Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1930, Page 6

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The Associated Prese i o the use for repubiica atches credited to it or ted In this paper and giso iocal news blisked herein ~All rights of pubiication of ecial dispatches herein are also ieseried The Morrow Boom. | Friends, of Ambassador Dwight W.| Morrow, now a candidate for the Re- | publican senatorial nomination, have | started a boom for his nomination at some time in the future for President. His opponents, especially former Sena. tor Frelinghuysen, have been quick to #eize upon this matter and demand that Mr. Morrow tell the people of New J sey whether he is a candidate f ator or really for President. Mr row himself has given no intimatior whatever that he has in the vack of | his head an ambition to become Presi- | dent. It is quite evident, however, that if he is eventually to be a candidate for the presidential nomination he must win the fight he is now ccnducting for the Senate. If Mr. Morrow has any idea of becom- ing eventually a presidential candidate, 1t is perfectly proper. Nor is it fair to Mr. Mdrrow to call upon him to say that he will or will not at some time in the future aspire to the White House. Neither Mr. Morrow nor any other man can say with certainty what thg con- | ditions in the country will be two or six years hence, or whether there will be a demand on the part of a consider- able number of the voters for his can- didacy for the office of Chief Executive. j Stariing a presidential boom for Mr. Morrow, however, may have been un- fortunately premature. It is always well to cross the first bridge without seeking to cross the second until it is reached. Furthermore, voters who have other candidates for the presidency in mind may not be willing to support Mr. Morrow for' the Senate if they believe that he is really seeking the office of President. Mr. Morrow has shown himself an outstanding servant of the country, both as Ambassador to Mexico and as a member of the American delegation to the London Naval Con- ference. There has been in many minds perhaps the idea or the hope that at some time in the future Mr. Morrow's talents might be rewarded by a call to the White House. But in all probability it would have been wiser to permit this idea to remain dormant until after Mr. Morfow’s elec- tion to the Senate had been accem- plished. H Mr. Morrow, in a public address that has had wide publicity, at the outset of his campaign announced himself in favor of a return to the States of the control of the liquor traffic. He is op- posed to the continuance of national prohibition, as provided for in the eighteenth amendment. This opposi- tion to prohibition, carried ou® by the National Government, has antagonized the drys, although it has rallied thou- sands of wets and voters who wish soms modification of the present dry laws to the standard of Mr. Morrow. It is likely to have a’great bearing on the possible candidacy of the Ambassa- dor to Mexico for the presidency. The Republican party, generally speaking, has been wedded to the prohibition cause for a number of years, It upheld the prohibition cause in the last presi- dential election against a wet Demo- cratic nominee. State pride, the feeling that Mr. Mor- row is of presidential caliber, may come to the aid of the Ambassador in the present situation. If that should prove to be the case, the thunder of the enemy because of this incipient boom may turn out to be without effect. But such a feeling might well have de- wveloped without so much publicity. The drys will be all the more intent upon defeating him now for the senatorial nomination, fearing that should he be nominated and elected, he might prove, indeed, a veritable champion against national prohibition in the fulure. Mr. . Morrow not only must run the gauntlet of the senatorial primar, but of the election in November. The threat hangs over him that a dry independent Re- publican may be put in the field in the election campaign if he be the party nominee. Under such conditions, with thousands of dry Republicans voting for the independent, the Democratic nomi- nee might win through, just as Sena- tor Wagner, wet Democrat, won over former Senator Wadsworth of New | York in 1926 when the dry Republicans | put an independent in the fi*ld and polled nearly 300,000 votes for him. G S Radio does not di the pre- ceding forms of entertainment. Tie | comedy easily lew i= in commereizl | ige over tie high-brow dumonstrations. | No Channel Tunnel, One of the unmisiakable aftermaths of the London Naval Conference is the decision of the British government not | to procced with consideration of the Channel tunnel, Prime Minister Mac- donald has just announced in the Hous of Commens that the long-discusse project for a submarine link between Great Britan and France has been dropped. On account of “stratcgic” objections raised by the committee on imperial defense, the government will shelve recommendations by a royal commis- #lon, which only three months ago re- ported that the project was feasible economically. A test tunnel, to cost $27,000,000 was proposed before con- struction of freight and passenger tubes et an additional cost of $121,000,000. { this score, has determined to lideh‘lck’ in the | prove it. | signed by the | enough Summer. park and recreational area develop- has come to grief. The scheme has had | l its fervent friends and its equally fervid foes in both Britain and France. In each country were elements who feared that the tunnel would make “invasion” too easy in time of war, though to blow up the approzches to a tunnel would be the business of mere seconds. Anxieties with regard to security are more acute in Great Britain than acre s the!Channel. These have been noto=- ously whetted by the Franco-Brithsh disagreement at the recent Naval Con- ‘ference, The French submarine pro- gram was there looked upon, as it still is, as a direct menace to John Bull's safety at cea, especially in home waters. The Labor government, interpreting embittered British public sentiment on the Channel tunnel, because, present popular temper toward France, the country would undoubtedly disap- Cebinets at London have been toppled | from power on far less important issues. Mr. Macdonald, who has just celebrated | the first anniversary of his second pre- mi p, evidently is not minded to risk his fate on the Channel tube. ST AT Rl ‘Washington's Fark Area. The m year appropri- ation herctofore given the