Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1930, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.......May 24, 1080 P - THEODORE W, NOYES. . ..Editor e Ave. 43nd Bt ‘Butlding. .. London, 1 '} st % an . Ra Carrler Within the City. A .. 1. - 450 per month ing and Sunday 'Star mienen ¢ Suldary o 60¢ per monti e Evening an v ¢ 65¢ per month ¢ the end of Sent’in by mal e Orders may or telephs NAtional 5000. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Mar=izcd and Virginia. ll}’ nn? Su; 1yr.,3:0.00; 1 mo.. Bl unday only 3 6.1 :lmn..g§§ RECHE RS All Other States and 8 e 8l Canada. 0: s Memoer of the Associated Press. Associated Pross is exclusively v titled o the use for republication of all » dise atches credited ta it gr not otherw d in this paper, sn niso the local rews published herein. All rights of publication of #pecial dixpatches herein ‘are also reserved. - S — 2 The Revolt Against the Dial. The Senate has revolted against the dial telephone and indirectly- suggests that all Washington follow its example. Senators refuse to become automatons and twirl the pesky dial, just as a few years back a good many of us were becoming rebellious oyer having to look retary Hughes, foreshadowing “grave consequences” if exclusion were voted. Under the spur of Senator Lodge, chair- man of the foreign relations committee, the Senate decided to regard the Hani- hara letter as “a veiled threat” to this country, and the objectionable pro- posal was rushed into law. There it has lingered, a dormant danger to American:Japanese peace, & gaping wound in Nippon's heart, a sear across her proud national soul. How deeply Japan feels was expressed this week by Mr. Hanihara Rimself, in a speech nmow destined to be as historic as the exclusion episode itself. At the farewell dinner to special American Ambassador Castle at Tokio, Mr. Hanihara said: “Our resentment is felt now as it was then. Nor will it flicted remains unhealed. Friendship once marred in this manner cannot without d¥ficulty résume its wholesome growth unless some effective remedy is administered.” Representative Johnson has proposed the necessary panacea. Under it fewer than. one hundred Japanese immi-) grants will come to our shores per annum. Congress should rejoice at the opportunity, which it now has, to wipe out an indignity that should never have been .visited upon & great and friendly nation. -t Report on the Moore Bill, The trouble with joint commissions, according to one of the scholarly critics of the Maore bill, is that the House members do all the work and the Sen- up & number in & telephone book in- stead of asking “Central” please,to get Mr. Smith who lives on Tenth street.] But we came to it. “Central” lost her personality and became a voice, and now that the voice has lost its per- sonality and become a buzz, one doubts the ability even of the United States Senate long to maintain the role of Horatius at the bridge and de- Iay thé inevitable crash of man—or woman—vs: the machine, The. @enators will not become willing slaves of the telephone company. No one wants to become the slave of any- body else, but “aren’t we all”? We are slaves of the street car company when we enter a car and drop the exact fare in the fare box. We are slaves of Mr. Harland when we stop our automobile and wait patfently for a green light to give us permission to go forward. .We are slaves of the radio trust when we press a button or switch a dingus and listen to the merits of tooth paste and tires, batteries, refrigerators and shoes. We are slaves of the movie trust when we stand in line and wait for seats in a theater, and we are slaves of conven- tlon when we wait until May 15 to buy & straw. hat. As for the effect of the Senate reso- Jution the reaction of all Washington 18 awaited with interest. One does not doubt the power of the Senate to rule its own household, but unless the House and the Senate and the President bar dial telephones from the District of Co- lumbia the Senate has merely sacrificed economy to convenigpce and will increase its telephone bill. The tele- phone company may render inactivé the dials on the Senate instruments or take them off. The company explains that any Senator could have accom- plished that so far as he is individually concernedl witlfout a resolution to back him up, merely- by asking for it. The option int respect to use which ean be exercised by every Senator individually can, of course, be exercised, as it has been, by all Senators collectively. But the Capitol operators will still have to do the dialing, and it will take more operators to twitch the dials at the command of the Senators than if the Senators did some of the twitching themselves. If the business is left to the operators the personnel will have ta be increased or the whole National exchange changed again to manual operation. The latter action would be distinctly a step backward. —————— ‘When Ambassador Dawes arrives at the White House he is likely to have 8o much valuable information as to revive the title so much admired in American literature, “The Autocrat of the Break- fast Table.” e Banzai! No development in American-Japa- nese relations for ghe past six years approximates in importance the project to remove the exclusion stigma from Japanese jmmigration into the United States. It is announced by Representa- tive Albert Johnson of Washington, veteran chairman of the House immi- gration committee, that he will at the earliest convenient moment move in that direction. His action is to take the form of a proposed amendment to the act of 1924 whereby Japan will be placed on the same quota basis as other countries. Mr. Johnson is confident that both House and Senate will concur in his plan. When it is enacted™into law, the United States will have done everything in its power to revoke the affront which Congress, agalnst the urgent recom- mendations of President Coolidge and Secretary Hughes, offered to the Japa- - #se people. From a practical standpoint the ex- tension