Evening Star Newspaper, November 27, 1930, Page 8

TaE EVENING — STAR. WASHINGTON, i I 8, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1930. NING STAR o With y Morning Edition, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. . .November 27, 1930 THE EVE with THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor Yhe Eve 11th 8t ning Star Newspaper Company Buriness Ofce! and Pennsviviuia_Ave, New York Office. 110 East 42nd 8t EMP &fll Lake Michigan Rui'ding. it e Englan 14 Regent St. London. Rate by Carrier Within the City. " Fhe Rronine Star 45c ver monih e Evening and Sunday Siar 60c per month when 4 Sundavel The Evening and Sunday Siar (when 8 Bundays) - 85¢ per month The Sunday Star 5c per copy Collection made at the #nd of euch morih. ders may he sent in by mall or felephone FAtional 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. lly and Sunday... | yr.$10.00: 1 mo.. 85¢c ily oniy «v.. 1¥r. $6.00: 1 mo.. 50c inday only . 151, $4.00: 1 mo.. 40c All Other States and Cana flv and Sunday. 1 cr..$12.00: 1 mo.. §1 00 iy only .. 1w 3800 1 mo. 75c nday only S $5.00. 1 mo.. S0c Member of the Associated Pr ‘The Associated Pracs is exclusively ¢n: 1o the use for republication of »'l news tehes credited to it or not otherwi-e cred- this paper and also the local published harein ~ All rights of publication of apecial disoatches herein are wiso 1eserved. = Thanksgiving. A salutary psychology Fermeates this annual festival. It afiords an oppor- tunity for consideration of the abun- dance of eternal values which came to all of us as individuals and as mem- | bers of a society—quite aside from any Ructuations of material fortune. ‘The Pilgrims, with the hardships of another Winter descending upon the little cluster of cabins, surrounded by mysterious, black forests, were thank- ful for what? For little more than the absolute minimum essential for living. Nature had heaped no luxuries upon their heads. She only had yielded them grudgingly enough to eat. But that in iteelf was wealth beyond measure. Gratitude to God, to nature and to man is & curlously relative thing. There | 8 a tendency to take for granted, as| part of the eternal scheme, the great fundamental wealth of living—of beauty, aspiration, memory and love—which Providence bestows every human being. and to consider only the inconsequential variations of prosperity which befall individuals from time to time. Thanksgiving affords an opportunity for contemplating this uni- versal reservoir of blessing, in which all men move and have their being. Some may say that for America, and for the world at large, economic fiue- | tuations have brought about conditions for hundreds of thousands this year | which give them littie to be thankful | for. But even on the economic ievel how much better s our lot than that | of the little band of devout men and women facing the unknown terrors of a New England Winter entirely upon their own resources. In the matter of material prosperity they had seant rea- aon to give thanks. But in their minds was something deeper and finer than gratitude for temporary favors. They were not con- sidering Thanksgiving on the economic level, but on the religious levei. There fn the wilderness they had been brought to face a profounder reality wherein the true values were not corn and pumpkins and wild turkeys, but love and hope and that mystical beauty interfusing the wind-swept forests and ~the stormelashed ocean. ‘They were stripp>d of all wealth ex- | cept the eternal wealth which is the | birthright of all men—and fell on their | knees in gratitude for it. This wealtn | has never diminished. It is the real oceasion for Thanksgiving today as it | was then. ! { O , Women on Juries, The tedious process involved in the | selection of & jury n the F. H. Smith Co. case emphasizes the common sense view that has been taken in this juris- diction regarding the service of woman jurors. The many women who asked to be and were relieved from jury mervice on the plea of domestic duties involving the care of little children at home, as well as the proper stuffing of the turkey, were amply justified, not only in the eves of the court, but in public opinion as well. The nature of these pleas sheds light on the wisdom | of not making jury service by women ohligatory, in the sense that it is now obligatory by men. Women have added to the “tone” of Iocal juries, according to the gentlemen of the bar, as well as to their intelli- gence. Some of them are embarrass- ingly “sot in their wavs,” as more than one good lawyer haz found, but they are as capable of forming sound opin- ijon as the more experienced male, Their acguisition has been valuable. Rut, Jeaving aside the debatable and dangerous question whether woman's place is really in the home, no one can eontest the fact that when she savs the children or the turkey demand her attentions—the matier ends there. Courts and the dispensation of justice; | the State and its perplexing affairs; the world and the 1est of the universe all these things can somehow manage 10 take care of themseives without her gentle hands. if she feels the children need them more. . The desirable state of affairs s vol- untary jury by women. but o. of and their recog- nition of jury service as a high privi- lege and not as a novelry that soon | grows tiresome. volunieers, ‘- One reason why it is 50 hard 10 guess | what Russia is g:ing 1o do next may be that the Russians themselves may not be absolutely sure i .- 3 Ttaly and Russia. | Burcpe and the rest of the world have a new politico-diplomatic sensation aver which to wag their chins. I 2nd Russia are by way of forming a trede allisnce. Mexim Litvineft, Soviet for- eign minizster, has been in conference at Milan this week with Dino Grand!, who conducts Italiin foreign afiairs in Mus- solini’s behalf, The result of thelr pow-wow, ax some- what pleturesquely put in an Associated | Press dispatch from Rome, is that' “Pascist Italy and Communist Russia marching hand in hand to new interna- tional commercial heights by a combi- nation of vast supplies of raw ma- | terials with modern manufacturing | machinery,” are about to pool their in- terests for mutual beneft. Russia is to take $10,000000 worth of Italian manufactured goods in Italy i to purchase big ronsignments o !