Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1930, Page 8

GTON, D C. BHIN v+ »Novembe¥ 20, 1080 £ 5 |4 BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. E 14 fi ! 1§ !! gi o fig?ififia Miss Anne Beers. ‘There are hundreds of men and wom- gE g i £ i1 th R § K1 tistying, type of mind. After all, not every work of fiction can be “great” for every reader. “The Magic Mcuntain” strikes some of us [ don ; a 55” i1 Member of the Associated Press. "ot ar Rot ‘otherwise o ;f tled oo T AL R A Fair Chance. President Hoover's appeal to the Na- 10 give the American child & fair es a sympathetic chord in ‘heart. His address to the twelve delegates attending the White erence on Child Welfare L) brains, courage and capacity. in his chosen profession has come to MacArthur uninterruptedly since he was graduated, as No. 1 man, with the class of 1903 at West Point. The Army expects great things of Douglas MacArthur, gifted son of a fighting father. The Cost of Half Holidays. ‘The Bureau of the Budget and the Bureau of Efficlency are collaborating 5 51,8 { | W Miss Beers began teaching school at “Uniontown,” in Anscostia, in 1875. Five years afterward she went to the Wallach School, where she remained continuously for thirty-two years as a teacher and principal, and later she became supervising principal of the fourth division, rounding out a re- markable service of half a century, with her retirement in 1926. Her co-workers among the teachers will remember her for the leading part she took in secur- ing the passage of teacher retirement LS E;? g I ] 3 We have no quarrel with them. They, on their side, should have no quarrei with us. We are brave, are we not, to disagree, under the tances? mt we know, and know full well, is & That not_every book, no matter how i ; £ §$E§>é g » g:- has H ith its two Senators, it has in the college & total of 13 votes. tical; his rries flnvu(h.réhl.lr rnia will hi %‘m« ungrammatical; prose ca: oon- alifo ave viction; his outlook on life is not un-|in the electoral eeueg Missour], on ‘wholesome, although he is the super-|the other hand, loses three seats in the sophisticated of the 3 House by the reapportionment. Mis- Yet it is questionable whether B0 |souri’s vote in the electoral college has from now any one will know such 'been 18. Bu will be redu | : i EF sk i i : 2 g il Ao i jird ) ! 111 H | in an attempt to put the issue of year- round half holidays for Government workers on a dollars-and-cents basis. ‘When the results are known the de- cision will evidently rest on whether the Government can afford it, admit- ting the fact that it would be a good thing for the employes. In the questionnaire circulated among the bureau and division chiefs the Budget Bureau, which is presumably collecting the data for the Bureau of Efficiency, takes the point of view that legislation, something that is taken for granted by a new generation of teachers, but which was won only after meny years of consistent and intelligent effort on the part of Miss Beers and those jolzed with her in advocacy of the measure. —— et ————— Yale and Princeton might appropri- ately have exchanged animal emblems last week. It was Yale which lashed out, tigerlike, and struck unexpectedly years Nawrl ter as Hemingway ever lived. If firgt | this should come to pass, it will have hundred pages of “The Magic Moun- tain” and who will quit there will see perfectly well why it is not the book to appeal to some readers—readers, we insist, whose opinions are quite as worthy of respect as those of readers :hho roth at the mouth in their en- * kX % happened precisely because Ernest Hem- ly was too “modern” for his own good. He gave ay his b right to please the “boy: Maybe an old - fashioned plodder, such as Priestley, with his long tales, . it this ced to 15. Ohio and New York will two votes each in the electoral lege Texas will have a gain of three. On the other four New States will each lose one vote in the and Virginia, Mississippi, Tennesseé, th Carolina and Alabams, for the South. loses two such votes and so do Kentucky, Iowa and Pennsylvania. o 10 illy ] g i £o i B E { I 4 1E o i o B 5 5 §E q' b y it i and it was the Orange and Bilack which, like a bulldog, hung on beyond ‘what seemed the limit of human endur- ance, —_—a—————— Poor old Portugal: She takes one on the chin every few days! Riots, revo- lutions, floods, famines, earthquakes, droughts—and now they have made “talkies” in Portuguese for patronage in{ 1f - that country and in Brazil. abreast of the book world, he probably 4 it will be -amazed at the similarity of The Princess Louise, King George's |3t Of these books. What will amasge hi aged aunt, is & seasoned Mmflaflnmmfimn&‘h?