of immigration quota privileges 1o Japan is insignificant. What is of th: most tremendous significance is that the way is now paved to right the wrong that was done Japan when we wounded her racial pride by branding her citizens as undesirable aliens. She bitterly resented that indignity, as she was bound and entitled to do. It was a wholly unnecessary insult. Under the “gentlemen’s agreement” effected dur- ing the Roosevelt administration, the Japanese government undertook to re- strict the emigration to this country of the “coolie” type of laborer to whose presence our Pacific Coast States in particular objected. The “gentlemen’s agreement” was faithfully kept by the Japanese authorities, to the full extent of their powers. But smoldering agi- tation in California and adjacent States induced Congress to consider exclusion legislation, when amending the immi- gration laws in 1924, and the ensued. * It is a peculiarly appropriate cir- aenstance that Mr. Hanthara, Japan's envoy at Washington at that troublous moment, should now, six years later, be the one to precipitate amendatory ators take all the credit. But even this devastating broadside failed to impress the members of the House District com- mittee, and Mr. McLeod's report on the measure yesterday 50 admirably sums up the arguments in favor of this legis- lation that consideration of the bill by the House on its merits should result in its passage. As Mr, McLeod points out: *The Moore bill does not rest on the preconception as to what amount should be annually contributed by the Federal Government, on what basis or whether more or less than $9,000,000. It is simply an effort to have & thor- ough investigation and an ascertain- ment of all relevant facts which should be taken into account, conclusions reached as to what should be the fair and just division of the total expense of conducting the District Government and recommendations to Congress bi- ennlflly, since conditions vary quite rapidly, which is a circumstance at least suggesting that the contribution of the Federal Government should not be a rigid and inflexible amount.” If the members of the House on the commission propcsed by the Moore bill actually “did all the work” those who favor the Moore bill believe that they would be amply repaid by their efforts, credit taken by the Senate to the con- trary nothwithstanding. For it is to be assumed-—despite the fact that the as- sumption sometimes appears to be pretty far-fetched—that the members of the House who initiate and control the appropriations for the District of.Co- lumbia are actuated primarily by the desire to be fair to the local taxpayers, to prevent raids upon the public treas- ury by the residents of Washington and at the same time to maintain and de- velop their Capital adequately. The Moore bill’s propesed commission would merely develop certain facts that are necessary if these things are to be done intelligently. Residents of the District who favor the measure—and no opposi- tion has been expressed—believe that possession of the facts will go far to cor- rect the misconceptions upon which members of a group in the House ap- parently base their advocacy of contin- uing unchanged the existing system of appropriating for the District. Diplomatic Immunity. Corporation Counsel Bride has ad- vised the Commissioners not to take immunity in traffic cases away from the diplomatic corps. He is right and he could have well gone further and told the District heads that not only did they have no authority to revoke immunity, but that Congress will prob- ably never give them the authority. Diplomatic immunity dates back to the -early days of relationship between countries and has been in accepted usage for hundreds of years. There is no disposition on the part of Congress 1o sever the friendly ties that bind the United States to other powers. Purthermore, as Mr. Bride points out, less than three accidents a year have occurred between 1917 and 19290 in ‘which members of the diplomatic corps were involved. This is a remarkably small number, considering that more than five hundred persons are enjoy- ing diplomatic immunity. In all, ex- cept the rarest of cases, therefore, diplomats have scrupulously observed the trafic regulations and kept them- selves free from mishap. And when it is remembered that the British Ambas- sador once voluntarily waived immunity in an aceident in which his car figured there can be no justification for at- thmpting to curb the privileges of our foreign guests. ————————— Volumes of protest are written against dangerous feats in flying. Yet as a part of the perfect airplane the intrepid avia- tor is indispensable. Miami's New Vagrancy Law. Recently “Scarface Al” Capone, at the close of a period of retirement un- der public guspices, after a visit to his home town of Chicago, repaired, as the story books say, to Miami, Fla. There he has an elaborate establishment on an island which is just outside of the municipal jurisdiction, Miami did not welcome Mr. Capone. Indeed, it tried to keep him from entering its precincts. It had no jurisdiction over his island home, but ever since his armrival it has been oying him by putting him un- der arrest whenever he has appeared within the city limits. Each time he bas given bond for subsequent appear- ance in court, and he has secured a lot of writs, until the Capone case, as it may be called, is in a state of terrible entanglement,, There has been some question about the adequacy of the law under which “Scarface Al” has been haled to court. THE methods, or any person who is danger- ous to the peace and safety of the city of Miam!, or any person or persons known or reputed to be erooks, gang- sters or hijackers.” The ordinance de- clares that it shall be unlawtul for any such person to emter the limits of the city of Miam! or to travel upon the streets, highways or sidewalks of that city, the penalty for this offense being & maximum fine of $500, or & minimum Jall sentence of sixty days, or