_-(\uu.n oll. The exchrnge ;wm- | ungrudgingly on | modities will, of course, not be confined to these articles. Enthusiasm over the Italo-Russian deal is said to run high In both coun- tries. Russia regains in ltaly a market long lost, while Italian factories foreses in the Soviet land an outlet for their products which has not been at their disposal for years. It is sald that the only fiy In the ointment is the wheat sitnation. Italy has been bending every effort to build up her own wheat pro- | duction. She. would probably look | askance at any ambition on Russia's part to dump an exportable Soviet | wheat surplus onto the italian market. | Hitherto the Fascist regime has looked | upon Russian Communism and all its {works as anathema in every respect. | Rome and Moscow maintain diplomatic | relations and exchange Ambassadors, but Fascism has elevated Communism to | the level of the Black Shirts' principal | aversion and foe. Evidently Mussolini ! holds that mere differences of political | concept should not interfere with busi- ness between countries. As a matter of fict, it was only yes- terday that President Hoover announced |at the White Houss that the United | States Government’s ban on convict- made goods has no special or exclusive | reference to wares originating in Russia. The embargo appli>s to goods turned out by convict hands in any country. The President announced long ago that | he sees mo reason why Russian-Ameri- can trade should not be carried on, just | because we do not happen to agree with the Soviet system of government. Mus- | olim sems to feel the same wa. | abcut it ) Our Inadequate Army. When a soldier of the sanity and ability of Gen. Charles P. Summerall, who bas just retired as chief of staff, tells the country that the United States Army is hopelessly—and almost help- 1-ssly—undersized, fecod for thought is| provided on a theme the importance of which cannot possibly be overestimated. In a farewell statement, which is in- corporated in the annual report about | to be submitted to Congress by the Secretary of War, Gen. Summerall charges that our military establishment has been cut and slashed by recurring | budgetary reductions to a point where, in case of emergency, the United States is no longer in position to “facilitate & g-neral mobilization.” Basking, as the American people are accustomed to do, in the supposedly | eternal sunshine of peace, the average citizen gives small heed to the gravity of an authentic assertion like this. As | 2 matter of fact, it bristles with serious- ness and national peril. i | | ! tavolver in his hand is no more culpable | that reckless driving was a petty of- | be beneficial to law enforcement. { court dockets. | ing the court's view of reckless driving. dear to the heart of the present, but that is the way of sclentific study. After all, there is & cloud of unreality about history. Seldom has the past been made to live. The heroes and the plain folks of & country's yesterdays are not quite human belngs as we know them. This is largely because history, as a sclence, has had a very inadequate technique for penetrating to the pri- mary sources of action—the emotions. It is because we share in the emotional life of the present that the history of the present seems too real to us. The folk song opens a way into this funda- menal reality of the past. Mr. Gor- don is & ploncer explorer. e Reckless Driving a Crime. There are degrecs of reckless driving | indicated by the range of prescribed penalties. For the first offense the punishment. ranges from a fine of not Jess than twenty-five dollars and more than $100, or imprisonment of not less than ten days and not more than thirty days. For the second offense & | fine of not less than $100 and not more | than $1.000 and imprisonment of from thirty days to one year are mandafory. In recognizing the serious nature of the offense of reckless driving as coming within the scope of those which entitle the defendant to trial by jury, the United States Supreme Court has cer- tainly expressed the proper, as well as the popular view. A sane man who dashes through a crowd with a blazing than the man who sends two or three thousand poynds of steel, wood and glass dashing through modern streel trafic. ‘The Supreme Court opinion, which upholds the Court of Appeals as against the contention of the District fense not requiring trial by jury, should The District was probably more in- terested in expediency and the classi- fication of the status of the offense than | anything else when it appealed the case. Jury trials naturally add to congested They require more time than trial by & judge, and the chance for conviction by jury depends more upon the nature of the particular of- fense than upon the charge. In seek- | the municipality was anxious to have | full authority to emphasize the serious | nature of this offense, as distinct and | | apart from mere traffic law violations, | The police should now exercise extraordinary care in preferring the | charge of reckless driving. It should not be made to cover, as is obviously done at present, flagrant cases of ex- | ~ THIS AND THAT What are the half dozen commonest mistakes of the amateur gardener? ‘This would seem to be a good time of the year to consider them. because both experienced and inexperienced workers with the soil have nothing else to do. Except for the fine frenzy of raking and burning leaves, a sort of mania done for the yea Now remains only the fireside gar- dening of January and February, after the seed catalogues have come i their enticing colored pictures and the seductionof the “novelties” which were new a quarter of a century ago. * x X x One may consider with profit the six ordinary mistakes which the newcomers lo the garden world make in ail good fait] The first and commonest of them is to heap up the earth in borders, in beds, and around the base of shrubs and 'roses. . This makes them look so nice! Also it causes all the water to run off, whether applied by Dame Nature or 'the gardener with & hose. “But we never thought of that!" No, one doesn't. Common sense falls down flatter in the ‘garden perhaps, than anywhere else. It seems never to occur to inexpe- ricnced gardeners that a convex bed will shed water, whereas a flat one, or a concave one, will permit the water down to the roots. W ok This mistake comes about, no doubt from the association of vegetabl: gar- dening and flowering gardening in the amateur mind. The hill 1s all right, with vegetables, because they mostly are planted in rows, rather close together. the gutters formed by the hills or rows, sopped up by them. however, we scidom plant flowers in neat’ rows, Tow on Tow. despite the legendary garden of Mary, Mary, quite contrary. If you plant vour rosebushes down either side of the front walk (which is a rather poor place for them, after all, since rosebushes. as bushes, are not very ornamental, bui are rather scrag- gly), do not heap up the earth in a neat, long mound. The bushes will grow, of course, for the good and simple reason, as Tar- Kington's Penrod says, that roses are veritable camels of the plant world, Rosebushes and privets vied for drought honors