Evening Star Newspaper, October 21, 1930, Page 8

{THE EVENING STAR With Sunfiay Momning Edition. WASBHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY......October 21, 1830 ' THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor !hlvmshrN ufcm and Fennesizuna, Ave | “‘ 8%&.‘ l.nfiielhll ull& Rate by c-rrlet wnun the City. . .45¢ per month c per copy aa at the end of “ach mon et in'by ‘mall of telebhons grdm .r-y Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. THE EVENING would af- | been disciplined and harnessed. It is them > study (stil’ wn adolescent mind, retaining and discuss the proposed park develop- ments here. Because this is the N tional Capital, there is a Nation-wide interest in its future development and the park layout is an essential feature of that development. The park executives of the country, if they should come here in 1982, would find the panorama of Washington greatly changed since 1924 and with still further changes in the making. —————e e Great Britain and Palestine. Ih the new statement of British policy in Palestine, the London govern- ment is manifestly trying its best to make a graceful job of maintaining equiifbrium astride the horns of & dilemma. Great Britain, under its League of Nations mandate, is com- mitted to safeguard the interests of all races and creeds in the Holy Land. The Balfour declaration binds the 2| British to succor the aspirations of 1 his %fl~ heretn dispatches Weird Recommendation. ‘The fantastic report submitted by the Subcommittee on Motor Licenses of the Commissioners’ Trafic Advisory Oouncil, proposing to double the gaso- line tax, double the cost of registration and license of pleasure vehicles, increase the cost of registering and licensing commercial vehicles and boldly outlaw- ing solid-tire vehicles from the streets of the Capital, is indicative of nothing #0 much as a supreme indifference to important facts that must justify any proposal to increase taxation as well as & blithe disregard of consequences that, in this particular ease, would follow. ‘The report was accepted by the full committee by & vote of eight to six. But it is to be trusted that the Com- missioners will consign it to a safe resting place in the particular basket reserved for such papers and that. the report will exist merely as an example of the strange things apt to result when & cheap and plentiful supply of writing materials is placed in the hands of per- 8008 in no way accountable for spending other people’s money. The report bases a recommendation for higher gasoline taxes on the fact that this form of taxation has proved popular in the States; that the taxes in some of the States are higher than the tax in the District, though no attempt is made to examine the per capita cost of the tax; that raising the tax here two cents a gallon would encourage the * sutomobile industry to make more effi- clent engines and stimulate the local Population of automobile users to con- serve the Nation's diminishing fuel Tesources; that the tax is easy to assess, easy to collect and would pro- cure an additional amount of money from the inclined tour- ists who visit their Capital in automo- biles. Not a single paragraph, sentence or even a word appears in the report as attempted idly improving. New streets are being paved and old ones widened. The High- ‘way Department is not suffering from a possible deficit and there is no danger that it will. But after citing a few generalities total of revenues that would accrue if the tax were doubled here, the report proceeds to propose that with this in- ' ereased revenue the Highway Depart- ¥ ment, the traffic department and all the street work could be supported from the funds derived from automobile-own- * §ing citizens. The only thing tn connec- tion with streets and traffic that the committee did not propose should come out of the gasoline tax and automobile # license revenue was the salary of traffic « policemen. But this, possibly an over- “' pight, may be remedied later. The committee naively suggests that 4t the registration fee were doubled, the S property tax on automobliles ? should be eliminated. That proposal ‘was made In connection with the orig- inal gasoline tax legislation. But Con- gress made the gas tax an additional tax, not a substitute tax. Why the subcommittee believes that Congress would do otherwise now must be writ- ten down as one of the things that pass understanding. ‘The report is a cordial invitation to the Federal Government to withdraw entirely from support of the great and expensive street system it planned for the Pederal city, and to place the . expense of the streets and the agencies 7 that have to do with the streets on the .