both. This 15 & vagrancy law with teeth in it. Tt has great possibilities for effect- ing a thoroughgoing clean-up. No longer will the mere wastrel or tramp, 1dler or hobo be the sole object of at- tentlon under vagrancy .proceedings. Well dressed, affluent and free-spending persons may be sent to the farm along ever die out so long as the wound in- | With the ragged wanderers of the road. [ on Perhaps there will be no action under it during Mr. Capone's present so- journ in Florida, for the new ordinance cannot go into effect for thirty days, and by that time he may have flitted to other parts. But if so, Miami will be ready for him next season. —aoos Low Fares for School Children. Any sorrow that may have come to the people of Washington over the death of the street car merger, should be mitigated by the bill, introduced by Representative McLeod, directing a two-cent fare for school children. Re- duced fares for school children and free transfers for adults were about the only tangible benefits to the street car riders contained in the late merger resolution. Mr. McLeod's bill would salvage the reduced fare for school chil- dren from the wreck of the merger, and there is some possibility that it may be passed. It would undoubtedly help the car riders, and the street car companies have not attempted to show that the loss in revenue would be serious. Other cities, among them Birming- ham, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Fran- cisco, New Haven, Atlanta, Chicago, Louisville, Boston, Worcester, Omaha, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Portland, Provi- dence, Dallas, S8an Antonio, Richmond, Seattle and many others, have re- duced fares for school children. There is no good reason why the plan could not be put into effect here with good results. The former proposal for free fares would undoubtedly have done more harm than good. The cars would be crowded unnecessarily and an un- fair burden would have been placed upon the companies. The nominal rate of two cents would produce new revenue, to make up in part for the loss resulting from the re- duction. There has been no testimony to show that this loss would be serious. ————e— Impreasions that congressional ad- journment will find statesmanship with unlimited time to play golf or go fishing are erroneous. Fall elections will render the intervening Summer exceedingly busy. —————————— It is not undertaken to condemn Bishop Cannon irretrievably for playing the stock market. There have never been corner saloons that amounted to muth on Wall Street. h2ed In a world of skepticism, even & man who offers a confession of murder has to be examined to determine whether he is a desperate criminal or only a spotlight grabber. It Senator Grundy is the dauntless lobbyist that he has been represented, he may yet meet a new situation grace- fully and bring expert views on tariff; detalls to a future Senator Davis. ————————— Mental tests have assumed so much importance that criminal law is begin- ning to be regarded as a branch of psychoanalysis. ———t Fame as an aerial globe trotter is evidently sought by Dr. Eckener that will not be second even to that of Editor Black of Baltimore. —— . In spite of the tremendous prospects for air travel, plans for roadways are eagerly discussed and real estate values continue to increase as steadily as ever. ——————————————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. “Dialemma.” ‘The mechanistic era brings ‘The statesman’s word of woe, As his defiance bold he fiings— “The Dial has to go!” “I'll listen for the time of day ‘That radio keeps in stock. I find in impudent display A Dial on the clock. “I'll seek for no debate profound ‘Which once held my respect, For some like Dialogue will sound, And some like Dialect.” Powerful Discourse. “Did you hear my talk over the radio?” asked Senator Sorghum. “Yes,” answered the listener. “I have just written your station a compli- mentary letter.” “Then you approved of it.” “Of course. You demonstrated your power. A man who can get all that time on the busy air proves right there that he must have real influence.” Jud. Tunkins says a good business man keeps away from market tips and attends to his own business. Studying, Expense. ‘The politician learns a lot, ‘His figures—he must twist ‘em. Says he, “In my campaign I've got To try the budget system.” A Trifle Feline, “She is as pretty as a picturel” said the enthusiastic young man. “Do you refer,” asked Miss Cayenne, “to one of the comic strips or a maga- zine cover?” “We all love praise,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “The philosopher segks to deserve it; the autocrat to compel it.” ‘The Huntsman. Now Miami has decided to make the law cover his case, so the municipal commission has just adopted a new vagrancy ordinance. It defines a va- action. Congress, under pressure from the State Department, was in mood 13 weigh tne international objections to the exclusion propossl. Then game the Mstier of Ambassador Haniharg to Sec- grant—in addition to one who has no visible means of support and may be- come a public charge—as “any person having visible means of suppori sce quired by unlawful or illegal means or ‘The marshes we've contrived to fill, ‘Where reedbirds would consort. We'll “swat” the wild mosquito still And call it merry sport. “De owner of a winnin' hoss,” said Uncle Eben, “puts on so many airs yowd mos’ think he de hoss his- ise 'y THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. A correspondent wants us to write an article on the subject, What does it %om one to argue? Those who indulge this great indoor sport, according to him, include “those who are born arguers and those who are earnestly trying to defend a subject of interest.” ‘There is a false notion abroad in the world that argument wins, that simply because another is reduced to silence he must necessarily give in to the re- quests of the apparent winner. This is the basls of modern salesmanship, and, unfortunately, it often works. Every