last Summer. These rllnu can stand anything—even hill- ng. * ¥ ¥ % Another fairly common error of the amateur is to “sprinkle the grass” He turns on the hose, enjoys the sound of the fine spray, and puts on about six gallons, at the most, before with some persons, the garden work is | with | falling around the plants to go directly | The rain which falls sinks down in | and is close enough to the raots to be | When we get into the back vard, ' BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. | 1t is difficuit to prove the pernicions- | ness of this kind of sprinkling, becanse |a little water, undoubtedly, is better than none at all. especially in an or- dinary season, when rains help out every week or so. Any one with a knack for observa- tion, however, can prove to himself that such light sprinkling is by means as good as a real watering of a iawn, flowers or vegetables. A soaking occasionally is better from all standpoints than a light, inadequate sprinkling, and every one who has worked even so little as & year in a garden knows it. * x % x Cutting bold beds in lawns is another mistake. Iere again one may counter with the question, “Who says so?" Well, all the “experts” say so, for one | thing, and they are authorities, not. be- cause they say they are, but because they are. It is the almost universal judgment of men and women who have devoted their lives to gardening that big beds have their proper place in parks, and not in the small home grounds. | Yet the first thing most people do when they move into a new home is to cut a big bed right smack-dab in‘the center of the lawn. “Ihe next thing they do is to hsap up the earth in it. .All wrong, dear friends! say s0. ‘The experts * ok b Spotting shrubs and evergreens around !a front lawn is another mistake you see on a thousand lawns. Lilacs and all sorts of things are set down &t random, with no idea of why they were | put_there, or what they are doing there. To the garden-minded they are a perpetual worry, because they have no | relation to the garden as a thing, as a work of art, as a creation of mind and hand. Perhaps those whd do not worry about such things are better off, we do not know; but if one is sensitive to the shrub placed without rhyme or reason, he will forever dislike to see haphazard ! plantings. | , Rightly considered, according to the dictates of modern landscaping, the | shrub has little place on the front lawn, | except, perhaps, at the extreme sides of i the composition, close to the common | sidewalk. ! * K x x Forgetting the lines of a garden, both in the horizontal and vertical planies, is | another very common error. | This accounts for long rows of plants 10 | The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. Of the six new Senators who will take their places in the Upper House during the coming short session of Congress, none is likely to be more observed than Dwight W. Morrow of New Jersey. Yet Mr. Morrow is not inclined to seek the limelight, especially in this first session of his in the Senate, which extends only until March 4. According to close friends in New Jersey, Mr. Morrow ex- | pects to do & lot of observing himself in the short session. Always when he tackles & new job, Mr. Morrow spends & good deal of time preparing for it. After he feels himself prepared, he wades right in. ! * K ok % ‘Whether he will get into the expected debate over prohibition at the short | session_remains to be seen. It is not likely he will offer a resolution pro- posing the repeal of the eighteenth #mendment, it is said. For he realizes that such resolution has no chance of being acted upon by the present Congress. But if the wet and dry ques- | tion comes to the fore in the Senate, the new New Jersey Senator may feel impelled to wake his pesition clear again. One thing which sometimes Is overlooked when considering the atti- | tude of Mr. Morrow toward national | prohibition is that he believes the law should be rigidly enforced while it Te- mains on the statute book. FPurther- | more, he has declared himself for Te- | peal of the eighteenth amendment, not { for its nullification. It is expected he | will support appropriations for enforce- ment of the dry laws, therefore, and | that he may support measures looking | to better enforcement. of these laws. | Mr. Morrow is not one of those wels who argue that the Government has no right to clamp down the bars on the use of intoxicating beverages. The personal liberty argument is not the | impelling reason with him for demand- | ing repeal of the eighteenth amendment. He believes that Government has the | vight, if it sees it to use it, to prohibit | the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. rests upon the fact that the National | Government has undertaken to do & job { which should be left to the State gov- ernments in his opinion. Ty If appropriation bills are to be the order of the day, with a few measures designed to help the unemployed, Mr. Morrow may not get into the prohibi- tion debate until the opening of the new Congress, whenever that may take place. However, he will scan | the report of the Wickersham Law | Enforcement Commission with muchn | interest when it is laid before Con- | His quairel with the dry laws | |80 placed in relation to the garden and house that the latter sometimes is made to appear too tall. |gress. If it fails in his opinion to deal adequately with the liquor ques- tion, he may undertake to state his Vi cessive speeding. It should be reserved | as a serious charge amply justified by the evidence, and the punishment should be regarded as certain. If there -re[ mitigating ecircumstances the range of | prescribed penalties should enable the | government prosecutors to offer the de- | fendant the chance of recelving a less | drastic punishment if he walves jury [ trial. In other cases the prosecutors should insist upon the maximum pun- | ishment allowable under the law, Speaking directly of the Army, Gen. Summeiall says: When the personnel required by the overhead of the Army of t United States, by the service schools, for duty with the civilian com- ponents and for overseas garrisons, ix subtracted frcm the total strength of the Regular Aimy in the Centi- nental United States, there remains a force of 53,954 mobile troops and 2,694 Coast Artillery for the develop- ment of all elements of the several components of our forces, Regarded solely from the viewpoint cf its sufficiency to serve as an agency for facilitating & general mobilization, the fo:egoing review of our present military activity is sufficient to demonstrate that the strength of the Regular Army is entirely in- Regular s Gasoline bandits are content with | small wayside hold-ups, in the hope, | possibly, of