Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1930, Page 8

' THE 'HE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDA ovember 18, 1930 THEODORE W. NOYES. .., Editor The Evening Star Company AR R, Within the City. 45¢ per month day ‘Bfar 60c per month 65¢ per month e ohey "l:" nd of euch m i, S et 1 ma: 8¢ 1 mo., 40c All Other States and Canada. E}! and 1 . ; ::g sy onl: $5.00; 1 mo.. 1100 T8¢ S0c or {elephoms | far as the street ar tracks, are pretty well known and be regarded as menacing to pedestrian and automobile traffic. ‘The bus terminal problem has been complicated by the lack of power on the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1930. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Jones will not be & competitor in the amateur championship, which he has won five times since 1923, nor in the British amateur champlonship, which he now holds. It also means that the scramble for the amateur champlon- ship, instead of being the one-man pro- cession it has been since 1923, will be & wide-open affair. With Jones and Von Elm out of the competition, ¢he way is paved for nmew faces. Not for many years will there be a man who Speakers at a recent radio convention here indicated that advertising on the air was growing somewhat obnoxious to_the listeners. - We would go them one better. We would say“that the human' voice part of the Commissioners to compel the | 50 completely dominates the amateur |on the radio is becoming mighty tire- use of a ocentral, union terminal, as|golf field—and the open championship | fleld as well—as has Jones over the past | p, In those seven years he | 4,000,000 listeners which the broadcast- has won 13 national championships in | Ing station managers always talk about. there is no union termin: Neither the bus companies nor private enter- prise has seen fit to bulld a union ter- minal, as the bus companies have been getting along very well without one. Well arranged and convenient waiting rooms for the bus patrons have re- | placed the ramshackle makeshifts that | once were made to serve, but the busses | continue to use the streets for parking | space, loading and unloading, and the | bus stations are located where normal { conditions alone serve to congest traffic. Member of the Assoclated Associated Press is exclusively entitled to Jse for republication of ail news ci itches credited 1o it or not otherwise cre in this paper and aiso the I Lews rein. Al riehts of tches herein pub! The Child Health Conference. President Hoover will open at the ‘White House tomorrow the conference called by him in July, 1929, to “study the present status of the health and well-being of the children of the United States, to report what is being done, to recommend what to do and how to do 1t.” It is the third White House Confer- ence on children sponsored by Presi- dents of the- United States. The first was called by President Roosevelt in 1809. It considered only the dependent child and resulted, in 1012, in the es- tablishment of the United States Chil- dren’s Bureau in the Department of ZLabor. The second conference was called by President Wilson in 1919. In sddition to dependency, it considered ehild labor and education, public pro- tection of the health of mothers and children and children in need of spe- clal care. It was followed by eight im- portant regional conferences. The third conference, about to con- vene in Washington, will consider the full range of child life, in its physical, mental and social aspects—the normal child as well as the one handicapped from birth to maturity. In accordance with the cumulatively growing interest in child welfare, this week's conference will outstrip in numerical dimensions ‘The Commissioners might find it ad- visable to order the big interstate bus stations’ out of the congested traffic district, unless they agree to furnish and build one downtown union ter- minal, with the busses parked off the street. That problem has been allowed to take care of itself long enough, and direct measures are necessary. SRR X B -1 A Spineless Suggestion. ‘The prize suggestion since the recent congressional elections is that the Re- publicans in the Senate step aside and let the Democrats organize that body in the next Congress. The promoters of such a plan, alleged to be Republican Senators themselves, though their names have not yet been attached to the idea, take the position that it would be better to place the responsibility for what goes on in the Senate on the Democrats, | since & coalition of Democrats and pro- gressive Repiblicans will have actual control in the next Senate, as it has in the present. ‘Why the walls of Jericho fell has been one of the mysteries for centuries. But if the Republican party is to de- liver itself over to leadership of & char- acter to support this plan, there will be no mystery whatever about the fall of the G. O. P. A more spineless sugges- tion rarely has been advanced. It seems fairly safe to predict that little more will be heard of it. A political party which because of a division in its own ranks raises the white flag in such a * \all of its predecessors. Invited delegates number over four thousand. Sixteen months of preliminary work have pre- ceded their gathering. Carefully or- Though held under high Government the Child Health and Protec- tion Conference is privately financed. Priends of Herbert Hoover, with bound- Jess faith in his skill as a practical Hawail will be in attendance. It will pooling of best minds fleld of research almost without the ages of five and eighteen are 5o de- fective in speech that