Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1930, Page 6

Mail—Payable in Advance. nd and Vi A Rate T Other States B R D y' l‘:\fl’ . ind: 1y Member of the Amociated Press. . 3 s the Fepubiication of &1l hews tches e 3 Yy onl el Gis- Efi%mfiuflfimm Retrenchment. " beretn ALl 1ents. ispatches herein Further tax reduction, at this time, is impossible, according to the officers of the - Government - at the head of its financial affairs. The temporary de- crease in the Federal income taxes, amounting to 1 per cent of the normal income tax rates, which has operated for income tax payments made during the present year, must be abandoned. It is estimated that this temporary de- crease in the tax rate lopped $160,00,- 000 off the tax receipts of the Govern- ment. President Hoover, in a statement made yesterday, paved the way for a future announcement that the Govern- ment may face a small deficit, due to & possible excess of expenditures over receipts. The President, at the same time, gave it as his opinion that the stability of the Government would be unshaken, even though a small deficit faced the country for the period of a year. It is always well for the country to know its financial condition. Particu- larly should it have information when there is danger of a deficit. - Under such circumstances, the need for retrench- ment In Government expenditure be- comes imperative. The President doubt- less has in mind the demand for ex- penditure at this time of considerable sums of money for public works, as an aid to employment of labor in . this country. His statement yesterday indi- cated that the administration was pre- paring to request the Congress for funds and C: ..1sr. 812 otherwise cre the local Lews f publication of also 1eserved. '| In this connection, some modern Ulysses i 73 s2ik the last. the’ poor not Miue) il plishes nothing. ‘The debenture, in effect, will take many millions of dollars which otherwise would . reach the Federal Treasury through the imposition of tariff duties and turn them over to individual farm- It has been declared unsound in looking to the expenditure of Government money on a large scale. ‘The time for retrenchment is at hand. of depression immediately after the close of the World War, with millions of unemployed. Ths officers of the Government, alded by the Congress, took firm hold of that situation and throughout. the period kept new ex- penditures to a minimum. The rebound of business carried the country to great heights of prosperity. It may be ex- pected that a rebound will follow the present period of depression. In the interval, however, it is the part of prudence for the Government to return to severe economy. Heavy increases in taxation of the citizens to carry out governmental projects would not aid a return of business, 5o much desired at this time, e The liberality with which the public 1s willing to pay is not sufficient to prevent some of the motion picture geniuses from suspecting that other geniuses are getting more than their chare of the money. The Army-Navy Game. The decision to stage the colorful spectacle of the Army-Navy foot ball game this year for the benefit of the unemployed s particularly gratifying to the public, foth on the score that the Naval Academy and West Point are big enough to forget petty differences in the interest of charity and that the contest this year may pave the ‘way for the resumption of permanent ath- Jetic relationship. No game has been played between the two institutions since 1927. It was after the contest of ihat year, which was won by the Army, 14-0, that the Navy asked West ‘That it was necessary 6 invoke the cause of charity to bring the two teams together again. is unfortunate. They should long_since have straightened out their différences. - But with a five-hun- dred-thousand-dollar prize at stake, & prise to be used to alleviate unem- ployment, and. with the spirit engen- dered by the contest itself it may be that the battle on December thirteenth in New York will be the .means of ending the three-year feud, as there appears no_reason why, if controversial points can be overlooked in this year, they cannot be overlooked, if neces- sary, in years to come. No Zone Fare System! When People’s Counsel Keech an- nounced the other day that he had ‘been studying various methods of im- proving street car service in other cities, among them the Cleveland zone systém, the annoyncément was apparently in- terpreted to mean that Mr. Keech would recommend its establishment here, Immediately there were protests. From them one might conclude that the people of Washington prefer anything under the sun to the zone system. Fine! Mr. Keech is not as much interested in the zone system or any other system as he is in centering public attention on the problem