Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1930, Page 8

" THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor n-m..mnwc—m 11 8. 40 Pepnesivaniy Ave, s Hion made il gt fi‘flnlly be sent in by mall tional 6000. Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance, land lnli)_v e Sony W month o elenhone fi%"“‘fifig"%‘i‘gfiz, . All Other States and Canada. y and 7.1 yr. 412.00; 1 mo only - e, y only . yr. Member of the Associated Press. Fhe Associated Prens ia exclusively entitled the use ‘sur epuslication of all rews dia- tches credited [ It oF e otherwise ered- in th r and also the local newy lished he All rights of publication al disp herein are Teserved, Mr. Kellogg Looks at Europe. As becomes the wearer of the Nobel erown, Mr. Kellogg is back from Europe geeing peace, not war, as the outlook for the Old World in the measurable fyture. “No one s going to say there mever will be another war,” the former Secretary of State explains, “but I will say that there has never been a time when the statesmen of the world have taken so many steps to settle their differences without war as at the pres- ent time.” That is a comforting and a signifi- eant assurance. It is richer in practical promise than cynics may think, 'Had Buropean statesmen prior to 1914 set up 84 elaborate peace-preserving machinery #s has heen erected since 1918, it is 8% least a fair presumption that the helocaust of sixteen years ago might have been postponed if not actually averted. When nations are minded to fiy at one another's throats, there is virtue, not danger, in delay, The “steps” which the world has taken to compose international dis- putes, and to which Mr. Kellogg referred on his return from Stockholm yester- day, are steps designed primarily to substitute peace psychology fer war- mindedness in times of passion and strife, Their purposé, to use the idiom which Mr. Bryan coined, is to bring about a “cooling off” period. The League of Nations, the World Court, the Lo- earno treaty, the Kellogg-Briand pact— even naval limitation—all have as their Initial objective the persuasion of would- be helligerents to ponder pacific means before resorting to force, ‘That such a condition of mind steadily being inculcated among governing forces of the world cannot be doubted. It is not yet achieved and 18 not likely to be for some time, despite the Christmas call of the Carnegie En- dowment for International Peace, which ‘demands world reduction of armaments “without further delay” and regardless of “technical and temporary obstacles.” I §K i s ¥ M. against Mr, Norris of Nebraska is not perticularly large as campaign ‘money 4 s8id to go these days. Perhaps Mr. Norris would revive a much-quoted re- mark and declare that what he cares about inquiring into is not so much the money as the principle of the year the public pays more at- to the waming “Shop early.” postman nevertheless feels the of rest on Christmas day. ———me— Special Session. 3 Senator Borah i out in the open for & special session of Congress. He is not ene of those, apparently, who believe that the country can struggle along more effectively in the recess of Con- gress than it can while the chosen rep- Pesentatives of the country are hurling verbal bombs across the aisles of the $wo chambers, and more particularly at the White House. If there be a suffi- elent number of Senators who take the same view of the situation, a special session of the Seventy-second Congress 0 the Spring is inevitable, Talk and more talk in the Senate chamber upon subjects related or unrelated to the meagures before that body can effective- W prevent the passage of one or more “of the annual appropriation bills in the two months remaining before the edjournment of the present Congress. ‘With the failure of any of the supply bills, & special session becomes neces- sary. Why i Mr. Borah insistent upon Congress on the job? He men- Wons & number of subjects which he mays require legislation without further , delay, among them the motor bus, the yallroads, electric power, farm debenture apd anti-injunction measures. They are important subjects: But would it e better for the country to get along without these new laws for another elght or nine'months, after March 4, or have » wrangling Congress to keep the political cauldron at fever heat, th business struggling to come back? for the farm debentyre try i depressed and millions of jobs will strike hearts. Ex- for such a session. The tail is again seeking to wag the dog. President Hoover, in the event the progressives force a special session of the new Congress by filibustering one special session until June 15 and let the Senators look forward to & pleas- ant Summer in Washington. He may not have