they require reme- dial treatment and training. ‘There are 250,000 dependent children. Two hundred thousand delinquent chil- dren come to the attention of courts every year. Of children under fifteen years of age 19,000 are killed by acel- dents. A million and a half children are subject to communicable diseases every year, which cause fifteen per cent ©of the total deaths in the country. An- nually 280,000 youths under twenty years ©of age pass away. ‘There is a happy side to the picture, of course. We are assured that there are approximately 25,000,000 normally healthy, averagely equipped “everyday” children in the United States and 1,- 500,000 “gifted” children in the private and public schools. It is the problems conjured up by the handicapped group with which the ‘White House Conference will wrestle. To wish it well in its work is to bespeak & success the value of which for the Republic it is utterly impossible to ex- aggerate. ————— ‘The Canal Zone sees some strange characters in the course of a year. First it Is Richard Halliburton; then Aimee McPherson. Dick might be considered ahead of Aimece, for he not only in- spected the cabarets and “honky-tonks” of both ports, but also swam through the thing; on the other hand, no cock- tail was named in his honor. e The Bus Terminals. ‘The Federal Government’s progress in triangle development work should gerve to hasten the municipal authori- ties in reaching rome decision regarding the continued use of street parking within the congested area that “the ‘The immediate denial by Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, Senator Smoot of Utah and other regulars that they would not touch the proposed plan with a ten-foot pole is somewhat reassuring. Scnator Borah, progressive Repub- lican, and one of the leaders of the “coalition,” ironically and sarcastically remarks that: “I wish I were as sure of the Kingdom of Heaven as I am that the Republicans will mever give up their Senate chairmanships as long as they have the votes to retain them.” Mr. Borah is himself chairman of the Committee, and both hold these offices under Republican rule despite their opposition, in the Senate, to the Re- publican majority of that body. If the Democrats did organize the Senats, ‘would have to determine whether would place deserving Democrats heads of these important com- or allow their erstwhile allies these jobs. The betting is a one that the Democrats, conditions, would place its in office. ‘The Republicans, as Senator Borah points out, are not likely voluntarily to relinquish the chairmanships of the standing committees of the Senate and the patronage which goes with organ- ization of the Senate, for selfish per- sonal reasons if for no other. But they are not likely to follow the course pro- posed because it would be sheer polit- ical stupidity to do so. The organiza- tion of the standing committees not only gives to the organizing party the chairmanships, but a majority of the membership of the committzes which really frame nearly all of the legislation which goes through the Senate. There has been talk, in some quarters, about the desire of the Democrats not to have forced upon them at this time the ! responsibility of controlling either the House or the Senate, or both: But such talk is as idle, really, as the proposal that the Republicans shall back away from the responsibility of organizing the Senate. If the Democrats have a majority in either House of Congress they will organize that House, They would be foolish to do otherwise. - How the fight game has changed since the days of old John L! A rough, tough boxer was poisoned in New -York recently from eating a cream puff. ] Jones Goes Hollywood. Bobby Jones seems always to have & knack for making news. Whatever the world golf champion does, whether he wins another national title, or goes into the movies, as he has announced he will do, creates discussion. He lives in the aura of the fierce light that beats about the throne, and no matter where he turns, whatever he does, it is inter- esting to the millions of golf addicts and the hero-loving populace of America. Bobby has announced his retirement from amateur golf championship com- petition in order that he may benefit himself financially, and be of some benefit to the world at large by ex- plaining, via the medium of the talking pictures, the features of swing and style that have made him champion of the golf world at the age of 28. To many persons will come a feeling of disappointment that the beau ideal of | American sports, the man about whom the entire tradition of clean amateur- ism has centered, has decided to turn his undoubted talents in golf to money making. To others his move will seem @ smart one, for Bobby will be in a position to make more money in a few months in the movies than he would make in many years of labors as & practicing attorney in Atlanta. There are many angles to the decision of Bobby Jones to renounce amateur golf. For that, boiled down to its es- sentials, is simply what his decision means. He may or may not defend his open championship next year, But, un- der a ruling of the authorities of the United States Golf Association, once he ! his goit conspicuous manner is in Teal danger. | seven years, !this country and Great Britain, three | times -leading the American Walker {Cup team in successful defense of the ! international amateur team trophy and setting up a record which may never be equaled. | But under the code of the United | States Golf Association, governing ama- {teur golf, Jones may take his profits from the movies, be classed as