accumulating enough to take a hand in the ofl game in big | finance. | enerations and classes play the same adequate. It is Gan. Summerall's opinion, based on recent and exhaustive studies under- taken by the General Siafl in an effort to effect wise retrenchments in Army ecsts, that the Regular Army iequires a tctal strength of 165,000 men. If | we are to have such a strength it will | be necessary to provide for an increase of 46250 men. | The late chief of stafl’s facts and figures are worthy of the prompt and | painstaking attention of Congress. Mili- | tary unpreparedness has been the | Nation's besefting sin ever since the | foundation of the Republic. The present | stae of unrest throughout the world | dces not suggest that this s the time for the United States to persist in remaining chronically unready for the incalculable. To - The only incidental relief to the high cost of living is the occasional slash- ing of taxicab rates. And even in this connection the patron is likely to be told by the doctor that he ought to walk for the sake of the exercise. 1 - Buying will relieve conditions, sisting all kinds of workmanship, oid eall of the season, comes sooner than greater smphasis, .- - The only consolation that can be drawn from Japanese earthquake news s that it makes for world sympathy and has nothing 10 do with world polities. as- The “Shop early,” usual and with | American Folk Songs. The Library of Congress is engaged In the collection and study of American | folk songs. The project has an im- portance far greater than may appear | on the surface, for the folk song—which | has sprung spontaneously into existence without any specific author—affords a gaLeway 10 a broad road of psycho- logical analysis into the emotional life of the past Stch & road leads through | firlds of history which otherwise are | mpenetrable | To use another figure of xpeech. the | personality of & people might be likened | o a musical Instrument upon which | basie tme with infinite emotional varia- tions. Humor, pathos, obscenity, long- ing. bitterness, plety and hatred may characterize the same folk song in iis multitudinons variations, One day the | folk song may be the expression of religions intensity. The next day it may | exprese the hatred and the Alth of war A Dttle ater and it will be found varied to sarve a: an emntional outlet for a migiating peopie. It springs from the very roo.s of nistory- -the mass feelinge of populations The old hymnals and singing school books in the Library of Congress con- tafn & vast wealth of material which | the muce of history has pessed by— aig:ly because the interpretation re- quires a specialized knowledge and techuiyue which historians have not posesied. ‘The gold does not lie on the suriace. It can be found only by tire- | less digging. This is th: method of approach used by Dr. R. W. Gordon, the expert who is in charge of the work. | Only the godness of the wise; | The turkey bird, had he more sense, | engage in small gimes less for profit | arise from disputes.” | Tt will not pay the ®orkingman. f— Quarrels with old political friends evidently cause Prince Carol no great | regret. A princely figure in that region | must cultivate repose of manner with- | out expecting serenity of soul. R ‘SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Word of Thanks. The turkey bird with haugty stride Has been ridiculous with pride. His plumage gay & dash would cut. We fed him as we saw him strut, In giving thanks let us not prize For th°y who lived for self alone And claimed all splendor for their own Have been compelied to heed the call Of carvers, in the banquet hall. Would hide his beauty so intense And when Thanksgiving day comes round : Would stay where he could not be found, Let. us not only hold astesm Por thos: whose minds can scheme, But also let’s appreciate These who in vanity will wait swiftly he is tired. Thag a neighbor’s invitation to join A poker party, or go to the miniature golf links, lures him away from his self-appointed task. The importance of the approaching Army and Navy game is being recog- nized by editorial comment seldom earned in advance by a foot ball contest. Th» fact that the receipts will go to the unemployed is noted with approval, and throughout there is evidence of nation- wide satisfaction over the prospect of & permanent. resumption of athletic rela- tions between West Point and Annap- olis, which December 13's game seems to_foreshadow. “The unemployment situation has done what cabinet officers, members of Congress and athletic authorities at West Point and Annapolis have been unable to accomplish—it has brought |the Army and Navy together on the Roanoke Times, although cif- gridiron.” says the which is gratified that, | ferences over the question of eligibility have prevented a game between the Army and Navy for the past two years, both sides have agieed to waive the question in view of the seriousness of the unemployment situation, and play & post-season game for charity.” The Provicence Evening Bulleiin voices its feelings in the words: “And all the king's horses and all the king's men haven't been able to do what charity has done. It is a fine concession on the part of both academies. They gain everything by it. lose nothing, and at the very time they are so honorabiy keeping up their proud defiance each has a glorious opportunity to take a coveted crack at his dearest enemy. ‘What a battle those boys will stage un- der this truce As the Cleveland News puts it, “Eligi- bility rules will be forgotten for the moment, as will all other differences of opinion ' except the respective beliefs that each can play better foot ball than the other.” The Duluth Herald. quot- ing the language of the “ballyhooers of the prize ring,” says, “ ‘It's a fight for blood.’ and, whoever wins, the spectators are certain of seeing & snappy game. xox o % Until they show in sudden stress Some unexpected usefulness, So, as our gratitude is heard, Be thankful for the turkey bird. Masterly Inactivity. “Did vou ever meet a racketeer?” “Only once,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “He made threats about defeat- ing me for el ction.” “Weren't you terrified?” “Yes. But fortunately my associates decided 10 do mothing in the matter | They saw no possible advantage in try- ing o organize a racketeer vote of our own." Jud Tunking savs hindranees intellectual interchange is the hig Increaze in the cost. of crackers and cheese in the cross-oads store. of the one o Marketing for the Honsehold. The city man who used to think The farmer was a joke " Now sees his purse so swiftly shrink That he has soon gone broke. He says that as the prices range He finds the simple eorner stors As puzz'ing as the Stock Exchange That kecpe him guessing, more and more. More anfl More. Do you want more turkey?" “Yes" answered the truthful child, “mors than I had the first time. “Men who have abundance,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “often | than for the excitement which may Joy of Endeavor. Th: Soviet has a simple plan, And says, “O friend, do not be sad. Just think of all the fun you've had!" Mr. Gordon's method is o treat each folk song objectively as a sclentific promisingly where the way lsads. Tt may go-through shattered traditions “When vou gits vohse'l on yoh own mind.