a mean endugh streak in his body to do such a thing. But the prospeet of § session running through July, August and September, and prob- ably up to next December, beginning the middle of June, might not be -so alluring even to the progressives. There is a suspicion in some quarters that Senator Borah after all is merely doing a little blufing with his demand for a special session of the new Con- gress, What he hay at the back of his mind, 1t is rumored, is to draw from the White House and from Mr. Hoover himself a definite statement that no special sessien of the Senate to consider the World Court protocols will be called in the Spring. Mr. Borah is an opponent of the World Court. The opposition to the court, it is sald, prefers to have the court proposal postponed until next Winter or later, believing that the oppasition to court adherence grow. Balance Figures and Gambling. The New York Clearing House, hav- ing deduced by inquiry that its daily posting of exchange and balance figures means nothing mueh to anybody but the gamblers, is debating now whether to give up the practice. The clearing house obviously feels resentment over the fact that its ‘once significant figures are now important only to the thou- sands of “bookies” throughout the land and the millions of their patrons in numerous lotteries. The simple thing to.do would be to stop the daily posting of figures. The interesting question is whether it would have much effect on the gamblers, Bookmakers in New York have said it would not. They declare that freight car numbers—any combination of num- bers from any source—would do as well as the clearing house figures. Their game is simplicity itself and its sim- PHcity has been one of the reasons for its success. Tremendous odds are laid against the chance of ticket holders guessing the oorrect comhination of figures, and the extent of this form of gambling in New York and every other large city is stupendous. But the clear- ing house figures, always regarded as a legitimate plece of news of possible interest to financial houses, lent them- selves pecullarly well to the - use of gamblers. They were picked up from New York by the press associations and broadeast throughout the land. Many newspapers published them and the figures were always available where those who gambled on them could im- mediately find them. Despite what the bookmakers say, it is doubtful if any other combination of figures would be 80 easlly used. The clearing house would be doing & public service by re- fusing to lend itsélf any longer to-the practice. ‘The substitute for the balance figures, however, will be interesting. Of course, there will be a substitute. The weather reports, with the temperatures in various cities; the number of wards " |in & column, verious totals and combi- nations of every nature might be utilized. Gambling would net be stop~ might take. gambling might be made more difficult. There would remain, in all probability, the commentary on the futility of pre- venting gambling by any other means than by enforcement of the anti-gamb~ ling laws. Present conditions, in Wash- ington and other cities, indicate that even that method comes very close ta being futile. ————— Some of the world’s richest men have gone to jail eventually. A book of ' autographs would be an interesting part of many a warden’s equipment. e e Christmas eve parties are expected to be cautious with reference to illicit beverages to make sure that the coroner does not put in an appearance instead of Santa Claus. Russia’s State Kitchens. Russian Soviet organization challenges the amazement of other countries for its complexity. The theories of Ein. stein are easier to understand than the relationship of the various groups and administrative bodles of government and Communist party, centering at Moscow. There are so many titles that the American ohserver of Russian af. fairs, for an example, cannot make the traditional head or tail out of the con« fusion., Repeated and painstaking ex- planations by unprejudiced observers, writing from the scene, fal to throw lasting light upen, the situation. The only elear fact is that theve is & Com« munist party, the membership of which includes the greater part of the Rus. slan people, especially these of the peasant and worker classes, and the heads of which are the real rulers of the eountry. This reflection is prompted by the latest announcement from Moscow, te the effect that the Central Committee of the Communist party has just issyed a “decree” which revises the food dis- tribution system in Russia, providing for the establishment of state kitchens throughout the land and the sbolition of home cooking. This decree, be it poted, 1s issued, not by a body of