a non- amateur for a short time, and then may apply for reinstatement as an amateur. The assoclation has many times rein- stated as amateurs men who had turned professional in a far more obvious manner than has Jones. What is there to prevent Bobby picking up talking-picture contzact will bring him, applying for reinstatement as an ama- teur and again dominating the amateur field after his reinstatement? His retirement from golf competition will take away from the hero-loving public one of the chief figures in sport. It will also immediately reduce the rev- enues of the United States Golf Asso- clation by a considerable percentage. commercialized, why should not its chief figure also seize the golden dollar while he has the chance? ————— ‘The “one-note player” in an orches- tra—he who, when all other instru- ments are silent, and with the conduc- tor peering expectantly at him, lets out a single “tweet,” “plink” or “compah” and then sits at ease—has his counter- part in the gridiron hero who gets his varsity letter for making & high, long and true kickoff and then retires in favor of a more versatile and hardy companion. PO ‘This country is little likely to go to the dogs as long as its Midwest section gets all excited about a corn-husking championship. The man who wins this, if he only knew it, is really more important than the whole Notre Dame foot ball squad. The same goes for plowing tests, “birling” contests and similar events. ———————— ‘The Abyssinian coronation is all over, as is the Bulgarian-Italian wed- ding. So those of us who have jobs can now give them undivided atten- tion—except always on Saturday after- noons for a few weeks yet. et They are restoring the “Lee Man- slon,” but it is not and never was just across the Potomee from Washington. That is and always was “Arlington House.” The Lee Mansion, Stratford, is a good many miles from here. -. —are—— We thought we had had a rain ground here recently, but, according to the Weather Bureau, we did not. We have Feached the point, though, where ‘we are more than thankful for a heavy fog. ———— ‘The statue of Ceres, goddess of grain and harvest, atop the spire of the Chi- cago Board of Trade Building, is being thoroughly cleaned. Now if they will only keep on working straight down to the very bottom of the wheat pit! e Rabindranath’ Tagore declares that unrest is caused by machinery. How- ever, & lot of rest is occasioned by the same agency. . SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Mistaken Estimate. The man who gets before the rowd And talks about himself— He 1s indeed a very proud And independent elf. He loves to pose from day to day ‘Where every one may see, And by his manner acems to say, “Good people, look at me!” Oh, never let-him know the truth, For truth is oft unkind. Since he is happy, why, forsooth, 8hould we disturb his mind? Don't tell him that as people view His self-important glee Their ways unstartied they pursue And scarcely say, “Who's he?” Had to Quit, “What has become of the orator who used to.make such thrilling speeches?” “He had to quit,” replied Senator Sorghum. “He took on so much weight that he couldn’t get up on a soap box without smashin’ it in.” Her Honest Conviction. “It costs a great deal to own horses,” sald the equestrienne, “Yes,” answered young Mrs. Torkins, “but after Charley’s experience at the race track, I am convinced that the horses other people own cost you more.” Practice and Preference. T views dis Ufe wif' much distrust. We's “bliged, somehow er nuther, To keep a-doin’ what we must Instead o' what we druther. A Matter Not Mentioned. “In the stone age,” said Mr. Meekton, in tones that trembled a little, “a man proposed by hitting & woman with & hammer.” “Yes,” replied his wife, with a steely glare, “but they are careful not to say housekeeping and th: woman got her hands on a few crude but hefty cooking utensils.” Jud Tunkins says the first speech & man makes after he has been elected to high office is about as reliable an index of his future state of mind as a commencement essay. Scientific Substitution, By imps and hobgloblins we once were * dismayed, As described in colloquial terms; Bul now only science can make us afraid By telling us all about germs. “De man dat's allus complainin’ 'bout de way people forgit fa But since the game itself has become ' what happened after they went to me. Human nature, evidently, simply can- ot resist the appeal of those theoretical You have heard the successful prize- fighters, how they run to the micro- phone and ycll, “Hello, mother; hello, everybody down in Armadillo, Tex! Of course, it is commendable for a man to think of his mother, and no doubt the folks down in Armadillo get quite a kick out of hearing Sammy Sampach, the new champion, speak to em. Mother is mighty proud of her boy, at least the sporting pages say she is, and if she isn’t, mother is a good sport and never once lets on to the world that she would have been better pleased if Sammy had taken up a quiet but | safe job in the home-town grocery. the money in the movies which his' As for the worthy citizens of Arma- dillo, no listener in the wide world would blame them in the slightest for being rather “set up” over Sam's triumph. A greeting to them was expected, and highly necessary, if Sammy wished to avold being looked upon as “stuck up.” * K ok % The rest of us groaned heavily when the champion began that “Hello, folks!” We had a series of inward shrinkings at the conclusion of the world series when the winning Athletic players were shoved up to the microphone, one by one. We knew what was