Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1930, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With_ Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. BATURDAY.......May 31, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star per ‘Company ivania Ave. East 42nd 8t. J lgifihli n Bullding. Regen: 81, London, nd. P Rate by Carrier Within the City. 4S¢ per month The Pyenine st ning and Sunday Star (whes 4 Bunday: “60c per month Evenin; a ..65¢ per month Ter copy end of each month. y mall or telephone Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland tly and Sun Fn only .. unday only All Other States and Canada. fly and Sunday. 1 yr..$12. miy 800 ily oni . 1yr. rday only 3 $5.00: 1 mo.. Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled o the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not others ise cred- this d aiso the iocal news published herein. All rights of pubiication of special dispatches herein are also teseried. - — Reaction to the New Zone Plan. The Board of Trade zoning commit- tee's objection to Maj. Davison’s pro- posal of a limited commercial zone, to be applied to such residentifl areas as lower Sixteenth street, is based more on the contention that such a proposal would fail to solve the difficulties of property owners in the areas affected than upon any radical fault in the pro- posal itself. Mej. Davison's plan, for instance, contemplates the permission to erect such structures as office buildings in these residential zones. But the Board of Trade committee does not be- lieve that if the permission were given, office buildings would appear as a mat- ter of course. There is also some ob- Jection to the proposal that theaters and moving picture houses be permitted in these residential zones. The result- claiming “the moderation ard vision Perhaps today, as certain statesmen on Capitol Hill ponder that Hooverian homily, they may find that the Presi- dent talked “politics™ at Gettysburg after all, and very high politics, at that. Deadly Weapons Legislation, In the course of the transaction of business recently in the House of [ Representatives, House Bill 9641, “to control the possession, sale, transfer and use of dangerous weapons in the District of Columbia,” was considered and after a brief discussion was passed. ‘This measure, for the passage of which by the Senate in concuirence with the House there is ground for hope, is an improvement over the present law, but it does not go far enough to insure an effective control over the trafic in deadly weapons. It provides for heavier penalties than at present for persons committing crimes of violence “when armed with or having readily available any dangerous weapon,” with cumula- tive penalties for repeated offenses. It provides further that in the trial of a person committing a crime of violence the fact that he was armed with or had readily available a dangerous weapon and had no license to carry the same shall be prima facie evidence of his intention to commit such crime. An- other section provides that no person who has been convicted here or else- where of a crime of violence shall be permitted to own or have in his posses- sion or under his control a deadly weapon. These provisions go some distance to- ward strengthening the law and making it more efficient. The measure, however, ing traffic congestion, it is felt, would be harmful to such neighborhoods. Neither Maj. Davison nor any one else is wedded to the plan for the new re- stricted commercial zone. The sugges- tion was thrown out in the hope of obtaining just such reactions as have come from the Board of Trade com- mittee. This committee believes that the proper solution of the problem lies in adjusting a-sessments made on resi- dential property so situated that the property has lost in desirability for resi- dence use, but increased in hypothetical value because of its proximity to com- mercial areas. In the case of lower Sixteenth street property owners have seen their assessments and their taxes increase enormously because of the high-priced commercial district just around the corner. But zoning pro- hibits them from disposing of their property for commercial use, while new conditions and customs have made the property less desirable for residential use. The committee does not believe that the high sales value of commercial property should so radically affect the assessment on nearby property that re- mains zoned for residential use. The assessor, on the other hand, bases his valuations for taxes on the strength of and not on zoning classifications. ‘There never has been any attempt to ©o-ordinate assessments and zoning. It is not established that such co-ordina- tion would be possible, because here in ‘Washington it has never been tried. But the fact remains that if land is assessed on one basis and zoned on an- other the property owner .is caught be- tween the horns of a dilemma from which, under present conditions, there is o rescue. The Board of Trade committee sug- gested an interesting thought in its dis- cussion regarding office buildings. The erection of new Government buildings will create vacancies in office buildings now standing that will not be filled for an undetermined period and during this period there will be littld demand for new private structures of this type. 1f lower Sixteenth street were opened to office buildings, as Maj. Davison’s plan proposed, it might be many years be- fore the demand for office space in this section would bring about new con- struction. Government condemnation of private structures does not invari- ably mean new private bullding de- velopment that tends to increase as- sessments, taxes and therefore the reve- nue productivity of the decreasing area of taxable land in the District. —————————— Music for music lovers remains some- thing of a problem. Grand opera in New York must recognize the privilege ‘which a lavishly jeweled audience claims of providing the best of the scenery. —_———— Indian fakirs remain motionless for months together. They g0 not repre- sent the kind of talent that is at present exerting influence. e No occasion for sympathy for pecuni- ary reasons will arise as the result of Pennsylvania elections. None of the candidates really needs the salary. ——————— Mr. Hoover at Gettysburg. President Hoover has seldom spoken more impressively