Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1930, Page 8

THE EV. NG STAR __E_QEL“_;LW WASHINGTON, D. C. _ TUESDAY. . ...December 16, 1980 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor - n. Evening Star N . llt‘ 8t. - ania A:t E Rate by Carrier Within the City. % .m.- Ir .. 48c per month | & Pl h.' .xlnl = Rate b; mfl—whth: in Advance. ang All Other States Canada. Eg"- d Sund r.. $12.00; 1 mo., $1.00/ e yr. 1 mo. only o, Amsocatet B o e b R e S ] Patches credited it or not otherwise cred- thi; d the local per Company Sc per the end of each mon n by mail or telephor Teserves Washington’s Political Drought. ©On December 16, 1773, one hundred and fifty-seven years ago today, the most picturesque episode in the chain of events leading up to the American Rev. olution occurred in New England. It was the Boston Tea Party, of im- mortal memory. The founding fathers, Wwith a sense of the dramatic and a fine flair for publicity values, dumped into Boston Harbor cargoes of British tea, as a vehement protest against tax- ation without representation. The demonstrators did not mean to signalize their opposition to the tax | on tea. Their objection solely was the _* payment .of a tax in the levying of which they were -voiceless. They were §iving & spectacular exemplification of the theory that “governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.” takes ;& reverent pride Tea Party and everything The District of Columbia ide, but sees in the his- event a sigpificance that does not t.heot.bermdmmrnmdl of the Republic. The men of Massachusetts who masqueraded as Indians and precipitated British tea to the bottom in the waters of Boston harbor were rebelling against precisely the same political inequities and iniqui- ties under which disfranchised Wash- ernment are still subjected to the same ‘monstrous injustice. If taxation without representation ‘Was wrong in 1773, what makes it right In 19307 If i be & “self-evident truth” serious researches in fundamental science, Most of its work deals with facts #0 minute and difficult to com- prehend that they arouse only the in- terest of specialists. But it is ly through the laborious, patient, unflag- ging pursuit of such facts that the doors are to the greater wonders. The road to fairyland of science is steep and rocky. There is no way thither through the air. But the patient accumulation of facts in almost any direction is certain to lead eventually o the spectacular. In science all roads are prosaic and all the borders of knowledge., The public is invited to the Carnegie Institution each year not to witness a show but to look upon realities—the most fundamental realities of creation. Special Session. Public opinion, as expressed by the press generally, men of business and 482 | the leaders of both major political par- ties, is averse to a special session of the newly elected Congress this coming - | Spring. Business, if the reports are to be credited, looks askance at the pos- f | sibility of a special sesston because of “legislative uncertainty.” The legisla~ tor, provided he be a proper legislator, has the interests of the country at heart when he legislates. The politician on the other hand has foremost in his thoughts his own personal poiitical in- terests and those of his party. Too often the legislator is lost in the politician. That is one reason why the country generally prefers to see the Congress adjourn on March 4 not to return until the following December, Especially does this hold true when the business of the country is seeking a recovery from a depression which has been far more extended than was at first be- lieved to be the case. The country, cording to the leaders, and to the press, editorially expressed, desires a breath- ing spell. Unless the leaders in Congress, both Republican and Democratic, experience a change in heart, it appears prob- able that the special session is to be avoided. Obviously, with the political margin between the two parties almost at the vanishing point in the next Congress, the going is not likely to be smooth for either. The Republicans in the House have 218 to 216 for the Democrats and 1 for the Farmer-Labor party. In the Senate the count stands 48 Republicans, 47 Democrats and 1 Farmer - Laborite. An insurgent mi- nority on either side of the Chamber might cause trouble for the party ip. The Republican leaders are opposed to & special session of Congress, realiz- ing that if they organize the two houses of Congress, as they probably will do when the time comes, the country will continue to look to the G. O. P. to help it out of the depressed condition, and at the same time, with the Norrises, inelined to cavil at the statement signed the Democratic leader of the Senate, Garner of the House Democrats, and five other leading Democrats of the country, are beginning to realize that war without ever realizing elearly what they were fighting about, without see- ing the issues clear-cut, without ac- cepting the soldier’s code of