coming. Every one of us fans had heard it before. “Hello, folks, all T got to say is that I'm glad we won, and I thank you all!” “Hello, folks, all I got to say is that it was a great serles, and I'm mighty glad I was working for Mr. Mack!” “Hello, folks, all I got to say is—" No, man is a talking animal if he is :‘?y&mnznat ‘:u,w and h;u cannot resist e opportunity to wag his tongue when the chance is given to him. It is bred in the bone. ‘Talk we must. Talk we will. And what thing, in all the history of the world, ever gave & man such an opportunity as the radio? The rostrum is dwarfed. Antony spoke his famous oration to & few thousands of friends, Romans, countrymen, Napoleon, standing under the shadow of the pyramids, told some thousands of his trocps that forty centuries looked | down upon them. Today the manufacturers of Noblesse Oblige Pickles may speak to 4,000,000 as easy as talking. One doesn’t have to be an orator. One doesn’t have to write an oration | which will get into a book. (o 2ne doesn’t have to 4o a thing but alk! :l‘he plain fact seems to be that radio is not fiting at all by the experi- ences ‘o the taiking machine Industry. That interesting manufacture went into commerce as a “talking machine.” ‘The largest and most successft makers kept that name, ‘The machine, however, shortly evo- luted into & music machine. While talking was allowed, and many | speech records were made, the over- whelming number of musical disks turned out in about a quarter of a cen- tury firmly established the phoncgraph as a musical instrument. ‘Today radio doesn’t know whether it uhl- talking machine or a music ma- chine. Every listener knows. He knows that his radio is first and last a musical instrument. Radio is music or nothing. Not that it cannot speak for itself, The radio has unparalleled oppor- tunity to speak, because it brings the lifelike tones of a real man or woman at the other end of the waves. He or she is there, talking, and some- thing of that presence, although across seas, makes its way through space to the listening ear and brain, But it can be overdone. * oK oK % Radio consistently has refused learn- ing anything rllrom §he experience of the phonograph people. Thp; mol’{ d':;'lve in the latter industry, after Edison made his first hand- cranked machine, was for tone quality. A device which could increase tonal values, even 1 per cent, was gobbled up uickly. The tragedy was that per- ?ecthm did not come until too late. New tone chambers, new forms of needles, new sound boxes all helped to put other makes on the market. Better processes of record making were for tone quality. Yet when the radio first came into popular acceptance tone quality was something which had to be sold to rank and file of the listeners. At first it was all “distance.” Every one who knows his radio will recall the first two or three years, when the tones of the piano were distorted into a tinny, excruciating sound as of a planoforte gone mad. “Tone quality,” which should have been sought first of all (and was, of rse, by some), had to wait until about two years ago to come into its own. The quality today is the favorite of the radio gods. All that is lacking to make the radio the perfect home musical instrument is the serious consideration by all broad- casters of the ever-increasing tendency of the human voice to hog the ring. We, for one, submit that the trend should be the other way. Human be- ings, who always like to hear the sound of their own voices, will ruin radio un- less some stop is put to this eternal talk, talk, talk. It is almost impossible now to turn on a set, at any time of day or night without running smack-dab into the human voice. We are: tired of hearing people talk. Everybody is, we belleve. Let us have mu.s:c. more musie, better music, softer music. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands LASGOW WEEKLY HERALD. — Thespians as a rule have such a poor opinion of their artistic ability. Consider the unassuming estimate of her- self by Miss Mae Murray in the case brought against her Hollywood pro- ducers for £350,000. She admits in her afidavit of damages that her services were “excellent, special, rare, unique, extraordinary, unusual, uncommon and of a peculiar and intellectual class.” ‘That is the way a lot ‘of us feel about our services, but few have courage thus to express themselves, * K k% Love Making Goes On, Even on French Trams. Le Matin, Paris—Tramways aren't ideal places for romances, but occasion- ally we overhear a bit of important love making, which delights us quite as much as the participants. The fol- lowing is what we could not well avoid being made acquainted with on a recent morning, while on the way to our labors in the city: i Young lady (apropos of mothing in particular): “My dear, they say that children no longer believe in Santa Claus, or even in fairies!” Infatuated young man: “Yes, chil- G..n cease to believe in these super- ural things at an early age, and then, a little later on, they believe con- fidently in them again. As for me, I not only believe in fairies, but in en- chanters!-—most nly in enchan- tresses! I may have lost the faith for & time, but now I have it again, strong- er than ever. I don't believe I shall ever be a heretic to these beliefs again!” Young lady (agitatedly - pretending not to sense a compliment): “It's true! —1I, too, assuredly belleve that fairies exist. Indeed, I am sure that I know the queen of all the fairies—the fairy Ca el Infatuated young man: “Oh, no!