than he did at Gettysburg yesterday. In a Memorial day speech which, as to its brevity, also seemed to be inspired by Lincoln's im- mortal few words on the same field sixty-seven years earlier, the President addressed himself to the country on the importance of national unity. It was an appropriate theme in such a setting Observers report that Mr. Hoover was visibly moved, as he pleaded for a greater inculcation of the old vir- tues of “tolerance, charity, forbearance and restraint” and urged his country- men to practice them if they would tread “the paths of true glory for the WNation.” Politicians expected the President to utilize the Gettysburg occasion for a speech on some of the problems be- setting him. Many thought he would not fa!l to deal with the naval treaty now being buffeted over the senatorial waters. With the eyes and ears of the whole people turned in his direction, it was fancied that he might seize so stel- lar an opportunity to answer his treaty foes. Mr. Hoover eschewed polemics on does not adequately contribute to pub- lic safety in the matter of the possession of deadly weapons. It sets up & system of licensing for the carrying of such weapons, and for transfers and for re- ports by vendors and the keeping of records and the limiting of traffic in weapons to those who are licensed by the Commissioners. It provides that no public display of weapons shall be made on the premises of licensed shops and no placards shall be shown save a sin- gle sign of small dimensions simply in- scribed “dealer in firearms” or some other suitable phrase identifying the business. There are other provisions such as prohibition of the altering or removal of identifying marks from weapons and a broad penalty provision prescribes a fine of npt more than $1,000 or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, for violations. But with all these provisions, which supposedly limit the traffic and keep it under regulation, the measure lacks the one specific prohibition which is needed to constitute an effective weapons law. 1t should provide that the penalties pre- scribed should apply to any person, licensed or unlicensed, selling a weapon of the character described to one who does not bear a permit to purchase, not merely & permit to carry. It is not the carrying of deadly weapons that consti- tutes the great danger, but the getting of those weapons. The person of crim- inal mind and purpose will take a chance on being caught with a gun on his person. His chance of escaping de- tection is a good one. Not until it is made illegal under severe penalty to sell to a person who has not a permit to buy, issued with careful restrictions and after some delay, will there be se- curity within this jurisdiction from deadly armament by lawbreakers, Courtesy “Tickets.” ‘The introduction of courtesy “tickets” for visiting motorists who have violated traffic regulations is an idea of con- siderable merit, but care must be ex- ercised in carrying it out to avoid un- warranted abuse of the courtesy thus provided. There are many Maryland and Virginia motorists, for instance, who regularly come into this city and who know the regulations as well as any Washingtonian. If all that hap- pens to them when they violate one of the rules is to be handed a nice little “welcome” from the Police Department they probably will not be very careful to obey. As a matter of fact, it might be the part of wisdom to exclude Maryland and Virginia tags from the plan. Certainly no Washington motor- ist will receive special treatment in either of these States, but will have the same status in so far as traffic viola- tions are concerned as one of their own citizens. As far as the real out-of-towners are coucerned, motorists who visit here perhaps once a year for a -day or 8o, they should be accorded every cour- tesy and every aid by the Police De- partment to make their stay in the National Capital as pleasant as pos- sible. Nothing is more firritating to a visiting motorist when he unwittingly violates a trivial regulation than to be grufiy told that he must waste his precious time in hunting up a precinct station and parting with some of the funds that were to maie his trip more enjoyable. On the contrary, it is quite likely that if given a Courtesy ticket he will do his utmost to co-operate in the future and will sing the praises of Washington in the part of the coun- try in which he resides. oo In connection with a flexible tariff the inflexible determination presents itself as a consideration, Problems of the Poundmaster. Now that the young son of a member of Congress has been bitten by an un- muzzled dog and compelled to receive Rospital treatment, it may be that something more drastic and more effi- cacious may be done to offset the pres- ent mild muzzling laws of the District. The authorities have in the past de- cided that, beginning and ending with & certain date, unleashed dogs mus ‘wear muzzles, evidently under the de- lusion either that they do not bite in certain months or else that, if they bite, the incision is not dangerous. Nothing Memorial day, preferrirg, as he habit- ually does, to concentrate on fundamen- tals rather than ephemerals. It is just possible that the President did have in mind those who have 4 bis “rreat the parents of these youngsters. Due to the scientific achievements of Louls Pasteur not many children or adults bitten even by rabid canines perish, but any one who has ever witnessed the Pasteur preventive treatment realizes this this, of itself, is no joke. New Jersey is to be congratulated on its recent determination that the legal “right”—which- is sald to go back to medieval England—whereby a dog may have one bite without getting into trou- ble, is to be suspended. Other States and communities should do likewise. There is just one way to prevent it and that is by constant and consistent muz- zling. If dog-lovers so love dogs that they cannot bear to have them muszled, then they should see to it that canines are rural and not urban dwellers. The sufferings of one child bitten by a rabid dog and not given Pasteur treatment in time are of a frightfulness compared to which all the discomforts of all the dogs in the world are as nothing. Nor must a dog be rabid to do damage which is horrible either as to suffering or dis- figurement, or both. i The present poundmaster