Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1930, Page 6

A6 THE EVENING Xt Sundey Merning WASHINGTON, D. C SATURDAY. .. .September 6, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor S A L ST The Evening Star Newspaper Compan) ol Business Office e 'tn'" o'r"‘ Office: 11 2and e : Lake M n B opean ice: 14 Regenl St., Loy England, ‘Within the City. ... 4bc per month and Pennsy! 0 Rast ich A iy v 80c per month iny en 5 unday Star . llection made at the e ra may be sent in by Ational 5000, h n.coil mail o1 \elephone Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. nia. Dally and Sunday. . Daily only " nly 1o Sindas”"o yio se00i1 All Other States and Dally and Sunday. 1yr. aily only ndn. ¥ only Member of the Associated Press. Associated Press | to the use 1qr republic Satehes credfied (o it ited In this paper and also oublighed herein. speefal dispatcl Canada. o 1 58.00° 1 mo.. L 55.00: 1 wo.. ise S0c 1o Al 1igiis of publi hes hetein ave also -eserved. Senator Capper's Prediction. Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas stanch Republican, has joined with Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York Democrat, in predicling that President Hoover will be renominated and re- slected in 1932 and that the depres- sion which has aficted the country for aearly a year will soon pass away. While the Capper prediction is not so surprising as that which was made sev- aral weeks 2go by the Democratic Sen- ator from New York, it comes trom one Of the shrewdest and best informed po- itical leaders of the great Middle West. As such it will be given counsideration 2ven by some of those who have re- sently been clamoring that the Hoover star, along with that of the Republican | varty, is already setting. Mr. Capper s himself a candidate for re-election 'A’l he Senate this year. Here is no dodg- ing on the part of the senior Senator ‘rom Kansas. He has hitched himself Armly to the Hoover band wagon ap- parently confident that it cannot harm | aim politically in the great farm State whose suffrage he is now asking. The Senator from Kansas has not | snly predicted the re-election of Presi- | {ent Hoover, but he has made a strong slea for the remomination and re-elec- don of Vice President Charles Curlis. Mr, Curtis, Senator Capper asserls, has aroved a tower of strength for the ad- ministration as he has presided over the Senate. Hoover and Curlis, the Républican national tickel, swepl the sountry in 1928, The same ticket, Mr. Capper believes, can turn .the trick again. There will, of course, be plenty of Democratic testimopy to the con- rary. . Senator Capper has predicated his assertion that President Hoover will be renominated and re-elected on the as- sumption that depression in business and employment in this country will oass. There are signs that conditions are improving. Dispatches loday from Biloxi, Miss., where the Southeast Ship- sers Advisory Board has been meeting, Juote tepresentatives of the organiza- don as saying that business is on the gein and that the worst of the economic crisis has passed. At the same lime t is'announced that the Monessen plant f the American Sheet & Tin Plate Co. will put all its twenty-five mills into op- aration beginning tomorrow night. The plant has been operating during the Summer at 50 to 75 per cent capacity. #lisha Lee, vice president of the Penn- svlvania Railroad, also issued a stalement saying that the railroads are engaged in 3 billion-dollar construction program 50 that they may serve the country the petter when prosperity returns. The “ailroad heads are not likely to expend ‘his huge sum of money without & firm oelief that its expenditure is justified. These are straws which indicate thi setter times are coming. The Democrats talk glibly about slecting a President in 1932, Anti- Joover Republicans are mentioning juite loudly the possibility of select- ng another man for the G. O. P. sresidential nomination iwo yea aenee. But in the case of the Demo«l >rats they must find a man who can 10t only unite all the elements in the Jemocratic party behind him, bul also win to his cause millions of lndr—' sendent. voters and Republicans. ‘I'he anti-Hoover Republicans also are ¢ ‘ronted with the selection of a candi- jate who will appeal to the volers of | the party so strongly as w0 make it sossible to set aside the real claims which Mr. Hoover has to continued sup- sort, The Democrats are stronger to- 1ay locally than they have been for several years, due entirely Lo the chauge n the economic conditions in the couniry rather than to any other cause. As a national party, howeve adv 0 support a candidate for President are they any stronger? Is the dry South any more squarely in Lne WILh |y ey persist in thewr refusal W trans- the wet East and North? Will the Democrats tally strongly W Gov. Roosevelt of New York, for example, or to Alfred E. Smith, their standard bearer two years ago? Or can they be brought to stand solidly back of & dry Southerner or a Westerner? N - A statue of Horace Greeley stands conspicuous in a New York space where crowds rush by. The early inspiration of the art that works in bronze or marble was the idea that an effigy somehow held within it the warmth of immertality. In view of the changes that go on about it, it seems & merci- ful provision of Providence that & statue eannot think. ——— - Efficiency Rewarded. Whether it was the lure of a five- dnllar increase in pay or mol, minety- two Washington policemen have been &0 efficient this month in the perfur ance of their duties that they have been singled out by the special board for the unusual recognition of being placed on the police honor roll, thereby draw- ing an additional stipend. 