- ghoulders of sutomobile owners. Taken as a whole, the report nat- wurally raises the question whether those ‘who signed it read it and whether those who voted for it understood what they were supporting. —_—rer——————— Nature’s law of heredity is a gamble which just as readily hands down to children the “treys anad deuces” from the ancestral deck as it does the “aces and kings” according to an Iowa sclentist. The real hero, however, is he who, armed only with the low cards, makes the “aces up” lay down. e A Park Convention Here. National Capital park officials, just back from the convention of the Amer- jcan Institute of Park Executives in St. Louis, announce that the institute was invited to hold its conclave in this city in 1932, the George Washington Bi- centennial year. It is to be hoped the suggestion will law for the comprehensive rounding out i the park system, including the George Washington Memorial Parkway along the Potomac as far as Mount WVernon and other park extensions into ) Maryland toward the north, By 1932, officials point out, much Zionist Jews to establish a “national home” in Palestine. The empire’s en- during need to consider its vast Mohammea®n population imposes upon Britain &.no «ess grave obligation to take heed of the susceptibilities of 700,000 Arabs resident in Palestine. Thus Jew and Mgalem present & racial and religious conflict in which British statesmanship is called upon to play a role difficult and delicate beyond all possibility of exaggeration. Last night in London the govern- ment issued a declaration of its future program, which forthwith stirred the ire of Zionist leaders. Dr. Chaim Weiz- mann, the cultured and able president of the Jewish agency and of the World Zionist Organization, announces his resignation from those posts as & pro- test against Britain's new policy in Palestine. He contends bitterly that it will restrict Jewish immigration and check purchases of land from the Arabs for settlement by Jews, thus interfering with the whole plan for establishment of a “Jewish national home.” Dr. Weiz- mann pillories the British proposals broadly as “an attack on the Zionist work_in Palestine.” The British case for amending land and immigration conditions fs set forth in the government'’s manifesto as fol- fows: “It can now definitely be stated that at the present time and with the pres- ent methods of Arab cultivation there remains no margin of land available for agricultural settiement by new immi- ants with the ex on of such un- leveloped land Je! ncies hold in uu ‘n'P';wfl: of & margin available for settlement depends upon the progress made in increasing the producuvuy of land already occupied. Jewish settlers have had every advantage that capital, science mfl organization could give them. these and to the energy of the muzn themulvu their remarkable gh is due. On the other hand, e Arab population, while lacking the advantages enjoyed by Jewish settlers, has, by excess of births over deaths, in- creased with great rapidity, while the land nvlllnble for its lubshmee has terially. area has pc.ofl into Jewlnh hAndl » ‘The Zionist interpretation of these affirmations is that they mean, for the time being at least, government prokhi- bition of further land purchase by Jews from Arabs. This is one of the de- mands which the Palestine Arab dele- @gation made of the British government in London last Summer. As to immi- gration, the government evidently in- tends to leave less authority to the Jewish Agency than the latter has hitherto had. To the British proposal to delegate the administration of the Palestine mandate to a legislative coun- cil of twenty-three, with twelve elective members, the Jewish leaders appear to have no objections. It is the new land and immigration policy that irks them. Dr. Weizmann, possibly in the com- prehensible first blush of frritation over yesterday’s developments, suggests that the eventual result of them may be the transfer of the World Zionist Organiza- tion’s headquarters from London tc the United States. In the same dispatches which mention this contingency the possibility of “another Irish probl between the United States and Great Britain is hinted at. Now and then the notion has been put forth that Britain’s mandate in Palestine might some day be transferred to the United States. It requires little gift of prophecy to pre- dict that there would be slender hope of inducing either the Government or the people of the United States to take such s plunge into the bottomless pit of world turmoil. ————— Gov. Byrd announces that drought relief ald thus far advanced by the Federal Government is not in any way adequate to meet the conditions im- posed by the drought. Apparently those determined inhabitants of the Old Dominion will be satisfled with nothing less than rain. ——— Right now—not next May when rush is on—is the time to have still good straw “kelly” fixed up for another season. And how do you like that combined smell of mothballs and coal gas? ———— A Curtain Is Lifted. A weird backwash of time is the African kingdom of Abyssinia. There the mystery, color and vigor which characterized European