of the Dis- trict performs his duties in a highly efficlent manner. This was recently testified to by veterinary and municipal authorities alike. In fact, the House District committee only a few days ago reported favorably a bill giving police authority to the poundmaster and in- creasing his salary. “His job is a diffi- cult one at best and his efficient per- formance thereof should be buttressed by a regulation which designates the season during which District dogs must be muzzled as beginning with January 1 and ending with Décember 31. Heriry Ford's decision that business needs old men as well as young ones is important. Mental as well as physical | energy has a duty in affairs and a mere matter of years should not encourage ideals of nothing to do but play golf and attend the movies. ——— A policeman or a fireman would be far less competent to serve the public if he had to take as much time in thinking over an act of duty as a legislator some- times requires in considering the simple matter of a pay raise. e An acetylene torch opened a safe and revealed a large supply of speakeasy rum. Everything has its use. Even the methods of the safecracker prove avail- able in a lawful enterprise. epg Bad weather is valuable in the ex- perience of the Graf Zeppelin, which is out to demonstrate how a big dirigible will behave under all conditions, o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. New Moon. New Moon, shining in the sky, Tells how time is drifting by, And the superstitious say You must look the proper way. ©Of good fortune you're bereft If you see it on the left; It portends a future bright 1If you see it on the right. New Moon, as you bring the show'rs That with rainbows touch the flowr's Where the perfumed South Wind Softly from the Summer skies, Bringing the reminder true Of a beauty ever new. New Moon, you foretell up there Only Fortune that is Fair. Figuratively Speaking. “They say you are a figurehead.” “Well,” answered Senator Sorghum, “youw’ll have to admit that my cam- paign fund represents a pretty imposing figure.” Jud Tunkins says when Columbus discovered America the Indians discov- ered rum and America discovered the bootlegger. Relief Wanted. ‘The farmer says he wants relief. The price of food we sadly scan, Exclaiming in our candid grief— ““And so does your old City Man.” Alternative. “Do you enjoy dancing?” “No,” answered Miss Cayenne, “You prefer conversation?” “The conversation is what drives me to dancing.” “Power may be lost,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “when a leader competent to persuade decides it may be easier to compel.” Popular Entertainment. An orator finds profits great That listeners bestow, And what we thought was a debate 1Is only just a show. “De hoss race,” said Uncle Eben, “is called de sport of kings. I heard some gemmen talkin’ ‘bout history an’ dey ‘peared to agree dat a hoss is a safer bet dan a king.” ———————— S. R. O. in Rhode Island. From the Haverhill Evening Gazette. ‘The population of Rhode Island con- tinues to increase, going up 13.4 in 10 years. At that rate how long before the 8. R. O. sign will be hung out in Little Rhody? New Crusade Wanted. From the Asheville Times. ‘While the various uplift organiza- tions are seeking laws to protect the health and qmorals of the people, why do they start no crusade against the campaign cigar? ——— Four Men Necessary. From the Florence Alabama Herald. Oxford University will allow one ‘woman student to four men, which is about the proper handicap if debating is to be a feature of the curriculum. — s Purely Accidental, From the Dayton Daily News. Even after hearing the charges made concerning the recent primary Pennsylvania, we judge several of the voués were counted the way they were cast, Use for Flower Pickers, From the Toledo Blade. o Federal Farm Board says weeds cost the American rople $3,000,000,000 a year. It would be the flower vandals could be set to pulling the could be more fallacious. Little attention is paid by the average reader to the almost daily small news items headed “Dog Attacks Five-Year- Old,” “Dogs Bite Four Children,” or “Boy ‘n Hospital After Attack by Rabid Dog.” cne A1 thres of thess hendiines, by the vay, Wwas 8¢+ apjeared last month, and there will be the —_— e New Hat Prediction. From the Charlotte News. Association of America decreed colored straw hats 5 Tar August snd the first hal tember, we predict ;that bla evailing * SATURDAY, BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Tigercat Lane is our latest enthusi- asm. It is well to have enthusiasms. ‘They keép the soul from growing stale, & malady from which souls suffer as_well as minds. No one has ever seen a there is a reasonable suspicion th: one ever will, since these entities are not visible, but spiritual. Every one, however, feels that he has one and is willing to risk his chances for the life eternal upon it. Anything, therefore, that contributes to its welfare h‘very much worth while. o Sy, One's soul indulges in expansion as he walks along Tigercat Lane. The strip of it which we prefer is exactly seven-eighths of a mile in length, according to our pacing. If you prefer the more mathematical certainty of an automobile speedometer, it is eight-tenths of a mile. Anyway, it is almost a mile, or golng on a mile, to use the good old phrase- ology. In this stretch ‘the pedestrian finds & cross of all the beautiful roads he ;\:}rfl walked down, beginning with child- Here are hollyhocks and altheas for memory and racing automobiles for modernity. There is Grandmother’s home, behind a great hedge, set well back from the wvanding road. There is a bell over the picket gate, and every time one passes a tempta- tion comes over him to ring that pell and tun, M 5 1 ‘Walt Whitman wrote the classic of such a road as this when he sang, once and for all: “Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The Jong brown rth before me, lead- ing wherever I choose. “Henceforth I ask not good fortune— I myself am good fortune: Henceforth I whimper no more, post- pone no more, need nothing; Btrwn;dnnd content, I travel the open road. “The earth—that is sufficient; I do not want the constellations any nearer; I know they are very well where they are; I know they suffice for those who be- long to them. “You road I enter upon and look around! I believe you are not all