Park and | Planning Commission has kept that body pretty busy in park purchase and development. Authorization of the $16,000.000 for expenditure in the Dis- trict of Columbia alone, under pro- visions of the Cramton bill recently President, stores up ork in advance to engage the n for many years to come. ant has estimated that it would vs before the program made possible by the Cramton passage is realized, and this applies: only to the city, without reference to | the great work planned in Maryland and Virginia. The Park and Planning Commission, it is understood, has been busy for some time in drawing up a number of tentative programs for expenditure of the money. The first steps will probably be the purchase of suitable land, and this alone may consume as much as five years. Col. Grant has already asked for two millions, of the sixteen million total, to become available this year, and it is to be hoped that Congress will appropriate that amount. After wait- ing for so many years to secure the authorizing legislation it will b un- fortunate if there is further delay in granting the use of money already authorized. One of the first things to be done in connection with the local expenditures is to obtain statistics on park purchases in other cities. For this purpose Col. Grant is dispatching Conrad L. Wirth, landscape architect of the commission, on a tour that may last throughout the He is expected to obtain ex- act figures on the proportionate amounts in city budgets set aside for m-d ment. In addition he probably will find suggestions from the work of other cities that will be made applicable to ‘Washington. A year ago the Bureau of Efficiency compiled interesting tables showing the areas in Washington devoted to parks as compared to those in other cities. It developed that Washington already has a great excess of park area, when com- pared with similar areas in other citles. Of the fourteen cities examined, Wash- 3 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGT x%, his son’s good fortune immediately claimed the winning pasteboard and magnanimoutly offered to will his boys the money that it would bring. And that started the fireworks, Edward, the winner, remarking: #Now ain't that cheerful! My brother and I get it when he croaks, and it is my ticket, regis- tered in my name all the time.” In between fighting off promoters ! who attempted to sell the newly rich family everything from a Brooklyn Bridge to the large body of water com- monly known as the Atlantic Ocean, a temporary truce was declared, and the trio proceeded to Quebec to collect the winnings. It was here that Edward proved .to-be just a little bit too cute for his male parent. He suggested that | they should be attired in their Sunday best before they appeared to accept the check,’ and while his father was busily engaged in so accoutering himsc!f Ed- ward slipped off, procured the check and deposited it in a bank to his own account, If things appeared fairly placid be- fore, while the truce was in effect, it was all over then. “I have no sons,” shouted Dougherty, sr. “Where can vI get a lawyer?” To which Edward, the winner, retorted, “I'll divide with my brother, as we always go halves on everything, but ‘Pop’ must act a little differently about this thing.” And so the “happy” family is now back i New York still fighting over an - unex- pected windfall, There Js very little moral to all this except that it proves agsin the old adage that money does not necessarily provide happiness. In this case it is The Doughertys certainly can- not be particularly envied even if they have a bink account of & hundred and fifty thousand dollars, o Mr. Adkins' Appointment. The selection by the President of Jesse C. Adkins for the District Supreme Court is gratifying to Washington, not merely because his appointment con- notes a deserved recognition of the lo- cal bar, but because the appointee him- self is such a fine representative of the bar. His professional training and ca- reer are peculiarly identified with this city. His father, a lawyer, practicing in Tennessee, came to Washington as a Government employe, bringing his four- year-old son with him. The boy re- ceived his primary education at Busi- ness High School and entered a law firm after his graduation, working in the daytime and going to school at night, as so mapy hundreds of young Washingtonians are doing today. He received his law degree and began a practice that included many years of service, in which he won deserved rec- ognition. with the Department of Jus- tice. His private practice has been suc- cessful and he has gained a high place in the esteem of his professional asso- clates. As a member of the community he has taken an active and valuable part in civic affairs. Both the Presi- dent and the community are to be con- gratulated upor® his selection for a post that should be held, when it is prac- ticable, as a reward for the products of this community whose industry and merit have made them available can- didates. % ——— Human superiority even in sport is shown by the fact that a Walter John- son or a “Babe” Ruth goes on for many ington's park area was exceeded by only one—Minneapolis. Washington's park area was shown to be 3,753 acres, in comparison with Cleveland's 2,975, ton’s 2,647, Pittsburgh's 1,887; Buf- falo's 1,665, Milwaukee’s 1,257, New- ark’s 795, Minneapolis’ 4,771, New Or- leans’ 1,885, Cincinnati's 2,807, In- dianapolis’ 2,723, Rochester’s 1,177 and Jersey City's 289. An even more strik- ing picture of what this park excess means is shown by computing the park area in relation to the population. In this tabulation Washington is shown with 778 more acres of park than Cleve- land, for instance, with one acre of park to every 140 persons, whereas Cleveland has only one acre to every 340 persons. If Washington's ratio of park area to population were applied to other cities, St. Louis would have 2,261 acres of park more than Wash- ington, instead of 808 acres less, and Baltimore would have 2,176 acres more than Washington, instead of 313 acres less. If Col. Grant's proposed survey of cities was being undertaken with the purpose of holding Washington's park development down to the scale applying in other cites, the development would have to be curtailed, not expanded, as in prospect under the Cramton bill. For Washington is already supplied with parks in excess of the park area in the largest and richest commercial cities of the Nation. The explanation is, 0f course, that as the National