society after the fall of Rome still persist, ac- cepting little from the modern world. Attention is drawn to this condition by the preparations for the coronation of & new Emperor and Empress early next month. The “dark sges” live again in the picturesque customs which precede the elevation of a new ruler of this nation of white men with black skins, representing a very ancient penetration of the dark continent by a Caucasian Ppeople. It is significant that Abyssinia has It has resisted successfully something of the wonder of childhood and a great deal of the mobility of youth. And it still lives comfortably under the sheitering rooftree of medies valism. It has energy to spare, time does not press upon it, and the society which is its matrix still is so unor- ganised that it can afford to adventure into unpromising paths. Here, it may well be, there is & force to be reckoned with in the history of the future. Abyssinia hardly can stand still much longer. Already she has begun to ac- cept a little of modern elvilisation. It is possibly fortunate that she is not ac- cepting it all without questioning the value of the items. Medievalism might be pictured as the center of a circle, with roads ex- tending in every direction toward the periphery. There is no absolute reason to believe that one road is better than another—but & race can follow only one of them. Abyssinia still is free to choose. Make It Permanent! A temporary sign, placed on the Dumbarton Bridge, at Q street across This t; Rock Creek, during the course of re- pairs to the structute, warns motorists that ten miles an hour i8 the speed | N limit. This sign should be made per- manent. The bridge is curved, is placed at right angies to the street iteelf and is cut in two by a concrete partition. Thus cars entering the bridge, espe- elally from the east, must head directly for the abyss, guarded Iinadequately, before they can make the narrow pas- sage. Although no serious accident has happened at this point, careful observers feel that the situation is one full of menace, Proper signs calling for low- ered speeds in crossing would help re- move the hazard at this ornamental bridge. This crossing contains a mental haz- ard not fully apparent except to those | ey who daily drive over it—the thick con- crete parapets give an impression of great solidity, which is not borne out by facts. Sevéral years ago & light pas- senger car, driven by & woman, struck the north parapet and knocked out some ten feet of concrete. Luekily, the car hung on the edge and no one was hurt. A lowered speed limit may be the means of averting a tragedy at Dum- barton Bridge. ——tee Ordinarily pictures of royaity are ex- ceedingly popular with people who enjoy pictorials and rotogravures, and those who get them up in this demo- |of cratic land appear to know it. But somehow we all have lost our taste & little for those intimate and official glimpses of Carol of Rumania. —————————— Notre Dame—those “Fighting Irish,” 50 many of whose names are much more familiar to the Polish minister at Dub- lin than they are to the head of the Irish Free State—seems destined to have another one of those “average” teams which win either nine straight or else eight out of nine games. —— 4 i Hindus are said to fall int when they meet M suj In generous mood its bounty doth extend. Behold, the gréin hath met the reaper and The rafters of the barmn begin to bend. We find reward for those laborious hours ‘We passed beneath the ardent Summer sky In these the products of earth's mystic powers, The bird, the oyster and the pumpkin | 224 ple. When fair with promise shown in early Spring, We looked about thought That birds were chiefly made for caroling, The vine to bloom and mollusk sleep ‘unsought. But now the fruits supplant the fragile flowers. From water and from earth as from the sky and innocently We grasp in these, the culminating|pages hours, The bird, the oyster and the pumpkin i —_ In Transit. "wmyflumo\uinenmmup in the airship?” “Not exactly nervous,” answered Sen- ator Sorghum, “but Ill admit I was glad I wasn't expected to get out on the rear platform and make a speech.” “The Soviet,” says Jud Tunkins, “might be termed the jl-‘ band of politics.” ©Old Sol's Unrest. The Autumn days too swiftly end. ‘That good old friend of ours, ‘The sun, has joined the general trend, Demanding shorter hours. would, as the poet suggests, cause us to think things over.” “Perhaps,” replied Miss Cayenne. “But it doesn't seem to make much of an impression on some of the motion picture stars.” “As an intoxicatin’ beverage,” said Uncle Bill Bottletop, “there’s one thing meuum.vhu.wm.mm from some one asking us to express an Opinion &8 to the effect of the “talkies” on the now old-fashioned silent “movies” and the chances which the so-called wnnu stage has of surviving. is little question, we believe, that the talking pictures have made the straight flims wit,hnut