doing and dying. without asking why. ‘Their muscles were disciplined in the mili- tary machine. Their minds were not. Thep never admitted fully the sanctity of geography. Some were so heretical as to deny it altogether. And when once he was released from the military machine and free to act as he pleased, this type of man pro- ceeded to throw stones at the idols of geography. He asserted shamelessly— what to the rest of the world was arrant nonsense—that the individual was above geography, Of course Remarque’s picture is essen- tially false. He did not paint the average German soldier, or the average anywhere. He showed only one of war life, & side that was by no means visible to the majority. He saw the war from the point of view of a-juring highly subjective individual. Such in- dividuals are almost useless material for the military machine. They have none of the virtues of soldlers. They do not win battles. They do not look well on parade. Men such as Remarque are not assets to the geographic nation. No nation could long exist the majority of whose citizens were of this type. This is very clear to Von Hindenburg—valiant, un- questioning, sincere patriot. Yet they existed. No picture of the war is complete without taking account of them. They existed, it is likely, in very great numbers. Every nation has them to vontend with. They provide the poets and prophets whosé nation is humanity, Which leads 4o the conclusion that Remarque’s picture is, after all, essen- tially true—from the viewpoint of great numbers. Von Hindenburg may wonder how any man can paint such a pic- ture—and millions will agree with him. Yet the very success of “All Quiet on the Western Front” is evidence that there is another side to the argument. —_————— It is possible that the resentment that led Ruth Hanna McCormick to 80 campaigning has been appeased and that she will harbor no great 11l will for her successful opponent. The person- ality of J. Hamiltod Lewis is normally agreeable and not one that seems calcu- lated under any circumstances to arouse implacable wrath. ———— In connection with his resignation as commissioner on the George Washing- ton Bicentennial Commission, a list of the other important jobs of Col. U. 8. Grant was given. They numbered no fewer than fifteen. He probably would have a good bit more leisure if there were & war. —————— Although you cannot cure an ailment by ignoring #, you can often help it by that process, and the expressed deter- mination of the Pine Bluff, Ark., Com- mercial to ban all news and editorial comment on the current “hard times” should prove of distinct psychological benefit to the community it serves, ————— Boys, meet Maj. James Joseph Tunney, U. 8. M. C. R. If the old warrior John Lawrence Sullivan were still .alive and heard of this, he would THIS AND THAT BY CHARLS‘S E. “Since he has hurt himself by injur- ing “immr' 1 not hurt myself by in- ’u'l‘!wv.hh were the eol.r.‘nmcn outu)o':1 in the matter of nal revenge, there would be a 'rolwtmgul less trouble in the world. \ It is usual enough among intelligent persons for them to understand that one who has injured them has in real- Bordinarily they 40 not go so far Ordinar: y do no , however, as to realize that fr‘l’ “hitting back” they are hurting themselves’ ac- tually as well as u’:eo:et’l::flly. * ictetus, who is responsible for the 'vfiln‘ of our opening sentence, is a peculiarly good author to contemplate around Christmas time, because there is more Christianity in him than in many a more orthodox work. His “Discourses,” from which our sentence is taken, are filled to the brim with a practical ethics which take their good fron the good in the human soul. The' originality of his views is as modern today as when set down by his ‘pupil Arrian, "!or the old man wrote nothing himself. The'wnunce quoted shows this in striking manner. Suppose he had said, “Since he has hurt himself by injuring me, why should 1 hurt myself by in- him?” e filllp would be lost. The turn which makes it at once original and interesting would be gone. Epictetus understood human nature as it is, not as he thought it ought to be or as he perhaps longed for it to be. He understood the ee classes of men—those who seek revenge without thought, those who realize that by hurt- ing others they hurt themselves and those who have gone still further and who see the futility of even thinking revenge. It was to the latter class that he talked when he sald, “Since he has hurt himself by injuring me, shall I not_hurt myself by injuring him?” ‘This form of statement immediately brings home to the minds for wham it is intended the whole sense of fool- ishness involved in disputes, quarrels, fights, - free-for-alls, revenges, hurt feelings. BB A man who will speak to himself in this when he becomes angry scarcely ‘descend thereafter to blows or_even words. B!ml{nmbelbltwrhehflu ideality of he will turning the other cheek, but 1 hesitate at the necessity of hurting himself by injw another. Epictetus