that is here; I l;‘elleve that much unseen is also ere.” These lines are the expression of a mood, and the mood is engendered in Imost any one who will step along Tigercat Lane one of these cool, crisp: Spnn{ mornings, when the afr is ex- actly like the atmospheric wine of Au- tumn or of Winter even. * ok ok X [ Here one meets a nun, a fellow way- farer. One does not know whether to k or not, and, not knowing, pretends to be interested in a giant clump of some flowering shrub. A few other wayfarers in the lane are passed from time to time. Here comes a postman, Government afoot, he, too, setting out light-hearted along the open road, reasonably healthy and free. His path, however, does not lead just where he chooses. He must go to num- bers, belna—hwmmfi whkhmm man -many human young, flaxen haired, dark haired, but one and all with smiles for him who brings the messages of good will, the morning's mail. * %k % “You l.lrkghl! serves me with breath to speak! You objects that call from diffusion my meanings and give them shape! You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equitable showers! You paths worn in the irregular hollows by ‘the roadsides! I think you are latent with unseen ex- istences—you are so dear to me." Off to the right, as we pace forward toward the great city, lies a shady street, lined with four rows of trees, There are great trees on either side of the street, and these, meeting in giant arches over the way, form a nat- ural bower. On the inner sides of the walks are yet other trees, smaller trees, which form leafy tunnels over the sidewalks. Thus, as the walker along Tigercat Lane looks down, he sees three long tunnels of green, to the sides of which fine homes sit in that peace and pros- perity which should be the right of every home. e e A I inhale great draughts of space; The East and the West are mine, and the North and South are mine, I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much good- ness. All seems beautiful to me; I can repeat over to men and women, You have done much good to me, I would do the same to you.” There 1is .a spice of danger along Tigercat Lane. Automobiles, of course, There is no regulation sidewalk, but pedestrians take their little lives care- fully in their hands, as they walk along the concrete “shoulder” on either side. Always it is a question whether to walk on the east or west side of the lane. Most pedestrians prefer the east, but we like the west, for there is better dodging over there. At the south entrance to the lane there are two signs, and one can take ‘his choice, evidently. “Fifteen Miles in This Village,” says one. “Twenty-five Miles Begins Here,” the other. 5 b There is a legend that the first sign is obsolete, and that the village fathers have neglected to remove it. But as far as that goes few motorists pay much attention to either sign, They commonly go 30 to 35 miles an hour during the day, and at least 40 miles—plus—at night. Vg “Now if a thousand perfect men were to appear it would not surprise me; Now if a thousand beautiful forms of women appeared, it would not astonish me. “Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons, It is to grow in the open air, and to eat and sleep with the earth.” One grows ulznmed. here on Tigercat, Lane, of the refollection of old habits, when going to work was a ‘mere shut- tling out of a front door into a bus at the corner. Here one must walk almost a mile, not to get a well advertised brand of cigarette, but to know the fresh scent of early morning at every step, to #ll the eyes with the glory of the 'green world of Nature, to be one with the Great Companions of the Open Road. Primary in Pennsylvania Viewed Fr(_)m Many Angles A victory for Pennsylvania’s “inde- pendent and non-controlled” electorate is one of the outstant opinions as to the result of the primaries which gave Gifford Pinchot another chance for the governorship and made Secretary Davis a candidate for Senator from the Key- stone State. Not every one finds rea- son to praise the results, and m: differ as to the significance of the pro- hibition issue iny connection with the vote. “‘One might almost say that Pennsyl- vania Wins,” remarks the Houston Chronicle, calling Secretary Davis “a plain man of the people and honeet, and describing Pinchot as “able, alert, honest and capable.” The Duluth Her- 1d avers that ‘“the Republicans of Pennsylvania have chosen wisely, not only for their own sake, but for the country’s sake,” while the Syracuse Herald concludes that “one explanation of the apparent contradictions in the Keystone result lies in the fact that labor at both ends of the State threw its support, to Davis and Pinchot. “The feature of the election,” accord- ing to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, “was the strength indicated for Mr. Pinchot. Another feature that will in- terést many was the strength developed by avowed anti-prohibition candidates for Senator and governor. But the greatest triumph of all was the returns indicating that the rejected Mr. Vare is still corner stone of Keystone State Republicanism.” g, s “Former Gov. Pinchot,” declares the Philadelphia Evening Bullétin, “repre- sents_definitely the liberal element in the Republican party and the opposi- tion to the prganization, typjfied by the wmldelphh candidate and his war ard.” On the subject of the prohibi- tion issue, that paper advises: “It is sufficiently appealing to be a determin- ing factor in many a political situation. But it does not follow necessarily that it can in itself dominate and control a State election.” The Bulletin also states: “By and large, the winning can- didates in.the senatorial and guberna- torial lists are aptly to be described as popular, liberal, non-organization ap- peals, and their indorsement—majority in one case, plurality in the other—is to be identified as the expression of an independent, non-controlled body of voters, whose ultimate power is for the most part latent because of lack of organization, but is dominating when- ever a personality appears competent to marshal it under real leadership.” * o ok ok “Pennsylvania’s auction-block system of disposing of high public office, by some termed a ‘primary election,' has been put to use again. Its chief re- sult, as usual, proves that the primary is no place for a poor man,” says the /Akron