‘hm. : ] juman be! is not rfect technique. th is that most modern well! any one is surprised at that state- ment, let him dip into any one of the hi even thousands, of novels which have come from the presses in the last three or four years. he has not kept more or less out the week and laboring harder and faster the Government can accomplish in five and a half days what it now re-’ quires six days to do. The other is that the half holidays could be adopted with no impairment to efficlency by g,i § i & & £l §Es 1 It jaus i i i1y g . excepti ust stand | 3¢ the new apportionment holds, Cali- fornia is likely to cast 22 electoral votes for President Hoover in 1932 instead of 13 as it did in 1028. It will have & g?.n:g:':‘o&rit may be because we ve sougl false 3 One has but to nnrdu'u i ?gg I § i working at top speed, and that it would be obviously impossible to accomplish in five and a half days the work that Tow requires six days; and likewise that . | Congress would not stand for an in- smoker, and prefers cheap fags, at that. It is » safe bet she never let her late mother, H. B. M. Victorla, catch her at it e Scores—nay, hundreds—of men and women have taken to the writing game, mp!n: sure-footed into the medium h Dickens, and Thackeray, and Zola, and.Scott made famous. Crease of one-twelfth in the working force. That was a bold bandit indeed who held up Douglas Fairbanks. Most of us, on such a job, would be fearful lest the intended victim leap clear If we could answer that question, over our heads, kicking us unconsclous | 8ome big publisher, would hire us, at an en route. % ———t————— Alexander the Great was sbout thirty when he reluctantly decided that there ‘were no more worlds to conquer. Bobby Jones the Great has him beaten by & couple of years. Each one writes so tl; o] perfectly, L does he as famous in x‘z Tepresentation, turn? in mmmummhhn% Teapportionment when enough, then? ly with a resounding “No!” world wants * %% x | Tepresentas threaten to aftack the reapportionment from two angles. One of these is to lll! it i 't | i kg g d ] i ¥ | i i Next to the bit-and-run driver about the most inexcusable of human creatures 18 the man or boy who falls to remove the - ,THANDELS - EK O N O- G, —Depression has become just now that we gek wii g m condition when it comes to nt taxes! k% I i it | | g E i i | i i | 3 i l! { i ] i i § ¢ H i | E E’ E g | 3 18 il i } ! 5 ¥ g sg? i __ffiigfgg ¢ 2 En E*E;é? 8e £k o] ] it I B it additional employes he will feel that a tangible handicap way of accomplishing the five- ‘week. ‘The estimate of increased cost and Teport of the Budget Bureau or Efficiency on the proposal as whole will be awaited with interest, the Government to admit that the § E‘ aspect transcends in hwwhnee‘mt able spokesmen. If the Govern- of ment feels that in granting the half EaEE E gggg;fi aggflg 5f | holiday all year in spite of the excess cost it can set an example as & model employer, the experiment would be ‘worthwhile, ——————— King Alfonso XIIT wears a curious he-man's hat with s brim, and no dinky beret. Indigestion and Deafness, Reports from Chicago tend to indi- cate that there is more than a casual relationship between intestinal indi« gestion and desfness. Digestive poisons may cause more than one form of deafness, & New York physician re- ported to the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Ocolaryngology, It is believed that the poisons result from a partial faflure of the pancreas. ‘Thirty-one of forty-one deaf persons examined were found deficient in pan- creatic ferments. It wil not do, however, for svery person afflicted with deafness, either partial or complete, to imagine im- mediately that his trouble lies with his pancreas. Nor must the ordinary symp- toms of indigestion, well known to most shells from a temporafily unused gun. ‘Who dares say that Gabriele d’An- nunsio is not a first-class poet in view his works dedicated to “Vera Bloom, God-Daughter of Flume”? Two Australians are circling the globe in & midget car. There s one that, in case of a breakdown, is no harder to push than a perambulator. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. ‘The Shocker. A song, & novel or a play Comes out and makes us tremble. It uses language in a vay ‘That bids us all dissemble This interest that we have found In topics tritely torrid; And so we pass the words around That it is “simply horrid!” We tell somebody, as & friend, That it is most improper. Your uncle fiies his cash to spend. ‘Your aunt—you couldn’t stop ‘er! ‘The work is speedily & hit, Though very near unlawful, For somehow we delight to sit And murmur, “Afn't it awfull” Troubles. “One of the troubles of the coun- try——" began the loquacious agitator. “One of the troubles of the country,” interrupted Farmer Corntossel, “is that 50 many men expect to make & livin' by ftellln' the country about its troubles.” Seeking Harmony. “This song is not suited to my voice,” said the prima donna. “Well,” sald the discouraged man- ager, “I suppose I'll have to get you another song. There's no use of trying | to play foot ball today?” “Yes,” replied the fond mother. “It looks like rain and I'm almost sure he feet wet!” y bad habits?” 4 almost describe it as an epidemic of “mental influenza.” Such a phenomenon provokes and jus- tifies the question as to whether such & state of mind is an inevitable con- stantly recurring be attributed to social or economic system? trouble acute or chronic? Purchasing power has deteriorated very seriously, not only in Europe, where poverty is the common lot & present, but also in America, Japan, Australia, Brazil and elsewhe Su a state of affairs is only to be ex] - ed, for all manner of reasons, yet we are unable to explain it in its |fo find totality from the known data. On the other hand, industrial productive ca- pacity has increased to such an extent all over the world and the hnndm to turnover have become so formis that the usual excuses based upon “unfortunate conjuncture” and “un- controllable factors” fail to be con- vincing any more. We have all heard these es expounded far too often, and we to be suspicious. These answers or others of a very similar na- ture have all been advanced to mc- count for the plans of restriction of output which are being adopted in every country for industrial, agric tural or manufactured products tha have long been commodities of inter- national and world-wide trade. The fact is we are suffering from & disease that has attacked the world’s economic system, and we can cherich no 1 the fond delusion that we are dealing with a_comparatively short- lived mx;fiuon, which will once more swing back to what we call “normal- ity.” Economic and social difficulties constantly being encountered afresh; so far, official interference seems to increase rather than alleviate our troubles and business is tottering and groaning :or:e :hl'n ever, Venezuelans Take Affront at Disbarment. El Nuevo Diario, Caracas.—Unem- ployment in Cuba has reached a seri- ous that the government has ndogkd stringent regulations affecting those desis to enter the country. Ordi- narily at this time of year many South Americans go to Cuba in search of work, but ingress to the island is this year denied them. In fact, the only employed classes admitted for residence at present are journalists and skilled M{lfllfl, and it must be confessed that even these groups, if entirely de- it upon their earnings, cannot long in the republic. For, in lition to the want of occupation, there is the usual concomitant of high for necessities, and thus a dou- le hardship is inflicted upon the bulk of the popullt‘l‘(;n. ':'hilh‘l.t one of tl"l‘e\ 8 anomalies of what appears m‘nlveml condition. The Iovernmunt, unfortunately, in- stead of advertising the real motives for immigration restriction, in addition to withdrawing all the privileges and benefits formerly used to attract migrants, dismisses any yet applying for admission, on the ground that they are “undesirables” or that they come from countries where violent epi- demics are raging. We consider it a serious affront that several Venezuelans a ch | Iquigue, afterward moving his The situation is so acute | thin Learned of Revolution In Small Tallor Shop. El Mercurio, Santiago.