one has had the experience of being confronted by some neatly dressed young man who has read several books salesmanship. To him, to win the argument is to win the sale. “Don’t magnify the prospect’s ex- cuses by paying much attention to them,” his little book declares. ee] his objections in the background.” ‘The joker in this proposition is that the very next article in his book says succinetly, with sublime indifference to consistency: - “Don’t argue. You may win the argument, but lose the sale.” All arguments may be classed as sales talk, of one brand or another. In a commercial world such as has been bullt up in this century every one is trying to “sell” something, if 1t is nothing more than an idea. * K Xk ‘What, after all, is greater than an idea? The trouble comes when inconse- quential ideas are argued with all the heat of great matters. Then arguing becomes tiresome, flat, stale and un- profitable. We have heard entire families argue for hours over a trivial t of loca- tion, whether a certain building in a certain city is at the corner of two streets or at the corner of some other two streets. ‘Every one has read in the newspapers of murder being done as the result of angry words arising finally from no rnt;re important matter than the fore- going. These are extreme instances, it is true, but typical of the trouble and ill feeling arising from everyday “argufy- ing.” The psychological basis for the dyed-in-the-wool arguer is undoubtedly the so-called inferfority complex. The person who is not “touchy” does not much care whether another agrees with him or not, but the man or woman suffering from an inferiority complex feels that every difference of opinion is a direct slap in his face. It is not so much the difference he minds as fear in his own head that the other secretly sneering at him. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred he believes that the one who differs with him suspects his education, his upl g, his past habits of life or his mentality. _ If the “argumentative cuss,” whether male or female, is examined in the light of the foregoing, we believe that in practically all cases he will be dis- covered to harbor & decided inferiority complex, which manifests itself more openly by argument than in any other way. i Most persons nowadays have Beard of this complex, to which the very vast majority of persons—rich, poor, great, unknown—are subject, but only a small percentage of them have stopped to realize that the instant desire to argue sbout anything and everything is its most comimion sign. * ok ok There are many disagreeable persons to whom one cannot say that “it is a beautiful day” without getting rebuffed. One may well feel sorry for these, for they are punished not only by the dis- like of most of those with whom they come in contact but even more by the workings of their own minds. If is practically impossible for an average human being to go through life perpetually disagreeing with others, especlally over unimportant and reall trivial matters, without suffering the consequences, so near is mind to life. “As a man thinketh, so is he,” and “Nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” “I am because I think.” These quotations show how manpkind has regarded his intelligence in his calmer moments, when, freed from emotions, he attempts to see life * in its true perspective. “Thoughts are things,” some one has said, saying thereby that a word is not Jjust an empty thing, but an actual fact in a world of facts; that it does not entirely go in one ear and out the other, but that something solid, satis- fying, good or hurtful, is left behind—a sort of residue. Something, in other words, rubs off a word, and this something is what makes it either good or bad and what makes thoughts good or bad. From this idea it is not difficult to get the transfer- ence which sees in mind the greaf maker of good or evil conditions, even circumstances. That this idea may be carried too far, to the point of absurd- ity, even, one may admit without dis- proving. - * ok koK It may be admitted that arguing often is carried too far in ordinary con- versation, Average convictions are scarcely worth the flushed faces and indignant expressions which they too often arouse. Such heated arguments show, perhaps plainer than all else, the marks of the beast over every one of us. Anger is the divine dispensation to take care of us in hours of danger, but it was never intended to form a part of the everyday living of civilized man. Anger arouses certain glands in the body to accelerated functioning, and this action throws certain ferments into the blood, almost instantly, which speed up the entire muscular action, either for defense or flight. During the brief interval when this l.mnunf action is taking place, the body is “frozen with fright,” as we say. Now these are mightly and mysterious things, common to every one of us, but scarcely acceptable for everyday inter- course. We should not be angry all the time, or we will wear down our mecha- nisms of defense. Those who per- petually argue are putting a strain on the wonderful provisions of Nature. They are dulling the fine edge of their sympathetic nervous systems, throwing a monkey wrench, as it were, into the most delicate and mysterious machinery ever set up. In considering him or her who can- not hear a difference of opinion calmly, but must immediately take it as a per- sonal affront, the tolerant person who tries to escape such a state of mind should consistently regard the other as: a sick man or woman. This attitude will enable him to bear patiently the slurs, sneers and general ill will which he will receive. He knows that the other is not accountable for all he says or does. Perhaps ready agreement with all that the other says is the best way to meet these attacks. Next to that comes the proverbial soft answer, and next to that silence. If these remedies will not work, we recommend a club. Highlights on the Wide World I Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands L MERCURIO, Santiago—Of all the petulant people who come into the Police Court of our eity, none complains so loudly or unhappily as the “subpoenaed witness,” that involuntary beholder of an accident or a crime, forced by the police to come and give his version of the lugubrious event. He comes into court maledicting his bad fortune and lamenting his lost time. The accident may have happened 2 feet from his nose, but often he knows nothing about it. “I was just passing tranquilly down the street, senor mio,” he will say to the judge, “when the collision occurred. I did not see it, but the carabinero noted my name in his little book. Now, I must lose the whole morning. I was but passing tranquilly down the street, senor mio, most unfortunately at the precise moment the casualty occurred. I am a very busy man and this accident means nothing to me!” ‘The magistrates endeavor earnestly, but seldom can get more thafi this im- pertinent lament out of the involuntary witness. At last he is suffered to depart, still maintaining that he was just walking down_the street, and. imprecating his unlucky star that placed him on scene at the precise moment when occurred the accident. 3 EE Any Time Is Rat Hunting Time in Glasgow. The Evening Times, Glasgow.—This is not official rat week, but any time is hunting time so far as this elusive rodent is concerned. This was shown when an organized hunt took g:nce in & Glasgow side street, adjoining large business premises. Like the fight and the Irishman, it was not a private quar- re] and anybody could join in. Rats were chased out of old packing boxes and were as speedily dispatched as the watchfulness of the crowd and the nature of their weapons would allow. ‘The hunt created some little excitement, o but if the odds were on the hunters the well known fecundity of the rat may | soon make up for the temporary depletion. EE Woman Shooters Not Invited to Fire at Pipes. Manchester Guardian—A gunsmith in Paris has o:ened a shooting gallery for women, and the frequenters are not invited to fire at clay pipes, clay pigeons or cellulold balls dancing on a jet of water. The targets are all men’s fig- ures, and the customer can select any shape or size she wants, from slim and tall to short and stout. Enterprising, but a little too much particularization. * K kK New German Penal Code Swift and Sure. Cologne Gazette.—The new provision- al penal code drawn up by the Berlin judge, Dr. Louis Werthauer, contains only 21 sections, covering felonies at present punishable by more than 400 different laws. The simplification con- sists chiefly in the setting of penalties for all distinct divisions of crime, the penalties increasing automatically ac- cording to the degree of the offense or the number of times the offense has been repeated. This will prevent the evasion of justice by seeking the lesser penalty where present laws conflict or contradict. The new code has the mer- its of being sure, swift and saving. * ok ok ¥ Eighteen Happy Men; Also Eighteen Happy Women. Le Matin, Paris—Eighteen men, it have found perfect peace in a) '8, world. They are the 18 employes the 18 women whom these same 18 men had gmlmuly met some place or other and ‘whom they in vain had offered all their tenderness and all their de- votdon. v * ok ok % Poor Marks Drive Children From Homes. Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna—In Budapest, children in the intermediate grades are deserting their schools and als6 their homes in masses. The mid- year examinations were just completed, and the marks attained averaged so unsatistactorily that 100 children ran away from home in fear of punishment for their poor scholarship. In 70 cases the policé have succeeded in locating the fugitives. In 30 other cases the children are still mhuh: * kX Celebrated Talent Will Contribute to Edition. 4 El Telegrafo, Guayaquil.—EIl Telegrafo takes pleasure in making the announce~ ment, which we do not consider prema- ture, that “we will issue our com- memorative edition in honor of the 100th_anniversary of the Republic of Ecuador. The most celebrated and tal- the | ented journalists, litterateurs and eriists of the country will collaborate with us in producing this edition, which will be an encyclopedia of all the activities, &hynlcnl, intellectual and social, of the rritory of the republic. iti will contain from 80 to 100 pages and is guaranteed to comg.flu at least 25,000 copies, containing hundreds of photo- graphs and artistlc sketches. A great part of the typographic material which will be employed in getting out this edi- tion, and which has been ordered spe cially from abroad, is soon to arrive, we suggest that all who wish to par- ticipate in the benefits of this ‘jour- nalistic triumph submit thefr composi- tions or advertisements at as early a date as possible to facilitate the ar- .rangement . and to insure the insertion _or preferred position of their contribu- ions. It was on May 30,1830, that Ecuador seceded from the United States of Co- lombia and has since constituted an independent nation. v Pennsylvania Coming Back as Oil State From the Cleveland News. Seventy years ago the Pennsylvania oil boom got under way, eventually bringing fame and fortune to Rouse- ville, Tidioute, Titusville, Oil City and other towns in Northwestern Pennsyl< vania. But in three decades or so the new industry passed on to Ohio, In- diana, Oklahoma and other points West, 8o that for many years now Ohioans and other Americans have thought of the remuyl_v-nii oil flelds as distinctly played out, as dead and gone as the nineteenth century. So there is lllr;l;l” for most, readers in the news that Pennsylvania has been coming back as a petroleum-producin, State, as have Ohio, New York an ‘West Virginia. The Pennsylvania field in 1929 averaged a production of 84,086 barrels a day, 6,385 barrels over the 1928 average, and not far below the daily output of 83,000 barrels or so, reached when the fleld was in its prime in 1880 and 