— she isn’t the queen of the fairies! She may have been--but she is falry queen no more!” ‘The young gallant was going to add something Ju. but just then a brutal application of the brakes jumbled the passengers about in their seats and de- railed the conversation—at leas., we were not able to resume the trail of it. But, at any rate, it shows that fairies still exist today, even on tramways. It is both comical and gratifying to think of it, for French people are surely not the simplest and most imaginative in the world! * K ok K Pop of Motor Cycles Most Obnoxious of Noises. The Evening Post, Wellington. — While some people are irritated by a nasal gramophone and the popping, spitting radio, there is a larder pro- fon of the population which has an tense hatred of the unsilenced motor cycle, The pneumatic drills and rivet- ers have an unfair political advantage, because they are merged in the other noises of the working day; while the noisy exhaust of motor cycle (and motor car) persists far into the peace- ful night in solo perfermances. Why motor cyclists .choose the pre- cincts of a church during the morning Sunday service, the vieinity of a hos- pital, or the street outside the couch of a chronic invalld for the abominable process of “tuning up” must remain a | ing but once outside the city the devil's orthestra of | brakes, clattering, buzzing trams, motor horns, and the strident saw-toothed mechanized vocalization of modern life. the motor cycle comes into its own, and except for the thoughtless roportion of those who take a joy in ts untrammeled’ band, 1t is the best hated thing in the country at present. ! | several millions a year the tration is reported from the United States of Americs It is what is claimed to Le the “deadliest machine gun in the world, capable of 1iring bul- lets half an inch thick for nine miles |at the rate of 800 shots = micute.” This significant contribution to world culture has been invented, we wre told, by & traveling salesman, who, “dlng; th at his inability to serve in tl 'orld War, has since devoted his spare time to gun making.” It seems a pity that he missed his chance of seeing the World War at first hand, for in that case he might have discovered that it was not, after all, fought with popguns, and that many who shared in it saw no particular ne- cessity for tolling to improve the lethal ‘weapons then employed. But in the next war a special effort should be made to find room for this inventor— | light clerical work might be provided, |at eight and a half miles behind the | line, where he would still stand a chance of being plugged 800 times in 60 seconds by traveling samples of his | own _5-caliber bullets, ——— e | Paris Scribes Foresee Another World Parley From the Wall Street Journal. It certaln gloomy Paris correspond- ents of the New York press are to be believed, the world is threatened with another world parley. European indus+ trialists, one cables, are now “pondering the necessity of the widest international application of remedial measures to meet the world crisis.” The same writer submits for the use of the conference, which has not yet been called, his own conjectural agenda. With an almost too canny prevision he includes therein pracuicaily everything in sight on the international horizon. But if an international conference on the lls of the world’s business which should eschew “weltpolitik” and confine itself strictly to the key problems of production and distribution were by some magic brought about, no greater blessing could come upon mankind. For its first session it would need to take up but one topic, namely, a universal purblind nationalism in commodity pro- duction. Another name for it is na- tional self-sufficiency; the idea itself is & survival of wartime modes of thought. For unquestionably an excessive na- tionalism in various forms has been a persistent factor in this overproduction of which the world has of late become 50 uncomfortably aware. As yet acute depression throughout most industrial countries has failed to turn either statesmen or men of capital effectively from some of their mistaken concep- tions of progress, In the face of excessive and wasteful uction of ofl, for example, Germany, rance and Italy are secking the open- ing or developing of fields through which- they may hope to obtain their supplies under their own respective political con- trols. Russia is another case in point. For reasons well understood it must be put in a slightly different category as to motives, though not as to results. The British, despite their ancient pre- dilection for fair play and free trade, have been discussing means of encour- aging Canada to raise more wheat in order to displace that of other export- countries in world markets. They are even now guilty of subsidizing by expensive home production of sugar, helping thus to ruin sugar plantations in the British West Indies and contributing their mite to Cuba's distress. This is quite as bad @s our own increase in the tariff on sugar, which is, in effect. a subsidy to the sugar industry of Hawaii and the :’or:léwplnea. which needs nothing of the An_economically self-contained na- tion, be it a Balkan monarchy or & far- flung empire, is today an impossibility. moment the United States might be expected to achieve such a status if been | any nation could, but it cannot hope to t wishes its civilization to recede ‘to that of the Civil War “the widest international application of wsiea in, ‘the anewer s Somperatively 3 Al comj vel simple. We need first to turn our backs ts | upon conceptions of economic national- ism and productive self-sufficiency. — e Canada’s New Stream. THE FRENCH NOVEL. Plerre