Evening Star Newspaper, November 11, 1930, Page 8

E EVENING STAR g Edition. v rn;{vnnx:n!ox. D o { RUBSDAY. ... November 11, 1030 o sk b bl i { THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor nmmn per Company A Peneyivan .'% z ?.5:';:7'-;&'2'..“ g S TR AI:nnn. B Member of the Associated Press. Associated Press i3 exclusively entitled use for republication of all news cls- o8 credited to it or not ‘o:herwise cred- this paper and also ied hereln, "All rizhts tches herein ar Another Armistice Day. Time flies. It is twelve years ago today since the most momentous “Cease firel” in the history of war rang across & score of battlefields—in Europe, Africa and Asia—and brought to a close the most awful conflict between nations in human history. “The war that would end war” was the name optimistically and euphemistically ap- plied to the Armageddon which plunged the world in blood and tears between 1914 and 1918, How overconfident mankind was that that tragic experiment in the settlement by force of controversies between peo- Ples seems to be indicated by the pres- . | to Jocal news publication of also teserved. “Balances of power” once more are the aims of maneuvering statesmen. Arma- ments pile up. Dictators bestride many thrones. Inflammatory oratory pours in- termittently from their truculent lips. New crises confront many countries in their purely internal affairs. Rus- sia, with Soviet domination unshaken, temains an incalculable menace with her protestations of determination to foment “world revolution.” The Com- munist hand, directed from Moscow, is &t work in more than one ‘European land remote from Russia- and held to Washington this week in a spirit of invincible faith. This morning the alli- ance’s annual -will congress” listened to a notable address Presi- dent Hoover. In harmony with its hopes, he registered unquenchable trust that the world, no matter how slowly, is steadily educating itself to reject con- fict and embrace conciliation as the best method of composing international differences. But Mr. Hoover strikes a cautious fote and one obviously eyoked by the éxisting world position as he, from his eminent watch-tower, is able to en- visage * it. ‘'We “as a Nation,” the President reminds us, “whose independ- ‘War in the world. Nor cap we assume that righteousness has so advanced in the world that we may yet have com- plete confidence in the full growth of pacific means or rest solely upon the Processes of peace for defense.” American presidential utterances, . upon which the rest of mankind nowa- days hangs with bated breath, must be guarded. Mr. Hoover's Armistice day address measures up to that demand. But he who.runs may read—as well as he who listened in on it could not fail to hear—in today's message from the highest seat of American authority. that the moment has not yet dawned for re- JIving too id-alistically on League, cove- nants, Locarno treaties, renunciation- of-war pacts, World Courts, or even Baval limitation agreements. President Hoover is thoroughly and passioftely imbued with a desire to promote international peace by such instrumentalities as these. He is in tune with the overwhelming mass of the f American people in such advocacy. But he is In no less accord with preponder- Ent public sentiment when he declares, on this twelfth agniversary of the vietory won by our immortal war dead, that “a respectable defensive posture”— George Washington's armament creed— 1 , burdensome as it is, America's inescapable and manifest necessity. e Representative Garner and Repre- gentative Nicholas Longworth are pic: tured as such close friends that so long @s there is an automobile provided for the Speaker there is no danger that efther will have to stand on a cold cor- |' ner waiting for a taxicab. Reports of the coronation of Ras Tatarl are about all collected and it is generally agreed, in the language of sacial enthusiasm, that it was a perfect- 1y lovely A ‘Wisconsin Avenue. munities and the paving and widening of Wisconsin avenue have given to the thoroughfare & busy air of progress. ‘This has been complicated by an in- cessant rush of motor traffic, which has rendered this highway one of the most dangerous leading Into Washing- ton. . ly has the distance between the District line and Bradley lane bgen beset with danger to children and other pedestrians. The Brookeville road, to the east of Connecticut avenue, north of Chevy Chase Circle, is similarly handi- capped and made dangerous by lack of a sidewalk between the circle and Quincy street, almost a mile north. The sidewalk is an essential along such traveled roads, and no such high- way can be regarded as complete with- out one. If there cannot be one on either side of the avenue, at least there should be one on the east side. ‘Washington and its contiguous territory to the north will be benefited by such an improvement, and the entire aspect of this major entrance to the District of Columbia improved by such a con- struction program. . - Co-operation. Leaders of the Democratic party have offered, and the Republican party through Senator Watson of Indiana has accepted, co-operation with the Republican administration and the Re- publican members of Congress