1881. Reliable figures supplied by the Bu- reau of Mines show that Pennsylvania and the adjoining States produced no less than 23,801,618 barrels of crude petroleum last year, an increase of more | Br! than 10 per cent over the preyious year more %hln 8 lled | and & total incfease of domic! upon little island in the Pacific, where t.hz¥ pass their lives entirely 'destitute of feminine soclety. As a result, they assure us, they have no occasions for disputés nor any ri- valries or nof any suspicions per cent in the last five years. ‘There is encouragement as well ds astonishment in this reyival of pro- ductiveness and profit in a fleld thought of by uninformed Americans elsewhere a8 exhausted long ago. The water flood- ing and other modern methods cessful in Trestoring the old wells to profitable usefulness were ’‘doubtless prompted by the gro demand for um and its lucts, notably gasoline. Thus the old rule that de- &lmd wlu“huvs its mn.xpply. regardless circumstans & new illustra- tion in an oid pldet. ‘| Catholic Church.” A name of the Victorian period which stands for subtlety, distinction, delicacy and enigmatic quality, if not actual greatness, is that of Alice Meynell. Viola Meynell has written a memoir of her mother, “Alice Meynell. A Memoir,” in which that personality so compounded of sensitiveness, cultural enthusiasms, religious mysticism, re- served aloofness, and devotion to friends and family, is made to seem very real—far more so than most biographers have succeeded in doing. Much of the youth of Mrs. Meynell was spent in Italy, and Italy, its cul- ture and its atmosphere, impressed itself upon her for life. Italy permeates many of her essays and poems. At the beginning of young womanhood, she and her sister, a year older, were brought to land and for a time led the usual life of healthy girls interested in other young people, in sports, danc- ing and parties of various kinds. e diary of Alice relates that at one ball she wore “a ravishing yellow tarlatan of the palest possible tint by night, made exquisitely, with a plaid echarpe over one shoulder, a red rose wflhrru leaves in my hair and one at my waist.” But even at 18 Alice Meynell | was more absorbed in the writing of reflective, often sad, verses and in re- ligious contemplation than in ~balls. When she was 20 she became a Catho- lie. Recording her youthful poetic en- thusiasms for Wordsworth, Tennyson, Keats and Shelley in turn, she says: “It was by no sudden counter-revolu- tion, but slowly and gradually, that I Teturned to the hard old common path of submission and self-discipline which soon brought me “;-1 the gates of the ler daughter com- ments lready ardently -' Christian, ir Catholicism she saw the logical administration of the Christian moral law; and as that she adopted it with a deliberate rational choice, and with what earthly judgment she possessed, more than as a key to the unseen. And never surely was so rational a choice as hers more absolutely embraced in its furthest implications. No single act of hers ‘in life or pledged and bound by her when she chose that law.” A . Alice Thompson was 30 when she was married to Wilfrid Meynell, young Jjournalist, who had first been attracted to her through reading her volume of poems, “Preludes.” Their long and happy married life was one in which no allowance was ever made for idle- ness, or even, it seems, for needed leisure. Eight children were born to them and each child was at an early age admitted to a share of responsi- bility in the busy family life. Viola Meynell says: “Journalism was' the pleasant and consistant occupation of both my parents; at the time of her marriage it committed its act of con- fiscation forever of lelsure from my mother’s life. -In the interests of bread- winning the worker at will became the worker at every demand—a thing no writer can deplore who knows how pos- sible it is to sit down to pot-boiling and to rise from authorship.” Wilfrid Mey- nell became the editor of various jour-| nals, to all of which his wife contrib- uted. Chief of these was e Weekly Register,” a Catholic peribdical, the editorship of which was undertaken at the request of Cardinal Manning. Mrs. Meynell also wrote for the Spectator, the Saturday Review, the National Ob- server, the Pall Mall Gazette and the Daily Chronicle. Volumes of her essays and poems were published from time to time. Essays, “The Rhythm of Life,” “The Colour of Life,” “The Children,” 'gi.nndon Impressions,” “The Spirit of ce,” “Ceres’ Runaway,” “Mary, the Mother ‘Coliected Essays,” - “Child- “The )’ Songs, ¢ “Collected Poems,” “A Father of Women, and . Other Poems.” Max Beerbohm, writing rather satirically, once said that “in a few years Mrs. eTiate o the Engiuh sabbath be- subst r sab > be~ cause her style was considered by sd y critics “the one and only way in fine English could possibly be * Kok K During all the years of constant, in- tensive journalism, with most of writing “done at home, the Meynell home was the center of many other activities as well. Children were every- where, mixed with the papers. Everard Meynell, a son, wrote: “The pencilling mamma would sit at her work, the chil- dren at scrap-books on the floor or perhaps editing a newspaper under the table.” Viola Meynell says: “Our parents had no immunity from us, for we were not nursery children. We had our nurses, generally French; but mot beyond the stage of most helpless in- fancy did we remain the property of the nursery; we sidled into the grown- up surroundings, -not because our arents were willing or .able to adapt eir conditions to us, but because we just managed to be sufficiently adapt- able ourselves.” Among the intimate friends of the Meynells were Coven! Patmore, whose' devotion to Mrs. Mey- Tell was so great that he was unhappy er her. other friendships; George Sheredith, v;ho amm“:.udmt;n there was g time, lpst because n , When hie was & widower before she was married, when they might have met; and Francis Thompson, to Whom, & vic- tim of drugs