* said Unele Eben, “yon can't g0 1930-31, and “specimen and then ta follow uncom-'forward no me' den a man who let one foot g0 to sleep while It was stendin’ on de other, “ {of relations. ( | regpects it was the greatest classic. But it will b2 a keen disappointment to many if the game does not heal the present breach between the cadets and midshipmen as to regular foot ball con- tests. As the Buffalo Evening News says: “With a game assured between the foot ball teams next month, the officials of the two academlies should get to- gether as soon as may be and iron out their differences. Good sportsmen all, they ought 1o display an accommodating spirit and come to an agreement that will be enduring.” And the Chicago Daily News thinks that “there should be in the two gieat branches of national defense sufficient diplomacy and enough of the spirit of compromise to compose those differences and restore to its for- mer status the annual gridiron contest always 5o highly valued by the Ameri- |can public.” The Newark Evening News, too, urges resumption of rela- tions. saving, “May the game of De- cember 13 prove the opening wedge in full resumption of foot ball relations by the Army and Navy!" Many papers. among fthem the Bir- mingham News, vax enthusiastic over the game that was hefore the severance This paper says: “The as one of the coun- In some No other annual game approached it as & spectacle, and none exceeded it in gen- eral interest. The classic was more than a foot ball game betwesn two perennially cutstanding teams,” the News continues “It was a colorful spectacle, with its traditions and its tense rivalry, the uni- formed West Point cadets and the An- napolis _midshipmen, and the large erowd which always included more offi- cipls and celebrities than attended any other sports event of the vear. all giving it a distinetive atmosphere.” As the Memphis Commercial Appeal describes it, “the game was an annual event of national interest.” PR That the action of the academies will inspire other teams to stage post-season games for the same purpose is the hope cxpressed in some quart Says the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: inconvenient: it may be contrary to precedent: it may involve a lot of trouble and worry; it may be hard to find just the teams that have assured drawing power to the point that would make the ticket sale as heavy as de- sired. The first three objections at least applied with equal or greater force to the Army-Navy encounter,” confends the Post-Gazette, “but they were nol aliowed to black it. The last point, also Army-Navy game try’s greatest foot ball classics. should not. prove insuperable.” It ‘con- | Referring fo the fact that in| eludes. come inctances foot ball teams are now breaking training, the Springfield Mas- Armyfi-Na;fry‘ F(;ét Ball Gan?e Arouses National Interest It also accounts for & lack of some- {thing in a garden felt by most ob- | servers, but seldom pinned down by them to the absence of proper height in the background. Tall shrubs or a tree, a pergola or tea house will obviate this sense of lack. | These failings, ranging from the seri- | ous to the not so serious, are partly physiological, partly peychoiogical. Per- haps no two persons will agree on all of them, but all will agree on some of them or'a few of them sachusetts Union says: “The fact that a team has broken training is hardly sn s to the Senate. Because of the election laws of New | Jersey calling for a canvass of the senatorial vote not before Decemer 2, Mr. Morrow will not be on hand | to take the oath of office when Con- | gress convenes December 1. He may |be a few days late. A suggestion was ymade that some means be found to hurry the canvass of the vote so as to | permit the new Senator to be sworn in on the opening day of the season, but Mr. Morrow vetoed the suggestion himself, * ok ok K ‘There is another newly elected Senator who is likely to be in the spotlight. Robert J. Bulkley of Ohio. Mr. Bulkley is the wet Democrat who won in sup- posedly dry Ohio—Ohio which has been | 50 strongly Republican in the past. Mr. Bulkley’s attitude toward the eighteenth | amendment is very much that of Mr. Morrow's. He stands for repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the return adequate excuse to refuse (o play under of the control of liquor traffic to the such circumstances. The results of the ! Individual States. Already there has game are of secondary importance. The been talk of Mr. Bulkley as a possible main purpose is to stage a contest which | presidential nominee of the Democrats will attract crowds who want to see a|in 1932. Much will depend upon the couple of college teams play and who, showing he makes in the Senate, how- 1t may be| want at the same time to help those who are in need.” declares this paper. “It is to the foot ball player that the angel of charity turns this Fall” sayvs the Allentown Morning Call. “She asks that, even though tired from a long season of training, the foot ball player shall keep up his pep and his grit for just one more game or two so that the great public. which cannot be reached directly for charitable contributions, will be reached indirectly by a sporting ap- peal.” Touching on this same point, the Morgantown Dominion-News states: “It is somewhat anomalous, too. that| the same crowd which will provide a million dollars for charity in_ order to see & great foot ball game will not vol- untarily provide that million dollars for a cause that is equally as worthy and pressing without the game as an added attraction. That. however, seems 1o be the way of human nature,” muses the News. “Pure giving for giving's sake seems usually to be a greater sacrifice than we can bear. But we somehow find ways and means to find these extra dollars when our own amusement and enjoyment is at stake.” —— ———— Beethoven Concerts Recall Great Genius To the Editor of The Star: The Beethoven cycle of four concerts to be given in Washington beginning December 2 would suggest this article. Mode and technic may change with l"h‘ epoch. The evolution of a soul greater than Beethoven would seem far distant. Music, superlative ‘as language, enigmatical, mysterious, is his medium. His form was particularly the sonata Later. the form was-shattered for the thought. Beethoven's art is one of ponderous stroke. He peered clairvoyantly and profoundly into cosmic relations, pas ing the superficial, the romantic, the cphemeral. The world is grateful and does not forget. Boun, on the Rhine, was his birth- place. The room in which he was born is very small, the floor splintered and worn by pilgrim fect through decades. Ambition, aspiration! On to Vienna in his twenty-second year, the home of Mazart and Haydn! Here he struggled and evolved. Through his genius. he accepted by the familics of nobility. His attitude was alternately autocratic or suave. Beethoven could be the diplomat. Nature was his ereative stimulus, see- ing more than green fields or overhang- ing trees. A pantheist, he worked for years on his compositions. judging with | growing sense of delicate val- | Plutarch taught him patience, he Bezthoven, in his genius, touched the primal sources; also the human. A be- liever in the moralities and the home, he placed woman on a sensitive pedestal. He felt the “Welt-Schmerz” and brooding melancholy hovers over his adagios. The peaks of his music are his Sym- phonies 3. 5. 6. 7. 9: his overtures, his one opera, “Fidelio; the mass in D, his Iater quartets A peeullar sweetness and came to Beethoven in his last yea latent nobility breaking through ear| husks. The letters 10 a wayward nephew are of almost maternal tendern-ss. 1n his last. will. a_very human document, he apologizes for his irritability. and mentions deafness as the cause. He ex- horts his two brothers to divide the possessions, equally, left to them, and not to quarrel. ‘The crowning composition of his lif time was the Ninth Symphony. It ends in a glory of voices from Schiller's pocm, “Ode to Joy." Besides the great sweep of his music, he gives this last message. OTTO TORNEY SIMON. s .- Line Forms at Right. From the Shreveport Journal. A magazine writer savs that “any American girl with $30.000 a vear in her awn_right ean marry the best there is in Enrope. And that isn't all the story—-not hy any means. Any Amer- ican girl with that much monev rcan take her pick right hera in the United States. | tolerance ever. A number of years ago he served | a term or two in the House. Outside of that experience Mr. Bulkley has had no other public service with the National Government. The Democratic leader of the Senate, Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, is flatfootedly in favor of the 1etention of the eighteenth amendment. He announced his position on his re- turn to Washington for the session of Congress which opens Monday. But he has declined to make any comment on possible modification of the dry lawe. Two other prominent Democratic Sena- tors, ‘Caraway of Arkansas and Walsh of Montana, while aiso declaring for retention of the eighteenth amendment, are not committing themselves either in regard to possible modification of the dry laws. Senator Walsh, long & dry, was re-elected this year over a wet | Republican _ opponent, Judge Galen. Senator Walsh, however, is certain that the wet and dry question did not really enter into the campaign, although he is willing to admit that sJudge Galen and his suppoiters sought to make prohibition the sole issue in a State which has twice voted wet in ref- erendums, i * ok ok X The attitude of Senator Robinson, who has been widely mentioned as a presidential possibility in 1932, toward any ‘modification of the dry laws would quite naturally be of considerable inter- | est. The very fact that he has declined |to discuss modification in any way | leaves the implication that he might | favor some kind of modification. The | same is true of Caraway and Walsh. It s, of course, possible that these Senators with dry Jeanings are merel postponing & mew rift in the Demo- | cratic paity over the liquor question | when they decline to comment on mod- ification, i i Former President Calvin Coolidge, | writing to the Republican leader of the Senate, James E. Watson of Indiana, took occasion to express his apprecia- tion of the relief of being out of public | life. He said: “I am enjoying very much the relief | |of not being in public Mfe. It was a mystery to me when in Washington how men like yours2lf are willing or able to continue to bear the burdens of public office for an indefinite length of time. The attitude of the former President would appear o be that he do°s not choose again to enter public life, As a matter of fact, Mr. Gooiiage haa { many long years of public life and pub- | lic service in his own State of Massa- | chusetts before coming to Washington, first as Vice President and then as| | President. He stood the strain very | well. However, he retired from the | White House at a comparatively early age. and may look forward to many | years in private life, if he sticks to present_apparent intention not to be | drawn back into the political fieid. * ok ok ok From out in Kansas comes the report | that. Henry J. Allen, until lately a Sen- | ator from the Sunflower State, is to, feside In Washington and that he will| b2 one of the advisers of President | Hoover. He is not, 1t is said, to take a | governmental job.” However, that is likely 10 depend upon whether Prasi- dent Hoover should insist upon ap-; { puinting him to office. Mr. Allen and { the President have been close personal friends for a long time. They served together in rellef work during the World War. Later Mr. Allen was the | director of publicity for the Republican National Committee while President Hoover was campaigning for election, and more recently, following his ap- polntment to the Senate, Mr. Allen was & spokesman for the White House in that body, defending strongly the poli- cies of President Hoover. Wilen Mr. Allen was defeated in the senatorial race recently by Senator-elect McGill, a Democrat, he announced that any news- paper needing an experienced .reporter should get In touch with him imme- diately. Tt is not beyond the bounds of possibility that. Mr. Allen, who has ben a newspaper writer and pub- lisher for many years, may underiake to write & Washington news letfer for 8 number of newspapers after he has returned to the city for the Winter. | | testified to the su | system of therapeut ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. Thousands of Government experts are working constantly for the benefit of all citizens of the United States. They will work directly for you if you will call for the fiuits of their labors| through our Washington bureau. Stale your inquiry briefly, write clearly and letter in reply, address The Evening Star Information Buieau, Frederic J Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. Is Adalia a Bible name?