1t 1« to be hoped that it was nol & Lempurary spurt on the part of any of the policemen 50 recognized and thal th: efiiciency which gave them their reward will characte:- ize their future conduct. The award for efficiency and couriesy 5 per month | Lion. Washinglon hopes that &}l of its aih. ’wlu men will strive W attain places {on the roll. | moving around. | who have figared recenily in the there used to be many and it s especially gratifying to Washingtonlans that the police have learned that it is not necessary to take a reputable citizen who has violated some wminor traffic | regulation to the police precinct station in & patrol wagon. Of course cases of this sort will bob up from time to time, but they are the exceplion rather than the rule. Niucty-two policemen placed on the houor roll during the first mouti is & §00d Mugury of the success of the plan Aud of the number of men who tarough merit will be listed for special recogni- 1t will make the National Capital & boiter place i which to live. Government on Wheels, Within & few days past the Distriet | Police Department, the ‘Irafic Bureau | and the City Refuse Department have | been moved from their previous loca- tions i the District Building and in structures in the square north of the | new Commerce Department o & tem- porary home in & building on Louisiana avenue within the area upon which (he new Municipal Cenler will be erected. | “This structure, it s interesting (o note, is the one that was used as the “Dis- wict Bullding” just prior (o the evec- ton of the supposed permanent and final home of the wunicipal govern- meut at Penosylvania avenue and Four- teanth street. In two or (hree years it will be demolishied (o make room fo the greal Municipal Center project and It will be necessary lo place the three branchies of the District government somewhiere else pending the erection of what is now confidently expected will be & really permanent home, This shilting sbout is & part of the process of public building on a large scale. ‘The Federal Government is from tme to e shufing its bureaus around pending the completion of the serles of structures on the Mall-Avenue triangie. ‘The other day the Coast Guard offices were moved from & build- ing in the square thal is about to be cleared as a park approach (o the Commerce Department to the Treasury Annex al Madison place snd Pennsyl- vaula avenue. ‘Iis location is prob- ably only & temporary one. ‘The fire which somé days mgo destroyed one of the Lemporary war-tims buildings neces- sitates & reshifting of bureaus and prob- ably the occupation for & time of space in s privately owied structure, ‘The District Juvenile Court s also | 1t s been housed for | sume time n & former school building, | which is uow to be razed to make way | for the new boulevard running from Union Statlon Plaza (0 B street at “Third. “Ihe court will now be located in & bullding near that on Loulsiang ave- nug which is housing the Police Depa ment, the Traflic Bureau and the City Refuse , Department. , ‘This, of course, will go the way of all olhers now sta ing tn the Municipal Center site in a few years, and once more the Juvenile Court, which has been batted around almost as frequently as the House of Detention, must find provisional quar- tets pending the erection of its own permanent home. ‘I'hcse shifts and | changes require much ingenlous planning snd, inci- dentally, Involve considerable confusion on the part of those who have to do business with the peripatetic brunches of the District government. Bul it is all for the best iu the end, inasmuch as when the Municipal Center is con- structed the District bureaus will have their own final fixed places. There will be, it Is supposed, ample room for the present and for a few decades o come, with possibilities for expansion in new constructions. ——— “Legs” Lingers in Germany. One begins o pily poor .“Legs” Diamond, the Brooklyn rackeleer, who fied o take & vacalion and sailed for Autwerp, sud was shunted over into Germauy only o be held by the police #s au undesirable and ordered o be deported back to America. Inasmuch asethis country has not asked for his extraditipn and as Germauny is turn- ing him out only because it dues noi wanl him, hie caunol be placed on board suy ship Lhat comes wlong as & com- pulsory passenger. ‘Three transatlantic steamship Mnes 10 which the German government has applied for “spac lor Diamond have refused to take him on the ground that their passenger sts are full for (heir next suilings from Bren Of course, Lhis does not nec- essarily mean that there is actually no room for “Legs” on board any of these three ships. Even though the transatiantic tide is now at ils height flowing westward there is always oo for one more on Lhe most densely populated craft. ‘the fact is evident that the ateamship companies regard poor “Legs’ as an undesirable, even as does the German government. So| “Legs” i stll cooling his heels al Bremen, and the steamship com- | i port hum, under whalever pretext, he may stay there until be dies of old age ‘There 15 & hope, however, that he mny be worked off o u [reighter on which he would uwot be & contaminating - fuence. It is really a Lerrible (hiug W have & bad repulation. . »—oeo A large number of American voters are beginning o be (rankly worried by | the fear that Wwo much attention s being paid 1o their morals and not enough o ther flnanoes, { v s The Penalty of Discovery. The purely political admi of Greater New York has a strange | standard of official lntegrity and com- | petence, that Is disclosed from Lime 10 | Ume a8 subordinate Mcumbsnls gain | unpleasant noloriely through their | fin } sctivities, ‘This is the case with Mr. Healy and Mr. ‘Tommauey, now stration notorious kwald wliair, involving the wcidentally Tammany dis- was & depuly commis- sioner of the Bureaw of Planls aond Consiructions, Perhaps il might be | better W say that he was incldentally deputy conunissioner. However, he held that office. Mr. Tommaney was chiel clerk in the office of sheriff of New York County. 1t was he who got Mrs, Mr. Healy, wiet leader on the part of policemen is a good one and should stimulate th: men to give their bast efforts at all times, Einee Maj Pratt took office he has stressed courtesy to the public and nas brought rezt fmprov-ment in thi pret. are only & few casigdow of Ewald (o “lend” $10.000 to Mr. Healy to enable him 1o buy a suburban home, on the eve of her husband's appoint- ment. as magistrate, and he who gave her his note for that amount to run for three vears without interest, which note ghe has been unable to find. Some charge of he sale Of & magisiracy. | ¥ commissionership and the resignation was accepted. Yesterday Mr. ‘Fom- maney resigned his chief clerkship and his resignation alse was sccepled. Both men resigned in good standing. Now the question of the non-Tam- many Tuu-cf-mine citizen is why Mr. Healy and Mr, Tommauey resigned? Nothing has been proved against them, according (o the ‘Tamnany standard of jurisprudence. ‘They are simply, in effect, mccused, the one of taking an illegal consideration for a public office and the other of acting as intermediary i the tansaction. They have not been tried in court. They are presumably as efficient in their duties as ever, if ever. Mr. Healy probably up to the day of his resignadon did just as much work | for the city