to put through legislation designed to improve conditions in this country. It is a healthful and helpful sign, Co-opera- tlon by the two major political parties at the present time would be far.bet- ter for the country than “coalition” such as maintained in the Senate of the United States during the last two years, and indeed for a number of years prior to the beginning of the .Hoover administration. For the coalition .re- sulted merely in obstruction. Republicans and Democrats have worked together in the interests of the country in past times of emergency. In 1 ‘when the United States was at war with Spain, a Republican Presi- dent sat in the White House. This did it the country is at war with a f Assuredly it is greatly to at the present time. The' offer of the Democratic leaders, as Senator Watson in his statement accepting the proffer of aid points out,. g in the coming session of the old Congress and in the new Congress when that body meets next year. As a matter of fact, co-operation of the Democrats with the Republicans in the Congress which begins its final session here Monday, December 1, is the essence of the situation. It may be thirteen months before the new Congress assem- bles. Only a call for a special session of the mext Congfess would bring it together before December, 1931. The new Congress will have nothing what- ever to do with the legislation which may be needed to alleviate suffering this ‘Vinter. Yhere is a third group, the Republic- an insurgents, who through coalition with the Democrats if the present Con- gress have sought to impress their will for legislation which the majority has considered unwise. It would be, indeed, & healthy sign if leaders of this group sheuld also give some indication to the ntry that it, too, will co-operate to better times if possible through legislative action. - —————— Whiskers show an independence of spirit. Only such recognized wits as J. Hamilton Lewis and G. Bernard Shaw still venture to wear them in conspic- uous quantities. ——— The Faster the Better. The two thousand four hundred- mile non-stop flight that, accord- ing to the man who made it, had “Do object at all except to remew old acquaintances,” turned out to be a rather fine exhibition of aiymanship and navigation and an inspiring ex- ample of the manner in which the air- | plane has routetl distance. Capt. Roy Ammel did much of his early flying in Panama. So it was only natural that when he bought his new five-hundred- horsepower single-seater, low-winged monoplane and the wanderlust assafled him that he should decide to make the Mttle hop down South, just sort of a week end excursion, so to speak. The fact that it was nearly a twenty-four- ration for any long-distance flights that he thought that he might care to make ) i F L : It was & great flight even if it had no object and @ trip that stirs the imagi- nation. With Capt. Ammel casually bringing the Canal Zone within twenty- four hours of New York and Capt. Frank Hawks making Cuba & mere matter of eight hours from the Ameri-~ can metropolis, it is, ipdeed, time for even the most stolld to sit up and take notice. The world is traveling fast. And the faster the better seems to be the slogan of the present generation. SOt The War Memorial. Progress in securing the remaining funds necessary to begin work on Wash- ington's war memorial is noted with satisfaction. Organized labor in Wash- ington asked for and recelved, some time ago, the privilege of raising the balance between the large amount al- ready subscribed for the memorial and the total sum considered necessary be- fore the actual work of construction could start. Today's announcement, which- appears elsewhere in The Star, | records the splendid success reported by the Executive Committee of the Cen~ tral Labor Union which has set a goal ©of $20,000 and is about to reach that mark, With a tétal sum of approxi- mately $155,000 in sight as the result of the campalign by organized labor in the District, assurances have been given that construction of the Doric temple of music near the Lincoln Memorial will begin next Spring. Thus this beautiful monument, sym- bolizing Washington's reverent memory of its men and women who gave their lives in the war, will stand as the prod- uct of an organized community effort that is unique. The contributions to the memorial have been confined to no class or sect. The fine and generous response of the city's labor organiza- tions is their fitting recognition of op- portunity to fill in the gaps and con- solidate the gains already made—always the final steps of an advance. This response honors the community as a whole as much as it does the gontrib~ uting ranks of labom ) ‘The esthetic mayor of Carmel, Calif., declares new pavements must be stained some artistic color. '“I won't vote for ordinary paving,” he averred. He ought to live in the Capital of the country, where we do not vote for any color or amount of paveménts, but are just told how much we are going to get and what exorbitant percentage of it we are going to pay for. d 3 ———————— Pajamas are worn at Summer beaches, Students of finance are naturally puz- zled by the assumption that Soviet ama- teurs have been able to