Mille. J. B. Lippincott Co. Pleasant, profitable besides, to listen ful | to_one talking on his own subject, the subject which he kn&'l with not so much matter as does the spirit in which it is envisioned and projected. ‘The French Novel” covers a topic which, by implication at least, is one of the widest ible reach, one of concern to all. ly speaking, read- ing, in its basic nature and value, be- comes the substance of n. Nowadays everybody reads. So it is said, despite dark rumors the backlands of ignorance so complete, for lack of print and the way of handling it, as to el to the belief of George ‘Washington, sident, while repudiat- ing a wild hearsay of one Herbert Hoo~ ver in the White House at Wash! n. Nevertheless, reading is m’uuu:&fl universal art. Yet, but few are res S ‘The great majority are gluttons with print, gobbling it up in huge quantities with ' loud smack: and gusty sto- machic returns. Bulky bodies of news, overloadings of fiction, all hit or miss in an inside turmoil of confusion and uninformation. Indigestion of the worst sort. ‘Then some well-doer among his kind brings out a man like Pierre Mille, or Grant Overton, or another. One who is able to select from his literary fleld and to throw away with a free hand. i|One who knows how to weigh writings and writers against each other haps, against the periods in which work maybe, against the life they sume to picture possibly, nf'llnll the true beauty of speech itself. These, better than mere students, serve to offer to the overstuffed and distracted reader the relief of a simpler and saner course in reading by way of discrim- inating choice, by way of natural the | Broupings that tend toward clarity of view on his own part, that gradually develop in him an independent sense of lues in literature. Benefactors, these, in a reading world gone dyspeptic over print. But let us sit down with Plerre Mille while he talks to us about the French writers, what they have done by way of the novel to attract attention from outside the borders of old Gallia itself. A good manager, this writer, for within the hour’s scope of his book he has given a bird’s-eye view of the course of the novel in France from its begin- nings, quite outside the borders of the country itself, up to its day before yes- terday. The schoolmaster, all for order and regularity, laughs at the few ir by lars who claim preference for ‘reading many books backward—and the laugh is by no means a smile of mere pleas- antry. Nevertheless and notwithstand- ing, there is now and then good rea- son, of pure psychologic brand Mfl;: But_let for following such an order. us not argue with the lagogue—God roud boast land! Let bless him!—since he is the ang, bulwark of our belove us return to our muttons instead. which, in this case, is the succulent French novel, Durve{led by the facile hand of Pierre Mille, novelist and critic. After an hour, more or less, we come away with the savors of Marcel Proust and Andre Gide, and Mauriac and Cocteau and others of the tribe—all of yesterday, today and tomorrow—setting our gustatory nerves a-tingle with a sense of life, imme- diacy, kinship, {llumination. The revo- lution of this young tribe is our revo- lution. Therefore, more or less un- derstandable, If art be 1 then the art of these becomes measurable by us, for we share alike in it. Under the easy talk of this com- fon, that tantalizing and endless ust becomes, not merely less puz- zling, but his apparent dawdling around on the inside of himself, serves by degrees to throw innumerable white rays of revelation upon: the ler himself and to him: So, not mind- ing the run of the story, if it be & story at all, one lingers long and long over a single page or paragraph or sentence, amazed at the sheer naked- ness of himself in the unerring flashes. However, one must move along, move backward, away from these new intro- spectionists to the older romantic realists. Back to those earlier record- ers of the human comedy, he with pencils a bit smu cess of outside over the X the world a truly glorious “Em PFrench genius working so artfully and subtly out through human stuff into the domain of a great literature. You know these—Balzac and the rest. And backward still further to wl er romance, dreams and hopes, took its the march forward toward the present of literary ideals and achievements. teresting. ook forward. quite prop- interes orward, - erly. Then dered it h&‘nm- kward course was the ps of chivalric turn and beauty. Then the encroachment of realism under urge of the time spirit itself. Soon sclence gave deep emphasis to .the art of the novelist, now & skeptic like all scientists de- manding to be shown, and then the introspectionist, probing the secret places for springs of action. Such, in the large, are movements of absorbing study. An inclusive survey of the French novel, approached in & spirit of ripened knowledge and appreciation, com- mand also of the peculiar art of useful critical The latter a most to stiffen to a bony Not here, however, There- fore, a deeply informing study. But the book is even more than this. It is a temperament. It is a personality of vividness, of geniality, of comradely talk about the essential values and effects of the French novel al the course of its development through various pe- riods of French change and growth. ‘The novel stepping out alongside such periods of change. Interesting bits, outside the immedi- ate stream of the theme itself, come and go here. A case in point, the great antiquity of the novel in its es- sence purport—the far time, before print, when novels, or romances, were