as lmmediately after his appoiniment, and lkewise Mr. Tom- maney, and It maiters uot the slightest in point of the equity of their tenures that they probably did very little work for the municipality, being doubtiess engaged in Richard Croker's avowed practice of working for their own pock- els all the time. Yel they have been allowed o resign. Was it because they violated the first law of politi grafta- mauship, “Thou shalt not be found out”? Inauguration day is famous for an unfavorable climatic condition. the other end of the thermometer, 6 Labor day. A revision of dates for the festivals of the Nation has often been suggested. In popular imagination Ma implies the advent of Spring- Ume and Seplember the arrival of Au- tumn, 1t is difficult to disturb the working of a hopeful and comforting | superstition, S = In turning to the banker for relief | in time of farm distress, it cannol be forgotlen (hat the farmer himsell is a | depositor who wants his funds ju- diclously administered. i RS ‘There is & growing resentment of the middleman in the country’s busi- ness. President Hoover will make w‘ speeches for himself and deal direct with his public. - “There are plenty of apples, but no peaches. will enable probibition agenis (o simplify their task by for- getting peach brandy and concentraling on mppiejack. .- Mussolini says he has no fear of as- sassination. ‘U'wo Lypes of man must | be absolutcly feariess, as they fiy high the dictator and (he aviator, e ‘Thanks (0 the unprecedented drought in these regions, the sign “Keep Off the Grass” has become obsolele for the rea- son that there is no_grass. oo j SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Much Kunowledge. Most persons will remember How & poel paused (o sing About “a little knowledge” “That becomes & “dangerous thiug." Now every brain is busy Al strange mysteries we clulch, We used to know too little. Now, perhaps, we know too much. We delve into forces That are subtle and sublime And claim to solve the mesnir That lay hid inf “space” and “time.” And even our afections Show a scientific touch. We used Lo know too little, Now, perhaps, we know (0o much. Stight Discouragement. “How are you making out in your political aspiiations?” “Not as well as I might wish," said | Senator Sorghum. “Nobody hss yel thought we of enough consequence (0 hreaten to put & squad of sleuths on my trall” Jud ‘Tunkins says & man who marks baliots in & primary election had better coucentiate on the new diagram, even if he has to foigel his cross-word pus- zles for & while, Mother and Daughter in Politics. may I go out and vote?” daughter graeious! But don't go wheie detectives float, Them bums is 50 firtatious!” Paying for Position. “Where will 1 be seated the distinguished dinner guest “Which do you prefe;,” returned the worldly-wise hosiess, “a chair of honor &L my right or & place where you may be sure of having & good g0 AL the microphone " inquired “An sncesiral fortune,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinalown, “is often ieed of & generation or Lwo to find one who is worthy of i Plucky Sportsmanship. Sir The s Lipton salls his bost, A viclory--he can't strike it Yeu in defeat he stays afloat. Perhaps he's learned (o like it. “I believe in de Bible,” said Uncle kben, “an’ I refuses 1o quarrel aboul it, because one of the best things it says is ‘Blessed Is de peacemaker.’ " . [— upliment Might Be Re 1 the Ani Abor Daily News Al upera singer was flned $15 in Chicugo for Lurling a flower pot at a neighbor who operated s radio At wm. 1L all depends upon what you say when you “say it with flowers.” R Effect of Anti-Noise Crusade. e Pitisburgh Post-Gazelte. Lovers of 1 pleturesque com) (hat the sporly dresseis of the track are no louger i evdience, sull-noise crusade may reached isell, iened. Fr n ce ‘T'he have over- e Admits 10 “Pain in the Neek.” ! From the M. Louin Globe-Democrat. Oue of the St. Louis lads who drove &0 wulomobile backward scross the inent says the chief expression of nethod of travel Is “a paip o the " Quite so! P4 vavee - Adds 1o Their Value, From (he Duluth Herald. Having (wo ears is & great conven- ience. We hear so many things that should be permitted to go In onc and out the other, - apper Kxposed. Louis Post-Dispateh. An Alaskan trapper veports he trav- eled 2300 miles by 601 , boat. and airplane to find a dentist ut the office b i he doesn't b HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, SR MPEEog & coitioms. 2y policemen | days ago Mr. Healy resigned his deputy so, atl | selection for light fiction, whatever that | D: C. SATURDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Book readers will wonder whether the firm of Simon & Schuster of New York mean for their “experiment In book publishing” to include permanently the colors on the covers of their new dol- lar novels. “Please note that the covers of the Tnner Sanctum Novels have three sep- arate colors: Red, Blue d Green,” they annour “1. Blue. These_are books in & more or less serious veili. Red. These are books of a lighter | nature. “3. Green. | Mystery storie: 3 If this thing keeps up, it will be pos- |sible o read the color of a friend’s mind by looking al his bookshelves. “Why, you ure Blue, aren’t you?" one may say, perhaps with some surprise. Or. after returning home, 1 was rather amazed to nole that Jim is { confirmed Re Or, one woman speaking o | “I was over o see Mattie yesterday. and would you believe it she reads nothing | but Greens!” ‘These are Deleclive and | * o Paper covers do. of course, permit & wider latitude of color, but the division of reading tastes into three cardinal groups by means of them may ser] ously be questioned. Serious. Light, Detective-Mystery? | All novels may be lumped off s0? If so, perhaps blue Is good for serious | books, ‘red for light and green for| | mysterious fiction. Blue is the mood of the moment. We | have the “blues” moaned at us from | hundred dance orche: | we_happen Lo be radio Popularly, one is supposed ous when blue. Red, the color of love, is not a bad ans. reen is the color of burning alcohol and salt, the old standard mystery glow used in & million initiations into secrel orders & year. Ko Efficiency. as applied o buok covers, is rather beside the mark. Colored cards and jackets may speed up office work, but home-reading is not woik, or, at least, it ought not to be. Auditors and publishers are supposed to co-opeiate Lo see that it is fun, and readers may insure happiness by mak- ing_careful selections. These choices, however, surely will | not be made on’ account of the tint of & book, but rather on its solid merit. Yes, one will gel fooled now and then: but even complele knowledge of the spectrum would nol save one, XK And suppose happened o be color=blind! | In that event even the most hectic | wiappers would mean nothing to him. | e would be thrown back, in the final | | analysis. upon the name of the author, | title, publisher, “blu on the jacket. | reviews, recominendations of friends | and clerks and sdvertisements. 