step in and show new tricks to the old-timers whose families have been making an intimate study of the markets of the world for generations, —————— The determination of Congress to unite for practical action recalls Charles G. Dawes again to favorable recollection as the inventor of the slogan, “Lets get together and get somewhere!” ——t—s. . When a is cif tempt of m”"":e nw:‘yfl !:zp:";a think what a very mild word “con- tempt” in this connection is, after all. “Ridicule” would be better. SHOOTING STARS. . BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Landsiide. I heard a veteran statesman sigh— “In all of nature's turbulence That comes betimes to terrify And change the plans that seemed immense, Though the Volcano may arouse fear And the Tornado’s twist appal, Tl say, in & non<presidential year, ‘The Landslide is the worst of alll” It calls on %0 bulld anew Regardless of the hopes we know In memory, once 8o proud to view ‘That now lie buriedlar below. And as We Dig, the §jdal wave Or ruthless earthquake we recall, And friends yepeat in accents grave— “The Landslide is, the warst of all.” . The Bootid¥ger’s Revenge. “These bootleggers are becoming high- handed,” remarked Senator Sorghum. “They. surely do not attempt to dic- tate to men of public prominence.” “Such attempts have been made. I have in mind & colleague who attacked bootlegging and as a_result his boot- legger, who has known him for years, refuses to call on him and cuts him dead owthe street.” our Ever Battling. I can’t be physically’ bold, Yet I advise a game that's rough. For foot ball I'm & bit too old; In polities I'll still play rough! Jud Tunkins says talkin’ ‘bout the ‘weather used to be & way of dodgin’ un- pleasant subjects, But that was before the drought set in. Resolute Even in Defeat. “Women always have the last word.” “Not in answered Miss GRAIL How quietly they lie here—row on row— ln%hll 7 ”dormlhry, each bed ma With a w! 12 cross! It was not lon, ago, Like Galahads in khaki, they em‘nr ed Upon thy “&en adventure, keen with lure Of qu g; some boys, down upon the cheek Bcarse stiffened; most of them unsure Just what the grgil they started out to seek. Thex did not live to Of outworn t; {usn the shining cup, ‘These sle:.p.f{ ; but they must have faintly heard Echoes of crashing thrones up ymnnm—-the grail deferred, But theirs at last; and countin ‘Turned to their slumber, kno the breaking cheap the cost, g life well lost. "—EDITH MIRICK. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E, TRACEWELL. Trees, losing their Jleaves, reveal houses in all their beauty, or medioerity, or_ugliness. ‘This is one of the charming changes which Nature brings us. The static in Nature is the uninter- esting. ‘What ne to_become ous. It the leaves of the trees were with r changes in aspect tends ‘esome, boresome, monoto- us the year around, as they are in some climes, no doubt we would lose some- thing which we now possess. Ordinarily we do not stop to think of the interest which change adds to life. But if # were not for these differences, in seasons, in the appearance of things, in happenings, we would be in the un- happy state of schoolboys who were forced to play base ball thé year through. As it is, In scholastic circles the youngsters have their foot ball, then when they tire of that they play basket ball, then indulge in the grand athletic spree of base 1 and track activities. In life something of the same cycle hol¢s good. Not only are there the ordinary ups and downs of business and social life, but periods bring de] jons and the like, one decade gs are humming, the next not quite so good, so0 that no man, not even the President, can be quite sure :h:re'he stands. * Houses which before had been mere glim) now stand forth in their mhmmnl integrity, thanks to the work of Jack Frost. Jack has not recelved the recognition due him as master architect’s aid. It is he who strips the leaves from the trees and lets the light shine through, which act enables the eye to behold what the architect and bullder created. No sensible person would say a word against the setting of houses among, trees, It is necessary to add, however, that the annual loss of their leaves is a fortunate ovision of Nature for our further en- l:’ylfl!nt of the home. In the main there are three classes of home-occuplers, those who love a home and like to talk about homes, those who love their homes and do not talk much about them, and those who neither love their homes nor talk about them. This is a broad classification, of course, containing many variations, in- clusive of most human beings. There is nothing hard and fast about it. It will be discovered that the mem- bers of the first two classes know and te these seasonal changes in aspects of their own homes and their neighbors’ homes. y out for them, as for any other change which instructs, times amuses ‘When the leaves go off the trees the entire a] of a neighborhood is ‘Whole sides of hous:s gome into view from a particular place—one’s living Toom windows, for instance. Dur- ing Summer a mere spot of stucco represented a cefit home. Today thesentire house stands forth, high on its terrace. One sees for the first time that it is a well