of improving street car service in Washington. The more and the liveller the discussion, the better chance that something will come out of it Here is another straw man that may be set up for the purposes of having it knocked down: In some of the Middle ‘Western cities, notably in Milwaukee and ‘St. Louis, the street car companies sell & weekly pass. In St. Louis the pass costs $1.50 and a maximum limit is set on the nymber of rides. In Mil- ‘waukee the pass costs $1 and the rider can ride as much and as long as he pleases. In Pittsburgh there is & twenty-five-cent “Sunday pass” avail- able. Using this Sunday pass & person may ride all over Pittsburgh all’ day Sunday for twenty-five cents. Now can any one suggest a more delight{ul way to spend & dull Sunday than riding the street car all day long? Such expedients, by which the car companies endeavor to attract more riders and with the addifional revenue presumably attempt to Improve their service, might not be applicable here. But they should be studied, meverthe- less, and talked about. No one doubts that “something must be dome” in ‘Washington and the street cai com- panies have as yet shown ng inclina- tion to do anything except bemoan the advent of the cheap taxicabs and order an extra supply of hair shirts. A correspondent writes an interesting letter to The Star suggesting that what the street cars here need is more speed. might undertake a tour of the city on the front platforms of the street cars, timing the various stages of his journey by the opening and closing hours of the Government. departments. This would make an “Odyssey” worth reading, and ‘there would be no Circe to brighten the way, either. It would at least develop the fact®ihat most of the blame for slow transit can be placed on traffic congestion. Fast street cars would not bring much improvement, unless the fast street cars were given authority to mow down whatever was in front and disregard the numerous signal lights at the corners. This condition certainly invites study by the traffic director. ‘The most bizarre schemes for im- proving' street car service in Washing- ton are valuable, for these might lead to discussion and acceptance of prac- tical remedies. Mere head shaking, ac- companied by sighs of distress, accom- ——————— ‘Washington has one lone hansom cab, & private vehicle, always beauti- fully turned out. To those who can remember when waltz and two-step al- ternated all through a long dance card, just a glimpse of if, coupled with the sound of the accompanying hoof-beats, can instantly erase changes of three decades in a street, not te mention the temporary obliteration of every parked automobile. One-armed driving and roadside parking were not in the same class with a ride in one of these, steered by a discreet driver. —————— A true Republican does not hesitate to suggest thnt‘nnw is the time for every good Democrat to come to the aid of the administration party. ) ‘Wales Vs. Lindbergh. ‘The world’s two most popular young men—Edward Albert, Prince of Wales, and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh—seem destined to match the wits and wizardry of their charm next year. South Amer- ica s the prospective arena of the Joust. ‘The respective trade interests of Great Britain and the United States are the mythical things at stake, Bri- tannia’s bachelor prince, long known as the empire’s best commercial traveler, is embarking upon the same kind of a good-will mission to the southernmost Latin American countries as Mr. Hoo- ver, then President-elect, undertook in 1920. His itinerary practically will duplicate the Hoover line of march. _Col. Lindbergh's proposed flight across the Western Hemisphere will be of less official character than the peregrina- tions of the heir to the British throne, But this needs to be remembered. George V's son is only the Prince of Wales. “Lindy” is the king of fiyers. | Nowadays aviation appeals to the hearts and imaginations of people perhaps | even more than royalty. The world is still full of crowned and sceptered folk. ‘There are few Lindberghs. Many think there is but one. The prince has one advantage over the colonsl. Wales is a bachelor. Lindbergh is a husband and ® father. That may give the prince the senora and senorita vote in South John Bull and Uncle Sam are keen i It is the pickings irom Latin trade ia e dinary, have at the ‘We in the United more graces of Edward him & foeman of truly the contest for the America, Consclous sion of a young man to whose ments the whole world also has cumbed. . May the best smile win! — il Delay in Retirement Pay. ‘While the number of cases of actual suffering among the many hundreds of Government annuitants who have so far failed to receive their retirement pay may be relatively few in number, it is difficult to