sound back numbers, except for scientific work and a8 home entertainment. Just as of recefit years no one cared to sit through a motion picture show with only the sound of & piano, as one used to do in the nickelodeons, %0 w- day the “silent drama” seems stran even though our experience with “talkies” has been phenomenally brief. The human voice always was what th motion pictures lacked, and now that they have found it, it is sc-rcely believable that they will ever it up. The experts seem divided as the part which color is to play in the films of the future. ‘The critical ofinlon is, we believe, that color scarcely will play the same role as sound, but that it seems oasen- tial for certain types of pictures, ticularly the musical comedy il of picture, however, rollw- uge vogue for a few months, ld seem now to be definitely slack- in lar appeal. Whether the ension pictures, will re- vzru this situation remains to be seen. *xoww As for the fate of the legitimate drama, our opinion, for what it is worth, 18 this: That the stage 18 too old and has occupied too sure a place in human affections for it to be ousted by any inventive work of man. The films are founded on two things ~—science and human nature. Of these two the latter seems the surer, be- cause the older and less changing. Bcience is buill on change. Exveri- ment follows experiment, improvement upon improvement. Every one who has attempted to “keep up” with nflo sets knows how impossible the thing is, unless one is willing to junk a good to get a better one time after time. The stage is perennial because it is based simply upon human nature. It nds no_inventive skill, no science. It has no labora behind it, calls for no trained scientists to be given scholarships for its benefit. Any man who can do it—a most im- portant qualification—can sit down in & garret and turn out a play which will thrill thousands of hearts, stir thou- sands of minds. It is the old triumph of the human brain, the mind dealing with the elemental things of life. Science is complex. Begin to look into the quantity of things which may be made from coal tar if you doubt the complexity of science. Life, once & man makes up his mind it as it is, is simple enough, in the elemental emotions and thoughts which arige from the mere living. All of us understand them. We need no scientists to resolve them into umr atoms, to point out that two parts heart united to two of brain equal set to at leas Jealousy. As & matter of fact, we cannot be sure that ; for in the science of life an tesimal portion of honor, suddenly introduced into the mixture, perhaps by a mere word or a scent of perfume, may change jealousy into love. * kX % ‘These elements of living, as distin- guished from the chemical elements, need the human voice to give them body and life; to present their inner tplnk Motion pictures with the human introduced take a large bound be no doubt in ? D. 0, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1980. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. one’s mind about that, although the :vnny.mer brothers were the first to stake their financial reputations on this opinion, The legitimate lun—n poor phrue, but the t we have—the stage, theater, whatever one calls this old, old thing, has real life in addition to the real volce. It is life which the stage empts to reflect, which all drama attempts to put into being; but only the legitimate stage has the actual life there before you. ‘The phunugnph had the voice, the ovies” had the motion, the “talkies” have the voice, the radio has the voice; ¢ | but the actual personages presented are h'r]. far away, sometimes thousands of miles. The voice from the ‘radio, from the phonograph, from the “talkies,” is a marvel of 'science, but it has been strained, if we may use the word, through disks, through film, through miles of wires, through tubes, trans- radio sets and speakers. * ok Kk acted before one is come to one ummed, anct. actually as one sees series of dotted linies in comic pictures, uhootl.u from the eyes of one character to the eyes of another. The voice we hear in the legitimate theater, which some tend to call the old-fashioned theater, originates in yonder throat and impinges upon these, our very visible, tangible ears. You know how it is with the man who is chewing gum in the public conveyance, You smell the flavor, but do not like to think that what touches your senses is the actual moisture ema- hating from the mouth of the chewer. We smell tobacco smoke and seldom stop to realize that every particle of the smoke comes from the very mouth of the smoker. * K * X Luckily, the human voice, except at close quarters, merely sets up sound waves. _These waves, howev direct result of the speaker nnd travel from throat to ear. The voice heard from the stage, therefore, has an authenticity which none of the clever imitations of science —or presentations of science, if you