Beacon-Journal. That it was a ht of wealthy men is the comment of the Rock Island Argus, and the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat refers to the State's “golden primary.” The Cincinnati Times-Star feels that “con- ditions are very mixed in the greatest Republican State in the Union,” and e Asbury Park Press thinks that “hundreds of -thousands of Keystone State voters have proved that they are unbossed.” The Raleigh News and Ob- server suggests: “Davis or Grundy? It's a mere toss-up. In the case of Pinchot it is a matter of observing that Lady Luck waves a freakish wand in politics sometimes—even in Penn- sylvania.” That Senator Grundy’s defeat “will not be disples to the people of the ‘backward States'” is the bellef of the Texarkana Gazette, which also sees in the nomination of Pinchot evidence that “Pennsyl are of present-day politicians.” i ‘Extremists on both sides of the pro- hibition question,” says the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “will undoubtedly try to read conclus from the Pennsylvania figures which the facts do not warrant. It played a part in determining the outcome, of course, but it was only one of many issues. and the test on ition was neitk:ar cl-'zicut nor decisive.’ Erie Dispatch-Herald asverts that “the size of the vote polled by the wet ¢z "les will undoubtedly them snewed effort.” The San Antonio Express points to “somne- thing of a ‘dry’ victory in a State traditionally ‘wet’"” and holds that “Mr. Davis will strengthen the admin- istration forces” when he goes to the Senate. Noting the discrepancy between the primary res and those of the Lite erary Digest, the New York Sun is im- pressed by the fact that “prohibition cut strange tterns in the returns.” The New York Herald Tribune argues: “Mr. Pinchot's triumph may be hailed by some as a setback to the wet cause; but it was that only incidentally and secondarily. It represented to Penn- sylvanians mainly another popular pro- test against the Philadelphia machine and its attempted annexation of the State government.” The Lexington Leader emphasizes “the difference be- tween real votes and straw ballots.” 2 ob Pinchot’s qualifications for public service are lauded by the Omaha World- Herald, the Spokane Spokesman-Re- view, the Morgantown Dominion-News, the Roanoke World-News and the Birmingham News. His personal tri- umph is emphasized by the Uniontown Herald, the New Bedford Standard, the Scranton Times and the Chattanooga ‘Times. The significance of the Pinchot victory is found by the Harrisburg Patriot in “sentiment on law observ- ance.” Commenting on_ the nomination of Secretary Davis, the Oakland Tribune concludes, “In the results are to be seen a rebuke for the Grundy lobbying ex- periences and a testimonial to the popu- larity of Mr. Davis.” The qualities of Mr. Davis are also attested by the Grand Rapids Press. The Charieston Evening Post suggests, “Well, ‘Puddler Jim’ Davis will represent Pennsylvania in the Senate and Joe Grundy can return to the lobby, and between them they will carry on for Pennsylvania!” Asheville Times thinks that “the victory for the Vare organization must be accepted as deplorable.” The Okla- homa City Times states, “Pennsylvania will have another protectionist, of course, in Mr. Davis, but the country is fortunate in that he will be less ex- treme.” The Fort Worth Record-Tele- gram concludes that Mr. Grundy “some= how falled to register as a Senator in & manner in keeping with his record as a lobbyist.” Tree Preservation Is Taken Up by Cuba From the Atlanta Journal. The' international spread of the doc- trine of forest preservation is arrestingly evidenced by the news that Cuba has Just begun the creation of its first na- tional park -for #he propagation and protection of native trees. The pre- serve is to contain more than 64812 acres of tropical land, a news account has it. The Province of Oriente, at the southern tip’ of the island, is to provide the reservation. The land is crossed there by three large rivers, the Mayari, the Levisa and the Caenico, and the intermediary area is checkered with brooks and small streams, wherein fish will be stocked. Moreover, and rather surprisingly, it is stated that the district also possesses extremely moun- tainous regions, so that Cubans sponsor hope for their national park a beauty rivaling that of the national parks in the Western and Southeastern regions of the United States. The idea of a tropical nation estab- lishing & national park, or needing the agency of preservation, is distinctly novel, Perhaps the need is less dire than in. cooler lands, and the aspiration may be toward beauty rather than util- ity. This does not diminish the excel- lence of the plan, but only serves to emphasize the happy relatiopship in forestry projects between utility and beauty. Most of the forestry work in the United States at present stresses the present patamOUAL: Bit where pro- pr ut w) - serves have been defined the of the trees has made their ornamenta- tlon a factops more conspicuous than THE LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover . George Meredith, who at his death was very generally estimated as one of the two or three greatest Victorian nov- elists, did not desire that a biography of himself should be written, as he be- lieved that a man should be known through his work alone. He had mo sympathy with the human curiosity which demands intimate details of the personal life of a great or prominent man—what he liked to eat, how he dressed, what he did to amuse himself, how he treated his wife and children and especially how many love affairs he had and how he conducted himself in them. Yet Meredith, like many an- other who has belleved as he did, was not_able to enforce his wishes. Bio- graphical material has been published about him, and more will undoubtedly be published. His most recent biog- rapher, Robert Esmonde Sencourt, in| the preface to his “Life of George Meredith,” says the result Meredith did not foresee was that “men would insist on having knowledge about him.” Of course, the “Dictionary of National Bi- ography” would have Meredith's biog~ raphy in the first supplement published after his death, and accordingly an ex- cellent one was written by Thomas Seccombe. In 1912 his “Letters” were published, with blographical notes, by his son. The biography by