find any excuse for any delay on the part of the Federal Gov- ernment in making payments long since overdue. In the first place, the retire- ment pay is not a gift or a gratuity. It is money that has been earned over a long period of years. It is as im- portant that this money be paid on time, when due, as that the Govern- ment's salary checks be pald when due. As far as the explanation for the delay goes, it is readily understood and perforce accepted. The Government retired an extraordinarily large number of superannuated employes last Sum- mer when the new retirement law went into effect. Instead of permitting re- tentions in service as theretofore, the new' law made retirement under pre- scribed conditions compulsory and con- fined the few cases of retention in service to & handful of employes whose expert services were regarded as “indis- pensable. This necessarily brought about an unprecedented volume of re- tirements, with the accompanying in- crease in the actuarial work of the Pen- sion Office, charged with a rather com- plicated method of determining the amount of annuities in each case. The work fell behind and has not yet been made current. Hindsight is, of course, easier than foresight. But some responsible au- thority must have foreseen conditions that would arise under administration of the new law and had proper steps been taken in the beginning Congress would naturally have given permission to retain employes in service until their retirement pay had been determined end the cases adjudicated. There is little or no excuse for retiring em- ployes by arbitrarily fixed dates and then devoting months to determining how much their retirement pay will be, forcing them to subsist on imagina- tion and hope in the meantime. It is encouraging to note that the Pension Office is working hard to repair the damage already caused, and it is sincerely to be hoped that no such reprehensible delay in annuity pay- ments will occur again. ————- Scientists at last appear agreed that the common cold is transmitted by a virus, residing in the nasal passages of sufferers. It is transported from one person to another by the careless sneezer and cougher, of course, but, at the same time, do not forget the man who, if he has a story to impart, espe- cially & funny one, with lots of guffaws, feels that it must be told face to face, very close up, and with & firm finger in the hapless hearer's lapel. ) Every man, woman and child who s wont to bellow “Play ball!” from the grandstand or bleachers during the Summer months is now mentally shout- ing the same thing at the Naval and Military Academies—perhaps a bit more loudly at the latter. o “Post mortems” on foot ball games were bad enough before. Now they dis- play moving pictures of crucial and doubtful plays, which about doubles the usual output of arguments. ——— It is reported that Princess Hermine, second wife of the ex-Kalser,- prayed earnestly at the tomb of his first con- sort. Perhaps she was feeling some- what sympathetic. .- All along the line the H. C. of L. seems to be going steadily down. The latest price for a New York Stock Ex- change seat is only $226,000, a drop of $14,000. There is a real bargain! —.— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. All One Way. "Most everybody grabs a pen Or hollers from a platform ‘To change the destinies of men ‘To this form or to that form. Through everybody shows his nerve, From philanthrope to cynic, Nobody seems inclined to serve As subject of the clinic. Nobody wishes to affect ‘The Jayman's lowly status. Nobody hastens to colleet ‘The wisdom pitchforked at us. Nobody cares himself to see A pupil of the Nation, But everybody wants to be ‘The Board of Education. Experiences Compared. “Were you hazed when you were at { college?” “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum, “but it wasn't anything like the heckling I have gone through since.” Jud Tunkins says the man who wants to show everybody that he's boss gen- erally gives an exhibition that is neither entertaining nor instructive. Fuel. The youth who burned the midnight ofl In study now is seen Out riding ‘every day, free from toil, And burning gasoline, A Patient Toiler. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. We always have had & weakness for little poetry magazines. There is some- intriguing, inspiring and pathetic ey have a way of com- ourselves, mathematics will surprise us some day by yielding 7. ‘We can see the entire scene, the little children in their rows, the old seats with and | iron legs and braces, the big geography edited by the late Harriet Monroe. We ‘do not know whether it is still published or not. The Harp was (or is) another. The latest to come to our desk is Kaleidoscope, published at Dallas, Tex. lPtoe‘: subtitled “A National Magazine of ry.” What we like about these pamphlets is that they represent high endeavor and that never once have we looked into one without finding at least one poem that appealed to us. ‘Without attempting a any of the ber issue, is the one which par- ticularly appealed to the writer here: A School Teacher Prays. Father, for one tiny little hour Give me the peace that souls must surely know ‘Who n:;der sign a contract black and " judgment on other verse in this Novem- te To teach small children, sitting in a us two, however stale it is, ys equal stodgy-looking four, And that a sentence beautiful as Heaven > Is closed behind a stern, iron gram- mar door. And that my Italy, whose very soil Cofl]g yleld a stately heritage of d Shelley, lonely, rest- ing there, Is just a country with some foolish schemes. ©Oh, Father, there is such a little time— So much I've spent behind the school Toom bars; May I go out for just one tiny hour And show my children high, white shining stars? —LOU MYRTIS VINING. * kX One does not have to be a school teacher to get the viewpoint expressed. It is a universal belfef, this, that the job one has Is tiresome, and that the other fellow's has aspects of high ro- mance. No doubt the bus driver longs for an hour of ease when he may drive his own car whither he lists, without stopping at the beck and call of passengers. The store clerk envies the house- keeper, and the housekeeper sometimes wonders if the stenographer hasn't got the best of it, after all. Somebody’'s stenog, looking at her boss’ wife, thinks that lady has nothing 1o do but dress finely and look as pretty as_possible. Even the school child, forced to sit in a row, perhaps thinks that some day he (or she) will grow up to be a peda- gogue, and stand at the front of the room with a fine poise of omniscience. ‘We believe that Miss Vining has made a bit of a mistake, in her assumption, as attributed to the teacher of her poem, that a blissful peace must en- “h?. those who have not signed up to teach. ‘The rest of us have our troubles, too! * K X X And yet we can sympathize with her and her teacher, in their resentment that a stale 2 plus 2 must invariably equal fat and stodgy 4. Sometime that sum ought to work out to 6! If we dream about it long enough and with sufficient spirituality, we tell books, the blackboard, the erasers, the crayons. Johnny Jones has a story book se- creted in the geography, and teacher is looking for white shining stars, and so says exactly nothing at all. “Two plus two,” we enunciate, as teacher, longing for a tiny little hour. (We realize that “tiny little” is putting it on rather thick, but somehow neither adjective by itself quite fills the bill That is one of the beauties of verse making, that one may crash that old iron-bound grammatical door.) “Does any little child know what two plus two makes?” we hear ourselves say- ing, in a fine dream, in which Keats and Shelley are absurdly mixing it up with Mussolini and Julius Caesar, No little child knows. None raises a hand. What stupid children these are! “Surely there must be one of you, one tiny little one of you, who knows the answer. The answer is a necessary part of this preposterous system solemnly called Education with a huge capital E. “Surely one of you knows what two plus two ylelds. It Is necessary, chil- dren, that at least one of you knows. When one of you knows, the rest of you may pretend that you knew. That will satisfy the Supervising Principal. ‘What a wild idea I have, children, of speaking of Mr. Smith as the Supervising Principle! Were I to write to him with the ending ‘iple’ instead |of ‘ipal’ the whole Fabric of Educa- | tion would totter from here to Co- | lumbla University and back. Mr. Smith probably would foam at the mouth and ery to high Heaven thatno teacher who could not spell would be permitted to send you small innocents forth into the crude world. | “Iple and Ipal would become the { Theme of the Month. Adherents of Iple and Ipal would spring up on every hand. Those who were for Iple would be against Ipal, and the Ipallst would not be able to give the Iplists a leg to stand on. t would do feeble me no good to give a swift kick at the stern, iron grammar door and to insist stoutly, after the best tradition martyrs, that Mr. Smith really was, after all, & Supervising Principle, as well as a Supervising Principal. “But maybe I would get my tiny hour at la:t, children, to take you forth and show you the high, white shining stars, the beautiful = without knowledge of matics or spelling. would. “In the meantime, let us return to 2 plus 2. Now that I have explained it to you, surely there is at least one little child here who can tell me all about 2 plus 2. Maybelle, don't you remember that I told you last week what happens when 2 is added to 2? No? Well, Johnny, stop reading ‘The Radio Boys at Panama,’ and you tell us, dear.” The Educational Crisis is at hand. This is the fateful moment, ever to be remembered in the Annals of Educa- For Johnny Jones is about to the contract forever. he says, in an even Yes, I am sure I “Two plus two q) The world always knew it did, but you, Johnny Jones, are the first in history to dare to say so. “Now mankind is emancipated! Henceforth, 2 plus 2 may or may not equal 7, but we can all be sure that it will equal something or othér. God bless you, Johnny Jones!"” Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands, regards the mother tongue in such portions of Greece as were &c- quired after the post-bellum par- titions is not very encouragin The people in these sections, and espe- cially in the Florina (former Bulgarian) district, instead of learning Greek, con- tinue to speak the language of their original nationalities. % jor is that all. Greek families mov- ing into these new regions of the coun- try, instead of continuing to speak Greek and to use this language with their neighbors, acquire as quickly as they can the language of the ceded ter- ritory. Such a procedure should not be’ permitted by the authorities. Nothing but Greek should be allowed to. be spoken by Oreell:’:glzem, whether native born or natural . There are about 150,000 former Bul- nationals in Florina and Bas- toria who are making no effort to learn Greek, and, on the contrary, are teach- ing the Greeks in this territory to speak ‘Bulgarian, and that "\Ihofi: the aid of any Bulgarian schools, which are not permitted in the region. * Kk ® French Film Depicts Race Suicide in ltplllll&N SRl tin, Paris.—The Na - lnlc: ,;.r the Increase of the French Population has just published a film entitled “Prance in Peril,” which will be shown throughout the nation, with the sanction of the ministry of public health. PATRJB. Athens—The situation as This is a most interesting screen epic | and of the highest educational value and importance. It shows conditions in France that militate against a saving birth rate in France, and is & silent condemnation of the immorality and abuses of natural law that perpetuate the small family or childless marriage. With the birth rate Increasing by leaps and bounds in Germany, Beigium and Holland, the danger of this situation in France is not an imaginary one. In these three countries the birth rate is double that in France. The picture con- cludes with & tableau-vivant of the incomparable joy of a home well filled | with children. ERE Women Denounced For Slump in Wool Prices. Irish Independent, Dublin.—Women, who have already been blamed for keep- ing themselves slim and thereby causing a glut in the potato market, are now denounced for being responsible for a slump in wool prices. If they would only wrap themselves round and round in it, that branch of the textile trade would be in a far happler condition. But if they did that, they would be denounced by doctors and dress reform- ers—and how about the various move- ments inviting them to wear more cotton? * ok ok K Latin America Ignores Immigration Ban. La Prensa, Buenos Aires—While the United States Government is restrict- ing the immigrants to that country from the countries of Latin America, retalia- tory measures are not being adopted by South American governments, and Amer- “Would you be happier if you had to s work only eight hours & day?” “No,” answered Farmer Corntossel. “I play such a poor checker game that | reaci I haven't any real use for leisure.” “To say one has lost & friend,” said HI Ho, the sage of Chinatown, mistake. One cannot lose a real friend.” The Farmer. His eloquence has never ceased ‘To be a force amazing. His crops appear to be the least ©Of what the farmer’s rasing. “I don't know much ‘bout prophesti- cation,” sald Uncle Eben, “but I kin|Peru say dar is tivee mighty reliable signs 230 rain—a horse race, & circus an' & States are based on the number of peo- ple of the various nationalities already living there, and the totals of those coming from all the countries of South America have been absolutely insignifi- cant compared with the 120,000,000 pop- ulation of the Grand Republic, it does | not appear that Latin Americans would | be able to enter the United States in large numbers even if they desired to do so. Which is unfortunate, for large and flourishing colonies of Argentines, Chileans, Colombians, Bragzillans and others In North America would make for increased trade and friendliness be- tween South American nations and the North American republic, * kK X Refrigerated Trucks ‘Transport Fruit Ilegally, £ A B C, Madrid.