gove ernment commissars, but by a committee of the political party, Yet it is gvident~ ly accepted ps law. The anomaly is heightened by the fact that the decree, thus issued by a political committee, scores the work of the commissariat of internal supply, a government body, calling its work unsatisfactory snd asserting that its service is “clogged whom were recently shot.” It scems to be assured that the new ! of merely at the markets. be no,latitude for the satisfaction of individual dietary tastes. As a matter of fact there has been precious little latitude in Russia in that respect since the red revolution, but now there will be none. Everybody is to eat just what the state cooks, and nothing else. If the Communist party heads at Moscow can make all Russia eat the ‘The right of adults to their Christmas presents before "Efinm will be disputed. Probably nine out of ten persons, even the so-called “grown-ups,” will feel timid about it. . “You will spofl your Christmas,” these timid ones . ey, “Oh, 1 jdn'$ think of doing such a thing!” so declares another. “You will feel disappointed on Christ- mas morning.” ‘So say the timid ones, but the ruth- less philosopher who has grown to man’s estate will go right ahead. %% in his Tife he is to to do. same kind of food, prepared according | wha to the same formula of cookery, per- haps they can bring the “people even more definitely into “step,” reducing them more nearly to the state of au- tomatism. Ineidentally the next gener- ation—if the Communist experiment lasts for that-long—may all be dyspep- tio. What then will be the average man power for the maintenance of the great industrial and agricultural mech- anism that is to make Russia master of the world? T — Printing Office Matrimony. Public Printer Oarter recently forced seven of the apprentices at the Gov- ernment Printing Office to resign be- cause they broke their promisc not to| 901 get married, and now he has given them back their jobs as Christmas presents. The real point at issue is whether any one has a right to order meén not to marry or to marry and to make them give such promises. The guardianship policy instituted for apprentices of the great Govern- ment print shop scarcely authorizes| the director er any one else to go so far into the private affairs of s “handa." Marriage, after all, is a personal mat- ter, and if a man desires to embark upon the so-called matrimonial seas, it is rather his own business. If the step causes him difficulties, financial or otherwise, that, too, is his own affair, There have been thousands of men, too, who have said that their success in life was entirely due to their pers, wives. A wife s no such handicap as | ete the Public Printer seems to think. It remains now to be seen what sort of snarl Mr. Carter, well meaning though he may be, may get himself into if he “fires” another man for com- mitting the crime of matrimony. The culprit may in such case accuse him, with some justice, of playing favorites with the lucky seven. And then there will be nothing left for the Public Printer to say but, “Yes, but Christmas comes but once a year!™ ——— Money appropriated for the benefit of farmers reaches figures that promise much benefit if they are expertly ad- ministered. In order to apply large sums to the interests of agriculture a much broader knowledge of farm in- dustry is required than that possessed by the average Yarmer. Farming has now become an art, a science and an important branch of political economy. D U — By making all possible speed Chair- man Nye may be shle to prevent his startling disclosures from falling into the class of narratives that begin “Once upon & time.” ———— No man is too old, according to Huey Long, to acquire a simple, ele- mentary education. A sehool might be established for the benefit of backward adults who find it impossible to learn to perform on the telephone dial. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A True Hero. You gayly smile at him, because A modest elf is Santa Claus, When all the world is safe and warm, He sets his face against the storm And drives all fearless and alone, Through starry skies o'er many a sone. His generous purpose s to show A day of gladness here below: Though bringing peace to every one Is hard, he proves It Can Be Done, By making one day, free from stress, A labor of unselfishness. You smile at him, he doesn’t mind, So long as tears are left behind. And 30 our cheers we valse because A hero is our Santa Claus! Superiority Recognized, “Are you going to join the young folks in thelr merry games during the holidays?” ¢ “No,” answered Senator Sorghum. “My mind is so intent an public affairs that all I could do would be to make them a speech such as has thrilled same of our greatest minds. But who am I to attempt to interrupt the radio?” Jud Tunkins says it's too bad that & young ehap who gets thraugh col- lege without a foot ball reputation is regarded by the neighbors as just a little big of a failure in life. Holiday. We're longing for a holiday ‘When serious things awhile may wait, With just & liftle while to play And nothing to investigate. Nearness. “T'm interested," sald Uncle Bill Bot- tletep, “in this fuld kpewn as ‘near beer.’ " “Do you desire some?” inquired the grocer. “No. What I want to locate is the beer that the near beer was mear,” “A truth that is unwelcome,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “should be protected by silence to prevent it from being overwhelmed by falsehood.” Ambition to Boss. Though history shows how nations swerve Prom ways laid out by pelitics, Somebody always has the nerve To think he has some brand-new tricks. “A good-natured man” said Uncle ‘Bben, "gits imposed on until he makes good nature work for him by .gittin' hissel! somethin’ to sell,” —— ettt Poetic Justice. From the Dallas Journal. The Illinois official who performed & marriage ceremony in verse he that Bt ‘fustice e Have heard 40 muen h‘l'!'l:ns?iwmd?éou e ‘The &r‘lfla him., His relentless decision, almost an affront to Santa Claus, fills him with " mlnx!e1 delight and trepidation. ‘This mixed feeling comes amazingly near to bringing back the old-time Ohristmas, when he scarcely could go to sleep on Christmas eve for sheer excitement. 4 Now, in deciding to open his gifts be- fore Christmas, he renews a lost sense of happiness. e And why should one not look? Adults, after all, are not children, ex- cept when they take to playing electric trains or mech: toys. Every man is a child again, with such. toys, every woman a child with Aside from these inroads, however, the “ \vn-u&" has left his paradise of childhood behind him and can only stand on the threshold, vicariously, :lhm“!h his own or other people's chil- rent. Yet the solemn business of giving gifts goes on from one adult to another. And each person who so receives a package looks with resentment at the stickers which blatantly warn him, *] not open till Christmas.” Again one asks, Why not? * k% % No doubt any one of those nine we mentioned could furnish a list of rea- sons a foot long, after the manner of the famous al answering the little girl who wanted to know if there was a Santa Claus. In the last analysis, however, opening or not opening Christmas ts. ahead of time is a matter of individ- ual preference. Most gifts to adults fall into two classes, the necessities and the gadgets. In the former division belong all the Christmas ties, the bathrobes, the slip- a:a handkerchiefs, the stockings, In the latter come the innumerable trick articles such as cigarette lighters, fancy flashlights of the type which light when lifted from a table, the hundred and one things which take the place of toys for men and women of vot- ing age. * ¥ k¥ Both of these types can be peered at appropriately before Christmas with- o% lignjunng either the eyes or the article. d| mas morning. . LR So far, not quite - Perhaps it would be better to leave l!awlurprlm" lo'h:t'\hflehfldln but not at all your e Tt ' wock ahoad of i Ninfess Teceive a weel h & eat it before Christmas, it will be le. No one wants stale candy, of course —Cflc there is nothing to do but eat it at_once. But what about these other things? They cannot be eaten, therefore they will not grow stale. We will have to think up some other excuse! * % % ¥ ‘The best excuse, after all, for open- ing one's gifts before Christmas is be- | ple ‘wants to! How mi things there are in this d':!fldl ‘which one wants to do but never res One goes through life wanting to kick in a big pane of glass, but one never ylelds to the temptation. Who that has. played & mandolin, guitar or ukulele but has been seized with a sudden impulse on occasion to whang the of the instrument down over a posf t? Who has not been seired with an ‘Do | overwhelming desire to ram one's fist through the glass when the conductor shuts the door on you and leaves you m!“;flnl’ on a wet, cold corner late at t ‘et one never yields to any of these impulses, because he knows that to do mmvmtld be unreasoning, ehildish, petulanf One restrains one'’s self, and perhaps runs some risk from suppressed desires, if the psychologists are right. * ok x ¥ But opening Christmas presents be- fore Ohristmas is one of the nicest things to do imaginable, It is a deed which will hurt no one but one’s self, and one rather suspects that 1t will not hurt him, or her, a5 the case may be, very much. . Just once, In the years, let every one open presents ahead of time. Guy de Maupassant has a delightful story upon a somewhat similar theme, and eyery one who. has read it will recognize the oconnection. -, Opening one's presents hefore Christ- mas & strictly one’s own business, and perhaps if one ylelds just this timé he will never want to do it again. It is going the old saw, “Christmas comes but once & year,” ane better. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands When ns - ment, he rides ftfi Bueking- ham Palace in full state to Westminster, using the great| Prices ceremonial . state coach, drawn by eight horses, with postilions clad in et and gold. The coach, which. is used only for coronations and state open- ings of Parliament, weighs 4% tons. It was built in 1761 for the coronation of George III, and the work of the coach- builders was so thorough and substan- tial that some of the original giltwork and upholstery still remain. e Tun- and body, of course, are pnfi; tically unimpaired. The of the vehicle and the seats for the King and Queen are upholstered erimson silk, and on the exterior of the panels are paintings an Italian master. 5 * k% X Japanese Woman Students Strike for Higher Education. Japan Advertiser, Tokio.—Students of ‘the Flpln ‘Women's College are now on a strike, demanding that the manage- ment_eancel its proposed decision to abolish the university department, be- eause that decision, if carried out, would be fatal to the long-cherished desire of the students for the elevation in | when every one leaves of the college to full university status; they say. The girls’ excitement recently al- most mu&n}wdt !31 hysteria. In : cam- ign to defeat the management's ‘;lll. the Student Committee m.x'" repesentation to the minister of educa- tion, Mr. Ryuzo Tanaka, to ask him if anything could be done at this time. that they have the same wish, the present financial condition of school prohibits not only extension of the school, but even maintenance of the ent status. But the exeited girls re- m‘ to listen ‘w 'f,he' e:vhmuon, Residents Pained by Jest at Bus Service. . Evening Times, Glasgow.—Residents out Victoria Park way exfru. ‘surprise and pain that I should Jest over the inadequacy of their bus service. The ition is so serious, they tell me, that order to draw attention to their plight, Victoria Park passengers con- template a cam . The main feature of this will be, when standing for the normal 20 minutes waiting for a bus fllg“:\ll all weep loudly, "mvhen re! & passage on a ero g a8 they always are, they will burst into hysterics. Sa ruguay Citizens Lose Wildcat Schemes. people of this cap- ital lose as much to desperate robbers and housebreakers as they do to suave, gentle and neatly clothed swindlers. A vagabond may break into your house and run off with your pocketbook, but the elegantly dressed bandit that comes into your office and sells you bonds or stocks, or perhaps persuades you to sign your name to @& note or a contract, steals from you a hi times as much in thetcourse of a year. No ane oo Rowaver-etiogiued by the Agents of , however eul sale, until he has investigated the merits and values of the offerings and secured the disinterested fons of other per- sons well mlon‘n s u‘m= such subjeets. Airplane Prices Fall, Food Remains High, Berliner Tageblatt.—Who would have believed that in the midst of all this economic depression prices of commod- ities would remain as high as they were when wages were at their best? Those who had faith that a decline in earn- ings would be followed by a relative deeline in the prices of necessities see clearly now that they were living in & fool's, or, rather, in a radical's para- dise. But for all that, a way appears out of the difficulty. There has been at least one deeline in prices—a beginn lb'A:b been mnaeu l“t::lt thed hetur:lre’nt barne on and on eve other wind that blows. For this relief is one thap really comes out of the air and hest vaults of the blue, And, paradoxically, under these new conditions the fluctuations in the prices of commedities will really mean very little to us. We shall have our minds on higher thiny ot _on_rolls and spinach! We shall all have but the one wish—an airship! falling ‘The For planes are evi here— 2 [ hibition and melted down to make im. Association) reports all sorts of flying machines much cheaper. Any one who wants to buy a little airship now can enjoy a descent even before he goes up. of the smaller aircraft have fallen from 7,500 to 3,450 marks (from $1,760 to $810, approximately). This is not a decline in price. It is a virtual pluna:” rockbottom. Will butter, flour, potatoes, milk and coal fall, too? The present cheapness of aircraft seems to scoff at such uncertainties. Let prices| get as high as they please. Any one who buys an airplane can forget all mundane things in the enchanting hum of his propeller and will sail serenely Vings. " And “what sordid en- vironment to fly about in the zenith? Relief is truly here! s * k% of Blood Enough. Brussels.