1 Color has been tried out for years on | the jackels, or paper covers of the | [ cloth-bound bovks. Several years ago publishers began | one B C. Madrid.—The taurine fes-, tval which the municipality of Melun, in France, recently ar-| ranged for the first time in that | country, as & source of revenue | for the local school exchequer, due to the opposition of & part of the popula- Won, and especlally (o that of the Anl- mi Protective Sociely, resulled in some exciling incidents. 1t was the intention to conduct the | exhibition the Spanish manner, was in_readiness with | the mayor city officers, logether th the carnival’s queen of beauly, oc- | the posts of honor, when the | nce of the toreadors i the usual ocession was greeted with hisses. “This | was & demonstration on the part of the | Animals' Protective Sociely, some 500 of whom srrived from Paris in autono- biles. Among these partisans was Mme. DuGust, the president of the society, | who previously bhad sought to stop the | perforntance through appeal o the legal | {horities, | To have expert witness of all that tanspired ab the fight, Mme. DuGast was sccompanied by & veleriary s geon, who also was o see that tl was no infraction of the procedur permitied lor this vceasion by the miu- | istry of the interior. While the bande- | rilleyos wera enguged with the first bull | some 30 youlhs leaped the barrier and | advanced upon them, interrupling the progress of the fiesta. The clamor that | Arose was deafe; d the Republi- | can guard had twic car the arena | of e struggling crowds strants were finally di ; conlest resumed under implacable | sky of that Seuthern country, but net | until muny anathemas and blows of the | cudgel had been exchanged between the bulifighters and those desiring protect the animals, - Cloudburst Strikes Terror in Berlin. Neues Wiener Tagblatl, Vienna.—A | ternific cloudburst 1o Berlin terrified | inhabitants in all parts of the clly. Numerous sand sometimes almost cou- | tinuous fashes of lightning Lore jagged | ‘xtn—xks wcross the sky and many bulld- | Ings were struck by thunderbolts. Oue | coffee house In the Hussitenstrasse was | struck by lightning and the brilliance | &nd the stupendous peal of | L followed threw all the | o & panic. ‘Their consternm- | Justified, for besides the In- stanlaneous appear: e of a large hole | (i the roof, through which the rain poured i torrenls, the concussion | knocked all the patrons of the estab- | lishment from their chairs to the flo and rendered some of them uncon- | scious. Despite the downpour, the Fire | Department had to respond to hundreds | of calls where lightnlug, striking differ- | ent bulldings, bad set fire 1o Lhe h teriors. Nearly all the streets i the city were filled with a flood extending from curb to curb. | e arin Gendarme Must Know Many Languages. Le Matin, Paris.—The urchers of the guard never suspected Llhat their sue- cessors, the agents of police. would find | the trade so much mor complicated, For loda n Paris, the guardians of the peace must be perfect linguists to e of service to the Infinite Babel that comes w8 LOUrists from every quarter of the be 10 see the great city. Al the ers of the guard had o do was | ep the city purged of the brigands nd ruthians that on Infested it ana (0 see that all the lights of the citizer were extinguished at the hour of ¢ | few. But the gendarme of today has, in addition, to speak English, German and Spanish, He Is a walking epitome of & modern Par he knows all th | theant alls, and tunctio | as o & dramatic critie. He puts foreigners on Lhe right direc undred | wmembers of the P e force | 1!!1«'4 all the principal languages, but | this is not yet sufticlent erudition. They polyglots, 1 ev | must become veritable millar wilh every dialect ol tongue, if they hope Lo be verse with the nalives of France and other lands who obstinately refuse to stammer anything but (heir provincial PALois, x Airmail Service Brings Montevideo Nearer. Imparcial, Montevideo.—Two letters, one from Berlin and the other from Genon, have just arrived at Montevideo in five days after mailing. Both com- munications, of course, were transport- Odm_:( airpost, a service which will shortly be definitely and regularly es- tablished, and ‘which will then enable residents of eity to reach friends * % % | ® reply within 10 days. | From the New Or | “were vying with one another to see who, Everett Dean Martin has written a book could get out the most ‘“modernistic” jackets. ‘The combinations of colors were in some cases gorgeous, in others tragic. i Occasionally a jacket would be cre- ated which was a work of art, but we have yet to hear that it materially helped the sale of the book which it covered. When one wanis art he goes o & wallery. 3 e ‘ Lumping literature off into “colors” is _questionable, it would seem. It presupposes that readers are some- what foolish and go more by the eye than by the whole head. Some of them do, of course, but as a class readers of books are intelligent. It Is this verv fact which makes a good book “go," from the publisher’s”stand- point. 