so prefer—can possess. Just how much weight is to be placed | F- pon this authenticity must depend in the last analysis upon. the individual | reaction of the person giving a judg- | i ment. ‘We know many persons who are as well satisfled with a radio presentation of a symphony orchestra as with the hearing of the actual orchestra itself in a concert hall. Besides, they say, they do not have to dress, are more comfortable, and do not have to go out in the cold night. Others, however, insist that no radio ever made brings in the human voice or the sounds of instruments with ex- actly the same flavor of the real thing close enough to send forth authentic sound waves from voice or instrument to ear. The real stage, then, will never go out, because it is real, and especially because it presents the real voice (not in speech making, it is worth while to note), but mostly in talking. And the world loves to talk and to hear talk. ‘The so-called legitimate theater may have its ups and downs, it may give i way to inventions, surrender part of its | prestige and box receipts, but we find it impossible to believe that it will ever pass out of existence. Like love, it has been in the world too long. the voices Highlights on the Wide World Eicerpu From Newspapers of Otlu;r Lands & | ideals, But “Per aspera human race marches onward astra” the | is as true as when Virgil wrote this epi- gram 3,000 years ago. * % k% English Climate asked | gnjoyable Four Months of Year. be, it should not man is not Mn he has the pay being | “O™ n-t competi- wmch pride appearance to duty, i plenty hysical training. After he has year, each soldier goes back for a few short periods and i then put on the reserve until he reaches the age of 40. This system has more real effect on a man’s efficlency and physique than a lot of week end outings and secures tempt has been made to introduce pro hibition into one of the states. It vmuld be difficult to enforce prohibition in & country with such a long coastline for smugglers to use. Under the Bratt sys- tem, in Sweden, the state controls all intoxicating liquor, and manufactures nearly all of it. To obtain liquor, each adult applies for a book containing 13 , one for each month, and posses- sion entitles him to four bottles of wine (or the equivalent) each month. The demands these coupons from the return { each meal. your allowance, you have to include teetotalers in your party. We find this system saf nearly everybody and does not lead to the underworld trading which is the curse of the experiment in America. R Human Race Marches - Onward Despite Iconoclasts. El Telegrafo, Guayaquil—There is scarcely anything more annoying or ob- Jectionable in daily life today than the unpleasant sions continually cast upon every le achievement or any commendable person by the para- sites of soclety who never think or do anything worthy themselves. These people, when they hear of any triumph or nccomplhhmenc particularly of one who was & companion or associate in ohildhood or youth, can only remark, without any attempt to conceal their spite and jeal that they knew the new celebrity or hero when he went to school wi washing ears; that he used to wear his l’lthcrl nts to dge, smoked cigarettes when he wn 13 years I you want to increase | Manchester Guardian.—The basic truth about our climate is this—that life is to - | be enoyed for possibly four months out of the year and endured for the other eight. Take the simple test of how often it is comfortable to idle out of doors. Most of May fails by that test. If you want to keep warm, you must be up and doing. And the last half of lcvtembet is doubtful. June, July, August and, with luck, September—those are the months when you may reasonably nope to n;;:l on the grass with safety and * k k% Bolivian Government Solves Problems With Discretion. El Diario, La Paz.—Rumors of possible alterations in the government have bzen current recently, and we fervently trust that these suggestions of a danger so alarming are but rumors and the vapor- minds. Such a calamity at this time would be disastrous to the republic, for assuredly no other group of our citizenry could have the public welfare more at heart than our present government which has been solving every problem of state with a wise discretion. * ok K K ‘Women of Today Will Age Quickly, Is Belief. Le Matin, Paris—A soung. girl of 19, Miss Amy Johnson, from London to Australia in an llrpllnn. which she ilots herself; another girl of 19, Miss ?:m.. Pishwick, has just been pro- claimed a golf champion, as the re- sult of a mneh between England and America. In fact, there is scarcely a t | day, and certainly not a week, in which some young lady not yet 20 years old does not astonish the world with some new exploit, either intellectual sportive. In the stald and sentimental epoch, now some time departed, a woman of 30 considered herself a superannuated creature and retired, as