Capi- tal Washington has been planned on 2 grand scale that sets it distinetly apart from what other cities attempt or can afford to attempt. The Cramton park- expansion . program is national, not local, in scope. It was formulated and will be administered by a nationally representative body of men, Their hori- zon is not limited by what the city can afford, in relation to its other necessi- ties, but by what the Nation chooses to spend on its Capital City. Residents of the District will pay the major portion of the expense of this grand park development. They will take pride ip the future Capital, as ther Americans will. But there 1s rank injustice in foisting upon local taxpayers the excessive burden of carry- | ing out these vast semi-national proj- ects of National Capital development | while at the same time they are called upon to meet the ordinary expenses of a growing municipality, the taxable re- sources of which are limited at the out- set and further limited with the pur- chase of every acre of park, and there- ore non-taxable land, e r——— 1t remains for Gandhi to demonstrate whether he is a political leader or only an ordinary trouble maker. e Money and Happine: Sudden wealth does not always bring happiness—in fact, on many occasions it is just the reverse—as witness the cass of the Doughertys, father and two sons, f New York City, when a fortune of one hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars suddenly became theirs because the But British defense considerations have prevailed, and’ the 50-year-old dream of swift and comfortable Channel erossings in trains from chgo Calals oldest son held the winning ticket on the recent English sweepstakes. ' The father, a doorman at one of Brooklyn's swankiest apartments, on learning of years, while a few seasons on the turf mark the finish of even the greatest race horse. The race horse still holds an advantage in not feeling a sense of St. Louis’ 2,945, Baltimore's 3,440; Bos- | regret when the inevitable finish ar- rives. The horse may in expert breed- ing assert a position of ancestral pride. With the human this is not always so easy. —— e In some rural regions men who go bareheaded are regarded with suspicion #s mental delinquents. In the present delayed straw hat season they may be considered expert students of the market. iR Social climbers are not approved by Mr. Dawes. Formal soclety never af- forded much tangible encouragenment to the Helen Maria spirit of getting to- gether and getting somewhere. —oes SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSOMW. ‘The Time of Times. The lazy day comes drifting near. ‘The Summer breeze sings low. But just the same we like to hear ‘That factory whistle blow. We list to the Hawailan lay That sounds beneath the moon, And yet the song of workaday Sounds out the fairest tune. 1t is the song of hope and home And of affections warm, That tells of faith that does not roam, And safety in the storm. So mid the rhythms light and fast ‘That cheerily draw near, The factory whistle will at last Afford the greatest cheer. The Significant Monosyllables. “A man in your position must learn to say ‘No.' ” said the admiring constit- uent. “Not only that” answered Senator Sorghum, “when & real boss shows up, he must learn to say ‘Yes.'” Jud Tunkins says a five-day week won't mean less work for the man who needs every minute of extra time to improve his golf score. Ancestral Adaptability. Father used to look severe, And strive impressive to appear, But “flaming youth” now makes its bid, And Father's capering like a kid. Improving the Old Town. “Crimson Gulch made a fine showing in the census.” “Yes,” answered Oactus Joe, “we have quit shooting at one another and organized civic associations instead of gangsters,” “He who thinks only of money,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “leads & | 1aborious life as a perpetual bookkeeper.” Neglected Greatness. Out in the rain the statue stands. We loved it once so well. Now no one comes with kindly hands To lend it an umbrell. “Worry,” sajd Unclg Eben, “is a good friend, if it keeps you out o' trouble " while you tends to yoh business.’ i THIS AND THAT . TRACEWELL. BY CHARLES E. The old fiction about “light Summer | reading” has gone the way of many other exploded fallacies. - Today people read what they please, when they please, and the only question is, Why not? The curious belief that there is any real relation between the weather and different types of books is held only by & few now, perhaps the same people who believe that lack of window cur- tains makes a Jouse “cooler” in the hot weather. | | p. C, SATURDAY, JUNE By the Booklover A poetic, mystical India, not an India instantly restores books to their ancient | Of superstition and lack of hyglene, is heritage. So viewed, their misuse is P e g he wrote “Visit India With Me” un- doubtedly had in mind Katherine Mayo's “Mother India.” Mr. Mukerji, himself a Hindu, imagines an American friend traveling with him in India—a very appreciative and susceptible American, who is willing to be led gently away from unpleasant sights and odors. The author calls his preface a “Note of Warning” and in it gives his three- * % The old cult of “light Summer read- ing” was insisted upen so assiduously by publishers that the simple truth, that discriminating persons old, read what they pleased, when they pleased, was .obscured. The truth was that small boys were then, as now, the leaders in the new movement. While their elders were praising “When Knighthood Was in Flower,” the youngsters were going seen by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, who when ! Away back in the '00s—and how far back it seems!—*light Summer reading” meant such books as “The Lightning Conductor,” by the Castles. Romance, and plenty of it, spread on with a scintillating pen. It was forerunner of many, many bright, breezy books, such as “The Man in the @reen Ha! and so on. All of these, however, are published at any time of the year whatsoever. The demand, eve | quietly’ to the “public library” and withdrawing “The Count of Monte Cristo,” “With Cortez in Mexico,” and “With Fire and Sword.” Since the boys did not keep up with the new books, they found time to look into the grand old ones which in every |age since they were written have held | the interest of men. | Many a little fellow, all unknown f the three o |to his parents, got hin for “something | , 8ot hi _ The A % | volumes of Montaigne ssays,” and Higtal ascit ne Actually did not hev | read, without hurt to his immortal soul, th assic 08 weather, has almost.dissppeared. Ithe ‘tlassic ‘henesty of the bluff old ¢ .