—The chief of the De- partment of Rural Police of Aleira has presented a charge against-a commercial exporter of fruits in that district. It has been alleged by the police that the | exporter referred to, Don Francisco En- | riquez, been running trucks into | Prance from Alcira and Valencia, con- taining oranges, after falsifying the mark of origin, with grave jeopardy to exportation of oranges in general, and particularly to the fruit business in Alcira. These trucks were equipped with re- frigerator service, making it possible for the consignments to arrive in France in the best of condition regardless of delays and interruptions to delivery. It is alleged in the complaint that Don Enriquez has been exporting ille~ gally other consignments of fruit besides | oranges by the same methods. The ex- | istence of fraudulent activity in this business has been under the surveillance of the police for some time, and much detailed evidence will be presented in criminal court against Senor Enriquez. r——— Election Broadcast Shows Radio Advance From the New York World. Tuesday evening, when perhaps 50.~ 000,000 people listened to the election returns on the radio, was only two days removed from the tenth anniversary of the first program put on the air by the ploneer broadcast station KDKA. This first program also consisted of election returns, the occasion being the presidential election of 1920, and to re- lieve the tedium of waiting between bulletins the broadcasters availed them- selves of the use of a phonograph. It is estimated that about 100 persons lis- tened with earphones to this experi- mental demonstration, Ten years are but a brief span, but what sweeping changes they have brought in radio transmission and re- ception! By 1922 the broadcasting sta- tions, still in their infancy, were con- gratulating themselves on being able to send their programs into 100,000 Amer- ican homes. Today they are able to reach nearly 14,000,000 homes and very nearly half the people in the United States. And the quulity of the service has improved as the scope of broad- casting has increased. The continents of the world have been linked together. King George's speech at the openli of the naval conference, a symphony concert in Berlin, a speech of Premier Hamaguchi n Tokio, an inaugural cere- mun{ at Washington, are all made audible in a farm house in Iowa and in a trapper’s cabin on Hudson Bay. 1t is a great leap forward which has been made in a single decade, and the full possibilities on the side of progress e | ave et to be realied. Names Complicate Life. Prom the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. leader in Brazil, is toolio Vahrgahs.” ronounced “Zhe- e in Rio de Ja- s neiro becomes more complicated daily. Morrow’s Acid Test Hinted. From the Springfield (Mass.) Union. e su) test ‘The name of Getulio Vargas, the new | Qui “IE_EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, SATURDAY, NOVEM Estimates of prime ministers, Gladstone and Disraell, have varied according to the politics, the €thics and th> taste of their critics. To Mary Ann Disraeli the picturesque servatice prime minister was no mounte= bank, but the greatest leader of his age, the savior of his country from the dan gerous radicalism of the Liberals, the defender and expander of the empire. To Mary Gladstone, daughter of Glad- stone, her father was compact of all no- bility, the defender of British liberties, and the one man suited to direct the government. Her opinion of Disraeli, as her father’s great party opponent, was correspondingly antagonistic. In “Mary Gladstone (Mrs. Drew); Diaries and Letters,” edited by Lucy Masterman, unflattering allusions to Disraeli are frequent. In July, 1864, &he writes: “Dizzy spoke for two hours and fifty minutes. His speech was imperti~ nent and vulgar. He tried to put down the government, and mimicked Lord John Russell to his face. Most noble and grand did Papa look when he got o Papa spoke for an hour and thirty-five minutes—and the con- trast between the two!” In 1870 she re- cords: “Have been reading Dizzy's book ‘Lothair’ which I consider snobbish and trash.” In 1873. after attending a ses- slon of Parliament, she tells her diary: ‘Dizzy rose and made a thoroughly weak speech of an hour, followed by Papa, who spoke for 2 hours. I suppose the most perfect speech as a whole he has ever made in his life, so full of tact, taste, in such good temper, and so clear, quiet, dignified, at the same time witty and sparkling, that one’s only feeling was that the whole House must be con- verted.” The death of Disraeli, then Lord Beaconsfleld, brought no conven- tional regrets from Mary Gladstone. She writes: “To think of my never mention- ing 1d. Banconsfleld’s death on Ap. 29, 1881, and all the consequent rush of highest ' flown praise. -rate non- sense rampaged for a week. Papa tele- graphed to offer a public funeral, but this was refused.” YLater, in discussing the