more than Davie, were the idols | of the Confederate Army. But the ! name of Davis stands for the tradi- tion, and June 3 | see as many of paying bt to 18l Sotthern Boat paying e rn - dent and will hear piping thinly Studio Windo! fi‘éi,'! of a famfiv which settled original- 1v as pioneers gins is a Miss incidentall: is the first of ;l’l‘b“fi‘i coarse, Aggi ate enee'urn.’fllkln’: ‘Higgins, who has vigor of a dess primitive ivpe and becomes the president of the HIZgINs Kcquires a seat on the stock exehan, “Black x’l‘orlel of the creation and development of man as told in the dialect of the Gullah Negroes of South Cavolina. stories foreword ls by of * A " ¥ | acronauties is beginning It is the story of four genera- in Ohin. Henderson Hig- ippi River captain, who founds a town in Ohio. He the four generstions. ssive: the last is his e t-grendson, Gerald Eb- le Bank and P Genesis” is a collection of novel of Hugh Walpole, is suggestive | eric J. Haskin? ence over young David Herries. is strik- | of the Passion Play?—S. D. raises him in the air and flings him [ He came David end his wife Sarah. A feature | tation would be necessary. ger and a vagabond, & uary 29, 1930, with a rate of wastes unusual| 3985 knots, or approximately 45 miles brings mistresses to live in his home | some time | South America | Fertile Field for Aviation. i opinion of no less an authority than the |‘l'he are compiled by - Samuel M. y and Gertrude o ey ¢ storles are G. nirolanes (is combat Shelby and the insects w thor ,throu ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, Did you ever write a letter to Fred- You can ask him ny question of fact and get the answer in a personal letter. Here is a great edu- cational idea introduced into the lives Yet it is not imitative. Her-|of the most inteiligent people in the world—American newspaper readers. It is a part of that best purpose of a immediately carries one’s thoughts back | néwspaper—service. There is no charge except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Address Frederic J. Haskin, director, The Evening Star In- thrope as Heathcliff, certainly has some | formation Bureau, Washington, D. C. Q. How long is & single performance W. A. The play begins at 8 o'clock in the morning, and, with a two-hour interval for lunch, continues until 6 David | o'clock in the evening. Q. What nationality is Gus Sonnen- so that he can lift an ox and, much | berg, the wrestler>—A. F. C. A.-Gus Sonnenberg is German born. to this country when very young. He attended Dartmouth and more’s giant hero, John Ridd, in “Lorna | played foot ball there. Sarah Bernhardt lose | § Q. How did her leg?—M. L V. A. During a performance of Jeanne d'Arc in 1890, Bernhardt injured her . Tollaw about | right knee in falling while on the stage. ST A OTe OOk AT O O ants of | At that time it was feared that ampu- It did not yme imperative until 1915, when the bers of, the family in their habitats and leg was amputated. Q. What is the speed of the new 10,- 000-ton United States cruisers? How fast can the Valmy go?—N. J. 8. A. The new naval 10,000-ton cruis- Francis Herrles, who is the “Rogue” | ers have a speed of 32.5 knots per hour. of the story, has a strange dual per-| France's new destroyer, Valmy, broke the speed record for destroyers on Jan- peed of per hour. Q. What crop loss do weeds cause?— G. P, A. The Indiana experimental station 0 made a survey of the ioned by the growth of lends prepared for useful losses occ: weeds on old womsan at Herries House whom all | crops end found the loss or reduction the countryside fears as & Wwitch and|in yield in the case of corn to be 10 per cent: tame hay, 3 to 16 per eent; and buries her in his garden when | potatoes, 6 to 10 per cent: Spring grain, she is killed by a mob; has his cheek | 12 to 15 per cent, and Winter grain, 5 slit from temple to chin because he|to 9 per cent. Q. What is vodka made of>—F. C. W. | " A. Vodka ix a Russian distijled alco- holic liquor, commonly made from rye, sometimes from potatoes, and rarely from barley. Sometimes, in Russia, New York, where the settlers had & Dutch background, which was again different from the English background of New England. The colonial style of Pennsylvania is characterized by sturdiness and solidity. Most of the buildings were of brick or stone and the detail was not so delicate as that of New England. 2 Q. How far can the sound of thunder be heard?—H. M. H. A. The Weather Bureau says that thunder is seldom heard more than floumllu, and usually not over 10 to 15 miles. Q. Who was the first in this country>—M. H. B. A. F. V. N. Painter in his “Poets of the South” gives the honor to George Sandys. He came to Virginia in 1621. Sandys was practically the only poet in the South until the Revolution. Q Why is a binocular glass to be preferred to a spyglass>—T. D. G. A. The binocular glass has an ad- vantage over ordinary spyglasses or single lens telescopes, because it enables both eyes to fccus on the same object and gives a much stronger vision than can be obtained by the use of one eye alone. The first binocular telescope, which was invented in 1608, consisted of two telescopes placed side by side. Q. Was Rabelais a physician as well as & monk?