| If mother had come upon her hope- One reads anything he pleases during | sy reading the lines of the essay "o the Summer, just as he does in Winter. | yep, she might have thought that Spring or Fall. o | JONNNY Would have been ruined for Now that the high vogue of the “new |jife put the truth was that John knew biography” is quietly expiring, buried|a great deal more than mother thought under a mound of expensive—too ex-|he did, and fully appreciated the good pensive—books, readers of the Nation|points’in that and other essays. It have time to realize that there is MO |did him no harm, either then or later, seeson quife =0 good as the present. |but only good, as is the province of In other words, if one has vl‘l.“rli‘f‘l‘znnd writing at all times and places. to read Gibbon's “Decline and Fall of |° Wheri Aunt Mary discovered him the Roman Empire,” having put it off | roading Plutarch’s account of the cus- for half a lifetime, perhaps. this JolIV | toms of the Spartans, she nearly had ely to break up -a once-contented | Summer of 1930 will do as well as any- better than any. indeed. % Now is the time to brush up on one's | reading. There is no questioning the fact that | the many activities of the present day | tend to cut into the reading habits of even the most active readers. For there are active readers, lethargic, read- ers, procrastinating readers, all types of- readers, each one of whom may | clatm, end in all honesty, that he | “Joves to Tead.” Often, howe . he loves to read from | a theoretical standpoint, rather than | from an actual one. His reading is | Pickwickian, The muscles of his mind | grow weak, and, like an old beau try- ing to recall the amours of his youth. he fondly imegines that he is the reader he once was. ; The only way to read is to read, just as the only way to learn how to write is to write. Pretending that one is a reader may fool one's friends, but there is no glory in deceiving those who are not interested. We prefer those honest persons who only look at pictures to those self-de- celvers who are forever prating of books without ever reading any. | koK ok ‘The publishing world has come to an | interesting situation, with at least one | magazine selling at boak prices, some | books sblling at magazine prices, and Sunday editions of the newspapers issuing as much reading matter weekly as_several books would hold. | The lines of demarcation between books, magazines and newspapers, once clearly defined. are breaking down. | Writing is_writing now, wherever you | find it, and is so recognized by the so- | called general reader. Even the old ‘function of books, to preserve the “permanent” things in writing, is tending to venish, as so tication and increased wealth have tengied toward the publication in beau- | tiful bindings of essentially ephemeral, | and sometimes trashy, writings. Yet at bottom the printed books must_remain the only way by which the living generations- of men may transmit their thought, whether deep or light, serious or imaginative, to the generations yet to be. And this thought | there are | be a hundred years from now. k fit.” as the homely old phrase pu Aunt Mary, however, was mis taken in her righteousness. She was more righteous than correct. Plutarch’s sterling simplicity and honesty never | did aught but benefit. R Now that John has grown out of the supervision of mothers and .aunts, dubious literary judges at best, no doubt there are many names of good books sticking in his mind, books which he | has been promising himself all these years to read. but whith, for one or more of a humber of good reasons, he has “not got 'round to.” Summer is the very time, appointed of the years, for reading or rereading those fine old books which time will not let die. h Their immortalily is a part of ssence. What better “Summer cxdingy’ in the best and only true se, Is there than “The Pickwick Papers"? How many English-speaking people who have not read perennial masterpicce of British fun! Perhaps they have read a few chapters, r half of it. Now is the best time tg d all of it. There are the plays of Moliere. Every one has read two or three of them, but how many have read them all? "And Where are there plays more worthy to be read by every one interested in the craft of the theater? One has but to dip into Moliere to find there ageless lines, as apt today as when written, as good then as they will When men write as well as Molicre did their language does mot matter—the world makes a beaten path to the door of their novels, plays, essays. Although the weather may not tem- per the breeze to the shorn lamb, the reader may temper his cloties to fit the weather, and, in a state of proper un- dress, enjoy some of the good things of literature which he has been prom- ising himself ever since he “got out of school.” The going may not be easy, at first, but he may rest assured that it he perseveres until he gets his old reading taste back again he will find many and wholesome delights awaiting him, “The expenditures of such excessive | sums in behalf of a candidate, elther| with or without his knowledge and con- | sent, being contrary to sound public policy, harmful to the honor and dignit: of the Senate and dangerous to the perpetuity of a free government, such excessive expenditures are hereby se-| verely condemned and disapproved.” This quotation from the resolutis: passed by the United States Senate in 1922 {s recalled to mind and gravely considered by the press of the coun- try, as revelations of the huge sums just spent in the Pennsylvania primaries and recently in Illinois are made before the Senate investigating committee. “ “What of the Senate? Docs it hold today with the sentiment expressed in the Newberry: verdict and exemplified by action in ‘the exclusion of Vare and Smith?” asks the St. Louis Post Dis- patch, and_then asserts: *“The Senate must so hold. -Any other construction was inconceivable. If the attempted purchase of a senatorship were an as- sault upen the honor of the Senate and a menace to the perpetuity of a free government in 1922 such attempted pur- chase is precisely as offensive and the same sinister threat in 1930,” contends this paper. And the Springflield, Mass., Union remarks: “Obviously this prod- | uct of the direct primaries should give pause to those who are interested in preserving the fundamenial prin- ciples upon which the democracy