—G. H A. Adalia will be found in Esther, ! Q. Please give a short biography of Dorothy Arzner, the moving picture director —R. N. A. Miss Arzner was born in San in Los Angeles and the University of Southern Californfa. During the war she enlisted as an ambulance driver and New York. After the armistice he became a script typist with William e Mille Subsequently she became a film _cutter, scenario. continuity free-lance writer. Her first work as a director was ‘“Fashicns for Women | Since that picture she has directed “Ten Modern Commandments,” “Get Your Man,” _“Manhattan _Cocktail,” Wild Party” and “Sarah and Son.” Her next picture will be “Strictly Busi- ness” with Claudette Colbert and Predric March, Q What rare chemical element ds necessary for the growth of teeth? |s. w. . A. Fluorine. Tt is a poisonous, in- tensely corrosive gas. 1In its pure form it destroys all living matter. yet a very | little of it, in chemical combinaticn, is | of the enamel on our tecth. Q. Who received the Nobel award for medicine?—B, L. A. The Nobel prize for medicine was awarded to Dr. Karl Landsteiner, emi- | nent _bacteriologist and pathologist, & member of the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research. Q. How many murders a day are committed in the United States?—R. K. A. According to a report by J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Bureau of In- vestigation of the Department of Justice the average number of murdeis has Tisen from three a day at the beginning of the year to nearly five a day in Sep- tember. This report is based on returns from 58 cities with a population of 100,000 or more. Q. Are country children healthier than city-bred children?—W. C. A. Recent surveys have shown that rural school children have from 1, to 20 per cent more physical defects than city school children. Q. How many dry beans are produced vearly in the United States? What States lead in production?—E, A. M. A. The United States produces ap- { proximately 20,000,000 bushels of dry | beans a year on about 1,800,000 acres. | Michigan and California led in produc- ton last year, with 6,000,000 and 5,000, 1000 bushels, ‘respectively. Q. What are the names of some of the large Texas ranches?—B. M. A. The Rancho de la Parra, which lies between Corpus Christi and Browns- ville, consists of 400,000 acres. Adjoin- ing it to the west is the King Ranch of over a million acres. This is the largest ranch in Texas. The JA's is approximately 400,000 acres in extent and from 25,000 to 30,000 head of Here- Highlights on t cheered her and put their hands in their pockets to buy gifts for her. For she represents the rebellion of women, one of the most tremendously important features of this generation; indeed, it may be the most important feature of all. Amy Johnson and the fiapper who bares her knces to the world are standard bearers in exactly the same cause—probably without either of them in the least realizing it. It began, of course, long before the war. But up to that time it was scarce- ly at all & physical rebellion. The lead- ers of the feminist movement of the 90s were entirely intellectual. They aimed chiefly at an improvement in the social conditions affecting women and chil- dren. To that end they sought the HE BULLETIN, Sydney.—Amy Johngon is & miich more signif cant circumstance than most of those may have thought Wwho real mark upon women. The real change came with the war. was a great gulf fixed between the sexes, and woman was generally believed to be a moral or physical weakling in- capable of taking care of herself. Exigencles of war changed all that. ‘Woman showed hersclf as brave, strong, capable and efficient as man. Dress re- form and the greater freedom that came | with it have helped the development, as has also the increasing employment of women in factories, shops and offices. Woman has an independence she never knew before. She can mix with her { fellows of both sexes. She can, when | she feels disposed, pick out a man she | thinks she could live with comfortably, | ask him to marry her and buy the fur niture herself; she can take her Jason and fly the earth unchaperoned. and in stead of rebuking ner, grandmothers will Toad her with praises and frequent- ly with more solid gifts. ‘The rebellion of woman is one of the few good things the war has left us. Though it may have helped to produce some of the world's current economic disturbances, it has done away with an enormous amount of hypoérisy and given the sexes a saner relation. * oK X K Spanish Physician Lectures on Novel Methods. La Presna, Buenos Aires—The Span- ish physician, Francisco Asuero, lectured recently on his novel methods in cura- tive and preventive medicine. We say “novel” because, while his system is not one that was hitherto unknown, it is nevertheless one which is not. practiced nor indorsed to any great extent by the profession of the present day. The lec- ture was delivered in the auditorium of the Circulo Medico Argentino, and vari- ous lantern slides and other exhibits of the Asuerian Perhaps the most celebrated demon- strator_of a similar school of medicine is Dr. Sangrado, whose practice of medi- cine is described so immortally in “Gil Blas." Tt has long been maintained that Dr. Sangrado, whose panacea conaisted in giving the patient all the water he thereby incurred by letting of blood, was but the depietion of a Spanish physi- cian that actually existed in the seven- teenth century. Dr. Asuero imitates his prototype as far as the drinking of water Is concerned, but not in the san- guinary feature of the method, which is, perhaps, the reason that most of Dr. Asuero’s patients recover, especially from chronic diseases, while few of Di Sangrado’s proteges survived to tell of such a happy termination to their mala- dies. The local profession, represented b the physicians and students of med! cine attending the lecture, though they seemed impressed with the proofs and arguments addueed; have remained somewhat, non-committal ag fo whether they arg contemplating use of Asucrian principles in their Weatment of the =sick. They are withholding Judgment. until they =ee t of the. method upon patients Dr. ero has treated n Buenos Aires. ' inclosing 2-cent stamp for a personal | Fiancisco; attended the Westlake School | and saw active service in Los Angeles| and | “The | | belleved to be necessary for the growth | franchise, yet the gaining of it left no | Until then there | could drink. and relieving any pressure | not a romantic invenrion of Le Sage. . | ford cattle graze its lands. Among the other famous ranches are O'Connor's, | Spurs, 6666, Figure 2's and Matadors. | Q. 