and disease, the Meynells were veritable Tescuing angels. Al gether, a very rich life was ended when Mrs. Meynell died, November 27, 1922 * kK X Bavarian_village of Ober- described by Janet H. M. ‘book, "m};s Passion fi"é;‘“ rammergau: Its tory an Ig- ombe -nce:'r?nd the people of the vil- lage, in the past and present, who have created and carried on the great reli- glous play are characterized. The hi.s’-_ tory of the origin of ‘““The Passion Play in a religious vow and of the various performances during the years since is an interesting story. The devoted in- terest of the actors in the religious nar- rative and their imaginative living of their parts has, the author says, a great influence upon the characters of ers. the villag e ) liglon of the early Puritans of Ne'slh eE‘:g‘l%nfl, on account of which they left their homes in Old England and faced the hardships and terrors of an unknown wilderness, h‘lhlenld 0 “A Candle in the Wilderness” by Irving The Litdle ammergau Swift in her ller in his novel of that title. %n‘gh;x;: concerns the fortunes of two young men, William Heydon and Rob- ert Heathers, who have escaped from England, where their denunciations of royal tyranny made it dangerous for them to remain, and have found a home in Boston. Their behavior there is not much more satisfactory to the Puritan fathers than it was to the rul- classes in England and one of them is placed under arrest, while the other flees and has many adventures in Can- ada and New Amsterdam. i * kK X ] tory: the Autoblography of a Hinld‘li' %ld::yw." by Mrs. Parvati Atha- vale, translated by Rev. Justin E. Ab- bott, is & simple account of a life de- voted to the purpose of improving the sad conditions of young Hindu widows. Herself married at the age of 11 and & widow at 20, with a child dependent upon her, she was aided in her struggle inst Hindu tradition by a progres- sive brother-in-law, a ahman, who founded a home for widows at Poona. The author went to Poona first as a student, but later be- came a teacher. Much of her work in recent years has been the raising of funds for the institution. She came to the United States during the World War and her two years in this country made such an impression upon her that she devotes much of her book to them. * K K X 5 “In “ rreotypés,” Ada Wallas has Aketchefl.qx::me of the members of her own family of the 60s and 70s, remem- He e o et Cofarmiet, COMIOFL: , plous Non-f , ably endowed with worldly goods, these relatives. Governesses are literature ~was not | the | destructive and unwarranted. itry { Borglum turns it into to- | may be said to have done these ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC not attempt to settle domestic troubles, nor undertake exhaustive research.on any subject. Write your question plainly and briefly. Give full name and | address and inclose 2 cents " col or stamps for return postage, The re- ply is sent direct to the inquiréer. Ad- dress The Evening Star .Information Bureay, Frederic J. Haskin, 'director, Washihgtor, D. ©. Q. What is the seating capacity of Wimbledon, England, and what is the largest recorded attendance at s ten- nis game there?—B. D, A. The United States Lawn “Tennis Associal pacity of the center court stadium at ‘Wimbledon is approximately‘ 14,000. In addition it has other stands-around, what is known as the No. 1-and No. 2 courts. The association cannot give the figures of the record attendance, but in 1929 the All-England Club, which conducts the tournaments, returned something like $225,000 in- ticket ap- a}ic;&lom which the club was unable Q. Has Lawrence Tibbett, the politan baritone, and star of Rogueosonl." any brothers and sisters?. A. He has two brothers and two sis- ters. All have fine voices, Metro- Q. What is it that keeps things hot or cold in a thermos bottle?—J. A. The properties of the tle are due to the presence of & vacuum. Vacuum bottles have double walls and from the -space between the air is ex- hausted. This prevents the heat from escaping and from penetrating. Q. What per cent of the men wound- ed in the war returned to active serv~ A. Dr. Woods Hutchinson made & study of the care of the wounded and sald: “It is the first war where the doctor has been given a free hand. And he has responded by almost wlpln? out disease and saving 90 per cent of the wounded, sending 80 per cent of them back to the firing line within 40 days.” tion says that the seating ca-| iae ‘The | urban population, 1! J. HASKIN. recommended for cleaning win Q. Why is Khyber Pass of particular in | interest?—A. C. A. It is the most important of the passes which lead from Afghanistan into India. No other pass in the world has such strategic impor- tance or retains so many historic asso- ;l!ntlh::‘ as this gateway to the plains ndia. Q. When was the famous Cleopatra ‘when ‘Was B. born and did she die?—V. B. A1 supposed 10 have committed sul- su) ve - 3 Be. Q. How many Catholic - deis "etand” Hon-Cethic. schaolels M. F. A. A survey shows that 52 cent of Catholic students in eoll‘mn and universities attend non-Oatholic insti- tutions; 48 per cent attend Catholic ones. Q. ‘What is the pzon:hflm of Mans zanillo, Cuba?—M. Z. A, Its municipal rflfl“hfim is 54,900; ,819. It is the port of Bayamo and the outlet for products of the fertile Cauto Valley. Q. How soon after & cow has been fed garlic will the milk have a garlic e inin s half hour after the feede & 3 the flavor and odor of garlic ‘. tnefinmmmm. e Q. Did Gilbert Stuart paint a pice a""DO‘Tm ‘Washington on glass?— A. The Smithsonian Institution authoritles on_ Gilbert Stuart do ot consider any painting of Washington on glass as genuine. Q. On this continent in what eoune try was the burro first used?—L., M. at e SO T s 8] iards, was first on this contie nent in Mexico. Q. What is the pronunciation of the Q. How many national parks are there in the United States?—L. E. A. There are 21. Q. How long have Pullman cars been made of steel?