1f readers really were going to select their reading according to its coloring, the publishers should begin to think about going into the coal business, Even coal is turning blue these days, sud as for breakfast foods, they make noises! Books by colors, foods by sounds. America is becoming more interesting every day. But all this has its draw- | backs. * ¥ ¥ % One of the difficult things in life is (v see the other fellow’s viewpoint. Evidently publishers are no exception. To color books according to three d classifications is to forget the home bookshelves. One of the great charms of the book- caSe is the varied coloration of vol- umes. Even lnlerior decoralors recognize this. Often in homes which have been “decorated” for a special purpose one will go up W & bookcase to Inspect a neat row of books, only to find the volumes” dummy backs, and nothing more. Even in such cases, however, the bind- ings are varied, not only in length and | breadth, but particularly in color. There reds and be yellow, will be plenty of standard greens, but also there will lavender and 3o on. This variely makes for interest. Sets of books have a tendency to be too | uniform, especially if the covers are of too light & tone. Nothing makes a book- shelf look more splotchy than such a set. Too vivid coloring, such as a cer- tain bright red, also is bad. * Rk We are just a bit afraid of three colors and no more—red, s0; green, so; blue, so. Bookcase color would be saved, how- ever, if publishers would vie in this manner as in other details of their art. us, & competitor would turn up his nose at the magic of green, blue and red and issue his books in cerise, orchid and primrose yellow 1 the end perhaps bookcases would be as good a representation of the rain- bow as they are now, with this added feature, that colors would mean noth- ing at all except—color. We insist that breakfast foods ought to be silent and that book covers should be merely that and nothing more, Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands by mail in any European city, and have These two let- ters arrived on a flying passenger boat of the Compania Aerotrenes. The same enterprise is considering augment- ing its service between this cily and Buenos Alres. AL present two passen- ger plants leave for the Argentine cap- ital daily. aL 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. These two flights, howeve, uMlice for those de-iring Lo Swiit con- veyances, German Fishing Bouts Held by British. Cologne Gazetta—A flotilla of Ger- | man fishing boats has been seized and h Lhe placed in restraint by En ties st Portsmouth becaus of the fleet, at Hamburg, have not been able to pay the salarie: of the crews, One of ‘these steam trawlers will be sold if il wages have not been pald up to date, k. Mouunted Police Recelve Radio Entertainment. Manchester Guardian.—Most of us are aware that broadea-ling reaches many lonely folk up in the Arctic every evening. Some interesting re- ports on what stations are heard have been made by vavious detachments of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police up there, Every northern post of the Mounties now has a receiving set, for pleasure as well a< for the communica- tion of official information. Herschell Island, in the Arctic Ocean itself picked up last year 8 Canadian tran mitting stations, 4 Germun, 70 Am an, 1 Japunese and, it 15 gratitying to know, 1 Enghisli. ‘Fhe post at. Rae, on Great Slave Lake, picked up direct from England the thanksgiving service for ery of King George, It also hears Honolulu and equally distant foreign statious, Cambridge Bay post, on Vicloria Island, reports reception from stations in Chicago and Cincin- nati, thelr chief source of enter ment during the long Arctic Winter. R Bandit Camp Kouted by Air Bombs, Panuma-America, Panama.—Follow- ing Lee discovery of a bandit camp on the lop - of miles from the Hondur nembers of gua drop- ped 50 bombs from seaplanes and dis- I d all the bandits. They fled in the direction of Honduras, and as yet the extent of the casualties suffered by them is not known. These outlaw bands ravage indiscriminately the farms and industrles of either country, where they find them unprotected and offer- tng sufficient loot. e U. S. “Tourism” Grows Despite Depression s Times-Picayune. 1 reports from the national parks give un accurate line “tourism” in the United States continued its growth in spite of stock market slumps and con sequent . depressions. The National Park Service, an agency of the Interior Department,” reports (hat up lo Au- gust 6 last the number of tlourists visiting the national parks had been @reater by approximately 100,000 than the tolul number of such visitors regis- tered during 1929, A few of these parks reporled decreased registrations, but these were much more Lhan offsel i he others. her noled, limited to Fall ‘I'he decreases. almost _entirel; Lravel, which has h\lren off because of depressed business conditions. Many persons who made reservations for tours canceled them because of lack of hnanees.” Molor lourists presumably contributed the gains recorded, Hawail | National Park ‘reported & slump of 23 per cent, Lhe greatest in the list. While this is officially auributed to another cause, we have un idea it was due in parl at l€ast Lo the fact that the grow- g army of motorisis cannol travel to Hawaii. in their cars, and accordingly | omitted ihe Hawaiian park from their itineraries, Motor touring in this country Is still far short of its “peak” proportions- and will continue 1o break the touring volume records for years to come. Most motorists find the lure of the open road strengthencd steadily by the im- provement of highways the country over. Regions once avoided because of the poor condition of their roads now are offering modern paved highways that tempt both the veteran tourists and the novices. Also they increase the cruising radiug of the vacationist whase travel tlmo& limited and whet the appetite for r exploration. the owners | | sive, {seem that the technique of propaganda ! freely our choices are, in fact, deter- SEPTEMBER 6, 1930, THE -LIBRARY TABLE By the Booklover ‘Without being able to define the word on “Liberty.” But in his inabllity to d.ne he has the championship of a large and distinguished company. Such words as “liberty,” “truth,” “morality” and mapy others are like the vitamins which Nave never been isolated or the viruses which are filterable, but show no germs under the microscope. It Is possible to know considerable about ! Ahem without knowing the things them- selves. Mr, Martin says in his preface: “The word ‘Liberty,’ which I have with some reluctance chosen to stand as the title of this book, means so many things that it often means almost nothiny have attempted no abstract discussion or definition, but have endeavored to show what those who have most! thoughtfully _considered the subject | throughout the ages have meant by liberty. 