—Despite all War Flesh Le Soir, the poignant recollections of the war and the spectacle afforded us every day of the still existing sufferings of those who offered their lives in that desperate struggle, we seem, as a nation, to care less for all the battered and hallowed mementos of those gloomy years. The hm&!hfihung in our town halls and in the cl ls are too often covered with dust. Cannon placed in parks and in the municipal promenades are grown ?:0“! with weeds. hAll t.hebé)ld,!helgah:ng rpedo casings shave been’ gathere from the places. where they were on ex- plements for mine and farm. But this may be ingratitude. It may be that we longer need these insensible monuments to our heroes, when we have so many testimonials of their cour- age and devotion to us in the infinitude of their wounds and mutilations. Surely, as we no war memorials of bronze or steel or marple while we have those of flesh and blood. * kK * Fewer Mexicans Admitted To United States. El Universal, Mexico, D. ‘The new immigration laws of the United States are being strictly enforced and already show a great reduction in the numbers of Mexicans moving to that country. Until the current year, the average im- migration of Mexican citizens into the United States was more than 56,000 annually. For 1930, the number leaving Mexico for that country will approxi- mate not more than 5,000 persons. While there are just as many applica- tions for entry as there used to be, the American immigration authorities are refusing admittance to all except students, skilled or specialized laborers P ing all these privileged ecl 80 that not more than 400 Mexicans now cross the international boundary in one month. Those who cross the Rio Grande illegally are soon apprehended and deported. 3 B Every Vote Counts. From the Bchenectady Gasstte. How often we hear an or near elec- tion day the remark, “I'm not going to yote—ane more or less will make no dif- ference.” Seemingly, with tens or hun- dreds of tho of electors partici- el to _select a governor and other Dfl!fli’:lfl. With this number taking part, the successful candidate for chief executive of the State won by a bare 316 plurality. Had just 317 out of the hundreds of thousands of his supporters remained at home, he would have lost. Or, looking at it from the ather angle, © ‘haps; but we ean- £ out 'of our mind Cbrist- | oy day. historians have been reminded by the activity of demolishing that now marks Penm{lvmh avenue, that, before it is too laf \;;e.':'!.hnhlr olr not they w:r:‘nm prompted cular urgen k i G 2 various Pmod‘ and points of interest, gathered into safety o for those who come ‘An old house of distinction in its manners and general ways of life is one of the deeply stirring features of any scene. Frank Owen's ‘“House Mother” tells how an old dwelling gains in the course of lonz ycars a ‘genuine motherhood of ingrained watchfulness and tenderness and care. Frem it have issued the joy and sadness that are part of its own blood, so to speak. Out of it have come glory and ignominy. So, here we are led from one old mansion to another, from one “House Mother” ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC Q. Is there a motion picture house which is ognud exclusively for chil- dren?—D. H, ft lished durin; for the m! cause that birth of exponent of which the World War, was fixed m&m&u January 17 be- is nnnlv'ura of the amin Franklin, great J. HASKIN. . When was the Gaelic - ttahelgnt i Trelandfet. Fr A, Depsm: that as a living its .mfll of the Irish Free Q. How many are there in Germahy?- it Greece, what name |, o those who threw Q. In ancien was given to sixes by dlc:!—.li.x AW, . Bixes, were high, Popillarly called “Aphrodite.” ‘What bird won the the World War! .’ leased with a message on October 21, 1018, at 2:356 p.am, during intense artillery aetion, Cher Ami delivered a message 40 kilometers distance in 25 minutes and was the only pigeon to get through-the enemy’s fire. Although wounded in the breast, and the leg which carried the precious my was_shot away, the tiny tube, still intact, hung to the Later he to another, each saturate with the life [ Ohi of its own tions, each a thing to see and feel, to dream over and rejoice u&uwmenfimuohommnlwwdo “Memories of a Lifetime in Washing- | ton,” by Dr. Joseph T. Kelly, offers a widespread and intimate view of the ‘Capital through political change and physical gro and social idiosyncrasy. ‘Within the record public-spirited and useful citizens have