designed home, capably conceived and cleverly executed. Above gll, it is admirably kept up. This ing up of a home is third only to di anship and con- struction. Without the picture in some one’s mind first of all, whether he be architect, ‘bullder or owner, there can be no real result in the pleasure sense. We spoke the other day of ugly but comfortable houses, and their worth. So much is true, but undoubtedly beauty may be incorporated as well as utility. Every £ of course, thinks it is doing this uble duty in the homes it builds, and 1t is no reflection | upon any generation that those who o after “sometimes find_old homes Iacking in beauty. Beauty changes With the times, or at least what many hold to be beauty d:u'm' c!:nn:e. ] The love for the house, as & creation, . h | foliage for a large part of the year that intercsts, and some- | state, Highlights on the Wide World 18 no more common than the love for the book, as a thing. There are thou- sands of readers who have no respect for the book as-an article; as a particu- 1ar specimen of something to be loved and treasured for its own sake. Such people read books, mostly borrowed books, and are utterly at a loss to ‘E' reciate the mentality of the book- Bver who prefers to Buy his own books and stow them away in his home cases, They would not under- stand the temper of M. Chauvelin, as set forth by Alexandre Dumas in one of his stories, who gathered so many books unread in his attic that his land- lord made him dispose of them ix order to keep the house from caving fn. Love of the house as an entity is something apart from love if it is & place of rest and refuge, of peace and quiet, of comfortable eating and sleep- ing. Happy memories of homes, precious as they are for all the dutles of life and living, as wonderful as they are, are only incidental to this Jove of which we speak. It is the love of the sailor for his ship which makes him refer to the vessel as “her” instead of “it." I is the love of the fisherman for a cer- tain rod and reel or the hunter for & prized gun. No doubt Lindbergh felt the same way for the Spirit of St. Louls, and was glad to see it stowed away in honor and safety in the Smith- sonian Institution. ‘This consuming interest in houses may or may not be felt by the real estate operator or by the salesman, but it may be understood fully by one who has not the wherewithal to buy the house. The house as an ideal is some- | thing different from the house as & thing to sell. But either or both may | meant when one speaks of the love a house. Those who love the con-| sideration of houses as creations thus| go on quiet adventures which may or may not be understood by others. After, all, it makes no difference whether others understand or not. Those who, do are enough. * oK K% The seasonal change in the aspect of a neighbornood includes the naked branches of the trees, the withered grass, the color of certain Autumn bushes, trails of smoke from chimneys, the nk&d height of houses caused by the appearance of their foundations as flowers fade. The tree is an amazing thing, in that 1t does not look bare, despite the loss of its leaves. The human race is so ac- customed to seeing trees without their thinks them ugly while in that One can imagine that if a savage, to perpetual foliage, should sud- be contronted with a& nude tree he would think it very ugly, indeed. With us the skeletonlike aspect has of the harsh about it. It is natural .mllxic ‘v;hfi:etor‘c Tlht,m n:{&'. everything W natural is 3 according to human judgment, but the leafigss condition of trees and certain shrubs strikes us as right enough. Frost on the ground and branches of trees heralds the approach of Winter. On the trees it gives a glitter of pe- culiar interest to the very early riser. Hitherto one has seen sunrise through Jeaves, but now the branches give larger openings for the violet light of dawn. Bare branches form intricate and delicate grillwork, through which one sees the light of day, fresh as time each mornmgacumlnl up to delight and help the world. Then do neighboring houses, in their coldness and bareness, stand forth for what they are. A street light glitters like & star down the road. Entire roofs are visible now, where before only their peaks shone through the leaves. Chim- neys stand up in their solemn duty. Only the privet hedges are green, only the remaining oak leaves and barberry bushes a glowing red. no one not! Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands L ' MEROURIO, Santiago—Our readers will remember that in the month of November of the year passed the President of the blic was the victim of a murderous attack while returning from the opening of the cattle show of the af et of the malicious act, was manifested g‘mghouw% country, for it was thought the deed might have deep and sinister ramifications. ‘The author of the attack, Luls Hamirez Olaecha, was immediately ar- rested by the presidential police, and careful investigations before and dur- ing the long course of the trial, now ‘brouy close, showed that he hngz ':;Ml-urfled out the attack he President entirely of his own 33uc'un. in accordance with an abnor- al conce| -.rlo?’t‘&e nwugn Dt;;nz he was not in- volved in a plot and in_ consideration of his previous irreproachable charac- ter, his offense was extenuated, so that he was sentenced by the president of court of appeals, Don Ernesto Blanchi Tupper, to merely 541 days in prison. The President, it will be re. membered, was not injured in the af tempt on his life. Sees EEEE Wnih New Increase Sausage Casing Trade. Morning Herald, Auckland—“Until I , in 1926, I could never T Swead 00, ot e at 370, 1ks.' b s through Canada I soon: mw::lvl;theewnm produc- all I E? Ei il ifii?figis g : 3 i 2! " .