sung and intoned by gifted ones travel- ing the lands with such welcome wares. Notice of the “Tliad” as a great War ro- mance; of the “Odyssey” as & prime ad- venture of the sea. Further notice that not till the Middle did woman rise to the heights of “fair lady,” shining star of man's rise toward great hero- isms and so on. A mere biologic inci- dent, before that time. Bits of fact, something like these, strew these pages with an effect of the latest news, All in all, & most competent, a most alive study of the French novel, calculated to give to readers one of the moments of pause and account that produc- th requires. * Kok k¥ MUSIC. William Lyon Phelps. E. P. Dutton & Co. A booklet. Primarily, perhaps, a lec- ture. Its first paragraph, short and snappy, indicates the lecture and be- fore if Po"'hl} P’.fild m’l“‘h‘:‘ the class room—*“For Men ly.” inviting such conclusion l‘tldlp. f.":\’u'l entire history of music, in all times and countries, there has never been & wom- an able to write first-rate music.” And the professor goes on to admit, genially, that with their arms and legs 1s | tially professional way, s o e ter unfolds, story of his own mummm:o the realms of musie, into the dee! of symphonie structuré nnn.omhutn effects. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. printed here ked from the by oar great tained in ‘Washington, D. is for the free uQ;r Vlv‘-hm did hand ball originate?— A. Hand ball originated in Ireland about 1,000 years ago, and is often con- sidered one of the national es of that country. It is now yed by more men in America than anywhere else in the world. The first scientific hand ball player was really developed about 1850, when Willlam Baggs of Tipperary originated new ways of hit- ting the ball in curves, low drives and screw tosses. The first internatioral match ever fi’nd was the Lawlor- Casey match, 1887, with the prize of $1,000 for the best of 21 games, 10 in Cork and 11 in the United States. Lawlor won 6 games to 4 in Cork, and Casey won 7 stralght in New York. Casey retained his title against all comers until 1900, when he retired. Since 1900 the game has developed in two separate games, a one-wall game and a four-wall game, both of “hich are played by amateurs in singles and doubles, may or may not have a jury, depending on the -ourt. ‘There are no juries for the courts of the justices of the peace, police couris or correctional courts. e Court of Assizes is assisted by 12 jurors, who decide on the fact by simple majority. There are also the high courts of appeal and cassation, neither of which is a jury | court. Is the mother of Charlie Chaplin still living?—F. E. D. A. Charles Chaplin was permitted to keep his mother in this country beyond the time of her visitor's permit, and she died in Glendale, Calif., August 28, 1928. Q. Why is & book called & volume?— AAS. A. Egypt developed papyrus, & book was written on one long strip of papy- rus, which was then rolled and tied. This_accounts for the word “volume,” which comes from the Latin word meaning to roll. Q w‘:ltdmmlmmd Qlile most money in adve: general maga- zines?—W., C. R. A. The largest advertisers by indus- tries in 37 general magazines in 1928 were the following: Food, tollet goods, house furnishings and equipment, pas- | senger cars, electrical (Including radio) | and wearing apparel. Q. Please give a short biography of lmX Lln‘try.!l—A. K. 3 , the famous actress, | was born on the Island of Jersey, Eng- land, in 1852, She was the daughiter of Rev. W. C. Le Breton, dean of and as the “Jersey Lily” mbmeuuwmtmflde"lllwh he had painted) was famous for her singular beauty and social graces. She was married to Edward Langtry in 1874, She was married a second time to Sir Hugo de Bathe, Bart., in 1899. She died at Monte Cario February 12, 1929, and was buried on the Isiand of Jersey | where she was born Q. How large was Babylon?—E. F. A. Babylon was in the form of a square, with 120 stadia given as the length of one side. This would mean 15 miles. The walls were furnished with 100 brazen (Diodorus says the number was 250). A huge roofed bridge, made of hewn stones, fastened by iron clamps, joined the two parts of the city. In the eastern division were the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis, :ou?:ed among the wonders of the orld. Q. What per cent of alcohol did beer contain before prohibition?--C. C. A. The percentage of alcohol in malt liquors sold before the prohibition amendment Went into effect was 4.25 by volume. Q. What salary does an American l‘cm.spul receive afier he is retired?—E. A. The retirement of an American consul is based on the length of service and percentage of average annual basic salary for 10 years next preceding date of his retirement. It is classified by law as follows: (a) Thirty years or more of service, 60 per cent; (b) 27 years, 54 per cent; (c) 24-27 years, per cent; (d) 21-24 years, 43 per cent; (e) 18-21 years, 36 per cent, and (f) 15-18 years, 30 per cent. Q. When was armor most generally used?—A. K. A. The suit of armor reached its complete development under Henry VI of England (1422-61), at about the time that the English were driven out France (1453). The armor was forged of tin steel and made to fit the body and limbs. monkeys. The theory, his belief in natural sel that man and an anthropoid ape de- scended from a common ancestor, : helle;riedd th;t the dlvefrsmu of the umanoid and anthropoid types oc- curred perhaps a million or more years ago, Many Observers Forecast 1932 Fight Over Prohibition While there'is much skepticism as to the possibility of making any substan- tial change in the dry laws, comment throughout the Nation emphasizes the wet gains shown in the recent election. ‘These are declared to offer no the near future, but it is widely believed that they indicate a warm battle in the 1932 campaign, ibition as the chief or one of the chief issues. Stress is lald upon referendums which were favorable to the wets. Changes in methods of en- forcement are suggested. Definite co stion the Kansas clearly one m..m.n.:."