it were, from the world. But we shall be much sur- prised if the ladies of this generation, after all, do not follow her example. For when one begins so soon to live, one must neoesany at an early age ex- haust one’s self. This is the prevalling penalty of precocity. or Circus Is Contrasted To Movie Programs To the Editor of The Star: In a single issue of a Washington newspaper the amusement page records the following attractions for this week: “Clara Bow in ‘Her Wedding Night,’ a rich, spicy tale of orange blossoms and boudoirs.” “‘A Lady's Morals.” ‘Loved-starved! Tl..e kiss of her vanished lover was a memory that haunted her.” “‘A Lady Surrenders’ as intimate unboudotr as fragile as a lace old! me tell you the sort of fellow he to be sald in favor of cider. It does|is teach a man a whole lot of patience.” o Penalty of Success. No man desires defeat; and yet, ‘When sll the balloting is o'er, ‘The loser need no longer fret— The winner has to work still more. Not Afraid. “John,” exclaimed the nervous woman, “there’s & burglar trying to get into the flat.” ) :tupmd‘lveh!mmmtol Without Effect! l “To see ourselves as others see \-} BsE géd g § advertisement um. e mfim- cen- the miving picture program’ fur ine mo pict Clplfl\l Uni for thh And yet the District of Columbia comp.h even a small circus, the one amusement which has never needed a censor, to pay a license of $200 per day. By such a restrictive provision are the; children kept from clean amusement and the Nation's Capital ,is compelled to accept a wrdld and_mechanical screen. AVID WHITNEY. Lune Duck Remedy Sought. Prom the Port Worth Record-Telegram. dumm%m Congressman, ‘ffl‘ formers—a significant word—through o ings of unduly credulous and timid (2! CITY NOISE. Noise Abatement Oom- m New York: Department of e City nolse 1 mrv recognized as menace t those who are eunfinmhly shut up within it. Olty noise is already accepted as a definite source of pnynul and mental impairment, as a direct cause of lowered vitality and flunm eflmemyA ot an entirely new theory, this one. llnther is it the rediscovery of a much earlier outlook upon-public health. Long before our own era—away back in days—Qreece and Southern Italy cluded within their muniecipal rules for the abatement of city mbe Like so many other tri of modern life in supposedly new fields of dis- covery and invention, this one, too, goes back for its origin into the shadows of a near-antiquity. ‘The modern day in & new spirit, how- ever, is turning toward the question of city noise as & menace to gubllc well- 3 ce And n ln- glory of the s rei ;. human voice, so the |l¢y "f'm play pc ite tpech need, for amelioration in |Nn dle:uanr thorough and ystematie | U0 s0 far as and & investigation goes, in so far as a con- crete municipal program there- from is concerned, New York City is, clearly, the pioneer of the United States in the formal movement toward abate- ment of city noise. Dr. Shitley W Wynne, commissioner of health, a) pointed a commission to study noise the great city and to develop means of fbating it. This commission inspires immediate confidence by virtue of the quality and standing of its members, Each is notable in his own profession. Here are doctors, lawyers, civil engi- neers, spacialists ln surgery, neurol psychology. _otol Here are heads of great industrial corpornionl. of the City Sanitary Commission, of the Health g'):rtn:‘ent llil:il i:s on in lln roster of ex- and spec covering every pose IIMO hase of the subject in its relation llc health, to individual efficiency lo general welfare of body an¢ “Clty Noise,” the book in hand, is the report of the commission—its find- ings and its recommendations. Four com f:x'xlz heg!'wr:. r;n:u:hd by Edward e tu e re into & 'body of substantial ln!omm that u as interesting as it is purely useful intent. Charts, pictures and other revealing graphs give punch to the text at many a vital point. §One of the most striking of these is the cover- chart showing the sources of eity noise in its bulk. Familiar points here— trucks, motor cycles, sirens, bells, radios, pianos, building processes, and %0 on and so on. mere 'u:- noyances” to the “nervous” and "mlhty" these sources of trouble hlve now passed over to the consideration of the scientist as momentous mnten in municipal affairs. The striking effect of this book is the hensive character of its mvesun&u Next comes the clear impact of its method, its orderliness, by way of which an amazing bulk of diverse material settles into but a few outstanding lines of offense against the municipal Iife. Another impression left by “City Noise" is the full-hearted co-operation that it has commanded. Business men, noisy ones at that, ‘Jllf.her round the table with the specialists and madlul experts, talking out wlyl and mea: by which they may be able to, quiet machinery at this or that one, to adjust and just worun&mpnc- tices to the end sought. Hun of occupations