1 have also discussed the sub- ject in the light of the general phi- losophy of life and of the psychological and historical facis which form the background of such discussion.” A Mr. Martin discusses the ideal of liberty held by the ent Athenians, that of the early Christian era, that of the Renaissance, that of Rousseau, of Voltaire, of Milton. The ancient Athe- nians thought of liberty as a cultural achievement. Such liberty is & part of a high civilization and “‘cannot exist apart from law, reason and self-dis- cipline.” Liberty of this sort could hardly be interpreted in such a way as 1o be'a danger to the state or to olher individuals. It operates under the con- f the virtues, wisdom, courage, tem- justice. The liberty preached by Rousseau, whose theories were adopted by both the thinkers and the mob of the French Revolution, was that of a return to nature. “Since human be- havior must, unless it is to end In chaos and destruction, conform to the laws of nature, why not recognize nature as the criterion of the right? Let human law be the expression of matural law. ‘To understand and obe; nature 1s the highest also the only way to be free. tin analyzes the philosophy of Rousseau At some length and apparently does not find it of high ethical quality or likely 1o stimulate to positive endeavor, He says: “Viewed as a whole, Rousseau's teaching is a kind of intellectual and moral relaxation, a blurring of distinc- tions of worth, a letting down of bar- rlers. It is as emotional release that Rousseau gives one the illusion of free- dom. This philosophy is of the heart, not of the head. There is a quality in it which is soft and warm and expan- I feel like a convalescent when I read Rousseau.” Mr. Martin does not mention as evidence of hypocrisy the fact that Rousseau, author of an ideal system of education for the young in his “Emile,” abandoned his own illegit- imate children to a foundling asylum, but he evidently has a poor opinion of Rousseau’s sincerity. “He was always the defender of his faith, ever preach- ing and moralizing, denouncing the sin of the world, rebuking those who dis- agreed with him. His was the proto- type of that illiberal and intolerantly proselylizing spirit so often found among radicals.” Kok K x Mr. Martin believes that liberly at the present time is endangered by too much legislation and by the spread of intolerance. He deplores the fact hat the propaganda of a small, nolsy frwv Is able so often to secure legis- ation which takes away the liberties of all. And the professional reformer Is usually, in his opinion, not the most intelligent and best educated man of his social gioup. “For little-minded men are opinionated. The ignorant man always believes he is right; the edu- cated man seldom. Hence intolerance is the device by which the ignorant, the unadjusted, the mentally immature strive to lord it over the community— always, of course, in the interest, not of their own power, but of ‘Eternal Right.' ‘The less & man has in him the more | intemperate he becomes in the vindi- ! cation of the right. Intolerance leads o the dominance of the less civilized elements of the population. For tol- erance is a civilized attitude toward life, and only the magnanimous man attains it.” The propaganda which has become such an organized part of modern life . according to Mr. Martin, destructive of intelligence. He might have added that it is likely to drive intelligent peo- | ple altogether mad. He says: "It would | is now perfected so that an ‘invisible government’ may be placed at the dis- posal of -any minority which is finan- cially able to employ it. One never knows now when one is being used by unknown persons for ends that remain undisclosed. We are (old that very often when we think we are acting most mined by skillful men operating behind the scenes.” * ook ‘The diary of Mary Gladstone, daugh- ter of England's prime minister, was kept for her own pleasure, not to serve as a political document. It has recently been published—"Mary Gladstone (Mrs. Drew): her Diaries and Letters'——ed- ited by Lucy Masterman. The editor is & cousin of Mary Gladstone. The home life of the Gladstone family. and their cousins, the Lylteltons—so entirely omitted from Morley’s monumental bi- ography-—is the staple of these diaries and letters. The entries begin with 1858 and end with 1924, Mary Glad- stone was often called Gladstone's fa- vorite child. She was married to a clergy Harry Drew. Her devotion lo her father was always fiery, and she delighted in the fact that he could muster a larger crowd when he spoke than the Queen herself on her public Appearances. Once in a railway train two ladies poke horribly” of Gl stone, of course ignorant of the identity of their fellow traveler. On leaving the train she left with them a note: “If you knew the man you just now called & monster, you would pray tonight to be forgiven. His daughter.” The note shows the undertone of piety which was that of her father’s life. This appears again in her comment on Tennyson: “I am disappointed in his religion. It is purely founded on the chaos and fallures of a godless world, and there is & want of reverence which is a shock.” She objected because Tennyson kissed her d ' because Browning | brushed her face with his beard. Mrs. D w lived Lo see James Ramsay Mac- Donald occupy the offices in Downing Street 50 long the political sanctum of her father, oK ko “The Love Letters of Ernst Haeckel,” arranged by Johannes Werner and trans- lated from the German by Ida Zeitlin, eal an old-age love of the author of The Riddle of the: Universe,” which might have shattered his reputation for self-sacrificing devotion to the ideal, but through the turn of events did not do so. The letters are to Franziska von Altenhausen and were -written when Haeckel was 65 years old. His wife had been for many years a complaining nervous individual and his daughter was & vietim of melancholia. With this companionship, it is perha not sur- prising that the sane personality and brilliant critical intellect of Franziska von Altenhausen fascinated him. He urged her to go away with' him; she re- fused and insisted that he remain true to his duty and his own teachings. ‘They wailed for the death of the wife, but_ Fransiska died frst. w it A uew branch library in Denver is & house once ovccupied ‘by Eugene Pield, which has been purchased and will be removed to the Washinglon Park. to form & permanent memorial, as well as a part of Denver's educational system. Such a memorial is appropriate in Den- ver, for it was there, as managing edi- tor of the Tribune, that Eugene Field, first came to public notice. His work on the Tribune caused him to be invited by the Chicago News to write a regular column, which bscame widely known as “Sharps and Flats.” — ——— First Man’s Real Need. Prom the Akron Weacon-Journal. The first man really needed a econ- science. He no neighbors, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ‘This bureau does not give advice, but it gives free information on any sub- ject. Often, to be accurately informed is to be beyond the need of advice, and information is always valuable, whereas advice may not be.” In using this serv- ice be sure to write clearly, state your or Te age. ress Star ‘x'n’mfiufon ‘Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. How tall does a person have to be to be termed a “glant”?