‘”’ufie of prohibi and that this may be- cone one of the chief issus natianal its,” in the City Star, “demogi“n.bn that there will be Une. declares.that "1t 1 pibia the Bro- es & in pro- hibition issue is going to figure more and more in the next election, if it is not settled before then, It is evident,” continues that paper, “that it is to the interest of the country that it be set- tled. Economic and political matters of real importance are delayed and side- tracked while it occuples the public mind. Political realism ires the elimination of the question poli~ ‘The most notable victory the wets have yet won” is seen by the Richmond News Leader in the election, referring particularly to verdicts in Massachu- Rhode Island and Illinois, and setts, adding: “Modificationists answered de- | 855¢Tts cisively the much-debated question of whether they would be wet or dry in case their own views could not prevail. ‘They voted wet. * * * Everywhere, except in the South, the trend of the senatorial elections was toward repeal. If it continues so, what will be the situation in 1932?" That the issue will be paramount in 1932 is also the opinion of the Wilming- ton Delmarvia Star, the Charlotte News and the Oshkosh Northwestern. The New York times offers the summary of the recent results, with emphasis upon Democratic success and wet gains in various Eastern States: “As nothing succeeds like success, the Democrats of the Midwestern, Mountain and Pacific States, many of them alrea prohibition, may be 80 the stream. There remains the South, cl less fondly than once to its old idol and stimulated by the prospect or mirage of . “Millions of voters showed their op- position to the eighteenth amendment,” records the Chattanooga Times, while the Charleston (S. C.) Evening Post, looking forward to the coming sessions of Congress, states that “the brewers are said to be getting their plants in condition to resume business,” and adds: “What haj on el day le; the real wetting was only just ahead.” The St. Louis Post-Dis- patch avers that “the prohibitionists, who have imperiled the very structure Geaineis, to"a ‘closed and unresponsive a cl ve ear when music was afloat. Then, by degrees, he tells the boys how he learned to listen, actually learned to hear things. By easy stages he progresses along this road of sounds, of learning to select the true from the untrue, of coming by and by to feel the lift of harmonies and the repulsion of the least thread of dishar- mony in the otherwise Eflm whole. 1t is a very friendly and helpful talk, a self-confession calculated to stir "“the of their own ear- W] great music in art is*calling to those both formal, though higl lating, useful, 0 Sini s tion. of the Government, took a terrible drubbing.” The New York World holds Gonted to'be & palitcal Infiencs of sy a uence eal importance in New York.” s |- “The majority of the country, and especially the majority in the erstwhile Republican States, is opposed to prohi- bition,” declares the Chicago Dailly Tribune, with the conclusion: ‘“Na- tional prohibition has been tried and it has been found unsatisfactory. Able . leadership would recognize the fact and move at onec in the direction of repeal of the amendment. Mean-~ while, it would lose no time in seeking for a popular test| tain" their. ever-widening trend.” plain that ing coough.” A The election San Ber- nardino B\nm A, 3 making Democratic party “the 'y of plvh'mo&;mu." while the attitude of Republi lead« ership s dec! uncertain. Main- : “The cal Jost ground during Sgencies o stop the liguar afle s decreased ability in La X'ndu:l‘:‘l’; Ehere has ever” bots on panént ofms to enforce uum‘n e taken for granted wh eighteen amendment was adopte u“'.l'm g Batne, | c. paign - of R e reached the ':;flmm cratic landslide, prohibition be sal e o e ot Sortn. Sy . 3 01 Star-Te The Savannah Morning New-m in that, as to referendum ults election, “Georgia, Bouf.hm year. Fail- ‘enforcement convinced that “there is noth in what has happened to give any s for anticipations of any official colinf nance to immediate relaxation of the present law, the administration being commi to a thorough trial of the possibilities of effective enforcement under the new system.” ‘The results are nothing to get ex- cited about,” adyises the Terre Haute Star, while the Wheeling Intelligencer sees in renewed agitation “sound and fury, meaning not " The Janes- ville Gazette warns: “When we at- tempt to settle a question with these controversial ramifications and so poly- angled in views, by a union of senti- ment in a political party or parties in convention, we immediately get chaos.” The Lyachburg Advance says, “The Wets have a long road to trudge before they’ acquire sufficient strength to do away with the eighteenth amendment.” If it 1s going to be a political mat- ter, then there should . be a political the two party devoted to it, leaving ore essential issues of the ( major ties N lel' to fune N:- Union, a0 oty b g Dealer offe: situation, ranks, party have to it —_— Stolen Ga From the Cleveland man whose stolen car wa Up. 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