is founded. However well qualified a man | may be to serve his State in the Senate, his chances for clection are small with- out the expenditure of huge sums of | money for the ‘education’ of the elec- | torate. It is an excellent commentary | on an evil that appears to be growing mere and more sinister.” | * ok ok * The mention of educating the elec- | torate is based on the statement by | Senator Grundy, defeated candidate to succeed himself, before the Scnate com- mittee, that “whatever the cost is of | educating the people is right.” And of | this the Asheville Times says, “Weil, | at the prevailing rate of increase for | the cost of educating the people, in less than another 10 years a $1.000,000 will be considered by the majority as a rea- sonable sum for a senatorial campaig Poking a little fun at Senator Grundy the Burlington Gazette says: ‘‘Judging from the result of the. election, Mr. | Grundy's educational campaign was a | gorry failure,” and the Columbia Rec- | ord, estimating Pennsylvania's popula- | tion and the campaign expenditures there, remarks, “About $1 a voie. The Strantdbn Times notes that, even at the present high figures, there has been an improvement, saying, “If we compare the estimated outlay this year with what was expended four years ago in the Vare-Pepper-Pinchot senatorial contest, the 1930 campaign about half as costly.” As Grundy's ideas, the Saginaw Daily News declares, “It can be believed that his ideas as to no limit are precisely the ideas of ‘the boys,’ whose activities | are limited when the money does not flow freely enough.” * * K * anything approaching such cost nec " many PApers are ask- ing and ring it is not. As the Los Angeles Evening Express puts it, “The system of elections which makes it ossible legally to spend a guarter mil- Plon doltars to secure a nomination is faulty and a menace to popular gove: ment.” The Buffalo Evening News states: “Theye really is little need for such expenditures from the viewpoint of the citizen. A candidate’s ‘state- ments always are widely printed as news, at as great length as any ordinary persons will read. The lterature pub- lished and distributed outside news- | papers, which forms one of the chief excuses for campalgn funds, usually reflects the candidate’s own anxiety and his estimate of himself, rather than any public wish to read more absut him.” Noting that letters to the voters, radio talks, advertising, band concerts “But i People of Country fleplore Cost of Senate Campaigns | constitute and all the rest of the “ballyhoo,” while legitimate, are expensive, the Lynchburg Daily Advance thinks such huge expenditures, cven though legal, a problem “which should give grave concern to thinking citizens.” As the Roanoke World-News recalls, the seventeen'h amendment, for popu- 1ar election of Senators, “was adopted Jargely on the plea that#under the form of legislative election the Senate had become a ‘Millionaires’ Club." The method followed in making nomina- tions in Republican primaries in Pegnsylvania and Illinois seems to be (lf*S}zncd to limit its membership even more strictly,” avers this paper. The Schenectady Gazette thinks it “possible that party machines might occasionally. for on= reason or another, pick men of limited means as candidates. But probably they would be pitted against wealthy ones. The result would be that the machine would have to obtain and expsnd on behalf of its favorite a huge sum, placing him under a greater obligation’ than ever,”! asserts the Gazette. The Chattancoga Times querles, “Has a poor man a ghost of a chance to be elected in Pennsylvania?” and then adds “The question might be enlarged to apply to every State in the Union—has a poor man any chance to be elected to the United States Senate or an important State office when there is a big issue at staks?” CE Public sentiment must become more aroused in the question, according to the Akron Journal, which says: “It is amazing that this custom of Buying one’s way into high public station is not meeting with greater resistance from the people. But for an occasional objection from the Senate, there would be no official protest anywhere about it.” The Springfield, Mass,, Daily Re- publican sees, as “the most hopeful fea- ture of the present situation,” the fact that the practice of the Senate “in in- vestigating the nomination of senatorial candidates and thus assuming, at least indirectly, jurisdiction over senatorial primaries, has been established and ac- ceptd, even though sullenly.” Mr. Pinchot's charge of corruption in Pennsylvania, as an aftermath of the election, is considered by the Pasadena Star-News with the comment: “The ballot in this country must be main- tained In its integrity, with the same zeal that the ancient Israclites preserved the sacredness of the Ark of the Covenant. A clean, honest, intelligent ballot truly is the ark of covenant in America today. ery and intimida- tion at the polls strike at the very heart of sound government. This is the people own problem. No one can solve it for them. They themselves must frown upon corruption at the bal- lot box and find ways and means to | prevent such corruption.” Stolen Car Expert Arrests 100 Yearly From the Philadelphia Builetin. In view of the prevalence of auto- mobile theft, the existence in New York of an outstanding specialist in the recovery of stolen cars might profitably be called to the attention of Director Schofield. We need a man like that in Philadelphia. 3 | August Schalkham, traffic patrolman, has just gathered in his 155th stolen automobile through the exercise of a phenomenal memory. Like all other policemen, he is furnished with a list of the license numbers of cars unlaw- fully taken from their owners. Unlike others, he is able accurately to remem- ber all these numbers. Stationed on the Queenshoro Bridge, he observes the licenses of all passing cars and is able instantly to identify the stolen ones, to which he gives chase. ince he has been performing this service for about 18 months, his batting average is 100 per year. X that | fold purpose in writing the book. He says: “First of all, my aim is to guide the reader to the major works of Indian art, that he should perceive in them the same symbolism as we do. . . Next, I have done my utmost to paint a portrait of the contemporary life of my country. In order to do that I have taken advantage of the selective methods of the artist. Lastly, I have not sought to refute or uphold any point of view about India, but to show what a single visit reveals to a traveler eager to learn of those truths that underlie the surface of our existence.” 