| natural instinct of the human heart ($3,200,000), there being nearly 7,000,000 bieycles used in France. * K ok % Gambling in England Scored by Churchman. Manchester Guardian—*“A gamble is a transaction whereby the transfer of something of value is made wholly de- pendent upon chance.” So Peter Green said recently when giving an official definition of gambling at the annual meeting of the Anti-Gam- bling Committee of the Manchester and Salford Council of the Christian Con-| gregations, The gambling spirit is the desire to get something for nothing and has been described by the chan- cellor of the exchequer, Mr. Snowden, ‘as more & vice of our age than drink | and licentiousness. What little progress | has been made in combating this evil was destroyed by the last government when 1t introduced the taxation of bet- | ting. What is the good of saying to any young man that gambling is wrong when we can'turn right around and show the national stamp on the betting ticket? Women are gambling as much as the men. There are streets in Man- chester and Salford where on the day of a big race nearly every woman Is at her door walting to buy the 1 o'clock edition. Some contend that gambling is & and that it cannot be eradicated, but the same might be said of cannibalism. Business men in favor of race tracks and gambling in other sports do not seem to be aware of the harm done by the withdrawal from industry of 300,~ o{o.oon pounds devoted to gambling in the last few years. Time in the work- fh T, e e ly ese repre! manipulations. Gambling is telling against the making of better men. It feeds the basest passions of human na- ture. The chief constable of Manches- ter is to be congratulated on removing gamb) machines from the shops, by which children were taught the vice. He has been called a “kill-joy,” but the real “kill-joys” are those who first in- | And, troduced gambling into honest British Ways of Conquering Depressions Suggested |!n From the Pasadena Star-News. ity should not be fickle and t | civilizations, the Canon N INDIA: Land of the Black Pagoda. Lowell Thomas. The Century Co. Lowell Thomas' India adventure turned out, finally, to be 60,000 miles wide and two years deep where, at the start, it promised but a small fraction of either such time or space. “I had thoyght of India as a country one could ses and be satisfied to come away from in a month or two. But in- stead of two months I stayed two years. Even then I was not content. I wanted to remain on and on.” Good evidence by & world-wise man of the surpassing charm so generally claimed for India by travelers and reporters. ‘This was the way of it. On a night | polo players. There are registered w l'h‘, in camp at the edge of the desert of Sinal some one asked, “Have ever | United heard of Black Pagoda?” Not ummuch In addition, there are about 1,200 or | by way of question, but quite tremen- dous in its effect upon Lowell Thomas, nomad, vagdbond, man of restless an fidgety feet. In no time at all he was on his way to the “Pagoda” and, in- cidentally, on his way to another Thomas adventure, He describes this wonder of an anclent day and civili- zation. A great temple, its outer walls crowded with carvings—huge and mon- strous, overlaid with dense handiwork of the rarest delicacy—all dedicated to the gods of fecundity, to the repro- d?-!tlvc powers of the natural world and of animate life as well. isa torlalized religion, an act of rel homage to the great gods of power and vengeance. Froms the southern tip of India up through the temperate areas and on to the Himalayas this man whose curi- osity is as eager as his feet are tireless takes his wa; Nothing appears to es- cape him. The look of the land in its moods of fisd and stream, of hill and tangled jungle; the apj ance of the people in theur rigidly defined orders of rank and caste, in thelr occupations here and thelr ingrained idleness ther the historic source of some current cu: tom, the quality of a religion making headway toward a better world through ;"}00 i‘ll;ll’:zhcltf" in this one, the com- on _riv s of race, antagonistic re- ligious practices and belle; dt:‘veru new against con- ceivably old—all these outreaching so- licitations and hundreds of others assail this traveler, so wide open to the lure of far places and strange peoples. At one time Thomas is plain census taker—nothing else. Like & veritable Yankee, he makes exact enumerations and classifications. Little budgets of fact—the population of this, area or that one, its racial proportions, the oc- cupations of the people, the products of their industry and the distribution of these. Painstaking and dependable ap- pear to be the current