presents, not t but the afirmative, viewpoint by put- ting the speaker in the act of mentally loln‘wwnd his revenge. m;fl,”l“ I not hurt myself by injuring So far he goes—but no farther. We can see the anger in his eyes, the dou- bled-up fists, sense the flaming mind. “He hath treated me ill; T will treat him {I.” 8o Shylock said to himself and to the Venetian world. “I will have my bond!” So he swore, and only a plece of chicanery kept him from it, of course, as every one realizes who sees the play. If S8hylock had been able to hire any one of our modern lawyers, no doubt he would have got his pound of flesh and damages es. TRACEWELL. His ‘:'p“e‘tke;u l‘-l not an lmpos;l‘ble hu- man 3 a vel usible man, who knows the A of and is not ashamed of his natural birthright, which he shares with the tour-lmedm';znmmA Fear, anger, he senses, make all created things kin. It uug:: the 's fur to stand on end, his k to bow and his mouth to hiss. It sets nations at loggerheads. t Pryaiology - tella tel us, needed by the nger. Our T may de- fense mechanism, not entirely out of con rior intelligence. The will to do or not to do, Epictetus called it, and future ages adopted some- thing of the p . Today the de- bate over “free will” is not so keen; we of today seem more interested in facts than in definitions. We look beyond words to the real things the words stand for; we realize that one who may not know the defi- nition ot a word may have's keen vision of the thing itself. * ok ok k. “Shall T hurt myself by injuring him?" bespeaks a calculating, cold nature, one which carefully balances the ill which might come to him from revenge against the sheer animal satisfaction af tearing and rending. . “Shall I not hurt myself by injuring him?” shows rather a sane, human, balanced viewpoint which contents it- self with using words as the extent of the physical approach to revenge. Shall I not bust him in the jaw? No, you shall not! The answer is inevitable. ‘There is no other reply le from the man whom Epictetus meant. Not all of us, of course, can fit into the picture of that man. Perhaps few of us can. But if we can him, and see the justice of his position, we will not be among those who sneer at the phrase, “too proud to fight.” There are situations in which men can be too proud to fight. There are times when one may be too right to fight. And fighting, it may be added, need not be all physical stress and negative, | strain. Continual bickerings and naggings, whether induiged in by man or woman (and far more men do it than is resl. ized), are a form of mental fighting. ‘The person who has read his Epic- tetus aright would no more injure an-|too " 1 other by continually upon one ble theme than he would pur- posely hurt himself by butting his head against a wall. Only crazy persons do the latter; and also the former. “Since he has hurt himself injur- ing me, shall T not hurt myself by in- juring him?"” Yes, I certainly shall, therefore I will not hurt him—nor he me. Such is the message of Epictetus, who was a slave, and without money, and beloved of the immortals. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands IORNALE D'ITALIA, Rome.— To be rich in the United States is not an undiluted felicity. As s00n as a man becomes guished for his wealth, he im- mediately becomes the cynosure of evil eyes and of.men who plot how they can divert to themselves latge portions of his funds. These attempts frequently take .in dramatie form, when prominen! men commerce ly fln?par and it cannot be dema what has become of them. Sometimes it is ported that they have some defalcation and fled, or perhaps -ended their own existence, because of the bur- quires natural ability and training. Bees are very semsitive, and very retaliatory. Some people they do not mind visiting their hives, while the approach of others creates a com- and belligerency which do not ide for days or even weeks. A per- nn&!ulmlndq‘ulette t can they will swarm about him, and settle upon him in clus- ters without the least of hostility. Excitable, violent people, on the other hand, are rarely immune, even when ing fact for the new man, the new aver- age man. ence, is telling his story as high adven- ture of quite communicable brand. The doctor is doing this, tor, ) E:rchlnt. p?a All of them telling these active professional life of James M. Beck—lawyer, writer, Solicitor General of the United States, “honorary bencher of Gray’s Inn,” all these in turn, and now James M. Beck, member of Con- gress of the United States. These addresses, 17 in all, are sourced in -Inrieguof ree , celebrative or cominemorative in purpose. They come together here in the unity of M{' com= mon content. 