are represented here in the interest of the abatement of noise. In- terects that clash, superficially, are common e purpose end reduced to accommodations that tional Well, it is not. report. You'll like the rest ot the folks better g‘ffl’ having -which but "ph!n"—-fll 'lv.hout cflesflm quicken xx doing is part. Addressed to ity fathers, thh report is, mtrth:lm & thing for every Gitizen o Tead for its substance and order and practical program. * k% % THE GREAT GAME OF POLITICS. By Prank R. Kent, author of “The Story of Maryland mmu " New York: Doubleday, Doran & This book, according to Mr. Kent. “an effort” to set out politics, the game of politics as it is Dl‘y.d. “for the ben- efit of the average citizen.” I'm a citi- end average, and deeply desirous e benefits” of political schooling. 8o, I've read “The Great Game of Poli- tics.” I have, in good industry and good intent, ga up here “the facts” about politics as a thwry ot lovlm- ment rather than as of gov- ernment. From t.hh qulte llluml.nltlnl South start I moved on with the politicians—the sort they all seem to d with the machines that have been invented for facilitatin, the moves in the great game. watched the gradual metame hosl.s ol candidates to politiclans. deed, went the whole way from the one vom at the polls clear on through State politics, where I was left loounz over into the national field itself. Without will on my t.bere came :nh'ln Th’a mlnd the mrflm Wflm‘ - hesrmy lnculuud on the to get acquainted “facts about politics” here is no game. Rotten from end to end. Most de- pressing to read about it. even. The first reaction to such reading is denial, swift and vehement. But pause comes with the reflection that the writer is a political expert, like many journalists of equ.l note, m observer to be count- an_exposito) " be minded. So I plug away at this stuff, finding only vulnerable men on the one hand and corrupt leaders on the other. Yet, this “effort” is not made with lb\nlve in- tent. There is much of of ;EE’““ Sy “presented. "’fiae?,“of";é' exper T Tistory Pn painstaking and mu:- ul mord At bottom, it seems as this may be, must be, a calling of t.he whole electorate to account. For at certain critical points Mr. Kent turns, somewhat savagely, upon the people to assure them that they are getting ex- actly what they are crying for. In other words, the people ke the poli- ticlans in their own image as in the first recordedxmc:n :'f creation. That, by virtue of vidual _ignorance, selfishness, lack of foresight, lack of tion, voter pattern. uh?t:.n informing. It tells of the source ofuumo—:n'm States, and £ G S e v e ese ot tal, since the District of Columbia is not a State. It names the crimes t.hn prevent voting md Ives, besides, a de: talled description of the steps in the actual process of “casting” one's vote. There is a useful cha) thl.s section on educational quslifications f 28 (hage are named, variousty, by differ ent States, these variations implying some basic causes that are hlchly l|{| nmunc and entirely plausible as wel fi.w...fi ANSWERS TO QUESTION: BY FREDERIC mand. Ask any it will be lnl'mz {ree by mail direct to you. Inclose 2-cent stamp Yor reply. postage, and address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Preflerlc J. fas- kin, director, 'llllll'm D. C. Q Who is Adol! Hitler’—G. F. Adolf Hitler s the leader o{ the Gcrunn Fascist movement, or the Na- tional Socialists, as the members of the organization term themselves. He is of Austrian n, the son of & rallway employe in lower Austria, He was a house painter wher. he arrived at Munich in 1912. Here he joined the German army as & private, later being promoted to sergeant. His political pro- clivlues were first manifested in 1921, when he began to address visitors in the Munich beer gardens. Colloquially, his party, the National Soclalists, are known as the Nazis. Q !!cmmlnldehmn living, what llb'rlddrfl! . 8. wm.ththm of the word | roe! Q ?_ l. eaning um\t.fmnun %Mfl” eaning in rela- t.lm t0." Goul mn came to mean & friend or qu’ulh’ltlnce, either of the parents of the child baptized or of the other godparents, and hence women friends of the mother present at birth, The transition of meaning to an idle chatterer is easy. Q. How old are carpets?—S. A. H. A. Perhaps the oldest pleces of car- pet are certain fragments excavated by Sir Aurel Stein in Turkestan. are attributed to about the beginning I.hed Christian era, butotuwl:-‘:lmt A An flm are not es ished. Western llhanging, resembling :?et. made at Qutdunbur: about Lhe of the twelfth century, suggests strongly that Oriental carpets were not unknown in Europe at that date, and that the technique of one had been copled by the Quedlinburg weavers. It is not quite out of the question that the art may have been independently in- vented, especially as a modified form of the Oriental technique is adopted. Three carpets in the Mosque of Ala- ed-Din, at Konia, are attributed with some certainty to the early thirteenth century. Q. How many books have been writ- ':Xélhmt “The Man in the Iron Mask”? T. A. More than 70. Q. What_bills passed Congress last year for the improvement of prison conditions?