accountings of this modern man of business. Much more of the time, however, Thomas is the pure adventurer, a treasure seeker, digging around some surface rite or ceremony or custom to find the deep rootage from which it sprung. Out from_such ardent, and arduous, delv- ings he brings many a strange and fas- cinating truth sourced in the Dravidian stock, then on up through the Aryan into the vast conglomerate of the pres- ent. About once a minute this spade- man comes to the top with a fresh trophy in hand. Here are strange tales of ~goddesses—Kall and innumerable others. Not an illogical bellef, that in goddesses. If perpetuity of life is the absorbing passion of man, if the female is biologically the nt of such ever~ lastingness, then, course, the god- dess and not the god. So the heathen reasoned, not counting, not knowing of any spiritual significance such as the modern religlon has bestowed upon man. So the goddess ruled in those encient days. Then the matriarch. Then—well, that is another story. In- stead of wandering like um'.w%mu tells of the things.at hand—black magic, the yoga, the the past, the wisdom of mmtfm , the w! O A vass and. Raltldscopie pano vas rams. The marvel is that it can be to the confines of any ‘single book in an effort of centered information and illumination. It has been done before. Triumphantly it is done here by this picturesque adventurer. The other name of Lowell Thomas. “With Lawrence in Arabia” he won'his title. With a dozen books since then he has ably main- tained it. It is not too much to say, also, that “The Black Pagoda” is a dis- tinct achievement even among its own distinguished book confreres of the Lowell Thomas clan. Richly dressed in ebon and gold, “The Black Pagoda’ with its sumptuous story and its lavish picturings, is something of a spectacle, as it is indubitably an absorbing story of fact gathered, first-hand, out of India. ok % ATOLLS OF THE SUN. Frederick O'Brien. The Century Co. ‘There is good reason for the reissue of this beloved travel book, “Atolls of the Sun.” In the new book-tribe, | “Vagabond Books,” Prederick O'Brien’s story of the South Seas holds high place. Some other author-members of the new order are Lowell Thomas, Alexander Powell, Harry Hervey, William Mc- Govern, Blair Niles, Eleanor Mordaunt, whose fine books of travel and adven- ture are now available to everybody. ‘The vagabond used to be quite out- side the pale. Now he sits happily | within the respectable family ecircle. To this spot in his infinite variety of temperament and outlook and accom- plishment he comes as the most wel- come of all the travelers with a book in is pack. Especially impartant in re- spect to these writing rovers is the mat- ter of mood and temperament. .“Atolls of the Sun” stands as a case in point. Frederick O'Brien is a poet before he is anything eise. A streak of the wanderer in him combines with the lyrist, and the two set out to see the world. The first place for them is, naturally, those ' magic islands of the South Seas. There these two, together, loiter and loaf and live. They soak up the ineffable sun- shine of Tahiti, its sea, its shores, its people and all their ways. Then the two begin to tell us about it in words that sound like siftging, though they step off sedately as plain progression. Now and then some reader is of the stripe who does not know that two and two make five quite as often and as convincingly as they sum to four. He says—such reader says—that O'Brien's ‘,Acwunt is fanciful, more poetr{' than e sober prose. It is fanciful, and ful and, without doubt, true. As poets cannot be e to give us sunshine by the medium of mere paint, h washes it into the picture with the poet's eye and the great artist's hand. A dreamer sees the visions which we know are there, but which ‘without his help we cannot reach. And so we read and read again some books for the ar- tist that conceived them so significantly and so truly. “Atolls of the St is out- standingly one of these. A “Vagabond Book” for which are in debt to the Century Co., both for the 'Wu. and for auti- Talbot Mundy is an adventurer, too. , moreover, he is a romancer. 8o, having gone to , or comes away with a story in his 5, e o S ko fiction—diversion, entertainment. it in this country. Wider in- | of telligence, closer co-operation and scien- ] child, a mudnedm‘to the Erows maharajah mari A of * u:)lwofinmran buckler of this_young speak, ll the arrh from 'the States love story—one, besi .more of ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS nm-‘ researchers, who can any information on fi mb’ecl.":umu your command, Wil charge to X you. R F answer to an; you make. newspaper Today.” Make your ‘fauiry easly sead . r ly and easi); un&rmm , and address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Fred- ;m‘!, J. Haskin, director, Washington, Q. How many people in the United States nhy"rolo —H, C. 8. A. The Editor of the Polo Mdgazine says: “Three are registered in the United States Polo Association 2886 the Indoor Polo Association of the States another 1,000 players more rl-ycn who are not registered with either organization. The number of injuries sustained by polo players has been greatly exaggerated. Polo is one of the sturdiest and most healths ful of our games and the number of ?craom whose health /it builds up is far in excess of the number of persons injured.” Q. Why i secret balloting called the Australian system?