'What universities have the largest enroliments in their achools of avia- tion?—E. D. 8. A According to the Aircraft Year | Bock for 1930, the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics at New York | University reported the largest enroil- I ment in the country for the first semes-. | ter of the 1929-30 academic year, with | 346 students registered in the four-year | course, leading to & B. S. degree, or the one-year posi-graduate course, leading to a degree in aeronautical engineer- ing. Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology reported the second largest en- rollment, with 247 students. Q. How many feeble-minded per- 3003 are there in the United States? A. Special estimates place the nifne ber of persons in the United stat@ who are mentaily defective (feebl minded, imbeciles and idiots) at over 900,000, Q. Can to still_view Carusos body? Is 1t true that his clothes are changed periodically>—N. C. A. The sarcophagus at Naples in | which the artist lies is now hermetical- ily closed and new and strict orders govern visits to the chapel. Only with the consent of the family can the lid be removed. Formerly the coffin closed with a crystal lid and a removable panel in the sarcophggus allowed visitors to | see the body. The clothes are changed intervals because the material de- On the ninth anniversary this year il Was necessary to change the Shoes on account of the rusting of tacks in the soles. | |t Q What is the distance by steamer om San Francisco to Liverpool? M. G. . A. The steamship distance from San Francisco to Liverpool ia 9.02¢ statute miles. [ | Q. Hdw many daily newspapers are | there in France?—D. E. R. | "A. The latest figures available give France 202 daily newspapers. | Q. When was the first foot ball game | plgy\‘% between the East and the West? | A. It was played in San Prancisco, | between Chicago »and Stanford, on | Christmas day, 1894. Two days later & | return game was played in Los An- geles. The second occasion was on Christmas day. 1899, between Carlisle rlndi;ins and the University of Cali- ornia. | | Q What is the per capita consump- tion of coffee in the United States? - C. M. A. It is estimated at over 9 pounds average per capita consumption, Q. What is a genius?—L. D. B, A. One authority defines the word “genius” as meaning the highest eon- ceivable form of original ability, some thing altogether extraordinary and be- yond even suprem» educational prowess, and differing in kind, apparently, from | talent, which is usually distinguished as | marked intellectual capacity, short. only of the inexplicable and unique endow gwné to which the term “genius” is con- ned. Q. Is there a law in England which prevents a man from marrying his dead wife's sister—C. D. A. The English law prohibiting the marriage of a man with his deceased \wfle" sister was repealed by of Parliament _in_1888. he Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands Overeducated Proletariat Presents Problem. | e Boir, Brussels.—We may well be | disquieted by rumors as to what will | be the ultimate result of an overedu- cated proletariat. In Germany, for in- | stance, the activity of the universities | is very great and thousands are ema- | nating from them, who, in former times, | would have been tillers of the soil or | skilled mechanics. Now they are intel- lectuals with an acquired and unnate ural aversion to all forms of honorable manual labor. The refusal of this newly erudite class to engage in any- ]lhing but vocations involving the use of the specialized education attained in |the arts and professions has resulted |in a preponderancy of mind and a | deficiency in muscle. This condition | confronts us with a social danger the | gravity of which cannot be overesti- | mated. And this is not only a peril pecullar | to Europe. We find the same untoward condition in the United States. Grad- | uates of institutions of higher learning | are seeking situations by the thousand. | The superabundance of those qualified | and solely desiring such pursuits is re- vealed in the fact that many posi- tions requiring a high order of intelli- gence and preparation pay salaries ranging merely from $1,200 to $1,800 & year. | * K K X | French Farmers Win § Against Sportsmen. | Le Matin, Paris—A recent court de- | cision at Nancy, based upon the na- | tional code, is of particular intes to all fishermen. Suit was brought against cerfain sportsmen by a number of | farmers in the Department of Meurthe- | et-Moselle, because of depredations | upon agricultural ‘and pasture lands traversed by the rivers, and their tribu- tarfes, for which the department was named. It seems that the fishermen did not confine themselves to the banks of the streams, but trespassed upon the lands of the farmers, and appropriated fruits. vegetables and any other com- modities suiting their taste and con- venience, Under the constitutional code, the rivers belong to France, and |also to the fishermen who approach | the streams with due regard for all the | provisions and seasons governing the | sport. But all such are now to under- |stand that they cannot move farther than approximately one meter from the bank of the river when fishing with | A line. This free-board is permitted on all private property. but ne more, and the transaressors in the case al- luded to were assessed damages and he costs of the suit. We believe that this decision is an important one for all piscatorial devotees to note and to remember. * K K ¥ Plea Is Made For Old Taxi Rate in Madrid. | A B C. Madrid—It should scarcely | be necessary to repeat the argument we have urged sa frequentlv orior to the establishment. of new rates for taxies hire. Summed up, we foresee a gre; { decline in the popularity and use of the vehicles ‘with the rates now effec- | tive. The new charge is 80 centimos (10 cents, Unjted States) for “lowerin | the flag"; and 60 centimos (71y cenu' more for each 800 meters (half & mile), with an additional charge in proportion to the length of time consumed in the | trin. Por instance, #f a lady in the suburbs wishes to drive to her hair- | dresser's, her taxi bill, if she continues to use this conveyance, will be 80 centimos for the charter of the vehicle, and 60 centimos for each 800 meters | it travels, besides an assessment of half the average driving charge per hour for the time the conveyance is waiting out- side the shop. If the City Council and | the Bureau of Street Concessions are really concerned with the welfare of the public, as well as with the best interests of the taxicab drivers, thay will promptly restore the old rates for this utility. and achieve these benefits simultancously. .- Cloud on British Horizon, | Prom the “Eain Pranciace GfFonicls | Nor dees the sun ever s il oL set o English Y