Mr. Sen- court draws upon these sources and upon many unpublished letters, as well as upon information from the son and friends of Meredith. The result is a well annotated biography, not at'all of the sensational'type, yet one which suc- ceeds in making its subject seem human, * ok ok ok George Meredith was the descendant of three generations of naval outfitters at Portsmouth. Old Mel Harrington, the tailor in the novel “Evan Harring- ton,” represented Meredith’s grand- father, Melchizedeck Meredith. The son of.a tradesman, Meredith went to & couple of English private schools and a school in Germany, but not to a uni- versity. When only 18 he was writing poems and articles and when only 21 he was marrying a widow nine years his senior, entirely carried away on a “flood of rapture.” Perhaps the beginning was too rapturous for permanence; perhaps Meredith was too young to know what was likely to be enduring with him; perhaps his wife was too old and too unsuited to him temperamentally. At any rate, happiness in their marriage did not last long. Mr, Sencourt records of Mary Meredith: “The fascinating young widow lived too much in the deliciousness of her own feelings and the tension of her nerves for which she sought rTelaxation, now in senti- mental outpourings, now in sharp flashes of wit.” The rapture wore thin, they quarreled, she fell in love with another man and eloped with him to Caprl. When this man desert:d her she begged Meredith to take her back. He refused and also refused to let her sce her son. Always nervously unstable, she became mentally unbalanced and finally died. At 33 Meredith was a widower with a son, whom he spoiled with his devotion. “A word that all was not well with him was enough to make Meredith wild with anxiety. If Arthur dropped from too high in the gym- nasium; if Jessopp (the boy's school- master) said that he felt anxious for any reason; if the boy caught a com- plaint like measles, the father's heart beat fast and high.” A second mar- riage brought about “Arthur's abdica- tion” and henceforward father and son saw little of each other and grew rapidly apart. “A spoilt boy with a poor digestion and an inheritance of nerves; a handsome, clever, self-sufficient boy, Wwith a temperament sensitive and re- served, to whom his father had given the imperiousness of an idol, had no Place for his stepmother’s love.” After about 20 years of happy married life with his second wife, Marle Vulliamy, Meredith entered upon the descending action of his history. In 1884 his wife died and in the same year he wrote to any of my old strides.” beginning of his locomotor ataxia, which in another 10 years' time became :é:\g&; :s-nd mvlrl-fich. udmuxh he lived to ver 80, final a iy 'y made him a complete * ok ok Many of Meredith's novels have auto- biographical significance, specially those of his earlier period. Among these are “Evan Harrington,” in which “we see hisyouth * * s identified with his own shaping spirit of imagination, just as Wwe see Dickens identified with his own ideal life in ‘David Copperfield,’ ‘Harry Richmond,’ the record of his later boy- hood; and ‘The Ordeal of Richard Feverel,' which reflects the gtrain of his disastrous first marriage.” . Sen- court says of “The Egoist”: “It has been of course suggested that, in Sir Wil- loughby (Patterne), Meredith was painting a portrait of himself. But the time when he was the hero of his own novels was long gone by; he had reached the stage now when his aim was to read himself into the lives of other people.” * ok ok ok ‘The violent contrasts in the character of Bolivar, South American patriot and liberator, are emphasized in the biogra- phy “Simon Bolivar,” by Hildegarde Angell. Dying in exile at Santa Maria, in Colombia, nearly a hundred years ago, Bolivar left behind him a record of achievement which has placed him among the great revolutionists of the Western Hemisphere. Ruthlessness characterized his methods. He decreed no quarter for enemies of his cause, imprisoned and put to death former companions in his enterprises and caused hundreds of prisoners to be slaughtered. In crossing the Andes in his campaigns he showed little mercy toward his soldiers but regarded only the end he had in view. In this he differed little from many other great generals. He never spared himself and seemed to have almost unlimited en- durance. Yet this man of iron loved pleasure, and pleasure of no escetic type. His amours were many. He loved elaborate uniforms and indulged in cologne. Dancing was a favorite amusement, for which he often inter- rupted his dictation. His diversions were never allowed, however, to inter- fere with his ambitions nor to encroach upon time needed for their accomplish- ment. * K kK “Mad Anthony Wayne,” one the epithets of American history which impresses the imagination and clings in the mind of every schoolchild, is the title of a biography by Thomas Boyd. Anthony Wayne Was not one of ‘the great influences in shaping the course of early American history, but he was one of the most intrepid and picturesque fighters of the Revolution. With no military instruction, he had a flair for battles which enabled him to fight his way out of many a tight place to brilliant success. The ‘most striking_exploits of his career were at Three Rivers in the Canadian cam- paign of Arnold and Sullivan, at Mon- mouth Court House, at the storming of Stony Point on the Hudson and in the Yorktown campaign when he es- caped from Cornwallis, * K ok ok In “Gloucestermen” James B. Con~ nolly collects over 20 tales from his previous volumes and_magazine stories about the men of Gloucester, Mass., who go out with the fishing fleet to the Grand Banks. _Kipling Wrote of the same _westher-hardensd meo in AL “Captains Gow L James = nolly, when my. sailed With _his father, who was a uruln of the fleet, so_he knows the life of the sai schooners, which is now no more. It has me of the history of an earlier era in America. AS & news- Cotnolly used %x-'n:hmy i w‘;‘r‘:’ ly uset erar: - serve in vivid form this phase of industry. ol e inor but Memory of one of the m very istory will be v‘l’v.glbut;l:mn Y, e Y : “Johnson of the Mohawks,” by Armu Pound and Richard E. Day. Sir Wil- to lam Johnson, British baronet, i the ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. ~ ‘Take advantage of this free service. If you are one of the thousands who have patronized the bureau, write us again. If you have never used the service, begin now. It is maintained for your benefit. Be sure to send your name and address with your question and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Address The Eve- ning Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. In making a landing is the air- plane headed into the wind?