—J. C. G. A. The practice of secret ballots orig- inated in Australia. ‘Q. Did Robert E. Lee haye a brother in the United States Naval Academy when the Civil War started?—L. T. L. A. Sydney Smith Lee was dismissed from the United States Naval Academy on April 22, 1861, he having accepted service in the Confederate Navy. Q. How many trained nurses were graduated in 1930?—T. W. , A Dr, Pishbein of the American Medical ABsociation says that there were more than 18,000 graduated this year, In 1890, only 318 were graduated, Q. Please give some information about Bahaism —P. 8. A. The religlous sect known as Ba- haism originated in Persia in 1844. The first prophet was All Mohammed, or the Bab. H All was the first adherent of the Bab and later announced him- selt as the one Bab foretold. He became known as Baha'w'llah. He died in 1892, and before his departure named his oldest son, Abdul Baha Abbas, inter- T of his text and the center of covenant, He passed away November 28, 1921, and In his will designated his n, Shoghi Effendl, guardian of cause. The general principles of the Bahals founded upon the teach- ings of Baba'v’llah are: The Oneness of mankind; the independent investigation of truth; the foundation of all religions is one; religion must be the cause of unity; religion must be in accord with sclence and reason; equality between man and woman; prejudice of all kinds must be forgotten; universal peace; universal education; solution of the economic problem; a universal language; an international’ tribunal: The Bahais believe in the essential necessity of the intermediation’ of the Messianic princi- gle. or :‘t'hl Holy Spirit, in the life of | pec Q. When was the first night bank opened in New York?—L. P. O. A. The Night and Day Bank, open at all hours except between midnigu Saturday night and midnght Sunday night, was opened in New York in May, 1906. Q. How many coples of a really BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN, d in & Lol mmmd year' alar S popular , 80] mr. 1898; quickly jui per_year, reached ‘maximum sales of 264,561 in 1912, 287,267 in 191 and 228,324 in 1014, and sold 48,7 coples in 1928, bringing its total sales to that year to 2,670,750, Q. What fipparatus can be used ta stop the crowing of roosters?—W. A. G, A. Nothing is entirely efficacious. A goed plan is to place the rooster’s roost 80 high that when he stretches up to crow he wilF strike his head gently on ‘This will stop his crowing. Q. How many &;fug shops are thare —P, A. Th 60,000 beauty shops in the United States and they nver:g: n}:ree booths and four employes to shop. AL Bemard Shaw & poor boy?— A. George Bernard Shaw was born in 1856 into a good but impoverished middle-class family. His first nine years in London from 1876 to 1885 were the hardest in his life. During this perfod he worked relentlessly and it can be truthfully said that be actually sf * gled for a living. In 1894 he began phenomenal rise to world fame which was steady and swift. vQ. What was the Delphic Oracle?— A. The Delphic Oracle was the priegt- ess known as Pythia who sat upon a tri= pod over a cregyice in the rocks of Mount Parnassus. Overpowering vapors, ase sumed to be the divine breath of Apollo, were supposed to influence the priestess who gave utterance to Apollo’s words. Her mutterings were recorded by priesta who interpreted them in verse. Delphi, the headquarters of the oracle, was an anclent town in Phocls, CGreece, called Pytho in the storfes of Homer. It is on the mume‘m slope of Mount Parnassus. Q. In what States are there towns named Oshkosh?—A. E. R. A. There is an Oshkosh in Wisconsin and one in Nebraska. Q. What part of the total poj of the country is within the r tion area?-—W. 8, A. It includes 46 States and the Dis- trict of Columbia and accounts for 96.7 per cent of the total population. Q. What trees are common in Mexico? R. 8. A. Such a list includes: Yucca, :p?‘u ehlco.uplne, jumpo;;fl oak, abue- uete, magnolia, acacia, myrtle bamboo, Spanish cedar and ioc'ood.m Q. What is meant by fair weather? —-W. H. T. A. When used by the Weather Bureau, a clear day is one on which the sky is three-tenths or less covered with clouds. The word “fair" used in connection with the weather forecasts indicates that three-tenths or less of clouds and less than .01 in¢h of precipitation are ex- the period covered by “ " | the roof. ted during the forecast. Q. How many times does a Roman Catholic priest have to say holy mass ° during the year?—A. N. A A Eul. unless he is a pastor, has M-L ly mass four times a year— that s, under obligation. He must, Roly“daye, It e dos nor eiebra ne cel himself, ' ) Chang, W A Possibility ms are believed wmwnmamem administration. in Gmhm -‘s‘.