honored place. Among: them, Charles Glover, &Wr .resident of the city; Dr. Frederick May, Brainard H. Warner, through a of personal letters, that specially imti- mate mode of self-disclosure the civic activities of Mr. Warner. The story of John Howard Payne is a story that is admirable in conception and feeling and projection. “Home, @weet Home" is pretty much all that is nerally known about this man. , fil.ha full story of his vicissitous life. Here, too, is a tribute to W. W. Cor- f | the case. A fine successful t the yanquished it expectation iy o r less may have no weight, it bulation is completed we cannot_be certain of this. Meanwhile coran, ‘“prince of ,” through whose personal effort John Howard Payne was, after many years, brought home from Northern Africa and given a place {o lie down in over in Qak Hill Qe Georgetown. metery, A chapter of early diplomatic history is told by David Jayne Hill, “Franklin and the French Alliance of 1778, an old ,chapter that becomes new and il- luminating in this particular international problems and current di To the poet whole beloved tribe of Old Mills,” by Allen C. to come. Here they are, all of them, in both print and picture. Every one to be visited on that some day, so surely coming for innumerable prime adven- tures. Here is plain beguilement that draws from one Vow—] solemn vow—to find To loaf around to idle away perfe time in company, to rebuild from Mr. Olark's and pictures the later, their stories that other day and A. Preliminary reports 1930 give Toledo ‘ocensus and “Columbuis. 380,056, n::m' rank, respeetively, twenty-sixth and twenty- eighth in the lll'.'%! leading cities, l.l‘yle 1920. same positions which they held in ‘What 'em‘ the “Newburgh Ad- Q. dresses”?—P, L. A. The most extensively used stones in the United States come from Indiana and Arkansas. Oil-stones are also made artificially from powdered carborundum. Q. whnthche.hunmmmg . the day known as the Feast of DOESV—O.Y.T. Hina-no-Sekku, eelebrated Maren 3. g v o Q. Who were the | who Sydoey y mostly elements, _especially from eolonies of New South Wi Australia, of which Sydney is the capital. They and in the were an idle dissipated se! Spring of 1849 formed an known as the A. The “Newburgh Addresses” were | their two an ous letters, written - i F R e e Y n , wi {: 1783 after the close of m‘m T S wrote them, i Q. Where s Em "“X“d;l—'- . . ipress Josephine . er of Rusts grave is in the small church u-Q-u'lu\ is bass! metabolism?— . ‘gu:xh:n body when , several hours after the Q. Was the drought last Summer _'oneA th;glny'-bnbuwmm A /It was the severest In the clima- mwnmflomotwemffidq other way when “grandfather took the | omerican Wi heat into flour and bran, of making corn over into. meal for the cattle, into cormn cakes for the boys and girls. These mill pic- tures and stories going along are a charm—just that. “In my tramps I to mill” where water wheels did f turning have sometimes followed in_the foot~ | the Pursu steps of the Rambler’—Mr, Clark talk- ing—“The Rambler has rambles over the city everywhere, and away from the ¢city, but not too far away.” And this is ‘the beloved Harry Shannon, “The Rambler” of The Evening Star—Harry Shannon, the beloved vagabond, prince of vagrants with poetry in his heart and a sharp nettle upon his Thousands of Evening Star readers have on Sundays gone joyously with Harry ‘ghnnnm “I do not belieye in the life"of the city any ane has one-tenth of the pleasure he So re] Allen C. Clark on Harry Shannon, the Rambler. I call it. Fine and true, it seems to me. sald, here is a finely interesting . _An offiolal report, at that. Of- fered in the sober mien of a ‘“record,” iven i tongue, | % an Pretty fine, | 2% 4 g8 faliisanec it turns out to be a deeply interesting | PUrgh series of stories ypon the subject of the older Washington as well. Sounds like & fairy tale put out for Christmas, | Marquis de Not t at all. A true account, cal- culaf to last for the use of readers 100 years from now, or more or less. o THE LION'S DEN. Janet bank, The Bobbs-Merrill Oo, ‘The “Den” is the Congress of the United States, expanded a trifie to pro- vide a narrow runway into the general life of the Capital. Washington looks like & surpassing theme for the novelist. The legislative activity, the parade of offigial life, the high arder of social intelligence, the pageantry of foreign diplomacy, the art of the place in its buildings and the Ayer Fair- | his Co. learning of many a famous institution— all these against the superb city itself, background and inspiration, appear to be of the very texture of fomantic im. aginings and eonstructions. It _has n tried, & few times—th novel of Washington.' Not yet, how- ever, with marked distinction. It