—T. R. W. A. Rabelais was educated in a monastery and became a monk and priest. Later he studied medicine and science. At the time of his death he was cure of Meudon. Q. What is a -horse opera”?— Y. G. F. 'A. Motion pictures known as “West- erns” are sometimes referred to as “horse operas.” Q. How much do newspaj dicates pay for the ma market?>—K. L. A. Rates and methods of payment vary. A plan frequently used is pay- ment based upon royalty or percentage,’ usually 50 per cent of the net receipts. Q. Does it cost more to operate & vacuum cleaner or a washing machine than it does to operate an electric 0?—T. C. A. The!cmu is :bout!t"hr ‘s::;’dufln: the time of operation. mi born: in mind that a radio is bably used more frequently and for than the labor-saving devices. poetic writer B. syn- they ‘the term is applied to any kind of whisky or brandy. Q. Will there be coins struck com- memorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth?—H. B. A. Such coins have not been author- Q. What is the name of the new planet’—E. N. A. It has not yet been named. known as Planet X. Q. How many times was the Liberty It s mud, its dangerous passes where foot- | Bell rung before it cracked>—E. T. A. The Liberty Bell which was of the “humped, lumpish hill, Glara- | brought to America in 1752, cracked at the first ringing after its arrival. It ‘was then recast and cracked again on ister Crag, the resort of rascals and | July 8, 1835, while being tolled in outcasts: of the sun blazing on Castle | memory of Chief Justice Marshall. t is known as colonial Q. Wha of Derwent Water and the black depths | architecture?—B. W. A. When speaking of colonial build- ings. none should be included of a date dale; of the glistenlng sea at Raven- |later than 1776. In New England most glass. Francis Herries has at intervals | of the buildings of colonial times were all his life a vision which is symbolical | of woocd and were built by carpenters s unsatisfied longing for! who were also shipbuilders. These material | artisans developed a style that had a It is a vision of a region of | flavor of its own, and differed in many respects as to detail from that done in Highlights on t . Please give a biography of '“'fl Jofin. ‘who gm lately celebrated 100th birthday.—-J. E. P. A. The real name of Mother Jones is Mrs, Mary Harris Jones. She born in Ireland, and her family grated to this country when she was 5 years old. She grew up to be dressmaker and married an in Memphis, Tenn. She had four chil- dren in five years and these ci and her husband died of yellow fever in 1867. She prepared their bodies for burial and sat alone in the house for 10 days until the quarantine was lifted. Four years later the great fire in Chi- cago destroyed her dressmaking shop, ° Having little to do, she became inter- eated in labor meetings, and soon when- ever labor had a particularly hard fight Mother Jones was likely to be there. The mines of Colorado, child labor in cotton mills of the South, non-union railroads in the West, and the coal flelds of West Virginia were the scenes of her most famous activities. Q. What is the preseht capital of Turkey?—N. W. A. The capital of Turkey is Angora, ‘Through the adoption of the Latin alphabet, the transliteration of the name of the capital becams Ankara, he Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands ficult not to think with approval and pleasure of the marriage of the Princess of Belgium and the Crown Prince of Italy. For this tly resembles a marriage of choice and inclination, a marriage of true love! The erncllnls are_both young, they are both most,prepossess- ing in appearance, and they are most indubitably charmed with each other. But this is going to be a precedent {fraught with important consequences. If marrying for love is now admitted to be the proper thing in royal fam- ilies, perhaps other families, not royal, will consider it proper sometimes! Often the wisdom of the parents pre- vents the precipitate union of “two thoughtless young people, who forget all the practical complexities of life in the pre-eminence of their one ab- sorbing eagerness to wed one another, thus, as it were, guarding- against any possibility of losing such a treasury of affection. Parents, however, as a rule, believe more concrete reources are es. sential. “Marriage for love does not offer the same guaranties as marriage for other more substantial motives,” they say. Well, marriage for love offers at least the greatest of assurances, that of pure affection. A life not lavishly enriched with earthly goods may not be so gay in some respects—we may feel er when we have made a “‘good catch” pecuniarily—but even if life is a little more rigorous and difficult when we marry for love, and even if the union -does not fulfill all the glowing hopes expected of it, nevertheless there always remain beautiful memories of such » marriage—memories rarely hover- ing about the wreckage of a marriage of convenience. Nobility and riches are not essential ingredients of matrimonial felicity. * ok % % Choice of Cards Gives Wrong Impression. Fvening Times, Glasgow.