dead statesman with her father, she Eqnldzed him a public memorial. Father said Ld. Beaconsfield had low- ered the whole standard of morality in politics, specially among Conservativi in & lesser degree among Liberals. uf asked why then he g:o?oud & national memorial of him? ‘Parliament and the nation had backed him up, they were re- sponsible for him, a statue shd. be glven to a man according to the place he occupled ir the public estimation, ll.:lilbfirvyflmufit eventually judge as to the - * Kk K lary Gladstone’s Diary and Let indicate a more lrltnd]l;'y relation tfi:g tween the royal family and the Liberal prime minister than is suggested by the Moneypenny-Buckle “Life of Disraeli” or even Lord Morley's “Gladstone.” Mary herself was a great admirer of Queen Victoria and all her children and grandchildren. Perhaps she did not know of all the uncomfortable hours and the humiliations which the Queen caused Gladstone, when she was ‘heartily wishing Disraell back in power, was espeelally devoted to Alexlndm Princess of ‘Wales, as Queen and as Queen Dowager, and her name often npr:n in the Diaries and Letters. In 1871, when she was 24, Mary made her first visit to Windsor, “At 4:30 off to Windsor, where we arrived about 6. * * * What an excited state I ought to be in at finding myself for the first time lodged under the roof of my sovereign, instead of which a strange calmness pervades my whole wedding of the present King and Queen is de- scribed with enthusiasm, though Mary had at that time, 1893, the age ‘When youthful thrills might be expected. “Dressed directly after breakfast. Glori~ ous wedding morning, and reached St. James's Palace at 11. We were all very gorgeous in drawing-room attire, minus trains, all the jewels we cd. muster. * * * Splendid seats, and we watched g arriv d stately. and bridal; all looked their best behaved excellently.” King Edward VII and Mary's husband, Rev. Drew, died within a short time of eacl other, and Mary received from Queen Alexandra a letter of friendship and very understanding sympathy. That her admiration of King Edward was not as qualified as that for Alexandra is hinted in a letter to her daughter, Dorothy, ‘when she says: “The t over him (King Edward) has been very impres-. sive, only now and then a touch of ex- aggeration, but I have alwa felt Prince George would develop into as good & King and a better man.” Mary Drew died on New Year day, 1927, hav- ing lived through the age of the great- est English statesmen, the Boer War and the Wcrld War, and having out- lived most of her many relatives and friends, * % k% Another attempt at identification of the mysterious lover of Emily Dickin- son, whom she is supposed to have loved ta the end of her life, is made by Genevieve Taggard in “The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson.” The man with whom Emily Dickinson fell in love in her youth, whom she did not marry, who was haps the in- spiration of some of T poetry, has been variously identified as Lieut. Hunt, husband of Emily’s friend, Helen PFiske Hunt (Jackson), and Rev. Charles Wadsworth, whom she met in Philadelphia on a journey to Washing- ton after her father, had been elected to Congress. Miss Taggard discards these two possible lovers and selects George Gould, Amherst graduate and later a clergyman, who, she believes, ap- plied to Emily’s father for the privilege of marrying her and was refused on account of his poverty. Miss Taggard presents an affidavit of & person whose name is not given to the effect that Emu{t"l‘ father forbade her to see Gould, but t she “promised to love him as long as she lived, said she would answer every letter he wrote, * * * told him she would dress in white, Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer, and never again would go outside the gate, but live the life of & recluse—for his sake.” Cer~ tainly she did live the life of & reclusew & very morbid life—but it is by ne means proved that she did so for the sake of Gould. It is more likely that the cause was more obscurely mental, or temperamental. At any rate, Gould did not abjure soclety on her account, for he married in 1862. ST TNy Clever epigram and satire made Rose Macaulay's “Potterism” a popular book for the short period that is now normal for the most popular of novels, and it is for this cleverness that we now re- member the book, though we may have entirely forgotten the story. In her new novel, “Staying With Relations,” Miss Macaulay is just as humorous and ironical. ‘The subject itself suggests irony. Catherine Grey, an English nov- elist, goes to Guatemala to visit some distant relatives living on a large plantation. She finds herself plunged into melodrama and makes some aston- ishing discoveries about the various per- sons in the family and among their friends. * K ok o In the American Federationist, the organ of the American Federation of l#r‘n‘blflm‘;. l;he Ioll‘(’)'lnl poem on “The Public Library,” by Fra o brook Pfelffer: S Bright, vaulted cefltns]. windows fine an Color and ‘light and afr, My home! . 