—W. T. A. Landings are made with the air- plane headed into the wind, as when taking off. The force of the wind slows ug the plane and helps in mak- ing landings. . How many assoclations have headquarters in Washington?—E. P. L. A. Headquarters of about 400 associ- tions and organizations are in the Na- tional Capital. Commercial, industrial, civic, patriotic, religious and political organizations find Washington a logical location for central offices. Q. Was the rose window of the Cathedral of Relms destroyed during the war?—E. H. A war in order to protect the glass. The window has now been restored. Q. Why is the score of a forfeited base ball game always 9 to 0?—S. B, A. It is an arbitrary number chosen to represent the score of such games. This has been in existence ever since the early days of base ball. Q. Is the earth growing lighter or heavier?—J. L. A. There is nothing to indicate that there has been an actual change in weight in the earth. The recent experi- ment of Dr. Paul Heyl in reweighing the flrl-h has merely given a more exact result. Q. How can nicotine fingers be avolded?—T. S. A. Do not permit the smoke from the cigarette to rise through the fingers. It is the smoke and not the cigarette which causes stains. Soaking in soapy water, then a scrubbing with a nail brush usually removes these stains. Lemon juice will help with stubborn stains, or a light rubbing with pumice. ains on the What proportion of the people in | N, Q. the United States pays income taxes? What proportion in Great Britain?— A. A recent. analysis of the tax in the two countries showed in the United States only 1 in 44 pays an income tax, while in Great Britain 1 in 10 of the population pays. Q. When was the Koran written?— B. M. 'A." It was divulged in 616. It was first published by Abu Bekr in 635. Q Please tell how to make a good furniture polish.—A, P, H. A. The Bureau of Standards recom- mends a simple kind of furniture polish made by mixing one part of raw lin- seed oll with two parts of turpentine and adding a little melted beeswax. Q. When was the importation of slaves into the United States stopped? | figure -—L. P. . A. After 1808 importation was pro- hibited by the Constitution, but the smuggling in of Africans continued up to the time of the Civil War. Q. Please give the history of Vincent Panormo, violin maker.—W. C. A. Vincenzo Trusiano Panormo of Paris and London was born in Monreale bel Palermo, 1734, and died in_London, 1813. Like Lupot and Aldric, Panermo was one of the cleyerest imitators of Stradivarius violins. Of a wandering disposition, he often changed his resi- dence and worked in London, Paris and also in Ireland. Some of his instru- ments have a marvelous finish and his red varnish is of exceptional quality, His instruments are scarce and somc- times branded. Q. In using the expression “filet of sole,” should the word be spelled with one “I" or two, and how is it pro- nounced?—E. K. A. Filet is a French word and is the one generally used. It is pronounced | fee-lay. Fillet is the English word and is often used. It is pronounced fil-let, short “4” short “e,” the “t” sound is given and accent is on the first syllable. Q. Is the phrase “The Lord tempers the wind to the shorn lamb” in the Bible?"—E. 8. H. A. It does not appear in the Bible. It is taken from an old book, entitled “A Sentimental Journey,” written by Laurence Sterne, an English writer in the seventeenth century. Q. I find a poem named “Vasant Panchami.” What does this mean?— A. Sarofini Naidu, in a footnote in her volume of poetry, “The Sceptred Flute,” says that the Vasant Panchami is the Spring festival when Hindu girls lllngt anmled wedmen carry gifts :: ghted lamps and new-grown corn offerings mplhe dess of the Spring and set them afloat on the face of the waters. Q. What length of time does it take to kill an average healthy person in an electric chair?>—F. B, A. In general, it may be said that the length of time required to electro- cute an average healthy person isabout 1-240ths of a second. Q. Do broths 0 often given to con- v-l:‘xcgnts have any nutritive value?— I A. They have a slight food value, but they are mostly stimulating and tonic. When used warm they favor the secre- tion of the digestive enzymes and thus may prove of some value. Q. What is the name of the new de- vice that produces the unusual settings in “The Vikings"? How does it work?— . A. L. A. The clavilux (which means light played by key) or light organ is used throughout Ibsen’s: play, in which Blanche Yurka is appearing. On a backdrop of white the clavilux plays varicolored streams of light. Its in- ventor, Thomas Wilfred, has worked on the theory that form, color and motion are the three basic factors of light, just as melody, harmony and rhythm are of music. The instrument is made of steel and aluminum with five manuals or keyboards, being played like & pipe organ. It is run by electricity. ere are 100 positions for each key, making possible infinite combinations of color, form and motion. The music or nota- tion is printed on a 12-line staff, a color chord being represented by & num- ber of figures. The artist sits at the keyboard with the notation book and releases the lights producing the desired by means of switches. The clavilux opens new possibilities to theater, ballet and opera. It has been called the eighth art—of light. Q. Were many canaries imported to this country from Germany and Eng- land?