—C. W. . A. The word is conventionally lim- ! ited to persons over 7 feet in height. Q. What nation has the largest coast trade?—N, E. A. The great length of our sea and lake coasts, the number of good har- bors and the fact that most of the coast region of the United States has been settled makes the coasting trade of this country the most extensive in\ the world. Q. Does ;urgfln( keep textiles clean longer?—R. 8. D. A. It does, because it covers and holds ! down the tiny surface hairs that catch the dust and dirt. Q. Did the Soclety of -Friends do re- lief work during and after the war? —S. M. A. During the war it was active in relief work in France, Germany, Hol- land, Poland and Russia. After the war it did a great deal of reconstruc- tion work, hospital work and relief work among the destitute. Q. How was the Brooklyn Bridge financed?—F. J. L i A. The structure was begun as a pri- vate enterprise, but the corporation was unable to carry on, so the bridge be- came the property of the two cities, Brooklyn paying two-thirds and New York one-third of the cost. . Do some animals hibernate in Summer?—J. J. A. The word “hibernate” cariies the idea of Winter. South tropical crea- tures such as alligators, snakes and certain mammals and insects undergo a period of torpor during the hot, dry season when food is scarce and vegeta- tion is taking a rest. This is known as “estivation.” Q Psleue tell me what Samvat means. Samvat is an abbreviation of the Sanskrit word “Samvatsara, which means & year. Samvat is the method of reckoning time used generally in In- dia, except in Bengal. Christian dates are reduced to Samvat by adding 57 to the Christian year. Q. How long after the parachute opens will & man be moving downward at a regular rate of speed?—A. J. A. The Army Air Corps says that & man's descent receives a considerable check almost instantly with the opening | of the parachute, and that within a few | seconds after the opening of the para- chute the descent is constant. Q. Can liquid air be seen?—P. W. 8. A. Liquid air is visible, having the appearance of water with a trace of blu- ing in it. nQé ‘What is commercial paper?—G. A. Commercial paper is a general name for checks, drafts, notes, bills of lading, bills of exchange, warehouse re- ceipts, treasury warrants, orders for de- livery of goods, certificates of stocks and J. HASKIN. bonds, etc., and is someti fed Q. How close to the North Pole 'dd people live?—I. D, A. According to the late Admiral Peary, permanent human life exists within some 700 miles of the North Pole. None is found within 2,000 miles of the South Pole, Q. Who invented life preservers?— ‘A The life-belt commonly in_use ;:;‘ designed by Admiral Ward of Eng- Q. What is the People’s Palace?— . 8. D o C.B. D. A. It is an institution at Mile End, London, established to furnish facili ties for education and recreation to the people of East London. Q. Which of the Alexanders was Alexander the Great?. . N. A. Alexander III, named the Grea$, ;lé born in 356 B.C. and died in 328 Q. How old was Jascha Heifets when he first played the violin?>—R. MeN. . He commenced playing the violin at 3, completed the course at the Music School in Vilna, Poland, at f age of 7, and, after study with Prof. Leo- | pold Auer in Petrograd, was a mature artist at the age of 10, Q. What is tin plate?—P. H. A. The Bureau of Standards says that tin plate, as the term is used com- mercially, refers to sheet steel or irom which has been coated with a layer of tin. Q. Are ginger ale and coca-cola fat- forming drinks?—L. M. A. The bever tent. Q. Please give a complete list of Lon Chaney's pictures—B. M. A. Lon Chaney's first work of any importance was in Western pictures sueh as “Riddle Gawn,” “Hell Morgan Girl” and “False Faces" He first came to prominence in “The Miracle Man.” Subsequently he appe: in ‘“Treasure Island,” “The Penalt; Hunchback of Notre Dame. Phantom of the Opera.” ‘“Ace of Clubs,” “Oliver Twist.” “The Shock,” “He Who Gets Slapped.” “The Un- holy Three” (silent version), “The Blackbird,” “Tell It to the Marines” “Laugh, Clown, Laugh,” “The Monster,” “Mr. Wu,” “London After Midnight,” ™ ‘Tower of Lies,’ ile the City s ," “The Road to “West of Zanzibar” and “The Unholy Three" (talking version). | Q. How long will grapevines produce? -2 pe p “The “The A Some varieties continue fruitful | for at least 300 or 400 years, Q. When did David Warfield play in “The Music Master.” and how long did it run? Did it have a longer run than “The Auctioneer”?—S. B, M. A. “The Music Master” was produced in 1904 and ran for more than 1,000 performances. It was revived success- fully several times. “The Auctioneer,” staged in 1901, had a run of 1,400 per- formances. Q. What is the population of Birming- ham, Ala.,, and how much has the city grown in the last 10 years?—J. H, G, A. Birmingham has 257,657 inhabit- ants. In 1920 the city'’s population was 178.806. iAmericang Study Cup ;Yacrhts And Prospects for Big Race ‘The momentous choice of the Enter- prise as defender for America’s Cup on the whole is approved by American opinion, although a little dash of eriti- cism embitters some of the toasts being drunk to her success. ‘Typical of the American tributes that are paid to Sir Thomas is that of the Des Moines Tribune, which declares that “if America is to lose the cup this year, it might more appropriately go to Lipton than to any one eise.” The St. Louls Post-Dispatch also comments: “Now past 80 years of age, Sir Thomas is here with his newest pride, redoubt- able as ever. In his race with the de- fender, may the best boat win, but, as he knows full well, winning isn't all. He has never won the Prize. yet he has never missed the goal, which is the sportsman’s far greater satisfaction of having played the garae. 1f the Sham- rock V doesn't win, who can say he n't try again? His yachts are no greener than the verdure of his youth.” The Ithaca Journal-News suggests that “the welcome he recelved in New York * * * was the greeting for & member of the family returning from a foreign strand.” The New York Sun, paying tribute to the selection, says: “IL was the skill with which she was designed and with which she has been sailed since mid- April that dictated the committee's choice. The designer of the Enterprise, W. Starling Burgess, must feel a senti- mental satisfaction in the choice of the sloop taken from his drawing board. continues the Sun, saying, “It was his father, Edward Burgess, who designed the Puritan, the Mayflower and the Volunteer, defenders of 1885. 