—Among the revolutionists who participated in the latest frustrated political disturbance in Bolivia was a Communist called Jusn Losa. This man, with a name 80 commonplace and gentle, turned out to be one of most the ferocious which have been generated within el wm‘"‘ el 3 & to tronized b;mpoople tion, and continued aristocracy animated zy m un.lu&ot & sartorial ordg ways most prom hknhluc ur:hot its accounts. o m ese repeated disa it- mnu and injustices it was lmlyn active and | po the revolts g ggfifr?a?. i ¥ tln--hmudlormnvmm"“' opinion of the upper classes, he soon became con that, instead of these people being the best elements of human soclety, they were the worst, | and wholly undeserving of the emi- the cogitation which they could be | ¢; reduced to their proper station in life and, unit; postions of ons of the rich and powerful, helped largely to stir up the Ilatest demonstration against the _govern- ment and the aristocracy. Some of the latter, condemned publicly by Loza in his tic_utterances. retorted anarchis that he was an ly poor tailor. to himself certain others | sy suffered from the im- | The extreme However that may be, he turned out | been defeated to be & very expert revolutionist and was one of the leaders in the abortive effort lat set on foot to overturn the constf authorities and all the plutocrats. To some extent obl! to udmlthnvumn;'od.-"Am'gdu- raying other people in elegant apparel at his own expense and forced to wear threadbare garments upon his own | the back will naturally become incensed at such incongruity in the scheme of gs. Loza began to hate fashionable clothes and all those who wore them, and especially when worn by those who, considering themselves superior beings, were really less desirable citizens and the moral inferiors of the classes with which he was obliged to associate. * kX ¥ of Chile Alarmed Over Tuberculosis. A Noite, Rio de Janeiro—The Re- a\::llc of Chile is justly alarmed over S i S L s also confronts Brasil, and which re- quires energetic and concerted action on the part of all the health and sani- tary authorities. Nor are these two xd‘ the only ones me:b&led ,T“b'.'fi South America. AT Just why this malady should be so|have prevalent and so mortal on this conti- w: is not yet undgrg‘ood more ug:n large portions of the when they contract the disease cannot avail themselves of the threc essentials—food, | t: rest, :]:l".fll%fflr successful contest against Ignorance, in many districts, of the Republicans and Democrate. His vic- tory, , has made it possible for to claim 218, & ma- Jority of oge. L mmfi:r. Yates lln&‘ Imlkxh? ve s pesecnal lnwm‘r r respective States. Senator Capper, as & matter of fact, ran far, far ahead of Republican ticket, winning the Senator Capper has led the Republican ticket in his State. This year he carried 99 of the 105 counties of the State. His re-election returns been him to for another six For & numl of years he has - chairman of the Senate committee deal- with the ation for the District Columbia. It is a safe bet that if Titted & say n the elcctions they wouid s el y ovn.:’hclmlnsly Teturned Senator | ¥ Caj to the Senate. election of Mr. Yates in Illinois, when Mrs. McCormick, the Republican senatorial candidate, was by & remendous majority to former tor J. “Ham" Lewis, is a real tribute to the ity of Mr. Yates. Smith, I 18 £ i g : g § E BE: il J il 2 - » & & H i i i i i £ H § ] : : § i s é i g i lgg £ g i 5 E § i £ ¥ 2iE I g?. i 4B I e % 8 i i i = Ei% i i i - E i : : P i | : i " i i 2 ] o] g B e 4 E % i i pérsons, lead one to believe that he is undoubtedly on the way to deafness. All such findings are interesting as evidence have been disposed of in ("' rrbitrary h&hn. el T o i gt | i ;a ! I : g Ai! ] £ £ g by i i : ! Razors and Competition. Prom the Lowell Evening Leader.