3 e ‘The views of his neighbors in his old home, which Mr. Mukerji visited, on the subject of America, lead him to philosophize on the unfairness of judg- ing a nation superficially. “Neighbors came to see me and asked many ques- tions about America. The majority of them had seen American films and wondered if in America women were continually divorcing their husbands and husbands shooting one another. When' I told them that these things are seen only in the movies, and not in | real life, they. were amazed. They could not believe that I was telling the truth. I recounted some extraordinary stories of the integrity and moral beauty of ‘America. The burden of my speech was this: Every nation dwells in two places—in the market place and in the home. You should not judge a nation ‘by its market place. Foreigners are likely to see the market place of every country they visit and sometimes they make the mistake of picturing the home life of that country in terms of the bazaar. They should bear in mind that the home is run on different principles, Buying and selling has its rules, but love of father and son, mother and daughter, husband and wife, has its rule_ too. It is a grave mistake to judge the home life of a nation in other terms than its own inner spirit.” He adds: “There are Americans and Americans. There are Hindus and Hindus. Never | confuse the sheep with the goats any- where.” Everywhere Mr. Mukerji found that the American movie was forming the ideas of native Hindus and Moham- medans. A Hindu priest said to him: “Oh, I know all about that country! We see shadow pictures here. The houses are tall and people all shoot each other.” The suppositious Amer- ican friend comments:. “When I reach home I am going to tell people not to send so many bad pictures to India .« « Why can't we send decent ones that will give peopl: the idea that America is a country of moral men and women? No good has come of these movies, anyway!"” * % * In one chapter Mr. Mukerji intro- duces his brother, Dr. Jadu Mukerji, “a hot patriot,” who at one time made & truce with the British government. but was later arrested and imprisoned “witheut trial.” Dr. Mukerji is de- scribed as “all sweetness and apathy. He is sweet towards every one he meets, bt full of apathy towards him- self. A genuine pagan of the stoic school. Moihing Christian about him. | He has no notion of the redemption of man by suffering. Though he has suffered much, yet he finds no mean- ing in it.” The -controversy between Great Britain, and India was stated simply by Dr. Mukerji. “As for the British . . . they desire to protect their Indian empire. We, like the Ganges in flood, seek to wash the empire clean, Until our blood is spilt in rivers nothing can shake the foun- daticn of British rule. . . . We, the Nationalists, should stand behind Gandhi and make a holocaust of our- eclves. Even if we are beaten, it will cleanse India of cowardice.” sked what would be the gain if the Britisi were driven out of India, Dr. Mukerji | pondered and replied: “What economic gains will acerue from it I care not to think of. But the spiritual gain will be fabulous. We will be cured of cowardice, and the British will be freed from their fetish of superiority. Cow- ardice and arrogance are eating the souls of India and England. Those two fiends should be exorcised, no mat- ter how.” Having lived long in the United States and having acquired some of the American sense of the practical, Mr. Mukerji raised the im- portant political question which his brother, in his interest in the spiritual ignored, namely, “how to unite the Hindus with the Mohammedans. For without a solid unity between half the Mohammedans, say thirty millions of them, and fifty millions of Hindus, India cannot put up a sustained non- resistance to the strongest empire in the world. Without that unity India can be beaten as easily as a child ean be chastised by a prizefighter. That the problem of India Is one of dis- unity no’ true glt:lut can overlook.” * A general outline of human knowl- edge, not too superficial, during the | period 1543-1687, is contained in the volume, “A History of Modern Culture,” Vol. I, by Preserved Smith, professor of history in Cornell University. The four parts of the volume are entitled “The Sciences,” “The Humanities,” “Social Control” and “The Spirit of the Times.” ‘The progress of the sciences of astron- omy, physics, mathematics, geography, biology and anatomy is traced from the revolutionary work of Copernicus, “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs” (1543), through the discoveries of the Dutch’ Leeuwenhoek with his micro- scope, abeut 1680, which led him to dis- credit the doctrine of spontancous gen- eration and to begin to understand the cell structure of animal substances anc the germ origin of life. The “human- ities” include philosophy, political theory, historiography and biblical and classical scholarship. Education, re- ligion and laws are named as forces of social control; and the way in which they have operated through schools universities and libraries, churches, re- ligious orders and religious leaders, and law-making bodies, is studied. Some of the interesting subjects discussed under “Social Control” are the beginnings of compulsory education, education for women, famous libraries, minor religious sects, 'free-thought, superstition, in- cluding mythology, belief in fairies and witches, alchemy and astrology, demon- ology, the royal touch and persecution and tolerance. %y “If this sort of thing continues, no more novel writing for me. A man must be a fool to deliberately stand up to be shot at,” wrote Thomas Hardy at | the height of the furor aroused by the { publication of his novel, “Tess of the d'Urbervilles.” “The Later Years of Thomas Hardy,” by. his widow, opens | with an account of the way in which | “Tess” was recelved by the critics and |-the public and Hardy was lionized by London society. This concluding volume of the biography, like its predecesso “The Early Years of Thomas Har: is made up largely of extracts from | | Hardy's note books and letters, in which he tells of the ,people he met, the work he was doing, his views and opinions on many things. »H . Jessie B. Rittenhouse (Mrs, Clinton | Scollard) has for long been associated | with American poetic eriticism and | compilation. 