‘ nificance is seen in the statement from Premier in fa ure of ¢leclot°\fl| n(on&.: terpreted as offering possil T tation, wnfi;‘fmbenh to increase eir strength. believed possible, while it is thought by some observers that present diffi- culties are such that the indivldunm- ties may see no advantage in Ing control of the government. “It may occur to Laborites,” says the New York Sun, “that the posit of embarrassment they occuggflu not at all an enviable one and t, for the time being, Conservatives and Liberals alike may prefer to mark time rather than risk & general election that would vote them into unwanted power. For the Conservatives, in particular, with the greater likelihood of winning, a general election ln,i.lhfi prove particu- larly embarrassing. “Once more the enemies of the Labor government are ‘ral the battle cry against the mg-huk Scot in Down- ing street, and once more they are afraid to push their advantage and oust the government,” concludes the Cleve- land Plain Dealer, with the suggestion that “they are afraid because they haven't anything better to offer,” and the comment that “meanwhile the King opens Parliament with a speech, the keynote of which is, ‘Cheer up, it might be worsel’” . [ . : “One statement in King George’s address,” according to the Kalamazoo Gazette, “has led British political ob- servers to suspect that the Labor ad- ministration would not be averse to a working alliance with the Liberals. * s * His statement was interpreted, naturally enough, as a hint of pro- portional representation, * * ¢ Prime Minister MacDonald,” * continues the Gazette, “and his colleagues have usual- ly been contented with an attitude of ‘benevolent neutrality’ on the part of the Lloyd George group, although at times they have found Liberal as- sistance extremely valuable. It is nat- ural that under the stress of present difficulties, with the Conservatives bent upon toppling them from power at the first good - opportunity, the Laborites should welcome any aid which the Liberals may be ready to lend. Un- employment, tariff problems and strain- ed relations between Great Britain and India have added to the Labor adminis- tration’s troubles.” . E “For the sake of a fairer representa- tion,” declares the Syracuse Herald, “the Labor government has now given favor- able heed to the long-continued demand of Lloyd George and his followers for a reform of the electoral process, or rather of the legislative lgr ment that will correct or diminish what they call a glaring discrimination. The principal lan urged by the Liberals is already {liar in continental countries and in some cities of our own country, as pro- portional representation. * * * When- ever the proportional system has been applied in this country, it has revealed some strange and confusing results. Whether it is suited to the British tem- per remains to be seen, For one thing, it :lnum be likely to encol u'I :ddmox; 0 party groupings, after fashion of the electoral complicatio e in Party Alignments in Great Britain out. The Cone servatives come in, if the country swale |lows their infallible protection medicine, Then, unless the.. is an New_alignments are ' of ling uring session of Parliament it is not impossi= ble that the Laborite government will go out of office and that Stanley Bl& pressed upon the Boston which observes that the muW“mu assailed by the die-hards of the Cons servatives or by some of the more pro= gressive elements of the party,” and concludes: “He is disgusted with the attitude of his followers, and while he may be disposed to meet some of proposals half way, he will not scend to be led into paths at once retros grade and reactionary. Reserved and peace-loving as he is, his spirit can easily be aroused when his independence of action is threatened.” | _ The Cleveland News agrees that “the Conservatives seem not to be in the | best of form for taking the job of gove erning the empire,” while the Provis dence Journal sees the possibility of “co-operation between the Laborites and the Liberals, not merely during the ses~ sion just begun, but, more im still, in the general election which lead= ers of all the parties concede cannot be | far distant.” The Charleston Eve Post says that “a general election very well return virtually the sif on now existing, which would give Ramsay MacDonald a new but still a g'meu.flm lease of power for perhaps two years more.” ———— Supports-Gen. Smith In Grid Controversy To the Editor of Thn Star: Your editorial, “A ,Strange Stand,” 18 unfair. You probably are basing your conclusions upon a meager knowledge of conditions. You drag in the controversy over the broken contract, That controversy has absolutely nothing to do with the case. Gen. Smith is unalterably opposed to post-season games because they must come during: the most critical period of a - cadet’s school year—during the “writs” or general review period—when marks have extra weight and when many men who have gotten low marks in daily recitations have a chance to pull up their averages. I heard Gen. Smith say last December that it was a !ren mistake to consider playing -56AS0N _games. w?l I am not in error, this is not the first time Navy Army for a post-season game in 1 You refer to stubborn attitude. takes moral courage to do what one's lights tell one is the right thing to do. I admire Gen. Smith for standing by his convictions. Just betweem us, the public is not “getting fed up no end,” as you ‘The long-suffering public does inted abou