1886 and 1887, when the challengers did not take a single race.” o The Yankee, one of the four compet- ing yachts in the preliminary races, had her admirers, and of her the Worcester Daily Telegram remarks: “Yankee's failure to become the nominee is a New England disappointment. Well, Yankee did her best and that was good. May she survive to furnish many a thrill in races for other trophies!™ The Lowell Evening Leader believes there “should have been further contests between the Yankee and the Enterprise,” and claims that the “cholce was made in a hurry— too much of & huiry.” So also speaks the Manchester Unlon, saying: “Nobody doubts that the Enterprise is a splendid craft, but there will be & good many to maintain that her superiority to the Yankee has not been definitely estab- lished. It is a great pity that a situa- tion has been created,” avers this paper, “but it has been created, and it would be idle to attempt to ignore its exist- ence.” 1t is pointed out by the Hartford Daily Courant that the “choice of one sailboat over another is always difficult, and particularly under the present circim- stances, when the decision meant that the three unsuccessful contenders, each of which cost a good-sized fortune, would be virtually scrapved” and the Conrant declares that “there are few sailboats that can demonstrate an all- around superiority under all conditions | over the other contenders. Although conceding that “unfortu- nately, there have been indications of ill feeling among the backers of some of the vachts,” the Springfield Caily Re- publican is of the opinion that “ihs En- terprise proved herself the best of the four contenders in a light wind,” tnd that it gave “an excellent account of it- self under varying conditions Out of 22 test races and trials, the Enternrise was 13 times & winner and finished sec- ond 9 tim ver finishing below sec- ond place,” detlares this journal. x koK X Star, which furnishes its readers the fol- | lowing table of dimensions: Bnamrock V. . Enterpriss. 119 10,10 in. b3S 120 fr. 80 1) ki | | Lengtn Lond w oam Draft Fraeboa Disp Hi For this reason a gallant fight is ex- pected from start to finish and it will be but natural, as the Lynchburg News puts it, for Yankee pride to make “man- ifest in unabated rejoicing if the staunch little Enterprise shail shew her prow in front at the end of the race and thus keep the cup over here for a peried longer.” However, if the ~up is lost, no hot tears will be shed, fur, “it Sir Thomas, 80 years of age, but still the enthusiastic sportsman, feels thes at least he has a boat that will realize his long ambi- tion, Americcns to & man will give kim | & hearty cheer, if it does!” exclaims the Los Angeles Evening Evpress. But this result is hardly sxpccted in Ameries, the Fort Worth Record-Telegram pre. dicting that the gallant sportsman “will g0 back minus one yachting cup,” even while it declares: “If the term ‘f loser’ was not invented for the s ial use of that Scottish-born lover of Ire- land’s national flower, it lost its greatest opportunity for synonymity. Try to sep- arate the two!” it cries, in admiration for Sir Thomas. The Peoria Star thinks there are some “millions who would like to see him get some reward for his good sportsmanship and his good nature In defeat ™ ‘The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette exclaims: “The yachts will soon be dashing across | the line in the first race! Then it will bé for the boats and the respective skippers to show their mettle. Untfl m’:&n‘:h'? country will wish good luck DT |Mothers Listed Pioneers New Hospital Regulation From the Fort Worth Record-Telegram. We read interestedly of the organiza- tion of the Associated Mothers of TNi- nois. It is a group of mothers banded together for the purpose of demanding a drastic statute against any possible repetition of the famous Watkins- Bamberger case in Chicago, wherein two babies became hopelessly confused in a Chicago hospital to the future despair of both mothers. The world will doubtless watch the cperations of the newest protective or- ganization with much interest. There s nothing quite so charged with un- guessable potentiality as a group of mothers on the werpath on the subject of offspring. A man by the name of Kipling rounded out quite a reputation by ‘putting the individualities of the abstract “mother” into rhyme— “She is wedded to convictions— In default of grosser ties: Her contentions are her children; Heaven help him who denfes!” ‘The Legislature of the State of Illi- nois will do well to refreshen itself on the “female of the species.” Tt is scarcely probable that any set of in- dividuals on the globe could devise a protection against the very occasional carelessness that might confuse the en- | tities of two hospital babies, but the | Dlinolsians are going to be put to tha task. The Associated Mothers have made that their great obligation to humanity. Mere men are capable of hoping for the best in cases of doubt in baby identi- fication, but they are recognized as of such general unimportance in such in- Although owned by a New York syn- | stances that they will probably not at- dicate, headed by Harold S. Vanderbilt and Winthrop W. Aldrich, the latter the son of Rhode Island’s famous Senator, the late Nelson W. Aldrich, the Enter- prise was bullt by “the Herreshoff Man- ufacturing Co. of Bristol, which carried on the chain of victories with five suc- cessive yachts,” as the Providence Jour- nal points out, further stating, "It would have seemed strange not to have a Rhode Island-bullt defender after so many vears,” and predicting a “best- In the.present contest, the opposing yachts com- tempt any defense against the impened- ing “lobby.” Being used to saying, “Yes, my dear,” by rote, they will fail back on “Yes, madame,” and let the lines of least resistance their currents turn awry and take on the name of action. An Associated Mothers movement for eneral results might not be such a d idea. Suppose they organized the purpose of making all each other's children do a little something in gen- eral obedience and to work as soon out by the Toronto Daily as they complete sc] ! There d be something! Youl are fat-forming ' only in proportion to their sugar con- .