—C. B. It was taken down during the|S. W. 3,250,000 canaries were im| b:“lfl the 10 years prior to 1915, aboul ported from these countries. . Highlights on the Wide World f Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands EUES [ENER ABENDBLATT, Vienna: Unemployment is in~ creasing to an alarming ex- tent. In Vienna alone, accord- ing to the latest calculation, there are more than 83,000 persons, principally men, who want work and can't get it. This is 7,000 .more than were out of work at this time a year ago. This condition is by no means confined to Austria. The whole world is suffering from a similar de- pression and is seeking a remedy that will abolish these erratic fluctuations in industry forever. Fundamentally there seems to be no reason for these periodic—indeed, of late years, almost continuous—paralyzations of industry. ‘The world is just as rich in resources, there is just as much desire for all manufactured and cultivated lucts, but failure to make or to produce dif- ferent articles and commodities makes it impossible for those normally em- ploy]ed in of other workers, and so the hardship works itself around l~n : viclous circle. * x Germany Financially Strong. Cologne Gazette: Statistics of the Reichsbank, just published, show_that’| the German Republic is in a sound financial position. Conditions in the money markets of the world have greatly restrained pecuniary operations and reduced earnings and profits, but the condition of the Reichsbank is fundamentally sound, and with well- established and carefully guarded banking methods as the foundation, Germany is dally increasing her for- eign commerce and her domestic trade. With the advent of improved condi- tions in the markets of other countries, now believed to be not long deferred, the commercial and industrial pros- perity of Germany will assume an energy like that which formerly dis- tinguished her trade throughout the world. * Kk % French Silk Manufacturers Disturbed. La Nacion, Buenos Aires: The French embassy here is taking up very energetically some modification of the drastic embargo of the Argentine tariff on artificial silks. French manufac- turers of “vegetable” silk are very much concerned over these restrictions to their trade. * * % Women Display Themselves as They Are. Le Matin, Paris: A feminine reader asks us what we think of “padding.” Our opinion is that the new activity of women has done away with these ac- cessories the same as with many oth- ers. Besides, women now display them- selves just as they are, without any im- provement or modifications on nature. They have thrown aside corsets, stays, bustles, long skirts and all the other absurd armor with which they for- merly were disfigured, and the full fig- ure that used to be attained by means of all these accessories now is queathed to the grandmothers, they, too, disdain it. Besides, that regalia is not adapted to the tumultuous posing of the mod- ern woman, Bustles, pads, corsets and complicated coiffures may have been satisfactory when a woman was con- tent to sit m-u‘;lv‘ in an easy arm- chair, instead of displaying her grace- ful contours on : latter-day divan. Attired in the olden complements to dress, such attitudes would be & punish- ment rather than repose. * k% % Modes of Dress Only Monte Carlo Thrills. Daily Herald, London: Visitors to and proaci or lln?& sation was provided B a French actress, who entered the rooms wearing a tight skull cap composed of bright silver sequins (Italian coins worth about $2 each), the size of a shilling, with a gown and cape to match. Less spectacular, but perhaps ppear- ance a few days ago of a little sandy- haired man, who came into the rooms wearing kilts and, after taking a seat at one of the tables, asked the croupler for change for “saxpence.” * ok k% American Prosperity Due to Earning Power of Workers. El Commercio, Lima: We are told that a worker in North America pro=- duces three to five times what & similar worker produces in Europe or in South America. By the same basis, it is further computed that more than half of the work of the world is done in the United States. arative nud{ by leading economists of the day has led to the conclusion that the pros- perity of the American people is due to the fact that the American artisan or laborer earns in a day what workers in other parts of the world earn in & week, and produces many times as mwuch output. And the same conditions are true of work not only of manual labor, but of work requiring the greatest of skill and intelligence. The big employers and capitalists of North America have a new economic idea, which includes the adaptation of each man to the work he can do best, and the granting of the proper portion of the profit on the materials produced to the worker. In this way not only the owners, but, also the worien in any industry, participate in the net amounts earned. * ok k% Film Defects Do Countries Injustice, El Universal, Caracas: Among the deteriorations in the Alms :rom Holly~ wood, a catalog of defects which is con« stantly increasing is the production of pictures with foreign films and settings, which, in purporting to be true repre- sentations of life and customs in '-Elsl foreign lands, do such countries a grave injustice. When they vortray their own local color, the bad man is not pre- sented to the native clientele as the Qi'lpk:ll ntleman of North America, though he comes much. nearer being so than the Spanish-American villain, who, it is firmly believed, outside of South America, is a walking and talk- ing epitome of all Spanish-speaking people. Such depictions and the manu- factured background of environment and custom that accompanies these syn- thetic “villains” give a wholly false conception of the worthy peo of the South American republics. If we have to be exhibited upon the screen as curiosities, at least let it be a faithful reflection of our people and of our ways, and not a manufactured, discredi'ing and misinforming parody on life in or below the tropics. The North American bad man frequently painted with certain heroic virtues, but the Spanish- American villain never has any, and North Americans are sure he is typical of all Spanish Americans. e Proportionate Waste. From the Florence (Ala.) Herald. A Senator declares that short ses- sions of Congress involve an enormous waste of public money. But what of the long.ones? Silence With Finality. silence,” declares a scientist. Then we should like to know what it is that follows the request of a loan from s Monte Carlo this year have been en- Joying a season that is in the nature Scotchman. » days before the American Revolution, Pl s eer & s - y advent: and W doul ve many more had he lived ert in the Revoluticn, but ho before its beginning. | e is 'a bright boy. PSSRk Sh! Not So Loud! Prom the Toledo Blade. 4 k with & dumi only him dumber. The ] 0 hmmhmnndmhl’.&%.m,