—Picture post cards are a great convenience to the traveler who is too hurried to write letters. But accidents will happen. One old lady who was spending a week or two in the North recently wrote on a colored post card, which she sent to her relatives: ‘Am unexpeciedly detained here for a few days. Will explain later.” On the 'd was & view of & new prison in the district where she was staying. * % % x Attempts Suicide Becauge of Vexation. El Diciamen, Vera Cruz.—At Mexico C'ty a young lady of geod family, Seno- rita Helena Arrendondo, empted to deprive herself of life because of a little vexation. Her maid did not obey an in- junction not to sweep while she was giv- ing & music lesson. The servant, Maria Rumirez Belmonte. was detained pend- ion of th whiie the rash victim of imp conducted te the French Hospital, o T o L marris La Prensa, Buenos Aires—It is the aviator Lindbergh that the science of to develop faster. and be of more service, in South America than in any cther part of th world. Some of the factors that are ac- counting for this aerial supremacy of South America are t excellent geo- graphical characteristice of the coun- tries, effording security in flight llndln{, and the willingnaess of the rail- roads to admit air lines in compeiition. In the interests of advapcement and trade. Already the postal’air lines be- tween Buenos Aires and New York are an accomplished and successful fact, * K ok % E MATIN, Paris.—It is very dif- | they breed, has shown that insects of various sorts attain great altitudes in the atmosphere. Apparently they are enabled to reach the upper air cur- rents and so are transported over thou- sands of meters until they reach r:gions very remote from the places in which they had their origin. These discov- eries have be:n made through the use of ingenicus traps fixed to the wings of tne machines, and insects, such as mosquitoes, have been found at eleva- tions of two or three kilcmeters above the earth in numbers which pass com- putation. Now that the warfare sgainst these creatures must be transferred from the earth to the air to obviate or lsssen not only the annoyance of their stings but also the dangers frem contagious diseases which they convey, th: most effective means of ov:ircoming them been found in a powder or dust composed of arsenic calcium, which is launched into space from the airplane in the form of clouds where swarms of these insecis are found. This dust is dissipated long before it reaches the earth, so no harm is done o planis or animals. * ok kX Australia Has Her Book Prohibition. Sydnev Bulletin.—With the war came prohibition, not yet rescinded, of hun- dreds of Looks decmed dangerous for Australian eyes. Whea the many regu~ lations author.zed under the war pre= cautions act were repealec, there was re-enacied 8s amended a literature proclamaticn, June 16, 1921, wirch still prohibits ih: impor.aiion of literature wherein are advocated {orce, violence, assassination, dectruction of property, intemperance and sedition. Until 1927 more than 200 period publications and innumerable bool were barred from Australia on the swengur of this ct, and many more have becn refused delivery here since then. <This Austra- lian government tan comptises an “Ine dex Expurgatorius” or no mcan dimen- slons. Book dealers nave to watch their step constantiy not to run afoul of ‘the law by handling proscribed publications. The big majority of the books and :‘rém}‘nl‘s n:\m!:w .nn are printed in n Engiand and sold 1 throughout Britain. bR ———— Chicagoan Always Has One Good Retort From the Cleveland Plain Déaler. ‘When the proud Chicagoan is twitted about bombs, rackets and other things that have given the big city on the windy corner of Lake Michigan the evil name, he always has come- pame yi one good e How about Jane Addams and Hull House? It is a good come-back, for the now venerable soclal worker and the set- tlement house that connotes her name have rendered a service to humanity that does much to efface Chicago's less worthy contributions to society. Hull House is 40 years old. * Jane Addams 1s nearly 70. There has just closed in Chicago a three-day celebra- tion in their honor. Theoretically it is Just the birthday of Hull House, but they couldn't leave Miss Addams out. all over the world have come 4| messages of love, greeting and congrat- ulations to this beloved pair—Jane Ad- d-;_'x': n.ml Hull :flouu‘ ‘ e amazing influence of this pioneer soclal settlement is shown by the names of some of its alumni, those who had lived there at some time or other and were invited to return to the party. Airplanes Usd To Combat Insects. El Teleggato, Guayaquil. the oftentimes igh the distribu Besides a list that is wufl:{ a soetal work, “Who's Who.” we find names it the of © ! of Walter Gifford, r-“lll G‘nl‘: ead of General Mackenzie )