8he is a founder of the Poetry Society and the editor of sev- eral anthologies of poetry. Her recent er own_verse is entitled “The Secret Bird.” It contains a num- ber of delicately created short pieces, graceful in for and beautiful in thought. s ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, Did you ever write a letter to Frederic| Q. How long have there been po- J. Haskin? You can him any | groms?—H. J. G. question of fact and get the answer| A. Pogrom is a Russian word mean= in a personal letter. Here is a great|ing devastation and was applied to anti- educational idea introduced into the|Jewish riots in Russia. The first po- lives of the most intelligent people in | groms took place in 1881 and were the the world—American newspaper read- | direct cause of the first wave of Rus- | fl!‘s. It is a part of "-hlt ?rfi;l D“‘I;Pfl;:; sian-Jewish emigration to America. of & newspaper—service. ere — charge expce;: 2 cents in coin or! Q How old is the Cathedral of stamps for return postage. Address | Notre Dame in Paris?>—R. K. Frederic J. Haskin, director, The Eve-| A. It was founded in 1163 and it ning Star Information Bureau, Wash- | took two centuries to bulld it. ingtom, D Q% | @ Where was Julius Caesar buried? Q. How is a golf handicap deter-|—4 T mined?—F. D. L. A The A. The basic handicapping system | identified. Sey used is a8 follows: Teke the aversge| g \How is water carried iffont the of the three best scores made by the i e player, subtract the par of the course,| %% "é'he new aquarium in Chicag: and then subtract 2. Thus on a|™" ‘Tyenty railway tank cars, such as course if your average best score is 88, e b 7 you would subtract the par, 72, leaving | {“‘“ My g Pt “uxwr e 16 and then subtract 2, which would v‘;,“: v 45,000,000, John fix your handicap at 14. Greens com-| H®G 00" ACuarium in Chicago. This mitiees, however, frequently do not ap- | & (&G, “Needed to keep the fish in ply ths rigid formula in fixing handi- | Water was needed o i P caps, but vary it because of local con- | condition, as -suc manjc matter is iions ‘or thelr knowledge of the play |8vallable only in their natural epiron: e . ¥ | ment. In pre] g the of the members. ment. T n?eyp’:fm i the ro- Who recelved the pen with which | Parafiin, so as to leave a lining to P 5| tect the water from contemination the naval treaty of London was slgneas et " e Twader _frmn | cctLln i A "Acting as spokesman, M. Briand | about two million gallons of water, both presented the gold pen to the British prime minister. grave of Caesar is not | Lake Michigan. All of it will be filtered, | cleaned and aerated. This institution «B.'J. One” is the name of a|is said to be the first of its kind to colo | new play. o 5|lect and exhibit on a‘large scale not new play, What does the title mean?) 0 G1% jake and stream life of North A It means: “Station the hands|and South America, but also represent constantly at action stations by day |ative fishes from the Atlantic and and by night.” Pacific oceans. Q. What is a diamond hitch?—L. H. A A diamond hitch.i5 a method of fastening a rope about a pack animal’s load by which the rope, secured by a cinch, crosses so as to leave a diamond- shaped patch on, top. Q. How is the “halt” executed under Army regulations?—F. J. S. A. The command “Halt!” is given on the right foot. The left foot is then advanced and the right foot brought up to it, the halt being executed in two counts. Q. v“}Vl‘ll guinea pigs keep rats away? A. The Bureau of Biological Survey says that there is no foundation for the idea that guinea pigs will keep rats away. If there were contacts between these two animals, it is more than likely n‘mb the rats would destroy the guinea pigs. Q. What was Washington’s attitude toward the Hessians?>—R. P. A. Don Seitz says that Washington “liked these Germans and did all he could to persuade the prisoners to stay and send for their families, which many did.” »Q. Is paper money printed only in Washington or do mints print it, too? —O. D. A. The paper money of the United States is printed only at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, D. C. The mints of the United States i make no paper currency. ¢ Q. Who publishes_the new magazine called the Roadside Bulletin?—N. E. N. A. 1t is published by the American Nature Association of Washington for the National Council of Protection of Roadside Beauty, 119 East Nineteenth street, New York City., This organ has for its purpose the autification of highways and removal of defacing sign- boards. L DICTAMEN, Vera Oruz—Vera Cruz needs a band of music but is not able to pay for it. No provision was made in the bud- get for this year for a munici- pal band, as it apparently was forgot- ten at the time the fiscal program was under, consideration. Due to the e- forms’ and economies inaugurated in the atmy by the new federal schedule all bands are dispensed with, except for troops stationed at the capital. This leaves Vera Cruz, one of the most im- poftant cities and the first port of the republic, entirely without the, privilege of hearing the frequent musical enter- tainments which have been such a de- light and solace in the past. Mexican army bands have no superiors in the world, and we seriously question the wisdom of disorganizing them, even in the interest of much-needed govern- mental economy. * ok %k Germany Offers Bonus for Large Families. Cologne Gazette—France is not the only country offering bonuses for large families. The German Province of Westphalia is offering annually to the 50 largest families within its borders congratulations and a prize of 250 marks to the youngest child. The pres- ent awards are going to families whose progeny total 900, or an average of 18 children per family. Of these 900 chil- drew, however, 97 are dead—5 of ther having fallen on the field of bat- tle. Of the living children there are three families with 19 offspring, two with 18 and 11 with 17. Of the total 900 the economy of nature is observed in that 458 were boys and 442 girls. * X % ¥ Heel of Crystal For Masculine Costume. Le Matin, Paris—It seems that the masculine costume is to be enriched with a novel embellishment—a heel of crystal! A young man thus arrayed has just made his debut, and no doubt has already inspired a profound envy in the bosoms of the young ladies who still have to content themselves with heels of gold with jewels for nails, except those aristocrats who never wear any- hing but red heels. But that these sorts of initiatives | have acquainted us many times befo:e with the puerility of the human soul and the feeble functioning of the mind in the case of certain people, who think they have accomplished something when they devise some such absurdity as thi we would have disquieting qualm: about the future of the race. Men like | those who invent the elegance of the crystal heel undoubtedly think they have contributed much to human ad- vancement. A deeper culture—a real knowledge of right lving—of true de- velopment in spiritual values, is not so much to their taste! That which is difficult is not so much | to be recognized by our heels, as it is to be esteemed for more intimate quali- ties of intelligence. ok * Perhaps | The General Is Right. | North China Standard, Peiping.