—N. R. A. The ones which became laws are (1)authorize construction of two new These | — J. HASKIN. Q. Why will one A A. Becauss human, beings have uuconscious tendency to imitate what- ever they see others of their kind do. Q. Was Gen. 'l'om ‘Thumb born in Scotland ?—G. P, A. Charles Stratton, an American dwarf, was bcrn In Bridge- port, Conn, in 1838, Owing to smallness of stature, he was by P. T. Barnum and was under the name of Gen. Tom Thumb. He was about 40 inches high. In 1863 he was married to Lavinia Warren, also & dwarf. He died in 1883, Q. What is the principle of the spiral gas lighter which uses neither friction nor matches?—T. W. A. There is & lndl material at the center d m which s to contain a little ly divided platinum. In the stream of this blows and lights the flame. 'S ya 10 yawn? &wmch nlnu the platinum until it glows and wrnml’mmulfi average 1 Q. What are the lengths used by manufacturers of baby dresses A. The following measures hy one large manufacturer baby dresses: Infant's first dress, 20 im.hfi 1 year, 16 inches; 2 years, 17 muhn, and 3 years, 18 inches. Q Wnatis used to color soft dripks? A. Most soft drinks are artificlally te| colored with so-called certified dyes, harmiess, nduutukhrunhm- erages and other Q)!uun &?1 year?—P. L. A. The average mnnu d the district is mont inches per mr. ‘The -vmn nn January 1 Au:un 1 is about inches; the total am mmed January 1 to nb 31, xin. 50 per cent of nml. mh visi! lnglm- of euo on n&.?'m—‘g A On Sundays, when the weather is favorable, unn"m between 5,000 and 6,000 visitors wmfll&- . Q. Are tourists permitted to use cam- eras when in Orater Lake Natnal Park?—0. K. A. A rull “Still and mo! it onthl.nhjm Pederal prisons, one west of the Mis-| sceni slssippt and one in the Northeastern section of the United States (Northern Pennsylvania or Southern New York), Tor which. $7.000,000 i priated; (2')l %l’:fld. ;c!r belthr " ’l";d school deral prisons: au- £Mr hospitalization for Fed- enl 3 (4) create a Federal pa- role board of 'three mmhn. (5) pm- vide for m extension of the ‘9‘“ system, and (6) authorize the nited States Public Health Servi care of the health of the inmates It is stated that the President believes that the new system to be inaugurated will afford the most humane treatment in | concelvable to Federal prisoners. ce between a Q. What is the difference H.C.° Was doughnut and & cruller?—F. cewmumll i Edmonds Called Vltal Forcefi‘ In New South’s Developmem shtudmmmmotu;? g i feos EBES ‘The mnnumt"lunpd.vl\hm ity through his paper and the Blue Book of amm-rn ogn-." and that “he wfll be missed by those tion.” News also rec in the most constructive and influential editorial supporters the New South has had,” and it concludes '.hlt “m veterate optimist, he literally South forward by his unnmn; tpl.rlt ol progress and achievement.’ “He was a citizen of the New South, born in the old,” C.fia Nation fight adversity and win in some degree material wealth, but not at and we will not fal to honot his FakE; g § i 35E % o = £& s» 1 2 g ¢ i & g Wwelfare. s the Houston ( more Chronicle, “and he h‘e‘lind this part of | I the |the expense of the ancient ideals and|to SE'Tterial growih that paper g paper declares: “For almost six decades he zealously preached the doctrine that the South should and must become industrialized in order to win for itself a fair share of the wealth the country was produc- ing. And so every bridge built below the Mason-Dixon line, every highway constructed along the pleasant and lazy rivers of the South, every skyscraper erected in the rapidly growing metro- politan centers of Dixie became a source of great gratification to Richard Edmonds and a *news story of impor- tance in-the Record.” * E ok K “He was_probably better informed agencies that b nomic revolution H.|the full picture of the remembered that he was a determined about tre South than any other per-| sons,” thinks the Birmingham News, nd he never lost an opportunity to lay the facts before the American pub- lic. He was cons‘antly giving effective publicity to the resources, the oppor- tunities and the possibilities of this sec- tion. Happily, Mr. Edmonds lived to see his work bear fruit. The poten- tialities of the South .are recognized everywhere, and Mr. Edmonds himself an lssue. Ho huh uxlfl He chlrm R i Tl LT 5 for -war on.” “He was & hlmm;’::ded devoted and was in large measure responsible for | mag; th.t rec tion. He knew that it held book. Indeed, it to find within an equal of information and authoritative as the a et oA il Some Laws Found Useful. Polma“ olleu to | Prom the Macon Telesraph. _gn\dn l‘ 15 full of fool laws, state- fon the other mitt mmmfi know. | fust