may be that there is ”s‘}fll.m a supply of material, too diversffied strains of cur- rent and counter-current, too much surface to invite deep penetrations or to permit these even. Whatever the reason, no outstanding romance of the Capital has yet come to light. It may be on its way. Not yet has it arrived. “The Lion's Den” is, primarily, a love story, though at moments it takes on the bearing and colar of a political novel. A young man ‘“came riding out of the West—out of the West—the ‘West.” Bent to deeds of valor. Noth- ing less heroic than putting the fear of God and the righteousness of pure poli- tics into a Copgress that was clearly in & bad way—either through malicious defamation or by way of its own de- liberately concerted turpitude. Now, it In % not an uncommon sight here in n—that brand-new legislator ridi out of the West—the West. Clearly. Mrs. Fairbank scores in her dealings with Dan Carsdn, Representa- tive from Wisconsin. She keeps to the ground. She holds to the itles of point, too. here is a situation that just naturally ap- peals to the romantic strain of both no;;luu and their readers, Carson into of destruction Ttset 1, hand most have of n itsel m ve been a temptation. Too shrewd and too waywise for that, this writer, So, in & very entertaining and convineing work of realistic pattern, the writer has Dan puddle around with his papers, pretty evenly divided between them and his | girl, most attractive secretary. Then Dan goes home all tired out over trying to give good service to the whole country. Maybe he goes to bed. Maybe he g-3s go out, and in the latter move he is sure some social to fall into the hands of For- Dan - i8- good-looking. - Se- Ith, paratively early of 47, after a life that has l:ldom oo equaled for accomplishment. His m tary explojta were many and glorious; he refused dictatorships and long-con- tinued terms in office. At one time he said, ‘The continuation of authority in 12 e e iy bt o d His were ideals whic Ty can soldiers whose | nig| together . When . i ogu_was - dent for a uven"! 'anml‘n uary, 19325, King. tha have made ‘m about 1750. A me or containing 157 acres, Inc Natural m'fl'll“d to 1] sum of “20 money., :zlflerlnn. ’hr 8, of good udfl Centenary of Great Patriot, Bolivar, Emphasizes Ideals the lawful mncm in the ornkm lence. The speech made this plea is one 7( the o Euuvc assemblages nguage; but it overlooked the that the business. American republics were just their when Clay was height of power in this turally became the is icion and tegyiing in that quarter, it is to "know tm Henry Clay's that stand c:n Soul e appeal to |than that Americans. The nations which he es- |the tablished endure as monuments to his memory.” * ¥ % % Speaking for a better understa; of the place of Bolivar h‘:n hhmr;dti:: e | Atlanta Journal remarks that “certainly almost every South American school- child is familiar with the cance W e A p calied var, who rather apt! been cal }he vgushmm i e ly enjoys among us the t] e ey lewing , the Journal says: “He is the unchallenged hero of amlytlh American independence. His adminis- trative and military ascendency lasted only about 18 years, but in that time he contrived to free Venezuela and New Granada, from which the republic of Great Colombia was formed. As first president of that republic he guided it through the eritical formative years analogous to the terms served by Wash- ington as first President of the United ‘States. From the nation which he fashioned eame Ecuador, Celombia, Venezuels, and, ultimately, Panama. But his restless enterprise did not cease there. He drove ro; armies from Peru, and gave to Bolivia, named in his honor, its first constitution. When his deeds are considered, it is regrettable that he is not more widely studied as an exemplary patriot of the new world.” the sto: on, interesf Lobes ‘Egz: tingly—but not approach to another one, uwu':: back home. The sent lover. A neglected 4 most forgotten girl defi: tl:) ‘Washington. A very er girl, who not there when Dan goes heme et et 3 728 re-election’ wanf nd Jast that is uanl:’! entrancing, aire fore g 1s Toally off é‘:i:. the P J ove s L3 5oy’ of® wikiingion and Toles. = of his continent, hard- [ Am idea of self-government” ?l?to of the worl oy - per (e d, that he “survived the ex- and that “he is being honored years after he died.” The New York Sun points out ghat, although he was .of a wealthy patrician family,” he | and led the poor] :x’;d often ragged Ut-shlzvm revolutionaries.” The Boston Tran- script states that “his name is 8 of continental redemption, a gfl’rk‘:vmm‘ Post e pire was never his poel. e Arbor Dai! Rockne, “tir nf su ital for .. gen § . The 0sis probably will be it he w d*' sl . % from ews.