>—P, P. A. The Pullman News says that the first all-steel sleeper was produced in 1907. This change was necessitated when the first tunnels were authorized under the Hudson River into New York City, a stipulation being that no com- bustible equipment should be used. Q. Where does Helen Keller, the fa- mc;:’unbund and deaf woman, live? A. Miss Keller lives in Porest Hills, Long Island. Q. How many people in China can neither read nor "r&7—0 . A. Taking a census by methods adopted in Western countries has re- cently been atte in C ‘The estimate of _the illiterate tion ranges from 318,000,000 to ,000,000. Q. What is persimmon timber used for>—J. E. A. Persimmon is used 1 wood large! now for shuttles in looms, golf clul n-n":re of the new capital of Australia?— n'A.'m Australla, Canberra is the accent on the first lyl.llbil. Q. Is there any ynbl.nleldm 'I'hun’nt %n :Vnde-ln value A, Trade-in values of recel sets are tabulated in the Nmm Dealers Red Book, published by the Radio Record Publisi Co., Tribune Annex, Minneapolis, inn. Sixteen hundred models made by 75 different manuf are listed. 49 Q. When will the Wagner Festival at Bayreuth be held?—L. K. J. A. Prom July 22 to August 31. ‘Was fluflg of Venice & church heads and small childrén’s shoe lasts, “Children of the Old Masters,” | pq; furniture. Q. What. will. remove’ accumulated Borglum, Volunteer Editor, ~ Faces Unappreciative Nation An unappreciative public looks upon the _edi by. Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, former President 's 500-word history of the republic, as Mr. Bor- glum’s function, it is pointed out, is to carve the history on Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills, rather than to edit it. “Writing, man, isn't ink, it's heart's blood!” exclaims the Raleigh News and Observer, with the added statement: “The old adage that ‘Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’ might very well be- amended the , ‘or the ensitive soul wi copy is edited.’ The fool who rushes in is a piker compared to Mr. Borglum.” The St. Paul Ploneer Press advises that “seemingly it w{x‘}‘g definitions. With a deft narrative with & new hero mamed ‘the ,geqfll.' This may be art, but it is not history, for’ ‘the ple’ did not declare eternal t to seek happiness, self- government and the divine duty to de- fend that right at any sacrifice.” Neither did “the people’ assemble in convention to make a charter of perpetual union, the Constitution. The American colonies The representatives of the peaple may have done them, The people acqt f perhaps. Their representatives may have ratified the acts.” * ok kK “Probably Mr. Coolidge is smiling & bit,” remarks the Albany Evening News. “He knows that he devoted much time to eliminating every unnecullr¥ ‘word and probably he cast out many of them. to ‘sculp’ But Mr. Coolidge hasn't E; those words. That is Mr. {lhu.m‘l Job and if he prefers to change t and feel like a movie director, no doul Mr. Coolidge will let him. But at least it is hoped there’ll be no controversy over it. There have been controversies with Mr, Borglum before. But we pre- sume that the mountain is chuckling a bit’l?m-;lnur. oooug?e." “To improve on the proposed - tion, which Mr, Coolidge has mbm" says the Hartford Times, “would in our judgment be more difficult than to carry out the work of inscribing. If there is any amending to be done, advice should be that the author be tted to attend to it himse! ‘The Charleston Daily Mail protests: “Gutzon Borglum is no doubt a great sculptor, but he has yet to qualify as a great student of Gov- ernment, especially of the American Government as founded by the fathers, as we call thém. He is not a historian. He is neither lawyer nor irterpreter of law. It is not & question of what Mr. Borglum thinks about liberty and other things, but what interpretation of it was put into the Declaration of Inde- pendence and in the Constitution. On these points ex-President more competent to speak than the sculptor.” . * ok ok % Recalling the copyreader who “took it upon Dimselt o attempt to boil down one of Bernard Shaw's critical articles from 1,500 to 300 words,” the Chattancoga News offers the judgment on the present, incident: “Mr. Borglum has his own ideas on history. The un- fortunate contretemps at Stone Moun- tain proved that fact. Admittedly a talented artist, yet undoubtedly Mr. stone mason’s apron and s ?o“ymm to go to work, and to py.” . and w Ne words were none Mr. Borglum's business, unless he should come across one with a letter that carved conveniently ws, “that the basis. . is patriotic e. We do not think that Mr, lum is any the less patriotic, but he ‘is probably more universal. His mind contemplates a time when perhaps Mount Rushmore may sort of historical beacon for the than one for the United States alone.” Nevertheless, the Transcript is con< vinced that “the Coolidge inscription is the product of a representative Ameri- 1 was ot what Mr. Coolidge might not wi : mi write,” advises the Ilouisville Times, “but primarily Mr. Coolidge’s name—a name of immense publicity value—that was ted in connection with the concli Dispatch, “to the dash- dash school of rhetoric, for he has sub- stituted that epistolary ~cut for words and commas throughout the two Coolidge paragraphs he has edited. The ex-President at least will have the Eng- lish teachers on his side. Mr. Coolidge thus far has refused to comment on the blue penciling, but we just know he feels pretty bad about it. In a recent e article he quoted with obvious ride the letter of an admirer who said e had appropriately placed the ‘Auto- biography’ on a bookshelf alongside the family Bible. Has any one ever placed any of Mr. Borglum's sculptures beside the graven tablets from Mount Sinai?” Tufts to Establish School of Diplomacy from the Pfvidence Journal The $1,000,000 bequest of Austin B. is | Fletcher of New York to the Tufts Col- lege for the establishment of a school decree § up an institution to qualify aspirants for the f¢ n service e orelg: ol and the practice ‘The Tufts authorities did not wish