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Sinclair Lewis and Babbitt In Nobel Prize Controversy American commentators discoyer I‘ :;' u;: #lthe amber as a the literary merits.of | Mr. Babl fellow creatures, caricatures rather than true types MAmzrlu and small ecredit to their au- “The selection is & one,” says the Milwaukee Sent though “America has better writers than Mr. Lewts, but it has no writer who depicts nd institutions more truthfully and photographs of his countrymen. most remarkable thing about Mr, Lewis" career has been his tremendous & ity, culminating in the Nobel prize award, following his delibesate choosing of subject matter which any critic in the United States would have told him would make him the most heartily dis- liked writer in the land happy end- ings and last reel embrace: “Lewis has offended a great mass of American readers,” agrees the Omaha ‘World-Herald, while recognizing that ‘there is developing in his work a warmer touch,” and that several c:’t his locu- Dispatch-Herald observes that “Lewis and Dreiser and O'Neill are read abroad with enthusiasm precisely be: cause they are unlike European writers" that “they may not be representative, ‘but they are characteristic,” and that no European could have written what they have writte: The Dispatch-Her- ald- concludes, “That, arentl; what the Eutopean wants from Ameri: can literature.’ “None of Lewis® novels Is a dull book, says the Charleston (8. C.) Evening Post. “Most of them have been famous for the controversies they aroused, but even in the most argumentative the story was the thing. .In Babbitt and Elmer Gan- try he created two characters it will be hard to forget. The Nobel judges have made & popular award this time, one which seems to satisfy European crities and which Americans are hailing with delight.” ok o ok ‘The Elmira Star-Gazette feels that the award “is an indication that the standards of literary art have moved away from the older style of past prize winners toward the more spirited style of the American writers.” The Okla homa City Times states that “perhaps no other American writer aas been more severely denounced by many of his countrymen,” but that “the merit of his work stands forth clearly.” “We have no quarrel,” declares the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, “with those critics who contend that to the extent Sinclair Lewis has been the bitter sati- rist of things American he has not been “m| bly representative.” Even grant- ing that he has been guilty of exagger- ation, we may answer, ‘So was Dick- | dra ens, and even the good-natured Mark Twain.' But as a matter of fact, Lewis dealt with George Babbitt in kindly sympathy. You may have loathed El- mer Gantry, and you may have been disgusted with Will Kinnicutt—but who could help feeling tenderly sorry for George Babbitt? Anyway, achievement in literature is not altogether improp- erly associated with popularity, and, as one literary observer has recently said, ‘a falr working rule will prize Y g “Of all folk in the 48 Btates!” ex- the Little Rock Arkansas all over the with fts this be a interest- ing is ol need f* & talented, 15 | sensibte debryunmk‘u to te on these sneering gentry and to )w up the shallowness and . insincerity de- moralizing influence of the Bohemian- hich these apostles of the sneer to ridicule. ~All that is sound- in morals and good sense, y and in advance- ment of standards and conditions of life in this country is to be found in ‘Main Street' or in its equivalent of wholesome simplicity and earnestness in the larger centers of population. And this country owes a great debt of gratitude and appreciation to its ‘Bab- bitts” who, if a bit ludicrous at times, yet are the dynamic force which pro- duces progress.” Drama Worth Saving If Plan Can Do It From the Des Moines Tribune-Oapital: The plan by which the Postal Tele- graph offices in New York City become ticket-selling agencles of the theaters, with only a nominal charge to the pur- chaser, would be of no interest out here if we did not have to depend upon New Yo;v:'s stage to maintain American ma. Plays are written for the New York ludkgme, which is the most critical in the country, and without a New York theater there will be no American theater. The New York theater very nearly dis- appeared last Winter. And one of the cg&ef contributing causes was the high price of tickets. - The theater managers allowed scalpers to get all the ets into their hanga. 50 prices went up to invaluable linguist and a member of . 5t but Emerson B} g