'rtm;l bond of union i some engagement e law, that most fundamental of modern institu- | 1B Genmlly historical in its first divi- also second part of givei over fo pal : the study is memmry As & interests—"The Revol Anlm:'- Prohibition,” “The Norflun: Securl Trusts,” “The Constitutional on ate to Exclude & Sena “The in its relation to the Hexlbl‘e ‘Tariff” o current subjects, tt.he vy Constitution—all :nlk. All within passing moment. the press cool Alrubuem(ngfl: b i it 3 E H g 2 1 Q = q { § i 2 g E j 3 £rio ] ol £, i E : g g Bx ] i i £ g . g%, % i i i g E ‘ i Q. Please tell something about - hatam Gandhi—G, 8. Y . ahatma Gandh! was born near and educated in Eng- . | many mhar&ugmm "'.n:l :«}’-:;‘ ica - ing g India organized opposition to “u:‘ government on & non-vio- and non-cooperative basis. His the- Q. What 1is m&ufiflm of seems t0 be some i H ?. What was the United States Army?—F. H. A. The nucleus of the E gfl i g | , thorized by the the use | June 14, 1775, Colonies. i did_the first diamonds the original home of the diamond as a jewel. For centuries ] come from?—E. £l it t of the Sen. | diam g E be after all his friends—and he had s-plenty—enlisting them in & campaign | usually these disappearan to obtain for him a leutenant-generalcy at the very least. —————— It is wondered whel some of the anclent “sourdoughs” who packed with & tump-line over Chilkoot Pass and poled heavy bateaux up heart-breaking Yukon rapids would say when con- fronted by Alaska's first midget golf course. E i the country is rather sick of politics as on Capitol Hill and prefers con- BEgE i ; Ea izations of order and industry. m""l‘;‘e children of millionaires often have to be accompanied tostheir schools by guards, and the officials of promi- nent automobile companies also have lrn‘\:d attendants about them day and night. xég £ 22 g 5 4 g 9 g ‘§r Iveness of these insects, i i £ 5 | 2 g iz h wing ity to exercise their ve ce. ntil stingless bees lrew evg:ved. such A paradox, t0o, of this lawless system | JECUITeRces are not entirely 1s that whils some elements are waiting | OPVisted. - for an opportunity to abduct a man or Beck upreme Court in its clear rela- the Constitution itself stands here, sometimes menaced, sometimes I—but here it is in its inal character as inf and der. Readable, quite readable, I assure you, to even the average me and The book sounds quite like learn} Il admit. It is that. It has a cast technical g:t cast, mollified and velief of drought sufferers in twenty- |the polls. It is sound common sense one States. How long will Congress | when the country is in need of what- the po- | ever assistance the Congress can give it. ] § i gk i E g 3] é £ i 0 o & * x k% Conduct of Worker Subject for Heated Debate. Diario Del Comercio, Ba: How far has an i g § money, others are asking tribute him for protection, him his life md&ropert are safe upon the em of so many thousands of dollars a month, and that the object of such conflicting interests need not fear the abductors while acceding to the demands of the “protectors.” ‘The richest America are thus compelled to give tribute to one from SHOOTING STARS. - e ag § BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Sense of the Ridiculous. The manners of a day gone by Do not appeal to us. Gl g much about are the so-called bears in mmmmnznflw popular. ——— Spain bhas a revolution under way @nd would possibly feel relieved if a | O corresponding to Mussolini could ———. Base ball is described by a player as & business as well as a sport. No more and conducted by & staff which includes Some of the world's most notable men ©f science, result constantly in discoy- #ries of far-reaching significance. The most colorful of these, which can be made readily comprehensible to the lay Pictures of the War. German theaters have been prohibited from showing the film version of “All Quiet on the Western Front.” threatened seriously the public peace. There were near riots. The govern- ment finally acted, President von Hindenburg at what he considered an unpatriotic, prejudiced and essentially false presentation of the life and sentiments of the man in’ the mind, make up the public exhibit, which follows the annual meeting of the frustees. Few events are so calculated %0 stir the public imagination. ‘This year, for example, the exhibit in- froduced for the first time the amasing and paradoxical immensity of space. There has been plenty of mathematical speculation on the structure of the aniverse, but such speculation lacks the | ranks during the World War, The pic- { ture spat in the face of all the splendid | old soldier's idols and ideals. It glori- | fled what, to him, were cardinal sins. ' He felt 30 strongly that he is sald to have threatened to resign unless the | government acted against this obnox- | lous apotheosis of almost everything he | considered contemptible. A great many persons in all coun- As we observe them now we sigh, “They are ridiculous!” The armour of the Knights of old, The sword, the arquebus, We very frequently are told, Are quite ridiculous. For Peace our men of wisdom' call And state the matter thus. In time the fighting tools will all Appear ridiculous. Early Shopping. “Of course, you regard it as the proper thing to shop early?” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum, “not only for holiday gifts, but in public affairs. With so much money in action in the recent elections it required un- usually early shopping to secure the Jud Tunkins says he calls a lady by her first name in some cases, not be- cause he wants to act familiar but be- cause he’s not sure what the name of her latest husband may happen to be. Disbelief. We learn there is no Santa Claus. ‘The truth, we must receive it. And yet we're happier because We do not quite believe it. Professional Pride, “Do you never get arrested?” group of outlaws to escape the attentions of &dum. and even on their abroad, in the effort to escape the of their existence at home, quently subjected to the sa: Notorious eflmlnn&.n al "ihe eincacy of the Tavs of the rays of the sun has possibly injured more ple than it has benefited. When new ] was first preached, Chileans, who ve been d« the sun for centuries, in the fond persuasion that they were prolonging their days by staying in the shadow, n to court the incandes cence of the noontide, and that with diminution of clothing and an abso- lescence of hats that was supposed to give them the full benefit of the curative sun-rays. Just how. many strokes of apoplexy and heat m-num can be traced to this new we do not pre- sume to calculate, but Juam the increased numbers such cases, ly the numibers of those who have succumbed at bathing beaches, Tieors of"ihe s, 1t may. e, logleally rigors of sun, it may inferred that the cult of the sun- and practices pursued in our Summer season, opinion, it a hot control of the situation. It is regretted that the contentions | beca of the speakers were not voted upon by the audience in general, as the es- sential points of both a; its seemed to be equally l‘ppllude L * x ¥ Child-Spankin Business Res: in Failure, The Bulletin, Sydney.—A woman re- cently started business in America as & professional spanker of bad children. On being interviewed by a reporter she was found sitting with her “large and accomplished” hands folded in her lap, and the light of gentle melancholy beam: from her eyes. She sorrow- iniline: "Poopi 1oved o o coe v lure, their own spanking. Overproduction Cure For Oil Is Proposed From the Los Angeles Express. 15 & B0k of ity 8 spec re is of lor student and lnum‘eqx‘:t :e’nerll reader to take into the house of his mind and * *x x % MOUNT VERNON. By Minnié Kendall Lowther, author of “Arlington,” etc. Philadelphia: The John C. Win- ston Co. A story of Mount Vernon always is 4 new story. And that is good. L% . ludes no en ’g::m turns—wider int fresh intimate lucers will be inter- | ROt Copyright Bill Designed To Protect U. S. Authors Prom the St. Paul Ploneer Press. l.h:‘ is mmnt :l:lt general copyrig) session. measure has been before for about five years and at last substantial agreement as to its terms has been reached among the iy for chothing sgatiet necessity days of Summer as against the tempests of Winter. | PR SN “Only once in & while,” answered Bill termyer’s cure for the burg. “If you don't get arrested occasionally how are you goin' to get your picture in the paper?” saving grace of reality. It is made up, | tries will agree with Von Hindenburg. in the final analysis, not of facts, but of , On the other hand, of all the thousands thoughts, because the human sensorium | 0f books about the war which have has not been constituted to observe| poured in a continuous flood from the phenothena outside of three dimensions. | presses of all the embattled nations But last week the Carnegie scientists during the past decade Remarque’s introduced actual observations extend- | story of the life of the German private ing, presumably, into other dimensions.'has been the most successful and has The public was enabled, In a sense, to #ee with its own eyes that far horizen California ofl ested in Sam Un! their ills, suffer from over- | I mdue\hn. while on the one hand Government urges and commands them to prod 's ‘Ml. when mx’ ltm'nnm"{y thie Government through another sy Bee-k ‘Requires NltumV and Training. El Tel kfo. ;m .or: .él-d clen eeping bees one :noneemclem th-‘t has d the | ¢y ty e, ;:,“‘h ‘:nothn w& attention of mankind. Ve , Ovid and desist ormm“ %o fadl 'El'hs “Oflllym Horace are some of the Latin poets |} 8 Jadl. oy ork that have sung of the care of bees and | JIUF PIOPOses & way out o :.h:tmg; the culture of , and there are also same s, but belog '-hflllthm they | d Scriptures, | could not speak with the freedom of which are perhaps the oldest records Mr, Untermyer, or command the same that have come down to . us, Despite the antiquity of the eccu cannot be legacy of national inspiration and loy- alty. Nellle Custis comes next in this moving picture of a time and a Preliminary Discord. We seek for harmony so sweet Before it soothes the land. The question that we have to meet 1s, “Who Shall Lead the Band?” “Words of good advice,” said Hi Ho, i i 1 example, in a far different consider the striking demonstra- the heredity of ductless gland g =§m§§§ . 4 s 'fl;s