— | Gen. Smuts told America, on complet- ing his tour, that ‘“greatness and| strength in a nation excite the -envy | and malice of other nations”; unless | mellowed by kindness and made gracious | by benevolence bestowed on India by Great Britain, on Manchuria by Japan and on the Philippines by the United States, there seems mighty little return in_appreciation. However, i§ benevo- {lence and graciousness have their own | rewards, perhaps the general is right. * ¥ % ok Plan New System Of Train Dispatching. Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna,—As amnounced in these columns some time ago, the directors of the Austrian State Railway are considering the adoption of a new system of train dispatching, used successfully in Germany and | Switzerland. This new procedure in- volves the use of the “befehlsstab,” or “direction stick,” which is a rouhd staff with large colored disc on one end | |ment is serious. Why? @. Can the texture and amount of wool on a sheep be improved?—F. M. A. The Department of Agriculture- says that the quality and quantity of wool is largely within the control of the sheep raisers. The feeding, breeding and management of sheep influence the wool production. Q. What language is spoken in C. P. u Guam?—N. : . The natives speak a native lan- guage called Chamorro. English is the official language, but Spanish is spoken. . How many people does Henry Fo?d employ at his English plant?— T. R. W ¢ ‘A. Ford’s new plant at Dagenham, in England, will employ 30,000 men &t a minimum wage of £1 a day. . How many sligatés have old-age ension laws?—G. F. C. / ” A. Eleven States and the Territory of Alaska. The States are New York, Colorado, Montana, Maryland, Ken- tucky, Nevada, Wisconsin, Wyoming, California, Minnesota and Utah. Q. Will singed eyelashes grow in their natural length?—B. B. . A. Usually they will. plex?—T. J. L. A. As popularly used, it refers to the behavior of one who believes himself inferior to his associates. He may have an apologetic manner or in an attempt to cover up the feeling of inferiority he may be braggadocio. Q. How large is the 17-year locust?— 8. J. 8. "A It is about ome inch long when full grown and is marked with black and yellow. Q. What is longhand?—A. C. A. The expression is used for ordi- nary writing as opposed to shorthand, typewriting or printing. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From-Newspapers of Other Lands handle for night use. The train calley armed with one of these signal stick§ marshals all desiring to take the tralf he has announced and leads them d» rectly to the carriages, thus doing awaf with™ the hurry-Seurry and last-minuf desperation to mount the right train, e “Varinka's” Gift Is Appreciated. EIl Mercurio, Santiago.—We have just received the followirg letter: g girl, Zulema Moris, the doll which ac- companies this note, so that she may not be alone on her cot of sickness. “VARINI Such is the message which accompa- nied a-beautiful doll, almost as larj we are sure, as Zulema herself—Zule- ma, the poor little«child in the hospital —recovering from the abuse of her un- natural parents. ‘The doll can walk and talk and open and close its eyes, and it is charm- ingly dressed in abundant clothing of the most delicate workmanship. We sent the doll immediately to the little suffering Zulema. She was asleep, but not long after she opened her wonder- ing dark eyes and espled her new com- panion. “Who gave it to me?”-was her first question, as she hugged and ca- ressed it. We could not tell her. We had only the name “Varinka.” It is & name rare, exotic, remote! It is the name of an unknown, a most reticept doer of charity, of one who believes in doing good for the sake of the good and not,_for public approval of esteem. But little Zulema kisses her lovely new doll and asks us to thank the kind .| giver of so comforting and delighting a gift through the columns of our paper, T Celtic Congress In London This Summer. ( Irish Independent, Dublin.—The Cel- tic Congress is to be in London thiy Summer. It has been held in every cen- ter of the Celtic race except Cornwall and the Isle of Man would prefer nof to have the congress until 1931, because this year there is to be a great fore- gathering of Manxmen from all over the world, on which the island wishes tq concentrate. This coming Celtic Congress will be a grand opportunity.to tell the world the real story of the Celts and theil reat contribution to the fabric of Brit- sh_literature, to the equally massive fabric of British statesmanship, and to the building up of that great federation of ?mpk‘s (very unhappily) described as "The British Empire.” One use for the congress will be tc decide upon the pronuneiation of the word “Celtic.” Most delegates to the congress will call it “Keltic,” but som¢ call it “Seltie.” After all, one of the objects of the congress is to advance literature, and, possibly, when 1t is over e lsnan know how to pronounce eltic.” ¥ We have always called it “Keltic” and intend to do so. “Keltic” is quitq right. It is only Anglicized people wha have gone astray. ———— Victory Lies With Pedestrians. From the New London Day. The more you think of it, the mory it impresses you that this Indian move- The, casualty lists over the last week end ‘were als most as big as those in this country from automobile accidents! b o . And With All Those Radios! From the Saginaw Daily News. There are penalties as well as re wards attacl to census Florida’s populat has increased 1,231,073, and now the State is threat: ened with an additional Congressman He Made His Own Spelling. From the New Castle News, Dora has been trying to read 1y ser’s “Faerie Queene™ and doubts w%- for use day, and 2 bulb which can be ted by @& contact in the er the old boy ever won many spelling » Q. What is meant by inferior com- , ' salt, from Key West, and fresh, from . '